skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> When you click people's accounts who have a high ranking show HN post, they seem to post 2 or 3 times in a row to get it to catch. I am not sure the secret.

A lot of it is luck. I posted a Show HN years ago, on a whim, and it became one of the top-10 Show HNs ever. It led to coverage in Fast Company and dozens of other outlets. In subsequent months, I posted about significant updates (bookmarklet -> Chrome extension, new PDF tool), and those posts went nowhere. It is hard to know why things catch on sometimes.

I'm still working on the same project, and I have HN (and the luck of that first post) to thank for it!
States and corporations have incentives/ goals (which is actually independent from any single human inside the organization). The incentives then got turn into smaller incentives for the human that they are made of. For states and corporations to have empathy, the empathy of the human inside will need to be stronger than their incentives. This is a lot different than a single human only need empathy to not do bad things.
The pandemic disrupts young oil careers
Rule 1 : NEVER question the leftist narrative.
Always interesting to test out a new productivity app in the search of the perfect solution :-) Looks promising! Really like the clean layout.

A bit of feedback: (maybe a bug?) when I tried to add new tasks to "Today", tasks added after the first task did not have the current date set and therefore did not show up. (At first it seemed like saving tasks did not work.)
"ajor changes that ex-smokers notice after quitting" is something completely different then "Major changes [...] incredibly hard to notice".

If it is hard to notice, then it can't be major thing ex-smokers notice.
To whomever flagged my post. You are a pussy. Censoring posts just because you disagree with it is what pussies do.
The problem with VAT is that a lot of UK companies somehow forgot brexit happened, and that means different VAT handling. Well, among other problems, too.
I’d remove several lines.

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<meta http-equiv="x-ua-compatible" content="ie=edge">

This was basically always the default for IE, and for almost the last decade has been, I think, pretty superfluous. It’s a holdover from IE7–9 days, and to instruct those extremely rare devices which had changed the actual browser default (which was never easy to do, but which is extremely difficult by IE11) not to operate in compatibility mode for this site.

Plus IE is dead, so you shouldn’t care about IE to any meaningful extent anyway.

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<head>
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>

<html>, <head> and <body> elements can be omitted if they have no attributes. I like to omit them.

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<meta name="description" content="">

Unless you’re careful about this, it’s easy to do more harm than good. I’m not convinced it belongs in an “absolute minimum base.html”.

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And one more that I’m not certain about: the `, initial-scale=1.0` in the viewport declaration. I think it’s been unnecessary for the past five or six years, that it was basically just a way of working around a bug in iOS Safari that has since been fixed, but I don’t have any iOS device handy with which I can test this.

This is my typical starting point:

<!doctype html>
<html lang=en-AU>
<meta charset=utf-8>
<meta name=viewport content="width=device-width">
<title>…</title>
Humans, with the ability, if not collective desire, to plan 50-100 years in advance.
1. It is the net which has caught most humans, so it makes sense to focus energy on the biggest negative (assuming you agree that it is negative) target.

2. It, and in my opinion Zuckerberg, is a wolf in sheep's clothing. To be somewhat kind to him, he is obviously a sociopath; as such, it's not really his fault for just doing what he wants without regard for other humans.
Thank you so much for sharing this.

My first thoughts were that you dove into what you could control. Those aspects of the product related to non-functional requirements. However, it’s really the functional requirements that primarily count for a customer.

It’s a feature of our times that nearly all programmer attention is paid to technologies and plumbing. What’s left, how to determine “what” should be produced and how to model that into code, without regard to plumbing, persistence, user-interface/s or interaction with other systems, seems long forgotten.
Most of these companies are temporarily suspending shipping to the UK for VAT/customs reasons. But shipping to the UK from outside the EU has always incurred the exact same customs/VAT charges. There are no new tariffs being introduced between the EU and the UK either, so none of the costs there change either. Although you will have to ship with specific providers to make the customs declarations go through easily.

I’m not sure that the customs changes are significant enough to warrant this reaction, and I suspect most companies on this list are just pausing to make sure they don’t have issues in the short term.

The freedom of people movement changes are much more concerning though.
Yet no criticism of Twitter (The platform that the OP in the thread is using). Probably suggests that nothing will change.
My reading of that abstract is that vaccinating an entire society leads to more shingles in that society because having chickenpox circulating in a population exposes people to the virus repeatedly, which boosts their immunity to shingles. A single person getting the shot would not have an increased risk of getting shingles.
VPS Showdown DigitalOcean vs. Lightsail vs. Linode vs. UpCloud vs. Vultr
No need to go to another star. There is plenty of space around our star (1).

(1) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bishop_Ring_(habitat)
Even if you would manage to bring a few humans far away, it doesn't solve the problem for the rest of us.

As long as we depend on dwindling supplies of fossil fuel to send things in space, we're certainly not going anywhere.
It seems exceptional to me to have relatives with the exact same hygiene on data protection. In my experience it's often yet another party I'm forced to give "my" (our) data to. Who then give it to corporations again, and so on. But I certainly respect that everyone could have different experiences in this area.
Email and sms are prone to delays that make the experience bad for users.
Indeed. The required mental shift became much more apparent to me in the recent months. I guess I'm slow :)
Digg Share Button: How to Add to Your Website – ShareThis
When someone is considering signing up, they're weighing the possible upside (of whatever you're offering them) and the possible downside (SPAM!). You need to make sure that the upside clearly outweighs the downside.

You might also want to make the upside bigger for people who share with others. Some startups let folks jump the line if they refer friends. Don't turn people into annoying spammers, but consider why/how people would spread the word about your new thing. At the very least, give them easy share buttons.
This smells like BS... Uber can easily track user behaviour with their own metrics, and see how many users are actually real users.. No way this would get unnoticed...

OR there is something really unhealthy going on at Uber.
Intel-powered foldable-screen notebooks to become available in 2H21
>Nordic country

Nine Eyes:

The Nine Eyes is a different arrangement that consists of the same members of Five Eyes working with Denmark, France, the Netherlands and Norway.

Fourteen Eyes:

According to a document leaked by Edward Snowden, there is another working agreement amongst 14 nations officially known as SIGINT Seniors Europe, or "SSEUR". These "14 Eyes" consist of the same members of Nine Eyes plus Belgium, Germany, Italy, Spain and Sweden.

>will the government use the data for other non-intended purposes

I wouldn't bet on it. I think that nordic cultures (especially Sweden) have the tendency to think the government does no wrong, has no power plays and special interests, and only ever does what it says it does.
> Regarding your edit, since the rule is to assume good faith on HN, I'll try my best

Why would it be such a struggle to assume good faith even with the unedited original? It was a politely expressed confusion over why the Colosseum received so much attention. No guideline transgression, just an opinion.
If you start from the proposition that the state implements the will of the people and the state's laws are just and true, then a strong state is a just state.

After all, if you can't enforce anti-littering laws, how can you hope to enforce anti-discrimination laws? To be effective at convert the law's promises into reality is a good thing, if the laws are a good thing.

Of course, I don't accept the proposition and I don't think anyone else does either - otherwise lawmakers would all have retired because their work was done.
Ok, reading the new regs I am like "wow wtf"
Your ikigai reference [0] link is broken (403 forbidden)
Ask HN: How are you looking for remote work?
Do you post a resume and wait until you are offered a vacancy or do you browse vacancies and send your resume yourself?
Interesting challenge.
This is not my area of expertise, but maybe something like this can work for you:

Remotely setup a company in US/Europe.

Setup a Stripe account with the company.

Send money back via transferwise - it says it supports Uganda.

Obviously, this comes with costs. Maybe others have better suggestions.
Every Silicon Valley Company
I love this comment. It demonstrates nicely how the web and (mostly American, I think other nationalities react differently) culture has changed over the past 20 years.

20 years ago this was simply funny. Nobody took it seriously. It even got an "awards" page.

These days, nobody would ever want to be associated with such a site out of fear of press and social media jumping at them and ruining their career forever.

Not here to judge right or wrong, I think it's somewhere in the middle, but it's an interesting observation.
You dont need new computers for everything. Older machines are often super cheap and saving them from getting scrapped reduces ewaste.
"In general, Generation Z abhors the so-called 996 work rhythm – shifts that last from 9am to 9pm, six days a week – widely expected of employees by Chinese tech giants."

9-5, 5 days a week feels draining and a bit too much.
This just seems crazy...
I think of it as the Switzerland of Asia.
OBS: Open Broadcaster Software
Oh, this is so terrible. I hate this approach with a passion.

E-mail is NOT INSTANTANEOUS. It was never meant to be. It happens to arrive quickly for most people most of the time, but you should never, ever, base a service on that.

Many systems have greylisting in place: a new sender gets a 4xx reply, and is allowed through only on subsequent retries after a pre-set time period. This is often as much as 30-60 minutes. It's a good approach to reduce spam, it turns out a lot of spamming software does not bother to retry, or doesn't want to incur the cost.

So, if you try this OTP-over-Email approach, you end up with frustrated customers, who 1) have to wait up to 60 minutes, 2) their OTP doesn't work, because you expired it after 5 minutes.

It's terrible. Don't do it.
The "University Framework" already exists to support such a system. The problem is that Industry has infiltrated itself into the system and turned the "Research Objective" into "Profit Motive". This has to be eradicated completely. Others in this same thread have also proposed some ideas and i will try to add to it;

* Establish a network of "Research Universities" from each country in the World (sort of UN of Universities). The poorer countries can be partially funded by richer countries. This is to ensure that knowledge flows are not constrained due to lack of resources.

* Research in the various Sciences have to be clearly identified as "Critical" or Not. The former is funded and managed completely differently than the latter. For example, research in vaccines/cancer is considered critical while research in "battery chemistry"(currently a hot area of research) is not. In the former case, all we keep tabs on is "some progress" and not necessarily an external deadline i.e. researchers are given the freedom to keep working on it with self-imposed and self-defined milestones.

* All "money making" (eg. licenses/patents/royalties etc.) from Research is to be shared between Researchers, Institution and Industry (where applicable).

* All "Research" in Universities get funding from the following sources, some with constraints and some without;

----- 1) Govt. grant as part of yearly budget with no strings attached. This is taxpayer money and any output is available to the public.

----- 2) Academia/Industry tie-up (eg. VC/Angel money) where all stakeholders needs are considered. However if the research is considered "critical" Industry needs may be waived.

----- 3) "Corporate Social Responsibility"(CSR) money from all large corporations/rich folks etc.

----- 4) Revenue/Profit from University "businesses" like Education etc.

* Finally, No "Research" project should ever be overseen by purely "Administrative/Finance/MBA" types. Only Core Domain Experts should be granted oversight with the above mentioned helping as needed.
Yes, difference make it hard. They also acquire both physical and mental health issues. Mental health issues in particular makes them more likely to end up homeless or in prison, more likely to be violent.

It is not just camaraderie and connection, it is whole different expectations on what you should do. It is difficulty to find and keep job for example. Not having required skills, having trouble to communicate.
At my workplace everything is discussed and decided verbally. Taking notes is usually only done by the person in charge of the new task, so the person knows how they are expected solve the ticket. The RFC approach cannot work here. But I think this RFC approach is better and more efficient because you can discuss several ideas at the same time and without a meeting. I tried to convince the coworkers to use RFC some time ago but it’s been ignored by everyone. All RFCs are from me without any comment.
Thanks.

Should be noted that when talking about e.g. Python dictionaries (and some other in-memory associative arrays), "ordered" refers to insertion order, where as "sorted" refers to key order.
Because if you give consumers a choice between having ECC or LEDs on otherwise identical boards with identical price, most will go for the LEDs. In reality the price isn't even the same because ECC realistically adds to the BOM (board, modules) more than LEDs do. So the price goes up with seemingly no benefit for the user.

As such features that are unattractive to the regular consumer go into workstation/enterprise offerings where the buyer understands what they're buying and why.
That makes perfect sense. Thank you
20 minutes delay! Ha my worst is about 10 days.
This Google squeez also happens when a company spends on offline ad campaigns as often the first action in response to an ad is to type the company name into the browser. The searcher then arrives at the Google gate where friction is applied to divert a percentage of those to click on competitor online ads. Google is also taxing global offline ad spend.
I've been doing debugger driven development my entire adult life and consider it a bad habit. I'm much better off and happier when I plan out and compile in my head. Then I get a good feeling when it compiles and runs the first time. If not, then I need to think about it some more, not sit in the debugger trying things out.
"For 108 years, the Norwegian Nobel Committee has sought to stimulate precisely that international policy and those attitudes for which Obama is now the world’s leading spokesman. The Committee endorses Obama’s appeal that 'Now is the time for all of us to take our share of responsibility for a global response to global challenges.'

Oslo, October 9, 2009"

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/2009/press-release/
Google and Apple will happily deliver all your information to the government when it becomes their legal obligation.

Are we so naive to believe that if only we adopted their “privacy conscious” solution, there won’t be less privacy focused solutions preferred by the government? Or that their solution won’t be forced to change to meet their legal requirements?
Currently it indeed seems impossible to get a human being from Earth to another star system because the trip is too long for a human lifespan.

But if we accept that the people leaving will never see the end of the journey then the problem is one of keeping a liveable, self-contained environment in space for 100+ years, which does not require crazy physics breakthrough at all, just technological advances.

This is not going to solve Earth's problems, though.
Theoretically, if immigration wasn't an option, what would happen in this case? Just imagine entire earth is well developed, so this issue is present on every single nation on earth. What would happen then? Would economy just slow down or would everything come crashing down? Would automation see widespread adoption? Anything else?
>it looks like the code is in C? how is it rendering in the browser?

Plus, C could be compiled into WASM with emscripten, and be hooked to render on a Canvas or WebGL or something.
What do you mean it doesn’t work on the ground? Culture is completely fungible, humans have migrated constantly and continuously changed culture, it’s how ideas and technology has transferred and persisted all over the globe.

Do you think your ancestors would recognise your culture? Will your descendants?

(Hint: They would/will not.)
Europe just signed a massive $1T trade deal with narrow, short term goals [1]. All of this is helping their massive military modernization, which just last week usurped more powers to intervene internally and externally [2].

[1]: https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3116240/ch...

[2]: https://www.scmp.com/news/china/military/article/3115988/chi...
The fact that you logged 395 days in a year invalidates your entire dataset.
How hard is the UK VAT process?

It would seem that the effort required should scale with the number of goods sent to the UK. For example:

* If your company ships under $1000 of goods to the UK per year, you don't need to keep any records or pay tax. Just write your name on the parcel.

* If you ship under $100,000 to the UK per year, you must pay 20% tax on imports, by annual cheque to "The Queen". You calculate the amount.

* If you import more than that, you need to register with the government, keep records of sales, allow our auditors to look at them, pay monthly in advance, etc.
As for the calculator screenshot, that kind of stuff feels like a consequence of having 'show your working' drilled into your head at school. Which is great to show your teacher that you understood the question and didn't plug it into a calculator, but unnecessary later on.
> Computers, operating systems, networks are a hot mess. They're barely manageable, even if you know a decent amount about what you're doing.

No, they are not. It is extreme incoming flow of poorly trained workforce with no relevant experience making it so.

You don't need to know a lot about networking if you don't use microservices, but you just cannot build a decent future proof monolithic system with adequate deploy cadence if you have a team of 50 python devs fresh from coding bootcamp.

You can abstract your OS away and actually don't need a file system at all if you follow 12-factor methodology.

I can rant forever about this, but all this boils down to one thing: fundamental and systematic knowledge of CS and software engineering beats any new fancy tech. While again and again investing one's thousands of hours into new languanges and frameworks — one is doomed to just repeating one's mistakes.
Cultural Infrastructure Map
I think that some commenters kind of misinterpreted my message. I think that just any of us has wishes and ways "to do it".

If I ask somebody to cook for me, I expect the food to be palatable _to me_. But since I'm Italian, I'm probably picky about food, and I may not like some kind of exotic tastes. That's totally ok.

What is not ok is to say to somebody "cook for me", then classify the food as shit because "I don't like it". I should probably investigate a bit with the other person about my tastes (and the other person should, rightfully, ask questions!). They will still have plenty of opportunities to exercise their creativity, without pushing too many boundaries. Mind you: I think that boundaries should be pushed, but it's unwise to push them too hardly at first.
I happily accept your correction. It's not coincidence that people with those ideas are makers of Little Snitch (one of the reasons for me to use Mac OS after 2013).
https://renderman.pixar.com/tractor
Notion [1] used to do this. It is pretty bad for signing in. You have to be logged into your email, wait for a six digit OTP and then use that for logging in.

[1] - https://notion.so
I also run script blocking on everything. And I block the domains for all url shorteners in my DNS so I don't accidentally go to some weird site. I also evangelize this to all my customers and some actually want me to install it on their computers too. Sadly there is so many pages that breaks down without allowing a lot of external scripts but it has to be something really important for me to bother with unblocking something.
> “ misunderstood by people who didn’t even attempt to try to understand it (including here on HN).”

Your comment is case-in-point the kind of knee-jerk response that I was talking about.

Edit: You added the second part after I’d already responded. They developed a good model to do large scale contact tracing in a privacy conscious way. People rejected this with vague suggestions like your comment about how it could be changed to be the opposite of what they’ve developed. Most people didn’t understand how it worked at all or why the design was good.

As a result, worse less-privacy preserving methods are used.
I have always heard of lunch being about an hour long…
O wow, this is so true. Eating sausage and knowing how it's made are just very different things. And you can't quite go back to the former after having seen/done the former.
The country is designed for elites, and it's not shy about it.
Probably fairer to say that the virtual inheritance architecture is idiomatic to GUI libraries rather than any particular language? You even mention GTKmm, a C++ wrapper around a C library that leverages inheritance.
>Sometimes the pro-EU movement’s most promising (if passive) argument was that the EU runs things much better than the UK, so let’s just give all the power to Brussels instead.

I think, no one argues that the EU runs things better in principle. The argument is that having to deal with a single set of rules is superior to having to so with multiple different ones (which to some degree is the current status within the EU too).
How those rules are executed is orthogonal to it, and I would say that most proponents of the EU will agree, that there is room for improvement, as you surely will with how things are run in the UK.

The power is not simply given to Brussels, your government has in most cases a veto. And depending on how your parliament has set up the checks and balances with your government, the agreements are subject to your parliaments approval.

In other cases it has go through EU parliament, and you can lobby your MEP.

So, in essence, it is not some anonymous thing in Brussel doing things, it is your government and your MEP to whom you can direct your complaints. In most cases though likely the very same government you still have to content with.
I don't see how that would work with the paintings.
Something unhealthy going on at Uber? That's never happened before...

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/02/50000...

https://www.wsj.com/articles/uber-to-pay-148-million-penalty...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/12/0...