skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FritzBoxes are terrible, it outright decided to ignore my settings about not auto-updating.

Unless you're exclusively talking about the GUI/web-interface, the feature set is nowhere near comparable to OpenWRT.

They are garnered towards novices and users without any IT-affinity.

EDIT: Sure, downvote an opinion that doesn't align with yours.
> As for increased number of addicts, I think the fact that there are technology addicts where there didn't used to be (before tech), should be a sufficient logical claim.

No, because those people may have engaged in other unhealthy lifestyles if the technology didn't exist.

> Speaking of which, do you have data on your specific claim on the resilience of human psychology against negative tech/media experiences?

Yes, I've linked some in a comment below.
Screen Replacement Program for Aluminum Models of Apple Watch
The site is broken on iOS Safari with an ad block on. Not a good start. Looks interesting otherwise.
Desalination is not too big but not too small of a problem to solve. Water
shortages are on course to become critical in the coming decades and the
social implications are staggering. A group of bright college students
surely could devise some sort of method for it even if it's inefficient
at first, and then work steadily toward improving it.
Most people in Romania have a beer in the summer as a cold drink, not with the purpose of getting drunk, and wine or spirits in the winter as a social occasion for bonding, also not for getting wasted. There is no social habit here of getting wasted in the weekends and having a bad hangover on Monday morning, but most of my colleagues in Newcastle (UK) do that. Huge difference.
A bit weird, the article refers to "traditional beverages of countries rather than what is most commonly drunk by the populace today", but then uses images compiled from modern consumption data. "consumption (in litres of pure alcohol) in 2010".

Traditional consumption largely follows from soil, and weather, affecting what grows. A less generalized article would be cool, showing cider regions in Germany, France and England as well as wine regions in Germany.

I don't think the generalization to whole countries suits the purported goal of traditional beverages well, nor does the classification of cider as a wine analogue.
Behavioral, system design, coding, and problem solving interviews are AND gated. It's not a question of one being more important, but which ordering optimizes the funnel and employee time. There are many more calendar slots belonging to tech ICs than to hiring managers; you can run a higher velocity pipeline if you start with a technical phone screen.

The coding interview itself is an immune system against the surprisingly large population of candidates who have long resumes and can talk a big game but not actually perform. (I didn't believe these people existed either, until I started doing phone screens).

It's also a way to recognize smart people who will do well with whatever they're given, even if they're underutilized or in a different domain at their current job. Tech companies are typically hiring more for this than for tech stack or business domain similarity.
> It says it's a fruit brandy, and traditional brandy is a spirit made by using wine

This is a really good example of bending actual facts to fit someone's story.
Bullets move faster than nerve impulses. Ergo the brain is destroyed before it has the chance to feel pain. nitrogen gas is slower.
But how do you know that its superfluous?
I addressed your questions as cogently as I could. Your reply ignored all of that. I didn't downvote you but you deserve it.

Maybe you're right. If you're wrong though, many people's lives may be far different than they'd like. People like you give me no hope for the future, having sold it for an easy life in the present.
Hope that it’s designed to work even for people who don’t know how to read yet
Is it because one can have a cold beer as a hydration and cooling vehicle, while wine cannot fill that role?
It all depends on how you define "finishing" a book. I want to argue that once you tweak your definition, you'll no longer have a problem with forgetting information from a book.

This might be off topic but let me explain:

On many occasions, I have witnessed people doing pushups, but at the end of their counting, they do half-assed pushups, so you could see that they are more interested in "finishing" their goal of 10, 15 or 20 repetitions than actually doing the exercise correctly (doing the exercise correctly could end up with them doing only 5 correct pushups)

Reading books is the same, most people are only interested in the idea of reading books, like the idea of doing sport, to "keep healthy", but don't actually enjoy the journey. So people would set arbitrary rules of "2 or 3 books a month" for example.

So here's what I do:
- I changed my definition of "finishing a book" to "never". I stopped trying to read 2 books a month because it no longer has any meaning in my system, but also, no matter my progress through a book, it doesn't matter at all.

Never finishing a book is actually true: a book chapter can send me in a journey over the internet looking for more information on that particular subject, or re-think about the previous chapter because now I have new insight, etc. So really, I never finish my books and it's exactly why it's cool. It's like swimming because you like it VS swimming to reach the other side.

Finally, I don't remember every word of what I have read in the past years, but it sure shaped who I am today, the choices I made, the interests I have, etc. So it's ok to forget, what matters is the journey and what you get out of it, a book never quits your reading list once it gets there, unless you only care about counting your "done" list.
If you're away at college in a college town, you could try getting to know the local government, businesses, and community. That would help solve the problem that has persisted to the point of stereotype: college students and administrators ignoring or looking down on the towns surrounding them.
Is/was it the same as this?

https://www.bewedwell.com/
I'd like to suggest that they are making it worse. We used to play games together on the couch, but now we can be alone in our houses watching strangers instead. Social media in general is making us all more lonely while tricking us into thinking we are interacting with others.
Because of government cutbacks on public spending and erosion of the 'welfare' state.

Public policy and investment in housing for ordinary people while allowing the mega elite to extract as much wealth for themselves. The non-elite then use debt to maintain their standards of living.
I prefer using the term experienced.
This was downvoted a lot, but I think there is something on it. The same value system that makes you see life outside of work as being lazy, prefers short term relationships and generally praise following own interests has higher chance of leaving you without close friends and community in the long term.

and it is also true that lonely poor or sick people or those caring about such relatives can be extremely lonely and isolated too, but with harder or non existent solutions.
You misunderstand. It's not about the cost of the IDE but rather the cost of maintaining software and preventing defects over time. The takeaway from my comment: Toward a general policy if static analysis were built into the editor, as it is with IntelliJ, it would significantly improve productivity and guarantee a higher rate of defect prevention.
This makes the common mistake of taking country as the unit of analysis. Like just about everywhere on Earth, European countries are too regional to generalize. In Southern Austria, it's beer and schnapps, with a healthy dose of either white or red wine depending on what's best grown locally.
What destination have you selected in China that has less pollution than Mexico?
Hungarians invented the wine/soda combination known as
fröccs and if you feel qualified to name all the various
wine-to-water ratios, then you probably got your degree
in alcohol at a Hungarian pub.

Are any of the fröccs any good? Do you just add soda to the wine or is there a seltzer style dispenser as shown in the illustration?
> For folks who have production experience in Clojure: how valuable is Java interop in your experience? ]

Very, there a lots of high quality Java libraries, and interop makes it easy to use them.
Especially when integration with other software (databases, message queues, etc) being able to use the Java client libraries is a blessing.
- It is comprehensive.

- It supports modular design.

- It supports interactive development, debugging, and update.

These things are true of Ruby and Python in a way that they are not for C, C++, or to a lesser extent TCL.
Guess I extrapolated too much after all.

But then again both of my parents (almost) never drank vodka and they have wildly different backgrounds.
> Why wouldn’t a person be able to answer those questions?

Why would they? You’re making assumptions. Being in standup doesn’t mean you understand so well you can talk about it. Knowing why good decisions were made and actively making good decisions are two completely separate things.

Do you think you’d be prepared to be the lead singer or guitar player for a band if you memorized every note of every song of your favorite band? Would it help if you listened to all their podcasts, read all their books, studied their history? Would it help if you were their roadie or even their manager or producer? The answer is no, being near them and witnessing their output does not equip you to mimic their creative process, or to even understand it. Same goes for programming.

> Being able to walk through someone else’s though process is a lot easier than doing the actual work.

I’d say that’s true, and is exactly why you’d catch a liar in the unlikely event they made it through the interview process.

> All you need to get a good career [...] is just to job hop a lot

Yeah, it’s so easy. So do it! You have to keep lying and continue to convince every single company. You’d have to avoid people ever finding out and/or avoid companies calling each other for references. This takes so much effort, it’s literally easier to go to grad school and become an amazing programmer. What is making you think a lot of people are doing all this lying? Are there people around you that you suspect are lying?

> I bet a no small fraction of CEO’s went that route, and I think it is a pattern we should avoid since it is so easy to test actual coding skills in tech.

Multiple enormous problems with that sentence. CEOs don’t need coding skills, they need organizational skills, sales skill, communication skills and a host of other things, none of which are writing code unless you’re in a startup. (And then CEO is a goofy term anyway.)

You’re speculating. If a huge number of CEOs are faking it, then it should be easily demonstrable, so find some evidence. When CEOs fake it, the result is the company goes out of business.

It turns out we do avoid this “pattern” because it’s not really a pattern, it by and large isn’t happening, and there are many forces preventing it from happening that you’re not acknowledging.

Last but not least, coding skills in tech aren’t the most important. They’re very important, but not the most important. Teamwork, communication, attitude, and goals are all more important than actual coding skills.
If all you care about is running a bunch of VMs yes. But if you’re just running a bunch of VMs and using cloud hosting - you’re doing it wrong.

- we don’t want to maintain our own build servers. We just use CodeBuild with one of the prebuilt Docker containers or create a custom one. When we push our code to Github, CodeBuild brings up the Docker container, runs the build and the unit tests and puts the artifacts on S3.

- We don’t want to maintain our own messaging, sftp, database, scheduler, load balancer, oath, object storage, servers etc. We don’t have to, AWS does that.

- We don’t want to manage our own app and web servers. We just use Lambda and Fargate and give AWS a zip file/docker container and it runs it for us.

- We need to run a temporary stress test environment or want to do a quick proof of concept, we create s Cloud Formation template, spin up the entire environment, run our tests with different configurations and kill it. When we want to spin it up again, we just run the template.

We don’t have to pay for a staff of people to babysit our infrastructure between our business support contract with AWS and the MSP, we can get all of the troubleshooting and busy work support as needed.

I’m a software engineer/architect by title, but if you look at my resume from another angle, I would be qualified to be an AWS architect. I just don’t enjoy the infrastructure side that much.
If no one drinks vodka in Poland, then why does any Polish hypermarket have a huge vodka section, nearly comparable in size to the wine section? Vodka is even sold at petrol stations, and not just cheap vodka for winos, but also premium brands as apparently people pick up a bottle on the way to visit someone.
Thank you for this. I am also interested in this field and it’s hard to fib good info.
I don't have laptops with older AMD. My current laptop has the ability to switch between CPU and discrete GPU, but it doesn't work well even under windows, so I disabled it in BIOS.

AMD drivers have been hit and miss for a while, which is one of two reasons I tend to prefer NVidia cards. NVidia took time to make sure their whole stack works reasonably well.
Yes, many rural areas in New Zealand have super fast internet. The same can not be said for Australia.
Yeah this was my EXACT complaint. Hopefully there’s an audio book version, or a 1-800 number you can call to ask to have it explained to you.
It's works, but it's not amazing. You basically have to use your own spam solution for it, because the bare index will be always gamed in some way - that makes it hard in practice.

The scoring algorithm is also not amazing. For example searching for ycombinator gives you http://hackr.de/tags/ycombinator and some Twitter entries as top results.
Proposed Mayan EDMS Code of Conduct
It looks like a made-up thing, because over here in Romania we (meaning the people in the countryside) mostly drink home-made “palinca” (so basically the same thing as the Hungarians) and what we call “tzuica” (a sort of plum brandy). The common people who live in the urban area mostly drink very cheep beer (the kind of beer that you can purchase in 2.5l plastic bottles) and some poorer people drink a thing that is pretty close to rubbing alcohol.
I thought this straight away. It made me think that the brain's structure has evolved in resonance with the fundamental dimensionality of the universe.
There is a tradition in Spain of cooling wine beverages in the warm months of the year: sangria where wine is mixed with fruit juice, and more recently calimocho where it is mixed with Coca-Cola.
Pedanticness is beside the point here. You don't have to follow every ceremony to get the basic point of "you cannot sustain a pace that works your programmers like Victorian pit ponies".
The cross section of a bullet is much smaller than the cross section of your brain. plenty of people have survived penetrations of the brain. Even if it is fatal, it is not necessarily instantaneous: check out "A Pure Formality", a magnificent movie that will horrify even the staunchest, unflinching atheist.

From wikipedia's page on LN2:

> the liquid-to-gas expansion ratio of nitrogen is 1:694 at 20 °C (68 °F)

(so it can easily displace a lot of air in a small volume and)

>As liquid nitrogen evaporates it reduces the oxygen concentration in the air and can act as an asphyxiant, especially in confined spaces. Nitrogen is odorless, colorless, and tasteless and may produce asphyxia without any sensation or prior warning
Not too much to add compared to everyone else. But something I learned about myself, I have to break up non-fiction with the occasional fiction book. I like reading history, biography, informative books nowadays. Not so much technical anymore. After four or five non-fiction, each about a week or two to read depending on density and length, I start to putter out on motivation to read. A decent, fun, pulpy fiction book recharges me faster than taking a break. So, I do 3 to 4 non-fiction, then a sci-fi or fantasy book. That keeps me going decently. I also don't beat myself up anymore for going a few days without reading either. A week, I'll force myself to get back on track.

I don't finish a book if it's dull. If I'm constantly getting bored or feel like the information is just someone preaching out of their ass or pointless, I'll either skim the book or just drop it. I don't feel bad about this anymore. My reading list is so damn long, what's the point wasting my time on books I was wrong for picking? Sunk cost fallacy and all.

I've learned my lesson the hardway and I'm very, very careful about business books. Especially the pop-culture ones. I only read it with reviews by people I respect highly and they must be critical of the book. If it's just praising the book, I refuse to get it. Or the book is a few years old and is still respected. So many books in business are such dogshit. It's amazing.

I do keep a reading list in excel and add to it constantly. Sometimes add some notes how I felt about it. A lot of times I add books mentioned in other books I'm reading.

If the book is bought and not from the library, I underline with a nice black Uniball pen and mark the top of the page. Highlighters can get really annoying on my eyes if there's a lot of it. I learned that from high school. My eyes went out of focus with too much highlighter on the page (probably just me). If I'm reading the book with specific purpose, I'll make notes in the book itself.
Please provide either an example or a source for this assertion.
This page describes the various audits that are done [1]. You'd probably have to check with the particular agencies or groups that do or arrange for the audits to find out where the results are available.

[1] https://www.federalreserve.gov/faqs/about_12784.htm
...because it's an opinion?
Ask HN: How do I learn how/what to invest?
I know nothing about investing or "having my money make money". Where do I start?
I don't like this, I think it will have a chilling effect on free speech, but if you're posting in public I think you have to expect folks may pull up your posts.

What I absolutely hate is compelling folks to disclose their handles. I do not labor under the delusion this handle is "anonymous" (many, many people know who I am) but I purposefully avoid tying my legal name to it precisely because of situations like this. I'm not a criminal or a terrorist, I just want to have authentic conversations about matters of public interest. It's hard to be authentic when there's someone snooping on your posts.

waves to any border agents reading my post history in the future
I think you're missing my point. I hate dealing with car dealers, and I would much prefer a direct-from-the-manufacturer car buying experience. But that inevitably leads to a much greater consolidation and concentration of wealth, where consumer dollars get drained from most locales and end up in far fewer locales.

My point is that it's trivially easy to understand the negatives of things like car dealers and real estate agents (pretty much everyone I know hates dealing with them), but I think we're just starting to come to terms with the potential negatives of having huge, geographically broad, open markets where there are very few winners.
That doesn't really make sense. Most credible sources of information you find on the internet are sourced from books, not vice-versa. You don't read credible books about the Battle of Kursk that are sourced from YouTube videos, you watch credible YouTube videos about the Battle of Kursk that are sourced from books. If you read a Wikipedia article and scroll down to all the citations, many of them are from books.

It's not a format vs. content thing. I'd rather have all my books in a six-ounce Kindle than on massive bookshelves lining my walls. It's simply that the vast supermajority of recorded information collected by the human race has been in the form of books. If you stay on the internet, you're barely dipping your toes in the water.

That having been said, there are a ton of useless books that can easily be skipped, many of which stem from stretching an essay-sized idea into 200 pages. The Internet cut out a lot of that nonsense. And there are certain things, like programming, that you're usually better off learning directly from the internet. But once you're past the intellectual puddle-jumping of popular business and self-help, books are where it's at.
For anyone who doesn't get the reference: Watch TierZoo [1]. Hilarious and informative, especially for gamers.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xbQ2WbTp0E
Most likely not. Cielo has been struggling with the recent increase in competition for payment services in Brazil, and is probably just trying to stay ahead of the curve.
I have a horrible memory when it comes to the detail of books, movies, etc. (But thankfully I can remember what I've coded, or else I'd probably be out of a job.)

I mostly read non-fiction. To improve my recall over the past 7 years, I type up notes as I read. It's made the process of reading much slower, but it has helped when I've needed to recall some example or detail or framework of a book.

I did this (selfishly) for myself, but decided to upload my notes at https://github.com/mgp/book-notes. (Shameless plug I suppose?) The README explains exactly how I take the notes – but essentially there's no shortcut. I have my text editor open and simply type notes as I read.
Examining sales efficiency in public SaaS companies (2016)
TL;DR: PostgreSQL requires reserving a single connection for causally-related statements. Seems like a scaling problem for the C10K world, not just Go.
Saw that you lived in Padova, that's where I studied :)
If they're not qualified, drop them. When you pay peanuts you're going to get monkeys (no racial slur intended)

You're having difficulty hiring engineers because you're either not willing to pay enough or you're imposing stupid artificial constraints on your requirements.
There is one big difference in tooling: Coq doesn't have a good model checker. While you can verify several thousand lines of code/spec, writing proofs for those could take months or years, while model-checking is pretty much pushing a button (and then letting the computer or cluster work, possibly for hours or even days), and you probably need to do this a few times, but the difference between having a model checker and not is often the difference between practically reasonable and not. TLA+ has a proof assistant, but people who use TLA+ in industry hardly ever use it because the small added confidence is simply not worth so much more work.
> because I guess they didn't make enough money from pre-check.

You said that, but then later added the “private company” part after I pointed it out, so that’s what I’m “on about”.

> I'm pretty sure CLEAR includes TSA pre-check in practice

Nope, if you don’t have pre-check (either the actual membership or the airline sponsored version), you have to go through the standard TSA line. No exceptions. The only benefit to CLEAR is jumping the ID inspection line, nothing after the initial officer changes.

Anything else you want to be proven wrong about so you can then berate me after editing your post?
The labor. The AWS bill has not been significant.
But at least you had a frame buffer to handle those few cases in any given game where you weren't quite fast enough, or where the OS goes out to lunch briefly.

Talisman was a pretty goofy idea in retrospect (and seemed goofy to me at the time as well.) Completely non-scalable. It was an exercise in optimizing things that were already fast, which is the last thing you want to do in game development where you're going to be judged on your slowest frames.