skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Never been to Texas, eh?

Hell, the break-California-up initiative made it to the ballot this year, was removed for this year by the CA Sup Ct, and has a non-zero chance of being back on in 2020. E.g., https://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_9,_Three_Stat...

One of the questions I was asked in a State Attorney General Office interview in 2009 was: "What state would you kick out of the union and why?" (The secession debates were raging in certain circles after Obama was elected, and I guess some AGs wanted to know if incoming lawyers were inclined that way?)

Will Texas ever secede? Will CA ever actually break up? I have no idea, and I doubt it. But the debate and even the effort is there.
That's common in surveys. It's to see if you are paying attention.
Corollary: stop caring what other people think. The sooner you manage that, the better off you'll be.
There have been a few implementations in the past, including tonecheck. https://techcrunch.com/2010/07/20/tonecheck/
Considering that it's run by FEMA, and they are mandated by law to only use it in national emergencies, and multiple FEMA officials have to sign off on any message sent out, political misuse of it is fairly unlikely.
Maybe both experiences are valid.

Maybe it's not what our degree makes of us, but what we make of our degree/education.

University is where I learned to teach myself bececause my brilliant highly rated Comp Sci profs and program couldn't teach or communicate the best.
ah, that's fair enough. annoying.
I learned the value of patience and moving slowly through many mistakes where I moved too quickly.

In the startup world, the default is to move as fast as you can, and it's often easy to mistake a maxim for product development as a maxim for life. The problem is that it's not good advice for many things in life. Examples:

1. Shopping. Especially big ticket items like cars and places to live. Urgency favors the seller because you don't do diligence well and you don't shop around for better deals when you're in a rush.

2. In a similar vein, negotiating. I got screwed on deals because I felt too much in a hurry to bring up issues I had. The important point here is that I could afford to wait, but I didn't want to, and that worked against me.

3. Job searching. Taking the time to line up offers will pay returns on your salary and happiness, even if in the moment you really just want the job search over with.

4. Managing people. I've had people who work for me ask "how am I doing", and in my urge to avoid the awkwardness of the conversation, I would answer some variation of "fine" even if in my mind I knew there were problems. The problem is that answers like those are very hard to take back once you give them (and especially hard to take back during performance reviews). So instead of trying to get rid of the problem fast, I eventually learned to step back and say "let me think about this, and let's talk about it tomorrow."

5. Relationships. If your goal is to find a life partner, you have a lot of diligence to do. Enjoy the honeymoon period, but don't mistake that for deeper compatibility. That comes from spending time together and requires getting through rough patches together as well.

6. Professional relationships too: on the one hand, you can't be passive in developing your professional relationships, but you can't rush them either. Respect is earned over time, so you have to play the long game.

When it comes to building products, then yeah, moving fast is an asset, but many things in life and career are marathons, not sprints, and you're just hurting your future self if you outrun your own pace.
You seem to have a New Age definition of what discipline is. There is no such thing as an "inherit discipline".

A marine, doctor, rock star, sanitation worker, train operator, and professional athlete are all going to have drastically different things they consider good discipline.

If I have a problem responding to text messages in a timely manner, I can improve my personal discipline by introducing a new habit to take 5 minutes before I go to bed to reply to every message. If I have a problem with my weight I can start going to the gym and change what I eat, discipling myself to take more care of my body. If I have a problem finishing projects, I can discipline myself to set realistic goals and expectations of what "complete" means so I can feel more confident ending things.

Changing behavior to achieve a goal (whether it's self-imposed or from your boss) is by its very nature achieved through discipline.
Oh cool stuff! I was thinking about building something similar, how to get in touch?
This was an excellent article.

It reminds me a bit of a story I heard years ago about a power utility company in the mid west that wanted to reduce accidents among its line workers. They looked at all their line crews, and found one team with a significantly better safety record than the others. They sent out a consultant to see what was going on and found that this particular crew was composed entirely of smokers. Before each job, they'd park their truck and have a cigarette while talking it through.

Said consultant came back with this information and the company instituted a detailed pre-job planning worksheet that each crew had to complete. From what I remember (I can't find the link anywhere - I read this 15 years ago and Google is no use here at all) the net effect was to worsen safety across all crews, while reducing the standard deviation between crews a bit.
Can you provide their names? I’m curious if I’ve heard of them.
Management can be nice. As a dedicated coder, in depth, work hard and lean code better, going into management can give you the levers to bring others what you wanted to have and just be meta. But don't stop coding just do it meta. You can be a hacker and just manage people to do what's needed. Not all managers are assholes. Be prepared to talk more and understand more.
Wow that's quite the story, are you still in the hosting business?
It's a reliable way to make sure people focus on the right thing at the right time. CSS should be an enhancement to the content.
I had WiMax via Clearwire in both Seattle and Chicago.

When it worked, it was phenomenal. But it needed a nearly line-of-sight connection, and seemed to have problems in rain and fog.
nobody is seeing this for what this really is: Apple users compromised by internal agent.

Nation states already paid google employees to target gmail etc. now they targeted an apple employee to make this mistake which allows any targeted attack into those companies that gives mbp to developers very easy to carry out remotely, as this probably leave the remote capabilities put in place for the NSA wide open.
I wonder if this has to do with location as well. This reply cites a food pantry in Chicago, an area of the country that doesn't produce much produce. The farms in Illinois mostly grow corn and soybeans that feed cows. The article is in California, which is where a much more substantial portion of produce is grown.
> Should a small town be able to charge a $50,000 per year rent to put up a cell tower?

Yes, absolutely!

> I don't think cities should be able to stifle the industry.

Portland, OR couldn't stifle the industry if it wanted to. Besides that, city governments don't answer to the industry; they answer to their voters.
> what sin did dolphin-emu.org commit to get themselves on it?

I second this question. The Dolphin team's writeups have gotten a pretty good reception here, from what I've seen, so it seems like a shame for those to get automatically blocked.

Edit: Ninja'd by the maintainer.
MoviePass owner announces it recently raised $65M in new funding
Learn how to understand who the "customer" of your software is and how to deliver what they need. Learn what you're inherently good at and not so good at (and develop strategies to work around your weak points.) Learn that code reviews are discussion of how you did something, not an attack on your ego. (or at least they shouldn't be.) Find mentors you can trust.
The Wireless Emergency Alerts system, authorized in the 2006 Warning, Alert, and Response Network (WARN) Act.

https://www.congress.gov/109/bills/hr5785/BILLS-109hr5785ih....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_Emergency_Alerts
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It seems quite unlikely that this random startup is actually the source of a 30% drop in business at BeetBox. Both of these companies account for a tiny percent of the produce market. BeetBox would be better off working on making their product better, rather than writing articles criticizing a startup doing something similar.
Beyond the first paragraph which just states that their food would otherwise end up as trash, they don't actually reply to any of the claims in the parent article.

The evidence they provide is broad macro-level statistics about how much food is wasted, but not about where the food they're selling comes from.

The parent article claims specifically that they are getting their food from sources that would otherwise be going to food banks.

The fact that this "reply" repeats talking points with country-level statistics instead of directly addressing the question leaves me feeling suspicious of Imperfect Produce.
For me it's a long list of missing features (using Mac OS).

* No Chromecast support

* Missing pinch to zoom support (smooth as butter in Chrome). Possible via Add-on "Multi-touch zoom" [1] in Fx but it's very sluggish.

* Youtube is much slower, also some features don't work there, like being able to scroll down when having a fullscreen video open. Can be fixed by installing "Classic Youtube" [2]

* Fullscreen is broken for me, I was not able to hide the address bar and tab bar. I had to install "Fullscreen Plus"

* Some extensions don't work as good, like Dark Reader [3]

* No good alternatives for some Chrome extensions, like "The Great Suspender" [4] or "Vanilla Cookie Manager" (Cookie AutoDelete for Firefox)

* Pdfium performs much better than Firefox' solution. Unfortunately Mozilla abandoned Project Mortar [5].

I could go on with the list. Don't get me wrong, I will still stick to Firefox even though Google Chrome is the superior product performance- and feature-wise.

[1] https://github.com/haxiomic

[2] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-class...

[3] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dark-reader/eimadp...

[4] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/the-great-suspende...

[5] https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mortar_Project
As for the second problem, it also applies to DuoLingo: at some point I get bored by repetitive easy questions, start clicking too fast, make a mistake (or even a misclick) purely out of insufficient attention (while the correct answer is actually obvious to me) and get more boring questions on the same topic.
It would be worthwhile to go back for the last 5 years of chemistry/physics nobels and see how many winners had a Wikipedia page. Maybe this has been done, but I haven’t seen it.

If had to guess, I bet it’s not uncommon to not be in Wikipedia. Wikipedia is not as much of interest to most in the academic research environment and as noted by others, these folks are often not well known outside their specialized disciplines.
If that's your takeaway of someone who has decades-long career and has hours upon hours of free lectures available (of which none I'm sure you've watched), then yeah, you're an idiot and you're part of the problem of overreacting to ideas that don't safely reside in your bubble.
Well, LinuxBoot is more like heads (the kernel based pre-boot environment), which was possible for a while now (because the DXE was often not required to be signed for BootGuard to be happy).

If we could do coreboot with only the FSP as blob, that would be cool. We'd still have the ME glued in tho, so not complete free booting there yet.

Also, sadly, most firmwares out there don't have that 1:1 edk2 code in their firmware.
> I've been a fan of Mark S. Miller's work for a while now and I never knew these were named after him.

Note [citation needed] in the article. I‘d also really like a real reference.
I'm not sure direct advise such as what you find in books, articles or some courses actually helps all that much - not by itself. I think such advise targets the wrong parts of the brain, the ones for conscious thinking.

However, I think by far the most of "people understanding" happens in the not consciously accessible parts. So I think that the best way simply is... experience and time. What really helps is if you actually want to understand other people, if you are curious. If it's like "work", like studying for an exam, something you were told is necessary but deep inside you'd rather do something else, your (unconscious) brain won't cooperate.

There's a lot of circuitry taking input from the visual and also from the auditory areas of the brain that do a lot of subconscious processing, and they "train themselves". Book knowledge is of little help, it can aid indirectly at most. The good news is, pretty much every one of us already has quite high abilities in this area, the main problem may actually be that you suppress what your deeper brain is trying to tell you. You probably already have those magical people-understanding abilities in a pretty advanced form!

Deep inside I knew perfectly well I was being screwed over during my first trip to the US in one of those New York electronics stores - but I suppressed it and spent a huge amount (for a poor Ex-East German student) on electronics I didn't need and that were 500% overpriced :) Just make sure that your losses are small, like mine (I think I gained a lot more during that simple encounter than I lost), don't try to avoid it or fret over it when you make such kinds of mistakes due to not understanding other people (or suppressing it without realizing it). Imagine that you just paid tuition for the best university there is to understand other humans.

Another issue related to and responsible for suppressing those instincts is that actually acting on them often is more work (at the immediate point in time) than just going with the flow (and suffering later). Example in your case, but same with any relationship: You actually know it's over, and much later, in retrospect, you will know that you already knew, but actually taking the step and ending it right now is really hard. But here again no external advice to your conscious self can be of much help. Especially since only you have all the information about the specific information, so asking others who don't have all that context for advise seems to me to be a form of procrastination - you did something (ask others) so that feels good, but it should be you yourself who makes that decision since only you know what's going on and the people involved.
Obviously, we managed to _not_ import them during eras where travel and trade between continents was far rarer.
Make sure sales compensation is very closely tied to performance, i.e. don't put salespeople on a vesting schedule tied only to time passing.
In other words, I think the panic about Putin manipulating the election is hogwash, visible in part by the fact that American policy is, if anything, more hostile to Russia than before. I honestly think the reason this stuff has so much purchase is people don't want to accept that Trump could possibly be a homegrown phenomenon, because they don't like what it would say about their neighbors (plus it lets Democratic leadership off the hook for botching what really should have been a layup -- Trump was a historically unpopular candidate).
Have you considered people using L2 systems as like an advanced cruise control?

For example, if people are going to text and drive, would you rather they have an intelligent L2 system that reliably keeps you in the lane and not crashing into the car in front of you, or just do as they are doing now?

I think there is much value in considering these systems as a better safety feature rather than fully autonomous.
Always. If you can't resolve the exception and continue processing normally, you should never discard the exception you caught and create a new one of your own. If you must create one of your own, include the one you caught for the additional context.

It's pretty frustrating when you're debugging someone else's code and their error handling just throws away all of the useful information and replaces it with a generic "Something broke" kind of message.
A Hyper-V image would be great if it can take advantage of the GPU and not cause driver issues. Didn't know they had one for DL. Or is it just pure Ubuntu you mean?
The average European car is very different from the average US car. The most sold cars in the US are the Ford F series, in the EU it's the VW Golf and similar hatchbacks.

There are a lot of forces at play here, among others tax rates (which cause the F150 to get bigger and European cars to get lighter), fuel prices, culture (in Europe a big truck won't impress anyone, you get other types of cars for that), average and maximum distance traveled (in Europe nobody fantasizes about roadtrips), road conditions (high population density makes offroad driving less important in rural Europe than in rural America), etc
It was first implemented under Obama, but it was authorized by Congress in the 2006 Warning, Alert, and Response Network (WARN) Act. https://www.congress.gov/109/bills/hr5785/BILLS-109hr5785ih....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_Emergency_Alerts
> As far as quality goes it's way more reliable. Most of the "advanced" driver assistance systems would kill you within a minute if you left the car to their control.

Do you have any evidence/studies for either of these statements?

> It's really the only option for hobbyists and enthusiasts to get self driving capabilities today without 50k+.

Right. It's not a serious automotive grade safety system.
Pain in Leg Behind Knee
Given his behavior over the years: not well.
I don't know ... maybe I reboot more often than you do? While I've definitely been annoyed by this in the past ... I feel like it hasn't happened or been a problem for a long while for me.
Loved the new graphics!
I think that these days, the best large banks do not view software development as a cost center anymore. I'm hearing more and more from people in banking that banks these days are basically IT companies with added security constraints.
IMO add a gif of the system working right on the front page (similar to https://getstation.com/)

It’ll drive more conversions.

Also after working on sentiment analysis for a long time, you should let each user build their own model with tensorflow.js. That may be a down the line kind of thing, but otherwise your model will be fairly inaccurate.

I say this having worked heavily in the space: https://hnprofile.com/
There are finance startups doing $150 billion a day. Well, there is one at least.
> Within months of its arrival in the Bay Area, Imperfect Produce fliers were showing up on our car windows, its outreach coordinators were pitching at community meetings, its Facebook advertisements popped up daily in our feeds, and it was edging into community centers we had operated at for years. The marketing blitz paid off. Soon, Imperfect’s single-use cardboard boxes began lining the streets on recycling and garbage days in the East Bay. We lost customers, a lot of customers.
Those limitations are a good thing: they reduce interference from neighbouring apartments/offices, and even interference between overlapping cells of a mesh network or a base station and its extenders. In practice, this means that the extenders can extend longer, so something like a convention center or work-sharing space can use approximately the same number of base stations it did before.

The only problem is that your phone might not be able to talk to your router through your bathroom wall any more. But that capability was always a sign of wi-fi being too noisy—imagine a light that can manage to penetrate a bathroom wall, and tell me you don’t think it’s maybe a bit too powerful for consumer use ;)
This seems to be the exact same thing as https://www.phatbeetsproduce.org/uglyproduce/, discussed before on HN at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17786894.
So, water is wet, and Facebook doesn't actually delete the data.

On top of that, they record the logins from deleted accounts... still adding to the metadata they have on you, even after you delete.
How long before it gets turned off in everyone’s phones as well. It just requires one or two bogus alerts for people to start wanting to block these things (see amber alerts for unrelated geographical areas etc)
Tried "I'm super thrilled to clean up your mess. Thanks!" and it does indeed get a smiley face (vs neutral or negative) with this tool.

It did, though, do a fairly good job classifying the last 20 emails from my outbox. I tend to avoid sarcasm in emails.
Could you elaborate how being nice can cause a physical pain?
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Hopefully, the next time you will spend 1h during testing beforehand so you don't have to waste 2h filling a postmortem.
That's weird. The only serious competition to public higher education-insitutions in germany is in part-time study programmes. One of them, the FOM, is even branding itself as the "higher education institution for working people".

The difference to full-time university degrees is that they are (usually) not research-focused. So you just learn, for example, business management, but they don't try to teach you how to do research, read and understand papers. It's a big difference. You mostly don't need much math if you don't want to do research.

But I've always wondered...is there a differentiation in america between universities and other higher-education institutions?
Your first point is something I've seen a lot of and experienced myself too when I was new. I think it can be a big psychological barrier to learning more and generally being happier/more confident.

I wrote up something about it a while back: http://zalberico.com/essay/2017/02/21/asking-questions.html
> ... for what is essentially a couple of web servers and a database

Interestingly, while the author compares k8s to an SQL database, they actually do not deploy a DB. It's all fun an giggles until you deploy a DB.
The severing of the economies at the outset of the Civil War, and the total destruction of the southern economy during the war, yet the continued prosperity of the northern economy shows that the northern economy was not dependent on slaves.

> The North did originally have some enslaved people.

Yes, and the ending of that did not retard the economy or reduce the middle class in any detectable way. The middle class increased throughout the 19th century.
I have yet to see any food industry marketing anywhere that doesn't create a rosy picture of family farming in its marketing, rather than the factory farms and giant agribusiness that actually supply the vast majority of our food.
Yeah, I'd have to agree, although I think it shouldn't be that way...but it is: every designer I've ever worked with has some weird pathological predilection to be borderline abusive to users in the quest to make the app/site they are designing their personal art gallery... and Frontend devs are left meekly trying to stand up for the user. I don't know why this pathology surfaces in so many places, but talking with colleagues, it's pretty common everywhere.
I’ve originally put Show because this is the product, the previous was the firmware, but ok.

Did you also apply a penalty? We jumped from #4 to #50, and we have more votes, comments, and are newer than nyt currently in fp.
Yes, but you have to cmd-click or right-click it.
Peer Reviews (PR’s) are not a personal attack on your competency, but constructive criticism and if they are genuinely toxic reviews, speak up and point it out to another senior or manager.
But the best of all was their first, Getting Real.