skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A relative is a middle manager in one of the biggest tech organizations in EU; only 60% of their huge organization is doing actual work and that 60% includes the management of the actual experts; the rest are "support functions" with very well paid positions for people appointed by the member states with strong political connections and no relevant skills vs. hired with interviews for the 60%. But even in the 60% there are a lot that are not meeting the skills required, but they are protected from any action by labor laws and unions, including forced salary raised based on how long they worked there, with no performance indicators.

In practical terms, over 50% of that large (many thousands) organization should not exist. Another 50% of what is left is only needed because EU bureaucracy requires them to cover work that can be avoided. That qualifies for "too much bureaucracy".
If only it were easier to undo things if they prove ineffective. Too often laws (or repealing of laws) are one way rachets that require enormous momentum to undo.

As a result we can't really try solutions to problems. We are committed to any solution we implement for decades even if it is ineffective.
I think they probably Turk it with drivers, and just hand jamb it with the menu board photos.
I think that is a valid point. If the noise becomes too much, I would take it down.
Doesn't it? You can google "how to make iphone app" (or whatever) and get a wealth of videos, blog posts, guides, tutorials, github repositories. You can join online communities to learn and ask questions. You can download all the tools for free.

My early days of programming were tinkering in BASIC and asking my parents to buy me "Learn C in 24 days" type books and hoping the compilers on the bundled CD would actually work. I had very few resources and had nobody to ask if I got stuck, except for other kids who didn't know much more than me. Seems a lot better now.
Space, the Final Smuggling Frontier
Japan took over most of the Pacific I'm the time it took for the FDA to schedule the meeting to approve the vaccine after EUA was submitted. In 1947 we vaccinated 5 million people from a "cold start" in 2 weeks. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1947_New_York_City_smallpox_...

People keep bringing up examples of going fast because others are saying "we are going as fast as we can."
This is really interesting - do you have any links to the documents you mention?
First of all, that sounded negative and I'm totally not knocking Xstate. I'm pro any library that encourages people to think about state machines :D

I'm really speaking tactically about how best to represent the machine, more of an optimization thing. For that, the features that you mentioned do help, no question there. Statecharts is a great formalism overall. But in my opinion, they help more at the macro level, like when thinking about the entire UI as a single state machine and how to modularize that.

Hierarchy and orthogonality are not always present - sometimes state variables truly interact. I'm speaking more about that scenario. I'll take an example right from the Xstate documentation:

list: {
initial: 'none',
states: {
none: {
on: { BULLETS: 'bullets', NUMBERS: 'numbers' }
},
bullets: {
on: { NONE: 'none', NUMBERS: 'numbers' }
},
numbers: {
on: { BULLETS: 'bullets', NONE: 'none' }
}
}
}

Here, we have a state machine that looks like it powers some logic in a word processor, where a user can create lists. You can toggle bulleted or numbered lists on and off, as well as switch between them once either has been selected. Since each state can transition to each other state, each state references each other state in the transition description. What happens when you add another state there, let's say we can have a list with letters as indexes. You'd have to add another transition from each existing state to the new one, and add a transition from the new state to all the other ones. This is an O(N) operation as we agreed since every new state means there are N possible edges from it to all other states, and each existing state can have an edge to the new state. I believe this is what people mean when state machines are "hard to modify."

What if instead we used variables to represent the state, and had a single function which determined the next state to go to based on the existing state:

type State = {
showingBullets: Boolean,
showingNumbers: Boolean,
}

enum Action {
ToggleBullets,
ToggleNumbers,
}

function next(state: State, action: Action): State {
let nextState = { showingBullets: false, showingNumbers: false };

switch (action) {
case Action.ToggleBullets:
nextState.showingBullets = !state.showingBullets;
break;
case Action.ToggleNumbers:
nextState.showingNumbers = !state.showingNumbers;
break;
};

return nextState;
}

Now, the process of adding a new state would be just adding a new case in the switch statement. That's constant time, O(1). This is because the next function is actually a relation - it can map a single state to multiple next states.

I will admit, this may be personal preference. With the Xstate approach, where you specify all transitions explicitly, there's no thinking. You just read which state maps to which next state. A relation has logic, which means you have to compute in your head all of the possible next states. It's the tradeoff between expressive power and explicitness.
Kids abuse this, I went to an upper middle class Catholic school for middle school, and even there, bathrooms breaks were used as an excuse to go hang out in the bathroom and ultimately culminated in what amounted to a daily fight club, where there was a sense of honor if you got knocked out
1984, but Facebook
This is great; the practice is incredibly deceitful, harming both customers and restaraunts.

Postmates still has me blacklisted from their app after advertising one of my favorite Mexican places to me with this kind of scam, when they didn't have correct prices on their app, they tried to charge me the difference after I placed the order.
> Difficult when you're an 85 year old with dementia in a nursing home.

this is someone beyond life expectancy and almost by definition liable to be taken out by anything, never mind covid
> The new officemate had previous harassment history at Apple as well as criminal history and arrest. She took pride that she does what she wants, and nobody can do anything about it

"previous harassment history at Apple as well as criminal history and arrest" .... I am really skeptical of this. Does anyone have insider information to corroborate such a claim?
That is the intentional result of Helmut Kohl's government many decades ago. Kohl wanted cable TV instead of fibre... because cable TV could be used to broadcast programs that were not "left mainstream". Wish I was joking, private TV stations in Germany are a thing only because the state TV was too left (in reality: not right-wing enough) for the freshly appointed Conservative chancellor.

See https://netzpolitik.org/2018/danke-helmut-kohl-kabelfernsehe...
This reminds me of an essay that Paul Graham wrote that compares schools to prisons:
http://www.paulgraham.com/nerds.html

> Public school teachers are in much the same position as prison wardens. Wardens' main concern is to keep the prisoners on the premises. They also need to keep them fed, and as far as possible prevent them from killing one another. Beyond that, they want to have as little to do with the prisoners as possible, so they leave them to create whatever social organization they want. From what I've read, the society that the prisoners create is warped, savage, and pervasive, and it is no fun to be at the bottom of it.

> In outline, it was the same at the schools I went to. The most important thing was to stay on the premises. While there, the authorities fed you, prevented overt violence, and made some effort to teach you something. But beyond that they didn't want to have too much to do with the kids. Like prison wardens, the teachers mostly left us to ourselves. And, like prisoners, the culture we created was barbaric.
It's not really that absurd, it's just not the most conventional definition. But I've heard it used that way before, especially in the context of philosophy
Lots of cynic-cynics in here :) I'll stand up for the author. The lists in the article are not great, but I still agree with the sentiment.

I recommend everyone watch Bret Victor's classic "The Future of Programming" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pTEmbeENF4

Yes, we've had a trillion dollars invested in "How to run database servers at scale". And, we've had some incremental improvements to the C++ish language ecosystem. We've effectively replaced Perl with Python. That's nice. Deep Learning has been a major invention. Probably the most revolutionary I can think of in the past couple decades.

But, what do I do in Visual Studio 2019 that is fundamentally different than what I was doing in Borland Turbo Pascal back on my old 286? C++20 is more powerful. Intellisense is nice. Edit-and-continue worked 20 years ago and most programmers still don't use it. If you are super awesome, you might use a reversible debugger. That's still fringe science these days.

There is glacial momentum in the programming community. A lot of "grep and loose, flat ASCII files were good enough for my grandpappy. I can't accept anything different" And, so we don't have code-as-database. A lot of "I grew up learning how to parse curly bracket blocks. So, I can't accept anything different". So, so many languages try to look like C and are mostly flavors of the same procedural-OO-bit-of-functional paradigm. A lot of "GDB is terrible, don't even try" so many programmers are in reverse-stockholm system where they have convinced themselves debuggers are unnecessary and debugging is just fundamentally slow and painful. So, we don't have in-process information flow visualization. And, so on.
>> some may feel that their expectations of futuristic utopia have been subverted, making them cynical.

i know i do!

lot's of stuff about the future sucks, and i can't think of a way to fix anything important with faster garbage collection or better type systems... maybe that's the difference between makers and cynics. i guess i'll try harder :p
It's hard to know what's going on in every corner of a company as large as Apple, but open harassment certainly would not fly in our particular organization. Our team alone has engineers belonging to 4 different religions I know of (and obviously quite a few not identifying with any particular religion), and I've seen at least Christians, Hindus, and Muslims promoted to management.
You're totally correct, I'm thinking this is basically just a troll post.

I started my software career in the late 90s, and having worked at a company last year with pretty much greenfield development, I was thinking how so many big, harry problems in software engineering that I experienced are just finally solved now:

1. You bring up version control, the first SCM system I used in the late 90s was CVS. I don't understand how any human that used CVS who now uses git+GitHub/GitLab/GitWebFrontendOfYourFancy can claim things are "stagnating".

2. Similarly, setting up a build and test process (the term "CI/CD" didn't exist in the late 90s) was a relatively huge undertaking, now it's trivial to get tests to run on every merge to master and then autodeployed with something like GitHub Actions.

3. Package management security, while not a fully solved problem, is leaps and bounds better than it was even a couple years ago. Again, I can automate my build process to run things like `npm audit` or other tools from providers like Snyk.

4. Umm, the cloud anyone? You may argue that this is a hardware change but it's really much more of a software issue - the cloud is only enabled by the huge amounts of software running everything.

I think the biggest thing I notice from the early 00s to now is that now I'm able to spend the vast majority of my time, even at a small company, worrying about features for my users, as opposed to the huge about of time I spent in the past just on the underlying infrastructure and maintenance to keep everything working.
Nothing here indicates a lack of arguments.

Just saying.
It does look really nice. Based on the photos, it does resemble a school, or at the minimum, a library.
Everyone creates, and most people write, a book isn't so different than a dairy or a blog. You could say TicToc creators are not normal people or Pinterest submitters, but I think the only time we see a cross section that does not represent the general population is when there is a high barrier to entry.

There is a phrase in Icelandic, "ad ganga med bok I maganum", everyone gives birth to a book. Literally, everyone "has a book in their stomach". One in 10 Icelanders will publish one, so in that society it's stastically normal to publish a book. But in any society it's normal to create and publishing is just one out of thousands of ways to do something everyone does.
Good question. I tried to treat my students as adults, to the occasional chagrin of the administration, as much as possible. I definitely did not trust them—I knew too much—but I tried to pretend that I did. So my ploy was to discourage the students who would otherwise go hang out in the bathroom every single class. Of course one needs to go several times per day. But that does not translate to every time my class meets.
Not the op and they might know different ones but GoodRx is the one I'm familiar with.

In talking with the pharmacy at Costco, it turned out to be probably cheaper to buy my son's prescription medicine out-of-pocket with an HSA than to do it through insurance.

The reason I say "probably" is there are situations where you hit the insurance maximum per individual or for the family and then the cost for additional refills is zero.

https://www.goodrx.com
Forgive my slow response! I think it just comes down to background noise. For example, people every day listen to Radio when driving, or have the news on in the background.

I don't think I could study something difficult with Audio Books or any noise, but for example, tinkering or life's chores like washing clothes, emptying dishwashers, hoovering, showering.... These tasks which must be done anyway can become secondary to an audio book which takes the prime brain space to the point that those tasks become "enjoyable". Especially if you find a good book!
> Anyone who bought the S&P and held it for 10 years made about 14% YoY (more like 10% if you take the last 30 years)

Anyone knows a study with other than US markets where they compare local index stock performance with housing cost? E.g. Switzerland, Eastern Europe, etc.
Iodine not only disinfects wounds, it helps them heal.

I liked when the tree tried to kill them by dropping a branch too.
Depends on your school, class, and colour
I inferred that he was simply saying the fact of using chained car batteries for welding is hardcore, which I obviously think is not as I've seen it done by many people in many places.

As for the situation in this context though - sure, that could be said to be hardcore.
What i don't understand is that after getting Covid, you are only immune for 8-20 weeks - a few public persons have already contracted Covid twice now illustrating this.

With this new variant, and the fact that we need some pretty incredible amount of people immune at once, maybe say 80%, wouldn't this mean that we need to be vaccinated 4-5 times a year?

How is this feasible, even for the richest countries?
Once the temperature within the furnace gets to about 900F I can't even really smell it anymore and the exhaust looks clear as far as I can tell in daylight. This is the benefit of using a large and well built wood furnace. Also all of the wood I use is dry which not only reduces the amount of bad stuff that gets into the air it also increases the usable heat from the wood.

I also live in a very rural area on a 1 hectare lot surrounded by other 1 and 2 hectare lots. I would not want to run this in a typical suburb and I agree with most the other comments that wood burning really shouldn't be a thing in densely populated areas.

Unfortunately for me my only other real option is electricity which can be relatively intermittent where I am and also expensive. It would end up costing $700-$1000 extra during winter months. I'm heating two homes with it. A newer one with walls at an R40+ rating and an older one with walls at a recently upgraded from nothing to an R20 rating. The money I'm saving on electricity will be going into add more insulation into the older home for even better long term benefits.

Check out the below site if you'd like to learn a bit more about what the typical issues are and what's trying to be done to help reduce the problems.
https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/documents/strateg...
The problem isn’t the existence of the papers, it’s the years of effort that go into producing the papers.

It’s the failure to harness the hard work and brainpower of so many brilliant people towards efforts that would meaningfully improve the lives of others.
That's because everyone needs to be present for the evidence. It protects the accused. You can't have someone skip out on the exculpatory stuff.
> Beyond that, they want to have as little to do with the prisoners as possible, so they leave them to create whatever social organization they want.

I went to a public school that was most definitely not like this. My teachers were really invested in the students and often perform significant emotional labor for children who don't otherwise have supportive adult relationships. I went to many schools (moved a lot) and they all largely had teachers who were passionate about the well being of the children under their care. I had a very poor home life and having teachers who identified I was going into a suicidal spiral was very useful when I was a teenager.
The Uygurs, Tibetan, Taiwanese, Hong Kong-ese, all of them have this anti-China agenda.

The same as any other nationalist regime will tell you: "if you are against the regime, you are against the nation". And it has been proved, time and again, that the majority of citizens buy it.
With any luck, this will kill Postmates. That business model is deceitful at best, actively a scam more likely.
Are they though? I’ve had both. I really liked the convection oven a lot. It was glass, so I could see the food cooking. It didn’t get quite as crispy results, or cook as quickly as the air fryer. It also didn’t have the basket design which makes crisping certain foods very convenient.

I agree that it’s a convection oven but I think there’s more to distinguish them. Maybe I’m wrong though. I haven’t seen new convection ovens for over a decade.
> Windiws 10 Home

I had to do a search to see if that was a knockoff or just your typo!

(It's a typo)
‘This is not what you want for health’

Could you elaborate? Is it because then you have draft in the room?
>A significant portion of the population isn't capable of making that judgment.

Really? To whose satisfaction?

Because aside from everyone under 18 being proxied through their parents/guardians and a limited subset of wards of the State/people granting powerof attorney for reason X, Y, Z, the legal reality is that yes, in fact by definition, those people do have the capability to make that judgement.

Deep down, you're more annoyed that they don't arrive at the same answer you do, even when presented with what you consider the samme set of facts and reliable sources. Let's be clear.

You're more annoyed you can't compel them, or have the government compel them to do what you want. While whatyou should be thankful for is the fact they generally can't do the same thing to you, leaving everyone at relative liberty to live life as they see fit.

You are free to do as thou wilt. Take your precautions. I certainly won't judge you unreasonably.

But stow the arrogant and dismissive attitude around others exercising and having the same liberties you enjoy and using them to different ends. Further, the fact that none of these types of legislation ever include sunset dates is more evidence that people are just looking to centralize and enshrine broad and disruptive enforcement powers without regard to the overall effect on the landscape of our overall set of civil liberties.
+1, if anything, its frustratingly the opposite from my perspective (i.e. its hard to find peers who want to dig into things, the SWE is the center of the universe, personal lack of interest is enough to refuse work)
> The primary lesson I learnt is that it doesn't matter if you work hard. Nobody notices, and even if they do you will likely not get anything out of it. Do your job, but don't kill yourself over it. Work-life balance is king.

Exactly this. Unless your manager has a history of giving raises and/or promotions to YOU for doing your JOB then do not assume, ever, that they will give you anything for overworking to chase a carrot on a stick.

That said if they have a history of recognizing and appreciating your work, and compensating you for extra effort, then by all means feel free to put some sweat into the work. That's a good relationship.

My rule of thumb whenever starting a new job is - Work hard for the first year, but almost never overtime. Do my job, and do it well, but don't kill myself. If manager recognizes the good work, and gives me a raise, I'll talk to them about incentive based objectives, and that I'm willing to work over time if there's a reward structure. Or, that I'm happy to continue at my 9-5 pace if that's working for them. Point is - always wait for them to make the first move. If they don't, either accept the 9-5 work for the pay, or move on to another employer that does value incentive based (bonus) salaries.
Leadership or "leadership"? EU is full of "leaders", those that self-titled as such.

It lacks motivation, there is no SV in Europe because one cannot pay competitively with SV for top talent when you tax to death. It is a lot easier to become a billionaire from real stuff (not manipulating stock markets or other financial trickeries) in US than in EU, so the smart and motivated in EU move to US; what is left is ... what is left: either less motivated or less smart or less both.
In other news, smoking and drinking are also bad. I assume this is a thread where we share things that should be obvious to anybody with a basic understanding of biology and chemistry.
I still then feel like the author's argument would basically be like "aviation has stagnated in the past 100 years!" because planes existed in 1920 and we're still flying in planes in 2020.
A republic is just any state not ruled by a monarch. And direct democracy isn’t the only way to eliminate it drastically mitigate the limited choice problem. Proportional representation with some form of ranked choice voting could drastically reduce the size and power of parties, lower the barrier to entry for more popular candidates, and promote coalition rule/compromise/political will.
An employer-employee dispute will usually be litigated in either a state court or a US District Court (Article III court). USCIS, a federal Article II agency, has no influence over either court.
They're building a new highway from Magadan to Chukotka, which will be 1800 km through some of the most fearsome territory known to man. It will only cover a small portion of the route to Petropavlovsk though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anadyr_Highway
Having been an engineer in 1996. Really nothing wasn't foreseen by anyone with a feel for how things were going.

In 1996 a friend was dating an engineer with an electric car. She'd thrown a bunch of time and money into it. Had a range of about 80-90 miles and wasn't slow at all.

Around then there was skunks works a couple of buildings away from me. On the spectrum analyzer I could see spread spectrum signals showing up at 900 and 2.4GHZ.

Edit: Stay classy HN.