skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is that really true though? I would tend to think a transactional employee would be the first to think "I don't make enough to deal with this bullshit" in the face of drama/downturns in a start-up. If it's just a "time for money" trade, after all, then there's no reason to not just jump ship when the going gets tough.

My intention isn't to shame this attitude, by the way, I generally hold similar attitudes and start (casually) looking for new employment if things get too spicy at my place of work.
International Space Station: Eva
This is true. It's complex, takes time, trust and spirit is not something you promote but something you build, then care for forever.

Here's a more verbose take on SE Project Management: https://pm.stackexchange.com/questions/26952/how-to-guide-a-... (disclaimer: am the author)
I'm sorry to bum you out, but I recently built a Raspberry Pi piracy box and it's amazing :D
Git does not handle really large repos. You can search the internet for the term monorepo and see what organizations like Facebook, Google, and Microsoft are doing about that. None of them are using plain vanilla git.
Thinner air makes it more difficult to effectively cool, even with cooler air. I've even seen things have an "High altitude mode" that make the fan spin harder.
The population of Vermont includes thousands of premature babies, bedridden elders, stage 4 cancer patients, and other vulnerable demographics that are not typically working at Amazon. Also, even at the worst rush times, Amazon employees are at work for maybe 60-70 hours a week out of 168 total. Dying off the clock isn't counted.

And you're ignoring the multiple specific instances of wrongdoing that I mentioned.
Right. And when another programmer changes the ADT so that this is no longer true your dynamic language will now crash in production instead of telling you right away before putting it into production? Or are you telling me that your code always have 100% code test coverage checking all possible execution paths for all pattern matches?
Part of the reason some people think mushrooms taste the same is because many common supermarket mushrooms in the west do taste similar.

In particular, three of the most common western supermarket mushrooms (button, cremini, and portobello) are actually all the same species (Agaricus bisporus). They just look different.

Shiitakes are a different species and do taste different, but are somewhat related; at one point in the past they were classified in the agaricus genus.

Once you venture outside those, tastes and textures rapidly diverge. Truffles and morels are definitely memorable if you've never had them before.
Considering how many blind spots their warehouses must have, and how rarely many of the isles might be visited, I don’t think any special maleficence or irresponsibility is required for some down person to be missed for a while.

Not saying they shouldn’t be fixing this problem, just that it seems like a problem even the most perfectly humane company could easily have.

And you might want to check your paranoia. It doesn’t make you a reliable source of opinion to flat-out say you don’t believe anything made in defense of your predetermined villains.

Amazon barely makes any profit, you may have heard. It’s completely wrong to claim they could halve the work and double the wages. Such assertions make you come across as delusional and biased.
Just to be clear - did you sign your name in support or are you a current Amazon employee defending the company’s reputation in light of these deaths?
Samsung says fingerprint security fix is coming as early as next week
Inherent to dairy production is regular impregnation and separating the calves. Just like the egg industry, market pressure favors more "productive" genetics, which results in males basically being discarded early in life, and shorter productive life with higher output for the females.

Increasing animal welfare(, for lack of a better term,) results in higher environmental impact, because slower growth, longer lives and less conversion, require more feed and produce more emissions. At least globally - locally, large-scale concentrated operations have a high impact.

I can speak for southern Germany where there are still many small farms in villages. Due to space constraints, those businesses have to extract as much as possible out of every animal. I only have german sources, but this is what those stalls can look like: https://www.ariwa.org/leben-in-ketten-video/

The text says that cows are tethered like this for months or even years (basically their whole life). It's estimated that this affects about 1 million or about a quarter of the german dairy cows. I think the Matrix would compare favorably to this.
> I don't know why we haven't seriously presented a workable carbon tax.

Two countries with highly visible carbon taxes are France and Canada. You've seen the video of the yellow vest protests in France. A carbon tax is highly regressive, affecting the poor more than the rich.

In Canada they did it "properly", making it progressive through an offset. 80% of Canadians get more money from the carbon tax offset than they pay out into the carbon tax. The government is likely going to fall (or at best drop into minority status) in the election on Monday. The carbon tax is one of the key reasons for their fall.

You're right, it doesn't make any sense.
That's exactly what I was looking for! Is it your code?
Yes, though there's a (minor, understood by everyone in the field) issue with the WIMP name: "Weakly Interacting" can lead to confusion that they must interact via the Weak force. They don't strictly need to: they could interact only gravitationally. That would make all the weak-force interaction experiments (big Xenon tanks & the like) fail, leaving only the gravitational evidence.
In the Joint Strike Fighter (i.e. F-35) C++ Coding Standards, the limit is 200 lines.
But there is also a limit on the cyclomatic complexity number (20 or less), such that you can either have 200 simples line, or a shorter function that is more complex.

You want something that allows you to implement the smallest unit of complexity without having to artificially breaking it down. If you implement a FFT with just 5-line functions, the result is probably going to be more messy than if you did with less restrictive requirements.
I did the Newark to Singapore flight in Singapore Air in B class which was the previous record holder. Lie-flat seats makes a huge difference. I got a solid 6 hours of comfortable sleep. Plenty of food and drink. Movies, internet. It was pretty nice.
You are amazing for building and running this program. People like you are what give me hope that we can build a better government! Thanks for all you do!
You should do customer development and find people willing to pay for your product.

If they're willing to pay, they'll even tell you why they can't use the open source tool.
Yeah, and recorded at different frequencies. Could easily be a downsampling artifact.
> It is frustrating how entitled business are

I think that, on the whole, in the long run, unionization ends up doing more harm than good… but if tech workers ever _do_ unionize, business owners will really, really, really have brought it on themselves.
Is it really impossible to build a startup with employees working 9-5?
Excellent points, but how often have you heard of programmers being hired because of objectivity, honesty, and empathy? Change the context to construction: how long will a team of objective, honest, empathetic builders last who can't complete the construction of a building last before they are either fired or the company folds because nobody wants to hire a group of nice but inept builders?

Perhaps another analogy is worth considering: the military. How can a group of incredibly diverse individuals form effective teams? Things aren't always socially rosy but there are two things which allow them to gel as a team: common purpose and they are stuck with each other.

How often do programmers find common purpose with the other members of their team or the company as a whole? Maybe this was the genius of Steve Jobs, turning Apple (and later Pixar) into a revolutionary crusade and preaching sermons more than giving leadership at times. As programmers we're frequently hired to solve a problem nobody else could or had time for. When's the last time a new hire was put on new feature development so that more seasoned devs could go tackle technical debt? I'm not saying that would be a good thing but without a sense of common purpose it's hard to build a team.

And that second aspect that allows military teams to gel... we're not stuck with our co-workers in civilian life -- we're free to leave (or be let go) at any time. It's very rare to find teams where three or more programmers (who are keen on keeping up with technology) have been there for more than ten years. I can only think of two where I've worked: one was an RPG/AS-400 shop and I was the boat-rocker being brought in to move things to .NET (and was resisted every step of the way until I left) and the other was a shop where I was brought in to help convert a VB6 app to .NET Core microservices.
Thus you don't want to work at a startup.

It's not 'attitude', it's just reality: you simply can't have all of these things and a thriving startup. You'll have to give in on some or all of them at some point in time during the next 2-5 years. This is the life of any entrepreneur by the way, any sector.

Organization helps, tremendously — night and day, quite literally (sigh) — but doesn't magically create more time.
> insanely expensive

Wow that sounds really expensive! How did you actually measure that in the real world?
Maybe I'm reading to much into it but they seem to be purposefully chosen.

* 3-tier ice cream cone - fancy club

* vanilla ice cream - looking for scarcity

* multi-flavor ice cream cone - assembling a team

* giant scope with tons of flavors and toppings - different level

* 3 scopes with one on the side - team fit

* just a cone - low bar
I wrote up some instructions on using YahooGroups-Archiver and dealing with the kinds of failures I've seen with it: https://www.jefftk.com/p/archiving-yahoo-groups
I haven't used Nuxt but I just recently read some complaints about it basically eating errors and making debugging a nightmare.
Amazon is the Foxconn of America (although Foxconn now has operations in the US too)
If they can do that, they can figure out how to make it go bang
> Six deaths in as many months is something else.

It says "Six worker deaths in seven months; 13 deaths since 2013."

It doesn't go into any detail as to whether these workers actually died on the job. Six out of ~125,000 warehouse workers in one year would be double the average[1] (over all professions), but 13 out of ~100,000 over six years would be quite low.

> A week before Billy Foister died of a heart attack, he went to the onsite clinic complaining of chest pains. They said he was dehydrated and told him to drink some water and go back to work.

That sounds like medical malpractice, should be investigated on its own merits.

> Don't write this off as a series of unfortunate coincidences.

Yes, but also don't declare it a scandal before the facts are on the table.

[1] https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/cfoi.pdf
You might be interested to know that they also nicknamed Rainbow Canyon as "Star Wars Canyon", and the various branches fly their jets through at high speed for training purposes.[0]

In other words, the Air Force (and other branches) can, indeed, be "cool."

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0NHXiB-R58
Nope, but we'll be seeing more of it: https://futurism.com/startrocket-giant-ads-night-sky-cubesat...
IMO:

In general, make sure to hire people who can do the job. It's still okay to take a chance on someone; or hire people who can learn. The problem is that someone who is fundamentally incapable, or has an attitude problem, will drain on goodwill within the team.

The second thing is to make sure that your internal processes are agreed upon, well-known, and trained to newcomers. There are the basics like ticketing systems and code reviews; but then there are things that are specific to your business, like the design patterns you follow; the specific information your testers must collect when they find a defect; and basic troubleshooting procedures your support team needs to follow. Training newcomers when they make a mistake, because they were blissfully unaware of process, or because the managers decided to ignore it, hurts a team environment.

And finally: Fire toxic people, and people who just can't do their job. This doesn't mean firing people who make mistakes, but it does mean firing the support guy who just can't handle basic troubleshooting steps; or the manager who won't train their team through basic, agreed upon, processes.
The author is not considering the efficacy of physiological factors. He is endorsing magic, prayer and amateur medical research as realistic alternatives to medicine.
What is RTMP and how it’s used in live-streaming
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1247095 for why it's currently disabled, and you can toggle "ui.mouse.radius.enabled" in about:config and see whether the issues that led to this being turned off are actually relevant for your personal usage or not.
Private companies are morally bound to uphold free speech norms, and in some cases, they're legally compelled to do so as well: see Marsh v. Alabama. It seems obvious to me that social media companies provide "virtual town squares" and that sooner or later they'll find themselves bound by Marsh- or Pruneyard-style requirements to uphold free speech. The alternative is to have a de jure but not a de facto right to free speech.
Our collective conflagration will be a sweet release from the screeching of eco evangelists.
Someone suggested the approach on how to choose the best location, best services, best apps, best encryption for privacy and anonymity:

Research what pedophiles, drug dealers and terrorists are using and use that
TL;DR: Written language can be used to communicate information.
The huge city shows cost a few million per year.
But do most people actually even know what the numbers on those eggs even mean? http://www.krakowpost.com/9096/2015/04/healthy-living-what-d...

It seems like it's just not very effective, most people are looking for the cheapest alternatives as one would expect - https://polandin.com/36653246/consumption-of-ethical-eggs-st...
You might be interested in this documentary from 1943, which shows the manufacture of quartz timing crystals from start to finish. The amount of skilled labour required to produce a single finished crystal was utterly staggering and highlights just how essential radio communication was to the war effort.

https://archive.org/details/6101_Crystals_Go_to_War_01_20_16...
> stop people from applying?

Well, I'm definitely never going to apply there after reading this, so it's working!
I would argue that's even better than documentation that defines how the code should behave.
Can't blame people for playing the game.

* Many companies have bonuses tied to individual performance goals.
* Climbing the ladder is competitive and, again, tied to individual merits.
* It is ingrained in our language and mentality. We talk about Rock stars, not Rock Bands or Orchestras.
Well the incidents seem to mostly be with workers aged 60+... And when you get to your 60's random sudden health incidents become much more likely.
Prior to her post-doctoral work, she wrote her thesis on the synchronization of particle beams with light, but it didn't have anything to do with mysticism. This contains a sample of some of that work: https://kirstenhacker.wordpress.com/posts-deleted-by-quora/
How Microservices Architecture Impacted the Culture of Software Development
Test your insight by starting an Amazon competitor and becoming the richest man in the world. Get some skin in that game!
They might have 0.1% of the workforce, but don’t forget that they’re 5% of the entire retail market and 49% of e-commerce.
Encapsulation doesn't necessarily mean hiding state. It means hiding the implementation details of how actions mutate the state. The same action called on a different kind of module instance can end up mutating the instance's internal state in a completely different way. The higher level logic should not be concerned with how a module performs an action.
I need to get halfway fluent in JS first, but good point.
Comparison of X Window Managers
In my agency days, I produced this video (which was part of a larger campaign about surviving a nuclear attack in a city). Was a ton of fun, and quite sobering: https://vimeo.com/29382035
It's easy.
You can host a Docker registry yourself (e.g. Harbor or Portus), or use a managed one, like Google Cloud Registry if you use GCP / GKE.
To publish an image to your own registry, you just need to pull from Docker Hub, re-tag the image, and push to your own repo. It's three commands.
You can add some automated and/or manual steps to check the images for security flaws before publishing them.
Since human knowledge isn't passed down through genetics, people generally don't know about something, until they have worked with it. That's what education is for, whether it's on their own or formally in a class room. I assume anyone being groomed for these positions, learns it like any other trade.
I'm not sure that data set will mean anything without human-drawn conclusions about the patient (diagnoses, abormalities, etc.)
> My brother interviews for McKinsey and he says the number one thing they look for in new hires is a sense of understanding of someone else's mental state. He had a good technical term for it, but I forget what he called it.

Empathy?
Good point. I think maybe one reason is that COBOL is valued for its consistency, with the same code often running on modern machines that was written 50 years ago or so (at least that was the received wisdom when I was working at a COBOL shop). Perhaps the same is not the case with FORTRAN?
On a Virgin Australia flight they had a little "bar" area which was basically just an open standing area where you could chat with other passengers...next to an open liquor cabinet. The booze was probably not great for jetlag but I found a couple hours of standing and chatting was a great way to break up the trip and get blood flowing a bit.
Great circle mapper to the rescue: http://www.gcmap.com/mapui?P=JFK-SYD
>It is OK for Google, they can donate to whoever they want to. The issue is if they are going to be an partisan actor they control too much information and have too much influence on how people gather information.

If they can donate to whomever they want, they are also morally correct to control information however they want. Giving money to politicians is bribery, and is much more direct than merely controlling information on the internet. Personally, as long as bribery is legal, I have no problems with Google using a different tactic. It's much more ethical to try to shape peoples' opinions at large than to directly bribe politicians.
I'm sorry for causing confusion. I doubt either Rubin or Butler have even heard of RMS.

While most of the GNU maintainers appear to have tried to resolve things amicably with RMS, the social-justice contingent within open source have been calling for his removal for at least a year now, probably much longer, and they usually cite his views on sexuality as the reason why he is "problematic".

However, there have to my knowledge never been similar calls for the removal of the likes of Rubin and Butler from leadership positions in their field by social-justice advocates (within open source or outside it), despite them publicly expressing even more abhorrent views about sexuality with respect to children than Stallman has. The work of Rubin and Butler is foundational to queer theory and gender theory, so modern feminist activists are likely to be at least passingly familiar with them. Stallman may even have been referring to their scholarship when he made his controversial (and imho very wrong) paedophilia statements.

This tells me unpleasant things about the relationship between social-justice activists and paedophilia. They're made more unpleasant by the fact that I have seen at least one social-justice advocacy group defend a known, active paedophile within their ranks.
Well, whenever one of us gets a new phone, we put the other's fingerprints in, just as something we started doing out of convenience. After that, yeah, pretty much. We don't share all passwords, but we would if we needed to.
I've taken Amazon's warehouse guided tours several times The surprise was that there is NO surprise: the entire process is merely the application of current technologies in warehousing and distribution, with humans in the few niches where machines are not quite "there" yet. in the places where humans are involved, there's just enough workspace so that, say, once Amazon develops a proper "binning" robot, the human can be fired and a machine rolled in to replace him/her.

Place was nicely put together though: all the screws and bolts tight, racks and tracks level and properly aligned, sensors everywhere on the production line ready to alert of any problem. So kudos to the guys and gals who put it together and lined it up! Looks like the U.S. Army put it together (well, actually, if the Army did it, it would be use better parts and be more sturdily constructed).

As for what it does, nothing there of interest to high tech.
Totally agree with you.

Putting this in the commit is not easily searchable, not universaly accepted and thus not expected, not practical and certainly can't involve discussion easily. This can be replaced with ticket number as most ticketing systems will actually read commit logs for those in order to associate ticket with code.

Now, there is that problem with decoupling code and story, but this is technical problem, nothing stops Gitlab and friends storring issues and friends in the repository itself.
There's a difference between crunching at a company with thousands of employees, and being on-call for the first year of a startup because if you aren't the entire business could go under overnight
Italy is pretty interesting geologically, Greece is not bad, Istanbul is amazing.
Ask HN: Non-tech companies that benefit from open sourcing their software?
At $work we have an opportunity to potentially open source a lot of our code, but it will take a huge paradigm shift within the company. It would make a lot of sense from a technical perspective to open up the repos and start openly contributing to other projects etc. But making the actual business case is hard.

Do you have examples of non-tech (i.e. not Google, Microsoft, etc), opening up their code base and becoming better as a business? Bonus points for links to primary sources.
I don’t know about social security but the claim that Medicare is more efficient than private insurers is not correct. It only appears to be so due to accounting procedures that do not expense services from other govt agencies on Medicare’s pnl. So for example, a different department of the government handles billing, all the costs therein are not included in Medicare’s bottom line, thus inflating its efficiency.
Delusional... wow. Is it the same Amazon famous for avoiding profit for years to play the long game?