skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The key to occupational happiness is to first figure out what you’re passionate about and then find a job that matches this passion.

I think alot of people can misunderstand the "what" of their passion, especially when trying to match it with a job. Take for example photography. If you tell yourself you're passionate about photography but not understand what kind of photography and in what context/social situation you can make some pretty bad occupational choices. So if what you really are passionate about is street photography, socializing with random people, observing people in an urban environment, and you end up with working with photography in an indoor studio setting doing meaningless marketing campaigns you are probably going to end up unhappy. Maybe even loosing the passion of street photography as well...
> Rest symbols bring little value considering the visual noise they add

Visual noise is an area that I think is worth fiddling with. I’ve played around in various contexts with reducing the opacity of less interesting staves, staff lines, rests—in particular circumstances, you can dramatically improve a score. (e.g. if sight-reading a score with two choir and two piano staves per system, you can sometimes accidentally jump to the wrong place after the end of a line; if “your” staves are black and the others are grey, it’s much easier to go to the right place.)

Similarly with libretti I’ve played around with things like reducing the opacity of stage directions; it can improve things. Or producing a variant of the libretti for each part with other parts only grey, effectively doing the job of highlighting the script which people will often do.

Things like these weren’t possible traditionally in printing: your ink was on or off; it was theoretically possible to use two ink colours, perhaps one lighter than the other, but it was more expensive and so wasn’t done. People would just annotate it with a pencil, or more recently a highlighter. But experimenting with these sorts of things now is quite interesting.
Lacim's Legacy – A New Isometric RPG in Development for Atari Lynx
React Native EU Conference 2018–Lessons and Highlights
I’d argue even 10 years ago the quality of Time was questionable. One of my friends was interviewed on chiptunes by Time at around that time due to a success of a Kickstarter for a Miles Davis chiptune album he did, and the editor twisted his statements of love for creating songs with that production quality into something he disliked - he contacted Time about the mischaracterization and they refused to change it until he started a Digg posting blasting the atrocious journalism, upon which they agreed to change the article...which still contained the writer’s clear bias against it, but not as insidious as was originally written.

Ever since that incident, I’ve been very skeptical of Time articles, and if I do read them, I read them very carefully with my friend’s experience in mind.
I wished they'd discuss other scenarios, most importantly Internet Service Providers. No matter the amount of actual competition. They act like they own you.

Some are worse than others. Some have improved over time. I still simply cannot do business with Verizon. Their customer service is out for blood. While we're naming names, Time Warner Cable, Spectrum, Sprint, Comcast. There are more, and feel free to add to this list. I'm sure they aren't alone.

They are not there to help you. Not face to face. Not at service centers. Not at retail locations. Not on the phone. Not on their website. Under no circumstances will any exchange come out in your favor. You will always pay 10%, maybe 20% more than expected. Or maybe worse!

Across the board, everything is awful. Starting with password character diversity and periodic rotation rules, but then on in to paying your bill, asking for changes, quality of service, getting what you paid for, getting what's advertised, being advertised to, having your data sold, junk mail and solicitations, and of course the idea of contracts in general.

They get zero dollars from me, and I spend more money eradicating them from my life, but what I get back in terms of flexibility, sanity and delivery according to expectations is more than worth the little bit extra I pay above sticker price for anything that originates from monopoly wannabes.
> I've never understood why

Because if I got positive emotions from using inbox what is so unexpected about getting negative emotions when google kills it? Fuck them.
I remember reading about baby name fads that were caused by names of TV characters. The one I remember is "Emma" catching on after the baby on the TV show Friends.
Kleiner Perkins Is Splitting Up
Yes, really. To understand it, just change the currency, where 1 minimum wage is the unit for every price.
So you think that the founders of Google are abusive assholes based on no real evidence then. It's easy to make claims about anyone applying your loose rules of evidence. It's flimsy, sloppy thinking, not to mention unfair to the people you're talking about.

The real issue isn't about any one or two individuals, though, it's the principle. The question is are there good leaders who are direct yet exercise self control? The implied question is do you have to be an asshole to succeed? I can list more examples if you think the ones I chose were inadequate, or you could acknowledge that I have a point. This isn't a contest. We are all here to learn.
I grew up playing multiple instruments, and I have never been able to read rhythm from sheet music. I don't know if I'm just lazy or if I have a problem. Definitely the hardest part of playing in my opinion. Have played: violin, piano, clarinet, alto sax (plus a short foray into alto-clarinet :).
Costa coffee contains sugar too, 49300mg in a Chai Latte..
Kinh+nghiệm+“thiết+kế+nội+thất+shop+giày”+ĐỘC+ĐÁO+-+Cuốn+Hút
Or it can be about strumming (which I think is the case).
It used to be, been a few years since I've been there. Houses are still cheaper to buy casually looking at redfin although. :|
I did that and switched back to 5 as I found after a year that the extra day per week just didn't make enough difference compared to earning 20% more. I would much rather work full time and take a full year off every 5 years
I worked at a small company in Silicon Valley that was very successful and became a very large company.

A lot of people did leave when they had the chance.

It surprised me how many people stayed. As another poster here noted, a lot of very senior people stayed who were at or near the VP level stayed. Some of them wouldn't know what to do with themselves if they left. And I think some like the status and power that comes with managing a huge org.

But I was also surprised how many individual contributors who became rich stayed, and just continued to write software or Verilog or whatever. They were bright people, and nobody messed with them because they were well-known and were just allowed to do their own thing.

Watching what people did when they came into a lot of money was an interesting life experience. Hell, watching what I myself did when I came into a lot of money was also an interesting life experience.

When I first came to Silicon Valley I was so excited to be surrounded by so much great technology. I got to play with so much very expensive test equipment: it was like being a kid again. As time went on, it wore me down, and it wasn't so interesting. I encountered a lot of bad actors: the other anecdotes in this HN post sound very familiar. When I had FY money, I left. At that time, I hated my job. I have no interest in writing code or using fancy oscilloscopes and logic analyzers. I don't want to look at another C function as long as I live. And I will never go back to Silicon Valley.
JavaScript testing tutorial – part 4. Mocking API calls, simulating interactions
Machines already do 200 times more work than human today!
Busted by Blue Link – 2018 Hyundai TV Commercial
> At any reasonable tempo, 1/16th, 1/32nd, etc. note symbols bring little value considering the visual noise they add

Such notes are commonly quite heavily used in classical music. Whether they might be better doubled in length with the tempo doubled, is another matter.

It can go the other way, too: if you look in hymn books from the 19th or early 20th century, you may also find hymns that use whole and half notes, with the occasional breve and quarter note; whereas if you look at a later edition of such a hymn book, you may find those notes got halved, to use half and quarter notes, with the occasional whole and eighth note. I certainly find the latter easier to play.
Link to the discussion about Time Magazine: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18001786
It's always personal preference how much you spend on food. But even cooking for yourself can be expensive. My wife bought a portion of shrimp to cook lunch, the shrimp alone cost 40 RMB, and that was from a local grocery (big shrimp admittedly).

There are very few Chinese restaurants these days that charge only 15 RMB for a meal, depending on where you are in Shenzhen. Only hole in the wall shops, which are few and far between in most high tech parks. With waimai delivery, minimum cost 20 RMB for a nourishing meal, usually 30. Yes, life is feasible, I'm doing it.

But my main contention is that someone with 7.5k take-home pay can party hard. Don't think so. Unless party hard means watching movies all night on one's phone. Even a high-quality pearl milk tea will cost 30 RMB. Most Chinese (not western) restaurants that my wife and I visit now and then have a final bill of 100 to 200 RMB.
> in the culinary context you would never use a tomato like a fruit

I'm not sure what it means to use something "as a fruit" in culinary context, but tomatoes are definitely used in many contexts that other fruits are. Tomatoes, avocados, lemons, limes, grapefruits are all used raw in similar savoury salad-y contexts, and there are plenty of fruits that are also cooked with.
beautiful. in a weird way it almost looks modern.
Why structured text is awesome and you totally want it in your CMS
Actually any strength of effect is possible. From tiny and misreported as big to huge and underreported.
This is what it means the studies do not have the statistical power to measure effect size.
Reproducing the results and taking an average over all results with multiple comparison and pooling correction (metastudy) could then give a valid estimate of the effect size.

P-value only checks perhaps for non-null result, if not circumvented.

It would be good to produce a funnel graph for effect sizes reported in those underpowered studies. Perhaps ones showing small (but non-null) effect sizes do not get published.
Joe and the Juice is innovating on interior design/aesthetics, product (juice and coffee) and margins.
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“F0D76E4270E41C4E3DBAAD6947647DB3EDFDF3F35623133880A429DE8E749AA6”. So cute! Just rolls off the tongue.

My daughter has a pretty uncommon name, and I was reading an NPR article and realized the journalist had given her daughter (who is the same age as ours!) the same name. You just can’t win.

If you want to build character, learn some patience, you should name your kids Zaden and Zelda, right?
"Matt Kilcoyne, of the free market think-tank the Adam Smith Institute, disagrees.

"Quite frankly Bezos's greatest act of philanthropy is Amazon itself," he argues.

"Lower prices, more choice and competition have delivered billions for Bezos and billions worth for the hundreds of millions of customers he serves."
"

I do think feel strong about Bezos plans, but it's a bit of a stretch to claim Amazon is a public good.

Pretty sure all the people who worked in book shops don't think so.
The instrument in question is the gamma ray burst monitor (GBM) on the Fermi gammay ray telescope. The GBM does provide some directional data but because it's an all-sky instrument it is fairly crude but not terrifically so, it's able to determine the direction of a signal to within several degrees.
Only when reducing the entire spectrum of personalities to your 2-bit representation, your argument holds.

However, what about a genious which politely replies something along the lines of "I'm very sorry but I don't think your contribution aligns with the goals and/or philosophy of this project.". That is not a nice nor an asshole response. After reading Linus' text, it seems to me he intends to get somewhere near this point.
What could be successful is a Linux distro that unites frontend devs and designers, but where the different tools and building blocks of that distro are used outside of the Linux ecosystem, for professional interface design on other platforms.

Think of UI design tools like Figma, but having their own frontend UI framework like VueJS or React, coupled with an optional OS abstraction layer like Electron. The official UI of the design tool could be the base for the UI of the OS.

GTK started similarly, as Gimp Tool Kit. Only that the base was kinda flawed and not really geared towards professional interface design, and it couldn't aquire credibility as design tool because of that. And if no professional designers use your tools it will be hard to get professional designers to contribute. That's the dilemma of GTK and Gimp.

Base something like GTK on a dedicated interface design tool (like Figma) and other tools that complete the designer, developer experience, and this could totally rock.

I think that a popular design tool that integrates a frontend UI framework and abstraction layer for the backend/OS, would also attract frontend and backend devs automatically.

The main flaw in todays linux environments is the lack of focus on professional niches outside of devops and sys admin tasks, especially professional designers. I wondering about what could be possible, if companies like Figma and Mozilla would cooperate on a design centric distro..
You can be super nice and not upset anybody without compromising on technical rigour.

> The problem is that people who prefer direct non-bs communication are also usually more emotionally mature and better at adjusting to others.

I would argue this is entirely false. If they can't adjust to others finding their behaviour offensive by not being offensive, they're not "better at adjusting to others". Yes, this is a two-way street, but that doesn't automatically mean everyone has to be comfortable with the guy who swears at you and calls you an idiot for writing a patch they didn't like.

We can have technical discussions without personal attacks, without rude language, without racial or sexist slurs. We manage it at my work all the time, although I for one think I could still do this better.

It's difficult when we grow up in a culture which glorifies violence and "macho" behaviour, where most of us in the field are male and have been told all our lives that we're expected to be strong and independent and assertive.

And honestly, if you can't find a way to explain why an idea is bad on a technical level without offending someone, maybe you don't have a good enough reason to criticise it, or you need to think about it some more to figure out why you don't like it apart from your initial reaction.
And I don't care about Trump's policies or Brexit anyway.
> It's one of the frew areas of government that spending money on makes money.

In a well run government, everything the government does should result in a benefit to the civilization and by it, the government. For example, adequately maintaining roads or other public infrastructure will save money on expensive urgent restauration works (e.g. when a water main explodes or a bridge collapses), as well as promote company growth (e.g. by building real, fast internet connectivity via local government owned utilities, thus enabling modern companies to work) which causes tax income to rise.

Even stuff that does not seem to be profitable at all in the long run makes profits. Take environment protection as an example: preventing or cleaning up pollution saves cost in the medical system (and even if it's a mess like in the US where most of it is privatized, the "win" is more worker productivity because they're not ill as much as before and can work more - or criminality decreases like w/ lead exposure), and trying to prevent climate change due to rising temperature will prove worth the money when the government saves money that would be spent on relocating people on the coasts.
Not as tax efficient though unfortunately. Maybe it doesn't make as much difference in the States where income tax is extremely low.
Sometimes I wonder if the SO in these kinds of comments actually get a negative reaction - or if it's just another dumb, outdated joke that women/girls are sooo sensitive
> I intentionally left aside modern UI design trends (fancy animations, shadows, gray blurry lines, flat controls, acid colours, transparency). I like this accurate, clear, grayish, boring UI that just not hinder to get my job done...

Amen! The UI in the screenshots looks very tasteful to me, and it's nice to see somebody not conflating “no-nonsense” with “ugly programmer art”.

Looking forward to giving this a try.
The importance of storytelling in science
From a pure material perpective, the issues, also for the Japanese, was poor steel and iron ore quality (as an other comment stated above). So in order to get all you inpurities out of the final product, melting processes weren't up to the task yet, you are basically obliged to pattern weld the shit out of your steel.

Particularly in Japan, this was compounded by having iron ore mostly as part of a sand-ore mixture (without magnets getting the pure ore out without mixing it with sand is close to impossible). As a result the Japanese came up with a very smart forging technioque to solve that problem. And the swords, at least the high end ones, are pieces of art. Not fielding full-plate armor like the Europeans did, cutting remained a desired quality for a soldiers side arm. So they stuck with it. Simultaniously, the Europeans developed spring steel and weapons developed in a totally different direction.
My uncle is really into genealogy and apparently “Severin” is an old family name. The problem is if I named a boy that people would probably just think we were SUPER into Harry Potter, because of the close similarities to a certain potions Professor.
Thank you. That's partly the point I was trying to make.
DBus was a joint effort to build a common messaging system to be used in all desktop environments, in particular to get away from the individual incompatible brokers that Gnome and KDE used at the time. Lennart Poettering had nothing to do with this, his first commit was in 2009, 4 years after 1.0 and 7 years after the project was started.

What you are referring to is probably Kdbus, a failed initial attempt to move parts of DBus into the kernel.
One thing I'm missing from this article is that a name is often one of the first things people hear about you, and our primate pattern-searching brains immediately use that to lay the foundations of their first impression of you. When someone is juggling ten résumés for a job opening your name matters (even though it shouldn't) — and that's just the obvious example.

A lot of name trends automatically sort you into boxes. Sometimes based on class or (parental) income, sometimes skin colour or ethnicity, sometimes religion, and of course level of education¹. Whether you want to have you child deal with those stigma or not is a personal choice, but you can't change how people perceive names overnight.

Personally (and I actually get to do this in March) I would never use a name that strongly ties a child to religion or any other stigma that might hold them back.

It shouldn't be, but nomen est omen holds true.

1: If someone in the Netherlands names their son 'Jayden' or 'Mason', they probably didn't go to college. Yes, that is a horrible thing to conclude based solely on a name, but that is how names tend to work. Primate pattern-searching brains, remember?
May be it would have been more popular to make the bolder move of using Smalltalk. At least, this choice would have been more sustainable than Objective-C, which has to be replaced now by Swift. Swift is not bad, apart for the botched argument list syntax; do it smalltalk-like like in Objective-C or indeed Smalltalk, or do it algol-like, but this mix is ugly!

Or of course, to just use Lisp, because let's remember that 95% of the success of NeXTstep was due to the Interface Builder which was just an Objective-C rewrite of a Lisp program!
I disagree along with the sibling comments. While as it is apparent from the comments to this posts the misconception of pterosaurs/pterodactyls etc classification exists, there were never dinosaurs. I am guessing at some point, in certain parts or all around the world people start making the connection, it existed prior to humans, it must be a dinosaur (or you know they share a suffix). It is similar to a zebra and an alligator have four legs so they must be the same. The average Joe has a pretty distorted image of dinosaurs to begin with (e.g. raptors, T.Rex).

Think it like this: assuming you try to discuss about digital storage with a grandparent or old relative. And they say that an SSD is a HDD (sorry late can't think of a better example). To them it makes no difference they save stuff at the end of the day or something like that so might as well be the same. To you they function, are designed and behave differently.
So to you a pterosaur is a long dead species, so might as well classify it as a dinosaur. To people who spend a bit of time to familiarize themselves, it is like calling humans marsupials [0].

[0] https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/why-a-pterosau...
And would you like to suggest what's precipitated the scenario you see?
Actually I looked up California income tax and it isn't as low as I thought.
Being a happy Window Maker user, I like that I will have more choices in the future. Etoile seems dead.
And that is fair. But the parent comment insinuated that anyone asking for money is doing something wrong or is inferior to "someone who truly loves technology". It's a highly personal decision with no right or wrong IMO.
Way more people benefited from Amazon. It's cheaper. It set a new standard in delivery times and customer support. Its existence improved life of millions of people by significant margin. That old industry got killed is natural when progress happens.
all those layers of abstraction where JS is translated into native calls should take up some considerable weight. I believe they use a variation of React Native to share code between their Android and iOS apps. Magic always comes with a price
I love that the last comment is someone looking for help loading a jpeg.
Are newspapers the new billionaire toys?
Serious question!
I’d rather have every second weekend 3 days off instead. 8 days in a row sounds just awful
I think generally people should be a little more nuanced. If your passion is violin-making or oceanography or accounting, you’ll probably be fine by following your passion. If you like dancing, you may want start as a dancer, and then find that you’re better at doing the accounting of the dance company you joined, and do that instead.

It’s true though that “follow your passion” as a blanket statement is not a good advice (for all the reason in the article). But so is the blanket statement of “find a niche craft where you can excel”.

First, you never know whether you will excel at a skill or not before spending a really long time doing it.

Second, craft is not for everyone. If you’re a people’s person, HR, management or politics is likely a better orientation. You could say that you have developed “managerial skills”, but then the question becomes how to chose one’s skill?

I believe a better advice is “follow what you already know you’re good at”. And “if you’re not good at anything yet, just keep trying things you may enjoy and see if you’re good at them”
Norwegian, a Dane & Bellman were lost in a forest...