skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure it really matters - and not just because Dorsey isn't CEO of Stripe. Whatever you think of him, whether you'd agree with them or not, the advice is good: you may want to bear your thoughts in mind, whatever they are, before applying to work at a company for which he is CEO.

(Of course, if you're careful to frame it equivocally, as hopefully I've managed to do, it does come out sounding a bit, well... obvious. But that's fine. Sometimes good advice is obvious.)
I agree the level of debate in our society is typically awful.

However, in many cases, better debate won't fix the problem, because the problem in many cases is not that the "right" views aren't getting air time. The problem in many cases is that we can't even do controlled experiments in the domain, so our understanding is very limited and we simply don't know enough about the domain to give useful input to public policy decisions. For example, I think that's true of economics; nobody knows enough about economics to give useful input about most public policies.
Relaxing in economy is pretty difficult...
> Maybe the bad drivers can be given feedback that will tell them what things they can do to minimize their accident rate based on the GPS data

The issue here and my concerns with GPS trackers in general is if they are seen as providing valuable insight to how a person drives. This simply is not the case because so much of driving is context dependent. A few weeks ago, my brakes gave out briefly and I swerved sharply into the shoulder of the on-ramp I was on and finally came to a stop in the median between the on-ramp and the road I was trying to merge on to. Purely from GPS data that looks like erratic and dangerous driving when in reality I saved the insurance company money by managing to avoid hitting anything with my car.
I'm not going to debate common decency and personal responsibility. You either understand moral and ethical choices or you don't.
Just spread them out, that what I do anyway, if we're seeing someone reasonably close to Xmas, presents get opened there and then, else start Xmas eve, through to boxing day.

Have to hide chocolate away though. Should last them through to Easter this year!
> PBS content should be free everywhere

Then PBS needs a lot more money. They operate on about $445 million per year in total, and that gets split between PBS and NPR: https://www.cpb.org/aboutcpb/financials/budget

That's not enough, and it's a bit lower than public broadcasters in other countries who manage to make things free everywhere.
No.

But I mean that in a nice way. Here's why...

My understanding (limited, to be fair), is that a large percentage (most?) users have a matrix.org account instead of an account somewhere else. By definition, this is not federation. Certainly riot.im users get that by default.

Let's look at a different example - email. What if the inventors of email created email.org and created accounts on it. Everyone would also ask "where's the federation?". What ultimately made email really useful (note the use of the word "really"), was the ability to reach people outside your organization. So you could email back and forth to stanford.edu, ibm.com, usna.mil, and even aol.com.

What is difficult (today), is for me to go to google or yahoo, or microsoft, or stanford and get an account. Yes, there is this [0] but only one provider is on the page. Further, according to that provider [1] it's only a sub-domain, not my domain. It's a start, but also a version behind from the looks of things, so therefore not truly ready.

If any of this is wrong, and I can sign up with a reliable hosting to have server.mydomain.com, I'd sign up. I don't have the time to manage updates & server security, and a reliable provider would allow me to run my own instance.

[0] - https://matrix.org/docs/projects/hosting
[1] - https://www.modular.im/
Well, there's the useful parts of Latin, for English speakers, and the not-so-useful parts. :-)

You can learn a bunch of basic Latin vocabulary, and make good use of it in English, without needing to practice all the declensions until your fingernails fall out.
Ask HN: Why do Young People want to work at FAANFG
Getting a job at FAANG is everyone's dream. Why are Young People are obsessed with getting a Job at FAANG. Like I know it pays better and there are great benefits.
But there are other companies too that are doing great work.
Death by 1k Clicks: Where Electronic Health Records Went Wrong
IRC has active users.

I have, or had, a Disapora account. Nobody to talk to. I have an OpenID. No service I use still accepts it. The home page of Matrix has to provide a convincing argument that Matrix is worth more attention than Mastodon or GNU Social.
My immediate family and my dad's side of the family have both taken to doing a "secret santa" style exchange, which I appreciate. It's mostly about saving money because the family has grown quite large with in-laws, but I've come to enjoy the experience: everybody takes turns and gets to really appreciate a smaller amount of overall gifts. It helps that my side of the family is done with kids!

My own in-laws still have younger kids, and they also do fall into the mindset of giving lots of lower-quality gifts instead of less higher-quality gifts. I feel like if the kids get less gifts, even if better, they might complain, but I think they could grown accustomed to it.
Yes, that's how climate change works. A warmer climate results in more extreme weather. A warmer climate does not result in uniformly warmer (or drier) weather.
IBM Signs 6 Banks to Issue Stablecoins and Use Stellar’s XLM Cryptocurrency
Practical AI 35: Social AI with Hugging Face
I too have worked for a bank and also had to take the mandatory 2 weeks off (contiguous) despite not having access to financial transactions. That took some getting used to. I missed being able to take off several Monday's in a row.

We certainly had to back everything up to write-once medium and store encrypted copies in Iron Mountain. Outside of financial institutions, I get dirty looks when I suggest backing up data this way. It also protects against bad automation.
When cooking with MSG you generally use a very small amount, so the sodium isn't going to be an issue - I've found any more than a small pinch can completely ruin a dish.
If financial professionals would be forced to drug test then there would be very few working financial professionals.
I think (or maybe just hope) that I can avoid that trap by reframing how I think about retirement. Instead of thinking of retirement as not working on anything, I'll be thinking of it as working on the things I want to work on. Instead of seeing progress on the company I'm building every day, I'll be looking for progress in my mountain biking, or guitar playing, or whatever hobby I'm interested in at the moment. I'll still be working, I'll still be building things, they'll just be my things and not done for money.
How I failed to rebuild a thinkpad battery?
Jamie Dimon says we've split the US economy, leaving the poor behind
Key takeaway: don't expect a library to do the safe thing; always sanitize all your input. (If your language supports taint mode, enabling it can prevent these bugs)
I started to compose a reply to your comment, and it turned out to be a deceptively hard question to answer.

My attempt at a succinct answer is that carbon should be more expensive, and that Boeing very likely moved too aggressively to meet the market with a more fuel efficient plane.

In some ways – based on my probably naive understanding – consumer desire for a cheaper flight results in increased fuel efficiency, since the cost of flying is heavily dependent on the cost of fuel. Environmentally speaking, that's good. However, better fuel efficiency resulting in cheaper flights leads to people flying more. That's bad.

Pricing carbon to reflect its true environmental cost could fix that issue, by raising the price floor. Consumer choice would still drive higher efficiency, but ideally the overall higher cost of carbon would keep flying to a 'sustainable' rate. (Whatever that turns out to be.)

What I don't have a clear sense of is whether point-to-point travel with planes like the Max are better for the environment. Theoretically, hub-and-spoke travel is more fuel efficient. The reality ends up being more complicated, with airlines flying half-empty 747s. From what I understand, that makes airlines like Southwest (which operates point-to-point) more fuel efficient.

But I'd love to hear a more clear explanation from someone who better understands the subject.
> Same with training, almost all other jobs give you time for training, but for programming learning new technology is somehow something you should be teaching yourself in your spare time.

Maybe it's your company? All companies I worked for so far allowed or even encouraged learning during paid work hours. Even an hour per day. Not something like learning a new language, but stuff like reading up on new framework/tools/architecture, how systems of other teams work or the inner workings of their programming language of choice. Basically anything that could proof useful later.
Finally, my PhD research is relevant. This particular work doesn't, but other work in the land of organismal responses to climate change does. There's a good review of this [0] (disclaimer: written by my advisor). Here's [1] another one by two of the greats in the field (Ray Huey/Kearney)

[0]: https://sci-hub.se/https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/full/10...

[1]: https://sci-hub.se/https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/fu...
Stanford launching AI and ethics institute
How did you come to the conclusion that "the world's problems are social/political and won't be fixed by technology".

I'm still shocked how come you don't see the effect of the 21st century where in the past all those world wars, genocides, ignorance etc.

Really sorry but I couldn't find any profession other then engineering and science if you ask me what makes us prevail in the long run!
Because people are notoriously terrible at this kind of self diagnosis.

I'm going to answer an anecdote with an anecdote here, but I was getting headaches that were completely correlated with food containing MSG. I "researched it" (cursorily google searched) and found that MSG was totally safe so I didn't want to believe it, but the correlation was there. Later I found out I had high blood pressure—the high MSG foods were also high sodium and the sodium was kicking my blood pressure up really high and causing headaches. When I got my blood pressure under control I tried MSG again and no headaches at all.

The body is complicated and things aren't always what they seem to be to our pattern seeking brains.
You want a credible study? Eat a teaspoon of MSG & try not to have a migraine.
Ask HN: How to learn best practices when you have no one to teach you?
I am currently working for a startup and am one of 3 developers. Most of my work revolves around building the API in Node + Express as well as some small projects with MongoDB. The other developers don't really assist me since they have their own projects to work on, and, honestly, they have less experience and knowledge than I do.

So my question is: What is the best way for me to go about learning best practices in API development, or using MongoDB, or even just being a better software developer in general?
took 4 years of Latin in high school, and it was very useful: I guess its value varies depending on what else you do later, and if it's therefore helpful there?
IP Location API with quality Asia coverage (and mobile IPv6!)
Also, I imagine this will boost the secondary market for Gen 1 pencils dramatically.
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Building your Pelican website with schroot
Russia's Putin Signs into Law Bills Banning 'Fake News,' Insults
Vela Incident
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vela_Incident
Yeah. As much blame as Boeing and the FAA certification process seems to deserve here, it's worth pointing out how much of the cascade of failures is in the airlines and cockpits too.

I mean, yes, the trim system was being driven by input from a single nonredundant sensor, which is a violation of the kind of engineering for failure process that airliners should be designed in. But at the same time that trim system is, by design, not strong enough to overpower pilot input to the other control surfaces. I mean, it's supposed to have been possible for the pilot to just fly the aircraft to a landing in the face of outrageous trim problems.

But the actual pilots didn't, not because they weren't strong enough to push the yoke but because they simply didn't know what to do and didn't have the presence of mind to just yank hard on the controls. Somehow the culture of "just fly the ?!@#! plane" got lost in all those training iPads.
Serious athletes hate it when sporting goods manufacturers "improve" their products, and accidentally end up making them worse due to not understanding what their customers actually valued. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
> One of the things I enjoy most about Stripe’s work culture is the notion that “nothing is Not My Job.”
I’m very eager to know: If you want to be successful in such a culture, what mental habits/skills can you develop which let you know with confidence where to direct your attention?

How did patio11 develop these?

———

EDIT: How do you know that what you are working on is not a distraction?
Fun fact, many of the psychometric tests are designed to weed out labor organizers.

Source: a few acquaintances who worked as organizers by strategically taking jobs in certain companies.
Funnily enough these days that's not enough to answer the question.

Jack Dorsey is the CEO of Square and Twitter but not of Stripe.
More reading: https://www.npr.org/2017/11/22/566039611/colorado-launches-f...

Colorado successfully performed an RLA, and didn't have to recount every ballot. If you really want to read more, Free and Fair (IIRC, the same group bidding on the DARPA grant) has open source software and instructions on how to perform RLAs: https://github.com/FreeAndFair/ColoradoRLA
You never defined what you meant by a "good concurrent GC", only now are you asking for "performance" numbers.

My point is that writing a GC for Java has in fact proved very difficult. It took Sun and Oracle many man years and different GC designs to get where they are today. So it seems Java also needs a "good" concurrent GC. With both functional and OOP languages generating a lot of garbage and sharing language features, I don't see a big difference in requirements in practice. And sure enough, Clojure/Scala seems to work well using the JVM GC and F# seems to work well with the .NET GC too.

I think the burden of proof rests with you and your statement that the concurrent GC situation is somehow more challenging for an FP language.

> I only accept CS papers about it

Me too
How the internet led to greater wage inequality
Likewise, I have no idea what this means:

> We’re not Netflix, we’re a country of 5 million.
OpenXR Released
What sort of uses have you had for it?
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Well...
This may seem petty but as a former designer, Stripes logo not really having a stripe in it has always really bothered me.

Like... how could they not try harder to make that a focus of their branding?
Mermaid works really well for this as well:

https://mermaidjs.github.io/
Yes, I've had every lightning cable, apple or not, show darkened and eventually dying 4th pins. It's infuriating. You essentially have to unplug the USB-A side first to prevent it from happening.

Strange enough I've not seen this happen to a lot of other people.
Eat a teaspoon of MSG. Remember, "its guaranteed not to be the MSG."
That's a good point, and totally worth questioning. If you're interested in a scientific analysis supporting that claim, there's a great research paper [1] (disclaimer: my advisor wrote it) on this subject.

[1]: https://sci-hub.se/https://www.nature.com/articles/nclimate1...
For more insight re. Stripe, https://fs.blog/2018/05/patrick-collison/ was an excellent Knowledge Project episode talking to CEO & co-founder Patrick Collison.
I've worked at a few non-small companies outside of California, literally none of them have even floated a drug test.
Or you could increase the portion that comes from tax money, a model proven successfully in dozens of countries.
> I had very early access to formal logic training

Can you please expand on this? Montessori School?
The Cooper nuclear power plant 59 miles from Omaha is also shutting down temporarily due to flooding:

https://www.omaha.com/news/iowa/cooper-nuclear-station-still...

The Fort Calhoun nuclear power plant 18 miles from Omaha was shut down permanently on October 24, 2016 due to flooding:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Calhoun_Nuclear_Generatin...
There's no hard and fast rule. Working for banks in NYC, 50+ is very common. Same for many startups who are in "growth mode". Wherever you go, hopefully you're judged by your output, not how long you're seated in a chair.
Aren't most side projects open source, though? I wouldn't want to commit to maintain a side project if someone else found it useful.
I think programming as a career path tracks the expectations of other "passion" careers. You're expect to be involved in the field in your spare time, all the time, and risk very real burnout. My first thought is writers- a writer that doesn't read and engage in the literary sphere in their space time is looked at funny. Models should know avidly about fashion. Actors about acting. Phd candidates about their chosen fields. Professors and their research.
I’m looking forward to the fun insurance high-risk scenarios that lead to immediate suspension of your insurance, like:

“You’re 3 seconds away from a collision with 99.9% likelihood. Your insurance is now terminated”.
The most fascinating part of this article is the idea that Stripe is spending time thinking about unlocking potential in Internet businesses in Japan. A tough nut to crack. The revolution is happening in all these countries, but if Stripe can move the needle in Brazil and Japan and other places where entrepreneurship currently requires more grease/graft, that'll really be interesting.
Very long article - but a good read. It's incredible to me how incentives misaligned in such a way that essentially every medical practitioner in the US has to use software they hate.

Anecdotally via the physicians I interact with its' terrible how much time it takes away from actual patient care, when the promise was the opposite.
Correct. Further reading: https://www.quora.com/Why-does-a-spacecraft-heat-up-during-r...
Soda, sports drinks increase risk of heart disease, breast and colon cancers
We've gone through the same (first world) problem and are currently experimenting with the following method -

Our child is allowed to open all gift wrapping. All underage/overage gifts are kept separately. Out of the ones for his level, he's only allowed to open one per day. This also only happens in exchange for removing one toy from this current set to give away for donation.

There are two outcomes we expect:(1) Toy stash volume is kept constant and (2) Child decides which one to keep.

It worked well at Christmas; let's see how the birthday goes...
In college I used to suffer from really bad insomnia, to a point where I actually went to a doctor about it. I got some ambien I was more or less cured but the sleep was definitely less restful. I eventually dropped out of college, in no small part because I was afraid that it was causing me too much stress and leading to this.

I mostly got over the insomnia (largely due to me taking some medication for depression) but occasionally I get spells of it. Thus far, I've found that the best way that I have reliably been able to get good sleep has been to exercise (almost) daily.

I'm willing to accept that it may be placebo, but I also figure that it's not going to hurt me to exercise daily.
You can use it as an opportunity: gently push and help them give away some of the toys of their choice. There are plenty of kids who will appreciate them, and it might teach yours that they don't need much to be happy.
Pretty cool deep-dive on Datalog.

The interactive tutorials on http://www.learndatalogtoday.org (Datomic's dialect) quickly sold me on the idea.

Though coming from Datomic, I'm curious how much of my knowledge is Datomic-specific rather than how you'd generally approach a database queryable with Datalog. For example, do you need four indexes like Datomic (https://docs.datomic.com/on-prem/indexes.html) to make Datalog queries fast?
CCPA will hit your dev team harder than GDPR
I work remotely for a company in Silicon Valley. I worked on site for 2+ years before that.

I work 40 hours a week, no more, no less and I have good performance reviews. I think the trend for programmers is to work 40 hours a week and have a balanced life. There is tremendous pushback against working 50 or 50 hours a week lately, and I'm thankful for that.
Visualizing Complex Functions
I'd say having the skills/wherewithal/drive/smarts/stomach to be able to get into med school then pass it requires quite a bit of luck, as well as a lot of effort.
People living near the coast (hint most of the global population) would probably disagree with you.
I work in restaurants and have seen chefs add two heaping table spoons of it to a pot of soup without hesitating.
Why does python need three different versions of urllib?
As insurance becomes perfect, you’re just paying your actual damages plus a premium to the insurance company.

There’s decreasing value to pooling when the risks are perfectly quantified at the customer level.
In the end, it's always about politics:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budget_of_NASA#Political_oppos...
I never hold the tablet - a Kindle is the upper limit of what I'm willing to hold.

At home my (coverless) iPad always sits on a 3rd party stand, so I simply put the stand on my lap. And maybe have a coffee in hand. And maybe a plate with a toast.
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I've found VLC to be the only app that can play H.264 .mkv files without stuttering on my poor first-gen iPad Mini :)
Biologists Discover Unknown Powers in Mighty Mitochondria
We used AI to make NBA players dance