skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a remote dev for 5 years now and I have to say, most of the time synchronous communication didn't help much in terms of engagement. Good projects helped, a reason to do stuff (besides getting paid) helped, nice co-workers and managers helped.

Often synchronous communication is applied by managers because they lost control of their team and now try to monitor them closer so they don't step out of line.

It's like working overtime to compensate for bad planning or dropping home-office work all together because the company does bad.

I'm not saying 1:1 video isn't needed for some situations, but every day and even every week is often overkill. The best projects I had only required 1:1 videos every few months, most of them even only at the beginning.
Could changing route scope from link to host work?
The technical side alone is unbelievably interesting, but when viewed in the context of military mapping/ navigation history and cold war geodetic / geospacial IBCM targeting, it goes all the way down the rabbit hole.
Cell phone use is a small percentage of "distracted driving". We should be careful not to conflate the two things.

In 2017, 3,166 fatalities (of 37,133 total) were attributed to "distracted driving". Of those, 434 fatalities were associated with cell phone use. [0]

For comparison, there were 10,874 fatalities from DUIs in 2017. [1]

[0] https://crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/Api/Public/ViewPublication/...

[1] https://www.nhtsa.gov/risky-driving/drunk-driving
$ cat hello.c
#include <stdio.h>

int main(void)
{
printf("hello world\n");
return 0;
}

$ cat hello.cpp
#include <iostream>

using namespace std;

int main(void)
{
cout << "hello world" << endl;
return 0;
}

$ gcc -o hello_c hello.c
$ g++ -o hello_cpp hello.cpp
$ ll hello_*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5880 Dec 5 14:13 hello_c
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 7424 Dec 5 14:14 hello_cpp

I see 1544 bytes of bloat. Hope that helps.
This is $300 billion short of initial $ 2 trillion valuation
I've started doing this. If I see somebody blatantly looking at their phone while they pass me, I do a nice double tap.
Once self-driving cars get reliable I'd like to see any driving infractions immediately result in the revocation of a license to drive manually - it'd honestly be a pretty easy and socially acceptable way to roll over to a majority of predictable drivers quickly.
America's puritanical streak is a mile wide. We will ruin your life if you're doing something fun like drinking and driving, but we'll turn a blind eye if you're doing something equally reckless and dangerous like simply sending someone else a text message and not looking at the road.

Texting and driving should obviously be treated the same as DUI if we're going to be logically consistent about recklessly endangering your fellow drivers and pedestrians, but I'm not optimistic about that happening.
Monads, or Programmable Semicolons (2014)
You're assuming they made a conscious decision, as in the thought actually crossed their mind that "this might not be a good idea." I'd wager the thought never crossed their distracted mind. They're chasing dopamine rushes. In fact, I doubt many are making conscious decisions to pick up their phone and look at it. It's automatic at this point. They've programmed themselves.

Have you ever watched someone sitting alone lately? It's like this nervous tick happens where they get irritated and uncomfortable if they don't check their phone every 5 minutes. There is no attention span. We've programmed it out.
And we are not even close to the scale of an industry with world-wide relevance. Semiconductors is a nearly 500billion$ industry for example. If batteries reach 100billion$ we could probably expect prices well below 50$/kwh. That means you can put a sufficiently large powerwall into your home for around the price of a new laptop. That in turn enables homeowners to generate most of their energy needs themselves via (also cheap) pv arrays. This technology has the chance to completely turn around the home energy market.
Probably emigrate, to be honest. A brain drain or loss of labor might do the trick. It's the ultimate peaceful vote of no confidence. The system isn't changing right now because it works for those in power. Without bodies to do the work, they'll change their tone.

I don't expect this to happen, though. A lot of engineers are comfy with the top-tier healthcare provided by their employers, so they're likely not willing to leave America. (There are a lot of other perks of our country too, I'm just highlighting this one dimension. I'm certainly not going to leave over this even though I also feel my efforts to affect change are futile.)

I suspect that there are even people who believe healthcare isn't a right.
Having been involved in applications of speech recognitions since the early 1990s, I can say that modern speech recognition and connected-speech dictation is a near-miraculous acceleration of of technological progress in that area. I can speak into my wristwatch in a noisy bar to reply to a text and get reliable transcription. Amazing!
That rate only applies to fatalities as the result of motor vehicle collisions, which is likely going down because we keep making vehicles more and more tank-like. See: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/22/us/pedestrian-cyclist-dea...
> no ARM equivalent to ACPI

The ARM equivalent to ACPI is ACPI.

ACPI is not "between the board and CPU", it's "between the OS and the computer". Which is actually much more important. Writing drivers for bespoke PCIe, USB and SATA controllers is not fun. ACPI standardizes configuration of these things.
he signed an NDA and this whole article seems like muckracking and mud slinging to make Buttigieg look bad.

par for the course for Huffpost so its no surprise this article even got written
> There is no scenario whereby McKinsey would sue Pete Buttigieg, a rising political star and possible president of the United States...

I don't want a President who would break his word and violate a legally binding agreement just because he thought he'd get away with it.

That's not the kind of moral leadership we need.
The car would need to authenticate the driver as the driver, and each passenger as a passenger. Plenty of ways to do it. As an iPhone user, TouchID and FaceID come to mind.
After running some companies and seeing how PR works I have a lot of doubts that all the recent McKinsey articles in the last week are unrelated. That being said Id be surprised if Buttigieg was enough of a threat in the democratic nomination race to justify such a concerted effort.
I doubt that this would be nearly as useful as you think since so many apps are dependent on Google services these days and even the client libraries for them are proprietary. And then there's the fact that you're constantly playing catch up with what is effectively a closed platform with no real public roadmap that throws the occasional source drop over the wall and says 'good luck!'

It's unlikely today's Google is going to be interested in seeing these efforts succeed. So an Android app runtime would likely only really run software from 5+ years ago well. Better to focus on making a really solid Linux mobile experience, IMO.
Speaking as someone who lives in Manhattan, you won't get much sympathy with this complaint. Yes, honking can be annoying, and yes it's overused (especially by trigger happy taxis).

But it's the only way to actually get someone's attention sometimes. If you live in an urban area you should know what you're signing up for. People are going to honk, even if it's annoying to the rest of us living in the city.
Maybe petition your city to pedestrianize more roads? I've been successful at that in two places I've lived previously.
It's sometimes a little faster but also considerably less functional. The Guardian and Reddit both have AMP pages that are much worse than the actual pages.
The difference is that drunk people don’t stop being drunk when the red light turns green whereas most distracted drivers do stop being distracted.
In English the voiced/unvoiced distinction stopped mattering so merger of eth and thorn was warranted. A digraph is a sad compromise, but given sh/ch digraphs its now just a given standard in the language's orthography. It might be fun to use better letters for all of English's digraphs, but that ship has probably sailed at this point.
Location: Seattle
Remote: No
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Node.js, Typescript, AWS, Linux/GNU, Docker
Résumé/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1K5lrCY-3b7VJ8mjSDOJ7MP1AMlxTA9WcWXGQkSZyNgw/edit?usp=sharing
Email: cameronc56@ymail.com
I'm using it generate a "flush_database()" stored procedure (after applying the latest migrations), that means each "before each" of a test can "execute flush_database" to get a clean slate db for its boundary case (w/o having to know/lookup "oh we've got 10-20-50 some entity tables now").

So, yeah, just custom/minor infrastructure/tooling stuff that is based on the db schema.
Yes, it's mentioned once, in the context of her not having affordable insurance options.

> At 29, Brown works approximately 40 hours a week, splitting her time between a McDonald’s in Durham, North Carolina, and a food-service gig a local hospital. “It’s still not enough,” she said. Both jobs are part-time, and she doesn’t receive health insurance through either employer. She can’t afford insurance on her own, either. That’s a problem since Brown is diabetic, and she has to pay for her medical expenses out of pocket. She’s trying to do all she can on her own—she receives no food stamps or other assistance, she notes—but it rarely feels like she’s doing enough.
Do-Gooder Derogation
And the linked systems are mostly multiples of 48 cores and hundreds of GB of RAM. Totally different class.

A raspberry pi might be good for very small scale experimentation of little apps, but my 4GB model took months to arrive and doesn't come close to matching the performance of the smallest instance I would use at $DAYJOB.
Being a good-enough CPU for terrible software is a bit of a tragic conclusion, in my view.
It's also one of the few phones to have hardware baseband isolation - making you immune to IMSI catchers and other cellular-based attacks.
Lots of hyperbole there. Ring doorbells aren’t cheap and I pay for the subscription plan (fairly limited without it). It generates revenue on the subscription not the data.
I think the problem is there are candidates who do support it but they also support other things their electorate finds less favorable.

So it will require a “maverick” who aligns with them politically in major areas AND also supports FMLA improvements.
I think I will!
I am not certain but I think it might be social voting, where you get all your friends and neighbor to upvote on a thread. But then again HN crowd there are lot of beginning programmers.
Can someone post a non-paywalled link?
Props for posting a smile link!! :)
> It's a filter that proves someone who worked there is smart and hardworking.

Disagree

> It also explains their virtually universal requirement for an Ivy league (or similar) background.

This is all it is. It’s an indicator that you played the connections game well enough to get into an Ivy and kept up the skills after graduating.

You don’t hire from them for hardworkers. You hire from them for connected people.
Tickles my funny bone every time I see the industry jump on a new bandwagon that starts simple and then inevitably adapts to the real world that the old technology was addressing. When are we gonna learn folks?

Props to the author for the chart. He's actually providing real value to all the suckers, err, SREs stuck dealing with this stuff.
You’re correct. When making a site you have to make a trade off between “Advert supported” and “lightweight”. Pretty damn sneaky of them!
The problem is that it's killing people that aren't in cars, see: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/22/us/pedestrian-cyclist-dea...
>Unfortunately, this proposal will never happen. I know parts of it are extreme, but I don't see an alternative for fixing such a systemic problem which isn't extreme.

It also won't work. People will do what they want regardless of how many laws we try to pass and how much we try to control them. See: drug war, prohibition, minimum age laws, sin taxes, traffic violations, DUI laws, longer prison terms, etc. I don't know why people don't realize that, even with all the historical evidence.

The only thing that works to curb behavior is education. See: Truth commercials, "Now You Know" campaigns on TV in the 80s, MTV's Teen Mom, etc. I think you are attempting education but it smells a lot like authoritarianism. People don't react well to forced education either.
It seems like your problem isn’t with OOP, but with generics. (You would like Go.)
Have you used AMP reddit?
It’s also not possible to make a completely sober person be at peak focus and attention all the time as they drive.
Unless you were a college level athlete, I doubt you'd even be able to stop Messi from doing whatever he wanted ONCE in 100 plays. I was a sweeper for 10 years and I don't have any illusions that I could stop him from doing anything.

I don't know you but come on, we're talking about the 2nd greatest living striker (Ronaldo is first IMO) out of the most popular sport for 8 billion people, and you think you could hold a candle to him? After he has repeatedly embarassed the worlds' most athletic, well-studied and trained defenders?
I had a Palm V with a cell modem on it. It sort of worked- you could surf the web such as it was at the time, but nothing was integrated into the OS/app stack. Blackberry was probably the best example of making a network-aware device that fully integrated the network, os and application suite. It took Google a really long time to get Android on par with what a Blackberry could do.
This is definitely a hard question to answer and I have been struggling with it myself. It can feel like a monumental effort when it feels like you are one person doing it. It does feel like the tide is turning though as issues like single-payer become more prevalent. I would say seek out more sophisticated associations/efforts that promote the issues you are passionate about and make sure they don't have a problem staying afloat, by contributing time or (more importantly) money to them. That might be a more effective way to support your cause.
Thanks for the detailed reply. Good to know the strategy has been tried in practice.
Yeah, we changed the name from "Redux Starter Kit" to "Redux Toolkit" because folks were misinterpreting the word "Starter" to mean that it was a CLI tool like CRA, or that it was only good for beginners. Didn't want the churn, especially since it was after RSK had hit 1.0, but we had enough people telling us "I didn't even look at it because of the word 'Starter' in the name" that it was clear that had to change. Fortunately, the feedback on the name change has been almost universally positive.

And yes, RTK is intended to be useful for both new and experienced Redux users [0], and we're now recommending it as the default standard way to write Redux logic [1].

See the RTK v1.0.4 release notes [2] for the details on the name change.

[0] https://redux-toolkit.js.org/introduction/quick-start

[1] https://redux.js.org/style-guide/style-guide#use-redux-toolk...

[2] https://github.com/reduxjs/redux-toolkit/releases/tag/v1.0.4
Unions, unions, unions.
Is there any empirical evidence of the claim that ivy league and similar grads are objectively better analytical writers than the mean college grad, and if so, how much better? How is that quantified?

The only conclusion you can always make about someone who graduated from a prestigious college is that many people will find this impressive. That's not to say this has no value, clearly it does.
> The bus stops running at 10 p.m. on Sunday, but McDonald's asked me to stay until close at 1 a.m. They asked me to stay because they need my help. I know it’s going to be rough to find a way home, but I need the money so I said yes.

Cannot she ask them to pay for a taxi then? Also I didn't understand why she lives so far away from work.
Well cars have continued getting safer so the distracted driving might be having a large effect that is mostly cancelled out by safer cars.
Only sane response here and being downvoted to Oblivion.
> ...immortal being locked in a prison with just an Apple ][e...

Sounds like me as a teenager.
one of the most trivial annoying problems with switching between the two is the difference in how bookmarking works in FF vs chrome.

I have to use chrome for work cuz of a security rule of questionable legitimacy (to me).

in FF, you bookmark a page by dragging the tab into a folder.

in chrome afaik, you have to star it and then select what folder it goes into.

Ok.

Another thing, In chrome, if you context click inside of a bookmarks folder and create a new folder, it creates a nested new folder within the folder you clicked.

In firefox, thats not the case, wherever you click, i believe it creates the new folder at the top level, and then you can drag it to a sub folder. Its a small problem but if you're like me with lots of bookmarks[1], it is a pain in the ass.

[1] for example, i have a folder for every year, with a subfolder for each month, and whenever i find non-specific cool stuff, i toss the bookmark in this month/year folder. at this point i have these going back to 2016, and its become a cool sort of journal or scrapbook type thing. highly recommend this practice to ppl, and its basically the use-case of many 3rd party browser adons for bookmark management, but built into the browser by default.

anyway, long like firefox!
As a cyclist I used to use an air horn (Air Zound brand) for exactly the same purpose. Distracted drivers aren't looking, but fortunately their ears typically work whether they are paying attention or not!

Some people consider honking rude no matter the reason, but I think honking for safety is exactly the reason horns are added to vehicles. It's not rude at all, in fact, it would be rude to not honk as far as I'm concerned.
"Society tames the wolf into a dog. And man is the most domesticated animal of all."
-- Friedrich Nietzsche
Cell phone use is known to impair driving as much as being drunk, and texting more so.

Penalties need to be upgraded to match those of drunk driving convictions, and enforced as strictly as drunk driving is. Including manslaughter and homicide charges when the cell phone use is involved in an incident that results in deaths.
I dunno, I think it's good to look at these typefaces from a different perspective. An analogy would be examining a butterfly that has been pinned so that its anatomy can be examined up close. It's not as pretty or elegant as seeing it fluttering around outside, but it does let you experience it in a way that gives you information you wouldn't normally get.
Are you sure? Because I just created a barebones hello world. It works fine as a temporary add-on, but I can't install it from the file. Says the add-on is corrupted.

Then I downloaded a working add-on. It worked fine when installing from file. I removed the signing information. It installs fine as a temporary add-on, but throws the same error as the hello world.

I'm pretty sure that the add-ons need to be signed by Mozilla to install from file.
I have been on the "client" side of consulting engagements and a consultant myself. I think you identify the central truth of consulting: that usually we're not bringing any magic knowledge to the table.

However, I think there are other circumstantial values that appear alongside the one you identify. I find that consultants not only provide cover, but also provide a level of focus on non-immediate, but important, problems that doesn't otherwise materialize on its own. Nobody wants to be seen wasting the highly paid consultant's time so you often get people paying attention when they might not otherwise. There's also setting the stage for what ends up as a sort of professional group therapy sessions and with the consultant as a mediator. I think you touch on that, but maybe I see some greater emphasis on that bit.
Hard to read with light blue text on dark blue background
Most retirees are racing against the clock still - they aren't getting ever richer, and instead crunched the numbers and retired with what they hope is enough to get them to their deaths.
I agree this is an unpopular opinion - because if you want to watch a video than take the train or the bus - I read on my commute every day while I ride the train in.
On the occasions I've felt I needed to glance at my phone while driving, I've held it up and in front of me so I still had peripheral vision of the road. People using their phone and doing so from their lap or console, not to mention actually interacting with the phone... I can't even....

One time I switched lanes rather abruptly as the person in front of me was erratically speeding up and slowing down. (No, I wasn't tailgating; I think they were drunk or maybe having an argument.) The person in the next lane apparently got pissed that I merged so closely behind him and a few blocks later pulled up alongside me to yell. I apologized. From his perspective it was a dick move; I got it. The look of shock on his face when I apologized was priceless; he almost looked dejected.

People get so self-defensive; it doesn't make any sense. It's like people turn 18 and stop growing up. Their loss, I guess.

Whenever someone cuts me off or wanders into my lane, rather than getting angry I try to remind myself that that's me during an inattentive moment, which we all have regularly. We just don't realize when we have them because, well, we're distracted.
You change it. Better to change a nice solution than to keep adding small chunks to an already complex one. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_aren%27t_gonna_need_it
It seems like it could be used for declarative schema management (like https://www.skeema.io/) where you define the table structure you want in code and the application diffs a database and performs whatever changes is needed to reflect the requested schema.
Yes, it's substandard, but you can easily get to the main site. Also if you're googling for an answer from Reddit, I've found the answer is often in the first few posts anyway. Reddit is probably the only case I can think of where the AMP user experience is not ideal.
And then you get the added bonus of constantly having to replace your throw-out bearing /s
> Its easier to justify restructuring because mbb said so than because the company says so for some reason

Is it a legal thing? European regulation tends to be quite aggressive when people get laid off, so I imagine that an external assessment helps give some cover for that.
Really? I hadn't looked at Webpack 5 yet. If that's the case, that's great!
I once encountered a comment explaining a line of code saying

// speaks for itself
"Cannot she ask them to pay for a taxi then? Also I didn't understand why she lives so far away from work."

1) Its unlikely the 30$ she's worth closing or whatever is worth hirind the taxi about.

2) Moving is expensive, and moving to a more desirable location even moreso. She may not be able to afford the time to seek out a space, the credit to be approved, the deposit, etc.
Yeah exactly, the pride of this person is just silly. Unless he played at a top D-I school and did very well, there's no way he could successfully tackle the ball from Messi in 100 tries...I'd give a solid D-I defender a couple of tackles on Messi in all of those 100, the rest Messi would just easily dodge away, control the ball, create space, and then burn them or pass away from the inevitable double team.

It's like me in my 5th year of coding claiming I could out-code Linus Torvalds...like what?!?!
Why would McDonald's pay for a taxi for her? I can't imagine them doing that.

She might not live that far from work. It might be a 20 minute drive, but with the bus system in most towns in the US it's not crazy for that to take a couple of hours on a bus with walking (the closest bus stop to her is a 30 minute walk it said). I'm sure if she could get a job closer that pays as well she would've by now.