skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It sounds very much like an engineer's view to split design into a "political point" and an "engineering point"! I think they would say they were trying to make a point about life and the nature of things. Everything is being labeled "politics" these days, even when I can't tell what it has to do with politics. Is "avoiding pretentiousness" now a political issue?

I'm not sure what you mean by "Bauhaus"ed the Windows GUI. If you're talking about Windows 10, I've never heard anyone at Microsoft say that this was intended to be in the Bauhaus style, nor anyone involved with the Bauhaus say that Windows 10 was a design in their style. I wouldn't describe it that way.

Bauhaus design was never about ignoring human factors, or hiding the boundaries of objects -- quite the opposite.
One indicator is the number of large venture IPOs. I see Dell going public again, for instance, as an indicator of Michael Dell not wanting to carry the private concentration of assets as a risk any further.
Declared worst thing in the world...on the 2nd worst thing in the world.
I never participated. They had no way to enforce it without being really creepy. Younger employees always did it, a lot of people generally felt like they weren't doing their job if they said no.
Not sure there are any easy wins here as steam turbines have fallen out of favor. Most commercial ships use diesel main engines due to lower overall costs (capital, fuel, crew, maintenance). Most new warships employ gas turbines (vs. steam turbines) due to power-to-weight and power-to-size ratios, but these are things that commercial shipping does not need and will not pay for. Steam turbines are still kicking around on older ships (like the Jones Act specials rusting up and down the West Coast) and nuclear-powered stuff, and that's about it.
I don't know the English translations, but Frege's "Die Grundlagen der Arithmetik" are a fascinating piece if one would like to know how modern philosophy of mathematics started and which questions one might ask about mathematics from a philosophical point of view. (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Foundations_of_Arithmeti...)
Under Medications he writes “Unfortunately, none of the drugs have generics yet, so they cost between $200-300 per month.”
...and they are not too effective.
...and amphetamine is illegal and addicting

So: read more studies and discover DNP. A molecule that once was. Safer than many meds (of course unless you are an idiot and overdose). More effective than anything on Earth.
But one that will never come back because guess what, it can’t be patented.
So happy research if interested. Just keep in mind there is plenty of misinformation (even on Wikipedia) that doesn’t have any ground in scientific trials.
Quick question if you don't mind - what do the valve guys think of Windows Subsystem for Linux ? It's tempting even for me (who has used only Linux for 20 years now).

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=wlinux-w...

In most tests, WLinux and WLinux Enterprise simply performed inline with the other Linux distributions benchmarked.

Performance is pretty much at par (and in some cases better than Linux).

Do you guys envision a long term disruption in this space ?
I don't understand why you would want to be a shitty boss.

Not only is it good karma but it's good business.

Loyal employees are awesome. Any bump in the road and they have your back.

Maybe when you're some massive megacorp it makes sense but I hope I'm never to the point where I have to run a mathematical calculation on whether it makes sense to treat people with respect.
Yeah I get that. In retrospect I should have forwarded the emails to Glassdoor directly.
> negative reviews flat out removed

And if wording or details were the issue, they could at the very least leave the review score, as a proof of their good faith. Nope.
Is that... is that really your argument? That everything is fine because these people in line at the food bank are able to get free food so that their children don't starve to death? So we can ignore the massive wealth disparity and the vast number of people living in poverty because we don't force them to die of hunger. That's very magnanimous of you. Imagine what they could accomplish with both free food and knowledge of your mantra.
Does the app block access to Hacker News
I still do think reviews are the best way to get aggregated feedback on established (companies, products, restaurants etc).

In order to normalize reviews for myself, I try go through them and sort by least and quickly skim a few reviews to see if it was something that was very personal/one-off to the affected person or more systematic and then it gives me a better picture. Obviously, no perfect way but would love to hear if/how others take review feedback into consideration.
You're exaggerating the population density. It definitely wasn't hundreds of thousands per street! Some figures here: https://urbanomnibus.net/2014/10/the-rise-and-fall-of-manhat... And it's worth pointing out that the peak population density in walk-up tenements was still well below what can be accomplished with tall modern day residential apartment buildings.

No one is saying the tenements were desirable, or wishes for them to come back. What we want is the construction of more dense residential housing that can meet or exceed that population density while providing good quality of life. Said construction is entirely possible, doable, and profitable, except that zoning prohibits it in most places.
Inside Uber's special investigations unit
In-store reward systems aggregate purchases under a common identifier, and chain stores will also attempt to cross-reference purchases and create identifiers for non-members through credit and debit cards. Even when individual items cannot be attained, these systems still can reveal a lot just through the purchase summaries. Store location, type of purchase, etc. All of this data ends up in the hands of tons of financial companies. Stores don't have to directly give up this data to competitors. The information market is simply too big and unregulated.

Cash is the only way to circumvent this process until we have anonymous credit systems.
> Do colleges exist to promote education and intellectual curiosity or to train workers?

I don't really think the teaching part at most universities oriented toward training workers. If they were oriented toward training workers, then the administration would be worried about what skills are in demand by employers...probably training students on particular software, computer languages, jargon and techniques that are common. There would be more emphasis on getting various certifications while still in undergrad. I can't speak to promoting "intellectual curiosity" because it seems hard to define and if you did I bet it would depend mainly on the nature of the student...probably his/her genes, peer group and childhood role models...not on the actions of someone the student sees three hours per week during adulthood.

As it is, a professor can (very often, though not always) be totally incomprehensible and irrelevant to work, as long as they are not offensive, without any repercussions nor even any gentle communication that he/she explain things clearly. Humans tend to craft stories favorable to themselves, so even if the student evaluations are negative, the professor can just blame e.g., short attention spans in the era of marijuana and fortnite...or the professor just might not look at the student evaluations if they don't want to. Over time, some professors even develop a sort of perverse joy at confusing students...their confusion being the sign that the professor is very smart and that he is "challenging" them, when in all likelihood he is just asking them things he never explained clearly in the first place. In my undergrad, an EE professor bragged that the class average was a 23%; he also used his TA as a translator because he could not speak english.

It is expected most everywhere that students will learn work skills on the job and in internships...not at school. Professors at research universities spend all their time thinking about hard frontiers of a topic, and that frontier might have little to do with what you do on the job.
Interesting, for me (and your dog's mileage may vary), humulin and novolin are interchangeable. I bought humulin at walmart before they switched to novolin but I rarely use NPH. I only need it when either I don't have insurance or I need a new prescription because my insurance decided to switch to another preferred basal insulin. It's easy for me to see any changes since I can monitor my blood sugars but for a dog, that could be a challenge and probably requires a stay at the vet to run tests.
Your comment is the one that, for me, has broken the proverbial camel's back. I'm a fanboi from all the way back to the 1980's and have never owned a non-Apple machine. I'm typing this on a mid-2012 15" MacBook Pro which has NEVER had a single problem and runs as fast as my iPhone SX Max. I haven't taken it outside my home in years. My 2009 27" iMac died a couple months ago and I miss it, but I have put off replacing it. I've read so much here about the current MacBook Pros and their myriad problems that I'm reluctant to get one when my current machine dies. It just occurred to me that I can solve both my problems (lack of a big screen and inevitable failure of my 2012 MacBook Pro) for a lot less money than it would take to replace either of the above-named machines with their exact descendants. What I'm going to do — either before or after this MacBook Pro dies — is get a 21" iMac. $1099 with plenty of screen, way easier to move around the house than the old 27", and no keyboard issues. Not to mention the couple thousand dollars that stay in my pocket. Thank you.
Depends if they believe in the mission or not. I feel a lot of people that are Tesla people think they are changing the world. They aren't quitting cuz profit margin is "low". They could have already worked for Bank of America doing boring backoff programming if they wanted a stable and profitable job.
Disclaimer: I work at Backblaze so I'm biased. :-)

> If you have terabytes to back up, are there still any backup services left that'll let you ship them a drive for a faster initial backup?

Backblaze offers a "Backblaze Rapid Ingest Fireball" to allow you to ship us 60 TBytes of data on an appliance.

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/introducing-backblazes-rapid-...

If you only have 2 - 10 TBytes, I suggest you get a faster network connection, or carry your laptop to a location (like your work place, or a library, or your neighbor's house) with a fast connection and just upload it. You might be surprised how easy and fast it is to upload a couple of TBytes nowadays. Using the Backblaze Personal Backup with 30 threads, I can upload about 1 TByte every 12 hours or so. So if you can leave your laptop at your workplace for 4 days you can upload 8 TBytes, then bring your laptop back home for the incrementals.
I do too. If we're going to give people the opportunity to obtain vast amounts of wealth, I really prefer they do these kinds of things with it.

And not just big picture space Tech things. Just the idea of very big risks. Go big or go home kind of work.

Elon does that, and he does it because it's his passion and he's good at it, and he thinks he may succeed.

Others could be doing that, or empowering those who can. There's a lot of this big work to be done. And we cannot take it with us. Might as well put wealth to use right now make a difference.
Recent experience suggests that 35-year-olds generally lack the maturity needed to do well in national positions.
I have to play a bit of devil's advocate for malware. I see the constant arms race between the red and blue teams as a sort of immunization process for our technical infrastructure. Where there are weaknesses, someone will exploit them. Then someone will shore them up. Over time, I would argue malware (technically, the response to it, but there needs to be some instigating agent) improves the health of our technical infrastructure. Like how forest fires are necessary to the forest ecosystem.

I expect the same will be the case for BGP hijacking. There'll be some high-profile hack (higher profile than the ones that have already happened) and finally people will get the hint and implement secure BGP like when everybody was in a panic over Heartbleed and Spectre.
That Time I Got Deplatformed
Usually also those who die after the war are counted in its casualties, if they died of injuries suffered in the war.

As most towns and villages in Finland, my home town's parish has a "Pro patria" stone tablet at the premises. Naturally most of the men died during 1939-1945, but there's one name who deceased in 1957.

The story is simply that when the tablet was set up in 1980's, his fellow veterans (my father included), who knew his death was due to injuries from war even if it was 13 years after being wounded, decided "Svante deserves to have his name among the fallen" and listed him along.
It varies by plant type, health, and other factors. So it's hard to be specific.

https://www.sciencefocus.com/science/how-many-plants-would-i...

>back-of-an-envelope calculations suggest you’d need around 400 houseplant-sized plants.
Ugh that looks amazing, I'm so jealous. Looks like you get more light than I do, but I'll try on the "more water" side, as well as fertilizing. Thanks for the tips!
Smalltalk is not so limited.

COMMAND LINE:
/opt/src/vw8.3pul/bin/visual nbody.vw_run.im -nogui -evaluate "BenchmarksGame program" -a 50000000

PROGRAM OUTPUT:
-0.169075164
-0.169059907

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...
Was this company based out of Pittsburgh perhaps? Because I've heard of the same.
So isn't this a business opportunity for a Glassdoor 2.0 competing company?
Every little bit helps ;)
For that to happen, they'd need to match the current system on cost, performance, safety, and availability. There are a ton of people — e.g. almost every small business — who would like alternatives but for a legal business there are too many cases where their costs (either direct or support) would go up enough not to be worth it.
Doesn't this imply that simplifying/automating the return harms no one (folks can still file individually if they choose), while helping those who would otherwise have to take time or invest money in tax prep? How is this not an un-alloyed good?
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Hadoop on Commodity Hardware or Enterprise Hardware (Dell Isilon)
How are you guys running Hadoop? We have a 1/2 petabyte hadoop cluster running on commodity hardware which has served us well for about 5 years. But now, we see multiple hardrive failures ( end of life ). Should we continue with commodity hardware or look at enterprise options going forward? Thoughts from a maintenance perspective, cost etc.
I fully expect that in the next few years google will come out with some new innovation to convert these youtube videos into transcribed web pages complete with relevant photos taken from the video. Of course this will put video revenue at risk so will have to wait until some form of premium content business model takes off--maybe that already exists with youtube premium.
Seems to me like a legitimate usecase. It involves the judgement by a panel of medical experts, in addition to a court judgement.

"The judge said that while the information on the website with reference to the failings of the doctor in 2014 was correct, the pejorative name of the blacklist site suggested she was unfit to treat people, and that was not supported by the disciplinary panel’s findings."
There's the Street Performer Protocol: https://www.schneier.com/academic/archives/1998/11/the_stree...
What is it with so many products (HN, Discord, Slack) building half assed markdown implementations that aren't actually markdown?
And Common Lisp is better than Rust. What's your point?
Heh I think the iMac is a good move, that's probably what I will do. I definitely am tired of spending ~$2k on a portable that I cannot depend on.

What I'm doing right now is just using my MacBook pro in lid-closed mode with an external monitor and the Apple wireless keyboard/trackpad, so I can avoid those keyboard issues entirely. It's very stupid I need to even do this, but here we are :)
My company recently started a campaign of leaving "honest positive" reviews of your work experience. There was quite a bit of pressure on me since I have only been here a year. They also have been bugging the guy who was hired onto my team six months after me.
==Why does the U.S. have weak labor unions, when many developed countries have stronger ones? Is it because of "elites" overriding the majority? Or is it because a large majority prefer the current, weak labor unions, or would weaken labor unions even further?==

I think you make important points throughout your posts. However, I believe the entire basis of your opinions stands on top of an assumption that polls reflect the unbiased opinions of people with full information.

Put another way, is it at least possible that "a large majority prefer the current, weak labor unions" exactly because they have been influenced by the elite to think that? If the elite own the media infrastructure and are the ones funding Super PACS, isn't it possible that polls only show the success or failure of their ability to influence?

If a Super PAC (or the media at-large) is able to turn a topic into a partisan issue, then it is much more predictable how the public will view it (generally, split). I think polls might be measuring the results after the fact as opposed to accounting for the very influence we are discussing.
Cities without a happy working class is either a resort or a plantation.
That's because security requires defense in depth. If the failure of a single security control can invalidate your security model, your security model is inadequate.

It should require multiple things to go wrong for catastrophic failure. This is a lesson from engineering that hasn't made its way to software development yet (outside of security engineering, anyway).
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Printers frustrate me to no end. Either the ink is too expensive, they don't connect to all my devices, or they break down. Does anyone recommend a make or model they are happy with?
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What is the ultimate aim of movements like this?

To pick on parenthood. Is the ideal that men and women look after children equally? That parents get preferential treatment coming back into work, or what?

I ask because we seem to be getting to a point where there is equality of some kind. This isn't an article about sexism per se, but under representation. Is that a problem? Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus and all that. Does it do either gender any favours to start implementing 'positive' discrimination, if that is indeed what is being asked for. Is there anything wrong with women just not being that interested in maths?
> WINE abstracts away the operating system kernel

WINE is an emulator to the same extent libc is an emulator, then.
I'm currently on a rMPB 15 2012 with OSX Sierra, so 2 OSX versions behind Mojave, and a bit reluctant to upgrade out of the assumption that the old it gets, the lower the amount of QA attention it will receive from Apple.

I guess I should just bite the bullet and upgrade OSX to the latest?
I went from living in the city and commuting via rail, walking to the grocery store, etc, etc to owning a house an hour out of the city, commuting via car, etc, etc.

The mortgage payment is about the same as my rent. Even after all the additional costs of home ownership I am able to save more money. Then there's the quality of life improvements. I have 1500sf instead of <500. I don't have to plan my grocery shopping around the weather. My girlfriend can have a pet (and I can have a happier girlfriend). Etc. etc.
Certainly many people have recanted and that's great, but many others haven't; lots of influential people (including celebrities) are doubling down on their demonization of these teenagers (in some cases, including calls for doxxing and physical violence) to the tune of tens of thousands of upvotes and likes per post/tweet/etc.

Worse, virtually every mainstream publication that wrote about the story led with misinformation, and many failed to publish a retraction or an apology of any kind. And the retractions that actually do get published will never be circulated as widely as the original sensationalist publication ("lies travel faster than the truth" and all that jazz). The entire journalism industry failed at its principle responsibilities--to defer knee-jerk reactions in pursuit of the truth and to see past stereo-types and identity to the individual and the nuanced context. And the consequence was that dozens of students, family, and school faculty were harassed, slandered, and threatened. The only relief in all of this is that no one has acted on their threats.

I don't know how any decent person can call this a passably-functioning system. This is the textbook example of a deeply broken system.
Its not free. You are the product. Advertisers pay google and google is then able to provide the infrastructure to provide your entertainment. Its provided to you in hopes that you will buy something based on the ads you are shown. It must also be effective advertising if people continue to pay for it.
Yes I considered that and I was curious, so I looked it up. It seems the federal government estimates a lower bound of 25 people injured or killed in fires due to bars on windows every year. All things considered, I think that's not so extreme, although the risk should be weighed against the relative risk you believe burglary poses in your neighborhood. 25 per year is several orders of magnitude lower than the number of victims of violent crime stemming from home invasion, although many neighborhoods will not embody those averages.

https://www.usfa.fema.gov/downloads/pdf/publications/tr-138....

https://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/ascii/vdhb.txt

There are other solutions as well. Many window frames are designed to permit the window to be cracked open but not opened fully, to prevent ingress while still allowing egress (either by disengaging the mechanism or by breaking the window if necessary.) Such a mechanism can often be retrofitted to an existing window frame for no more than a few dollars. I've seen people create their own using a short length of dowel rod placed such that it prevents the window from opening fully. There are also a variety of purpose made mechanisms on the market.

These mechanisms are not as secure as bars on windows, but about as secure as a normally closed and locked window. The payoff for less security is enhanced aesthetics and fire safety.

There are many reasonable solutions to bedroom ventilation.
Any ventilator. Heat recovery is optional - it is really hard to recover heat from lukewarm air without actually recirculating most of it.

The pressure drop requires more electricity due to more power in the pumps, making it a relatively bad trade - only heatpipe systems are worth anything.
When I said "Bauhaus"ed, I'm referring to the simpler shapes and lack of ornamentation, like a piece of modern architecture. I'm not claiming they took any direct influence from Bauhaus. But on that note... The "Metro" design that's used in W8/W10/WM was influenced by the New York subway's graphic design, which may if you follow the chain back lead to Bauhaus.

Also, I'm not really an engineer. And I'd find your dismissal patronising even if I was. Stop putting people into buckets.
It is an emulator, because it mimics the behaviour of the native Windows APIs. It's an abstraction layer on top of Linux syscalls, as much as libc is such an abstraction. However it's not a process virtual machine, that's provided by the kernel, and doesn't differ from what ordinary Linux processes get.
"Unprofessional" Is you actually seeing what the people who work there are like when no one is looking.