skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IMO, and this is what the engineers never get to find out, at the managerial level, a big concern is to keep the 'labor' "fed" (fed here means fed with list of tasks). Meaning, an ideal for a manager in this aspect is to have tasks ready one after the other, so that there is no time during the work week where the engineer is under the impression that (s)he doesn't have anything to do.

This is actually not easy. Real work, and real productivity is nonlinear. You have times of serious crunch, and times where there really is not much to do.

Entrepreneurs do this better, but in startups there is almost never a time where there is not much to do (there is always something to do). Or flat hierarchies, especially one where the boss is also an ex-engineer, also do relatively better.

This really gets worse in the case of org-chart hierarchies in established/blue-chippy companies, where middle management, especially one that has no clue of tech work, solves this problem by creating pipelines of tasks that can safely be described as "bullshit jobs".

Some middle managers decide to use up the pipeline in a way so as to keep the engineers occupied 60-70 hours a week, others 40-50 hours a week, something that varies from team to team.
In A.I. War (book by Daniel Keys Moran), Trent uses a "custom 240-point Unicode board" to code in SuperLISP, which originally put the idea in my head. I asked Moran about this. He made it up whole cloth. No such keyboard exists. Of course, we still have ample time to invent one before the time of that story.
They are cutting themselves from so many users...

I don't think that macOS has anything special today.
Yup, I'm sure he'll get a fair trial if the usual suspects are all kicked out of the courthouse /s.
That it actually connects friends, and people, across communities and countries?
Depends upon how you are doing the tarpitting. Back when I did this (15 years ago) I used a program that created a raw socket to handle all TCP traffic that just responded with 0-byte sized windows to all TCP packets (so overhead was minimal). I placed this software on a dedicated server (an old box that wasn't being used otherwise) and routed all our unused IP space to this system. It could keep thousands of connections "live" with minimal resources.
You might not be listening to the best English audiobooks (that's distinct from the audiobook versions of the best books). They are exceptionally good. If Russian audiobook narrators are "household names" perhaps it's because reading/listening to audiobooks is more popular in Russia than in the US, but that has no impact on the quality of English audiobooks.
There's also a really cool episode about that (and other things) on their official podcast: https://podcast.panic.com
I wouldn't use it even if it was free. I don't want the market to grow in the direction FB is trying to take it. I don't want to subsidize it with my privacy.
Plenty of pedestrians and bicyclists die in car accidents too. But you're right, it's a per-capita ranking, not per-unit-distance.
It’s still not in yet. Been waiting for it all beta as the #1 feature. Going to guess it will be in 14.1
dont lie. we have nearly 0 people.in the hospitals. close to 0 daily deads.

yes, we have a lot of confirmed infections but that doesnt mean shit. its a vanity metric that you a) can easily game and b) shouldnt matter as long as icus and death dont go up
Making them sufficiently efficient to solve the problem WILL NECCESSARILY involve a tear down and rebuild with the efficient replacement. There are millions of small cook fires that aggregate to a large part of the problem.
House insulation, electrify cooking, heating, transportation of all kinds will take 50-100 years to fully implement - We have to do all these things ASAP.
> I’m not sure there’s enough of a market on the Mac for another commercial code editor, as we already have BBEdit for hard-core text wrangling.

That's going to be my issue with Nova, I think -- well, already is, as I've been beta-testing it. (I even have a theme in Nova's extension gallery!) There are a few things specifically relating to text manipulation rather than coding that BBEdit just does super well for me, and when I want a more IDE-like experience I end up in VSCode. Nova has foundation to be a great competitor in this space if and only if their extension library gets built out quickly, but that's, well, going to be a challenge. I'm still giving them a year of support to see what happens, though.
Or this part

> I went back to compare tricky "expert" Beat Saber levels on both Quest 1 and Quest 2, and sure enough, the older controller is noticeably more accurate. It's hard to perfectly measure VR controller detection without access to verbose data logs (which I've used to diagnose issues with SteamVR in the past). But I can safely say that after an hour going back and forth between Quest 1 and 2, the number of lost swipes on the newer hardware was higher.

Regardless of whether the new controllers have fewer IR emitters or not, the tracking performance seems to be subjectively worse.
Even Latin, if you use enough languages with enough diacriticals. Or want to code in APL. Or use Greek letters when typing math.
I agree with this wholeheartedly. The article seems to be written by someone who has not yet learned the life lesson that "everything is a negotiation".

There's no such thing as a hard deadline. Everything is made up. What your manager is saying is: "To be successful in the market, I think I need to have X thing in Y days."

It's the engineer's responsibility to provide information and estimates that will shape the business's direction. If you don't clarify or negotiate requirements based on your technical knowledge and experience and just take requirements as law written in stone you are not providing the true value of an engineer.

If you are doing that - pushing back and grounding requirements in reality - and the business plows ahead with unrealistic goals anyway, then that simply means the people you work with are unreasonable and you should seek employment elsewhere. If they're not even willing to listen to people they're paying to have expertise then they're probably reading the market wrong too and I wouldn't trust them to be around long anyway.
I think youtube marks anything government affiliated. It marks CBC as gov owned and its run at a fair distance from the gov. Maybe twitter is trying to only mark media that is state mouth pieces, then again VoA is literally founded for propaganda purposes.
In my experience that guide needs a dimension of personality type or at least character traits. Most papers that analyse psychedelic experiences show that clustering by personality traits is a better or equal predictor of the type of experience than dose and (when appropriate) setting.
My comment as I recall was: "You probably meant to say 'convenience' instead of 'connivance' but your misspelling perfectly captures my sentiment about Audible." I'm sorry if you thought that was worded abusively but that wasn't my intention.
So true. I'd love a miracle material that doesn't require a phosphor coating to get full spectrum lighting. Maybe some meta-material will come out in the next decade...

Meanwhile, these guys keep popping up when I search for LED spectrograms. They seem to have good phosphor coatings for their LEDs. It's certainly one of the better spectrograms I've seen for an LED lightbulb. https://www.waveformlighting.com/full-spectrum-led-lighting
Tutanota aknowledge being under attack
Virginia(US) has a law regarding this as well.

"B. ... if the driver or rider (i) comes to a full and complete stop at the intersection for two complete cycles of the traffic light or for two minutes, whichever is shorter, ..."

https://law.lis.virginia.gov/vacode/title46.2/chapter8/secti...

Which makes a lot of sense. I've been in this situation in my car as well. The light just doesn't change.
I just tapped the "Download and Install" button. Now the settings app freezes when I try to tap on "Software updates" and iOS 14 even downloaded yet. getting nervous...
I highly recommend this talk by Armin Ronacher as an accompaniment (or prologue, or epilogue) to the article: "How Python was shaped by leaky internals", https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCGofLIzX6g
Please add my voice to that. I just want sync. Not a fat client constantly blaring about features for sharing and comments and teams, while not actually syncing my files thanks to "Smart Sync".

My current Dropbox subscription term ends in February. At that time I currently plan to leave Dropbox in favor of a service that just does sync and no other garbage.
It's easy to say that for one person, but these are some of the largest tech companies around, and you're talking about 10s of thousands of engineers. Where are they all supposed to go? FAANG won't hire most of them, and it's not because they're incompetent.
See, that logically sounds like the outcome you'd expect but the time dilation from enough DMT can make the experience feel like hours, or potentially even an eternity if you start looping or time stops.

You are no longer player by the normal rules, so you can throw deterministic time measurements out of the window lol.
i.e. it's not Signal's job to provide a backup of the phone's contact list. Bravo.
Recreating historical streetscapes using deep learning and crowdsourcing
If you get insight by looking at the moon I would recommend next time you try fire.
Researchers chart unknown territory on track of unconventional superconductivity
The reduced cost and increased portability make it clearly the right choice for the product IMO. Cost and convenience are the #1 and #2 barriers keeping people out of VR. Once people see the value they can decide to spend on the headstrap for upgraded comfort.
More like 3D TVs "2".
> Firstly it's not the same weight; it's 10% lighter.

The Quest 2 itself is the same weight as the Quest 1. The "10%" you're quoting is entirely from the headstrap changes, if you put a Q1 headstrap on the Q2 they'd weight the same.

They made no improvements, and because of the downgraded headstrap it is actually in worse shape out of the box.

> If you want a better head strap then you can get the official upgraded one

And lose the 10% weight savings, and portability in a portable VR console.

> Tested also says the controller tracking is not worse

Wasn't a claim I made.

> all things considered the screen is a significant improvement

One screen instead of two, and downgrade from OLED to LED. If by "significant improvement" you mean cheaper and worse, but higher FPS then yes, otherwise no
Some regulators have different rulesets for 'temporary structures' (whose permanence can be fuzzy), for 'extensions' (whose connectedness can be limited), or 'renovations' (whose alteration vs. new-build can be gamed). Work the system. Worst case, put up a glamping tent and go neo-Mongol.
> Driving (and biking) are not thought processes, they are things we do automatically, on cruise, using just muscle memory

Yeah, this is the problem.
Can you give examples of informed people arguing that (1) is a problem? 99% of the criticism that I have seen, and what I feel, is that the issue is only (2).

The handful of ultra-secure opposition seats created by (1) are more like an unfortunate byproduct of the truly foul (2).
Formulate it in terms of probabilistic programming, and you will essentially be able to do exactly that.
Almost, although I have to say you know much more than most. Because OpenJDK itself is open-source, all versions are open, except for Oracle's for its paying customers, because Oracle, as the main developer of OpenJDK, owns the source code.

There are other differences, too. Adopt, made by a particularly amateurish team at IBM that is barely involved with the OpenJDK project and quite unfamiliar with its workings, isn't a member of the vulnerabilities team and so gets access to security fixes later than all other vendors (and that's not the only thing that makes their build more problematic than all others). Among those that do participate in OpenJDK to varying degrees, including Amazon, there are differences in how much of the changes to their branded forks they upstream to OpenJDK Updates (RH upstreams more; Azul less).

Anyway, the important thing to know is that there is only one version that is fully supported for free -- the current one, and so the safe choices are either some paid LTS or the current version.
Well, Bumble is one of the most successful and they haven't been gobbled up by Match Group.

But yeah, good luck to them. Their bit on the "feedback loop" will be a tough problem to solve.
I still haven't upgraded to macOS Catalina (first time I've not upgraded macOS). I just don't have half a day to spare with whatever weird stuff it's going to break.
Opal Cliffs used to do this. It was dumb, considering you could just walk down the beach or paddle down.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/travel/article/Santa-Cruz-s-priv...
I don't think so. I think they added (or will add?) support for C11 and C17, but not C99.
I'm trying to assume a good faith argument here, but I'm struggling to. So I'll just say that we see the situation very differently.
> Literally no shareholder wants to pay executives more unless they are executives at a different company where their buddies are on the board.

You might have seen this recent news article. I won't summarise, as I don't think I can do better than the URL:

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/08/ea-shareholders-say-n...
> Is employee health really something that can be traded away?

In theory? No. In practice? Very much yes.

Health (particularly mental well-being) isn't readily and reliably quantifiable. As a manager, you may think your subordinate is happy and productive all the way up to the point they hand you their resignation letter. Meanwhile, employees have every reason to pretend everything is OK up to the very moment they secure a new job elsewhere. And to the extent they're becoming less productive due to burnout, most software jobs has a lot of slack in it - between high variance in problem solving and plenty of bullshit tasks to juggle, someone working at 10% of their normal capacity can stay unnoticed for a while.

With no good feedback being available, it's hard to see you're putting too much pressure on your employees, particularly if you don't look for it (whether because you're too busy or just don't care).
Cool. What's good about its forecast ?
I totally agree. It took me a while to changeover but after my entire development team did, I took notice. It's for sure better.
There exist collective hallucinations, and some people say the biggest one of all is what most people agree to call reality.

These things people see on psychedelic experiences are not completely dependent on the person but are also not the same for everyone, like most things we perceive with our other senses.
> The company wants the engineer working unpaid overtime, as much unpaid over time as the engineer can possibly endure. This is why so many engineers at some companies routinely work 70 hour weeks.

I am fine doing (justified) overtime, but there's no way I will do this from the goodness of my heart. Some additional work is required for the upcoming release? No problem, but make sure to plan some overtime reduction for me next month.
Rest in peace, SoundJam. Best music player on Mac before Apple transformed it into the iTunes atrocity.

SoundJam's hierarchical playlist has yet to be replicated by any other music player to my knowledge.
Old-fashioned gerrymandering sometimes worked that way. You'd have incumbents- in both parties- try and use the gerrymander to keep their individual seats, for personal political reasons. Party bosses made sure that their own seats were uncontestable, because they had power over the process. Sometimes this would cross party lines (you, party A boss, give me a safe seat, I'll vote to give you a safe seat, we'll both be happy).

The way it works now is that you create a perfectly safe seat for the other party in exchange for many more fairly comfortable seats for your own party. The maps are not drawn up to make individual incumbents happy, but to maximize party power.

The fairly comfortable seats may still be "safe" in normal elections- they're not 100% a sure thing, but they're not particularly competitive and elections can be reliably fought and won cycle after cycle. You can't just not campaign, but the other side has one hand tied behind their backs, so as long as you have a competent campaign and no sex scandals, you're fine. Whether that's the sort of "safe seat" people are talking about I couldn't say.
Do developers get a pre-release of iOS to test on or how can you release a new version of your app before the targeted OS is released? Also, why do you need to release a new version at all? I'd expect the platform to stay largely compatible.

(Obviously, I haven't developed anything for the Apple ecosystem, so these are genuine questions.)
Thanks for clarifying comments here, much appreciated.

I have to think my initial comment was overly harsh as well, given Supplement 3.

I think all I can say is that it may be possible for this issue to affect their data once they have OS stats accumulated in five years, but it was unlikely to do anything to yield differences in adherence with these kinds of patients over this kind of follow-up length.
It's a perverse incentive; rather than acting for shareholders or the community the scale of CEO reward encourages action to preserve the reward. The scale of CEO pay demands that the only objective is to remain in post. I have actually witnessed this - executives sacrificing their friendship, relationships to children, business performance and health in order to cling on and get a £3m bonus.
"Airlines are already screwed enough right now without putting off the few people that are still travelling with even more restrictions and surcharges."

Evidently American Airlines would disagree with you since they are imposing this rule themselves.
I totally resonate with your reaction. I wrote a response to their email out of hopelessness. Pretty sure it won't be read, but as it summarizes my thoughts I can post it here as well:

> Hi Shannon,

> I thought for some years that Autodesk was a smart company.

> Most people I know in the makers community were using Fusion 360 because it was free, and when you are a hobbyist this makes a big difference, you are not gonna to spend hundreds of dollars for simple side projects. Your previous approach of allowing people to use Fusion 360 for free unless they made money out of their project was really smart. These people were anyway not going to be your clients so you (almost) did not "lose" money, and on the other side they got used to your product so when moving to a professional environment they would push for Fusion 360. It was kind of a win-win approach, with the additional effect that Autodesk looked like a hobbyist-friendly company.

> Today you did not just break the main use-case for hobbyists by disabling the export in DXF, but you also showed that you prefer to spend money to block existing features of your software instead of improving it with new paid features. That's an indicator that you don't care about the product itself anymore, but that you are just trying to extract the maximum money out of your current users instead.

> I don't see the point to support a company like that anymore, so I deleted my account. It is now useless anyway.

> You did not only lose a user, you lost my trust. And probably not only mine.
Isn't that up to the developers to provide reasonable estimates? I regularly tell the higher ups estimates that are 3x what I actually think because I know I suck at estimates.

If the problem is that your manager isn't listening to your estimates, then find a new manager. Plenty of fish in the sea.
Exactly, "the overwhelming importance of a higher cause" is how terrorists are made.
This is why film scheduling is a real discipline, while software scheduling is not. Film production is unionized, and overtime costs real money, at least time and a half, often more.

As I've mentioned before, there's something called a "completion bond" in the film industry.[1] A completion bond guarantees third party investors that a completed, releasable film results, or your money back. Completion bond companies will take a shooting script and cost it out, then quote on what the bond will cost. It's usually 3-5% of production cost.

Completion bond companies are thus very good at cost estimation. They keep records on what and who has overrun budgets in the past, and by how much, and adjust their estimates accordingly.

The completion bond company has several options when a film is in trouble. They can put people on set to watch where the money is going. They can put in more money, which is the first thing to be paid back when the film releases. As a last resort, they can fire the director and producer and put their own people in, to get something finished. That's seldom done. "Bad Girls" (1994) is a film where that happened. It's a terrible movie, but they got half the production cost back, which beats zero.

The threat of that happening keeps management in line. Big career setback for a director and producer when that happens.

[1] https://www.eqgroup.com/completion_bond/
Perhaps. But in my experience as an engineer, there is a widespread human tendency to take requests into a cave and not come out until something too 'opinionated' is built. When creating for/with others, often what is preferred is a 'dialogue' approach, because everyone has an opinion on what to build. If a product manager asks you to build a Twitter clone, which you reply would take a year, and they counter with 'you've got two days', then make a 2-day Twitter clone. You might build just a couple of key interactions, and it might only operate at toy-scale, or you might just write a bunch of stubs that print out what the system would do, but in general, if someone counters in response to your estimate with a request to do it in 1/x of the time, they are usually communicating "I don't need something built to that level, I want a 1/x pass of what you imagine".

So really these aggressive deadlines are more about project stakeholder's desire to have more control over the design process. Of course a creator might not want to share control, but that is a different issue to 'being forced to work for free'.
> It's somewhat frustrating to see the governor jump to climate change if only for its convenient exculpatory power

Eeeeeh.

Sure, fair I suppose. Except that the US political arena is currently composed of people that want to address climate change and environmental stewardship responsibly and those that deny it's existence while toting snow balls onto the senate floor.

It's fine to reasonably say that California & the feds are underfunding efforts to maintain fire breaks and forest management in the state. It's not fine to say that carbon sequestration will solve everything magically one day - we need to be doing both, addressing excessive carbon generation and looking into carbon sequestration.

Also, as far as I've seen, carbon sequestration isn't really a renewable process - the idea is to lock that carbon outside of the natural cycles, that's a great way to reset things, but it doesn't effect the velocity with which we continue to make the problem worse.

Lastly, we're a pretty rich society - if we can do something about this why don't we. I think most people would be happy to go without the next generation of iPhone if it means solving climate change - maybe we can just slightly slow down the economic engine and produce a more sustainable existence.