skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm running two businesses:

1: https://postsheet.com for sending personalized emails and text messages using Google Sheets and Airtable

2: https://pikaso.me for taking beautiful clutter-free Twitter screenshots for sharing on Instagram
1) Fully remote

2) no change in distance from usual (I live in the same big city I work in, commute is about an hour).

3) it's been awesome

4) pros: two hours more of life daily (no commute). Being able to stop 5 min totake a shower, switch were I sit, etc. Basically not having to look productive on top of actually being so.

Cons: a bit more difficult to integrate new people on the team at first.

5) nothing in particular.

6) I absolutely would recommend it. The only caveat is that your experience might vary if you don't have an adequate work environment at home due to lack of space, presence of children or similar. Some people who have been using work To fill their need for social interactions can feel a bit isolated, but I'd say that's only uncovering an existing issue and that having a social life outside work should be a priority for everyone (otherwise what would happen if you're fired, for example?).
> I'd rather see a passion project set in the Star Wars IP than any of the recent multi-million dollar films.

I generally agree, though I thought Rogue One was pretty good.
Frankly speaking, it sounds the author ended up joining a 'dud' team where the entire team is well steeped with playing politics rather than actually being productive. It happens in large companies and sometimes in small ones as well. How these unproductive teams survive is beyond me but they do.

I hope the Author realizes one thing: Never ever complain to Manager and/or HR in any company about other team member UNLESS they disclose themselves to you that they don't like that person and ask you for your negative input -- even then, keep it almost neutral / slightly negative. And if you do make the mistake of complaining, DO NOT EVER do it over email/chat/anything written -- a simple call / over-the-coffee conversation is more than enough. Based on this fact, its hard for me to fault the Senior Manager / Director / VP at Apple the Author talked about -- once this kind of thing starts, at any company it is expected outcome from Management.

From what I can deduce - the Manager and the violent co-worker were best of friends and Manager was going all out trying to protect that co-worker who was a toxic and non functioning employee. The Manager and co-worker kept on making stupid rules and confrontational policies and the Author kept on thinking she doesn't have any choice and is stuck otherwise she will get deported -- I mean, USA (or any other Country) is not a place where you would end up going in depression over for and start popping mental health pills for while contemplating suicide. I would choose my dignity and sanity even if it meant going back to Yemen or Somalia or somewhere similar. The Author could have simply started applying for jobs in lots of countries for some R&D job or post-doc position and should have left Apple.
KeepingYouAwake is a nice open source alternative that you can find on GitHub
Can Sends New Year Message to Nigerians, Reveals Action Point for 2021 – HNY
You need 10 F-35 to down 40 drones in an ideal scenario of 1 missile per drone.

In real conflict, I doubt anybody with a $120m plane would even think of trading it, and a pilot for a drone.

Even a minimal attrition rates like 1 in 40, mean an attrition loss.
Yes. 'Prototype'. And they were 'prototyping' F35's 25 years ago.

Since they could have made those 25 years ago - and chose not to - you have to contemplate why.

Drones are mostly used for surveillance, tactical strikes, close air support - so they don't need speed, they want to be slower in fact, and have longer loiter times.

One day, over the next generation, those 'fast drones' will be a threat, but they are nowhere near that just yet.

Until then, drones are lumbering fat targets that stick out on radar and have 'shoot me' signs on their backs.
I feel like when saying this, you have to mention that it is(or at least was when I was tasked to do so 2 years ago) notoriously crazy to host an OSM tile/nominatim server for a mid-size country, and even more so for the entire world.

Requires some dedication and lots and lots of disk space and bandwidth - probably most feasible in a box at home with only you yourself having access and not having to pay monthly for high-traffic storage.
True, this had inflated in my memory; via wikipedia the total was just under 3000.
I couldn't PM you via your contact details on HN. I can help you with this. Is there a way I can message you?
> None of this needs a chart or a strategy or a plan. It's just common sense humanity.

For some folks. All sorts of different people in the world.

My wife needs a plan for every day. Not to the level of checklists and planning it out in software, but if she has an "open ended" day she doesn't do that well mentally and doesn't sleep well unless she has a mental model for the day coming up.

For me, I'm the opposite. I hate scheduled days, but I also know I need a bit of structure for myself otherwise it's easy for a long weekend to devolve into napping on the couch and posting to HN. My entire organization for this is just a simple TO-DO list where I toss a couple objectives of the day down in the AM while drinking my caffeine. It adds a tiny bit of order to an otherwise unordered personality and helps me move along my personal projects and social life.
Sounds like an opportunity to sell the algo to flir
I think they A/B'd some UI and found that the confusing UI gets more clicks. Users are clicking around randomly trying to find context for the conversation, and that's "engagement".

I'm pretty sure the context isn't there in many cases, although I haven't figured out the rules exactly.
The same author's discussion of surveys is even better: https://carcinisation.com/2020/12/11/survey-chicken/
Yeah it happens sometimes. It sucks. It's where incident reviews come in, and feature flags are still better on balance for many apps.
Relevant username :)

I fully agree that modern IF is vastly better. I have commented on related threads here before that Emily Short's work has freaking blown me away. I'll take her games over any modern 3D game any day.
I'm not planning to move but I enjoyed the writing style. Thanks for sharing and great stuff!
Next challenge: calling your app "Heroin" ><
1. Was hybrid, 3 days in 2 remote, now full remote

2. 1-1.5hr 1 way commute :(

3. It’s improved because I’m not stuck in my car for hours on end.

4.
Pros : more time working on cars, more time to read.
Cons : lost 15lbs, need to go start lifting weights again.

5. Na

6. Yeah I’m all for it, in-office should be optional.
Thanks, I use my own I wrote for hammerspoon.
Well, you can add online tiles to OSMAnd as an overlay, it supports multiple providers (even custom ones, so you could use the high quality IGN Ortho for France, for instance). I actually quite like the route's output.

> Creating a route from markers is a nightmare of complexity.

Is it really so complex? Globe icon or menu -> switch to cycling profile -> itinerary icon -> adjust start position and destination, markers are suggested when tapping on either. You can add more intermediate markers by tapping the "+" between source and dest.
You can press any part of the map -> directions -> add as {subsequent, first intermediate, last intermediate} destination. You can also tap existing markers to do so.

In my opinion, it doesn't get much easier than this? I was so confused at google maps' interface when I was handed a phone to plan a route three days ago, it felt like it was burried down more menus, reorganizing destinations was a pain, while it's just edit -> drag and drop in OSMAnd.

For biking, also try brouter: http://brouter.de/ I know it can be used with OSMAnd, but I never spent enough time to figure it out. The web version is quite good already.
Link to the Stylebot homepage: https://stylebot.dev/
I don't use Steam, but would gladly play this on pretty much anything else.
Thank you, I wasn't aware of these options.

As a teacher, I was often in situations where a lesson would go on for a while with no computer interaction, and another teacher recommended Amphetamine. It worked well and I never discovered the shell command. I actually tried for a bit and never discovered a GUI option. Do you have a link handy?
I have to admit I laughed at Harold Omnifuture's comment. It made me wonder: Would you rather date a techno mind-mate, or someone who's a significant departure from your own temperament? Do you prefer to long-term relate for stability and ignorance, or change and new awareness?

(Dichotomous, for fun)
I cannot understand why corporations give any credence to the concept of demonizing individual words or concepts. To me, it is just as bad as demonizing technology.
That seems pretty similar to every government form that I've ever filled out.
I find it surprising that there's no push for regulating engagement algorithms similar to tobacco and gambling.

The same kinds of bad behaviours are being done by companies to profit off of addiction
DOJ Argues: US can kill own citizens without review when state secrets involved
the real game changer is renault making the dacia spring in '21 for 15k (that will cost around 10keuros after state giving back 6k) this can make EV price competitive VS fuel
I don’t like your username. I believe HN mods should simply remove your account without a name change.
As a note: this article says Strava uses Google maps, which is incorrect. Strava has for a while used Mapbox, which uses OSM.
Really? Until a few months ago I used to visit twitter links in FF w/noscript blocking js, it would just divert me to "classic" mode.

This is what happens currently in FF:

https://pengaru.com/~vc/tmp/twitter.png

Maybe they've stopped supporting my version of FireFox on Linux, and I've wrongly assumed it's strictly the lack of js? I'm not sure if that's any better... since this browser is perfectly capable of everything needed to view tweets.
Meanwhile nothing at all changes with updates but there are hundreds of server-side settings that change all the time because metrics gotta grow. Eternally. Into infinity. And don't you dare get used to the UI.
The human review process in the app store leaves a lot to be desired for consistency. I've worked on multiple apps that were denied during an update renewal for something that wasn't part of the update and was already approved. If a specific app gets approved or denied often has a lot to do with which reviewer picks it up.

While it seems like bad press has changed the review outcome it is plausible to me that the stance would be reversed regardless because it's such a grey area in the rules.
Ah, in my setup I have a usb dac that connects to my switch which solves that problem - hadn’t thought of it without that.
Abito Da Sposa in Chiffon Con Fiore a Terra
Technical debt can slow down product development, which means you can’t iterate quickly enough to compete or to get product market fit. I’m working on a game right now and there’s some debt in there just to get content ready to demo, but everything’s optimized to be easy to change because, otherwise, the whole project will stall. It’s scary trying to find the right balance
Google is a serial offender
1) Fully remote

2) About 30 minutes away by public transport or bike.

3) Not too bad, I enjoy it. But it's nice knowing it'll someday end, otherwise I'd seek out some middle-ground (e.g. co-working space). I can't see myself ever enjoying full-remote or full-office permanently. I'd love to work at the office 2 or 3 days a week. Without the commute, the mandatory grooming to be presentable, and the eating and such I do at home during reading / passive meetings etc, I feel there's a bit more time left and I have more energy to be extraverted with my people of choice after work. Rather than be forced 5 days a week to socially interact with people I happen to work with, and be drained after I get home. I like office friends, just not 5 days a week.

4) Listed main pros above. Cons are that I feel I was part of a company more, spoke to way more people than I worked with directly, at the office. Those relationships continue WFH, but not for long. If I'd started at a new job from home, I'd miss out on a lot of contacts, both social and professional. Another pro is that I find myself exercising more and destressing more at home. Few of us can be productive for 8 hours. So we're often productive 5 hours. Then spend 3 hours talking, getting coffee, browsing the news, sending a friend a quick meme on our phone. At the office however a lot of that time is kind of wasted, it's 'fast food' content. Whereas at home, sometimes I take a 45 minute lunch break, grab some food from the fridge and watch a nice episode of a detective. Then get back to work. My unproductive time is more valuable and purposeful, less aimless.

5) No, in hindsight it was easy to see Covid-19 lasting all year. We kind of all said it. But there were also various signals that said otherwise. Some countries got a hold on it and opened up after. Other countries had successive lockdown/open-up waves, the situation kept normalising to some extent. But if I knew what I know now (western-europe would begin the pandemic in lockdown and end the year in lockdown), and my manager did too, I could've made the case to move to another country and WFH. I'd rather have been stuck in say Taiwan or China as of the summer, than Europe. Way cheaper, way more fun, way safer, and just generally a nice adventure. Time zones would've been a challenge. But no, I stayed home (western-europe). I'd have way more energy working from home, knowing at 5-6PM I could head out to a nice restaurant, get some drinks, go to a comedy club, visit the museum next evening... than just being stuck at home all evening and working the next day.

6) Yes I recommend it, but we still have a long way to go culture-wise. I'd hate to WFH in a company that doesn't actively facilitate it. Most companies got a big cultural headstart this year, but we're not there yet.
Not that regular keyboards are bad necessarily, but given I spend many hours in a day typing in a position that isn't exactly great on my posture or wrists I figured it might be time to make an investment for my future self (mainly just for good ergonomics)
Ok, but nobody can actually field that many drones (remember it's not just the craft, it's pilot, tech ground support, comms, rads, networks, etc.) especially in a scenario they are not suited for, and, it's not as though the F35's wouldn't also be supported by drones and other support.

We know the 1st wave will be done-on-drone for sure ...

... but the idea Russia is going to be able to man and send up 400 drones (!) for even a single opposing squadron is just far fetched.

40 drones out over the Black Sea? Maybe. But again, as they are 'slow lumbering targets' they will be mopped up pretty quick by a single squadron of F35 and whatever other ground/naval forces are in the region.

Every drone in the air facing a capable enemy is basically on a suicide mission.
You can, but to get the same edit in the windows UI experience you would need sshfs, which is another nightmare thing to get running on Windows.
> Isn't that just more of the same bullshit hoop jumping?

But it’s not jumping through hoops? I just either run `code .` (like I did on macOS) or select recent folder from within VS Code. It all just works fairly well, identical to ‘natively’ within Windows (except the occasional ts slowdown I mentioned before).

> And these people rarely have an excuse for why they prefer windows

Not that anyone needs an ‘excuse’ for their personal preference, but I would actually prefer macOS. But I got a Windows PC to use software that only runs on Windows (games) and then the whole wfh thing happened and here we are. I’m not interested in rebooting between different operating systems when I switch tasks, especially when they overlap (developing for games).

Convince Bungie to port their game to macOS and I’ll buy a Mac Pro to be back home on a Mac full time :)
And for simple use cases, Apple ships a "caffeinate" command-line utility with the OS that might just do what you want.
Indeed. The original title is "The Mobile Map App Part I: The Void".
It may be a great tip but Windows users shouldn’t have to do this. Microsoft needs to fix their shit.
Watching TV stations was the only purpose of TV set, while social network apps are just one of many purposes of mobile phones. Many people do not use such apps, but still use mobile phones.
It seems fairly expensive to have different machines for gaming and music production/recording when the only substantial difference is relative investment into CPU and GPU cycles.
I guess the answer is in here somewhere but I'm not qualified to interpret it:

https://www.fincen.gov/foia-and-privacy-act-guidance
https://www.fincen.gov/foia-exemptions-and-exclusions
Your computer's components (other than the power supply) never get in contact with the AC. Components are powered by DC that comes out of the power supply. Laptops running on battery are completely powered by DC in a way. I'm not sure why would that differ in ternary computers.
App removals are serious business that affects livelihoods.

If T1 support sometimes has poor judgement, it should be required to internally escalate to T2 before actually making a decision.

For apps with more than a certain number of users, it should require another layer of escalation and approval, including a review of other apps to make sure rules are enforced clearly, fairly, and reasonably.

Finally, non-security removals should have a grace period of 60 to 90 days.
Here’s what I did to counter my phone addiction.
I was mostly addicted to social media apps and it got worse as I wouldn’t go without spending at least 2hrs on these apps. So in order to counter my addiction I ordered a kitchensafe box to control my addiction.

Now I just lock my phone for certain amount of time and try to do something else or engage myself into new things such as reading, learning new skills and etc

For me kitchen safe has worked and it has helped me cope with my phone addiction and allowed me to stay away from my phone before going to bed which has improved my sleep quality
That's just a consequence of the dreaded "move fast and break things" culture. Ideally, you should only be updating your app to add new features or to address issues that have arisen with an OS update or new hardware for example. And you should only be releasing new features when they're ready, not when current time matches a certain value. But for some reason you can't be doing any of that if there's money involved.
There is no right kind of technical debt. By that I mean write code intentionally.
That sounds like technobabble. I can't imagine a computer relying on AC, and in any case you can create whatever you need using transistors. After all that's how 12V inverters do it. Heck here's a 12V to three-phase inverter[1] as a random example.

[1]: https://www.sigineer.com/product-category/inverter-chargers/...
Came back to N America from London in late November 2019. Spent the holiday in London, Salisbury and Cambridge while the latter in particular had a large number of visitors due to Fall graduation. London always has a large number of visitors. Thought we picked up a cold, which turned out into a 3+ week dry cough and shortness of breath for me and real shortness of breath for the wife. She's still showing signs of lung inflammation.

Anecdotally, various coworkers said they were particularly sick with flu-like symptoms that hung on in Nov/Dec 2019. Whatever it was, pretty much all the medical folks we've seen indicate it was viral pneumonia. Way too long ago, unfortunately, for antibody testing and there's no saved blood tests.
Hey HN, here’s another company that takes a 30% cut for selling software. Let’s get the outrage rolling!
I went all out crazy and got a Moonlander[1]. I love it. It took maybe a week or two of daily usage (an hour or so - writing code and doing the training exercises that they recommend via their online tool) for me to get back to feeling comfortable using it.

I feel like I could type nonstop for hours without my wrists or back getting sore. Having the ability to configure absolutely everything also really boosts productivity. I do a lot of Python development so I've got shortcut keys to run the linting tools, auto-formatting etc. in Pycharm.

However I had serious buyer's remorse once I started using it; I felt like I had to start typing all over again and it's a bit of an investment to get productive again. I guess like trying a new IDE.

[1] https://www.zsa.io/moonlander/
Man, sharing this link in January 2021 is just brutal :D

It made me wonder though, who here legitimately thinks their society is nearing collapse? Which society? By which measures are you evaluating the situation?

Do you feel you have any control over the collapse, or a participation mandate at any level? How much does it seem to parallel your current personal life situation? Are things similarly chaotic, or do you find yourself at peace?

Just curious.
Probably because it’s not corporations, but people.
Paris's 400-year-old book stalls fight to survive
It happens:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9-LjeoOpeM

That said, I think it's more propaganda than a rule. Especially since plenty of Russian vessels utilize vertical launch systems. I believe the necessity of the angled launch systems like what you'd find on the Kirov, Slava, and Kara classes were more due to the immense size of those missiles. Look at the U.S. Talos and UK "Sea Slug" missiles for western examples. As missile technology became better and more miniaturized, you start seeing more vertical launch systems where it makes sense.

The one area I've seen consistent arguments for horizontal launch are in places where a missile failure (see above) would be much more dangerous, such as on a carrier deck. This is why I believe you still see Sea Sparrow and SeaRAM systems placed on the wings and below the deckline, so that a failed launch won't land back on a deck full of fuel and ordinance. The ranges that point defense systems are working at can't allow for a missile body to "tip over" and still hit the target at range.
There's a cool puzzle in the back. Any more of these?
Not sure what you mean, the source is right here:

https://github.com/microsoft/WSL2-Linux-Kernel
One of the big ah-ha moments I had while reading Start Small, Stay Small by Rob Walling was that most developers have an aversion to carrying technical debt because they've experienced managers that never allow them to pay it back later. But when it's your startup (or small software company), you can choose when to pay back technical debt.

It sounds obvious, but I hadn't thought of it that way. Once I realized I had full control of when to pay back tech debt, it made me more comfortable accruing it strategically.
I have made the decision to take daily notes, almost like a diary, in the hopes that I can look back on the past and have a full history of things that I read, learnt, took in etc.

Like version control for your brain :) (except without the merge conflicts ... hopefully)
There is no evidence that social media was involved in this decision.

Also, Government regulation of app stores would be fatal for software freedom.

If you want to guarantee that the Apple App Store is never assailed by a competitor, your suggestion is a good one.
I've worked at several of the big whale tech companies in their prime (like, now) and this story shocked me to my shoes. Maybe I have been sheltered. And this may be random and pointless but I was tired enough of google selling my data that my next phone was going to be an IPhone but after reading this I ... just can't.
Just come out and say you hate developers having any rights instead of dancing around the topic. This was inarguably a poor decision on Apple's part.

If Apple keeps this up, the developers will leave, and then you'll have nothing to rabidly fanboy over.
Why not throw Wikipedia into this collection?