jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Though I attribute this to random fluctuations in the news and meta-news cycle, rather than to some failing of the HN community (which I think is awesome).

I don't know. Do you monitor the 'new' page at all? The SNR there is certainly worse, but I do come across submissions I enjoy far more than practically anything on the front page these days. I realise that submission quality is subjective; I guess the community's average opinion on this has diverged far enough from mine that the front page isn't doing it for me anymore. Due to the low SNR (and rate of change) on the 'new' page, consuming HN via it is even more time consuming than normal.

I do catch myself idly looking through front page discussions and even commenting, but there is zero intellectual value in it most of the time. At least I don't upvote the stories.

/classic is slightly better on the surface. (currently 6 upvoted stories by me vs 3 on the frontpage) Unfortunately, submissions seem to hang around there for longer than on the frontpage, so it's like a distilled version of the front page's top 60 into 30, not a truly different set.
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I will answer them in the reverse order:

3. Absolutely Not. There are a lot of amazing Jedi like developers, who are not only the best at what they do, but elevate the level of the whole team, and help make everyone around them become incredibly productive.

2. I think this is pretty normal. You actually want to be in an environment like this early on in your career, so you can learn from these people and from the wealth of their experience. Experienced people are good at spotting design flaws, and common pitfalls in solutions to problems because of their experience.

1. This is actually a big red flag. You may want to see if everyone in the team is behaving like this with you. If so, either this workplace has extremely bad work culture, or they have a perception that you're really dumb. You cannot be dumb, or incapable, because hey! you did get hired at this place. But either of these two situations I mentioned is a big red flag. So what I would suggest is to try to look for smaller projects, or sub problems where you can work relatively independently, so you can have the satisfaction of having contributed to the company, and build that level of trust and reputation in the team, and also in parallel try to interact with others in the team with the intention of finding a 'mentor' who understands you and helps you guide through the politics of your workplace. If nothing works or improves in a say a month or two, it is a good idea to look for a different team within the same company, or switch to another company.

Good Luck!

PS - I work for msft
I've always found such linguistic criticisms of human languages to be quite intriguing. Most are used to thinking of programming languages as "tools" (though there are persuasive arguments for them being more like materials), and consequently this axiom leads to the implication of using the right tool for the right job.

Yet we seldom see such ideas for human languages - that some could be better for expressing certain concepts than others. Is it because the huge keyword count of human languages necessitate us to desire a single lingua franca for quick communication, or is it a fear of cultural insensitivity?
So companies would have to compete on pricing, availability, customer service etc etc instead of by being first to create lock in?

Seems like a net benefit to me :-)
What attack are you envisioning on me running that by hand and pasting one of those passwords into an online service?
>If they didn't do their pizza shop, no one would notice, but if we didn't have high growth startups, I think we'd feel that impact far far more.

I completely fail to notice most "high-growth" startups. I do like my neighborhood pizza joints and ethnic food stores.

But hey, maybe that's because I share Peter Thiel's taste in startups.
You're talking about the system as though it hasn't been providing people with cake for 150 years. Living paycheck to paycheck is not new. Using markets to distribute food prevents those people from starving by making it worthwhile to create more food.

If people can't afford food, give them more money and let prices rise. This lets them eat and makes the hoarders pay the true cost of their hoarding.
I'd think being in government shouldn't disqualify you from having a personality. I like people in my government thank you very much.
When dealing with unpredictably high traffic spikes, on days when you cannot afford any kind of downtime - when that downtime comes at great cost, it's not overengineering (and it's hard to determine if it's overengineered until you know the budget and time spent on the actual project - this may have been a relatively simple modification all things considered)

Static content is easy to crank up to web-scale. You can use DNS, any kind of load balancer, all kinds of web services, CDNs, whatever.

Dynamic content is hard to scale (compared to static). You have several layers of added complexity. Yes, you can build wonderful, self-scaleable systems - but at some point they hit a limit, there are many more resources that can be tied up, and troubleshooting and scaling that out beyond anything you've previously imagined on short notice can take time you can't afford.

So - simply de-coupling the dynamic content generation from the static web serving is a great way to make a clean break - you now have a known & tuneable load on your dynamic application (because your'e running it at known intervals, rather than being event driven by user requests) and you have a front-end static infrastructure that you can scale like mad, and even if your back-end collapses, edit by hand.

Surely there are other ways to approach the problem.... but it also depends on the engineers involved, the time taken, and their confidence in their ability to deal with it.

I'm also fairly sure they aren't the first company out there to take this approach to burst scalability issues... but it's curious to note how the NYT actually operates.

TL;DR: Look at the old configuration, and the new configuration. Decide which one will best serve your business in terms of your ability to troubleshoot it when it gets hit by a level of traffic higher than you can plan for, because you have NO idea how high it will go.
Repost: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1906482
I use my Watch, which is almost always simpler even without a mask.

However, you should be able to hurry it along to prompt for a password. Apple doesn’t make it easily discoverable, but if you tap on the status message when it’s trying to decide whether it recognizes you, it will prompt you for a password instead (while logging in, and I imagine during Apple Pay as well).
Awesome that's great.

Can I redirect the form submission to 2 different pages? One for accepted applicants and one for rejected applicants?
In all my years, HN has been down just once.
There is a literal full paragraph dedicated to explaining it, maybe don't ignore the oodles of context I left to avoid exactly what you did.

Saying other languages are more suited to real work doesn't mean Go isn't suited at all, it literally means other languages are more angled towards the "end product" or the "real meat and potatoes" of just making a thing work than Go.

It's literally a strength of Go. Go doesn't want to include the kitchen sink or even confine you to having a kitchen at all and I respect that.

But I'm saying that other languages that include more in the way of affordances can help one be more productive, and I believe combining a language that includes more, with the mindset of not abusing the buffet is a winning combination.

Ymmv, I'm not an oracle, I just expect people to read things in a reasonably charitable way which usually works fine as long as they're not being defensive.
What I read in this is essentially an observation that "A scenario: you want to help people" does not necessarily (and possibly not even in most cases) imply "you want to maximize your good-output".

In many (perhaps most?) cases the feeling and motivation people have is the intuitive desire to feel good about helping others in their society personally, which is in many ways different from "true altruism". And it makes some sense (from e.g. evolutionary psychology perspective) to consider that our innate desire to "do good" is closely related to building social ties and status, and by helping people close to us in various ways (kinship, common "tribe-in-the-wide-sense-of-that-word", previous relationship history, expected future interactions) as opposed to simply helping abstract people as much as you can. True altruism is the exception (IMHO) rather than the norm, it certainly exists in some cases, but most helping others and charity and doing good is driven by "ordinary goodwill" that includes a mix of other motivations.

And, of course, if someone's goal is not really altruism, then doing more effective altruism won't help them achieve their goals. If we ("abstract we") want to optimize effective altruism, then instead we should help optimize people's efforts witin the area where true altruism overlaps with their actual goals to "do good" (whatever they mean by "do good" since that likely isn't exactly the same thing as true altruism); since once we get to the proposals which are more altruistic but contrary to their true personal goals/values, people are just going to reject the whole thing (as most do).
Could you share any examples of what you've seen?
All the things you mention could be available as a shared library, to be run inside the sandbox along with the application.

Let's keep the sandbox as simple as possible. We can build complexity inside it, and not make complexity part of it. This makes security guarantees much simpler.
And Danish laws and Danish accounting systems and Danish gov agencies to maybe integrate with, etc

(Maybe more relevant for SaaS than servers though)
The Now Habit is an entire book about how to identify problems, form strategies to deal with them, and implement them in your life.

Think of "Don't get overwhelmed" as the name of a chapter in a book, not a solution contained within a single sentence.
More images isnt directly correlated with rankings but it can help increase time on site, improve user experience and lower bounce rate - all which are ranking factors.

There is no one silver bullet for SEO. Its many things combined.
Syria is destroyed by American politics as much as it is destroyed by Russian and Iranian politics, and primarily Syrian internal politics. There are a lot of European countries that are willing to hire Syrian refugees without having to make it a humanitarian cause.
Where is that Y coming from? The rates of say EUR and CHF diverging?
I grew up reading the Iliad under the covers in bed and share your pain. I still read the fluff, though. All work and no play... ;)
ip link set lo mtu 1500
By dumping all those together, you've lost context as to why or where these errors have come from. Just yolo displaying io errors is a terrible experience for your users.
To be fair, Columbus did underestimate the size of the Earth by about a factor of 2, and that was over 1500 years after Eratosthenes had calculated it to a reasonable degree of accuracy. A lot of the geographers laughing at him did so for that reason, not because they thought the Earth was flat. To his dying day he thought he'd sailed half way round the world to the East Indies. That's why we call those islands the West Indies, and call native american's Indians to this day. If the Americas hadn't been there, the expedition would have all died when the supplies ran out. Columbus wasn't right, he was lucky.
Masks work. We will all be wearing masks for months when they can finally distribute enough. In the meantime make your own mask and save the medical masks for health care workers.
Yes, I am 100% on board with this. Nothing happens is exactly what we want, and WHY we are doing what we are doing.

But there are too many people in this world that are painfully illogical and will think it's a "hoax" or "fake" if nothing actually happens.
Are there any links that aren't safe to open from a security point of view not a content point of view? Browsers are very good these days, are there any known approaches that a malicious person can put in a web page were merely opening the url can cause a problem?
Create animations in minutes.

Here is one with Siebel of Ycombinator
https://toonclip.com/fork?key1=1be05af368
Isn't it an example of a highly guided missile?
I’ve been hopeful for CQ/HCQ since the French small study came out about 10 days ago... but i wish Trump hadn’t tweeted about it. Now we are being inundated with “CQ can kill you!” headlines, and people are trying to hoard it, harming the people already relying on it.

If you read the list of side effects for basically any drug on WebMD, you’d never take any medication again.

We just need to be patient and let the doctors/scientists do their work. Doesn’t mean we can’t be hopeful though.
Yes it does. I heard the phrase “Chief Everything Officer” and it resonated so that’s what’s on my resume now. It’s tough that’s for sure.
Whether or not anyone wants to purchase is a separate concern from the fact of ownership.

Edit: there are approx. 1000 used bunny suits for sale on EBay, so...
Pro sports teams spend millions every year to measure potential draft picks to the tiniest level in speed, strength, intelligence and mental qualities, and yet every year spend millions on picks that fail. But statistically, first round picks perform far better than second round picks, and second better than later round picks, so their analysis is doing far better than random selections.

That it’s not an exact science and frequently fails doesn’t mean you shouldn’t do your best to get your best candidate.
Because Tesla is only kind of a car company
I'm not saying it's right, in fact I will state the opposite - content creators are getting shafted on royalties - but it's always been this way for music and books and all content. Most content creators got a shitty deal on physical media and continue to get a shitty deal on streaming.

I don't accept as a given that my $10 a month subscription that I use to stream as few hours of music can't be fairly split with the publisher and the creator.
>I wonder what's the model on messaging apps that will work.

Federated. History has shown that any system that puts control in the hands of one entity eventually ends up bad.
@tmcpro – I'm in a similar situation as the rest of these people posting (Azlo customer now looking for a new bank). Can you elaborate on how you all have resolved the customer service issues that seem to be plaguing Novo on the review sites?
This. e.g., not many people know that Intel created OpenCV and open sourced it.
Good point. However to me it still just seems terribly wasteful/stupid. Considering the aux battery in most computing devices, couldn't the musical thingie be embedded into the computer itself?
I wonder if this detects who uses Adblock Edge.

>“Video is the preferred means by which brand advertisers connect with their consumers,” Mohan said. “It’s a way to make them sort of laugh, make them think, have them make that emotional connection.”

pfffft. Sounds funny, since everyone I've ever heard anything about them from hates video ads like nothing else.
Fixed, thank you very much. :)
To quote `Sustainable Energy without the hot air' [1]:

"You’ve shown that electric cars are more energy-efficient than fossil cars. But are they better if our objective is to reduce CO2 emissions, and the electricity is still generated by fossil power-stations?

This is quite an easy calculation to do. Assume the electric vehicle’s energy cost is 20 kWh(e) per 100 km. (I think 15 kWh(e) per 100 km is perfectly possible, but let’s play sceptical in this calculation.) If grid electricity has a carbon footprint of 500 g per kWh(e) then the effective emissions of this vehicle are 100 g CO2 per km, which is as good as the best fossil cars (figure 20.9). So I conclude that switching to electric cars is already a good idea, even before we green our electricity supply."

and

"I’ve looked up the performance figures for lots of electric vehicles – they’re listed in this chapter’s end-notes – and they seem to be consistent with this summary: electric vehicles can deliver transport at an energy cost of roughly 15 kWh per 100 km. That’s five times better than our baseline fossil-car, and significantly better than any hybrid cars. Hurray!"

[1] Full text available online. That's why I am not giving page numbers, just use a search engine.
This includes a prepaid Fedex envelope to return the sample though, so it amounts to €23 each way which isn't that unusual. Last time this offer was on (without the $5/month recurring payment mind), I noticed on Ebay a while later that some smarts were selling the kits $300. The $5 puts me off doing that though. I wonder if they'd sell as easily.
Why have you linked to the comments instead of the article? Here's the direct link to the item itself:

http://blog.metalabdesign.com/post/1685538816/so-youre-hirin...
Kayak makes around half their revenue from referrals and the other half from advertising. There's no reason Hipmunk couldn't settle for less revenue per search.
I help Khalid and Carlos with their research (I'm an undergrad). Here's Khalid's thesis proposal. The paper recommendation problem is section 2.2 (Beyond Keyword Search).

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~kbe/proposal.pdf
Link to Add-on Compatibility Reporter:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/15003
Thanks for the sincere advice. :O)
(I didn't want to give details for privacy reasons, but I'm already under treatment for it with a CPAP device. WM will not be a replacement.)
Oh, I don't know about that. I didn't write Don Quixote, but it's pretty good.
Great presentation! I'm curious, where did you guys get your flight information from before the ITA deal?
I think they work better when they're not quite so blatant.
Humans, for better and for worse, have a lot of mental machinery dedicated to keeping track of who is sleeping with who, whose child is whose, and whether or not Group X is part of the clan. Any meme which happens to tickle those parts of our minds thereby spreads faster.

To a Vulcan, there might be no essential difference between being related to a lizard and being related to your grandmother. To a human, however, the question of whether or not some other creature is your brother-in-law or merely a distant cousin is a very big deal.
Having lost not one but 2 dvd players to this nonsense, I've concluded that dvd is a transport medium, not a playback medium. I never play a disc directly. I always pull the VIDEO_TS directory with software that can handle this junk and then play it over the network.

It makes the viewing experience so much better anyway. No forced ads, unpause-able areas or stupid little "ghost buster" symbol in an upper corner when I push the root menu button. It makes my remote give orders that are followed, not suggestions in some sort of debate.
any plans to make it commercially available?
This sounds horrible but maybe the people who would take these lists seriously are precisely the kinds of people who are careerist programmers. And they really just want the maximum value from their “investment” in learning programming.

In college I didn’t learn Java at all because it didn’t seem very fun. Python did and I learned that. Then Go came along which was easy to pick up. But once you know a general purpose language well, it doesn’t take long to learn another one (maybe not the most performant code right away but that’s what code reviews by peers are for).
And those proximity sensors are expensive.

... but the remaining working ones retain their value really well in the parts market making the carcass more valuable.
I don’t think that’s well specified enough to measure. But assuming you mean something like median comp of a job that requires X, I’d imagine the top of the list would all be things that are pretty obscure.

Suppose there’s one hedge fund that wants an expert in k and is willing to pay whatever it takes. Does that mean people should go out and learn k?
Depending on the game and setup, you can probably talk to your coworkers during the game without actually playing. This should be taken into account in selection of game and setup.
Then I would XOR it with any plaintext of the same length and use the resulting "key" to satisfy my obligation under the law to enable "decrpytion" by the one-time pad algorithm.
GDPR is a good first step.
I'm in the same boat as far as dream languages go. But just out of curiosity, what is it about F# or Scala that you don't like? For me Scala is an amazing language that sacrificed what could have been a clean design for the sake of Java interop, while inheriting a bunch of the baggage of the Java ecosystem (no closures until recently, type erasure, needless boxing, etc). And F# is still a windows-first ecosystem, as much as they would like to tell you otherwise. I'm currently using both, and while I like both of them well enough, I can't ever shake the feeling like I'm missing out on something better.
I wish some of these provided static, preset dictionaries. I'm working on a packet capture system for SIP, which has a similar layout as HTTP. Thus all the common header fields and values are perfect for a preset dictionary, and in fact, the compression doesn't even need to keep any more state than that dictionary. That is, packets share more with the preset dictionary than with each other.

LZ4 allows you to "prime the stream" as it were, but I'm not sure it is really made for this scenario. As far as I can tell, I'd have to essentially have separate compression/decompression calls for each packet, resetting the state to the dictionary between each packet.
It's not that the problem was simple -- the other team's example shows that it was not. Rather, programmer C took the time to think about the problem enough, and write code that was elegant enough, that it __looked__ simple. Simple solutions almost always look easy in hindsight, but often are not simple to arrive at.
Hi teolemon, if you're still following:

Please consider allowing multiple barcodes for an individual product. I live in the USA, where (because of tradition and archaic technology) some grocers don't like to market products bearing only EAN barcodes. So, many imported items have both UPC and EAN barcode.

I hit a different case today: a box of 20 pieces with one barcode, but the individual item inside has a different barcode.

Maybe the functionality is already there, but I couldn't figure out how to do this.
You can always go deeper:

1. Not malice but incompetence

2. Actually malice, trying to make it look like incompetence, but being incompetent at that makes it... both?

3. Actually being competent at feigning incompetence (the ultimate malice?), perhaps we need to develop a new 'razor' for that.
With Linux Subsystem For Windows and Docker working on windows, it feels like less of a problem than back in the bad old days.
Only two people working full-time on python is not the same as “(the equivalent of) two full-time employees”.

One is two people. The other is a few thousand person-hours of effort per year.
Google has been putting a lot of money into open source for decades, in many different ways.