skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In short bursts or downhill sure? Consistently in a commute? No, that is definitely atypical.

Do you ride bikes or mostly just e-bike?
I don't buy it. Clearly one has to run power to this transmission device. Once you've drilled a single hole for this all it takes is one tiny wire to vastly exceed the data capacity of this system. You could probably even send data at far higher bitrate over the existing power cable itself.
Is anything supposed to happen when I enter something and press Enter? Nothing happens for me, FF on Windows, uBlock.
are we still doing the whole y vs x thing with languages? why are people wasting time on this? assembler wins. we already know this. the rest is just laziness. /this is sarcasm.
If you gained legal entry in the first place, how did you get DACA after the legal entry?
Any thoughts on an arm64 version?
IDK they probably would have been better off if they ended the conversation earlier rather than "giving their manager a piece of their mind" & then hanging up.

If a conversation is getting too heated, excusing yourself and taking a beat isn't the worst thing in the world.
ohhh makes sense, thanks. I've been kinda just thinking they were HN admins or like people that have gone through YC
Virtually anywhere else the world that isn’t a major metro center.
My Cyrix-based machines don't get software updates anymore, even with any modern Linux distros :'(
A programmable search engine for code that is limited to your trusted or preferred sites would be very useful. Minimal requirement is that it understands code and doesn't strip out operators, parens, etc.

Would help if it was smart enough to show only latest information for your search. For example, no more XML configuration results for your question about modern Spring Boot applications.
These stories scare me. Particularly from Amazon where you don't get most of your TC until year 3.

At least at Netflix they pay more cash and if I get fired after a year I have it in my bank.
The only saving grace is at least they know the word 'safety'. I've ridden with such guys too and yes they are assholes, but notably they espouse the same defensive riding opinions of most riders, and they're still alive. That's the key in my opinion, being safe/responsible is not the same as being polite, and I think this gets lost when people focus only on (e)bikers needing to learn good manners and be nice to other road users. (One should do both of course.)
Vimtutor – learn Vim the builtin way
Java is probably the biggest "eternal" language we have these days. Probably tied with C and C++.

There's <<so much>> Java code churned out that it's unbelievable. Business systems have a ton more code than infrastructure systems.
Age File Encryption – Is it better than PGP?
Is it safe to use LegalZoom to file a patent application? (2015)
Right, but there's a large question at least in the US as to what & who the bike lanes and infrastructure are for. There are commuters who travel via bike, casual bikers, and then there are also extreme bicyclists that compete.

There are bike lanes that are on normal streets and then there are bike paths that are often shared with pedestrians.

I think there is a solid case that bike lanes adjacent to streets are for commuters. The main argument is that the entire argument for installing bike lanes was to provide an alternative to driving.

The bike paths are a bit different. A lot of places in the US will have paths that ban anything with a 'motor'. In the past this just meant that motorcycles including small [sic] mopeds were banned as well. However, in recent years it isn't unusual for someone to use these paths wile riding a e-bike or e-scooter. IMO the main reason for banning motors was that those vehicles were loud and larger than a bike/scooter.

I think that since it's practical to use a e-bike/e-scooter at the normal non-assisted speeds the proper solution is to just have speed limits in places to protect pedestrians and other bikers.

A bike lane far from a city center could have the same speed limit as the road since the it's going to be mostly commuters using it. A bike lane closer to a university campus might have a speed of 15 or 20mph since those lanes will have a lot more traffic and a greater mixture of e-bikes and regular bikes.

A bike path that connects the bike lane to the bike parking area would be like 15mph. A shared sidewalk/path with pedestrians might have a max speed of <10mph.

I think the only group that might loose out is the pure-bicyclists that are used to using the bike lanes more like a gym so having to share the bike lanes with e-bikes could be an issue.
But even then I think very few of them tend to ride during the peak commuter hours.
He changed the link since I made my comment. See his edit. Originally he was pointing to developer pay by language, which Clojure tops and Lisp is fairly high on.
I think it may not be the exertion per se, as much as the perception that something is working hard to give the speed you have.

I have been a very very fast cyclist in the past, and when I'm down on my aero bars and doing 40-50kph under my own power, I'm very aware that I'm (a) working hard (b) going fast. This makes me not want to crash, if only because I'd lose all that hard-earned speed.

But I've seen the same effect in cars too. If I drive a very quiet and "smooth" vehicle on a very smooth road, its way too easy to go substantially beyond the speed limit, because I just don't have the perception of "an engine working hard to propel things forward". Switch a noisy, vibrating vehicle on a rougher road, and I'm much more aware of what is going on and will definitely keep my speed under control.

I haven't driven a Tesla or similar, so I have no idea how their near-silent engine affects this sort of thing. On paper, it seems likely to be bad :)
Yeah doesn't sound much like a zero-day then.
You are not fired for that, you are fired for responding slower than the other candidate. Employers have to chose all the time. Who to promote? Who gets the shit task? Who will fly to the tropical resort?

You end up with millions of individual struggles with boundaries set by need/urgency, ability to say no, how much of a dick the boss is etc etc

In NL we have some law for a sector where people need to sleep on their shift while still on call. They get some small hourly compensation for those hours. When called their normal shift starts which has a minimum duration. After working for the maximum number of hours per day/week someone else will have to take over. Perhaps an exception like that could work.

Something like 25% of the normal hourly rate for being available. (for example 4 hours after each shift (20h) and 12 hours in the weekend (24h) for 12 hours extra pay) When called it is considered a minimum duration shift of 3 hours, hours beyond 8 or after 18:00 at overtime rate. The 3 hours are removed starting with the last work day of the week and the first of the next.
Ask HN: Tuition Reimbursement for a JD Program
Hey everyone. So this is not exactly a question that would normally go on HN, but I casting a pretty wide net for feedback.

I am slowly learning that the 'tuition reimbursement' benefit is very, very conditional. In the case of my current company, its mostly dependent on my boss's boss. Still, I would think given today's environment, companies would do anything to keep people tethered.

I personally think I am making a decent business need case for it, but, as my boss put it, no one here but CCO has one.

I am having no problem getting my certs reimbursed and whatnot, but this appears to be a bridge too far.

Am I doing something wrong? Am I not presenting myself and benefit to the company well enough? Should I just brown nose my boss's boss?

It is not a small company and it actually benefited financially from COVID. My performance has only gotten better in COVID times and I am about to successfully complete a bigger project.

Any thoughts, suggestions, comments are welcome.
Hi, thanks for doing this. Does having a special international tier status visa like a tier1 visa in the UK followed by a British Citizenship, help with getting an O1 visa in the US? Tier1 visa is pretty much the the UK equivalent of the O1 with a pretty comprehensive proof process.
Yup, same. Driving somewhere in between Elizabeth, NJ and Montreal every 2-3 weeks overnight. Co-driver is saying stuff like "I'm getting sleepy, find the lizard people on the radio."
Great insight for us laymen. Curious, how are you so knowledgeable about such an esoteric topic? are you a nuclear physicist or…?
The reply letter from Tito following an assassination attempt from Stalin is one of the great political correspondences of the era: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tito%E2%80%93Stalin_split?wpro...
You see the sacrificial lamb thing with contractors/consultants because they won’t sue for being put in a bad situation and fired afterwards but not sure if it’s too common with Full time engineers. Amazon is just a toxic workplace and I recommend all my fellow engineers avoid that place like the plague. I’ve heard too many horror stories like OPs.
That just hides the lack of choice with another layer of complexity. A script language is not the best compilation target, but Web Assembly probably would be.
Wait, so did he get fired, or did he resign?

"What an imbalance of power and being an engineer who feels a strong desire to empower other engineers, I reached my limits and wanted out. A few weeks later, a developer on a neighboring team who reported to the same management resigned."
Does your code work? Can your interested peers tell what's going on?

If yes, great, your code is fine. Clean code is a meme foisted upon us by bloggers and the equivalent of dev influencers.

Edit: Can we have one thread without the political topics overtaking the discussion? It's Friday, come on.
According to the OP, it did. I'm sure that there were many independent inventions of higher dimensional number systems.
I would not feel comfortable bicycling in Chinese "bike lanes", they are basically just separate lanes for the mopeds.
Unless you're color blind, in which case you don't see any difference...
If anyone is like me and doesn't use these programs and couldn't figure out what to do with it on Ubuntu:

https://www.docdroid.net/9OBjfK8/tex-pdf

sudo apt install texlive
# maybe download other files from that dir
weave tex.web
dvipdfm tex.dvi

# output is tex.pdf
No it's the other way around. First I was granted DACA then I did advance parole and obtained a legal entry.
> MAGMA

why does Facebook become Meta but Google hasn't become Alphabet?
I wouldn’t be surprised if the other places didn’t have similar features. Responsible zoning, imho, would put residential far away from industrial, especially when they have smoke stacks or other offgasing.
Neutral tone and temperament are essential skills at this level. Opinions, not so much.

I’ve worked in similar environments where an SVP ignored all communications about a project until it was useful for them to be interested and gaslight everything that had happened and had been communicated before. In fact, the stink wasn’t on anyone involved, but the project itself. There’s a way to come out of these things unscathed, but righteous indignation usually is never particularly effective.
It would be interesting to see what places some other alternative like sound, light, laser, VLF, etc, aren't viable options.
https://github.com/robert-strandh/SICL
All adults can get a Covid vaccine booster in CA, not just those CDC listed
So I was looking through the list of recent comments and saw this one. And immediately below it, almost like a reply, was "Disable JS by default."

Not sure it will actually work, but I thought it was funny...
> This article assumes that you already know that that's what you need

This is how I read the article. It was about how to implement network protocols in elixir and here are two of them: redis and msgpack.

Having an elixir based redis server is not the same piece of the puzzle as having elixir simply talk to a redis server. For one, the elixir based redis server can have arbitrary rules around keys and values that are not supported by redis. (Same said for a redis server written in C or python or rust or...)

This approach lets you store all keys and values in a dict, b-tree, sqlite or postgres etc. Want to store each value in a flat file? Sure, now you can. Only you know if this is actually useful.

At least, this is how I made sense of this.
I don’t disagree. My read on it was more like they were arguing and the author just abruptly hung up in frustration.

Definitely could be wrong tho
What about something like Office 365? Wouldn't this handle this problem just fine?
The Amazon damage control team has made it to the thread.
I live in NYC. If I could tell me car "go find parking" it would be a miracle.
A lot of my friends work at Amazon. The situation this engineer was thrown into sounds worse than average but I have heard similar stories.

Amazon usually takes 3 months or so to fire people for real or imagined “poor performance”, so this engineer must have said something pretty bad on the call.
At one time I was a Cat 1 (last stop before pro) bicycle racer. Races would typically spend hours at 25mph, so I have a pretty good idea of how hard it is. 30mph on flat ground, unassisted, for any non-trivial length of time? Yeah, damned hard even if you're in shape (and impossible if you're not). 25mph by yourself? It might be "not hard...to hit" 25mph, but to sustain that speed is going to be nearly impossible for the ones I see zooming by on their electric motorcycles. And it's going to be tough workout even for an in-shape cyclist. As another commenter points out, that's over 300 watts. If you can do that for your hour ride to work, go get a race license, you'll do well.
Londump is a shit hole
Cool Belarusian IT Communities
This is the correct answer according to Brian W Kernighan’s book “UNIX: A History and a Memoir” page 41
Unless I read this wrong "she" didn't get any actual interviews, just responses from sourcers/recruiters. I assume any actual engineering manager would figure out the bullshit on the first review of the resume.

The only interesting conclusion from this article is that sourcers/recruiters from top tech companies are attracted to candidates from other top name companies. It doesn't speak to who actually gets hired.

Obviously the top of the funnel matters, but this doesn't seem particularly scandalous.
Note for all here: I am not the author, but thought this was interesting though I do not agree with the sentiment.
> The 2 dimensions of a complex number do not correspond to translations, but to scalings and rotations of the geometric plane.

Similar story for other 2D number systems:

For the dual numbers, they express scalings and "Galilean" rotations (i.e. shears).

For the double numbers, they express scalings and "Minkowski" rotations (i.e. Lorentz boosts).

Unfortunately, some of the nice theory of the complex numbers doesn't generalise easily to the dual numbers or double numbers. I'm thinking specifically of complex analysis which is very, very nice, and much nicer than real analysis. But I think these planar number systems have their own intriguing character: For instance, see "screw theory" and "automatic differentiation" for two distinctive applications of the dual numbers.
Good then cancer machine is down for a while
https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented green = new account; orange means YC founders
I'm surprised Apple stated that as macOS (ARM) have stretchy support for dual booting, even with two macOS version installed. So how could Apple be willing to do that if they haven't flesh out the dual-booting for Apple Silicon? Strange they passes the ball to Microsoft (deflecting to their competitor) whereas Apple should be holding the ball until it is capable enough.
They can absolutely handle the data, because all they have to do is collect it not analyse it.

The data's use isn't just in real time on ingestion. It allows them to examine anyone they want under a microscope forever after.

Once the collection has been running for a while: If I'm in power today and I don't like something you said today, I can look over your entire life history, and that of your parents and all other associates, and find all kinds of things to make you disappear, even if you never actually did anything wrong.

But you don't have access to that same power to discredit me or to defend yourself.
You can do that on a per-compiler basis for e.g. with

#pragma GCC optimize(“fast-math")
I'm with you, but today most sr. attorneys & judges still print out all emails/documents to then redline. the legal field will need another 10-20 years before the foundation is present to even discuss removing Word.
Modern day Londoners' grandparents have all heard about the offal and excrement floating in the Thames while toddlers sitting on the knees of their grandparents, who heard about the same sitting on the knees of their grandparents. Hard to break a chain like that even with scientific evidence.
My main project has gathered some stars (low hundreds) and a few followers, the occasional fork, etc. I think the project is both important and useful ... but at the same time I'm also very grateful that there seems to be such a lack of interest in it*

Why? Well I've been following my competitors' projects (other 2D canvas libraries) for a few years now. Most of these projects are being maintained by just one or two people. Their dedication to maintaining and improving these libraries - which they often took over from the original creators - is wonderful to see.

But the amount of crap the maintainers of the more popular libraries have to put up with is astonishing. People who demand immediate fixes for obscure bugs. People not willing to produce even a minimal code example to help the maintainers understand and fix the issue. People - developers! - who are too lazy to do their research and expect the maintainers to build their products for them.

So, yes. If that stress is the price to pay for having a popular project on GitHub ... I think I'll stay hidden in my little corner of the internets!

*A couple of issues raised, and no contributions, over past 3 years. On the bright side I can release updates without having to worry about backwards compatibility.
I specifically did not choose the word disingenuous. I asked him to be more ingenuous.

His assertion was "there is absolutely no way you are going to sustain 40 Kph+ for anything but a very short period". I disagree, and I think minimizing the capabilities of these machines in the rhetoric is counterproductive to converting skeptics.

In the US it's 100% legal to go 28MPH on them for as long as you can - which for me would be nearly forever on flat ground.
Pr it could have gone all peacefully like Czechoslovakia split in two.
Pleasantly surprised to see that this is a technical discussion instead of a critique against Bob's political views. I went into it fully expecting the latter.
Just to throw a random thought out there... given that in today's world almost every system we build is a "distributed system" to some extent, and given that I've found that quite a few developers don't know a lot about underlying network fundamentals, I'd suggest - depending on your current knowledge levels - spending some time boning up on networking. I mean things like learning how DNS works, what ARP is, how IP addressing works (mostly still IPv4, but don't ignore IPv6 altogether), and similar. In that same vein, learn to use common network troubleshooting tools well, from ping, to traceroute, to netstat, netcat, tcpdump / wireshark, and even nmap.
Can't look right now, but you might not have benchmarked against libc, but against an optimized version included in Raspbian (https://github.com/simonjhall/copies-and-fills). I'm not sure if that's still active in the latest Raspberry Pi OS releases.
Why is that obvious? Couldn't they use an RTG to power the device without the need for a wire?

Though... it does seem like a piezoelectric transducer, or even a relay, could transmit an audio signal through a solid metal bulkhead much more efficiently.
the winamp clone used for this is located here
https://github.com/captbaritone/webamp
Yeah it's totally excessive, lol. That's just what wikipedia says about your country's laws. No idea if it's accurate, haha.
Astronomers spot small black hole beyond the Milky Way in milestone discovery
I'm much more excited about manufacturing gasoline using renewable energy and captured carbon. That would provide the energy density planes need while being legitimately carbon neutral.
I believe the theoretical throughput of a modulated neutrons is very very high - substantially higher than the electromagnetic waves we send today.

Given that, perhaps the people of 1000 years from now will be using them to do data transfer because electromagnetic waves are far too primitive and low bandwidth.
You are supposed to type something into the search field then click the engine you want to use, it will pass on whatever you entered.

I agree that the creator could make that a little more clear somewhere on the page.
But the point of risk management is exactly that: to determine what you would do in those circumstances (in more or less detail, based on priority of risk). The well-known process is to identify risks, analyze them, prioritize them, plan/mitigate them, and monitor for them to actually happen.

Your post dances around the first point -- identification - but there is an entire practice surrounding the rest of the process.
My bar for Full Self Driving for any vehicle is better than the average driver. As long as it's better than the average driver, it's an improvement.
Well, they have excellent hearing and smell, so might hear footfalls in too-close hidden person testing. Also, as non-apex predators they have evolved to keep situational awareness to avoid being lunch when hunting. All of the ones I’ve had seem to rely more on sound or sight when we get home. Pausing when they see us enter but relaxing when we say something. Or, they get used to human behaviour and that involves leaving and returning.
Early on in my career, about year three or so like this guy, I got hired into a similar situation - gig wasn't what the company said. The key was to stay calm and set boundaries at every step. If you let it get emotional, it creates an excuse for management to turn you into the scapegoat. If you instead act like the consummate team player, over communicate, etc, it become hard for anyone to actually fault you. It might be miserable for a while, but the key becomes to start building allies so that you can escape the situation as soon as possible either to a new team or a new gig. Or hope that the team goes through a shakeup soon enough and because you did your thing you are a survivor.
As a self-employed Canadian I recently interviewed with a startup based in the U.S and received an offer. I'd be invoicing them, and they'd be paying a fixed monthly rate into my corporate account. They rescinded their offer, citing what I think is just a scapegoat, which was they they spike to their lawyer and concluded that the nature of the relationship was too close to employment, and would leave them liable under Canadian employment law. I say this was probably a scapegoat, because they were inflexible on arranging any other form of agreement, and it came suspiciously after I asked about how to bill for time off. Have you ever encountered anything like this, and is it really a concern I should consider in the future? They also didn't have an entity in Canada, and it would have purely been a contractual arrangement at the outset.
Making some sort of harassment with a racial component that's on par with sexual harassment. Despite all the DEI policies and whatever, the baseline for termination is pretty much the same as most employers, off color remarks are not getting you fired but putting down a fellow employee certainly can.