skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. Learn a little, if you have the time. Not required, though.

2. Apply to job even if you're not fully qualified.

3. Explain that (a) you are fast learner (b) you have skills that transfer. Give concrete examples for both.

4. Or, transfer jobs within company.

I've gotten multiple jobs where I didn't know the technology stack this way.

Long version: https://codewithoutrules.com/2018/01/23/job-with-technology-...
> If you sue them...

Sue them for what? Surely they reserve the right to deny service to anyone?
If MoviePass fails, it's a failure of the Nash equilibrium due to stubbornness and lack of communication. MoviePass drives traffic to movies, benefiting both studios and theaters. Despite the existence of other subscription plans, if MP goes away, the majority of those tickets will never be purchased. MP could certainly have evolved into a sustainable plan, that restricted its users to seeing movies at off-times with low demand, at nearly 100% marginal profit to the theaters, even if those tickets were sold at a significant discount that MP could reasonably afford.

Instead, theaters, especially AMC, refused to negotiate and in doing so, shot themselves in the foot. AMC's subscription plan is especially attractive to high-volume users on which it will likely lose money, further, it encourages them to use their free tickets at peak times for the most popular movies in the most expensive formats. When an AMC subscriber in NYC reserves a seat for a Marvel film in IMAX on opening weekend, that's a $20+ ticket that AMC can't sell to a paying customer because the theater is sold out. AMC's profit margin is already quite thin, and getting worse, according to its financial filings. Its CEO is very full of himself but doesn't seem like much of a strategist.
Search for their support number and call them. While stuck on the phone, research making the jump to free software.
Color or Fruit? The Unlikely Etymology of “Orange”
Most EULAs I have been reading clearly state that the service provider can recede from the contract at any time without having to provide any explanation.

This is undoubtedly unfair, but I honestly wonder: if this is even legal?
Does anybody know of a MS feature similar to Google Takeout?

I frequently take downloads of my Google content with Google Takeout but haven't been doing the same for Microsoft. Recently started adding important content to my MS account, and probably ought to start doing the same for that service.

edit: yeah, yeah, yeah all the cool kids don't use Microsoft stuff. For some of us, there may reasons we do, and I suggest this MS service might do the trick. I'm still testing what all is included in this export. UPDATE apparently this tool just exports a json file including usage information of each MS service but not the data contained within those usage sessions i.e. a file I've created in OneDrive Excel. Hmmmm.... going to continue the hunt.

https://account.microsoft.com/privacy/export
gnuplot> set term xterm
> Turn out that it's false. What's amazing is that the compiler ensures that projects using the legacy edition can still use libraries relying on the new edition.

To add on top of this is the amazing work to make this work even for Macros!
Tech, maybe?
Right, it's that sync work that I need to research. If I'm compiling some func down to, say, LLVM IR, how do I interleave the synchronization points without too much penalty? Again, surely just a matter of research, just seems like magic from the outside
Being in a very long distance relationship for a few years now I can be confident in saying that email would not be a great replacement. If you haven’t been in the situation it’s easy to say the opposite but being able to talk in real time is incredibly helpful in making the distance disappear.

FaceTime / video calls always available at your fingertips while you are waiting somewhere is also something I wouldn’t want to miss.
Dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17617210
For short messages, I open and close with the person's name. For longer messages, I pepper in the name at points where I feel they may need a reminder that I'm here to help or to emphasize that I care. You're right that if you overdo it, you can create a Stepford-Wives vibe, but if you write the way you speak, it should be pretty easy to avoid.
If I know anything about corporations, that's because of a due diligence check. Your name or credit card or face matched someone else, or they thought you have connections to sanctioned countries, or your finances are dodgy.

Even for spam they wouldn't block you like this right weather. It's due diligence.
> No libraries would never be invented today.

Would you count Project Gutenberg, archive.org or SciHub? I'd also add Bittorrent and other p2p networks as media libraries. I bet there is plenty of lesser known archives like http://web.textfiles.com/
I regularly have non linguistic thoughts. Picture trying to pack a suitcase into the nearly full list trunk of your car and it's all objects not words.

Chess is a great example you picture a 'move' as a new layout. Practicing physical activities falls under the same kind of thing where I can focus on where to place my foot or when to breathe etc even when not doing the activity.
When Slack Won the Team Chat Market
This doesn't seem relevant, as the comment you're replying to is talking about SaaS. You can't pirate SaaS. Though I do think your point is "valid" in the context of software licensing. Right or wrong, people _are_ driven to use hacked software when DRM or other arcane licensing technology is used. That'd be a relevant fact if we were talking about, for example, Windows. But this is about a Microsoft online account, not a software license.
..."don't piss him off, cuz he's the one that knows you've been surfing porn"...
You can thank American and European governments for that. They extorted money from private companies for "due diligence violations" and now they will ban you and close your account on any smallest suspicion of financial impropriety or connections with sanctioned individuals or countries.

As an example, people lost their money to PayPal and had their accounts banned because their address contained a street named after a sanctioned location.

Corporations are panicking. They spend billions of dollars on due diligence now and this is the result you are seeing. They don't want to spend even more billions of dollars on fines.

Obviously they can't tell you "transferring over 500 USD per month to Africa looked dodgy to us, so we closed your account". They are keeping details secret, which makes sense because next time you'd just circumvent their checks.
> You need rare earth for batteries as well

This is a pervasive and utterly false idea. There are no rare earth elements in li-ion batteries and never have been. It's a weird kind of free-association that people think so.

Also, nickel and cobalt mining are completely different from rare earth mining. The only rare earth element used in EVs in any significant amount is neodymium, about 1.6 kg in 200-300 horsepower PM motors. Induction motors, like those in the Model S and X, use none at all. Neodymium is entirely replaceable for EVs and has perhaps a 1% impact on range. If it becomes expensive it won't be used.

According to the USGS the US has enough mapped, recoverable neodymium for 1 billion EVs[1]. Australia already produces enough for over 10 million cars per year.

[1]: https://minerals.usgs.gov/minerals/pubs/commodity/rare_earth...
Questioning evolution is neither science denial nor the preserve of creationists
>The full blown computers running in Minecraft has made me hope for more games that make computation an integrated part of game mechanics.

You know, speaking of which, I actually learned FORTH from Minecraft.

Years ago, there was a now-defunct mod, Redpower 2, that massively expanded on the game's existing redstone mechanics. Redstone wires that could be run on walls and ceilings, insulated wires, bundled cables that carried 16 signals in parallel, a plethora of single-block logic gates, and a huge array of added features like the motorized "frames" that let you move huge constructions all at once, or the sophisticated pneumatic-tube networks for moving, routing, and sorting items. It was hugely popular; many features it introduced worked themselves so deeply into the modded community that clones copying many of its mechanics would remain popular to this day.

And one of the things it added, in one update, was a computer - specifically, an emulated custom 6502 variant (the 65EL02) with 8K of RAM (expandable to 64K), and a boot disk for a FORTH-based operating system to run on it. (Some dedicated users did code up other operating systems; someone ported BASIC to the thing, although it took up an awful lot of that limited memory)

Nobody had ever seen anything like it in the modded community, and a lot of children (including me) made at least a nominal effort to learn some basic FORTH so we could build things like password-locked doors, or pilot frame-based flying machines to do useful things like quarry out half the world and deliver it to our doorstep. Lots of more advanced stuff got built, too - 3D printers, computer-controlled automatic crafting systems, teleporters with selectable destinations.

The Redpower computers ended up not terribly popular, in the end - FORTH, being a language from 1970 that nobody had heard of before and which didn't look much like anything else most Minecraft players had ever used, proved a pretty intimidating barrier to entry; and shortly after Redpower introduced their feature someone else made their own mod that added Lua-based computers with a much less barebones OS and friendlier ways of interacting with useful functionality. This had a much easier time taking off.
It's time for us tech people move to Mastodon platform, the others will follow eventually.
This is a trend everywhere, not just in science journalism. Everybody wants to be the New York Times Magazine.
C++ has fucked up expectations people have from language evolution. Don't project C++'s mistakes on Rust.
For Rust the evolution is users asking "Why is doing X so hard?" and the Rust team saying "OK, we'll see how we can make X easier".

Rust has been adding features for 30 releases now, and every new release has been easier to use and easier to learn.
Oh, okay. Many people actually think the government should be the organization that builds and then provides housing. :-/
There is also : "There must be a problem with your Microsoft account. Click here to fix it" alert on the notification bar.

The only problem with my Microsoft account seems to be that I didn't create one. Not a problem to me, but obviously a problem at Microsoft. |But then I'm only the guy who BOUGHT the computer and deliberately avoided creating a MSFT account. What do I know? Funny how there's no "go away and never bother me again" option on that alert.

more and more, Microsoft makes me feel like a visitor in my own home (computer).
Any employee who wants to value stock (and options) in a private company at more than zero should get that.

They won't give it to you of course, which is why employees should always value illiquid private company stock at zero.
People here really misunderstand and misapply the concept of economically viable to extract.

As cheaper sources are exhausted, the more expensive ones become viable. So we won't run out on the projected time horizon.

The main reason why US and Australian rare earth production has gone away is because Chinese sources are so much cheaper (aka no pollution or safety regs). No production, no exploration, and no development of rare earth sources.

As cheap production goes away, people again look for, build, and use other sources.
They sold the medallions based on a guarantee that they would enforce a monopoly around those medallions. Then they didn't enforce that monopoly. Sounds like the city is in the wrong.
> MoviePass drives traffic to movies

Does it? Were those people going anyway? Would they go if they had to pay one cent more?

They’re just a middleman aren’t they? How are they driving anything or adding any value?

> that's a $20+ ticket that AMC can't sell to a paying customer

But the subscribers are paying customers aren’t they? Do you mean they can’t sell it to another paying customer? So you’re just saying they can’t sell things twice?
> Lotus Notes possessed integrated email, directory services, Internet email, and applications (known as databases…much to the chagrin of legit DBAs). If it wasn’t for wide proliferation of HTML applications and rapidly adopted internet standards, you’d probably still be logging into a Lotus Notes client today.

I am still logging into a Lotus Notes client EVERY SINGLE DAY :(.
>We don't just add things for the sake of adding them.

I hope you realise that the C++ design committee also doesn't add things for the sake of adding them. They aren't morons. Often there is a very real tradeoff in every decision, but generally the motivations seem to also be those two you mention.
The secret to achieving your goals was always hiding in a book
Often times companies are legally barred from disclosing this information. For example, in the financial services sector, if a person’s account is linked to certain forms of financial crimes, it is strictly illegal for the company to tell the owner why their account was suspended and/or funds frozen.

The intent is to not reveal that the account had been linked to (for example) financing of terrorist organizations, but in reality I think it causes more problems than it solves. A real criminal who has their account shut down is probably going to be pretty aware of what the reason is. On the other hand, many times something like this can happen due to a mistake by a government agency, an account takeover, or some other situation where the owner of the account has no idea what went wrong or how to fix it, and finds themselves blackballed by multiple financial institutions with no recourse.

I’m not a fan of PayPal by any shot, but I would wager a nontrivial number of the customer support nightmare stories we’ve all read actually come down to this, and their hands are completely tied.
I agree that companies should provide more transparency, but I think that this should be provided as a remediation process to get an account back into compliance, rather than termination reason. If companies were able to give you actionable steps or why your account was flagged, that would let them have a way forward to retain a customer as well as provide answers.

On the converse, though, termination without reason does serve a purpose. For example, if this was because of illegal content being stored on the service, Microsoft may be complying with law enforcement and doesn’t want to tip off the suspect.

I strongly believe account remediation is better than all out termination, and that termination should only be enacted in the most severe of cases (repeat offenses or potentially criminal conduct).
>Add your phone to Microsoft Authenticator to log in

It's not the same but I made the mistake of trying the Microsoft launcher on my Android phone. Maybe I was thinking it was the MS Authenticator app. What a disaster! It took me a while to figure out how to revert back.

For the curious to undo the MS launcher: settings > apps > click dots in top corner > Default Apps > Home Screen > Choose a different launcher
I was hoping that my comments about C++ specifically would make that clear, but yes, I also very much agree that the committee doesn't do things just because. I have a very deep respect for their work.
In the book “The Elephant in the Brain”, the author makes the argument that our consciousness is entirely the PR department of the brain, making explanations for the “company” but not truly knowing what’s really going on.

That is, all our thoughts are post-event justifications to make us feel good.

There’s this famous experiment where they show two different things to each eye of a brain divided patient. The patient would then follow instructions from 1 eye, but provide a justification based on what the other eye saw. Like a PR rep having to do the job but with email and communication being down.

The PR rep has to interpret things in a way that is in harmony to the external environment. Making the self seem self-less or hardworking or moral, etc...

Where it gets interesting is that the resulting PR effects affect the environment which then trigger new behaviors resulting in new PR spin. The PR rep has a degree of control over the system yet at the core of it, the PR rep is installed by language/culture/society and is somewhat of an outsider. Like an overly idealistic justice warrior sent to whitewash some corrupt company and being frustrated by the job.
Checkout records are going to vary from library to library depending on which software package they are using as their ILS (“integrated library system”) and how that software package is configured. My library for example (the one I work at, not my home library) has no way of knowing the checkout history of any given item except for 1) who has that item out now, if it is checked out and 2) who had it out last. In our case the database is hosted remotely by our software vendor, so we really couldn’t get at checkout data other than those two points above as that is all that displays in the staff side client, and we don’t have any servers with patron data onsite.
Not just the notification bar. I get spammed every time I start a game with little popups telling me various keys I can push to access Windows features while I'm in the game. (_Every_ time. The same notifications). I get spammed _during_ gaming with popups telling me to install Skype or some other Microsoft product. Plus all the spam on the lock screen about using a Windows phone (I haven't even _seen_ anyone with a Windows phone in five years).

Of all the obnoxious things with Windows 10 there was nothing that made my blood boil more than being in the middle of a competitive Overwatch match and have Windows pop up over my screen telling me to install Skype.

(The second place award goes to when I was using one of those early developer builds of Windows 10 and the license expired. Next time I booted the machine it booted into a blue screen telling me that, because it had expired, they went ahead and deleted a system file that made the OS impossible to boot. The exact details are fuzzy now, but that's the gist of it. I'm seriously not making that up. Important system file deleted; OS dead)
Of course, it's electric propulsion so most likey solar. But the unlimited propellant mass allows for a much higher thrust than typical for satellites and quick (days, weeks) orbital hops.
It’s kind of funny that those all use divergent versions of Lisp... :)
The stereotype, based entirely on truth, is that they are cranky and hard to work with.

That's kind of full on ageism don't you think? I am an older developer and I am easier going than some younger members of my team who are very aggressive and overly emotional when discussing technical problems.
> ban the selling of devices with sealed-in batteries altogether in major markets [...] making batteries at least somewhat easily removed to facilitate recycling.

The opposite is true; removable batteries almost entirely end up in landfills.

Putting batteries non-removably inside devices makes them much more likely to be recycled, along with the rest of the recyclable components of the device.
Wow.. the liberty fighter strikes again.

Hope you enjoy your democracy while it lasts and stop being naive one day.

I literally have nothing to say to anyone who actually believes China would launch invasion against Taiwan.
It's a chemical fractionation process [1] on thousands of litres of blood plasma, and that's how it is still done today for those products which aren't produced by recombinant DNA. But these days there are repeated health screens and viral testing on both the donors and batches, as well as solvent-treating/ultra-filtering the products.

Maybe it is possible to process in smaller batches, but I suspect that is down the the facility producing it, and the issue was the that UK weren't able to increase their in-house production at the time.

[1] http://www.penroseinquiry.org.uk/finalreport/text/354876_cha...
> Not using current technology. You can't recycle lithium (for example) using smelting. It's also not very profitable.

Lithium is not a limiting resource for battery production, it's actually fairly common in the earth's crust. The limit is cobalt[1].

Extracting cobalt from a junked battery is orders of magnitude cheaper than mining and smelting it from the (very diffuse) ores that are available.

[1] Also, per the article, nickel, which surprises me so much that I suspect it's wrong. Per wikipedia nickel reserves are 30x yearly production, and of course new exploration and extraction techniques are always pushing the reserve number up.
we have somewhat, in that a significant amount is going to happen even if we switch to 100% carbon neutral energy tomorrow. I’m thinking more about a Clathrate Gun kind of event

Also things have changed. Something like 10 of the hottest years on record have been within the last 15 years. Global warming is not simply a modeled prediction, it is very much measurable and ongoing
There is nothing scary in new features if they are built on the same basic principles, carefully elaborated, sound and consistent.

People added features to languages like scheme, ocaml, lisp for decades, and it was fine. There are type systems for racket, object system for ocaml, pattern matching for lisp, all of which are simple and fit into the design of the language well.

The problem with C++ is that it was based on the C language, which already was an example of terrible design (by modern standards), and new features also were half-baked or badly designed (SFINAE, accidentally turing-complete templates, 666 *values, too much implicitness and unnecessary entities, like constructors).

So far rust is very nice, concise, elaborated and explicit language. Hope that the new features would be as elaborated and neat, not just monkey patches.
I just got a new pc and decided I wanted Office for it. I did not want to rent Office with an online subscription as I flat out do not trust that the pricing and offerings will be stable, and after jumping through many hoops (err, web searches) manage to buy "Office Classic".

But I still ended up needing a Microsoft account for the download. I was surprised to find I already had one (for the email I was using) , but I did and I was able to use it to download/install/validate the software.

Only later did I realize it was an account I created for my son to play Minecraft... hopefully he doesn't manage to get me banned from the Microsoft ecosystem.
At times like these the Brave browser is your very best friend.
>Microsoft may be complying with law enforcement and doesn’t want to tip off the suspect.

the suspect is already going to be tipped off by the fact his account is banned
I know Harkins (a southwest chain) allows outside food so long as it is non-disruptive, non-alcoholic, and they do not sell it. You can't bring your own popcorn or M&Ms or soda, but if you wanted to bring in tea or a coffee from one of the Starbucks in the strip mall or even McDonald's, they're generally A-okay with it. I've seen people ask about it numerous times and they are always allowed to bring it in.

They just want you to purchase their food but seem to realize that every piece of food brought in is not a lost sale, unless that food is something they already sell themselves. Which, in my mind at least, seems reasonable.
Disruption recipe:

1. Claim something is not working, by mere claiming it.

2. Raising capital to subsidize the business and force the trafitional competitor out of the game.

3. Get hefty evaluation

4. Once reach the dominant market position, raise the price and profit :)
It's probably not so much that they believe names never get above a certain length, as they have to physically fit on some form of paper tickets.

Similar issue with drivers licenses.