skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I found it incredibly useful as a beginner. As long as you could put together a decent question and were a little patient you would usually get your answer.

The more experienced I got, the less useful I found it. These days, if I’m stuck, most of the time so is everybody else reading my question.

Quite often it’s actually because I’ve encountered a bug with whatever framework I’m using, or a mistake in the documentation.

I find raising an GitHub issue more useful than asking on SO.

It’s still great as a knowledge bank thought, as others have pointed out most of the time when you Google an issue the answer will be on SO. The only issue there is when the top rated/accepted question is actually no longer correct, or best practice, as the language/framework has changed or evolved.
I agree with your statement. However, we need to keep in mind that displacing an energy supply in one country keeps the resource available and the price lower so that another country may use more of it. We may have real success with reducing coal usage soon since it is much less economically viable to transport it long distances.

We need to also keep in mind where energy is being used the most now and in the future. In the long-term Europe going 100% renewable by itself doesn't change the global energy picture much. The greater effect is the leading role they play demonstrating how it can be done and further developing renewable technology.
Yes, people have gotten so mean. Even well researched questions are often downvoted within minutes. The whole moderation fiasko is just mirroring Wikipedia's decline.
That’s not the same as getting paid.

That’s like saying you have the right to go after 10x more money than someone can pay off in a year. So you’re going to take 10 years to collect? This is essentially a forced loan.

Really what should have happened is the tenant gets a pause. If there are payments on the building by the landlord, those are paused as well. If it’s a small landlord who say, owns a single house, he gets federal money. This decreases as the size grows, but always enough money must be paid so that the property can be maintained. We don’t want to be creating slums.
> Pioneered by GE's Jack Welch in the 1980s, it has long been a controversial practice due to its negative effects on employee morale and potential for bias and discrimination.

Lovely.

I have only seen stack ranking from the sidelines. One guy who was on a high performing team didn't get the promo since others had already received theirs so they were 'out of promos'. He kinda had a nervous breakdown as he punched his office door for like 15 minutes while crying about wasting his life and being stupid. I remember him putting in a solid 3+ hours every day after work. I was contractor and got paid for my extra time, there was no promo I was after.

Decimating your workforce is some seriously messed up behavior.
Reposting because somebody flagged another person’s submission. This isn’t political and I find it intellectually interesting.
Time to donate to archive.org I think. Ok. Gave them $5.

https://archive.org/donate/
I was surprised by how quickly the author seemed to confuse measurement and goal

> First, however, it's worth mentioning that having a goal for attrition isn't inherently bad. In some ways, it's simply acknowledging reality and placing a measurement on what is already going to happen in a healthy environment.
There's been a few posts over the past week about this. Here are two with a reasonable amount of discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27305666

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27324227
I'm in a similar yet different boat. I have a heightened sense of taste, but I have relatively terrible taste. I drink it all, black, no sugar. The thicker the better. My preferred brewing method is the one that gets it into my cup quickest.
“A lot” is still a tiny percentage even of the engineering roles.
asdfman123's corollary: the key to success is finding out which metrics upper management is secretly using as targets
Agreed, it's an interesting complement to Codecademy and SimilarWeb
> If we had a proper carbon tax

That would be awesome :)

> Your entire argument relies on the false premise that the will of the people is translated into policy.

I can only speak for Germany, where it does. Right now, the Green party has the least seats of all parties in the national parliament. Why should the parliament then do something about climate change? However, when they were in the government between '98 and '05, the put the "EEG"[1] into effect (basically just implementing subsidies for renewables), and now 50% of our electricity is produced by renewables (not including nuclear). And that happened even though the following government tried to slow the transition.

There's national elections in September in Germany. With some luck, the green party will be in the new government, right now they are 2nd in the polls. That will, undoubtedly, change national politics with respect to climate change policy.

As for the US ... not sure what your problem currently is. Does the two party/winner takes it all system lead to these problems? Or is it because the republicans basically stopped caring about the truth in the 90s to win elections, spoiling the whole political process? No idea ... however, still, under the last three democratic presidents, more was done for the middle class (and probably less wars were started) then under republican presidents, right? So it does definitely matter what party wins, right, making voting not completely irrelevant even in the US?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Renewable_Energy_Source...
dont take offense, i am certain that if you would call eachother up you both would get along terrifically. text is a horrible communication medium!
$800 (down from $900) for the Librem 5; $2000 for the Librem 5 USA edition.

(Edit: I'm leaving this paragraph here as it attracted comments that would no longer make sense if I edited/removed, but it was a result of a flawed premise [bad math in my head]) That seems a significant premium over the actual cost differential, but they self-admit "this is for customers who have hard requirements on sourcing" rather than "this is what it costs to make something in the US".
This addon looks good, but I'm too tired to have to relearn new locations of elements, differences in UI, changes in context menus every 1.5 year Mozilla decided to improve shit. I've been using Firefox since Phoenix 2002, but this time I'm giving up. Moved all to Brave Browser.
Much like tying insurance to employment, tying immigration to employment is an awful system.

It's fine if you want to require someone to have a job to move here, but that requirement should disappear quickly. Make the employer guarantee to pay them for a year, and allow them to stay once that year is up. That would be a humane way to do it.

It's so terrible that immigrants to this country have to live in constant fear of deportation if they don't have a job.
If you only had that, then you have a low ACE score, which reduces the risk for all, compared to someone with a higher ACE score, as that paper explains.
Yea this can be very annoying when a package is not already in nixpkgs or it's out of date.

There was a similar issue if you didn't use Python virtualenvs properly, which was an early source of frustration for me personally.
As another learner, I'm pretty upset about this as well. Standard install gets you nix 2.3.12 (https://nixos.org/download.html), but to get flakes, you have to be on nix-2.4pre20210503_6d2553a:

https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Flakes#Non-NixOS

(And yeah, obviously all the docs are non-flake too, which leads to confusion about flake.nix vs default.nix...)
I doubt FB could replicate this. Fb itself is a non-starter the people who use this app haven't been on Fb in years. Okay, so Instagram. If they could, they would’ve.

I think there are problems with making Instagram seem tacky by clobbering on a marketplace. It would make it look cheap and shilly. Right now it’s the most rarified space to share pictures of your awesome lifestyle. I think you can either have that very cool, chic vibe or the amazon marketplace vibe.

I think that despite their enormous resources, there are places that brands can’t go.
This is not just about the specs: https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/community-wiki/-/wikis/Freque....

By the way, there is also China-made version for $800.
This is addressing a market. I have seen it first hand more than once. Highly driven and competent individuals that are not programmers for whatever reason and that create a monstrosity that works (using some low code solution). It’s ugly and buggy but gets a job done. This works for as long as they don’t hit a technical limitation then call devs like myself in to replace it. It was a great phase 1 and made money.

They earned a project with developers. Yes it will cost more to rewrite it but the old system is still making money while the new one rolls out.

At this point a low code solution makes no sense for me as a dev - believe me I have tried them.

Kudos to MS.
Let's try, as always.

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Report those going way out of line.

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Indeed - there are extreme limitations of interviews & other evaluations pre-hire. They'll rank some good candidates "below the hire line", and some charismatic bad candidates, who temporarily present well, as hires.

Given that, a policy of "we're going to hire X% more people than we need, but fire fast" could be seen as a generous, progressive, error-correcting process.

It's better than leaving those people who interview poorly always just short of the real, compensated, supervised employment situations where they could prove themselves.

The grounds for judging the practice should be based on whether it's done honestly. Is the practice, and actual attrition-rates/risk-of-short-tenure, explained up-front? Are hires paid for all hours worked? Do those fired receive clear feedback for why they're not continuing?
>I believe corporations try to maximize lifelong profits

So any means are justified to produce these profits? We do restrict corporations from doing truly terrible things, so we already project some morality onto corporations. I'm saying we need to do more of that.
Explicitly giving the user feedback about items currently missing from their catalog is ingenious. Whenever I search for something that's not on a given streaming platform, the slew of data-driven recommendations of other things that are similar yet still absolutely not what I was looking for amplifies my disappointment. Just give it to me straight, CraveFlixPlus Prime Video Max!
> Goodhart's Law as generalized by Marilyn Strathern: When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure

Except if you keep that metric unknown to whoever is working on it. The main problem with measures is when they are widely communicated.
https://archive.md/IYMAm
Retention is residual grinds that remain in the grinder between uses.
I can’t read the whole article, but did this deal include the entire Stack Exchange network or just Stack Overflow?
Actually I suspect we need both approaches. But I agree we need to both support economic needs and make it not feel like extra work to use less energy (although there may be some extra up front costs).
Meh. I had a friend go to Amazon. He loves it there, and he's an IC, not a psychopath, just a genuinely nice guy. He doesn't deny the stories we hear, they just don't happen to/near him. And of course, he's done very well there over the last 5 years or so. So it definitely happens.
>iOS dev

>official docs are usually much better

What docs are you talking about? I'm a Swift/SwiftUI novice and my experience is that random SO answers always document the APIs in a much more usable way than Apple's documentation.

Granted, one needs to scroll to the "[CURRENT YEAR] WORKING SOLUTION" answer first.

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Also:

>SO is still a great resource for its archived content, but not for anything new

In the miniscule amount of iOS dev I did I quickly learned to always filter results to "past year". So for me "modern" SO in this area is much better than the "archive". (Not SO's fault, obviously.)
Alien 3D maps are in a weird file format that no one can open, so we we're stuck with this human created data for now.
The jobs feature is pretty valuable and brings in significant revenue, it’s not something to scoff at. Being able to target and screen developers is a great HR tool.

There are likely a lot of companies with lower revenues and higher valuations.
I know. Thus I said:

>The post is still somewhat valuable, but should really not use "trustworthy."

The posted article is dealing in absolutes, not me.
Do you like the word "eating" better then?
Correct me if I am wrong but the choice of SoC was due to the open nature of it and not the origin. All of the other limitations stem from the choice of SoC it seems.
I don’t know anyone at Amazon who would hire someone they were sure they’d fire. I’ve never heard of it. It’d honestly even be sort of difficult, given the hiring process and the involvement of a bar raiser (veto vote) on the hiring committee who is not on the team.

Now, might you take some additional risks, considering URA? Sure. But I’m not convinced that’s a bad thing. You want hiring managers to sometimes hire higher risk/reward candidates, otherwise you get a whole bunch of identical low risk hires.

This article is an overblown bit of hearsay. Also, new hires aren’t even eligible to be PIP’d out of the gate, so you’d have to set it up quite a bit in advance.

Source: was an Amazon hiring manager for several years.
We prioritize support over sales in our SaaS business
> As an American I absolutely hate the van-formatted filth your godforsaken continent has vomited upon our automotive market.

Yet the Mercedes Benz Metris is the only properly-sized minivan available in the US. Unfortunately it is targeted for commercial use like airport taxis, so they sell it as RWD-only and with a plastic commercial-grade interior so it is overpriced for what you get.

The best station wagon of the last 40 years was the P3 Volvo, which you should still be able to find used at reasonable prices and with reasonable mileage. The exterior design was excellent and it keeps looking better and better with age, but the real brilliance was the interior. The driver and front passenger got the absolute best seats Volvo has ever made, and the rear seat was a 40/20/40 split with the seat belts integrated - you could fold seats down for cargo purposes and you never had to deal with belts getting in the way of anything. Combined with extremely durable carpet that looked nice enough, you got a car that could take all the abuse a station wagon should be able to take, yet look and feel pretty nice (it was definitely NOT a luxury interior though).
He said nothing except vague words without any backing.

This looks like just a propaganda effort from "Brother Zhao".

Are you a bot?
Yeah, they're supposed to shoot and bomb other people only.
I played Stack Overflow years ago and have a ~0.3% ranked account, despite not really posting in years. It's amazing how little the ranking seems to have changed in the last 10 years, wavering around in the top half percent whenever I've peeked. I don't know whether the number is dishonest, or whether the new stars and new signups just happen to hold it in status, never sending it to 0.03% or 3%.
> stack overflow has been dead for a while

Yep. SO has been read-only for me for years.

When I need help with something it's usually advanced enough to merit a Github issue otherwise I seek Slack/IRC/Discord/Gitter comunities of the technology I'm having trouble with.
I guess it's the same as if a busy pub was sold. The customers making it busy (and profitable) don't get anything.
Germany manages to reduce fossil fuel use though: https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energiemix#/media/Datei%3AEn...

(Personally I would have preferred to shut down coal first, but old nuclear plants are a risk and new ones are too expensive)
You're looking at a solid 10-20 hours of hacking stuff together to get a decent working system, and you still won't understand a good 80% of what you copied from various repos.

I've been using NixOS for a year now, and I have a definite love/hate relationship. Many times I miss the simplicity of Arch, where I understood _everything_ about my system and how it was configured.

NixOS is like learning everything all over again, but in a weird, poorly documented language+standard lib that nothing else uses.

I think when you are super comfortable with it, is when it becomes truly amazing. But that takes a lot of dedicated time and effort.
They're not more expensive. And of course it changes something when enough people change providers, as those providers then have more money to invest in renewables, just as you said. If enough people switch, coal power plants would have to shut down as no one would buy their elecricity.
It’s a step. While our personal actions matter, unless I am in control of a major pollution source (energy, transportation, agriculture, ?) does it make more sense to put effort into changing the rules for everyone?
They actually do the opposite: they boast of the harsh conditions of their childhood, not as victims but as survirvors/tough self-made people. And of course their traumas/tough conditions are made up to be actually hard (to the point of absurdity).

So in both cases, they do the opposite of what I claimed people commonly stoop to today:

(a) presenting lesser, irrelevant issues and "slights" as "traumas"

(b) focusing on how traumatised they were by those (that is, playing the victim, not taking pride in overcoming them or at least pretending to be a tough survivor like the four Yorkshiremen).
Indeed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naspers is a fascinating read.
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> Vesting is every 4 months and risk is minimal.

That's not the way Amazon vests your stock, unless things have drastically changed recently. They vest in single lump sums for the year, and they have a slowly ramping up vesting schedule.

First year, nothing (but they give you straight money bonus)
Second year, barely anything, but they give you some cash to "offset".
Third year, good bunch of the stock, but still less than half.
Fourth year, all the rest of the stock vests.

Within each year you should get some stock offering, on the same ramping up basis so the idea is after the fourth year, you have consistent RSUs vesting, and they'll probably be split over the year based on whenever Amazon gave you the stock offering.
This question is a bit pointless. That all depends on how China behaves by then. For all we know they may not be interested in building power projection capabilities that go further than their own region.
It advances the business goal by preventing some bullshit HR process from disrupting the business.
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/105026 this was recently merged so that should start rapidly improving.
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US spy satellites have a maximum resolution of 5-10 cm. A drone close to the ground can do better.

[https://www.forbes.com/sites/jonathanocallaghan/2019/09/01/t...]
Ok, but since getting suspended or kicked out of school is a much lighter penalty than getting put in prison, we can easily imagine behavior that doesn't quite rise to the level of criminal assault or harassment, but does deserve university punishment. It's also common for the legal process to take years, and we can imagine a student continuing to attend the university normally and graduating, and then finally being convicted of something that happened in their junior year.

"lower standards of harm and evidence" are used because the consequences are lower. As the importance of an organization grows, the standards grow. At the lowest end of the spectrum, you don't need any evidence or process to kick someone out of a house party, because the stakes are very low. At the highest end, you need a ton of evidence and process to kick someone out of society by imprisoning them, because the stakes couldn't be higher. There's a big spectrum in between - banning someone from a store/sports stadium/airline, kicking someone out of a professional organization, firing someone from a job, etc.

I don't know the details of UofO's process, but I do think it's appropriate that they have lower standards and faster responses than a criminal prosecution.
> Enter your email address to continue reading

No. Thankfully reader mode can parse it at least.
For public companies you should value stock grants above their face value, because of the optionality: If the price goes down you can quit and get another job, if it goes up you get a raise. And stocks tend to go up, so 4-year grants have raises baked in, and most companies don't consider these raises (IIRC Amazon and Stripe do), so they still give regular raises and refresher grants.
The UK also has joint authorship. The test is slightly different, though I'm not sure how much of a difference it would make in the context of FOSS. See Elena Cooper, Joint Authorship in Comparative Perspective: Levy v. Rutley and Divergence Between the UK and USA, http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/100708/7/100708.pdf

To be clear, I'm not trying to say that all or even any FOSS works are or should be considered joint works. Just that the possibility could be a concern for lawyers contemplating enforcement. Certainly in other areas where you often see informal cooperation in the creation of collaborative works, such as in music, the issue absolutely does come back to bite people.
I happily used a blade grinder for years before I upgraded. As others mentioned, you can get into this hobby without spending a lot of money (my current grinder is a commercial unit I bought used for way less than $170).

However, as long as you have an oven (and don't live in the immediate vicinity of a local roaster), you'll find that the DIY roasting route gives you 90-110% of the benefit that you get from buying online boutique roasts for store bought prices.

And let's be honest, this is one of those hobbies (like drones, 3d printers, or photography) where you'll eventually find yourself wanting more than a french press and hand grinder.
They might have first class access to data that enables a powerful shift in integrated development.