skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think I read somewhere that the algorithm de-emphasizes controversial stories.
Seriously -- I didn't realize how bad it could get until I got to Vienna and a local told me that residents of the city are required to be inoculated against ticks because they can make you brain dead, epilepsy, etc, and I didn't believe it... but it's real
https://www.iamat.org/country/austria/risk/tick-borne-enceph...
I don't know why people in this thread, keep comparing macbooks to dell xps. they're not equivalent. Thinkpad's X & T series are probably the only machines hardware wise that compare to macbook from durability and working out of the box with Linux. a t490 released last year, has better specs than the new 13" macbook. And I will applaud apple for bringing back a saner keyboard n eSC key.
I bet you can get at least double on eBay!

Jokes aside, for those old computers, selling on eBay is way better than trade-in programs. There are collectors out there that might need this to complete their macbook shrine, and others who that want a mac but can't afford a new one.
People should balance their concerns when taking a job like the relative pay, stress, work/life balance and ethics of the employer (if that's a thing you care about).

Amazon loses pretty big on relative pay & ethics.

Also, as a general note "be humble oh employee for the gift you receive from your benevolent overlord" is a big part of the philosophy that's utterly breaking America right now - we need less of it.
Faxing Your Way to System – Part Two
> The problem discussed here is performance on complex queries

This is the problem. In my experience, these complex queries exist because of either unnecessary super normalized schema or one schema to fit them all.

Nowadays storage is so cheap that you can safely de-normalize the schema and have tables that fit your query model.

If you have very complex queries chances are that you must take a closer look at your application design.
I downvoted your GP and I will tell you why: it wasn't the observations of the way that businesses are run. It was this: "there is a reason they are working entry-level positions". This is Just World Hypothesis or "people are miserable because they deserve it". I flatly reject any hypothesis that the world we are living in is fair. You can consider any number of anthropological examples of societies that are not organized like capitalism in the West to see that the portion of the population that are "freeloaders" is not as high as the number of people who are stuck in "low skill" jobs. Just to take an example, the Amish do not experience this high level of stratification and wage slavery misery. They have their own problems, for sure, but humans are not en masse lazy. Most of us want to contribute to society and our system is exploitative.

And before you accuse me of being upper class, I grew up on food stamps, didn't complete college because I was working full-time to pay my way through it and it just didn't work out, and I worked plenty of terrible, low-skill jobs before I landed a job in tech.
We are adding new words everyday!
Isn't the Cloudflare CDN included in the free plan as well?
I've made systemd profiles and timers to do restic backups. It's really clean and works well. Also much better testable than cron. It will most likely also work for more complex scenarios, like you're mentioning.
I don't "lug" them around, they are placed in this thing called "bookcase". Perhaps you have heard about them! I heard they are legacy now too... :)
Rclone is really a fantastic tool, its configurability based on backends allow for amazing combinations!

You can configure any cloud storage backend (B2, S3, GCS ...) and combine it with other utility storage backends, like "crypt" [1], "cache" [2] and "chunker" [3], I highly recommend it to anyone searching for a backup solution.

The only feature I miss from Rclone is automatic directory monitoring and mirroring, which I solved using Syncthing (but forces me to host an additional server for it).

[1] https://rclone.org/crypt/
[2] https://rclone.org/cache/
[3] https://rclone.org/chunker/
Walmart advising employees to receive benefits they are lawfully eligible for is not theft.
Sometimes all it takes is convincing the one person who controls the rest.
As problems mount, sellers find fewer avenues to communicate with Amazon
Both can be true at the same time
> in particular really long lines (ex. 1000+ chars) would make the thing chug

My uninformed guess is, this is bottlenecked by an inefficient algorithm that accesses the memory too much, i.e. it's nonlinear with respect to the number of characters. I doubt that tweaking the overall speed would fix it.
This is definitely changing now. It was like this when I went to college 15 years ago but the tides are changing.
Very cool but misleading title - you need to bring your own optics.
If that's true why not wait a few months and buy it for say $100M? Maybe it's not as splashy for Intel if they do that.
It’s not being compared to WFH. It’s being compared to employees having private offices. You’re making a straw man argument.
ultimately this is an argument about who gets to eat a shit sandwich that isn't really the fault of anyone involved. personally, I'm a bit more sympathetic to the students than the large institution, but I can understand your perspective. I certainly don't want schools to go under from refunding tuition.

as I understand it, there's a certain amount of "funny money" going on with private institutions. the actual cost of a year of school doesn't reconcile with tuition receipts; it gets supplemented with donations, state funds, and returns on the endowment. this makes it sort of hard to put a dollar value on what a fair tuition refund would look like.
That looks great! Thanks for the reply!
If not, at least when they decommission the old carriers we can have some serious monster truck rallies.
> This gets to the heart of the idea of "privilege", and why it can be so difficult to see yourself as privileged

That's because basic trust and respect shouldn't be a privilege, the lack of it is the issue. Calling someone privileged for being respected almost sounds like an insult. Let's focus less on privilege and more on disadvantage.
The kind of pretzels people will tie their brains into results in this kind of outcome. It's the view (reinforced by corporate media) that a) US corporations are the greatest force in the world and b) US Government is trying to restrain them because it's evil/incompetent.

Easy to give an (incorrect) answer if you have an entire propaganda arm willing to support you.
They are required to do that by law because they work on government contracts. I have worked at a couple of contractors, they are all required to do that. IN my experience it has all been self reported, but I wouldn't immediately assume that Boeing is being nefarious.
This explains the Theodore Roosevelt COVID outbreak. Sone sailers probably started blabbing about the giant tires and antigravity machinery and needed to be silenced. Captain Crozier was either also talking too much, or his removal is part of an elaborate double bluff coverup.
I don't need to buy one: my laptop has VGA and HDMI outputs.

That was the point...
My step-daughter spilled water on her MBA. It would no longer charge. It would run connected to AC, and the battery health was fine, but the "charging circuit" needed replaced, according to diagnostics.

Okay, I thought. $200, maybe $300, including parts and labor.

Not quite. They wanted $879. "Maybe we should look at getting you into a new Macbook instead?"

No thanks. It was almost never used unplugged anyway.
I went to poke at Wikipedia just for giggles: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_and_female_fertility

Love the [citation needed] and lack of clarity in that second paragraph.
I often have this discussion with a friend about how to figure out your place in a company.

It is very important to figure out what class you belong to in a company. Some try to boil this down to ‘cost-centers’, but it isn’t always that simple.

Warehouse workers are second class citizens at Amazon. This can be true for a developer in certain environments, it can be true for designers, etc.

I’ve worked at places where developers are second class citizens compared to Project/Product management, and then I’ve seen where designers are second class citizens to developers. It can be even more granular where frontend is second class to backend, or vice versa.

However you figure it out, if you find out you are a second class citizen there, you have to move on, as your potential is capped by the business priorities/culture/structure. It’s never a good fit.
you basically did the same thing with your comment
I also use restic and I have a cron script which runs early Monday morning every week. Restic supports auto-pruning, so I have it set up to backup a new snapshot then purge all except the most recent 100 years, 12 months, and 5 weeks.
you should have a couple of weeks to return the item, if you still have the original packaging I think
They aren't filling the roles after. Companies are just trimming the under-performing fat.
I am thinking on writing notes/journal. But, I have to draw things which I am not really good at. Does anyone knows about quick drawing solutions?
Did anyone hear of this rainbow = NHS thing before the Queen’s speech?

I ask because surely most of the country knows the existing connection between the rainbow symbol and LGBT issues.

Like, areas of my city painted roads in rainbow colours several years running to show welcome and support.

I’m vaguely wondering whether the rainbow was deliberately hijacked, in the same way as the phrase ‘postcode lottery’ was repurposed by the right.
Purely anecdotal, but my dad has a story around this--his company wasn't doing great, and they needed to increase factory output, so one of the best ideas was to create a factory profit share amongst all the factory employees. They called a random group of employees together to run the idea by them, and after they presented, they asked them what they thought.
One guy then asked, "So does this mean I have to work harder?"
My dad replied something like, "Well yes, but you'll get a share of the factory's profits if you work harder."
Random guy, "Well I don't want to work harder..."

I think it just puts a voice to what a lot of people think, but never say.

[edit] Sorry, to add details, they were trying to increase throughput with the same number of workers. The factory already went 24/7 under EU guidelines, so more hours were out of the question.
I do not see them, Nokia is minor, Win discontinued..?
Looking back on it, I probably should have but I wrote the whole thing a bit mindlessly after making the charts so I didn't give Berlin the attention it deserves. Personally, I'm a bit skeptical that I'd enjoy living in a non-English speaking city but to those willing to do that, I'm sure it would be a great city!
> People don’t default to cheating the system. It’s action-reaction. If there is a huge imbalance, if people think they aren’t being treated fairly...

One of my HR friends was dismayed at the treatment of warehouse workers at Amazon: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21217969
https://youtu.be/Y666duJMDnQ
> I'm not saying that it is wrong

This is exactly what you said:

> Suppose our current theory of relativity was wrong

You should read this:

https://chem.tufts.edu/AnswersInScience/RelativityofWrong.ht...
My general rule of thumb for controlling for the quality of the information I output is to:

(1) Talk mostly about things I actually did

(2) Do at least light cross-checking of the main opinions I assert

I'm currently writing some things in the security area, so I've been careful to reference specifications, conference presentations, public documents from security audits, etc. That won't keep me from being wrong, but I'm more likely to be right after going through those extra steps.
I have largely ceased blogging on a personal site, because for things that I might need again, there are other places to post it where it would be more more visible and more useful to other people, and I would be able to find it again too. Information regarding travel and local sites, for example, can go on Wikivoyage or OpenStreetMap. Observations in my own professional field can often be formally published in journals. Useful code snippets can be uploaded to package repositories like Emacs Melpa, etc. While there is a concern with contributing to walled gardens, book reviews might go to Goodreads and some travel information to iOverlander.
I do not think that was the [youtube] link you intended
An easy-to-compose functional validation system for JavaScript developers
We live in a society where the most important and essential jobs are treated with condescension.
The following passage addresses your concern.

We analyzed the results of our first 500 reviews and calculated the correlations between high marks in categories like team, problem area and business economics with the number of requested intros from our reviewing VCs.

In other words the individual factors were graded, and the VC chose whether or not to meet. They are correlating the ranking of the components with the likelihood of asking for a meeting. They are not relying on the VC explanation of why they asked to meet.

I am curious who graded the proposals and how consistent that was. It would also be nice to see what good vs bad looks like in each category.
Call it whatever you like, they're using it as a crutch to pay their employees as little as possible.
For other reasons, reminded me of Space Quest: https://spacequest.fandom.com/wiki/Sequel_Police
I would hope the tax calculator I used would account for healthcare but admittedly I'm not sure.
Ask HN: How to hole up in a cabin in the woods to write my great software idea?
It's discouraging that it seems that in order to write software I'm expected to have constant and fast internet access to Stack Overflow or whatever search site to find answers or download crazy large toolchains.

How did people program working solutions before instant online answers and is it even possible to hole up in a completely distraction free, out of the way locale for that next great side project?

I'm jealous of the idea of the novelist holing up in a spartan cabin with just an idea and a typewriter. Maybe a dictionary, maybe some prepared research notes; but completely cut off and only running off meager brought materials.

So how would a programmer prepare enough to code up their idea without internet access?
What documentation, books, or materials would one bring?
Are these materials general, like journal articles about algorithms and CS? Or very specific to the OS, framework, standard library, etc?
Are there first principles at each abstraction layer from bare metal, OS, user space, and application level that allows cobbling software solutions without external resources?
The communication only exists if the receiver is there to witness the "hello"?
This is great. Their current API requires you to identify a unique host to send data to, so you’re constantly performing a metric ton of DNS queries. Until I white listed the base domain it was the #1 client of my Pihole installation by multiple orders of magnitude.
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23067181
It mirrors my (anecdotal) experience in the last 2 companies that were dependent on it too.

With that said... Makes me wonder how many (if any) companies are moving opposite direction that Oracle survives and doing so nicely.
> people here can't claim it is not happening

> people can't claim that Bezos knows nothing about that and isn't involved in any of this.

All of this assumes that people will believe Tim. People still can claim those things simply by saying they don't believe him.
They aren't analogous to unearned salary in this context.

The RSUs are essentially going to show up as long as you stay employed. The same is not true of your salary (as a lot of people are learning first hand during this economic downturn). The value of RSUs changes with the value of the company, which is also not true with salary. While you could argue that RSUs granted at hiring might just be part of your comp, refreshers are generally seen as having been earned based on past performance, with income deferred to encourage retention.

As a consequence, when you leave a job and go work somewhere else, it's far more likely that you will find a commensurate salary somewhere else than something commensurate with unvested RSUs; even if you get something to match the RSUs, it's likely not going to "vest" on the schedule you once had.
No, there is nothing clear about marketing a brand new laptop with a 3-year old CPU alongside a current-gen one under the same name. It's exactly as the parent comment said, they may as well be two completely different models of computer.
Pay higher wages and your customers go somewhere else to save a dollar. Some businesses don’t have the luxury of customers that will pay more than the lowest prices.
Thanks for the note! I'm looking forward to seeing your analysis expand!
Is there any credible hypothesis on it not reducing transmission?
> Do you?

I worked retail for a dozen or so years after HS, before, and later during, getting my eng deg. The bad apples (so to speak) were rare. People showed up, worked, went home just fine.

On the other hand, in the 15 years I've been a professional developer, I've seen people spend all their time looking for their next gig and doing the programming challenges necessary to get that gig. I've seen people skirt IT rules so they could access sites they shouldn't at work. I've seen people throw absolute 3 year old style tantrums because they were asked to fix bugs. People routinely show up late to meeting. All things low-skilled workers would get fired for but is somehow acceptable in our "bro" culture.

It isn't an issue with the skill necessary for the environment. It's the people. And it doesn't matter if they're making minimum wage or 150K.
Food service, maintenance, landscaping, small tetail.. plenty of possible examples come to mind.
If you already can drop DLLs into a protected folder on a machine, do you really need fax in the title? It seems like hacking with extra steps.
As a developer that supports B2 (I write ExpanDrive) I think it’s great that they are moving on from an API that doesn’t expose any extra value.

That being said, I wish B2 performance was better. Throughput is dramatically slower than S3.
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May Gladness
Hey everyone!

My son Andrew, who is 7, and I created a new tournament called May Gladness. This takes the place of the sadly canceled March Madness, but for OUR game, there is absolutely no sports knowledge necessary! Instead, all you have to do is vote for your favorites in each match-up between things that make people happy.

We just started the opening round - the Round of 64 - and I'd love to have all of you check it out, vote, and share the link.

Here is the Google form to vote. https://forms.gle/gx9umAEKZRxQKvr46

And we made a fun ESPN-style analysis video to go along with it, though you can still play without watching it. https://youtu.be/paeDGse1ohs

Hope you'll all play along, and have a May full of Gladness!
I disagree. Lower middle class people can open businesses propped up on loans, in which their drive to hit their margin is even higher.
What other cities would you suggest adding?
Moot point, if the south won, would slavery still be ok? No.
If by large tech company you mean one of the largest ten out there then yea - but widen that field a bit and you'll find some good ones.

And, I feel like this is sort of what we get as a society and marketplace that doesn't value ethical or enforce business practices. There is no penalty for acting unethically and there is a profit penalty for acting ethically - so the top performing companies are likely to be those that decided to ignore ethics and pursue the dollar.

Google, for a while, was an exception to this rule by pure luck - they so fully dominated search when it was just becoming a thing you could actually monetize that they had bails of money they could use to operate ethically and at a large scale... but they've since course corrected to be an unethical as anyone else.
I suspect that those of us who worked our ways through school at menial jobs can think of many examples right off the top of our heads.

In my experience, "1/2" is too much (depending on how you define stealing). But it was quite common for both employees to steal from their employer, and for employers to steal (wages) from the employees.

It was also quite common for employees to simply walk off when they felt they'd had enough.
I don't see the post talking about zeroing memory anywhere?
Is there any irony to be found in the fact that, reading the linked article (https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/5dm8bx/leaked-amazon-memo...), I'm seeing 4 copies of the ad for the Audible original "Escape from Virtual Island"?
What kind of drawings? If you're just looking for diagrams, https://github.com/mermaid-js/mermaid is good.
Yes, the instructions as well as the levels and the data are auto generated. If something sounds off, please email me and I'll fix it.
Covid-19:Overpopulation at Lagos State Banks, Marke Other Places
No clue how important they are in the ecosystem, but from the perspective of insects which piss me off, I'm on board 100%.
Kind of eerie how much of that was spot-on. Except for the medicine bits, all of those things came true.
I have the same one from work and I was wondering why it feels so much slower than my old 2015 15" and its because it has two CPU cores. I have no idea how they can pass this off as a Professional laptop.
I can see how dehumanization could be a common occurrence when "coming down hard" or "covering your butt", but I don't think it's intrinsic. Having and enforcing standards isn't intrinsically dehumanizing. Going too far in the other direction could also involve dehumanization, in the form of denying people's agency and capacity for personal responsibility.
Touch screens are useful as a shortcut to mouse or gesture movements.
One of my favorite quotes. Apparently they can't find the correct attribution to it, like most good quotes. I first heard it quoted from Mark Twain (/Sam Clemens).
Does general relativity explicitly rule out causal paradoxes?

It's my understanding that causality is more of a fundamental axiom of the scientific method than a direct product of general relativity theory specifically.
I think it's interesting how one prediction that they made was that 1,000,000,000 would be starving. However, the massive reduction in extreme poverty[1] that the world has made, especially since 2000, is amazing and under-covered. That's one prediction that I am glad they got wrong.

[1]https://ourworldindata.org/extreme-poverty
You could say that the market is itself the mechanism that calculates the equilibrium.

(But it could be a pretty falsehood: not an economist.)
> including accessing passwords as they are being typed.

If you're running X you don't even need root :(
I actually found one in the end, he helped me sign my first contracts. Then I realised he was greedy, because he asked me to make 50/50 for company shares (but I worked full time for 18 months, not him). That didn't help to build trust between us. I ended up giving up, because I was advised to avoid investing in a long-term business with a stranger. I think I was right to follow my gut.
I think that is true, especially for H1B sites since that is US specific. But I would say comparing inaccurate data is worse than not comparing data at all.
>> I think this is an illustrating case in how much easier it is to create high-falutin' nonsense than it is to debunk it.

Are there jobs around as debunkers? Sometime I think I'd be good at that. It seems like someone should have a vested interest in having accurate models of reality and being able to spot BS.