skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a great comment.

If you don't advocate for the work you do, or yourself, you're making it harder for EVERYONE.

Humbleness is fine, but laboring in the shadows on critical stuff makes it harder to allocate resources to where they are best directed (like you and the work you do!).
Does it already have a use case?
I think what’s dumb is that cancel culture reeks of class conflict and elitism.

None of these people would survive on a construction crew. If they can’t handle the talk on Rogan’s podcast, they’d perish sitting around a lunch truck.

It’s a freaking conversation. This isn’t dissolving society. If you don’t like what they’re saying, stop listening! What a joyless existence if you feel the need to protest a podcast.
The first possibility of a planet outside our solar system was discovered just over 300 years after the first telescope but not confirmed until 1992, almost 400 years after telescopes.

Finding the first planet outside our galaxy just 28 years later is pretty good!
Python does this mostly because it doesn't have block scope, only function scope like JS's `var`. After using Python for a decade, I think this is mostly a mistake. I would configure (or edit) my linter to prevent me from using it if I needed to write a lot more Python.
> The biggest programs ever verified "end-to-end" were ~10KLOC, or 1/5 the size of jQuery, and required years of work by world experts.

Out of curiosity, what programs are you referring to? seL4 seems to fit the description.
If curious see also

2019 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19357028

2009 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=886015
> The courts, the congress, the senate, the elections, the state rights? Did anything change at all in the "political infrastructure"?

He and the Senate have aggressively confirmed judges at all levels. He’s purged all but the most obsequious members of the executive branch. He started to gut the USPS and will continue after the election. He’s attempted in multiple ways to undermine the census, specifically to undercount minority residents. He’s sown misinformation about voting. He’s encouraged police and private citizens to intimidate voters at the polls. While not his own doing, he will take advantage of the 1982 consent decree that expired in 2018.

> This trope is getting old. Justices are not puppets of their presidents.

I never said they were “puppets”. But they’re obviously biased — otherwise, why would Mitch McConnell try to block so many of Obama’s nominees and confirm so many of Trump’s? A case in which the conservative bloc of the court voted to uphold a law prohibiting gay sex in a private residence does not support your assertion.
That one was discussed a few days ago here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24534674
He passed? I’m genuinely sorry to learn this. His work was a welcome reminder of unexplored possibilities.
Greenlight, a fintech that pitches parents on kid-friendly banking, raises $215M
Jimmy Wales, proponent of creative commons, not so creative with names himself.
This is helpfull.
Perhaps the startup speed tweaks provided by Doom, could be enabled by default.
I have seen the concept of modules implemented in a few different distributions, as well as in some users configuration. Perhaps a built-in module system would be beneficial.
Doom has a deterministic package management system.
Sorry, I don't think I'm parsing this completely, but if you fish around in the archives using HN Search it's not hard to see that complaints like this go back to the beginning of the site. Actually it's kind of fun:

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=%22how%20is%20this%22%20%22hac...

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=%22how%20is%20this%22%20%22hac...

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=%22how%20is%20this%22%20%22hac...

As the saying goes, things have always been getting worse. HN has been "turning into Reddit" since before it was HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21755721), getting "taken over by politics" for almost that long (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17014869), and so on.
Why haven't all the big company pay scales leaked yet?
I did run LiteStep actually, it's still not nearly as much customization as what is possible nowadays with modern DEs.

LiteStep is amazingly customizable and versatile, but it doesn't come close to being able to, for example, define pixel shaders in a theme, or being able to easily change any UI element anywhere using simple HTML/CSS, or completely switching paradigms by just changing around a few dotfiles.
In my experience the focus is often on the budget and the potential employee but one overpriced employee can demotivate everyone doing the same work for [far] less. I think my current employer lost 50+ people worth of productivity by hiring a single lazy guy for 150%. The team spirit just evaporated then the effect propagated to other locations.

(what theptip said below)
But the curve has not flattened in Europe!

At least if you consider France to be part of Europe:
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/france/

Or Italy:
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/italy/

Or Spain:
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/spain/

Really, what are you talking about? What countries do you include when you say Europe?

I am honestly confused, because I also looked up the UK, Russia, etc. None have flattened their curves.
Dr.Wahls has been disingenuous about her recovery because she downplayed her chemotherapy and the expensive e-stim therapy she received, which is not covered by insurance, and chose instead to focus her promotion and communication on something she could commercialize - her diet. M.S. patients like myself who do not have six figures to spend on e-stim are generally better off focusing on creating an optimal diet that positively impacts their microbiome while maintaining a normal BMI and exercising at a comfortable level.
Netflix faces call to rethink Cixin Liu adaptation after Uighur comments
Yeah, no. I have run tech teams as a non technical lead. It just forced me to trust my team, listen to them and fight for them. Meanwhile the technical leads lacked the people skills to display empathy, provide feedback in a way that was respectful, and many other shortcomings that hurt productivity and morale.

Bad managers are the red flag - update your heuristic accordingly.
Openwireless.org What Is the Open Wireless Movement?
Historical List of BBSes in the 619 Area Code
I found that the visualizers made it much more difficult to learn git for me. I couldn't make sense of what they were showing. It was just a bunch of lines of wildly different colors that made no sense. (I think part of it was that in most applications and when drawing things on paper, time goes left to right, but the visualizers always draw them top to bottom.)
Yes, I'm definitely trying to point out the distinction between reading code and understanding its intention vs understanding implementation mechanics and awareness of the possible alternative behaviours. It's easy to point out that C++ is amongst the worst offenders in that regard, but even a language with a reputation for "programmer happiness" like Ruby (which I absolutely adore) is full of magic, almost every nontrivial expression glossing over a huge pile of conceptual and mechanical object-functional devices that beginners trip over quite routinely (don't even get me started on the thick layer of sorcery that Rails slathers over the top of that).

So I'm not actually calling Swift a major offender, but noting generally that I don't there's ever been a language in which the intuition gap between intention and mechanics was small enough to be irrelevant.

(something at the back of my mind is now whispering "Scheme", but too quietly to be taken seriously)
Eclipse falls under the "for a specific stack" category. Sure, you could probably write JS and Ruby in it now, but I doubt you could 18 years ago
One can see the hiring trends at most major IT companies. Employee numbers growth rate have fallen drastically. When I cut down the bullshit about growth around 'machine learning', 'AI', 'analytics' etc it is very clear to me that plain boring automation along with cloud computing has eliminated very large number of software/related jobs.

Yes for now it does seems like jobs which have 'admin' title in them are getting eliminated. But the way hundreds of micro service at my workplace being developed, they are roughly 80 percent auto generated with 20% business specific logic. I admit there may be workplaces where developers are allowed to circlejerk about programing languages and the likes. However from what I see it is 1-2 enterprise mandated frameworks that are used and tens of thousands line of code is shoved in CI/CD pipeline every week with some automated tools doing basic quality checks. The point is it may not be custom written high quality code with an artisan feel to it but it is good enough to keep 100K employee company running and keep generating revenues.

My own team had about dozen people in 2010 for a portfolio of about ten applications of various size. In 2020 we are left with 5-6 people out of which at least 2 are very junior despite what their years and skills on their CV say. And our portfolio of application is roughly doubled. So it is 3 engineers for 20 services.
But most people's job isn't making money, it's making something that someone else monetizes. Profitability is extremely weakly correlated to the work. Adtech pays better than research despite being easier and boringer.
I meant to say "underdocumented" here. Its internals are undocumented, which is potentially a problem because there's no source available, but there is basic documentation for using SwiftUI. It's still sparse but I'm sure will improve as it matures.
> That’s my point, their success was in making an elite social group, not in any special VC strategy. The only way to replicate their success (if that’s what you define success as) would be to somehow supersede their reputation as the most desirable club.

The reason their particular club became elite is that they developed a reputation for helping people to succeed. And they developed that reputation by doing it, repeatedly. That is what I would call a successful VC strategy.
If R is the shape of space, is it fair to say that gravity waves from a black holes merger are large waves in R, like large waves in a lake we could surf on; while there are also tiny ripples that we describe with F? In other words, F is really R with large waves subtracted.
That's why you need a competing offer. Otherwise your previous job is your BATNA.
I was terrified to see that he was trending, I was delighted that it was for this. He is a national (should be international) treasure
And there's Othernet providing a somewhat-Toosheh-like service all over the place. It's unidirectional, but carries an interesting mix of content, which accumulates on a receiver that then serves it out over local wifi. It's very BBS-like, and I wish it had more BBS functionality (local file storage for the folks using the same unit).

I had a lot of fun with it back when they were running L-band. Since the move to Ku-band, I had no luck getting a lock, tried a few more LNBs, still nothing, decided I'd try again with a dish, and haven't gotten around to it.

I should try again, and soon...
My personal theory is that things like version control to use are very rarely chosen by beginner or even intermediate programmers. Those decisions are likely made by most experienced people on the team.

And those experienced people likely want a foot-gun and probably use it every week. And their workflow has been evolving since VAX era, so by now is so weird, only something like git can handle them.

Imagine a conversation: "git is great! Remember how back in CVS days you had to generate patch(1) files if you wanted to save you work? well, in git it is much easier, you just need to ... Wait, what do you mean you don't know patch(1) is?" :)
The problem is that we don't know if the "conservative probabilities" are actually conservative. There is only a single planet in the Goldilocks zone that we for sure contains or doesn't contain life.

Imagine if someone showed you a rock in the forest with some lichen in weird pattern and asked you for a "conservative estimate" for how many other rocks on Earth had that same pattern. Maybe pattern is common, but maybe it's something incredibly unique that no other rock has. Because you can't ever look at a different rock, there is no reasonable answer.
Tensorflow.js is awesome - I trained up a model for syncing 2d avatar lips to voice in pytorch and was shocked to find a top-notch LSTM inference implementation in tfjs that also uses WASM + SIMD to run extremely fast inference. (SIMD is coming to wasm in the next version of chrome.) It's some cool tech, I expect to see a lot of amazing stuff on the web from it.
Patrick has done a lot of great work in his life, but thks blog post is one the most socially valuable, to help workers get more of the pie the billionaires hold.
China does not like freedom of press and freedom of information that wikipedia represents. They want the source of information to be only from government approved resources.
netmba.com
I find it a bit strange that people count stock appreciation when reporting total compensation. It’s not very helpful for someone looking to compare salaries.

Those RSUs and refreshers are always granted based on a dollar amount that gets divided by current stock price, and that’s the value that the company recognizes in its accounting. Stock price increases are nice, but they distort the picture of how the company is valuing your compensation internally.
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I loved geos, wow.
> Justices are not puppets of their presidents.

True, but Justices are extremely consistent with their appointing President’s preferences on political issues that are salient at the time of their appointment.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_Monkeys

Has a good antidote about taking care of founders. Someone threatened to sue the protagonist of the book because they started the company while still employed (iirc), and basically PG, after lunch in his Palo Alto house, promised to take care if it.

The author alluded to the fact that the person doing the suing would never be able to get funded again if he carried out the suit (essentially canceled).

It’s ironic because cancel culture is something PG loves to rant about: https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1280499919028195334?lang=en
There are enormous numbers, in absolute terms, that are reasonably privileged in the modern world. Millions. But only a tiny number of those people go on to found a billion dollar company, or become one of the greatest composers in world history.

It's unequivocally true that privilege plays an important role, and that we should strive to give everyone that same level of opportunity. But the people that succeed at the level of PG or Mozart are clearly working harder, and/or are more innately talented than their equally privileged peers.
Seems like you could use it to turn hashes and arrays into poor man’s sum/product types.
Yes, but I also explain how our HR dept calculates target compensation within a level and that ultimately the comp decision is out of my hands. I have a good sense for where candidates are in a band and try to set expectations accordingly.

If they're pushing for more than HR wants to give, like I said I'm an advocate but the final say isn't mine if they're pushing tooooooo far off the calculated target amount.
This smells like politically motivate BS. Science gets everything wrong, so it's OK if we just believe whatever we want to about the Pandemic.

For example, on the first page of this article, follow the link titled "We Must Choose: Liberty or Lockdown". There you will learn that the "CDC acknowledged that only six percent of US deaths came from Covid-19 alone."

You can find a good explanation of the facts behind this lie on Ars Technica. In short, on death certificates Doctors may list a Primary/Immediate Cause and any Contributing or Underlying Causes. For example the immediate cause of death may be heart failure with an underlying cause of Covid-19. Or a doctor could list Covid-19 as the immediate cause and something else as a contributing cause. In both cases, the person died of Covid-19. What the CDC reported is that on 6% of the death certificates doctors listed ONLY Covid-19.

But for 100% of those death certificates list Covid-19 as the cause of death.

What those assholes are saying is "Oh, your mother would be dead anyway - she had diabetes." When in fact she would NOT be dead except for Covid-19.

To quote Star Trek's Q: "Of course you'll still die. Just not right away."
Lasers are great for transmitting, but not great for being received at interstellar distances. The person (being?) at the other end is looking at your solar system through a telescope that they use as part of their photo detector communication system. There's a huge bright star they can see (the sun that you and the planet your laser is on are orbiting), and there is this little tiny laser also shining towards them, its beam completely hidden in the light from the star. It doesn't matter how big your laser is, from a practical standpoint it's still tiny compared to the brightness of that sun you're orbiting. This problem is well understood and is why SETI primarily uses radio telescopes rather than regular optical telescopes to look for signals.
It feels like RBS is for library writers, so that they can ship type information to help the consumers of their library. It’s not really aimed at the consumers themselves — the long tail of casual Ruby hackers like me.

If RBS was for end users, adding types inline with the source code would make more sense compared to the RBS approach: keeping the source file and typedef file in sync.

That might actually be a pretty smart move. At first it seemed inconvenient to have to maintain a separate file for the type information, but maybe this focus on type-checking being made easy for the 90% of us who hack scripts is a much smarter one.
Yes I know about colored functions. I'm looking forward to loom and virtual threads on the jvm to solve that.

BUT it doesn't change the fact that Rx is hard to implement correctly and is often misused when you don't need the observer pattern.
> Remember kids, don’t do math and drive.

Don't drive and derive.
Man, Sal's the best. He's a great guy, and also a really good musician. Check out his albums on Apple Music if you get a chance.

[1] http://www.salsoghoian.com/bio/musicbio.html [2] http://www.salsoghoian.com/recordings/index.html
> What you are really saying is that in a modern society, there is rarely a proper punishment for believing in untrue things

This is what Iranian mullahs, Lukashenko and Kim Jong-un, probably think as well.

I am also not sure that:

'Gravity does not exist'
and
'Covid 19 is not dangerous enough to close schools across the country'.

are identical in their theoretic and experimental validity.

Silencing Joe Rogan is an exercise in thought police
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoughtcrime

These employees of Spotify are example of neighborhood vigilantes and bullies that going and hurting people who they deem 'unfit' into neighborhood they assume, they patrol.

I do not find Joe Rogan particular informative. And no matter how much I despise the vile, manipulative rhetoric of Bill Maher, I do not think he must be silenced.

Because I accept the cost cost of unity is through compromise.

If not, a country is destined to have civil wars every 150 years or so (and most likely will not survive being sovereign, with same borders for very long).
We write code, not documents
The cryptographic guarantee that a commit with the same identity represents the same codebase state is the killer feature of git: it’s great to be able to trust the history of a repository that way.
Depends on who you know. Among my friends who went to MIT, a good number use emacs. It’s really, really nice to be able to use the same editor everywhere, regardless of whether you’re using your local machine or ssh’d into a VM or server. Also, knowing that it’s not likely to be deprecated in the next couple of decades.
I take it you have never seen the many ways annotations are abused in Java frameworks like Spring?
I'm not sure if the author really meant this phrase the way it sounds, but if he did, it's a bit worrying:

> That’s one of the points of Rust. It’ll complain that our code is not production quality and that we need to do better to save on the pain down the line.

Ok, Rust will catch a lot of bugs, but assuming that a program is "production quality" once the Rust compiler doesn't complain about it anymore would be really bad - it may still be full of business logic errors...
I've found this is more and more the primary way I use the Python repl - I invoke pytest and tell it to drop me into the debugger if there's an error.
Makes sense. Coming from a Smalltalk background I had some difficulty getting used to the idea of git "commits" which are basically snapshots of the whole repository. Commit-ids are like version numbers but they apply to the whole repository, not to individual artifacts like files.

Whereas if we think in terms of patches/change-sets it is easy to think of applying a set of changes to a given artifact, and "patches" being artifacts too. Also we could have branches of patches, not just branches of the whole repository. Does Pijul work something like that, "branching patches"?
Highlighting React Code in GitHub Flavored Markdown
The interesting thing is that “modern Smalltalk” (Pharo, at least) is going out of its way to integrate git rather than Monticello.
I wrote this as my first Rust program, ever. It was mostly copy and paste, and involves an https server running on localhost.

https://github.com/GWBasic/open_links

I spent a few hours reading the book, but it didn't sink in. I will be honest, though: Rust is still very challenging for me. The learning curve is extremely steep. Perhaps it's because Rust makes some things easy, at the expense of what automatic memory management and runtime type metadata make easy?
For what it's worth, non-alphanumeric Ruby is Turing-complete: https://ideone.com/55WtMM
No evidence of sterilization of migrant Mexican women, says Mexican minister
It's a bit of whimsy from the originator of that feature:

https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/16746
I'd rather recommend Guitar.

https://github.com/soramimi/Guitar

Nice, simple and multi-platform.
Communist Smurfs
Consume less, Sell more
https://github.com/soramimi/Guitar

Nice, simple and multi-platform.
It might not be that bad, watching the 30 seconds after you last unlocked your house would probably do it.
About your pinned tabs. You could try making URL shortcuts with rewq.app . [ disclaimer: I made it for personal use ].

It would be nice to have feedback from others on improving it.
I'm pretty firmly in the naturalist camp. I've had numerous psychedelic experiences. I can see how one could think such things. But I don't think we have solid reasons to start making strong claims about the supernatural.

Here's one piece of evidence out of thousands more. Consider that the psychedelic effects of LSD can be prevented simply by blocking 5-HT2A receptors in the brain [1]. This is what you would expect if a psychedelic experience is a biochemical phenomenon occurring in the brain, like that sparked by caffeine. A more powerful and much more interesting one, yes, but not something that requires talking of "god" or "universal understanding".

[1] https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/scicurious-brain/httpbl... (search the page for "block the 5-HT2A receptor")
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_whys is better
This is a last gasp effort by the dash button crew. "How can we get more dash buttons pushed?" "Robots. And machine learning, of course."

I hear these drones charge with free electricity when they land on dash buttons.