skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the tricky things with a project like this is that banks are very leery of underwriting a mortgage on something that isn't a residence (I ran into this when I briefly flirted with buying an old fire station). Usually the best you can do is a construction loan at a fairly high interest rate.

But if you have California equity and are buying at Rust Belt prices (as in this case) you can just pay cash.
>It's simply not possible to have 100,000+ employees and less than 6 levels, unless you have managers with tons of employees

But I think that MS had 13 levels (IIRC joel) in 2006-ish, while the company had 7 in 1994 when he arrived ...
At my university there are a number of math requirements for the CS degree. A couple calculus courses, a couple linear algebra courses and a discrete math course. Each of them is the foundation for other CS courses, such as discrete math is for analysis of algorithms. Is this the case with these newer schools / approaches to becoming a software engineer? I for one really appreciate the math, but is it appreciated in industry? Curious to know.
> if anything they should be charging more for carry on board vs checked

Ryanair does that now.
Overhead bins tend to be under provisioned for the amount of passengers boarding.
I'm not a secret person, I'm a person with secrets. I exist and live a life with plenty of people knowing my name but I don't broadcast every single little thing. I keep some things secret.

(OK, I'm kinda secret here, because I'm not going to give anyone my email address. But I don't adopt a pseudonym in the physical world.)
Why not do if for less, if you are so dedicated to the supposed Mozilla cause? It is a non-profit after all. Random non-profit: Goodwill (way bigger than Mozilla) CEO makes $1,114,375[1]. PETA's CEO makes $31,285[2]. TOR Project executives receive $0 compensation[3].

[1] https://paddockpost.com/2018/02/03/executive-salaries-at-goo...

[2] https://www.peta.org/misc/how-much-money-does-ingrid-newkirk...

[3] https://www.torproject.org/static/findoc/2017-TorProject-For...
I just downloaded this app. I can't wait to use it to help grow my clientele.I also think it will be really cool to use with my quilting freinds.
> I'm really interested in how you benchmarked that?

You can benchmark disks, including seek time and speed at different points, using the tools "bogodisk" and "bogoseek": https://djwong.org/programs/bogodisk/
Thank you for bringing me up to speed!
But the flip side to tech is also ageism, which is a serious issue.

Maybe things will get better down the road, 20-30 years from now; But as it is now, a lot of the good paying companies will be very hesitant in hiring you once you're old enough.
One of the problems is people who put their carry on luggage 4 or 5 rows down from their seat. This should just not be allowed, period.
It's not as valuable in and of itself as monitoring SMART counters. We've only had a single SSD report failures during a long test, and it also reported an uncorrectable error. However, not finishing the test is a good proxy for if a drive is overloaded and less able to perform routine housekeeping.
Nonsense, there have been multiple cases in the west, e.g. John Chambers at Cisco, Michael Kneeland at United Rentals, Dan Price at Gravity Payments, Nicholas Woodman at GoPro.
From the article:

> With only one level, there’s nothing to worry about. With only two levels, a boss and those who report to the boss, the boss has skin in the game, no boss causing problems for them, and not enough reason to reward bad outcomes. With three levels, there are middle managers in the second layer, so one should be wary.

Based on this wording, it seems like the CEO and the people under the line managers count as levels (levels though maybe not levels of middle management). By that reasoning, this structure would indeed be 6 layers.

In reality, it varies by division if you are in a large company. If you join at the bottom of the legal department at Google, you probably have fewer layers above you than if you are a junior dev working on android.
The obvious issue is, people sitting in rows are often together and want to disembark together. Often they are elderly or children, and need to disembark with the others in their row.
The Unofficial Apple Archive Is on a Mission to Save Apple History
> 5 years ago you would build a frontend website one way, now you'd use a completely different set of tools/technologies. Wait 5 years and it will have completely changed again.

This is certainly true of web front-end work, yes, but that's the most fad-driven area of software development.

Operating systems' kernels are still written in C, though, just like in the 70's. (Well, a different version of the C language, granted.)

> Plus many industries have some form of enforced standards or monitoring, whilst software certainly does not.

Indeed. Only in a very few specific sectors, such as aviation, are there formalised standards.

Incidentally, modern medical ethics are very different from the Hippocratic Oath.
The way that I'm reading the "browse-up" scenario, however, isn't how you're describing it. Admins wouldn't "secure connect to another host"-- they'd have to use a trusted and known-clean device to perform all that administrative activities. Connecting to that device from another host (i.e. using it as a "jump box") seems to be specifically disclaimed as an "anti-pattern".
Recently meaning 1 month ago
This (above) is so simple minded, but please don't downvote it into oblivion, because such ignorance should be exposed and countered.
Is it? Others that come immediately to mind:

1. Intentional or accidental development of a biological weapon that would wipe out the human race.

2. Asteroid strike sufficient for same.

3. Nuclear war, same.

4. Takeover and eventual decimation by AI of some form.

5. Reproductive failure (think falling sperm counts).

6. Failure to thrive, as a species.
Cleaning happens between deboarding and boarding, not in parallel.

Normally there are no particular checks that can't be done from the cockpit at turnaround.

Refuelling takes less time than that typically.
Individual Contributor. US businesses-speak for "not a manager".
Just terrible legislation with lots of collateral damage. Hope it gets repealed or amended.
If bad aliens exist and they are in the neighborhood, they could destroy us at any time. A culture that can travel to Earth from wherever they come from could divert asteroids towards us.

If they exist, we are at their mercy.
Marketers are usually pretty good at selling themselves.
There are also dedicated benchmarking tools that will plot disk performance as a function of LBA (logical block address).

Also worth pointing out that sticking to the front of a spinning disk doesn't just help throughput, it also helps latency as the head doesn't have to move as far.
While I respect your opinion, it presents a false choice because you implicitly accept this reality. Technology enables these extrajudicial killings and further developing and deploying more technology legitimizes its use. Drone strikes have expanded at the pace technology has made them feasible, though the threats have not.

The dilemma they present you with is perfectly designed for engineer minds (like me and you) who love to solve problems, increase efficiency, and feel moral about it. In short, it's a trap to get us talking about the wrong things, stuck in details.

This is the gradient that pushes us towards dystopia. They feed us fear and lies, take preemptive steps, and we get stuck arguing technicalities, legalities, and tuning up the war machine.

So, in short, I fully reject this framing and urge you to do the same.
He didn’t not support gay marriage, he actively gave money to oppose it. That’s a little different.
You think it's beneficial. The people who are angered by the rudeness would not perceive it as beneficial.
If I remember correctly he didn't get fired for just not supporting gay marriage, he got fired for donating to some bill that was trying to prohibit gay marriage. That's quite the difference.
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Um.. yes, you are correct. Mozilla Corp is, however, a subsidiary of Mozilla Org with all its 503(c)(3) tax goodies that come along with it.

Can you see how that it can be perceived in less than charitable way?
Historically the peaks of Freemasonry in America were around the time of the revolutionary war, civil war, and two world wars. Being a fraternity first and foremost - soldiers abroad found brotherhood and companionship together in freemasonry - their numbers soared around this time as new initiates joined. Since the 70's or so the fraternity has seen a steady decline of membership not to dissimilar to the decline of religious institutions.
Chrome and WebKit are not the same thing. It's actually very similar to saying "C/C++": they've diverged a huge amount.
They can provide decent server-side services that integrate with Thunderbird, for example. There's a hole in that market.
> what used to be standard with the ticket

Base tickets are cheaper now however.
Since a lot of Ryanair flights are relatively short hops, that would at least cut down on refueling time, if not just fuel every couple of legs if the economics work out.

Cleaning is definitely sometimes abbreviated, I've been at the stand for a Ryanair flight in Leeds, seen the previous passengers get off, then they boarded us five minutes later (the inbound flight was late, so maybe not standard practice)
Zero Trust Architecture Design Principles
is this too fast
Yeah it would be interesting to hear of the feature that Edge could not support.
If this was easy to do, Office 365 and GSuite wouldn't have a lock on the market.

IBM can't even be bothered to try anymore - they sold off the carcass of Lotus a while back.
You should email this to the mods using the Contact link in the footer, as they'll be able to see your comment and respond to it.
Circling back late on this one. Lots of article, many rehashing the previous articel. Common themes seem to be "improperly tied" and "magically untied itself" which to me implies "improperly tied" again. No fault with the figure 8 tho. When we rappelled, and in ROTC mountaineering we used bowlines and Army Gold Braid lines. That should date me.
Ah, the classic - "we are producing REAL software over here".

Always reminds me of this: https://steenschledermann.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/no-tha...
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Hmm I don't know. I switched to FF 4 months ago and while the engine and dev tools are great, it's simply not as polished as the competition.

For example just look at the alert popups[0], or the non native contextual menus, or the video pop icon. The UI is full of little quirks like that. The tab bar is by far the ugliest one of all current browsers, at least on macOS.

It also misses important features such as multilingual spell checking. For people writing in multiple languages it's a real PITA. I know this functionality can be added with an extension but it slows down FF too much IMO.

[0] https://imgur.com/lODjWSm
>Also consider that the people paying for expensive seats might be sad if they don't get to board early which again might affect airline revenue.

Consider they would be pissed if overhead bin space isn't available for them so they have to jet way check their carry-on luggage and then wait when they arrive or find overhead space further back the airplane which just leads to a cluster mess trying to deplane upon arrival.
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How does one prevent themselves from being consumed by existentialist thoughts caused by climate news?

I really have had a lot of trouble concentrating lately because things just don’t feel important to me anymore...
Last time I was doing web dev (maybe 2 years ago), I worked primarily in Firefox and Safari. Chrome presented more issues for me than Edge ever did. I don't think I ever had anything work in Chrome, and fail in Edge.

I lived through the IE6 years, so I was never thrilled with any version of IE I had to support, but Edge was actually a good browser. Strange UI, solid engine.
I saw (just the seat in front) someone taken ill.

The crew left the seatbelt sign on, and paramedics in uniform boarding meant everyone got the message.
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TLDR: https://tabletoprpg.io

Greetings, and Happy New Year.

I've been working on a virtual tabletop for my friends and I to play Dungeons and Dragons. We've been gaming together since we were kids and virtual tabletops have been a great way to stay in touch over the years. I am releasing what I built for free because feedback and support will make the best application possible.

I would like to make Tabletop RPG the place to go to create, play and publish games.

There is a long list of features so I created a YouTube playlist that goes over creating an RPG map with animated backgrounds, Combat Tracking, Character Sheets, and more.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktiepMgFLeY&list=PLG7QDFs8naH6TOIIrXeo1meVh7wzbELAi

Early user feedback was "Stop everything and work on custom character sheets." So I stopped Fog of War development to work on a character sheet creator that will export to PDF and also exist as an interactive tabletop character sheet.

Character Creator Update #1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPonSOZYgDE&t=1s

Thanks for reading, if you made it this far I am very grateful.

ASK: If you play game systems that are not D20 and want some features or tools added please comment. I think you are under-served but I am not familiar with systems outside D20.
I don't know what it means to say "that's how natural selection works" in this context. At times, evolutionary pressure favors cooperation and altruism.
When have you last used it?
Only if all algorithms are affected the same way by the same external factors, which simply doesn't happen.

It's like when a Toyota and a Freightliner crash into the same wall. They both crashed at the same speed, why is one damaged more than the other?
So basically the perfect combination if you want to boot a Raspberry Pi from a single partition for some reason. I like it!
My experience is that yes there's lots of shuffling around, but people politely ask others if they accept to change seats.
I will never forget the first time I went to a friends house and saw the Kinect.

Of course I asked for a demo, and my friend proceeded to play a volleyball game, within about a minute he jumped in the air to spike the ball...his hand went right into the ceiling fan.

It seemed like amazing technology before/during/after the demo, but I never even bothered trying it after witnessing that.
How do you store your private keys to prevent the government from simply seizing those?
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A few things I’ve been using without EdgeHTML support: #rgba and #rrggbbaa in CSS, <details>, Custom Elements v1. On my personal website, I have deliberately chosen to no longer polyfill these or change my process to avoid #rgba in the final CSS, so various background colours are missing, the light/dark theme switcher doesn’t collapse (it should start collapsed), and a terminal recording will be missing in an upcoming blog post.

mix-blend-mode is another thing that EdgeHTML doesn’t support that I was using for a bit, but I stopped using it because I kept finding critical bugs with it in Chromium, most notably https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=992398 which was impossible to work around, simply stopping rendering the page after 8192px!
I think that alert's design is actually a _feature_. Safari made a similar change a while back not make the alerts look like system UI, to prevent phishing and similar attacks.
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I think exiting should be "without bags in overheads - Now!" followed by front to rear general.
People did die on Aeroflot Flight 1492 because they didn't listen to instructions to leave their luggage behind.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/columnist/mcgee/2019/0...
> the 6 layers isn't really true, in part due to line managers can manage 15-30 people

Yes it is, IMO; any layer above line managers over nonprofessional staff should have a span of control not greater than about 3-5 subordinate managers with full-depth (1 level less than the manager) organizations and a similar number of supporting staff that either have no reports of their own or supervise organizations about 2-3 levels less deep than the manager above them. Yes, lots of real organizations have broader spans of control, but lots of real organizations also are what the author describes as “immoral mazes”.
They’re still using a rails setup for their core services. But, this core falls over with him RPM. It’s failed in nearly all flash sales it has had to handle.

Rails is great. But commerce is heavy and I don’t believe Shopify can keep its existing core code base around much longer without a significant change to aid with performance.
You are correct. But his videos aren't presented as "this is possibly the best way, and it should be further investigated." They're presented as "This is the best way because I say so, even though I haven't done any testing but I'm a college professor and on YouTube so you should believe me."
There's a documentary on Netflix, I think it's called "Speed" or something because it's about fast stuff, had an episode about doing Monte Carlo simulations of plane embark / disembark sequences that were optimal. They came up with optimal boarding processes but it required individual seat assignments which was a problem for kids (not to mention a ton of explaining). I forget if Southwest's semi-randomized approach was the next best, or boarding groups - I think it was randomized.
> once FF is no more, what's stopping Google from slowing closing off even more parts of the browser to just Chrome?

Nothing is stopping. In fact, they already do that with Android. Starting with version 5, AOSP barely improves, but they add more and more and more proprietary APIs like Firebase, severely limit background apps, pushing developers to use proprietary push notifications, with each release more and more functions are tied to Google Play Services. [0]

[0]: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/07/googles-iron-grip-on...
>The AMA is the association of doctors. Why should they be responsible for paying for the training of more doctors?

Because an Association of Doctors with no Doctors to represent seems like a rather sad sight doesn't it?

Also, considering it is the main force behind setting the barrier to entry, it seems like a bad idea to cut them off from the consequences of the policies they push for by letting them off the hook in terms of not having a fundamental part to play in the training up of new medical talent.
It's corporate-speak: Individual Contributor (aka not management).
given Mozillas funding and the fact that most users don't care about browser marketing (except for sneaky performance "tricks" or Google's "want some more speed"-in your face mechanism) I really think, they should focus on the core (e.g. building a browser) and just leave politics (e.g. "safe-sync", "better media integration" - e.g. pocket) out of it completely... And yeah, I'd be more than happy to subscribe to my browser-vendor at this point if this means freedom or not.
But not if I look at what Mozilla (and wikipedia) which are raking in money from corporate shills and still want my money to develop their "business" (which is very much specified and as a not-for-profit I don't see the need to "expand")
Come to think of it, did Microsoft ever consider replacing their rendering engine with Gecko, rather than Blink? I'm surprised they ceded such control over the future direction of the web to Google.
It matters if said "global leaders" happen to manage loads of cash.

When Blackrock's CEO states his firm will divest away from fossil fuels in 2020, this has (sadly imo) roughly the impact of e^9 climate scientists ringing alarm bells for a decade.
Yep. It's almost like the privacy law in the EU was written with no mind paid to how the world of online interactions actually works.

I anticipate enforcement will go about as well as enforcement of drug policy goes in the United States.
> We will all be driving around in tanks before long.

Car doors are close to a foot thick now. The cars are getting huge which means more space is occupied by the streets (increased lane width and space in intersections for larger turning radius), the parking lots (larger parking spots and wider spaces to drive between them), etc. The mental isolation between driver and environment is growing and does not seem to be decelerating. I'm convinced that maybe 10% of all drivers (in my area, suburban SV) pay any attention to what's happening behind them. They don't have to care, so they don't!

Cars are devouring mobility.
I wouldn't underestimate the effect of culture, I would just tend to assume that something about Japan has caused its culture, rather than culture itself being a primary cause of attitudes towards lost property. In other words, I wouldn't consider "it's just their culture to respect lost property" a useful explanation.
I have a friend here in U.S. who runs their practice like this. They don't make any money at all at this kind of price. They should be charing each patient more like USD 200 per month.
At the least, it may be reasonable to also consider a gRPC iface (if you don't already have it).
I did not know that. It is odd though. I used to remember no one cared what about your Views as long as you were good at what you did. CS was as close to meritocracy as it could have been. It is a shame.
Indeed, coming from the software world (as I suspect many HN readers are), concepts obvious to production engineering are novel to me.
This seems more like dynamic vs static language advantages, rather than js vs ts.

I'm a big static language proponent, but we have to ask ourselves, is typescript simply popular as it's kinda statically typed?
Funny when I came to post my diary app, I saw this haha

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22058792
Funny you mention this. I just today had to implement a painful workaround for Shopify's insanely short timeout on product image uploads. On submitting an image url, you apparently get 4s to complete the whole transfer.

I found hundreds of people complaining about this in the community forums, going back years. If you're dynamically generating images, or on a congested network, 4s is far too short.

Since this is a simple config property, the only justification I can imagine is that they are trying to restrict the amount of time that their (single-threaded, memory-hungry) instances are occupied. Because of Ruby's poor resource management, a core part of their API is barely usable.

I'm pretty disappointed.
Conservative != bigot/anti-gay.

We do have a brood of reactionaries attempting to blur that distinction like they always do, but there are plenty of conservatives who do not share that particular bias.
I actually didn't try to let it autodetect... until now.

~/cursedfs% sudo mount cursed.img mountpoint/
mount: /home/kuba/cursedfs/mountpoint: more filesystems detected on /dev/loop0; use -t <type> or wipefs(8).

It's too smart :/
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Bloated headcount destroys most software. People still think you can throw more people at it and it will get built faster and better, as if we were building the pyramids.
I think GP meant they'd accept a lower return if it has other beneficial outcomes, as green energy does.