skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Along the same lines, city intramurals ("beer leagues") could be an option too. In most places you can sign up as a single and be placed on teams that need more people. It has the advantage of getting you out of the house, doing something physical which can also help, and you get to consistently meet people? It's also harder to slack off and quit since you're part of a team.
My goodness, this HTML in email things could cost you a job. I was burnout once by making 30 emails with variable layout work across popular email clients and screen sizes. Can I Email is definitely needed. But I will never do these fancy marketing emails ever again. Use plain text to communicate for your whatever incoming campaigns. Or if we really want HTML just use it without stylesheet, just plain tags.
I remember reading something one time where people were discussing if the cold could be eradicated by having everybody on the planet stay home for 2 weeks. I don't remember what the answer was though...
You phrased this way better then me. I concur.
> What I would expect to be illegal would be overly favoring their own sites/services over those of competitors

They've been doing this for years in search results, progressively so.
Those are my feelings too.. I understand how the public can be swayed by inaccurate media representations, but it's Y Combinator which seems to portray itself as a source of intelligent people.
O'Neill cylinders are so practical that most of this stuff we have no idea how to practically accomplish.

Edit: The sizes involved for launch would present no less than a hundred trillion budget at the moment.
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the argument is mostly that it gives people white guilt to enforce immigration because most of the immigrants are non-white. and the people supporting the unlimited migration don’t have to deal with the consequences themselves

it also wins millions of future and current hispanic votes by pandering
Metal/Video Game/Nerd T-shirt + Bermuda short + Espadrille was my main dress code this summer. Skater shoes + cargo pant + hoodies right now. My power move would be to switch to a sirwal (best pant ever!). I may try it. My god level move would be to wear a mundu or a pareo.
"Apple doesn't earn revenue by selling targeted ads"

Apple earns billions yearly from their search deal with Google. Apple earns billions from sales of targeted ads.
Dropbox and Twitter both experienced drops in stock value of ~40%. Uber and Lyft both lost a third of their stock value since July. Washington is consistently taking about tougher regulations for tech companies. I would not assume that tech stocks are going to be stable in the near future.
What's the deal with dark modes? With glossy laptop screens they're 100% unreadable in good natural light conditions; even with a matte screen, they're pretty bad.
Getting hyped about automated hyperparameter tuning
This kind of argument only works if everybody has the same amount of money (or other tokens) to spend.

In the real world, market prices for this kind of thing simply select for rich people, not for who values the experience the most.
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I have the latest Mac version (4.0.3) and I see no such option.
I think we would have to manage to extend human lives to ~10,000 years or more to be spacefaring.
Your first point is actually the opposite of what the law says.

> At present, the Gambling Commission states that purchasing loot boxes does not meet the regulatory definition of licensable gambling under the Gambling Act 2005 because the in-game items have no real-world monetary value outside the games.
I used to work in a place where I was surrounded by these "normies" for a lack of a better term. I had absolutely nothing in common with any of my coworkers. Maybe one of them because we both enjoyed expensive coffee, but that was superficial at best.

I was miserable for the year and a half I was there, and I found a new job where everyone is a nerd. I love every single minute of my "work" day.

Your environment can poison your self image, so leave and find somewhere that suits you better. Personal fit in a company is sometimes more important than the tech you're working on.
Then I'll offer a counterpoint - Vestager sums up everything wrong with the EU and why every country should leave.

Firstly, her position violates all known good principles of governance. Her office acts as judge, jury and executioner. There's no clear separation of executive from judiciary from legislature: the Commission creates the laws, enforces the laws, and imposes the penalties under those laws. It can levy massive fines against businesses at will without having to win any kind of court case or in fact convince anyone of anything at all. The resulting fines go straight into the EU budget and the EU is always desperate for cash, giving her a huge conflict of interest.

Vestager is the manifestation of the EU's total capitulation to its own forces of stagnation and apathy. There are no big tech firms in Europe, unless we generously count ARM (now owned by Asian countries) or SAP, but SAP doesn't play in the consumer space and is hardly a force for innovation.

Rather than encourage tech firms, the Commission under Vestager has repeatedly sent the powerful message that no matter what you do or how hard you try, if you get big and successful you'll be found guilty of violating some vague, badly thought out bit of EU law.

Spend hundreds of millions on trying to comply with the GDPR, a piece of law so vague it literally says things are illegal unless you need to do them in which case they aren't? Irrelevant: no amount of spend will protect you from being found in violation. The EU Commission was violating the GDPR itself on the day enforcement began, but the apparent difficulty of compliance is also irrelevant: they simply announced they don't have to follow their own laws.

Create Android and actually open source it, thus saving the competitive ecosystem of phone OEMs from the iOS juggernaut? Doesn't matter, you're still "anti competitive" whereas iOS - totally proprietary - isn't. In upside down Vestager world allowing other firms to compete against your own phones with your own OS is worse for competition than building a vertically integrated and totally closed ecosystem. How exactly can you not be found anti-competitive? That's left undefined.

Add useful features to your useful search engine? No Comrade, that's illegal. Can't find anyone who actually suffered harm as a result of this new feature, not a single person anywhere? Doesn't matter; Vestager's laws are not justified by actually protecting consumers. The lack of harm doesn't matter.

Why should anyone bother trying to create tech firms in Europe, when people like Vestager are waiting for you to get successful so they can step in and "save" the consumer from your products, conveniently funding her own salary and bloated pensions at the same time?

Vestager vs Pai sums up EU vs America and in one swift comparison, sums up why America dominates the tech world. It's nothing to be proud of.
This is a bigger issue than most people care to admit. I post stuff to a number of different sites that support "Markdown" and not a single one agrees on even something a simple as how to format a hyperlink. I end up having to hit the help page on every site to remember which syntax they use, if they even support the feature at all. HTML might be "ugly", but at least it is consistent.
When I go camping, I use a standard 1L Nalgene bottle as a pillow. Sometimes I'll put it inside the sleeve of a fleece but it's actually fine on its own. Maybe it's just because I'm usually tired, but I find it fine to sleep that way. Then again, I think a lot of people historically would have been pretty tired at the end of the day so maybe it was easier to fall asleep then than it is now.
Any reason not to leave?

Do you have other career options you are qualified for?
Honest question. Why do we always need to opt out of something that we may or may not have signed up? Shouldn't these organizations be asking us to opt in? I'm beginning to think more and more that we need a data privacy bill of rights.

https://epic.org/privacy/white_house_consumer_privacy_.html Note. I don't know how i feel about EPIC so buyer beware. Yet sounds interesting.
RIP IRC, which had the advantage of offering people the opportunity to use any client they like.
Not sure what are your hobbies (if any). If you have some passion that you're unable to share, I'd advise actively looking for people with a similar taste online.

It's usually quite easier to make friends from unknown people sharing a similar taste than to convert your existing social group to what you like.

Also, if you're kinda good at something, googling some pedagogy basics and teaching it for free in your spare time will make you meet grateful people.
I love it. Not sure if I'd ever have a reason to use it...but I love it!
Yeah this is definitely something to think about.
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It varies. I'm 18, working a high pressure and underpaid development job. I have some clue what I'm doing, but I'm nowhere near skilled enough to get another job fast, and my work/life balance isn't exactly giving me time to learn new skills. I have some social life, but it feels like that's the only thing holding me back from insanity.
Sitting on the web. No such option currently exists.
We had scroll bars when desktops where 640x480.
Interesting but reduce is less interesting than eliminating it.
I had to restart slack to get the themes preference page to appear.
Companies loose more when people run into burnout and become sick or leave the company. If the company doesn’t care about your wellbeing, leave.

Also you should leave when there is more middle management then people who do real work.
Yep - I desperately want /ignore back. Lots of annoying bots.
The synflood limit is too low for the modern internet. (OpenWRT)
Are benefits that important? You can't spend Nespressos and table football. It's different if you mean equity/pay/overtime, etc. that sort of financial bundle. The other stuff is just window dressing that the company keeps after you move on. I'd put it firmly in the nice-to-have category.
wouldn't you pair it with an inertia detector so it only transmits a pulse (at 31mA) when it moves by a significant amount?
I had the same thing, refreshed and it was there.
The wheel was always an interesting invention
+1 to this!
Your life is meaningful today because a tomorrow will come where you will find what you are looking for. The future and the present are inextricably linked. I think that we all through descents in our life. Don't think less of yourself and don't give up. Look for new ways to find what you are looking for. Travel. Seriously, just pack up your bags and travel. If your job and your city aren't working for you just turn your back and leave. Try some third world countries. You will find their people endearing.
Refusing to sign NDAs and non-competes
You missed these guideline:

Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that."

So, the article mentions that.
Perhaps you should have indicated that's what your disagreement was, I think we agree but you misrepresent what I mean by "apply". Since it's not clear what it means to "pass" or "fail" the ABC test, and Uber is using the term "pass" to indicate that condition of the test is false (i.e.: failed), I used the term apply.

For example, when the Lemon test applies to something, it's because all of its three prongs are true. Is that a "pass" or a "fail"? That distinction I think is irrelevant to the law, but I'm sure the litigants on both sides would argue that their argument is good ("pass"), and the opposing argument is bad ("fail").

A city putting up decorations for a religious event and denying others would argue that they have "passed" the Lemon test, while articulating that one of its conditions "fails".

A litigant against such a city would argue the city "fails" the test.

I did not want to use Uber's language ("But just because the [ABC] test is hard does not mean we will not be able to pass it") because their job is to frame things positively for their client. Passing the ABC test is trivial - I'm doing it right now! So are you! What we care about is whether or not the test applies to something, that is, it entails some consequences, and Uber is going to argue that one of the specific prongs of the test will fail. From their view, this is a win, and this is them "passing" the test.

So, I used the word apply.
I'd just like to take a moment (in light of some of the comments here) to say that air-conditioning is neither a moral failure nor an ecological disaster.

An incentive to replace aging gas and electric heat with high efficiency modern heat-pumps that can both heat and cool is a clear ecological win.

The question is (as ever) how can we fairly deploy this society changing tech so that those who need it most don't get it last.
Yes. This please. I so so SO hate the drafts section.

Regularly I have DM conversations with people and might have typed out half a message when I need to respond to another channel/DM. But when I go back to the first conversation... it's gone. Because instead of being at the bottom of my list where I expect to see it (like I do the other 99.99999% of the time)... it's up at the top.

Don't. Move. Around. The. UI.
No one should own 10, 20, or 100 units of housing.

When people finally realize that, there will be hell to pay.
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I guess the sarcasm missed you completely.

I didn't care about your specific opinion on rent control because you didn't express one, I'm saying that your comments to give counter-evidence to what I was saying didn't even have any context in the discussion and will be used as fuel for the anti-regulation people that I said don't know what they're talking about.

You basically injected a non-sequitur into the discussion and are using it to start an argument, which is silly, because I believe rent regulation is a necessary evil.
precisely known transitions

There is an interesting philosophical conundrum here, in that one could argue it's the other way around: the precision you mention is a consequence of the fact that we currently define time relative to atomic transitions (the Caesium standard [1]). So if atomic transitions fluctuated (relative to some abstract standard that we are currently not having access to), then this would not affect the precision you mentioned. Wittgenstein famously made a similar argument about length in the Philosophical Investigations §50: "There is one thing of which one can say neither that it is one metre long, nor that it is not one metre long, and that is the standard metre in Paris. – But this is, of course, not to ascribe any extraordinary property to it, but only to mark its peculiar role in the language-game of measuring with a metre-rule."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesium_standard
Do you live somewhere where theres meetups for your interests? If not, move somewhere that does. Mental health should be your #1 priority, you should have something to look forward to.

Every decently sized city I lived in, the 'nerdy' interests had a sizable population, and was even mainstream.
As someone who had a less than ideal PhD experience, while exiting ABD feels like a failure in the near term, the long term impact is very low, unless you're desperate to remain in academia.

In short, you don't have to take the abuse - I'd look to change major professors.
When I lived there, I was surprised nearly none of the buildings had AC. I guess because the buildings are so old, and it is only very hot for a short time every year when most people are away on vacation, and, because it's France.
That's certainly many people, and it sucks if someone you know died because of the head. However, I can't tell for a population like France if this is a large number. Would love to see something like, how many people die from cold in France each year, or other environmental effects.
Beauty: "a combination of qualities, such as shape, color, or form, that pleases the aesthetic senses, especially the sight."

So I cannot like the shape or form when I look at a proof or function? I cannot have my aesthetic senses pleased by looking at STEM field things?
I hope you are paid what you wanted to be paid. On average my experience has been that Amazon's offers are lesser than Google and Facebook's. Not to mention no free food which would be okay if Amazon paid more but that is not the case.
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This is really bad policy... Treating the symptom while making the root problem worse.

The core issue is there is not enough good housing for everyone in California.

The real solution is to greatly loosen building regulation and make getting permits much faster and easier statewide. Then entrepreneurs will double or triple the housing supply and drop the costs of renting or buying a home by 80%. You could see rents go from $2500 per month in LA to $1000 a month or less.
The cartel and ms-13 were creations of the US, so it's kind of a domestic issue.
> Yet you still feel superior.

$$$.

I'm Romanian so I'm kind of in the same boat regarding your situation. Might makes right. Make more money and prove them wrong.

Well, money's just a summary: get a better education, better living conditions, etc. Money well spent earns you respect.
I hope you feel better. Don't worry too much about work, risks are justified when you feel like it's time. Let me know if I can help.
Sad news for custom emoji users. So many look bad now.

In all seriousness though - I don't see why all apps/sites don't develop in a "dark mode" first mindset. With all the studies showing eye strain related health issues correlated to bright screens, you'd think this would be an easy solution to help alleviate the problem.

Imagine writing your name in the sand on a beach by digging out all the area around the text to make it appear.. why project mostly background light with dark content as opposed to projecting the content and letting the dead space remain dark.
Nobody wants to pay for the personal needed to staff that silo.
Sometimes rude is necessary to communicate a point or just moving shit out of the way.
Because people upvoted it and that's how HN works.
A lot of what you're saying in here is blatantly incorrect or misleading. Water is frequently covered in utilities, but other utilities generally are not. Leases are very specific on the number of people in a unit for rent controlled apartments and is one the few things a tenant can be evicted for. The board frequently approves pass throughs. Increases tend to be higher than inflation.

If you lease out your house and you want to take back ownership, yeah, you need to pay out the tenant and that's completely fair. You're upending another family's lives, and they may not be able to afford to stay. You're paying them moving costs and covering a period of time of adjustment for them. If you think this is unfair, you have poor morals.

Also, for good measure: fuck the landlords.
> Obviously this article is not referencing the full V8 engine, but a light version that may or may not make it into Chromium

Obviously? Right from the second sentence, the article says:

> Initially this project was envisioned as a separate Lite mode of V8 specifically aimed at low-memory mobile devices or embedder use-cases that care more about reduced memory usage than throughput execution speed. However, in the process of this work, we realized that many of the memory optimizations we had made for this Lite mode could be brought over to regular V8 thereby benefiting all users of V8.
While what you write is true in a way, but saying "military or gov't produce exact specifications for something" may be interpreted by some people involved in software development in the wrong way. I've worked on a couple DoD related projects long ago and they don't put out specifications as much as requirements. If anything, the requirements are annoying vague. They will ask for something like "a light truck that can carry at least 1 ton while overcoming vertical obstacles 1 meter high and climb 50% grades". Or "software to track and manage electrical usage of a base at the building and circuit level. It should includeoff-site historical data storage, an interface for reporting and the ability to transfer data with existing reporting systems." Obviously the real RFPs have a long, long set of requirements, often conflicting :-).

Each vendor is responsible with coming up with their own approach to the stated problem, their own designs and all the rest. And while there is certainly far too much micro-management -- and a healthy does of mismanagement -- a naive read of the rules makes it clear that most of the bureaucratic rules were created with good intentions. That is, they were created to fix "bugs" in the procurement system, to reduce corruption, to try to reduce errors, etc. Sadly, as you implied, the mass of contract bidding rules is now literally inches thick when printed out (I know because I printed out one set of them from the GSA) and probably create more problems than it solves. Ah well, such is life.
"Per my previous email" is my favorite. I usually attach the prior email that answers the question.
> Lite mode launched in V8 version 7.3 and provides a 22% reduction in typical web page heap size compared to V8 version 7.1 by disabling code optimization, not allocating feedback vectors and performed aging of seldom executed bytecode (described below). This is a nice result for those applications that explicitly want to trade off performance for better memory usage. However in the process of doing this work we realized that we could achieve most of the memory savings of Lite mode with none of the performance impact by making V8 lazier.

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To add to my comment, having learnt this 10 years into my career, I feel like this thinking is a virtious circle. If I am able to communicate exactly what I am thinking in a diplomatic manner, the more it is appreciated and the more success I have. This leads to greater confidence and the more I express myself in such a fashion.
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There will probably be a period of adjustment here in San Francisco, CA, too. My apartment does not have an air conditioner, and neither do many (most?) other SF apartments. If people start dropping dead because of the heat here, I have no idea what the city could/would do to address that situation.
I really really hope it's aliens. I want to be alive for that discovery.
You pasted a quote of Michael Mann, aka the hockey stick guy, a known scientific fraud.

Doing things like that is why people don't believe alarmists and the NYT anymore.
I'm sure that there are people in this thread that are in a lot worse situation than me but ... I could use some damn friends. Especially local ones with the same interests/hobbies.

Also, my job is super boring. I have an advanced degree, multiple certificates, years of experience, moonlight as a consultant, and I write basic SQL SELECT statements in solitary confinement every day. I've tried to convince my organization multiple times to use me to my full potential.

I worry about my health when I retire. Sitting behind a desk for the majority of the day, every day, is not going to end well.
It really depends on the context of what you are planning to build but my favorites in the no-code space are Webflow, Airtable, Zapier, Carrd, Table2Site.
> Interesting, why would Andreessen Horowitz fund evil

It's tech. It could make lots of money. Evil is relative (/s).
Thanks. This should really be noted in the blog post.
Or, if they want to keep the drafts section... Duplicate the channel, don't move it. That way you get the best of both worlds