skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
not everybody is as old as me

Might have to do more with interests etc in this case, because 2008 is over a decade later than my first steps on the internet :)

Anyway: I completely get your point now. Yet, and this is a typical problem especially in psychic and other circles: despite the insane stuff which has come out of his pen, this article isn't all that insane. Not that I comletely endorse it, some of his solutions are too simplistic and/or might work for him but not for others, but there's also not a whole lot of nonsense in it. Point being: even though people might be completely wrong on one topic, doesn't necessarily mean they are on another topic. Just requires extra skeptisicm when reading them as precaution perhaps.
also I hope it's for the future new c++ standard, i.e. for c++17, c++20 we will have full 32bit support, that should suffice for one decade I assume.

otherwise we need get rid of c++ for 32bit embedded fast.
If you are fit for the job role, then no. The employer is misleading themselves by thinking that a silly interview question is a good measure of a person's ability to fill a role.

GP is in fact, doing the employer a favour by bypassing this silly charade and letting them have access to his real talents.
I like the Santa Rosa area, Sonoma, even the Sacramento area can be nice if you’re ok with hot summers.

I’ve never been to Palm Springs myself but have heard good things.

Ventura is also reasonable considering what you get: beach, proximity to LA and right next door to beautiful Santa Barbera.
I think Biden is too far left, so being to the left of him is definitely not an "accomplishment." But my point is about the meaning of words. In discussing an article about an American media personality, describing Rogan as a "conservative pundit" is simply incorrect.
Founders often have the legal right to authority in their companies, but advocating for “despotic” power is ... unsavory.
How Apple and Google's contact tracing retains cryptographic privacy
if you work from home you need extra space which you don't need otherwise. the winners are those that are able to make use of that extra space outside of work.

i have an office at home that is not used outdide work. if i didn't work at home i could save money with a smaller apartment. seems only fair that my company pays that difference
And if needed, we'll migrate to it. Meanwhile, any SaaS-du-jour that actually has data export does the job right now. I'm more interested in moving forward than in noodling on a system that, once it will be completed, will maybe help me make progress on my actual goals.

They also don't give me RSI, which is a welcome change from emacs.
> Que no soy gringo joder!

Jajajaja me encantaría ver esa playera.
Look, this shouldn't be seen either as for or against socialized medicine. Sweden has that, but their political infighting rendered their infrastructure moot, and they're now the single worst offender.

It has to do with if the systems in place are accessible and capable of responding in times of crisis. South Korea and Mongolia have very different looking political structures and medical infrastructure, but their ability to effectively provide and enable their infrastructure to those who need it sets them leagues apart from the US and Sweden.
very different, in just about every way. Type safety, deduced by the compiler instead of the stringly-typed %d and friends for starters.
Apparently, cellulose nitrate is also known as Nitrocellulose, and it's pretty explosive stuff; wrt replacing ivory billiards balls:

"The invention enjoyed a brief popularity, but the Hyatt balls were extremely flammable, and sometimes portions of the outer shell would explode upon impact. An owner of a billiard saloon in Colorado wrote to Hyatt about the explosive tendencies, saying that he did not mind very much personally but for the fact that every man in his saloon immediately pulled a gun at the sound."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrocellulose
> When I take on work I have my fixed daily rate that I charge whether I am working from Paris, SF, London or the Welsh Highlands.
> My employer is paying for my time, expertise, knowledge, experience and delivery quality.
> I am not worth more or less because of where I work.

It sounds like you you do contract work ("daily rate") as opposed to being an employee.
Do you charge the same rate regardless of where your customer is located, or do you charge more for a company located in Paris/SF/London vs one located in Arkansas?
We recently made the move to western Montana. Working remote and loving it. If we had to go back to a population center, Seattle is on the short list, but no plans on ever doing that.
> But you're the one who chose the vendor, and evaluated their solution, and accepted it. So you're still fired.

No, that is the whole point of the "Nobody got fired for buying IBM" meme. If you buy IBM and it fails, even your corporate, non-tech boss knows (or believes) that you couldn't have done any better than what you did.

If you build your own solution or buy from a "lesser" vendor, when things fail, you will be questioned about the solution.

> The point is there's a third option. Use a level of redundancy appropriate to the importance of the system, and then it doesn't fail to begin with and it isn't necessary to divert blame.

That doesn't make any sense. The hypothetical here is that we are comparing the failure of the best homebrew solution to the failure of the appropriate big corporation solution.

It doesn't make sense to say that the solution to failures is to not have any.
> The change already happened and all the concerns about peak load capacity and storage were largely mythical.

No they're not. At ~8% I don't see how you can conclude this yet. In the US coal plants were just replaced with natural gas plants. Still a carbon source of power. And these natural gas plants became such a rage in part because of a boom in cheap natural gas. That cheap natural gas boom was provided as a by product of the massive shale oil extraction boom. Which itself was a product of massive amounts of cheap credit that fueled what's probably the largest debt bubble in history, which is currently bursting and taking down a lot of those shale oil companies with it.

With a lot of wells being shut in due to lower oil prices making them uneconomical, we'll have to watch and see what happens to the gas prices. We have just spent half a generation switching from one CO2 polluting source to another, which when all inputs are properly considered is probably just about as polluting. And we did so by wasting a generation of capital. It's been a historical misallocation of capital and it's been entirely green washed.
Which pressures them into either keeping it to themselves or being pressured by society to change their beliefs. The “respect everyone’s opinion” is how we got Charlottesville. Tolerance can and should have limits.
It is believed that the number of people at previous times was also limited by the energy available. See how the population graph looks like -- the real exponential growth starts at earliest around 300 years ago:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Population_curve.svg
Threadripper with a be quiet! Dark Rock or Noctua cooler will run almost silently. With two GPUs, 8x DIMMs, and a X520-DA2, my home system pulls 380W under full load and is whisper quiet.

That said, if you don't need very high core counts, the PCIe lanes, or the memory bandwidth, I'd build on Zen2 Ryzen instead.
> At the other end you can have a great grasp of how to write clean, modular, well commented code and have no idea how you would start parsing a text file to extract all nouns or some other introductory undergraduate project for one of the infinitude of topics in CS.

How difficult is that to read up on? I do a lot more of the former than the latter as that is what real life jobs entail (actually most of them involve fixing other peoples shitty code).
I mean my premise is that we could have (and imho should have) categorically rejected "general computation on the client." In that scenario, the solution could look something like HTML5 form validation.

Nitpicking the details of how it is currently implemented is indeed beside the point. Ideally, the spec is made loose enough to give user agents & users the freedom to configure the behavior to their liking (and if someone can make the case for a particular behavior must be followed in some situations, then an optional attribute is added to "force" that behavior).

In general, I'm very tired of the status quo, which is that every site developer is responsible for providing good UX and people nag at them, when their preferences could be accommodated for by the browser itself. As long as the behavior stems from javascript, there's very little a browser can do to accommodate user preferences without breaking the web at large. You know, maybe I don't like form validation the way you'd implement it in JS.

People are so vested in the status quo that some of them even get angry when you e.g. suggest that they could use the browser's reader mode (instead of nagging at the site's author) to make a site readable for themselves. Bikeshedding about colours and fonts on front page HN postings happens all the time... of course, reader mode is a hack that fails very often, so disagreeing with that suggestion is somewhat justified. But really, we could've built the web around the user agent instead of vice versa, and then your web browser would be your reader mode by default. You could blame at your browser vendor or yourself first of all if the colors and fonts (or input form validator behavior before you've entered anything) don't please you.
>I wondered what some of the most impressive things you had seen in young people were.

Achieved 3rd jhana in concentration meditation.
The figure I usually see used for that comparison is Julius Caesar or Cleopatra. I think Alexander is a little too old for it to be quite true.
Awesome :)

You could probably turn up the comprehensibility knob by adding a fourth formant or a little bit of vocoded white noise. Or a sawtooth or FM or AM tone or something.
> The president has the power to fire any federal prosecutor, there should be no expectation that any action he approves of will ever result in criminal prosecution.

The President does not have the power to fire federal prosecutors serving in subsequent administrations. It's true that you've provided the explanation for why (even without the DoJ opinion which currently prohibits filing charges against a sitting President) it is dubious that a President could effectively be held criminally accountable while in office.

After he leaves office, his only protection is relying on political concerns, or an anticipatory pardon.
When I got really unhappy with the way my ex-boss ran the company he founded (including many lies and false promises he never meant to keep), I have quit and started my own company.

I imagine some employees have left my company, too, because they were unhappy with the way I ran things. However, I have never resorted to lies and making promises I never meant to keep.
Link to video documenting this very clever hack, by the author: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGjS5958g1g

A second display is installed in place of the solar cell. The display is connected to an Arduino with Wi-Fi connectivity, programmed to exchange data with Firebase. Hall effect sensors are used for input control.

The claim in the DMCA notice [1] that "the entire repository is infringing," linking to Casio's "preloaded basic formula programs" [2] is not substantiated and makes little sense (the hack is essentially a separate device installed into the calculator).

Has anybody ever been convicted or at least tried for perjury in DMCA notice?

1. https://github.com/github/dmca/commit/1e533a25356944db37d238...

2. https://support.casio.com/en/support/download.php?cid=004&pi...
That was just an example based on some comment around here -- quite surprising for me. Personally I even mostly prefer SO for majority of "quick/shallow/how-do-I" technical questions and I think my google persona is well attuned for this. Back in times I've been blocking w3schools.com (very rarely seen in my SERPs nowadays, and seems they somewhat improved over time) and expertsexchange.com (:shivers:).
For web platform docs I primarily use `%s site:developer.mozilla.org` in Google and devdocs.io for the rest.
am I bad for not having a personal notes system or even not taking notes about anything? I feel like any time I take notes on something, I rarely (read, _never_) go back to them, mostly because I don't care or just forgot I took those notes.
In that folder, bin includes files for compiling from x86/x64 to x86/x64, and in practice you only need one of the subfolders (in my case the x64 to x64 toolchain). The lib folder also includes binaries for x86 and onecore. If you remove all of those 7zip compresses the rest down to 25 MB.
Do these folks on the left feel the same way about marching with anti-semites? I didn't hear much about that on the left.
Some records suggest that people in Azerbaijan were taking crude oil baths as early as 6th century.

I can't say what's true but it seems to make sense that people were fascinated by a liquid pouring from the ground. Just like when plutonium was first discovered it was used for health.
> But there's only one distribution.

No, there are BSD distros, like nomad BSD or ghost BSD, but not all BSDs are distros, unlike Linux distros.

> Though dragonfly is a fork, it's not a redistribution.. or is it?

Dragonfly is diverged enough to count as its own thing, I think.
Interesting ruling, it kind of makes sense but I'm not sure that's the best solution.

In Germany you can save up to 1250 EUR / year in your tax declaration if you have a dedicated work room, but the conditions are quite strict.

I don't know if all remote workers can benefit from it, but if that's not the case I hope Germany will adapt the law. Considering the benefits from an ecological point of view, I think it makes sense that the state also contributes to it.

Not sure if the automotive industry would agree, though...
Torn between Denmark (West Australia - amazing scenery), Northern NZ or somewhere with beaches in Europe (For the travel/Culture + beaches)
Here's another one - put an oscilloscope across a capacitor and turn off the circuit it's connected too. Quickly short the capacitor with something, and watch the voltage on the oscilloscope as the capacitor discharges, remove the short and watch it start recharging slightly.

Where does this charge come from?
I think a better way to put it is, American politics are polarizing. It's shifting left and right (and thinning out the middle).
On Windows the middle mouse button on the TrackPoint will either work as middle mouse button or for scrolling. I have to change the config to switch between the two modes.

On Linux it just works™ like it should. Creates a middle mouse click when clicked, scrolls when I drag the TrackPoint.
For 3 -- I've always been a vim user, and I know maybe 3-4 native Emacs hotkeys, thanks to evil-mode. Also Spacemacs/Doom emacs provides a reasonable layer of bindings outside org-mode
I've traveled a lot. I lived in Switzerland for some years, in New York, I'm from Virginia (my extended family relocated to Seattle). My sister lived in the Bay Area for some years, and I visited her quite a bit there. I've spent significant time in Italy. The rest of my wife's family lived in Guatamala, Puerto Rica, and Miami. Seattle is where I settled.
Sex Doll Sales Surge in Quarantine, but It’s Not Just About Loneliness
Also: whenever significant reductions in complexity are achieved, the result is a more expansive usage of software, not a reduction of engineers to achieve the same result.
Don’t make too many assumptions about Stern just because he dropped off your radar in ‘06. His show on SiriusXM continues to be renewed (though it might actually end soon - he’s getting exhausted).

As of 2015 his contract was worth $80 million PER YEAR and the estimates were that his audience is around 3.5 million highly engaged listeners. Yes, a fraction of what JRE gets in downloads, but hey...$80 million per year.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/16/business/media/howard-ste...
Regarding subsidies, this article changed the way I look at the european common agriculture policy.

Many local economies (sugar in Jamaica, cow meat in South Africa) could not compete with this practices and went bankrupt.

https://www.iatp.org/sites/default/files/Dumping_on_the_Poor...
Maybe if I did that I'd be more concerned. I said he profited from and resembled one, but that he's an American centrist with strong reactionary sympathies.

If your entire engagement here has been to dispute that I said this, then wow have we both wasted a lot of time.
Until the 80s the rule for public companies was “one share, one vote.”
Sorry to see there has been no mention of Zulip so far. I fooled around with Slack a little, and then Zulip. And in my opinion zulip hit that sweet spot between email and chat. I really like the way conversations can be segregated into actual conversations. The trick to using it, I've found, is to set team expectations that posts might not be replied to until later in the day. There is something subtle about slack that sets your expectation for immediate gratification, and that drives the exhausting 'always on' culture.

I imagine you are all relishing that sweet irony/hypocrisy of a tool that facilitates distributed work, not permitting its team to work in a distributed fashion. Culture fail!

Fifteen years ago or more, I was able to work pretty effectively with a team using email and IRC. I know IRC is out of fashion now, but my point is that a lot of the challenge is team culture and expectations, and software doesn't really fix that problem.
IIRC the chinese were exporting tea, oranges and porcelain to Europe in exchange for silver.

Early/mid 19C, with metal-backed currencies, as most of the circulating Silver had ended up there, it was deemed necessary to reverse that flow.

The Opium wars began, to get all the silver back.

I think westerners underappreciate the salience of these events in the chinese worldview.

And which Colony was established by treaty with the chinese defeat ?

Hong Kong.

https://www.bl.uk/learning/histcitizen/trading/story/trade/4...
I would love to see someone solving this problem, but I think that it will take a company with a significantly better track with transparency to do that.

BTW, Pinephone is a (significantly cheaper) option.
> My ethical compass would feel it's wrong to squeeze additional benefits from an arrangement

I have seen others thinking like that, and then become very sore when they are fired in an economic downturn. They feel that "it is not fair" because they did as much as they could for their company, the company did not care.

Is that different in Switzerland? Has it a similar culture to Japan where firing an employee is the last resource? Or is it more like other European countries were a simple merge or a decline in share value increase the possibility of being laid off?

> So there's always a threat of losing your job if you try to push it.

That is true for everything. Are you aiming on being always the cheaper employee in your company? That is an strategy that may work when there is lay offs, but I do not know much wealth you will accumulate in the long term with that strategy instead of trying to maximize your salary/benefits.

I know that your attitude reduces salaries and reduces my and any other developer salary expectations, so maybe that makes me be extra doubtful of how good is your strategy for all the rest of us (or yourself).

If you do not care for your well-being but you are willing to do sacrifices for your company, may I ask what sector your company works in? Maybe, is it an NGO?
From the outside looking over, I would say the US did the same. I am not from either country, but I can tell you that most of our cases came from American travelers, at the same time your president was saying there were few to no cases. That was months after the US got it's first recorded case. We got one case from Wuhan, and we got 29 from the US. I know it was not the general US opinion, and I was personally well aware of the state of things in the US from the word of other US citizens. But maybe it's good to know how the US projects out to other countries through it's ambassadors.
Debian will not install proprietary firmware or drivers for you.
Because I think they're both figures who are focused on catering to a specific audience with a specific type of bunk. With Jones its incoherent, conspiracy riddled rants on his show to sell more "health supplements" and "survival gear", with Shapiro its fast talking emotional whataboutism to promote his media sites and books. I would lump left leaning figures like Gwyneth Paltrow and her company Goop, or any other similar figure pushing "alternative medicines", with them as well.
That’s the cost of client enforced security policy. I have not known or heard anyone personally fired for this but definitely getting warnings and or getting reassigned their roles.
And the resolutions are the same as in the capacitor example: either friction in the pipes damps the oscillation, or the inertia of the water keeps it oscillating between the two barrels indefinitely and half the energy is kinetic.
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Because it is a function in the C Standard Library. Programs are typically prohibited from declaring these functions. You can if you don't link with libc and pass in the correct compiler flags (gcc will turn some raw loops into a memcpy call as an optimization even without linking libc afaik)

https://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Reserved-...
Qt is moving to CMake too. And the latest versions of CMake are as good, or better, than qmake. Add to that vcpkg and you will have a fantastic solution for managing dependencies.

Maybe CMake is not the best but is good enough and the new standard in the C++ world.
Next sentence following the first quote: "That doesn't make them bad engineers." You stated "Some of the best people I've worked with are living in low COL areas". I think we agree here.

The broader point with the first quote: People living in LCOL areas don't pull out all the bells-and-whistles to signal how absolutely amazing of an employee they'd be. Why? Because it doesn't matter in LCOL areas. If you went to a town in the middle of nowhere, and held everyone to the Leetcode hard bar, a smaller proportion would pass than in Silicon Valley. However, the hiring bar is lower in these areas as well -- therefore, one doesn't need to practice leetcode to secure employment in LCOL areas.

Re side note: I didn't say people do 100 hours of leetcode in a specific timeframe (one week was mentioned, but the GP comment didn't suggested that). Typically, interviewees Leetcode in preparation for FANGs. This preparation is done typically over a period of months.
I actually agree. I love postgresql and we've been using it for all our projects since our company was founded (well, except mobile apps, obviously), and it never failed us.
He's Oprah for dudes.
There was a good link to another Aeon article posted here on HN last year about the role a silver-rich Bolivian mountain played in the Chinese tea trade...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20582387

- ed

Might help if I posted the right URL!

https://aeon.co/essays/potosi-the-mountain-of-silver-that-wa...