skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Personal politics has absolutely no place in the workplace unless you’re working in politics. Nothing good can come of it. Leave it to the pub and Hacker News.

My workplace is a wonderful bastion of big-P-Politics-free collaboration. It is an apolitical safe space. My colleagues and I absolutely do have political views, but there is just no reason whatsoever to share them at work.

“Bring your whole self to work” is a flawed goal unless you live to maximise shareholder returns.
There is still an android version: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.blackberry...
I believe that SICP handled these sentiments very early on in the book.
That works both ways, I'm pretty sure the Apple TV only exists to sell entertainment services.
I love techno and I can't wait to read this article, but I had to stop and come back here just to say this site's scrolling behaviour is driving me nuts.

If any designers are reading this, please avoid smooth scrolling.
I'd say that was a draw.
To be fair, anyone looking for oxygen in the current situation would assume it is for Covid. Not saying 88 old grandpa of his cousin did not deserve attention, but the guy got called from cabinet ministry, thrice.
That's interesting if one thinks this through. Is clergy taxable people? And where's the line between profit and non-profit? Is supporting clergy non-profit?
> This all tells you virtually nothing about...

This seems like a somewhat common trend in medical research...or something along the lines of findings being meaningless due to "causal vs correlated" questions. After reading these types of research issues, I always think that there's gotta be a better way to go about it by utilizing wisdom of crowds across industries.

For example, there's a chance electrical battery engineers needed to figure out a way to drain electrons in a special way to increase the life of the batteries. And say for example that same underlying logic is the solution to curing alzheimer's...there's no current way (that I'm aware of) to compare underlying processes that are parts of complex systems. The internal parts can be complex systems themselves, but if we can distill complex systems
down to their core components, separate them into separate "repositories" that include the detailed processes and/or components necessary to make that given repository "work", we could essentially create "templates" of core knowledge....almost like a github for knowledge.

My main point is the individual pieces required to solve these types of complex issues may already be solved...would be cool to create a platform to manage those pieces.
The article like a good case study report tries to understand a subject and analyse it from various perspectives. it tries to answer some key questions
1) What does Accenture do ?
2) Is it really good at it ?
3) Does it know how to make money from its business model ?

and I think the articles cover most of these points.
And as for the Hertz example. So a big company is sued by someone for not doing what they promised ? Is that something surprising ? Is it something that only happens in consulting domain?
The answer to the second and third questions are no.
All the flag bearers of silicon valley have been sued from being in "villan" at some point.
Like a successful business Accenture has nailed it core business model. From technology perspective sure the big picture looks bleak But it's not always dark
"_Tech consulting definitely does have its bright spots. Accenture has smaller divisions like Accenture Interactive that work on pretty cool stuff, like a partnership with Disney on a new innovation lab and a collaboration with Apple on iOS business solutions. And if you’re a new college grad, associate positions can be fast ways to learn engineering on the job and get exposure to large scale systems that you wouldn’t otherwise work with._"

From tech perspective it might seem like a shoddy company but we need to understand that it's not out there to make the best software for your needs it's their to make _a_ software for your needs one that just gets the work done.

The clients which approach Accenture or for that matter any tech consulting company are out there to get their problems solved within a budget.

To get a solution that just works

And I don't believe every project of theirs is shitty.Because if quality was too much compromised then they would lose market value and there is no shortage of competition.

While sales pitch is important for any business to work without successful projects a business cannot survive.They must have had success in the recent past that is why they are getting work.
From a creative software engineers perspective its a Very shitty company because it doesn't care about the tech,
But That's not its core business model ;to make great tech. The core model is to sell tech as a service to non tech companies.
And make non tech companies harness tech for their needs.
tech consulting should be treated as a different domain from technology. And in this domain some are good at it and some are shitty and then there is Accenture , somewhere in the middle.

Ps: I'm not defending Accenture I just don't agree with all conclusions presented in the HN comments.
London isn't exactly a model of urban planning. There is a massive shortage of housing. And you end up with all new developments concentrated in a handful of areas.
MeetAnyway (YC W21) Is Hiring a Full Stack Engineer – React/Django, Remote EMEA
Do you happen to know if the old version of "Ishkur's guide to electronic music" is still available somewhere? IIRC it was a flash site with mostly music bubbles. It opened me up to fringe music genre's like Italo, Acid Jazz and Ghetto Tech.
Well, the original plan was to use Alef.
Light travels more than a 100 miles per millisecond, so as long as the POP is within a few hundred miles you are good.

Tromboning local traffic isn’t much of an issue anyway since very little of your traffic is hyper local. Most of your traffic will be going to CDNs and other ISPs.
This is only true in an environment where nobody from any company travels.

However in a world where one company travels for conferences, lunches, in-person events, then that company will clearly have an advantage over the company that did none of those things.
In Seattle we paid $3.4 billion for a 1.7 mile tunnel (https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/berthas-woes-grind...). Construction began in 2013 and it was supposed to open in 2015 but didn’t until 2019. It replaced a 4 lane elevated highway on the waterfront, which gave all drivers beautiful views, with an underground 4 lane highway that gave waterfront property owners a big boost in value, while relegating everyone else to views of subterranean walls. Somehow our local government saw this project as value for our money.
I see on issue with this analysis, the use of the TV camera picture a the reference datum. However, that camera has likely many more issues than the finish line camera. While it looks like the red advertisement is aligned with the camera from that image I don't think this is necessarily the case. It depends on the height of the camera, the angle and possible distortions.
Everyone except the final payer (the government, indirectly the people) made profits. Same happens if the supplies and munitions were used instead of stolen. Many people profit along the way, and it is the same today.
Yep, it's groundhog day. Wake up, make coffee, sit down at the computer. Everything having anything to do with work happens on that screen. Every day is the same.
Google also excels in turning off qualified hiring targets by acting like douchebags in the interview process. They admitted as much years ago (and two of my coworkers confirmed from personal experience) and said they were going to try to be less douchey, if I recall correctly.

But the culture there is still douchey, as reported by people who DID tolerate the interview process and worked there.
Agree and resonate with my personal observation. I've personally completely and utterly stopped following politics. I do follow local elections and things that affect me and my neighborhood (HOA, municipality decisions, etc.).

What we're seeing is an emergence of anti-political movement that is directly in response to the echo-chambered, uncivilized and nauseating social media that's profited from this rage. Twitter and Facebook along with the entire for-profit media machine is going to be historically marked as the dark footnote of human disgrace, greed and exceptional lack of responsibility.

I predict that the anti-political movement is going to take off and pick up steam in the intellectual circles. We're exhausted and I can feel it.
You don't have to check the schedule for a good transit system because it comes so often it's always there.

Depends very much on where you are going. I live in a European city with pretty good transit so if I'm going to or around the city center, then sure there is a bus every few minutes[1]. However If I'm going to visit my in-laws a few suburbs out, that train leaves once an hour if traveling at off peak times (like Sunday afternoon when I normally go). If I'm going to visit my parents (3.5 hour drive away) that train leave twice a day.

[1] Although with COVID being what it is I haven't been on public transport for over a year and have to admit that driving everywhere is actually quicker and easier in almost every case at the moment.
Very true, as a matter of fact I've done my fair share of powerpoints too.
Bundler Wars
I Prefer Makefiles over Package.json Scripts
on a trackpad I tried to 2 finger pinch to zoom, instead it took one finger as scroll input, zooming impossible
You’ve gone straight to the implication that everyone who doesn’t want to hear politics from the noisy few is racist, despite the article not mentioning specifics. This is exactly the kind of chilling effect it’s about. I.e. “You’re not shouting as loud as us, you must be one of THEM”
Devs as well as sysadmins will appreciate this stuff. I didn’t know about grep performing poorly with utf. A few opinions:

- homegrown dedup scripts feel less reliable than rmlint

- bash compgen will list known commands, it’s neglected because it’s weirdly named

- if you have Python, you could have magic wormhole rather than a script that self-hosts ftp. Opportunistic encryption, doesn’t get firewalled, workalike alternatives exist

- fzf improves file selection and shows a preview. Consider previewing PDFs with fzf, and use it for shell history if you can

- ncdu can cache its results in a file for later. I find this more valuable than the older ‘locate’. It can’t read this cached representation from a file descriptor. An excellent example of where named pipes make something useful
My best:

tan(i*t/999)*(~~(t*24%7)==i%7)

https://doersino.github.io/tixyz/?code=tan%28i*t%2F999%29*%2...

Play with the frame rate ("24") for some interesting effects.

Edit: One more:

https://doersino.github.io/tixyz/?code=sin%28i*t%2F999%29*%2...
> and this is what they came up with

Programmers and insufficient specifications, name a more iconic duo?
That "bug" has become sort of a feature – the author of tixy.land added support for it a while ago [1], which I also merged into tixyz.

[1]: https://twitter.com/aemkei/status/1325918933375987712
This is exactly the problem. "I do not agree with what you say but I will defend to the death your right to say it" has been replaced with "freedom of speech doesn't mean freedom from consequences". The latter is, of course, utter nonsense. Repercussions or retaliation for expressing wrongthink is the literal definition of a place that does not have freedom of speech.
I really was surprised that he used µemacs. More than twenty years ago it was my favorite editor, too, and when I read that he still uses it, for one second or so I considered returning to µemacs but snapped out of the reverie very soon after.
Happy to see that New Beat got a shoutout. IMO one of the more under rated electronic genres. If you're interested, I can recommend the documentary "The Sound of Belgium" (2012).
Too much work, IMO.
Just give them both Gold medals.
Murchison Meteorite
I've lived in Japan for many years and its essentially a western nation with a stronger social conformity / shame culture. The sheer volume of Japan praise on HN is confusing to say the least.
Just out of curiosity: What do you mean by New Wave in this context? When I hear new wave I think of acts such as Adam and the Ants and Duran Duran. But are they related to techno?
Wouldn't it be a bit unfair for the competitors? They wouldn't have any way of knowing where the actual finish line would stand.

Perhaps they could include some margin of error; if the photo is in that margin, the result would be a tie?
Initially the theory was that a hiring people with more diverse backgrounds (the means) would translate into more diverse viewpoints (the goal).

Somewhere someone mistook the means for the goal, and never bothered to check if the initial theory even held up.

To make matters worse they also institutionalised racism and sexism in encoded it into the ideology.

It’s unscientific and racist, but the people complaining about online disinformation and fake news will be the first people to spread this drivel in the corporate sphere.
If I hadn't forgotten where I put my physics hat, maybe we could figure out what sort of acceleration would be needed to get the bottom bike ahead of the top bike, assuming the top bike was traveling at constant velocity.

If the front hubs were easier to distinguish, I'd have liked to compare those, but it didn't seem clear like the tires.
> Why spend so much on finishings if it’s just gonna be redone. That’s part of the 70 million.

Sales.

> Feels like rentseeking and waste to me

It’s wasteful. But it’s not rent seeking [1]. If it makes you feel better, there is a healthy secondary market in New York for these materials.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent-seeking
Well, in "Fortran has one. But not C", "not C" can be interpreted as "The number of these for C is different from 1". ;)
Checkout the new cheaper bariany Cosmic Crisp.

Still a bit hard to find it seems but cheaper because less susceptible to rot issues i believe.
Its easy to miss but descriptions of the different genres are the true mvp. Some of the saltiest things I have read, true hilarity.

E.g `Eurotrance`:

> "The rank repugnance of the self-fellating culture of DJ worship is at the forefront of this many-headed hydra of rapacious rot. Overbearing anthems, boring breakdowns, and tasteless DJ vanity have combined into one monstrous, obnoxious, pompous, unlistenable Babylonian nega-demon. Who is to blame for unleashing such a hideous beast of seething filth upon our ears?"
Multiple sclerosis? More like multiple prognosis am I right!?..

Sorry about your condition
I think this is missing the thrust of the issue which is that is, for some groups, certain kinds of politics invariably involve work and are a moral imperative.

If this were about issues likee 'big vs. small government' then it wouldn't be a problem.

But it's about political issues like 'diversity in the workplace' and 'Corporate support for Social Justice' (such as BLM) - as the big Elephant in the Room subject.

So things like 'Thanksgiving is Covert White Supremacy' as part of your job training [1] and 'we must achieve certain diversity targets or we are racist'.

That kind of stuff.

There's a group (part of the 13%) that thinks unless you're on board all of that, you're a problem, basically it's a moral imperative and anything else is racism. There's other groups that believe in some of those things, but are open minded with respect to other's views. And of course a wide array of other opinions.

I really don't believe that most other political subjects are entirely so sensitive. 'Privatization of Amtrack' or whatever is simply not going to engender in/out groups.

Abortion, Gun Rights are probably trigger issues for some, but they are really easy to just avoid at the office.

[1] https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/only-white-people-can-b...
It’s fixed at the original assessment the last time it was sold, I think. It also applies to businesses, with the result that the car dealership next to me pays less taxes than a new condo. Inheritance does not reset it, meaning the state is effectively living under feudalism.

There was an attempt to fix this for businesses just last year, but it failed because homeowners were convinced it was a plot to get them.
As a child I was taught that sport should be "sportsmanlike". Perhaps in a situation like this, the real solution should be "I say, it's a draw, well done chaps, you have both proved to be at the top of your field! How remarkable that the result is so close that our best technology cannot even distinguish between the two of you. Well done everyone, what a great race, now let's all go to the pub and celebrate."
I think the parent comment's argument is that expensive apartments exist _and_ the vast majority of them are not used for living, but rather a place for the uber rich to park their money.

From the article
> “But these apartments are turnkey—the kind of person they’re trying to appeal to would never live there.”
What makes you think you won’t find people with shared interests in Thailand? It has a large tech scene.
To be fair just a few weeks back there was an article on the front page about clothes dyeing techniques of the middle ages.

Everyone seemed pretty interested and curious about European middle age colourful clothing techniques and dye materials from plants etc. It all goes back to the HN guidelines 'the primary use of the site should be for curiosity'.

edit: The submission I mentioned above
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26690182
The author of tixy.land didn't seem to take issue with my "clone" (or the many others) – quite the opposite: https://twitter.com/aemkei/status/1325525563579244548

I don't think "deceptively" is the best word here – there's no money or private data involved, at most a small bit of street cred. The near-identical look was intended to preserve the simplicity of the original. Note that there's a reference to tixy.land in my comment here, in the README.md on GitHub, and in the tweet that's behind the "more info here" link. Anyone looking to do more than just idly play around with this tool will come across one of them.

But I get your point – I'll be adding an unobtrusive link back directly to tixy.land soon!

EDIT: Done.
I do wish notifications were stored for all of time, searchable, and viewable from any device.
Looks interesting! I’ve been looking at setting up gVisor to enable running users’ code. How does/will Kwarantine compare to gVisor?
> despite that fact he was left more alone than any man in history, locked about the dark side of the moon, wondering if he was going home alone

He actually didn't mind being on the dark side of the moon.

"'I was not lonely,' Collins said at an Explorer's Club event in New York City earlier this year, 'I had a happy little home in the command module. Behind the moon it was very peaceful — no one in Mission Control is yakkin' at me and wanting me to do this, that, and the other. So I was very happy, it was a happy home.'" [0]

https://www.space.com/michael-collins-remembers-apollo-11-mo...
Well the difference is that the text is not illegal in those contexts. False advertising is. Fraud is. Threatening people is. But just simply having a leaflet with false advert printed on it isn't. It's not a crime to have it. With CP just possession is illegal, but I really don't believe that a written book would be illegal in itself? I can't find any examples of someone being sentenced for writing a book, outside of regimes where the book was critiquing the party etc.....
> Improvised diagrams, design docs and ui mockups.

Are those supposed to be thrown out after first or second release?

> The aim was to just about generate the whole program code using charts

That wasn't the aim of UML.

Any model (including UML) serves two main purposes: to create system design and to document that design.
From the article:

> We asked whether it is “fair or unfair for people who say grossly offensive things to be at risk of losing their livelihoods?” Nationally, 48 percent believe it is “fair,” but this figure rises to 65 percent for social democrat-aligned Labour voters, compared with 39 percent for right-leaning Conservative voters.

Meaning right leaning are more likely to live and let live.
how are they forcing anyone?
I am disappointed that as always politicians blocked the collaborations between scientists - it would have been nice to at least in space to have less nationalism and politics. Hopefully the 3rd world war prediction in Trek is not needed before we can get over this.
That's a wrong assumption. Think of theories as frameworks of explanations that can be tested on evidence to confirm or falsify them, if they are scientific.
Me too :) I'm not Danish but that movie holds a strange fascination for me.
Is this a type of grafting or using another biological mechanism?

Grafting is particularly famous among cactus growers as you can graft cactusses in pretty much any conceivable combination.
Also, a lot of what passes for games on mobile phones are little more than addictions that strip you off your money.

The consoles would never allow them and even if they did, people don’t mindlessly get addicted to crap when playing on a console like they do on their phones.
I wish more people would understand this. Even if your neighbor has a bigger private jet than you there's no need to escalate.
1. Mark them all as spam. I never accept newsletters so I will consider every newsletter email as spam. They don't last much in my inbox.

2. Try inbox zero and just archive emails aggressively directly from your phone’s notification without even opening email.

My inbox currently has 10 emails that one day I'll get to and the rest of spam and transactional email is just gone from view within the hour or day.

I wish I could have an "important" and a "transactional" email view, but that's not going to happen without a lot of work, so email search still sucks.
I opened your page, saw the thing and the first question was if it's from the same guy or not. There's no answer and there should be. tixy.land is an ingenious, one of a kind construct. You piggy-back on it, it's only fair, polite and respectful to give a credit. Basic manners, really. A simple line at the bottom of the page saying "inspired by tixy.land" would do the trick. The fact that you instead chose to argue that it's not needed is really quite bizarre.

Edit: excellent, thanks for listening.
We might've been talking past each other when you said

> Sadly for some their only purpose at work is to cause division

Your implication is that disruption is taking place over issues of workers' rights or anti-imperialism. It isn't for the most part. Those matters pit the company against its workers.

The brand of hostility covered in the article is worker-on-worker, and often occurs with the implicit blessing of the company itself.

My only intent was to draw a distinction, since the latter situation was disingenuously dubbed "progressive activism."
Edge Cases in App and Back End Development. Part 4 – Dates and Time
I guess they peaked in 447 BC.
Did they change it? Scrolls normally in latest Chrome on Win 10?
I mean, don't open the messages in the spam folder?
With how we are progressing with medicine and building up 3rd world countries the world population will grow a lot more still.
Doesn't the difficulty here become the limitations of the sensor? And perhaps lens distortion?
most brilliant thing I've seen this week. I want to see feedback like this as the top comments of every "Show HN" :D