skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
By the way, I don't say I never lie, just something that I aspire to.

The classic test case is: what if the Nazis are at the door, asking whether you're harboring a Jewish refugee in your attic. I personally would lie in this case, and I believe most Quakers would as well.

A more subtle example: exaggerating the effects of climate change to motivate people to take action, for example claiming that Miami will be underwater in our lifetimes if we don't act. A lot of people I know do fudge the truth in this way, even if it isn't a conscious act of lying. I personally am not in favor, partly as a matter of faith, partly because I don't think it's an effective longer term strategy, but at the same time I think the argument for it is defensible.

BTW, a very good inquiry using that particular example is Dan Ariely's interview on Amanpour: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLheBtBpZQw ; this example comes up at about 14:10. I can really recommend watching it, as Ariely is really trying to understand human behavior, not just retconning principles to justify his personal positions.
Your original post was about "industries like software". The category of people who work in industries like software is much larger than the category of people who are hired by Google right out of college.

If you are hired by Google right out of college, first of all, you are willingly participating in an evil organization. No excuses. But yes, if you are hired by Google right out of college you should have no problem doing FI/RE.

Most of the software industry is writing CRUD apps for banks, insurance companies, and other similar large established corporations. You can still do FI/RE, but cut all the numbers in your examples by half, probably more.
Uh, so I have no choice in cookie preferences? Just suck it up and accept it?
I figured that’s where Raymond Chen gets the bulk of his material from: looking at the perforce/sd diffs from 1997.
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> My identity isn't wrapped up in programming.

Fair enough and quite common I suppose. Generally for some a job is just that, for other (perhaps just some lucky few) it's a calling. I'd think the share of the former was large among programmers ("coders") in the early days of computing, when that wasn't a highly regarded job (seen alike data entry). Then a few years after the micro computer revolution, many of those who grew up and where fascinated by home computers entered the work force. Those you essentially just needed to feed and perhaps point in a direction. Then the Internet bubble happened and many realized that there was hard cash to be earned. There we have the career IT guy (who's just as happy to do something else which pays at least as much). It's not that they perform worse (in situation where discipline and organization is paramount they can be expected to outperform geeks), but the work style is quite different.

> We need to get rid of this wild west mentality where disorganization is lauded.

I don't think people celebrate their lack of discipline, but rigidity stymies creativity (and don't ask me how long it'll take me to fix a bug). I don't think Silicon Valley happened accidentally in California rather than in Prussia.
> If I did, they would likely tell me to fuck off because they are busy with some other task.

Great team dynamic if one of the members is blocked or has an issue because of something that another person wrote, and they get told to fuck off.
Reviewing all comments to see if they meet a quality standard would be an absurd amount of work to ask of a couple of people.
"Please don't fire me - this job is the only thing stopping my family from starving to death" is a fairly strong argument - even coming from a 15 year old.
I don't understand why Firefox doesn't work for you?
i use slack, spotify, figma on Firefox without missing anything.
Lastly I don't really understand the monolithic argument in this discussion.
> All that to address a practically non-existing problem: no one really has a problem learning how to use bicycle gears.

It's definitely easy to learn once explained, and every enthusiast knows - but as a cyclist living near a popular bike route, I see a lot of casual riders who appear to have no idea how to use their gears.

The most common thing I see are riders with the cranked up in a high gear on flat land, and you can see them almost standing or straining to turn the crank. I cringe to think about the pain they are inflicting on their knees.

IME once you spend a few minutes teaching someone about their gears, they're usually shocked at how much easier and more efficiently riding is, and enjoy cycling much more.
No one cares about efficiency intrinsically. As long as it's cost effective, this is not an issue.

One of the major improvements in modern electrolyzers is that they don't need to run 100% of the time to function. As costs come down, it's likely we can tap excess energy whenever it is available.
I think it just means that a commonly cited example of a public good in textbooks is arguably no longer a good example. But yeah, the choice of words is pretty clickbaity.
Germany has submarines powered by hydrogen fuel cells. They get like a 30 day range with all the advantages of a nuclear sub, but not the problems of running a nuclear reactor. They are even more silent due to no reactor noises.
Doesn't half of Texas have seasons? I only drove through Amarillo but there was snow when I did. I always assumed the western half was drier and cooler, low humidity, etc.
We're only beginning to understand the effects that this diverse, readily-accessible, in-your-pocket degeneracy has on people.

A 16 year old boy today will be able to see more naked women in a month than the previous 10 generations of his ancestors combined. This likely has terrible effects on a sexually developing, novelty-seeking brain.

Boys and girls today will both have an unnatural understanding of sex because of pornography. The sex they see on the internet is joyless an without love, let alone that the sex portrayed in porn is better categorized as "feats of strength".

It's ironic to me that the content being deplatformed by Big Tech is the content that will help people find God's path, yet OnlyFans is just fine. Sickening.
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What are your experiences with pricing models?
Would love to hear thoughts on pricing models and what has/hasn't worked for founders of self service saas products? Specially, I'm wondering if offering free trials can backfire?
Interesting. I agree that the article is an exaggeration.

It could be argued that the DX7 had a significant negative musical contribution. Oodles of sounds at the expense of musical expression. The musician became alienated from the process of making the sound. The keyboard player's job moved from playing the piano or organ to coming up with all the accompaniment parts that aren't guitars.

And the DX7 was way too difficult to program. Sort of like trying to solve a Rubik's Cube; you can be one twist away and not know it. And since whole point of synthesis was for the musician to explore and tweak their sound, the DX7 was sort of an anti-synth.

That said...

Maybe it was an accidental choice of words in the article, but I would also say that the DX7 was, indeed, one of the most important advances in terms of musical engineering.

Given 1983 technology, it was very difficult to implement digital audio filters, which require millions of multiplication/accumulation operations a second. The microprocessors of the day were not up to the task. TRW offered a 16x16 bit multiplier chip, but it cost around $300 for the chip alone (!!!) and required significant support circuitry.

FM synthesis, as such, was not new. The Buchla synthesizer featured it in the 60's. John Chowning refined the concept, moved from frequency to phase modulation, and brought FM into the digital realm.

Then some smart folks realized that FM synthesis could be implemented entirely in add and ROM lookup operations, which is downright easy in 1983 technology. Then they refined FM some more so it could produce a wide timbral range from the single engine.

That's the impressive part of the DX7.
Put some armed sentry that shoots on sight,, no more refugees.

It is part of Turkey's strategy fill Europe with Muslims and them wanting to reinstate the Caliphate.
> evolution selected for a language skill

Yes it did, and we do know a lot about general principles behind, from different disciplines. This is still an early science. NLP research still hasn’t considered many important aspects of language learning that we have discovered in such a short period of time.

> starting with an empirical result

What makes you think these benchmarks are empirical? They were hand constructed to fit some objective, assuming that being good at the said objective is required for NLP tasks. Where’s the empirical experiments to validate the notion that said objectives lead to language? Science hasn’t worked this way, datasets aren’t constructed, you do an experiment and MEASURE it. Then you make models, try to explain the phenomenon, and test new ideas and validate your models. Can your model extrapolate new information and suggest new experiments to validate? I used the word extrapolate over predict intentionally.
Increasing ridership can come from tech but I think it’s much more likely to come from better and more bike-centric infrastructure and norms. Separated bike paths, bike storage, showers at offices/work, etc would all make it much more likely for someone to decide to bike.

We could tell people: Decide to bike and save money. Decide to bike and save health. Decide to bike and save the environment.

We can tell people those reasons now but there is still a huge hurdle, and it has nothing to do with the bikes or technology. What if all bike companies (and component manufacturers like Shimano) spent all their R&D budgets on education and lobbying instead of better technology? That might work. Is any one company big enough to make a difference if it went at it alone? Probably not.

I don’t look forward to environmental catastrophe but I do think it could help move cycling into more of a mainstream solution. Then perhaps we could have the will to tackle some of the infrastructure and norm issues that keep cycling a hobby at best.
I'm fine with the current system, and it seems to work quite well most of the time. I kinda feel like "works quite well most of the time" is about all I can hope for on most things. It usually buries "bad" (yes, that's a subjective word) comments here. It's not perfect, I've seen perfectly reasonable things get grayed out sometimes, but these things happen. It's not a perfect system, but it usually gets the job done.

That being said, I do think your criticisms are good, but I just don't think those are reasons to get rid of downvoting here on HN.
In my opinion, Casual biking cannot exist when you have to tolerate being 12 inches from a 2 ton death machine going 45 MPH.
> it doesn’t make economic or practical sense for the organisers of the fireworks display to actively exclude people from viewing it, say, by hiring security staff that will actively patrol and prevent people from looking up into the sky

It absolutely makes sense. Before the restrictions, watching the fireworks meant ensuring a crush of people for hours, and even getting away from the riverside afterwards could take over an hour. Getting a paramedic in and out of that was terrible, not to mention toilets and small children.

Anyone who can look up to the sky is welcome to do so, from hills, rooftops, balconies etc.
If 2020 has taught us anything, it’s that including sources will only lead to them being questioned to refute the article’s premise.
David Epstein's Range has a great viewpoint on this.

He states that there are Kind Learning Environments. These are places like golf, chess, or classical piano. Here, the feedback is quick, the goals are clear, and relative ranking is knowable. To excel in these environments, it is all about drill-and-kill. Repetition and stick-hours are the name of the game.

This is in contrast to Unkind Learning Environments. These are places like tennis, business, or jazz. In the unkind world feedback is harder to come by, goals are unclear, and relative ranking is often not knowable. To excel in an unkind environment, Epstein states that you have to be an information grazer. Getting as many viewpoints and mental schemas as possible is the best way forward in an uncertain world.

Epstein's book goes much more into depth on this and has many very memorable examples. It's on Bill Gate's best books of 2020 list, despite being published in 2019.

So, I think that having more reading of any sort is then better for unkind environments, as it is a method of information grazing. Even terse dime-novels will often expose you to new ways of thinking, a new word, or a new idea. Though not the best method of information grazing (whatever that may be), it matters what boys replace it with, if anything. If they replace it with the kind learning environments of CoD or WorldofTanks, then that is not as good. If they replace it with foreign films and TV, that may be just as good.
The Sun looks remarkably like a sponge rubber ball. I just want to squeeze it and bounce it off something.

http://www.spongerubberballs.com/sponge-rubber-rollers/spong...
Sucks indeed. Ended up using the CLI for most JIRA related activities in my previous job. https://www.npmjs.com/package/jira-cli

Some utils to add to `bashrc`:

alias jo="jira open"
alias js="jira show"

jos() {
ticket="$1"
if [ $# -eq 0 ]
then
jira open
else
jira open PROJECT_NAME_HERE-"$ticket"
fi
}

jss() {
ticket="$1"
if [ $# -eq 0 ]
then
jira show
else
jira show PROJECT_NAME_HERE-"$ticket"
fi
}

jqlf() {
jql="$1"
chrome https://__PROJECT_NAME_DOMAIN_HERE__.atlassian.net/issues/?jql="$jql"
}

alias jm="jira mark"

alias jcs="jira create --project PROJECT_NAME_HERE --type 10001 --priority 3" # create story
alias jcb="jira create --project PROJECT_NAME_HERE --type 10004 --priority 3" # create bug
alias jce="jira create --project PROJECT_NAME_HERE --type 10000 --priority 3" # create epic

alias jjq="jira jql" # custom query
alias jql="jira jql" # custom query
# example:
# jjq 'project = PROJECT_NAME_HERE AND sprint = 158 AND "Epic Link" not in (PROJECT_NAME_HERE-4695, PROJECT_NAME_HERE-4373) AND status in ("Push to PROD") ORDER BY cf[10008] ASC'
Yes, on second thought, that one sentence was probably melodramatic.
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Q: Clock always starts at 12:00:00. Is this project a secret tribute to microwaves?

I think it's a generational Easter egg that he went with "microwaves" instead of "VCRs" or even "clock radios."
Because it's what their customers want? Higher quality news sources have begun to get it (even if 10 years late).
Many security companies' stock went up upon release of this news, as they have done in the last 2 weeks.

I'd not be surprise if someone in Reuters is profitting from hyping the breach.
"Apply user CSS" to fix a design issue was more understandable a decade ago when everyone used desktops exclusively and Firefox w/ Greasemonkey was more prominent.

With the current state of the browser ecosystem and more importantly, the shift to mobile devices where it's nontrivial to apply CSS hacks, it's more on the website to make the relevant design changes for user happiness.
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The goal of the "legacy news" is to support a paycheck.

Wealthy individuals or groups will financially support these "legacy news" organizations as long as they have a say in what is put out.
The authors of this book also offer an excellent free online course that covers some of the same material. I found it incredibly well presented and easy to follow, without being superficial.

https://online.stanford.edu/courses/sohs-ystatslearning-stat...
Because you’re not inventing or changing any information, it’s a much different situation. Do you have any complaints about how the image sensor grabs pixels? Is having a red pixel and a green pixel next to each other much different than having a sensor for one kind of light next to another sensor for a different kind?

Both images capturing different aspects. How much the artist does composing the images effects the realism, but what was done seems to be quite real.
Normally PAM doesn’t ask for your current password during password changes if you’re root.

Also, root can change any user’s password without entering the current one.
Where for?
There's an ld preload hack that is simpler and potentially lower latency than the loopback device: https://github.com/xkahn/camlink
While I agree that it's for managers and stakeholders, I wonder how much of it ends up being a net value-add. Where I work, we have a million and one different kinds of reports that pass through the chain of command (admittedly not all of these are derived from Jira, but they exist for the same reasons). We then end up with arbitrary, company-wide reporting requirements that for a lot of teams are like fitting a square peg in a round hole. Then, when you show up as non-compliant on the report that doesn't actually say anything valuable about your team or project, you have to drop everything and shoehorn some solution to make the report happy even though there's precisely zero value added (I would argue a net loss because time and effort is wasted while adding zero value). All because inconsistencies in the reporting aren't tolerated since upper management can't be bothered to understand even the smallest amount of nuance.

I know most of the people in these positions aren't _actually_ stupid, and would agree if you were able to explain to them why some specific thing is completely irrelevant, or even detrimental, to your team. At the end of the day, though, at big orgs no one cares. They'll waste as much time and effort as necessary in order to look good on metrics. Even if the metrics are worthless.
I’d like to know why this post is getting downvoted. Can some elucidate? Is this HN trump support at work, or is there something iffy about this post that I can’t identify?
By the end of the year, we'll have started a new roaring 20's. People are pent-up--eager to travel, excited to be with friends, vacation, go to bars, party, see movies. Pent-up demand will help kick-start the economy.

Work from home is normalized. Commercial real estate prices will drop as companies pare-down their office space. Wework has better prospects than ever.

Travel stocks and in person events go crazy.

A renaissance for Ruby on Rails. Old fashioned SPA's are overbought/oversold, the pendulum will swing to the middle for many use-cases.

New security practices are developed, deployed, and become commonplace in the enterprise. I'd invest in this area if I had a way. Maybe honeypots, tripwires, or something new. Whatever can be sold as an antidote to the SolarWinds debacle, irony of security products as a vector aside.

Deepfakes start to surface in the public consciousness in a way they haven't so far. None of this is good.

Looking under Trump's rug gets ugly--Democrats are faced with seeming to "hunt" a political opponent, or letting some really bad stuff go.
2020 taught us all a lot of things.
Hopefully 2021 brings more light.

Happy New Year 2021 HN!
Thanks everyone for keeping me sane and involved.
Oh hey, that sounds interesting and I already speak the local language :)
1080p YUV2 at 5 fps ? No, thanks...
If you can easily make double and you'd be happy with double, ask for double. (BTW it's crucial to specify location and currency when discussing compensation online. 22K pounds in a non-London location is very different than $22K USD in a major US city, for example)

Best case, you get what you ask for.

Worst case, they say no and you're right back where you started.

Your negotiating position will be 10X more effective if you're actually willing to walk away from this company. If they think you're going to stay regardless of how much they pay you, they might try to call your bluff and continue underpaying you.
Reminds me of the game Outer Wilds a lot. Super cool.
It's a cute demo, but it's a timer, not a clock. </pedant>
Your quote chopped off the asterisk after HTML. See "Unfrequently Asked Questions" for explanation of the asterisk:

view-source:https://www.quaxio.com/pure_css_digital_clock.css
Refcounted refs have copy and destruct semantics, and then what you're talking about is basically move semantics over those refs. Refcount increments be elided if the ref is "moved." The increment is only needed on copy. Additionally, a moved-from value doesn't need to be destructed (in the case of a refcounted ref -- decrementing the count and deallocating the pointed-at memory if count goes to zero). A talk about similar concepts in the "Lobster" language that explains it pretty well I think: https://youtu.be/WUkYIdv9B8c
Why isn't Ubuntu shipping it as the default python?
I have to very much agree with this comment. I thoroughly enjoy using JIRA and Confluence. The two go hand in hand very well.

As many others have mentioned thought, it is abysmally slow. At least their Cloud offering is, which is the core product we use at my job. I've used older on-prem deployments though and they were lightning fast. Seems that they're deprecating this solution by 2024 though.

I recently completed a JIRA survey, and slowness was my number one complaint. Hopefully the Product teams read through those surveys or peruse HN. Everything else about JIRA works great for our Software Development needs.
Mataroa seems like a good solid first step into the blogging world. Love the simplicity of the ui and overall posting process and the simple analytics are a welcome addition. Draft posts are the first thing that seemed weird but it might be a welcome change that forces me to actually make a post for a change.

The one thing I'd be interested in seeing would be the ability to set my own domain name and ability to customize the css of the blog or html for header/footer. (even only in the paid version)

Keep up the good work.

ps. A way to keep up to date with product updates would also be nice.

pps. I really miss google reader. I gave up on blogs when it died and no other alternative filled the gap. /cries
I agree. I've had about 400 Amazon orders over the past 20 years, and as far as I can remember, with every single one the item was as described and with good quality. I think I've had 3 problems over the years (item didn't arrive; missing part; container of spices opened during shipping) that were accidental in nature, and they were easy to resolve (refund or replacement)

It does help to be a bit sceptical about some listings. For example, a webcam by "GREETBUAY" for $25 is probably not going to be of high quality. So I don't buy those kinds of things. But in cases where the nature of the item is that it's a single piece of plastic that just needs to be the right shape, I've bought them from sellers with bizarre machine-generated names and received exactly what I wanted.
True. However, hopefully that’s being mitigated through things like not allowing authors to review their own commits, not using the same accounts to push code changes and do deployments (i.e. having a read-only account for deployments), etc.

However, if it were an admin account that were breached that would definitely make it possible to circumvent any number of protections in place.
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> There’s a pretty fuzzy line between something appropriate for the end of undergrad versus the beginning of grad school.

I agree. I've come across countless math textbooks claiming to be aimed at "beginning grad students and advanced undergrads." There's a lot of variability in that cross section of readers. Thinking back to my own senior year as an undergrad, some of my peers were extremely bright and were bound for top grad school programs, and some were just barely scraping by managing to graduate by the skin of their teeth.