skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>bluetooth... work amazingly well.

No.

Bluetooth is slow to change tracks, slow to pause, slow to connect, has annoying pairing issues, has lower sound quality, and is just generally subpar.

>Just get one that has a constant power source (no battery), and try to plug it in to a switched power outlet

So it's wireless, but with wires.

I rarely use either though, my car has usb and I have a 32Gb stick of music that stays in there.
Call them up every month and tell them that you've read their email.

After 13 months, if/when the emails stop, call them up again and ask why they've stopped.

For even more fun, figure out which domain(s) they use for tracking and have your router/firewall block them.

Then when you complain about not receiving the emails, you can still say that you've been doing "load images" to no effect.
Network/infrastructure guys don't seem to me to do helpdesk very often?
They can recognize the best people. And give time and value to all employees.
Not to mention that in the US this would be incredibly politically incorrect.
Always prefer quickbooks
This will be great.
The best managers I’ve had have been formerly great engineers, or Product people who understand the importance of engineers. I’m sure there are good managers who were not god engineers, but it’s certainly harder for them to grow into such a role.

The best managers try to understand different perspectives including yours. They must must must be good listeners, otherwise they can never truly understand what their reports really want.

The best managers understand what’s important for every member of their team and try to create environments conducive for their growth.

Being a good manager is a rare skill. Some are born with it; but it’s a skill that can be learned by those who listen. Most managers unfortunately have a messed up paradigm of themselves and how they relate to the world, and most will actually create more obstacles rather than clear them.
Course, assuming you want to orbit your destination when you arrive ... at some point you'd need to turn that 1g in the opposite direction to decelerate. (And I'm mighty impressed by the energy source that provides two years of continuous thrust.)
The desktop app doesn't use any resources when you close it either. What's your point?
Slack and IRC are incomparable. Slack has authentication, message retention and search, multimedia attachments, mobile application with notifications, conversation threads, etc.

You could try and cobble together something similar from an IRC server plus ten different programs, but most companie would rather pay Slack a wee amount than maintain a Frankenstein's monster.
You can build and test faster using the direct to machine code compiler, then use the C compiler for a final production test and distribution.
Then there'll be workarounds such as those intermediary companies that claim to unlock it but in reality just pay off the cryptolocker guys and keep a part of the fee for themselves.

That said, this city could have used some negotiation help.
Memory management points up probably the most significant weakness. Give it a destructor or a drop trait or something that can be tied to scope exit. You don't need custom memory management features if you have resource management, because then memory is just another resource.

p.s. It says in the docs that its name is not vlang. That's just the web domain.
As a manager I find it horrifying. At its core it is the gamification of office politics.

And must surely lead to groupthink and conformity. The consequences of disagreeing might be at the end of the quarter a manager is looking at your low score and wondering if you should be cut.

Any company looking to adopt this should only do so after carefully looking at high quality peer reviewed studies on the outcomes of this kind of social credit system.
It is OK to share "mediocre work", actually this is encouraged as it begins to change your psychological relationship with your work. Making mediocre things is a very important part of learning anything new.

Wow that's pretty good advice actually...
>shows how invaluable

Invaluable means very valuable. From the rest of your comment, I'm not sure that's what you meant?
I'm sorry, but the belief that you can be happy and poor in America is hippy-dippy nonsense left over from an earlier and more equitable age. Nobody is happy watching their child die of a treatable disease, and no amount of inner peace will make your family's eviction ok. Thinking that those things are silly is a mark of inexperience and foolishness, and is no wiser than Candide's insistence that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The reality is that social mobility is a cornerstone of the American dream specifically because it actually does buy a better life for those who get it. The fact that such mobility does not exist for many who would choose it is a black mark on us and our society, and one we need urgently to correct.
Thanks for sharing that wiki link. This paragraph was particularly interesting to me.

> In 2010, Hawaii became the first state to ban the possession, sale and distribution of shark fins. The law became effective on 1 July 2011.[95] Similar laws have been enacted in the states of Washington,[96] Oregon,[97][98] California,[99] the territory of Guam[100] and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.[101] California governor Jerry Brown cited the cruelty of finning and potential threats to the environment and commercial fishing in signing the bill.[99] Opponents charged the ban was discriminatory against Chinese, the main consumers of shark fin soup, when federal laws already banned the practice of finning.
I think I understand what you’re trying to say, it the UNIX/New Jersey approach came much later than the MIT/ITS approach. The conversation happened (if I recall correctly) because the ITS approach required more architecture-specific changes (to revert/restore state), while the later UNIX approach was quickly ported to new architectures. The ITS people were effectively asking “how’d you manage to handle this gnarly thing so quickly, so often.”, and the UNIX people’s response was “we punted”.
That's true, people leave managers not jobs.

A good manager:

1. Make you feel comfortable in expressing your inputs

2. Bats for you in upper management without you knowing a bit of it

3. Pushes you for taking up bigger assignment even if you don't feel confident.

This will help in learning a lot & getting bigger share in overall contribution.

4. Never says immediate no for your ideas. Takes time & gives a thorough feedback

5. Keeps you informed about your progress in 1x1's

6. Is open for feedback

7. Keeps things cool even if his/her back is on fire

8. Never micro manages

9. Always makes sure you get your credit & visibility for the contribution you have done

10. Has a very good understanding of stack/technology/project you are working on
No.

I also don't want to enable cookies just to read your article, NYT.
As a none native speaker (English would be my 3rd language at best, maybe 4th) I expected to dramatically underperform compared to most scores here, but:

You said yes to 76% of the existing words.

You said yes to 0% of the nonwords.

This gives you a corrected score of 76% - 0% = 76%.

Which I find oddly high.
I generally agree with what you’re saying in terms of perf comparisons, but high performance debug builds are incredibly important.

On the other hand, the reason they tend to be slow in large c/c++ programs is the module model basically meaning “behold as every file in your project parses and interprets large portions of the host platform’s standard library”. All modern languages know to avoid that - honestly if you want masochism I’d be curious to compare the time-to-execute for modern js engines, simply because they have incredibly large amounts of pressure to get to running code as fast as possible.
Don't want to rain on your parade, but the next passage comes straight out of their TOS:

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Seems pertinent to discussions of Facebook's new cryptocurrency pseudo-bank no?
When the value dropped, the network hashrate dropped and difficulty went down so things actually became profitable again.

The best time to mine is during the drops, not the highs, unless you follow buy high, sell low and don't believe the market will correct for the better again (which it has).

Of course, it depends on electricity prices, but it is profitable to mine ethereum, especially if you know how to tune the cards to maximize hash/consumption.

That said, mining is competitive and difficult and unless you are going to go really large, don't bother. If you are interested in learning about it, definitely experiment though don't expect to make a lot of money.
The "magic" goes out of most things as you become expert in the domain but perhaps the greatest loss is the field of magic itself. As a kid I fell in love with watching magicians. That moment of amazement and delight was always intoxicating. It made me feel for just a moment as if anything was possible (despite knowing there's a trick behind it).

As a teenager I studied every magic book in the library, practiced for hours, started performing and eventually made a living in college as a magician, even touring on occasion. As I became more skilled and knowledgeable I eventually got into studying magic theory, learning from some very experienced pros. The 'real' fun in magic for me was coming up with new effects and methods.

However, the tough part is once you get to a certain level, you find there are no magic tricks that give that 'zap' of delight you got when you didn't immediately know how they worked. I suspect this effect may be most severe in magic because the visceral impact relies on not knowing the method. You can be an expert musician, able to deconstruct chord progressions and rhythms yet still lose yourself in dancing to music you love. However, not so for advanced magicians.

I can still enjoy watching a really good magician on other dimensions like technical execution, creativity or even entertaining presentation but that momentary zap is gone forever.
Remap CapsLock instead.
But producing a flashy website is not?
Our IT is two things, one is helpdesk the other is “tech”. Tech handles servers, networking, security and Azure and only really offer support for developers like me.
No, the switch to a product that is fully integrated with another more important product that they already use.
I hate that kind of nanny stuff, what if you have a passenger and they can control it?

Does it also have a stupid screen that pops up every time you start the car saying, "don't use this while driving", or some such nonsense?
Is it legal to scrap Nasdaq details?
So unfortunate that "talent" making more than $250k a year will have a tax loophole closed by this bill.
I have to admit not having any time on a Shapeoko (or any other tabletop router for that matter). I've always had access to manual or CNC industrial grade machines.

I've seen some impressive work done on Shapeoko and other small machines. While this is possible, the issues are always the same: tolerances, repeatability, finish and tooling.

Without the mass to dampen vibrations it is impossible to produce smooth and accurate cuts. It is enough that aluminum is like rubber at cutting pressures. Now we add a machine with a structure, materials and mechanics that can visibly deflect a few thousands with finger pressure and the end result is predictable.

That's not to say they are not useful. They are. Definitely. For the right kind of part and project they are fantastic. At $1,000 to $2,000 they are hard to beat.

Frankly, the right way to use something like a Shapeoko for a project like this is to design the parts for the process. In other words, knowing about the limitations of the machine, design parts that will fit these constraints in the first place.

That said, a machine like this is a million times better than a Shapeoko could ever be, no matter how much it might be modified.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/LAGUN-FTV-1-VERTICAL-KNEE-MILL-w-Al...

I owned several similar machines --all purchased used for $1,500 to about $5,000 max-- before I could afford to buy my first $100K VMC (vertical machining center). These "knee mills" as they are known, can make quality parts all day long with accuracy and excellent finish. They can make nearly anything you care to throw at them. I still have one today (sometimes it's easier to work on a part on one of these than to fire-up a large machine for a few cuts). They also fit very well in a garage workshop.
It depends on person to person.

For me, my manager listens me, understand my problem/trouble and he acts accordingly. I am not going to lie, but there were few months in my job where I wasn't productive at all, fail to yield proper result due to my personal problems. He is always there to help me and did almost everything how i wanted to act/work in the job. Obviously, there were also lot of situations when i had to act myself according to him, but it happens after mutual discussion. He is one of the few biggest reason why I'm still in the same job since last 6 years. I always wish when i switch to some other company/start new company and the person who will going to command me (in some sense), i always wanted person like him or him.
Again No Sign of Aliens
Show HN: 0-learning curve chorded typing
You are right in a scenario where testing is lightweight and quick. I'm sure this can cover a lot of use cases. However, If the testing/development itself involves heavy computation (large integration tests for example), there are diminishing return from quick but unoptimized compilation.
I did, it's my ctrl like anyone else that doesn't hate their pinky.
The issues highlighted in this thread around the need to develop locally against cloud resources while dealing with a litany of dependencies are one of the things we are trying to solve at Stackery.

This post talks about how our team experienced much of what’s in this thread and what we built to solve it:
https://www.stackery.io/blog/how-do-we-setup-a-proper-server...

VS Code folks seem to be pretty excited about our plugin
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=stackery...

We’d love to have you give it a try and let us know how it works for you.
If you want to constantly live in debts and not be able to track your money I guess.
it should definitively clean up the module

you could make the same argument with threads

main process vs child threads, you would expect atexit installed in the child thread to execute before the main process atexit installed functions
Do you mean that you do not consider bugs in your software to be your job to fix?
After Slack, the IPO market might never be the same
I imagine that they either weren’t doing backups at all, or their backups were directly accessible and writable by the malware.

Or they weren't able to detect exactly when the malware was deployed so they didn't know how far back the data corruption went, meaning they couldn't trust the backups even if they looked OK. One of the problems you face after any attack is trusting the system again. Verifying everything is correct is a very hard problem.
> If I remember it correctly, the fast project would make 4 light years in ~150 years.

133, but that's getting there as a missile (one-way acceleration, no turnover and decel to relative rest.)
weird how other language creators are ganging up against the author here...
99% of new programming languages are "someone thought it would be fun to make a new programming language" with no real effort to make it genuinely useful and good for real world use
Why Google+ Failed
India faces drying up in the near future, not sure if moving production here is a smart move, due to the possible unrest.
I believe they announced a partnership with Zoom rather than competing against them.
This question has huge cultural variation. I think you need to specify the cultural region first.

Globally, in some places it's expected a boss micromanages everything, and in other places that's considered a sign of ineptitude as leader.

Within a smaller area, say, Europe you still get huge variation from egalitarian north to more hierarchial areas which affect quite a lot of things.

But, in the most general sense:

- is the person polite and respective? In any culture being 'bossy' and abusive is not a sweet character trait, it's a fault.

- does the person allow you to fail and grow?

- does the person listen to your suggestions and act on them?

- does the person give you honest feedback?

- does the person have your back? I.e. can you trust that politically they are on your side when dealing with the rest of the org?

- is the person honest?

Most of these are characterizations of what a regular well mannered person is. I suppose there are two types of bad bosses: the insecure one who would like to avoid all responsobility and negative interactions at all costs, who don't want to 'rock the boat' no matter what, and the bossy bosses who enjoy their position in the hierarchy and act like it in any way possible.

But, a good manager does not
need to be:

* warm and caring

* charismatic

* become your close friend - you are colleagues and professionals

* send you holiday greetings (unless that's considered a serious affront in your culture)

* same sex as you

* same culture as you

* old or young

* probably other things that you expect in a friendship but since being friends is not needed they don't matter
More info:

http://tbf-rnd.life/blog/2019/06/16/0-learning-curve-chorded...

Might be usefull with haptic input/gloves in VR/AR settings. If interested please comment, participants are very welcomme!
I wonder some years ago there was a lot of talk about "Bible Code" even a book about it. Somehow people found all kinds of secret messages telling things about current day events by reading bible in different ways.

Now here there's 1PB of signal data, that's a lot more than in the Bible. Why can't anybody find similar interesting things in it?
IRC is just a protocol, it’s a bit like saying Facebook shows how much HTTP is worth.
Hey are you trying to mangle the metaphor? Back off :)
Bad managers focus on them.

Good managers focus on you.
> Dropbox is also one the chopping block to be replaced by OneDrive.

A few weeks ago the startup I work for started using NextCloud as a stop-gap till we get O365 and OneDrive. It is ridiculously simple for us at-least to just copy over our entire Dropbox folder to the NextCloud one.
According to StatCan[1], the unemployment rate for people aged 15-24 is more than double that of people over 25. Speaking for myself, it was brutally difficult to find my first job. I was unemployed for months.

Alberta is introducing a lower minimum wage for ages 16–18. I don't particularly like having a minimum wage that discriminates based on age, but we already have a bunch of special employment laws for minors. I actually lost my job as a concessions cashier to one of those restrictions when I was 17.

1: https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=141003...
> My company has tons of institutional knowledge locked away

I think your company should start working on that problem ASAP.
Congratulation to them. I think what they did is absolutely amazing and will be seen retrospectively as one of the biggest fads of history.

- They managed to disturb millions of worker to an attention-driven work culture in which everything needs to always be synchronous and immediate.

- They managed to change chat from a set of open protocols to a single closed app terribly written in JS.

- They managed to make a lot of people absolute convinced advocate of Slack so that a lot of hyped startups have now to use Slack de facto or risk mutiny and have people create Slack channels on behalf of the company without any oversight.

So yeah I don't blame them but I blame every company that falls for this. I'm convinced that we will see Slack retrospectively as something that destroyed productivity.
I will agree that Slack can be useful when used correctly but I never saw a place that used it without it becoming that "attention driven" growing monster.
> He's collecting $927/month on Patreon by deceiving generous and hopeful programmers.

Oh my. This is alarming. I have never thought that the author was already getting that much money out of this incomplete piece of software.
1000 unit order is 1000 unit order, regardless Apple take 60% profit, or Samsung takes 20%. Factories work on orders, and they don't get to keep Apple's profit.
The pain of forking development into multiple separate teams with completely different technology stacks, bugs, and coordination overhead is just not worth it for most startups. It slows you down when you need to be able to adapt quickly. A lot of unicorns in the past would have addressed this by simply focusing on one platform initially but for an application like this that is not feasible. Even Linux support is not optional for a company like Slack since a lot of the decision makers on stuff like this tend to be in the IT department which in many companies would include at least a few Linux users. By going all in on Electron, they ensured access to all relevant platforms from day one.

The reality is, that most of their user base is completely fine with performance as is, which I agree is not ideal. But it's good enough. My guess is that they will gradually fix issues by benefitting from Electron improvements, swapping out bits of js for more efficient WASM based stuff, etc.

Mostly native app strategies are an extremely bad idea for small start ups these days. You triple the cost (or worse) of your development and inevitably you are going to do better on some platforms than others. I know people obsess about native on platforms like IOS but I find it interesting that there are quite a few unicorns out there succeeding with glorified electron/react native code bases. Slack is basically shipping a web app packaged up as an electron app on Android, IOS, Mac, Windows, and Linux. You can run the thing in a browser pretty much without loss of functionality.
>I own a car with Android Auto and I use it all of the time. The biggest benefit is the voice interface

Google must have about 100Gb of recordings of me saying, "OK Google, no, fuck, OK beep, OK Google... fuck, what was I doing again?"
Oh, hey! It only adds 1/5th of the GPU's purchase price.
Emirates: HelloJetman (2015)
Spotting Objects Amid Clutter
"Easily" is a bit of an exaggeration - the text is so tiny you wouldn't be able to read it without putting it up to your face and you'd run into the other security features first.
I misinterpreted the test, since I assumed they were all real words and only selected the ones I at least could figure out the likely definition for. That said, I'm still feeling pretty good about my results, only missing a few real words (of which I recognized 2-3 of them, but didn't know the meaning), and had one non-word which was very similar to two real English words.
Off topic. Didn't know NPR had text only version of the site. https://text.npr.org
In Paris the word "catacombs" is used in a larger sense than ossuaries. It also covers the huge network of old quarries, mostly on the left bank. They pretty popular with urban explorers ("cataphiles"). The data center is built in one of these quarries turned into a shelter.
Yeah back with 1.14 or so I set up some cross (and native) toolchains for mipsel with the intent of putting some stuff on my ER-X. While it was a giant pain in the dick with the unsupported version of Debian Ubiquiti was using, it was doable. Cross compiling on Debian has come a long way (altho I'm using crosstool-ng on OSX these days which is fairly slick).