skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So I know dang watches the content of comments to see if they’re up to the guidelines, but does dang also look at excessive downvotes? The comment here is greyed out, something that should only be reserved for highly offensive comments. Which this is not...
Ah, the memories of childhood. Once I went to a winter June's Party. Saint John's popular parties all over Brazil. This was a huge "clandestine" Big Deal ballonists, many were cops, my primary school mate's father was a cop, and he took us there, crossing the 13 kilometers Rio de Janeiro-Niteroi bridge at night, that huge 3 meters or so tall ballon came down in flames from the sky, my friends father stopped the car in the same middle of the bridge and went out the car to recover the balloons mortal remainings. The "Bucha" , what means the "sponge", a square of Parafine Wax mixed with Cloth fibers and Kerosene, that was the combustion torch of the aircraft was still half unburnt. Half the "silk" paper of the fuselage was still good too, ;D He smashed everything in the trunk of the car we we went on our way to fishing and explode firecrackers by Rio State coast. At That winter party we went that time, I have myself "hand-launched" a 1.5 meters ballon with the other kids. The adults lauched ballons 10, 15, 20 meters tall, full of firecrackers and fireworks that have time-control devices so they ignite and launch the fireworks when they were at a nice attitude on the sky. It was a really a piece artisan craft tech. Sometimes caused fires in Oil Refineries and Collateral Civilian Facilities Damage. This guy would bring to our primary school an Album similar to an Baseball Card Album, but instead it was an Balloon Cards Album, so I think they even sell cards of those things for kids. I remember the most famous/heaviest at time was called "The King of the Kings" and it was more than 20 meters if I recall and was never recovered, they say it went to Space : D This Ocult Art still exists, but is much more clandestine now, When a young "Boss" of a Tactical Standing Point of the Rio de Janeiro's Cartel army dies, the guys in the Favela will launch huge balloons full of fireworks, and shoot bursts of tracing bullets like those from the first Iraq War trough the sky. Sometimes an inloved Boss would launch a big Baloon for his girfriend. But it's not allowed to play like before. It's like the Brazilian Art of WarKites, that uses a mix of fine-ground Glass with wood-glue spread along the line of the kite to cut everything on it's way, preferably other people's kites, but sometimes other people's necks. People still die from it. But is still goes on. Cannot fight with wild people, must civilize step by step ; D
I wish Google would just heavily weight fast-loading, responsively-designed pages in pagerank and call it a day. There's no need for a weird problematic proprietary format.. It just smacks of a power grab to keep visitors on google.com.
Here's what just sending a request looks like with React + Apollo: https://codesandbox.io/s/q71px7njrw

Which boilerplate do you take issue with? There are a couple imports you might find ugly, I suppose. Most likely though the blog post we're talking about isn't a good impression of what "just making a request" looks like. :)
Vincent van Gogh: On the Road to Revolution
Did you read the rest of the post you're responding to? Did I miss something? I thought u/adyidsinga explained it quite well.
I created a life goal of a happy and fulfilling life, and then attempted to identify the 3-5 necessary subgoals that were sufficient for that, and continued down the chain until I got to day-to-day activities.

I have a whole system for that, but the upshot is that if you find yourself doing something that isn't on the graph, then you have a choice - either update your graph to justify why it's necessary, or... consider not doing it anymore.

Kind of an anti-todo list. Because when I had earlier only used todo lists, my completist nature led me to get overwhelmed with list items. This other system helps prevent that.
Gmail's spam filter is one of the worst. About once a month some gmail user tells me that he found my mail in the spam folder. Of course it is easy to keep down spam when you don't care about false positives.
Man, I really don't like a lot of things about Slack, but this comment is over the top. At least assume good faith on the part of people who like do Slack and defend it. There are differences of personal opinion over which features matter most, and it's valid for people to disagree with you. I happen to agree with some of the implied criticisms in your second clause, but, please tone down the tinfoil hat and aggression by a factor of 100.
Now that this information is public, I'm looking forward to the startups that will aggregate this info and let you cross-shop hospitals to get the lowest price, like for flights
>It is about executing. It is about having the discipline to do the things you don't want to do, but know they have to get done.

This is just begging the question.

In my experience, coming up with systems that make the good stuff easy and the bad stuff hard trumps discipline in the long run.
All of those companies extend outside of California. Googling “google noncompete” turned up several examples. Here’s one...
https://gawker.com/378444/did-you-sign-googles-noncompete-go...
You can also see this in height statistics - US heights increased steadily from 1800-1900.
It is unclear from the article how exactly Airbnb is moving "10x faster" as the title claims. Unless backed by a benchmark, this kind of hyperbole shouldn't be an engineering article.
So it's not the first random number they pull out of their ass then ?
Except in US residential construction where it is vanishingly rare.
There's research that credits the fact that SV is in California and not, for example, near Cambridge MA, to the fact that non-competes aren't enforceable in California.
The response has now been edited and explains more fully as a result of that. Just FYI. Charitable, yes. We should all be more so.
The way this usually works, is there's an entrant into the market who decides it is cheaper to use the government to gain access to a network instead of building their own (Number Portability, Local Loop Unbundling).

The government then says "You have to allow competitors access to X, and you have to do it by date Y".

Then the companies get together and agree on how to do it because they agree that government dictated standards suck. There is usually some jostling around with someone wanting to run a centralized database for a nice per-transaction fee. Typically this is tossed out in committee, but not always.
I just checked and my table salt is solid, but then again it's winter time here.
That's not a living wage (or a full time job). There are lots of job search sites.

Spending some time on a good resume / CV / portfolio would probably be a good investment with positive ROI.

Is there a nonprofit that you could volunteer with to increase your hireability during the other 158 hours of the week?

Or an online course with a credential that may or may not have positive ROI as a resume item?

Is there a code school in your city with a "you don't pay unless you land a full time job with a living wage and benefits" guarantee?

What is your strategy for business and career networking?

From https://westurner.github.io/hnlog/#comment-17894632 :

> Personal Finance (budgets, interest, growth, inflation, retirement)

Personal Finance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_finance

Khan Academy > College, careers, and more > Personal finance https://www.khanacademy.org/college-careers-more/personal-fi...

"CS 007: Personal Finance For Engineers" https://cs007.blog

https://reddit.com/r/personalfinance/wiki
Imgur is full of coercive patterns too. On mobile it has a permenant "get app" button hovering over the content and you can't see user profiles or other social interaction stuff. It says you need to install the app to use them, even though they work fine on the desktop website.
As long as I can easily tell a lower case el from an upper case eye (is that how you spell the letter?) I'm reasonably happy with the font for coding.
SV companies operating in Washington State have some of the worst non-competes.
Not that many may care but also running is NetBeans IDE 8.2.
To which I agree. Fi should and (normally) does have much much better customer support than average free Google products.
"Why? Silicon Valley is in California where noncompetes are illegal"

Everything that follows this is a subsequent edit.
In this way, recycling has been one of the most catastrophic environmental efforts ever. If we had stuck with just "reduce and re-use" the world would look drastically different. But no, recycle got included and we got the 3 Rs, so now I can purchase that salad in a single-use clamshell plastic container and feel zero guilt because, hey, recycle!
For (1), how does the parent know whether those components will actually be rendered? Keep in mind one of the requirements was "only fetch if they're actually rendered." Presumably some other components along the way could be deciding to conditionally render them, right?

For (2), the complexity is still there, just in the parent: it needs an entity store and to merge/invalidate when the same entity appears in multiple responses. So still not just a simple case of making some REST API calls.
> I’ve found these non-competes often have no teeth. Unless you possess exceptional knowledge or secrets, companies will not waste the resources going after you.

You naively conflate "not biting" with "having no teeth".

Amazon forces all workers to sign non-competes. They only sue those who piss them off. Granted, a small minority. But that minority suffers a harrowing ordeal, typically losing their new job and their ability to work.

You better believe the rest are kept in line by the mere threat of such lawsuit, and the courts have enforced the non-compete in the cases Amazon did take legal action.
Can you share a screenshot of lisp code with your font?

Can you share the font?

Thanks.
Advancing Open Domain Dialog Systems Through the Alexa Prize
The Wrong Patient (2002)
Russia has two commercial operating ones. There are numerous experimental ones around the world, and India and China are both currently building them. They can also be used to recycle nuclear waste from normal thermal reactors. The only reason they’re not being widely developed is misguided political opposition to them, the same reason traditional thermal reactors are no longer being built.
Yeah, I didn’t want to link directly to a PDF of it.

Outline.com seems to be the HN-endorsed site for copyright infringement.
Tesla is not from SF but headquartered in Palo Alto. As pointed out by sibling comments, Docker is from France.

Twitter - agreed.
>> Go has built-in mutable containers, and no const, yet they still use SSA.

Right, as you say, compilers are converging on SSA, and almost all languages have mutable containers. All it means is that there's a mismatch between the semantics of the IL and the semantics of the language. That's a fairly common situation; there are lots of semantics (like concurrency and associated memory consistency) that can't be captured in an IL as they occur in reality, in the language being compiled. It's just a thing that has to be worked around.
I'm not sure if that's true. Even now they claim that page speed is only a small factor in overall page rank, and even _that_ applies to "only the slowest sites." https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2018/01/using-page-speed-i...
It’s designed to seem that way.

Arizona: Retired and current active members Replaced the Permanent Benefit Increase (PBI) with a compounding COLA to be based on CPI for the Phoenix region, with a 2% annual cap. This was done to save money over time, even if people see the same check today it’s noticeably lower in 10 years. Over a possible 40+ year retirement the difference is huge.

Arkansas: Current retirees Reduced automatic COLA from 3%, compounded, to the lesser of 3% or CPI, compounded. Again a single year at 2% compound vs 3% compound reduces outstanding debt by 1%. Over 20+ years it makes a huge difference.

Colorado: (2018) Retired and current active state employees. Suspended COLA for two years(2018 and 2019) They did more, but that alone reduced their liabilities by around 5%. They had already done a similar thing in 2010 by requiring retirees to wait over 1 year for their first COLA and reducing the cap from 3.5% to 2%.

I could go on but you find a lot of these changes that often add up to a 10+% reduction in benefits and thus costs.
The memory layout of Haiku x86_64 is identical to that of Linux. Perhaps you should try there first?

At any rate, we'd love to at least have your patchset in HaikuPorts, even if it's not quite ready for prime-time yet.
Outsourcing your development? Ask these 25 questions to avoid expensive mistakes [pdf]
Not true. A friend is a PA working in emergency medicine. Nobody will touch her with a 10 foot pole. She needs to commute almost two hours or change fields to get out of her non-compete.

There was also an issue that resulted in state legal action where fast food workers were blackballed due to non-competes.
You can still arrive at astronomical numbers by "combining" random number of procedures, or having random negotiated prices with insurances.
The Havana Embassy Mystery: Conversion Disorder
Not sure how that will be helpful if you are in the middle of a heart attack though.
Shockingly, 'right to work' laws don't forbid non-competes.
It’s good for the person venting obviously. But what’s the truth value to the person listening.

FWIW, I thought the original blog post bought the word ‘toxic’ to my mind. (And one of the reasons I thought so was because it wasn’t verifiable) I did not call the teachers toxic. Hope this clarifies.
Works for me on 12.1.1 on iPad Pro with FaceID.
Those, then, would seem to be valid ways to organize such a project. Lord knows there is more than enough volunteer time available to achieve any project - if properly organized.
It will by means of fostering competition.
It's not imaginary. How often do you see people being interviewed on the news and bringing their babies into view? I'm not complaining that people are hurt by their funding, I'm complaining about how they're using their alleged personal struggles as political weapon.

Anyway, I'm not intending to get into a flamewar again. Let's just agree to disagree.
So let's say a man expresses how he feels and is then shamed for it. This really just reinforces the notion, for this man, that he shouldn't be expressing how he feels. I'm not sure you can "unlearn" in the way you're saying unless you're in the right environment and around the right people. Or if you're willing to let people shame you, which is probably a bad idea.
Use go-ycsb to benchmark different databases
I love the passive aggressive stab at Sutter.

"Modern Healthcare decided to see how long it would take to present the data in a more consumer-friendly format. It took less than two hours - with a break for lunch - to create the 29 PDF files linked below."
From Uncharted to Obra Dinn: Lucas Pope dishes on his illustrious gamedev career
I've dealt with a non compete before and it was literally telling the previous company to go away. I used an excessive amount of swear words in my official response. After consulting a lawyer I learned for the most part they are just a bluff. Obviously you can't steal ip but even if the non compete was enforceable, it's usually a scare tactic. Call the bluff. More than likely those workers only think they are trapped because it sounds scary.

Edit: downvoted of course, but seriously under most cases the company will not pursue it and it was likely unenforceable in the first place. It's a scare tactic by employers and pretend control over their employees. They are bullshit. I'd like to hire an employee that flat out said "yeah I'm not signing that, it's bullshit" it shows they actually have a bit of grit regarding pointless non legally binding paperwork.
Why aren’t there dozens of class action suits against the city?
True, but emergency care is a much smaller portion of medical spending than many people realize: https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2013/oct...
'right to work' has nothing to do with labour laws. A 'right to work' state only requires that unions are not mandatory. They hurt unions because everyone usually benefits from union negotiations, but in right to work states, they don't get the same funding.
The other side of the argument is that you might not have visible burns, but you are still being exposed to high-energy radiation that will damage the DNA of skin cells, making you more prone to skin cancer. This risk can be somewhat mitigated by going for regular skin checks as you age. All things taken into consideration, I'm also in the "have fun in the sun" camp.
This is very true. I knew someone who couldn't get a job with another advertising firm because he had signed a non-compete. Even though they're not enforceable, no company wants to hired from another company where they know those companies sign non-competes (and hence they could be in for a court case).

This situation is real and I've seen it happen more than once.
Worst Union in America (2012)
Always general practitioners. I tend to just visit them when I need a prescription now. I haven’t visited an endo since I never understood the purpose: I suppose they are more expensive and I can just use the internet. My A1c is generally high threes, so I’m not sure what else they could offer. I’ve asked general practitioners and they have never been more concrete than: endocrinologists can help you figure out which pump is right for you. But, internet.

Edit! High fives, not threes. See my comment below.
That was a great compiler group. I had the privilege of doing a short internship there one summer. Remember Lisp/VM? Lots of good people there. And many great stories about Fran Allen as well.
We need to code this in law.

Any type of plastic used in consumer products needs to be recyclable easily, otherwise outlaw it.

Any food containers need to be compostable.

I'm willing to pay much higher food and product costs so that the waste we create can be easily recycled. If it makes the product economically unviable then maybe the product isn't that useful.
Those are not the real prices. Those are "chargemaster" prices, they are pretty much entirely irrelevant. The true price is usually going to be somewhere between 10-50% of the chargemaster:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chargemaster

http://selfpaypatient.com/2014/01/03/insured-patients-can-sa...
>I'm not convinced the web pages were really _that_ slow to start with, so it feels like an unnecessary project (well, excepting the fact that web-page bloat has massively increased as people use more and more javascript libraries &c.).

Right. It's super easy to make lightning fast web pages. In fact, that's the default state of a static HTML page. It actually takes a lot _more_ work to make pages slow by adding tons of javascript, dependencies, server-side applications, etc.

From the article linked elsewhere in this thread:
>The 90th percentile weight for the canonical version is 5,229kb. [...] The 90th percentile request count for the canonical version is 647

There's the problem. Over 5 megabytes and 647 requests for one article? 5MB is equivalent to about 20 full-length novels or 1,000 pages of text. And 647 requests?! That must be one extremely comprehensive article, right? No, it's 1 request for a brief article and 646 unnecessary requests wasting bandwidth to load unnecessary stuff. Then people wonder why it's slow. But someone put in a lot of work to fluff that page up to be that huge and slow and use that many requests.
It's outright blocking pages for me, until the pages retry without AMP
So is sodium but it'll burn rapidly if you drop it in water. Salt won't even if it's molten (though it can cause a steam explosion just from the heat).
Functional, cohesive and pretty.

I’m more than happy if the former two are done and dusted and my experience with BeOS and since on the former two has been pretty good. If something is pretty but not functional, people won’t use it. If something is functional but not pretty, it’ll get used nevertheless.

People might say it’s a false dichotomy but GNOME 3 and early Windows 8 are substantial examples of the opposite.

Windows 95 wasn’t pretty in any traditional aesthetic sense but by god was it ever functional and cohesive and successful despite basic bitmap faux-3D. Nobody cared.
Force multipliers are definitely a thing, but I think that's a different thing. You can have both at the same time.
I am constantly arguing with people in the SF area about housing. The most common arguments I hear (and these are not from NIMBY type entrenched interests) are that “if we build housing it will just be ultra-high cost housing for the rich” or “it will just be more gentrification” or “it will ruin our neighborhoods” (the implication being that new buildings will all be unappealing cookie cutter malls or something. I am constantly finding that your average run of the mill resident actively is against ANY kind of “pro building” arguments. It’s really quite astonishing. Anyone else in the area find this attitude? I find hn to be generally pro “build more”, so I’m wondering if anyone here has any links to studies, evidence or arguments to refute these seemingly ubiquitous views.

I find it incredibly frustrating.
I've found Oregon's law to be something that could be a reasonable and realistic compromise on a national level. I personally would like to remove them completely as I feel like they are very Anti-American in spirit, but Oregon has something that addresses some of the worse abuses of non-competes and seems like it could make ground politically.
I too love single points of failure, and look forward to this Google-Internet.
Can it be preloaded without Google having any pertinent information logged?
Still useful for other non-emergency cases. And also, you could pre-choose the hospital when you're healthy!
People keep on electing the same kinds of supervisors. They hate the way the city of SF is run, but we keep electing the same kinds of people who perpetuate the problem.

Most of the mayors, including the current one, typically want to build, but the Supes have other "priorities" and loathe that developers might make a profit. Then, of course, we have neighbors who don't want to allow progress and want to nix most housing developments.
That’s another way of saying incompetence.

If you want to roll the dice on a new employee then fire the old one. This kind of 10% cut results in losing your best who don’t wait around and just start looking on day one. Worse, they often leave after your round of cuts as getting an offer is outside of your timeframe.
I'll preface this by saying any attention paid to the performance of record players is an absolute waste of effort, in my opinion.... buuuut.

I think that there's a different problem for each component. The turntable introduces vibrations vertically (which seems less important to me, except it could affect stereo), and the arm introduces them horizontally.
I was literally just thinking about this problem. At some point in the future, as alternatives such as hemp-based composite bioplastics become available. The entire environment will have to be "de-polymerized" manually. Rather than simply releasing an engineered enzyme into the wild and allowing degradation to occur in situ. What would be the drawback of simply creating a global fund for actual human cleanup at scale? With some set incentivizing price for retrieval, say $0.01 per gram?
Those people already have housing, and like SF enough to remain. They've already made it.
It was great to see a one-window BitTorrent client 14 years ago on MacOS, native GUI but lots of python underneath..