skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wouldn't be on YouTube at all if that feature didn't exist. I only which I had more than 2x in the mobile app, since I can't use JS to change it there.

(Since odds are high someone will ask, this is the bookmarklet I ended up settling on: javascript:void(document.getElementsByTagName("video")[0].playbackRate = prompt()) This prompts you for the speed you want. It should be obvious how to specialize this to a specific speed if you want.)
The TPM got almost universally negative negative coverage outside of the enterprise IT space because there wasn’t an obvious benefit to anyone else and many concerns that it would prevent alternative operating system installs, lead to unbreakable DRM, etc.

This was unfortunate as it largely evaporated the middle ground who recognized that without some trusted base you also can’t recover from malware or have robust anti-theft measures. I wish the politics had been such that we ended up with a robust open-source implementation before so much shoddy, unreviewed code had shipped so widely.
In English "digital" also means related to fingers (because your hand has 5 digits.)
And more achievable than that is 1m-2m in sales for a $10m exit value.

$100m is just a number he picked to focus the thought.
Acronym: Acronym CReatiON for You and Me
And even though Perl grew up on and for Unix, there are a couple of distributions that work good on Windows, too, even though I think Perl feels more at home on Unix, where it came from.
> I wonder who will be next?

You do that every few days when you solve captchas.
These images are haunting.

More on Lu Guang: "Lu is based in New York City, the first Chinese photographer to be invited by the U.S. State Department as a visiting scholar, and Beijing. In early November 2018, whilst travelling in Xinjiang, Lu was taken away by state security agents and has not been heard from since."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lu_Guang_(photographer)
WSL isn't too bad nowadays. I would go as far as saying it's very good. I've been using it for full time development for over a year now.

I've run 100,000+ line Rails apps in WSL (well technically through Docker, which I connect to through WSL) and I never noticed a slowdown that was bad enough to make me think "this sucks". It's always been pretty good. I run all sorts of Rails, Flask, Phoenix and Webpack driven apps and all of them run fast enough where I don't think twice about it.

Personally, I find the WSL set up somewhat close to native Linux in terms of the user experience. I'm not talking about I/O performance, but I mean how it feels to use the OS in general.

For example:

I spend 99% of my time in a WSL terminal using tmux + terminal Vim + ranger. So that takes care of coding and managing files.

Then I use a browser and other graphical apps (image / video editors) that run directly in Windows.

Dexpot sets up virtual screens with key binds that are comparable to how i3wm lets you switch and move windows to another screen.

Keypirinha lets you launch apps with a fuzzy finder (like dmenu but better IMO)

AutoHotkey lets you easily manage global hotkeys (just like i3 does) and more

When you put all of that together, you get a really really good development experience that also doubles for gaming and running programs that don't have a good alternative on Linux (such as Camtasia on Windows).

Then for the icing on the cake, since you're running Ubuntu 18.04 in WSL, you can provision WSL itself with the same exact configuration management scripts you would use to provision a production box. For me specifically I run all of the same Ansible roles against WSL that I do in production. I can set the whole thing up with 1 Ansible command. Plus my dotfiles also happen to work exactly how they do on my native Linux laptop so it's easy to keep things in sync and feeling the same.

This all runs from a i5 3.2ghz / 16GB of RAM / SSD / etc. $750 desktop built 5 years ago.

Even if Apple tax didn't exist I would still use this Windows / WSL set up if I weren't in a position where I could run Linux natively.
Exposing GPS Spoofing in Russia and Syria
Hopefully not. Cloudflare has no business in law enforcement or legal investigations. If they are trustworthy, this will not know about the contents of sites in the past.
Obviously these things are highly individual, but my personal experience totally aligns with this article. I’m a transgender woman and when I started taking estrogen my pain tolerance increased noticeably over the course of about a month. Stubbing my toe just doesn’t bother me like it used to
Interestingly, in cricket, spitballs are legal and an integral part of bowling [1]. There's an odd middle ground where it's sort of legal to use foreign substances like sunblock or hair gel as long as you're not overt about it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ball_tampering
It doesn't have to be a complete dichotomy. Knowing your market size and customer profile is a good thing, and often key to building a successful sales team.
>Things like targets or published measurements that have no particular purpose in your process improvement cycle are risky because they will change behaviour in undefined ways. You should always avoid them if you can.

The problem is that a lot of businesses focus hard on metrics and this doesn't translate to a process improvement cycle, rather, it's on a "person improvement" cycle - making raises, bonuses, promotions, etc. dependent on that notion.

A perfect example how this is problematic is in areas like Customer Support, where a number of handled tickets doesn't equate to a good value of the product provided.

In a posit, let's consider there's two Support Agents working on supporting 'X' product for 'Y' company, over the course of a quarter. The product and the company have been around and established for quite some time, so there's no need for semantics on availability pool in this posit. Support Agent 1 works a case that takes 3 months but is a relevantly large product bug that impacts millions of users around the world via the fix.

Support Agent 1's workload, of course, has a considerably smaller queue size due to this. Now, Support Agent 2 keeps picking-up the low-hanging fruit because it's a numbers game and they know this.

What should happen is that management sees the disproportionate numbers and attempts to find out why that is (and/or attempts to automate the low-hanging fruit out of the equation). They should also look at the impact that both of their work had, in overall user-base.

Instead, what more than likely happens, is because Support Agent 1's numbers were so low, this makes Support Agent's Manager's numbers look bad and that goes up the chain. Upper Management, oft, doesn't care for the semantics around numbers, so shit rolls down-hill (as the colloquialism goes) and, now, Support Agent 1 is on "Unsatisfactory/Needs Improvement" for their review cycle, losing raises, bonuses, promotions, etc.

I think that would disenfranchise Support Agent 1.

Since this is a majority American board, consider the wonderful hell that is known as Wal-Mart. From what I understand, it also utilises metrics across the board. If you think on it, can you name a person "happy" to work there? I'd reckon you couldn't. (Again, this is my understanding of it and not anedotal, first-hand experience with the company or anyone who works for it. Aside from Asda, in the UK, Wal-Mart isn't a "thing" here.)

So, more than just being fruitless, if it doesn't go into the process improvement cycle, I'd say it rolls pretty high numbers in damaging the overall morale.
The eviction crisis is starting to look a lot like the subprime mortgage crisis
Thank you for the explanation
The more I read the more it sounds like an April fools joke.
Because one has a fuckton of karma and social recognition and the other doesn't ?
Sure, anything non Anglo-Saxon is awful
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*theengineeringmanager.com" regularly posts to HN

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=by:jstanier&sort=byPopularity&...
Survey HN: Key Performance Indicators for SaaS Sales Funnels
I hope NixOS will save us here.
>It's not a US thing, other countries such as Germany deal with it by making their hospital doctors work insane hours (mandatory 24-hour shifts on weekends from time to time (400-600€ extra for that unless you are in training, then you just have to do it), one assistant doctor for a psych ward overnight)

In fact, it IS "a US thing":
• Most major teaching hospitals mandate 24-hour weekend shifts for residents;
• One "assistant" aka resident doctor for a psych ward overnight is standard

Retired neurosurgical anesthesiologist here who's been there and done that many, many times....
Leaked Mueller Report Proves Barr Lied; Collusion Theorists Vindicated
I recently had a job interview where I was asked about skills on my resume. Except on every question the scale would change.

For example. On a scale on 1 to 7 how do you rate your self on Linux
Then, On a scale of 1 to 9 how do you rate your self on AWS.

It was maddening and I could couldn't give an honest answer as I kept getting confused. That is one of the many reasons I declined a second interview with that company.
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>In many cases it's scientists who decide if existing funding is used on many small studies or few large ones, and which studies in particular.

In my experience it works out more like, scientists make their studies as big as funding will allow for while tracking and justifying every single expenditure to your grant providers who can withdraw funding if they're not happy with the way their money's being used.
Hey everyone, we want to do something that can help the community so we put together a form to see what key performance indicators (KPI) you all focus on within sales funnels. We will share the results here later!
Sturgeon's Law isn't a new thing. The key has always been to find the best stuff. I think that's easier than ever.

I have to agree that virtually nothing Hanna Barbara has done has stood the test of time. Despite being so politically incorrect a lot of it has been buried, I can think of a few Looney Tunes that are still pretty good (Bugs Bunny conducting the orchestra is quite popular, I'm also a fan of a particular Bugs Bunny cartoon in which he stays overnight in Dracula's castle), and Disney's stuff is still generally watchable and enjoyable, but I'm sitting here racking my brains and despite having seen some of those shows as a kid, I literally can not relate to you a single episode of any of them.
The comments here are very funny. Lots of finger pointing at Haitians, “corruption”, “land ownership system”, “send the army”. Let’s not forget and please acknowledge real facts. Haiti’s slave revolt the only successful one in history saw African people pummel Napoleons French army, the British army and the Spanish army. From 1804-1825 there was a economic embargo on the country (similar to what we do to North Korea). It only stopped when Haitians agreed to pay French slave owners reparations for the money they lost and property (slaves and land ). “In 1838, France agreed to reduce the debt to 90 million francs to be paid over a period of 30 years to compensate former plantation owners who had lost their property. The modern equivalent of $21 billion was paid from Haiti to France.” So, French banks actually loaned Haiti money with very high interest to pay the French government and avoid sanctions thus very deliberately stifling the growth of the country almost haunting it altogether. Note also this was the colony that made the French more money than all 13 of its colonies put together. Therefore the predicament we have today is due to the pure wickedness and greed of the French coupled with natural disasters.

Ps: recently us mercenaries were captured in Haiti deliberately inciting violence and instability. They have since been released to the US.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwiY...

Yes these things are not reported.
Good point. I guess that, as always, what counts as a "surprise" depends on your overall knowledge of the system. (For example: an eclipse of the moon is a surprise if you don't know astronomy, the absence of an expected one would be a far bigger surprise for those who do). I've found the following declaration from the Academie:

"formes telles que professeure, recteure, sapeuse-pompière, auteure, ingénieure, procureure [..] sont contraires aux règles ordinaires de dérivation et constituent de véritables barbarismes"

So, it feels wrong to them, who know the derivation rules. Probably it feels slightly more obvious to those who don't.
So they'll get AI with criminal mindset as a result? See where it leads to?
And what's new here? Any technology can be used both ways.
Java vs. Python: Which Should You Learn First for Finance IT?
China's gleaming hypocrisy:

On one side they continue to shield Masood Azhar, a person classified as terrorist by all major powers in the UNSC, to appease their all weather friends Pakistan.

On the other side they run "re-education" camps for Muslims on their soil.
Comparison with smartphones doesn't stand: swapping a phone battery means shelling out cash for a brand new one, done once in several years. Quick-swapping the EV battery means getting another, used one, in a questionable state. Car owners aren't willing to pay dear cash for their own battery, treat it carefully, only to hand it over to a stranger. Batteries, due to their delicate makeup, just aren't a fungible commodity like that.
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I'm thinking about asking my future coworkers to sent me some reading material or stuff I need to research to make my first week more productive. Do you think that's good or bad?
It's not really about training. It is to provide evidence in court in case you try to sue the company.

It also motivates customers to behave in a civil manner because they know they are being recorded.
Ok I’ve got an idea for you involving vending machines. Email me if you want to hear more.
A lot of this line of work also originated from efforts to solve problems in COM, which was becoming central to Microsoft's approach to platforms. The idea was to make it easier to produce objects in different languages and then let them interoperate at runtime. In that regard, Microsoft's notion of a common runtime environment for objects was a natural follow on to COM's concept of objects abstracted behind interfaces.

There was also a great deal of confusion around the way Microsoft originally introduced COM. When Windows 3.1 came out, one of its marquee features was something called OLE 1.0 - Object Linking and Embedding. This was a composite document approach built on an early technology called DDE, Dynamic Data Exchange. (Which was brittle, and based on Windows messaging.) A few years later, they introduced OLE 2.0, which added a bunch of features, but mainly completely replaced DDE with COM. For a while, there was a lot of conflation of COM as something OLE 2.0 specific.
> So, it's possible* to sell 100k software to a $1m-$10m businesses... But it is very useful to realize that this is rulebreaking. An enterpirse pays $100k+ for lots of things. A small business will only pay that much if it's absolutely core to their business model. Usually this means it's absolutely indispensible to gettng customers.

This is a very good point, especially when you force yourself to define "absolutely core to their business model" (if you're selling franchises it literally is their business model, but you only sell franchises if you've worked out how they can make much more revenue from selling to people further down the chain...). And remember that services like Google Ads only ended up absolutely core to some businesses because they didn't start off with the ambition of getting 100k contracts but let people start as small as they liked to prove its worth....

Thinking you might get 100k licenses from the $10m per annum businesses theoretically encompasses a lot more companies than "large enterprises", but in practice the sort of software and marketing channels companies are willing to decide to spend 1%-10% of their annual revenue on up front tend to be either (i) super specialised solutions you've developed to make/save demonstrable amounts of money or completely run operations in their niche, which might well be a niche smaller than the "large enterprise" space anyway or (ii) services where they get the perception they're paying for a lot of your time to make it work for them, in which case your margins aren't so impressive. They're probably not expanding their IT budget or dedicating most of their marketing budget for a generic CRM system or user monitoring service, even if you have a very good pitch about why yours is better than the ones with attractively low rates for medium sized enterprises.
Also competition over limited resources means that it is in nobody’s interests to reduce energy use first.

The only way this gets fixed is with cleaner energy mix and active carbon removal.
You should be careful about the terms you use. Some terms should not be overused because overuse trivialises.
On a tangent, let's talk BlueHost.

While the call to host switch is malicious, almost every developer in WordPress world will agree BlueHost, and their parent company with all their 50+ hosting companies, are utter garbage. The only reason they exist is because they have hired an army of bloggers and pay them affiliate income of $65 / signup.

As far as disabling Endurance Cache goes, it is completely legitimate. It's a plugin forced upon BlueHost users, without being told so, and is a "must-use" plugin that most users will never check (and can't be completely disabled from WordPress admin).
We can't possibly know. Different countries have different cultures and histories. It might also be that resulting slump in economic output would incite revolts.
What's the book? Would you recommend it?
Oh. That is actually quite annoying. Have been wanting to get my rss setup of quite sometime, but couldn't get the motivation.
That seems odd. I'm particuarly fond of the fact that every Java build tool has accepted Maven's artifacts as the way to do it, whether it be sbt, Buildr, Ivy, Leinigen, Gradle etc.

I personally use Maven over sbt for Scala projects though, I much prefer declarative builds to... whatever leaky DSL sbt is rocking.

May I ask why you're routinely shading? I only really use shading for deploying Spark jobs onto a cluster I don't control. Otherwise if I'm deploying an executable jar the assembly plugin and jar-with-dependencies does it fine.

Have you seen Capsule? http://www.capsule.io
I've been using a 43" 4k Philips monitor for the last four months or so. It's great, although it did take about a week to adjust to the new setup (I previously used a 32" 2k display.)
Warp – Mobile VPN
And airplanes apparently.
> better statistical significance

I can tell from your comment that you understand this already but we should avoid talking about improving statistical significance when what we really mean is reducing the sampling error or the systematic effects---which would of course actually reduce the significance if the hypothesis is incorrect.
This is also across the board in most California districts. Not just SF. (This article is dated 2016)

I posted this because in our Bay Area school district, algebra and geometry was an accelerated course with just 35 students. (In just one school of the district) Selected by lottery.

It costs 7500/year but they want to get rid of it. Teachers are also planning to strike. To me, it looks like funding in CA public schools is no longer about education but about the care and feeding of public sector unionized employees.

Parents are horrified but in the same neighborhood thread, teachers are using it to ask the parents to support them. Students are given extra credit if they show their support for work the rule(only school work hours and no more clubs and extra classes like this) and strikes and walk outs.

It’s all mind blowing to me(I don’t have kids in the public school system) and I can’t wrap my mind around this. I have been approached by friends who are parents and don’t want to be vocal about their kids children in the community forums as I don’t have the vulnerabilities of parents whose kids are already in the system.

Certain Asian/Indian parents send their kids to tutoring classes which is seen as elitist and reactions have been borderline racist.

I just tell my friends to pull their kids from public school if they can afford it or homeschool them. I am very impressed with khan academy. I looked into it and I find myself learning from their classes.

I have to ask ...what is the point of public education in CA anymore? Should educational methods change and the way we teach subjects change? Conformity is tyranny at this point.

Teachers overload kids with useless assignments and the real learning happens after school in tutoring centers. And then the kids have to learn extra curricular subjects especially as they get closer to applying for universities. This is supposed to make them ‘well rounded’ but it only makes them depressed, stressed and uninterested in education. They become cynical and jaded and entirely unprepared when they go to college. It’s worse for the smart kids as they are bored but still have to go through the motions.

Maybe it’s time to revamp public education.
Their reply is an exercise in basic obfuscation and dissembling. Instead of explaining the specific 'features' of their code, their response is in a question-and-answer format. They chose the questions, and they are sufficiently broad and otherwise carefully chosen so that they can avoid being specific about what, exactly, they were up to. Some obvious follow-up questions to their initial answers are conspicuously absent.
Maybe, but this is not that.
Ooh I like wet skidpads! :D

Other possible interpretations that I thought of (for the record):

- The front wheels (under good traction conditions)

- The limit of traction for the rear wheels (when in a corner nearing said limit of traction... my favourite part, btw.)

- The front wheels (if you're already sliding but hoping to go mostly straight)

- The throttle (if you're sliding and planning on keeping it this way while the front wheels dictate angle of drift)

- Edit: The handbrake (if you're in a front wheel drive for some reason)

:D
Yeah, better grab the already compressed copy and extract it without recompression and the DRMs.
Maybe he's a plan 9 user.
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+1 for fearless salary negotiation. Just gone through an application process and it's earned me thousands. Haven't read the raise (as opposed to negotiation) content, but sure it's good.
Git derives patches from files on disk, so the patch inherits the file's license. Logically you commit files or even the whole source tree, a patch is an optimization detail, which is used to rebuild the source tree at a given point, so it's a matter of what license the source tree has at that point.
Absolutely. We used to send new employees relevant books (programming language guides) before they started. If they list books to read make sure the company pays or reimburses you for the material.
yes, no news, you can use ai for bad or good things, guns to save people from bad people or do bad things etc..
Not really nonsensical, just badly translated.
I guess Google would be better off building a technology that comprehensively defeats any attempts of censorship? That way Chinese users will also have google, but an unrestricted. Maybe by becoming openly hostile to China in the most direct sense, like recognizing Taiwan as the only China. Google has resources to do it.
"Just following the rules" is a poor excuse when the rules are obviously, unequivocally evil. We established that at Nuremberg, if not before.

Someone's going to say that letting companies make moral judgments is a slippery slope. But someone's gotta do it. I don't claim access to universal truth, but some things are clearly wrong.
Interestingly, all sources lead back to Rico Mariani.