skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've hired several AWS engineers. Everyone of them, despite of having left AWS had nothing but good things to say. You'd think that since they left AWS, they'd have a boat load of things to unload. The only gripe I heard was occassional work/life balance during launch or critical times. Otherwise, AWS/Amazon is akin to working at Intel, GE, IBM, Oracle, etc. Bog standard corporate job. You are a cog in the machine, get used to it. In return you get a stable career, can raise a family and do better than 99.99% of the people on this planet.

NYT's story was very controversial.

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/08/17/432555175...

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/10/amazon-...

https://www.vox.com/2015/8/17/9166023/new-york-times-amazon

NYT has a tremendous agenda and often goes unchecked.
Stop signs seem to be the current solution to roads that promote unsafe/fast driving. It's been demonstrated that narrow, non-straight roads promote slower, safer driving. This is the opposite of how roads have been built in most US suburbs for years.
The cost to benefit ratio of coffee is so high that it makes sense to provide it to the whole office regardless of whether or not they’re IT
It seems like people don't know that it's possible? But obviously it's possible to pull dependency source code into the tree... The only question is whether or not there is tooling support for it. It could only possibly be a bonus to have something like cargo that can automate that workflow, rather than being forced to do it manually.

So I agree, this particular criticism is very confusing. Though as I said, that doesn't mean no criticism is warranted!
But that begs the question. Is Twitter a public space?
During spin-up the lateral force on the projectile increases slowly until it reaches maximum. When it's released, this load disappears almost instantaneously and the object is effectively in free-fall ... effectively 0g.

Then it hits the atmosphere and is subjected to significant drag, but that onset is reasonably slow (by some metric) compared with the release mentioned above, but it's along a different axis. What's more, the projectile has spin along its long axis ... I don't know how that's imparted.

Yeah, there are some huge forces that change rapidly in lots of directions.
Right on red is a bizarre murderous idea - why let cars cross a pedestrians' right of way?
I have the Boox Note Air 2, and it's great. Only complaint: time from picking it up to reading is too long, because it has to boot up and doesn't remember which book you were reading, though it does remember your place. Other than that, I enjoy everything about it. The display is beautiful and the software has been stable for me, despite what I've read in reviews.
Since they're complaining about maintainability, I assume they're advocating for microkernels?
It literally says exactly that, including the line "This caused him to have another panic attack."
I'm not sure what standing anyone at T would have to sue him after a move made to counter him buying it... after he made a public offer like that.

It would make perfect sense to just sell and go for plan B (buy through multiple people/off-shores or something).
>I can think of a number of cases where someone could have expressed that opinion seriously and been pretty much correct, including Jews under the Nazis, and the Ukrainians now.

The problem is that if you place yourself in a random time and party, you are more likely to be a Nazi than a Jew, because a crucial element of evil is the power to do it, which is associated with having greater numbers, and that rigs the odds so that your random insertion will be among them rather than their heroic enemies.
This is standard de rigeur defense against the prospect of an hostile takeover.
i have found that an external broadcast television tuner with a regular hdmi display works well for my needs. the mediasonic HW220STB includes a PVR function to record broadcasts but the firmware is a bit old. Contemporary Research 232-ATSC is an older but fully capable tuner with rs-232 and ethernet remote control and can be had for around $100. there's a newer model called "232-ATSC 4K" which retails for around $1k and offers 4K output - the older one only goes up to 1080.

these are both ATSC tuners so they're fine for me in the US, but there is of course a different broadcast standard in non-US countries so this advice won't apply there.
You don't believe care providers should be required to utilize best available science? Please, completely overturn our entire system of tort and malpractice.

Pass the popcorn.
Why are these articles so popular with HN? Any article about treating mental illnesses (including depression) with LSD/shrooms/cannabis/[drug] immediately shoots to the top, and I see articles like this every other day at the top of HN. Is it just people wishing for a silver bullet that will cure their mental problems? At any rate, the number of mentally ill people on the internet must be much larger than I am estimating.
This is the bank vs the investment side. Goldman Sachs Bank is their representing Bank, Goldman Sachs Investments (or whatever it's called today) is the part that writes the public short-term price targets. They aren't connected and often disagree.

It is the responsibility of the Bank to get maximum return on investment for the company. It is the responsibility of the Investments side to get as many customers in the door as possible and to provide them with timely information.
I watched that too and was similarly confused or suspicious. I had never considered him to be known as a great programmer. Was he, or is history getting revised a bit?

Also, I feel like many of us could also claim accurately to have stayed up writing code as young people - I don't know how much that means on it's own. I definitely did, but am in no way an exceptional programmer, anymore than a kid who played football after school would automatically be a football prodigy
How to perform actual download ??
> This bill would designate the dissemination or promotion of misinformation or disinformation related to the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, or “COVID-19,” as unprofessional conduct. The bill would require the board to consider specified factors prior to bringing a disciplinary action against a physician and surgeon. The bill would also make findings and declarations in this regard.

They really need to separate the two definitions.

- Misinformation - False information that is spread regardless of intent to mislead.

- Disinformation - False information that is spread with intent to mislead.

The latter is harmful. Everyone agrees this is unprofessional conduct. The former however? That's the world being ignorant today when there's many unknowns about covid we're still seeking answers to.
Not the person you're replying to, but why would you think this is trolling? In some countries it's quite common for streets to be one-way for vehicle traffic but two-way for bikes. I don't think the suggestion is for cyclists to ignore the law, but for the road signage to be changed to allow this to happen legally.
These aren’t related. Simple street patterns do not require stop signs per se. If you have a bunch of four-way intersections, potentially two ways can have yield signs and two ways can have right of way.
No; that's different from a non-compete. The practice of "gardening leave" is giving an employee a relatively long notice period (say, 3 months). If the employee gives notice, the employer tells them to stay home during the notice period; they are still technically employed during that period, however.
Where to find C2C/1099 work?
Trying to transition to completely 1099/C2C work but finding the jobs is quite difficult. Especially when all the job postings say NO C2C! Anyone have any clues/hints/leads?
I don't see any problem with that, I'm not the one who said it was ironic that a woman would marry an ambitious man and then have problems with moving to Asia. I don't see any conflict at all between loving someone's ambition and also wanting other things from the relationship.
Feel free to disagree, but I believe there is a large segment of the population, especially conservatives, who feel sidelined or silenced by Twitter.

Case in point: Musk recently polled his followers: "Free speech is essential to a functioning democracy. Do you believe Twitter rigorously adheres to this principle?" and 70% of respondents said "No" [1].

Also, many conservatives believe that banning Trump while allowing the representatives of various autocracies globally is hypocritical.

Of course, you can argue that Twitter is a private company and can do whatever they please. You can also argue that Trump and his followers are a danger to society, or Elon and his followers are biased. I'm just communicating a perspective I believe exists broadly.

[1] https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1507259709224632344
It's this way with on-demand flashing pedestrian signals in my city in Washington as well, though honestly I see it in practice (and do it myself) without actually knowing what the law is.

We also have at least one red light that is strictly for pedestrians that I find irritating every time it's triggered, since it requires a full stop cycle even if the person or persons using it cross quickly or not.
Easier to start a new platform if you kill the old one first. The proverbial plan b, I presume.
Elon Musk Demonstrates How Little He Understands About Content Moderation
On AWS you can pay in advance and forget it. [1]

The provider of your choice probably has a similar billing feature.

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/knowledge-center/prepa...
Looks straight forward. I’m unfamiliar with Ohio specifically but the article lays it out: they’re subject to the State’s sales tax.

This, Hulu and Netflix argue, is a mutually exclusive tax with the franchise fee that the municipality wants to levy, a tax specifically targeted at cable companies that actually lay cable and therefore the State would actually lose money if they were reclassified from their current business status under State law.

It makes sense, and this does look like a money-grab. It can pay for its infrastructure out of its share of sales tax revenue or whatever other sources of revenue they have, raise those, or levy a new tax that specifically targets the type of business Ohio apparently classifies Hulu and Netflix to be under their State’s laws: a “specified digital products”, whatever that means, but I’m betting they don’t want to because doing so would hit more than Netflix and Hulu and bring more big players into the political fight.
Thanks for releasing this cool tool.

Some feedback: The plugin (via Chrome v100) could not render this HN post, thus the epub download was not useful.

Screenshot feedback: https://i.imgur.com/q1T0Hd0.png
> There is no harm done by answering a bad faith question in good faith.

There absolutely can be.
I often get stuck rejecting this bi-modal way of working where I use one tool for authoring and another for debugging or whatever else that benefits from tooling.

Do you feel that (excluding the cost of learning/configuring it) it'd be better if you used something like neovim where both experiences can be pretty top-notch?
It’s been 4 days since the last remote-exploitable, no-auth-needed RCE hole in Windows. If you were running this version of Windows, you would not get the patch automatically delivered to your device.
When January 6 happened, it was a shock.

Not to me, and not to a lot of others. We'd been expecting it for quite some time. If anything was shocking to me, it's that there wasn't more of it, and worse.

Fortunately, most of the loudest and most paranoid people are also lazy. It's easy and risk-free to spread conspiracy theories on the Internet. Only the .0001% of them with the most free time and least sense showed up that day -- and then only because it was incompetently organized.

There will be better organizers and less stupid leaders coming. That's not even close to over. So don't be shocked next time.
> Internet expands the total number of offerings available to one person while decreasing the total number of offerings available overall.

This argument makes much more sense to me, and I like that the author has actual plotted their idea using some sort of data, which is much more convincing than hand waving.
that sign (along with cross traffic does not stop) exists in CA, but it's not universal enough to rely upon an absence of that sign meaning a 4 way stop.
For the US, next time will be worse. There is an announced Russian plan to destabilize the US political system.[1]

"Meanwhile on Russian state TV: Host Evgeny Popov says it's time for the Russian people to call on Americans to change "the regime in the U.S." before its term expires "and to again help our partner Trump to become President."[2]

[1] https://news.yahoo.com/russia-airs-ultimate-revenge-plan-180...

[2] https://twitter.com/JuliaDavisNews/status/150894331048376730...
Non-partisan courts did and found nothing. At a certain point, one must just have faith in the system. Also the sources 'weren't on the same side as the party allegedly rigging the elections,' i.e. Republican officials in Georgia and Arizona claimed there was no rigging.
Right, but it seems like it would probably make more sense to pick a totalizing system, if you know you'll have a polyglot environment, which seems pretty inevitable for any business (as opposed to just like a side project). But I think there are probably good reasons this isn't the most common way to do things, and I just don't know them.
It's not really uncomfortably close to determinism, it is baseline deterministic which is necessary for the verification. The powerful part of idempotence is that it's deterministic + a verified assurance "as if we run it only once."

Deterministic (but not idempotent): send_message(id=1, body) without verifying the state of id, could result in the message being received multiple times.

Idempotent: send_message(id=1, body) would verify that the id token hadn't been consumed, before acting, thus only allowing the message to be sent one time.
It depends on when the crashes happen. If your unsafe plane only crashes during takeoff and landing then you’d want to minimize those, if it only crashes at cruise you’d minimize that.

If crashes occur IN the intersection and not entering it, then reducing time IN is a net win, even if the number of insertions remain the same.
> By the way, why is bonding with colleagues such a big deal? I had to leave my family and lifelong friends behind due to moving to another city. What if WFH had been the norm when I started my career? Doesn't hanging out with your family and friends count for anything?

I think this is for the company? If you have a good rapport with your co-workers, I suspect it will be easier to work together on problems.

It is of course also possible to do things more formally.

I dunno. I like to keep coworkers at an arms length and not get too buddy-buddy, and I prefer to socialize with my non-work friends. So I'm not suggesting that people should replace their social friends with work friends or something ridiculous like that. But the there's plenty of room between best buds and total icy formality that for coworkers to exist in, which might make it easier to bounce ideas back and forth.
Somewhat related: Push to Kindle https://www.fivefilters.org/push-to-kindle/
I'm not sure why you keep focusing on Patanjali, who I'll concede is beyond caring about this. But the people from his culture and civilization who ARE alive today do not want to see his works (some who consider it sacred) associated with "beer" or "goats" or commercialized without proper credit and respect, and it is important to them. I'm not sure why that reason is not good enough for you? Are you the kind of person who goes trespassing in sacred native lands in Hawaii or anywhere else, because after all the elders are all dead?
I agree with the other commentor that this relates to conspiracy theories, but I find that conspiracy theories are where people go when they have no evidence to support their premise. In other words, the ratio of alleged to likely conspiracy theories is really bad for theorists.

Stop signs’ utility in shutting up squeaky wheels or appeasing anti-car agitators are a simpler and more direct explanation.
If you’re going by the book you should never be following another car closely enough that you can’t stop in time to avoid a collision, even if they come to a full stop unexpectedly.
I appreciate your advocacy for Wikipedia to continue to allow everyone to edit anonymously. When I was a wikipedia regular I also pushed for this.

Unfortunately, as with everything, some people do abuse this facility. Some abuse it to place misinformation on wikipedia. Other people (like bored teenagers) might vandalize the wiki by deleting all the content on the page and replacing it with a pithy epithet. Then there are bots that skim the internet looking for mediawiki sites and filling them with adverts.

Sometimes you need to block these kinds of activity. Sometimes such abuse comes from a shared address or range, and sometimes such a block thus leads to (hopefully temporary) blocking of innocent bystanders. That is bad.

There are facilities in place to help prevent innocent bystanders from getting caught up. But it's a constant arms race. And if nothing is done at all, wikipedia would quickly cease to operate.

The community discussion is about this situation. Current internet trends have more people editing from behind proxies or shared IP addresses. If these trends continue, perhaps wikimedia will have to figure out new ways to fight abuse and while still allowing people to continue to edit anonymously. This is not something that has happened or will happen by itself. It takes and will take constant monitoring.

I don't think it's a good idea to then just go ahead abolish anonymous editing like some people suggest. Being anonymous on the internet is a great thing that should be a right. We need to continue to find ways to preserve anonymity (and pseudonymity!), and also continue to find ways to keep bad actors from ruining it for anyone else.

Having anonymous participants is orthogonal to whether your community is moderated by the way. In fact you can even have anonymous moderation (which has been a part of how wikipedia works) .
I guess I've assumed that a bike would prefer to cross in front of me, someone who has acknowledged their presence and also happens to be blocking the lane behind me, rather than wait and take their chances with the next guy who may not be looking. Perhaps I'll reconsider that in the future. I still think I will do this in at least some circumstances, like when I see kids on bikes wanting to cross. In the case of kids I make a point to check all the traffic before waving them on and basically try to act as another set of eyes for them while they're crossing.
This pretty much describes my worst fears about political leaders in the US. They are absolutely beholden to those who finance their campaigns and prop up their respective national committees. I will and won't "both sides" this, from time to time, because both major parties have serious corruption, but it seems to have become way worse on one side than the other recently.
That sentence was hard to follow, but it sounds like you're suggesting there are legitimate "sources" that have proof the 2020 election was rigged? I'm putting "sources" in extremely heavy quotation marks because there's absolutely no evidence with any basis in reality that can actually claim that.

The biggest questions I ask myself all the time: What level of deprogramming would it take to get the victims of this delusion to acknowledge the election wasn't rigged? How do flat earthers get deprogrammed? Where do you even begin? What's the strategy? What's the success rate? Is it even possible?
Goldman themselves has the price target at $30. Musk offered ~$55. Nearly double the price target. As clear cut a breach as it gets, even more so because Goldman rejected it. Any one that thinks Twitter is worth more than $60/share is delusional.
If I was willing to deal with Oracle, I would use it.

My experience was that on the correct sparc hw, Solaris was always more reliable under heavy IO load than Linux, in that it would degrade gradually in performance as the limits of the hw were reached.

I also much preferred Solaris RBAC to sudo; and SMF to systemd. And, the old Sun support that you got at the platinum level was tremendous, and as they owned the whole system (userland to hw), they could have all the ppl. that designed the parts you were having trouble with in the same room, or on the same call, to help you fix it. Of course, this was not cheap....

TL;DR: I miss SUNW.
I've felt inadequate throughout most of my early career. That's how I know that the confidence I have today is well deserved.

I've never had impostor syndrome though. To have impostor syndrome, you have to be given opportunities which are significantly above what you deserve.

I did get a few opportunities in my early career which were slightly above my capabilities but not enough to make me feel like an impostor. In the past few years, all opportunities I've been given have been below my capabilities. I know based on feedback from colleagues and others.

For example, when I apply for jobs, employers often ask me "You've worked on all these amazing, challenging projects, why do you want to work on our boring project?" It's difficult to explain to them that I just need the money... They must think that with a resume like mine I should be in very high demand or a millionaire who doesn't need to work.

I've worked for a successful e-learning startup, launched successful open source projects, worked for a YC-backed company, worked on a successful blockchain project. My resume looks excellent but it doesn't translate to opportunities for some reason.
"With added security", but from the FAQ, no security updates, and no way to add them.

I can't imagine this is more secure than standard Windows 10.
For 1. Their evidence does not support the argument, since they impose a boundary condition on how low you can estimate and how low you can perform.

To show that high performers don't overestimate their skills you have to give them the opportunity to
The technique is "flooding the zone with shit" per Steve Bannon. When successful, it obscures that there's objective truth at all.

HN is particularly susceptible because we're all in one silo and when we can't agree on a shared reality, we have to assume under the HN guidelines that the alternate reality is truly what our interlocutor believes.

The endgame looks like the Russian people accepting Putin's nonsense because they can't believe anything.
Ubuntu Continues Falling Like a Rock as a Gaming Distro
I think that when it becomes culty and reality-denying is where the real problems come in. For example, 47 years ago the city of Phenom Penh was forced at gunpoint to march into the wilderness to farm rice because of how some people interpreted Marx. Those that weren't simply marched off to be killed--often beaten to death to save on bullets--were made to farm rice despite not knowing how and with no plans made to actually feed them. So most of the rest worked 16+ hour days and simply starved, because you could get shot for high crimes like catching a fish to eat when it was swimming between your legs.
If they told you to follow cdc advice… that’s even worse than disinformation is actively dangerous to yourself and others
With the greatest respect, the analogy between Farage and Hitler is not a good one, and the analogy between Cameron and Hitler is ridiculous. Farage is a populist who wanted out of the EU, basta. He spent too much time kissing Putin's bum - that is my impression. Cameron was a moderate, without many very deep ideas at all, an admirer of Swedish social democracy (who isn't?) and hardly distinguishable from Ed Miliband.