skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So you've abandoned the claim that menthol cigarettes were not superior and novel?

With respect to your discussion of advertising, as someone who has used various forms of marketing to promote products, I think advertising is much less effective than you seem to believe. Second, you say that informing is okay, but convincing is bad, but the problem is that almost all 'informing' is an attempt to convince. Those points aside, I understand that you find certain advertising patterns unethical or distasteful, but I am not sure exactly how to draw the lines; your post seems to be a polemic rather than an ethical framework, so it expresses your feelings, but doesn't explain your thinking to me.
Is it possible that these series of events happened so soon to each other that Hootsuite's representative had no knowledge of an ICE contract? Maybe it was considered as "just another contract" to the company, and word didn't get to their representative at the time?

Sure it looks like "lying" but who knows how their company is structured?
The article mentions arsenical bronze being unlike bronze made in the rest of the world, but that's not true. Arsenical bronze has been made around the world for thousands of years. This is likely due to arsenic often being found in close proximity to copper while sources of tin are harder to find. However it's my understanding that some cultures in the Andes did have access to tin and produced tin bronze as well as arsenical bronze.
I agree this is a mental health issue. I made it a point to get the contact details of all my staff in case of emergency, maybe we need to find their family for example in case of them disappearing and we never find out what happened (for remote staff in particular). Ask him for a contact of someone he trusts and reach out to them, if he isn't able to cope with your next steps, you can make it part of your onboarding process so he doesn't feel singled out. But remember, you are not responsible and mental health is hard.
It would also largely undo the business model of having consoles in the first place, and likely result in there never being another gaming console.

Which would be bad for a whole lot of businesses besides Sony, Nintendo, and Microsoft, and for a whole bunch of consumers who really like the console gaming experience as distinct from PC.
Do people ever look at how much more they're paying for Aurora? I've saved companies thousands of dollars per month just by switching them to standard RDS instances for systems that see tiny load and were only on Aurora because that's "the super good AWS-optimized version, duh".

The added benefit of this is that you then know what software you're running, instead of Amazon's fly-by-night hackjob. We've hit several real-world bugs that were either incorrect backports of something that had been patched years before upstream, or wholly new issues caused by whatever they're doing to make Aurora auroar.
I would think that income inequality in terms of real wealth (food, shelter, pocket-sized entertainment-rectangles) is not as bad as it seems in nominal terms, especially when you look outside the US. The ability for trades and unskilled labor outside of the US to take advantage of arbitraging wage differences across national boundaries has never been greater. Outsourcing and insourcing labor is much easier than it was in, say, 1964. For many countries, remitted wages are a source of income which has lifted many from extreme poverty. I think you could observe some of the biggest changes in quality of life over the last 60 years in places where wage arbitrage is popular. Of course, by extension, the larger your hiring pool, the less pressure there is to increase wages.

Also, I think many studies on inequality assume things like stocks are all worth face value, which is optimistic to say the least. Stock valuation has almost everything to do with faith in a bigger fool and almost nothing to do with tangible benefits. GOOG, for example, has a market cap of >$1T, now ask yourself, how did it come that there are even USD 1T in existence? Were they printed? Can you touch them? Did Eric Schmidt hold the poor up by their ankles and steal $1T one pocketful of quarters and dimes at a time? Or maybe, just maybe, these numbers are all just make-believe.

At least, I think it's not as simple as people who live in the suburbs must have wronged some particular voting block and should be punished.
Amazon unveils flying Ring security drone
Sundar Pichai has no sense of leadership skills that I can note from outside of the company. He exudes no passion, no sense of optimism, and completely lacks vision. I’ve seen him speak at Google I/O and time and again, it’s just AI and people.

He needs to turn Google’s brand into Goodwill. Like Nike did. Like Apple did. Like his predecessors at Google did.

Pardon me if this is harsh, but literally being honest how I feel.

Sundar feels like an immature executive when it comes to building an image about himself and the company. Wallstreet probably likes his results and growth numbers, but there is more to stock price and performance to running a company. When he is gone, his successors will feel the pain and debt he has left behind.
I think it might be quite the opposite. Our highly developed minds/egos sometimes cloud our ability to see reality as it is, and often make us believe that we are more/less special or gifted than others.
The recommender is not there to be useful to you. If it is, that is just a side effect. The recommender is there to make you watch more YouTube. Even if you've explicitly said you're not interested in something, that doesn't necessarily mean you won't watch it.

Believe me, the YouTube recommender has plenty of resources allocated to it, because it's what makes YouTube such a huge business.

If YouTube cared about being useful, they wouldn't constantly reenable autoplay after you turn it off. Autoplay turns back on because it makes you watch more YouTube.
> A few weeks before his death, he switched from red fruit-flavoured twists to another type made with black liquorice... Further investigation revealed a recent change to a liquorice-containing candy as the likely cause of his hypokalemia.

I don't like black licorice, but I love red licorice. I too blame his change from red to black licorice.
A GitHub Contribution Journey
Because Hacktoberfest is coming up, my brother and I celebrated Preptember by taking a journey on GitHub. We made a contribution and want others to see how it works. You can view the whole journey on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoD791kESPn8gLoK3mht3Uo4KXrAP5F7Q.

We made a contribution and want others to see how it works. You can view the whole journey on Youtube here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoD791kESPn8gLoK3mht3Uo4KXrAP5F7Q .

If you have any questions about how to contribute to open source, let us know! We will be continuing our journey in Hacktoberfest and hope to help and inspire others to do the same.
I love waiting for an install, something in the mail, water to boil, etc. It’s a good time to slow down and reflect on anything else. I don’t want things now. I just want. Once I’m satisfied...the journey is over. People are so concerned with self optimizing time or the perfect experience that they forget you don’t have to hurry.

Having said that, in modern society you can have it all, but can you consume it all? Why would you want to?
It is worth it to pick it up in person, Cliff is a hoot.
If you give me a couch for free but I have to bring a truck to take it away on, does that make it not-free?
Dhmo.org – The Dihydrogen Monoxide Research Division
I've found focusing on the hardest problems first when enthusiasm is high nets the best results as the difficulty over time of remaining tasks coincides with waning enthusiasm and fatigue. Focusing on small tasks first and delaying large problems has the opposite effect - unless there's not enough context to complete the larger tasks without completing smaller parts first.
>>> I mean, are you really going to make that much more than you would as a regular software engineer at a company?

Hell yeah.

I mean, what companies could they possibly work for? Google? Accenture?

These only have offices in a handful of cities across the planet. You have zero job prospects as a software engineer as a person living in countryside Asia or Latin America or even Europe outside of metro areas. You might as well try to build your own web business.
> take a look at an OpenVPN config file and you will appreciate this shortness

OpenVPN config files can be pretty small once you remove all the comments (my server is 22 lines)

That being said, I like WireGuard. I've switched over a lot of stuff to it. It does have some issues though:

* Road warrior configurations aren't easy. If you use a DNS name as an endpoint, and that DNS entry changes, you have to refresh it. They have a contrib script in the repo that you can put in cron and do this for you, but it's still not built in.

* You might need keep-alives in certain configurations

* You can't bind Wireguard to an IP address. It listens on all adapters. The devs argue it doesn't matter since WG won't respond via UDP unless it gets a valid key, but this does put WG into a weird state where it might send on an IP it's not receiving on.

There are others I'm probably forgetting. I do like it though. It's faster, the setup is clear. If you have one setting wrong in OpenVPN the connection could fail and you not get useful stuff in the logs.
I don't see what your confusion is with my confusion!

Something like "this thing is true about those languages where it's true" would be a totally worthless thing to say: it communicates zero actual information. It doesn't even say there actually is any one language (apart from Swift itself) that satisfies it. Why would the article include an empty statement like that? Even if it's conceivable that it does, surely it's reasonable for me to ask if there's an alternative interpretation that actually had some useful meaning?

> what else would it mean?

It could be that "languages like Swift" refers to a collection of related languages which are pretty obvious if you're familiar with them regardless of this overflow stuff. That is actually the more obvious interpretation to me, because saying that they all share the same overflow behaviour would be meaningful non-trivial information.

I think that's a reasonable thing to think given that "language like X" makes sense for a lot of languages. Maybe Java wasn't the best example, but if someone said "lisp-like" languages or "JavaScript-like languages" you might have an idea what they mean. As I said, I'm not familiar with Swift so for all I know "Swift-like" could make sense too. But it raises the question: what languages would that phrase include? That's why I asked.
Humans were effective in their intelligence and rule the world with it, no other animal has shown anything approaching something like that. You judge them by their results.
I appreciate the write up, but you can't just put "simple" in a title to and expect it to be simple for everyone. It's simple for what audience? I know there are plenty of developers (especially Mac/Windows users) who would read this and be put off. Simple for me would be running one command like "docker-compose up" and be up and running.
Can you think of what a bad application can do to a user when side loading but is impossible to do when Apple reviews it,
If I am a bad actor I can submit an app for review and activate an evil mode after the application is approved.

Maybe we can stop pretending that the lock is in place to protect the users, most Android users do not root their devices or install random evil applications and then complain to Google about it, can't we just be sincere and say , "yeah is the way Apple keeps control on things for financial reason" . we could focus on the correct stuff then like how we can protect the small set of very gullible users from bad apps(that can be in the store) or bad webpages or evil messages.
This bewildered me - they advertised 4k gaming and then it turned out the vast majority of games were running at like 1080p and being upscaled. Sending 1080p video at 4k seems incredibly wasteful and pointless.
Imagine having to speak and say what you are doing in about 2 minutes. The horror. Part of your job is communicating what you are doing to others. It is common courtesy and a social skill. Cultivate it.

Stand Ups by nature are to be quick. It is why YOU DON"T SIT.

You can do them over Teams, Zoom, Slack.

Companies allocate millions to billions of dollars for projects and have a need to know how things are progressing and if there are issues and resources that can be brought to bear to solve them.

If your manager or "Boss" is micro-managing you to death, then leave. The culture is toxic and a 10 minute stand up is the least of your issues.
I realize now in after hand that we're talking about two different things. You're mentioning time series data, I talked about bitemporal databases.
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Common and reasonable according to which standards? One of the arguments of Epic in court is that Apple set the standard and other stores are simply following it.
Apple does send those emails, but the link to unsubscribe simply doesn't work on Linux or Android. It's the most absurd thing.
Yup. Agents usually have diplomatic cover. Unless they commit an egregious crime, they’re usually just kicked out of the country.

That’s not to say their identity is always kept secret, however. They are often discovered and only expelled at a later date when a message needs to be sent.
Ask HN: What would you do if you want to change job in the next few months?
Hi HN,

I am European and I work in a good EU company, but I am not growing anymore. I want to change for better growing opportunities.

What would you do if you were me?

Blindly applying to FANG?

Write to a recruiter?

Switch the linkedin flag?

I am recognized as a quite senior backend engineer, and I would like to try my hand into tech lead or engineer manager, but no company seems interested.

I honestly find the market quite dead, companies want to pay the very bare minimum and they don't seems a great opportunity anyway.

What would you do? What worked for you?

I am definitely not in an hurry, but I would like to get the ball moving.
Agree and disagree. As often is the case, once you make an abstract concept concrete in the codebase it gets distorted and exploited. "Keyword interfaces" as you helpfully define here are a prime example. They are not 1-to-1 with genuine "interfaces" as one would like to discuss.

More than just the declaration of functions and methods, though, is the way that those functions are known to interact! Consequentially, an interface may infect another interface, at least abstractly.

In contrast to what I just said above, I think OCaml has a fantastic "keyword" implementation of interfaces. The whole language is built around it. It's not perfect (there's no way to specify the "laws" between interface elements) but it treats composition of interfaces as a very first class idea. I find myself recommending it all the time.
Their economy did not depend on deep mining and the need to pump water away from mines. This only happened over thousand years later.
Like many, I have a problem with hounding people for any reason. That's mob justice, which is no justice at all.
> I can just picture a gaggle of google employees jumping out of their seats: "They used the wrong word for it! Their argument is invalid!".

Would the "average" Google employees really care about this? I would rather imagine that only executive level employees of Google could be happy about this. And these people play much deeper political games than caring about a wrong word.
You're right, it is a lot of effort! I made myself a promise that I wouldn't sprint through the first couple and then fall off a cliff on the rest. That's been a failing of mine in the past.

Progress is currently regular-ish because I've already implemented this stuff before I started writing. Once we get to labels and label calls, though, there very well could be a significant slowdown. I haven't figured out how to do that properly!

I'm glad you like the series and I'm very flattered that you posted it.
How would the standups be for managers? They don't attend. Even the scrum master is not required to attend, only required to ensure the meeting happens (which for most teams often means the scrum master has to attend, but still.)
Precisely this. From the email I received from Google

> ..Google Drive is making a change so that its trash behaves more consistently with the rest of Google applications (such as Gmail) with regards to automatic deletion.
You get to choose the things you say, and although many might agree your statement has some truth to it, I don't see how it adds any substance to the conversation.
ASK HN: Which subject (in CS/Dev), you want learn 'n didn't find good resource?
I'm a software developer for more than 15 years now, and I have a youtube channel with few videos about programming (right now specific about Rust but eventually much more).
But as there so many sites, youtube channels, etc that teaches all kinds of stuff, I was wondering if what is the most "needed" area of knowledge to somebody try to teach in a better way, or even try to be the first to really teach.

So, if you want to learn something related to programming just comment on this post and let us know, maybe others from the community could also bring some new content about that topic for you.

It could learn specifics about one programming language, or some CS concept that you still didn't get, or even new technology like some specific deep learning or blockchain topic, etc.

Well, anything.
FYI Liquibase supports SQL too. Not sure what you mean about "language agnostic" - Liquibase does have a lot of plugins and stuff in the Java world, and its written in Java, but it doesn't require Java. The biggest Java-specific thing that I like is that you can install it as a project-specific dependency rather than a global CLI, which keeps it clean.
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His views weren't the problem. His actions were. And not thinking his actions were discriminatory.

The CEO is the face of the company and oversees HR. Most people who objected to Eich being CEO didn't have a problem with him being CTO.

Believing different races shouldn't mix is legal. Just saying it in public will disqualify you from being CEO at most companies. Never mind funding a constitutional amendment.
it's so refreshing reading your comment, I believe the same, looks like some people enjoy a hidden satisfaction doing that, on my opinion is the sensation of power to decide what's right or not (basically playing God)
and as we know power corrupts people.
wow, that is constructive, thanks a lot
Out of curiosity are you still in Berlin? What happens when a company like Rocket hires you and you leave? Do you need to have something lined up immediately for visa reason or is there a grace period where you have a bit of time to find something new?
Good. I had a "terabyte for life" as an ex-Googler, and Google has recently withdrawn that, so it started asking me to upgrade to their paid offering. I was like, wtf, I don't store all that much data there, how come it's showing 900+GB is in use. Turns out the trash was never deleted, and once I deleted it usage came down to less than 20GB.

Seems like this could backfire badly on their upgrade revenues TBH, for this reason.
No, Poisonous like water : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_intoxication

if you drink enough of it too quickly, it will overload your kidneys and kill you.
The contract is intended to track the Nasdaq Veles California Water Index. From the FAQ:

"4. What is the Nasdaq Veles California Water Index?

Nasdaq and Veles Water have partnered with WestWater Research, LLC, the leading economic and financial consulting firm in water trading, to develop the Nasdaq Veles California Water Index.

This index was launched by Nasdaq in October 2018 and tracks the price of water rights transactions (leases and sales) across the five largest and most actively traded regions in the state of California, including surface water and four adjudicated groundwater basins. NQH2O utilizes WestWater’s WaterlitixTM database as the source for the underlying data."

https://www.cmegroup.com/education/articles-and-reports/nasd...

It's based on an acre of California water one foot deep and cash-settled so that, you see, nobody must deliver or receive actual H2O.

Crude oil (like almost all other commodity futures) is also traded based on local physical benchmarks, WTI at the Cushing, Oklahoma storage facility for the price you see quoted for U.S. oil.
This is spot on. In addition the first amendment is theoretically protection against punching you in the face not being prohibited because of something you said. The government could make face punching legal in general, but not legal only if the victim first makes an idiot out of themselves.
> Most of the food animals eat is not human-grade, and a big part of it are by products of food for human consumption it would not be used anyways.

Food grown in deforested rainforests often isn't human grade because, stripped of the natural forest ecosystem, the land often doesn't have the nutrients to support high-quality agriculture. Don't you think pretty awful that we destroy some of natures most important ecosystems to make room for poor quality agricultural land?
My claim is that you have been trolling HN with nationalistic flamebait ("Wanton excess as a way of life is culturally American") and we need you to stop.
Yeah I guess "sledding" is more accurate than "snowboarding".
There is very consistent supporting information to explore that thought further.

We rely too heavily on structured vocal responses to determine intelligence. On top of that we rely on observing erroneous unnecessary behavior to consider something might be thinking. This could be a real limitation of us as a species.
That's not a measure of our intelligence, only our ambition and aggression. The two may not even be correlated.
But you cant run any code you want. You’re still in a restrictive sandbox, and you still need to explicitly request the limited expansions to the permissions scope that the OS allows the user to grant you - neither of which is dependent on the App Store.
Samuel Little is a perfect example of some one category 3, that was eventually caught...

He was charged with 4 counts of murder in 2013, but in 2018 he was connected to a murder in Texas. Further investigations connected him to over 50 murders over almost 40 years, but he claims 93. The police hadn't connected ANY of the murders until he was picked up on narcotics charges and his DNA matched a bunch of cases in LA. He'd been in and out of jail 26 times between '61 and '75 for lessor charges, and was even charged with murder in '82, but was acquitted.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Little
Open-source software transformed the business world
Please don’t think of me as an expert, because the sum of my knowledge comes from browsing Wikipedia articles. But the summary of the issue is that Bluetooth gets all its energy efficiency and robustness by constantly scanning the spectrum it is to live in, and hopping around extremely fast to different slices of channels, essentially taking advantage of the tiny “gaps” in other signaling protocols that share the same free spectrum. In other words it operates on sloppy seconds/scraps like a vulture, which means it’s timing is very loose and cannot provide any guarantees. But it’s very low power as a result because it almost never has to shout over anyone else.
I'm a fanboy at this point