skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you use the Windows+# shortcuts it's pretty easy to navigate multiple instances of an application. I don't know how the ordering works with the centered start button, but traditionally, the left-most application can be switched to by pushing Win+1. The second instance of the first can be switched to by holding Win and then pushing 1 twice. That's been available since Vista.

I don't want to excuse taking options away from users, but there are workarounds.
We have tons of high quality basic fulfillment. Food is higher quality, more abundant, and cheaper than it ever has been. Educational attainment is the highest it has ever been. Global measures of violence are at historical lows. Specialized healthcare is more available than it ever has been.

I think you've got cause and effect reversed. It's our exceptional progress on basic fulfillment that has enabled our economy to support these so-called "made-up" jobs.
does stackoverflow count as high-traffic, high-functionality? pretty sure most people here would be very happy for their startup to have that level of traffic. it's no longer a single computer, sure, but, last time I read about it, it was monolithic.
Snyk has been doing a great job helping developers find and fix since open source vulnerability was discovered on Friday.
Well, not only was the code clean, I imagine you were clean too!
I'm concerned about two things (that I hope I'm wrong about): (1) developers will overuse generics and use poor types or `any` where not necessary, and (2) this marks the beginning of Go's convergence to yet another language with a million choices for abstractions and a million ways to misuse its features.
Long running jobs tech stack
I want to design a solution using aws to process long running task 1hr to 4hr.

Some important points.
1. Every job need to be executed only once.
2. Notify client web once the job is done.
3. Don't want to block ec2 which is handling traffic.
It's normal in that Reddit has been like this for some time? It's not like this is new information for investors or advertisers.
> You'd think MS would be able to unify all this mess and consolidate Windows settings, but no.

Removing or redesigning the Control Panel would break third-party apps that rely on the existing structure; Raymond Chen's blog[0] has mentioned apps doing this.

[0] https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/
You would only deploy 10 microservices if all 10 changed at once. Why are all 10 changing at once?

> especially if you find yourself in the model where your microservices share code

Good architecture decisions trump the monolith vs microservices argument. I'm not saying cross-service shared code is inherently bad, but it does have a bad smell.
Having insider knowledge as an outsider is great, but you can also long a stock if you think the company has a strong vision and is executing on it.
Can you elaborate on "fix[ing] error handling" and what some of those small annoying quirks might be? I've got my own annoyances, but am always interested in what other people think.
I know folks in non-tech office jobs who say it's easy to exceed typical metrics for their department in, at most, two hours of actual work per day. Doesn't even require that those be especially frantic or hard-working hours themselves. Just a couple normal-paced hours and you're at the front of the pack for the day.

This exists at the other end, too: I've seen a lot of people in management positions who had enough assistants that I can just about guarantee their average workday is also about two hours of actual work, though with some very long days and some near-zero-work days. I've seen founder-CEO types who know (and are) the right people so it's easy to get early funding for their ventures, and make an "executive assistant" for that company (so, paid with investor money) a very early hire so they can get away with barely doing any work on it (they're always doing like 5 things at once, if you check their LinkedIn, and that's how: they're putting very little time in to any but maybe one of them at any given time)
I’m betting on monogamy since that has worked for thousands of years.
In big offices, lying often happens due to:

- you don't know how much the others are doing so why putting more effort (humanly naive classical economic strategy)

- things are opaque, people may not know what you do, and how hard it is.. if they say something and are wrong, they're reputation is tainted, only your superiors are responsible for this but they may be busy (or faking too)

- some people will willingly delay work, they don't like it, there's too much, so they'll stash tasks until people come and ask, then they'll pretend to be overwhelmed with so many things (unless management has clear views of what's going on, you're back to point 2).

- oh and often people will act as if they're super tense and busy and having the worst job in the building. Just before going back to their office, and sitting watching netflix on their phone.

Another thing, have you ever noticed people slowing things down ? and impeding you to improve things ?

ps: I'm deeply hurt by testimony like these (you're not the first one I read), having been in chaos and near homelessness ready to work twice the amount for min wages, it's unbearable. When you know that this happens, it's near impossible to not hate HR/interviews.

pps: few places where this can't really occur: public facing jobs, you don't want to look like a moron, or a lazy douche so you have no choice. Hospitals are probably free of that too. retail. There's a natural flow of timely tasks there.
True, though the ratio of 15 to 45 is better than the ratio of 2 to 45. I'm assuming there is some law of diminishing returns here, that hasn't set in at 2 or 4 years, but has set in by 15 years. In other words, a politician who has to run for office every 2 years is powerless in the face of civil servants, whereas a political who runs for office every 15 years definitely has the time needed to force a showdown with civil servants, whenever civil servants are acting in a rogue manner.
Nintendo: Lateral Thinking with Withered Technology (fun over specs)
There is something very magical about how Nintendo doesn't focus on powerful specs as much as fun gameplay, and I remember reading about this philosophy. The systems are made from existing mass produced hardware (the Wii was basically a slightly more powerful GameCube with novel controls: the GameCube's Gekko PowerPC Processor, a modified PPC750CXe, is only 486MHz while the Wii Broadway Power PC Processor, a close to stock PPC750CL, is 729MHz. That pegs the Wii processor at roughly 67% more powerful than the GameCube.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunpei_Yokoi#Lateral_Thinking_with_Withered_Technology

He articulated his philosophy of "Lateral Thinking of Withered Technology" (枯れた技術の水平思考, "Kareta Gijutsu no Suihei Shikō") (also translated as "Lateral Thinking with Seasoned Technology") in the book Yokoi Gunpei Game House. "Withered technology" in this context refers to a mature technology which is cheap and well understood. "Lateral thinking" refers to finding radical new ways of using such technology. Yokoi held that toys and games do not necessarily require cutting-edge technology; novel and fun gameplay are more important. In the interview he suggested that expensive cutting-edge technology can get in the way of developing a new product.

Even recently the Switch was basically just an Nvidia shield. Thoughts on this, and have you seen this philosophy in use anywhere else? I see that somewhat with installing linux on buying/using computers deemed too slow.
In addition to sibling comments, there's also a SocketServer component in the library you can instantiate and fire log messages at if you want to.

Which, if you're still on 1.2.x, also has an RCE against it.
Except the sponsors of the project that pay to put food on everyone’s table?
What would you call it when someone is obsessed with race and views skin color as paramount? Squeezing everything through that lens and making judgements on that basis.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ev373c7wSRg
Not a Go programmer but I can say that Generics were important for me to consider adoption of Go. Now that they are present, it's a legitimate language. Whether they make code messy really depends on how they are being used.
>but it's that getting something cool done is rewarding in its own right. Why don't they want that feeling… ?

Cant speak for everyone, but in my case, Ive done the grind to get something cool done in my younger days. Ive designed, programmed and tested a differential braking system for a sizeable unmanned aircraft technology demonstrator, from hardware to drive the master cylinders, to the software with control of stepper motors following dynamic control laws, and then sat in a control room at a US Air Force base and watched the traces as the real thing was landing and purely steering with the brakes after touchdown (to test nose wheel actuator failure).

At my current company, when I got hired, I specifically said upfront that my goal is just to become a subject matter expert, and to have a more consistent and chill workload. I did what I was supposed to, nothing more, but I did it correctly, and put in extra hours when crunchtime before deadline came. I got promoted to senior after 4 years, and now Im pretty at very minimal hours of actual work per week.

But, because Ive been on the same team for so long, can answer questions about the entire tech stack, I can debug things, I am happy to sit in meeting and talk about high level things when managers don't want to, so my value is still fairly high. I no longer care to really put in hours to build something cool, instead I am focusing on things I didn't have time to do when I was younger and grinding, like travel and fitness.
Auth0 down again, US-1, US-3, EU
https://status.auth0.com/incidents/pgbyx4wl5jpd
There's no true equivalence, because the effect under discussion is a matter of magnitude. The simplest illustration I can think of is that there is a large market for average-looking call girls, but only a small market for any-looking gigolos. There is no symmetry either between the extent to which men and women are motivated to pursue sex, or the extent to which they're receptive to it. It isn't to say that there is no demand/desire in the other direction (or direction(s) in the case of queer individuals), just that the other direction isn't the one that has a big impact or causes the common problems.
Sorry, I badly phrased that. I was talking about a company that used Unix on their servers, instead of workstations (usually for 3D Work). Although many used Indys and later O2s and Octanes as terminals for their Crimson or Onyx (2) (but not via telnet).
That's what _I_ did and in these environments (usually Irix, some Solaris, AIX and HP-UX) the GNU tools were usually installed (except on single purpose computers that only ran one program, like F/F/I, Softimage or Maya or some 3D CAD).
Maybe in the big automotive companies (using 3D CAD/CAM) the admins were, well 'enterprisey', but normally you were root on your workstation as developer.
NFT? Nudes from Trump? No thanks.
Haha, yes. If it weren't for the phenomenon written about in this article, I bet HN readership would plummet at least 20%.
Pony.ai’s permit to test driverless vehicles in CA is suspended after crash
tons of scrolling gifs blow through that performance high-watermark, especially on mobile (even on the M1 iPad)
Adding my voice to this one. I think a lot of work 'normal people' i.e. the PMs the non-technical management, the sales people etc. really don't get how we techies work. Because they have to do 'active' work all day long to keep on top, they think everyone is like that, where in reality we are really efficient in short bursts. I can ponder a deliverable for days and then just churn it out over a few hours, only taking breaks for coffee intake/discharge. The normals keep asking me 'how far have you got with X' during the whole period, and they don't seem like it when I say 'I'm thinking about it, but I've not done anything yet'.
You're misreading the point. The sentence you're quoting is from the perspective of a woman who is totally fine with, even enjoys, The Game.

> Why is being sexually attractive "being reduced to a one dimensional sex object"

It's not. Being catcalled is. That's what the quoted sentence is saying.
Aren't a lot of vehicles already not supposed to be on highways?
All of the large investment banks do at this point as far as I am aware. The core point I aim to make, however, is that it’s hilariously unfair that a 22 year old PowerPoint monkey with relatively little knowledge and almost no market influence has infinitely more conflict of interest oversight than members of congress.
Right now we get that with the huge advantage incumbents have over any challengers.
I'd say sanitization implies that there's something wrong with the data and you need to clean/fix it. But the former isn't true and the latter sounds like removing or irreversibly remapping characters.
On Android the app which supports pass+git is called 'Password Store' and can be found on F-Droid: https://f-droid.org/packages/dev.msfjarvis.aps
Based on my experience, this is not common. I have managed about 200 people in my career and have had to deal with this a few times.

The basic strategy I've used is to write notes on every status update they give in the daily standups. The updates go right into our sprint planning tool. Then every day they are confronted with the fact that their prediction to, "Get it done today" failed to come true like six days in a row. They either realize the jig is up and get better or I fail to renew their contract if they're a contractor or manage them out/fire them if they're a full time employee.

I had one employee though that would do nothing for about 6 days in a row and then get two weeks of work done in a few days. I could work with that. And she only made like $75k per year (this was about 15 years ago) so it's not like she was getting rockstar salary.
> The sexual invisibility many men feel as teenagers is a trauma that will live with them for the rest of their lives.

Teenagers? How many teenage women do you know of that are fucking 30+ year old men.

I would say up until adult independence people are far more likely to date someone their own age due to large social interactions at school.

I also think it’s hardly traumatic to not get sex as a teenager
Recently (1940s-1950s) forcibly settled former nomads whose culture hasn't yet made the necessary switch. To be fair, it took our Neolithic ancestors much longer than a few generations to adapt, too.

Basically, not enough education and a lot of crime in the community. Combined with enormous brain drain, because whoever manages to succeed a bit, moves away and marries into the majority population, thus disappearing as a potential positive influence.

This is one of the notorious ghettos in Slovakia, a neighbourhood called Luník IX: https://goo.gl/maps/KPnGTyBtX3NDTpdP6
Take a look at early stage startups when there are only a handful of people working there. They are working over 8 hours writing tons of code.
I guess things are different in the USA market but at my current gig we cannot hire Rails devs for love nor money. We offer competitive rates and we will even train up non-Rails folks on our dime, but in my country Rails is considered an obsolete joke by most developers and there is no interest in pursuing it as a career.

Going forward we are writing new parts of the system in other stacks partly as a hedge against the impossibility of hiring for Rails.
Also see the parable of the plumber and the water heater: http://www.readersadvice.com/mmeade/musings/plumber.html
"Don't say that he's hypocritical, Say rather that he's apolitical"
Nit: Lichess does play different sounds between captures and moves.
I agree! My added point is that the reason undergraduates don’t end up with very long homework papers is not that they couldn’t understand or solve very finicky problems if they put in the time, or that the prerequisite concepts involved in such problems are far beyond their understanding, but that homework is carefully designed to be digestible and scope-limited.
There's a number of KYC services where you're basically asked to be filmed and a person in a call centre looks at it and decides whether it's really you.

When I went looking at them they were boasting with using AI, and then in the meeting it turned out it was mostly farmed out to someone in India.
It's a C++ library with a Python interface. How much C++ and how much Python is currently in flux (https://indico.cern.ch/event/855454/contributions/4605044/): we're moving toward having the majority of the library be in Python with only the speed-critical parts in C++ behind a C interface.

The main library has no JIT, so no LLVM, but there is a secondary method of access through Numba, which has JIT and LLVM.

The main method of access is to call array-at-a-time ("vectorized") functions on the arrays, like NumPy. The types of the data in the arrays can be defined at runtime, and are stored in a columnar way, like Apache Arrow. This format allows for operations to be performed on dynamically typed data at compile-time speeds without specialized compilation—it can be done with a suite of precompiled functions. The reason that's possible is because these data structures are never instantiated in the normal "record-oriented" way, they're sets of integer arrays that are only interpreted as data structures, and it's not hard to precompile a suite of functions that only operate on integer arrays.

A 3.5 minute explanation of the columnar format and what a columnar operation looks like can be found here: https://youtu.be/2NxWpU7NArk?t=661
You create a state machine.

Create the order, and set the status to pending.
Keep checking the web service until it allows the transaction.
Set the status to authorized and set the status to payment.
Keep trying the payment until it succeeds, officially set the order and set status to ordered.

I really find it hard to believe that the regulations won't allow you to check the web service for authorization before creating the order. If that's really the case then create the order and check, and if it doesn't work, then cancel the status of the order and retry. It's only a few rows in the database. If this happens often then show the data to your local politician or what not and tell them they need to add more flexibility to the regulation.
That has been my thinking as well. I officially migrated from my Windows PC and my MacBook Pro to Linux (Pop!_OS on a Framework laptop) this year. Both companies have been slowly showing signs that their values are drifting away from things I care about (ownership, control, privacy). I'm willing to budge a little to accommodate alternate viewpoints, but it's been clear that they've picked a direction and their tanks will just keep crushing each of the lines in the sand.
To clarify, performance isn't "great" (i.e. Ruby tends to be slower than writing the same code in, say, Go), but it's good enough for most things.
Well, but zig just... does it?
> he's a direct decendant of Brigham Young.

So you believe in 'bad blood' then? Genetic evil? Or just in the sins of the fathers following their children?

Cool. What other scientific beliefs do you have?
That was awesome, all the 70s SNL players at work, plus Rodney Dangerfield. :D
The new context menu should improve things over time since it forces IExplorerCommand usage, which only allows in-process command logic so there should be no more UI hangs when someone has 20+ context menu entries (even if the command options end up lazy-loading in).

https://blogs.windows.com/windowsdeveloper/2021/07/19/extend...

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/shell/shortcu...

https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/127365#issuecomme...
>We have Post Offices in nearly every corner of this country. How about turning them into a kind of value-added identity verification

When I opened a bank account (n26) in Germany this is how they verified my identity (along with a brief video call) as a foreigner so the idea has merit.
Refugees lack COVID shots because drugmakers fear lawsuits
> If you want democratically elected representatives to be able to gain power over the machinery of government, then you should advocate for longer terms, without limits

Sure, but long terms make the democratically elected representatives are less representative of the public will because of lack of immediate accountability.

What would be better is current terms, absence of term limits, and candidate-centered proportional—e.g., by single transferrable vote (STV)—elections in multimember districts (say, up to 5 member districts for the House, two-member for the Senate by putting those from the same state in the same class and electing them together), so that typically there is some choice at the general election within parties (e.g., a party with an incumbent but not all the seats available would usually be incentivized to run at least one more candidate to contest for a potential additional seat) and more viable parties, so that you have both accountability and representatives that are durable in office if they retain popular support.

> If every Senator was elected for 15 years, we would get better government.

If every Senator was elected for 15 years, we get government even more detached from the popular will, both legislatively, executively (because of the Senates veto of top executive appointments), and in judicial selection.

And the reduced accountability would supercharge corruption, too.
> but none of my banks offer that. Did I misunderstand the suggestion? Is there something else I should do?

Yes there is: change your bank. If your bank is still using SMS based 2FA, get the hell out of there. If you really need to keep that account for reason X, move out all your assets to another bank and keep enough funds to fund X there.
Facebook Comments About Whites, Men and Americans Will Face Less Moderation
It sounds like you're basically averaging 1 to 2 hours of actual productive work per day. I think work studies have shown that the average is close to 3 hours per day, so you're not that far off.
Falsifying Traffic Counts to Manipulate Website Auction Marketplaces
I agree there's few if any examples of more recent entities. I also am pretty unfamiliar with actual numbers of active users per se, though. Tumblr may be the closest, maybe Quora although I'm not sure even Quora compares to Reddit. Maybe Snapchat? Flickr? Probably not; I'm not sure about those for several reasons.

I think there might be some kind of memory bias in the sense that we're less likely to remember things that have receded into the background or even disappeared but I agree that as more users come on board because of network effects it's harder to let go of a service or to replace what it has to offer.
> HTML does layout. CSS does styling. JS does frontend functionality. Server enforces business logic, controllers, and the data model.

In practice nothing works out like this. JS and HTML are tightly coupled, the frontend ends up needing to enforce business logic as well for usability reasons, etc.

> trying to watch my IDE twist itself in knots trying to figure out which language to use for a given context

This is not an actual issue.
Pleasing the shareholders?
Thank you. That is one scary looking building!
I seem to recall a plotline to a movie where everyone takes a pledge to lose their virginity before end of high school.
If a dev team cannot self-discipline itself in maintaining a module, is it wise to entrust it with the responsibility of a whole service?

I'd rather work on better mentoring the single members.
> That place speaks to a lot of the fear, frustration, and disappointment that, anecdotally, plague many women's dating lives.

Funny. That's exactly what the red pill did for a lot of men.