skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I felt I needed to add it to help people taught by other search engines that they only get 1-2 good results, and the rest is useless. The reason I'm providing a hundred results is that there are often a lot of results to choose from. If the point is to find something unexpected, and that indeed is the entire point, then that is the only sane design choice.

Like you search for something on Google and similar, and you know what you are going to find. They are so good at searching the Internet and predicting what you are going to click on that you never see something new.

It's a great feat of engineering, but a huge tragedy, because discovering new things, outside of what you our your demographic has previously demonstrated an interest in, it can be absolutely life changing.
>UI elements that haven't been updated since Windows 2K.

This is good.

mmc.exe and its apps is used for actual work in IT.
I check this from time to time and mine has always been completely blank.

Even on my phone when I search for "tires in <city>" it assumes I mean a city in the east coast of the US. Maps/Waze are only marginally better, showing me results 170+ miles from my current location, generally.

I use trackmenot and ad nauseam plugins on my main computer, so my ads are always 100% irrelevant - if I see them at all. Ad nauseam clicks every ad it sees, and stores the banner. It tries to track how many dollars of ad spend its wasted on your behalf, too. I'm somewhere north of $17k at this point lifetime clicks.

I know I'm not winning this fight but I can make it more hilarious for me in the meantime.
Just get the dotcom. [0,1]

[0] http://www.paulgraham.com/name.html

[1] https://zlipa.com
I feel bad for this person. I like to think that I wouldn't be so bitter and angry in this situation, but really, who can say? That situation being, his wife has cancer, which has nothing to do with Atlassian.

It does sound like he has had some subpar managers (which is the cost of promoting from within, you will have managers learning on the job), but it also sounds like he is lashing out at a company for being a company. Light on details, and clearly one-sided.

Again, I don't totally blame him. Life has dealt him a shit hand this year.
.biz was a new TLD, so yeah. It was part of the 2000 round of new TLDs. I don't think I've seen a .museum, but all of the others from that round give me negative vibes, although I guess slightly less than most of the newer new tlds.

That said, I've got a 'clever' .pictures I use to share images and a totally appropriate .fun that has no need to have positive domain associations.
I'm less insulted by the name of a tier than I am by what is more common: lower tiers that are crippled to the point of uselessness.
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Oh you says that in English too?
Good to know. It’s pretty widely used in software, video editing and those jobs with version to deliver at fixed and seemingly arbitrary dates …
The opening paragraph reads like something straight out of "Children of Men"[a]:

> Male infertility is on the rise, with significant declines in sperm quantity and quality occurring across the human population worldwide in the past two decades. The reason for this is poorly understood, but scientists suspect ...

Hmm...

[a] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children_of_Men
The Centre for Computing History videoed Chris Curry, Steve Furber and Hermann Hauser watching Micro Men and chatting for the tenth anniversary of its broadcast:

https://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/55810/Micro-Men-10th...
Anyone take more than 5 weeks? Like say taking the entire summer off to match what their kids get from school (10-11 weeks)?
NordVPN! But only because Internet Historian’s ads are too effective. In fact, it’s been a saga. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFZ_N1Faf_E&ab_channel=vonFu... is probably my favorite, but there are like 40 more. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0p9J9cI0t7M&ab_channel=vonFu... etc.)

But if you need security, roll your own VPN. You can set up a Digital Ocean droplet as one. It's a pain, but you only need to do it once.

I'm not sure there's much of a persuasive reason to use any of these big providers. That's why they always fall back on claims of security – unsophisticated users always fall for it.
Do you compile your own OpenSSH? From what I can tell, the distributions have not really caught up yet.

Bullseye is still on 8.4. OpenSSH on Windows appears to be 8.1.
Good luck getting a majority of states to agree on something....anything really.
Unfortunately the industry norms have moved in the opposite direction. It's rare to even get modding tools these days. Publishers view modding tools as a support burden and potential source of competition to their DLCs.

> You can still buy Quake 1 and 2 on Steam, and they'll probably run just fine (Windows support is shaky these days).

Aren't there various actively-maintained forks of the engines that will run perfectly on modern Windows?
Companies in general don't care about winning. They just care about costs as well as focus. What would they gain in return for years of legal bills?
This is amazing. My wife was just telling my I need someone to do my marketing and sales. And I am like, yes I know this, but it is way easier said than done. Thus why I am still grinding on it as a solo tech founder.
> I want to send HTML mail because it's more expressive

For thousands of years prior to the invention of HTML email, back unto the ages of cuneiform on clay, people managed to express themselves. Entire competing schools of rhetoric developed to teach people how best to express themselves, long before any form of electronic mail existed. Some of those schools focused on eloquence and interest, others on brevity and clarity, and those were both possible with plain text written by reed pens and ink on papyrus. I wonder whether relying on HTML for one's expression is really better than cultivating a writing style that suffices to convey one's thoughts independently of the medium used.
Anyone have any good caste jokes ?
Someone please post an rfj on r/jokes and report back
The Wikipedia link at the top is always given. It would maybe be good to make it a little clearer that it's not one of the true results.
Would they be horrified of going to a kink club? I feel like the type of person that would go to one, especially these days, would not care.
The did a in depth review of basically every car maker in Europe after that. For a while BMW was the only German one that seemed to come out almost clean. until they didn't. Peugeot and Renault were fined in France. As was Fiat in Italy if I remember well. The German OEMs were the worst, with VW leading the pack and Mercedes being a distant second. VW did something clearly illegal, most others thaugjt the just skirted the edge of legality. Maybe that skirting would have worked if it wasn't for public pressure after VW was found of having crossed line of skirting deep into cheating territory.

VW wasn't the only having tweaked emissions, VW was the only one having clearly cheated. that's why they are remembered for it.
Accessing geo-restricted content is probably one of the reasons. A lot of VPN services use this line while advertising.
OP might have a valid point, but the childish way he chose to share his message and the poor English aren't going to help when it comes to finding future employment.
Have you actually gone through the TCP/IP specification and implemented everything securely?

It’s nearly as simple of specification to get right as your post suggests.
This is M$ doing its tik-tok releases.

XP - decent

Vista - horrorshow

7 - alright (compared to vista)

8 - horrorshow

10 - alright (compared to 8)

11 - horrorshow

Personally I will never use it unless I really need to and then kicking and screaming but that is my observation.
> Not sure whether Atlassian would want to sue, that could become yet another example of the Streisand effect...

Assuming the author speaks truth. If the story has holes, not taking an action by Atlassian sounds like a bad precedent.
In principle, the legislative branch represent the people and are checked by elections. In practice, there are party lines and the influence of far too much money; but, the logic is that legislators pushing unconstitutional laws would be voted out, or limited by the other legislators.

A lot of the foundational concepts in liberal democracies are justified on the assumption that citizens are engaged and conscientious electors (that is, intelligent and able to make up their own minds), and as a result unconstitutional legislation is a form of political suicide, or a real manifestation of democratic will which lead to constitutional amendments. It operates on the idea that doing x in that particular way "is not who we are". Because you can see that they are unconstitutional laws, means that you can vote and engage politically to stop or pull back that law.

Modern political realities have tested those assumptions. A two party deadlocked system, decline of civic education, and unchecked money in elections, are amongst many culprits.
Perfect answer. Thanks!
That would be an absolutely awful decision.
To be honest, I think this is quickly becoming an outdated way of thinking that favors the business. There is room in our current model to respect that businesses, and the people who found and run them, have a bottom line and also need to grow. But there is also a lot of room for workers to be treated much more humanely than they are today. Why not try to give people 10%, 20%, or more of their time off? A major goal should be humans living their best lives, not just businesses achieving the highest valuation or dollar profit possible. And that is not the current paradigm. Even in Tech, where workers probably have some of the best bargaining power of any sector, most of the humane treatment is lip service. A more worker centric model is an inevitability - more time off, less hours per day, and less days per week worked. It's already happening.
(Okay, maybe is time to look for trouble. Sorry clisp. Here we go again...)

apt install slime sbcl

Always stubborn like a horse
Installed Manjaro on my HP laptop instead of Windows and the hardware actually works better with less issues.
Yes, whenever people storm the Capital, calling for the VP's head - that's totally not a big deal. Maybe in the 3rd world that's just another Wednesday, but in the U.S. it was a very big fucking deal.
John Gruber discusses this with Apple execs here, they explicitly call it out: https://youtu.be/-SzbucgATjA?t=2174
Doesn't sound like he had much PTO anyway. Why wouldn't he just take leave? If he wanted to take PTO and then dip into leave when it runs out, there may be legal reasons you can't do that.
We (I work for Forem) have an opensource selfhost installer [0] so you can have total control over your data and community too.

[0] https://github.com/forem/selfhost
> But dairy didn’t do it alone: The introduction of wagons around the same time made carrying water and following grazing animals to distant pastures possible. Meanwhile, early domesticated horses might have enabled the newly nomadic Yamnaya to manage bigger herds. Together, the innovations opened up a vast new landscape.

See also The Horse, The Wheel, and Language. Recommended if you like archaeology.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Horse,_the_Wheel,_and_Lang...
+1000

This article should be read with a huge grain of salt.

They forget to mention (or I missed) the 30 odd days of “no questions asked” special leave we got over the past 2 years.

They also don’t mention how, by policy, small leave applications are approved, no questions asked.

I’m a current P5 SWE at Atlassian and whilst I agree that going from P5 to P6 tends to be difficult, I can’t say I’ve observed any of the other aspects mentioned in this post.

I personally have a larger frustration with there being too much time off as I actually enjoy the work I do
I’m sorry but who watches video on a 6 inch phone today?
I would rather see them rewrite VSCode in React Native, given all the love it is getting from Office and XBox teams, but lets see if it ever happens.
The whole argument that small arms are of no comparison to tanks and nuclear weapons are made by people who have no experience with firearms, fire fight and perimeter and assault tactics, or any type of military strategy. To even get to this point you would have to assume that the US would devolve into a civil war, in which you can also safely assume that many in the US military would be defectors (leaving a lot of empty tanks and airplanes, if not turned to the "other" side). You would also have to assume that you could safely identify gun owners that would be willing to combat - if there's anything the US attempts to avoid (and with good reason) it is attacking non-combatants (it would be very easy to blend in to the normal population as we've seen in the Middle East). The difference here and the Civil War of 1865 was that there were clear demarcations between the sides. You would also have to assume that whatever resources you employ to launch this war would not interfere with any other outside enemy that may use this time as an opportunity to launch their own assaults (i.e. it would be a great opportunity for another 9/11). Mostly, this is a lazy half-thought-out argument.
My career as a games programmer was very much started by this magnificent machine.

I think ‘Hey Hey 16k’ says it all.

https://youtu.be/Ts96J7HhO28

RIP good sir.
I can see SELECTs being useful here, but yeesh INSERT/UPDATE/DELETEs would scare the heck out of me.

Also not clear on how/why this would be a SaaS product - this seems like it's a library you would download, throw some keys at, and thanks.
> Did I miss something or did modern versions of forums just never really get developed?

Not sure. There's the propiatary muut.com (which also maintains riot.js), and there's zulip which might be the best Foss "modern" forum?

Then there is the hn clones (anarki/news, lobste.rs) and the more old school dfeed that runs d-lang forums.
Yes, US median is something like 2-5 weeks maternity leave and many require you to exhaust all of your accrued paid sick time and PTO first and many of them also require you to file it as FMLA (the federal red tape/insurance program for long term leave) even if you don't plan to extend past "given" amounts of maternity leave. So yeah, in corporate dystopian America, 3-4 months sure looks generous.
Right. Not that I personally care much for use it or lose it myself. It definitely requires more deliberate planning and potentially taking time at suboptimal times than an accrual/cap system assuming the cap is set at some reasonable level.
It is more than just democracy - secrets are outright the antithesis of good service regardless of whom is served. Theranos kept secrets from its investors. Look at any other job - say a mechanic telling you not to look under your hood or an accountant telling you not to look at your account. That would rightfully raise massive suspicion of being out to screw you over.
Do you see 10 year old people smoking? Usually no. Teenagers? Probably they start there. Then, when do you think they should get that information in education? It is a real question.

That would prevent way more I guess. Of course, in our law, trying to sell cigarrettes actively to underage is illegal and I find that regulation reasonable.

But trying to protect adults from their own irresponsibility is a totally different story. It is their problem.

I get your point and in some way you are right also. I am just advocating for little regulation, but, of course, I am talking also about adults here.

I did not mean underage people. If you target underage for gambling or any addiction in bad faith, that is an attempt to cause damage and punishable.

But that does not mean that the most important thing is to have the information there and decide. Again, I am talking about adults.

By the way, talking about regulations. In my country you can open a university only if it has 8 or 9 degrees offered. If I want to open the best CS degree in the country as a University, I cannot. Do you find it reasonable? Do you think this goes in the interest of consumers? Do you think the state abuses its position by doing so? (Clearly yes). That is why I do not want regulations. You give them the power and they end up regulating even your position to go to the toilet. That said, I find under/overage, even if it is arbitrary (there are teenagers that are responsible people), reasonable, to protect them from unscrupulous people.

But I do not need my life to be ruled in the name of so many things, that is bad and it goes against us if you think of it carefully.

But you will always have responsible teenagers and irresponsible adults. We should not help people that do not want to be helped.

The same way we should help people that have trouble. We should, I think, honestly, but... that we should does not mean we should have that responsibility unconditionally and coactively.

You know what? It can look selfish to you but you are going to have way more autonomous, responsible and self-sufficient people if you apply this rule. A good outcome IMHO.
This article proposes unknown long term negative side effects of vaccines, but assumes no long term negative side effects of Covid-19.

It also counts every elderly person who died after inoculation*, with no time limit, as killed by the vaccine.

* The authors refuse to call it a vaccine, because it's not 100% effective at preventing infection.

The article was written in July, making hay about 6000 total reported deaths in people who were vaccinated, er, inoculated, before the latest wave started killing a surplus of 1000 unvaccinated people (relative to vaccinated): per day.

This is not science.
Africa Testing Ground for “Trust Stamp” Vaccine Record and Payment System
> Wrong. They are about gun ownership. Any rights are simply to enable more purchasing. Buying more guns makes the manufacturers happy.

Oh, come on. Don't be so lazy to assume the rights advocacy you don't (seem to) like is just some bad faith conspiracy to sell shit and make money.
And they’re half of the population so….
I really, really don't understand why I have to put my self in the position to be censured, scanned or to not have control over the UX.

It is 2021, hosting is dirt cheap, there are proven ways to create a blog and share with your audience. Paying to someone for the "privilege" of participation is not valuable. Investing in your own brand is valuable. If you have social network needs use established platforms for sharing, but link to your own site.

And one more thing: Making a service iPhone only is not cool. Apple is not cool anymore.
it's interesting that you criticize owning guns for self-defense, but claim it as a (partial) reason for owning your own guns. perhaps you mean self-defense against wildlife rather than people, since you use pepper/bear spray to avoid chancing murder?

but yes, there's is roughly a 0% chance that using a gun defensively in a hostile situation will result in successful self-defense, where only the perpetrator is incapacitated and not the defender or bystanders, primarily because of a complete lack of (extreme duress) experience and (usually) genuine lethal intent. and the mere act of brandishing a weapon in such circumstances tends to escalate them uncontrollably, and to the defender's disadvantage.

we can discourage gun ownership for self-defense and still support them for their (symbolic) value against governmental tyranny, as well their general usefulness in hunting and rural life. regardless, we should work on reducing gun death and injury: over 100K/yr are injured/killed by guns in the US.
The BIGTECH Fellowship, 50k to quit your job and start a company
Go to 24Hz video for a 20% difference right there. Keep going, Apple didn’t say this wasn’t while viewing a 15fps 1900 silent video.

( I had to look it up, the first silent films were 14-26fps cranked by hand. The first talkies mechanically linked the projector to the phonograph at 24fps)
They limited Adblue tank capacity, together with other German OEMs in a cartel. Also it seems the affected VW engines indeed are not able to meet emission standardstandards without serious changes.
There's more detail in the iPhone battery information page.

Testing conducted by Apple in August 2021 using preproduction iPhone 13 mini, iPhone 13, iPhone 13 Pro, and iPhone 13 Pro Max units and software, subscribed to LTE and 5G carrier networks. Video playback consisted of a repeated 2-hour 23-minute movie purchased from the iTunes Store, tested with stereo audio output. Video playback (streamed) consisted of a repeated 3-hour 1-minute HDR movie purchased from the iTunes Store, tested with stereo audio output. All settings were default except: Bluetooth was paired with headphones; Wi-Fi was associated with a network; the Wi-Fi feature Ask to Join Networks, Auto-Brightness, and True Tone were turned off.

https://www.apple.com/iphone/battery.html#:~:text=Video%20Pl...
Interesting experiences, but without the names of the companies (or at least what they rhyme with), what can we actually learn from your story? There’s a shit company and a great company out there, and good for you for ending up at the good one. But this just reads like a form of humble brag.
I started smoking for this reason and considered it a benefit at the time. But after quitting you come to realize that the camaraderie is covering up the fact that you're all out there killing yourselves instead of doing something better with your time; and you need to find other smokers because everyone else can't stand the way you smell.

Replace that spot where you go to smoke with a foursquare court and dare your boss to tell you you can't take as many foursquare breaks as the smokers get. Foursquare is fun and you and your group will invent your own rules and it'll turn into your own game that's way more fun than smoking cigarettes. Most places now, you can smoke a joint or a weed pen if you really need the physical act.

There's this idea that if you smoke you get extra breaks - bring it up in a reasonable way with any manager and you can have those breaks, too. And thank the few folks sacrificing themselves so that the rest of us can say we get as many breaks as they do.

Edit: a benefit I miss is excusing myself from an uncomfortable situation because I "need" a cigarette. But, without that crutch, I developed better GTFO strategies.
I've had jobs tuning up the relevance of search engines with methods like

https://ccc.inaoep.mx/~villasen/bib/AN%20OVERVIEW%20OF%20EVA...

and the first conclusion is "something that you think will improve relevance probably won't"; the TREC conference went for about five years before making the first real discovery

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okapi_BM25

It's true that Arrow's Theorem doesn't strictly apply, but thinking about it makes it clear that the aggregation problem is ill-defined and tricky. (e.g. note also that a ranking function for full text search might have a range of 0-1 but is not a meaningful number, like a probability estimate that a document is relevant, but it just means that a result with a higher score is likely to be more relevant than one with a lower score.)

Another way to think about it is that for any given feature architecture (say "bag of words") there is an (unknown) ideal ranking function.

You might think that a real ranking function is the ideal ranking function plus an error and that averaging several ranking functions would keep the contribution of the ideal ranking function and the errors would average out, but actually the errors are correlated.

In the case of BM25 for instance, it turns out you have to carefully tune between the biases of "long documents get more hits because they have more words in them" and "short documents rank higher because the document vectors are spiky like the query the vectors". Until BM25 there wasn't a function that could be tuned up properly and just averaging several bad functions doesn't solve the real problem.