jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
They had a bad outage around a year ago which was the first time I saw the "emergency read-only" notice. Back then, the metric was "age of account". Even though by that metric, I would have been one of the first users back, I really don't mind that the Gold users are being let in on a "biased random" basis. As ceejayoz said, "why shouldn't it be the ones that contributed financially"?

The three metrics mentioned so far all have issues, but I think I like yours the least.

Gold - "Thanks for helping fund the site. Hopefully your dollars will let us hire folks that will ensure this doesn't happen again."
Age - "Thanks for sticking by our little site through all of our outages. We know you've had to put up with a lot, but we appreciate it."
Karma - "Thanks for all the cats. We love cats."

I realize that I'm lumping a lot of users who post great informative content in with the "better drink my own piss" image macro crowd, but karma just doesn't seem like the best metric here.

It's also harder to come up with a good threshold for karma. Where do you draw the line? 10k karma? 100k? Are we only including comment karma or submission karma? Both?

At least the Gold members have, in general, unambiguously contributed to the site. I don't have a problem using that as the primary metric here.

(I should note that I'm a reddit plebeian in this regard. I have no golden dog in this fight.)
They moved from their own infrastructure to AWS because they thought it would be more reliable and because they don't have much manpower.
Python doesn't do code analysis to determine when it's effectively doing obj.refs++; obj.refs-- repeatedly.

This sort of analysis is useful, and if the interpreter had been designed to do any optimization along with jitting, would probably come nearly for free. Reference counting could be far far cheaper than it is in python. (How much cheaper? I don't know - it'd need work to figure it out)
Further evidence why hiring a real designer is better and can be cheaper than buying a pre-baked theme.
Just did. Take a look and lemme know what you think.

http://compversions.com/imdex.html#pricing
If you do use AWS, however, it is vitally important to understand the tools they provide for redundancy, and their limitations. There are multiple availability zones for a reason, and although there was some multi-AZ downtime at the start, that recovered relatively quickly.
Worrying about the letter of the guidelines misses a more important issue: if a user submits something, they're vouching for its quality. Submitting dreck represents a disservice to the community.
Thank you for your advice. I do not have it in me anymore to get the high paying job and go all-out, unfortunately. I understand the really boring jobs would probably lead to depression and not much else. I think a good alternative path would be to look for real jobs but as a part-timer. I'm not sure if there are any ~20 hours a week dev jobs, but that would most likely be enough.

I'm passionate about playing a competitive sport. I could spend my days practicing / working out / thinking about tactics. Unfortunately I am not a world class athlete so money is not an option there :). I'd just be happy having enough time to go as high as I can on the local tournament scene.
Honest question. Say you have a project. Your boss expects it can be done in two weeks. Let's say you are good at estimating your own velocity, and you estimate four weeks for that project.

Do you:

a) Tell your boss that you effectively suck and it will take you 4 weeks instead of 2?

b) Tell your boss it will take two weeks and then blame delays when the deadline passes?

or

c) Tell your boss it will take two weeks, then cut corners to deliver a finished project in two weeks, but one that is so lacking that someone (possibly not you) will need at least 4 more weeks undoing and fixing stuff at a later stage?

(Note: I have NEVER seen anyone do 'a'. It's usually a creative hybrid between a and b)
It is interesting to see, how different people find use for different pointless character combinations :-)
Five spaces and a period.
The best police officer and the best teacher in the entire United States are paid identically to the worst, most abusive ones.

If you support police unions for example, you're inherently supporting the notion that a police officer who is courteous and cares about the community should be paid identically to the Chauvins of the force.
I liberally use the "Not interested" and "Don't recommend channel" options in the menu.
Works okay for me.
Predicting apparently highly effective file compression benchmark results due to files with larger LRECLs whose lines are padded out to 80 or 252 with space characters.
“iZip-in-Cobol on Linux now 3x better - order now!”
Wow. Yes, it seems like everything is a lot more expensive even if you can find it.
Yes, Sneakers. Their love of tech, comraderie based on ability. Sure leads down a Hollywood path but it has some great moments and (some) real characters.

Primer might be another good one. I certainly enjoyed it immensely and found it superbly technically excellent.
Yeah I saw the file option. I think it will be nifty when we have to do large request payloads, but ideally for example the sample, `echo GET http://httpbin.org/get | hurl` we could do something like: `hurl -i echo GET http://httpbin.org/get`. I understand its a bit subjective :)
Besides the usual advice, this observation is very interesting:

> Applying for senior engineering positions (>E4) in FANG companies is one of the best ways to get into them.

This comment by a veteran senior engineer confirms to me that Facebook, just like most other FANGs, does a poor job of promoting from within.

There are multiple comments to the same effect from many other FANG employees: It's much easier to get recruited for senior roles from the outside, then get promoted from the inside.

The result of this failure is that job-hopping is the most valid career strategy for aspiring seniors.
My wife and I have identical MBAirs, except that I got mine when it was shipping with Mavericks and she got Yosemite. I get about twice the batter life, and a lot less trouble with Pages/Numbers.

I'm thinking of wiping hers and installing from TimeMachine, then pulling in just her user data.
Url changed from http://www.engadget.com/2014/12/29/bank-of-england-social-ec..., which points to this.
We have a very exciting announcement.... We've invented Copy,.. wait for it,... and paste! YES!!! You can now copy and paste text. This will revolutionize the industry.
Beautiful code! I mean, if you program for an enterprise, one of the ways to secure your job is to generate few hundred thousand lines of crap like that and have enterprise heavily use the end product (you need to make it work first).

Then you will become indispensable. Managers will never know if your code is unmaintainable because software you wrote is inherently complicated or because you are an "awesome" programmer. New coders hired to maintain your codebase will admit failure quickly, or propose costly "total rewrites", so it becomes cheaper to keep you around.

Sadly, all this from experience on the receiving end. We ended up throwing away similar code and firing original developers, but we spent ungodly amounts of time at meetings first.
Think this way: Most things in the world are priced by how much somebody is willing to pay for them. So, if you are living someplace with a average salary of $70k and taking in $60K you might be able to buy less than a guy earning $55K where average income is $50K.
Ah, good point.

I was thinking more along these lines: the purpose of talking about "banana equivalent doses" is to make otherwise meaningless numbers easier to understand by relating them to everyday experience. The comment by m0th87 doesn't really do that. "40000000000000000 kilograms of bananas" is just as difficult to comprehend as "140000000 curies".

So to relate serious radiation back to bananas, let's say that Chernobyl released as much radiation as worldwide banana production[1] for the next 55,000 years.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bannana#Trade
I thought this will be the main use of meerkat TBH
Indeed. From the announcement blog post: "It will always be GitHub’s internal toolkit first, designed to help build GitHubby things. That said, we love to share." [1]

[1]: http://markdotto.com/2015/03/23/introducing-primer/
A recent software update introduced Natural Language Processing and opened up pretty much every control that would otherwise require a button or dial.

I can literally tell it "Turn on driver seat heaters to 3 bacons" and it will set the seat heater to the max setting (1-3).

https://youtu.be/mV8h2doorrc?t=58

https://www.tesmanian.com/blogs/tesmanian-blog/voice-command...

So no, I disagree that physical buttons are safer than an NLP enabled infotainment/dashboard display where I can turn on/off and adjust things using voice. Without taking my eyes off the road and hands off the wheel.
I believe a few automotive companies agree with touch screen being a bad interface
https://www.motorauthority.com/news/1121372_why-mazda-is-pur...
I'm going to say Tesla did this for no good reason. They could've added 3 knobs to the center console and nobody would have complained.
If open source quantum computing is your thing then https://unitary.fund/ could use help supporting and mentoring projects. We're domain specific, but this might be a model others can follow.
Very true. From those classic movies I've watched frequently my brain has gleaned a collection of images, phrases and situations which readily pop into mind. They're not all fully-fledged parables: they're mostly quick analogies which help me to grasp and sometimes to communicate what's going on in the real world.
I'm working on static analyzer for SQL:
https://holistic.dev

It's a useful tool for DBA to identify issues in SQL queries automatically.
Only 50 rules for now, but more than 1000 described in backlog :)

Funny, but initially this tool aimed at developers' needs.

I've made a lot of microservices, which only started the database queries. I came up with the idea of making a tool that would automatically generate all the microservices based on SQL queries. The MVP of such a tool was implemented, which reduced the developer workload by at least a quarter. In this tool, it was required to write queries in a certain way that did not make it universal and did not give a connection with the database structure.

The next step was to create a system that relies on the text description of the database schema in SQL format (DDL) and automatically understands the types that will return the SQL query. Such a tool can automatically inform the developer about possible errors on the interface between the application and database when changing the structure or the SQL queries themselves.
It can also be built into the CI to provide the automatic code review at the version control system level and prevent the erroneous code from entering the repository.

But the developers did not appreciate all the advantages, as most projects are developed using ORM :(

But at the same time, DBAs expressed interest in implementing a system of the automatic search for bad requests already on the production database.

Any questions are welcome :)
I think you need to take a step back from your bias. It's pretty obvious that you like your iPad, and your bias is getting in your way.

Given that WuFoo was recently acquired, and the market for its services are in demand, it nearly makes sense to duplicate what they did rather than build something iPad specific. There may be another corp out there looking to acquire a WuFoo-like startup.
The problem with this though is that if you stand there for however long it takes you to type all the info, record your message and gift a drink to a friend, the chances of them actually being able to redeem that drink is very low. Starbucks are everywhere. This new vending machine is not.
I think `follower` had it right in another reply to the GP, be careful about pricing your service and developing features against the crowd on HN. It doesn't seem like they are the target market for your application, so make sure to read opinions you get here in that light.
The Google mentions didn't bother me at all. They happened organically during discussion, and it's natural for Google to be on both of their minds seeing as how they are at Google, he is the ex-CEO of Google, and they are in front of Google employees. Considering all of that, and how pervasive Google is in technology and culture, it would be odd if Google did not come up.
That first graph is almost pointless, I think. The energy densities of the different fuels being compared are vastly different. Therefore, measuring them against each other by mass is irrelevant.
Reading Dixon's post (not comments, just the post), I didn't get the sense that he was devaluing the work or sacrifices of early or even late stage employees who are going to give a lot of their "sweat & blood". From what I gathered, he was saying that the entrepreneurs are a different breed of people after the experience and that the joys and pains are different for them.

Let's get one part of the post out of the way first. The OP talks about missing family events for the company. Not wise, but understandable. I've taken similar decisions very early in my life and wouldn't do it again whether as a founder or employee. Not wise, but understandable. That aside, what the OP experienced as an early employee was likely the tip of the iceberg that the founders experienced on other instances.

The OP mentions not getting paychecks for some stretches. I applaud him for doing that but what he didn't experience was that 6 months prior, the founder probably took out a 2nd mortgage to keep up with everything and that they might be taking no salary or deferring it. What they didn't experience was the haunting thought of telling the employee that they might not be able to make payroll or worse, playing out the current situation 6-12 months out and seeing that you (the founder) might have to do the most painful part of your role and tell them that you can't afford to keep them.

I've know friends who've taken out that 2nd mortgage and truly given their all. When I started, I didn't own a home so I had the fortune of not having that option. However, I've had to do that last part the first year that I got in business. It hurts like hell even till today, 8 years later. The stress that you face, day in and day out... it's bad. Now I don't discount the work or the sacrifices that my initial employee made. He'll always have a brother in me and he has my greatest appreciation & respect. But it's just not the same.

I think that's what Dixon was saying. I'm curious though what prompted his train of thought.
By this logic, there was a point in time in Amsterdam when some tulip bulbs were "worth" more than large houses. You are technically correct that facebook is currently worth tens of billions of dollars, but is that real, lasting value or is it a transient inflation of price caused by lots of people investing with very imperfect knowledge of the company and the market? An IPO might reveal the truth.
I think it depends on the company. I've worked at two megacorps, one where meetings were absolutely nonstop and the other where I had about 2 a week.
My problem with Tesla's business model is that the service model doesn't seem to scale well. Because there's no decentralized dealership network, you are beholden to the nearest service center, which could be hours away from you or be so in demand that the next available service appointment is weeks away.

Yes, they also have mobile service, but that is also spotty depending on where you live and is only appropriate for minor issues.

The service center growth is really slow compared to number of sales...something like only 10% a year when they are now trying to add almost 1M cars/year to the road. Combined with spotty quality of new cars and aging vehicles approaching 5-10+ years old that will need more frequent maintenance the quality of service has rapidly deteriorated in real time. I don't see how they fix or address that at all without serious investment in building new service centers or changing the service model to allow 3rd party repairs.
Yeah, I was also hoping to buy a vehicle in 2020 but ended up holding off due to not driving nearly as much now and due to the prices going up. I was hoping prices would come back down in 2021 but we shall see...
‘They boiled down demographics and social issues to a bunch of "categories" but I'm not allowed to call them a "type"? That seems unfair.’

You’re going to need to provide a quote for that. I don’t see where they did this, in fact I see the opposite. They criticized the boiling down of demographics and social issues to categories.

As to calling it ‘unfair’. I don’t see what fairness has to do with this. Adopting a political opponent’s harmful strategies just makes you no different from them. It doesn’t make the strategy helpful.

I really don’t see anything they say that implies that the author sees equivalence between these two acts.

What is certainly true is that the two ‘sides’ see their own acts as justified and the other sides as unjustified.

I personally agree with you that there is no parity between the two. Trump attempted a coup, whereas BLM staged a protest to get their grievances heard. You can extrapolate from CHAZ to a desire to undermine our democratic process, but you have to extrapolate a very long way, whereas no extrapolation is needed in the case of the Capitol riots.

However I just don’t see where the author is ‘implying’ they are the same. Only that they both symptoms of the deeper problems that are being described.
There are a few different programs but I will focus specifically on ZEV credits. Basically, automakers that don't make a certain number of EVs relative to total sales must buy credits from automakers who produce a surplus of EVs. Right now, the conventional automakers buy hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of ZEV credits from Tesla every quarter. However, they won't need to buy those credits if they produce a large number of their own EVs.

https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a32346670/other-automakers...
The thing is, you don't want to get shut down before you start. There were in fact a few arrests for firearms possession earlier that morning, before the rally near the White House had convened. Once attention had shifted to the Capitol, I imagine there was much less police surveillance on the surrounding streets (until the National Guard were eventually deployed).

But you make a good point; perhaps the plotters over-relied on shock value and ended up half-assing it, or perhaps there was no more plan other than stirring up disorder and hoping to capitalize on an emergency situation.

I'm pessimistic about the long-term implications; the far right gave up on the idea of a political solution some time ago and the less far right is now about ready to join them.
Yes, I suppose as laws stand this is correct. However, given the typical use case of the service, I reluctantly would like to see them regulated as a Telco who cannot deny services.

It’s become the miss “Goody Two Shoes” bully network, unfortunately.
Matrix has this. You can save your recovery key somewhere to recover your chats on a brand new device.

You can actually just use another logged-in device (e.g. your desktop) to recover your chats by scanning a QR code to trust the new device. Recovery key is just in case this isn't an option.
You can watch the series which inspired Homeland there in french (Original) or german. No english subtitles though.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1676462/

https://www.arte.tv/de/videos/048080-001-A/hatufim-in-der-ha...
Actually, I was wrong. I checked the source paper. I believe the labels refer to cohorts from cities that were early in the vaccination campaign vs cohorts from cities that were late in the campaign.

So 0-59 late vaccinated means some vaccines but later in time and fewer in number.

This is what I gathered from the abstract anyway: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.02.08.21251325v...

Apologies for original error.
I was actually looking for something like this quite recently. I was looking for an article on a blog I follow, but couldn't remember which blog it was. If I could paste in the list of feeds I subscribe to and then search within those posts, I think that would work.

I wonder if you'd provide a way to give it a list of RSS feeds and search within the given list?
I have; last time when I was looking for a job, some employers (and mostly recruiters) asked me what I'd like to earn per month after taxes.

I'm sure there's some shuffling they would end up doing when it comes to wages, stock options (not really a thing), transportation, and other benefits.
I'm planning to make the typescript support an optional feature, so that one could integrate something else.

We will see.

Anyhow, appreciate your feedback.
Exactly. Really odd to see them on this list.
There are parts of a bike that you can absolutely feel, and parts that a skilled rider can feel.

Easily noticeable:

* Tires. Wide supple tires make a huge difference, especally as the quality of the road goes down. They're no slower than narrow tires. Narrow high pressure tires chatter, the feel faster from the vibration, but they're not when tested.

* Fork. Carbon forks change the vibration profile dramatically, aluminum forks are pretty harsh in my memory, and steel can be liveish, or just harsh and stiff, depending on how it's built. An aluminum or steel bike with a carbon fork rides very similar to a carbon frame carbon fork.

Less noticeable:

Handlebar/Seat. These cantilever out, and there is flex, but it's subtle. On the other hand, if you don't have a good seat for your anatomy/riding style, it's the single best upgrade you can make.

Stem/Seatpost. There's some flex in these, but it's much less than the above, but they still are there.

Possibly noticeable:

Frame stiffness/Weight/Wheel stiffness

I've got three bikes I ride now, a Carbon/Carbon road bike, with 25mm max tires, a cheapish Al/Carbon Fork "all road" bike that's had 700cx25, 700cx35, and 650bx42 (Babyshoe Pass) tires on it, and a handbuilt steel tandem with 26x42mm tires. I've also ridden most combinations of Steel frame/ Al/Carbon/Steel fork, Al Frame w/ Al Fork/Carbon Fork, and Carbon/Carbon.

The narrow tires are horrible, except on excellent roads, of which there are a few. The 650b tires are nearly the best thing I've ever put on a bike, with the possible exception of a seat that fits my butt. They glide on bad chipseal, where my riding companions chatter their cables and teeth. They're ok on everything this side of singletrack. The Al/Carbon bike still feels a little dead, and it doesn't really reward high power spinning, which I attribute to the heavy stiff frame and the carbon fork. The Tandem just feels alive riding, and you can see the fork flexing over road noise. It's got a quality of ride that just isn't there with the other bikes.

My next bike is going to be Steel with a pretty flexy fork, and probably a pretty noodly steel frame at that. (Looking at a Crust Canti Lightning Bolt or best match, if I can ever get one). It'll have 42mm tires minimum, and maybe 48's if they will fit with fenders.

I'm not racing, I'm riding alone or with friends, not super long nor super fast, but 60->100mi at 16-18mph depending on terrain, wind, and fitness levels.
> Games aren't scientific papers though, so they don't need citations.

I just imagined an alternate reality: What if they did? What if all software did? That'd be kind of interesting if development was more explictely collaborative in that way. I guess open source works like that to a degree but still not everything is documented. We've lost a lot of history in our piles of code. Maybe some day obsessive histotians will be digging through chat logs found on hard drives dug out of landfills. Imagine how incomplete that story would be.