skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am really struggling to follow your threads of thought.

I am going to throw in a patio11 spanner instead: ‘In a way, every scaling startup is an experiment in empirical microeconomics research on “What parts of the typical corporate form are necessary and which are pageantry which we only keep around due to anchoring, the sunk cost fallacy, and tradition?” Every time a startup bites the bullet and hires a VP of Sales, a lifecycle email copywriter, a retirements benefits administrator, or a cook, count that as a published result saying “Yep, we found this to be necessary.”’. https://www.kalzumeus.com/2020/10/09/four-years-at-stripe/
>Cars wear out (depreciation)

No.

Depreciation is something you consider if you intend to resell the vehicle. It's independent of wear and tear. It's a financial concept, not an engineering/mechanical concept. Jeep Wranglers, for example, hold a better value compared to the average even if they have higher mileage and age, especially if its in a mountainous local market.

Wear and tear is mechanical repairs and maintenance. Oil changes, tire changes, spark plugs, etc.

A good amount of people buy a certain car and maintain it, intending to run the vehicle into the ground completely.

If you really want to do the "simple math", don't forget about the opportunity costs associated with the wait times, scheduling around someone else's schedule and delays due to public transit and rideshares. That's where you realize just how much a car actually saves you. I used to live in Seattle and Portland for a few years (each). I bit that poisonous apple of, "I don't need a car since I'm going to live in the city". 15-20 minute car commutes would be about an hour on average on public transit (that's if they ran on time). Never. The. Fuck. Again.
The real question is: why don't they try to contact the recipients during the 24hr period prior to the announcement, at that recipient's acceptable local time zone?

I don't think a Nobel recipient is going to spill the beans on the announcement.
Urban Dictionary: Wag the Dog
I have been looking for something like this for years. Matomo doesn't have heat map recording and their plugin is too expensive. I will use the self hosting for now and let you know how it goes
Nobel winners, have improved auction theory and invented new auction formats
It goes back to my college days. I had two ethics courses, taught by lawyers, and both of them went out of their way to mention that Louisiana was special. Many state bar associates have reciprocity, expect LA. Last I knew, they had reciprocity with no other state bar associations.
Serverless is the most overhyped cron job runner in history.
The military also exists to enforce law.

The police are in exactly the same business as the military, enforcing compliance through violence. Using a different word doesn't make them a different thing.
To me, Google Cloud Run is the sweet spot between Heroku and Serverless. I pay as much as serverless but there's no vendor lock in or specialized programming environments. Fantastic job.

By the way are websockets ever going to be supported on managed cloud run?
Thanks a ton for posting that second definition of "empathy".

After battling with UX issues in the OP for a long time, I intuitively knew that there were 2 different meanings of that word (one very loaded and generic, another one way more specific and targeted), but I wasn't able to articulate the definition of the second one in my head (in a way that would make sense if I tried explaining it to another person) no matter how hard I tried.

Your definition nails it perfectly and fits in a single short and simple sentence that is easily understandable by pretty much anyone AND without losing any nuance or making the definition more vague. Really appreciate you posting it here.
Mercurial sounds great, and ostensibly has less foot cannons... unless you use Mercurial Queues.

I've learned to live with git, just like I have with English. It isn't perfect, but a lingua franca is useful, and it isn't so bad. If git is the worst part of your CI/CD workflow, that's a pretty good problem to have.
Things change but they still remain the same.
"powerful" is not a synonym for "complex"
Bingo! That’s exactly what I was thinking. Glad to see it still exists somewhere.

Hmm... nostalgia might force me to do this. Wonder how they’ll look on my 4k flatscreen.
I've seen many labs and huskies at my local dog park. I myself own a rather active breed dog who I keep occupied with long walks in town and visits to dog parks. You don't need to go out into the woods to take long walks or runs.
I just want to say thank you for Xonsh!

I've been using it as my default shell for the past 2 years, and now I pretty much can't work without it.

Thank you, thank you, thank you!
Their Wifi testing methodology is useless, other than to say it didn't completely break the Wifi.

A better test would be to see how far you can get from the access point before degradation of bandwidth kicks in with and without the case.

All they managed to test was that however degraded the signal was, it didn't reach "lost packet" level for their unspecified range to access point.

From experience, I've used a heatsink-looking case on a pi 4 which reduced its WiFi range below 30 feet in some orientations, so it would be nice to see a big more rigor here.
"Reduce X" doesn't necessarily mean "I will only be satisfied if X is 0."
AWS is shaping up to be Oracle 2.0.

That isn't a compliment.
Attending a hackathon is free but being able to do something that impresses a high level member of a company and get offered a job is a bit unreliable, no?

it's survivor-ship bias at its most obvious. Most people are not getting jobs by doing something extraordinary at a public event and getting offered it right on the spot.
> At age ten I would hop on my little stingray bike and explore for a dozen miles in any direction.

My experience was very different, my subdivision was hemmed in by freeways and expressways on most sides. Going anywhere required a ride from an adult.
As someone who moved from CVS, to SVN, to tla/GNU Arch, to git (shortly after initial release). I haven't found any reason to move on from git ever since. Each step was a major change in features and ease of use. It's hard to see it as a failed system, with "bad" user experience.

And the whole premise is nonsense. I certainly haven't spent more time on learning git than doing the work in the last 15 years or so of using it.
I use Node-RED for this. Cheap and very flexible.
My entire direct family is on welfare and was half my life. My parents spent a significant amount of time in mental hospitals while I lived with various aunts and grandparents (sometimes trailers, sometimes in a farm house. I liked the farm house though).

Yeah. Lots of privilege.
Apple interviews are over two days for senior engineers.
This sounds like temporal tables, does it not - except deep inside the storage engine?? The historical copy goes to a separate table, the current row is in the current table.

I wonder if there is a logical overlap in the ideas between temporal table handling and this low level storage engine optimization.
Its existence as a buzzword predates that proposal, and thus inevitably the proposal is not the final word on how the term is defined.
> How do you ensure parity between upgrading a high-rise condo in NYC vs. a simple ranch-style house in Kansas?

One of the advantages of compensating people in kind is that there's no need to do this. If the business need is that people have a quiet space in which to work, then the business can soundproof a space for everyone. That's the relevant type of parity. That it costs more to soundproof the condo in NYC isn't relevant.
They announce it anyway and you get to find out from the press or people calling you. It's happened before.
> I realized that there is no way to take a value out of an IO purely, that is, you cannot have a function IO a -> a. It is not because IO is a Monad and Monads are special cased magic, but simply because the constructor of IO is not exported out of its module.

That's not really why. Even if you could unwrap the IO constructor, there is no `a` inside it!

As it turns out, with you can unwrap the IO constructor if you import GHC.Types from ghc-prim:

Prelude> import GHC.Types
Prelude GHC.Types> :set -XUnboxedTuples
Prelude GHC.Types> let (IO f) = getChar
Prelude GHC.Types> :t f
f :: GHC.Prim.State# GHC.Prim.RealWorld
-> (# GHC.Prim.State# GHC.Prim.RealWorld, Char #)

What's inside is a function. You can't get the return value out of a function without running it. You can, of course, run it. `unsafePerformIO` will give you a thunk that, when forced, will do just that.
Why would foreign cheap labour be bad? And local cheap labour is OK? An foreign "not cheap" labour is also OK? It seems to imply foreign or cheap is bad, the combo doubly so, to the degree that it needs to be restricted.
Crazy he serialized his thinking into a series of bytes referred to as a blog post.
Don't care about the score but I often find myself opening HN even when I just closed it. I often block it via hosts, apps, or the built-in settings.
Not corrupt enough to turn resource extraction into a source of wealth for the ruling regime. Unlike Russia.
Does "-g" and no optimization flags not work?
What kind of companies and roles are you hiring for? How do your offers compare to the top bands on levels.fyi for equivalent roles/experience? How many engineers with big names on their resumes do you get in your pipeline, and how many convert to full-time offers?

In my career so far, every time I've encountered an employer (or more specifically, a representative of an employer, e.g. a recruiter or hiring manager) who cared about side-projects and off-the-clock programming to the point where it was a dealbreaker / red flag for applicants, and not just a nice-to-have, the following things were true:

- they paid significantly below market rate (when accounting for bonuses and RSUs)

- they did not respect engineering work/life balance

- they had high turnover
I would be interested to learn more about the 'value proposition' way of looking at things, as spoken of in the article.

Can anyone recommend any good starting points?
DO == Digital Ocean
> There is only evidence that it cannot be enabled remotely.

Wait, by "enabled" do you mean making the car stop working, or making the car work again?

Either way, that's wrong.

For making the car work remotely, the fact that they tried and say it would have worked if it had a cell signal is strong evidence that they can in fact do it. Why would they lie about it? It's evidence they can, not evidence they cannot.

For making the car stop working remotely, this situation doesn't give any direct evidence either way. It's not evidence they can, but it's also not evidence they cannot.

And considering how these devices are usually designed, if they can flip the car one way they can probably flip the car the other way. So it very likely can remotely make the car stop working.

> But, it appears your perspective is that if remote control operation exists, so it can be hacked.

Is that wrong? Even if the system itself is magically perfect, surely Ferrari itself can be hacked. I can't imagine someone credibly claiming otherwise. So I take it as a fact that a hacker can send commands to your car. Whether those commands can shut it down... I'll just say that if it even resembles competitor systems then it's a strong yes.
Would peer evaluation suffice?

There is one peace prize winner criticized by other peace prize peers for her role in genocide.

Then there is the nomination of President Obama less than two weeks in office. He received it after less than nine months in the office. The prize was seen more as criticism of Bush administration than awarding Obama.

I nominate Samatha Power (Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Multilateral Affairs and Human Rights under Obama, then 28th United States Ambassador to the United Nations) and Cass Sustein (United States Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs) to judge Obama's Peace price.

Experts from the book: "The Education of an Idealist: A Memoir" by Samatha Power

>In October of 2009, I awoke to a very different form of bad news: Barack Obama had been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Less than a year into his presidency, Obama was receiving an award previously bestowed on Nelson Mandela, Mother Teresa, and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

>When I relayed the news to Cass, he looked stricken, as if I had told him someone we knew had fallen ill. The choice seemed wildly premature,

[...]

>Jon Favreau and Ben Rhodes, Obama’s two gifted speechwriters, took on the difficult task of drafting the Nobel address. I popped into Jon’s tiny office on the first floor of the West Wing, and he told me that the President had decided to directly confront the awkwardness of receiving the prize so early in his presidency.

I mean, 60% of American did not understand why Obama received the award. Obama himself was not happy and felt awkward. People he worked with felt it was not deserved.
I went with Eero, too. I had full Ubiquity setup going strong for five years. No complaints. But then I set my parents up with Eero to improve their coverage and give me something easy to manage. Couldn’t believe how easy it was to set up and how well it worked.

I needed a better way to set some parental controls, so I switched to Eero, too. No noticeable difference in performance from Ubiquity. I went with the standard 3-unit setuo to continue using my wired network throughout. The Pro AP units cannot be wired, for some reason.
It is hundreds of millions of dollars that are being spent for an activity that is a tax on investors. The fact that it is better than what existed before doesn't change the fact that we can do better yet.
So ironic you would say that. Sounds like you’re ‘denying’ the possibility of a totalitarian genocide.
Code management, code versioning and code fixing are all hard problems. You can't in all cases put a simple tool/thing in front of it and fix it. Sometimes hard things are just that, hard.

Also; git isn't meant for your "average" use case. People sometimes attempt to get content writers or other non-technical skills into git. It never works. There are far better tools purpose built for those use cases.

Developers want tools that work, git works. Why would we try to make it better?
> What do you think zoning is

A way for individual communities to be the way the owners of those communities would like them to be. That's why different communities can be zoned different ways, i.e., one community does not get to impose its preferred way of being on everyone else.

The post I was responding to advocated abolishing single-zoned tracts of land altogether, which is a way for some people to impose their preferred solution on everyone else.
53 letters deciphered by codebreaker John Wallis in mid-1600s sold at auction
Wow that guys writing style is very addictive. Just went on to read half his blog.

I'd love to figure out how to write like that.
This is certainly interesting, but I'm suspicious that this is a digital marketing scheme. Are product reviews normally considered spam on here?
May I be cursed with failures as bad as git.
I am inclined to agree with the top comment, partly from my own experience. In college, I was a sub-3 GPA student with not-so-great internship experience, although I did cofound a startup. Yet I was able to reach out to some of the "privileged" you mention at the top of the totem pole - firm partners, founders, etc. Heck, I literally connected with MBB partners simply by shooting an email to them to meet and chatting with them. I don't even know what one guy even saw in me, but he even persuaded me to apply and referred me for an interview (which I was able to crack thankfully), which is a big deal considering they have to give clear reasons as to why they are referring you. And this was not in a backwater with a few guys but a major global financial center. I got my first good internship and subsequently my first job in private equity because I was an idiot who decided it would be a good idea to wait outside an office building an entire day so that I could show an MD the financial models I had built (after shooting an email obviously). And this was in white shoe finance, so I'm sure the barriers are much lower in tech.

Edit:- Apologies if I sound like I'm using a lot of anecdotal evidence/ grand-standing, but I had to disagree with that comment, and the best evidence I had was my own, although there are a lot of similar stories in the Street.

Edit 2:- I should add this too, since it is highly relevant to the linked topic. The people who referred/hired me later mentioned that a key reason for them taking me on was my startup experience, which was what the original link's author would call a "side project".
+1

I see a lot of merit to what the author is saying.

However, he completely ignores externalities. Yes, car is not used 95% of time. And he is saying, let's target the 5%. The problem is that it's not 5%, it's rather 3% of planned trips where his model works really well and 2% when you need a car right now and oh... the demand for local car share through the roof, so please wait for next 20 minutes.

And the same is true for everything else. People are buying extra on one hand to use it, but on another case to be an insurance that they can accommodate unplanned.
Linked paper [0] correctly states that QWERTY wasn't designed to slow typists down, but authors argue that it was not designed to avoid type-bar jams, but only vaguely suggest some letters were moved around due to Morse operation practice. They base that conclusion on analysis of radial distances of common digrams on typebar basket. But there's no justification why only angle criteria was considered, and they omitted that layout clearly minimizes adjacent typebar digrams, which is shown by [1] and [2].

They also without much evidence reject idea that TYPEWRITER ending up on same row was intentional design, but curiously enough [2] calculated odds of that occurring randomly as about 1 in 2500, so it might have been.

[0] https://repository.kulib.kyoto-u.ac.jp/dspace/bitstream/2433...

[1] http://widespacer.blogspot.com/2015/11/the-hidden-secrets-of...

[2] https://cyber.sci-hub.se/MTAuMTAxNi9qLnJlc3BvbC4yMDEzLjAzLjA...
Thanks for this, I was hoping to find something like this for a site I plan to launch soon! :)
Git the plumbing is a huge success story. Merkle trees, distributed development, lightweight branching, format so simple you could literally write tooling for it as a bunch of shell scripts–it's really great.

Git the porcelain is terrible, and while I wouldn't call it a failure its user experience is a detriment, not an asset, to its overall niceness.
They are a means to an end, a way of getting known and getting real customers. It's a slow grind to start but it is a way to build a name.
Video of a trip in a Waymo driverless car with no safety driver
No company exists to create jobs and nobody ought to wish any product particularly a vital resource like housing that everyone needs cost more in order to transfer money to the middle class workforce.

If you want to do that just be straightforward about it and directly raise that money via taxes and give it to families.

It will be increasingly obvious as increasing automation kills jobs that ultimately probably wont ever be fully replaced that we need a solution that isn't deliberate inefficiency to maintain jobs.
Apparently people who are likely to win the prize tend to hear rumors beforehand and are mentally prepared for this (especially if they care)
Yep, the study is absolutely confounded by all the unique variables of 2020. The headline should be "Employees Found It Harder To Work From Home During a Cataclysmic Pandemic, Generational Economic Downturn, and Widespread Social Upheaval".
Only if Vincent Pastore is his running mate.
OnePlus co-founder, Carl Pei, has left the company
obviously too busy suppressing real conversation, and being a general douchecanoe ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Are you referring to performance capabilities or some other connectedness to GCP resources?
My only problem is I spend so much energy on work, I don't have it when I go home, no matter how excited or interested I am in the side projects.

I realize that's also a personal problem - poor time/resource allocation - not allocating a proper amount of time/energy to work vs. personal projects.

However, I can say, doing a full time, involved job and giving it all my attention tends to use up all the cycles. Is that true for other people too?
This doesn't solve the general lack of observability, lack of logging, and slowness of CloudFormation itself.
Git is not a success story?

I wonder if the author of this tweet is aware that Git has almost entirely conquered the development world these past few years. That doesn't happen as a result of having a bad user experience.

Git is a powerful tool that does an excellent job of versioning and collaboration, and I can't imagine wanting it to be any more user friendly than what it currently is.
Game ‘pre-bunks’ Covid-19 conspiracies
Why don't you just borrow money to buy stocks, without involving the car?

You can get lower rate if you use your own stocks as collateral, i.e. if you use brokerage margin. Heck, these days margin lending is so crazy common that there are even ETFs that package leveraged equities for you to go anywhere between -300% via 0% to 300% long, just change the allocation with a few clicks (or taps on your phone).
And "Mercurial Queues" primarily exists because of people incessantly bitching about the lack of "git rebase" in Mercurial.

So, what does that say about the original feature from git that implementing it created a ton of footguns into a revision control system that didn't have them before?
Notably Mercurial and Fossil are also distributed; they differ a bit in how complex they are, what they allow you to do, which tools are bundled in, etc, but ultimately any of the DVCSes is going to be lightyears ahead of the pre-Git (pre-Mercurial? I'm not sure which came first) client-server VCSes.

Regarding your point about git being unable to be further simplified, I think Mercurial demonstrates that that isn't true; it sacrifices some coverage of the edge cases to get a significantly simpler interface.
This is a really stunning representation of how someone started out with the right idea, shifted to the wrong idea due to outside pressures, and then wrote a blog post about it.
Came to the US, co-founded company, raised a seed round.. all during a pandemic
To opt out of Time Warner Spectrum scaremail fill out the form at https://www.spectrum.com/policies/your-privacy-rights-opt-ou... and select "Do Not Call", "Do Not Email", "Do Not Mail", and "Do Not Knock".

In a few weeks you should stop receiving the envelopes that say "URGENT" or "NOTICE" with a message falsely indicating that your service could be affected.
Disclaimer, I work for Google and you can add a +1 to the decreased list :).

Seriously tough, the problem for me is the lack of focus. Being constantly alone (I live on my own) is messing up with my brain. I spend the same amount of time working (perhaps even longer than when at the office), but I cannot stay focused more than 30 minutes / 1h which make things slow.

Additionally, the number of meetings increased and so did the number of one-pagers I have to write to articulate my ideas (before 10 min with a whiteboard would have been even more effective).

On the plus side I dropped ~14kg since the pandemic WFH started due to not having always stocked MicroKitchens with tons of sweets.
Preppers do what they because it is fun for them. This is same thing that drives the author. It is fun for him and his family.

We have a decent sized yard, and my right now my wife is planting a fig tree because that is fun for her.
Read the book, or at least the chapter on colonialism (it's not too long), it answers both your questions.

Apologies for not giving you a proper reply, I'm just about to go to sleep.