skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Scientists are generally fairly smart people. Put smart people in a hypercompetitive environment and they will quickly identify the traits that are being rewarded and optimize for those. What does academia reward? Large numbers of publications with lots of citations, nothing else matters. So, naturally, scientists flock to hip buzzword-filled topics and churn out papers as quickly as they can.

Until the fundamentals change - which might never happen - it would help if the science-centric communities showed some humility, as well as some transparency. Even with proper incentives, the process is flaw. It's human-based so it will always be flawed. There's nothing wrong with that. It's the best we got. But perfection it is not.

It troubles me when I see those who question science shut down and marginalizes. As if science has some perfect track record. Per the OP, even science has question about science. Fair enough. But does it have to be wrapped in denial?
I'm 40 (ouch!) and I've done about 6 serious interviews - other conversations over lunch and whatnot, that I didn't pursue - I'm not a serial interviewer, granted. Three job offers I declined.

Where I work today, I'm in the last round of interviews, to try and reduce the time consumption.

My real point is that a work sample is really hard to get in an interview, and it's really not fair to fire someone in their evaluation period because they're only average, and not extraordinary, with what they come up with in day to day work.
No one thinks their own frieds are corrupt. That's part of the corruption. The quiet benefeciaries "just following orders" and "useful idiots" of corruption aren't seen as corrupt.
I think it's mostly because of drum machines. Real drums have complex sounds, and take a long time to fully decay. Synthetic drums strip the sound down to its most important elements, and cut it off sooner so the sounds don't layer over each other so much. This makes the rhythm clearer and stronger feeling. I've never heard real drums anywhere near as danceable as a TR-808:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:808patterns_01.ogg
As a hypothetical CTO worried about the political consequences of failure when choosing a cloud provider, why would I choose GCP? If I choose AWS and things go wrong , I made the safe choice “and no one ever got fired for choosing AWS”. If I’m already running a MS shop, Azure is a safe political choice. Every time something goes wrong, even if it could have happen with any provider, you will always be questioned about why you chose GCP.

Besides I’m sure that AWS and Azure are some where in the right top corner of Gartner’s magic quadrant.
Power limits have the same problem, don't they? Except it's maybe worse because you get the product of the error terms for Icc and Vcc?
Main problems with bio fuels of any kind is hard to avoid bad actors finding externalities and just burning non waste, and it’s still burning. I non market or very mature regulation would be needed to make it a good alternative but even then the scale of energy is very small last I read.

I’m still skeptical on nuclear due to its low risk but severe outcomes when it goes wrong, build time and end of life issues/economics (solar might have end of life issues too, less so wind it seems). Solar and wind imo still winning on real world offsetting thanks to their relative simplicity for rolling out at scale. A hydrogen based economy would also marry nicely with excess production at peak times.
Is the iOS app necessary/worthwhile? I’ve never thought to use it, just the standard mail app, which does cache.
This is the country whose government held that sex with a subordinate is a worse offense than starting a war for personal profit.
It's possible we've gotten everything practically useful out of fundamental physics that we're going to get. At this point, phenomena not explained by the standard model occur at such extreme conditions that it's difficult to see how they could ever be technologically relevant.
Please re-read my original post, it was about youtube, not search. But I don't think you can get around the Tor captcha on search, so at this time I would say avoid google search entirely if you care about not being tracked.
What's FE/BE?
This is just my experience, but that isn't true at all. I work in the US for a huge European based Multinational with an HQ is Western Europe, Dev offices in Western and Eastern Europe, US, and Asia. There are plenty of devs all over the world who are slackers, but who know how to play the visibility and politics game well enough that they are perceived as high value.

I've worked for two other Multinationals and with consulting and partner firms in Europe and Asia. Some people are amazing and work really hard, and some know how to make themselves look good and get fancy positions (e.g. senior architect) where they slack off and keep themselves busy selling themselves by attending meetings. At one place I worked there was constant frustration that our European colleagues had no sense of urgency or motivation at all.

I think the point dhuyrv is making is that in many situations, you can take advantage of the fact that most people don't really know the difference between what you actually do and what you project to others. In many jobs (no matter where you are in the world), playing the game of selling yourself can do more for your career and salary than writing code.

All of the above is anecdotal of course.
I too would love to guarantee to every citizen that they will not be evicted.

Unfortunately it cannot be a universal benefit since not everybody lives in their own. Implementing this non-eviction right would vastly benefit one part of the society at the expense of the other. The benefiting half of society would then proceed to collect vast sums of money from the other half through rent payments.

I personally think if there is a class divide in society then it is exactly because of this supposedly universal 'moral good'.

If Marx lived couple more decades he would see that those capitalists used their hard earned money to buy.. real estate and land. Therefore just becoming new aristocracy displacing the old one. It was not the Marx's capitalist who was the exploiting bad guy. It was the landowner after all. Industrial revolution during Marx era was just a transition of aristocratic titles to the new generation of aristocrats that we now call.. well we call them just 'billionaires'.
I don't think that's true, I think it just reduces income inequality. If you have a high tax rate for higher earners, the wealthy will do stuff like $1 income and compensation in stock instead. That doesn't really hurt the wealthy, but it certainly hurts people with a high income, but little wealth.

Personally, I don't see the point in trying to reduce wealth accumulation. People who amass a lot of wealth generally do so by creating something of value for society. If you remove the ability to get fabulously wealthy, I think you also reduce innovation. Would you risk everything on an idea if there was no chance of a massive payoff? Probably not. Likewise, if you are successful with one idea, you are much more likely to be successful with another, but if you don't have much capital, you can't pursue additional ideas. For example, Elon Musk wouldn't be able to start Space X, Tesla, etc at the same time (and probably none of them) if his "excess" wealth were confiscated.

The whole discussion about wealth/income inequality seems to be missing the mark entirely IMO. The important thing is that innovation continues to happen and the lifestyle of the average and the bottom continue to improve.

Let me set up two scenarios, A and B. In A, people have a very similar standard of living (very little wealth inequality), but innovation is fairly low, so quality of life increases fairly slowly. In B, there is a very large wealth inequality, but innovation is quite high, so even the poor experience at least a moderate quality of life increase year over year. So in B, the average "poor" person (say, median of the bottom 10%) has a higher quality of life than the average person in A. Which is preferable? What if B has some people slip through the cracks, but the vast majority are better off?

Personally, I prefer B, and choose to donate so those at the bottom are taken care of. However, some of my friends prefer A because people wouldn't know that more rapid progress is possible.
I think you VASTLY underestimate the size of US Armed Forces in terms of what's required for authentication, authorization, and access control.

US DOD has well over 4 million Active Duty, Civilian Employees, Contractors, etc. Though numbers are hard to pin down, since the number of contractors is in many cases not what is being paid for by the contract (e.g. firm-fixed price, and service based contracts like IDIQ which the contract holder dedicates cleared staff, but otherwise it's hard to know; compared to time-and-material/"butts-in-seats" where numbers are know by the Government per contract).

The US DOD attempted to move everything to MS AD at one point but hit a limitation in the number of objects AD let's you create (~2bn).
I suppose this is true. I haven't had a chance to work with or teach anyone who is learning to think this way, and I don't really remember what it was like for me. However, I've noticed that when I talk to some people who are big advocates of TDD and so on, they seem to have such a different way of looking at things that there's almost no common ground.
Interesting. There's also that anecdote about the heap manager using a spin count of 4000. I wasn't aware this happened by default (I didn't see any mention of this in InitializeCriticalSection). I guess it's all down to the probability of contention vs. the amount of time the mutex is held.
Invalid logic. It is not necessary for most if not all people to be corrupt for the same to be true of politicians.
Many people are gullible.
Many people are easily manipulated.
This is especially true of those who are young, and prone to adopt the ideology of the group. But yes, I do believe that a significant portion of the population possess the brain anomaly that manifests as narcissism and these people are more successful than others at climbing political hierarchies because they are unrestrained by conscience.
Operations Engineer, Linux – SMX Email, New Zealand
There's lots of stuff there that she ought to have redacted. Totally personal stuff. Some about herself and her family. And it wouldn't have taken that long, even manually. It's just a bunch of backups and USB sticks.
I started to agree with you, but this took a different direction.

In general, it's smart, informed work that matters. Not grinding yourself down hard work. I feel Ive developed enough good intuition and judgment over the years that I'm capable of making well informed, strategic input to my organization that is infinitely more valuable than grinding away in PRs or tickets all day. I feel successful, it benefits my company far more than me just grinding away on "work", and I have balance and satisfaction from my work.
Spinning vs. a single check...
There's no theory behind testable code. Mathematical theory exists only for formal methods.

There's a bunch of made up patterns and techniques for writing testable code though. Most of these techniques are actually bad.

Dependency injection with mocks is the one I hear about the most and it is also the worst possible way to organize your code. Do not write your code using this pattern... the complexity of this pattern hides the fact that it is, in fact, not improving anything.
>That would explain why Google would be willing to shut down Google Cloud in 2023 if they are not one of the top 2 players in this space.

I wonder how much of an effect this disclosure will affect the outcome?

I've used AWS heavily for work-related services and have touched GCP a few times for little side projects in the past. Knowing that they'd be prepared to shut down GCP if they're not market leader or market second within a small amount of time ensures I personally will never, _ever_ use them for enterprise work, and I'm sure I'm not alone in that.
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No denying that.
Spec is supremely flexible, it isn't hard to enforce a map having a specific set of keys even without explicit support.

(ns user
(:use clojure.set)
(:require [clojure.spec.alpha :as s]))

(s/def ::map-closed #(-> %
keys
set
(difference #{:a :b :c})
empty?))

(s/valid? ::map-closed {:a 1, :c 2})
=> true

(s/valid? ::map-closed {:a 1, :c 2, :e 3})
=> false
I don't know what you're talking about. By all accounts, GCP enterprise support is perfectly fine. Why do you think it isn't? Again, it's not consumer Gmail or YouTube accounts. Major companies wouldn't be signing contracts with them if they didn't.

And in what universe is revenue inconsequential? Profit comes whenever you want to stop investing in growing. There is zero reason to believe that Google will be unable to turn a profit off GCP whenever it decides to. Particularly given that it was building datacenters for Search before AWS even existed.
It's in one of the graphs in the parent OP article showing the 2018 annual revenue (estimated) for each of the cloud computing providers.
It's hard to take the author seriously when he's using juvenile insults like "sportsball."
If you are curious about this phenomenon, you might want to research "the flying monkeys of the narcissist"
Slacking means doing the minimum required to get by. It doesn’t mean doing nothing and getting fired. I was replying to the parent comment idea that engineers at Facebook work hard because in my experience they do not. Which is fine. Slacking in many ways is optimal.
I imagine they saved more money stopping accepting checks, than they gained from you as a member.
Ask HN: What are some of the ways to destroy your asset without giving it away?
are there ways to just burn millions in bank account without redistribution or donating back?
> You take it on trust...

Is it trust? Or is it closer to "I'll scratch your back today, if you scratch my back tomorrow."? That is, if you blow the whistle (so to speak) on someone that's bad community karma, and that will come bak to haunt you.

That's not trust. That's a cartel.
>> You mention 40/80k per year being pitiful? This kind of remuneration puts you in the top 10%/5% of France population easily.

That just means the rest of the population is poor, not that you should accept less. This is called a fallacy of relative privation. So what if you have to subsist on ramen and can't afford a place to live with less than an hour and a half of commute. Think of all those starving children in Uganda instead. That's how the ruling class shits in your head with propaganda.

As a professional you should be able to accomplish the minimum of: raising a couple of kids, buying a residence, putting quality food on the table, and sock away enough to not be poor when it's time to retire. You should aim to make more than enough money to do all of the above while maintaining a first world lifestyle.

If you're not able to do that in your profession, that fancy college degree is materially worse than a plumbing or electrical trade school certification.
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Getting the job done and being employable are more closely correlated in some positions, industries, and markets than others. Finding those is a key to job satisfaction if this sort of thing matters to you. From the other side, if employment criteria is stupid and broken, we all have some professional responsibility to push back against it.
I just want to say a big thank you to the author for sharing the derivation of a consultant's profit.

I've always struggled as a consultant, generally scraping by and feeling spread too thin. That’s because I subconsciously gave up on the idea of profiting from my business. If you stop and think about that for a moment, it means that I had internalized this idea that I would always be working linearly at my hourly rate. There would never be residual passive income from work that I had done, whether it was SAAS or building an app or frankly just reselling something that I had already made. That death of faith in a better future is one of the most toxic and detrimental blows to a maker’s psyche that I know of.

The full profit formula is:

profit = (price you charge) - (your cost as hourly rate * hours)

Your cost here is the time that you would have put in coding, as if it were any other job. On top of that, you have the periodic struggle to find more gigs, as well as the logistics of handling your own taxes, health insurance, etc. So if you don’t charge something above your own cost, you’ll burn the candle at both ends just getting by, and eventually burn out after 2-4 years just like at any other job (tech especially).

I’ve always said that I feel that consultants should charge at least their overtime rate to account for the overhead and headaches involved. So if you make $30 per hour as a developer, your overtime rate (time and a half) is $45 and I would recommend starting around there or round up to $50. That's only part of the answer though, because an agency will charge between 1.5 and 4 times your hourly rate, so between $50 and $120 per hour, often more. So really you are competing with agencies. Which means that there is nothing wrong with charging the same as them, and probably more if you are experienced in your target market.

But there are also physical laws to consider. It’s hard to beat a pair of coders making something, so that limits an agency’s maximum value to a customer to just twice what a single consultant can provide. Keep in mind that this ignores an agency’s existing infrastructure, ability to absorb failure costs, and scalability. But if we’re just talking raw coding velocity, an agency is limited to about twice the velocity of a consultant, no matter how many people they through at a problem (see The Mythical Man Month). Knowing that, it makes sense to me that a consultant might typically charge about half the flat rate fee of an agency. And if they always deliver, why not charge the same amount!
I'd wager family responsibilities (young kids, sick family, partner who doesn't value reading alone for 1hr as much as you do, etc.)
Europe? Could you specify country?
In comparison, The median SWE salary is around ~123K in SV with a median home price in Mountain View of ~1.6m.

IMO, there are better options than SV. I would much rather be working in an area like Austin with a much more reasonable COL with a relatively small drop in median salary.
Frontend / Backend
God I hope to see some great looking editor like this (or Panic Nova?) with .. somehow.. integration with Neovim, Kakoune and etc. Aka an editor that can be a frontend to "classical" CLI editors.

I would pay so much to be out of the Terminal, but I need to use my normal editor (Kakoune in my case). I want to pay for a high quality frontend.

I fear the market isn't there and so the product I want will never be made. My hope however is that someday someone can make a great editor GUI that could be pluggable for users like me.
Moving to a role with more impact might be motivating and fulfilling. Check out 80,000 hours [https://80000hours.org/] - they're a non-profit that researches how to best use your career to help others.
Consider the current lawsuits regarding APIs, I think it's probably safer for wikimedia to defer to whatever the corporate PR department believes to be correct lest they be compelled to testify in court.
Results of Sam Altman's “Bubble Talk” Bet
Ask HN: Fastest language for iteration and arrays manipulation?
I currently have a microservice written in js which basically query a redis db and iterate few hundred or thousands times while geting/pushing values from/to arrays in multiple for loops.

It's made to build line of sight of players for a mmo game.

The service run as a loop, ideally at 60FPS (1 iteration = 16ms). More players in the world = more time to iterate.

I have the belief that writing in C++ the same would be faster but:
1. That's a belief, I didn't do any benchmark
2. I don't have the belief that C++ will be the fastest to do it.

What HN does think about that ?
Fair enough about how you arrived at your views. For what its worth, my views are not as rigid as these comments suggest. They are nuanced and ever evolving... I suspect Eruv is a complex topic with more reasons than just "convenience."

I am not an eruv or even a Jewish law expert, but I can assure you though that Rabbi Moshe Feinsteins positions were widely accepted in the Orthodox Community and his opinions are not only well documented and sourced, they are studied today much like court precedents are set. There are obviously differing view points, but in order to disagree with him and be listened to, one would need to extensively show their math and support their dissenting opinion with reliable sources and case history...

In general, the rule of thumb around Jewish law atleast for Orthodox Jews is, "ask your local orthodox rabbi." And interestingly enough, when interviewing for synagogue and pulpit positions, one of the common questions asked of Rabbi Applicants is "who do you ask your religious and halachik questions to?" Central to the faith is collaboration and discussion at the highest levels and if you arent stumped constantly and discussing with mentors and peers, you by default disqualify your credentials to most Ultra Orthodx Jews.
Front end / back end
Snoo@? :)
Her mother inherited the property (hard drives) from her father when he died as his next of kin. Stephanie got back in contact with her mother and her mother gave her the hard drives after she found them in the house and asked if she could have them.

Later on the drives were subpoenaed as part of a lawsuit and she made a copy of the contents and handed them over.

This is detailed in the New Yorker article linked in TFA.

It's not "scary," it's how property law has always worked.

If you don't want the contents of your hard drive released by your next of kin then encrypt it.
Cofounders’ 90 day dating project
Startup is like a marriage, so how can we approach finding a cofounder that way?
While I agree with you on some points, the cost of life in European countries is not the same as USA.
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Star ratings and author don't really capture why a human observer would expect a lot of people to start and abandon this book though. You'd need some kind of measure of difficulty and/or trendiness.
I don’t understand why stating the facts is cause for being downvoted?? The hypocrisy is well known and documented.
Just a shout to the site design. Clean and sharp, nice on mobile, good font and no funny business.
Oh, of course. Thanks.
Seems like Oracle is taking totally contradictory positions in this case and the Google one.

> Did Oracle infringe Amazon's copyright here? Ars Technica contacted Oracle to ask them if they had a license to copy Amazon's S3 API. An Oracle spokeswoman said that the S3 API was licensed under an Apache 2.0 license. She pointed us to the Amazon SDK for Java, which does indeed come with an Apache 2.0 license.

> However, the Amazon SDK is code that uses the S3 API, not code that implements it—the difference between a customer who orders hash browns and the Waffle House cook who interprets the orders.

While I'm not a lawyer and didn't study the Google case in that much detail, I don't see how they can claim that their own Java APIs can be copyrighted, and then defending their copying of Amazon's API on the grounds that an SDK using it is open source. I would think they could just look at the documentation, and skip the SDK altogether. :)
Maybe "detox" isn't the best way to describe this since traditional "detox" treatments have been shown to be placebo/snake oil. https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/nutrition-and-h...
"I acknowledges pearl oyster mushrooms P. ostreatus for their cooperation in the studies."
(This seems to be https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-393 ).