skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ditto. I've been in IT since 1998 and attended a smallish college in VA. Done fine all these years. I don't need the feather in my cap from working for large companies like some feel the need to pursue. I worked for Microsoft for a short time and wondered why I even took the job. It was among the worst of my tech jobs. The people were stuck up, they were on the verge of losing out on the mobile race (while still pushing Windows Mobile). Never again. I work for a non-profit and am quite happy to, as you say, have more control, less hours, but far more sanity.
Why should we pay more credence to the anecdotal “people you know” instead of the reported sales volumes?
or alternately, treat the documentation as code and don't accept code changes which are not properly documented..
I could see a system similar to this working into a temp "shadowban" system, where, if a poster starts spamming up a forum or comments section, said banned users' posts can't be seen by anyone else but the poster, and all discussion threads created after the "ban" by said poster are discarded, _but_ still show up as if they were successfully posted.

This could help clean up a lot of "OH ME TOO LOL" or "first post" posters if they're trying to get around those filters, without the user realizing he's been banned and start retaliating.

A bit of a "12 year old" filter, if you will. :-)
Not gonna mince words. The hashtag syntax is hot garbage. If you need this kind of functionality just use a super set language like TypeScript. It looks and behaves exactly like you would expect.
+1 for i3. Tiling window managers dramatically increased my productivity. No more “where did that window go?” headache.
They hit an iceberg going pretty fast and no one knows why they were going so fast.

I think you’re glossing over the idea that the burning coals were thrown into the furnace which in turn revved up the engine which caused the Titanic to speed through the Atlantic and right into an iceberg.
That's almost certainly true, but interestingly, the list of elite schools does get shuffled up a bit at the grad level. Few undergrads would consider UCSD more of a prize than any Ivy, but as a graduate research program, it would be considered very elite. Berkeley arguably has more top 5 PhD programs than any other university, but again, when two high school students bump into each other in the hallway, whip out a ruler, and measure admissions packages, Harvard is definitely a longer and thicker acceptance letter than Berkeley.

I do remember an interesting flurry or articles from a study a couple of years ago suggesting it doesn't matter much where you go to college provided you major in STEM. From my limited observations and experience, I'd say that's true - I doubt a strong CS major from UCSD experiences any real disadvantage vis-a-vis more selective ivies, but an international relations major from Yale definitely has a leg up on securing those prestigious early career internships and positions.
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Works great for a year or two ;-)

Never refactoring your interfaces means that you can never improve the design as you gain new information. It means you can never change to something more appropriate if the underlying use cases change. It means that you can't easily consolidate common functionality in a different place as new similar interfaces are constructed. In other words, you are locking yourself in to a brittle system that will degrade into a mess of spaghetti that nobody can understand.

There are, of course, also downsides to refactoring. No simplistic rule of thumb will tell you your best approach.
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Eventually you'll need to fine tune the program according to your needs. Becoming A Supple Leopard is basically the encyclopedia for mobility programs/exercises: https://www.amazon.com/Becoming-Supple-Leopard-2nd-Performan...
> There's no reason to change bank unless there's some substantial incentive

Or you bank at Wells Fargo or some other institution whose corrupt practices spill out into public.
It matters especially if you're not from the US.
You could've gone to the best university in your country, but if it's not a top institution in the US or a handful of others (ETH and a few more in top positions according to Qs Rankings) I feel like most big names in tech won't even look at your resume.

Anedoctal example, but I graduated with a decent mark from the top CS department in my country (106/110) as an UG, I couldn't even apply for a masters in top universities in the UK (let alone US) since their requirements are skewed towards not accepting people from my country (if you came from the UK you needed a 2:1, which if I remember correctly is around 70%, if you came from my country you needed 109/110, which is over 99%. Scores for other EU countries like Spain and France were converted to their 70%). This led me to going into a masters in my country, which will most likely hinder me from getting a PhD in any top institution in the EU just because of the country I was born in, even though some of the professors in my current masters degree course are top researchers in their fields.
So yes, I feel like where you go to school earlier in life greatly influences where you will end up in the future; and even more so, where you were born influences your chances of making it anywhere in life.
This is not to say that I am some unrecognised genius, I feel like I am a "median" CS student with a poor math background to booth; but at the same time I absolutely feel like a lot of talent will go unrecognised and won't have the same chances in life others have just because they happened to be born in a country rather than another (even more so after having studied in the UK for a year and having met people who went on to work for top companies when they clearly were subpar compared to people studying in my own country)
Why would anyone pay significantly more than appraising price?
Ask HN: How reliable is aws kinesis firehose?
Meaning, if I send it 1e9 unique records, one at a time, what are the chances that I'll lose one of those records?
I assume that person believes that, as former general counsel of a major telecom company and then head of the FCC, if there were wrongdoing, Pai would have been aware of it, if not involved. Do you think that's an unreasonable assumption? Even if it happened without his knowledge, he's the leader so it's ultimately his responsibility.

In the best case, we could say he was negligent in assessing the validity of the comments that were submitted to his agency. After all, subsequent investigations have been able to determine the comments were fraudulent, so why didn't he?

If he knew they were fake and just ignored that fact because they supported what he wanted to do anyway, that's another thing. If he was being compensated in some backdoor way from the industry for ignoring that the comments were fake, that's yet another thing. These are things that should be investigated.
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I hate to break it to ya, but...
Why would the standard be to calculate a number that has no use and isn’t rooted in reality? If the rate is 3% annually and paid out daily, the the daily rate is the number that compounded yields 3% annually....
What does paying have to do with it?
A paid service can have a bad control, and a free service can have good control. It's the quality of the system that matters.
That just looks earth-shatteringly non-portable; it cannot possibly exist anywhere but .NET.
Yeah only 200 square miles
Might just put a cap. I have a 5% account which sounds awesome, but it’s caped at 8000$ and then goes to zero.
Europe doesn't have credit cards, it's all debit cards. And I see a US system much more advantageous than in Europe. In many European countries cards aren't as widely accepted as in US.
Although content is king, there is a lot to be said for pushing the envelope when it comes to design. With CSS Grid and other delights of HTML5 I think that anyone wanting to write true 'evergreen' content needs to consider document structure more, so article, aside, figure, nav and all of these other tags get used.

I am currently working on a project with high resolution images and a 'deep zoom' OpenSeaDragon viewer for these images. Why would I want to limit myself to a platform or a CMS that does not allow this advanced presentation?

I just tried a Chrome Lighthouse audit on a typical Medium post:

https://medium.com/dialogue-and-discourse/the-titanic-was-on...

And the time to interactive given was 19 seconds for mobile. That is a bit silly.

Evergreen content should not be dependent on another platform, it should rank well if the document structure is really good, plus if the content is actually there and people read it. I see no evidence of well crafted HTML5 documents trouncing clickbait blog content on Google but I don't think it has been tried, everything is a 'sea of divs and class tags' and not putting document structure first. However, if I was wanting to write something that still was relevant in 2028 then I would have to consider how the web would be crafted then and it won't be a 'sea of divs'.

it depends also on whether comments matter, we all know from HN that the comments are here and not there when it comes to useful articles, even if they are on a prestigious site. For an evergreen article do you necessarily need discussion and comments? If people are just learning how to take something apart and fix it then they are just needing to takeaway that knowledge, not go writing about it. If writing about some aspect of Brexit then that would be something you might want comments about.

Really you need others to be writing about your content, with link to the original article, not having them rip it off verbatim. But people that copy aren't necessarily going to rank as well if they are not using screen reader HTML5 and, if you do have something like a deep zoom tool to tell the story then they cannot rip off the content for that very easily. Most writers though are quite okay with stock Wordpress or other CMS and some lightly modified them from somewhere. Actually that is too much effort and hence the success of Medium et al.
Do you work more than or less than 25x at your day job?
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What are some job interview questions that can be used to reject candidates regardless of how they answer? (Double Bind.)
Don't kid yourself. I know places in Europe where they charge you extra for the AC remote control. I wish I was joking.
So we're advocating for the death penalty for fake comments? Doesn't that sound a little excessive for fake comments on the internets?
Thanks for the reply, that was my rough impression from eyeballing it but the article certainly talks quite optimistically and I'm not at all an expert.

>The biggest change I saw was they floated the possibility of actually traveling this way- e.g. London to New Mexico or somewhere

Yeah, that definitely seems like a wild thing thrown out, particularly given research like the X-59 QueSST NASA is doing [1]. I can't see them possibly competing successfully with an air breathing supersonic aircraft capable of legal overland flight in terrestrial transport, so there's a squeeze from the bottom. And even from a joyride and "I've gone to space!" angle it doesn't feel that compelling vs actually going into orbit for a similar price (or less!). So it seems like a dead end, albeit a cool one, but also a significant amount of money just for that given the context of the times.

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1: https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/lowboom/index.html
The "memory" of the ant colony doesn't persist when all ants are removed, either. You can't have memory without having some substrate.
I don't own a Tesla. But, I'm certainly a potential buyer. And I'm worried about a lot of things.

There have been a number of complaints from the Tesla-owning Interwebs about various process failures: leasing, repairs, maintenance, inventory, etc. Marco Arment has a few good tweets about Tesla along with a bunch of similar stories from other Tesla owners hanging off those tweets.

I like Elon a lot, but I'm not confident at his ability to be an effective CEO for Tesla at this phase of their existence. Now that the company has broke through and changed the world, they need someone who can effectively lead the company through more boring stuff, like business process and effective customer care. I feel like Elon is more an ideas guy, and not the guy to be leading Tesla post-breakthrough. I feel like the boring stuff bores him.

1. https://twitter.com/marcoarment
It's a bad idea to post content of lasting value on HN.
You can't edit or delete old posts, for example.
I've been suspicious that MTA has being keeping the speeds down as a cost savings means to reduce energy consumption. Same with "Sandy repairs" causing service reductions that they won't compensate for on parallel lines.

Their other favorite BS excuse it that delays are caused by people holding doors open. But that doesn't hold water either when uncrowded trains still have the doors malfunction and reopen multiple times.

Pre-Byford management seems to have been controlling their burn rate with these shenanigans. Otherwise the system should be able to handle 1948 ridership levels.
I've seen very few people outside of TC39 express a need for "truly private" fields in JS, and I've seen ever fewer offer positive comments about the syntax. On the other hand, I've seen a good amount of bellyaching about it. I think cramming a fairly unpopular proposal (the #) into a genuinely popular one (class fields) and calling it a day is going to make some folks pretty unhappy.

...at any rate, I was unimpressed with the sigil when I first saw it, and that hasn't changed. I've resigned myself to throwing it in the bin of JS features that I won't be using, like `with`, `eval` and `==`.
Alex Honnold the famous free climber spoke highly of it in a recent interview when talking about where he bought his house. Apparently it's a good area for outdoorsy stuff, lots of wild things within reach, cooler at high elevations, while still having a city center.
The way to combat that IMO is to continue to innovate the language improving both the language and the context it runs in (tooling, ecosystem, etc) making it easier to use, more robust, minimize the costs/benefits of changing, etc. Having a great working functional language with access to a large ecosystem and decent tooling makes adoption easier and less risky. There's more to a language choice than features; it has to work for the dev's, the organization and it has to scale to the "good but not passionate" developer.
It likely is nonsense, given that its symbols' frequencies don't match up with other natural (or constructed, for that matter) language word distributions. Either the manuscript is encrypted and salted, or it's a big fat phony.
I worked at a well-known Texas college for a few years in the IT department. I can tell you first hand they overcharge. Tenured professors are largely lazy. They are paid enormous sums of money for as little as 4 hours' work daily. The adjuncts work their tails off and while they are making 75k+, the whole thing is a sham. Let's not talk about incoming students with credits from other institutions who are like 4 credit hours short and they make them take a full year or more (because they can), and charge out the wazoo and think you should be grateful.
Working for this college let me know one thing: those who can't, teach. More than once I had to step in and assist the CS professors with basic things they should have known. Tenured professors whose CV read like they must have been there at the epoch and worked with Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson.
This is the first time a space flight from U.S. takes humans to space after the Space Shuttles were retired.
> Their whole business is to encourage folks that should not be day trading to day trade

Trading for most people used to be deliberately obtuse. $7.5 commission per trade is criminal for most people, so is charging $50 a month to get a weekly email with basic technical analysis, but that's literally been the bread and butter of retail investing for decades and no one bats an eye to how deliberately ridiculous it all is.

Robinhood drops all the barriers from buying stocks, gives you a warning before they even let you touch options, and they are the evil here? This is like saying venmo is dumb because it lets people wipe out their checking account quicker than writing a check; don't blame the company for idiotic users. Robinhood doesn't even let you day trade more than 4x in a given week unless you have 25k in your trading account, just like every brokerage.
> The Color of Magic - Terry Pratchett (Kinda interesting, but rather odd)

This is the first book on Pratchett's Discworld. It definitely has a different tone than his later works. If you've not totally annoyed by it, or if you'd like to read fantasy which strongly mirrors our world, with a dry and playful humour, I'd recommend reading some later ones. They are quite independent of one another, so that you don't have to read them in order (although there's several sets with the same protagonists).

Personally, I'd always recommend Going Postal, maybe Night Watch (a bit of back story could help but is not necessary), or Monstrous Regiment.
If you are trying to evangelize for functional programming this is the wrong way to do it. “OO people” is not a thing. I can code in both functional and OO style and choose the one that best suits the scenario. Segregating into an us vs them or right vs wrong comes off as a bit smug and holier than thou. I’m sure that wasn’t your intent but just sayin.
Well it's not going to be square feet, unless they splatter when they land.
How is this news? This has been known for like, 18 months now.
I always tip 20% for anything better than terrible service. Because I won't be arsed with evaluating whether my server was "good" or "great" or "truly outstanding" or whatever. It's table service. I shouldn't have to think about it at all.

I would rather tip 20% than use mental bandwidth for that nonsense.
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I should mention that we have made Arch Linux packages for all this stuff: trinnity-git and trinnity-optimizer-git

(you can just git clone the compiler and the demos to get started).

We'd love people to start using and breaking this stuff so we can find the pain points and improve things!
Hedonism is respectable enough that textbooks in ethics keep presenting it. The other ethical approaches kick it in the shins pretty hard, but no one seems to have a decisive refutation. Ethicists from other traditions just think hedonists are punks.
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I'm curious how they can even get away with calling it a checking and savings account.
In case you aren't joking, it isn't at all. A highly functional bureaucracy allows a state to leverage scale in a way that less sophisticated governments just can't do. Infrastructure, military, R&D, and trade are all things that are hugely dependent upon a functioning bureaucratic state and crumble in the face of a non-functioning state.
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Its more about hosting on a domain you control, with full backups of all content. This way, you always have the option of moving away from a provider.
The answer is...it depends.

Ownership of 0.5% equity sounds like "Advisory" shares or "Scientific Advisory Board" which is common for non-full-time participants. However, your stake should be fair in the context of the entire company.

Firstly - You said the company is based on your research, do you mean market research or actual scientific research? Is the scientific research published or secret? If secret research, would the company end up owning your research or would you own it and license it to the company? If the company is based on actual scientific research that you did and you own (e.g., cure for disease, new way to make transistors, etc), you should be getting a lot more, probably in the form of a license fee based on the startup selling their embodiment of your research. If you are literally handing over non-published original research or trade secrets you should be getting a lot more.

Next, 0.5% might be fair, but only if everyone else is getting a fair deal. Your other co-founders -- are they working full-time on the startup? If not, they should not get a lion's share of the equity. If they are, then they should get a large share of the equity. Regardless, everyone should be on a vesting schedule (perhaps 4yrs?) so they dont just outright own a large chunk of equity but rather earn it by working full-time on the startup. As soon as others go non-full-time, they should fall back to just whatever equity vested. This ensures that your co-founders who have large ownership dont walk away (like you) 3mo later, except with an un-earned conveniently large ownership.

Some of this is also dependent on money put into the business. Did you and/or your co-founders invest money into the startup or is it just sweat equity/research? If you invested cash into the business, you deserve more than 0.5%.

Finally, the whole bit of many students working on this for 40+hrs a week seems questionable -- are they being compensated for the work? Who actually owns the work, them, the University, or the startup? Is there an agreement that lays out the ownership and consideration for work? As an investor, i'd stay far away from this company because if it gets popular/large/valuable enough to warrant legal action, I can see either the [slave] students or the University claiming partial ownership over the company's assets. If all this is verbal only, my gut tells me the "startup" is doomed for failure...or...someone is going to get a raw deal. With these things, a shrewed co-founder often claims the business is shutting down and then secretly forms another business with the work/assets/research and get a fresh start and cleans house of any legacy. I'd go with a real startup that lays out ownership, compensation, rights, licenses, etc.
My dad was a aeronautical engineer and my father-in-law is an electrical engineer. I would say their work was not really like my wife's (when she was a scientist).

The scientists in my life have seemed more like chefs coming up with the recipes and the engineers more like line cooks making the operation of the restaurant actually happen. That's probably a really terrible analogy.

I don't mean at all to say that the engineers don't understand the science (I have no idea! and it probably varies from eng to eng), but the actual work I hear or heard them talk about over the course of decades seems very different, whereby "scientist with thumbs" doesn't really seem accurate.

Although maybe that is more true now than in the past? For the last 10 years or so, my f-i-l's main complaint is that newly graduated engineers only understand theory and models and have zero practical experience coming out of a degree program. Though, he ... let's just say, he exaggerates a lot, so I don't know how accurate that is.

My engineer-for-45-years father seems very little like a scientist.
By “Tesla Doubters” do you only mean people who don’t believe it’s a viable auto manufacturer? It seems pretty clear that it’s a viable auto manufacturer -- as in it manufactures and sells a significant number of vehicles. But I think many reasonable people have serious doubts/concerns about some of the issues with the vehicles themselves and leadership and future of the company.
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