skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure I'd agree that when React took over, Angular was a perfectly fine framework. I mean, what happened with React was actually very unusual and remains very unusual. It took over. There is this popular and snarky notion that js devs are constantly chasing every shiny thing but that is exactly the opposite of what has happened over the last several years with React. Instead I'd argue that js devs were nomads prior to React because none of the existing solutions were solving the big problems they had. Not because they are ADD fad chasers. Also I don't remember seeing React "marketing" any more than any other framework. Of course when Google or FB or any other major player gets behind a framework, we take notice, but that doesn't have anything to do with why React took off. It won because frp in a FE framework with the Flux pattern was a total game changer and made FE development awesome for the first time ever (well since Flex, I'll take your word for it since that is even before my time (I cut my FE teeth on jquery and Dojo!))
Isn't that what someone that works at Slack? If they're getting basic employment details that badly wrong, then they're not very useful.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_authority

Please improve your dialectic skills so we could have a much better exchange of ideas.
Absolutely true. Almost all of what you describe happened when the USA had a 70-94% top marginal tax rate and very few billionaires, though. The grossest of distortions has come along after the pace of benefits has long since dropped considerably.
Studies have shown the common (LFIA) antibody tests administered to most people have specificity <50%
What happens when 'everyone works hard'? Sure, the people doing trading algorithms will make money but not the people doing CRUD apps.
Soy boys seem really excited about experimental genetic engineering.
Oh lord I wouldn't be surprised if recruiting companies pay to get this data.
You've been downvoted and I think that's right.

The main point is - you can't control your luck. you can control what you do. For some reason, there's an attitude that "because you can't control your luck, you shouldn't control what you actually can control" which is dumb.

You can acknowledge both. But you need to maximize that which is under your control (and if you don't do that you have no room to complain about anything else.)
I'm guessing low expertise programmers whose main contribution was googling stackoverflow will get less valuable, while high expertise programmers with real design skill will become even more valuable.
Came here to comment similarly. A lot of smart people worked really hard on the manual.

https://docs.python.org/3/
This was bound to happen, huh? From what I've read the insulin market was/is protected against new competitors with tons of legal red tape someone with enough capital "just" had to get through.

Edit: Wait. Novo Nordisk, their producer, is one of the established insulin vendors. Why are they helping to reduce prices?

Also, does anyone have an estimate of how high the margins still are?
Exactly. When I find overlapping content in MOOCs, it becomes very annoying. I don't want to miss out a valuable insight I might gain listening to a different instructor speaking for a different point-of-view. The RoI is quite low. But it has happened in the past, so I don't want to skip overlapping content. So listening to it while tidying up or cleaning the desk makes sense.

And for new content, I never watch lectures with other things. I never did. And I still find 2-4 minutes videos annoying as hell.
The worst thing about kubernetes, or the hype around kubernetes, is that it leads people who never liked microservices and never took the time to understand how to do them well, to turn their stack into a series of microservices.
I exempted copied segments at the start of my previous post for a reason, that reason is I don't really know, I doubt it works because judges tend to frown on absurd outcomes.
> Moreover investment of time on user side for newsletter delivering news increases with each newsletter vs One newsletter delivering what I want.

You might be interested in this article[1] and the discussion of subscribed vs. filtered sources. It'd be nice to have a convenient way to assign different priorities to newsletters/content sources. So for a few, you'd get every issue, and for the rest, they'd be combined together in some way.

> You're welcomed to join the discussion on 'Get me the news I need, not the news I want' by explaining what Sample does to address that problem.

I'm not sure I have much insight about needs vs. wants, but you might be interested in The Factual.[2]

[1] https://jacobobryant.com/p/the-pros-and-cons-of-algorithmic/

[2] https://thefactual.com/
Before commenting about exercises and healthy diet - check difference between Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes...
If it's a corporate environment, the standards are different, understandably. But the hostility to jQuery is also primarily concentrated among corporate devs that seemingly cannot imagine that jQuery might be valuable for use cases other than their own.

Not every site out there is an database-driven SPA that needs QA review and a deployment pipeline each time an update is made. Lots of sites are just simple WordPress or even raw HTML pages that need a little bit of a facelift, with animations or transition. jQuery does the trick, and as a bonus, it's a much gateway drug to JS than the official ES6 documentation could ever be.
> I’m going to check your profile — 90% chance you spread antivax propaganda.

You’re not on Reddit anymore friend
My whole point is that current policies are conflating immunity with vaccination, when the science says that immunity from a past infection is equivalent to immunity from vaccination.

If I can provide a past positive Covid test or a positive antibody test, that is just as good as a record of being vaccinated. There is no scientific evidence to point to for believing otherwise.
Thanks, this is inspiring to read. Booking my ticket now... ;)
Well yeah, PPPoE is super derpy; but at least the modems could be trained to adjust MSS on the way in and out to (tcp) 1472, but they often don't, and sometimes only adjust mss on the way out, not on the way in. My current PPPoE ISP doesn't support RFC4638, and my previous ISP was worse, I had a fiber connection with 1500 MTU, but their 6rd gateway was only 1492 MTU (so ipv6 MTU was 1472 after the tunnel) and ICMP needs frag was rate limited, so IPv6 would only sometimes work until I figured out I needed to adjust the v6 MTU.

Did you know Windows doesn't request (or process) MTU information on v4 DHCP? That's a nice touch.
Which old tech vaccines? I haven't seen any attenuated vaccines for covid. Even the viral vector vaccines aren't exactly "old tech" and they are certainly less effective than mRNA vaccines.

Just like with mRNA; viral vector vaccines haven't been seen widespread use before COVID either. And the only attempts at an attenuated vaccine have been pretty ineffective as far as I know.
I have no current place of employment. I'm fortunate to be able to live without paid work for a long while. I'm possibly even retired from paid work altogether and not just from interviewing. This has happened a few years earlier than I had thought it would. I'm definitely in the "leanfire" category - I can be retired, but I'm going to have to be pretty frugal.

That said, I do occasionally get contract gigs through people I've worked with in the past where there are no interviews required, it's more like "Hey, we need someone to do this project and we know you can do it because you've done similar in the past - can you help us out?"
> Employers only care what you actually know and can do.

That seems to fly in the face of "who you know is more important that what you know" conventional wisdom.
I will not be participating in a system that intentionally gets me sick 1-2 days out of the year to avoid an illness that barely did anything to me in the first place. people who are going to have a bad reaction to covid can get them if they need them. I don’t.
Nothing wrong with what you want, but I'm thinking you might not be the target audience?
But the issue, is that if you had your first dose 2 days before being infected, you count as being infected after 1 dose.

We need to compare "1 dose, x days after first dose" and "two doses, x days after first dose" to compare the same thing
I admire pg; I don't admire his essays, even though in broad strokes I agree with them. I feel his choice of style works against him; that's where I disagree.

Write like you talk, but if you talk like pg writes you lose your audience. His essays check out line by line, paragraph by paragraph, but they fail to drive at some deeper, more subtle point that can capture the imagination of an audience. I'm sure pg is nothing if not imaginative, but his essays aren't.

Another comment criticizes this essay as just another pg stream of consciousness; I feel it's the opposite: short on many of the details, digressions and emotions that can make an essay come alive, that can give you sense of the author and his world. Often when I read an essay that's what I'm interested in most and I don't think I'm alone in this.

I think I understand why pg has chosen his style; the principles and aesthetic sensibilities that went into his choice and I agree with them. Nevertheless I think it's a poor choice. I hope pg reads this and reconsiders. Innovate!
> I had to learn what real work was before I could wholeheartedly desire to do it. That took a while, because even in college a lot of the work is pointless; there are entire departments that are pointless.

In other words, "the work I want to do is real but the work you want to do is trivial and pointless."

I really genuinely have enjoyed Paul Graham's writing over the years but moments like this seem arrogant and tend to spoil some of the enjoyment. I'd be genuinely curious to know what departments he finds pointless, and why, in the grand scheme of things, they have no "point" in comparison to computer science or whatever.

While it's true that computer science can be used to enable, for example, much cheaper air travel, or important forms of cancer diagnosis, it's also true that a great many computer scientists work on less crucial problems like optimizing ad targeting or enabling scams.

Similarly, while many English lit majors may end up contributing little most of us find valuable in that field, there are some who will become authors who genuinely help other humans find more meaning in life and feel less alone, and others who will shed new light on history and thiis contribute to the understanding of our present.

I'm not saying fields can't be compared. Maybe the average engineer's college studies help society "more" (for some definition) than the average humanities major's studies do. Fine. What I'm saying is - it takes a lot of arrogance to cast aside entire college departments as worthless.
Reminds me of my intern at Google. PhD CS, had been an intern at Google 9 summers in a row. Spent remainder of year skiing. Smart and contributed a lot, also seemed happy.
The company you purchased from decided to do it that way. If you don’t agree just don’t buy into it, or create a competitor.
Did the license you bought said it would have no ads?
So there's no chance of immune escape? I thought at the very least, it'd be like the flu vaccines where the virus mutates often enough that we all need periodic booster shots.
Among other things, bright kids are often not challenged in school. Many of them learn to coast and not be too troublesome and do what little they have to do to hit the check marks the adults around them require while secretly pursuing some means to quietly also meet their own needs.

They can end up feeling like school work is pointless and like "a monkey could do this."
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This is the weirdest socialized medicine I've ever seen, "offer valid only for COVID tests, COVID vaccines and Insulin (terms and conditions apply)." This kind of targeted quick fix is kind of the epitome of the little patches you put on a leaky kids swimming pool.
Yeah - I think it's a normal human experience, but there's a spectrum of intensity. It becomes a problem when it starts limiting you from doing what you want to do.

Bobby Fischer was also terrified before chess matches, Elon Musk says he's terrified of things failing all the time. I think bravery/courage it's not so much not being afraid, but being afraid and coming up with strategies to push through anyway.

For sports two tennis players come to mind too, Naomi Osaka recently but there was another earlier (I think Mardy Fish?).

I think different people feel the level of fear at different intensities though - probably a mixture of genetics and parenting. The physical symptoms are the worst part (waking up hyperventilating, etc.)
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They are considered "interchangeable" by the National Advisory Committee on Immunization of Canada.

[1]: https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/immunization...
It doesn’t matter if the GOP doesn’t control the House, Senate, or White House - if the reason legalization isn’t moving forward is because 50 GOP Senators vote no, and 1 Dem Senator votes no, it’s still squarely the GOP’s fault. If a legalization bill isn’t even ever going to move past the senate, it really doesn’t matter if the House/WH are Dem controlled.

I fail to see how it’s squarely in Biden’s hands at this point, unless I’m sorely misunderstanding the US legislative process.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/congress-schumer-mar...
Are we talking about groups of people based on intrinsic attributes, like nation of origin or gender? Or groups of people based on behavior?

"Myth of the good arms dealer" seems fair. "Myth of the good mob boss" seems fair. The article makes the case that there's no way to accumulate $1,000,000,000 without taking advantage of people in inexcusable ways, so I'm not sure I see your criticism as valid.
Because it's an error to use floats in almost every situation. And currency is something where you don't want rounding errors, period. The more I've learned about floating point numbers over the years, the less I want to use them. Floats solve a specific problem, and they're a reasonable trade-off for that kind of problem, but the problem they solve is fairly narrow.
"Less than 25 per cent of those surveyed said they could accurately predict how much they’d spend on Kubernetes to within 5 per cent of actual cost."

The premise seems off to me. Of course people have a hard time predicting the cost of an autoscaling infrastructure that they haven't had for a long time.

Presumably they moved off of a fixed size infrastructure to get to Kubernetes. Where they were either paying for excess capacity on some days, or paying in the form of poor performance when demand exceeded supply.

Five percent accuracy seems like a high bar, and you would want a year or two to understand your seasonality and growth rate, etc.
You can change your mind, knock out a wall there, put in a new wall here. Basically easier to remodel.

Plus the carbon sequestration

And in the case of craftsman style homes the use of wood is very beautiful but of course you could throw a few planks of wood onto a concrete shell.

It’s softer too, I lived in a condo that was all concrete and granite, anytime you bumped into a corner or fell down it just hurt more than wood.
I read the entire Nature paper. I wouldn't call this paper great news. It's just confirmation of the not terrible news we had before.

Is 12 to 15 weeks (3-4 months) really "long lasting" antibody mediated immunity? I'm glad the antibodies still neutralize even gamma that long but 3-4 months is the timespan people were previously calling "short". Yes, T cell responses (the cells that kill infected cells) to sars-cov-2 epitopes last longer (not covered in this article) but this just seems to confirm the short coverage of b cell mediated antibodies.
I don’t know how universally true this is, but I find that the easier it is to write the first time, the harder it is to maintain. For example, it’s really easy to write a python script but it’s harder to change. It’s harder to use types on a program the first time but it’s easier to change. I think that’s the core of the issue here with peoples negative feelings about jQuery. Sure it’s super easy to make the page do the thing but it’s a long term mess almost always - especially compared to something with more built in structure.
Vaccination is more comprehensive than natural immunity though. We've already see that the BNT vaccine offers a higher degree of protection against variants than natural immunity, or indeed other vaccines.

Reinfection studies from a few months ago demonstrated that natural immunity is roughly 50% effective for people aged 65 or over. And that's the age group most likely to experience negative outcomes from covid-19, it's seems prudent to go ahead and recommend vaccinations for this age group, regardless of previous infection.

Then there's the elephant in the room: so few people have been tested that it really difficult to know who has had it. Anyone who has had a cold in the past 18 months is going to claim they had covid, regardless of whether they tested positive or not. It would be easier to vaccinate this group than it would be to perform a test for covid antibodies.

If covid hadn't become a political shit-show, I'd agree with you. But at this point, I think it's a little irresponsible to society to give anyone an out on getting vaccinated.
There is a large amount of stuff to learn about how to do stuff the kubernetes way but yea, it's just a tool to run isolated processes across a fleet of servers. You can make a mess in ec2 and in kubernetes and I don't see much if any additional complexity to costs associated to running kubernetes. It is friggin gorgeous and elegant when comparing it to something like hadoop. Spark on kubernetes has been a dream compared to writing automation that used cloudera or ambari hadoop management layers.
if you are typing out boilerplate you should look to abstract it away
When I think of boilerplate I think of context that is made explicit. Things like type annotations, longer variable names, the lifetime or attributes of some class or data etc. These things are extremely helpful for a number of things - they convey context from writer to readers, they aid in proving the code correct, and they can make code faster.

The context almost always exists in the writers head. We all have a specification of our program based on our expectations, and we type out code to turn that model into an implementation. We only spend so much time conveying that model though - most of us don't write formal proofs, but many of us will write out type annotations or doc comments.

The cost is usually as simple as expressing and typing out the model in our head as code. Languages that are famous for boilerplate, like Java, enforce this - and it makes writing Java slower, but can also make Java code quite explicit (I'm sure someone will respond talking about confusing Java code, that's not the point).

Reducing the cost of conveying context from writer to reader means we can convey more of that context in more places. That's a huge win, in my opinion, because I've personally found that so much implicit context gets lost over time, but it can be hard to always take the time to convey it.

Think about how many programs you've read with single character variable names, or no type annotations, or no comments. The more of that we can fix, the better, imo.

Tools like this do that. TabNine autocompletes full method type signatures for me in rust, meaning that the cost of actually writing out the types is gone. That's one less cost to pay for having clearer, faster code.
My bad - lived in the US too long. Meant MoD.
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Would you hire a person who only knew how to program by taking small snippets of code from GPL and rearranging them? That's like hiring monkey's to type Shakespeare.

The clear difference is that a human's training regimen is to understand how and why code interacts. That is different from an engine that replicates other people's source code.
What is the population of people who are willing to get a blood draw for an accurate antibody test but haven’t been vaccinated already and can’t afford moderate flu-like symptoms for a day? I’m sure a small number of people like that exist but it’s not really worth carving out complex exceptions to vaccination rules (specifying which kind of antibody tests administered by who and when, etc.) to accommodate their preferences.
pfizer trial showed first dose by itself was extremely effective. check out the chart here: https://www.businessinsider.com/how-well-pfizer-shot-works-a...

Much of the data comparing efficacy of 1 vs 2 doses doesn't wait until 10-days after the first dose, which defeats the point. That being said 2 doses is more effective, just not by as much as you'd might think.

edit: replaced the above link because it was pay-walled
What about half a gallon of milk every day and some carbs and nothing more? It is known that a great mathematitian Grigory Perelman used to follow exactly that kind of nutrition for years.
> I could see some features becoming quite annoying, especially if you have to click through a bunch of upsells to finally add item to order.

...which is exactly what would happen, because you can measure how many times the upsell works, but you can't easily measure how many people stop going to your restaurant as a result of this crap, and companies will literally kill people if they can find metrics to show it's profitable.

> I think places could get creative though, for example leave comments for the chef about the meal, make specific requests which the prep team can respond to, have the chef speak about the daily specials in video rather than have a wait staff regurgitate them after having never tried them.

Having worked in food service in the past, the last thing chefs want is comments on the meal from customers. The ignorance and rudeness of the general public when it comes to food is astounding.

The chef speaking about the daily specials might be the only reasonable idea here, but my gut feel is that the only people who would use this would be tech folks interested in the feature, not end users. I don't think this is probably enough of a value add to be worth implementing.
Yes, I've tested without a SIM card and was asked for phone verification. Seems like it may be hit and miss.
> Why on earth do I need Node in order to do "simple" frontend development

Because using current JS standards while moving the vast majority of the “make it work across a moving-target set of browsers” concerns to build toolchain configuration settings is a simplification from either explicitly managing all the compatibility issues and/or restricting to least-common-denominator JS features. Yes, build toolchains are themselves a source of complexity, but in net they can be a simplification.
who fucking cares? pay the $3 extra dollars and order the rice. if you get extra throw it away. ive never had a waiter answer a question that could have just been printed on the menu in the first place or solved by merely taking a picture of the food.
This is exactly the kind of fun, kooky conspiracy theory I've missed with all the real conspiracies coming to light over the last decade or so.
If we defer arbitration of the truth to social media platforms, we'll get exactly what we asked for. I don't think that this is a beneficial goal.
You absolutely 100% do not have to use Svelte Kit.

Svelte Kit is just the equivalent of (an opinionated) Next.js, Gatsyby, or Nuxt.js framework. Those frameworks are also incredibly opinionated on purpose.
LTSE has a different business model, so hopefully things will turn out differently