skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Advice not to write a formal document. Nobody reads the attached doc before joining a meeting. That's a good way to open awkward meetings, mentioning the document, that every single participant know they haven't read.

Casually mention the challenge you were having during the one and one and open the discussion. Then only if the manager nods it's an issue and it's affecting your teams/customers and there is nobody working on it and it's not against roadmap or political plans... only then you can consider it for a future project.
In summary, they're a convoluted, catch-up merchant.

How about they stay out of a market unless they're innovating.

I've not seen them nail any of this stuff.
Doing podcasts and beating the drum and these novel things built on WebRTC will get you there. Keep it up!
> And you need location services even to use the GPS.

This is the part that's wrong. Unlike on iOS, you can use the location API directly on Android without Location Services enabled, and the Location Services get location updates API will fall back to using that if Location Services is disabled.

https://developer.android.com/reference/android/location/pac...

https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/3467281?hl=en
Not yet, and hopefully it will rain, but the East is extremely dry right now. Poland, parts of Germany, Czech Republic, Ukraine, Belarus, Romania etc.

At least the wild fires around Chernobyl are not a problem any more, but the fire danger in the forests is still high.

Here are some maps of Germany, for example.

https://www.ufz.de/index.php?de=37937

The deeper layer (first map) is still depleted from 2018. February was very wet, but that has been overcompensated for by the no-rain April.

We haven't reached the 2018 level of dryness yet I think, but there has to be a lot of rain, soon. Yes, nobody will starve, and be it because we can buy from the world market, but if this keeps happening we will have to find better ways to deal with it. No export also means that there is potentially too little food somewhere else.

But I agree, we do have some leeway with the animal protein production.
> Not the GP but I can hazard a guess:

Please don't, you have no relevant information so your speculation isn't helpful.
> the deluge of recruiter spam on LinkedIn hasn't slowed down yet

Recruiters spamming you is not a correlative metric for companies hiring you.

SV is worse than other locations, but even the midwest company I work for (I'm also over 40) much prefers to hire people straight out of college. They're cheaper, willing to work longer hours, and easily molded into an image the company wants.

EDIT: To provide a small anecdote about recruiters - I regularly get Google and Facebook recruiters hitting me up on LinkedIn, even though I know I would never be hired by them. I don't live in a state where they have an office, have no plans to move, and don't meet some of their publicly announced filters. I'm up front about this to the recruiters, yet I still get spam from them.
Coronavirus Mutations Map the Global Outbreak
That only applies to a small subset, like WFHing techies who are not significantly affected. Economically, regardless of the moral implications of this, people who are impacted are much more likely to go back to work (to take an extreme example, in the developing world the choices for some are already COVID or starvation).

Recreation wise, I've seen lockdowns rolled out in WA. Whatever they didn't close immediately became extremely overcrowded; they even closed city parks for one weekend (2 weeks into stay at home order and with parking lots already closed), because they became insanely crowded, I run in a park nearby (Green Lake) and I've never seen it like that.

Basically, I'm sorry but you are probably privileged, self-righteous or prone to media fear-mongering; I suspect all 3. For the majority of the population, only the 3rd will have some effect, and that less than you'd think.
BeeChat.Network
BeeChat.Network is free and open source software allowing legal (<1 watt or 100mW @ 2.4GHz or 868 MHz) license-free, mesh network radio communications in an encrypted manner without the Internet.
It works by plugging a Digi XBee dongle into your USB port to turn your machine into a node in the mesh network, allowing you to transmit data such as files, and even chat with other nodes.
For this stuff we have fontawesome and ttf generators from svg’s. Just grab svg icons on thenounproject and make your way own font!

I happen to disagree with the unicode decision because there should be a section for basic commands so they can be rendered in diff fonts. But whatever — as I say don’t wait for standards if they don’t exist, make your own!
The traditional ad hominem is a personal attack on the character, beliefs, motivations, or characteristics of the speaker, which is why they’re considered out of bounds in polite society.

Discussing the experience and expertise that someone has in a subject when they’re making policy prescriptions is absolutely in bounds. While it sounds high minded to say that we should argue everything on the merits alone, the brutal reality is that this results in the experts (who are few) being shouted out by the amateurs (who are many).

Expertise matters; this isn’t debate club. If you’re going to start making extraordinary claims in a field you just started studying last month, you must provide extraordinary proof. Not having expertise in an area doesn’t make you a bad person, it just means that maybe we don’t have to listen to your take.
This is a small part of the article but the whole "wartime leader" trope is starting to wear thin.

Can we please acknowledge it for the euphemism that it is:
Total control by the executive to enable a narrow set of goals while tolerating greater losses for those at the bottom of the chain, in order to achieve a narrow, high priority objective at the expense of everything else (like "don't be evil" or "ethics")
> [Reduced Work Hours as a Means of Slowing Climate Change]

Great, how do we do that without reducing output? If the share of society that supports all of it cuts their hours in half, their personal situation will certainly improve. But a lot of people will go hungry.
I am fascinated that you are sure you know more about journalistic research than Wired's founding executive editor, a guy who has written a half-dozen successful books.

But I think we get a little closer to the truth about what's going on when you admit that you just really don't like this kind of thing. Which is fine! Nothing's for everybody. But your problem here isn't the article, it's your expectations. Reading this, all I expect is what it's clearly signaled as: things he in his life has found to be true. Personal insights, not carefully researched scientific fact. The opening paragraph makes it clear what he's up to.

That you take your irritation with something not being what you want and universalize it into Evil Mistruth Worth of Death is exactly the same sort of value-smuggling that you're complaining about.
> the recent outbreak indicates that severe DKE-19 primarily affects men ages 24–36 working in tech, for reasons unknown to scientists who are unaccountably also men.

Aren't flippant comments of this type also a virulent form of DKE?
That podcast show was excellent, thanks for sharing.

Very relevant discussion of viruses with his snake story and randomly finding Ebola variations and referencing his work on coronavirus (show was from 2018).

Id love to hear his views on the recent stuff that's happened.

This is the perfect kind of guy you want to give lots of money to do random research and see what he comes up with. I'm happy Zuckerberg found him.
No, just no. The planet doesn't have "emissions". It has a carbon cycle, a vast and complex network of producers and consumers that ultimately reach a balance where atmospheric concentrations have been relatively stable for hundreds of thousands of years. We have added to the total carbon by burning trillions of tons of trapped carbon and have cumulatively pushed the concentration of CO2 to levels not seen in millions of years. We have completely and totally overwhelmed the carbon cycle with our additional emissions.
I remember seeing that in GamePro magazines back in '95 or so. Did not live in the US so I had no idea what "AOL keyword" was. It didn't matter because the magazine already had a site (gamepro.com) that was accessible from anywhere. No walled garden required.
Hide the API away too? You don't need to add another field to an existing API while in development, use a different endpoint altogether, to obscure the fact that it even exists. Then, part of the "keystone" can be merging it with the existing API.

This is very specific to your example, but I guess my point is it is almost always possible to design your in-progress state in a way such that new features are obscured.
It's not really the same is it? Your face appearing an unknown size/quality to however many people are at the other end is a different experience.
1) Is it really? Slack already has chat, and 1-1 calls. I don't see a huge UX leap to expand 1-1 calls to big meetings.

2) So what? If you have the technology for big meetings then you don't need to engineer anything else for 1-1 meetings. That's just UI at that point.

3) This makes sense and is probably the main reason hangouts failed. However, I wonder if they could have multiple sub-products under the hangouts umbrella but still keep it a unified piece of software.
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A lot of the coders over 40 that I know who are experiencing difficulty finding work are coders who spent years working at the same place and chose specialization over staying current. They chose to become the J2EE guy with 10 years experience at a fortune 500 or the off the shelf ecommerce specialist. Being overly loyal to these companies and seeking job security left them with little career security at companies who are quickly being convinced to hire young former Amazon and Google employees to replace them.

Based on their experiences I think the best advice is to stay current in your skills, find ways to apply those skills at work so you can get those lines on your resume, and choose to be a generalist rather than specializing. Don’t be loyal to your language or framework, demand for skills in software is more a function of whats fashionable than anything else. Look at where Perl is, many Perl coders were loyal to Perl instead of learning Python.

Most importantly, take a look at the ages of your coworkers. Is it really smart to be loyal to a company where there’s few people over 40 working your job? My Dad stayed at a company for 10 years and only got a raise once. Be smart, at some places you’re just a line item.
> My heuristic is something I'll call SMS sniff test: would it make sense to type that symbol into a text message? If it wouldn't, then it doesn't belong in Unicode.

I accept that heuristic, and find myself agreeing with it for the purposes of the external link character. Let me try to convince you:

This is a real conversation:

A> Are you familiar with Homebrew? You can get it from brew.sh.

B> Ok. Where is brew.sh?

If we were not limited by plain text, we could use colour and underlining to distinguish that as a domain name. A lot of websites find this poor for accessibility reasons so they use the link character.

Another way to think about this is to imagine the link-character is pronounced "https://" as in:

* Are you familiar with Homebrew? You can get it from https://brew.sh.

* Are you familiar with Homebrew? You can get it from {link character} brew.sh.

Isn't that plain text? I'm not sure how to pronounce it, but there's a lot of emoji I don't know how to pronounce. Do you think this is important?

So if you get that far, how much further is this really?

* Are you familiar with Homebrew? You can get it from brew.sh {link character}.
It's actually a big release with a lot of changes!
High population density for an entire country is arguably antithetical to the goals of reducing global warming. We want low population density, not high. So seems like this encourages exactly the right behavior.
Observed in some news articles too.
Exactly. Consider the US meat supply chain. 15 % of production capacity is off-line because the workforce is sick. It's not that they are at home afraid of real or imagined dangers, they cannot report to work because they are too ill. (Strangely, it's only the US. You don't hear about this from Italy, Germany or Britain.)

What are they going to do about it, conscript people to go work at Smithfield or Tyson until they fall over with coronaplague, too? You can't just issue edicts, you have to suppress transmission.
No, I've worked in places where it works just fine.

The point is that, at the end of the day, it boils down elaborate processes to break things up into two-week chunks of work. That's it. That's the bit I thought was a concise, excellent summary.

Sometimes, for certain flavors of apps and tech and teams, that model works splendidly. Sometimes, it is silly administrative window dressing that is completely disconnected from the reality of what the team is doing. In my experience, it's usually the latter -- and the teams work just fine _in spite_ of the fact that everyone is pretending they are doing "scrum" or "agile".

I'd say what is naive is the belief that such a closely scripted, narrowly defined workflow is a one-sized-fits-all solution to optimizing teams under all circumstances and contexts.
immunity prevents you from being infected, not from eliminating the virus. People who are cured of AIDS by eliminating HIV aren't then immune.
It is just a lazy way to rally supporters. Notice that it is the highlighted part they want you to tweet out.
This reminds me a nice day we spent at customer's premises trying to figure out why DB2 won't install or start properly on a win2k box. Weird error messages etc. Problem was that it didn't like that the box was named 'DB2'...
Currently it encrypts the stream using TLS, just swap out that encryption key with one only known to the participants. Generate and share a symmetric key for the call (under the hood, of course; users should never have to deal with this unless they actively seek out the key verification feature) and things would work exactly the same from there, the server just needs to forward traffic.

It might currently not work in a browser because native TLS is way faster than doing the crypto in JavaScript, but in principle it should be equally heavy whether you make it end-to-end-encryption or encrypt-to-server.
RESP3 looks very interesting, unfortunately I made the mistake of writing my own RESP2 protocol and now I don’t have time to upgrade to RESP3. I guess I’ll move to some third party C++ client library.
Coronavirus and aviation: Why is air cargo grounded when world needs it most?
How Can Data Teams Do Twice the Work in Half the Time with Agile
That is one way to do it. But if you expect somebody else to participate in your particular chosen process of understanding, you'd really better demonstrate some actual understanding, and perhaps some gratitude for their gift of labor. Because from here it looks like garden-variety tedious argumentation based in willful ignorance, which is everywhere on the internet.
There's definitely an obsession with a good value in America, so everything you find in a restaurant is ultra high in calories. Even seemingly innocuous foods are probably sauteed in pounds of butter and made as criminally unhealthy as possible. It's like they're engineered to make you fat.

That being said, if you're looking to stay inside your clothes while visiting America, avoid eating at restaurants entirely.
Japan's low testing rate raises questions
Reminds me of the Olympics, when for a brief few weeks every 4 years, a ton of people suddenly become experts in the skeleton bobsled.
I very much like this quote. Used to work with a team of contractors out of Eastern Europe. They were exceptional programmers but wrote code using obscure language features and in such an odd way that now that they are gone, every time someone has to debug some of their code its a very frustrating process. There are definitely times to use 'clever' coding practices but nine times out of 10, just write it simply and focus on readability. Your team will thank you and you will thank yourself a couple years down the road.
If you're assessing comments like "it just works", then there are two possibilities. Either it works for you, at which point you have more anecdata, or it doesn't work for you, at which point you have a refutation. This is the same, regardless of whether you are using the Linux version or any other version.

FWIW, the Linux version works fine for me, with a couple of niggles. The most annoying of which is that the software turns the headphone volume up to maximum at the start of every call.
> a lot of this open world has been written, discussed and built for the english-speaking world.

That's true on the software side, but on the hardware side, China has a much more vibrant hacker culture, mainly because they're not afraid to defy draconian US intellectual property laws. And they speak the second most popular language in the world.
Death of the Office – 1843
This is what I thought several months ago, but my friend convinced me otherwise. Targeted strategies like energy standards for light bulbs or CAFE standards for vehicles have actual data demonstrating that they work and work quickly. To clarify, I'm not saying "no carbon tax" but rather "carbon tax is insufficient because the time scale is too short".

This is an opinion piece, but it is the national academy of sciences at least.

https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/117/16/8664.full.pdf
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Same principle for tight city streets being safer than wider open city streets. It makes the limits of your perception more obvious and (hopefully) puts you on alert and engaged in the driving. It doesn't actually make it any more challenging to drive, it's just making the reality of the situation more clear.
I think the problem in this space is that expressed/accepted demand for Enterprise and Consumer offerings are very different, and the platform owners don't fundamentally respect the business. All platform companies saw these features as sideshows that drive engagement for something else. At work I talk about a "General Theory of Chat Clients Always Getting Worse" -- there is literally no messaging client on the market that is better than AOL/Yahoo/Google messenger of 20 years ago. That's because they aren't viewed as products.

Enterprises seem to be going for "collaboration" solutions that integrate video/audio with content like documents and chat. Think of a venn diagram of Slack/Files/Conferencing. Microsoft delivered Teams (aka Chat/SharePoint/1:1 or adhoc Calling/Group Conferencing, Google has Meet/Chat/Currents/Drive.

People just want to talk to people. Facetime and Facebook Messenger are great examples of that. But... even those platforms stick these functions in the ghetto of complementary products that a more like glue, they exist to keep you on the bigger platform. Google Duo is looking to be that kind of product.

The magic of Zoom is they made conferencing a standalone product got normal people to discover and adopt a vertically integrated, focused collaboration product that does one thing well. Zoom is really an iteration of Webex without Cisco bullshit, and is a demonstration of the beauty and magic of competition. My wife's circle of friends are now paid Zoom customers. That's unthinkable in other contexts... how many mom groups or PTOs were buying Webex? (And conversely, how many O365 enterprises skipped free SkypeForBusiness/Teams and buy Zoom!)
One thing that drives me insane on my home server is I have a couple service files symlinked into /etc/systemd/system, and about once every other reboot, systemd will forget about those services and not start them.
You don't need hashes to match between days at all though. You simply hash the file that was just backed up, and the the backup copy of it, then compare the two
Bailing out SoftBank is different from bailing out Vision fund, I'm sure Vision fund will burn on its own.
With rule #2, (knowledge not transferring), that's always a sign you're not working somewhere good, or you're in a role that will stunt your growth. You really should be able to transfer a lot of what you learn. If you're stuck with a bunch of proprietary gunk that does the same thing as open source, but worse, good engineering management knows to replace that stuff because it will inevitably drive talent away. Or at the very least rotate people through those roles. I know I've left jobs where I've been stuck maintaining legacy systems while the rest of the company moved on to open standards because if you do that for years it's like slow career suicide.
"Cultural fit"

SV start-ups need bright shiny twenty-somethings for their "About us" pages and their IG lifestyle feed, with a few wise old thirty-somethings to ride herd on them.

It leaves room for the forty-something and fifty-something VCs to do what they enjoy, which is pretending to be the team coach.

Put in some wrinkly old guys - or worse, some old women - and there goes your brand identity.
Surface temperature is most affected by thermal blanketing provided by clouds - reduce clouds, temperature drops. Climate is the sum under the curve of weather.

Drop gigatons of soot on polar snow/icepack, it melts due to insolation. Reduce soot, it re-accumulates - especially if avg. temperature drops due to reduced high cloud formation, by reduced “great circle” jet traffic.

Apparently, neither of these effects have been effectively modelled in the “climate models” used.

Shocking scientific shame ensues.

Or, I’m wrong, and no such thing happens. Now we’ll see!