skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I also discovered K6 a few days ago, it looked quite nice and could be a good replacement for our Gatling tests.

We were initially looking for something slightly different though: we were interested to have perhaps less tests, but tests that would run much much more often (like every seconds or couple of seconds), in a continuous manner. Tue goal was to have something at the same time like a healtcheck (is it still working), like a performance test (does it answer in a timely manner) and like a validation test (does it answer the right result - the endpoints we wanted to test do "complex calculations").
Our best answer so far was to wrap K6 in an infinite loop, but I wonder if there could be something smarter.
Cause of death should be standard information when someone has passed away. If we're not supposed to talk about cause of death, then why should the age be mentioned? Why should the location where the person passed away be said? Why include next of kin -- surely that's completely irrelevant unless you are part of the family? Every single Wikipedia entry for a person who isn't living gives cause of death. If it's so bad to talk about causes, then why isn't Wikipedia being criticized for this? We need to get over this taboo. It is not gossip. It is relevant and important information.
> These are mopeds at best. Electric motorcycles at worst.

These are very far from that. This LeMond ebike has a 250W motor. Any moderately strong cyclist can put out more than 250W. Very strong riders can do double that. And the motor assists cut off at 20mph.

Even a weak cyclist like me (~180W FTP) can trivially do 20mph on a regular bike if the trail is flat so that's hardly a high speed.
Yeah every announcement keeps it a secret. I hate it. I find it disrespectful to us. We are fans and loved him but no we're not good enough to know why.
As I understand it, the reason turbines aren't made of wood is because performance matters so much - wind speeds are much higher the further up you go, so increasing the height of a wind turbine lets it be closer to high wind speeds (doubling wind speeds gives ~8 times the power!) while simultaneously providing more space for longer blades.

And increasing the length of the blades also provides more than linear improvements - doubling the length of the blades gives something like 4 times the power output.

So you could imagine how hard it is for wood to get traction - suppose that wood means the turbine accesses 10% slower wind speeds and also has 10% smaller blades. If I didn't fumble the maths (0.9^4 * 0.9^8), that would mean only a FIFTH of the energy!

I'm keeping my eye on wooden wind-turbine stuff like Modvion (side note: Modvion are combining wood turbines with a modular, which is really smart as wood is less dense and therefore causes more trucking problems and costs, and making the design modular means they can potentially reduce trucking costs to cheaper than conventional designs instead of more expensive, while simultaneously benefiting from the sunk costs of wood being limited to the size of a tree unless you combine materials together), but they're building a preliminary tower that won't come online until ~2022, so it's not tech that's viable today.

Also, as your article says: Financially speaking, nobody cares unless there's a solid tax on non-recyclable materials or carbon emissions. Wooden turbines are more useful in the real world than they are in the artificial market we live in, which refuses to acknowledge the large cost of our carbon emissions.
> RipTable has been in development for 3 years and tested by dozens of quants at a large financial firm.

I guess it's Susquehanna.
I'm not the only one, just the only one who posts publicly.
The frame weighs 3 lbs, not the whole bike. The bike weighs 16.5 lbs which is a normal lightweight bike weight. Their e-bike supposedly weighs 24 lbs.
I believe writing can also be used purely for entertainment, especially humor/fiction writing.
> I am not comfortable with promoting the framing of the article to an automatically established fact.

It is a fact claim that has yet to be disputed on the record by anyone who is in position to dispute it. All media outlets have their biases, but the most prominent ones tend not to make up easily refuted lies. In the claim you are referencing, they say three quarters of the black employees left over a six month period. If that's a lie, Coinbase can simply say so. But they probably won't because it is probably true.

The reasons why are more up to interpretation. Probably no way to get a firm answer on this since many of these people have signed NDAs or otherwise won't talk on the record. But I don't think it's reasonable to claim, without evidence, that the NYT is lying about the proportion of black employees that left over the given time period.
My reading of section 8.2.1 suggests that it is not UB to copy bytes from an object of one type to an object of another type, and then to read the value of the second object, since it is explicitly allowed to access each object as bytes.
Yes new coders are trained in cobol and csharp to migrate and also maintain.
RIP, his book Delivering Happiness was such an inspiration early in my career
why? if time is your most precious asset, coupling them makes the best value you can get
Was holacracy at Zappos his idea or it came from the original founder?
There are plenty of ways to be critical on HN and people do it all the time. The best way to be critical is to supply missing information, explain how to do something more effectively or see it more accurately—then we all learn something. The main thing we don't want is people putting each other down or being gratuitously mean.
Whatever, have a nice day! Please come back in five years and let everyone know how you're doing on your "fasting" diet.
Being Normal
This is terribly sad news.

I saw Tony speak at YC Startup School in 2009, and his talk stuck with me far more than any other that day.

It was exciting and inspiring to hear that you could build a company that was sincere about being good to its employees and customers whilst also being large and commercially successful, and that’s influenced how I’ve gone about trying to build products and businesses ever since.

I haven’t managed a big success that accomplishes this yet, but if I ever manage to do it, it will be in no small part thanks to Tony.

Thanks and blessings to Tony, and love and strength to his family and friends.
For some reason I didn't see this thread until someone randomly mentioned it to me a few minutes ago. What a nice surprise! Thank you all.
There are plenty of jobs that pay better and don't require you to devote your lives to the company (incidentally, one of them is mentioned in the article). If a firm wants people who are obsessed with work, then that's their choice. However, I hope they recognize that they would also drive away plenty of talent with better options, so it's up to them to weigh the trade offs.
Car-free neighbourhoods: the unlikely new frontline in the culture wars?
Really sad , I remember when I was setting up Myntra (Indian zappos) customer experience department, Tony and his book were a huge influence and everything that we did was measured up with the zappos way of customer experience. We were one of the few large companies having in house call centre with a five day week and training period of one month to all customer cate executives, plus a mandatory call listening session once a quarter for all senior leadership.

There are still some question marks on the ROI of trying to ensure customer delight especially via call center since discounts are such a huge factor in buying shoes and clothes online that even an NPS of 60 will not help if you don’t price lower especially for the value conscious Indian buyer however he definitely brought a new dimension of thinking for a lot of customer care folks
OCD is medically disqualifying for pilots.
Basically all the EU trials of optimal working weeks.
That's my sentiment as well. I read it, then started skimming, thinking: was this written for 8 year old boys?
Ebikes are awesome. We need more of them. But we need to treat them like what they are, motorcycles.

My first moped topped out at 25mph and that was only on flat ground. I never even considered riding it on a bike path.

Most cyclists on bike paths are not going 20+ mph without breaking a sweat for 20-30 miles like these ebikes do.

People are going to get hurt and it will do further damage to the already tarnished reputation of two wheeled personal transport in the US.
A whole slew of reasons, but mostly because it's private, sensitive, and could have legal implications (in the cases of foul play, for example). I'm not sure what Wikipedia has to do with anything, as it's never been the arbiter of social norms, legal procedures, or even common decency -- much like reddit, its army of online sleuths often gets facts painfully wrong (sometimes with dire consequences).
If the project is accepting third-party code contributions, the dual-licensing steps into CLA territory which not everyone is comfortable with.

So depending on the project that may cost the development some contributors.
I feel like a lot of ways to address suicidal tendencies isn't a hard and fast rule. The only thing I can say is, the government's policies and the status quo of US culture about it is antithetical to what they want to achieve. In fact it's more likely to keep people suppressing it or scared because they'll be held against their will and burdened with the debt.
Interaction of his condition with Covid is fascinating towards the end of the article. We understand so little of the human body.
Very surprised and sad to hear this. I mentioned this here before but it's worth going for the self narrated audio version as his book is best told in his own voice. It's one of the only few business books and business stories Iv'e read that iv'e found truly inspiring.
And in fact to many contexts relevant to HN
How to Create Your Blog Fast and Easy with Notion [video]
Criticism of the company's product seems pretty tangential to the blog post. Either way, the value provided comes not from the labeling alone, but from the platform it provides to be able to do so. If it were so easy, why don't these labellers bypass Scale AI entirely and make more money themselves?
How much enterprise can you buy for "one billion dollars"? Quite a lot my friend, quite a lot.
If there are pedestrians it’s a sidewalk, not a bike path, and a bike should not be on it at all unless the rider has dismounted.
Hey! I’m the creator of reveal.js. Thanks for sharing. Happy to answer questions if you have any.

reveal.js was first released in 2011. A few years later I also launched a visual editing environment for reveal.js called Slides (slides.com). It has some pretty unique features targeted at developers, like a built-in CSS editor, access to the HTML source, and stepped line-by-line code highlighting. http://slides.com/news/developers

It’s been really great finding a sustainable way to continue working on open source (reveal.js) thanks to the revenue from the proprietary editor (Slides).
The same is currently happening in Romania [1] (the country that I live in), even though we don't have the crazy and draconian restrictions imposed on countries like the UK. Not to mention that I've read yesterday the British PM saying that those restrictions will most likely last until late winter - early next spring, as "the beast" must be defeated/tamed or similar such non-sense. This isn't even technocratic leadership (which I'm not a big fan of), it's cargo-cult leadership.

[1] https://www.graphs.ro/covid_r_ma7.php
It's the same for skype or Google Apps. No info whatsoever. For firefox they're copypasting the samd string in each releass notes.
12 Months of Recruiting for an Investment Banking Summer Analyst Role
RIP, can't believe 2020 is this hard
>"o What’s the hardest you’ve ever worked on something?

o How many hours were you working a week?

o Why did you work so hard? Why did you care?

o When were you the most unmotivated in your life?

o What’s the thing you’re the most proud of?

o Do you think it was worth it?"

PDS: These are some great interview questions!

I would also add:

o Tell me what your future goals are?

o How do you think your future goals would/could relate to this company?"

o What do you think this company can do for you to help you achieve those goals?

o What do you think you can do for this company, to help us achieve our corporate goals?

Etc., etc. -- but the interviewer must first establish at least a little bit of trust, rapport, safety, etc., if they are to have any hope of an answer that contains a high percentage of candor, because after all, there is a potential job and there is a potential income at stake...

But, all in all, some great interview questions!
When Rubber Hits the Road, and Washes Away
I wish the Personal Life section of Wikipedia didn't exist. It feels wrong and invasive, even for celebrities.
http://archive.is/xEW2o
There are no arguments in this essay. It reads like someone thinking out loud as they read through the Wikipedia page on the topic of conformity.

"I like PG but" (c) this essay was kind of embarrassing/cringy?
Hi Peter, I am from India and was thinking for a startup route via YC, what would be the best visa category I should apply for YC batch and later what are the options for incorporating a company in USA.
India does not allow concept of dual citizenship, so at i think best my future goal wolud be for like startup visa and greencard?
Can you give me your opinion??
It's absolutely an achievement. It takes a desire to actually build hydroelectric power and the will to put it into place.

Washington state could be hydro powered, but it's only 70%, with 20% non-renewable. Quebec is 97% hydro, but 3% nuclear due to a historical political horse-trade. Illinois, despite having the mighty Mississippi River, has 3 total dams and is less than 1% of its energy mix, with more than 50% being non-renewable.

So Costa Rica and Tasmania do enjoy some advantages, but so do lots of other places that haven't accomplished the same.
> Bikes are all about diminishing returns.

Pretty much everything is about diminishing returns though, so nothing special about bikes.

For instance I can (and have) build a Miata race car for $5K to do good laptimes at the race track. Or I can spend over $100K on a car to go a handful seconds faster per lap.
The reconstruction by the author can be heard on YouTube, played by Todd Crow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaSU_vfRH2I

Compare to one of the shorter reconstructions he mentions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ebbDnR2eyA
What sticks out to me in your comment is that in spite of all your nice words about their culture, the nicest/best people you worked with still left for other companies. I suspect it was probably a 20% pay raise that convinced them to.
The problem is, one with transferable skills can get themselves to "speak AWS" in maybe a few hours, once they know exactly what they are going to use (or what needs to be done).
Wikipedia has a cause of death section for almost every deceased person. In your opinion, should Wikipedia remove cause of death from biographies? Remove them until legal implications are resolved? Remove some of them but not all of them? (I very much doubt that you think that all entries for cause of death should be removed, like how President John F. Kennedy died for example.) So where are you drawing the line?
Absorption and re-emission are probabilistic, so you'd expect experiments to show a spread distribution of propagation times, deflection angles, etc that aren't actually observed. The explanation gets into looking at light as a wave.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiHN0ZWE5bk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YW8KuMtVpug
I use phpmyadmin and select the pie chart option.

https://docs.phpmyadmin.net/en/latest/charts.html
Agreed. Not to mention expecting people to work 60+ hours a week is direct discrimination against people who give a shit about their {mental health, diet, cardiovascular health, family, friends}.
> I can do the math, but I can also swap wheels in a matter of minutes and feel the very obvious difference.

You’re not necessarily wrong, but I will point out that high end audiophiles will often say the same thing about their absurdly priced equipment, and then refuse to participate in a double blind test.
K6 is licensed AGPL and so anyone who uses it needs to AGPL their code?
Truly unlimited free compute power?

Something something strong claims.

That must be the closest I've seen to a self refuting claim on here in a long time. Would love to hear more about how you do either the truly unlimited part or the free part practically.
FWIW, to throw my anecdotes in: my Windows machine, built in 2018, has never crashed on me once, to my recollection. My Linux laptop (Thinkpad X1) has...locked up a handful of times, I think. My work laptop, a 2017 Macbook Pro, crashes on me near-daily, and the keyboard is slowly approaching unusable.
How does one accomplish a semblance of this? Has someone tried and written down what worked (or did not work)?

I'd love to read up more on this.
You being my “fan” is an asymmetric relationship, not one created by mutual consent. If I want you to have my medical information while I’m alive or after I’m dead I will execute the proper legal document with you to ensure that you have it.
The reveal.js Multiplex plugin lets you do this, though it requires some manual setup to get the server running. https://github.com/reveal/multiplex

The official reveal.js platform at slides.com also support remote presenting, streamed to any number of viewers. More info and screenshots at https://help.slides.com/knowledgebase/articles/333924-presen...
Been using it since around 2013 for all sorts of presentations, from college to work to conference talks. Thanks for the great work!
o What’s the hardest you’ve ever worked on something?

o How many hours were you working a week?

If your work environment is routinely 60+ hour weeks, that's probably a useful pair of questions. As an interviewee, I'd definitely be taking those as a red flag that you expect a lopsided work-life balance.
I left to do my own startup -- which will, (un)fortunately, probably always be my end-game :) and in the months following my departure, the company really did take a cultural hit (after significant layoffs), so a lot of good folks left.
This is the kind of thing I expected to see Apple throw at the CPU design, given the availability of high transistor density of the 5nm TSMC process.

You've got to wonder what 3nm will bring, not just for Apple, but for the CPU industry in general.

Comparing the 7nm AMD Zen 3 to the 5nm A14 leads to a simple extrapolation to 3nm: we could see 256KB+ L1 caches, 1K deep ROBs, etc...
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Made my personal site into a desktop environment influenced by Windows and macOS
Knowledge is transferable between languages too but it still entails ramp up time and employers will discriminate based on experience. For example knowing the nuances of PHP don’t necessarily prepare you for elixir all that well. Likewise, someone SSHing into their VPS and installing nginx isn’t necessarily experienced with k8s and IAM
> In May 1961, an IBM engineer, Bob Bemer, sent a proposal to the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) to develop a single code for computer communication. ANSI created the X3.4 Committee,

Hmm. That seems to leave out quite a bit.

Eric Fischer (an HN'er) wrote "The Evolution of Character Codes, 1874-1968", available from https://archive.org/details/enf-ascii/page/n23/mode/2up .

In it, Eric writes:

> By 1955, Herbert Grosch had become sufficiently concerned about the growing incompatibility of character codes that he urged the attendees of the Eastern Joint Computer Conference to ‘‘register common codes so that ...

and

> The American Standards Association (ASA) got involved in character code standardization on August 4, 1960, when it created the X3.2 subcommittee for Coded Character Sets and Data Format.

Bemer's letter in 1961 therefore doesn't seem to have been a proposal to develop a single code, because that was in the works. Rather:

> The March 8-9, 1961 meeting of X3.2 finally led to a code (based on a proposal by Robert W. Bemer, Howard J. Smith, and F.A. Williams) that nearly everyone could agree upon—but there is some dis-agreement about exactly what it was that was agreed.

And that's in March 1961, well before May 1961.

Indeed, May 1961 is when Bemer et al. wrote the CACM article "Design of an Improved Transmission/Data Processing Code" - http://www.ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/ImprovedDataProcessingCod... .
It is true that things were not perfect in the 80s, but the author has a point. The point is that software designers had the goal of making things at least seem easier and consistent for users. That is the reason for standardized interfaces and APIs. Nowadays, computing seems to have become a free for all, where developers don't care (or have lost the hope of) presenting software in a way that is easy to use. Users are supposed to magically "figure out" how things work, and if they don't is because they're "stupid". Software users nowadays are supposed to put up with whatever crappy interface is was designed last week, just for the sake of "refreshing the UI" (see the disastrous UI updates promoted by Google and FB).
Privacy in grieving is nothing disrespectful. It's having an expectation otherwise that is disrespectful.
There's a reason that XP and subsequent client versions were based on NT :)
JSON Schema existed in 2018, so if needed, JSON isn't fully schemaless.
What are the current restrictions in Romania/what do you believe is bringing the rate down where you live?
I’m not certain about the conditions in the rest of Europe, but at least in Sweden it is rare nowadays to use fossil fuels for heating. Most use electricity, often in combination with a heat pump of some kind, or district heating that is mostly fuelled by biofuel or garbage.
http://archive.is/tEBJZ
Montaigne did some writing on how to live life.
You meant 26 inch mtb bikes? 700c road wheels are also 29 inches
Wow, as a native-born US citizen, after reading your story I just feel honestly sad and ashamed. Like I seriously want to tell your wife "I'm sorry for the dipshittery you are experiencing from US government bureaucrats."

I mean, here you have a situation where someone does everything right, can't fly back to the US due to Covid, and then is denied her current statues due to being out of the US too long. "Catch-22" wasn't supposed to be a literal instruction manual on how bureaucracies should function.
If you don't ever need to interact with them individually, then why expose them individually?
The bottom line is, if you don't play with the latest fadtech you end up sidelined into a niche, career-wise. God help you if your niche ever goes away; even if it doesn't, embedded C++ developers make about half of what Node.js webshit developers make, despite the job requiring more in the way of specialized skills.
What is your point? Would you have preferred years of coal over hydro and three months of Diesel?
Does anyone know how this compares to something like Dask?
At least in google pay was more based on col than supply and demand. The reason was if not everyone would move to Mountain View and that was not good for the company. So in general offices in low col like India or Taiwan paid better than expected to try to have people stay.

There were exceptions like London for some reason.