skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I run a free mentoring service for managers & leaders. No strings attached. Not a coaching service. Not trying to pitch you anything. Just me being a service to our community.

https://freemanagermentors.com

I've met with a lot of people from HN since I started the program. It's been a real joy!

As for your comments, a couple of things jump to mind you might want to explore.

[1] Are you receiving enough positive reinforcement from those around you? Are your colleagues aware that their support & positive affirmations make a difference to you? This is all part of "managing up", and a lot of colleagues don't realize it's ok to tell their manager how they appreciate them. It may sound self-serving to you to teach them this, but it's important you know how you benefit them, so you can continue to do that effectively!

[2] I think it's great you're carving out time to do some coding. I'd lean harder into this area if you're finding it's generating enjoyment. Perhaps finding someone to take on 50% of your manager workload would allow you to take a more active coding role in non-time-critical projects?

[3] Are you due for a sabbatical, or have the ability to take an un-paid sabbatical? You may just be hitting some general burnout and may need to hit a reset button.

[4] Perhaps you're due to try a tougher management role in an area that you have little to no expertise. I spent a year at my previous job deep diving into our business operations team, and it helped keep me going for an extra 12 months on a job I was "done" doing. You might be due for a fresh challenge that's beyond engineering.

Happy to chat if you'd like! Be well, and best of luck!
Being a Trekie, I'm a fan of healthcare as a human right, free of costs to the patient. My main concern is that the current (recent) congresses have shown that they cannot create effective legislation. When was the last time the government made something better or more efficient?
Even crazier? The prevalence of British Lee-Enfields from the 30s and 40s in Taliban hands: https://atwar.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/19/a-firsthand-look-...

And Syrian rebels found and used a cache of mint-condition StG 44 rifles in 2012.
That's why you need a good manager to codify the process first, and make sure your team is following it correctly.
"Unqualified references to Result in any of your code that imports the Foo module will resolve to Foo.Result"
That feels like it potentially can have weird unintended consequences
I don't think a manager should be grabbing tough bugs unless there is no time sensitivity (so why are you addressing them?) as they never have enough time to complete them and become a blocker.

I think your best bet is to do strategic technical spikes and as an output identify deeper areas for your engineers to pursue.
That's technically tax evasion, not avoidance. The former is illegal.
Didn't mean to be hard on you! It's just frustrating as someone who's sought those avenues before only to fine people who want to underlay, sketchiness, people who just wanna feel the waters or even people who are trying to catfish for recruiting. It just came off as tho you had never tried to do those things before because they're so generic and rarely produce results. But thanks for that link I'll be looking through it later!
Can someone please tell me how I can find out if I'm infected and how to remove it?
Procrastination and Short-Term Mood Regulation: Consequences for Future Self [pdf]
> Hiring is too important to leave to engineers who don't want to do it.

Who says they don't want to? I'm an engineer, and I love doing interviews. Plenty of engineers are interested in human aspects of the job too, and would be greatful for the experience.
I think for things like streaming language isn't the issue but existing content exclusivity deals are.
I started my first real management role about 9 months ago. Actually, I was sort of dragged into it kicking and screaming, because the team needed a lead right after I joined. It's been challenging and a large adjustment for me. My natural inclination is to be an IC, and that's what I enjoy doing.

At first I really did not like it. Dealing with people is difficult and tricky, and there is a much greater responsibility.

I'm still of mixed opinion whether I'd want to do this for a long time. There are definitely perks. As an IC, I would get frustrated when I saw some organizational dysfunction. Now, I feel I have a voice and can do something about it. The trade off is spending more of my time talking with people rather than computers.

The other benefit I've found is my personal growth. I'm naturally quite introverted, and this has really pushed my boundaries. I've become much more comfortable leading discussions, trying to sell my ideas to upper management, and so forth. I've also had to deal with difficult people. Despite being incredibly tough at times, I've learned a lot.

I also care a lot about people on my team, and want to see them do well. I feel great when I'm able to make their lives better.

Still... I think I will probably go back to being an IC in a couple years. That is truly what makes me happy, and I don't think that is going to change.
I'm inclined to think that both husbands from this story are correct.

We fool ourselves if we think that either we are completely in control or that we are completely powerless.

The wind and the waves are powerful forces indeed, but we still have a rudder and sails.
This kind of thing is very frustrating for creators.

It’d be cool if comments could be sorted based on their relevance to the article, post, project, or idea as a default, rather than just by time or popularity.
I agree more with your slides than the OP article.

That Siri slide also just gave me PTSD.
It's gonzo journalism [1] which was awesome in its time... 40+ years ago. I agree that it doesn't work most of the time within the context of reading sh*t on the web. However, using some kind of pocket/readlater app w/ wifi turned off on a lazy Saturday morning, it has its merits.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gonzo_journalism
Off-topic slightly but was curious- this works 'correctly' on my Pixelbook using its trackpad. Neat test/concept, though.
>- "All of the spending tracking and other information is stored directly on the device, not Apple’s servers" - can't see how this will work in practice. If you lose your phone, do you lose information on historical purchases? What if you want them for your records? Perhaps "spending tracking" just refers to data derived from the transaction information... but then, couldn't you just recompute it?

You can back up your device to your computer (which Apple cannot access) or to iCloud (which Apple can access). If you lose your device, just restore from a backup.
It's usually instructive to look at how OSS does these things - how good devs with no weird corporate constraints goes about it

Take the Linux kernel - Yes there is a lot of delegation - but there are strong gated "lieutenants" at every stage - so perhaps do not treat it as one large structure but lots of small teams - who will do their own hiring, share improvements to their CI process etc

Admittedly Torvalds struggled immensely with your issues too - but he also was able to see where opportunities for his code intervention was most useful
For details https://www.forbes.com/sites/davekeating/2019/02/08/why-did-...
For people who don't have any particular accessibility needs, time will tell.

For those of us who do, time has told us again and again and again and again and again, and we're kinda sick of time telling us to just hold tight when everything we need is right there in the native frameworks.
That's what a previous article from Bloomberg [1] claimed: "The company would collect these monthly fees, then divide up the revenue between developers based on how much time users spend playing their games, one of the people said. Apple is likely considering popular paid titles on the App Store and would exclude titles that are free to download but generate revenue via in-app purchases."

This seems like the definition of a perverse incentive, but if Apple is having a hand in making some of these games, maybe they can keep it under control. Or, maybe having users spend more time in Apple Arcade is their plan all along.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-03-23/apple-s-r...
These women were much more into 'things' than 'people'.

It would be your turn now to explain which biological characteristics of men cause a 90/10 distribution in coders today, and do not apply to coding in the 1950s.
Swift matrix use looks pretty gross compared to Julia, R or Python (NumPy) https://developer.apple.com/documentation/accelerate/simd/wo...
Is there an other way?
I wish Dan (the OP) had gone into more detail on exactly what techniques one can use to tell a story, because this is exactly what he does - very well! - as one of the most prolific voices in the React (and perhaps all of frontend) community.

My personal take:

(1) Marketing shouldn't be an afterthought; it must be considered in the same way one would write code. Take a page from the folks who designed a custom website and icon for Heartbleed. To put it another way, think of "things that would distract someone from the main message" as "bugs" in your code. Certainly, some bugs need to be triaged before any launch. But they should all be triaged with open eyes and respect for the user experience.

(2) Don't assume people know acronyms or even the basics of your niche. Talk about potential use cases. Walk someone through the naive way of doing things, a less naive way of doing things, and why your thing naturally evolves/iterates on those. Make separate "background" pages if you want. Then take all of that as you would an essay you're writing for a class, and reshape it - find a thesis statement, tie everything back to it. Your launch post/README is a persuasive essay on why your thing is good. Even the "getting started" details are part of that persuasion - if it's easy to use, that's part of what makes it good.

Well-written technical documentation can be a joy when you are immersed in the excitement of the person who built it. And with any immersive experience, there are things that can take you out of it. Immerse people quickly and keep them there, and maybe, just maybe, they'll be curious enough to do background research on their own and engage with you on the merits of the project with context :)
I used to strongly feel this way, but the 2016 MacBook was such an unmitigated input disaster that I switched to a ThinkPad. The function key Touch Bar died on mine twice in a year, and was never a desirable feature. And the keyboard was sticking and broken literally brand new out of the box. I had it all replaced by Apple, and within days the same problems came back. I simply can't use a new MacBook.

For non-physical features, I don't really notice any difference, since a full-screen terminal SSH client and Chrome window are the only things I ever run.
Just wait until the EU article 11 and 13 pass and I expect a lot of companies to close up shop for euro users.
GCP has a pretty bad reputation for shutting down accounts arbitrarily- there have been quite the horror stories from smaller companies.
I'm a recent US -> Canada migrant, and though I agree that there are less services, it seems to have changed a lot since you made this list.

I personally have:

- Amazon Prime

- Apple Pay
- Planet Fitness

- Uber and Lyft

- 24/7 grocery stores

- All the big musical acts (which, mind you, is part of being in Toronto and not, like, Winnipeg)

- Legal, weapons-grade weed delivered right to my door

The credit cards, boy, I will give you that. They'll take my Chase Sapphire Reserve from my cold dead hands. (Though Amex is getting aggressive here.)
3) is in the service of 2) more velocity. Lately, I've been thinking, why have a pistol as a backup sidearm at all? Why not something like a Kel-Tec Sub2000, just slightly smaller, perhaps with a 10" barrel, but also shoulder-able?
Yeah I know one person who's had success using meet-up for pretty much anything other than trivia night at a bar and even she thinks it's in the way out. It's too bad our search engines are so poor at finding quality results these days. Maybe that's part of the problem, but I don't see a next Gen search engine coming any time soon.
I hate Touch-Force and wish I could buy a machine with distinct mouse buttons today.

I'd view it as feature that is usable when the hardware and drivers are done well and just miserable when they are bad - the possibility of your typing and your mousing getting in each other's way seems to increase with every generation of laptop form factor, with more gimmicks needed to stop it (oddly similar to the 737 Max problem - reading the edge of software compensation).
Ask HN: Have you ever hired bootcampers?
We’re searching for junior developers and thinking about hiring graduates from bootcamps and online schools. We think that it could be useful that most bootcampers have previous experience with other jobs.

For example, ex- HRs and recruiters may be super useful for our HR startup as they have knowledge in both HR and programming. A better understanding of this field will help them to better understand the product. Also, this may increase our workplace diversity.

What do you think? Do you have any experience hiring people who switched their career?
Roughly 300 737max. Roughly a year in operation. Roughly 100.000 airplane days. Two accidents. The 737max has a safety record that is equal to two accidents per day in global air traffic. Or 700 crashes per year. With roughly 150 seat filled roughly a 100000 dead per year. There is a reason she is grounded and people are concerned.
Swift has largely stopped making source-breaking changes.
Future self-continuity: conception of future self&intertemporal choice (2011)
All the hiring processes I've been involved in are primarily driven by individual contributors. The manager probably makes the ultimate hiring decision, but engineers are better suited to do the technical portions of the interview anyway.
> but the US legal system doesn't allow the government to compel them to make that kind of change.

Source? I’m pretty sure the legal system does allow that.
Another way to do what?
A study backed by microsoft recently released a version of C that can be statically checked https://github.com/Microsoft/checkedc
> Sadly, the only thing I've found so far that works at all at those scales is Bacula, and that is file-based -- i.e., if you have a gigabyte file that changes by one byte, it backs up the whole gigabyte again. Not ideal.

Would it possible to split those bigger files before doing backup (log files with log splitters, sql databases with incremental specialised backup tools like e.g. xtrabackup), or are these e.g. image files with different versions?

I really like the concept of byte level deduplication, but have often thought the price you pay for the space reduction might not be worth it considering today's network speed as well as storage sizes and prices.

Would be interesting to hear your experience concerning this!
2019 Data Predictions: Demise of Big Data and Rise of Intelligent Apps
I know this is not the time or place but Brexit is having some unusual side effects - while the entire political and advisory class of government is distracted for three years, a number of "I am surprised that got through" things have been happening - moves towards fighting tax havens in the City, and things like this ... just ... unusual
These are hard questions and that's exactly why the state doesn't belong here. Parents make mistakes. Governments make genocide. Leave parenting to parents, even if they aren't perfect. The government isn't either.
Self-forgiveness for procrastinating can reduce future procrastination (2010) [pdf]
This was done so Swift’s Result doesn’t conflict with your library’s hand-rolled Result.
Interesting, Apple is turning into General Electric.
It's not like that meat doesn't eat processed grains too. They have more problems than just the produce.
Hey, OP, can you tell us the name of the company that you and your very productive and forgetful engineer work at? Just want to make sure I don't accidentally start working there!
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Procrastination and Stress: Exploring the Role of Self-Compassion
I created a Google Chrome Extension to add GIFs to GitHub: Gifhub Pull Request
I don't care if you do an analysis on the effects of games on kids and Sue the companies that do it. But don't take freedom away from citizens. Even if it's in the name of good. That's how china's bullshit starts.
Also, an article from Slate noting that in Norway, IQ scores began declining in 1975:

> What they found is that for Norwegians born between 1962 and 1975, IQs increased within each family by 0.26 points per year: Younger brothers had slightly higher scores than their older siblings, relative to expectations. (The researchers had to control for the more general fact that older siblings tend to have higher IQs than younger ones.) From 1975 until 1991, this tendency reversed, with test scores dropping by 0.33 points per year within each family.

https://slate.com/technology/2018/09/iq-scores-going-down-re...
I think that the article itself is a pretty good example of its own point. The bike shedding phenomenon is not new but it's hard to relate to it in the particular form described by the article. So the article describes that form as - a story.

Besides, I find that there's often/sometimes a big gap between understanding a concept (like bike shedding) on an abstract level compared to being able to relate and to it when it arises in practice (unless perhaps you've grasped in some special way). Telling various stories that exemplify such concept in a multitude of ways can reveal new facets of it.
My experience in Glasgow, FWIW, is that the majority of independent shops/cafes/etc. don't take Amex.
The moment someone starts telling me to optimize for keeping my money in a savings account a little longer for the interest as financial advice I stop listening.

Maybe it's just my country (USA), but savings accounts are easily the worst place I have ever kept significant sums of money. They yield basically nothing for the depositor.

You can easily beat savings accounts just by trading a single tech stock with minimal exposure. Dumb strategies like riding the climb in the day or two approaching an anticipated earnings call and selling before the actual call to avoid risk will already net you a few percent per call. If you did that once per quarter, you can achieve +10% in a year without having any special skills or knowledge while barely even exposing yourself to the market, leaving your money as liquid cash in the brokerage account the rest of the time will still destroy any savings account I've seen.

Savings accounts are useful for isolating your funds from your checking account as a self-control measure. Once you're beyond struggling to save money at all and fully grown up, the utility is basically nil.

They're obsolete in a world with services like E-Trade offering a checking account w/debit card that refunds ATM fees and a linked brokerage account serving as both isolation from your checking account with the ability to trade online using those funds.
Except it isn't. You'd think that 30 year old engine technology, combined with double the rpm would use hugely more fuel, but in practice it's not that big of a difference. What has changed is that manufacturers have figured out that nobody makes a buying decision on the nonquantifiable driving characteristics that auto magazines used to describe, and therefore it's a no-brainer to sacrifice them for 1 or 2 mpg more.

And of course, the newer SUV gets much worse mileage anyway. If a couple mpg really matters that much to you, you can always drive less too. The earth doesn't care if you get twice the mileage or drive half as much.
> Hiring is too important to leave to engineers who don't want to do it.

I'm trying to come up with a ballpark estimate of portion of co-workers who seemed entirely unconcerned about who potential new co-workers might be, and while a precise figure is going to be beyond me, it's probably close to an order of magnitude smaller than people who care somewhere between a bit and quite a bit.

Filtering out the people who don't care much also doesn't seem like it'd be a difficult problem: ask for assistance rather than assigning it.
TV+ will be available in 100 countries at launch.

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2019/03/apple-unveils-apple-t...
This is true. The banking infrastructure within the European Union is really good compared to the US.

The example I gave was regarding accepting online payments as a business from inviduals and other businesses. For US busineses, accepting credit cards is usually enough. Large bills can be paid by wire transfer. In the EU, accepting online payments is not that straightforward. Just figuring out the right VAT rate is complicated to begin with.

See: https://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/business/vat/eu-vat-ru...
USDS/18F (I <3 you login.gov) is just one example I can provide. Just because you’re not aware of everyday progress due to government does not mean you should be so quick to write off such proposals.

Perhaps a better path forward is, “How can we use government to help arrive at the end state of universal healthcare”. Remember, “we” are collectively government.
> infrastructure data

That bit scared me a bit. It is not always known where those massive pipes are through the land. I hope they did leave out the details that would pose security threat/information that can be used in a sabotage.
Definitely cribbing the rudder and sails line often from now on. Your words or I just don't know the popular source?
I've heard a lot about good managers, but never experienced one. It was always some form of manipulation, cutting the corners, forcing agenda even on solutions that were both wildly profitable as well as technically excellent "to make their mark", finding scapegoats to blame, in order to propel manager's ego and standing within company; the game was purely about power, hacking perception of their seniors about their qualities in order to progress. People that didn't play tended to find themselves packaged for layoffs, regardless of how much company benefited from them in the past.

So from my experience: Good manager is like UFO - I've heard of it, but never seen one. Unless you consider top management that just makes itself invisible and leaves kids on the playground doing whatever they are inspired to. That would be probably closest to what I could take as good management.
In general, it's pretty extreme and ridiculous.
This tool seems to unify a bunch of text-to-diagram tools into one, which is a great idea. It's funny to see them all united, since I recently went on a binge trying out all those text-to-diagram tools for a project. My use case: writing articles on DSP including block diagrams [1].

I wanted to write the articles in Markdown and include the diagrams in there, so text-to-diagram tools seemed ideal. Turns out most of them give ridiculous layouts as soon as you have loops, with limited options to correct this. Other are based on ASCII art, so you control the overall layout, but the result usually has massive, awkward padding between everything. And then there's the holy grail, LaTeX with TikZ/PSTricks, which can give perfect results, but the time investment was a little discouraging. Result: I ended up making the diagrams with a good old SVG editor.

[1]: https://www.osar.fr/notes/waveguides/
2 to 3 was brutal. Otherwise totally fine.
Isn't Stardew Valley an anxiety creator? I haven't played it, but I'm deliberately not because I hear people talk having to plan their days to maximize the output of their crops and such. I really don't want to have a new virtual job to go with my real daytime job.