skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The 1972 ORTF Paris recording (https://www.discogs.com/Bill-Evans-Trio-Complete-February-19...) is the one I listen to most (although Conversations with Myself is a close one). I particularly like the rendition of Autumn Leaves and Someday My Prince Will Come from it, although the whole album is excellent. For some reason, not available on Apple Music, though (I’ve had it on CD for many years).
I find the people US society deems it necessary to tip to for service to be arbitrary and jarring. It’s kind of, sort of people you feel sorry for since they don’t earn much, but only if you interact with them, but even then sometimes not?

Janitors and custodians making sure everything is clean? No tip.

Person that brings you food? Tip.

Nurse/plumber/electrician/Government employee? No tip.

Delivery driver? Tip.

Grocery/hardware store/department store employee who helps you find what you need? No tip.

Person who brings out your online order to your car? Tip.

EMT that saves your life, but makes $12 per hour? No tip.

The whole thing is insane.
My guess would be 38
as always, spot on.
And the rest of the developed world applauds their attempts to catch up.
Warmly remembered & overused for all sorts of reasons!

https://twitter.com/thibaut_barrere/status/13297969809781596...
A lot of the companies whose products were vital to the Nazis (IBM and VW immediately come to mind) are still around, so I'm guessing McKinsey will be fine.

If anything, they're more in danger of losing clients because they sell (mostly unusable) recommendations for millions of dollars.
> Because I’m not going to assume that you are calling HackerNews the same as technology in any reading of the sentence, purely from context.

The first is saying “HackerNews” is the same as “my daily updates on technology” .

The second (replacing “i.e.” with “e.g.”) is saying “HackerNews” is an example—one item in a broader collection—of “my daily updates on technology”.
Never work for the family business of another family.
It's more like a persistent 60/40 (or optimistically 70/30) split, but it's understandable that some people are simply wrong.
Completely obscure system with a ton of meaningless numbers and letters.
To be specific, that only gets Google to delete personal data associated with an account, not any shadow profiles they’ve built up.
except when they don’t!!! they have banned legal but distasteful sites before.
Resolution of conflicts of interest linked to a multi billion dollar failure should probably be supported by a more authoritative source than “a person who knows him”. I afford everyone the benefit of the doubt in everyday life, when it comes to politicians and this much money is involved I don’t. I respect people who see it differently.
Japan.

Really awkward as well. Basically the whole staff was waving at us until we went around the corner and they couldn’t see us any more. Didn’t know what to do - ignore, acknowledge, turn back and keep eye contact while still walking forward, smile, stop, wave ...

This was a high-end restaurant though.
Not concerned about space, more expertise. Sterile fill and finish lines are incredibly expensive and complex. Plenty of big pharma manufacturers screw it up. It wouldn’t make any sense for the govt to invest in their own line. It would take them years to get it up and running. I assume they are outsourcing it.
One problem I've found as the expectations of what a computer game or program 'should' look like has exploded. Making a circle move across the screen doesn't hold the same fascination with kids today as it used to. GORILLA.BAS was pretty close to a game that used to cost real money when it first game out.

Back in my day I could look at the very simple game I wrote in a a few hundred lines of Basic and see a path from there to commercial games that came in a box. Today my daughter looks at the simple thing we did in Scratch, then looks at Fornite, and sees no connection between the two.
I guess I’m not the only one that hears Green and thinks his solos sound as crisp as Evans’ in the piano :)
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This is a really short timeline and a huge pain. I maintain 3 popular (thousands of github stars) Android libraries hosted on JCenter and published via Bintray. These libraries are stable and I update them only a few times a year.

Now I have 4 months to re-do the publishing pipeline for them and figure out how to republish older version artifacts on MavenCentral and educate my users.

I think few who haven't tried it realize what a massive pain it is to publish a library on Android. Compared to Cocoapods or NPM, Android library ecosystem is a joke. Every library I know of has their own hacked-together build script. This is why most Android apps use only libraries from Google and Square, the two dominant library publishers.

There was never much love between JFrog and the Android community so this puts an end to that saga, but it's not clear who will step up. Bintray / JCenter was never great but it did attempt to make publishing easier and it was the default.
Except that Bin Laden lived in Afghanistan for many years prior to the attack, and the Taliban provided material supprt to al-Qaeda, including hosting training camps, which they refused to shut post-9/11.
Australia pays $30/hr to wait staff?

And the COL still stands. $30/hr won’t get you far in Sydney.
Having only a cursory knowledge of Haskell I found most of the examples rather impenetrable.

From the text it seems this could be done in say C#, Java or C++, which sounds really interesting.

Anyone have any examples or outlines of this in any such language for non-functional plebs like me?
Same. I had to add my own RSS feed, and didn't do it until I needed it to crawl my own content. Even then, I won't waste screen space with an RSS icon.
That just means they have to get away with it two out of three times. Make it >= 50 and add in some jail time for whoever signed of on it.
> I deeply admire Basecamp's style of "you don't need VC money, keep it small, keep building something useful that gets you paid.

Honestly, DHH looks to me and comes across to me as extremely burnt out to an unhealthy point. I wouldn't want to aspire what he has become. He doesn't strike me as someone like the author of Bear Blog who just enjoys puttering along. He comes across as someone who constantly stresses himself to become BIG without VC money so he can prove someone that you can achieve VC level success without VC money. As a result he seems to be constantly arguing and lecturing people on social media to a point where it feels difficult to watch. Also Hey feels like a real flop to me, an attempt to fix something that really nobody wanted to be fixed. It's like creating yet another social media app when people are already sickened by the sheer amount of apps which demand their constant attention.

I admire what bear blog stands for and to me that is far away from Basecamp, otherwise I agree with your points :)
I’ve always seen a “No Tip” option in the US. And if I didn’t, I certainly wouldn’t patronize them. 10% for a cashier giving you your order is insane. Am I supposed to be giving a 10% tax to all of my cashiers now?
It's only that way because we haven't fully cured cancer yet.
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Ha, so I'm not the only one!
> the US still invaded Afghanistan to kill as many Taliban members as possible.

No, it didn’t.

It invaded Afghanistan because al-Qaida was based there and the Taliban was actively protecting them.

> Americans arent very forgiving to terrorists and terrorist sympathizers,

Very clearly true of Islamic terrorists who have targeted the US or Israel. Very much less true of other terrorists, especially racially White ones, and most especially racially White ones that aren’t Communist.
thank you for sharing the link, very interesting to see a similar idea discussed within another community.
You only get spam if there is some incentive to spam. If you can remove the incentive, there should be no reason to spam. Are they spamming links and you don't need links in your content? Don't allow links and problem solved.

In the worst case scenario, and old-school non-ReCaptcha captcha would still be fine. ReCaptcha wants you to believe that the old "squiggly letters" captchas are trivial to break, but I have yet to see a universal program that will successfully parse an arbitrary old-school captcha.
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> Can we talk about why service is astronomically better in the US than countries with very high worker protections and base wages like Denmark?

Not my experience, at least not in Copenhagen compared to New York and New Jersey. (speaking as tourist)
I'm probably a similar age, I remember growing up reading NTK while feeling too young to be a part of all that, then by the time I grew older it was gone.
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Definitely, we've hired a general counsel after Series B funding when scaling the team rapidly. Frankly i wasn't sure if we need them at the time, i didn't even know what GC are supposed to do ;). But it turned out to be one of the best hires we've made. He's been great asset on all things legal and compliance but also very business focused and contributed on a lot of non legal related projects.
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I think there are some, like top athletes that want to break records. They are extremely competitive but they don't pretend to be improving lives. Some of them do use the attention they receive to improve lives.
Ask HN: UK Career advice for investment professional with software background
I am 35 years and UK-based close to London. My long-term goal is to FIRE or to work part-time with a SWR of 2.5%. Including property, I am 50%+ of the way to my target based on a modest budget, owning a modest house outright and having kids. My background is as a professional investor and my portfolio is invested in a medium-risk but high return manner. My hope is to generate 10%+ real rates of return or at very least 5% p.a. I have some other investment performance-related interests which I have not included which could add to my portfolio. If I just left my portfolio, I could hit my FIRE target in 5-10 years (assuming no black swan or major negative event like fraud in the portfolio).

I have spent the majority of my career in investments and have made good money doing so but maybe not quite as much as some others in the industry. Right now, I make an above 6-figure cash compensation but definitely below £200k then there is annual portfolio-related compensation which may or may not pan out in 8-10 years time. I like much of the day-to-day work even if sometimes I feel like I am bit of a round peg in a square hole. My issue is with the commuting into London (~3 hours a day) and business travel. Pre-Covid, I used to travel at least 1 week in every 3 and sometimes more (including 2-week trips where I get back jet lagged on a Saturday afternoon). I like where I live and don’t want to move because of family and friends and I would prefer to travel say only once a quarter for work. Once Covid is lifted, I really don’t feel like I have it in me to start traveling and commuting again.

I would like a largely remote role with some travel (or none at all) where I could go into a central office a few times a month or once a week. From what I can tell, this does not appear to be available in the investment industry but I could keep looking.

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I am considering alternatives including going back to being a software engineer. In terms of experience, I spent the first two years of my career working in software. Developing in Java, testing, SVN, deploying servers on Linux and providing customer support on site. My project manager loved me and called me the star of the team. I studied engineering at a top 10-15 university/college and took many computer science courses in one of the best departments in the UK. I learnt C, Prolog, Java, Haskell and Matlab.

A number of years ago, I launched a startup with a friend which lasted about a year after which I took an investment job. Before leaving to launch the startup, I worked evenings and weekends to learn Javascript, React, HTML/CSS, Git, and NodeJS. I solo developed an advanced MVP which was almost fully functional. I created a white-label frontend in in Javascript, Bootstrap, and React and deployed it to an S3 bucket with AWS CDN in front of it. The backend used NodeJS, Express, GraphQL/Prisma/MySQL, and Up to deploy the server to AWS lambda (it was a monolith and not microservices…think of it as being similar to Google App Engine). In the end, I did regret using GraphQL which was newer tech and would have preferred to have used REST API since it created data sync problems on the frontend. I did also use Mailgun with email templates and wrote my own auth because I tried Auth0 but needed finer security controls since the product had complex data access controls. Here I am basically trying to demonstrate that I have decent full-stack software experience.

Since then I have learnt Go and created a server with PostgreSQL and frontend with Vue.JS. I have also done a bunch of easy to medium/hard exercises with Go on HackerRank. I enjoy the immersive, problem solving aspect of programming that makes time fly.

As I see it, my two best options are to either find a remote investment role with less travel (which could be hard/impossible) or a remote software role for less money. I am guessing that I could start at an entry level role and work my way up to 100k p.a. or close in 3-5 years. I am smart and capable with good business sense and reasonable emotional intelligence. This gives me more confidence in being able to succeed in software where work for the next 5 years and then move to part-time or infrequent contract work. The alternative is that I could stay in investments and keep traveling….then FIRE in 3-4 years time. I am not sure I could stomach that since I want to prioritize family and friends. I want to be able to go my death bed having a lived a full life with wonderful, loving relationships.

Any thoughts on my situation? Is there anything I am missing? For those of you in software, would you consider hiring someone like me? Is there something I am missing? Should I try and go for something better than an entry level role?
Up until a few years ago Intel's naming scheme was actually really simple.

iX-YZZZ => consumer SKU. X = tier. Y = generation. ZZZ = higher is better. Ends with M? Mobile.

EX-ZZZZ vY => server/workstation SKU. X = 3 entry-level, same socket as consumers. X = 5 main-stream SKUs for dual-socket servers. X = 7 high-end SKUs for quad/octo processor systems. ZZZZ = "higher is better". Y = generation.
It's important to realise that the last few Republican presidential candidates before Trump were McCain and Romney, hardly hard line extremists. Trump was a grass roots insurgent and until he actual won the candidacy almost the entire body of elected Republican representatives loathed him. The current situation is an extreme outlier.

The Republican party is perfectly capable of socially progressive policies. After all Obamacare was basically their idea. Conversely the Dems are hardly throwing open the borders to everyone. Illegal immigration from Mexico under Obama almost halved, yes due to fence building he didn't start but the point is he didn't lift a finger to obstruct it. No Child Left Behind was bipartisan, but started under and was promoted by Bush. The militarising of the police was arguably started by Biden.

Honestly, a lot of people like me outside the US have a hard time telling them apart when it comes to actual outcomes.
> QUERY: is selfserving google feature. But you can probably do it in libreoffice in a way that is less google-selfserving and more portable, by using a macro/script that fetches content.

I don't understand how QUERY is a "selfserving google feature". It allows you to write queries over spreadsheet data using a variant of SQL. Anybody else could implement the same idea.
What a mess. The new Xeon naming is even harder to decipher.
I guess (good) podcasts are the modern equivalent!
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At least the desktop versions are clear enough, although in the last years there have been experiments (non-HT versions) and shenanigans (8086K, a "100% marketing non-product").

If we one really wants to point out obscure (arguably dishonest) denominations, AMD, at least in the past, has done a lot of rebranding in the GPU department, and for at least a few years, it was impossible to know, based on the name, which generation a GPU belonged to, since they mixed them across the classes (R3/R5/R7).
It's neither. You can't just match up the terms of Creative Commons licenses then assume because they are similar that you can say it's Creative Commons licensed.
Honestly just use poetry.
Others have already said that this boils down to a mix of precarious living not existing to this degree in other countries, and cultural norms. To illustrate with a counterexample: I think I know what you have in mind as good service, but to me (who found the service culture in Denmark really great) this comes across as stalking/ not respecting the customer's privacy/ badly roleplayed friendliness/ thinly veiled upselling attempts. I can't stand it to a degree that I've actually stopped going to a local restaurant because they tried to enforce this service attitude with their employees.

There's this anecdote of Walmart opening a store in Germany and people were horrified by the greeter an the entrance, to a degree that many reported them to the store because they thought he/she was some random weirdo from the street, not an employee of the store. Ditto for baggers, the very idea was appalling for the locals, and Walmarts expansion ultimately failed because of these US service culture imports.

This boils down to the cultural norm: If the behaviour is endemic in the local culture, it comes across as natural. If not, it comes across as fake friendliness in one direction and baseless rudeness in the other.
Thanks for the reply. I've tested it but I've been unable to make it to show notifications. I want the app to sync automatically each hour, and if there are unread articles show a notification, so I can simply click it and start reading (news+ does this)
It makes all the sense because a common argument in favor of tipping is “it improves service” or that it “rewards good service”.

In reality, it’s a gesture of pity for those who earn little, and who we don’t want to pay properly via decent wage regulations and increase product prices, but we want them to dance for us and have them hope we will toss a few coins their way. In the process, we get to feel good like benevolent dictators who have chosen to be generous and share their wealth.
This is pretty similar to AMD though?

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It CAN be useful, you say, but is it actually? Is anyone using it? Beyond a handful of exceptions, I would say no.

Set theory actually IS used as the foundation of other work. But category theory isn't, as far as I know.
> Calc handles CSV far better, period.

I wholeheartedly agree. :-) Dealing with CSV was the main reason I had LibreOffice installed on my work laptop.
I see that domain and immediately I’m back in the conference room at Usenix 2000 watching dugsong perform wizardry with dsniff during his lightning talk.

Standing ovation. So good. A lifetime ago.
We're talking past each other here.

The definition of personal data is "any information that relates to an identified or identifiable living individual [...] directly or indirectly"

This says nothing about being linked. It's about whether the candidate can be theoretically identified. This includes both _any_ information unique enough (having enough entropy, in the information theory -sense of the word) in and of itself, as well as information that can identify the data subject in combination with other data.

In summary: Whether a piece of data constitutes "personal data" is not dependent on "whether an individual is identifiable" from that isolated piece of data itself.

The concept is thus much broader, and totally different from Personally Identifiable Information (PII).
Which would be great. Minus one surveillance corporation in the world - the better for humans in general. Then we either split and regulate Google by government if we are lucky, or it stays as a surveillance monopoly, but there will be less surveillance anyway.
What I truly don't understand is how many people invest into BitCoin. There seems to be a complete disregard of its problems and its technical limitations. Why would they choose the "flawed prototype" for their investments?

I can only assume that they didn't read and learn enough about the subject before throwing money at it...
Very nice! Thanks, trying this now.
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In the interests of providing a little balance:

- https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/10/091022064745.h...

- https://winstonchurchill.hillsdale.edu/did-churchill-cause-t...

- https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00963402.1987.11...
I thought that was addressed with “They're not going to shoot themselves in the foot without a plan”. I’d bet they would ban 3rd party cookies the microsecond after they made sure they had a proved workaround.
> probably

How?
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The nomenclature of CPU models can be very opaque, that's why I refer to https://cpu.userbenchmark.com/ to compare different CPUs. There can be some surprises performance wise.
WTF is "generational memory"?
>>Can we talk about why service is astronomically better in the US than countries with very high worker protections and base wages like Denmark?

Absolutely not in my experience. Only visited America a few times but nearly universally the service was about as good as anywhere in Europe not any better or worse, but it was made infinitely worse by the fact that no matter what, the tips were expected. It left such an incredibly sour taste in my mouth - like, the service wasn't special in any way, the waiter came, took our order, the food arrived, we had it....and now I have to leave like $10 in tips? Like, literally, honestly.....wtf. I do leave tips in europe ocassionally but only when going to really fancy restaurants when the service is exceptional. Tipping everyone everywhere every time is just....crazy.

>>I mean I even worked for a Danish guy who was Noma's head chef's former sous chef

Funny, I know a Chef who actually worked at Noma, he now runs a restaurant in the UK and I'm somewhat familiar with the staffing woes. But in summary from everything he told me - it's like any other business. If you want good employees who are engaged and doing a good jobs....you need to pay well. Pay waiters above the bottom of the barel wage...and suddenly you can find people who give a shit about the job. Pay minimum wage and you get people who'd rather spend half their time outside on cigarette breaks.
Yes, I have to admit it .. I run a gopher server, and am constantly impressed by the minimal hardware requirements and the ease of getting to the content I actually need without ads etc. Ran it for a couple of years on a Raspberry Pi then moved it onto something with a faster disk.
I can relate - most of the internet and communities I knew from the late 90s to early 2000s are gone. I'm not very fond of Reddit, but Twitter is quite welcoming to the middle-aged too!