skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I worked for Microsoft about 10 years back. Unfun workplace. I thought it would be so fun to work there. I fought and got through three interviews. The team seemed cool initially. By week three I knew I had made a mistake. These people seemed so stodgy, so incapable of having a bit of fun. So utterly by the book. They almost seemed unable to deviate from the script. There was a sense of fear in the air that took a month or two to sense. I swore then I'd never work for another massive IT company and left after 6 months. I now focus on non-profits and I couldn't be happier. I get to work on cool projects that I often come up with. If I think I can build or code something better than what we have, I'm given the green light to do a working prototype. What more could I ask for? Sure, the pay is lower. But I work 8 hours and go home. There are no laborious crunch days trying to get something out the door. No meticulous, nasty meetings where everyone is playing one-upmanship, or buzzword bingo with gems like "synergistic" or using stupid phrases like "we tuned x and boom goes the dynamite", no talk of cross-functional team spearheading, no sharing an office with people who won't stop farting despite the nasty looks and obvious can of Glade.
Give me a task, a deadline, a budget, and get out of the way. I have rarely asked for a software license. I can do most things with FOSS/Linux. I may ask for a Raspberry Pi to prototype something or a slice of a VM for Ubuntu Server. These things cost almost nothing. I truly enjoy getting things done with minimal resources. It's fun working within contraints like RAM, hardware specs. I could see how embedded work would be fun in this regard.
I tried it, and it is broken, after clicking on save, the website stops working and went white?
presumably they meant revenue
Everything you describe is the same for me.
23andMe Agrees to Acquire Lemonaid Health
It doesn't destroy the west, but it certainly is moving everything backwards. Populism and some truth is a good mix for propaganda. In my country (GER) newspeak for anything relating to gender is already in place. Not used by the common peasant of course, but pretty much enforced by everyone wanting to belong to a larger media landscape.
Tesla doesn't seem to have any problem with demand so I would speculate they're paying the advertised price.
Leaf: A game server framework in Go
Engineers who get dedicated time to work on fun projects are better, happier engineers. Everyone wins.

We implement “15% time” for this and other reasons (and we certainly didn’t invent the idea). Some great ideas came out of it that grew into products and features. But mostly it’s stuff that was fun or interesting but didn’t directly lead to any revenue. That’s not just ok- it’s an important part of getting better as an engineer.
Feels like going back full circle to 1903 and using a propeller to fly :)

I am incredibly excited about the prospect of small flying machines. I also can not imagine that propellers will be where this ends although there are limitations with using electric energy.

There are quite a few concepts flying around these days:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sUqJ9bId70
Beeminder will remind you more and more urgently as you approach the deadline when skipping your habit will cost you money. https://www.beeminder.com/
Cloudflare Tunnel for Content Teams
> Is there any language other than English that can be written 100% by ASCII characters

Latin. Yes, a lot of textbooks add some diacritics to show pronunciation (as Latin wasn't 100% consistent between spelling and pronunciation), but the Romans themselves didn't use them.
In what sense? They’re quite a bit quicker than ICE cars and regeneration is something you need to get used to, but nothing that’s radically different.

With these the big issue would be charging them - people might not know not to go to a gas station.

Also wonder how the “full tank” policy will work with EVs where ideally you want to hover around 80%

Where they might not be suitable rental cars is the reliability. There are some horror stories where people wait 6+ months for their cars to be fixed, based on parts availability, but Hertz probably has some service requirements built in the contract.
>My understanding is that Tesla vehicles differ quite a bit from regular ICE vehicles, to the point that there's a bit of a learning curve to operating the car.

>I'd be interested to hear from a Tesla owner on this

Not a Tesla owner, but I did take one for a 30 minute test drive. There wasn't really any learning curve except for that when you let your foot off the accelerator (gas?) pedal, the regenerative braking kicks in, and you start slowing down very quickly. I didn't touch the brake pedal for the whole drive. Got used to it in a few minutes.

The hardest thing for me was the cruise control. Only a subset of autopilot features were enabled and I found it a bit difficult to operate.
It's quite simple to figure out, once you understand no electric charging and consumption can happen without the knowledge of the car computer, which is programmed by Tesla, which just received a $5 bilion dolar order from Hertz. Surely they can fit a bit of Hertz-specific "charge monitoring" code in this price tag.

In fact, electrics open up a whole world of pricing and customer ripoff models.
Result already is “stack” based, or sized. It also already exists in core: https://doc.rust-lang.org/core/result/index.html

The Error type currently isn’t in core, but for other reasons, that just got resolved: https://twitter.com/bascule/status/1452029363197784071?s=21
SolarWinds Hackers Continue to Hit Technology Companies, Says Microsoft
This feature is currently not supported my microsoft teams. And I guess a lot of corporations use teams for meetings.
Maybe.

I'm not saying that philosophy is bad, just that reality is complicated.

"Scrap the project and move on" works in some contexts, not others. The way startups/products actually work, often, is evolutionary. If your texting idea didn't work, but you see a chance to pivot into something... are you really going to just fire everyone and tell investors "sorry?"

That said, the "one thing well" philosophy really does have big engineering advantages. You can't have everything. I'm just raising the "retrospectives" warning.

In any case, the "$1 per year" was never a real business model. They never even got around to actually charging it... because anything that limits the usership of a messaging app will sink it. It's the opposite of "support everything" strategy that made them successful.

"Sell to Zuck" was always the plan.
I find Garnett pretty readable, even if she doesn’t capture the original Russian as well as others.

The big problem, though, is that we’re constricted by the supply of public domain translations. We simply can’t typically offer much more than Garnett, and if we could, they’re usually worse to read from a purely side-by-side English view, even if they’re more authentically Russian.
Interesting. Didn’t realize it was zero-click. I got a bunch of weird iMessages a few months ago which I didn’t open. How do I check if I’ve been compromised?
All their clients paid for it, does it really matter? Clients aren't concerned with what the consultants does with the money once the invoice is paid. Could you imagine your employer/client involved with your own life like that? "I don't think spending our money on a trip to Maldives is an effective use of our money. Maybe we are paying you too much." Like that would fly, literally, anywhere?
There are more good efforts, the BeTrusted guys are working on Xous, its a microkernel for a phone like device called the Precurser.

https://github.com/betrusted-io/xous-core

As a embedded service processor OS for a big server rack, Oxide Computer is working on 'HubrisOS'. They seem to have not released it yet, but that will be open sourced.

https://github.com/oxidecomputer

Those are two efforts where I know real resources are going into.
Transitioning off a long established core mainframe/AS400 app is not necessarily so easy as just changing to UTF-8 as the article author implies.

If you have no mainframe or enterprise experience to relate to that observation, consider the effort involved to transition from python 2 to (UTF-8 clean) python 3!

That said, I am not even clear from the article which diacritical markings are missing from EBCDIC and if the lawyers arguments to "not change" were legitimate in the way the article implies... you do realize there are hundreds of EBCDIC code pages covering at least all the European languages ... since these are markets which IBM has sold into for 50+ years now, right?

I only learned about EBCDIC code pages when trying to proactively properly setup character encoding handling for data extraction from one of my employer's long running AS400s... "Which EBCDIC?" is not that different a headache from "which extended ASCII code page?"... EBCDIC is not just like 7-bit (non extended) ASCII as the article implies.
Looks like a solution seeking a problem as chat for everything means consistently sparse users to chat with. Fairly normal for a hackathon as it's challenging to identify what to work on in such short time constraints.
Interesting. I have long thought that "Crime and Punishment" should have been called "The Idiot" due to the protagonist's infuriating idiocy, (all he had to do was keep his mouth shut), but now I wonder if the translation I read (which was Constance Garnett, it turns out) was just terrible.
When FB "caves to political pressure" you can rightly say FB could do better, but it does belie the point that there are governments actively seeking to distort information and using their political and economic power to force private companies to obey or be punished. And it's not just foreign governments, we give FB a hard time for not spending enough resources to combat misinformation shared on their platform, but when "professional" news organizations invest resources in creating misinformation it's protected by the first amendment. I understand the legal bind, but it seems like a double standard.
I hopped in my Tesla for the first time and after a single stop sign where I stopped kind of weird (not honestly that bad), that was it. The Tesla person on the initial lesson assumed I'd driven one before. You get the hang of it really quick. Same story for many other people who've driven my car. If you're not using regenerative breaking it's pretty much like a normal car sans the small acceleration gas cars provide with no braking.
Thank you! ESLint and Emmet are now as easy to setup as any other language server. Added just 8 days ago, certainly nice to use things which are actively developed and taken care of.
I may be mistaken - but I thought Blue USB A port indicated High Speed / USB 3.0. Should USB 2.0 port be Blue?
I guess I don't have that strong need to know exactly when someone is looking at me. If I'm with other people I behave as if they can see me, because they probably can, and if appropriate I relax. I don't think I could reliably keep track of who was looking at me in an in-person meeting with more than three people anyway. Keeping track of that and changing behaviour when people look at me or look away seems like it would be exhausting.
Intel Core I9-12900HK Turns Out to Be Faster Than the Apple M1 Max
I assume there is a little bit of a "meme stock" element to this, the reddit folks will love it, but I think I would pay a small premium for an electric car when renting (unless I needed long distance). More likely I pay a premium for that than for than the higher end ICE car options at car rental.
Even higher margins with electricity.

Instead of charging you $5 a gallon, they can even charge $.50 per kWh (or translate it to miles) and that's something like a 3x markup. Even more if they use a renewable energy source.

In my rough calculations, it costs something like $5-$7 to charge from empty to full on my Model-3 mid-range.
The Duke Of Edinburgh’s Award adds esports to skills section
Building a profitable business by bundling paid newsletters
Because they sold to FB. I think parent meant "they failed to make money on their own"
We use a small drink kiosk touch pad powered by Rasperry Pi, using this simple software project: https://github.com/rwth-i6/drink-kiosk

Works great. Except the SD card seems to be dying now after 3 years of constant usage (well, less usage during the enforced home-office times).
It was said elsewhere that Hertz payed full list price for these, but is getting some help from Tesla in setting up their charging infra.
Try a test drive sometime. The Tesla stores only need to give a minute of explanation. A rental employee would do the same thing. They are easy to understand.
> Transitioning off a long established core mainframe app is not necessarily so easy

I don't think the author implied it was easy, just that it should have been done at some point in the 25 years since the system was first implemented. The last paragraph is just an exortation to use Unicode everywhere all the time, today.
But recharging fully isn’t good for the battery long term.
Interesting idea. After testing it a bit, I felt that 'tail-read' mode may be a tiny bit better if the bottom/active paragraph always started at the same screen location. That way the eye gets used to return to the same reading start instead of hunting each time.

You already seem to be doing that that for single-para mode and it does feel more consistent.
As a non-Tesla owner, I'd love to rent a Tesla on my vacations just to try it before deciding on buying one. I'd say it's much better for renting than buying, as I know how I would use it beforehand.
Poseidon getting the help of Hephaestus to claim the oceans rightful bounty.
> There has never been any moderate or mild communist regime that didn't start out as a repressive regime and just mellowed out as successive generations stopped believing in it.

As a side-note, on the other hand, there have been plenty of mild communist municipalities that worked pretty well (and some of them still do) in Western Europe, or in Israël, for instance.
Certainly they do, and perhaps before the internet, a larger proportion of memes were of the useful type. For whatever reason, post-internet, memes are no longer reliant on having survival value to humans in order to propagate. Note that the converse is not true.
Do you have a name or a link for that MP3 player?

It's exactly the specs I want (even has sort by genre! I couldn't find that anywhere), but most of the cheap Chinese-made ones I found online had very poor reviews.
I think like most things there is a balance. The sweet spot may be I can go hard on the project but if I feel like I need some time off - there is the ability to step back and have the work continue.

I'm sure I don't know how to achieve it though.
I'm sure that cancelling accounts of people with "funny" spellings, will definitely not get the bank in trouble for (indirect) discrimination at all.
There are seven in-print translations of Crime and Punishment (and another six that are out-of-print). Which one is best depends on who you ask, or what you're looking for. The Garnett translation is itself considered a classic, and is in the public domain. The trendy one is Pevear and Volokhonsky. But there are other well-regarded versions to consider. This page lists them all and has extracts and links to articles to aid comparison.
https://welovetranslations.com/2020/04/25/whats-the-best-tra...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28987482
This software is great on the esp8266 and esp32 series of microcontrollers for those who like to tinker.
Great, stupid lawsuits, exactly what the world needs.

The bank's lawyers took the wrong approach, IMO. The law (as quoted in the article) says:

> The data subject shall have the right to obtain from the controller without undue delay the rectification of inaccurate personal data concerning him or her.

This doesn't have that much to do with how a certain name is displayed anywhere. Can I get an airline to change their systems if they abbreviated my name on my boarding ticket? Yeah, I don't think so. The airline could say "well we have the proper name in this database over here". And so could the bank.
Actually a metaphor just came to mind.

Imagine you've been playing on a 60hz refresh rate monitor forever. Then, you play your favorite fps on a 120hz refresh rate monitor.

That's what the difference feels like.
Sticks and Stones; a Counterargument to Political Calls for Anonymity
Someone is already controlling that speech. The argument is about whether the way they are doing it is good for society or bad for society. Free speech isn’t even on the table here.
I refer you back to my original comment. I quoted the Canadian Supreme Court in part to separate the legal question from the deeper one. As a non-American, the legal question is honestly pretty boring. The deeper issue of what constitutes a healthy society with free debate and expression, however, is interesting to me.

Because free speech is a societal and cultural value, as much as a legal one. A commune of religious weirdos with no laws at all could be highly tolerant or intolerant of dissent. It could embrace or reject free speech, just socially based on whether they ostracize the dissenters. Similarly, a nation of publishers where every publisher refuses to publish anything controversial, dissident or offensive may have no First Amendment issues, but it's not one that takes the principles and values of free speech very seriously.
I think 'communist regime', looking at what the comment says about the practical problems such as confiscating property, is the institution of an actual communist economic system. It's one thing to have communists in government, but quite another to actually implement communist policies.
> Heroes are a red flag for me, as a manager, trying to build a resilient team

Heroes are your most powerful asset, but you have to use them responsibly. The best thing you can do when handed a 10x unicorn developer is to try to document 100% of the things they say & do, and also make it a requirement that the hero mentor others some % of the week. E.g. For 1-2 hours every Friday you force them to hold a "no stupid questions" session.
Securing your digital life, part one: The basics
If they are ordering 100k of them, there's a chance Hertz gets a customized version of the software the specifically directs people to Superchargers and/or has some type of instructional flow they have to go through before they can drive.
A call for more downstream testing of Meson
How Long Does It Take Ordinary People to “Get Good” at Chess?
I'm tired of replying to this kind of comment, this would be my 4th time but I prefer to leave you the link to the other ones:

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28986737

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28987453

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28986771
Noticed this too. But it seems it's not strict:

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_3.0: "It is recommended that manufacturers distinguish USB 3.0 connectors from their USB 2.0 counterparts by using blue color for the Standard-A receptacles and plugs,[2] and by the initials SS."
> small acceleration gas cars provide with no braking

Gas automatic cars :)
I own a gun, I considered buying more too for a time (before ammo got really expensive) and I have friends and acquaintances that really like guns, and have several. I really don't see how software/tech could improve the experience outside of marketing and maybe some wiki-style education, if that's where you're going with your comments. Part of the appeal is the purely mechanical aspects of firearms and another is the actual experience of shooting.
Just had to smirk at the reverse car analogy here :)
And so, having made this observation, what steps have you taken to ensure that your meetings are purposeful and relevant to the people who are attending, so that they feel able to participate?
What makes me really angry: Google
That's absolutely fair. The law is the law, and GDPR has been adopted for 5 years at this point (enforced for 3), there has been ample time to replace noncompliant systems. If a car manufacturer gave you a new car without seatbelts "because the production chain was built in 1995", you would obviously sue them.
My first interaction with this management philosophy was when our partner AOL replaced experienced SRE serving our project with 3 far less experienced people for the same price. What used to take an hour now literally would take weeks on the bright side for the manager he had way more reports now.
At the time I moved out of New Jersey 8 years ago, the state was still unable to represent my completely vanilla name on my driver's license. My first name is "Christopher", but their computers can't/couldn't handle an 11-character name. It was always truncated on my driver's license.

This led to problems when they instituted their trusted ID compliance. When renewing the license we were required to provide some combination of documentation to corroborate our identity, and obviously that documentation needs to match the name shown on the driver's license - and of course mine did not.

There was one way out for Christophers like myself. A birth certificate was considered the ultimate truth, so as long as I had a notarized (with the raised seal) birth certificate to prove my identity, they would allow me to renew my license.

The State of New Jersey is very awful at IT. My wife, who works in healthcare finance, told me about problems she was having with the State because - get this - their field for what amounts to "Medicaid ID#" was too narrow, so they had to recycle ID#s for new recipients! And to make that worse, they discarded old backup data so when checking the data for a patient several years ago, it's only possible to find that of the latest owner of ID# 12345.
I've put some effort into my setup in the past 24 months; multiple Elgato and Hue lights, a Streamdeck for macros and scene control, condenser microphone on an arm with an audio interface, OBS studio etc.

I am not a streamer, but I'm likely set up like one; I've studied their methods of light and composition, and learned a lot.

I have some serious scarring from facial surgery decades past, and being able to control the light and setup has made a big difference in overcoming issues related to this; it has really helped put myself forward in the best light (pun intended). In this area of exclusively working from home, it was one worth spending effort on. I'm happy to put my (ugly) face in there, and really don't mind the virtual office.

(Fun fact my camera is "only" a Logitech StreamCam, but the lighting makes such a difference. The ability to bring up and down the meetings with a single macro button on the Streamdeck is also invaluable.)
> They might still be doing shopping runs 20 years down the line.

Not in the northeast or midwest US. Here in the rust belt, the only cars that make it to voting age were either rarely driven, or never driven in the winter. The frame and suspension components literally rust away into nothing due to a high-salt diet here. You can replace the suspension components when they die (not cheap) but you can't do much about the frame. The underbody coatings that dealerships like to sell as an upcharge actually hasten the frame's demise.

ICE engineering has gotten amazingly good over the last few decades, to the point that engine failures under 150k miles are quite rare unless basic maintenance has been neglected. One auto shop owner I know of says he makes the majority of his money on brake jobs, tires, and suspension work. He says he would be just fine if all cars were switched to electric overnight.

So while it's undeniable that electric cars are more efficient and will eventually win out over ICE for all passenger vehicles, I'm not particularly convinced that they will be either easier to maintain or any longer than our current cars. Longevity can only be achieved by the manufacturers actually designing their frames and bodies to be at least moderately rust-proof, but of course they have several strong incentives not to do that.
And https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lada_Niva