skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But in your day job, if your manager hands you a task which you know is futile, or shortsighted, and a week or month later you're all going to regret the way it was done, do you just dig the ditch on the beach quietly, or do you fight for real progress?

I think the problem some have with your sentiments is that this scenario is as likely when you have a passion for something, and the control you have is the same as in the jobs you don't have a passion for. So the scenario is more one of:

If the company is giving you pointless tasks, and has erected walls, is it worth the pain in trying to bang your head against those walls - knowing that the majority of the times you will not make a dent to those walls? Being passionate can lead to a lot more pain with virtually nothing to show for that pain.

About half the jobs I had were for things I have some passion for. My experiences:

1. Jobs I had a passion for are all on the bottom half when it comes to my job satisfaction (without exception - no exaggeration).

2. Management in boring jobs are more likely to listen to me. If you're doing something that society puts a lot of value in (e.g. reducing world hunger), it will attract people who want glory, and they are harder to work with.

3. All the boring jobs have left me happier.

4. If I'm passionate about something, I will have my own definitions of success and metrics, and they never seem to align with the company's. What's the point of toiling away on something I'm passionate about if our goals differ? And then in the off chance I convince management to change, I'm as likely to get laid off as in the past. I know from experience how crappy it feels to accomplish something great, then be given the boot while they reap the rewards.

And finally, I'm one of those odd people who doesn't separate job work from personal work. And with the passions that I have, there is no job/company out there that aligns with it. So the logical step is to find a way to minimize time at work and use the spare time to do something more meaningful to me.

> why do anything without making effort to do it well?

Invert it back to you: Why do something well if it has no benefit to you? Especially when you could use that time/energy doing things that are meaningful.

People have different motives for doing things well, and they will do it if there is some payoff (and it need not be financial).

> not that this is your attitude, but this sort of attitude is why a lot of software really sucks

It definitely is, and that's unfortunately the point of stability when you look at the system as a whole. If you want better SW, work on the incentives. Don't expect people to go the extra mile that they will not be rewarded for. Time is finite. I used to work hard to make great SW, until I realized that I could use that time for more meaningful things. If my company rewarded me more than they do those who make crappy SW, I'd be more incentivized.
I expect it's like all other power law pursuits - if you get to that 0.1% it's totally worth it.
Fred Rogers really appreciated the world from a child's perspective. The idea that when you're doing everything for the first time it can be very exciting and also scary. He often talks about the "drama" of everyday life. Imagine going to get a haircut for the first time, sitting in a chair that moves up and down and tilts in a way that no other chair you know does, experiencing all the sounds and sensations of scissors and clippers around your head.

I hope that we all can see the world from a young person's perspective sometimes and realise that we don't need to inject any additional "drama".
You only store the feeds for friends and friends-of-friends by default. So it does store a lot, but it's not outrageous amounts unless you friend everyone and join every pub.

And since each device you connect with is really its own identity, you can be more selective with your mobile devices (with constrained storage) and less selective with your desktop or server.
I mean, I'd be all for politicians having to put any investment money into blind trusts, sure. But that's different than saying they're insider trading.
Not OP but Librivox has a bunch of Lovecraft, Howard, HG Wells, Mark Twain, etc that I use. I often listen to books that I've listened to before, or that I don't really care about.

I turn it down low enough that I can barely hear it anyway; just enough to provide a mild distraction. Now I can fall asleep in less than ten minutes like clockwork.
A "fun" side effect of this rapid movement rate is that Australia drifts noticeably relative to GPS-based coordinates. Many programmers made the lazy assumption that coordinates remain fixed and don't need to be adjusted based on the current date.

The effect of this is that the maps in my car are already out by several meters. It's sufficiently bad that it'll sometimes jump to a different road.

Geoscience Australia developed the new "Geocentric Datum of Australia 2020" (GDA2020) to fix this, but not a lot of software has been updated with it as of 2021.

See: https://www.ga.gov.au/scientific-topics/positioning-navigati...
I don't get it either. I dock my MacBook and my monitor supports USB-C which also provides power and a bunch of other standard USB connections. I don't even really need a dongle anymore.
It is really good, the full thing is on Youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aM-ZpC0luvA

The older thread recommended Lessons of Darkness (I haven't watched it yet):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lessons_of_Darkness
I understand the sentiment but don’t think that’s fair. Not everyone gets to choose from their pick of job offers, and some people have serious financial commitments and dependents. If FB is the only job offer you have that pays the bills, is it really wrong to take it?
How similar is this to the reservoir computing work being done in Julia with ResevoirComputing.jl (part of the sciml ecosystem)?
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for the little it's worth it's unlikely that you could have even upgraded to 32g.

Most of the mobile intel chips have been limited to 16GiB max for quite a bit, only the very recent ones go to 32GiB
My mother took me to meet him at a book signing when I was very young. She was a kindergarten teacher who studied early childhood development. I got to speak to him briefly, and thought it was neat.

Later in life I asked her about it, and she admitted that she only brought me because she knew how much I enjoyed the show, and that she personally found his manner of speaking (on the show) to be a bit grating. However, she said that upon meeting him in the flesh, all her prejudices immediately dissipated, and she could immediately tell that he was one of the most wholesome, honest, charming people she'd ever met.

I haven't watched the semi-recent film about his life because I'm a big softie and I'm sure I'd bawl, but I do know that he was a very good man who will be missed for a long time.
There's a new Hacker News client made for iOS15
Previous domain I worked in was digital advertising. We built solutions to automate ad and keyword creation from product feeds and promo calendars, increase/decrease bids and budgets based on hourly data, verify all settings were set to best practices, etc. on Google/Bing/Facebook. We built internal systems that allowed us to map any data view in our warehouse to any API endpoint in a templated fashion.

The technology is getting good enough with cloud warehouses that most of the logic can be defined in SQL, with a script only needing to map the results back to an API.

Current domain is SaaS. I've found many of the same types of opportunities on the sales/marketing side of things, but not at quite the same scale.

Agreed that automation it will always take more time than a visualization. If we can shift the conversation towards the expected action that will be taken off the dashboard, we can hopefully save thousands of wasted hours on visualizations that don't get used, redirecting those hours towards more impactful efforts.

I would love to expand my mindset and hear of domains where the complexity is far higher. Feel free to shoot me an email.
> Neither my wife nor I are Covid vaccinated.

Found the problem
I didn't find it amazing it all.

From the comment about cheating ("that would have been a lot more fun ugh") to the comment about how he became a "super helpful husband with the divorce" once he realized he would be a millionaire, the post gives the impression that the OP was all about himself and never truly cared about the experience and feelings of the woman he was married to.

On the plus side, at least the OP realized that he didn't want to be married and didn't make the same mistake twice.
Share a link for 2020? I can find 2019 here [https://www.alabamapublichealth.gov/healthstats/assets/atagl...] showing:
Live Births 58,615
Deaths 54,109

2020 deaths totalling 64,714 is way up, would shrink the state in 2019 (pre-pandemic) too.

If Covid isn’t dangerous, or is just a hoax, an explanation for the extra 10,000 or so deaths would be really useful.
Yeah but as I understand it, Port 22 doesn't just sit open on a machine waiting for any connection.

Running a quick netstat -p udp doesn't show any UDP entrys with LISTENING status.
> I'm pretty fed up with throw-away culture, especially with big ticket items.

I love what Framework are doing, but integrated hardware does not immediately equal throwaway culture (saying as something who still uses their late 2013 MacBook Pro).
Did you have a fix for that mousepad issue? I have an XPS and right click area is flat now... No more click, same as yours.
I wrote a pretty fancy GUI for a real-time system (was handled by MPUs externally, so no real-time in GUI). I found it to be fairly easy to use; there are plenty of examples, and often you can mix-and-match from the examples to get what you want.

It's also true that as you want fancier interactions, you have to be clever to get the framework to do what you want. It's very good --- best easy-to-use Python GUI I'd say --- but it won't handle every fancy GUI requirement. (That's why you have PyQt etc)
I never told her specifically but she had to know, she saw how I was living after that, but she never complained about it. I mean, she filed before I found out, I checked with a lawyer, I am sure she did too. The timing was just such that 48 hour later I would have had to split it. But we stayed friendly for a while after but grew apart.

I am semi-retired now, I have many inventions to my name and very very comfortable. Still inventing, no start ups for me, too much work. I have a great situation, I work for an IPR company funded by a wonderful benefactor I met along the way in a semi-retired position. So I still contribute, but in a fashion that fits my life style at this stage.

Thank you for asking.
The American peaceful nuclear explosion program was called Project Plowshare[0] and seems to have been mostly tests, with practical applications to come later. In contrast, the Soviet Nuclear Explosions for the National Economy[1] claims almost a hundred non-testing uses. Most likely both programs were ultimately for weapons development, but it's interesting that the Soviets did manage to actually use some explosions for real non-weapon uses, while the American program never went that far.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Plowshare
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_Explosions_for_the_Nat...
If you move to a rural area you still have to buy or rent, the prices are just lower, and there are a lot less options to rent.
From the Mac side, Fn-Up/Down support seems to be universal for replacing the missing Page Up / Page Down keys. I bet Chrome is Ctrl-Alt-Fn-Down, copying Mac:

Down - Cursor trajectory

Fn - Page instead of Line

Command (Alt) - Document instead of Page

Shift - Text selection mode

(But I had to hit the keys and then look at my hands to figure out what they were, because I'm just used to keeping the modifier layers in muscle memory, so I could be wrong.)
Agree with everything said here, as a MBP user (2010->2015->16->19) for the last however many years (PC before then and as a secondary now)

The closed ecosystem and continued hardening of even access to inside of my machine is troubling and obviously anti-consumer. Those points coupled with the lack of even 32GB of RAM in an M1 model (not to mention the cost of the brand) makes my next computer a probably-not-apple machine.
> So everyone can say something about their subjective taste experiences, but not so many can about some code.

This is not too true for frontend. Everyone and their mother has an opinion on what needs to be pixel pushed, or something that "should be easy."
BTW it's an April Fools article.
No. For 800+ volt EV platforms Lucid, Hyundai, and Volkswagen are leading the way. Tesla is still on a 400 volt platform.
Am I nuts or is that like $5000 AUD? The only seller I found with a quick search anyway

Ninja edit: Apparently its $699 USD but it's been scalped by third party sellers. A shame, I'd love to pick one up for some of the work I'm doing!
The good citizens of Alabama pay their top health officials to single out Alabama for their attention.
VSS is pretty great. I use Macrium Reflect on Windows, and it just works. I've never once had a problem restoring a Macrium backup to bare metal, even if it has a bunch of incremental backups.
Montreal. You'll be cutting it close but it's completely possible. The city is has great culture, there's always something to do and has decent public transit (with good bike infrastructure for NA).
Gotta NSFW tag this or something. Hit with these first grade memories.
Different users want different ports. For example, as a photographer, I need a SD card slot.

No, my workflow hasn’t transitioned to 100% USB c. I doubt it will. I will always want to plug in a HDMI monitor sometime for example.

No, I refuse to use products that require me to carry and lose shitty dongles and hubs. I refuse.

That’s also why I’ve never purchased a phone without a headphone jack, because I love listening to music on my Moondrops or whatever IEMs I like.
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This seems like the safest strategy of all.
It certainly could! From a blog post by Dr. David Burney, discussing the possible sources for a huge tsunami he uncovered evidence of in a sinkhole on the South side of Kauai: "One intriguing possibility that several astrophysicists suggested to me when I presented this evidence at a symposium on catastrophes in London shortly after 9/11, is that of a large meteorite striking the ocean near Kaua`i. In that scenario, a lot of water could be thrown up on the adjacent shore, but unless it was very, very large, it wouldn’t necessarily have traveled very far." [0]

Eventually a paper [1] was published that narrowed down the actual source of this tsunami to a massive earthquake, getting quite a bit of media coverage [2] at the time.

[0] http://cavereserve.org/blog/?p=410

[1] https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11069-016-2650-0

[2] https://www.livescience.com/48362-massive-historical-hawaii-...
The lower peninsula missed their chance when they fought the U.P. separatist movement.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superior_(proposed_U.S._state)....

One of the state's biggest problems is that trucks don't pay anywhere near their fair share. Michigan also allows 164,000 pound gross rate while Ohio and Indiana top out at 80,000. But the truckers have a strong lobby and pass out money to both party's.
Veritably factual evidence please. Now, ASAP.

With a claim of that magnitude you shouldn't need to look far, as you'd be able to spot the evidence from afar no matter what direction you looked.
Yup, completely confess to all.

I am selfish and self absorbed. Maybe a bit of a narcissist, working on it but self aware. And yes, you are completely correct, I realized marriage was not a good thing for me (or for the other person, hehe, that's how bad I am, had to come back and edit to add this as a second thought).

You are who you are.
look at https://pywebio.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
What? Israel’s navy commander Sharvit just confirmed that Israel attacked Iranian ships in the Red Sea. You have this backwards.

Israel pushed the Obama administration into having no negotiations with Iran wrt nuclear power in a bid to force military intervention. This is despite the fact that Israel itself is one of only four nations (including India, Pakistan, and North Korea) who is not an NPT signatory but has nuclear weapons nonetheless. Ironically, this backfired because by forcing the issue, Obama made it a priority to establish formal relations with Iran on nuclear power, but the intention was still there to isolate and demonize Iran. And then in 2013 when AIPAC lobbied hard for military intervention in Syria. And again in 2015. If anyone is urging their “insurgents” towards war, it is Israel, not Iran, who not only complied with the terms of JCPOA, but exceeded them. And again, even though Raisi is criticizing the US for waging war via sanctions, Iran’s official position is still to negotiate a new nuclear agreement in eventual hope to join the NPT (something Netanyahu specifically tried to avoid in the terms of JCPOA).
> If FB is the only job offer you have that pays the bills, is it really wrong to take it?

At least on the engineering, product management, etc. side of things, if you can get an offer at FB, it's highly unlikely you can't get offers elsewhere.

Of course, there are only so many companies that can offer FB level compensation. Which, if we're being honest, is why FB continues to be an employer of choice for so many people despite its atrocious ethics track record.
The M1 Macbooks also allegedly have issues for which people need to file class action lawsuits:

Class-action lawsuit filed for M1 MacBook screen cracks [U]
https://9to5mac.com/2021/09/16/class-action-lawsuit-screen-c...
I agree with this, I've been using Django for more than a couple of years. The built-in admin interface is a blessing, the ORM is good enough and unless you are handling very huge loads it doesn't matter if it doesn't always generate the most efficient queries (in more than 5 years I've never run into any issues with that). The almost but not exactly MVC pattern that also let's you mix both class and function based views coupled with a very limited template system is a curse. I would have preferred one way to do things(TM) but the Django approach let's you badly do a hundred and more different ways if you aren't very experienced with it (and even if you are you need a lot of discipline to do things properly, and even if you have discipline sometimes Django doesn't have a feature you need so you implement your own and then a major release comes and now it has its own incompatible way of doing the same thing). I still wouldn't change Django for anything else, I'm sure I wouldn't have a job anymore if it weren't for how fast and easily I can implement things with it (management is an absolute hell here and changes how everything is done every couple of months until management itself gets fired and replaced every year or two).
So to break even, a union has to cause wages to be higher than the non-union situation by 1%? That seems simple enough to do. I would be very surprised if the vast majority of unions don't earn their keep tenfold.

I worked for a company with two plants, one unionized and the other one not. For the same job, the unionized plant paid approximately 20% more than the non-unionized one for the same jobs. A 1% due rate would have been a steal of a deal.
>Would they forced to sell their stock?

No, the proposed legislation does not affect your existing holdings you had before you become a Member of Congress, as long as you don't touch those holdings during your term of office.

"Members would also have the option of retaining their existing investments while in office, so long as they do not trade them while in office, or transferring their holdings into a blind trust. [0]"

>Does this apply to an S&P 500 ETF, if so, why?

No, since the S&P 500 is not an individual stock. All broad-based investments are exempt.

[0] https://krishnamoorthi.house.gov/media/press-releases/congre...
> The two ways that Apple could best improve the day-to-day utility of using an iPhone are improving the camera system and improving battery life.

Touch ID!!

> The adaptive nature of ProMotion means that not only does it not hurt battery life, like the less sophisticated high refresh rate features on Android phones, but it actually helps extend battery life for common tasks like watching video or reading text. Yes, the iPhone is late to the high refresh rate game, but as is often the case with Apple, it was worth waiting for.

As usual, Apple fanboy don't research much. Samsung and other manufacturers offer variable refresh rate at least in 2020.
"...and almost all of them are over 50."

Not true with delta, sorry!
"There are FOUR lights!"
I really don’t understand the appeal of this “gamer“ aesthetic.

Colorful LEDs, huge liquid coolers… definitively not for me.
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Isn't plugging unknown USB-C-anything a huge security risk? It would be easy for a visitor to "forget" an evil adapter in a meeting room, and if employees are in habit of using them, boom.
Never knew how far earthquakes travelled. I guess everyone else on the planet knows but I didn't realise you could feel them in a different state until today. And this wasn't even a big one compared to what they get all the time in places like NZ or Japan. Nature is awesome.
Ive not really found any of the searches in Wiki's like this to be good - Notion is a beautiful Wiki type tool let down by its absolutely atrocious search capability.
Sure, let's just give up and allow deadly poison dealers free access to our markets. If we wanted to disrupt the cartel routes we could.
I miss the camaraderie of the old internet
To a degree, it's also because Japanese streets are much, much narrower.

Anglo or Japanese culture, you can't really blaze down this street at 80kph without hitting something. https://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9Wu_fv0DMXQ/TEbn2b8Hu4I/AAAAAAAAA...
> McDonald's at 4, and Olive Garden at 6

Having lived in Italy and experienced real Italian food, I'd move the Olive Garden lower than McDonalds. McDonalds is not trying to pretend it's something else. It is what it is, and everyone knows what it is.
People with with criminal histories show remorse.
My Dell laptop just cross three years in June and the extended warrantee also got expired. The battery has been deteriorating with only a few mins of backup left. Called up the customer care and they asked to instead contact nearby service center. Tried with multiple in Delhi NCR and no one seem to have a battery – one of them said that no battery is available right now (God knows why?)

Finally, somehow got one via Amazon supplied from a state 1600 KMs away from here for about $80 in a week time. It could very well be expensive than the one gotten from the service center but, was left with no option.
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Right, so why would "altering the news feed" matter? They don't need to alter it to add their pro-FB content, they just do it.

Talk about trying to confuse on a technicality.