skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Make eye contact with every person you can. Smile through the awkwardness. Verbally greet people when in close proximity. Ask people questions that are specific to your interests ("I see you have a sports team shirt on, I too like sports ball!")

The next step is to find your confidence. Some other folks here mentioned a hobby or other activity to make friends. For me I found a rollerblading and roller skating group, because I had skated so much on my own I was able to use that confidence to fit in with the group. 70% of my friends as an adult came from that group.

And my last piece of advice is to play the "Yes" game. Whenever an opportunity presents itself then accept. You have more time to do this while you are young. This is the opposite advice as what entrepreneurs give, but when you are in college find as many opportunities to do as many new things without getting into trouble.

As for Halloween, dress up, get a big bag of candy, and try to give it all out. Do it with poise and grace. People will remember candy dude and more than likely you will find a group to tag along with.
> Never underestimate the power of NIMBYs to influence zoning ordinances.

I shouldn't underestimate the corruption of these politicians either. It's reasonable to assume the companies are paying them for the privilege of polluting my town. They've even taken over road signs, I can't even look at a stop sign without getting an eyeful of brands.

> repeated persistent drive-by paintball defacement of the articles in question may sap the companies’ will to carry on

... Has anyone ever done that before? What a hero!
My friend, the late Michael Polatnick, coined a word to describe your friend. “Stupido.”

Festo got big making pneumatic devices and grippers, parts that are used in almost every automated factory. And almost every mechanical engineer involved with mechanisms knows of Festo.
An SDK is just a library I include in my app, initialize and call. The problem is that developers are having to include user tracking SDKs to make money. This goes back to the 30% fees charged by the app stores: for many apps it's better to be free and sell data than to try to make a profit on what's left after selling an app for $2 (also, the fact the app is only worth $2 to the user is an issue too).
It is. This video argues it would be more accurate to call it the harmonic style of 18th century European musicians: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kr3quGh7pJA
I found this particular article instrumental in building my understanding of CSS's flexbox feature, which largely replaces decades worth of ugly, nasty positioning hacks with a handful of simple definitions:

https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/a-guide-to-flexbox/

Beyond that, the only advice I can give when starting out is to avoid inline "style=" attributes like the plague, and figure out how you want to organize your elements, styles, and classes. This is the trickiest part to get a feel for, and there's no substitute for practice. Frameworks like bootstrap and semantic ui make for especially good starting points, giving you a collection of opt-in helper classes for the basics, letting you focus on adding whatever custom stuff you need for your site without implementing a ton of extra boilerplate. You don't need to use them, but they can help you get a v0.96 built very quickly during your prototype stage, and they're battle-hardened enough to be used in the wild if you decide you like their opinions.
I could probably make that happen if I really wanted to.
I think the only way 25 comes anywhere close to working is by creating an informal team structure under the manager who has 25 “directs”, as you said. But at that point you’re informally creating the team structure that should formally exist, which in and of itself is a management failure. Either the org should hire some managers to manage those people, or some of the ICs in that informal structure are functionally performing management duties, and deserve the recognition, comp, and training opportunities that a formal promotion into management comes with.
Effective immediately Long Beach allowing cargo stacked up to 4 containers high
I only started feeling a sense of actually understanding CSS (as opposed to working on it based on acquired intuition) when I started reading the official specs. I think that most other material is an abstraction over those that usually doesn’t explain the broader context surrounding a feature or its edge cases / interactions with other features. For example here’s the spec on positioning: https://www.w3.org/TR/css-position-3/

I’ve found directly useful information in specs that was not commonly pointed out in tutorials/stack overflow/etc when discussing those features (not remembering a specific example right now unfortunately). Can say the same for JavaScript.

I think in general when learning about an API it’s best for understanding to read primary sources. And thankfully the W3C specs are quite good documents and not too inaccessible in my opinion.
I think the full lyric here is actually "pandemic ain't real, they just planned it."

The meaning and intent of the lyrics are open to interpretation, but I think the latter part of the lyric implies political commentary rather than medical commentary.

Also, I think we need a tighter definition of "medical misinformation." Is it to promote anything that is medically harmful? Well, then why can musicians sing endlessly about drugs and unsafe sex? What about videos on non-fda regulated vitamins and minerals, or weight loss solutions? Surely most doctors wouldn't advise taking recreational drugs, or jumping on to the latest weight loss magic pill.

And yes, YouTube is a private enterprise. But we can still, as a society, openly dialog on what we think is wrong with their practices.
I think, everyone who hosts a blog or thinks of hosting one should think about RSS – it's not that difficult, even, if you run custom software. (It's worth it. Even, if it's just a statement about not surrendering to SM.)
this right here.

1 mile away, both of us have AT&T fiber, we're seeing 10-15ms response times (packet size ~1400).

100 miles away, both on AT&T fiber clocked in around 18-20ms

1 mile away, one on AT&T fiber the other on Comcast gigabit had response times around 24ms

100 miles away, one on AT&T fiber the other on Comcast gigabit had response times around 35ms

i'm hard pressed to believe you will find an american ISP that prioritizes low latency. verizon 5g home actually did some magic with their non-standard hardware where i was seeing 9ms to my in-town datacenter and 16ms to my out-of-state datacenter. when they replaced the hardware with the standards-compliant generation of hardware my latency increased to 30ms in-town (they also changed towers so that could be part of the problem, plus congestion during prime time)

i just moved where i am 6 blocks away from my friend who i did the 1 mile test with. i will retest this afternoon and update this comment
FP and OOP both bring their own tradeoffs, none is superior to the other. The trick is to use both.
I can only speak for myself and my org of 300 or so, but it’s surprising how few people are actually interested in a 20% project. I’m sure there are factors at play here:

* we have a lot of work to do, the poster in this thread who is bored and only has 5 hours of real work a week is definitely not in my BU

* they may be concerned how such a project will reflect on them in perf. it may seem better to go all in on one thing vs splitting your attention

* we’re relatively new (acquisition) so perhaps the 20% ethos hasn’t percolated over to us yet

But at any rate, I think I’ve gotten exactly 2 requests for 20% projects, which I approved after confirming the person wasn’t going to be doing the dreaded 120% project.
It’s not like you’re unbiased either.

Why can’t you believe some ads have a clickthrough of 35%? You never see ads so you don’t know how good they can be, right?

Also, you see ads all the time on HN. This whole site is a marketing/advertising campaign for a VC company.

Personally. I love to buy stuff and I love to click on ads for things I might want to buy.
Not all advertising is bad or rather, Advertising is not bad, period. The way google and facebook do it is bad, and of dubious effectiveness. Most of the small specialized niche communities need to stop relying on adsense etc. They should add self-serve advertising instead, and provide adequate exposure to those who pay for it. Advertising is communication; what is terrible is when it becomes spam, and google's moneymaker relies on spamming a lot because its premise is that spamming sells. There are better ways than that.
I’m working from home, dog. Day care is 2 miles away. In spite of a bicycle shortage I bought an ebike and a child seat and take my kid to day care that way!

I don’t even really like working from home(been remote since 2018) so when I want to go into the office I take the train into the city.
I used to blog quite a lot, but nowadays I often worry that my ideas are far too sporadic and random to deserve a single, self-contained blog post of their own, so I end up writing nothing at all.

Twitter incentivises this spontaneity, but I do think there should be some middle ground here.
absolutely not.
> You are basically doing the same using another syntax…

You seem to be thinking of Tailwind as just syntactic sugar. If that's your lens and you're not leveraging its strengths as a framework, then yes — you might as well use raw CSS.
The other key is to discard their remaining false hope for the establishment they were previously safely anchored to.
If someone promises you’ll have it any day now, so you pay them a lot of money, but they delay it years and years - and you note it’s a really hard problem - at what point is it fraud?

Most legal precedent I’ve seen says a lot less time than they’ve already delayed it, frankly.
This is old news from August
It's cool but if we are going to use a new format (JSON) then it feels like there isn't a good reason to consider others like TOML. Or graphql-ish queries even.
If you eradicate online advertising, wave goodbye to HN.

Turns out we only want to ban the ads we don’t like.
Maybe we can just call a mulligan on the last fifteen years of internet media. No blame, no finger-pointing.
The Design System Priority of Constituencies
Unionize anywhere you work. That's the way not to feel bad.
>Luckily, right now open RSS distribution is still the norm for the overwhelming majority of podcasts, but who knows how long that'll last.

Presumably it will probably last so long as advertising pays the bills for those for whom podcasts are a directly commercial endeavor. At which point they'll go behind paywalls and/or die.
Is there any way to ensure commitment to open source from any commercial company?
> If they colluded like a "cartel", they should be treated like a cartel

Are you suggesting we use their distribution networks to move crack in to the cities, then use the money made to fund illegal interventions in South America?

Seems a bit extreme, i'd say just break them up.
well governments (and the massive number of associated government funded sites) could start by always having RSS and not sending their citizens towards the social media platforms with gratuitous links and endorsements.

that doesn't need much regulation, just an elementary ethical / moral code

but you are right about the limited role of governments in resolving this. this is not a complex / high risk / long term project where you need them. actually just the people in this thread could probably solve this from a technical perspective.

the elephant in the room is the publishing industry. one could excuse an initial decade of them being dazed and confused, but its 2021 and they should wake up and smell the coffee.
Note that I don’t condone the actions at all by this company or individual.

However, this story demonstrates why the publish or perish model is so screwed up today. When your promotion, funding, livelihood are directly connected to positive research findings and publications in high impact journals, deception in the face of desperation will certainly happen. Ethics be damned.

Frankly, this is one of the reasons I think I want to only do research part time, focusing the majority of my time on clinical work as a physician. My salary would not entirely or really even remotely be dependent on grants or publications, and I could just slowly build up on some projects. Is progress slower, could your project be scooped? Certainly, but it sure wouldn’t force me to falsify results to make publications more appealing.

Who knows, though. Maybe everyone is susceptible to the rat race.
Alternately, it may counter incentives towards digital monopolies.

I’m not convinced that large amounts of personal data is required for search to work well, at the very least I’m not convinced the personal data must leave an individuals control.

We don’t see a lot of innovation in this direction as hyper personalized search seems to work reasonably well and the startup costs to compete are massive.
You would be hanged in some countries.
I will continue to repair my ‘70s and ‘80s era vehicles, because newer models that incorporate electronics are all total garbage. Reason: embedded engineer for 30 years who has worked on automotive software.
I'd imagine you aren't the only person who may be having a hard time adjusting from a remote freshman year to an in person sophomore year! Outlook is a big part of these things, and sometimes optimism is a great tool even when it seems unwarranted.

I'm a cali guy, so I can't comment on Texas A&M from experience, but... is there a computer lab available for working on your CS assignment? At my school our lab was lovingly referred to as "the dungeon". It was a place where you would spend long hours working with others on hard problems. As others have mentioned, shared hardship goes a long way towards friendship, and I am still close with some of those I met and worked with there!
That is it. Cheers!
F-16 Problems (from Usenet net.aviation) (1986)
We have a service that is just terrible that runs here and crashes a lot. Somtimes multiple times a day. And instead of rewriting it they have a program that watches it too. And restarts it if it fails...

I can't believe the same nonsense exists elsewhere. ours is nothing to do with rabbitmq
When I skipped down to the bottom of this page to look at the actual art under discussion, it gave me a popup that told me I had earnt a fucking badge for reading this page all the way through.

I hate this fucking future.
In my specific case, it was due to going to one of the better-off suburban school districts. Even though it was obvious that the characters were stuck in a Dickensean world at the intellectual level, none of us had the real-world experience to get what it's like to be a migrant farm worker at the gut level or even to suddenly have perspective of our less-affluent classmates.

My dislike of how Shakespeare was taught in HS is from a different angle. The problem wasn't that the stories were unrelatable: that was during the peak of my fantasy-reading years. I disliked how much focus was put on the iambic pentameter as some special sauce for "understanding what it means to be human" and other overdoses of the Dead Poet Society ethos.
So, I’ve been making websites since before CSS was a thing

Off topic but I remember when CSS stood for Content Scramble System and was the digital rights management technology on DVDs.

Three people (two unidentified, one in Norway) cracked CSS in 1999 and created an app called DeCSS to remove DVD copy protection.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeCSS

The movie industry took this very seriously. They got Norway to raid the home and prosecute the one known author. Hosting a file with the name DeCSS led to copyright infringement complaints.

So some wise guy wrote another app also called DeCSS that had the sole purpose of removing Cascading Stylesheet references from an HTML file. It became one of the most popular hosted applications for a while.
I agree that micromanagers can’t micromanage at 20, but good managers also can’t give the attention and mentorship their directs deserve either. In my experience teams want a good manager, and being under managed by an overworked or absentee manager can be a problem for morale and team cohesion.

I think the real solution here is to find the micromanagers and train them or fire them, rather than hampering all the managers in order to cut the micromanagers off at the metaphorical pass.

Personally I’d quit in such a situation. If I’m going to be managing 20 people and creating informal team structures under me, then some of my directs deserve a management title and I would want a title befitting a manager of managers. The whole thing has a whiff of “how can we avoid promoting a bunch of people” to me.
i've heard the SSB protocol [1] be described as a "more advanced RSS". it's basically a distributed social network built on the ideas of RSS.

[1] SSB: An Identity-Centric Protocol
for Subjective and Decentralized Applications, https://conferences.sigcomm.org/acm-icn/2019/proceedings/icn...
There is also https://github.com/nixpulvis/oursh which wants to be POSIX compatible with its own extensions. Actually I would prefer if a new shell focuses on bash compatibility.

If features are integrated, then I would probably want to have something about error handling because it is difficult to get right in bash even with shellcheck¹ plus shellharden², and gets just worse when things run in parallel.

¹ https://www.shellcheck.net/

² https://github.com/anordal/shellharden
I wonder if these kinds of discussions can be easier to have if concerns and critiques brought up were framed, from the start with an understanding that the cost to achieve and maintain compliance with the standard is a cost that gets paid either in money or work-hours (like for example SOC2 or PCI), that it can very tangibly halt non-compliance workloads and rollouts; instead of starting from a footing of assuming complaints are the cloaked dressing for being against user privacy.

Understanding full well each standard solves different problems, for some of us in tech achieving compliance is a non-trivial amount of critical work and maintaining it similarly isn’t always something you easily drop everything and make happen in a day or two.

I think that’s 100% relevant and shouldn’t be immediately responded to as others have by assuming the relevance comes from a position of opposing the regulation or standing against user privacy
Binary trees during the hiring process for software engineers is not a part of the entire industry. I'd be surprised if it was even the majority. But it is prevalent, and posts pop up here regularly disparaging it.

Places lean into Google's way of doing things by default without demonstrating that it leads to positive outcomes _for their business_. Google themselves do it due to no small part to compensate for the pitfalls of getting as big as they have. Pointing out that what they do is ubiquitous and inherently optimal is conflating scale with success.
Are most machines involved in attacks like this compromised? Are we talking generic consumer desktop machines, like my grandma’s old XP desktop running in her basement?
Eh, that’s generally not how the procedure works. A defendant quite explicitly doesn’t need to proactively provide all information that could possibly incriminate themselves. If the plaintiff isn’t asking for something then, cool. The plaintiff COULD ask for ‘all self driving data’, but often that can be objected to and/or thrown out, as it’s a fishing expedition and that data is proprietary. So that can tie up things for a long time while everyone argues back and forth in court, and it’s likely they’d only get the bare minimum to address whatever the case is alleging. That is very expensive to do.

If they know it’s there and can proactively argue it’s appropriate, that changes the equation dramatically.
Please STOP runtime loading JavaScript libraries within a PWA
Ah, I didn't check iOS - I would use an Android client.
Writing modes, box-model, margin, padding, positioning (relative/absolute), flexbox, grid, media queries and units (px, %, rem, em).

I've tried following the blogs mentioned in the past but it wasn't really worth the bother. I don't really care about CSS beyond the need to use it to solve problems - and to do so with confidence that I know what I'm doing.

That's the most important thing in CSS, to really understand the fundamentals so you're not frustrated or in a state of trial and error. Seen too many devs who work this way.
Microsoft promising `dotnet watch` for a while and then dropping that certainly doesn't help with the already pretty damaged view of Microsoft not caring about open source developers. Here is the gist of the situation from Microsoft's point of view:

> Throughout the last year we’ve been working to enable the best possible Hot Reload experience in Visual Studio 2022 and .NET 6. Part of our goal was to also explore making this feature available to customers through a variety of mechanisms such as bringing the full power of Hot Reload to as many .NET and C++ developers as possible when running through Visual Studio 2022 debugger, supporting Hot Reload when running .NET 6 apps without the debugger, and the very basic Hot Reload support we added to the .NET SDK tools through dotnet watch.

> As we reflect on what was accomplished, and what is still in front of us, the backlog continues to grow. This includes many high value scenarios that will benefit the broadest number of developers, including focus areas such as .NET MAUI, Blazor, adding support more types of edits, more optimized experience when working with XAML apps, and much more.

> With these considerations, we’ve decided that starting with the upcoming .NET 6 GA release, we will enable Hot Reload functionality only through Visual Studio 2022 so we can focus on providing the best experiences to the most users. We’ll also continue to pursue adding Hot Reload to Visual Studio for Mac in a future release.

So, first they wanted "bringing the full power of Hot Reload to as many .NET and C++ developers as possible" but now they shifted to "focus on providing the best experiences to the most users".

Best part of this whole thing is the pull request which was opened (https://github.com/dotnet/sdk/pull/22217) but " locked and limited conversation to collaborators" straight after opening it as Microsoft anticipated the backlash but still went ahead with the change.

Seems they still have a lot to learn before they can indeed be trusted.
Medical labs are heavily regulated. Theranos mislead inspectors by not showing them their entire lab.
Unrestrained freedom to intentionally lie to the public and use social media to amplify propaganda is clearly a public health threat.

The question is if there is any cure that doesn't destroy legitimate political speech.

(Illegitimate speech being the calculated, coordinated distribution of false information).
I dispute that disinformation or not is a reason for censoring it.

And I dispute the repute of those labeling things "disinformation", specifically.
No, but you can practically guarantee it.
Is it not a necessary condition to collect that data in order to build and refine eventual FSD? I'm not making a blanket statement about bulk data collection but in Tesla's case, that data will eventually trickle back to the consumer in the form of car upgrades.
So it’s like iptables rules for HTTP requests - would be a cool idea, if only they didn’t cut off the rest of the API to make it happen…