skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some organization have this issue where you get a budget for your group, and if you don't use it then upper management will think you don't need more resources next year and will budget less or even cut from your department. If you don't use it, they reallocate it to a department that needs it and you never get it back.

Another part is where if you get a hiring budget they expect you to use it because if you aren't spending it on personnel then it means you aren't hiring the best available people at that time.

Non-profits usually spend out their budget.

Regulated utilities can charge a % + the cost of hiring you if it is a capitalized cost, i.e. hiring a contractor to implement a project.If a contractor works 100% on a capital project it's profits especially in a low inflation economy or when the profits are not going to be as good due to forecasting issues it can pump the books.

There are probably other reasons I can't think of.
I'm shocked at how much this person undercharged, for a contract like this to a large company $1K P/D AUD time and materials is not even particularly high. A consulting firm would be 2.5-3.5 so it's a bargain.
There are, of course, better ways; the thing is that non-dysfunctional methodology is not evenly distributed.

This comes to mind:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recurrent_laryngeal_nerve
I actually looked into this recently and found some articles(which I have since lost) that explained that it would appear that the delta between blue light in the morning and at night is the mechanism by which our circadian rhythm seems to work.

However, working with the idea that blue light is photo toxic, it is most likely better to reduce your blue light at night rather than increase it in the morning.

I wanted to do this experiment with dosing myself with blue light in the morning but I abandoned that after seeing research on photo toxicity

Perhaps establishing a morning habit of going and standing in front of an east facing window might be a worthy experiment?
Bipedalism, Birth and Brain Evolution
Well color me surprised.
Isn't it usually a RAID-1 config of 2-3 cards in any situation that actually matters? Thinking of high end cameras, boot drives for VM hosts, etc:

http://www.running-system.com/microsd-card-raid-1-vmware-esx...

https://www.howtogeek.com/392378/what%E2%80%99s-the-big-deal...
Ha ha cute! Meanwhile that's about half of what we pay teachers for a full year of work tending to the emotional and intellectual well-being of children.
Well, customizable menu-based keyboard shortcut support is not a cross-platform feature. So maybe there's no one responsible for it? Which amounts to a management/resource-allocation problem as suggested above. The team organization you describe would contribute to the problem of this sort of Mac-specific thing being marginalized and de-prioritized, exactly as described above.
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“I turned down Daniel Buchmueller for a job at Netflix”
Lack of upward mobility in rural areas is much more damaging in the long term, mentally, than living in the city.
This is how your tax payer money is wasted in State & Federal Gov IT agencies. I spent an entire year doing nothing in a Gov agency and in the end I was so bored that I quit. Fannie & Freddie hires tons of non citizen constractors with usually no work. It’s a big carnival.
I don't buy into the implication that any decision is picking winners the outcomes don't have to be that absolute.
Hourly billing is how you protect yourself against a sloppy client like this, especially with unpredictability. I have seen fixed price blow up so much I would never ever do it personally - I would have to add so much it would be astonishing to be worth it.
> this will be my final attempt to notify you

It's always the final attempt/notice. Every time. I've received dozens of "final notices" that my 22 year old car's factory warranty (10 yrs, 100k miles) is "about" to expire.
Any number of things that are better than what currently happens when a SSN is leaked.
How about Scala?
But are cities better for people if you're cramming everyone into less space and want them to move about less? If research says no, we shouldn't be promoting cities, but ways of reducing environmental impact while also reducing density when zoning/land use planning.

"In fact, the Centre for Urban Design and Mental Health estimates that city dwellers face a nearly 40 percent higher risk of depression, 20 percent higher chance of anxiety, and double the risk of schizophrenia than people living in rural areas."
The financial industry is strongly biased in favor of carbon trading. You see, this becomes like trading stocks and futures and bonds. Hedge funds, high-speed traders, and every other kind of parasite can go do their thing to extract wealth.
What's the difference to say something like Unity?
Yet another PG&E crisis in the making. Are they still paying their exec team $100M in bonuses while preparing for bankruptcy?
Only when they are significantly smaller than current cars. It isn't just about the emissions, it's about the space that cars take and the speed they are moving.
I am getting my data from paying for taxis, Ubers and Lyfts on a regular basis.

Of course rideshares are more reliable - and better across pretty much every possible metric! - but they are no longer cheaper across the board in the metro areas I have used them. Sometimes they are cheaper, sometimes they cost more, and in both cases we are now expected to tip.
I for one won't miss the endless crap when searching for something on Amazon. Maybe we can go back to quality brands and products.
There is, presumably, a team responsible for the feature described in the article. Unless there isn't, in which case, that would explain some of the problems.
I've seen controller bugs that'll take out all 3 cards if given the same access pattern.
These types of gigs are more about who you know rather than the work that gets done. I'm guessing that you didn't just cold interview for this work, right?
Learning Negotiation from Jane Austen
Flat Earthers and the rise of science denial
Specifically telling them that they had kept him over his initial estimate (and so his estimate was increasing) when he neared or passed that point. He didn't sound terribly proactive about bringing this up while talking to people, either. Lunches with the manager where they didn't talk any business, etc.
Its the blue light, when I worked with "hard" blue LEDs (~460nm), I had to wear special glasses or I could literally feel my retinas melting.

Just stick with warm white and you'll be good. Warm white still emits a fair amount of blue light, but its approximately around 1/3 that of cool or daylight white LEDs.

Remember that natural sunlight is many orders of magnitude stronger than any 5000K LED and unlike LEDs has tons of UV as well. You could likely offset any damage and then some just by wearing sunglasses anytime you are out in the sun.
The Moon in the Zodiac and Its Influence on Man&Woman – With All Women
A resource for finding jobs for "green" companies would be great. At least here in Canada, my searches that intersect "software" with "green"/"renewable"/"wind"/etc yield next to nothing.
oh nice, i didn't know where the coin flipping quote came from: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Piet_Hein
WeWork is "a financial-engineering company, one whose model is as much about corporate structure and investor segmentation as it is about technology and buildings." Interesting article about the financial side of WeWork that I hadn't realized before.
There is no delay if the script loads properly.
In the System Icons section they have this tagline "Simplify icons for greater clarity and legibility." below an abstract icon of a so called ship - [https://material.io/design/iconography/system-icons.html?ima...]

Which I think is ironic.

Because if you see just that icon it's really hard to recognize what it is, I bet many won't see a ship it (at least I didn't). Only because of a realistic ship icon shown next to it that one realizes that it is in fact a ship.
You just restated the problem in more detail.

What I'm asking is, if the above system encourages managers to waste money, why hasn't anyone come up with a better system?
Robots Thrive in the Forest on Jobs That Humans Find Too Boring
Wisdom of the Ancients
It’s certainly not for everyone. Easy to be distracted and it can get very lonely.

I feel like I’ve done my best work remotely though.

The ideal would be remote work most of the time with the option to go into an office whenever I like, but the reality is that’s rarely an option.

The ability to structure my own day is extremely valuable to me. I also feel I get judged less for appearances and more on what I actually deliver.
Legit is really new, I'm impressed how fast it's spreading. I heard about it like a week ago and I don't think it even existed a month ago. it's a pretty funny idea.
Wow. So you base your hire decisions on pop quiz answers?

Have you worked in the industry for longer than 2 years?

> ask what the sleep command is in JavaScript.

> We don't really use arrays in Scala

These all seem like genuine things. In more complex companies, people may use more exotic data structures and/or have abstractions around data access.

Silly comment overall.
It's funny, I remember when I started working on my first PHP framework, I knew about Drupal, CodeIgniter, Kohana, Symfony and Ruby on Rails. Back then, Symfony was the Ruby on Rails applied to PHP. And I wanted to have a more "php-like" approach to everything. That's when I made phponpie.com (the early attempt).

Fast forward to now. After 10 years there is https://qbix.com/platform . If you're reading this and know PHP / LAMP, I would encourage people here to try it and give me feedback. I've never really spent time growing the community or popularizing it like Laravel. But at every turn, it's made decisions that are as close to PHP and standards as possible.

In particular, the Db module may be better than Doctrine, for example.
We built a $17M business in less than 5 years: Here's how we spent our money
You are one of the few people I have ever seen articulate the problem online. Free marketeers are always conflating a free market with an efficient market. We are aiming for efficient not necessarily free. The two only overlap as you described--basically when all participants have no power and good information. Those circumstances are rarely present.

Another analogy I like to give blind conservatives has to do with referees in their favorite sport. Yes, you don't love referees, but when they are doing a good job and seem to be calling it squarely, you know the overall game is better for have their involvement.

It helps but orthodoxy is hard to break.
What evidence do you have for this claim? The article just laid down a lot of evidence that contradicts what you say.
This makes me think of my favorite vscode theme: Default High Contrast. https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/editor/accessibility You can see it there if you scroll down.

It reminds me of old vector graphic games like Tempest. I don't know much about design, but I feel like it's "harder" to contrast with black than white, and so the bright lines of color against the black background actually give me happy feelings. Weird, but I genuinely think it improves my coding experience.

I like it so much I've been slowly porting the theme to Emacs: https://github.com/komali2/Emacs-VSCode-Default-High-Contras...

When I have some spare time I'd like to sit down and actually learn more about design concepts around these kinds of dark high contrast visualizations, and old vector graphics. Ideally I'd like to learn how to incorporate them into my own web and game design... one day!
I don't understand the relevance of that Wikipedia article
After the hours in the initial estimate were used, I would have renegotiated and charged a nonrefundable retainer in order to be on call to deliver the project as soon as the assets were ready. This retainer would be my normal rate, and the hours would not carry over to another billing period. I would not be driving to their office every day.
Not the most user-friendly replacement process here, Google.

First I had to chat with a representative, which wasn't terrible but still took time.

Now I need to place a "replacement order" for a new set of keys. And it's charging me $1.00 for the replacement key plus $0.07 tax.

And on top of all that I need to print labels for fedex, box up the old keys, and drive the ewaste box to a fedex/kinkos/whatever.

Maybe Yubikey wasn't so terrible after all...
What is Racist is that Boeing is using perceptions about foreign airlines to shift blame and scapegoat... when clearly Boeing was the party trading safety for profit here. Boeing, "the Americans", knew and did nothing. There is no evidence that more flight time or experience would have changed the outcome. Who has 5,000 hrs of MCAS fuck up protocol? Sometimes those with less experience handle new technology better.
Warm white LEDs still have about 30% of the blue light emission that cool white LEDs have. I really think the article is talking about cool white primarily though.
It seems to work well enough for the people who are on it -- and that's enough, really. One-place-for-everyone isn't the goal. "Basically nobody" compared to Twitter can still be pretty sizable.
The IT department in my company is full of “senior architects” and “principal architects” who are very pleasant talkers but don’t do anything from what I can tell. They have a ton of stories how they helped others but whenever I needed something from them nothing ever happened besides a lot of meetings.
D excluded itself from being C/C++ killer by having a GC. I know they've backtracked on that, and the -betterC subset of D looks interesting, but it's a bit late for that.
No. There is no fight for recognition or status of the kind the parent extrapolates. “Resource allocation problem” is general enough that it could explain basically every bug, so that’s not particularly helpful.

The way to think about this is that the menu bindings are AppKit features which share resources with UIKit.

An interesting theory would be one which identifies (i) who in the organization gets to gate what ships and decides it’s good enough (ii) what are their incentives. At a company like Apple which is huge, has marketing deadlines, and is coordinating hardware, software, and services releases, both items have very subtle and interesting answers.
The Donella Meadows Project
I guess real doctors can be more precise than me here.

However, at where I live only doctors working with trauma/ER work long hours. From what I understand, that’s mostly to work around the overhead of context switch and patient hand over. For my friend, a lot of stress came from the responsibility, which might not be well distributed across specializations (hence the insurance premiums, etc).
Scientists in China develop camera that photograph subjects 28 miles away
Very recently a Chrome keyboard shortcut stopped working. It was a bug and they fixed it.

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=892480

Bugs happen, it doesn't necessarily indicate anything systemic.
Find a company that has been massively successful but is on the verge of irrelevance.
I finally have gotten the courage to leave interviews when they throw code test as me, end the call or just leave. Sometimes I believe that the person doing the interview (Senior Dev) just likes to quiz people on technical knowledge and then when the interviewee doesn't know, they like to tell them and explain it to them. I get the feeling at times it gives the interviewer an ego boost. I think I have been trained to explore every job opportunity, just like I have been trained to eat all the food on my plate.

Best example, I have ever had I was interviewing for job about 6 years ago with a start up. The guy that was interviewing me has a CS masters degree strong tech stack background, probably lacked personality. He asked me what polymorphous was and at the time I didn't know. I just told him that I didn't know. Then he went on to explain it to me. Which I really didn't care about learning about. It was clear I wasn't going to get the job and that was fine, it didn't hurt my feelings. However, I learned to code because I have a background in finance, stocks, and options, before I became a coder. I have built stock algorithms that are profitable, regardless if they don't use all the right classes or OOP. So when this gentleman told me that I wasn't good enough for the job, he followed up with, I really like what you are doing with stocks and your stock algorithm, maybe we could meet for coffee sometime and you could tell me how your algorithm works, etc.

So I'm not good enough for your job, but but you want to learn about my algorithm. (the company went out of business 1 year later.) Pound sand.

The problem that I face is I don't want to be a Senior Dev. I have enough side projects and work life balance that I'm not trying to hit the CTO career mark, unless maybe with a start up. Some one mentioned that that they where like a studio musician. They aren't going be the rock star, but they do well with the band, etc. That's probably me, I'm more interested in my side projects. But professional enough to work at a day job.

Whiteboards, interviews, take homes I'm not seeing this get much better anytime soon.
I'm not sure what this has to do with PHP as a language... barring the few languages with a very strong default formatting convention like Go, code style differences are both a fact of life and not terribly problematic (set rules for the project and enforce them automatically).
I love OCaml, but my biggest pain point is not having something like Cargo. I haven't spent a lot of time with opam since 2.0 came out, so maybe it's better now, but when I used it it felt very much designed around installing packages globally, instead of defining dependencies per-project.

The other issue with the package ecosystem is cross-platform support. While OCaml itself works on windows, opam doesn't (or at least didn't) without a lot of extra work, and it seemed like most packages were designed only for unixish OS's.

There are projects where I've used Rust instead of OCaml, even though I'd have preferred to use OCaml, simply because the infrastructure is so much better and easier to use for Rust.
It's not direct evidence, but people continue to move away from rural areas and into cities all over the world, to better themselves.
If you think Rails is ugly you're going to have to frame this with what you think is beautiful so we know where you're coming from.

Rails does take a lot of established concepts like MVC and mangles them pretty badly, but the Rails version of MVC works well in practice if you're willing to overlook how unconventional it is. The beauty is not in the adherence to dogma, but the day-to-day experience of using it when you know how it works.

It takes surprisingly little code to do some complex things in Rails. I'm working with GraphQL now and it's stupid easy to build out an API with Rails.

Laravel might seem all sorts of "wrong" to someone who has expectations of "how things should be", but the Laravel way, when accepted for what it is, works. It provides structure and cohesion which in the PHP world is in extremely short supply.
Would it not be more ethical to dock the employee’s pay for the sun-damaged furniture?
If you've signed a contact for a fixed period, demand that they raise your rate at each renewal. Don't give them the entire benefit of your flexibility without some concession on their end. If they want you month-to-month, your rate changes month-to-month.
I'm not sure what point you are trying to make here. macOS is a product. With releases, features, etc. Someone or some group of people must necessarily make decisions about what makes up "macOS 10.14.5". Even if that team is "Craig and his direct reports" or whatever, and even if that team has other responsibilities.
Empowering User Privacy and Decentralizing IoT with Mozilla WebThings
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With JS it’s pretty much the same. It’s standard library is so weak that you pretty much have to write your own.
Campaigners question timing of consultation on Northern Ireland fracking licence
These are largely fixed costs that can be cut anytime. Salaries come with benefits and healthcare and potential lawsuits. Also, as said in other threads, this gives them someone to fire when things go bad without losing their good people.
Unity is a full blown game editing and creation suite with a complete engine (physics, rendering, assets, sound, so on). This is a graphics library using some very fancy, very modern research.
The static methods you are seeing are by and large facades -- convenience methods -- but Laravel is still absolutely "proper OOP."

https://laravel.com/docs/5.8/facades

"Contract" is not a term they invented; it's a term from "design by contract programming," and Laravel enforces the "contracts" through interfaces.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_by_contract

(And, no, they did not invent the term "facade," either.)
> The quality of life for EU citizens is high and getting higher.

But not thanks to this court ruling. The only thing that will bring employers and employees is more bureaucracy.

Employees which let themselves get exploited before, will let themselves get exploited with precise time tracking as well. After all, who's going to check whether you actually tracked the time you spent working after hours – answering e-mails, calling back a client, or fixing bugs in your code?
There's no qualifier you can put behind that first comma that makes your opening statement true in the general case.
Yes, Legit is the only one I had heard of before, just a few days ago. The other ones are pretty funny too!
No, I'm suggesting simply "not made in America".

The more I think about this, the more I'm convinced it's bad reporting, or misquoting. As a Canadian that exports, I've been to presentations out on by CBP and cross-border warehousing services that covered FTZ. There's no way something this basic gets past them.
(tarantulas are not technically spiders themselves)

This is something I've heard once before, but the specifics of why elude me--a refresher if you'd be kind enough to indulge my curiosity further? (There's a reason below) I've also heard that their bodies are quite fragile, or specifically their 'exoskeleton' is incredibly fragile but they've got strong muscles?

if even when someone is about to tell you something new and interesting about spiders they call them terrifying, of course most people will internalize this.

This is what clued me in that you may have some opinion and interesting things to share, just the way you responded to it.

For context, despite my fear of spiders, I was once in a relationship with someone who had not one, not two, but THREE pet spiders--and had many friends who were also similarly enthusiastic arachnophiles. She loved the creatures and came to help me appreciate them a bit more and even taught me a few things about them, despite my own fears, but I learned to recognize just the way one reacts to the discussions of spiders.

So that's why I started this discussion off inquiring the way I did--that you seemed like someone who didn't have much fear of the creature.

Thanks so much for sharing your knowledge here today!
The actual song is still available - it's by an artist called melodysheep.