skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is very cool, I've owned a few bikes (all Japanese) with years from 1991 to 2013. It has been fascinating to compare how carbs evolved through CDI to ECUs, and how bikes are designed to be somewhat maintainable while being more complex than ever. I don't think I'll dare get into the gearbox any time soon though, the tolerances on everything now are just crazy.
It's pretty high. We could make it lower by helping people learn English but tools to program in their existing language so they don't have to learn English first make sense too.
The success of phones and tablets appears to have made the desktop world afraid they were obsolete, so the trend since Snow Leopard and Windows 7 has been to make the desktop more like a phone or tablet. Windows 8 clearly went too far and provoked a revolt, so Microsoft improved things with Windows 10, but I think the Windows 7 UI is still better than Windows 10 in many ways.
Does anyone know why mail-in paper ballots are not the norm in the US?

Since I've been of voting age, that's all I've used and its great. I can take my time, read about the measures and the candidates, then make my decision and throw it in the mail. Even if I wait until election day, I'm able to go drop it off at one of the many drop off points across the city.

I'd be far less likely to do it if I had to take time to go to a polling location, wait in line, then figure out what I'm voting for.
Sorry, what is complete disinformation? I suppose I was wrong to say it isn’t possible to update to Safari 13 without updating the OS as people say they have done it. But I genuinely don’t have the option, after checking everywhere I’ve been instructed to.
I highly recommend reading Venture Deals by Brad Feld - this book alone lays out perfectly how minuscule are your chances of getting rich, working for a startup.

The areas to lose money are: liquidation preferences, insuficient voting rights, dilution, different stock classes, general benefits to investor's equity compared to staff equity, investor drag-along, 409A valuation, options expiration or company staying private forever.
They knew the effects of globalization. It's going exactly as intended, exactly the effects I learned about during my econ studies, they just didn't think there'd be as much political blowback. It's easier for them to claim ignorance than to admit they willfully deceived the public.
Basically if you are working at startup value your options at 0 and you will be right 99% of the time.
> If there are ways to customize it now, I'm not smart enough to do it anymore.

Right click, customize the ribbon. You can set it up however you want.

Or just set it to show only tabs and treat it like a fancy menu bar.

Or hide it completely and just use the command search feature Office apps have in them now. It is like a command line with amazing auto-complete. Alt-q to jump to search.
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blockchain is the obvious solution there
The current US unemployment rate is 3.5% which is near all time historical lows.

Virtually no one is unemployed in the US because of the combination of international trade and minimum wage laws.
The Council on Foreign Relations (publisher of Foreign Policy) sure is quick to point the finger at economists.
holy frick

who cares
Good plan, I think it's a solid idea.
appwiz.cpl ;)
I'm really enjoying this memo collection. One suggestion for future memos you might add: it would be great if each document had a date.
If by Kde you mean plasma, I found plasma is too modular: every part of every window is it’s own window that can be opened independently, making search and navigation very strange.

I like manjaros package management GUI, file manager (for the tree view), and generally good defaults for things (drop down terminal without needing to install guake)

Plasma definitely looks nicer and has better animations.
This is how it always was. They always have secret keyboard shortcuts that don't have a menu option. Still, to this day, it's hard to even find your hard drive folder by default in Finder. Apple's UX is incredible if all you need to do is look at photos.
It depends on what you're asking. Apple, Google etc. know that their employees probably prefer Austin so that's why they're there. A lot of software firms servicing Energy companies are based in Austin since its so close anyways e.g. https://mineralsoft.com/.
There aren't even any scrollbars on Hacker News. There are no scrollbars anywhere.

Firefox may be to blame, but Ubuntu gets final responsibility. Firefox in Ubuntu 18 simply doesn't do scroll bars. In case it is an unexpected culprit, I switched to XFCE and then uninstalled a bunch of Unity stuff, but that shouldn't break Firefox.

Fix?
"Only if those 40 year olds believe they're entitled to higher pay just because they're older. The number of available jobs in a given career hierarchy shrinks pretty quickly as you ascend, which means that most people won't rise very far. Start at the bottom rung, stay at the bottom rung for the rest of their life."

So your solution is to delegate a 40 year old replaced by trade policies to the bottom of the economic rung. This is the exact situation that the article is saying is a problem. Don't think you read the article.

My point was that we should tilt economic policies so that this situation does not occur. And make no mistakes, this situation is avoidable, and caused by the destruction of that 40 year old's career.
Surely tight loops in performance-sensitive code, are precisely where you'd consider disabling runtime checks, no?

You can still have them enabled for debugging, at least. (Something not generally possible in C/C++, sadly.)
I was part of this program during my tenure at Microsoft (the earlier HiPo one mentioned already). I can confirm that it was a tremendous networking opportunity, but -- anecdotally -- almost 100% of the people I connected with, including myself, are no longer at Microsoft.
It was sold as "rising tide lifts all boats" (implication: boat = person, and "all" = "nearly all, at least") and "everyone benefits under free trade, trade barriers always make people worse off, it's just a fact, what don't you even know Ricardo?"

Never mind that "all boats" was, in the best case, "all GDPs", not individual incomes, and "everyone" was... well, the average of all GDPs, actually, so also not actually every individual, and still with a pile of caveats for even that to be true. In point of fact nothing about all this said that even most people would benefit, if you either 1) applied common sense, or 2) actually looked at their sources.

source: figured out the common sense reasons this was BS when I was in like 4th or 5th grade watching the China-MFN debate & vote on CSPAN (god I was a nerd); later did the reading and learned that yes, my elementary school intuition mapped closer to reality than the crap they sold us.
> The nationalist argument that workers in the us are better or more deserving of that high standard of living and those opportunities doesn't really stand up to much scrutiny here.

This might be too simplistic of a take on it. If you don't consider your own interests first then your good will can be exploited. If the whole world embraced free trade then you might have a point, but as it stands countries such as China are not playing fair. I'd also have to question wherever the moral good of Chinese workers being lifted out of poverty is worth the growth of China as a global superpower. If we're embracing free trade for charitable reasons don't you think we need to be sure our money isn't ending up in the hands of governments like the CPC?

I also think that even if you were right from a morally objective point of view you're employing a kind of "for the greater good" reasoning here that many would find objectionable.
I think employing someone has about a 50% overhead, so it's really $30.
I miss the escape key.

I also like that volume and brightness are both sliders—I find the gesture of tapping the volume on the Touch Bar and dragging my finger up or down in the direction I want better than pressing a button a bunch of times until I’m at my desired volume. There are other things I like about it (and others I don’t).

I think it’s ok to like aspects of the Touch Bar and dislike others—it is possible to iterate to something better by being specific in one’s critique about what is good and what isn’t rather than just tossing the whole thing out (which is personally what I’d like to see...and maybe I’m in the vocal minority here).
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Having multiple languages in your accept headers will make you totally unique.
Especially when combined with even just your user agent.
Getting in a car and driving a couple of miles through stop signs, traffic lights, winding suburban boulevards, and cul-de-sacs is more convenient than a five minute walk to the store? Or, if you're really in a rural area, getting in the car and driving for 30 minutes to get to the nearest small grocery store, as opposed to a five minute walk?

That is a statement I do not understand at all.

(I've lived in suburbia, and rural America too, both in rich rural American and poor rural America. All of them are horrible for day-to-day living compared to anywhere I've ever lived in a city.)
Who defines what is "misinformation"? This is always my problem, these actors cannot be trusted to determine what is true and what isn't. It's putting history and current events in the hands of already extremely untrustworthy companies that are constantly wrong and have extremely heavy biases.

Would something like the Washington Post's 2003 "Irrefutable" [1] article jeopardize the Washington Post's ability to post news on Facebook?

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/2003/02/06/i...
The 451 is probably GDPR-related.
> the response was "it all depends on your state management caching behavior". I think that highlights just how beginner unfriendly some of this stuff has become.

What's the alternative? In Angular, the whole problem would've been solved with their template engine + built-in forms module. But Angular has a huge API surface.

With React, you have your template engine. Form state can be managed with a third-party library, like final form. It's no broader of an API Surface than Angular would be.

So the question is, when were these things ever "beginner friendly"? Were forms easier 5, 10 years ago than they are to implement today?
Matt Pharr wrote a series of posts telling the story of ispc: https://pharr.org/matt/blog/2018/04/18/ispc-origins.html

I found them extremely interesting - highly recommended.
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The tips app is one attempt at feature discovery like this.

The problem is that modern UI's can do so much that some has to be hidden so the common use cases can be easier, but users never go into the tips app or online help books to find out what was hidden. Pushing notifications spams users who don't want to look there, so we instead have our current situation /shrug ️

Source: used to work on the iOS tips app and help.apple.com/$productname help books at apple.
This is what excites me the most about machine learning: the ability for software to adapt and learn at runtime. I've been disappointed that ML is almost exclusively talked about as something that is trained by the developer and then deployed as a static artifact to users.
This is spot on and one of the reasons why I think that running countries on a timescale of four year election cycles will not work in the very long term. It almost guarantees short sighted policies especially if there are no term limits or multiple runs for the incumbents. This is a very hard problem to solve, we've settled on democracy as the least of a bunch of bad solutions but we have yet to find something better and this more or less is baked into the system.

Free trade did the world a lot of good. At the same time it caused a lot of problems, mostly offset by the good but not all of it. It's a bit like controlling a model airplane before the days of proportional control. You get to 'yank the lever' every so often and you always end up overcorrecting. And that's before we get into even more complex issues such as corruption (which is part and parcel of every political system in one form or another) and simply dealing with human nature.
My experience is that the email provider's customers have very little say in the matter. I deal with complaints from Customers who use Office 365 and Gmail about false positives regularly. They aren't MIT-profile Customers, so their complaints are ignored. The complaint usually turns into "Why can't this sender just use Google or Microsoft for their email like 'everybody' else?"
> Github took a $50M Series A on a valuation of $500M; VCs owned 10% of the company, and the 3 founders + employees split the remaining 90% of its $7.5B acquisition.

They raised another $250M in 2015. Still a lot less funding than they ultimately sold for, but the common pool certainly wasn't 90% of the value at their exit.
This is just an Ubuntu-ism. Linux doesn't require a reboot for anything other than kernel updates (and dbus in special cases).

On a side note it's a bad idea to run Ubuntu on a server in prod. Ubuntu is great for desktop and pretty trash for everything else. You'd be better off just running Debian, it's a lot more stable.
What do you think is going to change about your web browser's fingerprint by using a DNS filter list?
That’s what I thought. The OP was hoping to receive 1mm for 4 years of work. VP role will give that easy in any sizable company.
Because that is how investing and capitalism works.

The man who has the capital, wins. Always.
Don Valentine has died
In that alternate history, I don't think that the subsistence farmers would be middle class.

That doesn't mean that I think the US was in the right. I don't. But it does not follow that all the problems in Guatemala are our fault.
I have a quote that I personally heard in a meeting at the time I was a contractor at GE:

The green check marks mean nothing!

The quote itself maybe isn't too descriptive, so here's some background:
Our team's work was dependent on another team's progress, and so they maintained a progress indicator to know what parts they finished working on. Our team didn't progress very fast, because we encountered a lot of little problems in the parts that were marked 'done' by the other team, and our manager kept nagging us about missing deadlines.
After we explained the situation enough times to our managers, they called a meeting with the other team's managers. After 15 minutes of manager-talk, the other team's leader finally said the above quote that would end the meeting almost immediately.
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Windows 7 with its constant mandatory automatic updates did it for me... Windows, never again, and I switched happily to Ubuntu.
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funny as I'm reading this I'm installing a bunch of dev apps using chocolatey. "choco install visualstudiocode -y" and it's done. I'm kind of surprised MS doesn't have an official way to do this, but it's better than MSDN dev downloads was back in the day. Or (shudder) the big binder of MSDN CDs.
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A few years ago, after following the same path as you, I switched to Linux and never looked back.

I'd recommend KDE (e.g. Kubuntu) if you like out-of-the-box productivity, with built-in settings for pretty much everything useful, and a strong ecosystem of default apps.
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All the companies you're talking about have 1 thing in common: they're considered successes. You're going back in time and cherry picking companies that made it out alive. The early 00s/late 90s were full of companies that took Google levels of money that crashed and burned. There were also tons of companies that took little-to-no outside funding that crashed and burned.
There are from where I'm sitting. I guess install Windows 10?
There’s a good explanation/discussion on this in “The Disappearing Spoon.” It’s a fun read, on the history of the elements in the periodic table.
Other devs. I do full stack. I don't have any training data, it was just an idea. Could probably develop it off of the metrics from my recovery.
I use a rMBP 2016 with one additional monitor over Thunderbolt to HDMI. I constantly have the same issue as OP.

Shouldn't you, though? Display arrangement lets you relocate the menu bar—imo that's as good a signal as any about which monitor should be the default.
Say the ones driving pickup trucks.
Regarding browsers, a reasonable complaint is that even if you want to, and have the skills it is far too difficult to modify a browser or use its parts to build something else. This might be fixed by better design, as somebody noted in this recent HN comment [1]:

"... (browsers) are multiple different kinds of programs, welded together for no sensible reason: an http fetching daemon, a "runner" to open URLs, several document viewers, a virtual machine, an OS with an API, extensive libraries for everything that the OS below the OS already offered, one or several programming language JIT compiler(s) and runtime(s), and some bits and pieces. In a healthy environment, there would not be a second OS on top of the normal one. And all those parts would be separate software, with standardized interfaces. ..."

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21061067
From the second paragraph "Solving the odor prediction problem would aid in discovering new synthetic odorants,". Reading between the lines - a cheaper way to produce more realistic industrial aromatics cheaper.
Do you also avoid any product manufactured in China, which runs child sweatshops and concentration camps for people? Or did you type the above message on a Mac?
A few comments here saying this is creepy af. If you think that, fine, don’t join. I think this is one of the most genius things I’ve ever come across, I love it, love the community and am so much more productive since I found it.
The Kindle is fine, but could’ve been much more
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Thank you for explaining that. You are exactly right.

I really should have spelled it Quality, to show that I meant the philosophy of Quality rather than its more mundane interpretation.

At the same time, in an interview with Pirsig that I read somewhere, IIRC he did rather archly claim something to the effect that the book had better be high quality, considering its subject matter.

I tried to find that interview, but could only come up with this piece [1].

[1]: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2006/nov/19/fiction
I would find it odd not to receive a receipt. A receipt email should not be classified as spam. Anything else I would say would be spam.
Thanks for pointing that out, I missed it. It's refreshing to hear from someone who seems to know what they're talking about; I've looked at the WCAG document itself and haven't found a lot of justification for their recommendations.
> > Just drag/drop a PDF to a printer spool window, and it will print;

> this is just the most obtuse way of doing things.

Perhaps that was a bad example of the incredible leg-up Mac OS X had over Windows around printing... all-around, printing was so much more straightforward on the Mac.

To extend the example: (a) printing to PDF has always worked - no need to install a 3rd party "PDF printer"; (b) PDFs and print spool jobs are indistinguishable, hence "drag a PDF to a print spool" works fine. (c) Accidentally printed to the wrong printer? Easy to fix - just open the intended printer and drag the job from the wrong one over.
I work on a desktop. Often a 40" display, in fullscreen. The thin scrollbar is really painfull to use.
It's not odd at all.

If you start a company and you turn $200 million of investment into an exit of $100 million dollars you haven't done anything valuable. Why would you expect your stock to be worth anything?
Last I checked, AMD implemented the cuda apis as "hip."
Remembering Don Valentine
I wonder what the longest known streak of identical digits is in pi. Also, does the sequence 0123456789 happen any in location of the known digits of pi?
It may be sensible for the founders and investors, but is it sensible for the employees? Many startup employees are paid to a significant extent in stock and do not understand the situation they end up in. They are also powerless and just have to trust that the founders and investors will treat them well.

Rationally, this leads to many of the best people ignoring the startup world
Wow, only 6 milliwatts from that massive thing? And it has wings, it's meant to fly?
> It is thought to be impossible to do continuous movement in any direction, if having to take place on a discrete lattice..ie a chess board..a pixel universe. The most famous example is Conway’s Game Of Life.

Followed by an animation of Conway's Game of Life, which launches gliders, which proceed to continuously to the bottom right until they exit the scene. If the scene were bigger, the gliders would move until they exited that scene, too, because they move forever in the same direction. So... that didn't prove the point very well, did it?

[Edit: Or was the point that you can't do continuous on a discrete lattice; that is, you can't move 0.1 pixel? Well, yeah, that's kind of trivially true, and also not very interesting.]

> Is this the connection between Digital Physics, Quantum Mechanics and Relativity that we have been seeking?

No.
If anyone reading this is working at a startup and values their options at zero please get in contact with me (contact info in my profile) and we'll find a way for you to sell me your equity for $1.
The lied detector was invented by the creator of the Wonder Woman comic after he noticed his wife's blood pressure rose when she was angry. It gained widespread adoption after he made commercials for Gillette to "prove" that their razors were superior to the competition. It's wacky comic book technology that doesn't work. It only appears to work because it tricks people into confessing to crimes.

Why stop at the lie detector? Why not have a block of kryptonite at every airport to protect them from attacks by Zod? Why not give every cop a batarang? It's insane that we still allow our governments to spend our tax dollars on this.
This is why I've been saying for years that stock grants/options/RSUs are like playing the lotto, and salary/benefits are more important. Particularly when dealing with privately held firms where you have no ability to sell on the open market.

They're also a tool to keep people in roles they no longer want, because of a promise of a great payoff someday.
Many sites just don't bother to assign focus to the main content region. (I don't think they even realize they're doing it wrong.) Page up/down work if you first mouse-click there, assuming you can find a place to do that without the page hijacking it.