skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We did this at Loom (W12) and it was one of the most powerful things we could have done as a team. Internal comms became much more streamlined as a result and it was usually apparent to everyone what we needed to work on next.
The reason is that this shit is not about what gets done, it is about what can be internally marketed and to whom and for what political ends. I often see that my actual work output is less important than the "aura" of work output in terms of team size, techno-hype, that sort of thing. Whether or not a given project fails is nearly immaterial compared to the amount of hype it can generate.

You should see the suits drooling over "blockchain" and "machine learning" with ZERO actual examples of how it assisted the company bottom line or ever even can or will. I'm on a $6M project to improve how our clients get at their data and so far the whole thing is a giant toy with 20 users and they want to scale to "millions of users" and have zero clue how to correctly go about it.

It's frustrating, I feel I am living a lie.

Big healthcare is a money suck that takes in billions and returns pennies to the people most in need. Also am pissed this morning because we found out the one medication my wife takes tripled in price since last time she refilled it. How is that even possible? Something is badly broken here. BS has taken over the real mission.
One thing I always liked to do now is imagine the person who's angry or annoying me is just a 2 or 3 year old. It's much more fun and takes the edge off the situation whatever it might be...
Not advocating anything, only pointing out that fatty and grain-based/sugar-based foods are low in Lithium (per calorie).
I'm not sure you'll find a receptive audience on HN for cinemas as a job creation exercise.

There's something to be said for movie theatres as an experience or an event, but it's a stretch to argue that overcharging for popcorn and hot dogs are a public good.
Microsoft is creating Windows Lite for dual-screen and Chromebook-like devices
All 3 employees.
Install ransomware that is annoying to remove.
Because most people have very basic questions, and you don't want to waste dev time because someone don't know the basics of their OS.
Interesting. The furfural comes from cellulose degradation I assume. And the vanillin must come from lignin. The toluene and ethylbenzene are outgassing from old adhesive? Benzaldehyde could come from air oxidation of the toluene. Not sure about the 2-ethyl-hexanol, but man I used to love the faint floral odor of mixed hexanes!
As someone who speaks 4 languages, my passwords are always a combination of words from different languages together. I am wary of trusting a software with my password generation.
I tried that yesterday because the ISOs were already up and unfortunately, unless Qemu is an unsupported platform, it's a mess.

First, I tried the LiveCD and found that the default qemu's network driver is unsupported. Found the docs, changed the driver and found that I have networking... but explorer.exe can't really visit any page, so all I could think of is to telnet somewhere. Then I tried to install some apps, but found that the "add or remove applications", while being a nice concept, unfortunately doesn't work on the live CD. So I switched to the main iso.

Two reboots later I tried to install Firefox... and found that it freezes the machine. A while later I found that this is the way ReactOS handles lack of RAM, so I added some. The scary part is that the freeze actually rendered the system unbootable after restart, which is super weird. Then I was wondering if I could install some old Visual Studio there and while trying to install .NET, first I found that 4.6 is "unsupported on this system" (which is fair, since it's fairly new) and the older .NET crashed the system again, this time because I ran out of disk space. So, if the system runs out of resources, its default response is to bluescreen.

At this point I just gave up. I'll probably come back to try it out at the next release, but for now... either I'm doing something wrong, or it's unusable.
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It looks too big on mobile. It doesn't fit the screen...
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I agree with you, but this isn't about creating fully working self-sufficient backup in a single go. There needs to be a first step, and then another, and so on. We will learn great deal from it, be it IT technology, materials, physics but also about us - psychology, physiology etc.
Authorization checks aren't that expensive. The overhead of using an external service might well make it take up more hardware overall.
When simple (the internet bank) was first getting started, I was in their public beta. Support was handled by the developers. All the engineers had to do rotations on support.

As an engineer, I think I would hate that being a required part of the job. But also as an engineer who works in the banking/transaction processing industry, the support was damn amazing.

A ton of things about the company went downhill as they grew and especially after they were acquired, but the support turning completely crappy was the worst by far.
Fits my tiny iPhone SE screen fine. What phone do you have?
What if you come up with a better algorithm for version 7.28 that is 80% shorter?
Roma seems to have been received well to critical acclaim.
You can also use Qt from Python using PyQt or PySide, which is officially supported as of recently - https://www.qt.io/qt-for-python

There are also Qt bindings for a bunch of other languages, but Python seems to be the best supported after C++
Link returns 502: Bad Gateway.
If they are so bad, why are there people that feel threatened enough to ban them?
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That pretty much sums it up.
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This is impressive engineering

"Ultrasimple, it has no pistons, no electrical system, no lubrication or cooling system, no clutch, transmission or starter"
I started my career in technical support and looking back it was one of the greatest learning experiences.

The Support Team knows the product better than anyone in the company which is extremely valuable if/when you get promoted to another position within the company.
That's me, but I'm not South African :)

I studied Software Engineering in Australia, I work as that from time to time to top up the savings account, though I hope I never have to do it again.
Not sure if anyones really considered this, but it bugs me to see future nascent industrial applications that want to pull CO2 out of the air for products. We could very well get ourselves into an even worse situation with too little CO2.

Off the top of my head, if levels were to drop below 120 ppm, we would see mass plant die off. Pre-industrial levels were already around 180 to 200 ppm. So even if we can stabilize right now around 400 ppm with renewables, AND start to sequester back to pre-industrial levels, we would need to also make sure we can turn that sequestration OFF at some point. And what is that point exactly? Optimal ppm CO2 level is actually very debatable. The dirty secret is that plant growth is most optimal around 1200 - 1500 ppm CO2. Likely because plants evolved in epochs of much higher levels. Stabilizing at todays 400 ppm is probably optimal.

We could very well get into a situation in the future where we are begging industry to STOP pulling CO2 out of the atmosphere for fear or crop failure, instead of pumping it out. Industry in China and India that might be outside of our sovereignty. It may take 1000 years, but levels will come down naturally if we can stabilize at 400 ppm. That stability will only come from technological advances like electric cars, planes, trucks and lab grown meats.
If a user is willing to message you, you can be sure many hundred other users are thinking/experiencing the same thing.

I remember support commenting that lots of users seemed concerned about security (messaging to ask if their files are kept after) and we were removing them, plus it was written in the privacy and terms page.

Finally we put in plain writing that we didn't keep any files, right on the landing page... 40% lift in conversions.

Support is a better signal than exit surveys.
0. You are cherry picking one stock from a portfolio. That's not how investing works.

1. Buffett said that Kraft may not be the same, in the quote you cited.

2. Kraft today is not the same company as Kraft in 2008. The company split, and strong brands went to
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondelez_International
which has done quite well.
Why not just wireguard?
Why not have large scale farming of humans to meet demands for inexpensive labor and protect against the occasional genocide?
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Pretty sure that was rhetorical.
So... what's this for? I mean, I know what progress bars are for per se but I can't see any mention of a way to tie the meter to something concrete other than time - and we already have clocks and calendars for that. I must be missing something...
Clearly the cinema awards should only be for films - if it's shot digitally, it's not using film, so it's not cinema. The Oscars should be restricted to those works that were shot on film and projected on film without ever going through a fully digital stage.

/s
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Why we choose Elixir as the main technology for our startup?
I have a large screen phone and decent eyesight, so I'm perfectly happy to read books using the Kindle app.

Books are lovely physical objects, but the convenience of carrying a library with me at all times far outweighs any sentimentality I have.
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Regardless of the spotty quality of netflix productions, film awards should be about expression in the medium, not the distribution channel.
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I like the way you have equivalences and inferences defined as functions expr -> expr. But it seems those are not exposed via the user interface, or am I missing something?

Related: A few years ago I wrote a propositional logic parser in Dart [1] using a custom shunting yard parser and later as part of my bachelors thesis [2] another one [2] in javascript using PegJS.

[1] https://static.laszlokorte.de/logik/ (source: https://github.com/laszlokorte/dart-logic)

[2] https://thesis.laszlokorte.de

[3] https://thesis.laszlokorte.de/demo/logic-editor.html
I think that's valuable, but depends on the organization. At a company I worked at engineering used to go on customer visits, but the "customers" were the executives and managers who make buying decisions and put forth requirements. However, these were not the folks who actually used the product. Their opinion was important (gotta sell it) but it was NOTHING like what we saw in support.

The the few times end users were there, they clearly did not give their honest opinion in front of their bosses. And really even folks giving feedback who use a product are poor at doing son.

But support is where the rubber hits the road and folks actually encounter real issues that they can't solve on their own and create real pain points that will come up.

In my example there were still a lot of issues we'd take back to engineering and they'd say something that amounted to "but they said they don't use it that way" and it was a real chore to get engineering to understand the difference between what an executive asks for / some of the requirements they were given, and what the real user does / needs / asks for. Understandably engineering resources were sometimes irked by this, and support often took the hit politically because of it. It was one of the reasons I got out of support despite getting along with the engineering teams really well.
Link to Introduction, https://docs.remme.io/remme-core/docs/introduction.html
Not for $500 [1], that one looks to be over $10000.

[1] https://www.anandtech.com/show/12571/gigabyte-thunderxstatio...
> Today I love my Kindle and I like the peace of mind that my books are safe.

Until AMZN decides to take them away from you.
> and access to support folks

This is key. Support people is the ones that talk with customers, and know what's going on. Their experience is key.

In most companies this people is low-pay look-down people, gets tired quickly etc.
Probably because having a kindle doesn't mean you can't read real books. I use my iPad/Kindle app to read most of my books but will still borrow real ones from friends to read.
An interactive deep learning book with code, math, and discussions
My eyes struggle to focus for too long on a real book, my kindle on the other hand I can read for hours on end.

As a compromise, I will buy books from foliosociety.com as gifts for others instead.
Spielberg Says Netflix and Theater Films Aren't Equal for Oscars
Not sure which browser you use, but I only open new tabs "on demand". This is in Conkeror, where the command `find-url-new-buffer` (bound to `C-u g`) will ask for a URL then open the new tab on that URL. Perhaps there are options or addons to do this in other browsers?

This way I can have a CI dashboard as my homepage, but I only see it when I switch to it explicitly or when I close the last of my other tabs. Also, Conkeror doesn't have actual "tabs" in its UI: like Emacs, the open tabs ("buffers") are only listed after running the `switch-to-buffer` command (`C-x b`); so there's less distraction there too.
>Scientists brew cannabis using modified beer yeast

There's no word in this title that I don't like!
In my country I'm more afraid of police than of thugs, tbh
Spectre/Meltdown were given 6 months instead of the normal 90 days.
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Having alternatives is not a bad thing.
Interesting point. But I wonder, why not expand the oscars by including all movies regardless of platform? Make the oscars, a movie awards and advertisement show and the emmy's a tv series awards and advertisement shows.

If VR takes off in 20 years and people watch movies in VR rather than in theaters, how will the oscars distinguish "theater movies" vs "other movies"? If theaters disappear in the manner of phone booths ( a distinct possibility ), will the oscars simply shut down? I doubt that.

Both sides have interesting points and I certainly don't the answers. Maybe the answer is streaming services like netflix, youtube, etc create their own awards advertisement show?

It seems limiting to confine awards to platforms rather than the art genre. It would be like there being a music award dedicated solely for each platform - cassettes, CDs, Vinyl, Radio, Streaming, etc.
Thank you for your deep and insightful commentary.
The thread has an incredible selection bias - why would anyone who prefers paper books be browsing the /r/kindle subreddit?
>As someone in this industry, I doubt this will become a reality. The real problem is cost. When you use yeast, you have to supply the energy for the entire system. When you grow a plant, you get free energy from the sun. The cost savings are hard to beat.

It's not like beer or cheese has a profit problem...
European brands: www.ccep.com/pages/brands

And anyway Europe isn't the whole commercial universe.
The favicon is way too similar to BitWarden's, wish they'd pick something better.
Concerning blockchain, the first and foremost advantage I've always thought of is solving the trust issue. To me, privacy come as a side effect of it.
But since blockchain can now be hacked [1], I've become a little skeptical.

Concerning AI, it's mainly (just) the computing power.

[1] https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612974/once-hailed-as-unh...
I think these are valuable points, but there is perhaps an even more cynical take. Dash buttons ate into the real moneymaker: product subscriptions.

Items that had a dash button were by their nature consumables that would be needed over and over again. What's better for Amazon? A button that you may or may not remember to push or giving you a dollar off today's order in exchange for them shipping you a new container of Tide Pods [1] next month with no need to think about it?

Separately: they may have also decided that voice ordering of items (via Echo) was a better or easier play than dash buttons.

1 - https://www.amazon.com/Tide-Laundry-Detergent-Spring-Meadow/...
So there was a comment on reddit that this app was actually the lesser of two evils, because this app allows women to not be with their male guardians (which according to the law should be with you all times, but that can be waived by filing lengthy and annoying paperwork process). This has allowed them to escape the country or enjoy autonomy that was unheard of.

I mean the best course of action is full autonomy but...
I did the same. Worked in support, moved on to web development. It teaches you so much about understanding and communicating with customers.

I had some conversations recently where I offered my opinion.

"I think this might be a bit complex for the given users who are using this."

"But they want all this information, we're doing it."

A few weeks later end customers are all confused and they're up in arms because they can't figure out how things work because the product threw the kitchen sink at them on one or two pages...
Down voting for disagreement is not banned by the rules (unlike on reddit) and described as acceptable by the site founder and moderators. (even if not all users agree on this)

What's explicitly banned is complaining about downvotes and saying HN is turning into reddit.
In the past, you’d be able to read it out of the process memory when the keychain was unlocked. I believe that’s been locked down in the last couple of releases, however.
I'm a bit confused at the alarmist title.

I just checked my FB settings, and the article is correct, the best you can restrict your phone number is to just friends.

Why then are the top comments about the inescapablility of employers looking you up by phone number?

Unless you have your employer as a friend on Facebook, just change the setting to friends only.

My understanding is that on this setting, Facebook only allows someone to find your Facebook profile if they:

1. are your friend on FB and

2. have your phone number.

That seems quite reasonable to me.
I feel nostalgic about real books. I'm not sure that's exactly the same as missing real books. Having a book on my phone means that when I have time to myself I have the book I want to read. A real book would take effort to ensure I have it.
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Yeah, absolutely, we see that all the time as well. We have the benefit that usually we only have to do sales at the executive level, and for everything else we deal with the operations people, which means that if we go for an on-site visit we usually won't meet higher management than operational team leads.

We learned that what executives say and what operation does is not the same thing, which is why we sell our software we say: "We'll fix your problems, but be warned: we won't do it your way", and as long as that expectation is maintained we have very happy customers.
When I was at Square the design team would shadow support staff to learn about the kind of problems people are facing and more importantly how people talk about your products, i.e. what they call things, how they try to explain what's gone wrong, what they did to solve it or how they ended up with the problem to begin with.

It's the closest thing you can come to true realistic user-testing.
I agree with the general critique about Netflix movies. Although it is equally valid for Spielberg films in my opinion.

Today, if I think about Hollywood, I have to think about remakes. You have to force me to watch another Marvel/DC movie, although I think they are generally very well made and I liked some characters as a kid.

Just look at the most successful Hollywood movies of 2018. There is absolutely no depth to be found here at all.

These are movies I can enjoy, but mostly while doing something on the side.
No, not at all, because I read both "real" books and on the Kindle. I have thousands of print books and keep buying more. I have the Kindle for books which are too expensive to buy in print format.
And not all books are available on the Kindle - I thought this last one would be obvious, but apparently it's not.
>Which is meaningless unless we know how much sugar is required to produce a given dollar value of usable THC etc molecules.

Which we can already guesstimate to be not that much.
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open devtools in your browser. (f12 in chrome)

type:

console.log ("hello world")

pretty simple
When you say "readable," do you mean to OO programmers? Functional programmers? All programmers?

For example, as a 5-year Clojure convert who wrote Java for 15 years before that, old-fashioned loops are less readable now, as they hide the essentials of what is really happening. For example, you might be mapping a collection from one type of value to another, or reducing it to some other form, etc. But both use loops. You have to scan all over the place in the loop construct to see what it's really doing. I'd much rather see the function that is happening than the procedure by which the function is accomplished.
"creating walled gardens, trying to monopolize the distribution of software and goods, and pushing for a web monoculture"

...and spying on users.
Yup, that was the point. Plus a head nod to my old ZX Spectrum.