skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to manage a team of mixed very-experimented / very-juniors and I'd make sure every senior worked on stuff I knew were not in their comfort zone, and assign tasks in their expertise domain to juniors. They'd act as consultants, while checking other parts of the codebase/docs (as noobs) for incoherencies, sand-in-gears, and improving them. Over time, the experts kept things getting better, up to their common standards, and the juniors would level up far more quickly than other parts of the org.

To keep things interesting/challenging for the experts I'd have them also reach across domains (to system eng, safety, quality assurance, bids, R&D) and sometimes even overreach (blur the boundaries) while protecting them from corporate-strife. Software is far more interesting in the context of the product, the customers, actors on every critical team. I'd also have them try new techs, or find some innovation/maturity budget for 'pet peeve hunts' and we'd often end up with new tools, large-scale improvements in code, perf, readability, robustness, observability, or testing. I'm going off topic here but I'm sad that 'Slack', the book, isn't more widely read.
So what network is it using ? What frequency ? What range ? What is the maximum size for messages ? Where is the coverage map ? Is it LoRa ? Sigfox ? It says cellular, so, LTE ? Something else ? Anyone has data on this ?
They already got away with it. They sold to Bayer and like Chevron they will claim they are not responsible for what the previous company did.
Please. We have 40% unemployment in Greece among young people. Housing is bloody expensive to build. It is not some goverment conspiracy!

Did you actually try to immigrate into US? It is one of the worst countries at accepting immigration. Any normal country gives citizenship after 5 years of residency. In US it is like 30 years.

And from far away it looks like your melting pot is broken. Too many groups fighting each other.
how can we contact each other?
>Why did it require having a woman take her own life for us to finally start having a serious conversation about this?

It actually took a lawsuit by the California
DFEH for this conversation to actually happen. The suicide presumably happened some time ago, I'm assuming before March 2020 at the very least since it was a company trip.
By the numbers, the secure enclave implementation is $50. I wonder if Logitech will get a shot at TouchID like the Crayon did for the Apple Pencil? I'd pay $50 to add it to my K380.

$99.00 Magic Keyboard - US English

$149.00 Magic Keyboard with Touch ID for Mac models with Apple silicon - US English

$129.00 Magic Keyboard with Numeric Keypad - US English

$179.00 Magic Keyboard with Touch ID and Numeric Keypad for Mac models with Apple silicon - US English
Check out the K3 or K1 from Keychron; you get benefits of low profile with the tactility of a mechanical keyboard
Yeah that works for me as well. But I usually ignore critic score and I have noticed that audience score always/mostly correlates to the series/movies that I end up liking.
>Impact to fish waterlife, the direct affect of creating cancer in humans in short order, the impact to the insect food life cycle which affect the entire chain.

>Its a killer. There is no arguing that - and seriously ALL of it ends up in the water. The most important resource on the planet.

I'm sorry but the research just doesn't agree.

>Impact to fish waterlife

What is the impact you are referring to? An impact can be anywhere from barely observable to catastrophic. There have been many studies on the impact of glyphosate on water life. Nothing so far has conclusively ascertained a significant threat.

>the direct affect of creating cancer in humans in short order

Where does this come from? There have been no recorded cases to support this claim.

>the impact to the insect food life cycle which affect the entire chain.

Again, what is the magnitude of impact to which you refer? Saying something has impact, without further context, is almost meaningless.

>Its a killer. There is no arguing that

Killer of what?

>I am surprised I have to even say this.

Not much has been said short of broad claims and generalizations without any supporting information.
Unless the outcome of that conversation is a systematic review of how reward works for all employees & a counter-offer with no risk that breaking the kayfabe about the company mission harmed my future aspirations within the company, the conversation is too risky to have. The problem will be back in a year.
the entire point is that companies spend far more money having to replace current employees because they don't give raises.

Recruiting and onboarding a new engineer takes months and the lost productivity is at least 100K when you factor in engineering hours spent interviewing, recruiter fees, months for new dev to learn code base, etc.
Funny I switched from a Mac keyboard to an ergodox and it’s done wonders for my wrists. Have you tried elevating your wrists and adjusting the keyboards on stilts to make them more ergonomic? That helped me a lot too
I concur with this. My experience with Apple’s short-throw low profile keyboards has been great. It reduces the angle of my wrist at the the keyboard. Yes, I’m sure it could be typing differently, but I find these to be the most comfortable for my typing style.

I’ve tried to find non-Apple brand with similar feel, but nothing has matched the quality or comfort.
I have searched and been given links to numerous studies in the past, none of which seem to contradict anything I've said- but that's all I will say in reply- your first sentence is enough for me to know this will not be a fruitful exchange worth continuing.

I was once emotionally involved in glyphosate discussion and I understand people will have a visceral response to someone questioning the anti-glyphosate hype - I used to be part of that hype. (Monsanto was involved in Agent Orange production for f's sake, so this is anything but a defense of the company or its practices in general, or a defense of Bayer or its acquisition.)

So I've tried to approach the topic purely without an emotional run to a particular viewpoint without considering the current state of evidence, I'm just hoping more can do the same.

That, and I am taking into consideration other posts here which are going more into detail about other things to think about concerning glyphosate exposure that may not have occurred to me- I appreciate that level of conversation, not your unnecessary condescension.
Plan 9 failed because Bell Labs management did not care enough, and eventually placed the team into the Inferno project to try fight against Sun and Java, that is why.

The lesson is that if you want a project to succeed ensure management is on your side for the long road.

I still need to care, because the final decision what to use is not always on my table.
That's what it comes loaded with. 500Mb data and 10 years connectivity, which I assume you can top-up.
Final Fantasy XIV has been experiencing constant growth since Shadowbringers came out in 2019, and in the last few months has absolutely exploded and obliterated WoW's numbers even before the harassment allegations came to light, and yet XIV's instance system is thoroughly built around an LFR-esque system called Duty Finder.

The original version of XIV wasn't like this at all, and that version was a massive flop, but then it was rebooted into its current incarnation by Naoki "Yoshi-P" Yoshida, who has extensive experience playing MMOs for decades from Ultima Online to EverQuest to old-school WoW (I would recommend watching Noclip's documentary on XIV [1] [2] [3] for more on Yoshi-P's background and the decision to completely reboot the game). It's precisely because of his experience with the warts and frustration of old-school MMOs that XIV is so streamlined and committed to not wasting the player's time, and XIV is massively, head-over-heals successful for it.

It turns out people really, really don't like forced socialization, and when an MMO comes along that does away with it, people flock to it in droves. The facts don't bear out your allegation that forced socialization is "the real reason most people stick around": XIV's runaway head-over-heels success is due to the fact that it so thoroughly eschews forced socialization that it's often described as a single-player JRPG punctuated by multi-player instances and a completely optional set of social side content.

[1] part 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xs0yQKI7Yw4

[2] part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoOI5R-6u8k

[3] part 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONT6fxiu9cw
The key words that oversight organizations keep repeating are basically "There's no evidence of long term health effects when used as directed."

The problem with glyphosate is that even if it does turn out to cause some kind of cancer, it's acute toxicity is incredibly low, lower than table salt. As as a result, people can easily ignore the directions for years with minimal, if any, health effects.

However, the anti-glyphosate crowd has completely failed for the last 40 years to provide any definitive proof that it causes cancer, what cancers it might cause, any kind of dose-response curve, or any other evidence that what we're seeing is anything else that chance. Non-hodgkin's lymphoma is relatively rare, but glyphosate usage is not. Take any popular product, nail polish, Nike shoes, Cheeze-its, and with enough scrutiny you will be able to correlate the population of heavy users with some rare and critical health condition. It's inevitable. You can tell such a claim is likely spurious by weak and contradictory findings, alongside frequent goalpost moving and changing claims from the product's critics. This is exactly what we see with glyphosate.

So why is glyphosate so criticised? Why did Greenpeace fight nuclear power so hard in the 60's and 70's, even though fossil fuels were far worse for their claimed cause? Why are there so many anti-vaxers? Why was golden rice destroyed? People don't need a rational reason to fervently take up a cause. Especially if they think they're fighting an evil empire.

The craziest thing is that even if glyphosate is as carcinogenic as its detractors claim, it's still far less toxic than most, if not all, of the other less controversial herbicides. In other words, anti-glyphosate campaigners are not choosing targets based on harm, they're choosing targets based on popularity.
I know "meta" is discouraged on HN but I absolutely love that I can participate in a forum where Ray Ozzie replies to a comment made by John Nagle.
so i think that's actually part of what I found notable about one of the posed hypotheses nearer the end of the video - the complex nature of the wavefunction essentially gets transformed into a 'more intuitive' lattice node space-like rotation within the Kleinert elastic crystal model. which, as someone who spent a short time 'getting used to' qm, seems very tempting.

plus, dont Hilbert spaces assume they are infinitessimally detailed (ie: complete)? which seems like it could lead to potential collisions with set-theoretic geometry, eg possibly some potential for a physical manifestation of the banach-tarski paradox, which would clearly violate conservation laws
Shaving Months Off Multi-Player Game Development with Core
How did you resolve it?
In a modified configuration, this will completely eat the gps tracker market. The pricing is insane. Normally if you want to track something like a car, you have to get a little tracking device (Which to be fair can be had from alibaba for ~$15) and put a sim in it at a minimum of $10/month.

Getting a ping every 10 minutes with location is more than ample for most things. I suppose you could also give it a request to turn on minute-based updates as well if need be.
Protecting against any kind of remote exploit is kinda useful too.
I see the $5/month plan here: https://www.t-mobile.com/cell-phone-plans/affordable-data-pl...

Their hotspot page shows two which are free with a 5GB plan, but I can't find a deal which makes them free with the 512MB one though.
Blizzard complaint: female employee takes own life after nude pics were shared
This looks nice as long you don't bundle with Magic Mouse.
I thought Intel was stiffing ML people too, maybe Gelsinger kicked some butts in management.
Show HN: A ray tracer (Monte Carlo path tracer) from scratch in C++
Ybarra is a very hardcore WoW player. I'd trust him more than most.
I used to study and focus on security a lot more and keep up with trends. After several interviews this year I realize a lot of jobs prioritize leetcode over everything else. It's pretty annoying and makes me wonder if the focus for tech works is leetcode above all else then no wonder so many companies have insecure apps and servers.
I'm not particularly impressed with this allegation.

First off, it tries to use lube and a butt plug as some sort of shock. But personally, I couldn't care less if this guy or gal liked stuff shoved up their butt during sex. It doesn't make me clutch my pearls, rather makes me question the author.

Second, how in the world can you "confirm" that something "may" have happened. It's without meaning. Anyone can "confirm" that anything "may" have happened.

Lastly, what's with the passive voice? "were alleged"? Who is alleging and how do they know it happened?

I don't doubt for a second that she could have been driven to suicide by sexual harassment at Blizzard, but this is a poor attempt at showing that's what happened.
Just ordered one. Was hoping this would happen!
Ask HN: What's the answer to “Back to the office to train younger poeople”?
One of the major arguments I have seen to get back into the office is to help train younger / newer employees - this article for example: https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/back-to-office-duty-older-workers-young-people-gillian-keegan-wfh-b948933.html

What is the answer to this for remote workers? What can we do so we dont have to commute and spend all our money on coffee?
Are herbicides really needed in the consumer lawn and market? Weeding the garden can be done manually, or even now robotically: https://tertill.com/
Rachel By the Bay posted a long list of "magic numbers" in November of last year, including some of significance for the C-64 and VIC-20.

https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2020/11/26/magic/
I fundamentally disagree with this philosophy. I get that Microsoft wants the average user not to shoot themselves in the foot and that's what Win Home edition can do. If I have Win Pro there should at least be an easy "i know the risks, please give me back all my foot-guns" button that does away with all this stuff in one click.

An anecdote:
I recently bought an android based MP3 player, it's locked down to only be able to use a couple different apps because it's a tiny device with a small battery and running standard android stuff results in terrible battery life and performance. All that is true and yet the company behind it provides clear instructions on how to REMOVE this limit and even leaves the bootloader completely open so you can flash your own roms. I find it hard to put into words the warm fuzzy feeling I got when I realized that I wouldn't have to spend time fighting arbitrary restrictions on something I bought. It was truly an unexpected breath of fresh air.
One of the most nihilistic takes I’ve seen in a long while.

With “worth”, “value”, “liability” you are only talking about the narrow, economic definitions of those words.

The problem is not everything valuable is captured in economic expression, not everything is readily marketable, which doesn’t mean they are not valuable. And I am not being romantic here; for the longest time we suffered for not measuring the value of childbirth, mothering a newborn and general domestic labor for example. (Surrogacy being new aside, also doesn’t make a reliable proxy because it doesn’t measure mothering in situ, contractual asymmetries get priced into the transaction.)

Hyperindividualistic western fantasy assumes even attachment and emotional needs can be marketed (eg therapy), but suicide rates show that traditional close-knit societies fare much better. Just because you can’t measure the dollar amount of small talk and care from your neighborhood grocer, doesn’t mean it is worthlessness.

People are worthless only if you waste them. You risk wasting them when you instrumentalize and objectify them excessively, when you interject the market into relationships you shouldn’t.

The waste theory is a self-fulfilling prophecy of neoliberalism. And I agree that we might be getting there if we don’t awaken from the normativity of market thinking.
Interesting! Thank you for sharing this.
Blizzard president J. Allen Brack is leaving the company
I hate this viewpoint. It makes it seem like retirees are a nefarious bunch who are taking advantage of youngsters.

In reality, age discrimination makes it nigh impossible to land a meaningful job once you're over the age of 60.
He said they were going to break down the door. Police in the US will never do that without guns drawn. Maybe he was confused about the exact circumstances though.
Yeah, that long term is not useful for the engineer whose skills should be valued right. He will be older by that time
Absolutely this. Where I work, changing teams isn’t frowned upon. I was in one role for a few years, then moved to another. I know the systems that are used most widely, the data,
the business, I know a particular side of the business inside and out, and I already have important relationships and lines of communication.

And now things are interesting again.
Agreed. SF can afford to drive away families as long as it can continue to attract far more net population growth than the housing stock can support.

From a purely financial standpoint, skimming motivated young talent from around the world and then discouraging them from having kids or encouraging them to leave if they do seems like it would be a cheaper approach than raising a native population.
I’m honestly almost a little bit appalled by myself when I realize that I probably would be willing to pay an extra $50 to have a TouchID interface on my ErgoDox EZ Shine, just to save myself from having to reach over and extend my arm an extra half of a meter several times a day when I am stationed with my keyboard and external monitor, and my MacBook Pro that is connected to them sits out of reach over there where I keep it.
Male vs female most likely
That still speaks to another problem in the Windows ecosystem - that is the installation of applications. Maybe Winget will help with that, but we can only hope they add its functionality to the Microsoft Store as well so it can become mainstream :)
I think you'll find a fair number of people who like their work, are comfortable where they are, and feel like they make enough money. And don't really care that they could maybe make more somewhere else.

I also expect that the moving around every 2 years meme is pretty influenced by Silicon Valley. It certainly isn't the norm I've seen.
Maybe slightly better but still no substitute for an actual ergonomic keyboard. For developers and others spending hours a day with their hands on a keyboard, it's a no brainer to have proper wrist support, better spacing between hands and more natural elbow/wrist angles. Have lost count of the number of 20-somethings I know with carpal tunnel syndrome.
>Moreover, LockBit encrypts the first 256 kb of the file (which is pretty bad from the point of view of cryptographic strength). We, on the other hand, encrypt 1 MB. Essentially, that’s the secret to their speed.

So I can just pad all my valuable data by 1MB?
How absent is generator support in languages in general? As far as I know, even PHP has had yield for something like a decade, and JS for longer (at least as far back as 2006, when Yield Prolog got discussed on LTU[0]). Or is there something about the Python approach to generators that's distinctive?

[0] http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/1732
Researchers use AI to unlock the secrets of ancient texts
I think if “anyone” actually cared for it, they’d have offered it. I don’t see them introducing a pro-pro-keyboard with Touch ID plus Touch Bar in addition to one with just Touch ID, but I can imagine a world where only an upgrade with both existed.
This. Most companies pay lip service to internal mobility, but I still see managers trying to talk people out of it (presumably so they don't have to hire and ramp up a replacement).
I haven't played any Blizzard games since the early 2000's, but I was really excited to pick up the new Diablo 2 remake and catch up on what many have said is a classic.

Gaming has changed, it's brutally monetized, online play is still mean and abusive, and I've downloaded more files than played games as of late.

And now these stories have come to light. I haven't done a deep dive into them, but enough reputable sources have reported that I can spare myself the negative feelings. What a lousy stain on the legacy of their games. I can't in good conscience support criminality that so flies in the face of decency. I know it's a drop in the bucket, but they won't be getting any money from me, no matter how much I want to play Diablo 2.

Sometimes I wonder why I struggle to connect with gaming so much as an adult. I'm increasingly realizing that it's gaming that no longer has any interest connecting with me.
I don't really understand the iPhone example. I doubt that the touch UI was the only thing that made it work, and it's followed by "In fact, most of the things you love about your smartphone started as accessibility features." without ever backing that up. And then there's "3. Orgs can achieve momentous victories by prioritizing marginal business cases." which isn't really backed up too. You could probably make an argument that anyone that has a problem that can be solved by a product that would make a successful startup (so a big pain point) is marginalized, but that sounds like a circular definition to me.

I feel like the whole post is playing a bit of a motte-and-bailey about the definition of marginalized people. A marginalized person could be "a formerly incarcerated black parent", that's the bailey. It could also be a small business owner that'd like a tool to see his cash flow, that's the motte. " We gotta get over this idea that we’re being mensches by handing over our stolen power to unworthy or inexperienced charity cases." is another example of the bailey.

Edit: corrected "It could also be a small business owner that'd like a tool to see his cash flow, that's the bailey." to "It could also be a small business owner that'd like a tool to see his cash flow, that's the motte."
I believe the greatest unrealized potential is for product manufacturers to embed cloud connectivity without the end-user needing to do anything to get it working.

The Kindle Whispernet model is my ideal, where you make an up-front decision to buy a cell-enabled product and it just works.

The classic model of monthly charging, activation, deactivation, etc used by the likes of the Apple Watch are not good for IoT because then someone needs to
- ensure that your device is certified on a carrier, or get it ptcrb certified
- sign up for a carrier contract
- acquire/activate the sim
- pay a monthly fee per-device (and sometimes also per-fleet)
- figure out how to not needlessly pay when devices are broken or end-of-life
- and so on.

Of course, if you want to just use the Notecard with your own SIM, you can. The Notecard and all the standard Notecarriers have an external SIM slot (usually used when someone wants to use it in a non-covered country such as China).
Perhaps you could come up with a list of commonly-used functions and write optimized SQL functions for them, such that users start off learning with that API and gradually learn SQL when they're more comfortable.