skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Or consider unlimited vacation for developers. At one point that was a fairly novel perk. Now, everyone has that.

I would argue that nobody (or hardly anyone) has this. Otherwise you’d find most developer only working 6 months a year.
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Or keep the "One China Policy", but switch which China that is. Oh, I see that's called the "One-China principle"... Good -- it sounds so similar, politicians the world over can start saying they stand by the One-China principle like they've always done, and most people won't even notice the difference.
They are less than 1% of all the NfTS with inflated prices. No need to argue about the outliers
The key difference is that apple cares what their computers look like when they're open. Dell doesn't. An ugly switch would ruin the line of the Mac's case and look out of place.

Now, you may disagree with that philosophy, but Apple is wildly successful for it. Personally, I don't like Macs anymore, but I do absolutely respect that attitude.
My experience introducing myself to Orgmode over the last couple of years has been that I can add new features/syntax as I need them, or not. I don’t care whether my one big notes file can be processed by any tooling other than Emacs itself, and Emacs seems to be forgiving of whatever I do with it.

All I really needed to get started was to understand the equivalent syntax to the basic features Markdown would offer.
The NSA and CIA are both foreign focused. The FBI is internally focused within the US.
Why 2021's founder-friendly market doesn’t mean you’re guaranteed to raise money
“Don't forget that if they really knew what to do to start a successful company they wouldn't be investors but founders”

I can’t stand this philosophy, e.g. “those who can’t do teach” kind of stuff.

Perhaps VCs prefer their job to being a founder?

Not everyone who is _capable_ of being a founder _wants to_ be a founder. It’s exhausting work that takes all of your time.
> Or consider unlimited vacation for developers.

Is there any evidence that developers (or anyone else with "unlimited vacation") take more time than they did previously?

I've assumed that was more akin to "open offices" - selling a cost-cutting measure as something hip.
This is a great piece of software that's installed on all my machines!
Promoting my own side project: https://nocookieanalytics.com/.

Cookie free, API first and open source with a focus on speed. It's not as featured as some of the other well known projects in this area, but it's a work in progress.
Show HN: Shop Smarter wish Chestr, Universal Wishlist w/ Discount Monitoring
https://www.getchestr.com/

Chestr is Pinterest + Honey. You can save anything you want from the Web in a single click, and get notifications if there are any discounts.

We're late for Xmas wishlists – but still wanted to share it with the community! :)
Honestly, not even bothering to solve the "double spend" problem makes this much less than it could have been.

After all, it is very easy to solve the "double spend" problem without the use of a blockchain: simply use a single trusted authority.

You know how every time you buy a house or piece of land you have to get a state-licensed notary to verify your identity, And then after signing the deed you have to send the paperwork to the county registrar because if they don't write it in their books then the land hasn't actually changed hands? That was NFTs working fairly well long before the invention of blockchain or computers or cryptography.
The best advice I heard was don't listen.

- Cousin Stizz
If I were to make some WAGs about things that could generally be described this way:

* increased failure rates of drives (or other hardware) due to thermal cycling

* cache power failures leading to corrupted data

* previously unknown failures in recovery processes (like firmware bugs that might be described as a "hardware problem")

* cooling failures leading to hardware failure

Most of these are pretty rare issues, but it becomes more probable to happen at least once when you're running freekin' us-east-1
Wacom has a mouse with a cursor on it.
An equal critique though would be - can you think of a man who can get away with dressing in women’s clothing? You might find some gay men but you won’t find straight men getting away with it - generally speaking.

Yet - women wearing mens clothing choices is very normal.

I’m not saying men have it worse or anything btw - just giving vision to the other side which is ignored often. Men have simplistic wardrobes out of habit but also because they literally are so limited in what they can wear. Choose your bottom - pants, pants, jeans, or pants. Choose your top - polo, button down, or t-shirt. Those are your options. You can try to add layers like a scarf, sweater, suit jacket, etc. but mens fashion is inherently way more limited due to gender norms. It’s not a surprise that you see CEOs wearing the same thing everyday because they’re like, “well, what else can I fucking wear? I can’t wear different dresses everyday with different cuts and patterns and designs. It’s not masculine. I’ll be ridiculed.” So they go with what is exceptionally boring and repeatable because very few people will even notice to begin with…

Even when men just accessorize - it becomes a costume and a joke. Prime example - Bezos wore a cowboy hat. Now it’s a costume you can buy off Amazon because of the cowboy hat. It should really show you how men cannot wear almost anything outside the norms without heavy critique. So they go with what is safest and normalized and just wear that every single day.
It is common for failing hard drives to continue running until their are power cycled, at which point they never start again.
>It's too bad they allow this loophole

1. the "loophole" is a trade-off between usability and security. Making icloud backups end-to-end-encrypted (ie. you manage the keys) would be more secure, but would a usability nighmare. People are terrible at storing/remembering keys. It's very probable that by the time someone needs a backup, they would have forgotten/lost it, making their backups useless

2. is it really an issue that apple "allows" the loophole? Ultimately you need to trust your conversation partner. Even if icloud backups wasn't a thing, there's a dozen other ways your conversation can be compromised by your partner eg. them taking a screenshot, them leaving their phones unlocked, them snitching on you.
Do RO water systems still waste the vast majority of what comes out of the tap? I've wanted to get one, but they seem a bit environmentally gnarly.
The pricing is pretty competitive compared to other devices with a similar resolution. These are low margin devices, with very high BOM.
Digital things will never be able to reproduce the physical qualities of objects. Yet digital art exists and can be appreciated. And if you appreciate it enough, buy the NFT the artist has for sale.
I would be happy enough if Stackoverflow put as much emphasis on citing version numbers as it does the less critical x-y problem. At least the former benefits future readers.
Fair, it is not truly unlimited, but for plenty of people (at least where I have worked) it has still ended up being 5-8 weeks a year.

In contrast to the more traditional employers who say that you can start with two weeks and after 3 years of loyal service with no real raises, you can have three.
autconf in 2021 instead of something more humane like CMake, Meson, Bazel, build2. Why?
How does Bronze overcomplicate Rust as a language? It's an optional library, not a language extension.

I think it's often pretty easy to not footgun yourself with thread or memory issues, because these issues simply don't exist in wide swaths of application.
LWN is great. I immediately reead this headline as if LWN was shutting down which I don't think it is?

It seems Rebecca had a central role and that they need to do some staffing, but that LWN remains. Thanks for the long story!
I love Jamón Serrano, living in Spain I eat it quite often, though personally I’m more partial to Lomo which is more meaty
It's not right to assume that it's legalised everywhere.
There's no centralized development that I know of. The Wiki tends to lag reality, but two pages are related:

* https://wiki.pine64.org/wiki/PineNote_Development

* https://wiki.pine64.org/wiki/RK3566_EBC_Reverse-Engineering tracks the status of that.
Web 2 was “if you don’t know what the product is, you are the product.”

Web 3 is “if you don’t know what is being owned, you are being owned.”

Not saying that disparagingly. Just is.
That is how it was from 1949 to 1971 right? Didn't work out that well for China or the rest of the world, I don't think playing word games with the PRC is going to do much.
Can you elaborate on the last two sentences?
I think this study may in fact show that lesser educated people are less susceptible to propaganda, and less likely to be “institutionalized” by society and group-think.

This reminds me of those studies purporting to denigrate the religious by showing they have lower IQs than non-religious people. Yet, some of the biggest minds (John Von Neumann) had some religious leanings:

“ von Neumann, when dying of cancer in the hospital, sought the ministrations of a Catholic priest, Fr. Anselm Strittmatter, O.S.B., to whom he confessed and from whom he received the last sacraments of the Catholic Church. Some explained this as the act of a desperate man who was known to have an unusually great horror of death. On the other hand, that he had some belief is indicated by the fact that he once confided to his mother, “There probably has to be a God. Many things are easier to explain if there is than if there isn’t.” “

So clearly, studies such as the one in the article are not particularly useful, nor enlightening (at least not for the reasons people might think). Any who base their decisions going forward on the results of this study, rather than on their own balanced examination of the facts, is more likely to be cognitively deficient.
Cher came from a hell of a background - the kind of thing that pretty often ends in an early grave. She wound up as a principle software engineer at Apple, which, if you'll excuse the understatement, is a pretty solid title. She's clearly smart, capable, and capable of contributing. She also needs a more robust set of support systems around her than most of us rely on.

By and large, our industry does not reflect the broader population. By and large, our industry is young, male, white, and from a relatively wealthy background. By and large, our industry is populated by people who have faced remarkably little adversity in our lives (by and large - if this doesn't describe you, I acknowledge you and exempt you). For the most part, our pathologies are considered cute and are indulged in, because they're relatively cheap - we're grown-ass men wearing hoodies, decorating our desks with action figures, and eating our meals in the company cafeteria. The support system for whatever the fuck is wrong with us is Postmates and Uber.

If, as an industry, we want to keep preaching this notion of meritocracy that we use to excuse all kinds of weird shit we do and support, we need to take a hard look at Cher's situation. Cher did her part - she put in the fucking work, learned to code, got a job, and landed at a FAANG, and she did so under harder circumstances than any of us did. The thing is, Cher's story is closer to normal than ours - there are more people in the world by a mile who's story looks like Cher's than looks like ours. If we actually want our industry to be the meritocracy that we pretend it is, we need to do a lot more to support people like Cher.
As annoying as that might be, exporting followers seems like a use-case that Twitter might not want to freely support?
Did you think this over before hitting the reply button? Can you imagine any server or networking brand surviving if its products were at substantial risk of dying when powering up or cycling? Have you ever heard of common consumer grade computer equipment regularly dying from it? No? Not me either.

It's really common to find thyristors in devices to limit in-rush current, even in cheap electronics. You can bet that PSUs in data center equipment use them.
Many Taiwanese would love to throw off the legacy of the ROC completely (territorial claims, claims on mainland China, etc...), but to do so would be an act of ultimate war as far the PRC is concerned.
Please don't post generic flamewar comments to HN. The threads they lead to are endlessly repetitive and tedious. We want conversations that haven't been had a thousand times before.

Low-information, high-indignation posts are the opposite of what HN is for. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
Oh, what you might mean is, "If I can't fly because I will disturb you on the ground, you are stealing the enjoyment of the skies from me." I can see that. I think it also relates to the number of people affected. If one pilot during one flight across a forest disturbs 100 people who are trying to enjoy nature, that imbalance is where the difficulty is.
An argument that it's plausible that almost all remarkable or interesting anecdotes that you read on Reddit are fake: https://slatestarcodex.com/2016/12/12/might-people-on-the-in...

I'm not sure if I believe this, and I certainly don't think it has much to do with the existence of r/thathappened (which does indeed seem much more rooted in people's fear of having been a sucker). But it's interesting to think that the basic intuition of "true stories are more common than fake ones" might be misleading with respect to Reddit in particular, because of the specifics of how Reddit works.

(The point about it being harmless is unpersuasive to me; I want to believe that a given story is true if and only if it is actually true.)
For those who didn't read the full article, a couple tidbits not covered in the headline:

> The timing mattered, though: only those who’d watched the 2x video for a second time immediately before a test, rather than right after the first viewing, got this advantage.

Also, if subjects watched only once, there was no downside vis a vis 1x watching, until reaching 2.5x:

> the 1.5x and 2x groups did just as well on the tests as those who’d watched the videos at normal speed, both immediately afterwards and one week on. Only at 2.5x was learning impaired.
> Have you ever heard of common consumer grade computer equipment regularly dying from powering up?

Yes, absolutely.
It's been spectacular so far. I'd like to throw more code at it. This why i want to do a private early access beta.
The second definition doesn't mean "revisionist" has some different meaning within marxist thinking. It means communists call people who back pedal the revolutionary language of marx to make it less radical "revisionists". The meaning is the same, it's just a special context where what you are revising and why are clearly defined.

> CRT uses Revisionist reading as a tool to formulate reform of an existing system or dialog.

The only way that re-interpreting the past as a tool to figure out how to change current systems is a bad thing, is if current systems are good. Given how things are for non-white people in america, I think it's clear that changing current systems is needed.

If you're worried because they are interpreting historical fact to fit their preconceived notion, well... yes, so are we all. We all have preconceived notions. Romans were clean and noble, while medieval people were filthy and never bathed. Every story I hear about either of those times is slotted into my preconceptions about romans or medieval people. Then one day an activist historian with an agenda teaches me that romans didn't have soap, but medieval people did... the facts support their idea that medieval people were cleaner than we portray them in movies and tv. Just because they had an agenda (the medieval period is maligned in culture) when they went looking for those facts, doesn't mean they're wrong.
I only have anecdotes from the two companies I have worked for with it, but developers taking 5-8 weeks off is not uncommon.

And whether or not you do take it, you can if you need/desire to do so.

It stands in contrast to more traditional companies that offer you two weeks to start and an extra week after three years of service without a raise.
Now that Jack is out, he seems to be speaking rather freely…
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I wish AWS official clients did this automaically by default. Customers could opt out from encryption if it is public data. When an aws account is created it also creates a default CMk (specific to that aws account) for entire service which customers could change if they want.
As large cloud outages become more frequent and the impact greater each time, I feel it’s more likely people will reconsider moving workloads off-prem.
> A lot of the notions about Vietnamese hostility to China and Chinese business is out of date and becoming more out of date.

Note that the last major riot against China in Vietnam was way back in 2014. As long as China doesn't do anything aggressive in the SCS, the Vietnamese should come to like China again, however the chances of the former happening are very slim.
I'm genuinely curious: why would I use this over something like Crystal, which is pretty much Ruby, but native?

https://crystal-lang.org/
Trustless solutions have no place in a world with robust trust, which is most of the developed world and parts of the developing world. The solution isn’t blockchain, it’s more trust and the organizations and governance that builds that trust.
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Andreas Kling (of SerenityOS) recently did a Natalie contribution video that I found interesting. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4PZgvPYkP4
More than double realistically. But you could achieve most of the benefit at much lower cost by going multi-AZ.
I’m a little confused about this project. I’m trying to build the most complete list of programming languages out there (currently working on it via my favorites, it you want to have a look), and I’m trying to figure out if this qualifies.

Usually it’s pretty easy to get on my list: if you call your project a language I add it to the list.

But this one gives me a little pause, because it seems like this language is not distinct from Ruby at all. Rather this is a straight up Ruby -> C++.

Is it fair to call this a language rather than a compiler? To me, a language is more than syntax and semantics, but includes an library ecosystem, tooling, and community. Does Natalie aim to grow a community, or will it exist fully within the Rudy ecosystem?
Is this a manually curated list of artists/music, or based on a Spotify API?

How does this tool pick which artist to display?

I created a searchable playlist of music based on YouTube content, but I'm pretty much adding musicians from a few select genres to it carefully-

http://www.ruffandtuffrecordings.com/SELECTIONS

I haven't really found a music suggestion tool that isn't driven by the creator's preference, would be nice if YouTube had better classification data on music that could be extracted by XML...
But couldn't one use two unit quaternions to describe rotations in 4d space? An antisymmetric matrix in 4 dimensions has N(N-1)/2 = 6 independent variables. But each unit quaternion has three independent variables, so two of them would be enough to describe rotations in 4d.
I've come to think the missing piece is a system or process of helping each person experiment through different note taking styles or systems, until they find what resonates best with them, or exposing them to various systems, different ones which they may realize work best for different contexts of what they're doing - for different projects or mental contexts, etc.

I too have an idea for a "note taking" app - essentially better streamlining, automating, and extending what I currently do - but maybe the process or steps I currently take are integral to what I currently do working. Who knows. Will I ever get the chance to create the custom "note taking" app that I envision? Who knows.

For now, because of my situation with severe chronic pain and how it impacts/disrupts my executive function, I will have multiple TODO lists on q-cards, and dozens and dozens TODO lists in various notes on my laptop and phone, none of which are synchronized - most of them lost to the past and therefore inherently part of a backlog of relatively unimportant things that otherwise would surface again in my mind or life if they were important enough.
Are you sure this is caffeine withdrawal and not a sugar crash (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reactive_hypoglycemia)?
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I was asking the opposite question, I think. I know of GNAT, but I was asking whether there's any Ada/Spark that has a GPL (or whatever non-proprietary) license.
https://archive.ph/tX5wj
It’s amazing that people still don’t understand that a significant portion of “dark” markets are either created or controlled by law enforcement, often acting in a multinational collaborative effort that can go on for years without revealing itself to be a giant trap. This isn’t a conspiracy theory — it’s standard operating procedure.

Again — for better or worse, a lot of crimes that matter to you and I are just not that important to people who view the full ecosystem of criminality from 10,000 feet up. Some of those dark markets are a lot darker than the others...

Back to your point, how are you planning on converting your fiat into crypto, and are you sure that all of the other wallet addresses etc associated with the transaction are totally “clean?” And remember, ISPs etc are going to give up all of that info easily, so can you guarantee that those other wallets you used weren’t ever opened or accessed on the same network / IP / etc? Once you start aggregating data points it’s not terribly difficult for most transactions. Yes, there’s still some that are super hard, but you can imagine that de-anonymizing those would be a very fun detective game, rather than an impossibility that causes investigators to give up.
They're trying really hard to challenge it with this silly "we won't let you read anything without an account" thing they're doing.
I am not sure whether or not inrush current (or thermal cycling, or something else) is to blame, but server equipment in data centers has been fairly well documented to exhibit increased hardware failure rates after outages.
You're romanticizing here. Electronics eventually dying is not the same as being at substantial risk from dying due to power-cycling itself.
I wonder what 'personal' means in his context though. A lot of the big speed runs, el cap, that face in squamish, are pretty established and not a super personal experience, like say picking your favorite one pitch and doing it.

But I am shocked at how many climbers I know who free solo more than 40 feet off the deck...
I read this comment at 200x speed.
Map the file into memory, but not actually load it, just set up the mapping and wait until it's used to pagefault it in.
This is the most HN comment ever. Love it. Merry Christmas :)