skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think there are tons of ways to evaluate a given individual if one were to go the 'secret-sauce' route:

- some standard testing

- some aptitude testing

- some sort of manual/physical creativity with some sort of toy construction set (lego, erector) to solve a problem or demonstrate something,

- give a scenario and then allow unrestricted access to a phone and a computer connected to the internet with a time limit to present one or more potential outcomes/solutions/etc "Global warming is an issue, we face these general problems. Go!" or "It is winter, power goes out at your office, you have these 20 items. There is this much snow, it is this temperature and you live x miles from your workplace and may not use a vehicle. Power will not be restored for x days, what is your plan type things.

- Asking specifics about past job/club/religious duties and developing a good idea of general skills

Obviously degrees have their uses but college isn't for everyone and not everyone needs a degree to do well in various roles/fields. Yes, I want a doctor/lawyer/engineer to have a degree but apparently 'One in eight billionaires on the Forbes 400 are college dropouts,' [1] (and yes I know that article starts out saying people should get degrees, because it's a business site and this is 'how it is done').

Why can't we find a way to give people without degrees more of a chance?

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/billionaire-college-dropout-...
I'm pretty sure that what Pratchett calls "knurd" here, Buddists call "enlightenment".
I think you mean Amsterdam to Lyon
But would that mean they have more than the replacement rate of children? In the west we're slightly below that already.
I had a bout of depersonalization for a year and became a regular meditator much later. I didn't find that they were at all similar.
The primary goal of package repositories is to make available the software users need. The primary goal of Apple/Play/whatever stores is to make money.
The way I read it:

TL;DR - Jobs are stressing people out mentally and financially

1. We need more jobs, and with lesser trauma; Why do jobs have to stress the heck out of people?

2. SFO needs 3X shelters to accomodate the current population, and may be something the city can fix now. It needs to do whatever it already is doing, billing the biggest companies within the city, to cross subsidize the rents.

3. The number of people suffering from alcohol and drug abuse is only 18% of the population, and there are indeed other factors attributing to homelessness in the city.
Lost earnings?

After all, you pay them $150/night but they also get $0.1 from Amazon that they just can live without...

I wonder what happens if you refuse to sign it
It could work the other way. How many times have you seen a product or service found it interesting and saw the price and was immediately turned off? Or if you're shopping for a product and you could convey that information to the retailer, they might lower their price. This is the same idea as searching for coupon codes to put in during checkout.
Hear Hear. I'll take that in a non-phone version too please.
For the same reason microsoft had to give you an option for the preinstalled browser.

As soon as you get a certain threeshold you become a monopoly, which essentialy means you controll who does business in that sector.

It should never be allowed to be a distributor as well as the owner of a marketplace.

It's the same problem with amazon marketplace and other similar things.

EDIT: Formatting
You can have ventilation stacks that at least distribute the exhaust higher into the atmosphere, or at key points where fewer people live. I don't know specifically if they do that here though.
Don't conflate Apple's monopoly with Google's store. Anyone can go install F-Droid or Amazon or whatever on their Android phone. The only thing stopping people is satisfaction with the status quo and/or ignorance.

However, Apple totally rules their walled garden, with some added gross exploitation to boot (recent "Sherlocking" story for Luna Display).
I've had some friends read things in a few cases and the reaction was basically "hey good job" which I interpreted as "it was ok" :)

If I thought there was a particular audience that would be interested I wouldn't be shy about sharing, but one thing that's kept me from going down that route is that I'm not really looking for feedback per se.

What I mean by that is that I'm not actually trying to become a "better writer" so my interest in ideas for improvement is a little low. It's mostly self-indulgence on my part and I'm somewhat inclined to keep it that way :P

I have found it enjoyable to talk to my wife and daughter about the stories and see what they thought, but I'll be perfectly honest and admit that my interest in that is also self-indulgent...it's a way to keep enjoying the world I created at their expense :D
Yeah the remote person can do whatever they want. They can definitely also hide what they're trying to do without much effort. The idea is to use this only with people who you would give physical access to anyways. I do really like the idea of a read-only mode with a way to suggest commands as a way to open this up to more use cases.
Not a "whatabout", but more a "compare and contrast": how does this relate to the unlawful protests in Hong Kong?
Awesome. So the last two years I have asked people if they know anyone with shrooms, I really wanted to quit dipping (Copenhagen tobacco), been dipping for 15 years, and heard this really works.

No one I knew had any leads, not really shocked by that. But I quit dipping anyways, about 6 months ago. Moral of the story: sometimes your friends don't have illegal drugs and you have to suck it up and do right things the hard way. Second moral: having friends that have drugs would have made all this so much easier.
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I disagree. Pizza sauce means more oppurtunity for culinary expression.

Dont get me wrong, margherita is great, but to say pizza sauce is a regression is a bit silly IMO
Learning Navigation Subroutines from Egocentric Videos
Thought this would be about roboticizing my kitchen faucet. Had to dig to find:

> What is it? Ever thought of (re-)using your USB-C charger (like Macbook's) to power other devices? If so, this is the board for you.
I really want to understand it. It reminded me of my days migrating from the Vb5/6 UI to java swing. It was painful, but after you groked its logic, it made sense.

How can I get to grok Android's Ui layout process?
1. most open source software is not even close to breaking even via donations. so "making more money" really is a misleading way to portrait the situation.
2. I hope we can agree that "if you use their store as a sales funnel then they take a 30% cut" is at least a use of their power. The fact that there's no recourse, no (practical) competition for the distribution, and that they're not acting in agreement with their "official" stance on free-as-in-beer or free-as-in-speech software makes it an abuse in my book. The thing is, they don't officially say "we only host apps that make us money, not at all. They say they're just platforms, facilitating exchange, blabla. Also, see point 1: "sales funnel" for projects that maybe (!) manage to break even on their hosting costs is not the right term to use here.

This is an old claim by now, but these platforms matter a lot today, and since we only have two of them, and they are not in direct competition (users cannot switch at will) they really should be treated as the monopoly infrastructure that they are. What that means concretely is subject to negotiation within society.
In my opinion blackmailing the devs of an application that is essentially written and maintained as a service to the public, for free, by volunteers, is a shit move to say the least.
FYI, house owner spying on people using smart cameras has been a major problem for Airbnb for a good while now.
>The biggest issue which has resonated against Trump is the children in cages. Why do you think that is?

Because you'd have to be a monster to think that children should be put in cages, left in unsanitary conditions, given inadequate food, and denied medical care to prevent the spread of disease? Is that really a left-right thing?
>you are fucking SKILLED at dodging questions and changing the topic to suit your own needs. you would fail out of a debate class in the first week, though.

Look, you're trying to argue that javascript dev jobs should have this kind of knowledge on their descriptions and I'm arguing there's way more shit to worry about and this is near the bottom level of things javascript devs should know. That's why I opened with "don't increase these job requirements unnecessarily"

>Is there any software that you write whose users would not be made happier if the software performed better? Any at all?

Yeah, a lot of websites. It just doesn't matter after a certain point.

From 10 seconds to 1 seconds? Definitely happier.

From 1 second to 0.1 seconds? Happier, but not as much as the first gain.

0.1 to 0.01 or further? They might not even notice it. And this is where the network makes further gains cost ineffective.

Take my arguments to C or assembly land with systems programming and I immediately lose on most fronts. Especially if you can translate fractions of a second into more money, there should be no restrictions on how much performance to go after IF speed == money.

But if you're doing systems programming with javascript and want the utmost performance, this just looks silly for both of us.

>This is one of those things that everyone "knows" but is actually not true.

You and kasey_junk have different/better experience than I do, because those questions come up way more often in javascript jobs than what you're promoting.
Really? It's basically impossible to distribute apps for iOS outside the AppStore and very difficult (all security, warranty warnings, settings, etc.) to distribute them outside the PlayStore.
Mostly good advice. Along similar lines (w/ more detail of course), see DHH's book "REMOTE" which includes advice on how to sell the idea to mgmt. As a first step I'd recommend starting even smaller though, vs framing it as a new and demonstrably better way for projectS to be done in general (ie, a big change). See if you can find a way to demonstrate the benefits on a personal/individual level, without making a big deal of it. If you can start the bigger conversation (involving teams / processes / policies) already armed with evidence of success at your current workplace, you'll gain credibility and engender confidence / assuage fears of those in management who need convincing.

For my part, I've been self-employed (full-time consulting), 98% remote, for about 3 years. Before that, in almost 20 years of traditional software-related jobs, about half my working days were remote. I was fortunate in being able to insist on a high degree of autonomy wrt how/where/when I got my work done, for most of my positions. Not always possible, but you'll never get the freedom if you don't look for the oppty and make the case for it.
What's the point of Yahoo at all anymore? Finance? I am at a loss of what it is they still even do.
A few of the early startups I worked for were all Solaris shops (mid 90's to early 2000's.) I kind of miss it. I still have an Ultra box at home, but haven't turned it on in over 10 years.
Seriously? Of course it is. Shattered glass is a massive public danger.
So in your way of thinking, when MLK was arrested in Birmingham for leading a civil rights march after the city had banned all forms of protest, and when others were arrested for sitting quietly at whites-only lunch counters, they were committing violence and they deserved to be arrested?
There is a decent Netflix show that discussed how America’s war efforts and their fear that they could diminish their control over the people in effect put back research in the area back half a century.

https://www.netflix.com/title/81098586?s=i&trkid=13747225
should've slept during school like the pros ;)
I'm not so depressed these days (thankfully) but this "realism" does tend to manifest is different ways. I'm very self-conscious about not dragging people down because some thoughts that I think daily that are normal for me, seem to be absolutely psychologically crippling for people who previously hadn't, or didn't want to think such things.

Usually when I do express these thoughts they're in the form of semi-dark humor ("You don't like the boss? Don't worry, you'll only have to deal with him for a couple more years (because you won't quit) and then the company will go under and you'll have to work somewhere else with a similar boss"). The humor is to mostly try to diffuse how harsh these statements can seem to others, and because I find them legitimately morosely funny, but for some reason I tend not to get laughter when I say them... So I try to keep this "depressive realism" to myself most of the time.

I promise I have social skills. That's probably my biggest consistent faux pas. But sometimes I wonder why I can lose friends so fast by just saying things that are true or are very likely to be true. I guess a lot of people don't like to see that clearly? I don't know.
Any app installed on old versions of Android prior to Jellybean can access Logcat without any permission.
Load balancing Node application servers using Nginx
The spectrum of possible economic systems is not limited to neoliberal capitalism vs communism.
However, I think a deeper point that is somewhat implied in the original comment is that economics itself, as a discipline, is deeply tainted by a certain ideology (laissez-faire capitalism, neoliberalism etc.) and as such will favor research that conforms to that implicit bias.
For economics to become a proper scientific discipline it would have to fundamentally detach itself from any particular ideology. Until then the Nobel is mostly a circle-jerk of old (mostly rich) white men.
It's funny/sad that there's even a term for when reporters venture outside of the confines of their pen: investigative journalism.
thanks for your tips ;)
> It’s a bit sad to see the youth so pessimistic. Growing up with Star Trek

I forget if we are one or two destructive global wars behind schedule compared to the original Star Trek timeline, but at any case we have not reached anywhere close to the lows Star Trek predicted we would before we got to the brighter (internally to humanity, most of the time, at least) future that show portrayed, which lows included the near total elimination of human civilization through science slaved to destructive ideals.

These kids aren't, compared to that, pessimistic; they are fighting for the possibility to avoid that.
Just 850 million euros of public money to build a mile and a half long tunnel under downtown! (Under a billion euros total.) A bi-level tunnel, with separate express and local levels, and four lanes on each level.

By contrast, the SR99 tunnel in Seattle was about 1/3 longer, cost $3-4 billion, depending on how lawsuits shake out, and has half the capacity (two levels with two lanes each). The Big Dig in Boston was the same length, and cost 22 times as much.

In timely news (another post on the front page), the A2 tunnel cost only modestly more than it’s costing San Francisco to simply reconfigure Market Street to shut down through traffic.
In other words: water is still wet.

The world is a shitty place, deal with it.
This article hits on a lot of good points to me, because I often see people treat chat like it's a stand-in for an IRL conversation.

People will start conversations with just "Hello", and wait for me to respond, as if we're talking on the phone or something. This, to me, fundamentally misses out on the benefits of online communication: You don't need to wait to establish a conversation with me to ask me your question; you can just come out with it. And your question/problem can become just another item on my TODO list, which I can prioritize throughout the day:

- If it's something I can answer/address right away, I can do so

- If it's something that will take some investigation, I can start investigating it (and let you know how much time I'll need, etc)

- If it's something clearly low-priority, I can wait until later when I'm not as busy to address it

- If it's something that doesn't really make sense, or there are things I can explain to you to help point you in the right direction, I can spend a moment to help dig up some information for you.

If you just say "Hello" (or "Ping", etc) you're taking away my ability to prioritize your question/problem, and are asking me to agree to spend time on something before I know what it is.

If instead you begin the conversation with the question/problem that needs addressing, you're adding an item to my TODO queue, which can be re-sorted/re-prioritized continuously throughout the day, and allows me to be more effective. I can get to your question when it makes sense for me to do so.

I have my status permanently set to http://nohello.com to hopefully drive this point home with people, and anecdotally I've seen a lot less drive-by "Hello" messages on Slack. Additionally I've just stopped responding to people when they say "Hello". I just hope that doesn't come off as me being a jerk, though...
I'm sorry for your loss.

When something bad happens I often find myself going back to Carl Sagan's words on the Pale Blue Dot [0]. Puts everything in perspective, and makes everything feel insignificant, when compared with the vastness of what lies out there.

[0] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wupToqz1e2g
Wow how did I not think of that before! Just don't be depressed. It's so easy!
Instead of peephole optimizing your code, I think more can be gained by ensuring that your code doesn't perform useless computations. For example, a game that recomputes the entire scene every frame, or a UI that recomputes an entire virtual-dom tree after every user action.
I wonder if that's proximity sensors or always-on gesture recognition doing image processing off the front camera.

Either way, gesturing left/right/up/down doesn't seem to add more than touching the device. My Moto G6 has that now, using the fingerprint sensor as a directional swipe button, love it.
Perhaps I'm being naive, but most educators I've known are on the liberal side of the spectrum. Wouldn't barriers described here be more on the side of "never attribute to malice...?"
What a humdinger of a Table of Contents...
Run a pretty damn good implementation of Fantasy Sports.
No it doesn't for a few reasons.

One is that most rail traffic doesn't continu 24/7. A train comes by, the crossings open again and it's anormal road for 15 minutes until the next train.

Cars just run constantly. Cars also have exhausts that blast fumes in your face.

Furthermore the rails are usually 2 or 3 tracks next to each other outside the station. That's 20 meter or so vs a whopping 50m+ for a highway.
There's a comic somewhere depicting the two views of nihilism.

One frame is all dreary and dark with the caption "Nothing really matters" over a sad character. The other is happy and upbeat with flowers and rainbows over the same, much happier character with the same caption.

It sounds like you lean more toward the latter and choose to make your own meaning rather than embrace one of the common sources of meaning.

That's how I try to see the world. I don't understand how people find meaning in traditional sources like religion, family, or work, so I set out to find my own. Nonjudgmentally, of course. I respect the classics even if I favor avant-garde purposecraft.
You Need a Writing Retreat
odd how different people have wildly different experiences on the same website
https://rebellion.earth/the-truth/demands/

I see an incredible optimism in believing that power lies with the people and mass movements, instead of indulging fantasies that some solution will be handed down from on high, counter to the interest of wealthy and elite. Not to mention that scientists have already endorsed what they’re doing:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/extinction-rebell...

If you actually want a Star Trek future, this is how you get it.
Read the actual 'Tao Manifesto" webpage which does a much better job of describing it than this article.

https://tauday.com/tau-manifesto
Because it's the counterweight to "sometimes it's better to just let some lunatic hole up in his house."

Sometimes that lunatic is a threat to others, not just themselves.
> Open source licenses vary, but the gist since the 1998 founding of OSI has generally been as follows: you can take this code and do what you want with it, but you can't make the code proprietary, and if you use it in another project, then that project can't be proprietary either

What? No, that's not what "open source" means. Not at all. That's "copyleft" or "viral" or "sharealike", but not a universal definition of "open source".
"in the future"

quite an assumption here
Can you not go and pick them where you are? I thought liberty caps were pretty widespread over Europe
I haven't done any research on this, but off the top of my head I would expect the distro upgrade process to handle this and I wouldn't remove python2 manually.
But you get considerably less fumes because the traffic isn't in a constant traffic jam because of the traffic lights on the highway.

Also, the end of the tunnels are a bit more out of the town centre than the road that was dead in the middle.
According to [0]:

F-Droid is both a repository of verified
free software Android apps as well as a
whole "app store kit"

F-Droid also allows to source multiple repositories within one app. [1]

[0] https://f-droid.org/wiki/

[1] https://f-droid.org/wiki/page/Known_Repositories
> Disclaimer: old timer (not sure if you whippersnappers do the same anymore).

Heh... I don't know that I qualify as an 'old timer', but it's been a while since 'whippersnapper' would've applied to me. :-)

> The few times that I really needed performance out of a particular C/C++ function

For me, at least, performance has almost never been a problem, particularly when writing in C.

> I don't see a lot of "optimized C" in the wc impl. I'd imagine that wc optimised for use in a GPU would be pretty spectacular,

Whenever I think of optimized C code, I immediately think of the work done to make Gnu Grep fast.

https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2010-Aug...

A lot of that boils down to picking an algorithm that lets them defer as much work as possible until you know you need to do it. I suppose that's one of lazy evaluation's claims to fame, but I think the level reached in Grep would be difficult to achieve in a more modern functional lannguage.
This might be a fine answer to dealing with a commodity product in a market with strong competition, but a terrible one for any system with limited choice and an extremely strong network effect.
You can't just freely receive donations and not pay any tax.
There is definitely an argument that you are donating to ensure future development of the software, essentially quid pro quo.

Edit: Wireguard literally make that case while soliciting donations

>We're extremely grateful for all donations, which enable us to continue developing WireGuard as free open source software. We are happy to receive donations from interested companies who would like to see WireGuard development continue and thrive, as well as individual donations from folks who would simply like to say "thanks".