skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On a tech site I’m talking specifically about tech jobs.
If you are making only a median of $70K after spending tens of thousands of dollars at an Ivy League school. That’s not actually a good investment.

You can make $70K graduating from your run of the mill state school as a an enterprise CRUD developer in any major city in the US that’s not on the west coast.

Other studies have shown that there are no difference in salary between people who were accepted in an Ivy League school and didn’t attend as those who did go.

Also, in tech, you can make $200K within two or three years easily - regardless of college you attended.

I’ve been a senior architect and engineering manager for a while. I have never noticed any correlation between people who whiz through algorithm interviews and people who are effective at achieving business outcomes and project success once in the role.

I agree, and actually submitted tweet on HN a while back.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19687593

Whether it is correlated with outcomes or not, is irrelevant to the fact that you can get into big tech by being able to do algorithms and make $200K relatively early on in your career.

I personally didn’t “get into a FAANG” by doing a whiteboard interview. I got in as a “cloud consultant” where I had to have a history of achieving business outcomes.
EU has this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_be_forgotten
Not defending that change, but when do you ever need to copy just the domain instead of the full URL?
Sanctions will hurt factory workers and their families. And they’ll hurt US consumers. But Xi will still be grinning.

If you really want to give the finger to China, dispense with the one China policy.
Standard disclaimer that this is a preprint that has not been peer reviewed.
Indeed - plenty of cooking processes can produce gas bubbles that are trapped or escape leaving foam structures behind that take up considerably more space than the original material. Like bread, for example.

The volume of flour and water you put into a dough is considerably less than the volume of the loaves you'll produce - and a significant amount of the water you put in will have gone by the time they're cooked (also you'll have lost some of the carbohydrates from the flour which has been turned into CO2 and ethanol by the yeast, a bunch of which will also cook out of the loaf).
Just in the case there's some info they haven't stolen yet, be ready to disclose it for free...
I only saw four features which I thought added value to a walkthing

1) dual headphone output. Sharing is cool!

2) a microphone. This changed journalism from niche device with dictation cassette to street journalist. Democratisation of news followed a trend down from a five person crew to two or one as VHS came in.

3) l and r separated volume. Only saw it once but for cheap stereo it meant you could do music minus one and dial down vocals on one channel

4) tape speed change. Autotune for free!
One of the main reasons sites use AMP (listed in top sites in serps) will not require AMP soon.

https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/28/21272543/google-search-re...
> Or, more simply - they give us enough space to express complex thoughts, and there's good moderation.

This is what it boils down to for me. Slashdot was great because of CmdrTaco and when he left it that was about the time when that site went down the tubes. Hacker news is great because of dang. When the moderators leave, the communities often rot.
> The far-left radical progressive movement is different and has greater power and momentum than anything we've seen in the past two decades.

Huh. So let me get this straight, the relentless war on drugs started by Nixon 50 years ago that has incarcerated the most people on the planet, is now being eclipsed by cancel culture in terms of overall destruction of human lives?

The massive wealth transfer via securitization of loans, junk bonds, sovereign debt, CDOs, and QE2, resulting in the worst economic inequality arguably in history, doesn't make you lose sleep, but an economically insignificant amount of cancel-culture firings is going to REALLY fuck things up?
Disable this setting in chrome by going to chrome://flags and switching #omnibox-context-menu-show-full-urls to enabled. Then right click the URL bar and select "alawys show full URLS"
More than demoed, they've shipped DLSS in quite a few games now. The 1.0 version was underwhelming but the 2.0 version works extremely well in practice.

However Nvidia are treating DLSS as their secret sauce and not publishing any details, so Facebook's more open research is interesting even if it's not as refined yet.
American businesses are Chinese businesses.
In Leo's case, he's obviously using the income to advance the project in ways that he couldn't otherwise, and for that, I really appreciate the revenue he's pulling in.

For others, Colin Furze, for example, I'm left wanting.
Conservatism is a poor descriptor for the driving ideology of the American right these days. Progressiveism is sometimes on the radar of the mainstream left but generally not. The notion of centrism is pretty meaningless when the endpoints are shifting constantly.

"Centrism" in the United States often means conservative views, but not Trump right wing crazy- but being conservative means trending towards maintaining existing power structures which is incompatible with those who want progressive change. The terms are all ultimately meaningless meat shields for empty rhetoric.
Wow, now pulsar as well. As someone who isn't full-time trying to keep up with this tsunami of names it's just impossible to keep up. Apache (or someone, anyone please) needs to make a matrix of all their own competing technologies and what the actual differences are between them. It's just impossible!
Yeah, friends have occasionally encouraged me to use Twitter, over the years since the mid 00s. But it's never appealed to me, and so I have ~no experience with it, except from following posted links.

But anyway, you say:

> Anonymity is antithetical to trust and trust is required for equity. There is little that an anonymous person can do for you, and little you could do for them.

While that's generally so, I have developed many more-or-less long-term anonymous relationships, over the past couple decades. And some of them have led to interesting collaborations, and even paying work.
Yes, China isn't all bad.

Honestly while many of the methods of the CCP are condemnable or outright evil the goals they purse with it are often not. It's just that they have lost their humanity to some degree in a combination of bureaucracy, capitalism and nationalism.

But even if it changes after becoming a superpower it will take time and drastic events. Most likely a insane number of lives would be lost (or "destroyed") before it. And the west pay a high price. Ironically we could say they will pay a high price for not keeping to their own moral standards...

Also one problem is that with tech advancements traditionally observed dynamics about bad rulers being dethroned might not longer work.
> I’ve learned a lot from watching his videos and I’m happy to chip in a few bucks per month (as apparently are many other people).

Likewise.
> Are you assuming they will grow out of these racist tendencies?

Yes? Did you leave college with the same beliefs you had when you arrived?
Downvoters: describe your rational explanation for beating an American citizen in public because they support the president.
Children, that is who we are talking about here, learn from making mistakes. It is easy for children to follow a crowd and do all sorts of things they will later regret: experiment with drugs, alcohol, smoking, unhealthy relationships, sexual flings, etc. Included in this list is experimenting with racist language.

It is the responsibility of parents, teachers, adults and mentors to guide children away from mistakes towards the ability to make healthier choices.

Children also learn from their environment. Many of my college friends had never had anything spicy beyond a hint of black pepper due to their upbringing. Some thought spicy food was foul, unpleasant and foreign. It took them a few times visiting Indian, Caribbean, Thai, and Korean places to get hooked and completely change their world view.

We shouldn't mark kids as racist. Everyone has the capacity to grow and learn. Children especially so.
I think you're touching on a more general trend. People are waking up to the fact that punishments and jailtime are often excessive for criminals. And also that for too long people got away with saying terrible (but not illegal) shit. We're course correcting, but it does make for some strange comparisons. For instance, I would guess that many of the same people who pile on when someone's old tweets are found, (essentially ensuring that they lose/never get a good job again) would also be in favor of ban-the-box laws or donating money indiscriminately to bail funds.
The times that bit me the most is when I need to copy an IP address.
> causing free speech to be threatened.

[citation needed]. Social media platforms are not 1st-amendment platforms.

What's hilarious about the author of this article is her admiration for South Park. And yet, they did the satire of anyone with the ashen-faced fear of being "kicked off Twitter" as a fate worse than death.

I fail to see how the PC left is changing any of the things that really run society. If you don't like the noise, maybe take a break from Twitter? Because being kicked off twitter is NOT a threat to free speech.
Parents should be wise to educate their children in never posting their feelings to social media.
Thoughtcrime is real.
It doesn't matter if some other things are more important. If it is helpful, then it should be included in policies. Do you agree?

And this matters because in the US and an a number of other countries, a large proportion of people refuse to wear face masks, and the government doesn't mandate them, and that is bad. And the people who refuse to wear face masks usually also refuse to follow some or all of the other measures. We are talking about a whole bundle of measures here.
Eh, there are lots of other shipbuilding channels out there that are lackluster by comparison. Louis Sauzedde and Leo Sampson Goolden are the best, by far. I think that's the result of their extensive experience and willingness to share the craft with others.
A comment that draws mob wrath today is likely to retain that ability into the future. Combine this with the increasing popularity of digging up old comments, taking them out of context, stirring a moral panic, and getting someone fired over them, and it becomes pretty clear that unpopular opinions (and adjacent) in the permanent record represent a serious liability that only increases with time and should not be underestimated.
Let’s be real, when has an authoritarian government ever let its own people drive social changes? That never happens because such reforms would be an existential threat to that very form of government.

US institutions at least aspire to enable its society to affect social change.

The only way china will change is if the government can no longer uphold the social contract (exchange of social liberties for quality of life increases) and its people forcibly change management.
At that age, I enjoyed Number Theory by George E. Andrews

https://www.amazon.com/Number-Theory-Dover-Books-Mathematics...
If I recall correctly, when you used both headphone jacks, the volume would get weaker.
i dont know i think your thinking implies years of growing with the same theories, like getting to a point of building with square like objects
i dont think its a given
This seems to be an honest mistake, but unfortunately I can only see this becoming more common in the years to come.

I was discussing this with a friend recently. Specifically, we were wondering what the incentive would be, if any, for big-tech to stop this trend towards increased censorship.

Obviously censoring anything that could be perceived as controversial is good for the bottom-line of these companies, but it's also worth remembering there's little to no political incentive to ensure free-speech on these platforms either.

If the only political content YouTube promotes is from the main-stream media and the only fact checkers Twitter and Facebook are using are from the legacy media, then these actions work in favour of establishment politicians.

For years corporations and the media have been basically able to dictate political candidates to the public, but in 2016 that momentarily changed due to rise in influence social media had.

I suspect Youtube, et al. have finally wised up and that's why we're seeing this sudden increase in the big-tech censorship. They don't want another Sanders or Trump slipping through the cracks.

This year at this point in time obviously the biggest threat is from the right with Trump, and Biden is seen as the safe establishment bet, so the direction of the censorship for now is towards the right. But make no mistake, if the safe candidate was on the right you'd see these companies take a very different view on what's acceptable and not acceptable to say.
They already make unreliable cars and try to make it as difficult as possible for amateurs and independents to repair, including the electronic aspects.

Doing things that should be simple, like changing the spark plugs or transmission fluid, can be nightmarish.

Out of warranty BMWs often have oil leaks, that sometimes are as simple as replacing a cheap gasket but will run you $500+ for a dealer to fix.

Here is a description of the procedure to replace the valve cover on a lot of recent BMWs for DIYers:

https://www.e90post.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1197637

It's kind of strange to me that this should be sustainable, because if you're designing cars only for a short lease period when they're under warranty, shouldn't this be less profitable than having better resale value?
> our new language lords

> TERF ideology was fine just a few years ago

> who knows what will become the new taboo

I'd like to understand the point you're trying to make in greater detail. Do you object to anti-TERF ideology in particular, or evolving cultural standards in general?
We also “just upload the code”; however, the issue is that the code size is too large. Lambdas can only be 250mb, and if your dependency tree includes Numpy that’s 70mb alone. Go binaries are about 2 orders of magnitude smaller than Python binaries by my crude estimation. Go compiles source code to native machine code and the linked trims dead code. Neither of these are possible in Python, so you get enormous binaries.
Yes, the author pointed out their other mistakes. But the author seemed to have missed this important mistake completely. I "ignored" nothing. I explained the mistake for their benefit and for others. Not out of any maliciousness or to shame them.

The appropriate response would be gratitude for the feedback. The author and yourself are being needlessly defensiveness.
The Kyle Kashuv one was especially bad. It was done in a private conversation. IMO he doesn't owe anybody an apology, other than anyone in that conversation who he may have offended. His supposed friend should be the one to apologize for making it public.
Svante Pääbo , one of the preprint authors, is the head of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svante_P%C3%A4%C3%A4bo . He is known for his work in assembling the Neanderthal and Denisovan genomes.

Of particular note in this paper, the genetic variants in the genomic locus discussed are found in 30% of South Asian populations: India and Bangladesh. The highest frequency occurs in Bangladesh, where more than half the population (63%)
carries at least one copy of the Neandertal risk variant and 13% is homozygous for the variant. The risk variant is 8% frequency in Europe.

The hg19 location of Genetic variants in LD (r2>0.99) with rs11385942 in Eurasian populations can be viewed here at the UCSC genome browser: https://genome.ucsc.edu/cgi-bin/hgTracks?db=hg19&position=ch...

The genome wide association study that points out this area of the genome is here : https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2020283 . At this "locus 3p21.31, the association signal spanned the genes SLC6A20, LZTFL1, CCR9, FYCO1, CXCR6 and XCR1."

Three of the genes, XCR1 CXCR6 CCR9, are involved with chemokine receptor activity and G-protein coupled chemoattractant receptor activity.
You could. Many or most places do that. But US recipes typically don't, and work out fine. So I guess volumetric measurements that assume default packing conditions often work out OK in practice, though @lostlogin above reports a corner case that doesn't work.
it would be more like different courses are best at teaching the same thing in a particular way that works best with a subset of people, so the top would be made of the set of courses that works with the majority of the population. The problem is that the way humans learn is not exactly understood, is it even a finite set? And what is its diatribution? Can it change through time/culture? Can it be identified in genetic traits? So if the learning methodology changes through time the best courses would also follow with it
Nope, it's your bosses' call, 100%. Businesses are dictatorships. What you describe is your read of what you might think your boss will do, but if it is in their interest to keep you, they will keep you, even if your "peers" are hurt and offended. OTOH, if the people you've offended are more important than you, then maybe your job is at risk. But it's at risk anyway in that case.

People think "calling HR" is some kind of loaded weapon, but the fact is there are harrassers and all sorts of losers who get called to HR over and over and keep their jobs. HR exists for one reason: protect the management. If you're expendable and easy to fire, then _maybe_ they'll can you, but if you're actually a decent employee they definitely won't if all we're talking about is a brush fire on Slack.
Ouch... "We triggered some folks!"
You simply aren’t engaging with the conversation in good faith. The same strata apply to tech jobs. If the median is say $120k, you’ll see the same doubling of median for Harvard grads, or close to it.

It seems like you’re deliberately trying not to engage with the point of the article, and instead trying to claim some bizarre specific standard of tech salaries you are making is supposed to be comparable to the data from eg the Boston Globe article (which explicitly refutes the point you’re trying to make).

Anyway, I can’t help you if you have your mind made up and you’re reading confirmation bias articles as tea leaves.
Well good ideas, but maybe Twitter should have a disapproving glare button and a way to incentivize it's use by reasonable people.
Even this sentence is just a number.
One thing that becomes immediately apparent when visiting the medieval witchcraft museum in Iceland[1] was how strategic the use of Witchcraft accusations were by the middling elite.

One cunning foreign family with ties to occupying Denmark was able to secure land hold rights for nearly an entire peninsula from local Icelanders on the northwest through the strategic use of witchcraft accusations. During this period of occupation nearly 120 trials occurred over a 60 year period[2].

The people weren’t superstitious - they were corrupt.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strandagaldur

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%B3n_R%C3%B6gnvaldsson
Wow, this changes how I think about online discourse more than anything I can remember.

It actually makes me feel a lot better - rather than feeling like the whole world and all my friends are angry and unreasonable, it reminds me that, no, most of them are just being invisible. And that even the ones who seem unreasonable are just a product of their environment.

The funny thing is it could really be solved with a "that" feature on Twitter, to quietly keep track of when others disapprove, and even to anonymously and privately let the tweeter know.
I seem to recall the Aiwas tended to have EQ on the front, sometimes lined up diagonally. My first "Walkman" was a Toshiba (so technically it wasn't a Walkman) model from 1984, one of the first that came with a FM/AM cassette that you had to insert where the tape usually would go. It also was one of the first models with auto-reverse. This little guy: http://www.walkman-archive.com/wa/project/toshiba-kt-as1-bra...
She's a rich VC so by definition her viewpoint is more important than the twitter mobs, yes.
Azure DevOps is down
That’s not the real problem. The real problem is By leaving America is doing charity work. Another player from another country is just going to fill in the void. The idea of voluntary exit is as good as we should all be model citizens.

Indeed an idea as good as communism. It’s beautiful on paper.
WhatsApp isn't "markdown", but supports code blocks using triple backquote (and uses underscore for italics and star for bold, which I think is a lot better than markdown anyway).
Show HN: Sleep therapy app to reverse chronic insomnia
I could have sworn that it was between $15 and $20 when I got it a few years ago.
My partner and I have a 20-month old. I promote psychedelic therapy (and all other forms of self-hacking). I'm a priest/abbottess of a design-your-own-religion religion I've defined based on neuroscience such that we're all practicing it, supposedly have Scottish heritage somewhere back in my blood (but am mostly Cajun French). I'm recovering from many addictions. I've developed the platform, in part, by envisioning a future I want to live in, identifying what I'd be like there, and adopting aspects of that being, so I'm from the future. I was raised in toxic cultures that led to drunken hookups and violating sexual boundaries in ways that don't seem to be illegal and if I get any kind of attention I'm prepared for my own #MeToo moment. And I'm promoting a new currency you create by painting $1 bills black, asking for a need to be met, documenting the story of the ask & gift on the bill, and giving it to the person who met your needs...I call it the "nuff" and I think it may be a felony to make one.

So the time for you to take politics seriously (which I consider to the old way of relating to politics) may be upon you soon...and I hope you'll join me in this big political practical (as in useful) joke.

I'm Peacefully Revoking Consent To Be Governed For You And For All, I'm programming my mind by asking WWJD (What would Jokratesus [Joker + Socrates + Jesus] do?), and I approve this message.

%?

(That's an abstract emoticon that has at least 3 "faces" depending on the angle viewed from)

I propose we keep tickling each other like this and see what other ideas emerge.
Do the app developers or store have any legal ground to stand on when charges are being made by an unauthorized minor?
5) autoreverse
Completely agree with this comment. Well put.
Those terms are a bit archaic. They should change them to BillionaireITOligarch and MillinealGigWorker.
It’s that the “shift between high and low levels” costs performance, and if you have to do it O(n) times or worse (as is often the case), then that marshaling cost is a significant portion of (or even more than) the savings that you get from using a lower level language. This isn’t an issue in Go because you can just write faster Go without a marshaling overhead (or you can pay a similar overhead and call into optimized C libraries, but this is rarely necessary or worth the trouble since Go is far more maintainable and generally fast enough.
I just came across this project, it's exactly what I'm looking for. I'm working on a very similar project using GitLab CI and CDK for deployments. I'll definitely be referencing this project and going over it in detail soon. Are you the author?
Yes, very gloomy indeed. I wonder who’ll want to live there