skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Following up my own comment...looks like current Gmail will have trouble. Loaded in chrome with mobile set to "Pixel 2", and there's one js file that not only blows the per-script max size, but blows the whole "Total Script Budget" by itself, not including the other 78 js files gmail wants to download. Stopped looking there.

(Per-script max size: 50KiB,
Total script budget: 500KiB)
MMM is a ponzi scheme from Russia in the 90s:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MMM_(Ponzi_scheme_company)
Thinking in Systems: A Primer
by Donella H. Meadows
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1603580557/

I read it once a year. It changed how i think about everything. My career is based on this book. My interaction with people and groups of people is based on this book.
+1 to NVC.
(I think you meant to refer to "the Mind". "The Game" looks similar in some ways -- but your description is for "the mind".)
This seems like the most obvious dodge. I know plenty of companies, especially small ones, where any person in the company is pretty much the bus factor. When they take vacation the company shuts its doors for a few weeks.

This is obviously true for startups and small restaurants, especially ones without gobs of VC funding.

Is the solution just to exclude companies that cannot get by without doing this? In other words, make sure certain kinds of startups and small businesses are not possible?
The book "1776" changed the way I thought about many many things. It's about the military presence and the early years of the US Colonies and the British presence as well. Everything was so different back then. Getting all those details shows how life was different in almost every way imaginable: people only had 1 or 2 outfits, income taxes of 2% were considered unimaginably high, military only had 9 bullets per soldier, stage plays were the main means of entertainment, bitter cold affected everyone, no communication meant lots of confusion, etc. Lots of great details in that book.
Yeah, the selectively-bred fruit is a very interesting point.
That's cool, I have nothing against improving the experience of any site :)
Surprisingly not that much research on this topic on the American side, but here's one. [0]

Conclusion: there's a small negative impact on the hiring of women, but it's more than compensated by women being less likely to leave companies that provide them a longer maternity leave.

0: https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/nsarin/files/20170821_jobp...
I once worked with a guy who had 4 children in 5 years. He took a lot of parental leave, sick days and often slacked off early. As soon as the last baby was stable he quit for a new job. Companies and teams that are too generous get shafted.
The fosdem page about the talk is there [1]. I can not find the video recording on the corresponding room page [2]. I hope it has been recorded and will be added, I'm really interested to listen and watch the talk.

[1] https://fosdem.org/2019/schedule/event/microkernel_written_i...

[2] https://video.fosdem.org/2019/AW1.121/
AWS's Blockchain is NOT A Blockchain
AWS and Azure seem to be openly misrepresenting blockchain tech.

Have a look at the following offerings:

1. AWS Blockchain - https://aws.amazon.com/blockchain/ - An excerpt from the page - "Blockchain technologies are often used to solve two types of customer needs. In the first case, multiple parties work with a centralized, trusted authority to maintain a complete and verifiable record of transactions." - WHAT, REALLY?!

2. Azure Blockchain - https://azure.microsoft.com/en-in/solutions/blockchain/

What are they really selling? - A 2018 post by Consensys comes to mind - https://media.consensys.net/blockchain-vs-distributed-ledger-technologies-1e0289a87b16 - this neatly distinguishes b/w blockchain and other distributed ledger technologies (DLT) - Corda & Hyperledger & discusses each's capabilities and limitations.

AWS & Azure blockchain offerings basically allow you to setup Corda, Hyperledger & other DLTs in the cloud. It's not hard to see why they want you to do this - basically just like every other application, DLTs require compute, network and lots of storage. Not to forget cross-selling analytics services. But does it really require the biggest cloud providers to misrepresent blockchain tech?

R3's Corda uses intermediaries called notaries to establish trust and the notary service provides consensus as a pluggable component. Hyperledger's orderer service provides consensus as a pluggable component too.

Now most business use cases listed with the aforementioned cloud offerings could easily be powered with Crash fault tolerance (CFT) consensus (like Raft) and Byzantine fault tolerance (BFT) consensus (like PoW) would be an overkill. And if I'm only using their cloud offering in a DLT with CFT consensus configuration, I'd be better off using a more mature distributed database technology instead. So what's the point of all this AWS/Azure blockchain hoo-ha anyway?

Am I missing something here?
Nearly all RVs are built for intermittent (recreational!) use and specifically not designed for full-time living. Of course some people do it anyway, and they fall apart quickly.
XR is the cheapest smart phone people can buy, you have to consider cost of OS upgrades, free apps that Apple spends $ on (Screentime for parents is worth $5/month by itself). It amazes me how these professional reviewers ignore the fact that most android devices are lucky to get 2 OS upgrades, and have to wait several months after OS is released.

iPhone will easily last twice as long and will get all the feature updates the hardware can support.
Get two men in the room and they will come up with three different ideas of what fair is.
I have forever changed my sleeping habits ever since before I even finished reading Why We Sleep. Best time/money investment I made in 2018.
That appears to be correct for at least Greece and Italy, and France and Spain though, despite geography, they are usually not intended when people talk about Mediterranean cuisine (also, people often single out the European Mediterranean cuisines individually and use “Mediterranean” more for the cuisines of the African and Southwest Asian coasts); navigation on the Michelin Guide website has some bizarre path dependencies where what seems to be available depends on where you jumped in from, which I think contributed to me overlooking that before.

But there is no Michelin coverage for Africa or for Asia outside of East Asia. Unless I haven't found the right secret path into the guide.
>If you have say, a CFO or a specialist mechanic (that you only need 1 of, but definitely need) and they take a year off, what do you do? Just go without a CFO/mechanic for the year? Or do you start the hiring search, bring in another person as a temp CFO for a year?

What do you do if your single point gets sick or quits?

As a business you need a backup (plan).
This article reminds me of the time when I told someone from the tech/rationality community that I was working for a consumer health tech startup that was focused on women's fertility and menstrual health. I was helping to design the UX of the product that had to do with the actual tracking of their cycles and their health. My friend had a reaction that was quite typical of most people I talked to, but it's one that I've kept around as an example of what not to do;

is this, like, very, and truly, *the* best thing you can do with your time? like, back-of-the-envelope: what is the amount of money women spend on keeping track of their periods? like, the savy of them buys a $.5 notepad, and circles the dates?

At the time I was shocked that he didn't even realise that this was a problem, but it was actually that lack of empathy that made me realise that a lot of people in the tech community don't actually think about some of the more germane problems facing the lives of 50.5% of the population --- it was quite eye-opening for me. Our schemas were so different that I found it quite difficult to explain why this mattered. Sure, I could go over the normal talking points - a) everyone's periods are different and they are often different every time, b) there are tons of possible complications and you can get into a world of hurt over the slightest variations in the hormonal cycle, their genetics, and the health of their ovaries, uterus, or even vagina, and c) it wasn't that easy to catch these while they were happening and women most often discovered issues the hard way. Ergo, giving women a map to their bodies - no matter who they are or where or how they were born - would give them a greater sense of control over their lives. But he - and a lot of other folks - just wouldn't get it.

Maybe, finally, seeing the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow will get more people interested in these problems and talk to the women around them about it?
Ask HN: Security advisories you use for tracking open-source vulnerabilities?
What security advisories do you subscribe to for tracking open-source vulnerabilities?
Can you elaborate? I was, kid you not searching for good subreddits and then cane to HN for suggestions and found this on front page.
I agree, it's ridiculous. Hundreds of distros but all include the same 5-10 usable apps. Great, I can run GIMP on Ubuntu, Fedora, Solus, Mint, Elementary, etc. It's still GIMP.
Well, Moghul is maybe a little boisterous for Michelin style. Because the bar and restaurant are contiguous. But I don't recall anything negative about Mehndi.

And then there's Nirvana in Manhattan, at penthouse level on on Central Park South. Beautiful cityscape at night. But it's really Bangladeshi, and they don't do Vindaloo.
Here's a great article that goes in-depth on comparing the resolution and image quality of MF and LF film vs. images from a D800e. A D850 or A7R III has about 10% more linear resolution than a D800e.

https://www.onlandscape.co.uk/2014/12/36-megapixels-vs-6x7-v...

I love this article because it not only looks at lines per mm, it considers other image quality factors like local contrast and color resolution.
Artificial intelligence learns 'deep thoughts' by playing Pictionary
1. First, Break All The Rules
2. The Richest Man in Babylon
3. In The Company of Others
4. The Algorithm Design Manual (when I was 19 I went from consulting to FTE and this gave me a jump in knowledge)
What value do you think your comment adds to the conversation? H.265 is a widely-used standard which millions of devices support and since it's older than AV1 anyone who cares about, for example, iOS users has the choice of using either H.265 or H.264 but not AV1. Even if you're using Chrome or Firefox on a desktop, you often don't want AV1 unless you have a burly CPU, aren't running on battery, and don't mind hearing your CPU fans (a quick search will show this is true even for WebM because millions of people still use devices which have hardware H.264 but require CPU-based decoding for WebM). If that's not true for you, a high-quality open-source H.265 encoder is a great tool.

Here are the current support stats — note the distinct lack of a common format newer than MPEG-4 even before you consider hardware support:

https://caniuse.com/#feat=mpeg4

https://caniuse.com/#feat=hevc

https://caniuse.com/#feat=webm

https://caniuse.com/#feat=av1
I just finished this recently and would definitely recommend as well. It really made me question a lot of assumptions I had about humanity and history. For example it's really not obvious that the agricultural revolution should have ever taken place considering the challenges associated with changing from a proven system for survival.
I am against one-year parental leaves. My wife and I want ten children. That means ten years off work? How can a company manage? What if I were a less moral man and got two women pregnant a year? I mean, it's not that difficult. Even for faithful men, we plan on trying again (last baby born in December) in a few months. Is it really fair to ask my company to pay for my sex life?

More worryingly, what kind of incentive does this set up? Obviously, it would force companies to adopt policies that overall reduce the reproduction rate of society. This can hardly be said to be a good thing. The number of children my wife and I have should be determined by our ability to support them and our willingness to have them. I am perfectly able to support children with my salary, and I'd prefer to spend my time making that salary, rather than having it handed to us.

Nevertheless, the main reason I am against them is that it removes all incentives from employers (and government, by extension) to make things better for parents that are actually working. I'd rather have a more flexible schedule and more vacation than one year of parental leave. Or to live in a society where only one parent has to work.
I'm curious how much colder we would have to make the planet in order for this not to happen.
Light years ahead with a subset of the features. Reddit has been down for me a lot lately too. I'm not sure Reddit has been getting better tbh. As long as the communities stick around I'll keep using it though. I like reddit a lot.
Why not just not work for five years, and have the other parent work?
You can see people as less than human without thinking it is okay for you to hunt them as animals. Advocating to let people die, instead of treat them, because they aren't here legally is putting their immigration status above them as a person and to me absolutely lessening their humanity.

If someone is hurt and comes to me for help, I don't ask to see their papers.
Worked great when I used it to run NEXTSTEP 3.3 last year. Development still seems to be ongoing, which means the source code still builds!
That last quote with music: https://youtu.be/hJj_4ir12-w?t=385
Recent research suggests otherwise, at least on average:

https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/01/pr...

>We find that the average premature death of a million-dollar-earning owner causes an 82% decline in firm profits.

Granted, this is a slightly different question regarding owner/managers.
old.reddit.com/r/askhistorians+mycology+savagegarden

FTFY
Must be .com bubble 2.0 if VCs will throw that much money at a company who can't monetize that many users after this many years.

Not my money, so I don't care, but I do really have to wonder what their plan is.

The way I see it, Google, Apple, and Facebook won't buy them because they're not competitors and they already have more users. And 99% of Reddit users probably use 1 or more of those 3 already anyway.

An IPO seems unlikely because they're not making enough money.

So maybe they're hoping for a buyout from a media company?
Absolutely. If they quit, of course you go through the long candidate search process and hire a replacement.

If they get sick, many companies are on a timer. Specialist work backs up, projects get delayed, extensions are filed, and so on. If a sickness was expected to last a month or a year, I would expect non-trivial problems to arise.
And then I can use Amazon Certificate Manager, create a certificate attach it to your load balancer and cloud front distribution and never have to worry about expiring certificates - and they are free.
Reading Rebecca Solnit's A Paradise Built in Hell changed my views of human nature and expanded my imagination on how societies can be organized.

The book is a series of histories of disaster events, natural and human-made. It shows how traditional ideas of what happens to people in crisis - i.e. that it brings out the worst in human nature and people need to be managed, by force if necessary - are wrong and that disaster and hardship create temporary communities that are peaceful, egalitarian, and supportive. In many cases, the experience of working in common to support others was so powerful that it led to profound individual and even structural political transformations.

All in all, it's a deeply optimistic view of human nature, one that you rarely see these days.
I know NeXT to nothing about this space, too.
It’s per child, with a percentage ear marked for each parent and the rest is up to the parent to decide to gets them.
In reality its not that simple. Its often extra difficult for 30-35 year old women to find new jobs as employers are wary. Its also more difficult for women to return to work after taking longer off. Discrimination lawsuits are more common in Europe from what I've seen.
If the company is utterly reliant on a single person, that person is either an equity owner, or should be, and the owner is taking advantage of them.

If you own in part the business, then imho you take as much or little parental leave as you want/can afford.
The fact that after they backed off of the leave they are giving out a 20K bonus for child care is amazing in and of itself.

I'm surprised that's not emphasized more. They probably also have very flexible work environment for parents so that when daycare's are closed and other issues crop up the parents can get back in there.

I'm a dad of 2, 2 years and 5 year. I don't know if I'd want a year off to stay home with the kids. I'd have loved to get 3 months instead of the 1 month i did get but a year... That just sounds like a lot of cabin fever to me. I'm sure a lot of people would appreciate it, so I'm 100% not knocking it at all. This new benefit is more attractive to me at least.
My daily commute is 25-30 minutes round trip thankfully. I usually use that time to either 1) sit in silence, or 2) call and catchup with friends.
So lots of effort is spent to collect data, make it machine readable data, distill into a selected set of information (still machine readable?) and then... it is obfuscated again by converting it back into natural language which must be parsed again by humans? What a waste! Couldn't that last step be skipped or put under the user's control? Say, my personal assistant/agent/filter/script could ingest the actual data and act on it on my behalf? Maybe tell me only what is actually relevant for me. Such that I don't have to wade through heaps of fluffy bs all the time.
GP’s comment should be taken into context: the CEO is not just a cool dude, he does stupid stuff like rewriting in DB user comments making fun of him.

Why can the CEO even technically get access to the data ?

Same with communities, a lot of them get banned. Basically every week I hear about some community get canned, it’s pretty usual, and often justified.

Yet these “other points of view” subreddits that are pretty frequently violating the service rules (no individual bullying, no doxxing, no stalking etc.), and get reported like crazy still get by for years under the excuse of “making efforts to collaborate with the admin team and act on the violations”.

I don’t have insider insight, but from the look of it I can’t imagine a healthy organisation behaving this way.
Exactly. The easier it is to find differences in your group and another group under the same organization, especially with a weak overarching culture, the less likely those groups will coordinate politically and economically.
Could you elaborate? I've managed to avoid the redesign completely, and I haven't noticed any comments that appear to be rendered incorrectly.
I'm fine with this. They have to strike a reasonable and sustainable balance.

Thinking more broadly, I am not sure it makes sense to subsidize having more children. Sustaining the standard of living we expect today with the population numbers we have is simply not viable, since those standards carry heavy externalities.
I'm ok with you guys being ruled by a dictator. I don't care about you. I just want to make money.
A more interesting subtitle would note that Angela Ahrendts got about 75 million to join, and that's all vested, so bye bye.
I agree that CPython and V8 omitting the ability to juggle multiple stacks is a mistake. For higher-level languages, undelimited coroutines or continuations allow for very useful abstractions like Go's and Erlang's transparently non-blocking IO.

However, it doesn't seem to be _entirely_ an implementation detail. Some developers just don't seem to like the semantics of called functions being able to cooperatively yield without the caller explicitly opting into it with a keyword like `await`. I disagree with them, but it's a legitimate complaint I've a few times.

It reminds me of arguments in the Lisp community about delimited continuations and undelimited, i.e. Common Lisp and Scheme. A lot of the arguments there are really about semantics and not implementation details, and come to the same point: should cooperative scheduling require explicit notation at each level of the call stack?

My view on this is that systems languages like C and Rust should require explicit notation for it whereas application languages should not. This seems to be a point in favour of Go and Erlang over Java and C#.

However WASM, similar to C or Rust, seems to target a level in the tech stack at which it should concern itself only with abstractions that have relatively direct translations to the instruction set of the underlying hardware. Support for multiple stacks doesn't fit into this from what I can see. (A similar argument can be made for WASM not supporting garbage collection too, although it looks like that'll be added at some point to make interoperability with JS smoother.)

With the JVM supposedly adding fibres soon, it poses a question for WASM: is it trying to be a portable assembly language, a portable high-level language runtime, or something in between?
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One that I haven't seen mentioned is "The hidden persuaders" by Vance Packard. It's old and some say it's exaggerated in parts, but some of the mechanisms and tricks explained are everywhere. We swim in a sea of marketing.

Practical effect: you'll start seeing your favourite cereals as an entirely indistinct product, with a cardboard box around, with coloured print over it which has no connection whatsoever with the content.
Perhaps try reading Freud's account of his treatment of the "wolf man" first - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Pankejeff#Der_Wolfsmann... - then read the chapter "One Or Many Wolves", bearing in mind that it's dripping in sarcasm. That chapter had me laughing out loud.
Reddit is still great if you take the time to curate subreddits that pertain to your interests and you use a 3rd party app (Apollo is really fantastic.)

I mostly spend my time moderating r/CrohnsDisease and making sure the people who post there get at least one thoughtful reply. I browse r/all most days but rarely do I post content or comments outside of my main subs because there’s just so much toxicity on the platform.

I wish Alexis had been able to influence the core values of the company before leaving the second time, he seems like one of the few genuinely good people at that level of major tech companies these days. It’s a shame he’s moved on to other things.
I mean you can search?

If it is a common word or activity, chances are there is a related subreddit for it, and askhistorians is one of the more well known ones. There are a lot of similar ask subreddits titled in a similar fashion, but that obviously comes from knowing other parts of reddit.
Speaking with some people on the Retail team, I got the impression that they weren't particularly happy with the changes that Ahrendts had instituted in the last couple of years.
In Australia that's not unheard of. Plenty of women (and men) will go to a 3 or 4 day work week for a longer stretch rather than taking a full 12 months off.
Why People Still Don't Buy Groceries Online
So why is their such a tilt toward expensive French, Japanese, and modernist restaurants? Sure, they even give stars to a couple of food carts now, but how recent is that development?

This is not to say they aren't improving. But it does say that they didn't always live up to their own stated standards.
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Right. This is one of the things I don't like about automatic reference counting, that it's almost a complete solution, but cycles require more thought (but less cases) to deal with than manual memory management itself.