skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How many updates did you ship per month?

Web dev tends to optimize for ability to change/improve quickly (for good and bad). Resource use on the computer typically not prioritized.
It's because of this:

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

Some things (like labor) simply do not react well to a decrease in price. And if your money supply isn't increasing, those will see some years of price increases and others of price decreases.
I don't think hk__2 was promoting Google.
The UK government has won the last three elections on a backdrop of "we're going to cut spending still further to try and balance the budget" and voters supported that.

What they promised and what they delivered were two different things.
>I've been hearing this at $500, $1000, $2000, $4000, $5000, and now $6400.

If BTC was the stock market, then it has crashed at one of those numbers. It gradually went from $1000 down to about $200. If the stock market did that, everyone would be in a panic.
Part of the reason why I personally was so upset by the talk was that it felt as if there was no room for discussion or debate on the points raised. In addition there was what felt like a lot of sniping towards features of statically typed languages that felt designed just to get a reaction from the crowd. The fact that there was an entire slide designated to tearing down a series of videos by SPJ felt not only irrelevant, but also disrespectful. There seemed to be a lack of willingness to meet halfway and concede there was anything useful from the other side.

Perhaps most frustratingly, I know that RH is capable of much better, much more informative presentations. There might have been something worthwhile in here, but the tone, style, and majority of the content didn't make it worth digging out in my opinion.

Regarding Haskellers' attitudes, I'll add that I haven't seen anything like what you describe at least on the Haskell subreddit. It could be happening in other forums but by and large it's been a welcoming community even to those that come in skeptical.
The only real reason I haven't switched is because they won't give me control of my phone. At least with Android I can root it, install custom roms, and mess with pretty much any non-google software that I have on there.

Android is far from perfect, and I still hate it, but at least I can still control most of it.
No, because it’s far too valuable to them. If they sold it it wouldn’t be valuable for long.

They do it ‘the other way’. You say “I want to buy some eyeballs like X” and they sell you access to the eyeballs.

But they don’t give you the person’s information.
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Have you tried an H2 blocker, such as famotidine?
In the end this is just a different spin on the essential premise that cutting the social safety net is using the threat of destitution to change behavior, and it seems plain that these kinds of changes hardly just affect people who are currently unemployed.
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I have been trying to add my bank account and haven't been successful in last 2 weeks. Now I am thinking I will just close my account and move to some place else.
That figure sounds outrageous. I had to check for myself.

According to an IEEE article[0], bitcoin's power usage is at around 1 Gigawatt. In 2012, Wikipedia[1] tells me that the global electricity usage was around 20,000 Terawatt hours, which makes an average power of around 2,000 Gigawatts. We can assume this has increased somewhat since then - the growth rates suggest annual consumption would be a few thousand Terawatt hours greater by now.

So the 2012 figures give us around 0.05% of electricity consumption being used by bitcoin. While this runs a little shy of your figure, and current values may be somewhat lower still, I'm really surprised at just how power intensive the whole endeavour is.

[0] https://spectrum.ieee.org/energy/policy/the-ridiculous-amoun...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_energy_consumption
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I want to post an apology. A few months ago our recruiting process was going well enough that we had a comment in our HN post from a candidate we'd passed on who was happy enough with the experience that they recommended us in the thread [1]. Last month, however we had the exact opposite experience. Two candidates commented about investing significant effort in the process, only to be ghosted [2].

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[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15384536
FWIW, one of my GI doctors recommended trying alternatives to PPI's, while the other was highly skeptical of these data mining studies and recommended staying the course unless a causal link is established.
Multiple choice question!

For its launch capability, the US government should:

- buy on the open market at the lowest available price. Currently this turns out to be Russia.

- buy on the US market at the lowest available price. This may be SpaceX although other contenders are mentioned in the article

- build its own rocket systems from scratch inside government agencies

- just pay Boeing/Lockheed like they've always done

- just give up on space

(basically, if you think Musk funnels a lot of money from the US government, you should check out the rest of the aerospace industry...)
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> There are things I am 100% confident I know, because I've done it thousands of times.

If you've done thousands of job interviews (for example), does that make you an expert at job interviews? Or a terrible candidate?

Now: how many people who pass every job interview immediately subsequently write an article about questions to ask at a job interview?
> but feel it is silly to have to develop an alternative set of skills in order to signal that they are a good hire

The problem isn't that they have to develop a set of skills that combined with their true skills gives the interviewer a glimpse into their abilities.

It's that it's an entirely different set of skills entirely. We might as well be asking people to learn woodworking in order to showcase their software skills. The ability to sound knowledgeable and make someone like you in 50 minutes is pretty orthogonal to writing good code as a member of a team.
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The Chapel project (chapel-lang.org) has an open position to manage the team and evangelize the language:

https://rn12.ultipro.com/CRA1002/JobBoard/JobDetails.aspx?__...
Yeah, that'll do it!

C extensions are a core part of Ruby. A big chunk of the std lib is implemented in C. You shouldn't be afraid of writing a tiny bit of C. Ruby and Python are scripting languages. They're literally designed for scripting another language.

The JIT for Ruby 3 is well underway, so in a bit it'll be a complete non-issue anyway.
>There's something more fundamental there that's causing problems

Exterior interests in the natural resources of Africa and interior factions willing to undertake any inhumanity if it means personal enrichment, which suits those exterior interests just fine.
Recent discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14174427
> You can’t do that. It’s China. It’s one of the largest markets on Earth and Apple is a public company. Cook would immediately be fired by the board. They’d put someone new in, and that someone new would comply with China’s demand.

Somehow, that didn't happen when Google effectively withdrew from China.
The cynic in me believes that sort of scheme is SOP in the US. Here are CA lawmakers back in 2003 weighing the benefits of prolonging the budget crisis for leverage to push through tax increases: http://articles.latimes.com/2003/jul/22/local/me-budget22
Just to cast the exact same finding in a different way, this appears to raise the incidence rate of stomach cancer from 0.8% to 1.6%.
I've had to make my peace with just having to hit a store on the other side of the trip. Fortunately, baking soda is cheap enough that you don't have to mind throwing it away.

You could also conceivably make your own pills, which at least in my experience nobody will question: https://www.amazon.com/Cap-M-Quik-Tamper-Capsule-Filling-Mac... (I don't make my own pills, but I've carried around a variety of pills that look like they were made that way.) But for baking soda that's probably a little elaborate, plus I don't know what happens if you take baking soda that way rather than in water.
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Aren't there 4 zeroes too many in that number?
>Refuse to follow the law and withdraw from the market completely?

That's exactly what Google did:

https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/new-approach-to-chin...
I'm not OP and won't try to give a lengthy explanation, but one key element is that by controlling the amount of money available (by adding or removing some depending on the financial environment) is how the government avoids the 'boom and bust' economy of the gold standard.

There is a misconception that governments only 'print money' and push it out, creating inflation. But this isn't true. Governments also take money out of circulation to prevent the economy from overheating.
How about writing and publishing actual facts rather than hit pieces? I've seen El Reg push out several articles about non-UK things that were patently wrong -- and that their userbase ripped them for. No apology, no retraction, no update.
Keep in mind designers use lots of tools. You can't expect to sit down with a text editor, hack for a few hours, and come out with something great. You need to design first using professional tools and then build what you designed.

It took me a while but I can put together a decent site using the following tools:

- Sketch (https://www.sketchapp.com/)

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- Paletton (http://paletton.com/)

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I use Tachyons to limit the number of CSS choices I need to make. It works for 95% of styles and looks great. I only need to add custom classes or inline styles for special cases such as gradients, background images, transitions.

- Tachyons (http://tachyons.io/docs/)

When I design something the goal is to define components and re-use them. I usually steal components from existing projects.

- Shopify Polaris Components (https://polaris.shopify.com/components/get-started#navigatio...)

- Bootstrap Components (https://getbootstrap.com/)

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Website design comes from understanding what the user wants to do and selecting components that solve the problem. I usually create a new artboard in Sketch for each purpose. For example LandingPage, PricingPage, SignInPage, SignUpPage, ResetPasswordPage, ThankYouForConfirmingEmailPage, UserSettingsPage, etc.

You should create a mobile artboard, tablet artboard, and desktop artboard for each page. You can add variants for error states, etc.

I start with the mobile artboard and add components until I accomplish the purpose. I then adapt the mobile design to tablet and desktop.

If the user needs to enter information I add a Form with a Heading, a number of Inputs with Labels, and a submit Button. If the user wants to view data I need to add a Heading, a Chart or Table, etc. If there is a lot of negative space, I find an image or commission a drawing to fill the space.

If I can't decide how it should look, I search online for inspiration. Google "login forms ui" or see how successful companies solve the problem. Adapt what they do to use my existing components, space it out so it doesn't look offensive, and I'm done.
And I bet those are exactly the kinds of things you're interested in and could answer. What about people who just aren't interested in maven dependency management (seems awfully uninteresting to me)? If your process is set up to find people who think like you and are interested in the exact same things you are, your process is broken.

And just to be constructive: you have a nugget of a good idea, that a technologist should have fairly detailed knowledge in some domain of interest. Finding what those areas are and getting them to speak about it beyond a superficial level of detail might be a good hiring criteria.
100K is a huge limitation especially for building revolutionary product :)
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Damn!
And if you don't treat your acid reflux, it can cause "esophageal cancer".
What are the alternatives people are using instead of kafka in these situations. Low volume but high reliability.
> all the shortcuts

You are clearly not an Emacs user.
I see that you still can't drag and drop an image on the new desktop app. It's not a huge issue but it's quite an inconvenience.
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I would argue a modern Graphics pipeline is significantly more complex. But, you run into issues of what the borders of a topic is. Lighting for example is a huge topic for research, but it does not mean much on it's own.
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I work in the field of machine vision where Maja Pantic also contributes. It's deeply disturbing to hear her say that. I don't know how she treats her grad students but proposing that their pay be limited so she can keep them like serfs is infuriating and really says a lot about the professor/PhD-student relationship.
And yet what I struggle most with is identifying who, if anyone, benefits from this. Who, if anyone, controls this.

Or is it all just chaotic feedback?
For workloads that aren't as important durability wise, has anyone considered nats? https://nats.io/
At least it's not like Russia where they have almost all of mainstream government and media in favor of funding weapons operations for foreign human-rights abusing tyrants. It's not even always for foreign policy, but sometimes they even say on their national TV that killing more people is necessary because if they stop, defense jobs will be lost.

Except that's us, right here in the US. It does not matter who wins office in that sense, both parties and mainstream media cheerlead the MIC, Wall St, etc, at the expense of human dignity: https://theintercept.com/2016/09/09/wolf-blitzer-is-worried-...
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Okay, but identifying an explicit subset of a language is a totally neutral technical decision and is very often a good idea.
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In the outpatient setting it might take days or a week or more to get an appointment for a formal US, then more time for the radiologist to read it, then more time for the GP to get the results and consider treatment changes then more time to get in touch With the patient. But if I as a physician perform and interpret the ultrasound in real time I can immediately begin appropriate therapy. This is the major benefit of point-of-care US as opposed to conventional US.
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I've seen this sentiment a lot recently. What's the difference between a) "funneling" and b) using subsidies and bidding for contracts (i.e. using those things the way they're meant to be used)? Do you consider other companies equally guilty of "funneling," e.g. Lockheed, which has about 10x the revenue and an equal if not greater dependence on the US government? http://www.investopedia.com/articles/markets/102715/how-lock...
Why should a company hire people that are similar to the founders?

At an early stage, companies need very different people than later on. At first, they need generalists; once you reach a certain size, you need specialists.

The founders should be self-driven, they should have a vision, they should know about all parts of the business. Later employees should be excellent in their speciality, should have execution skills, should be able to follow someone else's vision.
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I don't doubt it in certain areas.

Still we're getting pretty derailed. I'm responding to your comment which was a speculative question.

Peak unemployment rate during the 2008 recession was 10%. So that's 3.6% of Americans renting and out of work. Many will miss payments and then resume after finding a new one. Or maybe there are two earners living there and they can cut in other areas until a new job is found.

Some will find cheaper apartments, and some will move in with family.

So, no, I don't think that'll be the spark for the next revolution.
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Actually, a US Senate committee has this to say on the topic two years later:

> The CIA attempted, directly, to foment a military coup in Chile.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_Committee
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Depends what you consider "saving". Stuffing money under your mattress is useless but if you save with a bank or in a fund that money is still being cycled back into the economy. Deflation essentially means you could stuff money under your mattress and still come out with something more valuable with none of the associated risk leaving piles of cash sitting out of the market.
Write to a replicated database?
They already did that when they went anti-GG and started taking cues from people like Brianna Wu. That was the start of the decline for them.
Is this supposed to be satire?