skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having worked in the tech sector for a while now, having burned out once, and having been on-call 24x7 far more than is healthy, I would say exploitation is the name of the game to a lot of managers.

You are less of a person and more of a means to an end. A tool to achieve something, and some tools are disposable. It can be of career advantage to a manager to burn out engineers. Maybe instead of spreading 24x7 on-call across 3 teams in three timezones, you put it on 1 team in 1 timezone. By doing so a manager can achieve a lot with less resources, and hopefully secure their own elevation up the corporate ladder before the cost of their strategy becomes evident.

The cost of burn out I think remains hidden, in technology there's a constant flux of staff anyway, teams being being created and dissolved, in all the noise a few people being exhausted and bailing from the company is hardly noticed. Perhaps they said something before they left, but it's best for everyone in middle management if the burnt out individual is labeled the problem, they were a bad culture fit you see, a grumbler who didn't have what it took.
> oxford study is bunk

We have Yahoo, Oxford, Telegraph on one side and jjeaff on the other.

I'm on the side of Oxford, Yahoo, and Telegraph.
While they're very obviously in the "competition-induced" panic, there is still a point.

The disconnected VSC model - main company in charge of the editor, and third parties in charge of certain language plugin[s] - puts some languages' support at risk of being insufficiently developed.

I "only really want advanced editing + syntax highlighting + language server", and use VSC, but, while its support for "statically typed languge #1" is ok, the support for "dynamic language #2" is atrocious, to the point of being unusable (poor "go to definition", editor aggressively misaligning lines of code, etc.). I'm not sure it will ever reach sufficient support.

On an IDE, this doesn't happen, because the developing company must, within a certain qualititative extent, take care of all the functionalities.
Most of us here presumably recall the early iterations of Twitter and Facebook. Both succumbed to dark patterns a very long time ago. Your argument seems to be a slow death is preferable to a fast one.
I naively thought this was going to be somewhere like rural India, not the UK (albeit relatively rural Wales).

I'm forever calling out engineers because the line crackles to the point it's difficult to take a call and my internet speed drops from ~65Mbps to ~10. Maybe I should start looking for old TVs.

Somehow, being on a road where the houses were only built 5 years ago we have copper lines and on my side of the street the houses on both sides of mine are able to sign up for g.fast but I'm not. I suppose I shouldn't have been surprised it was the UK at all.
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A Danish Children’s TV Show Has This Message: ‘Normal Bodies Look Like This’
Voluntarily so, and in 1988 “preferred ... for trade and commerce.”
Across the country - means Palo Alto and Denver - and dance theatre against Palantir in new york.

I guess literally it is "across the country", but not quite how that phrase is used imo.
> TikTok does not have a UI tool to say "I don't like this", but other apps do. For example, you can ask Instagram to "show me fewer posts like this".

Press and hold on TikTok shows a popup for this.
Being networks, a fundamental definition of "usefulness" is directly (or exponentially, rather) related to the size of the network. It's not the only aspect of value, but it is exponential, ad hard to beat.

One of the reasons amoral commercial efforts like fb won is because this modus operandi happens to harmonize standard commercial MO with what a network is.

There's definitely value in alternative MOs. As you say, a technical barrier to entry can have its uses. Wikipedia is a nice example. I don't think simplifying the editor UX to an intuitive one would necessarily be useful. But wikipedia needs a throttle on editing.

I'm not sure this relates to federation though. Niche communities don't need to be federated.
Genius product name... burning ROMs :D
That's certainly true, but the overall stats are all over the shop (http://www.airsafe.com/events/models/rate_mod.htm). And many of the more modern models have never had fatal crashes, making this kind of comparison impossible.
I loved this game so much growing up, and this was a great article about it. It captured all the things I loved, and covered a lot of history I never knew.

One thing that caught my eye was the author’s complaint about no in-game exposition or tutorials at the start of the game. It seems silly in 2020, but in 1994 it was common for games to come with a reasonably lengthy manual printed on dead trees that explained all those things—or else there were printed strategy guides and magazines that talked about clever tricks. I read a borrowed copy of that book cover to cover before I even had a computer to actually run the game on. I still have a copy in my garage.

My first copy was pirated on 3.5” floppy disks from the school computer lab. Eventually I bought a copy to get the manual. Later on I bought a copy to get it on CD. Eventually I bought another copy to get the whole original collection on CD. And last year I played the reboots which got me nostalgic enough to buy the original and apocalypse on steam.

Good times. :-)
The main metaprogramming facility in Java is annotations. Some annotations work like higher-order functions, except that my advanced Java IDE is unable to find what function is wrapping the annotated function. Some other annotations work more like macros, but there's not a convenient way to evaluate the macro to have a look at the code it would generate.

I previously asked in another forum about this sort of thing and heard that I should read the docs. I suppose when working at a big company ships internal libraries that expose annotations and use inheritance extensively, but do not have docs, I should just pretend that I am not actually in such a situation, or something.
Most of the time, I just document what's new, maybe flip it on for a screenshot, and move on. Sometimes it ends up in the news. [1] Microsoft has a rich history of hiding stuff [2] in the OS though.

[1] https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/windows-10-i...

[2] https://www.zdnet.com/pictures/windows-7-the-blue-badge-expe...
Please go ahead and play the first Master of Orion. It's by far my favourite of the pair. (Make sure you get the latest community patches.)

The genius of the first MoO was that it really paired down the tedious busy work. And the tech system works a charm, it's cleverly randomised in a way that's not really possible with the more prevalent DAG based tech trees.
Yeah those kind of reading explanations are garbage. There is an alphabet dedicated to that purpose, the International Phonetic Alphabet, which was created exactly for the purpose of writing pronunciation without ambiguity.
Yes, and it's working.
> But the thing is that Java is a language that is unusable without a strong IDE and that is not an advantage.

How does Java need strong IDE more than other languages?

The only thing I can think of is the (long) import handling, but that's hardly a "strong" IDE feature, more like bare bones IDE feature.
Islamic + Christian colonialism covered about 1000 years, during which time the natives or Hindus were second class citizens.

Somehow the poverty and destitution seems to be always blamed on the natives.

Moreover Caste system is a European system introduced by the British to divide up communities.
I came here looking forward to upvote anyone mentionning port knocking.

This is THE way to go !
Studies such as this https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/widespread-facemask-use-...

Widespread spread mask usage in Japan and South Korea has proven very effective as well at controlling the virus and allowing life to go back to normal
> because normal procedures didn't fix anything

But why did it take 18 months to realize that? You've got an issue that occurs consistently and is preventing customers from getting the service they're paying for (and are presumably in contracts so they can't even cancel without a major fight).

> They're too busy(!) to look for 10 customers' problem

So we're in agreement that this is unacceptable and resolving this problem has been grossly mismanaged and someone should be held accountable?

> doesn't monitor SNR levels because they're transient and doesn't provide meaningful data

This seems weird to me. You've got a nationwide network designed to run on old, poor quality wiring (the article doesn't specify whether it's DSL or coax, but it would apply to both). Wiring issues should be expected and automated processes in place to monitor it and quickly detect issues like this one.

> Not everyone use the standard equipment provided by the ISP

Can't this be collected at the DSLAM or CMTS level? Or in case of DSL, even at the PPP level? (Andrews & Arnold - a small DSL ISP in the UK - measures packet loss at that level and while it's not true SNR, it would be enough for these purposes as localized packet loss would pretty much always mean bad SNR or failing equipment)
Yeah that was it.
You can still catch enemies unaware. In fact, enemies in the reboots only become aware of you when you are within visible range of their pod (ie group).

The pod system is at the heart of the reboots. High level play involves exploiting it to the hilt.
No, I don’t think this is a supportable assertion. The “simplest tool that gets the job done” is obviously a ridiculous over-simplification, since even Notepad will allow you to write Java apps. The choice between different development tools is down to the specific environment, developer requirements, and preferences.

Also it’s not 2000. A Java IDE will work fine on any computer you can buy.
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I think it was Kissinger that said (paraphrasing) war is a tool to achieve political objectives. The necessity, scale and manner of violence depends on what those objectives are and feasibility of success.

The kind of political dilemma that would be solved by a mecha duel would probably not be the same one that requires invasion and enslavement in death mines.
I made up the term “OOP”, and didn't have C++ in mind – talk by Alan Kay on OOP
As with any traditional profession in India, tree climbing is caste based and caste is based on birth. A persons profession is decided based on which family they are born into. In every village or town, there will be a family who does this job generation after generation. The castes who perform low level jobs such as tree climbing, weaving, farm labor etc. are collectively known as the Shudras. Shudras are the lowest level in the caste pyramid and were historically oppressed and were denied basic rights such as education.

Being illiterate and unorganized, they don't have any negotiating power, which is the reason for lower pay. They also had no choice because they were told that they were "born" to do this work.

The reason for shortage of harvesters is that, the latest generation does not want to take up the family job because of poor pay and low status. The younger generation wants to get educated and move to big cities to find better jobs, thanks to the progressive reforms and loosening of the caste system in the recent decades, at-least in urban areas. The current generation of tree climbers will probably be the last or second last generation who does this job.
Thanks, yes I was. I haven't read the book.

The documentary was broadcasted on Channel 4, part 1 of 3 series, "Crazy Rulers of the World (2004)". You can probably find it in some torrent.

Ingo Swann [1] is perhaps one of the more notorious remote viewers. Worth looking into him, and his experiments.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingo_Swann
What is the difference between subscriptions and a membership model?
> combinatorial number

My experience is that the marketing department think of the complexity as 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 = 7 versions, when it really is 2^7 = 128.
Even greater than UFO Defense, in my opinion, was its expansion - Terror From the Deep.

It truly taught me that our oceans are so close, yet much farther than outer space can ever be. Looking at that lone blue globe in space always makes me feel so insignificant, so meaningless. Space is vast, but empty, and sterile. Down the abyss, not even light can shine to bless and purify.

The greatest contributor to that is certainly its soundtrack. With its unnerving, relentless low horns; harps hitting on the same two or three notes; there's a feeling of utter despair, hopelessness. A sense of doom, as aquanauts armed with teeny darts and harpoons grunt through the deaths of their colleagues, outmatched by opponents so unfairly superior, in the harshest environment on Earth. They couldn't have done a better job.

I have been working on a new "HD" soundtrack for TFTD that I plan to release as a mod for OpenXCOM (this article is great timing!). I am not finished yet, but you can listen to some of the tracks already (and download them if you wish):

• Geoscape 1: https://clyp.it/b3wf24qt?token=1171341361084200df1e81a5699dd...

• Geoscape 2: https://clyp.it/4qog1dq1?token=91b0b871435a3beac898f96cec945...

• Geoscape 3: https://clyp.it/cr2uakoj?token=f1e0cda592185ae0152d47bf70a9d...

• Geoscape 4: https://clyp.it/cf0c5xbx?token=4557e7bd10b693695f04085eeed9b...

• Geoscape 6: https://clyp.it/gyspu3ry?token=502115f5d9c7c0f0b5f844aa63ef6...

Or follow updates on the mod page: https://openxcom.mod.io/orchestra-from-the-deep

Enjoy, and let me know, shall you try them in OpenXCOM!
They did, but that only came after a huge backlash by gamers.

In my case, I perceived this as a signal that Microsoft was interested in monetizing my data when playing video games (e.g. schedule, hours spent, progression, overall cognitive capabilities, etc.) to third parties that will use this data without my informed consent (not to be confused with the consent given to Microsoft to "share with partners").

I still find this totally unacceptable today.
There aren't timers for every mission in XCOM 2.
How does one tactfully determine what percentage of a company is Indian?
My takeaway from this is "I should probably bite the bullet and learn about Spring Boot." I started writing server-side Kotlin about a year ago and find the JVM ecosystem mostly really nice (leagues better than the Node/TypeScript world I escaped from - as much I still like writing TS on the frontend, server-side TS is still too immature to recommend), but I could not wrap my head around Spring/Boot. My understanding is that Spring Boot wraps a bunch of the same libraries used in Spring MVC into an easier to comprehend package, but it still seemed like a very intimidating ecosystem.

I went ahead and used Javalin, which I'm a little bummed to not see represented on the survey - it's meant as a successor to Spark (which I haven't used), and I really like it. It uses similar patterns to Koa/Express in Node, which made it easy to understand. The big downside of not using an integrated ecosystem like Spring Boot, of course, is more glue code, but I actually haven't found it _that_ bad.
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Lately I have been quite pessimistic about this exact scenario.

The current global powerhouses, in terms of emissions (and, well, power) are reluctant to do any effective large-scale changes that reduce their emmissions - why? - corporate greed. Nobody wants to go green when it means a reduction in profit margins.

What makes me sad is that this sort of immoral negligence and greed are rooted deeply in the government bodies themselves. Capitalism in the US has reached dystopian levels of political control. China's desire for growth and power will stop at nothing, be it a tree or a human being. European powers are happy talking about green energy when they are still heavily dependant on off-shore oil rigs, mining and natural gas imports/exports. Latin America is destroying itself to make a buck satisfying western bellies.

I don't know... Maybe I just need to drink my coffee and cheer up.
The best change imo is the efforts to verify backups now with the pg_verifybackup command. https://www.postgresql.org/docs/13/app-pgverifybackup.html
Oop sorry I deleted my reply - I did some thinking myself.

I agree. If nothing else it's a decent mix of freedom and virus control worth considering.
considering the thousands of bad ux experiences to outright bugs I encounter every day, considering that some of them are bugs that have lasted for more than a year, considering I just wrote up a 20 page proposal on fixing the search for a pretty big Scandinavian site is obviously costing them money by not having it fixed on stuff that has been the same way for years, considering the governmental sites I am forced to use that are abusively bad and that companies put up job advertisements bragging about how they made these sites and that if you come work for them you will get to work on those sites as well...

considering all that, why do they need to explain something took 18 months to fix that affected a few people again? Because I'm starting to think you must live in some sort of paradise I have been cast out of, and it's not fair!
>This seems to me to just be an unfixable design flaw due to backwards-compatibility rules

This sounds like something that could be solved in the next edition.
> Most of which is being falsely advertised as fibre

Last I checked If part of the journey is fibre (to the cabinet etc), they can legally advertise as fibre. They can’t advertise a service as fibre if non of the journey uses fibre.

These days the advertisements need to make performance claims, so they can’t just say “it’s fibre” they need to say what speed you’ll get.
The west operates in over production and abundance, and perhaps the way the economics work in the west would be criminal in developing countries.

Dumping food in landfills, milk in the fields or in the sea. Good groceries thrown into the garbage. It is optimised to maximise profits.

Even though the overall efficiency from farm to table is very good.
These are wild animals who are abducted and then chained to do forced labour. It doesn't sound like a happy life and if they had a choice in the matter, I doubt they would volunteer
Bull roar. I've only ever used Emacs and command-line tools to work with Java, whether on the job or writing my Android game.
That nails it perfectly. It's sad but true.
No. I'm stating that if gender/phenotype/age constitutes your prism, explicit fare is the only form of (one-hand casual) video entertainment coming to mind which explicitly categorises by those axes.

I mean, I heard from a friend, who certainly wasn't involved with making any of the stuff, that that's how such sites operate.

(Today I had some trouble searching for "Micro-abrasive Imperial Lapping Film" until I expanded the acronym. Doesn't Google realise I have a connector tip to polish?)
>>> with price hikes

If a restaurant hikes the price, I am never going back there.

Paying £15-£20 with service charge for a steak or burger is already insane. They can't ask for more, especially at the peak of a crisis where there is no money to pay for it.

HN don't get but it but every young graduate is desperate and might not get a job for years while the rest of the workforce got laid off or is under reduced salary.
It's not as cheap, but you might have better luck with something based off the Espressobin platform, although I can't remember if the switch chip is completely closed source.
That's nothing; look at what they did in Canada:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montreal_experiments
> If you have a Mac, then "Image Transfer" is what you are looking for. It allows to simply sync fotos and images as their raw files (original quality if so configured) to a directory.

The Image Capture application (probably previously named Image Transfer) will not preserve Albums and Favorites as far as I can tell.

Anyways, as mentioned I bought the third-party backup protocol speaking application after this unfortunate event, the application which is able to transfer the data into folders based on the albums and favorites that I have on the phone. But I appreciate the comment nonetheless.
Boy, can this guy write, or what? Eugene Wei's content always enraptures me. Really captivating stuff.
umm... while I doubt there could be anyone in this scenario..

What are the reasons that make you intentionally "lose" the advantages of the IDEs?

What do you have in return?
If I remember correctly, they gained awareness unconditionally, so they always or almost always had the opportunity to take the first shot.
Vice has been an absolute garbage news outlet for like the past 5 years. Post their old stuff, not this nonsense.

https://youtu.be/QO3-AAVTeDA
Slight nitpick: I am fairly sure the original X-COM was not written in C++ in Visual Studio.

No clue about the actual language it was written in, probably C or assembly. C++ is unlikely but possible.

But I am rather sure that the game was not written with Visual Studio.

Of course, your point still stands. As an addition to go even further back in time, I would add stories that people just tell to each other.

It's a great feature of humanity that we can communicate about situations that we weren't personally involved in. Emotional attachment is then just a general feature of how mammalian brains seem to work.
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Never knew that HTTPS can be preloaded or not, this is useful, I'll need to be more vigilant. Also, good point about ad blocks, especially if you share a computer with children, they click on a lot of dubious things.
Reminded me of the problem the Parkes observatory had for many years with unidentified radio signals

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/phenomena/2015/04...
What about the developers of the engine? I sure would want fast compile times.
I expect the XML version of Lisp can be processed to create the just-parentheses version of Lisp.
Does anyone know how hard it would be to convert the just-parentheses version of Lisp into the XML-version of Lisp?
University of Durham, UK, doubles number of female compsci students
Statistically speaking have you considered that your connection or hardware might have been the issue?

I've been using Teams for years, and though I had an issue on a call with one guy the other day, otherwise I'm in at least one meeting with ~5+ folk daily and it works consistently.
The mere fact that 'trivial' Fotos of a skyline are copyright protected indicates that there is something wrong with the system. Fun fact: you are not allowed to take a picture of the Eiffel tower at night and publish it. Your own picture.
I am still doing JEE when Java Web projects come around.
Japan government would for sure exercise their golden power if someone tries an hostile takeover on any big national corporation like Nintendo.
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BT openreach mainly does DSL and FTTH, AFAIK.

edit:

Just to clarify, FTTH is by definition a shared medium, but the huge capacity in practice means that there is little congestion usually.

Also, since glass fiber is a dielectric, it is difficult to get noise in the signal, and it is immune to EMI.

DSL is by definition a dedicated medium, having a twisted pair wire from the DSLAM at the central office or street cabinet to the user premises into the [splitter and] modem. One user per twisted pair only.

However, the wires are not shielded and thus are susceptible to both crosstalk from other pairs and also EMI given that it's using electrical signals to transfer data.

And of course, the speeds are low for most users due to the local loop length and in general VDSL2 35b maxes out at 300/100 Mbps at around ~80 meters, and VDSL2 17a maxes out at 100/50 Mbps at around 100 meters.