skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Eng manager here. Honestly not everyone is sold on remote being better much less equivalent in productivity or output compared to being in an office.

Ad an IC, I would have potentially believed this if the past two years where everyone was working from home wasn’t anything but unbridled success for the tech industry. Companies literally can’t hire us fast enough right now, and yet there are really still some managers out there wondering about productivity and output? How about looking at the big picture?

> But also a lot of times, the ICs are slackers, loafing around, lying on tickets, getting bogged down and not speaking up

Again, this is purely about controlling others. If your IC is not performant, there are ways of addressing that like adults with performance and goal reviews, improvement plans, mentoring, etc. Requiring them to come in so they have adult supervision makes me chuckle. Are managers supposed to be like daycare supervisors of children or something?

And I’m not trying to rail on you personally, maybe I’m more triggered by my own management, but this whole post reads to me like such typical management speak of “we tried nothing and we are all out of ideas”
Averages Are Not Distributive
https://github.com/cgrand/enlive
My interpretation of what he intended more closely aligns with the word "pretentious". Artistic contributions that are veiled behind complexity and technique, or require explanation and close examination, and exposure. I can't speak to the native Russian texts, but the English translations of his work, I would surmise, could be understood by anyone. In the preface to the copy of What is Art? that I read, it was reported that Tolstoy struggled with the topic for some time, and that he struggled to adhere to the principals he laid that define art. But again, I'm butchering it, and suggest you read it for yourself.

The peasant work song is art, Wagner's leitmotifs are pretentious.
My conversatons with my brother who works at Apple goes something like this.
Me: "What are you working on?"
Him: "All I can tell you is that I am working on a project which will launch later this year and you hear about it in the news."
A bit of bikeshedding (and I'm not an educator, so take that with a grain of salt), and I guess different views on a good curriculum are to be expected, but a few things I noticed upon a skimming:

- No basic HTML "hello, world" in the beginning to hook the reader and show that they can easily make web pages. It seems that they should wade through quite a few lessons, including JS ones, before composing the most basic page (assuming no prior knowledge of that).

- The first lesson is somewhat thorough, touching an assembly language (which is nice), yet mixes together shells and terminal emulators (which seems okay for a gentle introduction, but potentially confusing).

- No historical context (at least in the first two lessons), which is common to omit, but I think it helps to learn the motivation and basic ideas behind the subject you are studying, to better understand it all.

- Accessibility is explained before HTML itself, with an HTML-based quiz. I agree it's important, and the lesson looks good, but I imagine it'd be confusing/boring/seemingly unnecessary to read before even the basics of HTML (I'd probably keep thinking of learning how to make actual pages myself). Better understanding of accessibility issues may also come with demonstrations, showing why it's important (otherwise it's probably also easy to dismiss as silly or unnecessary). The lesson also mentions the "Lighthouse" tool, I don't think it's present in Firefox by default (looks like there is an extension).

- Then there's a bunch of JS lessons, before learning to make even basic static pages.

- Then there's finally HTML introduction, but only introducing 'html' and 'body' tags, and with a lot of--likely confusing to an absolute beginner--attributes in the examples, including classes.

- CSS follows those, at which point classes are likely to make more sense.

- Then there are JS-based games and web browser extensions, while we've barely learned to make basic HTML pages (though I don't think we really did).

- Only towards the end there are HTML forms, after all the interactive JS bits.
A $35 Goodwill purchase turned out to be an ancient Roman bust
What's the turkey supposed to do? It can either starve itself now or die with a full stomach later.
> “bad old days of when people all had their own branches”

I’m sort-of-an-SRE at a large enterprise and I see many developers gravitate towards this pattern. There’s a Dev1 branch for the first developer and a Dev2 for the second, etc…

And as you said, a huge merge the day before production rollout.

I’m trying to steer them in the right direction but it’s hard to find a good source that covers everything.

E.g.: this this the bad way, here’s how it goes wrong, this is the good way, this is how it fixes it.

Got any good references I can use?
This looks interesting.

I use logseq's integrated pdf reader for these scenarios - while it can be sluggish at times, it is helpful to be able to read, outline, highlight & crosslink things in the same application.
I have in fact done just that: I've been a part-time student for a bunch of semesters, did an internship and a working-student job in Software Development.

Then, last October I applied for another working student position. I managed to negotiate a rather high salary for being a WS position and got the job offer -but something kept me unhappy and I could'nt put my finger on it. Then in the last second I radically changed my mind, rejected the nice offer and decided my degree feels too much of a burden in my neck that I won't be enjoying the job and will likely get too exhausted doing both. I felt I won't be making fast enough progress in any direction for my liking: Neither would I make enough money to invest on the side, nor would I finish my degree any time soon.

So I thought let me just get this thing done and over with ASAP first, then come back to the company - And that's what I told them as well (They really, REALLY wanted me badly). Since this summer I'm now studying in full-time again.
Sounds like a nice retirement plan, if you can get it and can stand it
https://www.eteknix.com/chris-roberts-explains-star-citizen-...
If they were lending for productive purposes. Sadly, that hasn't really been the case (e.g. mortgage lending).
> how they've managed

Perhaps with help from Western propaganda,
in turn funded by big Western industries?
If you’re talking to me - thank you, that’s definitely what the internet is for sometimes.

Would you like to live in a world without some extremely unhinged people? Sounds like it would become boring quite quickly.

Perhaps you should direct your inferences to those who send death threats to & stalk game developers. You can find their names & contact easily enough by putting “star citizen death threats” into your search engine of choice - & these type of people tend to be the ones unaware that they’re completely unhinged, could perhaps use a reminder unlike myself.

I can also look thru just a small bit of your comment history on here & make somewhat of the same conclusion about you, not that that (especially my opinion) matters in the slightest.
Warren Buffet buys a controlling position and changes how companies operate. He himself said "Your average investor should just invest in indexes".
Official exchange rate is meaningless as you cannot transfer dollars into or out of Russia. Based on some internal sources (not super exact, but still indicative), I think cash exchange on black market is closer to RUR 150 per USD today.
If you make the horns quiet enough for the nearby pedestrians, they'll be too quiet for other drivers to hear (since they're further away and the car is blocking a lot of the sound). And the driver might have the radio on, or even if not it's got to overcome the road noise.

If you make it the painful for the driver to use the horn, they just won't (which would maybe be better overall in cities, but then just remove the horn entirely). Or the sudden loud noise will surprise the driver, or make them instinctively cover their ears (i.e., remove both hands from the wheel). Neither of those would be good for safety.

So, unfortunately, not an easy problem.

In suburban and especially rural areas, the horn needs to carry further and there a few pedestrians. But I guess you could adjust volume by GPS location.
I just want to convey my appreciation of how you gave back to your parents, with dividend, the knowledge built upon the foundation they laid for you.
Positive in general. Just two annoyances. First not being to able put the task bar on the side any longer and second (more annoying) not being able to drag a document into an app that's running on the taskbar and open it.
Huh. I took my iPhone out of it's case. I dunno, it is really just a glass rectangle with a bit of metal around the edge.

I mean, they are fine devices, but fairly boring and utilitarian.
I haven’t followed the progress of this game for a long time but it reminds me of the importance of MVPs. If you can’t get something out on the market that is fun within a reasonable time, it likely never will successful.

People rag on about incomplete games a lot but these days games a long past the throw over the wall products they used to be. They are living products designed to last a decade or more. Getting real players on the game and driving the feedback for future development is critical to getting a final product that is perfect.
I just read through your post on servers[1], as I'm currently in a similar boat (webdev working with C++ devs). I think the biggest hurdle for such developers are things like:

- statelessness of the server (REST)

- the lifecycle of a single request

- the lifecycle of a single (server-)app (microframweworks)

OOP devs unfamiliar with server development tend to pollute the app lifecycle with hidden state in some singletons that are swirling around globally. The requirement that servers should be able to parallelize request-processing is mostly an afterthought and hidden app state makes it impossible to parallelize anything.

A sequence diagram of a single request would help there a lot IMHO and a short explanation of how to keep the response times short, by doing long-running tasks in the background with message queues.

[1]: https://blog.isquaredsoftware.com/2020/11/how-web-apps-work-...
Rhetorical pluralization is a plague
Zathura can use mupdf as a backend. You get the same rendering speed but an interface that doesn't suck and it works for epubs and pdfs.
> I am really wondering what it will take to make the web more like wikipedia and less like a casino.

Don't hold your breath for them to do anything, but a "reader mode" browser extension can help on your side.
That's exactly why the plot is in log scale. The point is that this period looks unusual despite being rendered in log scale.
It also misses the fact that Jonah didn’t speak modern English and so he couldn’t talk about “fish”.
Apple (at least their security org) has done this before with their talks at Blackhat [1] where they've detailed pieces of their boot chain and interesting challenges they solved while building Find My's offline location feature

[1]: https://youtu.be/3byNNUReyvE
Quine Relay: 100-language ouroboros quine
No technique always works. Buying the dip is just that, a technique, not a promise. This is a single example at a specific (long-term) time-frame with many other factors involved.
agreed, ship something and then improve it is a way better approach, then at least we have a game even if the money runs out. star citizen risks never completing, and that's just not something i feel comfortable supporting.

the irony is that i long ignored elite dangerous because its name made me think it's some kind of battle oriented shooter, and not a space simulation.
He mentioned he was a SWE though.
Sorry, but what's superb about it? It's man pages with a fancy layer of paint. It's design for design's sake, with no real improvement over the naked product.

I mean, it looks good, but I'd never use it over man or its HTML counterparts.

Design should support utility, not be the main course.
They are creating art, just mostly not the sort that requires a ton of skill. Someone is making all the meme posts, taking cute cat photos, uploading amateur writing, and so on.
1) Why would I want Kim Dotcom to work with me?

2) Quickly scrolling through the article I find nothing about how to get him to work with me. This is an interview about some messaging app, it seems.
London is a miserable failure, not only in terms of crime and inequality but you've kicked an ancient island people out of their capitol city. Isn't the displacement of indigenous people something we're supposed to feel bad about? Or do the rules change based on skin color. Most of the rest are just US cities which are what he's complaining about. I think there really might not be an in between.
Some American Carriers have a lot shorter routes flying a lot more often [1].

Frankfurt <-> Strasbourg (220km)
San Francisco <-> San Salito [2] (90km)

The point of these are connections. If you are already at the airport, checked-in, luggage registered, you can just as well take the flight closer to your destination. Not saying the makes ecological sense, but I don't understand the outrage towards Lufthansa. Blame the MEP paying for these flights with your tax money and being bad role models contradicting the policies they are voting for.

[1] https://thepointsguy.com/news/longest-shortest-united-flight...
[2] https://www.businesstraveller.com/business-travel/2017/09/29...
> ICBMs, for instance, could grind the Russian economy to a halt in 15(?) minutes

that will bring world GDP to zero rather fast. Suggest reading on mutually assured destruction and on second strike capabilities.
It was hard to predict that real estate would see pandemic gains. It's an asset that people need to leave their homes to inspect, and comes with face-to-face time with multiple parties. In a locked down society, there were plausible reasons to assume that the real estate market would be dampened.
Does that matter if it’s true? Or should we not consider the possible truth of it because we don’t listen to the “unbelievers”
Occasionally I fire up Star Citizen, discover the controller support is still awful, and never see all the stuff they have been working on. Having heaps of developers and artists working on fluff is great if you have the money, but you need a solid core.
LocalForage: Offline Storage, Improved
My six year old can quote parts of her books she's read exactly once, six to twelve months ago. She's not special in that regard. You'd be surprised at just how much information a kid can memorize - it's the on-demand recall that tends to be more hit and miss, and I'd suggest that's more to do with the sheer amount of new stuff they have on hand all the time. Hard to query the index as it's being rebuilt.

But give the kid the right context cues, and they can take off running. My daughter knows Bash. She always stares blankly at the first minute, but with someone able to get her started, she'll be back to writing her CYOA game in about five minutes.
> Note that I benchmarked with --check-bounds=no, which is a startup option that you pass to Julia, when launching, that disables the performance killer “bounds checking”.

Why is bounds checking a performance killer?
Well, I hope you're right that passwords are essentially remnants of previous authentication schemes and not something implicitly required by this new scheme.

I could see us ending up in a world where we need a password to access the device on which the key is stored and more passwords for account recovery and access to key backups.
It's not so much that art had ought to be without prowess, but that the predominating reason for art to exist is as a medium of communication of a message, of emotion, to everyone. Art for art's sake, art designed only to convey the technical abilities of an artist isn't art because it isn't communicating the frame of reference of an artist, it's showing their ability to cleanly transition from dark to light values. It isn't intended to convey the mournful sadness and doesn't impute the viewer with the sense of voyeurism a la Repin's Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan on 16 November 1581 but as I qualified in the parent, I'm doing the text an injustice, it's a great work.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_the_Terrible_and_His_So...
Sticking GitHub and accessibility in the first lessons was a pretty odd choice
Which he had no part in. This treatment of kids is disgusting.
Unfortunately, high beams also risk blinding oncoming traffic, potentially causing a collision.

In addition, I wonder if the blinking would be distracting, calling attention away from the problem (at least when the horn is being used as intended, not just by someone complaining about slow traffic).
I mean it happens organically that math works out that way. But there is an opportunity for govt to create geographically closer pipelines of trade in order to better the reliability of supply chain and environmental effect. For example, there is no reason for stuff to go from mexico to thailand just to be assembled. Only reason could be is that there is existing talent that is available to do it, but brazil lacks those skills. But if govt worked with brazil govt to train for those skills and kick-started industry, then the cost might be even more cheaper due to saving on the half the world trip.
I never visualize the keyboard even though I could, it's all muscle memory.
Agreed. Also, to cite AirPods Pro as breaking the mould on a secrecy culture…it was pretty obvious that the airpod product would develop to have noise cancelling. The stakes for secrecy were much lower.
The m1 gains are more impactful than just speed, namely battery life and thermals. The fact that I can get a full workday or more depending on load, all without a loud fan screaming at
me all day honestly makes this the first laptop I've owned that works as a genuinely fully portable workstation. It's basically eliminated charge anxiety. It's not a complete game changer or anything like the original iPhone, but it's a pretty massive upgrade over the machines of 2 years ago.

And "regular people" definitely care about battery life in a laptop - it's probably the most important parameter for someone who genuinely needs a laptop over a desktop.
The judgement you linked to says:

> It is also not disputed that in subsequent post-trial proceedings for re-sentencing, he was assessed to have an IQ of 69. The trial judge found that the Plaintiff was not suffering from intellectual disability to any degree but accepted that he had borderline intellectual functioning.

Usually "intellectual disability" is defined as an IQ < 70, so that IQ test result would just put him in the intellectually disabled category, rather than the borderline category (which is 70–85).

Also, the psychiatrist Dr Ung's 2016 report – paragraph 18 of https://www.elitigation.sg/gdviewer/s/2017_SGHC_222 – stated that (my emphasis):

> 52. I am of the opinion that Mr Nagaenthran suffered from an abnormality of mind at the time of his arrest, namely: Severe Alcohol Use Disorder, Severe Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder ADHD) [sic] Combined Type and Borderline Intellectual Functioning/ Mild Intellectual Disability

> 53. Psychological Assessment had revealed his Full Scale Intelligence Quotient (IQ) to be 66 to 74. This is in the range of Mild Intellectual Disability suggested in [the American Psychiatric Association, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (American Psychiatric Association Publishing, 5th Ed, 2013) (“DSM-V”)].

> 54. Intellectual Disability requires the presence of functional disability as well and I am of the opinion that Mr Nagaenthran had functional disability in the conceptual domains and to a lesser extent in his social and practical domain

So we have a psychiatrist concluding that he was intellectually disabled (even if only "mildly" so), and met the DSM-5 criteria for both Severe ADHD and mild intellectual disability.

Given the reports concluding he was not intellectually disabled were procured by the government, one ought to question their independence. The only report produced independently of government concluded that he was. I think, to settle the question with sufficient confidence, one would really want someone respectable from overseas – such as a respected professor of psychiatry with a specialisation in intellectual disability – to review the case, but that was never sought. (I'm sure the Singaporean government could have arranged it if they had wanted to do so.)

> but its policies on drug enforcement is 100% consistent with just about every other country in its vicinity. In fact, had Nagaenthran been caught in his home country of Malaysia, he would be sentenced to death just the same, since Malaysia has pretty much the same laws on drug trafficking.

Malaysia currently has a moratorium on the death penalty, due to serious national debate (in which the government has been an active participant) on whether to abolish it, or at least significantly narrow its scope. That is a quite different situation from Singapore–unlike the Malaysian government, the Singaporean government has shown no signs of wanting to specifically encourage any public debate, or evolution of public opinion, on the topic.
So if not IRR, then what? It's not that IRR is bad, it is the imaginary/on paper/not realized interim IRR that is bad.

It's like instead of counting how much customer are paying, we measure sign-ups, page visits, time on page, whatever. At times, these proxy metrics is the only thing we have so it is better than not having a metrics at all.
What is an "HR Business Partner"?
Because being an effective individual contributor and being an effective manager require different skills? Because the goal of a software company is at least nominally to produce software, and paying people who are good at producing software to produce software is how you produce software?

Even if you did promote your best engineer, that just means that a different employee at your company is now your best engineer and the same dynamics apply. (Until, of course, you promote everyone competent to management, and then your organization is doomed to slowly suffocate itself. Then it's beyond saving, union or no union.)
Ask HN: Subscription models – why is the cheapest non-free tier so much?
Apologies, I'm sure this has come up many times but I've noticed that a number of sites/services (usually which have free tiers) will start their cheapest paid tier at more than $5 a month. Is there any specific logic to this?

For example, the monthly fees for:

- Reddit Premium - $5.99
- Evernote - £5.99 ($7.39)
- YouTube Premium - £11.99 ($14.80)
- Experian Credit Check - £14.99 ($18.50)
- Microsoft (Office) 365 Personal - £5.99 ($7.39)

Whether these services are worth the money is not my question - but is it not profitable to offer a e.g. $2 monthly tier (in general, not for these sites in particular)? On Patreon (different I realise) $1/$2 supporter tiers do seem more common so there are obviously people who would pay $1 a month for something but wouldn't pay $6 a month. Which is what I'd expect.
180 comments 2 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22406070
Title and site are unrelated.
So you don’t want to support closing the wage gap? Interesting. Nothing I saw was particularly bent one way or the other. Just pointing out that inequalities exist in the context of a math book — you know word problems that are indicative of the real world.
War is stupid. And boring.
No, Japanese can invest in other markets using international brokers. I don't know details on the fees and currency conversions. Investing in a foreign exchange is always at a slight disadvantage because of currency conversions and fees.

For a US centric view: https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/032615/how-t...