skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
General purpose computing. A game console or Tesla computer is not made for general programs, they have specific purposes.

It's also a case of "you know it when you see it", iPhone wasn't a big platform when it launched but now it's the primary platform for many peoples computer needs, it should not be exclusively run by a private company.
> Well opposed to germany we don't have a Staatstroyaner (i hope), and we don't force company's to break encryption -> tutanota

We do have gov malware, it was also legalized with BÜPF.
There are reports coming out the past week that seem to suggest Trump was in a very bad way with COVID-19.
I hope mesh networks and satellite internet connections are robust enough to counter this.
I actually tried a FreeBSD 13 image on the rpi4 and got the same not showing up on the network or replying to pings issue. I think that FreeBSD 13 on rpi4 might just not be ready yet. I wish I had a micro-HDMI cable to diagnose things further.
It takes me 5 minutes to find the accounts and write the report, and even if it does not work, it boosts the odds of action being taken nevertheless. So I think it's worth it. I am also hoping for more information about how the accounts are being obtained before I write a more comprehensive report.
I learned those (not QR, but ODE methods, basic numerical PDE, non linear equation solving methods, interpolation, etc) in the first semester of my 2nd year of my engineering bachelor. In Belgium.
Wiki lists some primary sources. Not a terribly different story.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyus_(spacecraft)
South East Asia is big on government-led venture capital and state-run business incubators/accelerators and other kinds of business development activities. Even the communist countries.
Show HN: Kotlin Compiler Plugin That Overrides Annotation Use-Site Targets
No he’s right. This is vital for a growing company who is vacuuming up market share. It’s not necessary for big corps who just throw more people at a product or use their economies of scale to stay ahead.

The nasty truth is that every big Corp had a phase where it counted on key people being completely plugged in. If that was never you, then you either joined a company late or weren’t one of the key people.
And less than two arms.
(to the channel), I am sure you know about it, but this [1] technique for making a big design a tree of smaller designs works ok.

I feel like OpenSCAD is like 2 standard deviations away from perfection. Functions vs Modules and how clunky composition and application of operators over the object tree. It almost needs to be Datalog. Right now, it is a notch under SQL.

[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/openscad/comments/lbq58y/my_approac...
I like to think of "not being raped" as "bare minimum standard to strive for", not "hypothetical utopia".
One thing to note is that paper breaks technical redstone builds. For redstone parity, Fabric [0] is what we use, along with Phosphor + Lithium + Carpet.

[0]: https://fabricmc.net/
There are many different designs that have tried to solve the issue. Both from capturing the heat lost up the chimney and supplying combustion air from outside. They all come with downsides and ultimately forced air heating won out.
Human's didn't invent war. Insects go to war.
> What about platforms like Playstation or the computers built into Teslas etc, should we allow sideloading on those?

I think we should, yes. Not necessarily by default, but there should be a switch advanced users can flip.

Re: Tesla, there is in fact a long history of people fixing and modifying their cars. Why not the computers in those cars?
1) So you're saying that giving people $1000/month would open up zero new possibilities for people?

2) It's not that simple because different goods will respond differently. Certain goods will get cheaper because the increased sales will allow for more economies of scale.
The reaction anybody views probably comes from their own prior life experiences.

That doesn't change that a very high percentage of the HN crowd would take this offer are men. A lot men are not in a position to reject offers about their body's sexual value such that it turns into abuse.

A lot of men (99%?) don't get the privilege of making a choice to prove themselves in the business world, versus distinctly with their body.

If this was a more frequent choice, the gender representation in tech/corporate leadership roles would even out much faster. Because less men would be there, having chosen a different opportunity. I perceive this as an underrepresented reality.

I viewed that comment as referring to that crowd.
Shouldn’t we more worried about using toilet paper than IKEA catalog if we want to save trees ? Using a bidet is very easy and clean.

https://blog.nationalgeographic.org/2010/04/16/toilet-paper-...
It seems like something is maybe starting to happen with the small city store idea - in NYC, IKEA already has a pretty normal-sized store in a relatively industrial area of Brooklyn, but recently opened an experimental small-format store in Queens and has a really small-format store in Manhattan.
>Even so, Apple has gotten far more whacks for violating EU law than anyone else in this space.

What are you referring to here? Antitrust? If so, please provide some pointers. There're a lot of cases, not aware of many wins.
This single comment sent me on a hour long search of Randy Nelson and the interesting world of story telling from writters at pixar and disney.
I don't think The Good Dinosaur was a very good "children's movie" in the typical sense, but I'd recommend taking a second look at it if you haven't recently. I watched it again after seeing it when it first came out, and I found it to be a pretty good movie - even if it doesn't fit the typical kids movie mold.

It's ironic because The Good Dinosaur would be a good example of them taking a bet on a somewhat unique vision (a dinosaur spaghetti western?) with a more mature outlook, and then getting shit on by reviewers because it wasn't as funny or charming as Inside Out.
Well it can still be true that FreeBSD runs Linux binaries better than its own native binaries, though I don’t think this is the case.
A big part of the problem is the relatively hidden Meta site where the real power lies. The Meta users are often disconnected from the reality at hand. In a lot of ways it's similar to the non-coding architect problem.
I tried that but it just said `su: Sorry.` and exited with 1.
That was my take-away as well. This might be the guy you want to do business with if you're an investor, but that ain't me; I'm just an employee. This is NOT the kind of guy you wanna be doing business with if you're his employee. And it's not just his complaints about employees' supposed entitlement; he's also complaining that a lot of them were making too much money (in his view)! Opt me the fuck out of that!

Also he spends a lot of time defending his "short fuse" and his saying of offensive things; in my experience, when someone's own side of the story is that bad, it's actually much worse even from the other side (i.e. the side anyone not him would be experiencing). You don't want to work for rude assholes. I don't know him well enough to know if he's actually one, but that's how he's coming off in this blog post anyway. Red flags for days.
There is no escape.

The only way out of this is to build better ways to keep the powerful accountable.
You can load apps on macOS from anywhere you like.
They don't have to spend 100% of their time coding. Why not 50%? If you spend half your 40 hours a week coding, after presumably having had a career in engineering as a developer in the past, coding half the time will continue to support your technical knowledge well into the future.

I refuse to believe that managers shouldn't code. Actual managerial tasks do not take up that much time. Like I said in a previous comment, in my experience (as a manager), managerial tasks take up maybe 20% of my time per week. What's going on with the other 80%? I'd be bored out of my mind if I wasn't coding as much as I currently am.
A strange work ethic I must have been born with (weird, I know) kept me mashing keys the full 8 hours while some of my co-workers might see fit to stay home one day because a package was due to arrive.

Or maybe I have always felt like I'm an imposter: if the ax fell on the team I didn't want to be the low hanging fruit they culled. Who knows.

But I confess to having had a difficult time across my career accepting the perks, relaxing. It's been a slow awareness that this industry really truly is on fire, they really make boatloads of cash, they really need me more than they compensate me for.

What a strange time to live in for a blue-collar programmer like me.
I was referring to the hypothetical utopia of “making sure people don't go hungry”, which is something that has never happened before in human history. But thanks for assuming negative intent.
I use the standard keyboard. Don’t know what I can compare the look of it with. I’ve never seen or used an Android device. Maybe I can find a keyboard app with an Enter key.
> Apple has gotten far more whacks…

[citation required]
> Either "third party" app stores will also pay to support this ecosystem, in which case Epic will be paying the same amount either way

how did you work out that the amount apple gets paid (30%) is the "correct" amount? The only way to find out is via competition. But due to the monopolistic powers of apple, there cannot be competition on their platform. Thus, we do not know the true cost of maintaining this platform - only that apple is able to maintain it with at least 30%.

> Don't take that choice away from me.

nobody is forcing you to use the third party app store if it does exist. If you continued to use apple's curated store, you will continue to get the existing benefits. Adding an extra option can't possibly hurt you.
I created the plugin for myself as I always forget to specify use-site targets for annotations coming from Java libraries. I hope you will find it useful as well.
I'm not excited by the proposition of either party coming out on top. I hope the EU sees the forest for the trees and understands that the situation is a lot more complicated than either party would claim.

Apple is acting as a leader in reducing the footprint of general computing hardware; albeit their devices have among the longest service lives, they continue to be further restricted in their operation over time. There is a danger here with the population switching en masse from using PCs to using Phones as their primary computing devices. Forcing it to allow third party marketplaces might be a start in reversing that trend.

Epic is a leader in the development of anxiety-driven consumer software. Fortnite's primary capital isn't the player's competitive standing, it's the uniqueness of their cosmetic gear. They target the most vulnerable and maleable markets, tweens and children, and ply them with social anxiety; one of the most insidious and emotionally distressing devices for that age group. See also, yesterday's lengthy discussion. [0]

So I kind of hope that the EU allows third party stores, but allows Apple to place curation constraints on the sort of purchases that are available to users.

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26153331
My take-away from this is:

When you sell your startup to Big Tech, your employees have "made it". They won't work so hard. They're set for life. That's the reality. Move on. Especially don't begrudge them their success. Start something new.
This was a long time ago, maybe my wording is off, probably along the lines of stopped contributing data to OSM and changed it's license for the data after a certain point..
I agree, I think this situation fits in nicely with the discussion of how stock compensation doesn’t directly result from the results of your work. Employees who aren’t passionate about or motivated by their jobs seek out compensation in return for retention. And even then, they scale their efforts at work based on their interest. I like the independence of Amazon teams, but the independence is limited when the teams don’t control their own finances.
It makes more sense in a country that already has a social safety net; I've read somewhere (citation needed, I know, I'm not very deep in the subject) that the cost and overhead of assessing and paying the individual cases of unemployment, long term sickness, disability, homelessness etc is more expensive than just giving everyone a basic income.

But yeah, #2 is what I'm afraid of too. Paraphrasing a cartoon villain, if everyone is wealthy, nobody is.

Besides, in the past decade, cost of living / housing / rent has gone up so much that even a $1000 / month basic income can't give you anywhere decent to live anywhere. In addition to basic income, we need basic housing - which is dangerous, because it invokes the USSR's rows of depressing and substandard apartment buildings. But everybody should be able to live comfortably at a standard of living. Everybody should be able to have access to and afford a two bedroom house or apartment on a single income, or the social safety net if they are not employed.
I've worked in union shops as well while not being in the union. Union overtime is highly coveted because it's a 2x-3x bonus that a lot of my union friends used towards a downpayment, kids' college tuition, retiring earlier, or starting a business. No one had to step up because everyone was stepping up. And the shop chief usually decided who got that overtime (i.e. young worker trying to buy a house might get higher priority over a senior.)

Also, shops had extremely good work life balance. You were at the timeclock 4:59 on the dot. No one is asking you to stay late, or be on call uncompensated. Your time was your time from 5pm-8am. By their virtue of being always online, tech companies intrude into that worklife balance and it's not unreasonable to ask for some of it back.
Yeh the whine about hiring and firing was a dead give away - given the low level of employee protection in the USA.

Sounds like the author a senior leader (presumably) hasn't internalised what it is to lead - I recall a tweet from a serving Army officer about what you must never do is get used to the fact you can send out some one for coffee and become entitled.
This. The article author describes a number of symptoms. Viewed through my lens of abstraction, he's arguing about passion for the job/product/team. People who are passionate about what they do are often frustrated when surrounded by those less passionate.

I notice in some of the comments either in support of or against this guy, there's a subtle distinction. Those against say things like "I'd never work for this guy." And those more supportive, say things like "I'd like to work with this guy."

I see in tech often that there are those who want to view it as an idyllic "team play" game. We're all on the court together trying to score goals. And there's another segment that see it in the more traditional factory worker. Clearly defined roles, chains of report, advancement up the pyramid.
Being fired or resigning in disgrace.

If my bad advice cost thousands of lives, I would at least retire from public life.
Sadly, that means that the few women in the tech industry experience even more concentrated abuse.

Furthermore, there are even fewer people up the tech management food chain than in other industries who appreciate the circumstances of sexual abuse victims.
Or Fortnite, for that matter? Why should I be forced to buy skins with Epic’s in-game currency instead of loading my own?
Yes, D does it trivially. I don't think that's terribly unique though, as I understand it Rust and several others can too.
Keeping current on coding, while not attempting to be the best coder in the building, is a key soft skill in terms of participating understanding, and evaluating technical decisions and problems. Empathy comes from placing yourself in the other person's shoes.

This is also true for communicating enterprise-wide considerations to coding teams. They have to trust you not to blindly push senior management priorities. If you know the cost of both capital and tech debt, you are more likely to have represented the coding team and influenced decisions, and be able to communicate decisions effectively.
This looks on topic, but post that are not in English are usually ignored or flagged. At least translate the title here. Something like "Book: Informatics and functional programing [Spanish]"

For blog post I recommend to translate them and post the translated version. For a book, that's probably too much work. (Anyway, the English version of the book may get more buyers.)

Edit: And definitively translate your comments here.
b) White sugar is sourced from sugar cane which is also grown with pesticides. In both cases you have to trust the respective refining processes to clean your food.

I absolutely agree with you that sugar and saturated fat in anything other than moderation is harmful to your health but that, in this case, the source of those things doesn't really matter.
I would love to have something like VR-assisted assembly for household, car or computer repairs. I think IKEA has attempted to design their stuff so that it doesn't require that level of guidance for the most part.
If the European automakers had something to really compete with TSLA / China they would.

Most of the cars being made now are compliance cars. European OEMs can choose between producing these electric cars or pay fines to the EU for CO2 emissions being too high with regards to manufactured cars CO2 output on fleet level.

This is also why FCA is paying TSLA hundreds of millions to have Teslas be counted as part of their fleet in Europe.
(https://www.reuters.com/article/us-fiat-chrysler-tesla-eu-id...).

Also the incentives are quite good in Europe compared to US right now if I am not mistaken.
This is not hyperbole:

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/salvadorhernandez/death....

Folks are dying as a direct result of these infrastructure failures.
>> We have it AMAZINGLY WELL being in tech, and we have luxuries that are unique to tech and bewildering to folks in other fields.

Yep, even other highly paid fields! Can you imagine a surgeon scheduling their surgeries around yoga classes?
Yeah, I think he would say you need very bright light soon after waking, ideally sunlight.
How much exact meaning can you infer from the murals?

Text is using the visual channel to transmit what language can convey, and language can convey generally almost everything we try express (likely more accurately and succinctly than drawings, gestures or other sounds).
The Apple tax pays for outsized profits for Apple shareholders. The actual cost of supporting the ecosystem is dwarfed by the absolute firehose of money coming out of the app store.
The bar is simple: If they allow third party apps at all, they're already providing those APIs, and must allow competitive use of them.
I'm not soliciting for advice, my partner has been seeking medical treatment for allergies for at least 30 years.
Pragmatically, I don't care, because no one who owns a Tesla is using it as their sole access to a computer (similarly with playstation). Many people now only use an iPad or iPhone these days.

In an ideal world I would force them (I probably wouldn't for a Tesla because diy software on a car...) to have some basic ability to load programs.
ain't sure what you mean by acceptable. All of this discussion comes to one question : do you have a choice or not.

You have a choice to run a start up and make any sacrifice you think necessary. You don't have a choice to eat something when you're hungry.

If you don't have a choice, then you're a victim.

(and yes, not everyone has a choice, not everyone just has to work more to get the choice, many people, at some point, don't have a choice; abusing their situation is criminal)
EA apparently hasn’t gotten this memo
This is so neat !
Congratulations and all the best !
> ... very high percentage of HN crowd would immediately say yes

The most powerful world in the dictionary is "no". As an entirely self-made / self-taught person I know the power of that word.

That you consider it a "pretty darn reasonable transaction" tells about your ethics and morality, not about the ethics and morality of a "very high percentage of HN crowd".

Regarding fame/money, here's Ruyard Kipling's take on it:

"Do not pay too much attention to fame, power, or money. Some day you will meet a person who cares for none of these, and then you will know how poor you are."

I'm raising my kid the way my rebellious parents rose me, telling her "no" is the most powerful word and she should use and abuse it and teaching her there's more to life than fame and money... But feel free to raise yours telling them selling their bodies to obtain fame/money is a "pretty damn reasonable transaction".
I forget how long it's been (decade? probably less), but I've been using an alarm app called Sleep Cycle.

The premise is simple but effective -- it senses whether you're in deep or shallow sleep, and rings the alarm within a 30 minute window before your set wake-up time.

First few times I used it, it blew my mind. Effectively, it nudges you awake when you're almost awake anyway. It's so gentle. I'll never go back to a hard-set alarm clock.
> Apple competing with third party app stores on iOS is going to be amazing. No computer platform should be allowed to prevent sideloading or other stores from competing.

The walled garden is a selling point, a feature - I don't care about sideloading at all. You want to sideload? Grab and Android.
I can't shake the feeling that Epic is a puppet, being used as a wedge to hash security on iOS devices. As much as it would be nice to have more control over one's iPhone, the horror of the Android marketplace is enough to give a body more than a little pause.
Epic demands Apple do thing = bad for Apple (good for Epic) no way

Apple demand Facebook do thing = Good for Apple (bad for FB) yes way

So Apple is allowed to get its own way, 100% of the time, no questions asked, what they want is what they get end of (by virtue of holding all the cards and owning the platform they dictate the rules on)

How about no? You can play by your rules in your sandbox, but Epic has a right to demand it's allowed a sandbox in the same park, maybe Apple will be forced to change its business if everyone starts playing in Epic's sandbox and consumers decide Apple's policies are rubbish?

That's the very definition of "competition" something Apple has avoided for over a decade at this point (as far as iOS inter-competition goes)
> Security made in <foo> is always a PR stunt

That's a very big generalization. Citizen's rights vary wildly across countries, both in theory and in practice.
Apple is well compensated for their ecosystem with the price of their phones. Epic wants to create their own store or be allowed to use another payment processor than Apple for in app purchases. Apple would still have plenty of revenue from the app store and hardware.

If epic and others was allowed to use multiple payment processors in the apps, or to install different app stores such as epic games or steam, you wouldn't have fewer choices you would have more.
I can't say I've ever been in a company where the path wasn't either:

Engineer -> Senior -> Principal -> Staff -> Distinguished

OR

Engineer -> Senior? -> Manager -> Senior Manager -> Director

In both scenarios though, they've been a more senior engineer.
Overtime is remembered a lot less than you think. I have family in the trades and they much prefer their union jobs to my programming one.

Yes, I get paid more, but I also work more, in an area where I can’t afford a house.
> On the one hand, Apple is acting as a store curator and demanding that its customers be made aware of tracking software.

Can’t this still be true for the App Store though?
Yes, that's what I'm saying.
> very high percentage of HN crowd would immediately say yes

FWIW, I believe GP was not making any gender distinction..