skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do the exact opposite of a standard job ad-

Imagine you are talking to a friend about joining this company.

Tell me a little bit about the role, what needs to get done.

Tell me a little bit about the team, company culture.

What’s the mission? What interesting problems are you trying to solve. Are there any particular priorities that really stand out?

Answer the question: why is this an attractive opportunity? Why is this a great place to work?

Hint: no BS about ping pong tables and unlimited free snacks.

Finally, deliver this message in a 2-3 minute video from the actual hiring executive (not HR). THAT would be interesting!
Make it "Apple has 100% market share in unlicensable mobile operating systems".

Doesn't change the fact that it has 100% market share in that market, no matter how you call that market.

You can't have your cake and eat it too: you can't defend the ECs case on Android and not demand the same on iOS.

Well, you can, but then we're not talking about antitrust policy, we're talking about politics and picking winners.
I guess it’s easy to forget about The Great Depression.
Why Companies Want to Mine the Secrets in Your Voice
I don't live in a big city, or near a big city, so streaming games will never be a viable option for me. Despite having fiber, my ping to any Google or AWS datacenter is never under 50ms. Online game pings (where it's actual TCP traffic with compute) tend more towards 100ms.

For most games, 100ms latency between action and response is simply not acceptable. Even games like Rocksmith, Guitar Hero, and Crypt of the Necrodancer will offer calibration to overcome mere 10ms delays between the controller and the AV equipment.
Hmm...the pgp emails I've received recently either have no subject or the subject is "Encrypted Email".
Could you show me draconian speech codes in US Universities? I don't know which incidents you're talking about. Maybe a news article or two from a generally-neutral source?
Huh? I think people buy these despite them looking a little goofy because they are quite convienent. Which company offers the best wireless pods in your mind?
Modern reactors produce very little waste. It's a non issue, the technology is here and we can build them today, it just takes decades to recoup investment and no shareholder will consent to margins that slim.
>I see office workers (the startup crowd especially) working crazy hours, practically living at the office, and actually bragging about it.

The grass is always greener. Especially if you look outside startups (and outside software engineering), I would guess the overwhelming majority of office jobs occur around a roughly 9-5 schedule without significant overtime. There's a reason rush hour is rush hour.
But anyone can screenshot the message or take a photo of it. The point is that it's not actually enforced.
> Airbus negligently averages these inputs.

On an Airbus, in case of dual input the pilots get a voice alarm and a warning lights up right in front of them.

Also the stick has a switch to take priority, in case the other pilot continues to give dual input.
LASR 14 hours ago [dead] [-]

> JavaScript itself is a terrible language (along with other dynamic languages like PHP, Python, Perl, Ruby)

You know, I used to think that languages had a single axis of Good. And each language sat at a certain point in that one dimension.

After several years each of experience writing large web applications using C++, Java, C#, JS, Python, Ruby and Go, that mental model of languages being good, bad or terrible seems incredibly naive now.

But overall, if someone were to ask me to write a web app today, I would probably use Python server-side and break it down into microservices. Client-side, probably just pure js + HTML5 APIs.

Why? Because I don't have the time to argue about languages being better or worse. I am too busy writing code that does useful things.

In a high-skill rockstar team, dev time is by far the most expensive resource. In a startup environment, using your dev time wisely is the difference between a unicorn and a failed business. Nobody gives a fuck if your route handler executes in 1ms or 20ms. I'll gladly pay the 20x hosting costs if that will get my feature out to customers a week earlier.

i don't know why this comment was downvoted so much. i fully agree with every point that LASR makes. if you disagree, i'd like to see your counterpoints please.
They have already started to infiltrate game engines like they did for browsers: there is a harmless-looking Vulkan extension.
Any recommendations? I’m also in the market for a pair of wireless noise canceling headphones.
That financing advantage gives incumbents a big incentive to buy innovative competitors in a low-rate environment, which eliminates startups and leaves the subsuming company with greater market share.

Technology startups that take any type of outside funding were never intended to go public and be an independent company. If the founders had any hope of that, they are blind.

Look no further than YC. Only one company that it has funded has gone public - Dropbox and it isn’t looking to good financially.
My Bose QC35s do this very well. They connect to both my iPhone and MacBook via Bluetooth, and if I am listening to a podcast on my iPhone, and get a WebEx/Slack/Etc call on my MacBook, I pause the podcast and answer the call, and it switches between the two seamlessly -- I don't need to do anything.
How does it take care of spam? I hope it's not via Akismet, as I've not found it to be good enough.
I used operating income for the US tech companies because the recent accounting changes can make net income an unusually volatile figure. SAP's operating income had been stable for several years so I guessed it had remained pretty similar to 2017 figures. It did jump decently for 2018, to around the high $6.x billion area. Going on that (a proper direct comparison), it's more like ~27 SAPs.
Nanny state is maybe better than a malicious/negligent one, from a public health standpoint at least.

Flint, MI government intentionally exposed its people to lead poisoned water.
Sticking to lightning connector for the wired charging? Guarantees I won't be getting it. Why are Apple delaying their inevitable switch to USB-C, when they've already started the transition with macbooks and ipad pro?
At least for the declarations at the beginning of the block, that allows for very simple compiler design as it is very easy to split the code and data sections. Start off allocating space for all the variables it sees, and then when it reaches something not a declaration or definition, start emitting assembly.
See also, The Field Guide to Understanding Human Error by Sidney Dekker.
Anyone know why brotli needs to be generated at the web server level? Just curious why/if it can't be done at the web app level.
This is a disappointing update. Introducing the wireless charging case at an additional charge without an accompanying release of Airpower is curious. No new color options. More importantly, no new control options. I can't change volume without resorting to my Apple Watch or phone. Hey Siri is a non feature akin to the Bixby button on Samsung phones.

The battery on my first gen Airpods has deteriorated but this isn't the upgrade I was waiting for. I'll give the Galaxy buds a go or maybe even venture into the wireless noise-cancelling headphones category which has greatly improved since Airpods first launched
> You're not expected to keep them that long, it's targeted to people who buy the new generations pretty much as soon as they are released.

I really don't think that's the case. I was really quite tempted by them, but was put off by the lifespan.
For anyone wanting more detail on the GPU-hardware virtualization support you can search for SR-IOV and also read the AMD whitepaper [0].

[0] - https://www.amd.com/Documents/Multiuser-GPU-White-Paper.pdf
There are two schools of thought:

1) Security has to be enforced by code

2) Your employees are reasonable, and won't try to maliciously bypass security controls

I'm firmly in camp #2. In a normal corporate setting, a locked door or a locked cabinet is security, even with a cheap, easily pickable lock.

That's all this is. And for 95% of corporate applications, that's good enough. If you have high-level executive crime, or a scandal where you killed a few people, this won't help, of course. But if you'd like to keep an upcoming merger confidential, or maintain a trade secret, or anything vaguely normal, this is more than good enough.

This also helps with email retention policies. Sometimes you want ephemeral communications you don't want a record of. This isn't necessarily malicious either; in more litigious industries, emails can be obtained through discovery and quoted out-of-context. Things like typos can get you (goodness knows I've made enough of those). Sending an email which communicates something and disappears in a week is helpful.
Get Notifications from the Terminal
It needs proprietary extensions (aptX, whatever apple uses, etc) to be not bad.
Related discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14333824
Plausible deniability for those times when the sender would rather not have email evidence preserved.
They've simply been brought in line with Macs and iOS devices, i.e. at checkout there is a knob to dial to add options that have extreme margins.
DIY Fucking Machines gone wrong.
Yeah, I was shocked by how many teenagers in my neighborhood had them until I realized they were all knock-offs. I doubt Apple is concerned, though. Airpods solidified their dominance of earbud design
Sure, but if you didn't force an exploitative monopoly by the existing unions, how would you build anti-union sentiment and drive union membership lower and lower year over year? /s

The difficulty is that it feels like the current labor organization laws in the US has supporters on both sides. The existing unions enjoy their strength and wouldn't want to have to fight off upstarts and the capital class keeps seeing less and less union representation under our current system and can just keep feeding anti-union sentiment.

I agree that some competition could help in this matter since so many unions at this point no longer need to fairly represent their members as a whole due to their ubiquity in the industry. Also I feel that many of them are so large that they would have too many conflicting interests within the union and could be harming as many people as they help with a choice.
Not especially uncommon, but the average amount spent on headphones is somewhere in the $40 range, and I'd expect the median to be even lower.
How is the audio quality on these? Are they worth anywhere near $200 when compared to wireless earbuds made by actual audio companies?
What do you mean, "still"? The wooden tanks are decades old.
I can't imagine the antenna is anything wonderful considering the size so it would make sense that they added in the storage feature to compensate.
There truly is nothing to it. I just built it for the first time on this fresh install of Ubuntu. You can just copy and paste the lines from the getting started page.[1] Here's my .bash_history:

$ git clone https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project.git
$ cd llvm-project
$ mkdir build && cd build
$ cmake -DLLVM_ENABLE_PROJECTS=clang -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -G "Unix Makefiles" ../llvm
$ make -j4

Took < 40 min on an old laptop.

[1] https://clang.llvm.org/get_started.html
You seemed to be suggesting above that you endorsed that approach.
I don't foresee much happening. Local politics in New York has very little to do with helping your constituents and appears to be some jumping off point for greater things. De Blasio wants to be President. Cuomo wants to be President. You don't become President by being tough on water towers. Therefore, I predict nothing will happen.

(Cuomo might do something if he can figure out how to name it after his dad, though.)
New York City officials are lazy, corrupt, or just don't care, and are happily committing perjury so they don't have to do their job.

This is not a new story.
Naming this technology "confidential mode for email" is extremely dishonest and misleading to users about what it actually does. Very frustrating decision.
What is the exact value of culture?
> because it's not possible due to the email protocol.

Or any other protocol that's not crazy paranoid as anonymous PGP messages on alt.anonymous.messages.
Google Press: https://store.google.com/magazine/stadia

Keynote in 15 mins: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOkEdQYePWY

Tech Response:

https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/20/18273977/google-stadia-cl...

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2019/03/google-stadias-first-...
The tank with the missing roof means people in that building are drinking what amounts to surface water.

Why on earth are they still using wood? By now I would have expected them to have steel tanks with a steel roof on them, you know something a rodent can't just gnaw its way into.

I'm glad I read this. Now whenever I go to NY, I won't drink any water without having boiled it for three minutes first.
On our tendency to be unrealistically optimistic
I'm surprised with how people enjoy AirPods in the city, seeing as they don't block any noise and are functionally useless in any noisy environment (trains, streets, etc). I liked the form factor, but couldn't hear anything out of them unless I was on max volume.

If Apple made IEM-like AirPods, I'd definitely jump back in.
All they said was that it was weird. Even with the explanation I'd still agree that it's weird.
Just think of it as earbuds as a service, with a three-year renewal cycle
Funny how you picked that one example. Kind of proves my point, don't you think?
The Science Behind Jeff Bezos' 2-Pizza Rule
The historical practice of psychiatry is no different from that of medicine in general. Our modern viewpoint can easily spot the unnecessary suffering caused by mistaken viewpoints, lack of rigorous scientific study, the intrusion of societal biases, and simple ignorance.

As there is no endpoint in medicine, future generations will view our hero doctors in the same way.
There was a big thread on how the current bluetooth standard is a clusterfuck.
I don't do much C, or any at all. What would happen? Would the allocation fail and you'd end up with prefix pointing to NULL? Or would it overwrite something else on the stack?
I used docopt in production for years, before switching off of it.

My main issues were that the author of docopt doesn't know anything about language grammars & parsing. That's fine — we all start somewhere. But he insists that defining a grammar (and having a rational parser) aren't useful or even possible! If, instead, there were a normative spec (and this requires only the slightest change to edge-cases that aren't tested by his test-suite, anyways), then it'd be possible to really roll out a much more robust docopt than what currently occurs.

With a grammar you'd be able to roll out AST=>AST transforms, and update the parsing strategy of the command lines, i.e., portability between CLI flavors between new/old style POSIX, Windows, etc. You'd have the ability to do i18n, you could catch errors both in the docopt spec of your parser, and in the parsing of the command line options, etc.
The TL;DR solution is to just disable UPnP. It's crap and it shouldn't be used anyway.
So they can sell you another dongle.
Confidential...as in only you, the recipients, Google, the NSA, and other intelligence agencies the NSA shares information with can read these emails.
Again we are seeing a more systematic issue that commercial pilots don’t have stick and rudder skills. Automation has taken over 95% of the job. They push the throttles up to take off power, pull back on the stick, and then punch the auto-pilot and sit back and enjoy the ride. Then they don’t fly or input anything into flying until landing where they again fly the plane for the last 3-5 minutes of the flight. I would be interested to see the experience level/age of the pilots. As I think the retiring generation of pilot was much more equipped to deal with this type of issue. Then the new generation of pilot. I included an article lamenting this decreased skill we are seeing. It’s refering to the Miracle on the Hudson. But I think it applies here as well. [1]

[1]https://nymag.com/news/features/53788/index1.html
The opening paragraph of this piece mentions (but does not link to) Fisher's 2013 piece "Exiting The Vampire Castle". If you haven't read it, you probably should: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/opendemocracyuk/exiting-vam....

It's a critique of the progressive liberal left from the traditional far left. Central to Fisher's thesis is that by emphasizing race and sex, class identity (which he feels is crucial) is ignored: "I’ve noticed a fascinating magical inversion projection-disavowal mechanism whereby the sheer mention of class is now automatically treated as if that means one is trying to downgrade the importance of race and gender. In fact, the exact opposite is the case, as the Vampires’ Castle uses an ultimately liberal understanding of race and gender to obfuscate class."

What I find particularly interesting is how similar this critique is to the alt-right's criticism of neo-liberalism. I think it's a fine example of the "horseshoe theory" of politics, where the far-left and far-right share certain commonalities: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horseshoe_theory.
That’s a straw man. Digital privacy doesn’t have immediate public health dangers. Nobody is going to actually die if your web browsing history is mishandled.
Don't use expiring emails for that purpose.

Seems simple enough.
I don't know about Google Stadia in particular, but I was in the MWC this year and got to experience an over-the-net gaming session. My friends and me played Pro Evolution Soccer for about 10 mins at a stable 60fps from a 5G connection. 4 player mode.

I'm not a gamer. The only modern video console I own is a Nintendo Switch that I bought to play BoTW. My previous console was a Super Nintendo. I only own low-powered laptops and will probably never build a gaming PC.

But, if this remote-gaming takes off, and I can play any game from any console at any time by paying a monthly fee, count me in.

It is my understanding that this is limited to PC-gaming only. Heck, I'll even say that console manufacturers, who sell money by, you know, selling consoles, won't be very happy about this. But, in my opinion, it is an inevitable future. It is music streaming over owning CDs. It is Netflix over renting DVDs.
Episode 31: What’s the Meta with Direct DOM Access?
The funny thing is that despite being a podcast junkie, I charge my AirPods so infrequently that I wouldn't bother with this upgrade
> Average union wages are 18% higher than non-union wages.

Couldn't this be because you raise the wages of all the underperformers and lower the wages of the top performers?

If you have a team where a few rockstars make $100K and the average and underperformers make $60K, the average pay could be said to increase if you simply make everyone's wage $72K. But that sucks for the top performers and really is only a good deal if you are at or below average.
Is it time to break up the technopoly? (Answer to Elizabeth Warren’s SXSW talk)
I mean, I really would sell for $10MM. But I think I'd be giving someone a real steal for (much) less. Like, sure, I could use $100,000, but does that mean I should sell a more-valuable asset that I happen to own for that little? If so, why?
Turns Out That Trillion-Dollar Bailout Was, in Fact, Real
Excellent news! I'm quite delighted. Stringent punishment should be imposed on those thugs systematically looting data of uninitiated usrs.
I guess HR looks more on the actual design and structure on the resume, rather then what's in it. Because that's their specialty. They don't know what C,D,C++,Java means anyway. Ten years of Java experience must mean the applicant have worked in a coffee shop !? C and D are not good grades ... We want someone with an A in AI. But the resume looks professional, so lets pass him on for an interview.

/rant
The comments in this thread is why we don't deserve nice things. I too think Google has a reputation for killing nice projects or not enough gaming experience, but we have to start somewhere, and why not Google that has the resources to do it.
R vs. Python: What’s the Difference?
Apple removed headphone jacks from their phones, so some AirPod owners probably would have been happy to not own them and continue with traditional headphones.
Really? What's happening on Monday? Seems like unusual timing for SDK updates, a few months early of the usual WWDC releases...
This is exactly how I feel but you said it better than what I was thinking.
I think that's literally the point they were trying to make. You're not the target market so you didn't buy them.
Apple is a lifestyle brand now, the technology aspect of their products is irrelevant to many of their customers.
IMO schools should stand surety for students. Would solve many, many societal problems by putting their skin in the game, rather than using government subsidized loans that can't be defaulted.
> internet was sentient

This is true, but it isn't yet self aware.
> "Sorry, but you can't be trusted to make good choices about what you put in your body, so we will make laws that force you to make better choices"

How about extending this to ending the war on drugs?
I laughed out loud
The new parser is available in the Groovy 3 alphas.
At least there is the benefit of DOD tech trickling down to NASA tech at some point.
Social media relies on populism, i.e. celebrating the "voice of the people" or the "soul" of the people as an axiomatic good. This is highly reminiscent of the Gemüt concept that the article talks about.
I absolutely agree with everything in this post, but the newest model of QC35s has like 15 hours of battery life. Even if it degrades 50% over 3 years they will be perfectly usable. Airpods don't have enough physical size to overprovision battery that much.

Unserviceable laptop and cellphone batteries are terrible and apple is by far the biggest offender.

disclaimer: typed from a macbook :(
Ive had several friends become paranoid while smoking pot. Some of them have been daily for years.

While they may have had some paranoia not a single one of them suffered from psychosis. On the contrary most seem quite happy, laid back and well adjusted. Most have the same issues we all have, weed or no weed.
It just gets user annoyed for no reason, why can't they take a screenshot of their bank account anyway? It just makes no sense. I understand banks like it because they are full of regulatory security which don't make sense in real life, that's probably one more to add to the list.
I also use them for conference calls. I think one of the super awesome but barely talked about features of the airpods is how you can use it to handle calls nonstop all day long -- you can just wear one at a time. Both airpods have a microphone. So while you're using one, the other one is in the charging case! You can even switch them out in the middle of a call. So no need to go "oh crap I need to recharge my headset", just swap them out and you're at 100% for continuous non-stop talking.

Most days, however, I don't have calls all day long, and I can just wear both no problem and not run into the low battery beep.
I'm pretty sure that in the game "Prototype", the water tanks were breeding grounds for the weirdy alien looking creatures. It was fun to fly around in a helicopter spotting them (by heat signature) and blowing them up.

I had no idea they were real features in New York.
Availability Bias: Easier Thought, Easier Influence
Not really, you can build the applications for the billions of people who live in dense cities, and then let the rural population demand access to the same.
You were talking about reddit, and my reply is about reddit.
Question: Does this only work GMail to GMail or also across email platforms?
As they say, it should be as simple as possible, but no simpler.
Your wife’s phone came with headphones that didn’t work with her phone?
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