skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It matters when it catches fire because they saved a few cents skipping some failsafe in the power supply.
Fn + backspace does this on every Apple keyboard. IMO it’s gloriously consistent compared to the bizarre places that delete ends up on PC laptops and compact keyboards.
> This is so great. The 90s/pre OS-X Apple (the "BuT tHeREs No SOFtWaRe!" and "ApPLe is GoING tO DiiEE" Apple) had a sense of playfulness in their UIs that was largely lost when they became the Apple we know today.

What's so strange about this is that, as that playfulness has been lost, the software has, in many ways, moved in a direction that feels more childishly cartoonish. It seems the aim is now to make all computing feel fun and friendly (even when it perhaps ought to be more serious or economical), which has, ironically, stripped all the charm out of the experience by inundating us with bright colors and childsafe corners.

Small, unexpected, thoughtful moments and Easter eggs like those described in this thread are like a small piece of chocolate after a healthy meal. What we have in most software now (Apple is by no means the only company guilty of this) is more like a diet comprised entirely of candy.
I don’t know about Europe, but in e.g. Canada, employees are generally entitled to common law severance, which is significantly more than the statutory minimum severance. e.g. https://www.monkhouselaw.com/how-much-severance-pay-should-i...
I suspect it's less a complaint and more a request for someone that knows more to clarify, which often happens in the comments when someone notes they are having a hard time understanding because of missing context.

If the first reply was someone explaining the situation, the top level comment would probably have received a bunch of up votes from people that also didn't know instead of down votes from people that now interpreted it as a complaint, because of the context of the initial reply.

This is one of the reasons the rules state we're supposed to respond to the best possible interpretation of a comment. Not only is it polite, but it leads to better discussion where we don't devolve into whether a comment was useful, when most comments can be repurposed with replies to become useful regardless of original intent.
Another advantage is real estate investment trusts have favorable taxation so it makes sense to disaggregate.
Yeah Firefox leaks single words because it thinks it’s a localhost domain. You can avoid this by putting single words in “quotations”. Sad that you have to do that, but also: what’s your threat model?
Agree. This extremism has to stop, it's tearing the USA apart. I think I speak for many when I say that capitalism is a wonderful system that is being threatened by corporatist Republicans and moneyed interests who are attempting to turn the USA into a corporate state. This is the new battleground now...do we want a corporate state and an oligarchy? I do not.
You're probably remembering https://pernos.co/blog/tzcnt-portability/
Which ARM processors could be affected? Can't find an overview of ARM processors that implement frequency scaling.
so people who regularly lift dont' look any different from people that don't after doing it consistently for a long period?
>No, they aren't doing that. As I already explained in my previous comment, Finland's strategy against homelessness is rooted in "Housing first", which is a "treat the symptoms" approach to homelessness, not a "treat the root cause" approach to homelessness.

You are still ignoring the fact that Finland has already cured the root cause.

I am implying that education is a pre-requisite for any housing first approach
I find it a bit ironic that some people defended the new use of “crypto”, while others attacked the new use of “truckers”. All bikeshedding and nitpicking in word games.

None of the direct commenters have really bothered to address the substance of what I was talking about… decentralized alternatives to massive centrally planned platforms for all of us to transact and communicate.
Depending on which C++17 standard libraries are being used, performance efficiency may be an issue and platform dependent.
I've been reading about this issue for a few years. Here is something in GQ from 2018: https://www.gq.com/story/sperm-count-zero
Love this post, can't say exactly why but it resonates with me.

Cheers and kudos!
From personal experience, I feel like the crash following a multi-day binge isn't necessarily due to amphetamine withdrawls, but more so the consequences of multi-day sleep deprivation, dehydration, under-nutrition; all the while having over-exerted yourself.

On the comedown of a multi-day binge, I don't feel depressed per se. I'm constantly tired while awake, which I can only keep at bay if I'm physically active. Also, my ability to focus and get motivated dips below baseline, inversely proportional to how high over baseline I was. (And I would speculate that it is mostly due to a depletion of dopamine & its precursors rather than a withdrawl, as it can be alleviated through a decent diet).

From what I've read as well, most of the long term side effects of amphetamine abuse stem from chronic lack of sleep, food & water rather than damage from the molecule itself. Although repeated overstimulation of your reward/dopaminergic system definitely can't be good for you, be it through adaptation or damage of the dopaminergic neurons (I remember reading somewhere that long term meth users are more prone to Parkinson's).
I've never met such a mass of nationalism and racism paired with lack of knowledge an opinion value vs facts than on Reddit.
It's even worse than Facebook nowadays in terms of quality of audience.

Sadly, since Google+ is gone, it's now home to some groups that moved to Reddit, but I'm sick and tired of the racism and nationalism there and the half truths and the whole unculture.

If I was a dictator, Reddit would be the 1st domain I'd ban. For the betterment of humanity.
Smarter politicians will refuse to bend over backwards for new employers who offer low wage jobs, set up enterprises that can be easily relocated when the tax credits expire, and don’t offer anything special.
None of the attacks are feasible in a trusted environment. If your code isn't running in an environment where other processes from untrusted sources are also running, these timing side-channels and their mitigations are irrelevant.

If an untrusted source gets shell access to your trusted platform/server/container and can run payloads, you're already screwed six ways from Sunday and the rest of the discussion is moot. It's security theater specifically because individuals and organizations following these blind mitigation recommendations don't assess the attack surface that's being exposed.

A school teacher wearing a condom is strictly speaking safer than the alternative, and yet someone should still be fired.
Love that paper. Wickham also made his ggplot2 book freely available:

https://ggplot2-book.org/
Tildes.net
https://youtu.be/we8JQe6ugrs
I started playing when I was 12 and have gone relatively spoiler free.

I have ascended once. (I was 25 at the time)

I got stuck on the vibrating square many times, the castle many times, and have died on the elemental planes many times. Because I had no idea to do what was expected to me. The first I got to Medusa I died instantly.

Yes, I think some of the final puzzles are a bit too obscure... But I think you can beat it without spoilers.

But I would spend entire days to learn mechanics... IE: day of kicking sinks is a day I remember fondly in my childhood.

I am sure there is tons I don't know. But I have never used explore mode, and I have never looked up spoilers before ascending.

Note, I had some word of mouth friends, and it took me 3 years alone to figure out altars.
>don't know it's from Russia

Oh these famous Indian URALS oil fields!
q is not a shell command :'(
Do investors have any evidence based reason to think a company has a better chance the second or third try, or a worse chance for that matter?

Does past performance matter?
If you feel his brain is "just different", I have a question; Are you medicating them?
I don't know what everyone else's experiences are, but my psychiatrist definitely ordered blood tests for me before prescribing medication, and I was able to look through the results myself as well. I'm happy for you if you managed to fix your own problems by getting your B6 checked, but vitamin deficiency is not the reason I have ADHD.
Can confirm. Concerta gave me the impression that there is simply no distraction, only nothing to do with your focus time. Impressed me.
They are no longer in a position to charge exuberant fees due to competition. And they depend on new inflows, in a bear market inflows are low - mostly out flows. Pie is shrinking.
Women are more likely to give birth to children with birth defects after 35. Not sure about how the father's age impacts the child. E.g. https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/birthdefects/downsyndrome/data.ht...
... A line that is unfortunately already taken by another industry. Though adjusting it to "get pwned" should be alright.
Oh, well I vuess no sense discussing it then
Ran a BBS on my Laser 128EX (Apple 2 clone) as a teenager for a couple years. Modified DDBBS software, which was pretty good Apple 2 BBS software that included an RPG-like game built right into it (it wasn't a "door", your account WAS your character). I expanded the game; I think it was written in ACOS/MACOS like a lot of Apple 2 BBS software at the time. The original DDBBS author was Evan Molnar I think. Evan, are you on Hacker News now? :)

Later I upgraded to something called FutureVision I believe, written in what was more or less the final bespoke Apple 2 BBS language, "METAL". At this point I was heading off to college and the internet was spinning up. I finally got a 486 too, so I could play Doom :P

Running a BBS was so, so, so much fun. I'm still chasing that dragon to this day. It was weird to be the "head" of a community as a 16 year old introvert. My users were mostly adults. We had a meet up once that my parents barely even let me go to, and most people were shocked by my age. I think only old people, and me, were still using Apple 2's in the early 90's :P
And cavemen would have thought the Roman's life pretty good too, but I don't know how that relates to the average American and billionaires unless it's an attempt to silence people and tell them to know their place. Societal inequality can still be a very real issue even if we're collectively on average doing better than a 19th century chimney sweep.
All i can think is they had bad forecasts based off trade volume during COVID when people had a ton of stimulus cash and nothing to do all day. Another possibility is something involving solvency in case a crypto selloff + run happens which seems possible any day now.
Alternatively, Trigger's Broom.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAh8HryVaeY
Yes: e.g., Energy Vault (NRGV, $2B+) absolutely cannot work, and should be shut down immediately. Maybe give back whatever of the pigeons^Winvestors' money is left? Somebody should sue the founders for fraud.

The crane thing was actively stupid, and very obviously could not ever have worked. An investor who bothered to consult literally any mechanical engineer would have run a mile. Lots did, of course. But somebody bade the thing up.

The current "condominium for concrete blocks" scheme could probably be made to sort of work, for a while, until it breaks, but only at 100x the price of the storage that utilities will actually buy, instead, because they are not all complete idiots, and anyway have engineers on staff.

I expect NRGV to pivot to orbital beamed solar power, next, or orbital mirrors to light up your solar farm at night. Anything that would take a long time to prove can't work would meet their needs.
> If you already know of more bugs than you have time to fix, then more bugs for the sake of more bugs aren't that valuable.

We disagree quite strongly on this. In fact, I'm currently being burnt by an example.

I'm currently interacting with one of the big delivery websites. Think similar to GrubHub or Instacart.

Every so often the system auto-temp-bans me. I think maybe I'm falling afoul of scraper detection; it tends to happen when I am searching through stores because I need three obscure things and each store has two, looking for one that has all three.

This happened again two days ago. I was trying to get all the flavors of one particular brand of chocolate chip. I had gotten a bag as a substitute, and it was much higher quality than expected, so I wanted to try the others.

Problem is, the brand isn't common, and has 12 flavors, and the top-level search only shows 7 things.

"Just open in tabs!" Nah, the system thinks you're a bot scraping prices, and blocks you for seven days in a way that looks like you're perm-banned.

I'm sure they're drowning in tickets about their modest quality CSS and so on, but this ticket should still go in.

Tickets aren't of uniform importance.
Their expenses are based on predicted growth in the volume of transactions. They're making money no matter if crypto goes up or down, but they stop making money when people stop trading.
Bill Gates bought tons of farmland in the USA and he’s doing just fine

https://amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/apr/05/bill-g...

Also, McDonalds became a real estate play long ago

https://www.wallstreetsurvivor.com/mcdonalds-beyond-the-burg...
When I was on ADHD medication and developed depression, they gave me ADHD meds + anti-depressants. When those didn't work they added anti-psychotics. I was 12 years old, getting my blood checked regularly to try to detect the liver or kidney failure (I don't remember which) they knew was a side-effect.

Turned out I just didn't like living in Florida.
Entertaining slides! I've long thought that we should do OO at architectural levels and FP at the detail levels.
It's not filibuster-proof, and it's even less veto-proof. But it would let the Republicans set the legislative agenda, and nothing would pass without their approval.
First of all, thank you so so much for taking the time to read this and reply.
Regarding talking to people, yes I'll probably talk to adults I trust and am close with.

Regarding 2) I think the problem there is I really want to make a change in this society for the better and want to be remembered for doing something good and this has led to me thinking that career success is an accurate metric for this, even though it isn't.

Regarding 4,5,6 I'll surely actively work on including that in my daily schedule.

Lastly thank you again for this great advice
Also, it's weird to think about users congregating based on computers, but between using special characters in the BBS software (PTSE), as well as having apple 2 "warez", Apple users did tend to cling together...
I've generally heard "rewarding" in this context used to mean "satisfying and/or meaningful" – e.g, a teacher who loves their job and is able to see their students learn and grow happily would be said to have a rewarding job.

For OP, it sounds like an intrinsically rewarding job would be one that involves autonomy, decision-making, a sense of impact - which it sounds like they now have.
> industry is routinely bashing on CS degrees because they don't turn people into framework X-ready candidates.

To me that's noise and not much else.

Something I don't think a lot of folks realize is that there's two parallel industries (and pipelines to jobs in the industry). They almost never overlap.

One in which recruiting is largely done by non-technical folks who match keywords of frameworks, and where rote and learning whatever library is seen as the objective (bootcamps come to mind).

The other one where CS fundamentals are seen as the priority, and where hiring focusses on finding people who posses the skill of acquiring new knowledge.

You can guess in which one Google and FAANG or whatever the acronym is now and Stanford/MIT exists.
Thank you for sharing the article! We definitely don't see companies having all docs in their repos, but strongly believe that there should be stronger ties between docs and code (and more transparency in docs in general)

It's a really hard problem to solve, but we believe that there will be a product that will crack it (even if it's not what we have right now)
Noble intentions and I agree with you it should be avoided, but again I’m confused that you’re suggesting that morality is the major driver for the actions or inactions of nations around the world when it comes to war. It probably is the major driver for most people as you say, but geopolitics simply don’t work that way.
Of course - through necessity. But this will force them to move away and look for other options. You can go ahead and congratulate them on their short term "victories", but long term, I don't see how this benefits them.
Hey thanks for the info. Food for thought.

However, I'd say from these that it's not clear that observed effects are the result of "changes in policing"; it's a hypothesis, sure, but not with close to the level of confidence you suggest.

The Vox article acknowledges this:

> This is where things get more speculative… We don’t know why BLM protests correlated with an increase in the murder rate, and there’s not a lot of research in this space to help guide us.

and also:

> The good news is that even if Campbell’s finding about the increase in murders following BLM protests holds up to further scrutiny, the effect doesn’t appear to last for long. By year four, Campbell no longer observes a statistically significant increase in murders,

The Guardian article:

> Even if the increase in homicide is significant, there are many competing theories for what may be responsible.

The nber.org URL does not resolve for me.

I guess it would be interesting to compare places with "police-involved shooting" that did NOT have major protests, with those that had such shootings and protests, if the hypothesis is that it was the protests that somehow resulted in... changes in policing... so actually, if the hypothesis is changes in policing, why not actually try to measure _changes in policing_ and correlate to homicide rate, instead of correlating protests and murders and assuming "changing in policing" resulted from the protests as an unmeasured middle step?
Perhaps a blue bee will satisfy?

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/blue-bee-feare...
That first paragraph is perfect. It's an exact description of the concept and it's impossible to know whether this is a shower thought or whether 1,000 Intel engineers are going to spend the next 3 years added RNGs to their clock generation circuitry.
Obvious propoganda, it's a public company, it does not purchase anything quietly it's public knowledge. Just because they're not running wall to wall adverts about the fact does not mean it's hiding anything.

All these media outlets are doing everything, everything on the beck and call of those in charge and with an agenda. No article aimed at this level of society is done independent of those who wish to be in charge.
So zone the land as non-commercial. Don't finger amazon as the problem when it was going to go to one commercial entity or another anyway.
Nothing can be worse than the London private rental market
No it's really not. It's an illustrative example of how a wealth tax would (fail to) work. The issue at the core is that items only have value while they are exchanged. Fiat is the only thing with the characteristic of persistent value. So trying to tax standing wealth is fraught because wealth doesn't actually exist in that form.
> There's no such thing as too big to fail in democratic politics

Are you sure? Please tell me the top 10 names on the Epstein client list. I'll wait.

> most wealthy people are wealthy because of inherited holdings and 60% of all wealth in the US is inherited.

I'd like to see your sources. They probably counts by dollars, which is pointless, since one hyper-rich individual completely skews the picture - you can have a million self-made millionaires and one Elon Musk's son - and claim that the majority of millionaires is created by being Elon Musk's son. That's an obvious nonsense. It's like calculating average income of a people in a bar where Bill Gates just walked in, and making conclusions that everybody is rich. You need to count people, not raw dollars.

Mine say:

One measure of the percentage of the wealthy who are self-made is Forbes' own Forbes 400 list. In 1984, less than half the people on The Forbes 400 list of richest Americans were self-made. By 2018, in stark contrast, this same figure had risen to 67%.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/rainerzitelmann/2019/06/24/amaz...

Around 41.4 percent of the wealthiest one percent say they have inherited some money.

https://www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2017/10/10/the-wealthie...

The market research firm analyzed the state of the world’s ultra-wealthy population — or those with a net worth of $30 million or more. The report, which is based on 2018 data, “showed muted growth” in the number of ultra-wealthy people that year, “rising by 0.8% to 265,490 individuals,” says Wealth-X.
Of those folks, 67.7% were self-made, while 23.7% had a combination of inherited and self-created wealth. Only 8.5% of global high-net-worth individuals were categorized as having completely inherited their wealth.

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/09/26/majority-of-the-worlds-riche...
I read the article. He didn't blame his product, he blamed users for not utilizing his product to its full potential, and compared them with people who don't eat right and exercise.
Finding someone "experienced with specific tool set" is also not a trivial problem.

It is even harder if you don't even know how to verify that person really is experienced with specific tool set.

So it goes like "pick your poison", hire generic dev and account for learning curve or spend money on recruiting fees/time for finding an expert. Where I would not be so quick to say "expert shouldn't cost too much" - because I can imagine expert taking less time but costing orders of magnitude more than generic dev.
Ask HN: How can I learn large-team processes?
I have about 10 years of full-time programming experience, however, I've always been in small development teams that use almost no tooling. Seriously, I introduced Git to these guys.

I find this is a big weakness while I try to interview and move up the corporate ladder. I recently bombed an interview because I did not know how to answer questions like "What is the typical workflow for a pull request?" or "How would you begin work on a ticket assigned to you?"

I think these are dumb questions, but it doesn't change the fact I found my foot in my mouth. Does anyone know good resources to learn these bigger-picture concepts and processes?
What do you mean by “parked” in shares of a company? Shares of a company is literally owning a part of a company. You wouldn’t say you parked your money if you bought a business
> Frankly, the idea that this response was needed because COVID patients would overwhelm the hospital system is a bit of a reach.

It is hard for me to imagine that anyone with internet access could be so profoundly ignorant, but there were actually bodies being stored in refrigerator trucks [1] and critically ill patients housed in tents [2] in many parts of the world before vaccines became widely available. It's not a reach, it was the actual situation on the ground for months.

[1] https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/07/us/new-york-coronavirus-victi...

[2] https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9082631/California-...