skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem with this is that as companies go further and further remote, there’s no such thing as “the local office.” My team is in multiple countries, let alone multiple cities or towns in the same country. Forcing people to still live within commute distance of the office just for four events a year seems pretty restrictive. Currently, I could move anywhere in the world (assuming I could get a visa), and it’d work out. Or more reasonably, I can follow my wife for her career in health care to a different city. Or I could move back to the east coast US to be closer to family. All without changing jobs, teams, and especially pay. I think that freedom is pretty huge, and definitely understated if moving is a serious possibly in one’s life.
>Pretty sure the woman usually doesn't have the pool boy's children

You'd be surprised.
Note that the ToS also forbid Cloud users from “disseminating information” about “the performance of the products”.

So you can’t say it’s slow or unperforming.
> Know your audience

This point is something that I notice in a lot of meetings. Some of the engineers I work with are long winded and tend to over-explain concepts/issues to non-engineering folks. I try to send a direct message during the meeting (now and then) to try and reel them in a little by explaining that the non-engineering folks don’t need those details and that a what they are really asking for is a summary of the key points of the concept/issue under discussion, but it’s not always well received.
I have never seen a language successfully eliminate nil/null and zero values after the fact. Once they're in, they're there to stay.
Ironically, whilst having terrible hayfever... Not taking Antihistamines at all seems to have had the most profound effect on me between the gen 1 and 2 meds. If I didn't know any better, I would almost figure I was having some sort of rebound effect from taking them in the first place. Which is odd, because I have been diagnosed with having Allergic Sinusitis, which triggers an inflammatory asthma if not careful.

I used 1st gen stuff like Chlorpheniramine and Diphenhydramine to start. Tried some second gen stuff not too long ago, and it worked pretty well too; but not as well just not taking any? It's weird. Meanwhile if I have an actual allergy attack, I keep Benadryl around for just in case. Because again, not taking any of these seems to just leave me without any allergies now? Or as bad at least. But Benadryl seems to still have some effect, where as I need a couple days of taking the 2nd gen stuff to actually get any effect; if any at all.

All in all, I'm confused now as to which I should even take considering everything in how my reactions have been to it all. So I just don't take any unless things are real bad now. Which they usually aren't.

Maybe I outgrew my allergies? I doubt it, cause I still sneeze around cats and stuff. heh.
I’m inclined to think the issue is not him but the people he surrounds himself with. I'm vaguely aware of toxic content about short men on social media but don't think I've ever encountered it directly- I use Tiktok frequently but never see this kind of stuff, it's generally positive content and things related to my hobbies because that's what I interact with. Why on earth is this woman he quotes saying toxic shit about short men "one of his favorite influencers?"
The Leuchtturm is my go-to as well for the last few years. I’m also glad they are very easy to source.

I like to have mine around for jotting ideas down and drawing diagrams. I don’t have a system or anything. I think I used to be far more prescriptive about what I put in it but now it’s just a playground for my ideas and that suits me really. I carry around everywhere so it’s ready to be used.
those cars are not standing by in some residential neighborhood with a lawn, they are constantly moving on the streets of our cities.

I think it would be hard to make people pay more than that, look at what happened in France with the gilets jaunes when they tried.

The only possible way I see to reduce car traffic is to stop making new roads, gradually close existing ones and enhance public transport and proximity to allow people to walk.
For folks in this thread making statements such as, "I don't see how one can dictate to others what they should find attractive," the negative social stigmas towards men of short stature go far beyond physical attraction. (There's absolutely nothing wrong with women finding taller men attractive.)

https://twitter.com/heightismxposed

Swap "short guy" for "Jew" in the quotations from those twits that have nothing to do with attraction:

> I feel sorta bad, but when short guys talk to me all I can think is "wow, what is this miniature dude even saying?"

> cute short guys are waste of space and life tbh

> I don't take short guys serious at all.

> Ugly, short men kill yourselves!

> I can't respect short guys especially if we're the same eye level, I feel like I can beat you up lol

> Men under 5 feet 9 arent really men.

> There's too many short guys in the world

Hopefully the problem is apparent. (The first quote I listed is by a man, AFAICT.)
Alibaba Cloud.

Although, my dealings with them have been entirely negative. Their strategy is to make a clone of every service AWS has, except the billing system which hides a lot of majorly expensive pitfalls.

Also, if you choose one of their mainland hosted zones, trying to get your data out is even more expensive than the other zones.

So in this case, "knowing more about" is really "tread carefully".
$$ for friends of politicians
Fractional reserve isn't how banking works: https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/WP/Issues/2019/12/20/Mon...
> It really wasn't, it was awful, confusing and opaquely and egregiously expensive.

That is true, but it is also very much an understatement of just how miserable every step of the OC experience is.

I was once forced by a customer to endure the torture that is OC, and the only thing that saved me was when Oracle's terrible management software just deleted our entire account and deployment one weekend. Gone without a trace, could not even log in anymore. Luckily, that was enough to persuade the client to move to Azure.
>Sounds like a forever aloner.

This social disqualification is the reason the truth remains hidden. I'm only 5'9 and have a family, but this was way before social networks and online dating. The world is different now.

>I know

Yes I know many data points that fall outside the curve too. But I'm talking about the curve.
Again, I recognize the injustice you are facing. But surely you can recognize that there are important, meaningful differences with respect to racial discrimination?

To put it differently: I object to your sense of proportion.
Between regenerative braking and the fact that EVs don't need transmissions (which stop and go traffic is especially hard on), it does seem like a no brainer.
Read whatever patio11 wrote about that. Probably:

* "Getting Your First Consulting Client" https://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/09/17/ramit-sethi-and-patrick... HN discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4533498 (173 points | Sept 17, 2012 | 45 comments)

* "Why Your Customers Would Be Happier If You Charged More" https://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/09/21/ramit-sethi-and-patrick... HN discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4554669 (234 points | Sept 21, 2012 | 87 comments)
What apps to create that timeline ?
It's pretty telling that the surgeon they mention advertises on the same social networks that cause the underlying body image issues. Clearly he knows that the people using these apps regularly will make up a disproportionate share of his clientele.
> mundane, repetitive, boring language

These apply just as well to assembly, yet they are the reasons almost nobody tries to use it.
If only my job asked me to return to the office full-time, I would probably quit. But if all jobs did the same thing simultaneously, I would probably stay.

So, we'll see whether the job market works more like a perfect competition, or more like a cartel.
They discuss wages. $45 / hour was average in the US. They’re losing people to Amazon driver jobs etc. It’s hard to empathize when clearly they could simply pay more.
I buy Canson sketchbooks[1] and use them for everything, although mostly drawing/sketching. I can blow through them pretty quickly but buying them in 6-packs isn't bad

The 5.5×8.5 format is portable enough, each notebook is 100 pages, the paper isn't too lightweight, and they're serrated so tearing out a page neatly is possible

[1] https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B00H3T4NOU/
Those are what I mean by the most extreme budget categories of those manufacturers. Looking at their websites they don't even seem to advertise them? Maybe you have to special order them.
Oooof. Passing in Application IDs will delete applications and passing in site IDs will delete sites. That's a really really bad design. I'm bookmarking this so that I can use it as a showcase going forward.

Just this week, I changed a spec in one of our proposed endpoints that did exactly that. We passed in ids of various types of objects to perform actions, and I changed the api so that it would be forced to pass in a struct that contained an object type and object id. Explicitness is so much safer in the long run, especially in enterprise apps.
Thanks, it turns out I had pipe wire installed, and mic quality was good. I’m unsure if as good as on my phone but good enough for meetings!
I was thinking that counted as one of the "Obj-C APIs that haven't been updated yet", but I guess it's not actually going away since it's qualitatively different from Swift's Dictionary (being a reference type instead of a value type).
I really hate the idea that people dealing with actual problems with objective evidence of being real problems should go to therapy at substantial cost to have somebody gaslight them into believing that their real problems don't matter. Sure somebody could have delusional views of how much their height matters, and such people could consider therapy, but I'd reckon most people glum about their height have a pretty objective view of it.

The biggest issue I have with limb lengthening surgery is that it's expensive and likely to lead to a lifetime of pain and, lets be real, if you DO become genetically successful you're going to have your son be in the same position of subjecting himself to a lifetime of pain to be sexually successful.

I guess my only advise is the controversial view that you should do nothing and shrug your shoulders at the arbitrary nature of the world. Maybe buy some heel lifts and wear them to your job interviews. Putin does it and it doesn't require you to experience a lifetime of pain. Lie about your height on the internet too.
Yes and no. It's complicated.

Mate selection is not and should not be institutionalized which means that you are within your rights to discriminate on...anything. Your criteria may be based on "taste", past experiences or downright prejudice. It is inevitable that as you pick a mate, you discriminate.

You can't stop that nor should you. We can however openly discuss criteria that are unhealthy, perverted, make no sense...in an attempt to open people's minds. Not to control whom they can date, rather to open up possibilities. People may be missing out a lot by being needlessly restrictive.

As old man I might provide a shortcut. Cliche as it is, character stands the test of time. What is somebody like? Select for that, the rest is a bonus.
I really can't see how unifying the value domain and language semantics of the back and front end necessarily involves more complication than maintaining the mapping between them.
If you go to the Dollar Tree - they have tiny composition notebooks that fit well in your back pocket. A pack for $1 - or I guess, $1.25 now that they raised the prices. I carry a pen that fits on my keychain. If I'm out and about I can jot something down. If I use my phone to take notes, they never get looked at. The act of taking it out of my pocket reminds me if I wrote something that I need to follow up when I'm home.

At home/office I have rocket book. I don't use the app, though. Throughout the workday I jot down notes. At the end of the day/week I will consolidate anything important to the front of the notebook and erase the pages.

I have an ipad, but taking notes with the pen just doesn't feel right for whatever reason. I've yet to find a solution I like for longer term notes (i.e. when reading a book).
Is that what I said?

I acknowledge that there's a difference and that it needs to be made up for in other ways.

Everyone has challenges. Tall people, minorities, gay people, short people, poor people, rich people... the list is endless.

We all have challenges.

We shouldn't measure ourselves by our challenges. We should measure ourselves by the effort we put in to overcome.

When I see a handicapped person climb a mountain, the thing I find extraordinary isn't the handicap, it's the phenomenal effort to transcend.

I don't have anything close to those problems. I'm just a bit vertically challenged.

I'll be double damned if I'm going to let that hold me back, or bemoan how unlucky I am because of it.
I've gone back and forth a bit between electronic and paper notes. For me, electronic just can't beat the physical location of paper. I know where in space a particular note is so it's easier for me to hone in on it. I sketch and do a lot of math and there's just no friction less way to do that in an app. I think I tend to remember concepts graphically too, so searching with text doesn't feel as natural.

Of all the note taking apps I've used though, obsidian is easily the best. The graph they have for connecting notes together is just great. And, I like that their storage system is just plain text files, so long after obsidian is gone, I'll still be able to look at them if I need to.
There's a time period before which you need to permanently delete the data. A soft delete will allow you to delete the data quickly and you can see what happens. If everything is okay you can then purge your database of all soft deleted data.
This is a sensitive topic so don't expect people to comment with anecdotes about people who do want to enhance their nose. That being said, it is popular enough to warrant some businesses [1]. We are also talking about a medical surgery that might not be sufficient for people's needs. Much easier to remove material than add it to the body.

[1] - https://www.floridacosmeticsurgerycenter.com/services/plasti...
Probably not, but I know cases where some people had silicon prothesis implanted in the head to get up to 5 cm (about 2 inches) of height to pass the requirement, so I won't be surprised someone do this instead.
I just checked Staples website. The cheapest Arc refill is $7.50 for 50 pages of notebook paper. That seems expensive to me.
Onyx BOOX Leaf: 7-inch eReader with Android 10
The world spends about 2 Trillion dollars on military per year. 23 billion over, say, 10 years as a lower bound, is a per mille of that. NASA has a yearly budget of 20 billion, ~1/3 of which goes into science.

(BTW, with 100k, in experimental physics, you can't even pay for a postdoc at an US institution for a year)

That shouldn't mean NASA should get less money. But 23 billion for a world-wide, multi-decade project isn't that much.
This is a pretty bad counter-example considering S. Korea is by far the most Westernized place in Asia.
She abuses an information asymmetry and social conventions. Scientific discourse is usually conducted in academic papers, for better or worse this is how the community conducts itself. When she criticizes others work or the usefulness of the fields outside this channel she is addressing as a singular voice the general public. Which gives her voice an outsized presence with a public that is not prepared to engage on equal terms on that discourse or prepare any rebuttal. Meanwhile the rest of the physics community looks dumbfounded because she is escaping the typical means of discourse and ratting them out to the general public, that can´t really make an informed judgement.

Either she is socially clueless on how this can be seen negatively by the rest of the scientific community or she is malicious in her attempts to defund parts of science she believes shouldn't get funding.
> Basically this means that in modern dating, if you are short, you are very likely to die alone and this trend will only get worse in the future.

I'm 5'6, and after almost 15 years of dating sites to modern dating apps, I have indeed accepted that yes, I will very likely die alone. My therapist has even half-seriously suggested I try lying about my height, and qualms aside, from the studies I've read, any plausible-in-person exaggeration would gain me a couple of percentile points at most.
I learned Scala a while ago on the job, and I’m grateful for that opportunity. Nobody on your team volunteered?
Hate to break it to you, but 50mg is pretty much a common dosage for most people taking Diphen. At least where I lived over the past few decades... This is mostly due to the effect of 'if 1 pill is almost enough to do the job, then 2 pills should be adequate'. You see this a lot with people who take Tylenol and/or Advil. Tylenol overdoses are more common because of the frequency of acetaminophens use in other medications in combination with people taking Tylenol not realizing they are doubling/tripling their doses.

So having people end up driving on 50mg+ doses of the dryl is not uncommon in places like Canada. Pair it with a dose or two of pseudoephidrine hydrochloride as well, and you basically have a breath easy cocktail that might put you to sleep, or might keep you awake all night.
> "This is probably the least-Swift thing ever, but, if you're used to coding in this style, it's fantastic."

As someone who has been building on Objective-C for >10 years now... it's horrible. Sure, there's less compiler-yelling-at-you-itis, but the code sample the author gives is almost certainly the single biggest source of bugs in Objective-C codebases.

The inclusion of Optionals in Swift is specifically to, in one fell swoop, eliminate the single largest source of bugs in Obj-C codebases.

I get the appeal of getting the compiler to be less strict and yell at you less for just hacking around - but something you use to write production code needs be very liberal about error detection and yelling at you.

Not to mention the same lack of verbosity is supported in Swift with all of the safeties of optionals:

`if dict?.keys.contains("a")`

Which is both semantically and typographically terser, and makes the intention of the code clear (i.e., "dict" is expected to sometimes be nil)
Why not coat the hulls with gold? As a noble metal, gold doesn’t have sufficient valence electrons to oxidize.

What could go wrong?
Hetzner is shockingly cheaper than vultr now. Also Contabo is very cheap.
Didn't see any study about that, but its true that women not only reject unfit men (short, poor, etc.) but sometimes are actively hostile and abusive to them. Perhaps is a instinctive behavior from a past were rapes were much more common than today.
This guy Scott was 5'7". His attitude about his height was a mental illness and shouldn't be validated, it should be treated.
She never said 'most people don't like me'. She said 'most [particle physicists] don't like me'. It just means she has touched on a point of contention that particle physicists care a lot about.
What it means is that they never tested their disaster recovery system, because this would have been found right away. Or, someone would have reported it and an upper level exec would have signed off on it being okay to take 14 days to restore a small subset of users.
Nuxt
Wow, that would have been quite the transition!
These are great. Europe has some even newer 2nd (or "3rd gen") antihistamines such as bilastine and rupatadine. They're apparently even more effective than what we have in the states.

Would love to try them out, but unfortunately I don't think they're seeking FDA approval. Anyone abroad have any experience with these compared to loratadine/cetirizine?
100%, but you're right that nobody wants to talk about it. I guess I've just adapted by growing thick skin around the issue and just not letting it bother me.

That thick skin is, IMHO, a trait that I think has become vastly underappreciated in our society.
Well ok but all the relationship skills in the world can't help you if you can't get past that initial filter.
Not that I would have qualified, but years and years ago when I looked at a Google recruiting page, it featured a picture of "field hockey in the parking lot at lunchtime", IIRC. I took that as a hint about age preferences.
High compared to what? It's the same as Apple's, so you're not comparing to other app stores. Amazon charges the same percentage on Kindle for eBooks.

When people claim that the app store fees are excessively large they're usually comparing to payment processor fees, but neither major app store functions solely as a payment processor. So if not that, what are we comparing to when we say the fee is high?
What does that mean in practice? I didn't subscribe to read this link and neither did you. So optimizing for subscribers didn't prevent a low quality article from slipping through.

Which means, given time, Substack will go the way of Medium. There is no cost to publishing, and Substack doesn't have a way to kick spammers, influencers and lowest-common denominator content out.
Anywhere we can submit new games? Would be nice to have Octordle[0] and Factle[1]. Then a couple sports ones: Weddle[2] and Wardle[3].

[0] https://octordle.com/

[1] https://factle.app/

[2] https://www.weddlegame.com/

[3] https://wardle.app/
In older web languages, like PHP, I would reckon it’s like making a self-http call where you don’t care about the result and just want to trigger some work elsewhere in the application async. I guess with Go channels, you’d lose out on concurrency, automatic retries (depending on infra), and debuggability — you could do the same with Go and http calls though and just drop the channels completely.

But yeah, sometimes things break. We rely on things like nginx options to retry GET requests and idempotency in the design; failing gracefully (via a shutdown callback to always return something to a caller); ensuring work is completed before writing a successful response anywhere, along with being idempotent; and, ensuring there’s observability in every long-running task.
(Restic) Compression support has landed in master
Right! The "exact same ones each time" is way more important to me than which ones. Or rather, the exact same shape; I experiment with dotted vs. lined vs. grid (though I've pretty much entirely decided on dotted at this point).
I agree and I think that FE is a well designed entertainment product, considering the technology and budget limitations they have.
Instacart’s Pandemic Boom Is Fading
Well, we gotta find some way to split it, we could use any metric though, true. We could pay everyone equally, or make it a lottery, or donate it to charity in the employees' names, or whatever you can think of. But we have to make a decision.
Australia: The ~2008 1.8T Polo GTI was quite the little ripper. Three door, manual, you could get an APR ECU tune that unlocked the engine's true potential - identical with and detuned from an Audi A3. So much fun in a small package, I regretted selling it later.

It had full stability control and the full set of airbags, so it was an early upspec for what would later become the norm of safety features.

Looks like it's still being sold now but it is no longer the same car.
Then, it's time to move on.

It is impossible to run "correct" software, but we can do better, maybe?
Yes, but if you use the right pen it helps a lot! Good reference: https://unsharpen.com/what-are-the-best-pens-for-moleskine-n...
There is no difference in the comparison because they're both based on immutable physical characteristics. There's a difference in the historical context, which you highlight.