skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Equity entails discrimination.

"Good" discrimination, a worldview that requires racial essentialism and stereotypes.

Reduce everyone to their immutable attributes and tailor your behavior accordingly.

Since in the minds of social justice people, one group is unconditionally placed below another group (think of the vocabulary they use when they say "the work is never done"), we must actively discriminate to fix things.
Who said they are aluminum? Could be element 151.
>Another dislike is that full size keyboards are scorned and generally unavailable. Hey check it out, I’m a full sized adult doing full size job with my pc, so I actually do use the number pad, etc.

in fairness, you can buy separate numpads with the added bonus of being able to put it where you want. That being said, yes. the crazy 60%, etc keyboards are a bit much.
In Europe the older you are, the better paid you are.
every employer claims to reward skills but does nothing of the sort. the practical way to get paid more is just to be older.
We do, but there's more surface area to cover because job requirements have also gone up and technology is more complex. Interviewing for tech has also branched off into its own skill with an industry that promotes its own existence.
The thing is... every shared hosting service has a one click WP install.
Holy shit. It’s better, but not perfect, so it’s greenwashing?
Yao, B., Xiao, T., Makgae, O.A. et al. "Transforming carbon dioxide into jet fuel using an organic combustion-synthesized Fe-Mn-K catalyst." Nat Commun 11, 6395 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-20214-z
It would surely have been a disaster on many levels. But imagine all the archaeological sites that could be uncovered!
Author here.

I interviewed Jack Scannell on the hypothesis that the man who wrote the now famous paper on Eroom's law would likely have many more insights to offer that didn't necessarily make it into print.

One of the oddest things about biotech and pharma is that cures trail improvement in technology by at least a couple of decades. That's terrible news if you're a patient/consumer though maybe great news if you're a lab technician.
This is a very poor article. The very first sentence is already wrong: "It could lead to net zero emissions for air travel."

No, it can't. Aviation has a variety of emission sources, which include not only CO2, but also others like nitrous oxides and water vapour, which creates contrains and impacts cloud formation. There's huge uncertainty how large these effects are, but they're significant.

It's not particularly surprising that you can turn CO2 into jet fuel. The issue is: It's not a complete fix for aviation's climate problem and the efficiency is extremely low. The amount of electricity needed is enormous.

Worthy read (title is about hydrogen, but it also covers e-fuels quite a bit): https://www.cleansky.eu/news/hydrogen-powered-aviation-prepa...

Key takeaways: Aviation CO2 emissions are 2%, but overall emissions are somewhere between 3 and 7%. And using E-Fuels to power future aviation (with current growth projections) requires more electricity than all the electricity that is genreated today.
Was there any particular section in that piece that struck you as deserving of strong positive weighting? I found the entire thing fairly breathless emotional screaming about a topic that quite possibly is one deserving of serious attention, but I'll never realize that through the tears.
I think a comparison to tesla is a red herring, the analogy doesn't hold up to food.

Where I suspect this kind of growing technique would work is probably the spices aisle of the grocery store, and they have always been pretty high margin.
If you have the energy technology to build enough starships to put a dent in your population, you probably don’t have to worry too much about space or water unless you have runaway population growth.
I gave them up because I really, really like the look of a keyboard that is 100% keys with no gaps. I realise that's not a brilliant reason but that's why.

I don't want a numpad because getting my mouse closer to the center of my desk really helps with RSI for me. There weren't many options left at that point, especially since I wanted a UK layout and no unstandard key sizes (limits your options with keycaps).

But yeah, if I could get something that looked as nice and had F+arrow keys I'd probably go for it.

Fwiw I got used to the chords you need to access those pretty fast.
I'm blaming C++ because :

- there is very little information in the community on how to do this kind of engineering efficiently (at least I haven't encountered it nearly as much as I have when I transitioned to application development in higher level languages)
- there is very little code sharing in the community and zero standardisation - everyone reinvents shit from standard library, coding conventions, what subset of the language is "allowed", etc. etc.
- this means developing good tooling, practices and patterns across large projects is hard

Unity is written in C++, C# is scripting layer and more importantly I doubt Unity developers doing C++ are C# engineers with C# application development background where stuff like automated testing is pretty standard.
If you believe what Github says, then this piece of software took 9 years and 3K commits to develop but that's leaving out a couple of years of analysis and probably a couple of thousands of commits done in the dark. And yet I'm only half-way done. But not to worry, the final pieces are easy: (1) implement a semantic language model, (2) implement sharding to enable you to distribute your data across many machines and (3) implement voice-to-text. That would put us pretty darn close to us having a out-of-the-box turn-key Google-killer FOSS solution for anyone to deploy to the internets and make billion dollars on.

Which brings us to my proposal, which is, don't pick Lucene or Elasticsearch when choosing your Google-slaying tech. Instead, pick a piece of tech that is specialized on solving the problems you'll face in a web search engine context, that is maintained by someone who tirelessly try to outdo all of the state-of-the-art FOSS search tech out there, even though he is a single-member team.

Also, feel free to help out.
> the weighted average asking rent for an apartment in the city, which currently measures around 2.3 bedrooms when counting a studio as having one, has dropped to $3,100 a month.

Still too high. Was checking into apartment prices earlier in the year and it is amazing the number of landlords that will try and sell you on a “kitchen” that is a mini-fridge, tiny sink, microwave and a hot plate whilst still charging you full rent.

San Francisco’s rental market is a good lesson in how supply and demand informs pricing that the residents and the Board of Supervisors alike continuously and willfully ignore.
Yes, some people did elect Donald Trump specifically because he was politically incorrect, in order to watch him humiliate and denigrate "the Left" and dismantle everything progressives worked towards with the primal glee of an orangutan tearing apart a child and then beating it to death with its own severed limbs.

But let's be real - that doesn't make Trump supporters seem like the sympathetic victims of leftist oppression they portray themselves as, rather it seems to justify the contempt in which the rest of the country holds them.
Ask HN: How to work on privacy tech in 2021?
I'm a Computer Science student who will graduate in 2021. I've also been reading Shoshana Zuboff's "The Age of Surveillance Capitalism" recently. After that I feel like I can no longer in good conscience aspire to work at FAANG companies anymore.

Instead I would like to make a career choice that contributes to the fight against the ever further erosion of privacy in some way. What would be the best way to go about this?
This also assumes no biological ability to remove the chemical, relying only on the half life. If our systems are not able to do so, I missed that point in the article.

Edit: thank you, I see that now here too - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1964923/
Transforming carbon dioxide into jet fuel using an organic Fe-Mn-K catalyst
Do you know of anywhere that hires more older people that would also consider hiring some younger, junior candidates as well? I don't know about other younger developers but personally I'd rather work with older, experienced developers, I think that would be of great benefit to my development.
What's special about the surface that doesn't let BPA to leech out? Is it a different composite used on the inner surface or does it have to do with something like how water is strong until the surface tension is broken?
I Changed My Mind After 2nd Try Tailwind CSS
The solver is still a little rough, and there are some robustness issues in certain circumstances, generally when points are very close together. This will get ironed out eventually.
WordPress as other PHP frameworks have on advantage: Most hosting companies optimize their services for these things so it's cheaper and easier to deploy.
Are you saying that here in Texas, the dry, tall grass eaten by the longhorns could be more efficiently processed by poor people?
It's free on the street, you can eat and crap at will.
I am kind of interested in a mechanical keyboard but also really don’t want to give up my wireless solar powered capability that my Logitech has. Plus the prices for these things are just outrageous.
catalysts are not consumed in the reaction, by definition
> Client-side encryption really decreases the attack surfaces of cloud storage solutions.

They should rename end-to-end encryption to client-side encryption or something else because it is not very clear what it means
Maybe I’m missing something but last time I checked there was no ergonomic keyboard cheaper than 300 USD. Is that really the case? Do they become (super) less expensive when DIY?
I've had the same experience, but then I've had the same experience with every WYSIWYG html editor. Is there one that works reliably for you with copy-paste of arbitrary html?
Resolutions don't work. Habits do.
DeepMind’s big losses, and the questions around running an AI lab
> Is this the first time to lisp related but non-functional language

This is a common misconception.

People conflate Lisp and purely functional programming as if Lisps are and were always purely functional, but this isn't historically accurate. Many early Lisps were deeply imperative - to an extreme that would seem crazy to use today - including even dynamic scoping!
Microsoft Office Add-Ins Simplify Daily Routine and Prevent Costly Mistakes
Take a closer look at how Microsoft Office add-ins improve productivity, what mundane tasks can be eliminated, what types of add-ins exist, and how to start using them.
Be fair, I’m not suggesting that experts don’t change their opinions. In fact, just like you say, that’s a sign that someone has stopped learning.

I’m suggesting that hand-waving away information because someone has some strong opinions is silly. I don’t believe someone would ever dive into something that deep if they didn’t have some commitment to some opinion about their area of expertise
I can't remember the last time I used the arrow keys. It's either hjkl, or Ctrl-{a,e,f,b,n,p}, depending on the application.
I love this idea.

Some ideas to take it further (maybe on the blog):

- Products for which there is no good bifl version, and advice on what to aim for instead. (E.g. the ecologically least-bad disposable one?)

- Other purchases with longer time horizons and tradeoffs. (E.g. roofing material, cars)

Also, do you have a plan to wrestle with the complexity of a product's revision over time? For example I heard Vasque boots got way worse when production went overseas. Pyrex glass types, etc. One thing I'd hope to glean from your site is how to identify the good version of a thing, and to know whether I can still find a new one or need to look for a used one.
Is the control rent rule applied in SF preventing Also play in that case?
Glad to see you are still alive. I think you posted about some illness earlier this year.
I think it's just that SAAS cart software finally offered enough customization capability.
Where does it say T1? Everything I can find on the page says E1 only.
It looks like the house in the background is being constructed literally from sticks and cardboard.
Yes, this is very old. This is a review of Lean 3; Lean 4 is about to appear and this deals with several of the issues flagged by Hales, for example speed.
1968 ACM Turing Lecture by R. W. Hamming

(in case the PDF is not convenient)
Wondering, do you have a sort of vocabulary of all the emojis you use in commit messages, or it’s more inspiration-based?
He is shilling for the tesla. Non of his research is worth the paper it's written on. He has no solid acediemia and he oversells his weak ties to MIT via marketing which is build on lies. Do the research, there's plenty of content online about this guy, and the rest of the Rogan network shilling people out of their cash.

https://amp.reddit.com/r/thefighterandthekid/comments/jinaos...

Lex kisses rogans ass hard because he knows its going to get him more followers he can exploit.

On a personal level, I find lex to be dull and offer little to no insight in the tech realm. Just another dude who got on board the AI hype train and is trying to ride it into dollar bill land at the expense of people who lack critical thinking abilities when it comes to this kind of stuff. An endorsement is not always a true seal of quality.

Edit - let's not forget the censorship an blocking people on twitter. Lex is a shill.
You are right, I usually do this to get to a worked daily or worked hourly cost (I work in consultancy) so I take holidays & sick into account to understand cost per worked hour / cost per worked day.

In reality it depends on the type of work you are doing.
I found it frustrating that I couldn't click the images to see higher resolution versions.
It seems like there aren't many studies around these types of chemicals yet
Peter Attia covered this in bottle mineral water and apparently some of the brands had more than he was comfortable with. Below is a good list if you like mineral water. Seems Perrier is the safest.

Great Article

https://peterattiamd.com/topo-chico/
Awards are already meaningless
> (for electrically heated houses, which certainly isn’t all of them)

Electrically heated houses are a very small minority of UK houses:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/426988/united-kingdom-uk...
DeFi protocol Cover exploited, attackers minted at least 40 quintillion tokens
>It’s almost as bad as Apple’s reward program

Or most/all bug bounty programs, actually.
Test-Driven Development: Is it the right fit for your project?
I have been to southern Finland a number of times, luckily for me in the early summer. Not sure if all of these applicants realize what they are getting into in regards day/night time in the summer and winter. At least in the summer you can put up black out shades to keep the light out but winter is another thing all together!

(sunrise today was 9:25 am and sunset is at 3:18pm, 5:53 hours of daylight but in june 28 it is 3:58am to 10:48pm, 18:51 hours of daylight)
I agree this, seems wrong. Does it work in all browsers?
The biological half-life actually does refer to the ability of the body to metabolize the chemical
There is an interesting near-future thriller about mining Ryugu - “Delta-V” by Daniel Suarez, the same author of “Daemon”.
Most of what we do in our 20s doesn’t seem that important after the fact (unless you’re an Olympic athlete or otherwise very lucky) but I think it’s an important part of growing up and feeling secure — in yourself, your career, and your relationship. All three types of security are very important to being a good parent.
No I meant Lex Fraudman. Hotz is good in my book, the guy can actuary write code an has pulled sonys pants Down in a major embarsment for them. Kudos to hotz
Cinematicon: An Archive of Video Game Cutscenes
The cardiac, pulmonary, and endocrine disease burden tied to air pollution throws a monkey wrench in that, and air pollution kills many times more people per year than even COVID-19 has[0][1].

Humans suck at assessing dangers soberly.

Another example: the Department of Homeland Security and the TSA in the U.S. exist solely because 3,000 people died one day. Significantly less is being done as 3,000 people now die per day.

0: https://www.forbes.com/sites/rogerpielke/2020/03/10/every-da...

1: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/12/03/pand-d03.html
At least the other effects of air travel don't last in the atmosphere for millennia.
I found Qt (GUI) to be fairly easy to learn. It does OpenGL as well: https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtgui-openglwindow-example.html
It's Time to Committothebay
I have no issue with people whom create podcasts. You're asking the wrong questions and making the wrong assumptions. One has to wonder about your own shortcomings and sidestep this discourse. Thanks for your (lack of) input.
> "a prejudice that older people simply can’t learn as well as younger people"

This prejudice happens to be true.

https://www.sciencealert.com/this-is-the-age-you-reach-peak-...

I'm an older software developer, and I do not have the same ability to learn new things as I did when I was young. I do have more experience and, with it, a better sense of what matters and what doesn't, so I waste less time on the stuff that doesn't.

That is, however, a more subjective attribute and, thus, I don't blame large companies for not being able to evaluate it. They are inherently volume-based and thus focused on more obvious and measurable attributes that directly (though imperfectly) map to developer productivity.

As the kids say: it is what it is. If you want to make increasing amounts of money for a long time, become a banker or a doctor. I like writing code.
Goods are only part of the necessary economy.

A society with a lot of elderly = demand for huge amounts of daily care, which is hard to automate away, though probably not impossible. (The Japanese are definitely trying.)

The only way out of this conundrum would be a breakthrough in longevity, where people would live to 110 in a relatively good shape and being able to care for themselves, then die within weeks from some fast degenerative process.
Bear with me if you've heard me tell this story before on HN:

After age 40 I changed careers from a networking career to coding via a bootcamp. I was among a couple folks who were in my age group in the camp.

It was a great experience working with folks of all ages in the camp. I think mixing different ages, backgrounds, experience is valuable.

While finishing the camp I was working with another person who was my age and he got a call back from a recruiter after a phone interview. He put them on speaker and the recruiter proceeded to note that they didn't think he would be a 'culture fit'.

He was braver than I and asked what that meant.

"They think you're too old for the group, everyone is young here."

We were a bit shocked and just to be sure he heard her right he asked again:

"You're too old."

For some folks it doesn't even seem to occur to them that such discrimination is wrong.

I was a bit floored by the experience. Growing up I remember overhearing some teachers quietly chat to each other and realizing that they could be just as petty as any kids could be. From then on I really never thought much in terms of age. For whatever reason when I go to meetups younger devs don't seem to notice / are a bit surprised when they find out how old I am.

When I think back on my career(s) I realize how just one opportunity here or there can make a huge difference and having a place that is obviously closed to me based on age make it known was pretty shocking.

Nothing ever came of that event. While trying to just get your foot in the door he didn't want to do anything about it and I could hardly blame him.

Both of us were eventually hired elsewhere, and are doing well.
Ah! Definitely makes sense in consulting/contracting :-)
There are plenty in power now who would disagree with your definition of economy.

Sometimes law and policy is ignorant of technical concerns, but quite often it is aware and simply has a more selfish agenda. Prime example of this is modern US copyright and patent laws and enforcement.

As long as elected officials have to raise funds to campaign and win, elected officials will be beholden to the people who financed them. If politicians didn't write special laws and loopholes for corporate special interests, they wouldn't last more than one term. They would be replaced by the next challenger who would take special interest money and then "pay it back" via special laws.
After all that, why would you spend $5/month/user on Fastmail when there are even cheaper and good options? Fastmail sticks out like a sore thumb in this solution. Mailbox.org and many others provide good email and web solutions.
> I don't want a numpad because getting my mouse closer to the center of my desk really helps with RSI for me

Same. I bought a full-sized keyboard with numpad, but I felt it put the mouse too far off to the right. I much prefer the mouse to rest couple of inches from the enter key.
If you just want to rant against SV, I totally agree. It's certainly not fair, because it basically says you have to "work twice as hard" as they say. But the statement is factually correct. While it would certainly be preferable for society to be the one to change and such that your ageism problem goes away. In the meantime, merit matters, and usable advice for an individual to deal with this problem is by building up their skills. Note that the advice came from a recruiter, not a hiring manager justifying themselves.
There's the compute module...32GB of eMMC is an option.

https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/compute-module-4/?varia...
JavaScript Core Concepts
Thank you. It takes a fair bit of time to put something like this together, so I appreciate your kind words.
It's the newsletter still active? The archive seems last updated in 2019.
The power of confirmation bias. A factually incorrect comment on a tangential topic is still the number 1 comment after 3 hours just because it appeals to those who bemoan modern web development.
Is this a poor attempt at humor? I hope for your sake you're autistic because you've a long road ahead if you're not getting additional support
> could potentially be used to give yourself a loan

Noob question: Would using a debit card test the payment system without the self loan float?
What an excellent read! It captures my own disappointment with both the future at large and my own failure at it :D
That's a good reminder of the consumer protections in the US.

The first couple times I ventured out of the US, I was struck by the differences in environment for some companies.

For example in Mexico, I was struck by plentiful advertising for cigarettes and hard alcohol. Strangely, Coca Cola advertisements on the TV always had a legal disclaimer, something like "always with food" (I recall poorly).
Not all client-side encryption schemes are end-to-end or at-rest encryption schemes though. Trivial counter example: TLS.
Drop 50% and then we can start to talk about reasonable values..
2020 just keeps getting worse.
I'd prefer C++ interpreter written in Lisp...
Well said! My product management take on the subject is that people's perception of you is far more important than the reality. Skills or not, your appearance, mannerisms, relatability, and a thousand other things go into other's perceptions.

Being older and from another generation changes the perception inherently. Can be good or bad it turns out, but it certainly requires human management skills and cannot be simply solved by "being better". That seems like an engineer's solution to the problem. If people were rational then things could be different, but from what I have seen people do not buy the most efficient and effective products, nor do they hire the most skilled and efficient people. They hire someone because they feel good about hiring them and they believe they will make their lives easier.