skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the few reviews I managed to find it seems like hot garbage. Shame, I had high hopes for it to be my daily driver. Looking into Punkt Phone and/or Light Phone 2
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This. And the benefit is it's easy to add your own fixes to your local version too. Stuff like removing the PerformSelfTest() call, adding items to the ListView in batch, item bounds checking when refreshing the ListView, etc. can quite noticeably speed up the UI, and random window focusing/sizing issues aren't too hard to fix either.
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100% this. As soon as you fork a project, you are now responsible for the evolution of it (even if that's just merging in upstream changes). It puts a large burden on engineering teams to track changes and maintain the fork.
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Hmm "everyone" for many "Enterprise" shops the spend on sales team is bigger than on software eng. so one of the reasons Atlassian was always profitable is they didn't have a sales team until they were huge.
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Most people here lean libertarian right. You're seeing ghosts.
I'm on the left side of the political spectrum, and I find it fascinating when right-wingers spot "ultra-left bias" in forums that I find balanced or right-leaning.
I bought a personal Jetbrains 1 year license because of the 20% discount (as opposed to monthly)

If there was only a yearly option i likely would not have bought it (but the savings!)

3 months in I find myself using other IDEs..

Give people the illusion of a choice, don't explicitly force them
I agree, that's why signed source code releases are the safest thing you can get.
Keepass has signed releases (including the source code archive) that can be checked with OpenPGP.

https://keepass.info/integrity.html
The best source is NASA.

https://orbitaldebris.jsc.nasa.gov/

The faq says:

> More than 21,000 orbital debris larger than 10 cm are known to exist. The estimated population of particles between 1 and 10 cm in diameter is approximately 500,000. The number of particles smaller than 1 cm exceeds 100 million.

Don't forget that these tiny fragments can cause significant damage.
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I also use a flip phone but I never had a smartphone to compare it to (other than temporarily connecting a TracFone for GPS when I travel).

I walk a lot and see so many people with their head pinned to their phone, and I've almost been hit 3 times from people flying through stop signs while texting in the middle of the day. Anything that might be so addictive that you can't even drive without constantly checking your phone can't be good for you.

Really though, a flip phone works well. You end up using it as a phone, but they also support texting too which makes you capable of communicating with everyone else in a pretty normal way.
Are there good examples of entrepreneurs who are able to maintain a healthy balance ? How does one balance life and startup (especially on initial stages)
Did you think about going to the police as well regarding his threatening message?
keepassxc
Trump campaign materials made in China despite anti-China stance
If you don't take your phone with you, you're not being tracked. It isn't an all-or-nothing proposition. We have the choice of not taking our phone with us.

Also, PTSN can be easily eavesdropped as well, and paying by the minute isn't attractive. The phone companies squeezed us long enough.
Consideration for applicability and scale is definitely a prerequisite for actually implementing anything but in my experience the biggest value isn’t being able to say “this is what Google does”. Anyone with any interest in opposing that sort of change has certainly mastered dismissing anything like this with “we’re not at Google’s scale”. The biggest benefit of all of their efforts in this area is that they’re leveling up the industry.

Collectively tech seems to evolve rapidly but at the individual/team/org level it’s rife with cargo-culture and resistance to change. It’s not even exclusively caused by stubborn behavior since change requires time and resources that may not be afforded to teams unless they can hitch it to a feature or initiative. When the big players level up industry practices they decrease the defensibility of sticking with old ways. New tools designed around the new principles and a million blog posts changes the landscape.

Show me any org or decent sized team and I’ll find you members of it that could have told you what needs to change in their environment to get to the next level but face an uphill battle. The big players not only give them supporting evidence with moves like this, they raise the bar or shift our entire thinking. Without that shift the holdouts can hide behind a lack of consensus and cargo culture.
Fun anecdote: In Sweden it's not uncommon for people to have their middle name first in the passport. For example a person named Gustav Sven Andersson might actually have Sven as his "first name". This of course causes problems in the US which assumes everyone's first name is the one that comes first in their passport. I have several friends who have just given up and go by a different name in the US (ESTA, immigration, plane tickets etc).
No, they should react much worse than that. If you buy the businesses out, you're handing them a financial reward for their obnoxious regulatory behavior.

All of the tech workers should boycott the restaurants involved in this political move. Tech workers in the bay area control most of the volume of high-end consumer spending (ie a lot of workers making a lot of money). It would decimate the targeted restaurants instantly.
What if you don't have/want cloud syncing programs installed on your whole system just for the sake of a password manager?
Well, yes, but for the same engine with the same waste heat removal, a bigger radiator doesn't help. It would be worse, actually, since you have the larger drag, and the Meredith effect would also be smaller since you'd have a larger volume of air passing through, but heated less.
> Or you work at a company with no significant secrets that could potentially be shared through chatting.

In that case, why not communicate via Twitter or the Blockchain (tm)? Do you post pictures of yourself naked on Instagram as well?

Every person and every company has significant secrets.
The problem is half the stuff doesn't work properly using those because they don't provide drivers for propriety stuff like the camera or playstation services for example. The camera will no longer work in low light and the 23mpx camera takes pics like a 5mpx
That (mostly) worked well for the Romulans
I was talking about Juncker!
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I have no idea what those acronyms mean, (UNI is University?) But that is an excellent resource for internet RFCs, thanks.
$5k is a steal!
> giving employees perks in the hope that it will increase their productivity

By "their", you mean the company? Because employees receive the same salary no matter their productivity.

Slavers also fed their slaves, property requires upkeep costs.
Incase anyone hasn’t seen this video of him presenting before the senate committee in 1969, in support of national public television.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fKy7ljRr0AA
The publisher Taschen Verlag has just published a facsimile of the exemplar in Göttingen (which they claim to be the best, both in paper quality and illustrations).

ISBN 978-3-8365-6221-8
Am I the only one thrown off by Jeff Dean wearing a suit?
Found the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7mspVXGoik

There are two greyhounds, not three.

If I was downvoted for saying that greyhounds aren't good guard dogs, then whoever did that should probably actually meet some greyhounds. The muzzles they wear aren't to stop them biting people, they're to stop them nipping at each other during races, and to protect small dogs and other animals when they're not racing.

They're sight hounds - silent watchers with an unbelievably friendly, trusting, and loving nature, and once they've tired of your attention they will wander away to sleep off the excitement.
They definitely want to increase your productivity, you are right. Your productivity drives their revenue forward. They are willing to contribute small amount of that revenue for giving you free food. But do you really want to be like that? Work harder for free food?
They also become much more attractive targets for APT since compromising say Slack is way more interesting than some avg. mid size shop.
FAANG companies don't do any of those things.
oh, that makes more sense. I'm Sorry! The robots already ate me alive though :D
“This paper has been withdrawn by the author due to a crucial sign error in figure 1”
Russian Air Force had a number of female combat pilots during WW2. Some flew fighters and even Pe-2 dive bombers. The last one had controls so hard to move that two women (pilot and navigator) had to join the forces to pull the stick back on take-off.
Convenient for the company.
They aren't required. I use KeePassXC and don't use any type of cloud syncing.
I've been hearing about an incoming correction since 2013. As always, no one has any clue when it is coming and the age old tenet holds true:

Time in the market beats timing the market.
Great, great, great stuff!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDq1AN1kSn4

Time travel debugging is insanely useful.
I'm a big fan of Twist and most things that Doist does in general.
There's no need for a central power for that.

Tribes constantly warred with each other, because they saw that as a good way to get resources.

Of course, during the middle ages it was feudalism, which was not centralized at all, it was stratified. Classes, classes, classes. Haves and have not-s. The haves of course arranged things in a way to keep what they have, so they come up with rights for themselves, which were very much not egalitarian ones.

And of course there's the real centralized one-party autocratic setup, where instead of noble houses openly competing with each other, people just play the subtle game of extort those who are under you, which makes inequality even worse.
It's a 96% profit margin. With a price of $2.50 and a cost of $0.10, the profit is $2.40. Thus the margin is 2.4/2.5, or 0.96.
there are untreated mentally ill people everywhere, just like there is poverty and corruption everywhere. It's a matter of scale & proportion.
Dockit Calendar is an app I made, best version is on the iOS app store. It's a social calendar application, wouldn't mind your feedback if you're actually looking for a social network that encourages activities.
If I waste less time at lunch, I can go home earlier. That's pretty far from slavery.
If those employees can act in concert like you suggest, they could form an union.
What does this have to do with keepassxc? (the community version of keepassx)
That objection is addressed at the 16000 BCE mark. We have had short peaks before such as the Krakatoa eruption that reduced world average temperatures by 1.2 degrees for five years. What we're now experiencing is a continuous increase that has already raised temperatures by one degree over 100 years. I think it is very unlikely that anything similar has happened before.
For those interested in the topic, the series Upward Bound by Isaac Arthur on Youtube cover various methods to achieve orbit, including Launch Loops.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIIOUpOge0LsGJI_vni4x...
> Failing to use this data because of the fear they might take steps to hide it, and thereby self endanger, is 1) an appeal to possibility, and 2) an inappropriate casting of blame if it does happen.

I think the worry here is that they'll endanger others by going around with transponders off.
Techies have been trying to fix the disaster that is SF for a long time. They're very clearly not turning a blind eye. They're being politically obstructed by the long entrenched, old elite that control the political class.

There are only two possible solutions: take the action up several levels financially and get extremely bellicose; or wait until the owners of the political class in SF age out and lose their control.
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> Avoiding this would increase complexity somewhere else, e.g. compilers would have to become even more clever

Not really. Compilers are already stupendously complicated since they inherit a ton of techniques used for older processors that required, e.g. instruction scheduling and other tricks. CPUs getting bigger and faster just added additional complexity to extract even more dynamic parallelism and also do the job of simpler compilers.

It's much easier to turn off the complexity in a compiler and reason about the resulting program. The complexity in the CPU cannot be switched off and is closed source.

Gimme simple CPUs again.
In the Netherlands we had a similar thing. An car insurance marketed specifically to woman, with lower rates, nice pink website and you even got a free purse as a welcome gift. But due to anti-discrimination laws you could simply apply as a man as well, if you could stand the pink website. Of course you got the free purse as well.
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perhaps it's really related to the word "Best" and wouldn't be as bad with "Good" but i've found that these things, more often than not, are neither. "Best Practice" is just a concise reformulation of "this has been blogged about a lot and everybody else seems to be doing it", it's an incantation intended to shutdown brains and differing views. i'm just moving off a job in a company full of "Best Practices" that cost shitloads of effort in exchange for negligible benefits. nobody stopped to weigh the pros against the cons, because they're industry best practices, so they gotta be good; doing what everybody else does gets you more job offers than doing what works well.
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Exactly! Turn off all notifications, unless the app is specifically a communications app (calls, messages). I switched off notifications for emails as well, they can wait until I check manually.

Facebook/Instagram/Parking/Maps/whatever apps just spam you with notifications that don't matter.
Ditto whippets.
So many of them are H1B workers, they don't even vote.
The baseline is the 1961-1990 average. The coolest point is 20 000 BCE whose temperature is 4.3 degrees lower than that.
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Twitter has that feature where you can post multiple tweets in a chain. Honestly, why have a character limit at all at this point...
I think you're missing my point. This is not a tech problem. It's a people problem.

The most dystopian tools ever imagined can be perfectly harmless if the people using them don't want to use them for dystopian purposes.

It's only moving towards a dystopy because people don't care or know enough. That's what has to be fixed.
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> Because employees receive the same salary no matter their productivity.

No, in fact they typically do not. Drop your productivity to zero and see how your salary holds up.
I feel like you did not really look:

https://text.npr.org/s.php?sId=629871725
The one laptop I have running a Linux Desktop runs lxde, and it is pretty good, but I wouldn't say it's very customizable. Maybe I haven't spent enough time with it, but how do I add custom menu entries, for instance? How can I add additional menus to the panel? I miss Widowmaker/GNUStep, which still exists of course but no distro on earth uses it by default and Linux Desktops are enough of a pain to build from the ground up that people keep making distros with minor tweaks just so they don't have to do it again.
Investors frequently say things like this:

“Am I at, or can I get to, profitability on the money I have?...(If so) Go raise “opportunistic money” from your existing investors at a good or great price.”

If you’re profitable and believe that your customers will continue investing in you, you should think long and hard about raising more capital as “the answer.”

Raising more capital is sometimes the answer, and it’s an investor’s job to convince you that raising capital is always the answer.
Facebook has taken a side, it's just the side of dark patterns and selling all of everything it can get it's hands on. It's had this side for as long as I can remember it existing.
Avie Tavanian later joined NeXt and then eventually became CTO at Apple and Richard Rashid later joined Research at Microsoft
This is what I do. I spend negligible amount of time for lunch by bringing the food from home, quickly microwaving it, eating as quickly as possible. But, I am pretty sure that free food takes much longer. You want to try this sushi and that fried ice-cream..oh wait and Philz Coffee offers new beans..there are also your co-workers around and you chat with them endlessly.
we have a stream with 200+ topics.

topics can't be deleted
>Why I'm Using a Smart Phone

Similar usage:

- I listen to podcasts at 2x and audible titles at 1.5x all day at work and during my commute. 50-60 hours a week.

- I can talk to friends on 4 continents

- TerraGenesis throughout the day when I have a minute or three of downtime but not enough time to read a chapter.

- I don't have to get a map out of the trunk when I need to find my way somewhere, but carry the map in the event shit goes sideways.
That's really interesting to me. I have an account with Bank of China, China Merchants Bank, and used to have one with Agricultural Bank of China (needed it temporarily to receive some money once). My passport full name has 26 characters, including one hyphen and three spaces (I have two middle names). I've never had a trouble making a bank account anywhere (made in multiple cities). I also have no problem linking my online payments (Alipay and WeChat) with my bank accounts and using them to buy things every day.

I have recently had a problem where my Internet line stopped working. Customer service called me and told me it's because my name has a hyphen and their system can't process hyphens. When I talked with them more, it sounds like China Telecom's IT department made some kind of system change that made hyphens impossible to process in names. That sucked, not sure why they would do that when it was perfectly fine before. There may or may not have been a good reason for it from their side, I obviously didn't get to talk with anyone in their IT department about it. So now my China Telecom account has my name all mashed up with no spaces and no hyphens. But banks I'm still OK for some reason.

I'm curious why some people have certain experiences that I don't share. We're all using the same service and system. I'm waiting one day for some Chinese bank IT employee to finally write up a really weird debugging story and submit it to HN for discussion. It would be good to know what's up.

Or... it could be a bank employee's user error too, I suppose.
> After a crash, the stock market tends to recover in a couple of quarters (think three to six).

Based on recent crashes yes, but has that always been true?
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I ditched my smart phone in 2015 and went 2 years with a "dumb" phone that couldn't do anything other than SMS and calls. The first couple of months was a bit "hard", but after a while I did not miss a thing from my smart phone days.

That said, I did go back to a smart phone last summer. But something strange has happened. Apart from using the camera, and apps like Signal and a sudoku app, I use my smart phone more or less like I used my "dumb" phone. I hardly ever browse the web, check e-mail or anything like that. I pick it up if it rings, or I need to call someone. And the occasional photo and game of sudoku for my own enjoyment. I have no social media, I don't share the photos I take, I don't feel the need to stay connected.

And when I'm not on wifi, it's more or less a "dumb" phone with a camera. I don't use data traffic. Haven't for the year I've had a smart phone again, and I don't see the need to start using data traffic. If I have access to wifi, great, I can use Signal, if not, those who need to contact me has my number and can get in touch with me the old fashioned way.
carfentanil. 50 000 times stronger than heroine. (allegedly.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COduXp6Cw3g
I wish it had color text input support. At my last job, they were looking to replace IRC with RocketChat, and that was a big let down. I even submitted a PR for "Colored Markup" (https://github.com/RocketChat/Rocket.Chat/pull/8639/commits)
Thanks for this - has some useful info, and I will be implementing a couple of missing header details on my site.

But, overall the security scan gives a lot of fails, when in reality I don't think it would know this.

For example

> SQL/NoSQL injection protection

How would you know how it is handled?
I do the same thing. Only install the absolutely necessary apps, do everything else non-essential in a browser. If it doesn't work in a mobile browser, wait until I get home.

All notifications are turned off, except for instant messaging apps and calls.

I stress a lot less about Facebook and social media in general now.
I was wondering that. It seems a more likely hypothesis unless they have some good way of dating them. Maybe carbon date the worm body?

Edit - the paper says

>Some factors prevent the opportunity for nematodes to penetrate into permafrost strata many meters deep from the superposed modern tundra soil. The depth of seasonal thawing in the regions under study is up to 80 cm and was no more than 1.5 m even about 9000 years ago, during the Holocene Thermal Maximum.

and the samples were 30m down so they are arguing the worms couldn't make it though they have only carbon dated the general soil samples and not the worm bodies.
>It has been present around the globe for ages, if you could find an internet cafe on holiday. Reading email on your phone also needs a smartphone.

Oh Simulation Creator, shudder I just remembered when Sears installed an internet cafe haha.
RISCOS made a pretty compelling argument, I think, that all menus should be context menus. I'm not sure I agree, since it reduces discoverability, but I do think it otherwise had all the Fitts's law advantages of a global menu bar while still making the association between the menu and the application obvious.
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Hi, I'm planing to move to the UK because my GF going there for study. I have Israeli passport, about 4 years of experience in mixed fullstack development and DBA, no Academic degree and for the last 2 years I'm working as expat in English speaking country. I can stay in the UK for
6 months without VISA . what are my chances to getting hired?
A week ago I posted a personalised advice-tool to help non-technical founders find and convince great technical founders to work with them.

After receiving feedback, here's a sister version for technical founders trying to find a good marketing/sales cofounder. Feedback questions welcomed!
It's a relatively minor nitpick, but since version 3, npm flattens the package tree as much as it can and tries to bring everything possible to the top level node_modules directory. It'll still use nested node_modules where necessary to handle dependency version conflicts. A bit more info here:

http://npm.github.io/how-npm-works-docs/npm3/how-npm3-works....
Student loan debt usually can't be discharged through bankruptcy so it's unlikely to cause some kind of panic sell-off even if the loans being made are low quality. The debt will continue to be a noose around the neck of consumer spending power. Indentured servitude 2.0.