skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is not only "first world problems", but 1% first world problems. Well, maybe 5%: given

> For their retirement in a suburb of Asheville, N.C., Ben and Valentina Bethell spent about $3.5 million in 2009 to build their dream home: a roughly 7,500-square-foot, European-style house with a commanding view of the Blue Ridge Mountains.

Put $3.5m into https://dqydj.com/net-worth-percentile-calculator-united-sta... and you find that they are at least in the 96.5 percentile. (They are unlikely to have mortgaged it, as most lenders won't lend past retirement for obvious reasons)

The house is 700 (seven hundred) square meters. By comparison, London is banning the construction of "mega homes" over 150m2 in an attempt to prevent hypergentrification by oligarchs. These people in the article are the wealthy who haven't noticed that the ladder has fallen away behind them leaving nobody to buy their mansion.
From Two Bulls, 9M Dairy Cows
What’s up with my branch on GPU?
It seems odd that they need to have a signal to unilaterally reset the device, when all you really need is a signal to push it back into a "receptive" state, where it will accept commands such as "reset firmware" from any control hub that connects to it.

Then, all you need to do is use a signal such as "on-off a bunch of times", at which point it goes into receptive state for, say, 30 seconds, then returns to normal operations if nothing sends it a command.

Now, if your kids decide to flip the switch on and off a bunch, all you have is a 30 second window where normal commands don't work, after which everything goes back to normal with no real harm done.
Yeah threads still suck. They claim they've investigated it and it was the best solution but I totally get lost with twenty threads over five Slacks with ten channels each.
Great manager? Not sure, but some managers will take the best space in the office and some will take the worst. And it's not about the space.
Mr Olds Remarkable Elevator
"And perhaps it can [play Go and chess] better than any human because it's not intelligent"

Wow. I mean truly, wow. That goalpost shifting is the rawest brassneck in an AI discussion I may ever have seen.

I mean beating a chessmaster was considered (at one point, and by some) to be the defining point where AI could be defined as Intelligent.

And now they have, it's used by you as a argument that they are not intelligent.

I'm going to throw in something distasteful but perhaps relevant. In hitler's 1936 olympics, white athletes were expected by germany to win because aryan's were superior to blacks, full stop. Physically, mentally, all ways.

The black athlete Jesse Owens, splatted that idea <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_Owens>. So the nazi argument suddenly became that blacks were more primitve physically so their superiority physically was a sign of actual inferiority. From same wiki page:

"[...] People whose antecedents came from the jungle were primitive, Hitler said with a shrug; their physiques were stronger than those of civilized whites and hence should be excluded from future games."
Key factors in my mind:

* Does your manager encourage you to have a growth mindset? Do they push you to take a moment of company time and think about where you might want to be in 1-5 years?

* Does your manager help you get useful feedback? Do they try to hold retrospectives from time to time? Do they identify and address communication gaps?

* If your manager has an engineering background, are they effective at precipitating alignment among diverse technical perspectives? Can they get people to agree on some things, even basic things?

* Does your manager counterbalance engineers’ tendency to pursue too much complexity? Does your manager help focus on the simple stuff from time to time?

* Is your manager effective at recognizing and addressing burnout?

I’ve only had 2 managers who scored more than half on that scale in 10 years of experience. Try to find one of the items that your manager is good at and exploit their strengths.
But India has the same tech work culture like US but startups in India are worst, I was talking about the product based startup I worked at - cool tech, cool work but horrendous vacation policy!
Don't even ask me about vacation scene @ Service based Indian companies!
This interactive and cross-filterable visualization of ~12 billion AIS records may be of interest: https://www.omnisci.com/demos/ships/#/dashboard/1
I can imagine a lot of workflows like yours, where the function keys are not very important. However I can’t imagine using a keyboard without Escape key. In my opinion, the touch bar should have been a little bit smaller, and the physical esc key should have stayed. The product linked at the top of this discussion lists the Escape key as one of the main features, I think that’s telling!
If anything I'd trust (for now) the quality more with the Chinese as they've been building iPhones for 10 years, have experience, have their quality control improved year by year etc.
No newcomer won't be as good from day 1
So now our key internet services last about as long as the average team tenure. We really need open standards so we can rely on the internet as the infrastructure, not some cloud provider. Google will die one day like other services. One has to wonder about the fate of all the artifacts people entrust to it: they will be erased just like every time before.
This only works for as long as the remaining clean dishes are many enough to serve your current number of guests. Otherwise you have a (too few) clean dishes and a bunch of dirty dishes. So you add a third dishwasher? Pretty soon you'll be running a filesystem of dishes there..
These are YouTube videos. I don't think the Youglish TOS has any sway over them. Besides, I'd rely on the fair use doctrine, which I think applies in this case.
> Its design anti-goals include complicated compile-time computations, such as macro or type tricks, even at cost of performance degradation.

Why? That sounds more like an ideological decision than a pragmatic, engineering-driven one. Especially for a TCP/IP stack, where performance is typically a major concern, be it in a desktop, server, or embedded environment.
A History of Music and Technology: Samplers and Drum Machines
It's the pro-IRC crowd's own fault for bringing up IRC as an argument against Slack. They're obviously shooting themselves in the foot though.
I actually had an idea for a sort of opposite slackbot: It would sit in all channels and keep track of the messages sent by each person. Then it could calculate how many man hours each person's messages had caused others to spend reading them. It could give you weekly feedback, and encourage you to focus your communication, and avoid spacing it out, but handling things in concentrated bursts, so you don't keep re-distracting people. Maybe it could even have weekly leaderboards with the people that managed to communicate the least disruptively with their colleagues.
Sony launches a taxi-hailing app in Tokyo
The 'problem' you're looking to solve is not the hassle of bike "ownership" but bike access. If I take the car or bus to work I can't then take my bike to meet a client. If I take my bike into town I can't then take the bus home if the weather turns bad or I have a lot shopping to carry. If I take my bike into a 'bad' part of town to go to a bar I have to worry about the very real chance that it won't be where I left when I want to go home at night. Bike sharing solves all these problems.
The lack of a Touch Bar on desktop Macs is ridiculous, but I generally like it. Especially when I realized that you don't for example, touch volume, wait, and slide, but just start sliding from the little button in the quick menu.
I'll agree here - I always saw it as a gimmick that was poorly implemented but this takes the cake late in the game. This would make it a worthy thing to have.

Now besides that, I am in the camp that the physical keyboard and trackpad should be eliminated entirely in favor of haptics along with a palm tracking system that would know 'keyboard' from 'mouse' usage allowing the entire space to be utilized freely. But now we are entering a whole new territory of cracked screens. I've dropped a lot of shit on my keyboard before.
I haven't seen any backlash outside this tiny circle. HN is not a good yardstick.
I think they have to thank Google for that one, i.e. for completely messing up hangouts.
I mean, not really. I knew plenty of people buying new mcmansions on credit when their household income wasn’t above 80k. Many many Americans over leveraged themselves by buying up huge properties with no down payment.
Be mindful of attribution error when working with a manager, whether in good times or bad. The situation (context) really matters.
After getting caught and interviewed, he did it again. What a fool.
Launching a B2B Ride-Hailing Business: How Gett Raised $200M at $1.5B Valuation?
Seeing all those water routes in Germany, made me want to get a house boat.
Thinkpad user here, on Linux, with disabled trackpad. Vim and i3 make it almost useless
Equating council tax with property tax is extremely misleading imo.

For the benefit of people not from the UK: Council tax is effectively a bill for services & utilities paid by the occupier. Cost differs slightly based on overall property value but that's not super helpful for renters.

Property taxes would be levied on the owner, and be directly tied to house value.

For what it's worth I believe we desperately need property taxes to put and end to the situation you describe, amongst others.

But the UK has a fetish for homeownership, culturally people are convinced they _must_ own a house or multiple, and so many homes were practically given away for free by past governments.

Any Government trying to implement policies that try to fix our housing crisis will be voted out almost instantly by a class of people who do not care what is for the public good, only that things benefit them.
> The sample consisted of data from both Brazilian and Swedish companies, comprising IT departments at one large online media and social networking company with around 5,000 employees, one smaller software life-cycle consultancy company with around 35 employees, and one company that offers programming courses to individuals and companies (around 100 employees), one multinational networking and telecommunications equipment and services company (with around 115,000 employees), an aerospace and defence company (with around 14,000 employees), and an automotive parts manufacturing company (with around 160,000 employees).

I may have read the article wrong, but it seems they are evaluating the impact of unit testing on code quality at fairly well-established companies where unit testing is already part of the workflow (along with versioning, bug tracking, etc...)

To me, this seems like it would introduce a strong bias: these companies are more likely to employ experienced and highly skilled developers than non-IT shops. What I would be interested in seeing is the effect of introducing unit testing in a team that does not currently use it.

I remember that as a junior dev, starting to practice unit testing was incredibly profitable in terms of discipline and code clarity/quality. Of course now, I can certainly write reliable and clear code without unit tests. But I don't think I would be able to do so as effectively and quickly had I not been unit testing my code for most of my career.

I don't think companies that do not practice unit testing are a minority, even nowadays. As a consultant I've worked for Fortune 500 companies (non IT, but finance, banking, entertainment...) that did not even have a git nor a bug tracker and where most of the team had never heard of testing. I've also found this to be more common than I would have expected among data science teams. To me these are the shops that would benefit the most from switching to a TDD approach, and this is where the measurement should happen. Not at a "social networking company with around 5,000 employees" where everybody has been practicing it for years...
I'm seriously thinking of switching to Vivaldi as my default development browser.

It has incredible keyboard support and feature wise closest to the old Opera browser, which till date is the first browser I feel in love with
Fullstaq Ruby – Ruby, Optimized for Production
The only relevant questions I see are:

How secure are my messages? Why didn't you implement e2e cryptography? Did you really need a central server (ocean?) for message delivery? Have you considered the possibility of mitm attacks? How many messages do I need to write for a guaranteed delivery to a given recipient in a day, in an hour? /s
Thanks for the link.

When I typed "Even if pay is half or one third", I actually was thinking of savings. I am past the edit window now. But please read it as "Even if the money I can save is half or one third".
I switched from Chrome to Vivaldi and back to FF for two reasons:

1) Vivaldi rendering performance is the worst I've ever seen in a browser. No idea how they managed that using webkit, but some sites would make tabs crash on a high end system.

2) The web developer tools are unusable due to bugs.

3) Fixing simple but impactful bugs takes too long.

I really like their useful and plenty settings for everything, but 1) and 2) make it a no go for me.
> “Ichi ni san go.” […] was ‘12.mp3’

IIRC, those syllables are similar to the Japanese words for “One , two, three, go”, so could “12” actually be the title? As in, not “twelwe”, but “one, two”.

Also, I found this on Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Take_Your_Time_(album)
Built by the creator of Gmail so it'll probably be an invite/referral only thing for 5 years or so..
This is not a simulation.

:)
The magic is where its always been - in the hands of the user.

If you find yourself in a technological field and yet very uninspired, its more than likely you've lost contact with the users of that technology.

To revitalise yourself, engage with the users of your technology - go find them, see how they use it, see how your technology changes their lives. That is the purpose of technology, and its where all the magic lies.

Users are key. Don't have users? Thats your problem. Got no clue how your users use your stuff? Again, that's the problem. Don't see them improving their lives in some way with your technology - then don't expect there to be that magic feeling..

Disclaimer: Have lost and found the magic over 30 years of experience as a software developer. This always works for me: put down the tools and go spend time with your users.
I watched this months ago. It's about the Sikh's Golden Temple. It's awesome.
Apple extended their keyboard service program to the new 2019 models on launch day:
https://www.apple.com/support/keyboard-service-program-for-m...
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20208169
This monetization of web content first as a business model for browsers is pathetic when considering what are the stakes. I will pay for Firefox premium (VPN and cloud) and will always block ads no matter what. I’m not interested in content that’s only published to generate revenue. Vivaldi or Brave whom ever... I don’t need a to streamline online advertisement, I want it to die together with the industry that’s based on it.
Doesnt work for me. https://youglish.com/search/piss%20off%20wanker/uk
>So, basically, it will pass more of your data to Google

Where exactly do you get this from?
Yes. Can you please explain or give an example of an MMO where photo sharing is a major mechanic or important MVP feature?
Show HN: Bolt – free email validation API powered by AI
I'm surprised no-one has automated shipping yet, I was pretty surprised how huge the margins were (usually 100% profit) and how big the shipping industry is.

The right startup in this area could be very effective I think.
The 30% local sourcing rule is just one aspect to encourage local manufacturing, employment and capacity building for companies that want to start their own "single brand" stores. I personally don't think that will help a lot, though it does add pressure on some companies like Apple, now that it has realized after a long time that India's market ought to be tapped after the slowdown in China and near saturation elsewhere (Apple did not focus on India for a very, very long time, and the country barely got any attention — Apple's services are also extremely poor in India. Apple Maps is far, far behind Google Maps, and Siri doesn't recognize Indian accents well).

India should have encouraged manufacturing and assembly of semiconductors and electronics a long time ago, but successive governments didn't do much about it with urgency. The infrastructure for this is quite weak (especially in comparison to China and Taiwan). Add to this issues with electricity (there are periodic power cuts in most cities) and other infrastructure issues, it's more difficult for companies to get things done. That's where companies like Foxconn, which have had a presence in India to assemble computers and other accessories, have an advantage in ramping up.

After crude oil imports, the import of electronic goods stands second (or sometimes third, after gold) in terms of foreign exchange outgo and the current account deficit. This is a huge problem for the government. In the last two decades, India has achieved a lot, mainly through the private sector, on mobile phone usage penetration, and India has the lowest (or one of the lowest) cellular plan pricing in the world. But it still lags on other related fronts, like great devices to take full advantage of the network and the Internet while remaining secure. High import tariffs on these products make them inaccessible to most people, and they have to make do with cheaper and inferior products. So I personally don't support high tariffs on products that can accelerate the way people connect and what they can achieve.
I sent the owner an email asking for attribution to be added. I guess suspending the site is the correct action to take in response to a DMCA complaint, although I'm not sure my email qualifies as one. (It's not infringing my copyright after all.) It appears to have been a useful service for quite a few people, so I hope he puts it back up with the appropriate attribution.
- Who is best to lead on this?

- Do you need anything from me?

- When can you have this completed by?

- What are your thoughts?

--

I.e. a good manager facilitates, helps you to become better, asks questions and is your most important ally.
IMO the small changes they've made have really helped. I like how they keep off topic conversations from overflowing into the channel, and the little notification about unread threads helps me not forget them. Plus you can go back to conversations you missed and add to them.
I have been riding bikes for over 30 years and I absolutely love contemporary bikes. They are just amazing. I can't believe you're complaining about them. Just crazy. The incremental improvements have really layered up over the years into something fantastic.
No. You have one mostly empty dishwasher and one mostly full dishwasher. You then use dishes from the mostly-full one, and put them into the other. Yes, there are still clean plates in there. No, it does not matter.
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And presumably 95% of the work is in the final 5%?
Free????
Reminds me of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peer_assessment
I mean, if a developer made an MMO akin to the old Pokémon Snap game I'd be over the moon.
What's even more maddening is that the population of flint Michigan is majority Black. Hard to spin that race hasn't got anything to do with the lack of effort in fixing the issue.
Can someone explain to me how open source products can generate revenues like this?
Isn't that already the case to some degree? Not just the Tories, but pretty much all but a few fringe parties seem happy to make decent food and accommodation a luxury. For example: https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2018/11/08/e...
> Curious as to what specifically you think Slack gets wrong?

Personally: responsiveness. Slack's native app on linux is slow. Switching channels has a noticeable delay, switching Workspaces takes seconds if you haven't used the workspace for a while. Starting the program takes ~8s on my machine (three workspaces, i7 with SSDs and 32G RAM).

For most IRC clients or Telegram, startup times are about as fast as Slack changes a channel, and there are no noticable delays when switching channels/IMs etc.
Have you seen how they use projections in practical effects? What stopping me from casting the deepfake into the plain of a camera and getting a valid and signed footage?

I don’t think you understand just how problematic it is to verify anything in the analog world.

Say you sit at a bar and someone displays a news clip on the TV? How do you know it’s real? Someone video or voice calls you with a deepfake of a loved one are you going to do forensics on it before acting on what they asked you to do?
I can see the Atlantic from my window, great when I found this web site so I can put name / destination to those huge ships on the horizon off the coast of Cornwall, UK.
Isn't an irony to worry about 'closed source' in Apple's iOS?
Happy for the people that built it, with the idea of improving what the chat was. Sad for the internet, because we were better in the 1980s with an open standard like IRC, and gradually the internet community lost the ability to adapt their old open protocols for the future.
I think it’s basically the same problem as small businesses, people have this psychological expectation that I’m too small to target. They don’t realize that they are just another IP address or email address in a sea of IP/email addresses that is being automatically targeted every hour of every day.
Or it could be used as yet another metric of which people are willing to spend a bit of time to help their fellow colleagues.

It can have a huge impact and isn't something that will necessarily come up on performance review.
What a poor choice for naming. Please don't use stupid internet memes for naming, it makes all of us look silly in the eyes of non-techies.
There were some compromised accounts via a Coldfusion hack of their admin portal.

Not sure if that was isolated.

There was something more recent, too.

Anyway, happy Linode customer for quite a few years now. My stuff works, no fuss.
If you have the UK keyboard on your Mac it has the wonderfully useless §± key top left next to the 1. Perfect for remapping to esc!
Killer AI robots, self-replicating automata, denuclearization (as it makes conventional wars palatable), renuclearization, rising nationalism and climate-attenuated resources scarcities are moving humans to the brink of genocide, civil/global/total wars and/or potential extinction.