skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How do you deal with paying rent to live within a reasonable distance of your job in the meantime?
> when the law (as amended in 2014) requires "a complete copy" to be preserved, including digital links and attachments.

I can see this as the reason why Twitter does not delete presidential twits - they don't want to break the law.
This is exactly why I don't even have my work email on my personal phone.
Right, Google was worried about privacy.
100% agree. People laugh at me why I carry two phones but this is the main reason. If my employer needs me to have a mobile phone they are paying for separate device and plan. It’s a little silly I need to carry 2 phones around but it makes my life so much more convenient. Unknown call on my work phone guess I’ll answer. If it’s on my personal then it’s spam. Leave company, no need to update or port my number. Want to go on vacation and still have my phone but not be bothered by company emails and calls. Leave my work phone at home.
Then why not protect them specifically? Give money to isolate them if they don't live in their own homes. Provide grocery delivery services. Let them make the choice. There are some old people who are 70 and say "I want to live my life" and so let them go out and do whatever and assume the risk themselves.

We can provide support specifically to those at risk, while also respecting the liberty and freedom of everyone else. Someone with an autoimmune disease or who is 65 can choose not to go to a pub and simply not interact with the rest of the world using technology. At the same time, the pub owner should be allowed to make a damn living.

I don't understand why this is so complicated.
And that makes it ok to do the same? If so, then that justifies others to insult you.
There's a big difference between criticizing someone based on their policy or behaviors vs making fun of their physical appearance. The latter is normally frowned upon on HN
More people live in poverty now than ever before. The overall percentage may have decreased, but the sheer number is greater. Technically more people suffer now than ever in history. It doesn't matter that there's more. This is just an example of statistics hiding how bad things truly are.

The scale is greater now than it was back then. Now, a city of millions can be obliterated in an instant. Now, we can see the effects of global warming and how it can decimate the world's food supply.

We have more knowledge now than ever before - and before, ignorance was bliss.
My two favorites: John Bartholomew https://www.youtube.com/c/JohnBartholomewChess and Gotham Chess https://www.youtube.com/c/GothamChess/
Get married. 30s is about bettering yourself. 40s being cynical. 50s, realising life is about more than money.
That's what I'd be curious about too. I made an account to check it out, but didn't use it after that.

I also suspect if people are linking to it in tutorials as a way to get an immediate environment there might be a lot of new signups that don't stick around.

Is anyone on HN using this consistently day-to-day for something?
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I think that there is a big difference between Einstein's (and most scientist's) use of the word 'God', which is the belief that the Universe is the product of an external 'force', and religion as system of worship.

> "“I believe in Spinoza’s God, who reveals himself in the lawful harmony of the world,” he told him, “not in a God who concerns himself with the fate and the doings of mankind."

This is key. God does not care about human religions.

While there is no conflict between science and this sort of religious feeling, there is an insurmountable one between science and religions.
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Western Europe has more of a welfare state than the US, but they are still capitalist economies. They also depend on the US for many things, including but not limited to defense and world stability in particular. The "utopia societies" many see there have only existed since after end of World War II, and are directly tracable to the US provision of those things. Take a look at eastern Europe in the 1970/80s to see what a full-on welfare state looks like.
Party affiliation and morality are separate things. People can want someone in the administration to act morally and not shred/destroy documents while disagreeing on policy and wanting someone else in that position.
In case anyone else wants to listen to it: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=F-AdsnyhToo
It would be great conducting a benchmark between Promscale and VictoriaMetrics similar to this one - https://valyala.medium.com/prometheus-vs-victoriametrics-ben... . It differs from TSBS in the following aspects:

* It is based on real-world data instead of synthetic data.

* It measures resources usage (RAM, CPU, disk IO, disk space) during production-like load instead of measuring peak performance under the maximum synthetic load.
It's all about latency. Having broadband with 200+ms of latency to reach geostationary satellites is to slow for modern networks.

https://www.satsig.net/latency.htm

You have to move the satellites closer to Earth to reduce latency - hence low earth orbit (LEO). You can achieve much better latencies, <20ms, and support modern networking applications.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/03/musk-...

But when you reduce the height to LEO, not only are the satellites no longer geostationary, they also have a much smaller coverage area. So you need more satellites to cover the same area, and fancy networking to handle the constant hand-off between satellites.
"would you support the same Trump supporters in those positions now doing the same to the Biden admin?"

I would absolutely. Every administration's records should be saved.
We don't need to keep going with this.

Enjoy your life.
Even so, there’s a lot of decently affordable “good enough” where the difference between that and “best available” is marginal compared to the cost increase.

The most obvious and probably biggest expense item (at least in the US) would be tertiary education, but having been out a few years I don’t really notice what the additional benefit was of top-tier private university vs cheap state university, since I know plenty of state schoolers making FAANG money and plenty of Ivy Leaguers struggling to find jobs.

Though at least for me the primary/secondary property race you describe was not an issue, since I went to school in NYC, which has district wide school choice for middle school and universal school choice for high school. (NYC is a million kids so the city is split into districts for ease of administration.) Elementary school was geographically defined, but I also went to a school with a C rating, and plenty of people from that school ended up fine.
> Most RDBMSes (e.g. Postgres) only offer manual (`REFRESH MATERIALIZED VIEW foo`) full-pass recalculation of the cached result-set for matviews.

"Most" here seems very much wrong, at least of major products: Oracle has an option for on-commit (rather than manual) and incremental/incremental-if-possible (FAST/FORCED) refresh, so it is limited to neither only-manual nor only-full-pass recalculation. SQL Server indexed views (their matview solution) are automatically incrementally updated as base tables change, they don't even have an option for manual full-pass recalculation, AFAICT. DB2 materialized query tables (their matview solution) have an option for immediate (on-commit) refresh (not sure if the algo here is always full-pass, but its at a minimum not always manual.) Firebird and MySQL/MariaDB don't have any support for materialized views at all (though of course you can manually simulate them with additional tables updated by triggers.) Postgres seems to be the only major RDBMS with both material view support and the limitation of only on-demand full-pass recalculation of matviews (for that matter, except maybe DB2 having the full-pass limitation, it seems to be the only one with either the only-manual or only-full-pass limitation.)
Ah, that's great. Thanks!
Give it 20 years :)
The two of you both broke the site guidelines badly in this thread. Please avoid nasty comments, tit-for-tat spats, and flamewars generally when posting here. We're trying for something quite different on this site, and the path to deterioration is all too easy.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: I'm dismayed to see that you've been making a habit of posting like this. That's seriously not cool! If you keep it up we're going to have to ban you. I don't want to ban you, so would you please take the guidelines and the intended spirit of the site to heart? We want thoughtful, curious conversation here, and that can only exist when people respect each other.
Abusing your position as a developer and turning your software into a political soapbox is not much better. People are trying to spin this as some sort of union busting move. I don't see it, this behavior is unacceptable regardless of what message is being spread.

Would it have been fine if she added a message to say "Affirmative Action is racist" when people browsed information about Proposition 16 on the 2020 California ballot? Sure, she definitely has the right to spread that message on her own time. But adding this message is definitely breaching expectations of professionalism, and abusing her developer role to spread a personal political message. And given that Google/Alphabet is widely suspected of political bias, I it's fair to let go of employees who cannot refrain from modify software to advance their political views.
The two of you both broke the site guidelines badly in this thread. Please avoid nasty comments, tit-for-tat spats, and flamewars generally when posting here. We're trying for something quite different on this site, and the path to deterioration is all too easy.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
You're looking at it from the wrong angle. It's not that an engineer says no but rather, other projects that are growing and have more resources/weight behind them come calling and looking for engineers that want to transfer into their project. A stalled/non-growing project can't block a transfer like that.

If Google really wanted to solve this problem they could by making the promotion criteria different. Their actions say they don't really see it as a problem, though.
More on this topic in a recent HN submission and its associated discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24686904
Dialect? Maybe it understands your dialect better than other peoples'
That's not an alternative, health insurance is mandatory anyway by virtue of us being made of flesh – the alternative is going bankrupt due to having no leverage after getting treatment for anything.
That might mean you have minimal to few hobbies and nobody whom you care about to share them with. I don't mean join groups, I mean actually make friends. They can be completely superficial. It gives you a reason to step outside your comfort zone and do something you hate but with a smile.
> This also implies a different than usual choice of assets

Care to elaborate on what specifically you are investing in?

Seems like if you were wanting to survive "things going south" that would entail productive farm land and some sort of "back to the land" style prepper homesteading.
DDMM is what we were supposed to guess somehow. Fine to have to guess that for a pen test or real security analysis, less fun for a game where you have no clue if you're really on the right track.
We've released a free hosted cross-platform Spark UI and Spark History Server
"The pattern of “commoditizing your complement”, an alternative to vertical integration, where companies seek to secure a chokepoint or quasi-monopoly in products composed of many necessary & sufficient layers by dominating one layer while fostering so much competition in another layer above or below its layer that no competing monopolist can emerge, prices are driven down to marginal costs elsewhere in the stack, total price drops & increases demand, and the majority of the consumer surplus of the final product can be diverted to the quasi-monopolist."

https://www.gwern.net/Complement#:~:text=Joel%20Spolsky%20in...
The issue being raised is that while individual black boxes can be understood, the whole system (interaction between boxes) has become too complex and too fast for human cognition. Automation solves it only for unchanging conditions. Automation could also spiral out out control when only optimization metrics are profit seeking.
That would be appropriate (in this analogy) if the website was advising employees on how to jump over border walls.
I think that is a reasonable clarification.

Of course, my point is to line up things where there's a short thread from our pleasure to another's immense suffering (rape, death, squalor) and how eating certain animals is the odd one out in our zeitgeist.

The only reason "well I like it" isn't enough to tip the scales on joy-riding our SUV or visiting family by plane or buying some child-labor Nikes is that the impact of the event can't actually be observed nor can we run the equation equation at all. And even if we could observe it, it's possible that the effect is so tiny that we can still largely justify our single trip or shoe purchase in a way that we can't justify raising an animal to adulthood in squalor just to feast on its muscles during a 20 minute meal.

There's always a spectrum of trade-offs at play when it comes to ethics. Ants are my favorite animal but knowing I'm going to step on 20 of them on my way to enjoy a single beer at the bar doesn't keep me home bound.

The question of ethics is surely to maximize the wellbeing of sentience and minimize suffering, so it's inherently a curve of trade-offs in a finite universe. It's hard to find a nihilist who really thinks that the optimal point on the curve is the elimination of all life.

So, barring that, we're left with the impossible task of balancing impossible equations like whether a lifetime of flying home from Christmas produces more wellbeing in the world than suffering. However, some questions are much, much easier than others.
When it's convenient to add a corp profile to a personal phone, buy a new personal phone exclusively for that, don't put your own profile on it at all.

Use Swappa or similar. Used phones are not that expensive. And you can just Hotspot from your personal phone, you don't need data for it.

YMMV, but that worked well for me.
I first noticed this type of thing happening when "Ok Google, play Release Radar" started playing a "Releaseradar" album/single vs. my Spotify Release Radar playlist as it used to. Simply infuriating.
The short version works well too. “Timer 8 minutes”
Where's the evidence of "spamming?" Is Google "spamming" its employees on a regular basis with their "approved" messages?
>Using [dig] might seem a little intimidating as its syntax is frankly plain stupid.

Dig has one of the least stupid syntaxes, IMO. It'll happily take your query in any order and isn't case sensitive. @ for the dns server you want to ask (or omit for resolv.conf lookup), + for options, otherwise specify name and type (and class if you want) in any order.. the following four queries will all get you the same info back without complaint:

$ dig TXT google.com. +short @8.8.8.8
$ dig +short @8.8.8.8 google.com. txt
$ dig google.com. @8.8.8.8 TXT +short
$ dig @8.8.8.8 +short google.com. txt
> I said “Siri shut up you piece of garbage” and she added “shut up you piece of garbage” to my grocery list for me.

Perhaps it was just being passive-aggressive?
> Congress has abdicated jurisdiction over the Office of the Executive they are not facing consequences.

Haven’t they already done so earlier when the exact same issue came up during Hillary Clinton’s private email server affair?
Yeah, this is a meaningless number without additional context.

I'm reminded of a project a while back where the business only cared about user acquisition...not retention. It does not exist any longer, and was never profitable. But they exceeded their target numbers every quarter (until it was killed by upper management for having no path to profitability)
It’s too bad the songs don’t line up with the titles. He could have had actual listeners! Play Workout Music song is a chill meditation song...
ARM is not owned by NVIDIA (US). The deal is still going through and is expected to take 16 months for it to be completed assuming no other countries (UK, China, etc.) try to block it before then.

It's a bit premature to assume it's a "done deal".
That's a fair perspective, but that's not applicable here. The punishment isn't because of how much she violated the policies, it's to send a message.

At Google, someone once disruptively modified the root permissions for the entire company-wide monorepo to show off that the permissions scheme was fallible. They were left off with a verbal warning, even though on paper they massively abused their position, and could have made the point without actually doing it.

The engineer in the OP took a much smaller action, that was closer to the scope of her actual duties, but was punished more severely.
That doggo's bad manners are exceeded only by its bad manners.
Yeah this is a major question. For instance, under GDPR rules, most restrictions relate to "personally identifiable information", which is defined as not only data which specifically identifies an individual, but any data which can be used to identify an individual. So for instance if you collect detailed information about usage patterns which includes country of origin, and you have exactly one user in Sudan, data privacy rules would apply because you would know exactly which user the data is referring to.

I actually wonder how this product would have passed GDPR at all.
"I won't bore you with the mechanisms under the hood on the various systems."

No, please bore us.

Some evidence that a lot of destruction of Presidential records happened in the Obama administration would be welcome too.
> This works without kids. If you have kids, then typically you desire to give them the best available options

Let me quote you one of my favorite posts: "You say 'I can't do XYZ because I have kids and a mortgage?' - well maybe you should have thought about the long term ramifications of your actions."
Looks like a great replacement for Slack
I live in the Midwest, so cost of living isn't really an issue.
I think it's more that "hey you might assume that ships are these big strong things that you can't just cut through but that's a misconception; they're actually weak enough they can't even support their own weight -- a fact that was exploited by torpedo designers."
I suspect the difference is "Is your accent common in the bay area?"
Of all the places to use that absurd made up concept of "bleaching a server"... Hacker News ain't it.
This was an internal tool. How will a regression in that be "highly embarrassing ... to the company"?
Yes, you have a right to participate in unionization and politics. But you don't have a right to alter company software to spread your political message. There's a big difference between holding a "Vote X" sign on a street corner on your own time, and using your position as a developer to put up "Vote X" signs on your company's website.
Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't think there is anything at all about developers which would set them apart from the hoi polloi. The vast majority of developers do not live in a merit based society. They are just as much subject to the requirements of appearing strong as anyone else. They have to pitch to win, just like anyone else.
>largely relying on mask-wearing, hand-washing and avoidance of indoor crowding to keep the virus relatively under control.

A correct response based on evidence.
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This is a bad argument. The two aren't comparable. Drinking a lot of alcohol and getting into a car is a choice. The intent doesn't even matter in most countries since it's a "Strict liability" crime.

The government forcing you to take an injection is literally not your choice. Not to mention, we know drunk driving impairs people and increases risk. There are tons of studies that show that (they also show sleep deprivation is worse than alcohol for driving, but that's not illegal ... probably because it's not measurable, or it's hard to gauge intent).

This vaccine has been rushed through the process with zero long-term Longitudinal studies. A drug company can yell 95% effective all they want, but the fact is, this is a HUGE unknown. The vast majority of normal scientists in other fields cannot do this research themselves and there aren't even any published papers yet we can look at.

This is a bad argument. You want some more bad arguments? Look at the Buck SCOTUS decision which lead to forced serialization, or the SCOUTS decision that lead to Japanese internment camps. You know what those two decisions were dependent on? Jacobson. The vaccine case.
The Chess Programming Wiki is one of the great wikis:

https://www.chessprogramming.org/Main_Page
>The extra you’re paying for a Porche, for example, has more to do with the message you want to convey to others, not with the usefulness of the product itself.

One of my best friends, who does better dating wise than anyone I know, drove a 98 Volvo. He was making well over 150k, but had so much quiet confidence he had no need to project anything.

I make a similar amount, still wear clothes from Old Navy and when I do own a car it's the cheapest newish one I can find.

Both me and my friend are essentially social media / online dating free. If your obsessed with trying to impress people you'll only attract those seeking to take advantage of you. The insecurity of needing to be someone makes you an easy target.
had a lot of fun, but ended up getting stuck with the dragon. explored every room multiple times but never found anything that helped hurt the dragon. i'm probably just missing something... still fun, up until a point- which from the comments doesn't seem like anyone else hit this snag, so it must just be me lol
Firefox supports custom search engines, the most bang for the buck custom search engine must be https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%s with keyword being the letter d. Then you get all these 13000+ bangs without having to configure the custom search engines. E.g. write "d !drive term" in url bar. And "d !w hacker news" sends you directly to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_News
They're shit, until you compare them to who they were up against, which was a jew hating Marxist.
This just in, complexity is hard, more at 11

We can think effectively about complexity the same way we've always done it, abstractions, facades, black-box thinking, compartmentalization, etc.

The concept of "understanding" a complex system in its entirety is futile to begin with, that's why we call it "complex," that's what that word means.

Are we really going to sit here and say that any one person, at any point in time, was ever capable of grokking an entire societal system of any kind? You think the village chieftain of a 300 person village back when humans first discovered agriculture was capable of "understanding" the entire system required to simply feed his village on a daily basis?

This all seems like pandering to identity-driven, individualistic cultural trends rather than any actual analysis of humans or society or complexity in the world.
Both of the solution seems dumb to me. Can't you play a 24 hour video? AFAIK most media players prevent the computer from going to sleep. Or even better write a program that does it for you: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/34836406/how-to-prevent-...
"Clearly the EU has no issue with [a lot of people dying unnecessarily]."

wat?
At my company, in order to get access to the corporate email and such on your phone, they require you to install their app on the phone.

Then you're required to sign a document acknowledging that when you leave the company they will remotely wipe your phone, including all of your personal apps, documents, photos, etc.

Mixing personal and work hardware is never a good idea.