skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Go look at how much payload by weight was launched by China. Or how many different payloads.

> It has a mission to bring lunar rock back to earth for the first time since the 70s.

Yes its a fine mission, but its a mission that is not outside of the capability of others. There are simply many space missions that could be done.

Yes, China is doing things and the are moving fast, but your prediction and text were still over the top.
> But IMHO it’s as close as it gets

How about replacing the original method (on the prototype) with a proxy to that method that intercepts apply?
Frankfurt is one hour closer to Beijing, though...
I got all the search results I expected: handling of strings in C, and a tiny bit of C++ thrown in. What do you get?
> The difference is that I objectively am an impostor.

Imposter how? Did you lie on your resume? To your co-workers?I would assume not. You were judged on (presumably) the same criteria as anyone else, and found to be at an acceptable level. Maybe other people are better than you, and that's fine. But if you weren't "good enough", they probably wouldn't keep paying you, and your manager would probably say something. It's kind of the point of performance reviews.
Basically the same as "Miss John Doe".
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This is a stub comment to hold all the replies to the parent. I did not mean to explode an offtopicness charge, and usually turn off replies for these because the same issue comes up every time and the answer is always the same. (When it comes to explaining something, the internet is stateless [1].) Forgot to do so in this case! I'll move them now.

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Right, although they might be interested in how to make it at scale. I haven't heard anything about their plans to produce it.
Isaac Newton Thought the Great Pyramid Held the Key to the Apocalypse
If anything I think the fact that organizations have an emergent "collective mind" that is semi-independent from any individual suggests that organizations should be held to an even higher standard of behavior than they have been.
The trick is that if coding is your passion it doesn't feel like work, more like oxygen...
I remember that some engineers on the iPhone project went through divorces as a result of working on it.
If only employees had some way of joining their collective voices to create an actual power structure that could bargain with executives and shareholders.

Probably a bad idea though, we should just keep assuming that the founders lucky enough to reach critical mass will do the right thing for the world even when they are incentivized not to.
Conversely, is there some kind of law that grants the government unlimited powers by claiming a relation with a disease?

If not, who is to guard these limited powers?
This is awesome! I dabble in music sometimes and I think this'd be a cool tool for sharing. Don't know if I have any super detailed feedback, but just wanted to say congrats and that's exciting!
The most pragmatic advice is to hang in there, create and reach your FIRE goal, and then quit and do your most passionate hobbies.
But isn’t this how OSs have been historically sold? You bought Windows XP and were entitled to a set number of years of support in terms of security parches, etc.

Similarly if you don’t like the terms of the App Store you could have the option to purchase an open iOS v.1X and install whichever store you please. The only difference would be that you would need to pay again for subsequent versions of the OS, just like ppl would pay to update windows from XP to Vista to 7, etc.
If you are one of the lucky few to have made retirement money, then just retire and begin the rest of your life. If not, you gotta pay the bills somehow, so welcome to the rat race. Hope you enjoy your stay.
> That's going outside the chain of command and creates political and organizational issues that no one will appreciate.

I'd refuse to work anywhere that cares about chain of command. Managers are for bookkeeping purposes, not commanding. If your manager doesn't let you talk to the people you need to talk to to get things done then it is a very toxic environment.
Communities are more stable than companies.
>we can drive the error arbitrarily low by oversampling, which means repeating the experiment over and over.

Sure, this operates on the assumption that all potential subsequent experiments that you could have conducted after your final observation also falls within your expected parameters.

You did 500 experiments that fit within your hypothesis but the next 10 trillion experiments you didn't do afterwords could have shown wildly different results rendering your 500 experiments as simply "noise."

This is a possibility and illustrates the flaw within the scientific method itself, it is however the best that we have, so we use the scientific method and its associated assumptions. Keep in mind the formal result of science has this flaw embedded within the correlation or causation number. However the qualitative conclusion is littered with assumptions.

Probably the best way to describe our different view points is optimism vs. pessimism. That's really it. I'm saying it's flawed but it's the best we have, you're saying it's been remarkably successful "so far."
I do this in stock Chrome (running in Pop!_OS) and it works totally fine. Fantastic experience.
China has rights to produce the BioNTech/Pfizer vaccine, so that wouldn't be a surprise.
> I expect that's hyperbole, but there is a real cost to these death marches.

I used to be a game developer at EA. In the middle of one particularly nightmarish 60-hour-weeks-for-months crunch, a twenty-something artist with no known pre-existing conditions spontaneously died in his sleep.
Apple monopolizes access to 50% of American computer users and forces software shops big and small to pay their tax.

Users can't install what they want on their computers and they can't upgrade them.

The DOJ should force Apple to open the iPhone or face break up. Just because a breakup of this nature hasn't happened yet doesn't mean it shouldn't happen.

And another thing. There's no reason a company this big should also be a music and film studio.
Yes, they are. The experience would be quite poor for many things, however.
To clarify this point. The Raptor uses two turbopumps. One turbopump hangs off the side and runs fuel rich, and this fuel-rich exhaust is the fuel input for the combustion chamber.

The second turbopump, to which tdy721 is referring, sits right above the injectors and runs oxygen rich. This oxygen rich exhaust is the oxidizer input for the combustion chamber.
Things can't all happen simultaneously. The fact that it hasn't happened yet doesn't mean it's not happening. The fact that it's similar doesn't mean it's similar enough to also warrant a similar probe. Situations are different, and it does no good to always have this whataboutism thrown into every discussion.
Really great example of how to build indie projects. You built a solution to a problem you've personally experienced, and you solve it for others who may face the problem. Congratulations, good work! Also, site is very clean. I would give a try if I were making music.

You maybe able to target a wider audience given your product is now mature. If you are willing and able to scale, maybe a SEO / Marketing specialist will be helpful in taking it to the next level.
ClearCase was a pain in the ass to learn and get the config specs right, but you could do some really powerful things with it. Like pulling directories or individual files from different branches into one build.
I've had some experience dealing with the Weather Service when trying to develop a weather app using https://www.weather.gov/documentation/services-web-api#. It was a frustrating experience and my initial impulse was to vent about that. But I'm choosing not to do that mainly because it seemed at the time that every person that I dealt with at NWS was trying to do the best they could.

The situation that NWS is facing is basically that massive tax cuts coupled with growth in defense and social programs has left most other areas of the federal government hollowed out. The amount of money needed to fix the problem being discussed here is minimal but after decades of budget cuts across non-defense and non social-welfare programs there is simply little left to invest in improving services.
But out of those thousand things only this one made the news no? Doesn't it deserve some extra priority?
I hate to break it to you, but almost all the code running on your iPhone right now was written in Objective-C and C and C++.
Yep. "Greek is gendered, the gender is embedded into the words". Sure, but I can speak whole normal sentences without referring to gender at all, something like "went to the supermarket and bought x y z, then did a, b and c and came back".

You can talk about someone at length without mentioning their gender once.
I think progress over perfection is a fine principle in many areas of life, but I also completely agree with your point about fous.

I'm doing quite a lot of work on my house at the moment and, like most of us, I also have a job. In addition I have a side project that's started to earn a very small amount of money since the spring, but I've barely done any work on it in months because I just can't work on that, and work on the house at the same time. I am not wired to do things in bits and pieces, and for me trying to do so just leads to stress and burnout. If I'm to feel satisfaction about either of these projects I need to be able to make solid progress, which requires dedicated time. I'd rather push on with one and let the other sit unattended for a while, than be constantly switching.

(Especially because focus is a luxury that my job only affords a limited amount of - this isn't a problem with the job at all; just the nature of it.)
Hi Thomas. Xeno here. Perhaps some background is in order.

OST was started a decade ago when I was at MITRE and had zero public profile. So I didn't exactly have the luxury of running around and asking people to go do free work for me by making free classes. But I did have the luxury of turning to my colleagues like Kerry, who I could get into the MITRE program which paid bonuses for making classes. Kerry obviously has an academic background, and thus she created material with an academic slant.

Now that I'm going to be working on the site full time over many years and trying to find a way to make it so that instructors can get paid more than $2k per class (which is what we were getting at MITRE, but which at the time was plenty of motivation for me to make many classes :)), I hope we can go much broader and much deeper on crypto material this time around, both from the academic and applied perspective (though the latter is the priority.)

But the problem of course is that I don't consider myself in any way qualified to create or judge crypto content. Thus I have to rely on whatever I can convince folks to contribute. I hear great things about cryptopals (and I got to work with both Sean and Alex at Apple until I recently quit), but I haven't ever looked at it in detail since it's outside of my primary area of interest (though if I'm correct in believing it's primary about crypto-implementation-vulnerabilities, I find it intellectually interesting as it's own unique bag of tricks which some, but not most, vulnerability hunters end up adding to their larger bag of tricks, depending on whether they choose to (or have to) audit crypto or not (I very literally just outsourced it to Sean for multiple audits)). But while things like cryptopals can serve as an important component of both crypto and exploits learning paths, it's only a small part of the overall curriculum which is needed to get people into jobs that actually use/audit crypto on a regular basis. And that's what I think is needed now, the full set of classes which are needed for people to start off in jobs (because that's what OST2 is going to be about when I relaunch it - vocational classes that lead directly to jobs.)

So who do you think I should reach out to in order to find people who are passionate and willing to help craft such a curriculum?
Epic games had EBITDA of a billion dollars this year. They could afford quite a bit if they wanted to go that direction.
Possibly because many people associate Midwest with conservative, fly over states. it’s possible Axios is just trying to stoke political animosity.
I understand your point of view (and used to feel the same myself), but I'd say the last few years has changed my mind.

The way I see it, you either get filter bubbles, or you get miserable people who ditch your platform [subtext: and then the only remaining users are the rage-posters]. And in my opinion letting mainstream platforms rot into a cesspool of rageposters is worse for polarization.

I don't want to see people posting about how rigged the election is, or posting about what bad things hunter biden did, or posting about how hypocritical progressives were this week, or any of the other top conservative topics. I just want no part of it. It's a dead horse to me. If a platform wants to shove that stuff in my face I'm either going to find a way to hide it, or I'm going to leave the platform.

There's a time and place for having debates and seeing others point of view. If we had a proliferation of partisan platforms, I could go to the platform dedicated for open debate, or I could go to the opposing views' platform. I actually do this today (e.g. browsing foxnews if I want to see what's up in conservative-land). But when I'm chilling on reddit the last thing I have ever wanted is to see a trending post near the top of /r/all from the_donald posting some meme about Hillary Clinton passing out and being chucked into a car (this happened on several occasions leading up to the 2016 election).
I don't think the guarantees you've numbered 1, 2, or 3 are true. Insofar as the package uses the standard mechanism for installing files, sure, it can guarantee that. But I don't believe it hooks a tracer up to the installer script to detect the betrayal of those guarantees. I think it just runs the install script, as root, trusting that the files list and uninstall scripts will do their job. The whole thing is based on implicit trust of the package maintainer, not guarantees in software.
5 to say "Can't duplicate. My lightbulb works just fine."
Cydia was great, I remember the first time I used it. Glad to see that they're still doing good.
To add to this, there are two active automotive manufacturing plants that exist in Texas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Motor_vehicle_assembl.... What this means is there is already a presence of skilled labor in this field that Tesla can pull from.
... where "liberate" is a funny way of spelling "pwn", "exploit", "infest" etc.
I suppose the argument would be that only developers with a modicum of interest in their craft will gravitate towards niche languages such as Clojure. But you are correct that doing so doesn't necessarily mean they are good.

However, I don't think it follows that great developers work on hard problems. Why can't you be a great developer working on CRUD apps and occasionally finding ways to do them better?
Tesla is a divisive topic with passionate feelings on both sides, and a swipe like "they [can't] build cars in the first place" is tossing a Molotov cocktail into the thread. Would you mind taking the spirit of the site more to heart? We'd appreciate it greatly. Note this, from https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html:

"Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive."

Re the other person: I'd don't know which specific comment you're referring to, but generally it's not against the site guidelines to miss someone's point, or to be wrong, or to make a non sequitur. Such rules would be impossible to impose and would wipe out half the discussion anyhow (I'm being generous with "half").

If they broke the guidelines then we probably should have moderated it too, but that runs up against a different issue—we can't see everything that gets posted here, or even come close. We often don't read the threads in linear (depth-first?) order either, so a comment that appears adjacent to a normal reader might escape our attention.

If you see a post that ought to have been moderated but hasn't been, the likeliest explanation is that we didn't see it. You can help by flagging it or emailing us at hn@ycombinator.com.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
I think you can configure Firefox to disable all cookies, with the catch, though, written out, that "might break certain sites". Soooo, shrugs
Joe the Data Scientist says that if the app dynamically does X then that could be worth $10 million a year. Steve the product manager says his change could be worth $1 million a year. And so on and so on. Most are wrong, some are right. If you have a small team you'll never implement any of it so you won't know. If you throw people at it then you can test all those things. And when your company makes billions a quarter it doesn't take much of a revenue lift to pay for a few dozen teams.
A good place to start would be to go through the Uber UI and click through every button and every page that exists.

Now create a driver profile and do the same thing.

Now create the multitude of other special profiles they have and do the same.

Now do the same for Uber Eats.

Now do the same for Eats but using the restaurants version of the app.

And the couriers.

Now get in on Uber Freight (and any other projects they have) and do all of the same.

Now do all of that again for their other platforms (iOS, Watch OS, Wear OS, Android, Web)

Now access their internal tools that make all of this possible and do the same.

Now think about localizing all of that. Handling special cases for different places/languages/legalities. Think of all the different payment integrations. Security issues. Infrastructure. Technical debt. AB testing. Metrics. Dev tooling.

And I've only begun to scratch the surface here. The point is there is a lot more than meets the eye, especially when operating on a global scale.
I don't think I have any intention of giving away any actual contact information to participate in this. We need some more anonymous forum for it. Nothing I have to say is beyond the pale, but there are people out there who would see my family destitute for daring to have counter-cultural opinions about things.
Not related to your achievement, but...

If you want “users” - post a well-paid but fake job on Upwork and ask applicants to first check out your site/app.

I don’t suggest this but I’ve noticed it from a couple real jobs I’ve posted. Of course, these “users” will be beyond meaningless for any useful metric. I guess if your app/site was geared toward Upwork freelancers, it could work as a strategy.
I'd argue that there is a substantial difference - if the staff of a film production (or any business, really) are already working on-site together, then them also eating lunch together does not create additional "connections" like a dining place that's open to the general public does.

The policy goal is to minimize the number of people you meet. You meet your household, if you have to work non-remotely, then you meet some coworkers (preferably a limited amount and always the same, separating a company in teams/"bubbles") and ideally that's it - it makes all sense that places where you'd be eating together with random strangers should be restricted much more than work lunches where outsiders are excluded.
I got the badge from being my campus expert a few years ago.
That just looks like a bunch of mirrors behind a round robin DNS.
Try working with a library that prefixes all of its class definitions with T and defines its own string class. That was the day that I learned on a work computer that a TString may refer to a type of underwear and not just a library class.
It's clearer from the Wikipedia article (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Goat_problem&oldi...): earlier we only had expressions for r like https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/9758... and https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/a634... (from which of course one could numerically compute the answer r=1.1587…), but now thanks to this paper we have the expression https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/5b74... that does not involve r on the right-hand side.
ha; this says more about your search history than you think :-)

I get results for Java, Molecular Biology, String Instrument repair shops & a video by Shawn Mendes - Strings.
https://twitter.com/XenoKovah/status/1336325340524789763
why would i want to meet them?
Totally believeable. I had one research prototype that invoked an Emacs process for every Web CGI request. To get that kind of R&D rapid development productivity, I then had to start building out libraries for Scheme. :)
> It is not possible for there to be more people than there are resources to create them

People can have different daily-intake requirements as children versus adults, plus a growing populations consummation can temporarily exceed food production by burning trough food stores. Also, local food production can vary, place to place, season to season - what's sustainable during a good year, might not be during a bad one.

Plants and animals can eat and drink things humans can't; e.g. a plant is fine with muddy, faeces-contaminated water, it would even thrive on it. Livestock may happily eat grass/straw long-term.

The killing of one cow won't feed a human for the rest of their lives - multiple cows are needed to provide constant food, and the cow population may as such increase along with the human population.

When the rate at which the cows are eating grass is faster than the rate at which the grass grows, your population is unsustainable, and you will eventually not be able to feed everyone. The only sense in which it's "impossible to exceed the carrying capacity of the earth" is that when you do, people will die.
I'm 38 and have been asking myself this same question. I have about 4 years of experience, and with the scope of knowledge that a dev is expected to know, I feel like I need to go back to school and get a degree in CS or in something else that I can transition into another field.

Software was always an outlier in professional fields, as most industries require some form of degree or certification, so I think it's good to get ahead of the curve.

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It would probably be a good idea to get the economies to a more uniform state before adding more member states. There's a lot of difference between standard of living in rural Bulgaria and downtown Munich.
It's definitely a product problem to get them back, but I think in the context of the post, we should be careful how we use the term "user".

It sounds like a user in this case is simply one who viewed the page and clicked "sign in via twitter", which is a nice metric for engagement, but just one in many. It makes for a great secondary blog post for additional engagement though. :)
It's more a case of humans not respecting animals, animal habitat, and the environment, and modern society not taking public health seriously enough.

It's pretty much the whole world that got screwed by this, and China itself hasn't exactly escaped unscathed.
I think he said developer productivity.