skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I worked at a place a few years ago that was still writing coldfusion apps. The apps worked fine, but they had a ton of trouble recruiting developers. I pitched switching to Spring Boot to greatly widen the talent pool and was accused of trying to bolster my own resume. Now, Spring Boot ain’t exactly the trendiest tech, but I was trying to make a good decision for the organization and, yes, also for my own resume. Often not mutually exclusive.
One style guide I've seen (forget where) tells you to lowercase acronyms and capitalize initialisms. (But initial letter still uppercases when it's a proper noun)

So Covid, Nasa, and radar/laser; but FBI, CIA, and UPS.

I do this in my own writing, except for “NASA”. Just feels wrong to lowercase that one.

And of course, laser and radar are just words at this point. Their origins may be acronymic, but like you said: common language mints new words.
FAANG is engineers do great but not sure I’d classify the vast majority of them as rich...
Agreed.

One of the key issue is that most people do not know or understand how the equity piece works, leaving the door opened for abuse.

It doesn't have to be complicated. Two things to check if one is granted equity or options:
- What is the rough value of the stock when granted? 409A is the tool for that although it is usually quite conservative, which is good for the recipient.
- Do I have the same class of stock as management/founders: ensures no funny business around dilution.
Cancel culture ruins free speech and free thought. Just keep politics out at work. Severely punish sexist and racist behavior. it's pretty simple. People will avoid wearing their politics on their sleeve. I think there should be a company wide dictate that you don't have to listen to anyone who tries to drag you into it and that you can take it to HR when someone tries to force your hand. Work is for work. I don't want to go there and become a social warrior. I donate to liberal political groups all the time but I don't think that has anything to do with my coding or working with others. Honestly I don't care about you or your politics at work, please leave me out of it.
The paper compares two battles in the same area, one (480 BCE) in which historical accounts say a Greek colony was defended by a coalition of Greek allies, and another, later battle (408 BCE), in which it stood alone and was defeated.

They establish a baseline of what they expect local strontium isotope composition should be both from local flora and fauna samples and from burials not associated with the battle. They then compare this to the greek combatants of these two battles. They find that 67% of Greek soldiers from 480 BCE are likely non-local, while 36% of Greek soldiers from 408 BC were non-local.

Up to this point, the paper supports historical sources and seems to be quite well done. After this point, they speculate that the non-local individuals present were mercenaries based solely on the strontium isotope ratios in their tooth enamel, and further speculate on where specific individuals might have originated. This is where the authors might be going out on a limb.

Greek colonies were widespread at this point in history, and it's very likely that some "mercenaries" were just from distant colonies. This doesn't seem to be adequately addressed in the paper. It's also possible that soldiers ate a different diet than the locals, possibly higher in fish or imported foods, which could have made them appear non-local. It's also possible soldiers moved around more, and that might have affected their levels in difficult to predict ways.

Bottom line, strontium isotope analysis is great at the population level, but there's a lot that can go wrong when dealing with individuals. I find the notion that Greek's hired mercenaries plausible, but this paper doesn't provide strong evidence for it.
Why would one expect following their dream would correlate in any way to success in life? If anything, given that people think (and dream) alike, it would lead to supply glut in specific fields. That is probably a part of the explanation of the low salaries in e.g. education, or working with animals.

I can think of other reasons, for an average person, to absolutely not in any way try to follow their dream as a source of livelihood; what are the arguments FOR it, though? How did this idea even come about; is it related to the "self esteem" fad in education?
KolibriOS [1], an os with a GUI, networking, and a bunch of games is amazing. And it fits on a floppy.
http://www.kolibrios.org/en/
Ahhh, brings back memories of the LRP back in the day.
> Prop 13 keeps property taxes at the value when you purchased your home.

That's a myth. Prop 13 limits assessed value from increasing by more than inflation rate and is limited to 2%/year overall. So yes, property taxes stay artificially low, especially over long times, but they do go up every year.
No particular individual needs to to be those things, but the structure of our society requires SOME people to be those things.
I guess it's a choice of analogy. If virus particles are like bullets, protection can be viewed as proportional. But if it's viewed more like a liquid, seeping through any hole, then only full watertight protection works. I'd argue that the reduced transmissibility we see from outdoor exposure supports the first of those as a more apt analogy.
I found some of the stats on here quite interesting
https://status.zapier.com/#app-status
Some of these apps may not be doing single api calls but it's a pretty big list gives a bit of a yard stick.
I wrote about this earlier at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27010707

The free food, gyms, massages and other things are companies trying to encroach on the area of the Third Place ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_place ) in order to keep people in the office longer.

In trying to take on the activities of the third place, they've also inadvertently taken on the rules of the third place - but those things that need to be part of the third place are counter to being at work (the second place... the first place is home).

If you're talking about politics and have a person who you report to (or reports to you) as part of that conversation, the discussion gets to one where you're walking on eggshells.

I believe that the third place and the workplace are inherently different environments and the more the workplace tries to be that third place, the more these sorts of conflicts of what the different places mean and how they operate will come to light.
DevOps. Even though it’s not supposed to be a title, it will instantly put you on the radar of a billion recruiters. It’s an insanely valuable skill to have.
So many dynamic languages take this strange ethos of never wanting to throw an error and instead just guessing what the programmer meant and just doing something wacky instead of throwing an error. It's a real problem.
By that logic, every site citing the paper makes the situation worse.
I had no problems interfacing Ada with C many moons ago. It sure looks like the good old things are being forgotten, and often badly re-implemented.
> - Not anticipating backfill needs. Bugs in logging and analytics stacks happen, so it's important to plan for backfills. Without a plan, backfills can be major fire drills or impossible.

This matches my experience. Building tools that allow you to rebuild some or all of a dataset with minimal headache make any individual task much easier. Both in terms of safety, and in terms of things like branching/dev environments.
Ok, we've de-firsted the title above.
The people achieving immunity through vaccination are at a huge disadvantage compared to those with natural immunity. As shown in research from the other day, natural antibodies target several proteins and more of the spike protein than Pfizer immunity does. Additionally, natural immunity stimulates both the innate immune response and killer T cell response.

I wouldn't be surprised if we start seeing ADE among vaccinated individuals - there's a good chance their antibodies will be non neutralizing when challenged with live virus a year from now.

Also, it appears governments are motivated to hide information about the vaccine. It's come out the CDC is performing PCR testing for vaccinated individuals with a lower cycle count than for the unvaccinated. There's no reason to trust anything coming out of the CDC with regards to vaccination.
And create new tech debt!
I don’t think one approach or the other works. Interest-based loans are the equivalent of hedging your risk in a financial investment. That’s like saying you should remove financial instruments that allow for that when you make stock investments. That is a position one could take, but I feel like allowing for hedging is smart (& besides there’s all sorts of ways people can create contracts to hedge risks that are impossible to regulate anyway).

For many investments, interest-based investments seem to make more sense to me. For example, investing in a restaurant is not an investment that works out in favor of the VC model unless you want to be inundated with low-cost generic options that can scale to every market even more than we are today. That’s also why you have collateral in such investments so that the lender has ways to recoup their investment even with uncooperative lendees. I think the world is complex & we have different investment models to account for that complexity. I’m skeptical that any one hammer will somehow solve all problems. It’s all trade offs in the end, no?
Yes the kernel is entirely written in C and assembly, there’s a Linus rant about why that is and why he doesn’t want C++ in it. Curious as to what changed his mind about rust
KolibriOS
> For example to help the blind to see or connect the world.

And if they could lower costs by employing fewer people, they'd have more money to spend on helping the blind see or connect the world. Alternatively, they employ more people because they believe it will allow them to help more blind people or connect the world better. The point is, they don't hire people for the sake of giving them a paycheck. There's something of equal value expected of those people in return.

> Or the many many small businesses who seek to...employ people

Which ones? Which business has "employ people" as an objective to be maximized? How does it even manage to stay in business working like that? (Note: I'm not talking about businesses that make serious sacrifices to minimize job losses in a downturn; that's praiseworthy. I'm talking about businesses that have headcount as a primary metric of success.)

And if pure job creation is soooo morally good, how do you feel about a government job guarantee? They have that under a number of communist or socialist systems. So is communism or socialism morally superior to capitalism?

Serious question: if you hire a babysitter for date night with your partner, do you feel virtuous about creating employment? Or do you see it as an exchange of some money for a service? If you do feel virtuous, you should re-think that.

Another serious question: is automation immoral? It puts people out of work, after all.
had the displeasure of working with groupon recently, for an api integration.

be thankful that you bombed the interview, that place is a mess. and is basically dying.
And take this subtle example from NYT a few days ago.

"More than 67 Palestinians, including 16 children, have died since the start of the conflict on Monday, Palestinian health officials said. The rockets fired by Hamas and its Islamist ally, Islamic Jihad, killed at least six Israeli civilians, including a 5-year-old boy and one soldier."

Note the use of died vs killed.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/12/world/middleeast/israeli-...
I usually use an IIFE to encapsulate the async block inside the useEffect. Works like a charm!
Often the first trick is having children. It turns out to be a good way to spend a lot of money. Especially having relatively more children. Other ways are avoiding good investments (it’s already easy today and was even easier 40 years ago when brokerages were more high touch and it was harder to find good information. Another aspect is being bad at investing in the typical way: switching from equities to bonds when there’s a market crash), avoiding investing at all (eg just putting money in a savings account), just spending a lot of money on depreciating assets and not saving, and not earning so much money in the early years when compounding pays off the most or the later years due to seeking out things other than high pay.

In many ways it’s not so different from today.
looks pretty cool, is this suppose to be a replacement for electron apps?
Show HN: Inflation-adjusted Hacker News
Only 75000 years ago, but maybe the Toba eruption? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toba_catastrophe_theory#Geneti...
I saw a post about ST4 beta here on HN about a month ago. Decided to pay for the license to support the devs, as I was using just the evaluation version before I’ve started by programming career, and then I’ve switched to IDEs and went back to editor world with Atom. ST introduced me to the world of multiple cursors and easy to usr shortcuts. Atom ported that well, and it’s the first thing I set up in vscode (thanks to the atom keymap package).

Sadly, I agree with the post I saw on the other thread month or so ago: “too little, too late”.

I see a lot of mention of how ST is fast, and that’s impressive. But being fast does not make my job web dev easier.
Vscode still delivers a superior developer experience, it’s easier for me to understand what’s going on under the hood and work with plugins. The speed is good enough, I work around the slower startup by having a window open at all times while working, so opening a new file is nearly instant.

I’m still glad that I’ve paid for the license. It makes me happy to see small apps that pack a punch and are fast, rather than going for the lazy way of using electron and eat up resources like crazy.
I intend to give ST more time on my personal projects. But I just don’t feel as productive, and to me it matters when I’m using an editor almost 8h a day.
"Dead man walking" is quite harsh. Zig is a one man passion project. Those are awesome. Rust is becoming and industrial scale tool. Those are awesome as well.

However, each has their place. One man passion projects should not be used in anything mission critical. They totally should be used for fun, enjoyment and inspiration, and they may potentially grow to industry scale.
Which of these do you believe escalated from naughty jokes?
The pre-takeover policies, clearly.
The problem with having your API key in the URL is that they'll likely be logged all over the place when they're meant to be secret. You probably have the keys being leaked in logs, error reports, metrics, etc.
Odds are it's not going to happen. You just need to read between the lines. There's a lot of handwaving from the Rust side and very little of actual importance.

You gotta remember that most of the heavy hitters in Linux Kernel development haven't even commented yet. When the Rust side presents something mergeable, the massacre will begin.
Valid point. Perhaps use of "corner cases" didn't help my point. I mean that there shouldn't be valid, intended functionality that remains undocumented.

Another example is an API I use that has a property that has no documentation other than the property's presence. I just roll my eyes at that.
> reliable news collected from the New York Times

Sounds like a pretty small sample size.
The full verse: “For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evils. It is through this craving that some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pangs.” -1 Timothy 6:10 (ESV)
Current block reward is 6.25BTC and you can't exactly mine a partial block.
Jonathan Haidt: The Coddling of the American Mind (2019)[video]
Choosing a Self-Hosted Git Service (2020)
I don't see this at all. Could you point to an example?
How to Save and Deploy TensorFlow
There's also the fact that a wrong person convicted usually means the guilty party going free and the investigation closed.

This is bad enough normally but the death penalty creates even bigger incentives for people to claim the right person was convicted after the fact and not to look too closely at any new evidence which comes to light which could lead to the actually guilty party being found.
Indeed! Postgres 14 improves scalability of concurrent connections but I doubt cloud db providers will adjust their max. connections limit.
Those are all "usage" based if you aren't nitpicking. The major alternative is app store (and some SDKs) style of revenue-bases pricing
Is this the type of harassment based on (perceived race) that you could sue over?
You can't make desktop apps with android or jetpack compose. Find me one written with it that actually distributes their app that way vs. some emulation hack that nobody uses.
I believe the paper indicates otherwise, in regards to immunity. To help make sense of the paper, I read this Science Daily article that reviews it, and contains some comments from the paper's authors.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/05/210517105727.h...

Here, one of the people associated with the paper mentions:

"Vaccination works very well to prevent both symptoms and severe disease in the short to medium term, but efficacy is predicted to decline over the first few months for most of these vaccines,"

"However, it is very important to understand the difference between immunity against infection and protection from developing severe disease. Our study found that a 6-fold lower level of antibodies is required to protect against severe disease. So even though our analysis predicts that we will start losing immunity to mild infection in the first year after vaccination, protection from severe infection should be longer lived," says Dr Khoury.

Key is that distinction between immunity and protection against severe sickness.
Each step is aimed at increasing the wealth of incumbent homeowners, not making housing more affordable. The economists at the Fed and GSEs are not stupid.
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The YC bubble might be addicted to greed, but I don't think the youngest generations desire money more than anything else. Most don't even have the opportunity to desire money.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/12/03/precariou...

Here's the classic chart that has been thrown around.
What is the biggest project written in Rust? Servo? Hasn't Firefox gave up on it?
Assuming that the Indian speaks Hindi, all three languages are Indo-European, assuming even closer historically recent ties.
> I think putting this content in the same category as gaming content

This is not happening here. Twitch is not a pure Gaming-site anymore, for several years now. And those hot tub-streams are not listed in gaming-categories, they are in non-gaming-categories like "Just Chatting", "Music", even "Travel & Outdoors" (because there are also legit beach-streams which play the hot tub-routine).

Twitch started as Gaming-Only, and the majority of content is still gaming. But people should realize that Non-Gaming is already big on twitch too, and it grows. Twitch is bringing sports and fashing-events to the platform. Music has grown string the last year because of COVID. And some people have found their niche in tame porn-content. Which technically is kind of a joke, because the biggest Hot Tub-Streamer has sexualized content on Twitch for years. But in the past she used the Just Dance-Game to create sexualixed content, or did some fitness-stuff. She is literally infamouse on the platform for this, and Hot tub is just the latest trend in a series of long running content-attempts. Just because it now is now missing the gaming-part, should make it worse? I don't think so.
That’s likely true. It seems the people who graduated a year or two later were similar in many ways except that the job market was a lot better. And indeed many people with the option chose to get a little extra education like a masters degree rather than graduating for this reason.
But note that your remark falls into the same category.
It will always amaze me that 100 years ago when microscopes were quite primitive that physical chemists could predict the shapes of the electron shells. The knew the inner ones were spherical, a little further out were dumbbell shaped, etc. Now pictures like this help add more context to these more complex structures, but the hybrid dumbbell shape of the shell is easily recognizable.
I agree, but is emulating the errors of our parents that corroded society the best solution?
Downvoters angry that ~90%+ of the planet doesn't believe white America's manufactured origin myth or is it something else?
> Well-meaning white people have been duped by a vocal minority of non-whites, who themselves were duped by cynical, washed out 60s radicals with bad ideas who failed to achieve anything in their time. You have been encouraged to treat non-whites like child emperors in your midst, whose every whim and dictate can only lead the way to racial harmony and absolution of your inherited sins.

We are still talking about adding some code points to Unicode here, right? Or did I miss something?

I agree it shouldn’t be a big deal, but it also isn’t a large change to offer skin tones as an option for people who want them. You can simply not use them if you don’t want to.

> What race is Milhouse, with his blue hair?

Not Indian or Black. Almost certainly he reads as white to most people. The blue hair and yellow skin was not meant to signify the characters place outside of race, it was a stylistic consequence of them not having hairlines

https://www.her.ie/entertainment/simpsons-writers-reveals-fa...

https://simpsons.fandom.com/wiki/Category:African-American_C...
It's just my intuition built by reading LKML and following Linux kernel development for 20 years. There are a lot of folks waiting for something mergeable before a torrent of criticism (and I'd imagine outright NAKs) comes down.

I think a lot of Rust people read Linus's "I don't hate it" as explicit approval. But anyone who's followed LKML knows that this is not the case.
Is it all that different than a company claiming they are a victim of a ransomware attack and they paid the ransom?

Oh no, the hackers got our accounting database encrypted. We can't process your thing for 2 weeks and we paid 80M in crypto for ransom. Can we please get a tax write-off for our embezzlement?
You don't _have_ to exercise if you leave. That part is totally optional - in fact, the company will probably be quite happy for you to leave without exercising.
I can't be sure, but I think it was "Slack" by Demarco.
MySQL and mariadb have first class temporal tables. Pg has compile requirement and so cannot use in AWS RDS.
I don’t believe this is clear at all. So far, it actually seems the mRNA vaccines as well as the viral vector vaccines greatly attenuate the severity of COVID among those who do catch a variant.
To quote an old joke: they’re Dunning-Krugerrands.
The one click anonymous signup is simple but a great feature. I wish more services adopted it.
If your API has unpredictable corner cases, your data model or API is wrong
Hey,

It seems that you are facing a acute depression episode. My suggestion is to search professional help.
This phase is really difficult and painful, a psychiatrist can really help you.

Be safe!
Just the fact that his mom moved from India to NYC is a giant multiplier on ones chance of financial success. Some might even call that.. luck?