skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah Canadian driving culture is surprisingly hostile. Even here in New Brunswick where people are stereotyped as slow old drivers that stop to let pedestrians to cross we had people openly posting on social media about wanting to crash into bikers when they put in new laws about giving bikes space on the road (put into place because of bikers getting hit.)
have heard every one of those arguments, both in the city and in the countryside. here's another one: my neighbour complaining about my bike being locked to the outside of the house: "get a car like every other adult"
"Adding to the dangers are distracted drivers and pedestrians and the introduction of electric scooters. Some observers also believe an epidemic of narcissism is causing more aggressive driving. "

This is linked in that passage: https://theconversation.com/the-value-of-unplugging-in-the-a...
You said that the other respondents standard might be different. I am saying that this is the range. What would be the approximate numbers (salary and central apartment), at your company for someone getting hired today, say with a couple of years out of school?
I feel you. I've been well along the climate change alarmism spectrum for many years now. It has often been draining. Sometimes, highly motivating.

As is sometimes said, the battle is in the mind.
"Yes, I have 100% doubt anyone is spying on anyone."

You can not possibly examine the evidence and claim 100% that there is no interest in spying on anyone.

Doubt that this particular case has that as the core issue? Sure. But be utterly convinced that literally no one, in any intelligence agency, against any target that might be near some sort of microphone-enabled device, has ever had the thought cross their mind that these things might be useful? No intelligence agency has ever looked at one of these companies hoovering up all the data they can get and installing all this stuff everywhere they can and stroked their chin for a moment?

You're basically claiming the NSA, CIA, Mossad, KGB, MI5, and all other such things have never existed, do not exist, and will not exist. The evidence for this is pretty poor.

I'm not asking you to wake up tomorrow and worry about whether your toaster is secretly sending all your thoughts to the alien overlords, but come on. Live in the world a bit. We're 7-ish billion people here on Planet Earth and they are not anywhere near all to a person nice, wholesome people who wish you all the best and would never even dream of exploiting you even a tiny little bit while they joyously enable you on your life journey of exploration and wonder. You're begging for exploitation.
Link is plain http for me. I thought all .dev domains were https?
I've seen that in cities in the Midwest USA too. But in my area (not in a city) I have the opposite problem... people on the road are too nice, to the point where it is dangerous. There is bike trail I like to ride on and it only crosses one major road, but it's two lanes in each direction with a left turn lane. And I've had people stop on that road trying to wave me through, even though I have a stop sign and they don't. I am absolutely not crossing in traffic just because one person stopped, and I'm just waiting for the day when someone does that and causes a major accident.

It's safe to say that people in North America just don't know how to react to bicycles all around.
In the Bay Area it's popular for cyclists to bike on narrow, winding, steep roads with no shoulder like Sand Hill Rd. or Highway 9 in the Santa Cruz Mountains.

Regardless of how you feel about bikes the conditions are inherently unsafe for bikes and cars and there are multiple annual fatalities.

I can't think of another form of exercise where a participant puts themselves and non-participants in legal danger.
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> It suggests that we are incapable of feeling anything physically real in our bodies.

It makes me sad that this is the representation the word has to you. I think the book is an honest attempt to change exactly this type of impression about the term placebo.
I have personally noticed some unintended consequences due to modern auto design. The more steeply sloped windshields for better aerodynamics mean that in most cases a pedestrian can no longer see where the driver is looking. All they see is a reflection of the bright sky. The greater tendency to have smoked windows to the sides and rear just makes things worse.

The flatter angle of the front A-pillars also increases the size of the blind spot[1]. A-pillars have to provide rollover protection these days and as a result have to be somewhat wider to produce the required strength.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_blind_spot#Effects_of_...
It is not obvious or tautological that removing a bad employee is more valuable than acquiring a superb employee.
I liked the article, but I find the definition of a toxic worker difficult. It's more like the article defines a toxic worker by the result, not the symptom.

In reality, what are the symptoms of a toxic worker? What are the causes? What are the situations where someone might be labeled "toxic" but the real problem is something else?
> Comparing to modern languages, erlang lacks a lot.

The "a lot" part is emphasized. It has to be something massive? Classes? Objects?

With the same token one can say most other languages lack a lot as well. That "lot" would be fault tolerance. Notice how most operating systems today use isolated processes instead of sharing memory like Windows 3 or DOS did. There is a reason for that. When the word processing application crashed, it would take down the calculator and media player with it. So modern operating systems have isolated concurrency units. And so do languages built on BEAM VM.

And of course you could still spawn OS processes and run a language that uses shared memory between its concurrency units (threads, goroutines, callback chains). But you can't spawn too many. Or even worse, everything has to run in a container, so now you have a container framework as another layer. And the question then becomes "how many layers of abstraction can you add to an ecosystem before it is unusable?" ;-)

> Elixir is trying to fill those gaps, but how many layers of abstraction

Elixir is not built on top of Erlang the language. It compiles to the same BEAM VM bytecode. But the intermediary representation layers between the running bytecode and the language syntax was already there. They didn't add another layer on "top" so to speak.

> They embraced actor model,

Don't think so. The creators at the time had no idea about the actor model. They embraced fault tolerance, concurrency and low response time most of all.
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Pre 2009? Is this not true today?
>I don't want corporate politics and all the worst parts of MBA culture within a hundred miles of tech, yet here we are.

If you think politics isn't an implicit reality of any organized group of human beings, I've got a bridge to sell you.
"unlike physical real estate, the internet can be a potentially boundless space and there's room in it for everyone"

There is room for everyone, but what kind of place is it? The observation is that it's no longer what it was, and that something special was lost.

I wouldn't place the blame on the "tourists". First, there are no toursits. Everyone is here to stay. Second, the nerds played a huge role, using their skills and knowledge to make the internet what it is today. Corporations and governments also rushed in to claim their stake, try to take ownership and control -- often quite successfully.

The Gold Rush transformed California, and so did the Internet Rush, if it could be called that, transform the Internet itself. I'm not sure how it could have remained as it was, like in a museum. The use of new technologies alone would have changed it.
This is clickbait. It's exchanges that get hacked. Ethereum's security problems with the Solidity language are well-known but no one likes to talk about them.

The Bitcoin blockchain has never been hacked.
I concur. Before systemd, I used supervisor because I wanted to avoid using any init system like hell.

Since systemd, I just do a service file.

So despite all its shortcommings, I now have a standard, well documented, init system that I can use accross all the distros I use, which happens to provide all the features I need.

I'm sure all the power user complaints about systemd are legitimate, but I really don't care about those. I just want an easy way to setup custom deamon on ubuntu and centos.

Provide a better system, that solve those problems, and I'll use it. I really don't care as long as my problem is solved.
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Here is the documentation and how to access the data https://docs.eth.events/en/latest/
I often think, and i may be completely wrong here, that these little companies (Nest) get acquired with the intentions of the larger company (Google) to be as hands off as possible. You don't want to screw up the little companies culture.

However, what i think happens is that you see a headline "Google buys Nest for $3.2 billion" but the reality (again, i'm assuming here) is that in order for Nest to get that $3.2 billion, they need to reach certain sales goals. So now the little companies drive ends up being to reach sales goals.

So i'm not sure the elegant products get mutated so much to serve the new owners, i think the acquired company gets mutated to cash out.
This should fit in https://news.ycombinator.com/show but with a better title. And I don't understand what producthunt adds in value if you're looking for feedback on HN.

title = Show HN: Rhittm – your posts are always on time.
url = https://rhittm.netlify.com/
In some places it might be. In most, it's probably distraction -- phones, eating, etc. -- or alcohol, but if those are less common and hostility is high, the latter could probably overtake.

People will pass very fasts and very close when they're angry at the cyclist for being on the road and "in their way". I've actually had someone try to run me off the road before. (I've had plenty of people try to merge into where I was, but this was someone trying to do it because he wanted me on the sidewalk "where I belonged". We stopped and argued at a light right afterwards.)

If that behavior were common, cycling would be vastly more dangerous. Maybe in Philadelphia it was.
Toronto suburbs
Just one troll feeding another troll.
And most of the rich people in my neighborhood have complete voice devices in their homes, Amazon’s device and Google’s I refuse to have these devices in my home regardless of how cool they seem.
Why do you think looking up someone's code commit history should have negative repurcussions? Every tech employee within the company has access to this information. Same with the tech survey that lets you see a manager's results.

As an Amazon employee, I'm interested in seeing how much credence this story has and how much I should support the author's cause. I clearly don't know the details, but what I can see gives me pause (not original author you replied to)
Yeah, have to update my local DNS routes. I had .dev pointed to 127.0.0.1
this shouldn't be downvoted. I've sat a green light while a pedestrian walked right out in front of me without even looking up from their phone. They only realized what they did in the middle of the road and then darted back.
> but that's never feasible in a city.

That's kind of funny to hear, because I was going to use real-world Chicago and Seoul as practical examples of this already existing in cities today.

Chicago Loop has a dual-layer approach (where faster moving cars are on the ground floor, but a "second street level" is directly above them, for pedestrians + buses). It's not an exact match (cars can drive on both levels, those lanes should all exist on one level), but it's pretty close to this idea already in practice.

On the opposite side, Seoul has a "pedestrian highway" slung above 8ish lanes of car traffic below, which is a cheaper (although less effective) version of the same idea.
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Another thing we've learned from the post-Snowden world is that people invoke the post-Snowden world as an excuse to abandon critical thinking and skepticism and assume all conspiracies are valid, and often don't actually understand what, specifically, Snowden did and didn't demonstrate. People still believe the PRISM program was about companies giving the NSA direct and unlimited backdoor access to their databases, and that every logo on a single slide is more or less an NSA front.

It's a similar phenomenon to the "post-Hilary" world of the Wikileaks email docs. People assume there was hard evidence proving a criminal conspiracy by the DNC to rig the election somewhere in there... mostly because that's what other people told them. Not because they've bothered to look.

People's cynicism has led them to put more trust in the metafictional reality of leaks than actual reality. Which, ironically, makes them easier to manipulate even as they believe themselves to be somehow above indoctrination and control having reached enlightenment through the "Snowden revelations."
> Toxic employees don’t care about a company’s goals, nor do they care about building relationships with co-workers. More than just self-centered office bullies, toxic employees are actually strategic and covert.

This sort of describes the sociopaths of the Gervais Principle.

I don't necessarily see how this is a Bad Thing to be. If relationships help you through the day, sure, go for it, but it doesn't help you in your goals. Furthermore, your goals are, unless you are working for your own company, quite often directly opposed to what the company wants.

EDIT: let me expand on this:

Companies want (basically) the following:

- You to do as much work as possible

- You to require as little payment as possible

- Be completely loyal to the company, ie: work whenever they need you to, don't even think about changing jobs, etc etc.

What you (should) want:

- Have job where you'd be most content, which could be at your current job, but probably isn't. Let's be fair: your own ideas for projects would be much more fun to work on then whatever you do for the company.

- Get paid as much for the work you do

- Do as little work as possible, so you have more time for yourself, your family and friends.

I don't really see how their definition of 'toxic' checks all the boxes above. I don't care all that much for the company goals, since they are (to me) much less important than my own goals. I don't care too much for relationships with co-workers; they're my co-workers, they're not the life-long friends I already had before I started this job. Furthermore, given that on average they'll be gone in 2.5 years, spending too much time and energy into creating a relationship with someone who'll be gone by then seems like wasted effort. Furthermore, I am covert about this (since saying these things outright would be bad for my career prospects).
However, my input in this company is still a net win (for both parties).

Their definition of 'toxic' is therefore inadequate.
Sounds familiar: https://ca.news.yahoo.com/singapore-airlines-passengers-unse...
The more Google behaves like this (slow, lumbering, unresponsive to devs, privacy issues etc), the more I start looking at alternative OS phones. Google Maps, Bing Maps, Uber, Insta etc. all have robust web apps these days, and unlike apps that silently grant themselves permissions upon install/update, a web app has to ask the user each time.
I assume surfshark is a "free VPN" extension? If so, you're probably doing the opposite of protecting your privacy by using it.

Using Chrome is also generally a poor choice.
Previously:

LWN article:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19023232 (1/29/2019)

This talk:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19157293 (2/13/2019)

Another youtube version of it:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17778202 (8/16/2018)
Could killing tens of thousands of bugs (or more) per vehicle be contributing to the decline in numbers at all ? There are a crazy amount of bugs on earth I get it but still, this surely has to have an impact.

People talk about having their car totally caked in bugs at one time etc, given other environmental stressors it’s not going to help if healty populations are exterminated en masse.
And honestly, the user's suggestion wasn't bad.
A bad employee can affect the whole department quickly - its so easy for corrosive attitudes to spread. But a good employee? It takes time and effort to build goodwill and teamwork.

It is better to remove a bad employee, than hire a better one. More urgent anyway.
One should however take into account that the aerodynamics of cars changed considerably the past 20 years possibly leading to less by-catch.
Something that annoyed me 10 minutes ago

Old fashioned way, when I restart apache having made a typo:

Output of config test was:
AH00526: Syntax error on line 2 of /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/mysite.conf:
Invalid command 'blah', perhaps misspelled or defined by a module not included in the server configuration
Action 'configtest' failed.

Now

[....] Restarting apache2 (via systemctl): apache2.serviceJob for apache2.service failed because the control process exited with error code.
See "systemctl status apache2.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.
failed!

The former is far more informative
Then sure, absolutely, but there will always be people who will want to own the car not rent it for a plethora of different reasons that perhaps do not apply to you. And the argument here is that those people who chose to own self-driving cars will still have to insure them - the fact that the car drives itself doesn't change the fact that you could be liable for any damages that happen when it's on the road.

And as an aside - how is this different than a taxi then, at that point? If that model already works for you, then uber fills that niche already. Unless there is some assumption that somehow it would end up being cheaper than uber? I can bet it would be cheaper for me to take ubers to work than own my car, and yet I'd prefer to have my own person vehicle and not deal with shared vehicles.
Although this is all possible and perhaps even more plausible than the alternative, it's still more fun and conspiratorial to view Google as the new Evil Empire, so I'll just keep doing that, thanks.
How about toxic managers? For example the ones that hire the wrong person, or allow toxic environments to build up? Or the ones that promote people based on optics?
"concurrency includes parallelism as a special case."
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1 is the correct answer for Google.
You haven't explained how diversity of sex/gender contributes to diversity of perspectives. Also, are you happy to hire white nationalists and racists in the name of "diversity of perspective"? If not, then you're not being honest in your argument...
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>I though all .dev domains were https

If you go to http://yc.dev, you get an HTTP 307 (Internal
redirect) to https://yc.dev.

https://get.dev/#benefits says:
>The .dev top-level domain is included on the HSTS preload list, making HTTPS required on all connections to .dev websites and pages without needing individual HSTS registration or configuration.
The Internet over the years has taught me the fine art of non-engagement. Just... stop. The instant it starts going down a bad road, stop. Don't send another message, or send a blithely positive one just to blunt the energy and move on.

Seems so simple, but I think the need for closure is what keeps many from being able to do this. But it's dangerous. The Internet is dangerous. All it takes is for one person, it doesn't even have to be a party to the interaction, to ruin your day if not your life.

Legal threats? Please. This guy might SWAT you.
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I moved from Dallas to Minneapolis and was certain I would feel safer walking and biking because of it's reputation as a bike friendly city. In Dallas, it seemed somewhat understandable to me for drivers not to except to see pedestrians and bikers because there just aren't that many of them - the city is so spread out. But the drivers in Minneapolis are straight up entitled, aggressive, and dangerous in high foot traffic areas. Right turn on red and and stop signs are treated as roll throughs, and only if there isn't oncoming traffic. I felt safer as a pedestrian living in NYC than I have in either Dallas or Minneapolis.
great, thanks! - makes it easy even for me to actually work with blockchain data
Did you swipe this from reddit?

https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/asmvxc/til_a...
Also "toxic" is a term abused to mean "heretical" at times. The guy pointing out HR works for the company not you and is encouraged to some negative dynamics to justify their salary by reducing liability and claimed productivity may be branded toxic.

Charismatic people building their own fiefdoms that view networking as king and actual productivity gains a threat are building not just houses of cards but full scale card mansions are more actual organizational harm toxic than any ill-mannered productives.
busctl looks simply like mdbus made 10 years later
What event down the road do you think will vindicate your decision? How do you think your neighbors will be harmed?
Yeah, it's different wait times for different areas. The 18 year figure I gave was for central Gothenburg, like I said.

Where I was living — in Majorna/Kungsladugård — on average 2,400 people applied to rent each apartment. This was back in 2012. This would be worse now, given the refugee/migrant influx.
Wouldn't that just put you in the "no fingerprint" category? Presumably fairly few people use such techniques, so couldn't that make you more trackable, not less?
To loosely quote Richard Dawkins from the god delusion, the purpose of a theory is to formally describe something in order to question it. Questioning the methodology of a study is to derive understanding, rather than belief which neither need theories nor want questions.

The result did run counter to anecdotal experiences described by women, as is mentioned in the second section. The female account did not see more sexual or sexualized comments, out of the whole 339 tests only one was definitely address to him and a second event that the author is uncertain about. As describe in depth by the author, outliners like those are of questionable value. That is very far from the anecdotal experiences usually described about competitive online team games.

The questioning/challenging of abilities was the other finding, which the author speculate is derived from when a player is underperforming and get frustrated they lash out at team members who is overperforming. This is where a gender difference is found and it is an excellent starting point for further studies. For example it would make for an interesting path to compare studies that look at game theory experiments where player punish generosity, and in cases punish generosity more than defection.

I would also like to see a more in depth study on exactly what underperforming players do when they get frustrated. What is the common outlets and how they differ depending on circumstances. The author did mention that they were more often the overperfoming player when he used the female account so its possible the methodology in this study actually did influenced the result, which the author says in the article.

I found this study interesting but it did not change my view about the issue. I have always though that the difference in online game experience comes from the method people use when trying to insult someone else, rather than the rate in which people do it. If the only clue someone has is the name then that is what people will use in order to guess what method create the best insult, which results in primarily a gender difference.
A litany of arguments against systemd are listed here: http://without-systemd.org/wiki/index.php/Arguments_against_...