skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think easier to monetize explains most of it.

Easier to monetize means you can fund all the work required to achieve superior user experience, and user experience is the most important differentiator. People have repeatedly shown that UX is more important than security, privacy, cost, freedom, openness... anything. If it "just works" and can be adopted with little or no friction, it wins.
Referenda are a terrible way of governing.

Think about Brexit - bad faith arguing from one side, constant lying, no plan about how to actually leave, and then a protest vote pushed it last 50% so now we have to leave on a no deal because it's an impossible policy to do in a few years.

A referendum is OK for deep constitutional issues, but policy should not be decided by referenda especially vague ones.

Policy is also quite hard to undo, a direct voting system would like lead to us living in a rent-controlled, capital punishment-ing, overtaxed reactionary world.
They're good enough. To me the alternative is Reddit or online reviews on the seller website which are even more unreliable. And the alternative to that is to spend countless hours researching things myself.

Is Consumer Reports any good?
Questions with DP solutions are usually not particularly great for interviews. They usually don't have any solutions in-between brute force and DP. If somebody doesn't come up with a DP solution you, as an interviewer, just learned that they don't know DP, but it doesn't give you too much useful signal on the candidate's skills. DP is just kind of a trick that you can learn to solve this specific type of problems, but knowing the trick is not something that FAANG companies want to test for.
Only because of how insane housing in SF is.

For comparison I own a 2br apartment in Melbourne, Australia. It takes about 15 minutes to walk from here to the heart of the city. My mortgage repayments (including interest) are about $700usd/month.
Unless the vaccine kills a lot of people, I don't see more resistance to future vaccines being likely (that is, more resistance than there is at present). If it fails and gives them coronavirus, it's not a big deal. If it fails and does nothing, it is also not a big deal. It's not like the same risk of giving them polio or smallpox or something.
The trackpoint is the single reason I never bought a Thinkpad.
That's helpful, I should've been more clear.

Most products I don't really check and have been fine. What I was trying to convey was that expensive, specialized or esoteric items have more scam potential which should require more review before buying (not that Amazon isn't still at fault).

However people are claiming here that 95% of orders are bad and that's just hard to believe. The business would collapse tomorrow if that were the case for any serious number of people, and why would a person keep buying if that's all they were getting?
Show HN: Rawdz - Pragmatic Q&A site focused on steps
> A lot of people worked in places south of San Francisco and then commuted south because SF is basically the only city nearby that isn’t awful.

I agree, but I have found it so interesting that so many people on the peninsula or south bay are completely fearful of San Francisco! Its the opposite view of what you wrote.

More of a classic "everything is scary except my suburb" misconception. I've seen it in other places before but I found it so surprising from so many people in San Mateo, Redwood City etc
Not at all, the topic of ressource efficiency in the form of the trophic level of different foods was exactly how our sub-thread of the discussion started.
I have not argued about any other aspect of meat other than it being a pretty awful way of extracting ressources.
I’ve got esp32s running a simple API over wifi to control a strip of addressable LEDs, with scheduling and some other functionality. Had some interesting problems to solve along the way but it is a fun language to work with and micropython is very stable on esp32.
Thanks ghj.

I was aware of top coder/leet code, though hadn't heard of code forces/at coder.

For me the adventure game give a bit more concept linkage. Take Monkey Island, I can remember how to reply to many of the sword fighting insults, or what was needed to get pieces of eight via the cannon at the circus. There's something to be said for linking problems via a memorable story, giving examples and meaning from multiple angles helps retain the content over the dryness of problem prompt/quick solve.
This isn't true, we outsource work to Colombian developers frequently.
Interesting, thank you for the clarifications.
Yeah, that was strange. Sounds like there is some argument history behind it.
They really push the pyboard which is cool and all, but imho, the killer application for Micropython has been the ESP8266 port and now the ESP32.

The original pyboard can be had for around $20 and used to be closer to $30. The ESP8266 is a couple dollars, and the ESP32 is just north of $5.

Obviously, we're only talking about a handful of dollars, but for embedded systems, it matters.
> You're either naturally adept enough to do well, or ...

I'm personally very wary of using algorithms questions as a proxy for how "adept" someone is at software engineering. If I were running a business, I'd personally want to make sure people could manage technical debt and build decoupled systems.

I have had multiple positions at FAANG companies, and despite being "adept" according to these algorithms questions the systems built by these highly-paid (and, around me, generally experienced) people are pretty awful in terms of quality and maintenance.

Learning a proprietary stack also hampers effectiveness in future positions if wanting to opt-out of FAANG later on.
I suppose teachers never had a duty to communicate that to the students before, but that's going to be a pretty important detail in the coming weeks.

I doubt many parents would have been made aware of the precise meaning of 'mock' examinations results either.

The next question then, was whether this emergency scheme was tested against results from previous years, rather than fashioning the algorithm to match results from previous school years.
I don't see how this is a problem. A lot of good came with the bad. This is like when people complain about Visual Basic or PHP. They were awful in so many ways, but they got a lot of people into programming, and those people did a lot of cool things.
The rate is exceptionally high for earners making a fraction of that. Responses in caps.

- 37% federal requires $510k income (after $12k personal exemption and probably $20k retirement savings). YES BUT ITS 35% ABOVE $207k

- 13.3% state in California requires $1M income. YES BUT IT'S 9.3% ABOVE $57k, and 10.3% ABOVE $295k

- Social security is included in FICA and does not count towards the marginal rate for high earners (you pay no social security tax on income above $137k). THERE IS NO CAP ON THE EMPLOYEE PORTION MEDICARE TAX. PLUS NOT ALL OF THEM ARE IN FICA. THERE ARE BOTH FEDERAL (IN FICA) AND STATE INSURANCE TAXES IN CALIFORNIA FOR EXAMPLE.

- Local taxes? SF HAS A PAYROLL TAX OF 1.5% FOR EXAMPLE.
Why do you need read only WAL mode? Or do you just mean some processes are read only, while others can write?
There are next to no stakes with electronic banking compared to voting. Money is a totally different prospect to rigging an election.

The Trump campaign did some extremely shady things with Wikileaks and the GRU, can you imagine if he was now leading the US through COVID after the Russians were able to compromise the voting system? The constitution does not have a mechanism to deal with it, as far as I can see.

What's the point when paper works already and is almost impossible to scale. Voting is easy
I think this is no biggie. You move out, somebody else will move in. This will probably end up being for the best. The city may end up more vibrant with the new blood coming in.
I'm not ignoring it. It seems like you must be making this argument from some far-away place. There is no developer today who is waiting on the sidelines for lower property taxes. Property tax rate has no bearing whatsoever on supply of housing. What does control the supply of housing is that it is forbidden by statute to build housing in 90% of San Francisco and a large portion of the surrounding area, too. You could repeal the entire property tax regime and it would have no effect on rents.
Blatant self promotion: I referenced your blog post in my weekly newsletter.

https://mailchi.mp/12e86aca340f/synthesis-emergence-15
Just one suggestion: showing the CSS inline would be helpful. Admittedly I only bounced around for like 30 seconds, but I didn't see a way to show CSS on the page.
> the skills you need for advancement are not necessarily the same ones

Exactly this. I suggest learning how to fabricate (or at least exaggerate) "impact" to get promoted. It's the fastest way to make money once you're in the door. Show how much of a team player you are to deliver cross-team, impactful results specifically by stepping on bodies to get there--it'll make you rich!
Some of the market share that Safari would gain would be taken from Firefox.

That could be the last blow to any meaningful Firefox market share.
Reminds me of when the 'D' key broke in my physical keyboard long time ago. I liked that keyboard a lot and couldn't find a good replacement so I learnt to type Alt-100 do get 'd'.
> Has anyone here ever had a use case for toLower() where they actually wanted localization to apply?

How do you lowercase without localization? Remember all text isn't English. Unless you're actually asking if anyone has ever had a use case for lower-casing non-English text?
Okay, I can't go all the way, and describe it as grossly misleading, but "actively promote" uses too strong an adverb. So, I'll concede that, strictly speaking, the headline is misleading.

On the other hand, if a reader gets the impression that Zuckerberg and the other social media CEOs, to the extent that they can get away with it, signal-boost holocaust denial (and propaganda from hate-groups, in general), recent history speaks for itself.

So if someone asked me to rewrite the title, I would go with "passively promote."
I had similar annoyances with Jekyll / Octopress and chose to switch to Pelican. Now I can only blame not writing on myself. :)
Try laragon, it's so fun and easy to use, it's also portable.

https://laragon.org/

It needs more love.
True, and Mandarin would be the better word to use here. Mandarin and Cantonese are for all intents and purposes separate languages. They are more different than English and Spanish.
Not the OP, but I’ve fought Wordpress plenty of times as well. Probably the worst time was when I was writing a WP authentication plugin for my org. I was reading the docs when I ran into this gem[0]:

> The semantics seem rather fuzzy. If id is a WP_User or other object, or an array of properties, it seems to clone it without touching the cache. Otherwise if id is a number it seems to try to read it possibly from the cache, or from the database using ->get_data_by(), which can also update the cache. If id is empty it reads by login name.

I realized that if even the offical documentation didn’t know what Wordpress was doing, I definitely had no hope.

[0] https://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_User
Of course not, and I've attended public protests. But a public protest of the core tenets of capitalism--not just its excesses--is as close to Bolshevism as you can get. Bolsheviks started as a fringe group like Antifa, but look where they ended up. Reasonable moderates need to stand up for a form of regulated capitalism, one that protects workers and the environment, and reasonable tax policies that redistribute some of the elites' wealth to form social safety nets, but we also need to be wary of and even fight against any potential rise of radical, wealth-destroying and authoritarian socialism.
Oddly, it also wasn’t the case for Python 2 Unicode strings (u'INFO'), only for Python 2 byte strings ('INFO'). So it’s possible that Python 3 lost this behavior by accident.
Alexa and Siri (and friends) are competely incapable of interacting with a user with the precision of SHRDLU. You can ask them to retrieve information from a Google search but e.g. they have no memory of the anaphora in earlier sentences in the same conversation. If you say "it" a few times to refer to different entities they completely lose the plot.

They are also completely incapable of reasoning about their environment, not least because they don't have any concept of an "environment" - which was represented by the planner and the PROGRAMMAR language in SHRDLU.

And of course, systems like Siri and Alexa can't do anything even remotely like correctly disambiguating the "support support supports" show-off sentence in the excerpt above. Not even close.

Edit: Sorry, there's a misunderstanding about "limited domain" in your comment. Alexa and Siri don't operate in a limited domain. A "limited domain" would be something like being in charge of your music collection and nothing else.
Alexa annd Siri etc are supposed to be general-use agents. I mean, they are, it's just that they suck at it... and would still suck in a limited domain also.
I’m not the fellow you’re replying to, but here’s my 2C. My perspective might be out of date, as I haven’t touched WP in 5 years or so.

-The plug-in APIs have been largely written by accretion, making them confusing and hard to grok. I always vaguely feel like I’m doing something wrong, that this shouldn’t be this difficult... Furthermore, API functions are inconsistently named, and return hard-to-predict datatypes.

- The theme tools are similarly confusing, and can make simple tasks take a lot of time. Sure, you just have to create magicfilename.php/css and put this magic snippet into it - but the discoverability in that is pretty garbage and results in a lot of hacks that solve things in the wrong way.

- Using other people’s plugins was a crapshoot, as plugin conflicts were (are?) pretty common. For a casual user plugins are a massive footgun, as WP makes it easy to install decade-old unmaintained junk plugins full of security holes.

Compare all of this to Drupal, which while far from perfect actually tries to design sane APIs and solid code, and iterates on it to correct their mistakes.
That should be biden's campaign ad.
Just have that read out over some photos of people who've died of COVID.

Sure he's undermining American democracy, and openly defending white supremacists (white power anyone) but he breaks shit!
> and I know many people who moved away temporarily for economic reasons who are very much not doing as well mentally and are looking forward to being back in the city.

The same has happened in SF.

I've gotten many women to come back to the city because they were going crazy in whatever part of the frontier they ventured out into, or even worse: being an adult at their parent's house in Bumbawhat, USA.

Many people find the value systems and insensitivities in the rest of the country to be completely foreign and shocking. So they are looking for any excuse to be back here, even if just to visit someone.

> COVID creates an exodus of one, but people in the latter category are also moving into cities as well as prices drop and they are no longer priced out.

That doesn't offset housing/rental price drop. Not that you claimed it did, just pointing that out.
The Other Digital Divide
To be blunt- the other side of the deal is REALLY INTERESTED in having a party committed to 30 years of payments on a valuation that, they realize, almost certainly has to drop.

Mortgage interest could be 0.5% and lenders would...probably still make the deal.
I've been tending toward using Mouser lately. DigiKey seems to be playing games with low-volume prices on me lately as well as screwing up shipping.
> For example, I tried and failed multiple times to add a <meta> tag to the head of my index.html file. This theoretically should have been a very simple change.

The thing “they don’t tell you” about static site generators is that you should vendor your site theme. Don’t expect to both get upstream updates and make HTML level changes.
#2 doesn't make sense, though: If I'm company B, trying to poach from company A, it would be in my best interest to make the leap to applying/interviewing less difficult, not more for employee's of company A.

Unless you're implying a set of companies are all in league with each other to reduce churn/competition for talent
How is the existence of NodeJS a bad thing?
I don't get why someone would downvote your proposal funding Firefox directly.

Mozilla never provided a way of donating directly to Firefox.
Interesting, thanks for the link.

This is a strange case. The reviews seem to say people are buying the Topping product but getting the Aimpire product. But if you buy from this page, you're knowingly purchasing the Aimpire version. Are people buying Topping from another listing and getting this?

EDIT: never mind, looks like this product used to say Topping and was changed, and that's why the URL is still the original wording. That's clearly a scam then.
Is there any support for querying actual timestamp of the video?
Almost all apartments in SF are rent controlled. The landlord can only raise the rent by some tiny nominal percentage mandated by the rent board every year.
historically: no. Currently outside of progressive cities: no. Giant impoverished tent encampments in the middle of an extremely wealthy city is pretty unique to SF at this particular period of time. Also a society is an organization of people living under a set of agreed upon rules, we are currently dealing with how best to update these rules to deal with massive income inequality and poverty.
How is my own immune system going to improve if I never expose myself to other people?
Author here. The article is making a case that Google has in fact captured the Web, and secondarily that there are some clear reasons for it. I had no intention of writing a dissertation on the history of the Internet. Also, filling in the missing technical gaps would be several RFCs.

As for what would native payments look like:

1. I put the element <pay-me>$1.00</pay-me> in my HTML
2. User clicks on Pay Me button in any browser and I get $1.00

Something like that. Anything more complicated and for most people it might as well not exist. Grandma isn't loading up a Bitcoin wallet.
And there are many good reasons not to trust Blockchain evangelists.
Seriously: stop picking random out of context fragments out of peoples' comments and building strawmen out of them just for the sake of being disagreeable.

Sometimes people are replying for the sake of everyone else reading, rather than just the specific comment to which their words are anchored. This is how conversations work in person, too, where a small fragment of one point can lead to a tangent just based on that fragment.
Actually, since 2017 most consumer computers run Android. Windows is second.
> lowercaseTR()

Huh, that works well if we know the input string is in Turkish. What if this information is not available as you're writing the code?

And what will lowercase()/uppercase() be hard coded to do, and what are they supposed to output when the input isn't ASCII?
I don’t understand the part about https://colors.lol/ (viewing on mobile phone)
Well, it used to be a free country. I guess it was nice while personal liberty lasted. I for one, welcome our technocratic overlords.
Apple licenses the isa only. They implement their own micro architecture.
Ah, so that's what I've been doing wrong for 18 months. Thanks! I'll be putting this to good use :)
All language has significant regional difference if it covers enough regions
I feel like Seinfeld has a ton of those. Jason Alexander, Julia Louise-Dreyfus, and Michael Richards had a lot of moments where their acting ability carried what would otherwise be a mundane script.
> If you were capable of studying Leetcode so hard that you mastered the interview process at one of the most selective software companies in the world in only a few months, it's not much of a stretch to imagine that you could apply that same aptitude, ambition, and ability to learn quickly toward picking up the basics of git, dev ops, and so on.

So by that logic, why not just create some game for candidates to master. If all you're testing for is "how much they want it" and how quickly they pick up on some arbitrary system that they'll never use in their actual job, then the subject shouldn't matter, right?
I think your response would be unfair. If you think about the statement "running this software is a nightmare if you know nothing about the technologies it is built on" outside of this context, it clearly doesn't typically apply. You wouldn't apply that to using a web browser or a word processor, right? Should 'blog writing' software really have such a greater barrier of entry?
Fpga version so cover the really open issue?

Single global thread issue still around?

And whilst I like ulisp it is tie down with arduino and hope this will go out. Trying the js microprocessor implementation and let these two compete at least.
Micropython can do some real-time stuff. It's limited, but a bit easier in my experience than getting a Preempt-RT running on a Raspberry Pi.
Perhaps a wordpress.org instance can be wget/httrack mirrored and uploaded as github pages.
> right between those two neighborhoods

So, in the tenderloin? Suddenly not a great deal.
It takes a while to understand the wp modular system, that's why people get paid to set it up and customise it for specific needs.

That being said, deploying WordPress takes minutes. And running it locally as well. Docker images are available if installing hundreds of libraries isn't your thing.
Erlang Resources
There are quite a few languages targeting the BEAM by now, with LFE one of the oldest.

I've been trying to keep track of them all: https://gist.github.com/macintux/6349828#alternative-languag...

Gleam is one of the more interesting recent additions:

- https://gleam.run

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22902462
Every month there's a new static site generator invented. Every time I check to see if they handle this type of thing cleanly. Every time I'm disappointed.

Hell, I'd be happy with a decent theme library that actually gets tested and regularly updated.
So they invest in Tegra say, turn Tegra into a hugely profitable success story (which would be great) and then the next moment turn to Tegra's biggest competitor who is also using ARM. Will Nvidia owned ARM provide 'full support' to that customer or will they tip the playing field to favour their own products? We would just have to trust Jensun and his successors. I'd rather not have to rely on their sense of fairness.

I don't like state ownership either. No one is suggesting that UK govt should buy ARM outright - just that it takes a stake alongside other long term investors so that ARM can remain independent.
Why is there so little interest in helping people self-host their own content? I know it wouldn't be a panacea, but it feels like at least a step in the right direction. This is a big part of the motivation for my side-project to help people run their own private blogs - https://simpleblogs.org/
So do car accidents on the way to and from those events. It's all fake news meant to scare you.