skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I got let go during a downsize at a small startup, and this was my first job after coding boot camp, I’d only been there 7 months. I had a good job offer within 5 weeks.

I made it my goal to have another job within a month (audacious but it kept me motivated), and while I didn’t quite make that, it was good enough. Since I hadn’t done anything wrong I didn’t have to defend myself during interviews, I just had to keep telling myself I wasn’t a failure, and in fact I was more valuable after working for 7-8 months than when they hired me, so I should be able to get an even better job, and I did.

The main thing was to fight off the sense I was a failure. And I learned from that experience to ALWAYS be looking for job opportunities so I can be prepared if something similar happens again.
FORTH syntax is even simpler than any lisp.
Yeah, the onboarding shows that, but there are a bunch of subwikis that are actually active. I have no idea why they show ones that are not active when you onboard, that decision makes no sense at all.
Only a CROSS join is a Cartesian product which is rarely used.
This right here is one of the reasons the self-hosting and open source world is growing so much as of late. You simply can't trust most large companies not to smash every egg you put into their basket.
I know startups that 'padded' their numbers by buying their own stuff. The justification was that people who sold their stuff through the app became regular users, so it's not so bad. Some justify it as a "marketing cost", still more effective than putting it on Facebook ads.

I don't think it's too bad, as long as they disclose it honestly, and not straight up fraud where they make up fake numbers and then selling those numbers to advertisers/investors.

But in the end, product market fit makes everything easy, so it could be a hint of much deeper problems.
>You need to find a reseller and there's a minimum amount of licenses you need to buy so you can't just buy one.

AFAIK you can get around that requirement by buying a bunch of cheap CALs.
Wow, I wonder how far away that is. I also hope they get enough money to make some strong market share with new products.
What is the difference between a small CD or a tiny CD? What is it in size, and what is it in features? (I happen to know the answer to that question, but random people getting on their site most likely don't.)

All the destinations from that page will lead you to images that do not work over wifi on nearly any laptop.

The actual links for the images are small, without weight, in a place that nobody looks for.

What from that soup of letters is your computer's architecture?
The article talks about superconducting cables, but these cryogenic cables are not superconducting. Seem like regular Kapton flex cables, either strip line or broadside coupled.

https://www.delft-circuits.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Da...

I suppose you could use superconducting ribbon, or sputter thin film superconductor onto a Kapton core.
Education has lots of money. If there's anything that's overfunded, it's probably education.
> $XLE for those that want to pick up cheap stocks.

A nuance is that you don't want to buy into these stocks while people are moving away from vice stocks.

However, once the trend is stabilised and there are no more marginal investors to adopt a vice-free portfolio, then you should buy all the vice stocks as they will have a more favourable discount rate.
I think emulators and competing CPUs are a more direct analogue.
No! Wow, didn’t know it had more capabilities. But I use keepassX as it’s easier to create shared databases.
Duplication is far cheaper than the wrong abstraction.

I do prefer to have lots of dumb files than having to deal with the cognitive load of a tool that in the end will generate lots of files anyways.
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-15-minimum-wage-was-su...
See "The Atomic Bomb Considered As Hungarian High School Science Fair Project" https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/05/26/the-atomic-bomb-consid... and "Hungarian Education II: Four Nobel Truths" https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/05/29/four-nobel-truths/ by Scott Alexander.
I currently use a ThinkPad, which came pre-installed with Windows. I wiped out windows and installed Linux. Then there are some Dell XPS laptops that comes with Linux installed.
That's just one more thing to carry. If you have the option of just using your phone, what are you going to pick?
While there is certainly something to be said for simplicity in a language, I think Go is too extreme in this regard. What it gains in simplicity it looses in expressiveness. This leads to more lines of code per feature, and bugs in software has been shown to be a function of LoCs [1,2,3].

One example of Go's lack of expressiveness is that loops are not abstracted away, e.g. you can't use higher level constructs like map and filter on collections. There are other languages that IMO strikes a better balance between simplicity and expressiveness, like Python and Elixir.

1. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/1702967

2. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-4471-3003-1_...

3. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0735619670/ (Chapter "Developer Testing")
> Apart from function calls, you can tell exactly what it does without looking up anything else, like a macro definition for example.

It sounds like you’re splitting hairs here. In my experience, macros aren’t any more mysterious than functions. The only difference, after all, is when they’re evaluated.
It doesn't scale well though. I have my font size set to maximum, and the Bitwarden app is pretty much unusable. So I use 1Password.
A power database for genetic geneology could be developed just with the DNA of police officers. The government should be providing incentivizes to people who make their DNA information open for genetic genealogy searches rather than resorting to warrants on information people didn't agree to it.
There's quite a few folks who deserve the title "daredevil of niagra falls."

https://www.niagarafallslive.com/daredevils_of_niagara_falls...

Curiously, Blondin went before everybody mentioned in that link; and OP doesn't mention the others.
Ask HN: Recommended SaaS Products for Startups/Freelancers
Hi HN,
Is there a website of suggested SaaS products and services for bootstrapped startups and freelancers? I believe a fellow HNer created such a site, but I can't seem to find it.
Thanks!
I’ve always been curious about his drinking. Maybe the impression I have of him is misleading and he only drank at weekends or something. Not to compare my pathetic studies to him, but personally I’ve had to almost give up alcohol entirely to study math. I suppose I could also be getting old :)
> There's also opportunity cost. What could this team have done if they were working on something more... disruptive? The execution here is incredible, applying that to a new problem would have probably also done very well.

My latest working hypothesis after 28 years of starting companies is that there is "no startup free lunch" and the size and likelihood of return are inversely correlated.

We see so much startup p0rn. I remember in my early 20's seeing a founder in a business magazine and thinking "I'm smarter and harder working, so I'm gonna be a multi-millionaire by 25". I have a number of friends who have built unicorns. I have a number of equally talented friends working equally hard with (to me) equally plausible ideas who have struck out - often multiple times.

Right now I've got a small business - $500k run rate, built it part time, no staff. My goal is to get it to a $2-$5M run rate and take some cash out each year to fund early retirement in a decade. It's not sexy, but I believe the likelihood of me being able to achieve that is higher than the likelihood of being able to successfully create, exit and profit from a unicorn. And at 49 I have only so many hits at bat left given that most of them seem to take 5-10 years.
What's the performance difference between 32 and 64 bit?
I don't think that's "begging the question". Google's corporate counsel determined current law allows for clean room reimplementation, so that's what they did. This was subsequently challenged, and that's where we are now. This isn't a case of Natural Law where the decision is commonsensical -- it's up to the courts to make an evaluation based on other established caselaw (in this case copyright), and there's certainly room for interpretation.
Hello World
Just saying hello ️
It's gotta warm up the cache. Glad it's working well now!
Love that the front page shows me how much storage some hypothetical user needs yet I’m logged into google (can see my icon at top) and it doesn’t show how much storage I need.

Complete design fail.
Parabola, based on Arch, has one: https://wiki.parabola.nu/Parabola_Social_Contract
Is there something like x32 for ARM?
It's amazing that we're still discovering stuff like this with large objects in our own solar system. It's humbling and makes me realize how much we still don't know.
Not really. The barrier to entry in Linux distributions is pretty low. Everything that Red Hat does is open source so can be forked.
That wouldn't work. If you are already a suspect, the police will retest you, not rely on what's on the database.

What you actually want to do is send your own DNA in someone else's name - preferably someone who is demographically similar to you, but who has essentially no connection to you (better still, someone who is dead)

If none of your relatives use the service then this might work.
>Because they know that it'll be incredibly popular and will force them to continue backporting updates.

I don't get it. How does popularity have anything to do with how much effort is needed to backport updates? Those editions already exist, so they're already committed to supplying updates. Might as well make some extra money by selling it for $300+ retail.
https://jacobgil.github.io/deeplearning/class-activation-map...

Not sure how that would work with a segmentation algorithm like Unet though. It makes more sense in showing where in an image that the network was activated to give the image a label. AFAIK Unet gives ever pixel a label so I don't see how you could do what the parent describes.
xrandr --output HDMI-1 --scale 0.75x0.75 --mode 4096x2160

Play with the scale numbers and the resolution until you get the desired effect. Can't give a full tutorial here but "xrandr hdpi" should yield helpful search results.

I'm not denying it's a pain and Windows/MacOS are miles ahead, but this is how you can get by on Linux with X. I use it daily for work and media, on a variety of monitors.
> actively courted assertive people with opinions

Is that something that companies do on purpose? Because such an environment sounds like absolute hell.

I want to spend my time dealing with technical problems not arguing with people's egos.
Not sure why you’d put ad company in quotes.
Flask user here.

Is the point of Kore to simplify doing services, as opposed to browser work?
The other crucial difference is how their arguments (and result) are evaluated.
> The only valid part if the article is that it's hard to believe that anyone really wants a voice assistant.

I think voice assistance shines on mobile devices because of clumsy UI.

Here's an elaborate example: When I finish a dentist appointment I negotiate a follow up with the receptionist after paying my bill. I can then dictate to siri to schedule the next appointment rather than clumsily typing it all in.

A more obvious example: hands-free operation when operating a vehicle, e.g. "Siri read me the last message I received (from Alice)".

Unless you're completely inept with your computer there's really no reason to use the voice interface. I think we already learned this lesson otherwise Dragon Dictate would've taken off decades ago.
We already have a term for that: “low level”.

I assume that people are trying to attach it to the term “simple” because that word has a much more positive connotation, but the meaning isn’t the same.
No wonder, since the man behind Typescript, Anders Hejlsberg, is also the man behind C#. The goal seems to be to include as much as possible and constantly evolve the language. Some people appreciate that, others not so much.
OPs app appears to be for physical, in person transactions. Pornhubs problem was online transactions.
>The reason, cos Google don't employ any decent usability experts. //

They must, surely?

It seems more likely to be the "one-button mouse effect" where leadership dictates something like "minimal interface" to be king and refuses to believe anyone could possible not understand their product?
From what I can tell it's:

* extra storage (google drive + google photos + gmail).

* phone photos and contacts backed up (there's a Google One app)

* "access to experts"

* discount on google purchases in "Google Store" - so for Pixels and DayDreams? Does Stadia count?

* discount when booking hotels through google.

Super weird mix of features. The meat of the offering seems to be more storage.
AMD invented 64-bit extensions back when Microsoft was busy trying to differentiate between their "big metal" Itanium chips and consumer processors. Turns out everyone wanted more memory and didn't want to have to rewrite all of their apps to get it.

Intel then had to license it, but because it's Intel they refused to call it AMD64. So the industry as a whole just started saying x86-64 to mean both AMD64 and Intel 64 so that the general consumer wouldn't think that insert app wasn't compatible with both.
Seriously, keeping esc but dropping the function keys for something you can dynamically change is super cool. Those keys were always mapped to app specific functions anyway so now apps have a lot more freedom to do clever things like sliders, color pallets, switching out buttons on context.

This was all true before but now it’s not the annoying thing that gets in the way when using Vim.
> this does not increase that probability very much

That depends[1] strongly on what question you are asking. Matching an unknown sample against a small number of suspects is a very different question than searching a database with millions (or billions) of records. The latter is almost guaranteed[2] to return false positives.

> it massively improves the odds of finding criminals

That's a strong claim that requires equally strong evidence.

[1] https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/09/dna_matching_... ( http://archive.li/M0SeV )

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_problem
> What it gains in simplicity it looses in expressiveness. This leads to more lines of code per feature, and bugs in software has been shown to be a function of LoCs

If the lack of expressiveness equals to greater amount of code and thus more bugs (in Go), does the same apply for languages that are more verbose (say, Java)? And if language is more expressive and less verbose (say, Python or Javascript maybe?), does it mean less bugs?
> It's ridiculous to think that clicking a sell button on some assets will fix global warming, that's not how the world works.

It's ridiculous to think that reduced demand for some stock will not reduce its price.

More concretely, the more banks and people make gestures like this, the easier it is for politicians to reduce subsidies / increase taxes for fossil fuels, which will definitely reduce the amount of oil burned.
Canonical is already moving to a Microsoft-style update model for some of its software. https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/disabling-automatic-refresh-for...
Juul vape products should be removed from the market, says ex-FDA chief Gottlieb
Was the data collected manually? As far as I can tell the author went to 30 sites and created hundreds of data files per site. The effort is impressive
But it missed Despacito
You should re-read some of the answers above.

First off, it doesn't allow homeschooling to do anything different than it already does.

Second, you cannot penalize nor reward a student for the religious content in the answer only the academic content.

Third, accreditation is an optional standard for accepting Government funding for Universities and Colleges and doesn't apply to elementary and secondary schools (other than charter/private schools), each state's board of education sets the terms for a schools status and that's why they can also require laws like this.

>after all you can't penalize someone if they legitimately believe that the Earth was made by Xenu.

Correct, you cannot penalize them for believing that, but, you can penalize them if they don't put the correct academic or scientific answer on a test. If they put both answers, you must ignore the religious content.

>You're not reading this correctly through religious lenses.

Correct, this isn't religious texts. It's a law, and in the US court systems there are standards in how we interpret legal language.

>If this were as innocent as you say then there would be no reason to create it as that's the status quo.

That's nonsense. There are multiple types of laws. there are those that prosecute for a violation of them, those that protect from a violation of them and those that enshrine your rights. This is the latter.

Right now, there is nothing on the books to say that a young Muslim student in rural Ohio who wrote a paper on morality but mentioned Allah, could not in turn be marked wrong by their Christian teacher even if they met all the parameters of the assignment. Such a case is absolutely worth defending.

>You're not reading this correctly through religious lenses. It also does nothing to protect atheists unless there's some other part of the bill that covers it as atheism isn't a religion.

Thank you for noting that you read the clickbait article and not the actual law. The entire law substantially includes rights for students to take time to pray, meditate, reflect on morality, or things of a philosophical or patriotic value to them, and gives them the right to opt-out of any such activities in the classroom that do not reflect their beliefs, their parents beliefs or the lack thereof.

For something that is trying to be painted as an archaic pro-christian only law, this law is remarkably balanced and takes into considerations other religions, other systems of belief and the lack of any belief and enshrines them all quite equally.

This law is not perfect, but, from reading the text I cannot fault the intention of it the way that so many have.

Will it be misused and need to be challenged in courts? Absolutely. Most young laws do need to evolve through that process of refinement and clarity.

But, I don't see anything here that merits being demonized.
Forking Red Hat doesn't get you ANYWHERE close to having a replacment. What Red Hat got right was all the enterprise support contracts they were able to negotiate. You want to buy adapter X? Well if you have an issue with it, you need to reproduce it on Red Hat because the guys at Company X can work with the guys at Red Hat on a bugfix. Company X isn't really interested in having their highly paid developers sitting on mailing lists trying to negotiate a patch for the issue.

The source code is the easy part.
It is nice and all, but these two moons are pretty small, just 30 and 40 km radius. For comparison our moon has a radius of 1700 km.
Like the others, see a pro. Until then, get outside! Focus on things far away. Tops of trees, mountain sides, etc.
I like these analogies a lot. I regularly have to explain to my clients the difference between the backup system, the disaster recovery system, and the file server replication system. None of them is the same as any other, and each component has different levels of redundancy going down the stack (RAID, HA for the virtual machine, shared storage between hosts, etc) and it's no easy task to explain that yes, while component X is redundant, it does not meet the definition of "highly available" or "backed up." So I appreciate any explanation like this article that attempts to simplify and illustrate any of these definitions.
Out of curiosity, why wouldn’t that be a taxable perk? (Not that I think tax codes make any sense)
Let me guess: doesn't work with google apps accounts, because google really wants people to stop using them but isn't dumb enough to straight pull the plug quite yet.
What a Year at a Mechanic Shop Taught Me About Process (2016)
On the same boat! Recently got fired from my SEO-lead growth position at a CBD startup based in Canada because of their own financial management problems. Seeing all the opportunities that they missed, and mistakes they made along the way has only pushed me to work more on my projects. I guess you not only learn from your own mistakes but also from just seeing other people fuck up! Truly inspirational to hear that you had a similar experience and that medium article looks great.

Thanks for sharing and goodluck.
I’ve been working in a Node codebase for a bit, and I am really missing Go’s built-in profiler and benchmarking support. It’s pretty well integrated into the default tooling, and easy to use.
https://one.google.com/storage
Yea it’s hard not to take it personal even when you’re let go due to “downsizing”. I totally agree with always looking for new job opportunities. It helps you be prepared for unexpected layoffs but also it’s way more relaxed applying for jobs when you don’t NEED one right away. It’s no fun trying to negotiate a new job when you’re desperate. Happy to hear things worked out for you in the end.
It's the same for the internet in general, which has been turned into TV, and whose main purpose is to serve ads.
The OPs claim that it has been shown that bugs are a function of LoCs is unsubstantiated at best.

The number of bugs in a program correlates with the number of LoCs, but that's about it (correlation does not imply causation).

The claim is also quite absurd, since, for example, you can pre-process any C or C++ program ever written into a single line of code, yet this operation doesn't reduce the number of bugs in these programs, therefore the amount of bugs is not "just" a function of the amount of LoC.

Languages with better abstraction capabilities than Go (e.g. Rust or Python), might require programmers to type less, but the resulting lines of code are often dense. For example, I'm quite comfortable with Rust iterators and Python lists comprehensions, but it still takes me much longer to parse what code using these abstraction does, than code that just uses a simple for loop. It definitely feels great to cram a 10 LoC loop into a 1 LoC list comprehension in python, but reading that code 6 months later never felt that great, even for code that I've written myself. I just need to stop at those lines for much longer.
To add, here's a nice article on implementing map from scratch: https://blog.burntsushi.net/type-parametric-functions-golang...

It illustrates what you have to pay to get this kind of functionality for arbitrary slices.

I wonder how this would change with generics.
The three body problem is so fun!
Is this some kind of mathematical thing based on how orbits work, or is it more like natural selection, in that any moons that don't avoid each other just aren't there anymore.
Everyone could just use Arch Linux, who needs these archaic distros anymore. Trivial to make Arch "stable," also, without living on two year old updates and releases, like Debian and Ubuntu both does. Choose Arch, choose life. Arch is the only distribution. <3
No, everyone has the rights. The point isn't that only citizens do, the point is that only citizens get to say how their government functions. If you're a citizen of another country, you get to say how THAT country is governed, but not mine.
>Unless you're completely inept with your computer there's really no reason to use the voice interface. I think we already learned this lesson otherwise Dragon Dictate would've taken off decades ago.

I must be completely inept because I find saying "Hey Cortana, remind me to abc at xyz" right when something occurs to me a lot more convenient than opening my web-based calender and going through the rigmarole of setting up a reminder.