skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's improper behavior, to work to get your team hired somewhere else, doubly so for a manager, and potentially in violating of your no solicit clause. Quitting, telling your team why you are quitting, why you left, those are proper. Of course a company can treat the people working there poorly.

Of course, companies screw people over, and treat them like shit at times, try to violate your hiring agreement, don't tell you your options. But actively finding your team jobs is foolish, and definitely something they can sue you over. And a new company would be worried you might do it again.
Better keep those glasses safe.
Your response does not change his point. It seems to me you did not read the article carefully.
By moving files to ~/.Trash you didn't expect, which would be deleted when you empty ~/.Trash.
I think the initial joke was kind of a filter to only let people who doesn't instantly react and rage about it to continue with the article.

As a Korean who's viewing things from the outside, I found the hook hilarious and totally made me continue reading it...
Self-Contained Systems
I think it’s less that our society needs him than that he is the unavoidable product of today’s society.

Hari Seldon would have foreseen him.
If you are interested in this stuff, here's a somewhat shameless plug for my book: Exploding The Phone, which is a deep dive into the history of phone hacking from 1950 to the mid-1980s. http://explodingthephone.com/
Huh? Most of todays innovation is about power efficiency. This is driven from mobile and laptops, but benefits desktops and servers as well.
It doesn't mean you suck as a manger that you don't get what you want. You never get all of what you want. I can only imagine someone saying that has no experience as a manager, or has been lucky and not found themselves in difficult circumstances. What sucks is if you don't even try to advocate appropriately for your team.
If your machine crashes, overheats, or has graphical artifacts at 100% load, it's broken and you should fix it.
> On the other hand, the underlying assumption is that the revolt against elite policy preferences, not only in the U.S. but in Europe and elsewhere, is entirely devoid of rational motivation. It discounts without comment the possibility that the pre-internet style of governance had substantive problems which the working class didn't like (e.g. globalization leading to a race to the bottom in manufacturing wages).

I didn't get that from the article at all.

The article was purely descriptive, without ascribing any value judgment.
So in the same way that some Americans with no Asian ancestry in the slightest, or any spiritual inclinations towards the Tao or Buddhism or anything like that might get a tattoo or article of clothing with certain symbols, i.e. yin-yang, or some bit of Arabic or Chinese or Japanese writing as decoration, the Japanese take a similar attitude to English or Spanish or Christian (Catholic in particular) writing and symbols.

They use English as window dressing because it’s cool. Most Japanese kids will take English in school, but few will ever attain any real fluency in the language. So if you sprinkle in some gratuitous English into your signage, clothing and television scripts or character designs, then you are cool, and you can still effectively communicate to some degree because while almost no one is fluent, they can still understand at least small amounts of English at a time. I’m not sure that still holds up with younger generations, but at least at one point it was the case.
In 2018 Sketch crossed 1,000,000 paying customers.
Sketch license is $99/year.

See their official announcement:
https://blog.sketchapp.com/sketch-raises-20m-in-series-a-fun...
Stop Reclining Your Airplane Seat
Care to back up your assertion? If not most will either mentally nod or shake their heads and move on
NZ goes even further, threatening 10 years prison for a “possession of a video”. Kiwis have gone bananas.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-03-16/nz-threatens-10-ye...
Hopefully he never finds this :)
This might be your view of the world, but most people don't work that way. Companies often have "target bonuses". If most people don't get their it, and there was no big problem justifying it, people will quit.
If your machine spins up its fans for no discernible reason throughout the day, it's broken and you should fix it.
> Now, in the age of Wikipedia, it astounds me how uncurious many people are

I find myself constantly astounded by this. But I think this age we are in only exposes something that is probably the default state for this country.

I was "into computers" growing up in the early 80's and I remember the number one question I got from adults was - "what are you going to do with a computer?". I'm guessing many people had the same experience.

Curiosity isn't a default state. It is what separates us from everyone else. Very sadly.
> You inaccurately generalized my comment.

I thought I might, but was hoping you would respond with a more correct generalization.
Here's Gary Hamatani, chief project engineer for Boeing's 737 MAX program, explaining that they needed the main landing gear to fit the existing wheel wells: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4IGl4OizM4 I find it very illustrative, as it contains the keywords that are at issue here: "we wanted to preserve commonality", "from a pilot's perspective there's absolutely nothing different", etc.
Quantum computation, specifically on compilers and simulators.
But when a solution like Electron comes along, it's roundly denounced by a large number of the very people who stand to benefit from cross-platform applications.
His Sofia recital is undisputedly the best Pictures recording among my classical cohort.
Brendel receives no love whatsoever.
Sorta. It's not 100% safe, but it's good enough. In crime stats, it's among the lowest in the world, and 4 to 15 times less than the US (depending on crime).

https://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/compare/Japan/Unit...

https://medium.com/@alascii/this-guy-left-a-laptop-in-a-toky...

https://www.attendly.com/the-astonishing-lost-and-found-cult...

https://japantoday.com/category/features/kuchikomi/japan-a-g...

https://livejapan.com/en/in-tokyo/in-pref-tokyo/in-tokyo_tra...

(Of course, whatever Japanese culture might be, Japan now also has millions of tourists each year, with whom, YMMV).
I've worked in academia for several years, and it's been somewhat discouraging. I've certainly noticed the pressure put on grad students--not fun. I'm someone who is deeply passionate about science/research and have tried to think of things that could be done outside academia to contribute basic scientific research--the hope is more team science and not labs organized around PI feudalships. Anyway, I've been working on https://www.eonias.org/ on the side (still fleshing it out), if anyone is interested in collaborating on writing a grant, please reach out.
Same file is a bash script and C++ source file, at the same time
Why I Two-Space (2012)
In addition to all of the other problems with Python mentioned in this thread, Python can also be incredibly slow to start compared to sh.

Another problem is that doing many things that would be simple in the shell require a lot of boilerplate in Python. That kind of boilerplate might be worth putting up with for large programs, but for something that could be easily handled with a short shell script it's really annoying.
Fed vs. Narrow Banks
Can you elaborate? This seems like a fake news operation: you make up a story and people share it because it resonates with some truism they believe in.

> The article was widely circulated online and prompted debate about China’s wealth gap, surging medical costs and the value of education — common complaints of China’s middle class. Soon, however, internet users pointed to factual errors and said the piece had been invented.

I remember awhile ago someone got criticized for doing the same thing, getting people riled up over some fake immigrant violence or something.
In my experience most private trackers allow clients that use libtorrent in general rather than specific clients that use it (e.g rTorrent).
It's interesting on a meta-level that these kinds of essays could only be published (and publicized) because of the Internet.
They should have a philosophy of building aerodynamically stable aircraft rather than relying on software and sensors to produce an illusion of stability.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't that instantly delete all moved files which are older than 30 days since mv keeps the mtime?
I’m amazed this is their first outside round. From what I hear it’s already kind of the standard tool for designers.
I doubt that an Ubuntu release is more likely in the wake of a $20 million investment. Ubuntu is not exactly the platform of choice for web and mobile developers. Perhaps a web version though.
> It is what separates us from everyone else.

I think everyone is curious, the only difference is what people are curious about. Not everyone gives a rip about computers, that doesn't make them fundamentally uncurious.
Artificial intelligence speed up by Politecnico di Milano
Yeah. It is strange that they were the last regulatory org to do so. . In America basically every governmental body is in the pocket of big business.
Have you tried Adobe XD?
Zero consequences? There was one illegal program (phone metadata collection) in the revelations. It was shut down. The revelations showed that the NSA had in the past extracted email metadata from email companies from international cables. The email companies have since encrypted their cross-datacenter internal traffic. Snowden disclosed many Chinese targets to the PRC. The PRC has presumably secured them.
This has become a little more common lately, but probably still not as common as it should be.

Part of the problem is funding. You can get 3-4 grad students or ~2 postdocs for the price of a developer. Plus there are lots of existing mechanisms for funding them: training grants, internal and external fellowships, working as a TA, etc. A developer would have to get paid out of research funding, which is already pretty limited. The National Cancer Institute had a program for staff scientists, and the Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative just launched one targeting microscopy, but there aren’t tons of options, especially not for open-ended roles.

There’s been some adverse selection too. I briefly had a programmer but it rapidly became obvious he was working for an academic salary because no one else in their right m8ns would pay him more. I ended up rewriting all of that code, and despite this, my boss keeps sending me fresh-faced undergrads “to do the coding.” I guess the idea that you get what you pay for hasn’t sunk in yet. That said, we’ve also had a few that were excellent and were interested in the projects; I think they were both hired as part of some complicated arrangement where their spouses were recruited for more traditional academic roles.

Another part of it is that code quality hasn’t been a huge priority. That is finally starting to change, but most labs have a lot of code that was unceremoniously promoted from “one-off prototype” to “critical infrastructure” without too many changes. (This, incidentally, gives the lie to peoples’ obsession with YAGNI).

Finally, if anyone does need a neuro/ML themed developer, I call dibs :-) Seriously though, I completely agree that we have have more specialized roles (dev, technical writer/editor) and I think that whatever place manages to make this work could become a research powerhouse. Some of the bigger institutes (the Broad, Janlia Farms, etc) do have some jobs like this already.
I don't disagree with what you're saying schematically. I agree that there's a lot of propaganda that serves the money machine, and that it's not suitable for most founders.

I think the specific numbers you're providing are tricky, because generally, getting to $200 M exit within, say, a decade, involves institutional funding (VC, PE, "growth", whatever).

(As a relatively small non-Valley funder, I would generally also prefer to be an investor in a company that exits at $200 M with a much lower risk than a $600 M exit, given that getting to $600 M might mean another $50-100 M in late-stage, first-money-out, preference overhang capital.)

I think the real question usually has orders of magnitude difference here. Internally-fundable businesses tend to opt for business models like services, consulting, etc., since they can scale without a lot of invested equity. Hence a lot of times you wind up growing a business semi-organically and end up getting a 1-2x revenue multiple for a modest growth, modest gross-margin, consulting type business. Or, if you do get a good SaaS operation going and grow it organcially, you might find yourself faced with the late-arriving roll-up play heavily funded by private equity, who will buy you at a 3-5x in an attempt to consolidate the market and float it at a 6-10x.

And yes, if you as a founder have a 90% shot at $10 M in 10 years, vs. a 9% shot at $100 M or a 0.9% shot at $1 B, most rational founders should and do take the safe road. Stipulated :)

But in my experience and observation, getting over the hurdle of product-market fit and a repeatable go to market strategy is what tends to kill startups. If you get that PMF and GTM working, it often makes sense to fund hypergrowth. If you don't, the company is walking dead anyway.
Often times as a Software Developer I encounter a bug which has an obvious two line fix. Rather than implementing that though I often spend another few minutes digging into how and why that bug was introduced. Often times I'm left with a greater understanding of the problem or encounter a requirement that the previous developer was trying to implement that my fix would have broken.

Other developers will simply assume the previous developer was an idiot and bash in the fix.

I feel like in this case a lot of people are assuming the engineering team were idiots, or criminally trying to make an aircraft which didn't pass safety standards. Rather than taking a look at what caused the bug in the first place.
One thing I think a lot people are pretty bad at is filtering content. We're overloaded with content now, and I hear a lot of people saying "X is bad because there's bad content" where X can be Hacker News, Reddit, Twitter the news, etc.

I've never really understand that, because it discounts the fact that there is enormous value in every medium, you just have to skip the bad stuff.

I don't even notice that I do it, but hearing that made me realize how quickly I scan any of those media and just cherry pick the content I find valuable.

Maybe I'm just not as curious as other people, but I feel no obligation to read or look at something if it fails a 2 second gut check of "does this add value to my life?" No doubt, I probably skip a lot of good stuff, but I'm fine with the false negatives if I feel like I'm getting the valuable stuff I want frequently enough.
Which one? He's written quite a few.

I read his essay about High School many many times. I haven't kept track but I would guess somewhere in the realm of 50+ times. Not because I was trying to memorize it or anything, there were just many occasions where I wanted to read his advice again. I also read the Undergraduation essay quite a few times too. I read many more of his essays, but those were the two I came back to most.
The article addresses your suggestion:

"The "obvious" way to do this is to litter command invocations with "--" before the filename(s). But it turns out this doesn't really work, because not all commands support "--" (ugh!). For example, the widely-used "echo" command is not required to support "--". What's worse, echo does support at least one dash option, so we need to escape leading-dash values somehow. POSIX recommends that you use printf(1) instead of echo(1), but some old systems do not include printf(1)."
Felt strange to recognize the name, only because I was trying to find a good version of Rachmaninoff's Prelude Op.23 No.1, and just happened to come across the Richter version which was far and away the best I found. I've never heard him play anything else though.
But that does not solve the problem at all. File names with leading dashes will be interpreted exactly the same way. Displaying a file name may cause terminal escapes to suddenly be executed. A list are file names separated by new lines still fails to work. Indeed I specifically showed many cases even in Shell where using "$@" does not help, and many of the problems hit even if you aren't using a shell at all.
Tell me more, please! (Especially if they’re hiring)
What's been happening with getpocket.com? Pocket fails to make articles out of the latest articles I added. I need it so I can read stuff on my kobo, but it seems to be failing miserably lately.

Pocket fails to make an article out of this url.
I thought he was a KDE fan
They're using Debian on the laptop so there is no "second" operating system.
My understanding is that's fine. Fitbit encourages you to walk 250 steps every hour (which is a default goal so likely somewhat more than most people do every hour or it wouldn't be a good default goal)
The screenshot in the README mentions DHT in the status bar.
I can't speak for the person to whom your replying, but at any big tech company doing anything with recommendations, machine learning, etc. will have teams where having a PhD is huge especially when being considered for promotions
I've often wondered the same but not found any studies answering the question.
Didn't you just describe the military?
When does he say that he uses Linux Mint?. From what I've seen, his desktop looks like Gnome 2 with a dark theme, or a heavily modified Gnome 3.
This is also what Brian Eno did for Spore. If I'm not mistaken you could configure the parameters of the music yourself from an in-game menu.
A lot of the most important skills seem to be 'taught' by osmosis in university.
CISOs: You need to manage by ‘walking around’
It's not as if the chart of accounts has a particular account for "this is our profit from screwing over whoever bought the rights to Java". This would always be a judgment call, first from the inherent uncertainty in measuring that if one wanted to measure it correctly, but more importantly from the uncertainty over what can be proved in court. Remember, Oracle had the burden of proof in this situation, and they thought they could prove that the number was at least $22B. Google had no duty to argue the number should have been higher, because even if that duty existed how would it be enforced?

Much of your analysis in this thread suffers from a form of wishful thinking. I suspect you are a fan of "iPhone" devices.
In many cases, a well-designed, durable product can be repairable. While the actual earbuds were not wonderfully well-reviewed, the Samsung Galaxy Buds were both tiny and legitimately repairable: https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Samsung+Galaxy+Buds+Teardown...
Compressive Sensing Resources/Literature
I just wish there was a portable all-in-one PC with modular components (since vertical parts don’t need as much testing as horizontal).

But surplus laptops are in such quantity that I’d be fine replacing my tablet with a laptop.
Isn't Clang LLVM?
String Parsing in Swift
I actually agree (broadly) with your statement about founders.

As far as what the VC is optimizing for -- fair enough, I am only pointing out that saying the 1 point difference in, say, a 10 or 11 point equity stake is somehow actually only 0.2% to the VC isn't fair. It's a 10% difference in the VC's stake.
Nah dude, amputate and prosthetic. There's no excuse for people to doing marathons on million year old tech when you can be running on carbon fiber springs
It’s a basic UI on top of libtorrent. So it has those features.

It’s very simple and that makes it effective enough for me. All I’ve got is some arch iso files. A fedora and a CentOS file. It starts instantly and connects to 800 DHT nodes, as opposed to Qbittorrent 2-3 seconds and 350 nodes.

I don’t know about private trackers. I don’t have anything I want to pirate.

I don’t see cross platform as a plus for mini sized, simple graphical applications. I see it as an advanced curl.
Lenovo knows about the love for the retro Thinkpads, and even tried to take advantage of it:

https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/thinkpad/thinkpad-t-ser...

It was a decent showing, but not what I wanted (an X60 form factor with a 4k 4:3 screen)
She changed her voice? Wow.
A common thing that happens to me is: Stuck on a moderately complex problem, usually in a field that I'm not intimately familiar with (ie. A complex mail server config). Work on it, feeling frustrated late into evening. Go to sleep and sort of "dream about the problem" in a loosely chaotic way.

Come morning, its not that I suddenly have a solution, but more often than not I've developed a good strategy for how to test the problem. By using this new method I'm able then to trial-and-error the problem in a systemic way, leading to a solution.

TLDR: Sleeping often gives me successful 'approaches' to problems
Many moons ago, our company was advertising on FB in NZ and got 5K worth of sales a day.

I think New Zealand is a good testing ground for new FB changes and losing it won't be good either.
I don't disagree, but I find it interesting that if you were the last person alive you would spend your time reading the literary artifacts of other people, thereby continuing to grow and define yourself through social action.
> Lol. If we're talking practical applications, the it doesn't really matter!

Then why did you bring up fps in video games?

> there is no worst sort.

Of course there is no worst sort. But some sorts are worse than others. The disagreement here is that your sorting algorithm is clearly better than Worstsort.

If all randomized algorithms with unbounded runtime are worse than worstsort, then flipping a coin until you get heads and then running a fast sort algorithm would be worse than Worstsort. If you instead take a more reasonable approach like comparing expected runtime, Worstsort is clearly worse than bogosort.
I find it a bit curious that they are not using an effort such as lineageOS. In fact companies that don't want to rely on Google, why don't they rally behind an effort like that?
Good point, YC is a uniquely powerful market participant these days and has both the power and the breadth of portfolio to negotiate hard.
AoA = Angle of Attack
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angle_of_attack
Maybe one could make a cross-breed with something like this armchair-cyclette:

https://www.technogym.com/it/recline-excite-forma.html

one could additionally power the monitor from batteries recharged by a generator connected to the pedals.
I'm aware of these, and to a degree suffer from them directly--I just don't think "left to die" is an appropriate description. Furthermore, the group most affected by these issues, aging white males, are also the group AOC stands most ready to throw under the bus. That is, I think she's a hypocrite on this subject.

In any case, hypocrites come and go, but these problems are indeed very important and in need of some organized solutions. Our "oppressive" traditions and social structures have been cast aside, and many jobs have been outsourced to elsewhere. I'm watching the twenty-somethings around me try to deal with this wonderful new society, and it's very sad.

In my work, I like to get the new systems working before deleting the old ones...
I really wish people would wait for the report before drawing conclusions like this. These investigations take a long time, and it's often not the issue that gets circulated on Twitter.

AirAsia 8501 was widely suspected to be caused by a thunderstorm. Wired [1] and WaPo [2] still have articles up blaming the weather. When the investigation came out a year later, it turned out to have nothing to do with weather. The fly-by-wire system malfunctioned and the pilots got confused.

[1] https://www.wired.com/2014/12/airasia-qz8501-thunderstorms/

[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/...