skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That assumes you were put on the list for performance reasons.
> The Curb app makes it easy to find a taxi and the prices are almost always lower.

I used to work at Curb years and years ago (and its predecessor TaxiMagic). It's always fun to still hear someone uses it and makes me wonder if any code I wrote could still be running somewhere for it.
Nope. When your RSUs vest, their value at the time of vesting is added to your W-2 income, and gets taxed at regular income.
Love that you're picking up a new language, but that sentence sounded oddly specific. It's akin to saying I'm learning Australian or British English as opposed to just English. Yes, there are vocab and sometimes grammatical differences (e.g. I lost the key vs I've lost the key), but it's 99% the same language.
I'm not too sure about that. I'm also trying to decide if a movie is worth seeing when watching an ad. Clearly the classics are worth seeing, so they would just need to let people know. Is that enough to make up the difference? I'm not sure...
That assumes my use case for a PC is the same as yours, which it isn't since I need more than just a terminal and a browser.
Sam Altman made the interesting observation that people who program might lose their jobs faster than people who move things around physically.

Which is funny when you think about it, but it does seem like it's headed in that direction.
That turgid, wall-of-text article is the absolute antithesis of Pessoa's beautiful, philoso-dream writings.
If you leave in less than a year, don't you have to return the signing bonus as well?
that list should also include anything that touches prototypes
Thanks for the detailed insight and advice. That all makes perfect sense.

We will do as you and neximo64 suggest.

You've both been a great help, cheers.
If you think running a startup is hard, watch 'Startup' on Netflix
Wonderful series with great performances of Edi Gathegi and Martin Freeman [1]. Unbelievable rollercoaster of events with up to date themes like crypto, VÇ's, dark web...

Don't watch it if you're a techno perfectionist. The way they write code is hilarious, releasing software patches is instantaneous and new products are created in a week. Yet, some of the management faults and chasing VC money are quite realistic.

I had a great time (and some great peaceful nights because I realized things can still get worse in startup land ;-)

Post which tech/mgmt pieces you liked most, perhaps with a [spoiler alert] for those who haven't seen it yet.

[1] https://www.netflix.com/title/80154285
How I accidentally took down GitHub Actions (2019)
Wine giant Ste. Michelle sold for $1.2B
I may have found the answer: https://link.springer.com/referencework/10.1007/978-0-387-74...
> End up? It's a circle. The rich will just hang out in their New Zealand bunkers until the chaos subsides, then back to square 1.

Kinda sorta. If things become so chaotic that they have to flee to those bunkers, there's a decent chance the political situation afterwards won't allow them to return to their previous positions.

So, unless their bunker has enough weapons for a small army and they have the skills and mentality to become a petty warlord in rural post-apocalyptic New Zealand, all they can really count on getting from it is a somewhat higher chance to survive.
I got you beat (no offense intended). Back in the dotcom boom my company hired a guy who would come in to the office, throw his jacket over a chair and then go to his other full time job. It took them two months to catch on.
Am I only one who is against regulation? Seems that in few of these big cities we are back to where we were 10 years ago. I remember when I was student in Toronto, taxi cab was so expensive that taking one was completely out of reach for student. If you miss a bus at night, sometimes it was better to wait until next morning or just walk. At the same time you would see lines of taxis in the Front street ideal and not working because prices were so much higher that what people could pay. Combination of price fixing, super expensive taxi license, different insurance that legally drivers had to buy made it completely impossible to move a taxi with lower price. I think at the end both drivers and customers are hurt by this.
> This is the most annoying question in the world.

But this is exactly the information that other people need to plan around to get on with their own work. You need to see things from their perspective. The inner workings of your processes and the long-winded explanation, from their side, is "the most annoying" response in the world.

It's a simple question. The ETA is the only information that is actionable for them. If the answer is "anywhere from a couple days to a month", then flat out say that. If you think that sounds wishy-washy and absurd and that it must then require a long-winded explanation to soften, chances are that it does sound absurd and the long-winded explanation will not soften it, but instead the person may start to think that you are unorganized and clueless. They might start to cringe at the thought of their next interaction with you. Just give them a straight answer.

FWIW, I don't know anything about your system, but it sounds like you need to invest in making triage in your system more efficient.
How are you supposed to assess whether a student has learned quantum mechanics, or chemistry, or calculus if any questions you ask them they can simply contact another student for help, or get someone to do it for them on sites like Chegg? Short of giving an individualized oral exam, which is not feasible for anything but tiny classes, proctored exams are necessary for assessment in such classes. This has nothing to do with memorization or time pressures, and everything to do with making sure the student is the one who actually did the work. In an ideal world one could trust students to do take-home exams on their own, but I’ve yet to be at a university where undergraduates did not take advantage of such trust…
Not sure what I'm missing.

> Just to make your point complete, how do you separate out performances?

I feel like intent is a strong start towards classifying something as a performance.
Most people do use blinds to keep the sun out but they are on the inside of the glass. Blinds on the inside of the glass are sufficient since we are only talking about blocking/reflecting infrared heat. In the US at least, modern windows in the last 20 years can have an inferred reflective coating meaning you don't need blinds at all.

The big issue is humidity. Attic fans work great in low humidity places but by their nature they pull in exterior air. If it's 70F but very humid, then you will not have a great time opening windows even at night. The scenarios in which you don't need AC also work really well with AC; the efficiency (COPR) of a heat pump depends on the temperature difference that you pump heat across. If the exterior temperature is lower at night then the heat pump is going to have great efficiency anyway. Also AC has to condense water (cooler air holds less water), letting in (humid) air at night only to run AC during the day is not as efficient as looks.

I big part of people saving money on cooling when using an attic fan or opening windows is they are probably also just letting the interior reach a higher temperature.

To keep this somewhat on topic, in is more efficient for heat pumps to cool a room than to cool individual people/things inside that room typically because when you are cooling the room you are moving the heat to the outside of an insulated area.
I don't even think it caters particularly well to technical users, since I am one. I think it caters mostly to C programmers who don't use GUIs and web developers. Anyone else is encouraged to change their use case to match if they want to use a Linux Desktop.
At their root core, sure we could generalize that. But I would say like any art, the expression of the story is what matters. I have a hard time connecting films like The Lives of Others, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Les Innocentes, Star Wars, and Austin Powers as "just the same story." In essence all films are either a comedy or tragedy if you really want to get down to it.
So shouldn't they simply enumerate the exceptions that they want to remove instead?
Ozric Tentacles

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeTxhbPgLQI
It's gerting harder to be less of a snob. Years ago I decided to stop turning my nose up at "dumb" movies and just enjoy them but it feels almost as if the industry saw it as a challenge to make people like me scoff. The fandom and fauning is just endless and inescapable to the point tbat it is very hard to ignore.

It was also easier when we were getting big budget art pieces like "No Country" and "The Master" but those seem to have all but disappeared.
I suspect that kind of story is more common at small companies still trying to define a path forward (or with inconsistent management philosophies).

Still, impressive turnaround.
> So perhaps it's not just competition, and we should give some credit to the regulation too.

Or we could accept that "competition" doesn't just have to occur within a free market, and that a regulated market can be efficient while also accounting for externalities that a free market cannot.

EDIT: to clarify, I am agreeing with you overall. I didn't mean my tone to come across as agressive, which re-reading it, I feel it does.
spellcheck (right-click choose spelling menu item) in text fields also dont work which is super annoying
>IMO this is counterintuitive for users. It would be like telling people on windows “This app wants to wipe your C drive” every time an app asks for admin permissions - it could wipe your C drive, but that’s not what it’s asking for.

Well the flip side is that they don't warn the users enough, and they get roasted by the media for "not sufficiently warning the users" or "being complicit in user tracking" or whatever.
The poster you are responding to was referring to heat pumps, not a resistive electric water heater like you assumed.
Yes Im probably average and I’d go with whoever takes me, but as I’m outside of the US it’s all hypothetical
XFone Ubuntu Touch Full Android Support
I have so many questions. The only thing I know about pico8 is it's a VM for very low end hardware, it used a hexidecimal numpad as it's interface, and black and white.

I just ran the download from the website and it's so much more than that. Are there any other resources to learn more about this?
Yes, it basically means "solve 𝐗𝛉 = y for 𝛉", for which inverting 𝐗 is one of the many methods that can be used to solve it. MATLAB also has the same backslash operator to mean the same thing.
You may have already guessed the answer is "no" due to the lack of replies. The issue is the CSS doesn't know what part of the page is within the viewport. Another issue is a table of contents should be in the page before the contents themselves and you generally can't change style of an element based on the state of a later element (I qualify it with "generally" because there are some possibilities with the newish :focus-within pseudoclass).
If your manager has been clearly communicating his displeasure with your performance, then a PIP is really just a signal that you need to leave. If I didn't see eye to eye with a manager all this time, his putting me on a PIP isn't going to suddenly make me change. Conversely, if I accepted his criticism earlier, I would have already changed and not received a PIP.

Of course, if there are bad actors involved, it's a whole other story.
Children are cute and once they grew up they can help you with stuff in life. Once you get old they can take care of you. And why the hell I would be working non stop if I have no one to pass on wealth that I acquired throughout my life.

But some people choose comfort and good life over having kids I'm fine with that but at the times you will feel very lonely.
Wealth has a tendency to manage regulations to keep said wealth. Hence tax exemptions, subsidies, etc.
Second this. Never seen that before either lol
I actually think if it were just the taxes, the innovation probably wouldn't have happened. The bigger problem is that you can't really sell a national canned hard liquor drink, even if the liquor in it has been diluted by mixers down to beer or wine levels of alcohol. Too many states don't allow liquor to be sold anywhere but licensed liquor stores, and shelf space there is too precious for low-priced high-volume beer substitutes. You can sell malt-based hard seltzer in gas stations nearly everywhere.
Might be.
I think a majority of Web jobs will be automated before most "trade" workers are automated. It just makes sense. The nature of Web work itself sort of self-documents the interfaces one would need to hand to a non-technical. Trade work on the other hand is dangerous, extremely context specific, and can't be done entirely from a datacenter.
Even the best case scenarios for the future are looking increasingly grim. Some people might not want to bring a child into a dystopian nightmare.
Try kombucha, that’s what I shifted to after “quitting” alcohol.
I’d say that depends. I got sucked into a couple of different “opportunities” that turned out to be clown shows and I had to leave under six months both times. It was pretty hard on my CV, but what are you going to do?
An 1/8 inch mono jack for remote control is somewhat common, but there's no broadly accepted standards for the protocol. So what's described here (RC-5) probably only works for Marantz and a few other brands. Other brands may have their own way of doing it. Here's a blog post on Pioneer's way of doing it, which they call "SR": https://blog.eikeland.se/2012/09/09/pioneer-sr-link-control/
I'm a bit confused.

The number quoted in the article said there are only 500 taxi's in SF right now? That seems super low and not significant - since all the estimates I can find for SF ubers in the area are in the tens of thousands.

I'm sure once more people will become drivers if surge continues - and people will be looking for work again
> We really need to get past this smug idea that tech work is uniquely difficult in a way that no one else can understand

Is that the only possible reason they wouldn't understand? The etiquette around interruption is different in different professions, and programming seems to be on an extreme edge of a spectrum. There are professions where people work together in offices and interrupt each other all the time, without restraint. I am not smarter than them. They are doing jobs I would not be good at. Something must be different.

Maybe the work is different in some way than most other jobs, or maybe we're defective. Honestly, I think the people who are best at accommodating this difference are alpha management types who look down on programmers. They aren't surprised that we don't cope well with interruptions, just like they're not surprised that their dog is afraid of fireworks. "Stay away from my programmers. They work better when nobody talks to them."

It's people who think we're really smart, or who rely on empathy to relate to us, who keep interrupting, because they can't wrap their heads around the idea that it's hard for us. Good communication is not a magic solution for this. Every time you try to explain, they'll translate it into something that feels reasonable and relatable to them. PragmaticPulp told me that interruptions are super bad for his productivity... so whenever I have questions I'll just pop in and out really quickly. PragmaticPulp told me that interruptions are super bad for his productivity... because I should have taken that question to John instead. PragmaticPulp told me that interruptions are super bad for his productivity... because he's been under a lot of stress this week. PragmaticPulp told me that interruptions are super bad for his productivity... because he doesn't like me and doesn't like talking to me.

The idea that what we're saying is a straightforward expression of something we actually experience is way more bizarre and unlikely to them than the idea that we're trying to say something else and it's coming out in a garbled or passive-aggressive way.

I think that's why, as misguided as the article's suggestion is, the idea of allowing people to experience what we experience is so appealing. If they could experience it firsthand, then when we talked to them about it, they could accept it at face value.
Not really, no. It tastes a lot different because of the fermentation process, during which the sugars are turned into alcohol.
Ahoy. I am the author of SpriteStack.
I am really honored to be on HN front page and I would like to straighten some misconceptions about this app.

The version that is available and its trailer has little to do with the current state of the application.

New release brings voxels, lowpoly and sprites together to create 3D animated game objects and export them as 2D spritesheets. It's purpose is not to replace your favorite software (Aseprite, MagicaVoxel, PicoCAD...) but to bind them all together into something even more useful from a 2D gamedeveloper point of view. So it can import - a lot of things.

Please check this post/video that is more accurate about what SpriteStack is than the 2019 trailer https://www.patreon.com/posts/spritestack-2021-53317888
I was responding to:

> I don't see the why of the voxel sprites compared to the beautiful 3D rendering.

Also, the project homepage says, "SpriteStack is a voxel editor suited for 2D artists"
There are other frameworks than strict personal net worth maximization.
The trick I find is to drink enough alcohol before you get there not to give a shit any more. Whether or not that's a good or a bad idea I haven't established yet.
Having only seen in on TV (multiple times) I saw the 70mm version at a local cinema recently. Amazing experience, and it holds up remarkably well IMHO.
Are you sure the computer inside the computer (Intel ME) isn't spying on you?
I'm not sure about this particular fabric, but there are materials which will reduce temperature below ambient (i.e. below air temperature), not just reduce radiative heating from the sun. You do this by exploiting the "cold resource" of space! See https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/10/eaat9480?intcmp...
I lived in NYC in the 1990's and early 2000's too... and, IMO, taxi service was fine to great in NYC. Hold up youhr hand and 9 times out of 10, you had a cab within 5 minutes or less. It was better than any other city I travelled to, perhaps with the exception of London.
> There's a common meme in the northern latitudes that people "down south" consume unreasonable amounts of energy on AC, but

Depending on where "down south" you are, the AC could well be on eleven months of the year.

I'm in Florida now, and you can usually turn it off for parts of November - February but never every day. I'd average it at 10 months of ac usage in a year

When I was in NYC, the ac would be used for about 1.5 months and the heat for ~ 3. By being temperate in spring, early summer and fall, little or no external energy needed.
This seems to imply millennials are lazy. They're the most educated generation in US history, and at the same time, the poorest in at least 60 years.

COVID relief funds are only paying them more than their normal wage because they got paid so badly to begin with. All older generations have averages incomes significantly higher than what COVID unemployment pays. And that's despite Millennials being more educated than all of these prior generations.

It's finally given many of them the freedom and agency to choose their jobs rather than take the first thing they can find to avoid going broke. Many of these people looking for jobs were also the first laid off at the beginning of the pandemic. Why should we feel bad for companies that treated these people as disposable?

There's not a "worker shortage". Companies are complaining that they have to raise wages to attract talent because workers are shopping around and getting counter offers.

This is not unprecedented. The same phenomenon happened after the Spanish flu, and was arguably a big factor in the collapse of the fuedal system during the black death.

Wide scale destruction of jobs followed by increased demand gives workers leverage. You have a huge group of people not afraid of being jobless because they already have been.

We have to remember that 600k people are dead too. A decent chunk of available labor is gone forever.

COVID restrictions blocking employers from hiring foreign labor is also a factor. There's increased competition for American workers because it's harder to import cheap labor
Then you’d be the kind of person I’d say this to. I am very open and accommodating for individuals on my project that are trying to get their task done. I’ll sit down and help, guide, whatever is needed. I won’t allow a marketer, ad agent, or sales person to demand that I stop everything I’m doing and address the issue they have, only to tell them that it isn’t going to be done this sprint and you’ll have to talk to our producer to get that task.

The only people that I’ve worked with that were intrusive, pushy, and demanding of engineers immediate time were the people that were trying to go around the producer because they already knew their issue was low priority for the team.
Event calendars in cities I’ve lived in typically have “special midnight movie” or “classic film screening” events listed, alongside things like “art in the park” or “July 4th fireworks.” I think event calendars like that can be pretty big drivers of traffic, and they should be relatively easy to setup almost anywhere.

Meetup.com could even be used to get the word out, though use of that might be limited in many places.
I’ll disagree because the 286 systems have quite a capable MMU - capable of running demand paged 286 System V Unix. Not that 64K segments were ultimately that useful as systems grew. But a better MMU than any PDP-11 for sure.
Had multiple experiences back in the day of walking miles at night to get home while trying to get a cab, on a Friday or Saturday it was very difficult.
Until for..of came around, `Array.prototype.map.call($nodeList, myFn)` was pretty much the way to iterate over things that were "array-like" but didn't actually inherit from Array, so didn't have such methods.
You have: ((au + (10 mi)) / au) ^ 2
You want:
Definition: 1.0000002

(viewing the Sun as a point source located at its center and applying the inverse square law; I'm sure we could find a much better model for this)
The PDP-10 - and TOPS-10 - were also used by Gates and Allen (and Davidoff) to write their version of BASIC.

The lineage is more like OS-8 -> TOPS-10 -> CP/M -> DOS, although TOPS-10 did a lot more than CP/M etc because it was running on a small mainframe and not a micro.

PDP-10s were also one of the foundations of ARPANET. And also used in early AI research. And also an influence on RMS.

There was also a separate TOPS-20 lineage. TOPS-20 was the successor to TOPS-10 and (more or less) the anti-UNIX. It was designed to be as friendly as possible with command completion and other niceties like versioning and a kind of trash can - although it was quite verbose and had some strange command names of its own. (Like EXPUNGE.)

Some of the philosophy of TOPS-20 made it into VMS. Cutler famously hated UNIX, but by the time he was done with NT the remains of VMS had been thoroughly Microsofted and it was hard to see any of the TOPS-20 lineage left in the UX.

DEC shot itself in the kneecaps when it killed the PDP-10 line in 1983 and went all-in on the VAX. The VAX was a perfectly fine computer, but culturally it wasn't in the same space. PDP-10s were almost proto-Macs in the mainframe market - very popular with academics and creative researchers.

The VAX felt more like a functional but unexciting proto-PC product. A lot of PDP-10 customers - and not a few PDP-10 engineers and developers - never forgave DEC for the move.