skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Turn the question around and ask the same thing about your coworkers. Now take the average of your opinions about all your coworkers. That's likely how people view you. The truth probably is that other people just don't think of you all that much, so I wouldn't worry about it. As long as you avoid the bottom 10% such that you don't stick out, then it's all good. And frankly if you are asking this question, you probably aren't.
This is all fascinating and I can read both sides repeating these arguments over and over all day. It is highly misplaced though.

When talking about history, it is always better to keep current politics OUT of the game.
You will adapt

That's what we humans do
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I attribute the view of "bashing the less educated for having more kids" because of what he says below:

>If we assume educational attainment is correlated with intelligence, and children's intelligence is correlated to parental intelligence, this doesn't bode well for future generations.

I interpret what he was saying, taking in some of what he said earlier, as something along the lines of "less educated people are having more kids, so there are more and more less intelligent children around, so the future is screwed.

Whether or not what he was saying is correct isn't what I'm commenting on here, just clarifying my view.
As has been seen over the last two decades, small companies can’t “innovate at scale” when it comes to hardware. The logistics, supply chain management, etc. makes it almost impossible. Look no further than the smart phone market.

Well at least innovate and survive in the mass market.
That's why it should be destroyed

If it kills you, is not love
I am in Sapporo, the cost of a black and white print is 10 yen, a color print is 50 yen. My print needs are very low. I recently printed 36 color prints, and 30 bw prints. (Less than $20 USD) It's been more than a year since my last need to print anything. Store was 3 minute walk from apartment.

I know in USA there are many print shops with comparable prices, but the time required to use the services is a larger factor.

I'm glad for the convenience, and for my low print needs. Space and cost of a printer would be annoying.

I speculate there are large numbers of people that don't fully utilize their printers and could be served by a print service better.
The MacOS version simply doesn't work. The UI is mangled and it crashes if you do so much as look at it.
About 2 weeks ago a German Luftwaffe Global 5000 Businessjet missed the runway and nearly crashed in an emergency landing. The currently suspected cause: Faulty maintenance and incomplete preflight checks. http://www.airliners.de/in-schoenefeld-jet-flugbereitschaft/...
You could be right; I'm saying what people said. Jobs seems to be valid to me (unless you're in biotech, rather than established dotcoms or doing a startup). No one I know thinks nightlife anywhere compares to NYC, and the people I know who moved from Boston to SF reported having a much better time (and weather). I actually liked the Boston dating scene, before Tinder, but I'm very much cafe and a walk.
Haven't been able to confirm it, but I believe it's because IRCCloud stores logs in plaintext.
Yep mods work.

I see that first hand from Jeff Hoogland, he twitch for a living and his niche is magic the gathering. His channel is very civil and he moderate the heck out of it. His motto is that he's responsible for the discourse so he have to moderate it. He disabled youtube comment for awhile because he doesn't have the time to moderate it. Then later on he enable comment and all the youtube comments were very civil, I believe his twitch rules just transfer over because all his fans know how to behave.
You are probably more useful as a developer. And better paid.
Performance is not the only consideration, even in most demanding games. IM GUIs simplify UI code a lot, by not having to rely on message systems that make the code harder to follow and less predictable.

As most things in life, it's a matter of trade-offs.
3m is snack money for VC nowadays.
Machine learning-style image recognition tends to work extremely poorly with adversarial inputs.
Its basically game of thrones for power thirsty people whos contribution to the company is a zero-sum game. Why one would like to join this - besides the money is beyond me. And money you can gain by making them pay- the successor product to your Open Source tool is not free for companies over a certain size, end of the line.

You will have your first real "conversation" with your bosses, after you setup this project.
> This article doesn’t mention a strategy you can take for breaking the wave:
http://trafficwaves.org/

Thank you for sharing, what a pleasant read.
Every time I visit my home city I'm shocked at the amount of cars in the street and consequently the traffic jam. I cannot begin to imagine how people feel after a long day at work, and what seems an even longer commute. No wonder everyone is on edge!

I think such strategies should be taught in driving schools, not only rules of the road and how to maneuver a car.
GIMP and Inkscape are very different. GIMP has nearly no vector graphics editing support, although you can open svg files with it. Inkscape on the other hand is a vector graphics editor.
Education doesn't improve genetics, but it still improves a person's intelligence and overall abilities (reading, writing, arithmetic, critical thinking). There is value in providing education to everyone, regardless of their intelligence (however you wish to define that).
The majority by far follow most rules imposed on them.
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One. 45 is the very beginning of when ageism starts to show (at most companies). There are certainly some companies that would be biased against a 45 but maybe you don't work there. Just wait.

Two. You're not going to multiply your salary by 2x-20x unless you start to take on more responsibility, like worrying about sustainability.
Having a separate subreddit whdre other views are not welcome, at the whim of the subreddit moderators is not exactly the open discourse that would be needed. The people weren't bannrd and if careful can still debate their opinion. Reddit just removed the explicit protection. And the pooling. The protection of the pool.
Subreddits are not easy to find. WTF?
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I have rejected any calls for leadership positions which would mean I’d code less than 90% of my time. It might have cost me some money but it sure means I can do what I love and I have less than 1h of meetings every week. I still try to do technical leadership (architecture, coding standards, evaluating new products etc) but not people management.
I reckon there is actually more excitement to being part of an infamous fringe of a large mainstream community like Reddit, than to be part of an isolated fringe community that the mainstream is unlikely to ever see. Part of the appeal is surely in offending the mainstream users who share the platform.
For the many people for whom this is true, that's not a life. It's a personalized ad campaign with your own content.
How to identify critical code path
That it is such a cursory and flawed note posted under the brand of "Enlightenment Through Understanding".

Their argument declares an inevitable consolidation in amount of farms - so briefly explained it amounts to an article of faith. And a plain error encoded in two simple tables, where larger farms magically produce less waste products (pollution).
Blurred lines aside, for posterity you could name it "Safari Auto-Update Utility" and use an app icon that has the Safari logo coupled with a cog wheel or so.
> When the users moved to other Reddit groups, they did NOT exhibit the same level of hateful behavior.

As the article suggests: it's likely they found an off-reddit outlet for the stuff they no longer were able to do on reddit and continued to use reddit for their other interests (well, they left reddit at higher rates, too). That is, if you want to make sure that Twitter's hate speech rules work and make "the world a better place", you also need to look at gab.ai & co at the same time to see whether and how much of the hate speech "moved" and how much simply stopped.

This study confirms that pushing criminals out of one neighborhood "works" - for that one neighborhood. Reddit is such a neighborhood, Twitter is another.
> PS: Please do go with the support plan route for your open source project. You wouldn't know how it will turnout unless you try.

But mind that there are more scenarios than "works out" and "doesn't work out". It might also for instance be that you get some customers, but too few to pay the bills, but too many to switch of the light. It might also be that suddenly paying customers demand the project to go a different route than you (and the contributing community) envision. Both of these can bring major tension to something, which had been fun before ...

Doesn't mean it's not worthwhile, but be prepared for it, to keep it on a track you're happy with.
This is the article that made me really pay attention to Slate Star Codex.
As someone who's about to enter management track, I'd be curious (and open to a conversation!) about what you've been doing to both demonstrate your management skills and putting up your hand about your desires.

Sometimes, your own managers don't know what you want, until it's too late! But I don't want to assume anything, so please do start a conversation if you're up for it!
Sufficiently simulated emotion requires maintenance just like a real one. It's not about which particular mechanism, biological or electronic, is responsible for actions that you observe. It's about investing yourself in a emotion. After all, at some point simulation becomes indistinguishable from the "real" thing, on both action and intention levels.

So, basically, what you're saying is "some people may have higher bar for their perceived sufficiency than others".
US telcos drag feet in preventing SIM swap fraud
The study followed users internally as well and monitored their continued behaviour on Reddit. A significant number didn't simply leave, they remained in other subreddits and exercised much less of the objectionable behaviour, even if the new subreddit was comparable in viewpoint but stricter in moderation. Part of "it worked" includes the people actually improving their behaviour, rather than just finding a smaller echo chamber.
> Couldn't a single coder (or a small team) help an organization get some competitive advantage when it comes to tools. Or even programming languages?

Sort of, but:

1) Knowing what to build requires deep knowledge of that the other engineers in your company are struggling with. Figuring this out requires a lot of time spent meeting with people and doing other things that would be considered more management than coding.

2) If the thing you build is good, it's going to start getting a ton of feature requests. Your company will decide that it's worth investing in, and suddenly you're either managing a team or somebody else is managing you and running "your" project.
As a user, I am curious and excited to know the future of the apps I use. Reverse engineering allows catching a glimpse of the future without having to wait for launch events or press releases.

Often times, this kind of scoops could be beneficial to companies. Product teams at companies could look at public opinions and take that into the consideration of product decision. It functions similarly to "focus groups" or "soft launch", except it's free. According to my profile on CNN, a Twitter spokesperson mentioned [0]:

> the platform wants its users to be part of the process, and these types of discoveries help it learn

That's not to say companies encourage users to reverse engineer their apps. However, if they make it completely impossible to find any unreleased features whatsoever, it will kill off this free channel of unofficially gathering public opinions (or hype) before launch.

It is understandable there are competitors out there in reality. Getting better at hiding tests and under-development features could help preventing the competitors from knowing the company's upcoming strategies.

To hide or to not hide, they both have pros and cons. It really comes down to how companies balance their priorities. If their priority is to hide everything until launch, even if it means getting rid of the free QA and focus groups, go for it.

I personally hope companies will choose the transparent route rather than being a sealed black box. I believe users deserve to know what is changed in the apps installed on their own phones. Being more specific than the vague "bug fixes and improvements" will provide a sense of assurance to users.

[0]: https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/22/tech/jane-wong-app-features/i...
A memory arena that is reset every render loop is the simplest memory allocation possible.
Podcast seems to be 404 on libsyn. I was worried it'd gone Spotify exclusive but the correct feed URL is https://feed.pippa.io/public/shows/5bb78b332630bb48399f39fe and the episode URL is https://feed.pippa.io/public/streams/5bb78b332630bb48399f39f... (as an alternative to the linked article).
For those who prefer audio (podcast) here's an audio version of it (read by yours truly, though I did clips of Ginsburg whenever he quotes from the poem.)

http://traffic.libsyn.com/sscpodcast/Meditations_on_Moloch.m...
Voat is already on its way to being shut down.

The owners posted last week a message telling some of their users to stop inciting violence as the Feds were in contact. Given that Voat is ultra-toxic now it's not going to be possible to moderate every piece of content ever posted.

https://voat.co/v/Voat/3178819
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Moving from being an individual contributor to a manager isn't a promotion: it's a career change. I moved into management in my 30s because I thought I could provide more value as an engineering manager than as an IC. I spoke to my management, and they agreed.
It didn't work. It's more toxic than ever, just in a different way.
> Yes, but "there's always somewhere" may stop being true if we enter that dystopia.

That's true. That "somewhere" might become TOR because everything else is well regulated. In the end, you can technically also always meet like minded people in your basement to do whatever the government doesn't want you to do in public, so there's always "somewhere" ;)
Interesting. I have wondered if the “iron law of prohibition” [1] applied to censorship as well as substances (my original context was the UK’s “extreme porn” prohibition, but the same question arises for non-sexual censorship). It looks like drugs and censorship are different, given the diminished behaviour by the same accounts on other subreddits.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_law_of_prohibition
> That said, even as an IC, at higher levels the scope of impact you're expected to deliver at some point exceeds what one person working alone can have, so there's still lots of people leadership skills needed to advance: working cross-functionally and setting direction, communication, and ultimately influencing others to jump onboard and help you out.

Yep, by L6 you're probably spending less than half your time coding even on the IC track.
Previous discussion

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17356960
You seem to be missing the point of IM GUIs. They are just intended to render the UI in a stateless way. If you try to use them in another way you'll find them awkward, of course.

I may have misunderstood you, tho :)
What’s the runtime performance of that in-practice? Does x86, x64 and ARM have support for relative offset pointers without any performance impact? And do compilers use them?
It's still the Internet. Anybody can run and host software. Anybody can post a link to that.

I agree tech's concentration of power in a few large companies is a big problem. I just don't think it's a significant concern for freedom of speech. Hopefully we'll return to enforcing pro-competition laws vigorously.
I see this sort of complacent deviance all the time at my job. Thankfully we don't can't kill people with it. But insular organizations seem to thrive on doing things "their way" thinking it right, when in fact to anyone else it would be total lunacy. If people saw what we did I think people on HN would have a good laugh.
Telangana student suicide toll rises to 20
> By too low to matter I mean the employee doesn't meaningfully change their situation. If they need to work for a living anyway, earning 2% more doesn't make them retire earlier.

If somebody doesn't have savings, then they are spending everything they earn. A 2% real change in wages would require them to reduce their real consumption by 2%.

> Inflation mostly affects people that can save significant amounts of money for longer periods of time, not wage earners.

It changes the situation from one where wage earners will maintain their lifestyle if nothing obviously changes to one where wage earners will be worse off if nothing changes.

There is a practical difference between these two. If there was a choice, by far a majority of people would rather not live under that second regime. Similar (in a very minor way) to standing around on railway tracks; in theory there is no problem because when you see a train they could move - but still a normal person would not choose to stand there at all. Use of fiat and the associated inflation creates risk of costs for wage earners.

A system wouldn't stably settle on that sort of outcome without government backing the token with some serious clout. The uniformity of fiat for labor is very suggestive that it isn't a social construct. Society isn't that uniform.
> The users that stayed had a dramatic drop in hate speech.

Which might mean that they don't engage in hate speech as much, or that they do the hate speech thing on another platform and follow their normal hobbies on reddit.
Actually, it specifically neither confirmed nor contradicted that assertion, as it was out of scope to track to other venues, or address the larger problem of the entire society.

But it DID show that providing cesspools does increase the behavior of swimming in cesspools, AND show that moderation has an effect.

Providing mainstream venues for anti-social behavior increases that behavior and harms society.

Sure, it may still exist at the fringes, but the further it is pushed off into the fringes, the greater the effort needs to be made to engage in the behavior. The dedicated haters will still make the effort, but the vast majority of lazy bigots will just drift along elsewhere, without enhancing & aggravating their bigotry.

Similar to smoking in the US, it hasn't been banned, just strongly discouraged in public, and it is now a fringe behavior.
There's been a big investment in the UK recently in "smart motorways"

http://www.itsinternational.com/categories/detection-monitor...

https://www.rac.co.uk/drive/advice/driving-advice/smart-moto...

These have overhead screens which show the speed limit (it's variable) and whether each lane can be used. They also have a lot of speed cameras enforcing that the displayed speed limit is being followed.

The intention is to keep traffic flowing at a much more consistent speed to avoid bunching. It also means if something happens traffic can be slowed down many miles away.

It essentially means the same road can have 30% greater capacity.
The public comment system is moderated, so any comments that do not get approved by the moderator will not be published.

This is exactly how you get foul play. Far from a vote, this process stinks of all kind of potential for corruption.
Let me get this right, Docker now forces users to register in order to download their client and they don't secure our data? Insane!
I'm not American but I've been told the word nigga is not the n word. Do I have a wrong impression about it?

I'm surprised a bit because the mainstream music is filled with the word nigga but also the n word. Isn't it workings against the idea of not using these words?
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My focus has been analysing within the scope of apps and its code. But I do read tech news of journalists' analysis on job ads, and note that down for future references
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My view of jams is they are caused by three expectations drivers have: 1) that the speed limit is still the “minimum speed” recommendation in heavy traffic. Ie, if it’s 65, one can still attempt to drive 74. 2) that the left lane is going to be the fastest in heavy traffic and 3) that somehow using the soon-to-be-closed lane in a lane closure/traffic shift scenario is “skipping the line.” In my view if we had adaptable speed limits /expectations of speed, we could probably avoid jams altogether if everyone agreed that 35mph was an optimal speed for heavy traffic. There would be far fewer brake lights and people would have far better reaction times (provided the slower speed didn’t give them false sense of security leading to checking their cell phones). In any case, try this the next time you’re in a jam- move to the right most lane. Not only is everyone around you doing the opposite (trying to go left for fast), but there are also people exiting the highway altogether... creating a slightly faster moving lane.
The contract is also between the donor and other donors that give on the belief that thier donations will be matched. Because of the promise (offer) they do something they otherwise would do (consideration). And they accept by giving the money.
That sounds perfectly consistent to me. Stuff that doesn't matter gets ignored. Stuff that does gets the attention of staff, who then apply rules.

It also sounds reasonable to me. At small scales, especially with novices, it's good to let people experiment, find their voices, build the right audience. But once something's of a certain size, it's unlikely to change its character much.
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Except the form doesn't work.

Clicking the button to submit a comment does literally nothing. :(
Boxy SVG [1] has a user interface which is heavly influenced by Inkscape. The Linux version was released just few days ago and it is currently available for
free on the Snap Store [2]. The macOS, Windows and Chrome OS versions cost only 9 USD (one time payment).

[1] https://boxy-svg.com

[2] https://snapcraft.io/boxy-svg
Using Firefox Focus on Android and the bar doesn't show up at all. Re-enabled Chrome temporarily and the bar does show up, however.
Fucking information free click-bait titles!
What is a living wage? I live in Tanzania and people get by on $50/month and live in mud houses. All of these people are alive and have been for some time.

Similarly, I know some bums in LA whos only expenses are $5/gram weed. They live on the beach, chill in a tent, and are happy and alive.

People in Western countries have such a distorted idea what is a living wage it’s patently absurd. It includes a tv, netflix, a cell phone, a car, apartment, computer, etc.

Most people here in Tanzania would literally kill to make minimum wage in America. It would seem like paradise, a life of extreme luxury.

Americans are so myopic and don’t seem to appreciate how lucky all of them are. There’s no 99% in America: we all are the 1%.
I've done a write-up on the book here: http://250bpm.com/blog:128
From dear ImGui's mission statement:

> Designed for developers and content-creators, not the typical end-user! Some of the weaknesses includes:

> - Doesn't look fancy, doesn't animate.

> - Limited layout features, intricate layouts are typically crafted in code.

It may not replace retained mode GUI toolkits, but it can certainly make the life of devs easier. If all you need is to quickly hack together an internal tool, or some quick debugging interface, keep ImGui in mind.
You could always try pulling their system colors in through CSS:

https://www.sitepoint.com/css-system-styles/