skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"if you don't want to have your camera on you are asked not to participate"

This policy is cruel and needlessly authoritative. I work in a highly international context and have learned that both culturally and individually, people have different comfort levels regarding expressing themselves. Some are fine with cameras on, some prefer voice only. Some are so introverted that they prefer chat, and some are even only comfortable with private chat.

"If you can't be bothered to have your camera on in meetings then you probably shouldn't be in that meeting in the first place."

Good, stop inviting me then, I'd imagine a response might be. I personally have about 3 voice-only meetings per day, but I guess according to your view, I shouldn't bother at all. I successfully lead a team of 12 this way, located across the globe. People can do whatever they want (camera, audio, chat), and it works fine. Your all or nothing view seems a dramatized personal preference, and nothing else.

"and then to figure out who says what"

I don't know what software you use but both in Zoom and Teams you can see who speaks. I would also assume that if your team is so small that you recognize voices.

"and to keep a conversation going"

If you need to keep a conversation going, you may want to rethink the point of the meeting.
> As a non-Tesla owner, I'd love to rent a Tesla on my vacations just to try it before deciding on buying one.

Me too. I actually looked into that a few months ago. In Boston Massachusetts, there is this place: https://www.teslarents.com/

But we were going to San Francisco not Boston, and there was nothing that I could google up. With the exception of Oslo, Norway; I've never seen so many Teslas as I did in the Bay area, but it seemed really hard to rent one for a few days.

Maybe by the next time that I'm there a Tesla 3 will be standard at Hertz, but in 2021 you'll be lucky to get a Nissan. The competence and availability of even that, was low.
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>I just assume the person hasn’t showered in a week

Is it any of your business?
In my experience cars with diesel engines and manual transmissions also had the tendency to creep forward instead of stalling while in first gear when neither brake nor accelerator pedal was stepped on.
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Curious, if you visit a company you contract with do you apply this to everything? "So, did we pay for this coffee machine? How about this TV?"
> 3) I would have expected this kind of thing from Trump, since he was obsessed with his public image. But apparently Biden, or at least someone close to him, is similarly obsessed.

This is all they’re concerned about. Both the left and the right. They hire groups of people specifically to manage their public image. This is why MSM didn’t want negative coverage of Biden during the race.
Ask HN: Senior Devs, what career have you moved on to avoid impeding doom?
The Premise:

As I was browsing the job boards in the EU area, I was faced with several unpleasant realizations. Companies, for the most part, are looking for devs with 2-3 years of experience in a given tech. Having 10+ years of experience in anything is not required and might as well be considered against the applicant. Work is being off-shored to low income countries. Adding to that, stories of ye olde programmers bringing in major dough 15 years or so ago sound like fairy tales today. It would seem coding was reduced to gluing things up from pre-made blocks and is not viewed with awe and respect it once may have had.

This all is written from perspective of a senior software dev in Europe. I realize FANG and or devs with extremely niche or trendy skills might not perceive this the same. However, I do wonder whether there are people like me who feel the impeding career doom in next <10 years in case a substantial pivot is not made.

For Senior devs, do you agree with my premise? Have you moved on to a different career? Could you share your interesting career pivot stories?
Correct. Here in the DC Metro area, we pay about $.15 per kWh.
One of the fun things about EBCDIC is that 370 assembler has opcode-level support for converting an EBCDIC-encoded numeric string into an integer (and maybe the other way around too, it's been a while). This is one of two things I remember about my now-ancient 370 assembler knowledge. The other is that there is no built-in support for maintaining a call stack. It is up to each subroutine to handle this and there were some weird declarations around this to indicate whether a subroutine was reentrant, the definition of which escapes me now.

And people shouldn't criticize EBCDIC too much, after all Windows still dumps a lot of crap in legacy 8-bit coding that can cause applications to break (there was a recent post on HN about someone being unable to run the IntelliJ debugger because of an accent in their username). At least EBCDIC is clear about its limitations.¹

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1. I'd be remiss if I didn't point out one other EBCDIC weirdness: It has two vertical bars, | and ¦ which always caused complications in translations between EBCDIC and ASCII. IIRC, ¦ was the more common symbol in EBCDIC coding but some converters wanted to translate | to | instead (or maybe it was the other way around—the last time I did IBM big metal was 30 years ago).
Yes, at least on another laptop I used that had the power button in a similar place. The button was basically a button like no other for the OS and I was able to just unbind it. It didn't keep me from being able to use the button to power on or to hold the button for a long time to power off.
Makes sense. I'd wager a good chunk of rentals (especially business use) use under a single charge worth of mileage and the reduced maintenance fees are probably a big deal for Hertz.
Literally the first line of TFA: Car-rental firm, recently emerged from bankruptcy under new ownership, orders vehicles by the end of 2022
From the article, describing evidence of continued trade in persons on FB's platforms:

The problem, however, continues today across both Facebook and Instagram. Facebook appears to acknowledge that in more recent documents seen by the AP. It described engineers accessing problematic messages in maid-recruiting agencies’ inboxes, including one in which a Filipina specifically is mentioned as being “sold” by her Kuwaiti employers.

“Sometimes my head and ears hurt from being hit,” another batch of messages from a Filipina in Kuwait read. “When I escape from here, how will I get my passport? And how can we get out of here? The door is always locked.”

Another Filipina housemaid in Kuwait, who described being “sold” to another family through an Instagram post in December 2012, told the AP that she knew of other cases of Filipinas being “traded online like merchandise.”

“I was like an animal that was being traded by one owner to another,” said the woman, who spoke from Kuwait on condition of anonymity out of fear of reprisals. “If Facebook and Instagram won’t take stronger steps against this anomaly, there will be more victims like me. I was lucky because I did not end up dead or a sexual slave.”
Only months after they exited bankruptcy.
The first team does not achieve scale because they are still building microservices. The word of the day is "lean".
You probably want UTF-EBCDIC instead: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28987256
Thanks! It's funny that whenever I search for this online I just get garbage results. Bookmarked.

There was another one that would even let you change the interpolated path between keyframes. Does anyone know that one? I'm aware that's a pretty vague desciption.
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The other price to wonder about is that of the rental vs ICE vehicles.

While I daily-drive an EV, I'm pretty sure I wouldn't want one for a rental just yet. Charging infrastructure isn't quite to the point that you can teleport to some random place and not need to think at all about anything. Tesla is closer to that than anybody else.

I also tend to just drive more when I'm traveling, and so the range limitations will be much more meaningful under those circumstances than normal. My Bolt gets me about 240-280 miles of real driving per charge and it's totally fine for everything I normally do.

Of course I applaud Hertz for supporting consumer choice in this regard. Different folks will have different needs on different trips, myself included.
A massive red flag indeed, the parent comment is a text book example of traditional "manage by presence", not to mention an authoritative top-down culture.
Sure, I get that. I live in the UK though, I didn't want to put the company I work for, it's that simple. The original poster was in India, which is known for a little more strict conditions, also.
I've also never needed to use any obfuscated interface to check on scores etc, anywhere I've worked here.
I learned alt-space-n for minimizing a window, which can be done discreetly without any obvious mouse motion. That and a rear view mirror on my monitor.
I thought that was "survival of the fittest".
My 2cents.

Messaging is a weird app to focus on mau/dau. There have been many messaging protocols which scale to hundreds of millions of users, and there is prior art of large not particularly valuable chat systems like aim, gchat etc.

No one is going to use a consumer messaging system which charges money or shows ads. Which brings to mind substantial questions on the business model others are using the messaging platform for e.g. data collection.
I don't think anybody was expecting them to be free so much as bundled into the mortgage as a standard item, sparing them from any separate financing, uppricing, or possible zoning issues.
It wouldn't be a proper USSR thread without green accounts puffing up soviet accomplishments.
The trains you link to only go at 150km/h to minimise noise, so using ⩾300km/h-capable rolling stock might be a bit of a waste.
> It is in the end, simply a client app that sends data to other client apps

That's not the case. Consider the "one tick" messages - they must be on a server somewhere. One tick means they've left your phone but aren't yet on (all) the recipients' phones
I go by Kayodé online (Kay (actually Qué) oh Deh), which isn't the African name Kayode (Ki-oh-Day or Ki-oh-Dee).

The number of places that don't support diacritics this is absolutely mind-boggling.
I found that ARM wasn't a great development environment. At least a couple years ago. Mileage should vary a lot based on stack.
No, but banks interact with people - both customers and employees. People interpret names. Errors like this could be used to, for example, impersonate someone (by tricking an employee), or deny someone service (e.g. via a clerk who behaves like a zombie, a protein peripheral of the bank's computer system).
Were they out of value, or just out of cash?
The title added on Hacker News is completely different than the linked article...
I googled the titled and found this:
https://www.gizchina.com/2021/10/24/intel-core-i9-12900hk-tu...
If I take away anything from the new MBPs it's that they are the product of groupthink. A notch and 120Hz only makes sense for phones that scroll and use faceid. That screen would've been a win if the camera had been pinhole, which it could've had, because there is no faceid. Dropping in a cheaper keyboard and cutting the touch bar is a mistake. As is including HDMI and a SD card reader and losing a thunderbolt port. Magsafe is nice. The SoC has been optimized for video editing. The space used for 32 graphics cores could've been used to add more regular cores. So it's faster than the M1 to be sure, especially for multi threaded apps but not enough for me as a developer. And the extended battery life is a great plus but as with the 17 inch MBP of 2011, it's heavy AF.

Then there is the marketing, which is getting borderline offensive. Why is everything 'Pro'? What does pro even mean? and why is it carved into the metal of the base of the laptop. Wouldn't it have been nice to ditch the marketing at this point? Apple is the largest computing company, everyone knows what that is now. Perhaps I don't want nonsense calved into my product. As far as I can see Pro means OverPRiced.

So to summarize an overpriced, heavy, video editing workstation, with legacy ports nobody has used since 2015. $5000 waste.
I wonder if the goal is to consume the market so it's more difficult for other rental car companies to get Teslas?

Personal anecdote but I already am generally willing to pay a slight premium for Hertz over other rental companies and would be willing to pay slightly more still if it meant renting a Tesla.
The central problem is that platforms were exmpted from being sued on the basis that they are neutral to content, and then they started using this privilige to manipulate content. Just revoke the privilige you granted them, and let all the useful web go back to protocols.
Jail for whistleblowers is what typically follows embarrassing a Gov with prosecutorial powers.
You could just change jobs to a company that allows you to have a window like that open on the side.
I still can't believe Valve's sway with the Steam Deck managed to bring anti-cheat support to Linux, this is going to be so good.
6 days ago, FB said new leak was coming any time soon: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28909538
This is the best thing that could happen to EVs. If Hertz is throwing down, it's likely that National and Avis will follow suit. (National is partially owned by Ford, which might complicate things.) This was also my primary use case for Turo, so I'm excited to rent my favorite car from a conventional rental car company
My ICE car is $50-$70 to fill the tank (26gal/100l) from empty to full. And gets me 450-500 miles. So I'm a tad bit jealous, just not enough to take on a car payment.
My first take is negative.

American car makers dug themselves a hole because there were a few populations that would buy American cars no matter how bad they got: refugees from WWII (e.g. old Italians, Poles, Jews and Veterans who would never buy a German or Japanese car), police departments, and rental cars. In a case like that the Ralph Naders and the Consumer Reports can be pointing out how bad your product is but they can point to people who still buy it, cover their ears and sing "la la la".

In principle renting a car could be an experience like "I drove a Buick and I liked it" (happened once to me) but more often the vehicle has been trashed, things like the controls for the seat position are busted, etc.

Car rentals move some metal in the short term but they damage the brand in the long term.
Well it never was a "plan" was it? It always was more like a "story".
As long as it takes to either

- solve it, or

- to realise that it's insoluble, or

- to realise that the cost of finding a solution cannot justify the expected value of a solution.
not going to delve into the mind of an author remotely- as a reader of CaP it was really captivating (english translation). I read it at a similar time as some classic existentialist novels from Camus and Sarte. The language, the setting, the pace and sometimes lack of pace are all notable and make the book worth the time. What I do not see so far in these comments are an engagement of the psychological conditions. There is no "answer" so maybe part of why an analytics/math crowd is on unfamiliar ground -- the ground of ambiguity, feelings of being lost, and perhaps even mild delusion.

The development of a sense of "right and wrong" is not a sure thing, even among intelligent, functional people. A sense of "conscience" (pick your definition) even less so. Consider this minute example - you walk into a garden and see a beautiful butterfly, you admire it, it seems nice, then as you watch, it flies into a spider's web, is caught and killed by the spider. Is this a moral situation? very likely, not at all..

Next example, a sports team at your school when you are 15. You do not play for that team, and do not care for the sport much. The team plays another school, and there is group support, yells, matching colors, perhaps name calling and villification of the opposing team. Do you support your school, about something you do not care about. What about the players on the other team - do you direct insults or hostility towards these others that do nothing to you personally? Is this a moral situation? How do you feel about the people yelling so much, either side?

You are on your own in a city, and it is clear you need money to pay bills. The people around you appear to be petty, flawed and self-interested. You can quickly find contradictions, "white lies" in their actions. Yet you must pay your bills to these people personally, or face expulsion. Is this a moral sitation? How do you feel about yourself when interacting with these people? Your own sense of self may be compromised, injured.. actually everyone's is in some way .. or you may have a larger kind of sight, to see the universal in the everyday, including these people and their ways. That warps your reactions..

at any rate, there are many gray areas, and ambiguities, possible in examples like this, and the sense of being lost, of confusion, of wilting in the face of contradictions.. are embodied in the tale. It has been a long time since I read that book, but a copy is sitting about ten feet from me now. Maybe it is worth a look.
Agreed. We're 100% Go in our back end, and in the process of hiring. We literally wrote in the job posting, "If you don't want to write Go, this job is not for you."
>Also wonder how the “full tank” policy will work with EVs where ideally you want to hover around 80%

I thought for electric cars, that's already baked in? in other words, the car displays 100% and stops charging, but the battery is actually 80% charged. Also, I think for electric cars, they'll waive the "full tank" requirement or charge you a reasonable amount to make up the difference (cost of electricity plus a small markup). I sure as hell don't want to spend 30 minutes at a charging station the morning of my flight.
Not even English can be correctly written in (lower) ASCII, it has far too many borrowed words, like naïve and résumé. Say nothing of archaic spellings or ligatures, like encyclopædia, or ruﬀle. It's almost surprising ASCII was as successful as it is.
Most of the stuff in your list was basically produced manually in very small quantities. UAZ/AK would be an exception, but they were unusable without careful selection or manually manufactured replacement parts.
That, actually, is way more than the minimum recommended. See [1]. It took me about 10 minutes of jogging at least 3-4 times a week over several months before I got to the point where I can now jog 60+ minutes non-stop.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/17/well/move/exercise-heart-...
NoCode platforms can be further divided into sub category of tools. Depending on your need you got to look at using one or multiple tools.

1) BPM tools: build workflows & business processes. Tools like Appian, Pega, kissflow, etc

2) Form builders: jotform, typeform, etc

3) automation: Zapier, integromat, etc

4) Frontend builder
- Consumer apps -> bubble, adalo, etc
- Internal apps -> Retool, DronaHQ, Appsmith

5) App builder - Build core business apps (including backend, microservices , etc) - Outsystems, Mendix

6) Field force apps -> prontoforms, fulcrum, etc

7) Extension builder -> extension.dev

8) Test automation -> reflect.run

Disclaimer: I am part of DronaHQ.
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> They have every right to argue for change, because they can see what a Death Star that thing looks like from the inside.

Sorry but the US left is far more death-star-like than the right. Your "death-ray" is cancel culture and censorship, which is what these left-leaning employees are asking for. They are more akin to Storm Troopers, stomping out freedom across the galaxy.

They literally banned their primary political opponent from all social media platforms...
..and credit to all the game devs that have been holding down the scene with *nix executables since day one!
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I meant they as in Whatsapp - the company. And yeah to be more specific, I meant making revenue on their own.
Many people are wondering where Hertz found the money to make this purchase.

> it will be interesting to see what people think after they have rented one

They will absolutely love it, just like I did when I rented one on Turo and then bought a new one the very next day. Also, the Hertz crowd is exactly the right target customer for Tesla. All of which shows how brilliant this deal is for Tesla, and how incentivized they must have been to make it happen. Which likely answers the question above.
There's "less favourable", and "mind slavery" where can't look at anything non-work related.

It's weird for me that someone with technical skills to build a proper web application would have to be subject themselves to the latter one.
Scaling a single, discreet, product shouldn’t take a ton of engineers.
> Performance isn't just latency - it's also about the requests and responses per second a service can handle.

Performance is 99% about latency. And, when having this conversation, we are typically talking about I/O-bound latency.

Assume you have a trivial computer system that can only process 1 thing at a time. The number of things you can process per unit time is inversely proportional to the amount of time it takes to process each thing. Adding more threads/cores to the mix does not change this fundamental equation. Many practical business systems have a large component of processing that must occur in a serial fashion.

Think:

Multiple computers: Milliseconds, One computer: Nanoseconds

How much more work can you do if you can finish each unit in 100ns vs 5ms? How would this impact the user experience? Is the reason you cant finish in 100ns because you are doing global illumination on the CPU or because you are waiting for [hipster noSQL solution] to return some packets to your application server?
Standard Ebooks is such a great project, a big thank you to all the volunteers.
All cars will creep forward with the first gear on. The thing is, if you're already going faster than 10km/h, they'll decelerate towards that surprisingly quickly.
Most likely there's a guru meditation error somewhere in the chain due to all HN regulars hitting that page...
Maybe they're paying as much attention while on camera, but using the same fake signals they use to look like they're paying attention at in-person meetings.
Heathkit had the H11 in 1977:
http://cini.classiccmp.org/heath_h11.htm
Once again, my belief that jumping spiders are among the most interesting creatures is validated:

"The principal eyes — the big forward-facing ones that just beg us to anthropomorphize — have incredibly high resolution for creatures that are usually between 2 and 20 millimeters long. Their eyesight is sharper than any other spider’s and is the secret behind their ability to stalk and pounce on prey with impressive precision. Their sight is comparable to that of much larger animals like pigeons, cats and elephants. In fact, human visual acuity is only about five to 10 times better than a jumping spider’s."