skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My experience is that there already is a universal charger that works with almost all phones made in the past couple years. That is a Qi inductive charging plate. I suspect Apple will be ditching the lightning cable fairly soon, and will be replacing it with wireless charging as the only charging solution. I currently have a snazzy Qi mount in my car that works great, and a plate by my bed. The only downside is if I want to watch a video whilst charging or similar, it’s nearly impossible to do that with current plates/docks.

These chargers work with my phone (iPhone 8) and my partner’s phone (Samsung), and I couldn’t be happier with them.
> How do you do find someone good that you trust? How do you find someone worth the time? The couple of times I've tried to find someone you end up making a lot of unreturned phone calls.

But it's the same with Doctors. Some doctors won't listen to your symptoms, some doctors might have old information, or brush you off.

Would you put off going to a doctor because of those problems?
> When price comparison search engines were all the rage, Google realised that if the "purchase" button led off-site, that was a marker that an intermediary was pushing the price up through affiliate schemes, so started to push those down in the rankings.

This hasn't gone away at all. Do a search for any "best X" and you'll find a slew of review websites for the best X which are stutfed with Amazon affiliate links.

It's virtually imoossible to find reviews of household items that are trustworthy. I've resorted to appending things like "reddit" and looking on eg /r/buyitforlife.
Which is why many of us hoped for WRX80/TRX80 with LRDIMMs that turned out to be hoax/unescaped research prototypes.
High use of the first-person in writing is hardly a sign of NPD. "I" is one of the most commonly used words in the English language.
I understand, but the whole subtext is that he's taking responsibility, and not blaming other people, something narcissists can't do.
Is there any way to create a paint with the same properties, absorbing visible wavelengths but reflecting infrared?
There are really easy solutions to this that other countries use, while keeping the safe and simple paper ballots.

They have many polling places, enough that queues aren’t more than a few minutes at the most.

They don’t make the polling places deliberately hard to get to.

They hold elections on a weekend or a public holiday so the flow evens out over the course of the whole day.
Also in the fairy tale, walking on land is like walking on broken glass for her.
Playing code golf with the language syntax isn't the point, clarity and expressiveness is.
> as a company we have NO BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP with you

I think this could be phrased as "we have the choice to have no business relationship with you." But it's not a good idea to straight up cut off candidates. We've had plenty of cases where we just didn't think we had the capacity to help a candidate get up to speed and thought if they worked somewhere else that could provide that to them then we could hire them 6 months to a year down the line. It's not the standard, but it's happened before.
This is true, largely because no one outside the HN bubble knows Rust/Zig/ATS/whatever. Most companies and people want to get stuff done, and a new language can get in the way of that. It'll take a while for those newer languages to pick up main-stream traction, and by a while I mean a few years of pushy college grads who used it in CS 101, 202, or 303.
Thank you, I shall be more precise when giving any comment. Honestly, I have not considered the advantages from null-safetyness (rated anything..) properly before posting. I just wanted to rant about kotlin, since i hear too many prayers about it and my gud (stomach) tells me different. I am not able to put it into words, yet. I really appreciate your hint.

Anyway, you are absolutely right and I am glad @jach posted an link (above) regarding my intuition (@shoutout). When I learned programming (with Java, 3 yrs. ago) my mentor pointed out that i included too null-checks, even though i was familiar with the entire code base. Just after reading a post on this platform I realized his real intention: Sometimes (most often!) we needlessy check for null. Since then, forcing me to check anytime for null feels wrong and kotlin is forcing me to do so.

Eventually I just wanted to mention downsizes which comes into my way when using kotlin daily..

Thankfully..!
On Facebook, anti-vaxxers pushed mom not to give her son tamiflu. He later died
A quantum satellite that sends you entangled photons
At my current company (small startup) I wanted to convince people to talk through the issues and write things down or write down at least something. Think of user stories, requirements, personas, product vision, company vision, sprint goals.

In my opinion, writing things down helps to clarify your thinking and lets others understand how you think. It also reduces the risk of the devs implementing something that doesn't fix the users' issue.

They think writing things down is overhead, too much "process", too much time. What they (IMO) don't see is that discussing requirements, assumptions before developing a feature (or even prioritizing a feature) helps to establish a common understanding of the issue and the proposed solution.
It doesn't seem like those studies say that...

Here are quotes from all 3 links.

> Becker concedes that no office environment is perfect. In open offices, for example, there will still be those who irritate peers by bellowing into the phone. Wireless phones may be one solution to such problems, he says, but a more ideal one is giving workers a choice of work environments to fit the demands of different tasks--what he calls the "cafeteria-style office."

> The three most often reported workplace qualities that have the
greatest effect on individual and team performance, as well as job
satisfaction, were ranked as follows:
1. Ability To Do Distraction-Free Solo Work
2. Support for Impromptu Interactions
3. Support for Meetings and Undistracted Groupwork

> ...he’s identified the 10 most important predictors of job performance. The top two are:
The ability to do distraction-free work for teams and individuals.
The ability to have easy, frequent, informal interactions.

> For Brill, the equation is simple: Workers spend the majority of their time in private or near-private activity. As a result, he advocates giving each person a private office, no matter how small.
"Rides produced $742 million in EBITDA, up some 281%"

Time for the narrative of Uber burning VC money/subsidizing rides/selling-$2 bills-for-$1 to die?
How did they define viewership? Because viewership of previews definitely increased.
How Google used AI to supercharge Maps in 2019
> If your manager gives you harsh feedback, that’s 50% of your sense of self taking a hit.

The answer to this is not diversification... the answer is to work on yourself so your “sense of self” does not get affected by what anyone says.
Pilots do not have direct servo control of the aircraft if there is any possibility of any computer system adjusting the servos aside from the throw commanded by the sticks held by the pilot.

Reading comments such as:

> The problem was that an indicator light, designed to warn of a malfunction by a system that helps raise and lower the plane’s nose, was turning on when it wasn’t supposed to, the company said.

Implies that there is intrinsically some computer system that continually parses the commanded stick deflection and applies an overlay.

What I am suggesting is a single toggle to make everything shut up and reset all servos to their midpoint all at once in one shot and let the pilot just fly the plane.

I have not seen any evidence that such a system exists. It is the elephant in the room. Airplanes do not need complex electronics to just fly if they are aerodynamically stable, and this plane is more or less stable except that under some conditions it will make the pilot soil their pants at higher AoA, which is where the promises of MCAS come in. Big deal. They can mentally compensate against that manually better than fighting a computer system working actively against your commanded inputs.

I have experienced the joy of a badly tuned PID controller turning my stabilization system into involuntary high speed descent. The fix is always to tell the computer to shut up and just fly the plane 100% manually.
Laser LiFi Could Send Data Speeds Soaring
The cost and schedule overruns on JWST are a good argument against the statements you have made. The program is ~$4B over budget, and 3 years behind schedule.

NASA does some things well, and is absolutely terrible at others.
I like to watch intros and recaps sometimes. I like the current design where I can choose to skip if I want to.
That depends on what tech lead role means in OP's context. It might me a team lead, in which case you are right, or something like coding architect which is usually one of the most senior members of the team with additional soft skills. Such person is expected to teach others.
Presumably they can tell the difference between viewership of previews and resulting viewership of the actual shows :P
Because I might apply different ones, making them useless in aggregate if I assume anything I like has to be a 4 or 5, but you assume that you'll rate anything you like as low as a 2, and reserve just 1 for "don't watch it"
That seems to contradict OP’s argument that admitting you’re a narcissist probably indicates you’re not.
Designing and fabricating optics comparable to Hubble's is not an amateur job -- it requires engineering meter-sized objects to micrometer tolerances, with similar requirements for alignment. (This was initially botched in Hubble itself, with a 2.2-micron fabrication error in the 2.4-meter diameter primary mirror seriously compromising the instrument, until some of the other optical elements were swapped out with replacements designed to cancel out the error.)
Saves them money on packaging costs. Wire bonding isn't free.
The security is definitely better than in the 90s, for what I've heard. The impact of an attack is however greater. You can literally shut down an entire country today, something you could not do back then.
Peru’s Peatlands Could Greatly Accelerate Global Warming
It hasn't been true for a while. On a per-ride basis in their developed service areas they have been profitable for a long time.
He bought options not stock on margin.
It was the third best year since the dot com bubble (also the third best year in the entire history of the industry), only worse than 2017 and 2018.
Family migration means a family member who is a citizen guarantees their ability to support themselves. They did.
>While I think EGA has largely been superseded by newer sources, some of his later work (known as SGA) has not

Can you elaborate what you mean by “superseded by”?
The way I've heard it - be a shit umbrella, not a shit funnel.
COPPA
What does Kubernetes have to do with it?
lol, the sheer stupidity in the mental gymnastics people will employ to back their outrageous behaviors in avoiding the "targeted ads" bogeyman
They're getting a prompt, professional, inoffensive response in exchange for their time. That is decency.

You can't expect a business to feed the hungry, cure the sick, and house the poor out of the goodness of their hearts because these are people that spent a couple hours of their day with you. There are more appropriate institutions for charity.
Thank you. It's not like the use of the word 'password' made the point I was making difficult to understand. I had actually tried to use the word passcode, but it was auto-filled/corrected to password and I didn't catch it.
Watchdog says DHS still hasn’t got a 2020 election security plan
That's a good point, but I think it would be a shame if wireless charging completely replaced wired, because it's much less efficient.

Something like 20-40% of input energy is wasted when using wireless charging versus a wire. If every existing phone switched to wireless charging, that would cause a non-trivial increase in total power usage.
I’d like to add to this. Not only should you not ask your team members to put work above their own personal well-being, you should actively be challenging people who are doing that unasked. Every company will have an occasional time when extra effort makes sense, but if you’ve got people who are consistently working 10 hour days, or doing work at weekends or on holiday, it’s your job to deal with that. Find out why they’re having to put in that extra effort, then fix it.

Often this will be a case of one person having all the knowledge of a specific thing and needing to pick up any bugs around it, sometimes it’ll be that they’ve been given a task they’re not equipped to do. Occasionally they’re just not very good. Those are the cases that are reasonably easy to deal with.

The worst cases are the true believers - people who are so bought into the company, or the work they’re doing, that they just want to be working every hour of the day. The temptation will be to shrug your shoulders and count yourself lucky that someone is willingly doing a bunch of extra work for free. Don’t let them do that, because otherwise they’re going to burn out at some point, at which point you’re stuck with a bitter wreck of a person dragging the rest of the team down, and also suddenly lost a massive chunk of productivity that was carrying projects.

This sort of thing is especially common in early stage startups, and I’ve on occasion had to go round the office kicking people out. On one occasion I had someone go on holiday but continue popping up and doing things, eventually I had IT disable all their accounts for work systems until they got back.

The other thing around this I’d suggest is not to let a culture of rewarding heroics to build up. You should see every case of someone having to work a 100 hour week as a failure, even if it meant the project got shipped on time, or whatever fire was burning got put out. Post-mortem it, and then fix the root cause.
[yeah, not a frequent poster, apologies for the markdown markup]

Thanks for sharing this, it's been fun to play with. I've been poking around a bit, looks like `skip locked` was added back in v9.5.

For those who are interested in how it works, here are a few links that might be useful:

- [What is SKIP LOCKED for in PostgreSQL 9.5?][2ndquadrant]

- [Postgres 9.5 feature highlight - SKIP LOCKED for row-level locking][otacoo]

- [The Skip Locked feature in Postgres 9.5][pgcasts]

The 2ndquadrant post points out that Oracle and SQL Server have similar functionality. Mysql didn't at the time, but [seems to have added it in 8.0.1][mysql]

[2ndquadrant]: https://www.2ndquadrant.com/en/blog/what-is-select-skip-lock...

[mysql]: https://mysqlserverteam.com/mysql-8-0-1-using-skip-locked-an...

[otacoo]: https://web.archive.org/web/20160626090321/http://michael.ot...

[pgcasts]: https://www.pgcasts.com/episodes/the-skip-locked-feature-in-...
Have only just turned it off so don't know yet, but my bet is on no. I'm right there with you on reflecting in peace though. Sometimes you want to just take a breath and think about what you saw. That same "feature" was one of the things that drove me away from flow TV, as they increasingly pushed the next program more and more aggressively, until it would actually start the trailer/speaker BEFORE the current program was finished. Drives me insane. Who watches a 2.5 hours movie, and as soon as the credits start rolling, goes "alright next movie, play play play!"
I really want SpaceX to get into the end of life care market.

I would much rather get on a one way rocket with big windows (that runs out of air after a few hours probably) than go to Hospice and die slowly over a few months or a year.
"Conversational Prostitution"?

Are you saying if you were more attractive/deserving/whatever, people with therapeutic skills would go around sharing their insight with you for free?
If your definition of "safe language" is "Rust/Zig/ATS/whatever", our premises aren't compatible, because I am talking about things like Java and Python. In the 1990s and early 2000s, we were still building application code in C/C++.
You've misunderstood the point, in the whole post he didn't say how anybody else was affected by his behavior. If nobody's negatively affected, the behavior can't be bad.

"I've hurt people by being too egotistical" is an example of an "I" sentence that would have made me believe he could see that something was wrong.
Thank the Almighty Bob. About time they did this.
A small detail many forget is that Netflix pays very different prices for different shows. I don’t know the exact negotiated rates, but basically you can envision a blockbuster is going to cost more per stream then a Netflix Original. Eventually Netflix was/is bound to game their own recommendations since it saves them costs.

The only case I can see where this incentive doesn’t exist is for shows that Netflix pays a fixed price to stream rather than a unit price per stream.
Ask HN: What podcast/newsletter is still missing, and you would pay for?
I am considering producing a podcast and/or newsletter. I have some topics in mind.

I am curious to hear which topic you would find the most interesting, and also topics that are currently not well covered by existing offerings.
This makes me wonder if the core of the problem is the lack of control over your own environment somehow
Maybe. Uber has more than doubled in price for me for just about any given fare over the last year. I use it much less than I used to. I'd like to see rides up as well as revenue from those rides.
> According to the source, Boeing patched a software code error just two hours before the vehicle reentered Earth's atmosphere. Had the error not been caught, the source said, proper thrusters would not open during the reentry process, and the vehicle would have been lost.

Uh, that's extremely concerning for a CREWED capsule.
They could certainly be easier to use. Sticky left/top rows might help. A modal might help.

An interactive, filterable visualization for the timelines might help, too. The timeline could be greatly condensed if the exact change points were marked for a non-confusing number of functions.

Or perhaps a cheeky play on Minard's graph of Napoleon's Russia campaign, but with factors like the cost of compute instead of the temperature. Or on Munroe's flow graph of U.S. congress composition/ideology.
Rebels. Mike's Flight. New Approach to Crowdfunding
Slight clarification: SpaceX offers ride shares to distinct orbits, and customers can select what ride works best for their payload. Obviously if you're interested in an equatorial orbit, you're not going to select a launch from Vandenberg...
I think it's okay to use the plural "We" for both successes and failures, even as a tech lead.
The problem I have with statements like the one commented on is that there is no such thing as "meditation". There is a whole bunch of very different techniques from a whole bunch of different cultures that are all called meditation and the only thing they have in common is that it is a mental exercise of some sort. But considering how different these techniques are, it would be strange to expect them to provide any kind of common effect, like making you take things less personally. It also makes phrases like "I meditate every day" and "You should try meditation" meaningless. Consider spiritual exercises of Ignatius Loyola and compare them, say, to a Sufi Zikr and to a Hatha Yoga practice. All three are most definitely meditation practices, so when you say "you should meditate" do you mean I should drop on my knees and pray to Jesus, gather a bunch of guys and run in cicles singing in arabic or do a downward dog? And do you think any one of these would help me take things less personally?
It is wonderful! We will add more easy-to-understand tutorials.
Documented state-level kinetic computer security attacks go back a lot further than you think they do.
Our old Apple TV, which we've had since maybe 2012, finally died. Given how much use it gets, I've been amazed how long it kept working.

Bought a new one late last year, and the whole UX is a big step backwards, but the Netflix app and the automatically playing previews is high on the list of annoyances.

It feels like one of those "Do you actually dogfood this? Have you actually compared it to previous releases?"
I doubt that the new law would prevent USB-C and a new plug. If the new plug turns out to be awesome (magsafe, anyone?), voters could clamor for it to become a new standard...
they were already profitable on rides in their most mature cities
related possibly? what domain is this file from?

https://techdocs.broadcom.com/content/broadcom/techdocs/us/e...
Athletic Bilbao 1-0 Barcelona – Copa Del Rey – FootballGH – Video Highlights
Nice to meet you. I have a pass phrase comprising 4 short words (totaling 18 characters) that are easy to remember and easy to type in. Someone is going to need the $5 wrench to figure out how to unlock my phone.
How is compiling and executing source you didn't examine any more secure than executing a bash script?

It's not like package managers are immune either: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/11/26/npm_repo_bitcoin_st...
And yet they are still losing money. Odd, that.
I just mean that the content can be found from later sources, such as Hartshorne or the Stacks Project. For some parts of SGA, it is my impression that literally the only reference is SGA.
Did you just learn this term from today's xkcd? Because I did.
It's so out of touch with how most people think, it's genuinely fascinating to see. I wonder if it's a true belief or some sort of facade.

I think I'd easily bet 3:1, $1000 that if you polled people they'd rather have targeted end-of-show ads than untargeted mid-show interstitials.
You need to know how to innovate: a framework
Yeah, it's a nightmare when my kids are browing using my account -- tons of 18+ horror gets shown in amongst cartoons. It's such a dumb system.

Yes, we have more than one account. Mistakes happen.
They keep delivering inspirational "we're in the future" moments like no one else.

I suspect it's going to start affecting the kind of things that some people will want to be working on. Hard to get excited about many of the (ad) tech companies after seeing 2 rockets simultaneously return back to Earth...
While I can see OP's points, I think it is never a good idea to tell someone "just do xy" in a psychological context
How Andre Iguodala handled his rare NBA sabbatical in Silicon Valley
Update your Philips Hue smart lightbulbs now and protect your home
The thing is, if the server is already doing all that good stuff with your password, then you're already as well protected as you can be with the current methods.

If it's not, then it probably won't be implementing your protocol either!

I agree that the current methods could be massively improved.
Meditation + psychedelics? If you have a strong intention to change, it's pretty left field but I'd consider taking that intention to peru and drinking ayahuasca at a retreat. The effort poured into meditation will help you become aware of your behaviours and why they are there, which is the starting point - accepting that you have the problem rather than pushing it out onto people around you. I believe that's a great place to start and that from there you can make some progress.

There is often anxiety or fear underlying many pathological traits, and there is lots of new research showing lasting changes from a single moderate to high dose psilocyn administration for example https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5367557/
Uber costs 2 to 3 times as much for me as it did 4 years ago, so yeah, I think that's changed.

But I've also been riding much less.
Uber lost $8.5B in 2019, thinks it can get profitable by the end of 2020
What's the punishment, a big fine (one time?), can't sell in EU? (linked articles don't clearly state)

It's great they did this, but we'll see if it's just lawmakers playing house