skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So? Companies have seminars for upper management on how to squeeze workers harder and try to retaliate against complainers.

Seems fair to do the opposite.
So you're saying that workers are better off when they are also owners? Interesting idea.
> doing things like this to keep people on chromebooks.

Care to share how this tidbit is true?

Lots of filthy casuals just care that they can game. If they can, somehow, why shouldn't they buy the Chromebook? Hell, if that's what they had in school, they might have grown up to like precisely the genres of games that are easy to design around the lag.

Most legit gamers care about input lag

The majority of people don't notice < 40ms round trip lag, though "legit gamers" often do notice. < 30ms, round trip lag, and few people outside of hardcore FPS players will notice. Get to < 20ms, and you get down to rounding error levels. Don't just ask me. (Hobbyist game dev.) Ask gamedevs and companies who have conducted testing.

40ms roundtrip lag for most of the world seems pretty achievable to me.
Maybe the reply was meant for me? Maybe it's just me but because there is no off switch on a Rpi I am constantly plugging and unplugging it, I have found the receiver or female part of the connector on the board tends to get loose from that, that is where the loss of power seems to be coming from, I have run into this issue with my BLU amazon phone also. I'm just not a fan of the micro USB connector I guess, but maybe it's just me and no one else has thus problem.
> a computer that can't access the internet is just a toy or a paperweight to them.

which would be a thing unheard of if we were still in 1993. We aren't, and you find people happily using iOS or Android devices that do mostly web browsing and video watching and would functionally be a toy or a paperweight if you transported them back to 1993.

Computing has changed in the last 25 years. Paradoxically, more people are using FOSS than before while fewer would subscribe to the kind of Free Software purism (totalitarism?) that the FSF advocates. Windows running a (GNU/)Linux subsystem is a victory of Open Source, but a defeat for the Free Software movement.

Which brings us to

> if they align practically or philosophically with the FOSS movement

and I'd call this a ruse - the Open Source movement developed as a countercurrent to FSF's ideology around Free Software mostly in the shape of people that liked Free Software (both as in Freedom and as in Beer) as well as software licensed under more liberal licenses but did not see the idea of Copyleft as central to their enterprise. There is a FOSS movement, replete with sympathisers and drama and everything around it, but it's at best a strict superset of the Free Software movement that also contains people with non-FSF-compatible opinions.
Sure, during a crash you have to draw down. But in a 10% growth year, you can get it back. Averages.
Inspired by this John Adams quote from 1780, which covers the first three phases, https://www.masshist.org/digitaladams/archive/doc?id=L178005...

> I must study Politicks and War that my sons may have liberty to study Mathematicks and Philosophy. My sons ought to study Mathematicks and Philosophy, Geography, natural History, Naval Architecture, navigation, Commerce and Agriculture, in order to give their Children a right to study Painting, Poetry, Musick, Architecture, Statuary, Tapestry and Porcelaine.
It's no surprise most the MLMers move on to real estate afterwards
Ask HN: What do you do to hand over the reins when you leave a job?
I'm writing an article about "How to hand over the reins when you leave a job." I'd like your advice about what I should include.

My premise is that you genuinely want to help the company and the next person who moves into your old position. Maybe you got a promotion, or you found an even-better job. In any case, you want the old coworkers to succeed, and you want to make a smooth transition.

So there’s a few pieces to this:
• What do you do when you leave a job?
• What have other people done, when they left/moved on, that gave you the knowledge and skills you needed to excel?
• What did they NOT provide that you wish they had?

It’d be easy for me to focus on “what did you do” but none of us know how successful that was. So tell me, rather, about your experience as the person picking up the reins. What did that teach you about the process?

Anecdotes welcome! And tell me how to refer to you in the article.
I recently worked on a financial website that does a full credit, background and fraud check online and in real time for issuing small loans. There's some amount of manual auditing that can happen in the background for anyone that raises a yellow flag, but otherwise you can get a loan approved and disbursed with no fees and it happens in a few days and is fully automated.
But I do.

Wealth has nothing at all to do with worker productivity. It has only to do with saving a lot more than one spends by spending less, or generating large value to society with a monetary reward.

The pathway for any middle class family is through inherited wealth and NOT some fantasty of wealth equality achieved in 1 lifetime. We need to stop thinking in small terms of 'years'.

Wealth can be achieved generally in a family over the course of 1.5 centuries. If a family applies good saving practices, and saves over 5-6 generational lifetimes - it is very hard NOT to be wealthy. My parents were a fireman and teacher. My grandfather paid for my college, my parents are paying for my kids college, and I'm paying for my grand kids and great grand kids college - SOLELY bc of saving over extended periods of time. That was our family deal - take care of those after you 2 generations down. Thinking multi-generational is the easiest path to success.
I wonder how much of the gaming market consist of games that requires good latency.

I would be perfectly fine playing Civilization or turn based games on this infrastructure as sub-100ms latency probably isn't that big of a deal here. Perhaps google is going after that niche?
We've generally tried that. Turns out there appear strong ones who bend the rules to their wishes. So we had to gather together to defend ourselves from such behavior.

Here we see another iteration of power grab - and another iteration of defense. Government isn't only the burden, it also serves some purposes.
Look at These Absolutely Ordinary Americans Who Hate Medicare for All
How are personal opinions of an individual, expressed on a discussion website, propaganda?

Did you miss the last sentence of my outermost comment in this thread?

>The idea that unions are inherently, universally good is just as silly as the idea that unions are inherently, universally bad.
I would be genuinely surprised if anyone can build an agent that can solve Zelda for the NES without any foreknowledge of the game. So much of that game is bound up in the human cultural tropes associated with the monomyth. To finish the game you need to have at least a basic working knowledge of what it means to be a hero. There is no obvious, short-term indicator of progress the way there is in Mario (increase the x position to win).

The process of obtaining just a single piece of the Triforce (the primary indicator of progress) is so complicated that you'll essentially never see it happen with random button-pressing. So any agent attempting to play and win Zelda is going to need to develop its own model of the game world and try to understand things that way. I don't see how that is supposed to happen though, without any context.
I use rollup with an extremely minimal configuration. No transpilers at all, just standards-based JavaScript.
People like to claim that arguments like mine are cynical, but what’s actually cynical is reaching far into the past for a quote, snipping it out of context, and then extrapolating to pretend that the quote is just as relevant today.

Or said more simply: past results do not imply future performance.

Is it possible that we’re about to turn a technological corner and it’ll be like the rise of the web - a revolutionary new media platform - all over again? Sure. Maybe I’m wrong. But I’m pretty informed, and I don’t see a web-like technology where everything is done and working, and just needs to be explored. There’s no green-field tech on the horizon where simple refinement is going to open up new industries. We’re back to waiting.

Today we’re increasingly focused on stuff that might not even work at all (e.g. fusion), or that has huge technological or societal barriers that are unsolved (e.g. robots, electric cars) It’s a different world, and even if something revolutionary comes around the corner next week, right now the playing field is fairly competitive.
This is a fairly amusing read. Favorite quote:

This devil would be a human being disguised to teach a moral lesson with a theatrical metaphor, so let's not take the metaphor too far. I think we would do well not to say that users are “selling their souls” if they install nonfree software—rather, part of their own freedom is what they forfeit. We don't need to exaggerate to teach the point...

I'm sympathetic to the FSF's goals, but I think they're desire for ideological purity prevents them from achieving meaningful wins. Increasing the availability and desirability of Free software shouldn't have to mean total exclusion of all non-Free software.

As an industry, I think we should be more troubled by devices that aren't even allowed to run code without special permission from some third party. The App Store is a sad state of affairs in my opinion.
Yeah, the IRS is actually very good and the people who answer the phone know what they are doing. I also like that they really try to get a solution you can live with.

Never dealt with the state of ND, but my one dealing with Illinois makes me think its not confined to the tax department. I detail my problems with their DOT in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5521011#5521345
> The fact that the January 2019 security update, 8u201, is the last version of Java 8 commercial entities can use for free, has pushed this a bit, it seems.

Isn't OpenJDK providing updates for Java 8 through to September 2023? 8u202 is published ...

https://adoptopenjdk.net/support.html
It's running on Linux servers and using Linux tech like Vulkan though. Getting a game to run well on Stadia will probably involve a lot of the same steps that are needed to make them run well on Linux natively.
... no, not everything is scalable, nor does everything benefit from economies of scale.

This does benefit from economies of scale, but it’s not something you can just solve with infrastructure and fixed cost. No matter how many computers you have, you’re still going to do multiple orders of magnitude more calculations to render high end games than stream a song. And you’re going to deal with difficult load balances because every twelve year old gets home from school at the same time (exaggeration but point stands). GPU time costs money.
> Admittedly, there are potential harms: the more popular the video becomes online, the more it may inspire future terrorists, both to commit terrorism in the first place and to livestream it.

I would add, emotional harm to the families of the victims as well. If there was a video of someone in my family getting murdered out there, I'm sure it would cause me considerable stress to know that people were intentionally watching it happen, and it was being widely distributed.
Two wrongs don't make fair.
> it's also lost the niches that brought it into existence

Applets, JavaBeans, and CORBA. What a loss.

> Besides being owned by Oracle, which is enough of a reason to never use Java ever again,

That stopped being an issue years ago. OpenJDK is a thing, you know?

> Java on the web is dead,

I don't think you have any idea about the hundreds of millions of lines of Java that power the web as you know it today.

The rest of your post is filled with equally uninformed claims but I'm going to stop here.
Don't know but the YouTube video about it was okay. I'll have to search it down.
To me that seems like the kind of product that should be proprietary so you can make a living.

You could then invest money in marketing this to students etc.

You could then open source parts of it, but keep the full product paid for.
It won't crash, but what it does is somewhat complicated. There's a section in the OpenJDK wiki addressing this question:

https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/display/shenandoah/Main#Main-F...
Testing Custom React Hooks by Mocking React
Many American businesses no longer have weekends. I worked at a restaurant where most of the staff was expected to work 6 days a week. Nowhere has mandatory closing times anymore, and more and more nonsensical places are operating 24/7.
hi voidhorse,

Thanks for the feedback and kind words. I'm absolutely considering doing "random x definition". I'll have to think of other subjects that I'm interested in but in the meantime, I'm happy for you to make some suggestions :)
But the barriers to entry for these things are also small. It's money for the fees, and given that these people are 100% commission finding a broker is not a big challenge.

Do you honestly disagree that the barrier to entry to being a practicing real estate agent is low? Doesn't mean it isn't hard to be a _successful_ one, but the basic barrier to entry just doesn't seem that high.
A start page without my bookmarks... "main websites" and "in evidence"

https://support.mozilla.org/it/questions/1185996
https://support.mozilla.org/it/questions/1185347
OsmAnd~, free on F-Droid, is the paid version OsmAnd+ on the Play Store with unlimited map downloads and probably other features.
Which does not prevent from donating to OsmAnd.

I didn't know Sky Map is a former Google app!

Most apps on my list are probably on the Play Store indeed :-)
UK pledges to fully fund EU nuclear-fusion facility
I like the philosophy of no required build step. Once you make that decision, it's like a guardrail keeping you away from the tooling circus.

Do you know of any listings of third-party ES Modules that are designed to be used directly? i.e. their full URLs being present in import statements that the browser sees at runtime. Even toy stuff would be interesting to look at.
I'm currently working on a similar idea to what you just described. It's still a work in progress, but with no investors and no shareholders, so no pressure to maximize profits.

I'd love to get your input as a creator and hear your thoughts. If interested, send me an email at yaniv@mynexus.io.
Isn't the stereotype of SF arrogance? Most of the smartest people I've met work in O&G or aerospace, in places like Texas and Connecticut.
> The political fearmongering about Government overreach that the US seems to have hasn't fully infected us yet; we still kinda like our Government and aren't particularly afraid of them. I hope that stays true, it seems like a happier and more relaxed way to live.

Nah. The most relaxed way to live is knowing your government won't arrest you because you watched a video before it was declared illegal.
It is worse: in the US if you know someone's routing number and account number (which is written on every check), you can PULL money from their account. Practically speaking it's not completely trivial to exploit as most services that let you suck money out of account do some simple authorization first (they deposit some pennies into the account and ask you how many they deposited).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACH_Network
Xanax isn't an SSRI.
Please don't take HN threads further into flamewar, regardless of how wrong another comment is or you feel it is.

Especially not political/ideological flamewar, which tends to burn hotter.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
This is what gets lost in Facebook's statement, by design.

The killer livestreamed to Facebook and people captured that video and re-uploaded back to Facebook 1,500,000 times.

A cursory read of their statement would have you believe it was only viewed 4,000 times.

This is criminally dishonest.
"Grab" in sense "use Russian army to kill natives to grab their land."
Ironicaly I'm the other way around. Java is a pretty good platform, save the GC pauses.

However I really dont see what benefits Spring brings. Spring Boot is great for prototyping and trivial apps, but for big systems you really want to break it apart. DI is better done with ServiceLocators. Some of the smaller libraries like Spring Shell, Spring Mobile are junk. And I still see lots of XML config that you dont know if they'll fail until you try to run them.
I wonder how many of that web-based client solutions (outside of SV) will be built on Oracle APEX.
Try Porto, Portugal. Amazing weather and city.

1500 p/month is more than enough to live comfortably
If Firefox had treated TabMixPlus (TMP) and other extensions as first-class citizens when they introduced quantum, I can guarantee I'd be using Firefox today (along with all the less technical people in my extended network, who I'd install it for).

Unfortunately, during the transition to quantum and WebExtensions the developers blocked add-ons making changes to the Firefox interface, which crippled TMP and a variety of other add-ons. To suddenly have your favorite add-on crippled is a little painful but what made me walk away was the tone of responses from Mozilla people on the boards and the bug reports. It ranged from dismissive, to arrogant, to angry which, particularly given how quickly the transition took place, just added insult to injury.

It seemed like Mozilla did get the message by the end of 2017 that their approach and response to add-ons had alienated many users. One of their 2018 visions included a statement that 'In 2018, extensions will be one of the reasons why people choose and use Firefox.' Unfortunately, when I looked at the TMP message boards last year I still saw very little in the way of signs of cooperation and encouragement from Mozilla. The TMP developer, onemen, still seems to be trying his best to produce a suite of extensions to reproduce the lost functionality and to be fair to Mozilla they have been moving obstacles out of the way but the pace is glacial.

Chrome may be creepy and invasive but right now it's far more flexible and remains a smoother experience. I'd really love to switch away from Chrome but I won't trade it for an inflexible Firefox UI. If Mozilla could loosen up on the UI restrictions, demonstrate that they're doing everything possible to make the product friendly for add-on developers, and somehow get themselves around to replicating, or helping to replicate, TMP and other crippled add-ons then I would enthusiastically consider switching.
Yeah that was supposed to be in 12 wasn't it? Everyone is waiting for that, it will obsolete Lombok.
Adding values is a huge task because they are a big change at the VM, language, and library level. You can read about some of the latest plans in draft form at https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/valhalla-spec-expert....

Rest assured progress is being made.
Very interesting. I wasn't aware of this. Thanks for sharing.
2015-01-25 Support elastic overscroll (rubberbanding) on macOS:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1124108
i doubt patreon has a grip on creators. There just aren't enough alternatives, but the bigger it gets the more likely it is a bank/crypto company/credit card company will create a solution for microtransactions that eats all of their lunch. They exist because they benefit from the current unfortunate situation in finance that microtransactions are not worth it due to cost. They are one change in regulation away from being rendered obsolete. They don't have any network effect: their creators instantly take their audience with them wherever they go.
I'll second that. Standard Xfinity cable connection, decent PC, and wired ethernet to the router. Occasionally in the evening during prime time when I assume everybody in my building was watching Netflix the stream would kick into lower quality graphics, but would recover quickly. No control input lag that I could detect. I put about 30 hours into the game and enjoyed myself (Awsome environment design and a vast, vast map to explore. All that fighting is repetitive and tedious, but story mode and running around exploring, taking in the views and the history is quite fun).

In any event I think that if you are a casual gamer and want to get off the graphics card upgrade train every couple of years, then this is a no brainer. It probably would not be a good match for multiplayer shooters, but for solo games, even AAA titles, it's a great option.

My feedback was that if they paired up with Steam they'd have a killer product. They might still have a killer product if they convince all those developers on Steam to also put their games on this service.
That's an impressive rant and can't disagree with some of it, but you're nearly a decade behind in your assessment of java in the Enterprise. New deployments of EJB apps have dropped precipitously (never should have existed), and Java still enjoys wide Enterprise use.

Part of the reason big businesses were able to abuse enterprises with their abominable Java server stacks is because corporations were slow to trust open source. But developers persisted and open source became too compelling to ignore, creating the upward pressure to embrace it and break the bloated and overpriced enterprise app server's stranglehold. This likely prevented the demise of Java that you suggest has happened.

In fact, when it comes to enterprise these days, you're pretty much either a Java or a .NET shop.
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What Is Stoicism?
Did you actually read TFA?

"given the fact that most install fests quietly play the role of the devil, I think that an explicit devil would be less bad. It would convert the install-fest dilemma from a debilitating contradiction into a teaching experience. Users would be able to get, if they insist, the nonfree drivers to make their peripherals run, then use GNU/Linux knowing that there is a further step toward freedom that they should take."
The zipper war is heating up
Or all of the sites that have adopted a 'card' view. Gannett sites all have this terrible UX that if you click in the white space around an article, it closes the article and takes you to the home page. [0] Accidental clicks on white space shouldn't do anything!

[0] https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaab/tourney/2019/03/...
Most people use a VPN of some sort when connecting to remote databases

Our DB servers don’t have any ports listening on the internet, not even SSH.

TLS can be enforced for DB connections (both pg and mssql support this), but that’s still prone to credential stuffing and the client machine isn’t usually authenticated. Lots of regulations generally require some extra security layer protecting connections to the DB.
They are not all volunteering. The Linux kernel, for example, is maintained mostly by paid individuals from all sorts of companies such as Red Hat, IBM, and even Microsoft.
That's pretty good advice for a flippant one-liner, but the overworking of engineers is pretty common across the industry.
Neat! Doesn't seem to work with multi-statement plans, though (like if your batch or stored procedure has more than one query in it.) Only shows the first statement in the batch.