skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I made a confidential salary survey app that is for employers and their candidates to check if salary expectations are within ballpark before interviewing. The idea is that it would save everyone time upfront without affecting negotiation leverage.

Many people have had experiences where interviewing was a waste of time due to the pay range, and this kind of app was mentioned before on HN as something nice to have.

Well, I made one and posted it, and have gotten zero response.

https://payscope.io/

https://payscope.io/blog/employers

I'm not sure what I've learned yet, except maybe PG was right about building for a small number of users who really want your product, rather for many who take some convincing.
Thought that was just SF?
Air and surfaces are filled with random mould spores and bacteria. If they touch your beverage (which is by definition full of stuff that mould loves, because yeast is a mould) then they will grow, causing off-flavours or even poisons. You prevent this by sanitising everything, and making sure that any headspace is filled with either carbon dioxide or sulphur dioxide. CO2 is produced naturally by fermentation and because it's heavier than air it settles in the headspace displacing oxygen (moulds need oxygen to reproduce). Sulphur dioxide can be added using sterilising tablets (Campden tablets). Other techniques are to reduce the headspace by adding more liquid, or marbles, apparently, and using an airlock to stop air entering.
What are a few of the better ways you would suggest at the moment? (Honest question from a WP dev?)
> except he couldn't hear them.

AirPods Pro are often used as hearing aids in “transparency” mode. Do not make the (lazy) assumption that someone wearing them cannot hear every word you say.

Furthermore, I think if I had to listen to self-proclaimed “world-class” engineers all day, I’d wear earphones too. And not on “transparency” mode.
> I'm pretty sure an overarching focus on task realism fixes most interviewing woes, including this one.

This can turn out pretty badly too. I was rejected by a company, apparently because I couldn't figure out the solutions to some problems they've been struggling with for years. I tried to guess, but either I didn't have enough context, or simply they didn't like my suggestions. The whole thing was very odd.
| Government gets its money comes from taxes.

No this is the reverse: the money you use to pay your taxes comes from the state (the currency issuer). Taxes are useful to achieve policy goals or control the money supply to avoid too much inflation, but the government doesn't need to collect money from taxes before it can spend it.
What do you think the company profile was? This seems very fitting to me. Google seemed nice last maybe 10 years ago or so.
sucks that to get a non-mirrored screen you'd currently need a fake dongle. Kinda takes the value proposition away a lot.
A Starter Kit to Life from Lonnie Dillard's 75-Years of Experience
This thread is full of pro and anti wordpress/php and of anti and pro jamstack.

I'd like to see the project's requirements.
yet on my newest and best ubuntu20.04 when you type 'python' you are still running python2, which I don't use, will we ever be possible to use python as python3 by default,it's annoying.

let python be python3, and python2 for python2 instead
I don't think it's useless at all in that Japan is one of the hardest country on earth to get citizenship.

I've got family in Japan. All you need to do is to go to Japan to see that it's very "japanese".

You can get residency semi-easily but getting citizenship is extremely hard.

It's not the EU or the US where a huge lot of "foreigners" can become citizen.
Languages experience entropy, too.
Nano.

https://docs.nano.org/what-is-nano/overview/
The lessons have not arrived at the current Python cabal. They just deprecated unittest and are seriously considering to break parts of the C-API again.

For the people who work in the correct companies this will generate many billable hours for no gain.

For others it will be a lot of unpaid work again. At this stage Python should be forked.
If the actual expectation of every piece of software published is that the author is responsible for every harebrained choice made with it, then nothing would ever get published. That simply isn't practical.

My responsibility is to meet whatever guarantees I make when I publish a tool, and to open source the code if I plan to stop maintaining it such that it no longer meets the original guarantees.

If you want to lay at my feet the consequences of everyone who chooses to use it, whether it's an individual dev or some executive mandating its use to their whole org, I think you need to reconsider your perspective.
Reading the WSJ article, it's not at all clear what the benefit (to anyone) is of the university spinning out a small for-profit company like Vaccitech.

As I understand it, the theory is that such a company will be able to commercially exploit research in a way a university couldn't. But if in practice commercially exploiting research means selling the rights to a global firm like AstraZeneca, it seems to me that nothing was gained.
Since I don’t see any other comments mentioning it: wow, Bell Labs was preserved as a kind of public multi-use space? That’s wild, I had no idea. I’m glad they didn’t tear it down for McMansions as the article explains was the plan before preservationists intervened. It’s a very cool structure with historical significance. Bell Labs is particularly relevant to this crowd here in HN - it’s arguably the birthplace of our whole industry, and people have tried replicating its magic over the years.

To me the architect in the article is too quick to dismiss the premise of Bell Labs — giving researchers privacy and pastoral views. Sounds a lot like early Silicon Valley to me. They claim that it’s actually just the chance encounters that were important. There’s some truth to that — Steve Jobs famously designed the Pixar campus to maximize chance encounters. But I wouldn’t be so quick to discount a degree of space and privacy.

That’s kind of central to the whole discussion: the human balance between a need for privacy and a need for community. People want space, and they also want to be able to visit areas of density, and walk around. This used to be the mall, the big box bookstores.

I actually think this article was very interesting, and the architect was very articulate about a lot of things. But I’m not sure we’ve actually solved the core question: why did the malls decay? What changed? Was it e commerce? The shrinking middle class? Traffic just getting too snarled with no real solution?
I think this acq was about this: back in the old days Masayoshi Son would have found a knife in his room and been expected to use it on himself if he hadn't been able to find a lot of money quick to handle redemptions in the vision fund.

Thus whoever bought ARM was doing him a big personal favor that would ultimately get repaid. NVIDIA does not need or want ARM but Son pretty much owes Huang his life now.

(Patronage Networks are a good master narriative for how any society works.)
Biontech and Moderna apparently are the only pharma companies with a higher stock price. But this is probably unrelated to the COVID-19 vaccine and more related to the mRNA process.
Isn't one of the big uses of FT the production of synthetic motor oil?

There is another process for synthetic gasoline that goes through methanol, which is reformed to hydrocarbons (with lots of aromatics) on zeolite catalysts.
CDN literally everything is - to me - a last resort you can use when your underlying application cannot handle any direct traffic.

It's an expensive compromise that you shouldn't need unless you're in Alexa top 100 territory.
> A constellation of physiological and social factors drives those grim numbers. The biology of obesity includes impaired immunity, chronic inflammation, and blood that’s prone to clot, all of which can worsen COVID-19. And because obesity is so stigmatized, people with obesity may avoid medical care.

We seem to ignore tissue tropism [1] when it comes to COVID-19. The disease starts in the upper respiratory tract, progresses to the lower respiratory tract (viral pneumonia) for a subset of infections, and severe lung infections can spread to adjacent blood vessels (vasculitis). A similar progression can start in the gastrointestinal system in a different subset, including kids.

The solution is to stop the infection or slow its progression. Vaccinations are critical. A daily paper strip antigen test regiment with early in-home intravenous monoclonal antibody therapy for high risk groups, including the elderly and/or obese, could have saved many lives and still can.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tissue_tropism
It is my belief that society should not be dependent on the goodwill of free entities, and free entities should not be pressured to do "good" even when it goes against their interests.
I do not hold it against them that they decided to profit out of their opportunity. Why shouldn't they?
Good point. And perhaps government could learn from this that taxes and incentives are their most powerful tools to fight global warming. A carbon tax (which starts small but over the years becomes punitive) would be the most powerful move of all
It needs regulation, but the core of this is that it means that if someone steals your stuff, you have recourse to stop them.

On the macro scale, no company is going to invest billions upfront if they think there is a risk that someone is going to take your "IP" and undercut you. (the oxford vaccine is a case in point. THey were paid upfront regardless of outcome, on condition that if it was successful they wouldn't be able to mark up the price.)

on the micro scale, if you are an indy designer, if a big company comes along and steals your work and sells it, you _should_ have the legal tools to stop them.

Unless you want your work to be stolen from you without recourse, we need IP. How its regulated is rightly questioned. What is not legitimate is questioning if it should exist. Taking it away would only benefit big/rich companies/people.
Well, if you start arguing this way, then you can also go all the way back and muse about what the word meant in Proto-Indoeuropean.

It's still obvious that the modern use of the master/slave combo comes from centuries of slavery, not from any prior meanings. As OP said, that can be shown by studying their meanings outside the technical context. The original meaning was retained in Academia but merely as jargon. Magister artium is a "master degree." There is no "slave degree", though. There is also "mastery", master/apprentice, and so on.

In other words, the offensive component of the combo is "slave", not "master." You can safely continue to use the master/apprentice combo.
The standard library of 2 already came with many facilities that go well beyond that.

They targeted business; it came to be adopted by business; and then they were surprised that business was not enthusiastic about updating currently working code with all the potential regressions and downtime that might come from it.
The thing is, that when you have a high level of stress, you will find it hard to sleep well.

"Mindfulness, stoicism, exercise help, but nothing helps as much as a good night sleep"

So those are very connected. If you practice mindfulness and work out in a healthy way. And be conscious when and how you go to sleep ... things will improve.
Could atc ramp scale in its ability to handle a denser set of planes? Could a network of planes host a decentralized atc that manages the traffic, similar to a decentralized road traffic control that would help manage automated cars through a 5g conmection in a city.
There's a very simple metric I use for this - do people understand what I mean or does language choice confuse them?

Once you adopt this metric, your whole life is better. You don't worry about misusing words, you stop using acronyms from your last job when you interview, you stop making that joke to your wife that she never gets and is instead annoyed, etc.
He's just expressing his opinion and it one likely shared by many other people.
I imagine managers must also be worried about losing employees by requiring them to return.

Im not going back to an office 5 days a week. If they make that demand, I'm out. My guess is many others are in the same boat and managers will be careful in how they reintroduce office time to avoid large scale turnover.
The incentive to make money is a great motivator for making investments in things that better humanity. I think recycling is great, but I’m not going to bankrupt myself starting a recycling company given the current market conditions.
Part of the issue in Norway is that the sheep are not actively herded most of the summer. They get checked on now and again, but not continuously. The farmers basically want to avoid the cost by pushing up the proportion of losses that are due to predators that they get compensation for.
We used to support millisecond connect times, no squelching (everybody talked at any time), 100 folks in a conference, unlimited (thumbnail) videos and screen shares, always-on client that lived in your tool bar.

They went WebRTC which means Chrome. So its a browser page, takes up real estate, requires the right version of the browser, doesn't integrate with your desktop controls (audio, video) tightly, has ~1 second connect times, limits to half a dozen people tops, one video at a time. Which doesn't seem terrible until you click into a meeting and the voices come in one at a time over many seconds.

So large parts of the 'frictionless' are gone. You want to share something, get it to the right page, then draw attention to it - there's moderator gatekeeping, one-at-a-time rules.

Instead of everybody sharing whatever they liked, more than one share per person, all set up so anybody could look at anything they wanted without some moderator orchestrating it. You want to go back and look at Lucy's spreadsheet while Alice is talking thru her presentation? Just click on it, then click back into the presentation later.

We miss it.
On the 1st the dailymail went down to the ports and had a big picture on their homepage that there was no chaos. On a public holiday... Yes, of course, there as no chaos that day, there was no real traffic.

All this chaos was warned for years and a last minute bad deal just made is a sure thing. Honestly, I hope the little Englanders feel the pain, I just feel bad for everyone who voted no and/or changed their minds when the reality of things kicked in. Turns out taking back the borders actually results in there being a proper border again.
I've struggled to understand AGPL before, and our lawyers advised us to avoid it because they didn't fully understand it's implications either.

This is super useful!
This is a terrible piece of writing. It claims here that Gates is evil since he recommended Oxford partner up with AstraZeneca. There is no analysis whatsoever about that why that might have been a good idea. Here's one, the companies with the production capacity might not want to produce something they don't own... (actually the article says as much if you scroll all the way to the bottom)

Also just assuming that someone who donates billions is evil without any research whatsoever is just lazy clickbait journalism.

Next it talks about how businesses profit from this. While true it's also totally misses the point. The economist wrote an article on how the world is vastly underspending on solving this problem.

Another one: "this should have expected better negotiation on the part of the U.S. government". If I'm negotiating with a freelance developer and need help tomorrow, do you think it makes sense to haggle on price? I definitely wouldn't.
Maybe they're too fragile.
You seem frame it like some kind of EU conspiracy to destroy UK, but what would be the alternative? Have every truck driver have the license for every country they go through or deliver to?

Can you imagine how much of a pain it would be for a truck driver to keep up 10+ licenses and for the logistics people to plan things when only some drivers can go to only some countries?

Also, if the required knowledge is the same, why is getting UK license so much more of a hassle than in other countries?
I don't think there is a concern about suffocation.

but you should be aware that these tanks are pressurized to 2500 psi (in the states), and that can get pretty dangerous.

use a new regulator with an overpressure release valve.

myth busters did a segment where they chopped the top valve off a tank - it shot all 100lbs of steel through a cinderblock wall.
More generally, there were a number of fraternal organizations (Knights of Columbus was another) where the men, many of which probably worked in the same factory, would gather in the evening while their wives looked after the kids. Bowling was big for some of the same reasons. Look back at some of the TV shows of the era that featured working class people, or even a cartoon like the Flintstones, and you'll see that they were just an accepted part of life.
When you tell people they have metabolic syndrome they think they have something wrong with their metabolism that is out of their control.

And of course, control over body weight does vary, for a variety of reasons, but the message shouldn't be that it is not controllable.
Absolutely, wealth give the opportunity to handle single handedly things that should be collective decisions. One example, tax rebates for donations, that is forcing government to pay for a rich person ideologies. Doesnt mean that poor people cannot be assholes either, they just have less power (and less organization which could counter balance indivudual power)
WP only needs to modify itself if it updates itself. You can manage updates yourself with a git or even a CI workflow if you want to. These work the same way for WP as they do for a static blog codebase.

Or, you can keep folders locked down until it’s time to update, then unlock and let it update itself, then re-lock the permissions. This can be done manually or with a job scheduler.

WP needs a caching strategy for performance but so do static blog generators. The static copy is the cache, and rebuilding it is the cache purge.

Edit to add: Wordpress is so popular there are dedicated hosting companies, which makes all this stuff super easy. I managed WP myself for years; now I just have an account at WP Engine and they handle all this stuff for me.
My guess is Python wouldn't have done much better anyway. The GIL and lack of client side support kept it out of a lot of use cases.
Escher is a command line tool that lays the foundation for your APP
> That "red wall" are all areas which have been totally abandoned by the UK Government for the last 30+ years

Ironically, in some of the poorer areas there's been a fair amount of investment by the EU (via local development grants). You can see it: There are signs on various local features and buildings saying supported an EU grant, with an EU symbol.

That EU funding in poorer areas is now going away, to be replaced by what?

The UK gov't promised it would make up for the lost funding, but I honestly don't believe them, because it could have done so before and did not.
Remember this is the same pharma industry that:

- Squashed support for COVID-19 human challenge trials[0], claiming it was “too risky” while standing to profit enormously from their own brand-new MRNA vaccines

- Did less than nothing to promote general immune health, spread awareness of ubiquitous seasonal Vitamin D deficiency at high latitudes, etc

- Just got a back-scratch from the new administration, which canceled an order to increase price transparency for insulin and EpiPens

The system is completely broken, from top to bottom.

[0] https://www.statnews.com/2020/06/23/challenge-trials-live-co...
A company is just a financing vehicle. Oxford itself can’t exactly have a Series B to raise capitol to bring research “to market.” And even if they could, it’s not clear that they should given the risks inherit in a speculative start-up.
That script is 17 years old, and will probably continue working for a while. It's not bad support for a free language.
This was announced 13 years ago. That's enough time to get an entire computer science doctorate and write your own alternative package manager from scratch, if you really need it so much.

If Pip dropping py2 support today kills your app, it wasn't fragile, you were negligent.
So if someone has different opinions than you, they're evil? That's pretty much textbook ad hominen. Attack ideas, not people.
Did you read the article? The rules were announced like a month ago. There’s zero time to plan because the Tory government has been lying through the entire brexit fiasco. There’s no plan because there’s no more single market. Uk is in for a world of hurt with zero gain. The sun set long ago on the British empire, now the sun is setting on the uk as a mediocre economic power.
My friend the professional sommelier says a magnum is the perfect size to share with a friend for lunch. Especially if the friend is driving so they can't drink too much.
I mean, the etymology of the word women itself has this attribute, as a contraction of the concept of “the type of man who has a womb” so the whole thing is a bit complicated.
Welcome to the Guardian. Remainers are in denial: Brexit has happened, the world hasn't ended so all these articles are going to be of the "I told you so" variety...without the evidence.

It is unfortunate because the trade situation is actually pretty interesting but no-one is really covering it (they are just doing lots of articles about fish...a turnaround from a few months ago when they were appalled that fish was so important).
If I was a college student during covid, I would opt for that year off. I totally agree with you that college is a social experience.

In terms of work, however, I think it depends on the organization and people's stage of life. If you already have a family, then WFH is much better to me and worth the tradeoff. Imagine being able to spend 2-3 hours with your young kid everyday at the cost of less face time with your coworkers.
Gates is well meaning. But unfortunately not very smart about some things (he's good at tech). Unfortunately given the large influence he has due to his wealth. He's an excellent example of how wider wealth distribution leads to better outcomes due to the wisdom of the crowds.
There are some recommendations for treatment plants at the end in the conclusions.
Finance is important, a foreign national paying a premium for the inconvenience of services being conducted in London is a very old signal that is approaching worthless. It probably made a lot more sense when language barrier issues required a native English speaking intermediary.

The wages in the UK are embarrassing, I think your reference must be within the UK and maybe part of Europe? There is simply limited capacity and a lot of old legacy things competing to occupy London. Plenty of east coast US cities are similar. Not enough going on, but insufficient housing stock. Rents take too much of the profits and are driven up by older businesses owning things they could not afford to rent at the market price on their income.