skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Its really not that hard to find email addresses just using Google. I’ve emailed a number of rich and famous people. Making yourself stand out is quite another matter.
The oldest known fossil forest discovered in upper New York state
Looks super lit with everything baked;- faster compilation, small binaries, and performance... Still scared to jump in
Don't Be a Stanford Asshole
Again depends. Not everyone is working at a FAANG, meaning if they have been working at private tech co yet to IPO then their equity comp is all illiquid so they don’t necessarily have a ton of cash.
Someone was able to film this and make it public? I'd love to know the story behind that.
You’re making an argument that CGI doesn’t match reality - that’s true and hardly surprising.
> For context, the Cairo forest is about 140 million years older than the first dinosaurs that roamed the earth

I found this interesting because it demonstrates just how much there is still to discover about the planet's history. Millions or even billions of history may lie just beneath our feet.
3rd time I've seen this posted now and never with a source. I'm curious also!
Is RDMA the same as kernel bypass?
It's always been that way in SV, but SF used to be considered challenging for straight women. Mary Steenburgen's character in "Time After Time" comments on it.
Well, Empty is a special value in VBA. And I forgot to mention, there are two kinds of "empty" arrays that are not Empty. So it's six times as good as a normal
language.

Here's an example:

' x can be anything, including an array, but
' defaults to the value Empty.
Dim x

' y is an array of values that can be anything,
' which defaults to an empty array.
Dim y()

' Initialize x as an empty array
x = Array()

' The following two statements print 0 and -1.
Debug.Print LBound(x)
Debug.Print UBound(x)

' The following two statements error with
' "Subscript out of range" even though y
' is also a kind of empty array.
Debug.Print LBound(y)
Debug.Print UBound(y)
I would like to see the evidence that this isn't just some actors in costumes.

It's easy to believe something like this happened in real life and got video taped. Certainly more unbelievable things have been caught on film. But it's also easy to believe it's a hoax, and it'd be an easy hoax to pull off.
I saw this video a few weeks ago and wondered, how does a video like this get released? It sounds like the person recording is also doing the questioning, and it also doesn't feel like this is the kind of video that would be willingly shared as propaganda. So why is it online?

It actually makes me slightly doubt whether it's real or faked. I mean, it's not that hard to get 2 fake police outfits and a room and put together a fancy chair. And they do pan away pretty suddenly from the police officers. And why even show the police officers, like hey check out these two totally real cops? Why are they even recording in the first place?

I'm not saying it's actually fake, but for me enough things don't quite add up that I personally chose to go with "this doesn't affect my opinions because I have no clue if it's true or not" on this one. It's slightly worrisome that outside of HN (I've seen this on Reddit and in other tweets) I have not seen doubt expressed in any way. I think it's generally good to doubt things and we may be in big trouble if the global trend is to believe everything you see.
1) Social Justice isn’t mainstream left, it’s a very loud and quite powerful subculture.

2) The mainstream left is way too big to be coordinated on a mailing list or over Twitter and couldn’t agree on San Francisco if that was true. If there was never a coherent Left position on the smoldering wreckage that is Detroit why would there be on SF?

3) SF is just going to keep regulating, taxing and not building housing until there’s an event that everyone decides means SF is no longer absolutely the best place to be if you’re into startups and it’ll dissipate into the general Bay Area and the US, like Detroit and Michigan after Detroit started burning.
Well, I appreciated this post! I’ve gone through random creative spurts, not for any reason what so ever, through arbitrarily long processes in the past. Glad to know it’s a “thing” and not just my neurons firing wrong!
It seems pretty insane that a system that's designed to carry people, and thus should be extra super-duper quadruple checked for problems and have multiple backups for all critical functions, could become out of time sync with launch control.

According to the New York Times, "the spacecraft's software set its clock [incorrectly] based on the time it received from the Atlas 5 rocket before launch." And no one noticed?? No system noticed? Not a single pop-up anywhere? I get that a rocket doesn't have a cellular internet connection running Android, but one would think it might have a decent GPS on board at least...

Software is hard. Spaceflight is hard. But I would have thought we had the whole timekeeping thing worked out by now. I guess that's probably what the Boeing software devs thought as well...
Filter by "software engineer". All the numbers are well over $100k.

https://h1bdata.info/index.php?em=apple&job=software+Enginee...

Also don't forget that these numbers only include base salary and not RSUs/bonuses. At tech firms base salary is only a fraction of total comp. Someone who makes 150k base might make e.g. 250k+ TC.

The point I am making, that you are repeatedly refusing to acknowledge, is that the H-1B program covers almost ALL skilled immigrants, not just the ones that are hired because they are cheap. There is no alternate immigration program for people making 500k/year.

You seem to be making 2 different arguments at the same time, that

1. The H-1B program sucks (because employees are handcuffed to their employers)

2. Therefore companies should not use the H-1B program and only hire Americans.

I agree with you on the first point but the second does not follow from the first. Since there is no gentler, kinder, alternative to the H-1B program, companies have no choice but to go through it to hire the people they want to hire, even if their goal is not just to acquire cheap labor. Expanding your hiring pool beyond 5% of the world population is necessary if you want to build a company as successful as Apple. Do you think it's possible to build another Apple by hiring only people whose names start with M? If not, why do you think they can hamstring themselves by hiring only people of a single nationality.
Good point.

And I'm reminded of a frightening experience. So I'm home after a night of dancing with friends. And I notice a burn hole in the back of my wool sweater. Some jerk with a lighter, I'm sure. But it could have been very bad, if I had been wearing PET fleece.
2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13210988

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12159792

2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10182712

2014: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7671379

2009: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=768057

(Links for the curious.)
Does anyone have a version that isn't 37 Tweets?
How are you bullied in your daily life? I visited your about section on your page you list in your profile and you look like a normal dude, and it says you are 29.

This is my junior year picture that is in the yearbook. https://i.imgur.com/qDmYOJV.png

High school wasn't great for me. But by 29 I knew people had it worse and I realized nobody wants to hang out with a perpetual victim. Do you think you shouldn't have to work to get laid?

Again, really curious how you are are being bullied. Are people pushing you into lockers? Or do you just equate bulling with not getting the respect you think you deserve?
I wonder what's the oldest city or oldest civilization than and how old would be that.
> do you have any idea how far these technologies are driving the future?

I think unlike you I know the past. I can see both it and the future. I don't like this future. All I see is you guys are building machines to exploit people.
I never learned Objective-C, but I just read that in that language:

"NULL is a void *, nil is an id, and Nil is a Class pointer"

...and apparently there is also NSNull.

https://nshipster.com/nil/
On an unrelated note, I hate how this has become the trend for long-form content- What should've been a normal blog post is now being chunked into smaller distracting paragraphs with each containing its own paths to deviate from the original topic (comments, retweets, etc.)

I wonder what's the motivation though - is it the likes? The informal setting?
I really miss those days when we just had content sitting with default font styles inside plain 'ol HTML tables.
+1 and I wish I could give more for Canossa, that's really what is missing.

From Wikipedia:

"The Road to Canossa...refers to Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV's trek to Canossa Castle, Italy, where Pope Gregory VII was staying as the guest of Margravine Matilda of Tuscany, at the height of the investiture controversy in January 1077 to seek absolution of his excommunication.

According to contemporary sources, he was forced to humiliate himself on his knees waiting for three days and three nights before the entrance gate of the castle, while a blizzard raged. Indeed, the episode has been described as "one of the most dramatic moments of the Middle Age"

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_to_Canossa

I also really enjoy Norman Cantor's description in "Civilization in the Middle Ages," where he takes a more cynical view of the actions involved.
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A thread from 2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10306302

(for the curious)
just trying to understand - you guys think moving a Python2 monolith to Python 3 is too painful, and so you are going to port all the code from Python2 to a completely new language (Go), change the architecture (monolith -> microservices) and move the HTTP API to React + GraphQL, all in one year?

2020 is going to be in an interesting year at Khan Academy ;-)
alpine doesn't "have awk installed," it's just that BusyBox that has an awk implementation. For real GNU awk you have to install the gawk package.
Or the smart phone got repaired (and cloned), or the guy had a bad conscious afterwards, or he shared it with friends who then published it etc. So many reasons.
This process reminds me of the way that titles were made for Stranger Things. The creators wanted to go full out and have stop motion practical effects. They consulted with a guru of that era who said that CGI was the way to go. (1)

(1) https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/stranger-things-almost-had-som...
5 story WALKUPS? Very few are going to walk up that many flights of stairs.
I am not sure how deep they would be able to go with this technique but it might be helpful in shallow water. I mean, to equalise at 20m they would need to generate 2bar (~30psi) of pressure. That is quite a lot! For reference, humans can normally push about 0.1bar (1-2psi) by blowing.. and their sinuses would need to withstand that pressure at the surface, before they dive.

Also, this has nothing to do with decompression sickness (aka 'the bends'). That is to do with dissolved gases in the blood which turn into bubbles when the pressure is lowered.
well, ideally they'd take the extra money and pay the people responsible for fixing bugs just a little bit more.
AirPods Pro and Bluetooth Latency
Yes, I agree with you, I think it's niche is probably going to shrink away from the "better java" and enterprise space but will probably hold up in the data science space as the only real counterpoint to Python for large scale distributed data processing. For people who for whatever reason want to use the JVM, or who need language performance that can't be achieved with Python, there isn't really anything else in the data science space to compete with it.

The killer problem for me is that you can't write a good library in Scala and have Java users adopt it. Because it uses its own collections etc, unless you build highly non-idiomatic Scala code, you will always end up with a huge impedence mismatch there. So while you can use libraries from java, you can't contribute to them, and your audience is always limited. Contrast with Kotlin or Groovy where you can write idiomatic Java-consumable libraries much more easily (esp. Groovy).
> Truer words have never been spoken

That might be why uninformed people do it. But the real cost of managing your own hardware is devops, which doesn’t actually go away on the cloud.

Not using multi-cloud or not having a super trivial way to switch is just negligence and wouldn’t be tolerated in any large businesses.
AnyLog: A grand unification of the Internet of Things [pdf]
...but sometimes you can observe this and sometimes you can't.
Thank you for your detailed reply!
I'm amazed to see that it is indeed really that the ranking system was gamed.
I was supposing that it was only a mix of bad algorithm and a lot of votes of windows or photography fanboys. Or something like that.
These links explain:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11662380

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20508960

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

HN's archives contain tons of good articles that fall through the cracks because they didn't get noticed on /newest. Giving some of those a second chance is one way to make HN more interesting, which is what we try to optimize for: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que.... Another word for "optimization" might be "interference"—it depends on your perspective. Without intervention from moderators (plus software), HN's content would consist mostly of the same few hot topics over and over, plus sensational stories and riler-uppers. Unregulated, the system optimizes itself not for curiosity but for indignation. That alas is what mass psychology is wired for.

We try to be careful not to overdo it—our job is not to impose things on the community so much as to sense what it likes and provide more ways for it to have that. It's not our personal tastes that govern second-chance selections so much as our guess at what the community might find interesting. They get a brief placement on the front page. If we guess wrong, and the community doesn't find them interesting, they soon fall off. This post wasn't a wrong guess though—it was a rarer case where the community was split. Enough users liked it to upvote it to the top, while a bunch of other users didn't, and the thread contains comments from both camps.

You can see a partial list of second-chance posts here: https://news.ycombinator.com/invited. Those are ones that were too old to put directly in the second-chance pool, so we emailed the submitter with a repost invitation instead. At some point we'll publish a more comprehensive list of all the stories that got given a second chance, but this one is representative.

The holy grail of all this is to build software for the community to do all this instead. That would be perfect because first, it would no longer be just moderators and story reviewers doing it, but anyone who wants to. And second, it would be way less work for us! So that's definitely the plan. What we still haven't come up with is a way to do it that isn't somehow just a reimplementation of the voting system—which HN has already got one of. One extra aspect of this is that when we get there, it should be a nice new way for users to earn karma on the site. The user who finds an old submission that the community turns out to love, will get karma for it, in addition to the submitter.

By the way, if you or anyone runs across a submission that is particularly good and didn't get attention, please let us know at hn@ycombinator.com so we can put it in the pool. We love getting these emails! Especially when they're something someone else posted and you just ran across it and found it interesting.
All you can do is boycott Chinese stuff, and not invest in Chinese firms. And promote the boycott.

It worked against apartheid in South Africa. But that was pretty easy. Avoiding Chinese stuff is much harder.
>Social Justice isn’t mainstream left, it’s a very loud and quite powerful subculture.

Seems to me that it's becoming the mainstream left, considering the demographics are younger and more migrant-y than the old-mainstream of the Clinton era. The exact rate this is happening is up for debate, of course - we'll see after the primaries.

As for why anyone would be more motivated to go after SF rather than Detroit: because SF has lots of money. Because after a certain unknown period, the budget deficits plus medicare plus social security etc will become bigger and bigger issues, and SF is just there, looking plump and delicious and terribly unjust.
Those clips could be outtakes from the TV show Silicon Valley.
I hope for the sake of person being interrogated that it is fake but this could be a tactic for intimidating other protestors who are not firmly committed and have other responsibilities in life to worry about.
HKCU\Control Panel\Desktop\JPEGImportQuality -> 100
Cores sharing some caches make sense but no maybe smt does not make sense.
I wish the article gave examples of what this harassment constituted of. It is hard to fathom what specifically they must have been doing.
>Tech Bros are the nerds that were (and still are, despite shallow appropriations of nerd culture in the mainstream) cast off from "normal" society.

I'd counter with something more radical for HN: that "Tech Bros" are the beneficiaries of a colossal intergenerational wealth transfer, constructed (consciously or unconsciously) to ensure that the vast majority of that wealth stays within the hands of relatively highly-educated, middle class white people. The myth-making that this "revenge of the nerds" fantasy is a subset of is in service of countering the obvious observations that would make such a wealth transfer untenable politically (in this case, hiding the fact that Tech Bros tend to come from privileged backgrounds). Another example is tech's dogmatic obsession with the notion of meritocracy, disguising the gatekept (and, otherwise, often arbitrary) nature of its job market and feeder pipelines in education and networking. With the general public's perception of the tech community cemented in this way, its members are free to wield influence and exoform their political, social, and cultural environment as they see fit.

This doesn't have to be a conspiracy to work; instead, what often happens is that investment entities headed and funded by elite, wealthy, often white Boomers look independently at pitches for companies that make widgets, if anything at all; that sell advertising and the profiles of the advertised-to; and that will never turn a profit, and ultimately determine, "I like these guys, they could turn this thing unicorn." They never will, of course - hopefully FAANG will buy you out for the technology you built to better sell ads - but in the meantime, dozens, hundreds, thousands of people will have access to incredible salaries and opportunities. Just as long as it's the "right" people.

I say this from the perspective of someone on the outside looking in, locked out of tech prosperity by circumstance, not lack of desire or aptitude: Tech Bro-dom bullies, ignores, and eventually leaves in the dust, professionally and economically, the people who are really on the margins.
On the other hand the tech industry should be much better able to handle telecommuting than all other industries--so tech workers should be able to telecommute from anywhere which has decent internet.
You are misreading the document. The muons are created in the top of the atmosphere and decays after a very short amount of time. The point is that they decay so fast that they shouldn't be able to reach the ground. They manage to do that because time passes much slower for the muon. Or to put it differently, from the point of view of the muon the thickness of the atmosphere has been compressed to become much smaller than from the point of view of an observer on Earth.
I like it but what's the editorial line ? Who choose and write the headlines ? Which country is that from ?
Article mentions each tire gets 7,000Nm torque from its electric motor. Is that a typo?
"Bill would be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once or gone off to an ashram when he was younger"

-- Steve Jobs
I don't understand how that is really that easy. I personally don't know of anywhere (at least in the US) that measures the trash output of individual homes. So all existing curbside trash pickup infrastructure would need to be overhauled to implement measurement at the time of collection. Additionally, since trash pickup is handled by municipal / city governments currently, a new system needs to be put in place to provide oversight / enforcement of measurement & fees. The startup cost here would be enormous.

Also, this doesn't even take into account apartment buildings where individuals dump their trash into trash cutes / shared bins / etc. You would essentially need to retrofit every apartment building with a collection system capable of calculating individual output, or charge all residents of each building equally.
Yahoo! And Microsoft have very different business models. One is intently more sustainable (selling software and services).
This reminds me of similar debate I had with one of my friends falling for NodeJS FOMO. The actual codebase was RoR and he wanted to go for Node for no apparent reason. I was able to talk him out of it but what I understood from discussion was peer pressure of “hey all of this could have been async”. While I admit blocking threads might not be permanent solution, they can still take you pretty far. Not to mention the folks wanted a MERN stack and I believe leaving Postgres for Mongo without a damn good reason is just crazy idea.
This video goes into reasons why videos like this exist and are in ample supply: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8PgCUap1Vg

Public displays of criminals, trials and punishments are not uncommon in China, and serve as a "legal education" for the public.
So let me get this off my chest before I start: I fully believe mankind has influenced the climate.

That being said I find doom and gloom predictions of runaway greenhouse effects... problematic. After all, if this is possible and the earth has been much warmer, why hasn’t this happened already?

I just don’t believe we’re that close to a tipping point. Climate is complicated and the earth can’t have been livable for billions of years without some balancing factors, right?
Depends on the criteria and the group of companies you survey. In our customer survey done mostly among top 100 enterprises it comes at #3 very close to Python (which is #2), and it is much stronger in absolute numbers than C# or JS. And the trend is growing.

Of course, this is not representative to the whole market and heavily biased towards big companies with big backends that need to scale, but neither are Tiobe, GitHub or SO rankings.