skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi I've been a technical writer for ~9 years: 3 at a startup and 6 at Google. I agree that documentation maintenance is probably the real hard problem. I think the winner of this space will be the one who solves the "connect code to documentation" aspect most effectively. Looking at your demo, I don't think the code/doc connection should be invisible metadata. In other words my hunch is that the code/doc connection needs to be obvious in code/doc themselves although I'm not sure why I feel this way at the moment. Also the root causes of stale documentation are usually a combination of 1) documentation not being incentivized by org leadership 2) the gradual but persistent proliferation of docs. I don't mean to say that these are people problems that are not solvable by technology. I do think they are solvable by technology but you'll need to get very creative and innovative to solve them. E.g. to address #1 maybe some kind of reporting system that makes leadership aware of which engineers are doing docs work that is truly creating value for the org. Happy to chat 1:1 and thank you for bringing innovations to my industry!
Did you notice your rhetoric is so poor that you could not address any actual argument? You did nothing except (a) resorting to throw false accusations hoping that this is enough to discredit your "opponent" and (b) "othering" via an absurd analogy?

If you only tried to reason properly and read at least part of what has been discussed before, you'd find out that:

- I am not in favor of BTC. I think it worked as a proof-of-concept for a system to transfer value without intermediaries, but it has failed as a currency - no privacy, too expensive, too volatile and its fixed supply makes it unworkable as money.

- I am not in favor of PoW. There are cheaper and more efficient ways to secure a blockchain and we are close to make a switch.

- I am not in favor of all these token projects that create opportunities for speculation but are not connected to real economic activity.

My "thing" is using crypto for payments and small-scale banking as an alternative for the global financial system [0]. So, unless you think that the status quo is "good", you will have a better shot at changing my mind if you show me a superior solution to the problem we are trying to tackle. Trying to dismiss me and my work with self-righteous, sophomoric rhetoric does not help anyone and does not solve anything.

[0]: https://hub20.io/about
> Either a ton of bad guys don't get tried or a ton of innocent people are getting convicted.

You missed a possibility. Maybe they put in sufficient effort during investigation and when deciding whether to prosecute to weed out all the innocent people then and build good cases against the actual bad guys.

Very high conviction rights are symptoms of both puppet criminal justice systems that just convict whoever the state wants convicted and of criminal justice systems that only convict actual bad guys and do a good job of getting wrongly or mistakenly accused innocent people out of the system quickly. You need to look deeper to figure out which kind you are dealing with.

It is when a criminal justice system has a low conviction rate that you can be sure something is wrong.
There are real business reasons not to invest in younger and older employees, why should we just protect one group? (we should protect both! Or better yet, everyone, no need to have some ever-narrowing gap around like 35 of unprotected people).
The market can stay irrational longer than most can stay solvent. In this case Crypto has been on a tear for a decade and legitimate criticism is shouted down by the raw gains even when rationally Crypto has minimal real world value.
Probably customer service. They have about 100 million customers, so 1 employee per 20000 customers.
Me: sysadmin => sales engineer => sysadmin => infrastructure everything => manager of infrastructure and security people

Pre-sales engineering is primarily a technical diplomacy role, in which you are trying to match the customers' sometimes-unexpressed needs with your company's products and services. You need to establish credibility and trustworthiness, and then not lose that reputation.

Never lie. If you don't know the answer, say so and get back to them with the right answer by the next day. Stay current on all of the products and services you are helping to sell, and learn how to navigate the customer support organization.

It's great experience for a number of other roles: user experience, product management, documentation, management.
> The appleTV remote couldn't change the volume on my tv for whatever reason

Because your TV did not support HDMI CEC.
Demo updated to show a closer to real world use case, not perfect, please be more forgiving.
In particular, get both free testosterone and total testosterone levels checked. Some doctors only order total testosterone. It's possible to be symptomatic because you're low on the free stuff even though your total testosterone concentration is fine.
The last point is the big one
> The Concerta doesn't fix my ADHD, but wow does it make it manageable.

Methylphenidate affects me in fairly subtle ways and I'm constantly wondering whether it's actually working or if it's a placebo effect. However, my general experience when I look at the tracking data I collect in my own life mirrors this sentiment.

Methylphenidate doesn't get rid of my distractability or make it easy for me to focus whenever I want, but it does help with my executive dysfunction just enough that I can now set timers more reliably, I can now use calendars more effectively. It's not that the medication made the problem go away, but it seems to have helped enough that it "unlocked" a bunch of additional coping strategies that I had never been able to access in the past no matter how much I tried.

Definitely not for everyone, but also that's what a psychiatrist is for -- to help you experiment with different medications to see if there is one that will help, and to monitor you to see what the side effects are and what the long-term effects are, and to figure out and advise you on what your risk factors are. For some people it can be life-changing.

I think a lot of people see this as a question of medication vs therapy, but for a lot of people with ADHD the two parts work together -- the medication makes the therapy more effective and more productive.
I co-oped at IBM Austin from 1986-1987, there were some pretty vacant spots then, too. One time a fellow co-op and I followed some full times around to explore and got stuck getting snacks in a break room because our keycards didn't unlock the door to the rest of the floor (kind of a fire issue there in hindsight) and we had to wait 10 minutes for someone to let us out.
Someone is in here literally blaming some of the most dispossessed people in our society for their own suffering and you're going after the one saying "lmao." This says a lot about what these rules are for and what they accomplish imo.
There are tons of older hybrids out there that also use very large batteries. Prius has been around for 20+ years, i believe.

If the technology works well (i guess the ones not specifically targetted at Tesla batteries) it should work for any lithium battery -- laptop/etc/Solar array batteries.
If it's hard then it's still possible and where do you think the extra resources will have to come from to realize the new generation of billionaires?
My first highly amateur idea was to modify the frequency scaling algorithm with some randomness. How stupid is my idea?
If you are doing optimizations I would say you need at least a few years experience in the language. You often see people say they switched from language A to language B due to performance, then some guy optimizes the same lib/functions in language A and it gets 10x faster then the optimized version in language B... and people say: Yeh, but that guy has several years of experience. Once you know the layout of the minefield almost all languages are usable and performant.
Tell HN: YouTube shipped a major redesign, broke its comments system
they shipped a redesign to move comments to the RHS on desktop, but in the process seem to have broken them completely https://twitter.com/search?q=youtube%20comments&src=typed_qu...

see also https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/science-technology/1625...
How to set Firefox as your default browser on Windows
Which is why even with zero-trust and such, things like a VPN can be useful as a "catch-all".
Hrm. Googling "fork linux copy-on-write" seems to find a lot of stack overflow answers from 2014-2015 claiming Linux marks pages as copy-on-write when fork() is called. I didn't see anything more recent in the first page of results.

I could see it being worthwhile to immediately copy a few pages, like the top of the stack, but copying the whole resident set seems excessive. Especially since some of that data might not even be written to.
I see your point, I think this is the crux of the matter though:

> Sure, it isn't appropriate in many cases

I think where low-confidence management comes in is the application of the process without reference to whether the process is appropriate. It's easier to require all changes to be reviewed, every change to have a ticket and all post-approval changes to require re-approval even if the thing being edited is CSS for an internal tool than it is to build out process that accounts for the field and risk.

It feels like many places/management teams take an "off-the-shelf" compliance approach rather than constructing a process that works for the team.
Does this mean that an evil process may gain information about a foreign process by measuring its own execution speed variations?
Definitely, good point. My total testosterone was actually above average but free testosterone was very low.
> struggling to find a good analogy to these crypto boom/bust cycles

Casinos. Seriously [1].

[1] https://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1257/jep.13.3.173
For more details about Clarus, the Wikipedia page is packed:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogcow

> The dogcow symbol and "Moof!" are proprietary trademarks of Apple.
Adderall, currently. Vyvanse (which is very similar) also worked well for me.
>prevalence varying inversely with persecution

No, we don't because before we didn't even count. It is possible that

1. there were fewer homosexual men in the past

2. increase in the number of homosexual men is due to less persecution

are both contemporarily true.
>Instead, the first step has to be a truly intensive effort to educate and convince children

Have you ever seen the Emo Phillips bit about whether someone about to jump from the Golden Gate bridge is an increasingly specific kind of Christian? [1] The challenge with trying to indoctrinate others with your value system is like standards there are so many to choose from. [2] In fact because there is no right answer and can never be, we've intentionally separated church and state in the US just to end the debate before it starts. Whether everyone agrees with that (and clearly some do not) is a separate issue.

Besides the fact that imposing your moral beliefs on the population is untenable, it also does nothing to address those already in need. Houston isn't trying to solve poverty, or immorality or anything else akin to boiling the ocean. They're just trying to get as many people as they can off the streets and into a stable living situation. As with anything, this also requires active participation from the recipient, which is why there is and always will be a subset of people who choose to stay homeless, whether or not that's objectively a rational decision. Issuing "we should all just" edicts won't do anything for them or change their behavior. All we can do is try to help.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3fAcxcxoZ8
[2] https://xkcd.com/927/
I'd assume everyone who works there. They aren't encrypted or anything. If you have hardware access you have full github access.
To be fair, a DE does quote a bit more than just "showing wallpaper and few windows". If that's your only use, switch to something like Window Maker or maybe something even more sparse.
Here is the Show HN for this release, that I've created today https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31742441
the problem with soccer and rankings is that it suffers from wholly inadequate sample sizes, or alternatively, goals are too "big", encompassing and compacting too much information, to be used for dissecting quality. soccer rankings can't give you much indication of relative ability, as chance overwhelms quality in rankings.

that's one of the strengths of basketball (and other sports to varying degrees), both as a sport and as entertainment. games are won and lost on many samples that each count a small fraction toward the outcome. any single game's outcome can still be swayed by chance, but that's very unlikely for a series of games, upon which rankings are based.
I'm sure you have a lengthy citation of truckers being sent to the Hague for crimes against humanity...
It’s like betting and gambling. The losers keep coming back thinking they can time it correctly this time around. The game is basically putting money in to get it higher, and timing the top. Crypto being largely meaningless in terms of value is a perfect medium for the game.
Caterpillar to move corporate headquarters from Illinois to Texas
None of your complaints have to do with technology. No one is stopping NFL/NBA/MLB/NHL/MLS/US Tennis/etc from adding a button on their website or app that lets you pay and watch a game.

The thing stopping you from watching it easily is those organizations preferring to outsource broadcasting and ad sales to other media sellers who demand exclusivity terms that make it harder for you to watch.
> As SF mayor Newsom pledged to 'end homelessness in two years' in 2001 and totally failed after spending vast sums.

.. and those "vast sums" have only gone up since. This year's homeless spending is expected to exceed $1.1Billion (with a "B").
When was the internet's "first year"? I think you could make an argument for the very first wide-area networks, ARPANET, or the invention of packet routing. So, 60s to mid-70s.

If you think everybody was on board with the idea of a unified global network that everyday people would use for just about everything in 1970...I don't know what to tell you. That's still an era when the simple idea of a computer in every home seemed ridiculous.

If you're measuring from 1993 or something, see, that's the problem: you'd be measuring from a point when there'd already been plenty of experimentation, thought, and iterations, and it was mature enough for mainstream adoption. It had taken decades to develop IP, TCP, email protocols, HTTP & HTML, etc. You were seeing something like a finished (albeit first-gen) product. And even then there were a bunch of years when it was written off by most people as a gimmicky toy for college kids to waste their time playing MUDs. Most major companies didn't start launching websites until some time after 1996.

I think we're closer to 1980 than 1993 in the cryptocurrency world. But now, like I said, there are millions upon millions of people watching for the Next Big Thing. The audience for the development of the internet in the 70s and 80s was extremely limited: academics and government types, some companies in specific areas, and geeks reading tech magazines in which there might occasionally be a feature article. Now you have people in Kenya and Siberia and Uzbekistan spending their days reading or watching videos endlessly about the newest trends and trying to pick the winners. It's an entirely different environment for tech to develop.

So the hype around cryptocurrency is kind of preposterous relative to the everyday utility. I firmly believe it'll live up to the hype in the end, but we're a long way from that yet.

Or, I dunno, maybe it's all a flash in the pan, and the future really is Visa, Western Union, and SWIFT. We'll see.
I'm mind-blown at this vuln being exploitable remotely. How is that possible?
>I really like how HN submissions work and thought about building a platform where the entire purpose is to create threads like those on HN but with the goal of being linked to one's blog or website or whatever else. I'm thinking of it like a linktree but for threads.

I feel like you're describing one of many subreddits?
As long as their cluster API servers aren't on the Internet.... which is a default for AKS, EKS, and GKE :) (there's 1.3M servers identified as Kubernetes directly on the Internet according to Shodan's latest stats).
I'm saying that there's lots of new journalism. I would concede that the specific format of nonpartisan local newspapers is less popular than it used to be, but this has not in my experience made it any harder to determine what's going on in my local area, and I don't know of any evidence that others are finding it harder either.
Get a complete male hormone panel. LH/FSH, SHGB, DHEA-S, Prolactin, Total T, Free T, Estradiol, TSH, fT3, fT4, T4.

Adrenals, liver, thyroid issues can all contribute to jacked Test levels. A complete panel will give you a good starting point for root causes.
> I was fine with OP's post until they made the statement that "truckers had accounts frozen" because that clearly is not what happened. Some people had accounts frozen, but not a whole class of people, most not even truckers.

The point is that there's a new definition attached to "truckers," which is people associated with that protest. It was clear from context that was what they meant.

> We should not give them the benefit of letting them take the "trucker" label.

Sorry, you're too late. That ship has already sailed (e.g. https://web.archive.org/web/20220614181936/https://www.googl..., https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/11/world/canada/trucker-conv...). If it's any consolation, it's probably ephemeral, and in a few decades all this will most likely be forgotten. But in 2022 "truckers" is the most widely-understood name for this group (and the only name I'd recognize).
DHEA-S? Estradiol?
Thanks! Those are a great set of examples.

Perhaps one through-line is that if IDs are not created by a single source, don't rely on auto incrementing IDs.

The parent/child one is interesting. When I've worked with hierarchical data, I tend to wrap the whole process in a transaction, so it may be many commits (by depth), but one transaction.
The science is anything but clear. And science is never final, especially dietary science, rife with subpar studies and economic lobbying.

One thing is certain: there is more money on the meatless bandwagon than outside of it.

Please let's agree to disagree, as I said this is not the place for such an argument and these days it's become like discussing our favourite football teams. I don't care for it.
I guess it depends on how much randomness you need to effectively mask the signal.
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It depends on where they are along the ecliptic in the observer's sky, I think. Objects appear to rotate with respect to the ground/horizon as the cross the sky.

This stackexchange question[1] has some interesting answers. The pictures where the lady is holding a globe and the one that shows the sky as a circle (round horizon) vs a flat horizon are my favorite.

[1] https://earthscience.stackexchange.com/questions/14809/what-...

Edit: but ignore the flat-earther in the comments.
I don't think billionaires should exist, but I also don't think these employees have been wronged. That is a pretty generous severance package.
They have a few different service offerings, ranging from compliance to web3 infrastructure: https://www.coinbase.com/cloud/blockchain-infrastructure

They also presumably have hefty cyber, legal and financial audit teams to protect their assets, and position themselves in preparation for any changes in the landscape (which has been pretty rocky to say the least).
Exactly. The late time they “strayed from their lane” they got slapped hard. Easy to see why they were gun shy.
"We did all of our polluting in the past and achieved our industrialization already, why doesn't everyone else just choose to stay poor?"
My son is 9 now. We only started him on medication this year (we were trying so hard to get it under control without medication, and his doctor was worried about his weight if we put him on the stimulants). Getting him to eat is a challenge, but it always was anyway and he's always been pretty skinny. Fortunately, he loves milk, so we can always get some calories and protein in him that way. We get a low-carb full-fat milk so his sugar intake isn't crazy high.
I think both sides of the argument have reasonable points. There are advantages to having deep experience with a tool, but I have also solved bugs in languages I didn’t know.

What I think is missing is there are serious diminishing returns with more experience in a specific language or framework. 10 years of experience split 3 in Java and 7 in C# is very similar to 7 in Java and 3 in C#.
At first I thought it had something to do with the company Hertz...
Microsoft patches actively exploited Follina Windows zero-day
Any noise strong enough to have a good chance of hiding the signal would completely defeat the benefit of having dynamic frequency scaling in the first place, I think.
> so it lines up somewhat with increased rates of homosexuality

... but isn't it really hard to distinguish _actual_ rates of homosexuality from visible homosexuality? As public acceptance for LGBT people has increased, more people can feel safe coming out or identifying as gay.

Further, if the pill became widely available around 1970, and if this were an impactful factor, wouldn't you expect to see the corresponding change beginning in at least the mid 80s, as those kids grow up?
Best wishes :) love your positive attitude!
Unistore, Snowflake’s Workload for Transactional and Analytical Data
>"In other words, liabilities are collateralized by other liabilities, all the way down."
Putin might not be the best military strategist but he clearly is a master troll.

It’s fascinating where a decade+ of policies ranging from stupid (green tech) to batshit crazy (shutting down nuclear) has led the West (US and especially the EU/Germany). And things are only starting to unravel…
Cool! Can I easily post self-hosted photos? :)
No running water or toilets dysentery cholera high infant mortality.

Good place to live.
Really? I didn’t know that part. I knew that psychiatrists had told him to stop flying while things were so bad, which he obviously ignored.

I didn’t know he had prepared like that though.
Do tell.

On a more serious note and the likely answer to the question: customer support for 100000000 customers (as has been pointed out elsewhere in this thread)
Ask HN: Gut feeling on North American economy for next 2 years?
What is everyone else thinking out there? I know where I stand but am curious for other peoples intuition. Interested in global perspectives as well.