skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Lastly there's a cost to maintaining a system that doesn’t appear to exist outside of Psalm.

This seems like an odd claim to make (OP also repeats it elsewhere in the text and seems to be aware of a single exception). The analysis described in the blog post is not novel or unique. It is useful but I don't really know what to make of this claim. Abstract interpretation, symbolic execution, and even typechecking systems have all used this kind of approach for many decades. There are hundreds of papers and tools using this approach.

Usually, you'd call this "path sensitive analysis".

I love seeing static analysis show up outside of academic papers, but there is a wealth of material for people to immerse themselves in if they want to learn!
> Java developers are rightfully conservative and sceptical of "new things".

Highly ironic since Java was the hot, shiny, and new thing when it came out.
I do not believe they are on the roadmap at all.
This reminds me of the "eat the rich" phrases from occupy wallstreet days. I forget the exact maths, but roughly speaking it was like if we created a 100% wealth tax for all the billionaires it would run the economy for like 2-3 months, but then what? Who would we tax 100% then?

The challenge with focusing on the 1% is it's such a small group that anything you take from them becomes extremely diffuse across 99%.

IMO the real win is getting the 99% to be 100% more productive (and not via more hours!) eg education, less bullshit work, technology and augmentation.
"inherently discriminatory because they took variables such as whether someone had a second nationality into account".
Which is not necessarily wrong. If people with a second nationality are statistically more prone to cheating the system this is a valid variable to determine the probability that they actually cheat and not made a mistake.
What would be wrong though is to blindly take that probability for the fact.
But it is really hard to say what actually is going on there cause the article is full of emotions and carries close to zero information.
I tried taking this for a while, but found that I started having really bad headaches. I was taking a well known brand from Amazon. I couldn't be 100% sure the headaches were due to the Lion's mane, but felt better after I stopped taking it.

I was pretty bummed, I was hoping for a little boost from this as I had read good things about it, including the NIH articles you posted.

I can also confirm, finding the supplements that are not just mostly the ground brown rice flour is also a little difficult.
And how much more difficult it is for us to adjust to that change now. Even if the climate had shifted extremely quickly and moved inland 100 miles in 10 years, a tribe of hunter-gatherers or a herd of wolves can migrate 10 miles per year. That's about a quarter mile a day.

When you put down roots and build New York City, good luck picking back up and moving to dry land.
If you're buying from Amazon, you're almost definitely getting comingled inventory - which means even the official retailer themselves can't guarantee it's a genuine product.

Your point still stands about easy returns, although personally I've noticed Amazon adding a lot more friction when I have a problem in the past year or so.

https://www.redpoints.com/blog/amazon-commingled-inventory-m...
1. Typescript was around for over 8 years.

2. It's gaining popularity fast.

3. It's undoubtably useful.

The answer is yes - use TS.
I don't know about other countries but in the Netherlands companies already pay an additional fee which ends-up with the royalty holders [1]. Meaning you have to pay a special license fee when playing music in venue's such as stores, cafe's and even a common office work space.

[1] https://www.bumastemra.nl/en/everything-for-music-users/type...
Arguably? I'd say it's rather obvious, but overall they're different languages with different goals.
> but absolutely every company in America does this

This is false.

I own a company, in America, and I'm trying to convince my employees to start a union. It hasn't happened yet, but I'll convince them one day
This paragraph, holy shit - I have to wonder if whoever wrote it(the algorithm) can look at themselves in the mirror. Or if they just think it's all for the greater good and it's mostly targetting unwashed masses so it's all fine.

"In one of the more egregious examples of the lack of humanity in the authorities’ approach, a report from Trouw revealed that the tax office had baselessly applied the mathematical Pareto principle to their punishments, assuming without evidence that 80 percent of the parents investigated for fraud were guilty and 20 percent were innocent. "
Obviously the hard initial stuff is missing from these sorts of videos, because that isn’t glamorous. Content creators want to start from the things that will attract people's attention.

It is similar to how, for example, there are many videos for how to travel the world by bike and how you can budget for it daily, but extremely few of those videos explain that cyclists typically have to work really hard in some boring normal job for a while to save up that budget for their travels, and then the process of buying all the necessary gear can be long and frustrating as one has to compare various websites and wait for things to arrive by post. Who wants to watch that?
Well, you can design the roads better. Two primary ways are used.

The first is material properties. For example, it's possible to make roads using asphalt mixtures which naturally prevent ice from forming. I've heard a rumor that the Autobahn is made of such a compound, but I can't find corroborating evidence right now.

The second is shaping the surface. For example, leaving parallel grooves in the driving surface increases traction. See the first picture at this link for an example: https://www.concreteconstruction.net/how-to/construction/con...

The latter technique is used widely across the Midwest. I'm not certain about usage of the former, but road maintenance costs are significantly higher in the Midwest than other parts of the country thanks to multiple freeze-thaw cycles per year, so switching to a ice-mitigating compound may not be cost-effective when balancing multiple variables. If an ice-mitigating compound reduces roadway durability, you'll avoid it since you'll need to send a plow over the road anyways to clear the snow...
This is contrarianism for the sake of it. Facebook accepts phone number as username. Imagine how convenient would it be to check millions of phone numbers for an association with a fb account.
Why have teams create a replication of their app, rather than have your product work off of a dummy data version or even a static version of the team's app? I'm not sure I understand the 2 reasons provided - "overwriting data in the environment" and "juggling access credentials"?

I love the website design, btw!
Maybe the artists think consumers should pay more. If Spotify wasn't a quasi-monopoly, it would seem silly for artists to demand consumers pay more only on the Spotify platform, but since Spotify is, the argument is at least prima facie reasonable?
As of writing this: Posted 1h ago, has 5 points, no comments and is on the front page.

I'm willing to bet this is solely because the title contains the trigger phrase "Big Sur".
Just a thought: it might be that what you consider to be “standard conservatism” is in part what it is due to Sowell’s work and influence for the past 50 years. He basically won against competitive thought leaders and shaped parts of the conservative movement.

Maybe a better example of my thought: if you listen to Dawkins today talking about evolutionary biology, you might arrive to the conclusion that what he says is just a repetition of the consensus and isn’t that interesting, but that’s missing the fact that he’s the reason we reached the modern consensus in the first place. It’s just that his arguments/ideas won the game and seem to be banal and common knowledge
Not to mention, Suse is far more lenient when it comes to licensing in my experience. I remember them being extremely blase about one of my old jobs using a significantly higher number of licenses than had been purchased, with their sales team's response amounting to a particularly verbose "meh, you're good."
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As a small fleet owner I would gladly deal with increased car accidents if it meant they didn't salt the roads.

I would gladly buy studded tires and chain up if they didn't salt the roads.

I would gladly deal with worse traffic in the winter if they didn't salt the roads.

I would gladly incur a greater risk of harm or death if they didn't salt the roads.

I would voluntarily pay more fuel taxes if they didn't salt the roads.

I would put up with all sorts of shit to get the state to stop chemically destroying my property. And pretty much everyone I know feels the same way.

When people complain about public policy written by people in ivory towers who are unaffected by their own policy this is the kind of crap they're talking about. To see such policy presented as though there are no tradeoffs what so ever just drives the point home.

Edit: Since apparently I didn't leave enough space between the lines for people to read, let me make this clear. I'm doing ok. I my fleet is N=6. I can play musical panel vans and station wagons as needed in order to keep costs down and put the wear and tear where I want it. That insulates me pretty well from vehicle maintenance issues. I can phase a vehicle out by neglecting it and then buy a replacement. Someone driving one old car to their job does not have this luxury. You're caught between several rocks and hard places with regard to transportation options. The state is raising the cost of you dragging your butt to your job and telling you its for your benefit. What's an annoyance for me is a serious financial problem for others.
There are a lot of objections on here to being "valued" and "commodified." I don't understand why.

You are valued every time you go to an interview or ask for a raise. You can leverage your network in the same way as you can leverage "investment."

To me this is already a more transparent version of what already happens.
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The first part (mail directly to mailboxes) is the same everywhere I've seen it too here in Europe (mostly Spain and Sweden to be fair). But yeah, the second one makes a lot of sense. Would actually explain a lot of the design choices for anything American. We don't have that much to worry about, so we can spend less on armored postal vans.
Not quite.

LTS doesn't mean anything if you mention just the Java versions.

This is not e.g. Ubuntu LTS.

In java you have different vendors that provide LTS and you need to pay for it.

Oracle, Redhat, etc. provide LTS versions (and those happen to be 8, 11, but don't have to be).

And there is one more sortof LTS: latest java version, because it always gets all the security and other bugfixes.
Right now it is Java 16.
> the world would be a better place.

Really? Sounds pretty terrible to me. Few books. Few videogames. No movies. No TV shows. Most of the internet obliterated. Any content that is created is copied and regurgitated so much you'd be hard pressed find out who actually created it.

I personally like consuming entertainment. I work with the creative side of my brain all day long, and being able to go home and turn it off with some relatively mindless entertainment (my form is a combination of books and videogames). I'd hate to come home one day and only have a zero budget, poorly tested, game to play, or a book that I've already re-read enough to quote it by memory.

> And no modern epic is significantly better than Ἰλιάς.

Pure opinion. And in any case, there's only one Iliad. There's hundreds of other "modern" epics out there - many of which I find more entertaining, though they are not as literarily significant.

> the open source code powering top public domain projects

Is it worth re-iterating that all of the open source licenses is supported by copyright protections?

> All of us are putting grains of sand on top.

Which obviously has its own value, as aptly demonstrated by the entertainment industry as a whole being valued in the trillions of dollars.
In BC, we just discovered a small abandoned village in the woods[0]. It was not far from Vancouver. It was used by Japanese avoiding internment during WW2.

There are many places where you could build and live the rest of your life without seeing another human (all on crown land) if you are so inclined. I don't hate society quite that much yet, but I'm keeping it in my back pocket.

0 https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/hidden-japanese-se...
I don’t think public works and highway departments can really say “just get an SUV lol” unless they’re really rural. Plenty of small cars on the road in Milwaukee, Chicago, Minneapolis, etc.
I think that is by design due to reflection needs. Hard to prune unused code when it might be called reflectively at any time.
From a pragmatic point of view, it is certainly an improvement to have "only Google" track you, over "Google and everyone else". As such, it is a net benefit.

Of course one would like Google and others to simply support technological foundations that make it impossible to track individuals, but it's still strictly better than the status quo.
"We see similar developments with C# borrowing features from F#, with records in v9, pattern matching, etc."

Parsing that sentence the subject is C# and F# is referenced, but the subject of the sentence didn't change, it remained C# thus logically v9 applies to it.
>Too bad it seems that email's best days are over now, as email nowadays is mostly for notifications.

Email is still heavily used for business-to-business communication between humans. Talking about business matters is still more natural via email until the participants know each other well enough to switch to texting.

But yes, for personal communication, friends & family have shifted from email to phone texts. E.g. my friend who graduated from college in 1990s used to communicate with his parents with 100% email but now it's 100% text messaging. Email is too much friction for personal comms.
But that is what you are in the workplace.

And you admit this every time you switch jobs or ask for a raise.
Do they have a working vehicle, or is this all renders?
https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/20/21228324/amazon-whole-foo...

"a “diversity index” represents the racial and ethnic diversity of every store. Stores at higher risk of unionizing have lower diversity"
Why?

I would say, try it out and see.
Maybe I'm being old and grumpy, but is there really a point to writing python without conditional logic? Each operation is going to have all sorts of stuff going in the interpreter, and the amount of code being executed that tiny snippet is way more than one would expect.
According to one source [1], Spotify users stream on average 25 hours a month. Assuming an average song is 3 minutes [2], that's 500 streams per month. Going with the $9.99 per month rate, users pay about $0.02 per stream. Currently, the artists see only $0.0038 per stream, or less than 1/5th of what Spotify makes.

I think that with a 50% profit margin, Spotify should be very happy. Of course, it's not that easy / straightforward, all conditions and caveats apply, etc etc.

[1]: https://www.businessofapps.com/data/spotify-statistics/
[2]: https://www.music-jobs.com/uk/article/news/news-pop-songs-ar...
Julia and Rust always come up in discussions of C++, so a lot of people develop the idea that they are better than C++ at everything. This leads to pattern matching and just saying "why not Rust" in every discussion of C++.
> It seems pretty likely that in the absence of Gmail, Hey would have a bigger market.

Many people just wouldn't pay for email so it's very hard to say.

And again, they talk specifically about not competing with Google because they realise the disproportionate scale here: https://world.hey.com/jason/an-alternative-to-competition-ff...

> They can say that all they want, but it doesn’t make it true.

I've been following them for years and read most of their books. If this would be IBM or Oracle I'd understand (and agree with) your skepticism, but this is really unwarranted.
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I have already used `records` in some project I work on. To me it does not look too clever / funky. It still looks like very obvious Java code but little more concise.
Solar Freaking Roadways v2 :)

This is very idiotic, all calculations presented are inflated by a factor of 10x. There is no practical advantage to having solar panels on a car, except maybe to trickle charge the starter 12V battery (on EV or ICE vehicles).
Java devs are like: Why bother to develop anything new if we can just copycat every single feature from C# without even changing their spec a bit...

C# records released last year:

record Book(string Title, int Id);

New java records:

record Book(String title, int id)
Came here to comment about this. Man made handles for all of his tools to save backpack space, and forged for most of his food.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hy-4NxJRxNQ
I do the same! I tell my wife she's a developer all the time due to the number of times shes helped me solve a problem outside her domain.

I've tried cutting out the middle man and just forcing myself to organize my thoughts but it's not nearly as effective without the social pressure.
Even if you can solve any whiteboard problem a company can throw at you your attitude is so off putting, even just via text, that I am not surprised you are getting no hits. Instead of getting shit done you'll complain, blame, and stall the team.

Notice how nothing in this thread is your fault. Every single problem is on another person our outside force. No one will pity you, doubly so in a highly technical team. It's just not part of the culture. Take it or leave it.
It's great that they both helped to raise awareness of the dangers of big government from different perspectives.

Milton Friedman taught me about the danger of inflation and centralized monetary policy and Sowell opened my eyes to the perverse incentives of bureaucracy.

The combined insights of Milton Friedman and Thomas Sowell give a very good view into what's happening in our modern economy.

I think the main blindspot that the two have (particularly Milton Friedman) is that they don't seem to acknowledge that the pursuit of self-interest is the driving force which creates big governments in the first place. Corporations need big governments to subsidize them and to regulate their competitors out of existence. It's not the public's idealism or sense of altruism which allows governments to become so big, it's just the self-interest of the elite. So the pursuit of self-interest should not be seen as an absolute virtue because it doesn't scale.
Not advertising in the traditional sense. Today, many of the ad's you see are based on data collected about you. There is no "opt-in" and you are not compensated.

We envision a model whereby you select which promotions to participate in, based on your needs/interest "and" how much you will receive in compensation.

From the seller standpoint, we believe the costs to reach a consumer will be similar. Yet, the consumers they do reach will have a genuine interest in the offering. Thus the promotion has the potential to offer a better response. To be clear, the seller is able to select which members qualify for the promotion [Ex. based on location, occupation, TRU Score, etc].

From the buyer standpoint, we view this an an improvement over the current model. There is no privacy violation or personal data sharing with strangers. You have the freedom and choice of which promotions to participate in. Assuming it works as planned, it would allow you to make a more informed buying decision.
Is that living in a shoebox? Eating comfortably? Raising a family? Having any fun?
For those interested, there is lots of discussion of fluoroquinolones on this site. Make sure you're searching for the term in the comments, otherwise you won't get any hits.

I had my own bad experience with them, and know others who did as well.
You still have time. sigh
I think China has some extra leverage to deploy here: China can respond "We leave it. Oh, one more thing: our domestic market is off limits to you. Pray we don't alter the deal further by kicking your manufacturing out too."
That's not what your link says, not specifically:

> Moreover, the database is not a representative sample of the sars-cov-2-positive population. Because it only contains records from people who have interacted with a medical service provider, it excludes those who weather the disease at home without medical assistance.

This will exclude the vast majority of people in younger age groups who were affected. Serology studies have shown us that in many densely populated places infection rates have been far into the double-digit percentages - if this statistic was true in the way you interpreted it, we would know that by now.
The first sentence is "We make our spaces family-friendly and enable parents to fully participate with their children." That seems very pro traditional family. What is the dig at fathers that you speak of? Is it the women working double shifts thing? If the double shift thing is true, then it's a rightful dig at fathers that should happen. We should do more domestically. If you think there isn't a double shift and that all domestic tasks are shared equally, then I can see it coming across as an unwarranted attack. Personally, I don't.
Just guessing:

- it's a component of the Face ID authentication scheme

- they don't want people using iPhones with sub-par camera's posting on social media

- they don't want iPhones with sub-par camera's on the second hand market
> So what?

I was pointing towards why the author was motivated to attempt all those problems in the first place.

> How many of those people do anything of worth?

People find what they are good at or makes them content at different stages in life. Until then they will try out paths that others have taken like those creative schools you have mentioned.

I was a below average student at school and then went for engineering because that was what most of my peers did. However once I started programming(not leetcode but just different CRUD apps with variations), I realized that I could never go do advanced degrees like MSc or MBA like most of peers did. Because I cannot perform well in a competitive environment where I would have limited time and flexibility to comprehend what's in front of me.

Now regarding job opportunities at FAANG or in general, getting a job involves luck as well. You might forget a specific dynamic solution for a leetcode problem, or the interviewer might take out his frustration at work on you or despite you doing well, the company might be looking into other factors when hiring. Do not just associate a rejection to your skill at solving leetcode.
Keep doing leetcode and interviewing at FAANG, but also spend time finding something that satisfies you so that you can always lean on it on a bad day.
It's arguable whether public schools in the US are "working out" right now. As indoctrination day camps, maybe.
If you mention LTS you have to mention also vendor that provides it.

Without it the only LTS is current java version: 16 right now and 17 in 6 months.
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Over the past twelve months our Leaf has sat for weeks at a time without being driven. It has never failed to “start”. When it sits at the airport, it sits in the charger spot with all the other EVS.
So many good comments

for me its a lot of what others said +

- Python as the default for scripting/automation: instead of using bash/batch/autohotkey/<programmingLanguage> if you need to use some popular API it saved you time with it's huge number of packages. so many good built ins. it's dynamic enough to be comfortable but not insane like JS. So good.
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