skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow reading all these stories about Apple really is eye-opening, as I've only usually heard these types of things about Amazon before.

I say that because I work for Amazon, and my work environment is pretty bad by my standards (my team cuts a lot of corners, we are given unrealistic deadlines by upper management, our on-call is paged at least 10 times a week, we have a huge backlog of tickets and bugs that we can never prioritize, and it is overall a very stressful environment.) I guess it can always be worse...
I had no idea kio-fuse was being worked on. This is awesome! gvfs (and its FUSE implementation) was my favorite feature of GNOME and was the reason I primarily used Nautilus on KDE on my work VM.
What is that, per-capita vs other states though? Curious how effective californias measures are, currently.
if you're interested in the curve algorithm, the author wrote about it https://shihn.ca/posts/2020/roughjs-algorithms/ he's here on HN and on Twitter in case u have follow up qtns
OpenSSL PEM Header Identification
Wow, the arrogance in this post to say all high schoolers can't relate to the Great Gatsby. Is this is just projection?
The Fourth Operation – What Comes After Exponentiation
This is one of the examples where the series of long videos is not the appropriate medium.

Yep, the few minutes of demo'ing the ready device need to be a video. But the rest -- the "build" story, parts list, internal constructions, non-obvious details would be so much better in traditional format, text + pictures.

Well framed, high resolution pictures, so I could look at each part carefully and not try to pause the things at just the right moment. As well as nice text with sections, so I can skip over parts I do not care about, and jump right to the interesting parts.
It's possible, but I do sometimes look back at comment sections from years ago, and the change seems very real.
I realize this is unsolicited, so I will feel no insult if you don't desire to respond, you've just got me very interested from a "management case study" perspective; so at the risk of a very naive question:

Do you have a good understanding re: what your folks are unhappy _about_? Like very specifically, do they feel overworked? Is there reliably political drama in the office? Is it a pay issue? I mention these not to suggest but give examples of how bluntly I mean. Problem here, is that it may be hard for you, given the power dynamic, to get that answer, but as an engineer, I can say it was always _pretty well known_ to the boots on the ground what was making the team unhappy. (and what was fascinating, and why I make this comment, is that it always seemed to run into a real bottleneck percolating up into management)

If you've already gone down this route, then again, ignore me entirely, but if you've not, or if you doubt the veracity of the message you got, I wonder if you can get a "spy in the ranks." I don't mean this in a negative way, but an engineer who for whatever reason (Naivete? self-sacrifice? I use these somewhat snide terms largely because I'm somewhat tongue-in-cheek referring to my past self) is willing to go against otherwise better judgement and be truly open with management about the situation (in that sometimes, management _may_ be the problem, and no one wants to fall on that sword), and who has enough trust with their peers to understand what's going down with them as well.

This can be hard to find, and isn't always present; but to summarize this ramble:

I would emphasize attacking the root of the problem in a very personal fashion, but that to do so requires having (or building) some conduit of trust and rapport; and I wonder if you've run into roadblocks trying to apply this.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15138703
This already exists, with a focus on machine learning: https://distill.pub/
Good news: the software you describe exists since 1985.
Internal competition on the same project shows a lack of confidence from management... it literally shows they don't know what to do, and are just throwing spaghetti at the wall, or aren't confident in their skills to get something deployed with what they choose. It's not solid leadership, it's dissonant.

It also sets people against each other, creates better-than-you mental heirarchies between equal workers where non are necessary, and is essentially friendly fire in the workplace. I've never seen this end well.

Capitalism isn't just economic natural selection either, it favors those with capital, and especially the most of it, and is easily exploitable by them to tip the playing field in their favor against their competition and those below them. Your analogy is bad in both cases; natural selection means one side dies, which is not what's being described here, and is not good for one side anyway, and capitalism is not as good as cooperation anyway. The latter is far more efficient.
Two entries stood out to me. The first is the book "UNIX: A History and a Memoir by Brian Kernigan", and the second the blog post "A Constructive Look at TempleOS".

That blog post [1] along with "A Language Design Analysis of HolyC" [2] inspired me to try out TempleOS for myself. I'm so glad I did, since I got hooked on developing programs in HolyC, and thus learned C in the process. There's something about building a piece of software for a system and knowing that nothing like it has ever existed on that platform before!

I've been working in HolyC for over a year, but I just finished K&R tonight, which has me wanting to read more Kernigan, so I'm glad the UNIX book showed up on my radar.

(PS feel free to ask me about TempleOS development; email is open)

1. http://www.codersnotes.com/notes/a-constructive-look-at-temp...

2. https://harrisontotty.github.io/p/a-lang-design-analysis-of-...
For me any style that has decided on moves. Salsa, Swing, Ballroom. I can jump around at a club to pop/house/techno/etc... but once I have to follow specific steps with a partner I have a huge hurdle.

I tried taking salsa classes once. Was going to 4 classes a week. The instructor told me it would be a year before I'd be able to lead. Of course that was one instructor's opinion. I stopped after 4 weeks and feeling like I was making zero progress. It was not fun to feel like I was in everyone else's way not being able to keep up or not being able to transition from one move to the next. Also not really a fan of salsa.

I've taken maybe 10 swing dance classes as well but zero progress. Bad teachers maybe.
What software do we have the theory, hardware, and use for, which hasn't been written? I guess I'm struggling to identify a useful delineation between these categories.
Considering how hostile Apple seems to be to the creators that make their platform worth using, I'm consistently surprised that people keep developing for it/investing in it. At least Microsoft is apathetic all the way through: don't expect any help, but as far as I know you won't get shot out of the blue. To me, Apple's whole shtick these last few years reads as if they're just saying "We don't want you to develop on our platform." ("Pay us for even the ability to start making anything on our devices. Give us our cut for letting you exist and provide content for our platform. You can't do that anymore; banned. Make this arbitrary change or you're gone in x days...")
Pretty sure GP was being ironic; they did read Mark Twain in high school despite his work being in the public domain.
Are you a Designer or a Developer? Here are some APPS you Must have in 2021
Is there a way to draw freehand with this tool without holding down "7" so that the shape doesn't complete when you lift the pen/stylus?
A good bunch of downvotes? I struck a nerve, it seems.
In the last 3 decades of startups, the vast majority have come out of silicon valley. This pandemic is a black swan event, that could shake up almost anything, but that above fact makes me think that the preeminence of silicon valley is strong enough to survive.
Data is from 2017. Would be interesting to see this updated for 2020.

With the exception of the now-defunct AOL, the median age of employees appears correlated to the age of the company. It makes sense that IBM, Oracle, and HP are near the top of the list.

When looking at older tech workers, keep in mind that there are fewer computer science graduates from 1990-2000 (~40-50 years old) than from the 2010. Even if we randomly assigned workers to companies, the median age would skew toward the younger end by numbers alone.
Very cool. I was looking for something similar I’ll try it out
> If it's not good, switch teams ASAP.

At least in large companies it can be pretty hard to actually find the good teams among all of the noise. I've tried to keep my eyes open for them but haven't had any luck yet.
I also like and use it and have been trying to compare it with pipenv(which we switched from). To be honest it has been nothing but very pleasant to use and I am surprised when people have issues(maybe we have those issues and I am not aware?).

I have not had any issues with installer race conditions, did I miss, was lucky or you had a special case it surfaced maybe?
> These are often very valuable, more so than yet another 1% improvement paper that never gets reproduced.

It's not an either-or.

And one should always read and accurately describe the contents of what you cite, meaning of course you wouldn't cite everything in a review paper directly. Only that which is relevant.

Suppose we count both separately, research citations and review citations, the latter for your great review papers or even if people just want to reference the lit review section of your research paper. What would happen to the incentive? I suggest that reviews would be less incentivized as people would primarily be concerned with rating researchers according to their research citations. Just like no one cares about your textbook sales, popular though it may be for introductory uses. This would imply reviews were not "honest" citations but are done to hack the metric.
Based on the CDC data CA is worse than Florida per capita for the last 7 days.

In CA:
1) outdoor dining is banned
2) indoor malls are OK
3) Casinos (which operate on tribal lands) are open for indoor dining and entertainment

https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#cases_casesper100k...
In one word: money.

Enough money to have a yearly income such that I don't need to have a job anymore, and can devote my time to building https://concise-encoding.org and all of the technologies that will be built upon this foundation (protocols, streaming and communication technologies, data transports, etc). Over the past 3 years, I've had two periods of a couple of work-free months where my output went sky-high, and I miss that.

Don't get me wrong: I love my job, the people, the industry, etc. In fact I was hired there because they built a major pillar of the company on one of my open source projects. But at the same time, 8h a day uses up a significant chunk of my creative juices that would otherwise turbo-charge my open source initiatives.

I see all of these people who have enough money that it generates a comfortable income for them with minimal effort on their part, and it tears me up to see them wasting all that luxurious time on frivolous pursuits rather than contributing to humanity. I won't complete most of my works because there's not enough time in a human lifespan (and I'm at peace with that - it just means I have to prioritize), but there's so much more I could accomplish without these other claims on my time...
Paraphrasing from Dave Herman in a 2011 lunch conversation about Rust, the goal of Rust is not to break new ground in PL theory, but rather to bring the existing ideas into a practical language.
I don't consider a "digital signal" to have any sort of implied clock or sample rate whatsoever. This appears to be a terminology mismatch between audio people and electrical engineers, if the rest of this thread is any guide.

Here is my view of things: along the time axis, signals can be either continuous-time or discretized/discrete-time. Along the intensity axis, for example voltage, signals can be either continuously-variable or discretized/discrete-valued.

I consider an "analog signal" to be one that's continuous in time and in value. I consider a "digital signal" to be one that's continuous in time but discrete in value; for instance, the output of a (asynchronous) logic gate.

Your definition of "digital domain" seems to be discrete-time, discrete-valued signals; for example, the readings out of an ADC or commands into a DAC.

The difference between the two would nicely explain a lot of the confusion here.
Thanks for sharing, indeed that is very bad.
Do you know if this bug is already reported?
> Even today editor bloat is real.

Because it's not an editor - it's a browser. I wish some day all those Electron-based "applications" would go away forever. Worst of all technology "inventions".
How did your opinion change?
You’re right of course. My point was that the kinds of systems I described would devalue not just the two parties (as more parties would be viable) but parties as a power structure generally (as they’d have to adapt to stay relevant).
This is not like 'learn to defend yourself if you are physically attacked'.

In this scenario, I suggest the advice would be to:

1) Get Out.

2) 'Bend like a reed in Wind' and avoid avoid avoid. Do your job as well as you can, document, be careful with HR but do document that.

Confrontation in this scenario probably just leads to more antagonizing.
Er, the US government is basically funded by (and lobbied by) market participants. The market has realized that killing large numbers of foreign people and overthrowing foreign governments is good for domestic economic growth, and therefore happily operates in the US. The US defense budget is huge, and in turn it's a huge portion of taxes on market participants, and they'd figure out a way to make it stop if they weren't getting their money's worth, precisely because markets are good at solving problems and not wasting money.

The Swiss have their bank accounts, yes. You could convincingly argue that people who are happy to accept low gains as a tradeoff for low risk are interested in avoiding war. But the world's largest markets are in the US. And before they were in the US, they were in the capital of the British Empire.

Markets are very good at solving the sort of problems they solve. But be careful about extrapolating that into "Markets are very good."

(Also, don't forget about the British East India Company.)
what's the counterfactual? How can you tell the difference between "criminals are undeterred by prison and will commit offenses no matter what" and "prison hardens criminals and does not help with their reinsertion"?
I don't know about that, but we could definitely do cheaper though.
Apparently morgues and funeral homes are at maximum capacity and are turning away families.

https://www.theage.com.au/world/north-america/los-angeles-mo...
well it is the flu season
"Take on" the problems while leaving our current protections against violence in place.

"Defund the police" is accomplishing nothing other than making mainstream voters deeply suspicious that any "reforms" are actually designed to benefit gang members. You are creating a political climate which makes the problems nearly impossible to "take on" effectively.
>The droughts in SoCal are going to keep making these traditional fresh water sources you mention even more scarce.

What's going on in California is nothing out of the ordinary. California is and always was a desert - and building a city the size of Los Angeles there would never have worked had it not been for importing huge amounts of water from central CA (see: Mona Lake) or the Colorado River.

Actually most of the Colorado river water goes for agriculture at 1930's water rates that are utterly insanely undervalued - but that's a whole other topic :p
I'm not so sure. If engineer's were cheap, you wouldn't have Steve Jobs colluding with other companies to suppress salaries: https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-tech-jo...
Android phones don’t have the same problem, because they choose to slowly throttle the CPU only as needed if power delivery is insufficient.

On MacBooks, if _one_ of the USB-C ports break, all ports are disabled.

On the Intel MacBook, the fan is not attached to the heat sink, making it literally useless and cause the CPUs to fry out in a few years of turbo use.
I Disagree with this passionately.

Some people are really passionate about posting their subject, knowledge forward. This inherently requires passion to overcome the difficulties that comes with working in the cutting edge.
If we stopped growing Almonds in the CA desert there would be more water for domestic uses.

Agricultural water rates are ridiculously cheap for the value of the water - hence absolutely brain dead schemes such as growing almonds in an otherwise desert!
> Yes, but it is not the norm.

It very much is the norm [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slotting_fee
Business disputes are handled through the legal system.

1. The legal system is a direct product of legislature, as are the rules that it enforces.

2. It is absolutely the legislature's responsibility to step into systemic, one-to-many disputes, especially when there is a gross power imbalance between the two sides.
Seemed fully readable on mobile to me. What happened for you?
That doesn't follow in a growing economy, even a very simple two-person one where person 1 picks bananas by hand and person 2 builds a faster banana picker every year. No exploitation there.
This is spot on.

I had a similar experience. Especially first time entrepreneurs are not great at making choices. You ask A vs B and they say I want both.

Given the constraints of a startup, one has to learn to let go. In corporate world, with unlimited resources you can buy all candies and not pay for it. But startup is a different game
Except for the fact the current pandemic has nothing to do with the flu.
I had friends experience what I think was way worse at Google. Don't really feel comfortable sharing, but lets say it more or less always involved power games and/or sexual harassment. Worst one was probably a combination. Google was/is great, but sadly not for everyone.

I mean Andy Rubin and Amit Singhal worked at Google when they did their career ending stuff.
I've seen it happen, multiple times, at Microsoft. Additionally know 2nd hand of dozens of other instances of abuse, career sabotage, and scorched earth management.

Have been fortunate that the instances I was involved in directly, I was prepared, had extensive documentation, and my position (and my colleagues) were more valuable than the perpetrators, so they were swiftly shown the door.

At the end of the day it's the same at every large company. HR protects the business, not the employee. They don't protect the victim, they protect the more valuable resource.
Depends on the case. If a case is taken on a contingency basis (personal injury, medical malpractice, and other practice areas are usually contingency), the lawyer will only take winnable cases because the client is paying a billable hour rate and if you lose you're left with nothing but expenses and an angry client.

For cases where the client is paying the billable hour rate, lawyers will take just about any case as long as it isn't totally unethical and could get you in hot water with the bar.
I would look for freelancers who have built a product alone.

They are likely to do both design and programming.
I thought about this a lot. You're right. There's no way. I was wrong. Sorry.
This really just feels like a salvo in a slow gradual fight between people who just don't personally like wood stoves and anyone else wo either likes them or doesn't really care.

I actually like the smell of my neighbors wood stove.

I don't even know who it is since I'm in a dense area. I don't own a wood stove myself so I'm not just protecting my own. I did grow up in houses with them. Everyone's house had them. (upstate ny)

I wish people would not abuse the concept of public good or shared space etc just to get their way about every single thing they personally don't prefer.

You don't like wood smoke in winter? Go live in an HOA that doesn't allow them. It's a smell not a public health hazard.

Besides, oil and gas furnaces and coal and gas fired power plants are better? Really? Because that's what the alternatives are still. We're still a long way from having cheap plentiful electricity that doesn't come from a bad source.

If this article is really ultimately driven by what it claims about a health hazard from particulates, then why does it only propose removing all wood burners instead of say, developing some kind of catalytic converter or double-burner or other means of cleaning the exhaust?

I would be more interested in a study of actual health histories and stats of areas where stoves were common vs not, than in this measurement of particulates and a claim that they are bad.
Brennenstuhl? Da brennt der Stuhl! (There the chair is catching fire!) Had this many years ago, but not via Amazon, may have been a case of fake product, though. OTOH I came across reviews of this brand many years later, also on Amazon, stating similar. So either they are faked much, or their brand name is program.
Was there a punchline at the end? It read like it was written by a preteen - bouncing around with vignettes and stream of consciousness. I couldn’t get to the end. They all sound awful to work with.
I posit that it is capriciousness, not hypocrisy.
Curious whether vaccine distribution takes into account things like available hospital capacity, local infection/death rates, etc. or does each state just get doses in proportion to population, or something else?
To put this in perspective, in 2017, 62797 people in California died of heart disease, which is about 172 deaths a day.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/states/california/califor...

So it sounds like it's by far the #1 cause of death, but not clear if it outnumbers all causes of death combined (I'd be interested in more info)
I think the news is that his wife worked on a documentary about Robin("Robin's Wish"): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNNw8l0wg0I&feature=emb_titl...
Reads to me like a jab at "Uncle Bob"
> Their logistical chain does not rely upon a system of (often fellow American) warehouse workers who are pushed to the breaking point.

Just couple of days ago there was this article on front page of HN

https://9to5mac.com/2020/12/29/iphone-workers-forced-labor/
I'm fairly sure fsharp has always been open source, or at least it was open sourced very early. Somewhat pioneering of MS approach to licensing basic development tools.
I disagree. Plucking the leaf off of a tree for no reason is immoral. (Not as bad as a lot of things, but immoral on an absolute scale.)
A friend once told me, right after I had settled in to my first cozy big tech job: "you should be uncomfortable being too comfortable". May be the single most useful advice I've ever received.

Also, having lived in Tokyo for a year, just freakin do it. So much new things to learn there.

oh, and ironically that friend has stayed at their cozy corporate gig and doesn't seem to heed their own sage advice very much :/
You can test that by looking at data from countries with less abusive prison systems. IIRC, they typically have much lower recidivism rates.
You can't get enough vitamin D from light through a glass window since it will block far too much of the UV rays.

Considering how much light is blocked from a screen, I suspect without the glass, you'd have to be in front of it for quite a while to get enough to have any effect. But this is just a guess. I haven't ever heard of anyone getting a tan through one. It would be an interesting experiment with a UV meter.
This is a great list.
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