skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A case of the boy who cried wolf not being believed.
I found TDD useful for a well defined problem or an agreed-upon API. For apps for example, especially those not well defined and designed as-you-go, where the designer and PM might change their minds frequently after toying around with the app or getting user feedback, TDD is a lot of overhead and tests after writing the code are primarily useful for preventing regressions when somebody else changes your code.
Funny to look back. Here's Intel's HQ: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrZrTJqK7ys

All I can think is "Wow, I bet I could really focus on something difficult in that cubicle!"
It's not the full thread, though. It's been many years ago, but I'm pretty sure I paid for it back in 2014, i.e., 7 years ago. Here's the full thread: https://nikolay.docdroid.com/H4ZYmsS/gmail-password-reset-on...
Sure. It's just monetarily this is a terrible decision compared to picking up basic tech skills, taking literally any job in tech that you can for experience, and then job hopping.
I just ordered a boox max lumi, I noticed that there’s an option to install play services.

I am hesitant to do it, except for the security fixes Google apparently brings to Android via these updates. Boox might not update the device in the future which is my main worry.
I don't know much about Zuse but I wouldn't be surprised if he was ahead of the US/UK in some areas and nobody at the time realized it.
No thanks, I prefer faster superchargers. But it’s handy that it’s possible to use pretty much every other charger, not to mention any outlet, as a backup when needed, or when sleeping for that matter.
Doing a fully funded PHD in the US is the best decision versus continuously living in a third world country. It’s a life changing moment.
You didn't say use the word "fraud," but the scenario you described—where Stavros accepted your money for a service and then chose not to provide it—would amount to him defrauding you.

From your perspective the difference may not be significant: your links are just as lost either way, and the money you might or might have not paid for the service is tiny compared to the time you had invested in creating the links. The difference, from my perspective, is that setting up a free bookmarking service and then shutting it down without enough warning is not a very rewarding activity, so it tends to be a self-limiting problem; by contrast, selling a paid service you then don't bother to provide can be extremely lucrative, like spamming, so it's the kind of problem that tends to grow rapidly without countermeasures.

That makes it a considerably more inflammatory accusation.
Thank you! If there is one thing where Google went to far its that abomination of bad UX and power abuse called AMP. I was fearing I will never get rid of it on iPhone. Would probably also have paid US$10
I have never used the % stat as anything more than curiosity but I have certainly looked at the highlighted reports generated to see large blocks of untested code which is genuinely useful info to see.
> there’s the fact that it preemptively disarms the US of one of its greatest strengths: the ability to brain drain other countries of their top talent and add it to its own

Worthy adversaries can turn each other's strengths into weaknesses
Does your organization not offer internal or external group training opportunities? They’re great, but I’m not sure why you’re presenting them as mutually exclusive with individual coaching.
Si hortum in bibliotheca habes, nihil deerit.

Cicero: Epistulae ad familiares; IX, 4

(Either an exercise in Latin or web search.)

More generally, Nature is a wonderful entropy engine (not my line but I can’t find any citation online). Find a hook there…if not gardening then hikes, kayaking, birdwatching, etc.. Leave nothing but footprints.

Write a grant proposal on some area of interest that would require only paper, pencil, your library, standard computing resources, Internet. Submit it to yourself. Celebrate when you get it approved. Work at the pace you choose. Submit oral status reports to yourself, and bask in the positive feedback you receive from the only reviewer of any real merit, you. Document if you want, but don’t obsess…no one will care after 50 years anyway, though there have been exceptions (Emily Dickinson, Thomas Traherne). Write a bot that tweets you occasional praise from official-sounding organizations.

Volunteer work of any sort can be soul-affirming. Create art, music, poetry. Only boring people get bored. Don’t be boring.
I purchased one based on this exchange alone. I'm an impressionable sod!
Pity that you are getting down-voted for a rational position. Wind output dropping is one of the factors behind Electricity prices surging in the EU this year. But folks here are reluctant to even acknowledge this fact due to effective renewables brainwashing.

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/german-renewables-us...

If there really needs to be a carbon tax for delivery, it makes the most sense to transfer it directly to the consumer who demanded order-delivery. Any other mechanism will just leave a tax loophole.

And yes, emission taxes/standards should be applied to the whole world. Right now, they are adversely affecting the poor and lower middle class of the first world - none of whom are represented on HN. Meanwhile China can keep polluting away to its heart's content producing ~30% of the world's emissions by itself.
> ping me when you want to chat

Many people feel uncomfortable "bugging" higher-ups and "wasting your time" when you have "some many other things to worry about". I've discovered that most people will not initiate, and I need to be the one to reach out and make things happen.

Some of my biggest career snafu's could have been avoided if I just hadn't been so insistent on figuring it out on my own (or letting others do the same).
>You don't want your car to be covered in heavy armour. That gains you nothing and costs you a lot.

Heavy armour gets you protection from firearms and some explosives. I wouldn't call that nothing.

*I know high value individuals that drive armored vehicles in the US.
I have used both ClearCase and ClearQuest at a previous job. The former is surprisingly pleasant to use, although we had a wrapper program called GVP (Gather Validate Publish) [1] that handles commit messages and regression testing before publishing to "master". ClearQuest itself also has a very 1990's X11 GUI you can use that has a surprising amount of functionality.

The best feature of ClearCase is that with mvfs you can clone the repo in seconds since it's a virtual filesystem. A small database records your changes, and functions as a sort of overlay on top of the version you've "checked out".

ClearQuest was nice in that you can write your own SQL select queries to create bug lists. I don't remember if you could write DB-specific stuff (Oracle in our case) or if it had to be ODBC compliant. Unfortunately everything else about it kinda sucks.

[1] https://sourceforge.net/projects/releaseworks/
> Weddings are ceremonies. Meetings at work are just meetings. Sometimes stuff in this field gets so ridiculous and pompous sounding.

I like that they're called ceremonies because it highlights just how ridiculous and pompous this cargo culting has become. To me a ceremony means mostly pointless tradition that is way overdressed.

Our team can put all that stuff in a box and say "we avoid ceremony", and the kind of people that we want to work with will appreciate that and want to work with us.
Can whitespace-cleanup really differentiate between places where you want a tab for indentation, and places where you want spaces for alignment, where the number of spaces may be greater than the tab width? After all, the only way to differentiate is to guess what you might be trying to align to by looking at surrounding lines… but from a quick search, whitespace.el looks less complex than that.
> I think doing a PhD is one of the worst things a person can do them financially long term. I think gambling is one of the few that ranks higher than PhD. They lose the most critical part of life they must be earning and saving to harness the power of compounding to become financially secure.

Financially, I don't disagree.

The amusing thing is that I often would say the exact same thing on the other end of the coin. Going to industry right after your undergrad is one of the worst things one can do intellectually. People who want to grow intellectually[1] typically will grow more in their grad school years than most people will in their life. I can clearly see it when I look at my friends who did not opt for grad school.

And even within a particular discipline, for a lot of disciplines, there is virtually no way you can attain that particular knowledge while having a full time job. Life gets busy.

It ultimately comes down to values. Some prefer the money, others the knowledge. Personally, I appreciate the adage: Money comes and goes, but knowledge tends to remain with you.

> On top, they learn no marketable skills that can get them a job out in industry or corporations.

People who plan and aim properly for a career in academia probably pick up more marketable skills than the average industry employee. Self promotion and networking matters more in academia than in industry. There's also stuff like grant writing, public speaking, etc.

[1] Not all people who pursue a PhD want to grow intellectually, but a significant portion do.
List price for a 32x 100G switch is $30k, but nobody pays list price.

About six grand on eBay.

Edit: for reference, the FS switch with 1.2 Tbps of switching capacity is $4k new.
Anybody know how reading & desktop work on the Quest 2 compares to the original Oculus? I tried programming in the original Oculus years ago, but the low resolution was just too annoying... is it improved a good deal? (I know the resolution is higher, just wondering about the actual experience.)
I'd love to have a weekly 1:1 with a good manager. Bi-weekly with my current one is plenty.
The tests provide a useful confirmation step. You make a change and the tests go "Hey did you know that this affected the output in these 3 places?" and most of the time you did know that and update the tests, but often you see a change you didn't actually expect and can now look deeper in to it.

I have also found immense value in tests that just check that literally nothing has changed. Like one that checked that the columns of a db table have not changed and when they have, the test reminds you that you need to decide if the new column is blacklisted from a certain feature and then add the column name to the test so it passes again.
The US also has a light sport aircraft (LSA) category and a sport pilot license with less requirements but more restrictions.

While the 40 hours is a minimum, most people require more to complete their PPL training and pass their exam.

Some aircraft do not require a pilot license but I’m hard pressed for good reasons to fly without prior training.
I would either throw out almost all of these or quit my job immediately. My first CTO position was like this for a while and that never again.

So from the article;

> Are you an engineer and think I’m wasting time? Are you a manager and think I’m terrible at time management?

Yes, both. I am an engineering manager and you are doing both in my opinion.
If it were up to me, I would not bother with it.

I have 20 years of experience in this field, and a vital part of the job is communicating well with other people. I do not need someone's "Management Best Practices Checklist" in order to do that. And I do not think I'm exceptional: most of us got by just fine without all this.
I thought it was spelled “Fah Q”.
Also not applying a political, moral, business-driven, or any other bias in returning results that they want me to see rather than what I want to see. It used to nearly perfectly match my intentions with the request until they got too big and caved to the establishment and money.
It’s not so much DRM as authentication, seamless zero-user-interaction payment, safety, and charging protocols.

You’d also need a Tesla account with a credit card on file, and the ability for your vehicle to identify itself as the vehicle associated with that account.

Or… Tesla might just make it happen, in the future.
It's about hiring for brand rather than design skills.
Loss of privacy has happened in the past, like with Wikileaks from which Pizzagate originated.

>If someone says something you don't like or something you think is inaccurate, reply to it, inform people of what's wrong and convince them of why you believe you are right

President Franklin Roosevelt’s secretary of state, Cordell Hull, wrote: "A lie will gallop halfway round the world before the truth has time to pull its breeches on."

Fighting misinformation is way harder than spreading it. Because misinformation spreads virally because it's clickbait and interesting, while fact checks are boring.
I wish apollo had the option of turning off infinite scroll.
Still not good enough, unfortunately. Anything below 18-ish point type is too difficult to read.
Yes for non-Teslas.
Does it matter when face masks completely cripple facial recognition and are much more acceptable than walking around looking like you have muscle control disorders?
Plenty of new EVs have been released in 2021. Most are somewhat volume constrained for now.
The developer who made the app is brilliant. Seems like any App he builds becomes a success. Not sure how he does it.
Are they successful because they work late, or because working late is necessary to get the results that make you successful?

In my experience in academia, it is the former. Working late has more to do with rites of passage than with successful research. When a colleague of mine defended his thesis and was looking for faculty positions, he listed a whole bunch of crappy things he had to do to appease his advisor, and said that he'll make his students do the same. When I asked him why, he said "If I have to go through crap, so should they."
Have you tried any ad blocker extensions to see if they already handle that?
No, this is the new Safari extensions API in iOS 15.
I can feel this. At this point in my career, “who will my manager be” is essentially the #1 question I ask when considering any new project/team/etc. As is seemingly obvious from the comments on this post, the divide in experience between “horrible manager”, “meh manager”, and “good manager” is huge.
If the limiting factor for a candidate who is "passing" your bar is typing speed, then nearly by definition you have asked the wrong question to evaluate the candidate.

Also in the "not sure if this is bad satire or just bad" camp
The two things are related.
Let's start with the $50B bond earlier this year...what was that for?
How would they know miner’s details?
Jeff Bezos doubles time with Blue Origin to focus more on his space company
Your view is a common misconception about Teslas. Teslas have ample physical buttons and other physical controls. You actually don’t need to look at or touch the screen while driving.
A couple of things.

1) People in charge of these features know objectively how pissed off some of their users are. It's done for one simple reason - it brings more advertisement revenue. Google employs some of the smartest people on the planet and they have the demonstrable capacity to build what savvy users like yourself (and me) like.

2) Vast majority of the people are ambivalent and apathetic to these things. The scale at which Google operates is absolutely mind bogglingly massive. Savvy users are the extreme edgecase.

I just don't see any reason to expect a mass-market product or service to serve savvy users. There is a fundamental mismatch in expectation and requirements.
For non mathematical topics "John Von Neumann: The Scientific Genius Who Pioneered the Modern Computer, Game Theory, Nuclear Deterrence, and Much More" by Macrae is reasonably well sourced although the author's self admitted lack of mathematics does show. A biography reasonably covering mathematical topics too doesn't really exist yet given the wide range of von Neumann's work but if you're more interested in mathematical legacy there was an AMS symposium on him in 1988 whose proceedings are available online https://bookstore.ams.org/pspum-50 and other various smaller papers on his technical legacy over the years.
A couple of friends of mine are the co-founders of one of the big gif sharing sites. I've heard some pretty interesting, and very funny, stories about the sticker shock on S3 as they grew. But it sounds like Amazon has been fairly flexible and provided some decent leeway with respect to giving grace periods as investment rounds closed.
So, this happens almost daily: I’ll be reading news in an amp page hosted by Google, which I navigated to via Google news, within Google chrome, and half way through the article the page suddenly breaks and I see “Aw, Snap! Something when wrong while displaying this web page”.

There was a time in my life when I believed working for Google was the highest indication of talent. Now, I marvel at how a $1.6 trillion dollar company can’t even serve a page of text and images without fucking it up.
Considering their target market, that's a valuable feature suggestion.

If you have time I'm sure they would appreciate the feedback.
Bezos has long dedicated Wednesday afternoons to either updates or discussions at Blue Origin, people familiar with the situation told CNBC — meetings that were in person before the Covid pandemic and have been by phone since. However, within the past month he has added Tuesday afternoons as well, those people said.

While Bezos’ increased engagement with the company has been previously reported, just how much he’s involved with Blue Origin has not. Because Bezos is one of the richest people in the world and still involved at Amazon as the company’s executive chairman, demands on his time are high, so spending twice as much time with his space company represents a significant added commitment.

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Do you think lack of parental attention was the reason behind BO's slow pace?
ZeroKnowlege Workshops and Hackathon – 26th October
It doesn't stop with PhD. You need multiple postdocs to get an academic job by when you are well into the thirties. If they are leaving for industry after PhD, why do a PhD in first place.
The only difference between this and an attack is that the purpose was altruistic. It's one thing to shift to new/updated infrastructure, it's another to manipulate blockchain transactions. We just have to hope that Vitalik or whoever holds the most sway over Ethereum doesn't ever act in bad faith (in a way that may not be immediately discernable to others).
Ha, I read your comment first and thought you were somehow overreacting, but then I read the piece and I agree with you. The author doesn’t seem to realize that the flavor of interview he’s running is deeply trainable, and that one can become very, very good at tic-tac-toe style questions after a year or two of intense study. But who would do that? Well, a whole lot of IOI/ICPC contestants did. So, he’s mostly just hiring for people who joined the same club as, I assume, himself.
9/11 conspiracies did not cause violence or deaths. About one 9/11 worth of unvaccinated people are dying every few days. We spent trillions going after the people who orchestrated the 5000 odd deaths on 9/11. But fake news and misinformation are somehow okay, and the minimal attempts to combat them by social media websites are demonized.
Tom Dempsey had kicked many 69 yd field goals in practice, prior to his record breaking 63 yd kick...he knew he would make it...he would've made a longer kick too.
"Next, they selected random subsets of the project's original test suite of varying sizes, ran each against the buggy mutants, and counted how often the subsetted test suite caught the bug."

I'm sorry what? Of course if you only run a random subset of tests, it won't matter whether the test suite achieves 100% line coverage. What a garbage study.
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CHRG-111hhrg61516/html/C...
here here. i see no evidence that we're empowering the users chris claims to be liberating from the alleged supervillianous megacorps of the day.

for all the talk of users i see nearly nothing in web3 about hosting content, about letting people publish, make their words or ideas enduring via these upstart authoritarian-but-distributed protocols. it's a hard to use complex demanding technology that ephemeralizes the cloud into something even more out of reach, even less overt in it's operations. ultra-serverless, from the users perspective: even if you did want to bring your compute it would do you no good (unless at epic scale), not be possible, be incompatible with this tightly synced & knit market of scarcity, where we keep making sure very few are awarded computing credit.

two shout outs- web3 is stupid, clarifying many of the dowmsides, and atok.cloud, trying to make available more classic p2p ideas & wide-scale hostability in web3,

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28457762

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28485601
Quick and Dirty Subclassing in Win32
It's a potential problem. The odds are slim that they would hit a vein in the arm, but if they did, that would not be good.

I for one am confused as to why they wouldn't aspirate as standard procedure. I had to take some training on intramuscular injections a while back to help a family member, and checking for blood before proceeding with the injection was one of the major points.
For tech interviews, whether someone cares about my speed is a nagging question in my mind.

I can write code that runs, but is messy, uses short variables, and generally is one big blob and doesn’t handle expansion very well or I can spend time to consider future needs and write sensible variable names.

Not sure which is correct.
That's the main problem I have with "new reddit", as well: new reddit has infinite scroll, so I use old reddit, but old reddit doesn't have dark mode.
I recently consulted as a VR programmer on a Quest 2. There is a built-in way to see your PC screens in the headset (I can't remember what it was called). I used the Oculus Link cable.

It worked and I could certainly program. But it was far from comfortable. The resolution is very noticeably worse than on my physical monitors. I don't know why OP's experience is so different. I suspect he's just willing to sacrifice crisp text for the coolness of the experience.
> Does your organization not offer internal or external group training opportunities?

It does.

> They’re great, but I’m not sure why you’re presenting them as mutually exclusive with individual coaching.

I'm not, it just sounded to me like time management and prioritization were skills better taught in training courses or group sessions.

I'm still not clear on what this coaching really looks like, or why it is appropriate for a regular 1:1 call.
How about image results that are actually images? Now all you get is videos unless you type half a novel's worth of site remover arguments.
Fugro’s autonomous submarine completes investigation activity near Suriname
Powershell:

Add-Type -AssemblyName System.Speech

$s = New-Object -TypeName System.Speech.Synthesis.SpeechSynthesizer

$s.Speak("words")

You can wrap it in a function then just call it when you want to text talk.
This is mostly only true with international travel.
How do you think WWII was run? For one, the government gave an order and mostly people followed. If the gov in WWII said to vaccinate, you would.

Two, WWII was mostly run by letting others (Europe) take most of the heat and then simply outspending everyone when nobody had any money left. America is slow to act, but builds incredible momentum. Same playbook here. We delayed, but when we did act we put so much money on the table that we leapt ahead of Europe in vaccinations.

Today is nothing like WWII. The government can’t do anything without massive pushback. Also things are way more complicated and the level of care we expect from the government is 10x what it was 70 years ago.