skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd argue six months is about average for the jobs I've seen and had over the years. Not every role needs an off-the-shelf front end dev.

A lot of things really do require significant domain and industry specific knowledge. For those roles, it takes a very long time to turn up even one minimally qualified candidate. It's easy to say "find someone bright who can learn on the job", but that's not practical in the cases I've seen.

Many things need either specialized education or experience in a similar role to be effective within a 2-3 year timeframe. When on-the-job training would take multiple years, it's worth spending six months to a year to find someone who can fill the role. At least in the industries I've worked in, the roles that require extensive and rare training/experience outnumber the roles that don't.
And typically an order or two magnitude more hours of required training than to become a licensed police officer...
A Separate Kind of Intelligence: Interview with Alison Gopnik
The Book, Alpha 0: The Entity created everythingness from nondescript nothingness, and as with contemporary cosmology, this was as good a place to start as any other. A place for life.
> boiled down to "I cannot put even a minimal effort in keeping an eye on my children, so I will blame someone else for it and make it their responsibility."

When you add multiple devices/platforms/app stores it becomes a lot more difficult. Sure it is a relatively seamless experience on one platform, but not all of them. Additionally, parents who didn't grow up with cellphones don't even think about this stuff until it happens. It isn't common sense for them.
Would a wooden bicycle, with not-very-freely-spinning wheels, and a bone-jarring ride, be worth the considerable expense of purchasing? Would it even be better than walking and/or using a wheelbarrow? Doesn't the thing produced have to rise above a certain level of utility to merit making some copies of it? For human-scale power, I am not sure a bicycle without bearings or pneumatic tires works other than as a curiosity.
Bicycle chains are really complicated and have tons of moving parts.
Apparently this is some poor attempt at parody.

https://bruceworkman.com/about
While you're correct about the meaning of the word scab, there doesn't yet exist a word with appropriately caustic undertones to describe the customer who continues to patronize a service whose workers are striking -- and so we typically use that word for both situations. Welcome to the party.
The condemned convict might get lead poisoning.
100-200k seems like a perfectly reasonable salary for someone working in the non-profit sector in a high-level management capacity, assuming there is some need for these types of skills, which there certainly are for many non-profits. Presumably that same individual could make anywhere from 300k to many millions as the CEO of a private company. Yes, you may be able to get someone for less, you may even be able to get someone fully qualified for less who is really invested in the mission of the non-profit, but such an individual becomes vanishingly irreplaceable at some point.

On the other hand a small non-profit with a half a dozen employees probably has greater need of a competent accountant.
There's another phrase for "Magic": Single Point of Failure
Out of curiosity, what USB-C dock do you have? I am in the market for one.
The arguments given all seem reasonably convincing.

The interesting thing is the kind of argument this blog and some here engage in. That is, one looks at argument X, decides it's not convincing and then pushes argument Y.

It's sort of a single-cause fallacy. Maybe bad roads weren't enough but they contributed. Maybe technological limitations weren't enough but they contributed, etc.

The problem is that combining factors are hard to see and hard to argue for. A factor here (a meta-factor, haha), modeling how all the different factors came together or didn't come together is hard. You'd need a historical look at how the bicycle was invented and a look at how at how could have been invented earlier but wasn't. This goes into how people think, how people design machines, how people allocate resources, etc. Which is to say we'll likely never know how the associated factor contributed and how much.

But we can tell that the vagueness of the situation doesn't stop people arguing.
So you are admitting that the default users of those phones are adults. In which case, it makes sense that the defaults are set for adults. If an adult is handing their phone (with a credit card enabled on it) to their child, it is expected that they should think of things that can go wrong and disable in-app purchases. If a parent cannot even attempt to keep an eye on what their child is doing on their phone OR click a simple menu setting that disables in-app purchases, I would personally worry about their child way beyond what they can do on their phone.
Minimum disk capacity requirements haven't really grown in quite a while. An OS plus a web browser still fits in 128GB with lots of room to spare. 128GB of flash now accounts for a much smaller portion of the machine's BOM, but the entry-level capacity itself still makes sense.
I believe this problem will become important for more and more industries like medicine, mobility with further advances of AI there.
So it looks like there were attempts but they had fatal design flaws and technology (metallurgy) was immature.
One question raised is why didn’t we see a trike come about before the bike?

It’s more stable and propulsion via direct front pedal isn’t as awkward as the front pedal bike.
> For human-scale power, I am not sure a bicycle without bearings or pneumatic tires works other than as a curiosity.

Pretty much all modern rideshare bicycles do not have pneumatic tires, FWIW. Ride quality suffers, but it's not an awful tradeoff for short trips with whatever squishy compound they use now.
Defunctionalisation is a beautifully powerful technique. I've found it fits really neatly with the initial algebra pattern of data processing as repeated conversion of a "description" structure into more useful "implementation" structures.

In particular, my most recent project at work consisted of a system that takes a description of a computation from the user and successively performs optimisation passes on the description until we get a description of something that could run really efficiently, and then evaluating that efficient description into an actual computation that you really can run. If the successively-more-optimised descriptions are all defunctionalised to the greatest possible extent (in effect, deferring any concrete implementation details for as long as possible), you have much broader scope to optimise during later passes (since all the information "remains visible", not hidden away in function calls).

Moreover, this approach is extremely testable: initial algebras are built to be re-interpreted, so you can write reference evaluators for them; while defunctionalisation gives you a way of checking output without needing to run any pesky programs.
Instacart punishes workers if they don't accept low-paying, undesirable tasks
Can you not hire some legal services business to hold the title of your business in some kind of trust? Kind of like what you can do for domain names to obfuscate the true owner
That's not a fair continuation of the thought, is it? Even balancing on an entire rotating log isn't trivial. The problem here is standing on a small patch of surface that is moving under you.

The required insight for the bicycle is that, counterintuitively, a rolling wheel doesn't fall to either side. The axles, fork, frame, and seat are 'just' the elaborate way of mounting yourself to those rotating discs so that you can move along with them while sitting still.
Check again..

..You were right last year. Right now it's "it depends" (I'd call it a draw).
Its written in a click-bait style (what news story isn't these days?) but the only take-home here for parents is that smartphone==credit card. The other issue is that usually for physical credit cards, its easy for a parent to keep it off limits. But if you're signed into services that can auto-charge you, things are a bit more tricky. Even if you had a separate account for your child, and only use a CC to authorize on a per-transaction basis, services can auto-save your CC info, and bury this fact inside some 20 page ToS.
There have been more mass shootings so far in 2019 than there have been days.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mass_shootings_in_the_...
Event-driven investments, inflection points and how I made 32x in two weeks
The article is more or less an advertisement for the book the "senior business analyst" has written, with a little context thrown on top to make it look legit. If you look at the authors other works, this seems to line up with their style.

That might be a little harsh, and perhaps there is no ill-intent here, but the majority of the second half of the article reads like a low-pressure sales pitch to me.
Funny how the chair of the county GOP where I currently live belongs to a party, the GOP, that screams about too many regulations and government shouldn't be picking winners and losers yet he and his wife own and operate a salon school, which in our state is required to cut hair and consists of hundreds of hours to "graduate". The hypocrisy is sickening...
Ask HN: What does executive coaching look like in startups like Sourceress?
So,
The following job was posted on HN a few hours ago.

https://www.sourceress.com/jobs#current-openings

I clicked on the link and found that one of the benefits offered is "we subsidize executive coaching for every full-time team member to help you grow into the person you want to be."

Can someone here elaborate where to find these coaches for myself? Specific recommendations will be appreciated. I am an individual contributor and have been looking for a coach like this.

I used to work with one but he is too old and doesn't know much about current software industry.
There are plenty of games you can buy on the iOS store. What's wrong with buying a whole game?
And unfortunately, their operation is thermally based. This means they are inherently inefficient and as you scale up fine control becomes more difficult due to increased thermal mass.
Is Twitter's “like” function currently broken?
Currently I'm experiencing that

1. Tweets that don't show all the likes it received;

2. User's "likes" page (https://twitter.com/[username]/likes) doesn't show all the likes they gave.

And it has been like this for more than 12 hours.

I'm not talking about just popular tweets/users: I can see this bug on basically any accounts. And I can find lots of people reporting the same on reddit [1] and on Twitter [2].

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Twitter/comments/cdez3q/twitter_likes_bugged/
[2] https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&q=twitter%20likes%20disappear
Makes sense actually. Yeah I think I am conflating them.

The patent is expired but could you argue the index Google is accumulating and aggregating could be copyrighted work in the same way that iOS is? It has taken considerable effort, expense, and expertise to cultivate a useful index.

Full disclosure I’ve no idea what I’m talking about just thinking I can’t see what basis people have to force Google to open up their key money maker just because. Other people/companies can create their own indexes with the now expired patent, no?
Not So Fast: Analyzing the Performance of WebAssembly vs. Native Code
What? Every organization that wants to grow and thrive needs leadership. And getting and keeping good leadership requires offering fair compensation. Do you disagree?
Does this add any value beyond what PDTs in Looker provide?
Dynamic Emails in Gmail (Mar '19)
> Roads were a necessety for the invention of bicycles. And by roads I mean roads with a certain standard.

The chicken and egg actually went in the other direction. Bicycles became popular and bicyclists lobbied for better roads.
It requires very little. The catch is that it requires specifically very little: not nothing, and also not more than very little.
Nonprofits get $10k a month free adwords
These just started showing up for the first time in my email inbox and they are amazing. Google Docs comments for one are so much easier now
I have a theory that LinkedIn the product is only a platform for LinkedIn the company to tell us how great it is to work for them.

Add to that the "thought leaders", the quotes and other FB-ish artefacts, without forgetting a constant stream of brown-nosing and if you have 20% of the content that is interesting, you can consider yourself lucky.

In contrast, I hang in an industry specific slack with folks all over the world and it's so much better.
I don't have a solution to offer with regards to an open platform, but I think curated communities are the way to go.
So people don't know how to supervise their minor kids and are now blaming games for it.

Why is this even news?
Automating Processes with a Client-Service Desktop App
The question doesn't need answering any more than any other arbitrarily selected individual query needs an answer. Why does "trump helsinki" have zero suggestions? Why does "bill oreilly sex" have zero suggestions? Why does "alex jones sandyhook" have zero suggestions? I used right-wing examples because I presume any celebrity or left-wing examples will be considered evidence in favor of your position, but there are plenty of examples all over the place.
I use vim and my work-macbook has a touch bar. I haven't really noticed a difference in user experience between the touch-bar version and the physical esc-key on my personal macbook pro without a touch bar.

Before I actually used the touch bar version I also thought that it wouldn't be easy to use, but as I said, I haven't noticed a difference.
I used SO for candidate search. It worked well for SF, but I recently moved to LA to start a team down here and it was just ridiculously... bad. LinkedIn was better, and that's saying something. But I think it's the scale effects of the social network at play here. SO just doesn't have the scale LinkedIn does. Neither does angel.co, though I can't say I've tried to do recruiting on github or reddit (is that something people do?).

What I am saying is that after having used this thing for so long, I want to improve upon it. If it were open, like HN's Who's Hiring threads, I could just run a BigQuery job on it and do a sophisticated search for the candidates I want. I can maybe even do that and open it up for anyone to use, or sell it, whatever! It would provide value for people.

But the thing that sucks about LinkedIn, aside from the spam by their growth-at-all-costs team, aside from the 5 second page load time, forget the terrible caliber of thought leadership... the BIG THING that makes it really hard to use is their data, or what they expose of it. And I'm wondering if it's just because figuring out the true years of experience (or something else) of someone is too hard for all jobs, but I know some tricks I can use to gauge that for an engineer.

Because if I know everyone I'd want to hire is on the network, I would pay a lot of money to get full access on querying that data. But what LinkedIn has built for it is just sad. And the biggest barrier to building an amazing recruiter search tool is the fact that the entire network belongs to this giant corporation that isn't even doing a good job generating value from it!

So let's open it up!
I doubt antitrust regulators would look favorably upon Apple fixing the price of a product in their store. The winds are already blowing the in direction of Apple having too much say in how 3Ps do business on their platform.
The Antikythera Mechanism was a completely exotic Roman artifact. It was the space shuttle of its time. Not really a fair comparison.

Dually, Romans were known for their extensive roads system. My family home sites directly below the Ancient Roman frontier in Germany, where you can climb a mountain and still find a 10 foot wide stone road they built 2000 years ago mostly intact
But early wheeled luggage didn't have casters, just straight wheels. And those wheeled carts that you see old people dragging home from the supermarket (in some cities) existed long before -- metal frame, sagging canvas bag, works great.

There are lots of other factors though. One was buildings with lots of smooth floors & no stairs, which IIRC was partly about designing to be wheelchair-friendly, and partly about luggage carts.

Another as you say was flying becoming less of an elite thing -- the private jet people today sure as hell don't muscle their own luggage anywhere, so theirs just has to look good in the hotel room.

Another was just savvy marketing: again IIRC, the breakthrough came from marketing them heavily to pilots first, cool people in smart uniforms (who did not have porters) breezing along with smart leather bags. Precisely to break the image of old people dragging their potatoes home.
It's so refreshing to read an article that starts out like a rant and ends with an actually pretty decent solution. I look forward to the day when all my devices can tell me if the cable I've plugged in is good enough or not
I learned to drive "three on the tree" in a 76 Ford Maverick.
Nothing to be surprised about.

Hometown is almost more attractive if other factors considered to be irrelevant. You have your native language, your family around, the food and just familiarity of things, as comparing to be a foreigner in a country that constantly put your status at risk.

Why America if it is hostile? What for?
Indeed, bicycles have generally been transport within cities and close-by. A world where most people lived in rural areas would not be that practical for bicycle travel even now.
Apple calls them charging cables. The advantage is they are less expensive for longer lengths.
Yes, that is why you are being criticized: for not caring about other people.
The Flutter community relies heavily on Medium. I try to avoid Medium whenever I can, but somehow a lot of Googlers think it's the best platform for technical articles or something.

Some of the writers insist on using screenshots (!) of pieces of code, so I guess that user experience is not very high on their list of considerations.
"see the famous Antikythera mechanism"

As a counterpoint see the marine chronometer for measuring longitude. Clocks had been around for centuries so easy right? [1]

Making something strong/reliable is easy, making something precise is 'easy', making something strong/reliable and precise, oh and preferably lightweight is hard.

You do have a good point about roads though. In fact in the UK the first push to tarmac the roads came from cyclists, not from motorists. And the first tyres were for a certain Mr Dunlops sons bicycle.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine_chronometer
Street view is debatably invasive. I understand this might seem hand wavy to someone really concerned about privacy issues, but

1.generally speaking I would think VERY few people care about an image of their property being on street views.
2. It's not really illegal to take pictures so even from a legal standpoint it seems like a gray area.
3. I understand there can be individual reasons for not wanting this, but it seems to be a very large net positive. And I would apply that statement to most other tracking and data policies they have.

If they are lying about how their services track people, that is definitely grounds for concern. The transparency can definitely be improved, but still these are people with Android phones and people using Google Analytics. No one is forced to use these things they are free to use any other service or create their own.

And my attitude is out of pragmatism and how I think privacy issues should be handled. I don't have any problem with the way Google uses my data so I don't care to fix a non problem. And I don't see it as their responsibility to change a way of business when anyone is free to use any other service or create their own, since I don't find it offensive.
1 HP actually equals 746 watts / second
I like the quotes around proper
.

Yeah we're proper in the sense we have a good food/cocktail/bar scene, and a great classical music/art scene.

But we have no public transportation and the density doesn't even get close to other metros.
How to work with offshore developers and not get screwed
But still though, they gave the kid their credit card. If you don't want your kid to spend £3000 then don't give it to them?

Not defending any particular app's behaviour. Without any first hand knowledge, I certainly believe that there are scummy games out there using dubious methods to get people to rack up IAP.
The primary belief is that by going offshore, you somehow get lesser quality work. I totally disagree and have found quite the opposite to be true. Google, Facebook, etc. are primarily built on the backs of developers from diverse backgrounds and with a high density of developers from these exact ‘offshore’ regions.

Why do so many people have bad experiences with offshore developers? Quite simply it’s because of project and product management. The industries are learning the advantage of having a great PM / PjM team to help have smooth product launches + development.

Ok but the freelancer or vendor I work with has these roles included? That’s the first issue. You must have your product and project management team here in the United States or whatever country you live in.

Why does my Product/Project Manager need to be in U.S or local to my country? Product and project managers help to communicate your needs to the developers and make sure those needs get executed. All product/project managers have design + technical experience or dealt closely with developers in the past.

So how do you make sure that your U.S. based product/project manager is successful? Your team needs to have direct access to the developers themselves. If your product/project manager tells you that the vendor will not let them talk directly to the developers then fire the developers immediately. Imagine if at Google the product team had to go through the director of engineering to discuss every single feature or issue!

At Reliable Bits, we pride ourselves at having strong product/project teams that are skilled with managing products and communicating with developers. We also have direct access to all of our developers which means better results for everyone.
How many kids do you have?
The author is missing the point of the canned food drive.

It isn’t about hampering the buying efficiency for the charity, it’s about the fact that it’s easier to convince people, who may not have much money themselves, to go into their pantry and donate food that they may never use or is close to expiration versus handing over cash.

This also provides the benefit of potentially less food waste in the community, which is always a plus.

Yes, buying in bulk is more efficient to stretching a dollar for charity, but if a person will never donate that dollar, but will gladly donate their food, then you aim for what you can get.
I thought this too until AlphaGo. The prevailing mindset was ‘this will be solved in the next 20 years’ and then Boom! Happened in a year. What if WayMo just starts working next year? Would you really be surprised? The uptake will be ridiculously fast when it happens...
The paper is interesting. I think that dual numbers provide a better basis for algebraic manipulations of expressions with derivatives.
> Yes, I do know it to be true. I think people are thinking of some dedicated operation as opposed to operations run by churches or non-profits in the area.

sigh

> Frankly, they use money for other things like keeping the lights on and paying bills. The food (and other needs like children's items) is donated by the community.

Money is fungible.

If people donate cash instead of cans, it becomes practical for someone to spend their time buying. (there is nothing evil about paying someone to do the work in addition to using volunteers, and plenty of churches operate that way) If the efficiencies sited in the article are anywhere close to being correct, it's worthwhile.