jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I think the author is confusing the members that currently make up the set of high-end jobs with the set itself.

In 1995 I was writing HTML templating engines and session management code. An HR person might have called me a "templating and session engineer." By that definition the role I was filling is now obsolete: standardized technologies have been developed that mean I will never find work as a templating and session engineer again. I am not crying about that development.

The coming obsolescence of particular high-end jobs opens an opportunity for new high-end jobs. The world has fewer Unix admins per Unix server than it did fifteen years ago, and the world is better off for that. (Apropos the recent "Linux admin shortage looms" non-story recent posted here.)

The author is perpetuating the same fallacious argument that wheelwrights were at the dawn of the age of automobiles.
There is not protection at all, it is all open source, literally. You can add fancy stuff on the server side, which of course will be a well kept secret, but currently it is all client side and out in the open. I am not that worried though, this game is not rocket science if you were to re-create it ...
There's plenty of IRC servers (which is probably the closest analogue to Slack) with more than 5000+ users. Sure, most of them have a #general channel, but nobody will see that one as the main channel; most will go to a more topical / relevant channel. That's how IRC works, that's how Slack should work.
https://archive.is/iXWDh
None! I wouldn't claim any outlet is. Read from many sources, from all over the spectrum, build a model of each ones moral foundations, find reporters who seem to be in it for good reasons and model them. There's no bastions of reliable news, just you vs a stochastic void of political claptrap, your only hope is to Thompson Sample the widest set of half-popular sources for nourishment.
By "they" do you mean the companies that own those platforms? Or somebody else? Do you mean that someone else could take their platforms away from them?
Incitement of violence is an incredibly high legal bar.

Hypotheticals, don't count. Hints don't count. Dogwhistles don't count. Impassioned political speech doesn't count.

The fire in a theatre quote that everyone seems to know is even from an overturned case. (Schenk v US)

The Brandenburg case that overturned Schenk held:

If a threat is not immediate

OR

If it's non-specific/ non-literal

Then it's not criminal incitement, because it's protected free speech.

Interpretations of "what Trump meant" don't count, even if you believe with all your heart that he meant something other than the literal words spoken.
What do you mean by "from the wife of Google"?
It's nothing to do w/ memory but practice. Only keep one or two hot languages like python or Node.js on resume; go to websites like www.geeksforgeeks.org and finish every f*king question. try to write fast and bug-free code, u will land a job very soon.
I can't believe I didn't think to check that. Thank you!
The scary thing about automation isn't the technology itself. It's that it breaks the tenuous balance of power between those who own and those who work - if the former can just own robots instead of hiring the latter, what will become of the latter? The truth is, what's scary about that imbalance of power is already true, it's just that until now, technological limitations made that imbalance incomplete - workers still had some bargaining power. That is about to go away, and what will be left is the realization that the solution to this isn't ludditism, the solution is political. As it always was.
Interesting such a question-filled post doesn’t have comments enabled. (Not that I’m criticizing it for this reason.)

I guess I’m not sure how relevant the parable is, because while it doesn’t cost have coffee & a pot at your house — and you will use it anyway, and it doesn’t cost anything day-to-day to just keep it there — this isn’t true for, say, having a backup system just waiting to take over in the event of catastrophic failure.

Then again, the Netflix strategy (3 clusters at 60% utilization → 2 clusters at 90%) is superficially similar to usually having an option of homebrew, walking, and driving for coffee, and sometimes just being forced to pick one option. Superficially.
seems like universities should be rated according to the profitable patents they have registered ,

or academic international books they have published,

if no patents - then no funding from the state budget

Also - why would a PhD quarantee a job anyway , since productivity and knowledge are not directly related things ?
A $30K license is only a problem if you're giving your services away for free. With a quad or 6-core processor (remember MS charges per socket not per core) you can power about 500-750 spindles. You're looking at $200-250K to build a single socket system that can be fully utilized. (eg. 128-256GB of RAM, 3 or 4 controllers, and 500-750 disks) The problem is that people stupidly put SQL EE on a commodity box with 8 GB of ram and 2 spindles and then complain that the software is 5 times as expensive as the box.

Also, $30K is the retail price for the license, no one actually pays that, and if you can write a little bit of code you can easily use a SQL Std license for $2-5K.
yes, absolutely important. something we really struggled with early - both the one sentence and the 30 second that people instantly GET. this is not just for investors, but for anyone - potential partners, hires, your mom, etc. and keep in mind this is def a work in progress - you'll improve on it and often change it substantially over time!
The highlighter thing is really cramping my style while I try to read this.
> In fact my last department (in the US) lost a promising prospective PhD student to France after she realised she'd probably have her PhD three or four years earlier if she did it in Paris instead of California.

I'm really glad to hear that. Hopefully it will keep happening, and US universities will realize that they have to fix things if they want to keep the best candidates.
My eyes!!
Are you seriously equating inciting an insurrection with “not their brand of politics”?
If you're just used to regular US cities, this is hard to grasp. Average US cities -- even bigger ones -- the public transport is slow, sparse, and unreliable; biking is uncomfortable and dangerous; and everything is so spread out that walking is mostly impractical.

When you're thinking in that context and imagine switching modes...it just sounds terrible. Because it is.

That doesn't mean the solution is everyone driving forever though: the solution is improving the infrastructure and land use to where other options ARE more viable. They should be good enough to where you don't have to convince anyone to use them; their usefulness should speak for themselves.
Why does everyone talk about the government forcing companies to do things whenever somebody criticizes a company policy? A company can be criticized without the speaker implying that there needs to be legislation.
The GP might be a prima donna, or he might just be stating the facts.

We have to be able to distinguish apprentices from people who have all of the breadth, depth, and color that comes with experience. In sane professions, they don't call someone "senior" after 3-5 years.
> I want my history, link copying, bookmarking, middle-clicks and Ctrl/Cmd-clicks to work as intended.

In a well designed SPA, these will all work.
Hi! A-Frame is super interesting and I love how it has an innovative markup style and have a customizable entity component system at the same time. I've always known about it but never really dived in myself but looks like there's tons of good stuff and inspiration! Will definitely take a closer look. Thanks for replying and creating A-Frame!
Maybe the National Archives should ask Gab instead since they have all his tweets archived since 2017.
Free speech as a principle you’re after (aka truly free speech without any consequences whatsoever) never existed.

You’re free to say whatever you want, and I’m free to take actions based on that. You cannot give free speech benefits only to one side of the argument.
hh thank you shu!
Not entirely sure what parent meant but it seems that many web developers are still confused as to why they can't consume any site on the internet from the front end.
Am I reading this correctly that they couldn't be arsed to do DTLS/TLS and so they rolled their own lame crypto?
Screening techniques are a real problem if their false positive rate is high. Any significant increase in the work up rate will be a real burden on the health system (so you had better see a corresponding benefit). Worse, gold standard for follow up is going to vary by disease and location, but if it is say a biopsy and you are screening a large population you are often going to start killing people without the disease. Not many, of course, but you have to balance that against the putative improvements.
I know this sort of criticism can be annoying, but despite commenting on HN I would surely qualify as a 'lay reader' in this context, and I have a strong preference for authors taking care to either tell the whole truth or flag that a potentially misleading simplification has been made -- even if the falseness seems like a technicality to the author. If I notice it then I lose faith in the author's credibility, and if I don't then now I've 'learned' something false.
I don't think the author is a googler?
> I suspect a lot of anti-Zuck/'techlash' sentiment will die down if a Dem is elected next year.

If a Dem wins, the media/etc will praise tech/social media like they did after Obama won. Remember in 2008 when the media hailed Obama as the first "social media president". It's amazing how a single election shifted the narrative on an entire industry wholesale. It's like someone flipped a switch and the narrative went from positive to negative overnight.

How many remember Obama's Q&A at google?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nnj7r1wCD4

What would have been the narrative had Hillary won? Would tech be credited with helping her win rather than attacked relentlessly by the media? The real question that isn't why the news industry was so upset? Isn't the news supposed to be objective and fair?
It does if you’re ethical and care about potential fallout.
Yeah, you really dont want to be implementing a date/time library yourself. It is a far more complex problem than Fizzbuzz. There is so much nuance and easy to overlook details. Just determining whether or not a year is a leap year is about discuss complexity.

I wrote a friendlier abstraction over top Boost DateTime in C++ at a previous employer. Adding things like cross platform support of using the Olson database for historical timezone info, a friendlier interface (more akin to Python's datetime lib, which is probably the friendliest datetime lib Ive used across any language) and cross platform strptime. So, didn't do the heavy lifting myself, but rather supplied the timezone info.

There were so many subtle details. Like, what does it mean to add 1 day to a timestamp? Do you increment year/month/day as needed to be the next day? Or do you add 24 hours? This matters because if you increment the date only, you can end up with an invalid or ambiguous time. I also appreciate the author mentioning how many hours are there in a day. 23, 24 and 25 are most common for jurisdictions observing daylight saving time, but arbitrary shifts are possible. It depends on the jurisdiction. Take the US for example. It depends not just on the state, but sometimes even the county within a state. Some states dont observe DST (Arizona and Hawaii, maybe others). Parts of Indiana do, some don't (maybe this has changed).

Compound this with changes to when DST starts/ends. Its entirely political and can change on a whim. I know there are clocks that are still wrong 12 years later for 6 weeks of the year because of the 2007 US DST change, because of embedded rules for when to change.

Sorry for the rant. Spent over 18 months on that project, and I know there are bugs in there nobody bothered to fix after I left that company (fractional seconds handling in strptime I ported from NetBSD, I'm looking at you).
Spinoza really was one of the greats; as Hegel said, "You are either a Spinozist, or not a philosopher at all!"; one of my favourite bits of Spinoza (who I think Frederick Lordon for pointing out) was this:

"Men are deceived in thinking themselves free, a belief that consists only in this, that they are conscious of their actions and ignorant of the causes by which they are determined."
She’s too much of an ideologue —a bit like Bernie. It’s their way or the highway. So even if Joe is weaker as a candidate he’d be nominated over Warren and Sanders by the party, the people (primary voters) might go with an ideologue.

That said, Tulsi is right, most of the party are a bunch of neocons (aside from Sanders and maybe Warren).
Probably has to do with concurrent reasons why Apple is overtaking them in profitability, notably, the iPad is absorbing the netbook market (MS reported netbook sales down 40%).
Nah, that's just lame. It would "make sense" with whatever character that would happen to be.

Space? Makes sense.

New line? Makes sense.

Hash. Certainly does make sense.
The problem is that some people can't handle LSD or other hallucinogens and won't know until they are dead, hurt, or mentally screwed. It's this risk that makes them bad.
I'm not too familiar with what xulrunner does, but this looks like it is very close to Air. Define a desktop application with html & js, but then have lots of additional hooks to make it a desktop app, playing nice w/ the environment.
eh, I think that the economies of scale UPS/USPS/FedEx have will make it difficult for this to work for long-haul shipping; my understanding is that most of the fuel used is used getting the package from the local hub to your house, so I think taking care of the long-haul part as you describe doesn't make all that much sense.

On the other hand, whenever you get such a large megacorp involved, there are certain inefficiencies inherent to being a large megacorp... e.g. I remain price competitive with amazon, so I could be wrong.

Really, I think the food idea is great because it's filling a need that isn't being filled at all. As far as I can tell, delivery services are pretty dang good. you can get something light shipped across the country in a day or two for ten or twenty bucks. Seems like a good deal to me. Food on the other hand, other than pizza, where I am, I can't get food delivered until I'm at 'catering scale' (water.com doesn't work for just me and my employee, unless I want to pick up myself, which defeats the point)

The thing is, I'm in the heart of silicon valley. Lots of overpaid nerds who don't want to leave the house (or office) - we'd be glad to pay even taxi per-mile rates to get someone to bring us our take-out.

There are more underpaid kids around here than you'd think, people who would be happy to make food runs for less than taxi per-mile rates.

Figure out how to hook up those two groups, and you have a business model.
One question that came up when browsing thru the api doc. What are the advantages of "Charging through the platform" vs "Charging directly"?
For those as ignorant as me, here's the Wikipedia explanation of what PfSense is:

pfSense is an open source firewall/router computer software distribution
based on FreeBSD. It is installed on a computer to make a dedicated
firewall/router for a network and is noted for its reliability and offering
features often only found in expensive commercial firewalls. It can be
configured and upgraded through a web-based interface, and requires no
knowledge of the underlying FreeBSD system to manage. pfSense is commonly
deployed as a perimeter firewall, router, wireless access point, DHCP
server, DNS server, and as a VPN endpoint.

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PfSense
That's really not that interesting. I work as a research scientist at a face recognition company. If you want, you can detect faces at any angle, but sometimes for speed you will only check upright faces.
This is terrific all-around advice.

The last tidbit I would add is that if you don't get in this round, apply again. And then again. And again (don't use the same application / idea/ company each time). A single application is not going to 'make' your company. Perseverance and applied intelligence will.
96k. Think about that for a sec. Most big name games for PC are ~10GB these days... 100,000x as big as .kkrieger.
Depends on what site the link is to. If it's a site with terrible writing and/or a really obnoxious layout that I normally wouldn't read, I won't read it. I'll just try to get the gist from the comments and refrain from commenting myself.

If it's from a decent source then I'll read the article first so I can come into the conversation informed.
Looks like all the people who grew up using copied versions of the Adobe suite are finally buying it.
Untappd seems like the better of the two. I tried to use Beerby a few times and it was hell. The signup was a pain, and then the app didn't load properly.

I wish Untappd was on Android! :(
Awesome. Check back tomorrow :)

Edit: added
You have the same name as a caching middleware for Django that has since gone derelict.

This makes me sad. :(
Thanks for visiting!

No plans to put ads on it now. I'm doing this cause I love working on it.

Not to say that I wouldn't put a small ad up if it ever grew large, but in the list of priorities, making money is at the far bottom.

I have a long term goal of building a high quality community like HN (but with line breaks).
>>Excel is the tool of choice for non techies who need "database like" functionality but the word database scares the crap out of them.

In fact I use Excel only as client for MS Analysis Services.
It's my tool of choice. Not flawless, but I can't find something better.
You should see Google products. Matt Cutts did a Google SEO 101 audit and released the results once. Suffice it to say that a bunch of intelligent engineers given mostly-free reign over their development roadmaps do not necessarily converge on a consistent, competent onpage SEO strategy. (Not mentioned in the audit, but equally true: if you work at Google, you can do everything wrong and still rank fine, because your projects will have more link equity than God. Plus, if Google desires to give you more prominent billing on the Internet, there are very easy ways of making that happen.)
I just realized something:
Nim is like a faster Python or a better Go lang

It's not really competing in quite the same space as say, D or Rust. It's like a statically typed scripting language.
I'm not sure re-posting the site answers the OP's question.

This its likely the result of user generated content running on a google.com subdomain.
I'm pretty sure I saw this on one of the CSI tv shows.
> I have a hard time wrapping my head around why companies are mandating 100% return to office.

Beliefs and dogma. Amazon's justification was "Amazon is an in-office culture." That ultimately boils down to circular reasoning; the key decision maker (whoever they are) has demonstrated an immense lack of critical reasoning. Continuing this practice is in the same realm as continuing other hostile workplace traditions, although it is one of the less serious ones.

In my opinion, it is wasting a lot of money in the form of productivity. Every employee who commutes to the office has an overwhelmingly high likelihood of having some of their mental resources drained. You're wasting a good hour or two of superior employee performance in the morning, and possibly some near the end of the day when employees start dreading the journey home.

> biggest factor is creating a culture of inclusion

This is a very important point. One of the major ongoing reasons that women are passed over for promotions is that they are the traditional/dogmatic caregivers. Home-first equalizes this, much like paternal leave does. If a home is unable to afford child-care, then men have just as much responsibility and distraction during work hours.

Some people may struggle to afford commute, for example, people escaping homelessness. Being able to work from home would reduce the burden on these people.

In addition, those who cannot causally/physically complete their job offsite (doctors, construction workers, tellers, baristas) won't have roads and public transport congested with people who have no business traveling to work.

> Dedicated offices were set up as "conference rooms"

We need conference rooms as an API. I should be able to add (and be billed for) a physical room to a meeting request as easily as adding a Zoom/GMeet - for when in-person collaboration is really needed. WeWork was in the ideal position to do this, it's a pity they doubled down on big corporate clients instead of "gig economy rooms."
Harpooning a whale is a strange metaphor for selling a product to a willing and consenting customer.
> but a lot of people act like it negates the advantage of working in a safer language entirely.

I think the underlying assumption is more along the lines of: the easy cases are made easier, and the hard cases are made impossible — or rather the concern being that rust hasn’t made the problem easier, it just moved it around.

Which is often the case with claims of solving long-lasting problems
Here is an article that covers performance between Linux and FreeBSD, and it leaves BSD in the dust: https://matteocroce.medium.com/linux-and-freebsd-networking-...

Also, it specifically outlined how more rules slow down of on FreeBSD, and how poor multicore support is on pf.
Azure is lacking a lot of usability when compared to other cloud providers. But free money is enough incentive for me to try and push though some clunky interfaces. I've learned a ton with these projects and wanted to share.
Can any one explain what '...and typical assets means'? I took it to mean the value of normal things you own such as a house and cars. This seems like a massive caveat against the headline (basically anyone who owns their home), but since it's being ignored, I assume I'm wrong.
I got really excited when I saw this on the front page only to realize that this is not an official sub-HN once I read the comments.

This is a good initiative but please call it something else.
>These machines or no more dangerous than microwaves, GSM telephones

Not necessarily true. Some of these machines use x-rays, which are far more dangerous than WiFi(ISM Band 2.4GHz) and GSM(<2GHz).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ionising_radiation

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_spectrum
They have a paradigm in machine learning called over fitting.
Trying to do well on a test dataset by cheating and seeing it first...
I think teh benchmark should choose tests randomly from a large set of tests and calculate the expected performance over a number of such random runs. not allowing any one to cheat...
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Rumors Ripen Yet Again with iPhone 5S and iPhone 6
http://www.applecture.com/rumors-ripen-yet-again-with-iphone-5s-and-iphone-6-77058
The market is afresh with yet another slew of Apple rumors expecting launch this year or later. The rumors are more like assertions traced keeping the history of Apple iPhone market. It would be a real break-through if Apple could release three iPhones, to target new demographics like China. Whatever, the case Apple is sure to surprise us by a storm, with its string of innovative, highly functional yet affordable iPhones...