skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I randomly selected this book off a shelf in my high school library when I had to pick a book to do a report on for a bullshit elective in high school. Procrastinated as usual, so on the Sunday before it was due I figured I had less than 24 hours, so I might as well look up the cliff notes and barf 1000 lines on paper. I decided to at least try reading the first chapter for whatever reason and couldn't stop reading. Went from planning to do the bare minimum to trying way too hard to do a good job and somehow convince everyone it was a good book. Now, working as a developer, I credit that book with getting myself into game development and programming in general. This book was life-changing for me.
Good card counters are always a team, you can't go far solo as it's pretty easy to tell when you're betting 20 dollars one hand, and 500 another.

You usually have a few smaller players just playing fixed bets who call over some higher roller that will do the big betting when the count is high, and then just leave when the count gets low.

Rumor has it that the security cameras now have software that will tally the count automatically, and flag people that play when the count is up. Coupled with player identification (facial recognition/player rewards cards) and correlating player times, casinos are starting to automate this. All rumor, of course, but sounds plausible if you're willing to throw a few million at the problem.
I'm surprised nobody mentioned Emscripten. Unfortunately I have no experience with it but I get that you could write a native app and also get it to work in browser with this. I also get there could be a performance penalty but hey... There's also a native app! It feels like we could reverse steam and get 1st class native apps again.
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Objectively, pendantically, you’re right. The actual sum of money being paid to you the employee is higher.

However, if you are “earning more” but also “paying more” then your purchasing power is lower. And when people mention salary, what they really mean is purchasing power.

It’s also true that US companies don’t have to pay certain overages that are required in the EU.

For example. I earn 60k (SEK) per month, my employer pays out 90k (SEK) due to insurances, social securities, pension plans and so on.

And things like that can’t be factored in easily, as it’s not usually known to the employee- so it’s often apples to oranges.
How Ben Horowitz Overcame 'The Struggle'
You need to leave before the pitt boss makes you leave.
I mean #3 is the same CPU with a slightly higher factory clock for $20 more
I can tell you that discrimination against women of common child-bearing ages for lower-income jobs is still common in countries where full benefits exist.

In Canada, companies refuse to hire women in certain positions because the maternity leave is 1-2 years, and the disruption of having to train and then replace someone can be painful.

As an anecdote, my last company had 3 accountants in 3 years because each one would come in, work for a year, and then take 2 year maternity. It became impossible to handle the stability for a complex position like that. They ultimately refused to hire women, and the man in that job has now been there 5 years.
Your second sentence is far from certain.
> 9) The few times I've gotten family members to try Linux, they called me LESS often for support. Even on laptops!

This is so true.

All my family members are on Ubuntu, and it just works without any support. For many many years. Sometimes when I visit them I click on update to the next LTS. By the time I have to leave it is updated and runs again for 2 more years.
Yes. That's my point. Uber is not essential, it is a luxury.
> that might offend them

There's more at stake than being offended. If the reality was that the reason companies like Google kick out people for, say, ambiguously dogwhistling with sexist blog posts is because sexist blog posts hurt people's feelings, I wouldn't feel quite as strongly about how ethically good it is for Google to have taken said action.

However, it's not "just speech." As I linked elsewhere, studies show that after every dogwhistle-ridden Trump speech, violence against minorities increase. We've strayed into Sticks and Stones territory. Apparently, it's important to not let hate speech spread unfettered. Standing aside, allowing racists to post racist things on your platform, makes you directly culpable in actual violence being committed against minorities.

If I was the CEO of Google, I would not accept that violence is being committed that I could take direct action in preventing. If I was an employee, I'd put extreme pressure on my management to prevent that violence.
> If the scientists had worked in collaboration with an expert team of technical programmers

If you look at the original article, you'll note that for at least a month the code has been receiving attention and refactoring from a team at Microsoft. Your criticism is that an academic team should have somehow convinced Microsoft to donate these resources before the epidemic became severe.

I'm going to go way out on the thinnest limb and propose that major software companies were not chomping at the bit to donate resources to epidemic modeling teams until very recently, and this isn't the fault of the epidemic modeling teams -- as much as you seem to think it is.
Isn't this the ultimate problem of corporate leadership though? You have basically four options when making complicated decisions:

- lie, by saying there is no discussion

- omit, by not saying whether or not there is a discussion

- discuss openly

- don't discuss, just make the decision rashly

Decisions like this tend to follow one of the first two options, but clearly none of them are great. They're all damaging in their own way.
Guzey had another blog post on Matthew Walker's sleep book posted on HN a while back. I thought it was a bad faith critique, from my own biophysics perspective. We had some back and forth, guzey seemed nice & respectful enough, but I still had my misgivings about the critique. Sleep is very much an open question.

HN seems to really love maximizing cognition and the overall efficiency of their life. That said, if you want to try this experiment yourself, know this: sleep also affects mood, memory, and longevity (e.g. dementia). Chronic sleep deprivation is not good for you.
Upon Coronavirus how to protect yourself from if appendix bell rings
Wouldn't the current zoning of the land be reflected in the valuation (and thus LVT paid)? For example, why would a land zoned for SFH be valued as if a 20 story apartment could be built on it? Ie. The zoning should put a cap on the valuation.
Really well written email... This seems like a smart thing to do: `We must establish ourselves as a self-sustaining enterprise that no longer relies on new capital or investors to keep growing, expanding, and innovating.`
That's not a solution. Instead, we should switch to alternative stores like F-Droid:

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/de.danoeh.antennapod/

F-Droid only lists FOSS software, but Google sorely needs competition. Unfortunately, any alternative store is unlikely to succeed since the users only have incentive to use it when Google misbehaves, so all Google has to do is misbehave rarely enough to kill the alternatives off.
Hours after Electrek's story ran, three news organizations—TechCrunch, CNBC, and the Associated Press—all published stories stating that Tesla was still considering Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Tulsa is a better choice for one reason: Being able to say "Tesla Tulsa." Or "The Tulsa Teslas." Or "I wanna test a Tulsa Tesla."

Maybe instead of a tax break, the city could offer to change its name to Tesla. Cities have changed names for sillier reasons.
"Really?" was my first reaction too. The difference may be a bit subtle but it's quite clear.

I remember when I was learning promises there was lots of talk in the tutorials, etc. about .all() and I eventually had a use case where I wanted to know the statuses of a bunch of calls and didn't really care whether they were failures or not and I found Q.allSettled() which was perfect. Good old Q.
Well, you still can experience early days of conventional programming in 2020 until quantum programming takes over in 2040 ;)
So then the parent was adding in random fun facts for our benefit?
A Pandemic Won’t Kill the Open Office, but Slack Could
"Part of the Tesla story was that it could be a California pride thing."

Lol.

Can humans ever drop the tribalism, I wonder? To be fair, Musk is totally playing the same game.

I've held out for a long time, denouncing both sides as stupid. But I'm getting tired of seeing everyone else just say fuck it, grab a beer, a bible, a shotgun, and go full blown alt-right. Or say fuck it, grab a cell phone camera, and go full blown virtue signaling gotcha culture alt-left.

Seems like everyone needs to play on some team, and needs somebody to hate these days.

I just want a cool car that doesn't pollute the planet, because I believe thats a shitty thing to do. If you don't feel the same way, it's all good brother.
> Latin was a dead language when both Gauss and Copernicus were alive.

That was exactly my point, and the reason I picked those examples; I guess I could have been clearer in my previous comment. The author of the poem being discussed in this thread, whose name was Māgha, lived in the 7th century. It is hard to be sure exactly when Sanskrit stopped evolving as a spoken language and became "frozen" into its classical form (or rather, the naturally evolving language stopped being called Sanskrit), but one date conventionally taken is that of Pāṇini, who lived in possibly the 4th or 5th century BCE. So at the time Māgha was born, Sanskrit was a “dead” language (in that sense) for about a thousand years, give or take a few centuries. He would have learned the language not as his primary spoken tongue of everyday life, but more as the language of education and scholarship, somewhat similar to the way Gauss or Copernicus would have learned Latin, and the way we learn Sanskrit today. That's what I meant in my previous comment by:

> both modern speakers and [Māgha] are from centuries after [Sanskrit] was the spoken language of the street […] when learning a fixed version of a classical language, the differences are relatively minor.

Now, we can be very certain that the kinds of constrained poetry we see here are the result of arduous (and masterly) construction and not a product of casual speech patterns, because:

1. On general linguistic grounds: constraints like two-dimensional palindromes and the cakrabandha (where every third syllable of the fourth line matches a specific syllable of the first three lines, and certain annuli spell out something meaningful), are not discernible to the ear (unlike say, rhyme or assonance).

We never see something like it produced in daily speech (in English or any language), and when it is done (see Oulipo and similar), it is with much effort (and the resulting language—e.g. the “Pilish” of Mike Keith, or “A Void” by Adair—can sound slightly stilted, which is the case with several of Māgha's poems too).

In Sanskrit, no one produced such stuff in the centuries when it was a language of daily speech.

2. Even in the centuries before and after Māgha, only very few authors have managed it. Looking at modern speakers (which is a reasonable proxy; see above), it takes a rare skill, and the distance between not speaking Sanskrit and fluently speaking idiomatic Sanskrit is still smaller than the distance between the latter and being able to compose like this.

You have a great point though, which applies to many situations other than this one: for example, I might hear someone today rapping in Old English (the language of Beowulf) and be impressed, but for someone living back then, it may have been (like the "an ordinary job" comment that started this thread) just natural and requiring only slightly above-average competence.
I work in health IT and I've turned down offers from two big-n companies because they couldn't match my current compensation. I'm sure there's some no-name health system in the middle of nowhere paying $40k/year for dev work the same I'm sure there's some android fart app paying some developer peanuts as well. Be fair and compare the exceptions to the exceptions.
Generally speaking, people don't like being called liars, or idiots.
You're not wrong, but I don't think the person you're replying to is suggesting otherwise, they're just commenting on the assumption in many economic models that participants are rational actors that make logical decisions.
You are one of those confused HNers.

Monopoly power is different from abuse of monopoly power.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly#Establishing_dominanc...
Didn't happen in my case, but I can't speak for everyone. I tried an e-mail for a month, the trial ended, six months later when I went for the full plan it was still available.
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Done! Thanks so much for suggesting!
Not long ago, 90% of humans were exposed to unsafe drinking water every day.

20% of Americans exposed at least once in the past decade does not sound too bad. Does that include people drinking from streams while hiking?
One of my favourite little easter eggs in Goldeneye is that during the Silo mission, two of the satellite components you have to steal are the N64's RSP and RDP:

https://twitter.com/007goldeneye25/status/109829415491907174...
Yes, easily. Laptop 1050s could render your desktop in 4k60.
I want to learn the shlokas from a priest verse by verse. Since all scriptures are out of copy right, it will be great if the priests who know how to utter the words correctly record it, people who don't access to priest are free to learn it. For example, M. S. Subbalaksmi's Vishnu Sahasranamam is very fast and Brahma is uttered as Bramha or Bramma sometimes. I am not trying to critique her work, I think it is great. It's just that it is very fast for a new student to grasp; a verse by verse reading from a priest would be very useful. Thank you for the resource you suggested, I will take a look.
> I was reading the MDN docs on JavaScript promises and realized that the difference between Promise.all and Promise.allSettled wasn’t immediately obvious.

Sorry, don't agree with you there
I'm mostly on your side of this debate, but I don't think this quite works because of spammers (though perhaps that's the only reason). Are spammers protected by the first amendment? I bet Gab has anti-spam measures too.
I’m gonna go out on a limb and guess the phrase was added to their hate speech filter. I would guess that if I wrote racist or anti-semitic phrases those would be automatically deleted as well. Sometimes it gets a bit silly. I remember that in the game Words With Friends you’re not allowed to play “jew”. Which is one of the easiest ways to use a ‘j’.
I think you shouldn't have to worry about it, a lot of claims in that book don't hold up to scrutiny: https://guzey.com/books/why-we-sleep/
Having worked on a MVP for a healthcare company in Europe I can tell you that the users are not looking for better solutions. The doctors I worked with wanted a better pencil not some fancy solution. In our case it was improved traceability of medical implants and one doctor, when asked in private, told me that the current status quo suites them fine as it allows for more creative answers when the sh*t hits the fan. After that meeting I decided that the healthcare business was not the most healthy to work with.
[^1] is the particular source I had in mind. It seems to no longer be a value but part of the signoff.

[^1]: https://gizmodo.com/google-removes-nearly-all-mentions-of-do...
TL;DR: Clojurists Together outgrew its previous digs (at the Software Freedom Conservancy) and we're our own legal entity now.

I'm the president of the new foundation; happy to answer questions here.
What time do you go to sleep? Also any hints of sleep apnoe?
How could restaurants be considered essential? People can eat without having food cooked for them.
Sure, a more fundamental problem. But many people don't have enough imagination and foresight and for them concrete examples are more convincing. Same with the country I'm currently in - democracy has been rotting for the last several years as the ruling party has been busy disabling protection mechanisms and pulling out screws. It's only now that the government is blatant in its abuse of law and police fine people with no chance of appeal and straight up beat them, nurses get pay CUTS... that citizens realize what suckers they've been. That laws and procedures exist for a reason.

Maybe they're not just stupid, but have a different way of thinking. Bottom-up versus top-down.
That's what business leaders think.

Then you get to the critical component where you fire the lead architect/programmer and then it keeps working fine for few weeks, but you find more bugs and you need to upgrade/fix it. Only to find out the documentation if they exist don't help at all and the first 2 tries builds fine so you put it in production only to see everything destroyed. And after 1 year of back and forth you hire 10 other developer to maintain this thing and then 50 others to write a new one.
I'm saying that large companies in tech tend to have a large developer headcount, often working on projects outside of the core business. As such, I think those employees are more expendable.
>The current “.com” implosion is broadly being marked by companies that do have “revenue” but only by using VC cash to create “fake markets.”

The taxi market isn't fake. The food delivery market isn't fake. People paid for these things before Uber, Lyft, Doordash et Al

The problem is that investors see the possibility of a monopoly or duopoly forming. That means they're willing to throw stupid amounts of money at these companies in the hopes ending up on top.
> The Earth is massively overpopulated

Source?
"far right" and "literally" breaking free of the constrictive confines of dictionary definition in some style there
Larger but three times the population density, which likely means far more than 3 times the number of interactions.

And we don’t know how China is really ever doing about anything. We need to stop confusing statements from China with transparency.
If anything this show that they are open to admit mistakes. it was clear to everybody that they realized years ago that their previous "Linux is cancer" was wrong. this admission changes nothing in that regard.

to me this only says that they aren't (anymore) sour about having bet on the losing horse.
It's fine, because turn around is fair game. American companies operating facilities in China are at the whims of Chinese policy. :)
In a country level, the outcome is mixed. See Greece, Estonia’s drop in total mortality.
Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland show a slight wobble. Some excess deaths, but not drastic NYC-style. Without knowledge of an a priori knowledge of an epidemic I would not have guessed they experience a pandemic.

My comment was also that ICUs have been available for most of Europe - the hospital system was not overwhelmed at all for most of EU counties. If you take away the U.K., Italy, Spain, the rest of hospital infrastructure in EU remained under-utilised. This is good they remained under-utilised and it reveals that there are measures which can avoid a catastrophic event.
What exactly is the moral framework that makes equity financing okay but debt financing not? The financier is still getting a consideration in exchange for his capital.
He did (poorly) and not in a single easily read location.
> My favorite developer contributing to my favorite operating system! This is like Christmas.

What? Calm yourself man. No need to get too excited over the past.
Let's say you like the Warriors. You and a group of friends get together every game to cheer for them. You're the one everyone looks to for bringing the beer, and you enjoy the group you hang out with. And when the Warriors win (or lose), there's a huge energy you get to be a part of.

I think it's the same with big companies. You can be a big part of your individual team, and it doesn't particularly feel much different than working at a startup day-to-day. And as a bonus you get to be a part of the large-scale wins and loses. Much like how it's exciting when the Warriors win, it's exciting when something big comes out of your company. Even if you did nothing but cheer.

Everyone is expendable. Travis, the founder and CEO of Uber, was expendable. So are people at large companies or small startups. But within your team, you get to do good work, and it doesn't feel that way.
Merkel and Macron propose €500bn EU rescue fund
I always wondered how the scooter fad was going to work out once people realized they could just buy them for a few hundred bucks. Bicycles are hard to store for apartment dwellers, and more at risk of being stolen when locked up.

I live in a city that banned the companies but see a few people still commuting on them in the bike lane.
Or drive 60 miles in rush hour traffic.
this is an awesome take- musk has been playing 4d chess all along, getting hard-core conservatives to buy into renewable energy..
Glad to hear that they took our advice, and enabled automatic firmware updates by default. We suggested this feature when we helped them fix the fax vulnerabilities (DEFCON 26 - What The FAX?!), happy to see they listened.
I built my first gaming computer two years ago and have been ravenously following the scene ever since. In my opinion, AMD is the best price for value in both single and multithreaded workloads, and becomes only slightly outclassed in single threaded workloads at the extreme high end ie 9900k+ models. AMD seems to be particularly good in high end multithreaded workloads like graphics processing.

It’s important to note most CPU benchmarks are utter trash and many are on the payrolls of intel including CPU benchmark.net (thanks google for granting them incredible SEO).

My current build is still an 8700k but my next will most likely be AMD for a mostly gaming workload.
Wait, a shopping cart a week? And how many full shopping carts got sold in that week? 1000? This sounds like better than 99.9% efficiency. Where did I figure wrong?
It's a double edged sword, on the one hand you have the freedom to work on interesting projects, new technologies and get well compensated. On the other hand most engineers working at uber should be able to critically think about their job and say "Is what I'm doing contributing to the noticeably to the core business or am I part of a gamble the company can afford to make right now"
I get the anger about sidewalks getting littered with scooters, but damaging or destroying them is just creating more hazardous e-waste to be disposed of.