skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like Hinge's blog: http://hingeirl.com/. It has some solid tips. Besides that, I haven't found anything else too useful and mostly learned by putting myself out there and making a ton of mistakes. That's not to say there might be some other useful material out there.

I'd be weary of taking advice from reddit or similar communities. Most people who frequent those forums and give advice tend to be plagued with relationship problems themselves.

Of course, dating in a Covid-19 world might be tricky, and it's not something I feel is worth the effort, though YMMV. (fwiw, I used to think the same about online dating, and I was completely wrong.)
Everything old is new again!

The style dates back to Pascal. I think it's better, personally, and that might be because Pascal was my first programming language, but I don't care, I'm just happy it's back in fashion.

As a side note, I was quite sure that it dated back to Algol 60, but looked it up for this comment, and nope! Type came before variable.
> That worth has been reduced by the cash paid for the retired shares.

It doesn't work this way. Companies aren't valued based on how much cash they have on hand. They are valued based on the future value of their returns which should be several orders of magnitude more than whatever cash they are spending on buybacks.

Apple has spent over $500b on buybacks over the past 10 years. By your logic, they should be smaller than they were when they started. A healthy company spending money on a buyback doesn't affect their ability to earn money in the future which is the basis for the companies valuation.

Likewise, dividends don't devalue a company. A company is valued based on their future earning capacity, not based on how much cash they have on hand.
I use netbook as wifi router [1] / storage (sshfs, samba). To disable sleep on lid close [2]

/etc/systemd/logind.conf
HandleLidSwitch=ignore

Never thought of it as UPS, probably can implement graceful shutdown on low battery level [3]

[1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/software_access_point

[2] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Power_management#ACPI_e...

[3] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/laptop#Hibernate_on_low...
Would you please not break the site guidelines like this? If you read them to the end, you'll notice that they explicitly ask you not to post this kind of comment.

One reason is that users frequently give corrective upvotes (https://hn.algolia.com/?query=corrective%20upvote&dateRange=...), which leaves a complaint like this dangling as uncollected garbage.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Thank you so much for this - it really is a masterclass in how to annotate code. I'll be pointing people to this for years to come!
This looks like a follow up to 2002 "Foundations of Genetic Programming" by the same Langdon and Poli.

I've found Genetic Programming to be a powerful technique when the solution space is itself an algorithm.

ML research has moved on to deep learning, but I've always found that, coming from CS background, GA/GP is much more intuitive a mechanism.
Part of the solution is just turning off notifications. Half of what the author described is apps interrupting what she was doing, demanding her attention. All smartphones provide the option to turn off these interruptions and badges. Just do it and never look back. I've gone even farther in that I run Do-Not-Disturb mode 24/7, so no notifications of any kind, no texts, even no phone calls. You can take back your attention when it's being stolen.

You're totally right about the other half though, it's got to be some kind of addiction. Her compulsion to keep "checking" things online. Checking facebook, checking instagram, checking the news, checking the likes on this, checking messages on that, checking Slack, checking E-mail, even checking her frequent flyer mile count (WTF?). What is all this checking? What on earth is so important that you keep needing to poll for status updates? This behavior seems to be beyond what one could rationally explain and I agree with you that some professional help and guidance is probably in order!
So is tiktok full of literal official Chinese propaganda? Or is it full of people doing stupid things? Or is people doing stupid things Chinese propaganda nowadays?

You're saying it's comparing heroin to heroin, is it?
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It's funny -and not counter to your point- but several of the succession struggles that plagued the Eastern Empire are characterized as "almost elections", by historians. Since its inception, the empire never had an official succession system and hence every new ruler was contested. Constantinople was so easily defendable that a popular usurper had great chances of making himself with the throne if he could take control of the capital. More than once, pretenders rose to power by popular acclaim at the hippodrome.
It's sad to realize those unicorn founders aged a few years since their last exit and now worthless
It's absolutely trivial and cheap to buy two boxes of cereal and open them up to see that the store brand version is quite different from the name brand.
The SaaS website content you need to close sales
I analyzed the online searches of thousands of SaaS buyers to uncover exactly what information they want when considering a SaaS purchase.

These are the top five highlights from what I learned:

1. The most sought-after (and often 1st) piece of info sought by SaaS buyers is pricing -- by a large margin.

Have a pricing page! If you can't share exact pricing for some reason, try one of these alternative approaches (created by an acquaintance of mine): https://businesscasualcopywriting.com/show-pricing-on-websit...

2. '[brand] alternatives' is the 2nd most-frequent search pattern.

It seems obvious to have a page on your website targeting '[your_brand] alternatives] that positions your offering against your competitors.

But only 2 of the 50 biggest SaaS companies do this!

Ex: https://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/comparison

3. SaaS buyers literally search for 'why [brand]'.

This is another under-leveraged opportunity.

Buyers want someone to spell out for them why they should spend money on your solution.

Make it easy for them!

Ex: https://www.hubspot.com/why-go-hubspot

4. Security is a big concern for SaaS buyers. They want to know how you're going to protect them from loss and litigation.

They're even checking out your privacy policy and GDPR terms! (Keep those things up-to-date.)

5. Your 'About Us' page matters.

Startups fail all the time. It’s not a secret.

Buyers want to know that the effort they put forth–convincing management, setting up and integrating your solution, convincing employees to use it–is going to be worth it in the long run.

Does your company have meaningful funding? Well-known investors? Is it profitable and self-sustaining? Does it have experienced leadership?

In your company’s About Us page, make sure you convey anything that can reassure buyers that the company is robust and set up to thrive.
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Tldr; authenticity vs opportunism
> correction of less than 1/1000 and no measurement I do is that precise. NASA's rocket trajectories are less precise than that.

Source? If you make that big of an error you're gonna fail your orbital insertion at the other end entirely when going to places like Mars, let alone any farther.
At least in London, licensed minicabs are supposed to keep records, at least of every journey's date & time, pick up location, destination, and the driver. This is enforced by the Public Carriage Office - a division of TfL, with quite hefty fines for companies and drivers that fail to comply.
I agree, but the opportunists are within that set
What I think you're getting at here is that it's up to each person to choose whether they want to chase the promotion and higher pay or whether they want to focus on just doing meaningful work.

Perhaps not everyone will come to this cynical of a conclusion for themselves, but in my own experience this way of thinking is almost always a false dichotomy. There's no law that says pay vs meaningfulness of the work is a zero-sum trade-off, but a lot of people giving career advice take it as almost a given that this is true. There is exciting work to do and problems to solve in the higher paying, higher levels in a big company (by that I mean, senior or staff engineer, manager or sr manager. I don't have any hands-on experience at the higher executive levels, I'm still chasing those promotions myself). And there are endless things to be frustrated with at the smallest of startups even when there's no bureaucracy or perceivable "office politics" to worry about.

My own takeaway has been, at the end of the day this is still a job. In almost any job I can find positive ways to contribute, opportunities to learn, and make my own self fulfillment. So I might as well do that at the job that pays 3x more.

In tech that difference in pay between a couple of bands of promotions or between a startup and big co, can be absolutely massive. Don't feel bad about chasing the higher paying roles, that increase in income can buy you a lot of optionality. Maybe you can retire early, or take long years of sabbatical in the middle of your career, or devote a year or two to starting your own startup in the future without worrying about not taking a paycheck. This may ultimately be a lot more satisfying than shuffling through low-paying jobs searching for roles where you'll be perfectly happy in spite of that, because you may never find it anyway.
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'Several thousands' and 'two weeks' are quite an understatement. Another elephant in the room is the continuation of international flights from Wuhan.
That is a bit different than agrep, but looks very useful. I need to try it.
It's not sold by official Birkenstock, so it's either grey market or knockoffs from what I know. Birkenstock had withdrawn their official seller presence from Amazon a few years ago due to commingled counterfeit products and Amazon's unwillingness to fix it.
> Too often I have been told to be proud of the great work I am a part of, as if this should outweigh the negative and harmful things myself and others have experienced.

Actually, that's how it works in the real world from my experience.

Most geniuses have terrible shadows that are as dark and long as they are brilliant and tall.

Most of us feel really lucky to get things done and be a part of something, and when we have to bear an unkind comment here or there... well, we're emotionally developed adults who balance the positive with the negative. It takes a lot of entitlement to expect to never hear anything negative or offensive or unkind.*

College should prepare you for the real world, not shelter you from it.

* Obligatory before someone makes a strawman: Of course if the advisor does something illegal, that's another matter, but the article never stated anything illegal being done. Just unkind from what I read.
And this is me caring not one jot how I look. I’ve probably invested 10,000 hours over 20 years, not just helping myself but on helping other users as well. And that all that’s down the drain thanks to some incompetent primadonna who doesn’t play well with experts who know more than him.

It’s not just me either, but I say it because it needs to be said, because unless you identify the failure there’s no hope in hell of finding a fix. Mac Automation isn’t on its ass because it’s old or bad technology; it’s on its ass because it was horribly mismanaged by a clueless incompetent of a project manager.

The tech could still be fixed; the problem now is politics. That’s why I think it’s borked, but until the last ax drops I’ll keep on trying to salvage it anyway because I care that much about the fundamental principle: putting power and control back in the hands of the users.

https://github.com/hhas/iris-script
is there any more context to this? All I could find is this:

https://www.ccs.neu.edu/~shivers/advisor-stmt-original.txt
That's exactly how I'm seeing it shaping out on it.

As a career path only a few would care at a young age.

To try to sell it as a skillset to young people as a way of simply not being a casualty of automation is a tough sell especially before they've had the chance to enter the workforce and bounce around from gig to gig.

It's not hard to sell older people. Especially if they've lost a lot of jobs and opportunities recently. Many of them are desperate and hungry for new opportunities.

But for young people, to a lot of them this is just no different than another type of Math class.
Well, maybe Western countries should have talked about containing the virus, not flattening the curve.
> An N^2 RSS performance regression with many patterns has been fixed in common cases (no backref, and no use of -o or --color).

Does anyone know why -o and --color were slow in older versions of Grep? Doesn't --color just affect the output, not the matching?
And those stores arent as good as Amazon, according to millions of customers.
YouTube is shutting down crowdsourced captions
But bash is likely available wherever you'd like to run this.
Git Bash that comes with Git is another low overhead way to get grep since you may already need git anyway.
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I agree almost fully.

But Capitalism is about the private ownership of capital and means-of-production as opposed to state-owned. And if the state is actually run democratically, then that non-capitalist approach could be a democratic economy. That has its own set of issues, but it's not exclusive of the free exchange of goods in markets with money. See, e.g. Market Socialism.

Capitalism does not equal markets. Markets predate capitalism. Capitalism can well have totally non-free dysfunctional markets controlled entirely by monopolists. That's today's situation. See https://mattstoller.substack.com for great reporting on this.

It's just as much a mistake to assert that Capitalism is synonymous with markets as to assert that it's synonymous with today's crony-capitalism with regulatory-capture etc.
Reducing employee stress with these work from home engagement tips
This is fascinating! On one hand, as an old guard JS developer that upscaled to TS, I often find new TS syntax incomprehensible. On the other hand I am still slowly learning new concepts. Am I correct to assume these new concepts are imported from more advanced languages? Or are these invented in TS for TS?
This is a great point, thanks for commenting. Still thing my main point stands, but more because capital gains taxes can be deferred. It's amazing how convoluted / confusing dividend taxation is.
Would you please stop posting these off-topic meta complaints? They're pure noise, you've unfortunately been doing it a lot lately, and they're against the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

Your other comments are great, so it would be nice if you would fix this.
I can imagine no other organization more capable of following the letter of the law - if not the spirit - than a group of lawfirms.
Most liqorices use wheat gluten to bind the ingredients into candy.. I was enjoying some rice flour variations.
Yes exactly, HTML document using whatever templating language you want (or even client-side JavaScript framework since Chrome can handle that too) and then output a PDF.
> If you screwed up a project, switched roles, and it's only now apparent that the project is in trouble, the blame will naturally fall on its current leader, not on you.

And if it happens to you, just blame the last person! It's a win-win for everyone except the company. These people can play hot potato until the entire company is sunk.

I don't have much else to add to this article. It's pretty perfect. There's a lot more wisdom in here than the title lets on.
Friend of mine is a Mechanical Engineer. Oh the stories she tells when she gets a couple of drinks in her.
Yes, but these other industries employ more people and less skilled people than the tech industry. It's also not very obvious to me that VCs are that good at picking the companies with the largest overall return percentage. The performance of VC as a whole is not that good and arguably the performance of the successful name-brand VCs is due to superior access to deal flow rather than actual skill.
When I was 11 or 12, my father gave me a copy of “Parkinsons Law” (https://www.amazon.com/Parkinsons-Law-Pursuit-Progress-Busin...), explaining that this is the most important book on management I will ever read.

I found it super entertaining.

When I left Google in 2015 to go on sabbatical, I distributed 20 copies to various middle and upper-middle managers, mostly as friendly/jocular warning/admonishing.

When I returned in 2016, it seemed that one half had gotten the joke, and the other half had used it as a manual.

Either way: The linked article shows that the author has red-discovered Parkinson’s Law for himself.

(I recommend y’all read the book)
> One of the reasons is overlap. Your hands do occasionally hit keys on the other side. You want a pair of 2/3 keyboards, rather than 1/2 keyboards. You /especially/ want a lot of the "special" keys on both sides.

Why stop at 2/3? Apple Magic Keyboards are compact enough that for many people with reasonably wide shoulders they could just use two of those at once.

A setup with an Apple Magic Trackpad in the middle, two Magic Keyboards on the sides, and a mouse farther to the side might be quite reasonable.
I am happy that my career doesn’t depend on promotions. Convincing people “I deserve a promotion” is often tangential to actually generating value for a business, solving real problems.
That is just a terrible terrible thing to say to excuse abuse. You cant expect others to toil away to benefit your "genius".
It's surprising to me how pervasive this idea is that app code can be completely trusted because a developer signs it at some point.

All those super secure end-to-end encrypted messaging apps are just one automatic app update away from uploading any locally stored conversations and keys. And turning off automatic updates isn't enough, Google and Apple have ways to force an update if required.

Maybe for now Apple/Google can convince the courts to not coerce them into using this power, but it is present.
Which channel are you referring to? I'm a fan of Steve Wallis and would love more of this content to live through vicariously.
I can see a lot of friends will hate this, haha
For what it's worth, I've actually been warned against their physics department for grad school. The other rumour I heard is that Harvard is even worse (for physics grad students). Tons of toxic behaviour like sabotaging labmates in the name of competition and advisors holding onto students for like a year after they should have graduated to pump out that last paper from them.
I'd like to say that I disagree here with your assertion that this may be an unlikely scenario. I think it's more of an unknown. We don't know what unique capabilities an independent virus or bacteria may have generated. If you look at human history, contacts between peoples with different immune system resiliencies proved quite deadly. It's possible that we encounter a novel virus or bacteria and it may be extremely lethal or damaging with no ability for our immune system to fight off the infection, or it may not have an ability to interact with our cells and thus pass through without harm. Or anything in between. This goes both ways.
I think we need to change our language a bit and stop referring to crashes as accidents.

Crashes are common. Accidents are exceptionally rare. While "accident" is a statement of intent, and outside of extreme road rage scenarios, nobody intends to cause a crash, people do deliberately create dangerous situations that lead to crashes.

You might not have intended to rear-end somebody, but you did choose to text while driving.

You might not have intended to side-swipe somebody, but you did choose to not check your blind spot before changing lanes.

The word "accident" implies a mistake that you couldn't see coming. But when someone chooses to create the dangerous situation, it's no longer an accident, because the situation could have been avoided entirely.
If you don't have energy at 40 it's not because of your age. You can win a championship in any major sport at that age.
A person from Netflix would have to respond, but if they're anything like other tech companies, they're doing a shit job of hiring.

Huge salaries are one way to mitigate that, by holding on tight to the good ones.
Author here. Thanks for the feedback - I’ll update the article.

I’m a little embarrassed to admit I didn’t even notice.
Alternate, no, as the ergonomic benefits are designed for someone with a different typing pattern. For example Dvorak wants more typing done with the left hand, which only has a middle and ring finger, plus a spacebar thumb.

Custom, maybe one day. My grandfather was an author, he wrote his novels with a typewriter. He had a fantasy of building a typewriter the size of a room where you wrote with boxing gloves, punching the keys. I'd like to have something like that one day.
Moore's law always was an economic roadmap. Everything in the semiconductor industry is (was) planned around the transistor density doubling every two years, from hardware investments, to market segmentation, to microarchitecture design, to software optimizations. So I think it makes sense that they go on with pushing transistor density from generation to generation, and convey it to the public using names it is already familiar with.

It's right that power has severely limited performance despite increasing the transistor density lately. Maybe we'll once again get better with adiabatic computing?
Memorize six digits to get seven back?
I'd love to hear more. What are the five?
OS also has this: https://scsh.net/docu/html/man.html (I understand it to be intended as humorous, BTW.)
It's hard to square this take against the billions of dollars spent optimizing dopamine feedback loops on social media and dark patterns to trick users into falling victim.
That’s not exactly a tax dodge strategy to get deeper in debt. More than likely, he just isn’t a good business person and fell for the sunk cost fallacy.
Sorry, I actually knew that and forgot. I didn't actually mean to imply dosbox was better than ScummVM for DOS games, just that it's probably better than a full VM when it works. ScummVM is probably as good or even better than dosbox for the things it supports well, so would probably be better than a VM too.
Rocks have been exchanged between solar system bodies for millenia. We know that life can theoretically survive on these meteors.
So it seems rather unlikely that a foreign life form that is not well adopted to life on Earth has a big chance of survival.
> I used to think this too, but as a filter I think it's having the desired effect.

Is it though? I'm a hiring manager and don't ask such questions and yet have had no problem hiring really talented engineers.

The reason I don't ask those questions is because I know that cranking up the interview pressure and asking arbitrary, revisable, common interview questions doesn't actually prove anything aside how good the candidate is at being interviewed.
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Why make it so complex and difficult? It's actually pretty easy.

The boss loves cycling? Hey, you do too! Why don't you go cycling together. Oh it's golf? You love it! Why don't you listen to everything that's going right and wrong at the firm.

I feel a bit sorry for the author of this article, because he thinks he figured it all out, and he's still going to lose from the guy who hangs out with the boss.