skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's worth noting that most Australian mortgages use variable (i.e., non-fixed) interest rates, so when rates go up, everyone's payment increases. High interest rates in the US are beneficial to mortgage holders because most people use fixed-rate loans which means as inflation increases, your monthly payment decreases in real value.
I agree. I particularly like Go's web ecosystem. A web server is just a function, and that function is often a composition of other functions (for example, a tree of router functions and then a handler for each route). By contrast, it seems like Flask goes to great lengths to obscure such a simple concept (decorators for routes, global variables for state and resource management, etc).
My processes always log to stdout. stdout + supervisor + rsyslog = fun and profit.

You can also log directly to rsyslog with python logger.
It's hard. I used to answer regularly, but it's draining to have to sort through a flood of bad questions. Rather than turning into a jerk, I just gave up answering. I feel like the cross-section of people with lots of domain knowledge and people who have the personality to let them gracefully triage questions for extended periods is tiny.
This also works fine with the SVT app on Apple TV in the UK.

The Swedish subtitles help to glean some insight, also downloadable with YouTube-dl
"Rest easy, our beloved Gopher Mascot remains at the center of our brand"

Then why is the mascot not featured in the post even once?
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No, he is probably not implying that. We do not want our devices losing features or getting slower unnecessarily. It is arrogant of a company to assert that kind of control over users' devices. It is disrespectful to the customer and their wishes.
Yeah, one algorithm against another. One wants to make fake traffic and one wants to detect it.
Make a Deep Learning bot inserting whatever ornamentation of sentences you like. You can choose multiple styles and personalize for whatever makes you feel good. Why require one single standard from everyone? The answer that was "offensive" was just a standard dry answer like you hear at any top university everywhere; I found "(brutal) exercise is left to the reader" way more offensive.
Pyramid is great, lacks the problems (magic) you mentioned, and is now what pypi.org is built on: https://docs.pylonsproject.org/projects/pyramid/en/latest/in...

I’ve used it off and on since 2010 (as Pylons) and have been happy with it.
Well, look at comments on any submission related to CockroachDB
I only did it for a couple of years at 18 and I regret it to this day.

Curious, have you ever talked to a physical therapist? I've learned a lot of the maladies people live with are correctable, even sometimes things that seem permanent. Many running overuse injuries, for example, boil down to muscle weakness, muscle imbalance, or bad posture.
"Weebly was started in 2007 and currently powers more than 50 million entrepreneurs around the world"

https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/weebly#section-overv...
In the UK mortgages aren't fixed for the lifetime of the mortgage. Not sure about the rest of the EU. Ours are like 3/4/5 year fixed rate then revert to a bad variable rate, at which point you get a new mortgage.
I am sorry, I am not french. I thought this is some stupid American law which every Americans expect the rest of the world to know.
I know it is petty and irrational but I judge the quality of a software project by how boring it looks, where boringness is better. The more it looks like some university professor's web 0.1 hand-coded HTML project circa 1993 the better. Just look at this sexy boring website, it tells you that things are going to work perfectly with no bullshit or corporate-speak included. https://gcc.gnu.org/
I'd imagine you could exploit all kinds of humanities' worse tendencies (in this case, tribalism) and create something that is "better" in some measurements, the real challenge I think is objectively ranking different communities based on the quality of the content in question, and finding how that correlates to whatever, in this case, "tribe" is being used to make it.

IMHO, no problem ever, software related or otherwise has benefited or been solved better by way of having fewer brains involved, and the shortest path to having more brains is having more people, i.e. being more open and inclusive. It would seem to be that SO already has excellent tools to moderate quality without resorting to allowing users to treat each other in such a poor manner.
I don't think you were unclear, I think maybe GP only read the first two sentences.
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I think the point was that the people being mean don't know the gender, color, etc. of who they're being mean to.
It is standard silicon valley virtue signaling, by now we should get used to them.

In the entire blog, I still did not find what they have actually done to make it welcoming, other than shoving a CoC (pun-intended).
Why are you so obsessed with foisting costs onto the user? QA is important, engineering time is important, so put in the effort to make a good product. This pattern of updates would not be nearly so necessary if SWE's (and their managers) weren't so fucking afraid of a little elbow grease
I am 100% convinced that there are people doing this. I know an ex-Google engineer who's doing it for stock options. I think, however, that to be successful, you'd need to have some comparative advantage, e.g. one or more of the following:

1. access to a data source others don't have easy access to;

2. a reasonably deep understanding of statistics and, particularly, a deep skepticism and conservatism about any
data you look at; or

3. time to invest in looking for oddities in the market.

(3) is probably the "easiest" for a newbie, although it's not as conducive to algorithmic trading, since it requires manual research (though, if you were clever, you could probably come up with something to make this algorithmic). Here the example that comes to mind is the two guys Ledley and Mai mentioned in this chapter of the Big Short: http://www.bookcaps.com/the-big-short-chapter-summaries---ch...
What they meant back then is quite nearly irrelevant in the modern age. No group of civilians is mounting a meaningful military resistance against USG for too many reasons to enumerate (though I did enumerate some of them above). The 2nd Amendment now arguably does more harm than good on balance and needs to be reevaluated.

Maybe the closest possible thing that can be managed is some vigilante or group of vigilantes assassinating provably corrupt politicians and the elite corrupting them, and publicizing the rationale while promising further retribution absent reform. But that person(s) would be a suicidal madman and might succeed only in instilling fear in potential targets and not in swaying public understanding or opinion. A short term solution that would serve only to drive corruption further underground and/or in said politicians and elite increasing their own physical security.

As for the doomsday scenario, you have to wait long enough for reasonably decent AI and robotics, but it will happen. There's no theoretical impediment to self-sustaining 'gated' (which will eventually move in meaning towards 'militarized', proportionate to deteriorating public sentiment) microecosystems. Incentives and rational behavior will almost certainly effect this outcome for people who happen to be capital owners (above a certain minimum threshold) in that technological epoch.

On the flip side, as we know, once we reach a certain end state of technological capability via AI and robotics, the employability deficit of the vast majority of humans will catalyze a crisis the likes of which our species has probably never dealt with before.

So now you get back to UBI and other questions of reform. Will humanity fix its shit in time? I doubt it.
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Well, mixing functional and OO programming is practical, but for some esoteric problems where you want to go purely functional you might say it is cheating, this is what I meant. I guess anyone would think it would be cooler if it was self-contained.
There are no greetings either on HN (just noting).
The gopher was what initally caught my attention. Cant believe they did away of that little dude.
>> the generalist SWE pipeline

which begs the question, what are all those software engineers actually doing?
Friends and family is 100x different. It’s impossible to explain unless you are a parent.
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>global variables for current request

Not really global variables. I would analogize it to dynamic variables from Lisp, which are a feature I wish every language had. I strongly disagree it's a hack or gets in the way. Having access to the request from anywhere without explicitly passing it around is really useful.
Points are damaging, especially the way they've done them on StackOverflow. It's fine for anyone who got in on it in the early days, or cares about collecting them. But to make a better community the points need to decay (exponential decay preferably) so there isn't such a power imbalance.

This would incentivize everyone to gain points by being helpful, rather than enjoying being an 'authority'.
Not to get too cynical, but... it shows loyalty. A CEO that presided over a security breach, kept it as quiet as possible, and only cost the company $35MM. Like it or not, his job is to protect the company, not the users.

Compared to, say, Zuckerberg or Equifax's public raking over the coals.
+1 You nailed it, this mirrors my experience.
"I think it's because I was 41 when I started."

Doubftul. I was 40 when I was looking a couple years back and had a better conversion rate of application -> interview than I've had in my entire life. This is for Rails/React work. I had 15 interviews out of maybe 25 or so applications, had a few opportunities I turned down and landed perhaps the best job I ever had.

I'm beginning to look again at 42 and got 5 interviews in the first week and turned down at least at least 3x as many ops that I didn't like because I'm rather picky.

Are there companies that are pushing my resume to the side because they can glean my age by work history and graduation year? Perhaps.

What I will say though is your experience matches much of what I saw circa 2001 during the .com upheaval. I applied to 50 companies in the first month after the startup I was at blew up at, not a single interview. I was 25 at the time though. I knew many people in their 20s who gave up trying to get work.

I imagine looking for work in 2009 was a whole heckuva lot like 2001 depending on what field you were in.
I'm about to graduate high school and train become an electrician. I chose this route over college because I know I would be miserable at a normal desk job and going into the trades will allow me to work with my hands, which I enjoy doing, as well as allow me to start my own business fairly easily. Aside from the opportunity cost of putting off college and/or job experience, I don't see how I could lose much if I decide to pursue another path in the future. I'm open to advice or ideas, so let me know what you guys think.
Why...the...fuck.... does a programming language need a branding team?????
Was. Not anymore.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayre%27s_law
> there is no stigma

I think there is a stigma.

When single I remember the intense look of an interested girl, that switched off at hearing what my job was.

However, I also think that is offset by some positive bias towards looking for wrll paid professional partners.

The stigma exists. I do think it is fairly easy to avoid its effects (don't be the "undesirable" stereotype). I also think most jobs have a stigma, with negative reactions from some people.

If someone only sees you as your job, that is their problem!
Why is the world so desperate to pretend that irc doesn't exist? Why can't we just get a new irc spec with e2e in mind?

Matrix is an extremely immature project and the French gov is making an irresponsible move here to prop it up as a solution in any capacity.

It's beta software! Where are the audits? Where are the formal verifications? Not that irc has those, I don't mean to juxtapose one not-good-enough product with another, but this is reaching a point of insanity.

If you want security, use signal. If you don't trust signal, learn to trust scores of world renowned cryptographers, and use it anyways. And if you're still bored, renovate irc.

Gosh this is just crazy. It's like saying the tesla 3 will be the authorized taxi vehicle on Mars. There's so much work yet to be done, it's a million years too early to start regulating and organizing something that's not even half built.
What are they going to do when they age? These risks apply to people choosing profession even as they are in the future. No one is young forever and there is no promotion from these jobs to another job.

Cumulatively, during career, the longer you work there the more likely injuries happen to you. And the more physical work, the more catastrophic consequences (I can code with two broken legs).

All that must be factored in for young people too.
I agree feeling targeted does not necessarily mean one has been targeted, and I do think that sometimes the feeling of being targeted is the result of past experience (comparable to post-traumatic stress disorder).

Though SO usernames are often pseudonymous, they are not always anonymous. For example, some SO profiles contain photographs of the user. Mine does.

Also, sometimes I search for information about users with whom I interact. I imagine others do the same.

We both agree "being targeted" is different than "feeling targeted". A third thing that is different than both of these is "being affected".

That is, even if someone from a marginalized group is not being targeted for being a member of a marginalized group, the negative effects of perceived hostility may be larger on people from marginalized groups than on people from dominant groups. Not always, but sometimes, and this is what SO seems to be taking to heart.

A few comments have suggested one solution is to improve the climate for everyone by welcoming new users with all their inexperience rather than discouraging them by enforcing standards of contribution achieved by elite longtime users. I wholeheartedly agree.

By encouraging newbies who don't yet know much, SO stands to grow its ranks and help newbies become experienced contributors. As a former educator, I know encouraging students in the directions they are doing well is much more pedagogically effective than tearing down students when they make mistakes.

Communities like SO would improve if they not only discouraged negativity but also encouraged non-elite participation. HN is one such community that does this well and the quality of the content here speaks for itself.

EDIT: reword first sentence; change "old-hands" to "experienced contributors"; add comma in second sentence.
"The real value of Flask is that it makes you appreciate what Django does by default"

I have exactly the opposite experience: Flask is nicer than Django; SQLAlchemy is better than Django ORM. Love a bit of Flask.
An interesting number would be how many GCM/APN devices are registered in the matrix.org sygnal server.

All of the Matrix/Riot users I know use private, non-federated home servers, but still rely on the project's Sygnal server(s) for push notifications.
Totally agree. While I do think “newer coders” may very likely feel unwelcome, as an extension of the elitism issue, there’s no mechanism by which “people of color”, “women”, or “minorities” can even be identified... I fear people are subconsciously correlating these groups with “less able coders”. Obviously this correlation serves only to damage.
Because ML has insisted that it's amazing without any supporting evidence.
there seem to be a lot of variants of them, for having a fixed supply :)
> A clear nod to the linux penguin. And a secret totem to those who have been initiated. A hieroglyph for the high priests. No text necessary.

That's... looking into it quite a lot, isn't it? It seems like just a playful mascot.
> CPI does not include rent

CPI includes both rent costs for actual rentals and imputed rent for owner occupied housing. [0]

> but thats what more than half of average couples combined income is spent on.

More like a quarter. [1]

[0] https://www.bls.gov/cpi/factsheets/owners-equivalent-rent-an...

[1] https://www.bls.gov/news.release/cesan.nr0.htm
Whatever. Everyone hates new designs at first and then we get used to them. Go is cool and I think it could be a good thing that they're putting some work into making it look cool. It's good to have an awareness of your programming language among non-technical people and use branding to communicate qualities they can't pick up by actually using the language.
What the StackOverflow company fails to get is that their product is assholes and industrial level asshole production.

Every question is moderated by volunteers, who have curated every high value question there. From an askers perspective, sure you may have asked 1 slightly off-topic question, but for a reviewer, that’s the 30th off-topic question today - and SO gamifies reviewing so you are encouraged to do so.

I used to be on StackOverflow and had high enough rep to access nearly all of the moderation tools. The quantity of garbage that gets submitted daily is astounding. And when your contribution to the community of high quality content is keep quality up you get tired of saying “hey can you please add more code” for the 100th time and just hit dupe. Because if the asker isn’t trying, why should you?

Ultimately, this leads every reviewer to become an asshole, because to keep up with the quantity of rash coming in you need to be.
One thing with reputation systems which is not accounted for I feel in many websites, is that higher reputation must translate to higher responsibility. It's nothing other then the good ol' "With power comes responsibility" adagium, also known reversed as "Power always corrupts".

In my humble opinion, there should be also a system that ensures increased power is applied correctly. SO does not have this, and that's a major problem.
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Yet another reason for trimming off old jobs after some point; the primary one being nobody cares going through 3+ page long resumes.
I guess that explains why literally almost every single question and answer has been edited by a high ranking user to add a comma or change one word usually
Does Swift have a large community beyond iOS apps? Last I used it was years ago, right after it was introduced by Apple. I'm curious if it has found growth in other areas.
Housing market should cool off bit. When people buy houses, they look almost exclusively at the monthly payment which includes interest, taxes and insurance.

The FED will raise rates slowly to avoid crashing the economy
Agree, that is potentially a very good one. We have that covered so far as a hefty California mortgage.

It would be nice if there were other avenues to take on low fixed rate debt, I suppose.
It's best to say that an RBM is an undirected NN which models a probability distribution of some variables. You can sample from the distribution (which is a stochastic process). There are other NN models which use feed-forward NNs to do similarly --such as GANs and VAEs and others. The generation process is also stochastic, but the difference is that you sample a noise distribution and then feed that through the NN. In all cases the generated samples are still vectors.
You can become an independent researcher. I've discussed this approach on Hacker News before:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16726033
Handbrake for those that are CLI impaired. I've gotten great results with ffmpeg and use it often to share videos
I would be genuinely interested in seeing such a question.

That could be a problem due to the search engines giving to much credits to SO whatever the content of the post (It is astonishing to see that if you post a question or an answer it pops up on the first page of Google within 2 minutes
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For maybe 5 years, then it’ll come to hurt you when you have to re-sign at a new rate.
Ok. Assuming that number has any merit, it'd be "websites built with Weebly". If we take a page from WiX's book, divide by 10^2 to get paying customers.
> High fructose corn syrup glycemic index 100 vs normal sugar glycemic index 70

This is just plain false. Fructose has a glycemic index of 25 (1/4 that of glucose), hence HFCS-55 (55% fructose, 45% glucose) has a lower glycemic index at 58 than "normal sugar" (which is 50-50 fructose-glucose) at 65.

> The higher the glycemic index the sweeter the product tastes

Glycemic index has nothing to do with sweetness. Fructose is twice as sweet as glucose with a quarter of the glycemic index; aspartame is 200x as sweet with basically 0 GI.

Candy or chocolate made with sucrose rather than corn syrup tastes different (and I would agree, better), but don't delude yourself that it is in any way better for your health.
Yeah I think you're totally right. The Author seems to be drawing a conclusion based on what is highly visible, but Matrix.org is both federated (what I think Thompson means by 'open') and supports e2e encryption. There's no technical limitation in e2e encryption patterns or federated messaging patterns that keeps them from being combined and used. Only that the default apps on iOS and Android are exclusively e2e or federated, but not both.
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I host my mails and to my surprise, gmail has been one provider which hasn't caused me any trouble so far in 2 years, with Yahoo.
I have proper configuration for dkim, SPF and dmarc. Even when my mails were somewhat misconfigured it worked with gmail.
When a recipient has a gmail or a Yahoo address, I am quite confident that my mails will make it into their inbox correctly.

Not that I'm glad that most people I email with use gmail, since I'm precisely hosting my mails to escape Google (well, this is one of the reasons).

I cannot say that for Microsoft.
After a long discussion with them, I think I'm not systematically landing in my recipients' spam folder anymore, but I'm still not very confident.
Microsoft, please fix your filters! If I already exchanged with somebody in a two-way direction several times, my mails should not land in their spam folder anymore, especially if they explicitly marked me as not spam (even more if they added me to their contact list), and if you observed only legitimate mails for months or even years from my IP/domain, my mails should not be treated as spam by default even for new recipients, right?
Good and reasonable filters are important for internet neutrality, where small providers can exist.
"Alright, I am a white male. I started programming when I was 10, winning programming competitions as a kid, after years of hard work, sleepless nights and study, heavily postponed pleasure and significant relationships, watched with disbelief what other teenagers do instead of working on their future, I am now suddenly privileged and biased, because I try to answer Stack Overflow/Reddit/etc. questions straight to the point, and somebody instead expects that I will provide them with complete answers including encouragement for free, instead of them working hard on acquiring the necessary skills. Then I get blamed that somebody felt bad about themselves, and suddenly I am the problem."

Now why would anyone with this profile want to contribute to Stack Overflow ever again? What's the point? They should just shut up, keep their knowledge to themselves and instead offer $2000/month training courses to those "less privileged". Instead of getting beaten for their generosity and wasting time answering badly formulated questions.

Specifically the solutions talked about will bring massive toxicity to the platform.