skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Personal preference obviously but I like getting away from work for lunch. After eating if it's nice out I'll actually just sit myself on a bench and chill. 15, 30 minutes doing that is worth so much more to me than leaving work that much earlier.
dark patterns like offering health insurance...
> comparing what changed before and after is the experiment.

IIUC, in order to do that comparison you still need to collect data. You may throw that data away and your experiment ends right there, you may do analysis on that data, but you said it yourself - it is an experiment.
I used to work on Gerrit at Google, it's open source: https://github.com/GerritCodeReview/gerrit
These are the tough questions that are going to have to be answered until another robotic cotton gin is invented.
It's the Maven (dumb) vs. SBT (very clever) build tool argument. Wherever I've been, there are people in the first camp and people in the second camp. I personally don't like highly extensible build tools because I can't manage them and end up with lots of complexity on it's own, taking time from me building features.
Indeed. And note that these laws are generally state laws in the US, not federal. So just in the US, there's a lot of possible versions of the law/jurisdiction Facebook could face.
Sure it can, when the "simple transfers" have qualifiers that induce unfunded inefficiency and other externalized costs.

If you have to spend five hours a month to prove that you qualify for a program that pays $80/month when your labor is worth $10/hour, you're not receiving net $80/month, you're receiving net $30/month and then getting paid to labor for five hours, the second of which you could have done for any other employer using the same five hours, so the value of the program is $30/month even though it costs $80/month to the taxpayer. Plus whatever administrative costs exist on the government's side. And then whatever value the alternative employer would have derived from having a worker available to work those extra hours.

It's even possible for programs to have negative value. They can cost money and then destroy more value than that. A lot of housing and other subsides can do this, e.g. you give some people $500/month for housing, but that only causes local rents to increase by $150/month -- on everyone, including the people not eligible for the subsidy. So on paper you have a thousand people receiving $500/month and you think you've gained $500,000, but then you account for the five thousand people who now pay $150/month more, cost of $750,000, and you're net -$250,000. Meanwhile the taxpayer still had to pay $500,000 to make that happen.
> But ICC makes most of their revenue

I didn't read through the whole report and I'll admit it's not entirely clear what all the line items are, but (1) the "program/member services" cost more than the revenue the "program services" generate, and if "product sales" does represent their sales of access to the standards it's well above a third of their revenue. IIUC, they're a nonprofit, so those sales, and the potential loss to a competitor are the difference between solvency and insolvency.

> another is because we think this was important that no one was tackling

Maybe I'm just tired of the "disruption" economy, which as I see it is (1) find a way to avoid paying for things that other businesses have been paying for, (2) claim you've found a better business model, (3) profit. c.f, Uber, Airbnb, Monkey Parking.

In the "old days" you would have partnered with ICC, and built a better product together. But that's not exciting enough. Instead, you're doing it "disruption style" and trying to see what you can get away with. But face it, if you're successful, you're ruining peoples livelihoods. AIUI, these code standards are not some lunchtime conversations put together by politicians, they are specific, detailed requirements done by professionals for professionals, and one of the defining characteristic of being a professional is that you expect to be paid for your work.

The question of whether the law can be copyrighted is a valid one. Legal publishing companies have been dealing with this question for a while now (the most common way of citing court cases comes from a private company). But people are also entitled to be paid for their work, and you can't upend the system until you solve that problem too.
HN has those comments and HR doesn't explode because: Ageism is legal in the US except for specific prohibitions.

The Age Discrimination In Employment Act only prohibits discrimination against workers age 40 and older. There is no federal restriction against disfavoring workers at age 39 for being too old, nor against favoring workers over 40 at the expense of younger ones.
Org-mode and magit were the reasons that I had to use emacs. Ended up falling in love with emacs itself, though.
You're missing the point. What if I told you I see an imaginary friend with me all day long. Everywhere I go, he is there doing his thing, making snide remarks and commentary that only I hear. I know he is not real, and I never get confused about that, but I see him nonetheless. You'd think that's weird, right?

I have the same opinion of people's purported "mind's eye" and visual imagination. Like, I'm able to recall things that I've seen, but they come back to me as grab-bag of feelings, abstract concepts, and an enumeration of qualities and characteristics. Not a reconstruction of a picture or anything like that, or a movie playing in my mind's eye or whatever.

This has never really been a handicap for me, except in art class which I was never any good at (Art teacher: "Just focus your mind on your subject while looking at the canvas, then just paint what you see. It's easy!" Me: "... wtf are you smoking?") Or when I went to pick up my fiancé from the airport after I first prolonged separation, and I got worried because I honestly couldn't remember what her face looked like.

But back to the analogy, it seems as if nearly everyone around me goes around life with an imaginary friend that only they can see, and I'm the only one who finds this weird. Like how can you even trust your senses if you're able to conjure up full sensual experiences in your imagination? I find this scary because it counteracts my own certainty: if my mind is seeing something or hearing something, IT'S REAL.
Well that's a complicated question to answer.

You can use the posix_spawn function in glibc, which uses a vfork or clone syscall just like on Linux.
The hypothetical person taking this advice has nothing whatsoever to worry about from me competing for their job, as anyone with the misfortune of having read my frontend code can readily attest to.
Multiple columns don't work well for vertical scrolling. They should work fine if you horizontally scroll to see more columns (for example to the right for writing in English).

This would allow more content to be displayed for users with larger screens without overly penalizing users who could only view one column at a time.

The challenge would be to convert the normal vertical scroll to a horizontal scroll in an intuitive way (ie not too jarring for the user).
Idk, I have aphantasia and I also ruminate quite a lot.
Nope, if he's in the US and not over 40. The Age Discrimination In Employment Act only prohibits discrimination against workers age 40 and up. Disfavoring workers of age 39 or under is perfectly legal federally.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_Discrimination_in_Employme...
maybe piper|citc -> VFSForGit
I turned the birthday notifications off a while ago. I also removed my birthday so that no one receives them from me.
Would not have caught this. Every time the vehicle is randomly tested it would have entered cheat mode.
Attacking QA Platforms: Selenium Grid
> I think it's well-known that Windows NT took a lot of ideas from VMS.

Has the old theory that "Windows NT" aka "WNT" = "VMS + 1" ever been proved or disproved?
I do this kind of work! I don’t know at Google, but typically there will be some amount of third-party due diligence for deals over a certain size / risk profile. Some companies have an internal strategic deals group; which I would assume Google likely does (but probably didn’t back then).

If both companies’ data needs to be combined an analyzed, they usually bring in an outside deals consulting firm. Those teams tend to be very small due to the sensitive nature of the discussions involved — usually 2 or 3 people (backed by a large shared support staff and tooling) over the course of a few weeks.

Often the data used is a combination of proprietary data from both companies, commercially sourced data or proprietary data platforms built by the consulting companies. Deals are a big, sensitive, relationship-driven business.
It's not that hard at all. After some years studying music as a kid I can read piano sheets. He with 10+ years of experience can definitely cope with much more complex ones.
Interesting, I never ranked them.
Germany does not extradite its own citizens.
None of my competitors use a language from the 70's.
As the article points out, the NT kernel actually natively supports fork.
It's just not exposed.
When was high school ever positive, especially a student office election? The only ethical thing to do is to disrupt it a bit.
Dutch East India Company had its own colonies and army. Practically speaking, it was a branch of the Dutch government, so comparing it to the contemporary companies doesn't make much sense.
Look at it in the intended size, and it looks great.
Yea, it's not only that schools are spending more to attract students, but that there are some greater market forces at play: More people go to college now than ever, the state subsidizes colleges per student less than ever, and the state will subsidize college in a way that lowers price sensitivity. Finally, there is the Baomol Effect, which says that education will continue to rise in cost w/o productivity gains. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baumol%27s_cost_disease

It's sort of this perfect storm that is shifting the increasing cost of expanding education on to 18yos. The upside: college degree holders have a 50% plus wage premium, the downside, in 2026, 18 years after the great recession, there will be a 15-20% drop in enrollment of full pay college students which might just burst the bubble. (Fingers crossed here)
I think this is a bad comment.

Someone asked a technical question, and you managed to turn the topic into accusations against Marissa Mayer (and ones that at least invoke sexism).

There's a time and a place for criticism, but it's not every time someone asks a question about her.
My anecdote is someone gets a cert and now has extremely limited understanding of the technologies and wants to use it for everything. I've had to fight back against the idea that the solutions are cheaper, that everyone doing ETL needs elastic MapReduce, etc. I think it is compounded by things like acloudguru pushing out sales engineer (associate architect, literally just the selling points of the tech) certifications by teaching the exam basically question for question, so actual understanding is minimal.

My point being that people who get them evangelize AWS and the certs themselves teach absolutely no technical competency. Compound this with requiring x number for cert holders for partnership benefits I think it was clearly intended to get people excited about selling AWS rather than exhibiting any kind of competence with primitives and concepts compared to something like CCN*.
Here’s a screengrab from a “2x retina” display of the sales page showing 8pt (so view this at 50%)

https://i.imgur.com/9tpX2Vq.png
Seven databases in seven weeks (2014)
I'm more saying religion has been the traditional way we explored the mind and "spirit" or whatever but as we move out of religion we now have a void. Most people just aren't purely philosophical, so what I usually see these days is hippie shit like how crystals heals your mind. I'd recommend more philosophy but I'm also a realist and a lifetime of trying to convince ppl to engage philosophy has left me to believe it's a lost cause. So instead maybe Wed make it simpler than philosophy and do more exploration inwards.
And, per eminent domain, they have the right to do without asking permission. It’s the standard way for the government to turn private property into public property.
I did get your point, however you’re still dependent on one pipe into the house which then doesn’t solve the issue I highlighted. You could buy additional leased lines with a different physical route out but those are not cheap either and you still haven’t solved the issue of redundancy in any other system aside your gateway.
If I had to guess, I'd point to DLLs. The minimal Windows process loads probably half a dozen, plus the entry points are called in a serialized manner.
Only if you ignore the entire .NET OSS community, most of which puts out better versions of everything you list than the default Microsoft stuff.

I do think I understand your point - there is comfort in knowing there is one default solution for almost every abstraction. But how much can you love it when each one tends to be mediocre?

Disclosure: I spent 10 years working on .NET from 2006 to 2016 , so I've missed the last revolution of .NET Core, so maybe things got better?
Not even just the semantics, the performance is awful. Even when the fork is virtual (as any modern fork is) and there's no memory copying because it's COW, all the kernel page tables still need to be copied and for a multi-GB process that's nontrivial. That's why any sane large service that needs to fork anything will early on start up a slave subprocess whose only job is to fork quickly when the master process needs it.
SpaceX fired up its Mars spaceship prototype for the first time
Would anyone imagine (no pun) this condition has any bearing on the current theory of how empathy is formed in the human mind (mirror neurons and 'replay' neural networks)?
In the UK, this is generally fraudulent – the stamps aren't really unused, they just weren't franked properly, or had the ink removed somehow.
I haven't gotten those. I don't think my stuff is heavily used :D

However, I think that bugs would annoy me enough so I'd fix those. But I don't feel obligated. Nowhere do I state any level of support.
I imagine you are both right: the apples are farther up the tree.
Nowhere in the article is it mentioned where the student gained access to a mapping of student IDs to student first and last names. As a recent BHS alumni, these ID numbers are not obviously derivable from a student's name (but I do think they are allocated sequentially). Getting access to this list implies some sort of social engineering or threat vector elsewhere.
> I’ve never seen an SUV EV in China but I left in late 2016

Chinese EVs models exploded during 2017 and 2018.
that isn't a very random test then.
Thank you, you just saved me $164.98 (turbotax self-employed) - $14.99 (taxhawk)! A lot of money given that it's for my kid's $620 income :) And honestly, the taxhawk experience was better, with less cutesy messages and fewer screens. Not to mention the annoying turbotax upsells.

Just one thing to complain - it didn't discover that I over-contributed to Roth and need to return a bit to prevent a penalty.
I've used org-mode both as an organiser and as a simple markup language. It is fantastic for both and far superior to any other that I've used. I will actually write using org-mode and export to formats for others, often using pandoc (which I invoke using the keyboard from emacs, of course).

One weird thing about markdown and other formats is they don't have a title. So people use heading 1 as their title which is strange and wrong.

I simply love being able to type up a document in an environment I'm comfortable in and then exporting it to whatever format is required at the end: html (document or slideshow), pdf, or even MS Turd. I have stylesheets set up for each that actually make my documents look more professional and consistent than people who use those things directly.
A while ago there was a case when the guy behind Maven Pro produced a very nice font that felt vaguely like Whitney. Lo and behold, not two days after he delisted it. When pressed for reasons, he said he got a letter from Hoefler himself on how one cannot get insipired by other people's work, chided him for being unoriginal and implied dire legal consequences of not taking it down immediately. Mind you, the point of contention was a _feel_ of the font.
Wow, genious idea.
Has anyone here actually used Speedify? I mean, other than me?

I have tried them repeatedly, and I don’t get highly speeds. At least, not for downloads. Uploads are usually faster with speedify than without it, but downloads are usually slower.

So, if you do use speedify, what is your real reason for using it?
Yeah, but not quite. When you sent the message it used your network I’d as for the ‘from’ field. I was even that dorky that the message I used to prove it worked was “Hello, World!”. Try explaining geek memes to high school teachers in the late 90’s.
Ehh, Yahoo had to gamble big on Marissa. They lost I guess, but it was the correct decision at the time. I think people are forgetting the terrible CEOs prior to that, and the horrible decision not to sell to Microsoft.

Remember the Obama style "Hope" posters with her face on them?
Except one is not always able to use an editor, and assuming people are always able to do something is a great downfall of many products or standards made by people with specific uses cases in mind who think their experiences are universally applicable.
Right, so what are we trying to do here then? Having a notification that you're constantly participating in an open-ended experiment with a purpose to be determined at a future date seems worse than nothing. But if you require a more specific notification before the data is collected then the after the fact analysis doesn't just require user notification, it's inherently prohibited.
I've gotta say out of everybody I know even my 80+ year old grandpa - your phone notifies you of the least. Idk if you're in a contest here but that's just now how most people's lives go. Most peoples lives are engrained with their phones and I think most of us are healthy enough to make it be a net positive. (Not implying anything you're doing is wrong!)

I'm not defending or justifying doing it - im simply explaining why it's such a common phenomenon. People are often in conversations all day long with others. Or engaged in online discussions like this. Life is filled with boring moments and phones alleviate us of that. That's why people do it.
Even though its a very long article, it helps to read the entire thing. The article references the Phoenix, Albuquerque and Long Beach transit agencies, all of which cancelled their BYD orders as a result of LA Metro's issues with BYD's buses.
I try to avoid listening to the music. Because then it plays all the time in my head afterwards, especially when I'm a bit tired.
Practically speaking some of today's big companies are branches of the government too.
Do you see dreams at night?
fork() is also used to daemonize and for privilege separation, two tasks where posix_spawn() cannot be used. I suppose daemonization can be seen as something of the past, but privilege separation is not. On Linux, privileges are attached to a thread, so it should be possible to spawn a new thread instead of a new process. However, a privileged thread sharing the same address space as an unprivileged one doesn't seem a good idea.

The paper also mention the use case of multiprocess servers which relies heavily on fork() but dismiss it as it could be implemented with threads. A crash in a worker would lead to the crash of the whole application. While a worker could just be restarted.

A proper use case of removing fork() from an actual program would help. For example, how nginx on Windows is implemented?
Haven't tried it on distil, but maybe this works? https://github.com/jgm/standalone-html
I have a friend who works there, and still didn't know they did tax stuff. I'll have to give it a try this weekend!
Tokyo 16-year-old bought uranium and produced yellowcake to sell online
Do you have a link? Would love to read up more.
Tsundokindle
"Random test" means taking a production vehicle of any age, and testing it in real world conditions. Basically putting measurement devices over the exhaust and driving it on the highway, not in a lab.

It's less scientific but also so much more scientific if you expect the object you are measuring to be cheating in lab conditions - and they should be expecting that.
The day org-mode will reach the masses is when the tutorials about it do not even mention the word emacs. Until then, it will inevitably be seen as a thing useful only for emacs users.
Sound a lot like inlined lambdas in Kotlin. Lambdas can be passed with the same block-like syntax, and when they're marked as "inline" you can return from the enclosing function from within the lambda (because the lambda will have its body inlined by the compiler).
Just a few weeks ago, I logged into Elster, opened the pre-filled tax return (Belegabruf) and sent it. Instead, I could have filled the short and simple Vereinfachte Steuererklärung by hand which covers all common cases.

Most workers don't need to do anything to get their overpaid tax back thanks to the Lohnsteuerjahresausgleich.

They need to work on their marketing though.
^^^ This is an excellent and very funny read.

I used to know a girl who I suspect might have some kind of "hyper-phantasia." She said that when she thought back on memories it was literally like hitting the rewind button on a VCR.
Is it really "the most ubiquitous font"? I always notice when someone has used Helvetica itself rather than some generic sans serif clone and it's not that often.
You and GP likely agree on the same points, but are talking past one another concerning time scale. Their concern is if we automate the pickers of their jobs, what is their immediate recourse? Waiting years for society to establish a better safety net is not an option. One can retrain, but options are limited, and will be more so with greater automation.

The point is to be more mindful of the immediate effects of displaced labour due to automation. Is it a net social/economic gain to have prices slashed by say 10%, while at the same time seemingly externalizing both the social and economic costs of those who lost their jobs?

It makes sense to ask these questions to ensure such a paradigm shift goes smoothly for those affected by minimizing undue hardship.
How do you propose to have crew available for every possible permutation of that routing? It would take an enormous standing population at every airport in the system, only a small portion of which will work on each given day. Good luck finding employees to take on that arrangement. Routing is about scheduling more than just aircraft.
Outside of company towns in a few industries, and maybe some multi-national resource extraction companies that operate in lawless areas, how is this true?
> Like yes, I can visualize a ball in my hand, but it'll always be in a different layer from my actual visual input of my hand. Like two different layers in Photoshop.

This blows me away. It's absolutely stunning to me.

Really? That's so freakin' cool!
How I created Plázida, my coworking space brand
If you use eax instead of rax, you can do both. Compilers are smart these days and will use the appropriate register size when necessary. If you need to move 7 bits, it'll likely use the al register.
"Modern-day Companies Don’t Even Compare! (And That’s a Good Thing!)"
Nope, it's not a good thing; but a step in right direction.
The CPU is still perfectly capable of 32bit calculations. Even 8 bit calculations. What you can't do is use 32bit pointers (though, strictly, you can, but x86-32 isn't well supported, I wonder why?)
Don’t trust the locals: investigating the prevalence of persistent client-side
Doesn't clearly explain what "configuration" he's talking about.