skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"My suspicion is that this interplay between engineering manager and engineer is nothing but a game. Either to the manager, or to the company. Either it is a show of power by the manager, or it is a strategy for increasing the company's profits. In other words, if a boss is not totally clueless (which some seem to be), he knows an engineer can't complete a job in three days that will take a month. But, he must appear to be playing the company's game. The company wants the engineer working unpaid overtime, as much unpaid over time as the engineer can possibly endure."

At my last job, this was definitely the case.

I'd come in with a realistic estimate, and everyone would be shocked. This is too much time, they'd say. How can we cut this down? There would be a discussion. We'd play a little game where we'd pretend we could cut corners over here and find efficiencies over there, and hey presto, we'd get it done in half the time. Now everyone is happy.
Except nothing has changed. The job ends up taking as long, or longer, than the original estimate, but everyone has to work overtime to reach the deadline.

I suspect the same thing as the author; everyone knew we weren't actually cutting the time down. We were just promising to get it done faster for free.
China dominates most electronic industries, few of which were invented there.
Interesting that you say LEDs are a Russo-Japanese invention because all colors of LED were first commercialized in the US. The high-brightness blue LED was discovered in the US but commercialized by a Japanese company.
It likely depends on the country, but I am sure there is no lack of pampered/spoiled children at boarding schools. In the US, where free boarding schools are practically unheard up, it is even more likely.

The adults should be ensuring you don't grievously injure or harm yourself, and that you're returned in same/better condition.

You can always ring up your parents and ask for stuff, it's not like you are adopted by the school and lose all contact with your parents, nor are you earning a wage at 13 going to boarding school.

Lots of kids going to public school and/or with rough home lives learn "sink or swim" just as well or better than someone going to boarding school. I just found it odd to say you're learning to "sink or swim" when you have so many safety nets there to catch you if you did sink/fall.
I was mainly arguing against

> "Monopoly" is one of such words (others candidate include: freedom, democracy, justice).

-- there is a much more rigorous definition of Monopoly than the other ones you listed. You're claiming that it is some undefined concept that varies from person to person, but I think that's only true in the sense that "encryption" or "space-time" has a loose definition; most lay people don't understand technical jargon, and often misuse the jargon when they think they know what they are talking about. But that doesn't mean there _isn't_ a well-defined meaning that is agreed upon by the specialists that actually work in the domain in question.

The other words you listed do not have clear-cut legal definitions in the same way; they are not technical jargon defining criteria for enforceable regulations with tests and case-law backing them up.
What about the low battery nags?

When will the huddled high-device-usage masses be free of 10 of these a day?
VR has been a thing since the 80s if I'm not mistaken. It wouldn't surprise me if some researcher from that era jumped on here to express how they were working with similar tech back then.

"Forever" is a long time. I bet you're wrong about your claim of perpetual ruin unless there's another world war that wipes us out.
I agree, but I'd much rather just write to a non-proprietary Postgres client API once and know that the replacement is literally "update an environment variable" and nothing more.

It's almost certainly something that would need to be done in an SHTF, unscheduled event anyway, so best keep it to zero.
you need an online account to download the games on the app store yes
Gopls Release v0.5.0
Please don't take HN threads further into flamewar, especially not on classic flamewar topics. Regardless of how wrong other people are, doing this only makes things worse (as indeed it made things worse below).

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
A grandparent who wants to visit a newborn is the epitome of "neither of you should travel". It's like people don't even consider the option of actually adjusting their expectations based on changed world conditions.
Easy for me to say, of course, since I live far enough away from my family that I've already become used to missing funerals and weddings and babies, and now I couldn't go home if I wanted to.
First, I think your estimate of which is the niche, High Performance Computing or all of personal computing (including PCs, laptops, smartphones, and the web) is not quite correct.

The entire IT market is ~ $3.5 trillion, HPC is ~ $35 billion. Now that's nothing to sneeze at, but just 1% of the total. I doubt that all the pieces I mentioned also account for just 1%. If so, what's the other 98%?

Second, there are actually many factors that contribute to software bloat and slowdown, what you mention is just one, and many other kinds of software are getting slower, including compilers.

Third, while I believe you that many of the HPC fields see some algorithmic performance improvements, I just don't buy your assertion that this is regularly more than the improvements gained by the massive increases in hardware capacity, and that one singular example just doesn't cut it.
That's quite a light barrier to entry to download online games
Right, otherwise the problem would be trivial. If it wasn't clear, the plan was the printed ballot would anonymously go in a box to be machine counted.
Only for as long as apple signs a given release.
I notice and acknowledge this as well, but it's the same conversation about starter homes: if you are currently childless and you were to become pregnant today, you would not start using or benefiting from a school district at all for another 5-6 years. Why pay the premium for a nicer school district that you aren't even using? You're essentially just throwing away that money for half a decade, and who's to say if that school district will still even be a good one 5 years from now.

Why not move into a cheaper starter home now, and then once your child is about to start school (and you presumably have gotten some raises and built up some wealth), move into a more expensive house in the better school district? That's what the entire concept of "starter home" is about.

So now the conversation becomes: it's not that this person can't afford housing, it's that they can't afford housing that has an amenity they won't even use... which makes the entire situation seem even more silly.
Spot on. The absurd nuclear family culture it's a product of the car and real estate marketing efforts.
This is neither how a Monte-Carlo process works (it's sampling the possible outcomes randomly, not simulating all outcomes), nor what is described here (building a physical system where an observable value is described by the differential equation one is trying to solve).
How is an 84-hour work week “inspiring”?
Totally disagree, I think app clips are huge and will get tons of traction.
Which device are you on? This basically never happens to me on XS but does quite a lot on iPad Pro 9.6. I’m almost certain it’s just a result of how much memory your device has.
A serious editor on iPad would be so blessed
Huh?

It can run other apps inside of it, You can @people inside a group message, pin people to the top, etc..

You may not care for the app, but they update it relatively frequently!
Although I agree with the sentiment I am going to point out for fun that the algorithm does not have to assign probabilities less than 1. Technically a solution like Floyd steinberg produces is in the search space. You would just need the right objective to motivate it
They're not less accurate, I would trust other reviews
Stop saving all your gif messages
> we'll wipe a large fraction of us off the planet and precipitate world war

Most climate economists estimate that, without substantial behavioral changes, the effect of global warming will reduce our GDP by a single-digit percentage from what it otherwise would have been on the order of 100 years.

You’ve been swept up in a very hyperbolic and apocalyptic narrative which lacks any factual basis.

It’s not clear that, from a humanitarian standpoint, we should actually change anything about our behavior right now. The humanitarian cost of losing various sources of cheap energy very likely exceeds the humanitarian benefit of slightly reducing expected global temperature.
Innovations such as ....?
I'm 39, and I didn't major in CS. FAANG wouldn't touch me with a 10-foot pole.

What to do? Take your skills and put them into your own startup. I rolled with the times, hedged my bets and invested my life savings, as documented here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22958528
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22970810

(The only thing I'd amend my 4-month old comments with, is, chill out! The daily ups and downs are not important compared to the Fed Put. And, long-term, watch out for the ultimate decline of the dollar, the shift from fiat to bitcoin. Palihapitiya has sage advice in keeping at least 1% of your net worth in bitcoin.)

Investing well is a mindset, and the essential thing to do is focus on your methodology, and your connection to the world around you. There is no substitute for critical, rational, non-cynical thinking.
Settings > Sounds & Haptics > Sent Mail > None
Here is a really fucked up Telegram mis-feature I discovered recently:

If Alice and Bob are in the same chat

and

Bob has Alice's number stored in their phone's contacts list

and

Bob refers to Alice in the chat (using @Alice)

then

Telegram will disclose to all the chat participants whatever name Bob has stored for Alice in their contacts (instead of the name Alice specified in their Telegram profile)
20 Years of Linux on Big Iron
Hehe, that one is actually really funny and neat.
What is Spectrum offering you? I got great service from them for 20 years.
Argentina solves this with "telos"
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telo
A couple things I would love to see in iMessage having used WhatsApp as my primary messaging app for the past several years: (1) Direct replying/quoting to a specific message. (2) More granular group chat controls (eg ability to add/remove/leave group message threads. (3) Ability to rename group chats so that I don't have 3 chat threads that contain the same first two people plus someone else
Latest iPhone SE
this is cute, but to be honest, the celebrity ones are pretty bad - they don't really look like the person nor capture their spirit, with a few exceptions: Tim Allen and Gal Gadot are quite good and Will Smith is alright. Some especially bad ones: Leo DiCaprio, Barack Obama, Johnny Depp, Keanu Reeves, Idris Elba, Ryan Gosling, Robert DeNiro
My two cents, thanks for the developers, Dropbox works perfectly and it's hands down the best place to store one's digital life.

I am a paying gsuite user, and nevertheless I pay for Dropbox because Google is not even close to where Dropbox is in this area. How to verify this: try to resync every couple of minutes a file of 500mb or more with only few changes on Drive with the sync client, then do the same with Dropbox. Delta syncing in Dropbox is still unbeaten, even by those that claim they have it (Google doesn't to my best knowledge, I think Microsoft introduced it a while ago, but doesn't work as good, try the same test).
Considering the success of the Quest compared to most other headsets.... I'm wondering of Sony is going to try to make the next PlayStation VR a standalone device.

Sony is launching the PS5 in November this year, and there hasn't been any word on a new VR headset to go with it, but I imagine they're developing something new.
Nope. I played Half-Life: Alyx with both cable and wireless for the first few hours, alternating, and ended up playing the rest of the game in full wireless, because I haven't noticed any difference.

And I am saying that as someone who is fairly sensitive to this kind of stuff, like, I can easily see the difference between 60hz and 144hz refresh rate on monitors, for example (yes, i am aware that refresh rate and input delay are different things, this was just an example).
Autodiscovery is not the norm anymore, though.
Oh hello there, Windows Phone tiles!
So move/delete your old messages and attachments... I don't understand how is this an iMessage issue?
That's a separate matter, which shouldn't affect what I wrote.
Back then, to write a pixel you did, at most, 3 memory writes. Now you need to write those bits to a bitmap and pass it on to the GPU, which will combine it with all the rest of the stuff needed to make your screen happen and, hopefully, you'll see something in a couple screen refresh cycles.
Except that, if I understand correctly, the author poses the problem such that one must 'end up back home' (that is, one must find an Eulerian circuit, not a path). If there are 2 nodes of odd degree, then you must start at one and end at the other.
I'm guessing https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/yak_shaving
> screw it

heh heh heh you sure did. congrats on becoming a parent soon!
The other critical factor is instability in the sense that we can lose our jobs at any time. It makes it very difficult to plan long term if you expect your industry to get offshored, or automated, or generally collapse somehow. Even if these calamities don't happen to you, you'll still switch jobs way more than the previous generation.
I used to think this, but recently using a friend's long travel keyboard made me doubt my position - I typed unexpectedly quickly without any getting used to it. I suppose I'll have to try it out a bit more, but it was definitely pretty surprising to me.
I said "iMessage".
What do you think of Sublime? I'm like you and something about VS Code's design really bothers me. It's incredibly heavy and can't stop getting in my way. Sublime on the other hand feels like a sharp kitchen knife or a carbon road bike, it's amazingly light and nimble to use. I love it.

Really what I miss is 2015-2018 Atom, but it seems like its time has gone.
The main takeaway I got from this is how many ads managed to get through my adblocker. Impressive. Refused to read the article as a result though.
I disagree completely. I absolutely refuse to have a Facebook account linked to my identity that Facebook uses to spam people asking if they know me.
Why not use two separate keyboards?
Because there's nobody around to say "no" anymore.
Why? (asking curiously). I used some version of Jetbrains, then Goland, then Atom.
> We have an internal design system called DIG that may eventually be shared more publicly.

DIG == Dropbox Interface Guide(lines)?
It would be more obvious if the private key files were named “id_ed25519.private”.

Why not make it “identity.ed25519.private.sshkey” and default to “20200916{,T224400Z}.ed25519.{private,public}.sshkey”?
> I'm a 90th percentile earner. Will 95+ percentile earner in a few years time.

How much is that in the UK?
I just want to disable the pointless "message sent" tone in iMessage.
Especially because TS and VSC already move at blazing speeds.
I love my minimap, not because it's useful to me at all, but because it looks so freakin COOL
not just fiscally - if you have a choice, why would you choose to go to the hospital for a traumatic process, tying up valuable doctors but also potentially exposing yourself to covid...
> I think many landlords would prefer a potential to pay (owing rent) than full eviction and being forced to lower rent and uncertainty wouldn't they

Every land lord thinks they'll be able to rent their apartment, hence the need for the eviction moratorium. Their view is: if I leave in a tenant who won't pay, definitely won't make money, but if I evict them I can find someone else.
Eclipse 2020-09 Java IDE Improvements (including Git and general improvements)
> The keyboard autocorrecting to random names aggressively

Holy shit how many times has my phone thought I was trying to say "Amit" instead of "about"? It's not like there's even anyone named Amit in my contacts.
This keyboard is clearly silly, but when it comes to normal mechanical keyboards... well, I can barely live without it now. Volume and necessary force do vary though, so what I like might not be very similar to what you didn't like.
Loving the incomplete set of kana keys.
HN may be interested in my dashboard for visualizing these forecasts.

https://christopher-russo.github.io/dashboard/sep/

If you're new to Fedwatching or need a refresher, here's the accompanying explainer.

https://christopher-russo.github.io/sep-dashboard-launch/

Feedback welcomed!
I upgraded to Catalina so I could mute email threads in Mail.app.
It's a combination of good jobs being in expensive cities, purchasing power dropping and epic (god I hate word) asset inflation.

That said remote work makes middle american and rest of the world post wuflu much more possible.

I wonder what will happen to big expensive cities after all the young people leave for the midwest and south?
I guess most hobbyist would be pretty content with 2006-era solidworks if it were readily available: look at how Eagle was used without updates for years, as a shareware.

I expect that most of the new features cater to professionnals, except for basic maintenance and a few simple features. The workload necessary to match hobbyist expectations is nowhere near a single full-time dev.

But these products are monstrously complicated for wat they are, in part due to the company looking for ways to extract value at every point it can (forcing cloud mechanisms: they cost money for sure, but are mostly used for locking customers in and as an excuse to require a permanent connection). And for every possible revenue stream, it seems...

I'd say this is a good thing if it makes FLOSS alternatives a bit more attractive. Hobbyists are usually hard to switch to alternatives once they find something "good enough". In turn, they tend to produce lots of documentation, tutorials, and training material. Just look at the number of people you can ask for help with, say, plotting a graph in Microsoft Excel vs doing it in LaTeX.
iMessage (blue bubble) conversations are fairly good and well-featured, but I wish they would bring some kind of improvements to SMS text messages (green bubbles).

I wonder how much of it is competitive advantage to push people to switch to iOS vs. Apple executives literally never texting people with Android phones.
Back in my Windows development days I used to LOVE Rock Scroll.
https://www.hanselman.com/blog/IntroducingRockScroll.aspx

It made the scrollbar a literal screenshot of the code.
Can I watch netflix in bed with this?
1. It can connect with your gaming pc wirelessly. Also battery driven, so completely wireless.
2. No base stations, only headset and controls
3. You can run many games directly on the device, so no gaming pc required for for example beat saber.
4. Portable, you can bring it to your friends place.
> It would seem to me that it's most common in the US to move out because they can afford to...

In the context of the "housing affordability crisis", it makes that part of the context that much more interesting.
Bing is a great search engine. Want to know how I know? I Googled it.

-Colbert

In all seriousness, I use Bing on my laptop and Google on my phone.
Adding support for Go(lang)?
Author of post here. I tried to distill as much of this JuliaCon session's content as possible; hopefully didn't miss too much. I'd be keen to hear about OSS hurdles that I'm sure folks have faced in other language communities :)

It's kind of nestled at the bottom, but this post also announces that we're organizing the first ever "Annual Industry Julia Users Contributhon", an annual Julia community hackathon where participating industry organizations can come together to contribute back to the Julia ecosystem. We already have a great cohort of orgs that I'm positive will produce some substantial contributions over what's sure to be a fun couple of days. If your company uses Julia, I'd love for you to join us!
Seems like (1) is included in iOS 14?

“Inline replies
You can reply directly to a specific message in a group conversation. See all related messages in their own view to easily keep track of a thread.”
Calling apple to be a social justice warrior is the most ironic thing I heard for a while. We are speaking about the company who actively encourages developers to go to subscription model no matter what the app does, the company, which does everything in order to make businesses unable to fix their devices, so stop their give competition for their outrageous repair prices and methods, the one who do everything to monopolize cash transfer for their sweet 30% cut for literally everything, the one who is using exactly the some components for a new model of a laptop, while they already have internal documentation about said component to be often failing in a short time. So LOL
I do agree that lockdowns increase unemployment compared to not, holding all things being equal (which is almost the point).

For comparison, two countries more culturally similar to Sweden who did institute lockdown measures:

Norway: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LMUNRRTTNOM156S

Denmark: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LRHUTTTTDKM156N

Norway went from ~2% to ~9.5% and is now back to ~4.5%. And you can barely see a blip in Denmark from 5% to 6%.

This leads us to the obvious conclusion ???.
The need for training was there. The selling point was certification saying there was a lack of need. In part that's also a fault of each purchasing airline that didn't give extra training.

Regardless of whether Boeing were willing to certify the system as not being training, those responsible for pilot competence at the purchasing commands should still have ensured pilots were trained before using the system.

If a garage sells you a roadworthiness/MOT certificate when a vehicle isn't roadworthy, and you know it isn't, then we're both at fault.
do you have any career development book recommendations?
It refers to yak-shaving, which often manifests as pointless tinkering with meaningless config files.

https://seths.blog/2005/03/dont_shave_that/
> Advise them that these types of PPE are safety concerns, especially tents / pods which can slow access to critical safety procedures, including emergency evacuations and use of oxygen masks

Chance of crash ~0

Chance of death from disease, orders of magnitude more. Chance of death to family not on the flight of disease, even more orders of magnitude more.

Risk to airlines being sued for a crash ~ same with or without people tripping

Risk to airlines from regulators ~ a lot
The onus isn't on me; it's on Amnesty International.

Nor am I the judge; the judge in the Assange trial is.
You are still doing something unlawful betting that everything's gonna be ok

What's the difference with a moped or a motorbike doing the same?
I think the tipping point for KiCad was when CERN realized how much they were spending on professional EDA licenses, and decided to pour those resources into improving KiCad instead. That's how I understood it, anyway.

I suppose some large-ish entity that relies on CAD will need to take the same view. I have less faith in academia there, however -- I suspect many of those sitewide licenses are heavily discounted in order to cultivate the addiction, to profit from it later. That's just speculation, though.

This is where we really need good software bounties. I'm sure a whole lot of scorned F360 users would throw a few bucks a month into a Patreon or something to advance the state of FreeCAD. I'm not even directly impacted by this; I have a F360 license through my employer, but I'm offended enough on principle to contribute if there's a place to do so.
I can’t see it that way even if I try really hard. If you want to be ios14 ready I personally would be code complete a long time before yesterday.