skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I’m pretty sure there’s an eighth habit of highly effective people. They don’t spend all their time reading about the seven habits of highly effective people.

I think this is often overlooked. What works for other people might not work for you and the time spent looking for the right way is better spend on doing the tasks.
At runtime every CLOS implementation will do that. Note that it allows for more than one parameter to be specialized. In the example FOO is using multiple dispatch with two parameters P and S. When we call FOO with arguments for which no method exists we get:

CL-USER 22 > (defclass person ()
((name :type string)
(age :type (integer 0 150))
(exployed-by :type company)))
#<STANDARD-CLASS PERSON 4210214F63>

CL-USER 23 > (defmethod foo ((p person) (s string))
(list p s))
#<STANDARD-METHOD FOO NIL (PERSON STRING) 402025C653>

CL-USER 24 > (foo (make-instance 'person) 3)

Error: No applicable methods for #<STANDARD-GENERIC-FUNCTION FOO 4060000B5C> with args (#<PERSON 402025F1DB> 3)
1 (continue) Call #<STANDARD-GENERIC-FUNCTION FOO 4060000B5C> again
2 (abort) Return to top loop level 0.

Type :b for backtrace or :c <option number> to proceed.
Type :bug-form "<subject>" for a bug report template or :? for other options.

CL-USER 25 : 1 >
Ask HN: Interesting April Fool jokes by tech companies?
I never got the hang of this kind of myopic, senseless traditionalism. If Latin didn't let himself be bastardised with the influences of Frankish and Gaulish there wouldn't be any French.
It is amazing that it had not been measured accurately before.
Google 2019 Jokes

https://www.androidauthority.com/google-april-fools-day-2019...
Organic is a separate category and doesn't just mean fruits and vegetables, you can have organic meat as well. Also its not as easy for fruit and veg to say organic is always better, look at the 'dirty dozen' lists and there are more important things, like leafy greens to buy organic, vs something like avocado which has a thick skin so is generally less harmful to buy non-organic to the consumer, especially because most people are not rich, the issue gets more complex.

I thought the author did a nice succinct oversight, most people don't want to read books on the subject, or they would read book on the subject. According to my diet Meat and Animal products are some of the most health-promoting foods, but the quality of the environment they were raised matters quite a bit.

With most Americans it becomes more an issue of we have forgotten how to cook our own food from base high-quality ingredients, or lack the time to do it.
I'm absolutely not a fan of Microsoft.

But, some years back when I discovered problems with an online service of theirs, I cold called the switchboard, asked for the VP of the business unit, who picked up on the first ring, chatted for a few minutes, told me to expect a call from the product manager, who rang within 15 minutes, and worked with me for 6 weeks as they addressed (and I monitored) the problem, to satifaactory resolution.

Entirely unlike Google.
Let me put it this way: in any modern political debate, on any side you could be on, do you think that your side is OBVIOUSLY right, and the other side doesn't have a SINGLE argument that just moves you to stop, and think, and doubt your position?
And yet the clinton foundation had no issue building a 5 star hotel. Maybe they could have just asked them for some help dealing with the government?

Nah not worth it, it's just half a billion.
> but lack people and social skills

I am curently working with a programme director that is one of the best PMs that walk this earth. Nothing escapes him. But when he opens his mouth.. oh that mouth!! Kinda like the Sex Pistols song "Bodies" that sings "f* this and f* that, f* it all and f* a f*ing brat". He will never be customer facing. He will never be business (people) facing, he will never be finance (people) facing. He will always be talking to IT people, because.. well for some reason they tolerate him (for the time being).

He cannot grow any more, he cannot mature any more, he is stuck in the position.

> can't connect to people enough to get them as customers

I had the same problem to with my first iOS app. I just couldn't listen to feedback and criticism. I had a vision for my app, and I just didn't want to change anything. Until I faced reality and I did change it :)
Bệnh mụn rộp sinh dục có nguy hiểm không?
Screens and audio devices shutting off periodically is a typical sign of clock drift.

It's where a graphics card is outputting 60Hz and the screen is expecting to receive 60Hz, but one of them is slightly off (60.0001Hz).

At some point the sending and receiving get too far misaligned, some error condition is triggered, and the whole thing restarts.

It's a design flaw really - you should never recreate someone else's clock signal.

There are some times it's impossible to avoid - for example a picture in picture mode has to synchronise with two other people's clock signals for each of the incoming images.

In your case, temperature will affect the speed of the oscillator making it happen more frequently unless you have the ideal temperature.
It's not a surprise: when all others give you fish, a company may give you a fishing rod (I don't know if it was what happened in your case, but I wouldn't be surprised).
I think it might have something to do with their role of "protecting France from “brainless Globish” and the “deadly snobbery of Anglo-American,” as a member spat out in a speech last month"
Anti-Soviet warrior [Osama bin Laden] puts his army on the road to peace
Excerpt:

"The insightful and interesting role model bosses were amazing. They were people who inspired me to come to work. Every day I was learning something new about a business or a tool from their experience. They saw strategy and complex issues with clarity. I was often humbled in their presence and felt the need to work harder to keep up with their example. Quite often these leaders were pleasant, had a sense of humor and yet knew how to get the job done. They knew how to listen, and they knew what to ask. Several of them are some of the smartest people I've ever met."
I doubt that the current trend of indulging empathy instinct to no end can last that long.
Guess who doesn't know how government appropriations work.
If we reach a point where computer models are close enough, I don't think people will look back and see it as barbarism more than now. People will simply look back and see it as the strange and alien time before computer models, and mostly be fascinated how different life must have been.
since you sound knowledgeable- if I go and without any contract "donate" some of my code to the repo- what becomes of the right to that code (the patch I contributed)?
"Sad times - https://www.pipdig.co/blog/sad-times/"
No shit.
I'll share some background here to make it more approachable. (as the founder and the first developer of the product)

Visualization of the changes is based on a webhook triggered code analysis, comparison and visualization pipeline. The idea is to make pull request more reviewable by showing the context of the change in just few seconds. Also any new dependencies (that might screw your current design) are shown. It supports multiple repositories making it suitable for large projects.

With last one year we have had major transformation to better integrate Softagram into pull requests (of Azure, Github and Bitbucket) and merge requests (of GitLab). This is to make it easily utilized within the current developer workflows.

The major challenges is to make pull request code change visualization very understandable while keeping it also sufficiently detailed to have it useful. There is an additional detailed dependency visualization that will pop up below the main visualization if your code changes are larger.

We would really love to get feedback on if it helps you and if it provides the report fast enough, and generally if this approach is something that you like or not.
The big idea is that it's unlike e.g. MTA workers because in tech, after 3 or 5 years, you're not really doing the same job.

If you've been hired as a junior dev, then the work that you're doing in year 5 is (or should be) worth much, much more that what you were doing in year 1.

What people are expecting isn't a "I'm a bit more effective at my position and have some institutional knowledge, so I'd deserve a bit of a raise", but rather "I was hired at position X. Now I'm de facto doing position Y, so I deserve a salary appropriate to that position", and the appropriate salary to that new position may be 30%, 50% or 100% larger than the initial one. If your company doesn't provide these internal promotions (and the salary jumps appropriate for each tier), then your best people will take "lateral promotions" to other companies whenever they're ready to promote.

You won't hire a senior dev by offering 20% more than a junior dev; so as a junior dev in your company becomes (over the years, and of course not all of them do) a senior developer, if their real (inflation adjusted) salary increased only by 20% over these years, that's not reasonable.

I mean, it should be reasonable for a young person coming to your company at an entry level job to ask about the career path available. In tech (unlike, for example, fast food) they can start with an assertion that as they gain experience, in ten years they would like to earn double of what they'll be earning now as an entry level developer. It's not a given that they'll succeed, but it's likely, and a realistic plan to achieve if they put in the work. And your company (assuming it's large enough) should have an answer about what's the career path and criteria for them to double their (inflation-adjusted) salary in that time, and raises that are 2-5% (so, a bit above inflation) don't provide such an answer.
It'll be a bad solder joint on a BGA chip - no way to see those without an x-ray really.
not really, people are just buying the slightly pricier 'bags for life' at the same rate and dumping them in the same way as a the older 'thin' plastic bags. Now we just have bigger thicker tree jellyfish that took more oil to produce.
The cost blowout in healthcare isn't due to diagnosis or care but administrative costs. All these diagnostic AIs won't significantly reduce the cost of healthcare nor improve quality. What we really need is automated administration and billings to really move the needle and that's more human bottlenecked than technology.
All Sony console use a derivative of OpenGL[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PSGL
I like to work like this as well. Which is why a lot of technical tests seem quite nonsense. For complex problems I have stuff running in the background of my head for a day or two, weighing up the advantages and disadvantages of the various options. The best solution usually becomes apparent at some random time, like when I am cooking dinner, not concentrating on it for 5 minutes after first seeing the problem. And as you say there is usually plenty of other work that needs done in the meantime.
Respect! This is a very impressive achievement for a single person and requires a lot of knowledge about operating systems.
New strategy: Get tech support from google by applying to them and then complaining during the interview.
jup, changing companies will yield me about 50% more pay, last raise was 6% (and than greedely rounded down a tiny bit further).
"Journeys require endpoints. Otherwise, you're not Frodo, you're just a homeless guy wandering around with stolen jewelry."
This is a really interesting thing to think about. If we pick on Facebook as an example, most people look at FB and see that it has 2.3 billion customers, then go on to assume it's an amazing and innovative company filled with great people who make the best product in the industry.

An alternative point of view is that there are 2.3 billion customers out there for this type of product, and the financial systems and incentives present in our society resulted in Facebook owning all of those customers.

FB actually is exemplary of the flaws present in the first mode of thinking. I don't doubt there are many brilliant people working there, but their product is crappy and even user hostile on many levels. Biggest absolutely doesn't translate to best all the time.

More likely FB got to where it is because the rules of our society concentrate capital and control (which is exactly what we see going on when we look at data such as wealth disparity, shrinking # of new businesses etc. in the USA over time).
> ..found it strange that companies don't give raises

Because you'll tell your buddies about it, and they will try to get it too, having you as a proof it is feasible. New hires don't pose this threat to company coffins.
> the company owner is a friend

This has likely affected how much he was willing to go up in salary neg.
At school, where such rules were not enforced, some kids used hair gel on one side of the ball. Most were too unskilled to really exploit it but a good bowler could achieve what felt like a metre of savage sideways swing, enough that a ball that started out looking like a wide would finish up whistling past the ears of the hapless batsman.
I've had my genitalia groped exactly zero times by the TSA. I'm guessing that you probably got put on some TSA shitlist, probably from behavior like the above, or you're an ordinary person of color, not sure which.
The Percentage of American Adults Not Having Sex Has Reached a Record High
Great quote, I'll use it when someone complains about their computer being too old for them to do a good work on it.
Never heard of this. Very interesting.
Fun fact: C# was originally called ‘Cool’ internally in MS before the MS marketing took over and rebranded everything Visual X this or X .Net that. Who doesn’t remember Windows Server .Net (later rebranded to 2003), which did not have a single line of CLR code in it apart from the standard runtime?
When it's locked up, measure the voltage on the grey wire of the ATX power connector (while plugged in).

It should be 5 volts.

If it's 0 volts, your issue is in the power supply.

If it's 5 volts, your issue could be in either the power supply or motherboard.
I laugh at this useless institution, but then I realize that many "real" institutions are probably just as useless and anachronistic as this particular one.
> Nothing makes a human being's life more important than the life of a lab mouse.

Is this hyperbole, or do you seriously believe this?
Tristan Da Cunha: Only 269 People Remain on World's Most Remote Inhabited Island
> there is zero chance of international standardisation at this point

Well, the French language isn't really standardised internationally either, as many French-speaking countries have their own equivalent to the Académie.

The Office québécois de la langue française in Québec is the most active and influential one (as an example, their proposed word "courriel" for replacing "email" is the most common variant, even in France) and Belgium also has a Conseil de la langue française. Switzerland also has a Délégation à la langue française which is much less active, and the equivalents in Africa are mostly anecdotal for now though.
Experimental Integrity Policies to Node.js
I think that’s mostly a function of Visual Studio legacy, not C#.
A High-Level Guide to NLP Techniques
I can attest the same worked for me.
Yeah, I'm stupid.
That's really interesting, about the sudoku thing. I love to do those puzzles but I go full into the stuff and can't think anything else while solving for them.
I’m not asking SFPD to ticket these guys, I’m just asking policymakers to not import them into my neighborhood of luxury condos and families with small children.
A gang is just the company/franchise of the poor.
Who pays for that?

You would either have to add massive taxes to road usage (not just gas), heavily tax automobile ownership or use general purpose taxes for such very expensive upgrades.

As a non-owner of a car I would balk at the last option.
Your salary information in Norway is not public and never was.

Your taxes paid were public until 2007. Tax paid on the same income can vary up to 2x depending on your personal situation so really it was very approximate.

Since 2008 you can still request personal tax data on anyone, but not anonymously.
My father loved that book.
Perhaps Facebook will put out a post saying how much they value their users' privacy.
Of course I seriously believe it.

It really should be necessary for people who don't believe it to explain themselves. That is rejecting the null hypothesis, so to speak.
Fair Use doesn't exist in many jurisdictions.
Ask HN: Review my Pixelixe: Simple Graphic design tool for small businesses
Hi HN,

I m Thomas and I have been developing a simple online graphics & images creation tool for marketers, bloggers, and small businesses.

I have been building this because I feel graphics editing take ages and can be really confusing.

I WANT TO MAKE IT SIMPLE AND ACCESSIBLE THROUGH THE WEB

As you know users feedback is super important and it will really help me.

I am really pleased to say the product is live since last week and would love to get more feedback on the product.

This is a link to the product https://studio.pixelixe.com

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Is it really true that you can have all your food cooked for you and delivered to you at less than $432/mo in the US? I haven't lived there for a long time but that's only $14.40 per day which sounds like a pretty restrictive budget.

Note that families also benefit from economies of scale when cooking (buy ingredients in bulk and assign the work to the lowest income earner).
From what I understand there are tons of MRI applications. If you are looking for something exotic of course you will try to get a human, probably best in the field.

But if you are trying to bring this to masses one can start with with something "simple" like bones or some some relatively trivial organ. Not that MRI prices themselves are dropping much - gotta wait for room temperature superconductors.
Bluzelle a Smart In-Memory Cache
Hey. Sounds great.
I didnt see any incoming messages, so maybe it was deleted.

Please re-send contact details to D-56dm11pzbsa@maildrop.cc
(this is a secure alias. Other people will not be able to see messages. )
You retain the copyright of the patch and can re-use it somewhere else under a different licence.

And in turn, the project you submitted it to cannot re-licence that patched section of code (e.g. become either GPL licenced) without your permission, as it does not belong to them.

(Edit for clarity)
Because unfair lawful gain isnt illegal. So if its not illegal, there is no standard of fairness.
I've had friends who 'graduated' from a bootcamp and ended up with jobs at Google, Uber, Facebook, etc. The quickest way to a good salary job (in the Bay Area at least) is just to take a 3-6month coding bootcamp and apply for a job at the big tech companies, who are really desperate in growing their workforce and hiring.
Reminds me of this old Ikea commercial

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jU-cori12KU
Do you ever find that Pomodoro doesn't leave enough uninterrupted time on your task? When you're knee deep do you ever just skip your breaks?
Looks awesome. Have you thought about adding blockchain? For investors?
This is an interesting question: I feel like it's made under an assumption that there's some target number that responses should average out towards. Or maybe there's some personal validation behind the question. Either way, I hope you've all made enough that you're comfortable and happy with your lives :)
In my mind, "long-form video essay" is pretty much a big red flag... I just don't have time. Text is much more efficient.
I think splitting into projects with their own separate dependencies is/was actually one of the few advantages to C#, because it lets you replace an entire project and it’s dependencies seamlessly.

This has been extremely handy for us as we’ve been slowly upgrading to .net core. Because we can literally do it one project at a time without even risking breaking anything. Before going to .Net core it made switching from Web Forns to MVC really, really painless because all the business logic lived in its own projects, allowing us to run and maintain the Web Forms project, while building its replacement within the same solution.

I guess it requires you to think about the architecture of your solution, but what stack doesn’t? I say “is/was” an advantage though, because it’s primary use cases are frankly mostly related to the past or really bad practices. It allows you to keep a single project running on some really old .Net version, to utilise something legacy. That’s bad, but sometimes it has real works value, even if it’s bad.

NUGET has been fairly terrible though, and despite its many improvements, frankly continues to be so.
"How Tom Bombadil defied the One Ring using this one weird trick."
> On the other hand, when Nazis were making the death camps, many companies happily provided lots of help, all for money

Was it all because of money? Wouldn't they (the companies and their executives) have faced consequences if they turned down an "offer" by the Nazi government?

You're generally right but I don't think bringing Nazis into this discussion is a good idea.
Absolutely! We're planning to record all consent and all relationships on blockchain (our own, because the ones out there are not scalable enough) so that people can lookup their partner history and make better data-driven decisions in their romantic lives. Imagine the disruption!
Much like how the lowercase a or g can have multiple appearances in the latin alphabet.
Yes, I am talking about the merchandise tie-ins and I am claiming they are of higher animation quality than yogi bear, judging mostly from the clips used in the documentary, as I try not to use my warped childhood memory as a reference.
It is, but it's a double fools joke. That means the fools are the people who think it's a fools joke because, in fact, it isn't.
Preparing for an On-Call Role
I collected tips to successfully prep for an on-call role from many experienced sysadmins: https://blog.zenduty.com/blog/2019/03/28/Preparing-for-On-Call
Do you really want to donate a charity that lies about what it's doing with your money? I definitely don't.
From the article:

> Distributism puts great emphasis on the principle of subsidiarity. This
> principle holds that no larger unit (whether social, economic, or political)
> should perform a function which can be performed by a smaller unit.

The point is that you should try and keep things as small as feasible. When it's not feasible you use bigger institutions.
I think it is something along the lines of...

- don't care about time management so much

- care about motivation (think about what can be done with the result)

- choose the right time to have the mental state you require to focus on the task at hand
I tried out Brief. It looks nice but there are a couple of problems:

1) There also doesn't seem to be a way to sort them by date or alphabetical order or domain.[0][1]

2) It seems like it should be possible to 'group' feeds, but I couldn't figure out how.

3) When Firefox updates certain things break

I think as a result of this I will try out newsboat. I found this tutorial[2] that seems to explain it nicely.

[0]: https://github.com/brief-rss/brief/issues/208

[1]: https://github.com/brief-rss/brief/issues/383

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUFCRqs822w
>It's so much fun, but not that practical for scalable websites.

Git based kv has a bit different purpose than the regular kv storage. They are intended for communication between entities, running in parallel, sort of transactional memory.
They are not intended for users' data storage.
The namers can publicly claim it to mean one thing while privately intending to be another, of course.
Bash: So long, and thanks for all the fish
Arguably by downloading it from github you’ve made an illegal copy.