jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
This is exactly what it's like where I work. It's fun to grab lunch when you want/need it at the same time as others, but it's ultra-low-pressure and in no way mandatory. Best of all possible worlds, in my opinion, and a huge perk for anyone working at a company <20 people.
This is an issue we're trying to address. We figured we need about 5% of our users to post stuff. We've also made it absurdly easy to post where we get the images, tags and maps for you. Try it!
How did you implement the ERP system? Can you give details?
Most HR people are playing a game that most applicants aren't prepared for and/or interested in.

Sure, but that's what makes them scum. It's bad-faith negotiating.
Since I see 4 votes and one comment, I assume those people are asking the question along with me with those votes.

If I'm wrong, voters, let me know.
When would you need to know how many yards there are in a mile (aside from a damn good pub quiz type question!)

I've never needed to know the amount!

But then again - who's used the pythagorus theory since leaving school? :-)
I found it particularly hard to read the recent Amazon Outage thread. There was so much information to sift through. It had me missing the comment scores.
I gues they're already at a point in their business where they feel like it's easier for them to try to silence their fanbase-hackers-modders-addon developers instead of just quietly fixing the issue.

At least Twitter had the sense to phase-in client auth for apps before shutting down 3rd party developers.
Here is a FFT for a GPU http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~kubitron/courses/cs258-S08/proje...
The issue is we work in a field that has had a bubble in the past so until it inevitably happens again, the doubters will look for every sign that a bubble exists, contrary to the truth of the matter. In a similar manner to the housing market, technology will always be seen as "bubbly" and every high valuation just feeds the rhetoric. Ebbs and flows in economies is natural and known to anyone that studies macroeconomics even at the basic level, but truth doesn't sell: fear and doubt does unfortunately. It's annoying, but not quite as destructive as the other fear mongering happening with other news around the world.
How is that worse than a dash cam? Should those be banned so that you can have privacy when travelling on public roads?
Reasonable.

Jag styr min båt. Jag styr på styrbord.
I steer my boat. I steer on starboard.

The Swedish styr is pretty much like the English steer but rounded instead of flat, if that makes sense, and means the same. And bord can be a board.

So, steering board.
If the Conservatives think Singapore's state plays a small role, they must be thinking about some mythical Singapore, because the real one is pretty authoritarian (although it seems to act for the public good) and fairly involved. Also, I think it is easier to have "good" government of a city-state size with a homogeneous population than for something an order of magnitude more people and with a non-homogenous population.

Based on my British Brexit friend, I suggest another school of thought: concern for sovereignty but not nationalist. The EU rules requiring free movement result in people from poorer countries willing to work for lower wages depress wages for British people. Also, the free movement is essentially unlimited immigration and the society can't absorb as many immigrants as have been coming.
Sorry to burst your bubble, but if a government wants to prevent you from using a cryptocurrency it has many tools at its disposal. Firstly, they control the ground upon which you stand. If they don't like that you are using crypto, they will simply arrest you and charge you with a newly-formed crime like 'digital tax evasion'. Secondly, if they can't find who is using crypto, they have the power to shut down the Internet or simply censor requests. No ISP has the military force to prevent a government from walking through the door and cutting the cable.

Point is, as long as you are on their turf, you will follow their rules. Unless you want to make your own rules, in which case you will have to fight the government, become the government, and realize that having no control over a currency being used in your turf can be really bad for you and your citizens. You have no control over its value to at least try keep the economy stable, and they will have nowhere to turn in event of a financial crime or scam. No courts, no recourse, no trust.
Right, but, apparently editing Wikipedia and improving OSM aren't things you approve of someone receiving UBI doing. I'm guessing there are other things people would be enabled to do by UBI that you wouldn't approve of as well.
Traders are gamblers, the city might not lose it’s place, and they’ll be riding a massive wave if that happens. Not a bad calculated risk.
One would assume lack of oversight and regulation.
I'm sorry to say, but the neg SEO didn't drop your rankings, it was to do with the Google algorithm update [1]. Check the screenshot from Ahrefs [2], and your traffic drops on 3rd of December which is when the update went live.
[1] https://moz.com/blog/googles-december-2020-core-update
[2] https://i.imgur.com/DBkdUEk.png

Google's algorithm is smart enough to recognise Neg SEO attacks. Sure five years ago you could buy a blast of spammy links using Xrumer or GSA with some viagra anchor text and boom you're competition is gone.

From a quick glance, most of your pages have pretty thin content, and I assume it's pulling from an API, so none of it is unique. If there was one thing I would do is try to build some content on pages. A great tool to analyse and develop content that is SEO friendly is SurferSEO - highly recommend it.

I'm surprised your forum doesn't rank as well as your main site as it looks fairly active. However, I'm not sure about how PunBB does SEO wise.
Not really, ticket splitting is a thing for many americans -- it's decreasing though
> but you

I?

It is not I that insists on unused vaccine being allowed to expire for the sake of adherence to policy. I merely defend the prevailing policies that work to deliver equity. The values we have collectively adopted weigh equity as more important than lives. Not only in theory in some forum on the internet, but in actual practice.

As is only just. No?

Perhaps the good doctor will think harder about exactly to whom he is bestowing the benefits of his efforts in the future. There is an awful lot of injustice that has to be made good and we must all do our part, especially professionals such as doctors, who should be well equipped to make the correct distinctions and prioritize these factors in every facet of their profession.
I have a Dutch side to my family. The Netherlands has always been a very outward-looking, global, trading nation. It was a global colonial power and has large multi-national companies. My uncles told me the government always recognized that to be prosperous it needed to interact with other countries and it always encouraged multi-linguism and language education in schools. I'm sure having foreign movies without dubbing is deliberate. (And efficient too!)
Doesn't the US government have rather a lot of ongoing expenses that is "has" to pay?
Right, and just to close the loop, it is a fact that gravity exists, and the theory of gravity is our current thinking of how it works and why it exists. Likewise, it is a fact that evolution exists, and the theory of evolution is our current understanding of how it works.
It requires JavaScript and, in my experience, it can be unnecessarily slow.
> Seems like blatant false advertising to have "$99" in big text and nothing but an asterisk to indicate that this is a rate you're allowed to have exactly once ever.

All kinds of services advertise one-time introductory rates that way.
I think the other poster he meant disc brakes vs. centre pull/cantilever cable-actuated brakes.
I think his refutation was quite calm, solid, and respectable.
Or you could look at this as a potential huge revenue boost for a company that you do business with. It's also a company that has a history of increasing the services they provide without increase the cost to the end user.

The added revenue from this promotion will only increase their ability to serve you better in the future.
You can always compile boost and install it locally, the full 64bit version only takes about 100MB:

$ du -hsc boost/1.45.0/*
68M boost/1.45.0/include
37M boost/1.45.0/lib
104M total

Add cmake/autoconf and it's fairly trivial to make it work with your software or even ship it with your source code: after all the Boost license is fairly permissive.
Good post, and exactly right. Look at anyone who 'wins' and you'll often see extreme habits. Athletes are easy examples to look at because they compete so directly and much is written about them. If you look at a Michael Jordan or a Tiger Woods you'll of course find talent, but also an unrelenting competitive drive that made them practice for hours and hours a day. Their practice schedules were/are not normal even for the professional athlete level.

There is a good quote from a forgettable rap song:

Losers make excuses, winners make it happen

The author of the blog post made it happen even if he wasn't aware of doing it at the time.
There's a difference. For this 111GP image there was taken 9750 images. Those images were then merged together to a single image using Autopano Giga and then split for the ease of presentation. Google's satelite photography on the other hand has never been merged into one huge image.
I don't agree. His own personal experience is really the whole point here.

He's stating his credentials, which is important — lots of people are happy to offer advice on how to "be successful" or "win", and that advice is contradictory. As an empiricist, I think it's very useful to examine the results they report from applying that advice in their own lives in order to figure out what its results are likely to be if I apply it in my own.

Of course, people's reports of their personal experience are not perfectly reliable, but they're a lot more reliable than their ability to accurately derive explanatory theories from their personal experience.

As far as I can tell, the achievement Jason Shen is most proud of is working, as a non-founder, at a six-person startup that sells ads. If you dig a bit, it turns out he also cofounded a microfinance group in 2007 that has lent US$24,000 over the last three years, but says, "Microfinance isn't a panacea. We don't think of ourselves as changing the world. We're just making it a bit chewier." As far as I know, the difference between traditional low-income loan-sharking (you know, payday loans and so on) and microfinance is specifically the intention to change the world. (On the plus side, they do claim they're working to "end poverty" but I can't find any description of their actual program on their website. At first I thought http://gumballcapital.org/challenge/qanda/question/8/ meant they were making high-interest loans to undergraduates at elite US universities, but it seems more likely that the "Challenge" is a way for them to solicit donations, not their actual program.)

In short, nothing Jason Shen has accomplished so far in his life will be remembered a century from now, unless he becomes famous for something he does in the future.

To me, this provides a very valuable lesson: you can work insanely hard for years and years, practicing and studying 17 hours a day, and even think you're an expert on "winning", without ever achieving anything significant. Hard work is not enough.
I've been using Linode for over a year, and I have to say they really are the best when it comes to VPS. The distribution choices are great, the emergency AJAX shell is great, and everything (in my experience) is automated to the point where I haven't even logged a support ticket yet.

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I could always use another free month!
The "any feedback" tab's behavior is a little wonky. And (from what I can tell) that's the feature that paying customers will get, so better get it right!

-Having the "any feedback?" text get underlined on hover makes it feel like a normal hyperlink, not an ajaxy widget that pops up. Need to highlight/change/bounce/etc. the entire tab on hover, not just the text.

-Likewise, the tab should activate by clicking/hovering anywhere in the orange color tab area. Not just by clicking/hovering the text. Makes it much easier to hit, and again makes it clear that the thing is a tab/widget and not a simple text hyperlink.
How do the many countries with more severe, briefer lockdowns and far lower excess fatality rates than the USA figure into your analysis?

Also, doesn't the conclusion in your edit (strong vs weak lockdowns are "the fucking same") refute your original claim ("those who have died from the impact of our response would NOT have died this year")?

Also, do you believe that lockdown in general induces severe long-term health complications in survivors on par with the effects of COVID?

Also, do you reject the idea that the effects of COVID scale superlinearly with concurrent infections, due to exhaustion of medical resources (i.e. do you think "flattening the curve" is a myth)?
Good! But that doesn't mean your original comment was infallible, since it didn't actually clarify such a thing.
This "We have some female flight attendants. Would you be able to follow their instructions?"

They assume he was a Muslim and 'off course Muslims have problems following instructions from women'.
Author here. I'd recommend reading until the end - unfortunately, it didn't end when I was released from airport.
>In all my life, I have only felt that same chilling terror once before - on one cold night in September twelve years ago, when I huddled in bed and tried to forget the terrible events in the news that day, wondering why they they had happened, wondering whether everything would be okay ever again.

Wow... just wow.
Just reading this raised my hackles.

The only thing I really feel like saying is "I'm sorry", as you'll never get any sympathy from this system's enablers.
> This is difficult for me to understand. Are you suggesting that if nuclear power were completely unregulated, Tepco's behavior would've been more virtuous (as I read it, totally virtuous)?

If it were unregulated by government, then yes. It's a bit misleading to say there would be absolutely nothing regulating the industry if government wasn't.
Adding to this, is there any easy way to set up a git deployment architecture on your own server?
I had an Archos 15 gig when the iPod came out. Although it is now long gone and I have an iPod 40 gig from a few generations ago, a nano from the tall thin era, am on my second iPhone and have an iPad, I'll say this for Archos:

It still totally takes any Apple music playing device completely to school when it comes to classical music.

iPods are really wrapped up in the idea that you have artists, who produce albums, which contain songs, and if you don't want to organize your collection around those three dimensions, screw you.

In classical, we want six dimensions, not three: composer, orchestra, conductor, soloists, composition, and movement or piece within the composition.

Yes, iPod lets you list by composer. However, that just brings up a list of songs (tracks). However, most (all?) iPods have arbitrary and small limits on how long a title can be and still allow you to see everything in it. For instance, on my Vivaldi list, I see 3 different "Concerto für Laute, Violi...". If I'm lucky, maybe I can remember that the one I'm looking for is relatively short, so the 2:06 one is the one I want, not the 3:30 or the 5:03.

Let's compare to my old Archos. With the Archos, one option was to simply put a directory hierarchy on the device, and then access it via a simple file browser interface. If you hit "play" in a directory without a particular track selected, it would play everything in that directory, in alphabetical order.

So, I'd rip each CD into its own directory, with each track file starting with its track number (padded with a leading 0 if less than two digits). I could then organize these directories in a tree any way I wanted. For my rock, folk, and pop, I could use artist/album. For classical I could do composer/conductor/orchestra/composition for those that did not feature a soloist. For those with a soloist, I could toss in a directory in there to organize by soloist.

With the Archos, I never had to fish around to find what I wanted to find. With iPod I've sometimes spent several minutes trying to find something I know is there.

BTW, I used the same organization on my desktop machine, and made sure to use a music player that would handle drag-and-drop reasonably--drop a track on it and it plays it, drop a directory on it and it plays all tracks in alphabetical order. Then all I needed was a file browser on the desktop and music playback was dealt with there, too.

People have made classical work reasonably with iTunes on the desktop, by repurposing some of the fields. But that doesn't stop the suckage on iPods.
Conservative, but reasonable points. Which is fair enough: anything that will be truly gobsmacking won't be predicted.
that is a rather wow inducing stat. makes you wonder how many walmart does at peak across all its stores etc.
I happen to know of tens of thousands of running instances, and I'm sure many HNers will interact with one today. Can't say more ;-)

Aolserver is reliable and efficient. Tcl is reasonably efficient for most purposes (which is to say, dog slow but who cares?) though we drop down to C++ in many cases where Tcl might not be fast enough.

Tcl is a powerful but strange language. The heavy dependence on strings in its implementation is problematic, to say the least. An object of a particular type may be converted to a string representation, deleted in its original form, and then resurrected from the string representation later. That's not exotic functionality; it's normal in ordinary usage of the language, and it would invalidate the use of Tcl's reference counting for resource management. Therefore, when you define a new type that manages a resource (a resource such as a "future" object returned from C++ land, when you're waiting for an asynchronous operation to complete) you have to be sure NOT to implement working object->string and string->object conversion methods on that type. You have to implement those methods to signal an error to ensure that the object is never stored as a string and then resurrected later.

That's all fine and dandy, but that means you can't store objects of that type in a list, because a Tcl list is a string built from the string representations of its members. In case you were wondering how an object might be converted to a string, deleted, and then resurrected later from its string form, that's exactly what happens when you add an object to a list, dereference the original instance, and then retrieve that item from the list. Truly weird.
Parentheses are not Lisp's problem. The lack of useful and compatible libraries is.

Lisp is basically a ghetto where it's every man for himself. You have all the tools to build the most wonderful abstractions ever, and many people do. The problem is that person A's abstractions don't play well with person B's. And that means where the other less-perfect languages have libraries that everyone can share, with Lisp, you're stuck with your own.

This is not a result of syntax flexibility, though, it's the result of attitude. Perl has pluggable syntax and nine billion different ways to do OO. And yet, all the syntax extensions are composible. An object created with Moose can be subclassed "by hand". It all works.

It's attitude, not tools. If you believe that you're the smartest person in the world and that only you see the light... well, it's going to be lonely. And programming is about 50% being smart and 50% not reinventing the wheel. The attitude of a "smug lisp weenie" immediately puts him 50% behind.

(BTW, I say this as a CL fanboi. I love the language. I can just never do anything fun with it, because I have to decipher ten different libraries for writing unit tests, none of which have all the features I need.)
Formerly draw.io, of course. I find myself using this particular piece of software quite frequently for educational purposes.
Good find! Interestingly I remember that being a relatively well accepted explanation here before the Ethiopian crash which is before that was published. Though I'm sure similar wording appeared elsewhere.
Speak for yourself mate.

I like politicians with a real backbone :)
Hopefully it will end back on the LSE, there was much lamenting here in the UK when SoftBank acquired them. They are one of the UKs biggest tech success, one of our few “unicorns”. For them to be be back on the LSE it would be a good signal of strength in UK tech.

I wouldn’t be surprised if there is some lobbying going on behind the scenes from the UK government to try and ensure it happens. Some strategic tax brakes or regional investment.

With the governments (somewhat controversial) investment in OneWeb last year they have shown they have a uk tech strategy. Although I think that was Dominic Cummings doing and he’s well out of the picture.
> I can't see a significant cohort that would be unhappy that their governments stood the ground on their data not being sent to the US.

There are pretty significant cohort in Russia that slaps our government for LinkedIn ban. For exact same reason.
You can do that on Chrome? Yuck. Reinforces my perception that Chrome is biased towards the publisher while Firefox is biased towards the reader.
My issue is mostly with the half-screen vertical split (two side by side panes). Half a monitor is not enough for me to feel comfortable in an editor, so I'd split it 2/3 or even 3/4, but the remaining 1/3 or 1/4 are not wide enough to hold let's say terminals, and using a horizontal split to get the full width for terminals also steals a lot of height from the editor, while full width in terminals is usually not desired, it's between 1/2 and full width what my terminals should be.

So I prefer to alt-tab cycle. Even though I know that this is an extra effort, at least I can size the windows so that they contain the optimal amount of information.

I do use tools which help me with sizing and positioning of windows.
I'm saying we shouldn't make things substantially worse for 95% of people just to make things marginally better for 5%. Usually "accessibility" on the web means adding 1em padding around everything so that I can only see one comment at time on my 39" monitor.

The parent comment mentioned CSS changes, but I basically think the appearance should stay the same, and any accessibility improvements can probably be accomplished by changing the HTML for better screen reader compatibility, if needed.
Ruby is about to die permanently. A language that copied emacs-lisp but with syntax? Lol that gives it features to impress the ignoramus majority but real Haskell or Lisp programmers know better.
(I'm not sure what you're trying to say, but) City centre is not the only location to which one may be heading. I live in the capital of my country, and I save three quarters of an hour of my daily commute with a car – and I hear people saying the capital is the only place where public transport really ”works”.
This may be a gap in my understanding of objective measures of standard of living. I agree I'd rather have Google. I'll have to do some research.

It may be a moot point, since no one can objectively compare their standard of living to that of an equivalent person 40 years ago (or even themselves 40 years ago.)
I think it's worth making a distinction between the rich who create new, innovative things, and those that make their money by extracting rent from various sectors of the economy.