skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Big brains come with big social groups in whales and dolphins
IMO it vastly depends on the college.
> It's a business struggle. You're not going to hire Clojure devs. You're just not.

My company has both a) hired a number of Clojure developers, and b) a number of developers who were good programmers, so switching to Clojure was not a problem.

In general, I noticed that you either hire average programmers (in which case Clojure/ClojureScript could be a problem), or good programmers. Good programmers have no problem with Clojure, regardless whether they know it or not.

Leaving this here because people might think the above comment is universally true. It isn't.
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Beyond the superficial syntax similarities how can developing in a functional language possibly be Rails-like? Mutable OO and immutable FP are opposite ends of the spectrum. I never bought this Elixir for Rubyists sales pitch. Phoenix does't even use an ORM. That said, I really like Phoenix.

I too get a lot of Rails spam from recruiters which I find hard to fathom since Rails usage is on the decline. What's your take on this? Is it that Rails shops will only settle for senior developers?
I was wondering the same thing as I figured they already used Cincom. I know Cincom is very expensive, but surely it's negligible for JPMorgan? Maybe they feel Pharo has more momentum and have started doing some projects there to steer it where they want it to go?
Preaching abstinence has never worked. It didn't work for sex and it is not going to work for meat-eating. The right question/attitude is how can we have an abundance of meat while protecting the environment? One possible solution is lab-grown meat and if that doesn't work then we need to invent some other solution that produces abundance with minimal cost to the environment.
You are giving them too much credit. The simplest and probably correct explanation is that they weren't competent.
> Why would we do that when are bodies are specifically evolved for eating both vegetables and meat?

Our bodies specifically evolved for reproduction, but that doesn't stop us from using contraception when we have sex. Evolution also designed us to have wisdom teeth, but that doesn't stop people removing them.

Your argument assumes that natural selection has some kind of innate "wisdom", and that's just not true. Natural selection doesn't produce perfection or have any kind of intelligence behind it, it simply produces "good enough" (or, as we're on HN, the minimum viable product).
So you're probably the focus subgroup for the Power PE test haha. It seemed very focused on that area.
> Indeed found that 17% of survey respondents said the average employee age at their company is between 20 and 30 years old, while 29% of survey respondents said the average employee age is between 31 and 35. An additional 27% of respondents said the average age at their company was 36-40 years old.

> That leaves just 26% of the workplace roles for staffers over 40, Indeed found.

Seriously? This conflates "range of average ages among companies" with "range of ages of employees at companies" to a galling extent. There's no way this whole argument is a typo...how does something like this get past an editor?
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Smalltalk Express is a new Smalltalk that I am developing for web applications.
https://smalltalkexpress.quora.com/

I am working on it full time.
I somehow completely misunderstood that from the Go documentation when first reading it; thank you for clarifying that.

There must have been some other leaking going on. He was using a largish library when he saw the leak and eventual crash so maybe it was due to improper pooling or C api calls? I'll have to ask him more about it.
Ha, I was thinking the same... reading "forget cramming, it didn't work in college" just brought back very vivid and terrifying memories of my first year statistics course, where I "learned" the entire course contents in a night.

Personally I've tried spaced repetition so many times and things don't stick for me... it just feels like repeated cramming: I'm great while I'm doing the Anki, but next session it's back to square one.
To deduct a general 6% infectionrate because 1 person got infected by 1 other person is kind of not what I believe.

People's immune systems are so different... before I believe that I'd want to see every sick person kissing every healthy person or something. I don't even know how that would work with incubation times. Lock people away and just allow contact every 2 days for 3 weeks? But then all the sick people would probably be healthy again already.

My head explodes just trying to think about this kind of trial, mixed with statistics :P
For the purpose of discussion can anyone define req per min for high, medium, low traffic web sites?
In theses parts it would be incredibly difficult to find a spider that would technically be able to hurt a human (or any bigger mammal, like a cat or a dog); yet many humans (especially females) are scared shitless of spiders. I've never understood that, to me spiders are a net positive, since they eat annoying insects (like flies).

Perhaps these deeply-rooted fears stem from times were humans lived in places far more dangerous, with far more potent spiders and snakes.

(Snakes don't even exist here, but legless lizards do, and people are of course scared of them; that kind of lizard won't even attempt to bite something as big as a human, and as usual, they are useful animals to have around).
Over the short-term people adding WoM and bringing the book into line with other bookmakers is welcome, because it means the market is becoming more efficient.

At the micro level then, turnover is welcome. But as the old adage goes "turnover is vanity, profit is sanity"

At the macro level somebody has to say "how do we maximise profits or at least minimise losses?" and picking off accounts that are costing you money is an easy step to take.

The ideal client for a bookmaker is an idiot with a strong view. They don't want people who will consistently win, because it's taking up WoM for other customers who could be invited with those more generous odds and who _don't_ consistently win.
What's wrong with Javascript's module and OOP systems?
There's also an article on Ars Technica [1] about this.

The Desert Team is skeptical of the idea that they were used for trapping animals for slaughter:

> One hypothesis about the kites is that hunters herded animals into them for easy slaughter, but the Desert Team notes that the walls would have been too low to fence the animals in.

That makes sense if you are imagining that they chase the animals into the structure and then keep chasing them at full speed, so that the animals are running when they encounter the walls.

But is that how the people them would have hunted a herd? Try to chase it down at full speed?

Suppose instead that they were persistence hunters [2]. Persistence hunting takes advantage of two key differences between us and many herd animals.

• We are more effective at body cooling than they are.

• We can trot for a long time, even on a very hot day, at a speed that is too fast for the animal's efficient gaits, meaning it has to run to stay ahead.

A persistence hunter chases the animal just fast enough to make the animal run. The animal gets away, but its run is inefficient so it has to stop and rest. It also needs to cool down. The human just keeps coming, his more efficient body cooling allowing him to keep moving without overheating.

When the human gets close enough to force the animal to resume running, the animal is not fully recovered from the first round. It gets away again, but now is even more exhausted and overheated than it was the first time.

Repeat, and after a few hours of this the human can just walk right up and kill the animal, which is too tired to even try to further escape.

What it comes down to is humans are in fact one of the fastest land animals on the planet--over long distances. 100 meter race? We suck. 100 kilometer race? Bet on the human. Essentially persistence hunters make their prey engage in a long distance race with them.

This is quite effective, but it has an obvious drawback. You spend 4 or 5 hours chasing the animal away from your home. You are now several hours away from home, with a bunch of meat to carry back.

Perhaps the idea with these large fenced in areas is that you chase the herd in, but hang back far enough that when it gets to the far wall it thinks it has escaped pursuit and rests there instead of jumping. Then you circle around and come in from the back or the side, getting the herd to run across the field again, again timing it so that when it reaches another fence it stops.

Note that the fence does not have to tall enough or strong enough to stop the animals. It just has to be enough to make a tired animal that thinks it is now safe to rest decide that resting on this side is easier than resting on the other side.

You'll be giving the herd more rest time this way as opposed to with open field persistence hunting because of the extra time it takes to circle around the change direction, but that might be worth it because now you are chasing the herd back and forth instead of away. You'll have a much easier time hauling the meat back home.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/10/archaeologists-are-m...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persistence_hunting
I bet you can still probably build it and use it more easily with C++ than with C.
There's also the book from Axel T. Schreiner: https://www.cs.rit.edu/~ats/
Weight loss is 95% diet. I don't know why this is front page.
How are they planning to reuse the engine? Will they land the first stage like SpaceX? It took SpaceX a lot of attempts to get that right ...
It’s nice to see this being discussed in the main stream, but “ you can’t outrun a bad diet” is old news to the fitness crowd.
Personally I've come to find poker is the only reliable way to "beat the house". But that's because you're not beating the house, but other players - the house gets their rake.

If you play a tight-aggressive game in venues the pros avoid (anyplace with less than $2/hour comps in Vegas) you can do decently. Not get rich, but make a few hundred in an afternoon.
A Planetary Scientist: 'I Do Not Want to Live on Mars'
Intel had a massive process advantage.
Except that the stack isn't infinite. There's a statistical difference between playing off a physical deck and playing off a random number generator, and in a physical deck, the dealing of various cards increases the relative odds that the other cards will come up later in the deck. It's the statistical foundation upon which card counting works.

Imagining that the physical deck is a virtual deck does not make it so. In an RNG-populated/virtual deck, there is a small but still real chance that, for instance, 20 aces could be dealt in a row, which is why game programmers use techniques like shuffle bags to prevent that from happening. An "infinite" physical deck, that was actually "infinite", would suffer from the same problem, and would need a physical solution, which would affect the odds which the casino is legally obligated to publish and adhere to.
'So competitative'

Wow--I just don't have the energy.

The reason why I don't switch is for many reasons. 1. They make it difficult. 2. My car doesn't have a computer. 3. They make it difficult.

It comes down to the Insurance industry owns us. They pay our politicians, and we pay.

https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/top.php?indexType=i
They "didn't care to" because the Ming dynasty rulers felt that China was culturally, technologically, and economically superior to all other nations, and thought cutting China off was the best way to preserve that. Obviously, that turned out to be a total failure of a policy as China was rapidly surpassed by the West over the next several centuries and is still catching up today

I'm not sure how that provides any guidance on how a CCP-led China would handle foreign policy in a completely different era though. This whole discussion seems sort of pointless to me.
Well, this is true today at least. What are you surprised at?
Nowhere does this article mention the reason for that: The fact that exercise burns very little calories compared to, say, what's in a Snickers bar.
Ageism is not really the problem. The problem is looking for that someone that will fit into the elusive culture fit. And I see this culturism as worse than any kind of discrimination practiced in the past and now (racism, sexism, etc).

What is culture in a work place as we know it these days in the realms of startup shops?

It's stuff like:

- can you be a good drinking buddy?

- do you look young and hip?

- can you carry on a small talk and talk about stuff like favorite rock band, movies at company events? Never mind that to be a rockstar coder at your young age, you never watched a movie or went to a concert BUT instead spent all your time coding and learning how to code faster/better.

- do you have any interesting hobby like rock climbing or traveling that makes you an interesting person? Never mind that having an interesting hobby will actually damage your chance of becoming a good coder, cause it will take so much time away from coding. With so many things to learn and keep up with, how do you have the time to have an interesting hobby?

- oh also, can you give a good talk on a tech topic? like a good tech sales person? But why would you want to be a coder that will surely hit an arbitrary salary cap while working full 50+ hr a week, when a salesman will make more than coders due to sales commission (while working practically a part time job)? And don't forget about all the extras salespeople get like traveling.

- are you an extremely pleasant person to deal with? Buy why? Are you hiring a sales clerk or a coder? Can a coder be just a normal human being, not one with a forced smiles on face?

- are you all of the above so that ones you refer to the company as potential hire will be clones of yourself?

- oh and can you code?

All this in workplaces that are automating human interaction out of daily work and personal life.

And now increasingly shops that encourage/tout remote working where coworkers don't see each other in person.
that seems to be just noise, all the jobs are 'devops - work on what we think we need today'
Welcome to Seattle Oh, what, you're leaving?
> To deduct a general 6% infectionrate because 1 person got infected by 1 other person is kind of not what I believe.

Sure, I'm just saying this was not a very strong result in terms of disproving the fact that kissing doesn't spread cold viruses.
how are you going to hide your shipping address? by using reshipping services?
"abs are made in the kitchen"
Replace

> only the rich shall eat healthy

With

> only the rich shall eat fancy

It's easy to eat healthy if you're not rich. Buy non-processed ingredients and cook them yourself.
A 3% profit margin isn’t modest, it’s catastrophic. With a their heavy capital requirements and massive technology lead they should be banking 30%. 3% says please shut us down first time we have a bad year.
‘I Was Willing to Do Everything’: Mothers Defend Sons Accused of Sexual Assault
I yearn for compilers that can break backwards-compatiblity and strictly enforce best practices. This should be a achieved with a relatively simple command line flag to the compiler (instead of hunting for the right combination of dozens of -Werror=*, which then still let a lot of unclean code through)
Comparing current day consumption to a single year in the past reeks of bias.
> It is said that driving is one of the most dangerous activities we do, but I think it's no coincidence that it's also one of the most liberating

I experienced this to an amplified degree the first time I rode a motorcycle. I now commute almost everyday on a motorcycle and my commute has transformed for a soul sucking hell to one of my favorite parts of the day.
Flask Starter
Too much fructose can damage your liver, just like too much alcohol
Everyone is waiting for autonomous cars to be near-perfectly safe before accepting them.

The thing is, let's say that autonomous cars are only 0.25% safer than the average human driver. That means switching to them will reduce accidents by 0.25%. That's a significant amount considering how many traffic accidents there are.

Considering that traffic accidents result in the actual death of human beings, it is morally imperative that we require as much autonomous driving and reduce as much human driving as possible. Even the far-from-perfect autonomous cars we have now are safer than continuing to let humans drive.
You've been repeatedly violating the site guidelines by posting uncivilly, unsubstantively, using this site for political battle, and generally ruining this and other threads. We ban accounts that do that regardless of how good your cause is or how wrong someone else is. We have to, because otherwise this place will destroy itself.

I'm not going to ban you because you've used HN as intended before this recent political crisis. But it's dismaying that I had to look back through hundreds of comments to determine that.

I understand how emotional these topics can be, but would you please read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and not post like this to HN again?
Dunno. Show him your whitepapers?!
Flask Starter
Starting template that will help you understand Flask.
https://github.com/enotcode/flask-starter
No mention of Anki? I use it every day for basically everything (foreign languages, life memories, trivia, world capitals, etc.) and it's unquestionably changed my life.
Not looking at this part, the whole article makes sense. Nowadays, we all see that it's difficult for small startups to promote themselves. The privilege on major platforms is given to those who pay more(ex: Google). Even if one company gains enough traction and begins to become successful, another larger corporation buys it (in best case) or makes everything to not let it get larger market share.
Thus, "big guys" now are a barrier on our way to progress.
The "unicorn" in this statement is simple "build something people want" (to pay for)

You need to add value to others no matter what you do, that's the definition of "building"

Value is what is extracted from work.

"Buildings" are the expression of physical labor put into something OF value.

It's literally defined in our lexicon.
No you cannot. A brick is also a physical product. But it doesn't communicate. There needs to be software and technology involved, and more than one object needs to talk via a network.
> I would love to chat with anyone else applying tech/math to beat the bookies. Sorry for the throwaway, I'll put a contact in my profile.

How's that contact information coming along? :-)
I used to run with the Apple Watch for a few days to test the device. I was amazed by how little calories the body needs to run something like five kilometers. As they say in the article, it’s quite hard to outrun a bad diet – a single bar of chocolate will easily erase your “earned calories”. And what’s worse, people tend to overcompensate after physical activity, so the excercise could even get you some calories extra. (I have no trouble with weight, I am just interested in the topic.)
My beginner hubris at my first employer still makes me cringe.

Back when I thought all crappy code was due to incompetence, so good thing I'm here now.
I think there's a misunderstanding of TKs character. At least internally, whenever there was a critcism externally against Uber whether it be deleteuber or greyball our engineering team only grew more determined. The more backlash from the media it made us closer together and stronger. TK was the most inspirational after external media attack and even after Waymos lawsuit he displayed vigor and confidence that we are the righteous ones and that alphabet is going to lose this battle against us. There's a misconception that these attacks weakened our culture or confidence in our leadership. It's the opposite it was a signal that we were moving fast and changing the world, and TK was at the helm defending us.

This narrative and solidarity broke down soley due to Susan Folwer. I really want to emphasize this point. Her blog post is the only piece of controversy that really made ourselves question whether we were doing the right thing. The only time we saw our great leader unable to justify our hypergrowth and the only time I personally saw him break out in tears, was the all hands discussing Susan Fowler's blog post.

So again please don't discredit Susan Folwer's blog post.
I would love you to look at my profile to get your opinion on whether I have any red flags, is there a way I can contact you? Just a quick glance would be great.
We'll even out at about 10bil. Then this won't be a problem.
The end your argument leads to suicide. Let's do what's needed not what to utmost but useless.
Because the wisdom of that selection isn't so wise, now that there are almost 8 billion of us. Natural selection is dictated by conditions; conditions change. There is nothing permanent about it. And existing population of the target species (humans in this case) is itself one of the conditions.

Also it's probably a mistake to attribute something like wisdom to what is essentially a statistical crap-shoot. The great temptation of religion is of course the idea that there is an Intelligence at work. But just to pick a silly example, does the dodo bird or the passenger pigeon think it was "wise" and "intelligent" for the forces of nature to select for meat-eating humans? Dodo philosophers and theologians in the last days - did they question why God would unleash such a fury on them?

Anyway I can tell you human ones will. Natural selection will most likely start killing off humans as soon as our technology can't keep up with all our baby-birthin'. It will manifest in forms you're already seeing in today's headlines. Voluntarily consuming less is an attempt to deal with it before the wisdom of natural selection deals with it.
"Easy" means that you have been educated to a state that makes you aware of such...

That's the problem.

We need to educate on a basic standard pantry that allows healthy to be so easy that it doesn't even cross our minds.
In my experience regular exercise makes it much easier to eat properly. For some reason, if I'm exercising regularly a plate of fries is revolting.
The major benefit is that it's possible to synthesize methane from carbon dioxide and hydrogen. Which is way easier let's say on Mars, than obtaining kerosene.

See:

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

http://www.co2club.it/agenda/abstracts/19_Barbarossa.pdf
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It's where we are now though. We're adapted to it.
Huntin' Fishin' and Lovin' Every Day-Luke Bryan (Acoustic Cover by Sean Ferree)
I've released software with minor bugs that we didn't have time to fix, but that really takes the cake.
Oh crap, you summed up my long-ass comment in 4 words!

"I've been disrupted by a leaner competitor!"
The title will be handed out as a perk when you've been with the company for a relatively long period (on the order of a couple years), or to add and ego bump to the salary bump of an offer at a new gig.

In our field, it's a near meaningless title modifier.
These are all true things about any language on earth, except perhaps the evolving part.
The worst example was as follows. I've been a 3D engine programmer for >15 years. I was a senior engine programmer at EA, and shipped very famous things. Recently I was interviewed by two recent college grads, who asked me to summarize the rendering pipeline. I did so. Their feedback was that I "failed to demonstrate expertise."