skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some quick comments:

- Add more whitespace. Sections are too close to each other

- Reduce font size. The body text is way too large and competes with headers

- Add padding. It would help to have some whitespace on the left and right of your page.
The flip side is it prevents aggregating all damages into a single class claim.

If everyone who had a claim actually arbitrated every time, it would be much more expensive for companies to handle than settling an entire class of claims all at once. The problem is companies know most people will not make a claim if it takes them any significant effort, and if the reward amount won’t be very large.
These one sided attorney fees provisions make a mockery of justice. The whole dialog becomes basically blackmail if you are a small business. Maybe it's ok to have these laws for giant corporations, but if you own a small business and are barely getting by, simply being accused of something you lose regardless of the outcome and your accuser loses nothing regardless of outcome.
Are the open source proponents going to step up to the plate to create the software that they need and the support and the back end services?
I suggest some better books for understanding Musk are Blood in the Streets, The Sovereign Individual
and

The New Barbarian Manifesto

Ian Angell, dubbed ""the Angell of Doom"" by The (London) Times, lays out his manifesto for the New Barbarians who will lead the economic elite into a Brave New World over the next two decades. He rejects the long-held view of information technology as our benign liberator from mundane work. Instead, he regards it as the seed for a new society, in which the winners in the knowledge economy will construct their own ""smart regions"" founded on libertarian principles and enlightened self-interest.
https://www.amazon.com/New-Barbarian-Manifesto-Survive-Infor...
> newcomers are buffed about weirdly different take on things they consider "basic" or "common sense"

Yep makes sense: "2006-01-02 15:04:05"
Where I work this would be a 5x developer
The terms that come to mind are stonewalling and kafkaesque.
Right away I was taken aback by the wikipedia article’s quick dive into mathematical solutions to the problem, when it seemed to me that what would be missing is consideration/framing of the initial setup.

That initial setup being, the act of starting the game with someone is(?) confers value in and of itself.

So I’m glad the real solution is wonky.
You misunderstood. What I am saying is that is precisely because I am working on projects of different sizes and potentially with different customers, I do not want to have the burden of having to check if the projects have specific compliance requirements.

I have a SaaS [0], my own (AGPL, by the way) open source project [1] and also work have the occasional contract job. It's much easier to say "just use Redis because it is FOSS and it gets the job done" across the board then to try to special-case the tools based on licensing requirements.

[0]: https://communick.com

[1]: https://hub20.io
A 9 kW generator that costs $1000 is going to be an open-frame, bottom of the barrel model. It'll be loud as hell, won't have an inverter so it runs at 3600 RPM (or 1800 RPM if you're lucky enough to have a 4-pole) constantly regardless of load, and as others have pointed out, requires a lot of maintenance. Not to mention, ones that large usually weigh about 200 lbs / 90 kg, and are not frequently hooked into your house's circuit so you will have to haul it out and hook loads up. Hope you understand how to safely run extension cords with heavy loading.

I have a 2.2 kW Honda that does have an inverter, is absurdly quiet, and sips fuel. I also have an extended fuel tank for it so it can run overnight. All of that, plus adequately sized extension cords, was somewhere around $2500. It's also still a pain in the ass to set up when it's necessary, but at least I get to run fridges, freezers, LAN, TV, fans, etc. I also have to do monthly load tests, source ethanol-free gas, rotate gas supplies, and practice running extension cords to everything so I'm not confused in the dark. Lest you think all of this is unnecessary prepper beliefs, I live in Texas (for now - about to move), and it has been required far more often than I'd like.

A standby generator that can run an entire house will run you $15-20K with installation, and that assumes you have natural gas plumbed to your house already. If you don't, you'll have to bury a LPG tank, or have an unsightly blob in your yard.

This feature of the Lightning is the major draw for me, and I am seriously considering it once they've proven themselves for a few years.
Is your email address something like [fullname]@gmail.com? Because in that case it's more likely that someone is either confused about their own email address or just made a typo and left out the number they put after the name they happen to share with you.
Do you say "Burma" or "Myanmar"? There are many who deliberately use the former despite the latter being the official spelling in English.

Indeed, by choosing one or the other, you could be implicitly taking a position on that country's internal affairs .. even if you aren't aware of the issue.

Recently there's been a lot of support to use "Kyiv" instead of "Kiev".

Almost everyone now uses "Beijing" instead of "Peking", excepting a few cases.

"Bombay" or "Mumbai"? "Calcutta" or "Kolkata"? (See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_renamed_places_in_Indi... .)

Do you refer to the city in New Mexico as "Hot Springs" or "Truth or Consequences"? (Or as "T or C")?

There's quite a few examples I could come up with, which means it's not that uncommon. And you see uptake depends on many factors.
And I remember me salivating in the 90s when I read "T3" on napster!
I think my ideal Linux OS is probably Ubuntu/CentOS + something like macOS’s .app bundle file format for distributing end-user applications.

When running personal Linux, I want things to generally “just work”, which means staying away from the distro package managers on Debian/Redhat derivatives. Given enough “hobby time” I manage to twist my base system’s packages into pretzels and/or break workflow critical software by noodling around. Back in the day I inflicted a lot of pain on myself trying to get newer Apache running on older Debian or similar. Third-party package repos, PPAs, or installing from source are all false prophets that eventually swamp the system in strangeness.

At least for server software, Docker solves this problem completely and totally. As long as your kernel is new and you have plenty of disk space, it’s trivial to run anything so long as it doesn’t need to integrate with the host OS for a good experience. Docker turned my hobby home server experience from “periodic distress” into “years of smooth sailing”. No matter how weird the server, I can bottle it inside a Docker container. This works because server software integration relies on a few primitives - sockets, boring files, env vars - and coupling is loose.

The same cannot be said for the “Docker for GUIs” stuff like Flatpack/AppImage/Snap, at least the last time I tried Linux on Desktop. I had issues with theme mismatch, weird fonts, broken clipboard, media hotkey problems, etc etc last time I tried Ubuntu & Fedora with these tools. Sure it’s better than running X clients in a docker container, but there were still many issues. Snap on Ubuntu was also slow - how come the calculator snap is slower than a calculator Docker? The issue is there’s tons of wild plumbing needed for GUI apps. Gconf (which is a windows registry clone?), dbus, something something Wayland, arbitrary sandboxing, .desktop files, whatever’s responsible for sound on the host… oy.

I look at systems like Nix or Guix with admiration — they offer an interesting tradeoff, but fundamentally represent a better version of a distro package manager. You can install software from the OS repo without worrying about internal conflicts… but now you’re using a weird system that’s much more difficult for software to understand. Also, I need to learn a new programming language (or whatever Nix is) to use it. Maybe one day I’ll go back to school or retire and I’ll have enough free time for this to sound fun.

I want to download apps as zip files from an upstream, unzip, and double click to run. Copy apps between systems with drag and drop. Never worry about incompatible versions of dynamic libraries. And my apps should use my system theme and respect my font and DPI settings, and have access to whichever files I want to work on. In short I want the ROX desktop dream, but for all Linux apps. http://rox.sourceforge.net/desktop/about_rox.html
Your average consumer is not really using more than 16GiB of RAM, which was also an artificial limit for a while in laptops due to having to choose between LPDDR3 (power efficient, 16GiB limit) or DDR4 (larger capacities allowed, uses more power).

Apple and other manufacturers thus had to keep 8GiB models around so they had something to boost to entice you to the more powerful models.

So a few professional laptops went with DDR4 as LPDDR4 support floundered for years, but most stuck to LPDDR3 as most consumers would notice an extra 30 minutes of battery life on the spec sheet more than RAM they wouldn't actually use.

It's only with Ice Lake (low quantities) and Alder Lake (more available) on the Intel side, M1 on the Apple side, and Ryzen 4000 on the AMD side that it's as cheap (cost and battery life) to have a system capable of more memory.

But plenty of consumers still haven't complained about their 8GiB systems, so they still sell them.
So it’s okay to have proprietary software as long as it is running on an open source operating system?
Terrible article with lot's of errors:

>So it bought CentOS, then killed it, as it did with CoreOS

https://www.centos.org/ <- The recommended linux by Cern

https://getfedora.org/en/coreos?stream=stable <- Oh sorry it's now Fedora CoreOS

>SUSE Linux Enterprise – which is to say it has a painfully slow release cycle.

1 year is painfull?

>"Tumbleweed", has a rolling release model, which means the exciting potential of breaking changes every single day.

No, that's why tumbleweed is not exactly a rolling distribution but a snapshot to snapshot rolling distro.
I think the word you are looking for is "subsistence"
This is my first actual post and I know it is not really "tech" related but students I work with sometimes do this kind of remote work. For some reason this article really spoke to me. I hope someone is able to turn this into a movie.
I notice that medium roast is trendiest among the snobs right now. Some shops won't even serve dark. I understand that dark roasts can verge on one-note, but personally I like coffee to taste like coffee. Often times what the shop serves is so lightly roasted and brewed they practically taste like tea, with no body. It's fruity and acidic, which can be a little more varied, but personally dissatisfying.

For espressos, the full-city / medium-dark roast is maybe my favorite right now, and for other brews anything between a medium that's a little on the dark side and a dark roast. Acidic is fine, but it needs that body and deep flavor.
Enjoyed the writeup!

> The world doesn’t care about you feeling like you were wronged and how hurt your feelings were. It wants cold, hard facts.

This has been somewhat of a guiding light for me for quite a long time, hammered into my by my attorney father, and it alone has saved me countless times.
For an alternative perspective, allow me to present some classic talks from Raymond Hettinger.

First, some generic tips on how to write Python code that's pleasant to work with: https://youtu.be/OSGv2VnC0go

And then this one digs more specifically into how not to write Python like it's Java, starting at 12:40 (with talking about why leading up to that): https://youtu.be/wf-BqAjZb8M
POJSOs? :D
As a cross-platform solution for simple PDF files, I just use Firefox. But SumatraPDF reads much more than just PDF files, and for everything else, I haven't found a good, cross-platform alternative for the platforms I usually use (Linux, Windows and macOS).
nice list but i would simplify it. a lot of those are just good character traits.

for me "1x" or average is just someone who does the minimum but tries to do it well and professionally.

not proactive or overly opinionated. basically the 9-5 man (or woman).
I'm 1x engineer for my boss. 10x for my family.
I don't know for sure that it was intentional, but you also don't know for sure that it wasn't. And the existence of the string is quite strong evidence in favor of it being intentional.
My experience presenting designs of various levels of fidelity, is this:

If the design appears obviously incomplete or unfinished, much critical judgement is withheld since it's assumed that whatever criticism they have will be addressed by the final design. Depending on your goal, this can be helpful or even counterproductive (maybe the finished design won't be how they assume it will be). Or others will instead focus on high-level feedback like addressing the overall theme and direction instead of the minutiae of the design.

If the design appears highly polished, then any issue, however minor, is assumed to be "finalized" and thus the criticism pours out.

If you make it appear completed, then people will assume it is in fact completed. If you're still working on it, make it look clearly unfinished.

However, no matter how much you stress it is a prototype or make it look as such, someone will still criticize the the fact it's all in black and white and all the text says "Lorem ipsum".
$1000 is a lot of money for a lot of people, including me - I could afford it for sure, but yes - absolutely 0 upgradeability and repairability, even on the more expensive models, makes me never want to spend any of my own money on their products.

I think Framework is going the right way here and their prices are extremely competitive when you compare them with the higher-tier macbooks, especially if you need more storage or RAM. They don't have anything that competes with the $1k Air, which is also sort of crippled by storage and RAM in the $1k configuration, but I'd guess that's a matter of time.
No even anymore, for most changes done in C# using web apis (what go does best), you don't even have to recompile the entire code. It's actually faster doing it in C# by just `dotnet watch` and let hot-reload do its thing.
You think it only takes a week to transistors an entire large enterprise?
Because unless your applications need to store lots of things in memory, it doesn't matter for performance.
macOS is very good with memory management, so for a lot of use cases 8gb is simply sufficient. The system as a whole is a lot faster than the '15 Air.

That being said, the lowest config is often something that is just there to meet a price point for advertising purposes, not what Apple actually expects people to buy. They've been doing this for decades. 16gb was the "standard" in 2015 already for most machines.
> Once I got one for work I swore to never ever spend a dime on a Mac

+9999999.

I wish they'd just sell hardware and keep the OS.
> we've all encountered good engineers who have brought down the efficiency of entire teams with their repulsiveness

I think the only people who would call such an individual a "10x" are themselves....
That’s the 2020 model, no?
In Brazil where I'm from a Macbook Air costs about ~8x the average monthly income. It's out of reach for most people.
Because 8GB still works fine and will continue to work fine for at least the next 6-7 years. Cheap Windows laptops and Chromebooks still come with 4GB ram.

I'm currently typing this on a 2008 MacBook Pro with a 2.5GHZ Core 2 Duo and 6GB RAM. It's playing a 1080P video on a second monitor and has 5 browser tabs open in two browsers. Currently using 4.7GB RAM and 60% CPU.
One reason is that the Go runtime makes building FFI interfaces rather complex.
Hey, I’m happy with my results. Just don’t tell the guys at my local specialty stores…
> and then learning that the great leap forward for Angular 2 was "yeah we're going to throw all that bullshit out we were wrong." By the time I was done I genuinely had no interest left in me for another new framework, package manager, or library....

I've seen this more than a few times over the years, and it makes me a lot more skeptical of praise for anything new. Almost always the praise is about technical aspects of a new tech/stack, and the value is almost always in the larger ecosystem. I'm fine - happy, often - with using something slightly out of date if it means there's a community of people who can help support it, answer questions, publish mods, etc. There's a balance somewhere to be found, but I've been burned too many times picking a tool, investing in it, then having much be thrown away for the 'v2' version which is often not backwards compatible (for good reasons, usually, but still problematic).

Marks of maturity of a project - acknowledging upgrade requirements, publishing upgrade guides, supporting previous versions for a publicly stated time range, etc.
True. But it's kind of sad if you think about it. Brothers and sisters will be there forever until death. Unlike friends or relationships which can be temporary.

From this year on, I am at least trying to get closer to my sister even if we have not been "friends" before.
i'm not a fan of those "true milage no matter what conditions" a half charged EV up north during winter would cut that 150 miles to 75 miles (at around minus 10 celsius which is common in Canada). i wouldn't dare to go very far with that.
Htt.ps//www.google.com – the ultimate phishing domain
My parents have one of these. They work great, but have a few limitations:

* the oil typically needs changed every 100 hours of operation. That was fine, until an ice storm knocked out power for 11 days to my parents house.

* if you live in an earthquake zone, most likely after a major quake the gas lines will be down.
I didn't get that at all. Author takes on company legally, and with little effort wins most of what they are after (~10% difference).

I had a situation almost identical to this where I had an AC that gave out and after a month with the warranty company, I just fixed it myself. Because it was July. In the southern United States. I didn't even know about arbitration. I just assumed the black whole of rotating customer service agents and canned answers is the end of the line.
The Delay
People in your software supply chain
What I love about this article is that it is exactly the struggle a human commission-based artist goes through with a human patron. The patron says “I want a sculpture of a duck” and the artist shows a sketch of what he or she has in mind. Of course this is all wrong to the Parton. This is not the duck of my dreams, this is a common pond duck. The artist is now more confused. Has the patron ever seen a duck? What other kind of duck is there? Has the patron ever seen my work? And the more the patron tries to specify their ask, the less possible it is for the artist to achieve it. Finally they come to a grudging agreement, the artist delivers a duck statue but neglects to add it to their portfolio. The patron grudgingly writes a check and finds a nice spot in the far back of the garden.
John Carmack. Donald Knuth. Casey Muratori? Linus Torvalds.

"There's no such thing as a 10x engineer" people probably haven't seen a normal distribution before.
> Bless your little heart. A twice dipped teabag will get you through the day just fine, I'm sure.

What did you intend to communicate to the parent commenter? That the parent point is invalid?
The only reason you should care is if you're employing someone in a position where it's dangerous to themselves or others _on the job_ if they're intoxicated, or if it's legally required.

Otherwise it's none of your business.
I wrote a pretty detailed analysis about this problem here in case you're interested:

https://mindbowling.wordpress.com/2020/09/14/two-envelope-pa...

It all depends on how the envelopes are prepared.
That’s not taking into account the lower maintenance costs is it? Massively fewer moving parts in an electric vehicle “engine” aka drive train means less things to break. The recommended service for a Model 3 or Model Y is every two years. No oil changes or alternators or fan belts etc.
Its a thing for legacy organisations. If someone is puzzled and gives me a red flag that I had time to rest after my 6 month depression and burnout => its a huge red flag for me that people don't understand the world we live in these days and probably a culture that I will never fit it.

I have 4 gaps on my resume (1 failed startup, 1 burnout episode, 1 travel the world & 1 family care). My resume is a total mess of jobs in sales, growth & product. And yet the best organisations I ever worked for, always tried to understand the context before judging.
So the issue is assigning the value A to the selected envelope and then doing conditional calculations for only the other envelop.
It’s still not the case that Snapple started off with something kosher to grab the market share. It just happens that they had a product that is easy to certify. The effort was likely small compared to the advertising benefit.
Looking forward to full self driving when it arrives in 2014.
I'm still waiting for a todo tool that does todos how I do them. Each todo item has a TTL of 1 week, after that, it gets moved to the "never done" list if I don't update it before then.

After a few years of doing things this way, and explaining it to my bosses over time, they come to understand that if you give me too many things to do at once, only the highest priority things will ever get done.
They fall apart at every occasion/update and you're missing out on most of the Apple ecosystem bonus/online infrastructure, which is a big part of why people buy Apple products. They're also naturally stuck on Intel CPUs and the hardware choice is very limiting.
For somebody who wants to play around with T1's you can make a crossover cable and connect two T1 interfaces back-to-back. You'll want to designate one side as providing clocking (and the other receiving clock from "the network").
> There's obviously competition in the space of making home purchasing less complicated

How much competition? I've hardly even heard of better.com. Certainly every time I've bought a house (three since 2003, most recently in 2018) I've had to sign an unreadably long contract, and I don't recall much if any advertised competition in the "make it simpler" space.

I'm also not sure I buy that the complexity of the process came down to consumer protection laws, though I'm no expert in that area.
>How would I even know they are clean?

This question applies to all employees. You don't, because it's none of your business if it doesn't affect their work performance. It is entirely possible, and probably likely that some your current employees use drugs. And almost 100% sure that some of them use alcohol, which is stronger and more problematic than many illicit substances. Many companies even throw parties where they give out free booze to the employees! How's that for a double standard?

People have always used drugs, and always will. Pretending to care about substance abuse only when you come across someone who openly admits their history is insane. You are treating the honest people worse than the people who hide their problems from you.
I have a three year gap in my resume and getting a good tech job afterwards was EASY. If anything it made me more employable because people tend like people who do more than write code all day. (Of course the lack of career progression was probably a net disadvantage in terms of raw money-making ability, but I don't care about that).

Incidentally I like to also tell people who are a bit behind the times that these days it seems like having visible tattoos is a net benefit for your employability. Everyone likes hiring interesting people who aren't mindless drones. Tattoos, piercings, quirky style .. all serves as evidence of that. At least on the west coast!