skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would also add on that most ideas have already been thought of. It's pretty common that new people will come into an org and bring up their idea only to find all the experienced people rolling their eyes because the idea has been talked about dozens of times.

It's good to be observable but just because your idea hasn't been implemented before doesn't mean no one has thought about it. At big companies there is friction in place for any change.

As someone new I think the best way to bring up something you notice is to ask your manager or a peer something like "Hey, I noticed we're not doing X and it could be a problem. Is there a reason for that?" That will allow them to fill you in on the context and organizational history.

If you bring up an idea, especially if it's been discussed many times before, and start raving about how it should be implemented, your co-workers are going to lose a lot of respect for you because you haven't taken a chance to learn first.
Yeah but the prey was even bigger. Have you seen brontos? Everything was bigger in that era, including plants and trees.
German constitutional court strikes down Berlin rent cap
Ask HN: Thoughts on Webflow?
Hey!

I want to buy a new domain.

Was going to default with a “traditional host” featuring a plain .html file, but Webflow has me curious ..

I searched HN Algolia for answers related to this topic and didn’t turn up any results.

My question is if you were going to buy a new domain, which host provider would you choose?

Are domainhost models like Webflow better for optimizing for today’s WWW?

Any feedback would be much appreciated.

Thank you
Haha. I work at a VFX studio and it used to be that the AE rendering machine was the same as the online/finishing machine (the one we'd watch for final approval with clients). Anyway, it was very normal for clients to come in, watch the final version of a music video / commercial and turn the volume WAY up, then leave, and no one would think to turn that machine's volume down. So it was not uncommon to be working late at night and - out of nowhere - the entire office would be filled with the deafening sound of a sheep. Absolutely terrifying.
I went to college and have many coworkers who went to boot camps, and we’re paid the same!

Look on LinkedIn for people who work at the companies you want to work at, and also went to bootcamps, to build a shortlist.

There are several boot camps today, in every major urban area, that carry major street cred in the local tech communities.
Yes, when I requested notifications support in `gh` the response was basically 'yep we want to, but it's not stable API yet'.
It's unfortunate that this article recommends a condenser mic at the end. In my opinion, most people who need better audio for video calls are better served with a dynamic mic. Very few people have a bedroom or office room with proper acoustic treatment. A dynamic mic will be better for most consumers trying to get better audio for Zoom, Meet, Teams, etc.
I have wondered how much of this is also due to markets. A lot of governments and security-centric nonprofits (eg hosptials) use PHP instead of Rails, which seems much more popular in startup land. It could even be that PHP is used fairly evenly across the whole US, while Rails is used more on the coasts.

Disclaimer: I don’t have hard facts or even anecdotes, I am a functional-first developer who marvels at any language which actually has jobs on the market :)
Because to non-technical businesses hiring competent database architects is a lot more expensive than buying an Oracle support contract.
The GP has put a "your" instead of "you're" in (almost) the very next sentence, so you don't even need to point to your own mistakes to illustrate your point...
Have you written it with an ORM backed app? I’m curious if you put the business logic on the Pydantic models and keep the ORM small, or put the logic on the ORM and treat Pydantic like a serializer. Personally, I’d rather work with Pydantic models than ORM.
> with the same owner

You know the entire establishment media is owned by a select few people right?

She was very clearly against stimulus before election because she didn't want to give a win to her political opponent.

We can say whatever we want about her political opponent but he had made it very clear on Twitter that he would instantly sign a stimulus only bill without pork if it's brought to him. Pelosi on the other hand played politics and blamed it on her political opponent as she didn't want cheques with his name going out before elections.

Here's her interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer criticized by the left:

https://youtu.be/vV2mBhQR3r4

Here's a left leaning source:

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/pelosi-says-no-cov...

Here's a right leaning source:

https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/pelosi-trump-coronaviru...

> House Speaker Nancy Pelosi ripped into the White House's latest $1.8 trillion coronavirus relief offer during a combative interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer, accusing President Trump of only wanting to send out a second round of stimulus checks to juice the economy and boost his election odds.

> The Trump administration's proposal -- its largest yet -- drew criticism from both Republicans and Democrats, dimming the odds of another round of emergency aid before the Nov. 3 election. It was expected to include a second round of direct payments of up to $1,200 for adults and $1,000 for children; expanded unemployment benefits at $400 per week and additional funding for state and local governments.

> Blitzer pressed Pelosi about her decision to reject the deal, even as some Democrats, including former presidential candidate Andrew Yang and California Rep. Ro Khanna, urged her to accept the offer. (Khanna tweeted that Pelosi should "make a deal & put the ball in McConnell court").
I honestly think if we lewis carroll as required reading in school we wouldn't be so quick to forget hard learned lessons about greed.

These days it feels like society has shifted more towards an ayn rand paradigm.
I remember the largest contribution I provided my senior project for my bachelor's degree was correcting group members' usage of there/their/they're. Definitely can confirm college does not mean one can write.
Sustainability is orthogonal to the geographic patterns of development - it's always going to be more efficient (even in environmental impact!) to cluster around resources and transportation.
As someone who was also home schooled and had problems with social interactions in my early twenties the best advice I can give is join several clubs that does things in person.

You MUST learn how to make friends, how to not upset people, how to be comfortable in social situations and empathy.

To do this I would recommend that you force yourself into social situations regularly. Afterwards spend some time thinking about how the interaction went, especially from the other persons viewpoint, practice empathizing (it is a skill that can be learned and will make you a better more considerate person).

So join several clubs that meets and does something in person. You should have two scheduled social events every week.

Try your best to be aware of peoples feelings and groups social structure so that you can try to not trample all over either.

Going straight to upper management as you described is generally not well accepted and most definitely upsets middle management (the people who would actually hire you).

Basically, realize that the problem is who you are and that you need to become someone else to succeed. Changing your own personality is one of the hardest things one can do, so expect it to take a few years.
Bringing Fusion to the U.S. Grid
Many farms use a hydrogen-fixing cover crop, but they probably don’t let it live long enough to get the full benefit.
Striking Telecom Workers Are Building a Community-Owned ISP
Are any of the things in your garage 10-20x the average cost of that thing? That fridge is like the Lamborghini of fridges.

I'm not saying buying something that is 12.5% of your take home income is unreasonable. After all, I own a car. I'm saying that buying a fridge at 12.5% of your take home income is unreasonable.
Post your resume and github profile. This seems like a strange post to make without actually linking to any of the work that you've done.
I don’t think calling type hints experimental is accurate. They’ve been in the stable release for 4 years.
Yeah, a headhunter might be a good idea. I'll check out some which were mentioned here. I heard of triplebyte but have heard they've done some sketchy stuff (spam emails, exposing PI) etc. But it sounds like they do have incentives to champion applicants.
with Zoom/etc. one can also add voice cleaner/improver similar to that software that makes a pop-star singer out of a nobody. Instead of bubbling you will be delivering into the ears of your team like the Voice was delivering the Commandments to Moses.
"Mother earth is fine." I think this ignores the human status as a thinking animal, and the glaringly obvious responsibility we collectively share for keeping our biosphere in good condition. That is, that we keep the remarkable diversity of life intact, and do not pointlessly throw the most unique and precious part of our universe in a chipper to make more particle board furniture.

It is interesting that by incrementally converting the life-support system of our planet into dollar store trash, we could have similar impact on the biosphere as an ELE meteor impact! The tragedy is that, at least theoretically, this particular cause is avoidable. Or was. (Maybe science really is to blame? Wouldn't that be sad.)
In half of these positions, it's hard to tell which player is attacking. It would be nice if there was a note that explains which team we are looking at.
An example everyone knows is “twenty questions” - applied to people it’s not hard to narrow you down to “you” having never asked a question that doesn’t roughly divide the population 50/50.

Example:

1. male?

2. East of the Mississippi?

Etc etc.
I'm not sure if I would go so far as to say this is an open core model. This is more like someone developing a proprietary WordPress plug-in, but WordPress itself is completely FOSS.
This claim is not that there was 20K T-rexes at one dire point in history but an average over millions of years.

Humans ended up surviving that disaster, and then went on to populate the whole earth. Also side note, supervolcanoes are scary as hell.
Future generations will look at most of the plastic we create the way we look at asbestos or second-hand smoke. Yes, there's some benefit but not worth the cost. They will recoil at how long we took to wean ourselves from the addiction, especially since their bloodstreams will contain more plastic than ours.

If we make it.
I'm not challenging you on whether or not you're smart. I'm commenting on the fact that you're unable to find employment, which means either you're carrying yourself incorrectly or you're unable to perform the tasks required of an entry-level applicant. You're bringing up this resume, these achievements, which can verify that you're intelligent and capable of critical thinking, so the greatest culprit would be that you're carrying yourself incorrectly, right?

In another post you brought up your longest stint being 2 months, and that you dropped out of college your freshman year. To be blunt, I don't think the achievements you list really count if you didn't actually complete them. There's a lot of "I worked with", "I got accepted to", "I got hired by" in your posts, but pretty much all of those things are followed by quitting almost immediately. When you're competing in a market with college grads and people with lots of previous experience, having gotten accepted to and then dropping out of a good school buys you much?
Segcache: A memory-efficient, scalable cache for small objects with TTL
that's a good strategy, but I'd change one thing: instead of art, use equities, and broden gold to commodities. so then you have: 1/3 real estate, 1/3 equities, 1/3 commodities (mostly gold and bitcoin with some other precious metals thrown in). It's hard to get more diversified than that.
Adversary Drones Are Spying on the U.S. and the Pentagon Acts Like They're UFOs
> you call him a creep, I would call him a go getter.

Perhaps the difference is how succesful you are at it.

> so what, he called an executive and got around their spam filter?

Pissing off people you need something from is probably a poor tactic. Especially when you're not offering something particularly rare. Doubly so because the executive is not the hiring manager, so its unlikely they could help you, only hurt you.

I agree with most of the rest of your advice fwiw.
Does video/voice work? Can you screen share? Can I share files?

All these bridges seem fine for basic text but modern chat programs do a lot more these days and I personally can't see the point without 1:1 feature parity.

This seems doubly true for a service like Teams versus something like Discord where Teams is going to be installed and configured by a central IT team for all users.

I know a lot of this falls on companies building their own proprietary, non-interoperable messaging platforms and this is an effort to unify them and I don't mean to shit on those efforts but it just seems like it's a lot of effort for becoming a third class citizen when interfacing with those platforms.
An observation I’ve made is that the strongest and most tangible criticism of modern farming practices comes from small/family farmers and homesteaders.

The two groups have almost no philosophy and practices in common. Different worlds.
> It's also a great lens for understanding what's happening now with cryptocurrencies.

Expanding on this - one of the brilliant innovations in Bitcoin was to make the ledger fundamental and the coin an implementation artifact. The blockchain doesn't store coins - it stores a ledger of who transacted with whom, and for what amounts, and then ownership of a Bitcoin is a derived quantity from the transaction history. Ethereum just expands that ledger to let smart contracts on the blockchain define other quantities to track, as well as the rules and relationships between them.

It's completely backwards from how I would've thought to implement a cryptocurrency, which would be to start with the coin and figure out how to make its ownership distinct & incorruptible. By starting with the ledger first, you don't need to think very hard about ownership (because it's all recorded in the ledger), you just need to find a way to define a source of truth for the transaction history.
Haha yeah. Though, some of the boot camp folks who I noticed . Usually have earned a bachelors with a major in something else than CS etc. Then made the transition to tech via a bootcamp. I applied to the recurse center a while back and got rejected.
What about this project: https://m.facebook.com/WeArePLASTICPeople/

They collect all kind of plastic, melt it together and make furniture out of it.
sure, but that's why BPF is so great; I'd guess a reasonable program that assumes port 53, parses the packet enough to look at the first question and compare domain against .internal and then rewrites address + updates checksum is maybe... 300-400 LOC? can probably get a bit fancier, but it shouldn't be too painful to write and will execute plenty fast enough.
I have to agree. I don't think having a degree dictates whether a person can do a job or not, but they have sure convinced corporations that it's a requirement.

After I got a degree I started getting responses from places.
I don't disagree, but I think you'd be surprised at how many would respond in some capacity that was helpful. Even if 100 people refuse and one person doesn't, that's still more information than you had before.

And in my experience, if you fail the technical portion of an interview, most companies will tell you. Meaning, if you ask and they don't bring up technical skills, it's probably not the technical skills.
Well, if PG says it, we'd better all do it. Now if you downvote me due to disagreeing, you're disagreeing with the notion that you're employing. Mwahahaha. Recursive gotcha.
Get a legal job that pays you at least minimum wage.

That should be your #1 priority. Absolutely anything. Just apply to everything until you get something. Once you have income that you control, then start applying for computer industry jobs.

Avoid homelessness at all costs, that’s a really big hole to get out of.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26819386
Obviously the entire point of this thread is to disparage humanity and not come to meaningful conclusions. For your own sanity, just leave the anti-humanists to their own devices.
Thanks that is actually great advice. I added an addendum suggesting let agencies know he could use interview coaching but avoid details like where he's applied already or to how many companies.
I didn't really think about it like that, though i guess accurate.
Matrix, the spec is open, and synapse the server is open. anyone can make a bridge, they are pluggable, and the author can choose their license.
I guess you could call Matrix+spec the core.
inflation has been much higher than reported. Just look at the big mac index, which shows nearly 4% inflation for the last 20 years. Cape shiller housing index, also nearly 4% for the last 20 years. According to Peter Schiff, "Trusting the CPI from the labor department is like trusting the Mob to report on crime."
Yes, I ride with a towel on my neck and I periodically wipe my face every 30 minutes. Most of my sweat drains into my towel because I use silicone covers over the VR headset padding.

I consider myself a heavy sweater since my shirts are drenched even working without VR
No graphical screen, just an LCD bike computer with basic information.

I used to use an old iPad to watch Peloton classes, but now I have a Roku for the TV, so I run the Peloton app on the Roku so I can watch the class on the big screen.
I know someone that talks, and writes, in a very similar fashion to yourself. There are a number of interesting parallels between his approach towards education and your own. I presume you have some sort of points on the spectrum, or neuro-cognitive differences. These can be negatives and positives simultaneously.

As another mentioned, you have a stream of consciousness style of writing that is atypical, and could be an asset if properly harnessed.

Despite your similarities, he has some pretty substantial achievements in his career, and runs in some lofty circles. Works for a fortune 1000 company and has built an impressive career out of his niche skills. He exhibits an extreme amount of persistence and has a grand network on one of the freenode channels, so he is quite the curmudgeon.

Rather than pursuing the most competitive gigs possible, perhaps you should be building your skills, knowledgebase, your CV, and your network?
This is, from what I gather from the paper, because the pointers are not individually encrypted via cipher. Rather, pointers in the same domain (domains being identified via a tagging scheme) are all displaced together by a common value, which comes from that encryption engine. So imagine that some pointers p and q are actually p + c and q + c under the hood. When the machine churns, c will change, and so all pointers have to be updated. There is some sort of moving barrier which indicates which parts of memory are "clean" (ready for use) and which are still using the old key.
> Almost no one is going to notice 5ms or below. At 20ms, many musicians are going to have this definite sense that something is off, but they can still hang. In between, it's a spectrum.

Reminded me of this article, easily one of the top 20 I've ever read (Brian Eno, Francis Crick, Italo Calvino, roller coasters, trepanation, time, death, drumming)

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/04/25/the-possibilia...

> “I was working with Larry Mullen, Jr., on one of the U2 albums,” Eno told me. “ ‘All That You Don’t Leave Behind,’ or whatever it’s called.” Mullen was playing drums over a recording of the band and a click track—a computer-generated beat that was meant to keep all the overdubbed parts in synch. In this case, however, Mullen thought that the click track was slightly off: it was a fraction of a beat behind the rest of the band. “I said, ‘No, that can’t be so, Larry,’ ” Eno recalled. “ ‘We’ve all worked to that track, so it must be right.’ But he said, ‘Sorry, I just can’t play to it.’ ”

> Eno eventually adjusted the click to Mullen’s satisfaction, but he was just humoring him. It was only later, after the drummer had left, that Eno checked the original track again and realized that Mullen was right: the click was off by six milliseconds. “The thing is,” Eno told me, “when we were adjusting it I once had it two milliseconds to the wrong side of the beat, and he said, ‘No, you’ve got to come back a bit.’ Which I think is absolutely staggering.”
For what it's worth, I haven't watched TV since the 80's and people assume that I am militant or insane.
That is a different issue, a serious one. The claimed problem here is that farming relies on topsoil, which is not correct. Our factory farming doesn't rely on topsoil nutrients to feed the crops. Our current farming methods leave a lot to be desired.
>Your writing is not strong

Followed by

>Your applying to those companies

instead of "you are" or "you're"

Cut him some slack.
There is a technical paper; just that's not it.
I think 'body' also includes shoulders. Basically any part of the body that you can legally play the ball with.
> The GP has put a "your" instead of "you're" in (almost) the very next sentence

Correctly so
> a guest said they love the food however seeing the fish sandwich I prepared for the crew asked if they could just eat the same things they saw me serving the crew

I've eaten fish in multiple restaurants of varying quality over the years, with some really really good ones in there. However my favorite fish dish is still a "Backfischbrötchen" (German word for a fried fish sandwich with remoulade, leaf of lettuce, some cucumber/tomato/onion slices), just the smell of which makes my mouth water every time I pass the moored cutters/fishing boats in my home town's harbor.
Spoofing your number does seem shady.

However, saying someone is a creep is not very helpful. There is a big difference between how one is perceived and what a person -is-.

The most helpful advice I've seen here is: get direct feedback from a candid friend.

This HN feedback offers a range of opinions, but -please- don't dwell on it. Find a way to have people you know help you ... practice interviews, talking out loud about your situation, your expectations, your goals, and so on.
What's different about it?
Sounds like many external third party recruiters, or perhaps many sales oriented jobs. Assuming you have a thick skin for rejection.

I tend to avoid dealing with such recruiters that use heavy handed forceful tactics, but there are a lot of them.
Not trying to argue either. Contributing to an open-source project is a very different kind of activity from being a member of a team at a company. Programming is only half the job.