skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's really not that surprising; the median Hacker News user is a white American man, wealthier and younger than average, with moderate liberal political views that skew libertarian on social issues. That's a "norm" of discourse even if it doesn't fit perfectly on the American Republican / Democrat spectrum.

I doubt this is very true. Last I checked from what dang said less than 10% of HN comes from Silicon Valley and it has an increasingly global presence. Secondarily, your use of race, age, and gender are antithetical to good analysis. These categories are not monoliths and it's insulting to refer to them as such. The way you categorized the politics of this site even seem out of touch from my experience.
Im on the edge of clinical work. I work with some clinical people, but am not clinical myself. I would say that they are a bit more willing to be instrumental and throw a bunch of comparisons out and see what sticks. Its largely because of a lack of awareness about statistical issues though, and they respond well to my objections.
1. Because before WWII they(together with the UK) received with open arms the Jews that were expelled by Nazism and were half the Nobel prices in science.

2. Because they won the WWII and took by force the best scientist in Germany that was the leader in the world in science and technology at the time. The other half was taken by the Soviet Union. The lingua franca in science was German, not English.

3.Because after the war, Europe was devastated and living conditions in the reconstruction were very poor(with things like having to work for free for the Government X hours a week) for scientists(and the rest of society) while crossing the Atlantic conditions were much better so the best scientist did.

4. Because after Breton Woods and Marshall's plan, the US became the hegemonic power in the world with the biggest market in the world and started transforming scientific ideas into products that generated wealth and became cheaper as they were mass produced.

5. Because they didn't have a socialistic economy like most of the world had and the best, most ambitious and brightest minds from socialistic countries fled there expecting to share some part of the wealth they created and have the freedom they lacked in their countries.

Remember in the block countries being educated in the old bourgeois system,having accumulated wealth in the past or being son or grandson of one who had was a crime, making you a candidate for suspicion and prosecution (and eventual extermination).

Stalin had a plan to exterminate all Jews in Russia(almost all revolutionaries like Lenin or Trotsky had Jewish origin), he did not complete his plan because he died before he could.

It is incredible that making an analysis they could not see the most obvious and basic geopolitical events.
Although there must be almost completely different training between the Boeing capsule and the spacex one, ultimately they had a good sync point to connection to the space station's "international format docking port". An arbitrary astronaut could ride in either, or at least without that much trouble. But LEO to the moon is going to be so different, and the landers were different. I'm sure there'd be no 'standard controller" so you could put lander from company A with transport to company B.

I worry more about spaceX's ability to land starship on the moon. Not because they won't get it right eventually in texas, but the moon isn't smooth. I know they will have a plan to deal with that, but getting a few ton lander with 4 legs to not tip over and handle tilted land is vastly easier than a long and spindly and heavy starship - how will they handle that?
I'm not criticizing the people. Do you not think it's legitimate criticism that using a niche 3rd party login system can be bad precisely because they're still ironing out the kinks?
Ask HN: Do mobile dev jobs involve back end work?
My question is, do jobs programming for Android/iOS usually involve server-side work or is that handled by another team?
It's also crazy how many HN users think calling this guy a sociopath is constructive feedback.
Masking the Wetlands
One problem I have with this hypothesis is that employers often carelessly destroy the things that make their employees happy.

For example, a company decides to move to the opposite part of the city, despite the fact that many employees chose it because it was conveniently close to their homes. Or, there is a team where the colleagues have great synergy (their personalities are compatible, their strenghts balance each other's weaknesses), and when they finish a project, instead of giving a new project to the same team, they are randomly assigned to different teams.

If the company is aware that they are paying the below market rate and their employees are staying there for non-financial reasons, why would they destroy those reasons?

Therefore, it seems to me more likely that the employers mostly just don't have a clue... either about market rates, or the things that make their employees happy. They pay existing employees less, because they can; and they pay new employees more, because they must; but there is no grand strategy like "make them happy and then they will be willing to stay here for less", only short-sighted paying everyone as little as possible.
Video game developers are underpaid because they have an undying love for video games and are willing to work for less than they could make elsewhere.

I suspect this becomes a problem in the context hiring devops people, because whereas you can make the argument that writing game engines and working on game logic is more fun and justifies working for less, it's hard to make the argument that a devops job at Epic running game servers and websites is any more exciting than running servers and websites anywhere else.

This puts epic in the situation of having to pay market rate to attract devops people, but below market rate for attracting developers, which fucks up their pay scaling completely. What ends up happening is they just don't adjust their pay scale at all, which means they're hiring cheap devops people.
But is it as easily accessible as "Seeing Nature: Deliberate Encounters with the Visible World"?

The bar of accessible is much much lower than the Origin of Species.
Talk to a recruiter from an independent company. They are salesmen and will at the very least get you a phone screen. They will also help you with your resume if needed since it’s in their interest.
Fair enough. I wasn't being sarcastic when I said it was funny. :)
> Exception:INRIA.

Name one successful (as in: >1G$ cap) company started by INRIA researchers.
> I'd rather pay more and buy something made locally.

Do you mean the lavalier mic from Aliexpress I mentioned? Well I first ordered one from Amazon and from knowing that and from looking at many other offers it is clear that these are pretty much all the same model.
And so you pay for different marketing.
When it comes to “not knowing how it’s made”: It is not even using a USB connection but rather plugs right into the microphone jack. So not sure how this could be used for surveillance.
And regarding the human rights: Sure that is not ok. But most things are made in China and it is hard to escape.
But if you find something good made “locally” (wherever that might be for you) then please share!
+1 For recommending Origin as surprisingly enjoyable and worthwhile. The theory itself is explained clearly and quite interesting, but I think that's more of a bonus, and actually the best part is witnessing an early application of the scientific method, and getting the historical context for how the scientific method was developed. Very helpful context for understanding and thinking critically about modern science.
Not sure why either open-source or non-profit would change the dynamics? Non-profits are still incentive-driven, and their goals may not align with yours; and open-source code is entirely independent of how data is collected, shared, etc. People do evil with OSS all the time. :)
> Insisting that all materials and devices have to go to Moon or Earth with no intermediate point sounds, shall I say, interesting.

Apollo did quite well without an intermediate point.
I don't think I can generalize usefully about hiring. I can generally find Lispers to help me, but that's at least partly because I've been one for a long time and as a consequence I have a handful of contacts I can turn to who will either sign up or help me find someone.

(If you want me to see if I can help, send me mail at mikel@evins.net and we can talk it over.)

In most of the cases on my list of past projects, the people who organized the projects were Lispers themselves or had contacts in the Lisp community, and recruiting from that community was part of the early project setup.

The bad news is that the community of Lispers is small compared to those of more popular languages. The good news is that Lispers are generally eager to work in Lisp, which can be helpful in recruiting. For example, I prioritize Lisp opportunities over others, and I'll work for less money if I like the people and I get to work in Lisp.

I have been part of hiring and mentoring some programmers that were not experienced with Lisp. In all but one case, they were interested in learning it, and made quick progress.

I've worked on a few teams of mixed Lispers and non-Lispers, ranging in size from about three to about sixty. I've found that you want one or more experienced Lispers who are willing and able to take on a mentorship role. With mentors, good programmers can pick up Lisp and its style and idioms pretty quickly (assuming they want to). Without mentors it can be rough going.
The example, taken from the Origin of Species, of the OP is interesting, but then it goes on to list multiple inter-dependencies.

It does not address one question: are these inter-dependencies required, strict and essential to the survival of the affected species.

IOW, are not the species flexible enough and adaptable enough that any change would be fixed by a substitute or a change in behaviour?

There are many claims, both around ecology and climate changes, that hinge on the idea that the current state of the world as a whole is desirable, good and fragile.

That is the main thing that always irks me. Life survived the extinction of the dinosaurs, multiple glaciations, etc. But it is always portrayed as a fragile system. That always seemed to me a bit hypocritical.
One of the reaons the author gives is that they have drafts for unpublished posts, and that it would be too complicated to keep those apart from the public repository (separate repo, git submodule).

Wouldn't it suffice to just have them in a different, private branch? The public stuff would be in the main branch pushed to the public repo, the private stuff would remain local in the private branch?
Does that mean we are required to cede that experience to an exploitative megacorp?
> Because they have the most money.

Agree, but then you've got to dig deeper: where does the money come from?
Markets are obviously insane right now but that doesn't mean that the people in the market are irrational.

This bubble is going to pop with a devaluation of the dollar or a devaluation of everything else. But just because we are in a speculative mania does not mean that the price of assets is going to go down moving forward denominated in dollars. It is very possible the people shoving their money into baseball cards look like geniuses 5 years from now if the alternative was holding cash or having zero diversification.
Why? I'm European, what's so special about US market?

(rhetorical question, I know)
If you found this interesting but don't want to dive into reading Darwin's works (as the author seems to imply we should) I highly recommend Richard Dawkins' "The Selfish Gene". I haven't read "On the Origin of Species" but I'd bet "The Selfish Gene" will probably be a more efficacious read for most people
Site still down so couldn’t read it, but from your post, I wonder if SQRL would fit the bill?

https://www.grc.com/sqrl/sqrl.htm
And then there is the Hann window function, sometimes called ...
"named after Julius von Hann, and sometimes referred to as Hanning, presumably due to its linguistic and formulaic similarities to the Hamming window." Wikipedia, window function
At a minimum, there should be two competing designs - built through flight testing (if not built to completion and maintained in conjunction to avoid any future safety groundings that stall USA human space flight capabilities). It's nutty to put all eggs into SpaceX's basket.

I am sure that the starship program will have the most test flight of any spacecraft development program. I have the uttermost confident in them.

That said, I agreed with you that we shouldn't put all our eggs into SpaceX's basket, no matter how good they are. We just don't have insight in NASA's thinking here, only guesses.

I also hardly believe saving money on such an important mission is important at all. Getting people there and back safely is paramount to saving what amounts to rounding errors in today's spend-happy congressional budget.

What gives you that impression? It seems like NASA gave all the money to SpaceX alone, which is 2.9 billion dollars. The only way that there would be more money is if NASA gets a bigger budget for their lunar program, which would making awarding more than one competitors a more viable option.
I wonder if he will actually put some kind of cryptocurrency mascot aboard a lunar mission as a kind of follow-up to

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk%27s_Tesla_Roadster
Ok, that's the wrong measure. But didn't they sponsor basically the whole OCaml compiler, which has gone on to be hugely influential?
Quantum computing is a prime example of a technology in phase 2, definitely not in "commercialization".
I chose Squarespace for my company's marketing site, and I'd mostly agree with some caveats:

* The developer mode is poorly supported. For example: you can't copy your site if it is in developer mode (which means you can't setup a staging environment and everything you push to your site will be live instantly). The local development server is also very buggy and inconsistent with the production behavior. It feels like something that they developed early on in their road map and haven't spent much time on since then. If I could go back and do this over again, I'd pick an existing theme and just customize it instead of building out a whole theme in developer mode.

* The site is S-L-O-W with tons of bundled assets that it injects into your theme. I have no idea what any of it is doing, but it definitely increases page load.

That said, if you find yourself wanting a solid CMS that has the full breadth of WordPress like features but don't want to deal with the hosting, SquareSpace is a solid choice.
Oh, if it were up to me I'd say that MIT/BSD/Apache-style licenses are ideal. Simple enough to be understandable, offend noone, and bring as much contribution as anything else in my experience. I do not agree with the FSF so I don't have to work towards its goals.

However, the mere fact that I do not agree with the FSF's goals doesn't make it okay for the FSF (and those who agree with it) to do a substandard job by hiring a badly suited person as campaigner or by ignoring major developments such as the rise of SaaS.
It's E76 with F set, and F set is huge compared to RV64I. And the article proposes HPC as possible application.
His is https://oyster.vc/ and it works for me from residential Comcast in the U.S.
This sort of flamebait will get you banned here. Please read the rules and stick to them: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. We've had to warn you about this kind of thing before. That's not cool.

Note this guideline:

"Eschew flamebait. Don't introduce flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents."

That certainly includes regional flamewar.
You can also just go for the similar Neumann's that are lower down in their line. I have a TLM 103 and recommend it highly, although it doesn't have the high-pass switch so you'd want to do that via software or preamp.
You are right, but with execution risk / slippage it gets closer to 2x (2x and 3x are both close to 2.5x, but 2x has been performing better in the past).
Is FLoC considered more or less invasive than the advertisement ID used by platforms like iOS and Windows 10? I believe these systems are also opt-out.
Gateway could have coasted out in space for years though, like the the existing space station. starship won't be able to sit there forever. But that's an interesting point in general, will the starship 'habitable space' be bigger than gateway?
IMO terrible Java code is partially due to how good the JVM is. Performance is within spitting distance of native code, so people can do TERRIBLE things and it won't tank performance.

Endless abstraction, loading giant things into RAM, looping over every item in huge arrays. Blocking server threads for minutes at a time. In most languages you would be punished severely with awful performance or OOM. Java chugs along until things get horrifically bad.
Ask HN: How do I know if OOP is what I need?
I am a beginner and I'm building an application that stores DNA sequences in a SQL database.
I've been using Java because I'd like to have it in my portfolio to make a lateral move in my company.

The material I've been using to learn Java teaches OOP concepts, of which I barely grasp thinking in terms of objects and classes.

Is this still the preferred way of thinking or in 2021 there is a better model to follow?

Thanks
Yeah, that a function's name begins with "runtime." is 1 bit of information at most. But now we're talking about the optimal representation, not whether this information should exist.
> Median survival was 13.8 months for patients who received Opdivo plus chemotherapy compared to 11.6 months for patients who received chemotherapy alone.

Oof. It's great that they've found something that is promising, but clearly we've still got a long way to go.
> To what do you attribute the change?

Socialist tendencies in the EU are a 20th century thing.

Europe was far more capitalist in the 18th and 19th century.
A compiler for API and data modelling with online IDE
I don't find SBCL or Lispworks superior overall. Each one is better than the other in specific, narrow ways. For example, you can't beat SBCL for availability of compatible open-source libraries. On the other hand, you can't beat Lispworks for a portable GUI framework.

I use both.

As for tips, there are probably a lot, but I have to take a break from HN right now to attend a work meeting. :-)
I looked that up. It seems to apply to shielding part of the equity in your house during bankruptcy, which seems to be unrelated to brundolf's comment about property taxes.

Are there states that have different tax rates for lived-in and rented property? If so, can you supply some specifics?
> Ok, that's the wrong measure.

Is it though? I guess that's the difference between Europe and US in CS. In the US they find a way to make money on the innovations.
I find it way more annoying that std::function's type erasure--but insistence that it should be copyable--means it isn't able to commit to being movable, and so then simply can't store move-only functions; in practice I simply never want to copy an std::function, yet the type is seemingly crippled to offer that ability :/. Between this issue and how it tends to require memory allocation even in cases of bounded scope, I honestly just find std::function only useful in trivial "toy" code (or where I am going out of my way to use STL for some silly reason)... I have a few type-erasing function wrappers of my own that I use in various projects, and I do live demos for the intro CS classes I help teach wherein I quickly type out new rather-fully-featured replacements, showing the iterative implementation as you need new functionality.
You are right that my phrasing was incorrect. I have rephrased this with more context in a reply to a sibling comment.

I think you should reconsider harness training. It is normal for the cat to “act dead” at first and it takes time to get them used to a leash. Like months.

But once they associate the harness with trips outside, the cat can have many of the experiences of “outdoor” cats without the territorial disputes, wildlife impact, pooping in your vegetable garden and not getting hit by a car. (Which is traumatic for the driver and passengers as well)

I moderate /r/adventurecats on Reddit, I encourage you to look into training regimens people have there and see the joy people and their cat companions experience with outdoor experiences.
I submitted two unopened packs of Garbage Pail Kids from a special set for Universal Monsters (by Super7) to PSA several months ago. I was starting to wonder what happened to them after I started doing GPK inventory in the last couple of weeks. This explains why.
I can't tell you if democrats or republicans will win, but I'm quite confident that QE won't stop.
> Well, on second thought, is there any reason why an int function ptr should be any different from an int ptr?

I don't know any other example, but in Itanium, a function pointer is not just an address but an (address+address) pair where the second address is a sort of a base pointer for data segment:

https://stackoverflow.com/a/18908021
Ultimately, the thing that matters right now is that it reaches the end-user. Google can claim they were doing better in 2010, but if their superior product doesn't have the same reach then it's still going to struggle and could fall towards irrelevance.
ACCC is utterly toothless. They issue these pathetic fines but the behaviour continues. Yes you may have issued Apple a $9 million fine but it is commonly known that Apple stores in Australia openly flout Australian consumer laws. I would be embarrassed to admit I had ever worked for ACCC in any capacity.
Dr. Scott Gottlieb explains why he believes Covid won’t be eradicated in U.S.
> I worry more about spaceX's ability to land starship on the moon.

I'm sure they will land it on the moon multiple times before they put any people on it. (And the other choices like National Team or Dynetics would have done the same.)

What's amazing is that Apollo 11 landed on the Moon with humans on it the first time. And the Space Shuttle had astronauts on-board its maiden flight. People took risks with human spaceflight back then that they don't any more. Computers are so much more advanced now, you don't need astronauts to fly things. Even the Space Shuttle, technically could have been fully automated, but NASA had a culture of wanting to put a human in control. And a few deadly disasters have changed the attitude around risking astronauts’ lives to become more risk-averse.