jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I'd agree with you in theory, it's pretty standard demand management, that the public sector picks up the slack when private sector demand is low.

the problem with a lot of governments, including the US, appears to be the other half of the equation, which is that when the private sector is doing well, the public sector should contract, in order to mitigate the effects of inflation.

What seemed to me to have happened in the last decade is that government costs expanded in the "good times" causing a deficit, and meaning that when the bad times came with the financial crash it's a lot more difficult for them to expand spending.

The other problem (although it doesn't apply as much to the US as other countries) is sovereign debt risk. Countries like the republic of Ireland absolutely have to cut expenditure as otherwise the bond markets see them as a real default risk and hike up the cost of their borrowing, so they have no real choice but to decrease government spending.
Following the above, if you're looking for an object store you'd find interesting cl-prevalence which is entirely written in CL.

About web frameworks others have mentioned AllegroServe, which looks quite good with the logic and view separation in templates and actions, similar to Django. Other people prefer to code the HTML inline with cl-who i.e.

If you're developing an application in the web you may find worth a continuation based framework like weblocks or UCW.
Cliki contains a fair amount of libraries categorized. Here you have the database libraries: http://www.cliki.net/database
I'm not looking for a purely economic outlook. I'm complaining that the FDA is at the far extreme, with a purely medical outlook, giving no consideration for other factors.

(I should amend that a bit. They've clearly done a lot to streamline their processes for this. But as far as I can tell, they haven't done anything to balance different kinds of risk in their standards.)
I worked at a company, not a FANG, but had interviews like a FANG. We had a solid team. But some of us believed we wouldn't be able to pass our own interviews.
From the article it would appear that anyone with a computer science background and a decent amount of experience as an engineer should pass the technical test without the need to spend the whole month revising.

If you don't have a computer science foundation it's probably a good idea to learn the basics anyway, rather than learning just to pass the interview.
PG,

The cases you cite -- tech entrepreneurs whose startups generate vast wealth -- aren't really that relevant to Rich's argument.

While I guess they do make up a portion of this class of superrich (without any research, my hunch is a small portion), the larger problem Rich describes is that society just isn't rewarding people the way it used to, and that there's been a deliberate rigging of the system for the past 30 years that is allocating capital in the hands of a very select few. Pretending like those few are all Zucks and Sergeys is a deliberate misreading and has nothing to do with this problem.

I think your reaction to this, judging from your writing, comes from the fact that you are very much surrounded in a culture of startups and tech innovation, where money is made by creating new things and expanding the pie, not reallocating its slices. That's great, but isn't a reason to deny some obvious -- and depressing -- realities about what's happening to America's social and economic fabric.

The tech startup scene may be a bright light in this pretty dark trend, but is not a reason to deny the trend exists.

Lastly, this is bad for startups. The allocation of capital based on merit is the linchpin of an innovative and growing economy, and the lifeblood of what you do day in, day out. You really should be on the other side of this argument.
Thanks. Couple friends got diagnosed with vitamin D deficiency after going through Covid, both got 1-2k i.u, a day. But 60K? Good god. That really seems like overdoing it !!!
> Only when company is reaching google scale kubernetes make sense.

Long before Google scale. Kubernetes won't handle clusters anywhere near that large.
Again, I suspect the trick is impulses -- noise canceling tech I'm familiar with does pretty well with steady-state noise like jet engines or highway sounds, but not with sudden and short bursts like dropping a handful of dishes in the kitchen.

If there's something I'm not familiar with, though, I'd love to hear about it.
Doesn't it build on Android, which is 32-bit?
Oh, that makes a lot more sense now. Thanks for the clarification!
Why not wait until people are out there already and sell shovels
Sure, no one claimed otherwise.

Just that there are nuances between monastery and money-seeking-only business.
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Why people even post there?
This absolutely happens. But after a while, manufacturers increase the size & price at the same time, pointing out the increase in product, of course. None of this is new, it's been happening for decades.
Travel sites are the worst for this.
Good idea, idiotic implementation.

It's not on the computer that you must hook the led, it's on the brains of the programmer!
It's just a webpage hosted on Google Drive:

https://support.google.com/drive/answer/2881970?hl=en

Regarding the contents of the page itself:

first layer of obfuscation document.write's a script tag to include "aa.js" which document.write's the main phishing page itself, which sends contents directly to a hacked WordPress site ( cairngormsagainstpylons dot org ).

Reported via Google Drive abuse as a phishing page.
Have you considered Google Hangouts? I tend to use that for most of my chatting, so never really "got" whatsapp.
It's missing some WW2 data like the huge contamination in the port of Bari with mustard gas: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_raid_on_Bari
There's probably a pretty large constituency willing to give money to bad cops' crowdfunding campaigns. Free market works both ways- lots of people would be happy to subsidize this sort of behavior as long as they can be convinced the cops are being "canceled" by "antifa" or whatever.
Yeah, none of that is accurate to the phrasing of "a Russian company" as a rhetorical device. This kind of quasi-hyperbole about Russians is also getting old. Russia has been an ideological enemy for a long time, maybe even as long as time. I've never second guessed the motivations of business owners and citizens from Russia the way certain crowds do. That's pretty tantamount to something dubious.

Does the government need to be scrupulous in whatever open and closed source software it chooses to vend? Yes. Do we need to be chiding about the motivations of every day Russians as one of our first order investigations? Probably not.
There's a poem that describes this behaviour: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came…
What don't you think is the case? I'm reading your sentence and it doesn't contradict anything I've said.
Great, at least we know the kernel is probably good (assuming Linux gets tested too and at least the latest version doesn't have bugs)... But I still worry about the interactions in a complex userspace application can produce unexpected outcomes. And I wonder whether Linux previously had bugs (too lazy to trace down the git history today), and if there was, how many are still in deployment...
General thread here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25651942
Did WhatsApp release their protocol openly with an open source reference client/server? Or did I miss that part?

Having an exit plan makes me less concerned about a centralized service - if FB/TWT/etc buy Signal many parties are strongly incentivized to fork the code and provide migration paths.
Just wondering, small thing; did you mean to type "disposition" instead of "dislocation"?
In addition to what others have mentioned, a $200 steak is probably -- hopefully?! -- dry-aged. Something like 1/3 of the weight is evaporated away during dry-aging, so that 16oz steak was originally 24oz. There's also loss to trimming, which is required due to both a desiccated crust and fungal and mold growth on the surface. And it is typically a high-grade beef to start with. And it's time intensive.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beef_aging#Dry-aged_beef
One thing I'd like to learn/better understand is this part:

<script type="application/ld+json">
{
"@context": "http://schema.org",
"@type": "Article",
"author": "Steren Giannini",
"name": "My stack will outlive yours",
"image": "https://blog.steren.fr/2020/my-stack-will-outlive-yours/ligh..."
}
</script>

is this something created programmatically? I'd like to create a blog but I don't want to have to type all all the necessary schema.org tags myself. Any ideas here?

edit: God, I can't even get this text to format properly. I'm such an idiot.
> my 2011 Honda Odyssey until it catches fire on the road.

Good luck, I bought a 2005 toyota corolla with the idea of driving it until it died. I am now concerned the car will bury me instead.
No pictures. Drives me crazy when an article about an archaeological discovery provides not a single image of the object.
As pointed out in other threads, it is a Microsoft component that (heavily) forked from purchased Adobe code somewhere around Windows 2000/XP.
like someone else said, the page confirms this thing supports USB-C PD. but USB-C power delivery adds expensive complexity to the hardware that is not necessary otherwise
Not to be "that guy", as I mostly like modern Web design, but:

- and after the emergency is over, keep it that way
UK National Health Service, for one: https://www.nhs.uk/medicines/paracetamol-for-adults/

> NHS coronavirus advice

> There is currently no strong evidence that ibuprofen can make coronavirus (COVID-19) worse.

> But until we have more information, take paracetamol to treat the symptoms of coronavirus, unless your doctor has told you paracetamol is not suitable for you.

> If you are already taking ibuprofen or another non-steroidal anti-inflammatory (NSAID) on the advice of a doctor, do not stop taking it without checking first.

> Updated: 17 March 2020

Over-the-counter use of paracetamol (aka acetaminophen) for fever reduction is entirely standard medical advice, not specific to coronavirus at all.
If you don't want to: offend, be misinterpreted or misunderstood, never say a word.

The world is full of dumb, mean and easily offended people to which "words matter".
Sure, like there's overwhelming institutional bias against women in medicine... oh, wait. Err... Like there's overwhelming institutional bias against women in law... Um... Well, like there's overwhelming institutional bias against women in polit... Hmm...

The credibility of the claim that there's overwhelming institutional bias against women is dependent on understanding why in cases where there unquestionably was considerable bias--like medicine, law and politics--the bias has either dropped dramatically or been reversed in the past half-century to the point where no one anywhere is the least bit surprised to see a female doctor, lawyer, or politician.

The absence of women in tech may be due to many factors. Given we have seen how easily bias has been overcome in other areas, we should at least keep our minds open to alternative models. One such model is the observation that women remain under-represented in areas where the working conditions are terrible, the career prospects are nil, and the tangible effect of their efforts on others are zero, all of which conditions pertain to tech, but not to medicine, law or politics.

This suggests that maybe we ought to be paying attention to the conditions men work under in tech, rather than making this out to be a man-woman thing.

I'm not claiming this is necessarily true, but nor do I think it is entirely implausible, and hope people concerned with these things will at least be open to alternative explanations.
Do be in touch when your post is published.
Unfortunately that does seems to be a delusion has been gaining traction in some circles recently.
https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&e...

Yep. People with experience or degrees in the subject seem to be widely admitting this is the case, but it applies to such a small percent of the deep sea that it isn't a major concern to them yet.
Here are two examples of this:

https://mobile.twitter.com/bubbaprog/status/1346920198461419...

https://mobile.twitter.com/cevansavenger/status/134692092431...
thanks for mentioning, just googled "neo-davidsonian semantics" and stumbled upon this very interesting seminar on syntax-semantic interface: http://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/courses/incsem-12/
We don't identify voters and we removed chain of custody on ballots. Instead we put unsecured boxes on street corners to collect ballots and put them in the mail. We eliminated signature validation. The list goes on. I have no idea who got the most legitimate votes, but neither does anyone else.

>The closest thing to a widespread problem is voter suppression, where states administer elections in regionally uneven ways to suppress one party's turnout. This is predominately against black citizens in the south after Shelby v Holder.

I agree with you 100% but that just means every election is illegitimate.
Don't disagree that datetime libraries that are used to control computer networking are immensely complex. Never said they weren't. However:

1) That is not what we are talking about

2) Sometimes you just need a stopwatch, timing applications _can_ be simple
It's generic enough for JavaScript/TypeScript codebases. Under the hood, it's using TypeScript's language server which conveniently runs in the browser. Other languages would require running the respective language service elsewhere or caching the results (ala LSIF https://lsif.dev/)
It does seem Russia is seen as a potential partner in "containing" China.
Curious to all those family power users. What would you want to see in the next gen WhatsApp?
You can make email id as unique, And whenever user login with Fb you can store email ID.
"Among infectious bacteria, it's common that they only survive in specific host species."

That may be less true than generally assumed. It was very difficult to find out bacteria X survives in environment Y. Even with ‘cheap’ DNA testing it's still much harder than you might think.

Don't forget we still don’t actually know all of the bacteria thrive in the human intestines. The wider ecology of Microbiology is almost a blank slate.
turns out this is because FreeBSD's vim port is really bleeding edge / development and not using stable releases. But really, it shouldn't go 500 patches and still have no new release cut...
Yeah, I was "window shopping" and was stunned at the prices they are charging for a car that's probably half of what you get with a Fit or a Yaris. I don't understand their model. Lifestyle car maybe?
I really think his novels are 50% hit or miss.

"Foucalt's pendulum" was great, "the island of the day before" meh, "Baudolino" was great, "queen loana's flame" was disappointing (I haven't read "Prague's cemetery" yet).

But: this isn't a novel, so different rules apply. Also, amazon has 12 reviews for it all with 5 stars :)
> In that case many of those would be Comcast customers, and peering would end up equal.

NOT HARDLY!

They would mostly be customers of small datacenters in various places all around the country, and thus, customers of Cogent and Level3.

Datacenters generally go for tier1 bandwidth, not consumer ISP bandwidth.

Look at the plans that they offer on their website. The fastest upload I can find is 20Mbps for $200/mo. http://business.comcast.com/internet/business-internet/plans...

That's $10/meg which is A LOT.

Three years ago if you were willing to buy in bulk, you could get bandwidth for as low as $0.65/meg as this HN user points out. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3892854 Based on his comments I suspect that you could get it for less than $0.50/meg today, maybe less than $0.25/meg.

Sure looks like Comcast wanting to have its cake and eat it too.
> heading towards a future of being a compilation target

Having to trace/debug compiled javascript from another language is a horrific future. In your analogy, C programmers would have to debug assembly.

I agree it's the most probable future, but let no one call it innovation when it's simply resignation from lack of options.
Yeah but that is a point about C++ complexity with Rust getting a passing mention.

All programming language discussions bring up the same points over and over again. Rust threads also always have the ignorant question "Why is the language constantly changing?".
Correction: They should fire the automated script which sent the email.
If you're using Android then you're logged into your Google account all the time.

False. Google's homepage on my Android device has a "Sign In" link at the bottom.

Whenever you make a Google search your location is logged as part of the search data

False. Just did it on my Android phone. It sent me to http://www.google.com/m?hl=en&gl=us&client=ms-androi.... Oh crap, Google knows I'm in the US.

(I'm in Tuscaloosa, AL; I Google "Birmingham" and it points me to "Birmingham, AL" not "Birmingham, UK").

…because you're querying from a US IP? …because your language is set to American English instead of British English? …because Google sends your country location but nothing else?

Google routinely logs all search query data.

Irrelevant: since your first point is false, the logged data is anonymous.
Uh, no hardware failure costs? Both the time and money to handle such. Hardware fails, which costs time and money to fix. To not account for failure within a year is either delusional or using some extremely high-quality hardware which is going to cost a lot more than the linked to Dell server.
> Your comment does appear disingenuous, although I'm sure that's not
deliberate. Neither false DMCA notifications nor github takedown
requests are legitimate responses to "simple nerd-rage" when it's about
MIT-licensed code.

I don't think anything like that has really happened. There was no DMCA takedown notice, only the (false) message that Dropbox had received a notification from itself, issued when they blocked public downloading of the file. Probably because that's the only way to block hashes they have right now. And as far as I can tell the github repo was removed by the original author, after they asked him.

Edit: Fixed bad quoting.
Pretty awesome work, well done. What language is it built with?
I'm in a similar boat ($120,000 student loan debt), although I'm getting married with a fiance who won't be able to support herself (contribute any money to the family) for about a year.

1. Extend the payments to 30 years (instead of 15, this "saved" me about $600 a month in payments)

2. Do the income sensitive repayment plan that others have suggested.

Good luck.
I get the same impression from all the git-related submissions. It's like I'm being told that "this car is great. Just remember to jerk the door handle when you open it, give the window a nudge with your elbow before you open it, and the wipers will work extra well if you enable air-conditioning at the same time.

It makes it sound like default, basic git is either broken (merge/rebase) or very constrained for general purposes.

I think it also has to do with the fact that "productivity" tips are conflated with getting-it-right articles. You don't need to alias all commands for git to work, even though it might help your workflow - or not; YMMV.
Well combine that with the fact that we weren't really living very long. Our ancestors certainly did not live up to the age of 80 (even within the last century), so the adverse health effects of sitting down can really just be a result of the fact that most people are now surviving long enough to experience them.
I just hope the generators API is now stable. I tried looking at the source of the various in-built generators to build a generator for BB10 apps, but every different generator was doing things in its own chaotic fashion. I got my generator somewhat working before future versions broke it.
Do you know of any Selenium-based projects (preferably OSS) that already do this...? It does seem useful.
He should have said that, internally, and demanded better. Or said, if that's really the best you can do, forget it.
I'm a JS hacker working on the NoFlo UI, and one of our primary design goals is to make it easy to code new modules on the fly (in the same environment, with tests) when that makes more sense.
The safety of methane does not matter nearly as much as what that says about the industry.

They lied.

They claimed there would be no contamination to the groundwater. Now we see there is. What chemical is next? We don't know.
Do you plan to add ABAC permission policies consisting of an expression of arbitrary attribute-based conditions for the object? Say 'o.group = 'guest' AND o.location in ['CA', 'WA'].

Recently a prospective client, coming from the world of Active Directory, has expressed a need for such a feature in ASPSecurityKit.

I haven't read the Zanzibar paper, but In ASPSecurityKit we've implemented ACLs on a similar concept – we call it activity-data authorization (ADA) [0]. Since it works as part of your application as a library, it can inspect request and automatically discover and authorize access to objects [1]. The attribute-based permission policies for users is something we're evaluating now.

0: https://youtu.be/u9NnBNEMpF4
1: https://aspsecuritykit.net/docs/article/how-to-perform-activ...
Exactly, and I'd put "gimp" even further up the offensiveness scale than "cripple".
Probably at around the same frequency that developers of yesteryear saw “FORTRAN cringe” comments, if I had to reckon.
I have no opinion on to change the Coq name or not, but I have to ask: Do you have similar issues when it comes to Git as well and how do you deal with that?
I don't think the article explicitly mentions it, but Adams was a rabid Mac fan, and arguably the first in the UK to buy one in 1984. This page (https://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~rwest/wikispeedia/wpcd/wp/d/Dougla... has some nice detail about it:

"Adams was a Macintosh user from the time they first came out in 1984 until his death in 2001. He was the second person to buy a Mac in the UK (the first being Stephen Fry - though some accounts differ on this, saying Adams bought the first two, and Fry bought the third). Adams was also an "Apple Master," one of several celebrities whom Apple made into spokespeople for its products (other Apple Masters included John Cleese and Gregory Hines). Adams's contributions included a rock video that he created using the first version of iMovie with footage featuring his daughter Polly. The video can still be seen on Adams's .Mac homepage. Adams even installed and started using the first release of Mac OS X in the weeks leading up to his death. His very last post to his own forum was in praise of Mac OS X and the possibilities of its Cocoa programming framework. Adams can also be seen in the Omnibus tribute included with the Region One/NTSC DVD release of the TV adaptation of The Hitchhiker's Guide using Mac OS X (version 10.0.x) on his PowerBook G3."

For Mac heads, this too:
https://lowendmac.com/2016/douglas-adams-author-and-mac-user...
It's always been the case that the right of your fist ends where my face begins.

You also can't implant a gun (an autonomous medical decision) and complain when it's still covered by gun laws.
Is there a mathematical definition for herd immunity? Or is it a bit more hand waving since the context changes so much for each scenario?