skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Then there isn't much point in reading it. You can guess the conclusion, all the data provided is suspect and they'll ignore all arguments against their point.

If it was setup as a kind of debate, maybe it would work.
Just curious, what kind of software were you building with JavaFX? Was it for work or a side-project?

I've been interested in JavaFX for a while. As you mentioned, the technology actually seems quite good. But I barely ever see or hear about it being used in the wild which worries me.
And the most vulnerable device around...
This is kinda how democracy works, in all it's terrible glory. Apply your same logic to national elections, and you are essentially saying that the votes of some people should be worth less, and others more.

I don't disagree with you that this happens, but I'm not sure that removing the local democratic infrastructure is the right way to solve this problem.
Yes. I do 20 minutes of nap most afternoons, and it helps immensely. Though "nap" is a misnomer, I don't actually try to sleep, just sit or lie comfortably with my eyes closed and as few noises and interruptions as possible. A 20 minute timer has taught my body to get ready to work again after exactly 20 minutes. The goal is to let the mind relax for a bit.
Do We Have False Beliefs About Inspiring People into Stem?
We should be looking at the actual paper:

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.04.06.21254882v...
STEM jobs generally pay more than non-STEM jobs, and I'd say graduate jobs range between $20-26/hr.

If someone without a degree is making $20/hr and you're making barely more than that, why the hell did you waste 4 years to get a degree? I know someone who is in this exact situation.

The economics don't make sense.
Have you seen the realstate market? Competition is all there is. The food market, probably the oldest market, is full of startups and more enter the space each year.
There is no shortage of untapped competition in any industry.
The lack of technology. With not much surplus in terms of food and resources children of serfs and peasants have to work and never do much else meanwhile nobles learn to read and educate themselves. And even with reading, without the printing press, all copying was mostly done by the Church, which means no Voltaire, no reading of the Bible to find that indulgences are BS and just a lack of awareness that things could be better.
People give plenty of credit to devs. Apps that meet the quality bar to stay in the App Store make way more from iOS users than Android.

There are thousands and thousands of apps to sift through. It’s good that iOS helps filter out the shit where devs can’t be bothered to do basic user friendly things like providing screenshots, etc.
The feature is opt-in. You will not receive any unusable nonsense unless you choose to be paid in such. For American users, nothing has changed.
I had typo. But AFAIK, asymptomatic transmission is not novel concept. We have been learning about it in elementary school in the context of other diseases.

There is absolutely nothing new about it as concept. It is not something that appeared with covid first time in history of diseases.
UUID [0] is a concept, not an implementation. You can implement UUID in any language. It's like an algorithm.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universally_unique_identifier
It's not exactly hard to prevent windows 10 from running updates. My security cam server has been running for years with updates only applying when I manually run them.

I do wish that Microsoft made it easier to prevent auto rebooting updates, but you can do it and it's pretty stupid to run a multi-day process without bothering to set up the system correctly and then bitch about it.
What's worse than marxism is capitalism. So, yeah sure they're right...

Or just claiming "marxism" is bad itself is "bad". Authoritarian anything is bad, capitalism or communism. Both have killed millions and billions. So authoritarian marxism is bad, but index funds aren't that..so I don't even get where they're coming from.

Non-statist or anarcho-communism has never been implemented much, but would be ideal, or resource-based economy, or some hybrid of anarcho-communism with capitalism... unions/co-ops creating dual power which holds capitalism in check.

That's probably the best of all scenarios. It's highly possible with de-centralized companies and unions on blockchain tech, but not until it's more environmentally sound and the technology more advanced.

I can't tell are they trying to scare marxists/socialists to invest in index funds or index fund investors who are "afraid" of socialism to divest their investments? Should a news agency really be pushing either of these agendas?
Inflation is wealth transfer from those who hold government fiat (the poor and the middle class) to those who hold assets (the rich).

Deflation is the same thing in reverse.

Makes it pretty clear why the government is fighting deflation so hard.
Nope, lowest amount is 1 ADA, transaction fees are usually around 0.17. I'd expect this to be lowered in the future. 1 ADA wasn't much until a few months ago really.
It is not irrelevant, or no less relevant than the headline comparison.
The distinction you’re trying to make between an iPhone and a game console isn’t very clear.
> I reject that premise. I've never used a compositor and I don't know why anyone would, they seem utterly useless.

Have you tried watching a video in full screen?

> But even if you do, the compositor only does one job: layer graphics

Yes, and this small little detail is not solved by X, but Wayland.

> Most X messages have nothing to do with graphics. They're more likely to be about clipboard, drag and drop, notification windows, taskbar panels, etc., etc., etc.

And it will live on in the form of XWayland. And I do dislike needlessly dropping backward compatibility, X’s APIs are globally broadcasted, and can’t really be retrofitted to an only server-client communication, so it makes sense to “reinvent” it.

> I love the way the presenter claims the specs are impossible but I managed to implement them

What part of it? I doubt you included the now removed printer part and the million other things the X developers had to cut out with hard work. And as I said, XWayland is made explicitly for this high level API of X, it is not going anywhere.

And I’m not sure what you mean by asynchronous chunking. You mean tearing?
You do have to synchronize somewhere.
You're not going to get very far arguing, "well, the word doesn't meant that to _me_".
How to make $1k per month by selling courses online
My initial reaction was, “it can’t possibly be as big as the mistake you’re making if you’re using TensorFlow!”
Not a fan of Google in any ways, but isn't it their data? They can do whatever they want (unless they expose users' privacy etc) with it, and they are using it for competitive advantage, which is the most natural thing to do.
The local pizzeria can say "only show advertisements that want to be shown within 30 miles of Somewhere, NY. The site for expecting mothers can show ads for baby products.

Contextual advertising. Flip the entire thing upside down and let the sites declare to the advertisers what niche they fill, and let them get relevant advertisements.
Company stock rewards founders and early supporters in a similar way for making the stock more valuable. These incentives aren’t usually considered a bad thing in themselves? Though they certainly can be in pump-and-dump situations. Buyer beware.

Other than stablecoins, it’s unclear how it would be avoided?
Yes, but I can’t imagine more than a negligible percentage of the Signal user base opting in because it’s anything but user friendly as a solution.
> And this includes Hedgefunds, like Melvin Capital, Citadel and the like? Doesn't the Robinhood and GME thing DIRECTLY contradict what you're saying?

Meme stocks are a thing born out of social media just very recently and will most likely not happen that much given that now edge funds are aware of it and have probably already deployed the appropriate counter-measures.
Because you want to do it.

I'd honestly still be a programmer if the pay was poor. In fact, I do it for free quite a bit and I enjoy it more.

People are motivated by more than mindless greed and universities shouldn't be transactional skills training camps. It should be about building an enlightened and educated society.

College tuition in New Zealand are not structured like the United States. It's much more reasonable
My thoughts as well. They still got less than 6 hours a night, and were already in a state of constant sleep deprivation.
You're probably bring downvoted for the attitude, but you're right.

I've worked for a couple of low-mid tier companies and their core was always mediocre talent who is there because it's the top of the world for them. Top talent will always gravitate towards money, prestige. Sure there are some outliers that will work for food and change world, but if you can earn more why wouldn't you?
It... says "Ad" in a alt-colored tag, has a completely different background. Only one ad, vs. google.com, which can show up to 4 identically-styled ads.
Apple isn't anti-advertising, they're anti-tracking, pro-privacy. They're not in the business of selling ads anywhere near the scale that Google is -- the App Store ads in particular are simple, and they cancelled their iAd program a few years ago.
To be honest this puts me off the whole SaaS thing. The worst I can get right now is some Microsoft update impacting my software and that has happened once but even then that only impacted a small minority of my customers and was easy to resolve. I can't imagine worrying about my service going down whilst I'm on top of a mountain in the middle of Wales.
>Not only did I need to batch resize all images, I also wanted to preserve all image metadata and EXIF data (date, time, location, etc). I was unable to find a tool to perform such a basic but crucial task so I set out to build it myself.

It looks like the author is using a Mac, so XnConvert would be just fine for this task:

https://www.xnview.com/en/xnconvert/
> But there's a great deal of difference between "Are there asymptomatic carriers?" and "How many, and how efficiently do they transmit?"

The greatest tragedy in all of this is that the state of scientific journalism is as crap as it's always been. Science does not deliver neat yes/no answers, it delivers probabilities.

Can asymptomatic people spread the virus? Yes.

Can you get infected by passing a random unmasked stranger on the street? Yes.

Can you get infected by touching a surface that an infected person has touched? Yes.

Can you get the disease more than once? Yes.

Can you die from the disease? Yes.

Can you develop "long covid" after having the disease? Yes.

Can you get infected even though you've been fully vaccinated? Yes.

Can you die from the vaccine? Yes.

The above statements are all true. But their probabilities of happening to you range from very unlikely to microscopic. And that gets completely lost when media reports on it, and when people talk to each other, and when politicians make policies trying to stop the activities that people are most afraid of...

And now we're in this mess where it's practically impossible for anyone to know what the right thing to do is.
Can someone please explain why countries with extremely low crime rates in general seem to have terrible bike theft problems?
> They’re not capable of understanding a brilliant language

Maybe your language isn’t so “brilliant” if some of the smartest programmers in the world still can’t figure it out.
As a women he responded to, I have met these people too.

Plenty of them who tell you from their own initiative, quite quickly. Like they could not wait for opportunity too tell me about my inferiority. So he likely does not have to fish all that much.

The other complicating factor is that people who are smooth and don't talk about these openly, pretty often are on practice even more biased. But in ways that are harder to prove, but do very real damage.
It’s also racist.
Here is it: https://adnauseam.io/. Works on Firefox just fine.
Plenty of offense: why are you even asking why they're doing research into ways to improve people's well-being, especially poor people? Yes, giving money helps, I'm all for UBI, but maybe there are other approaches that are cheaper or complement UBI. How about we find out and _improve people's lives_?
Hi!

Are these positions open to candidates from Europe (GMT+1), or do you only consider remote candidates within the US?
Funny to see how the goalposts move. At first it was flattening the curve, then it was waiting for the vaccine, and now it turns out we need it even with a vaccine.
"Quebec having some of the worst outcomes in the world"

This is completely false, Quebec actually has some of the better outcomes in the civilized world. [1]

Better than US, France, UK, Poland, Spain, Sweden - it's about the same as Switzerland and a little worse than Germany.

Where is your evidence of mismanagement?

The initial pandemic broke out and given that Quebec is the place in NA with the highest degree of 'socialized elderly care' - it's not unreasonable that the initial shock was higher, but after that 'first wave' of deaths in LTC - since June - the rate has been about the same as Canada, which is among the best in the world.

The populist blame is ridiculous - everyone whines about their own governments without providing any material evidence, because frankly in most cases there is none.

"CHSLDs collapsing" - is plainly false.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_death_rates_...
How I started my programming journey
They will absolutely do both because nothing stops them fingerprinting us otherwise. Anything based on goodwill and hope should be considered false starts.
Metaepistomology is reasoning about the knowledge of other people in order to understand what is true.
You could simply email and ask, using the Contact link below.
You can't gradually stop smoking if you are addicted enough.
+1. Though remember we're talking averages, and different people have different sleep needs. One would think some of them saw enough increase in sleep quality to show up in the stats.
Wow. Philosophical question does not mean desire to discuss Socrates vs Confucius and how different genders would be compatible of that.

It's about deeper, more open ended questions usually acting as ice breakers to understand their experience better and to steer into follow-up discussions and into more casual conversation. This will naturally lead to opening up more and revealing more about themselves. It's not the ability to answer the question, it's what the answer might be that potentially reveals any such bias. And yes, you will need to counter your own biases for this, but so will any interview format unless you are a robot.
In the USA, school schedules are at least partially dictated by after-school sports. Classes need to end early enough that teams can practice in daylight.
I know what university is like in New Zealand. I live here and went to university not long ago.

The fact that your debt is interest free is nice, but it's still debt.

Whether you would like to admit it or not, higher education is at least partially an economic decision.
If your smoke alarm is faulty you should replace it. Unlike most hardware, faulty smoke alarms can directly lead to the death of yourself or family. It's the one form of tech that I 100% replace when any problems occur.

There is no situation where you should accept or ignore a faulty smoke alarm.
> But on the other hand, the rich will lose more

Will they, though?

Going by absolute value, perhaps, but that's nowhere near the whole story. Yes, if owners of a megacorp lose $100M, they've lost more than all their employees combined - but they still have a $1B between them in other assets, offshore bank accounts, whatnot, so they stay rich, while their employees suddenly find themselves in a life-threatening emergency.

I can't think of a single market crisis that kicked down the richest people to the level of the poor. Wars and revolutions, yes, but not a market crisis. The more money you have, the easier it is to protect it - and marginal value of money grows sublinearly, so losing even 50% of your wealth hurts less the bigger that amount is. On top of that, connections and networks don't go away in a crisis. Which brings me to:

> during the rebuilding a different set of people will gain the upper hand and end up on top

One way for a competing upstart to get ahead of the other upstarts would be... to hire some of the "old guard" in advisory roles. After all, the crisis doesn't suddenly invalidate the ex-top people's knowledge experience. On the contrary, not only they still have relevant experience that an upstart doesn't, they also have benefit of hindsight and connections. So while the names of the companies and their CEOs may change, I'm pretty sure many of the old players - ones that didn't choose to retire and enjoy their riches - will quickly find their way back into the game.

As for their employees, maybe they'll find their way back to their original positions too. Some day. After they dig themselves up of debt. That is, if the experience of having to give their kids heated ketchup packets for dinner didn't completely break them.

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EDIT: To be clear: revolutions and wars aren't the answer either. A big enough wave of death and destruction will be enough to grind down the richest too, but that's only a way to re-roll the dice on who's the rich and who's the poor in the next round. And the poor, again, suffer disproportionately here.

For some reason this is seen as controversial these days, but I honestly believe that stability is something that works in favor the poor, not against them. It limits what they can do (the dreaded "status quo"), but it also puts a limit on losses. As long as the society is stable, we can try to make steady adjustments, even if it's a grind. If it starts to collapse, everyone enters survival mode, and everyone is much worse off. Even those who survive the chaos and chance their way into the top will have to live in the smoldering remains of their previous civilization, which is almost surely worse than what they had before.

(Worth remembering we all have more to lose now. 1000 years ago, life before and after war wasn't much different. 70 years ago, the difference was stark. Today, it would be greater still. All the quality of life we enjoy today is very far from "ground state" of humanity, very quick to undo, and very hard to restore.)
We deprive them of learning any other language than latin in the same time. I'm not arguing against a 3rd language, I'm arguing against that language being latin. Let them chose.
Lots of new languages come out that look like syntax level changes from an existing mainstream language. This looks like C# with a slightly different syntax to me. C# has a huge community, so why would I use this?

Compare that to, for example, Clojure where there is no mainstream equivalent. I can see why it exists.

Perhaps the readme just need updating?
X<Y for any value of X and Y that will generate outrage. Shame on those who click.
You speak on behalf of HN, however, this submission appears to be on the front-page.

It seems that the majority of voting users browsing HN throughout the duration of this posts existence do indeed love this bs.
Yes, when people bug me, trying to debug them quickly ends up in a 403 :-P
Its very interesting in that when people read "relevant" ads, they usually take the meaning as "relevant to buyer".

But in reality, ads are always "relevant to seller/advertiser". Seller is almost never interested in selling you anything but what makes most profit from you. Eg. A decathlon might be better cost/benefit ratio wise, but you will always get an ad for Nike, because Nike is paying for the ad, not decathlon.

Such is the lie that was fed to us, and most of us accepted it. Tragedy of the commons indeed.
It’s pretty much the same thing with the AstraZeneca study in South Africa that found it to be 10% effective, yet people throw that around a lot.
If you have enough ram to keep the current state of your computation, you probably have enough disk to push it to, several times over (for obvious reasons, you should never overwrite your latest snapshot with the most current data). If your computation was on a self-managed windows version, you definitely have enough disk.
> What the hell is "passion", how do quantify it and how do you use it? What happens when person you hired for "passion" loses it?

It's harder to quantify than 'expert in typescript' and maybe ill described and abused, but there are a diverse set of needs when it comes to engineering, it's not just deeply technical, it's also broadly technical with strong planning, entrepreneurial thought process etc.. my, perhaps naive view is the world definitely needs both of these so keep and open mind and stay respectful.. 'lmao' I'm certain you wouldn't do in person, debate is good but cmon, always put the extra effort in to understand and communicate your own gut reactions
3D Printer Weaver
That is fine if you consider cryptocurrency as an investment. But if the goal is to be used as a currency(which is what this integration is about), then it is not acceptable.
There were curfews all over Quebec, and Quebec's Jan 1. policies had the most precipitous drop in cases in any province in Canada at any time except the 'shelter in place' orders.

Your '1 and 2' points are not relevant speculation - and I don't care one bit about Legault or his government, it's besides the point.

The policies across Canada and most of Europe for that matter are not dramatically different.
Using UML implies that someone actually studied what different arrow types mean.
No It’s just the usual gentrified self contempt.
Looks amazing! It reminds me a bit of Beef [1]. Since you seem to be the author/main developer:
- How long have you been working on it?
- Was integration with OpenGL painful?
- Did you also write the IDE? What was the most work?

[1]: https://www.beeflang.org
Costly to whom?

Fingerprinting already slows down websites, and websites still use it extensively. The cost is paid by the users and nobody cares enough to fix it.
For the most part, the world is run by billionaires. They’ll look to China with even more caution.
Actually, picking the highest possible number helps show the massive disparity. I’m curious as to why you say it doesn’t help anything, or why it’s cherry picking.
Oh wow, I've definitely done this mistake without realizing it...
“† Perhaps immutable smart contracts that spread wealth in proportion to the number of people, accounting for basic needs and disproportionate wealth disparities? But even then I'd suppose blockchain wouldn't be the most efficient way to do it.” —https://www.cynicusrex.com/file/cryptocultscience.html
Yes, Perl's package ecosystem CPAN (the "Comprehensive Perl Archive Network") was lightyears ahead of other systems at the time (late 90s / early 2000s), it provided modules for everything, which made you so incredibly productive. You need a DNS library? Just go to CPAN. CGI functionality? CPAN. Parsing some obscure file format? CPAN.

Really sad it lost so much traction in the last decade, I partially blame it on the failed Perl6 endeavour. I also mostly use Python these days but looking at my old Perl scripts Python really doesn't come close in terms of succintness.
> Social media holds a mirror up to society

This would only really be the case without algorithmic influence on discoverability and what people get shown on Facebook. "Engagement" being one of the keyword here, which very much morphs this "reflection".
Facebook might technically be a mirror, but if it is, it is one of those curved distorting ones you used to see at carnivals and fairs.
Not really, everybody is up to their own Heuristical Modelling Language, that is simply based on custom circles/rectangles. Shockingly, works pretty well (and faster to draw) if there's some context understanding between people who read the graph.