skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pink Lady not being ranked higher is a crime.

Though, there should be different rankings for what use the Apple is being put to. You want different varieties depending if you are using it to make applesauce, eating it plain, making a pie, etc.

Except for red delicious. It is the absolute worst and has no uses. Such a mealy Apple.
The world can't have enough ToDo web apps !
So you're into it for political reasons as much as anything else?
> AFAIK all Baltic states have a minority with limited rights, so they are far from true democracy.

Limited rights in the sense of not being able to vote for the parliament, sure. However that isn't unusual at all. In fact, I don't know of any counter example. Do you have an example of a country where non-citizens can vote for the highest form of government?

As for local elections, in Estonia both Russian citizens and ethnic Russians without any citizenship are allowed to vote. That is extremely democractic.
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There's a third option: FOMO. They didn't want to look stupid later for failing to invest in case FTX turned out to be the next big thing, so they took a gamble.
Well, if it's worked for you I might as well give it a shot. Reaching now the 6 months mark, already took a a few days off here and there, I'll try a whole week off around Christmas.

What was good to know was that there doesn't seem to be any addiction potential for me at all. I hate being lazy and unmotivated without the meds, but there is no urge nor withdrawal whatsoever, which is fantastic, as someone that got addicted to half a dozen things in their life.

I was afraid I would start to enjoy the meds too much, but I am much more dependent on the cup of coffee I drink once a week (and every day during work I start craving a Coke) than amphetamine.
It wasn't sold near Jonestown either
Haha, that image is just a placeholder image for now while i get better imagery. Not selling cardigans lol. We will be expanding our products and catalog in the future, socks are definitely in consideration. Thanks for the feedback.
Your biggest cost will be returns. How are you going to manage that?
I'm in Canada so I can't use this yet - I'm a very no-nonsense clothing, run of the mill-type man so being able to get things like plain t-shirts, sweaters, blue jeans, socks...etc is very appealing to me.

Joseph Mimran made his mark by selling plain, white t-shirts.

I'll be keepign my eyes out, good luck with your business!
Well as the article says there are actually laws against this. Maybe your "uh so?" is inappropriate, it definitely is victim blaming.
If it’s B2B you need to go pure subscrition if the goal is to maximize revenue and minimize the risk of leaving unsupported customers. Business don’t really care about new features, they care about that the features they purchase keep on working ad infinitum. Also your existing customers will be as valuable as your new customers so you will focus on the product, not on trying to outcompete yourself with dubious new features just to justify a new relase until your product is so bloated nobody wants it.

If it is B2C you will have to go transactional or hybrid, but hybrid is very complex as your support costs can easily escalate
Presumably none of the groundbreaking / fun research is carried out at Area 51 anymore.

If you were a research scientist doing classified research, and invented anti-gravity, would the powers behind the scenes allow this technology into circulation? Our guys certainly wouldn't want to let the Soviets know anti-grav is a possibility.

All the U.S. military-industrial complex's best toys are certainly still classified.
It was obviously an unsubstantive comment, unduly personal, and basically a variation on "did you even read the article" which the site guidelines ask people not to post. That makes it flamebait, regardless of your intention when you posted it. I don't think it was a borderline call, nor is it hard to understand.

Ironically, the sort of legalistic pleading you're resorting to is a sign of a lack of the good faith you're claiming. So is the style of your reply sequence: never admit or accept a thing, never address what the other person says, and simply bring up a new argument every time. These are troll tactics, whether you're using them that way intentionally or not (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...), and part of how we moderate HN is not to dance that way.
“All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?”
Win + Shift + S = Screencapture area of your screen and copy to clipboard

The muscle-memory for that one is so strong that I end up binding it to do the same thing on Linux. Super handy across-the-board.

Also Win + P should open projector/display settings. At least it did when I was on Windows 8.
> If you do not renew, the fallback license applies to the version on the day you purchased, not the version at the time the license lapsed.

It's not as bad as that. Your fallback license is updated every 12 consecutive months. If you do not renew after a 12 month period, your fallback license will be for the version from 12 months ago. [1]

[1]: https://sales.jetbrains.com/hc/en-gb/articles/207240845-What...
In code like `a(b(d),c(e))`, I think it could be relevant. You would want different code based on the size of `b(d)`, `c(e)`, `d`, and `e`. If you must evaluate b before c, that would eliminate some possible arrangements.

Specifically, if `e` and `b(d)` are huge, you probably would want to evaluate `c(e)` first and then `b(d)`.
1/3 to 1/2 is a tremendous exaggeration. In Latvia it is ~11%, in Estonia, close to 5%, and in Lithuania, next to non existent.

The predominantly ethnic Russian who were living in the SSR of Latvia or Estonia, but were not Latvian citizens before 1940, and who have not learned the language and acquired citizenship after '91 have rights, but cannot vote or hold some political offices. Same with any other foreigner. They can learn the national language and apply for citizenship. Choosing not to doesn't mean they are treated poorly or unfairly.

https://rosalux-geneva.org/baltics-breaking-up-after-a-force...
Unfortunately there are still a few of countries today. Not so long ago there were dozens of them. Their recent history is fairly well documented. You can read it your self how life there was nothing but a struggle with no chance of success unless you or your family belonged to red nobility.
I live in Canada, and that's where my experience comes from. Argument refuted! :P

But to be serious: yes, I've been outside of North America. I've been to Hong Kong, South Africa, Australia, and a few other places. None of them are as bad as North America is with this expectation/nigh-on legal requirement of helicopter parenting... but they're all still far worse than what basically-everywhere in the world was like 50 years ago.

To be clear, my expectation for a place that is better, isn't just that kids there can walk to school on their own; but rather that kids in such a place would be allowed — and enabled, by considerations of forestry and wildlife management — to just walk/bike out of the town or city they live in to play and have adventures in the fields and parks and maybe a little bit of thornier wilderness around them, all on their own, for hours at a time. A.K.A. "just be home for dinner."

That's really how things used to be! Recently enough that anyone over 50 can tell you stories about their own solo wanderings of forests and mountains and streams as a child, in search of bugs to catch and birds to watch. Anyone under 50, though? Not so much. Not even younger people from supposedly rural areas in supposedly developing countries (that I've talked to, at least) have had a chance at this kind of youth. They might go out exploring — but parents insist that it be done with a group of friends, that they stay in cell-phone service range, and a dozen other things that mean that they have zero opportunity to clear their mind and actually take in nature for even a single minute.

If you really do insist that "most of the world" has this opportunity, though, then maybe the particular set of countries I've visited (and the people I've talked to on my travels) represent a bubble of experience? I think the countries I've visited have all been Commonwealth or ex-Commonwealth nations. Maybe that's the common factor? Did the Brits invent helicopter parenting and then carry it with them wherever they went?
Reasoned from an employer, the economic optimum consist of two parts:

1) The time you work is spent doing meaningful things.

2) The amount of hours equals the point where if you'd add hours, the negatives outweigh the positives.

In that sense it's bizarre how both parameters don't seem much of a priority. Entire armies of office workers are stuck in zoom meetings and email, seeing most of their day cut up into tiny slices where you can't do focused work. It's quite common to hear that people do about 2 hours of actual work per day.

Rather than obsessing over some ancient number of hours "present", shouldn't effectiveness be an absolute top priority? Not only do managers not seem to care that their employees do little real work, they actually believe that those small blanks in your calendar means you're not busy enough. Have some more meetings. Let's collaborate more!

Here's my "CEO for a day" solution:

A system will for each meeting calculate its cost, which would be the amount of participants multiplied by their hourly rate. Since a 1 hour meeting really costs about 2 hours of productivity (just before and after meetings, nobody does work), the sum would be multiplied by 2, or 1.5 at least.

Once per month or so, you check the aggregates, starting with the worst offenders. It looks like Tom organized about 30K worth of meetings last month. Now Tom is going to tell the company what tangible value he produced in these meetings to offset this.

You'll soon find that it's all power laws. A small group of people responsible for flooding people with meetings.

And you can do the same with email. Efficient workers sent perhaps a handful of emails per day, yet Tom seems to be sending 50-100, all day and night.

Perhaps Tom should shut the fuck up and not mistake his joy in communicating with people for work.
Hmmm. Interesting. Would the UI be local and compute remote in this paradigm? And how is that different from the old thin client model?

just read your site, and I’m thinking of this as more like a super massive global mainframe?
In my experience their clothes are typically more on the rugged/outdoor part of the spectrum and will oftentimes have logos. Our clothes have no logos, are modern fitting, and high quality! Thanks for the feedback.
What does Win+G do?
> With a membership, you'll have access to our catalog which are high quality and have no logos/brands or silly designs, this way you’re paying for quality, not status.

Why does it have to be a membership though? Subscriptions creeping into the real world is a real bummer. Could you just increase the price instead? I want to spend money on clothing that's durable, ethically and ecologically responsible, and I don't have a problem spending more than at other retailers. But why should I pay money for a subscription if I don't buy anything that year. I guess I'm not the target audience.
>it's not infantilizing because you still pay for lunch

I don't buy it, they've still made the decision of where you're getting your food for you. The only way to escape infantilisation is to never be an employee. Why would you let mommy and daddy tell you what projects you're allowed to work on?
Some context I found: https://library.oregonstate.edu/osu-psu-and-uo-libraries-ini...

>To this end, all three institutions would like to reduce our spend with Elsevier by half of the current amounts paid by each institution. We are interested in obtaining a concession that would allow articles published by authors at each institution to be converted from closed to open access. We will be asking Elsevier to remove any limitations on inter-library lending (ILL). We will seek concessions that ensure end-users’ identifiable account information is not utilized inappropriately, and we will seek removal of any language that does not allow us to openly disclose the contract we have negotiated.
International shipping coming early 2023, Canada shipping maybe even sooner, Thanks for the feedback really appreciate it!
Isn’t this just Citrix?
Yes, Waterpik is the most famous brand of dental/oral irrigators.
If you go the subscription route, and offer both an annual and monthly subscription, for the love of god don't do and Adobe and make the monthly subscription a yearly subscription in disguise. Going to cancel a monthly subscription, and discovering actually you have to pay the next 9 months is an evil business model.

Just offer a discount on a yearly vs monthly subscription.

Tricking your customers and bullying them into paying for something they don't want is a sure fire way to destroy a brands reputation.
Seems cruel to announce this with such a long timeframe before the layoffs conclude. Will leave lots of people worried over the holidays.
Edit: I decided to leave this as is, but with misgivings. The tone may seem off, as it does to me too on re-reading it in context as a reply. I think I'm echoing very similar sentiment...

I also think writing good code is a skill or craft like writing prose. But there are also drastic differences. The analogy falls apart in many ways. While it has a textual or symbolic aspect, in other ways programming is more like other crafts where the novice starts at zero, rather than with decades of relevant listening, speaking, reading, and writing.

Good code get consumed and maintained by others in a way that most prose does not. Sure, there are editors and published revisions, but not nearly the amount of modular reuse and refactoring. Natural language reuse happens in other indirect ways that benefit from the mental plasticity of the audience. You invoke ideas or idioms from your influences, but not as literal embedding and reuse. A good writer does not need to engineer their prose to be easily lifted and reused by a different author and an unanticipated audience.

Another thing is that code is mostly consumed by an audience who do not even see or read the code. They only use the resulting program. Whereas prose consumption is in the same essential form as it was authored. You don't naturally encounter code examples even if you spend your early life using programs. I think this is perhaps the biggest problem. Many may have internalized many examples of natural language utterances by the time they reach college-level classes. Few, if any, have similar exposure to code. Most exposure is at the level of kindergarten reading exercises. See factorial run. Run, factorial! Run!

So even if college classes are similarly structured and staffed, all the participants have far different depth of exposure at the beginning. Your term projects are too short to experience programming in the large and to gain experience. Most of your teachers are grad students with only a few years extra exposure than you have, and most of that similarly shallow. Even after decades as a professional practitioner, one is still learning interesting and hard lessons about what it means to program well. And these lessons are often personal and idiosyncratic, as we cannot usually separate our coding outcomes from other economic concerns which may not care for or reward "good programming".
most of big beneficiaries of the Madoff scam e.g. Picower (found dead the the bottom of his pool) and including Madoff's children, were dead within a couple years after the collapse.
https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/USA/united-states/carb...

Emissions are generally decreasing…
Dear lord! Talk about an own goal...
I tried to do this and I couldn't figure it out. I never got the sense that it knew anything about the code I had written, just that it was dreaming stuff up from its training set.
Google Maps' AR Live View Will Now Point Out Shops, Coffee, ATMs
But with the other logic, oil is not an energy source either, it is rather an energy storage that just so happened to store energy created by the sun millions of years ago.

I think it is OK to be loose on the technicalities in this instance, we all know what was meant.
I don't think I agree to be honest. If you know more than 20 people, that still sounds bad.

Might make a difference if you have no idea how many people live in the USA I suppose.
Lets say you want something as simple as a table-of-contents. If you're doing HTML, you gotta render this yourself. In Wordpress or webpage generators like Jekyll or Hugo, table-of-contents generated from H1 / H2 headers is basically just one line.

Lets say you want to sort all your posts by date and paginate the results (say, 20 results per page or something), as per typical blogging patterns. That's a lot of HTML cruft you gotta make for this to happen. Meanwhile, Wordpress / Jekyll / Hugo (etc. etc.) do this all automatically for you.
Are you aware of the Indochino chain and how they work?
MSG, an unfairly maligned and worthwhile seasoning (2021)
Government may get more revenue but the individual politicians get influenced through financial means provided by the companies stealing the wages.

Corporates want their pound of flesh for lobbying expenses.
They made ~$10-30m from the Japan arb from what I've read, mostly blew it, but it still got Alameda off the ground. The Korean arb was the initial goal but proved too difficult.

Both of these arbs were glaringly obvious and talked about constantly, but difficult to pull off due to banking hurdles in both countries.
To be fair, I did look at this in the best light possible and took your overly aggressive tone and hanging your hat on a scriveners error like putting a “2” instead of whatever other number when it was clear what the poster was talking about to be an EQ gap on your part and not malice.
I think it kind of flows into two trains of thought in the against category.
First off, that some people are worried about copywrited, private stuff being included in the training data.
I've not read up on copilot recently, so not sure if this is a reasonable thing to be worried about or not.

The other, is that people might be using Github to share stuff they've come up with other developers, but having an AI parse that information means that there's a disconnect between giver and receiver. It removes a chunk of the feedback loop being possible, which makes it so rather than it being a community of developers, it becomes something more akin to content creators and lurkers.
That's not necessarily a bad thing, due to it opening up the sheer number of possible usages that end up using something. But it would minimize community feedback.
As a fellow Canadian, do you also happen to care about sustainability (ethical and ecological)? If so, if you don't mind me asking, where do you shop currently?
Which is not the same thing with issuing rouge certificates to MitM you, especially for political purposes. For example, a winner of local best talent TV show (Atalay Demirci)'s Twitter account hacked and his messages published online and just because of his ordinary messages with a former Turkish deputy (Hakan Sukur), who is now in exile in the U.S. - he got jailed for political reasons.

So a rouge certificate for *.twitter.com can really ruin ordinary people life in Turkey. We are talking about a human life here.
It wouldn't. But not because it's offensive. It is making a joke about the sympathizer's awkwardness, which is making it about yourself. A straightforward sorry for your loss is always best.
But very often in crowded areas it is the cell connection thats the first thing to stop working (my experience, Germany).
Yeah, I feel bad for admitting this because people I know were significantly harmed, but the entertainment value of this is off the charts.
Quantization of work is so weird to me in the context of software engineering.

Most of the work I do happens passively as I think about some problem. Much of this thinking occurs outside of the traditional 9-5 window.

"Amount of time spent presiding over a work PC" doesn't count as a useful metric in my book. I prefer to measure the quality of work via outcomes and customer feedback. Meetings are an unhappy exception to all of this, but they are a necessary evil. Eliminate unnecessary meetings with prejudice - They will come back like zombies if they were really that important to the business.

Contributions still need to be mapped to outcomes, but that has nothing inherently to do with a time dimension. Non-contributors and relative performance should still be quite obvious to management, even if you can't say exactly how much time was spent by each participant.
That's awesome! Just curious... how did you get/keep the API access?
What makes you say that Donetsk in July 2014 was "an active war zone"? Also you may be interested to know that at the time MH17 was shot down, several other passenger flights were in the vicinity - see the "Nearby aircraft" section in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysia_Airlines_Flight_17
Their research in transformers for conversational AI is good. See https://parl.ai/
Strategic ambiguity, nicely spotted =)
It sounds like you are correct on the not firing the missile.

>Prosecutors, after the findings of an international investigation, concluded that the four men did not “press the button themselves” but were responsible for taking the BUK from Russia and deploying it on the battlefield.
Bankman-Fried and FTX Execs Received $4.1B in Personal Loans from Alameda
> Mighty’s short term goal was to make people more productive with their browser.

I believe the biggest reason for their failure and lack of traction is because they misidentified their value proposition from day 1.

No, loading web pages marginally faster is not going to make you more productive. It will save you a few minutes per day in the best case scenario, nothing else.

Productivity does not come from loading speed, it comes from how quickly you can identify the information that matters on a page and absorb it.

This HackerNews page took 320ms to load, but I've been on the page for 5 minutes already. They really think saving even 90% of the load time is going to make any difference to my _productivity_?
> What I want is for the address bar to give me a really quick way to jump to existing tabs, if I start to type in the address of one I already have open.

Chrome's been doing this recently and I absolutely love it
Figure Little's law may be a bit applicable to the discussion :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little%27s_law

You never really want "100% utilization" (something I feel a lot of managers don't quite understand).

The answers here are very interesting. I work more than 40 hrs (my own business stuff) and I always wish there was more time in the day, lol. Never worked at a big company but I do imagine if people are only "working" 20 hrs that's a sign that they could "work-less." IMO as long as stuff gets done (in a timely manner) that's all that should matter.
I think you overestimate how fast some folks type, and how much syntax errors impact productivity.
No explanation needed. We have 3 frenchies - also rescues. People get them, realize their vets bills are insane, and then dump them off. They are also a big breed in puppy mills that get shut down. We have spent an inordinate amount of money on frenchies over the years (we've had 5 - not at the same time, but 2 died prematurely from health issues), but these dogs didn't chose be here, and deserve a good life.
We're experimenting with this, 2 options:

1. No membership, but higher prices (we may try this in the near future)

2. Membership with ultra low prices on clothing

With option 2 you actually end up saving more in the long run and its the same result.

Membership helps to run the business while passing all the cost savings to you, that's the main idea about this business model, but definitely open to experimentation.

Thanks for the feedback, really appreciate it!
Have you heard of Primark?