skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FTA:

When you're operating on the manager's schedule you can do something you'd never want to do on the maker's: you can have speculative meetings. You can meet someone just to get to know one another. If you have an empty slot in your schedule, why not?

Here's why not:

Taken in context of the essay written, this amounts to optimizing my time due to a lack of my superiors optimizing theirs. Taken on its own, I don't really care how my managers choose to spend their time as managers. But when the power differential surely speaks to the reality that managers will always concern themselves with what I'm doing-perhaps by nature of the manager/subordinate relationship-I think I'm in the right to expect some kind of reciprocity in making time for one another.

Good managers make the time for their subordinates. Average managers stumble upon the free time. Poor managers constantly reschedule.

I'm not against getting to know my coworkers and making time for general socializing as a means of "taking a break", but in the context of "makers schedules" and "manager schedules"...sorry. No.

I don't (necessarily) disagree with the essay (at least not as much as I usually reserve a certain amount of reticence for Grahamisms), but the suggested solution...eh. I need to hear a better motivating reason than this because this isn't about some hypothetical problem between me and people I'd like to get to know via "speculative meetings". This is about managers demanding so much of our time via "just in case we need you" meetings and turning right around asking us to be productive and meet deadlines in spite of said meetings.
Aye, and in the last century a huge fraction of the planet's biodiversity has been lost. But I don't think it's clear that silphium and similar herbal drugs constituted an oral contraceptive with effectiveness on par with the Pill.
We're not really sure what actually happens when two phalanxes meet. We're also not sure how the Romans swapped lines of men out during combat. Lots of the details about ancient combat just werent written about in detail and its not something we can (ethically) test
Not an economist either, but lately I've been enjoying Piketty's "Capital in the 21st Century", and he describes how England and France saw very little inflation for most of the 18th and 19th centuries. This monetary regime allowed a "society of rentiers" to prosper – wealthy individuals could live off the income from assets like government bonds indefinitely without needing to really work (lack of inflation meant that income wouldn't devalue over time).

The story changes in the 20th century of course – governments racked up huge debts from world wars and related crises but instead of paying them down gradually over a long time (as England did after the Napoleonic wars in the previous century), they inflated their way out ("euthanizing" much of the idle rentier class in the process).

Historical economics is pretty fascinating – studying the past in this way really makes it clear how exceptional of a time we are living in now.
Something you "feel obliged to do" is pretty the definition of a cultural norm. People WISH to tip to fulfill the obligation that they feel because of the cultural norm.

I LITERALLY wish to tip when I go to restaurant. Some of that is cultural norms, some of it is knowing the wait staff is underpaid, some of it is signalling, etc.

That in no way takes away from the fact that I desire to give the tip, it only explains why I feel that way.
The darkish gray dip is mostly avoided by using a linear colorspace. Interpolating in HSV can introduce weird artifacts. Mostly due to H being circular, if you naively interpolate between two close shade of red, you might go through all of the colors of the rainbow.

Interpolaring in a perceptual colorspace might make sense in certain applications, but if arithmetic on color values is involved then a linear colorspace is a good default (and premultiplied alpha, but that's an other story).
I think tracklib is attempting to find a middle ground. Not sure the younger generation cares about Bob James in a backwards hat though.
> "Teens and college students said they dread the ostracism that comes with a green text. The social pressure is palpable, with some reporting being ostracized or singled out after switching away from iPhones."

This can't be true, because if it is there is bigger problem than some google's protocol. Why are they still torturing kids with these parades? Get some celebrities to make the green texts cool, this is madness.
> Your eating of meat provides you nothing but selfish pleasure while causing a ton of carbon emissions

You might want to revise your argument if you're not going to acknowledge the fact that meat has a good number of calories per kg.
Right. So I switch to an android phone, and then when I have complaints about how it locks me in to using google services, or has a terrible permissions model, you tell me to just choose an iPhone… and back and forth we go.
Ask HN: What other companies have a published (engineering) handbook?
GitLab famously has their open handbook detailing how they go about on many topics.

What other companies do you know that have a similar body of knowledge in the open? I’m specifically interested in any engineering processes as this is something we intend to write as well for our company over the coming years and it would be great to have multiple examples.
I blame it on alcohol. If I drink I’m always up for a few hours in the middle of the night. And I’m quite sure they were doing a lot of that back in that time.
The claims almost all say "via the user interface." (Not a user interface btw) The figures also contain detailed descriptions of the user interface. I know it's a trope that software patents are bad, but a generally broad patent of "controller for controlling" could have been challenged. The user interface was the main issue with this.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html has a section on account deletion. Use the contact link in the footer to contact the moderators.
> incorrectly believed that it won the election

According to who? The polling companies that predicted a landslide for Hillary in '16?
Consistency Sin
They are web apps... open.spotify.com, discord.com, app.slack.com. Even vscode.dev. The desktop product is just a repackaging of the web app with perhaps more OS integrations. If you don't want the OS integrations, use the web app. Some are available as a PWA too, which provides a nice middle ground.
Very true. Though early C compilers were pretty crap, and old machines unbearably slow. It's easy to look back from a modern context, but in the early days those arguments had some merit (at least at first).

I find it important to keep that in mind when arguing against shiny/heavy/silly new tech in the present! Things like virtual machines, blockchain, new lang's, etc. In the era of the mainframe, 'microcomputers' were jokes, until they definitely weren't.
- react sucks, just use html
- electron sucks, just write native apps

This article is literally designed to get to the front page of hacker news. Nevermind that these tools do exist for a reason.
Eh, of all the things to criticize C++ over, compile times is somewhere near the bottom of the list. Compile times matter in extreme cases, but 3 seconds is not really something I would worry about. I have seen Lisp compilers take longer than that just to start the REPL.

The fact that we are still dealing with weird problems with pointers, the fact that C++ has lambdas without garbage collection (explanation of the problem is too long for this comment), and the incoherent type system are much bigger issues than weird syntax or long compile times. The C++ feature set is a bunch of semi-compatible, sometimes outright incompatible (ahem destructors vs. exceptions and coroutines), ideas that keep getting extended further from compatibility by the standards committee.
You're right, my bad. I was getting ahead of my self. The JS fallback covers older, non-evergreen browsers and the HTML fallback covers everything (including the described issue)
In my particular context, it's a Raspberry Pi on a 1920x1200 display, 1:1 pixel scaling, no antialising I know of, and... the rest shouldn't matter that much in terms of how long it takes a key pressed at the keyboard to show up in the input text area. If it does, something is quite wrong in the architecture, IMO, and it's probably 4 layers of nested libraries nobody actually understands down, buried under something else.

I don't think pixel density has increased as much as you seem to think it has in the 1x scaling space.

I ran some very nice 1600x1200 21" monitors back in the day - ~95 ppi.

A 27", 2560x1440 monitor (my preferred native size) is 108 ppi.

The 24", 1920x1200, is 94 ppi.

I understand the issues with scaling a display, but those are more OS level, and shouldn't impact key-to-screen delays noticeably. It certainly doesn't on more recent Apple hardware, even if you're using some screwball non-integer scaling.

But the reality remains, I now have 6GHz of CPU cores, 8GB of RAM, and things are objectively slower than 66MHz with 24MB. That's not progress.
>Fed money printer the last two years: BRRRRRRrrrrrr

>Guys why is there inflation

Covid, lockdowns, and shortages are all a cover for the banking failures that started again in sept 2019. The fed is funding vanguard and bailing out the banks (Chase biggest recipient of bailout funds), hence why all the property is soaring.
> The only thing still keeping me one of their customers is the painfulness of transferring over all of my existing repositories.

What's so painful about "git clone"?

Oh, you mean you've locked yourself into GH by using some of their proprietary extensions, that isn't present in vanilla git?

But how is this even possible? Whenever someone dares claim that Microsoft never abandoned its old "EEE" strategy ("Extend" being the middle of the three Es), legions of HNers always rush to defend them and praise their conversion to Good Guys!
It has been a while since I've lived in the US, but I think it is completely possible to pay $1000/month for health insurance. For a single person, a family is more. Employers subsidize your insurance, after all. I was paying couple hundred a month for two people - subsidized - and that was years ago. A family plan was even more.

Even then, you have to have money to use it. On top of the insurance premiums, you'll have to pay a deductible. You'll probably pay $3000 (more or less) before the insurance even starts to pay anything, and then you'll have to pay a few thousand more before things start being free.

Prescriptions probably won't count towards these totals. If you are lucky, you will have good coverage. If not, you might be out a few hundred a month for a single drug. Depending. I mean, people have been rationing insulin.
Yeah, I just stare at my desk, but it looks like I'm working. I do that for probably another hour after lunch too, I'd say in a given week I probably only do about fifteen minutes of real, actual, work.

Office Space, 1999
> I guess that's the smallest of your worries if you are hit by a nuke.

Well.. from what you posted I guess it depends on if you are in the plane or not. It sounds like you could be at a distance where you survive the blast but are impacted by the EMP and it would probably suck to be at 30k feet in a plane that is hit by an EMP.
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I think in the context give this is a fair point, but a counterpoint:

I code because I enjoy coding. I'm going to code in whatever way makes me happiest. I don't see any obligation to change what I'm doing in order to make things I write more accessible. The default assumption is that nobody ever sees my software at all. If I publish then it's all upside.

If you don't like microtonal jazz don't listen to microtonal jazz, if I'm classically trained that doesn't mean I have to play stuff that's accessible to you.
> Who are you to dictate what someone does with energy they pay for?

A member in a democratic society that doesn't give you a fundamental right to mine bitcoins.

> Just because you do not like what they do, doesn't mean you can ban it if it's not harming you.

Believe it or not, this is not how society works.
Is that MP3 actual raw recordings, or has it been "enhanced" with interesting interference. I'm hearing lots of echo, telemetry, different voiced "layered" on top of each other, etc.
Perhaps you mean iBook or PowerBook? The "MacBook" brand was introduced at the same time as Intel processors.
It is interesting to me that after so many years, Django (and especially its ORM) still stands out as one of the most ergonomic, robust and reliable web frameworks you can find. Enough so that people stick with Python despite every other factor suggesting another language would be preferable.

Makes me curious, is it that hard to clone its features into other languages? Is there something specific about Python that makes aspects of it possible there while not being possible in other languages? If so, is it a true case where dynamic languages win over static languages because certain things just can't be established satisfactorily in a statically typed language?
Ask HN: Do u leave Easter egg in your personal project?
Do u have Easter eggs in your personal projects and how to discover them?
"A 3 days’ walk" has actually influenced place names in New Zealand!

Ninety Mile Beach is only 55 miles long. One theory is because it took 3 days for 30 mph horses to travel from one end to the other, but horses walk slower on sand.

https://www.reddit.com/r/newzealand/comments/1kasdw/why_is_i...

https://www.dolphincruises.co.nz/bay-of-islands-info/ninety-...

I certainly agree that the proposed system is brilliant, whether it's what was originally intended by Tupaia or not. It's closer to a GPS turn-by-turn view rather than a birds-eye map view.
What?
It's a cross platform website, you can access it from any browser and any device. It's not like it only works on Google devices, chrome browser or ChromeOS.
Regardless of the salary, I have never seen a place as beautiful as the West Coast, specifically the cities of San Diego, LA and SF. It still gives me goosebumps and watering eyes today when I land there. It might be that I am conflating the opportunities that the area has given me with the actual beauty, but I don’t think so.

And I was born and raised in the beautiful Mediterranean coast in Europe.
And in this corner: Braess's Paradox, "the observation that adding one or more roads to a road network can slow down overall traffic flow through it."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braess%27s_paradox
In my (probably flawed) understanding, I think the drawbacks of Roman concrete in a modern setting is that it takes a really long time to cure (like a year or so) and it uses salt water, which would not interact well with regular steel rebar.
There are examples of far worse languages:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APL_(programming_language)#Exa...

At least the Hello World example is readable...
Java got its slow reputation mainly because any early encounter with a Java applet would proudly display the Java logo and then cause your computer and disk to thrash for 30 seconds.

Then Java developers heard this, confused it for "Java executes slowly" and so they never fixed it, until Java applets just became obsolete.
I'm assuming you mean HTTP/2 with Server-Sent Events, since raw HTTP/2 frames aren't exposed in the browser?

My answer would be use HTTP/2 + SSE whenever you can get away with it. The primary limitation of SSE in this case is you can't natively send binary data (you would have to base64 encode it or something). If you're just using JSON or another text format anyway this isn't an issue.
Don't mix up Web3 concepts
> What's the science behind claiming that conservatives prefer authority over fairness or caring for others?

https://www.nyu.edu/about/news-publications/news/2020/novemb...

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/conservative-and-...

That's just a quick sample. I could spam this discussion with links until the cows come home, but I won't. It's pretty well-known stuff really, and it shouldn't even be surprising. Wouldn't it be weird if such differences in priorities didn't exist, or ran contrary to the obvious and deep antipathy between adherents of those two quasi-religions? Maybe some people are uncomfortable with such results placing them in a category inconsistent with their self-image, but that dissonance is best handled via introspection instead of aggression.
My little sister uses a shared Google Doc which her friends all collaboratively edit. Essentially a white board that anyone can write on at any time.
To be clear, Apple does not intercept SMS messages.

The messages people say are hijacked are from other Messages users, sent to an individual's Messages label that happens to look like their phone number.

Anyone using SMS can SMS your number on your new phone, since SMS is not being hijacked, and Apple is not intercepting SMS to do anything with it.

If you don't want Apple friends using that label to reach your remaining Apple devices (a normal use case!), then remove the label yourself before ditching your iphone:

- https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201349

- https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203042

Or, remove it yourself after:

- https://selfsolve.apple.com/deregister-imessage/
More than 500k IOPS was downright common for PCIe gen3 SSDs. 1M IOPS is totally achievable with one high-end gen4 SSD.

If you meant IOPS with a queue depth of one, or sustained write IOPS, then you need to specify those extra conditions before calling vendors liars.

No high-end drives implement the NVMe Host Memory Buffer feature, let alone rely on it for maximum performance.

You can buy an Enterprise QLC drive that is fully capable of 800k IOPS for reads. TLC drives that can do twice that are available. Those drives don't have SLC caching.
> Now, HSL isn't necessarily the best color mode to use in every situation; it tends to produce gradients that can be overly bright and vivid, because it doesn't take into account human perception.

Shout-out to to HSLUV which does exactly that.

https://www.hsluv.org/
How is your network? I wrote a technical book, I have around 1k twitter followers, a few hundred people on my emailing list. Each month I wrote a chapter or so, and sent it to my email list, and shared on twitter, etc. This is known as marketing. When I released the book, I had a ton of interest and I've made around 10k since release (15 months ago). I sell via Gumroad and have a membership ($100 / year) so they only take around 2.5%, I keep the rest. I sell for $30 but have many vouchers for lower income earners/countries, so the average sale price is around $15.

If you are not actively marketing and/or are not targeting a niche, no-one will buy your book, since it won't stand out among the hundreds (or thousands) of others.
It would still need green bubble treatment as the security guarantees are weaker than iMessage or any of the myriad google chat systems.

At its base level it is meant to be e2e encrypted but that fails frequently enough that google has to have special UI to indicate the failure, even though they endeavor to minimize how visible that indication is.

For group chats (the ones that seem to pop up in examples) RCS does nothing: it isn’t e2e.

Group e2e is challenging, which is why it’s still rare even though it has been the behaviour of messages’ group chats since day 1. That said it is mind blowing to me that the carriers specified RCS’s group protocols as anything other than fully e2e. If you’re going to make it a standard you don’t get to half ass it. :-/

Then as others have said, in RCS your keys and account are tied to your phone number. This is not as much of a problem in the US, but in many countries changing carrier means changing number.
The Augmented Home
Shopify Stores Are Down
https://selfsolve.apple.com/deregister-imessage/
> You might tell your low tipping friend they’re being rude

What constitutes rudeness is evidently more variable than I realized. Even among friends.
If they did, Amazon etc. would email you telling you they detected new logins from various IP addresses
There hasn't been a Skyking recorded since October 2019, see this last recorded Skyking transmission: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51ORIHrpgOU

An example of an unusually long emergency action message recorded on March 2021: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdiudqqfkLs
RCS is garbage. Here’s why:

There is a publicly-facing Google site to enter an RCS enabled cellphone number, in order to disable Chat features… including end-to-end encryption.[0] This feature should only be configurable on-device, ideally, or at least be behind a login and 2fa. It’s just there on a public site. This is basically asking for sim-swapping attacks. And you’d never notice, only wonder why your RCS e2e keeps turning itself off. I wonder which individuals and agencies may benefit from that…

Even with the Chat features enabled, RCS doesn’t not support e2e on group texts[1], unlike iMessage, which does[2].
Google is just playing dirty pool and calling Apple users bullies by proxy, and I’m calling them on it.

Edit: Apple has a similar site to disable iMessage. This setting should only be available on-device, or if it has to have an online workaround, behind a login with 2fa. If you no longer have access to your phone, you should have to contact Apple support or go to an Apple store. The status quo benefits bad actors and intelligence agencies more than it improves the experience for end users IMO.

[0] https://messages.google.com/disable-chat

[1] https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202724

[2] https://support.google.com/messages/answer/10262381?hl=en
There’s always someone who makes this argument “don’t use them”. This is no longer grounded in reality my friend. If there are 2 restaurants in town - one that continuously snaps pictures of my every move and the other that won’t let me drink coke the way I want to, saying eat at home always is not a solution.

“Apple isn’t imposing itself on you”. Both Apple and Google don’t force people to use them but they do things that make it harder and harder to choose neither of them. In 2022 it’s not easily possible to live without Apple or Google as a consumer without severely putting yourself at a disadvantage.

Regulation is needed not to create an even playing field but to stop companies from screwing consumers. This is why European and Australian warranty and quality laws for products are much better than American ones. Saying make a different choice only leads to all companies to do the bare legal minimum. In these cases upping the legal bare minimum is absolutely necessary.

Americans seriously need to stop drinking this free market Cool aid. It’s not a free market. It’s highly lop sided and the consumers are at a disadvantage.