skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Fwiw, I agree with you about speaking in person. I will say though, that I've started to encounter younger people now who will actually come right out and say "I don't do well with face to face conversations and I'd prefer to discuss this on Slack or in a Google Doc" and they somehow get management support for that.

I can't shake the feeling that the underlying reason (perhaps unconscious) GP recommends using face-to-face conversations for persuading is that these conversations are more successful at their goal than the email equivalent. This is a bad thing, in my opinion. Worse for me (who's been persuaded) and worse for the company.

Compare with advertising. The conversion rate of door to door sales is far better than a classified ad - and the reason is that salespeople are trained to be aggressive, pushy, emotionally manipulative, and force hasty decisions to get what they want. They are able to use a whole raft of techniques to get you to buy that printed ads cannot.

Similarly, rejecting decision making during interpersonal interactions has nothing to do with one's social skills. It's about recognizing one's own susceptibility to being emotionally manipulated in a conversation and rejecting that way of making decisions. Good for me, good for the company.

It's not surprising to me that the "old guard" who's learned to use these techniques in the business world for decades is a bit put off by people rejecting them outright. Then again, I'm sure there are many people who have been in business for decades who are glad to be able to let their guards down a bit with the shift to email. It's not just the young who have this preference, though because most didn't acquire these skills, they are the majority.
I can't stand this ideological sports-team type of commentary, so just to add some real information and context (after my downvote):

Venezuela produces ~70k barrels per person per day. Norway produces a little more than half as much total oil, but with one-sixth the population it works out to ~330k barrels per person per day. An order of magnitude per-capita difference.
I think your comment depends entirely upon your default style of writing. For me its usually the opposite - I need to pad out my emails and clarify what I mean when I say certain things.

If I am working on a problem I have lots of concept in my head, and its my initial instinct to just write what I am thinking. On reading through the email a second time, I realize that I need to clarify what I mean by certain words / phrases as the reader hasn't been working on the same thing as me for the last few hours / days so their context will be very different from mine.
The reason why I added HTML qualifier. Closed source tech cannot be trusted to be maintained. JS/HTML can.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lifestyle_disease note that cancer is on that list, and HIV is not.
Most spending in the US is squandered around war and socialism to the rich. The country has doing little int the last few decades to support science and combating global warming; they're also cutting social programs.
The device was probably not created for that purpose aside from alexa/echo. As long as I can deactivate the software in question on those devices, I have not problem with it. But default off is required, and that is why the title can indeed make sense.
Pollution?
And help catch innocent people faster, which is not so great.
Agreed - I guess that was what I was kind of trying to say in my comment.
Congrats on the round, and well done - I am quite impressed by Dgraph so far.

Big question for the founders: how are you going to fend off AWS when you will get bigger? (see what's happening with Elastic, MongoDB, etc)

Also, what prevents you from changing the license down the road?
You're talking about banning advertising, I'm talking about banning products. It would be ass-backwards to ban soda itself and claim you're enabling free choice.
> your personal position has no weight in the decision-making process, you have no say in the matter.

Not on an individual level, no, but collectively it could. I'm not advocating that webdevs organize to boycott companies bloating things because it isn't really that big a deal, but if we imagine the ethical situation were much more important then that's how they could go about changing the situation.

Of course, it's much easier to pretend that they have no option at all than to admit that, compared to being slightly less well off, it really isn't that big a deal to them. It lets them virtue-signal that they care without accepting any blame for the situation, while also conveniently allowing them to point the finger at their mortal enemies in marketing. Nevermind that marketing needs to put food on the table too.
Lifestyle disease? I don't think I've ever read anything more calloused. Frankly, the attitude that "you deserve to die because you had sex" is unacceptably retributive.
Divorce is hard.
Norway is about 20% of it's GDP from Oil/Gas, Iraq is above 90%. I think that is also an explaination
>> They correlate and as I said are 'easily measured.. proxies for intelligence'

You're going to have to provide meaningful evidence to back up the assertion that numbers of patents (as well as the other criteria listed) actually correlate to higher intelligence.
So I asked this question because I am trying to understand how people are interviewing and like to be interviewed. I have my own style which was developed in the late 90's during part of the aftermath of the dotcom bust and everyones egos got put in check about the BS questions we were asking. In the dotcom days we did a lot of the same stuff happening now in interviews and eventually most of us figured out what mattered was that people could get the work to market, not if they could recite some algorithm from memory. So it is odd to me that the pendulum swung back.

My methodology is to ask people how they would solve problems, maybe even right out some pseudocode if we are sitting together, but I don't care about perfection or language or asking esoteric questions that have no basis in the work someone will be doing. And I don't use behavioral questions and instead just work through typical work type problems with someone to see if I can work with them. In fact, it isn't rare for me to bring in code or a problem and be like ok, we've been playing with this for the past X hours or days or whatever and just ask for their opinion. And have them walk me through what they might do differently and why, that right there tells me how you think and if you are a good fit because I will learn about your communication, if you ask questions etc. I don't need behavioral questions to answer what is right in front of me if I just ask good questions.

This is also how I train my teams to interview because I feel it is more realistic in our professions. But I just don't understand a lot of the insanity around interviews because if a company is solving mostly CRUD/data based problems, it seems smart to ask CRUD type questions and probe about someone's data capabilities, deduping, querying, conflicts, concurrency etc. But there is no sense asking that person to write a balanced tree from scratch. I might ask what is the most efficient data structure to store a type of data and why, but that is directly related to the work and will tell me if you understand data structures and the choices. I don't need to know if you can recite Big O for every structure, just that you know the differences and where to look when you need to figure out an issue.
I don't the point of UBI is for everyone to leave their careers. If anything, it's the opposite.
PS: You mean en route—sounds the same, but that's how to correctly spell the phrase.
Someone in this thread who played diablo!

Do you think the game would have had the same staying power if it was harder to cheat?
I can't write confusing code using just integers by abusing names to confuse you. You can write crappy code. Point?
~1 year of experience. I am also in the UK fwiw, probably should have put that in the OP.
My SO has claustrophobia. I'm pretty sure she won't enjoy it. I've never done it, but I like the challenge of a puzzle element combined with working together. I don't think such is for everyone. What I've learned from gaming is that a lot of people (most) don't want to be challenged, and M&S (morons & slackers) tend to get away in groups. In general, people just want to be entertained.

> [...]

> There's actually money to be made in something that could allow people to find others people to do escape room together, it's something that I often see people asking for in escape room communities.

Especially something with a small community could use this exposure of word of mouth, or having a platform for their community. You could also be part of the things to do list with the local tourism bureau.

The problem is a lack of standardization/consensus on communication method. You could use Facebook for this, or Mastodon, or Discord, or Slack, or Discourse, or Subreddit, or ... someone with authority just has to pick one, make it half decent, spread it by word of mouth, and you're done. If you can find volunteers for this, great. Otherwise, escape rooms could make a non-profit for this to maintain it. Of course, an escape room in Poland can afford to pay less for membership than one in San Francisco.
Descartes Labs Built a Top 500 Supercomputer from Amazon Cloud
The stock sale is apparently to fund Blue Origin.
One company has had one approved, the FC2 Internal Condom (previously called the FC2 Female Condom). You can buy a three pack on Amazon for $28.99. Insane pricing.
That's a good idea and I'd market the compliance angle. So far with postmark we never had to look further back than 30 days. Since all email gets saved in your databases you'll need a strong privacy policy, too. We're bound to GDPR for example and would need to list mailtrail as data processor.
> One step would be to move it away from an insurance model and raise the cap on contributions. Another would be to modestly increase the contribution rates.

This is essentially what happened in the mid-90s with the Canada Pension Plan (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada_Pension_Plan#1996_refor...): an increase of contribution rates to move beyond PAYGO solvency to a partial advance-funding model. As a result, the CPP now has a few hundred billion dollars in assets (invested largely in equities) providing income to support long-term solvency.
I can't read this article, but looking at other news sources, this is the usual yearly sell-off he does to fund his rocket ship company.
>You can read about Ocaml's nominal record typing in the [ReasonML docs](https://reasonml.github.io/docs/en/record) (it's more clear there IMO).

You are confusing records with structures, it seems. Structures exist in module language. Records are nominal in SML as well. Access functions for tuples and records are a dirty ugly hack build-in for convenience, they have nothing to do with structural typing, they are inferred in place.

OCaml has structural typed records, they are called objects.

let obj = object method pi = 3.14; method name = "Pi" end
val obj : < pi : float ; name : string >

is structurally typed record.

> I can pass that record on to ANY function

No, you can't.

#foo { foo = 42 }

works, but

fun f x = #foo x

doesn't. It's an ugly hack, typing is still nominal. A hack, just like SML's arithmetic op overload.

Compare it to OCaml, which have proper structural typing for objects and raw polymorphism

let f x = x#foo
f : < foo : 'a; .. > -> 'a

Edit: sorry, indeed typing is structural since you can write `{x:typ} -> typ`.

Anyways OCaml have structural typed records and raw polymorphism and subtyping support for them.

> Another nice property of the SML approach is that you don't need named arguments. Instead, pass a tuple with names (aka a record).

What's your point? You can use records as arguments in OCaml as well.
The other place where this principle is completely ignored is when it comes to Python packaging, which is a complete and utter disaster.

There are many different ways to package Python, none of them are feature complete, and the result is an absolute maintenance nightmare for those of us who have to maintain tools that have Python dependencies.

Perl got packaging right, there's one way to do it, and it just works!
Norway doesn’t have the spare capacity to build more industries. Putting money into the Norwegian economy would just drive inflation.
Along with being more eco minded, electric cars are actually more affordable in Norway, there is a significant tax placed on other vehicles.

https://elbil.no/english/norwegian-ev-policy/
So what? He sells $1B every year to fund Blue Origin alone. Maybe this is one of these transactions?

On the scale of Bezos' fortune, this is not a significant amount of money.
Still, for a family of 4 that's ~ 45.000$ of free money. If southern european countries were smart , they would give incentives to norwegians to move there and have a permanent vacation in the sun.
Hasn’t he been selling good amounts of stock annually for a while now? I thought he’d decided to put $1bn a year into Blue Origin?

Protected by a paywall but why’s this news? Isn’t it also a fairly small % of his overall holding in Amazon?
Boy, that last quote couldn’t possibly sum up my feelings any better.
I was just poking fun at Velcro's absurdity. I in no way endorse their view of their branding. I just saw someone say Velcro and I never have had an opportunity to share that lovely page. Seemed tangentially relevant.
I've been using this website for the last 2 years or so. I can't not recommend this site enough. Simple and effective
Yes, but it's based on oil, which is contributing to climate change..and not 100% is not used for renewable energy, so it's a net negative.

It's strange to me that people aren't protesting and complaining about this fund, when it's a big issue for future.
Similar non-paywalled article:

https://www.irishtimes.com/business/technology/jeff-bezos-se...

He's using the money to fund Blue Origin (aerospace manufacturing)
Of course the UK has a far larger population, so it would be worth far less per capita. It's sobering to remember that Norway started this fund only in 1990. The UK mooted but cabinet ultimately rejected a North Sea Oil fund on similar lines in 1975. It was suggested by Tony Benn while he was Energy Minister. All that did materialise was the British National Oil Corporation (later Britoil having been privatised by Thatcher, now BP) as operator.

What a waste.
In many segments, IKEA acts like apple but there are other segments were IKEA is like Amazon Basics. It just depends if they've the patents/know-how which they can leverage, if yes - act like apple, if no - act like Amazon Basics.
How many employees does this cover? California has almost 40 million people. Norway has about 5.3 million.
Indeed, it's the MOST important part.

Easiest way to do it - write it dead last.

Write your email in this order:
1. Body of email
2. Formatting: fix the paragraphs, bold/underline, create headers if longer piece
3. Subject line
In my experience, the class of user that both turns off their contributions to improvements and also remains satisfied simply doesn’t exist.

People will turn off the server-side logging because an article told them to, then they’ll complain that Siri sucks, and the service won’t get better.

Therefore, I recommend that people who don’t want to help improve the services through the logging process simply turn it off altogether. That is the safest way to make sure their utterances are not going someplace they are not comfortable with.
Indeed, a smoke test will demonstrate the integrity or not of one's plumbing stack. An exterminator used on to determine that rats were getting into our house through a vent pipe that had been removed without the remainder being capped.
What I'm saying is that you wouldn't accidentally type `let x = y` when you meant to type `x == y`
Norway is an exception.
A mix of corruption and foreign intervention that supports corruption is the root cause for countries like Venezuela.
I believe that the problem in most countries is that rich people have successfully brainwashed the population into thinking that is bad to support their own people with schools, health care, cultural programs, etc. On the other hand, they successfully brainwashed the masses into believing the socialism for the rich is necessary: for example, you will see people crying on the newspapers because the rich are paying "too much" in taxes, when in fact they never payed so little.
It says in big words on the front page that the product is free for the time being.
Your message seems, at least to me, to be quite judgmental.

I'm interested in helping people who make bad choices and people who have bad luck. It's not clear to me that one group deserves more compassion than the other.

The comparison to cancers is a bit odd - HIV is generally not regarded as a lifestyle disease, while of course many cancers do have a lifestyle component.

HIV is communicable; the time and money spent to target specific populations in an effort to reduce incidence of a communicable disease of course pays dividends in that fewer people will subsequently be infected.

And looking further down the road (albeit perhaps with optimistic glasses), with enough effort, it may be possible to eradicate it without our ever having discovered a true cure. So it makes at least some sense to work in that direction, but those efforts of course have a high cost.
Yes, according to my statement this is the actual amount paid by insurance. Most of it ($4500) was for my two prescriptions. The rest was for 2x ER visits (first doc denied me), and one round of labs.
You're absolutely correct that URIs are well-regulated, well-defined, and easy to understand for those with appropriately technical backgrounds. You're also correct that users don't need to understand in significant technical depth how URIs work in order to use them for most daily operations.

In my opinion, what's changed is that someone won the political battle between "URIs are so simple and well-defined! Everyone understands them." and "Users don't understand URIs" camps.

With that said, it's perhaps worth considering that most users might regard computers as essentially magical and fundamentally incomprehensible things. In such a context, could it be possible that it might actually be too much to ask for your average user to have a good operational understanding of something that seems to them to be fundamentally incomprehensible? A great many people have already learned helplessness in the face of technology. Could it be that decades of exposing people to the elegant simplicity of URLs has not created widespread operational comprehension?
HIV is sexually transmitted. It can’t survive in the water or the air. So the presence of anti HIV drugs in the environment shouldn’t have an impact.
As someone who grew up in the area, I mostly recall it being used in the late 90s, then not really that often afterwards.
...so let me get this straight. You've specifically told your computer not to remind you about meetings in the straight-forward built-in way it can, and want to build a separate overengineered reminder system out of an overpowered toy to do the same thing?

Christ. No wonder everything in our industry sucks.
I love HN. Comments like this get downvoted, but everyone knows it is true.
Ask HN: Distributed/remote team members, how did replace the whiteboard?
What are the pros/cons of the solution(s) you have settled on? Any hard lessons learned along the way?
America's DIY Phone Farmers
Precisely, Irresponsible leadership. Not the fault of any one ideology, like some would have you believe.
You mean companies have been buying garbage visualization products...if IT spent money on things that actually move the needle on security (training and career paths for engineers, skilled managers, rewarding quality over velocity, long term thinking execs, investing in open source ... to name a few) then vendors wouldn’t be able to sell garbage. Instead IT depts settle for glitzy UIs that plaster over the real (deep and pervasive) culture, HR, and organizational issues.
Globally, there are at least 36 million people living with HIV. In South Africa, nearly one in five people have HIV. Without access to antiretroviral treatment, they are living with a death sentence. Calling this virus a "lifestyle disease" is factually wrong; while infections in Western countries are mainly limited to specific groups, the virus itself does not discriminate.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_HIV/AIDS_...
its GDP
One piece of history that I think marks the start of Venezuela's free fall, it's the pardon that the then-president Caldera granted to the leader of a military coup, Chávez. That allowed populism and corruption to reign in the country (he won the next elections).
Introducing Figma Plugins
If you like historical fiction 'The Religion' by Tim Willocks is amazing.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/918095.The_Religion
Only because the radicals are coming out, creating chaos, with the purpose of making it seem like they are ungovernable..only to have the goal of complete control over the population.

It's the same tactics used for decades. I'm just surprised more people aren't seeing it.
I don't think there's any way to avoid that. You could always copy, but then you'd sacrifice performance. You could always make a reference, but then other parts of the language would become really complicated.
Game theory suggests that I want to turn off my recordings and hope that most of you do not. That way I benefit from the improvements that result from you giving up your privacy, while retaining my own.
"What an arbitrary way to decide what "actual" transit is. There are about a thousand other, very valid, very useful, very modern ways of building transit that have nothing to do with rails."

I think you're missing my point - it's not about a fetish for rails ...

In the United States, outside of two or three cities[1], there has been almost zero serious investment in public transportation[2] and that transit infrastructure is always some bullshit sideshow that checks a box but does not provide any kind of meaningful service that would allow car culture to change.

Here is everything you need to know about public transit in the United States in one quick commercial:

https://www.ispot.tv/ad/wy2O/state-farm-backstory-truck-song...

What is special about rail infrastructure is that you can't half-ass it. You can't sort of put the subway in or sort of build a lightrail line. If they are putting down rails there is serious, meaningful work being done that requires a lot of related investment in the entire ecosystem of transit.

In the United States, buses don't count - not because buses are inherently bad but because in our car-centric environment that kind of service will never have the funding or the political backing to actually be useful.

[1] NYC, Washington DC ... places with subways.

[2] Seeing some halting progress in places like Denver and Minneapolis ... and I say "progress" with some qualifiers - after 25 years now has a second lightrail line and MPLS has one rail line that actually makes sense for commuters...
Looking for any software projects that have successfully adopted this approach for extensibility.
Average income tax (as taken from your paycheck), seems to be around 30% - it’s lower than many other north west European countries
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