skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Scala got traction in places I've worked partly by making the pitch that the team hires people based on software engineering aptitude, not prior knowledge of specific technologies.

A new hire often has to learn a number of new/different technologies. The language is one of the easiest of those.
Ask HN: How to get developers to care less about edge cases?
I'm noticing a frequent problem with a handful of developers. Rather than coding for the 80% of what an application must do, they think of all the possibilities that go wrong and start from the edge cases inwards, which individually represent a small piece of functionality.

I would rather they deliver a working chunk and just log.error when missing information is present.

Working in the manner they do is causing them to miss deadlines with nothing to show. I'd be ok if they missed deadlines but an app handled 50% of what it's supposed to do and it's well documented what it doesn't do, but we're getting to the finish line with no workable product.
Where can I buy put options to this company?

20x speedup compared to a CPU looks worse than just using a stock GPU, and we haven't talked about the AI inference chips that are optimized for NN inferencing.
That one unorthodox hotkey mapping is just the tip of the iceberg. Confluence's interface is a super special, highly unique dumpster fire of an editor. God forbid anyone actually know what Markdown syntax is. Plus, you can only disable some of the hotkeys - you're stuck with several awkward site-wide ones. There's an open Atlassian support ticket filled with souls wistfully begging for the ability to disable ALL Confluence hotkeys.
I hope they fired the intern that wrote it.
It's not just software and tech, though. It's almost every 'professional white collar' job.

I work in higher education, and it's exactly the same experience for me. 4-5 hours of productivity a day, at best, and 2-3 hours of just generally wasting time and trying to look busy/meetings/e-mails.
> and they do send people to ICE to help use Excel.

source
If I remember correctly, the bluetooth headset profile (if you require microphone input) is pretty low bandwidth (think gsm quality), which would explain low quality in that case.

Newer Bluetooth variants support higher quality audio without a microphone (A2DP), and that's what you are likely using today unless you are in a call.

As far as interference in the 2.4GHz range, there is not much you can do about it in areas you don't control.
Does that pay for the insurance liability?
Thanks, I really appreciate you made the effort to find some actual stats, but with respect, that doc is from march 2012. I don't know if the data is still relevant now (though it may be).

We need some solid stats by an independent party which is why I'm happy one is going to be looking into it.

FYI from that document, let me quote cos it's interesting: cost estimates in march 2012:

2.9 Route package cost summaries

2.9.1 The phase one total cost estimate is £16.3 billion within a cost range of £15.4 billion to £17.3 billion. [...]

2.9.2 The phase two total cost estimate is £17.1 billion within a cost range of £15.7 billion to £18.7 billion. [...]

2.9.3 The full Y network cost estimate is £33.4 billion within a cost range of £30.9 billion to £36.0 billion. [...]
Do you know if Epstein invested in any of those startups?
It's absolutely not too old! Hell, I'm trying to break back into competitive powerlifting at 37. Haha
> we have no idea what intelligence is

I wouldn't make so strong a claim in light of what philosophy has to say about intelligence. Relevant here also are certain metaphysical presuppositions made by fields like neuroscience that preclude that understanding. Furthermore, even knowledge of something does not necessarily entail ability to reproduce something.
He includes a picture of Ultima V for DOS, which looks better than his current games. Hell, he includes a picture of the original art for Exile, which IMO looked better than the later Exile III tileset (which was ported back to releases of Exile I). The problem with the aesthetics of his latest game is not resolution and it isn't that it's in a classic 2D tile-based style.

That said, I see where he's coming from. The audience for games like his is very small, even when the graphics are good. I think he should add support for custom tilesets. It's common in the roguelike world, and at this point his audience is closer to the hobbyist/roguelike scene than the average indie studio.
fox guarding the hen house
The company is literally named after the magic orb that Sauron uses to surveil Middle-Earth. I don't know what you expected.
I'm not a Go expert so hard to judge, but:

github.com/rclone/rclone - Somewhat complex with abstractions, plugins, filesystems, networking, multi-platform support etc

https://github.com/hashicorp/ has a lot of Go
True, it does hand control to browser vendors. But I think I'd rather my browser have control over the information used to personalize ads served to me rather than that information being available to advertisers directly.

Google is taking steps to stop excessive fingerprinting[1][2], so it's not like they're just adding new systems for ad personalization without closing off the existing, more intrusive ones.

[1]: https://blog.chromium.org/2019/05/improving-privacy-and-secu...

[2]: https://github.com/bslassey/privacy-budget
Spotify Triples Free-Trial Period on Premium Service
Right now, no. Next time the Democrats have control of both chambers, though, it seems possible.

In any case, my point is just that a constitutional amendment isn’t required and this is totally above-board. The odds of an amendment being ratified are far lower.
https://www.roguecanada.ca/adidas-powerlift-4-mens-core-blac...

While you wanna dead in low heel, hard sole shoes, I find that an elevated heel helps with depth, and that's not blasphemy, that's personal preference.
The ICE thing has gotten dramatically worse recently. Accepting a certain level of abuse of power in other LE agencies doesn't necessarily mean they're OK with, say, actively pushing back against a DoJ settlement so they can hold children in detention indefinitely, etc.
huh. The author is "chief hacker" @ okta. This deck doesn't inspire confidence in okta. It doesn't make me want to run screaming either, though. Maybe just on the bad side of neutral. As as aside, how is okta (and OneLogin) even a thing? They are features masquerading as a company (phrase I learned on HN recently).

Perhaps, I don't know but perhaps, the interwebs is full of the type of misinformation/myths that the deck is challenging, but the reality (which I would assume a chief hacker, ie principal engineer is very well aware of) is that they are neither worse nor better than a plain cookie. I've no idea why you'd store the jwt in localstorage, again this may be an interwebs thing that doesn't reflect good choices. As a cookie-equivalent, you get, for free, a widely implemented abstraction that you learn once and portably apply everywhere. The complexity problem just isn't there AFAICT, and the choices are there for you. With pure cookies, you have to invent everything yourself.

I find particularly puzzling the claim about revocation. The example (p. 47) is a particularly naive implementation, which would scale equally poorly for homemade session ID or jwt.

Based on this visual deck alone -- I make an allowance for audio providing more detail -- I fail to see a well supported argument.

It reads much more as a soft ad for paseto.
Recently there was news about untrained 19 year old from India running 100 meters in 11 seconds barefoot.

https://twitter.com/ChouhanShivraj/status/116241639886742323...
Listening to people who worked at Nokia before shut down there was a lot of wasted time and effort on products that lead nowhere. They missed the boat with the smart phones. It took too long for Nokia to come out with a smart phone line and it was plagued with hardware design flaws. Then they gambled on the OS and rest is history.

Had Nokia jumped on board of the smart phone grace right off the bat and supported Google instead of Microsoft the scene might be way different.
Bergson is pure woo: Nothing but completely subjective, baseless, pseudoscientific nonsense. Here is a sample of how he wrote:

"The intellect always behaves as if it were fascinated by the contemplation of
inert matter. It is life looking outward, putting itself outside itself, adopting the ways of
unorganized nature in principle, in order to direct them in fact." - Henri Bergson

"The pure present is an ungraspable advance of the past devouring the future. In truth, all sensation is already memory." - Henri Bergson

"Fortunately, some are born with spiritual immune systems that sooner or later give rejection to the illusory worldview grafted upon them from birth through social conditioning. They begin sensing that something is amiss, and start looking for answers. Inner knowledge and anomalous outer experiences show them a side of reality others are oblivious to, and so begins their journey of awakening. Each step of the journey is made by following the heart instead of following the crowd and by choosing knowledge over the veils of ignorance." - Henri Bergson

And here are a few of the more pointed things Bertrand Russell had to say about him (from History of Western Philosophy[1], page 791):

"One of the bad effects of an anti-intellectual philosophy, such as that of Bergson, is that it thrives
upon the errors and confusions of the intellect. Hence it is led to prefer bad thinking to good, to
declare every momentary difficulty insoluble, and to regard every foolish mistake as revealing the
bankruptcy of intellect and the triumph of intuition. There are in Bergson's works many allusions
to mathematics and science, and to a careless reader these allusions may seem to strengthen his
philosophy greatly. As regards science, especially biology and physiology, I am not competent to
criticize his interpretations. But as regards mathematics, he has deliberately preferred traditional errors in interpretation to the more modern views which have prevailed among mathematicians for the last eighty years." -Bertrand Russell

"In that case, he may be tempted
to ask whether there are any reasons for accepting such a restless view of the world. And if he
asks this question, he will find, if I am not mistaken, that there is no reason whatever for accepting
this view, either in the universe or in the writings of M. Bergson. " -Bertrand Russell

Why would anyone think he was qualified to discuss physics? Bergson wrote a book called "Matter and Memory"[2] and his thesis, Time and Free Will[3], where he presented a highly subjective and basically meaningless account of "time." Like others have said, it's sad that his pseudo-intellectual rock throwing was taken seriously. Einstein himself credits Hume and Mach[4] with helping him get past the notion of absolute simultaneity.

[1]: http://www.ntslibrary.com/PDF Books/History of Western Philosophy.pdf

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matter_and_Memory

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_and_Free_Will

[4]: https://www.pitt.edu/~jdnorton/papers/HumeMach.pdf
Well, the owner presumably doesn't think that most laws currently on the books should be enforced, unless I have missed something regarding right wing libertarianism.
And now I have a bit more motivation to buy a 3D printer. Cool stuff!
If you also don't block msft domains (GitHub), follow links from my comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20770080
Show HN: Startups Hub
Can you submit only the website itself? Not a link to indihackers, which points to producthunt which then points to the product? I think the title is also misleading as the indiehackers post doesn't describe a journey other than "such a complicated process was not easy"
Because they do stuff like this

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/border-patrol-agent-deta...
To pay for my nice computer science education, I worked in mine exploration and later a working mine.

> Another thing I'd say is that with farming (and other manual labor activities) there is very little that is not known beforehand. You might have some unexpected events, but even then, you likely know what to do in those occasions. With mental work it's a lot more unpredictable and full of unknowns.

This is laughably false. Much of the day at physical jobs is spent problem-solving and jury-rigging stuff to work, whether it's figuring out how to mount a drill platform or dealing with the tailgate falling off your pickup.

> Finally, you might be exhausted physically at the end of the day, but your mind is definitely not exhausted, which allows you to actually do something with it afterwards.

The grind of this sort of work is far more mentally exhausting than programming, and I only worked there in the summers when I was in my late teens/early 20s. The two things are not even comparable. When I realised I'd worked my last day mining, I was as happy as I've ever been.
Unfortunately, the article leaves out types, which are an even more important topic for a "literate" programmer.

The recursive definition of Y can easily be adapted to be strongly typed. However, there is no strongly typed Y combinator without self-applicable recursively defined types. Consequently, the Y combinator is not something that needs to concern a competent programmer, who will of course be using strong types ;-)
Probably just continue to enjoy my life
And the people who can't afford 3.7$ a month? They go back to using paper maps I guess?
Similar things happening in Mexico under Obrador. The current government defunded some agencies and programs that were set to protect and monitor the environment. For instance, they stopped Satelital monitoring of forest fires, increased incentives for deforestation, reduced technical personnel, etc...

Mexico seems to be inverting the popular phrase: "You can't improve what You can't measure". They defunded an agency in charge of measuring effectiveness of governmental programs, eliminated testing requirement for teachers, etc...

Maybe their job is to sabotage their economies.
It's not having a runtime that's the problem, it's limitations in WASM's control flow constructs: https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/issues/796#issuecommen...

And WASM has this limitation as a consequence of limitations in the V8 and SpiderMonkey engines. See http://troubles.md/posts/why-do-we-need-the-relooper-algorit... and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19997091 And those engines have those limitations because they're a reasonable design tradeoff in the context of executing JavaScript.

I think even if WASM gets a limited goto sufficient to resolve the most problematic performance issues, languages like Go that use more sophisticated control flow constructs (e.g. stackful coroutines) will always be at a disadvantage relative to C or Rust when it comes to WASM as absence of other various low-level constructs (e.g. ability to directly handle page faults) will incur higher relative penalties. The same thing could be said about Rust's new async/await--WASM will compound the costs of the additional indirect branching in async-compiled functions (not to mention the greater number of function invocations, which is at least 2x even if a function never defers).

That said, I don't think anybody uses Go for the insane performance, so as long as the performance impact isn't too severe (and limited goto support will help tremendously) it shouldn't be much of an issue. OTOH, these sorts of tradeoffs are why "native" code will always have a significant place. Especially as the wall we've hit in terms of single-threaded performance begins to be felt more widely.
So for a citizen in California or Texas, who will never get or see this personal treatment, how is this helpful?
I also struggled with the decision whether to have kids. I don't generally like kids or kids stuff. I was very happy with how I spent my time. It seemed like huge sacrifice and also a leap of faith into a new life with no way back.

Long story short, I did have kids and it was the right decision. And if I were able to talk to myself when I was struggling with the decision, I would say "Don't miss this experience. There is nothing else in life like it. It is hard but it is worth it."
Maybe I'm the weird one, but who would wear a t-shirt from your previous company to work at your current company? That just seems to send all the wrong signals.
The millions in Xinjiang would like a word. Why do you spend your free time defending a brutal autocracy on the internet?
> They are features masquerading as a company (phrase I learned on HN recently).

A lot of companies aim to be acquired into becoming features.
> maybe the majority of people will decide they don't want cookies

At the same time, a lot of people don't understand what cookies actually do (the good things they do, I mean) and thus having them disabled by default will deepen their belief that they're only bad.

I'm not sure what I'd do if cookies were blocked by default. What an absolutely inconvenient reality that would be as a web developer. You'd have to embed a token in the page on each request, like WebForms, or something.
Of course it follows. The OP said "no self-respecting hacker" would use AOL/AIM, which is a not only a "no true scotsman" fallacy but untrue. I, too was introduced to the world of programming through AOL chatrooms, and there were some really incredible hackers/programmers who hung out in them.
Django projects can be extremely simple.

And most of the "concepts" Django brings with it are extremely important for any non-trivial web application.

Django also makes it harder to mishandle security.
Russia sends its first humanoid robot Fedor into space
One political faction needs ICE to be evil for their narrative and world view to make sense. You're seeing propaganda.

Consider that child seperation is a consequence of the massive amounts of human trafficking happening on the Mexico and US border. Criminals buy kids and fake a relationship with the kid to get more favorable treatment from law enforcement. The reality is that these kids are abused in the worst ways and sepration is critical for law enforcement to talk to the kid and make sure that the story checks out.

It's a bit of a horror story, but a 10 year old girl crossing the border was found to have 20 different semen samples inside her: https://bigleaguepolitics.com/texas-medical-professional-mig...

this is why seperation happens.
This is a blow for shoe companies. They create an impression that Shoes are mandatory for running. Simply not true. In fact I found shoes to be very inconvenient, except in bad weather such as snow or cold.
The art style is mixed because he reuses most of his graphics. I think his pot sprite is almost 20 years old now. He just doesn't want to commission new art for every game. New objects and skills need new art, and I'd doubt Philip Foglio is still available to draw them.
I did shukatsu 10 years ago using printed resumes. Had my fair share of rejections but I still got interview offers anyway. No way to tell if rejection was because of printed resume or some other reason, though I find it hard to believe that anyone made an exception for foreigners.

I did ask my manager about printed resumes at my new job and he mentioned that he preferred handwritten ones but a large number submit printed, even digital ones so they had to adapt.
Maybe it's their natural shyness but I always wonder why some of the older tarahumara runners or someone close don't organize them like the kenians do for road running, but in trail runs across USA and Mexico. They can easily score some victories/podiums and share the won money/goods for their benefit.
ICE's recent policy of separating children from their families and then holding them in inadequate conditions with insufficient medical care is starting to produce tiny coffins: https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-migrant-child-border-de...
What Makes a 10x Engineer
No I'm not. Pi 2 meets all of those requirements and has MicroSDHC which offer tons of high speed space even at entry level.

Besides that was an example, I have plenty of other IoT and embedded style hardware and they are all fitting this criteria.

Simply put the size of binaries has never been a real concern for some time now and the few rare cases where it might matter probably aren't worth all the effort made obsessing over sub 50mb bin size.

99%+ of it will be people who "feel" like it should be small, without any good reason.
Is this true? I read Born to Run, but the book seemed embellished. Are the accounts of the Tarahumara in that book apocryphal or did all this stuff really happen in Leadville?
Most of your points feel out of date and just not true unless you're working in the boonies ie backwater areas with only 1-2 dominant employers

> It's considered unprofessional to talk about what you're getting paid.

This is no longer the case. Some companies have even taken the transparent route where everyone's salary is publicly available.

> Ask a potential employer for references or any information on their financials, and that's weird

You can work for a publicly traded company if you really want access to financial data. Even some startups will provide it if you just ask.

You can also glean insight through sites like Glass Door. They have existed well over a decade now. This issue mainly stems from employees not habitually doing enough due diligence on companies, unless there are legal and financial barriers that I missed.
AIM was rock solid. It made me sad to see it go away a couple years back.
"Nope." is cute and shows you're cocksure about that. However, the reality is that this happens all the time and is never punished by culture as "unprofessional" for a corporation to do. Who would punish them? The customers?
IMO, for reaching PhD eligibility level at ML, you just need 2-3 core math courses. (as long as each is rigorous)

Linear Algebra, Probability and Statistics. (and some optimization)

The fast.ai course is great, but having the math background really helps bring the whole field together. Different ideas and models with the math, seem to stand completely independent of each other.

As a software engineer who wants to learn ML, the fast.ai course is great. But, if you find yourself in a situations where you are scoping out a data science problem, the math background helps immensely in coming up with a solution.
There are other measures being developed in this area with stem cell replacement therapy. A very common cause of late life heart failure is a depletion of stem cells and the heart eventually can't replace its own cells. There was an interview on Joe Rogan recently with a doctor that works in this area [1] [2]

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtL1fEEtLaA

[2] - https://www.cellmedicine.com/
The expectation is that companies like Palantir should not exist at all. Their core business is surveilling innocent people en masse.
I don't know about totally barefoot running, but I have found that switching to lightweight "barefoot-feel" shoes that have a small minimal-drop sole and a really lightweight upper have been amazing at reducing pain while actually running (e.g. shin splints) and typical running-induced injuries.

I'd previously been running a lot in "traditional" running shoes with a chunky soles and "supportive" uppers until several years ago when I switched to the like of the nike free range (no association, just a customer) and have never looked back. My persistent arch pain and shin splints stopped and never came back, and I don't ache the next day any more.

My advice would be to listen to your body and try some different options.
> “They are naturally the best runners in Mexico,” says Jiménez. In fact, the clue is in their name, Rarámuri. Rara means feet and muri means to run. The Rarámuri are a people of “light feet” or “running feet”

I can’t help but feel that in running, our biology starts to bleed through in the nature versus nurture debates. Clearly some people and groups of people have both the exceptional nature and nurture to do things that might otherwise seem impossible.