skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> why wouldn't someone just buy a bike?

I live in a crowded European capital city (Bucharest) and one of the big reasons for me not buying a bike is that I don't have enough available place. I personally live in an one-bedroom apartment (before that I used to live in a studio) and yes, I could probably fit a bike somewhere around the place but that would be pretty inconvenient. I also live on the 8th floor and a regular bike doesn't fit in my building's elevator, so that would mean me having to carry it 8 floors up and down each time I wanted to ride it.

My gf does have a bicycle but for the reasons I mentioned above she decided to keep it at her office, which is at walking distance from where we currently live (about 10-15 minutes).
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I feel naive for asking: how would you come up with Flickr as a spinoff for an MMO? A chat application, yea seems fair, but Flickr?

I am seriously withholding my urge to spam question marks on this page as they are dancing around my head.
I just think it doesn't actually fit any purpose. For quick chats irc is faster and more accessible, and for long thoughtful discussions Slack is lacking a lot of features so that you might as well use email.

A lot of discussion from this post from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20227115
Good point! The Huawei case should put the rest of the world on notice about the threat of US technological dominance along with the use of the financial and judicial system as a weapon to crush the competing countries.
If QT is the best cross platform GUI framework that could come out in the last 20 years, then maybe it's time Electron would be the leading framework for that role.
This test made me feel quite the blatherskite with my hemineglect of words a bibliolatrous individual like myself surely should know. It quite made me turn a pale shade of ecru; my vocabulary thinner than a shingling. Perhaps the ratiocinative thing to do would be to rusticate for a while, and form the cullet in my mind into something more .... ah, forgive my aposiopetic nature, for I must schuss off somewhere else.
I think Wall Street Journal/FT are different though, people pay for those because it's a valuable curation of financial/economic news and presents political news through a financial/economics lens and not entirely through the traditional left/right political spectrum lens.

Call me cynical, but what makes you think people subscribing to more politically-oriented publications are doing it because they want truly something accurate and not because that publication confirms their biases?
Thanks but that's my ComposeKey.
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As a web developer I’m often using my browser as a guinea pig. Hell a selenium test shut the whole shit down and hijacked it today. I’m not going to run slack in the browser.
IRC is better than you're suggesting:

* Netsplits would not be an issue, since most small to medium companies would use only one server. Even when they did happen to me in the past, the servers reconnected quite fast. I imagine a big corporation would be able to handle this rare failure case properly.

* DCC allows one to send files and since it's a direct connection, there is no 3rd party company in the US that's inserting itself in the conversation.

Jira is actually quite ok, I don't know why you're besmirching its name by comparing it to a bloated chat client.
>>India is WAYYY ahead on the payments game.

Only if you(and the person receiving) can afford a smart phone, and an internet connection.

The edge US has is the cards are ubiquitous, they cost nothing to carry and use. Every one has them, and every one receiving them has the readers. Most credit unions don't charge for checking accounts, and transaction fees are $0.

US is WAYYY ahead on the payments access game.
Generally agree, except for:
10. Has a very good understanding of stack/technology/project you are working on

A manager doesn't need to understand details of the stack etc, for example they can delegate those decisions to tech leads or senior people. Manager does need to know enough tech to detect BS though! They need to be sufficiently aware of overall process to avoid counter productive measurements such as lines of code or some such (happened to me way back when).

One of my best managers, on a real crunch project, focussed on recruiting a great team, and then he ran high level interference and let us get on with it.
Not sure if this is what you are after but you can use `cmd` + `~` to switch between windows of the same app.
The org developping smoltcp makes embedded systems, so the point of smoltcp is probably to use it there.

smoltcp is also used by Redox, an OS written from scratch in Rust.
without reading any of the comments, i would say this manager actually cares very much about your personal development, this person has a good pulse on the company/product, this person has relevant experience where i can learn from, and this person exhibits fairness.

i'm sure this varies with the level of manager, for example, a vp's requirements versus a first line manager might vary alightly, but these are the generic ones.
Not great for web developers. We have enough tabs open and if every window is a chrome icon it’s a pain to find stuff. I’ve got karma tests running, selenium tests, incognito windows testing security etc etc.
Time management.
GitHub is having problems with issues, pull requests, gists and comments
And perhaps the international space station ? https://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Engineering_Technol...
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It's an error recovery procedure, not something you usually need to do, so it's not important to make it quick an easy. It could be a couple steps fewer with shorter delays, but in general it's not a big deal.

What is important is that it shouldn't reset by accident, even if you have kids fascinated by light switches.

Using power on/off instead of a reset button on the bulb allows resetting of bulbs installed in hard to reach places.
As some one who returned from US, this is how I look at US/Outside India stay:

1. Ensure you are rich/have lot of money.

2. Ensure you are healthy.

Even if one doesn't apply to you, life can be hell outside India. This is to an extent you won't even get a shoulder to cry upon. A lot of people think they have a social structure in the US, until they have call upon on in the times of emergencies, and realize they have none. A lot of this depends on a major disease never touching you, and having life long 20% YoY career growth. You have to be lucky beyond belief to fit into this definition, this is regardless of how hard you can or are working.

The problem with this luck game is, no one is lucky enough to be lucky forever. Most people who settle in the US are really having tons of luck going for them in early life. That's the good news. The bad news, is if you plan to toss a coin a billion times, and a straight 10K heads have shown up. Guess what a straight 10K tails are coming sooner or later.

Go figure.
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To be completely fair, there can also be situations where you have a very good manager, but still have to extinguish fires, overwork because of deadlines, etc. And the kicker is that the manager can't tell you that it's because of upper management because that would destroy morale even more, precipitating an earlier collapse than if they'd just kept their mouth shut (not to mention getting them fired).

The astute employee can detect this by observing the manager being reasonable in every respect where they can realistically do so despite the chaos. Also, you can sometimes observe them being in the early wave to leave such a company.
I guess it's a fair post-mortem for G+ the product, but I'm personally more interested in what happens to content on G+. For example, Linus Torvalds blogged on it (eg. dead link https://plus.google.com/102150693225130002912/posts/1vyfmNCY... about why he switched away from Suse), and many others as well. The content is why I occasionally went there, and why people outside Google posted there (assuming a big name won't let them down); certainly not a generic group chat/mail site.

We're being told on https://plus.google.com/ that [Google] are in the process of deleting content from consumer Google+ accounts and Google+ pages. but would it have killed Google to keep read-only access to it?
Outline.com - in this case: https://outline.com/SAJ7yR
While direct wealth redistribution isn't significant, huge spending on infrastructure on roads, railways, telecoms and education certainly helped. Without these infrastructure, people won't be able to build factories and work on higher-wage jobs.
> The idea that people don't leave jobs, but leave managers is wrong, and clearly overstates the influence of a manager over more significant things like pay, conditions, location and status.

I've seen too many cases where people have left places because of a shit manager to discount this. My wife had a team at Oracle that was highly effective under one manager, and experienced 200% turnover under the next. People will absolutely flee a shitty, scummy, abusive manager, especially when times are good like they are now.
Is it so hard to imagine a photo sharing feature inside the game? MMOs can be anything.
Labour is even cheaper on the lower end; the technological solution wins at scale.
Yes, a very good feature set "to have". I think, at this point not even half of them are implemented. The author is doing a major disservice by presenting as if everything is complete in the main website.
That you never worry about them. You don't worry whether you're doing the right thing or not, or what they're reporting about you to others. You don't worry about their approval or whether they're going to accidentally create obstacles for your work. Due to circumstances outside of everybody's control, great managers may be forced to deliver negative news and have unpleasant conversations, but there's no part of that where you feel they might be hiding something or letting you down. Great managers function seamlessly with whatever you're doing as if they were just another part of your body. They're an extension and natural part of whatever you all are doing, not a separate entity that adds complexity, drama, and stress to things.

In that sense, great managers work for you, not the other way around. Yes, they might have to fire you one day because of budget cuts or some such nonsense, but you never doubt that they spend their time working to learn from their reports and remove obstacles for them -- most times without folks having any idea what they're doing.

ADD: If you're interested in learning more, a good book on teaming and how managers/leaders fit in is "The Culture Code"
Its easier to get vacation in US compared to India. Managers in Indian IT companies have a target that x% of their team must be billable at any time (or at least that's what they tell us), and use that as reason to deny our leave requests.
or use Linux instead of Windows..
I remember reading a story that it was a screenshot upload and sharing tool. But it’s a vague memory possibility based on hearsay.
> It needs a good environment but most of all an intact network of trust inside the team and the openness to speak about lack of motivation or other issues and trying to tackle it together.

Openness is the key, but still I have seen team mates judging you when you talk about being non-productive at work. Better to talk about it 1-to-1 with your manager and avoid it during meetings where everyone is present.
> you feel free to express yourself

This. In my personal experience, connecting the dots looking back, this has been what made things good with a manager.
We have a similar issue in the UK since there are large houses being occupied by older couples whose children have left. Since annual property taxes are low (~4k - we call it council tax) and tax on buying property (stamp duty) is high, there is no incentive to move to a smaller place.
I don't think many places with someone hired just for the dishes makes them do it purely by hand, typically the machine does the washing and the human does the loading, and stacking and return of cleaned dishes.

The dishwasher on display only really simplifies the loading bit.
>Partially, nobody in the US knows how to value vacation, I think.

It's partly engrained into the culture and partly to do with the prohibitively expensive means of travel.

For example, you could probably find a flight from London to Paris (return trip) for under 50 quid (for one). In the states, there's no way you're traveling that same distance and paying less than 300 quid, I'd say.

So, it's a combination of both but I think the expense contributes, or lends itself directly, to the social stigmatisation.
I think you should keep that in mind, this should be a two way street. If you notice a great manager, recommend him for positions at new companies. I might be wrong but I get the impression that job mobility for managers is lower than that for developers.
I also dabbled in magic a bit in the past. I used to say that as a spectator, you're only amazed once - when you see the trick being done, but if are actually learning magic, then you're amazed three times - once as a spectator, second time when you get an explanation of the method (no it can't be that such a simple thing fooled me) and then when you try to perform on others and it works (surely I cannot do it as good as the guy who fooled me!)

So perhaps you lost the 1st and 2nd delight, but you still can have the 3rd.

You could also argue that you didn't really lose anything, no more than somebody "loses" virginity. There are people who simply aren't amazed by magic tricks regardless whether they know the method or not. Maybe we are lucky that we can be amazed at all!
Every English student in Germany too. At least it was like that when I learned English in school.

This seems to be so common that there are even a bunch of Youtube videos out there about this topic, for example:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_53mo10_Mbk
almost as bad as peer reviews
For example, why wouldn't someone just buy a bike?

If you buy a bike you lose some flexibility. With bike sharing I can take the bus to work, take a bike to my meeting and then decide whether to take the bus or bike home depending on the weather and my plans. I can also do things like take the bus into town and then take the bike from the bus stop to the place I'm going, or bike into town and take the bus home with all my shopping.
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The thing with mastery in software is that it is a fleeting thing. There is always more and more and more..

Number of “masters” I have met in my career who were really barely intermediate in a narrow area. I been doing it since my early teens and I am in my 40s now, I am really really good. But master no.
I translated "manager" into "leader" for purposes of answering the question, trying to fall back on many years of observing other leaders.

I have no desire to be a manager, and "to manage" is a very fuzzy concept covering everything from prison guard to space shuttle commander.

There are clear leadership qualities that cut across all fields, and are true no matter what level you are in the organizational tree.
Not complicated at all, it just requires an open mindset.

Some tips:

Customise it to your liking in the keyboard pref pane.

You can press-and-drag on volume and brightness buttons of the collapsed control strip. No need to tap then slide.

You can create services (now Quick Action) in Automator and they show up with the Show Quick Actions setting set. Since services can be contextual (input+app) you can get creative and do some whacky stuff in there. I have contextless Safari and Terminal there to pop up new windows whatever the focused app is.
I love that idea! But I have a hard time seeing a law like that being passed in the U.S., even in liberal California.

Side thought, things like this help me understand why the Danes are so darn happy.
For starters one of them - Archer - is American, not British. And nobody is saying one language is better than the other, but certainly with these programs you won't pick up bad habits like using "hence why" or confusing "than" and "then" (which I see ALL the time here on HN).

It's not even a UK vs USA thing - for me (a Scot) I notice that large parts of southern England have appalling pronunciation ("fing" vs "thing", "bovver" instead of "bother", pronouncing "r" like "w" - see how the guy on the right pronounces "presentation" as "pwesentation", and "Ryzen" like "Wyzen" here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lP2QkBnRqko), and that's the most populous region so much of our TV would also be no-go for English learners.
This guy gets it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDsMlmfLjd4
I am not aware of any to any extent exhaustive open databases of MMSI or AIS data.
Sea register MMSI data is fragmented and generally not open enough.

Only commercial data providers can load you up with good historical AIS data and registers, so you can create MMSI table or whatever.

This again depends of what do you want to achieve. Something like 3 months of amateur worldwide AIS feed can give you a pretty good snapshot with MMSIs, names etc.
You can't stick a post-it note to the fridge from the office. I would agree in spirit though that a todo list would work better, something like Todoist
I really love Vivaldi's features and how they're designed/UX'ed.

But I've had to move away from it, back to Firefox, because it was simply too sluggish and weird right where it matters.

Like, I'm never entirely sure whether a page is loading. Is my connection bad, or is Vivaldi in a weird lockup state? I mean, the latter is totally imaginable. I've had pages suddenly render entirely white, while stuff is still clickable (i.e. the mouse becomes a hand icon when I move over where I expected to see buttons). I had to copy the url into a new tab and all was good again.

Quirks like these compared with the slight slowness of the UI make Vivaldi feel like a pre-iphone smartphone. I wish they would address this.

I don't even think I'd need for the UI to be much faster - I'm ok with a slightly less snappy UI in exchange for all the power user features (and the speed with which Vivaldi has been adding them). But you have to improve the visual feedback. Little loading spinners can get you a long way. Don't just freeze stuff. When I click "stop", make the stop button become the reload button immediately again. Show proper error pages when stuff goes wrong, I don't mind, I can reload. Ditch the limbo states.

I truly wonder whether the Vivaldi team actually uses Vivaldi. Or maybe they all use enormously powerful 32 core workstations on amazing internet? C'mon guys, fix your browser. It's worth it.
What's wrong with the UX of IRC?

* No user accounts, except via a baffling NickServ process involving things like 'ghosting'

* Poor abuse tools, e.g. accidentally IP-banning web IRC gateways.

* No searchable history

* No scrollback / visibility of messages that arrived while you were offline

* No support for uploading images or files.

* No sharing of a single identity / session across multiple clients (e.g. phone+pc+laptop)

As a veteran IRC user I know you can mitigate these problems by getting a shell account on an always-on unix server and running Irssi in Screen over SSH with logging, automated NickServ login, a bot to provide !seen and !tell, sharing images via Imgur, sharing files by uploading them to my personal website, and so on.

Slack has simply looked at the big collection of bodges I just described and made them native features. And you don't even need to know to use Ctrl+Alt+2 to change between channels like you do with ssh+screen+irssi.
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calling print() would not have failed in a stronger type system.

That depends on the type system. The notation picozeta used suggests a Haskell-style system, where you wouldn't be able to call a function that does I/O from a function that is pure, which a type like `Integer -> Float32 -> Float32` would guarantee. You would need to explicitly permit I/O with a type like `Integer -> Float32 -> IO Float32` for the Round function for the call to print to compile in this sort of system.

Edit: Although it looks like the code that calls print in this case is actually another function, which might need to be in IO anyway if you were in this sort of type system, so maybe that doesn't help here.
Bit of a letdown really, I've been waiting since forever for an Android browser and now they come up with this "selected ads" thing.. I don't think they are serious.
Double buffering. Obvious solution that doesn't work all that well in practice - unless you only order food and never prepare it yourself, you'll likely have more dishes than you can fit in a single dishwasher. You'll quickly find yourself having one diswasher in the middle of the cleaning program, the other half-filled with clean dishes, and nowhere to put the dirty ones you're carrying.
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> DCC allows one to send files and since it's a direct connection

since it's a direct connection it will never work in our modern nat'd/firewalled world, even between company branches (unless you have the whole company in the same VPN - but yeah don't do that)

Yes Jira is ok, it's just the target of (some) unfair hate like slack
So, basically, it will pass more of your data to Google, not block tracking, but remove a lot of the visual noise that reminds you you're being tracked...all while raising the stakes for advertisers to circumvent current and largely effective ad blocking methods.
Probably they haven't been hit hard so far...
my machine, a Lenovo T420, does not even have another option for charging than usb-c...
Do you have to pay the damages for every mistake you make at your job?
Somewhat relatedly, there exists a Python-like language for when you only have a few kb of memory, and can’t even run MicroPython. It’s called “Snek”:

https://keithp.com/snek/
They are engineers, it's normal. Is the work getting done? If yes, then who cares?

If not, then you might need to crack the whip a little, but butts-in-seats time and blocking Facebook are incredibly ineffective ways to get people back on track. These are highly trained, competent people, presumably, so treat them like it, not like they are unruly third-graders.
Colon cancer linked to viruses in beef, Nobel-winning scientist contends

Harald zur Hausen, who first linked HPV with cervical cancer, is now trying to prove a link between a cow virus and colon cancer

https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/health/article/1695757/colon-...
I wonder at what point the Tories will deem food and accommodation as non-essential?
Fresh - yes. But the keyboard degrades over time :(
Two interacting factors are claimed to be responsible for Neven’s Law. The first is the exponential advantage q-bits have over regular bits according to the article. (But isn’t this the case only for some algorithms? i.e. Shore’s)

The next exponential factor is stated to be the “rapid improvement of quantum processors”. Really? Is the number of q-bits in true quantum computers growing exponentially—-and not steadily, but say logarithmically? Moore’s Law was a law because it was so surprising that the semiconductor industry kept it going for so long. Is that really happening with quantum computers? I didn’t realize that breakthroughs in Q computing were happening like that.