jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
That's exactly how Google, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft and most other big companies view software engineers. Engineers go through standard interview process (3-5 technical interviews, 1 behaviour interview) and then companies assume that everyone above the hiring bar can be assigned to pretty much any project at the company. Companies use this process because it works - engineers are mostly fungible.

The above is not true for exceptional talent (Linus Torvalds, John Carmack, etc). I will vote in heartbeat for visas for people with total comp >$300k. If you are truly that valuable, you should be paid more than average Sr. Software Engineer at Google.
I learned Usenet and www to buy and sell magic cards in the 90s. My first web site was to sell magic cards and selling my collection let me buy a car to drive to proper startups with W2s.

In fact, I think the reason why I sought out the internet at college in 1994 was because a friend said any magic card could be bought online for $5.

It’s interesting how the early magic community was so focused on the net.
What prevents the TOS from changing to prohibit any automated attempt to circumvent the display of ads? The providers would have a huge incentive to do this if you become successful.
No, and there have been at least three reports of reinfection cases from multiple countries.

Though it's not clear if they failed to build immunity or if the virus was never totally eliminated.

Also, because of antibody dependent enhancement (ADE), which the virus is speculated to have like SARS and MERS, a reinfection could be deadly, e.g. triggering cytokene storms. This is why vaccine trials in animals failed for SARS and I think MERS.
The rubidium does not deplete (it's a closed system), but does settle on the glass. Supposedly you can heat the glass to turn all the rubidium into gas again, giving you theoretically infinite lifetime. I picked up a used PRS-10 on ebay for $250. It's a small but great oscillator, still made today. The manufacturer SRS claims 20 years lifetime, and mine has had 13 years of runtime, so I should be able to get 7 years out of it hopefully. The 11W1 DSub connector they used on the other hand is stupidly expensive.

Cesium oscillators on the other hand do deplete their cesium (by design), as mentioned by CuriousMarc in the video. The tube in his unit was probably replaced at least twice, at a cost of >80k. The high performance tubes fare even worse because they "burn" through their cesium at a 3x rate.

The 5071 successor by HP-Agilent-Symmetricom-Microsemi is the most frequently used COTS clock that contributes to UTC.
I applied 2 months ago when the listing said remote and the recruiter told me that the jobs are "in office" only. Has this changed since? If not you should probably stop putting "remote" in the listing.
How do the numbers work? You can see growth is positive in some years but the GNP is going down?
In his first paragraph:

American technology companies want the government to make immigration easier because they say they can't find enough programmers in the US. Anti-immigration people say that instead of letting foreigners take these jobs, we should train more Americans to be programmers. Who's right?

It sounds to me that the word anti-immigration is simply a word he chose to literally mean "people who disagree with the aforementioned party that we should make immigration easier." It means much the same thing throughout the essay. What word would you suggest instead?
>do away with the second shot

Nope. There's data indicating we must have the second shot for T-cell response, or the vaccine will fail against mutations:

https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-226857/v1
https://twitter.com/dvir_a/status/1359603522581454856
(done on the Pfizer vaccine, but it's very similar to Moderna)
In Texas griddy exposes you to real time spot pricing. I was frequently getting paid to use electricity at night due to excess generation by wind. As an electric car owner this was fantastic as I frequently got paid to recharge my car. My average delivered rate before this week was 7c/kwh all in.
It seems to be poor editing (standard English would be "lain hidden"), but I'm not sure why you want to feed it into gtl.
This website is well known by the reddit transgender community.
Just to add some numbers; we(Texas) have over 31,000MW of installed wind energy capacity. No other state comes close.

Probably a lot of things people find shocking about Texas when compared to its reputation lol.
A true investment has an intrinsic value based on the stream of cash it generates for its owner. That’s “investing”.

No crypto currency has any intrinsic value because none gave predictable future cash flows. Buying them is gambooling or “speculation” trying to predict short term price changes.

Note that u belief cryptocurrencies have utility as a medium of exchange, just not intrinsic value.
As long as we're doing away with assumptions, we should also throw out the one that aliens have a desire to propagate and colonize across the universe.
>One of my favorite parts of Swift is the optional concept

What if you need the fallback value to be an error possessing information about what went wrong?

data Maybe a = Just a | Nothing

data Either a b = Left a | Right b
I still haven't found a compiler that compiles source code differently based on a user's gender or identity...
Oh, alright. I know T-SQL and have actually missed variables in PostgreSQL before. Just please don't shorten it to "SQL", it's only one dialect of many.
What were the next few sentences after that? Did someone previously mention breaking the will of bad emitters? Was he trying to say "there are no bad guys to break the will of"?
This always happens when a scene/subculture hits the mainstream. You could madlibs this article and get a description of every musical genre. It's sad to see what you were so passionate about appear in a diluted form, and external perception be distorted by this new image.

But there always remains an underground where true innovation and passion thrives.
Have hired twice from them, both are total winners. But took a lot of pruning to get there!
Your stuff can't be stolen. Period. A different thing is that you may suck at protecting your house.
Thanks for the feedback! I will change them for images. Added the gifs after writing so didn't get that effect.
> No, he benefits millions of users and is intentionally not taking "the (extremely large) benefits of an open source project" by stating he hasn't the time to deal with outside input.

I have no idea what this means. He wrote in his post that he does it for his benefit, and that he ignores most people because it doesn't benefit him to respond.

> If the source was closed and people could just use the (free) website nobody would care but since its open source he suddenly owes the world something?

Ignoring sincere communication has nothing to do with a software license. That's being a jerk. The choice of software license doesn't give you a right to be a jerk.

This is yet another one of those situations where someone is well known in the open source world and his fans think that excuses being an asshole.
As do plenty of non-elite countries. What's your point? The Aztecs, for example, were practising human sacrifice until the Europeans pitched up. And in Papua New Guinea they were still eating people within living memory. I could also mention Cambodia, Rwanda - but I suppose that's all the West's fault as well.
Ha! Title so foolish it disproves its own premise.
I guess for the same reason we don’t have giants walking around either, these are depending upon many random distributions of interactions that ultimately lead to a Gaussian distribution of said characteristic (height or intelligence etc) via the central limit Theorem.
> Remove the negligence item and fraud and theft are still there.

Not with cash or gold. Yet we consider them money.
That is true, but I find it also telling that they haven't actually given it away yet.. .

I think there is a saying like "don't count your chickens before they hatch"
Retina is merely doubling the existing accepted DPI for any device and using it as an integer scaled HiDPI device. I look at my 24" 1920x1080 ("1080p"), so doubling the DPI would give me 3840x2160 ("4k").

My 24" is already at the optimum distance (approximately 29" away), so I'm not sure why you bring up distance here.

Also, my 13" MBP Retina sits under my center monitor, so yes, I do in fact look at it at the same distance (although the optimum distance is approximately 23" for that).

As for 27" screens, their res is typically 2560x1440, thus 5120x2880 ("5k") would be the correct res, and what 27" iMac Retinas ship with (optimum distance is about 24").
Democracy is oh so fragile
I agree.

For me it also came with a huge down side. I spent the last six to seven years using Scala, learning FP concepts, getting familiar with Haskell and it's concepts as well as other functional languages. This is after 7+ years prior doing lots of typical Java, Javascript, PHP which I was quite happy to use.

Now I'm in the situation after learning languages which provide far more useful day to day principals, abstractions and safety I struggle or rather get frustrated very quickly when I go back to C style languages i.e Java, Javascript, PHP, Python.

My huge problem now is I'm in Sydney, Australia. 4-5 years ago there was a reasonable strong enthusiasm for Scala and functional programmers in general. No, I've been looking to change jobs for the past year and absolutely nothing has popped up.

It seems the only roles available are traditional Java with Spring Boot, Javscript, Python and C#.

Even with DevOps stuff which I have a bunch of experience for everyone want Ansible when after discovering NixOS/Nix it completely removes the need for Ansible giving declarative deterministic infrastructure/deployments without fragile line upon line of YAML files.

Of course all the functional programming work I've learnt is usable and can be applied everyday in other languages. Functional programming isn't new predating all the new shiny popular languages. The problem is having used better languages which treat these principals as first class it isn't the same as trying to hack together something in a language never designed to support it.

It seems I've now learnt myself out of a job. If I want a job I need to take a step backwards and use tools that now frustrate me and seem clunky / broken. It's at the point where I'm starting to look at a career change outside of software to start enjoying work again.
I guess to state what I think should be a real solution to this problem: people should have their own AI lawyer that works on their behalf to flag things they might want to object to. I helped build a surprisingly effective prototype of such a thing using a very simple "bag of words" approach, and it had >99% accuracy in identifying clauses, because they almost all use the same words, basically by design. So this is pretty trivial to build in the grand scheme of things.

Courts should prevent companies from banning AI assistants, that is where they could help.
Interesting. Better than what, though? No caffeine or coffee? 3 shots?

Also, mind linking the study?
As a B2C app, we're also really confused by a bunch of them and are waiting to see if they will clarify or refactor it in a better way.

A lot of our entry fields fall under the "if you manually enter it we will use it to refine the results". Sure, you can put your age, or upload your picture to your profile if you want to. But you obviously don't have to.

But it's not clear if that is enough to pass the "optional disclosure" bar that they have which specifies: "Collection of the data occurs only in infrequent cases that are not part of your app’s primary functionality, and which are optional for the user." What is infrequent here, or how far are these features from the app's "primary functionality".

If we don't meet the optional disclosure bar it makes it sound like we're forcing users to give us all kinds of data. They also don't seem to obviously differentiate between data you collect for functionality and data that is used for advertising/third parties unless you click through to the details.
But modern banks don't stay with a mortgage loan for long periods of time. Thanks to the "miracle" of derivatives, mortgage loans are repackaged and sold to other institutions, so the risk they carry is very small compared to the old times.
'Production ready' doesn't mean it has all the features you would ever want. It means it is stable and tested enough to run critical workloads.

They are saying the core is production ready (if your needs are met by the features included in the MVP), but that planned additional features are not yet production ready.
That makes sense. I didn't like Dostoyevsky, Hemingway, or Wolfe.
> See if you can find some bottleneck in one of your Python/Ruby/Perl apps that's chewing a lot of CPU time.

I found that hard to do as a starting developer who didn't know what was actually a bottleneck in my code, but I did have a particular library/gem that I wrote myself that did a few things I constantly needed (think of authentication in a web app, it's almost always included). So I rewrite it in C. It didn't really make it faster, or better, but I learned a bunch of C.
That's the kind of job I enjoy doing.

It is just not sexy and some startup rejected me when I said that's what I do.
I don't see how reducing 99% of the workload should be faulted for the final 1%
Sure. As if CO2 were the limiting factor in photosynthesis, which it isn't. But that's OK, because they don't really care about being right. They'll just shift on to the next argument, even if it's contradictory to the ones they're already using. That's how a Gish Gallop works.

You can just point them at https://skepticalscience.com/oneliners.php for a lengthy list of the arguments they're going to use and the trivial reasons why they're wrong, but it doesn't get at the core of the problem: you can't reason somebody out of a place they didn't reason themselves into.
Agreed. If I had the power to make deep fakes as a child I might have landed at least 3 people in prison, and had charges put on multiple people I just didn't like.
Thanks, I'll push forward ;-)
A lot of land is used to grow crops to feed to farm animals.

On top of that the huge amount of water required for this whole operation.

It's much more efficient to use the land to grow crops / plants which we can eat.

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https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2018-06-01-new-estimates-environme...

https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/blog/2019/05/natur...
I'm sure they have automated a lot of it, so maybe it has progressed in that less man hours are required per message, and on top of that, they are probably in color, with pictures, which is way more than you get with a telegram.
"Capitalism" completely solved the textbook problem, it simply ignored universities and degrees and whatnot altogether. (How come coding bootcamps don't have expensive textbooks?)

I put the quotes there because (arguably obviously) it's also thanks to capitalism that intellectual property is extended so obscenely.

Anyway, no university (or higher-ed institution) is forced to use textbooks. They do it because they can. Because there's no market force pushing prices down, because captive audience, because the signaling value of degrees is still high (because nobody got fired for hiring the candidate with more degrees - that also happens to have a wealthier background, and maybe even also happens to be white). But it's changing (due to market forces).

Similarly, housing is not a market problem. It's about "preserving the character of the neighborhood", and most neighborhoods happen to be favoring those who happen to be wealthy and against building.
Much of modern ML, as advertised, is a bit of delusion and a bit of charlatanism: we are offered a means of obtaining Y via X, but never consider PD. We just keep "evaluating" the systems on examples consistent with X.

The field of statistics has been fully aware of the problems of "in sample" and "out of sample" data for well over 100 years. And it's still one of the first things people learn, and statistics is still one of the foundations of data science and machine learning.

Don't project your own lack of knowledge onto people who certainly have the knowledge you claim that they lack.
There’s two parts of the efficiency. One is memory: if you have a bunch of partial results hanging around for adjacent elements to reduce with, they will use memory. The other is the time and yes, if you have a map reduce on lists implementation that (unlike the author’s) reduces any two adjacent mapped elements then you’ll only be harmed by more pathological cases like the one I described, but I don’t think it’s that obvious that that case is unlikely (eg let’s say you’re processing some logs. You get one file per day from a system that runs from 9am to 5pm and one from a run from 5pm to 9am. It seems likely that one file would typically take longer than the other to process) And reordering your elements to optimise around this means that you’ll get different results, unless you’re using a commutative monoid! If your monoid isn’t commutative then reordering likely isn’t an option.
This is the content I subscribe here for. :)
That is SAD. We will miss Chick and his music.
If you have to work with C++, I recommend using -fsanitize=undefined so you get runtime-errors when your program runs into undefined behavior. Very handy!
> I really hope they hire more people to work on the Linux GPU drivers, and have the drivers ready and stable on launch, and not years later.

I got a RX 6900 XT in december and have not had any significant issues with the drivers. YMMV on less bleeding edge distros.
Welcome to the current state of Australian politics
> This is ignoring all of the details. Feudal peasants were much closer to slaves than to citizens in a democracy.

I disagree. We overestimate the freedom we have and underestimate theirs.

For example they had much more free time than we do today. We on the other hand are still "free" to choose where to work (as long as we aren't in poverty, which is unfortunately untrue for too many, with no prospect of future change), but the workplace is as undemocratic as it gets.

Forget our (tech) golden workplaces. Most people spend 2/3 of their lives in authoritarian workplaces that they can't leave because they need their shit job to survive.

Where is the practical difference with being a serf?

Even in the west, most of us don't live a democracy, except for the minority of their time.
I'm Casbin author. XACML is nearly 20 years old and it was a very classic ABAC implementation in the world. I used, learnt and studied it through my master and Ph.D career in the last ten years. That's part of the reason why I created Casbin 3 years ago during my Ph.D. I hope Casbin is some kind of improvement compared to XACML. XACML has been stable these years but Casbin is yound and still growing, so we can fix things that are not that good compared to XACML. Authzforce is under GPL-3, which needs to handle carefully for commercial use. Casbin is Apache 2.0. If you want to follow more famous standard, choose XACML. Otherwise choose Casbin.
What software is the best to just get out of your way? I’m thinking of setting up a cheap internet-disconnected workspace for writing and modern word processors just annoy me. There is input lag in several of them that there wasn’t decades ago, and a million buttons with awful icons. What do you all prefer?
The dissent is a bunch of garbage written by someone who clearly doesn't understand anything about what he's talking about.

He complains about the names of functions being "expressive content". Yeah, "max" and "toIndex" are real expressive.

Also, what the hell is this logic?

https://twitter.com/KardOnIce/status/1379080086880665606/pho...
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Django with raw SQL queries. HTML using templates, with CSS files for repeated styles (eg defaults for a given element type), and inline styles for one-offs. Modern javascript for targeted interactions like managing shopping carts through local storage, validating forms with visual feedback, and processing payments.

Typescript as-required; better language, but adds a build step.

Rust is promising for both front and back end, but backend frameworks are too sparse for websites, and frontend leads to large downloads for the client.
> all I saw was a wall of vague text from a cardboard cut, predatory sensationalists, all cross referencing each other

I assure you his FBI file - https://www.muckrock.com/foi/united-states-of-america-10/fbi... - is not vague, predatory, sensationalist, and does not cross-reference any discussion you may find on the web today.

His ex-wife reportedly testified that on several occasions when she unwittingly disturbed either his calculus or his drums he flew into a violent rage, during which time he attacked her, threw pieces of bric-a-brac about and smashed the furniture.

Feynman's autobiographical writings about women are also disgusting enough by modern standards.

I don't understand why you would think having developed an excellent physics course is incompatible with that (or vice versa).
Yeah - perhaps you missed it, but it says "Keep in mind George Orwell's six elementary rules ("Politics and the English Language", 1946)" just before it enumerates them.

I think lots of good style guides quote them. My favourite is probably Kingsley Amis's "The King's English".

It has the distinct "old man shouts at clouds" energy that one gets best from posthumous volumes.
I wrote a long comment, but removed it since I don't want to be political on HN, even to correct a fallacy.
You really should step away from the internet and actually talk to a regular conservative.