jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> Publicly bad mouthing the
> company you work for
> is definitely grounds
> for termination

Having not read any of the tweets in question, I can not say what the content is about.

However, according to https://www.hg.org/legal-articles/can-you-fire-someone-for-t..., speech about working conditions and union organising is protected.

I suspect none of us armchair lawyers will come up with a simple way to analyse these tweets with a lot of context that isn't available.
This looks like a great resource for beginners, albeit a bit dense and overwhelming.

If you're looking for a very gentle introduction the Lena151 video tutorials are great:
https://tuts4you.com/e107_plugins/download/download.php?list...

They're a bit dated, but all the concepts are still relevant.

I wish we had all these great learning resources around when I was starting with W32Dasm + Hiew lol
You can also change the accent color on MacOS! If you want more customization than there’s Linux.
I am often bothered that I feel like I am rushing to speak everything I want to say and often feel like I garble some words as I rush to get everything out.

I dislike it - when given the chance, I actually do like the sound of my own voice! When given the chance it is satisfying to talk slowly, clearly and with nice tone and variations in pitch etc.

I am coming around to the realisation that I think this feeling of needing to rush is because I am surrounded by people who will readily interrupt me given the chance (both family and at work). Meetings over video are the worst - I've taken to willfully just carrying on talking if someone starts to try to interrupt just so I can say my peice.

I often wonder if this level of interruption and the feeling of needing to machine-gun out what I want to say as quickly as possible with the minimum of gaps or pauses is "normal" and everyone gets this, or am I just surrounded by pricks (both at work and at home) who don't care what I have to say?
Thank you for writing this. I had this feeling that the document model isn't that bad for software in the first place (a feeling that I noticed when I prototyped some of the stuff I was working on in Observable, and realized the prototype in an interactive notebook format fits the problem more than the SPA we were building). But I haven't considered the implications. You might be very right that the document model could support a lot more than we give it credit for, if we just stopped pushing the established "appliance" UI paradigm.
Money is great at measuring things measured in money. If you want more of it, go searching where people measure everything in money: finance.

But given that you're taking a sabbatical and there's slight undertones of an existential/"bullshit jobs" crisis here, perhaps investigate wealth that isn't measured in money. Have you spent time with a really good friend lately? Your family? Have you taken some time to pursue your (non-FAANG-tech) intellectual interests? Or maybe just take some time to disconnect and grow a garden? How's your spiritual energy, be it recharged by God, gods, crystals, or just staring into fractals?

Sounds like you're doing pretty well for yourself. Are you really searching for better employment, or better something else?
Perhaps the best example of humans doing this sort of thing is in music. Artists take samples from one another’s works and use them to create new music.

I think the problem the GP highlights is roughly analogous to the case where an artist takes all of their samples from the album of one person and uses it to create a new song that sounds like the original artist made it. That’s a different thing entirely from taking a sample from one artist and a sample from another and then combining them with a new original beat and layering on some other original tracks.
Yeah, and if I remember correctly one neat technique for exploiting security vulnerabilities in Firefox was to use them in order to set turn_off_all_security_so_that_viruses_can_take_over_this_computer to true, with obvious results.
Any cordless appliance with non-replaceable batteries is going to be designed to last only as long as the batteries. Typically 5 years or so.

At least cordless tools usually use replaceable (but absurdly expensive) battery packs. Home goods however seem far slower to adopt battery pack technology.

One thing I hate is that every single manufacturer has their own special battery tech that is expressly incompatible with every other manufacturer. This is an area that is absolutely crying out for standardization but probably won't get it because they're making too much money selling literally $7 of materials and labor for $80. I meant that too. 8 18650s for $0.50 each, plus a cheap off-the-shelf $1 charge controller and plastic case.
If the team uses Zio, or maybe they’ve gotten lost in the religious war of Scalaz, vs Cats, vs Zio... One of the major issues I have with Scala is how fragmented the community is. Everyone has an opinion on how something should be done and everyone thinks that everyone else is wrong.
California is designing a Road Charge program to track you everywhere you go so they can charge you a fee per mile.

https://dot.ca.gov/programs/road-charge/faqs
I have a bunch of air filters (I live in the bay area during fire season).

Coway Air Mega

Coway Mighty

Blue Air

Medify Air

They're basically all equivalent and they all work.

The reason I like the Medifyair is because it can move the largest volume of air relative to those so it can clear a space quickly (and quietly). I also think it looks nice (though it is huge).

Of the rest, the Blue Air uses weird custom filters which I think cost a little more (though I haven't had to replace them yet). The Coway Mighty is also pretty small and mostly for a tiny room.

Relatedly, if you're interested in sensors I think the TemTop sensors are the best (I've tried a bunch of different ones, and a lot of them suck).

Some details on this thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/AirQuality/comments/ikf1ed/are_ther...
It's not that you shouldn't be using it necessarily, it's just that for many cases (games, procedural generation, graphics, many kind of simulations) it's unnecessary and slow. In my experience if someone doesn't know if they need a cryptographicly secure random(), or if a given random() implementation is secure then they (a) don't need it or (b) are trying to implement something they shouldn't be.
Top tier schools don't necessarily deliver better educations (though some do).

In general they simply provide better opportunities:

- networking

- brand recognition of institution

- head hunters that look for talent pre-graduation

That said, I think you can get an excellent education with online and offline materials (don't discount the latter... a good book and some solid study hours every day will still get you pretty far). You'll just be at a disadvantage on the above points. It's possible to route around those limitations however.
It is a "true".
Freud calls this "the narcissism of minor differences." (Freud was very good at catchphrases.)
Weird - it's not showing up for me when I'm checking for updates.
Just wondering what you think of the ongoing debate in the legal education world about distance learning and the like. The American Bar Association and 'the establishment' rejects it out of hand and considers the California State Bar's tolerance of it foolish; but the ever-soaring cost of law school and the fact that 3 or 4 graduates of a Kaplan-operated law school (Concord) were recently admitted to the Supreme court bar is setting up the conditions for a showdown.

Mind you, it ain't like doing it via distance learning is cheap either - I think Kaplan/Concord charge about $10k a year, and distance learning requires 4 years rather than 3. On the other hand, the nearest ABA school to me (UC Hastings in SF) runs about $35k a year in tuition fees. It's become a very remunerative field; apparently the average law school professor earns about 20% more than a supreme Court Justice.
That is a good point. I have been thinking of moving in that direction (or data analyst ) but trying to balance the demands of things is the biggest thing. Right now I am studying for my series 7 and the fail rates of other colleagues and my own struggles with this and it has made me reconsider the field I am in. I appreciate the insight and I think I will try to look into an Analyst type job to get on board. Thank you.
The point isn't that we care about this product. The point is that the company's reputation is important because it's into so many things, and this news is a relevant signal about it. Hearing about this can inform your decision to stay off the next Google product and later have to deal with the inevitable hassle of losing it.
Maybe it’s been added in the last 8 hours, or perhaps you never actually checked.

But it’s mentioned, right at the start, on the page you link:

> In October 2019, news broke about a NordVPN security incident.

Which links to a full article on it[0].

He sort of downplays the hack, which then led me to read the article you posted. And the TechCrunch article it mentions.

They take a more “trust is compromised” stance. So to reiterate:

> it is wise to take his rankings/thoughts on each service with a grain of salt.

[0] https://restoreprivacy.com/nordvpn-hack/
One of the trends that W95 started that I still find objectionable is putting the 'X' close button gadget next to the other window controls, so sloppy mousing can lead to accidental closures when the intent was minimization or maximization.

This is one thing that the original Lisa and MacOS got right (and NeXTstep, and GEM and I think AmigaOS) but W95 and its successors did not. The close button was on the far left, and the other actions on the right.

(EDIT: my recollection was wrong about the Lisa, I think. Its window controls were not as clear as Mac OS)

Unfortunately OS X inexplicably adopted the W95 conventions. And in the first Aqua releases made it even worse by hiding the functionality icons until mouse-over.
If you already have the answer, why are you asking the question?

(You can’t find Foo just by looking at syntax at all, you would need to parse both the package where it is used and the package where it is defined. Using normal imports, you can get by with only parsing the call site.)
> I just wonder how many companies got conned into basing their printing infrastructure on yet another Google experiment

I would imagine very few, or else Google would be keeping it around. I would guess that Cloud Print basically didn't take with either consumers or enterprises, and as a result Google no longer wants to keep doing it.
Can I do a GDPR request for the data about myself? How?
What’s the alternative for printing from Android devices?
With less Turing-completeness and the ability to execute on <$100 consumer-level printers, but basically yes.
unsafe { comp.lang.c }
Life is often convoluted as much as it is simple, also that story details an example of parallel construction which is a technique that has been shown to be in current use, while yours seems more of a description of a movie you saw while too drunk to be really paying attention.
> but it's actually impossible for them

but what is "them" in this case. You are talking about the corporation, but does this mean CEOs, managers, or some combination of the two?

I'm not sure I'm arguing along those lines at all. What I'm saying is most CEOs are far removed from anything direct, but I'm not sure how that translates to "and therefore no one is".

> They should be ultimately responsible for the entire organization

I disagree. You don't really argue why, and I argue, at least, that it's not at all practically. Best case it leads to scapegoating the CEO for things they aren't best positioned to control, and/or executive-levels micromanaging lower levels for fear of liability.
Looks nice! Which spreadsheet/grid library have you used, as I've not found one performant enough once you get 1000+ rows?
Fast.ai is a great resource but it is really narrowly focused on deep learning and especially transfer learning
Variadic macros are a special form of footgun. It is a footgun disguised as a massage device to trick you into pointing it at your foot. It also comes with an auto-trigger that will keep on shooting until the magazine is empty.

I've used them with great care and still got burned. But they are useful. The bigger issue is that they are work-arounds for things that really should have been in the language proper.
I do not like Guido's language design instincts, but his respect for his users' existing code is admirable, and has proved to work very well for Python.
You can't really optimize, in the A/B-testing sense, an entire design. You can just tweak the details, in the turd-polishing sense.

That being said, being ugly can of course be profitable. If you want to signal that you are cheap, for example, the ugliness helps. Just look at the difference between, say, Walmart and an Apple store. So maybe Google wants to look cheap - but I for one wish they didn't.
I really like the main idea: it's a willpower management issue, not a diet issue. A lot of stuff is approached differently if you think about it this way, especially in the light of studies who found out willpower is a finite resource, which is replenished easiest by... eating.
have you looked at http://legalzoom.com/ ? i know they provide registered agent services in delaware but i'm not sure if you can do it from outside the country.
if he was exercising in the morning, it would be a pretty good plan.
by what metric do you argue that it has not caught fire in ways that are remotely possible based on past experience with browser market share?
Why not ditch Nautilus and use directly Rox, or thunar instead? :)
> Smart people whom are successful usually got there by doing the same and have an innate desire to help those do the same.

Most smart people know not to overuse the dative form.
Probably not. This is a weight loss method, not a muscle gain method. In fact, you will probably lose some muscle along with the fat. Whether that's something you're willing to accept is up to you. Personally, I don't think putting the muscle back on is all that hard - but losing the fat was almost impossible previously.

You can do exercise on the "big breakfast" approach - but you'll find it much easier to do so in the morning. I doubt you'd gain much muscle while in a 500-1000 daily calorie deficit, but you could certainly help maintain it, and after a nice big breakfast you wouldn't be short of energy to lift weights.
Hacker's Diet Online has a nice graphing utility. It's much easier to see progress on the average than with daily fluctuations.

https://www.fourmilab.ch/cgi-bin/HackDiet
No it does not. He is a self-declared anti-democrat. By your measure soldiers in WW2 would be woke.
when something is flag-killed (or otherwise [dead], e.g. due to the poster being banned), a link appears to "vouch" for it, which counteracts the flags.
haproxy is truly a swiss army knife. I recently worked on a geographically distributed 300 server deployment, and our ops team ran haproxy on every node just for ssl termination and the operational insight and flexibility it provided.
OKAY, stop right there:

> I don't want this guy's business to crash and burn.

That's fine, you don't have to want it to crash and burn. HE clearly wants it to crash and burn.

While it's your entirely your responsibility for having chosen to stay in such a terrible situation, he's the one who created it in the first place.

He's the one who's betting his business on mistreating people. He's the one who's betting his business on mistreating, most importantly, a single person who holds his business together.

He could have paid you more. He could have fulfilled his promises. He could have hired other people to make you more dispensible, to hedge his bets, to protect his future.

But he didn't. Because he's not a businessman, he's a user. Users don't think "gee maybe I should use THIS guy a little less, to protect myself," they think "WEEEHEE I CAN SQUEEZE A LITTLE MORE OUT OF THIS DUDE FOR NOTHING!"

That's simply unwise.

It's not your place to worry about whether he goes out of business. It's his plan. It's his mistake.

And, after you leave and you've secured your future income, call the IRS on his butt. He is breaking the law and should be punished and switch his business model to something legal.

Don't do it out of vengeance, do it out of concern for future schmucks.
It is kinda like music. Practice can be boring to most. But learning a new piece, and performing it, or composing can be fun. So is music boring? You are asking people to explain why they love music. No matter how much anyone love music, scales can be boring or playing the same piece the 1000th time can be boring. Coding is just an activity, like playing music, your purpose in coding it ultimately determines the fun.
I like the end point about the question your resumé should answer: what did you do that someone else in the same job wouldn't have. That's a nice twist.
> Instead of complaining shortage of programmer it makes sense to build software development processes around "average" programmers

I tried to explain this to a manager: instead of trying to find a developer with perfect skills, get a junior one and train him.

There is no shortage of developers, but there is definitely a shortage of senior developers with (quoting one of the emails i get weekly):

5+ years of experience in the following skill sets...
Web-Based C# / ASP.NET 3.5 / 4.0 Development – Design / Development / Implementation
MVC Design Pattern
Object-Relational Mapping (ORM) Framework – Entity Framework
WebServices / SOAP / XML
WCF – Windows Communication Foundation
SQL Server 2005 / 2008 – T-SQL / Database Design Frameworks
"We hired a former VP sales from a big ($100M+) company in our space. A guy who was a founder at a few successful startups and had a kick ass resume in general. He was even a great salesman. 6 months later and $100k down the drain we had to fire him"

Why did you have to fire him?
Some military transport aircraft [1] have had all passenger seats facing to the rear.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vickers_VC10#Military_service
I didn’t start making massive amounts of money in trading until I realized a simple concept: Don’t take risks, make them. Essentially you provide an opportunity for others to take risky gambles and profit when they lose.

So now I sell way OTM option contracts and make great consistent money. Sure a pro day trader might make more, but I make consistent money and with much less skill or accuracy required. And I still benefit from the rise in my underlying stocks as long as they don’t get assigned.

Only reason this isn’t more popular is because you really need high six figures or over a million in assets to start making income you can live off of. The amount of people with that much money in liquid assets is already small, and the portion of them willing to invest actively is even smaller, so very small target audience. Also, perhaps the current market environment lends itself better to selling options than it did in the past. I’m optimistic, but ready to accept this easy money could end someday.
I were also not using the proper equipment and then I got severe muscular pain. So I recommend you to use the proper setup.
Frankly, yes. Government-run lotteries are a pretty abusive practice that should be ended.
No. The Leave campaign was not about synchronisation of minor trading regulations when there's no real disagreement over policy. Plenty of Leave supporters and campaigners actually support that strongly, hence the divisions within that camp over whether to try and become a part of the EEA.

The UK's position is that lack of trade barriers does not require an ideological project to convert all of Europe into a single country under the rule of a non-democratic, unelected and all powerful executive branch, which is openly and proudly the goal of the EU project. That's why the same government that's (now) committed to Brexit is quite happy to consider joining Asian free trade zones.

As for a "strong" regulatory system, the whole world just got to see in crystal clear detail what that looks like in the medical area. Pointless delays, failed obfuscation of contracts, lying about the contents of those same contracts, imposing hard borders on Northern Ireland without even bothering to tell the countries in question and then immediately backpedalling. There's no strength in this system, just incompetence, chaos and greed.
I did that day I first saw it, and then after three years of people pointing and laughing at how awful computers are for upvotes and likes it stopped being funny.
That is an absurd redefinition of failure that serves no purpose but to make the TSA look better.

If he were charged you'd undoubtedly just redefine "false positive" to be falsely convicted, not 'merely' charged.
Not that hilarious really. You can have a web site and prevent certain people from entering. You can have a bar and prevent certain people from entering. You can not shout on a public square and prevent certain people from listening.
I've been polyphasic for a short time (sleeping less than 4 hours per 24 hour period) and I've been sleep deprived for longer, having one sleep at night of five hours or less a day for a while, and they feel like two completely different things.

Not to say that polyphasic is healthy or anything, but despite the slightly weird feeling, I feel much more functional when polyphasic than when sleep deprived.
What the correlation between testing positive on one of those machines and bomb possession? How many common household chemicals test positive on one of those machines? Are we both fully informed enough on bomb detection to even have this conversation?

I'm going to assume that if they let him go eventually they could have let him go immediately (or soon) after checking all of his belongings.
He never said they manually triggered an alarm. He said they could very well be lying that a detector was ever used let alone registered explosives.
You mean the trend where fossil fuel resources have increased dramatically every decade? That trend?
Speaking as a European in NA, I love the GDPR but it doesn't actually do much for us here. Many services are GDPR compliant but only for people living in GDPR relevant countries. That is very unfortunate.
"The Atlas of Surveillance is a database of surveillance technologies deployed by law enforcement in communities across the United States.

This includes drones, body-worn cameras, automated license plate readers, facial recognition, and more.

This research was compiled by more than 500 students and volunteers, and incorporates datasets from a variety of public and non-profit sources."
A state capital system with a comparable gdp is very efficient at quickly allocating resources to sectors

China is that
In Japan, those condemned to death are not informed of their execution date until the day it happens, and can languish in jail for decades until that day.

Imagine spending 32 years in solitary confinement, under the knowledge that the next knock on your door could be last:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_Japan
> Are you saying that Chinese semiconductor companies are outcompeting US semiconductor companies because they have greater access to capital? That doesn't seem right to me.

Suppose you have two companies in an industry where the start up cost is ten billion dollars. One can borrow ten billion dollars at 0% interest for the next five years, but they have to pay it back. The other just gets ten billion dollars from the government that they can keep.

Obviously the second company has a competitive advantage. The first has to charge higher prices in order to pay back the loan, which they can't do if the second undercuts them in the market.

This has been China's business model for decades. Then once all the competition is out of business they can raise prices to the point of profitability, but not to the point that anyone who hasn't already paid off their fixed costs can enter the market, and use the profits to do the same thing to the next industry.