skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When accepting work, if you do not provide backpressure, you'll keep getting more and more work.

Saying no has nothing to do with unprofessionalism, it has to do with the fact that there are finite number of hours in a day and there is a limit to what a person can do. That limit can be different for each person, but it will always be there.

If you get blamed or shamed for not being able to do more work, just insist. There is no shame in this.

Also, working more does not necessarily translate into career progression. And if your job security depends on working an insane amount of hours, unless you are being compensated properly and understand the long-term health implications of what you are doing, just look for another job.

What happens if you get a RSI injury such as carpal tunnel syndrome? or some other kind of health issue? If it's bad enough, that's it, your ability to work is over. If they already do not care about your work/life balance and your health, their reaction will surely be "hey, the typing machine on desk #3 broke, please get a new one".

It is fine to be professional, but don't drink the Kool-Aid, look after your health and your best interest. If you want to be able to work until retirement, you need a sustainable lifestyle.

Also remember that one day you will change jobs, and when you do it is likely you won't see your close friends at work anymore. But nevertheless you will have to live with the implications of neglecting your family and friends, or looking in the mirror one day and realizing you are old and you wasted your youth making other people rich for no reason.
Happy New Year HN!

Wish everyone an amazing year ahead.
Gelman's specific critique of Domingos is as follows:

"And here’s the half that I think Domingos gets wrong: He’s too sanguine about existing algorithms being unbiased. I don’t know why he’s so confident that existing algorithms for credit-card scoring, parole consultation, shopping and media recommendations, etc., are unbiased and not capable of outside improvement. I respect his concern about political involvement in these processes—but the existing algorithms are human products and are already the result of political processes. Again, his concern that “progressives will blithely assign prejudices even to algorithms that transparently can’t have any,” is missing the point that the structure and inputs of these algorithms are the result of existing human choices."
New report finds VC investment in climatetech growing 5x faster than overall VC
I agree -- I'm fortunate enough to be able to consider just buying an M1 mini and sending it to someone in order to support this, but it's not clear who I would send it to, nor if that would even be helpful.
that's actually illegal in the EU
TCP, especially on well known ports 80 and 443 is almost definitely going to work, if the network is going to allow any traffic. UDP might be blocked, and there's no well known ports more likely to work than others.

Other than that, NAT timeouts for UDP are probably a lot lower than TCP, so you likely need to ping more often to keep things active (but you should track this by network and adjust accordingly)
> Turkish Cypriots already have EU citizenship via Republic of Cyprus, the only isolated population is the illegal Turkish settlers in North Cyprus.

Children of Turkish Cypriot and Turkish marriages are not granted passports.

The relative isolationism of T/C as well as the high (recessive) Thalassemia, means T/C marry outside their villages quote often.

T/C are therefore dwindling every generation due to one T parent voiding their passport rights, or inbreeding reducing their lifespans.
I think this is mostly an issue of overloaded terms. There are security design considerations, and security issues. Telnet being plaintext is not a security issue for telnet, it's a security issue for those using telnet for something it's unsuited for. HTTP being unencrypted is not a security issue for the HTTP protocol, or an application that wants to support that (a browser), but it may be for an application that makes requests over HTTP instead of HTTPS when those requests require some level of privacy.

If an application has a design goal to be secure in some aspect, but the design they chose doesn't accomplish that, then the design itself is a bug and needs to be fixed (or they need to change their design goals). Buggy designs exist, they're the designs that don't fulfill the desired purpose.

All security issues in a the context of a project which intends to provide security in that aspect are bugs.
but life and religion change overtime, so there isn't any single instance of "life" or "religion" you can point that is trying to survive - other than the whole concept of "life" and "religion" which feels like a non-answer
Light rays are effectively parallel at these colossal distances. Everything is in focus.

In fact, only 100 years ago this year was the "Great Debate" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Debate_(astronomy)) about whether Andromeda and other galaxies were outside the Milky Way, or whether they were small internal nebulae.

To determine distances to things, we use the cosmic distance ladder (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_distance_ladder) which is rooted on very close stars whose parallax we can measure over the course of a year.
That's a really shitty way to think about your job. If you don't have the courage to advise your peers (which is what the product manager and UX designer are, your peers), then you aren't worth your salary as an engineer. Thinking for yourself and pushing back against bad designs is part of your job. Do your job.
I'm not too worried about YA fiction specifically (as compared to children's fiction), since a distinction between quality "YA fiction" and quality "fiction" is less of an issue today (I feel like there used to be a sense of certain content being inappropriate for YA, but browsing a the local bookstore's YA section makes me think that's mostly gone).
I don't find this argument very compelling. The vaccine must be judged by healthcare professionals with the same standard used by the public. And that is largely on the opinion of public health officials and researchers. To use the vaccine as a political vendetta suggests healthcare workers are complete idiots -- and I don't think that is the case.
Shut the computer off at 5pm. It's pretty simple.

I've also stopped accepting the 8 AM meeting requests that get fired off at 3 AM same-day from the subcontinent. It takes some resetting of expectations, but it's a far healthier and more professional set of ground rules.
I just thought of something. At the time blank CD-R's were about $15 each and the fastest burners at the time were 2x burners. I'm sorry I wasted so much of time the person who burned these and the cost of the media!
The focal length is a property of the lens and as such irrespective of which camera it is attached to.
I love the intent, and the presentation is gorgeous. I had high hopes of this, but I find it utterly un-navigable, un-intuitive, un-enlightening, and un-helpful.

I'm sure others will find it wonderful, and it has some great content. I just wish it were decently navigable.
A brief guide to Product Hunt
I'm sure you have some sort of final solution for this problem, no?
Part of the problem is selling front and rear derailleur gearing to cyclists for whom it does not make sense.

Internal gear hubs make a lot more sense for casual cyclists -- they are easier to learn, they can be shifted when the bicycle is not moving, and they are far less likely to drop a chain during shifting than derailleur gearing. They are also better protected from weather and impact.

Almost all of the utility bicycles I've seen in Japan and Europe had internal gear hubs. I didn't see many people commuting on the kind of bicycles that American cycling advocates seem to prefer.
People who are newbies at computers wouldn't be able to find the
switch to turn off updates anyway, so why not include the
opt-out setting for users who care?

Forced updates are unnecessary and a bad idea, even more so in
rolling-release models.
You're being dishonest by assuming the thing in question: whether the vaccine is safe. If it is in fact not safe, then medical professionals have a duty not to take it, as an example to the rest of us to avoid a politically-driven untested product. Don't forget that the manufacturers have been released from 100% of liability from any side-effect whatsoever.
I have a lot of heartburn reading something like this. I spent a decade in government consulting trying to implement anything resembling "data science" or "DevOps" and got repeatedly shut down by higher ups or by random bureaucrats that saw any modern practices, including any technology, as a threat.

Excel macros working one day, then prohibited the next by new IT policies.

Directors demanding that service line bosses meet with me to discuss "data-driven decision-making", followed by a solid week of said chiefs telling me that my job is a joke.

Actual honest-to-God employees trying to make a difference in financial openness having their coworkers walk by their desks and loudly shout they "ain't doing that shit" and walking away.

Two years hunting for a database to store 2 GB of data, and only finding one when a new contractor onboarded and knew a guy in the next office over who would let them have a partition of SQL Server.

I wish I was making any of this up. The federal government has massive, massive employee culture issues. This list is... a nice dream.
I've had to force employees to take time off. If we were still in an office environment, I would have made them leave their work laptop in the office just so they don't try to sign on.

Some of the reasoning I've heard from these employees is that they believe they're the only one who can solve an issue. They're the ones who jump on it when it comes up during the regular day so if it re-appears they feel the need to jump on the grenade - explaining to them that other people can (and will) fix the problem helps, though it usually takes a few go arounds to get the point.

There are times I'm on call, and I'll be pretty pro-active. Even if I don't get paged but major events are going on, I'll be keeping an eye on them. On the other hand when I'm off call? Unless someone picks up a phone and calls me, it's not even on my mind.
You look around at the gig economy, our stagnant wages, our failing industrial sector, our hyper-militarized police force, and wonder "How did we get here?"

I can tell you how we got here: COINTELPRO. The FBI's war on political freedom. I don't believe for a second it ever stopped, rather, they just found new euphemisms to use.

I believe the behaviour of our law enforcement agencies to destabalize progressive movements has been WILDLY destructive to our culture and politics.

The FBI and law enforcement agencies use federal funds to destabilize and destroy our worker and leftist movements over and over again. Progress cannot happen because whenever people begin to organize, their organizations are destroyed.

Look at Occupy Wall Street, a valid movement protesting the bailing out of big, corrupt banking institutions while leaving the average person out to dry. They were maced, demeaned by the media, their organizers stalked and harassed by police organizations.
> in “Being John Malkovich,” the actor John Malkovich (John Malkovich)

I can't help but think this is a movie reference.
I just had a look at EF-S lenses at https://www.bhphotovideo.com. I didn't see anyone that used the 35 mm equivalent focal length in its name. For example, the first is called "Canon EF-S 24mm f/2.8 STM". The details mention "38.4mm (35mm Equivalent)", so 24 mm really is the real focal length, not the 35 mm equivalent one.
>Not being part of an information warfare campaign of an autocratic country's intelligence service, as we have definitive proof Wikileaks was

So because a foreign intelligence group took advantage of a "useful idiot" they aren't journalists? Their actions don't matter? Do you feel the same towards writers being used by the CIA to spread their stories?

I fully admit that some editing of the leaks would have been preferred, but I can also see how that would be difficult in their position and it would be used to cast further doubt upon them. Publishing them as is still qualifies as journalism.

Oh, and I personally find Assange to be an abhorrent person. He's egotistical, racist, and much of those sexual assault claims seem likely. His right to a free press still should not be trampled.

>You are also misrepresenting what Zaid has said, repeatedly.

By directly quoting him while providing the context? Maybe he's right and some set of actions could have put Snowden in a better position today. As things stand, Snowden would not receive a fair trial, as Assange is not.
Because everyone knows SERPs need more multimedia trash to fill up the above the fold.
I'm steadfast against dopamine hacking, optimizing engagement, outrage machine, skinner boxes, etc. FarmVille, Clash of Clans, Twitter, etc.

I used to publish shareware utilities. I love try before you buy. For both publishers and customers.

I should finesse my phrasing to reflect that distinction. Thanks for asking.
> A big engineering endeavor is more like an artistic endeavor that takes multiple people, like a giant sculpture or mural or something, than it is like a construction project. The right way to do it, imo, is to put your faith in a tech lead and a trusted team to deliver it in a timely fashion, and then step back and let them work.

My heart wants to agree, and I think that up to a certain level for internal projects you can do this. But at some point that’s just not possible from a business perpective.

Can you imagine going to your client and saying “you know that project you’ve paid us 150M$ for? Don’t worry about it, Bob’s on it, he’s the best. See you in 3 years’ time for the launch!”
Fully agree. Pardoning Snowden would be the most effective single act a president could take towards reducing corruption in the intelligence community.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myocarditis

"Myocarditis is most often due to a viral infection."

Who would have guessed a virus would cause a condition known to be caused by viruses?
Vulkan Comes to Apple Silicon GPUs (M1) by Means of MoltenVK 1.1.1
I thought it was supposed to look like that (qutebrowser, where it also eatss a ton of memory).
When I was living of passive income I spent all my time working on my own business, which failed but brought me tons of satisfaction.

Work is not always a loss, people may actually prefer it over other obligations (eg. running after your small babies).

I agree with your overall point, albeit I'd restrict it to work done for others.
Yeah, everything can be explained. The only blocking factors are language to express it and/or knowledge to understand it.
> being on-call until late every night

I don't know your situation but it's almost certainly not functional to be on call every night. People just don't function without rest and being on call tends to occupy a fair bit of mental and stress bandwidth.
> Prefer a good black pudding supper.

Ah, yes. That's my dad's favourite thing, though bizarrely with no batter.

Can't say I eat square sausage much myself these days, despite being a treat (especially sandwiched in a roll between a tatty scone and a fried egg) it gives me hellish indigestion.
Chrome latest on Windows 10. The key point/problem is that because I have both mouse and non-faked touch, the touch events aren't necessarily converted into mouse events, as happens in many other circumstances. Though a lot of this is conjecture.
Yes, absolutely. It's happened to others before. Run, don't walk, to buying a 2TB external hard drive, and downloading all of your copying all of your icloud images to it.
The problem isn't that it doesn't happen, it's that there's no reliable way to tell when it's happening vs. isn't, and internet users are, let's call it, rather undisciplined about jumping to conclusions. On any divisive topic, people eagerly proclaim without a shred of evidence that some comment they don't like has been planted. Soon there are astroturfers and spies and foreign agents under every bed. However much real manipulation may be happening, it's plain that many people are simply indulging their assumptions and fantasies about it, which quickly inflates to grandiose levels. This has an extremely degrading effect on discussion, surely at least as degrading as any sophisticated campaigns.

That's why the HN guidelines ask people not to post such insinuations [1]—it's not because such things don't exist. It's because once a topic gets polarized enough, it always feels like the other side isn't arguing in good faith. In the absence of some specific evidence or data or something at least a teeny bit objective to go on, the default presumption has to be that the other user is commenting in good faith and just has a totally different view than you do (I don't mean you personally, of course).

I find it helpful to imagine that we're already at the endgame of this, which is that everything is potentially manipulated and artificial. I call this the SSM: imagine a Sufficiently Smart Manipulator [2], smart enough to plant whatever they want, make it sound authentic, and leave no detectable traces in the data. What can we do in such a situation? Only what we should be doing anyway, which is thinking and writing clearly and respectfully replying to bad arguments with better ones. Since that's the only answer in the long run, we might as well practice it now. It has the desirable side effect of strengthening the community, and a healthy community is the best immune system against manipulation.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[2] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
It is somewhat tautological that Watergate is more consequential. 50% of private power has more power than relatively powerless groups, and powerful people run the country and the economy, so their concerns have more consequence. Even in this framing of "consequential", one can argue about the narrow range of consequences on offer by Democrats and Republicans, and the broad potential consequences of social movements, but I tend to agree with you.

However, Chomsky's argument is that this "perfect experiment" of history, Watergate vs. COINTELPRO, reveals that "on the question of principles", Watergate shows that the press "think[s] that powerful people ought to be able to defend themselves", whereas "one tiny part of the COINTELPRO program was itself far more significant in terms of principle than all of Watergate, and if you look at the whole program, it's not even a discussion".

This is to help dispel the notion that the press are adversarial, truth-seekers, thumbing their nose at authority. And the purpose of this argument isn't just to deflate the pompous self-esteem of the press, but also helps explain the press' _lack_ of adversarial, truth-seeking reporting on other matters of _extreme_ consequence, such as the Vietnam War and the first Gulf War, NAFTA, etc.
Nim natively supports 64bit RISC-V since years and 32bit in the current devel.

Also, the compiler itself is built for rv64 in Debian.
Here are some I've been thinking about:

- Eventually the virus mutates and becomes less lethal –it needs a healthy host population to survive. Evolution, not vaccines will drive normalization.\n
- Cloud gaming explodes in Q1. Just before spring we will have a killer app for VR.
- Much more paid-communities...
- Close to the end of Q3, Apple starts creating a buzz around AR glasses.
Everyone is always choosing the best option available to them... The point is that there's no reason the world should be set up in such a way that it's their only or best option.
I don't think they have the power to exercise total control or prevent (much of) the truth from eventually coming out, in particular now that alternative sources have become more widespread. Again it's a balancing act -- mixing some of these things into the mainstream sources which are meant to be trusted helps to lend them credibility, and there seems to have been no serious repercussions to any programs or the players involved from the Snowden or Abu Ghraib leaks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limited_hangout
My native iTunes app supports hosting my entire music collection as MP3 files that I've bought from any number of services (or ripped myself) on my hard disk that I can simply copy to any other computer and it will play them just fine, in any application that supports that format. That's exactly what 100% data ownership looks like, rendering your claim that the post is "one big non sequitur" absolutely ridiculous.
Thanks for the tip, I will try to watch these two. Anyways, you made me look for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Morris_(satirist) , and I'm shocked to learn that he is Denholm Reynholm, from the IT Crowd!
I read Game of Thrones for the first time. I was surprised to find out how different it is from the TV series, and that it's still being written. This was after completing Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time, which was a favorite in high school but never finished.

This was really just nostalgia. But I figured why not, it's 2020.

They're not so good though, I think the series will be better with both books.
(Sorry, misty eyed recollection alert)

I should point out that "pies" in the UK is a rather generic term. MBOs (mince beef and onion), sausage rolls, pasties, pork pies and quiche was made in this south Devon based factory, near Plymouth.

It was a good corp citizen thing to attend the 1100 "taste panel" which was part of the quality process. Obviously Product Dev, QA and the line crews could not mark their own work so office staff were expected to taste to standard. The idea is that you taste samples from the store that is post bake. This is a perishable product and there are stores (freezers, chills etc) to provide time buffers throughout production.

There are a lot of constraints. You always make to forecast. In this case, back then, you had to deliver to depot with seven plus days of shelf life. The product needs meat and dough prep, make, bake and wrap and shoving in the back of a trunker (lorry/truck). You need to ensure you've got all your raw ingredients available and most of those have a shelf life and somewhere to store. Your machines have a nominal 100% production rate and a defined servicing period, expected breakdown rate, need cleaning and more. Some machines will do the job end to end and some will only do part of the process. You have bakeries and stores with varying characteristics. Some products have special requirements.

It is clearly a "simple" job of defining, understanding and controlling your constraints and solving a few equations. I absolutely loved it as a challenge. This was 1995ish. I inherited a System 36 that was basically a glorified accounting system with some stock control and a few other things. If it got too warm in summer I used to put bags of solid CO2 that I could scrounge from Despatch (the whole factory panics when it gets really hot) in it.

I am quite partial to pork pies and pasties.
Agree. 5X is probably too high... butttt... let's set the terms.

We can adjust the price as we move forward?
Bitcoin is a disaster
>I expect women and POC will get looked upon less favorably if they set stronger boundaries than white men will.

I worked with a POC who the CEO told me point blank to give them extra leniency with regards to them not performing their duties (an ongoing complaint of mine) because a "diverse face" on the pitch deck helped us raise money.
Everything is rendered directly to a canvas, at the very least it lacks subpixel rendering
Have you considered just going to the grocery store, that seems to be a simpler solution than drones + UBI
I know that. 35mm equivalent focal length tells you about the image area and effective aperture.
I only wish more of those tools would be cross platform. I know it's not happening, but it'd be nice if I could develop WPF stuff right on my macbook without a VM.
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