skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Which are overshadowed by the differences. North Korea and the United States are not the same, but you already know this.
How do we check about life that far?
Platforms started by many people—thousands in this case—have way more leverage than a single person trying to do the same.

It may not be impossible, but in this case it should be sane to assume it would be a waste of energy for a single person to attempt it.
Multiple Choice JavaScript Questions as PWA
I've also heard that the pricing of for-profit schools is to maximize backed loans out before a student drops out (since most drop around the end of their second year). I know a lot of people who couldn't get funding for their final year of study.
I don't know how to say this without sounding like a jerk, but it's not the tone it's intended in: Getting a dog should not be an emotional decision.

This goes double when it comes to larger or more powerful breeds like ASTs, Dobermans, boxers, etc. A Pomeranian that's bitey is regrettable, a Rottweiler that's bitey is dangerous. Getting a shelter pet is a lot like buying a used car in that you're signing up for a lot of unknowns.

Also, unless you live in a metro area, you're probably limited in your choice of shelters. There is nothing, absolutely nothing, wrong with a reputable pet store (read: one not supplied by puppy mills) or breeder if you're the slightest bit uncomfortable with the shelter or their selection. This also means you're more likely to get a breed that fits your lifestyle and living situation.
To clarify, it would have been prettier (conceptually less clunky and shorter) to run this:

time grep tt9184994 < title_complete_json.txt >> result
Why communications overload is bad for us – and how to handle it
This is a very common rhetorical tactic for people who wish to advocate violence. Parent comment is not advocating violence by asking someone to commit a violent act, they are advocating violence by arguing that violence is reasonable / inevitable.
I agree that the service provider shouldn't expect the SAML identifier to be an email. I suspect that the SUNetId is something readable (based on the human's name) as opposed to a fully opaque alphanumeric string ?

On the other hand, having emails (or namespaced identifiers that look like emails but aren't) does provide a nice way to start the login process from the service provider's login page, as opposed to having to start from the IdP side, since the service provider can infer which IdP to use based on the identifier's namespace.
I benchmarked etcd with 10G-50GB heap space and it didn't do a good job at all, lots of CPU time spent in GC.
I think there's an argument to be made that Bitcoin is oligarchical, but saying that 70+% of mining happens in China doesn't support the statement.

Nor is susceptibility to a 51% attack relevant to that point.
In high tax countries, you spend a lot on untaxed benefits for the employees.

In Silicon Valley I make 3 times as much (after tax) as I made in my high tax European country, but my work place life is crap in comparison.
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It doesn't but they're interchangeable like that, all cut from the cloth (mine starts with an S). It's nice to see you on HN!
You can do literate Spreadsheets in Org mode, and you can even combine it with lists, or output of other programming languages, possibly mixed and chained.

However at that level of power you have a useful tools as a programmer, not something that can be used by mere mortals.
I wrote a whole thing about this: https://jasonlefkowitz.net/2013/05/introducing-lefkowitzs-la...

What it boils down to is that the penny-pinching stuff is the stuff that's least painful for managers to cut. Firing people sucks, selling big things like buildings is hard and takes a long time. Whereas cutting off the free soda is something the manager can do right now, without having to pick a fight with other managers or launch into a whole gigantic process.

The irony is that cutting the penny-pinching stuff is usually the wrong thing to do, because by the time the managers accept that they're underwater cutting small expenses is no longer enough to right the ship. What they should do is bite the bullet and make one big cut that's big enough to solve the problem; that at least would minimize the effect on morale, since they could tell everyone who's still there that they survived the cut and are now safe.

But again, that requires some courage and willingness to accept some pain, whereas cutting off the sodas is easy and painless. So they do the easy thing, and start down the road of endless little cuts that sap morale and drive people away without actually solving the problem.
Do you have a link to the article explaining how little of the work she actually did on the project? It would be interesting to read that to counter-balance this one.
Saw a similar looking Tesla modified into a truck being trailered in Windsor, CA last week. Tried to grab a photo but couldn't get a good one. Anyone else seen it?
Or anything else that goes in an address book entry associated with your phone number.

Like your full name, job title, employer, email address, physical address, date of birth, social media profiles, family relations... the list goes on.

All of that associated information is often stored alongside your phone number. If one person you know does that, and also uses a facebook property and shares their address book through that (e.g. whatsapp), facebook has all that information about you.

If you're curious, check the list of additional fields you can add to a contact in your address book for how much Facebook could get about you
Your arguments assume best of intentions and a lot of present and past knowledge of the calendar team.

I want to believe you, I like the story you are telling. Unfortunately you like it too and are not being objective.
Why is it scary?

A governor can't do anything - it is the U.S. Constitution that preserves natural rights and prevents a governor from preventing the citizens from exercising those rights.

If a governor had the ability to restrict constitutional rights, now that would be scary.
https://ftalphaville.ft.com/series/Breaking%20the%20Zuck%20B...
This reminds me of the story in Rivethead about Howie Makem, the Quality Cat at General Motors, a 5' 9" cat who would wander the shop floor encouraging quality.

One day the order came down that Howie Makem was not to appear in public without his head on. The working stiffs figured out the reason: otherwise, they might realise he wasn't actually a cat.
The 8GW figure is for everyone charging at peak time; the 4GW figure is for smart chargers (i.e. dynamic internet-of-things off-peak charging)

So smart charging halves the need for new power stations - but doesn't eliminate it.
You seem certain that preventing people from hastily porting Android games was NOT a motivation for Apple.

But they have explicitly said in the past: they really prefer we not put cross platform apps on the App Store.

I don’t know why you won’t consider the odds that Apple is trying to hamper cross platform apps with Metal deliberately as a policy when they’ve specifically said that’s their strategic goal.
I don't think anyone is saying that you shouldn't store datetimes in UTC. It's just that time is complex and the errors can be subtle, and you don't want to mess up appointments across timezones because you didn't factor in the timezone when appointment was originally made.

http://www.creativedeletion.com/2015/03/19/persisting_future...
At a former place I worked (a university), there was no annual cost-of-living increase to your salary. Instead, any increases were performance based.

If you scored the _highest_ level on your performance review, the level that required approval from several levels of HR to ensure that not too many people got it... you might get a 1.25% salary increase. If you scored "satisfactory" you might get a 0.75% increase.

Eventually some consultant told them that doing performance-based raises for such meager amounts and meager differences between high and low end, were actually found by research to have a negative impact on morale. (I left soon after that, so not sure what they changed to).

One more case of many of paying an expensive consultant to tell you something that was obvious to most of your staff already but you didn't listen to them.
At least we don’t have to worry about what we would call It for touch-based devices. No easy way to do those kind of jokes in good taste.
If you're not convinced based on evidence there is no practical, production use distributed ledger or cryptocurrency besides bitcoin (which works very, very poorly), that's not on me to address. Prove it works and is needed.
That's exactly what makes me nervous. Even someone working at Google isn't entirely sure what user data is or isn't sent to other parts of the company for other uses.

Plenty of other tech companies have lied, changed their policies, or just plain screwed up. Privacy and security are hard, and everybody has their hands out. As a consumer, there's no way for me to verify anything.

As Woz said (sort of), "Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window." When I make a backup to an external FW disk on my desk, or sync my phone with my computer over a USB cable, I know exactly what data is going where. The whole point of The Cloud being a cloud is that we don't know what's happening in it. It's inherent to the architecture. "Trust but verify" minus the "verify".
I sadly tried to run Quake on my 486DX 33, and it was not up to the task =(
So what? You can still hate oil companies. She's talking about her own motivation.

The likelihood that my first car (if I ever buy one) will be electric is quite high.
We're not meant to opine about black budget spending!
Sure but that is a separate issue - in that case you didn't 'forget' about it
Plus, of course, the payment for the overtime hours, I guess?
Not fired, that would indicate termination for cause. This was an early buyout. Engineers at those levels were offered a severance package that included some number of weeks of pay per years spent with the company (up to a maximum of 6 months of pay) and a base amount on top of that.

This was the precursor to layoffs -- LM hoped to avoid layoffs by offering buyouts to these engineers. The wisdom of all of this... I don't see it.

Their goal was to reduce total amount spent on salaries.

This came at the time that the F-35 flight test program began its long wind-down. Other companies were hiring in large numbers because they had just begun big test programs (NGC had just won the B-21 contract and was testing its Triton UAVs), the net effect was that a HUGE amount of engineering knowledge and talent went out the door within a year. I can only speak for what it did to the F-35 test forces -- basically made them start over in terms of learning how to execute their jobs.
Agree.

Except for privacy concerns, I don't really see any other downsides. Libra just seems to be a transport/UX layer for dollars/other currencies.

I won't use it for privacy reasons, but I'm curious to see how it will work out in practice.
I once worked for a very high profile entertainment company. Every year, the CEO would give a "company gift" that was usually somewhat underwhelming. A blanket with the company logo. A workout bag with the company logo. An umbrella, with the company logo. Clearly someone was shopping out of the "stuff we can get our logo on" catalog. The year after I left a new CEO was hired (who, arguably had more experience in this particular industry) and they promptly said "oh hell no" to that practice, and gave everybody new iPhones and iPads. Dang.... figures it happen just after I left...
> Likely $300 dollars before taxes

The net bonus was probably $150 before tax; it's a rare employer that pays the tax for you.
Cannabis listed 62 times as medicine in 1899 Merck Manual
I don't know if you read it but the book is really soft on the erotic part.
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But wouldn't that fuck up the processors as well as memory anyway?
For some reason I thought this happened a long time ago.
I had high hopes, but TBP is a terrible novel. It certainly has some fascinating ideas, but just as many ludicrous ones that are equally central to the plot. Not to mention Liu is absolutely terrible at anything relating to characters: dialogue, character development, etc.
I don't think waiting for obvious interest is a good idea. I believe in putting as much as possible in front of children as soon as you think they are ready. If they show interest in something, then foster that interest, but don't force them if they don't. I never had an interest in coding before it was put in front of me, and I know many others in the same boat.
> The team calculates that one of the planets, called Teegarden’s star b, completed an orbit in a mere 4.9 Earth-days; the other world, Teegarden’s star c, has an orbit of just 11.4 days.

I wonder how our understanding of orbital mechanics would have evolved differently had our planet orbited the Sun this fast?

If the planets have long days, then they could potentially see in one night what it takes us a full year to see!
If the fake is good enough and not too expensive I might be interested in knowingly buying a fake. Have a Mona Lisa in my living room would be cool, even though I know it isn't the real one only the best experts could tell the difference (and possibly only via destructive testing...): that is good enough for me.
Olds Elevator
That efficiency can be eliminated with tariffs, just as much of the rest of the world does. The only safe place to do business, is in the country that you're selling to. That should've never been encouraged to get away from to begin with.
I guess it's time for all the Google engineers to put their LeetCode skills to the test.
I'd had such big hopes for magic leap after Google invested in it and was secretly hoping that it would be something as revolutionary as the iPhone was, but now the cats out of the bag. I never understood how they convinced so many investors to put in so much money for something that is a little better than hololens (which too is arguable)
I googled it for the intellectually lazy.

As an aside, the reason we know that CO2 affects earth's temperature is the same reason we know what kind of vegetation existed during that same time period. Because of observations in the fossil record.
The e-waste on those early generation electric clunkers could end up being just as big of a problem as gas cars as far as I can see. I would love to be proven wrong, but until they start making the heavy metals and REE containing components much more recyclable (and actually recycling them) we are doing pretty environmentally irresponsible mining and manufacturing to make these disposable vehicles.
It's literally what the foundation have said.
I worked on a team of three people in the early 2000s to develop one of the first web based automotive insurance underwriting applications for an insurance broker. It was a low volume program and as such they hired a single marketing representative to cover the entire state of Pennsylvania. He worked on commission and was expected to make in the high five figures.

It ended up being wildly more successful than anticipated and pulled in double digit millions the first year. The marketing representative's commission ended up being middle six figures as a result.

He sent us a case of Tastykake snack cakes as thanks. That was all we got in the way of thanks from the company.
Citation that it will rather than the typical conjecture?
Man, B is a good problem to have.
I bet that's in there somewhere.
I think often there just truly isn't the money because the company is dying. It can take a long time for a company to die, and people will put up with a lot in the process.
I agree with everything you said, except
>: the comments can be wrong, the types cannot.
If you're arguing comments are valuable but type constraints are a better way to express requirements than I agree and sorry for the long post. But I've seen a lot of comment hate on hackernews and I feel like I have to defend comments.

I really think comments can be especially valuable. They're valuable when reviewing code because they tell the reader what the developer was attempting to do, not necessarily what they did.

Not everything is expressible in every type system. Even something as simple as "this reference can't be null" isn't expressible is many languages.

Comments are easier to read than type names, a sentence is much more expressive than code. Especially code that is tricky due to performance or domain complexity.

Type and method names can rot too. If you have a method that starts with get that someone adds a little bit of updating logic to making the method name misleading.

And comments can be kept up to date easily by just adding an item to your code review checklist "Ensure comments match code".
Wouldn't each system's star do a decent job of pushing back extra-solar radiation? Up to a point, obviously, but it would seem that planetary background radiation levels aren't a direct function of solar density.
There is quite a bit that can be done. IANAL, but I can point to this episode of Planet Money that has a similar situation: https://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?stor...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisson_clumping
Some of the others are too. Rich and Laura produce great videos.
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Does that ever happen?
I have one word for it: profit
I actually got curious about this a year ago when I got a dog and she was watching me paint a wall. I made an iOS app* that allows you to see the color spectrum a dog sees, as well as take video and photos.

Some weekend I hope to make enough time to add something to represent the short sightedness using image depth data as well as a few other features I would like to add.

I actually had not heard about the flicker fusion threshold being different, thanks for the links!

* https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dog-optics/id1447069492?ls=1...
The foundation have said that to protect the people making the complaints they're not going to release more details.
Yet Google Authenticator requests full network access. An alternative like AndOTP doesn't.
The buckets in the Brat were strictly to get around the "Chicken Tax": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_tax

A protectionist law that favored small trucks built in America. Australia has a long history of loving "utes", the car/truck hybrid: https://www.core77.com/posts/88821/The-Australian-Designer-W...
Not if he's salaried...
Never seen that stat, but a decrease in wildlife is not the same thing as environmental collapse which is the doomsday narrative I'm trying to counter-signal.
I have a 64-bit machine but I'm running 32-bit Debian because there's no good upgrade path, and I really don't want to reinstall because that would take a months to get everything set up again.

I'm running Debian not Ubuntu, but the absolute minimum they owe their users is an automatic upgrade path.
Ikr, Instagram recently went down too, what's going on with FANG recently? Back a few years ago things like this would be unheard of
> healthcare, education, housing, financial support -
> are strictly rationed for reasons that are strictly
> unnecessary and economically destructive for the
> majority of the population

Does that mean you want to force more people to become doctors and for healthcare institutions to overspend?

Housing is mostly limited by usable land and the rate at which construction can happen. For cities, building something often means tearing down something else. Near cities, for the most part are expanding as fast as housing can be built. What makes you think it's artificially limited?
Read books? No proper adult does that. We just put them on the shelves.
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” - U.S.
Yep, the fan will work, but you won't get cold air.
C and an arduino
Is there anything similar to Envoy Mobile for browser-based apps?
Not only they're maintaining it again, but the number of developers assigned as been increased!

However, they intent the community picks its development up, eventually.

However, for now, thunderbird is being developed by Mozilla again, afaik

(i guess they understood there was the need for an e-mail client and that thunderbird was in a good place for competing.)

I, honestly, see KDE's Kontact as the ONLY decent OS alternative. Too bad it's not of easy install & support on windows... It would be a great e-mail client...
OMG I never have encountered this idea for function deprecation in libraries but I think it is hilarious:

> (A dickish move you can do is to create the new functions, mark the current function as deprecated and add a sleep at the start of the function, in a way that people using the old function are forced to update.)

This idea is sure to waste lots of people time, lead to angry emails, and is probably worse than just changing the function signature in-place without any deprecation schedule at all.
Haven't read any of the news about how this currency is supposed to work, but if it lets anyone bypass the SWIFT system then the US should probably ban it too. Being able to sanction anyone is a powerful tool to give up to Facebook of all companies.
I'd prefer that. We're big enough that there are nice promotions every week upgrading marketing/sales and M&A people into upper management. The last (last as in terminal, final) time I privately asked about promotion pathways all it got me was the manager's ridicule in a later engrg department meeting.
There are many places where it's almost impossible to live a normal life without either owning a car, or heavily relying on someone who does.
It's very possible this initiative will be low impact. Most people don't care about currency -- they just want to spend their money in the terms they're used to.

My one concern: if the libra's value is based on a basket of assets, will US users still see the value in terms of USD? Will French users see their value in Euro? Will the value of my USD change based on the basket of securities backing libra?

I just want an easy solution to send money cross borders. Someone in Mexico right now owes me $80 and there's no easy way to do this. If she could send it to me through WhatsApp with a near zero fee I'd see the value in libra.
Optimism is about how you perceive how you will live in the meantime.

It's funny as "not better" is considered pessimistic.
Not only that. I believe LinkedIn also harvests data from your calendar. I remember seeing LinkedIn notifications about the person I’m meeting without even asking for it. Kind of creepy and unwarranted unless they asked me to.
I just started hosting my own email and haven't had trouble emailing Gmail, though I have limited testing. I have SPF, dkim and dmarc all set up, would that help?
As a replacement for Google images, Wikimedia Commons is pretty good[0]. I made a image search site backed by Wikimedia Commons data with a UI more like Google Images[1].

[0] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
[1] https://canweimage.com