skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article talks about “user onboarding” as if it is different from the first run experience. Perhaps it is a SaaSy jargon to separate them. But for us at Sleek, we obsess over the first run as it is how we onboard users - until the user has gone through their use case, we assume they’re new to it.

Learn by doing, not by learning.
I agree. But the funny thing about both of those is they reached a point of diminishing returns arguably in 2007 and certainly by 2010. The versions back then provide the features needed by 95-99% of the existing user base today.
This example isn't particularly good: I'm much more likely to lose a random keycard in my pocket than my wallet so, although having the keycard in my wallet might make it easier to figure out what door it opens, it also makes it much less likely that I'd lose my keycard in the first place.
Yes, maybe if the auto-delete was for 24h, at least as an option, but 3 months? Why bother? Just pause the activity completely:

https://myaccount.google.com/activitycontrols
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What better way to give aid to our enemies than to conduct an expensive war on false pretenses and illegally classify information that would have likely led to public distaste for the war?

Imagine if the leaks showed that the officials wasted money in some other way such as taking gold reserves and destroying them in a nuclear explosion, or sending gold reserves to cronies in other nations. Theft is theft.

Our enemies arguably want us to waste money on unnecessary wars. The officials exposed by Assange were acting in concert with our enemies.
It’s sad how people cargo cult imitate the people who inspire them to such a degree it becomes disconnected and degenerate. At least with Steve Jobs there was a certain distance to the admiration. (They admired the accomplishments, rather than his persona —maybe it helped that he was “mercurial” and gruff), but with smooth talkers like Dorsey or Paltrow who look so wholesome, much reason is thrown out the window. At least Paltrow is excusable because she’s just taking advantage of a culture centered on “celebrity”. But the cargo culting of Jack has little excuse.
Thank you for the insight. Would you know if this is written somewhere on the VS Code homepage or privacy policy? I think it should be highlighted!
Well, scratch Twitter off the list of places I'd work. What bizarre behaviour.
I don't know. If there's a decent, supported community repo -- similar in extent and quality to Nixpkgs -- then I'd consider giving Guix a proper try.
Streaming video on the internet without MPEG
Brother it's 2019, Im not sure if you noticed but fraud is in big time. Markets are at all time highs. Fraud penalties are just over head.

Besides, for that document to work, the authors have to be trust worthy.. in this case the authors are not even close to trustworthy it might as well have been written by the hamburgler.
Deadlifts and yoga are key.

Deadlifts strengthen the exact muscles a developer lifestyle neglect: back, wrist/forearms, and legs. They're easy to learn too via Youtube videos.

Yoga, on the other hand, will stretch said muscles out.

You can find a bit more about that at https://algodaily.com/lessons/solving-the-health-problems-of...
So, not really remote. More like a "work from home" style.

A good remote culture allows someone in any timezone to be part of it or it loses the greatest advantage of remote working.

If working together is the only social activity the person has, he's not cut out for remote work.
>When Apple cannot control which batteries get swapped into their devices, their brand is at risk due to fires caused by bad batteries.

I never seems this argument when you install after market car parts and install the parts yourself or your neighbor or some random car service, if you changed your lightbolb in the car and the engine breaks 1 month later you can't void my engine warranty. When I install a cheap battery, the pone burns and I bring it to warranty then the warranty people can photo the phone, show the problem, show the faulty battery and I am at fault.

If you are concern that evil people are out to get Apple, those evil people have many other ways to do it, there is no good reason to screw 99,99% of your user because some random guy install a cheap battery and then puts a photo and rand on the internet, that does nothing, there was a need for thousands of people to complain about the keyboard issues before most(but not all) of Apple fans believed that Apple could make a mistake(so a few rants won't have any effect).
I naturally don't make small talk as much as people usually do, and came up with a saying when people tell me that I'm "so quiet":

If you're always talking, you can't hear what's going on.
Remember this comic: https://amp.businessinsider.com/images/50a25c45eab8ea8c41000...

Ballmer brewed the culture to be like that.

It's not like that at MSFT anymore.
It's somewhat more stronger than that even. For US investors and parties servicing (like Dow Jones) those Not owning stocks in your own firm is a red flag. So even though post crisis bonusses, stocks and options are to different measures frowned upon in, say, some EU countries, you would underperform in some US benchmark and reach less investors.
Are there any other well known Silicon Valley companies that also are committed to remote work? Particularly with a focus on hardware/firmware type engineering? ;)
Thanks! I don't want to pass this one up.
I'm usually the first to call out whataboutism, but Assange is literally being prosecuted for exposing US crimes. The rape allegation is a real issue and shouldn't be swept under the rug, but it's actually the US that is doing that--he's not being extradited to Sweden to face sexual assault charges; he's going to the US to be punished for WikiLeaks.
This is really not a good argument.

If I swap the parts myself, I either get the new parts from apple themselves (in which case it IS their fault if something goes wrong or they can blame it on me for wrongly assembling it; e.g. "You were holding it wrong")

If I go to a shop or a friend to get my phone repaired and they replace parts, this would be different. If the device malfunctions I would obviously blame the guy who last fiddled with it first. Look at car repair shops, household appliances etc...

In the case of batteries its even more simple. If its an apple battery, its obviously apples fault if the device catches fire. Because either the battery was bad or the manuals were. If the swap is so terribly difficult that many users will damage the phone while swapping batteries, it's also apples fault, but they will (as usual) deny any claims so no harm done.

If it's a third-party battery, I can't see how the blame would fall to apple.

All in all, the reputation argument is on them. I don't see how e.g. Ford can be blamed for a car where the independently repaired brakes didn't work and caused an accident.
Is Google serious about PWA?
oh, i get it, so there was actually only one point: constructors with arguments instead of init functions that wrap around new but don't disable it.

and yes i agree, it should be possible to prevent the creation of uninitialized objects.
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My BG is similar (thank you Commodore). I think the aptitude to do low level is different than doing other types of programming. You have to think more like a computer than when you work upstairs at the UI level. I think if you had a low level bootcamp and a "traditional" bootcamp, you'd have a higher success rate coming from the "traditional" bootcamp.
Remote Linux 5.0 UDP packet crasher
A good article, well rounded in nature by giving the pros and cons to Microsoft's rebirth. How it impacts Microsoft internally and externally to the market in general. We need more articles like this on the internet.
This seems like a kind of silly objection. It's kind of like - I have some knives in my kitchen for cutting food, as does most of the world's population. I, or anyone else, could pick one up and go out and stab somebody. 99% of the world is capable of not doing that.

Can't we presume that all of this setup happened because everyone involved knew perfectly well that it was just a moderately popular video hosting site? And that they would all have behaved differently if they knew that peoples' life savings and medical histories were at risk? Did it go out of style somehow to presume that people were mostly sane most of the time?
This is a classic "better to ask for forgiveness than ask for permission" story. They didn't get fired because it turned out not to be a huge negative PR hit. Honestly they were just lucky in that regard, if the press had been negative about the banner they likely would have been disciplined.
Facebook made $188,000 per employee last quarter, four times as much as Google
[disclosure, MS employee]

With the absence of telemetry, how do you know Linux is doing just fine? (specifically in the desktop world, not server world).

Microsoft has an interest in knowing how well Windows is doing, and Windows has lived in a world both with and without telemetry. It was way, way harder to gauge success prior to telemetry, and it was also much more frustrating for the user to communicate their problems. I don't think Windows could have stayed in the pre-telemetry engineering world and maintained its position as a competitive desktop OS.

I ask this mostly out of ignorance, I've got experience using Linux, but I really don't know what the dev-loop is like for active engineers.
This is really a perfect title.

As somebody who grew up in Michigan not far from Battle Creek, I've always been interested the history of wacky self-improvement regimes. (You may remember "The Road to Wellville" as one look at that. [1]) E.g., the inventor of Graham flour believed in all sorts of self-harshness: "Graham created a theology and diet aimed at keeping individuals, families, and society pure and healthy - drinking pure water and eating a vegetarian diet anchored by bread made at home from flour coarsely ground at home so that it remained wholesome and natural, containing no added spices or other 'stimulants' and a rigorous lifestyle that included sleeping on hard beds and avoiding warm baths." [2]

I know these things are cyclical, so I expected it to come again. And as a someone who's currently trying eTRF [3] I think there's real value in self-experimentation. But it's really weird to see a full-blown health fad complex turn up in the tech industry where we see ourselves as so very rational.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Road_to_Wellville

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvester_Graham

[3] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29754952
I feel like there is an implicit assumption in the article that people without a college degree won't want to switch jobs as often because they have less upward mobility as a whole.
Another way is to learn to debate the merit of their arguments even though you don't believe them. For you can only argue your case when you understand theirs.
Tesla released their accident statistics, and their cars have a significantly lower rate of accidents when Autopilot is engaged.

To me, that seems to indicate Autopilot is a net safety gain, despite not being perfect.
While Dorsey is rather extreme, his lifestyle is a lot healthier than the average American’s or most everyone’s in the developed world. Eating junk food around the clock is really bad for you. Note that Dorsey isn’t fat and diabetic like so many people these days.
This doesn't seem all that different than say typical celebrity culture followers (Paltrow falls into that category) who adapt it to a sort of lifestyle.

I find it a bit weird as I've not found any folks who I want to emulate what they eat or emulate their lifestyle in general. Granted I'd like to be healthier but that's a thing, not a person.
MS also had a big head start on Tablets: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Tablet_PC
I agree. It's not really remote if you have replaced the office with some other office that others expect you to be in all the time.

The main reason I still don't work remote is because all the remote roles seem to pay so much less than my non-remote role(s).

Is that common? Anyone else find that?
Hadrian's Wall protected the Roman frontier in Britain for centuries.

Without the Walls of Constantinople, the Eastern Roman Empire would have fallen in the 700's instead of lasting until the 1400's.

The Great Wall of China helped protect northern Chinese frontiers for centuries.

Are walls 100% effective. Of course not. Nothing is. But walls can be a useful part of a strategy for regulating/protecting your borders.

That is not to say that a wall along the Mexican border is advised. It is a very long border, and individuals and groups of smugglers are able to get around an unguarded wall. However, to absolutely dismiss the utility of walls on principle is incorrect.
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That's not a good analogy. The problem isn't an intern writing a line of code that takes out the database (although that does sometimes happen). The problem is a failure to understand a complex software system and creating years of technical debt.
For some time I've searched a way to define him (that didn't include insults) and this one is quite good.

Can't understand how people can follow this guy and his trivial/dumb advices. To me, he is just like that person that can't stop blabbering about stuff that has been around for decades but that he has just discovered or one of those people that blindly follow every popular trend (see the ones listed in the article) without even thinking if they really should.
For safety reasons the rules specify a lot of details about the brakes. It needs to be a pedal, and one that meets many requirements.
UWP feels like it’s going to be abandonware.
Worry? It would actually be pretty awesome.

I mean, confirming UFOs are real, not the crashing in your front garden.
Airbnb does this already. I used to work remote and they have digital nomad housing... Specially WiFi and private workspace as part of the amenities you can require.
Some guy with a blog accidentally implying a mild insult is hardly the same thing.
I thought it wasn't good for newcomers to git (which was odd because its GitHub). I only see three labs:

That being said the paths section[1] does appear to have paths for Git, which seem quite good.

[1]https://lab.github.com/paths

Git can be confusing to those who don't use it a lot, I'm always looking for good entry level resources.
Quite frankly, I wouldn't want to meet those people. I'm looking for the ones that do the opposite, greet you with a smile and can hold a conversation about anything effortlessly.
Same pictures. Same places. 68 years apart
> And almost nobody who isn't using Windows will use azure or .NET Core.

I disagree with this too. I've been looking into .NET Core since it's been open sourced. And I'd consider Azure. But I certainly won't be using windows (for server stuff) unless I'm forced to.
I don't think they'll stop building their own cars. But I do think that partnering with other carmakers to produce powertrains for them is not a bad idea. They produced powertrains for the Smart EV and the Toyota Rav4 EV back in the day. Musk has hinted at partnering with utility van companies to electrify them.
I'm both wary of and hopeful about Microsoft and Google.

"Trust but verify" and all that.
Thanks for linking the imgur album -- I didn't realize there was a version with inline text! Still, I prefer the linked images, since I have a very hard time reading text in between moving gifs (needless to say, I would not be a subscriber to the Daily Prophet). Glad to have both here so visitors can read either version they prefer.

I've also been very much a fan of Macs because they tend to be very well-built and last a long time for the money. Both of my last macbooks (a 2009 and then a 2015) have served me very well for much longer than your average laptop tends to last if you use it every day and take it with you everywhere. Unfortunately this keyboard in the current version is a dealbreaker: the frustration, cost, and potential of having to lose my laptop for a week+ or just lug an external keyboard around is not worth the money. Add in the useless touchbar and my personal preference to not limit myself to usb-c/avoid low travel keyboards and you've got a perfect excuse to avoid upgrading.
Americans, especially young men, are looking for a leader. We see similar phenomena with politicians and social figures like Joe Rogan or Jordan Peterson, and Musk as mentioned. It's less about the bs and more about the leader, and maybe its just due to visibility but guys definitely tend to congregate around men with strong images or strict rules for living. I have to wonder what their home lives looked like.
The could always use a robotic arm
>rather “pop” or “coke” depending on where you live

I think "pop" is a hold over from the older English fizzy pop
in the meantime i am playing osmos in the browser which the humble download page helpfully includes. i am pretty sure that can't have been there when the bundle was released initially
I'd had an engineer recently fracture his foot running in a race.

He took a day off, went to a doctor and was told he need to wear a boot, stay off his foot for a while, etc. He proceeds to come into the office, proudly informing everyone how he knows better than the doctor, and that he only needs to rub peppermint oil and wear a compression sock. All while hobbling around the office, clearly in pain. Everyone pleaded with him to heed to the doctor's advice, and I even showed him how I have a messed up arm from a childhood incident that improperly healed and tried explaining the necessity of heeding basic medical guidance.

Didn't matter, this engineer "just knows" better than a doctor.

This is a weird world.
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From someone else's post up-thread: "In general models trained on individual users' data get rebuilt when the underlying data changes so as to properly reflect the current state of the source data." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19809346
I'm sorry to say that Jobs had a lot of people throwing reason out the window as well. Elizabeth Holmes is a great example of the cargo cult around his style and management methods. And when he died, people literally built an altar to him: https://surjgish.com/2011/miscellaneous-fun/dia-de-los-muert...
Accidental fasting is not a good thing. I know this from personal experience.
The cause and effect here makes no sense. The authors say one reason for the discount is the Tesla Model 3 is selling at $36,200, but "Tesla hasn't actually delivered any yet at that price point" (article quote, not mine) and that's why Chevy needs to discount the Bolt to $18,995.

That's like saying wireless chargers on Amazon have to discount down to $13.99 because Apple promised to sell the AirPower someday. Those two things are just unrelated: it might be plain old supply and demand.

My guess: Chevy has to discount the Bolt because it's simply not selling that well. They already had to discontinue the Volt, their plug-in hybrid.
How is he superior?
> The average worker received 32 percent of total compensation in benefits including bonuses, paid leave and company contributions to insurance and retirement plans in the second quarter of 2018. That was up from 27 percent in 2000, federal data show.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/25/us/politics/wage-growth-b...
What does Jack do that you consider to be bullshit?
I didn't grow up in the Cinncinnati area specifically but Akron, OH is not that far away. The stories are similar. These are hard working, friendly and virtuous people that grew up on values that if you worked hard good things will happen.

However, it's not turning out to be the case any longer. I am so grateful and luckily to have found my way into computers at a young age. I really feel for my neighbors and family who are in similar situations.

I grew up in this place and I feel very proud to call it my home, I left it years ago but it's a special place.

It's hard to describe this feeling to anyone that didn't grow up in the rustbelt. It's so easy to take for granted the things you have and the money you made in our tech bubble. Outside of it there are many real people facing insurmountable odds to make ends meet with limited options for themselves.

I try to keep these things in mind whenever I think I'm having a bad day.
What are some viable alternatives? OpenLDAP?
> I'm much more likely to lose a random keycard

On this example, I don't think it's a problem as well. First, the keycard has a PIN. After 3 failed attempts, it would either self-destruct the private key or lock itself down until a secret recovery code is provided. Second, private keys on keycards that are reported as lost can be revoked immediately.
Exactly. Assange tried to help the American people learn about dishonesty and fraud committed by elected officials.
> Linux seems to be doing just fine keeping software maintained without ads or harvesting data.

Ugh. I am quite proficient with tech stuff, but last month trying Ubuntu 18.04 LTS on my desktop left me pretty disappointed. A hard no-no for anyone non-technical: the graphical login did not work until I manually switched to the text terminal and installed the latest NVidia driver (Titan V).

And even now one of my screens does not wake up until I toggle it on/off.

And no freeform per-screen DPI.
The take-away here is to just buy covert ads that you confuse for content. It's win-win. You get to think you're not seeing ads, and advertisers get to advertise in unblockable ways.
Is it publicly hosted on Github with a permissive license?
No, you're misunderstanding the SCOTUS ruling in Wayfair. The Supreme Court didn't rule that nexus doesn't matter.

They simply eliminated the physical nexus requirement of Quill. There are still (undefined) economic thresholds required for nexus for taxing out-of-state retailers.

If you sell $5 of stuff into a state, you aren't subject to sales tax collection in that state. If you sell $100,000 of stuff into a state, you are. Unfortunately, the exact threshold where you have economic nexus varies from state-to-state and not every state has yet updated their laws for Wayfair.

However, physical nexus still exists (it's "stronger" than economic nexus), and that is why California treats Amazon FBA inventory as giving rising to nexus. It doesn't matter that it has never been tested in court--it's been generally accepted law in the US for decades (predating Quill) and it would take a court ruling for it to be otherwise. (In fact, part of the Quill decision was premised on the fact the seller did not maintain an office, employees...or inventory...in South Dakota and thus had no physical connection to the state.)