jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The basic concept of 'reducing human contacts outside of the household' means that people who are not happy nuclear families are _completely ignored_ by the legislation.

A husband, wife and children living together are surrounded by social contacts at all times.

In the UK, a single person is told that they can select one other person and visit them.

All of their support structures - office chat, therapy, meet ups, the pub, dating, everything else - completely gone and replaced with staring at four walls.

The regulations completely ignore my living situation. In practice it would mean that once a week I end up seeing a friend and the rest of the week I'm totally isolated.

Whether they were explicitly designed to hurt people like me, or whether I just 'fall through the cracks', is mostly irrelevant.

I'm just not doing it because it doesn't work. As I posted above, I tried it and became mentally ill.

It's not a 'hardship' like say, running low on money and having to try to find a job, it's an active legislative attack on my wellbeing and basically all of the escape hatches have been closed.

If building regulations in my area required walls to be built out of jelly, I'd still build them with bricks. It's safer, regardless of what some bureaucrat says.
I'll speak from the perspective of a "former developer turned entrepreneur who now hires developers."

A degree may help getting your foot in the door of large corporations and on the desk of recruiting agencies, but startups are going to look at your demonstrated experience first. So while a degree will give you an edge in some cases, it's not necessary for getting a job. Demonstrable experience is.

Now how do you demonstrate this experience without a degree? Open source projects is one great way. Building some of your own apps and publishing them online is another. Having a blog and talking about programming topics is another, though that may invite more scrutiny than you want at this stage in your career.

As for which open source projects with which to contribute - I think others here may be better able to answer that. My input would be:

Which open source projects excite you? If you're going to contribute to an open source project, pick one that personally excites you. Otherwise, your interest will fizzle out in time. Someone who's made substantial contributions over a meaningful duration of time because he/she really cares about the project is more impressive than someone who's contributing to multiple projects just for the sake of contributing (not that there's anything wrong with that).

As for languages, that could depend on what you like. I'm partial to LAMP and C/C++. I see a lot of chatter about Python and Ruby. Some love J2EE. Some love ASP.NET (though it doesn't have as much support in the Silicon Valley area as in the rest of the US). If you like C and Python, continue with those first - get better at them - then graduate yourself to C++ and other languages.

I hope this helps. Good luck.
Scroll down to the bottom to get the list.

Looking back at this gives me even more appreciation for tools like Cappuccino. I think there's still a market for desktop apps, but the browser has come a long way.
Actually, the earlier "victims" tend to make out pretty well, especially in the beginning. Later victims purely lost out. And Madoff certainly "skimmed" enough to live pretty well on.
But is it something a human brain would come up with and filter out? We don't know because we only know what our minds do, not what our brains do.
I think these files were on the disk for the purpose of distributing them to other who had requested them.
I saved a couple of hundred dollars by buying an unlocked iPhone and not going on a Vodafone contract (in NZ).

It was something like $2500 total over 24 months, vs. $1700 when buying it outright and going on a cheaper contract.

You'd think more people could do basic math and think past the "first hit is $99" bait-and-switch...

Also: Vodafone in NZ does not do free upgrades for contract users, begging the question of the point of a contract.
It looks like this started as an HN comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26706821) and then made it to Reddit and back to HN in this format. Can you please not do that? We're trying to avoid repetitive/recycled/copy-pasted discussions here. I wouldn't normally post something like this, but it seems to be a bit of a pattern:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26686767

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26411589
You can listen to the interview I did with Courtland Allen from IndieHacker to understand that this is far from the case.

https://www.indiehackers.com/podcast/033-philippe-lehoux-of-...
It's not uncommon for students to switch between top 5% and bottom 5% - yet people act as if its static. Education and chid development are ridiculously complex. It's not possible to have a solution that solves for everyone.
I don't think your description of the second group is very charitable.
The current answer to me seems to be that we do not know one way or the other. The hope is that it will but we are just now starting to get some data on how effective vaccines are at preventing transmission (Pfizer seems effective, others have no conclusive data AFAIK), we don’t know what herd immunity actually is (Fauci estimates between 70 and 95% vaccinated; 70% is possible without vaccinating children, 95% is not. In the US you have enough anti-vaxxers to prevent herd immunity from ever happening even at 70%), we don’t know how long the vaccine is good for (current estimate is at least 6 months but no clue if it is more), and we don’t know what other mutations will show up. The peachy scenario is that we vaccinate everyone super quickly while keeping social distancing and masks to not have any new variants develop and herd immunity can be achieved with very low percentages. The other scenario is that we take our time, dozens of vaccine resistant variants pop up in the meantime and it never goes away because a virus can mutate and spread more quickly than we can play whack a mole.
I’m a bit biased, but from my personal experience I would definitely say that it does. I’ve worked on two projects that had different backends (PHP and elixir) where the choice to use clojurescript IMO was the correct one. Both projects relied heavily on highly interactive frontends that would’ve been a nightmare to write if I had to use vanilla js. If your backend can spit out json, and your frontend isn’t static, then I’d say cljs should be good to use regardless if the backend is clojure or not. However, the biggest pain point for me was the disappointment of not being able to use clojure everywhere in the stack... so prepare for that if it’s the route you choose.
It can be permanent. In addition to the effort of removing standard tests, education reforms are happening left and right. San Francisco school union recently decided to remove fast tracks. The union will also delay the teaching of geometry to grade 9, which IMHO will make teaching physics and algebra really hard.

I can understand that the motivation of such reform is to improve equity, as numerous studies have shown positive correlation between family income and testing scores. Therefore, lowering the difficulty of challenging courses and removing requirements of standard tests appear to be a natural choice towards better equity. Besides, many of us do not need advanced math or STEM in our profession anyway, why spend so much time on STEM, right?

That said, I don't see how such reform will lead to more equity. Studying and taking tests are probably the most inexpensive activities out there. All that a driven student needs to learn well is a library, a good teacher, and a few like-minded classmates. And tutoring school does not necessarily make a difference, either. But with all the reforms, what would happen? Here is what I can imagine:

- Tutoring schools will make more difference. Family with means will send their kids to
tutoring schools so their kids can learn geometry or algebra in grade 5 and have all
the time to study AP courses in high school. Who suffers? Smart kids from poor families.
Same goes for history, writing, English, and etc.

- Money will matter more. Families with means will send their kids to robotics camps,
science research labs, coding schools, professional sports coaches, and etc.
You know, things that poor families have a hard time to afford. With non-differentiating
test scores, guess what school admission officers will look at?

I really don't see how good intention in this case will help less privileged kids. Such reform is advantageous to my ids, as I'll simply send them to private schools, all kinds of camps, or tutoring schools. They will learn calculus in grade 7 or early if they are talented. They will have a bucket list of volunteering experience and so-called leadership proof in their resume. They will build their ML-powered robots or conduct their favorite chemistry/physics experiments in their private lab that I can help build, if they are interested. And in the worse case, my wife and I have no problem and plenty of time to home school my kids. Yet it still pains me to see potentially hundreds of thousands of kids who would get better chance but can't because of watered-down education.

And I'll be happy if someone could show me how wrong I am.
What, they can't have their own identity? They shouldn't feel free to express themselves as they want?
Both of these checks happen at runtime in Rust. Overflow checks in particular only happen in debug mode, not in release mode.
This is great!

What is not so great is that Google's closure team (not be confused with clojure) decided to remove various functions, making breaking changes - for no obvious reasons other than saving a few lines of code.

Example Things like `goog.isArray` is gone, a library that was adopted by many (including the CLJS compiler) to help smooth out the differences in JS versions and supported features.

The closure team even has great advice for you:

"goog.isArray has been deleted. Use Array.isArray instead."

Well, how about you just delegate to that, Google team, and I can just upgrade?

This kind of library maintenance is what keeps me away from JS/TS where prior investments seem to be less valuable:

React deprecating lifecycle methods, Typescript's breaking changes page is pretty long (but admittedly, being MSFT, they try to care about backward compatibility), Vue.js 3: functional components deprecated, manual changes required.

Who can afford these shenanigans?

Changes in re-frame, reagent etc. have been a lot more careful. Not quite perfect (looking at you Reagent 1.0!), but I'm sleeping much better working with a stable, slow-moving framework - at the cost of maybe a few more repaints.
The sad part is, after reading his reply..... so did I.
I've been meaning to ask this for a very long time: What does the (2) mean? I see (n) in lots of descriptions of calls, but I've never found out what it means.
Good, because it's an experimental filesystem. Don't write it off completely though, because all of those (except for "cache layer" -- wtf does that even mean?) are planned.
Actual site: http://gitref.org/

Original HN discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1421959
Ah, ok. Yes, you're right then I'm probably not making "worthwhile contractor fees" then. We're pretty frugal considering we're a family of four living in a very nice part of our city.

However we also live in one of the cheapest areas of the U.S. So my rates would probably be seen as a pittance in any globally relevant metropolitan area.

Also this is certainly not the type of engagement the OP was talking about, I just thought I'd offer up a counter-point that you can also make a decent living contracting and not have a niche.

Or rather, make a living in an economic niche instead of a technical one (but still with technical skills).
However, transport is usually under some form of contract, so people who break those contracts are more usually guilty of breaking civil law, not criminal law. The penalties for such very rarely involve loss of liberty. I'm fairly sure citizen's arrest is targeted at getting the public to aid in apprehending criminals instead.
I know your last point is meant to be sarcastic, but that is the exact sort of distorted behavior you get with these kinds of ill-conceived regulations.
Must have been a different giveaway. I'm pretty sure I got mine from attending Google I/O 2010.
>I'd love to have a laptop whose sum parts are made out of reusable/biodegradable materials as much as possible.

I present the cardboard computer (case): http://recomputepc.com

Unfortunately it's prohibitively expensive compared to conventional options, as you would expect. And you obviously can't fab the boards from card and the chips from potato, as it were.

>It has been said too many times by others greater than myself; Our garbage and waste will be the downfall of our species.

We can learn to recycle our waste. Mining landfill is going to be big business one day. It will however be much harder to repair the environmental and human damage caused by the extraction of the raw materials in the first place.
Hmm while I can totally understand what he's saying to some extent, it does reek of "I'm a billionaire and here are the kinds of fantasies I focus on"
I think they used to do this - I could swear that I used to have a third-party plugin that I "installed" on my Google account that would show me JavaDocs whenever I Googled a Java class name. It hasn't shown up in about 3 years, though, and I haven't found any trace of it in the code I work with (which should be right around that area of the page...), so maybe it was discontinued.
Now presumably he's far more involved in facebook than paypal
I used to work at Cisco, and I have the exact same opinions.
Only if github actually stopped hosting the attacked repositories. Otherwise it would be more of a Streisand effect, raising awareness of the workings of the great firewall and that there are effective tools that circumvent the filtering. The wider the attack is covered in the news the harder it is for censors to stop the flow of that particular information.
Time to DDOS the entire Chinese IP space.
Once the citizens experience network outages, they'll be able to direct their anger at the PRC who started this bullshit.

PRC wins if Github null-routes the Chinese IP space, Github must stay up no matter what.
In this case the attack is motivated by desire to suppress knowledge of a project hosted on Github, publicity is what they fear most...

Now to get back to the OPs question:

1. Mainstream media might have too much to lose if they criticize China, just like in many countries where property bubbles burst the mainstream media suppressed any mention of bubble forming since they were making out like bandits from advertising property, could be something similar happening here.

2. The story is a non-story outside nerd circles, now if Facebook or Twitter was being DDOSed your sure would hear about it since journalists do care about these sites.
It's hard to say. The finalization spec is subtle.

To make this work, the JIT would need to perform escape analysis on the finalizer too (since the finalizer can make an object escape). If that analysis succeeds, then I suppose the object could be stack-allocated and the finalizer called directly. Even then, though, you would have to think carefully about all the subtle ramifications, like the consequences running a finalizer on an application thread instead of the finalizer thread. (What if the finalizer grabs a lock in an attempt to protect itself from the application code? Now this becomes a recursive lock by one thread, and so both the application code and the finalizer can enter it at the same time!)

If this ever became important enough, it's possible the JIT developers could get this right in every case with enough effort invested. I wouldn't count on that happening any time soon.

[These are my personal opinions, not those of my employer.]
The majority of the psychiatric community disagrees with you. They believe the patient should not form personal relationships with psychiatrists and therapists, including not being aware of a psychiatrist’s positions on political and social issues. They have patients with a wide range of views, some of whom rely on their treatment to maintain their psychological well-being and mental health. It can be dangerous for them to have that relationship disrupted by disagreements about orthogonal issues. Psychiatrists are not primarily concerned to protect themselves, although that is a factor; they are largely motivated by a desire to avoid endangering their patient by disrupting their treatment.

You might want to argue that it’s Alexander’s fault for writing a semi-pseudonymous blog in the first place, but that doesn’t help his patients. And I might agree with the view that exposing him is justified if the article actually revealed something of public interest-that he was a Nazi or a pedophile, for example-but it doesn’t. It’s a thin tissue of spurious guilt by association and mischaracterization. The NYT have decided that any risk to Alexander’s patients is less important than naming him in a low-quality hit piece. What they have done is immoral.
You may not buy it but it's absolutely true. I spent a few years doing CMS support and site development for one of the largest newspaper conglomerates in North America and based on the design of our in-house CMS it wasn't even possible to edit a piece of content from the page it was displayed on. The really bizarre part was, all the journalists and editors where totally fine with that. Their biggest concerns where making sure the content published to the right section and making sure it also got pushed to the back end system used by the pressmen.
Thanks for the pointer about accelerated delivery in AdWaords. We were also planning to advertise on Facebook, since we get to choose the demographic of the target audience.
Technically I'm not convinced Wordpress is qualified for the term CMS, or at least no more qualified than say PHPbb, Gallery 2, or any other installable purpose built web application with a limited feature scope. Apparently there where sufficient individuals who disagree with this view for Wordpress to win CMS of the Year for 2010.
Android also has a native C/C++ development kit.

http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2009/06/android-goes...

You can also cross-compile iPhone apps on Linux, however, you won't be able to sell it at their app store.

http://www.saurik.com/id/4

Another alternative is the Nokia N900 which uses maemo.

http://maemo.nokia.com/
http://maemo.nokia.com/n900/
Signal (http://www.signalhq.com) supports 13 including myself, co-founded in 2006. First few years as a founder we're incredibly tough (paid others but not ourselves), but we're doing great now.
> I go home and I cry. I am serving my country, I should not have to go home and cry after a day of honorably serving my country.

This really struck a chord with me, not because I feel that they should get a pass, but because apparently these agents have drunk the Kool-Aid and really believe that what they're doing is a noble endeavor that people should be thanking them for, like one would thank a veteran.

"Honorable service to your country" does not include routine violations of the country's Constitution and the harassment and intimidation of her citizens.

I know that at the end of the day, most of the screeners are regular Joes looking to put food on the table, but honestly...I'm glad that these new procedures are destroying morale. I wish no harm to the individuals, but the TSA as an organization won't be able to survive the rotting from within that results from an utterly demoralized, underpaid, abused workforce. Public criticism is one thing, but if your workforce starts evaporating because your policies are too brutal, the simple economics of the situation requires that something change.
Possible, trivial with the right bank, tens of millions of foreign individuals and corporations hold US companies and bank accounts. I used to set them up routinely for incubated companies at my workplace. Only sticking point is passing Know Your Customer regulations at the bank, which is not difficult at banks which routinely transact internationally. Our Citibank would accept a faxed copy of their passport plus basically any confirmation of existence of their corporate structure. (Including "We exist, thanks." on letterhead.)
This is all just fantasy sports of course, but here's my plan.

I would require new teachers to work as apprentices for quite some time (several years) and not pay them very much during this period. After that, if they accede to full status, I would pay them a great deal more. The reasons for this structure: (1) to weed out people who aren't intrinsically motivated by working with children, i.e. the ones who probably shouldn't have permanent teaching jobs; (2) it takes years to become a master teacher and mentorship is the most valuable asset (after aptitude, perhaps) on that path. An apprenticeship system seems suitable for fostering this.

As for determining who makes it and who doesn't, I'd rely mostly on peer evaluation. Standardized tests are ok too (or could be, if we had good ones) but I'd weight them second. This problem isn't algorithmic.
There isn't only one board of directors in the US. There is only one UAW. There is only one IlWU. There is only one teamsters.
Please don't take HN threads further into political, ideological, and/or nationalistic flamewar. This comment manages to be all three, and it's a step change in the thread—a step down. Let's climb the other way please.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
This is a very tasteless diversion to what is a beautifully written essay.
>1.If there are 50k people instead of 5 people on the other track?

Is choosing to hit the 50K people to remove them from the gene pool for being dumb enough to stand on the tracks of an active train yard a viable response? :)
I think you're first paragraph is incorrect. For example, the US entered WW2 in 11/7/41, and the BB-63 Missouri was commissioned in 6/44. Missouri saw combat at Iwo Jima and Okinawa. BB-62 (New Jersey) was commissioned in 6/43 and fought at Guam and Okinawa. BB-61 was commissioned 2/43 and fought in the Pacific after being transferred from the Atlantic.

For the UK, five King George class battleships were commissioned after the start of Britain's declaration of war in 9/39. They all saw combat.

France's Richelieu was commissioned in 4/40, and saw limited combat in Dakar.

Even Japan's Yamato class battleships were commissioned before Japan invaded China.

Perhaps you meant that no battleships that weren't laid down prior to the start of WW2 saw combat?
"A Latina geographer had a different take on social isolation, saying that white people are “afraid of people of color in a way, like just worried they’re going to say the wrong thing or do the wrong thing. So they avoid that entirely.”

Honestly, you can't really use this as an excuse. People get fired ALL THE TIME for saying the wrong thing, even if it was a complete accident and outside of the work place.

You can't have a society that is harsh on people they deem "racists" and the turn around and wonder why it creates a culture of fear and isolation.
Well I made sure to post the warning of the fact that you can overdose even on tonic water just to make sure people keep that in mind. I find it interesting that there is no such warning on the bottle. It must just be an historic artifact that quinine water is for sale in a grocery store at all. Would it really be approved for sale today, especially without a warning?
Actually they can be actively harmful in that they lead people to do spurious reasoning with the unwarranted confidence that came from the false reassurance of it being "biology", "science" or "evolution". People have already done it with enough times (such as e.g. wolves, or lobsters (!)) with detrimental effects that I felt a big fat disclaimer was warranted here.
Professional drivers destroy in simulations like racing.com