skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can write code that's polymorphically async or not - in its simplest form the same function returns either a value or a future/promise for that value depending on which type parameter you invoke it with. Obviously at low level there has to be two separate code paths (e.g. different system calls for a blocking vs async socket read), which you handle via typeclasses or similar, but you can write all of the composition logic (make this request, then based on the result of that make that request or...) generically in terms of an interface that both futures/promises and direct values can implement (e.g. monad).
That’s just the historical data.

Look obviously the details matter - we can cherry pick cases in either direction that “won” or “lose”.

The point is more that the sentiment in OP is common but wrong, it’s not obvious. One thing I didn’t get into is US specific but often it’s the mortgage tax credit that makes it worthwhile but again, it depends ....
> “Redneck” is a political slander as bad as “thug”.

I enjoy the country lifestyle. And frankly, living somewhere peaceful and quiet with ample acreage and privacy, and little to no air, light or noise pollution is a lifestyle that is in increasingly short supply.

I take pride in rocking up to a small town with bits of hay on my dirtied clothes. I’d only live in a city if I absolutely had to.

I’ll happily accept the “redneck” badge. It’s up there with “geek” for me.
It’s definitely different standards. Especially when it comes to privacy and security.
With a price to rent ratio of 53, San Francisco has the least profitable rent in the country.

https://smartasset.com/mortgage/price-to-rent-ratio-50-large...
I put a pin on my account after the first Equifax leak. Recently I needed to unfreeze it, and discovered that upon creating a “my equifax” account that I was able to unfreeze it WITHOUT THE PIN. Ive complained to the FTC (including screenshots) but haven’t heard anything. It’s so unbelievably insane these companies are allowed to operate with such massive ramifications to society and individuals!
Was she suspended? I saw that she was only cut from the cheer squad. I could certainly see getting cut from the tram for the year if I said similar things and the coach heard about it. It wouldn't matter how it got to the coach.
> no vaccine that would target at least a significant amount of strains is possible at the moment.

Why not? What are the limits of multivalent vaccines?
The author is Eric Radman. The visionary behind the entr(1) file watcher http://eradman.com/entrproject/

GitHub: https://github.com/eradman, also:

rset(1): http://scriptedconfiguration.org/ - Configure systems using any scripting language
Isn't this effectively what the Michelin guide was for (of Michelin Star fame)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelin_Guide
> First, the "right". Well, it's not absolute. If it was, it wouldn't be denied to felons and there wouldn't be background checks or waiting periods.

You're using circular reasoning here. Just because the right is currently infringed doesn't mean the right doesn't exist. That's like saying that if some people's right to vote is infringed, there really isn't a right to vote.

> There's also the Second Amendment specifically noting a "well-regulated Militia".

"well regulated" meant "in good working order" at the time the BoR was written. The operative clause is "The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed", which is a pretty strong statement.

> The disastrous War on Drugs created the drug cartels.

What do you think a new "war on guns" will do?

> Guns easily obtained in the US. That's how the drug trade works: drugs into the US, money and guns out.

Sometimes the US Government gives guns to the cartels which are ostensibly illegal for US civilians to own! [1]

> a problem literally no one else has.

The US isn't even close to the most violent country per capita. Other countries with less recognition of the right to keep and bear arms just resort to other forms of violence [2]. The "assault weapons" people are very concerned about are used in less than 300 homicides per year. More people are killed with hands and fists than all rifles (a subset of which are deemed "assault weapons") [3].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATF_gunwalking_scandal

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intention...

[3]: https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2019/crime-in-the-u.s.-...
The blog post specifically mentioned the work chat channel. Talk about whatever you want in other channels.

If you were in the middle of a meeting to plan a new product launch and suddenly announced "I'm getting married this weekend!" what kind of reaction would you expect? People might be polite but gently remind you that's not really relevant to what's being discussed at the moment and to get back to work. If you kept on trying to turn every discussion about work back to how it relates to your upcoming wedding, they'd eventually get annoyed and write you off as an obnoxious weirdo, and they'd be right.
If I buy coffee, I buy it on a credit card. Every daily purchase uses a credit card. Why? I want a buffer between me and the purchaser. I don't want them to be able to take money from my bank.

https://youtu.be/vsMydMDi3rI?t=2595

Now, if I shop online, I used to put it on a credit card. Now I generate a virtual debit card using an online service and pay with that. The logic is the same.
Of course it does. An absurd number of houses still only have 100 amp services.

Not many people have a 50 amp, 220V circuit lying around to dedicate to charging. If they do there's already a welder plugged into it.
But not your favorite city. Very clever!
Although it is harder to discharge student loans in bankruptcy, as I understand it they can be discharged in bankruptcy if the borrower can prove undue hardship (probably hard to do, especially with income-based repayment) or if 7 years have elapsed since the start of repayment.

This does seem to violate the spirit of bankruptcy law as well as basic economics (presumably student loans consist of and are repaid with the same dollars that are used for other loans or unsecured debt) and has almost certainly helped universities raise tuition with impunity for decades while student loan debt has ballooned to more than $1T in the US.
If you are referring to storming of the US Capitol a few months ago, I don't think that was by guys with skinny jeans who watch the world cup.
I refused to read the rest of the article because it irritated me so much.

Here is an article on the same thing, but at Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/melissaholzberg/2021/03/23/pfiz...
I read that she was cut from the cheer squad for 1 year. No actual school suspension. It seems she was also still allowed on the softball team.
Economic for who?

Solar farms charge us grid retail prices everyday. Here in Australia, my payback time on home installed solar ended up to be 3.5 years. Not a bad investment.
This is really scary, is it possible to trust researchers hailing from the Peoples Republic of China in the future?
There is (was?) a 30% federal tax credit (up to $1000) that covered the cost of installing a home EV charger (including upgrading your breaker panel/load center if needed).

https://www.evconnect.com/blog/ev-infrastructure-tax-credits...
I think it’s a bit more nuanced than that. The new policy doesn’t seem to try to break ads attribution globally - e.g. the App Store ads attribution continues to work regardless of tracking transparency choices. They’re also not trying to prevent first-party tracking - i.e. app analytics and the like.

Apple could have thrown a bone to folks and just allowed passing url parameters or similar through the App Store links to the app after it’s installed. No third party needs to get the data and advertisers get to actually know ROI like they do with the rest of the web.

Alternatively I’d love if Apple actually took a stance against data aggregation. Take on the actual creepy corps like LexisNexis or Experian or Transunion. Interest tracking is peanuts by comparison. Not to say we shouldn’t start somewhere, but I hope tracking transparency doesn’t end here.
Nvidia Warns: Severe Security Bugs in GPU Driver, VGPU Software
Remoteok.io is a refreshing **ck you to all the over-engineered barely-more-than-static sites rigged-up with the latest version React hook form packaged up in Docker ready to be deployed on Kubernetes. People, we need a movement which embodies this sentiment.
Somehow none of this is applied to packaged shell script into an .app which runs on double-click with no message whatsoever. Malware doesn't always have to be a binary...
I sort of agree with you, except that your conflation of 'people who say we need to massively rethink policing' and gun control advocates seems off the mark. Advocates of institutional abolitionism tend to be well to the left of reform-minded liberals, and supportive of arms-bearing rights on principle.
Did you read your own link? It about "pump and dump" schemes and explains that they are fundamentally about false positive statements.

"Generally, securities fraud occurs when someone makes a false or misleading positive statement about a company or the value of its stock, inducing others to make a financial decision based on that false statement."
I'm still teaching myself full-stack web development but I've worked on a couple of projects with a friend who has a great amount of skill and experience. I was slightly horrified to see the kinds of haphazard and occasionally mildly crude comments he was putting in code and git commits, especially since I am very much a perfectionist, but... he gets the job done, and he gets it done well.

I think a good team or a good partnership comes from finding one or more other people whose strengths offset your weaknesses and vice versa.
> pay per date

Hmm, I'm pretty sure that's been a business model for a very long time.
Yes, the Lou Bloom / Game of Thrones perspective exists and has a basis in our world. When you play with power, you win or you die.

But I don't believe that's why American gays have been experiencing more and more support. It is not persuasion by equity, but simply by asking people what kind of future they want to live in. Gay life also also improved among EU peers for the same reasons.

Politics is the negotiation of power, and yet strangely, gay people have been able to achieve wins at the negotiating table simply by asking, often without leverage. Sometimes people will listen to your story and simply agree.
People have wildly different definitions for what "reasonable AI" is, especially people working in the field. Colloquially the last decade or so of advancements in machine learning and data mining is all considered AI.
> Just trying to hit enough milestones to get scooped up by somebody bigger.

A few years back, during the peak of the self-driving hype cycle, I considered doing exactly this. I think with a small team of sensor and Bayes filter experts, a car outfitted with expensive but off-the-shelf sensors, and about a year of dev time, you could get a car that self pilots 95% of the time on a wide suburban road in clear conditions. That extra 5%, other road types, and worse visibility conditions would each take you far more effort than that. But if your goal was just to show results fast and get acquired, it'd be easy to convince people you were almost there.

> A roadway can be MUCH smarter than a car.

If we're building specialized roadways, you can steer a vehicle with two strips of metal tied together by wooden boards. And it can travel twice as fast as a car while holding a hundred times the passengers. And it was invented 200 years ago.
It's not quite that simple: it is not unusual for an overall-clean solution in response to new requirements to require refactoring the existing codebase, even if that is a clean and minimal solution for the requirements up to that point.

Even if you had anticipated that these additional requirements were likely, preparing in advance for their possibility would often mean over-engineering for the initial requirements, which would likely delay the initial release.

If there wasn't a genuine conflict of interests here, we would not still be wrestling with it.
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The pitfalls of open plan offices
Paywall: https://archive.is/yQnXN
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That is actually the one thing I grant credit cards to be superior in. Back before I moved here, I was traveling with friends to the US. We knew credit cards were prevalent in the US, so I got a "normal" credit card from my bank, and one of my friends got a debit type credit card.

We later got some fraudulent charges on it, which got resolved for either of us, but for me the money was never gone (I had not paid the bill yet), while for my friend it took a while to get the money back on their account.

Another fun difference: When during our trip, waiters and cashiers would not just take the credit card, but walk away with it, we were horrified. In Germany, you never give your card away to anyone. You stick it in a terminal and type in your PIN.
Idk anything about django girls (or the org behind django) I was assuming it’s an example of a politically motivated public outreach. Seems to me company time is better spent making good products than doing outreach. Like I have my own politically-motivated community involvements, but they have nothing to do with whatever company I work for, and I’ll continue doing them when I change companies anyway.
I can listen to YouTube on my PC with the YouTube window in the background. I can listen to YouTube on my phone without looking at my phone. Why would you pay extra to listen to YouTube with your screen off? It might not make sense from YouTube’s business perspective, but sadly that doesn’t mean charging for this “feature” makes sense either.
> We already have a solution for the issues you described, HR.

Surely you must be joking.
Waymo is next. Off to Chrysler it’ll go.
A panel upgrade alone is in the neighborhood of $5k. And if you have underground service and need new wires, that's another $25k.
> Is this specific case really arbitrary though? Did you read the contract/terms & conditions that this individual was under? Was this termination random or on personal whim? Because it sounds like it's the result of an individual's actions in violation of an agreement between that individual and another entity.

Such contracts would not be enforceable of course.

Employer protections are not contractually waivable, they would be quite useless if they were.

> Yes, that mentality is literally part of American culture. In the U.S., governments, unlike citizens, are granted a monopoly on the use of force so a natural distrust is not only appropriate but warranted. The government is under no obligation to defend your rights if you literally sign them away (although there are some rights which cannot be waived). You can say whatever you want, but there may be consequences depending on what you say and where you say it.

Yet in most countries where the culture is not so, one does not for instance have a right to own firearms and self-defence in general is more curbed, so I do not believe that.

> People, including children, must learn there are consequences for what they say, particularly in a public forum (and this was effectively so). The only recourse in cases such as this is whether the response was appropriate e.g., within terms of a contract. I personally do not believe that what was said and who it was said to would warrant expulsion, but that's just an opinion, not a contract.

This is a circular reasoning; such consequences exist in the U.S.A. because the country allows employees to be terminated for it. — there are no such consequences in most developed nations.
"Please don't post ideological battle comments?" What bullshit. It's happening all the time, it's just that you don't perceive them as such. Well, stew in your echo chamber.
It’s sickening how people though it’s totally ok to dump tens of thousands of toxic waste into the ocean, I really hope they get prosecuted for that.
Do you throw that code away and start over when you're done prototyping?
Or pay attention during an interview. There was a time when Big Idea (The VeggieTales People) were hiring a ton of tech people to manage their render farms, animation systems, etc. A common topic of conversation revolved around when were you saved by Jesus Christ?

If you were not a evangelical Christian, you quickly realized you would not be happy working there
> But to others, "politics at work" means "are we paying women and men the same for doing the same job?" and "are our recruiting practices leading to a non-diverse workforce and missing out on great people who should work here?" and "what problems does our company sole, and for whom?". These are really important questions. Why wouldn't you want to bring them up at work?

Because there is only one accepted answer. Anyone who drifts from that into the opposing side will be reprimanded, scarred for their remaining tenure at the company, and/or fired. Good luck objecting to your company having N number of positions literally reserved for only certain races. Source: company X recruiter.
Somewhat related to this case is the way in which the Santa Clara County Sheriff was using concealed carry permits as a way of soliciting campaign contributions from Silicon Valley executives.[1]

[1]https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-11-23/apple-ch...
This is a common list. So common it makes me wonder how unusual it is that I have no trouble focusing with visual distractions.

I'm using the basement bar as a gigantic standing desk with tons of monitors, a desktop, and cables everywhere. Streaming setup stuff adds a lot well with the mic, lighting, camera stuff, etc... Its literally chaos.

I don't drink any caffeine.

I do have 2 whiteboards in the basement, plus another upstairs though, so I check that one at least.

I really do miss sunlight though. Need to go on lunch time runs to get a bare minimum daily dose.
Sounds like that's solved by having the list as an action item.

Yes, we knew about it. Also, here's all these other things we know about that will result in similar catastrophes
"False reports" that require serious consideration and mitigation are only slightly removed from true reports.

An environment in which false and true threats cannot be readily distinguished is one with a seriously degraded security profile.

(This generalises well beyond spaceflight.)
Self-driving cars taking over the road are the new Linux desktop taking over personal computing.
In fact, Biontech, the actual company behing the "Pfizer" vaccine was doing cancer research with mRNA and switched to vaccine development "to help out" because they realized that their tech could be used in this way too.
"Second Amendment zealot" here. I'm optimistic about the future of civil rights in the area of the 2A in upcoming years.

There's a lot wrong with your post, but I'll just say that the right, like others, is written in a way that is absolute. If we want to restrict it, then we should amend the Constitution accordingly, as intended. Ideally, this should occur whenever a right is taken from us. This would make it clear what we're losing and force those proposing it justify doing so.
>It's bizarre to me how many of the same people that say we need to massively rethink policing still think it's a good idea to put the right to defend yourself from people attempting to do you harm behind a piece of paper given out by the police.

... says someone who puts their right to keep and bear arms against the government behind that government's Constitution.
If you can do a single page app with no frameworks you definitely should do so!

If you have a large complex system, making it clean up front (i.e. by deployment) means someone a few years from now will appreciate the work.

As for the single page app: when (if!) you want to upgrade it, just rewrite it wholesale. Until then it's creating value as it is.
This is very true.

END USERS in particular do not give a rats about clean code or the number of code reviews that have been done. They only care that it works. Technical debt, refactoring, reuse? Nobody cares except developers. The paying customer is all that matters.
People close to [Steve Jobs] over the years say he sees himself as a "progressive industrialist" who eschews moral gestures and views succeeding in the marketplace with innovative products as his central mission in life.

https://spectrum.ieee.org/at-work/innovation/in-the-politics...
That seems accurate. Consumer protection laws are a genuine mess - it’s okay to lie about some things and not okay to lie about others. Some lies are meant to be dealt with in civil court whereas others are meant to be dealt with by regulators. That line moves back and forth every few years.
> It's not a loan, it's an income share agreement.

(1) The “Income share agreement” is a $30K loan with various wrinkles,

(2) Lambda School, for legal reasons, doesn’t use ISAs in California, but a somewhat less obfuscated $30,000 loan, the “Retail Installment Contract”.

> I really don't get why some people dislike ISAs. They're way better than student loans.

They aren’t better than federal student loans, which have an optional income driven repayment plans, which are a similar or lower percentage of discretionary income than most ISAs are of total income.

They may sometimes be better than the available nonfederal loans for people attending institutions not qualified for federal loans, but that’s a pretty low bar.
If I could run spacemacs on 9front, I'd be willing to try it as a daily driver.
What’s the deal with ammo manufacturers not being able to keep with demand? I’ve been hearing this for a long time. Or it was at least the case during the Obama admin.
I admit it's a somewhat broad brush - I should've said the _party_ that generally says we need to rethink policing and so on. It is hard to break away from the two-party system in the US.
> I cannot relate to people who make prototypes to throw away, I've never done it, and I don't know why I'd do it.

When I'm at the prototyping stage, I don't yet know how to solve the problem. That means I need to iterate quickly, which affects my choice of language (Python) and the amount of time I'm willing to spend keeping code clean (very little, because I could hit a dead-end at any point).

But once I have a working prototype of a solution, my users need it in the form of a fast, standalone binary, and my colleagues need code that can be easily understood. This requires using a different language (C++) and more disciplined coding practices. The only way to get this is to rewrite for production, and then "throw away" the prototype.
Probably like the golden rice people.
If you don't trust your employer's HR department, then why did you accept the position?
I think the message is, if a user clicks the mic button in the YouTube app, does it end up to the YouTube search or the system-wide Roku search? I'm sure Roku is exaggerating by specifically calling it a grab for music listener marketshare.
Activism that imposes zero costs on the activist, indeed provides social benefits, just isn’t very convincing.

Going to jail for your beliefs or standing up to cops with dogs and fire hoses—-those make otherwise indifferent people stop and think.

The fact that “stay and change things from the inside” is maximally convenient for soi disant activists doesn’t strike many of us as a coincidence.
Exactly. This is the right answer to the problem. Random digits are a bad idea for the reason noted above.