skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He is a Brexiteer who has seen the writing on the wall. That Brexit is being thwarted and the probability of escaping the EU reducing every week. He is a realist and a businessman and a Brexiteer. He would have loved to have seen Brexit realised, I'm sure, but it wasn't to be. As such he now needs to turn his attentions to a Plan B - to secure his businesses in better free trading less bureaucratic locations - in this case Singapore.
From what I know, even most of the Brexit supporters are supportive of the economic benefits of the EU and would like to keep those, they are wary of the "ever closer integration" with things like the ideas for European Military, which, surprise surprise, popped up today [1]. So favouring Brexit is not the same as wanting to discontinue all relationships or economic incentives; they just don't want to be pulled closer into what the EU could become in the near future.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-46908205
async isn't only about performance, but has other advantages, like reduced resource consumption. In addition to that async io also gives you better control over how to cancel io reads and writes on systems where the IO is not interruptible.

But you are correct, if you don't have a specific need, async is generally harder than using threads for concurrency. Ideally the async/await work in Rust is going to make that trade-off less extreme than it is today, which may mean more people will feel comfortable using it as it should reduce boiler plate.
James Dyson in June 2016 during the referendum campaign:

“We will create more wealth and more jobs by being outside the EU.”

hypocrisy ^
news and news feeds align with and are pestilently allied with FB
I do not disagree with the general assertion the author made.

I will observe this is a direct artifact of how we currently devalue people en mass. That shit does roll up hill.

There are many people who "should" earn more than they currently do.

Perhaps leaving things largely to markets, which really do not value people intrinsically, instead only concerned with max output for minimum input...

Perhaps going so far down that road just isn't wise.

That race to the bottom isn't just about "those other people."
They show the rates over years, too.. Quantities may be a factor in lower numbers, but over time they are reliable as well.
Feels like the idea of doing a hobby for the sake of it seems to have been lost in general. Everything's always got to be about 'making it your main job' or 'turning it into a million dollar business' or what not.

And yeah, I miss that too. Especially given how much more entertaining it often is to read a post by an interested expert than by someone trying to make a quick buck.
The negative review was informative enough. Political, negative work environment and old, dead tech. Blah blah.

It's the context that is particularly damning. Whenever you see a heartfelt negative review surrounded by obviously fake or reactionary (do you really not see that?) positive reviews, that is a red flag. It is not uncommon.
There are so many comments here complaining about Glassdoor's business model.

I'm really genuinely curious -- what do you folks thing is a better option for them?

Given the constraints that they are a job review site, and they have to make the service free to the people leaving reviews (low barrier to entry), how do you propose they make money as a sustainable business?
Proposed Porn Tax to Pay for Wall
https://xkcd.com/1133/
IIRC, $100K a year before 2008 was considered pretty high compensation in the valley, and things started to change around 2009. The total compensation of software developers started to increase by double-digit percent almost every year.
I lol'd when the quote, "Pharo is a pure object-oriented programming language and a powerful environment, focused on simplicity and immediate feedback.", is accompanied with a relatively chaotic artwork of the development environment.

Anyways, the dedication of the team is really remarkable. It looks like a really useful learning/teaching tool for OOP. I'll try and hopefully beat my prejudice.
Hmm. How do you buy influence on Reddit or Amazon?
I was on USENET, an ancestor of the internet, in 1981. I knew the personal names of all hundred or so people who posted to USENET news groups. There was a newsgroup called net.general for discussion of anything at all. The average I.Q. of posters was probably 130+. There was political debate, but it was all thoughtful.

In those days, you knew the topology of USENET, so if you wanted to send mail to a person outside of your system, you described the route that reached this person. It wasn't as hard as it sounds, because there were certain systems that had an immense number of connections.
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I think it's along the lines of people with more money tend to live closer to downtown which means they are more likely to live in a walkable distance to work.
He already was a hypocrite. His previous excuses for moving manufacturing to Singapore include Britain not joining the Euro (the European single currency). So the timeline

1) "I need to move to Singapore because Britain is not close enough to the EU"

2) "I want Britain to leave the EU"

3) "I am moving to Singapore anyway, so long suckers"

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/nov/05/theobserver...
I find a lot of that has moved to Medium these days... though there is plenty of self-promotion and marketing, there's also a great deal of good content.
Even then, if you assume Europe is somewhere between a 4th and a 3rd of their total revenue - which I'd expect it to be, given how the EU is a larger economy than the US and Google is even more dominant in Europe than in the US, and irrespective of ad budgets being traditionally lower than in the US - it seems tiny.
Love you guys for doing this, keep it up!
If i remember correctly nobody advertised those platforms at that time in Russia, so most people had a simple choice, you leave LJ because it sucks and you choose most popular alternative with sane audience, for most ex LJ users it was Facebook imho
> email addresses were treated as disposable and temporary from how i remember it before gmail went mainstream.

Not at all. On the consumer level they were typically associated with your ISP account. So you'd get to be <version-of-your-name>@<isp-net.com>

My parents still have the email they set up with the minuscule local cable company in the early 2000's. That's only the second email they've ever had outside of the dialup provider email they had in the late 90's (when internet finally came to our small town)
Looking at the dates of reviews really helps. They tend to cluster when people are being asked to review.
Did the same thing. Not even considering upgrading (although the 32GB of RAM is nice).
Wow, that's pretty stunning and I'm honestly quite shocked it's still the case in '19.

Just downloaded Ubuntu server for some local instances here at home and realized that I hit this path without even knowning.

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Looks like ISO signatures are served over HTTP as well.
I have a cordless dc-44 and really love it. It helps that my house is small enough to clean on a single charge, but its' like the combination of a dustbuster and real vacuum; easy enough to grab for any mess, which means you're more likely to use it regularly. shrug
Cisco and Pure shove mini AI in FlashStack converged systems
I can't figure out that Athon steering wheel at all! I know it's just a cleverly-shot photo but it looks like it's floating there, connected to nothing. (The rest of the car is painful to look at though; to my eyes the ugliest on that page.)
Here is everything you need to know about public transit, commuting and car culture in America:

https://www.ispot.tv/ad/wy2O/state-farm-backstory-truck-song...
Apple certainly isn't hurting for profits, in general or on a per-unit basis. Fobbing it off as "Your iPhone would cost $1.08 more, so we're looking out for you!" is just Apple spinning it the way they want.
He originally said he was moving to Singapore because Britain wouldn't join the Euro!

He seems rather confused..

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/nov/05/theobserver...
All my Apple laptops have lasted many years longer than laptops from other brands, and also have higher resale value at the end.

I'm not a hardware expert who's qualified to judge the actual tradeoffs Apple's making and the actual failure rates, but the big picture seems to be clearly that they're managing both thinness and longevity quite well, despite whatever isolated cases of failures there may be.

Apple certainly isn't perfect, but I've had more hardware problems with "non-thin" laptops by other brands than I have with thin laptops by Apple.
Let’s not forget that it was Cambridge who first identified the political opportunities of knowing people’s psychological tendencies through survey collection on Facebook - before Cambridge Analytica was born.

Can’t help but feel that this is slightly on the nose.
They had a leak recently, I wouldn't trust them with your work email...
> lets not forget that class mobility without a degree is pretty much not possible in the slightest.

While it is true that the school system acts as a filter that removes those who have almost no chance of upward mobility (those with crippling disabilities, for example) from completing higher and higher levels of schooling, we need to be careful to not reverse that observation. Attaining a degree is not going to undo the disability that limits one's economic growth.

With the great push for everyone to have a post-secondary education we've witnessed over the last decade or two, virtually everyone who is capable of attaining a post-secondary education has done so. Those who are not completing those levels of schooling now are those who had no chance in the first place, and they struggle equally in the rest of their life for the same reason they did not succeed in school.

That said, if you were born with what it takes to be top of the class in Harvard, but chose not to pursue that avenue of life, chances are you still have every bit of upward mobility potential as someone who did graduate from Harvard.
We know what Glassdoor is supposed to do, but it doesn't because the incentives for Glassdoor aren't aligned with its mission. Their real customers are companies that are willing to pay to have good reviews/ratings. They tell you as much if you have ever contacted them about a review problem. For a site like a Glassdoor, to be honest, its customers need to be the job seekers or the job seekers + and the companies.

Additionally, people driven to write reviews are often unhappy as most people don't bother. That provides a skewed view of a company and leads to employers trying to encourage employees to post. I'm not sure that there's anything wrong with because that's the system that Glassdoor built. Either way, it's hard to trust it.
I do this with SD cards, I've found fakes with regards to speed and capacity. But I use ZFS for drives and just trust it to do its thing.
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Let's take the worst accusation: child molestation. If one is found not guilty after his name was all over the media, his life is really ruined. Yes, he was accused, arrested and tried and these are facts, but they also ruin his life even 25 years later. We must balance the two.
I maintain several Atlassian products in addition to Gitlab on Ubuntu. Definitely agree - we have a whole snapshot / backup databases routine before going near the Atlassian boxes.
The Ferrari Testarossa has aged really well, and still looks gorgeous.
For increase supply to have no effect on price, the demand curve has to be highly inelastic, but this just isn't true. People very much do make decisions about where to live based on the cost.

At the margin, people may be more likely to move if you build more housing, but this would be because they can get a better deal on housing, not because there is some abstract idea of more housing.

Without a reduction in price/increase in housing quality, there is no mechanism that would cause more people to show up.

The main exception to this is if you have rent control capping prices, but this isn't really a big part of any market where this discussion is taking place.
If Brexit was great for Britain, he would clearly be investing more in Britain. But he isn't. Hence the hypocrisy.
No kidding, wait until he finds out Texas was formerly Mexico and many of the brown people are descendant of US citizens when Texas became a part of the US.
Ironic that someone is saying this from Twitter, which is worse.
All jobs past and present involve some very specific domain knowledge and a range of more general skills.

A car salesman needs to know a lot about the product, more general sales tactics, more general skills like email, and even more general skills like just speaking. But, as you narrow down into the ultra specific niche the percent of time working in that domain decreases. What percentage of the time is the sales guy dredging up specific horsepower numbers etc related just to the car they are selling?

Over time what we could consider generalists jobs like secretary have been cut while the tasks have not. So, by handing out those tasks to others those other jobs have in turn become more generalist on a day to day basis. Dev-Ops for example is in many ways the opposite of specialization.

PS: Put another way, if my last job had been using Java instead of C# I would have done the same thing with ~80% of my time. You would be reading the same requirements of the code was in another language.
Fixed apt has been just uploaded to unstable:

https://packages.qa.debian.org/a/apt/news/20190122T190408Z.h...
There are systems that for various reasons can't use Tokio. In my own projects, I know there are people who need things to be generic across any executor implementation, as they can't use Tokio.

Tokio itself is great though, so if you have no strong reason not to use it, I'd recommend it.
Let’s not forget that it was Cambridge who first identified the political opportunities of knowing people’s psychological tendencies through survey collection on Facebook - before Cambridge Analytica was born.

Can’t help but feel that doing something similar with cognition is slightly on the nose.
If systems like this are allowed to end up on the roads, anyone casually taking a photo that happens to include some traffic may actually be playing Russian roulette with the life of their camera sensor.
Doesn't a transit system complement a road network?

Rapid transit serves the most trips when either the source or destination (or both) are in the urban center. The road network is typically most congested in the urban center. Thus, transit reduces congestion in the areas that would otherwise be most congested, making the road network more useful.

Perhaps "car-oriented cities" simply haven't yet reached the density (and size of the high-density area) where transit becomes necessary.
More realistically: being able to live without a car is desirable for enough people and rare enough in the US that places where it is possible have their rents driven up by demand, pricing out the people who were living there before.
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Living the last several years as an ex-pat, I can at least attest that one tends to lean towards using expressions and words that are easy to understand or even slanted towards expressions that are translations of expressions in the target language instead of native expressions or word choices. One sort of subconsciously also starts to repeat the typical English mistakes that non-native speakers use when speaking English to you, which is bad because it reinforces their mistakes but it's hard to avoid. (E.g. like dropping articles or pronouns.)

And yes, I do the same when using Google Translate, I will very often write things in English in a way that I know will translate better to the target language, similarly to how I will write a search query using words that I think will be more likely to return useful results even if they aren't completely "natural". I just consider it part of a skill of knowing how to use automatic translation to my benefit. You literally learned to be "skilled" at using something that's supposed to be auto-adaptive, which is interesting in itself. To start to learn and adapt to its dynamics. This is also interesting just for the fact that I have learned to depend on automatic translation as a way of living. Many things related to living abroad would not have been as easy or even possible without the help of Google Translate, despite having learned the language colloquially.
So you only need to spend 2 months practicing, and yet you refuse to put in the effort ?
not only that you can forge a MAC address in a number of ways, such as configuration, or with a bridge, there are very tiny routers that fit in a cigarette pack or a coffee cup.
On Reddit, sub mods can be bought, and many are.
Promises much but delivers little, sorry. Merely one of the many who got entangled by Stephen Bax's wonky enthusiasm. :-(

But then again, as a linguistics gig, Voynichese is harsher than 4chan.
Core hours sounds like a more sensible policy to me.
Never had a fb account. I travel all the time.

I don't have any problem with networking or keeping in touch.

Those are artificial excuses to use a tool optimized and abused for faking ones life and lurking on others.
Are any online reviews even vaguely reliable? What's the percentage that are either from insiders or marketers or spammers?
It's not common sense today either. I don't think many people actually understand how expensive driving a car is. These expenses are both individual (maintenance, gas, insurance, tolls, tickets, etc.) and societal (greenhouse gas emissions, crashes, infrastructure like roads, bridges, and interstate exchanges, inefficient land use from parking, etc.)

I'm confident in the future we'll look back at how most Americans live today, and cringe at the massive inefficiency.
> Any given combination of pipe tools, there's a kind of random chance they'll actually work in the end or not.

While this may be your experience, the mechanism of FIFO pipes in Unix (which is filehandles and buffers, basically), is an old one that is both elegant and robust; it doesn't "randomly" fail due to unreliability of the core algorithm or components. In 20 years, I never had an init script or bash command fail due to the pipe(3) call itself being unreliable.

If you misunderstand detailed behavior of the commands you are stitching together--or details of how you're transiting the network in case of an ssh remote command--then yes, things may go wrong. Especially if you are creating Hail Mary one-liners, which become unwieldy.
So to summarize, a beat per second about as loud as an oil tanker (its engine?) continuing for several hours per foundation - which itself will last decades.

The mention of "broadband and continuous sound from an operational wind farm" seems included for creative effect since it leaves the matter of the intensity of such noise entirely to the readers imagination. I would guess it should be of little interest if audible at all to ocean creatures over the sound of waves, even aside from shipping and sonar.
I'm not sure why but the transit system in my city seems to keep making decisions and changes that benefit people making short trips within the central areas while detrimenting those that use it to commute outwards to work. I'm not sure the reasoning for this. But every time the schedules or fares change it always becomes more difficult, takes longer and costs more to travel to outer areas.
Sounds like you're actually a decent supervisor, unlike the examples presented in this thread.
> I really don't understand Apple's obsessions with thinness. Do they really think that a few millimetres off the depth of a laptop is worth sacrificing reliability like this?

Ironically there are quite a few PC laptops that are thinner. With better keyboards, and useful ports.
Yeah I had mentioned UNIX domain sockets. However your post does add a lot of good detail on them which I had left off.
I don't know how FTA's work in New Zealand, but in the U.S., any treaty must be "implemented" by domestic legislation (except for in narrow cases where the subject matter falls within executive discretion to begin with). In the EU, by contrast, a regulation can be imposed on the citizens of a particular member nation even if those citizens' representatives oppose it.

To give an example, if the U.S. entered into an FTA requiring a $15 minimum wage, that provision would be ineffective until Congress passed a law making that the minimum wage. But Congress could impose a $15 minimum wage effective in Alabama, even if every Alabama Senator and Congressman opposed it. EU regulations are like the latter.
the moment we are talking about monitoring user's software base, we are practically already talking attackers at the skill level of nation states, so yeah "everyone" in the subset of plausible attackers.
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The Yellow Pages are still out there :)

They of course don't have unlisted cell phone numbers by default, so it's not of much use these days. Couldn't find myself in Toronto.

https://www.yellowpages.ca/

https://www.yellowpages.com/
FWIW, Yelp advertising has no effect on reviews. Allegedly some sales reps claimed that they could manipulate reviews, but such claims would have been empty threats/promises. This has been tested in court several times; see e.g. the 9th circuit's opinion on Levitt v. Yelp! Inc:

> the business owners pled insufficient facts to make out a plausible claim that Yelp authored negative reviews of their businesses

(I interned at Yelp in 2009.)

Edit: This is what Yelp says about it: https://www.yelp.com/advertiser_faq
At MySpace's height, it was starting to penetrate the Baby Boomer market. It was heading the same direction that Facebook as able to achieve.
Because the planet's axis is tilted 97 degrees, the equator runs roughly vertically comparered to the plane of the solar system, just like the rings. Basically it's like a "normal" planet with "normal" rings and rotation but the whole thing turned on its side, rotation, equator, rings, and all.

The equatorial plane is based on the rotation of the planet, not the relationship to the sun.
What if I added that the original reason Dyson cited for moving to Singapore was the failure of Britain to join the euro?

That sounds like hypocrisy to me

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/nov/05/theobserver...
I don't think there is such a great divide. The greater divide is between people who own a car (or cars) and who do not, however, seems for USA it is a divide between New York City and the rest of the country.

Also, I can comment on one thing I personally enjoy a lot – walking. I lived in many European cities, and recently moved to USA, so I can comment on it. To be able to walk, you need to live close enough to your work / some places of interest (like ~3–4 km is a threshold usually), the path should be interesting and beautiful.

USA fails miserably at "interesting and beautiful" part. Grid system makes it super boring, a lot of buildings are just a relatively small building and huge parking space around. There are no parks in between, no yards – moreover, you can bump into unsafe places!

Architecture (in downtowns) is straight up horrible (although it is subjective). So, after couple of walks I have no desire altogether to walk around anymore – it is dirty, ugly, in some places overcrowded (since everybody works at the same spot in the downtown and time, essentially).
The issue with the strategy wasn’t leaving for a better job, that’s fine. It’s quitting on the spot without notice.
I'll try again when I get home this evening.