skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> - Rampant corruption (i.e. Teamsters in the 60s is the most egregious example, but probably even a lot of current unions are rife with corruption)

> - Racketeering (i.e. like what happened when Theranos tried to move offices)

RICO act which pretty much destroyed unions in the US... the ones which were left and were pretty corrupt.

> - Protecting bad/lazy workers (i.e. impossible-to-fire poor performing employees that do nothing yet collect a paycheck every week)

Union contracts or collective bargaining agreements lay out these sorts of things, and they have to be negotiated in that contract.

> - Blocking strategic decisions in the name of protecting employees (i.e. "Sorry, we won't let you automate X; too many people would lose jobs")

If all companies were set up with unions then they would all oppose altogether which would not effect the competitiveness of a company... but the entire industry. So such a move would have to be an industry move. This then makes a key industry beholden to not just the shareholders but also the employees when the government goes to set policies for that industry.
Awesome creativity! Naija no dey carry last. Proudly Naija!
I used to live 8 miles from Madison, WI (technically, one exit south of their beltline interchange on I-90). My ONLY two choices were 2mb WISP for $65/month, or 4g hotspot, and all of them were VERY expensive for over 15GB a month. (I used about 20GB per month on the 2mb wisp because I had little kids who loved netflix cartoons, faster speed would also cause higher quality video)

There was NO cable or dsl. ATT always said DSL was available in our area, and that they would schedule the install, then 3 days later, the local guy would call, and say "oh, hell no, lol" and cancel it
This is my experience. Bought an SanDisk card to pop in my phone before I went on holiday. Changed my camera settings to save to the SD card. Great. I can stop worrying about filling up my phone's internal storage with photos now.

Then the card corrupted all of my photos.
most important trait of them all: coldstart. It can take upto 10 seconds for the first request to be handled if the "server" is cold. meaning it has been inactive for 15 minutes or more.

no thanks.
I would imagine the original commenter moving from NYC to London isn't going to be interested in renting some tiny one bed studio flat and living on ramen.

I was talking about buying - why throw rent money away.
Always remember the Doherty-Threshold.

"Productivity soars when a computer and its users interact at a pace (<400ms) that ensures that neither has to wait on the other."

https://lawsofux.com/doherty-threshold
> Why would Yuan escape China and why is it a bad thing for its currency?

The full quote is:

>> China has been able to maintain its system thus far, and may be able to maintain it longer than many expect, because unlike every other major economy, China has strict capital controls. Yuan is not able to escape China, and therefore while other countries might see capital flee the country long before the point China has reached. China has been able to prevent a collapse of its currency.

I think what it's talking about is people (both domestic and foreign) deciding it's a bad currency to be invested in, and trading it for better currencies. The currency is being held so out-of-whack from where market forces would naturally keep it, that if people were allowed to do that, the PRC's economy could experience significant negative effects.

I don't think they're saying the currency itself would escape, just the value it represents.
Most things are very generic and not any different from the million other blogs on "How to make your startup successful". This does not justify being behind a paywall.

But I don't fully agree with "Don’t take funding" as generic advice. I mean, sure, if you can afford not to, do so by all means. 90% of the founders don't have another choice. So, you will end up being dictated by the VC.
Yes. New ICE cars have a typical range of 300+ miles today. But most people don't drive 299 miles between filling up - they probably do more like 150 because psychology drives a lot of people towards looking to refill at the next cheap place as soon as they're below half a tank - because noone wants to be stranded because they chanced it then the range meter turned out to be wrong/the place they were planning on refueling turned out to be closed/whatever.

On top of that you can buy ICE cars with 600+ mile range in merely Okish conditions (80-100 litre fuel tank) today as an option. EVs just can't compete with that.

Until they can (and charging infrastructure is such that noone will worry about being able to charge overnight literally anywhere they might choose to go), they'll be competing in a much smaller market.
nice progress!
The cock-up of the destroyer being absent and radio error reminds me of the channel dash https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel_Dash
Because in case of congestion (let's say everybody gets allotted 50 KB/s) you can't even watch video. Dozens of users trying to watch video at 50 KB/s aren't even watching video; they're just launching a DDoS attack. I'd be very happy to throttle them to 1 KB/s so I don't have to wait 10 seconds to receive a picture through Whatsapp.

You're arguing against the laws of physics here, and you're arguing that stupid users should be able to screw everybody else. No thanks.
No, it isn't true.
I had to close the article. I went with my future in-laws and future wife to put down their dog just a week before our wedding. Now we have our own not-quite 2 year old dog and a 7 month puppy. I had to take the older to the vet this morning to be put under for x-rays and potentially pulling a tooth, and it brought back strong memories of putting down my wife's dog. I'm hopeful for a long good life with these two dogs, but I already dread the day I have to let them go.
Who Wants to Get Hired Abroad? (August List)
I appreciate you have taken that impression, but you're missing the important point that this is a change in policy.

The policy document says that "freedom of movement" ends – you are correct that it is written plainly, and it is technically correct - freedom of movement rights under EU law will end.

However, the position of the previous government was that EEA citizens would be able to continue to freely enter the UK for the transitional period—even if no deal was secured—up until December 2020. That means that while "freedom of movement" as an EU-granted right would end, there would still be effective "freedom of movement" into the UK for EU workers, explicitly because there will be no system in place to differentiate between UK-resident and non-UK-resident EU citizens at the border.

The transitional period applies to immigration into the UK while the new "skills-based immigration system" is implemented. You can see this from the policy document:

"The details of the UK’s future skills-based immigration system are set out in a white paper published on 19 December 2018. It will take some time to implement this new system… therefore, temporary transitional arrangements will apply from 31 October 2019… The transition period will be in place until 31 December 2020."

The paragraph immediately above says:

"The information below is concerned with those EU citizens who arrive in the UK after exit, not those residing here before the UK withdraws from the EU."

This is explicitly not to do with EU citizens who are already resident in the UK.
Yeah, I ain’t buying none of your shit.

I do think it’s funny tho. Lol.
I think there is a very high chance, that it will be, but right now the M3P, is beating even the BMW M3 and Mercedes C63 AMG around tracks, as shown by Top Gear and others. I do however think that people buy them, because they are performance luxury cars, with a great interior, and great features. Thats why I was looking at it anyway. Unfortunately because of the danish tax system, and when the car will be available, the Model 3 Performance, makes much better sense for me..
It's about trade-off. You improve performance at the cost of something else you're not working on. Without the context, it's hard to tell if that cost was justified. I.e. maybe there were 20 critical bugs and the team made the call that perf. was good-enough and it was better to stabilize the software. Most often than not, you can always improve performance and drawing the line is hard.
The same, Pomodoro works well for me when I'm already motivated. It helps focus and is a decent multiplier when I have a baseline already.

When motivation is at a low, the 25/5 flips around.
You say my comment doesn't reflect on me very well. Very well, except my comment was exactly trying to make you see you were doing exactly this: you suggested I'd be for using child labor for something [preposterously dangerous like mining arsenic, I guess].

I don't favor a merit-based migration policy. I favor free markets. Free trade or free migration should be the norm. I don't believe in the central government. This isn't something to be 'implemented'. In actually, most the state does is to hinder immigration by those who would provide great value to the society. If you are uneducated and have not much to lose, it doesn't make much difference for you to migrate to somewhere where you will end up with the lower-income jobs, and there is nothing bad with it. You even freed a person born in a wealthier place to go work on something better for themselves. This is how you end up seeing people from some ethnics working as janitors more often than even americans, in the USA. This is good for both the immigrant [who are willing to spend, say, ten years working illegally] and to the local people. However, the people with higher education will likely just go somewhere else (like me) if you don't let them work legally there, then you have something like a brain drain. The only difference is that the brains weren't there in the first place, so you won't notice much what you are losing [1].

Related:
[1] That Which is Seen, and That Which is Not Seen Frédéric Bastiat http://bastiat.org/en/twisatwins.html
Give her massages! I've had even young dogs absolutely melt with joy from a good hip massage.
Considering how public bidding work here, they said that before the check was written, with everything that was necessary for winning the bid.
I don't know the details, but many embedded interfaces/controllers don't have very fast processors/microcontrollers and UI is really expensive compared to everything else it has to do (take some inputs, and submit some data).

Think about how laggy the raspberry pi 2 or even 3 in the desktop interface. Sure they can be optimized etc, but now imagine what they wouldn've used 10+ years ago and how slow it would be.

EDIT: I have to agree with you guys, even given the tech they had they should've put a higher priority on responsiveness. I don't know what the status is today, but I know even the 2015 Prius's touch screen feels too unresponsive to my liking.
The next paragraph:

> even in a company that genuinely does try to be the best in digital media, things can slip through the cracks, and a bad manager can make a world of difference. I had always gotten along very well with my bosses at Vox, but that could change in one corporate reshuffling. I also started to worry about the future: What if, in a very volatile journalism industry, I’m laid off, or Vox is sold off to another company? Who’s to say the next owners would be as good as the current ones?
No, that's not what I said at all. I want someone tending the eatery telling the person scooping out all of the chocolate pudding that, sure, they may have as much as they like, but let others have some now and we have more in the back that we're bringing out. You just need to wait a few moments, so have your one plate, then come back for more.
I encountered that problem with the payment system for my city water bill a few years ago, I always hoped it would be a problem restricted to small town stuff with no budget for security.
Good questions, I certainly hope these ideas are critiqued and peer-reviewed.
1) In the Hermes Conrad sense, this is technically correct.

2) In my experience, this basically never happens.

Your comment encapsulates a lot of what I have come to call "Scrumbutt." It's Scrum, but. And while I have no idea if it's intended on your part, the sentiment is a fantastic way for a Scrum consultant--only some shade thrown; I've been a "DevOps consultant" before, after all--to come in and pull from deep in their Scrumbutt something to the effect of "you're doing it wrong, Scrum has not failed, you have failed Scrum."

Within epsilon of nobody does Scrum "as prescribed"--because the amount of responsibility that must be undertaken at all levels is virtually impossible to get full buy-in on--and as such the boil on our collective behind that it is persists because criticism is immediately bedeviled by Scotsmen of unknown provenance.
He doesn't say anyone "magically started out" with good taste. He's saying he had it when he started trying to get good at making his own stuff. At that point, he - presumably - had a lot of experience consuming media, and he had plenty of time to develop his understanding of what he thought was "good" and "not good". It's true that that understanding doesn't necessarily match society at large, although in the case of Ira his success indicates that it matched well enough with enough people.

Something that's not mentioned in the quote but that I think is really important is the fact that the media he was consuming in training his "ear" was - in our culture of mass-media - predominately produced by some of the very best of the very best (by some metric). Of course your early efforts are going to pale by comparison.
Relevant - "My Reading Pets" is a facebook page I follow, a doctor of early childhood development (iirc) tried out teaching her bored cockatoo Ellie reading simple words to help occupy Ellie's mind -- fast-forward several years later and she's teaching several parrots to read and in the process convey some pretty complex internal concepts via word-cards. Not vocalization, and using predefined call-and-response (generally the birds are answering questions with a fixed set of answers), but I find the whole thing astounding and fascinating nonetheless.

https://www.facebook.com/myreadingpets/
Blender...I did some green screen work in Blender back in 2009 and it was pretty straightforward even back then.

If you just want to play around to get the hang of it without spending anything, last I checked you can get free-to-use, pre-made videos featuring green screen or other chromakey elements and load them up in Blender's video editor. BTW you can use any color you want, so if all you have is a blue bed sheet, you can make it work.
If corporations want to make a real change and provide value to all stakeholders, they will need to develop a practice to systematically eliminate all negative externalities (risk) being transferred to society. Unfortunately, the current regulatory environment still makes this illegal/impossible, given that executives are still legally bound to create value for shareholders.

The thoughts and feelings of these CEOs mean nothing unless it's predicated/followed by regulatory change.
The main reason is I have kids.

In the past, I mainly just used a tablet to watch video.
Anything that is as subjective as this cannot be enforced, and the CEOs will have a cop-out stating that they focussed on "other outcomes" and declare victory.
I honestly haven't run into this issue in a long time. `pip install --user` is one of your friends. Just using the official python:3 docker container is another. If you really want, you can even go back to virtualenvs.

npm was also really bad about nothing building or working a few years back. It's improved, and there are alternatives like yarn. Rust/Cargo has this issue as well (whenever I attempted to pick up some Rust; every example I found would break -- constant language changes were an issue; not sure if that's still the case).

Package management is a big problem in general, but we have solutions like the ones I've mentioned. This is a bad argument against not using Python. I honestly thing this type of application is fine in Python (you might need a privileged container if you go the docker route; wasn't sure how low level the Wi-Fi stuff it needs is).

What language do you recommend for this type of application and why?
I see, thanks. (I also see you corrected my broken German ^^).
#1 web rule: Don't require JS to read an article.

This site is an empty page without JS.
But then you get a better job somewhere else. Highly skilled, remember?
Not to mention that counterfeit cards are normally much slower, further increasing the tediousness of this process.
... Without breaks. That's more or less insane. However that's easily adjustable, the article is the same if we read half that number.

It's the complete absence of influence of other people (be it in the form of SOs, kids, coworkers, office environments, meetings, bosses, customers, what have you) that makes it alien to me.

If I could have 4 hours of real, concentrated, productive work on important things each working day, I would massively increase the impact of my work.
The user story is a promise to have a conversation. I think that is usually well understood. From there I think you can fall into two camps: that conversation should result in a Jira/whatever ticket with all the requisite documentation for an agile team versus that conversation IS the essential information required to properly build the expected valuable working software.

Back to the question - what do you do about poor knowledge transfer in a project? I think a moderate de-emphasis on thinking of the user story text and the additional info like acceptance criteria etc. as self-sufficient documentation and adding more emphasis on that close relationship between developer, user, and maybe a tester, can help fill in big knowledge gaps.
I'm sorry; are you saying that electronic patient care reports are not a "high volume application", that they should be "desktop client-server applications," or that the statements by the users about why they don't use the system should be disregarded?
As a child of two news people I grew up hearing union horror stories, such as typesetters in a newspaper that spend almost all day playing cards because their job has gone but the union still forces the paper to keep them on.

Then I married my wife, who worked in a union at a college library, and I learned I had only heard one side of the story. Initially we had a few interesting, and heated, debates about unions. Over time though I have slowly come over to the idea that unions as a concept, and in many implementations, are a good thing.

I still think some unions wind up getting too much power and abuse that power, but they are generally a good check in a world that resembles more and more the world of the Cyberpunk 2020 game I used to play [1].

Curiously, this is the second time I've been reminded of Cyberpunk 2020 this month. The first time was the 'Satoshi' reveal last week, which brought up memories of Hal Finney [2]. I always equated with Spider Murphy [3], the top digital rights activist/info broker/info breaker in Cyberpunk 2020.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberpunk_2020

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hal_Finney_(computer_scientist...

[3] https://cyberpunk.fandom.com/wiki/Spider_Murphy
Never had a problem getting a set in a restaurant in London - and Compared to NYC the Tube is heaven.

Typical Londoner complains that they have to wait up to 10 minutes for a bus - compared to the rest of the UK where you might get two busses an hour and they stop running after 6:30.
> In fact all businesses are set up to make all their employees replaceable.

Isn’t that just smart? Why would I, the hypothetical investor risking my money on a venture, tie that money to a specific employee? That’s putting all of your eggs in one basket.
This my problem...spend months working on these kinds of problems, finally get a job, get rusty because I'm doing totally different stuff at work. Find myself needing a job again...study and grind for months just to have a chance at passing interviews. It's all so tiresome.
> If you aren’t working from home, your workplace should be at least a couple of minutes away (better: an hour away)

One great hack for this is if you work from home, get up and get dressed, then go out for a walk around the block as your "commute" to work. At the end of your work day, take a walk again in the opposite direction as your commute home.

Even though the ploy is totally obvious, it will put your mind in a work vs play mode depending on the direction of the walk.
A few years back ESET MitM traffic (this can be disabled, but was the default), I'm not sure what the situation is now as I since switched to Defender precisely because of the MitM "feature."
Gartner Hype Cycle 2019: 3D Printing Predictions
I am looking at this as the 51st ranked post on HN: that seems to be your sweet spot, just enjoy it. :)
I really think that this is only seen as degrading today, because it's not needed yet. Was probably the same case for people cooking your food, or making you a sandwich, or someone walking your dog or looking after your cat whilst you are on holiday, or coming into your house and doing the gardening.

But once the times have changed where there's an actual demand for someone to stand in the queue in front of an Apple Store, then I am sure the perception will change too. Maybe the "Uber Driver" or "Digital Agent" is too busy during business hours but can afford someone else to pick up a phone for him. There's a physical limit to how many people can buy the phone from a shop, so it's not going to be a profession where anyone can do it, you'll probably end up paying quite a bit for someone who potentially has personal connections to the shop owner or gets some preferential spot in the queue so they can charge a higher fee whereas someone who is not at the same level might charge very little but also end up at spot #1001 in the queue and actually not being able to get your desired tickets.

You see what I mean? We can't write off this new market when we don't know yet what it will look like. All I can say, wherever there is need there is money and the more mature a market gets the more $$$ there is to make. Being a professional who can secure you the first iPhone during a launch event can be a hugely respected job one day.
> Do you think they're still trying to get more Saudi money after the Jamal Khashoggi government sponsored murder?

Yes. There has been zero backlash against SoftBank or Saudi-backed VCs from companies or consumers.
But... Doesn't every MicroSDXC card support up to the maximum available addressing limit? If it supports a 64GB card, it should also support a 512GB card, though the manufacturer probably doesn't want to guarantee anything that doesn't exist yet.
This is a pretty unnecessarily inflammatory comment unless you consider every country in the world as an "occupying country on occupied land". What country didn't gain their land through conquest and occupation?
Someone posted a self upvoting link once. Comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3742902
Re: China devalued their currency to offset the U.S. tariffs. But China is between a rock and a hard place. Tariffs risk severe damage to their fragile economy if not offset with currency devaluation. But, with the enormous debt burden the Chinese are now under, currency devaluation creates the real risk of capital flight from the country - and makes it more difficult for China to service it’s dollar denominated debt.

Trump knows that China is in a weaker position than the US. However, all this gamesmanship (and gameswomanship) risks crashing both economies (and the world economy). Trump is willing to play chicken as long as the US has the edge. But chicken is still a risky game. An interesting economic experiment is underway. Unfortunately, we are the lab rats.