skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Positives: The main thing I think these guys are doing really well is communicating through their images.

Lawyering (is that a word?) is a personal service, who you're working with matters, and first impressions matter. There are 8 large portraits of the key team on the main page, not hidden away. And I like that they aren't all sharing the same expression. At this point a customer will just be looking for anyone they can connect with, or relate to. We are constantly trying to simulate the future, "what will it be like to share my problems with these people?" And we tell ourselves a story, often based purely on how people look.

I've seen dozens of legal sites without a single human image, but no one wants to share their troubles with an unknown stranger. [That's the route to go even further down if you're competing. Would people want to share their troubles with you? And would they trust you to fight on their behalf. Empathy and Courage, two quite different traits.]

A single good image makes the future more predictable, and the lawyer less of a stranger.

The main hero shot is great. It's both formal and informal. These people are clearly here to work, and this is a prestigious location overlooking the city, but the scene is also reminiscent of a family gathering. This is a powerful family who could be on your side, and have your back.
Teaching about language in a university setting, we often talk about various forms of evidence for language-like communication among animals.

As I tell students, I would bet that within our lifetimes, as research continues and our instrumentation becomes better at detecting non-human communication means, we'll finally be able to detect and decode 'language' in a non-human animal which is sophisticated and rich enough as to be impossible to handwave away.

But what I keep to myself is that this kind of discovery, and the cross-species conversations it would prompt, has the potential to change the course of the dialogue on animal rights and what it means to be 'human'. But I suspect it will wind up being largely buried outside of certain academic and spiritual communities, mostly because I don't think parts of our society could handle learning the bovine words for 'slaughterhouse' or 'mourning'.
>who really knows if it is actually deleted and not available to the boss as a paid upgrade!

It's very much available, as someone who works in a highly regulated industry, it would be absurd from a compliance perspective to allow modifying past electronic communication.
I also have a big problem with the reasoning of the quoted argument, at least from a United States point of view.

Our poor do have modern conveniences, because that’s what the world does; it evolves with current technology. They have access to emergency healthcare, which will almost inevitably bankrupt them when they need treatment. “Generally safe food” is not good enough in what is supposed to be one of the top first world countries. Infrastructure? Sure. Depending on how poor you are you’ll have varying access to infrastructure.

This hasn’t happened out of concern for our poor. The poor are getting society’s leftovers.

I don’t particularly care if we’ve “thrown tons of money at schooling and healthcare and the like” when we spend exponentially more money on the US military. Teachers across our country are still underpaid, and our education system is still not taken seriously enough. The US is not in the top 10 most educated countries (K-12), despite being a top first world country. Admittedly, money wouldn’t fix all the problems with our education system, but it would make a big difference.

It sounds like this was written by someone with a limited frame of reference.
How isn't it?

> Opioids are substances that act on opioid receptors[1]

From your link[2]:

> The two main chemicals, mitragynine and 7-hydroxymitragynine, have strong activity at the main opioid receptor, the “mu” receptor, which is the same one stimulated by heroin and oxycodone.

It's not an opiate, which is just the subset of opioids derived from the opium poppy. But neither are many pharmaceutical opioids.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opioid

[2]: https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/kratom-fear-worthy-folia...
https://growth.design/case-studies/duolingo-user-retention/

Reading this sent a feeling of disgust down my gut. This is exactly the stuff HackerNews hates on Facebook and the like for doing and exactly what's killing my joy of technology / any love for the industry.
Is it worth buying a Macbook Pro 16", or is Intel going to react with far better CPUs in the forthcoming months, including for laptops?
The problem here is less the lack of experience but rather that many of these judges are routinely violating the law and the Constitution. We cannot have a functional legal system if judges do not follow the law.
One of the sportscasters jokingly calls for "an immediate $5000 fine" for floppers. And more recently, a $5000 fine if more than 1 player simultaneously does the finger-twirl gesture for instant replay. I would add, any player who yells "and 1" after every layup.

I hate to see players like Harden praised for "knowing how to get to the line". That shouldn't be a rewardable skill.

Edit: The NBA implemented a fine in 2013, but it is very rarely enforced.
Add Turbo Pascal, Borland C++ and Windows 3.x to that floppy salad.

The afternoons spent installing software and now they complain an app takes too long.

The first thing I did when I bought software back then was to create backup floppies and always install from the copies. Naturally it did not work with some copy protection schemes.
Is it only me, or does this remind you on a very early AngularJS.
> and even legally required to do so if they are to meet their obligations to maximize shareholder value.

This is a solid comment overall, but I really wish this particular widespread canard would die already. It's flatly untrue, the kind of myth that lives on because there are so many people who aren't capable of processing the benefits and costs of corporations and treat them as one-dimensional boogeymen out of a children's bedtime story.

(to be clear, that doesn't appear to be the case for you).
This conversation is a perfect illustration of the difference between a significant part of US culture and that of many other western nations.

As a Canadian, even after living in the US for over a decade, I find your comment baffling. For better or worse, the law is a complex subject both in jurisprudence and process. If judges can be significantly less knowledgeable than the attorneys that appear before them then how can the law be applied equally?

The US Constitution guarantees equal protection under the law yet how can that be realized if there are no minimum standards that apply to judges?

Two things that I cannot understand about the US: the election of judges and outright politicization of the mechanics of voting.
Ctrl-f for the involvement of "Goldman Sachs".
That is a piece of it. But the housing market lacks liquidity due to prop 13. When your tax basis doesn't reflect the value of your property and doesn't keep up with inflation it makes NO sense for you to move in response to market conditions.

Not building housing increases the value of what I already own, and the tax policy means I don't face the economic pressure to change any of it. The two are deeply linked and going to be nearly impossible to change.
Developers, You Should Stop Using Crontab for Your Scheduled Tasks
No, it does not mean that it seems unreasonable to the majority. Just that it isn't important enough to the majority to effectively influence policy. Laws do not perfectly mirror what the overall population thinks would be best.
I agree this is a useful tactic when presenting if everyone is clear when to use it. However, I’ve seen the downside of this where a person answers the question then everyone else “yes, ands” until the answer is muddled or the team looks unprepared.

I always go with the rule of thumb that unless the person who answered is so far off base that it materially changes the outcome it’s often better letting the answer go and moving on to the next.
Author here - yeah I hear you. I love the hypothesis interactions when they happen on my site but the UI is a little aggressive (especially on mobile). All about tradeoffs unfortunately.

FWIW I posted a little UX teardown of the different annotation platforms here if you're interested: https://tomcritchlow.com/2019/02/12/annotations/
Also makes it a pointless exercise to question it.
With emphasis on "highly"!

Time to fill the Pax 3 vaporizer with some fresh Jack Herer flower. A lot better than the awful joints we used to roll. Remember roach clips?
It really isn't. The "right" has been doing the exact same thing for ages. See the weaponization of anti-semitism allegations by the Republicans (against Ilhan Omar most recently) or Tories (against Corbyn and Labour in general).

It's not a new phenomenon. Before racial/ethnic issues came to the forefront, partisans used religion and other relevant ideologies.
I actually go the other way. One a typical day, I usually read all of the interesting stories on the front page of HN, then read all of the interesting content on my Reddit front page. On slow days where I have nothing better to do, if I manage to exhaust the first two I'll switch to r/popular to get a bit of a taste of what the internet at large is up to.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_Gathering

Not a "broad" movement, maybe, but an existence proof of a sustained "hippie" way of life.

Is this motivated by mere self-interest or something greater than that?

Is it possible to construct or discover a way of life wherein the interests of the individual and the group are in harmony?
Start by making a habit of just telling the truth, as gently as possible.
A middle of the road developer can make all of those things. You don’t need a 10x ninja in SF who demands 500k/year to do that. Highly doubt Schwab has really been competing on salary in SF for tech roles as is.
I don't think that's the case; Cutler's NT has VMS-esque foundations, not OS/2.
It's a pretty huge "if" and completely speculative theory.
Thanks for the comment. Very interesting points too! Indeed, we do go through a real-life use case, highlight the + and - and attach psy / UX / data insights along the way. Some companies actually reach out after the case studies to confirm the findings and hypothesis (some even confirmed winning variants or experiments in progress). It's an interesting exercise, although not meant to be an exact science as we don't have access to all the data those companies have. We have to rely on parallel research and deep-dive user interviews. Our goal is mainly to get people from different disciplines (engineering, design, marketing, sales, etc) to focus on what matters most but is often overlooked: the real-life experience of the customer. Cheers and thanks again for your comment BC!
I assume most downvoters (not having heard of the Navajo event) thought you were making an inappropriate joke referencing the Stephen King novel of the same name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Long_Walk
Correct, but this time we brought in a new City Manager to handle the code. He just came from Minneapolis, see what they've done: https://slate.com/business/2018/12/minneapolis-single-family...

We also voted in a city council that is majority pro-density/urbanist, and the new code timeline claims it should be voted in early next year: https://www.austintexas.gov/department/land-development-code...

We still have very loud neighborhood NIMBY groups. But the votes are what matters. I'm hopeful.

As for the grandparent, this doesn't mean suburban traffic will improve. I doubt it ever will, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induced_demand -- I recommend relocating to walkable/bikeable/busable parts of town, which are expanding (albeit slowly, because of pushback from drivers).
Can you help me understand how #1 becomes #2?
Author here - Yes I would definitely recommend reading Impro over reading my blog post.

The basic premise for this series is inspired by the book and I definitely borrow more directly and heavily for chapters 3 and 4 (which aren't quite ready to publish yet!).
This was one of the most contentious ballot initiatives for 2018. The text called headquarters "adminstrative offices" FWIW: https://ballotpedia.org/San_Francisco,_California,_Propositi...

This measure was pretty well known. It was one of the most controversial local measures in 2018 (even gaining substantial regional coverage: I'm in Oakland not SF and heard a lot about it).
what? both the DOM and the VDOM are client-side data structures, what are you even talking about
One very good reason for putting firmware/software on the BOM is to ensure that the correct version is used in production. Whenever we do a firmware release, part of our process is to update the BOM of whatever product it's for with the firmware revision number.
Dylanaraps/pash: A simple password manager using GPG written in Posix sh
Completely agree. If everyone is "yes, and"-ing then it's clear the team is unprepared -- this would never happen in a professional performance! Better to cut losses and not come back out until better rehearsed. Anyone experienced with performing or speaking can immediately tell when the speaker doesn't know their lines/story.
Now I want all these AMD CPU innovations to apply to Laptop processors too. Most computers sold nowadays are laptops.

I am writing this from a Ryzen 5 laptop that's not really faster than the i5 laptop it replaced. If any, it is a bit slower, even with double the cores.

The Radeon GPU on the other hand is way ahead of the previous integrated Intel GPU.
Yea, I think that is a reasonably fair point.

But depending on how you want to measure growth and define consulting, HP grew its services division in the last 15 years (so did Dell ~20years) or so and it went from nearly 0 to billions in revenue. They always had a little services revenue/work but not like they developed in the last 15 years or so. A lot of large consulting companies you never hear about because they stay private and aren't in the "tech" sector. IBM GS grew in the billions during the last 15 years, even as they laid off people, proving the work is there to support that value.

One thing to note, consulting does best when economies are doing poorly to moderate. When economies are booming and employment recovering consulting actually goes down, when employment levels off at "fully employed" then consulting starts to pick up a little during a boom period. It makes sense if you think about it: it is much cheaper to hire a consulting agency to work on a project or add a feature when the economy is down as hiring FTE's would increase the burden on the business permanently. Both of my consulting businesses grew the most when the economy was doing poor, dot com bust was one time and the housing & overall market crash the other. We grew massively during those times and never did as well when companies came back to feeling good about the economy and growing internally. I say this because the last 10 years has been a more or less booming economy so consulting isn't doing as well during that time period, although it is picking up now with employment numbers being so low. But if you go back into the downturns you'd see differently.

Also consulting is a big field right, if you remove the SV/tech only bubble and look at the economy as a whole tons of defense businesses are purely consulting in nature and grew from 0. And quite a few hit over a billion dollars in the past 15 years. So just depends where you look.

I think if you look at the number of new product companies that come out that do ok but never reach a billion in annual sales and compare that to consulting agencies you'd find a pretty similar trend with similar percentages.

One other point. A lot of tech is defense phobic right now for whatever their reasons are, but if you look at almost every major large consulting firm that is large they had a staple of defense and government work, both within the US and outside. Ignoring one of the largest employers because you feel principled in doing so is completely fine, but you only add to the complexity of growth at that point.
You are giving the CEO credit for everything positive that the company does. Shouldn't some of the credit go to the workers?

Not to mention, many companies are a net negative to society.
The first step to solving a problem is recognising there is one. Who knows, perhaps we will come up with something that's better than democracy one day. It's good to explore alternatives.
For the first woman, she can try to start a legal action against her former employer, force later to make a late payment for her social security. maybe about 50k-100k CNY for her 5 years. Or she can stay for another 5 years and continue to pay on her own to make sure she can retrieve the full benefits.

If she'd chose to close her account, I think she can retrieve about CNY 100-200k one time.

For the second one, House saving fund is a totally different thing. It is not mandatory nationally, for some employees they preferred to pay a minimum so they can negotiate for a higher wage in cash. It is very rare to see a migrate worker choose to pay housing saving funds instead of more cash.

Anyway normally you can try to get some help from government provided legal aid and local media in this situation, but the foreign medias and NGOs is a big no-no.
Author here: yes I have an email list here (infrequent) that I'll post a message to once chapters 3 and 4 are ready: https://tinyletter.com/tomcritchlow
Both Scott and Gordon died at arguably the peak of British global power. Such a power can afford to venerate losers.

In a previous time, when Britain's place in the world stage was not as assured, it could be less lenient to them:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Byng
It'd be easy enough to fix in the kernel. The challenge would be overcoming the chorus of "no". It's hard to add fixes even for clear and long-standing problems when you have to respond to "do we REALLY need this change?" with an overwhelming amount of evidence.
Toddler demands [twitter thread]
It binds to opioid receptors - it is an opioid.

I realise it's convenient for some kratom supporters to claim otherwise, but I am also a kratom supporter and believe this kind of obvious misinformation harms, rather than furthers the cause.
Out of your four claims, zero are true.
Re-read it. The author isn't describing CC-BY-NC-SA as meaningless. He's describing its use by Neues as legally meaningless because Neues doesn't have an enforceable copyright to the bust or scans of the bust.
There is no "if you like." It's your statement, justify it.
Who enjoys reading the front paywall of New York Times website: not me.
You probably didn't hear a few weeks ago that Visa will vastly expand it's SF headquarters. Since San Francisco is despised by conservatives we get this constant schadenfreude highlighting of any SF bad news by people who need their partisan views reinforced.
Redesigning Culture for Longer Lifespans
Thanks, I do agree with this.
Are there many places that have elected judges?

Why not require law degrees? It’s not like “elected” must mean “can’t require qualifications”?
I used the NordVPN CLI client version 3.4.0-1 from a Debian bullseye PC

EDIT: package from https://repo.nordvpn.com/deb/nordvpn/debian/pool/main/
But it does make it best.
I run a zero profit project. There are folks who are motivated by taking care of others. There are a lot of young people who draw meaning from that, especially in these times where the world has been messed up by greed
You don't need algebra. You know that 10 numbers are 2012, so on average 201, so the middle of the numbers needs to be around there. After that you just try a few sequences around 201 and you'll find it pretty quickly, most can add 11 numbers pretty fast in 6'th grade.

Forcing yourself to only rely on the solution strategies taught by school makes you very bad at problem solving.
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Very interesting, I didn't know that. On my macOS system, there are easily a dozen paths in /var that exceed 100 chars. For example becase they have a UUID in them.
Interesting! I don't really see that stage of the process as a software dev, but makes total sense that the production-stage BOM contains that.
I'm not sure it matters if whether James was there or not so long as the Baboon was capable of performing the tasks without instruction from James which multiple sources appear to imply.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_(baboon)

https://web.archive.org/web/20160125001616/http://www.earthf...
They're still in the system and can at a minimum be subpoenaed.

If they're available to your local Slack admin, I don't know.
> And in this case, requiring judges be lawyers clearly doesn't seem reasonable to the majority, or things would be different.

This assumes that the current state of the law is tacitly approved by the majority of people, which isn't true. For example, polls strongly suggest that a strong majority (>60%) of Americans support marijuana legalization [1], but federal legalization is nowhere to be seen. Polls suggest that an even stronger majority (>80%) of Americans support background checks on all firearm purchases [2], but federal legislation again seems far away.

[1] https://apnews.com/8eb58810be2642b3a2c81e9da247ff80

[2] https://www.politifact.com/wisconsin/statements/2017/oct/03/...
It must be for compliance. It's called "corporate export".

https://slack.com/help/articles/201658943-export-your-worksp...
It's good to see this perspective.
I have used eprinting services to bind APIs as a book before. It's nice - definitely worth the money if you plan on using something a lot.
Or you could record the original graph of commits during a rebase. When the actual content wasn't that important, you could choose to discard the old commit data but keep that metadata graph. (That way someone who builds on top of an old commit can use that graph to get the right merge logic.)

But then you would have reimplemented mercurial's obsolescence markers.