skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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> Owning 10% doesn't mean you're a peon.

If you own anything, you're not a peon. However, owning 100% of something is simply a very different mindset than owning just 99% of something. In the former, you solely control you own destiny.

In the latter example, you're beholden or subject to others. Not necessarily bad, but a very different experience.

Kind of like long term dating versus getting married.
Is remote for the US or anywhere?
Friendly reminder that meet.jit.si is not end-to-end encrypted. So, unless hosting your own instance, using the website or the videoconference integration in Riot means your conversation is routed through an Atlassian-owned server.

See https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet/issues/409#issuecomment-....
Redditor Wins Fight to Stay Anonymous
It's totally done on a politically oriented ground to denigrate a religion and culture, and put another in favouring light. If people were more educated about some historical facts (for instance the bloody conquest of India) it would be harder for some people to keep the power and push their agenda.
I'm offended that the Eurovision Song Contest is missing.
Had they stopped at the tutoring, nobody would have a problem with it. It's when they started to hurt other (poor) people in order to advance that the situation turned to shit. Of course had the movie stopped at the tutoring, it would have been a boring movie. It's taking the situation to the extreme that makes it an interesting movie. I really hope that in real life, such a family would be happy to have their kids in cushy tutoring jobs and use that windfall to improve their situation.
It's not really clear from your description as to what's wrong with Optional type. When Java would introduce value classes, I could imagine Optional class to be automatically transformed by a JIT to a nullable instance removing all overhead. Why do you want to keep null inside Optional? That would be absolutely non-intuitive design.
Is this 100% actually coding?
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> PR conultant's way of doing things: Spend the budget. If project was a win, claim own success. If the project was a failure, blame a business, never show results.

Close but I don't think this is quite right ... "PR conultant's way of doing things: [Find and convince the client on your abilities.] Spend the budget. If project was a win, [convince your client that it was your] own success. If the project was a failure, [convince the client that it was their] business, [always] show results."
It starts to get more complex than you might think. Suppose I declare x to be of interface type A and then pattern match it to a disjoint interface type B. Now unless I get depresse that with a cast or a new variable name then I need to express it as some kind of intersection type and this may need to extend into the bytecode and vm.

It might even be an intersection between an object and an interface type, and for historical reasons those have different bytecodes for invoking methods!

Flow typing is really cool, but it can make things way more complex.
That's one selective reading of the poster. But it doesn't say work hard for 48 months. It says "Eat shit for 48 months". What it's saying is that you can't have nice things unless you make yourself suffer.
Any half-decent VIM user knows that there are no good vim emulators, only ones which do the absolute basics right. That includes vim mode for vscode which last time I used it even lagged when using it.
Yes! I have learned tremendously about personal finance from ukpersonalfinance.

For anyone based in the UK, please go and read the content at https://ukpersonal.finance/, it is invaluable for your future. Financial literacy for the millennial generation is my #1 recommendation for general life improvement. It doesn't matter what situation you are in: in debt; with lots of savings; lack of credit options; etc... You will learn tremendously and can genuinely improve so many aspects of your life.
From personal experience a few months ago: Firefox works for the essentials, but anything more than webcam video failed. Sharing/synchronised watching of youtube videos or screen sharing only worked on Chrome..
I'm uncertain we can trust that '6X more likely' statistic. There is evidence/speculation that sleep deprivation can cause symptoms that mimic ADHD symptoms. For example: [0].

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4340974/

*

Edit: That statistic is attributed to a Tech Crunch article [1], which in turn references another article [2]. The "6X" figure appears to be from one study involving 242 "entrepreneurs" and 93 "comparison participants" self-reporting on ADHD (and some other mental health-related conditions). It appears that the "comparison participants" were all students and faculty associated with the university.

I believe the relevant chart is on p. 14. Sleep and/or sleep deprivation doesn't appear to have been something that this study considered (or attempted to control for). (I didn't read this material extremely closely, however; maybe I missed something.)

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/30/investors-and-entrepreneur...

[2] (sorry, https seems unavailable) http://www.michaelafreemanmd.com/Research_files/Are%20Entrep...
>> owing a car

But there are no car rentals which would bring a car to your door in the next 15 minutes.
Dogs can detect heat with infrared sensor in their nose, research finds
Yes, the advantage of Reddit is that you can more easily see the group consensus on an issue, as well as differing opinions (as long as those differing opinions aren't considered so extreme/wrong that they get heavily downvoted, which is certainly possible).
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Suffering, indeed, is not a KPI but your takeaway is off.

I use Timing app to track my digital. I spin up at 11am, get reving by 1pm and don't stop until I pull up to the drive way at 1am or 2am. Monday to Sunday.

There are plenty like me as owner-operators that put in the time/work to get shit done until there are enough rev to hire out.

At the alphabet soup company we worked maybe 11am until 4pm, wrap up to go home on the busses, put in another 1-2 hrs at night time to checkin. But during that 3-5 hrs it's highly focused flow that takes dozens of other supporters and personnel to get to.

The pirates that go flitter about, whether in silicon valley or los angeles, to get production done, show going, or keep it moving, all work however they work.
I suspect it's also that employers don't like to hire people with ADHD. If traditional avenues get closed off then self employment might be the best alternative.
What's wrong with that? I find many people are more comfortable to share private information and seek advice anonymously on the internet than face to face.

And in this anonymous stranger setting, many people are actually more inclined to give a good/harsh/honest advice than in face-to-face conversations.
But then you lose _all_ the features we're talking about, because they're all implemented in the client. Back to square one.
I believe the focus of what's being said is that people who claim to work these insane hours, _and_ manage to keep all other plates in their personal lives spinning, usually do not spend that much time doing productive work.

That is not to say that there are others who can do many actual productive hours. But usually, at least in my personal experience, when one does that they are sacrificing other aspects of their personal life in the hopes that when they achieve their goals they can then deal with everything else.

In my experience, things don't really work out all that well. Ideally one should find balance in the now.
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One thing I rarely see mentioned but I have found true for both of my boys: give them a bucket full of around 50 of anything and they will find 100 uses for it: currency, counting tool, treasures to hide and find, etc. Latest version of this in our house is a small box of around 30 pencil erasers (the kind that attach to the back of a pencil) which are perfectly small, cheap and safe.
That sounds very reasonable. It's very possible that I'm wrong.
Addresses are hard. Off the top of my head: I live in Germany. Germany has states, but they are not part of postal addresses. A lot of US sites keep insisting on entering a state wven though that is wrong. There are tiny villages without street names. The name of the village substitutes for the street name. Maybe there are single house settlements with house numbers - I am not sure.

And then there is Mannheim, a city with no street names. This was originally a planned city where the city center has rectangular blocks numbered in a letter-number scheme. So there is e.g. a block L5. This refers to one side of the 4 adjacent streets. The other side of these streets is addreseed with L3, L5, etc... what his means is that you have addresss like O7 6 - a single letter and two numbers in a row. I bet that a lot if input validators for addresses trip over something like that.
Bill Gates is an Example here he came from a very well of family.
Reads very very illusional.

What is it what people actually want? Change the world or become rich?

I have seen enough ideas or things people persue not because they really love that idea or product but because they wanna be 'entrepreneur'.

Just wierd to read.
True enough. The anonymity also leads to people being more candid, and that generally means an unveiling of information asymmetries.
Users are saying “you were down for an entire day and I lost money - I’m out”.

Your reliability target is a product decision. Maybe with the right features the market will tolerate shitty unreliable financial services that falls over for an entire day. Or maybe RobinHood will go from a 5.6 billion dollar company to a zero dollar company because users hate them.

Point is high reliability is choice based on priorities - which seems like RobinHood does not care about. And I will certainly stay the fuck away from their platform.
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Ask HN: Is there a software which improves offer-to-joining ratio?
More than 50% of employees tend to drop-off after accepting the joining offer. Is there a software which can improve this ratio? Or how is the current process managed by recruiters and HRs?
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True! Nowadays a lot of companies have people not working every day here in Europe, but for Google's it's 'Out Of Office' or not. No way to set specific days. I'd like to see Google adding a partial Out-Of-Office option.
In this case, it's mostly getting the levels set up and cutoff set up correctly since by default it cuts off when you aren't talking (and thankfully doesn't have AGC). There is a push to talk mode, but most people that I know don't use it.
> In contrast, 10 out of top 10 are self-made in the US.

Sure, if you cherrypick an arbitrary cutoff. But expand it to 15, then only 10 out of 15 are self-made using your definition.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Americans_by_net_worth

> the perspective that it's impossible for basement dwellers to make it to nice mansions may be true in Korea, but it doesn't seem to be the case in the US.

None of the top 10 american billionaires came from the basement. They all came from wealthy or upper middle class families with professional parents.
"Angeber" is a somewhat archaic word for an informant (but apparently means "show-off" today), so it's someone who reports you to the authorities, essentially a "snitch" but with a much more authoritarian connotation. So it's a society of informants, where everybody's afraid to be genuine due to the possible repercussions.
I remember doing this too, it unlocked the multiplier which they locked at the factory by slicing through some metal blocks with a laser. My Duron 600 would run at 800 with a normal cooler & fan, then I added a really loud Delta fan and a copper heatsink and it was stable at a magical 1Ghz. Eventually I got cocky enough to solder a resistor between a certain pin on the motherboard and earth which effectively increased all the voltage settings in the BIOS so I could push enough voltage through it to run at 1.2Ghz - it ran like this for years as my only PC. Good times :)
> Anonymous people over the web have become guides to personal finance, reddit just facilitates that. The same advice was available during the "blogging/RSS era".

Every generation needs their own form. Before blogging/RSS it was cable financial news on TV, before that magazines, and before that I don't know.

Basic financial literacy (creating a budget, tracking it, adjusting) is sorely lacking.

Today, you may be adept at trading $10k of stocks on Robinhood using money that you're parents gave you hoping over the year for a big 20% win, but you'll equally forget that you have $10k of credit card debt with interest accruing at 30%.
Encore looks like an awesome project. What would you say is the value-add compared to other serverless offerings by cloud providers? At the moment simplicity/ease-of-use seems to be its biggest strength.
How the internet shutdown in Kashmir is splintering India’s democracy
What struck me is that the main family has a ton of talent. They're excellent actors and planners. In a healthy society, they could use those talents to do something productive, and better society and themselves. But in the face of extreme economic inequality and a lack of honest opportunities, it seems parasitising on a wealthy family is the more attractive option for them.
Warren Buffet's father was a congressman.
No microwave ovens, either.

The GBT is crazy big.. It somehow doesn't look real. A football stadium, suspended over a farm. The weirdest sculpture garden I've ever visited.
Thank you for highlighting this. We are working to improve the language of the terms to make sure we help protect the the designs/trade secrets.

Just to put it out as a company this is how we see the obligation to protect trade secrets.

For public projects: We are giving user leverage to share at their own discretion along with a license made by them, industry standards or the new licenses we are coming up with.

For private projects: No designs will be listed publicly, shared with anyone, they exist in complete privacy to the user who created the repository. We do not and will not list them, rank them, read them or share them in any way.

To summarize if a user makes the project public, that means user is doing that on his own will and we will fulfill the obligation by enabling them with proper licensing tools + providing better licenses which InventHub is working on. For private projects everything will be safe and secret with the project owner and doesn't need protection more than platform infrastructure security which we take very seriously considering a lot of IP's will be hosted on our platform.
Dr. Stanley Dudrick–inventor of TPN, which saved tens of millions–is dead at 84
The group consensus seems to be to get the largest mortgage your bank will give you, buy an oversized car on a 7 year contract plan and fritter the rest on beer and takeaways. The best financial advice is usually drowned out by the consensus.
I feel like Java has a particular problem in common with Android - they both keep getting better, but most people are stuck on some old version.

The difference is that smartphones phones last at most 5 years, but a program that a business depends on lasts forever.
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You definitely can, most of the times you can’t collect all the hours you put in. Client pays what it pays and the rest is written off. It’s the senior’s job to manage the ratio of billed hours to collected hours.

If you can and want to bill more to a client, you simply review the matter covering more depth or let the work be done by more senior lawyers who have a better hourly rate.

Big-law collects all the client is ready to spend on legal services. The more you spend, the better service you’ll get.
If you suspect foulplay in billables, review the job narratives and raise a complaint.
That's the magical part! We implement visual diff on the native design itself to make sure you get the most accurate diffs on your projects.
Wow - raw text but I still have to escape \s, \w and friends in a regex. Call me underwhelmed.
What? This is absolutely the opposite of the consensus advice you'll get somewhere like r/personalfinance.

It sounds like you're completely ignorant of the subs in question, and just spouting off whatever comes to mind.
This is true of all subbredits. Basically the best way to use Reddit if you get into a hobby is to go to that hobby's sub, meticulously read the sidebar and leave the site without ever posting.
> Telling those individuals that they need 8h is not improving anything.

Of course not, but telling these individuals that they are outliers and shouldn't give this as advice on "how to be successful" will improve things. They desperately need some of that humbling self critique that we ordinary, impostor syndrome suffering people do all the time and we can help them!
Alipay owner Ant Financial takes minority stake in Klarna
However the group of all people in society and group of people interested in personal finance proactively finding and using these subreddits are different.
> The willingness of "bottom of the class hierarchy" to join counts for quite a lot.

If this were true neither the Russian nor the French Revolution would have been a “success”. Both were won by committed minorities in the capital city and they were even less popular outside it.

A small organized minority of people willing to use violence to achieve their goals who are good at it can overcome weak opposition from a much larger number. The Bolsheviks killed the Mensheviks in Russia and all non-Socialist opposition thereafter. They would never, ever have won an election. Outside Paris the Revolution was not popular, thus the need to conquer the Vendée.

The bottom is not passive. It just doesn’t matter because it doesn’t have any power. If it did it wouldn’t be bottom.
Well, journalist main task is to inform objectively, not to comment subjectively. They aren't researchers or economic analyst. And on other hand, most politics decisions are based on feelings, not facts.
Yes, it's great to see others doing the same work. The more the merrier, it's a huge industry and we need more hands to solve this problem.
Previous discussion here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22398063 but this is the first time we get an official statement from Apple, and not just second hand reports.
From your blog (5.5 years using scala) it seems that null is a problem in scala:

Scala avoids the biggest pitfall of multiple inheritance elegantly, by only allowing one parent to have a constructor; classes may only be the first parent, and traits can't have constructors that take arguments. Unfortunately this doesn't mean they don't need to be initialized; in particular, vals in a mixed-in trait will be null if you try to access them in an earlier constructor.[2] As with any null, in the worst cases you may not get an error until much later on.
Location: Berlin, Germany

Remote: Sure

Willing to relocate: Yes, London/Stockholm

Technologies: (RDBMS,Java/Kotlin,Javascript/React,Bash/Unix,Docker/Kubernetes)

Full stack web developer with 10 years experience. Also strong communication/soft skills. Goal oriented/focused on business value. Open also for co-founder roles as first technical person (have experience of this).

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joel-andersson-3109a74/

Email: joel@acc.umu.se
Very nice and clean GUI library.

Clean GUI C++ libraries like this always make me think that Microsoft deliberately chose to not implement such a nice C++ GUI API for Windows and instead gave us the horrible MFC in order to lock us in into Visual Basic and other proprietary projects.

If Microsoft had given us a clean C++ API for Windows, the world of programming would be very different today.
Or perhaps there's a lot more computing power demand for crypto coin mining that for aliens searching.
Ive seen bigger, scarier, potentially costlier time based bugs personally. I dont think this would make me reevaluate my employment if I was at robinhood. As the parent says you either learn these lessons the hard way or you havent learned them yet. Thats doesnt translate to being a “leadership failure.”

Your smaller point about prioritization is spot on though. I dont believe Ive seen any similar incidents lead to business ending outcomes. I personally point to sony or, more recently, equifax as examples of the disparity between actual business impact and technical abhorrence. In light of that why is it worth trying to preemptively solve technical challenges instead of business needs? Every calorie spent on “what if” subtracts from “whats needed.”
“PDF is good at what it's supposed to be good.”

QFT. PDF should really have been called “Print Description Format”. At heart it’s really just a long list of non-linear drawing instructions for plotting font glyphs; a sort of cut-down PostScript.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PostScript

(And, yes, I have done automated text extraction on raw PDF, via Python’s pdfminer. Even with library support, it is super nasty and brittle, and very document specific. Makes DOCX/XLSX parsing seem a walk in the park.)

What’s really annoying is that the PDF format is also extensible, which allows additional capabilities such as user-editable forms (XFDF) and Accessibility support.

https://www.adobe.com/accessibility/pdf/pdf-accessibility-ov...

Accessibility makes text content available as honest-to-goodness actual text, which is precisely what you want when doing text extraction. What’s good for disabled humans is good for machines too; who knew?

i.e. PDF format already offers the solution you seek. Yet you could probably count on the fingers of one hand the PDF generators that write Accessible PDF as standard.

(As for who’s to blame for that, I leave others to join up the dots.)
Better in terms of financial gains, sure. But in the ability of the business to have an impact on an industry, group of people or the world at large, the smaller business has infinitely less leverage.

Fundamentally these kind of comparisons are not really relevant. The $1 million/year business is not even in the same universe as the $1 billion/year one, nor are the motivations of the typical founders.
I know what an Optional is, the problem is that this pattern of wrapping stuff in Optionals seems to appear a lot, which means that in practice you have to do this little dance like you would in Java or, as others pointed out, try your luck with unwrap() and hope it goes well. In practice, it doesn't make coding much different.
Isn't that what Uber and Lyft do? I don't own a car and that's how I use them. I'm not precious about being the driver.
The BOINC paper was published last year:

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10723-019-09497-9
> What struck me is that the main family has a ton of talent. They're excellent actors and planners. In a healthy society, they could use those talents to do something productive

You got it both right and wrong. In "Parasite", the family did indeed have talents, and they were often morally wrong: for most of the movie, they're bad-guys. But the movie is successful for the questions it raises:

- why should the poor always be "good" and yet if the rich are just a little bit good, they are considered saints.

- why assume that talent has anything to do with it. The poor family seemed smarter than the rich family. But how much of success is really based on "talent" rather than knowing the right people at the right time?

The movie was good because it didn't really take sides on these issues, while throwing the question directly at your face. The very fact that you're asking the question means the effect was successful.
Try being visually impaired.