skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find this most irritating. It is much more polite to the listener if you do your homework first and then start talking. It vastly increases the chances of being able to capture and hold and audience's attention.
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I second the Beta. It's been a real pleasure to work with.
Where I work, chitchat during lunch break is main communication bus. Since I am preparing my food at home, I don’t go to the canteen and I am the black sheep in the office. I am the last one to get the news. It’s seriously wrong, because there are no written agreements at all.
No one on HN actually reads the the article. It actually works because you get to signal how you think, and that’s what everyone cares about.
Hmm... Git's commit chain might be a blockchain (in the minimal sense of the word), since I think it uses that hash chaining technique.

But if I were describing Git to others, I wouldn't say "Git is a distributed, blockchain-based VCS" because that would give the wrong idea.
"At first, many Native Americans were wary of having their photographs taken and often refused. They believed that the process could steal a person's soul and disrespected the spiritual world.

Over time, however, some Native Americans came to cherish photographs as links to ancestors and even integrated them into important ceremonies."
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No, not at all. Stackless coroutines only preserve a single call frame, while stackful coroutines [1] preserve the whole stack. For example python, C#, C++ coroutines are stackless, while lua and Go are stackful.

It is hardly a coroutine at all if no state, other than the instruction pointer, is preserved.

[1] See the lua coroutine papers where the nomenclature is introduced.
Just to add a little context, one issue she ignores entirely is the relationship between needs based entrepreneurship and the total entrepreneurial activity (TEA) rate. So, one of the effects you're going to run into are that the countries with the highest TEA rate are going to be 1.) developing economies (which have higher needs based entrepreneurship) that 2.) have reached a high enough development level to have functioning university systems and 3.) are in the process of adopting western-culture norms.

As a result, all of the traditional determinants of entrepreneurial activity, such as capital availability, education infrastructure, &c... aren't going to matter that much because her DV only measures total entrepreneurial activity (e.g., person A opens a street stand because they don't have any other way of generating income) or variables that are heavily correlated with TEA, which isn't what most folks are really interested in when they talk about entrepreneurship.

However, her sample is also going to be biased in favor of developing countries that have higher levels of normative western-culture beliefs (e.g., support for gender equality), because developing countries with university systems sophisticated enough to know about & participate in a project such as GEM (and generate good data) are also more likely to have already started the process of incorporating western norms into their culture.

Gender equality is a massive value added, and I know a lot of people who have done actual research which proves it. But, you can't run a couple of regression models on GEM data and declare that capital access, geography, education, and all of the other traditional determinants of entrepreneurship aren't influential.
If it’s prepaid, is it then a credit card anymore?

I believe this is relevant with respect to much of the protection you have from using a credit card (chargebacks etc)
Not to mention how many businesses along George st it has killed, all the noise etc

Everything the government does in NSW screams "lining the pockets of big business"
Here's the relevant part of the twitter rant- seems interesting but I can't tell myself whether it makes sense or not :)

"they repeatedly asked the quantum processor for outputs to a random circuit, and the “quantum supreme computation” was that the outputs were not actually random, but subject to bias due to quantum interference, which they check by solving the path integral in classical simulation

which, to me, is an infuriating thing to label “quantum supremacy” because quantum interference is EXACTLY WHY WE CAN’T USE CURRENT QUANTUM PROCESSORS TO “BREAK ALL CRYPTO” IN THE FIRST PLACE BECAUSE WE CANNOT DO EFFICIENT QUANTUM ERROR CORRECTING CODES

it’s like pointing at a fucking Zener diode and saying, “quantum supremacy” simply because quantum electromagnetic domain wall tunnelling happens at random, followed by a non-justification of “well your iphone can’t do that”"
Not your op but I personally do not. The way the word has evolved blockchain includes the distributed consensus. I understand there is a concept of linked blocks, into a chain, and technically Bitcoin and folk are those. If someone said blockchain (datastructure) I would understand it as being only the data structure.

git is a chain of blocks, kinda. it's distributed. there is no consensus. It's not a blockchain by how most people would define it.
So instead of writing a PAM module like normal people... Wait, it already exists. pam_mount, used to typically mount ecryptfs.

Welcome to NIH.
Any distributed database that doesn't advertise that it has hired Kyle Kingsbury (aphyr) and passed him applying Jepsen's new and ever-kinkier stress tests against it makes me instantly suspicious. Appeal to authority? Yes, but, aphyr has earned the title by breaking a whole lot of databases.
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Not entirely true, a cronjob at user level can just ask for the password.
Doing something in this case is making us feel good about consuming plastics, where the better thing would be doing nothing and have the packaging industry avoid it where possible.
...so go to the canteen anyway and talk while you eat together? I can think of plenty of times where a shared lunch with some co-workers was a mix of people bringing food and buying from the cafe.

Having agreements in writing is important for reference. Being present for their creation (and therefore having a say as it takes shape) is worth it.
It may have a good doc but searchability on the internet is still miles behind MySQL and that actually counts more on daily search for answers.

Also I sometimes don't know if I should search with psql or pgsql or postgres or postgresql and I tend to type shorter ones but mysql is quite obvious on that.
Agree. A space-faring civilization would have space ships perfectly adapted to their need for sustainability, and they can move to avoid any danger. We can also assume that well advanced civilization have mastered transmutation and that they might need access to planets only to get matter they can transform in whatever they need.

The motivation for traveling in space can only be to decrease probability of extinction and to increase their knowledge. The later may include studying other life forms and what they have learned. As a consequence, I assume they would specifically target solar systems with a high probability to host well advanced life forms. I don't give much credit to a random expansion in the milky way.

Regarding the Fermi paradox, the only paradox is excluding the UFO phenomenon as possible extraterrestrial manifestation.
kinda; using a keyword instead of library call for suspend is done primarily to constrain suspension to a single stack frame (i.e. the calling continuation is not first class, same as for return), hence it is used to enforce the stackless-ness.
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Yeah, this would have been absolute carnage just last month. At least there should be very few kids involved now.
Indian here. I am sorry that you had been treated unfairly by anyone at all, and particularly by Indians.

For an iota of what it is worth, I _genuinely_ am happy to see black candidates. If anything I have a heightened sense of fairness and post interview I offer to spend extended time to attune them to the next interview rounds. In case I do happen to reject the candidate, I offer to write elaborate review from my notes (I take a lot of notes) with the hope it helps the candidate. Again, sorry.
That's standard practice for working article drafts in management & the social sciences. I can't find a link to her data set & reproduction code - I would be surprised if she had it, tbh, because it's unfortunately not really a requirement in this field - but the data itself should be easy to assemble yourself.

Entrepreneurial Activity: GEM (https://www.gemconsortium.org/)

Country Level Vars: World Bank Dataset & Project Globe (https://globeproject.com/)

The models are panel regressions w. fixed effects in Stata (you can recreate this with the PLM library in R).
"Bedrock was built by Expensify, and is a networking and distributed transaction layer built atop SQLite, the fastest, most reliable, and most widely distributed database in the world."

I didn't know SQLite was a distributed database.
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The solution isn't to put things in preference windows either because even smart users will find that cumbersome. There's an interesting pair of videos (if you have some time) that goes over the UI of two competing music scoring software and why one is bad and the other good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKx1wnXClcI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hZxo96x48A
it more reminds me about sitting in front of campfire and my grandmother's house wood stove in the childhood. This is probably how i got so smart.
TLDR: TCP_USER_TIMEOUT is an important setting but it's somewhat tricky, not properly documented and there are kernel bugs related to it.
Don't hotels realise this is a reputation business? In the age of the Internet, no-one with access to TripAdvisor or Google will ever stay there again. Wouldn't be at all surprised to see the hotel change name in the next year, if they survive. But perhaps worse that that, a hotel behaving like this, and not being slapped down hard by the Tunisian authorities, will damage the entire Tunisian tourism industry, just as they were recovering from the 2015 hotel attack there.
I'd say, use MySQL 8 unless you have a particular reason not to. You get more resource online when you search around and toolings are better and those are as important as features to many and I doubt MySQL 8 lacks much for most people's use cases.
If I knew and told you that for this very site I'd get banned. If the truths weren't inconvenient, no one would bother mislabeling them.
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I'm not sure whether this comment is sarcastic or not, which is sad.
Espresso Price Dispersion Across Italian Cities
Also, in really well-designed UI of the past, every menu option had a hint in the status bar, every GUI element had a tool tip, that explained what will happen when you click on it.

I find modern applications (especially mobile ones) much harder to discover and use. If you're a teen, you have plenty of time to experiment, but as an adult, I just want to get the work done.

Yeah, you could say that I don't want to learn.. but I just want to learn bare minimum to get the job done. The application itself doesn't have to be minimalistic.
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I think it's supposed to mean that it's the most used and not that it is actually distributed.
Cash with a note saying "For you to enjoy in <person's favourite shop>" then.
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If you know nothing whatsoever about cars or maintenance thereof you will get taken by the salesman then you will run your cars into the ground burning money and then get ripped off every time you need someone to maintain or fix your car because you don't know enough to know when someone is bullshitting you.

People are expected to know SOMETHING about cars because they are frequently a huge expense that you are required to expend to be able to exist in a lot of places.

Econ 101 in this case assumes that time and money are fungible in any particular increments and that the money they earn doing whatever they are optimal at is greater than the cost of the specialists services.

Example someone making 20 bucks an hour needs a professional service that requires 3 hours of work for a professional at a cost of $900 learning to do so ineffeciently for 5 hours then spending 6 hours seems like a, huge waste but consider.

- Just because their labor is worth $20 an hour doesn't mean that they they can trivially in the context of their current obligations convert a day off into extra pay right when they need it.

- 11 hours x 20 hours will furnish 1/4 of the money required. Even given an immediate alternative it will require 45 hours of additional work.

Incidentally if you own a home you probably ought to learn at least enough basic maintenance to fix simple things.

This is often effecient in practice.
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The pro-audio software market is significantly tilted towards Windows. The split is approximately 75/25. Also, the majority of the "pro"-audio market is not working professionals. In fact, they're a vanishingly small piece of the equation. That's true for pretty much any creative pro-sumer market. Most of the money is in the long tail of people that want to be like pros, not in the tiny number of actual professionals.

Source: I've worked in pro-audio for a long time, both independently and as an employee for one of the largest companies in the space.
> Of course there's nothing preventing web based UIs from supporting the same speed and productivity, but I know of few examples that actually do this.

Can you give a few of those examples?
What must be done to accomplish this?
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Have you considered hiring remotely? (I read your recruitment pages and while it does not say that you don’t explicitly your hiring process looks as if you are recruiting only for on-site positions).
They just need to get the cops to come and arrest them for not paying. The cops can "kidnap" them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbVJU1CuM0Q
Work performance in mid to top management positions is tied mainly to leadership and social traits. It means close to nothing if your hard skills are the best if the job requires mostly soft skills.
I'm basically streaming-only these days but I still find "singles only" artists tiresome to deal with. Maybe it's a shortcoming of Apple Music, but if I want to listen to an artist, I usually try to pick an album so there's something playing for at least the next half an hour without me managing my up next list.

For some artists there may be an "essentials" playlist or something, which helps, but that already requires a certain level of popularity. If there's nothing like that and no albums, I need to open a single, pick one track to play (because four remixes of the same song one after another isn't my idea of a good time), then the same thing for the next single, etc. Usually I just give up and go find something with less clicking.
> It’s a PR game. “Look, we’re going all-electric by [insert year]!” Meanwhile they keep pushing gas cars.

I suspect this is PR directed mostly at shareholders, not consumers. If a car company appears to be missing the boat on electric, they're going to look like a risky investment for the long term.
When talking, I feel like a CPU waiting for DRAM reads all the time. "Gee... why is this going so slow?!" Anything that can speed things up is appreciated. Talk fast, interrupt me, let me interrupt, fill the gaps, ask what you don't understand, point what I got wrong, and lets complete this data transmission as soon as possible.
Leave it alone. It is perfect. ;)
There are industry schemes such as ATOL and the Air Travel Trust Fund, which should cover most of the costs, not the taxpayer, even if operations are managed by the government.

> As at 31 March 2018 the ATT fund had a surplus of £170 million. [1]

That should do.

[1] https://www.caa.co.uk/ATOL-protection/Air-travel-trust/About...
If only Microsoft cared to listen feedback a bit... the lack of a cross-platform UI (which existed for a while with Silverlight) is what is dragging back the whole .net ecosystem from wider adoption.
Maybe the commenter was just being sarcastic. But I agree it's hard to tell.
I'm a Meek and one of the strategies I have developed for dealing with more interrupt-based communicators is to rely on an asynchronous, written medium. Be it slack, a shared google drive doc, whatever. "Hey, can we have a meeting to discuss X" will often be answered by "here's my written opinion on X and the different options I see. If you still think we need to meet, here's my availability". If this doesn't remove the meeting completely, it allows you to prepare and state your opinion in advance.

Some people don't like it. It's easier to do when you are remote with a significant time difference.
If you wanted to use it on another network, it's useless during those days. Depreciation and cost of capital of the phone for 60 days? Easily $50 or so.
Maybe it's ublock, but I've had plenty of sites that just don't work on firefox. barclaycard, blackboard, and the schools web print system (dts) are my recent examples.
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I avoided SSRIs for years based on this fear but after starting lexapro I can safely say I have never felt more free.

YMMV of course.
How to scale B2B web personalisation?
Is the complaint that systemd is so useful that nearly every distro includes it?
Getting a very low profile keyboard helped me the most. At work I use Apple Wired Keyboard, at home I use a low profile mechanical.

In the past I used normal height mechanical keyboards and I could feel my wrists hurting after 15 minutes of using them.
> Some users just don't want to learn.

100% agree. It took my grandma about two weeks with a tablet to figure out by herself how to look up oil prices in the web browser. It was the first device she ever used that was more powerful than an old Nokia mobile phone and her first contact with the internet. We never taught her what a web browser was or how to use it.

Meanwhile my mother used a laptop and smartphone for years with everything that goes with it, and uses these devices mainly to complain about how they don't do exactly what she wants. It just has to work the first try or the computer is broken, there's no inbetween for her.
Confirming online debit and credit card payments with a one-time password has become a standard practice in the EU. These solutions are also available in the US, are they not being adopted by banks there?

https://usa.visa.com/pay-with-visa/featured-technologies/ver...

https://www.mastercard.us/en-us/consumers/payment-technologi...
In this post I have mapped the problems in remote work with the startups solving them.

Feel free to comment in case you are facing a problem or are solving it.
Libdispatch is a job scheduler. A coroutine is a job to be scheduled.
Going to a mechanic to have your oil level and tire pressure checked sounds like you would spend more time driving than just doing it.

Then there is the fact that about half those places specialize in making up stuff that is wrong with dumb peoples cars to rip them off.
This comment has some good insights. Actually a lot of "business" software were like that in the 90s and early 00s. They were optimized for productivity of the user and not necessarily aesthetics of appearance or ease of use (well, trade-off). Even old version of excel etc. were designed like that. Unfortunately modern web software has such high importance on making it eye-candy.
I find stream of consciousness rambling to be extremely irritating. Normally, I'm very much against interrupting, but I have been known to butt in to stream of consciousness speech, saying, "Okay, and what's your point?"
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I learned very thoroughly that the software version details were under "Help -> About". If it's not there, I'm not only stumped; I'm genuinely angry. That doesn't have to be logical; emotional reactions happen by themselves. Making me angry with your software is not good for sales.

Running on my desktop this very second; Postman. "Help" has no about. It has a "Check for Updates", but that doesn't tell me my current version. Only what new version is available. My response; a genuine feeling of frustration and anger.
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Change for change's sake is the worst possible reason for change. All this systemd stuff can jump off a cliff as far as I'm concerned. The main reason why I chose for Linux on my desktop and laptop machines is because I like the stability of the platform, the lack of non-sensical change and the fact that it makes it much easier to switch between desktop and server environments.

Not that I want my servers to be more like my desktop, but the other way around.

Where Poetering & Co. get it completely wrong - just speaking for myself here - is that the lack of change in the Linux world to me is a good thing. It means that any investment in time will pay back over many years.
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When one is talking aliens, some number of things might seem obvious but the reality is we're dealing from intense ignorance and the things that seem obvious to us probably shouldn't be taken at face value.
This used to be fairly true but seems to be less so these days. The lack of an affordable Mac with reasonable power in the lineup for quite a while (plus the quality control issues with the new MBPs) has led to quite a lot of musicians on the lower end of the earnings spectrum to move to PC, while the lack of a high powered, expandable pro Mac has pushed some high end users towards Windows, at least for parts of their workflow.

I’ve anecdotally heard similar things about the video editing world - people would love to use Macs, but Apple took far too long to release the new Pro (and now it’s here, it’s out of reach for many “pro” users who don’t have unlimited budgets), so they had no choice but to move to Windows.
I think the essential office chitchat issue is "being yourself" vs. "seeming like a high quality professional". I've found out the hard way that relaxing and aiming for a real conversation carries a high % chance of saying something unbecoming of a team leader. Better pay attention to appearances when you're at work.

I don't understand coworkers who say silly things at the lunch table without a second thought, or those who base their social lives around co-workers... doing so seems to risk your upward mobility. It's a sad POV but from my experience anyways I think it's reality.
As a happy Firefox and uBlock Origin user I wonder what is so fundamentally different about uBlock Origin that its filter list can't be converted/translated to the JSON format Safari's content blocking API expects.

Is it more difficult than I imagine?
A video to teach me about UI ! It is well known that text is a lot more effective than watching video.
These results seem a bit implausible

There is no obvious link to the method of the study, but the text of the study seems to imply that these tasks are some variation of "How well can you perform a task on a slightly outdated version of Microsoft Office", which these days is not widely used outside of bureaucracies, and therefore likely to be unfamiliar to most people (even for _n_x-based programmers such as myself)

I suspect if you were to give users relatively advanced tasks related to social media, online shopping, or device configuration you would get much more positive results.
I know what you mean, however I think C did bring down the amount of bugs compared to assembly, just by making code easier to read and higher level abstractions available.

It's still not much though.
It is terrible.

But it's a nice counterargument to all the 'make the UI for the minimum viable user' thinking. It's a demonstration that if people care even a little bit, they can figure even such terrible, undiscoverable UI like Snapchat out.