skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Liz used the past tense to describe the environment in which the manager previously held power over the employee - but the imbalance continues even after giving notice and leaving.

The employee needs to not burn bridges. They need to walk on eggshells through the exit interview. They need to maintain this secrecy long after leaving!

There's a lot that I would love to tell my past managers. Stuff I might tell a trusted co-worker over drinks, or would only tell non-work friends and family, because I know people who have been burned by opening their mouth and being too honest.

If you're a company owner or a manager with a lot of sway in your company and want to fix this, here are a couple tips:

1. Be transparent and honest: criticize yourself and your company when you deserve it, in emails or memos, not just verbally. A culture that tolerates introspection and criticism is more likely to tolerate external criticism.

2. Do not be completely honest and transparent when discussing occasional failures of past employees: it's all too easy to remember mistakes and forget the thousand times they got it right. Make sure that your current employees will know they will be spoken of positively after they leave.

3. Make sure that your employees are friends with each other (and yourself, if possible) outside of work. Everyone needs friends, it's hard to make friends as an adult, and even Gallup uses "do you have friends at work" as an indicator of company health. This will mean that employees will have social conversations during and around work: this is good, they will be more productive if work is a happy place and not sterile, and the cost of a few minutes here and there is much less than having unhappy, lonely people trudging through the work day. If they are trustworthy friends they will be able to communicate honestly.

4. If you are told something negative, don't take it out on them, fix the problem!
I don’t know how affordable it is but I’ll drink Whistlepig anytime I see it.
Can the NFL defy the laws of physics?
>> Creating a typeface which you own is cheaper than licensing a third-party typeface, at scale.

The cheapest fonts are the ones installed on a users system. Web sites and apps do not need to include fonts at all. In fact it's easy to argue that the users should be selecting the fonts on their devices in most cases.
The noisiest computer is the person constantly telling you how silent their machine is.
One man’s astroturf is another man’s beloved space opera, in this case. The Expanse is probably the most true to human nature of any space show I’ve seen.
Brings me back in memory lane, where I was a 13-14 yrs old middle-schooler trying to read this extremely thick manual with no or little background in logic design, CPUs etc. Well I could still program, or at the very least hack it to show some graphics, implement sinus scroll from scratch etc :)
Give me right click + copy to css, and we'll talk.
I very much disagree with the thesis. Logic is asymmetric: logic works better for the true side. As for the "rhetorical power of social media networks", it's symmetric: it may be advantageous for the author's side right now, but tide can turn and it can favor the other side.

The author talks of "hate speech" and assume the certain side should win, otherwise debate is useless. This is wrong. The true side should win, and you don't know whether your side is true or not. This epistemic humbleness is the essential ingredient of the useful debate.
It seems pretty straightforward that tracking deliverability, opens, and click-through of your newsletter is essential in providing a newsletter service.

These metrics are fairly essential if you want to be sure your users are actually receiving your content, and what content they are relating to in order to improve your content.

Since providing relevant content which actually makes it into your users’ Inboxes is the whole point of a newsletter, it seems like ensuring that is actually happening is a core part of the service.

But I am not a lawyer, and I am certainly no expert on GDPR.
"For what I will be doing with this computer"

Would love to know what application this was built for.

As a recording studio enthusiast, I can appreciate the pursuit of silent PCs.

What other use cases?
Figure of speech, apologies.
Thanks. I thought I had found the original upload after sifting through a lot of copies on youtube. Wish youtube was a little proactive with detecting dupes, rather than reactive. Or at least some sort of an automatic note/link to original even if it is a legal derivative.
you don't even start contact in hockey until your teens.

Hitting properly means using your shoulders and hitting the player in the shoulders or chest.
Pentagon Wants Cloud Secure Enough to Hold Nuclear Secrets
I finally got my work desktop PC quiet enough for my liking by replacing fans, heatsinks and a passively cooled graphics card.

Now all I can hear is everyon else's PC's whining around me (there not even that close!).
The fact that many companies incorporate Open Source into their profit models does not diminish or remove the enormous number of unpaid, volunteer hours that have gone into those projects.

It's simplistic to the point of insulting to claim that the Free Software movement can be completely encapsulated by Capitalism. You have to ignore vast swaths of the history of the Internet, Linux, and the origins of Copyleft itself. You have to either ignore efforts by organizations like Mozilla or the Internet Archive, or claim that those efforts aren't important.

Richard Stallman's original announcement of GNU included the following message: "I consider that the golden rule requires that if I like a program I must share it with other people who like it. I cannot in good conscience sign a nondisclosure agreement or a software license agreement. So that I can continue to use computers without violating my principles, I have decided to put together a sufficient body of free software so that I will be able to get along without any software that is not free.

If I get donations of money, I may be able to hire a few people full or part time. The salary won't be high, but I'm looking for people for whom knowing they are helping humanity is as important as money."

This is the environment that Linux came out of - people who decided they cared about something more than they cared about money. You don't have to be an absolutist like Stallman, but you also can't pretend that absolutists like Stallman haven't played important roles in building our modern computing world.
> the world outside your country

with respect, do you consider yourself "the world outside [their] country"?

it's certainly worth hearing various opinions, but i'm skeptical as to how much you "speak for the world outside".
The commentary misrepresents the original study as much as the popular press coverage it criticizes.

From the Abstract of the study:

“grammar-learning ability...is preserved almost to the crux of adulthood (17.4 years old) and then declines steadily”

“The results support the existence of a sharply-defined critical period for language acquisition”

From the commentary:

“It’s not even true that young children learn languages faster than older children or adults”.
Check out Figma
https://www.figma.com
Nothing stops an unaccredited investor betting the farm on Enron. If there is a less perceived risk, people will use more leverage. So all of this "protection" just amounts to restricted opportunity.
As a high school kid, I got a ride to a local office to get docs.

Picked up 68k, 6809 and various databooks.

Not only were docs free, but the engineers there started up a good conversation. That I was a kid didn't matter much.
The author of this article really took a lot of time to write an intelligent and reasoned post that is, unfortunately, painfully oblivious to a core truth that underlies everything she is unsuccessfully trying to understand.

Fake news, online hate, disrespect, etc are part of an extremely innovative and subversive reactionary movement (for better or worse).

This movement is a reaction to the failing economies of the late 20th century (generously padded over by ever-so cherry picked statistics), the fact that secularism never really came up with any kind of raison d’etre, and the hijacking of legitimate means of truth seeking (government departments, universities, think tanks etc) by powers with ulterior motives.

Saying “the earth is flat” is the best example of this. It’’s such an amusingly false claim, to continue to believe it and declare you believe it is a kind of emancipation from / attack on the systems of power. There is nothing they can do.

Also the best example of the last point regarding “hijacking of legitimate means of truth seeking” is replacement of public intellectuals like James Kenneth Galbraith, who lead all rationing for the US during WWII, with the likes of those desperate for more PR, sales, and conference speeches such as serial-plagiarizer Fareed Zakaria.
I'm pretty much the same as imhoguy and I'm a "legit" customer of several VM/VPS providers. I'd likely have a dedicated box (or two) as well, but $work is an ISP and I have a nice 2U server there for my "important" stuff.

I'm totally okay giving a credit card up front (it's how I'm gonna be paying anyways, assuming your service isn't shitty!). If that gets hacked or stolen or I get charged when I wasn't supposed to, well, it's really not a big deal -- American Express will fix that for me quick, fast, and in a hurry.

I'm a little "less okay" with showing my government identification, but only because I can't be sure they'll store it safely. Ideally, that could be handled by doing a quick Facetime call (or similar), holding the ID up next to my face, and them saying "okay, you're good" after verifying the information matches up. The next best method, IMO, would be sending a photocopy via snail mail, with the promise that they'll destroy it after verifying the information.

I really don't like giving out my personal phone number and I will avoid it as much as possible... but I will give in if it's unavoidable -- as long as the company is reputable and well-known.

Any one of those methods will certainly cut down on fraud, I would think, although the latter is probably most easily "scammed" (due to the availability of services like Twilio, Google Voice, etc.). Any one of those methods will also likely drive away some fraction, however small, of potential "legitimate" customers, but they'll also weed out a lot more of the unsavory folks.

I should probably also mention that I'm not really your target customer with a 30-day free trial, though. I usually avoid providers offering something like that (I did take DigitalOcean up on their $10 credit a few years ago but they weren't exactly some random fly-by-night VPS provider either.)

If you do end up offering a free 30-day trial, please do the Internet (and your future customers) a favor and block 25/TCP outbound. Or, at the least, put those IP addresses on Spamhaus' PBL.
The installation process isn't the sum total of the point there. Known-good is better than unknown, all other things equal (and not to sound condescending but they basically are).

It's low risk but frankly it's even lower reward. If their goal was to distinguish themselves, perhaps they could do it more effectively through something people would notice.
Australian here, but I've worked for NZ companies before.

Especially down in our corner of the world, it's all about who you know. If you've got a few people you've worked with where you can go "hey I'm looking for a new job soon, heard of any openings?", that'll get you wayyyyy better jobs on average than what ends up hitting the public job advertisements.

Speaking from experience, advertising a job publicly is what you do after you've asked everyone you know if they know anyone personally who would work well.
Mayhaps not perfectly applicable, but your last line reminded me of this:

> Sheridan: Once during the war, my fighter was disabled. I sat there, radio out, power out, for eight hours, which seemed like eight years. I didn't think I'd ever see another living being. Well, I was rescued, obviously, but.. I'll never forget that.. feeling of helplessness. I, I never thought there could be anything worse than being all alone in the night.

> Delenn: But there is. Being all alone in a crowd. You feel cut off from your people, from your government. You even begin to doubt yourself. I understand it so well, that it cuts to my heart.

-Babylon 5 2x14, There All the Honor Lies, 1995
Ex-refugee helper: They demanded name-brand goods and a house in Vienna
I don't think the fans will much care if it works.
Ask any #blacklivesmatter supporter just how effective police "normal safeguards" end up being... :-/
Agreed. The author says debate privileges logic as a tool of discovery, as if it is a bad thing! What does the author propose to privilege as a tool of discovery instead? "moral honor"? Really, LOL.
The weird, wondrous world of Bash arrays
I have had good results with https://github.com/maticzav/graphql-shield but I am also keeping an eye on https://github.com/prismagraphql/graphql-middleware as it is written by the prisma team but isn't ready for production just yet.
Thanks, dang! I appreciate all you do for this community.
I would have agreed with you a year ago, however, some of the "New England style" IPAs have been quite good lately. New England style has less hops and tastes really "juicy."
Healthcare and government (US). So, so very many systems are on IE6. So, so very many websites only work correctly/fully when end users are on that platform. Until you've had to support code distributed by the US federal gov't and watch the percentages of users hitting your site from XP (or earlier) UAs rise to the double digits, you have not known sadness.
Rent control in SF is determined by the age of the building - a new building doesn’t get it.

Also rent control in SF caps rent price increases to 2%, which is the same rate that a building increases in market value. That’s courtesy of prop 13 that says (in effect) that for tax purposes building valuation cannot be assessed at greater than 2% increase a year. Given a large part of income is determined by cost of living, wages have to increase at the same rate as property value.

If the taxable value of property increases at a lower rate than the actual market value of that property then all services that are functionally paid by tax dollars start consuming a greater portion of total tax revenue.

That means a landlord who is increasing their rent/lease by more than 2% is getting a tax payer subsidy as they are using services (roads, utilities, etc) which have costs that increase at market rates, but the landlords aren’t paying taxes at market rates.
As an example of what some of the engineering people do, that wouldn't be an immediately obvious need if you haven't been involved in running global businesses at scale:

https://medium.com/airbnb-engineering/tracking-the-money-sca...

A tiny part of what they need all these resources for.

Obviously running any sufficiently large business on a global basis is a tad more complicated than simply keeping a website up that can absorb usage spikes.
> both parties have to have an understanding of what exactly is being agreed to

An understanding that they will be undergoing arbitration is enough to satisfy the "meeting of the minds" element, the fact that a lot of people have antifactual opinions about arbitration notwithstanding.

>And BTW, the trend is new enough that individual companies are still shifting between having said clauses and not after getting slapped down (eg CapitalOne), and tinkering with said clauses in an attempt to make them hold up better (eg adding a 30 day opt out period from account opening).

Yes, and this is primarily because of silly attacks on arbitration, and not because of actual facts. Judges are really bad at looking at facts -- this is one more area where arbitration tends to do far better. The average person loves rent control, too, but that doesn't stop them from being provably wrong.
I'm curious if you've seen bubble.is

I was playing with it and it seems like a good way to get an mvp up and running.
Robert Harper's 'Programming in Standard ML' free pdf off his CMU page is the best intro I've found to really understand FP, goes into details and reasons, like the pattern matching material. Very concisely written and SML is like Scheme, easy to learn syntax perfect for teaching.
Right getting hit still hurts, but seeing somebody else get hit does not hurt so bad, once you start paying to go to see a boxing match. I'm not REALLY against boxing let people do what they want to do. But I think the viewpoint that it idolizes knocking other people out is worth bringing into the discussion. Ali was the greatest but even he suffered brain damage because of boxing I believe. And then Tyson was the greatest but he was violent even outside the ring.
> After all the uproar over Brochet's "The Color of Odors", I did a tasting with a few friends where I chilled red and white wines down to the same temperature, and had them try the wines blindfolded.

> Maybe it was my just my lame friends

Your friends were fine; it was your test that was lame.

Why would you ever serve red wine chilled? That's not how it's consumed by most wine drinkers, so I'm not sure what you were trying to prove, other than trying to "tear down the culture a peg or two"—and by implication your friends who consider themselves wine enthusiasts.

Chilling a wine slows the volatilization of the aromatic compounds and dramatically changes the flavor. As a result it can taste thin or tasteless. No wonder they couldn't tell the difference.

It's great when you want to mask a cheap product, though. The same is true of beer. Think about the quality of a Coors Light and why their ad campaign is all about drinking it ice cold.
Perhaps because it allows "them" to catch whoever they feel like, and claim "oh, the computer said they were a criminal".

I'm astounded anybody who lives in a country where police can and do get away with shooting and killing people for faulty taillights - could possibly think this is a good idea...
off the top of my head, valid DMCA takedowns?
Tom Wolfe's "Bonfire of the Vanities" (Going broke on a million a year), p.137

"One breath of scandal, and not only would the Giscard scheme collapse but his very career would be finished! And what would he do then? I’m already going broke on a million a year! The appalling figures came popping up into his brain. Last year his income had been $980,000. But he had to pay out $21,000 a month for the $1.8 million loan he had to take out to buy the apartment... Of the $560,000 remaining of his income last year, $44,400 was required for the apartment’s monthly maintenance fee… $18,000 for heat, utilities, insurance and repairs, $6,000 for lawn and hedge cutting, $8,000 for taxes. Entertaining at home and in restaurants had come to $37,000. This was a modest sum compared to what other people spent..."
There was a time when American football players didn't wear helmets, or wore only soft leather ones. Men DIED on the field from head injuries. In 1905 there were 19 fatalities.
Hmmmm, maybe ask on NANOG or something?

Unfortunately there's apparently no AS701 looking glass.
If they just said that I'd respect it more than I do after 1500 words of self aggrandizing nonsense about how no other typeface reflects "their brand's personality".

This is why people make fun of silicon valley. Your new font isn't changing the world and it's not adding value to anything. Certainly not adding value equal to its cost.
Reminiscent of http://bitbonkers.com
The Economist.

It's classical Liberal. Derided by the left for being pro market. Nicknamed 'The Ecommunist' by bond traders.

The articles are short. Read through it every week and you will get a better understanding of the world for your time than pretty much anything else will give you.
>> I'll grant you tho that arrays are still nasty ;-)

If you're interested, here's an article I wrote recently that attempts to explain the method in the madness: https://medium.com/p/the-weird-wondrous-world-of-bash-arrays...
How does sketch compare to webflow?
> Perhaps because it allows "them" to catch whoever they feel like, and claim "oh, the computer said they were a criminal".

No because they have to prove it's the actual criminal, otherwise they have to release the guy.
Absolutely. 19 years of using vi/vim, and kak won me over in less than a week. One year later, still very happy with kak. Vim is great, but kak is better. Its source code is pretty exemplary, too, and I don't ordinarily have anything at all good to say about C++.
> it would still be pretty amazing to find microbes somewhere else....

We already know two things with certainty:

- a very small amount of material transits between Earth and Mars.

- all material on Earth contains microbes.

It would seem we also know that there are microbes on Mars, though at insignificant levels and likely not flourishing.
How to Deploy a Spring Boot WAR to Tomcat
For me that was a thing until the late 2000's.

They were still using CRT TVs in 2012 when I finished high school. I wouldn't be surprised if there were still plenty of schools with CRT TVs and VCRs for educational material.
'Do You Trust This Computer’ Gets a Whole Lot Wrong About AI Risks
I don't know about studies, but players died from head injuries before modern helmets were introduced.
Blatant content marketing.
It's not distributed everywhere, but places it is available, Yuengling is the generic go-to lager for me.
That package has another excellent way of learning vi commands...

The 'quiz' program had the data set of 'ed' ( https://github.com/vattam/BSDGames/tree/master/quiz / https://github.com/vattam/BSDGames/blob/master/quiz/datfiles... )

print whole file:1,$p|g/[^|$]/p

So it would print out "print whole file" and you could enter one of:

1,$p
g/^/p
g/$/p

Hunt is also in that repo.
> I hear the Chinese nouveaux riche who drove up the price of first growth claret (Latour, Lafon, Mouton) drink it with Coke to hide the bitter taste!

Do you have a source for this? I would very much like to read it.
> It is generally understood that candidates must consent to have their references checked.

Seeing as how there is some debate in this thread, I'd argue that that is not generally understood very well.
I got comfortable on the basic Vim keys using shortcutFoo [0], plus actually diving in to using it full-time. Learning Vim takes full time usage as you need to switch over your muscle memory. I still find that GVim is brilliant for beginners as it is tolerant of using other style shortcuts so you don't burn yourself. Even though you might learn slower you're more likely to progress as it's less frustrating.

I don't know if there's much evidence of these game style methods actually working. I tried vim-adventures [1], but just found it annoying. As far as I can tell you just want to apply similar learning techniques as with touch typing, so just typing the letters to the screen.

As a side benefit of learning Vim, it's encouraged me to improve my touch typing because of the added benefit that you can type your Vim commands faster.

[0]: https://www.shortcutfoo.com/app/dojos/vim

[1]: https://vim-adventures.com/
This is going to be an unpopular opinion here, but does a local Denver paper really need almost 200 journalists working for it? Reading the average mid-sized city paper, I'd assume they have about 40-50 reporters.

Considering that I'd never heard anything about the Denver Post prior to all this discussion about it being harvested by "vulture capitalists", they don't seem to be doing anything exceptional. If it really takes 184 journalists to produce a daily newspaper of middling quality, is print journalism worth saving?