skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That may be true (ok, it is definitely true) but we have to start somewhere. I know a lot of people my age who grew up (like me!) in a house with guns and hunting that do not hunt or own guns. I don't even have anything against responsible gun owning and hunting. I am talking about getting people to understand that going beyond this (carrying a sidearm around all the time, keeping them in your car, thinking you can be Clint Eastwood when you get mugged, etc) all lead to people dying on purpose or accidentally at far higher rates than if we just didn't do this stuff. Gun OWNERSHIP is not the problem. Tons of households in countries all over the world have guns in them. You simply don't see the same level of gun death as in the US. It is because of their culture (e.g. compulsory military service - I'm not a fan but you will learn how to responsibly own and house a firearm and when you could reasonably expect it to be a useful tool vs something that will go off and kill your kid or be stolen and used in a crime later).

Rant over, sorry, I get emotional when I think about this having been mugged at gun point with a pistol that was undoubtedly stolen from a car glove compartment or something during a routine car break in (assumptions, but you know what I mean). I survived the encounter because I didn't try to fumble in my bag for some gun I barely know how to use (in fact the first thing they did was grab my bag and frisk every inch of me). It was a crew, they were all business, and they got me. I walked away with my house keys and my empty wallet (note, they did NOT steal my ID).

So yeah, that sort of thing has happened to me and I still, somehow, don't have fantasies about shooting a bunch of teenagers. Call me crazy.
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My thinking has always been that great a manager should be able to go “one step down” and still do a competent but necessarily great job at any role that reports directly to them.

The CEO certainly shouldn’t be expected to have the skills of every expert across the entire organization. But if they were to be the executive in charge of Marketing/Sales/Engineering/whatever they’d ideally do a passable job. Now that is kinda unreasonable at the very top (CFOs and CLOs are very specialized roles) but from the VP level down it works out quite often.
Used to be just me. But two amazing people assisting me now (one of them full-time); immediately took this decision upon recognizing the significant community interest from Reddit, et al.

The trackpad is one of my favorite recent Blocks. It's a great instance of circuit scalability. I use standard projected-capacitive-touch with a sensing IC that reads a rectangular grid of electrodes -- but they are all printed on the PCB, thus adding no significant cost whether small or big, sparse or dense.

The difficult part was two things:

- optimizing SNR (signal-to-noise ratio) at the sensing stage of the code

- and converting the input data to actual action-coordinates (relative) that are submitted as emulated-input to the OS.

Software filtering helped with the former. For the latter, I started with and customized an algorithm documented in an a manufacturer's application-note document (I think it was Microchip or Azoteq).
I wished there's an indication of how much this costs. Because this seems like the target market may also be startup teams who can't afford 1000s per month (ie. enterprise) but whose APIs are getting hammered.
Not sure about that. Also I believe there are alternative to micromanagement for a similar purpose[1].

1. https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/08/10/the-identity-manag...
I couldnt agree more. A previous boss held a company wide meeting and everyone laid out their yearly goals. When he got to his it was something like establish channel partnerships. Very wishy washy and difficult to measure. I knew almost at that moment that I wasnt going to be at the company at the end of that year. He had decided his job was now to manage rather than do the job the rest of us were doing.

At a certain point that may be effective but we were not at that point.
Is worst nightmare the new normal? Various levels of management often handwave away a task because they understand its function at a high level. True quality management requires a deeper understanding of what it is you're managing.

I understand the function of creating, launching, and orbiting a satellite geosynchronously to do GPS so it's easy, right? Yea, not so much.

I'm a firm believer that you need to understand everything at least one layer deeper than high level functional descriptions so you can start to reason about the difficulty or amount of skill needed to accomplish something. You understand the real problems (even if only at the surface) and know where opportunity lies. With a pure functional perspective many current managers have, you simply can't reasonably manage and plan and are instead a glorified resource scheduler with whims.
That’s why I “liked” the pandemic. Because for fucking once the a situation came up that politicians couldn’t manipulate and lie about to make it go away. No matter what the politicians wanted, it still came. No matter what they told us would happen, reality happened instead.
It also affected PSU availability, and auto chip availability.
Agree. But this is true only for a very few of the tech companies out there.
The US is a wealthy country that is directly producing an awful lot of vaccines, we'd likely be vaccinating a lot more people with Moderna than any other country even if there were not national control of the distribution.

In the medium term, vaccinating US people first and fast is a great way to sell them on building lots of production capacity.
Agreed. If not, you could just as well have said "If a colleague can do your job, you're not needed."

It's actually an interesting point that. Oversimplified a bit, I feel there are two different ways that people measure their worth in the workplace. There is "no one else can do what I do" and then there's "I make sure that everything I do can be done by someone else".

Personally I much prefer the latter.
Age old question: What's a feature and what's a company? Many software questions start as "features" that an incumbent could have built. The question is whether they break out before the incumbent realizes the value.

https://9to5mac.com/2018/01/11/dropbox-ipo/
Are you suggesting that fusion is a close-to-viable technology which has been held back because it hasn't had enough research resources spent on it?
Using mental illness as an insult isn't very compassionate.
What negative language? You seem to be attributing your own negative connotations to a word that is being used descriptively—not disparagingly. And the shun page explains that you should not be removing content willy nilly but only as a last resort to, for example, remove sensitive information from the blockchain. The Fossil authors are perpetually behoving users not to use shun unless it's absolutely necessary, but provide the feature as a necessity in case someone foolishly commits sensitive information that could land them in legal trouble.
Would it make you feel better if there was a note on the page that said "NOTE: By using this command you will be lying about the history of the repository and should document the removal explaining why the artifact was excised from history." Submit a patch. Improve it.
> but the challenges of needing to store such vast amounts of energy seems like an almost impossible task

Only if you don't look at all available solutions:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power-to-gas
"P2G is often considered the most promising technology for seasonal renewable energy storage"

I dunno why this is such an unknown technique, natural gas storage is a very old and proven technology. Yet it is ommitted from almost any discussion about the subject...
I struggle to see why you'd ever want UTF-16. If you're using a variable length encoding, might as well stick to UTF-8. If you want predictable sizes, there's UTF-32 instead.

~Also, DOM Strings are not UTF-16, they're UCS-16.~

EDIT: UCS-2, not UCS-16. Also, I'm confusing the DOM with EcmaScript, and even that hasn't been true in a while.
emojis aren't "professional" is your reasoning?

is it 1987? should women also wear their skirts below the knee?
> However, in the past, companies like H&M (and Primark, Nike, and others) have, for decades, routinely been name-checked as some of the worst offenders when it comes to worker rights abuses. The Clean Clothes Campaign found that, during the pandemic, many fashion names like H&M continued to violate working contacts by failing to pay wages.

H&M doesn't have a great track record when it comes to paying workers [0], so I don't think this article should convince anyone that H&M is a brand to be buying from.

[0] https://cleanclothes.org/news/2020/global-campaign-confronts...
> The first is useful for basic string operations.

Reversing a string is what I would consider basic string operations, but I also expect it not to break emoji and other grapheme clusters.

Nothing is easy.
> My take: if your boss can do your job, you're not needed.

If he has time to do your job. My boss can code, and very well. But he doesn't have time to do so.
hcreate_r() can be used on some of the BSDs as well, but of course they're not 100% compatible with GNU. I've implemented a platform-independent POSIX hsearch as a wrapper to a templated hashtable in Pottery:

https://github.com/ludocode/pottery/tree/master/examples/pot...

Be warned, hsearch is terrible. You should probably only use this if you have some existing code that depends on hsearch and you want to make it portable.
Indeed, to the second point, the system falls apart because neither the worker nor the manager believes the promises, and so goal-setting becomes a pro forma exercise on both parts.

For this reason, ultimately, the only way to make this work is to visibly deliver on the growth at a level consistent with messaging.
Gotcha. Unfortunately, I thought I manually added that, but either Evolution didn't understand it or my mailing service didn't like it (which is what I was afraid of and why I CC'ed as well).
I wonder if this will have an effect on the mouse plague that Australia is currently going through.
If the primary cost is the machines you are correct. If the primary cost is energy, then low energy prices and extra machines makes sense.

Office work will ignore energy prices in general. Jet fuel manufacturing will if at all possible shut down when energy prices are high. If it isn't possible they will do some form of energy storage to cover high energy prices times.
There was a dead comment from another HN person that was actually quite helpful here. Not sure why it was dead, so here's a copy/paste:

"It was fixed in this update for Windows 3.1, which switched away from floating point: https://jeffpar.github.io/kbarchive/kb/124/Q124345/"
Neat. Responses, in no particular order.

Yay for co-ops, WDSEs, not-for-profits. Is that what this is? I expect stuff like charter, bylaws, list of board members, budget, etc. (Vs post-capitalist agitprop.) Here's Richard Wolff's popular treatment of this trend: https://www.democracyatwork.info For more context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workers%27_self-management

Efforts like this validate the observations that ride hailing has no moat.

Eventually, we'll have white labeled ride hailing hosting companies. So you're a specialty transport group in Cincinnati, eg for elderly and wheelchair bound customers. You get your own branded and slightly customized version for your niche. The hosting companies do all the tech.
Nissan were looking into V2H for years but not sure what happened with it.

I was registered for a pilot at one point with a third party but never got invited to participate and have since forgotten who the company is.

EDIT: Looks like these can now be purchased and imported from China by end users: https://www.setec-power.com/product/vehicle-to-home-v2h-6kw/
A teaching tool is deliberately simplified so as not to overwhelm students with details they don't need to worry about yet. This is absolutely the right way to go about it.
Yeah it's very much a niche but it's possible to buy chargers that integrate with Octopus Agile and do exactly that in the UK. Alternatively some of us are doing it with automations in apps like Home Assistant.
I don't think this should be on HN as it's really not tech-related and will most likely lead to heated political discussion.
>Are you really going to recommend growing the table by duplicating it?

Setting a reasonable initial size then doubling it and copying when (if!) it needs to grow is a pragmatic, reasonable approach that’s quite common!
>He's not astronomically wealthy, compared to eg people who choose to work in a FAANG.

I think you underestimate the income the person who wrote this has. Haven't checked his stats recently, but it's close to $150K per month with very little overhead and high margins. But I agree with your point, being able to be unreachable is a luxury most people don't have.
flyingsaucer [1] is also an option. [1] https://github.com/flyingsaucerproject/flyingsaucer
Please change the posting title to match the article title and disambiguate between APT (Advanced Persistent Threats, the article subject) and Apt (the package manager).
My experience is that monoliths tend to decay over time unless some serious discipline is enforced. It's possible to reference across boundaries, so that happens sooner or later.

By going down a microservice route, those boundaries are ruthlessly enforce because it's the only way. That trade off may or may not be worth it.
Neat. How did you know that?

(The term, not the quoted Wikipedia text.)
Raised $20b in funding to go public at $9b.

https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/wework/investor_fina...
>I think you are overestimating the inconvenience of paying at or near the destination. Most passengers will have smart phones with them, most of which support NFC payments.

And I think you're falling into the same trap of believing other economic actors will happily agree to your proposed "solutions".

Disadvantages of NFC payments:

1) economic friction which lowers supply of drivers: drivers have to buy $50 NFC terminal from Square. $50 is not a lot of but it's extra financial friction which deters potential drivers

2) trust issues which lowers supply of paying customers: NFC payments puts the payment amount in control of the driver which makes potential customers fear getting scammed. In the Uber/Lyft model, this doesn't happen which is a significant psychological advantage because drivers are notorious for playing games with payment (especially with foreigners and travelers). By letting the "service in the cloud" pay the drivers on behalf of the passengers, it adds accountability.

I'm not claiming it's impossible to create a car-on-demand service that uses NFC and/or credit-card swipes. I'm saying it would be a disadvantage to other platforms that work more conveniently. This means less paying customers which leads to less capital to continuously improve the software -- which could then lead to more customers abandoning the co-op rideshare app for the more polished Uber/Lyft apps.

Again, see the failed non-profit RideAustin losing riders as somewhat analogous case study. And see the other comment about the apparent low quality of this thread's app (Drivers.coop): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26592354

The co-op needs capital to improve the app software and you need a virtuous cycle of paying customers that don't avoid (or abandon) the platform to provide that ongoing capital.

>co-op would not have to make riders create accounts and associate payment information with them. That removes some complexity for the user,

This wouldn't be an advantage for commuters that use Uber/Lyft daily.
I was trying to make an independent point with that "coincidentally ...", sorry if that was a bit unclear. In this case, the takeaway would be "we still don't know how to make secure browsers even though we're trying our darndest." But also, that exploit chain is limited to a single machine; there's still some opportunity to limit damages on a larger scale.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0477080/

That's a problem. Perhaps cars shouldn't be driving around empty?
Surprisingly many people try to abuse Unicode when posting submissions and comments. This includes not just emojis, but also other symbols, or glyphs that look like bold, underlined or otherwise stylized letters.
I was dumb enough to check, and there's plenty of conspiracy theories around this, the more common ones apparently being about this leading to "The Great Reset".

None seem to deny the fact that the ship is stuck though; they just claim it was done deliberately.

I must say, it is nice to have something that even the conspiracy nuts agree on. :D
Well, I have been trying to find zero-drop trail shoes for almost a year now. The shops just don't have my size anymore. Shop owners tell me the logistic chain has been pretty impacted indeed.

Nothing vital of course, still.
Doea it show the fragility? To whom? And do you feel it in your daily life?

I feel the 'toilet paper shortage'- period of the pandemic provided a much more visceral idea of how fragile it all is. This ship we won't feel in our daily lives anytime soon.
" the process being divided into intervals of four, with the embalmers actively working on the mummy every four days.
A ritual procession of the mummy marked these days, celebrating the progress of restoring the deceased’s corporeal integrity, amounting to 17 processions over the course of the embalming period."

I wonder if there's any correlation here to the life cycle of Cicadas, which are a common symbol of rebirth[1], and undergo changes in life cycle at the 4 year mark culminating with emerging at the 17 year mark,[2] if they emerged separately for similar reasons or if it's just coincidence.

[1]https://www.journal-news.net/life/home-and-garden/cicadas-sy...

[2]https://www.jstor.org/stable/2425898?origin=crossref&seq=1
Cheating in Software Design using the Konami code
I mean the substack author is far from someone who ejects nuance into any topic, they have a very clear right-wing bias (some of which I'd clearly note as actually extremist) by looking at their other articles. Some if I named or posted here I'd clearly be banned.

Not sure why you think this flimsy evidence holds when the author's actual intent is "nationalism is good actually." Vaccine distribution/contracting is significantly more complicated that this binary analysis.
I am pretty sure this has already been proven wrong. Please give credit where credit is due. If it weren't for operation Warp Speed [1] and the millions of doses bought under the Trump administration, Biden wouldn't have anything to take the credit for [2]. CNN neglected to credit the Trump administration for this. Yes, his (Trump's) handling of the crisis was awful but it doesn't help to lie.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Warp_Speed
[2] https://nypost.com/2020/12/16/biden-should-credit-trump-on-c...

Edit: Clarity
Most people have too much depend that is fixed for spot prices to make sense. If you have two meters putting one on spot might make sense - but that only works if there is something is stopping you from changing what meter is active.
has a plan they think

Thanks for the upvote, but it seems like I didn't misstate anything. They have a plan that they think has the potential to lower greenhouse gasses 40-80%. I'm pulling those numbers directly from the article as more or less a direct quote. How can I be overstating their own literal words?

On cement being a large carbon emitter / greenhouse gas producer for the forseeable future, I think we both agree. But they have a plan!
Norway keeps AstraZeneca vaccine on hold for another three weeks
In the US we also have right-of-ways granted to utilities, and while they usually work with you to avoid damage to structures and landscape, they don't have to. There may also be separate mineral rights (if I find gold ore on my property it doesn't belong to me) and water rights (I cannot legally collect the runoff from my roof in a barrel).
It’s the first large brand I’ve heard standing up to the abuses of the CCP like this though. Not gonna shop there forever, but I want to show support for this rare and commendable action.

If you have some other large brands that are similarly taking a big financial hit to stand up to what’s going on in Xinjiang, I’ll patronize them instead.
Personally I'd consider reversing a string to be a pretty niche use case and, as you say, it's a complex operation. Especially in some languages.

Tbh I can't think of a time when I've actually needed to do that.
This is seriously the top upvoted post on a QAnon board:
https://i.imgur.com/1fLBI66.png
I don't know if a single button to join your Zoom meeting is enough value to justify an entire company, but there's a niche to be filled in smoothing over those inefficient parts of your remote workflow.
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I think that’s what I was thinking of. I guess they’ve got some vector outlines now
sounds like you have a good manager. you should take a moment and feel happy about that :)
> The same security flaw that lets “baddies” pwn us,

You're an American; that makes you the baddies. Whether it's Syria, Libya, Yemen, Iraq, Afghanistan ... Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam..., American troops have run roughshod over the rest of the world for generations.

America is not in charge of the world. It would be a better world if Americans remembered this.

> also lets people conspire in secret to overthrow governments

About that:

http://content.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,19960715,00.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_Chilean_coup_d%27%C3%A9ta...
brilliant. thank you {{ U+1F64F }}
Yes; see also the vellvm project, which develops proofs of a number of the equivalences LLVM uses: https://www.cis.upenn.edu/~stevez/vellvm/
Even a tiny sailing boat has a crew. And indeed a captain.
Hard disagree here. Let's assume that we know for sure that the person escaping prison was tried and convicted in court even though that might not actually be the case.

The crime they're now committing is escaping jail/prison which is something they haven't had their day in court for yet. But fine, let's assume that in the terms & conditions for escaping jail/prison include a default presumption of guilt and you don't need a second hearing.

Is the punishment for escaping jail/prison death or injury? Nope!
On the other hand, I relate to the boat.

I was just trying to do regular stuff, and then some external nonsense caused me to get stuck. I am stuck in my house rather than the suez canal, and despite the best efforts of many capable people it's taking a long time to get unstuck.

I am the boat.

We are all the boat.
Cycling car batteries is expensive. The cost of wearing out the battery is probably not going to exceed the value you get from drawing on it most of the time.

That said, if you leave a car plugged in overnight and it charges fastest when the wind is blowing and slowest when prices drift up that will have a similar effect - for free.
Before Multics...not UNIX ;)
People keep making similar assumptions about my country based on an average population density when over half our population lives in 4 main cities, with a density approaching LA's.

FFS, we don't all live in isolated homesteads and frolic with sheep.
They'll focus on the local customers. I don't know what percentage that is in a touristy city like NY, but surely it's more than half.

In my (non-touristy) city, this isn't important. The overwhelming majority of Uber users are locals. Ignoring out of towners will work just fine.