skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for reading!

That's interesting about "work review" in Investment Banking. I've never heard that term and Google isn't helping me out much. Do you have a recommendation on where I could learn more?

I have noticed that things like this aren't too far removed from other fields. When I wrote my article about reviewing code from the reviewer's side[0], I got feedback that most of the techniques apply to giving feedback in other domains. And while I was writing my guide to hiring writers,[1] I realized that the process is 80% identical to my process for hiring developers and graphic designers.

The thing that's tough about going more abstract is that it becomes hard to convince any particular group that the content is worth reading. Focusing on code review appeals to HN because a large percentage of the audience is developers, but if it was a more general guide to improving review workflows, I'd have a harder time convincing HN readers that it was relevant to them.

[0] https://mtlynch.io/human-code-reviews-1/

[1] https://mtlynch.io/hiring-content-writers/
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/microsoft-teams-meeting-data...
The fact that you are so trivially dismissing all of the complexities of the web leads me to believe you in fact have very little actual experience. If you are half as experienced as you say you would have more substance to back up your claims. Maybe start a blog and share your god like experience and wisdom with all of us plebs.
If they were selling an ITX motherboard with a Nvidia SOC soldered on it with M1 perfs I bet quite a few of us would buy it.
>You were being pedantic about how the New Deal raised revenue.

How is it pedantic. It's completely relevant. I want to know if it was successful, where the money came from and how it got there...

Much in the same way people preach a wealth tax would bring in "billions" without realizing that probably wouldn't put a dent in anything considering the overall budget.

>If you have examples in the United States or the United Kingdom, sure I'll take a look at them. Otherwise, I don't really see the point, when no other country has had global financial controls comparable to the US/UK in the last 100 years.

ahaha man, isn't that kinda ironic though? Maybe because the US/UK has seen the consequences of an FTT and realized that maybe its not a good idea. This is like saying "I don't want to see anything unless its from the last 50 years, since so much has changed since then"

>Further, I've already said that FTT is only one approach, and not one which I have specifically advocated for at any point in this thread. You are arguing against yourself on that one.

Where did I ever say you were? I'm using FTT as an example of an "effort to tax the rich" that completely backfired because the people behind it assumed they were dealing with a vacuum.

>We already tax wealth, so it's not clear at all why you think it's so catastrophic.

Because it is a waste of energy at best and something that could have catastrophic consequences at worst.

>It sure doesn't seem like you've done real research if you haven't been able to come around on the existence (and non-apocalyptic nature of) property and estate taxes.

I'm not a fan of those either for the most part. However, there's a big difference between property tax and trying to tax something worth $50b one day and then $100b a half a year later.
Yes, if you cook seriously with a wok, then gas is an absolute must. But then even a normal gas range won't work -- you need one that will output the insane-sized heat that is required for a true stir-fry. Of course, not many people go to those lengths... :)

As for warped pans, I never had that problem -- all my stuff is thick stainless steel-clad pots and pans. That's interesting though, it makes sense -- it would need full contact for effective heat transfer.
Japanese people stay fit for life without visiting a gym
This article is a marketing submarine. Can you spot the product?
> work in online gambling (where their regulations actually are decent)

This claim is false. The internet is littered with corpses of Malta-based gambling sites that exit scammed their playerbase. This doesn't occur in jurisdictions where the gambling regulations are "decent".

Edit: unless you mean "decent" from the perspective of unscrupulous gambling sites who are looking to scam people out of money.
As 'aenario said: scripts like these dispel the following narratives:

* That police cameras are tamper-proof.

* That the police are capable of responsibly handling the data they record (cf. the recent Twitter thread about eBay-purchased cameras).

* That cameras are an effective and fool-proof check on police malfeasance.

But even beyond that: if I was a defense attorney whose client was the subject of police harassment, I wouldn't trust any footage turned over by the police. I'd want to have the original recording device itself imaged by my own consultant.
Yeah I followed Docker from the very beginning, and this was also what I remembered.

The biggest incident, if I remember well, was related to the layerfs stuff, which was supported by Ubuntu, but which RH refused to include. Instead they pretty arrogantly pushed to merge a PR which was breaking other stuff in Docker, and were pissed when the maintainers refused to. That whole thing obviously rubbed people working on Docker the wrong way, which was the beginning of the pretty sour relationship.

After that I don't think there was a lot of goodwill from Docker towards RH, probably causing a lot more issues..
>A more serious analysis of brevity might define it as “the entropy of a parse tree recursively inlined/macroexpanded down to language primitives.” This suggests our focus ought to be on two questions: how compressible are our primitives, and how can we enable users to achieve something close to optimal compression? Since the first question has a relative measure (what’s the compression ratio for our expanded parse tree?), we could productively iterate on both better primitives and better tools for abstracting over them.

But Graham’s analysis of brevity, and indeed of all language design, was fundamentally unserious. He wasn’t interested in a rigorous definition of brevity, because the ultimate measure of a language’s quality was still his hacker’s radar. All of his essays, and Arc itself, were just spokes around that central hub. If his essays sometimes disagreed, or if Arc didn’t reflect his essays, it’s hardly surprising; their only connection was they all, in the moment, seemed right and true to Paul Graham[..]

I dont understand what the author means by 'brevity'. Is that the same as what one might call 'elegant code'? I prefer to use the term elegant. From the article, it seems to me that PG's prefers elegant code that is modular and neat. It is reflected in his essays and how he approaches subjects.

Code can be elegant and modular. People are complex. You can hack them, but you cant debug people.
Airpods vs. Microwave Radiation [video]
Even outside of that, 9/11 and the 2007 financial crisis aren’t trivial events that are just going to be skipped over. Especially depending on long term effects of the terrorism wars and how future people consider it’s relation to the growth of heavy surveillance, I could see it being considered the more important event.

Of course we don’t know the long term effects Covid is going to have yet, we’re still in the middle of it.
If it’s giving you a physical reaction then it’s also going to give you a mental one. They go hand in hand
Innovative New Uses of ElectionGuard
Precedent? Hi, welcome to planet Earth. We humans are literally the most dangerous organism on this planet. After we perfected murdering other animals with spears and arrows, we took to killing each other. That got boring so we started boring into mountains to kill them too. That's when we then learned about explosives, oh buddy did we start killing big ass mountains too, disappearing them from the landscape for coal. That got boring so we started murdering microscopic creatures. All while we still kill each because they wear a different flag, said something we dont like or are the last pizza slice.

We've been assassinating for thousands of years. Theres no precedence. This event will be forgotten in a week and probably will never be in a history book due to how mundane the killing was. The term assassin is old as hell for a reason.
The First Soft Contact Lenses Were Created with a Toy Construction Set (2014)
I'd say there's some basis there. Discussed here prior:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20445748
I thought I had read somewhere that home range hoods tended to not be deep enough or have high enough airflow to capture combustion products from gas stoves, but I'm having trouble finding that now. I did find this article that says they measured 80-95% reduction of pollutants which seems pretty good with 108 L/s airflow which is achievable:

https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1420274

It's possible that what I was reading before was discussing direct capture of the combustion products, but it stands to reason that if you're exhausting a lot of air with the range hood it's going to limit the concentration of pollutants by cycling the air in the entire kitchen. Alternatively I could just be remembering incorrectly!

My range hood is unfortunately configured to recirculate, and it's not in a convenient location to duct to the outside. If I change entirely over to electric I'll likely keep the range hood recirculating and install a central ERV or HRV that pulls air from the kitchen to manage winter time air pollution throughout the house.
Why would linkedIn want to do that? They'd then be losing out on a serious source of profits
I was going to say something similar.

When I'm the reviewer, I try to decided for myself whether something is truly important, or just a style choice. If it's the latter, I will comment on it, but then add "Your call." to make it clear that I expect ties to go to the author.
I doubt anyone is going to talk about covid too much past 2022, based on the efficacy of the vaccine trials.
Not OP but anything that mentions Chrome is an instant loud no for me these days if I can avoid it somehow.

Just like MS 15 years ago.
> The odds of a total loss are low, so a $500 or $1k deductible combined with the likely scenario of a $2k-$3k repair bill made it very meh

It's even worse than that. If you have significant damage, there's a good chance they'll "total" your car. This means they'll write you a check for the appraised value (minus your deductible), and scrap the car. And it's awfully hard to find a worthwhile replacement for the book value of your old one, so even with insurance you're not avoiding the bill.

Another thing that irks me about insurance is that when you raise your coverage limits the premiums go up significantly. I can't imagine the long tail of extreme damages form a significant part of their actuarial tables, so it feels more like price discrimination based on your own assets that you don't want to lose. But really the entire point of insurance is to protect against the vanishingly small long tail - the idea of liability coverage limits should be done away with (if someone causes a million dollars in damage and can't pay, their insurance company shouldn't be able to walk away!), and the main cost-saving lever should be your deductible.
here's the guy you were looking for: Aardappel, the mind behind it all!!

oh man, maybe you have no idea how many lives you changed with this project <3
As opposed to the other commenters, I like the voice. I can listen at 2x speed and understand without trouble. It's way better than the voices that come with espeak(-ng), at least. This one doesn't sound robotic at all, in comparison.
Activated Carbon filters can capture VOCs and gases, but you need a ton of carbon, and you need to replace the carbon when it's "full" (since recharging it in your home kind of defeats the purpose)
The potential for fraud which may be tried in civil courts is not a slam-dunk argument for mutability.
You get sleepy after one beer. Horrible feeling. I mean it’s nice at first but not for long.
Steve Wozniak's Blockchain Venture Reaches $950M in 13 Minutes
> the Bay Area

> libertarian paradise

What a strange notion. San Francisco has some of the most paternalistic laws in the US, courtesy of its board of supervisors. Some of them even wanted to ban corporate cafeterias, an issue which returned last year:

https://sfist.com/2019/07/22/watered-down-version-of-sfs-tec...

To pin the blame for these problems on libertarians, of all people, is the height of absurdity:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_in_the_San_Francisco_...

See also:

https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/OPINION-San-Francisc...

https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/Nanny-state-or-...

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2010-nov-02-la-fi-ha...

https://www.fraserinstitute.org/sites/default/files/economic...

https://reason.org/policy-study/us-metropolitan-area-economi...

> zoning laws

Where did you get the bizarre idea that their zoning laws are in any way “libertarian” or “individualist”?

https://marketurbanismreport.com/blog/san-franciscos-regulat...
I'm a fan of fair career opportunities for women even if it means I have to work harder to find a date/mate.
> Blockchain doesn't provide irrefutable evidence of anything except that the record wasn't tampered with after the fact

> (and it's a very expensive and wasteful way to do so)

No it isn't. You're confusing blockchain (the algorithm) with Proof-of-Work (a method for providing decentralized consensus).

> Blockchain does nothing to verify the correctness of the data it holds, only its consistency with the history.

Correct. Nor does any other data structure. Blockchain is literally just a data structure, nothing more.
WWI marks the end of the Concert of Europe system that prevailed over the previous century, and the cost of WWI and its subsequent aftershocks led to the collapse of European global empires and the rise of the American/Soviet century. I'd say that's a pretty good demarcation line.
FaceMash wasn't exploitative?
> I think that an overly literal and precise reading of his pithy phrase misses the point.

I suppose you're right. I get what you're saying, and based on that it seems what Dowek should have said was that "if we knew what computers would do, we would not use them".

For me that's a pretty crucial distinction though.

In any case, I agree that computation being deterministic yet indeterminable is indeed fairly surprising[1] and quite interesting, and indeed it is this potential for complexity that makes computers useful.

[1]: in the common sense of the word, if not both
I've visited San Francisco a few times. It's reasonably nice but it's also one of the smallest cities, population wise, out of cities with similar impact. It's also chock full of building with 1-2-3 floors.

It's absolutely ridiculous, a city of its magnitude should have 2-3 times its current population and 0 housing issues due to higher density housing.

The newcomers aren't to blame, as an outsider I'd blame the locals...
I really enjoy the length of his pieces, because they are so full of visuals. Sometimes I just look at the diagrams and have "aha moments". Reading one of his posts is like going to the Loove (sp?).
I've been a professional programmer for over 20 years and I have tried many, many different screen resolutions. I have a 2015 Macbook Pro right here next to my Acer E5-575G with 15.6" Full HD (1080p) screen.

Comparing them directly - I have absolutely no clue what you are talking about. Fonts, images and the UI look just as good if not better. I'll say better since I think the Mac UI is hideous.

You're right though - it's definitely not about screen real-estate because with Retina/2k/4k the OS typically has to scale everything up so you basically lose any real-estate that would have been gained in the first place. That's ridiculous IMO.

The only place I use Retina/2k/4k is for gaming and movies and I definitely am not doing either of those activities on a lowly laptop.
I'm tied to Stanford (by marriage), so we won't be leaving for decades. If it weren't for the university connection, I would certainly be thinking about different options, even though all of our family is in northern California.
It's also consistent, which is a good thing when it comes to UX.
This is amazing! Side note, there seems to be a typo "would be to have got Gitter".

Also, I'm curious what the plan is to reconcile Gitter's one room per repo model with Matrix's anybody-can-create-any-room - in the long term, is the plan to keep gitter.im rooms restricted to matching repos? Or (post gitter-skinned-element) will people eventually be able to create arbitrary rooms on the gitter homeserver?
High-end Macs could have as many as 32 performance cores to the M1's four
Isn't that what crispyambulance said (or perhaps a few hours before)?
Innocent US stumbled into the Vietnam War after evil France meticulously trapped the US into the war, reports US government. French fries will hereafter be known as Freedom fries, declares US government in ensuing report.
Colleges Grapple with Grim Financial Realities
Evolution of my role as a founder CTO
California has started requiring rooftop solar on new home builds (with a few exceptions):

https://news.energysage.com/an-overview-of-the-california-so...

I'm not sure it is a great idea. Utility scale solar farms are more cost effective and California has plenty of room for more solar farms, even though the farm approach requires more transmission investments. It might prove beneficial if PG&E continues to respond to high fire risk conditions by shutting off power delivery.
One does not simply create a $2trn business by selling flash memory.
Largest atom smasher could seed microscopic black holes
Unlike other languages, typescript adds zero runtime overhead, and the APIs that one writes in TS are trivially consumable from JS. Consuming JS from TS is also made as easy as possible, including the option to set types aside entirely for some parts of your code using the "any" type, which means "don't type check this, just trust me that it works".

TS really is different from other compile-to-js languages in this respect.
Economic effects of the virus may well be more long reaching though.
As an American I actually think it is extremely helpful for small countries to set examples. Smaller countries can serve as experiments that we can look to and use as driving forces for larger bodies to adopt, like the US or EU. Similar to how in the US we've seen states make things legal before the federal (e.g. same sex marriage, marijuana reform, etc), it is much cheaper and easier to do the experiment on a smaller scale first than convince a wide background of politically diverse forces to unite. I think the small groups doing things first is extremely helpful. So for that I say thank you, because your example will help my country take steps forward.
There is enormous complexity in the field. But, and this is a big but, 99% of the advocacy and "innovation" is in the easiest, most trivial 5% (rough numbers). That I'm pointing out how absurdly circular this is in no universe denigrates the entire realm. But of course it makes criticism easier to pretend it is.

I had no idea my comment would make so many so insecure.
mywittyname says >"The biggest issue with induction is that the larger ones have enormous power requirements."<

No, the biggest issue is that electrical power is not (easily) available everywhere (think "wherever you camp") and always (think "earthquakes and hurricanes"). But I can carry or find gas/oil/coal/wood almost anywhere. How many trash fires in the inner city of Chicago on a cold night? There are always political signs, trash, and/or wood from buildings available to burn. Nothing like warming your hands by a barrel fire with a bunch of friends!
Cloudflare is testing a Netlify competitor to host Jamstack sites
Someone would make money off of it and probably scam people. We would also have less diversity through standardization by select "elite"
I agree, I’m all for separating a person from his work but in Peter Thiel’s case they are so intertwined it does not make sense to give him the benefit of the doubt.
But was that part of brilliant overarching strategy from visionary government leaders to develop and foster the world's tech hub, or an accident of history?
Article 1 Section 8 Clause 8 of the US Constitution:

[The Congress shall have power] “To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries.”

It's neither guaranteed to be an effective or necessary means of achieving that objective, but that is undeniably copyright's stated purpose.
IMO TodoMVC is not a good way to compare front-end libraries/frameworks because the necessary complexity is too low to demonstrate how issues that would happen in a larger code base would be solved.
This, kinda like the donations that big Telcos make ("free for first responders") is more proof that the company is too large and vacuums up too much money. Airbnb is trash.
This rather negative excerpt from Jack Nasher, "Conv!nced - How to Prove Your Competence and Win People Over", p. 185-187 may be helpful:

"We are frighteningly bad at making an accurate assessment of other people's competence, and the same is true for the closely related factor of intelligence⁰. In one experiment, only 20 percent of people tested were able to assess the intelligence of others with higher accuracy than a random number generator. It should be noted that women tended to be better than men at judging the intelligence of others after a short meeting; however, they were still far from being accurate.

[…]

To assess intelligence, which is closely related to competence, there are, however, some generally valid factors. The following items are characteristics of an actual high intelligence⁰⁻¹:

• speaking quickly
• using easily understandable speech and standard English
• making eye contact while talking
• displaying self-confident behavior
• reacting quickly and with little hesitation

[…] Unlike many of the previously discussed points, however, these five items are also indicators of actual high intelligence. All of these points can rather easily be evaluated by mere observation. Interestingly, it is easier for us to make an accurate evaluation if we only hear people and do not see them - visual factors often are misleading."

[0] Reynolds, D.J. & Gifford, R. (2001). The sounds and sights of intelligence: A lens model channel analysis. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 27, 187-200.

[1] Murphy, N. (2007). Appearing smart: The impression management of intelligence, person perception accuracy, and behavior in social interaction. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 33, 325-39
I started a new job in April. Between when I interviewed and when I was started, offices shut down. It's been great.

The fact that everyone is remote is actually a great 'leveler', since the company has a 'main office' and a few satellite offices in other cities. I'm not affiliated with the 'main office', but I actually am concerned that I'll suffer career-wise once the company goes back to in-office, since I'll be in a satellite office missing out on casual-but-important lunch/coffee/hallway conversations.

So, from my perspective, it's a great time to change jobs. YMMV.