jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
and I would partially agree with your last point.

I think is used for arbitrary discrimination (unlawful or otherwise), but I'd suspect the majority of what's folded in there is just stuff that you don't want to put into official response.

I've conducted interviews as a chair-filler (not my interview, not my decision, but just to chip in and discuss the victim afterwards).

I have awarded negative points for:
Mentioning your father's job 3 times.
Continuing to draw on a whiteboard with a marker that's run out, when there were 4 others next to the pen you selected.
Being rude to the receptionist.
Telling me to be quiet until you'd finished drawing, when I tried to nudge you back to answering the question I actually asked.
Not being able to provide any response/elaboration on a CV bullet-point.

Some of these you could shape into constructive feedback, but easier to just say they "don't fit"
Is your city/country implementing lockdowns, and do you have a small apartment and/or your spouse working at the same time in the same space and/or young kids?

Those variables tend to make all the difference between "happy to work from home" and "about to experience a mental breakdown".
Recipes cannot be copyrighted.
Warehouse workers were never working remotely, they got laid off.

That's not what this report by the BBC says https://www.bbc.com/news/business-54431056
I think the next lesson most companies will be learning is that hybrid can be the worst of both worlds. Remote employees will feel out-of-the-loop, in-office employees will feel like they have to jump through hoops to include their remote colleagues. In-office employees will feel like they can't collaborate because of random WFH from a teammate. Remote employees will feel like they're getting dragged into the office because a teammate scheduled an in-person meeting on a day they weren't planning on going into the office.

It's not impossible, but it is a lot harder to figure out than 100% of one or the other.
Anecdotally, my last employer irresponsibly forced most people to return to the office at the height of the 2nd wave. I opted to... not. And I picked up a WFH role instead with a much better salary. So far it's been the best career choice I've ever made.
Too bad SMS / MMS weren't included on that map. That's by far the most popular messaging option in my general area (where data is expensive, and unlimited texts common).
Quick question -- how do you manage the subscription/billing

A combination of PayPal and luck :) I originally coded the system to support pricing tiers, so the legacy code supports people being billed at different rates. The only nasty bit is a hack that checks whether the user is on an annual or monthly subscription, and updates their expiry date accordingly.
your 4s wireless just broke.. it was not anything to do with upgrading the os. You had a good phone for it to last that long. - also bet you would not really like this phone.. it is slow and for people who cannot get a better faster phone. Its like saying you would really be ok with an outhouse because you dont mind the walk.
Pretty much. Though they've periodically updated them to use new techniques like animation blending. I think there's also a lot of work in optimizing for different platforms. And perhaps more importantly, there's a lot of work in making the middle ware easy to integrate. Ease of integration is often more important than performance for a lot of middleware.

I've seen their logo on tons of games. I never knew they were a local company (Kirkland, WA near Seattle).
Lots of these have been abandoned in the wild. One caused an incident in Lia, Georgia in 2001. https://www-pub.iaea.org/MTCD/Publications/PDF/Pub1660web-81...
It almost looks like a photo that an employee themselves might take after being shown such an alert message.
Companies go bankrupt all the time and we don't worry about the workers (unless they are 'too big to fail' banks). It would change workers relationships with companies a lot and would likely encourage companies to break themselves up into parts. Might be good anti-monopoly move?
Yes and to that point you could use something like Hugo, generate a static HTML site. Then with that static site in HTML/CSS you are no worse off the solution the author proposes even if that generator became completely abandoned and unusable the next day. But in the meantime your work would be a LOT easier if you are doing anything at all with headers/menus/accessibility
You can put the executives into jails though. And the executives, not some low level manager as a scapegoat.
> I wonder why this time they're clutching pearls about how scary and terrible this could be.

Most of the readers here know quite a few things about system administration and/or IT security. As I read this thread, most comments only discuss the IT security implication or express sympathy for the poor souls that will need to clean up this mess; there's hardly any discussion about the morality of possible leaks.
Wonder what's going on with this now. I heard that Uzi Nissan (The original site owner) has passed away.

https://jalopnik.com/uzi-nissan-internet-domain-owner-who-fo...
> Forcing people to spend their time at work is as close to actual slavery as contemporary society allows, so that's what they do.

I completely agree with this, but I'm not sure this is necessarily beneficial for companies (compared to potential alternatives). In the end, the quality of their products benefits from happier employees, whatever "happier employees" means.

When I switched jobs from contracting at a FAANG to working for a worse company it was mostly due to bad mood in general. The job wasn't interesting anymore and I would feel like a well-paid slave. It felt like everything, including the house I was living in, was tied to or revolving around my job. It felt like I didn't have anything, except the job and what came with it.

Had they offered a part-time option with half the money or so, I probably would have stayed and started making the steps I'm making now as unemployed towards improving myself (more physical activity, side projects, volunteering, working on my mental health)

It doesn't have to be all the companies though, it can just be a few and then a few more. Gitlab and now Gumtree definitely stand out to me as one of the very few companies I'd be happy to work with and that's because of their approach to work.
Moreover, credit unions seem to have good relationships with each other. I've never actually even seen a branch of the credit union I've been using for ten years in real life. But, if I need a notarization or to deposit a cheque, I can easily visit a branch of any credit union and they are usually happy to do it for me.

I've been hit with fines for my mistakes (transferring money out of the wrong account) but I've never paid them since they are always willing to remove them via a simple text chat. (I find text chats much easier than phone calls, too.)
Martin Kulldorff, one of the authors of the Great Barrington Declaration, well known for saying the best way to deal with COVID-19 was just to get to herd immunity as quickly as possible. Oh, and Kulldorff and the Declaration happened to come out of American Institute for Economic Research. AEIR just happens to be... the source of the claim that one of their people is being de-platformed for spreading misinformation.
> This is good but not enough. You also need to be sure that you can’t charge twice if the job runs twice. When you do that same query twice, you will get the same list of users.

That's handled by the extra condition in step 1 of the altered rules:

> which haven't been charged the fee this month.
> so you have to decide is it worth switching to lose X and gain Y?

Still sounds like the lock-in is “be more appealing in some ways”.

Everything is a trade off. Life is tough that way, always forcing you to make decisions, or wait until you can afford to do things before you do them, but at this point we’re talking about luxury goods.
I don't think anyone expects to see people take advantage of the recall. Nike found themselves in the position of being associated with Satan, which isn't a good look to many people. They defended their brand while keeping a relatively low profile and that seems like a good place to keep it. Going any further would just generate more attention when all they really need is a legal admission that they're not satanists.
Neat.

IIRC, wasn't there a project using a well-sharpened pencil tip?

Also, Applied Science had one in 2011. https://youtu.be/VdjYVF4a6iU
> For example if you have / as you shortcut for focusing the search field because your US users are accustomed to this behavior, just add alt+s as an alternative for international users.

And Alt+S already opens the browser's History menu, on Firefox, and I'm not sure that applications can override this binding, or if users will appreciate it.

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Last year, I was working on a Qt app that needed to translate physical scancodes (not layout-dependent character codes) located in a piano layout, into music notes. I developed a library (https://github.com/nyanpasu64/qkeycode/) and submitted several Qt/QtWebEngine bugfixes.

Anyway, fuck KeyboardEvent.keyCode. It differs across OSes and browsers.

Fun fact: On QWERTY, + requires holding Shift. Some apps (Qt Creator, QtWebEngine) don't zoom in upon Ctrl-=, but only Ctrl-Shift-+. IIRC Firefox in English locales binds both Ctrl-+ and Ctrl-= to "zoom in"
> Name one thing that a GUI program can't handle, I dare you.

Pipe input/output between programs. Chaining cli tools is essential for my work and personal usage.

> Me, on the other hand, I can point you to a trillion dollar business that uses only GUI and not a single CLI, to say the least.

That's observably not true. Why didn't you just type out the name?
If you read an indictment such as this Indian tech support scam from last month, they nabbed multiple guys in different airports on different flights, presumedly using sealed court orders combined with scanning names of aircraft passenger lists, then having appropriate federal or local police at the airport to handle the arrest upon boarding or deboarding.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-ri/pr/five-tied-millions-dollar...

The Russians or whoever it was could use this to warn individuals (ie state hackers) from flying because of sealed arrest warrants for very serious cases.

This is very serious indeed. And that’s only one scenario.
THANK YOU.

In this world of bloat, it is so refreshing to see someone doing The Right Thing.
That sounds plausible. Police do not calmly wave rioters through in one area while their colleagues are getting beat up elsewhere. Once us vs. them mentality settles in it’s game over.
I've tried PNC, it is an absolute disaster in terms of website, app, fees, timeliness, etc. I have absolutely no idea why anyone would open an account with them.

What I had heard was that they had excellent customer support, but then they accidentally locked up my entire checking account for weeks and claimed they couldn't do anything, I just had to wait - until I literally contacted the CEO. I have, of course, since closed my account there.
ugh childcare has been so tough. We went from 1 to 2 kids in August and cannot find a nanny or babysitter that doesn't have a covid exposure every other week.

Things that have worked for us...

With the kids... family walks and car rides.

After bedtimes... grown up dinner + korean dramas. wine.

We also have a couple games that are fun when we can sneak them in - 5 crowns (5 suit rummy card game), star crossed (2 player role-playing game that uses a jenga set), lots of trivia couples betting (no fact checking to see who is right about something without making a honey-do bet about it)
Thanks for picking up on this :) As I said, it's arguable.

I was working on the principle that the effective population size of humans is 10,000.

(And your genome is oversized, no? 3 billion base-pairs is less than 1 Gigabyte)
Java is a so-so language, but the JVM ecosystem is excellent. That said, a lot of good things are done with Java, and it's my main development language on the job right now.

Scala is looking very promising as a really excellent language atop the JVM. Clojure also has a lot of adherents these days.
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To avoid caching/clustering/grouping effects.
Exactly. But then you're claiming that numberic keypads are "mainstream" on laptops. They're not. Only really exceptional laptops have them. The vast, vast majority do not, and I'm pretty sure that includes everything from Apple.
I agree with the moving people, refusing coverage after repeat usage in one location but the last time that was in Congress it failed to pass and minor reform was rolled back when they realized how many people were going to lose coverage.

Most of the initial premiums are based on 100 year flood plain maps based on recent years of rain (which may not have been typical), assume that rivers are static objects that do not change course, assume that coastal sand beaches are static and not dynamic.

By letting people stay in places that flood repeatedly and removing the risk for home owners/purchasers, the NFIP incentivizes building and rebuilding in areas that flood.
According to this article, there were 37000 homes at the time of writing that had flooded four times and gotten at least 5000 in coverage payout (I could be wrong but last time I checked that is the most I could get in earthquake insurance when I read the annual offer around 2000 from my homeowners insurance). The NFIP is underwriting pretty well off people's lifestyle of living on a beach/river front/bayou.
https://www.seattletimes.com/business/flood-insurance-rebuil...
It sounds a lot like the two of you work for one of Honey's competitors. You both are coming across as obtuse to the point where I wonder if it's intentional.

Oh wait, you say you're just a guy on the internet and you don't work for anyone in the industry? Yeah, pal, same here. The difference is that I base my comments on having used Honey as a customer, not on some random comment based on a random comment by someone who hasn't actually used the product we're all talking about it.

It's fine if you guys want talk out of your rears but at least be honest about what you're doing.
They made their own states too expensive, by choice, and then couldn't live with the result.

They are moving to affordable places that vote against taxes, regulations, and government services. Oddly they continue to vote for the policy that caused them to migrate, and so eventually they must migrate again.
Yeah I use as backup, and it syncs to the cloud. So I figure if it dies I'm still good as I have the original and cloud. It also means I dont have to pay for 2 disks or think about RAID. It is slow and there is a learning curve but mostly just works and is very low power - at it shuts down disk when not in use.
Is Feedly swimming in money?
I think it's just a manifestation of FOMO. People fear they will one day regret not having more pictures, so they take more pictures than they might have otherwise "just incase."
I don't really appreciate that. I would argue I'm pretty well informed on China. I've traveled to China, I've worked with the Chinese for over a decade across various roles, my grandfather helped industrialize China, and I've read many great books on China. Personally I retweeted Hillary Clinton's support of Hong Kong protestors while I was in Beijing, so I put myself at personal risk in doing this.

But lets address your comment directly: "The level of cognitive dissonance would be off the charts." Is it?

One book I recommend is Graham Allison "Destined for War".

https://www.amazon.com/Destined-War-America-Escape-Thucydide...

One question that specifically stands out from his book - is that the West believes in Universal Human Rights. China obviously does not. This is a point of conflict and we have some very difficult questions to address in the future. Suppose China attacks Taiwan. What if China has a second Tiananmen in Hong Kong? Do we sanction China? What if China responds with more violence? What do we do? Do we go to war? This is an obvious point of conflict. And these are questions that we will have to work out in the future.

From the perspective of an investor, these are also difficult decisions. We can see this in how the NBA has responded, and how South Park has responded - each differently. Is it really wise to Balkanize the world if our goal is to encourage China to adopt Human Rights? How would a second cold war help?

Obviously I don't have the answers. But I can recognize the conflict from the perspective of a VC whose goal is to make money.
They probably have a significant investment from Chinese LPs. It could put those investors in a very awkward situation if YC was more explicit with their statement -- we've all seen how childishly defensive the Chinese government can get.
Do you want to be an entrepreneur or a coder?

http://www.jamesaltucher.com/2011/04/the-easiest-way-to-succ...

This does not fit everybody, so if it's not for you, what could you take from this?
I agree that it probably wouldn't be practical, but I think it would be awesome!
Both TC and HN are interested in tech startups so I wouldn't be surprised if there were just people who submit on sight as they pop up on their rss feeds because of the karma on offer.
For sure, "page rank" ended up being a great idea, but Google was built on the idea _and the execution_.

Ideas are really really common. Sme of them are great, some of them are just OK, lots of them are bad ideas. Mostly, you can't reliably tell a truly great idea without a working example. My contention, and the view that I see expressed all the time in here, is that the idea _without_ the execution would have been worthless (and I suspect Larry wasn't the first only person to have the same idea, but much like the Winklevosses, anybody else who thought of it got out executed by Larry, and Larry succeeded I. The execution, not the idea.)

Yeah, you need an idea. But ideas are not that hard to come by. Execution requires some work, and as Einstein said "opportunity is missed by most people because it's dressed in overalls and looks like work."
You can program the home button to bring up the camera with two taps.
The original post asked for advice on learning "the ins and outs of programming" — and prototyping web apps most certainly does not qualify.

No comment on HtDP, as I haven't read it. Heard good things about it, though.
Getting laid.
I agree with everything you said but can we please be a little more civil?
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Unless he wasn't... if so it was a pretty good idea.
ever heard about Wikipedia?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_company

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Securities_Exchange_Act_of_1934

The 500 shareholders does seem to be written in law, however SEC seems to have the authority to make exemptions.
Rectifying a false positive is very expensive (cost of time they're not producing but drawing a salary, eating dev time for training, etc. + cost of firing), and firing people is a morale issue as well. Maybe this is from the perspective of a company that has no shortage of applications, but rejecting an applicant that would've been good costs basically nothing (dev time + travel if they got through phone screens).

I didn't realize there was dissent on this topic. Care to elaborate? I initially picked this up from http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000073.html ("An important thing to remember about interviewing is this: it is much better to reject a good candidate than to accept a bad candidate.")
This one really confused me: "Rarely are these goods and services truly accessible and affordable."

What do goods/services aimed at wealthier segments of the population have to do with accessibility and affordability?

I presently cannot afford a Ferrari, should I be up in arms about the lack of affordability/accessibility to the said Ferrari?

If we are talking housing, one could make a case for the need for affordability/some form of social protection. Although, I'm not entirely sold that people have a "right" to live in a prestigious neighborhood that they cannot afford, but when an entire city gets priced out, it's much easier to argue.
Antonin Scalia, dissenting in part stated:

"The document's failure to adequately specify binary operator precedence and associativity was a deliberate choice on the part of the author(s) and the court should hold the value of "2" [2 + (2==4)]as TOP SECRET as well. The failure to do so sets a dangerous precedent of strict adherence to ANSI C operator precedence regardless of context"
This is such a great feature. I'm really looking forward to using RethinkDB as it matures.
I don't remember precisely, just that the proof of concepts simply didn't work on a kernel without SELinux. When the proof of concept is for instance a privilege escalation, this is quite significant.
You talked about the secret service, which is quite different from the NSA.
Care to name the brand?
The Simpsons, Season 24 Episode 10, "A Test Before Trying" [1], has Homer try that.

> Meanwhile, Mr. Burns raises the price of electricity. As a result, Homer throws his domestic appliances in the dump, where he finds a parking meter that still functions. He decides to set it up at parking spaces around Springfield, moving to another as soon as someone pays.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Test_Before_Trying
I don't know about NRA membership cards but I know for a fact that college ID cards tend to be quite easily to forge.

Regardless, it seems very weird to me that they would accept non-government issued IDs for elections.
They neither store each tweet in a single file, nor is is 140 bytes but 140 characters (think ASCII vs UTF-8)
> I envy you like I envy god-believers. It must be nice to believe and fit in.

Yeah it must be really difficult being so smart. This is a compelling and powerful argument that is not only relevant, but also persuasive.

> Right and left, it's all the same. You've missed the whole point I have tried to make.

You've not made one, nor will you. I hope you have a happy evening.
They used to be more common and a higher proportion of the total. Lots have moved into minicab-like firms that add bookings, despatch etc.
The one thing Julia does not do is install gigabytes of libraries in global directories by default. The default install does not require root, and installs the packages and libraries in ~/.julia.

How did you end up with libraries in global directories?

Also, while we are working on reducing the time to first plot latency (which has to do with compiling large amounts of code - the time to second plot is 0.2sec), it would be good to learn more about the compiler quality issues you mention. We always welcome constructive comments on the Julia discourse.
My feelings mirror yours... I'm actually building a product that I hope can help re-introduce some spontaneity in people's online interactions, as they journey through the web. Still very early stage though: http://getmetaweb.com

Here's a 60 second concept video: http://vimeo.com/52398982