skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel like needing structured environments has been increasingly stigmatized as hustle culture and entrepreneurship is increasingly popularized. It's not necessarily wrong but is it the best fit for everyone?

Of course if you are looking at a startup, needing the structured environment is viewed as a weakness, but the successful startup hub itself is a testament to how long a little structure can go.

I am someone who thrives in structure. For example, in academia, I'm not in need of resources, passion for learning, or direction. I simply need an instructor who expects things from me with hard deadlines.

For someone like me who reaches out for advice, all these self improvement methods of hustle and driving your own goals are really non-starters. I know I cannot consistently engage in them. From that lens I will always be a failure, although my work under various organizations is highly valued and well compensated.

The best way for me is to find the best existing structure who goals are aligned with mine, working within it to achieve maximum mutual value, and reassessing whether this structure is still the best for me, or looking elsewhere.
Just when marijuana is about to be legalized at the federal level. This can't be a coincidence. They will no longer be able to arrest people for marijuana, but now they can arrest them for dozens or hundreds of other drugs. Seems like a net "win" for the DEA.
> My advice is to practice your writing skills after you get a job, not before.

I so completely disagree. The same can be, and often is, said of actual programming skills. The result is a collection of people with insufficient skills and poor communications.

Writing influences your ability to organize thoughts into a cohesive flow which influences programming skills. It is really frustrating to work with developers who can’t do their job without some magic tool to do the job for them. These are people scared to death to write any original code or make any technical decision. It is so frustrating that the next time I go through hiring I am so tempted to use an essay requirement as a filter.
It doesn't make sense as being cultural because there plenty of real examples of effective writing that starts with what you are writing about. The only exception might be in story telling, but that only works because there is some kind of context assumed or it works as a tool.

It makes no sense for this "culture" to think less of research or any writing that intends to persuade because it starts with a introduction or summary. Anyone who starts with a summary of what is going to follow will be a more effective communicator. They would be missing out on lots of writing that is done this way.

Your first paragraph or sentence will always be an introduction. If you choose to not take advantage of it to set the context of what follows the writing will be more confusing or require a second read through. Its like wandering through a forest vs following a trail map. At work, writing something that needs automatically needs a second read through is a problem.

I guess i have hard time believing this culture exists the way is presented, and isn't being misinterpreted.

> It is pretty easy to read email or argument without knowing the conclusion up front.

Its not, that was the point of the thread were commenting on

> Research papers are specific writing with specific rules. I dont really think they are in general example of good or persuasive writing.

This is one example, it has rules because those are effective at communicating. How can you just write it off like that? With no reason other then you think it doesn't count?
Thank you for raising this! I work for a firewall vendor myself and its drives us mad when competition uses the word URL when they can only look at SNI in a TLS handshake. By competition I mean most others are doing it too.

I guess one of the reasons they choose to say URL over FQDN or hostname is that the latter two are less likely what typical developers might venture out looking for - but I could be wrong. At least the requirements when they emerge would want URLs to be whitelisted and that is what the intercepting proxy world had been delivering.
> PRC can either fire and also lose a few cities, or not fire and be ignored.

That's unlikely to be the scenario. The big problem for China is that they're responsible for the current North Korea regime existing. China has been directly, intentionally propping up and protecting North Korea from day one. The American people will not find it acceptable to exchange Pyongyang for Los Angeles or New York, much less trade several of North Korea's cities for several major US cities.

The American public would demand a nuclear strike against China in retaliation, a more equitable outcome - Shanghai for Los Angeles, Beijing for New York - for those ultimately responsible for what North Korea is today.

That's where hundreds of millions of people could die from a North Korean strike. It's why China should have never enabled and tolerated the Kim regime in the first place, and now it's too late to fix that historic blunder. Any nuclear strike from North Korea will likely result in a nuclear strike against China.

This is equivalent to the Israeli Samson option (which is why you don't want Iran getting nukes).

If the US goes down - eg loses its top 30 cities - why shouldn't it take every Chinese and Russian city with it? Try convincing the American public to not want revenge against anyone that has ever assisted North Korea.
Sounds like a ton of work.

I go through recruiters both for contract and full-time positions.
NK also has almost as many artillery pieces aimed at their China border as their South Korean one.
Yes, what’s your point exactly? It’s still a bargaining chip.
I don't think anyone will be prefer non-electric cars in 3-5 years anyways
Top Five Best Price Action Strategies for Intraday Trading
As a Brit[1] this convention still irks me.

Maybe we should just be American about it, and call the whole of the UK 'England', and pretend Scotland is it's own country? /s

---

[1] Yes, I get the irony of calling myself a 'Brit', but 'Uker' just doesn't sound right.
What regressive Victorian era garbage is that?
The ideology of the NK leadership is survival. They're not trying to spread Juche throughout the world with messianic zeal, all they want to do is stay on top of the dung heap.
> If you’re a strong writer and you can consume information in written formats really well

Most comments here are focused on the "write well" part, which is important, no doubt.

But let's not forget the "read well" part. When people cannot read more than a paragraph without losing focus, or are confused by the used of precise technical terms (like stacks and queues, lists and sets...), the idea that you want to communicate will at best not pass, at worst been reshaped to something else.
With their vast size carriers have hundreds of water-tight compartments and it's very unlikely to sink a carrier even with multiple direct hits.

It's a pretty hard problem to hit a carrier in the middle of the ocean.

1. It's difficult to locate a carrier group in the vast ocean, even with the help of satellites. The earth's curvature make surface level radars ineffective.

2. A carrier is not a sitting target. The carrier battle group is armed to the teeth to neutralize any threat from air, sea, and underwater within its defense perimeter. Its AWACS can detect objects upto several hundreds miles away.

3. Ships getting close need to overcome the barrage of fire power from the CBG's fighters, missiles, destroyers, and submarines.

4. Aircrafts getting close need to overcome the CBG's air defense - fighters and destroyer's AEGIS system.

5. Submarines are a realistic threat, but USN has lots of experience countering that.

6. Long range cruise missiles fired from outside of the defense perimeter could be a threat, but cruise missiles are slow and can be shot down. Also see 1 for guiding the cruise missiles thousands miles away toward a moving carrier.

7. Hyper sonic cruise missiles are a bigger threat but they have much shorter range. Their firing platforms would be destroyed trying to get close.

8. Ballistic missiles are the new threat but they have their own problems. Target location (see 1). Their terminal radar has a very short time window to locate and lock on the carrier after exiting the descent EM blackout. It takes time to fly to the general area. A 5000 miles/hour missile would take half hour to travel 2500 miles. Meanwhile the carrier is moving away, could be up to dozens of miles away.

U.S. have ballistic missile launching detection mechanism (radars and satellites) that can detect the missile at the moment of the launch.

The SM-3 test adds a new arsenal of defense against the ballistic missiles. It's certain that the laser based defense system probably is being tested or may be have already been deployed.

Edit: realistically drones will be a bigger problem for a CBG going forward.
They are detrimental to understanding. I hate them with a passion. I see people using acronyms without explaining them in context, which makes it even more difficult to understand what's written.

Some terms are jargon and are probably ubiquitous in the field, but unless I'm reading a text written for the professionals working in that field, I'd much rather see it explained.
Thought this was going to pivot to a pro FP article but the author never takes it there.

It reminded me of how FP is applied to a program where the instructions and intent of the developer are encoded to configure the system (recipe) and then the execute function is called. E.g. the onion concept.

Far from being an expert on the topic but was happy about recognizing the pattern.
> But I have apps on windows that ran on 95 that still work to this day without having to be "rewritten".

And that's the reason why Apple is reaping these benefits, while moving to ARM is completely at odds with what Microsoft stands for and promises i.e. long term software backwards compatibility.
I love the Pine lineup of devices.

They are really helping the Linux phone by providing a dev platform, partnering with different OS implementations and mainlining as much as possible.

I do wish they had a Pinebook Pro and Pinephone with a bit more oomph.

And for them to focus heavily on RISC-V in the future once that becomes viable, which sadly seems a few years off.
I do. But the message you replied to was specifying that already:

"they are being sent the message they are being immediately fired"

To which you were asking "So what does the message do?"
Personally I can live with electric car in UK but electric VANs will be much bigger trouble because they are heavy and can't hold that much cargo. There is a lot of restrictions in law and infrastructure that limits usage of vehicles to under 3.5t
This seems to be a recurring pattern. Should we be worried? What if FAANG just poach all the good talents and put Intel, IBM, Oracle, etc out of business? Is this not anticompetitive?
It's a force but its only one force in a wide buffet table of forces that larger and larger groups of people are getting conscious about.

Many of these forces and their underlying particles, waves, energies and fields haven't even been named yet or are just hard to measure at individual or population scales.

We aren't talking about electromagnetism here where Coulomb, Gauss and Maxwell have produced neat equations.

Sociology, Psychology and the under lying Neurochemisty/biology are where electromagnetic theories were in the 18th century. Within any tribe there are wide spectrums of personality types, biases, needs, motivations, group dynamics, leadership styles, genetic variations etc etc etc and when all that gets added up you have this massive ever changing hurricane like structure. It props up an Obama on one day and dumps a Hillary on another, irrespective of what their tribes do.

Nothing is obvious.

Yet.

We still await the arrival of a Faraday or a Maxwell in those fields.
I still consider the Windows Phone (8 and 10, not 7) the best Phone OS I have ever used, and the Nokia Lumia hardware was great. The problem, as you mentioned, was that third party app support was dismal and the few apps that did exist where on the whole of a far lower quality than the Android or iOS equivalent.
Apple blocks all unsigned binaries on new Macs
وظائف الاتحاد المبوب
Keep in mind about 35 million people in the US take statins, and liver damage is caused by a lot of things including hepatitis.

That said, one of the best medical stories to come out of the last century was the doctor who discovered that phen-fen caused heart valve issues in a handful of patients he was treating. It wasn't the FDA, it was a doctor who saw it in his patients and discovered that was the only thing that was common in all of his patients.
Nice UI, looks straightforward to monetize. Need an investor?
Absolutely agree.

The emphasis on writing skills is a repeating theme here, too.

A few months ago I wrote a similar thing that got >800 votes here on HN: https://snir.dev/blog/remote-async-communication
Microsoft still has a severe UX disadvantage with Windows and failed to understand that simplicity over complexity always wins. Most Microsoft products from Ballmer era are trying to do too much. VS Code is the prime example that you can produce a product with few features, people are going to use it and if you don't commit the previous mistakes that poison the UX of Word and Windows you are going to succeed. 5 years ago if somebody told me that I am going to be using a Microsoft product more than Vim for programming and text editing I would have not believed.

Microsoft has the ability to innovate and produce amazing products it just they carry too much weight from the past and that holds back entire product lines.
Rather late to the party in Europe : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase-out_of_fossil_fuel_veh...
American Airlines adds hundreds of cargo-only flights to make up lost revenue
CJK Unified Ideograph Extension B/C/D are all pretty exotic though. In normal daily use you won't encounter them, because input methods rarely offer them and people simply don't need them. These are important characters, but only a handful of them will ever be used by the average writer of Chinese or Japanese.

I was using some of these (from B and probably C) for very specific purposes at that time, and general support was a long way off in 2009 (although already good on GNU/Linux distributions).
Renault Master Z.E. is either 3.1t or 3.5t and comes in a bunch of configurations: https://www.renault.co.uk/electric-vehicles/master-ze/specif...
Guess you got three to 20 years to sell that gas guzzler before nobody will buy it?
Show HN: Proton-a lightweight and powerful JavaScript particle library
I doubt it respects self-sovereignty anymore than holocracy managed to. Instead expectations are implicit and participants learn about them or fail. Going against the grain in that sort of environment will be seen negatively.
well it's both. So the analogy holds up with real debt in that way.
Thats interesting. I wonder if anyone with a "cancelled with no recourse experience" can comment if they engaged in any automated behaviors.
Will friendship sink your startup?
If they were, they would not have been trying to displace Kim themselves, and risking Kim risking his country to save his head.

You remember Kim's brother VXed in Malaysia? He was China's bid on NK throne. China was trying to launch a coup in NK.

China been trying to seize power in NK for decades.

NK-China relations are complicated ones. China wants NK, but is afraid of losing NK if their machinations flop, and push the NK towards the West.
I don't have any CS degree, nor studied at any college, nor worked at any famous employer neither. So probably irrelevant.

I sure knows that when I'm doing the hiring, I rarely if ever read what colleges or what previous companies the candidate worked on. All that matters is what their experience is, what they learned so far, what they tell me they wanna do in the future and how they are as a person.

> You also assume wrong that I didn’t dedicated myself to apply to specific jobs

Yeah, that's my fault, sorry about that. It's hard for me to imagine how you can have time to send out 250+ applications and still have a dedicated cover letter and well-researched application for each one of them.

While I don't know how the 250+ companies you've applied to are thinking, I can share how I think, when trying to hire someone for a position. And from your advice, only "good public sample of your code" and "clear explanations and thought process" would be something that I would care about. The rest of your advice are not only not relevant, but some are even outright harmful. Good writing absolutely helps someone (in my eyes) to be more fitting for any type of position.

My advice to job seekers would also be to look for advice regarding getting hired by either people who have been hired, consistently so, or by the people who are doing the hiring. While it could be helpful, chances are that people who haven't got a high success rate at getting hired, aren't able to give you good advice.
Uker sounds so very Farage of you to be fair.
For years people will prefer non-electric cars. From a perspective of someone with his own driveway this is a nobrainer to have electric car but many people in EU live in apartment blocks and there is simply no infrastructure there to charge all necessary cars. I will be able to say that "no one should have a reason to drive petrol car" when 0-100 charge time will be around 15 minutes.
Are not Scotland, Wales and England each countries though?
> Far more interesting to me is the idea that in heavy use, the Icestorm cores can run the OS, notifications and all that, allowing full uninterrupted use of the firestorm cores. Also when the mac is in idle it uses far less power.

It's impressive what Apple has been able to do when they can fine tune macOS and ASi to work together.
There is no clear endgame in Afghanistan, other than "the beatings will continue until moral improves".

In North Korea, on the other hand, the endgame is clear: the downfall of the Kim regime, mostly likely followed by integration into South Korea (if China allows, and that's a mighty big if). You're not going to have ordinary North Koreans head for the hills and turn into partisan guerrillas fighting for Juche.
why do people keep using this marketing fluff word "Apple Silicon"? should just call it Apple M1
Firefox 84beta enables WebRender on Linux
> It doesn't make sense as being cultural because there plenty of real examples of effective writing that starts with what you are writing about.

That argument does not make sense.

> It makes no sense for this "culture" to think less of research or any writing that intends to persuade because it starts with a introduction or summary.

And it does not make sense for you to look down at writing that puts conclusion to the end going with arguments first. It is just an habit and meaningless difference, that is all.

> This is one example, it has rules because those are effective at communicating. How can you just write it off like that? With no reason other then you think it doesn't count?

Researchers and their papers are not effective at communicating. That a thing that researches complain about periodically.

In any case, corporate mail is not research paper. Among other things, it is supposed to be significantly shorter. Just like it is not newspaper article.
Indeed, those two aren't the same concepts, but the person I replied to said "It finally possible to make Linux binaries in a high level language not involving anything written in C at build-time or run-time", so mainly referring to the possibility instead of all implementations being that way. For go I didn't want to go into further detail then as I assumed the "default go experience" entails only the official Go toolchain.
I don't know but the fact that Windows on ARM is completely locked down and only lets you install applications from the Microsoft Store made me abandon Windows as a platform for good.
Easy now, let’s keep it on the computerydoos and hackimabobs.
You may also loose your only chance to do damage that way. An incoming ICBM might get a response before it’s exact target is known.
>The real life estimates of 75 miles in Summer and 50 miles in Winter also give an insight of how powerful these batteries are, reducing your need to be constantly charging your vehicle and allowing you to enjoy the ride!

Isn't that pretty shit?
He might be right, that a top brand college (and other stuff) will help getting past the HR filter. But I do not agree that this is the only thing.

I agree with you, that very specifically targeted and created applications will get a response rate better by at least a factor of ten.

I am often on the other side. Reading applications and deciding whom to invite to an interview. As Inteverviews take time for at least me and 3 other colleagues I filter very strongly. For one hour of interview the amount of time it takes (preparation, discussion afterwards, and so on) can take up to 1 - 1.5 person days.

As I am working for an agency this means 1.5 days me and my colleagues can't earn money for the company by working productively for our clients (even our managers work hands on on client projects at least part of their time).

So creating a well thought out application, one that is targeted and also shows the personality of the applicant helps me a lot in deciding whom to invite. Make it stand out without being obnoxious. Make it fitting for the company and the job.

An anecdote to exemplify my point:

I remember how my late father helped our neighbor's son with his application. He was a carpenter and had specialized in restoration. He wanted to apply for a job at a workshop that had been set up to do just that.

My father and he then designed (and he made) a special application folder made of wood. This had very fine intarsia work and showed very precisely what skills the neighbor's son had as a craftsman.

The cover letter and curriculum vitae were of course also well thought out and designed. No question.

An application - an interview - a job offer at one of the leading workshops for restoration work in Europe.
How 'bout we do something about that Chinese fentanyl, DEA, would that be too much to ask?
7 jobs; 2-3x offers over career, and I’ve never written a cover letter.

Involved in interviewing for 2/7, and a cover letter has never factored into a hiring decision.
Haha, smart one. The point is, you can perform actions on what you own, and in turn you can ask what you own (for example a laptop) to perform an action on itself or its belongings.

You don't need to know how to handle a filesystem and a specific brand of hard drive to ask your laptop to wipe itself; the laptop in turn doesn't need to know all the internals of the hard drive to ask it to perform that action.
That is good if you are working in a team that is comfortable reading and writing a lot of English, and cares about what you're writing.

If those things aren't true, "overtransmitting" (because you are not in fact communicating) will just lead to unread email, incomprehension, sidelining and getting ignored. That goes double if what you're trying to do is already against the corporate culture (in the conventions and accepted quality level sense).
I opened the link and didn't see this link, but I don't have Widevine disabled. Is Apple seriously blocking podcasts without DRM? One of the last open mediums on the web?
> The nail in the coffin was Google refusing to write a Youtube app for Windows Phone and THEN blocking the app that MS wrote themselves.

How the hell were they not sued for that?? That is anti-competitive as hell.

Google is still doing shit like that e.g. by actively hindering Picture-in-Picture on iOS for years.