skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There might be something to that, but I think you still have to actually get to the watering hole / square / etc.

And this is why suburbs and "bedroom communities" suck. If you spend all your time either at home with your nuclear family, or at the office with your colleagues, my feeling is that you don't really have a healthy social life.

As much as people shit on San Francisco for its lack of density in many areas, I can easily meet up with a friend after work at a nearby bar or restaurant or park. I just did that last week and it was wonderful to be able to do that again after all the pandemic restrictions.

> I think the issue is more psychological than purely logistical.

I agree with that, and that's actually encouraging. It means that there actually is no real-world issue with this, and the issues in our heads can be fixed. People can learn to develop better boundaries while working from home, and train themselves to seek social interaction outside of work better. And also come to realize that social interaction at the office isn't necessarily all it's cracked up to be.

Beyond that, any feeling about WFH related to social interaction that has developed during the pandemic is immediately suspect. WFH without the pandemic will look a lot different, and a lot healthier.
Being an RIT alumni who left for warmer climes I think the quality of life issues with upstate New York are underrated by people who stay.

I have a decent number of classmates who stayed and can afford much larger houses than I can in sunny and expensive California. But they need that larger house because they can't do anything outside for 5 months of the year.
E. E. "Doc" Smith was a donut doctor.

Nancy and Jerry were not programmers. We have no indication who said it, or when, but clearly somebody did. If that somebody was a programmer, they could only ever have said it ironically. It would not be surprising for somebody who was not a programmer to miss the joke.

If you get a job as an assistant at the airport and somebody asks you to fetch a bucket of prop wash and a hundred yards of flight line, don't. If you are told to ask somebody for a penny long stand, be prepared for a long wait (or just take the afternoon off).
It’s a good idea to keep updates enabled so that you get security patches, but it’s ridiculous that you have to do this. The industry seems to have given up on the idea of making finished software, so instead you get endless churn - the bugs and vulnerabilities are infinite because the bug fixes are mixed into the same update stream as new features which themselves come with new bugs…
It’s not that home ownership isn’t more common as you move up the income scale. It’s that cars/homes become a smaller percentage of a persons income and overall wealth. At the extreme end, Bill Gates may own a 150 million dollar house, but that’s ~1/30th his annual income and 1/1,000th of his wealth. It’s not that nobody wealthy owns several properties, it’s that they generally have other things they want to spend their income on.

Meanwhile owning a car worth even 3k is 1/10th the income of some at 30k, and many people have much more expensive cars at that income level. Worse the rate is generally higher on cars than homes. Similarly, nobody actually rich is “house rich” the way retired people are where their house is 10-30x their annual income. (500k to 1.5 million house with a 50k income.)

So, even if you exclude rental income it’s still very regressive.
Until the tow truck hits the brakes…
You mean people will have to take more responsibility for all aspects of their lives, without an employer helping them? You've convinced me, that's an unacceptable outcome, let's shove everyone back in offices.

Sarcasm aside, this was already my situation before the pandemic, just due to not making real friends at work. It takes work, but not that much. Each individual is ultimately responsible for their wellbeing, because they're the only ones who can be. Any help from their employer (if they even have one, e.g. not a freelancer) is a bonus.
I see what you are saying. The question then becomes which taxes we want to be progressive or regressive, and what we want to tax in the first place.

I don't think everything needs to be taxed, or all taxes should be progressive.

In this light, I'm not sure what the rationale for a tax on yachts would be. It seems like it could be a way to generate government income, or discourage yacht ownership, but I'm not convinced these are sufficient reason.
Even in my charitable view of my company, Amazon is INTENSE.

We set extremely ambitious goals, and orgs are only expected to meet 70-80% of them.

It's an environment that indexes extremely high on autonomy and flexibility for each person and each team.

It is without a doubt a sink-or-swim environment. But, by and large, the ability to swim is based on individual merit.
To be fair, some morons at Microsoft do it too

My skip-level manager put me on a performance improvement plan there because he said someone else had done 10x as much work as me. It turned out that the other engineer had closed out something like 1 "bug" ticket per day, and I'd closed out 1 "task" ticket per day PLUS some bugs, so I'd done substantially more work.

I just waited until my next stock vesting, then took a severance package and left that rancid shithole. We were working on some retarded dead-end boondoggle of a device, and I'm sure everyone in the org got a frowny face on their report card when it was eventually canceled.

Ironically, I actually had a pretty decent experience at Amazon before that. I guess it just goes to show that the most important thing about any job is your manager and your team.
Because as we all know, having a substandard "financial literacy" class when you are 15 will help you after you win the lottery at 45, after having years of not practicing any of it and not keeping up-to-date on things.
former D2 athlete here, never had aspirations to go pro. I don't think it's possible to spend "more time on their athletics" even at D2 level (can't speak for D3, though from my friends playing D1 it seems to be more time consuming).

my experience was waking up before the crack of dawn to pre-train, going to school in the morning, and then spending the rest of any free time I had after training (be it weights, cardio, practice etc). and then you watch film. all for the love (scholarships were nice) - so anyone that suggests there is more time to spend on athletics at these levels, and that paying athletes will somehow encourage them to do so vs academia, deserves a flan in the face.
Food stamps are similar.

There's people who abuse the program and people who actually need the help and it's a question if the needy people outweigh the abusers.

The government literally disallowed people who WANTED to work...to support themselves or their families for over a year.

The real solution is for this to never have happened.
There's a huge space of professional and community childcare options other than "extended family" and "don't have kids". That the dual-income middle class has been using for decades.
use git stash instead to unstage changes not committed to the index and you'll never lose anything ever again
Have we lightened up yet?
In Noah Bradley's case, a lot of people just disliked him because of a reputation that he was a self-important jerk who jumped on every opportunity he could to self-promote and had some annoyingly devoted fanboys (a similar dynamic follows Elon Musk).

When the cancellation was in full swing I got the distinct impression that a lot of people were piling on to settle scores or because they just hated seeing him and his fanboys spamming up his stuff all the time, regardless of whether they actually knew him to be a creep or not.
They can work to apologies to the actual victim, if made in some direct way. You might even get the victim to accept the apology. But all the people that feel victimized on behalf of the victim...they never forgive, and they will never move on. It is simply too easy to continue spewing their anger, they were already angry, this just gives them direction.
One of the things I miss most from Windows is the CHM help system. Now selecting Help in the menu opens a web page in Edge regardless of your default browser, or in an awkward, sluggish help minibrowser app.

The query syntax should be available offline right in the operating system, not in a web page.
Sure, so the car stops charging and still won't waste/damage its brakes in the tow.
The studies and real world data thus far show a reduction in _all_ infections, not just symptomatic infection. The trials for approval only really measured symptomatic infection, so it was unknown whether the vaccines prevented all infections (sterilizing immunity) or just symptomatic infections. So the difference is that a non-vaccinated asymptomatic carrier can still infect others as they are _infected_. Whereas the vaccinated person never becomes an asymptomatic carrier in the first place.
It depends on the type of app. If it's a rails app, I usually start with user.rb or whatever the equivalent is (account.rb or something) as those usually have most of the functionality. From there, I'll either look start looking at routes config and going from there or some of the base controllers to get a sense of things (i.e. ApplicationController or maybe AuthenticatedController).

For non-rails web apps (and rails apps), I'll usually find a portion of the UI and just start tracking from the front-end to the back-end. Something like finding some text on the page, and trying to reverse back to where that particular piece of text was defined and what steps it took to get there (which view, helper, controller, etc.)

For non web-apps, I don't have any good techniques, unfortunately.
That was touched on in the "Find My" section.
Based on a whistleblower tip. Pretty cool.
Reminds me of this dam operation around here that pumps water up to a mountain top reservoir during the day when power is cheap and then lets it go at night when it can generate and sell the electricity for more money. I was always in awe of the lake size battery they created.
So dry.
Aside from his stated specific behaviors that are generally accepted as being under the “old” umbrella of sexual predator, I suppose it is entirely possible that he meant to call himself “a sexual predator” under the “new” definition that somehow applies to any sexually active person that is wealthy or employed as a manager.

I genuinely am just now learning about this “new” shift in definition as my understanding was that the term was applied to people due to their behavior towards others and how they’re experienced by the other involved parties. Expanding it to mean “anybody with money or status” doesn’t seem useful aside from maybe diluting the phrase’s meaning in such a way that it provides cover for actually abusive people.
‘Becoming Steve Jobs,’ by Brent Schlender and Rick Tetzeli
"[...] That moving anecdote is one of several that will quicken the pulse of even obsessive Apple watchers. 'Becoming Steve Jobs' enters a crowded body of work devoted to Apple and its idiosyncratic co-founder, dominated of course by Walter Isaacson’s 2011 best seller, 'Steve Jobs.' Although it drags and feels unnecessary for large stretches, this new addition to the Apple pantheon redeems itself with access to key players and their previously untold accounts, thereby presenting a layered portrait of the mercurial Jobs, whose style and personality, the book argues, were constantly evolving, right up to his early death."
I'm still scared of using got undo
Johnson&Johnson has certainly had their own troubles in the past.
Can he? I could have a baseball bat too. Or I could just drive/run away. A baseball bat has a very limited range.
Maybe it’s an unfortunate side effect of their success. Almost all early members of the team are now multi millionaires if they held their stock.
What do you do for a livelihood?
DirectX in NativeAOT
It could very well be both the pinnacle (or an approximation of it) of humanity and a worthwhile topic of discussion.
Yep, I've spent a lot of my career working on systems and taking stories that others don't want. I'm 9 years in at the same company, have a masters, and I'm just a midlevel dev making under $100k.
In the talk, he gave clear examples with detailed position + velocity graphs where the vision system detected obstacles sooner and with less jitter than the radar system. Specifically the overpass where radar triggers erroneous braking, and the pulled over truck where radar detects the obstacle significantly slower.
Once upon a time I was a Windows Phone developer, and I can confirm that it was monstrously difficult to write stable software for that platform. Many documented APIs just didn't adhere to their contracts, and you'd only learn by trial-and-error or, if you were lucky, by tracking down the Microsoft employee who wrote the API you were working with.

As much as I loved the UX and rooted for the platform, the apps were just bad. Even first-party apps were depressingly crashy.

This was circa Windows Phone 8; maybe it improved with subsequent releases.
>they can't do anything outside for 5 months of the year

Yes, there's a real snow belt east of the Great Lakes. But with respect to there being "winter," you could say the same thing about a vast swath of the US. I live near Boston and I assure you there are tons of things I can do outside for those 5 months.
Your personal website is excellently designed. So clear. Bravo.
Hm...

I've read through the document in your link [1] and it looks to me more like an excerpt from a bible study class than an attempt to raise the masses. I may be missing some context though.

Liberal representatives (including those at federal level [2]) make enough worrisome statements.

Now we can engage into the "he didn't mean that/she didn't mean that" game. The only way to win in this game is to say something like "I don't understand how a reasonable person can fail to see the difference between <...> and <...>". So instead of that we may turn to the facts of actual violence in 2020. This is left as an exercise to the reader.

Note: if you decide to run your own small facts checking, don't use google. Use duckduckgo or bing. Yes, I know ddg uses google engine. No, I don't know why, but results are surprisingly different. Even in incognito mode.

[1] https://www.spokesman.com/documents/2018/oct/25/biblical-bas...

[2] https://thehill.com/opinion/criminal-justice/549514-traditio...
I find that hard to believe, but back when Windows 8 was new (not that I'd heard of it), I think I would've believed it. You enabled auto-login.
Regis McKenna
"Regis McKenna is a marketer who introduced many of the ideas that are now part of the mainstream in technology marketing. He and his firm were instrumental in the launch of some of the most innovative products of the computer age, including the first microprocessor (Intel Corporation), Apple's first personal computer (Apple Computer), the first recombinant DNA genetically engineered product (Genentech, Inc.), and the first retail computer store (The Byte Shop)."
Not everyone can afford a higher priced home, even with low interest rates, because funding a down payment can be a significant hurdle in places where modest homes are over a million dollars.
It bothers me that so many people use the fact that something wasn’t taught in school as an excuse for not knowing it, especially something as obviously necessary as personal finance.

I was dumb in college and graduated with about $4k in credit card debt. It didn’t take a classroom lecture to realize that spending more money than I earned was not a sustainable practice. It’s also not that hard to keep track of how much you spend and make sure it’s less than how much you make.

For almost anything personal finance related there is free information available all over the Internet if you care to spend a couple minutes googling for it.

Likewise with taxes, if you have a regular W2 job, taxes are not hard, just read and follow the instructions. It doesn’t help that people keep repeating the dumb meme that if you make a typo on your tax return the IRS will immediately throw you in jail. They won’t, they just send a letter telling you they corrected it for you (guess how I know).
that's why the pythagoreans where against beans.
Anecdata but both of the people I know that worked on Autopilot quit within 18 months of starting, citing extreme overwork and Musk micromanaging things. This lines up with that.
Amazonian here, I speak only for myself. FWIW, 4+ years in as an SDE and I've never been judged on that metric. If I had a manager like that, I would do what's best for my career. :-)
Not meeting the intended goals is the definition of ineffective.
Dud author here. I built Dud because I love DVC[1], but I wanted something faster and simpler. As I write in the README: If DVC is Django, Dud aims to be Flask. Dud is much faster, it has a smaller feature set, and it is distributed as a single executable.

I'd be happy to answer questions and hear your feedback.

[1]: https://dvc.org
Volvo did a trial of this. Not sure how it ended up.

https://www.volvogroup.com/en/news-and-media/news/2018/sep/v...
As a software guy married to a lawyer, be careful what you wish for. The legal industry seems hell bent on inefficiency and fuzzy regulations.
> SwiftUI [...] doesn’t feel like an AR platform component (Where’s the third dimension?).

I'm unfamiliar with SwiftUI, but fwiw, I found the extensions needed for CSS3D to support AR to be surprisingly small.

A few years back, having a custom browser-based VR stack with passthrough AR, I sketched a talk for the BostonVR meetup, to give around April Fools. It would have purported to be an introductory onboarding demo, of newly available CSS3D extensions for AR. With support for placement in realspace, billboards, HUD overlays, integrated multiple displays, position aware and 3D displays. The extension needed was surprisingly minor. The talk would have been basically "introductory CSS positioning, in a slightly enriched context", which I expected to be quite believable, followed by a "surprise! - the making of the demo spike". I don't quite remember why it didn't happen.

> 2(.5)D experiences

Shallow-3D UIs seemingly have a lot of potential, but don't get much discussion.

Meta: I wish HN discussions around AR were of higher quality. It's be clear for years that Apple was pursing this. Being unfamiliar with the Apple ecosystem, I'd have liked to see more discussion of what those pieces and their characteristics might suggest about the future. Or for instance, of whether Apple is doing any CEP complex event processing, or retraction of app state changes, to support input with diverse latencies.
Well if you had to have one or the other, I think you are actually right. Prob and stats are essential in any discussion of real-world data, which comes up pretty much every day. They are also the best way into dealing with something inherently messy, which data pretty much is all the time. It's a good way to talk about what you think is true and why, critical to decision making.

Calculus on the other hand is bit too beautiful. At high school level at least, you get all these smooth curves, everything has a nice closed form answer, and you start to think that maybe these beautiful shapes describe the universe. It's actually not that easy to do, it just happens that we found some examples where it works quite well, and they are just the kinds of things we teach in physics in those same years.

When we then get to an economics class, it unravels. There's a whole menagerie of calculus assumptions that creep into the minds of credulous students. Lets assume Cobb-Douglass production function. Let's say the utility must be this shape. Oh look at what beautiful conclusions we get.
I do occasionally. I probably check the "Ask" tab the most in the hope that I can have an answer and be potentially useful for once.
It isn't shown because on 10 "power off" is a lightly-tweaked hibernate.
Yes Jetbrains have totally nailed this. I have tended to prefer the command line for git but the exceptionally designed GUI support in Rider is fast changing that - especially for rebasing.
You rmemeber Blaxxun from the '90s ? Man, that was a Metaverse.
If the patents are legitimate it seems like a business model similar to debt collectors or "cash now for annuity" companies. A small company might have a winnable case of damages but doesn't have the resources or risk appetite to take the case to trial. It's a rational decision to sell off the claim to another company for X% of the expected value and let them take risk of enforcing the claim.
Honest thanks, I got that from your other post. I would argue it is some sort modified regressive tax, where the bottom 35% of the people who don't own pay nothing, then your regressive tax percent of income kicks in.
Highly Valued 1 (HV1): we expect 35% of Amazonians are HV1

Least effective (LE): we expect 5% of Amazonians are LE

HV1 Compensation recommendation: 0% YoY
To me it feels like no one in (big) tech is interested in building products _for_ the customer. They're only interested in building products for extracting money from the customer.

The idea of "charge what the market will bear" has been taken to an extreme by the tech industry. The combination of venture capital, non-ownership (SaaS everything), adhesive ToS, anit-trust levels of monopolization, etc. all work really hard to get customers locked in and dependent on half-assed garbage with a big feature list.

Everyone is building robots that hold you upside down and shake the money from your pockets while calling is SaaS. Boo!
We should be skeptial of any organization who's primary purpose in exicting is to extract as much money from us as possible.

However, the fact we have 'big pharma' is what let us ramp up the vaccine program and save an awful lot of lives. Not just 'the lives' - but society would have had some serious issues if we had to decide to keep people in or let them out to die (only need to look at Brazil or India, where lack of vaccines and populism didn't work out well)
This is the thing that really annoys me, the suggestion that I have an obligation to solve the personal-interaction needs of my co-workers.

I have become genuine non-work friends with some (former and current) co-workers. But there are many with whom I have no interest in being friends, or even talking to them for one second more than is necessary for us to get our jobs done, and that's ok. I shouldn't be forced to fulfill their social needs; that's their job to do on their own time.
This in conjunction with the context that Big Banks are rapidly taking over as land lords [1] is truly absurd. Directionally, tax payers are transferring their wealth to Big Banks.

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27448175
That’s the problem I have when people argue for the important ace of rigorous high school civics: the useful parts won’t prove to be useful until several years after graduation, so even a motivated student has ample time to forget (and the students know they’ll forget, so there’s even less motivation to learn in the first place)
Part of the problem is widespread of MacBooks. When this coronavirus thing was just starting, I thought about maybe working from home and bought a cheap 720p Logitech webcam for my home desktop PC. Year and a half later my picture still looks a magnitude better than most of coworkers' using their MacBook camera.
How does this reward them specifically?
"Same general area" is doing a fair bit of work there :-) Schenectady is probably a 3 or 4 hour drive from Rochester. But to your basic point, there were many (and still are a fair bit) industrial/technology companies in Westchester and points north/west in NY state.
Just responded to the parent comment as well - there's an additional mutable argument to the real `transform` method so it's unsafe to invoke it directly without first checking if the tree is convertible.