skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I fully agree with this, and wish to share an anecdote of my own:

I severely injured my back, bulged disk, cause? Poor computer posture and near-total lack of exercise.

I'm fairly convinced that lifting has left me substantially less injury prone: I started when I noticed that I was experiencing knee pain when bending down to pick something up off the floor. That's been gone since about two months after starting training.

Definitely respect yourself and respect the weight. Best of luck with your recovery, I know how it is and it's a journey for sure.
When first tried Windows 10 while is still was in public beta I though "Oh they are still working on the design, things are still pretty crude and indistinguishable from each other". Then a little bit latter I realized it was the final design all along.
So, I resort to the alternate nostrils technique when I'm having a panic attack, but I didn't know it was an actual thing until I read this article. Interesting that I'd pick it up on my own.
It wouldn't be the first time a transit card is named with a theme "sea creatures that start with O":

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octopus_card
Then vest over a reasonable period of time, like weekly or monthly, and not annually?
Probably the Python 3 code was rushed and/or written by an inexperienced programmer. That would just be a coincidence, nothing to do with Python 2 or 3.
One of the aha moments I had was - Thinking of good productive habits as light and unproductive habits as darkness. While you can dim the lights by doing good habits more and more but you cannot dim the dark by doing bad habits less and less.

So, instead of finding ways to "lessen" darkness, I tried to increase light by adding more productive habits.

For adding good habits, I use the BJ Fogg's Tiny Habits method. And it has helped so far.
I don’t think it got clawed back. I think future promised but not paid amounts were just not paid. Which seems a logical reason to pay out bonuses slowly.
The trams are managed by a contracted private company, but pricing and public transport policy is set by the government, which is your first of several factual errors.

There are multiple reasons you'd need to travel within the CBD where you haven't already gotten in by public transport:

It opens up multiple locations in the entire CBD and surrounds to a single day trip without shuttling cars between overly expensive and time consuming parking.

The office can go out together for birthdays, christmas parties, etc without worrying about people's travel means and budgets.

Need to get down to the other end of the CBD for a business meeting: tram. Need to meet someone for coffee? Tram.

Tourists love it when they're staying central and it gives a good impression of our city. Some don't even buy tickets any more when coming for a convention or show.

I can go out and meet my friends/wife for lunch at various parts of the city, get down to the mall to do some shopping, and get back up to work all in the same lunch break now. Not everyone just does single destination trips in and out the city without doing anything else.

It allows one to move around the city and venues with less attention to the weather.

Not having to tap on or off increases boarding/alighting times for a given amount of throughput and in quiet times. (irrespective of whether you've paid to commute in or not)

Many of us from the surrounding suburbs now walk into the city and back out again, making a day of it in the city: this brings life and vibrancy to ALL the surrounding areas and increases walk-ability and foot-traffic, not just in the CBD. There's a whole ring of neighbourhoods on the periphery of the free-tram zone where walking now substitutes for hoping onto a tram 1-4 stops out from the CBD because you know you can make a free transport day of it.

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The downside is of course more congestion on trams in the city as more people are using it to move around a few kms of space. And lower city-based tram revenue, but its also partly responsible for added life and vibrancy in the CBD.

The over-crowding is a definite downside when you're only commuting in/out/through the CBD, since you still pay and now often share the trams with large numbers of people going 3 or 4 stops, but we can hardly pretend there are no benefits.

Source: live just outside the CBD.
I can only say that I find it silly that you are suggesting things like German labor laws when it was a divided country, half literally communist, until 1990. Far more likely that SV is largely a result of the US lead in semiconductors which could only happen beacause of winning, or not losing, WWII. Same is actually true of Sweden as well.
The RER brings riders from the suburbs into the city, but doesn't add to the infrastructure for transporting them once they're in Paris.
Ask HN: Career in research for programming language for quantum computers?
Hi, there. I'm uchan, daily hackernews reader and just recently joined. Greetings everyone

I'm currently exploring various field to dedicate myself to. After a bit of exploration, I found I'm interested in quantum technologies and also a bit of programming language design. I got a question about designing programming language for quantum computers.

How did one go about making programming language for quantum computers? Do I need to have PhD specializing in programming language design or take the physics path and go to quantum related research?
Maybe so. But I can tell yesterday whether I'm listening to Jimmy's band or a pasted-together wannabe track. All respect but ain't no Bootsy Button on the 303.
> While the material composition and implementation techniques have already been tested at the University of Arizona, IronKast is currently in the process of commercializing the Ferrock patent and implementing it into pilot projects within marine environments.

So, in other words bought and paid for by the taxpayer, and sold to the highest bidder on the commercial market.

So much for encouraging use of this stuff. It'll be priced right out of the market because it's "green".
A lot of people swear by the Alexander technique with its emphasis on posture and breathing [0][1]. There are number of studios and videos that go into depth and, anecdotally, it appears to be effective. The referenced wikipedia article also discusses several studies that seem to confirm it as a viable option.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Technique

[1] https://www.alexandertechnique.com/
I'm glad I'm not the only one who remembers CUA, and how much it really gave us wrt UX consistency.

It's interesting that every time I bring it up, such comments get a lot of upvotes. Clearly there's some demand for this sort of UX, at least in this community.
Simply put, the IRS doesn't have the data access Hollywood makes it look like they have. There are timeframes for the Combined Annual Wage Reporting joint task force to have the data trickle downstream from SSA to IRS. It isn't immediately available to them which is why there is the so-called "PATH Act hold" that stops any returns claiming EITC or Additional Child Tax Credit from refunding out before February 15th each year now so at least some data is on-hand. As long as some payers & employers can still file income reporting forms on paper, they have an awfully long time after April 15th to get those documents in to IRS too.
True, but you could avoid software like that.

These days, such shovelware became the norm, to the point where even built-in apps often look like that.
> overwhelming evidence that there is no afterlife

How can you have evidence that something doesn't exist when that thing leaves no evidence?

> mind is a function of brain, and when the brain dies, the mind dies with it

This is not provable. Suppose there is an infinitely powerful computer system outside of our universe that doesn't influence our universe but knows everything about it. Then it could copy the contents of the brain upon death and run the brain in a simulation.

You can certainly not believe in there being an infinitely powerful computer system like this, but it's a claim entirely unrelated to your claim about the brain.
I switched my Dad to Linux around 2012, mainly because I couldn't talk him into spending $2000 on a MacBook Pro (he needed a big screen due to vison issues). I love MacBooks for relatives because the Apple Store can and will help... Chromebooks are nice, too because they just don't have issues.
That's honestly one thing I love about Wikipedia. It's so easy to just keep clicking links and going to new things.
What’s the downside? If someone is fired giving the company anything for free is throwing money away.

I had a boss at a startup let me know I was being let go with two weeks notice. I immediately asked for $20k or else I would walk out without helping anyone transition.

He gave me the $20k (1/5th of my salary!!)
Downvote if you want but according to Bloomberg 4 hours ago that's the official stat.
This is clickbait to sell a book. "Having trouble doing the thing? The problem doing the thing is you. Buy my book for $45, then you can do the thing."
There's another bad-faith actor in this fight to make you burn your time preparing tedious tax bullshit for your personal taxes.

It's Grover Norquist: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/grover-norquist/grover-norqui...

To give these folks something they don't deserve (an assumption of good faith, non-cynicism, benefit of the doubt, etc): they think "letting" the IRS do folks' taxes will lead to more taxes and poor, defenseless taxpayers simply won't have the courage to challenge a "bill" from the IRS.

Simple fix: let folks contest whatever final "pay this number and you're done" amount they get invoiced for & sear that into federal law. But you probably won't ever hear Grover and all the other looney tunes ever mention that.

They don't want easy, hassle-free IRS filing. It's an opportunity for people to be pissed (who wants to pay money for the government)

There's also talk about your taxes fitting on a postcard and that, as usual from the scumbags nominally in charge of our country, is bullshit too because it just conceals a ton of paperwork (source: https://www.accountingtoday.com/opinion/the-postcard-tax-ret...)
Personally, if I can get to an onsite with another company after a recruiter chat and phone screen, I’m not even going to do a “2 hour” project. In my experience, actually spending the recommended amount of time on one of these take home projects is a losing proposition when there are people who will spend more time on it.
Religious Festival in India Invites Naked Men from All Across the Himalayas
I doubt that the "pro" argument is worth the lost economic productivity of taxpayers, or the time spent double-checking the average citizen's math. In public policy you should always be aware that you are not optimizing for rule compliance alone. You optimize for the healthiest society, which typically contains a small amount of cheating. Random tax audits of the middle class probably don't make enough income to justify their existence-- but they scare enough people into compliance.
Trucks are the ones damaging the roads. They could pay their fair share and you can enjoy increased prices on all the goods you use delivered by their service.
On any CRT screen, you'd just get 320x240 as native resolution, the "interpolation" basically done by the phosphorus of the screen. This was the norm well into 90s, and not everybody was on an LCD monitor in 00s, either.

I remember that many games (myself included) resisted LCDs for a long time even beyond that, precisely because they could only do one resolution well. If you played old games, this wasn't satisfactory because those were often hardcoded in the resolutions they support - typically 320x200 or 640x480. And if you played new games, you'd often have to dial the resolution down to get it running reasonably fast.
I wish Firefox would do this too. I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve pressed return just as Firefox changes the ordering of the items in the search bar suggestions. Very fustrating as I’ve since learnt to wait for Firefox to complete its suggestion process before hitting return.
... slow down there turbo. I don't know what you think I said, but this kind of comment is not the kind that gets a response. Feel free to try again when you're feeling better.
I'm not totally convinced entrepreneurship is the right measure. Research happens in plenty of other contexts; entrepreneurship is just a vehicle that works well in a society that values a free market and rugged individualism.

But I don't have enough evidence to say that entrepreneurship is uncorrelated with improving society, so I'll just ask - anyone have recommended studies/articles/etc. arguing either for or against entrepreneurship or even research being a good measure of improvements to society / quality of life?
Nope - but E3 should be easy to get.
This is a good post. Have been in the UK startup environment it was crazy how many companies got funding but didn't had a strong senior in their software department.

Because of this their hiring process was aimed to hire more "strong juniors" even tho they didn't realize it. A strong senior is a person who completely changes how you are even approaching the problem or someone who shows you problems you hadn't seen before. They often see tech in the context of business as well.

As you said, usually, they can't be bothered about learning the new framework of the month or new backend language of the month, but, they have a set of battle proven tools to solve tech problems for businesses.

P.S: I do find it hard to distinguish between bullshit talkers and people who actually get stuff done in the interview process.
There are three different things wrong with your argument.

1) Even if your premises were true, which they are not (see below), your theory of causation is simply unworkable. Intuit and H&R Block spend a combined $5 million a year on lobbying. If that were enough to even significantly influence tax policy, we could crowd fund opposition, not to mention some altruistic millionaire. Or all the tons of companies who would benefit from simplified tax filing? You don’t think there are enough forces opposed to complicated tax filing that they couldn’t muster up a measly $5 million a year to hire some lobbyists? That’s completely not believable.

2) You’re mixing up lobbying and campaign contributions. Intuit and H&R Block are not able to “contribute large sums of money” to any politicians. Lobbying is different—hiring people to tell politicians why they should support one policy over another; arm them with data and arguments to use against their opponents; draft proposed legislation; etc.

3) Citizens United doesn’t have anything to do with lobbying. It’s about companies spending their own money to air political ads. If Intuit and H&R Block were running ads trying to convince people to vote for politicians who support complicated tax filing, then Citizens United would be relevant.
Why, historically, do we multiply matrices as we do?
>Should the company be forced to keep paying redundant >employees as some form of social justice or obligation?

Well that is an American point of view where companies are there for shareholders profits only.

Fortunately here and elsewhere in the world we have good laws in place where a company needs to notify an affected employee or section of an impending layoff so that you have at least time to find alternative employment.

We also get one week of pay for each year worked as part of your redundancy.
I'll have to try one for milk though, that does usually require vigorous constant stirring in a regular pot if you want to do it at higher temps.
Which system level stuff? It’s an EPEL package, only EPEL or non-RHEL repo packages will call it in. Nothing from the base/updates/extras repos will pull python34 in to my knowledge, or any package non-base/updates/extras packages for that matter.

I need to reach out to the cmake3 maintainer because they just added it as a dependency and I have no idea why.
No I did not mean python 3 is what makes the code ugly. I just said the code is ugly and it happened to be python 3. As an answer to your question, just stick to pythonic principles and you'll be good.
>I give candidates time to produce something in the comfort of their own environment that goes beyond solving puzzles on the fly and is actually a reflection of the work people will do day-to-day

100% this.I find whiteboarding to be the actual scourge, as it involves unrealistic pressure in an unrealistic scenario. It reminds me of tests that inadvertently just test whether people are good test-takers versus assessing their command of the actual subject matter.

I believe hiring devs who are also good at whiteboarding have a bias--even blindspot--where candidate whiteboarding is concerned. They oddly believe it to be a prerequisite for a job that infrequently or never requires it.

As such, they may miss out on good devs who simply thrive in an environment more akin to reality.
I think companies should be allowed to lay-off people. The lay-off process should be fair. A few months of salary to sustain, paid off bonuses due, RSUs about to be vested etc. Don’t cancel perf bonus or RSU vesting by laying off people a week before they are due. That is just straight up evil.
What you just described is called reinforcement learning.
Just to clear up a specific point that I see a lot of people getting wrong here about the bonus stuff. I can at least say for the performance bonus it seems weird but thats how it works. Even though its money to reward your performance in “the past” so you’ve effectively “earned it”, if you quit like I did or get fired apparenty if it hasn’t hit the date that it gets paid to you yet you don’t get it. I think most people get surprised by this fact but since that specific situation is fairly rare I don’t think theres much effort to change the policy. I don’t even know what the policy really is, but just wanted to say that part at least of losing the entire performance bonus happened to me. But since I quit I think it’s more reasonable to lose it, that’s pretty lame to lose it when you’re fired since I had the time to factor that into my decision making knowing I would lose it where when you are fired and blindsided like that you are effectively losing a lot of money that you had already accounted for. I know corporations aren’t really dictated by emotion, but man it sure seems like there’s a lot of “bad luck” all at once here... that is really unfortunate. Maybe some rules could be changed to prevent certain things overlapping up like this. Getting fired is one thing, but getting fired and losing money you had already accounted for and technically “earned” is definitely putting you in an even harder spot. Really wish him the best. Also this isnt like tesla is going out of their way to screw this guy, these are just standard industry practices, but hearing situations like these definitely makes you wonder if they should be.

Also just to clear up some lingo for people that I still see people getting wrong:

Signing bonus
Cash sum you “recieve” for accepting the job.

Performance bonus
Cash sum you recieve several months after you’re latest performance review based on your “rating” for that half or year.

Equity (RSU) is seperate from both of these things but you can receive them in both situations. They then follow a vesting schedule that when you leave before the various vest dates its obvious that you wont receive the compensation.
> The people I talk about aren't even deliberately fake. They really think they're awesome.

I guess you don't have to be good at fooling people when you believe it yourself.

(cf. Theranos)
Are things in place to make the job easier? Seniors don’t need easier and this is a huge turnoff.

What? I feel like you have a very narrow-minded idea of what sr engineers want.
Fischer-Karpov: a Simulation Match
That's great. Have submitted feedback.
The idea is to increase the contrast between content and chrome, by making chrome itself less visually contrasting.

I don't buy into it, though. They tried monochrome grey icons in Visual Studio 2012, and people hated it, for good reasons. So now VS icons have colors again.
Well, unambitious seniors are a good bet on who not to hire. They’ll only work what you pay them for, those lazy bastards!
After logging in to TurboTax (for the first time in a tax year) it asks you if it can share your data with its parent company (Intuit). Declining works and doesn't have any impact on TurboTax. However, based on how the UI for that looks like it might not be obvious for some people that data-sharing is optional.
I have been experiencing these same symptoms. I started seeing a therapist again, which is starting to help me control and understand the trigger sources for my anxiety. Thank you for sharing such a personal thing, it helps me know I'm not alone in letting my brain trick me.
Indeed. And the pendulum seems to be slowly swinging that way. Google et al aren't helping their case by being so detached from reality either.
Don't forget that the kids have all those websites cataloging memes and such, and they often have extensive research on origins of those things.
How billionaire Mark Cuban went from a Crypto Skeptic to an avid investor
On a similar note, my mother was recently diagnosed with Silent Sinus Syndrome [0].

She had been having vision issues for a while, and it surprised her whenever they figured out it was due to the collapse of her sinus cavity.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_sinus_syndrome
An index on ID should help.

If it doesn’t, then set up a DB replica (good idea in any case), do SELECTs on slave, DELETEs on master.
More personalized ads seem to be a win-win situation. If I'm already seeing credit card ads I'd like to at least see ones that are relevant for me.
Wow, this is pretty amazing. I'm looking forward to studying this.

The author has also written an impressive OpenGL-like renderer in just 500 lines: https://github.com/ssloy/tinyrenderer/wiki
Iosevka is better
> I’m surprised there’s a need for this kind of thing or even much of a difference between most sans serif fonts.

I mean look how asymmetrical the characters in this typeface are compared to almost every other sans serif typeface. The way the body of the characters flairs out opposite the ink traps is pretty wild. It almost looks like it was designed using deep learning or something, because how the hell could any human possibly come up with those forms.
That study is invoked for arguments that it cannot support. That study makes two main findings:

1) “Elites” and everyone else agree on policy the large majority of the time.

2) When there is disagreement, the policy tends to reflect the elites’ preferences.

However, they define “elite” as the top 10%. Basically, a typical HN reader. The study is often used to asset that the US is oligarchic. But there are numerous reasons why, in a representative democracy, there would be a thumb in the scale in favor of policies supported by the top 10%: professionals, business owners, property owners, etc.
How can I sign up to take these tests for people? Sounds INCREDIBLY lucrative.
The value of that land is its adjacency to public transportation

Source?

In SV, land value is generally orthogonal to nearness to public transportation (because of demographics if nothing else). And along transit lines, the only uptick is near to stations. (If you live next to rail between stations, it's a disadvantage because of noise and added travel in accessing neighborhoods on the other side of the tracks, since you are limited to established crossings.
Bound to happen when you call yourself techslave ;)