skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's...your loss?

Why brag about ignoring a valuable indicator that applicants spend considerable time writing?
Because a company is allowed to go in debt or bankrupt independently of its shareholders. If your LLC is in debt and defaults on that debt, the owners (you) won't go in debt.

There are better explanations, including that a corporation is a beast of the state etc.
systemd provides process and resource isolation. You can either have something comparable with everything or something the uses specific features of the kernel. You just can't have it all.
A Brannock device? (essentially calipers for feet)
https://brannock.com/
It's funny that you have to pay more in order to have less.

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> Part of the agreement between the US and Denmark was that "the USA does not use the system against Danish citizens and companies. And the other way around". Similar words can be found in an NSA presentation from 2011: "No US collection by Partner and No Host Country collection by US"

At first glance, it sounds OK, but what if the US has similar agreements with some neighboring countries (and as mentioned in the article it has) and uses the data collected via them against Danish citizens and companies and vice versa? Everything will be perfectly legal, but in practice, no one is at safety and the creators of the system who have agreements with many countries have a huge advantage over their so-called "partners" because they are aggregating the big picture, but "the partners" have some guarantees only about the data which is transferred via them and have no guarantees even about it when it leaves their country.
> HDCP is awful. Thanks Intel.

Agreed. HDCP is the reason I can't play most 4k content on my (older) 4k TV.
Requires a huge capital investment in batteries, which are then idle for the voyage in both directions.

However, we can think this through a bit: what is a battery? It's a pair of redox reactions, involving two electrodes and either one or two electrolytes. The electrolytes are usually liquids. That led to the concept of the "flow battery": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_battery

So, if the electrolytes can be stored in tanks separate from the electrodes, theoretically you could put the tanks on ships and cycle the electrolytes between countries.
Unfortunately the Discover archives don't seem to be working but you should educate yourself on the limits of brain science and show more intellectual humility.

This post might be a good place to start:

http://neuroskeptic.blogspot.com/2009/02/ethics-of-junk-scie...

The author, a neuroscientst writes "More generally, the controversy over human sex differences is a vast one, with a huge amount of evidence to consider, and it isn't going to be settled by one neuroimaging study, or even a hundred."

You seem like the type of person who makes up their mind after one study, as long as it fits your biases regarding gender. You would be well service by talking less and realizing much of the world is beyond your understanding as a human with limited information and (likely) a limited understanding of brain science.
Crazy idea: if you're just starting out and "nobody actually needs your product" is a problem, build something else or pivot radically. You should not have to bribe users with gift cards in order to use your product. If you're going that far, you're far off the goal of having something useful.
> What I mean by this is that when you try to join a company where the culture is geared towards white men in their twenties, you have to fit that culture.

On the contrary, the study says the opposite (for women). If there is a cover letter by a fictive person, which appears to be a woman, which is trying "to fit in to that culture" by using more assertive terms, it will result in less callbacks. For fictive men, it is the reverse.

As the person is fictive, the actual supposed qualities of that person are irrelevant.
I'd never even consider to assign feminine or masculine traits to any of those words. Is this an "English as a first language"-thing?

Like you, I can see how some of those words could be more or less assertive, but I'd go as far as to argue that anyone connecting gender with assertiveness is outright sexist. :)
Razor-blade economies. It's most consumers who suck because they didn't wise-up to DRM, giveaway printers, ink drying-up, and expensive ink and instead get a used flagship laser printer. Convenience store vs. Costco or Staples Business Advantage.
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Sure, but there's no equivalently mature OCaml-like language for the JVM (Scala doesn't count)
I can haz teh haxx0rz? Working around the character limit.

I stored an expression in the URL fragment/hash, loaded it from there and eval-ed it. The hash symbol would break the expression, so it needs to be removed or commented out. Removing it by string manipulation would have exceeded the 32 character limit, so I went with commenting it out. That means you need to start any expression with "* /" (remove the space) to close the comment around the hash symbol.

The hover text of the example link gives you a good idea of what is happening.

Have fun!

Random animation, 47 characters payload:

https://tixy.land/?code=eval(%27%2F*%27%2Bparent.location.ha...
I put running insoles in a pair of really cheap steel-toes that I have to wear at work, and it made all the difference in how my legs and feet felt at the end of a shift.
In practice, we've experienced 20 microsecond-100 millisecond thread interruption issues on Windows. The resources we've found are inadequate to address the questions. No such problems on Linux. Windows scheduler experts appear to be rare. We wonder if Windows is simply not amenable to certain types of high-performance applications.
I mean, it tells you that if you wanted to contribute, you'd also have to learn Rust before being able to do so.

Also, beyond that, note my "many"; sure, it doesn't mean anything to you. It feels weird to get upset about something that supposedly has no meaning, though. When I see something that's "written in X" and I don't care about X, I just move on with my day. If I post about how much I don't care about X, it really seems like I do actually care about X, otherwise, I wouldn't take the time to complain about it.

(The OP of this thread said that they did care, negatively. And you didn't explicitly say you don't care either. But this attitude is common and is also elsewhere in this thread so, let me just finally jump off this soapbox real quick...)
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I didn’t see it as a brag. The idea is that the cover letter influences the hire in undesirable ways more than it provides relevant information. Think systemically removed from the hiring packet rather than gleefully deleted.

We do use the hiring letter, because the ability to write is important to us, but I understand why it might not be considered.
Harder surfaces are a mixed bag. Yes you run faster but your feet, ankles and knees take more impact and damage.
F# is 15 years old and there has been a "F# foundation" for past 5 of those.

If your concern about Microsoft abandoning F# is genuine then perhaps that can re-assure you.
I'm not sure I'd agree with that at all. On the surface of this planet software is used to simulate hardware as it's much quicker to iterate on a design.

In space, however, you can only run the hardware in it's destined environment once. Software is critical to the design process regardless of the HW costs.
You should really start reading them. Many contain valuable information about the candidate and would help you do you job more effectively. I also work as a hiring manager and would probably have discounted more than one really good hire if I'd not read the cover letter and gained context that didn't fit into their CV.
Fixed payents (bonds, etc) are fixed.

Wage-earners see wages increase with inflation. Possible slight lag, but effectively little.

Cash savings of course devalue.

Asset holdings (real estate, equities) appreciate with inflation.

Debts are reduced -- values fall as money is diluted (the gain side of banks' loss).
Before I used a password manager I just looked through my Gmail and logged into every site I had an account with and changed the email address to my personal domain one.

This took about a week of focused effort.
vrsqrtps executes once-per-cycle throughput on Skylake / Icelake.

You can always compute newton's method afterwards to improve the accuracy. But getting the maximum accuracy from one cycle is probably best.
Depends on what you want from the jail. If you want to be able to ssh into it, then make it start ssh ("service ssh start") and that's it.
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To me a cover letter tells me if the candidate can write & organize their thoughts effectively.

It also tells me if they really did any research into their prospective employer. Especially useful when they forget to swap employers and accidentally leave in the name of another place they're applying to.
It’s 2020 and anti-Semitism is an electoral tactic again
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If this is the working definition, then it can either be a manifested occurrence or a political theory.

Class politics, for example. It can either be ideological in the sense that you think people should group together politically based on class interest. Or, it can just be what happens. IE, the society has a politically prominent class structure and people group politically around that. Same for tribal politics, etc.
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We have a friends and family type account with T-Mobile, where I'm the primary account holder. Some of the account holders, which don't even share the same mailing address as us, are receiving text messages (specifically political ones) with my name in it. This suggests that somehow the sender knows that I'm affiliated with another phone number, even though I'm not the phone number's actual assignee. Is T-Mobile leaking data, where leak could either mean willing selling the data or might it have a vulnerability where the data is being extracted somehow?

The only other explanation I can think of is that T-Mobile is allowing a mail-merge of sorts that allows advertisers to blast to phone numbers on T-Mobile's system and that T-Mobile is injecting my name (incorrectly) after the fact.
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I keep reading good things about F# but at the same time it seems to fly under the radar, with not enough learning material out there

I did love this one article http://tomasp.net/blog/2018/write-your-own-excel/

EDIT: Submitted the link here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24980325
All the big PC vendors make well supported high-end desktop computers running Intel Xeons or AMD Ryzen Threadripper processors supporting ECC Memory.

Noteworthy recent models include:

- HP Z4 (Single Socket CPU Intel Xeon) - HP's biggest selling workstation

- Lenovo ThinkStation P620 - First workstation shipping AMD Ryzen Threadripper CPUs

- Apple Mac Pro 2019 - perhaps the most "bespoke" rack mountable workstation on the market, with a neat integrated GPU/thunderbolt implementation thanks to a seriously custom PCI-E implementation

One thing also of note is that a lot of these machines can be rack mounted with a rail kit from the manufacturer, either as a factory option or an after-sales accessory
That's a pretty weird takeaway considering the long and detailed post on OCaml's issues that motivated a full rewrite: https://blog.darklang.com/leaving-ocaml/

> One of my biggest annoyances was how often OCaml folks talk about Fancy Type System problems, instead of how to actually build products and applications. In other communities for similar languages (ReasonML, Elm, F#), people talk about building apps and solving their problems. In OCaml, it feels like people spend an awful lot of time discussing Functors.

In whatever case, it appears that the author's preference was F# > Rust > OCaml.

I don't have a problem with garbage collectors in general, but that's only one facet in deciding a language. There are lots of more important facets, and OCaml fares pretty poorly at these (e.g., tooling, ecosystem, community, pace of improvement, mindshare, etc).

And for language toolchains in particular, I wouldn't lock myself into a language with suboptimal performance--it's too hard to back out of that decision later, and it's easy enough to recoup some of that pace of development from Rust by just refcounting everything today if necessary (optimize it later).
Of course this begs the question: What about job performance?

Instead of trying to fix the "problem" they've identified, why not take the study further to see if there exists any correlation between use of feminine language in the cover letters (for men and women) and career outcomes (educational outcomes for the MBA students)?
ASP.NET Core (Linux/Kestrel/C#) has the fastest plain-text performance on Tech Empower benchmarks (7.3M /rps):

https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r19&hw=...

It's also one of the more full-featured web frameworks benchmarked.
I fill probably 10 positions a year. I never ask for a cover letter, but if someone sends one I'll pretty much always look at it. I will say that I don't place much weight on the cover letter content unless it specifically highlights something relevant to the position not sufficiently covered by the resume. Usually I just look at the cover letter as a secondary confirmation that the person can write reasonably well and knows what the position is about.

However, I pretty much never read thank you/follow-up emails after an interview and don't care if candidates send them or not.
I was hoping this was a project to replace the keyboard on a mechanical typewriter or word processor.
I think this is very good and should be done more. Unless you're hiring someone to write cover letters, they're a distraction that measures an irrelevant skill and is mostly useful as a way to introduce an incredible amount of biases into the hiring process early.

See also: attaching pictures, "hobbies" section and other irrelevant personal details.
Huh, thanks, I didn't know you could put the contents on stdin like that (%!) - just in case you (or anyone) was similarly unaware in reverse, you can also put `%` wherever you want to use the filename in the command.

i.e. I would have done:

:! jq %

and have probably been guilty of (not knowing `%!` per above):

:! cat % | ...
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idk, I clicked Homepage and the blurb was right there. Looks like a language / environment to build serverless apps.
The keyboard comes with Bluetooth 5.0; maybe the promo would look a bit cleaner with a bluetooth mouse, or at least a 2.4GHz wireless mouse and dongle.
Looks good. I want to commend you on your choice of name for the project. It makes it easy to understand what it's about from the outset.
Again, that is only relevant if the hydrocarbon isn't from fossil fuels in the first place - which in the original article it is.
A 24" TV is $100 on Amazon. A Nokia 106 (unlocked) is $22. What did you pay for a TV 10 years ago, or for the phone that just broke?
Huh, I haven't had any library issues with c# for years. Although your right, the js and jvm ecosystems are larger. I don't think it is an issue.
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I'm thinking I've heard it said that the benefit of hiring women is that they bring a special something that men lack — a unique perspective, and all that — but now I'm hearing I'm supposed to be concerned that women who, on the face of it, seem to lack that special something are passed over? Which is it?
The testing pyramid should look more like a crab
I haven't used the JVM in a long time, but .NET Core starts up pretty damn quick from cold IL. I believe the tiered compilation approach has something to do with the fast startup + insane web benchmarks.
This is very much counter to my experience as a hiring manager. The only time a cover letter has contributed to a negative response, the candidate stated they didn't care about the company and just wanted the money. That was also pretty much what they said in the phone screen, so yeah, not impressed. Other than that, we made some really good hires because the cover letter gave valuable context to an otherwise bland CV.
One reason to use Rust is speed. For example https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Facebook...

Of course, not all projects have this as a high order concern, but some do, and it can make sense to use Rust for those.
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Democracy and the existence of social media are not the norm throughout history either. Voters used to depend on the news media, which whatever its faults has some serious institutions built-in for fact checking. Today any idiot can post something that goes viral.
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Do you have any examples of "'equality' propaganda"?
Indeed but not only C# but all of .Net's. So that gives you quantity.
But more importantly (at least to me) is that the quality of libraries is much higher than those of the JS (which is what I'm more familiar with) ecosystem.
What none of the inflation statistics capture is volatility, or the feeling of volatility. Wages can go up 5% per year, but if you think you have a decent chance of losing your income and not being able to get it back in your working years, you will need to act more conservatively.

Americans especially should be worried about their income security at 45+ years of age, when health insurance premiums become $12k to $14k per year per person plus $15k oop max, in today’s money (who knows what it will be 20 years in the future).

If you lose your source of income that comes with employer subsidized health insurance in that 45 to 65 year range before you get to Medicare, and you have a medical problem, all of your assets might be in play since the sky is the limit when it comes to healthcare costs. Not to mention you will have lost ability to learn income if you are having to take care of yourself or your spouse.
I would argue almost the opposite. I don't see how it serves the public interest to limit the amount of resources people are allowed to use to defend themselves against the state. it's sort of like combating inequality by burning down the nicest houses. you've made everyone more equal, but no one is better off for it.

I think the imbalance is actually much worse in civil cases, which are disputes between people who ought to be peers. the fact that people have to give up their right to see an opponent in court because they can't afford counsel seems much worse than some rich people getting a better defense against the state.
Stephen King's It features one of these machines, in the 1958 part.

It's a shame, really. I was thinking about these machines recently as I was trying to come up with a method to drill through a soft and opaque material -- how would you know you were properly centered? Gosh, one of these would be handy.
You misunderstand me. I'm saying: just because Bush did lie America into Iraq doesn't mean that we should shrug our shoulders at people like Jones who prey on random parents of murdered children for personal fame and money.

Yes, government conspiracies exist. That doesn't mean we should take every ranting of publicity-addled nutcases seriously. People like Jones are not performing a public service, and aren't going to actually uncover future real conspiracies. That's not the business they're in. They're in the business of making shit up for money.
It has great potential. I think the unique integrated web ide, tracing, function level versioning and deployment model are game changing. Anyone not going in this direction with their FaaS products should stop what they are doing and reevaluate.

That said, his motivation for rewriting it is the right call. Dark does not have enough of a standard library for third party integrations (among other issues) or a way to easily contribute them which makes it tough to build in the large.

I’m really rooting for Dark - even with the rough edges it feels like the future and how I want to eventually build software.
Its gigantic valuation most likely will face a harsh test, one that the fragile domestic market can hardly afford, a risk that worries the administration who has been desperately propping it up that also hopes it can fund China's tech self-reliance. Such listings didn't bode well in the past, with SMIC being the lastest example.

At its core, Ant is more of a lending company, re-distributing money it got from banks at much higher interest rates (typically 15%, some banks offer personal credit loans at around 4%) and leverage. Tho it insists on it's high-tech, in order to boost valuation and avoid financial regulation, but how many more debt can the population pile on itself?

Sidenote: Its business model profits from people that traditional banks snubed, mostly from lower social classes.
I don't think you understand what's going on. There is no democracy, it's a pantomime theater where the rich and their lackeys hold veto over the people's pseudo-choice.

Being informed is futile if the system is rigged against the people.