skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not so much a cultural difference as a language barrier. “We” is unclear. It diffuses responsibility. Makes it easy for everyone to think someone else is owning $thing.
In Berkeley, CA they purposefully break up the grid for cars. So a street will be passable to pedestrians and bikes but blocked by bollards for cars. This gives the cul-de-sac effect without causing terrible walkability. Of course, traditional winding suburbs can accomplish something similar by adding pedestrian walkways through cul-de-sacs.
I agree that it would be great if we could get to that, but I've lived near cities that are in aggressive decline for more than 30 years as an adult. Prior to that, they were in decline for 20 or more years. One nearby city lost an average of 20k people a year for decades.

I once talked to a guy who had been a 3 star general in the army. He was a logistics guy. He had gone to a school in that city that had been prestigious back when he was a kid. He wanted to give back and maybe bring back what had been there, so went through Gate's program, and became the superintendant of schools there. He left after a year. Said it was the hardest job he ever did, and didn't think he made one bit of difference.

He wasn't hopeful that anything would make any difference. Money was not the problem. Per pupil spending was high. Assistance from the state was high. The elites in control of the politics were the problem. Probably too much money was the problem.

If you don't have the ability to make your schools perform basic functions and keep kids safe while they're doing it, then who will live there?
Perfectionism and pedantism are good qualities some teams are after, it is unsurprising that some people would reject a candidate who did not bother “properly” writing the name of the technology they use.
Be careful not to confuse defense of the individual with criticism of how Microsoft behaved.
Tried to give you a shoutout on twitter but you aren't on there. Tried to give you a shoutout on Linkedin but it won't let me mention your profile. :) Good luck with your search!

https://twitter.com/phil_eaton/status/1482801489907273739

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/phil-e-97a490178_really-fanta...
> So how many might be health care workers? Up to hundreds?

Try tens of thousands of employees, easily. This outage affects more than just nurses trying to clock in. It's used for fire, police, dispatch, EMS, city utilities, auxiliary staff like the hospital cafeteria workers, and so on.

This is a huge problem for many of us.
Also, why isn’t there a universal format for job postings?
Honestly, outside of America it's quite unusual, yes.
Damn, you think karma farming is bad now? Imagine if upvotes actually translated to money, regardless of how bad the exchange rate is.

The post makes it seem all high and mighty moonshot, but it's most likely they introduce their own crypto that you can trade and maybe earn. Maybe a tipping feature similar to twitter.

I don't know if that's going "all in" but it could certainly change the dynamics. It's already highly gamed with top posters dominating pretty much all the major subs. But with the monetary motivation, it'll likely be even harder for regular people just to post interesting content and be noticed. But it could also be a whimper, like ability to tip someone or your reddit gold is an NFT. Either way, I don't see an upside to the reddit community apart from very few top posters
I can't think of a hospital that is not using Kronos, to be honest with you. It's at literally every one that I go to frequently in my EMS job.
You aren’t in control on a platform that isn’t yours. You don’t have rights. If you want to behave like a child, Microsoft may very well just take the keys away from you.
Same thing happened a few decades ago to a local transit CEO here as well.
I'm guessing governance is an issue at almost any scale. You hear of painful HOAs, of strata corporations (our equivalent), councils/towns, cities, etc. Where I live (in Australia) there are constant issues with council staff running up legal bills (at taxpayer expense) over petty personality squabbles (e.g., someone said something abuse at a meeting and started a multi-year drama). It's idiotic, and seems to happen in more councils than not.

My argument against the GP comment would be that regional areas would surely have the same problems of maintenance, just without the efficiencies of density. Maintaining longer roads, pipes and cables, still dealing with bridges, etc.

Surely part of the solution is working out what level of 'polish' you want in your area (paved road vs gravel, as one example) and deciding honestly what scale of funding will pay for it now and in the future?

The quality of roads, footpaths and services in my suburb are generally very good. My council rates (AU$2900/yr) scale with the valuation of my property. Concessions for pensioners, but no rate pausing or whatever some parts of the US have.

Separately, we have a fuel excise (40-50c per litre of fuel) which is used to fund federal road projects. Obviously that has a limited shelf life with a shift to EVs and has already been in decline through the fuel efficiency of modern cars.
The engineer in charge of that train is not to be messed with.
For a contrast on Egoless Programming: https://dawnproject.com/

"THE DAWN PROJECT:
Making Computers Safe for Humanity.
We Demand Software that Never Fails and Can’t Be Hacked"
> The problem is that even though "+" is a perfectly valid character, a lot of services don't accept it.

did you know that the `.` character is also ignored? So you can actually devise a scheme where you put in dots into your email address (unfortunately, it has to be your email address, not any additional suffixes), and bypass these checks and filters.

E.g., youremailaddress@gmail.com is the same as your.email.address@gmail.com

and for some extra fun, you can do both - add a unique set of dots to your email, and also add a `+` suffix, and if the service emails you without the `+` suffix, you know they deliberately filtered it out to spam you.

See https://gmail.googleblog.com/2008/03/2-hidden-ways-to-get-mo... for details on it
Yes, he is sorely missed. I recommend his videos to those who haven't seen them.
And from JP Morgan, of all companies. One of the numerous investment houses that took government bailout money and used it to give all their staff giant bonuses in 2008 and 2009.
Most of the agreements are pre-paid 6 hours of time a month @ $125/hr. Some clients have more.
As an italian i find nothing unusual, even kids do. But in US sizes vary much more.

Never understood why in US you make it so much bigger and sell slices, at that point why have it round at all, just make it rectangular.
If I set up a nice shopfront and invite customers in, and then start kneecapping everybody who walks through the door, you gonna bet the city will have something to say about it. I'm not kneecapping the city, just its citizens, so why should they care - and I'm doing it on my own property which they voluntarily entered after seeing my "dollar store" sign out the front - so it's their own damn fault for believing my sign.
You are right, i think that Python is trying to be as expressive and succinct as possible. A runtime like pypy is very difficult to change, and it would therefore make it much more difficult to evolve the language.
This is well studied. The summary is that they target isolated or vulnerable people. It's the same with cults, diploma mills, and multi-level marketing schemes.
That's weird isn't it! In a quick search, I couldn't find any occurrence online of the phrase "Don't rewrite code without consultation", one of those commandments, earlier than Atwood's article. This[0] was the earliest other one I could find, from a few months after Atwood's, which says "What Weinberg wrote in that book was a set of guidelines for developers working in a team environment to keep their egos separate from their code. In fact, I think these 10 guidelines.." - but in the book, although Weinberg talks frequently about "egoless programming", I can't see any (isolated) principles or guidelines, much less a list of commandments. I can't find an online version of McCarthy's Dynamics of Software Development to check what's in that.

[0] https://www.techrepublic.com/article/the-ten-commandments-of...
... and trusting them is in no way "trustless". You have to audit every version of them, just like you can do with npm.

Ethereum provides trust in the results given trust in the code, nothing more.
OK, that makes sense. I thought the bar just set the shooting position for the next turn. Laser didn't occur to me at all.
The testcases notwithstanding, I found a bug in my code as well. Fixed my `response` function to:

def response(h, g):
assert len(h) == len(g)
L = len(h)
correct = [i for i in range(L) if h[i] == g[i]]
present_h = []
present_g = []
for i in range(L):
# We want to check whether g[i] is "present" in h
if i in correct: continue
for j in range(L):
if j in correct: continue
if j in present_h: continue
if h[j] == g[i]:
present_g.append(i)
present_h.append(j)
break
return (correct, present_g)

and now I too get (AESIR, ARISE, RAISE, REAIS, SERAI) all leaving 168 words. (But the testcases in the above comment still hold, though, make sure your code works for them.)
Amazing you wrote this entire comment without taking a second confirm the premise you're so passionately defending...

No one took away his ownership.

Marak:

https://github.com/marak/Faker.js/

https://www.npmjs.com/package/faker

Post:

https://github.com/faker-js/faker

https://www.npmjs.com/package/@faker-js/faker

Faker.js is not a trademarked term, so someone made a new Faker.js.

In fact multiple people did, and one emerged as the preferred fork: https://twitter.com/faker_js/status/1481918305669627905

-

And to be clear, even if NPM goes and replaces his package with this new fork, it wouldn't take away his ownership.

Github could do the same... doesn't take away his ownership.

His ownership of a Github page is not his ownership of the code.

I don't like this rules-lawyering stuff either, yet this is one time where even if you decide to be purposely inflexible with your understanding of laws/licensing/contracts etc... there's still no issue with how this has been handled.
It's normal in Italy where pizza was born. Sizes are normal here though.
I've posted it in another subthread already, but XML, with its nesting and attributes, doesn't map particularly well to a specific programming construct. Also, you can represent an object hierarchy in a lot of ways and it's very verbose for even the smallest stuff.

JSON, on the other hand, is dead simple: You have your list/array, dict/object and four value types. Representing JSON in your favorite language is straight-foward and how the serialized version of a hierarchy looks is immediately obvious in nearly all cases.
> what is lifestyle software?

Sorry, I meant that it's a lifestyle business that sells software (as a service).

Lifestyle businesses are so-called because they support the owners having a certain lifestyle. As the sibling comment says, this is something that is generally admired outside of Silicon Valley and mocked within Silicon Valley. I feel sad for people who are proud of working their lives away, but that's a different topic...

> Asking so I can make and sell a $10M company someday.

There is a formula to it, but it's still not a guarantee. Here is the formula I use:

1. Meet people in boring jobs or industries, or just make a diverse group of adult friends

2. Talk to these people about what wastes the most of their time

3. Find a way to automate it

4. Get your friends in that industry to sell it for you

The biggest problem is #4. Getting the sales is hard because most industries are stagnant because of deep-rooted complacency. The ideal way to do it is to get someone who can be your first customer, convince them of the potential, and get them to be on your board.

It definitely helps if you're overpaid in your day job and can just pay other people to build prototypes for you. Trying to build prototypes in your evenings/weekends is pretty brutal and violates the whole idea behind this.
You never see the naked coils anymore; as far as I know they're not available anymore (though I'm not sure _why_; they were definitely a thing when I was a kid, but I haven't seen one in about 25 years). The very cheapest units are often those solid plate resistive heater things, but the price difference between those and halogen/ceramic units is very small (about 50 euro on the low end) and the running costs are higher; you don't see them much anymore.

Interestingly, there _is_ still a market for the halogen ones, even though induction units are about the same price on the low end: https://powercity.ie/groups/view?grp=45&class=41
This article seems more of a legend.
Because it's a lure of empowerment. My vote doesn't matter. Media is controlled by corporate interests. But I can bully/attack/kill some other group and make a real impact.

The above is obviously not at all my own opinion just trying to explain the rational. It used to be that you could "make a difference" at a local level. But local "sense of community" has been replaced by online communities.
It's a sensationalist job description, not a corporate five-year plan. I wouldn't read that much into it.
As a childless 37 year old it's a little worrying to hear 62 is old for a 22 year old son. I'd better hurry up.
This brings back nostalgia, I loved the old mac UI especially Snow Leopard.

I remember when Xcode 4 came out and unified all of the windows, it was so much easier! This was also back when Xcode was one of the best IDEs, and there was no Swift.

To be 100% honest, the new macOS has a lot of convenient shortcuts and features that make it easier to use. As much as we long for the past it's easy to take things like tabs in windows and APFS/HTST for granted. But one thing which was undoubtedly better in the old mac was the UI: it's very hard to create a good skeuomorphic UI without it being cheesy or "off", but if done correctly it's way better than minimalism.
This last 2 year window has been particularly frustrating for young people and blaming "others" is frequent in these situations. I think externalising things to an out-group is just human nature (which of course needs to be confronted and denied)

Normally, it would be a minority who were in the position of the extent of time we're spending online, in discussions. More people in the space, more opportunity for pervasive negative messages, and racist/extremist messages to do their insidious work.

Why to they find it engaging and persuasive? because its recruiting, and so they get responses which are positive feedback. And, it provides an "unimpeachable" blame for the problem state young minds find themselves in: its those other people. Not you: you're one of us.
Anecdote:
I bought slightly yellow very expensive tinted computer glasses.
Cant say they made any difference.

I also had an add-on ( cant remember the name ) that would “yellow” the computer screen during evenings to minimize blue light.
It irritated me so much that I uninstalled it in the end.

Those beautiful gaming colors completely ruined.

Personally removing pretty much all my social media accounts and only reading news in the morning, before noon, has been the greatest improvement on both my mental health and my ability to fall asleep.

Blue light avoidance, meh.

I think the health experts behind this science(tm) of blue light bad, is going to end up with their papers in the garbage next to “fat free food is better for you” and “bottle milk is encouraged over breast milk”.
There's a lot of truth to this.
He was clearly being pedant, not perfectionist. I've never heard of a team looking for pedant people. I'm curious to hear your definition of the word.
Well, if you have your own domain then you can at least move it around between providers. But yeah, if you are doing anything truly unpopular then I don't think there's much you can do to stay online.
Had github simply banned the person, and took down their code I might have even sided with your position

However that is not what github did.
Pretty sure the government tried paying people to install toilets in their homes but most refused and all continue to go in the streets as well - the occasional concerned citizen has even been assaulted for requesting that people not do it.
To his credit, he wasn't caught eating the toddler. I imagine he denied doing so, but the rumor persisted.
“Making sure our QA Department is worth their budget, Steve.”
ohh ok thanks! I thought maybe it was fahrenheit hehe.
Absolutely. We typically receive hundreds of resumes for every position. The easiest way to winnow them down is to throw out any with spelling or grammar errors. It is astonishing how high a percentage include these errors. There is absolutely no excuse to have spelling and grammar errors in your resume if you are serious about trying to find work.
Even back in the era when reading resumes and hiring was a manual human process, the standard advice was that resumes should be perfect. Nicely formatted, with no spelling or grammatical errors. You have ample time to think about the content, to proofread it yourself, and to have someone else proofread it. It's the first impression the potential employer has of you, no reason to not make an effort.
Are you really trying to say that these two companies are working the same way as FAANG?
Good times give you lone wolves. Extreme times drive people into the arms of extreme ideologies.

And it's just as much a problem of visibility and perception as it is one of reality.
It kind of blew my mind when I learned an evolution of Minix ended up in every Intel computer anyway. You don't even get a choice.

Professor Tanenbaum strikes back...
Indeed. We find it normal after all that people resort to cannibalism when they're too hungry and it has happened many times throught history.

If he felt he was starving afterall he's in the same condtition.
I have a feeling bare metal servers, a leased spot in a cage, and self hosted systems is about to become popular. There are just too many stories like this these days.

I’m in the camp that if it was his repo then he can do whatever the eff he wants to it.
I have used Ubuntu rather than Windows for about a decade now, and the only thing about the Windows world I have ever missed is Task Manager.
I personally think the principle is ridiculous, especially when focused specifically at these companies. I'm a white male who works at one of them and find "anti-white anti-male hatred" to be a frankly laughable depiction. The fact that the cited cases are in unrelated businesses is just icing on the cake.
Right - so you are trying to use language to separate the actions of the protesters from the actions of the looting.

I don’t think it’s that simple. The riots only happened because of the protests. The protests interfered with the police response, and the protesters didn’t stop the looting themselves.

That doesn’t make the protesters into looters, but it does mean that the looting was a side effect of the protests and the protesters bear some responsibility for that.

The protesters actions had consequences, one of which was to enable looting and the destruction of people’s livelihoods.

I’m fine if you want to say that the cost was worth it to make this political statement, but I think it’s ludicrous to pretend that the looting would have happened without the protesters.
people are coming from the angle of “why do I have to fill out a webform and not just upload a standard file for ingestion” but in terms of how much of computing is experienced today, that’s starting to seem like an antiquated notion… how many people are using phones or tablets to apply for jobs? they’re not doing much file managing directly… linkedin is already supplanting resumes
I'm just as much an armchair lawyer as the most of the rest of HN but my understanding is that liability waivers aren't considered enforceable if malicious intent or gross negligence is involved. Anybody with more legal expertise want to clarify?
As the article mentions the mandate is being put in place by the US as well. One major difference, that worries me as a Canadian … 20% of the food Canadians buy in foodservice and retail is imported from the US.

Disruption in the supply chain is mildly inconvenient when your Amazon packages show up a few days late (or your oil, or lumber). It is a much larger concern when the grocery stores are half stocked (which they have been at times in Canada even before these mandates were put in place).

I’m not sure if Canadian’s realize this or not, but we’re not growing strawberries and oranges here this time of year :(
I don't think what he did was particularly good but I think he was entitled to do it. And the blame falls on the system we have which relies on random people to do work for free with no contract or obligation.

It's like if a business delivered packages by asking some random homeless person on the street to walk it to its destination. And then one day the person just chucks your package in the river instead of delivering it. It's amazing that the company got so much value out of a free service for so long rather than shocking that it eventually didn't work.
As someone who was a teen on the internet in the 2000s, I think it at least partially has to do with lack of perspective or a reference point — extremism isn’t registering as extremism due to not having a measuring stick.

Additionally, anything that engages an individual’s emotions is likely to be attractive at that stage of life, thanks to teenagers on average having emotional centers that are overdeveloped relative to the rest of their brains.

A lot of this extends into a person’s early 20s as well, depending on how quickly they mature, their life experiences, etc. Personally speaking, in retrospect I didn’t have my head screwed on even remotely right until at least age 26 or so.
In short, unanswered questions.

I have a close friend who briefly flirted with (actual) extreme right wing beliefs, and has, thankfully, settled on a less warlike disposition. The question he asked, and which was never given a straight answer, was (in paraphrase), “why are others allowed to say, and even wish and will evil things upon my identity, but I am forbidden from even mild criticism of other identities, under pain of real material loss?” It is a real question, describing a real phenomenon, and since no one “respectable” could give him a straight answer, or even acknowledge the legitimacy of the question, he turned to people who did, even as they answered wrongly.
Kinda pointless to argue about this because it didn't happen.
they can, but don't have to, again there is nothing wrong with doing thing for yourself. Saying people always have others' interest in mind when doing side project does not reflect reality. Many of these projects are built with minimal feedback, so if they solve other people's problem it's by coincidence. I'm talking past the project in discussion of course, I don't know anything about it.
With a 10nm pencil and a very stable hand maybe :)
But they are changing the “project”. Just because the new project is named “Faker-JS” doesn’t make it “official”.

Does the open collective have the ability to decide who is in charge of a project? Can they remove maintainers?

Let’s say there is a fork of a different popular project. Are you suggesting that they could they unilaterally decide to support the fork over the original project? However unlikely that is, I don’t think they have that power. Decertifying a project? Sure. Redirecting funding to a new project (even a fork), just isn’t right.
Well, there is physical activity, as well as base metabolism.

Plus you could pass more or less food through unabsorbed, depending on gut fauna and maybe other factors.
It's not just a potential concern: this is how a variety of ad services are starting to track users across sites (typically via a hashed email address, but given the ubiquity of email/password dumps, de-anonymising is relatively practical).