skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you're underselling it a bit. It's supported on RHEL, SUSE, Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu, several more niche distros besides, but aren't those the dominant OSes outside Windows (for servers/workstations)? Unless I'm misinterpreting the meaning of "outliers".

And support goes out pretty far. Just to rattle some examples of public "support" for power8/9, Anaconda lists power9 binaries under x86 for their installer (no mention of ARM), PyPy has Power support, V8 has Power support (the basis for Power ports of Chromium w/JIT'd javascript), nvidia has Power drivers/CUDA runtimes on their main download portal.

I'm not trying to paint it as largely supported or even a great platform, but I think it might now be better supported than it ever has been. It's little-endian now, software compatibility is almost 100% outside of JIT'd things (and many JIT'd things have Power ports). If/when it fails or fades away, it'll be because it wasn't good enough to displace the alternatives, rather than because no one supported it or it was too difficult to use/support.
The reason for that is fairly straightforward: if something doesn't have an explicit economic cost (whether it's about ecosystems, cultural heritage, climate change, or mental health), the policy-making part of society tends to ignore it.
"Catalán" or "Català" is a widely language spoken in Catalunya, NE Spain. Occitan is his sister language, spoken in south of France.
Programmers and lawyers: together at last!
Yes. But that's why you also need a mandatory floor (a generous minimum wage), and strong labor institutions, so that companies don't just get to take advantage of the social support programs to support their exploitative business models.
Do you have any sources to share about masonry buildings being death traps?

In the highlands of Greece (where my grandparents are from), earthquakes are frequent, and almost every house is built out of stone. I am not sure if they are unreinforced or not these days or have been retrofitted, but many are 300-400 years old and still standing.

I did find this https://www.iitk.ac.in/nicee/wcee/article/WCEE2012_2227.pdf which is a fascinating analysis of the damage to the unreinforced masonry buildings during the Christchurch and Canterbury earthquakes (which poor quality materials was found to be one of the largest factors of resulting damage)
Biggest issue with this argument - advertising supported businesses are fine, contextual advertising is fine, targeted cross site advertising is a pointless red queen race that is undermining our society in multiple ways.
I wonder how it handles cases like this:

<sc<script>ript>alert('XSS')</sc</script>ript>

...and other strings from https://github.com/minimaxir/big-list-of-naughty-strings
This is a surprisingly insightful phrase in this day and age. So much can be explained by this, at least when it comes to human and societal behavior
> It took me years of being outside of SV to realize how brainwashed I was by comparing myself to the media and people around me.

The media doesn't represent normal people, and there are different regions of the country with very different norms, cultures, and beliefs. I know we are social animals heavily influenced by those around us, but it's also important to reflect and try to determine if those influences are right or productive.
Yes but the reason the US has these massive drug manufacturers and leads in drug research is not due to socialized healthcare at all. It's purely profit driven.
> These companies didn’t do it out of good will, they did it because they knew they could make money.

Which can exist in a socialist economy.
Have a really bold mission and focus on autonomy and culture.

Senior developers can work anywhere they want. Don’t make the job description about what they will do, but about the impact that will have.

We are hiring Staff and Sr. Engineers at ClearAngel and it’s easier because our mission is so clear and empowering: build the YC 99% of online founders.

The work we are doing will have ripple effects through the economy and through the lives of hundreds of founders.

I spend 90% of the interview talking about that and asking them about what they want.

Then I spend 10 mins on: oh yeah, we use Rails and Python, monolith moving to micro services etc.

Focus on the mission and the culture you will be bringing them into.

Oh and pay them top of market salary and give them meaningful options.
Sorta related: If y’all haven’t used netdata - wow - it blew my socks off last night. I have it installed on all my hosts now and it’s already helping me diagnose a redis bgsave issue that I didn’t realize existed. Really well put together software.
Anytime I try to take a good nighttime photo of something small far away, it looks awful & is quite difficult to make out - even on my iPhone XR.

I really don't buy the argument that our advanced phone cameras are capable of capturing conclusive images of anything unexplainable, since they can barely capture good images of things that are explainable.
You should use this opportunity to recommend an especially high-quality introduction/overview of modern history of science, approachable by a curious outsider.
The runtimes themselves may be great, but the tooling is bloated and uncomfortable.

Every time I use Clojure, I am reminded how much I hate using Java. The error messages alone are enough to turn me away. So is having to set up a whole Leiningen project just to get started.

A Clojure without Java would be very attractive to me.
There is a thing I realized a few years ago about about VC.

They are not in the game to fuel innovation, contrary to what they pretend.

They are in the game to protect old-money against innovation.
I saw 3 flying orbs in the 90s that I thought were ufos (or, one ufo)

This terminology is all screwed up. You did see "unidentified flying objects". But you thought, and were ultimately hoping, they were "identified flying objects": identified as extraterrestrial in origin.

Which is to say that there's a lot of confusion over when a "ufo" implies "alien".
But as with old cars, if you want to keep one running you might need to learn some more about how engines work. Or be willing to pay a mechanic.
Loads of US media sites do that, especially local TV stations and papers.
Different tax treatment makes up 1.5x by itself, and then you have all the overhead (accounting, insurance, legal - if you're too stingy to pay a proper lawyer and accountant in the beginning, that will cost you much more later) and "benefits" (e.g. vacation and sick days make a ~10% surcharge), so 2x hourly rate means that as a contractor your annual actual cash-in-hand for the same amount of work is roughly the same if you have a pre-arranged contract where everything works perfectly, which it does not - you need to account for customer nonpayment, you need to account for hours worked on sales proposals that don't go anywhere, you need to account for time&effort in getting this customer, negotiating scope and terms, so if you're treating contracting/consulting as a proper business then an appropriate "customer-billable-hour" rate is 2.5-3x to "FTE-contract-rate" for the same person doing the same work.

If you get a good long-term customer that gets you lots of sustainable work on a retainer - reducing (but not eliminating) the overheads on sales,negotiation,downtime and legal/nonpayment risk - then you can go 2x; but 1.5x would be losing you money even in that case, you'd be financially be much better off taking the 1x full time job then.
Housing is expensive because land where people want to live and where jobs are is finite.
Like when the employer says, no, you aren't getting a raise, but here is a one time $1000 bonus. Taking advantage of people's delay discounting ...

otoh, in the context where you do not feel like you can count on keeping the job, then bonuses become more appealing than incremental wage increases.
This is good summary of the intellectual property situation for mRNA vaccine. The link was posted 2 weeks ago on the Twitter stream of Katalin Kariko, pioneer of mRNA vaccine technology and VP at BioNTech.

https://www.ipwatchdog.com/2021/04/11/mrna-ip-competitive-la...

https://www.ipwatchdog.com/2021/04/21/mrna-ip-competitive-la...

https://www.ipwatchdog.com/2021/04/30/mrna-patent-competitiv...
I think "attacking" Crazy New Ideas is how we develop them, iron out the kinks and test our understanding. Criticism is an essential part of the journey from crazy new idea to accepted wisdom.

However, the main problem I have with with this article is that it divides people into domain experts and the rest. This kind of black and white thinking is pervasive in PG essays, and always lead to a cute conclusion. You can have two domain experts that disagree. You can have an idea that spans multiple domains, and there are no (or few) experts in all of them. Maybe the Crazy New Idea seems brilliant to experts in one domain, but only because they don't grasp the others.
How You Can Help Humanity
This is demonstrably untrue. [0]

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/ChapoTrapHouse/
What if I (as a European visitor) access the website through a VPN, something I'm legally allowed to do?
EU top court upholds ban on Bayer pesticides linked to harming bees
I wish he would say this in the post!
Another technique is to run a stripped down version of your site with whatever content/functionality fits into the GDPR. Set your log retention to under a month (not a GDPR requirement, just a tactic that makes compliance easier), redact sensitive information under the GDPR, ask for consent, offer DSAR tools if applicable, etc.

I noticed this being employed by some media sites when I was vacationing in Europe. No Discus comments, no account creation or login, just articles and banner ads. The sites loaded so much faster. I’ve done similar things at work when building out privacy law compliance. It’s a good pattern if you don’t need one to one feature equivalency between your US and EEA/GB presence.
Maybe we should rephrase OP's question as

"How to attract perm Snr Engs when there are so many companies where there is:
1. Interesting work. The day to day is not a slog. ..."

You get the idea :-)
That is just a different type of game at that point. It is all relative and I don't play competitively. Virtually all of the content is accessible at some lower difficulty level, so it doesn't really matter what the stats are on my gear if I can do the content I want.
> Makeshift funeral pyres in the middle of a city street don't happen in a country where something hasn't gone terribly wrong

The same was said in Germany/Saxony (crematoria capacity reached), however they plain omitted the fact that usually these were outsourced to Czech Republic, but borders were closed. Cherry-picking parts of the story but omitting others is so common that I am hesitant to take it as is.

It would be certainly better to have overall mortality, so it would be easier to reason about the veracity of COVID mortality, however I am not convinced by obvious emotional manipulation.

> Delhi's official death rate of the last 7 days was 9 per 100k, and University of Michigan are estimating real rates at 2-5 times higher than that for India as a whole.

9/100k/w is not very high for cities given they are drastically more affected by pandemics in general. 2-5 times is quite a big margin, but I would be interested in how they came to these numbers.
The first French Republic was very much a bourgeois government so I’m not sure why his marriage would keep him from celebrating it.
I turned a budgeting spreadsheet into an app
Here's the table: "Peak Quoted Transistor Densities (MTr/mm2)"

IBM TSMC Intel Samsung
22nm 16.50
16nm/14nm 28.88 44.67 33.32
10nm 52.51 100.76 51.82
7nm 91.20 237.18* 95.08
5nm 171.30
3nm 292.21*
2nm 333.33

Data from Wikichip, Different Fabs may have different counting methodologies

* Estimated Logic Density
The cost is irrelevant to my point, which was it was designed to support adventure modes, which I would guess comes with design constraints because adventuring means off road and off grid.
> But a couple of them we work with, we were happy to let them learn elixir on company time

Yes thats what i am saying. Hiring rails devs and letting them learn elixir is no big deal and kind of makes sense. But that not really exciting stuff for senior engineers.

Senior engineers want to learn new domains like sales, learn leadership skills, have a say in product direction ect. That to me is exciting stuff, not learning another web framework.
It's a lot more risky for the business though, which means that more marginal areas will not have a McDonald's if they can't do the volume.
Immortal is being built with competitive 2v2 and 3v3 play specifically in mind in addition to 1v1 duels. It should be interesting to see how a pro-scene around that would play out. More combos, more team play, more personality clashes might all make for better eSports engagement. I'm sure PvE modes will be available too.
Human biodiversity, intelligence variation, black-on-white and black-on-Asian crime statistics, connection between homosexuality and pedophilia, George Floyd saying “I can’t breathe” before the officers ever touched him and having a lethal dose of fentanyl in his system, rate of unarmed blacks killed by police being lower than the black proportion of violent crime. All of these 100% true facts (no value judgments in this post) can only be discussed in alt-right forums.
I started a contract job three months ago, with the mutual intention that it will convert to a full-time job. I stayed at my previous job for nine years.

In general, I prefer to stay in a job a long time, 5+ years. We (my employer and I) chose to contract for risk management. I demanded a generous salary, and they wanted to test drive me. I was also very nervous about situations that lead to poor working conditions.

Specifically, what kept me in my old job so long was that, when there was a problem with working conditions, we usually resolved it. It wasn't perfect, but it was "good enough." When we had a tech stack that was difficult to work with, we refactored. Troublesome co-workers were given severance. Poor managers were shuffled out. Pay eventually got high. Poor processes were improved. (See last paragraph.) When my manager tried to push me to become a manager, we realized that I was better as a lead engineer.

In my current job, I was afraid that I'd show up and the stack would be impossible to work with. (Turns out that is true, the stack is impossible to work with.) But what's going to make me stay is that I'm allowed to refactor the stack to make it workable. (I also have the freedom to fix the 4000 compiler warnings.) I'll probably convert to a permanent employee.

(Note regarding processes:) Good processes are what make or break a company. When people complain about process; either they are unable to fix their processes, or they just don't want to do their job. The biggest factor in my eventual success in my old job was, ironically, getting a manager who backed good process. Initially, we had a lot of problems with poorly-written bugs and support tickets. It required a good manager to push back on the organization to make sure that, once bugs and support escalations made it to me, the tickets were in a state where I could take them. (IE, we didn't tolerate the "duuuhhh, there's a bug" tickets without steps to reproduce, or the "duuuuh, the customer has a problem, what do I do" tickets without preliminary research.)
Incorrect. When talking about companies and other orgs, the GDPR's territorial scope does reach overseas, but is limited. It also doesn't turn on having citizenship of the EU/an EU country; case in point, the UK regulator (ICO) upheld the GDPR rights of a US professor against Cambridge Analytica. What matters is whether either (1) the entity's handling ("processing") of personal data - anywhere in the world - is related to the activities of one of its EU offices, subsidiaries etc; OR (2) if [1] doesn't apply, then GDPR can still apply if you're processing data about persons in the EU/EEA (citizens, tourists, whatever) AND either (a) the processing is related to services or goods you offer those EU persons, or (b) you are monitoring their behaviour in the EU/EEA. There's lots that this test - despite being quite broad - would not catch (and isn't designed to).
I'm convinced it's hibernation/torpor. No food? No opportunities? Must be winter. Go to sleep. Wait for spring.
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We have 10k summarized so far
There are more people in slavery now than there were during the transantlantic slave trade. It's a multi-billion dollar trans-national black market economy. Neither the Industrial Revolution nor abolition have even slowed it down.
Burden of proof, my dude.
How a university got itself banned from the Linux kernel
And many companies filled with employees with "Agile" in their job title have probably never read it.
>You really should improve your reading comprehension before leaving comments

You could take a dose of your own medicine in dealing with other humans.
Shot in the wind, but is there a plan for different syntax? For those who've become comfortable in different fp camps, I can't really see myself picking up curly brackets and C-style code again. I really like the idea(s) of this project, but it's the thought of staring at that kind of code that's just a bit too much. I'd rather do something like [Nim,Scala,Clojure,F#]->JS if I needed to have that.

I've always kinda felt that there's a lost opportunity for extensible syntaxes by doing things this way rather than having the main surface of a language be some sort of intermediate representation (A la Wasm, LLVM IR, JVM, et al)

Congrats on the release regardless. It's good to see big stable projects in this niche in the BEAM-verse. The world needs more type safety.
I guess if you have a company that is completely isolated from the EU, you just ignore EU fines.

But is that the case with Disqus? They are collecting marketing information on citizens of the EU. Who is buying that information? I would assume that Disqus does business with EU companies that want that information. Either that, or they do business with other international companies that do business with EU companies.

At some point, Disqus is probably trapped within a graph that connects them and their legal obligations to the EU.
He made his argument into a novel because he is a writer, novels are what he does. But he tends to write around the scientific ideas he has been reading and his work often serves as convenient summaries of those ideas for a broad audience – mentioning a KSR plot is standard fare on "news for nerds" sites like this one.

Also, my post above intentionally says "akin to" and not "identical to".
I believe there is another factor, a bit more subtle, but I wonder if it is more pervasive.

Humans need to act. In order to act we need to believe that our actions are actionable. Anything, anything at all, that leaves us unable to act is a threat to our survival. A bear jumps out at you. Being unable to act because you don't know whether to play dead or run is deadly. Being unable to decide whether to wear a mask or not is deadly, even if both choices are both right or wrong. Maybe not said well, but when you consider all the actions you take in a day and what would happen if we could not decide.

As a side effect, I wonder if simply voicing ideas or bringing into view concepts that challenge the certainty we each require in order to get through a day, is in fact threatening.
> The first French Republic was very much a bourgeois government so I’m not sure why his marriage would keep him from celebrating it.

The first republic is the foundation of the french state. What's next, Macron celebrating Louis the XVI?
Fighting Games have a smaller, but devoted niche that does well enough. The games are more expensive and they do seasonal or annual content pack releases that are also quite expensive, but the player base is devoted enough that they will pay. They make up for lack of volume with higher margins that their fans will support. I see no reason RTS can't go the same way.
IBM says it has produced first 2-nanometer chips
Sure, pay for whatever months you want is nice and friendly.

But

Specifically designing, building, & shipping a product with a deliberately most-dangerous failure mode (vs fail-safe) is sociopath-level pathology. The user, through a variety of readily conceivable of technical or user errors, could easily use the product, thinking they had protection (which demonstrably decreases risk-aversion), and end up with serious injury or death.

This could have been done much better. E.g., don't disable the protection, make it so it needs to be stored with the zipper locked, and require payment to unlock the zipper, so the user cannot even wear it. Even this is DOS, but at least as unambiguous as keeping a helmet locked in a case.
> It's possible that your bias against believing this means your interpretation is a lot of bizarre takes dressed up as the only possible conclusions.

Robin presented an argument dependent on a false syllogism: if people were lying about aliens then either (Ca) they were spontaneously coming up with the same hoax or (Cb) there was some organization coordinating the hoaxes

I pointed out this syllogism missed the most obvious, commonly argued and evidentially supported alternative explanation for lots of humans telling the same story or fabricating the same evidence - humans copy each other and adapt popular stories, as they have been doing for thousands of years. That's neither spontaneous, decentralized and unlikely nor a conspiracy: it's the essence of shared knowledge and mythology. Regardless of whether I'm biased against Robin's explanation or not, he simply overlooked this in what was supposed to be his list of only possible conclusions

At no point did I discount other possibilities (I mean, I don't think fairies, angels or "greys" are likely but my argument didn't touch on that branch of the argument). I simply pointed out Robin's enthusiasm for a couple of fantastic explanations (government conspiracies to fake aliens, or actual aliens) lead him to string together a chain of reasoning which altogether neglected one of the most mundane. Which is pretty ironic, given that trying to avoid that kind of bias is literally his specialist subject!

> More specifically, in your case, you have an actual mirror case of crank-iness: you have a conspiracy for the creation of all the evidence, rather than a conspiracy for the suppression of it.

No, I specifically attack Robin's suggestion that a conspiracy for the creation of all the evidence is likely [if the evidence isn't true]. You're welcome to argue that my "humans intentionally and unintentionally copy each others' stories" hypothesis is completely wrong or vanishingly unlikely, of course, but that's a stronger knowledge claim than I made.

Perhaps you should heed your own words about leaping logic to arrive directly at certainty...

I'm sorry, but if you're going to lecture people on nuance and not being arrogant after calling them tinfoil hat flunkies, you probably should read the arguments you're commenting on first (including Robin's). Makes meeting in the middle that bit easier (I really don't have any strong opinions either way on what individual reports did or didn't see) :D
I don't think this is a very contrarian view, is it? I value the same things in the company - I want to work on something that changes the world, I want a company that has a vision, mission and strategy - where the business side is at least as senior as the engineering side. And of course I want to take part of what I create home financially. Bells and whistles in the form of remote work, snacks, etc are nice, but they are bells and whistles :)
Perhaps. But doesn't competition also drive firms to make decisions that rely on such business models? If you leave fiscal room for an increase in the cost of labor, aren't you paying the opportunity cost that will put you at a price disadvantage relative to your competitors? Markets punish inefficiency, even at the price of long term risk.