skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You had a disgruntled person upset at a company. That's a threat and is scary. I'm not downplaying workplace violence -- it's a different threat with different precautions needed.

In the judicial situation, you have a specific unstable/desperate person focusing their anger at Judge X. A judge is a symbol of the state, control, and of a specific matter.

The person doesn't accept responsibility for his actions and holds Judge X specifically accountable for his loss of freedom/income/family/etc. In this modern world, you add on the dimension of unstable politically motived disturbed individuals goaded on by various means. We're fortunate as a society in that disturbed people tend to be disorganized and ineffective, but I think that things are changing that make some of these individuals more dangerous.
Book reports/reviews are a thing in their own. The thesis of a text is somewhat straightforward to summarize in articles and reports of that length.

Personally, I thought Range was a fantastic book. I agree that it was repetitive at times but that drum beating of the theme was welcome and showed the un/kind learning environment thesis in many areas of human learning.

I gave copies of the book out to my group at work in 2019 and everyone in the group loved it (so they told me!). My team members appreciated the other examples beyond the Woods-Federer example and my boss brings up those examples from time to time.

The central core idea of un/kind learning environments is a crucial one and has really helped me when I have to learn new things too. As my career is not generally in a kind learning environment, it has made me more confident to graze for new information far and wide, like here on HN (:
About Elm: "I like everything about it - compiler error messages, type system soundness, The Elm Architecture, pure functions, immutability, performance, etc." <3
>I guess the difference between 2016 and 2020 outcomes is that democrats at least didn't create any ruckus during the power transfer from Obama to Trump

Crossfire Hurricane wasn't enough of a ruckus?

It came out recently that Eric Swalwell was targeted by a Chinese spy, but cut ties after a 'defensive briefing' by the FBI. Hillary's campaign also received a 'defensive briefing' in 2015 when a foreign government tried to influence her campaign through a campaign associate. Trump's campaign never got one, instead FBI ordered an investigation on the flimsies grounds and outright lies to the FISA courts (and what turned out to be opo-research funded by the Hillary campaign and promulgating actual Russian disinformation)..

And then the next four years had Hillary going around saying explicitly that Trump is not a legitimate president - a claim not challenged by media and echoed by the Democrats. The media itself kept pushing the discredit Steele dossier throughout that time. So I do roll my eyes when political activists in the Democratic party and media are now all about 'election integrity' after what they did to the trust in the system over the last 4 years. And I'm not really worried about Trump bitching on Twitter and putting out lawsuits (as is his right), as some threat to Democracy.
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It's so fast! Blink and it's fully loaded! Also kind of looks better too. But that's subjective, I guess.
At the same time, what is "latino" what is "hispanic?"

Are they a real identity, or were they created for the US census as a form of red lining?

What is "hailing" from anymore, someone whose born to a south american family, whose an indingious south american family?

But I would say I don't write my name in proper accents and I don't know anyone else that do, but I dont' care about accents, the question of the labeling and who created the label is more interesting.

Dropping accents is just vernacular.
I don't think I agree with you here.

Make Cloud UI fast is probably not their priority. This is an enterprise product, not consumer facing, users are much less likely to be turned off due to slow UI. They will wait.

Integrity/Security would be much higher on the list than UI loading speed.

Not surprising at all.
Doing a small startup I forget about this nonsense sometimes. I could make more at a big company but when I read this I am glad to be doing what I am doing.
How do you put them into the set in O(n), exactly?
0.90 is also an outlier for 1999. The average price was closer to $1.20 back then.
Agner Fog has been researching this very question.

https://www.forwardcom.info/
Even if you're in a comfortable situation, you have to worry about friends and family, and ensuring your children will have similar careers. When raising children, it just feeds into the rat race.
The marketplace is broken. A non-trivial amount of people believe the earth is flat. People are becoming immune to fact-based evidence, because they get to immerse themselves in an alternate universe which tells them that they're right. Soon the ramifications won't be restricted to people shooting up pizza parlors.
It's the same value as Debian stable: you don't need to mess with it, and you don't need to learn anything new until the next big release.

RHEL / CentOS also has a lot of commercial software packaged and sold for it. You'll find plenty of niche market software shops that don't want to bother targeting more than one distribution, and that being the case they target RHEL. If you're writing and selling some niche business software, do you really want to dedicate your limited support resources (which, let's be honest, are probably your developers!) to supporting other distros?

At the end of the day, what do you need from the distribution itself? It's a tool to run the software you care about. Some distributions take pride in providing that software as a part of the distribution, but not RHEL. RHEL is stable, it's a known entity. You want a newer version of PHP? Go for it, but you're building and packaging your own on RHEL. And for many shops - not just enterprises - the "you" here is not actually anybody at the company, but some external vendor or some OSS project maintainer who packages everything (including dependencies) for RHEL.

And by the way, this is why Docker containers are so popular now - you can incorporate whatever system libs you want directly in your deployment bundle, and know that if the base system can run Docker you don't have to think about it. Something old and crufty like RHEL, as long as it has good Docker support (yes, arguable...) - you never need to care how old and crufty it is (they DO backport major kernel improvements to their custom kernels).
It is mentioned: "The signatories include Belgium, Croatia, Estonia, Finland, Greece, Italy, Malta, the Netherlands, Portugal and Slovenia."
That is false.

The Supreme Court denied a request for emergency injunctive relief. They did not deny certiorari.
This sort of finger-pointing is actually endemic to communist and socialist economies - the only thing you can trade on is your reputation. Capitalism tempers it somewhat because at the end of the day you do still need to make money.
I go and drink some Corretto :)
I guess their goal isn't necessarily to make a world leader but rather to ensure they're not left behind if the geopolitical climate keeps worsening.
Will Bitcoin end the dollar’s reign?
Isn't Volkswagen already game over? Past decade they've shown a decrease in overall sales in USA.
Are you referring to chips like the Titan M in this as well?
Great Article. A lot of people don't understand how important cash flow is. Even Elon pointed out that having factories close to customer is very important for a fast growing company like TSLA because if you grow too fast you'll be putting so many cars on boats before they are paid for that you will have no cash.

I disagree with the framing of both articles somewhat. The question should be "What is limiting your growth?" Is raising money going to distract you from making a product customers need and love? Then skip it. If being too small for enterprises to take you seriously is a blocker then you'll need to raise money.
I don’t know about this, but California law makers were discussing an asset tax at one point. The discussed law would have worked across state lines for up to 10 years to catch rich people who leave state lines. Just the discussion of such a law probably spooked the ultra rich. More details: https://weaver.com/blog/california-proposed-wealth-tax-impac...
Did you miss the part where there's been a massive pandemic and sky-high unemployment for the past year?

California had the nation's healthiest budget prior to the pandemic, with the highest per-capita surplus, largest rainy day fund.

It's true that California relies heavily on income taxes, which include capital gains, both of which are much more strongly impacted by the business cycle than states primarily funded by property taxes. You can make an argument about that, but California's budget was extremely healthy prior to the pandemic.
No, that's a different case. The case Cruz has promised to assist is one in which the state of Texas (yes, the whole thing) is suing other states over alleged election irregularities. When one state sues another, the case goes directly to the supreme court.
Exploring the world's tallest palm tree forest
I am pretty sure there as boatloads of developers that want to do good and even know what needs to be done just as in every single company I have ever worked with.
I'm confused by these data.

It's common knowledge that the US spends much more per capita on Healthcare, however the commonly offered explanation for this is that the private healthcare system in the US is less efficient than the public systems in Europe. But the graph in the provided link shows that US costs are split evenly between private spending and public spending.

This is confusing because the private system in the US covers twice as many people as the public system. Per the US Census Bureau: "in 2018, private health insurance coverage continued to be more prevalent than public coverage, covering 67.3 percent of the population and 34.4 percent of the population, respectively."[0] If the provided data are correct, this would indicate that US private spending is nearly twice as efficient as public spending.

What am I missing?

[0]https://www.census.gov/library/publications/2019/demo/p60-26...
If you look at the sidebar and the URL, you'll see this is one page out of a set of notes on ZDDs. That is why BDD's are just touched upon.

The real question is why was this particular link submitted as newsworthy and why did it get to the front page of HN? It is just a sidebar on the thing the author was actually writing about.
A Brief Goodbye to CentOS
>The signatories include Belgium, Croatia, Estonia, Finland, Greece, Italy, Malta, the Netherlands, Portugal and Slovenia.

GER and FR are just bigger names
We use PlantUML for all the things. Works nice with asciidoc. Gotta spend a day tweaking the styles tho
Having gone through it, the Tesla process makes it super easy to buy a car.
perhaps, but I'll never buy a Volkswagon just on principal. Fool me twice...
I second this sentiment. I'd wager a few bucks that all the people pressuring others to hurry and get the vaccine will conveniently be in no rush to follow up and check whether the vaccine had any health consequences or offer to help.
I’m not sure you’re appreciating the kind of operation that RHEL is and why these kinds of businesses use it. They don’t want new features. They want a platform that works, that is approved by government regulators, that doesn’t need engineers to come fix update-caused problems regularly, which will happen with any Linux system that receives major package updates. You’re thinking like a software engineer who will be there to handle these issues. They’re thinking like a hospital that can’t risk downtime and is not a software company, even if they hire a few engineers here and there.
Angel Investing with Matteo Rizzi and Simone Brunozzi [video]
https://archive.vn/V0X7e
>Who, then, decides what is true?

Let me decide for me. I'm not outsourcing thinking to YouTube interns.
Not just age, an accident, diagnosis with a disease, etc. can happen to young people as well. Then you suddenly discover that your american insurance doesn't pay, or only a small fraction of the price...
I don't think there is a single airplane manufacturer in the world that is not either straight up government funded or government guaranteed.
Predictive Policing or Targeted Harassment?
> I'm not a fan of this sentiment. Sometimes things are just really f'ing hard, and no amount of "pushing people" is going to change the reality of how long those things take.

True, but the difference between too hard and only needing an organized push is often only obvious in hindsight.
Lead Generation Myths That Stop You from Succeeding
> ZDD stands for zero-suppressed binary decision diagram but this is unimportant

It's not just you. This article is written in the "terse yet barely comprehensible" fashion of someone wanting to cut to the chase, but leaving out so many details that the point or flow of it goes missing for anyone not in the author's head.
I noticed this for last few years. Google stuffs been increasingly adding much JS in their stuff every year and that bogging down my system. Even loading Google Drive took average 6 second to fully load whereas it was about 3 seconds last year. YouTube is not quick to load anymore like it was before. And this is all in Chrome and other Chromium-based browsers.
The marketplace is not broken merely because one party's goods aren't selling. If I make scratchy toilet paper and people don't buy it, it's my fault, not the market's. The fact is that the media elite have little credibility these days among the general public, their wares suck, and people are investigating alternatives. The solution isn't censorship. It's becoming more credible.
> IIRC in most cases it wasn’t so much that anyone actively disagreed with the licensing change, as that it was infeasible to even get in contact with the literally thousands of contributors — especially since many of them have left no contact details that could be used for legal correspondence.

Maybe yes and maybe no.

> ...The legislative process grinds to a halt!

You're being a bit overly dramatic. The software development process can continue just as it did before, they just can't retroactively change the license on code they do not own. It is true that maybe the project might die partially due to a lack of adoption due to people not liking the license, but he project may die for many other reasons as well. Also the project isn't gone anyway. It continues just as before.

> This is, of course, why no government is run that way. And it's equally silly to run a FOSS project that way. Even if literally everybody likes some change, just one contributor failing to get in contact means you're stuck without the ability to make the change.

There is one government, but there are many competing software projects. If one goes into decline it's not the end of the world. Besides the software project is not gone, it's still there. The fact that there are so many popular projects without the ability to change their licenses shows that the model can work just fine.

Look if you want to start a project and require a CLA be my guest. If you want to join a project with a CLA, go ahead. Just be aware that CLA's will deter some contributors. Weigh these trade-offs however you wish.
And yet it's enough to spark a geopolitical war to block China from acquiring these machines[1], which basically means China has massively ramped up it's EUV investment if you look at semiengineering investment news.

At the same time you can trust that TSMC secrets are no longer secret[2]. A lot of the Taiwanese companies are actually quite bad at security despite Taiwan have some top notch security engineers. I guess it's just old industries general problems.

[1]: https://bits-chips.nl/artikel/asml-is-too-convenient-a-targe...

[2]: https://www.extremetech.com/computing/313599-chinese-hackers...
California has historically had budget problems for decades and resolved things 8 years ago through increased taxes. It also increased taxes by about $2B this year.

As recently as 2017, the state miscalculated the costs of Medi-Cal and had a 1.6B deficit for the year.

The argument that I'm framing is that the state has to continuously dig further into its citizens pockets in order to fund its appetite for spending. It's entirely true.
This is likely a backup plan. What these countries are trying to avoid is ending up in a situation like China and Huawei where your leading tech corp. is kneecapped due to an unpredictable US political climate.
I would find it good for partial use, like tweet on that all day and limit your browsing to once per day or something like that
You never see people going on about how Apple products work for them and how much they love their products? You never see people defending Apple’s premium pricing because they believe Apples products just work even though it’s unlikely that every iteration is perfect off the factory line? John Gruber articles gushing about Apple products are never posted to HN?

Just because there’s healthy criticism doesn’t mean it’s some negative malevolent argument. Most criticism of Apple is activist focused. Most gushing about Apple is consumerist focused.

People are actively trying to move off closed platforms. So what?
Another example is locality sensitive hashing (introduced in late 1990s), which can be used as a data structure to efficiently solve the nearest-neighbor problem.
>what stops them. from just going to US/Canada?
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For the US, the thing that stops them is the incredibly hard immigration process. The US is a very protectionist labour market. I've looked into it myself as a Greek, and it's very fucking hard.
Economies don't develop by linear growth extrapolation.
No, I really do think people in the US are massively entitled. I've lived in 3rd world countries and the standard of living even for a minimum wage worker is so beyond that of a poor person in a third world country (like Tanzania or Kenya, for example). People in the US are lucky, and yet, all everyone does is complain and bitch all the time. I think most Americans lack perspective and are ungrateful for what they have.
This is awesome OSS, thanks for sharing it and giving a specific example of the problems it solves. I also got a kick out of how you called the article an advertisement then went on to advertise your own project. Really though, nice OSS. I watched the video on your site and it looks like a cool solution for people getting started with e-commerce. Much more flexible and customizable than Shopify and BigCommerce.
From what I've heard, dealership don't like electric cars because they make their money off of maintainance and EVs require less.
Sort of. The 21x21 QR has an error correction of "L". That means up to 7% of the data area can be obscured. Realistically, as the code is a square, you could only lose data from the right hand side while maintaining integrity.

A QR with "H" error correction can lose about 30% - but the code takes up a lot more pixels.
I'll never understand why people look up to him. I have friends that are totally extreme communists, who hate everything capitalist and they idolize him. He's still a billionaire and a shitty person, just because he has interests in helping the planet (with his great business ventures) doesn't make him a swell fellow. He's still trash, like most billionaires.
It's a recurring theme when discussing US and European tech companies on hn. US tech giants tend to be more visible as most are consumer facing brands (Apple, Facebook and so on). The European multinationals are mostly like ZF Friedrichshafen: Noone has ever heard the name, yet in 2019 they had $45 billion in revenue.
I think by attributing it do incompetence you're missing the incentives problem.

Others point this out, but Google just has no incentives to improve this UX. Think about who makes the decisions to use Google cloud and what criteria they are using.

The snappiness of the gcp ui is not likely to be near the top of their list
In case anyone is surprised or represents a new phenomenon, it's covered here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_flight

or, for apologists:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_outflow
UK regulator issues allergy warning on Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine
The conspiracy theorist in me wants to believe that this is not incompetence, but sabotage. Everyone uses Google products; if they work fast in chrome and slow on firefox, people will blame Firefox, not Google. And therefore will eventually switch to Chrome.

Good strategy to steal market share.
Is this some kind of dig against the web? I prefer native myself, but obviously there are huge numbers of faster websites out there.

The answer is that Google’s frameworks suck, and have for many years. I can’t comment on whether things are equally a mess in their proprietary code, but I don’t see any reason to think they’re not. This is a problem with Google, and their slide into mediocrity.
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I read the section of the report on the rifle club which you linked, and thought I should point out that it concluded no report was ever made to the police. The confederate flag claim was also retracted, although the person then claimed they had seen confederate stickers. It was established some club members wore camouflage though, and one member said there might be occasional racist comments. It's definitely not the kind of group I'd ever want to be around, but it seems some of the claims may have been exaggerated or fabricated, and the person who made them does not come off as very credible in the report.
Software at Scale 001 – Alexey Ivanov
Don't make me repeat myself with respect to new features and stability.
The CA Franchise Tax Board aggressively pursues departing taxpayers who maintain even slight residual connections to the state. There are no bright-line rules to determine residency, so the state has great leeway (and incentive) to pursue punishing residency audits. Horror stories abound!
But... it wasn't a joke!
That's very much the tone I get when listening to any german public figure within the political game talking about these things.

Sadly, at this point I wouldn't even expect a solid strategy, it's gonna be blatant actionism. But maybe that's just the cynic in me hoping to be proven wrong
Can anyone ELI5?
Reminds me of the good old days of Birdhouse[1].

1. https://sandwich.co/work/a-notepad-for-twitter/
I've come to the conclusion it's their way of telling me to use the API or the CLI. As in, why am I throwing all these meabytes of the line just to perform a single command that could be done with the API as well. If only their API wasn't as slow as well.
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That's a fair point. I can easily think of several examples too... the boring machine (still slow), self-driving (perpetually delayed), and the hypeloop. I'm sure there are plenty of others.
Even if it's not a lengthy process to fire them, as someone in a leadership role I believe it's the duty of leaders to not switch to a firing mindset, but to exactly do what this article suggests. Mentor, Lead, Coach. Set clear expectations especially on how your direct reports can measure their contribution. A fast feedback cycle that any employee can tap into to see their progress is very important.

Hiring is not easy, so when I hire, I'm really their biggest cheerleader. I want everyone to succeed, if folks reporting to me succeed, that often means I'm doing my job, makes my life easier, means I made a good hiring decision. I'm not saying that I'm a smart manager, but good managers don't wish to see you fail, they really wish to see you succeed and will do everything possible to make that happen. Just saying this because I know plenty of folks are distrustful of managers.
I think GP's point is that when you consider their output they're really not the bigger names.
It appears folks are willing to pay a premium for a superior experience.
The design and functionality of the Engage modal is actually up to the publisher.