skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi Toupeira,

I didn't find some of those jobs, so thanks for linking them.

As a side note I just went through those job descriptions and I -really- like the layout.

On topic: Unfortunately they really do prove my point. There is a very strong focus on "strong" programming skills which is rather undefined. It's literally mentioned in every single role description.

The overwhelming majority of staff that knows how to run software reliably ironically are not software engineers, although there certainly are some software engineers who also possess this skill.

The people I'm speaking about typically understand concepts and solutions (like PAXOS, filesystems or public cloud) more than they understand software development methodology or software product structure.

I guess you have a global reach and can be quite picky about who you hire, maybe you /do/ exclusively hire architecture and systems focused programmers, or maybe "strong" programming skills are a different definition to mine.
Announcing Tokio 0.2
The simplified timeline (as I understand it, willing to be corrected if I'm wrong);

1. PIR, or someone very close, seems to have lobbied to have price restriction of .org removed. My understanding is that PIR made the argument that they're a non-profit, they have no reason to raise pricing extortionately

2. This was passed, despite a large number of comments against the idea, Ethos was incorporated the following day

3. PIR sold itself to Ethos, a for profit company

The people involved seem to be moving between ICANN, PIR and private firms.

Given all these things I don't think it's unreasonable that people are deeply sceptical. Especially with the ambiguity of "no more than 10% per year" being throw around.
It’s unclear to me how screening reduces cancer. That said, this additional screening with MRI seems like it may reliably detect cancers earlier in the population of women with dense breast tissue, who are more likely to develop cancer in the first place. Earlier detection generally results in better outcomes.
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>This is exactly the effect that the news-spammers want to achieve. If you don't pick a side, you're not voting, or you're not an informed voter

How does this follow at all?

You're doing exactly what the news spammers want. You're believing that they are the gatekeepers to knowledge and being informed. You're buying into the story that you need them to understand the world. This is a load of hogshit.

Candidates post their platforms and their ideas and encourage you to read them before you vote. How does watching the news make me more informed of their platform? They have values and they apply those values to the issues at hand. They say things like, "I believe in universal healthcare," or "I am tough against gun rights." How does being super up to date on the news help me understand how they will react to hypothetical situations, which is what I'm voting on?

Why do I need to know that there's massive protests going on in Hong Kong, the middle east and South America? Those are irrelevant to the domestic issues we face at home. The same domestic issues we face every election cycle (in the US): jobs, health care, food, guns, infrastructure. How does being well informed of the news help me make decisions based on my values and on the alignment of values with a candidate?
Great link.

"Quantities matter [in China] and getting only dozen or couple of hundred orders per month doesn't really help. That said, the Librems are heavily overpriced but that is because Purism seemingly never tried to get better deal and the South San Francisco partner abused this so that is why Purism Librems are double the price they should be. I believe that if we had more realistic prices, it would be much better for Purism not only financially but also more talking about it, more of it in wild which in turn means much more orders, more happy customers etc. The innovation is not really that hard in this space because big players don't try to really innovate as they have strong positions, so it wouldn't be that hard to be good or better then most of big players even, but quantity leverage is hard to pass by."
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I was sceptical at first - but the windows key + shift + s shortcut really made it work for me! (I know I could have mapped Snipping Tool to a macro easily enough but... I didn't)

EDIT: Oh, also the fact that it automatically copies the snip'd area to your clipboard is nice.
To be fair it depends a bit on the context. I present myself sometimes as a database expert and other times a Ruby/C Developer. And I would argue that I, as a minor PostgreSQL contributor who follows the mailing lists, am more knowledgeable than most about databases and especially PostgreSQL.

Edit: Admittedly while I have done a lot of DBA stuff and server operations on top of my software development, hardware and networking are not my strong points so if the company could afford it I would want a more traditional server/networking guy on my team (and at a previous job I did exactly that). And I agree their job posting seem to have a very heavy focus on development experience.
Always makes me tingle to think back about this. A friend and I had submitted for the very first batch — we had a working prototype built using Mozilla XUL of a “FileMaker for the web” (YC later funded something similar-ish — today, the closest would be AirTable..?). We had even wired the server to send us an SMS whenever someone opened the page (it probably emailed <phonenumber>@<carrier>, there was no Twilio back then).

The first YC form had a question about “do you have a working demo (bonus points if you do)”. We were confident the demo would be at least checked out.

You know where this is going. We didn’t get in, and never received any SMS. Years later, I saw PG at an event and asked him about it — he said that somebody other than him might have reviewed our application and regretted that this happened. That may have been a polite way of saying that we weren’t ready or the idea wasn’t good enough — who knows.

All good in the end, but definitely a “what if” moment that I’ve kept from back then...! :)
I’m on the fence about their usefulness. There is a type check on every write, which can lead to major performance losses. Rasmus, the creator of PHP, lamented this in a recent talk.

Using getters and setters already got us type checking external to the class, and is generally good OO practice. Internally I think static analysis on documented types was a good enough solution.
I'm sorry, but is your argument really that this issue is "n[o]t thought ... through" unless people actually starve themselves over it? That it's all a "ploy" unless this guy actually dies for his cause?

I can't quite tell if you're engaging in a non sequitur or moving the goalposts, but your comment doesn't make sense to me in context.
I'm not going to get into a flame war over marketshare, because I couldn't care less -- from my perspective, there has never been a better time to use Linux on the desktop, and its never been in better shape than it is today.

That doesn't mean everything is perfect, or even good. I'll complain about HDPI scaling, touchscreen support, and security all day. There's some real stuff to improve.

But, I also take that criticism with a bit of perspective, and the truth is that Desktop Linux overall is really good, and it makes me more productive, and it makes my life better, and the overall direction that the desktop is moving is positive. There are things that Linux does better than any other modern OS, and I find that using it as a daily drive is un-complicatedly, un-idoiologically, purely-practically nice.

It wasn't nice in the past. When I was growing up, using Linux required pretty substantial sacrifices. I don't have the same reservations recommending something Ubuntu or Manjaro now that I used to have.

Even on the nontechnical side, if I'm going to provide computer support for someone, I usually stick them on Linux, because I have more control to simplify their environment and it's easier for me to quickly solve their problems. It's really good, I appreciate all the hard work that's gone into getting it here, and I'm optimistic about its future.
Fair, but seems inconsistent to have `fn` instead of `function` like we use for anonymous functions - unless `fn` acts like an alias to `function` now (which doesn't sound like is the case) which wouldn't be as ambiguous for the compiler to figure out
VMWare wants Intel E1000, which has been supported for a while:

http://osx86drivers.sourceforge.net/ (Older)
https://github.com/Mieze/IntelMausiEthernet (Latest)
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This author is just outright naive.

>Even in the worst case, if Ethos considers dramatically increasing prices (which, to be clear, we do not expect them to do!), the Registry Agreement for .org requires a 6-month notice period during which domain owners can lock in a 10-year registration at pre-increase rates. This should seriously discourage Ethos from doing this, because it would take 10 years for the new high rate to even take effect for existing registrants, and new registrations would likely fall off right away.

No, the worst case scenario is that they jack up prices and then run a massive campaign FUD campaign about non-profits without .org addresses. Or they start selling of Oxfam.org to competitors. Or hell, they start doing differential pricing, gouging the people they think can pay.

>We're all trying to make the Internet a better place

No we're not. Don't be an idiot. Private equity companies are making money from investments they have no interest in making anything a better place and it's insulting to expect people to believe that.
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We haven't tried that much planets yet, tbh.
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10% per year is much, though. Even with this it's an unreasonable price hike.
I'm liking Preview so far on Android. Especially the bottom bar. There are few more things that would sell it for me as my only browser.

- Extensions, for uBlock Origin.

- Some equivalent of the most convenient features I've ingrained to muscle memory from Brave, like pull-to-refresh, tapping a word to see a search/lookup box or swiping left/right on the address bar to change tabs.

- Or at least the ability to search DDG or Google from highlighted text (I've tried doing this so many times but it isn't implemented yet).

- The file picker on GitHub crashes.

Of course these will probably be addressed eventually.
You should find the issue is resolved now, there was a global issue which as been fixed at the time of writing.
You can't. Start asking how the information the news gives you is actually benefiting you.
>I suggest to just give them money, and then they can buy the bread and healthcare they need.

I believe you mean "bread OR healthcare".
It's 2x other phones with superior specs, like a Moto G7. It's 3x other phones with similar specs.
The RPi doesn't feel very minimalist.

I wish the RPi was this standalone microserver that had its own flash memory (SD cards are known to fail) that you could plug into your home network and act as a personal server.

Maybe one day it will be possible to do some basic GSM data with a RPi.
When you're receiving stock (which is common in a faang) you actually do own some of it.
So this is "we need the money to survive, and we completely trust these private equity guys to do the right thing"

10%/year should be reaping quite some profit after a while. I wouldn't be surprised if this is a pump-and-dump kind of deal, where PE substantially raise prices and then sell the entity at a big profit, given the effectively locked-in forward profits.
I don't really have a source on that, although I'm also not aware of any particular species that are known to have been wiped out due to the current climate change. It is, however, fairly obvious that humans have had an enormous impact on pretty much every inhabitable part of the earth. Even without climate change, it's plausible that human activity will ultimately destroy most ecosystems.

>It is quite conceivable that rapid global warming will lead to an extinction event that far exceeds anything that humans have managed to date.
>When the required shifts get large enough there simply may not be enough time...
>Our understanding of ecological systems is still pretty limited

You've made a number of assertions here about ecology with no reference to research.

This is one of my main issues with the way climate change is presented - much is made of tipping points and the scale of the incoming catastrophe, but the fact is we simply don't know. Even if it is true that we have a low number of decades until irreversible catastrophe, what exactly can be done about that?
That's very idealized, right now we still struggle with having big tech even acknowledge its actually our data [0] and not completely and only theirs the moment we give it to them willingly or often enough unwillingly.

At our current trajectory, it looks much more like we are heading into a cyberpunk Esque dystopia in which people are not just only commoditized through their labor, but also their data value.

So instead of post-privacy for big data projects that could serve all of humanity, we end up with data oligopolies hoarding the "gold" in neatly segregated silos to control its scarcity and thus value.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/mar/11/tim-berne...
If anyone developing this is here: I don't like the drawer above the URL/search bar which contains the share and bookmark buttons. The bar is visually-distracting, and it's much easier to tap on the vertical three dots menu and tap on a bookmark button there. I've never been a fan of "share", but that could probably be moved inline with the URL/search bar (either the share or bookmark button, and the other button going in the menu).

Is there going to be an option for the URL/search bar to automatically hide similar to how it does on Firefox for Android when you scroll? That would be a nice feature to have.

(Extensions is a must-have if I'm going to switch over!)

Thanks, and great job!
Use eloquent collections instead of vanilla arrays and you'll be much happier
Interesting to see how people are bound to their selective perception if they can somehow profit from it.

Ethos will squeeze every last drop out of this opportunity.
You really don’t get most of the benefits “Strongly typed” languages here. A program that fails with type errors at runtime instead of compile time is the worst of all worlds.
Floods and earthquakes make canyons sub-optimal for settlements on Earth too.
Fair enough - so how are humans sustainable?
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Must admit, I've used screen recording during web development for some edge cases; this might address those situations
They still sell a Linux variant of the XPS series, which works mostly fine. It's not a patch on the X1 Carbon, but it's functional.
Looks like they're optional anyway so you're free to do things however you like
> Make .org domain names "accessible and reasonably priced for all", including limiting price increases to no more than 10% per year

This immediately stuck out to me as a really bad deal.

Rising with inflation, somewhere between 1 and 4% per year, would essentially keep prices stable. This is tricky when selling internationally, but roughly possible.

Rising by 10% each year is significantly faster than inflation, and would result in a $20 domain name doubling in price in 7 years, or 6x in 20 years.

This is the internet we're talking about, 20 year time horizons are important and yet still short sighted. In 100 years we're talking $275,000 rather than the $400 that inflation would get us to.

> Ethos has said that their plan is to "live within the spirit of historic practice,"

This is not what Private Equity does. It cuts costs and quality, raises prices, strips assets, and seeks to significantly increase profits. I think it's naive and short-sighted to take them at their word, as this article admits they are doing.
> If geeks were influential, the “year of the Linux desktop”
I don't see how that's relevant, if I set up or recommend Firefox on my parents computer with ad block they're going to trust me and use it over chrome/safari/edge. If I set up Linux instead of windows they're going to be extremely confused, annoyed and won't let me touch their computer again..

Geeks are extremely influential to their non technical friends but why would you ever impose Linux on them? I don't see how it would benefit them and you'd have to deal with the endless fallout and questions that arise.
Exactly what I was thinking. I wonder when Chrome's going release their version!
>total revenues for the oil and gas drilling sector came to $2 trillion in 2017.

And all that money was immediately given to dirty evil fake scientists, right?
I'd have thought you'd use pegs (pitons, or piles) as for tents on Earth?
Sounds like fearmongering with no basis. There are lots of areas which would benefit from warming and become food producers (Siberia and Canada come to mind). As for Southeast Asians: they're already used to living on water, with stilt houses, rice terraces etc. Humans can cope, as tgey always have. Overall, there will be more water, more warmth and more civilization.
Could the air become unsafe after exposure to radiation?
that is still a blog post containing his personal opinion
You are right saying that the carbon cycle is a closed cycle, there is no net change over time in carbon dioxide concentrations (as you are not using fossile fuels or burying grass). But during the 12 years lifespan of methane you will have considerably more radiative forcing.
Nope. I've been to the ER with a head wound that would not stop bleeding, and was never asked for my blood type.

Had they asked, I would have given the wrong answer. My blood was typed when I was born. 25 years later when I started donating blood, I was typed again -- and told a different type.

My physicians and phlebotomists assure me blood type cannot change, and old blood tests were simply not very accurate. I don't know any lab or clinic that trusts what someone else claims about blood type.
Any more information about how and where I'd go about this?
> Make .org domain names "accessible and reasonably priced for all", including limiting price increases to no more than 10% per year

There is nothing reasonable about the current prices. It’s literally a few hundred bytes of data mostly static data.

“10% per year” means it will double every seven years. “Up to” means they will be doing it at the maximum. And unless this is legally codified I doubt they would adhere to that either.
Google is working on integrating CUDA directly into TensorFlow with the end goal being that you can use any GPU to do your computation. Basically a leapfrog over the inherently closed system that Nvidia has tried to implement.

I’m going to be glad when that finally happens. It’s not healthy for machine learning to be so dependent on a single provider like that.
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This guy needs a psychologist.

He's willing to die over data models that have been predicting dire consequences in ten years, but they've been doing that for the last 30 years.

It's sad to think what that kind of commitment could have produced if it was directed at real problems.
the UK has outsourced its CO2 emissions
But funnily enough the trustees of the Public Interest Registry (the .Org subsidiary) were all being paid before it was sold.

https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/331...
Not that I believe we are anywhere close, but processors could be made on the moon. Maybe not modern ones, but working ones. Also if space is not a problem, quite large ones too.
While everyone else (well, me) have their attention on the hippest, newest languages PHP has been steadily improving, getting faster, and still runs a lot of the largest web properties. It wouldn't surprise me if before long PHP can be compiled to native binary* complete with a memory efficient, non-blocking web server and performance approaching what Go and dotNetCore can achieve... and the option to emit a "normal" PHP web app that can run anywhere if you don't need Facebook-level performance from it.

*I realize HipHop PHP did this already but it doesn't have it's own baked-in web server afaik. I'm thinking along the lines of compiling down to something small and fast to be deployed to K8S clusters without needing containers for Apache or nginx as part of the setup.
I think your behind a proxy.
I’m with you here. I’d rather have a single uniform syntax for anonymous function.
I don't see Toolbar. Did they nust update it and remove it?

Hmmm... About:Config doesn't work.
For all practical purposes, the sky over Mars is its own planetarium. Until light pollution reaches Earth level, that is.
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But aren't most larger birds predators that are highly habitat/food supply constrained? That kind of population could be quite resilient to moderate increases in mortality.

(I might be assigning far more importance to predator-Peru cycles than is warranted though, I was reading about what I now found is called https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotka%E2%80%93Volterra_equatio... at a very young age and the concept stuck for life)
> Try throw me an architecture and watch if I can't throw you back a GP :)

On the pragmatic side, would that GP train faster than the NN? In my little experimentation with GPs, I found them awfully slow. However, maybe what I tried (it was black box for me) used some brute force approach, and there are other more fine-tuned algorithms. Since you are an expert in the area, what's your take?
Nor do they like it when they do support all platforms from day one via an Electron app...
Real hardware breakthroughs, and focusing on rustc
Wouldn’t that be expected?
In which a patsy sets out the arguments by which he was manipulated.

A large part of his motivation appears to be delusions of grandeur within an organization, the Internet Society, which, up to now, has been of no relevance whatsoever, and which has only now achieved a degree of prominence through an act of apparently naive stupidity.
That goes for the rest of the world too, except in most countries, if children are separated from their parents the police is responsible to keep track of the kids to make sure they can reunite after being released.
I love the photos from the early days, especially of the first batch. Humble beginnings, great future ahead!

https://web.archive.org/web/20170609041739/http://old.ycombi...
The article's author points out that normal radiation on Mars is about the same as background radiation in Ramsar, Iran. Residents there have normal lifespans and cancer rates. Solar storms are a problem but fortunately, they give you enough warning to take shelter.

https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2019/10/20/omg-space-is-f...
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Not in Mumbai.

Source: I'm a resident.
I guess null coalescing assignment operator will save a lot of typing but I'm not sure it leads toward a more readable code, especially with ?? and ?: already part of the language.
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I hate this justification of doing bad stuff with ‘for the greater good’ excuse.
Small user base to test?
Isn’t the GeckoView part built with Rust?