skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you get paid enough to work part time by choice, then you get paid enough to work full time for only part of the regular working lifespan.
I don't think it's got the ability on it's own to do that, but I can imagine you could do it with strace and some other scripting.
Companies game Glassdoor feedback all the time.
50 negative reviews will get quickly drowned out when HR offers rewards to employees for filling out a Glassdoor review.
"Just decriminalized" means there is no confidence or way to assume that the sex workers are routinely tested. Pass.

As a sidenote, this reminds me of another reason why criminalization is a waste of time as it only ensnares the poor or impatient, while an even distribution of the more privileged ones of us engage in the exact same behaviors but where it is legal, remaining upstanding citizens by every metric.
Of course. Good point.
D practionners aren't really on internet forums, let alone internet forums with a bias for whatever is new and status-enhancing (HN). Because the presumed attacks on D are constant, it's become very tiring to answer that no, it's not dead, and it's growing. The real test is in the trenches, not in a factless debate.
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When a straightforward piece of code is replaced by another, it can still be useful to know why.

Being able to seamlessly browse the history of a given function is one of the things a fully integrated development environment should support.
And that's one of the reasons things seem worse: there are massive, clever efforts to provide an infinity of options, but they're not completely seamless. Compared to the do-one-thing-and-one-thing-only appliances of yesteryear, it necessarily looks bad, especially when looking through the memory's rose-tinted glasses.
Because you don't get to retire at 40 by working full time, and it's not even necessarily a good thing to be retired that early in life: cognitive decline sets in, skills atrophy, you just generally feel worthless. I know because I usually take a year off between major job changes. After about 6 months it's pretty clear it's too early for me to retire. For most of us peak earning power only _begins_ in our 40s.

So what you're actually proposing is that people spend a quarter of their life (arguably the _best_ quarter) working 60 hour weeks for peanuts to make somebody else (and that someone is likely working part time) rich, and "retire" with insufficient funds as a burned out husk of their former self.
>Nobody ever tried to ban his book

The only reason this is "true" is that they legally can't and there's no loopholes to even try to use. If they had any way of even remotely doing this they would have.
> Repeatedly searching and dropping pins in Google Maps is like eating your dinner by pulping it and drinking through a straw.

You are thinking about it as a synchronous workflow. Study map->create a plan->execute a plan. This workflow was the only workflow because it was impossible to execute a search when needed.

Google maps is optimized for a modern workflow. "I'm here. I need X. How do I get there?" With pins that workflow is asynchronous.

For example, I use pins for restaurants. I find/read something about a place I want to try at some point. I drop pins. Next time when I happened to be in the area I see the pins that I dropped. It may happened to tomorrow or three months from now. My alternative is yelp with its sync workflow - search and analyze results of a search or rely on my memory of what place should be around where.
Would be interesting to see employers that let you work 2-3 days a week.
No longer true.

To quote the founder:

There are quite a lot of Synapses out there right now, and Synapse's featureset is pretty mature. Given we have pretty high profile people running Synapse (e.g. all of the French government) we have no choice but to invest the time to polish it and make it more efficient and stable. In an ideal world we'd have paused on Synapse ages ago and focused purely on a next-gen server, but we can't leave Synapse users in the lurch. Dendrite will be getting some attention in the coming months though, but not as a direct Synapse-replacement, but more of a playground for more experimental stuff.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21767057
Wirecutter, the Hill, Others Shared Personal Data Through Disqus Without Knowing
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> I don't see the strategic value in denying it happened. I

It's about sowing doubt and creating a world where there are no 'facts', because then those who lie are on a level playing field with those who deal with the truth.
Maybe I'm wrong but it does appear there was an attempt to meddle in the peaceful transition of power and I personally believe that is more dangerous that any crazy and dangerous President. The Roman Republic started its path to destruction when the politic process of peaceful transition was interfered with.
As I scrolled through this, using my mouse to click the heart on a number of the tweets, I really understood the point he makes about actions that don't need to use a mouse. When I program in vim and run things on the command line, I don't use my mouse. Even when I browse Reddit, I don't (often) use my mouse because of the RES extension, which lets me browse with keyboard shortcuts. I haven't really thought about how much easier things generally are when I'm not using my mouse, and I wish there were a similar extension for other websites. Does such an extension exist for Twitter, or for HN?
There is at least one way Google can get out of this mess:

1) Do serverless through standards and avoid vendor lock-in

There's a huge opportunity for a cloud vendor who has a credible zero lock-in offering.
So the Russians did nothing, but there is a vast conspiracy by virtually the entire Federal government from top (oh wait, not quite the top) to bottom plus all media outlets to make it look like they did, and all 10000 federal employees who are in on it are so good at keeping it entirely a secret that there has been zero evidence whatsoever for such a claim leaked.
> Both are C++: developers are more expensive to hire, and stuff takes more time to develop and debug.

Have you seen the state of Javascript 'ecosystem' and job market?? Both statements are false.

The real reason is that C++ toolkits don't have platform and device independence. HTML and CSS are really good and powerful design tools, especially compared to composing raw pixels like you'd (essentially) be forced to do with Qt and GTK.
> When you all think about API versioning, what makes the most sense to you — a semver approach (major.minor.patch) a la NPM, or a date-based approach (2020-01-07) a la AWS? Or is some combination of the two desirable?

We're talking about HTTP APIs, right? Then neither. These are solutions with bad trade-offs for the problem at hand.

Version the link relations. This follows the principles that make the Web successful (a.k.a. REST). If that seems weird to you¹, consider the following:

You have a personal homepage type Web site. When you change or add or remove a document, do your users need to upgrade their user agent to keep using the site? Why not?

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¹ Numerous developers are so enamoured with putting a version number into document URIs that they cannot fathom not doing it. This is another mutilation of the mind à la Dĳkstra.
Unfortunately, our inept Congress decided over the years to cede so much of their governing ability to the president. I'm not a constitutional lawyer, but my understanding is that executive authority is quite vast and grows each year.
Those are all US military bases. Other NATO countries have equipment based there as well, but they're ran and funded by the US.
Presumably, at some point, you'll be interviewed by someone with more up to date experience. And if you study enough to fool that person, that seems fine? It's a good sign you're capable of the job, prior experience be damned.
Change to Chinese university's charter dropping 'freedom of thought'
Ignoring that this really isn't an accurate comparison of TCO or performance, this really isn't surprising to anyone who has experience working with enterprise sales. Specs alone will rarely win a sale. Intangibles still have a lot of worth in the b2b space.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21835749.
On the bright side, we got a pretty cool WWW forum from Paul Graham scamming some Yahoo bigwigs.
The world didn't have mass many-to-many communication as little as 20-30 years ago. There are a lot of changes in play that the current breed of humans simply don't know how to deal with, in addition to the fact that there are simply more of us.

See: resurgence flat-earthers, neonazis, and other previously-buried-by-irrelevance groups, resurgence of measles + polio, seemingly endless toxic videos dispensed to young children via the 'next video' and 'recommendation' engines, and so on

Sure human behavior is the same as it ever was, but never before has it been so easy for me to affect some random schmuck in France, for example
if you get paid enough to work part time by choice then you definitely get paid enough to retire early on a full time salary. If you double your income and don’t spend more where does all that money go?
Airbus' Pilotless Air Taxi Completes Flight Testing at Pendleton Airport
Schyy.

Americans don't like to be reminded that they are a part of an empire ... but they are.
> In git, a branch is NOT like a wooden branch on the trunk of a tree, although it ends up being at the top of one, which makes the analogy ok.

So, there's an isomorphism between (1) a commit node; and (2) the chain(s) of commits ending in that node.

Why then is it important to think of "branch" as referring to one rather than the other? As evidenced by the isomorphism, they're the same thing.
Granted, some good ideas.
I got curious and found https://asciidoctor.org/docs/asciidoctor-diagram/ is available. Important if you're not wanted to "delegate" this to a web-service.
I find the way the FBI acted really puzzling. I find it difficult to believe they evaluated the consequences to the agency of using the FISA court to obtain warrants on campaign related people during an election. How did they believe this was going to play out? If the investigation ever led to prosecutions they would find it difficult to hide to a court that evidence was procured from FISA warrants. So it seems the only reasonable outcome where this would remain secret was if their investigation was a failure. Also, it is important to note that someone in the government did the completely retarded thing of leaking the FISA warrant on Page. This wasn't done to whistleblow on the warrant but presumably in order to either hurt the Trump campaign or rally public support for an investigation.

Before the election the Republican's held the house and were likely to hold it again. If it became public that there was FISA surveillance related to Republican campaign you would have to expect a House investigation. There was also a chance that Trump would be elected. You would assume if he was elected there would also be an executive investigation into the FISA surveillance which is what we see from the OIG and now the DOJ via Durham.

There are going to be very strong incentives for these investigations to try and dig up anything that would look like foul play. Even if you try and do everything by the book you risk burning what is presumably a useful investigative tool. I can't see how the next best option which would be try and get sealed warrants from a normal court is so much poorer that this loss would offset all the political risk.
The Constitution comes before every other law, and allowing the Constitution to be waived is against his job.
Huh, maybe someday I'll try again. I did find that Dune took me a few attempts to truly get into.
Yeah, I don't like it at all.

Yes, some enums are intended to be expanded. Still, as long as something is a compile-time error, I don't care about having to update my code when I choose to upgrade compilers.

In fact, even if the enum is intended to be expanded, I prefer to hear about new features and changes on APIs I actually use in a given project. It allows me to review mu choices and many times in complex APIs there are new options or flags that are useful to know about and otherwise get ignored. It allows me to update all callers as needed.

I have heard too many times the backwards compatibility story in the C++ world and I never valued it for things that are errors rather than behavior changes. It makes the libraries and the language way too rigid and makes evolving it a pain.

As long as you don't change the meaning of code that compiles cleanly, feel free to change things.

If you really want to keep code compilable because you are doing a chance that you believe will be a PITA, you could always offer a (truly) automated tool.
Not everything in life is by choice. Maybe you have to work part-time because of kids, illness, no other jobs being available, location etc. and just get by through other support on top of your part time income.

That's a very simplistic view of the world that's maybe true in a small bubble but definitely not in the real world.
New Vector (https://www.vector.im/) is actively hiring more designers to come work fulltime on Riot’s UI and UX as they shift Riot’s focus from being developer-led to design-led.

That's great news!

https://apply.workable.com/new-vector/j/6CB817C79E/
Hypothetical Question: Is it at all possible to eventually merge Java and C# back into a single language? Say in 2030 ?
So, to be clear, you cannot think of a single youtuber who was "cancelled" unjustly, despite writing a statement which implied that most of the cases were unjust as a rule?

To be frank, this is exactly what I thought, and really calls into question why you would make such a biased and baseless comment.

Your criticism appears to have nothing to do with youtube at all, and is a general criticism of public life and how being a public figure opens you up to greater scrutiny both from the platforms you use publicly as well as the audiences you reach. Which, while true, is a truism that is far older than the internet... or electricity... or democracy...
What do you mean by "No it hasn't"? I believe the parent is talking about: Manfort, Cohen, Papadopoulos, Gates, Flynn, and Stone. Are you saying they weren't sent to prison, or that the FBI investigation wasn't responsible for them going?

Re, for example: https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/15/politics/trump-associates-con...
I'm not above going along with tech I think's misguided or bad rather than fighting it, because I know it's trending up and will look good on my résumé, but ask for me to solo-write a Javascript project and tell me delivery must be in Javascript, explicitly not in Typescript, and I'm writing that fucker in Typescript and delivering you the Javascript that tsc outputs, and I don't care if no-one ever knows I did that. It's for my own sanity.
You are right. But, why then do I keep hearing in the western mainstream media about Russia being a threat when it is the USA that puts its base near Russia?
Vortex Tube
There is definitely some sensitive information in there. The government doesn't distinguish between classified information that is public knowledge, and still-secret classified information.

Regardless, their point is that Snowden did not send the book in for approval/redaction before publishing, as would be required of any former employee of a three-letter agency writing about such things.
Yep, executing your own uncle with an anti-aircraft cannon is an evil dictator move that I won't soon forget.
New Vector (https://www.vector.im/) is hiring more designers to come work fulltime on Riot’s UI and UX as they shift Riot’s focus from being developer-led to design-led.

That's great news!

https://apply.workable.com/new-vector/j/6CB817C79E/
They were once a futuristic symbol. See "The Day the Earth Stood Still", (1951), at 53:50, where ET phones home.[1]

[1] https://archive.org/details/The.Day.The.Earth.Stood.Still195...
The top comment here rebutts this article from a business perspective:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21313816
Hi, author here.

The reason I chose the n2-standard-2 over the n1-standard-2 was because the N1 instance in question has only 7.5GB of memory rather than 8GB. I let OVH slip on this one because they didn't have any other instances in the same ballpark but Google did. One of the eggs you have to crack when doing such a comparison I'm afraid.

With respect to the discussion of what really is a fair comparison to 1 unit of Google's proprietary vCPU units: that is of course open to speculation. One of the tremendous problems of cloud computing pricing is that the big three suppliers like to a) take a proprietary unit like "vCPU" which is not in common parlance and b) then repeatedly quote the cost for it in a tiny unit like hours. An n2-standard-4 is 0.0517 USD per hour - great. And let me really get the boot in: I hate that google's pricing page continuously defaults to the this useless unit on every page load. That company is probably the largest producer of web cookies worldwide but to remember that one, essential, UI slider was too much apparently. I broadly file this under the objection of "This is a naive navigation of the pricing schemes of $BIG_TECH" that I cover in the article

Transfer pricing is a real issue and arguably where $BIG_TECH really come and rip your face off. Egress bandwidth is priced at an unreal level precisely because people like me doing comparisons forget about it. In this respect $BIG_TECH are like the chinese restaurants where the dish is £5 but a 250ml bottle of coke to go with it is £6. I should have included it and if I did the comparison again I would model a small defined application rather than a small specific spec size. Mea culpa.

I still think the view I express in the article is right: $BIG_TECH cost a chunk more.
Honestly HN could be run by anyone; its draw isn't that Paul Graham is in charge
Good, but what about Rust project jumping to Discord instead? They should have used Matrix as well.
the Trump campaign took the information from the DNC leak and ran with it at top speed. they benefited massively from it.
"not working" with them would instead have meant they reported the efforts by Russian agents to meet with them to the FBI immediately, rather than actually meeting with them and asking for what illegally acquired dirt they had.
Not true in my experience. Synapse is just as easy to stand up as Prosody, and in fact requires making less choices since you don't have to pick which modules to enable and stuff.
No issue with my 3700. Boots in a second or two.
+1 for the googly eyes and mustache on the forward bulkhead...

(dunno if that's what it's called, it was the name that sort of felt most right)
Found a company to sell the books under, found another company ostensibly owned by Snowden and domiciled in another country to operate as a shell. Grant the shell company special shares of the parent company entitling the shell company exclusive rights to dividends, and funnel profits through the American parent company, to the shell and into a bank account which distributes the proceeds to various accounts all of the world.

The government is happy to enable such actions for the wealthy plutocrats of the world. So why not use such a loophole to undermine their ability sanction individuals.
For those who think that edit wars, content disagreements, and innacuracies are any special realm of Wikipedia, they're not.

One of the best examples I've encountered demonstrating this is a 19th century edit revision war between the British and American publishers of Chamber's Encyclopaedia, on the topics of Free Trade, Protection Duties, Slavery, and certain salacious particulars concerning His Royal Highness, the Prince of Wales.

https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/4xe2k1/chamber...

What's novel concerning Wikipedia is that these disputes (as with those of free software vs. proprietary software) tend to occur, or at least leave significant evidence, in the open public record.
The Cloud Wars: The Database Edition
The fuel was so resistant to ignition that it required an external source (TEB in this case) to even get alight.
Testing for excellence by assessing ability to discern crap seems lazy at best, probably dumb.

It is like saying you will employ a driver based on the ability to clean up after a crash - the best results likely to be achieved by the worst drivers.
You could argue that the "artificially inflated" comment refers to NIMBYs blocking supply from being built.
If one conjoined twin commits a crime, how would he or she be prosecuted?
I'd say not or at least they'd have to abstract for different runtimes

.NET/Core and JVM have quite diverged I would think
No. Why would anyone do that? Maybe C# could be moved to the JVM, that could make some sense, but unlikely.
Is YouTube's algorithm more or less mysterious than the fickle taste of traditional broadcast media producers?
I had to setup CI for a GitHub open source project recently, and decided to give GitHub Actions a try. I have to say it's pretty nice to have the CI directly handled by GH (GitLab has been doing it for years, I know...). I hope it's gonna help some open source projects to easily add CI validations to their PR workflow.

That being said, there was only Ubuntu images for the Linux builds, and I'm not aware of a way to run custom containers at the moment.
What would be the point? C# has been well and truly tied to the Visual Studio / MSSQL / Resharper stack.
Can someone explain to me why Purism has so much trouble making the Librem 5 when the PinePhone exists?

Purism has had so many pre orders and the PinePhone only costs $149 but with that budget can't make the Librem.

What is it that makes it so difficult?
Simulated data: the great equalizer in the AI race?
Because Bloomberg is not the only one with a lot of money trying to get the presidency.
I recently started to write git commit messages as if I was writing an email to my future self. It enables me to write the commit message without thinking too much about what's important. I also tend to write more since, because an email with just one paragraph is pretty rude.
Google already publishes 150+ pages of rater guidelines (i.e. what it's looking for in a site):

https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/guidelines.raterh...
There was also a big thread about "calm technology" a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21799736.
Re-read the top level comment again. The context of the discussion was that someone suggested that high earning professionals should work part time by choice.
The US and Uzbekistan initially signed an agreement that let them use the base for free. Then the Uzbeks wanted money, so we started paying ~$20million a year.

Relations got really bad after the Andijan Massacre. The US government (state department and congress) was REALLY critical of Uzbekistan and talked a lot about human rights abuses and cutting aid. Maybe that's where you're getting the $500 million figure from? Canceled aid payments that were conditional on the government making humans rights improvements, not the use of the base? Anyways, 2 months after Andijan and one day after the first planeload of refugees got a flight to Romania, the US received an eviction notice. We continued to pay the rest of the lease, and actually delivered a final $22.9 million payment after we got the eviction notice, days before the final Americans left.[1] If you want to read a description of events that is still biased, but in the other direction you can see the Air Force's timeline of what happened [2].

[1]: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2005/12/why-did-we-send-...

[2]: https://www.airforcemag.com/PDF/MagazineArchive/Documents/20...
Cool, looks according to post submission this actually happened end of October.

How did it go so far? Anyone know more?
A Data Leak Exposed the Personal Information of over 3k Ring Users