skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've done some sales engineering work -- a day or couple weeks at a time usually -- if someone is out of office, if I might be able to speak to some particulary tech/stack that the prospect had, etc.

I got bored pretty quickly, mainly with doing demos.

I continue to look at Sales Engineer-type roles because part of me likes the idea of SELLING LIKE A * FIEND, but I can't seem to get past the idea of becoming a 'demo monkey' again.

Even if there was plenty of stuff to do that was not demos, a single demo each day felt like, 'Why am I doing this and not the sales rep?'

It kind of made me think of the infamous Adam Smith quote -- doing the same one or few tasks over and over would lead you to become "as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become."

Some stuff was very technically sophisticated/nuanced, but most was not. I wonder if the orgs I worked for had just not optimized things, but I didn't see any obvious flaws in the process. POCs were all well-qualified, etc. Maybe the 'problem' was just that I might really only be needed to answer one or two questions during a sales presentation/demo, but you had to be there for the whole 30/60 minutes, paying attention, doing the demo, etc.

If a sales rep was late to a call I'd think, "Well I'm just gonna do the whole call because at least then i won't be just a demo monkey."

It just seemed like you had to be ok with saying the same thing over and over, even if you had customized demos/POCs, etc.

I think my ideal role would be split between at least 4 functional areas -- e.g. 2 hours of my day to sales, 2 to sales engineer, 2 to devrel, 2 to customer success -- something like that.

To OP: I've switched to Project/Product Manager/Owner, and that was great-ish, back to tech support and such, and currently about to start doing a TAM role.

One option that never really appealed to me, but which seems to be a viable option if you've got some cash/equity, is doing the whole 'investor' thing. You can start buying/flipping houses, do the Airbnb thing, or find folks to invest with -- e.g. you can put $50k into a real estate/atm/etc-type fund, get ~20% return per year, paid out monthly, 7 year limit, etc.

There's also the idea of buying some existing business and running it. Small coffee shop. Small online shop. etc.
I think there's a new filter for that[0].

[0] https://media.inkscape.org/media/doc/release_notes/1.1/Inksc...
Given m = 60 kg and v = 40 km/h, the kinetic energy is

K = 1/2 * m * v^2 = 3.703 kJ

Acceleration is not going to be 100% efficient, so let's round that up to 10 kJ. We also need to decelerate, so let's assume the same amount of energy being put in to do that. 20 kJ every 2 minutes for 12 hours comes out to 2 kWh total. For electric trains, you can map that to a cost using your local electricity prices, but keep in mind that public transit operators purchase electricity wholesale and probably get a cheaper price than residential users.

(Also note that my estimations are intentionally pessimistic to map out the worst-case scenario. Energy efficiency is probably better than my assumptions, and trains may have some sort of regenerative braking.)
> elected officials have an extremely strong bias to adding/amending versus repealing/scaling back

I find this to be a crippling problem of how politics works in modern democracies.

Taxes are a great example, because almost every country will increase it, but never decrease it. They’ll think of a 100 new ways to extract taxes, but never remove outdated ones.
The example I gave got my dad and me into discussion about what is the effect of choice of alcohol which a person (mis)uses excessively, on the probability and severity of alcoholism related illnesses.
To put it bluntly, is getting frequently drunk from beer/wine less harmful long term than getting drunk from spirits?
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I think that's more because they used bsd-finger and never patched it, while it was patched on other distributions. bsd-finger probably follows the RFC, but the RFC may not follow usage (especially since it's almost 30 years old now). According to wikipedia the first implementation of UTF-8 was made for Plan 9 in 1992.
W^X doesn't get you very far on iOS. Apps are not allowed to make pages executable at all.
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Yeah, in theory, but I’ve never had much luck with OCaml and every time I dig into my problems here it ends with the OCaml fanboys berating me so I’ve pretty much given up on it.
> of course, this is considered income and taxed as such

It is not, it is an expense and therefore, it is not taxed. There are some subtleties though. If you don't detail your expenses when doing your taxes, the 50% your employer has to pay is not considered revenue (but whatever extra you get is). However, if you explicitly declare public transport as an expense, then it becomes revenue, because otherwise, you'd be deducting it twice.
I don't think Lodash ever "credited" Underscore.js for it's origin. Lodash used to have a "compat" version that promised to work the same as Underscore.js but with better performance, but I think that's about it.

After some digging, it seems like the Lodash website stopped mentioning Underscore.js around 2015 sometime, but even before that, it never had "evidence of said inspiration" as claimed by you.

Here are the versions I looked at:

- https://web.archive.org/web/20120826202523/http://lodash.com...

- https://web.archive.org/web/20130502014523/http://lodash.com...

- https://web.archive.org/web/20140517192947/http://lodash.com...

- https://web.archive.org/web/20150513014815/https://lodash.co...

- https://web.archive.org/web/20160803063412/https://lodash.co...

- https://web.archive.org/web/20170830163720/https://lodash.co...

- https://web.archive.org/web/20180703043557/https://lodash.co...

- https://web.archive.org/web/20190803030353/https://lodash.co...

- https://web.archive.org/web/20200615092636/http://lodash.com...

- https://web.archive.org/web/20210314233141/https://lodash.co...
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But even C doesn't really have header files from language viewpoint. The compiler doesn't make distinction between code coming from a .h file or a .c file. Heck, I can't name a single language off-hand that would have explicit header-file like mechanism.

Edit: I suppose JavaScript + WebIDL would fit? Although nobody uses them, except browsers themselves.
Do you also think it's a problem to fine companies when they do bad things?
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> The Boys? Invincible? Fleabag? Transparent? Marvelous Mrs. Maisel? The Expanse?

It is worth noting that major studios (or the BBC in Fleabag's case) make all of those shows and Amazon buys them.

But I still agree with the general point that it's unfair to argue Amazon "beats the creativity" out of productions it deals with.
Does “Agile” mean that product managers should not work with documents?
I like to point out to people that to learn the times tables up to 10, there are only really 36 facts to learn, since anything times 1 or 10 is trivial, and multiplication is commutative. (That's already a nice little problem to look at, to show that it is 36.)

And then there are many interesting tricks to approach those 36. For example, the 'fingers' trick for the 9 times table. (Which leads to consideration of why do the digits of a multiple of 9 always add up to a multiple of 9?) Muliplying by 5 is half of multiplying by 10. Multiplying by 4 is doubling twice, etc.

Before you know it, you just have to drill the ones most common to choke on (like 7x7, 7x8).
I think there will be a reckoning with electric vehicles. The large ones with batteries > 70 kWh are more damaging to the environment than comparable fuel based cars up until you drive 150,000km.

If you only look at CO2 emission, they might come out on top, but not by much and it would be a very reductive way to look at resource consumption.

We aren't in a reality where battery cars are the future. Maybe for a time bridging to better technologies. And even if so, infrastructure would need to change dramatically.
One day, the Ancients will awake, very concerned.

"Have you still not migrated to the stars? What's blocking you?".
The historical reason why home row keys are used for movement instead of cursor keys is irrelevant. Even if the idea was a historical accident, it turned out to be a good idea. Not having to move the position of your hand to move the cursor is comfortable and fast.
As a european (german) I can say, that this is mostly just show. Why?

For once, only Belarus Airline will be suspended to fly in the EU. The other european airlines will still fly to and over Belarus, giving them money. For example, Lufthansa still wants to fly to Belarus and doesn't seem to care at all about solidarity with other european airlines.

Money talks louder.
And then people who don't have the time to research often don't know that Belarus is a important economical partner for german firms. The trade with Germany makes up around 5% of the GDP of Belarus and many german firms are (in)directly supporting Lukaschenko and his regime. It just isn't really known to the public.

Therefor, if Germany really wanted it, big and impactful sanctions would easily be possible. The airline banning isn't really meaningful to Lukaschenko at all, they will rebrand the airline and fly from Moscow as Russia is their most important ally.

And the thing is, that Germany still has the same problems with other trade partners. Germany still sells weapons to Turkey, Saudi-Arabia or Azerbaijan. Even if this countries did work or are currently working against european partners and neighbours. Even if these countries are violating human rights. A subject that Germany likes to teach to other european countries.

Germany has the problem, that their economy is really connected and dependent on states that are violating human rights, are working and fighting against EU member states and are even starting to dictate german firms what they can and should do to be able to do their business (Belarus, Saudi-Arabia, Azerbaijan). It's levels above the USA and worse. One of the biggest firm in Germany, VW, is cooperating with Chinas ethnical cleansing and using Uyghurs working force as cheap labour. This or they just coincidentally build their new factories just hundreds of meters away from the concentration camps and Uyghurs are just coincidentally walking from the factory to the concentration camp.
When I have a problem I cannot find a way to fix by the desk, I take a walk, do something else, watch a movie etc. And then at least one solution suddenly come up.
It's difficult to maintain this workflow in the office as people think you are lazy and procrastinating. In the office setting, taking the problem to bed and show solution next day is one of ways to go around that.
It can also happen in Rust.
Dutch native here. As a casual user (school, commute, etc) I owned 3 MTBs in my life. One I bought second hand, other two new (1 of which got stolen). The former was a lower quality one, the other two certainly had bar ends. And I liked and used them.

I never used a helmet, except when I went on survival hiking. That was in the Ardennes, and was all pro material though I don't remember regarding bar ends.

I am actually in disbelief about them disappearing. What is the source? Where is the data based on?
I have not, but I can tell you that there are seemingly more than a few 'devrel' developer relations-oriented (aka developer evangelist) roles out there (sometimes in the Marketing Department, sometimes under Engineering), and the toughest ones to fill -- i suspect -- are ones that require live classroom teaching -- as opposed to just recording screencasts, etc.

and maybe that would actually require being in a physical corporate classroom-type setting at some point post-covid.

down here in Phoenix, a lot of (high?) schools seem to be hiring. i suspect it might be due to a mix of factors -- covid and charter schools being the leading two.
A+B correspond to the city limits of Berlin, and BER is outside of the city limits.

I'm not saying that this is set in stone. They could probably include BER in B if they wanted, but the most benign explanation is that it just started out this way because of how the fare zones were defined, and now they keep it that way because few companies hate extra revenue.
WHY would it work like that?
I don’t see why they should be any harder than any other type of memorization. Note that they are partially covered by knowing the times table up to 10.
The elite have already been forbidden from entering or doing business with the EU since November.
> I am surprised Hungary agreed.

To quote the Economist,

> If Mr Orban ever does hit an obstacle, he surrenders some gains, while keeping the bulk of them. (The Hungarian leader even has a name for this legal waltz: the peacock dance.)

Orbán have vetoed a number of EU resolutions recently, most importantly one condemning China over Hong Kong. He probably coordinated with Mr Putin and they agreed Lukashenko can be fed to the dogs for all they care and so Orbán now loses Lukashenko but keeps Russia and China.

Putin plays the game well too: he quite probably approved of Lukashenko doing this, expecting a backlash against Belarus for it but not against Russia, so truly what does he care really? Belarus is an ally for now but meh. If he would've vetoed Lukashenko's batshit crazy idea it would've strained the relationship so why would he? It's not like EU sanctions will immediately topple Lukashenko.
Unlocking the Potential of Underrepresented Founders
Edward Snowden exposed the world’s largest surveillance state. It seems most of us are comfortable with it. The Chinese are following in our footsteps and they are about two generations away from the mass global surveillance that the NSA (and partners) conduct.

Remember it was our global surveillance dragnet that made us have Nelson Mandela (and other blacks) arrested.

https://www.npr.org/2016/05/16/478272695/retired-cia-agent-c...

The NSA also conducted surveillance (illegally but they were not white) on homegrown black leaders (considered communists/terrorists/traitors by the white US government) like Muhammad Ali and Martin Luther King:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-24279394

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/26/nsa-surveillan...
So we should ban all flights from certain countries in Africa and the Middle East because they have authoritarian governments? And we should do so until the people there violently overthrow their government?

Opinions like this only seem to come from Westerners who will never have to face the consequences of such actions. Geopolitics is complicated and as my original comment said, regular people are usually the ones getting hurt.
A kernel alone on a random hardware platform can't, but a kernel and a hardware core that watchdogs and flips the bird at a rt-violating driver+device, sure (I've toyed with VxWorks on devices that work this way).

Usually when you're entering that realm of such requirements, you're rarely talking about off-the-shelf devices.
Is Bird a new operating system? A distributed container orchestration system? Or perhaps a new storage system? No, it’s ornithology!
Who cares, are you going to tell on him?
I've done both too, but after a couple months at the bench, I always find myself spending most of my time trying to create robots to automate the work instead. Haven't gotten that to work out in the long run, so I just do programming now.
The concern many have with UBI is that society will still have to provide all the other social benefits anyway, food stamps, housing, etc, because many people who need UBI likely are not going to spend the money wisely.
Love the idea. I am using Mailchimp right now but can get quite expensive.

If I send mails using Sendgrid, or some other provider, using Sendsimple, can I review bounce rates and click rates as well?
This is promoted as a minimum, generally the advice here in the UK right now seems to be "leave more alcohol-free days",

The medical establishment here seems to frown on the "glass of wine every night" habit these days, in favour of having a few drinks a couple of times a week (if you must drink).

I honestly lose track of what's good and bad for you on any given day.
The about page alone does 111 requests and loads 5MB of javascript.

There's literally nothing on the entire site that requires any of this. These are mostly static pages with static text.
I'm not familiar with all of the bureaucracy and hierarchies of the organising bodies, but it looks like a Belarussian and a Russian were elected to the management board of the UEC in March [1]. It will be interesting to see how that affects decisions.

[1] https://minskeurotrack.com/en/news/news/20210329-the-chief-o...
Only in availability, not in willingness. Besides, they will grow up.
Is anyone here well versed in this stuff? Can you dumb it down a little bit for me?

Is the article saying that the pfizer vaccine reduces the inflammatory response to covid19 and happens to increase the inflammatory response to some random fungus?

I must have re-read this article a whole bunch of times and I'm still not convinced I understood anything at all.
Dont forget that most of the protesters were actually hired by Polish government /s
I used tone.js for https://synthia.app
Detecting Genetic Disorders with Machine Learning
Hi joyecesticks, if I could make one suggestion: if you list the DOI in the metadata of an article page (e.g. by sticking something like `<meta name="citation_doi" content="10.1101/2021.05.24.445440">` in the `<head>`) you'll make it easier for search engines like Google Scholar to find them and associate them with other versions of the article.

Additionally, it allows tools like https://plaudit.pub to add functionality like allowing people with a browser extension to endorse the articles. (Disclosure: I volunteer for Plaudit - hit me up if you want to integrate it into ResearchHub natively!)

Although the DOI is most important, there is other metadata you can expose. For more info, see: https://scholar.google.com/intl/en/scholar/inclusion.html#in...
> I want to note that Direct Connect traffic is NOT encrypted by default and this is common misconception, both in real life and in exams. You must combine DX and S2S VPN.

This is true. However, I'm not sure how to improve the card. The examples of "typically encrypted" connections on the card were HTTPS and SSH. If you SSH to an EC2 instance over a Direct Connect connection, your connection is encrypted (because you are using SSH, not because you are using Direct Connect).
I'm on urbit from time to time. It feels very much like old Usenet of pre-eternal-September time ... and I guess that is closely related of the system being obscure and not technologically easy enough to let just about anyone join without some effort.
'Product Owner' is, to me, a much easier role to step into from being a dev -- just a much lower barrier to entry, imo.

whereas 'Product Manager' would generally require more experience/expertise, imo -- tho there are 'Junior Product Manager' roles out there.

imo, if you know how to run a standup, and can talk semi-intelligently about how to prioritize user stories, can use Jira, etc., you can get hired as a product owner, esp in a contract-to-hire situation.
When the likelihood of the risk is small, but the potential damage bill could be financially catastrophic, I think it's perfectly rational to buy insurance if the premium is so low.
> Resorting to bans and sanctions is weak.

No, endless talk with no action is weak and pathetic. Mafia states will shit on you if you show unwillingness to stand for yourself. Biden lifted sanctions on Nord Stream and three days later you have this stunt. Let that be a lesson. Every incoming president has had such trial by fire.
It doesn't matter, they’ll use private jets.

You are trying to argue with the little details and missing the whole point.

It will not hurt the elites. In the most worst case (if every EU airline will decide to not serve Belarusians), they’ll fly to Russia first and use some russian plane. Or just will use a car - what a tragedy, lol.

And it's the ONLY response from EU leaders. Pathetic cowards. Lukashenko now got confirmation that such actions will not be punished.
Wow this is amazing, and it's Open Source and free!
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I fail to see how this is different than other EU countries.

E.g. the head of the German constitutional court has been a recent member of parliament for 12 years. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephan_Harbarth

How is that not a political appointment?

And I have not yet seen any state TV which is not sympathetic to the government bureaucracy. If you are being paid by the state, you are not going to be too critical of the state. You don't see much critical of the German government in the supposedly independent German state TV, except maybe statements that restrictions of basic rights are not drastic enough...

So either Germany is also an authoritarian regime, or what is happening in Hungary is not that out of the ordinary.
Tech giants fight 'cloud wars' deep in the ocean
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If that's the case, this is a good thing: common people can still use Lufthansa (although Lufthansa might stop having flights there) or Emirates.

Elites, however, can't use private jets to fly to Europe anymore.

Belavia also seems to belong to the state, so as long as we still have Lufthansa and Emirates, it's hurting the state more than hurting the general population.
> I hope you continue to social distance for $N years, because vaccination isn't just about you -- its about protecting those who would be at risk.

Those "at risk" should already have been vaccinated before the people "not at risk" have been.

> It's also about reducing the risk of mutation. The more people it can infect, the greater the risk.

It goes both ways: the more people that are vaccinated, the higher the selection pressure to evade the vaccination.

> Being scared of a well-tested vaccine over a virus that has killed 3.5 million worldwide and continues to do so is ridiculous.

Spare us your shaming, it has the opposite effect of what you intend it to have.

> The vaccine is why things are slowly starting to return to normal.

Notice how the narrative is slowly drifting from "protect the vulnerable, prevent the collapse of health care" to "every child needs to be vaccinated as soon as possible"? This is not "normal".
Thanks! So all this is probably happening accross the board, amazing.
Time will tell. Sadly, in my read, "no general monitoring" and "mandatory upload filters" are not the same, and thus, not mutually exclusive.
My sound card example was supposed to be like your 3rd type, so we agree there.

Old and current experiences are definitely both valuable. Just start a new thread. It's too easy for other members to miss the dates when it comes back to the top. Then they're reading and responding to old posts from absent people like they're here and now.
>just using html/css/js

I think a problem is if it's all client side it would be quite easy for hackers to much about with. Now maybe if it sent the mouse movements and target positions to the server it would be possible to tell human movements apart in a way that was quite hard to crack?
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In Kentucky (at least back in the day), several people who knew you a long time, vouching for your identity was all that was required to be that person. I wonder if anyone ever tried it to get on a flight?
The more people your lab has, the more power it has, as it should be! /s
Corporations have never had the same rights as natural persons, sorry.