skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My pet peeve is when someone does the "Hi, I have a question/problem" message without actually sending the question. It's hard to get that out of your head after seeing it. And they always seem to send the question and immediately go to lunch or a long meeting.

I explained to some people that it doesn't work well with my anxiety to see "Hey I think I found a bug in X" and then just get no further details for two hours. One person has actually listened and writes me up an email or whole long message now. Everyone else responded by saying it seemed too rude and inconsiderate to not ask about your day first so they continue to do that... You can still start your message with "How was your weekend?" but just type the rest of the message too without waiting for a response...
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There is no evidence that anything is stacked against anyone. Only a varying level of representation by people from different identity groups.

It is much more likely that different identifiable groups have, on average, different proclivities.

If you attempt to force or overly entice people into a field, who would usually not have sought it out you're doing a disservice to everyone.

The worst part is. You do this disservice as a way of padding your own ego and sense of moral superiority. The "oppressed" groups are just mascots for your self indulgence.
I know that AT&T pushes TV over IP but I no longer use a TV provider. Also when I had slower AT&T services over twisted pair they would only send the signal of the TV channel your we’re watching from the DSLAM to your house. It would take a noticeable second to switch channels.
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Efficacy testing doesn’t appear to do much good

Come again, it's not important that any medication performs as advertised?! The purpose of Phase II testing is to determine if the new compound is better than placebo; the success rate is ~ 30 %, 70 % are no better than placebo. 70 % of candidates are as good as taking nothing at all.

In a public health system this is the most important question to be answered: does the new treatment offer a greater benefit to patients - if not you can't ask the public purse to pay for it.

I can also see the risk of backlash - the public perception of bigpharma is already low; if it begins to offer expensive treatments of low value trust in the institutions will erode further.
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> Their suit claims 'damages' which are a large fraction of ...

They have 6.3 billion revenue worth of pre-orders on the Nikola One.

> A quick check of the side door patent ... "is not a non-obvious advance on what exists"

It is a design patent, which covers non-functional ornamental design. Think of it as more similar to a trademark than to a regular patent. It doesn't have to be an advance on what exists, it just has to be aesthetically distinctive.
That's a product, not a marketplace
>as Tesla will litigate until Nikola exhausts their runway.

Because Tesla has all kinds of money to burn on lawsuits?
It's been out for over 5 years, so not too recent.
Indeed. "I'm going to boycott Amazon!" as a kneejerk reaction is becoming an increasingly laughable statement.

You can pass on one or two offerings, but they're getting increasingly hard to avoid across the board.
One way you can help is by sponsoring someone's travel to Flock, our annual contributor conference. I don't think we have the details on how to do that yet for this year, but watch https://flocktofedora.org/
I meant at real scale where it makes sense. You're correct in that your upstream ISP needs to support PIM to the customer edge, which is hard to get, but available for certain customers and especially so in datacenter fabrics.
> Thus their store's quality is similar to or below that of ebay and far below that of directly chinese stores like Banggood or Ali Express.

I've been using Alibaba/Ali Express more often lately, and am finding that they are improving rapidly. For most products manufactured in Asia, they're significantly cheaper.

Quality is more consistent. It's not that everything there is better quality, but that you can more easily determine the level of quality you're willing to pay for and can be relatively confident what you're going to get.

Shipping time and (perceived) shipping cost are the big things that prevent Ali from growing rapidly in the US market. They're a few warehouses away from being a serious competitor to Amazon's retail business.
My advice would be to echo those who suggest index funds or target retirement funds.

BUT: there's reason to believe that the stock markets are currently near peak. Instead of investing all your money at once, you may want to do something called "dollar cost averaging", where you spread out your investment by putting a bit into the market every month for years. That way you get some of the benefit from a market that continues to rise in the short term but don't lose your shirt if it crashes hard three months from now.
Courts commonly rule on intent, and laws generally have an intent discernable from the language of the legislation or the records of is legislative debate. This gives courts a way to disambiguate unclear cases like this one, and it's typically vital to have some intent to fall back on, since laws don't make sense otherwise.

These confused rulings are exactly what you expect in the absence of such a mooring. They can't give a reason why my rules A or B are absurd, except for whether they match some hard-to-parse guidelines.

Example: If the employer requires you to bring your own tools, that somehow makes you more of a contractor, even though that's a greater burden on the worker, but someone decided that such instances "feel" more like contractors. Exactly what confused governance and legislation look like.
I'm with you on this one, but I've recently decided that "Hi Phil" boils down to some fundamental personality split rather than a misunderstanding; I don't think either side will soon change. I believe "Hi Phil" people are really just trying to be polite and minimize interruptions (or at least their magnitude), waiting for permission to really bother you, so to speak.

Whether that's true or not, I respond if I'm ready, or I ignore it and go on with my work if I'm in the middle of something, just like I would with a full question. The only difference is I'm not thinking about the question with my spare cycles in the mean time.

If someone is trying to inform me of something urgent with "Hi Drew" I think it's reasonable to say that's their own fault.
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You totally misunderstood the intent of that comment; it looks just like a comment I would have written myself. He's correct, Trump was democratically elected, so his policies represent the will of the people. If people outside the country don't like this, it's their prerogative (and in fact their duty) to take their conference and its 25000 attendees and all the tourism dollars that entails to a location that's more welcoming. I'm sure the people who elected Trump will be more than happy to see all these foreigners not coming to the US.
I think a better equivalent would be something like the FE exam that mechanical engineers take out of college. It's given right at the end of college, but could be given at any time for self taught programmers.

Hard part is implementing the test to be (almost) purely problem solving and agnostic of language.
Video games such as Fortnite aren't harming children–screen time is the problem
Yes, with an age distribution, one can ask if certain ages tend to be higher rate users of early-gen cell tech, which used much more power.
more info here https://community.ubuntu.com/t/egmde-integrating-a-launcher/...
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>After all: (1) who had ever heard of 'Nikola' before this

For real? I read about them on this site.

I know HN gives Tesla credit for a lot, but there were and are people working on electric semis; Tesla didn't come up with the idea.

>These people are patent trolls pure and simple

(in your opinion)
Stack overflow was originally more like a wiki, with everything editable. Over time things got more immutable and marking questions as "community wiki" by default started being discouraged.
SO is bad with search, entirely giving it away for Google to find relevant answers. In a wiki, at least I can follow the structure to find relevant pages, but in the heap of badly phrased questions it will be a pain to find anything relevant.

I love writing documentation too, but from years participating on Stack Overflow I found it most unreliable for the purpose. As I once quipped, "Imagine Wikipedia where there are several hundred articles on the New York city. And one that Google links first is copy-pasted from Encyclopedia Britannica, 1913. And every single day several kids from elementary school start a new one."

SO is torn between essentially ambiguous goals, providing fast on-site answers and being a reusable knowledge base. And it's good with the latter only because of Google. Without Google it will be no better than fast on-site answers on Slack.
What tool did you use, and would you recommend it? I'm considering that route for project-relevant questions my students have.
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Why are these designs patented? Design and art usually fall under copyright.
They're saying that if you have one team that's all Mexican and another team that's all Chinese, neither of these teams are diverse. Your company might have diversity if you look at the employees as a whole, but segregation is not part of what diversity is supposed to mean.
> LLVM supporting minorities means that you have to leave

What a terrible misrepresentation of his position.

Outreachy is a racist and sexist organization that excludes people based on their gender and ancestry. Anyone with a shred of self-awareness and moral fortitude should be proud to disassociate with them, and with anyone who chooses to associate with them.
As another said, been out for quite a while, more or less the standard kernel stack bypass, and certainly less recent than this BBC thing. Wish they'd spent their time contributing better MLX support to DPDK.
Performance is key. How many TLS handshakes can you complete per-second with a token/smartcard/TPM? The numbers for TPMs are abysmal (TPMs only need to perform well enough that their work is not noticed by the user when booting). I suspect the numbers for smartcards are also abysmal, and for similar reasons.
Or one person calls it "SomeTitle" and someone else only uses "Some Title" and search has no concept those are the same thing.
An overwhelming majority of American voters support the election system that resulted in Trump winning. If they didn't, they would have demanded that their leaders change this system some time in the last 225+ years. They've demanded and gotten other changes during that time, such as the Constitutional Amendment which banned alcohol, and then the one shortly after that repealed it. If Americans thought our strange voting system was such a problem, we would have gotten it changed by now.
Maybe it's not just the policies, but also the sheer travel-related annoyances.
So I have to wait three days to discuss something of substance with an engineer? Sure, I didn't need to get anything done this week.
What we're seeing in this map I think is not just your everyday failure of monetarism (trying to control and balance out complex economies with only a single variable which is also an extremely heavy, blunt tool - interest rates). I think the problem is deeper, being a combination of a) misguided treaties based on bad economics (some would call it 'neoliberalism') like the so-called "Stability and Growth Pact" (which actually restricts member state's ability to deal with financial crises) and the way the ECB has been set up to not make fiscal transfers between states (or the equivalent, directly buying bonds from member states), and b) the madness of fixed exchange rates between the member states, by having a common currency without a federal budget.

It mostly comes down to the Euro - what we see with countries with flexible exchange rates is that their economies don't have to internally devalue with changes in inflation, terms of trade, etc. because the exchange rates changes and just balances it out. But in Europe with the common currency, compared to Germany's economy the Euro is weak, meaning their exports are more competitive, and compared to the weaker economies the Euro is strong, which means imports are cheap but exports uncompetitive. This is self-propagating, so Germany has been able to massively increase its trade surplus at the cost of the weaker countries' increasing trade deficits and increasing unemployment, because they are internally devaluing to compensate.

There are two ways to solve this - either do what the US does for its states with a federal taxing and spending Government (meaning fiscal transfers from the stronger economies to the weaker ones to balance this out), or abandoning the Euro and having individual currencies with flexible exchange rates. Business as usual will see Spain, Portugal, Italy and eventually France in the same boat as Greece...
Vanguard VTSAX. Or the equivalent ETF with symbol VTI. This mirrors what others are saying, just a specific recommendation so you don't need to bother with much research. Total Stock Market Index fund with 0.04% expense ratio.
I just got the new touchbar MacBook — making DND a primary shortcut was an easy way of making this completely frictionless.
Where did I say the universe should be easy for me to accept? You seem to have inferred a “therefore that’s the way things really are” ending to my comment that I did not write nor intend to imply.
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How easy is it to migrate your data out of it and into something else?
I used to have a fiber + TV package. It was definitely multicast. I found that when I swapped their router for my own I had to make sure IGMP was handled in order for TV and on-demand to work.
I can remember my first project as a junior front end dev watching the Architect setup the system for us. I never really appreciated him at first because we were doing a majority of the day to day work. Now that I am getting more mature I can appreciate the environments and standards he setup a lot more. Even things like continuous deployment tools, automated builds and the like help productivity tremendously.
Are you referring to ON UPDATE cascades? Mutable/natural primary key values are not very common these days especially in a DB like MySQL. Incrementing integers are most common.
Sure, but that's a very small group of people. If you had taken a straw poll of 10 truckers three weeks ago I highly doubt any of them would have been able to name them.
They are entirely different languages altogether, the only thing in common is the use of s-expressions and the homoiconoicity.
The title of the article matches the title of the submission, which is usually HN policy.
I’m planning on flipping burgers when my Logan’s Developer Run ends.
Hi - creator of said website. Ask me any questions :)
Also netmap is extremely easy to get going. It’s a man page and some great examples and the deva are superbly helpful.
I found DPDK daunting in comparison (it really is a different beast though, a real toolkit).

One nice thing about Netmap is it can fall-back to emulation mode and work with any NIC. This can be really helpful if you want a single codepath but don’t always need the performance. DPDK might support this too now, I haven’t looked at it for quite a while.
Being sued is the price of admission of operating a business in the United States. That said I wished it wasn't this lawsuit.
It's not the only way, but yes, there are absolutely cable companies that transmit via IP multicast. There'll still be other filtering going that bundles a couple channels together into the radio/DOCSIS version of a channel so that the end devices don't have to digitally filter all of the firehose of data, but then it's IP multicast on top of that.
It's exactly about the company i currently work.
They're just adding more and more developers.
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I think in most cases "perfect" documentation that is always up to date, fully covers the software project, etc. would be overkill. Most of us aren't writing software for self-driving cars, rocket ships, and surgery suites. We're writing "spreadsheets in the cloud" where requirements change on every conference call, and documentation is JIT because that's all the client can afford.

Private Q&A like this from Stackoverflow would be perfect for my team. It would boost our institutional memory so that when questions are asked they're stored in SO, searchable, maintainable, etc. instead of stored in a Slack archive.
Look out - I just now tested those two extra ideas which I added for equality testing and found they dont work.

This version of adding a rounding value seems to though:

( a-b + rounder ) == rounder

My apologies, be careful out there :)
Ask HN: Is the “Lean Startup” method really good advice?
ah yes, I thought you were talking about distribution rather than inside a production facility. At that case the bandwidth of uncompressed 4K (which you want to do so you're not introducing compression artifacts) is in the order of several Gbps, so bandwidth is pretty high, although multicast is used.
Continuously surprised at the lack of basecamp in these conversations. Seems like still the best tool to me.
Today with a population of 7 billion? Sure. 700,000 years ago? There weren't many hominins back then though. Not enough to throw a bunch in the ocean and hope some of them survive the trip.
The application still has foreign key references and JOIN, which you don't get in a k/v store, you just don't have the actual CONSTRAINT. MySQL worked this way for literally decades with the MyISAM storage engine that does not have referential integrity constraints, it just allows the FOREIGN KEY syntax to pass silently.
Frankly, are we overthinking this?

IMHO, 99% of human emotions have reasons of existence. It just makes evolutionary sense (or, if you prefer, it helps us serve the intelligent maker(s) better). Maybe we SHOULD have impostor syndrome, as well as shyness and awkwardness and diffidence and stress and whatnot. Maybe we should EMBRACE them instead of treating them like unwanted baggage of lizards.

One of my memory on this: one night (2 yrs ago?), I woke up with cold sweat, with a terrible dream: I just got paged and I didn't even know where to start debugging. It's horrible time.

You know what happened next? Next few days, I compiled a list of "essential documentations" (plus all the juicy links for debugging). On-call rotation came. I did get page. Different from the dream, I did not forget all of the crappy code (that I had lovingly written). However, the list helped immensely. And whenever my teammates had on-call cold feet, I shared the list. Life rocked. (for a while....)

I was told that we humans freaked ourselves into actions. Deadlines press for action. Pressure elevates the flow and sharpens the focus. Challenges inhibit daydreams and sweeten successes.

So, again, here is my take: why can't we just embrace impostor syndrome? After all, we need some fire on our behind of get our acts together, no?
The ticks carrying the Lyme disease bacteria were trapped in the Northeast (for the USA). Climate change changed the feeding behavior of the prey of juvenile nymph ticks, the main vector for increasing the habitat is mice not deer. The adults feed on deer but most infections in people that we know about come from nymphs ( probably because they are so tiny).

A laymen's explanation:

https://qz.com/441583/lyme-disease-is-spreading-faster-than-...

"But our rapidly changing climate also seems to be making it easier for Lyme to spread, by shifting when blacklegged ticks typically feed."

This means it's simply a matter of waiting for the temperature to rise just a bit more for the Lyme disease to be a problem in the USA everywhere there are deer.

There is the difficulty with temperature theory helping the spread the same way in Europe which the article covers, but Lyme disease in Europe is a slightly different bacteria as well.

The National Science Foundation explanation:
https://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/ecoinf/lyme.jsp
$35 per month for the digital subscription is comparable to the Financial Times subscription. It looks like they are going after that reader demographic.
> For real? I read about them on this site.

With a four minute old account? Or did you just make an account to enter the discussion here after lurking here for years? Or did you just make this account to stir the pot?

> I know HN gives Tesla credit for a lot, but there were and are people working on electric semis; Tesla didn't come up with the idea.

Yes, and nobody here said that.

But Tesla does have good name recognition with the general public and Nikola (coincidence?) does not.

> (in your opinion)

Maybe not in yours but according to the general definition of 'patent troll' they are.
I never understood why they stick with this model instead of just levying a tax on citizens (like my beloved CBC). The BBC has been more than just a TV station for a long time; and I hear people in the UK are dead tired of having BBC license "collectors" coming round every 2 months to harass them into paying fees for the flatscreen TV they have hooked up to an XBox.
Sounds really weird. If you know what works then you know you need something new sometimes. Never used a NoSQL database but I know when it's time to start using one. I might not, as some younger people would, default to MongoDB.

Also checking in errors seems a bit weird. Are you sure you are still motivated in what you do?
What is a way to reach you?

I thought of making a site like this called https://findmeaning.in

And basically it would consist of claims and evidence linking to other claims — and automatically calculating scores based on votes for claims. The hardest problem would be to prevent sybil attacks, collusion and so on, that could compromise the voting system. Perhaps the score system would need to be based on something entirely different than voting, such as random polling to leverage the wisdom of the crowd (https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2014/04/02/297839429/...)

If you are interested, message me greg+hn then the at symbol then qbix.com