skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Same. The comment was a reflection of my observation from Plano -> SF -> NYC. I started my career in Plano. I personally was able to grow a lot more in my career after moving to SF (and later NYC).
My guess is giving up conversion tracking is the #1 hurdle for adopting alternate privacy-friendly (aka. no conversion tracking) analytics solutions.

It means that people using a privacy-friendly conversion tracking solution literally cannot track conversions accurately. If you can't track conversions, it also means you can't run advertising campaigns effectively because so much of advertising relies on conversion tracking to know whether ad spend is having an ROI or just burning money.

Then again, perhaps the target users of a privacy friendly analytics solution aren't in the same category of people who are running paid ad campaigns on Adwords, etc.
The nuance here is pretty blunt: no matter how useful torture is, it is never enough to legalize it.

Same with banning secure private communication.
"If we want to complain that MySQL has an utterly useless TIME datatype, and separately they really should have an INTERVAL datatype, then let's do that."

Uhh, done?

"The issue" is that MySQL has a TIME type that is goofy as all get-out, and this guy's friend had a bug that prompted him to look into the TIME type and find out how goofy it is. I don't recall him complaining that it's not in the docs (since that's where he looked it up). The bug was only a story, the thing that prompted him to look into it. Take a breath, this isn't StackOverflow (not that being rude and offended/butthurt is welcome there either).
That's not really a problem though, at least from what i understand. even on 32bit linux systems, time_t is still 64bit. on windows it also seems to be 64bit
First of all, a programmer turns a spec into working code. That's the easy part. Engineering is gathering requirements, designing the spec and ultimately coding it.

To be an engineer one must love to learn, learn fast and be able to learn on his own. It's not a job where you can expect to get training, it's a profession where you must be able to do some of the growing by yourself. It's a constant stream of new tech and new business domain knowledge. Here reading skills are absolutely required: a lot of questions can simply be answered by the relevant man page or by finding a reliable source for whatever knowledge is required for the task. You'll effectively have to become a domain expert several times in a career.

Systematic thinking and pattern recognition are essential skills to have. Our industry creates buzzwords every month and new fads in programming languages and frameworks but most core concepts remain unchanged since their inception.

Logic is absolutely required, and the ability to use the scientific method. This is crucial when debugging where you'll have to observe a problem, collect data on state, formulate an hypothesis on what caused the invalid state and verify your hypothesis. There's no "big picture" here, and every detail matters when doing this so in practice an engineers will often have to be able to keep the whole state of the system in his mind and step through it.

Communication skills are great to have; they effectively allow you to delegate and help colleagues onboard to whatever you are working on faster. From an outside point of view it's effectively super-powers, and if you want to play the politics game, allows you to get the best engineers to want to work with you.
I agree. I played Classic and modern players abused the heck out of it. 5 mages doing dungeons. 50 level players in greens killing Ragnaros.
You need to believe that computers are understandable. There’s no magic involved. Eventually, every abstraction leaks — so if you have fear or learned helplessness blocking you from trying to understand the leaky abstraction layer, the only way you can debug it is by squeezing your eyes shut and trying random things, which is ineffective. You really need to internalize that even things that seem mysterious happen for reasons, and that those reasons are something you could in principle figure out.
Seemed like typical business ideas, the curse launcher had an audience, they'd get that audience and synergise it into somehow making people use Twitch more as it's in the twitch launcher.

It didn't work, people used the curse launcher to load mods, not to socialise or work live streams. But some of these acquisitions can be that clueless.

Curse likely agreed because money.
They sorta are, if you actually read the context of each.

They're generalizing from different ends: one is saying that there are _some_ people who are not friendly if you're not white; the other is saying that _most_ people are friendly. The implication is that there is a subset of the populace that is unfriendly, and a subset that is friendly. Both comments say basically the same thing.
Hanford unprepared for another radioactive tank waste leak, says federal audit
cool stuff. looks like lots of key players in this space https://placekey.io/partners
Nvidia uses GAN for video compression
I'm on the team, so obviously biased, but I absolutely love using Remotion. It's enabled us to move super quickly – make fast decisions, get unblocked, bat around ideas.

We're an all-remote company and I've only met the founders in person, but I still feel super close to my other teammates because we have plenty of frequent catchup calls.
It's hard to keep wooden structures from racking, and wood flexes a lot even when the joints are solid.

As I stated at the top level, I'm not a fan of the hinge, but the side braces he added to hinge were a good idea.
A pro will additionally want to delay fixing a problem so that the root cause can be determined if there is no major financial cost. Management will want to brute force solve the problem right away and forget about it. Usually this involves restarting something: machine/instance.
Documenting a bad choice doesn't make it the right choice.
Numerous authoritarian goverments have used the pandemic as an excuse to expand powers and suppress dissent, often invoking emergency powers to bypass the usual law making process.

Look at Hungary, Hong Kong, Cambodia, Venezuela etc. A quick search will bring up many examples.
If the women don't find you handsome, they should at least find you handy.
Sounds like radio learning would make you a really good.... listener?
Did you consider putting the chair on wheels or a track that could slide you underneath a statically mounted “desk”?
Cardbots – Cardboard robotics for future makers – Just Launched on Kickstarter
That’s a very cool idea!
I'd take that bet ;-) From the article:

> > And it appears that Public Health England (PHE) was to blame, rather than a third-party contractor.
The ability to manufacture consent is finite, even in North Korea.
You haven't provided proof either, haven't answered followup questions about the setup and aren't willing to work with the maintainer. The issue will surely be closed.
That's an interesting question. I don't think so? If I was, would I notice? Nobody has ever mentioned it to me.

I only take it at work so I am pretty much just sitting in front of a computer when I'm on it.
This is a good description of the city intangibles.

I think it usually boils down to stuff like this.
> This is 100% what I believe the case will be. We won't try anything, at scale, until forced to. The reason I live the way I do is to prepare for (what I believe to be) the inevitable change/shift in the world in the next 3-5 decades.

> That being said - mega-cities, and a majority of humans living in cities is a relatively new phenomena. I am not sure our current structure lends itself to 'local' living - that's my argument above. It takes a crap-load of space to feed a family.

It seems you have thought this out a lot more than I have and have the practical experience to boot.

I too also think there is a good chance for a change/shift in the world around the time frame you are talking about. I’ve seen people talk about different collapse scenarios, including some of the weirder ones. It is less about preparing it for myself so much as preparing it for my unborn son and any of his siblings that follow after.

Granted, in some of the post-collapse scenarios I’ve seen, the mega-cities are likely to be shell. I live in Phoenix. I see a lot of space that could be used for growing ... but there is not a lot of water out here. This summer, I started relandscaping my yard to capture the monsoon rains, but they didn’t really come this year. It was effectively a drought. Phoenix is not built as a city that could survive without A/C, let alone much of the areas are distant from the canals. The Salt River that runs through here is dried up. For longer-term, I’m looking at moving the family to Northern Arizona, where we’d have a better shot.

I’m also thinking that the scale at which to grow food is probably going to be at a village size. It would require a different family structure too. The one tech I think that would really need to survive is the internet, though perhaps not in the form that it is now (with control of the internet aggregated into a small handful of players). I think the presence of the internet is what will make the difference between regressing back to horticulture, to something that helps us move forward. But whatever that “forward” is, it won’t be the familiar status quo.

It may take a crap-load of space to feed a family ... I think though, encouraging people to try to feed something of themselves can help them prepare in some way if there is a collapse; and if there isn’t one, I think it would help a lot. One of the things that growing at least some of your own food enables (even if you can’t grow all of it in an apartment), is that it links you into the food cycle. It seeds a sense of agency for the person. It starts the development of personal self-reliance, even if it is not completely self-reliant, or that it is impossible for megacities to support. In this way, it gives a little bit of capability and confidence that, someone can realistically assess their chances while they are still living in a megacity. And who knows, such a person might come up with some creative ways to do so, even if others decide that they need to build their life elsewhere.
The source you cite has the following headline: "More than half of COVID-19 patients experience ongoing fatigue, study finds"

So I'm not sure why that article gives you the impression that any more than 2% is implausible.

When I see a medical journal article with n~150 saying that 50% experience fatigue after ~70 days, and an app reports that self-reported "symptoms" (may not be asking about fatigue?) are below 2% after 90 days, my takeaway is that much more data is needed because it could be that "a lot of people have long-lasting side-effects".

Think about if you (or a young healthy family member) tested positive and felt mostly fine for a week or two.

After reading both of the above, I'd be concerned that there's a decent chance (1%-60%?) that you'd be worse off in some way for a long time, possibly the rest of your life.
No-code startup Unqork raises $207M funding round at $2B valuation
There is a distinct lived difference that is based on, you guessed it! generalities. Instead of nitpicking OP, its worth the attempt of empathy.

The small towns of PA (hey! loved that someone put this here) can be just as racist as the small towns of Colorado but somehow this doesn't extend to the small towns of California.

I say this as someone who has not lived everywhere but has lived in places where the common question (and yes, each town/city I lived in had a common question/conversation about my race)ranges from:

Are you black?

Are you jewish?

Are you honduran?

Are you armenian?

Are you [some subgroup of..] indian

Only in Japan, so far, am I - told - that I am American. Its amazing.

Exposure matters. Certainly there are a smattering of places in the midwest where things are progressive. That being said, they are not as well known and compared to my life in SF/LA/DC (still kinda conservative)/NY, the amount you're allowed to live and let live varies.

I'm more likely to hear some random comment about where I do or do not belong or some idiotic belief I have to disabuse about who I am in the Midwest and South.
Don't forget Chicago is the 3rd largest city in the country. It's a wonderful foodie town, has great theaters, public transit, etc - everything I always hear is great about NYC. You're thinking Cleveland (yes - that's dead), not Chicago, Minneapolis, or Pittsburgh.
I respectfully disagree with most of this. The last part was a bit all over the place though, not sure where exactly you were going.

Others who know history much better than me are far better equipped to debate against your position. If you really want a challenge, I would invite you to reply to the top comment in this thread by Jon_Lowtek to help open a discussion on the deeper merits of your position. For me personally, your arguments aren't very persuasive.
The issue is not buying and selling companies, it's cross-domain consolidation.

If Amazon can enter e.g. the diapers market not because they are good at making diapers but because they can leverage their other businesses to kill competition, you have a problem.

If google can pour unaccounted billions in advertising for any new product they launch while killing competitors' visibility, there is aa problem.

The solution is not to force e.g. alphabet to sell all of their companies, but to make these companies act independently.
Unusual sites to help get rid of boredom
Yes, every day activities such as going to the grocery store or going outside. Making this a political issue ignores the very real consequences for the people who don't want to risk getting COPD for the rest of their lives. Imagine not being able to get food without taking on that risk because a core group of other people have decided to sacrifice you on the altar of the economy.
>Are we talking about the same things here?

Yes. They need an enclosed, short space in which to feel safe in order to lay eggs. To be happy and well-raised animals, they need a 'flight pen' which is a soft netted topped pen for literal flight. They are birds, and they do need to exercise that ability. Further, their flight pen allows for them to exercise their natural pecking and 'hunting'.

You could absolutely keep them in a small cage. And they would be inhumanely raised creatures.

>Maybe the missing information is just how big of a cage we are talking about.

Small cage. Large flight pen. If the flight pen is a thing, then yes, it's too large for an apartment.
One of the sticking points is that some countries do not allow the author to waive the Moral Rights over a work that they have produced.

https://opensource.stackexchange.com/questions/1371/how-can-...
Not sure what you mean. Heroku can autodeploy from a Github repo just as well? You don't need the CLI for that
This works for FB but how about Google, Apple, and Amazon? FB's messes go beyond market domination as you point out. But for the others, where and when did they cross the line?
Did you exercise before or since? Have you noticed any difference in performance?

Do you live in an area with a lot of sunshine in a low enough latitude or take vit D supplements before?
He's just saying that to highlight that we shouldn't be attempting to draw any broad conclusions as other commenters are.
No, the comment you are applying to is 100% correct. Store brands are a form of price discrimination, which is anti-competitive and illegal. Courts and regulators significantly weakened enforcement in the 80s, but the laws haven't changed.
> "Related : you can refer to the latin name of the plant which is usually common accross language"

that might be true of romance languages and close analogues (even then, its veracity is dubious), and ignores the billions of people who have other cultural roots (e.g., africans, asians). americans, for instance, generally wouldn't know the latin names for plants.
Per the links above, they didn't tell anyone, Snowden outed them.

In the cold War it was true of the western world and the USs use was limited because the US wanted to look gentle and reasonable. Today it's true for most of the planet and the US wants to look tough.

If you don't like the Assange case (I agree the brits are lap dogs, but that case actually got kicked off in Sweden and was handled under EU law much more aggressively than the in UK), try the FIFA case. The US ordered Switzerland to arrest and extradite foreign nationals, many had never set foot in the US for trial, Switzerland obeyed...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/05/27/ho...

I don't like any of this. But it's time to abandon our innocence. If you're working on any meaningful project in encryption, the NSA are at least aware of you. The US are happy to use covert methods to undermine you if they think its worth it (and the bar is low). If you're important enough (or a DA wants to expense some flights) they'll use overt methods. Proceed at your own risk and don't assume that America banning encryption doesn't make it illegal for you just because you're a Swiss citizen in Switzerland.
Very cool, and the UI looks and feels great!
Agreed about the trendy medium sized cities - people love them but they seem so bland to me for the same reason (great another craft burger place...).

You're right that there are probably more natural little Italy's out there, but no way you'll find an equally good Chinatown within a 2 hour drive of that little Italy. But, if you love Italian food and hate Chinese, then maybe that's a trade you're (not you specifically) willing to make.

I can see the access to nature as a reasonable trade off, if you're out hiking every weekend then maybe that could make the M-F in the smaller town more liveable

It definitely is an interesting situation
My dad was an actuary and one day while visiting him in the office I saw a someone with a PC keyboard but with some rather weird characters.

The guy then showed me this thing called APL.
Well I emailed 'em again. Don't think there's much hope when your reps are McCaul, Cornyn and fucking Ted Cruz. I hope this is Lindsey Graham's last piece of legislation though.
What we learned launching on HN
Oracle launches a cloud-native observability platform for hybrid IT
I’m not LGBT (but I’m an ethnic minority who grew up in suburban Atlanta). I wanted to add that personally it’s not enough to just be ‘tolerated’. I’d rather be in a place where I’m “mainstream” or at least normalized. In that sense (for me as a South Asian) the Bay Area and NYC are no comparison so the South or the Midwest. I feel like I’m an active member of mainstream society there, not someone in the sides.
Google’s minister of misinformation Laszlo Bock explained it at TGIF as

1) Google did nothing wrong because
2) Outbound recruiting has no effect
3) So execs just spent a ton of time working out a complicated arrangement to prevent outbound recruiting

It amazed me that Google would brag about hiring “the smartest people” then feed them directly contradictory information and expect them to buy it, which shockingly many did. For all the typical criticism of Trump supporters being a misinformed cult coming from Googlers, I saw a ton of similarities in the logical brain turns off when dear leaders explain things.
They should normalize by population/

Chicago has a lot of tech jobs, but also a lot of people. 3rd in population and 8th in tech suggests it's the opposite of a hub. I wonder how much of the hiring is companies like McDonalds, United, or Boeing rather than FAANG.
Thanks for your feedback on the pricing plans. We will definitely take a look at options and potentially roll out some additional plans soon.
Excellent idea, reading stimulates our imagination and being able to read and write it at the same time I suppose it involves a very different cognitive experience when it comes to experiencing a book, perhaps it improves memory or has other benefits, it would be interesting to do a study on it. A good practice for learning another language too.
I expect Intel to still cripple some aspect of DDR5 ECC on consumer chips; maybe it will correct errors but the memory controller won't report them. Or maybe it's possible to disable ECC even though it's already implemented.

I also expect servers to use two levels of ECC to provide chipkill and also to keep server RAM more expensive than consumer.
excellent idea, reading stimulates our imagination and being able to read and write it at the same time I suppose it involves a very different cognitive experience when it comes to experiencing a book, perhaps it improves memory or has other benefits, it would be interesting to do a study on it.
Frustration tolerance! Don't get me wrong, programming is frequently joyful, but sometimes you'll run into bugs that are maddening and require a lot of divide and conquer sort of work, and being able to separate yourself from the natural frustration is key to making progress.
Live Plasma: Kevin Shields
That seems somewhat opposite to the point of PaaS, no?

If you want controllable costs and you don't want people using your service because interest explodes, then just stick to a regular droplet, no?

The entire point of this is that if usage explodes, you want to pay to support that usage. That's the entire feature.

(Also, HN frontpage traffic isn't that much -- it's a few requests per second at most, not thousands per second.)

The only scenario I can imagine where this would be a genuine concern would be if you were subjected to a (D)DoS-type attack. But in that case you still want legitimate users to get through, so you really need a separate DoS-protection layer which is totally orthogonal to this.

Am I missing something?
Feels like a PR stunt to me.
In my case it was a severe lack of B6, B9/Folate and B12, which was diagnosed via blood test (but which they apparently don't check for in your average blood test in Germany). Had four shots a week apart to "fill me up" and one every six months since.
I've never mentally dinged someone for saying they don't know how to use a particular technology. This field is immense and there is no possible way for any person to understand it all.

But when someone said they could do something a particular way and the results suggest otherwise I find it completely frustrating.
> They ultimately controlled where those people worked (and their horrible commutes), who they were friends with, what schools their kids went to and who they married. All because the execs at these companies wanted to maintain total control of the workforce and suppress wages.

This is ridiculous. It was a non-recruitment pact that led to lower pay (for already wealthy people, just not as wealthy ad that execs), not wage-fixing nor non-hiring nor control over where people live or went to school or who they marry.

And the insulation that the wealthiest 1% of people are entitled to send their child to a better school than their non-tech-star neighbors is horrific. It exposes a worldview that extreme inequality is only bad if you aren't on top

> NPCs

What does this even mean? Being poorly paid and not having healthcare is bad, but being an "NPC" has nothing to do with it. How is being employed as a driver/cook/whatever more of a "PC"?
I actually got the idea from Hamilton, the musical about the founding father. I loved the Washington-character there.
I think about this in terms of how much clock time has elapsed versus how much working time I spend on something - i.e. I am very often able to trade an increase in clock time elapsed (taking more breaks) for a decrease in working time, and vice versa.

As with most things, this comes with diminishing returns as you push toward minimizing one over the other.

Sometimes, even negative returns, e.g. because of increased context switching costs, or confusion and general malaise caused by staring at something for too long.
Great, after a few previous attempts it finally worked for me on my first attempt after seeing this report.