skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting that you think it's inversely correlated with GPA. At my school, I feel like the people who are experts with the terminal and *nix stuff are the ones who have high GPAs because they are at the top of all the CS classes.
"ClickHole’s employees will become the majority owners of the site."

Buying something to only own 40% (for example) is fine if the price is good, or you want to keep it safe.
There is no requirement to have formerly been a CEO. There are no requirements at all for sitting on a board.
We had 1000's well into the 90's in Canada. I got to hold one as a kid. Apparently 98% of them have fallen into mafia hands somehow which I find hilarious given our history. Especially since they can't get them back, want them back, and if used they have to be honoured. It must drive certain people crazy.
Because unless you want to read someones multi-page terms and conditions you can never know whether they can claw the money back.
Reminds me to recommend a great book about the history of oil, The Prize. It really explains a lot about our current world and how we got here.
How do we test for coronavirus, anyway?
This is really a terrible thing that's happening. We need the brains that are immigrating to Canada!
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Do you have substantial experience with Oracle? or are you just blindly going on what everyone else says?

There is no mention of outer joins in this thread, no mentions of the ability to minus results of one query from another which are basic constructs which handle many of the issues that are discussed here. It says that the people here are inexperienced with Oracle. Everyone here trying to resolve issues using inner joins. Inexperience.

If people here had experience, not only would these topics have been discussed, but the real issues with NULL would have been discussed, one of which I mention in my previous post.
The US is an outlier on this, but that is precisely why it is able to attract employees from the entire world.
Not at high-paying tech companies, those usually cover most or all of insurance.
I had the pleasure of reading “The prize” (0) last year. It gives an overall picture of the oil industry and obviously the Saudi-American relationship. Should pair well with this insider view.

(0) https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/169354.The_Prize
Housing prices in YVR or Toronto are similarly out of reach, more so in the case of YVR
Excel 1.0 shipped on the Macintosh in 1985: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Excel#Apple_Macintos...
After rising from the dead, the media mogul, Hurst, saw what a joke his empire had become - vowing revenge - he has taken to amassing a portfolio of the worlds best parody news and entertainment properties he can get his rotting zombie mitts on.

A source close to the matter was quoted as saying “Holy shit! The onion is finally in some real news!! The end is neigh!”
Bradford's Law: Exponentially Diminishing Returns of Extending a Library Search
AWS does it: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/11/introduci...

NTP can be configured to do it: https://docs.ntpsec.org/latest/leapsmear.html

Support for this is growing more popular with time, rather than less.
That looks like ooks like "original research". It's obvious that what is described as dynamic-only duck typing could be statically checked. So that is to say, a given expression foo.bar in the program could be statically checked to make sure that all possible values that foo takes on have property bar. If three classes A, B, C in the program have property foo, then this means verifying that foo is A | B | C. Thus, "static duck typing".
Concerning the presentation of this article, rather than its contents:

Source Sans Pro 300 is too thin for body text on most platforms. It’s tolerable on Apple platforms with high-DPI displays due to their stroke thickening (where they essentially ignore the font author and do their own thing, though you could also argue that it’s just a form of gamma control), but on other platforms like Windows it’s much too thin, to the point that on many low-DPI monitors it’s genuinely painful to read.

Be very careful in general when using light font weights for body text. 400 is a much safer option.
I heard there was quite a fire sale on pretty Greek islands during that time.
> Back up a little bit. Start from the premise that you should never ever know the user's password. Period. Consider that a liability.

This sounds reasonable until you realize that requiring only the user to handle passwords creates an even bigger liability: users are terrible at creating, handling and remembering passwords. Giving them this sole responsibility means they create simple, short passwords and reuse them across multiple services, thus increasing their vulnerability.

Browsers that started handling passwords and helping users create good passwords was one of the greatest security UX improvements of the past 20 years IMO.
> since it’s all WebKit under the hood

But that's false, Chrome forked away from webkit years ago (using Blink now [1]), and they are very different [2]

[1] https://www.chromium.org/blink
[2] https://caniuse.com/#compare=firefox+72,chrome+79,safari+13
What's your onboarding process for new devs?
What's the typical onboarding process for new devs at your company?

What works well and what doesn't?

What would you do to make it better?

How big is your company?

Would love to hear everyone's thoughts! Thanks in advance!
In my experience, yes, they do. I worked as tech support for an ISP and had customers call in for support using a TTY relay. The operator explained it up front, then started the conversation.

If I had dropped the call because of that, I'm sure my manager would have been very unhappy.
18 years? That's scary.

I'm surprised at the amount of confidence you have in the USCIS that you might get a greed card. If you are still on a visa, I don't see how soon you believe you can get a green card in a reasonable amount of time. I'm not sure you can use the EB-1 category even with an L-1 - unless you're at a very high level in your company. Even for that category, the waitlist is currently about 5 years.
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> The "free" healthcare that you get is not very good

Utter bullshit. Source: the many friends and family members who have been treated by the system.
There are no two schools of thought. There are no two "approaches". It's simple economics. Companies don't decide pay X, they have to pay X. In US, there are genuine software products company and software products happen to scale naturally and make a shit ton of money. In most other countries, software engineers are hired merely as IT guys for "main" businesses like insurance or government. They don't scale.
What's the price for posting a job?
When I started my first start-up the elderly amongst my family and friends said more than anything, we wish you "luck".
I think it's a good thing to have a voice within the academic and social circles of these people voicing concerns about the status quo and effects it has on greater society outside that circle.

People listen to other people in their vicinity. As tech workers we tend to discard concern by people outside our community. Yet when a member of our community voices the same concerns we give it more weight.

It's not hypocritical to be critical of the environment that brought you success. I'd argue it's a very good thing for people within a community to be a voice for those outside it who wind up reaping what they sow.
Coordinating work is hard. In addition to the programmers, you would need so many more people to coordinate and plan. And doesn't even include how to figure out what to produce in the 1st place.

Large projects are incredibly difficult. That's one reason why things like the space program and its achievements are such a big deal. It wasn't just the cost and knowledge but the coordination of 100's of thousands of people to get the job done.
We are in an asset bubble. All assets. Bonds are an asset.
Recently shifted to Bangalore, will try this out !! Haha
To be fair, I meant actually innocent people, but the unintended sarcasm is funny
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This is a pretty uninformed comment.

Gecko was absolutely originally designed to be embedded—it just never did a particularly stellar job of fulfilling those goals.

Brendan also didn't create Firefox.
Implementing a minimal Python is pretty easy (even with the huge standard library) but implementing a complete Python implementation is a herculean task. And even after that there is no guarantee that every Python library will run on your implementation (Pypy).

I don't know about you but I would rather make hundreds of Scheme and Forth implementations then one Python interpreter. But I don't really see that as a downside. I mean who decides on a language based on how easy it is to implement ?
Ask HN: Timeline and examples of proposing a new emoji to Unicode consortium?
Cloudron.io's approach seems far more easier for developers to adopt. Every webapp runs in a Docker container and auth/user management is delegated to a single-sign-on service. But it's not open-source.

Sandstorm explains why they don't use Docker: https://sandstorm.io/news/2014-08-19-why-not-run-docker-apps

But the problem with the ease of adoption remains.
It boggles the mind why they went through with Brexit! Seriously.
Show HN: We built the first mobile HTML Web Editor that doesn't suck
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EXCELLENT synopsis. Also, some consider inflation outright theft from the middle and lower classes or in the least morally questionable.
I am aware of that theory but it just seems too on point to be just coincidence and bias. Especially because I am already aware of this happening I monitor what I get advertised so it's not like I am skipping things subconsciously that I don't care about.

The suggested ads take a full 180 turn depending on what's going on in my life. At first it's about jobs, then shoes, then about mental health, then about some concert I only verbally talked about (with bands I don't listen to).

Instagram ads are spot on, exactly what's currently recent in my life. There is no relation to the ads beside me talking about it.
We tend to forget Apple would probably be gone if Microsoft hadn't bailed them out in 97 (not out of altruism but because of antitrust).

What “saved” Apple was the iMac in 1998, not Microsoft.

Microsoft bought $150 million in non-voting stock in Apple as a show of good faith. Apple made Internet Explorer the default browser for the Mac and Microsoft committed to Office for the Mac. At the time, Internet Explorer 5 for the Mac was the best browser on any platform.

After the 5 year period, Microsoft sold those shares, making a huge profit.

At the end of the 5-year agreement, Apple shipped Safari 1.0, based on the KHTML codebase and the rest, as they say, is history.

Ironically, Microsoft's browser is now based on a fork of the engine of the browser that replaced IE on the Mac back in the day.
Sorry, I made a mistake: I thought I was responding to a different comment. (I'm currently on a very slow internet connection.) The "broken" thing I meant to refer to was Oracle's conflation of null and the empty string. But I think I hit the wrong "reply" link. Sorry about that.
Apple’s Mac Pro Is Accessible, but They Still Don’t Trust You
I really despise McKinsey but this just feels like a strange hit piece on Pete Buttigieg.
Sure, but I’m talking about the history of these industries’ private ownership and it’s impact on US history and politics. For example, imagine the US without the Koch brothers or any of the other fossil fuel dynasties. Or if radical labor movements had seized on Norway’s model in the 19th century.
The link illustrates how all other editors currently suck on mobile. (Sorry to be so harsh, other editors! It's not your fault.)

Here is the link to a video illustrating our editor back in the end of 2018: https://youtu.be/eTpOkSmg2KY

We want to license our code to these companies and have them actually offer to upsell their customers an editor that lets people edit HTML on the go. It can be used in browsers or Cordova.

But, we've never done something like this before -- licensing code to makers of competing products in an enterprise sale. What's are some recommendations you could share about doing that? Definitely appreciate any advice.
I have no real horse in this race and didn't attend such an institution, but why is a [member of group] not allowed to criticize [group]? The Ivy League / Oxbridge set acknowledging their role in increasing inequality and recognizing that it is an issue seems like a good thing to me. Otherwise, what would you have them do? Self-immolate?
This is why the Coronavirus is becoming such a scary disease: 1) it's unknown, 2) it's swiftly transmitted, and 3) it's a virus that's killing people.
Hey - thanks so much! We definitely plan on using AI to improve our search capabilities (and have some internal tooling already built to make things speedy). Appreciate you checking it out!
Screenshots of the app the caused the Iowa caucus failures
I mean there are reasons. The debate is if they're good reasons and what impact they have on the rest of the company and society as a whole.

Looking at medians and averages isn't the same thing as looking at extrema, and discarding those extrema is harmful to the data set when you can try and infer things about those extremes and how they impact the data set. Every person working on data eventually has to deal with this.

When it comes to executive compensation the question isn't if it's a market reality or not. It obviously is. The question is if those market realities are beneficial to everyone else impacted by the market, and many would argue otherwise. Yes, golden parachutes and lucrative salaries/equity options are par for the course for fortune 1k companies. But how do those packages influence incentives? Are they encouraging, even creating positive feedback loops for short term incentives that cause inefficiencies in our companies? Are they a symptom or source of greater issues relating to long term health of our labor markets for average workers?

I don't know, but it's worth investigation.
That's pretty much true for real-time games. There are turn-based games that can be played on a company-provided server, and some extreme cases where games are actually decentralised (like blockchain chess). The open source RTS 0ad used to have every client compute every game state, but I believe that's no longer the case. Without smart contracts you fundamentally can still have decentralised computation of game state, and even preserve some asymmetrical knowledge by having players encrypt orders and share keys after all players have submitted orders. A decentralised game of Diplomacy could be implemented this way. Have each player submit a seed and use the combined seed as the basis for a pseudorandom number, and you could implement something like Civilization in a trustworthy manner without a central server of any sort.
https://www.npr.org/2020/01/14/796344796/iowa-democrats-will...
1. visit https://everlookjobs.com/

2. enter Kotlin in search box and click Search

3. press Back button on browser

Behaviour: URL changes to previous page but content stays the same

Expected: Search box to clear, and full list of jobs to show
The Bay Area is full. Voters certainly don’t want any growth here. It’s time for companies to move out of the bay area
Can't seem to edit although it's been <2h. Regret the typos.

For people looking for data backing what I'm talking about, here's[1] something that everyone looks at to track timelines. This data is released monthly. Search for "EMPLOYMENT-BASED PREFERENCES"

In that table you'll see China, India and Mexico specifically called out since they're the ones with such extreme wait times. EB-1 is extremely difficult to qualify for[2] so most people apply for EB-2. You can see currently applications from 2009 are being processed. That was more than a decade ago. Then consider the increase in applications each year since that year. That's where the 100 year figure comes from.

[1]: https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/legal/visa-law0/v...

[2]: https://www.uscis.gov/working-united-states/permanent-worker...
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Something is wrong.
I clicked on a Python job in San Antonio but then it redirects you to an offsite page hosted on Lever, on there in the actual application says the job is in Prague? Thats Czech Republic right? Am I just victim of bad copy paste by the recruiter?

Edit: Funnily enough there IS a Prague in Texas too..quite close to San Antonio... no surprise, but it's definitely not looking like the type of city with any 'tech' office.
How did you manage to purchase AppleCare without receiving a single email?
Ask HN: How can one create an evidence of learning?
One of the way to create an evidence is to get a degree, however, with the shooting prices it doesn't seem like an optimal solution.

I wanted to know what other ways are available to create learning evidence, I'm especially talking about subjects like psychology, mathematics, etc
Amazon = net negative for people who do business with them. "Squeezes" relationships, as you put it.

Elon Musk ventures = solves real world problems while maximizing fun.

It's interesting how you paint Amazon and Walmart. Let me bring up just one example:

The short term price squeezing means manufactures are responding by providing lower quality items to Amazon, just like what they do at Walmart. (Try buying a box of name brand Pampers diapers on Amazon right now and compare them with the same SKU at, say, Target) And all the more power to them if that's their goal. But long-term it isn't a sustainable strategy, business or environmental.

Low-quality products equals more landfill and less money in consumer's pockets overall. It also means a very small market for product re-use, such as buying second hand. I grew up with 20 year old appliances from a local thrift shop. Every appliance I buy now seems to have a 24 month shelf-life, with the liability of having to dispose of unrecyclable materials. I'm telling you, net negative.
MySQL does too, yes, the comment is clearly incorrect: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/is-null-optimization...

And it has done so for many versions, 8 is just the default redirect I got. The very first sentence on that page is:

>MySQL can perform the same optimization on col_name IS NULL that it can use for col_name = constant_value.

It works effectively everywhere, with the restriction that it can only do one null-optimized comparison per index (e.g. `(a == 1 or a is null) AND (b == 1 or b is null)` will only optimize one piece). Which is a potentially-significant restriction that makes me curious about the internals... but it does exist, and typical for MySQL is clearly documented.
> Canadian doctors, in relative terms, get paid about as much as American doctors and get to enjoy similar levels of prosperity as them.

No they don't.

> Canadian doctors still make dramatically less than U.S. counterparts: study

> Despite recent fee hikes, Canadian doctors still lag dramatically far behind their American counterparts in income, according to a new study that also underscores the wide pay gap in both countries between front-line “primary-care” physicians and much-wealthier surgical specialists.

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/canadian-doctors-still-...

> Anywhere in the world, with the exception of the US, this is the case. US the outlier. Whether it proves the be the outlier that reverts to mean or one that the mean reverts to remains to be seen.

The US has been the richest country in the world in terms of average individual consumption (not income, some small countries like Norway have higher incomes) since independence and before. It's been at the technological frontier since the 1940's at the latest, and very close to it its entire existence. There may be mean reversion in the long run but given the greater share of young people, the best higher education system in the world and a relatively open immigration system there's little reason to believe it'll change anytime soon.
possibly it's more of an Agency ;)
You got it.

For more about the timestamp thing see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11662380 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19774614. It does lead to occasional confusion, but we haven't figured out a better way to do it.
It can be done. Main way to detect is to detect the footprint of the VMExits.
You're still paying for it, but like payroll taxes it comes out of your salary before you even see it which makes people think it's "free".
Can you go out and buy a fully self driving Tesla today? Because that would be the relevant comparison.
At this point, the DiffEqFlux neural differential equation library fits the neural ODE example from the original paper in 29 seconds [1]. The forward pass of torchdiffeq on trivial ODEs without neural networks takes 47 seconds [2] (and of course adding in neural networks makes it a lot more expensive). This is a massive real-world difference. It means that the Julia packages are building animations by looking at real-time fitting plots, while it's a hours long ordeal in PyTorch. Being able to use optimized packages instead of hardcoding a simple version of things really pays off in the long run, and here using a real ODE solver suite is not a small difference but rather it's multiple orders of magnitude. That's the real benefit of differentiable programming.

[1] https://github.com/JuliaDiffEq/DiffEqFlux.jl#training-a-neural-ordinary-differential-equation
[2] https://gist.github.com/ChrisRackauckas/cc6ac746e2dfd285c28e0584a2bfd320
I'm sure there is probably someone who is worried about job gaps and actively looks for them, but I think in general I might notice a gap if I was trying to tally up someone's years of relevant experience on their resume.