skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Companies cannot perfectly measure your programming skill and most software companies don't conduct in depth algorithm interviews. Most of the hiring decision is based on your likability, social skills, previous job history (including job title and skills listed from that first promotion), and how you handle interview questions. You can bullshit your way very far in most of the software development world even if you're only 80% as good as your peers. If you have "junior developer" or "senior developer" on your resume but aren't as good as a "entry level developer", it's a moot point if you get called for an interview but the other guy doesn't.
SpaceX and NASA break down what their historic first astronaut mission will look
> YouTube's policies reflect mainstream social mores.

The real problem is that YT also influences those social mores. It's a snowballing effect that no one is able to stop. New social trend >> YT starts to promote it >> Becomes social norm >> YT starts to enforce it >> New social trends are able to spawn only from the previous trend.

You might want to keep up this situation as long as it fits your point of view, but you have to take into account that this process will warp this exact point of view in ways that you do not control.

20 years ago the left was synonymous with freedom of choice and individualism, now there are hardly any traces of those values left. Excuse the pun.

If YT always bends to the "popular opinion", then it actually means that it has knee-jerk reactions to the most emotional outbursts. What influences the norm is in reality the base instinct, dopamine fueled, thoughtless reactivity without any plan or purpose.

It does not matter if you will take left or right wing ideology. Platforms like YT are instrumental in making sure that in the end we will get the worst version of it.

How the hell did the left end up in a poistion where they represent the worst mixture of Orwell and Huxley? I have no doubt that it would be near impossible to end at this place without corps capitalising on social moods.
> Not nearly as much. If at all.

Have you looked over their books?

Landlords have to pay:

1. taxes
2. maintenance
3. insurance
4. mortgage costs (they're usually leveraged)
5. legal and lawyer fees for contracts and disputes
6. costs of unrented space
7. accounting costs
8. costs of just keeping track of all the changing laws
9. depreciation

In Seattle, landlords are considered an unlimited source of funds for social programs by the City Council. For example, if the spouse of a tenant damages the apartment, the landlord has to pay for the damage, not the tenant.
When their title is "Why Restaurants Are So Fucked" instead of "Why Restaurants In America Are So Fucked" is why.
In my brain the instantly translates to "list of strings". Not sure square brackets are such a good choice.
This reads like it was written by someone to whom food is simply a chore that is imposed on them rather than one of lives great creative pleasures.
Whats the plan now? I keep hearing everywhere that coming out of a recession is the best time to start a company. Maybe not now but 8 to 12 months from now.

I think they have ~30 people in a cohort. Speed Dating / Finding someone to work with for the next five years at least(startups require time) over Zoom seems ambitious.
Sales tax, not profit (% of value, not margin). Their real margins could have been negative - it's easy to undercut competition if you're selling at a loss.

They could have 'earned' hundreds of thousands, only to owe millions.
Quibi Is What Happens When Hollywood Overvalues Content & Undervalues Community
> Perhaps an interesting idea would be to have the type at the end of the expression. Like so:

> val x = "hello": String

Rust has had exactly this (so-called type ascription) for a while in nightly, but it's not stabilized yet due to some unresolved issues.
I can‘t help but read most of the moaning about Python‘s handling of chained comparisons in this thread as “I already know how Blubb handles comparisons, thank you very much, and if Python doesn’t do it exactly the same way Blubb does, Python is obviously stupid and it’s designers must be morons.”
because they watchin you duh!
Joy is great (at least better than SQL) as an API
to a database. IE, every query is a joy program. If you add get, set and (de)serialize as primitives, you have stored procedures, intermediate results, galore! Want to transform your result before you send it back to the client ? no problem, just add a transformer function.
Not really, it's just simple economies of scale. Large chains have a natural advantage in the restaurant business just like they have a natural advantage in any other field. A small restaurant simply cannot have as high a margin as McDonalds because they don't have the same bargaining power with their suppliers - they need to pay more for everything.
Extending the async methods in C# (2018)
> but the thrill quickly wore off. The kids quickly went back to playing their PS4 and Switch games, and never even mentioned the Quest after it was gone.

Same experience (Vive Pro) with niece, nephew and their friends. They tried Beat Saber and all other age-appropriate VR games. After those few times, not once did they ask to try again. They would much rather play Fortnite and The Sims, with a mouse and keyboard.
> sticky hairs

Reminds me. My ex-wifes grandmother said when she was a little girl her family packed up from tobacco country to California. And her utter joy when her mother told her that no they don't grow tobacco in California.

Because picking tobacco is gross and nasty work.
There is a lot more competition now, especially in the App stores.
I wonder if this somewhat “explains” the awkward silences of strangers in confined spaces such as elevators.

Fascinating theory.
I realize a surprising number of people are paid close to minimum wage (I believe the number is close to 30% in the US) a brand new Honda Fit is $16k. Federal minimum wage is close to that annually and some state's minimum wage can double that. If you can save up a recommended emergency fund, that's most of the way there.

I do think most people buy way more car than they need, which drives up all sorts of costs. If you can get out of the car loan cycle it's incredibly freeing. If you have a solid driving record and an emergency fund you can drop collision on your insurance (it's required if you have a loan) and save a few hundred each month to put towards your next car.
Radioactivity in Meth. The devices and instrument used in the production of Meth have been seen to contain a lot of unclean particles and may be the cause for users to get sick
I think it could get big if people start making Nix distributions. I've been meaning to make something like NixOS for Grandmas that hides the config and tools behind a shiny installer and settings page and uses Nix as a control plane.

The best part is, there wouldn't be fragmentation of package maintenance between distros.
Show HN: Bolt – A HTML Template Generator
“Pubs that do food” is the kind of thing I’m talking about! :)

It starts with Sunday lunches, and slips into weeknights.

It starts with order at the bar, and slips into little “reserved for diners” signs on most of the tables.

It starts with the barman working the sandwich toaster and slides into teenagers in white blouses and knee length black skirts with name tags saying “trainee” asking you to wait to be seated as you enter.

Pubs used to be adult domains where people went to drink and chat in the evenings. Now pubs put playgrounds and bouncy castles in the car park to bring in families to dine.

Of course there might be some classic true pubs left? Perhaps someone should make an app ... arrrgh!
That's fascinating, because I've seen almost the exact opposite where I am (west coast USA). A lot of places where I am have transformed into take-out only or take-out + on-demand booze. Or even just take-out booze, with cocktail kits. The places that were mainly food (my favorite brunch place that I'd take everyone to who visits went belly up in early April) have all either closed down or tried to innovate to sell their food or alcohol as a pick up or delivery service. Semi high-end establishments that sold no food have innovated to sell these elaborate cocktail packages that will probably at least keep the lights on until this is over. At least, that's what I hope.
Async vs. Sync
To be fair it might as well have been flashy on the outside, but erosion of the surface exposed to the elements (and sandstorms) is very high. We supposedly already know that it was covered in limestone, and some sources even mention looting of the limestone to build forts
I remember the owner of RegNow telling me the average revenue per developer on their books was $400 per year. This was around the turn of the millennium.

It's probably like most sectors, a few are making a killing, some more a living and the rest just pick up crumbs.
I wonder how much self deception exists in western society when the evidence suggests you live in a lawless oligarchy, one example from endless copyright extension.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Term_Extension_Act#/...

But first HN, you can be told the facts and the figures and you won't reason to the right conclusion see the science:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYmi0DLzBdQ

Does the upper class and the business community believe in Free markets?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHj2GaPuEhY

IMF subsidies for the rich and their corporations

https://www.imf.org/en/Topics/Environment/energy-
subsidies

So looking at all that free cash from the state, did the upper class really "earn" all that cash or could it be they own the government and can just rubber stamp whatever they like because the average HN poster and person on our planet is illiterate and well indoctrinated?
Going over that LLVM-libc website again, this is absolutely hilarious. It reads like a bucket list of grandiose features, done by a Junior developer with lots of motivation, but with no idea that these add costs and complications, and no idea what's really important.

The Git repo matches that impression. There are neatly arranged directories containing CMakeLists and fuzzing stuff and READMEs and what not. Is there a good reason why strcpy() needs to be fuzzed? Some directories contain a lot of header files with 20 lines of comment junk and namespace junk, surrounding a single line that contains a function signature.

And looking at the code, it seems not even 1% of the actual functionality is implemented. I will be extremely surprised if this project gets ever completed.
Oh I thought it's going to be about your birth plan
Introduction to building GraphQL API in Golang [ 7 Chapter tutorial series ]
.. but it's also pretty much unavoidable in some places, as it leaks out of the granite in the ground.
I hate the jargon where "protein" means "meat".

It debases the thing. Why don't you sprinkle some whey powder or something over your Döner?

I know that train has left the station, but damn, why would you willingly remove yourself from what the food really is? Do you also drink ethanol instead of wine? Do you smears lipids on your bread instead of butter?
This is the sort of thing us industry professionals need to study in more depth. It doesn't have the most flexible interface, but it's human-readable, and the implementation is simple, fast, and about as obviously correct as possible.
I can answer that, since I also made a small static site generator from scratch in python.

I was using another static site generator (Hexo), but at some point I wanted to change some things and add some custom html to my posts. Since the documentation was ... well ... minimalistic on some aspects, I also spent some time looking at the source code. But at that point I was really wondering what benefit I still had from using that generator.

In the end, all a static site generator does is collecting some markdown or RST files, converting them to html and putting that into a template html file. And generating some lists (index page, RSS, ...) and some metadata for SEO. So it took me a single Saturday to make a working static site generator and now I can do anything I want without looking up documentation or source code, since it's my own dumpster fire :-)
>All of us should be regularly lobbying our lawmakers to make student loans dischargeable by bankruptcy, just like any other loan.
They were at some period of time, which allowed colleges intentionally bankrupt students and get paid by the government.
Universities and colleges are cancer of education, we have opportunity to naturally get rid of them, at least in their current form.
Do you not suspect that the marketplace for "shallow" games is a lot bigger and more valuable than whatever section of the market you think they're missing?
Face id
It's not obvious to me that we have reached the bottom yet.
> > Whitespace sensitivity is a terrible choice

> It's my favourite feature of Python

It's like the speed bump: It's for people who can't follow simple rules. It inconveniences you, but is rationalized with that it ultimately makes the world a little safer for everyone, including you.

Me, I unindent temporary code like debug-print statements and literals overriding actual data. This makes it impossible to commit by accident.

But my argument against whitespace sensitivity would be that bad and unreadable code is bad and unreadable regardless of its whitespace. In fact, force-formatting it just hides the evidence.
Sounds like a potential money saver. I'm currently using Heroku but I plan to move to DO or AWS.

Will Appliku help me with deploying my app from Github to DO?
This can be fixed by one of my favorite Python oddities,

True = False

This is right up there with default arg instances getting cached across calls, though it's perhaps better suited for an underhanded Python competition.

Have fun with it. Redefine it to be true 90% of the time.
FT suspends journalist accused of listening to rival outlets' Zoom calls
Good. If business owners do not value the lives of other people, potentially their customers, then why should anyone care about them?

May they be replaced by business owners not in the business of screwing over others for a fat profit.
Setup the latest Phoenix 1.5.1 work with Ubuntu 20.04 Focal Fossa
Yep, it's this. Zoning laws in US urban centers are an absolute nightmare to navigate. If you have the time (and the gall) consider looking up the zoning laws that exist across what a normal person would consider "Los Angeles".
Every year 8 million people die because of tobacco. In the US alone, the number of deaths (due to tobacco) per year is close to half a million. Similarly between 4-7 million people die due to air pollution. Ironically, that does not alarm anyone, that does not cause lockdowns, that does not require flattening the curve. The numbers don't lie - global lockdowns that led to significant drop in air pollution may have coincidentally saved more lives and helped mother nature heal.
You'll need to find another one, the above results in SyntaxError: cannot assign to True
I wasn't arguing for anything-- it's just an observation.

A bar would be a very different and less profitable business if they had the normal spectrum of liability other businesses have when their actions result in predictable harm. Or even if just law enforcement weren't effectively prevented from staking out bars and stopping obviously drunk patrons as soon as they started to drive.

Similarly, I also believe they'd be much less profitable if not for the rather alarming amount of addiction and abuse.

I don't think prohibition is a good idea but the fact that I'm opposed to prohibition doesn't make me blind to the externalities that bars create which are a component of their profitability.

There are lots of less than perfect things in the world. We can make them better by willing to discuss them and not being to quick to assume that any criticism is a call for a prohibition. In this case, especially, there was a comparison with other businesses and more than anything I wanted to point out that it wasn't a fair comparison because of bars unusual amount of externalized costs.
Zoom-bombing = hacking, I guess.

From the article out-linked in the OP:

Log files show an account registered to Di Stefano’s FT.com email address joined the private video call

So not the most brilliant at covering his tracks.
Writing cleaner Go web servers
Have you ever worked with IBMs AIX? It has ODM and it’s amazing. Systemd is going to the right direction.
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Poor nutrition, more likely to live in more heavily polluted areas. Can't be a good combination. We now have a pretty good understanding of how bad leaded gasoline was. Maybe in another fifty years we'll look back at junk food and wonder "how could we have been so stupid"?

I think it would be wise to increase funding of nutritional science. Many of the most basic controversies remain unresolved (fat, sugar, salt). The most bizarre conditions can sometimes be treated using supplements of seemingly unrelated nutrients (behavioural problems: omega 3, migraine: b2). But sample sizes are always small, double blind studies are hard and rare, there are tons of confounding factors.
I really agree with this. Maths <> programming, so while some notation sharing is good, don't (IMO) take it too far.

I don't like it either when languages get too helpful. I was recently doing some python and getting some very odd results. Turned out the index I was using to pull stuff from the list had gone negative (off by one error) so it was getting stuff from the end of the list rather than excepting as most languages would. That is

y = [1,2,3]
y[-1] <-- unintentionally negative index

I'm not saying the ability to index with negatives like this is a bad thing in python, but I seriously question it's value vs the footgun thing.

A while ago I was doing some SQL and used an answer off stack overflow. It was a good answer but it tried to be too flipping helpful. IIRC it was doing nontrivial date difference calculations[0]. Rather 'helpfully' if "(date2 - date1) < 0" it would kindly assume you'd given it arguments in the wrong order and silently flip them for you (to "date1 - date2") to get you a positive number, always.

This 'helpful' behaviour hid the presence of bad data (date2 should always have been chronologically later than date1 - date1 was interview, date2 was when job started).

Moral: keep programming language & library semantics simple.

[0] I remember now, it was the number of weekdays (that is, excl. sat/sun) between 2 dates.
That’s because no one has found a way to make billions of dollars out of Coronavirus yet
Lyft is laying off 982 employees, furloughing a further 288
> It means no multi-line lambdas so you end up with these unreadable list comprehensions `[ sub_item.value for sub_item in item.sub_items in items if item.is_the_best ]`

How would you rather write that code? Is it lack of multi-line lambdas that stops you from writing it as you would like?
Wait, $11 for a Doner? It's 3.5 EUR here in Berlin, and there's 2 Doner shops at EVERY corner. Maybe the issue not just the restaurant price, but also the underlying system that (doesn't) support them? Even if you double the price, at 7EUR (which is typically needed when comparing things like Salary between EU/US), there's still a large difference. I'd be curious to know how German Doner shops are doing, and what are their unit economics.
A perpetual argument is use of too many pipe separated distinct commands. The argument suggests it's lazy to use sed | awk | grep type pipe runs because in all probability sed or awk alone could have done it and you incurred two excess fork/exec() and therefore consumed kernel and userspace beyond your need. The usual rejoinder is "get nicked"
Oh, so cool, from first impressions it looks like solid good scientific method at work:

- 200 participants, which is not super many, but already something to at least start talking about in terms of statistics & non-fluke probability;

- your gold standard of: "put forward a theory, then run an experiment that can falsify it" (vs. e.g. retroactive)

- according to the article's title, randomized, double-blind, and placebo-controlled.

I didn't read the actual article, and I'm not a scientist myself or good enough in statistics to be able to validate it further for no errors, but the initial signals already make me so happy that in nutritioning there are people trying to do good science! <3
A typo - cost-efficient!
But glad to see more out-of-the-box solutions coming out. It can get pretty time-consuming to deploy after your app is already done. What was the trickiest part of developing that product, I wonder?
Kim Stanley Robinson: The Coronavirus Is Rewriting Our Imaginations
Ask HN: What would you do if your App idea exists already but looks ugly?
Especially if you're a developer and unexperienced in design.
Are you suggesting that alcohol addiction is equivalent to 'pretty much anything and everything [being] addictive to someone'?
True, but figuring out how much of your bankroll you need to invest in a fund like this to properly hedge (that's why it's called a hedge fund) against catastrophic loss in your other investment is the balance you need to strike.
(please ignore, I'm an idiot)
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Smoking is a choice.
Harvard review shows Jeffrey Epstein’s deep ties and big donations
I'm not denying the 2nd law, but metabolism is more complicated than just heat or mechanical work. One example, the process by which the body transforms ammonia into urea, requires energy. Not 100% sure of the details but some of this energy might be captured chemically, not sure if urea has a higher (free energy? I don't remember the exact term).
Furthermore with this example, since urine is hyperosmotic, the body has to do a process against normal ion/water diffusion, in order to excrete minerals and not excessive water. This osmotic pressure, contains some potential energy.
I'm confused by your response to ninjapenguin[0]. Were you agreeing with him or disagreeing or something else? I interpreted your response to be disagreement. I feel that your original style of phrasing "If only x etc. etc." is not easy to understand. I'm having a hard time placing your subsequent comments in context of that original response.

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23042891
Agreed! I think both projects can coexist, but there could be some components that we could share. I was in talks with Hans last year about potentially supporting EIR opcodes in Enigma.

I do think that Lumen is potentially more interesting in the real world usecases though, and I wish you best of luck. Having an alternative Erlang compiler is a lot more complex but allows us to explore new techniques easier that could potentially be ported back to OTP if nothing else.
Woodworking
I'll give you feedback about your website.You'll give feedback about my website
The largest torrent site in Romania, “seized”
Easy fix: a piece of tape over your camera, that you only remove when you actually want to display yourself (and your surroundings) to the world.
Math notation is just one of many possible notations, though. And math notation is not static throughout history.
A few reasons:

One: the shop often wouldn't let you buy up their whole supply

Two: there are likely other restaurants in the area, so that's 20*N boxes a day

Three: lots of countries have resale laws that prevent this

Four: that's a lot of time to spend every day when you can get a single delivery every week / two weeks instead

Five: the delivery often includes the collection of the used bottles (when using glass) and that otherwise can cost a lot