skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My point is that there's an underlying moral lesson to the bullying he received: the idea that the pain and abuse will lead to positive results in the child. And further that the abuse isn't just punishment, but that abuse itself can lead to virtue. That's why it's applied to every young boy systematically.

In his books Dahl doesn't just describe revenge, but describes it as a way to actually correct behavior, as a way for the universe to give the powerful a lesson. He's certainly turning around the power dynamic, but the moral justification for abuse remains intact.
An alternate theory is that someone else dug it up first.

Doesn't seem too farfetched among "outside-the-law folks".
Could you link a source providing the argument that men and smokers are more susceptible to COVID-19?
> Doubt is good, but asymmetric doubt is foolish.

That's a great idea. Yours?
Managers and companies existence is fueled by extracting as much energy out of employees as possible. They just usually aren't so brazen about that.

Idk about the legality but it's hugely unprofessional.
Remind me of this video of Matt Parker (standupmaths): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBX2QQHlQ_I
> While I agree if the 10x is making 120 and it moves to 150 that is good for everyone. But what if there is a 10x who actually makes 200. Would you ask them to take a pay cut so everyone is on that same 150?

I think that one key aspect of your comment is that you're taking about a 10x. Which can be generalized into a question: should a solution be rejected if it leaves a well-off minority less well-off than they are now, regardless of how much good it may do otherwise?

I, personally, think the answer to that general question is no. That answer may be hard to swallow if you're part of that well-off minority, but I don't think that changes the truth of the matter.

However, that doesn't mean that a union would or should force that guy to take a pay cut.

> I feel people will always want more money for performing better, or get incentivised to perform at the exact right level of that compensation and not more. I am curious what other people think on this.

I feel that people will always want more money regardless. I also feel that compensation is actually a poor motivator for performance. I think the real motivators for performance are internal factors (such as a desire to improve oneself, to avoid annoyance with badly made things, or to be challenged rather than bored).

Personally, I think once you make enough money, the extra compensation is more a form of recognition than anything else. Recognition doesn't have to be in the form of money, it's just that a souless corporation only cares about money, so money is the only way you can extract recognition from it.
Looking at this, it's clear a LOT of thought went into this, and it looks great.

Computer geeks that hated this didn't realize how good it was because they were familiar with the previous generations and don't like change.

The Word/Office 2007 UX design is probably some of Microsoft's best design work ever.
Sexist/racist people don’t show up to union meetings and volunteer for union committees to push sexist/racist policies.

It’s not like national politics where it’s a prestigious and high paying job, and corporations are throwing a ton of money behind candidates.

Also, unions are usually not employer-specific. No matter how many jerks you have at one company, they can’t overpower all the voting members at all the other companies.
Big company at that time. 14k employees when i left.
Understanding Explain (2012) [pdf]
How did you get the GPS data from Uber?
So how do you explain the persistent and enduring hatred for the ribbon?

Are those users - still a significant proportion, and certainly not just "power users" - somehow empirically wrong?
>The MRZ is an ICAO standard so you’ll need to blame the UN for this.

>This passport was issued by a foreign government though.

From my 20 seconds of Google research, plus your comment, it looks like the MRZ is something that various governments agreed on at some point, so the government that issued it isn't completely to blame, it's all of them that stupidly thought that either 1) no one over the age of 100 would ever have a passport or 2) there would never be a 21st century (as seemed to be the assumption through much of the 20th century with things like this; everyone always assumed the first two digits of years were always "19" and that anything starting with "18" or less was ancient history, and anything with "20" or greater was science fiction and would never happen in our lifetimes).

So my first comment is still correct, I just can't blame the UK government entirely for it, but since they're one of the main members of the UN (being on the Security Council), they do earn more blame than, say, Zimbabwe.

Anyway, the app was presumably made for a government contract, and silliness like this is common with those. There's a long list of contractual requirements for things made for the government, and the vendor has to meet all those requirements, so that's what they do. The vendor only has to satisfy the demands of the customer, and some 101-year-old person is not their customer, nor is whatever agent who had to deal with the mess, the government is (specifically whomever awarded the contract).

Generally speaking, with software, it works best when the customer is also the user. Users who don't like some software will try to avoid buying it, or will find another vendor if they're mad. When the customer is someone totally different from the user, you see real problems in usability, because the customer doesn't use it and doesn't care. So software made for government contracts tends to be horrible.
Sports is about the farthest thing from a meritocracy you can get. Only 25 NBA players in the history of the league have been below 5 foot 9 (175cm) [1]

Professional athletes are genetic freaks first and foremost - look at the dropoff from college football players to professional players. It's not talent that determines who makes it, it's genetic ability. The absolute worst NFL team in history would decimate the best college team in history just because of the difference in size, speed, and strength of the people on the professional team.

The NFL uses the standing vertical jump as a test of athletic ability because it's one of the only tests that can't be trained. No matter how much stronger or more explosive you get, your standing vertical jump pretty much stays the same. And guess what, people who make it in the NFL are the ones with the highest standing vertical jump.

1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_shortest_players_in_Na...
I don't think those options are the only ones and I think your numbers are dramatically far off for everything.
To some, Raku is what Perl should have been by now: https://raku.org
I don’t often comment recommending companies but Integromat is awesome. Their support is also fantastic.

The only thing I don’t like much is that there is no easy way to export stuff you insert in their databases.
oh nice, thank you!
The source changed, the title didn't.
WaterPrepared makes a solid 160-gallon container that is stackable and doesn't take up too much space (29″W x 36″D x 42″). I have one in my garage. With AquaMira drops it's good for like 5-years.

That's just ~53-gallons each for my three person household.

It's $400 but seems like a reasonable investment in the case things go awry.
My Windows 7 + nvidia does these black boxes. The card also can't handle 2 monitors anymore (crashes the system from time to time).
They're just for transactional emails, not for marketing ones. They wouldn't show very much based on how he's measuring.
Google stopped supporting Play Music a while back to be fair. Have you tried using YouTube music? Would you say you find this same issue there?
Great list. Is all the content curated? I wonder how you choose tags for conference like "Visual Studio Live! Las Vegas 2020" (AI/ML, data science, Cloud, containers, microservices, CI/CD, DevOps, Web, .NET)
"If you see something, say something."
You seem quite obsessed with protecting Nazis from satire. I thought the US right was really into free speech?
I didn't. The police did with a subpoena.
One wonders if you could drop a battery operated GPS beacon reporting by satellite on these things to report back their position once a day once it has been abandoned. Something like that should be able to run for a couple of years at least.

Maritime salvage law is always interesting as it feels like it was mostly written in the 1600 and 1700's :-)
while we're asking for spotify features and in case someone at spotify sees this post: You've put a lot of money into podcasting, please add the 'new episodes' feature of the mobile app to the desktop/web app. Essential feature that's still missing.
Well, now we have a natural experiment on the effect of unionization on a tech company. I look forward to monitoring the results over the next few months and years.
Of course there's no monopoly. But tech companies are pretty happy to collude, both at an executive level (we've had court cases about this) and at the memetic "this is what we think about management" one, in order to work against workers' interests. We, too, are allowed to work together to combat this.

Wage suppression, limiting our ability to grow and expand into different areas, and controlling the ability to exert control over what the work we do is used for--these are reasons to unionize.
Show HN: I made an open-source COVID-19 coronavirus tracker for Japan
JPMorgan sets July deadline for FinTechs to sign new data access agreement
The state of debugging for graphics code is deplorable. When you run code on a GPU you almost always have a gigantic closed source binary blob underneath you, the graphics driver. Graphics drivers contain complete compilers that munge your code with a focus on speed over correctness. The graphics driver is often years out of date, and you can't even run it yourself to reproduce issues unless you go out and buy the exact hardware that each user has.

The state of the art in debugging GPU issues is to have a closet full of random hardware purchased used on eBay that hopefully contains something close enough to what you need to reproduce the issue you're working on.

Most fancy debugging tools pretend that GPUs don't exist and GPU-focused debuggers are incredibly buggy and feature-poor, not to mention hardware specific in many cases.
Deepfakes are coming to elections nearby
Presumably the police did, and it's not unreasonable for Uber to willingly assist investigations of their drivers by providing such data.
I was surprised by how much I hated it. It caused an existential crisis for me to have reached the "pinnacle" job and to feel so alienated and pointless.
Mindustry, a hybrid tower-defense sandbox factory game
is this a real request for help, or a marketing-look-at-our-blog thing?
7000 aint got shit on 300,000.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sch%C3%B6ningen_spears

every 100k years is around 33,000 human generations. so , people have been making spears for 100,000 generations of humans or homo-like human species. Quite amazing indeed.

now imagine that while it's unlikely we would yet discover major permanent structures left behind by far far more advanced civilizations, that it's quite possible something like advanced spoken languages and even primitive forms of writing on animal or plant materials could have occurred multiple times through the ages and we would never have and never will know it.

persons were smarter individually in the past. but as a group, civilizations herd knowledge and skill base is growing assymptotically, perhaps in proportion to the risk of the collapse of the stability of civilization.
I'm an optimist, so i think we have at least another 10,000 years ahead of us, but that's only 333 generations of human beings left to repeat the same mistakes and learn the same lessons. It's not really that much. The key to our long term success isn't MARS, it's improving our culture and systems by which we pass on WISDOM. which is something we have gotten better at, but that is quite hard to say how much better and what the long term growth curve is for the improvement of this process.

Considering we don't need to get that much better, the outlook looks good, considering we have nuclear weapons at scale and drones able to deliver them, outlook looks dubious.

Cornovirus , However, will undoubtedly be looked at in hind-site as helping make the civilization far more robust by many measures regardless of the diseases origins. An outbreak of full or moderate scale nuclear war, however, will not.
Hackers exploit critical vulnerability found in ~100k WordPress sites
it’s mostly virtue signalling- they described an older couple who bought some cheap land there, still live in Perth and offset their carbon footprint by planting some stuff on that land.
I know my self than my manager, my lack of focus, was because the work i was doing, super boring. My manager took all the "cool" decisions and make us struggle with that. So no motivation at all. But there is always a pill to solve our problems lol
> Both the Beaker Browser and Brave offer new functionality that go well beyond adding some buttons.

In what way does the browser in the article not offer new functionality? The entire reason it exists is to offer functionality not found in typical browsers.
What a weird thing to do of your manager. How did he suggest this? Was he just like "I think you need to take Ritalin"? Did he suggest going to a psychiatrist, or did he want to sell some to you?
They're both good. Sean Carroll is 'better' according to a few metrics I can think of, but for some reason I like Lex Fridman's podcast more.
I guess people's expectations might have been lower? MSDN sucks along every axis I can imagine.

The content is bad: Quick, is System.DateTime[0] timezone-aware? The examples also use (the harmful and bug-prone) DateTime.Now 5 times, while DateTime.UtcNow is only mentioned once, as a minor aside.

The structure is bad: Is something part of "Core", "Framework", "Standard", or "Platform Extensions"? It's particularly ridiculous that trying to switch from Core to Platform Extensions while you're viewing a Core class (such as System.DateTime[0]), you'll get kicked over to.. Framework.

The layout is bad: Look at System.DateTime's list of constructors[1]. It takes up a whole screenful to say what Python's datetime.datetime constructor[2] paragraph says in three lines.

The design is bad: Compare the method listing of .NET's IDictionary[3] to Scala's Map[4], or Rust's HashMap[5]. Which one makes the type signatures the easiest to parse? Which one helps you get where you want to the fastest?

(Hint: For me, at least, not the one that insists on making everything a uniform shade of baby blue.)

[0]: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.datetime?...

[1]: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.datetime?...

[2]: https://docs.python.org/3/library/datetime.html?highlight=da...

[3]: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.collectio...

[4]: https://www.scala-lang.org/api/current/scala/collection/immu...

[5]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/std/collections/struct.Hash...
Brandless was a brand – just a bad one
Recommended programming books of all-time
Ask HN: How to get more honest feedback in stand ups?
The team I work on is definitely not one of the those "if you miss deadlines we will replace you" teams, but we still notice that developers will say things are good even if they are behind on a project. Does anyone have any tips to getting more honest feedback in these meetings? We try to keep them short so they can get back to their projects versus wasting their time in meetings, but maybe that contributes to it?
> Similarly anyone could pick up a broom and sweep the job floor, but without clear delineation that is ONLY the janitors job then why not make the electricians sweep the floors when they're walking back?

They are not being forced to sweep the floors, sometimes people are choosing to step slightly outside of their role to do something when it is more efficient for them to do it rather than inefficiently finding and having someone else do it.

If I make a small mess, I can:

1. stop working, contact the janitor, and ask them to clean it up, or

2. grab a broom, take 2 minutes and clean it up, and continue working

In most cases 2 is the better option, and most good workers would prefer to just do 2.
The unspoken "problem" you have is that your existing users are doing just fine with VLC.

If all you see is "growing" the userbase by nuking and reworking the user interface what happens to us your existing users?

As a direct example -

I use VLC primarily as a music player for my jazz album collection. It handles many formats I throw at it. It has a simple playlist (I play albums from start to finish and do not value a lot of spazzy track selection features).

I have a nice useable interface that works well. I ignore the stuff I don't need, I know WHERE the stuff I do need is.

I use VLC because it doesn't change much year to year unlike the vast majority of flash in the pan music players that go in and out of fashion.

If you privilege growth of new users you don't care that I know where things are and how to make them work. You just reorganize things according to some "designer" that is entirely growth oriented and doesn't care about me.
Understanding chkdsk for NTFS
> Overfitting a model for global climate change, for example, isn't an issue, because you're not interested in something like physics. I mean, it's based on physics, but that's buried way down in the model.

It's not so much that as that the goals are different. We want to understand cosmology for its own sake. We want to understand climate change because that knowledge drives policy. For that purpose, it doesn't really matter that we're unable to predict the exact weather in Denver at 11:23 AM on October 27, 2091. What matters is that we are able to predict in broad brushstrokes that the consequences of business as usual will probably be bad, and so we ought to seriously consider doing something about it. There is no conceivable outcome of cosmological modeling that will drive policy changes like that.
Are you taking about climate change or UFOs?
This very much sound like a similar issue Linux users are facing from more than a year and it's still not resolved? https://askubuntu.com/questions/1088324/firefox-becoming-unr...
That stuff is highly addictive. Honest to god, if he suggested it, most likely he takes it too. Get out of there, his expectations are based around people abusing speed, which means he basically expects some unhealthy output.

Remember kids, all drugs work, until they don’t. You can always take more I guess.
Agreed. I don't think many kids could make it through 2 episodes of Mr. Rogers w/o wanting to do something else. I remember being really bored with my choices of shows / movies growing up. If I was a kid today, I think I'd be on YouTube every waking moment.
Because they want to improve the usability and user experience?
> River boat pilots once could say the same thing.

> As could steam engine operators, the original "engineers".

and to the extent that unions protected those jobs any longer than they were necessary, society as a whole was harmed.
No crocs in southwest Australia. There are many poisonous snakes but they're really not a worry - more scared of you than you are of them. Wear boots and long socks if you're concerned. A lot of poisonous spiders, too, but just shake your boots out before you put them on and you'll be right. The real danger is heat, lack of water and remoteness. Hiking in summer is extremely ill-advised.

The big thru-hike track in SW Australia is the Bibbulmun Track: https://www.bibbulmuntrack.org.au/
It's inappropriate, but it's hard to know his intent.
Yeah, I think you make a fair point. Unions need to be representative of all parts of the workforce. The first things unions do when they start organizing is try to create a committee that includes all departments, people across race, etc.

But I just don't think you dismiss, say, the concept of banks because of problems that banks have had. Or sports. Or the entertainment industry. Or anything else.
> Why wouldn't the same employees that are setting Uber's culture set the union culture?

Company culture comes from the top.
Haven’t worked at a FAANG but a similarly large well known trendy company. The access I had to their users’ data simply as an employee
Redback spiders

Tiger snakes

Dugites

No crocs in south West that I know of

Heat and dehydration during summer
For me, I listen only from "Songs" (my entire collection, which is about 3000 tracks). Even when shuffled, almost everything I hear is something I've heard within the last week or two.

When I use the Amazon app under the same conditions, I often hear a track I haven't heard for a long time. Which is what I'd expect when random sampling from 200 hours of music.

(I don't use playlists, as they're simply too much work.)
Why talk about compensation?
Yep, exactly what I was thinking. Add a small solar panel and it could probably function for a decade.
I think support has a lot to do with reporting and the stories we tell. The economy has an impact too. In 1969 we had a great story to tell, it was all over the news and everyone was paying attention. In 1979, the economy was crap and there probably wasn't the money to spend. In 1989 the economy was doing well. 1989 also saw 5 shuttle missions, again lots of news. From your link - "Americans might not have supported the space program in real life, but they loved the one they saw on TV."
Can you expand on what specific part of envoy prohibited that?

Additionally, as other commenters mentioned, almost every company has rallied around Envoy and is spending considerable time/money making it better. If your solution isn't as performant as envoy, it seems like a poor architecture choice to roll your own, especially given the time/money constraints startups have.
I keep a library of music, ripped from cds I own. My master copy is FLAC, but I use mp3 for on-the-go copies because it is not patent encumbered and it is supported everywhere.

If you have a suggestion for an encoding+container that is will work out of the box both natively and in every major browser, across every major OS (Windows MacOS, Android, iOS and GNU/Linux, specifically distros like Fedora or Trisquel that don't ship nonfree codecs in their default repos), I will gladly switch to it.
The methodology used excludes a number of services using SparkPost. For e.g. the excerpt below of an Intercom header. It's a challenging problem to solve given the complexity of email delivery and appreciate this was a fun project to take on.

Return-Path: <bounces+XXXX@XXXX.intercom-mail.com>
Received: from mta-216-35.sparkpostmail.com (mta-216-35.sparkpostmail.com. [147.253.216.35])
by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id t13si7000210pgg.534.2020.02.03.08.37.30
for <XXXXXX>
(version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128);
Mon, 03 Feb 2020 08:37:30 -0800 (PST)
Is that not how reddit looks?
Step 1: Call thing that people use dead

Step 2: ?

Step 3: Profit
Realistically; a typical hyperscale cloud provider has tens/hundreds of millions of dollars invested into a specific CPU platform. It makes very little sense to just throw it out chasing some idealism like "simplicity"; the world is not simple.

You can be like Digitalocean and just say "You want a CPU core, you get a CPU core, no guarantee what it'll be". Most enterprises won't buy this. But, I think there's some interesting use-cases where even a hyperscale provider targeting enterprises could (and do) utilize this; not on an EC2-like product, but as the infrastructure for something like Lambda, or to run the massive number of internal workloads necessary to power highly-managed cloud workloads.