jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> "We used the word "love" a lot at DigitalOcean as one of the key/core values for how we thought about customers and community. "

Right on! We think the language we choose for our frameworks has many downstream effects, and we specifically use "Love" (versus something like “engagement”) in the Orbit Model: https://github.com/orbit-love/orbit-model

> "how do you think of blogs and content marketing w.r.t this? Is that a "big marketing effort" or does it fit into community?"

There’s definitely lots of overlap between content and community, and generally we don’t try to draw hard lines, as context matters so much.

For the purposes of this question, though, we can think in terms of a spectrum. On one end, all content would be community-generated, and on the other, all content would be produce and distributed by the company.

In most cases, you’ll have a mix of both.

In the case of NRG, the formula discussed in the article, the question is “how fast are we growing before layering on incremental investments in sales and marketing.”

For the purposes of this metric, I think the spirit of the law would say that company-generated content would fall outside of scope, but stuff that folks in the community were organically creating could reasonably be included.
> I'd rather see efficient code generated from a short high level spec

This is a holy grail for many PL researchers, but I don't think that there's any languages that reached this level of sophistication with expressiveness/practicality enough for production usages. At least with the status quo, you will probably need to write a massive amount of formal proofs if you want logical correctness, even with deceivingly simple specifications.
The younger the minor, the more restrictions you are going to run into.

For example, it is probably the case that a 15 year old cannot work more than 2 or 3 hours on a school day and they may not be able to work after 7pm or even sundown depending on state laws. The DOL has rather strict rules about when a minor is actually an intern vs an employee. If you are thinking of not paying this minor I would think again as the ramifications could be catastrophic.

The DOL has 6 tests. Fail one and your minor is an employee and you had better be paying them at least minimum wage. These are the ones you are likely going to run a foul of:

1) The internship, is similar to training that would be given in an educational environment

2) The internship experience is for the benefit of the intern;

3) The employer shall derive no immediate advantage from the activities of the intern, and on occasion, its operations may actually be impeded

In any case, enforcing age based job restrictions remotely is not feasible and I would thank the individual and encourage them to reach out to you when they turned 18.
whatsapp.com as in the web-based client, which is down.
Hibernation is kinda useless on my laptop with 64 GiB of RAM. Most of my machines have 32, none less than 16.

Hibernation is not a very viable scenario for me. I have uses for a 64 GiB chunk of my solid state storage, thank you very much.
Strange. I never reboot, only use hibernation. I've been doing that for years and never had any problem.
> Sorry that mathematical notation is causing you problems

For somebody who elsewhere in this thread literally asked HN discussion participants to "not degrade into personal attacks" this was an unbelievably arrogant remark.

What about giving us some summary on how the overall community of researchers in the theory of computation area are thinking of your breakthrough insights? I'm sure there are some CS Ph.D.s in here that are interested in some context.
Anyone else get a login request email from Instagram before it went down?

I got one, immediately logged in separately and changed my password, logged back in, then shortly after everything went down...
life is good without that sh*t called 'facebook'
I think you got that backwards.

Working hard can become very cumbersome and/or annoying to deal with from a team perspective if you don't align with your team/customers/stakeholders/etc.
This has increasingly happened with topics I know about over the past five years at accelerating rate. [If you want to be uncomfortable, consider noticing this repeatedly is part of what has driven half of the US mad.]
>That would not be against your employer's interests, because companies need customers to exist.

Except, with globalization, it's cheaper to import people from 3rd-world countries and then pay them just enough so that the current generation will keep doing its duties.

I'm a first-generation immigrant myself and I'm quite baffled at how unaffordable it is to raise 2+ kids and make sure their life quality will be similar to mine. It's almost like the expectation is that I won't do that because they will instead import those who were raised at a fraction of the cost elsewhere.
Postdoc pay is ridiculous, I had a job I was really interested in but the second they said it was a postdoc all I could hear was "this will not pay the rent". I don't get it. Urban universities are just so preferred that they can pay the same amount or less than a university in a lower rent town. It only makes sense if you're getting a giant reputational or career boost, or have personal reasons.

I dunno. I'm about where you are I guess. Stuff is either too junior or the stuff I want to do is just enough outside my field that it's hard to figure out who to talk to. It's depressing, even moreso now where you have to really work at it to "run into people".

The best I've ever figured out is to take the thing I'm really good at, and find places that happen to need that but also do the thing I want to learn. It doesn't work great. I guess I suggest conferences but I wouldn't go to one during COVID... I'm bad at this I guess though.
Fewer people realize that in order to maintain network security with an ever halving block subsidy, high fees are a necessity. I wonder know how Bitcoin Cash plans to handle that. It's next to impossible to make up 1000x lower fees with 1000x higher transaction volume.
> the NYT absolutely should publish my name along with my pseudonym if they are doing a profile on me.

This is a bad norm. The opposite norm should be in place.
> Meanwhile someone like me...I'm literally turning away interviews.

How do you manage that? I've been a software developer for over 20 years now, and every time I lose my job it's a SLOG to find another one, with anywhere from a few months to a year in between. I can't even remember the last time a recruiter contacted me (perhaps 5-6 times in my entire career).

It's not like my technical skills are lacking. I've worked professionally with most popular languages and technologies, have dozens of popular open source projects under my belt, many of which you're probably even using at work in some fashion. I've even been called a "miracle worker" a few times for the projects I've saved from ruin, or terrible processes I've optimized.

I'm friendly with everyone, not badmouthing, staying out of politics, treating everyone professionally and expecting the same.

But then whenever there are layoffs or there's an opportunity to push someone out, I'm in the first wave to go (they never say why). I've even been fired for "not stepping up enough." And then I spend another few months slinging resumes all over, spending my days doing coding challenges in the hopes of getting an interview. Then another year of employment and the cycle starts all over again. I have to constantly prove myself again and again, as if I were fresh out of college or something.
https://web.archive.org/web/20160725070440/http://discuss.fo...
Any studies on this? Things I have seen in the past seem to point to theoretical risks at massive intakes. I get the impression that sugar free sodas are going to be better than going over a reasonable daily sugar intake but could well be wrong on that.
Did you conveniently ignore the part that the Capitol Police, one of the most well armed and well funded police forces in the US, are either terrible incompetent and couldn't protect one of the most important buildings in the US.

Or did you ignore the videos of them removing barriers, or Trump supporters yelling at people breaking glass to stop, or protestors getting selfies with the guards in the building and tapping them on the shoulder and thanking them for their service?
The broadcast spectrum is considered a limited-supply public property, so the FCC (or other national equivalents) issues licenses allowing organizations (or standards) to use parts of it.

Wires are not limited supply in any meaningful sense (just install more), and in many parts of the world, not even public property.
The Capitol was the focal point of the protest due to the location and in this case the perceived injustice of the election. When almost half the voting population thinks there is something wrong with the election, maybe its time to listen to those people. If anything I think the hivemind and unemployed young people showing frustration was the spark that ignited what happened yesterday.

I am not trying to justify it as good or bad, but it was not a coup by a long shot and you cant haphazardly label it as such.
You're misunderstanding.

What he should have done was strongly condemn the violence and call for the people to go home immediately and peacefully.

And nothing else. With no softening weasel words.

He would be able to keep believing his claims of election fraud uninterrupted. And continue to pursuing them, just after the violent insurrection was diffused, not during it.

It's important to note that the insurrection was any least partially incited by his claims of election fraud, so repeating them in that context was extremely dangerous.
If only Facebook would act that way towards Trump. He called for the people to leave the Capitol.
> I don't understand why people insist on trying to convert laptops into desktops.

They want to have just one computer without worrying about synching or other coordination.
There's so much wrong in this statement. No state anywhere can change laws without going through the legislature. Only the legislature has the power to write law. The executive branch, which runs elections, always has leeway on how they implement and interpret laws. If someone had a problem with how the laws were interpreted, they could sue in state court - many people did, all the suits were dismissed by the state courts, meaning that the courts did not find any violations of the state constitution. So, "the fact they changed their laws the way they did" -> they did not change their laws. "is a clear-cut violation of the constitution" -> nope, courts determined over and over and over that this is not the case.
I was referring to your example of being forced to do business with a person wearing a MAGA hat. I am unsure if that falls into a protected class, that is federally protected at least.
> you can't be bothered to dress semi-professionally

It seems to me that you're making an assumption about what is considered professional dress. I feel like it's fine to have such expectations, but you should express them clearly in the invitation to interview. It's not a case of "not bothering" if you have never expressed that preference in the first place.
How usable/practical is it without a WiFi connection?
When I'll decide to buy a car, I'll just f-ing pay it in full and be done with it.

That's what I did, and as such I agree, but just be aware that you might very well end up paying more overall that way (assuming you're buying a new car from a dealer).
Thanks for sharing that. I can def relate.

I wrote the BAOBAB server[0] as a "dissertation." It was an exercise to "retrain" my ship software Discipline.

Now, two years later, I'm using it in a brand-new application project. It's working amazingly well.

[0] https://riftvalleysoftware.com/work/open-source-projects/#ba...
The cynical part of me says this is a political stunt to make the Biden administration cancel this order making them "weak on China".
After American intel officially claims it was Russia behind the SolarWinds hack, Trump lashes out at China. "Lookit here!". Coincidence? Hey, I am just asking questions.
Interesting you drew ask whether young can afford anything when he said he pays less than his parents for 3x the space.

Interest rates going down doesn't magically push prices up. Prices go up because the interest rates reducing is reducing monthly costs, which makes a euro of housing more affordable and thereby allowing you to bid more for it in the marketplace.
Credit growth expands the money supply and stimulates economic growth so long as that expansion is ever increasing (park what that means practically). This mechanism of credit growth linked to some asset has been the largest driver of economic growth in the western world for decades. For the UK, where I live, the growth in household debt / gdp has been steadily increasing since the late 80s and I'd be surprised if its much different for other developed nations https://www.theglobaleconomy.com/United-Kingdom/household_de...

Countries that have come to rely upon their property markets for economic/political ends are likely going to come up with ever more elaborate schemes to maintain the above mechanism (UK, Australia, Canada and Denmark spring to mind). Indeed the unhealthy focus on the property market in the UK is a sign of the disconnect between real economic activity and asset inflation. Rationally this is an absurd mechanism for economic growth as it causes large divisions within society but its difficult to see these countries reverse course and what is more likely to happen is growth in private debt levels will level off and overall economic growth will stagnate similar to what Japan has experienced now for 3 (going on 4) decades.
Younger but presumably in worse health. Don't think it's a straightfoward comparison.
I've had a similar experience, for even longer. I haven't had Flash installed on my MacBook since I got it in early 2013, and I primarily use Safari. For a while it was annoying that Netflix didn't work, and I used to run Chrome exclusively for that purpose, but since OS X 10.10 Netflix works natively in Safari, which is nice.
Google is your ISP (Fiber), Google makes your hardware (Pixel & Nexus), Google maintains your OS (ChromeOS & Android), Google made your browser (Chrome), Google strong arms web standards (http2), Google Decides what you see (Search), and places ads on it.

Yeah, but they swore they "wouldn't be evil". /s
Have a look at livestreamer[0] as well, its a python program that eats URLs and feeds them into your video player.

[0] https://livestreamer.readthedocs.org/en/latest/
The backlight issue is not a bug inherent to Thinkpads. The kernel works very hard to sort out the whole vendor specific mess about backlight interfaces and works out an appropriate place to manage the controls for users (what users? system daemons? console users? desktop environment? desktop end users?) There has been some major rework around kernel 3.16 and many behaviors have changed.

In the case of ThinkPads, you have three interfaces to control backlight brightness: acpi_video0 (standard ACPI interface), intel_backlight (GPU interface), and thinkpad_acpi (vendor specific interface) all with different semantics conforming to ACPI standard, Windows 7 behaviors, Windows 8 behaviors, and vendor private behaviors, and you have user interfaces including BIOS wired special keys, sysfs, udev, X utils, GPU control panels, and desktop environment settings to control the brightness. You have these moving parts for just one vendor and the kernel needs to coordinate all the madness with all the vendors. And the fixes coming out in latest version kernel might not even make it to your version of distros.

So there is a lot of complexity in the even seemingly trivial screen brightness control. Linux still has much to do with the support of heterogeneous hardware. But this is the price you pay for the freedom.
Is IE11 really considered "old"? IMO, these fixes need to be released for IE11, because flexbox is supposed to work in IE11.
CPA = cost per acquisition aka affiliate offers. I don't hate it, it's just the fastest way to ruin a good list if you don't know how to do it right. Most people spam their email lists to make a quick buck but ruin their asset in the long run. It's better to build your own offers and use your own list to promote them. Advantages: you are in control, you know that the service / product you are offering has value and makes your customer happy, your profit margins are way higher.
This is a great idea (had it myself at one point); the problem is you would have to have buyin from the grocery store itself, and like a casino...the more time you spend in it the more money they make.
A "private" URL should surely require a login or at least have a robots.txt, no?
I don't really see a big plus for this, we have 4 big GSM providers Rogers, Telus, Bell, and Wind Mobile.

Wind Mobile works off a different spectrum so that doesn't help. Rogers, Telus, and Bell all have almost the exact same plans for the iPhone and if you don't buy the iPhone from them the monthly cost is usually higher not cheaper.
Once a company is so big that its refusal to support a small business is a major hit, that company cannot operate in a wild west style. That's why most countries have anti-monopoly laws; and it's long past the time when those laws should have been applied to google.
> Your life and liberty do not depend on you owning a smartphone

Modern life absolutely depends on being able to connect to the Internet in some way. For a lot of people, that's a smartphone, which is cheaper and more mobile than a computer.
i just skip it, along with js-only sites.

i used to get frustrated like you.

then i realized that both correlate heavily with crap content, which makes sense, since the same person writing is also choosing the platform.

these days i say thanks for their self-filtering and move on to the next link.

there is more content than i can read as it is.
Nonsense.

The better analogy is that the newspaper has banned certain people who have written articles inciting violence.

Or maybe an even better analogy: the movie theater has taken the microphone away from the person telling those in the crowded movie theater to start punching each other.
The amount of harm caused by a lie is proportional to the size of the audience who hears it
The riots[1] this past year were actual rebellion too. They certainly challenged government authority and burned down police stations.

Some of the Lafayette Square protestors would have breached the white house if they could have too. 60 secret service agents were injured. The only difference, really, is that the Capitol Police did a worse job.

[1]I don't like using the term BLM riots since I have have no idea to what extent they are responsible as a movement (if at all).
And who is the arbiter of "within reason"?
True, but frankly I'm tired of appeasing these people and listening to their constant threats of extortion. If they decide to step across the threshold then we can stop giving them the benefit of the doubt and deal with it as a straight conflict of interest.
Good for them. In our company we're buying descrete AMD cards for our workstations particularly because of OSS drivers.
Chinese Communist Party has over 90 million people.

Would you be okay if I had dismissed some company outright because it is a "Lutheran asset", "Turkish asset" or "White American asset"?
I am a Houstonian and absolutely hate Ogg. She bills herself as the "most progressive DA" and therefore prosecutes/does not prosecute certain things based on their political appearance. That is not what a DA should be doing, and she is the embodiment of all that is wrong with the "progressive" left these days.
Why would they use any blockchain when they could get the same job done with a database and legal agreements, like they have been doing for decades?
Saving for later when I need an air purifier
Inflation isn’t strictly a measure of the monetary base. The dominant factor in “inflation” of (almost?) all cryptocurrencies is demand, not supply.

Now, you can make the argument that that’s not really inflation - that BTC won’t predictably ~double in value every year going forward, and therefore one shouldn’t be afraid to spend it - but the idea that the tiny rate of increase in supply should be a major factor in that decision is pretty silly. Also, it’s not obvious that it’s being mined faster than it’s being eliminated due to lost keys.
It really bugs me when they use drop downs for numbers. We have a "number" type entry. Use that.
My Coway AP-1512HH has a CADR of 400 m3/hr, higher than all but the most expensive purifier they tested, and was $150 when I bought it. Looks like it's $200 now, though.
I use numberpad extensively, to the point where if you gave me a keyboard with no alphabetical but only num pad, I'd be happy (and use fn keys to get at the rest)

It's a change of mindset.
TL;DR: Guy with money, spends money

(Still cool though)
Thanks so much for the advice, this is really helpful. We are planning on SEOing our website sometime soon. We originally did the random short YR1YK for short URLs but we're realizing now how useless that is. Users can currently change the URLs too themselves!
And I am not sure if Social is the key to making apple more successful or whether its their inherent weakness. All I see today are solutions where social seems to be tacked on as an afterthought regardless of whether it makes sense or not.

And I cant speak for others, but I am not excited about a Facebook phone. A hardware device does not seem to be a natural progression for a company like Facebook. And allowing Facebook, an entity that has now taken dimensions beyond a simple social network in to a Central identity provider, to track every single aspect of my life (location, calls, contacts, browsing habits, etc..) is simply a non-starter.

But maybe an FB phone will appeal to the 18-24 crowd for whom privacy is not as important as the desire to be social.
I've heard great things about it, though I'm pretty happy with NYC right now. Are you hiring?
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