skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Those were examples, but when I wrote literally anywhere at any time I meant, think of anyplace where the government puts people up and feeds them - even just the cost of putting an employee up at a hotel and feeding them for a day - and use that as your baseline.

Hotel accommodation is also silly; that comes with daily sheet cleaning and such. It'll save you some typing if you stick to relevant examples, is my point. You've listed 4 so far, 3 of them aren't related to the cost of providing basic shelter. Amenities are expensive.

> Creating a new form of housing for millions of displaced people instead of simply preventing them from becoming displaced in the first place is tremendously expensive, immoral, and disruptive.

Expecting taxpayers to swoop in and pay people's rent is also expensive, immoral, and disruptive. Taxpayers shouldn't be funding something they have no control over. And as I pointed out and I'm not sure you read, my option is much cheaper than $600/month/person.

> You believe displacing millions of people rather than just giving them the money...

No I don't. I have an encyclopedic knowledge of things I believe and that isn't something I ascribe to.

> The entire population does not consist of college kids away at school, or whatever you're fantasizing about.

That isn't relevant and you are representing that moving houses is an insufferable hardship. It isn't. I moved house this year, and I'm not even close to being a college student.
It's not free. They are soliciting proposals for paid contracts.
This seems to imply that “tech expert” is someone all-knowing regarding tech

No one was ever literally all-knowing but tech people never used to be as micro-specialist as is common now. In the 90s it was quite normal for one person to understand everything from the hardware and networks up to how to make HTML look pretty.

In the early days of Google they probably did have guys who really did understand it all. But not any more.
WW1 helmets are as effective as their modern day counterparts

https://scitechdaily.com/shocking-results-when-wwi-helmets-w...
The first known hospital was founded in 291 B.C. in Greece.

The first real democracy was also Greece.
Slightly OT, but what's the simplest way to offer more payment options online in India? Is there a way to set up UPI as a foreign company?

For context: we're a small B2C bootstrapped company offering online anatomy learning. We use Stripe and Paypal (via Fastspring), but it seems like it's far from enough for the local market in India...
Yes it does, if you get diabetes you could kill me from your car, or take up critical health resources that lead to me not getting treatment. Sugar is dangerous.
Physics is not math. It is an experimental field.

Isn't this kinda what Sabine Hossenfelder has been saying for the past couple of years?

But that itself seems to be a reaction to the way so much of physics has become "just math". One can bemoan this state of affairs (and people have, obviously. Hossenfelder, Peter Woit, Lee Smolin, etc.), but it seems like that's kinda where we're at these days... at least for a large portion of the physics community.
This is not correct. Nearly every iconic traditional Japanese craftsmanship originated in China, and was obsessionally perfected in Japan. The art of Bonsai, Camera Lenses, Sushi, Swordsmanship. You name it.
I agree, and will add:

An expert in any field must also be well connected so they know who to call / ask / refer to when they don’t know how to proceed.
I am always amazed that Brave New World is taught as dystopic. Maybe it's over the top in its anti-reactionary elements, but considering that everyone except for a single suicidal (not saying it's because he was viviparous, some of my best friends have been born viviparously...) misfit has a pleasant life, one would think utilitarians should be as fond of Huxley as others are of Rand.
Construction workers don't just wear them for reassurance either.

They protect the most vulnerable part of your body. You might not immediately go tell tales of it if you get hit in your helmet by anything but a small caliber or shrapnel (a large caliber will still inflict significant head trauma), but your chances of survival are way up from pretty much zero.

Also there might be all kinds of stuff flying around on a battlefield, and even if it isn't necessarily lethal, it's nice to not get hit in the head by a rock or whatever.
So all of the content is manually uploaded to the repo?
Saudi Arabia and UAE also have high inequality, which breeds uncertainty as the poor struggle to live.

Israel lives on the brink of war with her neighbors, a great source of uncertainty.
Forever grateful for ditching Jony Ive and his thinness obsession leading to technological compromises.
Google and Harvard Global Health Collaborate on new Covid-19 forecasting model
I don’t see how you’d have a number instead of a spring in a document in a typed language. Do you just directly dump user supplied data in your database without parsing/processing it? Otherwise, how is this not caught when it enters your system?
Nasa did that simply because they could not get things done, is not the fault of nasa admins nor engeniers, but the corruption of their legacy contractors and congress pushing to do spreed across the country all the projects in order to give jobs in each state, leading to a massive ineficiency that simply was unsustainable.
Privately companies already demostrated they can do much more for less.
Healing temple != Hospital.

Women and blacks might disagree with your second argument.
I still find it implausible. Would a university realistically allow someone who didn't know anything beyond 6th-grade math (in her own words) to sign up for such an accelerated syllabus that she went from doing introductory physics to quantum field theory in 6 months (also according to her own account)?
I am a bit rogue, and buy PDF books for my team on trendy tech, some applicable to their day to day, but mostly what is trendy in job postings.

I don’t try to hold them back.

I was also able to send a team member to SF earlier this year for a week to a ML bootcamp.

And last year, I got a few members from multiple teams to attend a 3 day state security con.

Beyond that, I do try to be a mentor, and try to engage by answering why we do what we do and the historical context of how we got there.

I guess I also have some informal documents that are part of a curriculum, but there is no official single source of truth.
Nit picky can be fine. Even if they are on a free tier. I have some customers that pay me nothing, and are quick to highlight anything and everything. It's frustrating sometimes, but the product is better for it.

A much more serious issue for us is customers who abuse our staff. And these are sometimes high-paying customers. Shouting and swearing on the phone and on site. And worse.

We've learned the hard way to recognise companies with this culture, and actively (but politely) remove ourselves. Even if it costs a significant, potential 7 figure deal.

The bottom line is that our staff are our greatest asset, not the code, and not the customer - and even one staff member leaving over a bad client is a net loss, regardless of the deal.

We haven't fired many, but we've never regretted it.

I should also point out that we differentiate individual bad behavior from company culture. Sometimes we get a different point of contact, but at some companies it's a culture where everyone does the same thing.
I think you are onto something, here in the west we have.

Personally I am a believer but I can discuss astronomy or evolution just fine.

It is kind of like wave or particle: I use the model that works in the setting.
Can you please go on? Perhaps you also have something about the removal of the jack plug?
What did fate do?
That should come sooner than later. I’m 38 and a Millennial but definitely feel more like a Xennial. I’ve “done well”, never given a dime, no help or network, and have worked a tax paying job since I was 12, put myself through college with 30 hours a week work (night shifts at stores etc) and my net worth including my 401K today is about 200K. That’s saving, hard, for a very long time. I’m still far behind where I need to be financially, will never retire, and would definitely consider it today. The only reason I stick around is to outlive a few people that I don’t want to give the satisfaction that I died. I’m a petty man, one with no real future, but to continue making employers rich. I do want to be part of defeating my class enemies though, the investment class. I often say I understand the opioid crisis- those who died may have been the smart ones. They knew.

There’s really only one way forward and it needs to start now, worker owned cooperatives. No more capitalism, it isn’t working. While there will still be a place for capitalism, most businesses are proven business models. There’s no reason Google shouldn’t be owned by its employees. Let alone 7-Eleven. Once people get a taste of democracy in the workplace, they’ll demand it out of their government.
Also, with the preview in the foreground, Command-C will copy the screenshot to the clipboard (e.g., before putting it into the trash).
Curious about why you use "believe in god or some higher power" for religiosity but "identify as atheist" for lack of religiosity considering your first link has "do not believe in a higher power" as an option for non-theists.
See also the big discussion from 3 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24066832
I set up a staging instance for my previous startup, then never used it. I don't really understand what the value is unless you have dedicated QA staff that run some manual tests against staging. If the tests are automated, they should run in a dev environment. If you don't have QA, just test in prod. This seems to work well for the largest tech companies, who (in)famously don't really use branches and ship directly to prod with feature flags.
I agree if TikTok is infringing on other people's rights, something should be done to stop that. If TikTok is violating current laws, they should be dealt with according to those current laws they are violating. If they are not violating any current laws, that should be rectified by writing laws to protect the rights of the people who are having their rights violated by TikTok.
Training as a separate activity from normal work activities is not my mental model, and I expect many others. Rather, training should be interwoven in all of the daily activities that allow people with more or differentiated experience to share what they know with the others around them.

Code review is training. Do you consider training one of the primary purposes of code review? In my experience, different teams are highly variable on this. But avoiding bike shedding, explaining context and knowledge without dictating direction, and asking good questions shares knowledge and makes everyone improve.

Postmortems are training. Learning what went wrong and what could be done better next time is close to the definition of training.

Performance / peer reviews (when done well - a rarity) are training - they are a time to step back and think at a higher level about where there's room for improvement and what to concentrate on. Andy Grove explicitly talks about performance reviews as training: "giving reviews is the single most important form of task-relevant feedback"

If your definition of training only includes classrooms, learning budgets, conferences, etc than I encourage you to broaden your view as to what constitutes training. If these venues help you learn, then I hope your organization supports you access them. But don't mistake their absence or their low prominence for a lack of training with an organization
The company that greenlit Cliqz integration surprises you when they spit on the privacy of their users?
I have no doubt she is smart and resilient. But there is a huge gap between "smart" and "one-in-a-million genius".

You quoted a marketing blurb. Of course it is supposed to sell the author.
Thanks for sharing!

Yeah, I would say that good 20% of posts are about anxiety of dentist visits. But what I've seen many more stories about over-treatments. Luckily for you, your dentist didn't abuse your trust.
"We’ve instructed the Google Speech-to-Text engine to NOT save any recordings."

Hahaha! :D Thanks for the good laugh.
There are lots of things you can do, for example in my company I set up:

- weekly training sessions where devs share experience and what they've learned or organize workshops for each other

- book clubs where a group of people discuss a technical book/paper they're reading together chapter by chapter

- regular hackathons (I count them as learning) every 3 months where you can play with whatever tech you want

- I buy them practically anything they want in terms of education and encourage them to do it on our 1:1s

- the usual pairing of juniors and seniors for mentorship

- a #learn channel on slack where people post interesting new things related to our tech stack or insights
I don't think that it is only paper work. The nuclear payload probably need to be protected in the event of a rocket failure.
Very happy to see that this is no longer a Facebook project, which I believe it was just a few months ago. I’d bet there’s a good story behind that.

Let’s liberate React next?
Thanks, interesting but I didn't really get the nostalgia angle from the article though?
A revolutionary search engine? I don’t know if you were around before Google started but on the other search engines that were available you could search all you want and all you would find was spam and unrelated crap.
Free writing: How a non-writer like me built a writing practice (2019)
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> Yet people still accumulate wealth, so desperately, unaware that they do not know how to use it after death.

I won't be able to, but my genetic semi-copies with heavy memetic influence from me will be able to. It's not about me, the individual. It's about the genes and memes that compose me, and accumulating wealth does pretty well at ensuring replication of those genes and memes.
Found someone else: Vienna Teng [1], is an American pianist and singer-songwriter, computer science graduate that used to work at Cisco.

From her website bio: "These days, all that training mostly manifests itself in overly clever spreadsheet formulas." :-D

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vienna_Teng
Fun fact: a building in the Seattle campus of Amazon, "lowflyinghawk" is named after a particularly vocal early days customer of AWS: https://blog.aboutamazon.com/amazon-campus/the-surprising-st...
You could use Firefox Lockwise to store logins and login automatically when visiting website.
One improvement is for the loser to pay the winner's legal bills up to the amount that the loser paid on his legal bills.
> A supermajority of people in every western country believe in god or higher power: https://www.pewforum.org/2018/05/29/beliefs-about-god/pf_05-...

Your link belies what you said. That survey was not in "every western country", but fifteen western countries. The Czech Republic is west of Finland (surveyed) and less than 20% of its population is religious.

Also you say from that survey people believe in God or a higher power, but it does not limit to that, they include people who believe in a spiritual force. That could be a Buddhist.
This is bs.

In order for outsiders to understand tech, you need to invite engineers/researchers, not CEOs.

And you need marathon sessions, not sprints.

Go figure!
For the proposal to my now wife I built a small tablet web application that copied the Game Of Life board game that we frequently played. I put her Mii of Tomodashis Life from various screenshots in as her character, sneakily stolen from her 3DS screenshots. She had to roll (rigged) dices to advance the game and each stop was an actual big life event (like us moving together, getting her degree, finishing her state exam, ...). The last stop was the cliché "Will you marry me?".

It was fun and infuriating to build it. In the end it only worked on her tablet, nowhere else, because I had scaling and coordinate issues, but quickly ran out of time. It was neat though! Her character had different facial expressions (depending on the screenshots I could find) and it really felt like an actual board game on a tablet, although obviously scripted.

She said she really didn't expect what would happen at the last stop, which still confuses me - I thought it was so obvious that it was rigged and where it would go! Really happy how it turned out for her.

As an homage, we put even more images of Tomodashis Life on the wedding invitations (you can marry another Mii in the game, which incidentally was me in her game - and her in mine, not that we used those screenshots). A friend of mine, working for Nintendo and on the game, forwarded the PDF of the invitation to the makers of the game and they even sent a message back. Just all in all an awesome little thing born out of such a simple idea.

While I'd love to, I don't want to share it because of a lot of personal information and the mentioned issues it has on "unsupported hardware".
The article is a lot more recent than that presentation, its possible the author's opinion has shifted.
Malcolm Gladwell: How I Rediscovered Religion
How do you keep a straight face and say something like “security updates are possible as soon as someone discovers an exploit”?

Deary me.
How to keep cleaner React components with object map?
Unfortunately that makes me download the app. Firefox for iOS
I strongly agree with you. Brave New World is a utopian novel desperately trying to appear dystopic. With just a few small changes, to account for the existence of automation/robots/computers, the darker aspects (e.g. the population of deltas) stop being plausible within the universe.

The TV show had to invent a lot of extra nonsense to introduce conflict. Perhaps the most troubling aspect of Brave New World is that things are so stable, human needs are met so consistently, that life ceases to be a struggle; without a struggle, life becomes meaningless. That interpretation is alluded to in the TV show, but I won't spoil it.

We should be working as hard as possible to move society closer to brave new world and further from 1984.
That is what they are working on, but that needs high-quality training data: https://commonvoice.mozilla.org/en

This is just another way of gathering that data. (If consented to.)
Yes, and an entity that is not diametrically opposed to the needs of your other customers.
The evidence looks pretty good, actually, to support this thesis (though it is overly narrow in using 'Christianity' instead of 'Organized Religion'). Non-free societies were very good at crunching through people to produce overall societal progress especially if they applied the Greater Good deceit and the Afterlife deceit.

Perhaps the real tragedy is that we are now all free, and I, a non-slave, choose not to enrich society at large but myself. But that's not a tragedy I have that much sympathy for. I'd rather be a non-slave on this Earth than have a galactic humanity where I'm a serf.
The difference here is that this library is a one-line drop into your Python back-end to automatically generate the client.

Of course, the route you mentioned is much more powerful and complete, but here I'm trying to offer a way to very quickly build APIs without learning how to integrate any of those tools.
Aren't Google and FB already banned in China?
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Aliette de Bodard [1] is a French-American speculative fiction writer. A graduate of École Polytechnique, she works as a software engineer specializing in image processing.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aliette_de_Bodard
Temple = bad, church = good. Got it. You may want to take a look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hospital#History

The first "christian" democracies only gave the vote to men of the aristocracy (even less representation than in ancient Greece). Universal suffrage is not a christian victory.
Maybe bad choice of examples, but it is my opinion too that people

- worship as much as before

- believe in things they don't fully understand as much as before, only other things
Yes, marketing a "visual" programming tool for non-programmers always struck me as a bit reckless, if not dishonest. But ObjectVision was fun while it lasted though. The way it automatically connected ("linked") with desktop databases was impressive for its time.
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They still exist in massive numbers. Jesus. It's not _that_ hard.
The guy looks like a moron on stage with his dumb hop. He's no Steve Jobs and all he cares about is overcharging customers.

He's cutting headphones and chargers out from reports I've read and that costs a couple bucks while charging a ton of money and providing updates that are probably tested very little since they are full of bugs and consistently have battery drain issues.
Similar:

>Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God." (Matthew 19:24)
Show HN: I made a route planner app (update from 2018)
Hello HN,

I made the web app that helps plan your routes/road trips. It has so many options that I don’t know how to explain in simple words :), so I’ll try like this.

What is cool about it is that your routes are shareable and hackable. The routes come in the format ie. https://camptarget.com/London,Uk/Vienna,AT/Istanbul,TR/5h:6d, meaning we travel from London via Vienna to Istanbul, driving 5 hours daily while our total time budget would be 6 days.

At given breakpoints (after 5 hours) we can explore the nearby locality in radius of some 30-40 miles, for lodgings/hotels, stores, camps etc. (the list is long, but currently limited to few).

We can add the time we are about to spend on a given destination, and it will be automatically deducted from our time budget, so the limit will be flagged on the route.

As you could assume, I use Google Maps Javascript API, which gives me geocoding, plain routes, nearby search, and other services than the app combines them to create in colorful itineraries. (colors are for distinction)

https://camptarget.com

P.S.
Due to me being only developer, designer etc. it might not work well on all of the platforms, but it should work in the latest 2 version of ff and gc.
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Lazy so-called journalist, I'd like to present to you... drums rolling... Ben Thompson of Stratechery[1]! Followed by.... rolling drums... John Gruber of Daring Fireball[2]!

And quite frankly, these two are just the ones I thought of, from the top of my head.

And, I couldn't say why, I think nowadays the Financial Times could write pieces on the matter more interesting than nearly anyone at Wired could.

[1]: https://stratechery.com/

[2]: https://daringfireball.net/
There is also a tax benefit in the US. A lump sum payment is taxed as capital gains, vs an annuity which will be normal income.
reminded me of the “premium mediocre” view of millennials coping with downward mobility https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2017/08/17/the-premium-mediocre-l...
Great people, fought for freedom and lost to the Jews.

Now they own everything and play the world like a fiddle!

Wrong side won everytime. Book written in 1871 explains all you need know about ww1, ww2 and the current ww3 we're in!

Educate yourself! No one else will or can
Talking about names, just guess what Andrej Karpathy is working on for Tesla. :-)

https://karpathy.ai/
You can also use a parallel port for similar purposes.
The ability to quickly find bugs does not make you a bad customer - the way you treat the company determines that.

I'm not at all convinced that tolerating bad behaviour towards your company is ever a good strategy.
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I don’t think you understand what training or management is