skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even in the case of a suitable rewards system, one still needs the skill to be able to find and fix bugs that cause systemic issues. Many times, a company opts to get the developers who are good enough - they can build the system, and then they hand it off to some Ops team that maintains, and good luck trying to get them to fix any of the bugs introduced over the course of the project.

What should be rewarded is the skill necessary to architect software in such a way that it is easy to maintain. I often say to myself, does this decrease the effort needed by the reporting team to create reports? Does it isolate features and make it easy for devs to find the source of issues and fix them? Is it modular enough that users can expect a quick turnaround time for new features?

What I've found is that many developers, even those who believe they should be seniors and above, are unable to think from this perspective, or frequently think it's "impossible" to make software that addresses and solves the issues of all groups. In my experience, it is never impossible, it is all about having the right architecture, which can takes weeks to fully think up and realize, and may still change afterwards, but the design of the software is what I usually choose to reward.
Same, but for Illustrator.

I hate the price and subscription model, and the learning curve has some steep spots, but once you're up and running, it's fantastic. I want to like Inkscape, but I've hit too many weird bugs (text getting squashed, transparency disappearing randomly). I'm curious about Affinity Designer though.
Nchan is amazing
Wow even worse. That’s a terrible idea. No wonder he left, they probably got a fraction of the preorders they expected.
For me, it would be the lack of GNN support in Flux[1]. I really root for Julia and Flux, and I hope it will take off soon.

[1] https://github.com/FluxML/Flux.jl/issues/625
Exactly. They also control the workflow. If you don't like the 15 steps it takes to update your expense report, good for you, you won't get paid.

Companies will lose deals unless they do what customers want. Eventually, that chunks up the software and makes it awful. That's just the nature of the beast, and it's no different than things were pre-computer.

I had a .gov customer that had a very specific ruleset about stapling paper forms a certain way, which impacted how certain processes worked after they were computerized. Nobody understood why, then we found out -- in a tragic accident, a key employee in one of the paper processes in the 70s lost an arm. They ended up stapling things a certain way to accomodate his constraint and optimize throughput. The practice spread to other areas. 30-40 years later, after the employee was long retired and dead, the process lived on.

In the case of something like Word, people who write need to do stuff. I probably use 30% of Word features, but in the 2 times in the last decade that I needed to create a document with a table of figures, it's there.
I waited for something insightful at the end but didn't find anything there. Just a bunch of "metal and silicon isn't intelligence." Ok, fine, but a whole article without any reference to the Turing test? That should have been the starting point.
Engineers solve 50-year-old puzzle in signal processing
One of them is illegal.
Coanda Effect Hovercraft
it is a convention in android apps to show a toast message as a tooltip when you long press on a button.
Also it’s $389! That’s crazy it doesn’t even have streaming
> This seems to contradict the often-repeated assertion here on HN that shipping doesn't contribute to air pollution.

That assertion seems ridiculous on the face of it. Even if the particles settle you're still polluting the ocean. Besides aren't gasses the main pollution problem anyways?

People confuse me sometimes...
It's a little tongue in cheek, but I think the distinction with G Suite is that the person who pays for it, also uses it.
On a related note, I always wondered what the first person to witness a volcanic eruption thought.

Like a Mt. St. Helens level explosion, or something like the "Hooooooly smokin' Toledo" video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLkFTFdZ_I0
It's neat that "remove the lowest information portions of the image" is a great proxy for "remove the parts a human thinks are least relevant". Though it would probably work poorly for a picture of some people in a forest.
XR Talks: Hands-On with Tilt Five
Well, Node.js is just good tech with a simple async-everything concurrency model.
Exactly or put another way.

Companies only use 5% of the features the more sophisticated enterprise software is offering but it's a different 5% each of them use.
"http.HandlerFunc I weep for the redundancy I create."

Are you properly using the Template pattern, and creating middlewares that factor out repeated bits?

There is some stuff that doesn't work for very well, but it does work for many things and it's easy to miss. (Go doesn't have many tools. You must learn to use the ones you have to the fullest. If you do, the remaining gaps are much, much smaller than commonly supposed.)
I'm uncomfortable with any term involving "intelligence" just because it's so misleading when describing the current state of affairs with computers.

Also, should machines ever actually become sentient to our level (and beyond), the "artificial" is then misleading - and their intelligence, and default right to be considered human (or human-equal) is undermined by implication.
For what it’s worth, I willingly took a pay cut for my current job which I enjoy immensely.

This was something I noticed a few years ago when I experimented with using Hired. They let you set your minimum salary. When I set it very high I got matched with companies that I was very disinterested in. When I lowered my minimum salary I heard from a wider range of companies that seemed a lot more compatible with my interests and values.
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A good understanding of DevOps and deployment practices and technologies (Puppet, Chef, Docker, Cloud services such as AWS and Azure, as well as IaaS such as OpenShift and Heroku)
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Experience with software engineering best practices (e.g. unit testing, code reviews, design documentation)
It just works. Does not produce net energy. This is our MVP and we want to ship fast into the hands of hardcore fusion hobbyists called fusioneers.
You need to have the ground receiver and those seem relatively easy to restrict.
The German and Japanese rail systems are examples of a well oiled machine providing a terrific public service to its citizens.

Of most universal health care systems vs. the US "mandated private" insurance - see how much of society is covered and how well.
Developers who do maintenance are seen (by other, typically greener, developers[0]) as being less skilled than those who work on "new" projects.

Personally, I prefer a good mix. I like new development, but I also like helping a business thrive and so I know that maintenance is a part of that.

[0] I am not convinced that most managers see it this same way. I think most managers see the people they want on maintenance as some of their most valuable employees.
This! Also the concept of Intents is pure genius.
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The Oracle vs Google case was not precedent setting, it was a patent court deciding the copyright applied, that is not something that causes a precedent to be set.
This is not a joke! Well, it is a joke not meant as a joke as this is pretty much the state of most enterprise software nowadays.
I had a good childhood and decent teenage years with very few but really good and precious friends, those memories will forever stay as a warm bonfire in my heart at which i can rest during whatever coldness i might face in reality. In my view as a Zoomer, barely seeing the people you treasure anymore is just a part of being an adult, you have to go out there and face the world with everything you got and sometimes you meet good people on your road with which you can share a moment with before you have to head out again. That's just life.

TLDR: man up
I've never heard of Quintillion but its name alone would make me suspicious.
Big social media companies could offer an API that offers a list of IPs that serve the app and any data it needs from an unblocked source. Then if you're under oppression by a malevolent leadership that blocks a social media, it could be so that you only need to hook your Twitter or Facebook app to internet via Starlink for the millisecond it takes to fetch the unblocked IPs, and the app would be configured to automatically use those in blocked countries. Those new IPs got blocked? Just hit the API again with Starlink and get back to using normal internet. It could be default behavior for the apps in countries where they are blocked to do that if a Starlink connection is up.

If a couple of bytes of information every now and then is too expensive to fetch with Starlink in poorer countries, it is too expensive to use for normal internet use for normal people anywhere on the planet.

Since you are using normal internet except for fetching the IPs, you are not subject to government snooping or sabotage any more than you would be normally. It also would require normal people at maximum the same level of tech-savvyness as a VPN to just connect to Starlink for a second.

Another key difference would be that a VPN requires you to reach the VPN server somehow, and the country can arbitrarily block cable traffic if they have the resources and will. Whether it's technically feasible for most VPNs is another question. But anyway, for Starlink... You would really need to wreck their satellite off the orbit or mess with their radiosignals to block it.

Not that social media companies would do anything to piss off authoritarian leaders / oppressing governments. But they could if they thought it's right
What do you think about the critiques of our understanding of merit - specifically the idea that our cultural experiences bias our understanding and perception of excellence?

I.e. If all your examples of good writing are written by a european for other europeans, you will likely associate some cultural practices that aren't required for good writing with your understanding of "good writing." The whole idea of developing taste is, of course, that it is somewhat subjective.

I think the idea of meritocracy is one worth pursuing, but I think modern advocates for it as a thing that actually exists today should engage more energetically with the critiques of it in practice.
Our Tower of Babel _will_ eventually reach heaven.
> That enterprise software may very well be the best software that includes all those needed features.

How come you can't have something nice & even decently working for: pay, HR, vacation, expenses tracking?

Or more, how is it possible that obviously unfit and malfunctioning solutions (for problems that have been known, solved and specified for years) are still on the market in 2019 in companies that pretend to be serious about software?
Relevant Tweet:

>Mastodon is proving to be a system so censorship resistant even its creators can't censor it.
https://twitter.com/peterktodd/status/1147772867783929856

It seems like federation is actually more censorship resistant in some ways than fully distributed p2p systems. Because an ISP could block ports and things required for p2p connections, right?
This is exactly it. We can get the same standard of living we had 50 years ago while working a hell of a lot less than we did 50 years ago. But of course nobody wants to live that way (myself included).
Looks fantastic ! Overall a better deal than thinkpad, but would like to have the option for a second battery instead of second disk and a joyclit too if that's possible
Useful info about the large parks. We are going to add activities in the parks, the duration in the parks will increase. Not all places are present in the knowledge graph yet, thus drove past. Thank you for your feedback, know what to work on next!
But look what we can say for better certainty now!? That blueberry juice doesn’t make you stupid. Science is about little wins here and there! ;)
Well what OP bought is not a TB3 cable at all, but it looks like it. It was a USB 2.0 cable with USB type C connector, which is a part of the spec. I agree it shouldn't be, and that USB Type C should have a minimum USB 3.0 standard, but USB 3.0 doesn't mean anything anymore anyway.
> there are much larger movements going on elsewhere (Ecuador, Kurdistan, Yemen, ...)

Nation building is hard. Instilling modern democratic values is hard.

Those fights are worth fighting. But Hong Kong is low-hanging fruit. (There is also loss aversion, Hong Kong slipping backwards feels worse than Ecuador remaining Ecuador.)
Differences between the 1900 and the 1904 date system in Excel
This makes sense to me. Sometimes it’s not even about more money but existence entirely. Seeing as that VisiCalc was _the Spreadsheet_ up until Lotus came along and ate their lunch, it’s easy to see that sometimes features and other external forces may have more of an impact than the raw popularity of a product in the end.
Fear of punishment means a culture of preventing punishment by never admitting failure, never “ratting” any colleagues out for failure, and treating investigators like enemies.

Look at police and healthcare to see how badly your strategy works.

You are passing a lot of judgement with almost no information besides a few newspaper articles cashing in on the public interest by speculating.

I am either not selling the idea of an open culture towards failure very well or such conversations really attract people who like blame, vengeance, and pitchforks.
If human reasoning can fit in say a 2m^3 object, you can (in theory) always build a machine that encodes the information in 2m^3 or less.
Ut's not true for every country. I live in a socialist state, albeit the earned fought-out ameneties are at risk.

I have time to see my family and friends as I can, to a certain extend, trust they will be available when I am off work.

Vote for change!
Proc/PID/Stat Sucks
It takes time and a lot of hands-on experience. Many ML teams tend to work on one or just a few tightly coupled project for years. By contrast, we’ve worked on a lot of unique projects with real-world constraints so it gives us a different perspective. An important part has been developing a rigorous process; sort of a framework for applying the “art”. As you mention, this often isn’t covered in ML or data science education, which tends to focus on (important) fundamentals.
Capitalism

edit: before the downvote storm, have a look at https://thecharnelhouse.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Raoul... and https://libcom.org/files/The%20Society%20of%20the%20Spectacl... it's doing a very good job at explaining the shift we went through after WWII, when everyone was promising 5 hours workdays and retirement at 45.
"Kids these days" can't afford to drive. And I see just as many adults continuously glued to their phones as kids.
Source article: https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/30256/scientist-behind...

Also, it’s a patent application, not an issued patent.
> Ikea is also nonprofit

I don't think that's exactly true.

According to Wikipedia[1], IKEA is a privately-held
combination of for- and not-for-profit entities. It's hard
to say exactly what IKEA is, but "nonprofit" is probably
too simple of a description to be accurate.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IKEA#Corporate_structure
I'd work 30% of what I do now if I could. The truth is that no one will ever employ you at 30%.
Yeah, this is a temporary solution until we implement deep linking and the standard back button will work, like in google.com/travel
> Second, and with respect, I would suggest that your rhetoric, which is quite common (and, by the way, represents vested interests in status quo intelligensia), is doing a lot of silencing. It's quite pervasive.

> I'd argue that contemporary liberal group norms are much more silencing than, say, the oil industry.

Do you not see the hypocrisy in this statement? You're attempting to discredit my entire viewpoint by painting it as "liberal intelligensia rhetoric" - whatever that means.

And as to your second point, the oil industry has a long record of covering up evidence of climate change, silencing victims of pollution/fracking, manipulating political process in order to continue destroying the planet, and so on.

I'm not saying Harvey Weinstein should have lost his job, but the oil industry is certainly responsible for more silencing than "liberal norms" by an order of some magnitude.
Does anyone here on HN use WeWork spaces and enjoy them? I'm not suggesting they are bad, I honestly don't know.

Ignoring the business model, the CEO, the failed IPO, do YOU or do you not enjoy that actual offering of WeWork?
I'm becoming increasingly convinced that because of the "spray and pray" approach of the VC model in which a small % of their investments make up the bulk of their returns, the most successful VC firms are largely the ones with the most money to spray, not due to some visionary abilities they have.
I'd like to offer up the concept of the casual home-based "brunch" as the most effective way to spend quality time with your way-too-busy friends. This version of "brunch" happens at someone's house, from, say, noon to 5pm on a weekend day, and people do bring food, but it's a drop-in affair and not a sit-down meal, and showing up without food is also fine.

The timeslot works for people with or without kids. Friends with gig economy or service industry jobs might have a shift that overlaps it, but a Lyft driver might be able to take a break and drop in, or a restaurant server might get a gap between the lunch and dinner shifts to come by. Hosting is easy because you've already set low expectations for providing food or entertainment; you're just providing some chairs with a roof over them.

Do other people do this? Among my social circle, we have "brunch" probably once a month or so, attended by 15-20 people at various of our houses, and it strikes me as a useful social institution that everyone should have.
I see my friends almost every night at the gym. We meet up down the pub and have nights out more than once per month too. Often we'll converge on someone's house for a barbecue or just to drink wine and chat shit.

We all work at least full time and some of us run businesses (myself included). I honestly can't relate to this. I'm 35, for what it's worth.
> They have so many offers that writing code for 4-8 hours is just not going to work for them.

Yeah, I don't typically work for free either. Are you paying candidates for this time?

"Hey, I need you to come in and stock shelves for four hours, you know, just to see if you're a hidden gem for shelf stocking"
How best to use $500 per month on marketing?
FWIW the example image is of Broadway Tower in the UK. I can see it from my house.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadway_Tower,_Worcestershi...
How are you keeping track of those?
Politics and regulations and changing goals are still going to affect funding decisions, whether that funding goes to private or public organizations. Instead of deciding cut NASA's project XYZ funding this year, it would be a decision to cut WhateverCorp's project XYZ funding this year. Then there'd be a hugely expensive, bureaucratic, and likely corrupt bidding process. Think about the healthcare.gov debacle, with all the federal contractors involved.
> There were pilots unions writing letters of concern about MCAS after the first crash

If true, very serious. Can you provide some references for this as I've not heard of it?
Yeah, it helped when NASA had this:

"We choose to go to the Moon. We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard; because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills; because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one we intend to win"
There's a difference between handing new engineers ownership of maintenance tasks and training them to maintain an existing system. The age of a system isn't the problem. It's the baked in processes that are critical to the business that a new engineer could not have learned from outside of the company. Management sees that baked in knowledge as "some light configuration" when it is often far more complicated than whatever system it was built on.
People just have more competing for their time. Endless streaming, phone usage, video games, etc... not only compete with each other, but also with things like hanging out with friends. It used to be that there really wasn't much to do so for better or worse you hung out with people who were close to you geographically. Now, it's much easier to eschew people who are physically close to you, but may not share your exact ideals, for people who you genuinely want to interact with.

I'm not sure if this is universally a bad or good thing. It's just different than before.
To expand on the company need angle, logging in to your work account on your work computer hardware is absolutely a part of your job. Work has a vested interest in securing their computer systems while allowing authorized employees only to use them to conduct their work.

On the other hand, going to the bathroom is completely ancillary to your job. It's not a work-related duty; it's just something that humans have to do because we're made out of meat.
A bit of an outlier situation, but my parents never taught me to drive. Now the problem is not that I dont want to, but theres just no way to learn once you become an adult it seems. Driving school are optimized for teens and not compatible with a full time schedule.
This was an absolutely fascinating read...

> An atomic bomb is a frantic explosion. Yet none of these phenomena is active; they are all passive. They lack the power of cause.

To me it’s completely incomprehensible that an obviously intelligent and well educated (MD PhD) person can think like this... How is it possible to deny that a thermonuclear explosion can cause... a lot of things...?

I’ve lately come to realize that there is much more variation in how people see the world and reason than I thought possible. I would genuinely like to understand those “modes of thinking” that are most far removed from my own. Can anybody explain how this particular worldview works or point me to something I can read?
I tend to agree, and this article is no different. Articles often report the underlying research in misleading ways.