skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my case, seniority. I’ve only been working in industry for around 5 or 6 years, and when you’re new, working remotely is inconvenient — it’s hard to ask impromptu questions, or set up “brain drain” sessions, or even get into the mindset of working. You feel like you need to work those full 8-9 hour days to prove yourself.

After a couple of years, I changed jobs. I realized open offices aren’t that pleasant, the food kinda sucks, the beer fridge is full of trash, and my coworker relationships are very superficial compared to my actual friendships. I started working from home 2-3 days a week because my slightly longer commute time on the subway just wasn’t worth being in the office.

Then covid hit. Everyone started working from home. I pooled resources with my significant other to put together a great coffee setup at home, nice desks, cooked lunch together every day. I moved cities to be closer to things I want to do (and cut down on the NYC drinking culture). Now I’m actually planning another move to be someplace where I can actually afford a house in the next year or two.

I changed, the work environment changed, the world changed, and… work from home works better for me now? When I first started, I had a remote teammate, and it actually really bothered me — I felt like it ruined our team culture because we couldn’t include that teammate in lunches, he forced standups to be on zoom, etc. But now that I’m more established in the field I totally get it. If I had a family, no way I’d want to raise my kids in a US city right now. I’m sure it could work for other people with different preferences but to me it’s just too expensive, too much driving, too dangerous when you try to walk or bike, and cuts me off from the things I really enjoy, like biking on dirt roads in the woods, cross country skiing, downhill skiing (when it’s not busy), and easily visiting family.
I understand what you are saying but could the article be making some incorrect assumptions? For short haul drivers the number may be 10% in coastal and southern states. For long haul I would estimate most of them will be traversing most of these conditions inter-state at least on third of the year and in some places half of the year. To get around that they would all have to divert to southern routes like I-10 in the US. That would add significant mileage to every route if so. I do not see how they otherwise get around the conditions I mentioned. All of them will be dealing with night, bumper-to-bumper and foggy conditions throughout the year regardless. I have not been able to find any videos of level 5 trucks traversing any of that.
This is satire right? You might be getting downvotes because it’s not clear if you’re serious, and those claims seem quite ridiculous at face value.
Because Microsoft bought GitHub (developers of Atom) and shifted all resources to VSCode.
Sounds like my tax declaration... where they ask for the number of my children.
Not sure if videogames count as they tend to contain a lot more snark by their nature, but I like how the easiest mode in the Wolfenstein series is called "Can I play, Daddy?".
You don't have to restrict yourself to that comment, ask any physically disabled person they'll have a story of having to crawl or being trapped in an inaccessible space. The bartender is not the issue, the issue is the systemic lack of basic human dignity and access afforded to the disabled.
It also glosses over that arctic land isn’t usable for agriculture. There’s nowhere near enough fertile soil in former permafrost. The areas that did have fertile soil are now deserts or covered in salt water. It really comes off as disingenuous to me in that regard; it’s a quantitative analysis without any of the qualitative measures that are necessary.
As people correctly note that a lot of this VPN fearmongering, I think folks are also undercutting that it's also probably a lot of ISP fearmongering; who definitely had quite a bit to lose as internet adoption increased. I remember early on ISP's were trying to go with a more cable-esque model; as in you would have to pay more per device connected to the internet.

It's always been my belief that the fundamental driver of "strong wifi passwords" has been ISPs; after all, as Netflix knows, people like sharing :)
Router is a device that routes packets between two or more networks. CPE routes packets between the customers lan and the isps network, and as such is a router.
OP's point is that most websites, in their experience, fail to get the easy 90%. If what you've got left is a few focus issues, it sounds to me like OP can at least accomplish their task.
>You can also look at the past, back when black people weren't allowed in white businesses and black schoolgirls had to be escorted by the state to be allowed to attend school.

I always find this argument ironic given the Jim Crow laws you are referring to were government regulations that required said discrimination, they were collectivist policies being imposed upon individuals. Would discrimination still have occurred absolutely, but it would not have been as wide spread nor as abusive. Only government action can cause the kind of oppression seen, only government has that monopoly of violence to allow such perversion of morality, that is the hazard of putting your faith in government.

Just like the EU nations you admire so much you only seem to want to ever talk about the positives of this "balance" of regulation and never talk about the enumerable negatives that come from those policies

Do you believe the EU is rainbows and unicorns and none of the their policies have any downsides, that the American model is 100% evil, and the EU model is 100% good? are you that much of a "naive idealist".

I do not claim the American model is perfect, though I am pretty sure we will differ on where the root cause of most of the problems are (hint I blame federal overreach for most of America's problems)

>>Society is changed by writing laws and changing minds. Cultures evolve, people acquire new perspectives on issues based on their peers and the discussions they partake in

Culture evolves yes, and laws always follow culture, not the other way around. you can not regulate ethics or morality, and attempts and trying always fail.

That is my point. The regulations that work, that do not have massive corruption, or massive amounts of unintended consequences or regulations that only need to control a small portion of outliers in society. to prevent actions that are viewed by the vast vast majority (not just a plurality, or even a simply majority) as abuse.

When "democracy" passes laws and regulations based on plurality, or simple majority you run into all kinds of problems, these are compounded even further if the regulation are acted via fiat authority by an unelected administrative state.
Great feedback, thanks. I also considered factoring in street length for difficulty modes.

My dad has gotten a perfect score a couple of times. Cork isn't huge but that's still very difficult. He's a human map
The trick is having seperate peripherals :D
A drowning world: Kenya’s quiet slide underwater
I also noticed that Apple Music on macOS always opens on its own whenever you connect bluetooth headphones and afaik there’s no way to change that behavior or turn it off. I dont even use apple music and wont consider it on principle now lol.
You're right. My use case is also Mac to Mac and Barrier/Synergy does not provide the UC experience. No multi gestures support - and the thing that annoys me the most - trackpad scrolling events aren't mapped one to one, you end up scrolling lines on the target, not the precision you're expecting.

To be honest I'm not sure if Barrier developers could actually mimic that without resorting to some sort of undocumented APIs and/or obscure techniques.
It's the Law of Leaky Abstractions though isn't it? Most of my time isn't taken by the mainline stuff - it's dealing with things that don't do what they say on the tin or weird edge cases. I'm thinking back to my recent work and really can't imagine any of it being turned into something that could be done in something like TLA+.
Current Production Issue – Google Maps Platform – Multiple APIs
I remember one place I worked where we ripped out all of the dumb terminals on a UNIX system and replaced them with Windows 3.1 PC's with terminal emulation. Productivity was noticeably down after the change.
This is like beach season in South Korea. June 30th, Haeundae is deserted and has a few people looking around. July 1st hits and it is completely packed until Aug 31. Then Sept 1 hits and it is deserted again.
This is just straight wrong. There is no computer in the world that can predict the outcome of, say, a drug trial from these equations.

If your “science” requires an impossible computer to work then it’s not science it’s faith.
Problem being that Ariane 6 doesn't yet exists and until they have free capacity and a even remotely high flight rate it will take years.

Ariane 6 already has planned flights, then you need to move over 4 flights from Soyuz and then OneWeb has another 6. It will take many years for the Ariane 6 to complete all these things and it will be far more expensive.
But with no compensation?
FleetZero looks to capsize the shipping world with electric vessels
Agreed. MSM is preaching an agenda that is willfully blind to history. Ukraine is tragic, but don't for a second subscribe to the "unprovoked" narrative.
This exactly. Google was an almost overnight success because in the beginning it gave much more useful results than Altavista and others even when they had indexed a small fraction of what Altavista had.
This is fantastic. My gf and I have been playing it in a cafe, and doing abysmally - but just sent it to our parents who will greatly enjoy quizzing themselves! Thanks, you've made our day a little bit funner and help keep our families a little bit closer.
Instead of the punitive angle, if they are critical infrastructure, what are the authorities of government doing to protect them?
Doubtful. All evidence points to Russia having few supplies of their good weapons. The west won’t bat an eye at this.

They’re losing tons of planes because they don’t have the precision bombs anymore so they need to fly low in range of AA weapons
That actually makes sense, the logic there would be that the on-plane system just captured the card number and an on-the-ground system was responsible for checking and billing.

Given that 747s (IIRC) are still using floppy disks (https://google.com/search?q=747+floppy+disks) the chances are the billing was probably done by some equally byzantine process.

Yes, I'm saying that, despite the fact that

"capture calling card number for later using on-plane PBX, establish satellite call directly to dialed number"

and

"establish satellite call directly to on-ground PBX, which asks for calling card number and forwards call"

both ultimately return TRUE for "but users can trigger our satellite uplink to initiate connections just by picking up the phone!!1"... but the latter approach actually blocks illegitimate use and is thus measurably better, and skips the need for an on-plane PBX too.

I can't help but wonder if there was some sort of "capture the number first before initiating the call" initiative early on (which totally makes sense), only for the calling-card billing integration to fall through at some point rendering the whole approach moot.

Naturally I'm making a lot of assumptions here, the biggest being that the plane isn't just making a direct-to-ground connection the moment you pick up the phone, with an on-ground system accepting then forgetting the calling card number. That would be even more stupefying but I do doubt that's what was happening.
You might as well live in the matrix, you seem to live in an artificial world with no connection to nature. I myself desire to live on the edge of "civilization" as much as I can, I know this presents a conundrum in that I'm creating a market for destroying it, but this is a human condition as old as time.
Observation is part of science, but we're also limited by it. There's a lot of deeper workings that we just can't get at yet, maybe ever.
I'm not sure not compensating someone is legal though.
It’s the copyright holder who gets to decide, not the OSI.
no there are a lot of old academics that think this way, it’s almost like a form of self-flagellation… if you’re having fun then you’re not learning hard enough

one professor I knew like this (decades ago now) was the type of person that would violently throw chalk at students with the gall to not hang on every word he was saying
Windows 95 was unreliable, NT Workstation 4.0 was better.
As a xoogler, it was clear when the original search quality folks left and were replaced with people whose goal was to grow the product (and the company) without much care for quality.
If many countries near Russia prefer to align themselves with NATO and the west, how will violent behavior from Russia improve the situation? It seems like it will do the opposite.
Roaring Bitmaps are awesome. I use them when merging indices. I need to know which items to keep from the old index, so I'm calculating the intersection between two sets of a cardinality around 500,000,000. Without breaking a sweat.
It's the lowest level. Applying this to, say, medicine is like trying to understand a React app in terms of a Turing Machine. It's involved, but it doesn't help because of all of the extra rules (which are not fundamental properties of the Universe or of mathematics) that we add on top. CORS isn't a fundamental law of the Universe, but all major browsers enforce it, so you have to deal with it.
On iOS, the two finger manipulations (drag and pinch zoom) worked very well, then a single tap to place the game area. I was pleased at how fluid the map manipulation was; nice work!
Might be worth pointing out this was previously known as the ghacks.net's user.js, and been available for years, https://github.com/ghacksuserjs/ghacks-user.js
Ask HN: Is the min() CSS reference on MDN broken?
Just wondering what could be the issue here:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/min()

Actually, I get the same error when trying to access max() also. I tried it in 4 different browser variations and all return the same error: "developer.mozilla.org redirected you too many times."
How about GitFs mount a git repository as a directory..

Your apps don't need to know they are commiting changes to git.

https://github.com/presslabs/gitfs
This worked great in my area. It was hard enough to make it fun but not too hard. I got a score above 90% so I’m stoked
Can you name them?
The engine is lubricated that well just because it gets the most wear and tear. The lubrication just tries to slow it down as much as possible. That's the reason why changing oil and filter is the first and foremost maintenance item on the list.
Similarly. Where I live (Scandinavia) we have seen modest change in precipitation on a yearly basis, and if you look at our country as a singular unit. However, the when and where when looking more detailed into the numbers reveal that lowland/farmland gets drier while highlands get wetter. We now have yearly drought warnings due to this.
> Blind developer here.

HN users' tendency to opine about things they know nothing about is really aggravating here. You and a few other blind users come in and share your experience, only to be told by a bunch of people who have never used a screen reader in their lives that you're wrong. How weird.

Just know that a lot of us who don't comment are taking notes of what you say. :)
This is not in fact true, the reality is that actual launch vehicles right now are incredibly tight and if you take out the Russian rockets, there is a huge issue with launching these sats.
You can configure what kind of messaging you want from Carrot Weather. The reason it has won so many awards is that it's really a great weather app. It's very configurable, and its Apple Watch complications are fantastic.

The other Carrot apps were mostly fun because of the CARROT personality, but Weather is genuinely an exceptional entry in its category.
To appreciate Bosch, Great Art Explained did a very in-depth video of of the Garden of Earthly Delights: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBG621XEegk
My “why” is because it allows me to use the native iPad versions of apps which only have resource hungry and sometimes more quirky web/electron versions on desktop. Currently the iPad is responsible for handling Slack and Discord, but that list may grow.
Funny thing about the law right? Even beef, raised outside the US can be called American Beef if processed here.
Compared to a typical 27 frame film that was still an improvement. Plus you could preview the photos and delete shots that didn’t come out, while a film camera was literally a black box until you developed the film.
The accusation is not that he sympathized with the Nazis. Quite the contrary, the accusation is that he has no sympathy for anyone. The accusation is that his worldview, was (and is) that he is responsible only for himself and he has no effect on affairs because if he didn't do [whatever] someone else would. He claims, on essence, that the events of the world is an unchangeable script, and the only control we have is which role we play. For an expert in markets, he claims stunning ignorance of the concept of marginal effects, and a non-stunning awareness of how to profit from amorality.
I'm glad that I missed out on this era of dating (by being married).
Good point - but it needs computers...
And on the high end, those extremes coupled with humidity can kill.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wet-bulb_temperature#Wet-bulb_...

Neal Stephenson's latest novel, Termination Shock, starts with an Indian city hitting this point and having the power grid fail due to demand for air conditioning, resulting in millions dead. It's fairly plausible.
Rats like to make hype and fad tech by writing articles they get paid to write, resulting in biased and inefficient tech adoption and adaptation as industry whole. I sympathize with lab rats though, they sacrifice life and make much more progress to humanity as helping advancing medicine although I support cruelty-free.
Consulting for non-overlapping (with your employer) businesses is a very good answer.

The majority of folks employed doing tech (day to day work is technical) aren't employed by tech (i.e. for a tech firm shipping product). And those that are (HN-wise) tend to be employed at more targeted enterprises.

Both of which are to say... there are likely a lot of clients you could consult for after hours, fully disclosing to your employer, that your employer wouldn't have any competitive concerns about.

And critically, consulting is almost always hourly. Which vastly simplifies the expectations and transactions.
"Public Money = Public Code"

That's a deepity. It means nothing.
> ignominious withdrawals from conflicts

Given that as far as I can recall, 0 NATO countries have been invaded in the history of NATO that leaves open the question - how did they get in to the conflict that they withdrew from?

Given the US's application of best-defence-good-offence in the last 30 years, it is easy to see that Russia should be nervous.
I've already asked the question, but is there a way to embed this in a regular app ? I mean, if I want to have a "retro" like GUI but I don't want to bother my users with opening a terminal/console, can I embed this ?

The thing I'm thinking about would be to extract the alacritty render code and make it a library... But that's sure not easy to do...
> justification to launch their own cyberwarfare initiatives in retaliation

Or Russia can decide that this attack is threatening its' existence and launch nukes. People who do these things are completely irresponsible.
But not over time. Fiat has been constantly going down since its inception
Ask HN: Any Recommendations for Employment IP Lawyer in the UK
Hi,

I'm thinking of starting a few side projects but very worried about the Intellectual Property clause within my employement contract I signed years ago.

I'm looking for a lawyer who could help me parse the following clauses, or am I snookered and should just quit.

I'm wordering how an overlap is determined. Would that be for a judge to decide?

From my contract:

We understand that lots of our employees have tech related ideas that they work on outside of working hours. In a case where your idea overlaps or conflicts with the work of said company, you agree to the following:

1. You will promptly provide to said company, and otherwise keep confidential, full written details of all inventions, copyright works or designs originated, conceived, written or made by you, alone or with others (“Intellectual Property”), and work relating to Intellectual Property that you have worked on at any time during the course of your employment with said company which relate to, or are reasonably capable of being used in, the business of said company ("Employment IP"). Unless otherwise agreed in writing by the CEO, you are assigning said company absolutely all rights, title, benefits and interests in the Employment IP. The reason for this clause is to protect the Intellectual Property of the Company from infringement or misuse that may damage the position of said company in the market or our ability to serve our clients.

2. You hereby assign to said company with full title guarantee by way of assignment all present and future copyright, database and design rights and other proprietary rights (if any) for the full term of such rights throughout the world in respect of all Intellectual Property and you waive in favour of said company all moral rights conferred by Chapter 4 Part 1 of the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988 and all similar rights in other jurisdictions.

3. You irrevocably appoint said company as your attorney to execute any instrument and do any such thing for the purpose of giving to the Company the full benefit of clause 1.
The cynic in me says that these private companies will somehow lobby to coerce public servants (DOT workers) to do this job for them via safety regulation.

I could see that happening. Money talks. Maybe not just lobbying but agreeing to pay more taxes to cover some of the work at least on paper and then finding a way around it.

take that away and you can make your truckers a lot more productive

I understand this concept in theory but does it really work this way in practice? If routes are cut down to specific non-level-5 conditions then the pool of truckers is cut down substantially. The current pool of truckers may start out in areas that are level 5 meaning they live there. Will the truckers relocate to areas with non level-5 conditions to meet the employment demand? Has anyone recently surveyed where all the existing inter-state truckers home bases are?
There are few people indeed who could afford to volunteer full time at UCLA. Heck I tried volunteering half time at a UCLA lab and ended up quasi-homeless one summer because my part time job couldn't pay the rent
Still not much complexity.
Ask HN: What does it mean to be a senior software engineering vs. lower levels?
as long as you know the point spread function you can focus out of focus images through deconvolution. https://imagej.net/imaging/deconvolution
Basically, take a picture of a well-known object that should look like a single pixel, measure how spread out it is, and then use that to backconvert images taken from the same camera.
If you could give me an example, I'll look into it.

I ran into issues like this with a strange streets (described here https://adamlynch.com/back-of-your-hand/#the-lioscarrig-driv...), so I consider any two streets with the same name in the OpenStreetMap data to be the same street. I.e. if you put a marker down near any of them, you get points.

However, if the section of road has a different name, then it's different.
Very fun! I managed a score of 450 in the area I grew up in and learned to drive in. Definitely the best case scenario for me.
Why America can’t build quickly anymore