skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"You simply can't concentrate when you're high the same way you can when you don't smoke."

I won't argue against that being your personal experience but it's certainly not mine.

Mine is quite the opposite and has been for a long time. I've been smoking for 47 years taking a puff and getting to work is routine for me.

Weed is the only "drug" I've ever used. I snorted a few lines back in the 80`s but I never liked that crap. I don't take any prescription drugs and never have but most of those I know my age do now. I'm not saying weed is the reason why, but it's worth noting.
UNIX is a product of evolution and as such is messy, with newer subsystems trying to reuse and control older, simpler subsystems.

Our bodies are the same way.
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Fighting against a policy is not the same as fighting against it's intended outcome. Me fighting for 2nd amendment rights is not the same as me fighting against lowering the murder rate.
It’s also used daily here (in the US), just perhaps not quite as skillfully.
Meh, I know it's popular to hate but I don't mind the app and I don't mind the website redesign either, it works great for me. I'm not saying it does for everyone else but it's largely possible that people aren't as annoyed as you think.
It serves the will of HN according to justifications I’ve seen. It’s debatable if it is always is helpful in any individual instance, but it’s usually well-intentioned from what I can tell. Yet it also seems to turn the volume down on topics that are of outsize influence or import on society, to my reading. It second-guesses the intent of the author, and second-guesses the reading comprehension of the reader. It treats us all like clickbait vote bots.
To me, the decadence observed seems like the result of a decline in regard for and contributions to the welfare of others. Conservative activists have successfully enshrined shareholder primacy in corporate decision making and hostility to public goods and social programs in our politics.
But this itself wouldn't cause the "struggling" you mention with more than 2 concurrent users per core
Looks awesome and exactly what I needed. Will sign up tomorrow!
My reddit account is over 10 years old, and I think we have different views of why Reddit is on a slow decline.

Every single sub-reddit will, at some point after its first few users, need to decide if it will be a meme/image macro sub, or not. Every sub that implicitly allows memes, will eventually become a meme sub if the mods choose to do nothing. It seems there are large numbers of users on Reddit that feel entitled to let "upvotes and downvotes" be the ultimate and only modding that should happen on a sub-reddit. These users will balk at any notion of getting rid of memes because "what else is there to discuss"? For them, the worst thing to happen to their feed is for there not to be a huge dearth of mindless content to consume which is heavily remixed and re-used all over the site every single time they login.

They will also deny that any sub that allows memes will somehow then "become a meme sub". They seem willfully ignorant of what happens to meme subs, and seem to think "if people upvote it, then that means they want it", ignoring how the people who upvote most frequently and the lowest quality content are those that rapidly consume meme content.

Reddit is ruined by these super passive consumers of memes. Not anti-intellectualism, but just those that want to go to reddit, see funny shit, upvote it all, and then get on with their day. And they demand to see that EVERYWHERE.
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I don't like the new reddit I always use old.reddit and I see no reason to use the app. I hate now that all link load in new reddit. It's a hundred cuts of annoyance.

As a longtime user (13 years) I get the feeling reddit is being Digg-ified.
Fractional seems workable but it is exclusive. fractional-unit-scalar seems to work (domain, clarity) but it’s a mouthful:

Enter a fractional-unit-scalar value for the bias parameter

Enter a fractional-unit-scalar value for probability p0
Maji: Simple programming language compiled to bytecode
Why did they even store the CVC number?
Any other ways to apply (e.g. email) besides filling that huge multi-entry form?
Ask HN: Sort by Popular on GlassDoor – Broken or Manipulated?
When I sort a company's reviews by Popular it seems manipulated.

There is a startup I know about. On Glassdoor there is a negative review with over 20 "helpful" (aka likes). It has way more "helpful" designations than any other review for the company.

The default sorting method, Popular, puts a different review at the top. The review is a quick throwaway review from a salesman with no meat or substance. It has 1x "helpful".

Can someone help me understand why Glassdoor's "popular" review sort is showing me a review that's clearly not the most popular? It seems like the use a Yelp business model where you need to pay to get good, positive reviews at the top of the pile.

How does it work exactly?
Exactly the same experience for me. There were times when I blocked Reddit via /etc/hosts for a productivity boost.

But now? I do not want the app and Reddit seems to not want me then. Definitely helps my productivity a whole lot!
> Unix seems to consist largely of arcanae which be learnt only by taking instruction direct from a priesthood who seem largely to be stuck in the anal-retentive stage.

Tell that to linux nerds who encourage people on forums to install arch from scratch if they want to learn about how computers work.
The airline example is even crazier. Even on a platform like Google Flights that shows you the legroom for each flight right next to the price, people still in large majorities select the lowest cost ticket with usually the least legroom. And then go on and complain about the legroom.

It's like buying a car with a 150 hp engine and then complain it's slower than the more expensive 250 hp model.
Yeah, that's a possibility too. Thinking about this more (really, why am I still thinking about this more?), I regret positing that OP was lying without including the possibility that dsiroker was lying.

Additionally, I should have considered the possibility that both parties are mis-remembering the interaction. Seems I owe @worldsoup an apology.

@worldsoup I apologize for suggesting you were lying about your experience.

Anyway, if I had to guess as to what really happened, I expect the recruiter told a small, white lie when pressed on why OP didn't get the job.

Probably OP though they'd passed the interview because they got a meeting with the CEO. Or OP thought passing the interview meant they had the job, when in reality there were multiple qualified candidates and Optimizely chose another one.

There's other information in this thread to support this conclusion. I won't rehash it here.

In conclusion: the most charitable explanation is both parties are telling the truth to the best of their memories, and maybe a third party was a bit dishonest in a way meant to spare someone's feelings.
This is the opening line of the article:

How much does running a webapp in production actually cost? Maybe more than you think.

So they seem to be trying to "educate" people, when they are wrong and basically giving away a lot of money to Amazon and DO.

And that's why everyone's chiming in with "lots of unnecessary YAGNI crap you got running there!".
There is a pretty good book called “the Death or Expertise” that discusses the broad trend towards people with little specialized knowledge feeling they can learn a domain quickly and know more than experts.

So many problems we have in society seem to be caused by this mass weaponized Dunning-Kruger effect.
Is there an example, in any language, showing how you would represent this at the type level? I can’t see how you would do it.
I for one look forward to our new techno-barbarian conquerers pouring out from Steppe.
Russians Publish Early Vaccine Results
Article in the Lancet:
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...
But Apple's economies of scale are in east Asian factories, no Apple stores.
Russia’s Covid Vaccine Shows Potential in Peer Review, Lancet Reports
I'm a proponent of distributed code reviews as a solution: https://github.com/crev-dev/crev

Ultimately, someone has to manually review the code. Antivirus-like heuristics won't catch everything. Sandboxing may prevent some exfiltration, but can't prevent malicious code from returning malicious results (e.g. imagine a password checking library modified to always accept attacker's password - it can be sandboxed like a nuclear reactor and still screw you). If you verify the code is actually safe and does what it says, then it doesn't matter where the code came from, who wrote it, which CI server published it.

But reviewing code is tedious. It's wasteful for every user to individually review the same code over and over again. You can trust code if enough people who you trust have reviewed it.
No, but their licenses are very broad. Their rules are also fairly straightforward: https://help.mixcloud.com/hc/en-us/articles/360004031080
Hi this is really interesting. Can you go into any detail on how you achieve 6 please? LinkedIn Scrapers and such?
What about the freedom of users?
Telegram tries to blend security with usability
Possibly. But have you seen the "this subreddit is only available on the app" page you get when you visit certain subreddits while on a mobile browser? Simply changing the url to old.reddit.com "reveals" that it's certainly not "only available on the app". Or the periodic nagging to "continue with the app" when browsing the mobile site?

I've not met anyone who thinks that's okay.

And I will never use their app because of that. I'm actually quite upset that their campaign appears to be "working", as seen by the OP.
As just a random internet person, please, let me agree that you need a new manager. Other than yourself, no person has more impact on your job, and if you're taking shit and dong well, you can do so much better.

Also, never forget that your performance is 'capped' by your management chain. While others may see that you are amazing, the best they will be able to do is poach you to their team, but they can't override your manager's feelings about raises, promos, etc.

(I feel like I'm talking to past me, who I really wish I could have told this to earlier.)
One thing to note is that Cockpit is very tied to systemd. Doesn't work with alt inits.
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Oh sweet memories. I did not play the game, my daughter did. But I absolutely loved the music and still have it in my playlist.
I think the first logical step is to quit your job as a software engineer. The carbon footprint created by all the compute time you use over your lifetime won't help your cause.

I would suggest becoming Amish.
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I got into board games in a big way and started reading /r/boardgames, and that lured me back eventually, although since then I discovered all the people who work in the industry are using Facebook groups so that's where I talk board games now. It's also nice to see actual names associated with their comments when it's a bunch of people you know, instead of just usernames you have to mentally translate.

Apparently my shadowbanned account was unblocked eventually and I can post normally from it again, but I know it was banned for at least 4 years, because I checked periodically (If you're not logged in, the user page looks blank. I thought it was some weird glitch but no, it's because I was shadowbanned).

I've been mostly posting in /r/coronavirus lately since I don't want to get into fights with friends on Facebook about my thoughts on it.
So if you build a tax calculator and add a field with the label "Please add your tax rate in percent" you expect people to enter a value between 0 and 1?
Alternatively your manager could proactively give you bits and pieces of that positive feedback without being forced to by a formal, time-consuming process.
And yet just now, several decades down the road, there’s a new, official VMS port to x86.
if you really think the driver of this is "reducing stress" you haven't been paying attention to capitalism.
I am in the quest of a system myself. I have tried various systems and asked other companies (big and small) on theirs. My tech startup was around 25-30 employees over 5 years. We have tried Balanced Scorecards/OKRs linked systems, 360 Evaluations, etc and ended up making a mix.

We used Google Sheets and asked for qualitative feedback on defined headers (skill with KPIs & culture/values), and a rating (1-5). Each of the headers had weightage that changed with roles & levels.

We tried to make promotions and compensation changes as data driven as possible, but they were inline with intuition / general opinion. To the employee it always felt like "Why did we do all this for such little change?!" It sucks but you need to improve the system across many years. With every round try and understand signal vs noise. That's how you build trust.

Consistency is key. A few learnings regardless of the system that I learnt the hard way:

* Communication. You need to communicate before, during and after the process. You need to make it relatable for all levels of employees. Give them specific templates with specific examples. You need to remove the narrative of you-vs-them, doing-this-to-justify-an-increase, and bring focus on reflection.

* Frequency/Cycle. "if it hurts, do it more often" is the quote that applies to this. Never let it slide. Minimum every six months, ideally every quarter.

* Review of KPIs. You need to review the KPIs every week without fail. It forces you to focus on metrics that you can move on a week-on-week basis. Anything that changes in step function over a month/quarter/year can be broken into a smaller metric.

* Rewards and Recognitions. We were always late on this. Always rolling out the red carpet when someone threatened to quit. It always felt like extortion as the manager. Don't wait for the cycle to call out extreme performance (great and terrible). Give negative feedback in private as quickly as possible. Do a non-monetary (Amazon Gift Coupons etc) for great performance. Wait for promotions and compensation.

* Pay performance linked pay well. I think this was what I got wrong the most. I did not plan the company finances well enough to pay out immediately. I would say "Hey great performance! We will pay you $$ but in 2-3 months when our situation improves". That erodes trust in a moment.

* Getting and acting on feedback. I struggled on this one too and made many excuses -- we are going through a curve

Hope this helps. I would love to hear from others.
That's illegal!
> Explain like I'm five how a firefox update would set the default browser to EDGE ;]

It didn't. The person who posted this didn't read the screen, and fundamentally misunderstood it. The title of the post is wrong.

You'll notice that the dialog is asking "How do you want to open .pdf files from now on?" Because Firefox can now be set as a default PDF reader, Windows has a new PDF reader option, so it asks the next time the user tries to open a PDF. (And this has nothing to do with being the default web browser or not.)

Next, the user also incorrectly assumed this had set the default to Edge. This is again, because they didn't read. Microsoft has broken out the "Featured in Windows 10" option from the "Other options". But it's asking, it hasn't made a change yet.
I disagree with criticisms of current art or “pop” art like pop music, popular fiction books, etc. To become broadly popular you must appeal to as many people as possible. This is a balancing act between mediocrity and edginess that pushes just the right amount of boundaries to feel “new” and “fresh” without turning off a lot of people. So by definition the most popular song in the world is going to usually be fairly non-offensive.

If you get very into a genre of art, like for me is horror movies and metal music, you quickly realize there is a super deep well of amazingly high quality content that pushes the boundaries of the art form. There are passionate community members and creators that are using all the latest and greatest technology to produce ever higher quality art at less cost, expanding the amount of art and the number of people with the funds to create it.

If you look at the top-40 music charts and cringe just find music you actually like because there is tons of it being made and a community behind it. All the criticism about “modern art sucks” is such snobbish and flippant bullshit.
Would you share details of the design of your “ohs vps” facility?
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> especially when the average american individual is as uneducated as he or she is.

I find this generalisation tired, offensive and without merit. If they're so uneducated why are they still sending craft into space, producing wonderful poetry and creating innovative ways to leverage the Internet?
Could you please summarise "passionarnost, ethnos, and phases of ethnogenesis" for those of us who might be willing to read more if we were convinced there was a there, there?
for instance, https://ghc.gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/doc/users_guide/exts/type...
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Unfortunately this site has received the hug of death however anyone that finds such a headline interesting may also find this interesting:

"Industrial Society and Its Future"

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/unab...

An excerpt from the introduction:

> The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race. They have greatly increased the life-expectancy of those of us who live in “advanced” countries, but they have destabilized society, have made life unfulfilling, have subjected human beings to indignities, have led to widespread psychological suffering (in the Third World to physical suffering as well) and have inflicted severe damage on the natural world. The continued development of technology will worsen the situation. It will certainly subject human beings to greater indignities and inflict greater damage on the natural world, it will probably lead to greater social disruption and psychological suffering, and it may lead to increased physical suffering even in “advanced” countries.
(As long as we can extract a 30% cut from the platform the information is on by removing the freedom of our users to install what they want on their devices.)
So I take they are going to allow software to flow freely to their devices now?
In support - do it! It means a lot to be told a genuine thank you.
Steam [0] and GOG [1], at least, have Monkey Island 1 & 2 special editions. Looks like GOG has them 65% off right now too.

[0] https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/6588/Monkey_Island_Col...

[1] https://www.gog.com/game/the_secret_of_monkey_island_special...

[1] https://www.gog.com/game/monkey_island_2_special_edition_lec...
So, most don't support custom types unless you...use the mechanism they have for defining a custom type?

That seems a very elaborate way to say “No" when the answer is really “Yes”.
That the '1000 year tsunami' happened 40 years after commissioning is more suggestive of engineering incompetence than bad luck. And unlike bad luck, incompetence is a lot more prevalent.
Reads like a cheap attempt to bolster their recently tarnished reputation.
The leaked Pixel 5 price must be right, Google has no other choice
The podcasts I listen to all do. (I only listen to german podcasts thought)

https://metaebene.me/podcasts/

Tim Pritloves podcasts not only have comments, but the freakshow is streamed live with slack chat for interactions.
All podcasts of the metaebene are excellent btw and he is pioneering podcasting (over 12 years of high quality content and he seems to be striving for perfection). He has transcripts, chapter markers, live chat, comments, more than one codec, show-notes and additional features like fast and slow play in the web-player.

He also experiments with different things like auto-transcribe. I guess if somebody will be the first to actually offer a codec2 version of his/her podcast it will be him (If someone wants to correct me I would be happy to listen to a podcast that gets regularly released as codec2 :P)

Edit:

Afaik everything he does is open source as well and he shares https://podlove.org/about/ https://github.com/timpritlove?tab=repositories his work so others (like https://www.cleanelectric.de/) can build on what he worked on.
> difficulty level that feels just right for a kid in the early 90s.

You must've been a clever kid and/or I'm a bit dense :) When I played most of the Monkey Island games as a teenager / young adult there were definitely several times when I had to resort to GameFAQs.
This project will probably be more successful if it can tie into BOINC, which grew out of SETI@Home, and has several hundred thousand computers working on various projects. It'll be a lot easier to get people already donating time/resources to donate to this than starting from the ground up.

But you are right about the why? I admit I personally do Folding@Home most of the time, because EVGA gives you up to $10 to spend at EVGA a month by participating, or Boardgamegeek gives badges and some currency to to spent on their site. Which in EVGAs case, has made it so I basically only buy EVGA products now as I have a bunch of EVGA bucks to spend there.
A unit value is a value in the unit interval.
> The population of Africa continues its rapid growth, resulting in a mass migration into Europe...

For the previous century's version of this trope:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rising_Tide_of_Color_Again...
Winamp skins are an interesting source for design inspiration since the player follows the template of a single page mobile application.
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The main issue with virt-manager is that it's a desktop application and you can't really collaborate with others when managing infrastructure.

Cockpit solves this issue. The feature set in slightly different but mainly it is limited as to what you can manage.

When running different types of infrastructure at the same time, e.g. KVM + AWS + Azure + ... it won't help much. In such cases it would make sense to check out Mist (https://github.com/mistio/mist-ce), which does something similar to Cockpit but for ~20 infra techs.
> You'd think that's what "git reset" would to, but of course not.

Ahem, the command for "Reset working directory/Discard changes/Revert to last commit" is "git reset --hard".

That's the one I use.

"git checkout -f" does the same thing, but only because their different functionality coincides when there are no other arguments. When given a non-HEAD commit-id or branch-id they do different things.
So they are not going to cooperate with CCP? Nice.
> arguing, effectively, that America is too comfortable and therefore must be destroyed?

I wouldn't describe the author's definition of decadence as synonymous with "comfortable": Sterility, poor response to covid, a lack of economic and technological progress, repetitive "arts" with nothing worth remembering by history.
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For booleans I generally stick to the `isX` format. So in your case, `isPositive` (or `isNegative` depending on your preference)
Though there were more overall platforms back then, the hardware for any given platform was a lot more uniform than any modern PC. OSs barely did anything where they existed at all, which also helped. Finally, codebases were a lot smaller and everything was single-threaded so there was generally just less to go wrong.
Boo, use NFC.
The Jennifer Love Hewitt skin should tell you what era this was popular! This brought back high school/college memories (from the late 90s to mid 2000s)
Binary means that there are exactly two choices, not that the choices are yes or no.