skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Switched twice myself from multi year management to technical roles. If one looks at careers over decades (and the industrial transformation that happen over that time) it can be tough to stay in managerial roles without selling your soul.

There are a lot of contradictions and one has to come to terms with what fits to ones values. The market prefers specialists but generalists often tend to get more stuff done and thrive once inside an organisation. In higher technical roles management skills are often key. Likewise in management roles being grounded in hard facts can be a plus. None of the HR advertised "career paths" help here much as one learns best by doing very hard for real - technical as well as managerial. Switching is hard and takes time but on the other hand one learns a lot. Nothings free.

Managerial skills age better so recovering (jdoss stressed that word for a reason) from a technical doing break does require some planning and having the right environment around one. It also requires having reached real depth in coding, design and architecture beforehand. Part of my job currently requires me to do some training and coaching and I find that really satisfying helping me to recover technical skills and have a positive long term impact on people.
IME as someone who has done alot of portability work, both for my own projects and others, and including writing more than my fair share of Debian and RPM builds (but not as an official package maintainer for a distro), boilerplate stuff is rarely the issue. It's all the random, niche problems that invariably crop up at least once or twice with every project, even smaller ones. Every build is broken somehow. Given that basic reality, what matters is how often you can route around brokenness without patching the upstream build, and when you must patch how easy it will be to implement and maintain those patches.
I work at Apple, I'm a senior engineer - been there for almost 2 decades. I'm DRI on a few things here and there.

Not a single decision is made on things that I am DRI on without me being a part of that decision. I may not get my way if I'm over-ruled for corporate reasons, but I know about it, and being the DRI, I get a slightly-larger-than-average say in what happens. Generally it takes a director or VP to over-rule what I want, and then the radar is very clearly marked as such.

Apple takes the concept of the DRI very seriously. You don't give responsibility without also giving power.

My opinion: There is zero chance (not "a small chance", zero chance) that Jony Ive didn't sign off on, and explicitly endorse the Touch Bar. Something that obvious, in that commanding a position in the user interface would never have escaped his personal input and attention.
So, there are roughly four executive functions

- model
- monitor
- mentor
- resource allocation

Using Software to "run" the company will encourage openness, reusability, and robust discussion. This may not be what executives want.

And yes Linus Torvalds will inevitably come up here. And I think he is an excellent model (excluding the stuff he resigned / apologised for). He does / did not write code that goes in the kernel, but will write things that solve his executive needs (everything from mailing him when his local build has finished to, you know, git). These things will mostly be open, and beneficial to the "organisation".

No his job is not to write kernel code. But that's not to say he writes no code, nor is that code not useful in building the whole organisation around the "factory floor" job.

Anyway, the model / Monitor / Mentor thing - yes of course software will help building such things. And yes of course there is proprietary code out there (SAP etc) to kinda sorta do that but mostly it all devolves to executives downloading everything to excel and writing their adhoc queries in excel to answer the problems they face today.

There is zero point hoping SAP will write a custom what if filter for Company X's problems with holding US Sales in Dollars or Yen.

And there is a big upside in thinking if they were coders, and did write that query and made it open inside the company it would be reviewed, challenged and improved. And maybe even open up debate in the company but that's politics ...
> People like these would be held accountable for their in bad faith actions. They damaged all the world just for profit, thieves in the streets get ready more for much much less.

What about holding the people who actually buy the products accountable? The Koch fortune originates from gasoline. That fortune would not be able to be amassed, and their influence would not have spread, if it were not for people driving. If you drive around, you are complicit.
Which legacy media is not making a streaming migration effort currently with enough sway to manipulate the narrative? I'm not aware of any major players not moving to svod or avod in the US.
As I understand, Kwinana plant is done but closed for now. I found a Reuters article dated 2020-03-23, China's Tianqi postpones commissioning of Australia lithium plant amid liquidity problems.

https://www.reuters.com/article/tianqilithium-australia-idUS...
Is this actually evolution or just selective breeding?

By killing elephants with tusks the poachers are favoring elephants with the no-tusk gene.

This isn't a lot different than killing a dog that bites sheep, which is how we bred herding dogs. Or a wolf that eats your baby, which is how we domesticated dogs.

This trait already existed so it certainly wasn't "engineered due to mass poaching for ivory" as claimed.
Basically, I'm looking for something that will resonate with "the average Joe," so to speak. Talking about people in dictatorships or people who are political extremists, yes those people need privacy. But how can you convince the average Joe that they need it too?

> Are those who decide what takes the label of "controversial" reliable?

No -- but the average person who finds themselves squarely within the Overton window will not find that concerning.
> those with money and power are too powerful and have too much money to be opposed

I get the distinct impression some of them are planning on it happening, and their plans will be disrupted if it doesn't.

> then we will see massive government investment into carbon capture/sequestration

I rather suspect instead we will see massive investment in protection for the politically connected.

Look at how things have gone historically in nations in decline - you don't get more consensus building and egalitarianism. Now repeat that when there's no sane nations left to immigrate to, because everyone went hard-xenophobe.
Dropbox has engineering issues in general.

Linux support is terrible, their app still doesn't support sync on demand and probably never will. The net effect of this is that people with a lot of data in their dropboxes (i.e. paying customers) get to choose between either losing huge amounts of drive space unnecessarily or just not syncing that folder at all.

One has to wonder if the reason they're not supporting Apple Silicon is a lack of technical ability rather than just a brain-dead organizational decision.
It's not theft. The MIT license, which your project is released under, allows exactly what they did.

The MIT license does require attribution, but doesn't dictate where that attribution appears. Have you checked their repo for attribution?

(Edit: It's humorous that the other project is named Parrot, since Parrots are known for copying sounds, and in fact the verb "parrot" means "to imitate.")
I dreaded SOAP, and how it seemed to spawn an industry . I dreaded having to answer SOAP related questions in job interviews, but more than that I dreaded using any form of SOAP in my day-to-day work. Its nice our industry consigns certain technologies into their place on the sidelines. Not to say we still have many others that are a burden on the developer, and the organization in general.
I stand corrected, yea I guess a gravity gun could make some times.
IMO sealing for classes is unnecessary, so long as methods are opt-in for overriding (e.g. as in C++ or C#, where you need to explicitly say "virtual"). If you can't override anything in a derived class, how can you break invariants?
the fact that most of Co-Pilot's usefulness comes from repeating common snippets of code makes me think there has to be a much simpler way to reduce the boilerplate of "common tasks"
Technology probably, but product I would say no. I prefer the cautious option, but the general perception (dangerous word to use in this context) of an autonomy product is driven by Tesla, not Waymo.
People aren’t necessarily good at reducing fractions, either, in case that’s of any comfort.
I agree that tooling for JVM languages, Go, and C# are better at that, but clang and Jetbrains' CLion has helped close that gap. They've done a lot to make refactoring a lot easier, find errors better, and not have to compile just to find obvious mistakes. Newer languages are much better designed for IDE/tooling support in general, with stronger type systems in a lot of cases.
Anyone know how long the waitlist is?
How I made Google’s data grid scroll faster with a line of CSS
I'm not endorsing it. FWIW I won't use Copilot and won't add (voluntarily that is ;) bugs in my code to sabotage it.
The younger cooler people aren't on Facebook
We agree that downstream users who redistribute copyrighted code regurgitated by Copilot are in violation of copyright.

It doesn't seem to me as though the distinction between "Copilot reproduced the code and the engineer copy/pasted/saved it" versus "Copilot inserted the code" is crucial.

There's a separate question about Microsoft's own liability. When Copilot reproduces open source code without adhering to the terms of the license, that's redistribution and thus copyright infringement. A copyright owner might not be able to get substantial monetary damages, but they ought to be able to get a copyright injunction.

I wonder what happens to Copilot should a Github user secure injunctive relief, forcing Microsoft to exclude their code from Copilot.
I like to consider things like that as the community mechanism for how new things/tech/tools are introduced to the community.
Abba's Future with Avatars
It's a glorified autocomplete to me. It seems like it feeds me mostly things I'd get from searching Stack Overflow. The first day was pretty interesting but the novelty wore off quickly. You still need to grok what it spews out and see if it's correct.

And the worst thing about that is that you don't get the context of the Stack Overflow threads, where people discuss the impact of the given solution and alternatives. So after a week, off it went for me.
Dupe. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29008648
Poker players can have tells (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tell_(poker) ) that unknowingly to them give their opponents information.

I wonder whether bridge players similarly may have tells that their partners, by playing a lot with them, subconsciously learn about.

If so, bridge may have accidental cheaters.
The title had me interested. Seeing the comments here saved me from clicking over. I don't consider things that don't show pricing.

Sounds like it'd need to be cheaper than pinegrow and better than bluegriffon to have a spot to consider at this point.

I'm always looking for the replacement for netobjects fusion, so far pinegrow is the closest.
Grammar Correction as You Type, on Pixel 6
Citing ethnic groups that eventually become "white" and model minority groups is a whole thread unto itself, there is a reason your list doesn't include Native Americans, African-Americans and Hispanics. Race-blindness always serves to hide the hierarchy as it currently stands, as society is never blind to marginalized groups.
People just like React and the idea of decoupling frontend and backend ( Pretty sure just a few percentage of users use Nextjs with api routes and just use it as Create-React-App with SSG and SSR capabilities ).
I haven't used Vercel that much in production but what does it bring compared to Heroku or cheaper and open source self hosted alternatives like Dokku or even caprover with it's really good UI and can deploy any backend as long as it's Dockerizable ?
While I'm not disagreeing with you, every one of your points is explaining things that could make it more informative - but not that necessarily actually make it a better movie.

All that you say can be true, each of those changes likely would make things more informative - but doesn't mean they necessarily should be added.
> Telemtry changes done via GPO have only been reverted by mistake

ah yes, like Edge keeps being reset as the default browser by "mistake"

the GPO even says that the telemetry cannot be disabled on non enterprise versions
Who’s exposing their database? Why? You’re exposing a view over your data that may or may not live in a database.

None of your points apply directly to grapple, all apply to a REST based architecture. More so, I’d say.
Wayland solves problems that I don't have, while introducing new ones (my Nvidia GPU isn't well supported, remote X doesn't exist and none of the wm's I love support it, like openbox).
So I'll stay on Xorg for as long as I can.
Ah, gotcha!

> And then might get delivered back to Australia or Britain or whatever.

Man, aluminum bugs me for that. Australia to China to Iceland to China to USA as some “fancy” case for landfill electronics at Walmart.
I would love to know your strategy. But I dont think the problem is paralysis by analysis. Each language listed by me gives something unique other than Python. My challenge is more about evaluating a language without understanding deeply what it offers. It would ideally be nice to learn something interesting which also has job opportunities. But jm willing to learn more than one for personal growth and for job opportunities.
Here is a demo of the gh CLI ssh'ing into a Codespace and using neovim w/ copilot:

https://twitter.com/josebalius/status/1453413543232090118
> If you really didn't know this, you might seriously consider whether you have anything to add to this discussion.

Two things here:

1) Being snarky with someone asking a sincere question is a wonderful way to alienate them and leave a bad taste in their mouth regarding the topic at hand.

2) The parent said they "can be fired", not "until over a year ago, I could have been fired". They were asserting that this is the current state of affairs, which it isn't, so I asked a sincere question about it. If asking questions to clarify a statement doesn't "add to the discussion", clearly I was taught how to have a conversation incorrectly. But I, and most rational people, don't think that's accurate. So, y'know, maybe take your own advice and consider what your comment brings to the table instead of trying to dunk on people.

As for healthcare, I appreciate the link. It confirms what I was wondering, which is that the parent's comment only applies to specific, specialty services and not the general umbrella of "healthcare".
To summarize:

Climate change ---> rising seas ---> ??? ---> BILLIONS DEAD

Can we not do this? Climate change is a serious concern. Divining billions of deaths from the tea leaves is unserious and makes the issue of climate change seem unserious.
Netflix Eyes New Jersey Army Base for Major Production Hub
Nevertheless, when Apple excludes a port the other OEMs start wondering whether that port is necessary or if they're including it out of blind convention.

Likewise, when Apple champions a non-proprietary port on their PCs, other manufacturers tend to follow suit.

Apple is more than just another large OEM. They are the standard bearer for the personal computing industry. They have tremendous influence over what a computing device looks like and how it connects to peripherals and other machines. (WiFi was largely a lab experiment before Apple's AirPort.)
Do We Have to Tell Them the House Is Haunted?
> availability of quality, affordable AR glasses

And since Intel, Google, Facebook etc keep buying startups that produce cool things and preventing them from producing more cool things (North Focals being the most recent I'm aware of) it's gonna be a while
Wayland is viable on FreeBSD, at least. It is very much not “Linux-only”.
The whole damned point is that consumers were being actively disinformed about their decisions.

Turning around & asking, why weren't we holding consumers accountable for their purchases, when they are being actively manipulated & lied to, is not particularly high in my rank of questions to drill into & explore.
Why? The amount of money this week raise is small. And of course, many will take steps to not pay it, making the asking even smaller.
So why? Is it to get the "wealth"tax started so they can grow who it affects? There are already a ton of comments here about how it didn't affect them or it is a good idea to steal wealth from the rich.
DST must die. That's it. It's 21 century already. Why?
Why (and How) Betterment Is Using Julia
Locking someone in a bathroom is false imprisonment and not really a clever way of playing the game. If this were a tournament it would be easy enough to get the referee's ruling reversed by threatening arrest of the players guilty of doing it. This, of course, would be blackmail and also illegal -- but much more in the spirit of the game.
That's a good point. My counter to this (not saying I endorse this) is that Tesla has redefined what people's expectations of a SDC are, both in terms of safety and capability (neither in a positive sense IMO). So "self-driving" has become more of a fluid concept than maybe you/I would envision.
Of course. They HAD drivers. For windows XP. Or maybe even current windows version, but the drivers are nowhere to be found today.

I will never buy a network printer if USB printers are available. They suffer the usual IOT problem. In a couple of years security updates will stop showing up, and the bloody things usually try very hard to connect to the internet. Then I'd much rather roll my own with a raspberry pi running an LTS OS.
The solution to someone abusing a foul system like that is to make them earn the fouls.
Are you really suggesting that PCIe and ethernet are equivalent? There are so many differences, starting with the distance...
Youtube's algorithm for me is a perfect example of what a poor ranking algorithm looks like.

I subscribe to a number of mainstream, local news feeds as well as our government's daily COVID updates. And ocassionally I will do a Google search for random terms. And yet somehow at least a few times a week I will be recommended some obscure news source often indeed with conspiracy or some ultra-right wing edge.

I very much sympathise with the challenge that Facebook's data scientists have to deal with. Incredible hard problem to solve.
Was the autorouter ever embedded into KiCAD?

According to this : https://freerouting.org/freerouting/using-with-kicad it should still work as it did long time ago.

What I do remember is that the author of freerouting.org was harassed by his (former?) employer.
(Elixir / Erlang) Bandit's HTTP/1.x engine is up to 5x faster
Your Favorite Cheese Might Not Be Cheese at All
Hiring a Developer Educator
Another advantage is that USB-C has all the springs on the cable, while USB-A has springs on the port. When the springs get loose, with USB-C you can just replace the cable, while with USB-A, you'd have to replace the port.
Yes there is, make your repo private.
Yeah I was just thinking the other day how much I wish I had an extra 60px of space. I was also thinking how happy I am to have saved 1mm of thickness on my phone by getting rid of the headphone jack. And, oh man, I wish my iPhone SE also had a notch. All that screen real estate between the rounded corners and the notch would make my experience so much better. Really jelly of the iPhones that have that.
What are you using to run the tournament logic? Custom code, or some kind of library?
For expanding your job opportunities, learn Java (statically-typed language with very widespread use in the industry) and/or Javascript (front-end web programming, used on practically every website.)

Ideally you'd learn both, but I understand your time is limited. Choose based on whether you'd prefer to work on back-end stuff or front-end stuff.
> And the collars didn’t necessarily work either. They were shipped, not installed/tested.

Are you sure about that? Look at the pinned comment on the original video from 2 years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VKZTmTP7oY
The Ultimate Hacking Keyboard has trackball options:

https://ultimatehackingkeyboard.com/
I hope it will work for the 'standard' vim, so far it reports 'vim version too old', while I'm using the newest vim.

it's said because vim lacks 'virtualtext' feature.
If you want to save money, go for Marantz PMD430 or one of the mono ones if that's OK for you:

https://www.fullcompass.com/common/files/2039-PMDRecordersDa...

I recently bought a PMD221 as a high-end data cassette recorder/player. I was having trouble transferring zx-spectrum games onto cassette using a cheap recorder, but PMD221 works great.
Grams per ounce is an odd measurement…
Countries can't defend themselves and thus exist if they don't have a strong military force and a strong economy.

Said strong economy being most of the time directly linked to the technology level of the country.
For your one use case yes. A CRUD app should not need a client written including UWP for the UI elements. But it gets used in lots of tiny places you wouldn't ever imagine. What you also don't know is the old stupid ways are slowly being turned off one by one so we have to use this easy nice UWP.
There are more main components than that. Sometimes forces like drift are stronger than adaptive selection.
A good article making solid points. The bottleneck is indeed scarce maintainer labor. Money is an important factor but not the only factor.

I found the Github product placement distracting. At the 3d mention of a Github product, I checked, and sure enough: the author works at Github.
Worst case is the planetary ecosystem falls apart from the bottom up.

If pollinators die it's over. And it will be far too late fix the problem.

It's basically an IQ test, and at the moment the species is far too dumb to pass.
With discussions around evolution, I try to keep in mind that the main pressure for evolution is from natural selection, and natural selection works on death. Plenty of species have been "naturally selected" for total extermination.

It's difficult to keep ethics out of discussions when facing the reality of life: that there is a massive amount of death and suffering, and it's a terrifying thing we're all forced into, including these elephants.
I haven't seen Dune yet but my take on Foundation is the same as Krugmans. Asimov's Foundation trilogy had the same impact on teenage me as it seems to have had on Krugman. I subscribed to AppleTV just to watch the adaptation but I haven't wanted to watch beyond the first few episodes. It's a pop-y star-wars themed insult to the source material.
Has it really “moved faster” in a way that helps users?

The Touch Bar was supposed to be an enhancement and increase functionality (which it did) users didn’t like it. Should Apple not have tried or should it have stuck to its guns?

How is not having the Touch Bar on new Macs “obsoleting” old Macs?

As far as HDMI, having four USB C ports was more versatile than having three USB C/Thunderbolt ports.

However the reality is that while you could use a dongle, it was more convenient to have an HDMI port. But how did adding an HDMI 2 port “obsolete” having four USB C ports?
Scoop: Sequoia Capital just blew up the VC fund model
This argument is the famous comic "yet you participate in society yourself, very interesting. I am very clever". You know the one.

It's impossible to exist in modern society without using fossil fuels. Come on my dude.
"I could create a whole new product that could scale to millions of users on a weekend." Sounds like an extremely appealing business idea.