skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure about Austria, but in my home country, Poland, the employee is liable for statutory damages. He will be ordered by the court to pay the employer an amount equal to his gross salary for the notice period [1].

For example, if you earn 10,000 PLN gross (7,000 PLN net) and quit without observing a 3-month notice period, you will have to pay your employer 30,000 PLN, i.e. over four times the monthly net salary.

Of course, if the employer believes they incurred a loss due to the employee leaving without notice, they can sue for additional damages of any amount.

[1] Polish "Employment code" (Kodeks pracy), article 61, https://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&...
It's not really fair to compare a custom implementation against the standard unordered_map implementations, which need to be fully general. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9675608

Still, I'm shocked that GCC, LLVM, and boost all assign buckets using modulus, which is very slow. I would love to know the reasoning. I assumed that they mask the high bit (or & with the table size).

Fast hashmaps use xor to mix information from low bits (examples below). Fibonacci hashing amounts to running a second multiplicative hash over your input, which is only worthwhile if you're paranoid about your input distribution.

Java SDK: http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/jdk8/jdk/file/687fd7c7986d/s...

Android (C++): https://android.googlesource.com/platform/system/core/+/mast...
> And the very notion of motivation — striving to obtain a more desirable future — implies some degree of discontentment with the present, which seems at odds with a psychological exercise that instills equanimity and a sense of calm.

'at odds with' is sort of a funny way of putting it: the realization that 'striving to obtain a more desirable future' often ends up being a trap is part of the very foundation of meditation, and explicitly so.

The other aspect of what's being said here is sort of a subtle problem, and one of the things that freaks people out about getting too into meditation: if I'm totally content, I would have no motivation to do anything then, right? In practice however, that's not the case. 'Motivation' in this sense is about making yourself do something you don't want to do. For instance, someone highly motivated to succeed at work might put in super long hours and make sacrifices in other aspects of their life in order to get ahead. If you were more content with where you were, it's true you probably wouldn't do that—but instead you might start writing a novel or building a house or doing charity work or whatever. It doesn't mean you're going to be lazy (in fact, meditation can be quite energizing; often times after finishing a restful session I pop up and effortlessly start cleaning and taking care of whatever needs to be done), just that you won't feel pressure to change your situation.
The kind that keeps growing. Any mess can be cleaned up given time and effort, but if more mess is produced faster than it can be cleaned up, it's a lost cause.
No, it was (is?) an organization started with reasonably good intent, corrupted by its own success from without and within. That it served Russian goals is without a doubt true, but that does not mean it was a Russian intelligence operation any more than the pro-Brexit parties in the UK are a Russian intelligence operation (or the GOP in the US).
> Deciding who to blame would not solve my problem.

Well, you don't blame right away, you first try to solve the problem. If something doesn't work you contact a support dept. In this case you'd contact Adobe support since its their software. In Firefox example you'd contact LogMeIn since its their software. If Firefox explodes bunnies, you contact Mozilla but if your PC shoots lasers at bunnies you contact whoever you bought your PC from (e.g. Dell).

If there's a package on Debian which doesn't work who I contact the package maintainer or the software developer? If I buy a car radio and it doesn't work on my car, who do I call? If I buy a Raspberry Pi and Linux stops working on it, who do I call? If you buy a vacuum cleaner from brand X and it doesn't work anymore, you go to the store and they arrange it for you because the deal is with them. The answer who to contact -and ultimately blame if the problem isn't solved- is the company you do directly business with. You bought a product from LastPass and subscribed to it; you pay for that, get them to fix their shit that's what you're paying for. A working product. Simple.

Or, just do like I do, and switch from a product which got more than twice as expensive for zero benefit for the customer. Because if you don't switch you reward that shitty behavior.
It helps to acknowledge that big weddings are a marketed product by wedding vendors and adjacent businesses. Just like De Beers popularized diamonds over a similar timeframe, weddings have grown from small family functions 100 years ago to large events (on average), with proportionately increased cost (yes, accounting for inflation).
Ballooning in large spiders: Nanoscale multifibers enable soaring flight
Lots of people around the world live in 1 room apartments. Tokyo and HK are full of them. I have friends that grew up in 1 room apartments, parents and all.

There's also that eco movement for tiny multipurpose 1 room housing.

Not saying I don't prefer more rooms but I certainly wouldn't go as far as saying something is wrong with 1 room.
Also from the main Arxiv page, you can click on the links to each of the authors, see the version history, etc
This is the first time I've ever heard that term used in the context of office romances.
I think a more pertinent example is the Shanzhai culture in Chinese manufacturing, which is distinct from both the overtly open culture of Free software and the explicitly closed structure of intellectual property.

You're unlikely to find a datasheet for the latest MediaTek chipset through Google or Baidu, but you won't get sued for sharing a copy with a friend. You can't buy sample quantities through a distributor and MediaTek won't talk to you unless you're a serious player, but it's not hard to buy a couple of chips or a few reels if you know the right person.

Information isn't free, but it doesn't have a price tag either - it's exchanged as part of a reciprocal guanxi network. Much like the BBS warez scene, information gradually percolates from a core of well-connected peers to a wider network, creating a hierarchy of esteem and a duty of reciprocity that incentivises the continued flow of information. I share with you today, in the expectation that you will share with me tomorrow.
You made this point better than I could. If anything GP mentioning _important projects_ is by definition the exception.
> Once he is married, the military recognizes his need to cohabitate with his wife

This seems like blatant discrimination against partnered-but-unmarried servicemembers.
For me, as a long-time Dart user, the emphasis on Firebase for Flutter surprised me at first, given that there are several existing server-side frameworks in Dart that could be used to create full-stack apps. I personally found myself frustrated at the difficulties and breakages that sometimes come with upgrading native plugins between versions of Flutter, so for some time I was confused.

But it actually makes sense on a closer look. Dart on the server is not officially supported, as the primary focus of Dart is use as a client-side language, so it would be a bit confusing for the Flutter documentation to recommend using Dart for a backend.

That being said, I think Flutter is a great platform for quickly building apps, and getting consistent behavior across different vendors. I think that it can only continue to get better.
I believe that Carreyrou's book says Holmes built a relationship with George Shultz, then Henry Kissinger, William Perry, and Sam Nunn, through Stanford's Hoover Institution. They were all fellows at Hoover. I'm looking at page 181 in the hardcover edition. The book doesn't mention any family connections to Shultz. The military interest originally came from James Mattis, then head of US Central Command. The book says that Holmes met him "at the Marines' Memorial Club in San Francisco," but doesn't say more about that first meeting.
> The additional value that the taxpayer receives is that the spouses and kids of service members, who follow then around from duty station to duty station, aren't homeless, so that the service member can concentrate fully on the 16 hour work day for shit pay.

The servicemember can have the partner and kids either way; what value is the marriage license specifically adding?
I really want to get into mobile development, but I have major obstacles with default platform APIs: I don't have a Mac (and cannot afford one ATM), the Android Studio is unusably heavy for my decent laptop, and writing Android apps w/o the studio seems prohibitively difficult. In this situation, Flutter is a liberating force for me. I have recently started learning it, and I can just keep writing my code in Emacs, while running the app on a phone with hot reload, and without my laptop melting. Thanks to whomever created it.
Our Galaxy Might Be Teeming with Habitable Exomoons
I’m Irish and live in Dublin, so there is no “me” in this scenario. I’m just stating how the system works, which as far as I know would easily absorb everyone from Tuvalu, because yes, there aren’t many of them. It’s not Tuvalu’s fault that they can’t exceed the limit on their own, it’s just life.

In addition to the numerical limits placed upon the various immigration preferences, the INA also places a limit on how many immigrants can come to the United States from any one country. Currently, no group of permanent immigrants (family-based and employment-based) from a single country can exceed seven percent of the total amount of people immigrating to the United States in a single fiscal year. This is not a quota to ensure that certain nationalities make up seven percent of immigrants, but rather a limit that is set to prevent any immigrant group from dominating immigration patterns to the United States.

That seems reasonable. You’re not being targeted, Tuvalu isn’t being advantaged, it’s just that there are a lot of Indian people. What’s the alternative? No one gets a chance until every Indian who wants in gets in? Remove all limits? How would that be more fair? You’d just shift one country’s overpopulation to another. If a billion people from various parts of Africa and Asia suddenly were able (and did) immigrate to the US, what would be the result? My guess is economic collapse and social upheaval, followed by people immigrating to the next “best” country with the same results, and so on and so on.

It seems to me you think that the highest population should entitle people to more opportunities. That’s better for the individual, because they get more chances, but it’s at the direct expense of lower populations. That’s not about fairness or being against discrimination, it’s just wanting what you want and fuck anyone else.
Popular Mac Developer Slams Apple for 'Sad State of Macintosh Hardware'
To what are you referring? /s
I’m curious about how many people use each method. The 50/50 split seemed like the clear choice for me. Can anyone share their reasons for doing the proportional split? My expenses are things where we both agree about it and decide on our own about if we could individually budget it. Certain things that are more “for” someone become proportional, but those are always one-off purchases.
You don't have to context switch desktops because you have so many displays that everything you need is already visible.
Immediately closed the article after clicking the link. What on earth is NYTimes thinking embedding half a dozen auto-play videos with sound in this piece?
He reads people's blogs and he's interested to know when they post new stuff. The whole new FB account thing was his solution to the problem because those people also have FB accounts/pages and post there when they have a new blog post.
But did you actually know of it as a date rape drug before you googled "ketamine date rape?" Not one of those articles (including the two referenced in the Wikipedia quote) even attempts to substantiate any connection between ketamine and date rape. They just put the terms together, sometimes in the headline, to create an association without actually supporting it. One of them contains a statement from an Indian FDA official that "Its misuse is rampant. Its powdered form has been associated with sexual assault cases world over." Not exactly convincing.

You may deduce that I am a user of ketamine. I do think it has potential and it is clearly deemed safe by health professionals. Putting "KETAMINE DATE RAPE" in headlines/subtitles of articles that have nothing to do with someone being date raped is not useful.
Moving to the cloud doesn't save money for an established business which knows their datacenter needs. Cloud providers pay for the same hardware, staff to manage that hardware, and then add a layer of profit on top. Going to the cloud only makes sense if you believe you can fire people.

And realistically, you need most of those people to maintain and configure your cloud service.

It's hard to imagine someone Fortune 50 scale gaining any cost efficiency from going to a cloud service, is this a temporary pricing promotion you're looking to take advantage of or have you done all your homework on the savings? How confident are you on what your cloud expenses will look like?
Old fogies like myself will remember that France, and much of Europe, used to require yellow headlights.

The idea being that the removal of blue light reduces the likelihood of dazzle, especially in rain and fog.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selective_yellow
I've never managed more people than myself, BUT don't underestimate how difficult it is to find people in IT. It's really, really hard, and even harder to find people willing to stay longer than 2 years.

Loyal tech workers are invaluable right now. But then again I'm not the one who has to make that choice.
>The OS X kernel is open source, and that's the most valuable part of the OS X source code

Uh, no.
Experiments report loss of motivation to do toy tasks. I can imagine people losing motivation to do those, or participate in the study, after meditating. Not sure how that translates to lack of motivation in doing what you actually like/want to be doing.

The nap analogy from the article, I find, is very good. After taking a nap, it might be easier for you to concentrate and do deep work. If you need to do something tedious instead, like respond to admin emails or perform made up tasks for a meditation study, you might perform better pumping some loud music or being under social pressure.
> what's the point of marriage versus civil unions? I'm assuming here, and could be wrong, that there's no legal difference

Yep, there are/where legal distinctions (sort of irrelevant now in the US with federalized same-sex marriage). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_union#United_States . The main problem is that unlike marriages, there is no requirement that states recognize civil unions granted in other states, because:

> The federal government does not recognize these unions.

Not a direct legal distinction, but:

> Civil unions are commonly criticised as being 'separate but equal', critics say they segregate same-sex couples by forcing them to use a separate institution.
What makes you think that it would be possible to invade a Moon base, or hack it anonymously? We’ve gone past sci-fi here and into fantasy.
How to Light your Motivation on Fire
I had both at university - a single room for two years, then a two-room set for a year - and found they had different strengths. In the single room, I could go to my bed for a break, or to fetch something from over there, without completely losing my focus. In the set, it was nice to have a separate room for sleeping and keeping clothes (so I didn't have to worry about keeping them out of the way - they aren't taking up space in my work area). Ultimately though, I didn't find them to be fundamentally different, other than literally having more space in the two-room set.

Worth noting that I didn't cook in either - there was a separate (shared) kitchen, though most of the time I would be eating in Hall anyway, which may have been a factor.
please submit the original source per HN rules. Also a dupe of a discussion of said source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17312588
You've explained where Facebook's likely interest lies, but not why that feature is actually popular.

I don't see any difference with how HN and Reddit attract people. They all seek the added social aspect to reading news; and Facebook is just what people know.

>Apologies for being cynical, but I'm not surprised.

Luckily cynicism doesn't equal realism. FF devs often make data-driven decisions, and none of the devs showed interest fixing all the accumulated bugs. So they left this to matter to add-ons, the big button was eventually stored away and the one in the address bar abandoned for Pocket.
No sneaky marketing strategies involved.
I lived in this kind of studio apartment for 2 years and didn't have any of the issues you describe. There was a discussion recently about airplanes with no windows and I felt similarly. I just don't really get anxiety about enclosed spaces.

Coincidentally, I work remotely from my home and I think that this contributes to why I like it. A lot of people have trouble working and relaxing in the same space. But I don't have an issue with it.

Not sure what all that adds to the conversation. Maybe I'm the weird one, and this is a normal feeling. But I just wanted to say this is not a universal thing necessarily.
Proof it can be done better, Japan.

It's common to be able to choose the day and the delivery time. 8am-12pm, 2pm-4pm, 4pm-6pm, 6pm-8pm, 7pm-9pm and I've never had them be 1 minute outside their designated schedule.

And, prices are cheap. Price to send a large package from Tokyo to Osaka (think SF to LA) (larger than the USPS would even allow), $20
Just toss a Monero miner in the background :P
> used up by shaving millimeters off the thickness

I wish they didn't do that, I would gladly carry around a slightly bigger phone if it had much better battery life.
std::unordered_map is a bit of a red-headed stepchild in the C++ world. I'm not surprised that it hasn't had nearly the amount of tuning that hashmaps have had in other languages.

When i asked some C++ers about it, they warned me off using it, for reasons i didn't fully understand, but i got the impression that there are structural reasons why it can never be really fast, so anyone who needs a really fast hashmap uses some non-standard one anyway.
China, a picture of how warehouse jobs can vanish
Embracing automation and moving to cloud systems means layoffs for a dying/stagnating company and an opportunity engine for an innovating one. Our startup does GPU visual graph analytics for boosting visibility, and we see a world of a difference in velocity etc when we engage with a company that has cloud data lakes etc than one that doesn't. And, that includes F50s and federal agencies: super normal!

Technology employees should embrace new tools; that's part of the job that ensures compounding effects over time.
I explicitly hated it for that reason - every time it opened I could basically feel the context switch and felt completely thrown off.
I used a related aerospace field because I don't think any "new" companies produce airplane jet turbines -- the newest ones are joint ventures of older companies. However, the examples do produce rocket engines, whose preburners are turbines.
> It makes sense because most software works this way anyhow

What does that mean?
This claim of massive savings is ludicrous for an f50 in the first place. It’s doubtful their cost is primarily maintaining and admining fleets of x64 servers, which is what the “cloud” is optimized for. These companies generally have massive costs from legacy mainframe, iseries, mvs etc systems. The ops creds are suspect to say the least.
Interestingly I find that doorways _help_ with my OCD - moving to another room helps me move on from my obsessions.
Given the current assault on advertising as a business model I admit to being optimistic that our society is inching closer to asking corporations to stop manipulating them.
I think you're looking at Python 2, because in py3 the list comprehensions create a nested scope for the loop variable to be local in. -- i.e. 'i' would be in a local environment, not in globals. This doesn't change the behavior of these particular closures, since i is still mutated in the loop.
Virgin Atlantic were/are still so disrupted that they ended up buying 4 A330-200 aircraft to fill the void in fleet schedules this summer as all of their B787 use affected engines. (For reference they have a fleet of <40 aircraft in the first place)

It’s such a difference in scale that engineering oversights in the design of engine blades leads down a road that brings you to buying whole planes to get around the problem
That isn’t key. Making money by giving away something is free is physically impossible.

Therefore there is something critical you are missing about what is going on.

It’s only key in the other sense that it will unlock a door to greater understanding if you seek out what underlies the contradiction.
The article is about Apple, for example, who is currently attacking ad tech on several fronts.
You can vote with your dollars and only buy TVs that let you disable the led, or don’t have one.
Ketamine is used as a drug rape drug. Here's a government level organisation listing ketamine as a drug rape drug.

Ketamine has the advantage of being easy to get hold of; quick acting; and memory affecting.

https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/healthy-body/drink-spiking-and-...

Notice that drugs are not commonly used in sexual assault, and they're only talking about a few hundreds of spiked drinks. (In the UK about 90,000 people are raped each year. Many more are sexually assaulted.) If someone's drinking it's far easier to just give them more alcohol.

I get that you enjoy ketamine, but it's a bit worrying when drug users deny any possible harm that happens with their drug of choice. It means Public Health workers have to spend time debunking both sides of the discussion.
as a consumer, i can’t stand the insurance policies of shipping companies. you pay them to ship something, and then you have to pay them more to make sure they actually ship it properly. it’s insane to me. and UPS has gotten exceedingly picky. you cannot insure anything unless you let them pack it. i once tried to insure shipping a synth that i put back into the manufacturer’s own original box with the original packing material. this was then going to be out into a UPS box. the guy wouldn’t insure it because they didn’t pack it. he explained they would have to ship the synth in their own packing and then ship the box separately in the same box. that is just one insane example, but now, it can cost like $70-100 just to ship a normal sized, insured package with them.

one time with the USPS, the mail person folded a large hardcover book in half like a taco to fit it into a PO box. when i called the local post office to complain to a manager, she explained that the shipper didn’t purchase insurance and so they couldn’t do anything. when i explained that was for accidents and not intentional destruction of packages she basically yelled at me and that was that. no follow up, no nothing.

these shipping companies hide behind these insurance policies because they basically can do whatever they want with your package and it’s the only little power you have. and it’s obviously something they make a lot of money off of.
How to Get Your Teammates to Follow Your Lead
Light travels around a foot in a nanosecond.

Makes thinking about processing times a bit easier when you can visualise it as a distance.