skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm 39 and have been using the iPad since Gen 1, it's the ultimate media consumption device where it's effectively become my "personal TV" (since I don't have a TV). I have a keyboard attached on my larger pro model that I prefer to use over my MBP/Air when going to Cafe's or on Airplanes. But I only use it for a limited set of "productivity" tasks like writing docs, answering emails, forum and StackOverflow questions, never for writing code but have needed to use it for some emergency RDP sessions on the go.

It's also surprising how many Apps optimized UX are just nicer and more fluid to use on iOS, like News, Bank/Stock/Real Estate Apps, Houzz, Maps, Starbucks, AirBnb even Twitter/FB/Pintrest are nicer on iOS.

It's also become my parents primary computing device, they've never really felt comfortable using their iMac, Laptop or Chromebook (which are now dust gatherers), but they absolutely love their iPads. They always feel "lost" when using a PC, but never on their iPads where I believe the restrictive UI/functionality of iOS leads to more enjoyment from feeling their more in "control" of their device.

Given most people are content consumers instead of content creators it's not hard to see why the trend is towards most people using Smart Phones / Tablets as their primary computing device.
Off the top of my head....medical software companies almost always require it (hey, it's basically free for them, since they have their own labs), any company with older tech like Coldfusion, ADA, etc seem to test to weed out developers who are scraping the bottom barrel due to undisclosed personal problems, financial/real-estate software companies, and this is all on top of rigorous background checks that may or may not matter. The drug test matters.
This is exactly right. The average non-scientist proclaiming his support for science is exactly that.
Sure, but if you are an 'indie hacker', you don't need to make anywhere near $350k/mo to have a very comfortable life.
I wouldn't disagree with that. And a big problem is that innocent people tend to produce stress reactions when interrogated, leading to false positives. It would be appropriate to call a polygraph a "fear" detector, since that's basically what it's measuring. But still, the "science" isn't entirely bunk: some people do panic when they lie - though I read an anecdote that said this is a weirdly American trait (Europeans can cheat the polygraph more easily) - but it's virtually impossible to sift out the true positives from the noise.
What damage does it actually make to the environment when creating solar panels? I mean, what materials are gathered, distributed and collected from where? What is the break even point just on cost, not even counting environmental impact.
they tried to write a shim that made the new plane fly like the old one.
The sad truth that it isn't. The most of the services they blocked were chosen for some insignificant reasons. This is what happens when you have a ruined system where every district judge can order to ban Youtube.
Sad, but true
Are the images about 5000% times the size of the text for anyone else? I'm at 4k resolution and I have to zoom out to like 25% to fit them on my screen.
Unvetted image comparison of the cockpits

737 MAX 8 Cockpit - https://i2.wp.com/thepointsguy.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/0...

737 800 Cockpit - https://i.imgur.com/eRULoST.jpg

I don't really know my way around an airliner but the key displays seem to be quite different and there's a lot fewer knobs on the MAX 8.
It already looked bad for the FAA that they dragged their feet to ground the plane. That a criminal investigation was launched a full day before they finally grounded the Max raises even more questions. You have the whole world grounding the plane, two highly unusual, strikingly similar tragedies within a short span of time, and a federal investigation into the plane's development, and it still takes a whole day to ground the plane?
If you use the stock ROM then they probably can. A fey years ago the carriers would put proprietary hotspot apps on your phone which would integrate with their billing system, but if you switched to another ROM you could just use the built-in Android hotspot option and it would work just fine.

With an AOSP ROM like LineageOS they can't detect it from the phone itself, but there are still some differences in the packets that a phone would send vs the packets a computer would send (you can Google about how to hide tethering on T-Mobile and find some discussion on that); it's not very hard to change your settings to avoid that method of detection.
Have you actually read the article?

"Some philosophers and scientists have argued that there is no scientific method; they include physicist Lee Smolin and philosopher Paul Feyerabend (in his Against Method)"

And even the previous paragraphs are not complete either. It says there:

"Scientists then test hypotheses by conducting experiments or studies. A scientific hypothesis must be falsifiable"

Which is not necessarily true - for example, many arguments against the theory of evolution question whether it is a falsifiable theory (which is not saying that it is not true, but if there is no way to falsify it, how can it be said it is a scientific theory?). Many fields within Biology also have no predictive, but only descriptive power.

Scientists who stick to a rigorous scientific method, such as seen in physics would have to reject most other branches of science. For a realist to accept scientific results in multiple fields, they have to use some philosophical reasons to accept the differing methods as valid ways of exploring reality.
Lease, monitoring, insurance, real estate taxes, site maintenance.

From the report [1]:

Tower cost in India (40-60k$) due to low land rent cost.
Tower in Latin America (120-180k$)

Tower in UK - 200-400k£ [2]

[1] http://phx.corporate-ir.net/External.File?item=UGFyZW50SUQ9M...

[2] https://www.ft.com/content/981f7084-c515-11e5-b3b1-7b2481276...
> Religion and science derive understanding about the world in fundamentaly different and incompatible ways.

They are not incompatible, as the pope John Paul II states: Faith and reason are like two wings on which the human spirit rises to the contemplation of truth.
That's not the same as productivity monitoring. It's really really not.

Cameras for asset protection and building security != your boss looking over your shoulder while you work.
Why would not wanting to share your life with them be racist? Racism is the belief in the superiority of one race over another. It has nothing to do with who you want and don't want to have in your neighborhood. And people should be allowed to choose whom to associate with.
Unfortunately, regulation doesn't fit with the narrative of self-determination and "pull yourself up by your bootstraps"

Instead the narrative is about big, bloated bureaucracies, ignoring the fact that they got so big by having to respond and add additional layers every time someone figured out a new way to screw things up, as with Boeing.
The cell tower cost is not similar at all. I also used to think that the actual telecom equipment was the biggest cost and then your statement would be true. But generally installation cost and raising a tower is many times more expensive than the equipment.

Digging down power and fiber to a tower is not cheap.
I mean, with all the money the US currently spends on military budgets, I can't for the life of me figure out why it is so hard to find the 50-100mil or so (estimated) it would cost for a few orbital IR telescopes and just deal with this problem once and for all.

A Pegasus XL rocket can lift 976 pounds (443 kilograms) into low-Earth orbit for about $13.5 million...put two "budget" telescopes on one launch and get to work.
starting a side project is great if you are not yet established developer. if you are, i'd say your resume should perform the same function...
"alive and well" might be a stretch. I don't know a soul who plugs their devices into their computers. Using VLC to watch media is also a blast from the past. Grandpa, is that you?
Rather in the context of the "link to a paid product" or a startup they own without disclosing it, as the OP was implying. I should have clarified.

For comments linking to my own blog/projects, I very intentionally a) disclose I've written it and b) try to only post it when it's extremely relevant to the topic at hand.
I think the issue is that public transportation is rarely point to point.
A point to point self-driving transportation capsule could be more efficient and be better utilized than public transportation.
Meanwhile, Surveillance Valley CEOs like Zuckerberg continue to spin their privacy invasions as altruistic moves to help the poor.
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4M what? Delhi doesn't have 4M cars. It's pretty much bordering on 9M cars, 10M if you include the greater NCR area.

The closest number I can find is 31.8L daily ridership in the metro which seems reasonable. The metro had an annual ridership bordering on 1B in 2017-2018.

Given a population of 20M, the whole city doesn't travel at once.

Add on other factors like -
* 30% people (kids, housewives, elders etc etc) do not have a significant commute.

* Then a significant portion of the population has a commute less than 5 kms for which taking metro makes less sense - this is evident in the gargantuan numbers of e-rickshaws, tuktuks, tempos seen on indian roads which primarily serve distances upto 5 kms and are nary unoccupied during peak times.

* Then another significant chunk has commutes smaller than 10kms. Only a small percent has any significant commute.

* Plus based on other factors I know, and which would be too tedious to link here, metro is the third most occupied transport behind buses (first) and small transport like e-rickshaws etc.

Delhi doesn't need to build more, in non-peak times you'll find plenty of space. Even in peak times, even though you'll be uncomfortable, you'll still reach your destination within 10-15 mins of what it would take in non-peak time. The current plan is well developed till 2021 and would probably serve the needs of the city with sufficient capacity, though not necessarily comfortable.
One thing I'm not totally clear on after reading the article is which AWS account the AWS KMS resides. Is it Slack's AWS account or the customer's?
Paging MitchellH here, but how does this capability intersect with HashiCorp Vault?
I'm not sure that's anything new. Sure, I'll call a restaurant if there's no easy way to book online. But this doesn't work as well when I'm traveling overseas (language, cost of phone call) and, as you say, phone lines are busy, get put on hold, phone not picked up, etc.

Also, with an app, I can see upfront what my options are and potentially see if I have better choices elsewhere.
I wrote a plugin to do it, which is way better than what you posted. And they're both way worse than an IDE. And the command line is least efficient of all for this task.
My company just called 300 mid-to-high-end restaurants to try to confirm their hours and ~30% never picked up.
>No matter how many companies die a quick and painful death when they lose too much business critical data, the bossmen just can't wrap their heads around spending $100k for what they perceive as no benefit.

Yeah, but what exactly IS the benefit? The business doesn't die if something really bad happens? Is that really important though?

Consider the two alternatives:

1) The business spends $x00k/year on backups. IF something happens, they're saved, and business continues as normal. However, this money comes out of their bottom line, making them less profitable.

2) The business doesn't bother with backups, and has more profit. The management can get bigger bonuses. But IF something bad happens, the company goes under, but then what happens to the managers who made these decisions? They just go on to another job at another company, right?

I'm not sure I see the benefit of backups here.
They do serve as a good indicator. The primary problems that occur during evacuations are "people don't believe it will hit them" and "there's no way to move all those people." I'd also doubt that our math is good enough to precisely calculate the impact point of a meteorite more than few days in advance. Hit/no-hit probably, and which region, yes, but off by 50km? Meteorites break up on atmospheric impact, getting the precise point right is probably impossible.
I'm seeing a lot of:

"Error establishing database connection" on that site.
It is so weird that the iPad Air and iPad mini only support the old Apple Pencil

Perhaps it's because the new Apple Pencil charges by docking with a host iPad, and there's no place on an iPad Air or iPad mini to put a dock.
Your citation doesn't really support any of the arguments, since it doesn't address which jobs require drug testing at those Fortune 500 companies.

For example, Walmart is number one on the list. Is it the CEO who is being tested, or the guys unloading the shipping trucks?
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To be fair, The Pentagon has repeatedly listed climate change as one of it's biggest threats for a number of years, but it's currently too politically touchy to do much about.

One report in particular...

> The 22-page assessment delivered to Congress on Thursday says about two-thirds of 79 mission-essential military installations in the U.S. that were reviewed are vulnerable to current or future flooding, with more than half vulnerable to current or future drought. About half also are at risk from wildfires, including the threat of mudslides and erosion from rains following the blazes.
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There's nothing at all out of date about individualism, it is simply sad that collectivism is all most of you seem to have ever known.
Mumbai has two rail-based transports. The metro is tiny compared to the western railways network but expanding and going to cover huge swaths of the city. Though, I can totally understand about your experience with the railways. As a non-mumbaikar, those trains terrify me.
I know what you're getting at, but how hard can it be for a software company that makes millions (my assumption) to add a charting library as a native option with a verb for linechart, scatterplot, barplot...etc? They could just bundle the C++ JUCE library and then their users could create all sorts of GUIs and charts. I've seen other commercial products do this and it seems to work well, but I can understand them not wanting to include 3rd party code and pay a licensing fee. Still...I'd rather have a native way to do charting within a language rather than spin off a Python interpreter with Matplotlib. It just doesn't sound like a rapid prototyping process if you have to do that. I think I read before that they used to have a simple chart library, but removed it to keep the product tiny. I assume they know best, but don't know their reasoning. Thanks for the discussion though.

This reminds me of using F# to call out to R. If I have to do all that work, I might as well just use R :). I realize there are some edge cases where that is nice though and that not everyone is as bothered by that as me. It seems like the context switching is inefficient.
In those cases people had to live on the good farmland, in order to farm it an protect it.
That is no longer a consideration.

I used to work in the city architects for Waterford. We would never ever build public housing on a 100 year floodplain.
Private developers would do it, they shouldnt have gotten planning permission but they inevitably did. They knew they could make a profit as most buyers wouldnt check.. That practice should be illegal.
If you were in the healthcare industry your experience would be different
My experience with written/spoken languages vs programming languages has been vastly different.

In my early 20s I picked up enough Spanish working in a restaurant to have conversations about simple topics/small talk, including native speakers at family dinners. Not much effort.

In my late 20s using Anki (SRS) I learned enough Russian to mostly understand radio broadcasts and television, but I never practiced speaking.

In my mid-to-late 30s I started learning Korean also using Anki, and it has been a grinding and slow process. After many months of on again/off again studying, I can pick out some words and use context to maybe understand what is being spoken.

Obviously the curve has gotten a bit steeper with each language being further away from English, but definitely a salient reminder about the ability to learn new languages with age.

Programming languages on the other hand have been a much different experience, not nearly as difficult to pick up. I haven't considered exactly why it's so different until now.
But the original title doesn't begin with one, unless you count "all-new" as a gratuitous adjective.
That's much more limited than multiple cursors. Have you used that feature in other editors?
I have nearly identical teeth to yours, but I had braces and don't care that my bottom teeth or a little messed up since they're a lot better than they used to be. That said, there's some cheap(er) teeth-straightening companies out there nowadays.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/michelatindera/2018/05/02/braci...
I'd add: Workout and do other stuff while working on your side project. Don't just sit 8 more hours per day. Do some push ups, code a bit. Do some sit ups, code a bit, go running outside a bit, code some lines. Do the laundry, code while waiting. I've found that this works well for me and I am more satisfied with my day after.
We had a Surface tablet at work ~1.5yrs ago for testing. It did not live up to what I expected given the hype, especially judged as a tablet rather than a generic Windows portable. Slow & unresponsive, terrible touch UX otherwise, too. Did you mean something else?
Agreed. I stopped visiting IH some time ago after finding that about 95% of the community seems to be obsessed with get-rich-quick ideas and making as much cash as possible to retire by 30 or something. This headline exemplifies that.
When you're debating with someone about how the Higgs Field does or doesn't imply the existence of fundamental particles, or how neutrinos do or don't move faster than light, then yes, appeal to scientific authority is "troubling" as you mention.

But when we are talking about vaccines, flat earthers, etc, then how can you possibly justify that it's bad for

>people are castigated for not believing in scientific "truths".

?

Perhaps flat earthers is a silly but harmless phenomenon, but there is real pain and suffering from other kinds of science denial such as the antivaxxers.
Yeah, there's no general solution... basically you need all the hassle that comes with configuring and using a hosted SIP provider for those features you want.
> - Use GIT to keep track of your VIM configuration.

My question is: Why?

I use git quite exhaustively for my daily job, I also have my vimrc git-tracked on github, but TBH I cannot really see the point anymore :-)
Agreed entirely. It's the same as hiring somebody out of college who had a job all throughout vs somebody who didn't and was involved in a lot of various organizations.

The involvement is great at all, but if you've graduated while working it shows great time management too.

The side projects are most valuable for conveying desire to learn / solve problems, which is perhaps the most critical trait for successful developer. At the same time, if your job already gives you a chance to showcase that, the side project isn't that big of a deal.

The key is just looking for that desire to learn to show through in the candidate. I've seen it from side projects where the side project showed experience (Ruby) that the primary job (.NET) did not, I've seen it from crazy detail and excitement in explaining how you solved a boring low level problem, etc.

There are many roads to surfacing that in an interview. When it shows, I'm currently batting 1.000 on the quality of hires though.
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This series of incidents is pretty clear cut it seems (we know that a feature Boeing made caused the crashes), and the investigations IIRC are not being done by the American agencies.

But in the past there have been worse incidents and Boeing lied and cheated their way out of them without seeing any large penalties: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19389983
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It's definitely not natural language.
We do a combination sort of like this in our family. Immediate family members still do regular gifts at Christmas. But with all of our extended family members we do a sort of "secret Santa" for donates. Each family member gets matched up with someone else, then you make a donation in that person's name to a charity that is important to you. Then on Christmas day everyone opens a letter from their "secret donate Santa" that says what they donated to and why.

It is a tradition that my wife's family had done and now we have started doing it in my family as well. I really like it for all the donations that happen, and (more selfishly) that we don't have to worry about giving/receiving unnecessary or strange presents from relatives we are not super close to.
Another documentary from Dr. Steven Greer
Can you do any good 3d design with the pencil? Cad, sketchup, 3dfusion, blender?
Businesses always claim to value developer productivity, but this is rarely accurate. Usually it’s the stellar opposite of productive despite what they claimed during hiring.

Honestly, if they really let me take the gloves off I could easily replace 4-8 other developers. I am not saying that due to arrogance or some delusion. I just value other qualities than most other developers. Usually it’s not that I am fast or anything impressive but that the company is a drowning self-licking ice cream cone. Things get much faster when you get rid of all the framework bullshit, unnecessary process, and focus purely on business requirements and smallest possible delivery. Most of the bullshit (the stuff really slowing you down) that’s in place isn’t there because the business wants it, but because the developers want it.

These are things you realize when managing a side project because your time is important to you and the person you answer to is yourself.

What’s super frustrating is how awesome that always sounds in an interview and how much the hiring team really appreciates those concerns and that level of honesty. Then once you get the job it’s just the same old slow safety mitten insanity as everywhere else.
It switches between Sprint and T-Mobile, not sure if that makes a difference, I guess it depends where you are
A good error message doesn't have to be descriptive, but if it isn't, it absolutely must be Googleable -- i.e. unique enough so that someone who doesn't understand what it means can paste it into a search engine and find out.

If I Google "'nyi", I get a bunch of results about the New York Islanders hockey team. Not helpful. If I try to be more specific and Google "'nyi k7", the closest thing to a helpful result I get is a link to this discussion on HN.
Golden headline opportunity:
Is Betteridge's Law of Headlines True?
According to this thread, it makes IPC harder: https://www.reddit.com/r/apljk/comments/82vcs4/comment/dyxb0...
Introduction to Datalog
Half the people in Berlin don't own a car. 45% of the commutes in Copenhagen happen by bicycle.
How common is astroturffing on this site?
You can't rent an uber XL?
This is true. I'm crawling with 2 Mbps on Airtel for the past 3-4 months. Jio has always been at 0.8-0.9 Mbps. Vodafone has similar issues.

Indian 4G rarely gives the 40-50 Mbps or more that you can see in other countries