skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I completely agree and have felt this happen to me personally. I maintained employment throughout 2020 but have felt quite a strong pull towards reconsidering how I spend my time and energy, and how much of it goes to "work."

Out of curiosity, do you know any literature that I could read to understand the eternal debate about Diogenes that you mention? I'm trying to understand the more philosophical questions around work and our modern culture finding itself in a quite a jolting self-aware realization about work, time, attention and our liberties -- and I'd love to read some of the existing foundational lit in this space.

I studied comp sci, so really just doing this out of a deep curiosity and an understanding that I didn't get the opportunity to study any of this in college.
Because you're wasting the company's time and money, making them spend resources on interviewing someone with no intention of actually joining the company. All in order to underhandedly advertise to them without their knowledge or consent.
Doing the math, 2 to the 28th is around 268 million.
There's something fascinating about fractals that makes me stop whatever I'm doing and pause to look at them
Is there any evidence that this is due to regulation and not just market forces coupled with a finite pool of burnable vc funding?
Gathering requirements will be the product manager's job. Implementation will be the job of the top fraction of our field. Complexity can be managed by a team of humans a fraction of the size of your current team. If you're a competent engineer, you have a better future ahead of you but if you're doing routine work or templating boilerplate... it's almost over for you.
I live in the PNW and heat dome notwithstanding very few homes have AC because it almost never gets above 90ish degrees in the summer. A good cross breeze is more than sufficient to keep cool in that case.

Winters, though, need a lot of heating to keep the place comfortable and most homes due to lack of said AC use the highly inefficient baseboard heaters to warm their entire house 6 months or more out of the year.
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I came here to write exactly that.

There was once a time when such 'js ninja' skills were appropriate, but now they almost represent an anti-pattern in normal usage.

For some kind of framework, maybe.

But otherwise, they're just going to cause problems and they don't really provide something really valuable wherein another more basic use case wouldn't be better.

A pragmatic approach might be to 'stick to a solid version of Typescript' and even then be wary of the fancy stuff unless it's truly needed. (Say, you're building a lib or some core module).
Taking notes is the superweapon for mitigating distractions in my experience. It doesnt eliminate the immediate impact, but it allows you to get back to a productive state so much more quickly.

As a team leader in a 7 person company, I am not entitled to any degree of dedicated focus time during the work week. Everything is ultimately my responsibility and I have to answer some important questions immediately. Being aware that you are going to be disrupted and building in some mechanisms to deal with this reality is probably the more practical path.

Trying to convince your PMs that distractions are lethal and that developers need to be protected in some anechoic chamber 8 hours a day is never going to fly. It is total fantasy. I personally try to minimize the distractions that I as a developer incur upon other developers, but I cannot change the natures of other team members or artificially inhibit their interactions. People are just going to have to learn to get along and develop boundaries naturally. Don't be afraid to stand up for yourself, but also realize you are almost certainly not a special unicorn and that eventually you will have to interact with your teammates (the ones who don't browse HN) for the business to extract any value out of you.

An additional strategy is to try and decompose your work effort into smaller steps before you begin. Trying to eat the whole elephant in 1 sitting is how you wind up in a lot of these "interrupted" situations to begin with.
I am not using spritestacking as a mean to render things since a long time. It's intentionally sharp, low res and non antialiased because that's the style I like in games.

Please check media on my twitter to get a notion of how it really looks like right now https://twitter.com/rezoner/media
Another favorite of mine from that era is Three Little Kittens, a story of working cats.

https://archive.org/details/ThreeLit1938
I have probably used these functions only a handful of times since ES6 came out
Yeah.

Linked repo has only 2 commits.[0]

[0] https://github.com/not-an-aardvark/every-git-commit-shorthas...
> isn't considered as energy the same way electricity is

That is a good point, I think you're exactly right. I just tried to figure out how many kWh is equivalent to a therm of natural gas, and the answer of course is 'it depends.' In round numbers it seems like 1 therm is about 30 kWh.

Using myself as an example, during a cold month I might use about 90 therms. In a hot month I may use 1900 kWh for cooling. Gas is significantly cheaper indeed, though it's noticeably more energy (and that's after converted to hypothetical electricity, not the energy content of the raw gas).

What a PITA to compare that. And it's a pretty rough comparison, indeed, because gas is predominantly going for heat in the winter, but I have a gas stove and a gas water heater too. And I have an electric car, which pushes the kWh total up a bit. I'd have to do a much more detailed analysis if I actually wanted to compare the energy usage.
Every top comment on HN is someone with an unprofitable use case complaining that no one serves them. Change my mind.
Wolfram Alpha and Mathematica got me through Calculus. I paid for an account because I absolutely loved the "show step by step process" feature so you could actually learn how and why you were getting various results.
This period of more expensive ubers has been only a few months.

Uber and Lyft have been operating for 10ish years.

Cherry picking.
Please check out my twitter for current examples - I have been polishing this renderer for 2 years now and it has improved a lot https://twitter.com/rezoner/media
When you merge PRs, you lose knowledge
That does make a lot of sense. One question I have is how this practice will affect their reputation. My theory is that the reputational damage will most adversely affect their ability to hire more experienced workers. But maybe their plan is to hire more people fresh out of college and bring them up internally (the ones that don’t get URA’d anyway), in which case the reputational damage may not matter as much?
It still seems like a pretty big long term gamble to me. I have to think a lot of experienced workers will be reluctant to even consider working at a place with this level of shenanigans. I know I would be.
This reminds me of a story my dad used to tell. A friend of him was tasked by the wildlife protection agency to count the grouse population in the county every year.

What he did was to walk a given path through the mountains at the same time each year, and count how many grouse he saw along the way. This was then used by the agency to estimate the population.

One year he was unavailable, and as such he asked his friend to do it. He instructed him on the path, how to count and all that.

Later that year the local paper's headline stated "Dramatic increase in grouse population!"

Turned out his buddy didn't bother to do the long walk, and instead just came up with a number he submitted to the agency.
> We really need to get past this smug idea that tech work is uniquely difficult in a way that no one else can understand.

When you think what you do is special, you will only look to other 'special' people for solutions to your problems. If you understand that many disciplines have the same problems, you can crib ideas from them. It's a major reason I push people to have extracurriculars.

Most of my crisis management skills came from volunteering at public events for clubs. Your kitchen renovation guy could fill a book on how to manage customer expectations.

> Instead, communicate like peers: "Sorry, I'm in the middle of something important. Can you come back at lunch time?"
> Or: "Is this urgent? I can't really stop what I'm doing right now, but I can stop by your office around 3PM. Will that work?"

You're trying to avoid dumping brain state, so the more open ended the question is, the more state you lose. They start bringing up related facts that your brain expects to hold onto in order to fulfill social obligations, and each fact wipes out more of your train of thought. Asking the person if it's urgent invites them to monologue. Your smarter peers will see these questions as equivalent, the rest of your coworkers won't. Don't ask them to decide. Make them decide.

"Can you come back in X minutes/at time Y?" is short. Invites little commentary. If the answer is, "No you're late for a customer meeting" or "The building is on fire can't you hear the alarm?" then you were going to be interrupted anyway. We don't want to debate the relative importance of these two tasks. If we do then the interrupter wins, whether they deserve to or not.
Bluetooth permissions are grouped in under the Location permissions on both iOS & Android.

This is because Bluetooth _could_ be used to determine a user's location by using beacons and constantly scanning or whatever.

But this has led to nothing but endless confusion for users (and constantly gets highlighted as suspicious in online forums), so they really need to come up with better wording. Like "This app is requesting Bluetooth permissions, which _could_ be used to determine your location".
> Unethical actions are unethical even if the "game" allows for it.

Yeah, but nobody cares what you think is unethical. If the game allows unethical moves to be made, they will be made, because people play to win. And you can cry and complain all you want, but people strive to play optimally, and unless you change the rules of the game, people will continue to play in ways that upset you if it suits them to.

> non-sustainable companies are NOT givin a "competitive advantage" by capitalism.

Yes they are. Or rather, companies that care one way or another are at a disadvantage relative to companies who will make the optimal choice independent of whether or not it is sustainable. If we want to encourage sustainability, we have to use legislation to re-align incentives such that sustainability is the optimal choice. Otherwise, corporations will continue to be unsustainable whenever it suits them.

> government programs written by big business for big business to ensure the status quo

xD

Dominant corporations don't need the government to help them stay on top. All they need is for the government to get out of the way. When you have money, you can use it to influence the market to make more money. That's how advertising works. That's how vertical integration and walled gardens like Apple's app store work. That's how mergers and corporate consolidation work. Money is power, and market share is power. The state is the only thing powerful enough to compete with corporations, which is why corporations spend so much money lobbying the government to de-regulate and back down.
For example Ancient Rome thrived when they accepted immigrants and started to weaken whey they refused them.[0]

[0] https://time.com/5850622/rome-immigrants/
Aren't these opt in?
You could do it like this:

const mapNodeList = (...nodeList) => nodeList.map(myFn);
mapNodeList(...$nodeList)
Show HN: TsParticles 1.31.0 and 2K stars on GitHub
You can do it without either of those with this:

Array.from(nodeList$).map(myFunc)

or if you want to spread

[...nodeList$].map(myFunc)
I think it's cost, especially in an area where A/C isn't needed (or at least, hasn't been needed in the past).

I live in the Pacific Northwest and when I wanted to swap out my furnace for a heat pump, a few vendors aid that they don't install heat pumps, they could do a furnace or A/C, but not a heat pump. I have no idea why that is, I figured that heat pump installation is nearly identical to A/C. (I still use a furnace for emergency heat as I wanted to be able to run from a small generator if needed)

The heat pump + furnace replacement cost 2 - 3X more than just a simple replacement furnace, so I can see why someone wouldn't want to spend the money if they didn't need A/C.
I was kicked out of a taxi once in Montreal when the driver heard I was going to the airport. Fortunately he did so by a cab stand so I got another quickly but it was jarring.

Had cab machines have “broken” electronic payment terminals more times than I can count.

There is on local taxi company that’s always excellent, Atlas Taxi. But other than them had real lousy experiences in the pre uber days. And very hard to get an invoice for tax purposes even if you paid by card.
As I understand it, though, studios won’t release many of their more valuable library titles for theatrical exhibition at any price, presumably to marginally enhance their cachet on streaming services.
Weird. Air and oil cooled BMWs are actually pretty nice to work on (except the the R1100GS toolkit doesn't include feeler gauges for the intake and exhaust valves).
They are not proposing a 1:1 relationship between use in games and medics being killed. That's not really how the meaning of symbols change. They are saying that using the medical symbol for game or media elements who are appropriate targets dilutes the clarity of the symbol. I think the argument is pretty straightforward and I'm not sure how one would "document" a symbolic dilution beyond suggesting that it will happen.

Also, if you are asking for examples in media, they are extremely easy to find. Here's an example from a comic strip commenting on TF2: https://photos.smugmug.com/photos/217534009_hZ5oD/0/1050x100...
I can imagine a big company with a monorepo (i.e. Google) reaching that number in a few years.
> No, the reality is studios are consolidating control over their content.

Ya, it sure seems like everyone's pulling their own content in tighter.

I couldn't quickly find out how many movies, shows, etc are published every year. If anything, it seems like the entertainment industry is in a free-for-all. I'm almost curious how it shakes out.

Can we agree that the prior theatrical distribution system, so near and dear to Barry Diller's heart, got mooted?
> I really don't know what nafarious thing people imagine is really occuring.

Unregulated anticheat software retaining user clipboard contents, sending/uploading arbitrary files, all window titles, all processes and computer and username, and any other IPs on LAN and ARP cache, sending in plaintext across country borders, ignoring GDPR/CCPA/etc.
I'm not sure. I think if we look at the net of what's happened: Uber execs and investors made (m/b)illions, taxi drivers got absolutley hosed - most now essentially are just extracting against the equity in their cars, and riders have got a marginally more reliable service.

So to put this in terms - the rich got much richer, and the middle class benefitted by exploiting the working class. That's doesn't seem like a good outcome to me (not least because the billionaires that benefit literally spunk their profits into outer space befroe thinking about paying tax).
The scam hits a bit differently when you have $500 of luggage in the trunk. I've also done the "No working credit card reader? Sucks for you then" and walked away. But never when there's luggage locked in their trunk.
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid_weekly/index.htm

474,000 of those deaths are to people aged 65 and older, so probably out of the workforce already due to retirement.

And the rest would be those with existing serious health conditions and so also likely to be not working.
So the first premise isn't true because iPhone sales depends on Apps as a 'pillar' of the offer. No great app-platform, no fat iPhone revenue. So a 1/2 decent platform would still exist.

Second, we have Java based, side-loadable Android universe as a reference point to determine rates of piracy. We also have desktop.

While piracy is always some kind of problem, it's generally not a problem that has wiped out companies. Adobe does just fine, in fact, the piracy threshold might be a reasonable 'valve' for people who don't actually have the ability to pay, to use the app. Adobe benefits from this. So long as people are truly 'not going to be customers' then people using the software is mostly good.

30% is nowhere near approaching a reasonable fee to 'defend from piracy'. It's not really even part of the equation frankly.
They were pretty widely used (especially in library code) before arrow functions were added to the language.
Yuzu Switch Emulator – Shader Decompiler Rewrite
> very few homes have AC

That's actually not correct, though I would have figured the same thing myself before the recent heat wave made it a discussion point. Seattle is among the lowest in the nation, but it's still just under half of all homes. Portland is about three quarters.
Jurassic Park reference? Nice. :)

How did that lack of performance oversight work out for Nedry anyway? Oh...
Knapsack 0/1 for Dummies
It’s hard to draw clear lines between domains, but I think for public representation of official organisations, there isn’t any other. So for this purpose it’s dominant.
In one direction. It can lean in the other. :-)
Was it this one?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27111887

Found by typing "lightning vaccine" in the search box below, and setting the box filters as "Search <comments> by <date> for <past year>".

They didn't make the site, though. It's a page on cdc.gov that has tables and graphs comparing COVID deaths with other deaths by age-group.
Same here, never even heard of this site.
20% of the AMC float is short, and could cover in less than 2 days. 25% of the GME float is sold short, but it would take a bit longer for shorts to cover, looks like 5-7 days based on avg 10d volume.

The thesis you posted is Wrong.
This looks super awesome
I think I'd mostly be okay going back to in-office work if I had an office door, which of course I won't.
Are animals more conscious than we are?
I'd be scared because I did everything since then pretty much perfectly. Wouldn't want to fuck it up.

Now age 18-27 I would love to redo. Help my wife get therapy sooner.
So this is basically a proof of work algorithm.
Houses - and especially high rise developments - are increasingly built according to global fashions or individualistic whims, divorced from regional styles which evolved with the local climate and available materials.
Agreed. 'Indie' = low budget and weird/niche/slightly pretentious/not for me but grudging respect for it; 'B' = low budget and I think it's bad; 'cult' = low budget and I think it's good.

It's not obvious that one would rather apply 'cult' than 'independent' to something one likes, but there we go, language!
think of it as “leveling the playing field” in which it over time asymptotically approaches shit
Prototypes are quite simple. An object may have a prototype. If it does then that prototype is just another object, which is considered the first objects parent (which works with method calls like class based inheritance). The chain ends because it's also possible for an object not to have a prototype.
That creates an entire extra list of garbage.
I bet this FOCUS list is used by managers to prevent good engineers moving to a different team.

Also my experience tells me that all these mega corps have very similar culture.
Searching Google News for this subject finds it was mentioned only once...in the submitted article from Russia Today. (Which was published over a week ago.)

https://www.google.com/search?q=French+Senate+considers+mand...
This should be an evil advice mallard pic
These units were a huge inspiration for me - if you dig through various modding forums you will notice that they use a lot of unknown dedicated software and that there are tons of models created outside of the gamedev bubble by extremely talented people that have nothing to do with the industry on a daily basis and because of that they remain pretty much anonymous.
I have worked with hundreds of build systems as I'm a bit of a build systems nerd. Bazel is very far from the best. And there's no such thing as a build system "for professionals". That's not a goal of a build system.
OMG I hadn't seen that ill have to share that with my co workers :-)
I'm curious if any Amazon (ex-)employee have experience with this that they can share.

A lot of Amazon's practices get really severe backlash online, and yet if working for Amazon is as bad as they say, how is Amazon one of the biggest employers of software engineers?

I personally buy into the hivemind and would not work for Amazon, but it seems to me like there is an incongruity between how bad their practices are and how many talented software engineers are willing to work for them.
Don’t use redis for those requirements

For failure use sentinel or cluster - works great
apply/bind/call aren't really abstracted away at all in react. In older versions they did do the binding magically for you, but when they made the switch to es6 classes they stopped doing that in favor of writing JS more like vanilla JS with less magic, outside of JSX of course.

Now with hooks/function components being the most common way of writing apps, there's almost no need for binding or dealing with "this" at all.
Love it - I dream of an alternate universe in which IoT was done with infrared, RCA jacks, and 8 bit microcontrollers instead of JSON, Docker and billion-transistor SoCs.

I have a raspberry pi set up with an infrared LED to control my old NAD amplifier. It's from the time period where no stereo amplifier was complete without a motorized volume knob, so the knob physically turns when I control it from my phone over HTTP - to me this is much cooler than a touch screen or voice control :)
Super interesting, thanks!
My experience in NYC over the last decade has been the opposite where drivers were doing things like pissing in a bottle while I was in the car with them, or similar to you having the meter broken, which starts miraculously working when I tell them I guess I have to call this number here and report it.

I won't use anything but rideshare apps because they seem to have higher standards for the cars and the drivers.