skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
C1: I was the person with attention to detail. One guy built the system and led things. I spotted cracks in it, and patched it to be stable, then proposed a better system when they needed one.

C2: I was the "living documentation" for the entire system. There was plenty of docs, gigabytes of it in fact. Too much for most developers to know by heart. My job was to actually read it all and answer questions. I'd bring up things like how this portion is not optimized according to this specification here, or that portion is missing error handling N, which happens frequently, or this other server fallback is not being used. The system has millions of daily active users, so every time an API is called twice, that costs serious money. I'd also spot things like unstable hacks that were hidden in the code by some old programmers.

C3: Whole code was a mess. I spent half my time refactoring it, which also meant a few late nights sometimes, and chopping out thousands of lines of code a week. It cut down maintenance and bugs drastically. Where one thing would require 4 hours to do, it then required 10 minutes.
I'd almost try this, but I don't write documents enough - auto-correct in modern word processors infuriates me. It almost never does what you want.
Amazing. I used WP6.2 to write papers in high school and remember not only the tables and line drawings but you could also place images and annotate them. It's hard to remember how that worked but in those days it seemed those things were only possible on Macs. As I recall there was a big reference binder that documented the features.
Maybe Apple will win in court, but it is losing trmendously in the dev and gamer space. I'm sure this was Epic's plan all along.
Geez. It's pretty tasteless to compare a political freedom movement to opposing some restrictive terms of service. It's like putting a picture of Thích Quảng Đức on your blog about why DRM is bad.
But waiting for a reasonably safe and risk-free vaccine is, which is the point of the trials.
Sounds like the plan is to make Chrome the OS. Native apps already do things like that.
Wow. I think Wordperfect may be the last time I enjoyed using a word processor. It was also maybe the first time I realized how important good design is. I couldn't you tell a specific reason it was better than Word, just that it always did what I expected.
Donald J Trump and William Barr, one the President the latter, the Supreme Judge of the Nation Ergo which is the most latent and sentient evil in the world today? Somewhere between North Korea, China, and The USA: at the least the Chinese locked their people out of COV2 exposure and showed the willpower needed to win wars. If America cannot win wars should it promote them? Should it have such a say in other countries governance like Nicaragua (wink wink) Cuba(nudge) Venezuela (nudge nudge) wink wink mother effect wink
Well, technically, that child you “raised” with your tax money is the one paying your social security benefits when you are older. The SS taxes you are paying now don’t benefit you directly, they pay for current retiree benefits.

As far as being taxed “more” than a couple with kids, yes you do potentially miss out on a tax credit of $2k/year. Going through my food bills I easily spend that much just feeding that child- let’s just call it $5/day. So that child I’m rearing is at best netting me $0, and most likely will never be able to pay me back! So much for my supposed economic advantage!

So no it’s not some selfless act to society. After all nature makes the kid making process somewhat enjoyable and you take immense pride in your offspring. On the other hand the argument that you’re disadvantaged as a non parent because you miss out on a small tax break that, at the end of the day, at most subsidizes the nourishment required for said human to survive, rings hollow.
Alltop.com (wondering if anyone still uses it?)
Who considers it horrific and in what context?

Here are some common causes of death for ages 20-29 in the USA[1]:

Poisoning kills 460 ppm

suicide kills 336 ppm

Motor vehicles kill 331 ppm

Homicide kills 245 ppm

Heart disease kills 80 ppm

[1] https://webappa.cdc.gov/sasweb/ncipc/leadcause.html
There’s a no true Scotsman type thing where some folks require some threshold of size or violence or whatever to meet the definition of war. I’m sure if you lived in the village where your neighbors kidnapped and raped your wife and daughters and stole your livestock the distinction may not quite work.

As with anything, people run with type of thing and make seemingly absurd leaps.
That breaks ToS.
> Apparently teams dedicated to holding the fort grew bitter and had much lower retention

As someone who found themself in the "holding the fort" team, I can confirm that this analysis is at least anecdotally true, although the terms I preferred at the time for the two teams were Morlocks and Eloi.
But high-voltage power lines can run power for hundreds of miles with minuscule losses. Look at the MISO grid: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/40/2015_MIS...

There's hills somewhere in there, and those hills can form energy-storage solutions that can be transmitted across the entire MISO grid.
I think that is a simple business tactic - low price high volume. For them it is large money, while for the recipient, it was a blip and we would rather not waste time to pursue.

The contents are the worst quality, pretty useless. Imagine a unit production, scamming, failure cost of just 1/10th the success then it is a really good business for them.
This issue lies in the example: why isn’t windows phone dominant today?

We may argue that engagement is the wrong metric, but ultimately what matters is what customers will choose. If choosing between A and B, they choose the more engaging one, you’re in a tough spot.

I agree with your alternative, but with a twist: in effect you need to come up with something, that users will like _more_ then what they are doing now. More customization could be an option, but this hasn’t proven to be true in the market.
As a hobbyist rust developer, I want to think less about error handling
Meanwhile in other news, pot calls kettle black
How do? The childless pay taxes and don’t have subsequent gene pool for society to take care of..

Taxes are perpetual and mandatory. It goes towards subsidizing other people’s genes and then the childless have to be thankful for that.

Let’s not forget the children who grow up to be thugs and criminals. Not every fruit of the loin is a productive member of the society. I find it appalling that after 12 years of subsidied education, they still want free education, housing is a human right and most haven’t even paid off the cost of society paying for them ..never mind paying it forward for the next generation.
You might want to educate yourself:

https://www.chinalawtranslate.com/en/the-right-to-an-attorne...

It's far from perfect, but better than in the US
Those who worked not just did the work but also got paid. That's what I assume. I don't really know what the truth was (nobody would know), but the intention of the story is that she provided a "job" to those poor people.
Thanks for sharing. I'm glad I'm not alone.
> After that they turned into 'just like the rest, possibly worse'.

If that were true, wouldn't there be a lot more Installmonetizers to berate? I feel like the fact that you guys are talking about one startup from 8 years ago has to count for something. YC has funded thousands of startups since then.

I don't know anything about the backstory to that case but YC has turned down many startups for ethical reasons, so I always wondered what else was going on there. Perhaps they changed what they were doing after they got funded? That happens a lot.

YC is not perfect by any means but the absolutist denunciation of the GP seems a bit excessive.
chromedev thinks judgement for MS praise is skewed. Everyone should follow chromedev's judgement. Surely it isn't skewed. chromedev's judgement.

VS Code is solid. I still prefer TextMate on a Mac, but on windows 10, VS Code is by far the best.
Tech is full of entitled low empathy technocrats. This may seem harsh, but it is very true in my experience. Especially at organizations that skew younger and have discriminatory or ageists hiring practices. It gets talked about obliquely and there are a lot of compelling and meritocratic arguments about how unfair all of this is to people without kids, but ultimately the concessions are few and far between. This mostly comes down to empathy and it is a skill many young technologists have not cultivated by choice or through a general life path to this point. Yes, I am making a lot of generalizations but I don’t think they are a reach.
> Since your body (and your mind) doesn't require any music / movie / book to survive ...

I respectfully disagree : ). Name a single culture that has ever existed which had no art. No storytelling, pottery, visual crafts, music, dance, etc.

It might not have been art purely as its own thing as in today's Western art, it might have been art as part of religion ritual or tradition, but everyone everywhere has art.

Would you want to live in a world with zero music, and zero decorative arts, zero visual arts, zero stories, etc? Zero designed objects, zero rugs that have any sort of color or pattern, etc?

Art is totally necessary for our survival. It's so fundamental that we don't realize most of the time it's there.

Early example of fashion? The military, to distinguish soldiers and make people feel special about killing. Also, music (drums, etc) - to coordinate folks and lift their spirits. One example of how pervasive art is.

That's why the art/technology divide breaks down and why design is so interesting, imho. As soon as any material technology starts to get sophisticated, you start to get "aesthetics" and "styles". Think Russian vs U.S. engineering styles, for one example.

Creating tools is a creative act.

Plus, look at the cave paintings. Art's been around since day one. %;-)

Also if you only eat McDonalds it does indeed harm you, FYI :). Or, like, eating really unhealthy will harm you over time. Or eating ice cream all day : ).
> Left unchecked, Epic’s conduct threatens the very existence of the iOS ecosystem and its tremendous value to consumers.
Rewrites are dangerous for companies. They cost time and their benefit is small at best, often they leave the system in a worse state, see "Things You Should Never Do, Part I" [1]. As a CEO I would be very suspicious if a CTO rewrites the stack.

That said I did come into companies as CTO where I should have started a rewrite. The code plainly was not able to scale the way it was written. We had lots of trouble with scaling and I struggled balacing feature pressure and technical rewrites of parts of the code base in order to scale. Getting in and start with rewriting the code base for 6 months so it would scale would have made things much easier for all developers.

As a CTO coach this is also what I tell my coachees now :-)

[1] https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-...
This is even more amazing when you consider the modems of that era had download rates that started at 300 baud.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modem#300_baud

It's a great indicator of how software download size has exploded over the decades.
This is the vaccine trump set his hopes on to be available by November. Isn’t it?
Nothing more delightful to work with than a requirements management tool whose wysiwyg editor changed the text of the bullet points when the indentation level changed. Never figured out what was going on, but there was somehow two different texts occupying the same line, and if you pressed tab to make the line deeper in the hierarchy it would display the other text. You start wondering how bad DOORS really is if this is how the "modern" web app replacement works.
Ah. Yeah.

The motherboard just loads BIOS/UEFI into a predefined memory address and then starts the CPU

This is a pretty good explanation
https://manybutfinite.com/post/how-computers-boot-up/

> In a multi-processor or multi-core system one CPU is dynamically chosen to be the bootstrap processor (BSP) that runs all of the BIOS and kernel initialization code

These days, the "bootstrap processor" is a separate core that your OS can't see. On Intel it's the IME (running Minix) and on AMD it's the PSP (ARM TrustZone)
"And you can’t wake up and decide to take a me day."

I encourage you to do exactly that!

Go to your partner and tell them at X day in the near future, you will take all of the children and do everything and they can have the entire day to themselves.

On the day, pretend as if they are on an airplane: don't call them, don't text them ... really do take care of everything yourself. No matter how stressful it is, do not unload any stress or guilt after the day is over.

Next week it's your turn :)

My wife and I each take a full day each week and a 1-2 week "sabbatical" each year. Recommended.
You had me. Now I want popcorn.
ITT a lot of people who don't have kids talking about the "benefits" of having children. It's pretty clear anyone who talks about "benefits of being of parent" don't have kids.
Yeah, compressed air is a very viable and promising solution. It does have efficiency trade-offs as you mention though. And typical compressed air designs still use fossil fuels in the compression process. There are some new designs I've seen that get around using fossil fuels.

One of the most prominent new startups out there exploring advanced compressed air is hydrostor. Note that they also dig underground :)
https://www.hydrostor.ca/technology/
After reading many, many comments here I think it's become very evident to me how important it is to live with/near extended family and very close friends. It takes a village to raise a child and living as isolated parents far from friends or family that can help in raising children is not sustainable.

Americans (and maybe other western civilizations) seem to have removed ourselves so far from community that we forgot what true community is even for. Sharing resources and helping others simply to be a part of the "tribe" without having to pay for every single thing. This transactional consumerist economy has pushed us to where we're paying for everything, have incredibly fragile networks of dependency, and can't trust anyone unless money and a contract is involved.
Except no, because Epic wants to move out entirely. They don't want to use Apple's house (read: payments & app store) at all.

But Apple has everyone chained up in the basement.
Wow, such irony.
I would put it as half a surviving child per person and we can bring numbers down to carrying capacity within 150 years.

I also think we should work towards preserving genetic material so in case of a catastrophe we will still have a diverse human gene pool.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGYoeJ5U7cQ how about drone video of hundreds of hundreds of 'detainees' being loaded onto trains.

how about so many interned that they have to build new camps. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/meghara/china-new-inter...
https://twitter.com/MrUglyApp/status/1288887602804752385
And browsers that don't crash all the time.
Hmm. I used ftp in the browser yesterday. We have a large forest fire here which led me to look at detailed maps the incident team produce showing burn boundaries etc. These are published via ftp.
All of the data presented seems to be parents who are anxious about their performance at work, then, what, a single anecdote about an asshole manager?

I'm sure this problem exists, but I as a peer or manager do not hold this against those with kids. If you have kids, I want you to feel supported right now, not afraid.
It's not an article, but the document has a title

> APPLE’S ANSWER AND COUNTERCLAIMS TO EPIC’S COMPLAINT FOR INJUNCTIVE RELIEF
https://archive.is/CY1x5
terms of the agreement are these:
https://twitter.com/MrUglyApp/status/1288887602804752385
I don't think anyone here wants to prevent you from helping parents; the question is whether the case for 'societal investment' is clear and convincing enough to justify forcing everyone else to share the burden.
Not dummy proof, just normal human proof. It’s very easy to condition someone to click a yes button when it stands between them and whatever task they’re actually trying to accomplish.
Fair. I don't know much about this world.

But, like, the classic "society could collapse" fear-and-doubt, doom-and-gloom, grab-the-gold-and-the-burner-laptop-and-the-ammo argument can be used for just about anything.

Heck, even when society actually is collapsing, the argument isn't actually that great an argument!

I'm not even arguing that cryptocurrency couldn't have value in the scenario you describe. Just that genuine, specific, examples are more compelling than generalized scenarios. Generally speaking ; )

For example, all of the more specific examples folks talk about below (Argentina, etc).

Plus the parent poster made fair points, based on my limited knowledge, about accountability issues with cryptocurrency. And trust. Especially for nontechnical folk, and even for technical folk. Even (especially!) when society is collapsing, there's always someone out to scam you ...

For arguments sake, if someone is in the scenario you describe, what are good initial resources for a nontechnical person? For instance, should I use something like a coinbase wallet?

https://www.reddit.com/r/BitcoinBeginners/comments/fdykz3/is...
Thanks for K-9. It’s the only decent phone mail app I’ve ever used. Good luck with all this.
As a moderation rule, this makes sense, but it's too specific to be useful. What people actually say is usually more complex, and that makes it less clear cut which "sides" are more or less punished than others. But I realize you were just replying to sg47's comment, which I agree doesn't present a useful example.
> They get the perk of more flexibility because they're providing a service to society

From companies? The market doesn't care about all that. It's supply and demand. If parents get "perks" from companies it's because the companies need to provide them to attract workers(on the whole).
People join the military for lots of reasons (patriotism, free college, bad family situation, and more) but we all recognize that funding the military and making life tolerable for service members is necessary for our society to keep working.

Similarly, people choose to have kids for lots of reasons (family pressure, want to pass on genes, etc.) but society's continued existence depends on people having kids, so it's on all of us to support the people who do have kids whether or not any given individual's motivation is noble.
I am saying that conformity And obeying orders is an essential attribute of military training.
Absolutely not.

Evolution unit tests, then integrates in prod.
40 million people got it, only 25 died: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2009-apr-27-sci-swin...

I'll leave the math as an exercise for the reader, but that's a really low mortality rate, orders of magnitude less than even young healthy people who've gotten COVID-19.
Cover local kitten stories or wine and dine with celebrities?
it is also true that this does not mean that this vaccine will not be the reasonably safe and risk-free one
I was surprised he did not address the issues of loyalty and betrayal. To whom does the state owe its loyalty? To its own citizens first, or to everyone (i.e. no-one)? It's no surprise people feel betrayed when the countries they and their ancestors helped build offer them no more than a level playing field on which they are to compete against the world. A world that seldom reciprocates those open and individualist attitudes, as it has not forgotten "united we stand, divided we fall".

Of course this does not apply so much to major corporations, but that is a different matter.
That’s good advice. Thanks.
Sorry but ageism is not only real, but in silicon valley it's a hiring strategy.
Crux of it seems to be:

> It asks a lot of the player, and takes a while to work it out. You have to play it once in order to understand what's going on. You have to be willing to spend time with it, and that’s not where most gamers are these days.

However, there's plenty of games like this being made today. Paradox games all require hundreds of hours of playtime before you feel even barely competent at the game. Stellaris is one of the best games in recent memory for me. CK3 just came out and is pretty popular.

I don't think gamers today are more / less patient than gamers 30 years ago. You just have a larger, more varied audience but the type of people that are attracted to strategy gaming still exist in good numbers.
Yeah, it would be nice to have a real-life example with a relatively lengthy latency. Perhaps with delivering an organ for a transplant or something.

At least wrt soft realtime scheduling for audio, I think users/programmers tend to get severely tripped up because the latencies are simply too small for them to make a clear mental model of the underlying system. That, along with their ineluctable desire for their code to "go faster" drives them to request features or design algorithms which would have to travel "back to the future" in order to work at all.

So it would be nice to decouple "ultra-low latency" from "realtime" to make it clear that, say, you can't put the heart on ice after the helicopter already lifted off to fly it to the hospital.
I find myself spending hours because they are too weak...

Not a Haskell type guy fanboy, but TS attempts to give you the tools to express yourself in types and falls significantly short.

Something like a single case discriminated union, proper discriminated unions, recursive types are all “basic”.
The Enigma of the “Goldberg Variations”
I've found video news to be mostly horrible. Print and radio are usually better.
I don't know, when you think about what makes easier (cheaper) for the vendor, this way they just have to assemble the CPUs into the motherboards and ship the systems like they always have.

I can't see that the market for enterprise system is heavily affected by grey market CPUs. Their customers are by and large buying these systems built & configured, and racking them up as they come.

It'd be nice if there was a jumper you could set on the motherboard to stop it claiming a CPU though (maybe there even is?).
> The criminal representation rate now is generally said to be somewhere between 30-50%.

Last I checked, in the US, every person is entitled to representation. You want to argue that a country without a separate independent judiciary is capable of producing fairer outcomes for individuals without political collusion?
Yeah. If she'd spent even a fraction of the time to try and understand me as a person, rather than on figuring out ways to "make me comply" (via abuse and punishment) things could have been so much different.

But, she never did. And she never got better. Probably worse if anything. There were signs years later (after her mother - my grandmother - died) that she might have reflected on things and matured.

But no. Given an opportunity, she reverted back to form and went with the abuse approach.

That time, by (literally) forging my signature on paperwork to ASIC signing me out of being the director of my own company. Which she took over.

I wish I was joking. I'm really not.

One really sick thing about it is from her point of view she justified everything as doing it "for my benefit".

Like, you cannot make this crap up. :( :( :(

Anyway, if someone's in my situation then I truly feel sorry for them. I don't know of any way to fix it other than "get out and don't look back".
Really cool idea. I've often thought about creating games with physical objects controlled remotely (my idea was something like RC cars). I'll give this a shot.
What about 1 actor films?

Or the 1939 film "The Women" (no men in the cast!)

Or historical films like "Downfall?" How diverse was Hitler's bunker?
For my friends and I, it was Armegetron.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armagetron_Advanced