skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had a list of things to do at work if it was mid- to late-afternoon and I just wasn't 'feeling it' for the task I was assigned. Update documentation, research new releases of our tools/libraries, defrag my hard drive. Compilers really were happier with some defragmentation (half of which they probably created in the first place).
Why settle for quadratic? Why not cubic? Or why not n^1.2? What's so special about quadratic that makes it the best candidate?
What I dont get it is, why in our presidential elections, candidates promise but are not liable for not doing their promise, we vote trusting them!!!! Who in his right mind would trust a polítician promise?????
You work at a startup. Try being engineer number 2348219589211 at <INSERT_BIG_COMPANY_HERE>. You can work your ass off on real work and still get out climbed in a heartbeat by people better at politics and schmoozing. Most companies are like this for employees; they extract your potential business value for their direct sales value.

In these environments you don't feel so bad when people are gaming the system. If it's all a popularity contest at the end of the day anyways, what does it matter? Do your bare minimum to fulfill the contract such that you can sleep peacefully.
As opposed to socialist art, which is so pure. Jacobin: fuck YOU mom and dad! I hate this college!
Does the team use a mono-repo? Or have multiple repos and track changes for that week to review?

I'm very curious. Curious enough to even try it.
I've run into people like and usually i just ignore it. Other people doing more work definitely know, but don't say anything. It's a hard thing to bring up and it's harder to prove and if management likes you then complaining just hurts the other person.
I could have sworn it was on Hulu - pretty dark material for Disney+
Yes, that's called "signaling". In the case of Signal, it's done through Signal messages, which pass through a server. But the server doesn't know they are calling related messages. They could be any message.
Not gp, but I (almost) never read commit messages. And usually tickets are so amorphous that it's hard to come up with a good name for the branch,so I always use the ticket number.

Of course, I have no problem with well named branches, but when not doing it by ticket number, you tend to get nearly meaningless branch names: search, fix_color, tooltip, search2.

That said I'd never mandate it, it just seems easier.
You can easily solve for that too:

- No federal employee making in excess of 2x (3x?) poverty level may remain on the job for more than 8 years. Possible exemptions: senators + enlisted military personnel. (Need more turnover at the top of officer corps anyway)

- No appointee federal bureaucrat may remain on the job for more than 8 years

- Any appointed bureaucrat or elected official, will have a fixed 79% and 99% tax bracket on any income in excess of the high watermark of the average income in the 5 years preceding their appointment or election.

There. Fixed it. Want to serve?

Do it for duty
Not for money.
I had been on the internet for several years in 93!
understood. theres def an art to judging when its too early to write tests vs the perfect time. its easy for anyone to recognize once its become "too late" and therefore more painful and costly to add it than otherwise would have been

I therefore try to put each situation quickly into 1 of 3 buckets then move forward on that basis:

1. heck no

2. heck yes

3. either way. a gray area

I generally see a case 1 and 2 with confidence. therefore by a process of elimination, that also lets me deduce when its case 3. and in those cases you cant go wrong. :)

"Impossible to predict, the future is." - Yoda
You can definitely get the right proportions by mixing, though you might have to eat (in this case drink) a lot more plant protein (in terms of volume) to get the comparable amount in g vis-a-vis animal protein.
Agree .. and I was looking for an option to sort by second run.

One trick I've tried to some effect is to run jl code on a smaller data sizes so the compilation gets done and then repeat on the large one so it doesn't get interrupted by compilation. Not sure if this is a recommended approach. Benchmarking Julia is a pain for this reason - compilation always gets mixed up with runtime. But it hasn't prevented me from using it interactively. Pretty happy with it actually.
how many active duty military personnel would it take to just protect america instead of project america?
I think the cost for voting for minority extremist parties and policies should be higher, not lower, yes.
Same though once I got it to show the Mac it hasn’t flipped back to the PC (though it does flash briefly when I go directly to https://raw.githubusercontent.com/DavidBuchanan314/ambiguous...)
Ask HN: Knee-jerk reaction thread. Rant away
Because they're not elected tyrants. They may want to do things but, for instance, in the US, an elected president may not get the legislature (s)he wants.
Focus on the bits your really care about; deal with the rest. There's no dilemma, only an excess of choices.
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29573792

Apparently it's from the same author David Buchanan.
I have a vague memory of feeling slightly cheated the first time i clicked on the XP control panel. I saw shiny icons hiding plain, (ugly?), mundane texts. I felt they were spending more time on the pretty and clever button image, and less effort on the options behind it.
That idea about monopolies is part of the popular economic dogma, but I do not agree at all. In a free market, monopolies are tenuous at best.
Congratulations, you definitely paid attention while watching office space
> Rails->Phoenix omits a lot of the stuff that makes Elixir cool, both in itself and in OTP, but that's not a bad thing and I do think the transfer isn't too onerous for somebody coming purely from Rails.

I'm not following you here. Could you please explain your position a bit more?

The reason I'm confused by your commentary is that Phoenix makes extensive use of OTP and since it is just Elixir + macros, there is nothing at all limiting you from employing every Elixir (and Erlang, for that matter) feature you want to in your Phoenix apps.
You should also be able to do functions instead of methods, just downgrading the receiver to a normal parameter, if I understand correctly. Other than losing the method call syntax, this is probably the most reasonable workaround, due to the interface problem discussed in the generics proposal.
Vopt921 is an excellent defrag utility for Win 10 / 8 / 7 / Vista / XP.
It also includes many handy clean up options to remove lots of Win generated junk.
The late author has made it freely available to all.
https://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/vopt.html
That's weird! I don't know much about PPPoE but I wonder if it would be possible to mess with the framing so that the specific DPI/modification wouldn't work. Like add some nonstandard options to the header, and hope the ONT used fixed offsets for getting addresses.

Given that ONTs probably aren't subject to too much hardware security research, maybe it would be possible to hook up a debugger and NOP out the connection tracking hooks.
If you can excuse the overt sexuality of his work, Piers Anthony depicted an interesting alien race of beings with a biological ball-bearing method of propulsion in one of the Cluster series books - I forget the title.
> Machine learning algorithms are getting sophisticated enough to figure out whether a batch of 100 reviews is mostly talking about can openers or garlic.

This barely needs ML. Amazon knows, a priori, what product the reviews were for. The fact that garlic reviews can be repurposed for can openers, regardless of their actual text, is the problem.

The real underlying problem is wrong incentives. Amazon makes money when you buy that crappy can opener.
I don't see not viewing ads on websites for products I'll never buy as equivalent to pirating software, especially considering the additional costs of compromised security, bandwidth, etc, but it's something to think about.

I'm in the camp where I'd gladly pay a fair cost to use a site, if there were a standard way to do so. The challenge here is that many people only view any given site on an ad hoc basis rather than being a devotee who's willing to pay for a subscription. If someone figures out how to solve this, especially the UI and adoption aspects, they'll be a billionaire.
Yeah, I am kind of similar boat. I actually has opportunity to implement certain algorithms which were pivotal in launch of specific products. I spent perhaps 3-4 hours implementing the whole thing but i kept thinking about the core problem for a week, so much so that i started dreaming about it. (this dream thing happen quite often).
You can't install different browsers at all? Or do you mean you can't set them as default?
The APIs We’re Experimenting with over the Holidays
I'm going HUGE picture here, like "history of the human race."

As in, how you still described it as a "market." Point proven, I think.
>> Longitude is relative.

> “ Longitude is a geographic coordinate that specifies the east–west position of a point on the Earth's surface relative to the prime meridian.”

What was the disagreement? So you're 3° west of the prime meridian. How far west is that? Are you to the west of the prime meridian, or are you to its east?
> It has probably effected your career, you could've gotten promoted faster, but did not.

Nah, I disagree. I've worked my ass off at companies, gotten standing ovations from regular users who knew what the work I did meant, and still gotten terrible raises. Contrast that to simply leaving a company every 2 years, and I get an amazing pay increase. Your skill, contribution, and talent have nothing to do with your promotion speed. If anything, the harder you work on real skills, the less likely you are to be promoted in my mind. The best climbers I've seen have been also the most bereft of real skills.
Another phrase to avoid I think is "statically significant" or "significant". This is used even when the effect size is small, but people generally hear "significant" and think "a large amount". Small effect sizes can come from experimental bias/flaws that disappear when better experiments are done later too.

You also see it in the context of "the result wasn't statistically significant but was bigger than all the rest" as if that means something.
Off the top of my head, there are now JDK open source builds provided by:

* Oracle

* Microsoft

* Redhat

* IBM (yes redundant with Redhat, but I believe IBM has multiple divisions providing JDKs, on top of what they got with RHEL purchase)

* Amazon

* Eclipse Foundation

* Azul

And that's just the USA.

SAP (Germany) has a build.

So does China's biggest company, AliBaba.
Logically absence of evidence would never equal to evidence of absence

It at most make the theory more and more convinced over time and/or other things

However the possibility of presence would not be eliminated by "absence of evidence".

Unless there is evidence that also eliminates the possibility of presence.
I happen to share those values -- but they're entirely unrelated to the post and my response. OP isn't trading work effort for family time; they're putting in decades of traditional work hours while mostly pretending to work.
The trackpad was using the Synclient Synaptic driver. Don’t know if that helps.

In regards to the graphics card, it was an AMD card, in an Asus ROG laptop. I sold that laptop off a year ago so I don’t remember the card version.
Big discussion of the original source yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29568625
Great music for programming, really gets me in the mood
Do it. It’s great. Excel is better than Calc, no doubt, at least with the native app. Online Excel I find has offensively poor performance. Calc gets the job done for mostly all common functionality. At this point, I do have a w10 install solely to play games—and really that’s the only reason. Id be delighted to purge that disk and get the SSD space back :). I’d recommend not getting too hung up on the perfect distro or desktop environment choice. Most big distros will let you swap DEs after the fact, but swapping historically does leave some cruft behind. I just stick to vanilla Ubuntu, despite experimenting with literally dozens of distros, DEs, window managers, kernels, etc over the last decade. At some point I got tired of over customization, and found that vanilla yields max simplicity. The gentleman above suggested kubuntu—sure, great choice. Don’t over think it—just try it and commit to it for minimally a few weeks before making a final judgement.
But now the development is pretty much tied forever to the issue tracker. As to read the code history need to have the access to the issue tracker to understand the reasoning. Which to me sounds like a bad idea for the future.
Thanks (TIL)
Well now you have to tell us why and how 600 people are sharing a repo! That’s a lot. Granted at Microsoft thousands of people worked in the same codebase. But in my recent experience we’ve generally been working on a repo per project, which typically maps to a small team.
“We Can Change These Terms at Anytime”: The Detritus of Service Agreements
Does anybody use the Jndi lookup feature at the root of this vulnerability? I wonder if it was a feature bloat
I have the opposite experience across the board. The ticket number tells me nothing, I can't grep for context, git blame turns to utter noise.

I constantly read commit messages. Branch names are usually similar to commit messages: xyzzy/fix-menu-style or xyzzy/add-menu-tooltip.

If you just wrote a commit message that's just a ticket I'd block your review until you wrote a proper message and it's a hill I'm happy to die on.
That can turn into code golf quickly which makes reading the code later take 2-10x longer. I like the spirit oh this but the incentives are off.
Virtue signalling is a real thing. You see it often with things like land acknowledgements[1][2], for example.

As far as whether people should be allowed to rot on the streets, stealing from local businesses to feed their drug addiction, and being sexually assaulted by their dealer - there are better alternatives. Behind bars is one option, Lanterman-Petris-Short conservatorship[3] (not the Britney Spears type) is another.

1. https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/22/us/native-americans-land-ackn...
2. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/11/against-la...
3. https://calmatters.org/justice/2021/07/britney-spears-conser...
The final season of Goliath [0] is very much inspired by the opioid crisis and deals with a lawyer suing the family. Hopefully real life lawsuits will be inspired by the outcomes in the series ;-)
Another highly recommended series to watch.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goliath_(TV_series)
Anecdotal data: I found that data.table ingestion speed with fread() trumps absolutely everything else
Steve Jobs had a theory that hot water on the blood vessels in the back of the neck increased blood flow to the brain.
Do they even care about their retail business anymore? Their website is a dumpster fire. (source: take a look at it)
Godot already has good native Linux support, so I'm sure whatever they contribute would help that as well.
This doesn't surprise me. The Cell architecture wrought more insane hacks than good designs.
But why? There is nothing preventing him from giving up the search and leading normal life. He keeps punishing himself even though he can stop at any moment.
Agreed. Thanks for your response. I'd thought it was closer to half that, glad to have a bit of of ignorance remedied. :)
That's government by the majority, not the whole. Democracy is “a system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state” (OED; emphasis added).
This would be the point where I quit and find another job.
You need a demo page or test login. I'm not going to sign in just to have a look.
>Also, it seems like they mix the inventory from different vendors, so it ends up being a crap shoot whether you get the original, or a knock-off, and the reviews reflect that.

I've noticed this so many times. I've stopped buying any sort of health products like supplements or even electric toothbrush heads from Amazon. It scares me seeing reviews about fake products in stuff like that
Do you have a particular story/book/anime that really drove this home?

I find I’m able to think that way about failure far removed from when it happened but, in the moment and soon after, it’s near impossible.
The way I explained it to my boss, is to give him a list of numbers to add up in his head and come up with a total. He looked at the list for a couple minutes, then gave me the answer (I framed the whole thing as a riddle). I then looked at him and said it looked like he wasn't working on the problem for the last couple minutes. He replied that he was thinking during that time. My reply back is "That is what I have to do the majority of the time on my projects, is think about it then spend a relatively short amount of time spitting out the answer. The problem is I also have to look busy while I'm doing it". He then saw the light.
"choosing not to forward it" is an interesting phrase. NAT needs to have some expiry for each entry, because we don't have unlimited space for that table. Dropping the mapping entry has the same result as the other side becoming unavailable and is an understood state.

You can't just produce RST out of nowhere on the NAT expiry, because that connection may actually be active somewhere else. Consider a replicating pair of NATs - your connection gets moved from one to the other because (network reasons), but the previous one does not get a message about it because (network reasons). If it sent the RST packets it would actively kill live connections which it should not touch anymore.
A great thing to unionize over. If you just quit your job eventually the equilibrium of the system will probably result in most jobs having this surveillance over time. You need to fight it directly with coordinated work stoppages.

The reason the system will equilibriate is that at first you'll have your pick of many more jobs. However, certain employers at the margins try it first, then more prestigious ones that keep their employees there with golden handcuffs. Then the rest follow the prestigious ones until there are few jobs without it and your individualist strategy has no where to turn.
Evil exists. It's prevalent in some societies and tribes, with rampant human sacrifice, robbing, killing, or raping strangers. Uncomfortably dark fictional/secondary worlds are just a reflection of this feature of our reality.
>>NFHS administered three types of questionnaires: the Household Questionnaire, the Woman’s Questionnaire and the Village Questionnaire. The Village Questionnaire was administered only in the rural areas. For each state and at national level three data files are associated with these questionnaires. Also available are data files with information on children born during the three years preceding the survey (last two children only) along with mother's basic characteristics.[1]

Basically, people are given questions, and the answers are used to obtain data. The accuracy of this whole thing depends on the accuracy of those answering the questions.

I would think a better way would be to compile this based on the citizens' data collected by the governments. How do other countries do this?

[1] http://rchiips.org/nfhs/data1.shtml
> As it is, CA's affect on the election isn't proven.

That's fairly irrelevant to the topic at hand, without saying anything about it, one way or the other.

Facebook has given away their data in the past, and gone so far as to provide special access for some clients over others. That is undisputed. There's no reason to believe that they may not do so again, in future, if they believe it to be in their interests.
The point is that generally hoarders and impulsive spenders can’t have a big impact in QV. Your influence scales as the sqrt of the number of votes you cast. It’s much more effective to have many “small” voters than a few big voters.
Defrag absolutely helped in the winxp days if your HDD was always >90% full. Every chunk of data written to a full HDD would get spread across the platter, cutting your read and write IOPS to a fraction of what you expect. It was especially noticeable on laptops since their platters spin slower.
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If you work remotely, there's a 100% chance you're already being monitored without your consent. It doesn't matter if you work for FAANG, a startup, or a government.

And, no, you won't be able to find an alternative employer that offers remote work and doesn't monitor you.

An employer can also deny that they're monitoring you, and there's nothing you can do about it.
I mean, a light switch reacts to my input by turning on.

If the measure is "reacting to numerous inputs in various ways," the Bible's definitely more intelligent than any "AI." It already figured out how to control humans.

(Like, I'm joking but I'm not? It really does speak to my opinion that at the end of the day "what humans do" is the thing that matters. People will get inspiration and ideas from both AI's and books. And people will use and misuse machines and computers, but that's about it.)
> Why would passionate minorities produce better policy than median voters?

Maybe they are better informed - I think there are plenty of issues that have passionate insiders and median failures. Climate change policy, for instance, has vocal scientific minorities but the median opinion seems to be "we'll deal with this later...."

Maybe they are disproportionately impacted - transgender folks probably know more about what policies would have a huge positive impact for them at basically no cost to society. But the median opinion probably doesn't know anything about trans healthcare.

Maybe the right thing to do is unpopular. Some taxes are necessary, but the median opinion on any given tax is "no".

Maybe the "prevailing wisdom" is just wrong. The median voter might be holding on to ideas that they learned growing up, rather than understanding what they are voting for.

Maybe the median opinion is discriminatory. If 65% of voters are, eg, Christian, what implications does that have for our Hindu, Jewish, Sikh, Muslim, and Pagan friends? For example, maybe we should consider what days are national holidays and listen to some passionate minorities.

The median and average opinion is not always the right answer. It's very often a reasonable answer, but it's not always.
They probably lose 100k users a day.
I agree. In fact this post was inspired by someone I work with who embodies this mindset.

I probably could have said something more along the lines of it fades naturally unless you mindfully keep it around.

That quality, though, feels like a hard one to learn. Not impossible but it seems like it comes naturally to some and not to others.
Yeah, feature flags are increasingly mainstream / worthwhile, but I hate the idea of giving up on not just CR before merging, but also "preview deploys" (from feature branches to ephemeral deploy envs).