skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is that when you try to not do so, there’s a bunch who comes at you with knifes at your throat: “it’s not our job to code and maintain this”.

Even something which would require 5 lines of code, they would install a package.
totally unrelated, any of you feel that kickstarter's logo is stale and due for an update?
If you are implying that it can be difficult to investigate a particular person like, say, a reddit mod with very little biographical information and no particular post history, then I'd suggest that finding that someone giving advice is not themselves investigatable is itself an answer. Yeah, that metric will have false positives, but, alas, fewer and fewer over time as a site grows.
I'm a big fan of /r/wimmelbilder/ !
So what sort of geometry would they have, toroidal, cylindrical ? I was initially thinking you meant they would be spheres but I'm not sure how you would generate gravity on a sphere, unless only the equatorial region was inhabited.
I killed a dozen last night with mine. Works like a champ. The mosquitoes in my house tend to land on the ceiling, where they’re perfect targets.
Isn't the consensus that right means selected? I don't remember ever been confused by that.
I like to hear what he has to say about anything because he’s a thoughtful essayist and has generally interesting things to say.

Its not cult worship. I feel that way about other people as well (who aren't wealthy well known venture capitalists)
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I have one of these and it works fantastically. Highly recommended.
> or reclusing themselves in some VR utopia.

Interesting that you might consider that a positive outcome. My immediate reaction is that it would be a very negative one. It feels like giving up - "it's not great out here, we can't make it better, might as well plug in and pretend."

Maybe I'm making the same mistake as people trying to apply home ec budgeting to national economies; if I just dropped everything and started playing video games it would be bad, but the same might not be true for entire civilizations who are further up the Kardashev scale than humans.
I feel Quora's content quality is slowly becoming more like the dreaded Yahoo! Answers.
I have and use one. You don't even notice the salt. Sweep or vacuum your floors like normal.
Cool item but didn’t scale well for mobile (iOS iPhone XS Plus)
I agree fully. I feel like Quora has degraded more and more over time. A while back, it was actually useful for specific questions in different disciplines (a la StackExchange), but now every answer I find on there contains a small blurb related to the question followed by "Why you should choose X for this solution!", with X being someone's product or service they are pushing.
One lesson that I think is getting buried here - hiring 100+ people when you're not yet at product-market-fit makes it really hard to try and get to product-market-fit.

It's a lot easier to experiment, learn, and iterate when the team is small. Gets very difficult when you're 100+ so quickly.
You can say this about any advice. My brother worked in a bank. They gave bonus for everyone that sold a specific financial product for the clients. The internal name of the product was "good for suckers".
At some point, working more hours makes you less productive. As an obvious example, you can’t work literally every hour of every day, since without sleep or food you can’t function. Now perhaps the curve for you really does peak at 100 hours/week, or 80 hours/week, but frankly I doubt it.
Says low-cost but anyone knows what exactly is "low cost" here?
To be fair I think detail and nuance aren't generally well transmitted period. Like the proverbial lie getting halfway around the world before the truth gets its shoes on. Say for a given chemical Y "Y is harmless." and "Y is responsible for all diseases in modern society!" are both way faster than "Y has a biological halflife of two weeks and is safe below certain thresholds. Spray it on crops but wash it off before consuming to avoid problems." regardless of the truth of any of the three statements.
Title sounds like it was created by an HN article generator.
I frequently find lots of good content on quora. It may be a bad company, service, whatever. But it's definitely more than just "a search engine optimization scam".

I could apply similar reasoning to Medium. I don't like Medium at all, but it obviously houses a bunch of quality content.
> With open door policy that make USA great

The USA doesn't have an open door policy.
using 2x rings is unstable and can also cause drowning; flipping upside down while on a ring can also do it.
Tiny. Think the amount of salt which comes out in one shake of a salt shaker.
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Joel Spolsky wrote about this in detail, OMG, fifteen years ago:

> There’s no software priced between $1000 and $75,000. I’ll tell you why. The minute you charge more than $1000 you need to get serious corporate signoffs. You need a line item in their budget. You need purchasing managers and CEO approval and competitive bids and paperwork. So you need to send a salesperson out to the customer to do PowerPoint, with his airfare, golf course memberships, and $19.95 porn movies at the Ritz Carlton. And with all this, the cost of making one successful sale is going to average about $50,000. If you’re sending salespeople out to customers and charging less than $75,000, you’re losing money.

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2004/12/15/camels-and-rubber-...
A tablespoon in the hopper will last for a couple dozen shots. It's a very small amount per shot. Its a functional novelty though and not meant to be your primary means of pest control. For a one or two flies a week you're probably not going to notice the salt and its actually pretty nice for killing flies in hard to reach places like high ceilings or corners, or "zoomers" who barely sit still long enough to be swatted.
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Thanks for those lists. I can’t believe I never thought to use reddit like this! Google reader used to be my go to for scolling through art, and I’ve never quite recovered from its closure in terms of having interesting stuff to just look at.
I assumed it was for a different reason. The disappearance of 500&1000R notes meant that bribes required another govt approved form.
Does it really kill them though?
I'm a fan of my electric swatter (because I can catch them in-flight with it) but I have to keep it buzzing for a bit to make sure they're really dead, and then it smells slightly burnt.
The idea of journaling was filling the need to talk to someone about something, but another person could never be trusted. Anne Frank would be mortified that people read her most private thoughts and fantasies.

It's rooted in psychological well being, much like therapy. It's why I was most offended by the judge mocking Ross Ulbricht for committing his private observations, including criminal ones, to his diary. Modern life asks that we be strangers, even unto ourselves, understood only by our digital merchants.
Many of these samples are also in a wave pool. And crowded. I assume with all of the above, drowning risk is much higher in these pools.

It's a shame that swimming/water survival aren't a part of school in the US. Knowing how to tread water and doggy paddle are valuable, life-saving skills.
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Google photos, unlimited storage plus automatic ml tagging. I even upload 4k video up from my Netflix Plus channels.
1%-2% doesn't seem "very rare" to me.
I agree with this. I was very late to learn how to swim and only learned finally at around age 10.

Previous attempts to teach me to swim used flotation devices. Without them, I was terrified of drowning.

A very smart swimming teacher, seeing my fear, taught me to float on my back, first with her assistance, then without it. Once I could float, she taught me to swim backwards, froggy style. I was afraid even about that, but she said "If you ever find yourself unable to swim, just float!" and I felt confident to do that.

From there, I was comfortable swimming on my front, because once again, I knew how to go on my back and float!

Then the rest was simple skill acquisition.

30 years later, I wish I knew the name of that swim instructor!
> I feel Quora's content quality is slowly becoming more like the dreaded Yahoo! Answers.

For some reason quite a few senior people in my field seem to take time to post extremely authoritative answers to questions on Quora. I don't see any other site coming close to the quality.
Hey there, Jitsi dev here.

Yes, that is correct (except the Atlassian bit, we are owned by 8x8 now).

Currently WebRTC does not provide the necessary tools to make E2EE possible while still being able to use smart video routing techniques such as simulcast and SVC.

There is hope! In order to be able to have E2EE 2 things are needed:

* some metadata must be available without decrypting packets, this is (mostly?) available as RTP packet extensions, called "frame markings"
* an API is necessary to be able to inject one's own encrypting engine in the WebRTC chain, Google is working on this API and hopefully it's available later in the year. Google is calling this "insertable streams": https://www.chromestatus.com/feature/6321945865879552

Happy to answer any questions!
My kids wear type III PFD's until they pass their level 3 swim class. If I am swimming actively with them in close proximity they may go without. If I'm on the shore/side of the pool though, they have their PFD on. Armbands and toy flotation rings are not safety devices. Although me and my family love the water in all forms, going to the pool, lake or ocean is always a little stressful for me. I cannot have a thoughtful discussion with someone while my kids are swimming as my head is always on a swivel and my attention is 95% on the water. I will call my kids in periodically so I can take a break from the constant attention required. We do most of our swimming at lakes and ponds. At the pool, I will allow myself a little less focus since there are lifeguards. Fortunately I only have one left that needs to pass her level 3's.
Oh, I thought they were going to use me as a mechanical turk to train an AI...seems like a good idea...could have camera-based lifeguards that dispatch lil' float rescue drones.
We should clarify that PFDs (life-jackets) are probably good for young children and new swimmers. It's the floating toys that might actually be harmful.

And one skill that swimmers need, but cannot really get with an float-assist device, is putting their face in the water. I watched an adult friend learn to swim, and this was REALLY hard for him. Crazy enough - he was ex-Royal Navy submariner, so he had passed basic water survival - he could float on his back, just couldn't do anything beyond that.
I've had one for a while. Cocking it automatically engages a safety that you have to disengage in order to fire. I've invited guests to try it, and even fumbling with it, no one has fired it accidentally.
I have a site for testing these things: https://droplet.fwsnet.net/

I wrote some tests, not sure if they are perfect:

#include <stdexcept>

volatile int i = 1;
__attribute__((noinline)) int test() {
return i;
}

int main()
{
if (test() == 0) throw std::runtime_error("");
return 0;
}

====>
Instruction count: 612
Memory usage: 116 KB, top: 116 KB
Compile time: 745326 micros
Execution time: 149 micros
Binary size: 98 KB

The above is with exception, below is without:

volatile int i = 1;
__attribute__((noinline)) int test() {
return i;
}

int main()
{
if (test() == 0) return -1;
return 0;
}

====>
Instruction count: 251
Memory usage: 16 KB, top: 16 KB
Compile time: 441626 micros
Execution time: 53 micros
Binary size: 3 KB

Just remember to pick newlib as the target, as that is the thinnest, and the no-exceptions variant will be only 16kb.
It kills. Roaches might take two or three shots depending on their size and your aim, but it kills.
frugal_jerk is well worth reading.

https://www.reddit.com/r/frugal_jerk/
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Boeing's failures have killed hundreds of people. Governments still pay them and people still fly on their planes. Stores sell salmonella contaminated products all the time and people still shop there. RH's failure pales in comparison. Crypto exchanges fail all the time, people still use them. RH may lose a few customers in the short term but I see no reason they wont bounce back, they provide a product people like and the majority of people dont like change and will stay with them provided stability returns soon.

Non technical people dont want a technical apology, they just want an 'our bad, working on it' which is what was provided. The company will be fine. Should they be is another question all together.
And the humans don't care to change their interface with all these tools every 3 years even if it is theoretically sub-optimal.
I think the FOIA's gots extra info like who got a permit to build a pool.
Does this work on larger insects?
Modern KitchenAide appliances (fridges, stoves, microwaves)are garbage. Cheap exteriors that dent easily, poor engineering of critical parts and lousy ability to repair broken parts in a cost-efficient manner.

Simply more evidence of decontented America.
Wet suits and life jackets are much better options for kids than arm bands. Heck, in many places arm bands are banned completely. I think cost is one of the few reason why arm bands are still used, and perhaps that they are marginally better than not having any in some cases.

You can get a great used wet suits for next to nothing, and in many cases the swimming pools have life jacket loaners. A life jacket with safety straps (between legs) are super cheap, and they are adjustable for better fit. Snug fit means they're less in the way. And they're harder to remove.
The guy in the article openly admits he's only interested in the monetary gain from spamming questions, rather than asking questions due to genuine curiosity. So this spammer is complaining and labeling the whole program is a Scam? FFS

Here's what's most likely really going on:
- Quora is trying to incentivize searching for answers to genuine curiosities on Quora. To do so, they prod with money.
- Quora has rules to identify spammers who are gaming the system.
- This person was clearly a spammer who was only interested in making money at the bottom of the barrel and was banned.

Sounds like everything is working fine.
With the process technologies they're using, I'd guess 10s to 100s dollars.
Bill Gates had rich parents

So?

Lot's of people have rich parents (think, for example about the members of the House of Saud). How many of those raise to Bill Gates' level of excellence? He co-wrote a paper [1] as an undergraduate in a top mathematics journal. The algorithm he co-authored remained the best algorithm for its domain for 30 years.

As I
used to notice this reaction in myself, and I've been trying to avoid it, I find it interesting to reflect on psychological/social function of the "but he had rich parents" reaction that successful children of the well-off get. HNs guidelines ask us "[p]lease don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work", and I wonder if this also applies to Gates.

I'm in awe of Gates' many achievements.

[1] W. H. Gates, C. H. Papadimitriou, Bounds for sorting by prefix reversal. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0012365X79...
Only when they are thrown. (for reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COEv2kq_Ht8)
I guess my argument is that you could replace him with any number of the numerous reasonably above average performers at your company and the results would be the same.

The difference is that none of your coworkers got to sell a company to Yahoo! at an inflated dot com era price to fund a venture capital firm.

Sure, YC is a famous seed accelerator, but it’s also not unlike a number of other early stage investment firms that also provide mentoring and guidance to early stage founders. The success of these venture firms boils down to a math equation and a selection process, not any sort of unique secret sauce.

It is a venture of owning capital and growing it, not of any sort of unique skill set.
From Edward Snowden's book I learned a lot of people living there work for the government as well.
Could you grab and parse content with this?
I'm not really using CI stuff, but showing events (calendar), grabbing weather data or output from other simple commands (health checks) could be of use. Didn't find any of that in the example tiles
Might be able to replace the salt with something like fertilizer beads.
There must be a market for repairable tractors and other farming machinery by now?
When superconductivity material science meets nuclear physics
Yea- and Wifi can be had a lot closer than I expected. It’s one of my favorite places to visit. I love how the big dish is just kinda stalking the barns.
It's common to allocate all the memory you will need at the beginning of execution and not touch malloc at all after that.

You can't do anything similar for exceptions.
You can buy a set of pre-paired (configured) devices from Microtik for $195 that are 60Ghz 1Gbit full duplex that don't require any dish. I've used them, and they work well. (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B077992GG3)

The difference here seems to be a substantial increase in distance. 1.5km is a lot more than the 100-200m promised by Microtik.

Also, yes, any 60Ghz device is going to be line-of-sight only.
It's about realtime constraints in embedded systems. That's also the reason why malloc isn't used in most embedded applications.
That might be sensible with a latin language read left-to-right, but for other scripts read right-to-left, it's ambiguous. Is the enabled state then the inverse? (I believe the guidelines are that it should be left as selected for RTL languages)
"Quora Partnership Program is a by-invitation-only program where Quora invites authors and other people to ask interesting questions"

I don't quite understand the program. I would've guessed this program pays people to ANSWER questions, not ask them. Quora has a shortage of questions, but not a shortage of answers? That surprises me, or are people also paid to answer questions as well?
I know we’re discussing reddit here, but let’s please keep the reddit-style quips off of HN
> Part of the reason for floatation devices is a transitionary measure to get them more used to and practiced in "preswimming" while participating and not simply wading or pool side clinging.

The reason for worn (handheld is a different story) flotation devices other than lifevests is to sell flotation devices; I've never found anyone who teaches swimming to children (or adults, but that's not the market for them anyway) that uses them, advises using them, or considers them anything other than a safety hazard.

If you want to get a kid used to “preswimming”, which as I've seen it is actually something mostly done with infants and toddlers (older nonswimmers usually seem to go straight from wall exercises to supervised short swimming with knowledgeable teachers) it's best to do it with an adult holding them, except for extremely brief transitions.
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Hey there, Jitsi dev here. Great questions, let me try to clarify.

Jitsi is now owned by 8x8, which has a clear business model. We recently launched 8x8 Meetings, which is a rebranded Jitsi Meet with a few extra bells and whistles.

We (Jitsi) have remained Open Source while navigating through 2 acquisitions (Atlassian and 8x8) and being Open Source is in our DNA. Thus, remaining in this state was always a non-negotiable item during acquisition talks.
Why would changing business hours be so complicated?
I like material design. I have been deploying it to apps for years, and have had zero problems/complaints with it.

I work on way too many apps to pay much attention to any of them. I use Vuetify (a material design framework for VueJS) and it works beautifully.

Personally I think Development is becoming too idealistic. Ideally everything works for everyone all the time. But that's never the case, in my experience. These principles are a godsend for those of us who have bosses that want the app, "flashy", but also functional. While also having an abysmal amount of time to work on said app.

Personally I'd love to see less, "stop using this", and more, "start using this instead, here's why". I don't have time to go in and hack my material design framework, to fix an issue, I haven't had an issue with.

Read a book, and create your own UI doesn't work for me.

P.S. WCAG principles are basically unattainable in the real world. Almost any national entity has hundreds of millions of violations. I know because I also manage an app that scans for them.
You must be new here, welcome to late stage capitalism. Nobody rich goes to jail, and lawsuits are cost of business. You just factor them into the 5 billion dollar company, pay your 300M dollar fine and walk away a billionaire.

It sucks, I'm not defending it, but it's fact
Can we do that with coronavirus?
And sleep deprivation/poor sleep habits, psychotropic use, stimulants, etc can all cause comparable conditions. I imagine the original quote isn't talking about a specific, concrete, diagnosis and is leaning more towards the colloquial use.

I had some meetings at the YC SF office 2 years ago and everyone I saw, and talked to, had a phone or laptop screen they were staring at while trying to also talk to you and in some instances pausing at their laptop to do something on their phone while occasionally looking up to notice you were still there and talking.

Anecdotally I find that doing the above can start to cause you to not be able to focus on any one thing with any real level of attention and I'm not a founder or startup employee that has a ton of real, and imagined, pressure/worry added to that.
Do you have any preparations tips or guides you'd care to share?
Cloud providers already price usage based. Let's see how long it takes to bubble up to the end-users.
> But on the other hand, I’m one of the few people who can say heterodox things without worrying about getting fired. So if I don’t say these things, who will?

Has Paul Graham ever made use of this freedom?
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The political subreddits are mostly echo chambers of a single party that has taken over there especially in "nonpartisan" groups, especially in news subreddits like politics, news, and worldnews. Even moderates aren't really welcome and I've seen anyone who said something even slightly conservative get ripped to shreds and moderators are like "I'll allow it", pretty crazy. There are many, many good informational forums though, like the article mentioned you just have to look out for marketeers and snake oil a bit.
> I don't quite understand the program. I would've guessed this program pays people to ANSWER questions, not ask them.

Sometimes asking the interesting question is the hard bit.
My lead architect wants to employ a low-code platform for creating microservices
Reducing money for education is probably not a good idea. Maybe try to reduce the amount of debt students are subjected to, that would certainly help. Otherwise people would probably intensify their fight for what they see as justice.

I don't like what some students preach either and I do indeed believe some courses might be more ideological than educational, but that doesn't lessen the importance of a high quality education. I think education being dependent on money to a degree this large is the problem and economic pressure certainly reduces learning success.