skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know if I really agree -- I have found having a coach extremely valuable (and mine is totally unqualified in terms of psychology degrees, but has heaps of experience of coaching founders). Having someone to help you think through problems who can do so objectively, and doesn't get fascinated with the detail because she's removed from the problems to a degree, is great.
It’s always strange when random Internet people pull the correlation versus causation card on an actual doctor.
IANAD - but the explanation I ha e heard is there your brain compensates for the “slowing down” effect of alcohol by increasing brain activity. When alcohol is eliminated from the system, the brain activity level needs time to come down to baseline causing anxiety. This is also - I think - the mechanism that contributes to the deadly nature of alcohol withdrawal.
Why is it suddenly coercion if your employees make this kind of negotiation using their collective bargaining ability? Employers are constantly able to dictate almost endless terms of employment, but if employees want the ability to exact more leverage using that power suddenly the supreme court and every supposed free-market guru shits their pants.
I agree, maybe I meant non-US tech jobs.
>is all about Tim Sweeney being a greedy business man

Tim Sweeney provides one of the most advanced game engine technologies in the world completely for free for all revenue under 1 million. After 1 million you pay 5% on revenue over that, if your game makes $1,200,000 you pay Tim Sweeney $10,000.

If you make 2 games and both games equally make 600K you pay Sweeney nothing.

It's definitely a business but not sure "greedy" describes this.
IQ ≠ intelligence, and intelligence has only a fraction to do with genes.

Overly simplistic summary: Intelligence is how quickly you can learn, how well you learn it, and how well you retain it.

Learning skills has to do with meta-learning and how you're taught to learn. Liquid intelligence is a skill that can to a degree be taught. Retaining knowledge has quite a bit to do with how you learn it. Some people are gifted and remember everything by default, but for everyone else there is meta-learning.

Of course, I'm being overly simplistic, due to intelligence being a complex topic, but the point is, intelligence isn't all genes. If you want to increase your intelligence, you can make that a hobby.
The pricing seems very bad as it suffers from threshold effects after you go over 1M$ for over a year:

If you earn slightly over 1M at year 1, (being taxed 15% on most of your profits), then you will be taxed 30% for all of year 2, even if you fall under the 1M. So you have a big incentive to keep under 1M a year if you don't plan on a big revenue increase the year after.
Original research article here:

https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/45/eaba9221
I have a work subscription and never use it. The interface is so terrible I’d rather pay for the book
Why are Apple users so quick to recommend me Android when I point out this particular flaw with iOS? And yes, I do consider distrusting the owner's software installation preferences to be a flaw, especially when Apple is certainly capable of maintaining a robust and safe third-party distribution ecosystem on macOS. The Mac isn't demonstrably less secure because you have a sanctioned way to install Steam onto it. Likewise, Apple doesn't lose the ability to maintain the quality of the Mac App Store because people might get their apps on Steam.

"Safer for kids" isn't a factor here; Apple already provides tools for parents to lock down their children's devices should that be necessary. This would also presumably have an option (or default) to disable third-party apps, in the same way parents can already disable specific App Store and built-in apps.
Everything is soldered now, your ownership is basically the same of an iPhone or iPad now.
I'm not sure why you're being purposely ignorant. Rules in Oregon have been relatively more strict so Oregon has had relatively fewer cases. Oregon lifted restrictions, opening up dining & gyms for example leading to an increase in cases. As a response, Oregon has reentered a lockdown.

What's so complicated?
If you go over 1 million, we (apple) will take the higher cut out of your profits for the remainder of the year. If you go under 1 million, you can try applying for the lower rate NEXT year.
Your assertion that only families among "the wealthiest in the world" have non-school childcare arrangements is incorrect.

I agree that everyone should have access to better child-rearing opportunities than are offered by school, especially public school in North America. I'd love to see homework eliminated, more time in school devoted to play, more tracking & opportunities for everyone to develop their strengths (be they calculus or auto mechanics), and the elimination of compulsory secondary schooling (let the kids come who want to come & make it rewarding enough that they do, rather than threatening to jail their parents to bring them to heel).

I am ignoring the aspects of your comment directed towards me personally.
I agree on all points. I assumed you meant it that way, but wasn't sure.
> I mean, you can't get a warning that the `[]` syntax isn't available in your old codebase's flavor of PHP (5.2) in VS Code. I think.

You can get warnings when syntax isn’t available in your script’s flavor of shell in [neo]vi[m], emacs, or GNU ed with shellcheck, I’d be mildly surprised if there wasn’t a similar editor-agnostic linter for PHP.
Prohibition was a failure for a number of reasons, but alcohol use did go down and has remained lower than it was pre-Prohibition. Not everyone is going to have the time/energy/resources/interest to brew their own alcohol.
While that’s currently how it works, I can’t be the only one who think it’s weird that it somehow the job of the graphics card to do machine learning.

Wouldn’t it make more sense to let the CPU do it, or have specialized cards for the job. So you could have an AMD graphics card and an Nvidia ML card.
The two big threads are

2019 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20594802

2017 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14570035
In this interview at least: https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2015/11/193333-an-interview-w...
Recommendation from an investor and mentor I really respected. She had worked with my coach for years.
Where or how is the camera location data fetched?
Yes, it's likely a net reduction in spending, and then on top of that a bunch of harm and death is prevented. Super cheap.
10% of Americans drink 90% of the alcohol. They're doing a bottle of wine a night.
IDK. During my trip to Finland, where alcohol sales follow this paternalistic approach, it struck me as odd how many "obviously problematic" alcoholics I met in the streets of Helsinki. Some of them drank window cleaning fluids and similar substitutes.

Libertarianish Tallinn 90 kms away seemed to cope better.
In addition to all these numbers, AMD also finally fixed the GPU reset bug with 6800 cards[1], which is huge for those of us running GPU passthrough to a VM as a BACO workaround kernel patch is no longer needed. Possibly going to be more stable on Linux as well as the card can recover itself from crashes. Big Navi also has its driver upstreamed in current 5.9 kernel so no more first day disaster like Navi.

(Meanwhile Nvidia also removed the "error 43" limitation when it detected the card is being run in a VM, so VFIO scene is getting a lot more interesting in this generation.)

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykiU49gTNak
Computer science degree at the University of Florida, which cost me about $5,000 in 1985.
Apple doesn’t fear Epic’s lawsuit for the merits of the lawsuit itself. Apple fears how Epic can use their devoted base of video game players to create a PR frenzy that turns the lawsuit into a popularity contest.
Analyze how your peers and managers treat you. Do they often come to you for advice? Do they listen and trust your opinions? Are their interactions with you positive or negative? Are you being offered good new opportunities regularly? What feedback are you receiving?

It's possible people are lying to you of course, but that's pretty unusual and you'd probably see other red flags to indicate things are just not right at your job. In normal companies with normal people, you should be able to use your colleagues as good measuring sticks to whether or not you're an imposter.
A few computers, some digiboards, a bocaboard, 12 modems and a T1 to my first apartment in Boulder.

Of course the BBS only lasted 18 months and never made any money but it provided an early (1995) and very in-depth window into what running an ISP would be like and eventually a PaaS/IaaS (or whatever rsync.net is).

In second place for "best money you have spent on professional development?" would be hotel/flight costs for Defcon 6-10.
Think of everyone as a child. Look at them like they're 5 year olds, (only for a minute or two) and try to imagine how their whole life's timeline would have been like. Idk why but it makes me feel good about myself
> not to mobile OSes

Arguably not to OSes in general. Each platform type (desktop, server, mobile) effectively has only a couple of realistic choices when it comes to the OS. The network effects are very strong and winners take all.
Conversely, I think employers should actively promote writing and communications training programs to send staff to.

One of the people I previously had the pleasure of working next to was absolutely brilliant in his field (malware reversing, broadly), but watching his presentations was an awkward experience. He just could not communicate his work effectively, either in a written or spoken medium and was someone who would have benefited immensely from a writing and presentation workshop.
What does IHS mean?
A lot of people are getting hung up on the definition of 'portability'. Yes, the author's definition is pretty obviously using a non-standard definition, but the question is whether the concept he's talking about is helpful. And I think it is--I would much rather have a language like Go where cross compiling is trivial and I can just send my colleagues (even my non-technical colleagues!) a binary file compared to having them install the right version of the runtime and the right dependencies (and probably a virtualenv so it doesn't bungle their system) and then the application code. I don't care very much about whether I can run a single set of artifacts on any target if it's burdensome to prepare the target platform--I'd much rather it be trivial to compile a single artifact for the target platform such that it can just run.
Recently Schedule II prescriptions are reported to state or multi-state registries that local government officials including police can view at will.

My provider makes me sign an expansive privacy waiver to get my prescription. I gave up the drug for awhile because of it, I had to come crawling back and sign it.

The AMA embraces this total abdication of their responsibility to protect patient privacy. A federal registry is the natural next step.

As an attorney I cannot imagine selling out my clients the way MD's do.
> Social pressure to be connected constantly increases for children below 14 years.

This is absolutely a problem, but I don't think it's a problem that can be solved at an individual level, and denying this privilege to your child would IMO do more harm than good as they'd miss out on social events or provide a reason for bullying, etc.

Withdrawing from social media and the bullshit rat race of the "attention economy" is absolutely the right thing to do, but it has to be a voluntary decision.

I don't have a link to it but I remember reading an article which was saying something alone the lines of everyone having a limited amount of "weirdness points" and that we must spend them wisely. In today's society, being isolated from social media is a "weirdness point" (whether we like it or not) and it's up to each individual to determine whether it is worth for them to take the hit.

I have withdrawn from social media as an adult because I am at a stage in life where I don't have to prove anything to anyone, don't have to be "cool" kid and have other ways to play the "status game". However for a typical teenager social media popularity and the "cool" factor is probably their biggest assets when it comes to status and I don't think it's fair to be putting them at a disadvantage by denying them access to it.
Lost years as an adult might be more easily replaced.

For a kid who blows off high school, where is the recovery? Many paths in life are more-or-less closed off.
I didn't say anything about Unions. I am not an expert, but my humble, quick one-liner to describe how I see Unions is the following:

Unions are good to protect employees that don't have negotiating power (e.g. factory workers), otherwise companies would take too much advantage of them.

I am not sure this necessarily applies to knowledge workers, especially if their work can be done remotely to some extent.

And I am not saying that I am against unions; but like with everything else in life, everything comes with pros and cons.

I have personally witnessed several examples of unions using their position to drive their political agenda at the expense of well-intentioned companies (most of it in my home country, Italy, in the 1990s and 2000s). So, beware: unions do not solve everything; they bring their own set of problems.
We actually at the moment still don't know if having some people vaccinated would "prevent cases among their contacts." The published results don't show that at all. What's published is only if the vaccines prevent the occurrence of the illness (as in "did somebody have symptoms"). Also: "Animal challenge data suggest that vaccinated animals may still be infected even if they don't experience symptoms." For more details (including the whole article from which is that citation) see my other comments here.
Effectiveness of Mask Recommendation to Prevent SARS-CoV-2  (Randomized trial)
I'm thinking of not rushing out to get vaccinated right away.

(1) My company switched to work from home two or three years ago, I've just recently subscribed to Walmart+ so I've got free grocery delivery for a year, I've gotten into the habit of making my own meals which is healthier and cheaper than how I ate pre-COVID so I'm going to stick with that even after COVID is gone, and my socializing was almost all online before COVID.

It is no problem for me to keep mostly quarantined for another year.

(2) The few times in the next year I will have to interact closely with other people will probably be with people who have taken it (e.g., doctors and dentists).

(3) While it is true that mRNA vaccines cannot give you the thing they are vaccinating against, it is still possible they will have other side effects. As far as I know there is no way to determine the long term risk of a medicine other than just waiting to see.

(4) I live in a county that has not been hit hard.

(5) It looks like there are at least two vaccines that are going to get quick approval, and I believe there are more deeply into their phase 3 tests.

Putting this all together, it seems I personally have a pretty low chance of getting COVID, and if I do get it a pretty low chance of spreading it while I'm still asymptotic, so can afford to wait and see if any of the vaccines have longer term issues or if one of them is clearly better than the others.
> ... to worry about dust.

and noise.
The Social Dilemma struck me as a pretty manipulative movie. It depicted recommendation algorithms as three evil scheming clones, interspersed with a skit showing a family with the worst case of social media addiction the writers could imagine. This provides huge latitude to exaggerate and mislead. I don't think many people would explicitly endorse the claim that social media addiction is so bad, preteens can't last half an hour before smashing open locked boxes to get a hit - but that's what the movie showed!
I would love it if you clarifies your point or found a name for the economic theorist.

I will admit that a lego kit with instructions is very different to a collection of lego parts and I would encourage every parent to buy buckets of assorted bits rather than kits that might end up staying on a shelf once assembled
Why is it inherently better to protect one middle class job in a first world country rather than lift 2 families out of poverty in the developing world? I'm not pretending that outsourcing is ethical thing to do, but neither is opposing outsourcing.
Evolution of the Eye
This should be the top comment to foster a conversation around sources we can dig up. The digital roots to word usages should be preserved as understanding is the first step to changing. I can’t casually read the bitkeeper “HOWTO” now without cringing at the word choice - it’s not that it didn’t age well, it’s that I used to lack empathy for its usage.

I think treating this human relationship as a light hearted metaphor disregards the gravity of this painful history. Plenty of alternatives exist, and if one doesn’t in someone’s eyes the brilliant thing is new words and meanings can be invented.

I accept criticism of using master/slave as a consequence of the actions taken by citizens in my country in the past. I’m willing to accept responsibility even when my self and family aren’t at fault.

Edit: A second source of word history to review https://econoben.github.io/2020/10/20/master-slave-terminolo...
Dip: Docker Interaction Process
I found this project about a year ago and it’s truly wonderful. Very high quality ebooks and an awesome collection that is growing by the day.
Comments merged into https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25131848.
We all are yet to see what this current youtube-raised generation of iChildren will turn out to be.

And I already don't like what I see, even though they are still only 5-10 years old: zero attention span, inability to be still and contemplative, useless hyperactivity, zero respect to parents yet enormous fear of police and other powers that be, lack of personal responsibility, whole life documented and filed in the cloud, total dependency on internet and electricity, so much that they are at the fringe of going insane or commiting a suicide when there's an outage...

And oh if it were only their parents who'll reap what they sow.
Grouparoo raises $3M to build open source customer data integration framework
> Blindingly fast speeds.

For your reference: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25130296
The 20mm Phalanx CIWS has proven itself in its land based version, which has been used to defend against rocket, mortar, and missile attacks on bases. The anti missile missiles on carriers such as the RIM-7 and RIM-116 have not been tested in actual combat though. Carriers usually carry a bunch of these, and are usually surrounded by other ships armed with them as well
An AI helps you summarize the latest in AI
Unfortunately there is some pessimism about whether a coronavirus vaccine is likely to provide "sterilizing immunity" which would prevent spread, as opposed to just reducing the severity of the disease. https://www.statnews.com/2020/05/22/the-world-needs-covid-19...
And I hope very soon we will replace the concept of users from platforms like google and facebook, since we're the one's being used.
Is it correct that once enough people get vaccinated, even if we don't eradicate the virus, it will have to mutate into something milder in order to still effectively spread?
RIP democracies as we know them. Neo-feudalism is here. "You will own nothing. And be happy." Just like serfs in the middle ages.
You don't have to waste time on unit testing
I vigorously support those with more wealth than they'll ever spend (billionaires and such, the wealthiest in the world) to take efforts to lift the poorest out of poverty. We're talking about a nation's labor policies to protect it's own citizens. Why would a nation disadvantage it's own citizens for the benefit of another country's citizens? If you're not protecting the income and ability to accumulate wealth of your citizens, this comes out of the pocket of your government's coffers for safety nets. So, at scale, weak labor policies are a wealth transfer from the middle class (that they didn't agree to) to other countries (as well as shareholders of your own country).

The richest 1%, with over $1 million in wealth, own 44% of the world's wealth, but we're going to keep chipping away at the middle class?
Not a maintainer, just an occasional contributor.

https://standardebooks.org/contribute/accepted-ebooks

> Types of ebooks we don’t accept

> Non-English-language books. Translations to English are, of course, OK.
The fact this is the second comment really shows how HN has been on a steady decline.

HN loves a good straw man argument.
Unions are meant to increase wages for the workers. How will added X thousands of new workers (willing or forced to work for less) increase wages for the workers. It is by its design that unions are nativist.

Agree with the second point on ageism
Seconding this question as a reddit remindMe.
Have you heard of Toastmasters?[0]

I haven't done this myself but I plan to, as I've heard good things about it, and if you live in a big city or metro area there is probably at least one group you could join. Also in many cities outside the US, for example I think Bangkok has several different ones, I know Budapest has at least two. And it's really cheap, AFAICT, in case that's a factor.

It's got a bit of a self-help sheen to it but I knew a couple guys in SF who were involved and they said it was just about public speaking. At which they were much better than I am.

[0]: https://www.toastmasters.org
You are correct. Gonna trust Good Housekeeping on this one:

https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/health/wellness/a44807/what...
This is true in Germany, where most in-home heating systems use radiant heat. I have since moved to Canada and my house uses forced air and a gas furnace. I can still feel cold at 21.5°C in my forced air heated house which I never did in Germany.
Radiant heat does a much better job of heating the things in your house than forced air will. Heating things, and not just the air, is what has them store that warmth across Stoßlüften-Sessions.
So technically, Stoßlüften works well with radiant heated homes, less so with forced air heated homes.
Our feudal lords in the middle ages use to take only 10% of what we make, now they will take "only" 15% and we have to be happy about it?
> I don't know why people insist on using the command line for their dvcs.

I use both. More complicated stuff I usually do from the command line because I do them rarely enough, and I change IDEs often enough - that I just don't know how to do them in IDEs.

I used git regularly for last 6 years and in that time I've been using eclipse, netbeans, kdevelop, qtcreator, visual studio and intelliJ. And a few fringe IDEs as one-offs. I would have to remember 7 different paths in nested context menus for everything. I believe it's not "unstage" but "rollback" in IntelliJ, but I would have to check that in documentation before I do it anyway.

> Is it even possible to selectively unstage or reset only a part of a file without a GUI?

Sure - it's even faster than in gui, because you do it with keyboard only. I just can't remember the exact options.
> On the other hand, they are adults and by definition they did borrow that money, the lender is "right" to expect to see that money back.

I don't necessarily agree with that. Who's fault is it really, when banks give out loans to young adults with no credit history to get an unknown degree at an unknown total cost? We punish young adults for making a poor decision, but we don't punish banks for giving out loans that don't have collateral. Seems unfair, no?

And that's the problem. It's a risk free proposition for lenders - students can't default, the interest rates are high. But by allowing bankruptcy, then all the risk falls on the banks. Student loans essentially shouldn't exist, and only do because of the demand for college, which leads into the second problem:

There aren't good alternatives to college in the west.