skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isnt competition in free markets healthy? Doesn’t it tend to benefit everybody over time as products and services improve? Why would State or municipal governance, as a service, be immune from this? A US Supreme Court Justice once called American States “laboratories of democracy” and I think that’s apt. Let citizens vote with their feet, so to speak.

In practical terms, Google (or Amazon, etc.) wants tax breaks but also wants a desirable community to help recruit and retain talented employees. If a community so impoverishes itself via tax breaks that it can’t afford to remain desirable, then nobody wins. Abuse and wildly perverse incentives are of course possible, but absent those scenarios, there’s an equilibrium between private incentives and public investment that certainly exists.
Are you saying there are biological differences that are preventing women from entering the software industry?

Because historically the trends of CS grads proves this is a false statement [1] so I'm curious where this statement comes from.

[1] https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2014/10/21/357629765/when...
70 employees, of which 40 are engineers, is a huge red flag for a podcasting company. That doesn't sound like they're focusing on content, and what do 40 engineers even do?

Even with enough people to build and maintain a fantastic native app, that team size is huge.
I'm actually really happy with HDMI. It doesn't change much, has good compatibility and doesn't confuse a video cable for anything else. To me its universality makes it better than display port. My next PC will likely have 2 HDMI ports and that will make me very happy. Lots of USB for other stuff but the speed won't be an issue there - no need for USB 4 data rates because... who needs it?
It's almost as if a secret RS-232 spy got onto the naming committee and is doing everything possible to derail the standard and bring back the parallel port.
There is a simple to-do list app here:
https://github.com/clio-lang/clio-todo

It uses the microservices and web socket imports. To run it you'll need rethinkdb. Maybe I can host it for you if you want to see how it works? Also, if you want to see another specific example, I can make it. What would you suggest?
2300 seems way high even if you're counting each different person that comes through and most of those won't be working the whole time. They'll come through and do electrical/HVAC/frame construction/etc for a few months then leave. Only a few will be there the whole construction and those will mostly be management and supervisor/contractor roles.
Tab or website as part of a tab? The latter is the only way cookies will never be shared.
So much this. Also the ability to change the background from black to white (with a slider or an easy to reach color picker that doesn't involve opening the console). It's so hard to notice when an image starts and ends when it has black at the sides, or to be able to distinguish transparent pixels easily.
Does 40Gbps mean two 4K displays daisy chained?
It doesn't require magic, just discrimination.
Hear hear.

Can somebody speak to the challenges of such a scheme? I also really like this idea. Even for cases where I'm cool with tabs sharing state, I want to opt-in to that and be reminded with some kind of color-coding or something.
It sounds like a pretty straightforward Sam Vimes Theory sort of situation.
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Or let's get crazy: they are the problem. People tend to think other people think and act like them. That's why often the first to be vocal against some behavior are part of those displaying this behavior.
Because their grades were average, they are friends and I’ve helped them. Are you threatening me? Is it because I’m making sense and instead of offering a counter argument you resort to this? Well luckily for me I’m my own boss, I’m on a forum which let’s me discuss ideas with many members who I know are far smarter than me in every field. Maybe a counter argument here makes sense, convinces me, and brings me more to your side even by 1%. Or you can vaguely threaten me, push me to more obscure extreme parts of the internet and a year from now see my relatively moderate opinions become extreme because people like you have pushed me to the fringes where I’m surrounded by likeminded people some terrible but others who have also been pushed out and don’t hear any good counter arguments.

Because that’s happening all over lately.

Edit: I’m using “me” as an example, I’m obviously not going to do that but I’m trying to make a point that others who speak against the majority opinion absolutely might and there are bad actors who are trying to manipulate that with intersecrionality of their own kind. Just like being against sexism is intersectional with anti racism, gun control, pro choice etc. when someone gets sucked into something seemingly innocuous as this, it’s very likely they’ll start believing a whole lot of similar ideas. That can be good or bad I suppose.
This is brilliant and very well put.

Education, strong families, reducing inequality, communities, all do wonders for people more than 'fixing the bail systems'.

Its like endlessly troubleshooting bugs in a software program vs building it properly.
iOS has this feature already built into Safari, but it's well hidden: Long-press the reader icon.
Just in case you're unaware, you've seen Container Tabs, right? Now exactly what you want, but a pretty big step towards it.

Containers are built-in; this extension adds the interface for showing it per tab.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account...
Good catch - that's potentially a significant difference!
There is a very small (albeit vocal) minority on the left side of the political spectrum that thinks that equality in outcome is a worthy goal.

This this is a minority, that stance does not generalize to people on the left in general.
Change Scout is actually one of the basic reasons to deploy Huggin... so you can monitor pages for changes and get emails.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account... and friends gets you some of the way there.
Systems Engineering for Intelligent Transportation Systems [pdf]
I was just thinking about these purported studies this weekend.

My wife’s car has an analog speedometer in the left and a center digital display between the speedometer and the tach which can show many things, one of which is a nice big digital speed indicator.

When the digital display is showing something else it takes me 2x-3x as much time to ascertain the current speed from the speedometer.

I think the studies are possibly being influenced by people’s familiarity with speedometers in cars. If you asked someone to tell you the temperature in the room and gave them an analog gauge and a digital display, which one would be faster?

Once you acclimate to the digital display I’ve found I can read it faster and more precisely.

It may be possible to see “under 60” on the gauge faster than read “57” on the display, but I doubt even that. And when I’m trying to check or set my speed to be exactly 9 over the limit, the digital is much, much faster.
The software engineer position sounds to be mid level ish. What's the sort of interest in more senior applications with some TS/Node/Postgres experience?
I mostly use Open in Reader View(1), but there's also Automatic Reader View(2), which fits your description better.

(1) https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/reader-view/

(2) https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/automatic-rea...
Updated link:
https://dpb.bitbucket.io/hacker-school-and-how-we-learn.html
Recent cars I've owned with computer-controlled manual (or "manumatic") transmissions (Ford SelectShift/PowerShift, Hyundai Shiftronic, etc.) will change gears and do engine braking to keep it in the right speed. Even in my ancient Honda Accord, throttle control is usually enough to keep it within a few MPH of my chosen speed once going 60mph+ on most highways I tend to drive on.
This datasource doesn't require any custom panels to function.
To your point though, it would be nice if grafana supported incremental time range querying out of the box, since many backends don't support streaming data.
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Test Pilot is closing? Does that mean that the Mozilla Corporation no longer has a backdoor in Firefox through which they can install plugins in the same way they installed the Mr. Robot advertisement plugin some time ago? https://www.theverge.com/2017/12/16/16784628/mozilla-mr-robo...
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That 57% of STEM grads statistic is misleading when commenting about an article about Google. The 18% CS grads in 2015 would be more appropriate to quote.

http://newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/cracking-the-code:-why-aren...
Top Commentors of all time.
tptacek is at 1st place with 33839 comments.

Hacker news is 12 years old. That's an average of 7 comments per day since inception. Wow

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This is a poisoned gift, there was a twitter conversation posted a couple weeks ago about the cluterf*ck that thunderbolt is... quite a scary read :-/

https://twitter.com/whitequark/status/1097777102563074048
You would have to reconfigure the hardware to move the needle differently. Depending on the vintage of the control electronics this may be easier said than done.
Sorry, i don't know how to put that politely, but it's fucking ridiculous. There is NO SITUATION ever where a speed of 180 kph is necessary to avoid an accident. Life is not a Marvel movie.
Is tinfoil-hatesque EMF poisoning real?

I personally believe that it is real (just go camping where there's no service and you'll feel better) but it's hard to prove without decades of study and money, which won't happen because there's so much money to be made.

There are other reasons why camping makes you feel better. Earthing/grounding gets you in touch with the earth's natural schumann resonance (through the canvas tent) and the fresh air. Also too getting away from distractions.

There's a real study on this, but they don't speculate what the cause it: http://time.com/4656550/camping-sleep-insomnia/
German here.
I once drove an Audi A8 from Hanover to Berlin (while working for a car rental company).
It was pretty much 250kph (155 mph) all the way (except where there was a speed limit of course).
Definitely an insane experience. My hands were extremely sweaty. Yet I couldn't stop driving that fast. In that type of car, you don't really notice it anyway. But you DO notice it when suddenly another car is getting into your lane, seemingly far ahead, but within a few seconds you're so close that you have to hit the breaks really hard.

It's fun and all and a few years ago I would have hated that type of "paternalism" by Volvo. But now, with self-driving cars around the corner and my own more mature understanding of human fallibility, I would argue that it makes little sense that humans do drive at speeds higher than around what Volvo is aiming at.
Totally secure against data breaches and phishing, as we've seen over and over again.

Oh wait...
I never saw anyone hooking up a monitor via USB 2.0
There are plenty of places with pay transparency and they work just fine. The information imbalance is only to the benefit of the employer.
Give unimportant strangers a Google voice number or an equivalent. Being able to mark a phone call as spam for a centrally managed service is useful.
I keep telling my wife she should learn Python and become a developer. Women are highly valued in tech right now, at least in corporations of any significant size.
> the security measures would have been similar to flying

No it wouldn't. You can't redirect a train into skyscrapers.

And the failure modes of taking out the "pilot" on a train are much safer than those of a plane.
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I came to the same conclusions with my own compiler from perl to C. Lot of work went into generating perfectly readable and formatted C code, with all the whistles and ifdef's for debugging, tracing, Config and architecture optimizations. The good thing is that it's much easier in the compiler to do than in the resulting C code. We generate a lot of C code now, automatically, for perfect hash tables, optimized unicode tables, generating API's and exhaustive test cases and much more. It must be pretty and usable, gambit-c is a good example for throwaway code nobody wants to debug or read through.
They must of been closer to bona fide repercussions then I realized. Seems like pain pills of this class are nearing the end of their mass usefulness, perhaps something more novel like the kratom plant is in order for mild to moderate pain management?
Robot love? An app to schedule sex? What is wrong with you?
I mean you can look for yourself and see that almost no state considers parenthood to be protected.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Employment_discrimination_law_...

You don't need daycare based on religion or pregnancy, do you? I'm not sure this stuff applies as you think it does, to be honest. Otherwise companies would be compelled to have daycare and... they don't do they?

And where did you get 'all workers have the right to demand' from? I'm pretty sure at-will means you can fire someone for demanding something that they don't have a legal right to.
One of my proudest moments in my career was when I took this to the next level and set myself up as the go-between between support and dev. We were building internal productivity tools so we could help the support folks clear things up more quickly, and give them the administrative resources they needed to do so. It was all about empathy with the user: the end user, and the support user on the admin side.

It was not a glamorous job at all but it had a meaningful impact, one that many people gloss over, and I feel the same when reading this. The best thing you can do is care about your users and the people who deal with your users.
Successful software engineers have a lot of knowledge & skill that is often acquired informally, so it may not be reflected in university history. Because of the demand for developers and the apparent difficulty of acquiring the skills, they are well-compensated.

If a person has a bachelor's degree, they can get a Michigan interim teaching certificate by passing a test. https://www.teachercertificationdegrees.com/certification/mi... Permanent certification then requires 12 hours (1 semester full-time) of courses, or working toward a masters degree would probably give an immediate and permanent bump in pay.

Imagine a random liberal arts graduate: Would it be easier to go into elementary teaching in Michigan or software development?
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Its probably more about the money coming into the community and the types of people that would work there generally adding to the labor pool of the area.

As jobs appear and wages go up those people spend a great deal of their money in the area and more jobs show up and as those employees look for a new job other businesses can compete for those higher skilled employees.
Thanks for the comment. Maybe I am reading it wrong, but what you described sounds rather reasonable to me. After all, marijuana does impair one's ability to drive[0]. The traffic laws may be a bit draconian but I find it hard to argue against it in principle.

To give you a related, and hopefully less political example: People who suffer from epilepsy in my country are technically disqualified from driving for 12 months after a major seizure. In that event their affliction is probably not controlled by medicine and there is a chance that they might start seizing behind the wheel.

An unintended consequence of the law is that epileptics would go to great lengths to hide the extent of their condition for the fear of losing their driving priviledge. It's not uncommon for epileptics to lie to doctors, or even refuse to go to a hospital after an ambulance has been called for them, just so an episode could remain off the book.

Some might be doing it for vain reasons, but there is also a good number of patients who cannot afford to lose their license as their job security may depend on it. The balance between public safety and personal freedom is never easy.

[0]:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/600655/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19298515
> Elementary school teaching does require less academic rigor than a university professor.

But you replace that with a need for a lot more knowledge of teaching and child psychology, so I'd say doing a good job is significantly harder even in the sense of requiring a lot of education.
Thank you for the link. I agree with what the author is saying, mostly. :)

Mind that when I mentioned society as a whole, this is inclusive to its individual parts: There is no society without individuals and as such any judgment on a society is a judgement on its parts. That being said, I know it is a naive view, as no one can condemn a society completely.

As for the bio engineering to try and weed out the "bad wiring", I am not even sure we are close to identify them clearly, as seems to indicate the science articles about the brain and other nervous system in recent years.
>a lot of people

Yes, maybe 0.01% of all people. I also used to do autocross, so I know people enjoy track racing, I just don't care because it's a waste of resources, bad for the environment, and not a good reason to get rid of speed limiters that would save lives.

>You're being unnecessarily rude and confrontational

I don't have to be polite to people who risk lives unnecessarily.

You think you have the moral high ground with "freedumb for all" but in actuality, I do because I'm trying to protect lives with very little impact to things that matter (racing doesn't matter).
You wouldn't say that Musk being fined $20 million by the SEC were luxurious though.
A cottage service industry springs up which provides something of a foundation for other big corp players to work with?

The area can attract people capable of working at a Google DC, and a local community to support those folks.

I expect Google is taking a broader look than the few data points this forum is considering.

Google and the like do not just hire tech PhDs
There is no hierarchy of evils in this case. Anything you do to enable one class of humans to claim ownership over another class of humans is absolute evil, you don't make it better or worse by giving the dominant class a more efficient way to let their "pets" run off the leash for a while, for as long as it pleases the "owners". To provide a platform for this kind of behaviour to be modernized, and hence normalized, is to be complicit in unspeakable evil that belongs only in dystopian sci-fi novels.
The nightmare case for whitelisting is an emergency call from or on behalf of your spouse or child using a stranger's phone. This is why I don't want a whitelist.

What I want is for spammers specifically to be identifiable and blockable, or for their business to be made prohibitively expensive. I didn't get spam calls on my cell phone 15 years ago, and as you say, what has changed is largely economics. Why can't we work to adjust the economics back?
I think you're right.

E.g.:
Google is 70% men.
At 100,000 employees:
70,000 Male
30,000 Female

If 5% of men are underpaid
that's 3,500 men.
If 10% of women are underpaid
that's 3,000 women.

More men are underpaid (3,500 > 3,000). But women are twice as likely to be underpaid (10% > 5%).
> It's about making hiring a woman less burdensome to employers compared to men by letting men take care of the child when the mother is well but the child still needs at-home care.

I understand that this is the purpose, but I'm questioning why that's a good thing. All this does is hobble the workforce artificially. This is like requiring a man who can lift 50 pounds for his job to take time off twice a week to make up for the guy who -- due to some bodily reality -- can only lift 25. Why is the man who can lift 50 pounds artificially limited in helping his family in the name of 'equality'.

A central point of the women's right movements was that women should work because husband's income was not always reliable. Plus, men could die, leaving a woman without any means of income. However, we have swung in the very opposite direction, where we are now limiting men providing for their families in the name of women working. If women in the workplace require men to take extra time off in order to be 'equal', then it's clear that the arguments used to keep women from the workplace were valid to begin with.

Now, I don't believe in any of this, but this is the underlying logic (whether admitted or not) of various schemes meant to hobble fathers returning to the workplace at whatever time they and their family decide is appropriate.
I'm not sure if that's a good thing. the bar for elementary teachers might just be too low
I think it is worth noting that the quality of the data can vary a lot from country to country. On average, governments in countries such as Germany and Norway tend to be more critical and transparent of their own actions while others may try to swipe the issue under the rug of inflate numbers when they deem appropriate. Of course, it doesn't mean there are no truths to the data, it just needs to be taken with a grain of salt even if it is the OECD.
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Since I consider myself part of HN, please don't speak for me, since you're obviously incapable of understanding the most blatant satire and clearly have no business in telling people what to do or how they should feel about themselves.

EDIT: And telling people you hate them based on a comment they made on an internet-forum? Get real man!
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Why not turn them on all at once?
I usually keep lot of tabs opened and I known I'm not the only one to use Firefox (or any other browser) like that.

I'm still waiting for a better UX on this use case. Bookmarks are hidden behind menus and require some work to organize and sort them: it's easier to leave an open tab in plain sight that reminds me to eventually read it and decide whether to close it or save it as a useful resource.

Last actual improvement I noticed was when Firefox stopped fully reloading every tab in session restoration.

Any actual research on user-friendly UX to manage and organize lots of potentially useful urls ?