skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not really, in countries with reasonable sized minimum wage (say 1/2 of median wage) only small percentage of workers have minimum wage.
Hi, this is Muri, creator of the game.

Lizard is a free online card game that you can play in your browser with up to 6 players. The goal of each player is to guess the amount of times (tricks) which they are going to win in any given round. Each player then has to win exactly that many times – not more, not less. You can use special cards to help you, but there are also cards you can use to sabotage other players (such as the Raccoon).

Lizard is 100% free, has no ads, and doesn't want your email. You can create an account with just a username and password, to track your stats, add friends, use custom avatars, and complete quests.

Here is a quick rundown of the features:

* Play with up to 6 players in your browser, Desktop or Mobile
* Play vs a simple AI opponent to learn the game solo
* Chat, Giphy and Video Chat support
* Reconnect feature, for when players disconnect from active games
* Discord integration and community (of about 30 players, here: https://discord.gg/yPQByMSk4T)
* In-game challenges for extra points (like Saboteur, where you have to be the only winning player in a round)
* 10+ special cards, which are optional – you can highly customize the game
* Leaderboards
* Light / Dark Mode
* Accounts for stat tracking, custom avatars, adding friends, and quests / rewards

Some backstory:

Lizard started out as a side project around 3 years ago, so that my girlfriend and I could play an online version of a card game called "Wizard", which we used to play a lot. Nothing that we have found online came close to what we expected, so I built a simplified version of the game.

I worked on it on-and-off, sometimes showed it to colleagues, added new special cards (that don't exist in Wizard), and the game grew and grew, especially last year, when the Pandemic started. I was scared to launch it anywhere for a long time, but finally launched it on Product Hunt a few weeks ago and was pretty happy with how it went. I am still working on scalability as it grows. I have taken some time off from freelancing / contracting to focus on this game for the last 2 months, and have been working on it almost every day. It is quite fun and also fulfilling to see that the game connected families and groups of people who also used to play Wizard a lot (during Christmas for example), you can check what some of the other people had to say about the game on the website.

I guess that's all for now, would love you to try it out and give me some feedback.

Best,
Muri
>minority that was offended by something (words and not content) made it a pain

We're not mind readers: Words _are_ content.

And if there were people misunderstanding what he was saying, then it's pretty clear that he was either deliberately provoking in his speech or just clueless about the impact words have on people who are not him.
I dont need managers to be coding. I do need them to have technical background and willingness to understand what tech is relevant to them - I had only bad experiences with non-technical managers.

But I really dont understand why they should be coding. Even active developers are not able to fix whatever in any module, you fix only in areas you understand. When shit is on fire, I dont want managers or other random developers to create a bunch on hotfixes that will cause new problems.

I want managers to organize the project in a way that shit wont burn on every release.
As long as the vast majority of Bitcoin owners are HODLing and not using it, it's behaving as a Ponzi. Bitcoin has a few uses, but getting rich speculating on it isn't one.
This is a horribly written post you may want to edit it.
The best engineering manager in my career was not amongst the best developers I knew. (Conversely, the worst engineering manager in my career was one of the best developers I knew).

He had two particular skills that many will never have or take a decade or two to cultivate: he could provide you feedback, empathetically, and make you feel like he is genuinely interested in your success and improvement, and he could read a room like no other, often times being the one to say the right thing to break the tension in the room or ask the right question to get us over a roadblock.

I know you aren't saying be the best or focus on coding, but if I look back and had to pick between the two, I'd pick the engineering manager who has cultivated the soft skills. At a certain scale, all engineering problems become people problems.
In 2020 were shipped 28% more SSDs than HDDs but for 5 times less total capacity
If you see the author sleep logs, that's exactly what happens to him and what he is advocating for top notch brain performance. The problem is that we live in society and not everybody can shift their sleep hours.
I had to get a loan to buy an used car. Economy here is like that...
I think this is slightly different from what the OP was saying, because in this scenario, you choose to do that. IMO personal responsibility and pride in one's work like this is amazing and totally compatible with a balanced life. But when a manager asks you to have some personal responsibility and balance your weekend life towards the overtime work side, that's a whole other story.
Nah bud, I'm not stoked on grandma on oxygen without power being naked or afraid.
With his attitude, it's clear why he failed to fix those problems.
Baloney. Who's to say that the wife isn't doing the same to further her own career on other nights and weekends?
On paper that's fine. Do that too much, though, and your willingness to burn personal time for the company's benefit will become the norm and factor into their planning. Getting management to un-learn that is difficult and tricky and often not accomplished without the loss of several employees with that reason pointed out in the exit interview.
Depends where you are. Certainly not true as a general rule.
Protonmail do not have a letter-box presence in CH... They have real employees there. That's quite a misinformed comment. (I said that knowing multiple ex colleague working there in CH).
Simple question - is there (some kind/means of (extra)) payment involved?

If the answer is no, then that's a resounding no (for me, at least). I might love and adore my job (and the workplace), but no way in hell will it be allowed to impinge on my private/personal time: sleeping and "regular" work already essentially takes 2/3 of it (too much), and that doesn't even include the time for "context shifting" (mental and physical) between those and the remainder that is "(free) living".

And if (the hypothetical) you considers that to be "entitled", then so be it. Your life's mission is not my mission. I am there to do my work and do it conscientiously; anything more is asking too much.
I find paper catalogues really impractical because it's slow to flip the pages and search is also slower (often you have to go the directory at the end). Ikea's web page is okay, better than the competition.

Availability is a problem for Ikea currently - but at least they have a lot of volume and a really ruthlessly culled assortment. So usually they're a lot better than the competition. Almost everything is available for taking with you when you're at the store. I bet if you're doing design work for Ikea, it goes through a lot of checking before it will be produced.

Their personnel is absolutely great, I have really good experience of that.
> distutils isn't going away for another couple of years, so I can plan time to migrate

I'd say it's not going away for as long as setuptools will be based on it.

> BTW, is "setup.cfg" dead and forgotten now?

Basically, the same answer as above: setup.cfg was (as I understand) an internal solution to declarative build configuration (originally introduced in now-discontinued distutils2). It is basically precursor to pyproject.toml, and it was actually one of the alternatives proposed in PEP 518 [0] (but was declined because it depends on Python's configparser, making it not much more universal than setup.py).

[0] https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0518/
What’s the lifetime of a Tesla anyway? 6 years?
> Honestly Google sounds like it's filled with what can be considered the modern equivalent of upper middle class government administrators of past eras

I like this, I've thought this before too about a lot of big tech companies that are throwing off cash and essentially want to make sure they have a bunch of top people but don't really need them for anything particular day-to-day.

So the employees become a kind of aristocracy with a few symbolic duties, but largely a life of leisure, attending company events and reading clubs and pushing paper back and forth, while making salaries high enough they dont have to worry about anything.

I know this is an exaggeration, but there is some truth to it, and I definitely know environments where one could behave that way.
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> once in awhile an interesting problem gets you working on the company laptop all Saturday,

I will never do this. I havent done this since I was very very young at my first job and i didn't know better. I couldn't think of anything sader or more depressing that giving away my own personal time for someone else.

I'm not going to work on the weekend. I've got much better things to do, like play video games or literally anything else, rather than go back to work and generate wealth for someone else for free.
but hey it will obviate the need for a space heater.
Ah yes, another way for the tories and their rich friends to siphon public funds to private pockets with zero transparency.
> the innovating countries that were smarter in their policies

Such as? Are "we" now going to say the state is better at innovating than the private sector? Under what conditions?

(I'm inclined to believe that it could work - it was after all the model that gave us Concorde - but there are also a lot of ways in which it could go wrong and I absolutely do not trust the government with a track record of bunging corrupt money at shell companies.)
That implies then that there will indeed be weekends where your boss expects you to work, your spouse is working, you cannot, and therefore you “fail”.
Tesla is a hype company with a small side gig in mfg
> Yoga has zero place at a serious busines

It's "business", and why? Are you paying your (say) coders to write code? Unlikely, otherwise you'd measure their productivity in lines-of-code written, which I hope you realize is a bad idea.

More likely you're paying your coders to solve problems. Is sitting in a chair always the best way to solve problems/think? Not necessarily. If physical activity (like yoga) is conducive to better thinking/problem solving, and the company has the resources (Google does) -- I don't see why not.
> I still can’t comprehend why someone like Fauci who said in no uncertain terms not to wear a mask, it won’t help never faced any repercussions

May I ask what exactly you were hoping for here?
What on earth could possibly go wrong with this.
It's such a weird dynamic.

I remember visiting the valley for the first time for a big company I worked for at another location. The scale of work life balance was unbalanced so many strange ways...

The tech support team I worked with was in 'building 3'. Nobody ever left that building through out the day. I went to the big cafeteria and the options were amazing. I managed to get some of my peers to go with me, several of my peers from building 3 were equally amazed as ... they never went there, they just worked all day, ate something at their desk, and kept working...

Meanwhile I'd go to the cafeteria each day and sit outside and watch as some folks would play basketball for an hour, then a while later show up and chat it up with coworkers (not talking about work) over lunch for what seemed like forever...

The game room was always full of the same guys, the other amenities, yoga, etc, and it often included people who I simply never could get a hold of. HR couldn't be bothered to get security to take my photo for my badge for weeks ... because the gym schedule changed.

It was a weird, unbalanced, yin and yang.
Most great things are built out of love.

There is no balance when you love.
> but they need to be in an environment providing enough privacy.

Yet another argument in favor of text.
funnily enough.. the punishment for dealing is usually heavier than that for consuming...
Usually these initiatives should be extremely transparent, and they're the exact opposite. That's not good.

A current example is the covid 19 vaccine contracts, which were multi billion dollar/euro/pound deals, with accelerated research and approvals, and so far only one contract was made public.

It is specially concerning when some vaccines were developed with public funding.
I can't for the life of me understand why this isn't at least a config option. That and an option for setting --upstream in git push by default. Those could at least preserve backwards compatibility.

Are the Git maintainers so stringent on maintaining backwards compatibility that the implementation of submodules has remained in such a dire state for so long? I find it hard to believe that a VCS this widely adopted would fall over so easily for this relatively popular use case.
I'm amazed that it worked so well, it did confuse me that each repl didn't know the previously defined functions, is that just me?

Forth is almost the postfix inverse of lisp. Instead of arity errors, you have stack over and underflow. And it only has one list, instead of lists of lists.

Oh, and it's not garbage collected

Oh, it it's not homoiconic

{edit]I guess it's really not the same thing at all

Amazing how a day's exposure to Racket shifted my opinion
The bureaucracy of maintaining the value of a dollar goes far beyond ink and paper. All those bankers like to eat steaks. Lots of steaks.
Probably a lot less of a problem since so many tech dudes are dudes.
> The MLC is now reviewing and analyzing the data in order to find and pay the proper copyright owners. No easy task.

Having worked with CWR files to try and do this, I wish them the best of luck because it is a godforsaken thankless task.
It's a barrier or an open door, depending on what you are willing to do.
> You appear to be under some delusion that when companies invest in developing and supporting software - or other things - they are behoven to give that away as a charitable act.

This is a lie and I never implied such a thing. What I'm saying is that when companies publish something, they should not then win some special rights of control over the people. You are free to keep ideas a secret, but as soon as you publish, people should be free and have the freedom to do what they want with those ideas.

> Microsoft, for example, is a business tasked with making a profit.

Thank you for telling me that my former employer is a for-profit business. I had no idea. /s
IMHO, the exemption from the freedom of information act is more in fact aimed at protecting investment in sensitive new tech by in effect making it secret until the government decides otherwise.

That's why the title of the article is actually "Secrecy for high-risk tech research". It's 'high risk' but also aimed at being high rewards and potentially targeting sensitive domains so they don't want others to know what they are doing until after they have reaped the benefits.

I cannot read the whole article because of the paywall but the freedom of information laws do not prevent anything in terms of what to invest into. They only create a legal duty to provide information on demand.

The aim of this new agency has never been altruistic. It has always been discussed as a tool to further the UK's interests in the global competition. Clearly the government thinks that a level of secrecy, or at leat government control, is required.
The 'axiom' (idiom) is not that the lack of sex is power, but that everything is sex, and sex itself is power, therefore everything is ultimately about power. But you cannot take sex our of that equation. So it implies that anything you do, even if you don't care about having sex at all, is about sex. Doesn't make sense.
re:Try to express that logo in text

"Twitter"

carries the same weight
After reading the article I think his only problem was that the 11am yoga employee was taking care of their health in a way that he didn’t understand, so it was bad.
> These realities lead to extreme focus on promotion vs product success --Me > We > Product/Users. I feel that the risk reward model in Corp-Tech is broken due to ever rising stock prices and lack of personal impact on your returns. Perhaps Corp-Tech should move to employee share buy back where employees must sacrifice some of their salary for equity or change equity to vest by a product related metric to connect the teams performance with the employee returns.

No. Fuck you, pay me, as the saying goes [1]. As a manager / VP, it is your responsibility to set the product vision and goals. Engineers can't build / sales can't sell a great product if prospective clients are not interested, like putting an art gallery online [2].

Additionally, having no personal stake in the product allows developers / engineers to be more objective and professional. This is a problem that most junior engineers will face at some point, and most senior engineers will easily recognize. You put so many hours and so much work into a new project that you start to make it part of your identity. You can see this in a few consumer products like the Xbox One launch, where Microsoft employees received special Xboxs that had "I MADE THIS" branded on the device [3].

But for most companies engineers and developers have very little influence over the product's specifications - they're simply asked to build a thing already specc'd to hell by PM's, VP's, legal, ADA, and other groups within your organization. So if the joint effort of all those groups results in the product failing before it even hits a developers' desk, why should their compensation be impacted?

The best way to tie development teams to the product is by offering bonuses when the product succeeds. But for some odd reason many companies don't want to do that.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVkLVRt6c1U

[2]: http://paulgraham.com/worked.html

[3]: https://www.neowin.net/news/heres-the-best-look-yet-at-the-w...
Hi,
Calmly Writer uses an installer, it is not a zip file.
By paying once you will receive all updates. The EULA says for 12 months, but my intention is to make it indefinite.
I have yet to update the FAQs to indicate the MAC shortcuts.
It seemed to me that the web would be a big deal [...] If I wanted to get rich, here was the next train leaving the station.

What other trains have left the station? What ones are leaving now? I'm referring to growth areas that are not 'winner takes all' and do not require extreme ability/talent to get into. The ones that come to mind are:

- smart phone apps when the iPhone first launched

- crypto currency mining/speculation (still ongoing I suppose)

- maybe some period 2005-2015 when there were still many novel and lucrative applications of machine learning to try out?
What engineering can teach (and learn from) the software world
He's giving a few examples for work-life balance and I have completely different feelings about - from the 11 AM Yoga class (pretty ridiculous IMO) to taking a personal day (reasonable, people need their day off, maybe the personal day is for an urgent medical check-up?) to working during the weekend (unless the entire service is down and I'm the oncall, it can wait).
Power walls are pretty expensive. Much cheaper-- if you're primary concern is keep heat going and maybe a few other basics-- would be a low-maintenance dual fuel generator. Unlike the powerwall it's run-time isn't limited. Prolonged blackouts will run the powerwall dry, but with a dual fuel generator as long as you can get gasoline or propane you're good to go.

I suppose if you can afford it, go for both and have multiple reduncancy.
I disagree with that. Not everything is implicitly about sex, maybe everything is about power (strong maybe) but sex is not a precursor to that. That said, you are probably right that the things that are about sex and power end up disadvantaging the asexuals.
If your engineers are working on weekends, for normal projects and deadlines, then you have a serious culture and process problem.

On-call engineers for high risk projects and deployments are another situation and not the norm.

The only leaders and teams I have seen push back on this, are the ones who 1) have no kids or 2) have their entire social life wrapped up with their work life. Why would they ever stop working when they can just play video games together at the office and say they are “working late”?
You mark my words; this is how we will be taken advantage of:
“Emotional Health” classes will be required in high schools. Where many things will be taught. And, somewhere around week 3 of the second semester will be an “avoiding addiction” module.
A certain large group of citizens, with a mysteriously large advertisement budget, will vehemently oppose teaching children such “politically correct nonsense”. Thus, the program will be underfunded, and the curriculum poorly developed; like DARE, sex ed, biological evolution…
Somehow, the same group of people are going to push for personal liability when it comes to managing your own addictions. The precedent set by the lawyers and courts, the litigation of which we won’t get to see, is that addiction management is a part of the core curriculum in high school and any accredited education facility. Therefore, “The Average Joe on the bus“ has already been equipped with the tools necessary to make educated decisions about what services they choose to participate in regardless of that service’s addiction-enabling behaviors and reinforced by a opaquely worded EULA’s. All of this being enabled by our cultural virtue of it “individual responsibility”.
Oh, and something-something Free Markets... something-something Regulations...
In addition to supply problems, is the system also suffering from the regular distribution problems that a winter storm brings? I haven't heard any news one way or the other about whether power lines are icing up and falling down.
I am talking about efficient use of available space. A terabyte may store a lot of pictures, but if we can achieve the data density of DNA, we may be able to process (store, transmit, transform...) far more amount of data far more quickly. Then text vs multimedia will become irrelevant.
I use a subtree to maintain an open repo within a private one. It works, but why is it so slow? You change just one file and before attempting a push it seems to scan the whole thing. I tried this recently without a network connection, pretty clear that the slow bit is entirely local.
Seeing the "top 50 brands picture" - is it bad or is it good that, as freelancer, I have horror stories (and some of them are multiple stories for same brand) for each and every one of them?
I read that as "legal got involved and we had a ton of meetings that achieved nothing for our users" rather than "privacy did nothing for our users".

I don't think Google "cares about" user privacy. I think they care about minimising any legal risk. These are two very different attitudes.
Thanks ill be adding more to the app and look into some local ones possibly add region specific tabs for those interested in using something local for better performance. I just added popular ones to avoid any controversy (not that these DNS aren't without controversy but at least I am not the complete blame). I am looking for adblocking and tracking prevention DNS actually like NextDNS but free and fast. Adguard seems to be the only one globally with the same IPs (since its hardcoded).
Ironically in his recent appearance on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast Elon Musk spoke about about the need for a CO2 emissions tax to price in that externality.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/2aB2swgyXqbFA06AxPlFmr?si=j...
I suppose I should put it on PyPI! There isn't such an API yet but it wouldn't be too difficult to add.