skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I always though how silly it was for teachers to pretend they got the correct answer in a text analysis of a century old author.

Some elements of analysis are verifiable, like when someone provides meaningful context around lines in Shakespeare, but once you get past very elementary discussions of literature the notion of "right answer" is kind of over.

My primary degree is literature; above dumb-freshman courses, the emphasis is on analytical thinking about the text, and on the rigor of that thinking, not on the supposed correctness of the analysis.

But, of course, this interferes with your thesis, so...
Maybe we are looking at different versions of the article (or did you intend to reply to ascar?) In the test quoted at https://www.huffpost.com/entry/standardized-tests-are-so-bad..., Question 35 is this one:

35 The imagery in lines 16 through 19 helps the reader understand –

A the shift in the speaker’s attitude

B the speaker’s unpleasantness

C why the speaker has no friends

D what the speaker thinks of others
Why must societal approval still be taught? And who gets to decide what society approves of? Hint: "Society" isn't the answer.
The web browser also "puts glyphs into positions." Neither HTML nor TeX source specifies positioning in the source format though. The same TeX document can be re-rendered at different page sizes, font sizes etc. Really not sure what fundamental difference you are seeing.
> I always though how silly it was for teachers to pretend they got the correct answer in a text analysis of a century old author. Apparently it's even true for authors that are still alive...

This also happened to Flannery O’Connor. She once wrote the following to an English Professor:

“The interpretation of your ninety students and three teachers is fantastic and about as far from my intentions as it could get to be.”

http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/08/i-am-in-state-of-shock....
Thanks for pointing that out - I fixed it.

Don’t even get me started on rire. That’s another word that makes me sound significantly dumber than I hope I am!! :)
Perhaps its a cultural thing, are most of those folks veg who don't like meat from India / South East Asia?

I work in vegan food industry (own company and invested in others) and the market research we've done has always been consistent here that most vegans enjoy eating plant meats (ie- beyond / hungry plannet / impossible / gardein etc). Granted that research has been mostly in Australia and Hong Kong which is where I focus on
The front-end great divide reprise
"OOP" is not "X with classes".

"Classes" is a low-level thing that you'd need for implementing many language features. Including things like 'abstract data types' of the ML kind.

Good C++ style has always viewed "OOP" as something highly suspect and hacky.

(This didn't apply to "classes" in the C++ vein, which are mostly about pre/post-conditions and RAII.)
Resigning allows you to answer no to "Have you ever been fired or asked to resign from any past position?" on future job applications.
> (you might have seen the "counterpart" old driving licenses which were in use until very recently

Non-photo UK driving licenses are in fact still legal [0] although they are not now issued. If you need a replacement or update (e.g. on address change) the new license will be the photo version. They are still valid for hire car.

If I need photo ID I use my passport. I do not therefore have an official photo-based identity document on me when travelling routinely in the UK.

[0] https://www.gov.uk/exchange-paper-driving-licence
Your 3% prediction for wind/solar for 2040 seems dubious.

Here's BP projection:

https://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/uncategorized/sna...

They have renewables (excluding hydro) supply about 15% of world primary energy demand (not just electric energy demand) in 2040 (although that also includes biomass, waste, and geothermal).

The other consideration is what the wind/solar displaces. 1 joule of wind or solar displaces several joules of primary fossil fuel energy, if the latter were being used for electric power generation. No one benefits from the fraction of fossil primary energy that gets dissipated as waste heat.
TeX’s line-breaking algorithm is certainly not computationally intensive. On my 7-year-old MacBook Pro, it takes 0.34 seconds to run the entire 495 page The TeXbook on a single thread. That includes parsing, macro expansion, page-breaking, lots of (slower) math layout, and dvi output, which means that the line-breaking takes at most a few hundred microseconds per page.

Remember, TeX was written to be usable on a 1 megabyte, 10 megahertz machine, where it ran about a page a second. One of my contributions at the time was to modify the Pascal compiler on the Sail PDP10 to count cycles for every machine instruction executed by TeX over all users over a number of months, and Knuth fine-tuned the inner-loops of TeX here and there based on the results (the code that automatically inserts kerns and ligatures got the most attention, IIRC).
Radical Help: Governments Desperately Need Designers
Not sure about picking a name that contains your competitor's brand name. I guess Airbnb's legal team will be sending a cease & desist soon
also, when victims are imported (from multiple places) there are no nearby kins and intertribal treaties to retaliate against the agressor
Cubic to Bring Contactless Transit Cards to Apple Wallet
What they don't show is how often it turns on when he doesn't want it to. That was probably a tough calibration to make for other manufacturers, especially when production smartwatches have much higher-resolution screens and processors that drain battery.
The fake people who will soon crowd your timelines
I'm the GitLab product manager for the Package, which includes the container registry. Thanks for the feedback! You can see the updated vision and direction for the container registry here: https://about.gitlab.com/direction/package/container_registr...

If you have any questions or feedback, you can email me at at trizzi@gitlab.com. I'd love to hear more about how you are using the docker registry today and any improvements you'd like to see made to the product.
Because it explains why the work gained popularity, and what the nature of that popularity was. Why are you reading it today instead of something else?

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There's no reason societal approval must be taught uncritically. Maybe I used a poor term. I just meant that some historical works are seen as great literature. And the values that society currently held at the time, and subsequently must be part of the staying power of a given work. Obviously other things come into play as well such as writing style and quality.
Have you ever tried the method of spaced repetition? It's astounding how efficient it can be as a tool for memorization.

https://apps.ankiweb.net/
This is really cool and as a software guy the electrical engineering component is a huge black box to me. Circuit boards all connected up and getting a physical device to handle lithium ion batteries to properly charge and not blow up is beautiful. He does a great job with pictures, videos, and giving detail at both a high level and semi-in-depth explanations really made it shine.

Is there anyone that does similar type of posts? Or even a follow along type of deal to get feet wet with actually building devices (maybe it includes a list of items to buy first)? Don't get me wrong I love writing software but showing someone something you physically made as opposed to sending a link to a website seems so much more satisfying.
Enough with The "Electric Cars Pollute More" Bullshit Already
That may account for half the time, at most.
Engineering Metrics, Algorithms and Dashboards Part 2
But we make up for it with our good looks and sporting ability! /s

While "charm" may not fit the stereotype of an HNer, I'd guess we're more likely than average to rely on communication to make a good impression. I, as an immigrant, certainly feel that I'm handicapped because humour and interesting conversation are all I have to offer on a first date!
> It's been illegal, under racketeering laws, to sell at a loss in order to capture a market for a long, long time, and that's the real story here.

You're thinking of an antitrust violation, not racketeering. The Sherman Antitrust Act prohibits any "attempt to monopolize" which includes predatory pricing. Racketeering is running a criminal organization for-profit (a Ponzi scheme, dealing dreams, illegal gambling, loan sharks, prostitution, etc.).
It could be that you're required to do so in your contract in order to have vacation/sick days paid out. I had one employer who required a 1 month notice. Unfortunately such requirements are legal in some states.

And although obviously not the case in this instance, 2 weeks isn't the norm in every country. I have to give 3 months notice in Norway.
A significant portion of the skilled hardware hackers cracking consoles do it because they care about homebrew, but they dislike piracy.

By providing something like OtherOS, you remove the incentive for that group to crack your console.

It is fairly telling that the PS3 was only cracked after OtherOS was removed.
My point wasn't about multiple choice tests, where I have to cross out false answers to get the right one. That this is testing the wrong skill and again only reinforces the question-creators opinion, even though I might disagree with that opinion, is a completely separate topic to rant about. (side-note: Where I'm from we nearly ever had multiple choice tests)

It's that there are multiple valid alternative interpretations for the same piece of literature. One is C), while the other one is "allows the poet to add a break, when reading it out loud." Being multiple choice, it's not the best question for this point, but the authors comment is a perfect example that seemingly objective interpretations might have nothing to do with the authors real intentions. Thus I argue that they are not that objective and there a multiple valid interpretations.
The vast majority of managers I've had, whether product or program managers, had very little understanding or experience with the job of programming.

In fact, i suspect more than half of them basically failed upwards. I can't be sure about this, because in many cases I could only see the piss-poor job they were currently doing, but I've experienced the incompetent junior-to-senior manager pipeline up close often enough that I wouldn't be surprised these senior managers were previously incompetent junior managers.
Sweden was already expecting a soviet invasion.

OK, so you're arguing that the government invited NATO without letting the navy know? That sounds incredibly risky. Again, Occam's razor.
While there's the easy joke about "army intelligence" it's also true that camouflage is hard to get right. Not only do you need to blend in/be non-obvious to the naked eye but also infrared, thermal, and other aspects. This is why JSOC has "Camouflage Scientists" for outfitting their Tier 1 units, sometimes on a mission-by-mission basis.

URL: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/06/27/photo_camo/
I'm guessing Android watch? That's what you get from running Android on a device.
They're often not legal in the US either, but it isn't enforced. It has more to do with enforcement than it does legality.
Its not merely prevention of one bombing. It is also prosecution and preventing future bombings. Otherwise the folks who plan these bombings are free to organize the next bombing.
> when they realise they're being paid less than they're worth

Some observation though:

1. If you're still being paid more than local offerings, it's still worth pursuing.

2. More remote-only companies mean more global-scale competition. In the long run, this would mean that people would be paid equally among the various location (so yes, they'll leave).
I also followed his saga and watched both this series and his general stock picking analysis videos.

If you can separate yourself from the persona he tried to cultivate and enjoy having your excel skills emasculated there both great watches
The Kaufmann Protocol: Why we age and how to stop it
do you really cold call clients and ask people for money or were those just made up examples?
UK Education Act says that children's parents are responsible for their receiving an education.

This has been commuted by the Tory government to "parents are fined if their children are not in school".

I find that very telling.
you must be watching CNN all day long
Here in the UK they died out about 20 years ago when our Data Protection Act came in to force and stated companies could only call people who had given them prior permission. Calls still happen (either illegally from UK companies or from overseas companies to whom the UK law doesn't apply) but they're much less common.
If these tests are about text comprehension and not interpretation of art, why use poems then? Wouldn't an advertisement, a legal text or simply a newspaper article serve a better purpose?

I've written some (bad) poems and asked people to tell me what it means for them and got some answers that are wildly different from my own. For example: I once described the sunrise as a "bleeding ceiling of the world", mainly because I needed a dramatic phrasing. But many people I asked thought it was about suicidial thoughts or death. Rather, I just wanted to emphasize the importance of (reaching) the sunrise while keeping the overall somber / grim tone I established in the first and second verse.

Which leads me to 'death of the author' vs. 'authorial intent'. What is the objective meaning of my metaphor? The readers or mine? And is my psychologists guess more valuable than that of a childhood friend of mine?

> Dissecting meaning like this is also where you get into the whole death of the author vs. authorial intent rabbit hole. And you can write whole books about that topic and which is also a quite subjective topic (I'm leaning more towards death of the author, as you might guess).

That is also just another interpretation of the metaphor. A kid on a small island country might not associate trains with a fixed daily schedule at all, because they only know about trains from other media. Your answer only is "objective" within cultures that can make that association between trains and schedules. In duringearly industrialization, the SAT answer might be that the train stands for the unrelenting progress of technology and how it sucks all live out of factory workers (see charlie chaplins 'modern times').
I think the employee made a mistake by giving 60 days notice; generally, that is only called for in very senior-level positions. Beyond that, the employeee didn't have another job lined up. So (at least from the employer's point of view) it seems as if the employee intended to use those 60 days to find another job, and I think an employer could reasonably assume that they would not be putting in their all during that time, so best to cut the line.

All that said, it's not fair for the fired employee to receive unemployment benefits only until the date on which they would have stopped working if they had not been fired.

Unemployment assistance is a public benefit that people (generally) qualify for if they are fired without cause; it helps them get by until they are able to find another job. You can qualify for unemployment assistance even if your work has a defined end date. I have a buddy who works on film sets, so his jobs typically last 4-5 months. But even if the film is scheduled to wrap up filming in a week, he would still qualify for unemployment if he were let go, and not just for the single week he would have been working.

The implicit understanding of giving notice is, "I intend to work for you until this date." But if the employer fires them prior to that date, it totally invalidates whatever notice was given.

Keep in mind that date of notice and date of separation are different. Between those two dates, the employee has the same expectation of employment, and the public benefits associated with it, as any other employee. If you get fired prior to your date of departure, whether or not you have given your employer the courtesy of notice, then you should qualify for the same unemployment benefits as someone who has not given the courtesy of notice.

Think about it. It would really suck if Employee A and Employee B both intend to stop working two weeks from now; Employee A is a jerk and plans to give no notice; Employee B is nice and gives two weeks' notice; both employees are fired without cause several days later; and Employee A gets at most 10 days' worth of unemployment benefits, while Employee B gets the standard 6 months.
All good points, but they should have selected a non novelty grade movement to start out with. Landfills and warehouses are filled with this type of corporate vanity product that failed to deliver.

Beyond that, Timex is a brand name relegated to disposable $20 watches. Trying to fluff up their mind share with a poorly made and laughably priced product is not going to work out for them.
To be fair i don't think the incumbent needs to be worried about that.
In France the notice period is generally three months, though that can be negotiated if your company is not stressed about replacing you. Two weeks would be very, very unusual here, though.
Which just proves that BigCo policies are written by bozos.

All this means is that people take all the customer data before you submit your notice.

Different story if someone's fired for cause, of course.
Probably comes down to HR and Corp security not taking the chance.

Obviously, if you had malicious intent, you would have ample opportunity to act before giving notice.

They just want to make sure they did what they could in case you should in fact have malicious intent. 'Oh, we escorted him off the premises within the hour; this one is not on us...'
I don't know US laws, but in Canada you have to give an appropriate notice that can extend far beyond 2 weeks. Your loyalty obligations also extent after the employment period. For instance, a dentist who gave the usual 2 weeks had to pay 45,000$ in damage[0]. There is many more examples like that for high-skill hard-to-replace employees.

[0]https://www.erudit.org/fr/revues/rgd/2006-v36-n1-rgd01560/10...
Yes, but now you are a "known risk". IN theory, if a company does not have a policy for a "known risk", they could be liable if a data breach occurred, whereas an "unknown risk" there is nothing they could have done, and therefore less penalty under the law.
> and won't do anything about it

We vote. The only legal democratic tool to "do anything about it", isn't it? Only our vote is a minority one that doesn't count much.

And what the hell is "society", anyway? Given that, say, 70 percent of the population votes one way and 30 percent the other way, is there any fault with the 30 percent? Are they "society"?
While I didn't give super detailed instructions, I posted something similar for a cyberpunk face-shield prop I made [0]. I started with a cheap VR toy and pretty much everything else is from Adafruit.

[0] https://imgur.com/gallery/JOnd3H1
Not sure if this is carrier-specific, but the phones my family uses will receive robocalls, but they come in with the name "Scam Likely." So somewhere, someone is keeping track of the various numbers that are used in a list, and using that to alter the carrier ID information to our benefit.

It doesn't catch all, but it hasn't incorrectly flagged one yet.
Not to be nitpicky, but to be precise, “de rien” translates to “from nothing”. Similar expressions in english are “no worries”, “no problem”, or “you’re welcome” .

As for speaking a foreign language, you need to take the jump. Know that, you are likely to be judged. However, there are people who find joy in seeing others speak their language and do so in a nurturing environment. You just need to find those people and practice with them, without fear of judgement.
> . . And I meander to its rhythm,
> flopping like a fish.
> Why can’t I get to sleep?
> Advertisement

Well said HuffPo. Are there rules on HN about linking to articles that are impossible to read because of adverts?
European here, in my corner we use spaces for thousands separator and commas for the radix.

But hey, we have several different standards for power plugs and outlets, so no surprise that other stuff is different too.
In Europe, we don't really have the concept of at-will employment so an employer can't legally terminate your employment without a good reason. And resigning isn't usually classed as a good reason.

I'm not sure about Spain, but in the UK there is a difference between being fired i.e. terminated with cause and laid off i.e. made redundant.

In the former, I don't believe there's any requirement for severance. In the latter there is a statutory minimum severance.

Also, if you're actually fired, your rights to unemployment benefits change. Usually some form of delay and/or reduction.
But then you'd have to pay examiners to mark it, and that means less profit. If it can't be marked by a robot, why bother with an education system. /s
There is definitely no law requiring you to give any notice to an employer. I can walk out right now if I want to. The only benefit of giving a company two weeks, is not burning bridges. The unfortunate situation up North seems like the classic Canadian stereotype, where you're always sorry for it somehow being your fault.
Your personal website come second for me. I wonder whether the person just looked at the first result.
Agree, which is why I think we (random people with technical skills who like to hang around the web) could do something good and useful just by creating genuine websites for no other reason than the art, fun and knowledge sharing.

If we all did we could soon have something really awesome going on.

If there ever was a good time to do this again it seems to be now.
Most positions in the UK will have at least a month notice.

I have a friend whos notice is 12 months.

At my last job they tried to convince us to accept 3 months notice, this was for even junior developers.
So wait this person was going to quit, but then got fired. So after getting fired they receive unemployment benefits which they would not have received otherwise (obviously they would have gotten fully paid for 60 days). But now are mad that the unemployment isn't lasting past the 60 days (in which after 60 days fired or resigned they wouldn't have gotten anything anyway). I guess I just don't understand what this plan was. Were they hoping to just milk out 60 more days worth of pay, and then travel or something. It appears there was no plan of a new postition lined up at all.

So we may not be getting a whole story here and I would like to know the whole story. Sure it seems bad by the employer, but we still are unsure of what the employee was planning here either. Maybe after 2 days of working after giving 60 days they weren't performing their duties anymore so they fired them. They could have been just hoping to get 2 months worth of pay, but been not expected to do anything since they were leaving. I can't make any assumptions, but without a full story this is impossible to judge who is truly in the wrong.

I actually once put in two weeks for a job, and then later when the CTO found out he said they didn't accept and I was asked to leave before 2 weeks. I, however, never thought of that as being fired, and I was leaving for a better position so it was no skin off my back. I just got a break between jobs I may not have had before.
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It’s common in the US to be asked to leave when you give notice. One place I worked had security escort people out of the building by the end of the day they gave notice.

I also worked in restaurants through college and while you weren’t asked to leave, you were taken off the schedule and not given any shifts.

(edit) The security walking out wasn't this big show of force, it was mostly to turn in laptop, badge, etc. Security was nice about it, but it was still security (end edit)