skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It isn't the data that's biased. If you're hiring a computer scientist and disproportionately few black people have a degree in computer science, the data is not lying about who the qualified applicants are and the algorithm can't change that.

To fix that you have to cause more black high school students to go to college and study computer science and then wait two generations until their proportionality in the installed base of qualified computer scientists reaches parity. There is no magic wand that makes it happen overnight.

But concentrating on the places where it can't be solved instead of the places where it can will make it take even longer.
California DMV warns of data breach after a contractor was hit by ransomware
Here's another comment so you can downvote me twice you Coastal Elite shitheads, won't make me wrong! Fuck you very much :D

You can kick all the people you hate offline and censor us but don't be surprised to see more outbursts in real life when you've silenced all dissent online
Quite a lot of their pages are about doing away with the electric grid, in increasingly unpractical ways btw. This article is quite on-message actually.
I think it is fair to say that over the years the gap between shaping software and using it (shrink-wrap/prohibitions/revoking/saas …) grew further and further.

At the same time the tools we use to create software also have become more complex (to setup, maintain, learn, keep up with, …), not necessarily beginner friendly and empowering.

repl.it is one of the few efforts out there with an _ambitious_ take for the long-term (yet delivering like a clockwork!)

A breeze of fresh air and a glass of water in this desolate wasteland of shrink-wrap.

I think it is fair to note, as you point out that the shrink-wrap-factories also have pockets of amazing people who build great tooling we can all be thankful for (I certainly am) but my gut feeling is we read the same paragraphs, just from slightly different zoom levels.
That sounds like a feature PyHamcrest could add. Did you try adding it there?
> People often report feeling more attentive to the road while operating a manual transmission, as it requires them to more closely focus on the driving itself, but this isn’t something many people want while driving anymore.

This is something I very much want while driving; it's part of the reason I get around primarily by motorcycle. If driving is too easy, my attention wanders, and that's not really safe. A manual transmission gives me more engagement with the driving process and that helps keep my eyes on the road.
I think the poster you're responding to was specifically talking about his experience of socialism in a former soviet block country:

> that's part of the former soviet block
It’s even dumber where in the name of security they disable things like Google Voice that allow you to get SMS messages without cellular.

Chase bank in the US decided to break this recently. Like you, geography means I don’t have a mobile in many scenarios.
that's what the tutorial is for - assumes 2.0 style usage and nothing else:

https://docs.sqlalchemy.org/en/14/tutorial/index.html
In circulation, that's why I wrote "circulation" :)

China is still a major exporter of them, although of course it's not something India going to buy.
My list might be dated..
Fords Focus ST/RS, Fiesta ST; VW GTI, Golf R; Honda Civic SI, Civic Type R, Accord; Toyota Tacoma, FRS/86; Subaru WRX/STI, Forester, BRZ.

Most of those are performance oriented. Those that aren't will probably be all automatics.
It's false to assume that only rich people get the vaccine when markets regulate. There's economies of scale that will help lowering production cost.

Edit: Also, let's not kid ourselves here. Anyone that is a billionaire can surely get vacinated already easily.
Central banks intervene in the market and buys debts. Thus central banks distort the true pricing of debt since well if the central bank would not buy the debt the price of issuing that debt would be higher ie interest rate.

Its artificial in that with quantitative easing the true price of the assets is distorted.

"A central bank implements quantitative easing by buying financial assets from commercial banks and other financial institutions, thus raising the prices of those financial assets and lowering their yield, while simultaneously increasing the money supply. In contrast to conventional open-market operations, quantitative easing involves the purchase of more risky assets (than short-term government bonds) and at a large scale, over a pre-committed period of time. "
source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantitative_easing
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But the law makes an exception when a debtor accidentally wires money to a creditor

Okay, but Citibank wasn't the debtor here, they were simply the middleman. And:

"To believe that Citibank, one of the most sophisticated financial institutions in the world, had made a mistake... would have been borderline irrational"

Sure, if you hear hoofbeats, the likely guess is horses, not zebras. But if someone calls you up and says "Hey, I got some nice pics of zebras running by your house" then you know the probable guess was wrong, and should act accordingly.

Absolutely the mistake was Citibank's fault. Maybe you think that means, inherently, that they should lose the case. But if you look at the actual laws on the books, I really don't understand how the interpretation of the laws comes down against Citi here. Though a half $billion mistake on UI design might still be a very beneficial lesson for the entire UX design community to remember.
Quobyte DCFS does erasure coding of files across machines (no local RAID needed).
Agreed with all points and that's likely the case for the majority of these people. But there is probably still a non-trivial number of people that are working 32+ hours at one job and 10-20 at another that would fall into these statistics that would receive benefits. More data can't hurt. Existing laws are clearly being gamed.

Edit: Also, these stats will exclude people that are working just one job but still under the benefits threshold which is not good either. "Working two jobs" is just too broad of a statement to be actionable.
> I dont want ANY of my candidates studying for my interviews.

This contrary to the explicit advice that most Big companies give in preparation for interviews.

For example, my last interview round with Google included an email "Google Technical Interview Prep!" It's about 4 pages of things to study and have effectively memorized before the interview.

Similar prep material is given for Facebook and Amazon.

If you don't expect it, then make that clear to everyone around you, especially your interviewers
The value of something is the price at which someone is willing to buy it at. We all know this. Its a basic fact. You cannot draw a conclusion that something "fishy" was going on because the stock was overvalued. People who ascribe any sort of absolute rationality to the stock market are naive at best, and deceptive at worst.
Been thinking about this a lot. There are huge benefits to such a simple hack, but it feels like if browser autocomplete could be a little more advance it could do all of this and more. And it could be applied across any site.

Perhaps a good fit for a open source browser extension, also a lot of private date goes into webforms.
"Almost no developer "take 3-6 months off to study for their next position", please do not distort reality, that might happen to some but def not the norm. I'd say the normal is 1 week to 1 month of studying on the evenings after work."

I've seen a number of posts on HN where people are taking significantly longer than one month. If the reality is as you say, then that is trivial and the whole basis of the OPs post (and the vast majority of people's responses here) is moot.

Most of that reputation is really past performance and experience on cases. Things like win %. Devs don't have any similarly standard comparison metrics.
Yeah, the anonymity aspect seemed a bit unrealistic, it only works in the book because of huge gulfs between the technology levels of civilizations (like literally unraveling subatomic particles and spacetime) that allow the use of weapons that cannot be mitigated by any means available.

I'm not sure that given such a disparity, the first-strike strategy makes sense.

Once you're experiencing an exponentially acceleration of technological progress, why bother wiping out anyone just starting out? They can't catch up. And if you're worried about civilizations more advanced than yours, why give them a potential clue to your location by attacking anyone else?

Clearly, only civilizations that are quite close to your own capabilities can be a credible threat, and those are ones you don't have such an overwhelming advantage over.
It doesn't grow many crops, either. I can see it being useful for restricted spaces like balconies or roof top gardens in cities, also because unlike soil gardening the weight is much less even accounting for the hydroponic growing solution. And of course, the gem of the new "industry," the place in Jackson which is a special case, tucked away up in the mountains where it can be hard to get in and out without delays, but wealthy enough to have practically every luxury brand in the world operating a store or two.

To me though the issue with hydroponically grown produce, vertical OR horizontal, is they taste insipid. I'm not sure if anybody's done a study on, say, lycopene in tomatoes grown hydroponically vs. conventionally but I'd guess there's less of everything in the hydros. This is a known problem in the normal supermarkets and people have been complaining about bland veggies for many years.

I will admit it's useful and can make money in certain situations. And it's funny as a gag, too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=En3TYdWfwaw
> They have a small, private audience that they've extrapolated into a mass market audience. That does not justify a one billion dollar valuation. They do not have the usage to back that up.

How do you know? Have you seen their data?

Again you say the audience is ‘private’ but that isn’t true.

> Regarding vendors, you're definitely incorrect.

I’ve explained my position. You have not explained how it’s wrong. I have to assume you can’t.

> Clubhouse has exposed themselves to great risk by relying on another platform.

You don’t know what risk they have exposed themselves to unless you have seen the contracts and know what the switching costs will be. You also don’t know anything about where in their timeline their own infrastructure development is.

> Just a reminder:
https://newatlas.com/skype-joltid-litigation-shut-down/12390...

That link proves my point, and disproves yours. eBay didn’t do appropriate due diligence, and didn’t have an appropriate contract. That is a risk Clubhouse can easily avoid, and the eBay/Skype case is now a well known piece of business lore taught in business schools.

I assume you don’t know anything about what contracts Clubhouse has with their suppliers. Again, correct me if I’m wrong about that.
Azure Data Studio is slick, but disappointingly it's not open source. (It's source available with a proprietary license).

BeeKeeper Studio has hence caught my attention.

There are is also an open source database extensions for VSCode, including an official MSSQL one from Microsoft. Except, I just realised many of its key dependencies are proprietary.
I cannot imagine what mental gymnastics allows a person to support this.
That's a good point, thanks for clarifying it.
>> NPR covered a local government a while back that tried to build a local ISP but was shutdown when players like Comcast brought in their legal teams to make building a government-run ISP illegal in that jurisdiction.

>> I therefore speculate that big ISPs like Comcast must be paying the politicians behind the bill.

And after reading this quote from the article:

>> PCMag recently named Chattanooga, Tennessee, the best work-from-home city in the nation, citing in part the city's "widely available broadband Internet" provided by the Chattanooga Electric Power Board. Comcast initially tried to block that public network from being built but eventually upgraded its own service to better compete against the public option.

It seems very plausible.
> I find the fact that the factory is being built in India a bit disturbing.

The factory being built in India is for the AK-203 assault rifle, in coordination with India's defence ministry, presumably for the Indian military. (Along with general revenue targets and other stuff, this article discusses three different specific weapons: Ultima, AK-203, and AK-130.)

It has nothing to do with the Ultima shotgun, it's just that Reuters mixed a whole bunch of otherwise-unconnected Kalashnikov news into one article with appallingly terrible organization.
I do own a Model M but I find it vastly inferior to the modern Cherry-like keyboards in terms of ergonomics. That is if I gloss over the lack of Win/Super key (autohotkey on Windows is not realiable enough for this).

Yes this is all preferences, but the ubiquity of Cherry-likes has also driven further optimization in terms of materials, keycap variety, and cost.

Model M makes an amazing sound though. I guess that's also part of the reason I still own and occasionally type on a mechanical typewriter ;)
Also, InSight's SEIS seismometer is a true marvel: "We have been able to detect, at about 10 hertz, displacement of the ground of the order of less than 5 picometers…which is a fraction of the size of an atom." — https://eos.org/features/a-modern-manual-for-marsquake-monit...
I practically tried to get addicted to cigarettes about 20+ years ago. Smoked quite a bit but could never quite cozy up to an addiction. The taste and smell was really bothering me so I just quit. Most of the people I know who smoked, never quit, and did various hard drug cocktails are all dead from heroine overdoses. I experimented with nearly every drug (no heroine, by they time that was available it was not something I would consider trying) but never formed an opiate or cocaine habit.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26184190
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Lots of major changes, so I hope it doesn't create a schism.

Do SQLAlchemy users appreciate how lucky they are? I generally prefer to use c#/.net but the 3 Microsoft ORMs (linq-to-sql, ef, ef.core) are all half baked. I don't know much about ActiveRecord, Django or other ORMs.

I wish I could have this sort of feature set and dynamic abilities that I get in sqlalchemy on the .net side. I say that as someone who loves SQL but appreciates the conveniences of a powerful ORM.
Depending on where you live, maybe?

The first time I went to a competent DMV it kind of blew my mind how efficient it can be when the government decides to make it work well.

Our city services are pretty good. They can handle most business and troubleshooting by email, there's a website to request service. Their goal is clearly to get stuff done. It's so much easier than dealing with my ISP or mobile provider.
Safe Rust solves the problem of memory safety (assuming that any unsafe code is correct). Unsafe Rust continues to be potentially memory unsafe. That is equivalent to other memory safe languages like Java (which is memory safe under the assumption that the JVM has no memory safety bugs and any JNI code is correct), and a very large improvement over C and C++.
If I didn't screw up the math that would be ~7% of UK's 2020 GDP and around 60% of the GDP loss in 2020 compared to 2019. It would be really expensive but the scale of what's happening is also huge.

So maybe not the greatest value for money in a lifetime as there are plenty of much cheaper things with better returns, but at this scale of cost you're probably right.
No, if the market wage fell below the cost of living in SF, the developers would have to move out. Just like every other profession.
That being said, exactly 0 of the listed examples are actually bad to consider free. If you don't collect rain coming down, it'll just come down anyway.
People are implying the haggling was connected to the delay, but it wasn't necessarily. As an example the UK contract with AZ had the same limitations as the EU one (this just came yesterday) https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/17/europe/uk-astrazeneca-vaccine...

Production and deployment ramp-ups contributed more to the issue (approval delay didn't help, surely!). Per absolute number of vaccines deployed the EU is behind the US and China. https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus-data-explorer?zoomToS...

Profit yes, but paying that much for something that had not proven itself yet, no way.

It wouldn't be 18B, it would be 48B (2 doses per person for all inhabitants - though ok maybe you don't need to vaccinate children)
> 6 month contract
Do a lot of people in high quality positions take you up on it?
Accepting a very risky proposition for a 6 month contract for a promise of further engagement seems like a lot of risk. I wonder what sorts of rewards you promise that would make someone in a secure position, doing interesting work, would want to engage with you.
I am the original poster you're responding to. On the high level I agree with what good looks like - I'd strive to have all of these things in a system if I were the designer.

I am also recognizing that both you and I may not understand the complexity. Saying "X is being sent to ABC" may be a gross-oversimplification of the transaction and could obscure lots of badness. It's possible that the level of complexity of the screen IS what's needed to express it.

Analogy:

Would you expect to walk into the cockpit of an airliner and see a big dumb screen that tells the pilot "you are landing the plane?" or would you accept that it's a complicated serious of operations which the pilot understands by putting together the various bits of info on various instruments. Hope the parallel is clear.

Again, by no means am I insisting this is a great application (I don't know anything about it) but that you can only simplify the display of very complex state so much.
I assumed this was meant in terms of energy required to exploit the resource—if water's literally falling from the sky the energy required is zero.
Incredible amount of lettuce is grown in Arizona as well!
At least there's hope that it won't start updating itself right before you want to press the trigger.
So that's Mazda, Ford, Dodge. I know Subaru (WRX, BRZ, STI), Jeep (Wrangler), Nissan (370), Audi (A3), and Chevy (Malibu) do as well.

You won't find them at dealers very often (they're not popular) but they are available for most of the budget lines provided by the manufacturers.
SnowSql (For snowflake users): https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/snowsql.html
Sure, yes. But OTOH I'm not sure the distinction you make is meaningful. If there was no risk, the cost to borrow would tend towards zero.

Any liquidity issues could be addressed by the central bank, again at low interest if no risk.
I suggest to decrease the minimum wage to 1 USD/h like in Mexico. Other option is that the bosses may give the employees a tract of land in rent as payment, they can keep a small portion of their production for themselves.
Apple Platform Security (February 2021) [pdf]
Free market for me but not for thee.

Anyway, it’s just a copyright takedown. Change the name and move on.
Okay sounds like you've got it all figured out. Good luck!
Income vs. Production
I have not played MUDs in a long time, but, when I did, I always just got by with Tintin++. I never went all the way and wrote an actual bot that could run unattended, because there were so many different things that could really mess up your bot, or, at least cause it to act impolite, that it looked like more trouble than it was worth. Also, I wasn't that great at scripting with tt++. :P I was, however, (literally) a wizard with LPC.
LATAM is big and in a lot of countries it's a valid concern.

Source: living for 10 years in LATAM
Ultimately much of the wealth is transferred to landlords in areas where Uber has facilities and employees.
Watching the stream, it's striking the difference in employee age between NASA and SpaceX. I won't speculate on the reasons, but I wish the best to the Perseverance team!
Yes. The true figure for reduced growth rate following a period of high and rising public debt probably lies within -0.1 and +2.2%, and in all likelihood closer to the latter than the former. But the somewhat arbitrary 90 percent "threshold" is looking... rather modest and quaint these days. See here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26179943
I have to use an Oracle product for timesheets and besides the UI which is as you can imagine reading the previous comments, contains javascript code for a 'finite state machine for controlling the notification popup component'...
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> The recent track record of curl shows it has zero reported memory safety issues recently.

Only if you look very recently. Earlier you said:

> You have to go back 9 months before you find one expired-pointer derefence issue resulting in potential data being sent to the wrong connection in rare circumstances and configurations. Which is a logic error that could happen in Rust too.

That bug is 6 months old and could not happen in safe Rust because references (pointers) cannot outlive their referents.

> It also states that Rust completely prevents them - it does not. The article talks about mitigation, but also says: "would have been completely prevented by using a memory-safe language".

It is literally true that they "would have been completely prevented by using a memory-safe language." The complication is that Rust is only memory-safe if you don't use unsafe.

rustls (the new curl component in question) uses no unsafe itself. I find some unsafe in its dependencies, but most of it seems to be for FFI, which is inherently unsafe. I'm also not sure that those should count—do OpenSSL vulnerabilities count as libcurl vulnerabilities?

> The "completely prevented" claim in the article is the one not supported by current research.

I will grant you that it's slightly misleading because it's possible to write unsafe Rust code. But that's not news, "current research" has nothing to do with it.
I'd say do something else if you have the option.

Otherwise, I would focus on making as much money as quickly as possible so you can get out once you realize the toll it is taking on you. It sucks to be trapped in a high-stress, average paying job, with no alternatives and a family to support.
No memory safe language in existence can meet your standards, since they're all written on a bedrock of unsafe code.
I'm not sure I agree that repl.it is attacking "what has come before". Even in that quote there is no reference other software, they are explaining their goals and ambitions. I too do not like ads, which is why I enjoy the fact that repl.it does not have any, nor do they sell my data.
I like the some debt is society is paid off even if it is a mistake haha, maybe this will have overall net positive results in our economy
Stocks have dividends. The value of a stock is the present value of all future dividends. Otherwise you're hoping to find a greater fool.
I'm sorry, I did not want to sound mean, but the statistical claim made just felt so wrong to me as to be amusing. I can not formally prove it wrong, it just... Triggered the hummour detector.
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I highly agree with this. When I was in position where I had to interview candidates this is was the 2nd half of my technical interview. Read a piece of code and going through it with me like you're pairing with Jr. Dev. I still think algorithm problems serve the purpose of filtering out the bottom of the barrel.