skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not if better starting conditions could've led to a strong, long-term success. The principle behind Leninism is that you have to protect it in its infancy, but the thing they built to protect it ended up strangling it to death. I'm not sure what conditions in the real world would allow it to thrive, capitalism is extremely aggressive about attacking and exploiting everything it can find because it is competition itself grown malignant. I'm of the mind of Proudhon, though: the only thing that is necessary for anarchism to thrive is for enough people to develop a strong enough understanding and sense of morality to realize that it's what we all really want. In my mind the road to a successful anarcho-socialist society is simply planting the seeds in people's minds and letting them germinate in their own dissatisfaction with the state of the world.
Bad Karma
for bad karma you should only write under an interesting post. comment that he is interesting.
Yeah, the TC headline is still the more neutral version. There was definitely some heavy spin by the poster who, no coincidence, is one of the founders. Unfortunate they chose to come on to the HN scene by violating one of the community guidelines.
Me, too.

They might announce this later — I think that tracking AR tags will end up being huge.
> Is the assumption that charging stations need to become even more ubiquitous than gas stations

Electricity is already ubiquitous, we just need to install the chargers.

E.g. trials have started to install EV chargers in lamp posts https://www.driving.co.uk/news/lamp-post-powered-electric-ca...
> I work at a company (Google) where the prevailing assumption is that if a team is not getting enough done it should ask for more engineers.

What I'm finding at Google is that whenever a team takes longer than 2 quarters to do pretty much anything, that's considered some kind of "problem" that needs to be "fixed." Sometimes the problem is that the technical challenge really needs more than 2 quarters to be adequately addressed. And yes, the first instinct is to ask for more headcount. But often times the problem is also with the headcount you have, not the headcount you don't have.

What is usually needed is to get rid of the TLM who got into a management position through the IC track because of the collective delusion that someone who has worked their way up to Senior or Staff SWE by writing dank design docs and uber code (often in vast quantities) has also acquired senior engineering management competency.

Once you've hired somebody who has significant education and/or experience with engineering management is managing the team, the next thing for that person to do is figure out how to increase the health and effectiveness of the team they have. You might even need to reorg to get the team size down to 7-10. In the process you need to give the team a couple more quarters to cut their MVP down to the bone and deliver on it.

Then, and only then, should you think about throwing more headcount in the team's general direction. And it needs to be done with the goal of adding a layer of management hierarchy, making sure than no more than 7-10 people are in the daily standups.
Sure, definitions malleable to the whims of the state. But that typically leads to jail terms. Hundreds of Uyghur academics have been detained, some died in custody, but as far as I'm aware only Tashpolat Tiyip and Halmurat Ghopur have been formally sentenced to death. Both at around the same time in late 2017 which suggest there might be firmer evidence behind the convictions. Or out of the 13,000 arrests officially categorized as terrorists, these two were arbitrarily being made examples of. It was a year after Chen Quanguo (architect of the camps) became the Party Secretary of Xinjiang and escalated the Strike Hard campaign (there's been no terrorists attacks since he took over), and within weeks of him being promoted to the CPC central politburo. Timing certainly is interesting.

E: I didn't claim you were exaggerating? It takes very loose definitions to rationalize the levels of detainment happening in Xinjiang.
take a vacation, keep away ur gadget, pc and other tool for 3 day or more, u will feel it's gratefull to have your current job
I'm pretty sure google has already been treating some nofollow links as if they weren't nofollow for some time now.
Did you just dismissively state that high society is above gossip?
From Stripe's corporate card page "All you need to sign up is a Stripe account—no paperwork or personal guarantee required. Get up and running with a virtual card in minutes."
Ok, since you don't seem to want to use the site as intended, I've banned this account for the time being. If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future. They are at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
That's still a number of days a year dedicated entirely to social media. Sure, it could be worse, but it's still (in my opinion) a significant amount of time over a year, or over your life.

The thing is I feel like maybe you get more out of those 15 minutes than me, or others who feel like it's too much time. Those telling people not to use social media are probably the ones that don't have good experiences with social media. To each their own, I suppose. It's important to remember different people are going to have different experiences and that is going to paint your feelings about it. As much as it seems that social media does have a general negative impact on people, I'm sure there are people for who it is fine. Should we chastise everyone to stop? Probably not, just let others know it could be affecting them and how to stop, etc.

It reminds me of people who get anxious on marijuana and then always go anti-drug on other people because they think "this stuff is terrible, no one should do this" yet for a lot of other people they had great experiences, and so the reverse is true "this stuff is great, everyone should try this". They're sort of both wrong there.

Either way personally, I don't get much out of social media and so I don't use it. If you feel like you're getting something out of it worth those few days a year spent on it, go for it, although just be mindful that it's something that feels good, but might not actually be good itself.
RawTherapee 5.7 Released (Raw photo developer)
While I understand the instinct, there is a flip side. A while back Lutz Prechelt posed the phonecode problem, inviting solutions in multiple languages. While he didn't specify error handling, the Perl solutions were on average better at error handling than the compiled language solutions.
don't know much about it, but i often visit DZone
So we should invest more in life extension research - turn that self interest to work for us ;)
It's also free for small teams now, which I think is a great change.
Good read, but this part seemed interestingly backward from my own experience: "You know what else is exhausting? Pretending to care about people you don’t give a shit about."

I've definitely been in situations where I had to pretend to care about people I don't give a shit about. They have been 100% in my face-to-face real life. On FB I'm perfectly allowed to care only minimally about the people I want to care minimally about, and unfriend or hide or block the people I actually don't give a shit about, and pay attention to the people I want to keep up with. At a party or an art opening or standing in line or whatever? It's harder to escape other people.

(Which is fine, of course, and good for us to sometimes engage in that way; it's just diametrically opposite from the author's pithy claim.)
That's simply how it pays for itself, and I think all scientists agree that is the worst part of science. But fundamentally science is not a profit-seeking enterprise, it is driven by the desire of people to benefit all of society and there is no central authority and yet through the individual actions and judgments of different scientists a community and scientific consensus is born.
Bitcoin Wallet Password Selection
I have a bitcoin wallet, I have been working with bootforce for 4 months now. So far without result. The interesting thing is that when I enter a password that is not valid, it says: The password is not valid. But how do I enter the password that is needed: it says that not all keys are decrypted.
As soon as I try to change the password to another in the Bitcoin core program, the program is reloaded without changing the password. Maybe someone faced such a problem?
Fair point. I think humans having (usually) 5 fingers on each hand makes it familiar to us.
You expect apple to do what their users want? That's nonsense, users have no idea what they want.

Besides, the article is completely missing the point - the user should just grow bigger hands.
The photos I see on real estate listings are horrendously compressed and have a potato-like quality. I have no idea if they were taken 15 years ago on a $10 point and shoot or on a brand new professional DSLR. Only thing you can sometimes tell is that they used a wide-angle lens.
Worth noting is that it is not a transparent proxy. Firefox is aware of the mitm, and cooperates with it to achieve security.
i resign from my job as IT enginering in a medical company, since 2014, and start on that time, im spending my small save cash to buy a seeds and start to farming on my small house, it's enought to feed my family and payy all the bills we have :)
> This is likely the "least objectionable" VPN I've seen.

This "VPN" (which at least isn't explicitly called a VPN by Mozilla or Cloudflare) apparently shares the ISP-assigned IP addresses of users with Cloudflare-using websites.

How does that make it "least objectionable"? Because it doesn't obscure users' IP addresses?
What an Indian Backpacker Thinks of Frankfurt
Yes, people depending solely on a $12k basic income might have to, uh, do something like live with other people.

Turns out that has a real impact on expenses even when they aren't family.
‎Nature: Fall Asleep, Insomnia on the App Store
I think the challenge with this is what happens when you’re in a growing product org.

At a certain point it makes sense to have product managers. Maybe for a while you keep optimizing for developer usecases, but that’s no longer your customer (even if they are most of your users.)

Larger revenue deals come from teams with more people and those are the ones that need more manager-focused features or where there manager is the buyer. From a go-to-market standpoint, you might put a ceiling on your revenue if you limit the addressable market to those teams that are still product managed by developers.

Not that that’s bad! Just a thought.
We'll have to change to beat climate change and it means dramatically refucing fossil fuel use by regulations, taxes, price controls etc. When supply is limited, the price is the mechanism that decides who gets the juice and who doesn't. In plain terms, the price will become as high as necessary to reduce demand to the level of supply. And this can make storage profitable too.

I think your examples are actually all flexible use cases.
Car can be charged any time, if price is unpredictable you won't leave your battery empty on a work night. But also you don't necessarily need a car. Lighting is a silly example because it consumes negligible energy, but if you look at history it's actually very flexible. Dinner also takes negligible energy but it's also very flexible (see how people cook in places without cheap eletricity - biofuels).
> Theoretically, half of everyone’s weekend could be half as crowded, two-thirds of the time.

Excellent analysis, and I particularly liked the above line.

The phrase, "The tyranny of the clock" kept springing to mind as I was reading, and I had forgotten that this is the title of a much older, and shorter, essay[0].

[0] http://www.spunk.org/texts/writers/woodcock/sp001734.html
I know this is an unpopular opinion, but I'd pick my own car over any form of public transportation any day. The privacy, convenience, utility is incomparable. You can build a city with all the buses and trains and cycles but I'll still drive my own car. I don't care about congestion. I don't care about cost.
Just the real time expense reporting is a reason strong enough to get this card. Even with expensify and all expensing tools out there, the friction for reimbursements is still very high. This card removes that friction. Essentially, I just spend and upload my receipts. No need to reconciliate transactions, create an expense report, submit that etc. If only this integrated directly with LDAP or something like that to automate the approval workflow.
True, but you get enough vitamin D - especially not during the winter.
Having an uneven phone back such that it falls off of even level surfaces when receiving a phone call is a _vital feature_ that I cannot live without. How else will my phone land on a corner and crack the screen, requiring an expensive repair? Am I supposed to drop it like it's 1999?
Remove your account defenses while simultaneously giving authentication information to a third party? What could go wrong‽
The universities often receive "grants" from the vendors to foster initial development along with incentives provided based on adoption and usage.. https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-education...
Did AI and a post get Bolton ousted?
Having trouble sleeping? It’s time to say goodbye to sleepless nights and stop missing out on sweet dreams! Just try it for five minutes and you will love it.
You can specifically only order an Uber X, so, it wasn't worth it for me. I tried building my own app to do it, bit at the end of the day the cellular reception just wasn't good enough for daily use.

I'm currently using a palm companion, and seeing if I can use it for most of my daily tasks.
I feel happy for my friends when they take a nice vacation. But the vast majority of them are mediocre photographers at best. No matter how awesome the location is, it's hard to feel jealous when the pictures are all blurry and backlit.
Don’t forget that Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle can be derived as a property (theorem?) of the Fourier transform [1]. I found the Laplace transform intriguing as well [2].

The Hilbert transform sounds intriguing.

1: http://www-users.math.umn.edu/~garrett/m/fun/uncertainty.pdf
2: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laplace_transform

edit: fixed link
I'm not exactly versed in the subject, but going off of a recent class on wireless transmissions, perhaps they instead use lots of small transmitters/receivers along the hull and rely on post processing to piece that together.
Check out the Palm companion. I believe we have already started heading in that direction, and couldn't be more excited.
Damn. So you need an Enterprise account in order to determine whether this thing reveals users' IP addresses. And that probably isn't cheap, and can't be created anonymously.

Someone from Mozilla really needs to clarify this.
Is it just me or does the 3 camera design look disgusting? The design is plain ugly. I love apple for their thoughtful and aesthetic design, but I feel Steve Jobs would not have approved that square 3 camera design.

I am getting the feeling that Johnny Ive left the company over disagreement with such decisions.
Now github has a CI environment
Or Dr. McCormick's classes. CS 101 with Ada. Students 2 years behind me got to learn Java or Python.

He wrote 3 books on Ada. http://www.cs.uni.edu/~mccormic/
Without a doubt, there is cruft in the sense of gatekeepers and institutionalized power as short-hands for who to trust, but in the grand scheme of things the most power is in reaching a closer approximation of the truth. There is no strict structured system for obtaining scientific consensus, it's simply the individual actions of different researchers, labs, and institutions that choose to build on the work of others or challenge it that cooperatively reach outcomes that benefit all of mankind. There are plenty of parasites growing on the scientific community, like the publication system, but these things don't define it, they're simply hangers on and the scientific community has existed in plenty of times and places without something like it.
I actually tried both. 10 felt too long and approaching the territory of wasting more time than I wanted. 5 felt like it wasn’t long enough. I guess 7 was just right for me.
It looks like a spider's creepy compound eye.
I'd more define it as a return to normality. It sure doesn't feel magical. There's still stress in my life, just not dumb stuff like having to listen to my cousin go on anti vax rants.
I frequently pay a premium to buy products manufactured outside of China. Usually they are higher quality.
As a full time software engineer I actually like their recent UI/UX changes. I go to Jira for a couple of simple things: to figure out what to work on, ask clarifying comments and update ticket status.

All the other features with velocity, burn down charts, workflow, etc I could care less about. Which makes sense, I'm not a manager. For me the new UI/UX means I don't have to think about using the tool, which is what I want out of a ticketing system. Funny enough, it really seemed to be management who was doing most of the complaining about Jira at my last gig.
Hong Kong can be a gateway to liberal values for China
Theres a picture under Aguas Calientes but is actually Machu Picchu... and it says its in Chile too. So nope pictures are def wrong
Is the article gone or something? all i see is ![]()
Any idea roughly how many SF engineers just got laid off? Trying to get a sense of how this will hit the local labor market in the next few weeks.

Articles says 265 engineers.. 85% in the U.S. So up to ~200 will be looking for SF jobs? How many are remote or in other US offices?
I'm curious where in the US Constitution you think it states that discrimination on the basis of LGBTQ identity is legal.

The question is about changing federal law to make LGBTQ identity a protected class, under the same principle that race, gender, religion, etc are currently protected.
did you miss the second paragraph or?
Buster Keaton and the Art of the Gag (2015) [video]
Slack is not too expensive for a company like Uber. So maybe two good reasons...
Ok, so now those s/SWEs/operations/ folks had nothing better to do than reinvent the wheel.
Uncaught exception and die.

For a banking application, yes, die, hard, as loudly as possible. Downtime is worth it. Do not continue, do nothing until it is understood and fixed.

When you're flying. Hmmm. Not so much. Dying is a really bad idea. Ok you should have it tested thoroughly so it isn't going to happen but if it does and "anything could happen" well "anything" is better than killing all the passengers, crew and anyone you might crash on, right?

Literally anything is better than that.

Idealy, you log it, you refuse to take off again, all the fleet is grounded etc etc but deciding to fall out of the sky because something unexpected happened is probably not the right response.

Is graceful shutdown possible? No? Ok, so take your chances and log noisily is a less bad option.
Exactly all of this and a headphone jack. Yes.
Seems to me that having a physiological pattern which forces you outside the normal rhythm of society could be detrimental to one’s mental health (pure conjecture).
I played a fair bit of both, but inverted always just felt more natural to me. I swear early FPS games had it that way by default, but maybe I'm mis-remembering! Definitely hard for me to grok how people prefer the 'normal' way though.
Okay. How is your comment relevant to Uber layoffs?
What have you been smoking? We get paid to go to university and it’s free.

https://www.epi.org/publication/usa-lags-peer-countries-mobi...

And it’s never rude to ask what kind of work you do.
wow, best luck for you. hope u can find some nice project
No, the process manager should log the stack trace, restart the subsystem and try running a few more times, then try an auxiliary system or just fly without the subsystem. It should not halt the whole software.
Cannibalism good, because global warming
Ah yes, you're right. That's a pretty big typo on my side. The app I'm using doesn't seem to let me edit though.
It's not a win, it just means nobody will use that tag.
I got the trial. Gave me a 201 area code number. Called it and it waited some seconds after answering, played a DTMF tone and hung up. No, I didn't test it with Duo (lol). Every time this number receives a phone call it increments a login counter on the dashboard.
It's not just universities, it's basically any Windows centric place that seems to gravitate towards packaged solutions rather than understanding or implementing the tech piecemeal.
> I think it may be a little naive to say that nuclear can spin up and down by controlling the fuel rods.

I'm not sure. Because that's exactly what control rods do. The carbon is a neutron moderator. Neutrons are the "heat" in the reaction (that creates actual heat). Less neutrons the colder the reaction is. You'll find this in any elementary nuclear or atomic textbook (which I have read).

As for Chernobyl the show actually got a lot right. But there's a lot of important things that get glossed over because it's dramatized. Like the fact that it had a positive void coefficient and no other reactor operates that way because everyone knew it had a chance is blowing up.

Similarly there's a lot wrong with your analysis about three mile and Fukushima. Both of which killed zero people btw. I'd listen to the experts on this one.
That is because very little tech comes out of there.
that's why i didnt use windows 10, i stickly stay on windows 7 and waiting to end of services to move into a linux, not only about the control rule also about the update which is mostly nowadays is make my pc run slower than before
So? Can’t he be entitled to his own opinion about Tesla? Or is his reputation now forever tarnished?

Why don’t we stick to the points he mentions in the article instead of just discrediting him?
> They lived at a time when there were surely more asteroids hitting the Earth than now (the system was younger, so there was more debris flying around), so they surely had more warning than we do: craters, smaller impacts, etc.

This is a tangential point, but they weren't living in an appreciably younger solar system. 65 million / 4.5 billion is ~1.5%. So, the solar system (and the Earth) was 98.5% of its current age.
I am not following as well, I am from China. Thanks.
my workflow with jira is to click on a box, then move on to another one and start writing something, at this point the first decoration triggers a page reload and it wipes what I am currently writing.

There are just no words for how bad this UX is.
I have been on teams where an obscene amount of time was spent discussing Jira.

Not "how should we do things?" but "how should we do things on Jira?" where it was abundantly obvious that using Jira compared to literally anything else was worse. We could have hired someone full time and paid quite well to sit on a stool and move post-its around on a wall and it would have been better, faster, and cheaper.

Jira is fine when you have whole teams of people whose entire job it is to care about things like Jira who make it good enough for the engineers to be generally disinterested, but it is toxic for small companies, especially those which contain certain personalities or just inexperience. You get sucked in to endless discussions and revisions (which generally make things worse) of your Jira process with this idea that when you make it perfect work will be so much better but the result is a Sisyphean engineering team spending ever more time rolling the Jira rock over the hill.

There are a lot of cases where one guy with a pad of paper or some sticky notes on a wall (or literally nothing) are much better than Jira, but Jira is one of those cargo cult things people do because they are supposed to and it doesn't seem to add value unless you ignore any customization and just leave it or you have massive resources to put to developing and maintaining the process.