jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
"you can't reliably avoid having high-stakes situations which you need a meetings which are inevitably going to be high-stakes to address, or that senior developers won't be to a certain degree on the spot in those meetings."

Sure you can. You can send out the problem before the meeting so the developer can think through the issue and make notes before he is put on the spot. You can also help the developer during the meeting by simply making the meeting positive instead of negative.

"You don't always have the luxury of making decisions in the way you'd prefer without paying a cost."

Snap decisions are often bad decisions. If you need to make a very important decision in a hurry it means someone already made a mistake in not considering this issue earlier. That happens, but you need to realize that the resulting decision is highly unlikely to be a good decision, let alone optimal. A mark of a good team is being able to avoid these kind of situations through research and planning.

Again, I'll go back to the same point: if you have created an atmosphere in a meeting that is causing people to freeze up due to high stress, you need to fix your meetings. There is something very wrong.
From Washington Post article: "A month after the FISA court learned of the program in 2011 and ruled it unconstitutional, the NSA revised its collection procedures to segregate the transactions most likely to contain the communications of Americans. In 2012, the agency also purged the domestic communications that it had collected." (Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-ga...)

That said, I really don't see how there could be an argument of an effective oversight, if what you are overseeing is so secret that you have no independent information on the subject matter. The secret organization (NSA in this case) is strongly incentivized to not disclose the entire truth or withhold key limitations in order to achieve its' objectives. If there is no way to independently verify that what is being said/committed to is actually functioning, court pretty much has to trust NSA to self-police. Everything here is being done on the NSA's terms and not the Courts or Congress's.
Doesn't work with Firefox. Damned kids and their damned monoculture. Make it work with my shit!
Time is an expensive resource for even teams in large corporations. Most often you'll be spending a week or two going over the context and rationale of existing stuff. This gets worse the larger and older the company.
> Sports salaries should be 1/10th of what they currently are.

So where should that 9/10 go?
Is privacy and device restrictiveness the same thing?

I don't want "open" necessarily, I want "respect" (for my privacy).

Unless you're going to inspect all the code/apps running on your system, an open-source OS isn't necessarily going to guarantee your privacy.
A calendar is a great example because they usually emphasize the month, week, and day graphically, not typographically.

Another common remaining example might be a bank statement. But what's interesting there is that the dates are in a column and the year disappears. It hardly matters whether the year comes first or last because you don't actually notice it at all unless the year is rolling over--conspicuous change in that column.

But when I'm looking at something lacking implicit context regarding publication date, such as an online magazine article, a YouTube video, or a Tweet, the year is the first thing I'm searching for. Even on HN, the rule is that the year needs to be included in the title if it wasn't published in the current year.

I guess for e-mail the day and month are most important (similar to bank statements), unless you're reading really old messages. But I use mutt with a default mailbox view that doesn't even show the year.
> the original user base has been alienated

Facebook also was cooler when my mom wasn't on it. ;-)
As there's lots of confusion about this (I didn't downvote you btw) - it's untrue. First, it will switch you back to algorithmic feed at every opportunity. Second, it selectively show you likes and retweets from third parties you have nothing to do with. Third, it will show you topic based content (perhaps by remove all topics you can escape this, but it will try to add topics via dropping in links everywhere). Even if it just shows people you follow, you'll still end up seeing third party comments, and twitter will select those to engage/enrage you too.
What’s the math on that exactly? How many years of life did those affected lose? And is it just the coal miners or others? I would imagine modern coal mining has PPE to keep the miners safe. Plus the availability of abundant cheap coal energy may have saved lives from what it enabled (like keeping the lights on at hospitals, powering our water pumps, whatever).
> It's the most obnoxiously American attitude imaginable to ignore this issue because it doesn't affect them... only the other 96% of the planet.

I’m not going to comment on the author, though I will acknowledge the abrasive, unhealthy attitude.

Anyway, no. I don’t think there’s a clear “American” standard. Maybe there once was, but I’d just see a pile of numbers these days. It’s hostile to the consumer as it inherently leaves some uncertainty of how it should be consumed.

I will say, and maybe this is American - but I don’t think it is - that I often see dates formatted unambiguously as, e.g. March 11, 2021.
I agree. I was applying logic consistently. With 918 million native speakers, Mandarin is the most natively spoken language in the world by at least 2x the runner up.
Coinbase has shown the ins and outs of the business in its S-1 form they made public today with the SEC.
International Fixed Calendar is an alternative.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Fixed_Calendar
Most of these edits seem to be to make the title match the title of the article instead of being editoralized. From the guidelines:

"Please don't do things to make titles stand out, like using uppercase or exclamation points, or saying how great an article is. It's implicit in submitting something that you think it's important.

Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter.

If you submit a link to a video or pdf, please warn us by appending [video] or [pdf] to the title.

If the title includes the name of the site, please take it out, because the site name will be displayed after the link.

If the title begins with a number or number + gratuitous adjective, we'd appreciate it if you'd crop it. E.g. translate "10 Ways To Do X" to "How To Do X," and "14 Amazing Ys" to "Ys." Exception: when the number is meaningful, e.g. "The 5 Platonic Solids."

Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize."
Like with most things, poor people make up a bit enough portion of the population that stores will always cater to them. Also, plenty of people value their privacy more than convenience, and those people won't shop at these Amazon stores.

Just look at Amazon.com vs Walmart, Walmart is still in business, even though running a brick and mortar store is more expensive than an online store.
I see three different top-level comments suggesting that this post is an oblique announcement of some kind of censorship or banning system being developed for the Tor software. It is clearly nothing of the sort, and Tor developers value the system far too much to try to shoehorn a backdoor into it. Respond to it for what it is - a statement of social principles.
My understanding is that they only looked at cardiac patients, so that wouldn't contradict the study.
>I'd like to hear what you'd think if 'Core Facebook' went out of business right now (but not WhatsApp/Instagram)...Was it a profitable endeavour or not?

Core Facebook probably would have been profitable. They declared after tax earnings of over $2bn for 2010-2013. I dare say they raised over $20bn from investors but much of that went on WhatsApp & Instagram.

In reality of course they are not going out of business right now and are worth quite a few billions.
It's almost as if there is some sort of huge incentive for organizations to not have full time employees or have to pay for their healthcare, vacation days, taxes etc.
> people are leaving it at an unprecedented rate.

[citation needed] (Even among teens Facebook's growth has not slowed much, let alone unprecedentedly.)
If at all possible, never every work with these vampiric middlemen. They represent the worst in IT (and probably other fields as well).
currently it looks like they ignored the hidden cost of being on the hn frontpage.
The other important thing about roundabouts is you have a corner to go around. When there are crashes they are invariably lower speed.
Maybe it's a stupid question but what stops devs to charge say 20$ for an app ?

Has it ever been tried, if yes, what were the results ?
See also SoundCloud's post about releasing Prometheus today: https://developers.soundcloud.com/blog/prometheus-monitoring...
If you couple it with advanced (compared to today) robotics: not much.

Unattended farming: check, Unattended factories: check and so on. Leisure time by the bucket but no value to your time at all. That will be the mother of all disruptions and I'm pretty sure that we're not even remotely ready for it.
Office 97 in Windows XP works extremely well.

When XP was released, there was intended to be no support for Office other than Office XP.

Thousands of questions were raised whether Office 97 would work in Windows XP and it was totally discouraged by Microsoft every time.

After about 6 months somebody (like a big company) tried it and since it worked quite well, the news began to filter out.

Within another 6 months there was all kinds of support info for Office 97 under XP as if the disinformation campaign had never existed.
"There was one women who the dentist went to pull a tooth and he pulled her entire jaw out when he did it," says Blum. "Their legs broke underneath them. Their spines collapsed."

Horrific stuff.

I've always found it curious how nonchalant people are with dangerous substances before it's realized how hazardous they can be. My grandfather loaded asbestos into railcars at a factory for 30 years, I still can't quite imagine how he must have felt when he fully realized the dangers it posed.
What wouldn't qualify, then? If women are fighting for women's rights, I don't see the difference. That would be sexism too, right (by a different sex)?

In reality, fighting for the rights of an oppressed group, regardless of one's gender, is not sexist. The fact that the oppression is gender-based in this case really just cannot qualify the fight against it as "another expression of sexism."
Most PC sound cards employ so-called single-supply designs running their chips only between Ground and a single positive supply, e.g. 5V or 3.3V. So typically for a headphone output the amplifier will swing around 1.5 or 2.5V or so. To get rid of this offset, a capacitor is used. This capacitor, together with the headphones impedance, will function as a RC hipass.
1 ) Do some serious marketing/sales on my SAS. Some very nice features there but my sales skills are lacking.

2 ) Build my house.

3 ) Develop the next SAS with a friend as opentable for my country.

4 ) Travel to Africa !
Just a note to everyone: "browser-based" means "flash" here.
It's currently removed from chrome webstore, apparently it used the Facebook ID in Graph Search, here's an article from the dailydot: http://www.dailydot.com/technology/facebook-app-reveals-phot...
So, what do we do if we live in a world where it's impossible to prevent this type of thing?

Is there anything we can do? Or just keep plugging holes as they come up?

For example I no longer expect my email address not to leak - it doesn't matter who you send it to (which company or person) eventually it will leak. There are only a few rare exceptions, which is the opposite of the kind of world you want, but it's the reality.

For email, instead of concealing the address we focus on filtering the spam.

Is there something that can be done for passwords? Personal information? Other things?
Some admirable goals, I especially like number 2. Just a small thing, from what I understand exercising 6 days a week might not be optimal, your body rebuilds in rest times so there's a risk that you'll slow down your improvements in health by doing more than 4 days a week. I suppose you could alternate the parts of the body you work on? Anyway, I'm not an expert, just thought I'd pass on what I'd heard.
If you re interested in Rust game dev, check out the rg3d engine https://github.com/mrDIMAS/rg3d. Join the rg3d discord channel https://discord.gg/xENF5Uh

Here’s a sample game made with it https://github.com/mrDIMAS/StationIapetus
"don't agree ... rejection of racism leads to other views being suppressed"

That's assuming that everything that gets labelled as racist is justly labelled as such.
It'll be interesting to see how Square reacts to this, and how much traction and market share this builds over the next 12 months, if any.
We know this much from planet Earth, and therefore this should be our starting point when considering life elsewhere:

The Earth is 4.5 billion years old.

Life existed by roughly 3.5 billion years ago, possibly earlier.

Multicellar life only got going about 0.7 billion years ago.

So, roughly speaking, 1 billion years to get to life, but 4 billion years to get to multicellular life. So we know that multicellular life is 4 times more difficult than life itself.

So for every 4 planets where we find life, we should expect 3 of those planets to only have single-celled life.

Of course, it is possible that life arose on Earth as early as 4 billion years ago. We have no record of that, partly because the Earth was still getting hit by asteroids that left craters 1,000 kilometers in diameter (we know this because we can see that the moon was hit with these asteroids, back at that time). Since such events would sterilize the planet, that would also imply that life re-started many, many times. But it would also mean that the single-cell/multicell ratio is more like 1 in 8.
The same version of black, with the same settings, will always produce the same results from the same input code. Definitely re-producible. That question is about how stable the formatting is from version to version. Which is now more stable, and why Django finally made the move.
So Nancy Pelosi's office is generally open to the public, and it's fine for people to go on in whenever they want, even when she's not there?

I've honestly never tried to visit a congressperson in DC, so I suppose I wouldn't know, but it sounds unlikely. My public library is even more intended for public use than the US Capitol, but I still need a key to go back into the offices.
How are they not equivalent? Both were organized protests intended on occupying the capitol for the sake of airing out their political grievances. What truly harmful action took place that was caused by the protestors? Be specific.

The only difference that in can see is that during the 1/6/21 event, the police were called in. They attacked and killed 4 protestors.
The way the headline is written immediately reminds me of Betteridge's law of headlines [0].

I'm just guessing, but perhaps that led to the initial downvoting.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
Budget car makers are more like gaming console manufacturers and SaaS subscription services every year. They make almost no money when they sell you the car but they make all of it back from overpriced optional extras, the maintenance services you have to take at the overpriced authorized dealer and through their financing services.

I live in Europe and keep pondering moving to a bigger city and downsize just to give up the need of a car since the maintenance and the rest of the costs are going up faster than my pay. I can see a lot of low-middle class people getting screwed by the rising costs of car ownership long term.
I would love a "Choose your algorithm" law for content recommendations. The default would be chronological order, and you can opt in to whatever other algorithms these platforms offer.
> And you assume that's everything that happened?

There's multiple camera angles which captured the minutes leading up to her death, posted on major news sites like The Washington Post, so no assumption needed.

I still don't feel the shoot to kill was justified (especially as a shot in an area that would immobilize a person, like the chest or the gut, would've been safer of collateral damage vs a shot to the head, similar to the one taken, which unequivocally is a shot intended to kill), but trying to argue she was not completely and totally in the wrong is just absurd to me.
So, is it fair to call this the worst US terrorist attack since 9/11?
Well their value proposal is not to sell that information.
You don’t have to be convicted of a crime to be pardoned. I’m not even sure you have to be formally charged.
It works exactly like AdBlockPlus in terms of user experience. There's no way that you could have been using ABP and suddenly are flummoxed by uBlock.

If you have things being blocked you don't want, either whitelist the element or find the block rule in your rule list.

YouTube and Facebook definitely both work 'out of the box' with the recommended lists.
You can't even get into intelligence anymore after doing this, lol. They'd never pass the background checks.
I’ve always wondered why units(1) isn’t a library. I’d love to have access to abstract “united quantities” and “united measurements” in my HLL of choice, rather than needing to switch to a special-purpose tool (units, Frink) or a statistical-analysis language like R just to get them.

Sometimes I need to bust out stoichiometry-like unit-balancing in the middle of my code, and I want type enforcement that I’m getting the right units in the output! Sometimes I want to do a series of floating-point calculations, and I need to put error-bars on the result, and it’d be great if those were tracked for me in the form of a measurement ADT that tracked sig-figs. Etc.

My only guess for why there’s no libunits, is that it’d be a obtrusive black-box of operational non-guarantees if it was implemented in C, given that what Units does — if naively implemented — would be heavy on arbitrary memory allocations, and basically necessitate garbage collection.

It’d make much more sense for a libunits to exist as a C++-ish “template library” that takes an allocator as an argument; but that doesn’t really help anyone who wants to use any language other than C++ (as the template parameters can’t be exposed in the C wrapper code that other languages FFI to.)

(Before someone asks, you could get a limited kind of united-quantities — ones that can only represent “realistic” units — with a static per-qty bitfield representing the compiled-in units. But this wouldn’t really let you represent arbitrary unexpected “unit polynomial” qtys, e.g. m^5s^-3. This might seem fine, but sometimes intermediate quantities in formulae look like that, even though they work out to something sensible when everything is multiplied out.)

Even if there couldn’t be a single units library implementation, it’d at least make sense for there to be 1. a canonical libunits-data release (sort of like tzdata), that individual library impls could pull in; and 2. a high-level API spec or reference-impl of what a libunits library for a given language-runtime would look like (sort of like how every HLL has copied JodaTime’s datetime design.)
Do you mean a carbon dioxide tax?
Stopping the virus takes a negative growth rate, such that the rate of recovery exceeds the number of new cases. Like the article said some East Asian countries are proof it can be done, but it requires great deliberate inconvenience.
https://www.uber.com/jobs/list

I count 680 open positions in 145 unique locations posted there. Pretty impressive.
Skeuomorphic UI design makes a comeback ;) Ironic that after they push for flat UI that this device is going back to 3-D UI (obviously 3-D is the whole point).
It might look bad if light sources of the rendered objects are not consistent with your surroundings.
Well done for doing this in your spare time. It looks really good.

What programming stack did you use?
Only if the barkeep walks past a hundred other patrons at least as unruly as that one patron is, and the barkeep's history suggest he's spending most of his time focusing on the unruly patrons that he disagrees with politically. All while his policies and public statements claim otherwise.
Indeed, I've heard of stochastic matrices - just wasn't sure they were coterminous in definition with "Markov matrix". Thanks for clarifying though.
Veering way off-topic:

A gorgeous film and one of my favorites. It's a retelling of Shakespeare's "King Lear" set in Japan by the great, great director Akira Kurosawa.

However, the King does not attempt to reclaim or exercise power; his children abuse him once he has surrendered it and is defenseless. It's a story about power and cruelty; the rashness of old age (and youth); the consequences of his prior life; trust, love and loyalty; and consequences.
Agree on all counts. I chose ME for size and startup time, but 2000 is even better. Truly the peak of Windows, IMO. XP is more compatible, but it also started down the road of candy-coating the native widgets and rejiggling Control Panel. You could opt out of both, but it was the beginning of the decline.
I mean, "smart enough" is "can I phone home? no? try other wifi" which is pretty darn simple to build. Even by accident.
Thankfully the side project's costs and expenses are of little significance. The acquirer does have an existing marketing team so it may be advantageous to have their resources if scale increases.
I kinda disagree with separate branch for "document database" for Mongo. Mongo is a key-value storage, with a thin wrapper that converts BSON<->JSON, and indices on subfields.

You can achieve exactly the same thing with PostgreSQL tables with two columns (key JSONB PRIMARY KEY, value JSONB), including indices on subfields. With way more other functionality and support options.
Let's not lose sight of the fact that in the era before smart TVs, the revenue model for most TV networks was advertising.
They did answer the question:

> So the cost will be minimal and further reduced by the bulk volume that the manufacturer would purchase from the telco. Like how Amazon Kindle comes with a free 3G connection to download your books and upload your reading habits.

I have no doubt a TV manufacturer selling millions of devices could get any US LTE carrier to sell them a low-bandwidth data service for pennies per device per month. You're talking about retail rates, when a bulk IoT buyer like this will not be paying anything close to retail.

As for the logistics, it's not that hard. They already have to produce separate SKUs for various regions for the power adapters. So you just add another variable: included SIM card. US gets a [Verizon|ATT|T-Mo] SIM, EU gets one of their carriers, etc.
And BT uses adaptive frequency hopping which is huge for avoiding interference.

Ultimately, your BT experience will vary depending on whether your device vendor has implemented advanced features, and done interoperability tests.

Lastly, BT could relatively easily move to the shiny new 6 GHz spectrum and make use of Very Low Power (VLP) assuming there is some spectrum harmonization done all over the world.
https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DOC-363490A1.pdf