skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I haven't left, but I almost have on a few occasions (18 years in starting at a call center, then to desktop/client support, then sysadmin, then web developer, then system engineer, now dev lead that does a lot of architecture work). When I almost quit:

Incompetent leadership: bosses and leaders that are seemingly nice people, but have no clue as to what's going on in their organization. Typically managers that aren't technical at all, but they just "fell up" in the organization somehow.

Relatively low pay: speaks for itself. It's easier to deal with hard problems and difficult people when you're also not worrying about which bills to pay this month, and seeing your peers in other companies do a lot better than you. This was especially true when I was in academia.

Toxic work environment: This unfortunately has happened a couple of times, once in a small family-run shop (13 people) and once in academia (a different role than the aforementioned one). There was a common denominator with both - the person at or near the top was a nasty combination of incompetent, bitter, and pit their employees against each other. In other words people that were truly pathological. All in all in my career I've reported up through dozens if not over a hundred people total through the various chains of command, but these two stand out. With one in particular there's a bit of PTSD (in the small shop the CEO would threaten jobs for minor things - this was ~2010 when the economy was still near the bottom where I live, and his COO would do equally vicious things).

I work for a great company now with some of the most awesome leadership you could ask for. I'm glad I didn't quit.
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I started out in technical writing a little more than 20 years ago with a masters degree, which turned into building websites. I built websites for a few years, when I became involved in a lawsuit with family/community/environmental org in a really novel and interesting area of law at the time. I thought that was quite enjoyable. So I decided to go to law school and become a lawyer, which I did.

Then I was a lawyer for around 15 years, and now I am moving on again. I am currently pursuing a masters degree in cognitive science, and I am planning to see if I can get into working on human cognition and AI/machine cognition in some interesting ways. (If anyone is doing anything like this, then hit me up. I am really interested.)

I do not regret my path at all. It is entirely likely that I could have made as much or more money if I had stayed with building websites and then gone into SWE or something, but a career in law was fun and challenging. And you can leave what you are doing at any time. I think a lot of people could stand to learn the lesson that you can, you really can, just say "screw it" and go do something else. It'll be ok, as long as you are even a little self-motivated.

I still follow HN because it is still one of the best online communities I've found, and it produces some of the more interesting and thoughtful interactions online. You know, it still has its faults, but overall I like it. HN is the primary way I discover new and interesting tech-related news, which still greatly interested me as a lawyer.
Yeah, 24h, sometimes I'm waiting for simple email reply longer, bit tight.
That is an amazing news to hear.

https://www.eduindianews.com/cbse-schools-mumbai

https://www.eduindianews.com/cbse-schools-malad
Is there a powerful resistance to approving elisp packages that aren't default? Could you lay the groundwork with whoever maintains the list of approved packages by asking about approving certain versions of emacs packages that you use, and make your current setup much richer at the same time (e.g. by adding lsp-mode, ms-lsp, flycheck and whatever else you may be doing without now).
This article is about empty passenger flights, not cargo flights carrying vital medical supplies.
I presume GP doesn't mean someone with no other identity, just someone who is doing it instead of a FT paid role. I could be a full-time plumber and still have an identity outside of plumbing
Great. Now get rid of the housing value tax and increase LVT to 95% or so.
Doubt that's the only reason. Standing up for Amazon in such a way probably earned the most.

Wuhan virus topic is interesting. A lot of people like the idea of naming a virus or linking it to the first reported case. It make sense the new name they picked (covid2019) includes 2019 to indicate the year. Using facts like the year or place of first discovery I think makes sense.

The racist angle only applies to some locations that are associated with nationalities. And only in nation states. The problem is more with nation states that we associate land with a single nationality. If the virus started in a multicultural society that angle wouldn't apply.
> I'm tired. I'm tired of the artificial deadlines

I think the ephemeral nature of software really plays poorly with the artificial deadlines, and the artificial importance of some projects in general.

Eventually you recognize the pattern, and there's no logical way to justify it, so it's harder to motivate yourself. You know the deadline isn't real, and you know the software will be rewritten next year with some new technology. You may even be rewriting last years right now.

Tooling churn hurts here as well, because eventually after enough iterations, new tools are just in the way of getting real work done. You know it's not gaining you anything by putting in the effort to learn Toolchain X, because arbitrarily different Toolchain Y is about to become the new industry fad, and will make all that prior arbitrary knowledge pointless.

Some of my favourite years in software were when I worked at an eCommerce agency that served only one framework. Learning I invested directly impacted my work for the coming years. I began to master the tools, which feels amazing. I could also see the real world effect the software had. Sure, it was simple, selling products to people. But commerce is an interesting problem space, and a fundamental part of society, so it was neat to be a part of it and see real companies I worked with grow because of my software.
I don't really know the French legal system but I'm pretty intimately familiar with health and healthcare law in the US. While there's not a lot of information in the Bloomberg article, I'm fairly certain "doubling down on efforts to ensure worker safety" is not enough. (It's possible the court gave an actual list of steps that need to be taken in that regard? But if it did, that was not highlighted in the article.)

Bottom line, based on the little that was in the article, if coronavirus shows up in your facility despite your doubled down efforts you're still liable. A court of law is a court of law in the US. The liability would be with you. Again, maybe there was some more clear instruction given? But if not, there's a lot of rope there to hang yourself with. Best to just stop doing business in that jurisdiction. At least until you have a better idea what's going on.
The safest person on the planet during Covid crisis: man sailing solo for months
Retarded shit.
Newsom said he was giving this information to the public in the interest of disclosure. He wants the public to know what they're doing behind the scenes. He said it was just what they've been talking about, not a plan. He stated that any of this could change at a moments notice and to keep on doing what CA residents are doing because we do seem to be plateauing a bit.
But hospital admission cases depends on perceived hospital resources too... if people think going to the hospital is worse than staying at home, or impossible, that will distort conclusions also.
I think that's about half right: for large storage infrastructure, you would indeed eschew local RAID, but instead of storing multiple copies, you'd use Reed Solomon encoding to stripe a single copy across many disks/servers/failure domains with a configurable number of added parity stripes. Full copies are really expensive!
How do you protect your family and home from the risks of Corona Virus
I had a ten year career mostly in product management at enterprise software startups, and I left last year to open a dog boarding business (which is a whole mess right now, but that's another story).

For the most part I liked the companies I worked at (which tended to be ~50 people when I joined) and my coworkers. The problems were interesting, though largely not things I was especially passionate about (I spent a couple years making software for call centers, a couple years on enterprise videoconferencing, etc.).

I decided to go my own way for a few reasons. First was financial - I had already started investing in some real estate on the side, and it wasn't a leap to see how much of a financial advantage you can gain from owning and running an operating business vs. being a salaried employee. Second was just that I really like to be in control. Even in a 100% self-owned small business you find that you're not really in control on a lot of things (getting permits from the city for stuff is exhausting, plus you've got a landlord, bank, etc.), but from a day-to-day perspective, I am the one who makes the call on everything.

Last was that it was a good way out of SF. I'm engaged (would've been married in three days... sigh), and I just have no desire to have kids anywhere in the Bay Area. This allowed me to move to San Diego, a place that I love and that is also perfect for this business.

Edit: To answer the last couple parts of the question, no regrets (I mean I guess in theory I would've kept working a steady job and started the business post-pandemic, but I believe all my choices were sound at the time that I made them). Also I still follow HN because I'll always be interested in tech.
I wish I could leave.

The tech industry nowadays is no longer about solving real-world problems and making the world a better place, instead it's all about screwing the end user in every single way possible, whether it's ads, stalking and privacy violations, spam ("marketing" as they call it) or just plain fraud where the company is happy to take the money but can't make it right if things don't go to plan and the customer is left holding the bag.

Most tech products nowadays aren't there to solve a real problem and aren't funded by customers buying them because they are good; instead they're funded by some VC scum and they're there to capture the market (or rent-seek) and prevent a legitimate business from starting (nobody can compete with free or below cost).

Technology-wise, we no longer use engineering as a means to an end to solve a business problem. Instead, engineering became its own thing and most companies encourage and reward those who opt for over-engineered solutions, which means you spend more time fighting with dozens of layers of abstractions and chasing the latest JS framework instead of actually delivering functionality. This is mostly a symptom of the previous point where showing "growth" and bragging about your (over) engineering is more important than actual profit.

Unfortunately there's just nothing out there that pays as well so I have no choice but to tough it out.
You're advocating arranging my thoughts so a web crawling bot can sell more ads. Fuck Google.
I think Assembly eliminated 64k years ago, because 4k for all practical purposes had become the new 64k, and 64k entries had been scarce and not super impressive for a while.
https://beta.trimread.com/articles/11492
It's not so easy to stay under $200 if you mean all parts apart the RC radio. I mean 4 motors + 4 ESC BLHEli32 with telemetry + FC + WIFI, compass, 1 down-facing rangefinder, .. in particular for the FC if you select these components with quality chips and sensors it starts to be quite challenging. Furthermore, if you would like to develop swarm applications the time spent to create the fleet is not to be underestimated. Last plus its a platform with 1 single common 18650 LI-Ion battery for higher flight time in comparison to the usual LiPo.
La Bastille was destroyed the 14th of July 1789 though. The demolition ended in 1806.

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bastille#D%C3%A9molition_de_la...
There's a mind-blowing 256byte entry as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Imquk_3oFf4
>Amazon’s choices are to sloppily comply or halt until they can properly do so.

And if we're being intellectually honest here, you can't even "sloppily" comply with ambiguous targets.
New website extrapolates COIVD-19 data to predict future spread of coronavirus
Hey! GitLab employee here. The speed of the site has been on our radar too, we have a handbook page [1] detailing our metrics and our goals. Ultimately we want to have a speed index of less than 2 seconds for .com, but we know we aren't quite there yet.

As for the UI being unintuitive, I'm sorry to hear that. Everyone has different UI preferences so it's understandable. If you want, we're holding a competition right now [2] for anyone who writes a review of GitLab vs GitHub if there are any specific features within GitHub's UI that you like better!

[1] https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/engineering/performance/

[2] https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2020/04/14/github-free-for-tea...
Hence an independent entity.

The history is complex. Presently the press are ruled by advertisers.

https://archive.org/details/commercialismjou00holtuoft
I know a family that did that. We're not really in touch any more but he was a tech worker in London in the mid 00s and she was in corporate purchasing or something.

A few years ago they upped and moved to Wales and operate a cattle farm, they also home-school their kids. Mostly now I see their ads for pasture-fed beef on facebook. They seem happy.
> The Birmingham NHS Nightingale Hospital is located in the NEC exhibition centre, best known for its hosting of dreary tech shows.

Why is this news article so opinionated, and why are they attacking an exhibition centre for something so unrelated to the news story?
> It's not easy by many miles.

Depends on the perspective of-course. I mean, LISP is a real barrier, but once you got over the parenthesis and suck-up some quirks [1], you can get productive quite easily.

Here are two example extensions from my `init.el`.

(defun hh-curl (url)
"Create tmp buffer with curl output"
(interactive "sURL: ")
(let ((buffer url))
(with-output-to-temp-buffer buffer
(shell-command (format "curl -s %s" url) buffer)
(pop-to-buffer buffer))))

(defun hh-insert-date ()
"Insert current date in ISO format"
(interactive)
(insert (format-time-string "%Y-%m-%d")))

It's really not all that much syntax.
You can get interactive help by navigating to a function call and press `C-h f`.
Installation is trivial: Just drop it to init.el.

Use this function my typing `M-x hh <tab>` to see all my extensions, if I forgot the name.
I have bound hh-insert-date to a key b/c I use it frequently.

[1] https://www.heinrichhartmann.com/blog/problem-lisp.html
More specifically, this is the compo results.

https://www.pouet.net/party.php?which=1550&when=2020
My employer has no finance department, just an accounting department. The staff in the accounting department have their quirks at time, but in general are very easy to deal with, and grateful for help.
This, 100%. My institution advertises with local news agencies and newspapers. The local television CEO contacted our President to thank him personally for keeping up with the ad buys. They've had a 90% drop in ads being purchased.

Apparently it's us (community college), the state, and grocery stores still buying ads.
The SARS-CoV-2 virus did start in China though.
> theoretically possible to linearize a random write workload

Are there filesystems or databases which are specially designed to optimize for this constraint? It would basically boil down to structuring your whole system as a set of interlinked mostly-append journals.
Software Engineer Career: “The Prestige: The Secret You Don’t Want to Overlook”
Given the reticence of states to encourage social isolation it'll probably be more enlightening to see April's numbers. I'm honestly surprised it's only down that little - in terms of spending, I've only been to the grocery store twice in the last month.
You are entitled to a refund, but not compensation.

Compensation is due for flights cancelled within 14 days of the departure date, with an exception for extraordinary circumstances.

https://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/travel/passenger-right...
It depends entirely on the whims of the assembly language design. Assembly lanuages for the Motorola 68000 could allow operand syntax like like [A0 + offset], which could commute with [offset + A0], but the predominant syntax for that CPU family has it as offset(A0) which cannot be written A0(offset).

None of that changes what instruction is generated, just like C's quirk is one of pure syntax that doesn't affect the run-time.
but the proxmox devs seem to have no interest in terraform (or pulumi) support
Same tihing. I just hope I'm going to be able to get more 2GB EFRXes.
Even if we are willing to accept a certain number of deaths in order for the economy (and many families) to survive, the problem is that our hospitals can't handle the number of sick people that will result.

You will have bodies abandoned in the streets, like in Ecuador.
Here is part of the reason that the WHO decided to stop naming viruses that way:

> “In recent years, several new human infectious diseases have emerged. The use of names such as ‘swine flu’ and ‘Middle East Respiratory Syndrome’ has had unintended negative impacts by stigmatizing certain communities or economic sectors,” says Dr Keiji Fukuda, Assistant Director-General for Health Security, WHO. “This may seem like a trivial issue to some, but disease names really do matter to the people who are directly affected. We’ve seen certain disease names provoke a backlash against members of particular religious or ethnic communities, create unjustified barriers to travel, commerce and trade, and trigger needless slaughtering of food animals. This can have serious consequences for peoples’ lives and livelihoods.”

https://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/notes/2015/naming-new-d...
It's the gender-neutral, unpaid-work-respecting equivalent of a "stay-at-home mom" or "housewife"

If a couple decides they want four kids, the numbers can work out, for 10 years or so - especially if childcare is expensive.
From my observation, the IDE-parts of VS Code are what put most computers to their knees. VS is very performant when acting like a regular text editor, even better than emacs in certain cases -_-

But the moment the language-servers kick in and start analysing code and projects, the horror starts. It eats ram, cpu and grabs all attentions in can gain. Emacs can have those problems too, but there it's simpler to avoid those stuff. But to be fair, in VS Code to some degree you can deactivate it too it seems.
This is the first week since demand spiked due to COVID that 3rd party sellers are even allowed to sell non-essential goods on Amazon, and they make up over 50% of sales:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-seeks-to-hire-another-75...

It’s true Amazon is still selling non-essential goods, and I understand why the man is frustrated, but it’s very clear even with just “essential goods” being sold, Amazon will still require a large part of their current machinery.

When you’re talking about an organization as large as Amazon Fulfillment, and a virus as infectious as COVID, these half-measures definitely come across as more for optics than actually stopping the spread.
What new measures are they actually imposing? Neither of those articles has anything concrete.

The data both articles present for Sweden's death and infection rates also seem to suggest new measures might not be necessary (though admittedly the data seems pretty noisy; the recent drop in new deaths/infections could just be a fluke).
Probably a similiar purpose when they renamed it to covid2019 and used the year of the first case. 2019, Wuhan first case / discovery.

Otherwise it feels more like a covid 2020 (where more damage happened in 2020)
Is there a way to mess with the cache or MMU and prevent it from _trying_ to write out to DRAM, and be able run a minimal system purely from cache with the DRAM slots completely empty?
The economy only works when everyone has money to spend. If 30% of the population is broke, that's going to cause a huge drop in economic activity. Most economic activity is driven by consumer spending.
TFA talks about hourly flights. Getting home is not the issue.
Hyper-V is a type 1 hypervisor. Even windows runs within it when enabled. Comparing to KVM would be better rather than VBox or VMWare. Try VBox with KVM to see same effect.
I believe that he (like so many of us technical types) suffers from that affliction that we inherently believe we can do anything. We have an amazing imagination, we see the few starting steps and the end product and just gloss over the actual 95% in the middle.

BUT I imagine that for him it's worse because he's succeeded so often.
That's odd.. tsc doesn't seem to be the issue (I barely notice it on my machine). But I'm no internal dev so maybe.
(5) In 1918, due to a combination of shelter in place, and seasonality the virus had time to mutate into something much deadlier before herd immunity was established. What is the plan for establishing herd immunity before the next strain of COVID arrives (~this fall)?
They keep around old versions of your files for a time anyway, so the use case is almost a perfect fit.
Type 2 hypervisors are going to be in an interesting state. The Windows bootloader already has a flag you can easily toggle (without removing the Hyper-V role or config) but the problem is more features are starting to depend on Hyper-V being there one layer up (it's a type 1 hypervisor). I'm surprised nested virtualization can't be used for the type 2 hypervisor since Hyper-V picked this feature up a few years back and it seems like that would have solved all of the problems.
How do you scroll down on results pages when they go over 1 page? I do not see any scrolling tools on the right hand side of the page?
Well. Not everything is shut down without consequence. Many things have definitely surfaced as not being so hard after all, like killing the commute and working from home.
Yes, it depends on what kind of sensors you get. I meant just with GPS, 4 BLHeli ESCs will run you around $40, 4 motors another $40, Kakute F7 controller another $50, $30 for the frame, $8 for the GPS, $10 for the receiver, $5 if you want an extra PDB, it's not that bad.

If you add sensors it does add up though, you're right.
> the new name they picked (covid2019)

SARS-CoV-2 is the virus. Covid-19 is the disease.

The public-health rationale for not naming diseases after the first reported case location is it disincentivizes the early reporting of cases.
I believe azure uses full copies [1]. I assume the other cloud providers must do the same.

[1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/common/storag...
Open source .NET, SQL server running on Linux, VS Code, Github, NPM, WSL, tons of opensource on Azure.

I think you are right, and Microsoft is after winning developers, not fighting with Gitlab.

I think this is a winning strategy and we will see even more moves in this direction. Probably more acquisitions, more open sourcing products, more free stuff, more cross platform tools targeted at developers.

A developer by himself doesn't have much decision power, but if more developers prefer something, companies will follow and use Microsoft's products.
Linux housekeeping: Handling archives and backups
Good question. How many deaths within your family and circle of friends are you willing to accept from political instability resulting from lockdowns?
Wow! That's commendable. What is the total tab for all your subscriptions?
Considering that all of the reports for the past year have been about how Intel hasn't been able to improve their process, how would they be able to sell or spin off their fabs? Who would want it?
I was hoping the bubble had burst by now, but it sounds like it might not be there yet.