skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"You think you do, but you don't."

I LOVED my iPhone 4 & iPhone 5 back in the day. I thought they were just perfect. I could reach all the keys, they fit in any pants, and they were just my favorite era of phones ever. Metal edges, glass front and back, no stupid camera bump -- perfection. For the time they existed, there was nothing to improve on those phones.

But I pretty much hate my iPhone Mini. And it has almost nothing to do with the phone -- it's basically an improved version of the iPhone 4, except now it's got a stupid camera bump. And I would still love the form factor, but like... so many things just don't fit right.

Apps just haven't been tested to work on it, especially if you tweak your default font sizes at all, and it's just a sub-optimal experience in almost every way. My fingers fit, but now websites are built with bigger fonts and need bigger screens. I passionately hate "viewport wobble" and you see it all the freakin' time on the iPhone Mini.

Book an Uber? The buttons are off screen, or weird places. Sure that's the app's fault -- and frankly a lot of apps need to do better for responsive design in order to better improve accessibility (especially for elderly users!) but that's a bigger fight than I want to get into when I pick up a phone and just want it to work.

So I don't know, like if I had a magic wand and could just zap every website, every app into compliance with the slightly smaller screen... sure it'd be great. But I don't, and that makes for a frustrating user experience that, frankly, ruins the iPhone Mini for me.

My iPhone 4 was the best phone I ever had. Hands down. Loved it, emotional memories of it are still very fond. Wish I could find that again, really do.
This guy's art is way better to me than 90% of what I've seen in SFMOMA. And, like Picasso, his later "ugly" work is more interesting and more expressive than his earliest work.
Alpitronic reveals fast charger with 400 kW
> 1) an 8-person company will be a shit-show and not a good experience for my first adventure in start-up world, especially coming from a large legacy insurance company

There is a lot to be learned from shit-shows and even sinking ships and the experience can be invaluable to your career.

> 2) sales in start-ups is easily the least defensible position - not as "valuable" as engineering and product.

If you are confident in your ability to this shouldn't truly be an issue. Sales is also often a crucial piece to a startup that is often overlooked and ripe with opportunity for the right people.

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I'm not sure what exactly you are looking for here. Only you will be able to make this decision. Neither is wrong and it sounds like you may just be seeking validation. Regardless, don't look back too hard and with much regret no matter your choice.

I'd personally make the decision based on the people that I'd be working with and my interest in the work/sector. Even the perfect position can suck if you dislike the people that you work with or don't believe in the product.
My setup is:
Older Nikon D71000 DSLR here with 17-55mm on wall-mount
Elgato Cam 4k dongle mentioned in the article
two good lights with nice diffusers to the left and right of my monitor facing the wall, for reflected light
HyperX glowy red mike with physical mute, love that thing

This gear works 100% of the time, all the time, in Zoom, Google Meet, Teams, Webex, you name it.

Bootup is definitely does some things, turning on two lights, camera on/off switch, and a small button on back of it to shift to the 1080p output. But at this point it is just seconds, muscle memory.

I get a lot of compliments on quality, clearness, and the natural optical effect of out of focus blurred background.

And I definitely notice other people's poor lightning, bad quality picture, artifacting of cheapo webcams or got forbid native built in laptop cameras.
This code is really nice. How will you profit?
JEP 428: Structured Concurrency (Incubator)
You’re only at a disadvantage if you want to maximize your career trajectory at the expense of your work-life balance.

If you wanted that, you’d be playing the same game as your 24x7 colleagues. That you aren’t means you (quite reasonably) have other priorities.

Neither you nor they are wrong; you’re just optimizing for different things.
I think that for Notion (neat company btw) it might make a lot of sense to keep the schema pretty loose but I have managed to keep an agile DB alive and well with a lot of flexibility. A lot of migration infrastructure packages and tools will store the migration state in the DB itself - we're using Phinx[1] internally which creates a `phinxlog` table with a record of migrations that have been run - there is tooling to migrate only up to a specific version and since the record of all executed versions is stored in the DB the tool can easily figure out what works needs to be done in which circumstances. The result is that we can easily roll different environments onto different versions.

Neither schema driven nor unstructured is always the right call - they both have their strengths and weaknesses - but I think that trust in data integrity is pretty important when writing flexible code on top of a data layer. Knowing that expected keys can't be omitted and that so-and-so column must conform to a given data domain can really alleviate defensive coding costs.

If you'd like to talk some more I can shoot you an email and we can sit down sometime?

1. https://phinx.org/
I've thought the same, but reading your comment made me realize it's probably the wood.

https://imgur.com/gallery/TpA1e
> Yep, and the cool part is you don't need a lot to start feeling relevant.

"Being relevant" isn't really my goal on Twitter. Chatting to people is. Sometimes I get to learn stuff. It's supposed to be social.
Worked for me. Thank you for posting this!
Base R only? tapply? Ick, no thanks. New R programmers should learn tidyverse https://www.tidyverse.org/learn/, not just base R.

There are a lot of R programmers (including the author of the OP, apparently https://github.com/matloff/TidyverseSkeptic) who are used to the old way of doing things and allergic to tidyverse. But the base-R only, anti-Tidyverse attitude is going the way of COBOL.

I have worked full time in R for many years and it is no contest.

I agree with the author that one must learn vectors and subscripts, but that is not an excuse to shove dplyr under the rug. It is an easier way to do lots of things.
I write code in both daily. I don't think there is a burning need to know both, but there are definitely tasks each is good at. The RStudio IDE is really quite wonderful for interactive stuff. The pipe operator (allowing left to right evaluation of function chains) makes for extremely literate code. Most of the basic statistical functions are substantially better than their Python equivalents. Many of the ways in which you use Python for data science stuff are just poor imitations of R (in particular, pandas is a take on R's data frames that is imo not as productive). In some conditions R can be faster [in others, slower]. The R package ecosystem for more off the beaten path statistical stuff is better than the Python package ecosystem (if you're doing more intense ML and CNNs, the opposite is true). If you're doing dashboards, Shiny is great. But in each case, you can basically work in either language and you'll be fine.

I think it makes more sense to think of R as replacing Stata, SPSS, SAS, and to a lesser extent Matlab, rather than replacing Python.

Julia is also fun.
Actually their common grandparent was not Queen Victoria, but rather King Christian of Denmark.
Hackernews and reddit discourse seems to desperately want to believe the Intel vs. AMD, blue versus red, style narrative.

Maybe Intel deserve it, I don't know, but it's silly to think these companies are your team.
> We need some sort of ability to demand OT, hour for hour comp time, and after hours compensation.

The word is "union". You want a union.
Could you clarify what you mean by "those teams had an advantage when playing RNG"? I may have missed something. I'm not sure what advantage you're referring to.
“wet-bulb” reading of 33.1
I am not sure how your clock works but 9-5 work hours will have 5 hours common between the East and the West coast.
Lovely read. Condensing some, there's three node types in the system, writers, compactors, and readers.

> Writers read from Kafka, (briefly) buffer events in memory, upload events to blob storage in our custom file format, and then commit the presence of these new files to our metadata store.... Compactors scan the metadata store for small files generated by the Writers and previous compactions, and compact them into larger files.... The Reader (leaf) nodes run queries over individual files in blob storage and return partial aggregates, which are re-aggregated by the distributed query engine.

And then the meta-data supporting the system:

> Husky's metadata store has multiple responsibilities, but its most important one is to serve as the strongly consistent source of truth for the set of files currently visible to each customer. We’ll delve into the details of our metadata store more in future blog posts, but it is a thin abstraction around FoundationDB, which we selected because it was one of the few open source OLTP database systems that met our requirements

There's some nice scalability/isolation benefits in this all. Having reader nodes reading from network storage has created a lot of flexibility & ability to shift work around on demand.

Keeping all the metadata in FoundationFB is exciting, & sounds like a great use case, for it's safe transactional updates!
We used an ATEM mini from Blackmagic Design with a couple of cameras with HDMI out. The mini acts like a USB web cam when you hook it to the computer.
The hybrid countries : Singapore , Monaco, UAE, Macao, Bahrain look incredibly appealing right now. Even though they are autocracies they are ruled by benevolent dictators and that undercuts the whole political wars which honestly are very tiring for a regular individual who doesn't want to become a good actor and mimic the person you are talking to in blaming the woke liberals/alt-right.
I'm not sure how regulation can hope to really solve this when the problem isn't that an employer is forcing anything on you, but usually more one where your coworkers are independently making decisions about out-of-hours availability that create an unspoken culture, and usual and customary expectations that differ from the official written ones.

You're perfectly free to completely ignore work after 5pm! Nothing bad will happen! A company will swear up and down all day long that they support flex time and you're not expected to ever answer any queries outside of your own working hours!

But if a number of your coworkers decide of their own volition they're going to be in touch at all hours of the day and that becomes the default soft expectation, then you might look worse in comparison. Maybe not in the short term, maybe people will make a strong effort to un-bias themselves during performance reviews and not pay that any mind, but over time, you're sharing the bonus and raises pool with workers who valued their time less than you and perhaps ended up getting higher visibility for it.

Should regulation then mandate that your coworkers disconnect? Maybe. We do it for truckers, pilots, and flight attendants in safety-critical jobs: they're not allowed to work more than a certain set of hours regardless of whether they'd gladly do so.
Yeah, I really do find this kind of attitude strange. If it's not safe now, it never will be. Guess a large portion of society is still waiting for COVID to be "over", as if the virus will magically disappear.
Stock buy backs and dividends benefit or harm all shareholders in proportion to how much stock they own regardless of being an insider or not.

Unless the insiders act illegally. If an insider wants to act illegally they can do so in any number of ways other than knowing that a buy back is coming.
Siru Murugesan, an engineer at Twitter, admits to working just 4 hours a week.

Disconnected enough imo
Except these rulesets are at the top of the food chain within our society.

As for the people who make up the corporations, they turn into sociopaths themselves as their emotion and empathy dissipate the higher they get in the pecking order.
As I mentioned in my comment above (from the article) ~23%.
US Blocks Russian Debt Payments
Scale is all you need in AI?
Great. Just what I needed. A faster way to give Russian hackers a backdoor to my systems... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
So I had a Twitter account since 2009 but never really used it till a few months ago. I have some mixed feelings about it.

On one hand, I really love the consumption side (following people and reading their tweets): being able to follow interesting people and populate my feed with all kinds of great posts about topics I'm interested in. I've honestly been learning a lot and getting exposed to a lot more perspectives I'd never have been exposed to from just passively scrolling over the past few months. This alone makes it more than worthwhile in my books, and makes me wish I started using it sooner.

On the other hand, the production side (actually posting my own tweets) almost always feels like shouting into a void given my rather tiny follower count. I've done it enough times with the same outcome to the point that I've mostly given up on actually posting my own tweets, and have toned down my engagement on the platform to just replying to other people's tweets and retweeting things I find worth sharing.

I'm not saying this needs to change, it's the system working as intended. I imagine people with high follower counts probably get enough engagement on their tweets to make it a completely different experience, and it's totally fair. They've spent years building up an audience, I haven't, and the difference in reach/engagement is a natural consequence of that.

Though this is why HN still feels so special. Everything I write here stands on its own merits. Good comments rise to the top and bad ones get ignored/downvoted into oblivion. The algorithm doesn't care about who's writing it. Sure, it's not a perfect meritocracy. There's a ton of luck involved, famous people in the community will still get their usernames recognized and noticed/upvoted more often as a result, and the downvote-for-disagreement culture breeds a lot of groupthink. But I still love this place despite all of its warts.
I agree that new R programmers should start with the tidyverse, though actually the first element of the tidyverse I'd teach is the pipe and that's now part of base R; the second element I'd teach is using the readr stuff mainly to not have to worry about stringsAsFactors and stringsAsFactors is now default off.

Still, I think ggplot is a better way of thinking about plotting than base R's multiple and not very coherent plotting systems, dplyr beats the pants off any kind of base tools for manipulations, a lot of the tibble/pillar display stuff is great, and personally I disagree with Norm and think functional programming is as accessible as loops are to novice programmers.
Thanks jrussino! I was hoping HN would come through with some more info on the author, because it's clearly a special program, and it certainly wasn't on my radar before kids + public library. (They still call it "Kid Pix 3D" even though it's really "Kid Pix 5" on the iPad)
It's more like, the device tree describes the parameters needed to load and run Linux drivers for the hardware, given the exact git revision of Linux including the dts file. For one particular hardware variant/revision, of course.
Mercedes-Benz taps Sila for next-gen anodes for upcoming EQG electric G-Wagon
Problem is that most people don't have the monumental willpower to not get dragged into a cesspool in a moment of weakness.
Why is reincarnation such a difficult concept to grasp for Westerners?
Oh wow really? I figured they had a domain specific language to program the card interactions. Pretty cool they can parse the text directly.
My department is required to have Outlook/Teams on our phones. We get reimbursed for part of our cell bill, but it's a pittance. We're expected to be reachable in an "emergency."
Here's an example:

Totally understand if not the right time but was keen to see if you'd be interested in discussing a fully remote Site Reliability Engineer position with one of the leading global cryptocurrency exchanges, who are driving the mainstream adoption of blockchain and crypto technologies and have grown from a small scale up to over 1500 people in the last four years?

They attract some awesome people globally and pride themselves on a no-ego team who are brilliant technically, but work together to achieve great things in a complex environment.

I'm under NDA on salaries so can't mention exact figures, but can say total comp can run into the hundreds of thousands on base, bonus and equity. The role is fully remote from anywhere in the US.

The SRE team tend to be 'dev heavy' and are using Rust and Golang currently however are open to candidates with experience in Python or Java too. You'd be introduced to Rust if needed (experience not required) and will have wider responsibility for ensuring reliability processes and the build and upkeep of container environments supporting massive volume live cryptocurrency trading platforms.

It would be great to tell you more, would this be of interest?
Augmented Reality will give us Superpowers
What actual rules did elon break?
Most cameras have a lens cover. Also, if you hook it to a device to hook to your computer, you can turn it off.
Yeah this is very very far from "everything". Among many things it doesn't speak of ptys.

And terminfo, pty, ctty, process groups, and the rendering width of a utf-8 string, and, and and…

> i might be one of a handful of people left on earth who actually has the knowledge to

Uh, no. Anyone on BBSes in the 90s is very aware of ANSI, thank you. And we've not died off yet.

And honestly it's really not that hard at all. Even on the topic of terminals this is not even the hardest aspect of it.

> i have effectively zero pull in the tech community

If you think there's all there's to terminals, yet you act as if you know it all, then you shouldn't have any pull.

I would also not accept any pull request that looked even remotely like their example code.

Here's a more interesting article about a less understood aspect of terminals: http://www.linusakesson.net/programming/tty/index.php
> Every modern terminal emulator supports ANSI escape sequences

Is this true on Windows? My understanding is that quite a few TUI libraries don't have windows support.
Really nice blog post! Especially because it actually builds something that works in the end, while keeping stuff fairly simple.

Another approach could be using PostgreSQL as a stateless scalable query execution engine, while stubbing out the storage layer with a remote replicated consistent storage solution.

This is also what I think Aurora does.
DAI sacrifices 3 [+] so it should be able to meet 1 and 2, though, right? Much the same as GUSD maintains one by obligating itself to honor redemptions.

[+] Dai's monetary policy is not autonomous; new units can only be issued for sufficient collateral and must be destroyed when value falls too low, a constraint that would make a central bank not be regarded as autonomous.
The problem is that expectations are vague, and usually lean towards benefitting the employer not then employee. Take "unlimited PTO." That sounds great, but it's a terrible deal for the employees.
Calling it Fully Self Driving is a lie in itself.
Who makes sure the Anti-Corruption Court isn’t corrupt? Is it courts all the way up?

I don’t think accountability on the international level has proven very effective in the past.[0] And I don’t think this would be any different. Especially because those member states cooperation would be determined by people who only stand to lose from being a part of it.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Assistance_Mi...
Previous Discussion Thread.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26309367
I ran those for many years but unfortunately the batteries are old and seem to only last a year these days
Formerly, not actively. Now they do things like sit on boards.
It's not about copying or perfect emulation. It will – probably – be very difficult for you to paint something that looks like it was made by Picasso to yourself. There is no need to involve any experts in this, you can be the judge of your own painting.
Giving Away the Bomb
Fun!

Small bug: if you two finger touch on iOS (or hit clear all), the screen clears to a different color background, lighter than the new sand dispenser, so now the sky becomes darker as you drag around.
I really dislike games which rewind state based upon latency. It penalizes people with good ping and can lead to very weird game states where a large rollback can cause teleportation of a laggy player as seen by non laggy players.

Team Fortress 2 is particularly bad where high latency players can teleport around or you can shoot and hit a laggy player but it doesn’t register by the server due to a rollback. Some players purposely exploit this function by artificially increasing their ping values to absurd levels (700ms or more) which makes them very hard to hit. Many community TF2 servers enforce maximum ping limits for this reason.

Most notably high pings are used to exploit when playing as the Spy class due to the fundamental purpose of the class is to get behind you to backstab you. If you have 700 ping can abuse the fact that you you can get behind players due to the game being out of sync and if you can backstab a player the server will roll back and kill the non-laggy player even though you were no where near behind them from their non-laggy perspective.
Once again, cannot refute, unable to answer my questions and attempting to escape the discussion about the 'credibility' of both this video and the related Twitter all hands video.

> don't know what video you saw..

We both saw that video in the article of the engineer giving out their confession, unless you jumped directly into the comments section without watching the video and it is from that same organization that leaked the Twitter all hands video which Techcrunch and Business Insider references them directly by name [0][1], and with others ending up having to retract hundreds of claims about them [2].

But nice try at deflecting and gaslighting. Maybe that leaked all hands video was also 'edited' as well? I think we both know that the all hands leak is authentic.

> the video is total crap and not wort anyone to waste their time with..

That is not a refutation of the video(s), links and posts in my older comment. Nothing has changed, with my points still standing and with the video(s) still not being debunked, and still not refuted.

> i have already waste too much time on this crap, if you had anything to give this video credibility you would have provided already so i will assume there is nothing and move on..

Even before you commented, I already did provide sources and you have now just found out that you have wasted your time struggling to dismiss and ignore something that already has been admitted on video and still has no direct refutation or a straight debunking. At best, you have only given ad-hominems and resorted to typical gaslighting.

And finally we have a 'response' from Twitter via a leaked internal email also mentioning Project Veritas by name [3][4] and being aware of the videos of the engineer that works at Twitter. So there you have it, confirming all that I said about the video, whilst you still having absolutely ZERO refutations or counter-claims to prove that it is false.

[0] https://techcrunch.com/2022/04/27/twitter-leaked-all-hands-c...

[1] https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/news/twitter-staff-and-m...

[2] https://www.projectveritas.com/wall-of-shame-retracto/

[3] https://twitter.com/SethDillon/status/1526647553558581248/ph...

[4] https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1526638323887898624/...
We used VR to enter someone’s mind – and fix something that was broken