skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most people aren't investing in bitcoin either. Current market cap of bitcoin is ~200 billion dollars. This is so minuscule it qualifies as rounding error on any meaningful scale.
Web Scraping Is Vital to Democracy
Happens all the time:

https://mobile.twitter.com/programmer_just/status/1253098759...
I am not a lawyer, but I’ve read this one article:

http://copyright.nova.edu/safe-harbor/

...and I think that if GitHub allowed them to post the content in the first place (ie it’s at the direction of the user, not GitHub’s moderators) and then when a red flag became known to them (for example via publicity) and they used common sense to ban that one repo, they would not lose their safe harbour they’d in fact be acting in accordance with it.

But like I say, I’m no lawyer.
We’re just simply at scale. There’s too many people at scale so the dumb tests show up.

Take a look at public school standardized tests. That’s basically where we are at with tech because we can’t handle scale.
Hey everyone! I am the author of the article! If you have any questions, feel free to ping me and I will try to respond in a timely fashion! I intend to always keep this article up to date so feel free to bookmark it for a future reference.

Further, it makes my heart so so happy to see so many people being either inspired, interested, or curious about my workflow! I think the best workflow is the one that works for you. If my article played some part in that, then I am jubilant. Have a wonderful day!
This article covers the fact that the M1 is both cool and very fast. My question is: Could Apple now clock up the M1 so that's it's as hot as other chips, but insanely fast?
She does that, but she goes further:

> reason and compassion over superstition and tradition

The problem is, both reason and compassion (at least as the author wishes to use them) ultimately rest on ethical and moral systems that science itself is incapable of addressing, hence falling into the “superstition and tradition” bucket she derides.

In other words, objective moral values and duties, if they exist, must have a philosophical basis to be real, and that basis is inaccessible to science and reason alone. It requires a worldview that answers basic questions like origin, meaning, morality, and destiny.

It seems she wishes to cut off the legs on which she would seek to stand.
You don't need to jump through all the hoops you did. Many Android devices, high end ones anyway, support front buffer rendering via public APIs, such as through this extension: https://www.khronos.org/registry/EGL/extensions/KHR/EGL_KHR_...

Or if Vulkan is more your jam, doable with: https://www.khronos.org/registry/vulkan/specs/1.2-extensions...

And then "no-latency" input events can be done via View#requestUnbufferedDispatch ( https://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/View?hl... )

I'm sure there's then some way to achieve front-buffer rendering in a software rendered pipeline as well to cut out the GPU latency & avoid tile-based artifacts.
Ted Nelson: "It's possible to insist that every change is merely a small difference in degree if you do not want to see a change in kind"
I think [TexPad](https://www.texpad.com/) has this feature. It's my favorite LaTeX editor.
Fwiw there are competitor services to Plaid, like Finicity
Not sure why this is being downvoted. I think your logic is sound. Typically vaccinations don't work this way though. AFAIK contagion is proportional to viral load which is inversely proportional to immune response (via some complex function over time from initial infection).
> Performant ARM CPUs designed for laptops? I expect you just gotta hope Windows on ARM takes off or start porting Linux to M1 Macs.

What makes you think Windows won't take off on ARM?

In any case, if it can be done -- i.e. if there aren't locked down specs -- you can bet Linux will be ported to M1 Macs.
Show HN: Open-source software for universal healthcare
I hate headlines like this. It's one senator who has introduced a bill, not the government actively considering it. In fact it mentions that both mainstream parties are strongly against the policy.
If the recommended horizontal viewing angle for a movie is 36 degrees, why is it hard for you to understand wanting a desktop PC display with significantly larger field of view, given that large PC displays are used subdivided into multiple windows? There's real usability value for a PC display that extends further into your peripheral vision than a movie screen, because you don't actively watch the whole PC screen at once.
I was expecting the drone to look towards the falling platform a bit quicker, after all the cables broke. I don't think the operator was prepared to see that.
Doesn't bother me, but if you're using Safari, try switching to Reader view.
My biggest concern/question with crypto as an asset is tax liability. In the US, if you sell crypto it’s always taxed as property and not as an investment. This has big tax implications that hold it back from being an efficient investment. Obviously returns make the hassle worthwhile still but I’m wondering how this may change in the future.
Google doesn't recycle Gmail addresses. https://webapps.stackexchange.com/a/90016

What does happen somewhat often though, is that people receive other people's mail because it's been misaddressed by the sender.
Maybe it didn't have python support? Sorry, I may have misremembered. I do remember something missing that I couldn't use it in my existing dev setup. As solo developer, I prefer to keep my dependencies minimal, mostly python.
You're actually talking about a different thing than parent. You can delete account data without recycling the account name. Nowadays, Microsoft still deletes inactive accounts, but they don't recycle the names.

Of course, phone numbers are recycled by telephone providers. So that'll be fun in a few years.
Thanks! I love Julia - if you want to check out a cool Julia project I am working on with my friend [Ole Kröger](https://opensourc.es/about/) have a look at [Javis.jl](https://github.com/Wikunia/Javis.jl). It is an animation package similar to manim by 3blue1brown. :)
What makes you think, if ARM becomes the hot new target, that there won't be a Windows ARM laptop?
> Until now the line I have kept hearing is that there is no such thing as herd immunity except that which is realized through universal immunization.

You were either hearing the wrong information or misunderstanding it. Herd immunity is absolutely real, and can occur if a virus infects enough people (or enough people are vaccinated). When more people are immune, it will be harder for the virus to spread to a new host. When enough are immune, the virus dies out.

But since the death rate of COVID is so high, encouraging people to go outside and get infected in the name of achieving herd immunity (an approach often spread by the right wing) would likely cause millions of deaths, especially because the US has limited hospital capacity. This isn't even mentioning that we don't know the long-term effects of the hundreds of millions of others who would have recovered from COVID.

Herd immunity through vaccination will kill or harm very few people in comparison, given that only 1 in a million suffer side effects from vaccines on average.
I'm curious if this line of reasoning could extend to app stores and their 30%
This makes sense to be.

By the way, you can see Plaid's docs about money transfer here: https://plaid.com/docs/bank-transfers/ - don't think it's operational / available to the public yet tho

But definitely, if Plaid can create their own rails (using the bank accounts' ACH/Wire systems), it would definitely be competitive to Visa in certain situations. You can let your mind fly, and it would take some time to proliferate. But many online merchants already allow ACH-payments. This would make it even easier.
When they are overly woke they make accusations without thinking
I will not say I don't know why you are downvoted, since such remarks get downvoted here.

But can't we look at an alternative model where some such standardized test is used to test basic competence, and then trainees get 2 week training on the job? Afterwards, we can select a subset based on specific tests designed for the job, rather than the usual interview questions. How many of us have actually used dynamic programming to solve a real-world problem?
I'm the opposite of a biology expert, but from what I've read, the "miscellaneous non-vaccine compounds" in the solution are adjuvants which make the vaccine more effective by provoking the immune system into a response. Without those "non-vaccine compounds" the vaccine itself could be no more effective than a shot of sterile saline - which itself is probably another "non-vaccine compound."

Perhaps if you're referring to something else you could spell it out.
Unlike older vaccines (such as polio vaccine) which generally used weakened or killed whole virus particles (and which occasionally produced infectious cases, due to the virus not being as weak or dead as intended), this vaccine contains no whole virus particles and thus cannot result in an infectious case.

It contains RNA that cause the patient's cells to emit proteins normally produced by the viral infection (which can then be recognized by the immune system), but contains none of the genetic material required to produce standalone infectious virus particles.

This is a new thing; these will the first vaccines using this technology to be approved.

The chairman likely isn't worried about the vaccine itself producing infections, but rather does not know whether a vaccinated patient might also develop an active infection before the vaccine takes effect.
Generally, I'm more likely to hire someone with interesting hobbies than someone who has completed HackerRank tests. I don't find it compelling to see that a candidate has accomplished standardized metrics; but I am swayed by non-computing hobbies. Synthesizers, painting, rock climbing, volunteering, and so on are indicators of a curious mind that's happy to apply itself.
Thanks for the kind words kody! Hopefully my linked dotfiles in the article can help out with that. :)
I do sympathize, but there is a flip side to this. I have worked in large orgs with many developer and engineer titled employees that can’t code at all. Zero coding skills. And their title would be things like “Senior Enterprise Application Engineer”. Unfortunately their resume doesn’t read that differently than a similarly experienced engineer that actually writes code.
It's ok, I'm in no hurry: my current Intel-based Linux laptop works great.

I can dream of an even better one, though!
I argued that it is untrue that aviation experts and pilots now consider it to be much safer than other models as a result of the scrutiny. You asked if any of those people have publicly refused to fly it, presumably because they think it's a deathtrap.

That isn't a response to my actual position, or something I expected to happen.
I find the revisiting of fundamentals to be valuable practice when the job hunt begins. Refresh the algorithms, pick up new skills. Yes a bit of it is playing the game but its not totally wasted effort.
YC Competitor NewChip Launches Public Investor Dataroom
This is really nice. The transcripts are better than I expected, from the few videos I tested with. I usually try to avoid videos for information, so this maybe my new way to avoid them while still getting the info from it.
I thought this was interesting approach to Series A - making every single dataroom document available to the public: salaries, cap table, balance sheet, you name it.

Bold or misguided?
> It's also an opportunity to excuse ageism.

Yep!
A rather tired conversation in my opinion. Everybody likes to complain about interviews, but every single alternative I've heard is even worse:

Take-homes are biased toward those willing to work hours for free, a "track record" is biased toward those who inflate their resume, a casual conversation is biased toward the likable and native english speakers, high-level whiteboarding is biased towards people who are good at whiteboarding
You shouldn't be tired of telling someone about a cutting edge subject that you are an " expert" of.
> An optimizing linker might be able to prove that nobody needs those definitions, and eliminate them — I personally have worked on a linker that did exactly that optimization — but in general your mental model of a linker should be that it won’t do that optimization.

Not by default (for some reason), but the major compiler toolchains will all do it if you pass the right flags:

- Apple: Pass -dead_strip to linker

- Linux/ELF: Pass -Wl,--gc-sections to linker and -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections to compiler

- MSVC: Pass /opt:ref to linker and /Gw /Gy to compiler

(If you're building a dynamic library you also want -fvisibility=hidden on the Unix platforms.)
> Once in a while, though, I'd find someone exceptional who could approach problems differently, and those people would always turn out to be the best hires. They would have been filtered out by these systems.

This is the goal. When you’re a large org, you do not need exceptional people, you need foot soldiers who do what they’re told.

Yes even in engineering. Most of the day-to-day work boils down to JSON bureacracy and code archaelogy.

Remember: They pay so much because otherwise people wouldn’t stay.
To be fair, the shortcut on Windows is a lot easier to remember.
Not an epidemiologist, but from my laymen's understanding: No, because vaccines will be available to the whole/most vulnerable population, so if you spread you have a fairly high degree of confidence others are immune with zero harm having been done to them.
But do they still have to pass a bunch of HackerRank-style interview questions?

The best interview question in my life, a few years ago, was one where they gave me an open-ended question, a laptop, and the whole afternoon with occasional checkins to see how I handled it. The evaluation was completely subjective.

That's hard to standardize at an industrial scale, I understand why FAANG can't do that, but smaller shops really should and stop denying themselves acquirable talent.
I've always preferred to give very serious candidates some technical homework. Make an API that does this particular thing. You have two days. Then we look at what they built and talk about it. It's way more realistic because that's how we actually work-- nobody is coding algorithms on a whiteboard. To any extent, it has worked very well. The people that have done great ended up being great employees and the people that did just enough to pass also did that once they were hired.
Unless you've made it to your "endgame" company that you're happy to stay at for a while, I feel investing anything more than the bare minimum to get your assigned work done is worth less than just grinding leetcode and otherwise studying for interviews. Doing an actual good job, above and beyond, is not going to be worth much when you're looking for your next job.

Thus we're now seeing the rise of Professional Interviewers or Professional Leetcoders. I am ashamed to admit that I too, am one, and probably will continue to be one until I make it into such an "endgame" company.
To be clear I think all narcotics should be legal. It is the narcos who create the harm. I'm 100% pro dugs and 100% against allowing narcos to thrive.

> Actually, at the bare minimum, it removes political control of the monetary supply, leaving only fiscal policy, which may enable better long term control of public deficit by implementing a Milton Friedman like rule (whether it's constant inflation, deflation, or nothing, all is good as long as it remains constant and predictable)

I don't agree with any of that. I don't want any of that.

> Hackers often fall prey to black-and-white thinking. Trust isn't binary, because you can't fully trust an organization made of people, regardless of how "good" they are, or which legal constraints they have.

Which is why we have legal recourse.

It sucks to have to re-explain this from first principals, but trust is infinitely more efficient, so long as you accept some small fraction of the time you'll get screwed. So, you create legal recourse.

However it's clear you're far more likely to get screwed over in a crypto economy with zero recourse than you are to get screwed over in a fiat economy -- separate from the fact you have recourse in a fiat economy.
Oh, nice catch! I'm reading The Pragmatic Programmer right now and I find myself wishing for an updated edition. I'm a little reluctant to buy a $40 patch of a book, but it almost seems worth it.

According to the preface, "As a result, this book is something of a Ship of Theseus. Roughly one-third of the topics in the book are brand new. Of the rest, the majority have been rewritten, either partially or totally. Our intent was to make things clearer, more relevant, and hopefully somewhat timeless."

It looks like it did get a substantial update.
You can be both a brilliant scientist (I'm not claiming Gebru is one) and a douche. They're not exclusive.
> code archaelogy

I've never heard this phrase, but it's so apt to most of every dev job I've had. I love it.
You can setup a view (accessed by postgrest) that returns an error when there are no (correct) filters in the query so that takes care of select *... problem (also you can have the same logic in the proxy (nginx) layer
What's your endgame ?
Author of the article here! For me, I prefer it for two reasons:

1. Distractionless editing - not fiddling with formatting or things like that is quite nice. Especially since I work with markdown and LaTeX, it is easy to convert over to a word file once I get the draft of the version done thanks to pandoc. From there, then I can really worry about the formatting - if I need to as pandoc is great!

2. I like the speed and lightness of a text editor for writing. Don't have to wait for boot, can easily grep and replace, and jump to where I need to go.
CodeBuild builds Docker images. You can write a proxy wrapper in a few lines. Write a lambdalith that processes all the root level functionality.
It's that you have to go to such a larger screen size. I just upgraded my monitor from a 1080p. I really wanted a 24" @ 4k for higher dpi and crispness. Practically impossible to find, despite being common on laptops with much smaller screens. I had to go up to 27" instead, which is still crisp, though not as much, and larger than I wanted for the space it's in.
A Mac user here, who use iTerm and Terminal for daily work.
I just installed Alacritty. How do I open new tabs?
You might want to look at ADNI (http://adni.loni.usc.edu/) and AIBL.
Sold!

You'll be pleased to know you've outstripped Salesforce, having bought in at closer to a 150x revenue ratio! (Even higher, if I quit my day job thanks to my new found wealth...)
Well, no. The reason you can't buy one right now is because there is no 5nm TSMC capacity left to build them.
> Any reason to believe countries “looking to industrialize” will opt for the more expensive fossil fuel option?

Sure, it isn't cheaper or more economical. You are not going to industrialize with rooftop solar panels. Or wind farms which only produce electricity when its windy. For the same reason batteries or gas is cheaper than jet fuel but you can't power a plane on double a batteries.

There are major geopolitical "wars" happening right now over gas/oil pipelines.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-11-29/nord-stre...

If "renewables" were cheaper or going to be cheaper, why would europe, russia, US, middle east, etc waste their time?

Or fight horrific wars over pipelines.

https://www.news.com.au/world/middle-east/is-the-fight-over-...

Here is the US oil production. Notice that huge spike the last 10 years?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:US_Crude_Oil_Production_a...

Here is US gas production. Notice the huge spike the last 10 years?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:US_Natural_Gas_Production...

The "renewables" are cheap and going to save the world are for naive children who don't know how the world works. The kind of naive people who think veganism is good for the environment/animals or that we can solve our landfill issues by flying garbage into the sun. Or the naive people who think renewables are actually good for the environment.

Renewable energy production is going to rise for sure, but much of that will be hydroelectric power via dams. Those cause their share of environmental problems.

If wealthy developed nations are opting for "more expensive fossil fuel", even to the point of going through costly wars, what do you think poor undeveloped countries are going to do? It's not rocket science.

The ony solution to our fossil fuel problem is a revolutionary breakthrough like fusion. That's it. Until then the world is going to burn fossil fuel for many more decades at the very least.
I've seen this point made repeatedly, but haven't seen what scientists think is LIKELY -- based on similar vaccines, based on initial data, whatever.

I don't know if scientists GENUINELY have no clue, or if maybe we think it'll likely be good news but can't say it yet because we're worried that people will get a vaccine and then behave irresponsibly.

It sounds like we're going to start giving this vaccine out without certainty on this point, so maybe give a sense of likelihoods for the possibilities. Maybe Pfizer can't because of lawsuits or something, but experts could certainly weigh in for articles like this. It seems like we're afraid of trusting people with the best info we have because we're worried they'll stop wearing masks and throw parties and such. I don't think withholding info is a great way to build trust.

Health experts should feel empowered to say "We think X but only with (let's say) 10% certainty" because there's no study specifically on this topic for COVID. They can always add "without 100% certainty we need to all continue to wear masks because that the stakes are so severe on hospitalizations and death."

Instead, it seems like they hold back info out of concern the public cannot be trusted.
The problem with the rise of the homework approach though, is that unlike you, most companies don't treat it as an alternative to whiteboard leetcode interviews. They treat it as an addition to the whiteboard leetcode interview.

It also doesn't scale. The assignment is for one company alone, so if you get rejected, that's time spent down the drain. As heinous as leetcode interviews are, the effort spent grinding leetcode can scale massively horizontally.
I was wanting exactly this a just a few days ago. I wish it were a YouTube or youtube-dl feature.
This shouldn't be downvoted, it's exactly right. For every "do this instead" I've ever seen in articles bemoaning the state of tech interviewing, I've seen a dozen people attacking that other thing just as vehemently. There's nothing even remotely approaching a consensus viewpoint on what we should do instead.
Hear, hear!

I've got a PhD in statistics and consider myself a pretty good data scientist, but I am not a computer scientist. The last job I applied for asked me to perform a coding challenge prior to a possible in-person interview. The challenge was heavily focused on algorithms and data structures, almost nothing about statistical inference, causal inference, experiment design, model fitting, etc. I didn't bother submitting my answers.
The Way of the Future a Quick Rebuttal on the Slackforce Slacklash
https://www.extremetech.com/computing/181867-amds-project-sk...

Years and years ago they originally tried to release a ARM chip alongside ryzen that was supposed to be pin compatible to their x86 chips. They abandoned that effort so as to focus on ryzen.

AMD please please make a ARM cpu that I can just drop into my desktop mobo.
Because she wanted to attack them! That's how she has reached where she is: by attacking and silencing anyone who disagrees with her, and then turning around and classifying their opposition as "sexism/racism"; and who wants to be labeled as a sexist/racist these days? People would much rather just keep quiet.