skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hear this specific complaint often; I wonder if people don't realize the hit area of the escape key is much larger than the key itself. On my 2016 MBP I can fire it from almost a centimeter from its left edge
I do wish there was some haptic feedback, and all my issues would go.
Touchbar has been great for scrubbing, provides much finder-grained control of both brightness and volume than the keys did (fine-grained sliders for both the laptop display and attached thunderbolt display).

Id happily agree that comfort-wise, I still prefer the longer-travel keys of the 2012-2015 era.
I was so afraid of debt I religiously avoided it. But I had another friend who racked up major debt in undergrad and then law school. When I asked him about paying it off, he said he could just get out of it through bankruptcy. Apparently the law student hadn't checked the law on that.

I attended a grad program for just one semester (since I was able to get the first semester as a free trial - but the rest of the degree would have cost $150K and the program was ranked #1 in the US News scam rankings and yet the school refused to give any statistics on employment of graduates. No problem for the women, who all got the entire $180K paid by corporations. A couple of the guys, though, as I feared, were unemployed for over two years... after $180K debt for a program ranked #1 with an acceptance rate well under 5%! One girl needed a job in less than a week to stay in the US, so her boyfriend hired her as a programmer though she had absolutely no knowledge or experience and so she just started getting paid to study CS. By then, I had about completed a CS program at another school but couldn't get a single job offer.

Several of the guys told me their plan to pay off the $180K was to get Bernie Sanders elected so he'd just forgive it. In fact, that's the most common plan I've heard. Very few people want to pay back student loans unless they quickly get a lucrative job and I dunno if I've found anyone (in person) other than me who felt at least a possible moral obligation to pay if I decided to take out the loan.
With Apple making the Mac Pro so expensive it opens up the grey market for Hackintosh PCs to run MacOS at a fraction of the cost. If Apple wants to beat the Hackintosh they need an ATX based Mac that doesn't cost $5999 but more like $999 that can be upgraded with a better graphics card and etc.
And unix and C, on top of apple, pc, sql, ... I guess only mainframe and smart phone is not of that era. And if there is no internet it will be invented. How cold is that? 100 degree c.

Zen master may be you are - step into hot water and feel it is cold. It is not the flag that not move I guess it is all in your mind. I still think the flag move a bit sorry. Quite a bit.
Who is the target audience for flight simulator? Is it like a regular video game, or used by pilots who actually undergo training?
> Most self-help books would suggest that you can fight life’s currents with determination and positive thinking.

What the..‽ Show me one. Just one.
I've never gained anything from watching "body language" during a video call. A key component to body language is what the other person is looking at. But – you can't tell in a video call! I can't tell who's looking at whom or what – everyone is just blankly staring at "me". And half the time, I'm looking at relevant documents in another tab, so (a) I can't see anyone else's face anyway, and (b) the fact that I'm looking away from the speaker isn't reflected in the video feed.

Growing up pre-internet blessed me with the ability to communicate effectively without body language, thanks to the telephone. I find that translates perfectly well to video-less conference calls.
As did I on SpeedScript and TASword, that is until I bought a broken Amiga 500, fixed it by replacing a single capacitor, modified a CGA monitor (i.e. RGBi, 16-color digital) by adding a preamp so it acted like an analog RGB monitor and used that: true 80-column text. A bit later I added a PC clone to the mix which had a Hercules-clone multi-everything adapter ("Diamond Brand something-or-other" bought on the cheap at a trade show) which I found out could do a bit more than it said on the label when I managed to get the 6845 to display interlaced graphics (50 lines of text, 720*700 graphics, It even worked in AutoCAD...), swapped the motherboard for a broken-and-repaired AT-clone board, etc.
Bay Area isn’t NYC. We are earthquake country with dismal public transport. We are more people and more sprawl. And definitely more jobs. Not comparable.

Do you think NYC is affordable for those earning 51k? Really?
If the train is elastic, you'd recover that energy.

Going into a curve, kinetic energy from the speed of the train is turned into spring energy by bending the train. Leaving the curve, the spring energy becomes kinetic energy. The flexed train speeds up due to the spring force as the train unflexes.
I'll vote for #1 and starting something on the side. The time constraint may give you more focus and you won't be gambling away more time and money on an uncertain path.

Some people seem to have a knack for getting right to the point of what needs to be done in hustling an idea and making money on it. For others, it's way too easy to spin the tires and get nowhere for weeks, then months on end. At a certain point, the feeling of getting nowhere becomes a drain itself and the likelihood of not finishing grows.

You don't want to find out which category you are in while burning through savings. Better to start with constraints which force that sense of urgency (lack of time.)
I look forward to this couple of decades then!
"I lost it under the seat"?
And the point is it's not actively asking for location updates, which would drain battery. You just leave it with cellular off and it sends the standard Find My pulse over Bluetooth.
I have a 4K (resolution) monitor that cost me about $400. It’s less fancy than a 6k (resolution) monitor but I’m also paying about a tenth the price sooo. Yeah. Let’s say 2 nice 4K monitors and a $3200 tower. That can easily compete with a 6000 dollar tower with a 6000 dollar monitor from apple, and I’m spending 4000 dollars instead of 12000. What exactly am I getting for that extra 8000 to make it worthwhile?
To clarify, I manage my notifications. I was referring to when pairing with people on their computer.
It's also more than most electricians get paid around where you are. Like 90% of them.
For PNAS, I've heard, getting sponsored by a NAS member greatly increases chances for publication. So it seems an odd example to cite for "value".
There is a misguided notion on testing. Testing cannot establish correctness on a program unless you test every possible input and output. A test only proves a specific test case is correct, that's it, this is not actual program correctness.

Type checking is an actual proof that is light years ahead of a test in the fact that you need zero test cases to prove your program is correct in terms of types.

To achieve the same affect with testing you must test your function with every possible input for every possible type. An untyped addition function must test for what happens when you give that function a pointer to every possible permutation of a nested hashmap of strings and arrays otherwise you are not establishing correctness. What you are actually doing is taking a statistical sample of random inputs and guessing that the function is correct based off of that sample.

For greater predictability the test samples should be randomized following statistical procedures but this is rarely followed as most testers don't actually understand that they are taking a small statistical sample of a domain that covers an almost unlimited amount of possible inputs.

Tests are essentially selected with high programmer bias so a lot of bugs make it through.
In 2000 I went back to college to get my MS degree. I remember in 2001 people were begging the college to admit them because they were laid off right around the admissions cutoff.
There is an unhealthy desire amongst freelancers to burn clients.
How to Create Stunning Mobile Application Design
The current crappiness of AR reminds me of the early days of MP3 players. Only a few geeks had them, and it took forever to load an album over the printer port if it didn't crash half way. Then 5 years later, everyone had an iPod.
> $1500 Pro Display (sans XDR) that's basically the 5K panel from the iMac Pro.

Apple sells LG 5k displays for $1,299.95. AFAIK it is the same panel as the 27" iMac and iMac Pro.
Usually they staff a female minority in HR to make up for lack of diversity in other departments. In some companies I worked at they upgraded a administrative assistant to supervising manager of IT because she was female and they needed more diversity. She was not qualified for the job, and I'd feel better if she was qualified for the job. But that is just my opinion.
Ask any IT people and public, how to follow up the changes? Can you use what is being done 5 years ago then now?

Yes it is better than in 1990 vs 1995 or 1995 vs 2000 etc. You really have to learn a total paradigm. Java, unix, windows, object programming gui ... now the basic is done but still no. The python you learn is not important vs the one doing AI for example.
Not only in-state, also overseas. Finland, Germany (and sometimes Denmark) offer free tuition and stipend for international students. Hong Kong University also (postgrad, AFAIK). There are probably more. English language is the language of 'instruction'.

Every one of the (ex-)overseas(ish) graduates that I know from these countries' universities have had nothing but praise and thanks for the opportunity, have loyalty, promote in their home countries, and live (and earn, and pay tax) there for several years, and if returning home will gladly return / switch between countries.

If any high schoolers reading this thread have not considered this option, take a chance to take a look.
Couldn't SV solve most of the homelessness virtually overnight by financing a hundred or so large homeless shelters or urban camping grounds? If every company pitched in and had it run by competent private firms I imagine they could make a huge difference, more than any taxes would do.
I suppose what Valve needs is creative directors, and engineers willing to work with creative directors on gameplay and even if it isn't their pitch.

This seems to be the most successful pairing with this batch of stunning games coming out next gen.
The dismal public transport is what the proposal on the table will be taking aim at.

What makes you think NYC is unaffordable to households making under $51k, and how do you explain the fact that half the populace is doing exactly that?

What do earthquakes have to do with it? Half the megacities of Asia are in earthquake country.
G20 agrees to push ahead with digital tax
600K / 12M = 0.05 or 5% over 10 years. This means roughly 500 deaths / 100,000 annually. According to CDC (https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/deaths.htm) the death rate in the US is 850 deaths / 100,000. These aren't exactly apples to apples but that seems enough to say this doesn't look especially high-risk.
Or... they can just kill the Hackintosh by preventing the OS from running on unsanctioned hardware.
This. We use slack at work, but not really as an IM, its more like an easy to use message board. I have slack closed most of the time and only check in a few times a day. If somebody has a problem they need an answer too right now, they can call me.
If all you need is the 4K monitor than the 6K monitor is not for you and you could use the same 4K monitor with the Mac Pro. Heck you could get the 5K LG monitor for $1200 and save $3800 dollars.

Nothing is forcing you to buy the 6K monitor if you don’t need it. Isn’t that the whole purpose of buying the Mac Pro over the iMac Pro that you can mix and match based on your needs?
This article is actually a perfect example of confirmation bias. Very useful in a way to see how some people think.
The article seems kind of unfocused and meandering. It touches on the common talking point of women being discouraged from STEM, then about the good time the author had doing research for her fiction novel, and some scenes from the novel, but it never actually says anything about the plot of said novel. "There's a professor who may or may not be creepy and a student who may or may not fall in love with him" is about as far as it goes.

An area of academia as seen by an outsider usually makes for good storytelling but this article is a mess.
Not sure if your comment was aimed at agile vs. "agile".

Agile and safety critical is fine. It works.

"Agile" is a problem, safety-critical or no.
> get rid of XUL

XUL is still used by the browser itself.
The South’s Economy Is Falling Behind: ‘All of a Sudden the Money Stops Flowing’
Do you think their employees make up more or less than 50% of the population of engineers in Silicon Valley?
Don't expect it to go out without a fight.
Why Furniture Retailing Is Driven by Discounting
This has been posted before:

In 2017: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14026360

In 2015 after release: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9459520

Very useful book.
Everything’s amazing and nobody’s happy.
From the article, "Meanwhile, traffic congestion, measured as the time people spend slogging along freeways at speeds of 35 mph or less, grew 80 percent from 2010 to 2016".

I'm all for increasing mass transit speeds and convenience. We need to think really hard about SUVs, and freeways, and commuters, (and commercial trucks). Heck, even a pure electric Tesla Model X is MASSIVE: its gross vehicle weight is 6,500 lbs, and can go up to 130 mph! Good for climate change, not so good for commuting on crowded roads.

But I'm also optimistic: batteries and electronics are improving rapidly, and I expect a $10,000, battery-powered, 2-person, 45mph, 1000 lb, 100-mile runabout coming along in the next 5-10 years. A (much nicer) Renault Twizy-like vehicle would make a dandy Richmond to SF commuter, ASSUMING you could maintain 45mph the whole way.

How to maintain 45mph in these small commuters? Well, each would be shorter and narrower, and slower (assume design top speed 45mph). Thus we could simply restripe a new lane or two onto our freeways. Better yet: electronics/radio (V2V) will allow semi-autonomous platooning (and crash detection/avoidance), thus increasing vehicle density and allowing drivers to relax more on their commute.

What to do with the SUVs and trucks? Not much, other than tax them at 1/2 m v^2.
And you haven't even talked about the cable yet...
Don't make the mistake of thinking Non-ECC ram doesn't have built-in error protection it's just not as robust. Random memory bit flips are pretty rare but it takes multiple at the same time for ECC to be effective. Additionally, the thing that makes no sense about ECC Ram is that you have no parity checks when data is in transit too and from the CPU(s). So a little corrosion on a trace or bad capacitor and ECC Ram won't be able to do anything about it.
I agree about the iMac....

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20143484

And the memory...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20143664
Long term (10+ years) it'll be addressed by the baby boomers dying off. The generation just entering college now is tiny - there's going to be a housing glut somewhere between 5-10 years from now.

This housing shortage could easily have been predicted by demographics - starting in 2003, Millenials started leaving their parents homes and forming households of their own, and starting around 2012 they entered peak house-buying years. The baby boomers are not dying off yet, and the generation that is dying off (the Silent Generation) is small. Thus, not many homes are entering the market for the number of new households being formed.
Is this really true? I have my doubts there was ever a time where an English or philosophy or art history undergrad degree had very much value in the job market. And if there was, what specifically has changed to make that no longer the case?
Quite expensive ($120?). My setup consists of a RPi Zero (20 € new), LTE stick as in this post (29 € used), USB power adapter (5 €), micro USB to USB (2 €), so in total only around 55 €, minus lots of fun setting it up (priceless). Not sure the RPi Zero is the best option here in terms of speed, but it works well for my purposes.

Edit: Looks like the RPi Zero maxes out at around 35 MBit/s.
Hackintosh is fun for a tinkerer but not really practical for someone that just needs to get work done. I say this as someone who dislikes macOS and has tried the hackintosh approach in an attempt to build iOS apps without having to buy a mac. You can make it work, but it's a big pain and all bets are off when an update comes down the line.
Bethesda revives ‘80s PC series Commander Keen as a free-to-play mobile game
They're still there in 2019.
Chernobyl DevOps: Software Engineering, Disaster Management, and Observability
Exactly! Sometimes I want to listen to viewpoints of those propagating "hate speech", or anything such that might be a candidate for censorship just to get a sense of how much there is support for such ideology and the arguments they are using to back their ideology so as to know what to say when countering it.
It does seem inordinately prone to getting filled up with dust or mysteriously smooshed flat when you weren't looking.
Right agree with you..
No college. No debts.
If you really want to make it work you can get a router with an external antenna connector and mount a yagi and point it towards the tower. Might take some trial and error but this is definitely a solvable problem w/ LTE
Sony Releases GTK-PG10 Outdoor Wireless Speaker at Rs 21990
I think the greatest link is aesthetic, the instinct for power and simplicity. Mathematics and programming are both the creation of weightless structures that are limited only by their tractability by human intellect.

Of course that perspective ignores two important things: physical constraints on performance, and the relationship of data to facts in the real world. From these constraints programming also takes on the characteristics of natural science and engineering. These considerations come into play as well, but so often the limiting resource is human time and intellectual bandwidth, requiring a simpler, easier solution.

In mathematics, the scale can be much grander than anything yet produced in computing. Calculus is just breathtaking -- the signature accomplishment of the greatest mathematicians of their time, refined over hundreds of years into a tool that can be wielded by ordinary teenagers. It might seem shallow to compare such a sweeping achievement to mundane programming tasks such as writing enterprise business logic. Yet, if you ignore scale and universality, the intellectual task is the same: to take something that requires careful thought and close familiarity with the product requirements today, and boil it down to something that can be understand at a glance six months from now by someone who was not involved in the initial development. To distill patterns of thought internalized via close familiarity with the motivating problems into easily defined and digested concepts.
The problem with Linux is that the UX and UI are always lackluster.

How do we make people work on those parts as a hobby? Can we make UX/UI have their own demo-scene culture?
You will not be editing raw 8K video using the tiny 8 core CPU and 256GB storage space of the base model which the parent was referring to ($6000). Its true that for Hollywood projects, the price of this might not be a huge deal, even with the baller fully speced out model. Heck in my own industry (pharma) we're paying thousands and thousands of dollars for software that doesn't do much except have the magical 21CFR compliant sticker that regulators look for.
Snapper is maintained under openSUSE

https://github.com/openSUSE/snapper
One of the simplest things would be to simply allow the user to put their thumbnail at top center, where the camera usually is. Even better, maybe position it to where dynamically to above the head of the speaker on the other end. In my case, for example, the geometry of my desk leaves the front edge of my microscope visible in teleconferences, so I am no doubt slightly left of center in all cases. In any case, I know that I for one spend a non-trivial amount of time looking at my own camera feed, seeing if the video is ok: am I dropping frames because of a visible ceiling fan? Is the sun coming through a window behind me, blowing me out?
When you're in a meeting taking notes, you don't need to write everything that was said, you just write the decisions that were made.

When you hear a decision being made you can ask the meeting to stop, reiterate what you just heard, then write that down.
Well it's not that black and white. Can op make the application/business appealing as a single sided marketplace to begin with? Maybe. If there is 1 side that can find value without having the other side onboard then there you go. Doesn't mean it's going to be easy. Still hard, but just address the challenges as they come.

op, take a couple months to build your product (considering this is a CRUD-like app) and then face the distribution problem.
If I were to hire you, can I trust that you would not publicly complain about a disagreement? This needs to be asked because this simple act, even though your anger is justified, calls into question your ability to act professionally.

I would recommend removing or rewording the complaint about the client.

Never, never, never publicly complain about a client in a way that can be linked back to you and/or your client.
It's a genuine flight simulator, not a video game - although there's differing levels of realism you can usually set.

You can take it all the way to having Virtual Air Traffic Control systems, staffed by other players - eg the VATSIM[1] community.

[1] https://www.vatsim.net/
On NYC: NYC is affordable to them only with rent control. Most people don’t have cars due to its public transport network that we lack in the Bay Area. The city has entertainment, easy access so people don’t have to leave their boroughs..never mind the city.

We have land in California and can provide housing IF we improve public transport. Sacramento takes money earmarked for public transport and channels it for affordable housing. It is a pattern of deception.

On Asian mega cities with high density, I am going to assume that you have lived there as you brought it up. Is that the kind of standard of living you think affordable high density housing advocates want in California? I see that you are housing advocate and I assume high density as you are dedicated to building more housing stock in San Francisco.

I have lived in high density Asian cities and have commuted at 20 km/hour. Which is what is happening in the Bay Area too.

How many parts of Asia do you think are earthquake prone? Please name them and their population density. I would like to compare quality of life between them and the bay area.
Seattle is actively removing places for cars to drive, including lanes on streets and parking at curbs, to make way for transit. It’s positively, magnificently car hostile, and precisely the model I would like to see in the Bay Area
It's not really instant massager if your not replying instantly. If your replying in your own time, then it's just a nicely formatted forum.
I used to work in the industrial controls industry. The systems are often designed by application engineers working for the industrial control equipment’s manufacturer or distributor. In the case of distributors, the engineering work is often provided for “free” and paid for with the markup the distributor applies over their cost to purchase the components direct from the manufacturer. Those same application engineers will be involved with helping to make the sale. If a customer asks “can I connect this to the Internet?”, any response other than “of course!” is liable to result in a talking to from the sales manager for that account.

Few of the incentives in that industry lead to good security. More details here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3260127