skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think your argument would be better if you don't just say "the product would be better with more people working on it", but also say how you plan to recruit them, what you need to do that, and how velocity would increase. If you can show that you have thought it out and you can manage the product side of things, it shows that you are serious about growing the product team, not just randomly throwing capricious (and costly) demands.

Regarding the possibility of quitting, I think it's better to warn the CEO early about that, than making a decision and suddenly tell him that you are leaving. If you were the CEO, how would you want your coder/product guy to behave? Then behave like that.
> topics studied.

Research is not the same as education. History education has frequently been used as indoctrination for example. This plays into why the focus is on rulers more often than say low level economic details.

Which is what I am getting at. We have a vast quantity of solid information about the past, teaching is mostly about picking what to present not how accurate something is. First grade history texts are full of inaccurate information, but that's not really relevant to their purpose.

Sure, research can get into nitty gritty details like the tradeoff in knot designs used on ships. It can be interesting, but it's impact on society is basically nonexistent.
echoes of elon musk unintentional dog whistle lol.

sorry, had to comment as it’s still in recent memory.
Is there a tool that summarises 'what a program did' in linux?
> Decision is made, implementation and vendor selection is the hard part.
>The cloud vendors are in fact already offering to take on a lot of this work of transitioning, which I am avoiding to avoid lock in at all costs.

This gives you a distinct advantage, in that you could, subsequently, move back and be your own "private cloud" vendor for even further cost savings.

> We are not FAANG and not located in cool locales so harder to attract great talent.

You may find that becomes less true as housing prices in cool locales continue to rise. Alternatively, you could open offices in those locales, since, if your infrastructure is going to be cloud-based (public, private, or hybrid), it's less important that the staff be co-located with it.

There's also the notion of a remote-first engineering culture that I'm sure you can find plenty of evangelism for, just by searching.
As a child (circa easly 2000s) I was immensely confused by the analogies that online guides used to explain OOP. I ended up so confused that I just gave up for many years until a wonderful professor explained it to us in plain, concrete language.

Analogies and use cases can help demonstrate _why_ something is useful, but can also obfuscate concepts.
I'm sincerely interested in the motivation that leads to hoping your government controls what you may read.

Is it protectionism? Shielding people from radicalization?
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I'm old, but I think any list like this can't miss the Jargon File. http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/

Especially the lore section: http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/appendixa.html
I played my Sega Genesis occasionally on the Amiga monitor, but far more on composite televisions. Other systems like Atari, NES and SMS, only on a TV. I would estimate the proportion of people who used monitors vs TVs for 8 and 16 bit gaming is very small.
That's hand-waving. Again, how does it "emerge"? Through random mutations? Perhaps so, but it is statistically highly unlikely. Clearly there's a significant gap in our understanding of evolution, because otherwise we would have modeled it by now.

Theory of evolution is like theory of how brain works: incomplete.
> Seems like all major American sport franchises (NFL, MLB, NHL, NBA) would love to have this data

The NFL and NBA already have it, as do college (American) football teams, AFAIK. I don't know about American baseball, but I do know that they track things like the rotational velocity of pitches and, very trendy now, the 'launch angle' of a batted ball (I suppose the movement of baseball players, other than the efficiency of fielders responding to a ball, is neither interesting nor unpredictable).

Here's an article about that data as applied to Lebron James, who apparently is very efficient with his movement like Messi.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17333058

I wonder why all sports don't put sensors in balls to eliminate judgment calls by referees, but perhaps either it's not worth the expense, it won't bring in more fans, or like self-driving cars, the computer errors will seem egregious to fans.
There are many phones that have OLED screens.
Once that torrent download becomes 'Miscellaneous data' charged per gigabyte due to loss of net neutrality, won't that encourage you through their preferred channel?

Personally, I'll start reading books more but I imagine 90% of my country won't. They'll go through the service that has a deal with their ISP.

The scarier part being that regardless of whether I go through the recommended source or disregard the content altogether, it's an impact on the information and ideas I consume.
I pay for things I could steal as well, because I like to support those companies. However what we have here is an entire industry working towards setting up their offerings as a worse product than free. Not just more expensive than free, but an objectively worse product, and they've acommplished this in part by eroding consumer rights.

You might expect some people to take an extremely principled stance but it would be unreasonable to expect the majority of society to do so when the companies themselves are operating as unprincipled entities.
While Netflix does have great technology and a lot of expertise in this area, Disney now effectively owns BAMtech (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BAMTech), once known as MLB Advanced Media. That's the organization that built the streaming platform for Major League Baseball and supports many other sports leagues' and content providers' streaming efforts. They're actually pretty good at streaming.
... perhaps that we burned oil to generate electricity that we then consumed huge gobs of during the summer to keep our homes and businesses at a frosty 21C?

There's a direct analogy to the discussion at hand: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_slave
I think the riot you are thinking of took place more than sixty years ago :)

What kind of site would block EU by default?

If EU is a big part of the site's audience, they probably wouldn't close it, and if it's not, well, there wouldn't be enough people complaining.

If a site decides to do this, it's most likely one I don't want to read. I would still be upset.
Apple has been trying to do the on-demand nexus on their platform for a while, but a lot of services don't want to play ball. Notably Netflix and Hulu. Which doesn't make sense to me since you'd be paying for whatever services anyways, just using the Apple branded app to view it through w/o their shitty interface (Netflix and Hulu interfaces really blow).
Dump the responsibility of parenting onto the parents?

Inconceivable!
Steam, iTunes, and Spotify have almost completely killed off pirating for games and music. It's still possible but people would rather pay for those services because the services actually add a value over the actual data which is post scarcity.

TV and the film industry have decided they'll make more money by making a worse product and doing everything they can to prevent users from finding alternatives
But, that's incorrect. The safest place for a small mammal to be is where humans live. Humans do not tolerate large predators in their environment. In my semi-urban neighborhood, we have huge herds of deer lounging around all the front yards. Why? Easy food. And, a neighborhood full of very clever primates who have eradicated all the Bears, wolves, badgers, etc. PLUS these clever primates have domesticated dogs that chase off coyotes but, generally, leave the deer alone.

I suspect you can find more wildlife per square mile in a rural neighborhood than you could in true wilderness.
After about 2 months of endless “Johnny Johnny” and “Finger Family” videos which were bad enough, a video came up that used the MF word. My wife reacted appropriately and just deleted the YouTube app. Problem solved, no chance encounters with the bad content and more sanity for mom and dad. In retrospect I wish we would have done it sooner.
What I found interesting is that if you have a pipe/filter architectural style, your happy path stays completely free of error handling, because when a filter doesn't have a good result, it just doesn't pass any data to the next filter in line. Done!

You can then centralize the error handling by having a "stderr"-like output on your filters.

When you have a call/return architectural style, you need to return something, and thread the result along, making things more complicated.
I do like the idea of a digest of the article being put into the blockchain: it makes it impossible for sneaky edits or removal/denial of content at a later date.

When you hit publish, you better be prepared for that article to exist undeniably for eternity.

I'd like to see a twitter with the same features. Of course, blockchain isn't absolutely necessary here. You could sign a post with PGP 20 years ago and achieve the same.
> but I do hope they tread carefully.

That's what I was referring to. I definitely don't want the government — any government — to control what I may read, or even to know it.
all updates and photos are anonymous.
Users can add spots that havent been added yet besides rating them.
no need for an account.
> Every reputable travel publication/blog I know of have strict editorial policies against accepting freebies/discounts/gifts in exchange for reviews/coverage.

Sure, for the writers in order to maintain an illusion of objectivity. But none of them have policies on the publication/company taking ad money in exchange for positive reviews.

> Those so-called "influencers" aren't really about serving their audience -- they strike me as just a scammy way to travel "for free".

Nobody "serves" the audience. You develop an audience so that the audience can serve you. Also, it isn't "scammy". It's business and it's been going on long before social media.

Do you think tv execs put Bud Light commercials during football games because they love horribly watered down beer? Do you think X athlete chooses Nike over Adidas or vice versa because one treats their chinese slave laborers better? Do you really think matthew mcconaughey thinks lincolns are the best cars? Do you think steven spielberg or other directors use product placement in their films because they believe in all those products? Do you think newspapers run rolex ads in their papers because they really believe it's worthless to spend money on rolex?

No. The answer is the all these influencers push products that pay them the most. You and I would do the same if we had a following.
It's highly likely (see what happened with Disney removing content from Netflix) that, as consolidation continues, other major studios will also remove their content from Netflix. Once that happens, Netflix may find it harder to keep people happy to pay their monthly subscription (which is why Ted Sarandos recently stated that 85% of Netflix content spending is going to be on originals https://variety.com/2018/digital/news/netflix-original-spend...)
This is a vestige of the old business culture in the USA.

"We have to tailor the solution to your needs, there's no way we could give you an accurate price before you have a conversation with us!"

aka we're charging arbitrarily high prices
3 out of 11 interviews I made the past month for my first job in London (mostly full stack senior developer roles, Nodejs/JavaScript) included a live pair programming or a whiteboard excersice. I failed miserably on all of these 3.

I signed for the role of Senior Product Engineer just today in a pretty fast growing startup company.
Great! It's very rare to meet other people with this issue.

Manufacturers are allowed, as I'm sure you know, to list all scent component ingredients glommed together as 'fragrance'. This is supposedly because they're proprietary - they wouldn't someone to make an exact knock-off of a new perfume too easily, right? It also has the effect of making the health aspects of the formulations very difficult to analyze. It's a lot like a properietary black box in computing... EWG judges 'fragrance' as its own separate ingredient, giving it a (bad) rating of 8/10.

I have noticed 5-6 different main scent 'flavors' on all the disgusting consumer products out there, which probably correspond to specific chemicals. There's the one like fake grapes, the one that's spicy and powdery, the one I call old lady underwear, the fake fruit, the 'manly' scents, and more.

Johnson Wax (SC Johnson?) actually lists the full fragrance ingredients to products like Windex in their site - I was amazed.

I agree that these products highly likely cause widespread harm of different types, including to people who do not perceive a problem.
>Completely playing devil's advocate here, but why should the companies feel entitled to money? If someone is going to go out of their way to pirate something, they're not spending money on it any anyway.

Entitled to money for services rendered is differnet than just being entitled to money. They don't think they deserve your money if you don't want to pay. They just don't think you should also get the product.

I seriously doubt the people spending time pirating and watching media would just suddenly take up reading books from the library or maybe sewing. They'd probably spend some money on media.

Not every pirated media is a lost sale. But some of them are.

I know when I sailed the high seas I just ended up forking down money for stuff I couldn't successfully pirate (multiplayer games and movies in theatres).
Some of which have known issues with screen burn:

https://www.androidcentral.com/google-pixel-2-xl-screen-burn
Organic Chemistry
Step 1. Delete YouTube or YouTube Kids

Step 2. Install PBS Kids and Duck Duck Moose

Do not let any un-curated automagic near kids. Its not worth the headache!
This is what I do, I teach stuff to become better at it because trying to explain it to someone else makes you think of it as a designer where you have to reframe.

Reframing opens up the potential to understand both as an end user and as a manipulator(creator).

Once you see both sides, it becomes clearer.
Finding internships abroad for computer science majors
About 2 months ago I discovered Don Rickles and thought he was hilarious. So of course, I spent a couple of hours going down the Don Rickles YouTube hole. The next weekend I did the same for an hour or so. And in between I would occasionally show my wife a clip that was particularly funny. Then I stopped. I’ve had my fill.

But now, all I see recommended is Don Rickles. Literally the whole sidebar except 1 or 2 videos is Don Rickles even if I’m watching a tech video. Drives me nuts.
It's an abstraction used to create objects and manage their lifetime. There is no inherent opposition to managing memory in that pattern. Also, it's been done before and it works, so what is the issue specifically (i.e. not some religious nonsense about separation of concerns)?
You're not arguing that it's legal; you're arguing that you're unlikely to get caught. That's different.
Socrates also said something along the lines of 'I know that I know nothing'.

You can look at your entire upbringing and education as stuff you know with certainty and stuff you were supposed to know, as well as stuff that is 'correct to know', but that doesn't make it so, nor does it make it completely invincible to change.

You can have the date of your death and it can be wrong. You can 'know' things with near certainty and those things can be wrong too.

Choosing to be aware of the fact that your own knowledge will forever be flawed, no matter what technology exists to tempt you into the belief that you can know everything; this is a tricky balance, but it's the correct balance.

Because, you can't know things before you do. You can 'wiggly know' them, you can be correct in thought a billion times in a row. That doesn't mean you don't require reality to validate that correctness. You do. You can think thoughts, you can analyze computations, but you can't know they are true until they are. This is the only thing I know with certainty, and is my belief that it's a necessary way to think in order to maintain sanity.

This is especially important when we one begins to have the awareness that some types of AI work as effectively as our own minds do (for certain problems). So what does one do in that instance? Fear it? Meh.

Why not just consider it human? Are a million Russian bots really that much scarier than a charismatic politician with a winning smile?

I believe fear corrupts judgement far more than knowledge.
Why can’t you just wrap handles into unique/referenced types?
The power of time management while learning programming
You're correct of course! Sorry, my bad! :(
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Absolutely what happened to me.

A class is not a car, you don't explode your car when you go off road, create a SUV using the base of the car along with what's in the trunk, then do it back again when you reach a road.

Analogies are a terrible way to teach. Both dogs and cows are mammals with 4 legs and a tail, but you will have an interesting experience playing catch with a cow and trying to milk a dog.

I only learned what a class is and why it matters after writing a bunch of C spaghetti code trying to keep track of special_fn_for_strings, special_fn_for_ints, special_fn_for_big_ints, etc. You can teach that way quite easily if you have more than a week to do it in.
>"the business model for a whole pillar of democracy is gone."

Its just being exposed for what it is... the only new thing is discussion about it became common enough to pass the threshold for you to hear about it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gell-Mann_amnesia_effect
It's instructive to view Hacker News' own "new" page with "showdead" set. The torrent of spam is astounding. There seems to be absolutely nothing online that people aren't intent on ruining.
I wish I could find a link that was just about the data and not Lebron’s reaction to it, but my interpretation of Lebron’s slowness is that he has the same skill.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.usatoday.com/amp/111166564
> They will be partnering with the Civil Media Company, an ambitious New York start-up that aims to use griddles and pancake recipes to start 1,000 publications nationwide by the end of the year.

...actually I think the original quote said something about crypto, not pancakes, but I don't think it changes the underlying meaning. Why do you need a distributed, trustless database to run a local paper?

> The new publication will have a conventional website whose data will be written permanently into a MySQL database.

Whups, sorry, that actually was meant to say "...into the secure digital ledger known as the blockchain." Which...okay. 1) I think they mean "a blockchain", and 2) why do we...care? Is this so people will notice if the article is edited? Why not just push the content to a public git repo when it's published? Maybe sign the commits?

> People who purchase the CVL token, a form of cryptocurrency, will have a say concerning the projects hosted by Civil — meaning that they can vote on whether one of its websites violates the company’s journalism standards

So in other words, it's a lot like...a public company, that owns a newspaper, that then strips out every hint of editorial control, and then lets its shareholders directly have a say in every detail of what gets printed? So it's like...literally an attempt to create a newspaper even worse than the one they're quitting in order to form this one?

> Matthew Iles, the chief executive of Civil, said that by selling ownership stakes to the public, the company seeks to eliminate the possibility of one company or a small group of investors exerting power and influence over a journalistic organization and compromising its mission — exactly what many employees of the Denver Post accused Alden of doing.

By selling ownership, they think they're stopping one rich person from amassing a major ownership stake, as happened when their last newspaper sold ownership and allowed one rich person to amass a major ownership stake? What must it feel like to live with this level of blinding naivety?

The good news, such as it is, is that ownership of the tokens doesn't actually give anyone control over the newspaper, meaning that this is actually just meaningless hype. But, by the same logic, there's also no reason to actually buy the tokens. They have value only to the extent they allow editorial independence to be violated. So either they'll be valuable (but will undermine the journalistic ethics of the organisation), or they'll be worthless. There's no upside here.

It's early Monday morning in this part of the world, and I literally cannot figure out if this is an overly subtle troll or merely the dumbest idea I've heard in quite some time. This basically seems to be an attempt to use inappropriate technologies in order to carefully craft a "solution" that will make the problem worse. If you're worried about local newspapers being financially unviable and subject to intrusive editorial control...how does this do anything but make it worse?
What are you disagreeing with? I don’t see what is not true, based on your response.
The larger point is that if you're willing to pay a la carte for individual shows/films (rather than a subscription service), basically all content is acceptable from a lot of providers.
have you tried to block kids from YouTube? It's just about impossible. You can completely firewall it off from your home network, block the app, etc, and they'll just go to the library. School. pretty much anywhere. or just grab a friends device that has no such restrictions.
The point is they'd be more likely to shift to a $1200 low-end iMac or low-end Macbook, not the $3000 Mac Pro.
To anyone expecting this to be good, don't. It's a 'protagonist gets sucked into another world' type of story and not 'protagonist looks at the meaninglessness of life, both on and offline'.
The Soul of A New Machine by Tracy Kidder

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/soul-of-a-new-machine-tracy...

It's mostly about the development of the Data General Nova computer. It's mostly about (80s) hardware engineering, but there's some software stuff too, IIRC.
This new zapcc thing seems to be more granular than ccache, it caches individual template instantiations
There's an incredible, predictable phenomenon in sports that the best player on the team gets the most criticism. I've seen awful teams with one superstar, and the popular opinion of why they lose is that the superstar isn't doing enough or, God forbid, isn't superman/woman and has weaknesses. It's never that the other 4 / 10 / 21 / etc people on the field who are terrible.

Then the superstar retires, memory of the absurd criticism is obscured by a haze of nostalgia, and they become examples of perfection which the next generation of superstars can't possibly live up to.

Messi is arguably the best ever. If he's not good enough for you, if he's not perfect enough for you, you're going to be disappointed with life and the human beings in it.
This new zapcc thing seems to be more granular than ccache, it caches individual template instantiations. Bazel can't do that.
What part of the internet do I miss by avoiding Google?
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