skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What about a doctor .. soldier ... accountant ... lawyer .. engineer ... athete .. teacher.

I think that if you want to say ""everyone should experience xyz" then it should be both a) instructive to all and b) accessible to all. This rules out anything with years of training required.

So, working in a kitchen is clearly far more accessible to "everyone" than the others. The bar to entry is far lower. You don't need a study program before you can wash dishes. If you can walk in, do the hard work for long hours and low pay then you're in, they need that and the rest doesn't matter. I think that's what parent poster means by "A busy kitchen is absolutely a meritocracy".
IME, people who list "C/C++" on their resumes tend to be recent undergraduates. When asked about it, they usually have C experience from one or two systems courses, and C++ experience from a separate course. Undergraduate courses tend to teach C++ as an "extension" of C because it eliminates the hump (and anxiety) of teaching an entirely new language, at the cost of being technically misleading.
Last year I started cycling off of social media. I normally do 30 days on and then 60 days off. Rinse and repeat. Its definitely has re-shaped a lot of how I view my life and what's truly important and what's just white noise bogging my brain down.

I'm not surprised by his move to unplug for an extended period of time. A lot of older people I work with (40-50's) are unplugging their social media, and starting to limit a lot of their screen time and their kids screen time.

I feel like a pendulum is starting to swing away from being accessible 24/7 and always feeling like you need to be constantly plugged into everything.
It's not just slip-and-fall. Northern Alberta SAGD sites have 20km/h speed limits on premise - if you're a contractor you WILL be fired individually for going over (yes, they measure), and if you're a contracting firm two violations by your people will get your whole company kicked off site.

Oil and gas is safety obsessed.
I started on the web in late 1993, so yes. This stuff was around then.

There was actually a competing protocol in those days: gopher. It still exists and has a small, near-fanatical community these days.
Does python not have built in documentation search? In R I use `??searchterm`.
All EEA identity cards already have to comply with IEC14443 standard. This standard also has open implementations for card readers.

How is a phone app in a walled garden a better option for official authentication than the identity card you already use to identify yourself in all other official acts?
You seem to be assuming that the 25 or 30% of people who have used cannabis are all people that would otherwise be both interested and qualified as recruiting targets?

It's not clear to me that the requirement to be drug-free is excluding a lot of people who the railroads would otherwise want to hire.
There's a Dockerfile but it's not as streamlined as the Heroku app, by far, the README makes this clear.
This is a good point. The question isn't whether Agile is perfect (it is certainly not), but whether it's the best option we've got. If it is, then we should continue to use it. If it's not, then we should switch. I would be really interested in learning what the next attempt at a better methodology looks like.
Not an option, i have list, and by date. Tons of files. No proper viewer
I like to walk into cell phone stores and ask if they have any phones with an off switch. These are of course rare and only sold by niche companies like Pine and Purism. Everything else just looks like it is off while it is still transmitting in low energy mode.
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My guess would be that the RO filter is dumping a bunch. They seem to use 4 gallons for every 1 gallon of filtered water [1]. I personally do't like RO water, it tastes off to me and I appreciate having a. little fluoride in my water to fight off tooth decay.

[1]https://americanhomewater.com/the-truth-about-reverse-osmosi...
You don’t have any choice but to use YouTube?
Navigating is a pain. eg you cannot navigate to any "hidden" directories and cannot you type paths in the "address bar" nor the file name input selector.

There's a few other little annoyances but I can't recall them right now (currently awaiting delivery of a new MacBook Pro so I'm back to running Linux for the time being).

The dialogue annoys me enough that I've just gotten into the habit of opening everything from the command line instead. In fact Finder is pretty poor for those things too (I've lost count of the amount of times I've ran `open .` to launch Finder in the path I want rather than navigating there via the GUI). But at least Finder does 90+% of what I want, even if I do have to turn to the command line a lot. Whereas I find the open dialogue to be almost completely useless.
Happy to chat about what I took away and put lessons learned from these in practice. You can't use all the tools all the time but we routinely do and the value created has been enormous.
Its funny how most languages have this whole separating between microservices and monoliths. Having worked with elixir for the last 5 years, One of its biggest benefits is the ability to have a microservice deployment while having a monolithic codebase.

It comes with a reasonably good internal pubsub system and vm linking right out of the box. And the built in application supervisor makes it trivial to spawn thousands of threads on one machine, each with their own independently allocated heap, that can be mounted under a supervision tree.

Want to create a microservice? just make a file, inherit the GenServer and add it to your application tree in your application.ex. Add a library like horde and you can create singletons in your codebase that are microservices. they run as a thread somewhere in your cluster. Just send it a message by nmae and the vm will know where to deliver it.

The end result is the overhead of creating and maintaining a microservice in elixir is about the same as the overhead for adding a new controller.
I want a thermostat that factors in humidity. Warmer temperatures are okay if it isn't as humid. I may only need to run the AC to knock out some of the humidity to make it comfortable. Does anyone know of a thermostat that does this?
I agree that that's a serious problem, but I don't think the best solution is to confiscate wealth just in case the wealthy misuse it.
Okay but Lac Megantic had nothing to do with "monster trains" iirc. Understaffing maybe, but not monster trains.

AFAIK, the Lac Megantic disaster happened like this: A train was parked at the top of a hill, the locomotive that was powering the pneumatic brake was failing and smoking, and the conductor did not manually set enough of the manual back-up hand-brakes to keep the train in place if the failing locomotive was shut off and brake-pressure was lost, and he failed to properly test the hand brakes before leaving for the night. The brakes failed and so it went down hill while trying to break, which naturally led to sparks, fire, derailment, and ultimately explosion.

More manpower or supervision could've prevented the disaster, or better maintenance on the locomotive. Or better automation on brakes.

But it was not a matter of length, which seems to be the main thrust of this article.
hahah yes. i came from windows... :)
Inned just that.

All this finder-thing is damned
Just send it to your local goodwill. Some single mother just scraping by in a rotting-out apartment who suddenly needs to fix a sink or lighting fixture that duct tape just isn't working on any more will be delighted to find your nest brand screwdriver with a fifty cent sticker while looking for a pair of shoes her growing kid's feet might fit in.

And that's just here in the US. Our working poor are the world's one percent. If our definition of consumer waste is things no one would like to hold on to, then even what we consider the most banal tools are not consumer waste, and it will be a very long time until they are.
Seems to be that kind of misuse where a typeface used for titles or headings is used for the body.
I disagree. Long term investing is de rigeur on Wall Street - everyone from Warren Buffet to index fund investors are doing it.

Sure some people do trading, but a long term view is both the right one and the most profitable one.
The letter 'a' looks weird
Standard trailers deliver into the outer boroughs where it is pragmatic and then smaller vehicles go into places like Manhattan. Of course nowhere can you make a trailer completely 'safe' in your own words. But not every borough is Manhattan where navigating a standard trailer is nigh impossible.

If the trailers weren't at all useful then you'd see about as many of them as you see horses. The market would simply flush them out.

Also the code you cited in Newark doesn't mention length that I can find, can you quote where you're referring to? Not saying it isn't there, but I see weight requirements but not length.

>If you actually lived in NYC

Do you live in every borough? If one is not able to speak about somewhere where they do not live, (which is a fallacy I reject) then you recognize you can't speak for the other boroughs and therefore cannot make a sweeping statement that covers all boroughs of NYC.
Yeap. Blazor too is promising.
It's funny how this totally could have been implemented in like the late 90s except I guess no one did and yet we now see how it's totally able to solve lots of 'inverse problems' that 3d reconstruction algorithms have tried to solve for decades.
Yes, but at the same time, an experienced consumer of headlines should parse this syntax as "Illinois college to shut down. Illinois college hit by ransomeware attack, as well." (i.e., despite weaving the two things together, causation isn't actually claimed).

I don't like it, but it's been the nature of the headline game since long before clicks.
I did a calculation to get a sense of the enormity of these numbers and to consider what it would take to replace this water release with desalination. The release is 500,000 acre-feet, or about 163G gallons (326/000 gal/af). According to Wikipedia, the Keystone Phase III pipeline can deliver 700,000 barrels/day, or 29.4M gallons/day (oil barrels are 42 gallons). Setting aside the 7% flow rate differences between water and oil, an equivalent pipeline would take over 5,500 days, or over 15 years to deliver that much water.

Or to put it another way, the 7.5M acre-feet per year deliverable in the Colorado River Compact would take over 225 pipelines to achieve the same flow rate.

So, for desalination to have any significant impact, we would have to build a huge number of desalination plants and pipelines and provide massive power for the plants and the energy to pump all that water uphill.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keystone_Pipeline

https://usbr.gov/lc/region/pao/faq.html

https://www.regoproducts.com/PDFs/liquid_flow_conversions.pd...
That point was almost 20 years ago
There is also https://spectral.prototypo.io/ which was an unsuccessful startup https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24911784
I use Preview daily. I definitely haven't forgotten about it.
No, the banner disclosures are only required because a bunch of technologically inept politicians required it.

Have they made browsing the internet better? Have they decreased tracking?
Is it possible to make them using other material?

What about wood?! My father had a 0°C to 100°C thermometer for the lab, and it has a wood tube to store it. It's probably more expensive than the plastic one, but it's 100% biodegradable.
I would imagine they are in a better position to negotiate and have the resources to make strict rules the insurance company would like.
Google's Advanced Web Apps Fund, supporting those who make the web more powerful
Rocket's 2nd v0.5 Release Candidate
>Remote work is not having to spend two hours every day commuting

Choosing a home and workplace that are reasonable in relation to each other is not having to spend two hours every day commuting. Voting for local politicans who will do reasonable housing and transportation planning and instead of suburban sprawl, is not having to spend two hours every day commuting.
I'm curious what changed recently to make this worse. I appreciated the article, an insider's ideas on what is going wrong (and somewhat nuanced), but what change is causing this newer race-to-the-bottom? Labor shortages? Fuel costs?
As counter-balance to his book you should talk to some YC hardware founders about their experiences with Tony.
https://thoughtbot.com/blog/chestertons-fence

> There exists in such a case a certain institution or law; let us say, for the sake of simplicity, a fence or gate erected across a road. The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to it and says, “I don’t see the use of this; let us clear it away.” To which the more intelligent type of reformer will do well to answer: “If you don’t see the use of it, I certainly won’t let you clear it away. Go away and think. Then, when you can come back and tell me that you do see the use of it, I may allow you to destroy it.”
Also very interesting details on his presentation:

"Digital Transformation: Thriving Through the Transition - Jeffrey Snover, Microsoft"

https://youtu.be/nKyF8fzed0w
Can we fix the term “Web3”? It is cringe
1. This stuff is not webby, usually. Hash trees are not the web. IPFS is not the web. NFTs are not the web. PoW is not the web.

2. The web2 meme was hype from the beginning. Just let it die.

3. Other tech (like, RDF) already tried to claim the term “web 3,” years ago. Trying to snarf it isn't even original.

4. Aspiring to be “web 3” is euphoria. It's delusional. The web is a monster success. Almost nothing in krypto compares.

When people talk about crypto or web3 what they usually mean is P2P. Just say it if that's what you mean.
Marketing pepsi versus coke maybe? It's all sales if you boil it down (sadly).

Actually, in my opinion, one of the main problems in higher education today is that the value proposition of the actual education and student experience is secondary to the ability to market. In other words, new programs are presented by faculty (or rarely staff because of politics) and administration will immediately ask how this can be sold to increase enrollment (read: revenue). In other words, what is best for students, in terms of experience and employment outcomes, will always take a backseat to what is flashy and looks good in a brochure.
You can get burned out from anything, though. I like pizza, and look forward to the next pizza I get to eat. But if you made me eat pizza every day for 24 years, I'd want to take a long break from eating pizza.
marketing? maybe. operating? doubt it. if the country you’re a citizen of would say “let’s see how this quarter goes. if thing don’t work out we will reach the end of our runway and all that property you bought is going to be sold to the highest bidder without consulting you” you’d think they are a bunch of clown. “Also, it’s called Estonia today, but it may be Germany tomorrow and you cannot stay here unless you are a German citizen”. Bananas! + Instant uprising against the government.
Based on the number of people replying "don't post twitter threads, they're user hostile 1/22" I am not sure twitter is celebrated here by the majority.
It's a desert. There are way better regions to grow food.
> When Nest acquired Dropcam, a large number of the Dropcam employees left. Tony Fadell then went on to publicly disparage the Dropcam employees as being "not as good as we hoped" saying "unfortunately it wasn't a very experienceded team" ( https://www.businessinsider.com/nest-ceo-tony-fadell-has-dro... ) Predictably, that's a great way to drive away the rest of your knowledgeable employees and make the company toxic for hiring.

^^ This.

Aamir Virani, who was the co-founder of Dropcam, has his take on this here: https://aamusings.substack.com/p/who-lives-who-dies-who-tell... (also https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1522280960984707072.html)
This proposal always ignores poor people. How are those with low/no income supppsed to afford it.

We will have a housing and water crisis as it will bring investors and speculators. It has destroyed oil prices, housing, land, etc.

Our market is a sham. Tying essential life-giving water to it was a mistake.
A survey paper is usually a good way to go, such as A comprehensive survey on graph neural networks (https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.00596) or Graph Neural Networks: A Review of Methods and Applications (https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.08434)
The other problem is like competing codecs (vpx comes to mind), they all require much more resources for little gain, both for encoding and decoding - even in hardware vp9 requires more than h264 (and 5), patents are not the only reason.

Also with a million competing codecs which do you choose....
Learn to talk to designers. Have a copy of Tog on Interface around. Know about Fitts' Law. Know who Susan Kare is.[1] Know what Bang and Olufsen audio gear looks like. (They took the black-on-black look to the extreme. Designers really like that look. You can't find the controls.)

Go on to learn what Bauhaus architecture looks like, how that led to modernism, Frank Lloyd Wright, then Mies Van Der Rohe, then brutalism, and finally Frank Gehry in ridiculous mode.[2] Understand why this didn't result in liveable cities.

Then you can talk to designers.

[1] kare.com

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ray_and_Maria_Stata_Cente...
Agricultural water is usually not for sale to supplement your residential usage. Your lawn or shower is competing with other residential uses, not agriculture.
> It's an equivocation

You are forcing me to agree, because...

> In logic, equivocation ('calling two different things by the same name') is an informal fallacy resulting from the use of a particular word/expression in multiple senses within an argument.

...and that is also the OP's error. I am not calling two differing things by the same word, I am saying that in this technology space, "building software" has a specific meaning that has been convention for 40 years or more. I have never heard a programmer refer to programming, or software engineering, as "building software." It is confusing. Building software means "compiling from source," and that is what it has always meant. And the semantics here are pretty important, as the OP is really talking about writing software and not constructing software from source code. Writing software is composition. It is not building anything until what is written is compiled.
I was not a particular fan of Almere (please refer to jacquesm’s post on details), however, it being a Dutch city, various general benefits of Dutch city design and engineering also apply there - these are what I am really trying to point at.

Almere itself is rather boring and devoid of life. It’s simply artificial land reclaimed from the sea with no history or story to it.
Similar example: came back home from a long trip to stale air. Maybe there's another problem or maybe that's just me, but next time we start the air from the airport and the air is pretty normal by the time we get in.
The part that resonated with me is the ageism and general suspicion (by your potentially younger boss) of those with families and responsibilities. Startups tend to expect you to put everything you have into work, but for some folks that's just not possible.
Pretty sure that's the case, yeah
And the government still allows you to smoke cigarettes. Just like if you don’t want to risk getting cancer by smoking you don’t smoke.

If you don’t like the shit show that is YouTube - don’t use YouTube.
> That sounds to me more like a team failing to adjust to a good WFH setup than anything intrinsic to the difference between WFH/office work.

The team failed to adjust to WFH because intrinsically team building, knowledge sharing, mentoring, etc. is more difficult when working remotely.
The entire article is based on online group dynamics over people trying to figure out how to come to grips with historically ignored problems.

I fail to feel outraged by this process. Is "White Fragility" without criticism? Probably not, I think it is a fantastic book, but it scares the bejeebers out of some people and we get instagram drama and articles like this which I interpret as another attempt at purity (trying to outsmart "wokeness").

It is going to take a while for society* to come to grips with this new shift, because we're clearly not going back, but it definitely is rough around the edges, IMHO, because we haven't found the right vocabulary and framing. Unfortunately it is going to require people to sit with feeling uneasy, and that is something most people cannot tolerate.
This is an American board so we’re supposed to gasp in disbelief and/or be intrigued when someone says that a particular kind of union is not inherently evil.
Then raise the price of water. I don't get a Nobel Prize for this. It really just earns me a Captain Obvious sticker.

In the short term, your food will be more expensive. In the long term, people will invest in water-reduced production. Want to see fintech and crypto currency startups at YC get replaced by VF (vertical farming) startups claiming to reduce water use by 80%? Just raise the price of water by 1¢/liter. VFVC (vertical farming venture capital) will be all the rage.
In a way it makes perfect sense. When I look into my toolbox I see a whole pile of different saws, each of which has a specific usecase, metal, wood, living wood, trees, joinery, figure work, glass+ etc. The one-tool-to-fit-all-usecases programming language hasn't been invented yet as far as I can see.

+ technically, probably more of a grinder because the blade is covered with diamond dust, but you use it like a saw.
> To have a valid train ticket on your phone (for those without printer), you are also required to accept the google or apple terms of service and privacy policy. You can download a pdf ticket, but the data matrix on there is only valid if you print it out!

It seems that requirements to "consent" to TOS for things like major transport systems (government or not) or government health services (NHS services in the UK for example) just aren't consent in anything but some technical legal sense.

> Kinda bothers me that everyone is just going along with any terms for convenience. It's ripe for abuse and doesn't have to be this way.

I think it's not so much convenience as a change in the laws of the game? With TOS presented human-to-human, people in the past would have been more likely to react in a human way to the person offering them the TOS, businesses and governments would be constrained. Even if they got TOS in the post, there was a human in the loop to complain to and argue with. With TOS online, it's a fait accompli, which changes the costs to both parties.
Ask HN: How does your organization reward polishing software?
I noticed that a lot of people love "little nice things" in macOS[1] and other Apple software. Things that will not get noticed in a big splashy release. Sometimes, most users don't even notice the attention to details and work that went into making things work nicely.

I work on UIs too but in our organization nobody really cares about nice little things. It's all about launching and making a new big product or release. I have been in many big tech companies and most of them are like this. Apple is special. Somehow their culture allows obsessing over details.

If your organization is successful in rewarding craftsmanship, can you share how they do it?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31315644
There is nothing in common with SFDC and Heroku.

Even when making a custom app with Salesforce Data, you are severely constricted wrt the amount of apex code and the data speed.
If you look for foundations that service projects, like https://sfconservancy.org/projects/current/ it could be easier to connect.