skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If curious see also

2018 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16889051

2015 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9440589

2010 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1247653

2009 (1 comment) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=969189

(Everybody seizes on the same bit...)
If I may provide what I believe is a different interpretation of what she is saying.

Yes, sometimes there are really solid libraries that solve the problem you are facing well, but often engineers will reach for a Swiss army knife when all they need is a screwdriver. It has a screw driver on it, but because there is so much else there (trying to be all things for all people) the screwdriver isn't even that good.

Moreover, solving a problem quickly is not the same as solving a problem forever, and we are responsible for every instruction we import, at some level. If the problem is small (see left-pad, etc.) the smaller total cost of ownership is often to write the specific implementation you need, if you are capable.
I just created a new firebase database for a personal project a couple months ago. They recommend using firestore now, but as far as I can tell there is nothing stopping you from using firebase and it still works fine. This seems to be the type of deprecation he is advocating for.

Similarly, there was tooling released to upgrade Cloud SQL versions:

> In 2016, we started offering Second Generation instances to Cloud SQL customers. Second Generation instances offer improved performance, availability, and storage capacity. In October, 2018, we released a tool for upgrading First Generation instances to Second Generation. On January 29, 2019, we deprecated First Generation instances in favor of Second Generation.

I think maybe Steve's past experiences from within Google are causing him to project the same behaviors onto GCP products, when it doesn't seem to be the case. Though, admittedly I did get bit by the Python 2 issue as well.
Any guesses why Paragon decided to GPL the driver now?
I haven't checked in a really long time, but years ago ntfs-3g had a really suboptimal allocation pattern for spinning drives, and optimizations were only present in the commercial version. I don't know if the block allocation strategy was owned by ntfs-3g or if it was using something in-kernel.

If I'm remembering the details right (and that's a big if), large files written sequentially would have their blocks scattered all over the place, making e.g. large uncompressed videos written from Linux too slow to play due to seek times, when if they'd been written sequentially they would have been fine.
Yes, COVID conospiracies like: masks work.
Was there something terrible about NTFS-3G?
Employee Representation at N26
The way I see it, I'm paying to study how people learn and how people's standing in society affects their learning. It is very interesting and definitely opened my eyes and helped change my philosophy in life.

I haven't learned enough to confidently strategize a way to keep this sustainable, because I noticed a pattern between people who don't do well and their personality (but I can't quite put my finger on it). I'm still observing and trying to figure this one out.
I specifically said that I was not shaming $150k.

You graduated from college and are now making more than most developers in the US and you work at a big tech company. You have the opportunity to leverage that and either get promoted from within or change jobs.

Are you really struggling making $150K straight out of college? You graduated from a state school (as did I) you probably don’t have that much debt.

For context, I’ve been out of college almost a quarter century and I am just now making a little more than a college grad at Google. I’m not complaining and I only have a good 10-15 years to take advantage of the opportunity. You have your whole life ahead of you.

Stop complaining, get on the grind, and do what you need to do. No one owes you a quarter million just because you walked across the stage with a CS degree.
This looks interesting, thanks for sharing. I have been looking for more structural/text-based options. Any other related tools you have tried?

I’m a fan of Mermaid.js for state diagrams etc., but this seems like a good higher-level tool.
When our Milky Way merged with an ancient dwarf galaxy
I read that book, it is good, there is a good presentation about how difficult it would be to do that in reality, based on the same source that the book used:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjingj2473Y

The original is in german, the linked video is the english translation.
The critical point -- which applies to packrats at well, is that some things have negative value and are better destroyed than used. We know this for obvious toxins like smoke, but less often know this for sugar and junk gear.
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> most 1st world countries have experienced a rolling black out

Name one?

I've never experienced (or heard) of one in Germany, for example, during my lifetime.

And of course it's not "rolling blackout", but "rolling blackouts", plural.
Sure, you can cherry pick certain statistics for any period. That doesn’t tell you anything.

My point was, the US is not falling apart. Or if it is, it’s always been falling apart.

The current situation is not unique.
Can’t speak to SFPD, but St Pete in Central Florida is doing something similar, hiring 25 social workers instead of 25 police officers. I’m curious to see if this causes contention between officers and social workers. The social workers are obviously necessary and valuable, but this is likely to lead to a decrease in power for law enforcement based on force numbers if it starts happening at scale.
Anyone who wants to experiment with VMS still can. Right or wrong, old OpenVMS releases may as well be free, for anyone who can do a google search.
There's a heat wave up and down the entire western US. Everyone from San Diego to Seattle is at home running their A/C if they're lucky enough to have one.
I guess I'm out of sync with the times. For some reason, my first thought on seeing the title was that it would be about some clever new tricks with the ANSI ATM standard.
It's a manifestation of our inner American Exceptionalism. We only have the ability to see our country as "exceptionally good" or "exceptionally bad"
The question for me is not who's to blame, but what I can do, since I can only control my own actions.
Having worked in a FAANG and in consulting for normal companies. Yes, vender ops is the mainstream model that bings most value for normal companies. However, it's a bit disenginous as even in FAANG stuff was mostly built from infra Lego sourced from someone else's engineering. So there was a quite a high amount of internal vendor's too, but the quality was much less hit and miss. But it's really only a path the FAANG can walk, being absurdly expensive. I am comfortable in both worlds, deep engineering is fun, but sharing the powers broadly has more positive impact overall I think.
He's racist because he thinks he was the victim of racism? I'm curious what you think about black BLM protesters?
N26 CEO's response regarding Work Council.

Previous, related discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24155507

Also, interestingly the article appeared on the same day that the Work Council was formally set up (Electoral Board was selected): https://twitter.com/worker291/ - I guess the management realized they can't prevent it and decided to go into damage control?
Hey, I have been doing OMAD since January. I usually eat around noon +-1h depending on meetings.

I faced the same issues and for me what really helped is drinking a lot of Camomille (0.5L) sweetened with sugar alcohols. I guess it does two things. Camomille has some calming effects, especially when warm. This immediately gets my stomach rumblings to stop. Secondly, the sugar alcohols might trick your brain in releasing some dopamine since it has a sweet taste (not sure, that's my theory). This helps me soldier through the adrenaline and hunger spikes.
It's in all the next-gen consoles and in most of nvidia's current parts and (afaik) in all of amd and nvidia's future parts. At this point instead of a hyped up vendor-specific feature, it's looking like a feature many games will be using which will leave intel users out in the cold.

On the other hand, nobody presently expects to run modern games on integrated GPUs, so...

Some other 12_2 features are pretty important for VR.
I thought that was the main point of it.
https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/9/16/167
I’m not a user and never have been. People have tagged me many tines.
Servo has JavaScript own and collect the DOM nodes. At least, it did in 2014. https://research.mozilla.org/2014/08/26/javascript-servos-on...
Multiple problems:

- High land use (low energy density). This has both economic and ecological cost/impact. It might be ok in the SW US, but likely unacceptable elsewhere.

- Becomes less effective the further you get from the equator.

- Energy storage is a problem at night time, and also cloudy days.
The Enigma of Gloom: On George Scialabba’s “How to Be Depressed”
The most depressing part about this is: to me, as an individual who probably has my biometric data harvested, I see nothing of this money and my data is still gone. It’s almost as if there was a hidden price tag: "Do crime X and pay Y to make money Z." As long as Y<Z and the business can continue to operate with a new crime, it’s just like there was no law. Just costs.
I mean, in some ways you're both right. Greece (surprisingly) works the longest hours in Europe, but their average productivity is very low compared to Northern Europe.

Also, in the US, our tax structure clearly greatly rewards investment income over wage income. Of course, most people need to work to get enough capital to invest in the first place.
This guys not wrong about Title IX being kangaroo courtish. But he also had a sexual relationship with a graduate student that he advised. The fact that it happened after he de facto stopped advising her doesn't help his case much. She's still very dependent on him for recommendations and his connections for her career growth. The potential for abuse there is very high and it's not a relationship he should have engaged in.

Was he railroaded? Hard to tell when it's just one side of the story. But he's not innocent.
Back in 2015 we (Beeminder) wrote a blog post praising Scott Adam's "systems vs goals" insight which I still stand by: https://blog.beeminder.com/systems/

Excerpt (quoting Adams):

If you do something every day, it's a system. If you’re waiting to achieve it someday in the future, it’s a goal. […] Goal-oriented people exist in a state of continuous presuccess failure at best, and permanent failure at worst if things never work out. Systems people succeed every time they apply their systems, in the sense that they did what they intended to do. The goals people are fighting the feeling of discouragement at each turn. The systems people are feeling good everytime they apply their system. That’s a big difference in terms of maintaining your personal energy in the right direction.

Also related: SMART goals.
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I built a site (addictionlocker.com) which is a password manager that makes you donate to charity to get your passwords back.

I built it because everytime I try to lock myself out of twitter, et al, I just unlock whatever I set up because I know the password.

Originally, I was going to take a percentage of the profit; but now want to see all of it go to charity. What sucks is I think its a really solid idea; benefits everyone involved (reduces addictive screen time, gives money to givewell.org) but can't market it to save my life. I don't know if the concept is too esoteric, or everyone is ok with how much time they look at their phone, or my site just isn't good...

Please share if you find success...
I teach at a University. Our grads in CS and engineering certainly do flow directly to jobs. But not FAANG except a few. Either way though, and despite what college-dropout CEO's may think, our universities actually do teach our students what they need to know for their job description. If you are curious how well they know the topic, check their grades. We tested them thoroughally already. Normal human interviews consist of chats with the candidate to discuss projects they worked on and their interests.

In the defense industry they can't hire internationals. Not coincidentally, this how interviews at those companies mostly go. And they plan for a lot of training of new hires to boot. Needing a hire to be productive their first day is a necessity for startups, not massive companies like Apple/Amazon/Intel/etc. They're just being cheap.
The paper already starts of with multiple premises that don't apply to any of my arguments.

1. I never put forward an argument against gay marriage, yet the paper is all about debunking arguments against gay marriage.

2. I don't consider it a bad effect if other types relationships were allowed to get married, it's the opposite, I'd consider it a huge improvement to what we have right now. Yet the paper assumes someone said: "If we allow gay marriage, we will also have to allow [policy X], which would unquestionably be bad."

Hence I must assume, that you either didn't read or understand anything I wrote, or you didn't read the paper.
The way Firefox initially solved this was with a user-facing version of the Strangler pattern: IE Tab. You could simply tell FF that a given URL needed to be rendered by IE and that would be the case inside your otherwise strictly FF browser. It worked perfectly. That pattern could be reused in such a scenario I guess.
There are multiple reasons but they all can be application specific.

First reason is that quadrilaterals can be mapped to a square and so you can use "Tensor product" elements which is just a fancy way of saying that you can uncouple the equations to be 1D for each direction. So you can think of your problem in 1D and easily extend them to 2D by using quadrilaterals.

Second is somewhat related and is sparsity. The matrices generated for quadrilaterals would be sparser and hence your performance will be higher.

Third is accuracy. Quadrilaterals are regarded to be more accurate however I am not sure there are proofs or conclusive studies on this, more a rule of thumb.
Who uses the trick to divert impulses into other ones ? your brain seems to seek stimuli.. hunger is just one source, you can clean, jog, challenge yourself somewhere else.

Few times I did that I was surprisingly effective (and the original impulse disappeared in an instant)
And that’s why Obama’s threat to universities leading them to abolish normal evidentiary requirements did so much damage. When there is nothing like due process, you can use the arbitrary process to do anything to anyone. Rolling back Obama’s abuse and restoring some sanity to Title IX was one of the few good things to come out of the Trump administration.
My interpretation of the piece is that it is advocating for the reduction of the Apple cut and less reliance on the subscription model. Not alternate app stores, lesser security or lesser privacy.

I think the vast, vast majority of the app store developers would agree that the App store cut of 30% is not reasonable (or sustainable).

>a place where people are willing to spend money on software is exactly why they should continue to receive commission.

What part of the piece said "Apple should not receive any commission"?

>I simply don’t see any reason to believe that forcing Apple to allow other stores

What part of the article claimed "the solution is allowing other stores"?

It looks like you have no problem with strawmen when they're yours. The piece could have been better written, sure. But your reading of it seems very disingenuous.
90% of these designs honestly look bland and very forgettable.
Which, I would argue, is an important lesson for Google to learn if they ever want to be #2.
The problem is not lack of grid capacity. California is capable of importing upwards of 11 GW[0] but there was only around 8 GW[1] available yesterday because it's hot in neighboring states like Oregon too.

The load shedding occurred around 8-10pm after the sun has gone down (but while it's still quite hot) so more solar wouldn't help much.

[0] http://www.caiso.com/TodaysOutlook/Pages/supply.aspx and select 9/13/2019
[1] Same as above but select 8/14/2020.
We've abandoned an app because of the inability to keep Firebase working on it (JS libraries). Between out of sync Typescript definitions, broken APIs, broken interfaces, "this version of some other dependency works with this version of Firebase thanks to some random transient dependency", it just became too much. We won't use the JS libraries at all anymore.

Angular is the only one that has remained even remotely usable, but certainly not stable. It's never as simple as running the upgrade utilities, changing the version, and being done. It ALWAYS takes at least a day to find all the "little" things they didn't feel fit to mention in the upgrade docs.

It's aggravating. I genuinely don't like using Google software, at all.

I've felt for a long time that Google is coasting on the momentum of the early web and the awe people felt for what they built early on. That hasn't been Google for a long, long time.
That’s quite the stretch. Rust’s unstable branch isn’t a total Wild West, it’s just for new features that aren’t ready for stable yet. If you’re not expecting version 1.0 for quite some time it isn’t a problem to use an unstable channel.
The title is misleading as usual.

The article is about removing temptation being a better strategy than exercising self-control in the face of temptation (This is then "cultural/religious conservative morality" theory for protecting against immoral behavior).

Judaism calls it "building a fence around the boundary of the law".
Uhhhmmm... Speed? Stability? NTFS-3G has been a lifesaver for occasional use, but with anything remotely I/O intensive, it starts to crack.
Yeah, I agree that ghost likely hasn't violated any business/legal contracts. That said, they've certainly violated an implicit social contract for the behavior expected from service providers of their type.

So to say "The service did nothing wrong."... is correct but only in a technical, legally correct sense.
I think the point you are missing is that we should have 2 distinct things: applications and web pages. I should not have to run untrusted code to read a blog post, a news page or the latest PR release. I run with JS off by default and there are basic web pages that don't work with JS for example https://www.bbc.com/news not sure why without JS the layout gets messedup but the content loads.

Sure if you have a nice application that is interactive, fine use a PWA, Electron or whatever you want but for showing plain text and iamges a subset of html and css is enough
So he did wrong because of the “potential” for abuse, even though the woman involved had no complaints, and even stated that there was nothing abusive in the relationship?
Hm. It's not a courtroom. A private company may hire and fire, without a judge and jury.

Still, there's much that's public about it. Surely some rules are desirable.
This is essentially the plot of the short story "The Machine Stops" by E.M. Forster. It's from 1909 and is alarmingly prescient.

https://www.ele.uri.edu/faculty/vetter/Other-stuff/The-Machi...
As a part-time trader, my social impact has no relationship whatsoever with my profits.
PostgreSQL 12.4, 11.9, 10.14, 9.6.19, 9.5.23 SEC
Even better, learn its ok to sometimes say "no" to your kids whims.
Well, being pragmatic you could still retire on 400k with a family of four in Portugal, especially outside the capital, and on a very reasonable standard of living. I just prefer to assume a per-adult-capita amount. Sorry if that was unclear originally.
Surely not. They are simply each better for different use cases.

If you have ~5 tabs then tabs on the side is a waste of screen real estate. If you have 50 then on the top is unreadable.
You really think floors came before shoes did? Or is this a joke?
You can compensate all those benefits with pure cash.

Btw, you can offer options/stocks to contractors, worldwide.
Ah, I don't agree but that's an interesting point that I could see being true for some people.

I think mostly there's plenty of short-term cost to derailing a Beeminder goal and getting the alert "we are now charging you $X". Not as good as handing over cash but still pretty good!

I definitely disagree that surrounding yourself with pictures of your goals is comparable. I mean, it can't hurt and maybe for some people it's enough, but for me personally, for example, things like that just fade into the background for me and lose their effectiveness. A commitment device (monetary or otherwise) doesn't let that happen!
Thank you for that.
I use the following tactic to get out a presenation I need using Excel, Notepad, InternetDownloadManager.

What helps a lot, is copy and paste to an excel, like this
Cell A1: http://image.slidesharecdn.com/PATH-TO-SLIDES
Cell A2: 1
Cell A3: .jpg
then pull the A2 till the number of the slides (e.g. 50)
So you end up with 50 lines.
Then copy all that 'table' and paste it to a Notepad
Then Replace (Ctrl+H) the 'tab' to null
Then Ctrl+A and Copy from the notepad
Then paste it to IDM
Download all
Have a good life.
I’d echo that and add that it refreshes my perception of the otherwise mundane. This is extremely helpful in allowing me to reevaluate things, internal or external. I have a bad habit of being too sure of myself, often pessimistically, and I suppose in a way this does reduce depression as the study suggests. I find it lifts weights off, provides more optimism where it was missing and less pessimism where it wasn’t helpful.

I’ve also seen it lead to trembling terror and nihilism in others so it’s very much a YMMV kind of thing.
Misguided politics like this is one of the reasons I left the academic world.

Universities may have crossed the Rubicon in terms of becoming farcical entities. Bloated bureaucracies, commodification of faculty and students, financial structures based on questionable lending practices, focus of form over function (like in this story), and a big bag of other misaligned incentives make me think that universities don’t have a bright future (at least in their current form).

The author of this story is no angel — he certainly should have been more careful with that relationship with his former student in several ways. That said, I can’t really see that he did anything worthy of destroying his career. This was just another case of modern-day witch-hunting.
Everyone has influence over their romantic partners lives. Anyone can trash talk an ex

And what do you say to all the people who are happily married to (or happily divorced from) to supervisors at work?
People like Melinda Gates and Mackenzie Bezos? Saying that people can only date people of the same social status is dangerous classism. (And no, Bezos isn't going to go out an meet an assistant at some other company to marry.)