skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ayn Rand was a deeply flawed person who would have been aided by having more empathy for others. But she does make a few fantastic points that unfortunately tend to get lost in her ancap fervor.

Namely, that people tend not to think for themselves and slavishly follow social convention for no reason. Not for things like, "should I take all this money?" But rather for things like, Does doing this thing actually bring meaning and joy into my life? Or, Do I actually find deep value and beauty in consuming this media? Or noticing how often we adopt opinions of others for our own, without reflecting on whether or not we actually agree, and whether or not we actually care about what this other person thinks.

And then apply these thoughts to your own creative potential. How often have we not created something because others would not have appreciated it or preferred it another way? When was the last time we did something without consensus or approval, on our own, because we wanted to? How many things are we hanging on to because that's what everyone else does and we don't want to be cast out?
r/haskell has been much more helpful than StackOverflow for me.
A phone as large as iPhone XR with iPhone SE's thickness would be pretty hefty…
Also, hardware assisted compression has really crappy quality for the file size you get. Using a software encoder like x265 is pretty much required, and even then takes a LONG time relatively speaking. Most are unwilling to do so for the gains in storage.
Or humans. Does he hire humans? humans can and do fall sick from time to time. Ew.
Opportunities and challenges for a maturing science of consciousness
'Joke' from my mother (an English Lit. professor):

If someone tells you they enjoyed Ulysses, they're either pretentious or mad.
If someone tells you they enjoyed Finnegan's Wake, they're a liar -- because no-one has made it through that book.
My personal understanding is that much of the point of the book is less to give you a direct understanding of Quality itself, which he says is not directly understandable, but to surround the concept, give you the parameters, where it is where it isn't, being able to identify it when you see it.
While I question whether this is true, if it is, yes, it does. Violent extremism, or incitement of violent extremism, of any form, should not be tolerated.
Their product team have probably made exactly what they were instructed to ... I've severely cut back since the recent "you must use our app" UX took over, it's pretty terrible.
Yet you call out others for sexist behaviour and then behave that way yourself.
I'd say op's point stands regardless
Ah. The second book I was thinking of is mentioned in this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19089362
Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience. I love this simple framework. It's all about how to enjoy learning and improving at things. The author applies it to a wide variety of things, from art appreciation to surviving the holocaust. It really resonated with me. I believe learning anything can be fun.

Atlas Shrugged: I like this book because it attempts to show how things some people think are virtuous can be bad, and visa versa. The protagonists have a sort of honor code to them that defies common ideas of morality.

Don't Shoot the Dog: Describes how to do positive reinforcement training on dogs, horses, and even your children. People don't seem to realize how similar we are to other animals. Also, it's nice to know that positive methods can be more effective than punishments and dominance tactics.
It sounds to me like this company didn't have any patentable technology, and was hoping they'd be protected by dubious 'no reverse engineering' contracts... Which they weren't...
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If QUIC is a name and not an acronym, as the book says, why is it written all in CAPITALS?

That's the real question nobody is asking.
It's actually closer to 50% unless you are using hardware assisted encodes which aren't great currently... though I haven't tried on an RTX card yet, which is supposed to be better. So it does come down to time though.
Disclaimer: I have never been in a real position of "having clients" as I have never done contract work or similar, so take what I say with that in mind...

You have essentially a couple of options. You can be blunt:

"Go away. I don't want your business any longer. Don't call back."

...or you can be tactful:

"I am sorry, but I have decided that I am unable to continue to fulfill your needs as a client, and so I am terminating our business relationship."

Expand either however you feel is necessary. Note that being blunt should probably be reserved if being tactful fails to work adequately.

Being tactful can be made less painful for the client if you are able to both gracefully exit from the relationship, while also potentially giving them suggestions on how they can continue to address their needs outside of your business.

For instance, if you are able to suggest a complementary service, or even a competitor to them who might be able to better address or support them, do so (this works even better if you are on speaking terms or otherwise engaged with those businesses; they very well might refer clients back to you as well).

The client won't like that you are dropping them, but the fact that you are referring them elsewhere will leave a professional and good impression in their mind that even in the process of terminating the relationship, you suggested support for the transition.

Lastly - both of these will need to modified - if they can be used at all - depending on what kind of contracts and agreements you already have in place with the client.
> companies are forced to outsource all their hardware and platform management

Nothing is being forced. You can still set up a server in your basement, or rent/build a data center and run nginx to get all of the benefits of H2, TLS1.3, etc. You can even get "megacorp-quality platform management" with things like Outposts, GKE on-prem, Azure stack, etc.
The Holographic Universe by Michael Talbot when I was in my late teens. I had never heard about Buddhism before or anything like the ideas he presented.

Grant Cardone's Be Obsessed or Be Average last week.

Finally, but mostly, Maurice Nicoll's Psychological Commentaries on the Teaching of P.D. Ouspensky and G.I. Gurdjieff, though I recommend reading what is widely considered the "introductory" text, "In Search of the Miraculous" by P.D. Ouspensky.
Men do now have 2 months of parental leave, if they do not use that they lose it. This is per a new EU law from last year.
While the behavior of Atrient and specifically Jessie Gill is absurd in terms of working with the researchers to address the issues and pay the bounty, I am always skeptical of these captured videos. We don't have any context of what was said before and what the communication between the researchers and Atrient was like other than their accounts. Maybe I am just being cynical, but I've personally had interactions with security researchers who are extremely arrogant and on a vendetta to show how smart they are, and drift from white hat to grey or in some cases black hat territory.
A few fiction choices:

* The Alchemist - the closest thing in my life to a religious text. Just a beautiful story that I can recall at any time for some calm.

* Desert Solitaire - just read this recently and it gave me an entirely new outlook on the relationship between humans and nature.

* Don Quixote - I was blown away by how a book that is ~600 years old could make me laugh and keep me interested. Changed how I think about people 'a long time ago' since they could enjoy the same books I do.

* House of Leaves - this one just split open my brain in an irreversible way, sort of like how you hear people describe certain drugs.
Apple sells cheaper phones as well…
> Trump's own daughter is a Jew.

She's also a woman, but I don't think anyone would see that as sufficient to refute the claim that Trump is a misogynist. Not that Trump was even referred to here except as a victim of the popular act of mocking politicians appearance.

> Trump moved the embassy to Jerusalem

Being a Christian Zionist, or politically pandering to Christian Zionists, isn't incompatible with anti-Semitism.
There is manjaro i3 edition, and if I recall correctly another more minor distro that does i3 by default, but for the most part it is user installed, yes.
An equally effective way to remove that incentive is to break your business in half when you decide to avail yourself of it.

It is unfortunate that we have, as a collection of societies, largely forgotten that the fictitious entity that is your company exists at and only at the sufferance of the society that decides it's a good idea to let it exist--and that we-the-society can demand that you play ball with the society that grants you your charter.
As has been quite clearly stated elsewhere, hiring a dba who wants a gig for 6-12 months rather than an indefinite gig is either much harder or much more expensive than hiring a dba on the indefinite plan. Same reason consultants get paid a lot more; the person you hire knows they're going to be job searching shortly.

There's often specialist work than can be delayed or performed more slowly by other team members. I'm not sure how that's relevant.
Parental leave in Canada is paid by Employment Insurance not the employer.
Is Crypto Exchange QuadrigaCX an Exit Scam?
I live in the USA and at my company (albeit a large one) both men and women get 6 months of paternity/maternity leave.
>If you want me to not discriminate then please make laws which remove incentives to do so.

I guess the question for small business owners to help answer: what laws would make this work? Gender-neutral parental leave seems to be the best (least-worst?) option that governments have been able to implement so far.
> 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.

I've heard that said many times. I'm surprised to hear someone imply the opposite.
I have never seen an irreplaceable employee at any level, from the c-suite on down. I've seen lots who think they are.
People make lots of poor financial decisions. Some are a product of unfortunate circumstances. Others of basically greed.

Buying a house isn't for everyone. And is harder in some areas than others. But buying something within your budget can also provide a lot of stability over time. (Which, of course, may or may not be something you care about.)
Do they actually prevent malicious abuse, or do they just catch people after the fact and fire them? I know from reading about the NSA that they watch what data agents retrieve, and they're restricted by policy from going snooping, but there's nothing except fear of losing their job that stops them.

Google's servers have the ability to send email from myname@gmail.com and it comes with all the appropriate DKIM signatures to be from "me". They have some kind of auto-reply system such that their computer can automatically send "as me". They're already 90% of the way there: I think you've overestimating how big a change this would be.

I'll also say that I have little to no confidence in "strong internal objections". VW engineers built the emissions-cheating system, Facebook engineers built Beacon, Google engineers dutifully slurped up everyone's private wifi traffic. As long as management dressed it up a little bit and/or reassigned any dissenters, I'm sure they'd get a compliant team to build whatever garbage they wanted.

Obviously you think you're the good guys, and you'd never do that, but you'd be surprised how "good" people can gradually slide into really unethical behaviour. If you haven't read them I recommend https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/558867.Disciplined_Minds and https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37976541-bad-blood
No, no. The size of the SE but just a little thicker so the battery lasts longer. That's the only advantage big phones have in my view.
Yeah, but you need to play the odds. If decision A means 5% chance you can't pay for a good college for your kid and decision B means 2% chance of being in that position which one do you choose?
If I run 100+ people firm then the cost is small enough that I can eat it for making the world a better and fairer place and I also get benefits of more inclusive work place. If I run a small 2 people business I will weigh every decision in terms of "what is a chance my family well-being being intact if I do that".
Why did it take 5x longer and why was it outside of your control? Could you have changed the terms about which part was fixed price to fix this?
How to, Truly Focus on What You’re Doing
You're being down-voted for no good reason. If you want to understand what drove Ayn Rand to the extremes then "We the Living" is probably the best explanation there is.
It's really odd to me that everyone on HN seems to blindly trust massive corporations and governments.

It's not hard to read between the lines.
Switched from a Google Pixel (the original one) to the XR. Supper happy about the phone's quality and specially its battery.

At night I noticed that the screen is not OLED or AMOLED or whatevs, the blacks are quite bright, but I don't watch movies or series on it so I can really live with that.

All in all I'm very happy with the phone and it'll last me for years.
11 for me and what used to be 30-60 minutes a day (I like certain subreddits /r/programming /r/chess /r/<proglang> Etc.) is maybe 15 and not at all for days now.

I miss old reddit, nothing else really fills the niche in a unified way.
I read the first one, "essays on software design".
To be clear I was not saying the characterization of the poor as "takers" is fair, I was just saying that's how they will be labeled by society a large.
After the XR and XS were announced I bought a used SE, and I don't regret my choice. I really hope we see an XR Mini or something like that in the future, but I don't hold out much hope.
jesus christ, i didnt know that....
>incredibly slow (it takes about 15 seconds to load on mobile) //

I think that is to ensure that when they tell you "it's faster to use via our app" that they're telling the truth; certainly when the 3 "use app" buttons per mobile view came along mobile appeared to get slower (the change also including cunning "continue" confusion to make people think they're continuing to use the website but they're really "continuing to nothing and instead changing your mind and installing our app").
Wait, so it's actually trained on user drawings? I honestly thought it was someone trying to play a prank on us.
where do you work?
Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari.

I know this is a recent book but it got me to think about personal, religious, and government motivations from a different perspective.
Could you share your h.265 Handbrake settings for 1080p?
Yea. I think it's all about personal priorities. And also letting your own priorities dictate your life rather than those of the people around you.
Isn't SV culture encourages to not stay more then 2 years in one place and always keep an eye for an opportunity, how do you screen for people that are a "risk" of leaving not at home to take care of a child but at a new company to get a salary bump and work on something new and shiny?
'The Power Broker' by Robert Caro is ostensibly a biography, but it's actually about how power works. The protagonist starts out employing idealistic methods, but falls flat on his face, and comes to delight in any means of achievement. I found that once I understood the protagonist's raw goal-seeking, and the dynamics that emerge from it, I started to recognize similar dynamics at many levels of society and government.

Barack Obama read it at 22 and said it was mesmerizing and that it shaped how he thinks about politics.
I did not say it had to be the government. We as a society need to define what a life not centered around work really looks like and how it fits in.
I'm actually reading through his "How To Become a Straight-A Student" right now. Nothing particularly profound, but the task tracking method is definitely helping me stay on-top of college work while having a full-time job at the same time.
> those who had to scroll through the continuous text did not do as well on the attention and working-memory tests. Wästlund thinks that scrolling—which requires a reader to consciously focus on both the text and how they are moving it—drains more mental resources than turning or clicking a page, which are simpler and more automatic gestures.

This would indicate that using page-down or space bar to scroll through websites would be better than manually scrolling. But I find the opposite is true, since so many websites have opaque toolbars at the top/bottom. So when I hit [space] and it shifts the content up by one-screenful, it's actually scrolling too far. So then I have to back up using the arrow keys or by scrolling manually.

It's too bad browsers don't have a setting to make it so that page-down only goes 85% of the way or something like that, to avoid this issue. Of course, you'd still have to hunt to find where the next line ended up.
It's nowhere near 50% for transparent encodes, I just checked. GPU encoding is currently incapable of creating transparent encodes.

Most x265 2160p->1080p encodes actually use higher bitrates than the x264 1080p encodes they trump, due to the increased noise detail in the UHD Blu-Ray source.
> If I am looking for 3rd programmer in my 2 person small company I will not risk hiring a young woman as getting a new employee to the stage where they contribute value is a huge cost.

If you’re involved in hiring decisions in pretty much any western country you’ve just opened yourself to potential lawsuits.
So, I happen to believe in government regulation. Is your assertion that in the predator-prey relationship of free speech vs speech regulation, that the government cannot possibly keep up? That any (new?) forms of communication will enable people to engage in illegal speech, and so therefore are bad?

I'm not trying to egg you on, I'm genuinely curious what you think our attitude should be.
And moment.js is 68 and luxon 64.
Off topic but man do I like gitlabs current UI on iPad, not seen it for a while.
> you're simply doing it wrong.

In Canada
My partner worked at a 10-person company and took the year off for parental leave. They hired a temp to fill her role, who left when she came back.

I work for a 15-person company and we had a developer take a year off. We hired a temp developer who left when the other dev came back.

Not sure why this is hard to understand?
>>So, OTOH, is a sex discrimination lawsuit, especially when you are blatantly guilty.

Yeah, lawsuit or my children not being able to afford college. Oh the choices... I think I am taking the lawsuit, especially that it will be very hard to prove anything with just one employee.

>>Also, most Western jurisdictions with paid or even unpaid but job-protected parental leave policies apply them without limitation by gender.

Maybe in theory, if you looks at statistics of what actually happens in most European countries you will see that women take much longer leaves and often several months medicals during pregnancy as well. I mean I live in one and my male friends usually take at most several days while women usually take close to a year if you count medical leave during pregnancy. I know exactly one couple who split the leave equally. It worked for them but it's definitely not usually happens.
Which breaks on search result and referral traffic, forcing users to install third party extensions to maintain, thus creating new security vectors.

Why not just load your own css and set the div to "display:none;" then?
Awesome, was hoping this book would show up. I only had to read the first 2 pages to know the whole of my philosophy summed up. It is not easy to read since it requires many analogous references to really apply it, but worth the effort. Definitely re-readable.
I find that those points are good and necessary ones, but can be had outside the wrapper and nudge in the direction of being blindly selfish and to ignore the suffering your pursuit of desires wrecks upon others.

Much of Bhuddist thought addresses the same concepts, but the goal is reduction of suffering.
That's starting to get pretty thick…maybe it might be better if Apple made a battery case for iPhone SE?
It's much more expensive, and you can't pick your own produce. Given the pickers' incentives for fast over quality/accuracy, it's often a bad experience. I've tried a couple times and every single time, part of the order is wrong, often something like "bread" or "milk" is tagged "out of stock" and beyond that, correcting anything is painful and time consuming.

Some bulk things, I might order on Amazon, but not much.
Holy Crap!
"Please don't tease us! Some actual information would be nice." - sctb
Don't like the outcome of his thought-process as well but to be fair, it's just logical self-interest which is exactly his #1 job if he's running his own business.

The answer to this in my opinion is a job-market with less job-security regulation (so that "getting new workers up to speed" will be the norm not the exception for companies) coupled with a tighter social security net (maternity leave paid for by the government) and of course a right-to-return (although, if "getting up to speed" is the norm, it might not be needed anyways).
Here in Romania 10 years ago you had the option to get up to 2 years of paternity (only 1 parent).
> low pay

Raise your price!
Ahrendt's tenure coincided with a sever degradation in the quality of service levels at the Genius Bar, and no amount of bling Hermès Apple Watch straps can make up for that.
Awesome, thanks for the links. I didn't knew about the reviews, and on the phone it was fastidious to search for more :) I'll have a look tomorrow, and if nobody will have reported here to have contacted him, I'll try to do it myself.
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. Changed my point of view on ... everything.
> Employers aren’t wary if a 30 year old man is as likely to leave for 6 months as a woman is to leave for 12. Orgs don’t avoid hiring all 30year olds out of fear they might become parents.

If you don't know who will leave, just do some statistics. Currently, it is more women. If fashion changes, it might be that an age group that has not completed family planning will simply be discriminated against.
Am I alone in finding the linux install process much simpler than windows? At least windows vista and older were always a pain to install, debian, ubuntu, elementary and solus have all been dead simple to install. Heck even IpFire is so simple it hurts.

Sure you need to make a usb boot stick but there are so many graphical utilities to do just that I've never had to think much about it.
Far-right communities would be alright if they could be hate-free. They usually have a hard time doing that.
Because it hosts the community itself.

Perhaps a reddit alternative would be just a reddit hoster that hosts the platform for X$ and moderators find a way to get paid.
Even with governments paying for parental leave up to the cap, and often with Canadian companies in the talent war offering to "top-up" to X% (e.g. 80% of normal pay), it means that on average Canadian companies may not be as financially competitive compared to international companies operating in labour markets that do not need to offer as much parental leave (e.g. USA).

It's a choice that Canadians (and other countries) have made based on the value Canada places on work-life balance that are simply different from other countries around the world that don't have similar policies. There's definitely a trade-off (societal value vs. economic firm competitiveness).
That $.5 notepad can handle all 3 of your talking points, and it comes with privacy. (read the recent HackerNews article about DNA info being secretly shared if you can't see the problem)

Getting fancy, you can buy nice charts with colorful status stickers. Minus the stickers, you can print the charts on any printer. All of this is private.