skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unions need not ban all open offices from existence, but they can at least provide a more powerful voice than angry blog posts in an industry dominated by open plans.
Why not sell locally hosted ads for keywords directly? The only other way to do it would be to check in with an ad provider periodically and update your ads from their list. In my simple model, there would be no tracking, and the ads would have to have noticeable impact for customer sales to establish value.

Just to flesh that out with a little context, I posted this on mastodon a few months ago: "Maybe I should make what I hate most: an ad company. Something with no javascript, no click tracking (heck why make an ad into a link at all...), no demographic personalization, no video, and simple honest accounting of ad placement (eg, ad was on xxx.yyy for zzz days, you owe us a buck). We'll target smaller sites looking to monetize content without driving away their users, and make it easy to serve ads from your own domain to reduce the chance they are blocked. Also it will be very inexpensive. That's the right way to do it."
I’m trying to imagine what a 1D conductor looks like. just an atom? They call it a waveguide in the abstract.
What about Bell Labs? Xerox PARC?

I think those examples show that R&D without an immediate return can be a rational decision for a corporation.
The number of countries with population growth large enough to serve as a stable supply of immigrant labor is shrinking by the day. The sooner we adapt our economies to operate without being dependent on an underclass of foreign workers, the better we can avoid actual serious trouble down the road.
I understand. I apologize. You may want to remove my comment on the other thread then (exactly the same), although interestingly it is upvoted there.
Scalability! But at what COST? (2015)

from the wonderfully opinionated Frank McSherry et al,

where 'COST' stands for 'Configuration that Outperforms a Single Thread'.

https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/hotos15/hotos...

P.S. By pure coincidence, McSherry's new company is also on the front page today:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22359769
Well then pointing out you are a 'high skill' worker doesn't really add to the discussion, at all. Your original comment would have been much better if you had explained why (like you just did here).
Think Stats: Exploratory Data Analysis in Python [pdf]
No visas for low-skilled workers, UK government says

No takers from the UK nationals for low-paid jobs, UK workers say.

Country dies from lack of telephone handset sanitizers.
Actually Australia has a low skilled worker visa.

It is called the 457 and it was abused so badly that it was abolished but still sort of remains. But during that time the government absolutely knew the extent of low skilled workers flooding into the country. All the parties loved it especially since Australia needed cheap labour to work at the 7/11 or drive Uber cars.

We also abuse the living daylights out of backpackers who are forced to work in low skilled jobs e.g. picking fruits in order to qualify for a second round of the Working Holiday visa.
Best public university system in the country, perhaps the world.
This 100%. I'm generally against unions in tech, but the right to have a union was earned in blood here in the US. I hope it stays around at least as a remembrance to those that died for it. We all benefited in some ways.
NASA put people on the moon and brought them back. They could have designed, launched, and operated GPS like they do Hubble and other satellites. It’s well within their expertise.

We don’t need to accept massive DoD funding of violent undertakings that end up killing millions simply for the meager benefits we get as a side effect sometimes.
>Note that I am saying this as someone who does not have a high opinion of tour ELT folks in general, but I still think it’s true.

I'm actually applying (after finishing my MEng degree this year) to do it for a year or two, and I'm also applying to pass JLPT N3 :-)
UK had a massive supply courtesy of the EU and they benefited immensely from it.

Now that it is going to dry up what is the long term solution for health and social care workers for example.

You can't automate genuine human compassion and understanding with a DL neural net.
Ballmers main success was enterprise contracts with big corps.
> Professionals are going to use the latest and greatest tools at their disposal, aren't they?

Some might do that. Others might well tell you they have a professional obligation to make sound engineering decisions rather than chasing trendy ephemeral fashions.
Fraud.

You didn’t miss it. Everything after that first question were excuses for why it’s ok to break the law.
I invested in Ikaria and feel like someone should speak up here.

I was early investor with Chrys Bader previously on his startup Secret. He was a YC batchmate of mine from 2008. I watched him build an initial prototype that had the chance to be a real social network that had very high long term retention, but in the end the company didn't invest deeply enough into moderation and the long term retention cohorts went down steeply past 6 months of use.

Chrys is a great designer and product manager who caught lightning in a bottle previously, and lost it. Founders often catch lightning in a bottle and then fail to keep it because scaling operations like moderation, or sometimes even just keeping the servers online, through hyper scale, is hard.

Many founders never find lightning in a bottle even once. Even in my experience I felt like we caught lightning in a bottle with Posterous and failed to properly bring it to the scale I wish we could have.

I realize I am going out on a limb to defend him here, but founders going back into the arena deserve at least a little bit of defense because it's hard enough to take the chance to make anything ever.

You'll hear more about how Ikaria really works, and I realize the post is light on details, but don't write this startup off before you actually try the software itself.
Good post. I don't share your pessimism but I get why you feel that way. I think people just need to be told by a good leader that there are real trade-offs with taking "the nuclear option" but we have to embrace it.

People accept trade-offs all the time. We understand some jets crash but we still don't give up air travel. We understand cars crash but we don't give up automobiles. I just think nuclear meltdown risk is overblown. If it happens four times a century, is that acceptable? I think it is. All things considered, how many people have died from nuclear meltdowns versus coal extraction?
A lot of non-regular-maintenance jobs are easy & quick to do but break the law - for example, deleting the catalytic converter or EGR from the exhaust system will give your engine better performance and economy, but is illegal since it increases emissions.

Lots of places will do it anyway on a cash job if they think they can get away with it, because it's relatively easy money. A shop replaced my failed catalytic converter ($1200+ replacement) with a straight pipe ($20 pipe and $200 of time) many years ago because they (correctly) assessed me to be a broke-ass student who wouldn't tell on them.
1D is a line or vector, I believe. A waveguide for atoms would probably still be considered 1D I guess.
I lived for several years in the UK and it’s weird to think that nowadays I wouldn’t be able to do so.

I first moved there to study a MSc degree, which I could afford because EU students paid the same fees as the British (and those fees were significantly lower then). Some time later, I came back to the UK because my partner was doing EU-funded research at a British university, while I continued working for an EU company remotely.

I’m aware that mine is not the stereotypical immigrant experience, but I did meet a lot of Europeans that were similarly spending their best years in the UK.

The British had something precious until not long ago: a working welfare state, a welcoming society, and an influx of enthusiastic citizens from all across the EU. It’s sad that they are throwing it all away.
It’s not really immigration that people like the parent have a problem with. It’s cultural displacement. Presumably their new country is culturally compatible.

Of course it’s not woke to talk about this, but very few people can practice what they preach when it happens at scale. Most folks that downvoted the parent and cry racism would be fine if a handful of ethnic minorities moved in to their neighborhood. But if they filled the entire neighborhood, and they were the last remaining white American family there, I guarantee they would instantly turn hypocritical and leave 99.9% of the time.

Everyone has a threshold at which they no longer relate to or feel a connection with their community, and many people need that connection. That’s also why immigrants tend to form communities in their new country. It’s possible to feel this way without being racist.
This is a brand new name obviously made just to post this with the original title of 'wow this is a cool hacked news reader'. This is some side project and it is somewhere between a demo and total nonsense.

It had a title that seems to assume people can't tell when someone didn't 'just find' a page and are trying to pretend they aren't trying to promote their own stuff.
How Language Chat Is Bringing the Future of Language Learning into the Now
The UK benefited from it, sure. Meanwhile Bulgaria's population has dropped by about 25%. They deserve health workers just as much as Brits.
Even stainless steel will probably fail in the ocean. The sea is an absurdly harsh environment. Look up sacrificial anodes or ultra high corrosion resistant alloys to get an idea of what you need to keep stuff going even for just a few years.
According to the documentation at https://materialize.io/docs/overview/architecture/

> Streaming sources must receive all of their data from the stream itself; there is no way to “seed” a streaming source with static data. However, you can union streaming and file sources in views, which accomplishes a similar outcome.

What I find odd is that the documentation doesn't show UNION support in the SELECT documentation : https://materialize.io/docs/sql/select/

Perhaps just an oversight in the documentation?
Google (Docs, Sheets, Slides, etc) actually has this built in. It’s under the “insert symbol” menu item
There are many examples of third-party certifications that allow consumers to make more ethical product choices by outsourcing all the interpretation and verification to an independent organization - see Fairtrade, UTZ, FSC, MSC, various organic certification schemes, etc.

But in the end most consumers just choose the cheapest thing, or these schemes would the norm rather than exceptions.
What I was talking about was the Highly Skilled Professionals (formerly called Highly Skilled Foreign Professionals) system, which is separate (edit GP). It's basically like an add-on on whatever other visa you're applying for or already have.
I do find the elements of self-hate evident in certain political movements to be very troubling. Larry Elder often talks about this and how a society and a government can only be just in its own time. There is no way to accurately and fully correct the sins of the past.
The only substantial difference between this company and, say, Facebook, is that Facebook generally knows how to budget properly. Facebook and other large successful companies try to only commit crimes when they know the profit from doing so exceeds the risk of being caught and punished.
I think you're missing the point.

The point isn't that they're not doing "real work" or that what they're building doesn't work at all.

The point is about the approach which consists in engineering a "hard problem" by adding unnecessary constraints/hypotheses to a real (although often ill-defined) problem, and then claiming it's a marvel of engineering when a half-functional, non-viable solution is completed.

It's the XY problem applied to startups. Instead of trying to solve the problem (energy, connectivity, etc.), they start from a given technology, and try to shoehorn it into a problem. That's bad design, and probably bad engineering in most cases.
The CSS z-index property applies to grid and flex items as well
Jenkins goes south because the people using the system aren't the people configuring the system.

Consider instead a system like emacs, firefox, or mpv. Where the plugins/extensions/scripts are selected and configured by the person who's actually using them. Choosing what they want ignore what they don't, the result is a system that's understood by the person who actually uses it.
A sport plane sans engine. An aircraft engine is like $30,000.
Probably hypocritical. But she wants to feel like a welcomed immigrant, because at her native home she does not feel 'welcome'. I do not know if it is true or not, butit seems legit to go there, where people want you.
Göbekli Tepe (700km from Çatalhöyük) had already been abandoned for over 2,000 years:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6bekli_Tepe
Ag One: Recolonisation of agriculture [video]
Just two points:
1) why would Russia invade bankrupt and dying Baltic states? There's no economical or geostrategic point in this
2) Just proves the point that all USA "allies" are just an expandable cannon fodder to experiment with attacking Russia. It's too dangerous for US to attack Russia directly, so they're planning to grab the heat using hands of Poland or Estonia. Russia will nuke Estonia - fine as long as it's not Washington.
re: 2 its not hypocritical because him going to another white country woudln't be "mix"ing which is what his complaint is.
If you share a development branch with someone, then you should prefer merging over rebasing because rebasing changes rewrites the commit history, causing the locally checked out branches among collaborators to disagree. You never know when someone will need to take your branch to develop on, so generally it’s a good idea to merge over rebase. When master is merged into your PR branch, the fork point is forwarded to the last master commit, so you shouldn’t have any trouble merging back into master.
It's an update on their incredible journey.
The fact that most people don't have email addresses for all their contacts? The application has to work for most people, not you.
> all migrants will only be entitled to access income-related benefits

Can someone from the UK chime in and explain those?
Homebase – Invest in homes, just like stocks
I'm in the ORD flightpath. So cool to see thousands of airplanes every day.
Biggest mistake(s) you made managing a remote team
I'm in the middle of writing a four-part Remote Guide (because the world clearly needed another one). I really wanted to dig into this phenomenon and put it into a wider context.

Parts 1 and 2 are already out. I'm currently working on parts 3 (hiring and onboarding) and 4 (managing remote teams).

I would love to hear about the mistakes you made and lessons you all learnt managing remote teams.

If you are interested in the guide you can catch it here: https://toni.substack.com/p/ide-fixe-11-remote-work-in-2020-beyond
Forestry does a lot more than just abstract away the Git operations. It has a very advanced front matter template system that makes it possible to build very complex content models while providing a nice and simple UI for managing content, menus and media. It’s really quite impressive.

We’ve built a few sites on Forestry + Hugo and are very happy with the combination. https://www.jetflite.fi is a good example of a site having a rather complex content model.
I've seen people make a good living, like $150 an hour. I've got some good work from there too (one with a FAANG, that paid well above what I expected). But generally most listing sites are poor sources of work.
that sounds better. I thought a point was 1D, a line was 2D thinking of a plot with X and Y axis, and a surface was 3D - but a totally flat surface would be 2D, and a totally straight line i guess is 1D. a point must be 0D.
People, if you work for these companies, you legitimize their practices, and make it easier for them to keep existing.

No, I don't care that you've grown accustomed to your fancy lifestyle.

No, I don't care that your spouse is gonna shit on you if you take a pay cut until you can find similar work.

No, I don't care that "someone else will take your place and do the same thing".

Sorry - stand up for what's right, or this shit will continue to get worse.

Engineering/architecture have some principles, why the hell shouldn't we?

Signed,
Someone Who Left Their Comfy Salary Because of Unethical Wankers
That's actually been done already: https://www.dezeen.com/2018/10/17/panasonics-wearable-blinke...
There are lots of clocks made with wood gears, including almost all clocks made in what is now the US from 1600 to 1850 or thereabouts. Wood has some significant advantages in precision — although it unavoidably swells and shrinks substantially across the grain, as humidity and temperature rise and fall, its variation in length along the grain is much smaller, in the 1ppm/° neighborhood of Invar, an order of magnitude smaller than brass or steel. This makes clocks timed with a wooden pendulum an order of magnitude more precise than clocks timed with a plain metal pendulum; this knotty problem evaded generations of clockmakers until finally falling to legendary horology hacker John Harrison and his gridiron pendulum.

Imprecise gears don't keep bad time; what they do is increase friction and wear out. Your gear ratio isn't going to change from 51:20 to 51:21 because the gears are soft, flexible, and vary in size with humidity, unless they vary by so much that the gears come out of mesh. As long as they're in mesh, each tooth on one gear is followed by precisely one tooth on the other. Rather, what will happen is that the depthing of the gears needs to include extra backlash to allow for the imprecision, and that imprecision causes deviations in the pressure angle and the like. This is a terrible problem if you are gearing down a steam engine to pump water out of a coal mine, but at the much lower loads encountered in horology, it just means you need to wind the clock more often. Chris on Clickspring has convincingly shown that even the primitive triangular tooth form used in the Antikythera Mechanism is quite adequate.

The cycloidal tooth form used in modern clocks was only invented in the 1600s to 1700s, while mechanical geared clocks built in the 1300s still exist today, like the one in the Sarum Cathedral, which is iron: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbJb92H5gy8 — the clock uses a square tooth form with rounded corners on the large gears, meshing with smaller pinions whose "teeth" are round dowels. (This part of the mechanism is believed to be original, but the escapement has been replaced.) By contrast, the tooth form depicted in the 1364 Il Tractatus Astrarii is triangular, like the Antikythera Mechanism. The clock at Chioggia, also from 1386, seems to be made in precisely the same way from what I can make out from these photos: https://www.adjora.it/altro/curiosi/vari/orologio-antico-Chi...

Note that the Sarum clock is held together with tusk tenons like those in the 7000-year-old well discovered in 2012, but in wrought iron rather than wood. That's because in 1386 the screw was about 2000 years old but not yet in use as a fastener.
I agree completely. That would be the optimal solution, it would just take a lot of effort on top of the focus of building the core project. I was hoping to avoid the complexity of building my own ad system and selling the ads directly, but I'm not sure if an ad network currently exists that fits my needs.

I could be completely wrong, but I believe there is a market for exactly what you describe in your mastodon post. At least I am in that very market.
They could develop GPS, but they didn't and wouldn't.

The U.S. military commissioned and deployed GPS to configure the clocks and weapons systems required to hold off the hostile and ignorant powers of the world.
MVP design process: Stages, tools, and deliverables
Thank you, this is very useful. It is our intention to have a record of the discussions leading to the decisions as they’d take place in basecamp, but hopefully in immutable format. Basecamp allows editing of posts and removal of messages.
Sounds like we need cofounders. :)
>I can't imagine why any self-respecting economist wouldn't recommend the policy on purely economic grounds.

I would like to agree with that, but there's this: https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2012/10/2012102915...

"Most economists are not paid for knowing about the economy. They are paid for telling stories that justify giving more money to rich people."

Or another, more famous quote:
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!"

Is that the case for economists? I can't say for sure. If people don't care whether economists actually try to fix problems, though, then it's more likely that they will not. That's what this question (not precisely a poll, but meant to be) was for.

>If your solution is protectionism or luxury tax or devaluation or similar

It's a way of getting people to work less. Relevant details about why it works 'mechanically' (as opposed to psychologically) include that rich people spend a lower percentage of their income than poor people; rich people tend to buy higher-profit or expensive items, meaning their spending goes to other rich people; limited possibilities for targeted pricing when income inequality is high mean that e.g. there are many homeless people at the same time as many homes are unoccupied; and possibly other things I'm forgetting.

I may not reply again.
That’s true but the engineering pay at the same company varies a lot too. Probably not 3x for the same level and role but I’ve seen difference of 2x in total compensation for the same title.
Stop using "conspiracy theorists" as a dirty phrase. Gains no support for your statement.
Logging:
Structured logging with automatic rotation etc was implemented in Windows Event log

Structured data passing between programs instead of just text is part of Powershell concept.

Calling of other programs to request specific actions with smooth UI called Android intents.

If you want to store structured data, you should use well, a database.

So, part of critique of author is Linux specific.

But generally I agree with author: OS are poor abstractions and really need to be improved.
family silver, as in definition n. 4

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/silver
I've used for both hiring/outsourcing simple parts and getting work. It's worked fine, but you have to really deal with the mess that is interviewing.

The downside is that there's some lock in with how they process payments and visibility. It's not terrible, but enough to put me off. I'd rather do something like Toptal to find work.

We always had about 30+ applicants for any posted jobs, with about 5+ of them really talented people. The only reason I stopped doing it was because I found it mentally tiring to reject all these nice people, and it feels a bit like a meat market.
Didn’t stents become popular before doing any real clinical trials?