skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I often wonder whether my experience was not representative

Everything you described is concordant with what I saw on my surgery rotations in medical school, and everything I've seen of surgeons in the hospital since then. Especially the mean-spirited and ungrateful patients. The ones that hurt, though, are the ones that come into the hospital hostile and confrontational from the outset.

"I know exactly what I need, and exactly what you need to do, and you're going to do it, or I'm going to have your balls!" I mean, that might be true. Sometimes it is. Sometimes it isn't. But nothing about talking to me like a rabid dog is going to make the process any better. And honestly, if you know your health, that's great - that will be very helpful. But ignoring other things it can be that masquerade as what you've got would be tragically irresponsible, so please don't bite my head off when I address the other conditions on my differential. I'm not ignoring you, I'm just trying not to be negligent.

Some patients will understand that, if we're given time to talk to them like human beings. But we basically never are, which makes things terrible for everyone.

The constant make-or-break tests and quasi-lotteries are a particularly apt description of medical school, and why - IIRC - the most recent stats put medical student rates of anxiety disorders at almost 50% of med students, and depression at approximately 30%. We absolutely destroy young physicians right at the outset. Studies of physician compassion have found that med students' compassion drives into the ground somewhere in third year - not with their first "your entire career relies on this" exam, but with their first exposure of what medicine has become, and how patients will be treating them.
Idle thought I had a while back: Let people who don't have anything in the overhead bins get off first.
> This makes the economics of nuclear just horrible, as it needs to be selling its power at a good price most of the time to make ends meet.

Nuclear is not uneconomical just because it only needs to run 50% of the time. That would just mean the price is double; there's no technical obstacle there.

If twice as expensive is too expensive to compete with batteries (it is not), then nuclear is not economical period.
I don't get why Microsoft gets a pass here vs Google, given its insane mal/ad/spy/ware crap default settings in Windows 10, including sending MS all kinds of telemetry, logging into Windows via an online login etc.

Firefox over this crap all day.
The minute Mozilla goes bankrupt and Firefox loses funding is the minute the internet is dead. Imagine only having a single client for HTTP (Chrome/WebKit).
I kinda disagree, as a huge Mozilla fan. I think their technical development is fine, if not fantastic (especially for all they're doing with WebRender/Servo).

Personally I'd like to see them roll out paid privacy products. Like Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1. I currently pay for that, and if Mozilla rolled out a similar service across the Firefox ecosystem I'd gladly pay for that too.
> As soon as the announcement goes out that the boarding process will begin shortly, a dozen people from Groups 4 and 5 will rush to their lines.

If you're boarding in a late group, overhead space will likely be at a premium, so you want the best chance to claim that space and not have to gate check.
> the consistent global drop in insect populations has far more to do with deforestation and chemical disbursement

That is climate change as a result of human behavior, is it not?
Out of curiosity, do you own any consoles?
The npm client largely resolved the issues Yarn was created to solve. I used Yarn for a while, but eventually switched all my projects back to npm.
If you'd like to start with a furnished studio in berkeley, I know someone with a vacant unit.
'elaborate vocabulary surrounding snow' != 'hundreds of words for snow'
This chart feels a bit disingenuous given that Mozilla's form990s show Eich's salary tracking along basically the same line until his departure in 2014.
Read more about his background and you'll see why. Cancel culture is definitely real. (There was a post here from WSJ the other day about it - wasn't great since it was more of a whinge, but there are some legitimate examples of "cancel culture" happening, and they are increasing in the tech industry).

tl;dr he was fired for having conservative beliefs, and nobody in the valley would touch him. So he went a founded Brave instead.
Look at the recent fires in Australia. Can you directly attribute the cause to climate change? Probably not. Should the government be held morally reprehensible based on their support for coal power? Yes, absolutely. They do not deserve the benefit of the doubt. Politics has a lower threshold of proof than science.
If a hire is made, the employer will apportion the bounty to everybody who helped sourced the final candidate, so it pays to spread these links where appropriate.

I don't understand this part. So let's say I recommend someone to apply for a job. I get the bounty? Who else would it be shared with?

If someone else shares my link to someone and that someone gets recruited, how does the system know that someone else invited him?

Cool idea anyway
This is where being a jerk would be beneficial for everyone. Simply put, the person at the front of the line should basically just ignore everyone and move forward. People aggressively jumping in gaps would even be OK because it would give people in the back time to grab their stuff and get organized.

Being polite is what ends up slowing everyone down. (the same is not true for boarding. Back to front outside columns to inside columns would be far faster)
by forking Chromium.
I feel like a "secret organization" wouldn't be listed in phone directories or have public websites.

Every government and corporation has a few secrets, but I don't think they're "secret organizations", rather, they're "organizations with secrets".
He got cancelled for not supporting gay marriage. Nothing he has actually personally done or will do matters in this new moral calculus.
I wonder why there is so little research on creating/analyzing vector art and vectorising existing images using ANNs.

There are so much possibilities there: using closed circuits or gestalt blobs for colorizing, flawless style transfer and art/non-art separation, generating detailed sketches from words and rough drawings etc.
I didn’t express admiration, I just pointed out the reasons the people have such high trust and cooperation.
Like who for instance? Basically only Blink, WebKit and Gecko are usable non-toy web engines these days, and they're all backed by big companies with deep pockets and many engineers.

Opera's long gone, now it's a chromium fork. Internet Explorer is gone, now MS uses a chromium fork. The hype new browsers like Brave and Vivaldi are just chromium under the hood.

It's like the difference between making a Linux distro and maintaining a full OS.
Not only there are assigned seats on Ryanair (since years at least), but you have to pay to select one and they purposely place groups/families separately to make them choose to pay extra.
It's not just a structural limitation, there's also a limitation to how much energy the brakes and tires can absorb. Landing at a higher weight requires a higher landing speed, so more energy to dissipate. At very high weights, the tires/brakes will catch on fire during/after landing.
My first day in Japan I fell asleep on the train. I woke up to a train employee telling me to leave the train. I grabbed my bag and left in a daze, only to realize too late that I left my duffle bag on the top shelf. I reported it and was assured that it would be found. 2 weeks later they still hadn't found my bag but kindly told me that it must have been a Korean.

Um. Well, that was 20 years ago. I'm sure things are different now.
I lived in SF for a decade. You’re simply not paying attention if you think they’re the same market.

Ask a 30-something FAANG employee living in SF if they’d take a nice Menlo Park apartment over their place in the Mission. Or Palo Alto. Or even South SF. It’s just bizarre to suggest that these are equivalent.
…no. You have the timeline reversed for at least one major one.
Show HN: How I Gain Access to One of Google's Internal Management Interface
Wouldn't a good solution be to pay doctors less and train more doctors? We pay our doctors really well by international standards, but we are also really good at burning them out.
What "foundational pieces of Mozilla and (arguably) the Internet" did Mitchell Baker "directly author"?

If you make a claim like that, you need to provide some evidence or citation to back it up.
If helping the US government = evil, then why are none of the big defense contractors on the list. I worked for one, an email went out to support the companies PAC to lobby for contracts and support politicians. Do you think it was to support anti-war or pro-war candidates? That's pretty f*g evil.
> short petrochemical companies

Is it that obvious? The harsher the world gets, the more oil we'll need to survive. I'm not sure we'll refrain from using this energy if it can provide short term relief.
People without stuff should sit next to the aisle. (and get on last)
>you can pretty easily analyze and counteract the effect.

How? From my previous research I've found that it's one of those things that even if you know you're being tricked, it still affects your decision making.
Ryanair solved that problem by charging for having a carry-on. They only sell the space they have.
Mozilla Corporation is NOT a non-profit.
Mitchell Baker is the executive chair and interim CEO.
Well, it's been a truly amazing place to work, and I've enjoyed it so much, right up until being laid off today. Really the smartest and coolest engineers I've ever known and the best community! I have had my hand in shipping every version of Firefox since around version 30 and it's been great. Especially working in such an open environment. Onward to the next adventure.
Running a company such as this is like living in a shark tank. Powerful, convincing people are going to lobby you to do what they think you ought to be doing. See the recent privatization of .org for how things can go wrong. You need the right person at the helm with strong convictions.
I threw together a simple Sheets V4 integration in Node from the docs a few days ago and it really wasn't that bad. Only pain point was that I tried on a whim omitting the callback, and learned that that gives you a promise. Presumably documented somewhere, but I didn't RTF the whole M. But I avoided OAuth and instead created a service account and then required that the user share the doc with the service account email.
I agree with the concept that it is turning into something else, as I see DevOps/SRE/CI/PM people doing QA work through trying to just make the thing go. It just is leaving a lot of gaps in longevity, complex setup, and building tests either manual or automated to do that better. In the last dozen or so teams I've interfaced with this is just getting worse as I'm seeing lots of situations where things like backup/restore breaks from the last hotfix, upgrade a system a few sequential versions, and only covering X-1/X critical features in ordinary testing. These are things that a traditional QA team would cover after it burns the business/org in one way or another, but since it's not a core focus of some of these people covering parts of the same role it's leaving a lot of not-obvious gaps in a lot of groups.
Runtime type checking is necessary to ensure data received from untrustworthy sources matches compiletime types.
I doubt the only products you buy are cucumbers, tomatoes and gas. You've chosen your phone, laptop, car, and various other branded items. Advertising very likely played a role in your decisions there.

How can you actually be sure that advertising doesn't work on you? Of course, you don't see an ad on TV for a new smart fridge and immediately jump out of your sofa, wallet in hand, to go buy it. But the key thing is that _nobody does_. That's not the point. The idea is that six months down the line when your fridge breaks irreparably and you're deciding between different brands, those ads will have an influence, and you won't realise it.

People who think advertising doesn't work on them _are godsends to advertisers_. This article puts it quite well, although I don't agree with its conclusions[0]:

"If you don’t believe advertising works on you, you are going to be more likely to see good advertising as something else entirely and be more receptive to it and thusly more likely to take the action I want you to take."

There was a study a few months ago which found that people who think they are immune to advertising are more susceptible to it than average, but I can't find a link. It was one of the things that changed my opinion on this: I also used to think I was not susceptible to most advertising, but this is a dangerous mentality. You just don't think you're susceptible. I've come around to thinking Bill Hicks was completely right on this [1]

Also with the Metromile point, that's not bad targeting. Ads are often targeted at existing users of the ads product. The point is to keep brand loyalty and limit buyer's remorse.

[0] https://medium.com/@dahanese/advertising-works-don-t-believe...
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHEOGrkhDp0
AFAIK there's no explicit rules against telling others that you're a member of the brotherhood
I am responding specifically to the claim that Mozilla is short on resources because Google has a thousand people working on Chrome.
Ask HN: popularity, traditions, mix of both?
In a company, an architecture team main directive, should be, governance of technologies used without the need to baby sit developers.

Let’s make an assumption the former was true, empirically, what is the best approach for governance of new user based web applications. Let’s make an assumption about users. Company is highly customizable and almost all users are internal employees.

Should the approach for building and hosting the new web app be to use a new and more popular technology stack like react with rust added? Or use a framework where most ‘legacy’ apps are already supported and being upgraded to less legacy counter parts like ASP / .net.

I don’t want to put personal opinion on the text here but hopefully I’ll keep up with the conversations!

I understand to some things like spinning up servers, vms, and more network related protocols may drive the choice of stack, but for arguments sake we should ignore the relevance of these items.

Thanks for your feedback!
> They're publicly well known, and as far as I'm aware they don't have any rules against telling people you're a member.

2B1ask1 is a Freemason slogan: To become a Freemason, ask one about joining.

http://freemasoninformation.com/2b1ask1/

In fact, from the page:

> If you are seeking Membership YOU MUST ASK a Mason or a Masonic Lodge for an application.

Can't very well ask one if the fact they're Masons is supposed to be a secret.
Developers are just turning into glorified hatracks at this point, and the results are discouraging. It's no wonder that people burn out when they are expected to do ever more and more with less.
Creating a language 20 years ago doesn't mean you're responsible for everything the language produced. If javascript didn't exist something different would have taken it's place and produced just as much value.
The vulnerability is specific to the API accepting different parameters for the curve. That wasn't in any versions of the crypto32 api pre Win10.
Haskell is the epitome of linguistics - it took a bet on an arbitrary set of conditions - lazy evaluation, immutability.

These linguistic choices inform the rest of the language - monads were only invented as an escape hatch out of the prison the language designers put themselves into!

If you think we ought to spend some more decades researching how to walk using our hands instead of our feet for getting around and are excited about the upcoming scientific literature regarding hand strength exercises required and all the rest of it, no problem. Most everyone else is walking using their feet just fine - they are solving other problems, namely real world problems that involve walking places.
You can still do random assignment but never allocate the same ID twice. There are a bunch of methods to do that quickly and securely - for example use the result of encrypting a counter with a key only the kernel knows.

There are benefits to sequential allocation - for one thing, the PID doesn't need to be stored anywhere (which can matter on very low memory machines), and optimizations can be made when there are only a handful of PID's.
Kinect: The Velvet Underground of game development tech [1]

[1] https://quoteinvestigator.com/2016/03/01/velvet/
I would like to see the carry-on to go away. I understand the consequences would be quite harsh at first, but I do believe the airports and airlines would eventually figure out better ways to handle luggage and we would all be better for it.
It is definitely a great browser. I think the market share dropping has a lot to do with browser lockin on specific hardware, and site-specific apps being used more and more. We are losing more and more of the open, public infrastructure of the open web.
>Right side is awful (just like many parts of post-Vista Windows) with apparent grayscale AA

By "post-Vista" you mean Windows 8 and later? Vista and 7 (its refinement) were the peak of subpixel-antialiased ClearType with the Segoe font. It was with Metro and its animated, rotation-enabled, mobile-first design language that antialiasing was downgraded to greyscale.
> Boarding can't normally happen while the plane is being refuelled

It is possible, but with more rules and restrictions.

https://www.skybrary.aero/index.php/Refuelling_with_Passenge...

https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/31197/is-it-nor...
> That homogeneity presupposes trust is a right-wing stereotype used to devalue immigrants in a society and justify harsh enforcement.

The fact it's a right wing idea doesn't mean it's wrong. A nation's laws is written by its people. The fact is different peoples have different cultures and follow different sets of rules. The ideal immigrant is the one who naturalizes and fully integrates into the existing society. What usually happens is they stick together in foreigner groups for mutual support. They maintain their culture and continue living by the same rules they are used to.

It is extremely demoralizing to see people not only break the rules we follow but come out ahead for doing so while escaping any retribution. It's even worse when foreigners do it because it simply isn't part of their culture. If a group of people doesn't litter the streets and foreigners who think nothing of it suddenly arrive, they will be looked down upon.

> You can find people of every ethnicity in Tokyo, including many half and full Brazilian people that you could mistake for latinos here in the US

A relative minority. Many more japanese live in Brazil than the other way around.
My friend used to work for Mozilla. She said she has never had a more boring job. She said there was no work to be done, her boss was remote and never asked her for deliverables. She was well paid with a 40% cash bonus and she would go on yearly boondoggles. I told her she should stay but she couldn’t bear it so she left after 2 years.

She said part of it was that they couldn’t save money because they were a non profit so all the money they got they had to spend, which caused over hiring.
I've been using Edge Dev on my Surface Laptop 2 for months now... touch support is just as good as it's always been.
Is there a lack or have you simply never sought any out?
The general acceptance is that megafauna extinction is the result of some mix of climate change and human action, and this mix varies in different areas.

In Eurasia, the consensus is "mostly climate change." For Australia, it is "mostly human." For South America and Africa, I don't know what the consensus is.

For North America, the only strong consensus you will find is for both factors to be implicated, with vehement disagreement over the degree to which factor is stronger. The megafauna extinction event happens to occur at the same time as both the Clovis period and the Younger Dryas onset, which means the timing doesn't really work better for one or the other factor. However, we have since learned more about human migration to the Americas (humans arrived a few millennia before Clovis, although the exact amount is disputed), as well as the nature of the Younger Dryas (sharper than expected [1], with the worst effects occurring in some portions of North America). A more realistic approach would be to view North American megafauna of suffering a variety of negative population pressures, with humans providing more of a coup de grace rather than the primary driving factor of their extinction.

[1] 10 degrees Centigrade in less than a century, maybe even a decade. In other words, sharper than the current climate change concerns.
The scientific "debate" about the cause of climate change (not to be confused with insects population drop, which is a much more involved issue) at this point is similar in spirit to the "debate" about natural selection or the health impact of smoking.

In other words, there is no debate at all.
We (the human race) have known about the GHG mechanism for over 50 years. We've had the instruments to validate our understanding for well over 20 years now.

There is some disagreement between projections, the models definitely don't converge to the same point in 20-100 years, but they just don't agree on the breadth and depth of the catastrophe or the timeframe we have left to take action.

There is also disagreement wrt proposed solutions. Some things (like mass afforestation) are really too complex for us to predict the impact.
> Number of levels in the hierarchy seems like a bad way to determine this.

It's incomplete as a measure of the problem, but it's definitely a valid measure of a key risk factor.
The span of control (# of direct reports) of each supervisor in a direct chain of command from the employee to the top-level manager is also a measure (higher is worse), as is the “span of reporting” (the number of supervisors[1] to which each employee reports) from the employee up to the top-level manager (again, more is worse, and there is a big jump from the condition where the maximum is 1 anywhere in the chain and the condition where the maximum is > 1.)

[1] this includes both “people” and “functional” managers where those roles are distinguished, as well as people that aren't characterized as having reporting relationships but from whom the employee is expected in practice to take direct direction.
This article and thread has put a baad taste in my mouth regarding Firefox.

But like Tesla, I still want Firefox to succeed. I'm not sure I'll donate again however. They seem to be just fine on their own.
Big Social Strikes Back
You're assuming that more data leads to better decisions. That only holds true if the data is analyzed correctly and one views it without much bias, and considering incomplete data previously was used to justify killings then I'm not sure more data will help.

I'd also posit that expanding the US surveillance capabilities now to better the current situation might also lead to a worse future if we manage to fix the underlying problems you numbered.
I pay $2800 for a lovely 1br in SF, but the bus ride in door to door is always over 45 minutes. If you have the option to work from home a couple days a week or love bicycling, it's fine.
Don’t sanitize it, he was fired for being anti-gay.

That should make it a little clearer why funders won’t touch him (and many won’t touch his new work).