skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Serious question for fashionistas.. which of the modern frameworks integrate 'properly' with Closure Compiler? Not just minification, but structured so the compilation/code removal/constant replacement/inlining/obfuscation steps work correctly.

I've seen a few with instructions to compile with Closure Compiler, but of the (approximately one) I've checked, the output was barely even minified, never mind optimized
For anyone wondering whether it's too late to train your memory, I'd say memory is one of those traits you can train remarkably late in life (compare versus language acquisition). I met a memory national champion who didn't start training until they were effectively retired and needed something to do.
Yeah, but when you’re a household name, you probably get a little more slack than Joe Nobody
It would be easier if they just addressed the 6 candidates in the world that fit these requirements by their names.

Hey John, Jack, Matt, etc.. would you like to join us ?
I like Cal Newport's Deep Life framework here a bunch, highly recommend everyone check it out:

https://www.calnewport.com/blog/2020/04/20/cultivating-a-dee...

He has these alliterative buckets, like Craft, Community, Contemplation, and Constitution. Everyone's priority stack is different but generally speaking ... all humans need a bit of each.

ONLY craft ('work') isn't enough for a deep life!
Have you considered filing an FTC complaint? The new FTC commissioner actually seems to care about these things.
I would assume China is monitoring all their Hong Kong citizens and carefully scrutinizing them for any dissident behaviour before they even think of letting them leave the country.
>philosphy
>No mention of Plato

It is an overused word.
You're starting from an opinion that you haven't presented any evidence for, and then asking for evidence when someone disagrees with you? Let's be clear here: we're both presenting opinions without scientific studies behind them.

The study you proposed doesn't address the topic at hand, because there's a very large confounding factor: packed lunches are going to have very different foods in them than what you'd get at a restaurant, which has obvious health implications.

I think most people have life experience that shows them that in-person human interaction is a necessary component to human happiness, especially after the pandemic. Maybe somehow you've never experienced or heard other people's experiences of that, but if that's the case, you really should seek out the opinions of people who aren't like you more often. Maybe start with the waitstaff at your local restaurant. ;)

Are you aware that there's a widespread feeling that tech/business folks are out of touch with reality?
I stopped playing such games and currently do something else:

I shave the scope as much as possible and make sure to report on my progress daily - usually by demoing.

This is actually something that was originally suggested by my manager in one of my former projects.

With the scope devoid of non-critical pieces and daily updates it's easier to monitor the progress and notice any roadblocks early on.

Normally you'd do something like this during standups, but there's a world of a difference between saying what you did and presenting it.

Generally people are more interested in whether something will be delivered on time than how long the specific pieces will take to finish.

Also in this system any accusations of villainy on part of those you report to never get a chance to happen.
I turn it off when I need to use them
If you look at any graduate program in CS/Stats/Math today, you would think "PhD in CS" is a proxy for "Asian".

Equality of opportunity doesn't result in equality of outcomes. Many of those Asian students have to climb countless immigration barriers and out-compete literally a billion people to come to the US. They arguably have _less_ opportunity than a white woman who's a US citizen.

The idea that overstating requirements is somehow discriminatory is laughable. There is _nothing_ stopping women or whatever group is the oppressed group of the day from applying for a _job listing_. It's literally just submitting a resume, there's not even a big time investment associated with it. If there was discrimination in the resume screening that would be a different story, but you can't claim prima facie that having inflated job requirements is sexist.
I was talking about fuel consumption. Most small aircraft run on normal gasoline, but they usually get the equivalent of 10-15 mpg. The Cessna 172, for instance, gets the equivalent of 13 miles per gallon. This vehicle will be worse than that.

I can see why that would be unclear from what I wrote.
Yesterday someone ran a thread where people posted tons of headless CMS options[1]. There might be a few ideas there for people interested in your comment.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27674105
Yeah, agreed, I've had so many conversations about this where people like the idea in concept but when you hear about people actually living in these it quickly becomes clear that it doesn't work for some folks. Specifically, though, in the 400 SF version that we'd like to build next (assuming we're able to actually sell the smaller one we're currently building) it would be on a 30-foot trailer and actually have two sleeping lofts. In that model, a minimalist family of 4 (minimalist, he says, as if!) could totally fit with the two adults in one loft and the two kids in another. At 3 children you start getting more difficult, but I'm sure you could do a 600 SF house, but then a trailer large enough to build such a thing becomes difficult to move.

Re needing a truck, plenty of folks tow tiny houses so that's no problem assuming you don't want to constantly move it. If you wanted to be truly mobile I personally question whether a tiny house really is the right vehicle (ha!) for that lifestyle. And the trailer we're using has jacks, which stabilize the trailer so, no, it's not semi-permanent, but when you jump around in ours you can't feel it moving at all. We also had a thought about adding a skirt to the trailer itself to increase curb appeal if someone purchasing it is going to leave it fixed in one location, but that's for when/if we sell. Gotta finish the interior first.
I wonder if the problem is calling them programming 'languages'.
Learning a new human language is hard, learning a new programming language not so much.
You wouldn't hire someone for a job requiring Spanish if they spoke Russian instead.
For non-technical people the metaphor around
'languages' might be confusing.
Hey HackerNews!

I'm a web developer and I developed, BitcoinTemp, a site which allows users to check how Bitcoin is performing. The prices are portrayed like a weather forecast, with some days being sunny and others being storms.

I created the site with the help of my friend, Josh Ternyak, as a way to celebrate countries starting to adopt Bitcoin as an official currency.

Feel free to leave a comment with any feedback on how I can improve the website. Thank you!
I prefer FORCOS. FORSIN is for noobs and always out of phase with the latest trends in JS. ;-)

Just before the advent of Gameboy Color, I ported a 50-year-old BWR/PWR nuclear reactor simulator containing 5MLoC from UNIX to Win32.

Roughly the same time, I made for a customer a JRE installer running from a CD-R (it seemed important because it ran slowly) to install a DOS program of a text database of structural building codes. I'm sure no one uses it now... or I really hope.
I have never remembered a time where "college dropout" was not a big deal in tech. It was such a significant thing that it was often one of the first few facts you would find out about a person behind some technology.

And jobs with degrees as a requirement were often the norm. For a senior position in a research oriented group that might be expected to collaborate with and/or hire from academic groups, totally normal to want a higher degree.

It has always been and is still the case that not having a degree is not a huge impediment if you have the chops -- You will find a place, or a place will find you. But it has never been the case that someone without a degree could ever expect to have equal opportunity to be hired into any job out there.
Can we all agree that bland job descriptions are useless or is there some reason they all essentially look identical?
Job hunting right now.

I know if I get two job offers and one is any form of WFH Hybrid (or a "you can probably work it out with your manager") and the other is 100% Remote, I'm taking the 100% remote position, unless the hybrid is like 2x the pay.

Right now there's a lot of recruiters trying to sell me on various nebulous hybrid positions (sounds like the companies don't really know or have committed to anything just yet, or are afraid to let potential hires know what they're really planning), but there's equally as many recruiters contacting me for 100% remote (and plans to stay that way) as well.

I don't mind meeting up with other employees on the occasional fun team-building outing, but I really don't want to work in an office again.

I likely have permanent Tinnitus in one ear thanks to my time in open offices and I had to turn music up to block out multiple conversations to concentrate, for one reason why I'm not in a hurry to go back, let alone there still being uncertainty about this or future pandemics (I'm vaccinated, but delta or delta plus or the next crazy variant might still fuck me up, and I don't want to be stuck having to go to an office when I start feeling uncomfortable about the spread of those).

Also I don't want to deal with paying and transporting my dogs to doggy daycare everyday, or spend 2+ hours a day driving to and from work. I've done plenty of that in the past, and it always sucked.
Doesn't Lutris download and execute random scripts written by random people online? I'd rather avoid that and do it myself.

TBH i do not think things are completely unsolvable, it is just that i wish Proton, etc wasn't tied to Steam.
No, female developers is an accurate term. There is nothing wrong with the word. You don't say women developers. And since it is fine in this scenario it is also fine in that scenario. You are creating a problem out of nothing here.

Edit: Also woman is not inclusive, since it excludes kids. You wouldn't say that women toddlers. Using female and male are the only terms you can use when you are talking about the groups as a whole. Attacking people for using them just makes it impossible to correctly use the language.
Some marketing blog long ago said to remove dates so people can't tell when a post was written, and it's plagued blogging ever since. The idea is that "evergeen content" shouldn't need a date, but a date is context. No one is so good at writing that their writing has nothing anchoring it to the context of a point on a timeline.
TL;DR

The second law of thermodynamics applies to the Internet as well.
The same can be said of Wall Street banks — they have significant real estate holdings that would be devalued in a scenario where a sizeable percentage of the workforce never goes back to the office. They have a vested interest in driving utilization of physical spaces.

Meanwhile in tech, I would say folks have been more productive over the pandemic. I certainly have been. So there’s no big push to go back.
That is understandable, thank you for the feedback. I'll add some more context to the original comment.
If so, I have to believe it's a happy accident and not the HR people I've worked with somehow managing to play 4D developer-recruitment chess shortly after asking what's the difference between SQL and HTTP.
Heatwaves up to 120F aren't exactly unheard of -- they're just unheard of in northwestern North America.
ºF -> ºC is hard to intuit, even as a native English speaker (British) who grew up in the UK and studied chemistry to a high level. Not all English speakers use ºF.

Sure, I know 32ºF is the freezing point of water, 212ºF the boiling point, and yes I know the conversion equation, but still when I see (say) 104ºF I know it's "hot" but don't have my frame of reference in the right place to know how hot.
“raw” is a generic term that refers to many different raw formats, most of them compressed.
The publish date is 2020-11-02, as appears on the articles list at https://nicholasreese.com/

I agree they should probably make it visible on the article page itself...
But you need orders of magnitude fewer people to build and maintain the AIs then you do to manually create all the software running the world. And this is the unique peril of AI. The scale of capabilities of AI have the promise to grow faster than the creation of new classes jobs.
They could pull the same trick with pay, healthcare, or anything else they offer when their employees are starting. There's a reason they don't do that.
'How do we power cars' is a red herring question.

Cars are a symptom of sprawl, and sprawl is exceeding it's scaling limits. Canada is well past the limits of traffic and noise and death by collisions that are tolerated by nations with happy citizens.

If we don't fix the egregious shenanigans in our housing market, by 2035 property owners will be a heridary caste. When rent and food cost 100% of median income who is buying cars?
You are correct, of course, but the context of this thread is applying to a job without meeting the minimum "requirements". Arguably the lie is the "requirements".

But what is a candidate to do? Skip the job, because they don't have the required qualifications? Assume the requirements aren't real? Dress up the resume with some fake barely there qualifications to fit?

Different cultural backgrounds will have different responses, and very few will really be lying.

The worst thing, though? The knee-jerk response to the ones that dress up the resume is often to want to add even more requirements...
Is it as easy to disassemble and move it to a different location?

From what I see, it seems the setup alone seems to be optimized, but once done, it seems more or less permanent?
Sure, there are always other options. But there's also inertia - switching jobs is stressful and risky. Forcing people back to the office provides a push that might get people to think, "Y'know what, maybe <competitor> will hire me at L+1, and let me work remotely." The employees who can actually get the L+1 offer are the stronger ones.
What abuse? Do you think people sitting the office are actually doing work at all time? Anyone who pays attention at the office knows people are constantly wasting time socializing and surfing the web. It's all a facade to pretend like more work is being done. If anything COVID uncovered the fact that most modern jobs are unnecessary, or can be completed in very little time and don't require a 40 hour work week.

The focus should be on whether goals and projects are being completed not how much people have their asses in office chairs.
you need to implement GDPR in the US too. https://gdpr.eu/compliance-checklist-us-companies/
Robots to help with physical tasks, and AI (which could be embodied by the robot) to help with loneliness and intellectual tasks, ranging from everything from life strategy counselling, to day planning, to basic data entry.
You know, that's precisely what the topic here is about.
How Databases handle 10M devices in high-cardinality benchmarks
Yale Drama goes tuition-free with $150m gift from David Geffen
Arabs used the Abjad system for numbers before the introduction of 0-based counting systems. In Abjad each letter of the 28 in the writing system has a number. Like:

a = 1, b = 2, c = 3, ..., j = 10, k = 20, l = 30, ..., t = 100, u = 200, ...

There is no value in the position (like with Roman numbers where a smaller value after a bigger value subtracts it). So "cab" is 6, but "abba" is also 6. Now you can make words and rhymes to remember numbers. Saves you all the mental images of Sinatra kicking superman :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abjad
A degree is not a license and brings with it no safety regulations...
Their proprietary securities database (called "SecDB" which actually is the internal name for all the quant analytics. The database itself is actually called a "SecServ") and it's associated programming language (called "Slang") are certainly very strange in many ways, but they do not predate the creation of C. In fact it was all written in C++ and Java and then more recently I think they added a bunch of Scala code.

Source: Was a "strat" (quant developer in the front office at Goldman) for 8 years, including starting in the group that used to run version repo, CI/CD pipeline and internal build and distribution tooling for all of this. Think a code pipeline that builds circa 30m lines of C++, 20-ishm lines of Java code daily on 3 different platforms (Linux, Solaris and Windows) and distributes it globally across thousands of machines every 2 weeks and if mistakes are made it can cost millions of USD. And this predates most of what people think of as "devops" by some years (I was there 2002-2010 ish).
Seared tips of the spear... spare... ribs security. Smoked for quality and freshness since 1981.
Gusto launching embedded payroll via APIs
Yeah, but can he invert an AVL tree on the whiteboard?
Which makes sense. Most general aviation aircraft engines can run on petrol-pump fuel. Some pilots will land on dirt runways next to consumer gas stations. Petrol is cheaper than avgas. You can find videos of bush plane pilots getting a lot of confused on-lookers taking pictures of the airplane crossing the highway and pulling up to a gas pump. [1][2] Many of the experimental bush planes are using car and snow mobile engines Yamaha, Honda, etc... Car engines while not certified for aircraft are generally more fuel efficient, have longer time between rebuilds and operate better at higher altitudes, support higher RPM and have higher output power. The Zenith uses a Honda Accord car engine. [3]

Instead of a fancy flying car, I personally would just get something like Steve Henry's Highlander [4]. It has the Yamaha EPEX modified snowmobile engine and can take off and land in just a little more space than a helicopter. The wings can be removed by one person in 20 minutes.

[1] - https://youtu.be/PUSKBy3flAs?t=927

[2] - https://youtu.be/kSDJJn9lrkg?t=201

[3] - https://www.experimentalaircraft.info/homebuilt-aircraft/vik...

[4] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zk4teJwQ6FI
He learned a lot while hacking the WOPR.
> previous """AI""" generation has been trained on public text and photos, which are harder to make copyright claims on, but this is drawn from large bodies of work with very explicit court-tested licenses

This seems pretty backwards to me. A GPL licensed data point is more permissive than an unlicensed data point.

That said, I’m glad that these data points do have explicit licenses that say “if you use this, you must do XYZ” so that it’s clear that our large ML projects are going counter to creators intent when they made it open.

I’d love to start seeing licenses about use as training data. Then maybe we’d see more open access to these models that benefit from the openness of the web. I’d personally use licenses that say if you want to train on my work, you must publish the model. That goes for my code, my writing, and my photography.

Anyways GitHub is arguing that any use of publicly available data for training is fair use, but they also admit that it’s all new and unprecedented, regarding training data.
Yeah, that's very true.

I do wonder if with the 'somewhat standard' min.map files that can point out what the rendered versions relate to in the 'source' versions could somehow be enforced. That way you can still use the compact version first and if you do want to see what's happening you can just get the map and the source and explore.
"Acme Fine China, made in the USA”

My parents used to have a blanket on their bed, with the following label:

"Genuine Witney Blanket. Made in Manchester."

England may be a small place, but Witney is very far from Manchester, in terms of English geography. Witney used to be the centre of English blanket-weaving; there were at least two of the biggest English blanket-weaving companies in Witney. (Witney is a small town near Oxford)

Manchester was the centre of the English cotton-weaving industry since the 18th century. It's not hard to understand why the blanket-weavers might move to Manchester. But "Genuine Witney"? Yeah, the blanket was made by EarlyWarm, a Witney firm; but trading on a place-name when you don't employ anyone from that place or contribute to the economy of that place, is just wrong.
WSGR Launches Neuron for Startups and In-Depth Interview
It seems like the risk exposure would be more to the end user or their employer, doesn't it?
Show HN: Database of 300 makers and entrepreneurs building in public
Interesting indeed, thanks for sharing!
Yes, as OP already said. Nevertheless you can also install them by downloading them and then via the CLI tool.
The self intersection is easily avoided by having one of the bands travel faster than the other.

They'll still meet up again. It'll just take more revolutions to get there. That doesn't avoid it.
The question is not if it's trivial or not, but if it is legal or not. You can already technically steal GPLv2 by obfuscating it.
Cliff Stoll puts Elon Musk to shame.
I don't see it that way at all. Perhaps I've been too immersed in this terminology (I built an ADU a couple of years ago), but it makes sense given typical property descriptions: it's a dwelling unit (i.e. a place where people live) that's secondary ("accessory") to the primary dwelling. Or is the depressing part the fact that it assumes single family residences?
sridhar and susan worked in ads at the same time. I believe they were co-SVPs. I didn't really see any rivalry (I worked in and around their offices for several years).
Makes it easier to apply for visas, if necessary. I might not use my Electronics Engineering degree in any way for work, but I would not be able to apply for a work permit without it. Maybe it's easier to write "degree" rather than "degree if you're a foreign-born person". The latter makes it seem like you're discriminating against foreign born applicants by having higher standards for them to clear. Which is true, you are discriminating, but only because the government says you must.
If the pen was sold with a contract that said the seller has the rights to anything written with it, then yes. These types of contracts are actually quite common, for example an employment contract will almost certainly include an IP grant clause. Pretty much any website that hosts user-generated content as well. IANAL, but quite familiar with business law.
> The international audience that put in years of effort to learn English can also put 10 minutes of effort to just learn Fahrenheit as well.

Most of the English-speaking world uses Celsius, just like most of the non-English-speaking world.