skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
because pluto isn't a planet? I mean sure, inside the discipline knowing the distinction between an integer and an ordinal number matters, but outside? Less sure.

I'm going to keep mentally filing pterosaurs in dinosoar memory. I think 99% of the non-obsessives older than 12 will do likewise. Pluto came back from the dead, after all...
You may enjoy a book called The Power Paradox.

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/312367/the-power-pa...
So, is that a strike against string theory's extra dimensions, or is it another type of extra dimension being ruled out?
> We need a stronger culture of paying people better in our western economies.

This is more of a political issue than a cultural one. Companies always pay what they have to pay to get workers they need. The problem is we have policies that depress wages.

For example, the H1B program nominally isn't supposed to have foreign workers competing with domestic ones, but the rules are easy to game, so it does. The easy fix is to get rid of most of the other rules and just require employers to pay the government $75,000/year for each foreign worker they hire. Now it's impractical for someone under H1B to replace a US worker who makes less than six figures, but companies who legitimately can't find what they're looking for in the US workforce have the ability hire outside it -- for an extra $75,000/year on top of whatever salary they pay.

Similarly, it's plausible that minimum wage laws actually depress wages. An unskilled worker or college student isn't legally permitted to accept a $4/hour internship, but may not be able to find one that pays any more than that. So they stay home and play video games, there is $4/hour less disposable income in the economy (the profit from which could have allowed someone else to get a raise), and the person who couldn't take the job/internship now has no experience to leverage into a higher paying job. Even if you want a minimum wage for career fast food workers, imposing one on college students and other people just starting out is likely harmful to wages on net.

There are many other examples of things like this. Companies or misguided people lobby for bad policies that depress wages and the people whose wages are being depressed aren't organized enough to stop it or even recognize the mechanisms by which it happens. Then people are more desperate for work and companies don't have to pay them as much.
I think you misunderstood the point there. Facebook and Twitter is what drives traffic for The Onion. They can and do syndicate via RSS. But it doesn't help them reach most of their readers.
They would have to get themselves in such positions thus this is yet another place where it sounds nice to say but in practice it doesn't seem to be working. Atrificially placing them would harm the work force yet them making their own way seems to be also rather difficult thus we're stuck in a wonderful situation were it's not exactly clear how to get there.

There's also the change that this is not the solution as certain positions do require some form of aggression unless you're willing to persuade the other companies in different countries from the one you propose the change in to do the same. Otherwise it may prove to be a disadvantage even to have a more "argeeable" person in such a position.

I would love for the solution to be as simple "get more women into power" but as it currently stands from my perspective, we have deeper issues to deal with where it doesn't matter if it's a woman or a man. I'm open to be proven wrong though.
There's a bit back story there, so as a fun historical note, let me recount it here. In 2016, there was the Dirty CoW exploit (CVE-2016-5195), which got fixed by Linus in 19be0eaff [1]. Unfortunately, in that patch he forgot about transparent huge pages (they're easy to forget ;), which caused processes to lock up if you were using FOLL_FORCE on a memory range that happened to be backed by thp. That patch was widely backported to stable kernels, so I soon noticed my processes randomly freezing on various Linux machines. With a bit of debugging, I sent in a patch to fix that (https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/patch/748110/), though I'm not sure that Linus ever saw it (or I guess he could have assumed we were using ptrace). Nevertheless, I assume that this being a common exploit vector for DirtyCoW made him want to remove it. As a result that was of course the second time within the course of six months that this stopped working (plus Linus' fault both times), so that email was written from a bit of a "you've got to be kidding me" mindset.

As an addendum in writing this comment, I became aware that my patch to fix FOLL_FORCE with thp actually re-introduced a version of the original DirtyCoW exploit apparently known as HugeDirtyCoW (CVE-2017–1000405) [2] - or rather my patch interacted badly with a pre-existing mistake in the thp code and caused this. Oops.

[1] https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/19be0eaff
[2] https://medium.com/bindecy/huge-dirty-cow-cve-2017-1000405-1...
Are there particular theories of quantum mechanics or string theory that are now any less likely?

Or is this just confirming what everyone expected all along?
I don't think anybody is claiming that Earth gained extra nitrogen (how would it?). So, while it lost oxygen, it also had to lose some air pressure.

I imagine there was some huge pressure loss at the oxygen catastrophe.
My wife is due in January with our first and we have been struggling to settle on a name. We did do what was advised in the article and have decided not to release our the name we settle on until the baby is born.
The subject of using profanity around your kids is a subject I have definite opinions about. But it is a whole other topic that I'm not sure belongs in this thread. I will, however, mention something Paul Graham says in one of his essays, that the only reason we teach our kids not to swear is because we want them to remain cute - that is just so off, in my opinion. I like what the comedian Jerry Seinfeld said, that if you have to use profanity when telling a joke then you didn't nail it. I think that applies more broadly than just joke telling.
Do you literally meant that you have lost some hairs. This is the only thing that is holding me back from joining startups
I've had a 100% effective rate saying, "JC is a cool dude. However, I have not been saved yet. When JC wants me to be saved I'm sure I'll be the first he speaks to." For reasons I don't understand this works flawless every time. It is almost as if Jesus wanted me to be saved he will let me know. Maybe they all know to stay out of Jesus' business when he is working.
> One third of calls are summarily disconnected.

The disconnects are the worst part of so-called customer support because I know it is likely to happen especially as the hold time goes on. Worse when you call back they've somehow lost all the information you previously gave them 3 times over.
If you look at the issues with USB-C based phones without headphone jacks it's much more fragmented. Finding a device that functions correctly is very difficult. I think the verge did a story on it recently.
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Agreed, for all we know they might already be doing that as well.
Well in my case I co-founded the company I work for so I didn't use a traditional remote jobs site. I did originally connect with my co-founder online though, through the Oculus forums (we do VR development). I know of other people who work remote in Vancouver but I don't know how they found the jobs in most cases I'm afraid.
Just came in to say I read this in a RSS reader.
Or you might be a pragmatist.
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It is a strike against the idea that over long distances, the spherical shell of "expanding and thinning" gravity can go down faster than 1/r^2 (which would come about from A=pi*r^2, the area of a sphere in three dimensions), achieving that goal by slipping in to dimensions higher than three. However now we have found that gravitational waves are about as strong as we expect it looks like gravity isn't leaving the world of 3+1D.
Reminds me of Desert Bus (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penn_%26_Teller%27s_Smoke_and_...)
I'd like to point out that the only assertion I was making was that these are the common beliefs that the public consciousness holds as truisms, irrespective of reality.
Look at the post Punic war period. So much wealth was transferred to Rome and it had to go somewhere. Land is always a place where capital goes to hide!

The money bought out smaller farmers and created the great latifundium slave estates. Some of these estates survived in various forms into the 20th century.
I totally agree with this. I actually quit my job at Red Hat because of the culture of non-criticism. I kept getting in trouble for pushing back against stupid decisions, even though I never insulted a single person.

For example: When the design team added 10MB of web fonts to the app, I said something like, "Users don't care whether the font is Open Sans or Arial. They care whether things load quickly and don't re-flow. This is a bad decision." I got nothing but condemnation for pointing this out. Today, every user downloads several megabytes of web fonts which have broken kerning and hinting on some platforms.[1]

It was a similar story when people wanted to change our build artifact to be based on RHEL instead of Alpine Linux.[2] This would have bloated the build artifact from 11MB to 200MB, introduced a host of security concerns, and drastically increased CI build times. In a meeting I said, "This decision seems totally braindead." I was immediately taken aside and given a stern talking-to by my manager. If that's not a braindead decision, then I don't know what is.

I also got in trouble for this comment[3] pointing out flaws in PatternFly. I was told that some of my coworkers felt insulted by my comment, and that I should be more civil and tactful. Who was insulted? What parts of the comment were insulting? I never got answers to those questions.

Encouraging civility sounds like a good thing, but in my experience the people leading the charge are doing it to suppress criticism.

1. https://github.com/openshift/console/pull/3 My bullet point about reducing the build artifact from 11.3MB to 7.6MB was incorrect. It actually reduced the build artifact from 40MB to 7.6MB.

2. https://github.com/openshift/console/pull/12

3. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17163740
What opinions are emblematic of the center?
Ask HN: Career advice for an aging Canadian hacker
I’m over 45, Canadian, family/kids, grad degrees.

I’ve been working as a developer/architect for more than 15 years. For the past 8, I’ve been contracting for mostly the same client who’s now offering me a perm-position with significant pay cut. Working there hasn’t helped me achieve job satisfaction or financial stability (it sucks).

I won’t be able to take on side projects or work on my own ideas (everything will be company owned).

I can possibly find remote US-based contracts for likely 3~6 months at a time, but I’m not sure if this will be sustainable long-term given my age.

I would love to start a startup, having some ideas I’m executing on on the side, but not sure if it will eventually work out.

I have a founder mentality, love building products and resolve business issues.

Appreciate the advice.
You gain followers when you work for a the benefit for others.
You lose followers when you treat people badly.

Belittling people in a public forum is bad behaviour. I'm amazed its taken so long for the penny to drop. This is in any half decent company's Anti-Bullying training. It's not like you need to be particularly empathetic to learn this stuff.
That would be fine. In the unlikely event I was ever the target of one I would frame it and add it to the bottom of my resume.

The problem isn't that Linus is legendary in his abrasiveness.

The problem is that other people (mostly young) imitate his behavior, starting with the belief that it's okay to be a jerk as long as you're right.
Everything that's old is new again. Citizen Kane is a movie about just this sort of thing, and it wasn't fanciful (it was in fact suppressed for being too close to Hearst's real life).
>I think this is the right's perspective, but it's not an accurate portrayal of the left's. I therefore disagree with the assertion that this is a fair representation of the "public consciousness" on this issue.

I'm not saying it _is_ an accurate portrayal of _either_ side. The only assertion I'm making is that those are the beliefs the public consciousness holds as truisms, irrespective of their truth values.

Edit: To clarify further, I want to make explicit something implicit in what I said. You may notice that what I'm asserting is the "commonly held beliefs of the public consciousness" is rather right-leaning.

I acknowledge that that statement is also implicitly asserting that the public consciousness is, to some degree, right-leaning as well.
Inoreader is my main source of gathering news. Social Medias are IMO ill-equiped for this tasks, mainly drowning useful info in a ton of noise.
> It’s very much a techie thing and I think the only reason it’s still around is because it’s default in a lot of site software.

"WordPress powers 31% of the internet.", according to wordpress.com and Wordpress has RSS built in and ON by default.
I would like to point out that I was not making any statements as to the validity of either of those two statements. Rather, they are commonly-held beliefs irrespective of their truth values.
You don't need to actually be in Linus' situation to have a reasonable opinion about how to communicate with people you're collaborating with.
This is pretty confusing. Regarding work permits in Canada, remote work is explicitly not considered "work": https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/co...

> Examples of activities for which a person would not normally be remunerated or which would not compete directly with Canadian citizens or permanent residents in the Canadian labour market and which would normally be part-time or incidental to the reason that the person is in Canada include, but are not limited to:

> long distance (by telephone or Internet) work done by a temporary resident whose employer is outside Canada and who is remunerated from outside Canada
> guitar is easy

Is it? I'm musically stupid, so the fact that guitar is hard for me doesn't mean much. But isn't it truer and more relevant that guitar is a popular instrument for amateur and casual players, because a) it has a big role in popular music, and b) it's accessible, in the sense that guitars can be cheap and they don't require a lot of space?

There are plenty of relatively easy guitar pieces (especially if you're satisfied with using the instrument as an accompaniment to singing, or playing single-note melodies as part of a band), but that's obviously true of the piano too, and likewise both instruments have plenty of complex and technically demanding pieces. I'm genuinely interested in being corrected, but as far as I can tell the physical technique is at least as hard, and the possible musical complexity is no different. Is there any sense in which the guitar is actually 'easier' than the piano?
Then here's some bluntness:

People who don't mean "brutal" shouldn't use the word "brutal".
There is some resistance in these discussions though. Some people don't seem to like the idea of not being able to commercially benefit from free software for free, while working at organizations abusively dominating markets. Sort of oxymoron, restricting freedoms using unrestricted freedoms. The supply of unrestricted will dry out of course, as somebody has to pay for all of this. Either way changes are inevitable.
Looking at my uncles and brother, I would have lost this hair either way. But I have certainly been in a lot of stressful situations. One time I took a paycut to minimum wage that lasted 6 months! Not fun.

But in tech, any halfway talented engineer can get a job in 5 seconds, so the risk isn’t that bad.

It’s just the hours, the stress, the uncertainty, the low pay relative to megacorps, and the founders who make 1000x payout if they manage to sell it.
I received a master's degree from an art program in which the (male) professors had a great deal of license to performatively take down students, from the initial admissions interview through two years of group critiques. It wasn't unusual for a professor to reduce students to tears. Graduates of the program brought this culture to their own teaching.

Recently I worked at a school whose critiques were set up explicitly not to replicate this harshness. I discussed this with a few friends from grad school, and we were mystified: "How can anyone produce good quality work unless they are constantly being torn apart?" "Is there another way to learn besides being humiliated?" Which led us to look at each other and think, well, we certainly don't choose to live that way otherwise.

And that is the question -- and maybe we'll discover on lkml: is there a better way to create something remarkable. And to replicate that behavior in whatever projects we take on.
> Reading music is hard.

People say this about many notations including the latin alphabet when they're first learning to read them. Mathematical notation is another one, and while some people have legitimate complaints I think they're usually much better off just learning the current notation.

> All I want to know is where to put my fingers. Note length, tempo, [...] is minor in comparison

NO!!! Music is the combination of rhythm and pitch. In many cases rythm is more important than pitch! A music notation without rhythm is like writing without vowels. Yes you can feel out the meaning of the sentence but it's ambiguous to the point that the meaning can also often become completely lost. This is my complaint with things like guitar chords; you can figure out how to strum along if you've heard the song before but it's not nice!

People learning with western music probably underestimate just how important rhythm is even in classical music but so much more in newer music. You can't just throw that away.

>This is written from the perspective of a clueless piano beginner who just wants to play.

I feel horrible saying this but, that wasn't surprising to read. Really, practice reading new pieces for a year or so and you'll be able to sight read, it really is like learning to read all over again and the confusion will slowly go away.

EDIT: you also have to keep in mind that music notation is meant to be used by composers as well as performers, the way this removes key signitures can make you think more chromatically which I would argue hurts beginner composers a lot (who should be thinking tonally IMHO.)
This is what I've been telling my grandmother to do, but for some reason she keeps using Facebook instead.
Thank you for saying this.

Unfortunately, now you know what HN thinks about gay and trans people having equal rights.
The best way to kill a publication is to interfere with its operation.
Linus would make a great character in a Neal Stephenson book.
Have you read the book "Crucial Conversations"? It covers exactly how to have conversations about tough topics.
From my expierence most people leave soon after they can cash out.

It’s the top tier (VPs or people with a clear path to becoming one) people who usually stay
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As a maintainer of the FeedIron plugin for Tiny Tiny RSS I see RSS as quite alive and kicking.

https://github.com/feediron/ttrss_plugin-feediron

On occasion I have needed to use a site parser like rss-bridge but honestly it's so rare that a site doesn't have rss (albeit often hidden from view). Just a hint for people searching for rss feeds the most common I find are:

/rss

/rss.xml

/feed

/feed.xml

/index.php/feed

/index?format=xml
I have a lot of ambivalence about this. On the one hand, inclusiveness and culture that leads to more diverse representation has shown to produce better results. On the other hand, too much hand holding and accommodation will swing the pendulum too far and lead to even worse results.

I’ve grown a thick skin and taken to respecting people like Linus, even if the ire is directed at me. But that’s likely a function of my privilege that I’m able to accept that and function in those conditions.
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That also sounds pretty much impossible to hand write. I hate notating stuff I come up with on a computer. I've tried lillypond and some GUI tools and none of it is as comfortable as just writing it down.
Sphere's have surface area and volume. Neither of those quantities is given by the formula for the area of a circle. I’m not a physicist and can’t speak to the merits of the rest of your post but this error of yours makes me doubt your post's veracity. Did you make a mistake in your parenthetical remark? Maybe it edit if you have.
Twenty years is pleanty of time to realise the impact of behaviour. I've seen his noteable rants posted here and on Reddit for years. There no way he didn't know.

I think he has known about his behavior for a long time, and someone with influence has explained the impact.
Montreal is the AI hub of Canada.

There are a few fintech low key, but ambitions startups. Recently a fintech accelerator Holt was announced. I feel like Montreal is going to be a fintech hub for Canada in the future.

Airbnb is building a huge office here. Not sure if they will have engineers, but I imagine they would as I think the announced capacity was 400 people.

There’s a lot more. Just not enough time to list.
I acknowledge that my original statement was implicitly asserting that to some degree the public consciousness is right-leaning.
Kinda like Jobs on the iPad? "If you see a stylus, someone did something wrong"?
Better than 50-50 I guess
The price of electricity is only going to go so high, though. Without leverage, it's vastly harder to lose all your money on a short, because the asset has to double in price. In this case, the spread peaked at about 38:56. Without leverage he'd be down 10 or 20 percent.
That’s just lawsuit defense. People do that when they know customers will hurt themselves.

Curiosity killed the cat.
>Fantastic resource but rendering (post-)impressionist paintings onto a 2d canvas removes a vital element from any such painting - the brushstrokes. I still remember the goose bumps I got when I first saw a Van Gogh for the first time; the paining felt alive.

For what it's worth, I had exactly the same type of experience. It was Irises, in the Getty in Los Angeles back in the early 90's. Something I had 'seen' hundreds of times before, but only 'felt' once perceived taking the full structure of the shape of the oils and their interplay with light in to account. And in no way does someone need to be an art expert to appreciate the difference- it is not subtle. I feel lucky for being able to have done so.
funny enough after posting this I went to gmail after a long time of not using it to see what its like. Got prompted to upgrade to a new UI early. I said yes and most of the inbox features I used are there. Just not as nice looking. So now I understand why they want to shut it down as most features added to gmail and I wouldnt be surprised if the rest of the features move over too.
I would posit that Android devices are actually worse historically than Apple ones. Many of them will not properly charge unless you either connect them to a charger manufactured by the device manufacturer, or to a PC/Mac (where they likely won't draw anything more than 500mA).

I've had far more luck using Apple devices with non-Apple chargers, than the other way around.
I tried using twitter to get news before. But the news magazines I subscribed to on twitter tweeted out the same article more than once. It was rather frustrating.
Slightly different take: I remember back in the dotcom boom, a company of which I was a part started to go downhill (in a bumpy fashion, with VC money).

In retrospect, one of the early employees observed that this happened when the company "was big enough that people could hide".

That seemed to happen around 60ish people.