skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the problem with the UK is on the whole we never really got past seeing software as an administrative / back-office concern, which leads to naturally wanting to place developers etc into "low-paid, low-leverage" positions (think mindlessly running a few SQL queries or adding a few fields to an internal tool) vs having them radically improve the business proposition.

This really presages trouble with industries being upended on the basis of technological innovations. The light at the end of the tunnel is that long-term, companies that value and can utilise technical talent to innovate rather than sustain will win out and heat up the talent market.
Our context here is: "What Should We Do If Extraterrestrials Show Up?".

Assuming they exist is central to exploring this context. This doesn't mean anyone exploring the idea necessarily believes or disbelieves they exist.

There were a bunch of ex-military who testified publicly as to UFO events surrounding nuclear facilities in the US and the former Soviet Union around the cold war. The UFO's were reportedly deactivating missiles on both sides simultaneously.

I don't recall the source exactly but I'm sure it's out there. Anyway, it at least makes some sort of sense (versus other claims about aliens sticking things up peoples butts).

I mention it as if this happened, and was some kind of intervention, and presumably successful, it might make sense they subsequently laid low for a bit, potentially matching your correlation.

Again, I'm not suggesting any of this is real, it's just an interesting idea within the context of this post.
> WebKit on iOS has special sandbox privileges not available to other user frameworks.

Okay so WebKit cannot be used as is, but then why forbid other alternatives [1]? Seems like a Catch-22.

> It seems like an engineering challenge to expose these features to arbitrary 3rd party frameworks in a way that doesn’t allow these features to be abused.

How does literally every single other platform manage this? AFAIK none of Android, Windows, the many Unix-like OSs, even Apple's MacOs have such restrictions on browser apps.

And I think it'd be unfair to characterize the users of those other platforms as being "abused" by their browser apps. E.g. Firefox seems pretty trustworthy.

[1] https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/
- "2.5.6 Apps that browse the web must use the appropriate WebKit framework and WebKit Javascript."
> Asking cops "do you do crimes" is an interesting methodology, for sure.

How do you think the population wide numbers are gathered?

The core point is that the 40% number is exaggerated BS, if for no other reason than it literally counts "shouting" and "loss of temper". There's no reliable evidence indicating the number for police officers is any different than the general population.
You need a portfolio of whatever it is you can do. I think both long and short term someone like yourself should probably work for themselves. Try contracting, build public facing apps, a public repo, etc to show what you can do so that people are so convinced they can overlook your more challenging attitude/personality.
Very underrated point. We’ve all seen this, don’t know why there’s some psuedoscientific push by almost everyone to convince the world weed is practically harmless, when it’s definitely not. Homelessness exploded in Los Angeles in exactly 2016 when weed was officially legalized. For some reason, people refuse to even look into a possible connection. They think the idea is absurd. It’s Strange.
...but my wife also uses our KICKR, so there's still swapping to do...

We did that for about a month. Then bought a second KICKR. We leave out cyclocross bikes mounted. I'll swap my road bike on over winter because the taller gearing is needed for Zwift racing.
Loss of trust. Trust in society creates enormous efficiencies. We're seeing the loss of those efficiencies as society splits apart into more and more tribes.

Bitcoin, in part, is a marker for loss of trust in governments. Trust in their motives and/or ability to responsibly steward currencies.
Who plays video games in Brazil?
> there's almost always some JS expertise built into the organization.

That is usually part of the front-end team that don't do the backend SQL work. Tho team that would get assigned the work for a backend greenfield would be versed in Java.
> Java is a pretty great language, but some of the crap people stuck on top of it was (and still is) a nightmare for readability and reusability

I think that applies to literally every language. Bad programmers write bad code, regardless of whether it's Go, Java, Python, Bash, or Assembly.
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I interviewed at Amazon.

Aced all questions, except the one that ALL of their inverviewers asked, that was how I had shown leadership solving a problem in a team situation in my past jobs.

See, in all my past jobs, I never been in a large team.

Didn't pass the interview, they have a policy to not tell you why but I can guess why...
Your metaphors are tiring
You have a point, but maybe cigarettes are different.

I have a felling that without social pressure to smoke, there won't be much of a market for them. It must take some effort to start smoking (I have never smoked, it just seems awful to me) and the young people I see smoking do it to look cool.
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Liberty Reserve was such a trusted party for a long time before Bitcoin became popular. In fact, there's a good argument to be made that the US government shutdown of Liberty Reserve is exactly what kicked off bitcoins popularity in the first place.

On May 6, 2016, the operator of Liberty Reserve was sentenced to 20 years in US federal prison
Is this one of the many examples of German government wasting taxpayer's money?
This appears to encapsulate all the component parts of a very useful video service: instant distribution and licensing for amateur videographers. Typical use case: you are about and about in public. Something unusual happens. You whip out your mobile and happen to capture a viral moment. Upload to Youtube or TikTok. And are besieged with distribution request by global media channels. By automating every stage of licensing it would make it simple for content creators to get paid. At global scale, this could mean life changing cash for some. It reminds me of some of the initial ideas around Coil and Web Monetization.

Also glad you linked up $ESSAY. Emily Segal's $NOVEL crowd fund met its 25ETH goal in 24h. $VIDEO is definitely the next one to pop ;)
Psychedelic psychotherapy was left as a casualty to the war on drugs.
The ecosystem is what makes the huge difference, especially thanks to Laravel.

So much documentation everywhere. So many helpful resources.

I've tried to learn Rails back in the days (ie 7 years ago) and was shocked by how poor the entire documentation is. I subscribed to Railscast but it hasn't been maintained for years.

The PHP ecosystem, however, is incredibly alive.
Python is still more wildly used / popular language, but I never seen a Python container for a real project which was less than 1GB.
I can find maybe only one or two things from this list related to Java, both not reflecting current state of affairs. You do not make the need to have a run configuration a language or platform fault, do you?
Well less energy does have downsides, see: all the things we use energy for. We probably don’t want to tax that except to prevent terrible harm. So I can imagine an argument being along the lines “alternative energy production isn’t ready to meet demand yet, oh and also burning carbon is useful for figuring out alternative energy (see: Tesla and the coal in China that’s burned to make their batteries) so how about instead we greatly fund alternative energy”.
perhaps paid some money when the process wasn't booked till the end of time
Thank you for the feedback! I appreciate it. I think I was a little sleep deprived when I wrote the description - it could definitely be improved.
Bedrock is by far the most popular version of Minecraft.

It's the version used on all handhelds and consoles.
Mobile Internet access/usage is very common in Kenya now but it wasn't in 2009 when this happened.
I can (and often do) build from CLI, that is much smoother. I tried using vim on java, but honestly you need an IDE for all the constant code generation and incessant fixups by mouseclicks that are needed. Vim+coc is more than enough in the other languages that I use.
It might be useful to learn that the narrator was depressed and documenting the octopus helped him heal.
So to be specific there’s a very negligible tax arbitrage which actually favors the employee not the employer but conceptually in the compliance case described above the employer would actually be net neutral to paying the tax adjusted rate (aka their outflow) to the employee and it’s not set out to be some great scam.
> Assuming that it could be mass producible at a price similar to premium house paints I can't see the problem in bringing this to market.

Unfortunately, that's the whole point of this little discussion, right? GP is saying how many things like this, yes, seem like they have merit, but at the end of the day can't be produced practically outside of a lab.
Plenty of things are simpler and easier to read in Scala really: lambdas, constructors, case classes, named and default arguments, for comprehensions, collections, operators on non-primitive types, ...

Sure, you can find libraries using complex type-level machinery, macros and so on. But wading through complex Java libraries that overuse OO design patterns isn't particularly approachable either.
I'm in Ireland as well. I've heard a couple of examples of employees getting €120+k base plus €XX+ in equity. But salaries look low in various ads and otherwise quite opaque (who wants to tell you they earn 6 figures?). I think it is to do with local vs overseas capital. There was a useful European salary distribution explanation posted by Gergely Orosz (ex Uber) [1] recently.

[1] https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/software-engineering-sala...
If it is a female my misophonia suggests it is Mary Louise Kelly. I've gotten used to it. There is also a male voice on one of the weekend shows that might be who you're describing.

I wrote in to a cable TV show a decade ago to call out the nose hair whistling and mouth sounds. They never replied to me, but they rolled off the highs for the remainder of the shows.
> Not sure what about 2 sentences I wrote allows you to make broad assumptions about my experience

That you defend PHP like it is your home. We can deliver a product in Perl, but it's a bad choice these days. Unless... someone is reaaaaly well acquainted with Perl and little else.

Hence I suspect that's whats going on here. As I've seen this happen many times before, also outside of programming.

> allows you to make broad assumptions

I voiced my suspicion based on your defensiveness. That's all.
The prosaic reality is that bumblebees don't have any particular feelings about cats. Not more that they would feel about other carnivores. Using the same argument we could easily link being rich in England with the presence of rats in their house (that also eat lots of mice); or other similar nonsense.

(But, yep. I agree that this old histories full of literary licenses feel warm inside and are entertaining as long as we take in mind that literature is not the same as science).
I agree that Java isn't fun or productive, but I'll qualify that statement with "for me".

I really do believe that the reason we have programmer holy wars is because we approach problem solving in different ways.

The way I approach solving a problem with a computer program is almost incompatible with the Java programming language. And, no- this is not a thinly veiled way to shit on object oriented programming. I can work in an object oriented paradigm just fine. It's just Java specifically that doesn't work for me.

Here are some examples that constantly bother me when writing Java:

* Null. Enough said.

* Writing value types used to be very tedious and bug-prone before Records. I haven't written Java with Records yet, but I'm glad to know that they'll be there if/when I do Java again. Even for an object-oriented architecture, value types can be useful and I use plenty of them.

* Type erased generics are painful. Especially with interfaces.

* The number and arithmetic APIs are incredibly frustrating. No unsigned numbers, silent wrap-around on overflow, silent data truncation on casts, etc. I have zero confidence that my Java code that deals with numbers is robust at all.

I'm sure that many programmers don't even notice these things, because they way they interact with program design is just different than my way. But when I write Java (or mostly any JVM language) one or more of these issues are on the forefront of my mind with almost every single line of code I type. It's almost unbearably frustrating.
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Like a lot of these discussions, there are some strong opinions but clearly the answer is, "it depends".

Only need 1 or 2 devs? You are more likely to find them locally and this makes it easier for you with tax/legal etc. Local people are more likely to be culturally closer to you which makes both recruitment and performance management easier. There are no time-zones etc.

The truth is, after you grow just a little bit bigger, in most countries, there are simply not enough local devs to meet the demand, you have to go remote, probably nationally and ultimately globally. This brings many challenges and in some cases costs a lot in legal/tax/hr costs, depending on whether you are sub-contracting to another EU country or somebody in China. Culturally hard, timezone inefficiency and many other well-know issues.

Another big issue is the type of work. If you have a job where you can easily package up tasks and they don't need much management input, you can much more easily farm it out to a managed firm in e.g. the Phillipines. One of my previous companies only went remote because they couldn't find enough people to recruit, it cost them the same amount after expenses per-person in Vietnam as it did in the UK.

As to whether it works, if you are naiive and think it is just about money, it is very likely to fail but plenty of companies have global teams and it works just great thanks.
This is painted as a disaster, but I think all we're doing is cutting through to get at a consistent valuation for energy.

In order for Bitcoin to every achieve any long-term viability, in my opinion, it needs to stabilize its pricing. Practically speaking, the route to do that is through a combination of supply chain pricing and credit markets.

Pricing energy in Bitcoin (which is really all this is doing) is an interesting step towards the supply chain problem. This power plant, in all likelihood, would be happy to sell the power to another bidder if the price per Joule is higher than the expected price per Bitcoin per Joule. The natural next step is to just price electricity directly in Bitcoin.

The question then becomes how viable it is to move down the chain -- pricing natural gas or coal in Bitcoin, and putting pricing pressure on the supply chain for more complex energy products (turbines, solar panels, etc.) to match this pricing. If this is feasible (and that's a big "if") then there is a chance that we start to flip the equation -- energy prices in dollars are simply too volatile and Bitcoin becomes a standard option for international settlement.
Depends on how you look at it. Are we comparing operating systems? Then we have a duopoly and should regulated Android as well. Are we comparing phone manufacturers? Well, there's a ton of them, Apple just competes and does the best.

> Apple and Google pulled a legal app from their stores

I can't sell anything I want at Wal-Mart. Doesn't PayPal not allow porn sites to do business? I don't see how this is different.

> Windows without a Microsoft approval or tax

So is it market share or what? What exactly is the monopoly? Microsoft doesn't allow me to play PlayStation games on Xbox. Most computers are sold with Windows operating systems. I don't know what the monopoly is supposed to be with Apple.
Ah, False Bay. A rare piece of Boolean Geography.
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Not just consoles -- games based on id Tech 3 (Quake 3's engine) would often ship with separate executable files on PC for single- and multi-player.
While I agree that OOMKiller is pretty mad, it's also important to note that the shared nature of memory means that the app which will die when the system is out of memory is anyway random. Even without overcommit, you can get into the situation of "the web browser is occupying 99% of RAM to open YouTube, and now pulseaudio tried to allocate another 50 bytes that the system just doesn't have, so pulseaudio should handle this, and then the WiFi manager will be the next to need 100 bytes and be refused etc".

Even worse, Linux by design stalls to a complete crawl when memory almost runs out, even with 0 swap and a fast disk, as it will first start swapping out code pages before giving up. Which means that every time a process is context switched, its code ends up first needing to be read from disk, the worst possible kind of cache thrashing imaginable.
Very clickbaity title. There is no plan on banning AI, just restricting AI in blanket survellaince.

Granted it's confusing if limiting AI which "impact[s] hiring and judiciary decisions, and rate trustworthiness" means limiting AI in these scenarios if they are purely advisory or there's human oversight, or just when it is the only decision mechanism.
Microsoft and Bell were successfully sued using existing antitrust law because they WERE harming consumers.

So again, how is Amazon hurting consumers?
You mean by having a (not very powerful) static type system and constructs that serve as name spaces for auto-completion lookup. Any language with modules and a static type system supports this, if the effort is put into creating the tools.
There are a lot of practicality/implementation concerns to paint other than what color it is. Just as many if not more than there are for battery technologies.

Does the paint stick to the surface you want to paint, how is it applied, what is the coverage, is it durable, does it repel contaminants, can it withstand the environmental conditions, is it chemically compatible with the surface, it is chemically a concern for the other items/humans/animals that may come in contact with, can it be produced at scale, does it (and it's vehicle for application) meet regulatory standards? etc...
Related prior discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26816444
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Huh? He only has one kid- a son, who appears in a lot of the movie diving with him. I'm no expert on the filmmaker's life, but I've not heard that he 'turned his back' on his wife. In fact, you can read her feelings about his relationship with the octopus here:

https://stories.seachangeproject.com/my-octopus-teacher-and-...

She ends by saying that she dives almost every day with the filmmaker.
I've worked in a ~50 person distributed company - the practical contracting steps weren't a big issue.

You pay everybody outside your local jurisdiction as contractors, and you pass on the significant savings to them as salary, so they can approximate the normal employee benefits purchased directly for themselves. I understand this is a bit more complicated in the US as health insurance is a key benefit, but not impossible, and that's not a problem in most of the rest of the world.

Employees do need to register locally as freelancers, file invoices & do taxes, but that's a relatively simple process for such cases everywhere I'm aware of, and any costs can be included in the salary bump. We made it work with no big problems or complaints for anybody in the 2 years I was there.
Again, how does this harm consumers?
"this little book" refers to "The Nation of Plants" - from which this piece is an excerpt. It's probably more obvious when you're holding the book, as opposed to reading an excerpt on the internet.
It's the browser that's the issue, not your site.

Seems similar to the Google Street View issue. They took pictures of public places, and you had to manually request to have your face or identifying info removed, if they were revealed.

The website is public in the same way as it can be accessed by any browser and isn't blocking search robots.
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I see, so anything that can possibly fail should return a result instead of "maybe" panicking as a side effect? So no panics at all in the language? That may adversely affect the ergonomics of the language for user space applications. Perhaps it would be better to build a completely fallible version of the standard library and use linting to enforce no panics.
I'll defer to the experts on a definition here. I'm trying to speak generally about the tax funded infrastructure versus the actual work of connecting to the backbone providers and providing satellite rack space. The infrastructure costs virtually nothing to maintain and is great for rent seeking monopolists to own and neglect while running a city scale network connected to the backbone requires constant maintenance and upgrades to keep up with demand and the dynamic security landscape.

I guess my argument is Comcast shouldn't be they only competition for coaxial internet if they can't offer an internet only service, without discounts, for less than their cheapest regular rate off contract package.
Scientific American Magazine. You're welcome.
This just isn’t true at all.

They are distinct and completely governed by different editors.
Have you even met us?
Damn. That’s whiter than my best friend.
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> While members of the psychedelic cohort received 25 milligrams of psilocybin during the sessions, considered a medium-to-heavy dose of the drug, those in the antidepressant group received 1 milligram. Such a low dose is typically provided in psychedelic studies in lieu of a placebo

Doesn't seem like well-designed study.
You don't have any moral qualms against supporting that kind of government? Homosexuality is illegal and punishable by death, women are charged with extramarital sex after being raped, and foreign workers are treated as slaves.

There are other things in life than cheap rental and fancy living, even if you don't happen to be personally directly affected.

https://www.amnesty.org/en/countries/middle-east-and-north-a...

https://www.hrw.org/middle-east/n-africa/united-arab-emirate...
About your aside, while all of that is true, the inverse isn't. Not everyone thinks everyone else has EHI. So if you have a lot of people telling you you have EHI, then you can feel confident in your own assessment of whether or not you have EHI.
Almost nobody uses mics like C800gs for podcasting and radio, though. The Sony c800g is one of the best vocal mics in the world, generally it will be found in high end studios. A U87 is very expensive for the purpose of radio/podcasting. The RE20 and the Sure SM7B are very popular for podcasting/radio and are around $400. NPR certainly aren't the only people that use U87s for radio/podcasting but they are in the minority. U87s are probably the most popular studio mic in the world for professional studios recording vocals but for this application it is accurate to call a U87 expensive.
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The point being made is the lucidity of explanation is part of the dev job. We aren't all just code monkeys, typing out programs for 8 hours straight every day.

Being able to design, describe, explain, and critique in a way that doesn't make everyone at your company resent you is far more important than any dev hard skill.
Us antitrust law has no jurisdiction over what Amazon does in India...
Heard of it, yes, heard of much reason to buy that it had an effect, no.