skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The comment interface is minimal, easily understood, and affects only a small minority of projects because it is explicitly for advanced features. Contrast this with CMake, etc where you need to use the DSL for even single-source-file builds with zero dependencies. Then you have multi file builds which involve more complex DSL scripts, and then you have builds that need to pull dependencies which are more complex yet. This is all supported by the Go tool out of the box without any DSL whatsoever. Then you have things like linking to a C project which is just a comment in Go, but in DSL-based languages it’s even more scripting. This is all strictly better than having to deal with a DSL, especially from day 0.

Using comments (or “COMMENTS”) for these directives is sorta not ideal but if anyone could produce a case study where it causes anything but the most trivial of problems, I would be shocked. This seems like textbook overreaction.
For some reason, it's just so perfectly expected that commentors here don't like this wikipedia article.
They should use the Foxconn plant in Wisconsin.
You seem to be expressing some personal sensitivity here. If this person was disparaging people who drink alcohol (or was pushing for making alcohol illegal), you should specify that. All you've said is that they didn't cover it as a work expense - it's a controlled, mind-altering substance, so that's totally non-political given no additional motivations.
Yeah, if you use MDMA more than once every few months you're damaging your brain. Three times a week? Jesus.

It's a great drug, highly recommended, but ONLY if you can use it in a safe and sane and responsible manner.
> It really puts our human scale and importance in perspective.

Speaking of scale a new large structure was discovered a supercluster which has been named "South Pole Wall" it;s 1.5 billion light years in length.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnUUKJMAmFo
Thanks! Can you please provide any further links (or keywords to search for) regarding the 'preliminary steps' that are allowed?
For Canadians, TN-1's are not visas but statuses adjudicated at the border (they're typically just I-94s linked to passports), so they never "run out" as such (no quota).

However the TN is a status for restricted NAFTA (USMCA) professional categories, and typically requires proof of qualifications (in this case, education). I could be wrong, but an undergrad intern typically does not fit these categories. I'm surprised people have used it for co-op.
If the argument is Datomic can't be simpler than a relational DB because it can utilize it for persistence, then you'd have to argue that a relational DB can't be simpler than directly using a hard drive for your storage solution.
No, that would not count as an investment for E-2 purposes. The money needs to be controlled/owned by a citizen of that country or a company owned by citizens of that country and then invested into the U.S. company to be counted.
Never thought I'd see the day that a pg essay crosses over with /r/politicalcompassmemes

The problem with "discussing ideas" as a framing is that it exists in opposition to something. What is that something?

Those whose position favours the status quo would read it in opposition to "not discussing ideas", which is obviously bad. However, to those who find the status quo untenable, the opposite position is "acting on ideas".

Following pg's example, let us consider the following classic debate topic: "is slavery good?" A plantation owner might find themselves tickled by a lively discussion on the subject, replete with a cornucopia of Enlightenment principles and classical liberalism and such. A slave might find this discussion less interesting, because no outcome would lead to their freedom.

It is perhaps telling that slavery was not abolished through free inquiry or the discussion of ideas. It was abolished through acts of state power and, ultimately, violence. Are we to believe in an alternate history where the South was debated out of its peculiar institution? The discussion of ideas gave way to acting on those ideas. The alternative would be a society of endless, meaningless rambling.

Today, if you were still debating "is slavery good?", you would not be a brave free-thinking iconoclast, you would be either an idiot or a very devoted racist. You would get uninvited from lectures and yelled at on Twitter, not because your ideas are too advanced, but because they're too far behind. The debate is over, and the actual free-thinkers have moved on.

It's sad to say, but I think the real lesson of this essay is that political ideas are just like music taste. Whatever your parents were listening to is outdated and embarrassing, whatever the kids are listening to is just angry noise, and miraculously your generation was the only one to stumble upon that which is profoundly, timelessly good.
I like the sheet of paper method, but I have gotten a lot more use out of a $0.15 feeler gauge and I get consistently better prints... but I don't have the tools to scientifically quantify it so it could be placebo.
When the Cube came out I was thinking it would be what the Mac mini became. Instead it was a shitty PowerMac that cost almost as much as a PowerMac.

If you wanted to use it for anything but trivial stuff you really just wanted a PowerMac. If your needs were trivial you were much better off with an iMac. Apple's 2x2 product matrix worked pretty well and the Cube didn't fit in it at all.

It was a weird expensive mutant.
To be honest, I understand where you are coming from, and share your opinion that many issues are more important than astronomy, including humanitarian issues. I think actually most astronomers would agree with that (the ones that I know, anyway).

But the problem here is with the way that this debate is being framed. There is a false dichotomy that has been repeated here which I sum up as basically "Space-X is trying to solve humanitarian problem A, and astronomers are getting in the way! Deal with it astronomers, you are not more important than humanitarian issue A." but that's not at all what's actually happening. This is a monumentally impactful project undertaken by Space-X in secret, with enormous ramifications on science that -- despite the simplistic claims here -- are not something that can be worked around (LSST and other projects cannot be done in space, regardless of the cost of space delivery). Instead of responsibly investigating the impact, consulting with scientific agencies to either mitigate them, or prepare for the impact (as they are doing now after a huge outcry, but there is little that can be done now), they have instead opted to completely blindside entire branches of science, ruining decades of work around the globe and impacting tens or hundreds of billions of dollars in R&D. Even their press releases now say things like they are "learning how astronomical detectors work" -- that is extremely disturbing. That should basically never happen. There are responsible ways to do what Space-X has done, and they have shirked those responsibilities.
Most totalitarian leaders use fear and repression as tools for maintaining the power structure. Defecting members of the nomenclature and their families are imprisoned and tortured. With modern methods of surveillance and control, that doesn't require a huge army of trusted agents, as was the case in the Eastern bloc, for example.
His point is that the founders and underlying ideas for startups and quantitative trading companies need to be unconventional in order to succeed. Otherwise the returns will already have been captured by the market (in the case of trading) or the product will already have been built (in the case of a startup)
Celebrities Who Give Away Money on Twitter Are Setting People Up to Get Scammed
Do you have a copy of the post content by the poster above
thecreamedcorn?

Will be quoting it for context.

It's very annoying when a post gets flagged and becomes hidden and not even viewable.
C# is high on the list, F# isn't a priority at the moment though. Behind the scenes, we've recently changed to use tree-sitter as the parser library; if there is a good F# tree-sitter library integration becomes quite easy. I don't see one at https://tree-sitter.github.io/tree-sitter/ but perhaps there's one maintained elsewhere.
"I've talked with a lot of different Indian and similar 'offshore' engineers, developers and managers and most of them ended up in the place they did due to choices between being a farmer or being an IT person, being in a poor province vs. being in a less-poor province, and being able to support your parents. Almost none of them had an upbringing, background, or base passion for technology or IT in general."

This sadly happened to me many times. Since the quality of many Indian teams was extremely abysmal, I found out that many so-called developers had no IT background at all, as you wrote. They went through a 2 to 4 weeks HTML/CSS/JS Bootcamp, and, very important allegedly in India, received a certificate, that qualified them as “Middle Web Developers”.
I went down a rabbit hole of videos last yearish about the origins of precision (that should be a searchable phrase to get started).
Don't think that'd help them avoid Indian import duty ;)
Hi Peter, EB3 ROW GC applicant with approved EAD/AP and pending I-485 here. Are you seeing these types of GCs being adjudicated and/or interviews being waived? Thanks for doing this!
I hope it makes it through the selection. Either way i'll be using it.
Building my first game with Realtime Data – Tamago-Train
Oh right, I just had the same experience, I thought it was failing and went to some RSS validators to be sure I didn't have something incorrect in my setup. When I went back to the srv.tt-rss.org instance after a few minutes my articles were there. The initial UX could be improved, that's for sure!
A year ago I bought a TV (same as you: directly from Amazon). It came with the screen cracked. I asked for a new one... The replacement came cracked. On the reviews, I saw a couple people mentioning that the screen came cracked. They wanted me to send them back by Canada Post, but I said no way I would do that, as I don't drive, and I would not carry 2 55" TVs on the streets. They ended up paying for purolator to pick them up at my place.

I asked for a refund and bought on Best Buy. No problems!
That's what average people refer to as "losing your insurance". They don't have enough money to pay for insurance out of pocket, especially after they have lost their job.
That state funded radio station has 4,7% of the market share. Thanks to that censor action the song became very popular in other stations and YT.
Baskets of deplorables.
> In fact we know that immigrants commit crimes at a lower rate than the non-immigrant population.

Are you looking at illegal immigrants here, or just legal immigrants? Because it seems like this would be trivially false for illegal immigrants.
> ...British (plus some European) settlers that spoke English and followed Protestant Christian values.

Sounds like white, English-speaking, Christian == colonizer, and anyone else would be immigrants. :/
Except that people who work there (like anywhere else) can't find a better job. And like everywhere else most of them do their best.

What does your wishing them to be worse off say about you?
Amazon Warehouse Deals are discounted customer returns.
What is the price for helping doing the Extend I-539 form?
I`m am visitor who having trouble getting back to my country, just need 2 or 3 months with my B1 B2 visa
The European Parliament, because of its pure-proportional electoral system, is arguably more connected with the population than most national governments.

The UK is the extreme example of this: for a decade, their EP contingent has had a massive number of euroskeptic politicians who never managed to win more than a single seat in the British Parliament. Brexit proved that Strasbourg was actually more representative than Westminster.
I'm sure it is on the list for JWST. I suspect Spitzer must have already attempted the same thing.

Being on the other side of the Moon, alone, isn't likely to make a huge difference in image depth.
The last time I reduced database server load by 70% by just spending a week tuning indexing strategies and ill-performing queries, nobody thanked me. Sure, a new database server costs way more than a week of my time, but that is completely beside the point.

The point is that I robbed someone of the chance to buy a shiny new computer.
Under the hood of Linkerd's state-of-the-art Rust proxy
Yeah, I really don't get what's with all these Data-from-Star-Trek style discussions of drugs and emotions and love. I couldn't believe this was the top comment... who on Earth is using reason and logic to fall in love?
If they're buying something as "new" and getting something that has been returned and is not factory sealed then they're getting ripped off. This time the buyer caught it, but what if it had been swapped for the same item with 80% of it's expected life used?
> A too-trusting person will believe everyone.

That's an easily curable condition though and doesn't last long.
The links become text and you would copy and paste. That's how thunderbird does it.
Rooney Rule, anyone?
2d lattices are easy to visualize though. I've given brown bags to general engineers on NTRU like systems, and have found that some find it even easier to understand than RSA as it's more graphical
I would be surprised if Datomic's core code was written in Clojure rather than Java (and these days Java's performance can get you pretty far in implementing a database, see e.g. Cassandra).

Most highly performance-sensitive code in the Clojure ecosystem is a Clojure wrapper around a Java core.

But yes as I said elsewhere, it would be great if Cognitect allowed people to post benchmark results.
I'm of the opinion that the non-conformists these days are the people that think capitalism shouldn't exist at all and choose to minimize their role in it as far as they can without starving and going homeless.
After this (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23941572) I always record. I had no problem to return and didn't need to prove that it arrived cracked but... better safe than sorry
I previously held a job at a tech company with nice amenities, including optional dinner. Dinner didn't start until 6:30, and they stopped serving breakfast at 9:30, so if I wanted three free meals I was at the office for at least 10 hours a day. Sounds bad, right?

Guess what – I was also free to go run an errand in the middle of the day, leave at 5 to go to a fitness class and come back for dinner, or just leave whenever and not come back. Many days I'd work from home until 11:30 or so, and then go in for lunch. Some days I'd work from home entirely.

You can call me an infantile corporate slave all you want, but I knew what was going from day one (that the food policies are designed in the company's self-interest was obvious and not, to me, repugnant) and perfectly capable of taking care of myself when I need to, thank you very much.

Since I left that job, I've cooked for myself and my partner quite regularly. Shopping, cooking, cleaning, etc is an incredible time suck, and most of it much less fun than the extra 2 hours I spent at the office (half that eating, and the other half maybe working or maybe not). It does feel nice to be in control of my life this way, but if I were to go back to employment I'd absolutely desire the perks I had at the previous job.
A republic is a kind of democracy. HN is not somewhere I would have expected to see people forgetting about the existence of subtypes.
I am really interested to see some of her art. Please share if she is obliged...

I am often stunned at the hyper-realism of modern artists - as opposed to a lot of the art of the past eons, and I wonder why is it that we now see hyper-realism / photo-realistic drawings / art now as opposed to the past?

Has the artistic side of human creativity evolved in literally the last 75 years?
> All of these examples are not societies implementing communism

How so?

> but just merely small groups of people who do so, in a safe bubble provided by a non-communist society (US or Israel) which surrounds them. They benefit immensely from the wealth and protection coming from the surrounding non-communist society.

If you talk to communists, I think you'll find a lot of communists agree with this.

EDIT: That said, I think you may be underestimating the degree of independence these communes have. Keep in mind, Maoz Haim was founded in 1937, before Israel existed, which makes it a bit hard to argue that it's dependent on Israel. All three of these communes have a high degree of food and energy independence.

> These conditions do not translate in any way to larger scale implementation

So what? I think if you talk to communists, you'll find a lot of communists agree with this as well.

Sometimes solutions don't have to scale. A famous communist once said, "Growth for the sake of growth is the idea of a cancer cell." (Okay, maybe it's a bit of a stretch to call Edward Abbey a communist).

> it's not what majority of people mean when they discuss communism.

So what? The majority of people don't get to tell communists what communists believe. A straw man argument doesn't become valid because the majority of people believe the straw man is real.
"News" is about manipulating your emotions to keep you watching, which sells advertising revenue. As long as you are upset about something, the profiteering ensures.
> 1. Very green staff that have little to no coding skills/ability.

This is mostly due to high attrition rates, these companies hire students fresh out of universities who have little to no experience. So most projects are in a state of constant flux where people who have worked on the code left after an year or two, only to be replaced by someone who knows very little about the codebase.

The attrition is due to the very low pay and shitty work culture. Earlier people in India didn't really have a choice on where they could work in IT, it was mostly just these sweatshops, but this has changed in the past decade. There are product based companies and even higher tier consultancies who pay way better and treat their employees relatively better.

Also remember, this gap in the payscale isn't minuscule, it could literally be 5x-10x if you posses the technical chops.

> Because of #3 software takes longer to deliver resulting in more money spent on people who are onshore.

I am stressing on the low pay in my comment because I tend to see a lot of anger online directed on the actual engineers (while making the point #3 in your comment) under the assumption that these people are making fat stacks of cash while living in a country with low cost of living. But this isn't usually the case, these people are paid peanuts, which is barely enough to cover the cost of living in the IT centered cities.
MaxMind data accurate to the zip code level only about 30-60% of the time (as compared with what Google's Geolocation service will provide which is based off more data points than just IP address). Only use MaxMind if you're looking for region or country level accuracy.
There is nothing wrong with Java. Modern Java is pretty nice to use, fairly fast, has an incredible amount of libraries and tooling to do just about anything you want to do and a vast pool of talent to draw from.

At my current job I try to stick to Java for any new services because it's a great overall language.
I've never regretted having kids. And I think I'd have very much regretted not having them. Is it for everybody? Of course not. But for most people, it's one of the great joys of life.
I fully agree, but in an office of 100 people, I'm surprised everyone else agrees.
[Seeking advice] Made a service for putting public sites at custom domains
Hey guys,

I'm building a service for putting public sites behind custom URLs, plus adding analytics, CSS, metatags, etc.

It's essentially "reverse proxy any public site" as a service, with some Lambda@Edge functions sprinkled on top to inject analytics, CSS, etc.

A typical use case would be something like "make your Trello roadmap available at roadmap.yoursite.com instead of trello.com/b/fsyFS8w3".

It started off as a fun little technical challenge, but I've managed to get some customers and tonnes of feedback.

I'd love to squeeze some wisdom/advice from some of the more experienced members of the community: Is this idea viable in the long run from an AWS cost perspective, if charging monthly? Are there any legal concerns behind offering a service like this? Any general tips for someone getting their first few side projecft customers?

Any other general advice would be much appreciated :).

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At least Fry's electronics used to TEST memory sticks, motherboards, CPUs in front of customers during the return process. I knew cases where customers tried to return CPUs with bent pins, and their returns were denied.

IIRC, Fry's did not test hard disks, except to match the serial numbers. So, now this scam requires testing of hard drives of their capacity during the return process. And this is a cat-and-mouse game.
If you're sending a lot of email every day, having dedicated IPs is an important piece of owning your sender reputation. A shared IP is only as good as the email service provider's ability to prevent people from sending spam on their platform. In a system full of black boxes that can have sudden and hard to fix impacts on your business if you rely a lot on email, eliminating one black box (the behavior of other customers on your shared IP) can be a huge risk reduction.
a product that collects the best links about startups(stories, tips, guides, twitter threads) and sends you via website or an email newsletter
On the contrary, I have come through some articles / blogs that have delivered insightful answers to the question that led you to it in the first place. Doesn't make you a bad person, but you should definitely clean your judgmental glasses.
Hey I think you might be referencing to no white boarding. The easiest way to do this is to show your technical ability which might give the interviewer the confidence that you are the right one and leverage your network because that always helps.

You can show your abilities by building side projects,communicating the communities,writing blogs or even contributing to the open source communities
I know more than one person who bought these just because Apple had released new hardware. Totally bought in to the image.
All the changes really are limited to entry into/travel to the U.S. so if one is outside the U.S. or inside the U.S. and hoping to travel outside, the various travel bans and restrictions, etc. could impact one's ability to travel/return to the U.S. Those same bans and restrictions generally don't apply if one is in the U.S. And even with the bans and restrictions, many visas aren't subject, including the B-1/B-2, E-1, E-2, E-3, H-1B1, O-1, and TN.
It's complicated. There's for sure a generational skew here, most of the signers were older established voices[1]. While there was some diversity, there were very few truly progressive voices, and what ones there were tended to come out later expressing that they were mislead about the way the letter would be presented.

The text of the letter is hard to argue against. The context in which it was presented, and especially the way it was leveraged on the right as an "a-ha!" moment to disparage many of the demographics that were supposed to have "signed" it was quite different.

Republicans view that letter as an admission of guilt on the part of the left, when the intent was to call back absolutist rhetoric everywhere. It didn't work.

[1] From the perspective of the activist left: the powerful looking to suppress checks on their power from new voices.
There seems to be a real problem with those Samsung SSD's on Amazon. There's quite a few reviews where people even received a fake SSD, the only thing that gives it away is the connector[0]! I decided I wouldn't take the risk and bought mine elsewhere.

[0]: https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71u2ZnjYcWL...