skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dogs look to their pack for protection while doing their business. If your dog stares at you while he's pooping, this is why. It's also why he might follow you into the bathroom... to keep you safe while you do your business.
This probably isn't quite what the commenter had in mind, but boot time matters a lot for embedded devices. It's quite possible the "Linux box" you cold boot the most is the center console of your car.
You might want to check out Gitpod, if you haven't already. It sounds like it should be compatible with your workflow. I think it's possible to self-host, too, if that's important to you.
I’m not sure GM fits the bill. It looks like their operating cash flow was negative in 2008.(1)

[1] https://media.gm.com/media/us/en/gm/news.detail.html/content...
He’s not kidding for sure
I think you've just described FUD. Asking for more transparency isn't bad though - this would require a change in US law or wherever they operate. Start there. Then all religions might meet the standard you're describing. There are abusers in every organization and transparency would be good.
> I don't know why you don't explode into viruses ten seconds after you enter the ocean ...

Basically, none of our ancestors did. Or vice versa, mutatis mutandis, and so on.
Consider it people providing incentives for writing secure software.

Perhaps the world would be a better place if everyone behaved honestly all the time, but that is an unstable state because it takes only a single person to deviate from the norms in such a world to exploit all the systems that weren't designed with bad actors in mind.

The cashier situation is not comparable because it's not exploitable reliably. Unless you have an easily distracted cashier that can be cheated all the time. If that were the case I could see some less scrupulous people starting to do that.
Ask HN: Thoughts on diversity/inclusion efforts in tech?
Over the past few years, there has been a huge push for hitting diverse hiring (African American / Latin / LGBQT / Female) targets at large tech companies, especially in engineering. I've noticed this phenomenon first-hand in Silicon Valley.

I do believe that these efforts mean well, and come from a good place. Diversity of ideas is very important for building successful products for a diverse audience - there is no doubt about that. However, there are two things that leave me puzzled:

1) I feel that it has become a matter of one-upmanship between companies, with huge emphasis on proudly touting how many black or latinx people they hired last quarter ([1], [2] to name a few).

2) Related to 1), the emphasis on equality of outcome, rather than equality of opportunity. I think Goodhart's Law is at play here ('When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.'). "Diverse people hired" may be becoming a lousy metric that doesn't account for differences in talent pool size, enrolment in schools, number of people interviewed, etc. A very common phrase, especially used at one of my former employers, was this idea of "overcoming a homogenous workplace".

There are diversity teams at most big tech firms geared to drive up these metrics - just like any other team which is driven by ad revenue or MAU.

At my ex-employer, hiring managers were invited by a 'diversity lead' and told to 'account for diversity' when candidates are fairly even; in this case, the other candidate is placed at a disadvantage.

I am not trying to be inflammatory here; I just want to learn how these programs are bringing real benefit - or at least the underlying reasoning/legislation driving them.

[1] https://qz.com/work/1793500/etsy-doubled-its-hiring-of-black-and-latinx-employees-in-one-year/

[2] https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/04/how-slack-got-ahead-in-diversity/558806/
Demonstration of Cooling by the Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment
Measuring how productive software engineers are.

If you could solve this problem, you could convince management why engineers need offices, for one.
There's beauty and power in simplicity. Thanks for sharing! Also, take a look at Roam (https://roamresearch.com) which almost comes full-circle to a place of simplicity (just write instead of worrying about where to put things or how to organize them) while providing all kinds of benefits. There are many tradeoffs and valid reasons to prefer your .txt (or my .md) file(s), but I highly recommend playing w Roam to see what's possible.
My dream is a "Open in VSCode" button on each GitHub repo that would create a container dev environment (either locally or hosted), and that environment would be ready to run all test, CI, localhost etc.

You could trivially create a new environment to test out someones PR or work on a feature branch, etc. If you use hosted environments, then you could connect from any client. If you only have a web browser, then you could work from VSCode in the browser (it's all JS+HTML anyway).

Others could join your hosted environment for peer-programming Google Docs style.

On hosted environments, normally long builds could be done very quickly and smart caching on the backend could share incremental compilation state between your teammates and you.

We're pretty close to this already with VSCode Remote Containers[0], Visual Studio Online[1] and VSCode Live Share[2].

(Disclosure: I work at MSFT but not on these technologies.)

[0] https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/containers

[1] https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/vsonline

[2] https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/services/live-share/
Statically-link everything and ship it as single file EXEs or containers.

Offer different versions.

Sandbox programs at the OS level to mitigate old (or new) vulns.
Yes and no. One way to think of it is as a redistribution of wealth -- while some locations are pushing larger amounts of money into the system, others are undoubtedly receiving more than they give. The end result is that everyone, regardless of the affluence of their neighborhood, gets a perfectly acceptable building and environment in which to learn.

Thinking about the US education specifically...imagine if we handled finances that way? Schools are largely paid for by local property taxes, so the rich areas get well funded schools, and the poor areas get poorly funded schools. If it was centralized and balanced, the rich schools might not get as many 3d printers, but perhaps the poor schools could get books. It might not be fair in the sense that those that pay more should get more, but it would be fair if your end goal is balance and charity.
That's indeed not possible. The Tasks calendar is a separate calendar and the 'events' on it have no duration.
Oh, didn’t know about that, thanks!
Successful Soyuz launch deploys 34 satellites for OneWeb network
Excellent point. The code review tool in GitHub is a much worse than I was using in 2009, ten years ago! (https://smartbear.com/product/collaborator/overview/)

I haven't used Collaborator in a while, but I wonder how much it has improved in ten years.

It sounds like you're thinking of a code review tool + CI/CD pipeline, right, @inglor? e.g.,
1. suggest a change in the UI or backend in the code review tool
2. run CI/CD and deploy to test environment
3. refer to this new environment in the the code review tool

Am I on the right track?
Does the GDPR apply to Switzerland though?
Microsoft turned $43B in profits last year, I don't think they'll have an issue winning this if it's as big of a deal as the article makes it out to be.
Does your belief system require you to be so disparaging to people who believe differently?

If you don't want to pay any attention to the claims of Christianity, then by all means don't.
On Android, I've been using Markor with Syncthing for years now and never had any issues.
Close. Docker for Mac runs in a paravirtual environment using Hyperkit, which uses Apple's Hypervisor.framework. At least that was true a couple years ago. A couple years before that, Docker Machine and boot2docker ran on hypervisor of choice (e.g. Virtualbox).

If you get a chance, Hyperkit can be fun to play with. I was able to write a bash script that downloads Hyperkit andba Debian ISO, and from that boot a running instance of Debian. It was an interesting exercise.
Back in the day, you only knew about microorganisms and viruses that you knew how to grow. And that apparently excludes about 99.9% of stuff.

In Biology 101, I recall that we cloned bacteria from sewage, and then cloned a bacteriophage. But the instructors were very careful that we cloned E. coli :)
Are there any recorded instances of this happening? A turbine falling apart when taken past its design lifetime?
The folk who’re gonna buy the .org registry seem solid; maybe they could buy it?
I don't know. But I don't believe blame is a good impetus. I spent a lot of my high school experience stressed and blaming myself for my inability to work inhuman and inhumane hours. Only in retrospect have I realized that I was not at fault. Only now have I understood that working so hard with so little sleep on tasks I find so uninteresting is not admirable in the slightest.

This will only get worse. It's becoming harder and harder for students to get accepted to colleges, which in turn means the bar for them is rising, often to ridiculous levels. The students who make it to the high levels are not the smart, charismatic future leaders of tomorrow. They are neurotic, depressed, sleep deprived and scared. They are pushing themselves to ridiculous, unhealthy limits for whatever reasons. And by selecting them and placing them in the same school, the same room, we are only concentrating these qualities.

I don't know what we should use to push students forward. But I know that teenagers these days could use less blame.
25 Years After Art Heist, Empty Frames Still Hang in Boston's Gardner Museum
The orbit that put men on the moon
Foxconn warns staff to keep away from Shenzhen HQ
>I would argue that Nouveau is bad purely because of poor performance

That and, if you have a G-SYNC monitor (which, in retrospect, you shouldn't, but I and several friends of mine do), it won't work at all with the Nouveau driver. :D
It's not like McDonald's exists in good faith. Remember that, to the typical person on the street, McDonald's is a system that exists adversarially, not as part of a holistic and humane society.

Edit: I don't eat at McDonald's. Do you, downvoters?
I keep most of my notes of things I need to do in a given day on paper. Also, if I'm walking around for meetings I often draw a paper map rather than relying on my phone. Easier to mentally visualize.
> And I claim the politician who will be fired in 2 years unless he makes himself look awesome on Election Day has more short term focused incentives that a company CEO.

Here's where the disagreement starts. We have insufficiently different facts on the table, but those unspoken are on the different sides. So you decide that governments are under more short-term pressure to demonstrate results, while I think modern corporations have shorter periods when shareholders can allow CEOs not to bring them tangible results. And for corporations existing for decades I have examples of governments existing at least as long.

I guess we have to keep disagreeing.
Ohhh. Phone as browser in physical space, AR as extendible medium.... I like.

For the AR-ish part... Oh, widgets! Right? Like clock, or weather, or the news thing. Constantly (modulo performance) update what you're showing on the widget based on location. Or dynamic notifications; "this is how many reviewed locations we know of at this location".
> Families aren’t just federations of sovereign individuals. Kids are community property.

Kids are nobody's property, and parent absolutely have the right to ignore the rest of the family as long as they observe the laws of the land.
End to end validation of complex systems.

Cookie-cutter developers using open source they don't understand to implement mission critical infrastructure for companies that don't understand the internet. Its a recipe for disaster.
Could it have been obvious the price was 10 times higher than you paid? If yes, then it's stealing. If no, then no.
Absurdly, comically simple is the way to go. In these situations I usually just send myself an email, or write something down in the current physical notebook.

About 20 years ago I spent a while writing a server to do a bunch of automation and reminding and so forth, and found that I was spending more time on that thing than I was doing real work, so I ditched it, just like I did OneNote and all the other apps. There's no need to fix bugs in a text file, nor do you need to upgrade your version of Python or whatever.

Simple will survive decades with zero effort. Complicated pieces of code (especially ones that use networking or browser tech) will need to be maintained, patched, debugged and ported. Life is short. I'd rather actually be productive than have to spend time keeping some productivity app running, or worrying if the vendor of the online notes app I chose to use is going to be bought by Oracle or something.
I was the final president of the Panorama Amiga Club, a division of the Commodore Computer Club based in Vancouver, British Columbia. Our last formal meeting was probably around 2009, although I kept going to lunch on Saturdays with three of the group's members until a couple of years ago.

I was never around for the heyday of the club in the 1980s, when they would rent out the giant auditorium at Simon Fraser University, invite distinguished guests like Jay Miner, and run daisy-chained rows of floppy drives multitasking the mass copying of software. Back then I had a PC-XT that had one color (orange) and one sound (beep), and had heard of Amigas and their thousands of colors and multitasking operating systems only in whispers and legends, as if they were inhabiting a parallel universe much more advanced than our own.

In the late 1990s and early 2000s the group would meet for lunch every Saturday at the Royal City Cafe in New Westminster, near the geographic center of the Lower Mainland. That's when I joined them to start writing my series of articles on the history of the Amiga for Ars Technica.
It's not too soon to _talk_ about it, even if this seems not to be realistic at the moment.

As developers or users it is a good idea to push projects we're involved with to have non-corporate distribute governance to begin with, or move in that direction.

Of course, that requires multiple people from different organizations or unaffiliated to "adopt" projects as the "apple of their eye", enough to be involved in managing it; and to avoid deterioration into the one-developer-project case. So, a lot of effort by a lot of people, we should each do our part where we are involved.

Also, I'm sure there are lots of GNU/Linux distros which aren't run by a commercial corporation; certainly more than one.
You could always argue that somebody could MITM the company's connection to a public resolver.

Still probably not quite the gold mine...
You propose since I don't have the final exact death count as your badgering questions demand, I cannot infer the death toll is higher than the PRC states? I reject your proposal.
> the 2 hires ended up in disaster with both quitting within 6 months. I am trying to be introspective and understand what our group did wrong

Leaving aside perceived quality of work, can you give more details about what happened, and how your employer interacted with the new hires? It will be difficult for anyone on HN to give accurate input that is not just speculation without more information.

E.g.

* did they actually quit or were they fired?

* did they give any explicit reasons for quitting?

* did they voice any concerns about not being happy in the role to colleagues/management in the months before quitting?

* was there conflict between the new hires & colleagues/supervisors?

* did they get job offers for more attractive jobs?

* did management share your concerns about quality of work being produced by the new hires?

* were the new hires on some kind of performance plan or otherwise notified by management that they were underperforming?

* what hiring process does your org use? Are candidates required to write code during an on site interview?
And which language to use. Even better, which language to use when.
Ex Mormon here. Yes, it is drilled down into our brains. The same exact phrases.

And the stipend is 6-figures per year (most members don't know this though, it was leaked a few times now on paystubs). But all travel and room is also paid for. Plus most leaders of the church that receive this stipend are 70+ years old, so they are already living off healthy retirements in addition to now free housing and a healthy stipend. Church leaders are all successful businessman, doctors, and lawyers. Basically you pay your way to the top. So all of these people have incredible riches before they start taking these stipends.

Church members like to pretend like our leaders are scraping by... but they are in top 1% of income earners. Further, you should hear those same leaders talk about tithing to members. Even encouraging their poor members to pay up because "they can't afford not to".

It should also be noted that the church pays these top leaders, but chooses not to pay anyone at the congregation level. From the bishop (equivilant to a Pastor in most other religions), to the people teaching sunday school, the people cleaning the buildings, the bookkeepers, etc are all asked to do it for free. These are generally lower-income or middle-income members with full time jobs, asked to do this in addition to normal jobs... oh and they have to pay 10% of their pre-tax income to the church that they make from their job.

> No bishop [aka 'Pastor'], no missionary should ever hesitate or lack the faith to teach the law of tithing to the poor. The sentiment of “They can’t afford to” needs to be replaced with “They can’t afford not to.”

That quote is direct from their official prophet.

Source: https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/general-conference...

Note: If you click that link you will see that the title is "Tithing - A commandment even for the destitute", this man had the hairy balls to stand up with a straight face and say that no one is too poor to pay his church. While he flies private jets everywhere from these poor family's sacrifices.
> But I still think failing over from corp to corp.com is a bug, not a feature.

I think it was a mistake, but you probably can't fix it now. Too many random pieces of code are going to be relying on it.
Who are the wise men and women of the Internet?
There are people I read habitually (Tim Urban, Paul Graham, Shane Parrish, Neil Kakkar, etc.) to push my understanding of How The World Works, but I know there must be many more out there. Who are your favorites?
To be clear, they mostly publish their changes under open or even copyleft (APSL) licenses. The problem isn't one that the GPL solves. They just dump the modified sources on their FTP and make no attempt to interact with upstream.

The limited exception is Clang/LLVM, where to some extent they are the upstream.

(A clarification: I also like the MIT license, but the majority of BSD is published under the so-named BSD license, with some number of other clauses. You might already know that, and if so, sorry for repeating the explanation; I wasn't sure from your comment. They're both permissive, but not identical licenses.)
I coded up MinimaList Outline app to add few more basic features to basic txt, such as multiple lists, bullet points, collapsable categories, etc. I use it as my daily driver, maybe others will like it also: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ca.toadlybrood...
Funny that we all resort to the same things. I have an almost identical bash script that appends and timestamps each note, but I push it to my Dropbox account using their REST APIs instead of my local file system.
Well, "app quality", you mean those shiny UIs with abysmal usability. Because usability is more about the behavior of a syste m then removal of button edges. ERP and SAP is definetely neither sexy nor hipp nor woke nor does it have an even acceptable usability, but it doesn't have to. It has to help making money. And that's a business, as tough as they come.
Thank you for tracking that down and sharing it!
thanks, ill review and report asap sir
No, but I'm pretty happy with seeking its demise. Christianity, along with the rest of the abrahamic religions, are a corrupting plague on our planet and society. That which is good about it is not unique to it, and that which is unique to it is not good. We are stagnant in our progress as humans to the degree that we still believe in it.
Speaking as a member of the church, I've heard the position that, when in financial difficulty, first rely on family (where applicable), then rely on what's available through the government (which includes food stamps, unemployment benefits, etc), and finally rely on the church. I wouldn't see an issue with someone receiving aid from all three sources, even at the same exact time -- if a person qualifies for food stamps, then the church can spend an equivalent amount helping someone else, and perhaps help with other bills regardless.
What you are talking about exists, and its fantastic:

https://www.gitpod.io/
There's this: https://bear.app/faq/Import%20&%20export/Migrate%20from%20Ap...
Yea that’s actually the most annoying thing for me too, I would rather use it with gdrive or Dropbox instead of iCloud (which is prone to a ton of issues). I had to do some hacky things to get it to work the way I wanted tbh.
This is my calling. I'm the cofounder of Repl.it and I've dedicated my career to solving this problem.

Simon -- since you're the cocreator of Django, you might get a kick out of this: From loading up a Django environment to adding and rendering the first view takes less than a minute: https://gifs.amasad.repl.co/django.gif

Before starting this company I was a founding engineer on the React Native team where I focused speed of setting up and taking the drudgery out of cross-platform mobile dev. And before that I was a founding engineer at Codecademy where we were attacking the same problem from an education angle.

With Repl.it, however, we're determined to simultaneously solve the "getting started" problem while scaling the environment to allow real work. It's incredibly challenging but we've made great progress. If anyone is interested in working with us, collaborating, or if you're simply passionate about this problem and want to chat then I'd love to hear from you: amjad@repl.it
There was one evening in a small town is England where my fellow students convinced the staff in the local McDonald's that the student offer of one free hamburger did not require a purchase. We ate a lot of free hamburgers that night. Guilt aside, dare say they were the best McDonald's I've ever tasted
It’s a very liberal western viewpoint. The vast majority of humanity would disagree.
> I don't know what you're referring to with "isn't a reason to remove two versions instead of one".

The news is that you can remove all versions, and I'm saying that's not a major space savings.

So when you mention there are two versions, to say the space savings are larger... okay, that's true, but if you're removing the program then you don't care about app compat anyway. So you could remove one, and leave the other one alone.

Or in other words, the existence of two versions is not something that makes it a better idea to remove everything.
I’m not in hiring nor do I have data to back this up. I doubt anyone has data to back up or refute my claim.

I claim that diversity is an inherent good for jobs that involve lots of thinking. My reasoning is that a mixture of diverse ideas and thought patterns are going to come up with higher quality solutions on average, and a if we’re excluding non-white non-males, we’re not coming up with the best solutions.

Of course this breaks down if we’re talking about someone “diverse” with an 8th grade education vs someone with a PhD. I’m pretty sure the PhD is ALMOST ALWAYS going to produce higher quality solutions. But Master’s vs PhD? Bachelor’s vs Master’s? Go with diversity.