skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was the biggest advocate for WFH in the last year but recently I feel pretty down. Life feels so repetitive. Part of it is possibly lockdown, but a bigger part I think is that I have way more free time to think about things. All the shitty things about open office and commuting seemed to serve as a distraction that kept me more occupied. It's weird. I'm not saying WFH is bad, but there are definitely some effects that I hadn't anticipated.
> How did Germany get the efficiency stereotype and Japan didn’t?

Everything in Japan still mostly relies on widespread use of fax machines due to their stubborn continued usage of personal wooden seals ("Hanko stamps"). Everyone at every level of management and burocracy has his/her own personal seal which has to be stamped on paper documents, which are then either scanned or sent via fax.

This and a general stubborness on giving up certain deeply rooted but antiquated habits is one of the main reasons Japan is not famous for efficiency.
It's all the news shows anymore. They could cover many other things, maybe throw in a few positive stories, but cable news and largely the whole industry is just one growing dark cloud.
You're living in a dream world if you think $600K household is the norm in Silicon valley, even for FAANG employees. We are talking about a small percentage of employees (1. those with FAANG spouses) out of a small percentage of employees (2. top leveled, say Google L6+) out of a small percentage of employees (3. engineers) out of a small percentage of companies (4. FAANG). The rest of us, who are not 1 AND 2 AND 3 AND 4, schlep away at normal compensations and there's no way we're buying $2M homes.
Remember the good old days when “works with SMS” was a design constraint?
Isn't this what Blloc Ratio is trying to acheive? (not affiliated) https://www.blloc.com/
How to Build Trust in Algorithms
The interdisciplinary proposal of explaining their decisions has galvanized philosophers, technologists, and policymakers alike.
If he was incapacitated slowly, he might have time to don a spacesuit, anticipating this scenario? NASA must know.

I've been in a number of situations myself where swift incapacitation would have killed me. This is common.
I can't say that I'm surprised.

It seems to me that the attraction isn't just winnowing out travel or office expenses but just imagine the chance to instrument employees if 100% of their work runs through your pipe. There's opportunities for fine tuning, detection of dead wood, identification of jobs that could be automated. The surveillance workplace might suck but it's good for profits.

On a related note, I have to wonder how many companies might realize the lack of value of tradeshows.
Salucity – Your health professionals near to you
Edit: I copied the wrong number for current deaths for France. Should be 104k, not 3M.
> Ah OK, this is the part that I feel is maybe always left out of the things I've read on futex(). I guess this is just always implied then that some library implements these semantics correctly? And that library is generally going to glibc?

Yup. For example, the pthread_foo functions are futexes under the hood.
I am with you. I had voicemail, SMS, "gchat" and email in one place. It was perfect. They pushed so hard for Orkut and especially Google+ when they had this magical combination that they never even marketed, you'd have to have stubmled on the configuration by accident. The entire time I was enjoying it I would explain it to the surprise of others.

It was also really nice when there was an iOS app named Talkatone that combined Google Voice calls, SMS, and voicemail into one. Circa 2012 that stopped working and Google rolled out separate Hangouts and Google Voice apps and nothing has been as good since.

In the meantime I became sickened by Google's ethics and behavior and have migrated all of those services to a combination of Fastmail and Anveo.
That's why some clients won't load images by default, only by request
I've had terrible terrible experiences with Apple Music, and there are far better options out there.

But the alternative for Maps is Google, and the last thing I want to do is give them a bead on my current location and all the places I want to go and explore. With Google's ownership of so much information, I think anybody avoiding Google Maps is very well justified.
Well, you do not have to allow images.

I pretty much don't.

Now and then I may allow one, depending.
> Senior eng makes $400k+ TC.

This is not true. Maybe people are confusing principal with senior?

That or you're counting multi-year stock grants in the current year.
In terms of marginal cost, there is essentially zero. The charge for this service bears no relationship to the cost to deliver it. That's why the app store is so enormously profitable, and it serves as de facto (to me) evidence of market power.
I’ll call your comment an example of “intertemporal whataboutism.”
He was aged 90 years old.
> I’m not convinced that bringing in European managers will solve the distances between cities,

Except that the US isn't all that less dense than Europe. There's a great belt of land that approximately no one lives in, between the west coast and the Mississippi River. High-speed rail will never be cost-effective connecting anything across that region, and no one is seriously proposing such a thing. Take it out, and concentrate on the rest of the country, in regions where there are cities close each other and the numbers make more sense.

The Midwest, for example. Chicago-Minneapolis is 350 mi, Chicago-Cleveland 300 mi, and Chicago-St Louis and Chicago-Detroit each 250 mi. Paris-Lyon is 250 mi, Paris-Bordeaux 300 mi, and Paris-Marseille 400mi. As for population, all of these cities are larger than their French counterparts (the smallest, Cleveland is only a ~2m MSA, whereas the largest non-Paris French city is about a ~2.3m MSA). If HSR is tenable in France, then why would the distances in the Midwest make it untenable?
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Yes, inside gmail if you wanted that. Alternatively, inside hangouts in a browser. The Hangouts app on Android was also a possibility. All synced, all showing the same chats/SMS side-by-side.

I had some very minor flakiness with receiving certain SMSs with Fi/Hangouts, and various anecdotes on the internet suggested not using it for SMSs as a solution. For me, that didn't make a difference, but it's like they've given up on whatever complexities there are around unifying, and going back to two lowest-common-denominator siloed applications.

Another part of it is probably that Hangouts / google chat is a channel (network) that they completely own, whereas SMS is a generic, third party protocol, and history tells us that XMPP, MSN/Yahoo Messenger integration, Facebook RSS feeds etc can't last because each company wants to be the sole owner of a walled garden, and not a slice of a larger pie.
A big part of the problem is that terms like 'racist' are often used as synonyms for 'people who don't share my viewpoint'. As long as that level of hyperbole is present, you can't have meaningful conversations on this stuff.
Isn't the reason this can't/doesn't exist because everyone wants you in their own walled garden?
Their website does scrolljacking that doesn't work on my browser. An idea is all appearances and no competence if they do that.
> But I haven't really seen prices going up. [...] And my coworker has not been getting the same news stories about hard drive prices.

because 1EB is a minuscule amount of the hard drive capacity, compared to the total amount produced per year. According to seagate's blogpost[1], they ship at least 500 EB per year. If you add in capacity from WD/toshiba, it's probably closer to 1000EB if not more. That would make chia's consumption 0.1% of produced hard drive capacity.

[1] https://blog.seagate.com/enterprises/seagate-has-shipped-thr...
Signal on paired devices works really poorly if you are a heavy Signal user (eg: 5+ daily active groups that are media heavy, over 5GB database size).

The Signal servers rate limit you severely, causing it to take tens of minutes (or sometimes half an hour) to catch up to where your friends are at. Brief losses of connectivity are near-unrecoverable without closing the app on either my laptop or Pinebook, and worst yet the read/unread status of reactions to your messages is not synced across to your phone.

Signal also just killed custom emojis for reactions to messages, by refusing to display them. Now my message history shows I have reactions on a message I sent, but I can't even see the darn reaction.

Large rooms (50+ members) in Signal will get your client rate limited quickly, preventing you from interacting with anyone on Signal in a timely fashion.

Element/Matrix comparatively just works across my laptops, desktop, tablet (somewhere Signal refuses to work) and phone. It uses a nearly identical tech stack for the client (Electron with SQLite) but it never seems to need to sync messages from the server, lag behind, fail to connect to the server or fail to send messages. This is with me being in a ton of active rooms on Mozilla's Matrix, bridged rooms with IRC and Discord, and my friends shitposting at incredible rates.

The chat ecosystem is moving, Signal seems to have veered off course :C
There’s a launcher called T-UI I used to use when I had an android. One of the features it allowed was this. It would display a log of all your notification on your Home Screen and you could just click it and go straight into the conversation as if you’d clicked the actual notification. And u could always scroll up and view older notifications because they weren’t dismissed.
The Oral History of the Dinosaur Input Device
We'll see more companies go the way of Coinbase and Basecamp. Companies sidetracked with politics will bleed the apolitical.
I was really surprised when I got upvoted briefly because I knew this would be a contentious comment. Now I'm back down, and that's what I expected. I don't apologize.
This is so bloated and unnecessary.
This is the paradoxical struggle I've had, from day one, at the startup for which I work.

I was praised for being "fresh eyes" and having "creative ideas", only to be reminded "how we do things here" after producing something that I thought would be a progressive way of addressing the company's challenges.

I continue to try new directions, and every once in a while something sticks, but often times I just have to be "another pair of hands" and do things the established way, flaws and all, because often that's what they really want me to do but don't want to admit.

It's especially frustrating when I can see the consequences of this a mile away and know that I'll be the one to have to deal with it, but what can I do?
European and Asian public transport planning can't be imported to America without the urban zoning needed to support the necessary density to make such networks economically viable.

Its not viable to just import EU and Asian transportation planning here ... it doesn't work because we lack density.

I would be happy enough to fund the transport networks before the density exists, as long as the zoning allows density, as the density would follow as a natural course once the transportation links are established. But that can't happen if the local regulations forbid density.

So this author is completely clueless.

Uber is engaged in making transportation more efficient in an environment where we have screwed ourselves. The public planners have no choice but to figure out how to do microtransport, because we lack the density.

Anyone who doesn't understand this is completely clueless, and demonizing Uber is popular, but ultimately idiotic.

I'm a big fan of trains and I think Uber is a dead end evolution. But America needs to identify the right cause of our problems. Its not Uber.
> Why wouldn't an accurately simulated brain be considered a person?

Ah, and here we come to the crux of the matter! What makes a person a person? Is it merely electrochemical activity in a certain type of tissue?

It's important to recognize that this question comes to the border that marks the end of the territory of biology and the beginning of the territory of philosophy. It's possible to charge right through this border (as Stephen Hawking did in his book The Grand Design) but there is a peril in doing so.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/may/27/physic...

> The attempt to fit consciousness into the material world,
> usually by identifying it with activity in the brain, has failed dismally,
> if only because there is no way of accounting for the fact that certain nerve impulses
> are supposed to be conscious (of themselves or of the world)
> while the overwhelming majority (physically essentially the same) are not.
I do believe you got free dinner, but maybe not.

> The incentives that made SV great in the 1960s were killed off by politicians choking the golden goose.

Nah, it's still there. It will be there as long as California bans noncompete agreements. (California being expensive is not because of politicians, it's because the voters want it to be expensive so they can sell you their house.)
https://martinfowler.com/articles/microservices.html#HowBigI...
I paired snowpack and webpack together and got something that I can use to mostly get a build pipeline going.

Snowpack's latest releases have been... troublesome, but we've stuck with 3.0 and it's been good enough. It completely doesn't support some libraries, but other than that it's been tolerable. Knowing what I know now I probably wouldn't have invested in Snowpack quite yet.

Really hoping Snowpack stabilizes a bit more, or we'll probably just fall back to webpack (or maybe Vite?) again.
Proper Jest integration is blocked by async transformers (https://github.com/facebook/jest/pull/9889) which should land as part of Jest 27, so we are mostly waiting on that.

In the meanwhile, you can also consider:

- @web/test-runner (https://modern-web.dev/docs/test-runner/overview/)

- Cypress (both e2e and unit testing via its component test runner https://www.cypress.io/blog/2021/04/06/introducing-the-cypre...)

- Check out https://github.com/sodatea/vite-test-example for an example using the above.
That has never happened to me and I've been using the android version for years. I will agree that the Blackberry Hub version for android is indeed not as good as the original Blackberry version (on BB10), but i still prefer it over the alternatives. In fact I still pay them $1/month as it's subscription based...
Signal iOS is still underwhelming, on Android it has some really nice features that make it a good SMS client and SMS replacement, but alas no one (outside Apple) is permitted to do that on iOS.

Element/Matrix might be of more interest, it syncs history instantly, has good room support (unlike Signal), bridges in Discord and IRC quite well, and has a ton of interesting native rooms from Mozilla Matrix, Pine64, Gitter and such
I think you've got an idea, a Slack, and a launch page for farming emails and nothing else. There's no demo, no MVP, no substance.

I went to the root URL and there's photos of Chance the Rapper under 'Community', with CTA's for "Join Slack" which are just the same form you've got for this site.

I also suspect there's an upvote ring because there's no comments but 13 points.
It seems they built Apple Music in a browser out of the Previews of the iTunes Store, which would explain why it is so terrible.
Chia is on mainnet but transactions will not go live until May 3rd. Currently farmers are earning XCH without a means of sending it to one another or other wallets, and there is no price or market for XCH at this time.
Apple has a manufacturing presence outside Sacramento that has been scaled down to a support center after manufacturing migrated to China. It was active even in the early 2000s.
Don't huh me, go ask Jony Ive if you don't like it.
What's most important is not how the apps are developed, but what the hardware runs on.
You seem to have taken the 1st line in the linked article and then run with it on a tangent. Please read the full article and the linked videos.

>I am still sceptical of that number because it would require more than 1000% of India's GDP, you'd have to spread this over several decades.

The draining of Indian wealth was done over 200 years of British colonialism.

>You can't extract that much value without killing the golden goose in the process,

Duh! This is why India was pushed into poverty and this economic malaise has shaped the country's progress to this day.
Things were different in the era immediately after WW2 and now. Power and wealth is distributed amongst more countries now. The US cannot do much with the Taiwan situation for example.
Even without direct monetization, there could be advantages for Apple?

- It’d be compelling for a lot of Android users and would probably be widely installed. This would give Apple a strong foothold onto Android devices. They could perhaps build on that for their services.

- For iOS users, this might make features like Apple Pay and sending songs more universal/reliable, which might provide more of a moat against Venmo, Android Pay, Spotify, etc. It’d also give a better privacy/security story if your messages aren’t converted to SMS.

- If it was sufficiently popular, it could provide Apple with a credible retaliatory move in case Google yanked something important from iOS.

- It would weaken the value proposition for important competitors like Facebook. Why let scary FB messenger on your phone if you can talk to everyone over iMessage?

I know nothing and this is just spitballing. Maybe nothing here outweighs keeping it exclusive to iOS, but Apple getting some of their software used far and wide seems like it could have real upside.
Didn’t “ideal” have an established meaning in English before ring theory existed? Curious, why’d you pick that specialization of this word, out of all that are available? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideal
Google's product hasn't noticeably changed at all during the pandemic. They're making more money because people are spending more time on the internet and advertisers are switching funding from traditional forms to internet ads.
I'm neither old nor experienced enough to back this with even anecdotal evidence, but I can't imagine this is a new development; surely most workplaces have always been hostile to viewpoints at odds with contemporary business norms. It's just the norms themselves that have changed during the shift to a globalized economy that favors knowledge work.

Despite the "progressive activist" moniker applied in the article and allusions to radical-left-cancel-this-woke-that blah blah blah from even more sensational sources, the prevailing ideology of the professional class runs in lockstep with global neoliberalism. Having anti-immigrant/Euroskeptic views is a surefire way to draw ire from your colleagues/manager/HR, because you're gumming up the gears of the way business is conducted in this day and age. But you know what else is equally unacceptable in the eyes of most companies? Genuinely progressive stances on labor organization, public ownership, and anti-imperialism. For the same reasons.

Most "activism", especially from within a company, is just cheerleading for the status quo.
I think this comes from a belief that you need to achieve something in life, and specifically to achieve something that is brag worthy, which by definition is something rare, which by definition is something almost everyone won’t achieve. 99.999% are mediocre.

For more concrete advice, avoid places that fuel this desire to be better than most. HN, Twitter, Reddit and Clubhouse are full of people who can brag and plenty that can’t but will make their profile look like they are awesome. “Successful founder. Been into orbit. Created Rust. I can read books faster than you can burn them.” etc.

Ignore all that shit.

What changed me is doing a survival course. Lesson: if you have access to clean water, free of snake bites and no medical problems you are doing pretty good. That’s with the upmost respect to people who do have big problems In their life, but what I’m trying to get across is a course like that might change ones perspective if the biggest problem is underachievement.

Many of us live our lives backwards and not as a community in the physical world.

I’m not cured yet. Some HN post had me questioning what I have done in my life. Bloody overachievers!
I'd like to hear what others think but for me, UML is essentially just class and sequence diagrams. The other diagram types are either overly complex, not widely known (thus no incremental communicative value) or undifferentiated from text (use case diagrams for example).

Class and sequence diagrams are pretty simple and in my opinion can, in small doses, be more effective for communicating ideas than only code in some circumstances.

I don't think UML is evil or even bad, it ultimately just isn't very important.
It's a pms5003 which I bought for €12 from aliexpress
With the amount of resumes they get, I'd question how important it is for tier 1 companies. I have gone to career fairs and learned a great deal about companies I had never heard of, but it seems as though Google would just receive thousands of applications per opening and approach it algorithmically anyways. Although I've had contacts get poached via LinkedIn or given challenges from Googling certain tech topics.
I don't know man some of us are happy with just a barrel, cloak, a sturdy stick and a bag of bread.
"The mass of the two H atoms is unchanged" -> No, if an electron on an H atom is excited to a higher energy state, the mass of the atom increases (although with the relatively low energies involved, that mass increase is extremely tiny). The mass of nucleus isn't equal to the mass of neutrons and protons, the binding energy matters, and the mass of an atom isn't equal to the mass of the nucleus plus the mass of the electrons, the energy states matter.

Not an authoritative reference, but perhaps a sufficient explanation is here - https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/149744/does-the-...
I think something like that is not feasible anymore due to how complicated messaging apps have become in the last decade. Unifying several protocols under a same app means either implementing all the shades of how a feature is done in every chat app, or flattening everything to get a sense of uniformity. In the '00s I most IM (that's what it was called back then) basically boiled down to text with a bit of images and files thrown here and there. Nowadays you can basically do a billion things in every single chat app.

Given how much pressure has been put on platforms to differentiate, I do not expect any unified message app to succeed any time soon.
Sad but I feel the same way. I still enjoy reading HN comments and there are occasional gems among them, but most posts on HN these days reflect the mainstream majority opinion, the same platitudes and topics over and over again. It's not people at the forefront of new technology. I guess it's the "crossing the chasm" effect.

I don't know any better place though. I find myself using specific small subreddits more and more recently even though I was never a big reddit user in the past.
I'm hoping we can replace all middle management with AI, that just reports green/yellow/red, relays messages, whatever.

I'm tired of being called the expert yet somehow reporting to someone that is many levels below me in knowledge. Why exactly do you need to know this if you're not going to be able to influence the direction? Why are leaders not required to be better than who they lead in whatever it is they do (in order to have foresight)? I don't know but here's to hoping it will be automated in some future.
>> until things get to the point of being a running system, software is relatively easy to change
Google really missed out by not buying blackberry and making their apps an Android exclusive.
How I studied for 12 hours a day for over a year