skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the 4th point around context is almost universally true - to put it another way, you cannot make a bell curve with a single data point. It becomes difficult to accurately evaluate how well a single person is doing.

I've always been confused about the terrible reputation of "stack ranking" for roughly this reason. What other kind of ranking is there?

You can rate people according to metrics that have been established for the task they're doing, but the nature of software is that when a task has been done once it doesn't need to be done again.
You don't seem to grasp what "relevant" means, or what "non-issue" means. Trump's situation is, obviously, directly relevant, and it's most certainly an issue.
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Freshbooks. But it's been a while since I've logged in so not sure if it's still good.

Slack for communication, document sharing and general coordination.
No, but when you're that young you can do it a couple of times in a 40 minute time span.
Too little anxiety leads to laziness, but too much is crippling. Like most things you need to find the sweet spot.

Be anxious, not too much. Mostly over things within your control.
Care to put your own money on the line behind that completely unsubstantiated guess?
Shipping and write off is much cheaper than disposal.

I recall as college students finding a VAX 780 on the "getting rid of it" part of the engineering loading dock and we got permission to get rid of it for them. Pushing it down the street at 11pm was interesting (getting a weird look from a police car going by).

It got gutted for parts (power supplies don't care too much about what they power) and converted into a lockable bookshelf and 14" diameter wall hangings (and some surprisingly strong magnets).

The "yea, we let a bunch of college students take it" was a significant savings over getting a truck to haul it off to some junkyard even before the days of being very picky about electronics recycling.
Because some folks can’t distinguish between contextual value judgements based on their own preferences, and a universal absolute.
I'm fairly certain you are confusing Server Push with something else, because as far as I can tell Server Push is not useful for doing what you describe.
No, that effect can affect the strength in both directions, and it's not the reason for the higher ABV in "cask strength" whisky.

After distillation the whisky is at "still strength" (typically ~70% ABV) and diluted to "cask strength" before maturation. Then after that, it's usually diluted further for bottling.
Yeah I think you're just a little caught up in the phrasing (very blunt) and the mostly useless "and why" portion.

I've asked this plenty of times in interviews. But I usually wrap it in a general process question to see if devops and builds are a smooth process or a nightmare. Bad source control and devops means shipping features can be impossible.
I haven't seen the data around wealthier families. But wealthier families have more access to healthcare and can get earlier (and more thorough) diagnosis than poor ones. So unless there was some kind of control for access to healthcare, I would question that correlation.
First off, we still have THE Ted Nelson! He's old but he ain't dead yet.

(He might even read this thread!?)

- - - -

There are some modern day Ted Nelsons:

Sean Mcdirmid comes to mind. (He's on HN. Dude, didn't you used to have a blog?)

https://www.youtube.com/user/seanmcdirmid

https://confengine.com/user/sean-mcdirmid

Or Jonathan Edwards https://www.subtext-lang.org/AboutMe.htm

There's the folks behind Enso/Luna https://enso.org/ among others.
Jef Raskin's son Asa is still doing things https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aza_Raskin
“Quantum-Safe” Crypto Hacked by 10-Year-Old PC
Photos of downed Russian Orlan-10 UAV shows it used a Canon DSLR camera
Programmers are not passionate to deliver value to someone, that's the businessman problem.
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World’s largest (7 countries, 7,237km) Strava art is finally finished
> Feeling bad about your weight is a good motivator to lose weight.

Educationalist here, actually it isn't :) For many people, this just makes you feel bad - and that's it. For that feeling to result in meaningful action a bunch of conditions have to be met, e.g. the absence of eating disorders (including things like stress eating etc.), a concept of self-efficacy (the idea that one actually is able to change out of one's own will), impulse control, knowledge about food and dieting, the time and money to eat healthier and so on. Often people are perfectly aware that their behaviour is unhealthy, but they lack one or more of those conditions. It therefore is better to focus on providing people the actual means to change (knowledge, methods, better food in school and at work, a supportive environment, taxation to make unhealthy food/drugs more expensive (a thing in the EU)).

Note that I'm fully in support of emphasizing the unhealthy aspects of obesity, though. Providing the facts often just isn't enough.
The parent's claim was that Apple is a lot better at privacy than Google. It looks like they are basically the same. You could just as accurately claim that they are all equally bad.
Not Shazam but I remember a website back in the day called ‘The Song Tapper’ where you could press your space bar to the rhythm of a song in your head and it would suggest which song(s) it might be. Teenage me thought that was very cool.

The site seems no more but I found a Lifehacker post about it: https://lifehacker.com/find-the-name-of-a-song-by-tapping-14...
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> I'm talking Erlang, C++, CLOS circuits, etc. etc. The innovations from Bell Labs are nearly endless.

A lot of innovations did come out of Bell Labs. But I'm pretty sure Erlang wasn't one of them.
A stronger version of msoad's point would be deciding whether to push a dark or light image, based on the user's theme.
I agree except for that last sentence. If you were to delete it the whole comment would be much better, IMO.
It would at least appear that children from wealthier families are being diagnosed with autism at a higher rate. Perhaps pollution/nutrition is actually a dead end, or maybe autism is less likely to be missed in the children of wealthy parents, or perhaps diagnosis is more subjective, enabling doctor-shopping, and there are perceived benefits associated with a diagnosis. It would be interesting to compare the rates of autism diagnosis amongst the children of teachers and psychologists compared to lower/middle/upper classes at large.
I do partake every chance I get, assuming it’s been washed recently. And assuming further activities are available.
Agree. Double thumbs up for this profile. Many times I read someone's profile and it is almost nothing. If you are looking for support/funding, please spend some time to create a good profile!
Wayfair cutting about 870 jobs after pandemic buying subsides
Not even close. YouTube has orders of magnitude more content and vastly more users. Google Global Cache was the inspiration for Open Connect.
Surprised no one has mentioned the Keith McMillen K board and QuNexus. These ones are incredibly well built and reviewed.
Most of the products I like, I didn't discover through ads.

I'm ok with your business failing if it can't work without ads.

The problem here is that ads are not banned, but that they are now the exclusivity of Apple.
It becomes a discussion of engineering decisions
"To me what is most surprising is that the attack seemingly came out of nowhere,” says cryptographer Jonathan Katz at the University of Maryland at College Park, who did not take part in this new work. “There were very few prior results showing any weaknesses in SIKE, and then suddenly this result appeared with a completely devastating attack—namely, it finds the entire secret key, and does so relatively quickly without any quantum computation."
I reckon it wouldn't be the smartest choice for it to self-destruct
Co-pilot uses the surrounding context of your code, which is often good enough to feel "trained" on your own codebase.

So for example, say you have a function called "doThingie()". Copilot will look at how the function is defined, and be able to generate code that correctly uses "doThingie()".
They didn't use the term in the 1960s, but they did talk about kids who could not sit still in the classroom. And they didn't, as far as I know, use speed then, but they did try other stuff. Sorry for no details, but I was a kid myself.
The point is not that houseplants are hard to take care of. It's that neglecting them a little bit out of neccessity is actually good for them.
>This produces enormous overhead due difficulty of communication over a 12h time difference

I refuse to do it again / anymore.

I've been asking for contractor's actual working hours before assuming a 9-5 time schedule in their timezone, then looking at actual working hours of overlap. But no matter what, I absolutely require 3-4 hours of overlap a day. I'm DONE with the one round-trip communication per day routine.
Aah, yes. My bad.
Additional extreme duckery: Some words appear in the URL which do not appear in the article. Perhaps there is a previous version of this article? Archive.is and the wayback machine don't seem to have it, not at that URL.
Not really my point.

My point was to reinforce GP's stating that you don't need to pick sides. You need to examine particular situations on a case-by-case basis, rather than coming to some sort of simplistic catch-all description such as "the FBI are the bad guys" or "everyone the FBI investigates are the bad guys".
> If Guix ever becomes mainstream, it will be in spite of their efforts.

Why is ‘become mainstream’ some aspirational goal? What would that even mean?

Making a viable operating system is valuable without having it be the the one everyone uses.
Sounds like the rocket equation! Perhaps big companies are rocket science?
Does anyone know if Azure’s OpenAI platform was down too?
The most common situation is that you have a new manager who's building their team. This is easily fixed (keep hiring).

Next most common situation is that someone wants to be a manager, and the company wants to support that purely for career or employee happiness reasons. This is where you're more likely to end up in an awkward situation.
I think you're asking for https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Status/103

Mozilla has it as "worth prototyping" https://mozilla.github.io/standards-positions/#http-early-hi... and their tracker entry is https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1407355
Nope. See my followup response above.
Of course the maker of a platform used by the majority of high-value users would have power. That in itself isn't a damning fact. Nor is the narrative that Apple wanted to expand its services revenue. FB and Shopify want to grow their revenue too. Turns out they're competing on opposing principles, and Apple is winning.

A better question is whether or not anyone who isn't in the ad business actually gives a flying f about the shift in power dynamic. Is it an ABUSE of power? To the majority of consumers (by a wide margin) the answer is "NO". They don't want to be tracked and have their data exhaust vacuumed up for capital gains of billion dollar titans.

So this is the underlying motivation on why nobody cares that Apple is flexing hard on ad companies.
I like the "one questionable design choice" comment. There are likely quite a few. I notice he likes to fly over water which seems prudent but makes it difficult to get places. The hover board did not make it across the channel (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jul/25/franky-flyboar...)

There was a discussion recently on why the Seqway makes you look goofy. I have to say the Hoover Board makes you look much more goofy than this thing which looks kind of cool.

He seems like a "bold pilot".
> it’s entirely possible that some people find these drugs helpful in their day to day lives

This is a dishonest representation. It’s a gross understatement to say “some people” find it helpful when I and many people personally know those who have had their lives radically changed by prescription ADHD treatment
I figured out the same, but if I try to right arrow through a slide too quickly (less than 5 to 10 seconds) it seems to ignore it
I don't think most people realize how big the MBS market is. Most of the damage in 2008 wasn't from reckless Wall St traders and financial engineering, it was simply from a decline in housing prices on the back of a bubble that was created by the US Govt.
However... as someone who is managing one person on a domain that I am not an expert in... It would be nice to have workarounds and not just point out "lol no, don't do this!".

Sometimes you don't have a choice.
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Like it how? Accomplishing a grand feat is nearly the opposite of scaling.

If Netflix built out more slower servers, that would be acceptable scaling. I don't see any plausible scenario where that becomes too difficult. Even if they had billions of subscribers.
Not according to emerging research. Long term abuse is linked to liver cancer, but even light and moderate alcohol use generally increases the risks of other types of cancers (and diseases) too.

https://www.wcrf.org/diet-activity-and-cancer/risk-factors/a...
Much of the most widely used software in the world comes out of mid 20s so-called Senior Engineers in Silicon Valley (and other major US metros). Gatekeeping on the basis of years of experience is naive and unproductive.

IMO "senior" is a function of behavior not time. At FAANG, levels are formally defined by traits. For example, a senior engineer can plan and lead 6-12 month long projects, delegating some parts of the implementation to others where appropriate. I personally was fulfilling this definition at 25 and I know several dozen others in similar situations.
Gmail still supports it for free, but the process is convoluted:

https://paulonteri.com/thoughts/how-to/custom-domain-with-gm...

If you're willing to pay, Fastmail offers a much better experience with custom domains.
Oh, you're right. There seems to have been a glitch in my memory somehow. Still, its Ericsson, which is telecommunications nonetheless.
Scaling streaming for a company at the size of Netflix is very easy. You can use any edge cache solution, even homemade. The complexity at N seems to stem from other things.
Thanks! Aside from the default const/mutable change, this was my approach. To improve adoption, it would be easy to add a feature flag for this set of changes which could be applied on a per file basis.
Standard IBM clone UK layout, everything else is subpar :D
If you can live with decent but (definitely) not outrageous pay, I find that Research Software Engineering (the art of enabling better (often academic) research through better software) can be very interesting and very rewarding. RSE is becoming a thing in almost all domains, and RSEs often work with different domains from within a central team.

Check job sites for academic institutions and national labs. There are also professional RSE societies in some regions of the world, often called [country code]-RSE.
You’re probably making the already-classic blunder here, thinking that the GPL is somehow special. If the license requires attribution (which almost all do), you’re stuck if the “fair use” exemption Copilot claims falls down. The quantity of public-domain or public-domain-equivalent-licensed code out there is almost certainly not enough to train such a tool (by several orders of magnitude, most likely—you can tweak an existing model with small amounts of code, but I believe generating a useful model from scratch will require a lot more than you are likely to find).

This kind of thing cannot succeed legally without the fair use exemption from copyright.
Alcohol even at a level of 1 drink a day is certainly associated with many types of cancer: https://dynomight.net/img/alcohol-trial/issues.svg

However, light to moderate drinking might reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease and diabetes and these might be enough to outweigh the extra risks from cancer. (This is still an active subject of research.)
IANAL either, but I believe that, yes, you could do just that. Of course you'd not have any copyright... :)

TBH I'm not entirely clear why the issue is so important to the people who publish these things, but clearly it is!
You might be confusing Server Push with Server-Sent Events. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Server-sent...

Server Push just deals with eagerly loading assets like CSS, JS, and images.
But with these ads, you're not the product.
Another really creative and novel idea might be, perhaps we could try having a liberal Democrat run the FBI occasionally, or maybe even just once in its entire history.

Check the facts: there has never once been a Democrat in charge of the FBI. Not once. Not even the ones appointed by Democratic presidents; they have also all been Republicans.

Almost a century, and zero Democrats have ever run the FBI.

Yet if you look at the popular vote, the public has voted for Democrats to run the federal government continuously since the 1980s with only one exception (2004).

I believe this has some relevance to our situation.
- Link from demo to source code: https://github.com/gp-nc/drum-kit/

- Link from source code to demo: https://gp-nc.github.io/drum-kit/

- Better commit messages

- Put .ttf and .mp3 files in /assets folder

- Sound for "Mid Tom" has a noise artifact, a little "click", at the start
this!

If you are concerned about noise, do not buy a 1U unit. Small fans still need to move air. Since they are small the way to make up for this is to have a lot of them and make them spin very fast. The faster they spin the more noise they make.
Show HN: How hard can it be to draw a line?
Durov’s cat, or a story about Pavel Durov suing me for 100 000 000
Some people don't respond to motivators, that isn't a reason to stop (generally) motivating.
Really great podcast about standard western diets and some of the affects on gut microbiome, where the guest is a leader of this field in the US:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-peter-attia-drive/...
@yunohn ? You think ppl searching for 'food blog stories outweighs' the people searching for food recipes?

Im honesty asking since. In my mind (i could very well be wrong). I. would think there are more ppl interested in 'how to make Great brownies' , then there are ppl searching for 'the backstory of the great brownie recipe' ?

Yet the results i get from my searches are more inline with if i searched for backstory of recipes.

Hell maybe im just searching with the wrong keywords ??
The "same process node" isn't correct. Nothing from AMD is available in TSMC 5nm yet, and the Snapdragon 888 is on Samsung's clearly struggling 5nm node. Apple is alone at the top of the process ladder right now, and they're getting pretty much exactly the performance[1] benefit you'd expect from that. Certainly the M2 is not a bad SOC, and there's no reason it shouldn't be and remain competetive with everyone else's offerings as the industry evolves.

But I do think there's a certain amount of kool aid being drunk by the Mac community about these chips. They're great. But maybe not insanely so.

[1] It's absolutely true that Apple's whole-system power integration story remains at the top of the industry. But that was true even when they weren't on the best process.
I'm not talking about a simple debug=true/false. I'm talking about debug=true followed by various debugger settings. I don't want to see ten or twenty debugger settings in my prod config.

Similarly, in dev, you can set the email config to output to a file and be done with it. I don't want to see all the email server settings in my dev config: the host, the port, the username, the password, the protocol, etc.
So, having one fall guy who deliberately sabotages your case should be a get-out-of-jail free card for a powerful executive, or legislator.

I see.
An adverse inference doesn’t mean that the court ignores the nature of the documents (what could they be) or the other evidence in the case.
Seems to me the lenders already in existence could help de-risk the remaining debt by providing loans to people to cover the fire sale price.

It lowers the debt total of the borrower, and makes the assets held by the new lender less toxic.
>did not exist before the early 1980s

Not really true. The name ADHD and the now deprecated ADD originated in DSM-III in 1980 but the actual disorder has been discussed in the literature since the 19th century, and was present under a different name(minimal brain dysfunction) already in the original DSM.

> Assuming real examples of ADHD do in fact exist

You implying this needs to be an assumption when there is broad scientific consensus that ADHD is a real disorder, only makes you seem biased. I'm not saying overdiagnosis isn't an issue. The US is particularly bad here, just like with every other instance of oversized corporate influence. But implying ADHD is some big pharma hoax is needlessly dichotomous and not at all supported by evidence.

3) Just because something is "entirely possible" doesn't mean it's the case. And once again research into amphetamine has shown that healthy subjects have little if any measurable benefit from taking it whereas people with ADHD can have life-changing benefits.

You seem to enjoy listing things that are "entirely possible". Might I suggest reading some research?
There's a book that dives into the FDA and Tobacco Industry beef, and one of the big points is that, neither was a good source for consumers. Big Tobacco wouldn't admit smoking was bad in any way, and the FDA wouldn't admit that any level of smoking was negligibly bad. Instead of allowing consumers to make informed choices, the government treated everyone like idiots and said no amount is safe. The fact is - smoking cigars, less than 5 full sized cigars per day, is basically a negligent contributor to any risk. A long term study of pipe smokers found they lived longer. Nicotine itself isn't much worse than caffiene in many ways. Instead of promoting studies into safer smoking, they didn't allow Big Tobacco to make any health claims. Now we know that certain filters (primarily those Charcoal ones popular in Japan) may have a big impact on reducing carcinogens. Snuff (nasal) and snus (cured tobacco from scandinavia) are both basically negligent in any side effect.

Give consumers useful information. Let them make choices. The lying on both sides helped nobody at all.

Big tobacco couldnt admit cigarettes caused cancer, and the FDA wouldn't admit a small amount probably wouldn't - leaving consumers wondering "how safe is it if I smoke 1 cigarette a day, 5 cigarettes a day, or once a month" the actual useful bits for people.
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This is exactly right about negotiation and your skillset. I have seen performance engineers in the right place at the right time get 10-20% of their benefit to the company (I have seen both $1 million/year compensation for line workers and $10+ million/year for very senior folks).

Very highly skilled engineers in specific niches can basically price themselves like monopolists, because the company can easily figure out how much money they are leaving on the table by not hiring them. This is not like "feature work" engineers, whose value is very nebulous and unknown.
PKD didn’t consider encryption and the many tools we can use to thwart spying and surveillance.

I have lost count of the times people used encryption and either it was broken or subverted in some way, an example being the FBI creating its own encryption app as a major honeypot. Encryption apps, chat programs , protocols, etc. have a recurring tendency to be broken or have leaks.
I do find it amusing how far the window for what Americans consider draconian is from the rest of the world. If I was smarter I could perhaps write an essay drawing on our absurd focus on individualism.