skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This feels right. I also believe that what people need are LEADERS and not MANAGERS. I'm sure there are plenty of examples of the two on the web.

The challenge I see a lot of managers have is that they look to much at an engineer as a widget and not literal human that is just as capable as the manager (most the time). There are often times no lines between roles and responsibilities and every shop does that slightly different, and not based on some framework they masterly put together, but just something based on how the pieces fell in place with some help from previous experiences.

I just wanted to say also - _most_ engineering managers are not good managers. They were good engineers that are in the unfortunate process of the Peter Principle.
Thank you! I don't know why any article would discuss a map image without actually linking to it /sigh
What a feel good story! I'm glad he's safe and still grinding!
I bought a new Nissan Kicks last year (the lowest-end crossover SUV) and it seems pretty dumb. It has no internet connectivity as far as I can tell. It has a touch-screen, but it's pretty much just for the backup camera and audio controls, everything else has physical controls. It does have a computer that is involved in operating the CVT, but besides that it never gets in my way. And it does have sensors for the safety features (blind spot warning, etc) but that stays out of my way too. (The one annoying exception was when I had a bike rack on the back. I couldn't drive in reverse, the collision detection kept sensing the rack as an obstacle and slamming the brakes.)

Mostly-dumb cars still exist on the lower end of the manufacturers' lines. But yeah, who knows how long that situation will last, or if you'll be able to get anything technologically dumb with premium power and handling.
Interesting. People bemoan that the market in Europe is too splintered and that the whole of the us can be seen as one market. But all these state differences seem to at least indicate that it isn’t that simple.
EA hacked and source code stolen
MoviePass Deceived Users So They’d Use It Less, FTC Says
I appreciate the core message, but it's quite disappointing to see a government message exclusively talking about how Google Analytics (coupled with Twitter/FB Analytics) is the one solution. Especially as they problematize user privacy.

Given that this is a mainly message for those communicating on behalf of gov.uk, I think the best they could do is host a URL shortener for use by government communicators. It's also good advice for businesses.
The law already was that the purchaser should remit use tax to the state for purchasers from out-of-state vendors.

But compliance was basically non-existent; most people didn't even know that they owed use tax on such sales, much less what rate would apply. Sales tax is basically use tax, but with the burden of compliance placed on the seller.

As for why the sellers' state is not entitled to sales tax: in the old-time days, pre-Amazon, this was how many (but not all) tax jurisdictions determined sales tax. (For example, CO's sales tax regime pre-Wayfair used to use the seller's address to determine tax rates.) But the rise of Amazon and online sales meant that sales tax would go to a few jurisdictions where the sellers were located, rather than be spread out where the buyers were located. As sales tax pays for things like roads, etc., that these remote sellers used, many jurisdictions thought this was unfair, and moved to change sales tax sourcing to destination-based sourcing (i.e., to taxing based on the customer's location). And in the Wayfair decision, SCOTUS said this was acceptable. (At the national and international level, destination-based sourcing has been the law for decades, and has been part of America's tax treaties dating back to at least the 1970s.)
This! So much.

Sometimes you can plan for success/heroic actions (in the good way) but often it happens by accident.

The right person digging into a weird problem they encountered, two people sitting together to review a design or someone doing a firmware update that fixes a bug in the RAID controller giving you double the IOps...

I have tons of anecdotes from colleagues who did some unplanned work just because they talked with someone else and that work then turned out to have massive positive impact.
The results are lauded but it wasn't even clear when the "little" project started that it would actually be a massive boon.

At a prior job (some website selling hotels online) I was responsible for the project that ended up giving the whole fleet a 25% capacity boost. Instead of 2000 machines we only bought 1500 next quarter. If we calculate that in perpetuity my project was a massive success. Millions of EUR saved since 2011.

The project initially started out as "tons of people tried building a decent perl RPM but couldn't get it to work, could you have a look?". The guy originally tasked with it was busy fixing a broken LDAP server.
So I built some RPMs, wrote a bit of tooling around it and we ended up with a Perl environment separate from the system perl which was great because the business was nearly exclusively running on Perl 5.8.9. At that point I looked into using that to get us off CentOS4. With the help of two colleagues we got a CentOS5 environment running and could migrate to a x86_64 environment.

That migration than gave us a 25% capacity boost and happiness ensued all around. The OS upgrade wasn't part of the original project scope, we just went with it because it made sense and management understood that it's a good idea.
There is Aplette which supposedly integrates nicely with other Unix tools. It's a port/update of the earlier openAPL source code, which I think was done by Ken Thompson? Here:

https://github.com/gregfjohnson/aplette
I think the binary example is incredibly poor and makes understanding this much harderr.

Genes code for proteins (and promoters, etc.) and wind up in a chemical soup in flux. They're going to bounce around and do things.

Their presence will be more akin to new kinds of cars or trucks entering a highway, and they'll have different impacts to traffic (kinetics, thermodynamics).
Digital abstractions seem practically worthless when the hardware is not explicitly designed to suppress non binary behavior.

Perhaps analog FPGA's are interesting windows https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23432601
Next step: cat videos and I'm here for it.

Can I haz the HN cat videos?
We had a collie (sheep dog) when I was a kid.

The first time I took it out as a puppy, I threw a ball, and it ran around to the other side in a big arc and lay down looking at it.

I shouted “get it” and it ran in and grabbed it.

Herding behaviour is just baked right in there now!
How ignorant are you? Study some history.
Did you try different ciphers? Whilst there's no AES acceleration there are other ciphers that can leverage the hardware better. i.e. ChaCha20
I encouraged Quora to ban link shorteners. They were heavily used for spam and malware, avoiding whatever (meager) anti-spam mechanisms they were using. By "heavily" I mean "exclusively", though it's conceivable that somebody some time was using it legitimately.

They never did implement that, but it sounds like it might be a good general rule for many web sites that accept and display content from users. If you're concerned about the way long links appear you can abbreviate them on the screen (the way HN does).
wow. there's a lot of javascript on that page.
I really don't think a local news website from Spokane Washington can be expected to place international laws as a high priority.

Even if they already practiced correct usage of people's data (unlikely) having someone on-staff that understands those laws enough to communicate the requirements to whoever is developing & hosting their IT infrastructure just to get confirmation of compliance is enough of an economic deterrent to make the landing page you see seem like a more reasonable solution.
"The craft of scientific writing" is a great book btw.
That's the problem. Prop13 makes your taxes high upfront, with lower taxes later on. This is counter intuitive, when you want to encourage people to buy homes.
I feel like all of your points add unnecessary clarity. I don't think anyone would assume you should document the wrong things, or plan what you can't plan, or train people at inappropriate times.

The only one I flat out disagree with is your clarification on #6. I do think it is useful to find an "apprentice" or "successor" that can take your role on; this is useful for a few reasons: 1) it allows you to move on (either via promotion or leaving the company) and 2) it gives you a support system (want to take a vacation? now you can!)
I’m glad I work at home.
Algorithms and Flow Control – High Performance JavaScript [Book]
I would consider you wise then to use BTC for day to day activities considering you have used it many times. Did you use it to buy coffee when it was $60K and then use it to buy more BTC when it fell to $30K? Would you buy coffee with it when it is $150K or when it is $1 per coin?
It's a local news station in another country. There are undoubtably many local businesses in your country that will not do business with me because they don't comply with the legal requirements of doing business in my country. Not every company is financially able to have global legal compliance.
Taking IRC Further (2021)
Why does the in-house URL shortener require 2 weeks notice and masses of paper work... Just throw together a gov.uk shortener tool...
I think this type of pricing aligns incentives better than what Tesla is doing. With Tesla's model, if you don't get what you expected out of the self driving features, sorry, but they already have your money. With VW, they're incentivized to continue improving it and convincing people to use it, since it's more money in their pocket if they do.
It's being measured, not ignored.[1] This data is obtained by re-using random samples of blood drawn by commercial labs for other medical blood tests. In Vermont, under 3% of the population has had COVID-19. In Puerto Rico, about 49%. Huge variance by state. This does not include people immunized; the test used can differentiate.

[1] https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#national-lab
That explains why Chinese animals and humans have similar eyes. I thought it must have been some bacteria that caused the change.
Show HN: Interactive Calendar of Your Life, Inspired by WaitButWhy / Kurzgesagt
Time is limited and precious. Hope this little app will help people gain some perspective and play around with their history.

Any feedback is greatly appreciated.

Code is available at https://github.com/henk23/your-life/
> You can't just create a company - you need a legal framework for a company to exists.

Not really, because “company” is a generic term for any organization of people with a common business purpose independent of whether it has a distinct recognized legal recognition, existence, or treatment separate from the constituent individuals.

A corporation, LLC, or other legally recognized business entity requires a legal framework.
If only all these mega corporations that get hit by crypto lockers had heard the magic bullet of ZFS! /s
In case you are in Europe, and would like to read the article - the internet archive got you covered:

https://web.archive.org/web/20210610163014/https://www.khq.c...
Uh - Tesla has long considered something like this and has not ruled out doing an hourly fee - I think some beta / debug code paths exist for this.

How can VW block Tesla from offering an hourly option?
Sometimes I feel like it's already happened.
India’s govt has inappropriately prioritised people for Covid-19 vaccination
"Your storage device is full." Why should this be any different?
Right which proves the point that you believed in it and once it was practically put to use you see it is not practical anymore. Why use a currency that is not practical for day to day activity.
Cloudflare Introduces Zero Trust Private Networking
No. Find in page is dumb text match. I use an extension that let's me construct full regular expressions to search through the page. Comes very handy from time to time.
We're doing it to ourselves too.
Well, price discovery in illiquid markets is notoriously noisy.
But you still have to pay for long term storage, that means your bill is still going up.
To a large extent the instincts were already there; we’ve just adapted and selected for various sub-patterns of the ancestral pack hunting behavior. Herding livestock is very similar to chasing and driving prey to where you want it.
True but couldn't some good be compared like the cost of housing, food, clothes, etc.?
Thanks geerlingguy. I used Emby for a long time, but somehow missed the whole Jellyfin thing.

Definitely going to try out the setup from this article.
Your claim is provably false.

Large scale software development without management is proven to be possible by the existence of functioning FLOSS projects like the Linux kernel, various GNU tools, KDE and plenty of other examples.

I have not heard of a single software development company with 0 software developers. Not even Oracle manages that.

Managers are necessary for the parts of the company other than development. You can have a FLOSS project developed organically, and separately a company in the business of support, services, etc. Managers are also necessary in order for the company to exercise control over the development and extract value. And this may be needed for a company to survive. But they are not needed for software development itself.
My neighbor had a dog for herding 200+ cows in for milking morning and evening, they had to sell him because he kept bringing.in the cows when he could slip away from the farmer, they couldn't get him to stop, instinct is a powerful thing.
The 'Government Digital Service' (GDS, sort of 'tech company for the civil service') continually impresses me.

I've no idea who (even which party) initiated it, but it was just sort of suddenly awesome. Or maybe it just evolved rapidly under great (civil) leadership and was 'always' there just not so great.

Blog has lots of good stuff too, especially articles on accessibility often do well on HN, since that's something they 'obviously' need to worry about, and actually do & do it well.

Often in comments here too (Robin something is a username I recall) - not the sort of crusty 'what's an HN?', 'you can't do that because the Oracle database on our IBM mainframe doesn't support it' department I might've formerly imagined at all.
I suspect that this is because games have fixed rules: you can't use a hammer to smash the enemy's chess king. Reality is a lot more flexible.
So its a Dang Dog! (herds sheep like Dang herds us!)
It’s data on the enemy you need for warfare. Only dictators need to collect data on its own citizens to win war.
/me cries in 30+ minute builds
It's like an allegory for those folks that say "Oh, I could write the code for that whole site in a weekend". Occasionally these people are right.
That is, in 1700 my 5G contract would have costed $1 if I understand the description correctly?
Checkout my shell made with go
This was in response to the AWS status page.
Title says 2013. Wasn’t it only in recent years that people were brining typewriters to Starbucks. Maybe it was never considered cool, but it wasn’t treated like this person. Funny how time changes things.

It’s like the “nerds” that were treated so badly in the 80s for being into Starwars and dressing up in their favorite characters. Now Starwars is cool and dressing up garnishes respect based on how elaborate and how much work went into it.

I guess none of the above is surprising. It happens with everything. Inventors, entrepreneurs, and other people that are later respected as pioneers.
I have lived in PA all my life and remember touring Lebanon Bologna and Wilbur Chocolate (in nearby Lititz) in one day. I loved seeing all the processes that go into making bologna. I don’t eat much of it these days but I love the unique sweet flavor it has. I may have to get some now!
Reminds me of when Disney wanted us to do a considerable amount of unpaid work, simply because they were Disney. We don't do business with Disney any more.
The closest programming analogy for a new gene is probably dropping a new listener/sender on a message bus. It can send messages independently in response to messages that were already on the bus before it arrived. If there's a little bit of a shared language (which there is here, since the bus is chemistry itself), that can lead to new behaviors of the system without necessarily breaking anything.
That's because you fit into YT's conception of how viewers behave. For people who don't fit into "normal"-ish behaviour it has little utility.

For me, probably 90% of what I watch I'm not interested in and often I'm repelled by. This is because I mostly watch to find out what things I'm not familiar with are.

For example let's say I'm a liberal. I'm not going to watch liberal political videos because I know generally what they're going to say and I don't need my political views stroked in order to be happy. But I will watch various other political videos, no matter how extreme or not, so I can be at least a little familiar with their behaviour and views.

YT can't cope with this. To their systems I seem to be randomly picking videos with no correlation with the subject matter or other users and no reinforcing pattern. It just gives up and recommends things based on the behaviour of the general population, as if they had no data on me at all.
If any corporation has a proper and secure backup, then crypto-lockers are simply a null-and-void issue. You get cryptolockered, then just restore from backup and you're fine.

For online backups: ZFS snapshots ought to handle the common cryptolocker case (where cryptolocker infects the client machine and encrypts all the data). However, if the virus stops there, the ZFS snapshot (which is controlled on the NAS) can restore your data from the last snapshot no problem.

I'm sure that criminal gangs are willing to go one step further and maybe attack the NAS and delete the ZFS snapshots, but its still a 2nd step that must occur before you have a significant failure.

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Its not a magic bullet, but its a significant defense mechanism that seems to handle the current, common case.
Cambridge Analytica was largely a nothing burger [0].

[0] https://twitter.com/nickconfessore/status/131385399616835174...
Does ICANN actually mandate that a 'click this link' be included in the email, or that an email is sent asking the user to verify data so that a 'please login to your account to verify' would suffice?
Tough call. Everything you described matches 1:1 with a friend who couldn’t deal with the stress of college and started to flare out with schizophrenia. Drugs came soon after, but the verbosity, obnoxiousness and grandiose ideas came first, coupled with execution incoherent enough to look nonexistent.
I 100% agree with this. I want climate control knobs and buttons, a basic AM/FM radio, and a CarPlay/android auto screen. Everything else is noise, and as Toyota would put it, MUDA (Waste / non-value added).

In my view, there is no reason for an auto manufacturer to invest heavily in their infotainment systems anymore - it just isn't a competitive advantage for most cars. Almost all users who buy the upgraded trims will have a smart phone.
As is Acme, a text editor. Pike is like that.
Ironically, the BBC (effectively part of the British civil service, not matter what they claim) uses a link shortener for their 7 Days News Quiz.
U.S. Launches Task Force to Open Government Data for AI Research
Shamir’s Secret Sharing is a general solution for splitting secrets. Bitcoin multisig is superior for for its specific applications though. The biggest reasons are:

1. There is never one single key with full control. This is a huge vulnerability with SSS.

2. More flexibility, by allowing differing k-of-n subsets in combination with timelocks and other Bitcoin script features.
Yes, there are a handful of languages where you can operate on arrays (without looping), including Fortran. But this doesn’t make them true array languages like APL.
The legal risk is on the provider of the service, which is not the employee. Obviously the employee is not getting the entire fee themselves.
It blows me away that people can see things like this and still deny any genetic basis for certain cognitive features in humans.
Selling in Our AI Model Marketplace
I didn't come to that conclusion, and you are ignoring the part of my comment pointing out that the critical switch is that the _returns_ on securities now exceed _returns_ on actual businesses.

But, since we're now talking about overvalued securities:

https://www.npr.org/2021/05/05/993754418/planet-money-the-10...
It has been held that a module that uses the gpl only symbols in the Linux kernel needs to be gpl licensed.

In contrast the Oracle suit was more about reimplementing the api.
As someone used to shorten his links a lot, that was my biggest concern. As an avid blog reader tho i tried avoid short links as much as i could, although very often to no avail.
What about cookies? You can’t even have a proper wedding without a full cookie table.
Hi HN! I'm Sachin, founder of Volant AI (https://volantai.org). We're building the App Store of AI. Our mission is to empower people to build with AI by using high-performing crowdsourced models from our AI model marketplace.
I wrote a few words about sellers in our AI model marketplace. Would love to hear your thoughts!
You are correct. However, PEA alone does have a stimulant effect through TAAR1, and in chocolate it is coupled with other xanthine stimulants.
> dressing up garnishes respect based on how elaborate and how much work went into it.

That sounds very much like a 'within the community' sort of thing.

Isn't it just that the internet's made it easier for groups with (varying degrees, of course, of) niche interests to congregate?
Feels very strange to see this article on hacker news at all, let alone at the top. Not saying it shouldn't be here -- generally I feel anything that people here find interesting should be here -- but rather that I'm surprised people here find this interesting.
Software engineer ejected from self driving car during Sunday crash found in server farm, herding sheep?
GameStop stock falls sharply amid 5M-share sales plan, SEC investigation
Thanks for clarifying! That’s something I was looking at on the landing page and didn’t find that. So Checkout already includes Stripe Tax at no additional cost. That’s great to hear
I own a 2014 Subaru Impreza and my brother in-law a 2017. I've driven both extensively. Sometime during those years, Subaru switched from knobs and levers to a touchscreen and the controls are so much worse!

1. The controls on the 2014 are obvious, easy to find, and my choices are readily apparent. In the 2017 I have to search for them and often guess their meanings. If I'm actively driving, I just give up because it's too distracting.

2. The controls are not as responsive. Sometimes there's a lag. Sometimes they don't respond at all.

3. There are bugs with the digital controls that simply don't exist in the analog versions. As an example in the 2017 the radio turns on every time the car gets started regardless of if it was on when the car was turned off.
This works for me if it has been asleep for a few seconds, but if I leave for a few minutes I have to reconnect
Past threads:

I Am An Object Of Internet Ridicule, Ask Me Anything - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6412708 - Sept 2013 (378 comments)

I Am an Object of Internet Ridicule, Ask Me Anything - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9997902 - Aug 2015 (3 comments)
You need to compare like to like. Yes, the finish in Mercs and BMWs is better, but you're also comparing an ICE to an EV.

Look at what BMW offers for an EV. The i3, at $44k base. The i3 is basically a midlevel compact sedan. The Model 3, which you can get for $4k cheaper, is a way better deal IMHO.
No onboarding necessary!