skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure. It boils down to “No one owes you shit.” and “Life isn’t fair.”

I have high anxiety, less than perfect social skills and noise processing issues and I still spent five years teaching kindergarten. I dealt with the noise and the stress from starting a new job and then every year discovering exciting new things to stress out about as my responsibilities changed.

No one owes anyone a job and no one is owed a job. Very few people are going to hire anyone unless they think that they can make money by doing so, businesses aren’t charities. Minimum wages make hiring large numbers of people unprofitable so those people don’t get hired. The higher the minimum wage the greater that number will be. See France. The argument generalises to any cost, very much including what lawyers would call “reasonable accommodations”. If the government wants to ensure working people get paid a certain amount there’s no reason the income tax can’t go negative, subsidising lower paid, presumably low productivity workers, as with the US earned income tax credit. The same logic applies to accommodations. If employing someone is unavoidably more expensive and the government wants them employed they can either employ them or subsidise their employment.

You’ve internalised all the costs of employing you and now as far as employers are concerned you’re just another contractor. If the costs are borne by the employer then they’ll attempt to avoid them. See the drop in disabled employment following the passage of the Americans With Disabilities Act[1].

[1] Consequences of Employment Protection? The Case of the Americans with Disabilities Act

The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) requires employers to ac- commodate disabled workers and outlaws discrimination against the disabled in hiring, firing, and pay. Although the ADA was meant to increase the employment of the disabled, the net theoretical effects are ambiguous. For men of all working ages and women under 40, Current Population Survey data show a sharp drop in the employment of disabled workers after the ADA went into effect. Although the number of disabled individuals receiving disability transfers increased at the same time, the decline in employment of the disabled does not appear to be explained by increasing transfers alone, leaving the ADA as a likely cause. Consistent with this view, the effects of the ADA appear larger in medium-size firms, possibly because small firms were exempt from the ADA. The effects are also larger in states with more ADA-related discrimination charges.

http://economics.mit.edu/files/17
I switched from a Macbook Pro to the X1 Extreme as well, and have been very disappointed.

* The touchpad doesn't feel as smooth as the Macbook Pro (despite it also being glass) -- there's some sort of matte finish which gives it a more rubbery finish.

* The gestures are less accurate (I frequently activate 3-finger gestures despite only using 2 fingers).

* The buttons at the top are harder to use than buttons on the bottom.

* You can only click the touchpad on the bottom half.
i was able to do the same by saying i didnt have a cell phone. it took some time only one email correspondence but they are somewhat catering. twitter in this case.
At the meta level: I use a variety of online systems that I trust to varying degrees, from high to low. Currently I can control my level of information disclosure by using different email addresses. If these systems now require a verified phone number, I then have to trust them all at 100%, tied to my real identity.

So a SaaS website requiring verified phone numbers seems benign on the surface. However if this becomes widespread then the overall identity landscape is compromised for the user.

At the system level: This is essentially the pseudonym-vs-realname debate. Twitter is the perfect example. Let's say I open an account to whisteblow on my government's nefarious activities. Now if there's a breach or state interception (eg China), they know exactly who I am and where to find me.
> Before Google and Apple, I didn't have this problem. I didn't have to pay their tax or march to their beat.

You still don't! You don't have the play by their rules, and you can still target everyone who has a non-Google or non-Apple phone, which as a target market is appreciably no one, much as it was before Google and Apple entered the phone market.

You can target them if they have phones produced by your hated manufacturers anyway by making your app a webapp instead of a native app.

You don't want to do those things, and that's fine, but you're yearning to go back to a time that never existed.
Pocket isn’t the same as stranger things since, iirc, Mozilla bought pocket.
The town is home to 21,000 people – 6,000 of whom are incarcerated in one of the town’s two state prisons. “The prisons were supposed to bring economic development to the city,” Echard told me on our way back from the dam as we sped alongside one of the primary canals. “But it hasn’t done much at all.”

Side note, but while prisons don't generate all that much economic activity they count for congressional apportionment while the residents can't vote, so that's 6000 fewer people you need to worry about on election day if you're a politician.
Many places I've been won't let you buy a SIM without showing id.
I have never heard anyone say they went into management for the money and then stick with it for long.

At least for the companies whose pay scales I’m familiar with, that would be a terrible trade off. You maybe get a tiny bit more money than a high performer, but you have a world of responsibility coupled with less control of your work product.

You need to love coordination and mentoring to be a good manager (among many other things).
It's that last part that keeps me buying exclusively DRM-free, Linux-friendly PC games. You can't even rely on a console working in the future anymore, or Windows not updating automatically into incompatibility. If it doesn't work, best you get is a not-quite-right recreation on a new platform. Worst case, old YouTube play-throughs are all you have.
If it's possible to click through a form with all defaults retained, you should assume that some users will do so. It's probably also safe to assume that deleting their account and all of their uploaded content is not the typical user expected behavior from doing so.

I don't think the problem was defaulting to the current date. No default is probably better in general for this sort of thing, and in hindsight it definitely would have been better in this case. But for a field for which you really need the user to provide a value, if you're going to set a default, that default should be obviously and universally invalid (the current date qualifies for that when you're asking for DOB), and you should have logic in place to deal with obviously invalid inputs.
Pick a narrative here, are they for awareness or helping? Which game is which?

> Some in the industry said the interactive nature of games made them more effective than film or television at dealing with mental health. Embodying a video game character who suffers from depression might leave a deeper impression of the challenges of the illness than simply watching a film about the same character, for example.

Ok, so Grand Theft Auto probably isn't good then?

Zero science going on here, just people making up what best fits their business model. Good as any business I guess.
...an algorithm or data structure operation described as being 'O(n)' could really be 'O(n) + x'

No it should not. (O(N) + x) is O(N). That is how it works, is spoken about... What it means!

It is a very simple minded article, and IMO misleading, but it is better than "(O(N) + x) is bigger than O(N)". In the sense of order analysis, it is not.
Okular is awesome for reading .djvu file as well. Love it.
NO. BIG O notation is not average unless specified as such! It is an equivalence class of the provable upper bound on the execution time of the algorithm on an arbitrary input. There are algorithms like quick sort where average runtime != “big O of quicksort”
The good news is, eventually it'll just be so loaded with bots that we can stop talking about Twitter all together.
I mention it because it's notable that they aren't gaining equity whilst losing cash. Just losing cash.

And this comment is worth looking at: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19488219
Yah, my reply was tailored to what you wrote and how I think about what you wrote.
Nah it wasn't that hard. You just guessed till you got five right, while recording the ones you got right and wrong so you could change your guess. It didn't have that many questions, and some of them you could look up in the encyclopedia, or just yell down the hall and hope your parents didn't wonder why you were asking about Nixon. :)
Just think about how much developer effort went into creating a web publishing framework so these release notes would be utterly unreadable on a mobile browser. The mind reels.
1. Why should it be?

2. Even if you're a famous neurosurgeon, it's a good an index as any.
It's not far off:

> When a UK IP address attempts to access a website with pornographic content, the person browsing the web will have to verify themselves. It's up to each individual porn website to implement the technology that allows people to prove they're old enough to view the material.[..]

> The first [option from Yoti] is using your face. There will be the option to use the camera on a phone, tablet or computer and Yoti's "age estimation technology" will determine whether the person is old enough to access the explicit material.

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/uk-porn-age-verification
I have used WeWork couple times and not impressed. The amenities are minimal. Some of the basics in the building are filmsy and are not even completed. The toilet paper holders are not securely screwed in and would come loose with the slightest shake. There are no toilet seat covers in half of the bathroom. The place is 90% empty. Not sure how they can sustain.
The Trump playbook.
Turning billions into millions!
Well, at the same time users had to deal with adware, viruses, etc.

Your needs as a developer don’t trump users needs.

They could have spent money making the open web work better on mobile. Or designing a portable app framework and runtime for all devices. But we know why they didn't and what the outcome has been.

And write once run everywhere worked so well with Java applets.
>"My rule of thumb here is that if I have to use a loop within a loop, that’s O(n^2)."

This might potentially do someone a disservice. The whole point of analysis is just that - to "analyze" the runtime and not resort to "rules of thumb."

The presence of nested for loops itself is not a good reason to declare something quadratic. Consider the following which is most certainly not O(N^2):

for (int i = 0; i < 1000; i++)

for (int j = n; j >= 1; j = j / 2)

// do something

EDIT: initialized j to the val of n on the inner loop per the comments below.
Not sure if I agree with the math, but 2 hours is 5% of 40 and it is pretax as they would have to pay taxes on top of that amount.
I hope this is just a "for fun"/"to see if it can be done" type of thing, because otherwise it is more than a little disturbing when the source code in a high-level language takes more lines of code than doing the same thing in pure Asm:

https://gist.github.com/yackx/a52010a05a430496ae11

https://github.com/MichalStrehovsky/zerosharp/blob/master/ef...

(The Asm above was for good old BIOS, here's the EFI version: http://x86asm.net/articles/uefi-programming-first-steps/hell... )
Well yes, that's what I said, although I guess I could have used 'n + x operations' to keep it consistent with the article and still in line with the formal definition.
You're right, it wasn't, and still isn't clear. I've edited the story to reflect that.
As part of News+ announcement today, Apple says it will discontinue Texture app
I'm submitting m this because I noticed that among the several Apple launches today, nothing about News+ ended up on the front page.
Not only is 'O(n)' the same as 'O(n) + x', but also the same as 'c*O(n)', where c is a constant.
Sadly with the deterioration of public transportation in major cities there is really no other option for a lot of urban commuters.
FWIW you can target Google phones outside Google Play too. You just need to tell the user to enable some settings and download an APK.
So, does anyone have a torrent for mirroring? I can't find anything but a less than useful Web UI and mostly derivative datasets/alternative formats.
The last time I encountered a COPPA opt-in was on the register.php page of a vBulletin forum where you had to enter your birthdate.

It doesn't boggle my mind. I'm sure very few services online would stand up to scrutiny. It's just that such few platforms are ever in that position.
Minimig – Amiga Custom Chipset on FPGA
Silicon Bandgap Temperature Sensor
Is "it" Borg or Restic here?
Yep, all the time. Some are pretty easy to trigger consistently too; think about insects and you'll start feeling them everywhere. Ride a bus for a while or swim in a wave pool and you'll be feeling like you're moving when going to bed. Desperately try to find something you've lost and you'll start seeing it everywhere.

Some senses are way easier to fool than others. For example I hear things that aren't actually there all the time, but I don't recall ever tasting something that wasn't there. I wonder how it is with smell; I do sometimes vaguely smell things (e.g. certain kinds of food, cat pee) that I then can't find anywhere, but the nose is very sensitive to trace amounts of chemicals so there isn't really a way to verify whether what you're smelling is real or imagined in that case.
Sure. But even if they did that form right, they'd still have some adults flip the year a few years, some falling short of 13. At that point they get banned because that's what the FTC requires, so what procedure do you use to let them appeal? Asking for an ID seems reasonable to me.
Fentanyl is very dangerous to handle. It wouldn't be "lulz" at all.
Ask HN: How to move up in career in mid 30s?
Hi HN,

I am hoping to tap into wisdom of all brilliant people here. I am mid 30s male. I work for FAANG but not compensated well enough to call myself upper middle class by any means.

What has happened over last three years is truly phenomenal and sad at the same time. If you look at Blind app, where people discuss compensation and offer numbers, I feel I am way behind. It took me 10+ years to cross 200k mark. My post tax comp. is still below 200k.
Now, most people get 200k with 4-5 years of experience. Here at FAANG and at start-up alike, 200k or more is very very common.

A typical household TC is well above 350k or more in Seattle metro and in Bay area.

I feel stuck at my job. I can't jump immediately due to visa uncertainties and algorithmic interview hell going on right now. It takes good 4-6 months of preparation. I don't know how others are able to do it so quickly. It's possible I have slowed down. Haha!

How to grow in career as male in mid 30s? On long term, I want to enter executive management. I don't think I have any mentors or anyone honest (without agenda) to help out. What do you suggest?

Edit - I am not a software engineer. I am managing a small team of 8 engineers.
Is there a link to the maintainer discussion?
Wait so you don't actively participate in Twitter and yet you feel entitled to give a valid opinion about how the abuse works?

Cause let me tell you, the number of accounts I've seen whose commentd get overrun with bots is not trivial at all.
When talking of short flight numbers, Speedbird 9 is what jumped to mind ... at least for me.

> Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. We have a small problem. All four engines have stopped. We are doing our damnedest to get them going again. I trust you are not in too much distress.

British Airways Flight 9, from London Heathrow to Auckland, 24 June 1982.
A civilization can exist over millions or billions of years and still not maintain the same culture, or goals from one generation to the next. It's no different.
Not a lawyer, but anti-trust could apply.
Thank you for presenting such a vivid example. Something that appeals to a minority, will, by definition, stop appealing to them when it morphs into a form that appeals to the majority. I have seen this happen even with TV series. Is there a name for this phenomenon? I do agree with the article where it says "we can’t discuss what we never named"
Ask HN: Baby Registry, HN Style
About to be first time parents, there are so many gadgets on the market not sure what’s good and what’s garbage.

As a parent, what has been impossible to live without?
Generally you want to tax things you want less of and subsidize what you want more of. Hence taxing car traffic and subsidizing transit.
EFI is actually itself already much of an OS (it's certainly bigger than DOS, for example), and the executables are PE format just like Windows application binaries, so this isn't quite as low-level as it may sound at first.
Isn't congestion pricing taxing people who use the roads? An Uber driver uses the roads a lot more than your average New Yorker, what taxes exist to cover that imbalance? (asking in earnest)

Earmarking tax dollars for projects is kind of meaningless.

Subsidizing public transportation is a good idea anyway. High costs of transportation disproportionately hurt poorer people. If you're not for public transportation then I'm not sure we'd see eye to eye on much of anything.
And teeth. And corneas. There are quite a few things that only last long enough to get you sufficiently past child bearing age.

Of course, old people can learn new things so I always thought the "neurons don't grow" thing was silly (although I guess it's possible that we have a set number of neurons and it's just our synapses that keep growing).
dude, why were you pulling on the toilet paper holders?
WeWork says revenue more than doubled last year to $1.8B, so did net loss
Or look at the plate in the L1 door frame as you enter the aircraft.

(for many airliners: https://www.airliners.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=755373 )
> What does happen is that on average, to find any title, you will need n / 2 operations (so not 1000, but 500, in this example - this part is plain wrong as it's written).

You're conflating theta and omega notation for big O. Big O is the worst case scenario. The average or even typical operation doesn't matter. If the algorithm is the most complex when sorting a list of items that were already sorted in descending order, then that is the use-case that is considered when figuring out Big O. If you want average, use Big theta.
That’s a very good point, but of course the government is going to have to pay in some fashion for the health impacts of smoking. It’s sort of a weird situation for a government to be in, making profit from tobacco and shouldering the inevitable externalities. I don’t know the specifics of how that breaks down though, or if it’s still a net profit center.

Of course it may not matter in the sense that cronyism could ensure the burdens are placed on one group, and the benefits concentrated in another. I don’t know enough about China though, to say more.
I see, that's the piece that wasn't clear this presume that both the rider and the driver make the same hourly wage. That makes sense. But like you pointed out this is pre-tax and also you have to factor in insurance, car maintenance etc so it would probably work out to much much higher.
App stores are monopolies, and their governance leaves much to be desired (as is the subject of this article).

I'm fine paying the AWS tax. It's a generic utility more or less and I can just as easily use Azure or Google (assuming you're not baked into certain offerings, but that's out of scope and honestly is a choice.)

If you want on Android there's no choice. You play by Google's rules and pay their tax.

People get up in arms when ISPs try to pull this (net neutrality). This is the same pattern. Phones, OSes, etc. should be "dumb" pipes. (The analogy isn't elegant here, but you get it.)
For one, if you are in a health and wellness space, there is this co-working called ScaleLA.com. Pretty awesome to work with people working in the same space as it creates a form of synergy.
No limits. Downloads are unmetered and free, as long as they look reasonable. Once you download your full backup every hour, I'll ask you for a reason probably.
Well, as written, it is 'O(1)'. Or did you mean to put N instead of 1000?
it's not disturbing at all, the actual code is tiny, just like asm. For the EFI version you are missing all of efi.inc, just like the C#, you have datastructure definitions. http://x86asm.net/articles/uefi-programming-first-steps/efi....
Are you sure your not just mentally filtering it out? I see "[checkbox] I agree that I am 13 years old or the legal guardian blah blah blah" pretty frequently on signup pages.
Why not charge tourists a special subway rate (++) and finance the repairs that way, instead of creating 'exclu$ive zones' of movement.
I mostly don't think about it too much. If I have a piece of code that seems slow I make it less complicated and mostly look up the big-O. Reason is that I only had a few time in my 20 year career that I really had issues with this.
> Folks complain the Play store is full of malware and spam, and that there are data leaks and deceptive ads.

They have trouble with false positive and false negatives. This does not make me want to give them more power.
Not OP, but my 2 cents on this having bounced back and forth a couple of times between a founder and an employee at places.

As a (co)founder life is stressful for quite awhile with a lot of pressure and weight on you. Even going through funding rounds is stressful, getting the money removes certain fears and stressors but raises others, so it isn't free of issues either. Joining a FAANG company allows you to play with some technologies you may not have been able to prior, or to play at a scale you weren't able to reach and add that to your list of skills. And do so at a lower level of stress than starting over as a founder. And sometimes, people find they aren't cut out to do the founder route after doing it so this is their way out.

Basically, to me it is a way to reset yourself while getting paid, learning some new skills and staying relevant while you find your next thing.
This is why I love HN. I’m definitely gonna try that out thanks!
Negligence can be factored into insurance costs. Act of war, not so much.
I agree with you in general, but even at its core there’s nothing interesting here.

Simple did this whole categorized transaction, friendly in app chat customer service, blah blah thing years ago. But it was also a current account. It still exists after being bought by BBVA.

Capital One has been doing this sort of thing too in their mobile apps for credit cards.

The cash back is standard, even inadequate as you can get a flat 2% on any transaction card from Citibank and Fidelity.

But... the average American is terrible at money management. Apple is huge. The titanium card is shiny and free. So I think this will get some traction, but there’s really nothing interesting about it from a finance or fintech perspective.

I actually think this is a bad product for Apple to so deeply brand (it is going to just be run by GS anyway). How does Apple deal with charge offs? Does the friendly, upscale brand turn up at your door and demand their titanium card back? How does this effect the relationship between Apple customers and Apple?

I can’t say I’m a fan of Apple’s conglomerization. There’s just something weird about this. I don’t know quite what that is.
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