skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lots of people move abroad for a couple years, save a lot of money there, build strong CVs and then come back to their home country. With the saved money, they can easily start a life (buy house/flat without debt etc.) and strong CV presumably allows them to get a decent job. Of course, it is only suitable in countries that are at least somewhat developed, don't have wars etc.
Ah OK. Hmm my policy is to always disable force push on master. Force pushing to master should never be allowed.
Or that it will exactly have the expected impact (see roads projects, traffic jams and induced demand)
Why do that if you can do it with simple plastic cards
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The type of engineers who would screw up 100 unit tests independently are exactly the kind of engineers who should be forced to write tests for their code. Can you imagine the integration tests had they not been doing any testing at all?
Honestly, I've been to SF and NYC (Manhattan only) and have barely seen any homeless people. It didn't look better or worse than a typical European city. Probably I just didn't go to the bad districts?
For the same reason you don't usually negotiate with terrorists? Or any other behaviour you don't condone, right or wrong the guy made a mockery of Swedish LE if nothing else he should be charged with obstruction for going AWOL after agreeing to come for an interview and then skipped the country a day before.
And so would Chrome which would, realistically, be far more popular.
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Probably not, because in Germany you can walk on the railway platforms even if you don't have a train ticket, so the toilets should be free access, too, and probably this is why many railway stations have pay toilets only.
Society does provide limited liability, without having a stop loss mechanism. You are defending a system where the cost of catastrophe falls on everybody but the ones who encouraged the dangerous behaviour in the first place.
Apple used to be pretty good with Mac accessibility. Now, not so much.
Einstein also personally believed in complete determinism and lack of free will, but did not formulate a solid argument before he decohered.

See also superdeterminism: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superdeterminism

It’s interesting that it’s possible for there to be unfalsifiable theories that are nevertheless true, widely believed, and inform how we might approach everyday problems. While not able to be “proved”, it still may be possible one day to come up with large amounts of evidence in favor of such a theory; Stephen Wolfram’s work and ideas seem like they could be in the right direction, even if it is only the very first initial steps: “If the rules are simple enough, one might be able to do something that seems quite outrageous: just search the universe of all possible rules, and find our own physical universe.” - https://blog.wolfram.com/2007/09/11/my-hobby-hunting-for-our...

While the scientific method is extraordinarily effective for questions in its domain of applicability, there are questions that exist out of that domain on which we can nevertheless make progress.
Extensive discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19904581
When Google puts Chrome banners on google.com, and in gmail popups, is that "competing on merit?" How can I run some ads on google.com?
But....we already do penetrate it, routinely. Oil and gas fields are below it more often than not. Punching a 50cm hole in impermeable rock does nothing to it.

As for other countries - again, just because Japan cannot do it doesn't mean we shouldn't be doing this altogether. They can store their waste on the surface until we come up with a better plan. But countries like US can, and US has enough nuclear waste to fill 800 of these boreholes already - it's definitely worth doing for them, even if Japan can't. The answer to your question would be ultimately political, and yes, I imagine Japan would pay someone else to have it disposed of. But that's just a guess.

And I do read a lot of Sci-Fi, thank you for your concern. I just don't think you realize what sort of depths we are talking about - there is no geological process bringing material up from these depths to the surface. When we dig to that depth we literally find material buried for millions of years. You'd be talking about rupturing of the Earth to a point where a new mountain range rivaling the Alps would be created - and if that happens then like I said - we're all dead anyway.

As for the lack of imagination - quite the contrary! The mantle in the shallowest spot is only 7km below the surface - and the temperatures there can be as high as 4000C. That's enough to melt nuclear fuel, in which case it would just become part of the Earths crust forever - and it's not like you're polluting the Earth with filthy waste that someone might dig up at some point - the composition of the Earth at that point is already radioactive itself, dropping our nuclear waste into it is not just a proverbial but a literal drop in the ocean. Just like sending this stuff into the sun doesn't make the sun any worse off - the Earth's mantle is already an extremely dangerous place where no Sci-Fi would even suggest digging or future human activity of any kind. In that sense it's a good place for our most dangerous waste, since putting it there doesn't really make it any worse off.

And finally - as you noticed, whatever we do is irresponsible. In my mind, keeping it as we do right now is more irresponsible than burrying it in a way that makes it completely safe even if a comet struck our planet and civilization was completely wiped out. Whoever survives that won't accidentally run into steel containers full of death pebbles. And if civilization emerges that is somehow capable of not only digging but also retrieving material from close to the Earth's mantle, then that civilisation will understand what radioactivity is - no one will ever dig this stuff out "by accident". It's just the sensible option right now, while keeping it around isn't.
As someone else says, partnership structures. These have a very limited ability to raise external capital.

I'm slightly surprised to have to argue on a site built on providing venture capital as equity to startups that also issue equity to employees that exposing all those investors to the risk of losing their homes as a result of action by those they have only a very limited control over is a bad idea.

> what do you think happens in countries that don't have limited liability companies?

There is an excellent book on this, The Other Path by the economist Hernando de Soto, on extra-legal systems in Peru.

And in Third World countries where you don't have good formal legal systems, the environmentally destructive exploitation projects still happen, with the complicity of the political structure - and often substantial amounts of extra-legal violence. At least in the US you can sue Cloud Peak Energy without getting your legs broken.

It's also worth looking at what happened to the Lloyds "Names", who were supposed to be unlimited-liability reinsurers.

None of this is to say that coal companies should be allowed to commit environmental damage and get away with it, but it does mean that the system needs to be better in preventing this in the first place.
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However, for a magnetic drive, reading data sequentially will be significantly faster than random access (due to increased overhead of page faults), but for an SSD drive, this overhead will not be present.

Even SSDs have overhead for random access although not as much as spinning disks (~3 times IIRC)
The Git support in the Jetbrains IDEs is very good. I'll often fire up IntelliJ if I'm too tired to try and figure out how to figure out what's going on.
I meant specifically compared to https://node-ts.github.io/bus/, not Messages Bus architecture.
> Mercurial feels like it should be the winner. The commands are more uniform and predictable.

Keith Packard's "Repository Formats Matter" post nicely captures how meaningless it is to focus on this sort of thing in the long term: https://keithp.com/blogs/Repository_Formats_Matter/

I.e. yes Git has some UI issues, but those are fixable, whereas e.g. Subversion's UI was way better than Git in the early days, but its repository format limitations inherently weren't fixable.

> Mercurial has a concept of commit stages to make history rewriting safer.

Yeah that's a really neat feature. For what it's worth some people at Google seem to be working on trying to get an equivalent feature into Git.

> For example, what Facebook did[...]

Much of what drove Facebook to Mercurial has since been addressed, e.g. "status" times being slow due to lack of inotify-like integration. That's now a feature of core git. Some of the rest is being worked on and actively upstreamed, e.g. from the GVFS effort: https://vfsforgit.org
We’ve built Rethinker as a platform to help people develop faster and get more fulfilling jobs.

Our first product is called Rethinker Feedback, and is built on a Ray Dalio-like belief that society is moving towards a place where knowing your strengths and weaknesses in a data-driven way will be amongst the only ways to keep competitive.

We’ve received so far a range of feedback on the app, from ppl who abhor the idea of being “gamified” all the way to people who think something like this will never work in the work place. There’s also the group he believes nobody will give you negative feedback on a consistent basis due to social dynamics.

What do you think? Are people ready to give/receive feedback in a manner which “rates” personality and capabilities, baseball card-style?

P.S- we’ve also just been featured by ProductHunt (https://www.producthunt.com/posts/rethinker), supposedly more for the cute dog pic than for the product itself, but who’s counting? :P
Ah, sadly that's fairly standard - hire a cheap junior developer, expect the world of them, and fire them if they show even the first sign of not being able to do everything they ask with 100% certainty.

It may not seem like it, but it's a good thing to experience a shitty company, because you'll learn as much from how to not do things as you will from the "right" way.

A lot of people have touched on the focusing part. To be honest, I think that you sound like an absolutely normal developer, and all you need is an opportunity to grow at a good company. Out of interest, have you considered working at an agency? In my experience, they're a nice place to start out, because you get to work on numerous small to medium sied code bases over the space of a year, and the breadth of work allows you to build your experience while keeping time pressure on.
I thought it was explicitly just that he didn't have a college degree? Or is there more to it than that?
> We have toppled more governments and invaded more countries than Russia and China combined by a factor of 10 (or more)

Russia/Soviet Union is roughly on par with the US on the invasion/occupation/regime change count -- of course they did it mostly in eastern Europe, the Caucasus and the MENA region rather than in Latin America.
I am a huge fan of public transportation, and I think using it should be as easy as possible. But here is a possible problem with this idea: if you make public transport free, you change the social structure of the riders. As the cost of public transportation does not depend on income, free rides have far greater benefits for the lower classes, and this may lead to public transportation having the image of "transportation for the poor", which may then lead to vast parts of society avoiding riding on it. After some time, it may even become a stigma, and the lower classes will also avoid using it.

I fear that free public transport may lead to lower passenger numbers in the long run, except in areas with a homogeneous population.
Mostly seed saving and even selling, I think, in violation of contract.

Ask yourself: what exactly would Monsanto have gained by suing farmers for accidental contamination? It's not like they're going to make money off the lawsuit itself, and it would not be going to act as any kind of deterrent, if the farmer didn't deliberately do something else like spraying the field to concentrate the contamination.
Funnier is how one article has the hackers' chat logs with the names of the victim antivirus companies and the other doesn't.

Gizmodo [US] also gave the names of the victims: https://gizmodo.com/antivirus-makers-confirm-and-deny-gettin...

For a broader picture:
1. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hackers-selli...
2. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-details-e...
The problem free speech message boards will always have is that the only people who seem to be genuinely motivated to post on free speech platforms are people who can't get on normal platforms. As a result free speech platforms almost always end up dominated by extremists and racists. Partly because they're the ones with the biggest motivation to use the platforms, but partly because their use of the platform drives away more moderate users. Plenty of people believe you have a right to free speech but also believe in their own right not to hang around and listen to you.
I prefer paper - but I've often tried transitioning to a digital only system. For me there is too much friction with digital note taking, despite the benefits that it offers in terms of searchability and organisation.

I do scan my notes periodically - but if I'm honest I very rarely find that I need to go over them again.
The USSR had a global support during the cold war? Could you be more delusional?

And no, communism never had popular support anywhere, especially not in Central Europe, but not really even in Russia except for the two major cities. It's just that those who didn't agree had no way of disagreement (and it was same in my country and everywhere in the Eastern Bloc). Note that I live with a Russian national/citizen, these are her words.

In my country, they had to literally throw our pro-West (we were supposed to be a part of the Marshall plan, btw) prime minister out of the window and kill some more people to establish their rule - not cool. They had 31% (not universal) popular support because people had no idea about this and frankly no idea about what happened during the war as well, and that popular support was lost not even a year into their rule. This all happened AFTER the second world war.

> Well, to me being crucial to not living in a Nazi Europe today, counts for a lot and excuses a lot

Well, not to me. They could've went home after the war but instead (this is the key part) they decided to kill the people they helped save - not cool; and then they returned again in 1968 to occupy some more - not cool. My country could've been a free place with happy people instead of dead and sad people for past 70 years if it wasn't for them. Our economy would not be destroyed and our wages and pensions would be comparable to Austrian. I feel absolutely zero sympathy. None of the people who fought in second world war are alive anyways; most of those who occupied us in 1968 still are.

BTW were you paying attention during history classes? Have you forgotten that it was also the USSR who actually started the second world war because of their hunger for more power and global communism (God save us)?

> slavery to market forces and corporations freedom

Stop with this shit already. There was actual slavery in communist/socialist countries, can't you feel how wrong and unemphatic what you're saying is? It seems like you have absolutely no idea of the horrors that happened, or you're soulless. Our grandfathers died in uranium mines, and this uranium was then "given" (give or we destroy you, what a choice! What a nice people!) to the Soviets for free so they could subsidize other places (these are the places where they liked it). NOT COOL. (my country was left with absolutely no uranium and zero repayment, btw)

No one is a slave to any market force in the Czech Republic or in most other Eastern Bloc countries (the problem here lies in corruption which in turn lobbies for harder debt collection laws - entirely government fault!), go solve your USA shit elsewhere, it's not my problem that "the land of the free" can't handle its market when even formerly communist countries can (btw many of my countrymen and friends live in the USA and their experience is vastly different, they always return with pockets full of money - seems interesting; maybe there is a problem with you Americans if foreigners that barely speak English are more successful in your own country).
This movie keeps sounding better and better, I’m so annoyed that it didn’t show in any theatres in my hemisphere of the planet. It was pretty much a USA only release. I really want to see it, enough to fly across my country to see it, that’s a crazy day trip and a story to tell, but not enough to fly to the other side of the planet, return flights from Australia to the USA is a rather expensive trip for a movie, probably close to ten times the cost of my worst case, a cross country flight to Sydney.
you are 100% correct. #3 is especially funny in the city center, where most lines pass anyway
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Shhh.... don't upvote this submission ;)
I spent some time with `git mergetool` to help resolve conflicts. It's hideous but it's better than staring at inline conflict markers
What you did there is the equivalent to a `revert` in SVN ... I'm not sure what the issue is? Why would you checkout `widget` and not expect local changes to be overwritten? Like, that checkout reverts is one of the first things you learn with git ...
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https://www.tiff.net/events/apollo-11-4k

At least some places aired it as such, but a quick Google implies there are no current plans to release it in 4k. Shame really.
> The consensus is that it's too hard to fire in those countries.

I've heard the same. I know it's true that it's very hard to fire in many places. At the same time, it might be worth considering that this could be more silver bullet thinking.

It is perhaps more likely that instead of there being one thing holding back an endless wave of startups in each country, there is instead a series of interacting forces producing the same effect.
I was interested until the article kept writing "Tax Donkeys" repeatedly. No mention of private healthcare costs, either, eh?
> It is actually a bigger economic loss to waste the same amount of a more productive worker's time.

Only if they're losing productive time, i.e. working less. And in any case, most people don't want to maximise total productivity for the sake of it.

Plus, FCFS doesn't actually have to imply waiting in line.
> I do not want this, but I feel the press in the UK counter-balance that pretty effectively. Rich people seem to love bringing down other rich people

Relying on a commercial sector seems like odd. Why can't individuals have those rights too? Does having a printer make someone more deserving of rights? I would think not, in an age where anyone with a smartphone can reach a sizable audience, but I'm also clearly the crazy American in this thread.

> I feel like Americans hold a uniquely strong distrust of their government. If you're British you just have to suck up the fact that Parliament can pass any bill they like to do whatever the hell they like with a simple majority, but it's been _working ok_ for a few centuries now.

There's a pretty strong argument that India, Australia, and indeed the US are clear signs that it hasn't been working OK for a few centuries now. All of them learned a few things about what Parliament might get up to when you can't riot under their noses to drive home the objections.
yeah exactly, all the FUD about rebase and shared branches is baffling to me. are people regularly getting stuck on 'git pull --rebase' and slamming into merge conflicts?
Yeah, it doesn't work for me in Firefox. Had to open it in Chrome for it to work.

Other than that, it looks quite skookum. I may use this for my own campaigns. Thanks for sharing!
I have realized some time ago that when some decision is difficult to make, it is likely that both outcomes are equally good (or bad), or at least, equally indeterminable. If one of them was much better, then the decision would be obvious!

So indeed, if you can't decide, spin a penny. You save time and the outcome will be similar.
> I’m told that New Zealand has a huge extreme sport industry because of its generous medical system.

Many countries have a generous medical system. No, it is due to their injury compensation laws.
It’s worth noting that these reviews were written in response to the ethically questionable and misleading IARC review. They did not impact the prevailing expert opinion, formed before the IARC review, that Roundup is generally safe and that there’s no systematic evidence suggesting its carcinogenicity.
Even if one doesn't believe in impending bankruptcy of oil companies but worries about their environmental impact, they can still divest without sacrificing returns http://www.lse.ac.uk/GranthamInstitute/news/the-mythical-per...
Assume the opportunity cost of signing is as you suggest: that you will not be employable in any future role in any field with another company that generates intellectual property. How much does this restriction cost you? Plausibly seven figures. Consider signing if the prospective employer offers you something of comparable value in return for you signing up for this unusual restriction.
This might be so huge for accessibility. I know, that's what audio captchas are for, but, dear Google, not everyone speaks English, you know?
Exactly the kind of program which will benefit from being wrote in rust.
Deaths of despair, once an American phenomenon, now haunt Britain
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Hi. Interesting to know thanks!

Would you mind giving the current commands to achieve the three things you just listed?

That way I learn the future restore command along with the current approach and you description. T
Ask HN: Feedback for My Startup
Hi guys,

I have been living in Japan for a few years now and have been helping out all my foreign friends finding a good place to visit and I've noticed that most of their complaints revolve around the language and location.

Example, they couldn't understand the description of a statue or the historical story behind a temple, this can be solved by hiring a guide, but they can be pretty expensive.

Since I love podcast and love to travel while listening to it so why not build an app for that, although it's still under development, would love to hear what your thoughts are.

Below is the site and if you scroll down you'll find the feedback form, it wouldn't take more than 5 min! https://travel-pod.firebaseapp.com/

Thank you, I appreciate it!
I would really like to understand those who are angry, feel helpless or are depressed because climate is changing. What is the thing makes you feel bad: is it the change itself, the direction of the change or maybe the cause of the change?
Linksys just doesn't give a shit. At all. I specifically bought one of their top end routers to use it as a NAS with USB storage, only to discover that their best of the best router serves files over.....Samba 1.0. Even though Samba 2.0 has been available for over a decade and Samba 3.0 is common place now. Which means that Windows 10 doesn't allow you to actually browse it by default anymore, since it's a huge security risk. And even when you manually install SMB 1.0 suppport, it's still not going to work on Windows 10 Pro editions. Which means that the main selling point of the router is now useless for me. Linksys of course remains completely silent, they don't see anything wrong there.
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Except most counties also use a variety of techniques to avoid promised pension payments.

The techniques are just very different methods than how companies in many countries have defrauded their employees on pension liabilities.