skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi HN,

I have been working on Writing for Software Developers for six months and I'm so excited to finally launch it! I set myself the goal of launching before my (now virtual) university graduation and I'm proud to have hit that goal by six days.

Right now the book is 12 dollars off (launch pricing) and you can read chapter 1 for free at https://philipkiely.com/assets/files/wfsd_chapter1_sample.pd...

The book features interviews with 11 people, including @patio11 (Patrick McKenzie), who had the following to say about Hacker News. This quote is from Chapter 15, which covers promoting your work:

"At one point I was the number two user on Hacker News. I might have slipped down to number three...I think that people underrate Hacker News massively. I think there is a meme in the community that Hacker News threads are populated by toxic commenters and that it is a ceaselessly negative place such that the world would be better without Hacker News in it. I think unequivocally Hacker News is an extraordinary venue for value creation throughout the world, largely by bringing together technologists who would not have otherwise met each other. There are people who make lifelong relationships from that site. I met my former co-founders there; Thomas Ptacek is one of my best friends for life; and it feels extremely unlikely that I would have my current job but for Hacker News. I think you could say that for many people who are nowhere close to being quote-unquote on the leaderboard.

Hacker News helps disseminate ideas, like my ideas on sales and engineering career optimization and the body of practice that is dealing with venture funding, both from the startup side of the fence and from the investor side of the fence. These things would be difficult to get access to unless you had a high-quality social network that already had an expert about them in it. It is basically one step short of miraculous that you could find George Grellas, who is an expert Silicon Valley lawyer practicing for thirty years, and have George Grellas patiently walk you through the impacts of the changes in the independent contractor classification in the wake of Microsoft abuses in the 1990s. By the way, George Grellas was a practicing lawyer for Microsoft. That I could read that as a person who was newly an independent contractor working in central Japan in the late 2000s/early 2010s is one step short of miraculous.

I'll acknowledge that there are certain threads that are generally low quality, mostly things that are removed from the core interests of the technology industry. It's not a particularly great watering hole to talk about politics, for example. But, for the things it does well, Hacker News does them better than plausibly any place in the world...I wish more people who could get value out of Hacker News were active there."

Thanks to all eleven people who provided interviews for the book. Thank you for checking out my project! I'll be around to answer any questions.
I think the death of the formal forms in Sweden relatively closely mirrored the changes in Norwegian. In Scandinavia I feel it was in part at least hastened by the post-war political landscape where the strength of the workers movement meant there was a big push towards a more egalitarian society in general, and that was carried over into language reforms.

I think the notion of using the formal forms only when talking to the royal family is close to how it would be in Norwegian too. In written language it retains every so slightly more use, but then too the only times it would be used non-sarcastically would be in something like e.g. an invite to something very formal. E.g. if I received an invite to a black tie event, then maybe it wouldn't be out of place. It'd still feel old fashioned, but then sometimes that is the goal.

> But that formal training was really rigorously applied, so she cannot help it. Even with our close friends sometimes.

I think that's the case for a lot of people who learned these languages some time ago - my teachers knew there was a transition happening, but would rather have us come across as too formal or polite than insult someone, especially as the focus was on learning these languages for business rather than for personal use, and it's really hard to get used to changing those things for languages you don't use every day in particular.
Siemens pays according to the IG Metall labor agreement which you can find here (in German) https://www.igmetall.de/tarif/tariftabellen/wie-viel-gibt-es

A software engineer should get _at least_ EG10 which ends up being >50k e.g. in Berlin.
I'd agree that React Hooks is a big shift towards unhealthy coding practices. But used wisely it can simplify the trivial scenarios. Only problem is to find wise javascript devs...
Your last sentence is not very clear to me. "But it only does this as long as no index updates are necessary.". Do you mean to say it does only for HOT updates? If so, I don't think that is the case, it can do it during a scan of the heap.
This reminds me of the Lit Motors c-1. At least they had a unique twist on the idea.
If you're a Lead Architect you need to know the different between CAT6, CAT6a and Cat 7.

(tip your waiter)
Android/Chrome 81.0.x

You do have to click on either the left or right arrow to see it.
T.ly Custom Domains
It's just that, a request. You are not obliged to help people straight away if you are deeply engaged in something. In fact most people are polite enough to not ask if it's clear you are busy. But if you're not, having access to that immediacy is a real boon IMO.
Get your facts straight it's only 1/3 of ten thousand and they will be separated into 3 shifts . Also they claim to have safe hygiene standards . I don't have any reason to doubt their clAIm . What do you get from going to court . You can't get the billions wasted in time cost And penalty of having artificial limits on you while your competition is allowed to operate and you lose market share.
> that helps also in stability due to the weight being high-up

I don't understand that. Isn't weight high-up shifting the center of mass upwards, making the vehicle less stable?

EDIT: jstanley, olex: that makes sense, thanks!
Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon. I feel like it left me subtly but permanently changed, as if seeing through new differently tinted lenses.
Assuming you mean breaking into systems, while I'm not immersed in that culture, I did enjoy Kevin Mitnik's Ghost in the Wires. It may be a bit dated, but some of the stories of early phone phreaking and social engineering was a fun ride -- and helps add a decent level of paranoia to answering phone calls today! Kevin Mitnik is a legend. He might not be the best of all time or today, but he is up there.
At random

Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand. Love her or hate her, she makes you think.

The Hard Thing About Hard Things - This is a great book about building businesses, and business in general.

Capital in the 21st Century - One of the greatest books about economics and capital written ever - let alone in the last decade.

The Intelligent Investor - This is Buffet's favourite book, and regardless of how many times I read it, I still learn more. One can never digest it in full.

Predictably Irrational - This excellent tome makes behavioural economics digestible outside of economics. It's enlightening, though provoking, and turns several accepted truths on its head, purely by being written at all.

Nexus (Ramez Naam) - This science fiction book explores transhumanism and would it could mean in the near future. It's both light and pulpy, but at the same time makes you think about the outcomes of technological progression.
I found Candide by Voltaire to be eye opening. I read a lot of philosophy and self help, which is a category you could put this book in to. Since it's fiction though, the message comes through more in the story than it does in the author banging you over the head with "you should".
I had/have the same problem, what helped me a lot was to write down what I've learned (roughly bi-weekly). Another booster was to stick to the same document structure for example NABC for proposals and ideas.

NABC: https://nielschrist.wordpress.com/2012/07/13/the-nabc-method...
Fixed, thank you! Kinda ashamed of all these spelling errors.. lol
The linked history of street view does mention that the first instance had an alternator “from a fire truck”.
I've been wanting to learn linear algebra. I had some exposure in college along with my calc classes, but never really understood it fundamentally. Like it was mentioned, I mostly did matrix transforms but didn't realize fundamentally grasp.

I started doing LA on Khan academy, and checked out Linear Algebra Done Right. LADR was a little too much into the deep end for me. KA seemed to be good. One nice thing about KA is that when I didn't quite remember something (i.e. how exactly to multiply a matrix) I could just go to an earlier pre-LA lesson, pick it up, and then go back to LA where I left off. I'm a few lessons in.

What do you all recommend for someone like me?
I'm French Canadian and that sounds insane.

In France, there's a soft tendency to use the plural you ("vous") a lot more because of the more rigid French class system. In Quebec it's seen as a snobby thing to do due to the more working ass culture.

That said, in neither country would anyone ever get a monetary fine for using one over the other. That's crazytown
What a pointlessly flippant argument. Hutchins discovered, and engaged, the WannaCry killswitch. Irrevocable fact.
Yes, that or just plain politics, which is what will enable policy.

I recently watched this talk by Dan Kamman to the Northern Ca MIT club, and though his background is all technical, he argues that we need far more political action now:

https://youtu.be/fmzfRTzN8Rk
Okay thanks I'm going to check it out. I think some browsers add an outline to indicate it being selected, it might be that. I believe Firefox has a slightly visible dotted line around each element.
They are sort of comparable. Indeed, 0.1% IFR for seasonal flu is more of an upper bound. For example, Swine Flu that cause 2009 pandemic had infection fatality rate of 0.03% [0]. COVID-19 infection fatality rate is probably around 0.8% (0.5-1 95% Confidence Interval) [1]. So, COVID-19 upper bound would be 1% IFR.

So, COVID-19 appears at least 5 to 10 times more deadly than flu.

But we have vaccines for flu and susceptible population is maybe around 30%. For COVID-19 susceptible population appears to be at least 60% based on Bergamo, Italy, probably close to 100%.

[0] http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8406723.stm

[1] https://miro.medium.com/max/1400/1*G6ql9WUz114Mdwktyp53Mg.pn...
Never split the difference (Chris Voss): incredible book about dealing with people, after reading you end up seeing most interactions with other humans as negotiations with “black swans” hidden in your conversations.

Thinking Fast and Slow. (Recommended in other responses but I’d have to second this one. Incredible for reasoning about your own reasoning).

What the Buddha Taught: (Walpola Rahula): a short intro to Buddhism. There are some really powerful ideas from this age old religion, that can definitely help you think about your own happiness and what material possessions actually give you.

The Innovators Dilemma: a must read for startup founders, I think it’s the best model for thinking about technology and why startups and adoption often fails.

Atlas shrugged (Ayn Rand): completely transformative book for looking at our world, America particularly. Th perspective it gives you may not be in the best, or most human way, but I’ve found no other book that forces you to empathize with capitalism like this one.
Why do you have to use derogatory language to describe Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring?
Inventing the pill is not the only labor that goes into making it. Was every worker who manufactured that drug also fairly compensated for their labor? Or were they exploited in the name of keeping labor costs down?

Inventing something doesn't magically sprout it into existence.

The person who invented the pill does not deserve thousands upon thousands of times more reward than those whose labor goes into producing it.

If you legitimately believe that billionares have worked thousands or hundreds-of-thousands times harder, or are that much smarter, than you or me, then that's just some ultimate self-hatred right there.
Exactly. Which is why I don't understand all the people shitting on him for making that option available.
So many good suggestions here! I'll try adding two more

[1] "So Good They Can’t Ignore You" by Cal Newport. It changed the way I look at my career and how I view my personal development.

[2] ADP 6-22 Army Leadership and the Profession by the US Army. Looking past the militaristic stuff, it made me change the way I see leader/subordinate relationships and how to start becoming a person others can depend on and look up to.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Good-They-Cant-Ignore-You/dp/14555091...

[2] https://www.amazon.com/Army-Doctrine-Publication-Leadership-...
Correct! If you play with the source on codesandbox you can disable the demo mode and actually rotate the Kollsman window using the BARO button. The calculations for pressure and resulting altitude are from standard physics texts.
In the US it is, literally, a system where voters have direct power only in elections every few years, and only the indirect power of influence in the interim. Voters do not run the government, in a very real way. They merely elect the people who do. Those people are then free to use their own judgement, hopefully, but not inevitably, informed by their constituents' wishes.

You can debate whether this is better than direct democracy (I think it is), but it is just the case that this is how our system works and how it was designed to work.
Cars are typically specced to handle 75kg (~165lb) of baggage on roof rack without breaking a sweat. Think carrying skies + personal gear on a trip across Europe. And if you are concerned about momentum, please note it's common to carry two bicycles on a roof rack; with speeds of 100km/h+ they generate substantial forces due to drag and in case of cornering.

I doubt the whole camera+lidar roof package is anywhere near close; best guess around 10kg (~22lb)
It's a balance between compactness and ease of converting to binary. The switches on the front panel are in binary. It's a lot easier to convert octal to binary than hexadecimal. For example:

0o13 -> 0b1_011

versus

0xB -> 0b1011
Docker in a Day: Beginner to Advanced with Hands-On Examples
WeWork paid 80% of its rent obligations and collected 70% from clients, CEO says
I am still confused. We have Aldi and Lidl here, they have an unusual selection, but good value for money. I am still missing from what happens at Wallmart that is unusual. I don't remember greeters in the ones I went to in Mexico.
> The threat of punishment ...?

if this is the only reason not to harm others, then you'll probably look for (and likely find) a way to harm others and avoid punishment.
the analogy is more like you had a concealed firearm with you and you shot a terrorist.

although personally I think time served and probation seems about right.
The Bible is a trite answer, but a true one.

I would add "The City And The City" by China Miéville. A delightful read and it changed the way I look at the world a little bit.
You can read how different databases provide MVCC at my other blog: https://amitkapila16.blogspot.com/2015/03/different-approach...
Use a CoW/snapshotting backing file system for your backup (btrfs/zfs), or one of the modern de-duplicating backup systems (bup/borg/restic), and the space taken will be proportional to the changed data, while still providing random-access to any snapshot -- Not much more you can expect in terms of space usage.

snapshotting filesystems will be much more efficient in terms of time/effort compared to de-duplicating later, but other than that, all of these solutions are mostly equivalent.
what is this? (not an architect here btw)
Ask HN: Have you downgraded from Mac OS X Catalina?
If yes, to what?
And most importantly Why?

I just had enough of the poor bluetooth connectivity issues and my paid Adobe CS6 suite not functioning anymore and downgraded to Mojave.
You may be able to slow aging, but you are still going to deal with wear and tear. Until they actually find a way to promote well regulated regrowth of tissue, that is going to be a problem. I am young for my age, having been born into a family the generally lives to be old. My parents both lived to be 90, my maternal grandfather lived to be 95, and my maternal grandmother was one of three in here family that lived to 100+. On my father's side, his mother died at 88. For someone born in 1890 that was a feat. His father committed suicide during the great depression, but two of his father's sisters lived to 98 and 101. You get the drift. Dinosaurs. But wear and tear still took their toll. My father's hearing was week, and he was losing his eyesight before he died. My grandmother was completely blind before she died. My mom succumbed to a cancer that had recurred.

Wear and tear.

I worked outdoor physical labor through high school, and I have the moles and other skin issues related to excessive sun exposure. I also have several joints that were injured then that have caused problems my whole life. I lost much of my hearing to childhood illness before I was twelve (an misdiagnosed issue that would have been malpractice in today's environment) that I followed up with too much live music, operating heavy machinery, and shooting trap.

Wear and tear.

So maybe we can extend the healthy life of our organs, but that isn't going to magically make injuries go away.

And I am not suggesting that young people should ever listen to people in their sixties, I certainly never did, but if you can avoid damaging your skin, hearing, and joints while you are young, you will live to appreciate that.
Resistor hack?
I agree with your opinion that you do not 'need' JQuery. I'm saying that people will use it nevertheless, even if better alternatives are available.
> The whole corporation is basically a 2-person-empire (the only two people that own shares and have taken the thing from 1 store to ~13k stores globally). They make every major call, and even random minor calls. It should be mentioned that they are 72 and 80 years old, respectively.

Sounds very similar to Dyson. The biggest problem is that nobody wants to make decisions because what's the point when James Dyson is just going to come along and casually overruled it? Especially frustrating if it's something he isn't interested in.
Well you only become a saint after you are dead and if miracles at your grave. So the risk of being saintified and then burned at the stake is not high.

My point was just that unusual aging patterns would not put you at any particular risk of being burned at the stake.
This isn’t that surprising, the heavy lifting is already done for you adding things that maybe required for government use such as specific encryption scheme or central logging of messages can often be more easily added to the source or via middleware than developing a whole new protocol on your own.

The NSA used XMMP too https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.vice.com/amp/en_us/articl...

I know of a few other non-US government agencies that did that too.

Some countries even run their own MVNO’s for government uses no need to reinvent the wheel.
Canli radyo – Radyo Tempo 103.0
I downvoted it because this (IMO not very good point due to it missing the point) took up the entire first comments page.
Likewise Dennett's "Consciousness Explained." I don't agree with a lot of what he lays out, and it doesn't quite accomplish the title, but it challenges a lot of common intuitions about consciousness in a way I found productive.
According to https://www.comparably.com/companies/lidl/salaries/software-... and glassdoor senior software engineers are around 150k to 200k and directors are around 200k to 300k.

So they are largely comparable to SV salaries at Google/Facebook. Which means since Google/Facebook pay more than average, they are above average for SV.

And that's at places like Berlin which are cheaper to live than SV.
Yeah we can't even get people to wear a mask in public when it literally saves lives today. Good luck convincing everyone of the massive changes needed for climate change where the worst consequences won't appear for decades to come.
Show HN: Automated Machine Learning with Explanations and Markdown Reports
$20k-$60k. https://www.trekview.org/blog/2019/history-of-google-street-...
That's okay, I don't mind. :-)
Do you have a link to a write-up on the loophole in the USPS pricing rules somewhere?

Edit: I found a few articles. Seems mostly a lesson on how you shouldn't have a government monopoly on the postal service in your country..
You can export data via Snowball as well.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/snowball/latest/ug/create-export...
If you want to learn LA by coding, coding the matrix by philip klein is a really good book. He even has his Coursera lecture videos (not available on coursera anymore last I checked) up on his website.
The Myth of Sisyphus was so helpful to me when I was a young person.
Thanks, I feel this is great advice!

I used to insist on writing down the things that were just floating around in the heads of the more experienced team members, and it went really well for a time. I was part of the effort that pushed for better infrastructure for documentation, and we did get it in the end.

But, alas, this stalled and so did the excitement about having documents.
This is great and the technical implementation (browsing large image) is good.

But I must be getting old, I didn't see the "See the photograph" button at first, I read the article, came back here to look for a link, realized people where commenting about it so I must have missed it, went back, looked at my screen for nearly a minute to finally see the button.
Mark Manson's books:

- The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F * ck

- Everything Is F * cked

They have absolutely changed my life. I can't recommend them enough.
The original app is on bitbucket
git clone git@bitbucket.org:duncanmeech/flying.git
I can't speak for what your parent poster is trying to say, but I can tell you what I mean when I say the same thing.

Let me use a specific example. I often say that capitalism is terrible for workers. Yet I work for a capitalist company that is--in my opinion--quite good to its workers.

Being a "realist" has told me that when looking for a job, I should be careful to avoid toxic cultures, exploitative management, and being underpaid relative to whatever I consider the fair market value of my labour.

But being a realist has also told me that toxicity, exploitation, and stinginess are unevenly distributed, and therefore it is a wise thing to shop around and negotiate for what I want.

I would NEVER say, "Toxicity is just how all businesses work. Demeaning and bullying people is just how company cultures are. Exploiting workers is what businesses do. If you can manipulate someone into working such long hours their health suffers, good for you. And negotiating is impossible, all companies push their workers around."

Being a realist means acknowledging what is in the universe, but it also means acknowledging that the universe contains variety and that almost everything is unevenly distributed.
Siddhartha, by Herman Hesse
I have always thought it would be useful if API providers were able to provide the javascript bundle that Zapier runs under the hood on the dev platform alongside their API at a pre-defined route, so any runner (Zapier, Tray, MS Flow/Power Automate) could consume the API regardless of location (SaaS automation, desktop client, etc). I believe there's even an automation provider that allows you to "one-click" import the integration you've built from Zapier to their platform (the name escapes me at the moment, my apologies).

If the API provider is already maintaining the integration, it's a matter of automation providers moving towards a standard for how to express integrations as the ecosystem matures.