skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you for the recommendation. This looks like a good book.
He lied?
If I were buying a sample of something, with a view to buying in bulk, I don't think I'd base that bulk-buying decision on ads that follow me around after the sample purchase. I've already found the product and bought a sample; any decision to buy a thousand of them will be based on my evaluation of that sample. I'm not likely to forget about the whole project until reminded by an ad that stalks me around the web...
I agree. Building an MVP with something like React et al makes sense because it's a pleasurable developer experience. Comments like the ones on this thread make me scared to show any side projects I have/might develop.
Unions are lousy but they also force employers to treat their employees with some minimum levels of respect. People literally die and get maimed when governments and unions don't force employers to act better. Apples Chinese plants have suicide nets around them
I've been using a treadmill desk almost daily for the last 2-3 years and I absolutely love it. I had two laminectomies for herniated discs about 5 years ago and the dynamic motion of walking has helped me maintain my back health better than an ergonomic chair or a standing desk would. On days when I had a lot of meetings and couldn't walk at my desk it was noticeable.

It works particularly well for me, but your mileage may vary (literally). I tend to walk fast (2.0 mph) which means I need light clothing and a fan blowing on me. That seems to be faster than most people who walk (and beyond the speed you should start at). I'm also able to walk longer than a lot of people do (I've walked a marathon distance several times during 24 hour hackathons). Contrast this with my partner who found it almost impossible to work while walking.

I tend to pace when I think, something about walking helps me think; my treadmill allows me to stay at my computer where I can still write code or make notes, versus getting up from my desk and wandering away. This really helps me switch rapidly between deep thinking and focused working.

Two things I highly recommend if you want to take the plunge: make sure you position your keyboard and monitor(s) carefully as it makes a huge comfort difference, and use a trackpad over a mouse. I've used my Magic Trackpad and had no problems controlling my cursor, but the few times I tried to use a mouse I found it very jumpy (especially at my faster pace).

If you're unsure I recommend looking for a used TR800, take a lot of breaks, and start slow. And a quiet fan can help keep you cool.
> > providing customer support

> It could be argued that they don't even provide this adequately in areas where they are a market monopoly.

It's almost as if being a monopoly means you don't have to invest in cost centers like customer support...

Really though this is pretty much the core problem. High costs + build-out requirements mean monopolies are granted, whether explicitly or not.

Municipal last mile means the hardest part is done once, and then any ISP is free to compete -- which they can do based on offering the best support, fastest peering, etc. The cost of entering the market is reduced to getting set up in the PoP(s).
Thanks for the recommendations! I'd already read Think and Grow Rich and The 4-Hour Workweek, the others are new to me.
There's this advice I read in a similar article that, I think, makes a lot of sense and is ignored in 99 cases out of 100 – put a period in the end of a commit message so a reader can clearly see that nothing is broken or corrupted and what they see is the entire message in its full.

Each of the few times I would mention this requirement on a project people would look at me like I'm a retarded child and keep not using the period.
> This is bullshit.

From my observations, it isn't.

> Doctors know quite a lot more than most people

In general, I don't think most doctors do.

Saying they know "very little about what food does to the body" might be stretching it a bit far. It's more like:

_most_ people know very little and doctors, on the whole, appear to know a little more than most people.

Having said that, there are doctors who know their stuff. I just don't think it's fair to say this characterizes most doctors
It boggles my mind that Microsoft and other companies with a similar reach don't spend more time on core features and tools. Minor improvements such as in this case can improve the productivity of 100s of millions of users.

For the next improvement, hopefully, Microsoft is paying attention to the Ars Technica comments: save unsaved entries to a temp file when the OS reboots. A recent files list would also be an improvement.
I always thought the current UI was designed to test out the core frameworks rather than something they would ship to consumers/users.
Naturally I am talking about x32-style mapping.

Having only 32bits of address space wouldn't be a problem, isn't after all the goal of x32 to reduce memory consumption of processes that don't require more than 4GB?

The mapping would just simply take place on a per-process basis.
The second word of the licence is definitely "free" as in freedom.

Font copyright and font licensing is a tricky thing. (There's an argument that some people make, for example, that bitmap fonts such as the 5x5 original Snellen glyphs, cannot be copyrighted.) The SIL Open Font Licence might have been a better choice.
Pull request? Huh?

More and more I'm convinced the alarm is just due to a bad mental model of how code works. There is no pull request, there's just Microsoft building whatever they want.
material cost: $60,000. Labor cost: $40,000. Profit: $200,000.

Somewhat made up, but these are a bit out there.
Ummm...kinda the opposite? The terminal value is always "patent free" :-)
It isn't as though being open source solves that problem, look at things like Heartbleed.
This is academic, I seriously doubt he has $167 Million. Tesla just wants to ruin him for obvious reasons (deterrence, payback, send a message)
I don't "get" why people want to write code in a browser NOT because I find REPL useless but because I find browser a poor choice of program to input code. I use REPL all the time, but I use emacs to do this. My firefox isn't customized to type code, it's customized to type HN comments and watch cat videos. Why use firefox instead of emacs to type code?
> Many people immediately conclude that this can just be solved via a convecting fluid.

Many people have physical intuition that treats fluids as inviscid, or at least neglects the effects of scale and viscosity.
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But then you need Docker... right?
Hi, we don't index the values, but rather we index metadata about the logstream, for example, service name, instance ip, and things like that and not the actual contents of the log lines.

Inside kubernetes the metatadata would be podname, namespace, deployement name, container name, etc...
Even non-antisocial dynamics lead to organizational dysfunction. Looking out for your friends, preferring to associate with people like yourself, and being rewarded for loyalty are all natural dynamics in human relationships, but are often at cross purposes with an organization's mission.

The solution: good process and good-faith transparency, which takes work.
I've got another one in my bookshelf I'm about to tackle next called "In Defense Of Troublemakers".

It's about how group dynamics also produce irrationality and why dissent is dangerous but necessary. I'd say you'd probably really enjoy it too.
Founder of gigalixir here in case you have any questions.
> indexes values in each logline.

We batch together sets of lines into compressed "chunks", and only add index entries per chunk. In practices, chunks have 1000s of lines in them - so the index tends to be many orders of magnitude smaller than in other systems.
To improve codebase is harder than building from scratch, as you have to get familiar with it first and understand what other developers have done with it. Now you have experience you have a feeling of how to make things ~right. But as other mentioned the way to get better is actually to build stuff. Take a project/idea you'd like to see alive and chunk it into small/workable pieces that on the first place make a set of "deliverables" that keeps you engaged in your progress (you probably didn't have to do this with previous codebase). Then start the action! I'd suggest to focus first on the list of "easy" deliverables so you can get started and get confident as you connect pieces together. In the process you'll see how the list of deliverables grows but also you have to know where to stop (as most people from Academia do not know), for this ask yourself what is the minimal set of features that your project need in order to work? once you have gone through this minimal set you build from there and you can even return to see what can be improved (just as you did with improving codebase).

To get a projects/ideas look at your own needs and think what you would like to be improved to make your life easier or make some tasks less annoying or ask other people, there are a lot of people with ideas around there but very few people willing to invest time to implement them
In theory, yes. I won't hold my breath.
Yellow fever in France
I could be mistaken by the main point was that they are searching for a domain on Godaddy and finds it was purchased and subsequently put up for auctions moments after the search.
10 years around the web platform, what's changed and what's not
Feels a bit weird saying this, but the "problem" (I use the term loosely) is how lots of people don't care about money. As companies like Google are currently learning. When you have thousands of employees who don't give a damn about their salary, their title, or the health of the company they work for, you have to do things the hard way. It's not always a bad thing, mind you.
Wow, I'm afraid of what "let us know if you use this typeface for a project you think we should know about." means if interpreted as legalese.
> Not to mention Google gets carte blanche to basically control Web Standards as they see fit

People keep repeating this, but it is not true. I addressed this in my OP and yet here you are repeating it again. They do not get a free license to do whatever, because other people have the code.

This is just so strange, I didn't expect the developer community to succumb to FUD and hysteria like this.
> This is a good point; seems like an isolated demand for rigor. The bar we should be aiming to be above is "better than Comcast", which is a quite low standard.

The problem is that in many cases, the common folk in a town have to pay at least somewhat for the municipal broadband even if they do not use it; so it'd better be worth using.

I can understand municipal cable conduits and such, since they are somewhat analogous to the roads; but when your municipal government is actively excluding competition (Comcast in this case, if the title is anything to go by), they had better make sure they municipal cars on those roads are good; because if you don't like them, your only recourse is generally to leave town.

To satisfy the "better than Comcast" requirement, generally speaking the only thing you need to do is stop excluding their competitors. Comcast is actually pretty reasonable in competitive markets; but when a satellite internet company needs specific permission to operate in your county, that's something you can fix right now, with no investment, and immediately gain some competitiveness in your ISP market.
Something like http://handlr.sapico.me/ ? :p My own creation. Use it as a RSS-reader, todo list and Post to HN now.

I have some variaties running of it, eg. for my current city where i live.
one specific solution: If your code downloads web content (e.g. a scraper), and you want to avoid having to re-download when you restart it, the requests_cache module [1] works really well.

Also echoing thaw13579's comment; I used GNU Make in one project [2] for this and it worked OK.

[1] https://github.com/reclosedev/requests-cache
[2] https://github.com/kerrickstaley/tatoeba_rank/blob/master/Ma...
What a find! I wonder if this location (and the accompanying abandoned property on the real estate) could be purchased for cheap, fixed up a bit, and turned into a museum or tourist destination.
Comparing AWS and GCP NLP API for Sentiment Analysis and a Case for Custom Model
I don't mind the ads... I just wish we could manually update our inferred advertising profiles ourselves!

Like, "I already bought that product on Amazon so you don't need to advertise it to me anymore." Like, "I already shop at store X so you don't need to keep showing it." Or the obvious case in this article.

Sure, draw your inferences... but please let us correct them! If I'm gonna see ads, I want them to be relevant.
Arguably, given politics is how we reconcile diverging interests, it is what you get when people are not aligned to the same principles. When you have peers without clear principles, you have politics.

Poor leadership causes people to reach for whatever tools they can find to ensure their personal interests prevail. In a startup if you have politics, it is because you don't have direction and you are basically burning cash while everyone re-negotiates how they relate to one another at each new interaction.

If you are in a company that is political without being profitable, I suspect they're already dead and would use it as a platform to get your next gig and split. If it is profitable and political, I would opt to take cash, as their stock will have more downside than upside because they are optimizing for survival not growth. No politics and no profit? Probably a cult. Profitable with no politics? Sell everything you own to buy options.

In a large company, you are basically the minder of capital or assets, with survival and continuity prioritized over growth. When it stops growing at a sufficient rate, it's going to stop producing value and growth and enter a cycle of pathological optimization. Setting people against one another in this fixed resource environment is economical when you have a stable business that needs optimization. Fittest survive, etc. But for growth, that misalignment just creates massive opportunity cost.

Where you have managers sitting on a pile of capital with no sense of how to grow it, they end up operating a death spiral as they switch from the growth strategy they were not equipped for, to more familiar optimization strategies.

Management anti-patterns are the effect of incentives, and clear leadership (vision, direction, alignment) has the ability to resolve those. Leadership obviates politics, and in places where it's good, people know what is expected of them and others, and where they fit in.

For this reason, I think professional managers often don't belong in startup environments because they are trained to optimize for fitness and not growth.
What did he whistleblow on exactly? That car manufacturing is dirty? That parts of the vehicle get dinged & scratched and are still used? What is the revelation here?
Uncorroborated, and also the article notes that the duration of the cloud is unusual.
> Nothing, but Edge has 2% markedshare so what effect will that have?

Okay, so what effect does Edge moving to Chromium have? If you didn't care about Edge due to its marketshare then why does it matter what engine it uses?
I must simply assume that Plato was never married.
Because politics requires coalitions and you can't make a coalition with only two people.
No, because that's not part of what we're building. It was Ted's dream to control a copyright and publishing empire. It is my dream to enable and empower individual creators and consumers of textual information. Mimix will not engage in copyright issues for the same reason that VS Code does not involve itself in the licensing aspects of the code you write. It's simply the wrong tool for the job. Our tool is focused on helping writers and readers to Think Better. It has no functions related to intellectual property enforcement.
You can still have a sole proprietorship but have employees. Sole proprietorship means that you are the sole owner.

I think what you meant is 1 person company with the owner being the only person working for the company... Agree with you on this point.
No. Not if humans work there.

There will always be politics, and what's more, they will be significantly impacted by factors seemingly as trivial as location and geometry.

For example, if you have a large open workspace with square cubicles, flanked on either side by balconies with longer and narrower rectangular cubicles, you may find that the balcony employees will affect an air of cliquish superiority over the floor employees, and will furthermore form a rivalry pitting left balcony against right balcony.

Then, whatever mad scheme it is that forms organically out of the workspace geography, it will be propagated via the personnel, even after you move to a new office. There will always be something that subtly influences all the decisions not having a direct impact on the work. Whenever you try to extinguish one that has been allowed to grow toxic or rotten, another may creep up behind you to supplant it.

The dangerous thing is when a player consciously influences the natural politics to gain power over the workplace beyond that granted by the organizational hierarchy, or to secure a promotion. The probability of such an individual joining your group and upsetting the previous homeostasis during a given interval increases with the size of the company. If it is possible for someone to transfer in, cause chaos, and get promoted up or out, then that pattern will eventually be exploited.
What is blogging? And How can I make money from blogging?
Oh, these are things of beauty..
Positive comment: Great! I love that they're working on improving less "shiny" parts of the OS.

Negative comment: This change probably would have come faster if the entire OS was open source.
Now give us back the .dev TLD.
Depends on how you define “actual work”. In any professional field, keeping people informed and convincing them you’re right is a core job responsibility, even though it largely intersects with office politics.
>Is private sector waste a big thing?

sure, lots of big companies have problems with waste. Keeping things lean, focused and uncorrupted gets hard with size and higher hierarchies. But if the incentives are there it is somewhat easier for a private enterprise to avoid waste in all its forms.

>I wonder if there's something simple we're missing for a way to stop public spending that goes to corruption/waste.

Yes, accountability and informed voters. Why is a major who hired her cousin as city manager (even if it was at market rate) still in office?

Bringing reporting to the 21 century with easy to digest dashboards how various metrics of the city changed over the last 12 years or so would also help. The data is mostly there, it's just very time consuming to consume.
GoTrue JS: Authentication for static sites with just 3kb of JS
Strictly speaking, it's relatively slow, not absolutely slow. If websites all loaded in 10s and this one loaded in 1s, it'd be blazing fast.

That said, it took 1.74s to load for me, I wouldn't call that slow by any stretch of the word.
You're probably being downvoted because more than a dozen comments on this thread mention Bad Blood (including the author), which was a bestseller this year and has been widely described and discussed across popular media. It's pretty easy to guess that the person you're replying to probably meant that.
Oh, I'm fully familiar with the game it's referring to. I just don't understand the connection between a serious search engine and a silly child's game.

Is it some kind of inside joke? I just don't get it. I have nothing against the child's game; it just makes no sense to anyone that they named it after that, and it's not an easy name to pronounce or type. Bottom line: It sounds, feels, and looks bad on them.
There are Russian and Chinese companies checking their 'rolodexes' for hackers contact info just at the announcement. Its a good day to work in security I guess is the upside.
> Or if the answer is technological: How come we accept the tyranny of advertisers on our most personal devices?

This alone deserves a entire novel to be answered properly but in short: it reaches out to social, political and economical reasons. As I programmer I so wish the problems to be only technological but alas, they are not.

1. Most people view anything they don't understand and/or are not good at as magic that "is simply there and works this way". Most non-technical people I knew in my life -- not a small number, has to be north of 300 -- simply had no idea you could block ads. And something like the Pi-Hole they would never imagine even being possible. It'd be a spy movie tech for them.

2. Possibly controversial anecdotal observation of mine during my whole life: most normal folk are very maleable and accepting for the realities around them. Many of my peers call them "sheep" or other derogatory terms and even though on rare occasions I am pissed enough to agree with them, I still understand and realize that people have jobs and lives to deal with and they don't want to go out of their way to try and make a difference in the world. I used to be mad at that but nowadays, with me having suffered years of depression and burnout, I understand that regular folk all too well...

3. Related to the above: not many want to change society at large. As much as it boggled my mind, I actually heard a chunk of the people I met agreeing to have ads served to them. At certain point you have to wonder would you be the hero of the story that aims to bring down tech giants that harvest personal data, or the villain? I know I would view myself as the hero for sure but you gotta wonder sometimes.

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As an even more controversial aside, IMO the current breed of capitalism is ruthless and tries to fill every minute of people's leisure time with a ton of activities -- like doing taxes in huge convoluted procedures, poking you with notifications on your phone to hatch virtual eggs quicker with the diamond currency of your mobile game of choice or whatever, Facebook et al never leaving you alone about somebody posting something, and lots and lots of others.

What I am trying to say is that most people I see around me are way too tired and broken to NOT accept tyranny.
I fear the Goog, even when they bear gifts.
By trading on this private information on the public market, one could argue they did indirectly disseminate the information though, which would be explicitly illegal.

Edit: because the direction of the trades would be publicly visible and highly correlated with the poll results.
The problem is that banksy is incredibly self promoting and making millions. Talk about a huge hipocrite. "I'll cash my check pretending to not advertise his work, oh and don't be an advertising whore, seriously where is my check"
I just want to say, threads like these almost always make me embarrassed to be an SE. For every level headed or compassionate comment, there are 10 more not understanding the problem from the pedestal they don't realize they are standing on. 'why not get another job?' 'no one is forcing them to work'. Seriously sometimes its disgusting and akways frustrating that wome people cant seem to even realize the bubble they are in.

Let me try and make this clear for those who can't see it- most of these workers do NOT have a choice, they have to take the 1st job offered, regardless of pay. It's also very hard to look for another job when you are being ground down with long hours, etc. If you find you cant try and see things from someone else's perspective, think if maybe you have a family member going through something like this, or how you'd feel if they were instead of 'LOL too bad so sad find a better job suckers!'