skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So I recently started helping my team adopt a B2B content marketing strategy, after being kind of removed from the marketing world for a few years...

For a small bootstrapped business, with no writers in-house, fledgeling bare minimum resources starting from scratch with freelancers, the amount of catching up we need to do is staggering. So, so much money has been pumped into churning out articles, videos, webinars, etc etc by venture backed startups. Every conceivable genuinely valuable shareable topic has been sliced and diced a thousand ways into mush. Nothing we could possibly produce comes close to what other teams have already drafted, years ago now.

In my career people often bring me in as the creative "ideas" guy, but this task of coming up with content when there's so much noise to compete with... it's broken me. Never in my life had I stared at a blank canvas and felt so lost. Coming up with absolutely nothing.. every idea just feels like cheap regurgitated garbage.

That's a long way of saying, I think this marketing channel, for B2B at least, is kind of tapped out. Or maybe I'm tapped out. Probably the latter?
Offspring with living parents and grandparents have incredibly better odds at surviving.
It’s WebGL underneath, which explains the ability to render really fast. You’re not drawing individual shapes so much as shoving data structures into the graphics card.

(That’s not a statement on how impressive this is, just a “oh that’s how it’s done.”)
Teaching Like a State
Nobody is stopping aribnb from paying the full cost of Cobra, after the option is provided as is legally obligated.

It is certainly not cheaper to forgo free COBRA and buy insurance on the exchange.
While I think this is an interesting story, why are these sort of articles popping up on Hacker News? This is not the place for it.
Heh. My deep pondering was honestly on the Z80 side. CP/M and such. But thinking about "what do I need to keep in the first 256 bytes to make this fly" and all the other interesting quirks of the 6502 are still fascinating.
Are you not from an overweight country?
Japanese decry boomer-era technology as hospitals file Covid-19 cases by fax
Did you try to 'suck' all the air out of the jar by lighting a candle inside it.
Yes — I was slightly incomplete in my description, but you are exactly correct about what I meant. Company liabilities include things you are obligated to pay under uncertain future circumstances, so accountants have to make sure that such liabilities can be handled if they ever arise.
This is also why gymnasts and ballerinas need to be taught young. They lack fear and "bounce" when they fall.

Once they turn 12 or so they lack that "bounce", it becomes much more difficult or impossible to teach at a certain level.
I think of Bioshock when I see that word
https://twitter.com/chipspopandabar/status/11544814373088829...
Self driving angle. :)
Under the rules you live in you are not.

Why is it a good idea?

Employees less likely to leave without notice.

Employees stay longer because the safety net grows.

Less likely to speak poorly about you after leaving

More secure in their job. More emotional invested.

What are your reasons for not? Even if google stops selling at home they will keep the server alive for a grace period.

I had a friend who ran a bitcoin market. When the market shutdown he was responsible for customer records for 7 years and had to pay a company to secure access in case of requests.
I admire the kid's hacker spirit!
try coding at Home Depot in the lumber section
Interesting—I scroll with my middle finger, always have. I thought everyone did. Makes sense in retrospect that different people would find different "intuitive" ways of using a mouse, though!
I got my hopes up a little too quickly.

Turns out "now" => "soon". The extensions in question, linked in the post, still display the same message of not being available for Android, and the article says the change will be within a few weeks:

"These add-ons will be available in Firefox Preview within the next 2 weeks."
This may be a question you get a lot, and I apologize in advance if it is, but: Why use Mac, if it makes so simple of things difficult?
Some people never grow up. Who are you to deny them of their their childish delights?
Chrome and Safari are absolutely not using the actual native control implementation. E.g. on Windows Chrome is not jamming a combobox HWND into its browser window.
>anti-aging

Since when did "anti-aging" come to mean "anti-visible signs of aging"? Why should I care about looking old when I am old? Shouldn't I care more about being healthy when I am old?
disrupting the day of all the drivers on that freeway
I can see how they may become transmission corridors. My thought is they could also be treatment clusters. Don't just quarantine them in place, per se. Take over nearby hotels and spread them out, if needed. On contamination, have all supplies ready and onsite.

Note, I explicitly don't think this would be cheap. Such that I am not sure it is tenable without hindsight.

That said, I can see your point. With my firework shop metaphor, you are basically proposing to disperse the inventory such that one misfire will not ignite all of them.

I think I just have a hard time believing we will contain this with all of the other data we have seen. My gut is it is as likely that there is some yet unknown factor for the places that have seen better numbers.
I want to just say I appreciate your level-headed response to the anonymous poster.

Separately... "In fact, I've seen a lot more intense IC to CEO debate in Canonical than anywhere else I've worked."

As an outsider, this makes me wonder if the CEO is too involved in day-to-day operations. (And overriding the work of those with more expertise than himself.)
"I’m not sure why you’re interpreting that as an attack." - not at all. I interpret it as you advertising your own preferences. I advertise mine.
> If you try to write niche articles on certain topics, people will tell you to save it for Wikia. I am not excited or interested in such a parochial project which excludes so many of my interests, which does not want me to go into great depth about even the interests it deems meritorious—and a great many other people are not excited either, especially as they begin to realize that even if you navigate the culture correctly and get your material into Wikipedia, there is far from any guarantee that your contributions will be respected, not deleted, and improved.

I hate to be seen as supporting deletionism, because I've never contributed enough to WP to really have an opinion (I've mostly just expanded on existing articles and fixed obvious vandalism and typos), but I don't understand why this is a bad thing.

I don't like that they're being driven to an ad-supported website, but the simple act of not having Wikipedia eat all of the web seems like a good thing. The Iron Law of Oligarchy will weaken the website just like it's destroyed every other website, with no good reason to believe it'll be different this time. At least if Wikipedia is limited in scope, the damage it does will be limited too.
That isn't true. Browsers reimplement the native look and feel (in some cases) but they do not use the actual native control implementation.
The justifications are partly the same as what Daniel Micay has written extensively on in the rational for hardened_malloc (https://github.com/GrapheneOS/hardened_malloc) - unsynchronized per-thread state inherently sacrifices global consistency for performance and makes it impossible to detect a lot of types of memory usage errors (DF/UAF, etc) that could otherwise be caught.

However musl has the additional constraint of being compatible with small/very-low-memory environments. Lack of global consistency inherently means you will end up using memory less efficiently and requesting significantly more from the system. The new malloc about to go upstream in musl is, to my knowledge, the first/only advanced hardened allocator using slab-type design rather than traditional dlmalloc type split/merge, but also designed for extremely low overhead/waste at low to moderate usage rather than extreme performance. And in the vast majority of applications, this is perfectly reasonable. Even Firefox for example does very well with it.

With that said, new malloc is expected to be somewhat faster than old on lots of workloads (and considerably faster than old would be if we fixed the flaws in old that motivated it), but it's not a performance-oriented allocator. If you really want/need that you should probably link jemalloc or similar (and accept all the tradeoffs that come with that). In Rust programs without "unsafe", it may make sense to do that by default.
In many countries, there is no concept of 'at will employment'. It is not surprising that HNers from such countries would be incredulous.

Employment law in Europe, for example, frequently requires the severance terms to be determined at the time the employee is signed up. The employment agreement is a contract, and will be signed by all positions in the firm. In many cases, the severance terms are based on law.

Among other differences, for example, a German President is personally liable for the financial obligations of their company. If the company goes bankrupt, so does he.
And you dont see how that's an incredibly slippery slope, where the relative quality is rated by the worst article ala stack ranking?
Well, at least most animals don't try killing themselves, regardless of how bad their quality of life is, so they seem to prefer existence to quality of life.
Life expectancies were longer than people think back then. A lot of times we see stats that are dominated by high infant mortality. If you lived to 10 you were gonna make it a while.
I think it is less about Mac development and more about submitting it to Mac App Store. You can still make an app for Mac without submitting it to the app store, without having to deal with majority of those issues. It's just sometimes there are good reasons for wanting to have it in the app store.

No personal experience with either, but I would wager that you would encounter somewhat similar roadblocks if you try submitting things to Chrome App Store or Microsoft Store.
Trump's voters are the opposite of class conscious since they fail to see (are discouraged from seeing) their commonality with other poor disenfranchised people (who happen to be black, Hispanic, etc). I also don't know Obama failed to deliver something since he inherited Bush's recession and managed to turn it around.
I can strongly attest to snowflake. I regret AWS doesn't offer the same features without making us jump through the maze of services with which we can emulate the same concept.
In Germany, if an employee gets laid off after 2 years, they would get 50% monthly salary times number of years worked, so 1 months pay.

That means the Airbnb severance package is equivalent to a 6+ year employee, for every employee getting laid off.

That's generous by German standards, isn't it?

Then when you consider the median income for a software engineer in Germany is $54k, whereas in the USA it's $92k, and at Airbnb it's $200k+, that means that an engineer being laid off from Airbnb could be receiving the median annual income of a software engineer in Germany as severance, not including stock.

That, to me, is generous.

https://www.howtogermany.com/pages/termination-employment-co...
if this is supposed to help small businesses in the pandemic, then this should be limited to businesses that are already established and had been making revenue, or even profit.

that should weed out all the pure scams and limit the potential for abuse.

there is still a risk. but it's much easier to judge the potential of an existing business going through a rough time, vs understanding the difference between a genuine new business or a scam.
I live in Sweden, I have traveled with Swedish people to the Philippines. Many of them never get tanned, they just get red.

The article criticizes the generalization of using sunscreen advice, and proceeds to go full-generalization itself.

The study that the article is based on may be very interesting, the article is just misleading. If there is parts of the population that avoid too much to be under sunlight, it is worth studying. Asking the general public to stop using sunscreen is just bad advice.
Can't help but wonder why no apps ship with instructions on how to disable SIP and AMFI, thus effectively neutering the entire signature/notarization requirement thing for good.

And before you say "security": it ain't that if someone else (Apple) has the private key.
Good luck finding a dev job malig 150k+ in Canadian dollars.
This is my current possibly incorrect understanding:

Scenario A there’s no tax, but the company is failing to hold up their end of the bargain and this would probably lead to everyone quitting or some sort of RSU regrant.

Scenario B I think you’re taxed when they vest. If there’s no IPO then you don’t get any money.
But kids do get more intelligent as they get older. They get better at doing stuff in ways not explainable by practice.
I knew a 5-year old that was not much below 5' tall, and built like a linebacker (hefty, but solid). Ended up being just slightly above average height when full grown. Kids are weird.
So is this article though.
It's pretty exceptional. And if it doesn't get enough upvotes, it will quickly fall away.

I'm thinking the kid must have played a fair amount of driving/racing games. And he said he was going to Cali to buy a Lambo...
What is 0 to the power of 0?
Pardon my CNN...

Cracks monster

Sips

- yuuup

https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/10/us/florida-ups-truck-police-c...

Lot of things disrupt people's day on the road...
> I don't like that they're being driven to an ad-supported website, but the simple act of not having Wikipedia eat all of the web seems like a good thing.

No, having all of this content under Wikipedia would be an amazing thing. For all its warts, Wikipedia (When it has the information you are looking for) is the gold standard in what the the web should be. It's amazing that it exists as a website, and compared to the mountains of crud that surrounds it, it has an amazing UX.

The inclusionist argument is that the web would be better if more of its content was available under the same high standards that Wikipedia set.

Competitors can't deliver that same standard because of economies of scale.
You may have been lucky, but that was not the case with everyone. Some of the entries appear to be missing, but last night someone setup a honeypot and was posting what they saw.

Adding keys to /root/.ssh/authorized_keys, scp'ing sshkeys, flushing iptables.

I am of course one of the idiots that had it exposed to the internet. I wouldn't do it with a database, but I didn't think twice about salt. Where was my head!
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Safari on macOS uses native controls. The reply button I'm about to click to submit this comment is 100% native, because Hacker News is using nothing fancy beyond <input type="submit" value="reply">. (Interestingly, Safari will outright ignore font sizes it cannot draw a native control for…)
Out of curiosity, what is the quote and whom is it by? (not trying to challenge you, just interested)
From what I noticed Apple seems to relatively okay at this. On Android the typical app redesign has the key feature "we made the previews larger", which is always an infinitely stupid idea, because the main view of most apps is a list, meaning you want some overview over what's available. Soundcloud and Spotify (there are many more I can't think of right now) seem to think that a gigantic either very obstructed or totally generic cover is better than being able to see multiple titles at once (what the fuck - doubly so since Soundcloud removed the most awesome feature of showing a wave form preview - newer versions coincidentally only show you a portion of the wave form in full screen in playback mode).

Setting a custom DPI only helps a little - side elements like nav bars do get smaller, but all the layout is still completely the same, like everything is designed for a tiny phone (which absurdly nobody makes anymore).

What are designers thinking? Is it really just short-sighted "look, we like content" and "but pretty", or is it something that actually improves UX for most people and just leaves me bewildered?
Whether or not you care about your appearance, your skin is still a very important organ.

For skin it just happens that “aging” and “visible signs of aging” are synonymous.
Fake news. No way that kid is 5.
I wasted a lot of my time evangelising Linux for many years.

The equivalent in the motor world is to try to get everybody to drive Mazdas because 'They're Better!'.

I happily drive my Mercedes and I happily use Linux Mint on my Desktop. But if Joe next door wants to use Windows and drive his Ford, who am I to make him think otherwise?

I'm probably an outlier, but I've never used Windows as my everyday desktop OS. I moved from MSDOS to UNIX around 1991 and then from UNIX to Linux in 2001. Everything I want to do on my computer is done with Linux and without Windows.
Aha, found them.

The comments of "erewhon" (I think the same guy goes by "Tom Bedlam" on other sites) and "jvoight0205" are particularly interesting.
https://m.fark.com/comments/1386759/11863499
https://m.fark.com/comments/1203844/9730116
https://m.fark.com/comments/4371964/50871026
> Technical roles sure...

I'm not so sure. Recent news has been that lots of startups are laying people off and Google has slashed budgets and frozen (or at least scaled back) hiring across the company.[1]

Companies like Google and Facebook that rely on ads for most of their revenue aren't going to be doing so well when a lot of the businesses that buy their ads are closed down.

Companies like Apple that sell premium-priced goods are also not likely to do well in a recession - people who have lost their jobs or are afraid of losing their jobs won't be running out to buy a new iPhone.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/23/google-to-cut-marketing-budg...
Working for a competitor is not automatically a conflict of interest. Working at two restaurants, or two retail stores, or driving passengers would all likely not be a conflict of interest
Same thing and worked a treat, with live updating... interesting.
What’s the average case that this happens? 1 in 10? 1 in 1000? 1 in 100k etc..

(Not baiting just curious)

Aws passed 1mm customers (businesses in 2015-2016)

If this is the case do we not likely run more risk having our landlord, best friend, VC partner, banker, vendor, first X hire... also steal our business/model and it be more likely than AWS?
Fair point.

And it may explain why darker skin (which has less incidents of skin cancer) was selected for at lower latitudes, while white skin (more effective as absorbing vitamin D) was selected for at higher latitudes.

The paper doesn’t specify why these genes might have been under such strong selection. But the likely explanation for the pigmentation genes is to maximize vitamin D synthesis, said paleoanthropologist Nina Jablonski of Pennsylvania State University (Penn State), University Park, as she looked at the poster’s results at the meeting. People living in northern latitudes often don’t get enough UV to synthesize vitamin D in their skin so natural selection has favored two genetic solutions to that problem—evolving pale skin that absorbs UV more efficiently or favoring lactose tolerance to be able to digest the sugars and vitamin D naturally found in milk.

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2015/04/how-europeans-evolve...
All thanks to WebGL.

I've been using this exact test for years now to judge a phone/tablet before buying/recommending - devices with the exact same SoC can differ wildly in performance.

Nowadays any phone that can't display 20k bunnies at 20FPS likely has:

1. An underpowered GPU.

2. Badly designed cooling.

3. A screen with a too high resolution.

Of course there are many more thorough and appropriate benchmarks, but this one doesn't require you to install anything and will give you an answer before you're approached by the store staff inquiring what is it that you're trying to do with the merchandise.
"Please tell us about the time you most successfully hacked some (non-computer) system to your advantage."
Since it is at the top with a lot of votes, it seems like it is indeed the place for it no?
I don't know how such tactics as side letters are legal. In finance, there's numerous hoops and rules to jump through to actually prove that you sold and asset and did not merely engaged in a dressed up repo transaction.

a few links

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repo_105

https://www.deallawwire.com/2017/05/18/true-sales-a-refreshe...
I suppose it would be "instead of". Unemployment insurance isn't really a thing here.
what about https://hbr.org/2019/04/research-when-airbnb-listings-in-a-c...
Because I've used them. The most complicated firearm the average grunt will use is an M249, which has fewer moving parts than many handguns. Production inertia and poor accuracy keep the AK series out of the US armed forces, along with a preference to 5.56 over 7.62. Basic maintenance for an M16 is nearly identical for an AK-47, the M16 is lighter and has smaller/lighter ammunition, and has better mid-range and long-range accuracy. So let's say that there is a very slow curve to complexity vs convenience up to a certain point. But we have been using the M16 since the 60's; plenty of newer, more complex rifles have come out in that time, many with better range, accuracy, stopping power, cyclic rate, etc... But we haven't moved away from a simple, fairly reliable rifle.
https://www.nerdwallet.com/blog/loans/student-loans/educatio...
> “Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.”

By Ronald Wright.
Medieval battles weren't as chaotic as people think nor as movies portray
Charging for it is fine, and if your goal is to do an MVP test, a subscription is a very high bar. You're excluding people who may actually pay for such as service if it was better priced (such as a one time payment). If I'm planning to print this and place it somewhere I'm not going to do it knowing that if I stop paying your $3/mo fee the QR code stops working. It may sound good from your perspective to get free money every month, but you have to think from the customer's perspective.

Not to mention that alternatives for your product are a 2 minute google search away. Your pricing has to reflect the market and availability of alternatives.
How do you define 'in trouble'? An older-looking 14's the mark where I think you'd see actual repercussions, but I can't imagine people would be particularly-impressed if the boy was double his age (plenty of kids can drive at ten; plenty more kids can drive at ten as poorly as the adolescent in the article is described as doing). I think someone at the age of 13 could probably get this amount of press if they got caught in Utah or wherever coming from Georgia.
The number of European devs making >$100k is a fraction of a percent. Your numbers tell the story — the pinnacle of the entire European continent is still only paying 25% comparable US market rate, and 60% comparable AU/CA rate. In a city more expensive than SF.
Mac Pro maxed out here in Australia is A$82,737.98

<gasp>
> You can still make an app for Mac without submitting it to the app store, without having to deal with majority of those issues.

Not any more. Apple is so much of a control freak lately that non-app-store apps on Catalina are still required to go through them for "notarization" to be allowed to run on an unmodified OS — and yes that requires the $99 account. For me personally, that's the reason I'm staying on Mojave. That and 32-bit apps.
That’s a very convenient but not very ethical conclusion. You are basically saying “I believe some people will try to go further than I like,I conclude it’s best to do nothing”. I can’t agree with that but it’s a common political trick to mark things you don’t like as too extreme and therefore nothing should be done.