skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my opinion, the US does more to prevent civilian deaths than any other superpower. The evidence is in the fact that an insurgency, using civilians as cover for their operations, and engaging in covert warfare are being routinely defeated by American forces. Of the people killed, only about 3.8% are non-combatants. I don't know how accurate that reporting is, but if true that is amazing. To compare, World War II saw something closer to a ratio of 2:1 civilian to soldier deaths.

[1] https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/costs/human/civilians/af...
Every single day.

The reality is your attention had a cost, and the price of quality tap water is less than that cost.

We will also enable a donation based model for water. Future revenue generating opportunities include sparkling and flavored water at a fraction of the cost of what you would buy on the shelf at a convenience store. 65% of the cost of any beverage is packaging and transportation. By carrying your own bottle, you’ll save money, save the planet from plastic pollution, and yes, water will be free.
> Currently, the Tap Refill Station connects to an existing water supply line

Are you increasing access to clean drinking water, or are you profiteers freeloading on the back of public infrastructure? Consider that you are making the world worse, not better, please.
Can we changed Title to "Man killed by after market modification to car after remote start" or something, not "Lexus"
dont listen to hacker news

This is critical advice for a lot of topics.
Superstitious practices are the hallmark of highly luck-based tasks, and it would be difficult to describe most hiring practices at these kinds of companies as anything but superstitious.
This was a fun read.

It hits the nail on the head, but no one has any interest in changing the status quo.

If they did, it would change.

After encountering a ration of this kind of stuff, I tossed my "Buzzword Bingo" card in the trash, and set up my own gig.

Disappointing, but that's good ol' human nature. As long as folks keep getting A-rounds, there's no incentive to change.
In 25 years of signing employment agreements, I've never seen one that said, "the company ... owns everything they do on and off company time." Yes, if you're working on a Foo and you write a Foo on your own time, you'll have an issue.

Do you have any specific lawsuits in mind?
My favourite album from that genre is Lazerhawk - Redline. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpDn4-Na5co
I think you are still generalizing, say you bring me in your project, is your job to let me know how to integrate in your tools, there are too many tools out so I can learn them all. Like in Web when we bring a new developer we don't expect them to just start coding , maybe they did not used gulp but some other similar tool, maybe they did not used less but used css.

I am not sure why you would generalize that most Java developers can't use CLI tools or a VCS, there are some bad developers in the world and some of them are also writing shit in cool languages and spam everywhere some toy project like a TODO app and you see it upvoted just because is in Rust/GO or Shiny.js 7.0
I wonder if this would help.

https://web.archive.org/web/*/hardware%20drivers
There are places (even in the US) where people legitimately go and get their water. There are also places where people don't (but probably should). I have gotten sick off of drinking water from a state which will go unnamed in this public forum (if you would like to know message me) after my college roommate who did in-depth research on municipal water systems for a wall street firm, told me never to drink water from that state (so yes, that one's on me)
Processors may get smaller, but the size of dust remains the same.

The advances needed to achieve something like this are more in the realm of cleanroom advances than processor architecture.
Good luck for your meeting! They might have at least georeferenced source files, no? You might have an easier time convincing them to work with you if you point out that this is the best and easiest way of getting the location of the mine fields into many people's phones and pockets.
Classical suckage.
And hedgehogs form an array!:)
> Node is a gateway to Javascript fluency for people that get a headache dealing with the DOM in the browser.

Honestly, to me Node always sounded like the exact opposite of your description: a way for frontend development experience to leak into the backend at least in appearance so that people who were able to hack around DOM updates could argue that they could develop for the backend as well, thus paving the way to pad resumes with "full stack" experience.
Don’t these services have a “takeout” option like Twitter, Google? Where you can download everything for free?
DOOM soundtrack and Mr Robot soundtrack work really, really well for me.
Interesting, I should switch to that for some location-based action with my phone instead of IFTTT and see if I can make it work with Hauk or something similar.

https://github.com/bilde2910/Hauk

Disclaimer: I have no link with the Hauk project, just found about it by browsing the F-Droid store.
Very impressive simulation! For others unfamiliar with the term "lane sweeping", it means crossing/changing a lane during a turn. You must turn into the lane closest to you. https://cherinlawfirm.com/2018/01/what-is-lane-sweeping-and-...

(It's scary thinking a half-mile traffic jam starts at 4am... and I can't help but wonder what it looks like at more sane hours such as 8:30am or 5:15pm. Is everything just red for miles around?)
Normally I try not to contribute useless comments, but I found this to be a particularly hilarious, laughing-out-loud at my desk observation.
Would you modify vimrc at all on a remote server if you had to do some Python coding there? I mean maybe a few hours of coding, but you won't be coding again on that server, so you don't want to spend too much time configuring it.
serial entrepreneur, actually. I started a similar company but was too early, and invested in a successor. I’ve never been a VC.
This is halarious and terrifying. I can envisage groups of trolls who get together to captcha-troll lorries into buldings or worse for lulz and the terribly written legislation shoved in place to mitigate it before nation-states get in on the fun.
The commentary[0] of Igor Ashmanov, who was CEO of Rambler when they hired Sysoev, on the document in tweet:

Sysoev was developing in his work time, in the office, with company's equipment. (quote from the order: edit)

1. Bullshit. There isn't anything on that in our laws. You have to very accurately prove that there was an assignment on that. "In his work time" or "with company's equipment" - doesn't work. Everything's allowed - and IP is within authors.

2. Besides, when I hired Sysoev - it was in 2000 - we have talk specifically that he had his pet project and he'd have the right to work on it. It was called "mod_accel" or something, he renamed it in 2001-2002.

I can make a statement about that in court, if needed. And my partner in my companies, Dmitriy Pashko, then-CTO of Rambler, could, I think.

3. He had worked as a system administrator. Software development wasn't in his responsibilities at all.

4. I think, Rambler cannot provide any paper, more so an assignment, on development of a web server.

I asked our advocate, ..., to look what's going on. The lawyers of Runa Capital (edit: early investors of Nginx Inc.) already work in the case, so probably our help wouldn't be necessary.

I think, skunks would fail.

[0]https://roem.ru/12-12-2019/281134/rambler-nginx/#comment-292...

edit: link to the source
Be Optimistic About the Future
I found my favourite style for coding without thinking [1] is progressive rock/metal.

My favourite bands of the moment are Haken, Devin Townsend, Liquid Tension Experiment, Steven Wilson (et al). Also aptly named is French band The Algorithm. Want more extreme ? Try Pryapisme. More Jazz/fusion-y ? Nova Collective.

[1] as opposed to thinking without coding, which usually comes first and requires complete silence, paper and pen.
I never understood the bias on work attire from both sides. It's silly to judge people's abilities based on what they like to wear period. The whole point of casual dressing in Tech was that it made some people perform better, because it took them less time to get dressed in the morning, and they were physically more comfortable at work. But people are different, some people might genuinely code better or perform better if they wear a suit. The point is to let people wear whatever they're comfortable with, so they can perform at their personal best, within reason of course. We wouldn't want crazy people to show up to work in underwear or naked haha.
I really see both sides of this. It’s hard to get around the fact that OSS and GH activity really, truly, is a good hiring signal. It’s certainly one of many, and it’s not (nor should it be) the be-all, end-all hiring signal.

There are wizardly devs who stick to a strict 40 hour week. There are equally astounding devs who live, breath, and dream code all day every day. We’d all be lucky to work with both.

I don’t see a way around the fact that a public resume is just an enormously strong and quantifiable signal for hiring managers.
I do get that, and I'll be more sympathetic to hiring managers who want to see open-source code than I have been in other comments.

( Active job hunting tends to make one grumpy. Take home programming assignments are a current sore spot for me. )

It's a recent job posting that said "Requirement: OSS contributions" that seemed over the top. Maybe it's no less troubling than "Requirement: SQL expertise" - after all, we're all 'discriminated' against to some degree by not having experience in everything a future employer might want.

With the SQL requirement, however, there's an obvious drag on a project if they bring in a new hire who has no SQL knowledge. If a team working on OSS hires someone with no OSS experience - is that going to mean they can't contribute right away?
American here, can confirm.
Said the employee who will never get very high in the management hierarchy.

Why should someone want to climb the hierarchy? Well, we are not all satisfied with being paid disproportionately less in exchange for the meager luxury of being largely left alone in the quiet amusement of being a coder, only to be shoved out of a job when you hit 40. Earning a living does matter in life, whether we like it or not.

In the broader context of society, what this person is asking for is the dissolution of the City and a return to rural society. That is not ever going to happen, baring a catastrophic global failure of human civilization. Even then, if any humans remain they would quickly form into villages instead of "remoting" to the village.
They do have domestically produced ballistic missiles in the Middle east, for example Iran made those that blew up the saudi oil plant domestically (though they probably bought the jet engines from a Czech company). And Israel obviously has a bunch to put their nukes on.

I'm guessing the reason many don't build their own is mainly because most of find it easier to buy them from the USA or Russia as part of larger geopolitical deals.
you could probably figure out some cool insights about tech people's beliefs and opinions in aggregate with some clever NLP and sentiment analysis and some.... ahh, not asking for user's consent to use their data for that! classic.
I know we're not supposed to make short meta-comments - but that is genuinely hilarious.
Traditional media political ads can't micro-target people that are more likely get sucked into their made up "facts" and conspiracy theories.

They also are broadly broadcast so that they can be dis-proven and discussed. Instead they are hidden away only shown to people that won't question it.

If facebook wants to do political ads then it needs to disconnect them from targeting, publish them for public display, publish who paid for the ad, and moderate them to some basic level of being truthful.
I believe that people have a strong aversion to doing this. So many still refuse to believe Darwin for suggesting that we are closely related to other animals. Imagine the pushback for stating that we are just another species with higher intelligence? That hits us humans where we think we are really special and important. This keeps AI research safely in bed with ANNs that pose no threat to discovering deep and unflattering truths about ourselves and our place on Earth.
She was accused of making false statements to committing insider trading and the issues surround that claim, so they prosecuted her for statements they claimed false about a crime, insider trading, which they did not charge her with. So combined with charges of security fraud is what they ultimately got her with.

so how can you lie about something you are never taken to court for? if she was guilty of insider trading it would make sense to prosecute that, prove that, then that proves the charge of not telling the truth.

this is all part and parcel of federal prosecutions where they lay on as many charges as possible in order to intimidate you. Welcome to the world that led to Aaron Swartz's death.
I've been meaning to set up some kind of basic crawl & archive system forever. Ideally I'd like to output something replayable and analyzable like a WARC or HAR, but also spit out a PDF, which I think chrome headless should be able to do. Right now I just print to file if I want to "save" something. But your write-up is very thorough, that is basically the situation.

So much good unique content on youtube too which is almost impossible to properly archive due to size, my subscriptions alone would probably be over 1TB.

I'd like to write a basic tool that would take a PDF, i.e. of a book, and output a directory of PDFs of snapshots of all web links in the book, to create basically a full reference snapshot for a given book that could be stored alongside the book. Not sure if it work well and result in a reasonable size.
Interesting how similar these look to cave paintings in Europe. Is it convergent cultural evolution, or was this a result of some sort of cross-continent cultural transmission?

My guess is that the first paintings were painted much earlier than 44,000 years ago, although most of the older paintings have probably been lost to time.
Good point. This character is a staple of many old novels and films -- Arthur Hailey's novel Hotel (1965, adapted as a movie) has such a detective, who is corrupt and mainly wants to extract bribes from any guest who breaks a rule.
How does one add a category to an article to get it listed? Just figured it out. Should show when approved.
According to the warrant[1] it seems to be a criminal case.

Anyway, you should read up on the BSA copyright raids. Fortunately they seem to have fallen out of fashion.

https://mobile.twitter.com/AntNesterov/status/12050861295041...
Haskell gamedev. It can be used for most _everything_ .. game logic, graphics, art & animation pipeline, sound effect generation, music composition, etc.
https://github.com/victorqribeiro/scrap/blob/master/scrap.js

I wrote a Script that does something similar. In this case it is getting peoples name and image address (from facebook). I don't remember why I did this, but I never thought of making money out of it
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_noun#Terms_of_vener...
How about something like Tegola? https://tegola.io/
It's definitely older than that. I distinctively remember posting it in ~2010 if not before.
I was a remote full-time solo developer for a client (small UK-based medical team) for 6 years. All work done over email; 2 phone calls in all those years.

Could some things be done faster over a phone call? Probably. However, both me and the client preferred the async nature of emails and avoided calls as much as possible.
Pfft and you call yourself a recruiter. Eric here seems to have a background in economics and patents (probably has a PhD) - but he also has experience with Python and enjoys the board game GO.
Microsoft UEFI Signing Requirements
> Tailored suit? Seriously? Does that not smell like luxury? Why is that part of the discussion for workplace uniform?

You can get a suit off the rack for $200 and have it tailored at the time of purchase for maybe $20. Your mileage may vary, but that doesn’t smell like luxury at all to me. It sounds like a reasonable thing to own for people in office jobs. It is de rigueur in many parts of the world, including certain software engineering jobs in the US.

The suit will last longer than your $500 phone, too.

> Wearing a bad suit is embarrassing, and people at the upper echelons of the company almost always have better suits. It is a smell of class.

It doesn’t take much effort or cash to escape from “bad suit” category. I don’t begrudge people wearing better suits, it’s just one of a million ways people use to suss out money or class. Wearing a suit doesn’t make you more of a participant in class warfare than you already are.

Some people also use the suit to escape racial profiling. A white dude can get away with wearing a hoodie and jeans to work, but even though it’s acceptable at work, darker-skinned folk can run into problems with the hoodie-and-jeans outfit on their way to and from the office. Now, you can lay blame for those problems how you like, but think of the suit and tie as:

// FIXME: Temporary, remove suit when problems
// with racial profiling are addressed.
Reminds me of the line from Fredrik Pohl:

"A good science fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam."

The author has focused mostly on predicting the car. But I think it's much more thought-provoking to try to predict the traffic jam.

For example, the author was spot on regarding batteries:

> There will be a massively noticeable jump in the battery technology. If today, we are struggling to get the hybrid plug-ins on the road, in 10 years, electric vehicles will rule. Why? Because right now there are way too many people are working on improving the batteries – someone is bound to make a breakthrough. Most new vehicles sold will be electric.

What traffic jam-like consequences happen when every car is electric? Unless solar makes the giant leap forward predicted by the author, demands on the power grid shoot through the roof. That kind of centralization can make attacks of the kind described in the new book "Sandworm" even worse. The book describes the ways in which malware is being used to bring down critical infrastructure like power grids.

This one's also worth mentioning:

> Facebook will be history. People will simply get bored with it. It will be replaced by another fad.

Let's say it's true. What traffic jams could this cause? One that comes to mind is that what replaces Facebook is even worse along one or more axes. Less privacy. Greater addiction. Ever more centralization of the Web.
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Some of the oldest depictions of hunans (e.g. the Löwenmensch figurine) are, err, furries. Anthropologists have attempted to make all sorts of conclusions from this.
All 'researchers' or everyone?
Does anyone happen to know if there's a name for the "theme" that this site seems to be emulating in its terminal-esque design? It looks sorta like Monokai but with a really nice dark teal background.
You can get in touch with your local community to see what the current hot topics are. https://community.osm.be/ should hopefully have it.
Another thing I'd be interested in seeing modeled are the people who squeeze into an exit lane at the very last minute. I've only ever commuted in the LA area but it's one of the biggest contributors to traffic by the freeway interchanges.
Like those ads on gas pumps..

damn ads everywhere..
They all have an enormous effect on your life whether or not you use them. Yes, Google should be broken up too.
When I was looking for a new job last time I kept hitting these sites for these little start-ups who on their site had lifestyle type "about us" areas of their site.

One noted how ecologically considerate. They didn't mention anything they actually do that was ecologically relevant. They did have a photo(s) in that section were the team was outside in the midday sun at some wire tables you'd find at some coffee shops with their laptops working away and laughing ... I guess one of them had a water bottle ... maybe that was what I was supposed to pick up from that.

Anyway the whole lifestyle brand / company thing is weird generally.
And, because it is from SV, so it's trendy, it's not just advertising, it's a startup. again, /s
Facebook does, Instagram does not.
I think you are making of conflating how a socially raised human would behave in the the wild with how a feral human would behave. Despite nearly 8 billion people on Earth, we have very little data on human cognitive development when isolated from other humans.
I've tried this previously, and it seemed to be able to narrow it down to a particular street, but not a specific address. In the case of my address (in TN, USA) the first item in the list of results is just my street and the pin drops almost half a mile from my actual house.

However, just looking at it again now I see there's an "Online Search" button if you scroll to the very bottom of all the search results which seems to properly geocode the exact address. I'll have to play with it more to judge how accurate it is, but that's a convenience I wasn't aware of before.
On a 737 they are retracted early in the climb, typically between 1000 and 1250 feet. If the slight stick movement the pilot is accustomed to to bring the elevation down 2-3* fails to do so cause MCAS does not engage, there's not a whole lot of distance to recover from a stall then.
> The problem is it'll take over $1 trillion to upgrade US drinking water infrastructure.

That can't be possible — and I think estimation is way off. Even if there were a drinking fountain for every American (which I'm sure is an over-estimate by an order of magnitude as well), that would still imply an upgrade cost of $3,000 per drinking fountain. If there's a fountain for one in ten Americans; that's $30,000.

For context, most modern Elkay drinking fountains are around $1,000.

I think this overwhelming figure serves to enhance the point of the author but I think it bares no basis in reality.
Is your entire original comment meant to be read as sarcasm then?

Or are you advocating for the idea that history is arbitrary and it’s better to just have a simple story than to have to worry about what really happened?

I’m having a hard time understanding what idea you’re trying to position in this debate.
Ok, we changed to that from https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/98056533b96b6b5d8849641de9.... Thanks!
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The company I worked for made photo equipment, and had a lot of creatives on staff.

As such, they did not have the typical "We own the ideas you came up with in the shower" clause that most companies have.

Because of that, I was able to develop a fairly popular OS package (popular in a limited demographic, so it's not "A-List").
This has been posted here a few times:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16411227

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16407966

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21699498
Love your newsletter! Brilliant writing and I think I click on more of its links than most of the many I receive.
>But if you think programmers aren't elitist, try wearing a suit and tie to an interview sometime.

My first interview at a startup I was coming from an east coast finance and healthcare engineering background.

I wore a suit to the interview.

At the end of the interview the hiring manager said “we are going to make you and offer, but don’t come back in a suit go buy some comfortable clothes.”
> that comes out to 2.3t

2.3t per year, not per month, though.