skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Once I got two developers to use their software on the live system. As a result, they fixed a few bugs which didn't appear on the dev systems as those were being run with much smaller data sets.

When normal users had to wait 20 seconds for a page, they didn't like it, but it was completely possible that the system just was that slow. But when the developers had to wait 20 seconds they used the time to look up what took so long and found minor bugs which caused the slowdown and fixed them right away.

As a result, the developers asked to be given more opportunities to work with the live system.
Another way of seeing it is that "most people" intentionally drive at a higher speed than the limit is.
super cool! are yall hiring materials scientists? :)
In a couple years there will be no need for transmissions anymore...
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> I drive a 392 challenger scat pack shaker... I don't think I've ever had it over 100

I don't see the point of a vehicle like this unless you drag race it on a regular basis. It has limited utility, is larger than an Abrams tank, guzzles fuel like it's 1998 and couldn't make it around a slalom cone course even with a skilled driver. It's a make a lot of noise and go really fast in a straight line car. That's what it does (nothing wrong with that).
If one is in a situation on a typical road where accelerating beyond 112MPH is going to cause death, I'm not completely sure that limiting to 112 is the real issue.
I used to take a similar view on the war on drugs- now it's more nuanced given my immersion into the problem. It's hard to say wasting countless lives and millions of dollars to combat organizations illegaly smuggling harmless product (marijuana) into the states is hardly worth the mess left behind. Take a step back and it's easier to justify when the income of that product is going to large criminal organizations that also create problems such as the meth epidemic in california or the opioid crisis across the country. And to facilitate the delivery of these criminalized products, criminal organization have no hesitation of delivering those packs covered in the blood of poorest class of people in the hemisphere (the consumers are dying too, but from consumption, another problem entirely). Lots of people against the war on drugs will say "yeah but if it was decriminalized..." A lot of things would be different if it was decriminalized, but good luck selling that pipe dream to the traditional base of america that has a strong influence across the nation. Not happening anytime soon. In my opinion everything sucks here and I haven't heard a viable solution yet to this very complicated issue

Edit: I do want to say that decriminalization is probably the most hopeful option of them all, I just think it's going to take forever, generations probably. This is really a public health issue in my opinion, it's just not treated as one :/
MA was receiving large amounts of federal funding for its healthcare. e.g. 385 million per year for uninsured patients
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusetts_health_care_refo...
Eh, while that's theoretically true, nobody's gonna invest the kind of resources you're talking about to catch someone accused of e.g. petty larceny.

Though I get your point is more about crimes that would, well, be worth trying to disappear over, still worth pointing out that you can effectively "disappear" across state/country lines depending on the severity of your crime.
There's a lot to learn about this craft, and people have to prioritize - knowing algorithms & data structures is more immediately useful compared to, say, knowing what scratchpad memory is. If I spent my time learning every detail about every system underpinning every abstraction, I would literally be 70 years old by the time I started writing code.

> Besides, if you don't find this interesting why become a programmer in the first place

Who is saying it's not interesting? We're arguing that it's not fundamentally vital knowledge to know the difference in RAS & CAS latency for SDRAM for most programmers.
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> After construction wraps, with 18 remaining years of tax abatement, there will be a $270,000 tax shortfall for every full-time position created.

Maybe add a $270k tax to each of those employees to break even? /s
This approach works so well that I installed a CallBlocker app which just pre-rejects any calls from my native area code out of hand. I check its logs every now and then, so far not a single false positive.
You should get acquainted with 'What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic' after which similar articles are named.

I'd bet you would suggest to rename it too.
Looks very good. I have been using some CLI like https://github.com/esphen/wsta/ but definetely a GUI like this is better.

This is why I also hate socket.io, it's not a raw socket to just simply connect and start sending raw payload.
Many studies show that's not really true, it takes you longer to read and process the number than an analog dial. You don't notice the time it takes though.
This is what people says when they have a dataset of 100 entries(<100mb) on their developpment laptop.
How funny they look when production guys show them how their lame piece of code doesn't scale up with billion of entries in the production platform...But they dont care cause they are developpers, (or so called). Until the production guy rewrite their code and have them fired for incompetence (true story).
Gen Z is going to be the domestic cozy generation
There are jobs everywhere though. Billions of people do not live in the cities listed and do just fine. I think the trendy jobs are in these places.
I was born in NYC to Haitian immigrants, if you didn't know Haiti is the poorest country in the Western hemisphere. I grew up in a neighborhood with a lot of West Indian first generation children, a common theme for us was that we were "tougher" than the white kids who grew up in NYC because they lived easy lives. It was typical short sighted thinking that young kids do.

I wonder what that kid would say now after reading this article. A lot of the people I grew up with went to crappy colleges. I did too, and we were too broke to even think about tuition so PELL grants funded my education. College Textbooks? You mean PDFs from The Pirate Bay.

I made it out and got a nice job in tech, but like many of my peers it is I who support my parents. I pay their health insurance, I lend them money for groceries, and I'm financing my dad's chemotherapy. Do you know how hard it is to save up for a house (on the west coast !!) knowing you'll never get a windfall from Mom and Dad? When in fact they are a liability budget wise?

I wish more articles were written about this side of the coin, it is my experience that many young people, especially minorities, are shouldering the burden of "elder care" earlier than they ever thought they would.
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privileged by their race

The only people I know who own homes, in the markets mentioned, wouldn't consider themselves white so I can't figure out what they're trying to say here.
it's fun to drive

entertainment has value to some people
CA has expensive areas because Prop 13 means young people pay much higher property taxes than people who have owned forever and corporations pay practically nothing as long as they never rennovate. And you can't fix it without convincing people to vote to raise their own taxes, so we're basically screwed forever. Plus local control means communities can create jobs without building housing to support them, increasing emissions, clogging roads and forcing out everyone who wasn't already rich in the 90s.

Move literally anywhere else if you can.
Then you're probably a much worse driver than you think you are. Sorry.
I close my eyes and listen to my surroundings until I can locate ten distinct source of noise and guess what are they. This usually brings a small but immediate detachment of problems and an attachment to the present.
I'm sure some programmers don't need to know this. For example an Erlang or Haskell programmer can't do anything about memory layout anyway, so this knowledge would be of no immediate practical use.
I think this is the new normal, and will be for generations past us, but I wonder what it will mean for G8 countries

I don't think you can generalize San Francisco to the entirety of the G8. Even in the US, it's not like that in many places.
Which is practically no-one, to within experimental error.
As someone born and raised in one of those cities, I now no longer live in it because the economic reality is such that it doesn't make sense to do so. I do not feel entitled to live in a city that's become a luxury destination, even if my family came from there.
I feel like if you're putting higher rated tires on it, and plan to be doing over 112 mph you can also bypass the limiter.
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I saw the fear in my Director's eyes while showcasing when the drone was hovering ~3 feet away.
If the supply of doctors is restricted, then you'd expect them to get higher pay, and vice versa with teachers. I agree it is a secondary effect. The cost of training/education required to perform the job is bigger, though it ultimately has the same effect of reducing supply.
Many many aren't. One of the reasons I left EA was because half of my team was given the task of training a team of outsourced people to replace them.

Yes, there are still plenty of programming jobs in the US, in large part because a key part of the job is translating human requirements into code. That means that knowing the language and culture are valuable assets. Also, English is the lingua franca of software, which helps.
Free upvote for Miata. What a fantastic vehicle.
Personally, I think the correct structure would be for states to tax their resident citizens in whatever way they see fit (property, income, sales, etc). And then Federal gov't taxes the states for a percentage of their tax revenue. That would eliminate the need for completely redundant state and Federal income tax collection systems.

So (for people in states with income taxes), instead of filing two separate tax returns and sending (say) 10% to your state and 30% to the Feds, you file one return sending 40% to your state and the Feds tax your state for 75% of their revenue (which happens to include 30% of your income).
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They have decided to make it in a standalone package so it can evolve independently. Like xamarin is not part of .net

Its not about being supported or not. It's just an external. it's not up-to-date with java 11 https://openjfx.io/

You can also use clojure with it if you want a lisp dialect.
Options are worse because they cost you money year after year: the difference in salary you could have made instead of taking a job that offered those options in lieu of a market salary.

If im offered a job that comes with options but pays $1000/yr less than I’m making now, I have to ask myself: why not just keep my current job and spend that $1000/yr on an investment with similar risk/reward profile? If I’m willing to do that then I should just keep my job and buy that investment. If I’m not willing to do that, than I shouldn’t take the job, because that’s in essence what it would mean. In either case I shouldn’t take the job.
I'll update this project with your suggestions from this thread.

Thank you for your support!
Somehow I always get downvoted for saying that, but I worked at a place where all developers (well, everybody) were unionized. Magic did not happen. Bullshit did.
cuz a kid doing 112 is fine? it seems like a bit of a straw man to me. but volvo is known for making the safest cars on the road and this continues that trend/perception
Show HN: A rap song about some issues in tech
Song url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PE1w5FTg68c

Quick background on the project: I'm a full time programmer and I love making rap music. I see a lot of humor in the profession/industry, and thought it would be fun to combine the two.

I'm always open to feedback on audio quality/topic ideas/ways to get more exposure/etc! I am also open to collaboration with beat makers/videographers/producers!
I think it makes sense to jail people who are an immediate harm to others like serial killers and some spousal abusers. Jailing for even things like armed robbery and carjacking seem often unnecessary if you can track people, very few people will keep carjacking and armed robbing while under surveillance like that.
You're getting downvoted because your claim (a) has nothing to do with this article and (b) is nonsensical. Both long term gains and carried interest are taxed as income, just sometimes at a different rate. So yes, it's factually wrong to claim that people "using" these "dont have an income."
You just told me that Google is the MLB. I don't see any evidence for this. Many great software companies exist. You are working on the assumption that everyone applying to Google is coming from low-rate companies. Further, if I get hired into the MLB from an AAA team, it's likely I am playing at a professional level. I might get a rookie contract upfront, but that doesn't mean that my skill level is that of a rookie. The key difference here is that in the MLB it's much harder to quantify skills whereas that's not the case with software engineers. If I was part of a team that released a solid piece of software, even if it's from a non-giant software company, I'm not entirely sure why my experience isn't transferable to Google (outside of a different stack). By that logic, since people are stuck in the proprietary stack at Google, they would have similar struggles moving out of Google and should be down leveled.
Does it "work"?, because it really does sound like punishment.

I'm an advocate for developers reading/handling support things, but at the same time the skills that make a good developer are not necessarily the same as those that make a good support person. Having some rota/schedule makes sense, but it seems like a full day of doing support isn't going to make a developer happy, primarily because they want to be a developer - not a support-person.
The gp comment mentioned once a month doing support to provide empathy for Support Engineers. If doing an activity once a month is so bad as to cause burn-out, perhaps us Support Engineers are the real suckers?

I would argue a once a month support engineer stint / shadowing would have more benefits than drawbacks.
Why not? Just publish who makes how much money. That’s it.
My go-to is to build a web scraper with the new language/framework. You touch a little bit of everything and get a pulse on it's ecosystem.

- HTTP requests
- JSON parsing
- XML parsing
- Iteration on lists
- Persisting data to a database

And in between all that you get types, conditionals, loops, packaging system, etc etc. It's a nice catch all.
You can do it, but it will just be a lot harder to do.

Personally I decided to stay in the Midwest and make 170k instead of 300k, but I have my family, and family matters more to me than an extra 130k in salary.
stats. few are qualified to use them.
Well it’s a few Tesla owners. Stupid would be generalizing it to all Tesla owners.
Not not sure why you're getting downvotes.

I'm an amateur race car driver (Champcar). Our Honda Civic is fitted with a professional roll cage, hans device and fire suppression system (not to mention the fireproof suit and helmet). I'd be nervous in any vehicle over 100mph without these added protections.
> Society expects women to do this work, and devalues men who do it

By "society", you men "women", right? The reality is that as much as men like young, fertile, nurturing women, women as well like dominant, successful men (speaking of heterosexuals at least). The so called "choreplay" doesn't lead to more sex, as it turns out. [1] (With the obvious disclaimer that it's just one not-the-most-scientific study, and there's also the other perspective of men now wanting women who earn more... my point is though, that it's not some oppressive "society" boogeyman, but pretty clear (average hetero-)sexual preferences of actual people.)

> The reality is that having children is important

Is it? For whom? Maybe for society, but probably not for Amazon. Why should then Amazon pay for it. As it turns out, Amazon can afford it, but your run-of-the-mill garage startup can't. I think that if the government/society wants to support people having children (which I think is a good idea, at least as long as we claim immigration to be a good idea), then they should also structure incentives appropriately. For example, they could pay for maternity/parental leave, and even reward companies whose employees have newborns (that would also neatly take care of the problem where incentivizing childbirth has the least effect on the smartest cohorts of the population; if the benefits are proportional to salary, you'll incentivize smart ambitious hard-working people to procreate).

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/09/magazine/does-a-more-equa...
It's definitely a lot harder but not impossible to disappear today. If you have cash to avoid traceable spending you can still disappear today reasonably well.

Part of bail is also just to reduce the effort required between the arrest stage and the trial/judgement phase. I think ultimately some kind of monitored release via something like an ankle bracelet (for those at higher risk of trying to run), programs to make it easier for people to remember and make their court dates (text/call reminders and some kind of transit assistance) (for those at low risk of bolting) and just pretrial detention for violoent and dangerous arrestees will provide a cheaper and more just system eventually.

Unfortunately there's a lot of incentives against pretrial release because every time they get it wrong and the person commits another crime while on this release inevitably gets blamed on the system and it's VERY hard to argue the diffuse benefits of all the people who's lives weren't permanently ruined in the face of someone getting hurt.
The optimizer isn't required to eliminate code paths encountering dynamic UB; it is allowed to. It also doesn't have to be consistent in its "assumptions", although inconsistency may be a sign of missing efficiency somewhere
I think I mostly agree with the authors premise that "We are all status seeking monkeys". It's just that the type of status people seek is different across populations:

> Some people find status games distasteful. Despite this, everyone I know is engaged in multiple status games. Some people sneer at people hashtag spamming on Instagram, but then retweet praise on Twitter. Others roll their eyes at photo albums of expensive meals on Facebook but then submit research papers to prestigious journals in the hopes of being published. Parents show off photos of their children performances at recitals, people preen in the mirror while assessing their outfits, employees flex on their peers in meetings, entrepreneurs complain about 30 under 30 lists while wishing to be on them, reporters check the Techmeme leaderboards; life is nothing if not a nested series of status contests.

I'm not sure if you agree with this or not, I think maybe what you are seeing is that social norms have shifted such that overt pursuing of status seems to be OK, whereas before people would pursue status while pretending not to really care. Perhaps also, as the author points out, people are now competing for status with a much larger audience (before it was just your circle of friends/acquaintance, now it's everyone on ${PLATFORM_OF_CHOICE}, maybe this has made the competition for those who are pursuing this form of status more fierce, or maybe being able to see all these people openly pursuing this form of status has normalized it.
I thought that most people with a mortgage itemized last year, because that mortgage interest deduction is huge until you're close to paying off your house. This isn't just high earners, it's the middle class. The GOP tax bill squeezed the middle class to give that huge absolute percentage reduction to people at the very top.

From a macroeconomic standpoint this is madness. We're taking money away from the people who really drive the economy and giving it to the ones who are already struggling to find a place to stash all of the money that 30 years of supply side economics have burdened them with. A middle class family would have bought goods and services, a billionaire is looking for any investment opportunity that hasn't been completely diluted by the enormous amount of capital floating around and is going to have to stick it in some "financial instrument" that we're only going to learn about when it causes the next financial catastrophe.
You're right in the context of Baofeng HTs, but people get equally furious about some Chinese HF radios as well, like the Xiegu X5105 or Recent RS-918 (though the argument with that one is that it ripped off the open design of the mcHF, but the fact that it's an all mode, all band QRP HF transceiver with better features than the likes of a Yaesu FT-818 costing hundreds of dollars more probably factors in as well).
I guess this could be true for crashing into static objects, but other cars are in motion too and don't have speed limiters.
This framework is good. And like the other frameworks in other comments here, it's a good enough start in a small company, start up, or small department within a larger organisation.

A better framework might be cobbled together from various disciplines. For instance, "Understand". This part is huge. Well, bigger than those three questions the author lists.

"Understanding" begins by stepping back to look at the environment as a whole. Bound the situation. Assess organisational culture, the environment (immutable aspects of a transformation/process), the organisation's technology landscape (Active Directory?), regulatory requirements, competition, suppliers and customers.

There's also the social system (roles, norms, values), and the political landscape.

Then you define your objective. But before you can do that you need to know who your client is. Sure, in SV that's often easy. Outside that bubble not so much. Identify the client by asking some questions - whom do you need to satisfy? Who will judge the success of the project? Who will fail if the project fails? Who has authority for the project? Who pays for the project? Whom do you report to?

After all that you're ready to set an objective. Vision/scope stuff. Specific, measurable, attainable, realistic and time-boxed. Cliche'd, but when a project goes wrong the specification is the only version of the truth a team has to fall back on.

Setting project objectives is much bigger than I can do justice to here. However once you have that you can start with the fun stuff. Design, build, deploy, repeat until done.

However while you're doing the fun stuff you still have to do the unfun stuff too - risk management, and stakeholder management. And it's stupefyingly incredible how many people think they know how to do these things but can't readily explain the difference between mitigation and contingency, exposure and impact, or why you have to be nice to the CIO for your project to succeed, even though the CTO and CEO are on your side.

I've written about all this stuff. https://www.wittenburg.co.uk/Entry.aspx?id=8ec91ced-b3a4-4b0...