jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I don’t still work there but checking out the page it looks like it hasn’t been updated in a while.

The company is closer to 40 FTE now, and we employ people of several minorities and protected groups, including LGBTQ, Hispanic, and Asian folks.

The President (whom I chose as my successor) is a woman. The product owner is a gay man. The support team manager is a lesbian. The lead developer on one product is a Chinese national. There are several people on the onboarding and support team who are Hispanic. These are just people I participated in hiring. I have no reason to believe the company has changed in their commitment to diversity.

When I left, the company was ~65% female, which was a conscious choice I made to try to do my part to get women more involved in tech. We went to great lengths to ensure equal pay.

Feel free to ask any of my former employees how we valued diversity and I think you’ll be pleasantly surprised.

On a personal level, my wife is 1/2 Latina, making my child 1/4 Latino. We encourage him to learn his ancestor’s language and explore their culture. I’ve lived in South America and love their culture. In fact, we are currently in the process of moving to Costa Rica and am setting up a program with local public schools where I’ll be donating my time (and money by providing computers) to teach programming to interested children.

Honestly, I find your post to be highly insulting.
London is unique. They have to pass "The Knowledge" which gives them a great understanding of the cities layout and routes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxicabs_of_the_United_Kingdom
"The entry-level laptop features a unique battery design that uses “terraced” battery cells to stuff every available centimeter of a device with power. "

Umm, no, it's not unique. It's kind of annoying when techbeat reporters can't even familiarize themselves with recent industry history. Both Motorola and LG were shipping devices with terraced batteries years ago, and they probably weren't the first either.
block the thread/process that is writing, as a preventive measure, not block the write.
I think that's an important thing though. Rust doesn't need to have concurrency built into the language like Go. With Go you are using their version of concurrency. With Rust, you can use the standard libraries or find another library that suits your purpose.

So although Go does indeed have a well designed thread scheduler - I may discover after months of development on a project it isn't the thread system I need after all and now I'm stuck with a bunch of code I can't use.

Rust in general is far more underdeveloped than everything you mentioned and yes, right now, Go is probably a better choice - maybe.
Yeah, Chrono is also really nice, indeed. Didn’t know it was inspired by JSR310, but it makes sense now that I think about it :)

The new ES Temporal API is also inspired by the same API.
On the other hand, electricity pricing is a construct. To some extent it is designed so that you do worry and limit use of a shared resource.

I think other utilities like internet service adopt this construct, then monetize worry to get you to pay a little more for all-you-can-eat.

There's an interesting quote from a former chairman of the atomic energy commission:

It is not too much to expect that our children will enjoy in their homes electrical energy too cheap to meter, will know of great periodic regional famines in the world only as matters of history, will travel effortlessly over the seas and under them and through the air with a minimum of danger and at great speeds, and will experience a lifespan far longer than ours, as disease yields and man comes to understand what causes him to age

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Too_cheap_to_meter
More likely the technology you envision would be applied to packaging and would turn supermarkets into an even more unbearable kaleidoscope.
> nobody has blogged yet about having crushed themselves.

“Hi HN! (waves). It’s Johnny from Loggr.me (formerly timbr.ho). We’re building the world’s first platform to connect loggers (who can chop down trees) and loggees (who have no business doing so). The idea came at me suddenly while I was building my off-grid tiny house in the Sierra Nevadas...”
The diff I did is aware of the structure of the object. It's not just sorted lines.
Fascinating read:

> A key question concerns the amount of iron dust that would be required to induce draw down of CO2 from the atmosphere. [...] In total, this estimate concludes that ~2.8 million tons of biogenic iron oxides would be delivered over 100 days per year to the iron-limited regions of the global ocean to reach conditions where iron was not limiting primary productivity.

Many other sources are available at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_fertilization#References and friends, please add this one too!
It's not artificial if the network is overloaded by users. It's not like fiber where an optical running from user end point to the ISP can be fully saturated all the time without affecting other users.
Exactly, there's nothing really new here except the device being used. Risk to skimming with a phone is no different than a 3G enabled terminal. Ultimately you need a business account and legal agreements with a merchant - so in this case Stripe to start work and accepting payments.
I workout at home so normally after work.
You have nothing to be sorry about. If I had noticed that this was a self-post I would have phrased my response more personally and (hopefully) with more tact.

I'm not looking to second guess each of your examples, many of which were fine. I felt that your currying example was trying to bring in a purely functional toolkit ala Lisp when it wasn't appropriate. Function composition (which you allude to in your reply, yet I don't see) and blocks (especially!) show off Ruby's functional capabilities quite well and would be just as effective and more practical.

Btw, if you're quite new to Python, do yourself a favor and learn about list comprehensions. They can be quite wonderful.

Good luck!
I'm not going to spend a ton of time refuting and debating some right wing commentary piece. it's not news despite being on newsweek.com

critical theory was intellectually thought about before marxist thought leaders with hegel & rousseau

it's just simply a heuristic in which to theorize about structures of society, critique, and kind of more HN relevant thinking about not just a simple single priori -> action but a more broad connected sociological look at society & consequences. at least that's what I understand.

it does not force some political agenda on anyone, it's relegated to academia, and it's not some forceful communist crusade; that's just laughable.

most important it's not something even remotely related to k-12 learning lol.

the actual politicking is coming from those whipping up crazy delusional emotions and passing laws that have nothing to do with reality just because 'commies' is a hot topic to get certain segments of people riled up and voting/supporting their social agendas. and they often are actual campaigns of repression, doing exactly what they critique in others

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1754029100364753....
> in many areas of Italy cash is still the only viable payment method.

cough tax avoidance cough
I did not want to suggest "ask you to go cold on your heating and kill your industry " ...maybe you're overreacting.... I suggested giving Germans some time out to extend their Easter celebrations... why not italy or austria or Switzerland? someone needs to show the way and Germany has a wealthy economy with gas reserves that would last apparently at current consumption rates till the summer so who knows how long they could last in reality...... but as one young man remarked when I met him in 2019 in Hamburg on a Saturday among 100 000 other demonstrators wanting the government to do something about climate change... Germans don't really want change, they're too comfortable... I think that goes for much of the western world, covid was an opportunity , this war is one too, for us to rethink our economics into terms more caring and sharing rather than people being run around like well paid slaves by companies whose end effect is? producing more ICE cars, fertilizers for the wheat/meat industry (Fast food Nation is an enlightening book-film as is Demain or Tomorrow a french film...)

I'm sorry if I hurt your patriotism, but I do appreciate very much your and the other comments contributing to helping me flesh out an idea.. as one commentator mentioned rebuilding Ukraine...and helping break Putin's teeth on the Ukrainian rock go hand in hand...
That sounds like good advice. I'll keep that in mind next time I attempt to use Rust on something.
> you might short list those who have a tendency to violate contract terms.

An asshole filter
https://siderea.dreamwidth.org/1209794.html (maybe you've read already?)
A big problem right now in biology is the framing of these fundamentals in education. We know some things, but they're typically presented fairly piecewise in higher education.

One example of the fragmentation:
You're in an oncology lab? - study this particular protein and DNA damage association - but cell cycle is downplayed. Or vice versa. There's a lot of segmentation that goes on when the processes are really part of the same system.

In terms of fundamentals, I think we really need to switch towards starting biology education with just the pieces of the minimally viable cell. By using this as a tool to base everything upon, we can make biology a bit more scientific, rather than just the list of observations that it tends to swing towards today.
The folding would be mostly unnecessary if we wildcarded (e.g. `import foo.bar.*`) instead of explicitly spelling every single thing out, but many dev teams forbid that... and then want the IDE to compensate for it.

My point actually being that if folks won't accept wildcards to begin with, I can't imagine importlessness gaining any traction, although perhaps we'll bifurcate as happened with the extremes of checked-exceptions-everywhere vs. never-exceptions.
>As an example, the national ABC/WaPo poll on November 3-6, 2016 claimed a +4% Clinton result, with a 2% margin of error. [1] That's an indictment of their methodology, and it's an indictment of Nate Silver who weights them as an "A+" pollster.

Your link says 2.5% margin of error and not statistically significant. What am I missing? Ironically the comment appears to be misinformation.

>Clinton’s edge in the Post-ABC poll does not reach statistical significance given the poll’s 2.5 percentage-point margin in sampling error around each candidate’s support
I've been to MiniBar a handful of times, and I'm not really keen on it. It's a really noisy venue and you can't hear the speakers. Great if you want to have a drink and general chit-chat. My advice with Minibar is to meet or go with people you already know and make it a social evening.
In Romania almost all salary negotiations, ranges, etc. are on net salary ("take home salary").
This. A patent is not protection against competitors copying details of your product. A patent is a ticket to an incredibly expensive court battle.

To a certain degree, it doesn't matter if your patent isn't completely valid, or doesn't completely match what your competitors are doing. The point is to have deeper pockets than them and be able to spend more on lawyers than them. As long as your patent lasts long enough in court to stop your competitors from doing whatever you don't want them to do, it has achieved its goal.

Patents are so broken.

(IANAL, just an MBA who's heard some war stories).
I think a better comparison would have been some of the smaller discrete GPU wielding laptop. You can get some of these for similar prices to the M1 macs.

Also, for me, the answer is no: they're not any good. I use PyTorch. I use custom CUDA code. The reality is brutal but simple: if it doesn't run CUDA, no serious ML research will use it for training anything else than toy models.
Everything is a gradient - not absolutes. You also have to understand that, again, this is the internet and HN does have political bots.
At the bottom of the page:

> © 2/15/2021 04:52:35 PM THE LAST HOUR INC (PERHAPS) FOR THE GOOD DEATH (CLEAR -4ºF) NEITHER INSTAGRAM NOR SAFARI NOR RED DEER
NOR TERMS OF USE NOR SUPPORT @ LOT 2046 COM (GOOD WORKS) PAYMENTS BY STRIPE (JEREMIAH 29:11) 52.2316,-113.8358 MADE IN 2046 THANKS BYE

Hah. Cute art project I think.
We already had Ark II back in 1976, for those of you who were alive then.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lj8z28Mshw
Cancel culture has been frivolously applied to a lot of situations where it does not make sense to. Rob Monster literally has said himself he wants to provide a place to foment specifically far-right ideology. He is extremely deserving of a “cancel”.
It's not alone. In Romania salaries are negotiated based on net salary.
Hmm that bridge in Brooklyn proposition starting to make sense.
I believe you, still, it's hosted at a Google's domain and it's a company's core competency. I don't think that's excusable.
I dont understand why private businesses discriminating even matters . They just put themselves at a disadvantage by limiting their applicant pool based on whatever tests/discrimination they want.
Talk to @adamcaudill on Twitter -- he's working on an encrypting camera app (photos are decrypted offline) and would probably love to collaborate on, e.g. frontends for gnupg or reop.
It's bad.

The reason is because you don't control the GC and don't even necessarily know what exactly drives the decisions it makes. So once you want to go beyond a certain level of performance, there is no right answer. You are just randomly trying stuff and kind of flailing.

In C++ (or another direct-memory language), there is a right answer. You can always make the memory do exactly what you want it to, and there's always a clear path to get there from wherever you are.
I think for an error of this magnitude some kind of apology would be in order. If he can't manage that he's lost a lot of credibility.
9 out of 10 have explanatory text. Curious that the 'switchboard operator' is apparently a 'modern' enough occupation not to warrant an explanation. Funny, because I don't think many currently five year old kids will ever know what a switchboard operator did without websites like this teaching them.
That's very traditional. Most computer magazines f.e. are under so much pressure that a complete separation is difficult.

Even the ones that still have a separation, are a little bit more gray in the sense, that they do special deals i.e. free software for their coverstory and so forth.
I would agree if you mean learn what an algorithms does but not how to build it. I program everyday and rarely do I have to build an specific algorithm but knowing of them and what they do I need daily.
> why would you begin your game plan with stating something so clearly incorrect

Because once Congress publicly disavows the NSAs actions, I suspect then working against Congress would result in rogue status.
It is also important to note the latency in these connection. Generally speaking 4000 Active connection you are looking at 150ms+ for 98th percentile already. Which is bad to be frankly honest.

( Results were from 2016, so may be things has improved )
The Costco CEO is using the political process to hamstring competitors. A $16 minimum wage may be right for his business but not for theirs.
Choose an L2 and send me $1. I dare you.
I think of myself as Gazan and Palestinian. Just like a Newyorker and American. But it was important to choose the word Gazan in the title because the Gaza situation is different from other parts of Palestine. Gaza is a very small piece of Palestine near the mediterranean sea. It’s 35 km long and 7 km wide. We are surrounded by walls on 3 sides and most of us have never been able to travel, that’s why I said Gazans because Google seemed as distant as an alien planet.
I love the idea. My suggestion: To make the laptop “you” as the site says, you need to make the laptop outwardly expressive. Nothing is less unique than a apple logo on the lid. Zune did an amazing job some time ago with custom engraving artist designs and patterns on the back of their MP3 players. Maybe Framework could do something similar?
Haha, having worked on email clients, this gave me a good laugh. People use them in all sorts of different ways – part of what makes them tricky to build. Very clever customization though!
For context about "experimental polities" like the failed Toronto SideWalk labs [1], I've linked an article below [2].

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2020/05/07/sidewalk-labs-shuts-down-t...

[2] https://theconversation.com/will-silicon-valleys-new-company...
If people reporting business losses in any given year couldn't vote... I'm not so sure I'd be opposed!
thought this was going to be 3d printing in blocks, but this is cool too.
I think you already know about this situation because the CTO was in contact with you about it. And it's not really anger, more disappointment.

About backups - OrientDB does not backup indexes, it recreates them on restore - but creating indexes is the most expensive operation! For us it meant an unacceptable level of downtime during a restore.

The impression I got when I was working with OrientDB is that you focus a lot on features, and OrientDB definitely has a lot of them. So anyone that does a naive point by point comparison with other products will naturally be blown away by OrientDB. But many of these features are not well thought out, or are broken in obvious or subtle ways - e.g. you support Lucene for full text search but it's unusable for anything but the most simple use case.

It takes a lot of development time before it becomes apparent just how broken the product is, and that is the problem - if it'd let us down in the first few weeks I wouldn't be writing this. Instead we encountered a constant stream of strange bugs and edge cases, and to be fair to you, you fixed a lot of these problems quickly, but we'd always find new ones, and it became a case of death by a thousand tiny cuts. Nevertheless, because of launch pressure we got into a position where we thought we had something that would suffice, but when we tested it with real world data we got constant lockups and OOM problems. When we realised that one of the most fundamental features - transaction support - was broken, we decided we had no choice but to change data stores and rethink our entire architecture, and to have to do that so late in the game was extremely painful and risky.
Actually that's not entirely true. There are a lot of places in the U. S. at least that still have very poor to no cell phone coverage, but do have landlines. In most of these places, calling to anywhere but the area around the nearest town is a long distance call (with a commonly 7 - 12 cent per minute charge on top of the monthly local phone access charges) -- unless you don't consider that expensive. Believe me it can add up quickly.
Ah - the pain of path dependence
Living in SLC, this is super exciting. I cannot wait to ditch Comcast (who has raised my rates for the same service every 6 months over the past 2 years) as soon as conceivably possible.
I'm not really sure what you're saying, but it sounds mildly offensive.

It's both wrong and illegal to reject a candidate based on their race, regardless of what race that is. And I am pretty sure the OP was not implying otherwise. Further, I assure you that white people file discrimination lawsuits too.
It didn't though. It moved bitcoin which is worth 38M USD, but crucially it's not the same thing. If you wanted to convert that bitcoin to actual dollars it would cost you a lot more.

Like, if you had a painting worth 38M dollars you could just throw it in the car and drive it somewhere and give it to someone. You just "moved" 38M dollars, but I hope it's clear that it's not the same as actually sending 38M dollars.
Oh cool - another service I won't use!
It helps to think in terms of selling value instead of hours, though that can be a tricky thing to calculate. But if nothing else you can assume that if some client is willing to pay $insane for your time then they have decided it's at least of that value to them.

Of course, if you have some knowledge that allows you to guesstimate this value then so much the better.
USA is now the land of lack of opportunity?
It's true, with the job market in the toilet for the last decade, a public school system that encourages all its students to go to college, and a student loan industry that has allied with the federal government to drive up tuition and milk students and their families for all they're worth (to say nothing of predatory credit card lending), and with the resulting massive debt young people take on in starting their lives these days unparalleled in US history, yes people are tending to put off things like marriage, children, etc. Don't let that stop you from publishing a ridiculous and haughty article about 'kids these days' though, New York Times. I'd expect nothing less.

I was lucky enough to avoid the worst of most of this stuff, but I'm not about to use that luck as a rhetorical device against my peers, some of whom made decisions that certainly would have seemed correct to anyone at the time, or who were simply misled by overzealous school counselors, or whatever. Just sayin'.
Maybe there are some highly specialized occupations (e.g. theoretical scientist) where the high cost of education is justified. But the point is that most people don't go into those fields.
> Discussion forums are subject to network effects where the value of the forum increases with the square of the number of commenters.

More commenters doesn't increase value.

I think my issue is more that "ugh" isn't anyone. He has no background, and therefore, what he says is purely within the context of the discussion. Anything he says is questionable, because their is no accountability.

Anyways, good discussion. I'm still struggling with the baby/bathwater issue this has arisen, but the wife and child are waiting to be taken out to breakfast, so I must go.

=)
Swoopo does something sort of similar to that by forcing you to pre-buy bids. If you haven't gone, check it out. It's one of the scummiest business models on the internet
> Six pack generally doesn't suit up with a 7-figure salary.

Why not?
Here are a few things that might help:

1. Build the core product and launch a beta soon. Release early, release often. This will help you gauge the response and adapt. This will help you remove uncertainty about your own launch/idea etc.

2. You should definitely try to involve atleast one more person. As a lone founder, sometimes things can be a little dull.. However this should not mean you should force yourself to look at co-founders.. it's a tricky situation.. But, go out and talk to people, and meet more people and i'm sure you will come across people you want to work with.

3. Even if you do find someone to work along with, things can still be quite challenging for start-ups. It's something you should be prepared to face upto. This is exactly what makes the process rewarding and you should look at what you are learning from the process.
I would have preferred to read the original Pinker article rather than this guy's half-assed rebuttal of it which appears to take the form "No, Pinker is wrong, he contradicts what I said in my book. Buy my book!"
The ramifications of alignment was a biggy, especially whether you went magic or technology. There's the whole wizards city (or whatever, I haven't played the game in far too long) that if you went technological you was pretty much outright banned from and it was a bitch to gain entry.

Again your reputation for good or evil also helped later in the game. If you was evil (and had the reputation of a killer) you could intimidate much better because you had the right charisma traits attached to you character.
You can use this for CRUD api's, and then move to something else when you need to. Clients won't care.