skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow, that profiler that he’s using looks slick! Definitely going to check it out!
Whether or not one agrees with him... It's not really inconsistent to pay people at the top range but that comes with an expectation of being shown the door if they don't perform at the top levels and coming into an office to work because that's better for the company (in Hastings' view).
They can't be paying "above market rates". They're just selecting a higher-priced product from the market.
Yeah funnily enough I found something similar when my normal Mac keyboard died and I had to use a old dell one. Despite 10 years of Mac usage my subconscious felt the Dell keyboard, remembered my windows usage and started using ctrl instead of cmd automatically!

How did you find switching to Atreus& colemak? I was thinking of doing something similar and going to Corne/Colemak...
What do you mean failure to manage the epidemic?

The Imperial College modelling that was done predicted half a million deaths in the UK and 2 million in the US. That was the justification for lockdown, as such it appears that we have managed it incredibly well avoiding 90% of the predicted deaths.
That's pretty neat. What I really want is this:

function fn(query:string){
const stuff = // do some stuff with `query` variable
return createType(stuff);
}

type MyType = FromJS<fn("SELECT id, name AS nom FROM things WHERE active = true")>;

This way we could compute types on the fly with JavaScript instead of creating monstrous types in TypeScript types system.
Oh, wow, I didn't realize that incremental compiles for Chromium were what had inspired you to write Ninja! I'm a huge fan of Ninja.

Composing a project of multiple shared libraries is a trick I've wanted to employ many times. Unfortunately neither Rust nor Go—the languages in which the two largest software projects I've worked on professionally are written—supports that model. (At least, not without throwing away the language-default build system, which has a lot of other costs.)
My general technique is to use Uber, or pre-book a cab from the office. I have to admit I was stuck last time I was in Beijing, and of course nobody* takes cash in Beijing.
Wait doesn’t Zig compete with C, not C++? IIRC it doesn’t have any intuitive form of typeclasses.
The one thing I find really bizzare about this whole web thing is that while we all pretend to be global, we are in reality even more local than ever. Facebook recommends me people I've never seen in my life just because someone I've went to school with moved to another part of the world and has friends there. Alexa (and probably Siri) doesn't understand my request for russian or japanese songs on Spotify even though they are available. And just like this, every publisher on this planet thinks that there is any value to me, a German resident, to shell out a significant amount of money for a monthly paywall subscription to Adelaide Times, just because someone sent me a link to an interesting article. I also will not subscribe to your newsletter, I have no interest in getting push notifications, I just want the article in question, I'm not local to your main information funnel. It's a whole another question whether I'm ready to jump hoops to pay for just this article, but your publication entity doesn't interest me one bit as it is.

As soon as publishers stop thinking locally, the world might become a better place for information. But somehow, I seriously doubt it.
I used that terminology because they seem to be an outlier. Surely it's possible to pay more than anyone else on purpose.
>That's by design; you're either part of our core audience, or we're filtering for whether you could be part of our core audience.

Are you one of those publishers who purposefully create a rentable filter bubble and then rage about how people outside of it don't take you seriously?

There is nothing wrong with having a well-defined audience. There is plenty of wrong with having audience defined purely by their willingness to read your stuff.
It's a very cool feature. But I wonder -- indirection via GOT sounds expensive. Could I turn it off for some critical/inner loop code?
> ongoing coup d'etat means

You know there was an election right? Is the government still questionable? Sure. But the coup is no longer in effect, there is an elected government.
Does it have backlighting? (frankly, I didn't need or use all of the "RGB" features, so that was overkill - not a gamer)
Legacy press is controlled by the government. They are not allowed to speak about Assange's horrific treatment.
That's not how is works. Linux devs will write high quality drivers for free for any hardware that provides a spec.

The bad manufacturers like Nvidia and Broadcom intentionally block Linux compatibility for drivers they don't write themselves.
> scp(1), sftp(1): allow the -A flag to explicitly enable agent forwarding in scp and sftp. The default remains to not forward an agent, even when ssh_config enables it.

How could one use agent forwarding with sftp? I guess for scp I can imagine a contrived example like `scp -AT server:'$(ssh server2 generate-paths)' .`, but for sftp? sftp doesn't seem to have a way to run an ssh client on the remote side, and it's not like agent-forwarding is needed for `-J`/`ProxyJump`.
No they wouldn’t be. (Standard disclaimer I’m a consultant at AWS but far removed from the sales side).

I’ve been a dev lead for a non software company. I was trying to get training for my team on AWS. I had to go through all sorts of issues and approvals and POs and making sure that they are an approved vendor.

Then I just said forget it. AWS was already an approved vendor. I signed everyone up for an ACloudGuru account through the marketplace using the authority I already had.

I needed an intrusion detection and intrusion prevention system. Again, I just went to the marketplace and bought something through the marketplace.

You think it’s hard to get consumers to use third party app stores. You have never been through a corporate procurement process.

Besides the marketplaces basically let you search the AMIs that AWS offers alongside third party AMIs. No company is going to trust random third party marketplaces.

I assure that every company on the marketplace wants to be on the same bill as your AWS bill. Half the reason departments go to the cloud is to get away from the gate keepers. Once you get approval from the powers that be to use AWS, it’s much easier to buy off of the marketplace.
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The article gives a dozen paragraphs to answering your question.
Source for it being by design?
Oooh! This might be the one! I've been looking for a replacement for when my old mid-00s MS Naturals finally die, and this might be it. It even has a number pad, which none of these other ergo keyboards do. Might go order one of these right now...
Disabling JS does help against Medium nagging. It also disables any active content, which can be not only e.g. animations, but also images loaded from a CDN using a script. So disabling JS cuts both ways.

Frankly, I would really prefer to just pay for articles I liked (as opposed to a subscription), but this option is not available :(
"No ser menos que los demás" seems to be the same concept as "keeping up with the Joneses." For "hedonic treadmill" I imagine something similar to "carrera de ratas" would be closest. Would be interested to hear if anyone else has an oft used translation!
My solution will be to use a headset, or separate microphone that is further away from the KB.
>unmarried fathers don't get legal custody automatically,

Interesting. Do unmarried fathers have any financial responsibility for the child?
For some odd reason, until today I felt that LibreOffice was much older
Cost is massive indeed, but even in extreme cases like in Chernobyl, it will be offset to non-existence compared to the gains we will reap in the long run if we master this technology.

Remember, that nuclear is still in its early stages. Newer and better designs emerge and we're even still researching fusion.

Early cars were like a death sentence in Texas. But that didn't stop engineers from improving and making them better. What if they said after the first crash - "Screw it, back to horses and carts, this stuff is too dangerous."
"the disfluent but more likely accurate results"

-> Human evaluation does not agree that PBSMT is more accurate than NMT. Sure, the fluency/"sounds good" gains from NMT are much larger than the accuracy gains, but evaluations I've seen put NMT ahead on both metrics.
No, I wasn't aware that it's 1800€ net, when I see figures on wage/benefits I always consider it pretax as that is how we talk about them in Sweden, never net salary.
Hey i know it is very hard time for you , but don't worry if you had job earlier you would definitely get one again , do not think you cannot. Spend sometime with loved ones see what you want to do next then reach out to people you know (Network) and apply again. All the best
Hell yeah. I've got a Deluge and a Peak. I picked up the guitar to add a guitar track to my stuff :)
> unauthorised drivers taking the place of the registered driver

Which can easily happen with any other minicab or black taxi.

There's nothing special about people like John Worboys, other than unlike Uber he wasn't traceable from his victims accounts.
If they are employees, and you are doing that, it is actually illegal.

You are either a consultant, or an employee.
I wasn't aware that the figure was net and not brutto, in Sweden it is very unusual to talk figures post tax.
I tried learning Colemak at least 3 times now. What is your recommended approach? Grinding online exercises didn't really seem to do much for me.
C standard function 'tdelete()' has a memory bug since its inception
It's clear that there is one problem that the article is trying to solve.

The irony, of course, is that it is not a problem for newspapers, it's a problem for the author of the article.

The author wants to read articles they don't have access to, and they don't want to pay what publishers are charging.

That's the problem.

Newspapers regularly create things worth reading. People want to read those things. They don't want to pay what the newspapers are charging. So, they suggest a solution: "Give it to me for cheap!"

Sorry, but suggesting difficult and complex business models (with very low prices) does not help newspapers.
Development agencies actually hire lots of local people. for USAID/State Department, they're called FSNs, and its pretty easy to find stories about them and the work that they do. According to one Document I found around 55k/75k state department employees were Foreign Nationals (aka local hires). [1] Foreign nationals don't run these agencies because these agencies are responsible to their respective governments and have missions and goals that extend beyond simple development. This post seems incredibly uninformed given that the extent of their research seems to be looking at the citation of the photographs/videos.

[1] https://diplopundit.net/2017/05/08/statedeptusaid-staffing-c...
wouldn't that be neat...

However, there are Java frameworks that basically generate a type system from your database so whatever columns you query ends up being static types that can be determined at compile time. https://www.jooq.org/

Java is really quite cool. I wonder if we'll ever get a typescript version of jOOQ
Yes— I was lucky to be in the W14 batch.

YC will get you access to great investors, help you get better terms, think through business decisions, offer a great network, etc, but to be honest many of those things can be had through other accelerators/incubators/investors/schools/programs.

What’s truly unique about YC is the mindset and environment you’re in during your time there. If you’re open to embracing the experience, it’s absolutely worth it. Having a tight-knit group of fellow founders to push and encourage you through a hyper intense 3 month period leads you to accomplishing some amazing things. Things that you may not have thought were possible or pulled off otherwise. Of course you get a crash course in entrepreneurship and a great network, but I’d argue you also learn a ton about yourself, about leading, about how to truly focus on the right problem, and what you’re capable of.

Absolutely worth it. Always happy to chat with people if they’re uncertain.
It reads to me more like a sponsored blog post by the db saas mentioned in the article.
I would completely switch to Linux if they offered onedrive and office 2019 (not office 365).

I think it will happen soon, within the next year. Edge first, then office, finally onedrive
What happens when the Rockstar programmer needs time off because of a death in the family? Is Hastings okay with that if it's in the middle of an important project that can't easily be taken on by others? If great programmers are limited by supply I suppose he has no choice but to keep them.
Would love to see how this applies to Apple App Store and Play Store.
You can see those "decorative" feet "skipping" in one of the videos. It's fairly obvious from their behavior that they're touching the ground.

The front feet, given that the joints are flexing while the chair is moving, are also obviously in some sort of contact with the ground.
I have no opinion on Disney, as it's not available in my country, but generally for me Netflix's latency from the play button is much better than youtube's or HBO Go's. HBO's app / web page is full of bugs that would be probably easy to fix (it gets stuck even after I turn my new Samsung TV off and on again, I need to force quit the app).

At the same time while youtube offline video watching always works for me on my iPad Pro, Netflix often ,,forgets'' the downloaded content.

If I look at the storytelling/direction itself though, I find HBO better than Netflix (especially with politics ruining the stories). Can somebody tell me a new Netflix serie that comes close to House of Cards?
IMHO not worth it.

Moving to CA kills it for me, if it has more small centers like other incubators I might give it a try locally.

$125K for 7% is a lot, for companies think that's a good deal, normally means that company has limited chance to succeed in the first place.

Still the location requirement is the one many can't afford,especially those who got married and/or have kids, had industrial experience and probably more likely to fly.

Plus, CA's booming time might be over, COVID-19 speeds up the trend.
At this point in time, i agree with this analysis.

But what for a C programmer (systems/embedded) remains to be seen, is, if any of the new languages (say for example Rust, Zig, Odin) can (or want to) offer one of C's strengths most language designers do not think of (at least it looks to me like that). And this would be for me "leave the language alone (for the most part)".

If i may quote from Zig's website (https://ziglang.org/#Small-simple-language):
"Focus on debugging your application rather than debugging your programming language knowledge."

I have yet so see a community driven language that fulfills this promise in a comparable way to C's.
There's always "this little feature" necessary, or "this cruft to clean up". You name it i've seen it.

If you want people like me (and trust me HN community, there's a GIANT silent majority out there) to use Zig e.a. for production in the embedded and systems space where product lifecycles are counted in decades, you will have to provide this feature. Sure, you can call me a dinosaur (still under 40 :-)), or a BLUB programmer or what not. But language designers wanting to (slowly) put C to rest, should, imho, not forget about this "feature".

In this space you really want to focus on the real problems, not on problems of keeping up with the latest and greatest.

Side note for all the "if all you know is a hammer" responses:
Please don't compare programming languages with tools. This is a bad analogy. Programming languages are more like materials. Once chosen and the product (the source code) built, you cannot simply change it without starting from scratch and a new product (new source code).

So, downvotes, here i come ;-).
it's not over yet. too early to say we have avoided the deaths.
> can often use bus lanes

Indeed, that should be banned right off, but as you astutely point out, rich people want to get around faster than the rest of us.
It would be far more scandalous if any developed country (with an economy which depends on electronic infrastructure) wasn't investing in this capacity.

Having "capacity" is like having a military... it doesn't mean you're using it, it means you understand it and can use it as a viable deterrent.
> I certainly do not agree that climate change is a doomsday scenario at all.

What evidence supports the extremely high confidence of this belief? In other words, what makes you discount the threat that climate change poses to organized human life?
Huh? GNU is hardly mentioned because Hurd was never finished. "Linux" is the name for (obviously) all the Linux based systems if you don't have a specific distro mind.

No one talks about an "Emacs" system or a "Firefox system" either. They talk about the relevant products where the label is disambiguating, like GNU Emacs.
Objective-C on UIKit in 2020?! You should absolutely be using Swift for all new UIKit view controllers, note that SwiftUI is not a requirement for usage of swift.
There's always 355/113. It's roughly approximate to 6.6 digits† and strangely it's been easier for me to remember than 22/7.

† https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2018/05/22/best-approximation...
I never understood why Netflix frequently gets mentioned in the same context as Apple, Google, and Amazon. I think I hear more about it than Microsoft on here. Can anyone explain this to me? Surely they aren't the only newish company that tries to employ smart people by paying well.
I don't think the person posting it on HN did it on purpose as they didn't include it in their other submissions.
> It also disables any active content, which can be not only e.g. animations, but also images loaded from a CDN using a script. So disabling JS cuts both ways.

I usually selectively enable JS. If I care enough about the content that's disabled then I'll enable it from some sources for some sites.

> Frankly, I would really prefer to just pay for articles I liked (as opposed to a subscription), but this option is not available :(

This would also be preferable.
> You can't change your mindset and invest in new hobbies

Get some cheapo cross country skis and hit the trails, learn to identify animal tracks etc.

> a kid that is as depressed about the lack of sun as you are.

igloos, snowball fights, etc. My experience at least is children enjoy mucking about in the snow more than adults
It also contradicts itself.

"Checksumming every output after building it is somewhat slow."

"Mostly this is not too serious: the file is probably already in disk cache (since you just wrote it a moment ago!)"
Toy developers long ago found sharp angles and pointy extrusions appeal to a hunter instinct, in constrast to soft and round features which appeal to a nuturing instinct. On average, young boys prefer predatory traits and young girls prefer nuturing traits. There are some good case studies in otherwise interesting toys that on first glance seemed to be great products but didn't gain market traction due to a failure to appeal to either a nurturing or predatory instinct.

Great article on the topic of Hunter-Nurter fixations in Universal Principles of Design[0]

Funnny enough, almost all the marketing I've seen for gaming computers has basically the same marketing principles as those for toys marketed to young boys.

[0]http://people.sunyit.edu/~lepres/thesis/principles/131_pdfsa...
It's not whataboutism if the premise made explicitly by you is to compare and contrast the "badness" of the west with China.

And anyway, a claim that the west isn't worse than China does not entail a belief that the west hasn't done anything wrong or doesn't have objectionable administrative policies.
This is why I've essentially stopped using Amazon. I can't trust their search, I don't want in on Alexa ecosystem (No creepy always-on devices in house), and prices are better elsewhere or generally equal.

About the only saving grace of Amazon is shipping speed, but even then it's almost easier to pop over to a Target etc. So I always check local stores via their app.

I was worried last year about Amazon-geddon, but I think most other stores have caught on and upped their game.
Purchasing an Ergodox last year was probably the best purchase I've made so far. It was incredibly expensive (around 4x minimum wage due to import taxes and shipping) but it's been such an improvement to my wrists that I'd easily pay triple that if I had to.

It's also fun to see people's reactions when take a look at it on my desk :p
They have a more active social campaign or are including HN in that campaign?

Very little on social media is organic if it pertains to a large corporation.
Agreed - those are the load bearing mechanisms, but the other feet are also moving across the ground (the joints are flexing, or they're getting "stuck" and skipping as the chair moves through its range.

It doesn't take a lot of weight to damage a floor - lateral motion with hard edges is sufficient.
Z4/ETH-Edition has conditional jumps, which makes it much less contentious.
What I always do before the MVP is find a way to sell the product. Your product has to be 10x better than the competition - faster, cheaper, and/or higher quality. There should always be a competitor you can compare against. For Xerox, it was manual copies. For the iPhone, it was the Symbian devices.

You should have a list of customers before the first line of code. Figure out your core marketing channel. If you plan on using FB, you want something easily shared. If you're using salespeople, you'll want something easy to demo, and features that may go well in a free trial. When people say sales is hard, it's more that they never had a market in the first place.

IP: I hired a lawyer to look at my work contract and spot holes. We highlighted a few, cleared it up with my boss/HR, who didn't want to deal with it and signed off the proposed changes to wording. Rewriting a contract might be a pain, but a lawyer will at least help you identify possible problems. Every situation is a little different, and lawyers aren't that expensive for the peace of mind you get, and it's a good trial run for more serious IP things when your business is up and running.

I'm not sure about the laws there, but I register two businesses.

The first is a bare bones legal entity, with a bank account, which I normally use for consulting. This cost me about $9 registration fees and $250 deposit which I can transfer back to my personal account to pay bills.

The definition of a startup is an organization trying to find a scalable and repeatable business model. Until you find that model you probably don't need a proper company. The nice thing about software is you probably don't need the LLC protection - you're not leasing a $1000 tractor or buying (or even holding) $30k of stock.

I think the main reason to have one is vesting shares and taking investor money, both of which can be delayed until you have money to worry about.
Would you disqualify companies that had bootstrapped successfully, were profitable, and did not take any outside money?

Not a judging question - I understand the value of a good investor's due diligence and backing in improving the odds of sane leadership. But it's interesting to think how that can impact a successful, self-funded copmany's access to talent.
Is this similar to Azure Durable Functions?

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-functions/durab...

From what I understand these features are a nice way to implement a serverless Actor Model. I was surprised to see no reference to it on the CloudFlare page.
They're not an outlier when you compare them to the right company (not Disney). The question asked and answered by the article is why Netflix hires Microsoft/Google-level engineering talent.