skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If a company ever told me I cannot work on other things in my personal time, I would promptly tell them to suck on a rock and walk out. You can't negotiate with asinine people/corporations with asinine policies. If they feel comfortable telling you what you can and cannot do on your own time, imagine what they feel comfortable telling you to do while you're working.
I don't believe Jacobson's connection to Columbo was a complete random happening at an airport.

More realistically, at least one of Jacobson's friends or family couldn't keep their mouth shut that Jacbson worked for the promotion. An associate of theirs was connected to Columbo and decided to extort Jacobson.
Daily targets are a waste of time in my opinion. Weekly targets make much more sense. But as a team meeting, not for a performance evaluation.

That said, people constantly measuring performance should be replaced by productive people. It is always a management failure if your people are slacking off. Otherwise I would just do something that makes me look good on daily reports. That can have massive negative implications for general business interest. That creates the typical blinders that make large corps unproductive.

Daily targets make sense in production, but not for evaluating employees, but because you need it for other business processes to allow supply and demand fit the productivity.

The current trend for more employee surveillance is mostly a scam and doesn't even help productivity. On the contrary it tends to create unnecessary overhead, like daily meetings. It is one of the most non-creative employment of information technology.

That said, daily meetings can be extremely important for remote teams. But those are mostly about other topics anyway.
Tom Körner's "The Pleasures of Counting" ( https://www.amazon.com/Pleasures-Counting-T-W-K%C3%B6rner/dp... ) is an amusingly written yet intellectually challenging introduction to applied maths for the general audience. (His website https://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~twk/ will give you an idea of the writing style.)
Could also be thermal management issues on the software/ driver side of Linux. I remember reading about Linux kernel patches in that area very recently.
This “realism” argument is not convincing. Quake is an arena shooter. It’s core mechanics are around moving quickly. If there’s a bug that aids that then leave it. CS is about strategic positioning, managing economy, and teamwork. Having a bug that gives an advantage to movement, which isn’t something people play CS for, is not fun.
RoR shares the features he was complaining about and then adds some more. As do most other frameworks concerning the same type of web apps, including those written in PHP.
And sadly most of it necessary, if you don't just serve templated HTML or provide an API. Once JS gets into play and you have to invite friendly Mr. Webpack, the blood-dimmed tide is loosed.

Looking at the original app, the Rakefile for example seems mostly to be there to start Redis? How would we have done this in the olden days of the *AMP stack, assuming the task has to run on both Windows dev machines and the Linux server? Heck, we might not have been able to do this at all, if we just had file and not shell access...
Ok, show me the real world place in the US where this actually holds true. This hypothetical gets touted around, but I’ve never seen it play out this way anywhere I’ve lived.

For example, I currently live in a second-tier Midwestern city in the midst of a housing crisis. Wages aren’t great relative to their respective industries, but rents and home prices are still skyrocketing. There’s no influx of new construction outside of the luxury sector in a few neighborhoods, a lot of which sits empty. Meanwhile, existing landlords just collect ever larger checks from their properties without meaningful continued investment.
> If it was banned, it would still happen

This is kind of a weak argument, because this goes for literally every law. Even though this is true, as a society you can still make the decision that it isn't okay. By making it as okay as it is right now, you're saying that it's just a fact of life and we need to accept it because of that. Murder is a fact of life too (as in: it happens regardless of it being illegal), but that doesn't mean we need to make it legal.
This also avoids the issue of having to decide whether an article is worth it or not. If implemented incorrectly, it would make devolve into clickbait titles.

One way to fix this would be to have a preview of each article available for free, or at least the first ~N paragraphs.
I have been in Bangalore and I really couldn't understand who is honking to me because everybody honk. It is just chaos.
Have you tried a Force Quit? (Cmd-Opt-Esc)
Yeah, but there is always the next election, and raising UBI would be such an easy way to buy votes.
Can synthetic media like Deepfakes drive new content experiences?
As they should, get a move on (not you specifically of course ;))
I clocked in over a thousand hours in warframe. I can only imagine that the video talks about coptering. Honestly coptering removal is one of the reasons I left. It just took joy out of the game.
It is true, that I could use mimpaps and show only the preview of a scaled-down version of the image.

But the rendering pipeline of PSD documents is extremely complex. There are not just layers, but also layer styles, raster masks, clipping masks, adjustment layers. Folders of layers can have their own layer styles and masks. You need to allocate separate buffers to render "sub-trees". And everything is GPU accelerated (over WebGL).

I am afraid that remaking it to a mip-mapped system would take me like 1 000 hours of work, so I think it is easier to remake V8 (which I guess could be like 100 hours of work). As the usual capacity of RAM will keep growing, they would have to do it at some point anyway.
Huh, I really don't see that. Modern web development usually means some Vue/react/angular frontend decoupled from a backend that could be running literally anything. I'd give php some performance props over other scripting languages but obviously there's go/Ruby/python/whatever in the mix and they all work admirably enough and are usually reverse proxies.
What you've described are symptoms of an office who doesn't know how how to scale distributed work loads with remote workers. Across-the-desk conversations for instance don't scale to large workforce numbers.
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I was recently in a line at the store where a person paid using cash, a rare thing these days. The Cashier, mid 20's person, could not even tabulate the total amount handed to them in their mind to enter that total in the computer to get the change amount. Ended up handing it back to the customer using "how much is there"

I wept for the state of public education, basic addition is lost skill it seems
Yep pretty much....
I didn't have any takeaways from it. Years ago I had a Gentoo desktop which was fun but hard to maintain. But, these days having VMware or Virtual box with Centos or Ubuntu is easier to deal and develop with.
> This is potentially less important if you negotiate over the price of a sofa on Craigslist.

Perhaps off topic, but speaking of sofas and CraigsList no one should buy a new sofa without checking a few weeks on CraigsList's free section. At least in New York City, every day sees plenty of new ones for free that will otherwise go to landfills even if like new.

My two sofas came free from people in my building, both like new.
If you're sending GET/POST/PUT requests rather than just receiving them, curl_* methods are pretty easy and well-defined. But there are also numerous wrappers & frameworks that can make the process simpler.
Have you any view on libev and the PECL ev library? There's been a recent discussion on the php-internals mailing list about whether PHP needs a built-in event based system (https://externals.io/message/108226) .

Having input from you with production experience of Swoole would be _fantastic_.
Doesn't WebRTC need a TURN server to proxy traffic when you're behind a NAT? It's not really peer to peer when all the data goes through a central point.
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The Laravel ecosystem (framework + libraries) is a very productive and developer-friendly stack. Documentation and training resources are ample and the community is generally very open and patient to both new and experienced developers. If you're already comfortable with PHP or just want to try something new, definitely consider Laravel/PHP as an option. You might still opt for Node, Ruby, etc., but I wouldn't simply disregard Laravel/PHP for historical reasons.
This is exactly one of my points - and don't get me wrong - you're to blame here.

Let's dissect your post a bit: you had to google how to send GET/POST/PUT TO PHP or FROM PHP? Regardless, PHP doesn't care what you send it, you can send JSON or base64 encoded string. It's completely irrelevant. If you used PHP for 3 years and are unaware of basic HTTP communication - how's PHP to be at fault here? The real problem here is that you imagined something, it didn't work like you wanted it to and the next logical step is to blame the language. This is such a bad way of thinking, I genuinely feel sorry for you.

I could pull several projects that deal with input via HTTP in PHP, and they do it more than nicely. Issue is that you're simply - mediocre. And there's no language that can fix it. Btw. my intent is not to insult you, even a mediocre programmer can become a superstar.
An AMD laptop for 200-250 would be a steal, IMO. The performance is far better (for comparison https://openbenchmarking.org/result/1912177-HU-MANJAROPO12) and x86 support is something I wouldn't want to pass on if I didn't have to. Unfortunately, even the cheapest ones in Germany go for at least 330 Euros.
I don't know what you call 2020 web development but in last 2 years i'v been able to co-develop several web apps in Node.js and also complete "serverless" ones using only AWS services and oh boy.. Rails is still so far ahead
> And these were potatoes from local farms. Owners would bring them over in 25kg / 50kg bags on a horse carriage.

Still happens today in my city in Poland. The only changes are that the farmers have a car now and, more importantly, that they use an annoying megaphone over which they loudly announce their arrival on every street - the usual case of advertising adopting technology to make the world a worse place...
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I recall, as a kid, having probably more than 30k monarchs for past my house every year. My kids were lucky to see a handful. :(
Yeah - modern FPS games don't do it for me either, mostly the "realism" bothers me. Especially in the map design or the physics. Plus the million choices you need to make. If you play any of the new CoDs you have to choose between a million perks, weapons, add-ons to those weapons. Same for BattleField.

I've enjoyed the 2016 rendition of DOOM though, also the multiplayer with silly game-modes like "football" / freeze tag. I'd have liked an "instagib"-style game mode though, that was my favourite in JK2
"To be completely cured of newspapers, spend a year reading the previous week's newspapers." - Nassim Taleb

I stopped consuming almost all mainstream media in 2016, and I'm WAY happier for it.

Maybe there's a lot of benefits to most News being behind paywalls?
That's really cool :) I transpose songs for my own adaptations, but I always have to check/remember which song I could sing at karaoke at the original scale.
Weren't the predicting a 50% performance hit if/when the microcontrollers were patched?
When I was at Hacienda Napoles a few years ago the Zebras had escaped and three men were chasing them around calling them whores. It was _super_ fun. The zebras like many of the animals there have been in captivity for a long time. The zebras are a joke a bit because the government confiscated all his illegal zebra's, but instead gave them horses painted, so they represent his triumph over state power and why the sign/plane are all painted with the zebra stripes. I also fed Vanessa Pablo's pet hippo - petted her, fed her celery sticks and carrots. It's amazing place, when I was there Pablo's house was 40% torn down so it was fun to walk through what was left before it is gone. The city beside it - Doradal - is good to see too, and talk with locals at the football pitch about Pablo's history there. The hippo story emerges every 5-7 years as excellent clickbait/reminder of the order of things.
Splatoon isn’t an FPS.
I like my drivers and pilots to have skin in the game, as it were
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You left out an unfortunate appearance: that the poster might be rationalizing the practice of bribery as "everybody does it" specifically because the poster engages in bribery.
I put that restriction on myself, a selection of reasons follows: I don't use AV software but my employer requires it on machines in its domain, I won't allow remote management of my personal hardware but my employer uses remote management for wiping lost devices, and it helps to maintain a clear separation between personal and work time. All of the requirements my employer places on its hardware are reasonable for work hardware and I'm not opposed to these measures, but that's why IMO work hardware needs to remain work hardware - you can't compartmentalize a single device so that say an accidental remote wipe only affects your work files on the machine / phone.
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A draft genome sequence of the elusive giant squid, Architeuthis dux
Particularly not the smaller varieties that live in South America.

Now maybe if we import some saltwater crocs ...
This story reminds me of the significance of character token from South Park. Now companies wanting to IPO will not forget to have a token female on their board. Soon , some other firm might come up with a token minority requirement as well -so add one of them also for good measure.
fantastic article. thank you for posting it.
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These situations absolutely occur. Something like this happened to me in Alexandria, VA, trying to cross the Woodrow Wilson bridge into MD. I-495 was slow across the bridge. Waze re-directed me off the interstate into residential side streets, along with thousands of other travelers. The side-streets were every bit as jammed as the highway. It took me 3 hours to disentangle myself from that mess. Was it faster than staying on the highway? No idea, but 3 hours to cover 5 miles is terrible - the app should have just said "You're fucked, go home and try again tomorrow." instead of constantly telling me "oh hey, try this other side street, it'll save you 45 minutes!"
A micropayemnts system would take that into considerarion and you’d loose a few cents or less if you read an article that was worthless.
If this is something you would like to see in PHP, please have your say on the mailing list. There are some discussions, most recently https://externals.io/message/108226
I can appreciate your alternative viewpoint.

I know we are not supposed to talk about downvotes, but I find it a little sad that HN has become predictively aggressive to dissenting views.

In terms of technology and business, we are only starting to learn that we may be the new Pablo Escobar, creating large ecosystem changes that are hard or impossible to reverse for our own pleasure and gain. Disruptive change is inherently good for business efficiencies, content creation, information access, etc; Disruptive hippos are inherently bad?
Linking back to that live-updated map, which I find pretty good: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22168451
That's why I mentioned it - I cannot see in Democritus' theory anything but idle speculation.
Honestly, the moon is a much better goal.
Thanks. Great idea with a stave. I was thinking of rendering a piano and letting users to press the keys, but maybe stave is even better. Will experiment this.
It depends on the city. In some cities, Googles routing takes into account the number of other users Google has directed down the road.
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You can submit your stuff here, but the only condition is that it must be interesting :).

Usually it is better to submit a blog post about an interesting technical problem you solved for your business, and put at the bottom more info and a link to the main page. Try to look at the submission in the main page, and find a few that are about a somewhat similar business and try to copy the style.

Not too long and not too short. Technical but not cryptic. What interesting anecdote can you tell to a technical friend that you have not seen for a year while drinking a beer?

A few photos/graphs are nice. (I like images with information, I don't like reaction gifs, but other users may disagree :( .)

Some possible technical post:

* What tech stack are you using? Why? Any problem you solved?

* Hardware? Fingers detectors? Anti cheating measures? Any problem you solved?

* Did you have problems with the fonts? We still have some problem here in Argentina with ñ, á, ... Country sensitive sorting of names is difficult. Any problem you solved?

I can't find the page. Can you type the link again?

Don't post too often or people will get angry (one or twice a week is fine.) A few repost are ok (3?) but please don't repost too much.
> Is your point that you believe other people are just hallucinating their problems...?

It happens when the sightings are emotional. For instance:

The Colorado Mystery Drones Weren’t Real

The mysterious drone sightings that captured national attention were a classic case of mass hysteria.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/884xv3/the-colorado-myste...

Flip side of same phenomenon is the "snappier" meme.
Projects like this should be "hacked" and the data released into the wild. It's insane that we so willingly lock up vast amounts of culture and media behind copyright law which hasn't even been around in its current form for 100 years, yet its impact will be felt for centuries to come.
I feel like we're in a renaissance (or maybe modernism) of fun in video games.

In the early days of the medium, there were a lot of hard constraints with regard to computing power, so game designers had to work with what they had to produce fun in efficient and creative ways. In other words, space invaders or super mario had no chance of achieving anything approaching realism given the hardware available at the time, so they had to focus on maximizing fun instead.

Later, beginning with Doom and expanding with the rise of 3D acceleration, we were wowed by the prospect of exploring 3D worlds in a way that felt familiar to navigating the real world, which gave rise to this implicit idea that achieving realism should be the goal of video games.

I remember discussing video games like this as a teenager: when FPS games introduced reloading as a mechanic, or when Half-Life got rid of floating weapons and health kits in favor of objects which lay there on the ground diagetically like they would in real life, or when Halo only let us hold two weapons at the same time, we talked about these developments in the terms that they were obviously steps forward, because they were more realistic. Often the "best graphics" are also conflated with those which are the most photo-realistic.

But more recently, we've started to round a corner where people have started to look back, and realize that realism isn't necessarily the goal of games, and is often orthogonal to fun or other redeeming qualities. After all there are a lot of parts of real life which are not actually fun, and if we simulate the violent setting of many video games with perfect realism, it probably would not be very fun to experience bleeding out from a bullet wound in an accurate way. More recently, games have gotten a bit more fantasy back in, and are more unapologetic about revealing their medium.

I think it's similar in some ways to what we saw in European art movements. For hundreds of years, people tried to paint reality with ever increasing fidelity. But sometime in the classical period, the problem of how to represent light, shadow and geometry in accurate perspective in paint became a solved problem, and thus it was no longer interesting. Later movements, like impressionism and later modernism and post-modernism threw realism aside and focused on pushing the medium itself forward in whatever way ended up being the most compelling.
I've gathered all the commenting systems I could find in my blog post [1]. I'm glad to see yet another alternative. I will add it soon to my list (maybe I should wait for your pricing adjustment).

[1] https://darekkay.com/blog/static-site-comments/
Thats exactly what i was thinking too. Advertising doesnt make them much more and it comes with a lot of hassles. Im surprised a micropayment system hasn’t arisen yet
> If you think PHP is a good language today then say that, but let's not pretend that the complaints and ridicule were always undeserved.

It's a question of when do you let that go?
I second this. Would be awesome to be the first person to bike on the moon.
It's not as "asinine" as it seems at first glance.

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2016/12/09/developers-side-pr...
Desired Net Vector
> If you play soft to improve the relationship with some random trinket vendor in a touristy location for example, you win nothing.

Is it really true that you would win nothing? I think that one might be a better person to leave just a little on the table rather than have that random trinket vendor right on the knife-edge between taking the deal and refusing it.

One might even say that one could win one's soul!
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Tribes: Ascend was really good. It was a labor of love for the developers who worked on it.

Sadly, it was abandoned and taken over by cheaters. Also, it was never as moddable as the original Tribes was, and since there were no private servers, there was no way for the community to pick up the slack after Hi Rez abandoned it.
Don’t know if it’s obvious from the song page on the website, but it also automatically suggests an optimal transposition for a song for your range. I use it to quickly figure out where to put a capo on my guitar.
Pole here.

I don't know if you've stayed over here in the winter, but, come wintertime, most cities are often drowning in smog. It's not as bad as in India or China, but still a major annoyance.
but does it contain a philosophical argument like Hardy?
Thats the cool thing about it though people can target diff. goals.
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Yeah that is the other typical argument, where it gets "forgotten" that outside UNIX in 1981, C was equally non-portable with dialects of K&R C everywhere like Small-C, RatC and plenty of others, taking yet another 10+ years for a standard to come up and respective compilers to catch up with it.
This!!

My (admittedly limited) understanding of baseband demodulation started with the swling I did as a teenager.
It's too bad our technology can't do anything with Venus.
Possibly some lightweight custom DE based on Gnome's SDK, like tiling manager possibly, to give it a ChromiumOS vibe, but you can still use other utils from Ubuntu. But one that's not too focused on shortcuts only.
He may be a smart dude, but this answer is out there:

> "DER SPIEGEL: Cancer is a silent killer that might get diagnosed long after the exposure, when it is too late.

> Lovelock: I've had 10 cancers in the last few years and it hasn't been very bad. They just appear and grow. If you go to a good oncologist nearby, they'll take it out. It's just unfortunate for people who let it happen and it grows and grows until it's inoperable. I mean, nowadays, I think middle class and fairly wealthy people don't die of cancer."
Maybe if your plan is to have a base where most goods are transported from Earth. If you want self sufficiency Mars is much better in terms of available raw material.