skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Most people, period, are not interested in programming a computer all day.

That's true. But if you ask 1000 men and 1000 women if they want to program all day, you'll get a much higher % of men.

> My girl child likes trucks, not Frozen, and the pressure from other adults to get her to conform and play with Disney-branded dolls is non-trivial and unrelenting. Ugh.

I largely agree, Disney is overwhelming. Though no one has pressured or tried to make my daughter conform, other adults do mostly buy her girl typical things. Her cars, trains, dinosaurs, legos and the like mostly came from us (didn't buy any dolls, she got those from others). She likes trucks and Frozen. But mostly Paw Patrol. It's amazing, everything else is a distant 2nd to those pups!
Though there is something to your claim, the fact that it's been made "public" suggests that participants have signed a consent form(possibly multiple).

This is not an isolated case - large portion of those "open source" data sets are "Please sign up, send us an email and mail a DNA sample". And I'm talking about data sets which hold 0.0 personal or classified information.
> Does the video also bring examples, where it was bad to talk to the police, when you were in fact innocent?

Yes. It's much closer to the end of his talk where there is an erroneous contradicting witness and you can wind up convicted of lying to the police.

He also points to things like "Possession of a lobster can be a felony". You simply can't know all the laws, so getting a lawyer forces the police to narrow the scope immediately. At that point you can address the actual charges rather than letting the police fish through hours of your babbling hunting for something to hang you with.

> When I have done nothing wrong I don't want to need a lawer by design.

That's fine. But "Shut the hell up" remains good advice. The only benefit to "cooperating" with the police is at SENTENCING. And, if I'm actually innocent, that's a bit of a problem, no?
> barely noticed, and it didn't affect my thinking on them. Some people dress up, some don't.

Of course this doesn't say anything about their technical abilities. But showing you care about the interview matters and flip-flops don't send that message. It's basically as close to no effort as it gets while still being allowed in public. I'm sure you'd find the same as a sign of unprofessionalism in many other fields even if the clothes have no effect on performance.
> Isn't this only for mutual funds?

No.
To expand on another good comment: space was precious. Really precious. If you were only a kid in the 90s you will have a hard time appreciating it. (But then again ancient UNIX greybeards will say the same to me, I guess...)

For example, my first computer was Apple II. It had 48KB RAM and 12KB ROM which contained initial bootstrap code that corresponds to BIOS, plus a Basic interpreter, plus a REPL tool with disassembler. All of that, in 12KB. The main page of Hacker news is about 42KB, not including icons and HTTP headers: it's already about three times a BIOS+Basic interpreter+disassembler.

And the monitor only had 40x24 lines (or maybe 40x25, it was a long time ago). Nobody's mad enough to waste two columns, out of 40, just to print two digits that will be forever stuck at 19.

As another example, around that time Turbo Pascal was immensely popular, and every string started with a byte showing its length: so no string can be more than 255 bytes. Good enough: what kind of madman would waste precious memory on a string more than 256 characters?

If you go back to that period and think about the environment, using 4-digit years will be considered a madness, not the other way.
"The users can just switch" doesn't actually work when the switching costs are high, and the switching costs for a social network are a lot higher than you are making it seem.

If all of my friends are using WhatsApp, either I have to use it too or I have to convince everyone to switch to my preferred app just for my sake. And in the case of iMessage, I have to ask them to switch their phone too.

If these systems could interoperate with each other it'd be different, but as-is, the switching costs are astronomical.
The limited impact of US workplace wellness programs on health and employment
That's a good one too - but the fact that managers are promoted to their level of incompetence, while engineers are DEMOTED to their level of incompetence... it makes it quite hard to justify staying on the technical track for all but the most talented of engineers (which 98% of engineers are not)
Wow what a sick animated page! Amazingly done.
If they aren't convinced it is a real option than they didn't have the same opportunity. Either way it isn't a problem that can be solved by pushing people into the field to create a more equal ratio.
Gosh, thanks for your kind words!
> if I didn't like their WhatsApp and Facebook accounts merging, for example, I could just bounce to iMessage / Kik / Snap / Telegram.

> low switching costs

Messaging services do not have low switching costs, for the same reason that Facebook itself does not have a low switching cost. People use the service that has their friends on it.
Just introduced paid plans in my SaaS and got the first paying customer
As per the title, Today I just introduced a couple of paid options for my Saas and I just recorded the first payment, for a yearly Pro plan ($150).

The tool is in the niche of Decentralized Finance (DeFi) and allows users to calculate their returns when investing in Uniswap, a (super-interesting) protocol which is getting pretty popular within the Ethereum community. I launched it as a totally free product in June, got some initial traction, and now trying to find a model to make it sustainable and develop it further. DeFi is still very small, but with high growth potential I believe.

I’ve created so far 3 plans: Basic (free), Pro (1 ETH/year, about $150) and Large Investors (5ETH/year, about $750). They differ in terms of features as well as for the number of analysis allowed.

Wanted to share this with you. Any consideration/ pitfall to avoid when moving from free to paid?

https://www.uniswaproi.com/
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I'm trying to figure out exactly how these ring hacks are happening. My whole family and extended family is concerned about them. So just to be clear, there isn't a known vuln with Ring specifically, right? It's just that people's email/passwords are getting popped somewhere else on the internet, and then because of password reuse their Ring account is also compromised? Is that the gist of it?
A couple years ago, there was a constraint CSS library but the startup behind it went under.

https://gss.github.io/guides/ccss

Do you plan to add a GUI editor too? What do you think of Xcode/Figma's constraint system?

You can use something like https://diez.org/ to provide easy cross platform support. (Note it's only partially open source)

The browser and most "responsive UI" platforms like Flutter have a built-in constraint solver to process layouts. However often the language does not provide sufficiently powerful systems to express constraints in relation to each other, so for the backend you can probably take advantage of existing code when Z3 is too heavy a dependency. (I am not sure if this is possible for all layout solvers, you will probably have to prove it mathematically that the CSS (or whichever platform you are targeting) solver is equivalent or of higher abstraction level in relation to your design language so it can generate the appropriate code. Otherwise the purely declarative approach might not work and you will need JS/Dart/the native scripting language.)
What works in one medium isn't necessarily the best choice for a different medium. Books and web pages have unique constraints and use cases. Everything you've described sounds like the experience I want from a great cook book. It's something I will browse and spend time with. On the web I just want information. I got there with a specific search and I'm not there to learn about the author.

The essays probably wouldn't bother me if they would put the recipe first. If you have a great story about why sage is your favorite herb put that after the recipe. I don't care, but I suppose somebody might.
How Remote Teams Make Code Review Work Across Multiple Timezones
I sorta agree when in comes to Vector and some of the Thread stuff, but URL is only broken in gethashcode() and equals(). The rest of the class is perfectly fine. It's a great simple curl that takes you pretty far before you reach for a real http client lib.
> How do you know this?

Because if I head to https://www.facebook.com/ads/preferences/, they have a wide variety of bits of info on me that permit this exact sort of targeting, and it'd be really dumb of them not to use them.

If I head to Facebook's ads manager and create a custom audience, typing "psoriasis" in the box gets me "psoriasis awareness", which consists of 19,402,670 "People who have expressed an interest in or like Pages related to Psoriasis Awareness". Chances are good I'm one of them.
Yeah. Certainly not saying it's an open and shut case on the right way to test. Obviously we do whole-population preventative medicine for many things.
Try comparing it to T_D posts on this topic. Without that, your comparison is useless.
I recommend this article "The Gervais Principle, Or The Office According to The Office".

https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-...
No, it does matter, we should use Warming Equivalent. "Warming equivalent" is the correct metric. Warming equivalents are typically given in Tons CO2 equivalent. It's a way of converting methane and NO2 and other more powerful greenhouse gases to their CO2 equivalent. It's the standard metric anytime we're examining the climate impacts of actions.

In the case of gasoline powered cars, I believe they just put out CO2, the other components are pretty negligible. So you can directly compare the warming equivalent of planes to the pure CO2 of cars, it's a reasonable comparison.

It's worth double checking that last thing, it's been a minute since I looked at the numbers, but I'm about 85% sure of it.
Does anyone remember a MS-DOS game where one could select different characters to battle (there were a lot of them). They all had strange names (strange to me at 10 years old), maybe Greek-like? I played this a friends house late 1980s, have been looking to find it again without much luck.
Even if you decide to do OOP code, it's better in Clojure, I think. Being able to use Protocols and Multimethods and `extend-type` allows to write OOP code in a much cleaner and clearer way than something like Java...at least I think so.
Afaik there’s basic autocomplete but only if vim was built with the python option enabled.

But then again I use vscode and pycharm in vim mode.
As long as you put on a wolf mask and live stream market open
In older cars with worse tolerances and bad oil this was a major issue. Newer cars without carburetors ensure the proper fuel mixture even when cold. And multi viscosity oils ensure lubrication even when cold.

Performance will still be worse and wear higher than a warm engine. But there’s no reason you can’t let it warm up on the way. Growing up in Canada it was always body rust not the engine that ultimately did the cars in anyways.
Jerry Garcia ties usually are great and I like an excuse to wear a tie myself. But yes more and more interviewers seem to either expect business casual or dress-code is communicated in run-up correspondence to the interview.
> Wouldn't a more ideal solution be archiving via a variety of external (or internal, I guess) sources the first time a link appears on your site, and then after a year automatically switching all links to archived versions?

Yes, by 'shortly' I meant something like 90 days. In my experience, most pages won't change too much 90 days after I add them (I'm thinking particularly of social media-like things), but it's also rare for something to die that quickly. 365+ days, however, would be perilously long. My main concern there is balancing between delaying so long to snapshot that the link dies (thus generating the manual linkrot-repair problem I'm trying to avoid) and being too eager to snapshot and archiving a version which is not done and would mislead a reader.

(I also went through all my domains and created a whitelist of domains that my experience suggests are trustworthy or where local mirrors wouldn't be relevant. For example, obviously you don't really need to worry about Arxiv links breaking, or about English Wikipedia pages disappearing - barring the occasional deletionist rampage.)

> This would kill link rot in its tracks while preserving a lot of the value of links for the people you're linking to, and would cost less in bandwidth costs given the curve of access on old content.

My traffic patterns are different from a blog, so it wouldn't.
The author is arguing that the real signal is zero and the systematic error is large, so you will always end up converging on a repeatable but useless value. Technically, taking only one sample could have gotten you closer because there is a 50% chance that the random error would have gone in the opposite direction to the systemic error, although the author is wrong to phrase that like it's some kind of advantage, because the other fifty percent of the time the random error will make the total error even worse.
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> To me, that's as profound as the discovery, if ever, of another intelligent species in the universe.

Err, what?

Edit:

To elaborate, this strikes me as completely ridiculous.

We're only talking about thousands of years, this is not a long time.

Just imagine if every person living in the united states alone were born sequentially, and that the average lifetime were 60 years. There's over 300M people in this country alone. That's what, 18B years? Even hundreds of thousands of years isn't a long time.

If anything's profound it's how quickly things have drastically changed. Not how impressive it is to find art in caves from less than a million years ago.
Smaller transistors bring everything. They have lower resistance and capacitance resisting a switch, you can build more of them at the same time (so, approximately by the same cost), a signal takes less time to pass through them (and to get from one to another), and they have a larger surface/volume ratio for cooling down.

That said, transistors actually stopped shrinking a while ago. They are getting packaged nearer to each other, they have changed from horizontal to vertical, and they are changing the width/length ratio, but they are not really shrinking.
It doesn't seem like you read the article, which is about two specific technologies which did not exist in the 80's and 90's.
> I never said that someone has to live and breathe work, only that they don't have anything _higher priority_ than work.

What exactly does this mean? I prioritize A LOT over work. My back hurts, work can suck it. I get into an accident, again, work takes a hell of a back seat. If a family member is having issues, guess what, work may not be my highest priority. I'm a human, not a robot.

> Having kids is a lifestyle choice that is at odds with other choices.

That is self evident, what is your underlying non analogy point?

> If you want society to subsidize having children, then the government should do it, not individual software teams.

Software teams are a part of society are they not?

I'll be blunt, I'd rather generally have the people with kids on my team than the humans that think Arbeit macht Frei (had to be done, far too apropos in this specific instance). Having time off from work tends to mean you focus more on work when you're there. I love programming, but I have other things in life I want to pursue. It also means I can compartmentalize work for work, not "oh i was thinking of doing xyz at work, i should spin up a bunch of cloud instances at home tonight and test this shiny new thing out to make my job hopefully a bit easier in the week". That mindset is just doing training for work outside of work. Which is simply, more work, and the end result of that kind of stuff from what I have seen, is guys end up snapping and go insane or worse.
Who's at fault if a bullet that automatically travels forwards after the owner activates it with a button on a gun winds up piercing the body of someone else and killing them? The person who activated the bullet or the manufacturer?

This isn't about AI, it's a simple dumb case "guy presses button that makes metal move. Metal crushes pedestrian". There should be no doubt about who's wrong, and it's not a moral question.

Naturally if the starting was a failure of the remote start system it's the manufacturer, but still not really a moral discussion, just plain old product failure.
I would definitely ask for $120k, or even 10k more. The cost of replacing you is going to be higher if you have worked almost a year with them and contributed to their code base. The fact is that you should be selfish, they will not give it a second thought if for whatever reason they decide to let you go. You can ask for a sign on bonus, if they don't want to have a larger salary on the paper (say they want to show their burn rate is low).
Thanks for the suggestion! We will look into this and we might offer it in the future.
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Yup, that's the Chinese title of Dante's work: https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%A5%9E%E6%9B%B2
Nice, thanks to both of you for the tip. I always hated ImmutableJS's clunky API which is partly the reason why I switched from Redux to Mobx as the object assigning felt otherwise so icky. I have to check out if Immer is any better =).
This seems right. Twitter is not engaging in this in pursuit of real openness, and the end result--if anything--is unlikely to be better for twitter users.
Negation just includes the opposite boolean value in the array. _If_ that value at that index happens to be different than the last time the component rendered, the effect will run again.
I'd agree. Even if they are covering full relo (which they really should be if they are requiring you to move), 90k is pretty low to move TO California. If you were moving to Kansas than that'd be different, still not realistic overall but way closer.

If you are heading to the SF area, that's even worse, then say LA.

I'd be asking for a more fair salary. Basically they did the math of benefits and took most of it out of your offer. The reality is if they have to hire a full time employee in CA with 12+ years they'll likely spend more than $120k/year.

To be fair, I think a lot of startups today are stuck not understanding how to pay people with experience. I think they get little to no solid advice on how to properly make offers and so they suck at it generally. I've seen them offer $40k & .5% thinking that is fair for people with major experience. But if you go back to them and talk about it sanely and not confrontationally you'll be fine. Many times they just don't know where to start so they take a guess and to me it seems like they took most of the benefits cost out of your current salary and then made an offer.

You shouldn't be below $100k. And remember the equity is worthless, so don't consider it as part of the offer, it is just a bonus that is like buying a lottery ticket with about the same odds. :)
The german film , The Lives of Others, captures this technique spectacularly.
Violence happened but was generally something to avoid in the paleolithic due to the risk. It was too costly and it wasn't until the neolithic were population sizes high enough to make that cost worth while, and grain and resource storage made a worthwhile reward. Systematic warfare didn't appear until the neolithic, that's when we begin finding mass graves of peoples slaughtered by weaponry and more depictions of warfare in art.
Perhaps the biases around the home PC and video games from the 80's is still embedded today? It's my personal favorite theory: the girls were told they couldn't play in our forts 30+ years ago. This became part of modern western culture with respect to computers & gaming and became applied to computers in general.

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2014/10/21/357629765/when...
If this site starts getting any traction, you're going to get destroyed by lawyers and copyright infringement claims, so I hope you're prepared for that. outline.com does basically the same thing, but they've had to exclude most of the major sites from working through it now.

Outline even seems to make it difficult to find any way to identify/contact them, but it only took me a couple of minutes to find the identity and location (inside the US = easy target) of who's behind Trim. Seriously, talk to an IP lawyer before you continue trying to promote this. You can't just copy other people's writing onto your own site.
No. I really need to catalog it better since it is such a fun collection. It ranges from 8 bits (Apple IIs, TRS-80s, Commodore PETs) to Sun SparcStations.
Better for the eyes and (probably) better for extending the life of the monitor also. Energy saver. Less heat and, when you scale it to millions of computers, more ecological.

Bad for selling computers. Everybody wants a million of colors dancing the macarena in their computers and is nice, for like five minutes. Ten hours and your pupils are on fire.
You can go to any of the accounts of the people they mention in the piece. Even better examples can be found if you go to the accounts of anyone commenting on the aforementioned accounts.
Yes, and while the focus is on the Nginx project, there are probably other projects that used code from Nginx that would also be affected.
I've been listening to binaural beats lately at the recommendation of a few friends. It seems to work pretty well to drown out the office noise without distracting me.
Indeed, a small amount of css would go a long way here.
Well, you seem to be sarcastically implying the opposite: that there are hordes of women who want to move into a profession that’s in high demand with a low barrier for entry, but that… they’re not for some reason? Where are all these women? What are their reasons? I’m not even familiar with any anecdotal evidence that there are a lot of women who want to work as software developers but are unable to. Everywhere I’ve ever worked has fallen all over itself to hire women, even going so far as to lower the hiring bar to meet some diversity quotas, and has _still_ been unable to find these apocryphal women who are interested and capable of working as computer programmers but are unable to find the opportunity.
If you're hearing about good anything, you're hearing about good marketing. ;)
My company disallows me from doing open source (without an incredibly rigorous review process that makes it honestly not worth the hassle).

Nice plus? Sure. Near-mandatory? Fuck no.
Yes, Chicago. I doubt it has happened again, the quiz bowl organization took steps to prevent similar conflicts.
You're right, and I would never work at a place with daily standups (for that reason among others).

Instead: (1) Here are your priorities. (2) Tell me if you run into any blockers. (3) Let the team periodically know what they need to about what you're working on.
T_D bans linking directly to sites deemed left leaning. Instead you would post an archived version of the article. It might be difficult to do that analysis given the hoops for posting. r/politics does the same for news deemed right leaning.
It may not be your 'responsibility', whatever that means, and it would be nice if there was less link rot, but the fact remains: you provided those links because you thought they were relevant & useful for the reader; many of them are going to break; are you going to fix them, or not?

You have decided you do not care enough about your writings or your readers to invest the effort to fix them. That is your decision, and I don't know enough about you, your writings, or your readers to criticize it.

I have decided differently.
Aha, poor guy! Never thought about what it's like without an American keyboard!