jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I personally think it's a great move. The combination of 2 great frameworks to make something better.
How many blacks do you see out front in the most successful companies?

The son of a black man who abandoned his child is running the country. That should be a start. Obama, for that matter, lacked a significant role model (i.e., his father) altogether. Fortunately, he told the NAACP to make up 'no excuses' [1].

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/17/us/politics/17obama.html
I've been trying to break into Product Management or UX. I'd say my personal interest is in community / social products.

Kind of a weird situation, relocated from LA a month ago. I've been an independent contractor my entire career (10 years), huge range of skills including founded a startup, early stage product consulting, frontend dev, UI/UX design, Django & PHP dev, project management, social media marketing etc.

Not sure how to approach this employment thing on new territory, especially with such a weird career path.
I too tend to be turned off by displays of coolness or bragging in a job ad. E.g. I am not a rockstar, a ninja or a junkie.
-make teachers more accountable for their students success and make tenure based on that...-Teachers should be paid according to how well their students perform/improvements made.

If you throw out the tests, how do you know if students were successful or not, or whether they improved?
I don't have as much spare time as some, so I automated it: http://scattered-thoughts.net/one/1274/311469/319933
>Why do black people need their role models to be black? Plenty of white kids in my day looked up to Michael Jordan as an incredibly hardworking athlete.

I didn't mean to say that their role models should only be black. Sorry if I wasn't clear on that. For a black kid, I think the impact of seeing someone who's black and successful is huge. Think about the numbers of black kids who started playing golf because of Tiger Woods. Like I said, it's hard to quantify but it makes a difference.

>The "acting white" derision is pretty much exclusive to blacks, as far as I know. It's certainly not present among Asians or white people. I'm actually not sure about Hispanics but I've never heard of education being frowned upon by them. I don't know what you mean by "that's too easy", but I've heard it cited as the main problem in socio studies, by people like Bill Cosby, and in firsthand accounts in things like reddit AMAs.

The "acting white" derision most certainly exists in other minorities besides blacks. I've seen in it first hand in in some form or another. I'd contend that the "acting white" derision and the "extreme anti-education" sentiment are not necessarily the same thing.
The title of this link is too sensational.

Before anybody up-voting this, please read the article, which says it only happens to one ISP (although the biggest one) in a limited regions and cities.
No. Sleep is important to your well-being. If you want to sleep less, exercise more.The time spent exercising will boost your productivity and mental faculties.

There aren't any shortcuts, in spite of what Tim Ferris may try to tell you.
Blind might give some idea, people share their offers there. I remember seeing some people asking about their FB London offers.
I still don’t get what “order” vs “disorder” means here. Maybe the crime stats are confusing the issue.
One thing about efficiency: How does one pass the liability of crap insulation onto landlords? I see this as a huge issue. As a tenant, you can't replace the windows, upgrade appliances, etc. We have unbelievable regulations that are choking home owners, but this seems like a much bigger target.
Any thoughts on RKE which runs a full k8s distro? Was able to deploy bare metal with just a single cluster config and “rke up”.
Anyone have a status page like this for SPP (Southwest Power Pool)? I can't seem to find it on their site despite clicking around for awhile.
They also give details about the string implementation.

I mean a guarantee that it meets some baseline efficiency that you can depend on across time and different implementations. Does that exist?
I really do not get this at all. I find browsing the internet on a touch screen so much worse than with a keyboard and mouse. Being able to just open a new tab and search for stuff is ever so slightly harder on a touchscreen
Not when you know beforehand that it will be implemented into signal :)
Here he is in interview about that one

https://www.vice.com/en/article/4ad8db/adam-curtis-charlie-b...
I don't think it will be supported at the engine level but the community tinkers with 3d proof of concepts. Both with pure Ruby and with backing maths in C extensions for even better performance.

EDIT: a 3d example > https://canicvs.itch.io/wireframe-sample
The Financial Times is my main news source. It seems to be the only one that I've found which doesn't have sensationalist stories/click baity headlines
What makes the FastAPI to be fast that other frameworks? Is it cos of async? There is Tornado too, I am curious how do these fair against each other in terms of performance and productivity
From the article:

> in the 80s everyone from the top to the bottom of Soviet society knew that it wasn’t working, knew that it was corrupt, knew that the bosses were looting the system, knew that the politicians had no alternative vision. And they knew that the bosses knew they knew that. Everyone knew it was fake, but because no one had any alternative vision for a different kind of society, they just accepted this sense of total fakeness as normal.

This article's explanation of Hypernormalisation (defined in the excerpt above) was quite interesting to read.

Sadly I see this happening quite a lot in South Africa - a country that 25 years ago was filled with much hope and excitement for the future - but now is on the precipice of rapid economic decline due to similar reasons outlined above (primarily corrupt politicians but also an economy ravaged by Covid).

That being said there are still many South Africans that are nervously excited about the country's future - I guess we just need that alternative vision to drive us forward?

As an aside, I know Elon Musk's ambitious projects get mixed responses here on HN, but one thing he keeps referring to (and which resonates quite strongly with me) is his vision for an alternative future which excites us and inspires us.
The traditional solution is to lower taxes and simplify the tax code.

Large corporations have an effective tax rate below the nominal one due to antics with exceptions — while smaller businesses get hit harder. What’s called “progressive” often ends up regressive due to the imbalance in ability to do finance trickery. Rich people will always find or create exploits in the law, so those “high taxes on mega corps and billionaires!” hit the middle class and medium sized businesses: they’re who bear the brunt of taxes, in the US.

You get out of doing that unnecessary damage by removing the game: no whatever exceptions, just a flat rate everyone pays.

What’s called “regressive” is actually progressive in that it lightens the tax burden on the middle class and medium businesses, while making the richest pay a fair share. (Also, simpler codes are harder to cheat.)

Discussing the tax burden of the poorest is a misdirection used by politicians: the poorest in the US receive more benefits than they pay, so it’s a question of how that burden is split between the middle class and the upper class.
If I watch through the Brave browser on my phone I never see ads. Through the offical app I have to watch the same two ads for a month or two before the video starts and then again after 15 or 20 minutes. It's really bad.
Google was bribed by JetBraine to adopt it

It's hard not being sarcastic in reply to this. But no, this did not happen.
This is so much better than his films. I used to find his films exciting, but the more I thought about them the more I found them conceptually soupy and completely lacking in rigour - just finding narratives that felt satisying. When he's challenged by someone smart like this he's able to articulate his ideas in a much better way than in film. This interview has raised my opinion of him again. He's an interesting thinker, but I really think film is in fact the one medium he shouldn't use because it allows him to weave unchallenged grand narratives that don't really stack up.
Right, but the ending does not, does it? "cog" and "cock" are like "god" and "got", "dog" and "dock(er)".

Are people getting upset when they say "cogwheel" or "a small cog in a big wheel"?
I thought that's about user choosing UTF-8 as codepage in regional settings.

If it could be set in application manifest, that's a good thing.

Although I guess that in the end Windows will perform the save conversions in user32.dll, so it does not really matter.
I wish more languages would adopt this.
'help' is already the shell's built-in help function in most cases. That'd be a poor choice of alias.

There are a small number of seed keywords which are ueeful to know. 'help' (shell), 'apropos', 'man' (online manual), 'info' (GNU documentation), and dwww (local documentation presented through a Web interface, available on Debian-based Linux, see https://ostechnix.com/dwww-view-complete-debian-documentatio...) are among them.

Knowledge requires a certain baseline.

If that's too much ... perhaps a GUI is in fact advisable.
It's not necessarily a union they need, the US (and also globally Amazon) just needs to stop exploiting people as hard as they can just because they can. It's a sick impulse that a lot of people try to justify as "you must because shareholders", which is both wrong and meaningless besides.

Of course, given the majority no votes so far the chances of people taking their individual responsibility (either to speak up or otherwise improve the lot of their fellows) is pretty low.
Human/animal ethics is a minefield of hypocrisy. Why are we mostly comfortable with performing these types of experiments on other lower-IQ species but would baulk at doing them on intellectually-handicapped children for instance?

I believe our morality base for these types of decisions is mostly based on the religious traditions of humans somehow being 'special' in the scheme of things. Domestic pets also partially fall into this category.
CPUs didn’t swallow GPUs though.
Oh I saw your original thread on Observable https://talk.observablehq.com/t/observable-based-dashboard-a...

Currently I don't think you add enough value over the existing observable platform to entertain the thought of switching runtimes.

Anyone who is not familiar with observeable will need a ton of literature to explain the reactive runtime concept.

I feel like entrepreneur who see a successful product and thinks "how can I beat that" are framing wrong. If you look at a product and think, that's great, how can I add to it you will find more success.

I am also building on observable, but I am not trying to direct people off the ecosystem. I want to make observable better and add to their success and perhaps capture some value off the delta of the combined improvement.
The suggestion at the end is a more drastic version of what is done at <https://flak.tedunangst.com/>. I prefer the latter for the added artistic aspect. :)
Ok, you have hit the reality of most startup enthusiasts. Most of us when starting are without much connections and of course no big marketing budgets.

How to go from here? If you truly believe it solves a real problem, then proceed.

First we need some customers and serve them individually on this tool. One customer at a time; each one will give you amazing joy because you were giving up on it.

One nice way for this is to search for jobs/projects on freelancing sites like Upwork, that are looking to "build me tool that takes excel file as input and let me do this and that", something like that.

Pitch them that you can do it for fraction of the price with an existing tool you've built.

It's time consuming, because you'll bid and may not here from many, but you can see those are real customers with problems looking for similar solutions.

I built https://ASPSecurityKit.net v1 back in 2013, after I saw a project on upwork asking to build user registration/management workflow.

I already had pieces of it figured out in my client projects, but there was no impulse to package it up and offer it as an independent product.

I built a pre-launch page, talking about what I'M going to build and collected 70 odd emails from HN folks, thinking some of them will buy upon launch.

Worked hard for 1.5 months on coding, packaging, docs etc. and launched but nobody bought from that email list or HN right away.

I was in a job then (at Microsoft) and didn't spend much time on marketing after launch as nobody bought.

1st month: nothing. 2nd month: nothing. Latter half of the 3rd month: first sale while I was on a sort of vacation/WFH!
on the same subject: George Lakoff on Embodied Cognition and Language

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWYaoAoijdQ
Nope. It stops and explicitly tells you "I cannot do that, because that would overwrite files X, Y and Z.".

Why would you think otherwise?
Reading through these makes me really miss my undergraduate days as a physics major.

Only marginally related:
If you ever have a chance to go to one of the LIGO [1] sites (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory), do go take a tour! I've been to the one in Livingston, Louisiana [2], and it is simply amazing. The technology used and the science involved is very interesting. It's also kid-friendly!

[1] http://www.ligo.caltech.edu/
[2] http://www.ligo-la.caltech.edu/
Priorities :)
I assume the intellectual basis for this is the "you didn't build that" philosophy. It's a garbage philosophy. Would that I should find paying my taxes was such a voluntary transaction as eating a burger!

It does not justify charging businesses a blanket amount regardless of whether they use those services, and bundle in a bunch of unrelated spending and priorities, and calling that their "fair share." If the problem was really that people who build businesses were taking advantage of public services, the answer would be to charge them for the services rendered (and when possible, give them the opportunity to obtain them elsewhere). Yeah, there's a few public goods (in the strict economic sense) that this doesn't work for, like national security the like, but if you're just talking fire protection and tractor-trailer access to roads and the like, assessments for these are eminently straightforward.

There are much better ways to justify the existence of taxes on businesses.
My iPhone is set to "Silence Unknown Callers." It's the perfect compromise. If a call is legitimate they'll leave a voicemail and I just call them back.
What are some examples of limitations you've run into with various non-Fortran languages?
I had similar issues with Django where I felt that running on localhost was fine, but getting it production ready was a headache.

Huge shoutout to dokku[1] which I used on my latest deployment and it makes it super easy. Lets encrypt support was the easiest I've seen and you redeploy with git push.

[1] https://dokku.com/docs/getting-started/installation/
Layman here. Why was Credit Suisse left holding the bag instead of the losses being distributed between the banks? Was it because they were the broker?
Programming is easy. Maintenance is very hard.
I think the same thing, but most of the hard skills you listed like understanding computers/engineering/networks are pretty irrelevant. Those all can be abstracted in many situations.

Working through complex mental maps is all you need. Thinking through all possibilities and edge cases, and logically ordering instructions to represent a mental model. It's similar to chess where you have to evaluate every possible and unexpected scenario. If you're good at chess you'll almost certainly be good at programming.

If "programming is easy" for some people it's because this one skill comes naturally, and beginners should be made aware of that before they get unrealistic expectations.
CWA, CAA, CERCLA, and RCRA provide these protections for whistleblowers and a framework for financial incentives, though these incentives are paltry compared to SEC whistleblower rewards.

https://echo.epa.gov/report-environmental-violations

https://www.whistleblowers.gov
Awesome - good to see a full accounting! I know mobile gaming well, and there’s a bit arms race around tracking for targeting efficiency to increase ltv/roas. It’s such a high volume business, there’s a lot of data needed to maximize returns. It will be interesting to see how the IDFA deprecation affects the industry, as their silver bullet is being taken away
Where I work, we're paid 1/3 of our regular rate for every hour on call. People are much less likely to want you to be on call for no reason when that's the case.
A conventional heater can, at best, use 100% of the energy to heat both the water and the house.

A heat pump would use some of that energy to capture some more from a heat source (outside air, or geothermal, ground temperature). It gets less efficient as the heat source becomes cooler, so it might not be such a good idea in very cold climates. Theoretically, though, it shouldn't get lower than 100%, and efficiencies can reach 300% pretty easily.

I haven't done an extensive search on the topic, here is one of the first sources I found with the kind of graph I wanted: https://www.nordicghp.com/2017/01/heat-pump-effective-temper...

I read about 270% at -4°C (25°F). 1 watt of electricity in, 2.7 watts of heat out, not bad. The same graph reads about 480% at 18°C(65°F), and 150% at -20°C (-5°F). I know that gas heat pumps exist as well, and some systems are hybrid, so it sounds like a no brainer to me. On the flip side, they can be quite expensive, so do your calculations relative to the temperature history, and hourly electricity hours. It would be more efficient to heat when the air is warmer during the day (assuming air pump), and combine that with a well-insulated house.

Solar (thermal or electric) is pretty interesting too, I wonder what kind of efficiency one can get with photovoltaic + heat pump (photovoltaic is more versatile, being more useful during summer).
This is 100% the heart of what I'm getting at.
How do you guys think about the opportunity cost of learning dead/dying/new/unpopular languages? Even with newer languages that are gaining popularity and are likely to be used in the future, I struggle to justify the time investment. I could be wrong but some of my concerns are:

- my time is better spent getting deeper into some more popular language that I already know to some extent

- unused skills deteriorate with time so by adding a new language that you don't need professionally right now, you also need to add the future time and effort of practicing and maintaining that skill

- I could be wrong but I feel that it's a red flag to have too many of the more esoteric languages on your resume.

I do enjoy tinkering with a new language but very often it just feels like a distraction.

Thoughts?
The only driver Apples needed to develop for Windows are Mac specifics though, like the stuff that was managed by the T1. Not trivial, but not the end of the world to have to make. Things like wifi drivers and especially the graphics drivers are just the chip vendor's standard preexisting Windows drivers.

Apple is now the vendor of at least the GPU. I don't think they're going to write a Windows driver for that - the incentives are just not there.
They’ve swapped out the butterfly switches for more conventional scissors. They’ve also added back a hardware ESC for all models and never added a touchbar to the Air.
A general comment on how-to instructions:

I really respect and appreciate that this article addressed pitfalls where mistakes are common and disastrous. The step involving a router to clear a cavity: lots of mistakes were made, because it's hard to do that step. It takes courage to for an instructor to admit mistakes, and the pupil learns all the better from those admissions.

For all of the Instructable, Pinterest, and various other how-to articles on the internet, I believe we could all benefit from instructors being more forthcoming about pitfalls like the author(s) of this article.
> mostly special cases of countries with a very high percentage of refugees or guest workers.

Yes, there are certainly plenty of those (and there are some arguments in favor of that, too: http://www.newrepublic.com/article/120179/how-reduce-global-... )

But there are also others, like Sweden, Canada, Norway, Australia and Spain (and even Italy) that are broadly similar to the US - and in most cases offer much more in terms of government benefits.
At a Nickel City Ruby conference last year I saw Dabit play a live-coding music demo with the Banjo gem, and it was awesome:

https://github.com/dabit/banjo

I unfortunately can't find any video of it, but he was using a trick that was either inside or out of the Banjo gem to get the code files to reload each time he saved them and change the tune in real-time. It was awesome, even when he had a syntax error and the music stopped for a minute, he went with it, said "Oops" and fixed it, moved on, everyone laughed! Live coding music that was really a lot better than I would have imagined, having never seen anyone live-code music before.
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Some relevant reading:
* https://gigaom.com/2014/12/07/mesospheres-new-data-center-mo...
* http://www.wired.com/2013/03/google-borg-twitter-mesos/all/
Right, but programmers aren't organized like hospital staff, which is my point. And, probably related, test engineer doesn't have the same cachet (or prominent degree programs) that x-ray technician or nurse practitioner has.

Maybe some of this is because they don't make TV shows about programming. But it could also be at least partially about seeing programmers as commodities and cost centers (I need 3 senior Java engineers!) instead of seeing them as effectively the core of your business.

So, I guess I have two suspicions about increasing programmer wages, at least for certain categories of problems:

1. It will incentivize laypeople to learn about how software development works, making technology business analyst seem less like mumbo jumbo and more like a good way to earn a living.

2. It will incentivize organizations to restructure their processes to maximize the productivity of their highest paid employees. This will create more opportunities for the peole described in point 1.
This article misstates the finding of the research, as does much of the other coverage. A good explanation can be found here: http://www.theguardian.com/science/grrlscientist/2015/jan/02...
If I recall correctly the maximum binary data you can fit in the largest QR code is 2,953 bytes. This C compiler can fit on a qr code.
just checked your website and here's a tip - there's no way I found that I could limit the scope to a general area - i.e. kitchen appliances.