skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
baseball arguably does a terrible job at solving this.

the minor league system pays significantly less than poverty wages. incentivizing kids to go that route instead of getting an education is terrible.

which is why so many dont, and go to college on scholarships anyway, which leads us right back where we started.

the right analogy to make IMO is ice hockey, especially the canadian model. There, you have well funded and professional-like "minor leagues" (called juniors close to same thing). you can't get paid but in the tier 1 leagues you have very little if not zero personal living expenses, it's like being on a full-ride at a big college program with room and board included. In canada, it's seen as the route potential NHLers take instead of continuing with school. you're not allowed to be paid, but there's a rule in place that for every year you play in that league you're owed one full year of college paid for. If you age out of the league and dont make it as a pro, you at least get 2-4 years of free college to go get the rest of your life together as compensation.

The US Junior system has some of those attributes but is more geared towards getting kids into NCAA scholarships. The thing there though, IMO, is that the money involve in that sport is right about at that sweet spot where i'd argue a full ride to school like notre dame or penn state is about right for the level of compensation owed.

all opinions above are my own, in the context of a former D1 ice hockey athlete who thinks the football players should probably be paid.
True that. On Linux _at least_ you almost always have a way out of issues, because you can pretty much forcefully change, update or modify everything. Windows has too much "magic" nobody outside of Redmond, WA truly understands, so when things go south you can only hope that it can fix itself, or it's a goner.
I think a better measure of IKEA would be "value"–the intersection of price, quality, and problem-solution fit.

IKEA is not attempting to sell the highest quality furniture in the world. They are attempting to sell furniture that is "good enough" at a great price. Have they succeeded? Their customers seem to have dollar-voted with resounding "yes".
In a thread about common sources of confusion, I think it would be more helpful to leave the misunderstanding so others might learn from it. Ie, edit to add "this is a misunderstanding" to the top, not replace it entirely.
Because they can continually fill the trenches with H1Bs willing to run the gauntlet.
Or you know, just don't be a creep and treat women like human beings and you'll be fine?

If you're giving negative feedback because they did something wrong/substandard work, you document it and move on. If there are questions later, you refer back. I've literally never had this be a problem.

I'm not sure why talking about your personal life would be grounds for issues unless you decided to talk about your bedroom, politics, or religion. "I went hiking on X trail this weekend, it was pretty cool" isn't going to get you called into HR.
I was replying to this part of your comment:

> Usually my response is if you use something daily, and you know you lack the skills to use it effectively, why don't you improve your knowledge and seek out training or education?

Seeking out that training would be useless since I don't use git enough.

> Maybe git isn't the right tool for you?

Git is definitely the tool for me. It's better than any other available tool for my situation.

Why the hell would I branch more? Just to get better at git? Sorry, I'm sorry that I work on a small team! Maybe I should go back to CVS?

Stop gate keeping.
Many years ago, indeed it was, but now you can use it and rest easy that your data isn't transiting through our servers unless you install the chart_studio module as well.
FastText is the best text classification library for a quick baseline
The use case it frustrates me in is when you want to work on the structure of the repository before you have all the code.

For instance, it is nice to think about the repo holistically sometimes before I have say an actual unit test to put in the directory, it is nice to create that structure in the repo.
Of course, yes— that was what I was saying. But the theory with content-addressability is that unlike a conventional distro where the binaries must all be built and then archived and distributed centrally, Nix could do things like age-out the cache and only archive the hashes, and a third party could later offer a rebuild-on-demand service where the binaries that come out of it are known to be identical to those which were originally signed. A similar guarantee is super useful when it comes to things like debug symbols.
CMU has a lot of programs outside of CS.
Tumblr has plenty of discussion about hobbies, TV shows, anime, video games, etc. If you like a certain thing, tumblr is a great way to be exposed to people discussing it, making text jokes about it, making fanart about it, etc. That has been literally unaffected by the NSFW ban in the many fandoms I follow on it.

There are people like you describe, but it doesn't dominate the platform imo. It's easy enough to get a lot out of tumblr.
It says "is found in all air-breathing vertebrates studied to date" why do they call it "mammalian diving reflex" if it is not limited to only mammals?
Well, there are not a lot of other things to do on a rainy Norwegian summer day ;-)... greetings from Trondheim!
This book changed how I viewed plants. I always thought of plants as seemingly inert matter until then. It is similar to how people who never owned pets or a farm or lived closely with animals changes their view on non-human intelligence when they adopt a dog or cat etc. The spectrum of life is infinite. Humans like categories to aid our understanding but we define the categories and are error prone.
(Non-US here) It baffles me the response to January 6th, a group of people vented their anger by invading a public building, a symbol of government and power. Not at their neighbors houses or businesses, not looting, not fencing out blocks of a city for themselves. And I here not making any value judgement on the act, it is besides the point.

If unreasonable* anger should be exercised, that it's target be public buildings and institutions, the bastion of power rather than at John and Mary down the street.

* to be decided by yourself
I don't care either, I draw the line between human and non-human. Anything you do on non-human is fair game to me.

The only reason I may care about animal suffering is because the other human can get angry can cause me trouble.
Yep. One of very few pieces of software that when it runs I swear I can actually hear the zillions of transistors in the CPU doing their job. Unlike an Electron app that tasks 16 cores with endless fucking apologizing for their creator's love of layers upon fucking layers of abstraction...

Sorry, my PC's acting slow today, I'm tired and had a glass of wine already :P
The roots may actually go back further than that. There's a custom map for Starcraft/Brood War which used single hero control and lane pushing mechanics and predates the WC3 DotA maps:

https://starcraft.fandom.com/wiki/Aeon_of_Strife_(map)
Blade had a fake spokesperson for 3 years
Found Everything back in the Windows 7 days and have never used anything else. It still amazes me that a silly little freeware search outperforms what Windows has. Really goes to show Microsoft's utter contempt (or apathy) toward the user.

Technically though, there is still a use for Windows search on the start menu: pulling up Windows components like the Control Panel or Disk Manger quickly.
The Dan Harmon apology is very good and, as far as I understand (I'm not on Twitter), was generally well received: https://time.com/5100019/dan-harmon-megan-ganz-sexual-harass...
The thing is, computers with SSDs feel about as fast as computers were with HDDs 12 years ago. Some apps still take 10 seconds or more to load on brand new hardware in 2021. There shouldn't be any random wait times in daily usage.

Sure, things have gotten more advanced, but it feels like the speed improvements of hardware are being used for bloat, rather than making computers even faster.

It seems computer performance stabilizes at a level that's acceptable to most people, I guess because beyond that there's no incentive to spend resources improving something that's acceptable.
The point is: In a society in which we have violent factions opposing one another on an single basic idea, what sins are truly and permanently unforgivable by a society? We would all seem to agreed that a legal framework is more valuable than vigilante justice, but people on all sides admit the courts don't work all the time. What is the right choice? And can offenders reform?

For example, I'm of the (extremely unpopular) opinion that we're too hard on sex criminals. The framework the US has put together doesn't just not help reformation, but in many ways encourages recidivism by limiting employment and housing options. But what's the right choice? Am I right because I'm backed by dozens of studies by social scientists? Or is the local parent mob right to "protect their children" by keeping laws on the books that keep sex offenders in the fringes of community? If a child molester gets off on a technicality, is the victim's father who murders him a hero or a villain?

What about other crimes? In China you can go to jail for 10 days without prosecution for possessing pot. Here in NJ I can smoke a blunt on my front lawn as a police parade goes by and I'm fine. Who is right?

IDK, I'm just rambling at this point. This whole debate is so stupid and circular and hypocritical and fluid on all sides.
Yes, and misunderstanding is not required, only an uncharitable interpretation, sometimes on purpose.

There are quite a few topics where any appeal to logic is not condoned or appreciated. To the extent that mere mention is enough for the mob to turn. For example, any time a woman or child may have been mistreated. There are others of course, but too charged to list.

Steer clear of these subjects, especially if on the autism spectrum and can't read that the discussion has changed to emotion-only mode.
This is the most biased take on useful platform differentiating features I’ve ever seen.
How can someone justify:

"We are going to tax Microsoft, Apple an Google for using Open Source software created by Swedish developers and pay money collected to those developers"

as "wrecking the Swedish domestic software industry"?

I would say it would make more Swedish people interested in writing software and getting back value that BigCorps are stealing from Sweden.
Startup Question
Say an early team releases an MVP that is using an application with a backend as a service for their platform and the MVP starts to gain traction with a lot of users and activity. Do early teams at this stage just have to be willing to afford and spend money on the backend (backend as a service, servers, etc.) before raising money (it’s just something you have to figure out how to afford), or is there a better way to go about this? There are usually costs associated with hosting and application users/activity growing. This can even happen with an MVP testing for product-market fit when a team did not even raise money yet.
To me, Windows 10 feels like it's getting faster. I've noticed that updates (even major ones) complete in a "reasonable" amount of time (as opposed to the old Microsoft tradition of "randomly taking hours").
You can be sued for Office functionality. And you’d probably be the direct infringer.

It’s just an inefficient way to sue people and Microsoft would likely step in.

But it’s common to get sued for using functionality in open source software.
Arguably, the issue is when the HDD isn't the only computer you use. If you switch to using an SSD on, say, a laptop, boot times are super fast, you get used to that, etc.

Then you go use an HDD, and suddenly everything feels slow. The thing is, it's not actually slower than it was before, it's just slower than your most recent comparison point.

If only use an HDD, though, those boot time are just the way it is. I never actually found it to be a large difference between Windows and Linux. The difference that really bit me was startup apps on Windows, but fresh installs were plenty quick.

I think in a lot of ways it's like getting off a freeway after a while. On a regular in-city drive, the road speeds feel normal and reasonably quick (assuming no traffic). When you've just gotten off the freeway, though, you're at half the speed of what you've been driving at for the last hour or two, and it feels very slow.
Good points, I agree.
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Having Amazon on your resume probably opens many doors.

True, there are other companies on par or better than Amazon on many different metrics. Many of them are at least as hard to get into as Amazon though.

If my choices are Amazon, or a bunch of lesser known, less prestigious, or lesser paying companies, I'd take the shot at Amazon and do whatever possible to last at least a year so I could put that Amazon name on my resume for future prospects.

If you're the kind of rockstar ninja wizard that can glean multiple offers from all sorts of top tech companies, then ignore all of the above.
Perhaps it was thought or believed that an increased availability of education, in general, had curbed the effectiveness of these types of persuasive methods. Although, it's probable that you are right and they never subsided; only adapting to a new environment and mostly dismissed as outdated in hindsight.
MSCompatTelRunner.exe

I've killed as much telemetry as I can, but every time my PC loses a core or two to a random background service, it's that piece of shit.

No matter how much you purge it, it comes back. Removing execution permissions seems to work best, because Windows still realises that the file is there, but eventually it'll have its ACLs restored and the shitshow starts again.
As a woman who has been posting anonymously for years to avoid uninteresting personal attacks, I've come to enjoy and rely on it. Maybe the entire Real Names idiocy started by Google+ can be forgotten about and we can move on? Nothing wrong with an anonymous handle.
At one point in the past there were no internet discussion forums, and then someone invented one and the world was changed.

At one point in the past there were no internet discussion forums with voting, and then someone invented one and the world was changed.

At one point in the past there were no internet discussion forums with threaded conversations, and then someone invented one and the world was changed.

Has mankind reached the pinnacle of what can be achieved with respect to the optimization of intellectual discussion on internet forums, or might there be a few different things that have not yet been tried, or even thought of (if large quantities of intelligent people set their minds to the task)?

EDIT: An additional wrinkle of complexity: what if someone builds one, and it takes off and becomes a powerful juggernaut in the domain of thought-shaping-at-scale, but the founders are evil, or can be converted, or displaced? We arguably see some examples of this already.
I had a giant summer squash vine growing out of my compost pile, and I let it go. Within about a month, it was not only producing summer squash but also producing pumpkin-like gourds (some yellow and green, and some white), a few of which grew to gigantic sizes. A gardening friend told me that this is because of hybridization and that the plant can exhibit characteristics of multiple parent plants. It's possible that the parent plant had been crossed with a pumpkin/gourd type plant to take advantage of some of its innate characteristics (disease resistance, etc).
Paying off early investors with new sources of investment is legal and the difference between that and a Ponzi scheme is that it occurs transparently; the later investors presumably know what they're investing in. Just as they do with Doge. That is until they lose and employ people to help them pretend otherwise.
The universe is expanding.
Something else the author did not mention is that they still have a digital experience for people who cannot attend. I’m not sure if this is sufficient to address potential ADA issues, though.
That's projection at its worst. Just because you can map some concept vaguely on behavior of some species, doesn't mean it is doing that, nor does it imply that it thus deserves to be treated as human.

> but if you look at their progress in the abstract

Good thing we don't eat abstract plants then.
That IS what direct democracy is. Those who are the most motivated are a mix of earnest intellectuals and furious emotional reactionaries. The rest stay uninformed and apathetic, voting with the most outspoken they identify with or not at all.
The Metaverse Value-Chain. Trillions of dollars are pouring into
The ramp up in the use of the term 'meta' for everything over the past few months makes me cringe.
Did they add this to the CODE OF CONDUCT yet?
Stop using the term Cancel Culture. It has a much more light-hearted sound to it than the act could ever be. A more accurate term would be "Scapegoat Culture", as that is what these degenerate users partake in. They cast their problems onto someone and then force them out of society.

Instead of saying "He got cancelled by the Twitter mob", say "he got scapegoated by the Twitter mob"
Just to be clear, if you do nothing, then some code gets installed but no bluetooth messages are sent or received right? And by default covid exposure notifications are off?
Why is skipping higher education to try to play professionally a massive risk? If it doesn’t work out, you can go to college after. Lots of people get jobs right after high school, then go back to school later. Not only that, but those people are usually going to jobs with a lot less upside than being a professional athlete.
Isn't that just eating the unborn children, then? Is that better than eating an adult? (tongue in cheek, obviously)
Something doesn’t have to be fully addressed to be effective. You’re moving the goalposts.
Please let's not swerve into nationalistic flamewar.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It was a good example: it was obvious by the name of the branch and he/she was teaching the real word use case
> You don't "bootstrap" your yeast culture and your grain culture - you get them from some source.

Wait, what? It is super simple to bootstrap your own yeast culture. You just need wheat, water, and time. You can easily grow your own wheat. The only way this is not bootstrapping is if I need to create my own water out of hydrogen and oxygen and my own wheat by… actually I’m not sure how one would bootstrap wheat. Find some of the original wild plants that served as the original source of our current domesticated wheat and re-domesticate it? But that would literally be impossible, thus making the term bootstrap meaningless in this case.
Binary flags in ints, arrays of ints and maps of ints
Library to set or check previously set flag in int, array of ints, map of ints.
Well tested and covered by tests, can be used to support unlimited big flags.
I wonder how VSCO is faring compared to Instagram, which is another similarly "anti-social" network. TikTok has the benefit of being owned by a larger conglomerate, ByteDance. Supposedly Pinterest was in talks to acquire VSCO.
Interestingly, the background is black for me in Chrome, and white in Firefox (both under macOS)
Reader mode to the rescue! It is almost the default way I consume most blogs and news sites, reading experience is so much better!
I thought it might be kind of obvious but I think I tend to forget that things posted online are missing some critical context. So anyways, I really I don't want to be dismissive of fair and valid criticisms but its hard to articulate my opinion on the matter in a short and semi-awkward format like HN. Basically what I am trying to say is that my point is probably a little more nuanced then it seems.

That being said, I do think that there are circumstances in which being "canceled" might not be warranted. I have not heard of the case you are referencing specifically until just now. I read the article and found the prof on RateMyProfessor and overall they do not seem like a shitty person, however I would still like to read the "confidential" report the school conducted even though that is probably not possible as that might change my opinion. Also I am not Canadian and most of the Canadians I know/have experiences with do not outright strike me as racist. Of course current trends I have seen in both the US and Canada have lead me to rethink that people/areas are not inherently free of racial prejudice and if Canada has a somewhat similar history to the US, there is most certainly a bit of racism.

I digress, I think canceling can be a problem for situations like the one you referenced and I do not want to undersell how shitty it can be for someone who is on the wrong end of it. In some cases in may be warranted if the proper mechanism for fairness or recourse are not working. I guess it just kind of depends.
How do you quickly grow an online audience?
I completely believe that whatever happened to you was totally unreasonable, but try to understand that from another person's point of view, the broad "you must be against freedom of speech" thing is "toxic", just as you have experienced "toxic" behavior from the opposite side of the issue.
>There are a lot of Noah Bradley's in the world, do they deserve a second chance?

A second chance to make art? Absolutely. A second chance to be in a position where they have any influence whatsoever over other artists and their careers? I'd have a tough time getting onboard with that.
I’m not unsympathetic with the author, but I have to admit I’m not completely sympathetic either.

> I woke up to several people tagging me in a twitter thread for my sleezy behavior at some art events many years ago. I wasn’t that person any more and I wanted to apologize for being an asshole in the past. I had apologized privately for everything, but I hoped it might show my sincerity and commitment to being better to address it publicly.

That smells more like PR damage control than sincerity.

The Twitter mob is bad. On that we can agree. And I cannot plumb the depths of his heart.

But apologizing doesn’t absolve you of bad behavior. And if someone doesn’t accept your apology (possibly believing it’s insincere) and brings up your “sleezy behavior at some art events many years ago”, calling them out and saying I’m not that guy anymore is not really owning his behavior.

> I made some desktop wallpapers to remind myself of those various laws because I have a poor memory and wanted to remind myself of them while I was reading a bunch of history books.

Come. On. “If you’re explaining, you’re losing.”
Read new FTC chair Lina Khan's plan against big tech as a free eBook
Those are differences of degree, not kind.
In the US, in no particular order:

- equipment

- coaches

- travel/hotel/per diems, sometimes long distance depending on league

- trainers

- workout facilities (typically shared)

- practice facilities (might be shared)

- game facilities

- additional dining options to accommodate training

- nutritionists

- doctors

- scholarship money for tuition

- scholarship money for room and board

- video review areas and equipment (shared)

- video recording equipment and videographers

- insurance

- announcers for events

- recruiting

- tutoring

- event management

- publicity/advertising

- title ix compliance official

Note that at some universities (even some high schools), there are self-funding booster clubs that will pay for a lot of this stuff for some sports. That said, there is still some stuff that the university has to pay for directly.

As a simple example, Alabama football (big program that makes tons of money) also funds Alabama’s championship teams in golf, softball, and gymnastics (and many other sports that have not led to national championships).