skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find the post to be pretty unnecessarily unforgiving; if you've worked in this industry for more than a minute, you understand how this sort of stuff happens. This is clearly not a marketing list - it's a compliance list on the first one, and a statuspage style one on the other. To call them spam is disingenuous, and to draw a line from "my email is on multiple lists and taking my name off one doesn't take it off all" to "Don't trust this company with your personal data" is really only fair if your email address is firstname.lastname.momsmaiden.childhooddog.bankaccountnumber.birthdate@gmail.com.

Edit: I'm aware that GDPR considers email as confidential PII, but my post isn't legal advice. I just don't see my email as confidential.
Also worth mentioning, the Sprotty project by Mirko.

https://github.com/eclipse/sprotty

This integrates with XText, ELK and the VS Code LSP and allows you to generate diagrams for your own DSL!
And since water is such a good ionic solvent, ionic salts dissolve readily and rapidly in water, making water electrically conductive.
How to actually listen to other people.
While there are very technical elements to sales (prospecting, funnel management, pipeline review, sales compensation design) that can be measured and tracked, they are relevant for managing salespeople but not for the sale itself.

A sale happening or not depends almost exclusively on whether you can get your counterparty to trust and like you.

The first thing you should focus on is improving your emotional intelligence as this is pretty much the only skill that matters for a successful sale.

Although tons of people believe that you are either born with it or not, I think that EI is highly trainable (unlike IQ) and progress in learning it is scientifically measurable. (except if mental conditions are present like autism or psychopathy)

You probably want to start with doing the EQ-i test to find out where your gaps are.
Specifically the metric on personal relationships is highly relevant to improve as soon as possible.

Then you can read great negotiation books like never split the difference and books on sales like the challenger sale.

The theory is not really useful until you've mastered the basic EQ to understand how to execute them.
Should someone that dreads prison (say, they are physically weak, or have an anxiety disorder) be given less prison time than someone who is more comfortable there? I think we all recognize that this would be unjust, and I think the same reasoning applies to financial penalties.

If a poorer person (say, someone that works 6 hours a day at Walmart) and a richer person (say, someone that works 12 hours a day at Walmart) both steal $10,000 from someone, they have both caused the same amount of damage to the harmed individual. That is, they caused $10,000+moral damages (let's say $20,000 total damage). Why should the person that slaved harder and provided more value to society fork out more when they caused the same damage as a poorer person? If anything, the poorer person should pay more as recompense for being less useful to their fellow humans and broader society in aggregate. Of course money isn't the perfect proxy for societal value add but it's the best we have, especially in the context of a strong rule of law which will punish fraud etc.
I’m looking to buy a place in Berlin, and from the search results it feels like half of the apartment buildings are from 1880-1910. I’m renting in a very old (not sure exactly how old) building, and it is… fine. It has been renovated, it is warm, it has double glazing. The only thing wrong with it is the walls are too thin for modern sound systems, but even that is less of a problem here than (for example) my university accommodation in Aberystwyth, because Germans care a lot about quiet time. The only reason I’m skipping anything pre-1950 is that I want to own it for at least 30 years.
Wow. That’s some serious passive aggressive BS, if that really is the reason. Their sales team is really obnoxious and pushy from my limited experience. But that’s pretty true of most sales teams I’ve interacted with.
I do not remember which one it is, but some of them are only javascript, so you just have to save the page on your local storage?
I think I found it on Github but sorry I can't find it again.
Disney Plus doesn't either, most annoying thing ever. Has me wondering why there's no open source 'streaming website' the only value add is the content.
Yep. It's more of a concept of cooperation than anything else. Which, since it's not a concrete thing, makes it harder for people to understand. But then there's specific practices that arose out of trying to drive best practices in Ops at the same time (like IaC, II, CattleVsPets, automation, etc) so now DevOps "means" a jumble of slightly related things.

We really need some new terminology.
How to manage yourself when tragedy inevitably strikes

How to take advantage of people... that way they are less likely to be taken advantage of

Restraint enough that, though they know how, they don’t take advantage of others

How to look for sense of self satisfaction within yourself rather than in the approval of others

Not really a skill, but a habit of intense exercise at least 30m a day. Running and swimming are great for this.

Similarly, a habit of reading books.

Personal finance
In an ideal world we would have not empires but it’s not realistic due to human nature. Right now I would say there are two main empires. US and China and a set of second rate powers like the EU, India and Japan.
Wishful thinking.

You know it returns an array, but you don't know what the array contains. So you don't know how to use it.

You still need to look into the code to see what it returns. Then you will see that it returns an array and what the array contains.

And now you had to process the information that it returns an array twice. Once in the function definition and once in the function body.
I don't agree with you.
I think that we are on the top of a tide of the usual 'old is new again' hype, but at some point people will realize again all the issues and limitations of that and go back to dynamic linking.

In the same way as containers per application is trendy now.
So far it we are encountering all the drawbacks and limitations that used to be known long time ago and that once leaded to dynamic loading...
US gas prices is still very cheap though ... like the 70's oil crisis people only changed over to those smaller Honda's and Toyota's when they felt it in their pockets.
I second the desire for a follow-up comment.

I wonder if Paul Graham passing the reins over to Sam Altman in 2014 kicked off the stagnation or merely formalized it.
this makes me wonder about what volume of mail an MX for contoso.com would receive, if microsoft didn't own the domain.

https://www.google.com/search?client=ubuntu&hs=ujt&channel=f...
> And sure it’s not a great look, but keeping someone’s email address around is probably not something governmental agencies should get involved in, in most cases.

Why not? They are unwilling or unable to do it without government intervention. I agree that for an honest mistake you don't need the government to step in. But after a year and multiple tries and broken promises, it's not an honest mistake, it's either intentional or gross incompetence.

I especially like that they keep stuff despite GDPR to "comply with internal policies and legal obligations". Making up an internal policy has no relevance to GDPR whatsoever (otherwise it would be quite easy "sorry, we have an internal policy to keep all your data forever"). Sounds like they simply don't care about GDPR.
This is actually an article recounting a few primary sources on the ground at the time of contact, and almost immediately mentions the Aztecs’ enemies in Tlaxcala and Chacla along with a cemetery study of the Mixtec—who suffered some of the worst of Aztec dominion—to describe the interplay between the effects of colonial policies and the “virgin soil” of the new world’s immune systems, which, naturally, weren’t limited to the “third reich” state in control at the time of contact.
That brought back a lot of memories. And was really sweet of Paul.
So you're basically saying we should give them the benefit of the doubt on not complying with GDPR because they have a good track record?

It would be one thing if OP was receiving cookie-cutter responses from CloudFlare's support team, but the CEO repeatedly personally intervenes and makes assurances that simply aren't true (and he's already made the same promises in this thread). How can those promises be taken at face value when it's still a problem a year later?
Exactly. This drives me nuts and I'm surprised I haven't heard more people complain about this. Does everyone else use YouTube while signed in? I'm getting tracked enough already without that.
Systematic A/B testing of digital messaging cut hospital no-show rates
I got into gmail during the beta and have a first-initial-last-name address that other people tend to use for signing up for services. There is a bank (PNC) that sends me emails all the time with no unsubscribe option. I don't have an account so they won't talk to me. It seems like a CAN-SPAM violation but I havn't bothered to look into how to actually sue for it.

Edit: correct "PNY->"PNC"
learn to swim
Not an expert - so just a guess, might be more to do with the advantages the BEAM provides?
Why? It's for people in the UK, it's only clickbait if you don't bother to read the article and find out where
Well now WSL has given a clear migration path for Deep learning enthusiasts and professionals to be able to develop and test their models locally, before deployment without installing a Linux desktop.

Gamers and normal users don't care about using wine on Linux for running their Windows apps, when they can keep running the same Windows apps and games and run Linux apps on the Windows desktop. Thus have little to no reason to switch to desktop Linux.
Three simple rules to get you started:

- Sales is a numbers game that requires touching 'x' per day to achieve 'y' results, ideally by phone and not email. For a busy founder plan on 20 outbound calls per day. Email, marketing, automation, in-person... all great, but nothing beats a quick phone conversation. There are workarounds for that phone call outside the scope of this brief reply.

- The first few sentences of your sales pitch make or break. Research your clients pre-engagement to understand how your product can really help -- in their vernacular. The qualification/Q&A usually suggested is fine, but it assumes your prospects have the time and inclination to follow your sales workflow.

- Prospects who tell you they are interested AND who do what they say they will do are worth continued effort. Break contact (move to nurture) prospects who say one thing and do another & expend more time on outbound calls.

The only metric that matters, aside from # of outbound calls per day, is actual sales. I do look at proposals, engagement, website stats, etc., but for reasons outside the scope of this reply I've come to learn after 20 years that near real-time factors outside your control drive many buying decisions in ways too difficult to reliably measure.
If you think about it really hard (since we are at abstract) "1 of <something>" is never equal to any other "1 of <something>"

Nothing is equal in universe. Everything is its own thing. 1 drop of water != another 1 drop of water. Two different entities.

Only in math we have 1=1 or 1+1=2. And math doesn't work for universe, it works for science.
I don't think it's the AST: I think it's the BEAM itself.

The intermediate representations used in (and even accepted as input formats by) the compiler are relatively unstable, with the exception of the Erlang Abstract Format.

This makes it a great target for other compilers because they don't have to track breaking changes to the intermediate formats, they don't have to worry about generating BEAM bytecode, and they get to take advantage of all optimisations already implemented in erlc (the Erlang compiler).

As an example of recent amazing changes to the BEAM: JIT to x86_64 https://github.com/erlang/otp/pull/2745
Here are some more ideas from a thread a few months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23757396
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I think a lot of people's frustration comes from questions where it's abundantly clear that the asker searched neither SO nor the web first.

It only takes a few dozens of "why is [insert programming language]'s {addition, multiplication, subtraction, division} broken?!?!" questions that are all pointed to What Every Programmer Should Know About Floating Point Numbers before you lose all faith in humanity and get cranky. It's quite understandable.

If you can take the time to make an SO account and write a title and question body, why not Google that title first?

Another class of almost offensive questions is exemplified by this question on the front page for me right now: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/64087844/programming-tiv... . The user states what he wants, then completely useless debugging information, then a wall of code that in no way complies with the SO guidelines of reducing your code to a minimal working example, and finally an all-caps expression of personal feelings. Come on – nobody would feel sorry for someone acting like this in the real world. There are a few basic rules for social interactions.
I like how your username fits your comment
They also cannot be used from applications directly since they're just implementation detail inside mesa.
Although they knew my basic data, which they've referenced incidentally, I think NK is too much a poor country to have monitoring in a western sense.

I can't prove that there weren't, say, hidden cameras, but based on the technological and economic level of the country, I strongly suspect that there wasn't any. For the same reason, I doubt that they have the resources to perform anything other than a basic investigation on incoming tourists.
You may not remember what VC was like at that time. $50k for 50% was the expected seed round for a 4-person new grad team with about a year under their belt in Boston. I remember thinking the YC deal was crazy good crazy early. Anybody remember what it was? I recall something like $25k for 10% in the first batch. This was enough for poverty rent and ramen for 4 people for 1 year. The only problem I had with this was that he wanted all founders to quit their job before even applying, and then getting in was tough odds.
This is more related to the discussions in the comments..
(eu perspective),
The other day I was watching a drag race on carwow with 4 German super-estates. None of this "sport-ier versions" had bellow 2 tons*.
Lot's of people in Germany drive more "sensible" versions of this cars with weights of "just" 1.8 tons.
How much will the fact that people are today fatter affect the decision to buy this car?
- BMW M5 has gone up in weight 200 kg or so
- I heard people use "Tesla weight" downside when compared to a normal "saloon"
-I would buy this car gladly here in DK.
Wouldn't make the decision in lot's of other EU countries where driving awareness isn't as high
Schnorr signatures are sort of a challenge to use, unfortunately.
>It doesn't affect my point though, that the prosecution can bring a case without first having won the case.

Huh? How would a prosecutor get to try (and attempt to prove) a case if they don't bring the case to the court in the first place?

Perhaps I'm missing something here?
I wonder if this entire thing could be built into 'glances' as an alternate pane view.

https://nicolargo.github.io/glances/
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"Is possible to do" isn't the same as "helps you to so".

You can write extremely reliable code in C (e.g. medical devices and car ECUs) but you have to be vary careful with any concurrency and usually dynamic memory allocation is banned. An enormous amount of testing and other design rules are needed. Maybe Rust would help to automatically check some of those things that otherwise require a lot of work to achieve.

You can write highly concurrent server applications in C. It's a lot of work and bug prone. If you write them in Elrnag or Elixir your life will be much easier. That's why we use them.

Maybe a static type system would help enforce some invariants about your code. Maybe it saves you from witting some classes of test. Basically, maybe you get to the same endpoint but with less work.
Perhaps it's a lot more than the AST that's attracting them? Like maybe the actor model (genservers)? Or OTP overall as a great platform for building self-healing, fast, distributed, functional systems? Or Immutability? There's lots of things to like about building on a foundation like Erlang.
Singapore to use facial verification in national identity scheme
I remember becoming very concerned by the idea that microplastics are behind decreasing sperm counts. But by Occam’s razor, I think it’s much more reasonable to assume that lack of exercise, poor diet, not enough sleep and sunlight, and high levels of stress are the bigger culprits.
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Is it moral/ethical to buy a Tesla?
Preach!!

And this should extend throughout the organization. If Architecture or Security or any other group is making your life miserable, they too should be DevOps'ing, working closely with you, caring about your frustrations that only they can fix. Sadly there are still so many silos left to break up.
> I'd cut them a little slack time-wise to track down where they have your address.

More than a year?
I feel like new features of popular typed languages have also helped them catch up to dynamic language it terms of ease of use. Go back before C++11, without "auto" writing generic code sucked! Callbacks without lambda closures also sucked. I'm sure someone will point to some 40 yr old language that had this but those languages weren't popular for whatever reason. var got added to C# in 2007 and it took more releases to let it be used in more places. Apparently added to Java much later.

I'm sure someone will give me a good example but for example std::sort in C++ before closures in C++, if you want to sort one array by another, for example you have an array of indices and an array of values and you want to sort the indices by the values, before closures I'd argue this was fairly painful unless you resorted to global variables or copying all of the data into some intermediate format. You'd end up having to write or generate a class with a sort function solely for the purpose of being able to pass in a member function to sort that could access the values. Today it's trivial because you can write a lambda that closes over the values and pass the indices into sort.
This reminds me of all the emails I received from roots due to putting an actual address of mine in the receiver field of a Postfix guide I wrote years ago. People will blindly copy paste whatever text you put in tutorials.
I guess you skipped the conclusion at the end of the article which is a completely subjective and biased opinion.

Centuries of colonial exploitation and violence have made the indigenous peoples of both Americas disproportionately vulnerable to current epidemics.

What current is epidemics is this person fabulating about? COVID ?
A few things that are helping around the house:

- water and electric installations. Most things that usually break in a typical house can be easily fixed by the average person with some tools, water is easier, electricity is extremely risky if you don't know what you are doing, but fine if you do (you don't need a college to be an electrician). I would also mention some carpentry, but that requires more tools than what people keep around the house.

- build, maintain and repair a bicycle; it is extremely easy if you spend a bit of time doing it and it is extremely useful if you do mountain biking and you have a problem in the middle of nowhere; also it is a lot cheaper and quite fun to fix or upgrade your own bike or spend some good time with friends working on their bikes

- fixing small things on a car or motorcycle, like changing oil, brake pads, bleed the brakes. It does well with the bicycle skills, some are transferable.

- if you like hiking, knowing how to pack light, to find a good place to mount a tent, first aid and a bit of survival skills are useful

If you like hiking, depending on your country and area you spend time it would be a good idea to learn how to properly carry and use a firearm for self-defense against wild life. Where I go there are plenty of bears and boars, they are both stronger and faster than me, I had a few encounters but it was either from a distance or I was not on foot, so I left in a hurry :) Less applicable in West Europe (no bears, some boars) and in Eastern Europe (no guns allowed), but still something to think about

- cooking. It's a hit or miss, but you can try. Anyone knows how to make tea or some eggs, it's trivial to do French fries or a steak (not a good one, but something you can eat), so for me cooking means to do something more complicated than basic food.

Learn not only to drive a car, but a bicycle, a motorcycle, a manual transmission car and even a small truck. You never know when one of these can be useful and they are partially related, so it's not that much to learn.
Something that I’m surprised a lot of devs don’t know; there are official domains you’re supposed to use for documentation, testing, etc. They are specifically reserved by IANA for these purposes. Originally I think it was just example.com, but they now have a list of all them: https://www.iana.org/domains/reserved
Listening skills.
It seems suspicious to me that the Europeans had a whole host of diseases that could wipe out a civilisation but the Americans had nothing comparable to affect Europeans. By symmetry, I expect there was some other force at work. Slavery/forced labour/wars and large-scale resettlements does sound plausible.
General Data Protection Regulation don't exist in vacuum, other laws are regulating data handling. Most importantly, accounting related regulations.
So, if you request your account deletion, all billing related information is still hold - that is probably 7 years in all EU countries. Sending unwanted mail for those addresses is different issue though, but having contact data as part of billing data is legal.
Emotional intelligence and human connection outperform fiscal subjugation by remote strangers.
The BEAM provides an unmatched concurrency model and related infrastructure. Targeting a language at it gets you all the benefits of that language plus all of the fundamental work done to build distributed systems.

Another way of looking at it: almost nothing that is important or wonderful about writing Erlang is the language itself. Most of what people rave about is the BEAM. This means you can fairly easily throw out the language and use a different one and get all the benefit.

Now that I'm thinking about it - that last point is a spectacular achievement of design and abstraction.
No, I'm not saying anything about "doubt". I'm saying if a nice friend (or a non-friend for that matter) takes your pencil and insists for the next year that he'll return to you despite never doing so, maybe there's a better way to deal with this trauma than to crucify him in front of 7 billion people.
Given the readme shows the ocaml being executed from an erlang interpreter, pretty sure yes.

You basically can't run anything on the BEAM without that interop anyway.
So the way for Cloudflare to really care about this is to end up on HN frontpage right? Otherwise...
This reminds me of one of episodes of The Big Bang Theory where Sheldon uses a dice to take every little decision. It was hilarious.
so cool :)