jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The same fundamental equation applies to both domains:
Software engineering hours are expensive and hardware is cheap.

I just ordered a video card with 24 gig of ram. Well, calling it a video card is not quite right as it's a K80 Nvidia HPC cards, but as a software engineer working on a team of 5 computer vision/R&D guys and two software engineers, I can tell you that I do not want to live in a world where I have to fix code written by researchers that's juggling around vram and managing 4,992 threads. I'd much rather have that abstracted and have a clean API that hides the complexity.

And in terms of performance, you do not have to spend many man-days trying to debug some horrendous pile of code brought on by the complexity of exposing every tweakable bit of a architecture in order to exceed the cost of X addition $5000 HPC cards running less performant but far less complex code.
Can't you simply use sepa transfers?

Compared to the US, this is so easy. Enter the account number (22 digits) at your banks site and the reciever get's the money the next day.
Isn't that the same as the Netflix example? Amazon have their own version, but they're still happy for their competitor to run on AWS.
> But it wasn't the right thing

Given what they knew at the time it was the right thing to do. That was the point.
This is a prediction - Cook can prove the statement wrong. I did not add nor remove words from anyone's mouth.
the fact that "javascript sucks" wasn't the point of the essay is EXACTLY my point - in an article that should be about calling out bad practices in designing web client experiences, there are judicious sprinklings of criticism of the underlying language, without attempting to distinguish those harms from the harms of bad choices in implementation. that sort of conflation is intellectually sloppy and ultimately leads to both sides 'reflexively' responding.

I'll definitely agree that javascript has room for improvement, but i'm not sure by what objective standard you're measuring its design chops. If you consider the goal of JS to be an incredibly flexible, light language with powerful runtime dynamicism and a strong focus on client-only needs, I'd say it's fairly well-designed. If you're holding it up against python as a server scripting language, it probably doesn't quite measure up. and if you're holding it up against all other languages and measuring by some 'general-purpose utility' ruler, that's a pretty pointless exercise - as I said in my original comment, languages are designed to solve specific problems, and JS is no exception.
Mmh, considering automatic cars are more likely to carry a dashcam, I'm not sure anyone would want to do something illegal in front of them.
"I finally discovered who my boss was when she fired me."
Just recently during the Robinhood hearings there was another Rep that was asking why Robinhood wasn’t moderating Reddit and other big social media sites. Speaking with such conviction that you’d think it was the smartest idea ever, if you knew absolutely nothing about the internet. Some of these people are out of touch.
I completely agree. SIDS is just another safety thing like not letting it get strangled or stick a fork in the power point. But keeping them close and feeling secure is super important for them to develop independence and self-confidence later. Unfortunately, there's this perverse idea that rejecting your child will make them independent when it typically has the opposite effect.
The Grumman LLV postal vehicle weighs 2,700lbs:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grumman_LLV

The "ton" truck rating persists, but it's mostly outdated. The F-150 is a "half-ton" truck, despite having a rated payload capacity that's often closer to 1 ton. I drive a "1 ton" truck that can haul over 2 tons ...
Sac used to have an HSC! Anyone remember that? [edited phrasing]
Or people start traveling all the time, and WFH starts meaning "Working From Hotels".

It's hard to predict the post lockdown world is what I'm saying.
> Experienced engineers will perform better than graduates in general

In my experience there are a lot of experienced engineers that are very low quality, and it isn’t uncommon to have experienced engineers that have negative productivity (working with them costs more than they produce). See https://thedailywtf.com/ . Starting with recent grads (filtered for potential) can easily be more productive over time, because you can teach them good habits.

> The distribution of experienced engineers who are poor performers won't over represent application

Hiring being inundated with poor quality candidates is a common problem due to adverse selection: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26254114
People might be more amenable to solutions like that if the government provided healthcare and other such services.
I'm not disputing that Ghostrank tracks you, but your framing and presentation of the facts is FUD designed to fit your wished narrative.
good point. the silence is deafening. They should be lobbying for more money...
Well.. i mean, it's not as if we'll stop using plastic soon, and since the whole world has issues with it now (since china doesn't but it anymore), investing in such redesigned burners would be a good investment now.
Name a single example of someone who has been 'canceled' for fourth degree associations with white supremacists?
If you have a reference for that, it would make an interesting read
> The only real hope for modern science is a business with a long-term view. That's because that business is only rewarded if their thing works.

There are limits to that logic though. For example, the business can spend billions on researching more addicting cigarettes or can direct money to drugs which merely manage the disease instead of curing it (as disease management makes you a customer for life).
> Most problematically, his site was a place which encouraged people who were not educated in a topic to repeatedly offer opinions on things they did not understand, and often did not want to understand.

In other words, this little place called "the Internet"?

Seriously, what you're describing applies to all gatherings of humans since the dawn of civilization.
I’m not sure that needs to be a bad thing. I think the takeaway is that there’s good stress and bad stress. That was my conclusion anyhow; a little stress releases cortisol which is a steroid, too much causes burnout.
Then how would you decide whether a finding/study is valid or not? What is your modus operandi in that case?
Is there an algorithm for this (for selecting good studies or for finding the truth)?
People often wonder, "Why don't other people just trust science? Why all of the skepticism?" I feel like I ought to have a big handout (I would do a wiki but hey, it'd get deplatformed) from Tuskegee to this.
Now that you understand this piece of information, would you choose to learn more about this problem, or erase memory of this knowledge from your self?
Another thing that changed from say 10 years ago, some games have better launchers and ways to configure them.

What I'm hoping to see at this front, since install sizes are bloating, that the installers/configuring becomes slightly more advanced.

When I install a game I want to be able to choose the following at install-time:

Texture Packs (main blobs that takes up a lot of space - why download 50GB if you need the 10GB version)

Language Packs

Voice/Audio Packs

Mode Packs (Single Player Campaigns, Multi player, maps)

This way you can take a game that currently cost say 80GB for everyone to average out 30GB to 50GB for most players. On the low end the same game needs to work at 10GB and at the high end can consume the whole 80GB for the person with hardware that can take it. Obviously for console players, they just want to play and get on with it and maybe wont enjoy the choices mentioned above, but PC and tweakers/benchmarkers/modders should enjoy it.
Top California income tax: 13.3%

That's the marginal rate applicable to each additional dollar over the threshold, not an overall rate.
Even if sarcastic, it really is an amazing model and the execution was great. Vincent Woo of Coderpad had this exact question, why not raise a seed or series A round, then never raise again? There's no legal reason stopping you from doing so, given you still own the majority of the company. It's just frowned upon.
"Synergy is my attempt to create the thinnest possible layer of abstraction over the browsers built-in APIs in order to build UIs with Custom Elements."

A noble goal. I like that you are avoiding compilation and tooling.
The main problem of a vitamin D deficiency is poor bone and muscle health, not something that would usually cause obvious symptoms.
There were people with zip tie handcuffs and guns in the chamber, fortunately after it had been evacuated. I don't know what they planned to do, but I imagine best case would be a hostage situation where they demand that the electoral count be stopped until their conspiracy theories about electoral fraud were considered. Worst case they execute democratic leadership, which is far from an implausible scenario given reports that they were looking for Pelosi and Schumer's offices (and found them, and looted them). Keep in mind that their media sphere is full of conspiracy theories that accuse politicians of child abuse. Minimizing what happened here would be a big mistake.
Typical analyst BS. Unions are only a "problem" for US manufacturers because employers (and pension funds) are burdened with ongoing health insurance.

If the US becomes as civilized as every other OECD nation in terms of health provision, making it available to all residents and untying it from employment status, then the burden of that cost will be removed.
And to thing all it took was a 2x more expensive car and a direct support of both manufacturer, one who officially "Porsche Cars North America does not condone, promote, or acknowledge any sort of activity that would violate the rules of the road", and a charging network engineers.

>Conner tells us that he had the engineers at both Porsche and Electrify America on speed dial for this run. Despite it being New Year's Eve, he was able to work with the teams to ensure that the car was operating to its potential (despite the bugs) and the chargers he was visiting were both working and reliable.
I find the dependency-capture mechanism very interesting. I would love to see it used to help generating dependency lists for package management systems too.

I will probably have to build my first .rpm packages (I am yet to read the first docs) in the near future and CDE could be a lovely addition to my toolbox.

Thanks for doing it.
I can't wait to see what the cost of the charging cable will be for that one.
I didn't catch that, and it looks like their comment was edited after I first saw it to make my comment. Thanks for responding to let me know instead of just downvoting like others.
And it's even more likely that we'll end up reusing them, increasing economic efficiency of nuclear fuel.
As is often the case with these discussions, there's seldom an absolute right or wrong, but a "so what" relative to a goal.

My impression of the point of React is that it allows you to quickly write web apps which are reasonably structured/maintainable, performant and not flaky. My recent (non professional experience) with React seems to confirm that it indeed achieves that.

It was indeed originally weird to me to do react-create-app and have all the magic happen behind the scenes, but again, the goal is to get you up and running fast and it achieves that. You can whittle it down later or start from scratch if you want.

More importantly, writing in react doesn't (seem) to make you hate yourself. I was able to structure my app so that it's logical and changes to components can be made in isolation - that's already huge. More important is the question of "how much code am I forced to write that I don't want to write" - the answer is not much. The most annoying thing I find is having to kinda manually handle changes to form fields but otherwise it's pretty reasonable. So it feels like it succeeds on its goals.

Once we get to esoteric things like "JSX is bad" or "Hooks are dirty" -- ok? I guess I am not sophisticated enough to understand why that is so it doesn't bother me, and again, React seems to strive more for practicality than ideological purity so whatever that tradeoff is, is likely right.

Full disclosure - I am not a professional web developer. Last time I made money making websites was 2003, though I did recently build https://playdurak.gq/ with only JS and CSS on the front-end, and currently am learning react as I build a webapp for my own purposes.

Edit: I guess if anyone actually wants to play the Durak game, here are the rules. https://gathertogethergames.com/durak I built it for my friends and I who already knew them.
I’m increasingly thinking the opposite - and that GitHub is a clearheaded model of the path forward.

There are very few examples of p2p software like git scaling well. Servers are way too useful. The git model seems like a nice compromise. And by git model, I mean an opensource distributed protocol that anyone can run coupled with some big centralised services run by big tech - so you don’t have to. This has all the benefits of a centralised system with the all important off ramp.

Email more or less works the same way now. A few years ago I moved from Gmail to fastmail and haven’t looked back. That said, I really wish more of GitHub’s features made their way back to git. Issues should be stored somewhere in the git repository - so they can be viewed offline and so competing services like gitlab can be compatible.
I bought crypto shortly after it peaked in 2018 or something from FOMO

I have not tried to login since, but now I tried and it is locked, verification failure :(
Video game loading screens, for instance.
Courts have addressed the issue indeed. The reason youtube is acting independently is because this is way beyond what courts have decided is dangerous speech.

If this was driven by courts, they would have an order to show it.
No doubt. Try it! (but then wait for a month while we release it)
> people are more and more moving into areas that best conform to their value systems, it's possible that the country will break apart into smaller pieces

This used to be a role filled by states, when federal policies were kept limited in scope.
I can eat in peace at a restaurant with an obese person sitting at the next table. I can't say the same for a smoker. They are infinitely more aggravating to have nearby and I think that's the reason for the extra ire.
> The questions are really can you get out of Scientology and stay in the industry.

Yes, you can, at least in the last decade. Lots of celebrities who were once vocal Scientologists have now left the church, though they might not make a big fuss about it. Blogs like Tony Ortega's have written on how Scientology's membership is imploding, though it still has some committed donors that it squeezes for money to keep up appearances.
I had the pleasure to work with a top geneticist whose domain of specialty was the microbiome, and he continually insisted there are tons of discoveries to be made in the arena (which he and those researchers we sequenced for did often, from dentistry to studies of the monitor lizard to chrons disease, just all over in subjects you might not expect).

Less on topic, I learned how to read scientific papers and filter bullshit ones (even in respectable journals) from good ones under his tutelage, and am forever grateful to the vast array of science and tech I was exposed to while supporting the tech side of a "every major sequencer" sequencing lab.
> It would probably work out cheaper because you don't need to ship the device with a cable or charge circuitry too. Users don't have one more thing to worry about charging either.

Knowing Apple they'd probably solder or glue the battery so that you have even one less thing to worry about
We haven't heard about it before because other sales reps didn't admit to knowing that a customer has deployed something, and reached out to the customers under the guise of standard-looking sales pitch that got dismissed as regular kind of spam. That would be my take on it.
> let’s not rush to make listening to music on the job illegal.

I’m wondering if it already is illegal for police officers who wear body cams, even when their routine video is not public record. They are recordings intended for other people, and they also can become public record when use of force is involved, as I understand it.
We'll see it in legacy code for a long time, sure, but there's every indication that all new Apple frameworks are being written in Swift. Anyone starting a new project in Objective-C is in the minority.
Spanish has some wonderful compound words as well.

Puzzle = rompecabezas (literally, breaks heads)

mask (like we've been wearing for the last year) = tapabocas (covers/plugs mouths)

half-sleep = duermevela (sleep candle)

There are more, these are just two of my favorites.
That is an argument for making and using ordered-sequence types, not an argument against a string type.

Generic ordered-sequence containers have not appeared in standard libraries, except where the container itself depends on the ordering, for various practical and historical reasons, but are very useful to wrap (say) a vector instantiated on a particular type, often with some metadata stuck on.
Remember: I was/am dealing with 2-4 cubic meters of perishable bread once per week.

One place (public food pantry) couldn't distribute it for 3 days (good fresh artisan bread starts molding within 6 days, and pastries & baguettes stale within 3; recipients probably wouldn't eat theirs all within 2 days of receipt).

One place (women's shelter) wouldn't distribute it to the members/occupants (were teaching self-reliance, probably including making own bread). They'd sell it, making distribution 1-2 steps removed from assuring me what was actually happening to it.

Two places weren't always open when I could drop it off. Both planned and unplanned closures are problematic.

2-3 places wouldn't take it because items weren't individually packaged (I get it loose in large boxes/bags). Some kind of food safety rule applied in their case. Also, if they're not sure where it came from, they won't take it (I'm just some anonymous guy, not connected with the bakery nor charity).

Other charities don't know how long items will be in storage, so it must be packaged & shelf-stable for months/years.

By sheer chance (traffic rerouted past an accident scene) I found my current distributor, a food pantry which distributes it 12 hours after I get it. All they know is some guy shows up Monday morning with bushels of breadstuffs.

Mileage & waiting is also a problem. Takes me about an hour to pick it up, and another half hour to drop it off - most of the above taking longer, already straining the limits of my schedule.

And that doesn't get into the issues of actually handing out each individual piece, which is why I take it all somewhere for a single drop off, and don't try to hand it all out myself.

Oh, and some weeks no usable charity is open, and I end up with a ridiculous amount of bread I have no idea what to do with.
Did two startups, sold the first and burned the second to the ground (metaphorically, of course). Currently working on a new product with a friend from high school, also running an education organization for teaching kids about technology on the side.

One other thing I should have mentioned is how consulting for small businesses gives you a unique perspective as to their needs and abilities, and makes you much more effective at meeting them if they are your target market. So if anything, do it for the insight, because most of them aren't going to pay you a lot of money.
To English speakers, using different counters for different classes of nouns is a pretty strange feature...

Strange, perhaps, but present. To a native Chinese and Japanese speaker like myself, the list of collective nouns for animals in English is staggering, almost mindblowing, and appears absolutely arbitrary: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_collective_nouns_by_sub...
Looks sweet, but it reports that I do not have WebGL enabled on my N900. Other WebGL demos work fine on this device.
Curious, what about password protected cellphones?

"Sure officer, here's my phone, you're welcome to fiddle with the password screen until you wipe the device."
The interface is very clean, simple, and to the point. One suggestion though: It very quickly gives an "Invalid regular expression" error while I'm still typing. From the perspective of the regex parser that is certainly a correct assessment. However from a user's perspective, what's entered is simply incomplete. Although I like the instant evaluation/validation of the expression, it might be a good idea to increase the interval between when the last key is pressed and when the evaluation begins. The need to read the error message along with the textbox turning red while the regex is only incomplete causes an unneeded break in user interaction.

That aside, nice work! I'm sure I'll be using it. :)
The Chicago Tribune publishes mug shots rather prominently on their website. Aside from being trashy, I find it highly disturbing that they're able to make a prominent, internet-search-able public record including name, photograph, and alleged crime, for people who have not been convicted and perhaps have not even been arraigned yet.
I prefer the Forbes PG cover.
Pete, the iPhone Tracker application is showing data points in a grid-like pattern, with multiple points visible simultaneously.

I haven't dug into the raw data - is that an artifact of the iPhone Tracker application, or is the raw data already rounded by Apple to fit on a grid, with multiple locations having identical timestamps?

How much I care about this depends a lot on the granularity of the underlying data.
For someone unfamiliar with the term, what does "web-like" mean?
Technically true, but Feinstein is from NorCal (San Francisco) Boxer is from SoCal (near Riverside). In a big state like CA, there's a bit of an unofficial division of loyalties.
I think Myspace actually HAS become the standard for such bands, at least for the music that I listen to (metal/punk/hardcore/indie/experimental). You can look up pretty much any band by Googling "band name myspace". You'll get the tour schedule, blog, link to the record label, etc. Often the Myspace pages are designed by the label itself, incorporating the artwork from their latest album. Here's a pretty good example:

http://www.myspace.com/kylesa

Myspace took over from mp3.com after it shut down in late 2003. There was some early competition (at least in underground rock) from purevolume.com, but Myspace's social features won the day. Myspace is still the standard for bands and will likely remain so for a long time -- but "social network for teens and twentysomethings who are into music" is a far cry from "social network for the entire world."
They are putting up $1 million. They are entitled to something out of it!

This is great move by Mailchimp. It's beneficial to the ecosystem (helping hackers to build stuff) and beneficial to them.
Pet weekend project / software as a service?
I suppose I'm just jumpy because of the lack of granularity in user control over local storage, and wary of the eptitude of the browser vendors, and in favor of fewer, smaller features. After reading the inept IndexedDB thing, however, it seems like the wrong local storage mechanism is going to get it in the neck.
Ummm, for the high end case, it's more like "You can tell them and have them not hire you because they fear you'll be dissatisfied at making less money".
I wonder what would have been the result of the same protocol using liberal/conservative versus narcissist/non-narcissist

There is more than one way to be creative