skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It might be your money but it’s not your planet-
we have to share an atmosphere after all. The negative externalities effect us all, and you can’t really buy a spare ozone layer.
I've been hearing that for 20 years. And it's always been true, there is always a huge competition pool, local or not.

From my limited observation it's swing back towards on-shore preference since like 2017.
Love working remotely. Day to day comradery and communication is hard to replicate in the digital world though at least for me. Example: I walked by my reports office grumbling about a new network rebuild and the current state of our docs and he mentioned as I was passing how about Netbox. Well guess what I’d probably still be grumbling today except I’m knee deep in getting Netbox implemented. Going to make life a lot simpler for the next Sysadmin. That likely would not have happened if we were a remote team.
yeah babbel seems better although iirc the interface was a bit clunky.

I also found busuu and linq to be okay as well.
> Today the entire state of New York had ZERO covid related deaths. Yet this week we saw NYC and State employees and now major private corporations mandate the vaccine.

It seems NYC has been registering a daily average of new 700 confirmed cases of covid, which is growing fast. This is a lower limit of the true rate of transmission as they reflect confirmed cases through molecular tests.

https://www1.nyc.gov/site/doh/covid/covid-19-data.page

In this page, if you check the graph, you'll notice that NYC is registering a new wave of covid infections that is as the highest level in about two months.

Even though covid infections in NYC are spiking, death rates are not. This is expectedly the result of the vaccination campaign.

No wonder they are mandating the vaccine. That's the only way to prevent another death wave.
I hate dealing with this and now refuse to use Google now when I saw patterns in search results while I was researching common things (like housing) in Norwegian, here in Norway. I rarely use Google these days, but I thought for a second that Google might be better with search results than DDG in Norwegian, but this stuff is aggravating. This is one of those where they screw around with history that you just have to start fresh again on whatever you were doing instead of going back.

edit: one other thing I have seen, but it doesn't mean it is always spam. All The Words In A Title Are Capitalized - it's something to pay attention to whether it is spam or not. Conventionally, titles are usually not like that in Norwegian.
I've lately noticed that searching Google for topics related to gardening in Finnish often gives me some scraped and machine translated pages from Russia. Really annoying that totally useless content is so high up in the results.
I wonder if it’s an [0] eutectic alloy? This property is used to make solders that melt more easily, and cast iron is easier to melt than wrought iron, which explains the name.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eutectic_system
Driving along the freeways through northern Ontario (400) and northern British Columbia (1 through Banff), I was amazed to see how many wildlife bridges there actually are. The ones in BC are plainly visible because they go over the road, but the ones in Ontario mostly go under the road in the form of large tunnels with fence funnels on either end, and most people would probably never notice them if they weren't paying attention.

I even saw a few under the highway in the prairies in Saskatchewan and Manitoba. I think those were mostly for moving livestock across the highway though.
Physics is probably one of the best ways to "get" calculus. Its the application calculus was made for so I think it conveys the intuition well.
>Citation needed?

https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/blogs/sta...

There is an example. There has been a proliferation of for-profit companies offering health-related services which aren't counted as healthcare providers which a freely selling and distributing personal data for profit, to law enforcement, and accidentally because they are "not medicine" but in reality they are indeed collecting data about your health and giving you tools, information, and advice as a result of that data.

Companies covered by HIPAA are also sharing your health data extensively either through authorizations which don't very well describe the sharing which is actually happening, or freely without notification or approval as "deidentified" data which has been shown time and again to be rather trivial to unmask deidentified records to figure out the person in question.
Brains recently got underrated. The way mcfly works is cool, but it offloads your habits to some “neural network” that you can’t control. There is not many methods slower than looking at unpredictable line-by-line output and almost nothing more anxious than a possibility of false choice done without thinking. This tool basically replaces a deterministic mismatch with a non-deterministic one. Your brain is good at predicting the former (because it is a neural network connected to itself) and bad at the latter, because two neural substances rarely agree.

My guess is that author wanted history-search-{for,back}ward in their .inputrc for up-down keys but missed that somehow. The default history behavior is undoubtedly tedious. https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/20830

The only thing I’d do to history-search- is to show a list of variants (like in wildmode=list:longest or similar) instead of presenting them one by one. Pretty sure it is already possible.
The currently still is an opressed and plenty of opressors.

If you don't recognize that the conflict is already there, you're going to have a harder time getting rid of it.

The opressed have to learn about it to survive, so it's only the bystanders that don't learn about it if you leave it off the curriculum
I think in 10 years there will be so much progress made so fast in renewables that we will look at all large agency forecasts and think how bad these were. I think all the innovations in the storage space are coming together with 10s if not 100s of different options to provide the final nail in the coffin of fossil fuels.

Long term though i guess 30 to 40 years is a reasonable time frame to envision a global economy that becomes net negative.

I have gone from a pessimist to an optimist on this topic. Having said that the incumbents will not give up easily and aggressive goals can only be pursued by fighting their misplaced priorities.
The response to the pandemic is much worse than the disease itself. It was easy to see that a mass freakout was the goal from the beginning. There's a video floating around twitter with a million views, I don't know the backstory of the guy... Supposedly from Spring 2020. Transcript, link at the bottom:

"And guess what kids, once you take your vaccine, ... they're going to tell you, sorry, the vaccine isn't effective as we thought it was going to be, so now you still gotta wear your mask, still gotta get contact traced, still have all the restrictions and social distancing, and still take your vaccine.

"And what did you get out of this? A whole year where you're not allowed to travel, your business is closed, they took your rights and freedoms, they forced a vaccine on you.

"And what happened? The same amount of people died. Everything was the exact same [...] back on lockdown [...]

"If you idiots haven't figured it out yet, it's a perpetual cycle that you never get out of. [...]"

- "CLIP FROM LAST YEAR IN THE SPRING OF 2020.THIS AGED VERY VERY WELL" - https://twitter.com/ZNeveri/status/1349460356595376133
It truly is disheartening to be a part of a species that imbalances the entire world to its favor, in what is likely to be the short term, with technology. And for what purpose? What purpose do we bring to this world?

Look at what we've done to the Southern resident orcas in the Pacific Northwest. Kidnapped, murdered, tortured for pleasure and entertainment, poisoned, starved, deafened, stalked, and then gawked out with loud boats. I can't think of a single thing we've helped them with.
Discounted cashflows to infinity and beyond plus a massive user base. Add zirp to the mix and I'm surprised they're not worth $65B.

I'm sure they'll be profitable in a decade...

Also don't forget this is an IPO: ideally you want to overstate your value.
Same here, I no longer can find anything sensible on Google, regardless how much I try to customize the search expression.

Additionally as polyglot it is very irritanting that Google tries to helpfully translate queries for me, thus I have to go to other search engines to actually find the article on the language I want.
Ok, I believe you and I clearly misread your comment—sorry! But in terms of the dynamics of flamewar, it's likely a distinction without a difference because others would also misread it and we'd get the same effect. If you're posting something that might be mistaken for flamebait, the burden is on you (not you personally, of course—it applies the same way to all of us) to disambiguate from that:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

Edit: if you're going to edit a comment after someone has replied to it, it's best to make it clear where the edits are. Otherwise you can easily change the meaning of the reply, which can be unfair to others (not only to the user who replied, but also to readers).
So they’re both NIMBYism but one is better than the other due to having poorer optics?
I have always wondered why if someone with good logical reasoning skills got schizophrenia they clould not reason their way to seeing their delusions for what they are. For example (real example I heard) if I think everyone who looks at my eyes is from the government and tracking me on my walk to the park- there simply is no agency that could field and coordinate that many undercover agents nor surreptitiously replace all normal people on my route. It seems to me dellusions must involve both imagination and somehow disable logical reasoning for an intelligent person.
'Following the IPO, the company will focus on improving its flagship app and getting more active users to switch to paying subscribers, von Ahn said.'

I switched to being a paying subscriber once and the experience was more or less the same as being a free user with the aid of an ad-blocker. Enough said.
In order to fully migrate from EC2-Classic to VPC, you need to find, examine, and migrate all of the following resources:

<LIST OF AWS BILLIABLE RESOURCES>

I'm not sure if this was unintentional or done as a tongue-in-check joke, but "you yourself must FIND what you're using in our services" indicates to me that they're fully aware of how hard it is to easily see what exactly you're paying for when using AWS.
The basic problem here is that there is a limited resource: land that is close to the downtown area where most of the workplaces and other attractions are. Some people (such as yourself) want that land to be filled with a certain kind of housing, and others ("YIMBYs") want that land to be filled with a different, much more dense kind of housing. They both have their advantages and drawbacks. The sparse areas have advantages like less traffic, less noise, and lower crime rate per capita (I haven't actually read any studies on that last one, but I'll take your word for it). The dense areas have the advantage that they can house a heck of a lot more people. Also the prices are cheaper in the dense areas, so you're more likely to be able to live next to your friends and family, even if they make less money than you. Different types of people will tend to like different types of housing. A wealthy and noise sensitive person might prefer the sparse housing, while a poorer extrovert might prefer the high density kind.

In a command economy, deciding which of the two types to build would be a very contentious issue. In a market economy, it's no problem. Just let people buy land and build what they want on it. Some regions of sparse housing will be built to cater to the folks who like that, and some regions of dense housing will be built to cater to everyone else. The low density folks tend to pay a premium for the fact that they're occupying an area of land that could house 40 times more people, but in general, everyone is happy.

The problem comes when one group or the other tries to bring a bit of the command economy back into it. They institute bans on building high density housing, or require a quota of parking spots to be built with new construction. This artificially decreases the supply of housing, which jacks up prices. This makes landlords happy, but pretty much everyone else is hurting on rent. Fewer people are able to be housed, and it's costing them more. Similarly, if laws were passed requiring all new housing to be high density, we'd end up with loads of dirt cheap apartment buildings, but the low density preferring folks wouldn't be happy, even though they're willing to pay a premium.
Firefox is debatable. Netscape 6 which it descended from was a total rewrite and never really had much/any closed source release history to it (unlike earlier Netscape releases)
Does it contain emacs? That would be nice.
What Is Google Chrome's Privacy Sandbox?
powerlevel10k looks interesting with that builtin configuration wizard. I use https://starship.rs

You have to configure it yourself, but it works on bash, fish and zsh.
Actually I agree that PR speak counts as misleading and can be a valid reason for changing such titles: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor.... I don't think I agree with your case about this one.

If you really want to understand HN's approach to titles, I can explain more, but I'd like to be sure first that you aren't just trying to pick a fight about it, since that's boring and never works.

One short, partial answer is that in practice, the kind of thing people do when they're trying to make titles less "bland, irrelevant, uninteresting" is actually to make them more provocative and baity, which is not at all the same thing as what the HN guidelines mean by "interesting". Provocation and curiosity not only aren't the same, they may even be disjoint states.
Please try the clozemaster app

I found it much more useful and less playful
While it can, my opinion is the client and server should not enforce anything about password strength, but MAY warn the user about weak passwords.

The criteria that I think would be acceptable to be enforced includes:

- A maximum (not a minimum) length, which must be suitably long, perhaps 200 bytes (or longer).

- Rejecting passwords containing null bytes.

- Rejecting passwords containing sequences of bytes that cannot be transmitted using the protocol, if it is necessary to transmit the password using the protocol at all (which it might not be, since it might use a hash instead). (This depends on the protocol.)

- If despite the advice above, the client knows that the server will reject other passwords too, and knows precisely what the criteria are, the client can reject the same passwords.

Examples of some things that should be allowed (and should not be rejected) include:

- Passwords that are short.

- Passwords that include your username as a substring.

- Character classes/lack of character classes (e.g. you should not require nor prohibit punctuation).

- Control characters (if not causing problems with the protocol like mentioned above).

- Invalid UTF-8 sequences.

(Just because they are allowed though, does not necessarily mean that they should be recommended.)

Also, passwords should always be case-sensitive.

The user should decide by themself what password they want to set, although it is OK to include advice that is optional.
Remember, Google was just a simple INPUT field with a Button to search the web. ;-)
One part idea? I've been told that "ideas are essentially worthless" for the 20 years I've been developing software. What changed?
Imagine being asked to show a driver's license before renting a car!
Dawn definitely damages the patina over time. You can get away with a few washes, but then food starts to stick, it rusts, etc.
You just got me something for the weekend. :)
98% of Russian sites uses Yandex Metrika. It's really easy to track bounceback if you control both search engine and web analitics tool :)

Actually Metrika is quiet big even outside of ex-CIS countries, IIRC it's like 15% of GA in terms of number of sites.
Any Android security app is better than Google Play Protect
> To be perfectly clear, they are mandating employees be vaccinated if they want to physically go in to an office, not to do (or keep) their jobs

That is not perfectly clear actually. From what I’ve heard refusal requires a “talk” with the HR. Sounds like termination is on the menu if company doesn’t want to grant remote privileges to that person.
No, this is a DSL that allows people who normally write CUDA, to do so with less lines of code, and end up with a faster kernel. By embedding it inside Python you don't need to write your own lexer/parser.
I thought that was normal, what everyone saw. Aren't they called something like "phosgenes"?
> developers fired because "they require too much hand holding" and I don't think the advice should be "speak up" but rather "make at least one friend as soon as you possibly can that you can privately ask questions to so you don't look like an idiot" and I know this advice is better for the individual than the company, but it's the reality. The selection function for new, junior employees is "can they get the things done with minimal hand holding" not "do they ask questions" and I'm not ok with that, but it is the reality and we shouldn't push juniors into situations that would get them fired before they're up to speed.

Thank you for saying this. I haven’t heard it being said anywhere else, but knowing people that you can DM and ask about things first is “socially” a better strategy than an ask tons of questions in a public thread. What’s also worked for me is to have a private channel meant only for developers (no manager, PM etc. Just devs, free to ask any question without judgement).

People instinctively assume the junior person asking questions is less competent.
This is probably a good opportunity to have a heated discussion over parseInt() vs Number() since parseInt('Infinity') yields NaN.
I know people prefer Number() for reasons but in this case it reveals the weakness of using basically a typecast with implicit language semantics for interpreting string inputs.
100 Simple Truths
How can one eliminate a thermocline of truth from an organization? Ideas:

- Have every exec spend one day a week with leaf-node workers, just learning and asking questions.

- Rotate all middle managers regularly. When a project has problems, blame is shared by several managers, making it easier for the current manager to admit failure. When a manager rotates off a project, they lose their influence and ability to under-report problems. The new manager is incentivized to look closely for problems and over-report them.

- Do not allow middle managers to determine promotions and bonuses of managers and leaf-node workers. Have the execs do it, or hire someone specifically to do it. Without this influence, middle managers lose some ability to suppress bad news.

- Split your company into several smaller companies and eliminate all middle managers. This limits the size of the organization to about 1,000 people: CEO x 10 VPs x 10 managers x 10 leaf-node workers.

- Have execs and board members interview exiting leaf-node workers.

- Hire an outside company to provide an anonymous whistle-blowing service with big cash rewards for being the first to report false progress reports and covered-up problems. Does a company like this exist?
This sits BELOW the automatic differentiation layer.
Proof-Oriented Programming in F*
I haven’t got around to Stranger in a Strange Land - which is weird because that’s his most populist book.

I’m thinking of The Moon is a Harsh Mistress. It had group marriages, but the marriage practices were ordained by custom and tradition. Not 20th century custom and tradition, but custom and tradition none the less.
Watching Arthur episodes on PBSKids for the first time as a 'grownup on duty'. I like the storytelling and spectrum of characters, but am still ambivalent as for the fitness to the target mindset.

I find that generally the situations are more for lives of 8-10yr olds, yet at that age cartoons may be already too didactic. More younger kids may not face the kinds of challenges depicted. I'm often asked to explain it to the 5yo. Still, the stories are very well written.

My so far most memorable is 'Lost and Found', very relatable almost dream/nightmare-like.
But does Koka let you generalize over effects?
That's cool I'd love to hear more about it, I've actually been thinking about ways that a language app could work better. Seems like all the current research is that "immersion" in the target language is critical, an app that just played me conversations, had me read text, etc and 'creatively' formulate responses, not just simply fill in the missing word, obviously in increasing difficulty would be ideal.
Indeed. In a couple places we ended up replicating the GCP project feature in AWS by creating multiple different AWS accounts (not IAM accounts, root accounts). It provided isolation between completely different apps. It was quite heavyweight but the isolation benefit was judged worthwhile.
Just as a counter point, I can't wait to be back in the office.

Remote work, while granted is hyper productive, I've never felt so disconnected from my teammates. There are people I used to have contact with daily that I haven't even slacked with in months. A chat/Zoom window is a much higher barrier to conversation than meeting for lunch, coffee, hallway paths crossing, waiting for the bus etc. I'm completely out of touch with what they're working on, aside from little blurbs in stand-ups. We have all become little siloes. I miss whiteboard conversations.

And that's to say nothing about the personal connections that have suffered. As adults, the place where you spend the most time with non-friends is the workplace, so that's the best bet at making new friends (in the same way school is for adolescence).

The funny thing is, when I was in the office, I felt most productive when I was given long stretches of time to just do focused work. But productivity is not the end goal of a career. It's collaboration and team achievement.

I have a feeling that the powers that be that are beating the back to work drum recognize some of these aspects. Obviously they see the productivity metrics, but they see the amount disconnect as well.
Unions work where labor is interchangeable. That is definitely not the case in game industry, where people are highly specialized and super creative.
There are a number of legal and tax reasons why remote work will not become an international market except in uncommon circumstances.
Fascinating – thanks for sharing!
Yes, I get to pay AWS $30/month per VPC for immense privileged of accessing the internet from my cloud VPS.
I think we're closing in on a point where you can't reach a multi-billion dollar valuation if your company is profitable.

Just keep burning through investor cash until you're acquired by a bigger corporation. Then a year later they announce that they're killing your company because, surprise, it couldn't turn a profit.

Somewhere a rich stock owner makes a huge profit. Everyone's happy.
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I’m in Norway, and I tried the first search “rema 1000” without getting any spam results on the first two pages…

That doesn’t entirely eliminate the other possibilities though, google search isn’t deterministic, and the domain could have been reported since the article went up.
Yes I have.

But I also work with a lot of people that don't.