skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Where are you getting the idea that this was a dumb rash decision? It sounds like they upgraded the database instance without proper QA in the first place and that this created a lot of issues. OP didn't specify if this was their decision or not, but even if it was there might be some good reasons for it and many of those reasons point to further organisation incompetence. The only rash decision OP made (from the information available) was to disable the feature in production to at least get the appearance of everything working, which was the status quo.

This is shooting the messenger, the product was silently failing for god knows how long and your blaming the person that forced the organisation to acknowledge those failures and their own personal incompetence. And they did this in a way that only had an immediate impact on non-production systems.

I get the impressions you can't work well with others, because it requires a good dose of humility and the ability to acknowledge problems. Sweeping those problems under the carpet to bite people in mysterious ways at odd times is someone that's difficult to work with.
I thought regex matching was one of the strongest arguments for it.
I've been doing this for a few years now as I grew tired of video/audio getting removed without them leaving any trace of what the content was related to.

My current setup consists of several scripts on my personal server - basic CLI wrappers around "youtube-dl" (supports many sites, not just YouTube) - these scripts set my default preferences as well as the destination folder depending on the parameters passed.

Once the download is complete, the destination folder is just one of many paths scanned by my Plex instance. I can then pull up the video/audio on my television, computer or mobile device as I please.
When somebody from free needs support, wouldn't that be a good time to "Upgrade for support or reach us on Twitter"
Kind of similar to North America in a way. And just like the Chinese, you guys don't realize it because as the saying goes, everybody thinks their crap doesn't stink.

Sure in the case of China it is a more crude form of propaganda, but if you don't believe me, just try to find information about what happened in Ecuador just now in your newsmedia. That information was supressed by media conglomerates because of a pro-US president that ended up doing something wildly unpopular. Compare the same exact event happening in a country like Venezuela. You get the idea.
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Not sure about most excited, but I am looking forward to setting PYTHONCACHEPREFIX to a location that isn't in a volume mounted into my Docker container for development.
(Possibly) the best recognition and appreciation tool for Microsoft Teams
> Don't dismiss this article just because of the main image. It's a image of an EmDrive that is another impossible device that doesn't work

Do you have a link for that? I haven't been following the EM Drive but a quick google now suggests that a team in Germany believe that they found the reason for the anomolous readings but I cannot find anything definitive.
Why would we sell services? Maybe we only want to sell product and let partners implement?

What the fuck are you actually talking about anyway? I'm a FOSS guy too but there's no way we should force it on everyone. If I want to write some code and not make the source available, why should you be able to dictate otherwise?

There's probably thousands of edge cases to your over simplistic thinking.
I wonder what you think of "for else" loops.

(although I think "else" should have been a different keyword)
More information on desynchronization attacks that can allow request smuggling can be found on the Portswigger blog[0].

[0] https://portswigger.net/research/http-desync-attacks-request...
I do get the point of it being this way, but my problem with it is that it feels too much like magic, I think I just prefer to have the 1:1 relationship, like I already do with javascript functions or HTTP calls.

But even leaving that aside, I still think that this specific "feature" is not worth the amount of boilerplate you need in most Redux apps, so it's not a nice tradeoff IMO :(

I worked in some bigger apps, and before adopting ducks (and later a homebrew version of createSlice) we had some bugs caused by multiple reducers firing.

I also think that it makes Flux/Redux a bit harder to explain
I'm Swedish, and I reacted then I read the article: do everyone really know what fika is? Obviously not. Fika is a coffee or a cup of tea, accompanied by a sandwich or something sweet, not after a dinner but as a small break during the day. There's a social aspect of it as well, you don't take a fika on your own.
And slowing down the entire design space because of closed PSD format driving out competitions and Photoshop is so slow compared to apps like Affinity Photo as its legacy code must be in the way to employ any radical improvements.

Someone needs to take over this space.
You might like Pass [0] or GoPass [1] which had more features the last I looked at it.

They both store passwords/data in gpg-encrypted files in a git repo. I'm not sure what the state of GUIs/browser plugins are for it, but I'm pretty sure there are some out there.

You can also set up your git config to be able to diff encrypted .gpg files so that the files are diff-able even though they're encrypted.

[0]: https://www.passwordstore.org/

[1]: https://github.com/gopasspw/gopass
My sister spent some time in Norway and convinced me to try making matpakke. Long story short, I couldn't finish it, and I'm not exactly a light eater.
This is one of the worst anti-patterns that I've seen in a while.
Wait until you discover some basic features of KDE or Gnome (especially the former) on Linux then. Using KDE, both MacOS and Windows 10 feel like it's 2009 all over again, by comparison. I just don't understand why MS and Apple don't steal the best stuff, it's literally 'free' as in beer, and so much more important to a good UX compared to the slew of useless features both these commercial vendors keep on piling up...

Things like per-window or per-app settings:

- borderless

- opacity

- default an app to a virtual desktop, position and size, even sub-types of windows (e.g. when you want children to appear in some designated place)

- a few well-placed magnets (sides, center, other windows) to quickly resize 'perfectly' (my OCD loves it haha)

- activities (more like a meta-organization, so powerful when switching tasks/context like home / work / hobby / etc.

- custom shortcuts for anything (any of the above, launch any app, optionally with command-line options)

and so much more...
In 2019, is YC worth it?
They live in the fantasy since 1920s, sure, sure. They have distinct culture and language. They carry the whole spain on their backs, which pays their healthcare i guess. They are discriminated by spanish officials. The spanish try to erase their language by abolishing catalonian schools. Their lawful actions are met with violence. Spoiled? Go home Franco, you're drunk.

P.S. your comment very nicely applies to the US.
The animations sure help, but I find the second one misleading because the ring bounces instantly and it has only 2 discrete sizes.

Instead of a discrete bounce, picture a slow motion elastic bounce where the ring gets heavier as it's being accelerated. It seems to me that when the box pushes the ring (left side), the ring would be gaining mass as it accelerates, thus cancelling the harvested movement, right?
I've been wondering about returns lately using Google Pay consistently. It seems with returns they often ask 'do you have the card used for the purchase?', but with one-time numbers I don't know if the card will be recognized. My last several purchases I don't recognize the last 4 at all, and wouldn't be able to exclaim, 'yes, that's my card'
Didn't you see the news they are making a 1000Kph train?
It's a fascinating choice of words that you find it "convenient" that your spouse can't be forced to testify against you. That benefit has literally never crossed my mind, much less been convenient...
You're completely correct.

Hilariously, in this thread you have people arguing that Americans eat bland flavorless food while also arguing that Americans "obsess" over food that tastes good, both from a negative perspective.
Great, it'll be immensely useful for me.
I would appreciate more if the layover looked more like macOS. Currently the corners are too sharp compared to the macOS default ones, and the text is white compared to the less standing-out grey.

Nonetheless, the idea is great and I think I'll switch to it right away!
Don't forget compressed air!
Your last statement needs the standard smallprint: Some restrictions apply. See Terms and Conditions.

And actually T&C which can change on a whim and aren't even always transparently visible.
Maybe people who feel the need to be in an exclusive group based on arbitrary test data are associated with mental and physical disorders, logic suggests.
You appear to have replied to the wrong post
It's common sense that these SaaS products are targeted towards people who use them enough to pay for it, monthly.

The reason why it's better for the creator to offer it paid only, is that they can focus on shipping features only for those who care about their offering enough to pay for it. These users could be described as power users in comparison with people who expect the service to be free.

The website FAQ even says that this is for professional use, which means that the person who's subscribing, needs to use this on a day to day for their work (or something that's important to them).
The point of a contract is to provide disincentives to breaking it, not to ensure that it is never broken. Contracts are broken all the time - that's what bankruptcy, non-payment, eviction, lawsuits, etc. are. But these are expensive and come with penalties to the breaker, so people have a strong incentive to keep their word.

(For that matter - it's not actually possible to compel someone to do something. Even laws can be broken; it is physically pretty easy to say run over a crowd of people with a car. But that's why laws are structured as a social contract: if you break the law, then you can expect the full force of the state to come down on you, leading to a long prison term or even execution. So you have a pretty strong incentive to follow them.)

From this POV, divorce being expensive, time-consuming, and costing you a whole lot is a feature, not a bug. That makes it a strong disincentive on both parties to cutting and running when things get hard.
A null coalescing operator
A Nihilist’s Guide to Meaning
If you get laid off before the lockout period do you lose the stocks? (I assume the cliff still applies).
I feel in Europe people are obsessed with eating "nice and flavorful" stuff instead of eating something because you actually need to eat.

Oh wait, that's what someone was criticizing the US for earlier in this thread. Weird. So is that the case or not?
So much educational content, particularly historic content, is now on the continuum from delisted to removed entirely. The hacking content is just of particular interest to this community; it's not the story.
Apache Pulsar vs. Apache Kafka
Imagine the fps if it took videos
So to be clear, this wasn't a study of people with high IQs, it was a study of people who signed up for a high IQ club that wasn't, say, academic research. Sounds like you're looking at people where the biggest thing going for them is not their accomplishments, but their IQ score.
Yup. We software engineers may be in demand, but it's nothing compared to China's demand for obedient propagandists who can dribble.
> I also have just a crippling fear of failure, so bad that I just never do anything that really tests my abilities. I failed an Amazon interview 10 years ago and I can't bring myself to give a fair shot to most tech companies.

Let me give you a kick in the ass. You failed an Amazon interview when you were 19? For me, the difference between 19 and 29 was the difference between being a kid with literally zero practical skills, in college but not studying anything with "computer" in the name, and being an adult with the ability to walk into FAANMG^[1] interviews, pass them, and survive mostly-happily in the caustic environments therein.

Though it will be work, and you may encounter setbacks, you are ready for your next step. I completely relate to the feeling that despite knowing you are smart, creative, and able to solve complex problems, you're somehow still not good enough to get hired, but it's all in your head. You should not be worrying about whether you can get hired, but rather where you want to get hired, if getting hired is even the thing you really want to do.

> It's also rough knowing as I type these words on this website that they may come back to haunt me, but I suppose in this moment I'm willing to commit to being honest.

I've found that "being vulnerable" can be an effective tool for building rapport, as long as you don't get too weird. Anyway, I certainly wouldn't worry about anything you've said here.

^[1] Not to say I attach any particular value to these companies, but their interviews are generally accepted to be on the challenging side.
Absolutely not. Regardless of the commercial side, Boeing makes too many military jets for that to happen.
Kroger is the second largest supermarket in the US (after Walmart) that has many subsidiaries grocery chains that they have acquired in its 100+ years of existence. Pretty much Kroger bought up other "family" grocery chains and then keeps those chains local names such as Dillons, Frys, King Soopers, City Market, Gerbes, Kwik Mart, etc.

Safeway by contrast is part of the Albertson and Albertsons and its Subsidiaries is the 3rd largest Supermarket chain.
Yeah, I also don't remember that. I remember being floored that Youtube was hosting so much video (you know, like 0.001% as much as they host now, by disk space consumed—way less of it and it was SD) for free—it blew my freaking mind. Server disk and bandwidth like that was so expensive. It was easy to find free hosting but it came with low disk use limits—video wasn't happening. Paid wasn't yet anywhere near as cheap as it is now, and came with lower limits. You could just sign up for free and upload... anything? Minutes and minutes, adding up to hours, of it? And anyone could watch it? It was incredible.

Of course I didn't yet understand the idea of operating at a huge loss to generate hockeystick growth and attract VC and/or acquisition, so I wasn't wrong and the math didn't make any damn sense, I just didn't know that it didn't matter.

It also seemed wild that their player actually kinda mostly worked. In the browser! Before YouTube it was all awful RealPlayer videos at ultra-low res and smeary, high compression rates, or maybe a short .mov or something of similar quality, and if it was streaming rather than a download it woul... [BUFFERING] ...d freeze constantly. Napster and friends were still mostly for music at the time. Some video sharing was going on but it was, like, really low-quality DiVX rips of DVDs for burning to CDs.
> Why do you need a lawyer for a divorce?

You don't need a lawyer for a divorce in the same sense that you don't need a lawyer ever.

Plenty of people succeed at pro se law all the time.

There is a good reason why people recommend lawyers, though, and that is because the law is very complicated.

I think lawyers are great at a few things:

1. They'll help you dot your i's and cross your t's. Even if the divorce is amicable, it's probably a good idea to do up the paper work and then take it by a lawyer just to make sure everything is done up right.

2. They'll keep everything above board. A decent lawyer will tell you about what is achievable in a divorce, which is a much better starting place for amicable negotiations than what feels right.

3. They'll help you protect yourself. Is it a good idea to move out of the marital home? What happens if your spouse incurs debt during the separation? These sorts of questions are often quickly answered and very important to get right.

> Or are those cases so incredibly rare because of cultural reasons that everyone just assumes a divorce costs money?

The breakup of personal relationships, such as a marriage, often result in very strong, negative emotions. I don't have any data on how frequent divorces are contentious, but it would not surprise me to learn that most are.

My guess is that part of your perception, however, is anchored in media - both social and traditional. There, contentious and expensive divorces are simply more interesting and are probably over-represented.
Ion drive requires propellant. But it would be similar to a photon drive.
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I've heard in a few places that the work sample interview is a great technique (most recently
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19747821)

At the same time, I hear that people don't like work sample tests because they take far too long to complete, or because you feel compelled to work extra.

Has anybody had experience conducting work-sample SWE interviews? What went wrong and what went right? Was it hard to persuade others to change the interview format? Was it hard to figure out what to evaluate?

Alternatively, if you don't have experience running them, do you have any good ideas? Maybe an "ideal" work-sample interview?

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I assume I'll have some issues persuading people (both on and offline). Here are my thoughts/rant ATM.

I work in a distributed systems/database area and believe we are testing the wrong skills with generic interviews. It doesn't matter if an interviewee knows how to do LeetCode problem solving if they don't know how to problem-solve with caching strategies and consistency levels because you lack the basic knowledge. And if a candidate doesn't know the above techniques, I care more about their ability to learn the fundamentals (which aren't linked lists). Since a lot of fundamentals are advanced undergrad dist. systems/database concepts, one probably is applying to the wrong role if they haven't attempted to learn them anyway.

This idea should apply to other roles as well. If you're doing frontend, you probably shouldn't be tested on your understanding of Big-O if you work with arrays that scale up to 100 items. Maybe it would make more sense to test on problem-solving with React state instead.
This is so bad. Seriously the reminders app itself is already pretty trivial, perhaps with the exception of the geofencing feature, which in and of itself is extremely stupid and limited (only lets you trigger notifs if you are arriving or leaving. What if you want to trigger notifs if you're still at that specific location, but not necessarily leaving that location?)

Seriously this can't be that hard to build as a backwards compatible API. Extremely poor engineering practices. If their software org is as bad as their hardware org (sorry, but broken keyboards after a year of use is unacceptable to me in 2020), then it makes sense they'd break this. I initially was hesitant to start using Reminders about 6 months ago but eventually found a way to incorporate it into my life. Hope this doesn't break my workflow. Definitely glad that I've divorced my work machines and my personal machines, and that I don't jump the gun and immediately update to the newest OS versions anymore on any of my machines.

Yikes all around.
However good at a given thing you are probably depends on whether you form custom internal imagery or audio that helps you be better at that thing. Maybe a way to think about it is that analytical thinking can do a lot, but it can't do what someone can do when they are visualizing with imagery, internally.

If anyone is into Yoga, or Yogachara, the way they put it is that internal formations (imagination or historic image/sound data/logging ala Parakalpita) represents one type of thinking (which everyone does not necessarily do) and analytical or "thinking mind" represents another type of thinking which everyone does, but may not be their primary mode.

From a few of my interviews about this topic:

- Old business acquaintance can visualize 2D seismic data in augmented reality 3D. He can literally see underground in his mind in front of him in his office.

- Musically inclined acquaintance (singer) can hear all the accompaniment music for performances in her mind.

- Guy who designed my kitchen can see my kitchen in his head.
I'm curious, why copy from Windows 10 instead of e.g. KDE (Plasma) which has so much more features and such a better UX overall?
This is my game plan. I freelance my rates have been edging up.. started at $30/hr now at $50. Hoping to get them to $90 by next year.

I'm in the same boat sort my game plan is:

1. Schedule bots to post on reddit in all the forhire subreddits w/ alternating message templates. This gets me new leads and sometimes people find me from stuff I posted a few months ago.

2. Write 2-3 blog posts per week on medium, w/ a blurb about who I am and how to hire me. These should be VERY technical and thorough. Some of these posts have made me a could hundred $$ just from media partner program so it's definitely not wasted time.

3. Write a book. This is something I'm wanting to do when I get the time, haven't yet. Something targeting your target market (for me that's just SaaS entrepreneurs, so I might do a book on building and scaling a SaaS business eventually.)

4. Keep your resume and public github active and maintained. The better your online presence the more likely you are to get hired.

5. Eventually word of mouth should be your #1 source of new gigs if freelancing, so build the warm market as you can.

I also feel stuck quite often, and I don't always meet my goals for self-marketing. But I have seen things grow a bit, and am hoping it continues. I think the key is just consistency.

Some other things be sure to post to all the HN who's hiring/looking-for-work/freelancer-seeking-freelancer.

If you want a remote gig there are plenty out there, and if you can land one with a big company like gitlab then name recognition could lift you up.

Also places like toptal can get you decent pay but I'm reluctant to go through their lengthy on-boarding so haven't tested them myself.
thanks I've been looking for something like this. once you understand the cmd-tab, cmd-` behaviour from macos, you realize microsoft made the wrong ui decision with their alt-tab.
One of the most erudite academics of the past century. It is truly a loss for those who have a respect and admiration for the great minds of the past.

If you’re a Bloom fan, or are interested in history and literature generally, I recommend looking into Lewis Lapham and his magazine, Lapham’s Quarterly. Lapham is also an exceptionally well-read, classically-trained writer and the magazine operates in the same areas as Bloom’s work.

https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/
And those 10000 URLs per hash are not equally likely. Chances are one or two of those URLs get visited and the other 9999 are so obscure they can almost certainly be ruled out. Sending a 32-but hash isn't that far off sending the URL.
The web is straight up wack today. It has gone from anti-authoritarian to authoritarian and a permanent record.
There are two solutions to this: Eating less for lunch is one, taking an afternoon nap is another.

I'm taking the latter one. I eat lunch at 1pm in normal days, and my sleepiness usually kicks in around 2pm. Then I take a 15-min power nap, and I become fully energized again.

The process I take a nap is 1) open up a terminal and press the enter, so the current time is shown in a prompt. 2) literally headdesk. 3) wake up and hit the enter again, then you'll know how long you've slept. You can even set up a small script to measure your sleep time.

It turned out that my nap time is almost constant between 15 to 20 mins. Technically I can argue that I'm splitting my lunch break into two parts and using it for different purposes (45 min for lunch and 15 min for nap), so I'm not that much slacking.
So no chocolate or coffee, then.
What Is the Reason Behind the Success of Uber for X Business Model?