skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> just wise job selection, a reasonable amount of financial savvy and budget adherence, and a deliberate effort to work on your career path.

None of that requires working 12+ hours a day. I am one employee out of x,000 at my company. The difference between me giving 75% and me giving 150% (hours) seems very unlikely to affect the stock price in any meaningful way.
also it was his mom's connection with IBM that made him a billionaire, but the rest helped as well. Bill was also able to secure a contract because a competitor Gary Kildall did not show up. Luck is the factor.
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This feels like a false equivalence; how many of those 2000s users were browsing the web on mobile compared to today?
No PG you are presenting speculative opinion as fact. Conscientiousness is a measured and well documented personality trait, it is also formed around age six. It also happens to be social in its construction.

Software engineers typically report lower than average Conscientiousness, because the more complex the task, the less it has an impact. It's also negatively correlated with IQ.

Suggesting it is a choice is demonstrably wrong. It is environmentally learned by the age of roughly 6.
They are probably using enterprise version of Google Analytics, where data isn't associated with activity on Google and not used for advertising.
If I were in the market for a $25K-$40K car then I would definitely look at an electric. But I'm not. The next car I'm going to buy is for my daughter who has to move out of her college dorm for her last two years of undergrad (her school only has dorms for the first two years). I'm looking for something used, small, and not super expensive. I'm leaning heavily towards a Honda Fit.

Bottom line? The next car I buy is almost certain to have an internal combustion engine.
Putting that extra effort into forming a union might pay off a lot more than trying to impress MegaMart AI Scheduler v3.6

Putting the extra effort into a menial job isn't "a grueling workout", it's mortgaging your body and health for a price you'll regret in 20 years.
“Probably the worst drug approval decision in recent US history.”
https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/06/three-experts-resign...
I think it's perfectly possible if you just don't place hooks in a loop or if, which you shouldn't do and are warned against.
You got downvoted not because you are wrong but because you are right.

Some people would rather hear they have no power and no chance because it takes away the bad feeling for their own agency in their situation. Others are empowered by their agency and act on it.

Thank you for spreading the 2nd point of view.
Well, some American states are extremely hot and dry by UK standards - meaning issues like rot and rust are less of a problem.

And Americans build a lot of detached single-storey houses [1], which mitigates some of the disadvantage of wood: Noisy neighbours? You've got a six-foot-plus air gap between your houses. Fire risk? Escape is trivial when every room has a ground floor window. Rain getting onto the wooden walls? Much reduced by a porch stretching around the entire building. Needs regular repainting? Easy when it's a single-storey building.

Wood is also substantially cheaper in the US than in the UK - so while it might not look like a cheap material from the prices at British wood stockists, Americans who call it a cheap way of building aren't paying those prices!

[1] https://goo.gl/maps/de1ZCXtpjS49sSHB7
My last one was built in 1895. I really miss the 10 foot ceilings. The increased air space + transom windows were a fantastic passive cooling system.
What are basalt rebar? Never heard of these.
I am deploying Vue ui's now without webpack or any kind of bundler – jQuery and I have been through hell and back but I do wouldn't say I love it.
From the FAQ:
"Not yet. For now, we’re focused on delivering the best experience in Visual Studio Code only."

I do hope they feature others at a later date, especially since they are planning to develop a commercial version.
I'm just spitballing random thoughts...

Making the "check website" free (forever) should be pretty simple, but that's really only a part of what's valuable. Things that could be add-ons to encourage a subscription once verified that the service is simple, works, and saves time:

* Additional subdomain checks.

* Deep page checks: JS, CSS, images, everything beyond the initial HTML and "yes, I received an OK 200". Make sure the whole page loads.

* Test that intra-site links on the page (e.g. page "/a.html" links to "/b.html") work.

* Report any JS errors on page loads. Also and console.log output and "debug" things like map files, Vue.js/React tools that shouldn't be enabled in production, etc.

* Test with different User-Agents to follow any redirects (e.g. to mobile subdomains) to ensure the site is doing the right thing.

* Use libraries to fully load the page(s) using different browsers and devices, capture them, and show thumbnails/screenshots of the page fully rendered across browsers and devices.

* Provide a REST API so that as part of a CI process someone can call it and have their dev site tested.

* Test REST APIs, logins, analytics, etc. for sites where users can create specific tests that run. Also test correct response codes for expected failures (e.g. access denied).

Anyway, there's likely other services that do similar things. I'm not experienced enough in this area to know all of them, but the above are things that I wish were easier for me - and my team - to test regularly.

Hope some of this helps.
It's not the future for the elite institutions, why would you try and saturate the market with degree holders who can claim they graduated from Harvard/MIT? But it is the future in terms of replacing third rate degrees that charge too much and return too little ROI. Maybe they've decided they don't want to compete in this space anymore given that reality as colleges shut down, and it's no longer seen as an altruistic endeavor, but merely a market share war.
A (the?) primary argument for SPAs is state preservation/management. If you're actually building a web "application" (as opposed to web pages), then the default state model that a web browser provides is pretty bizarre when you think about it.
Keep in mind you have Fields Medalists taking
a shot at it ( and it looks like ...failing...)

"Reading into Atiyah's Proof"

https://rjlipton.wpcomstaging.com/2018/09/26/reading-into-at...
I’ve been in meetings where executives have said precisely this and I have tried to gently nudge them towards defense in depth.
From the article,

> In addition to the cost of the domain ($5/year), you have to pay the gas fees.

Who does the $5/year go to? What incurs gas fees? Registration & updates? Updates are mentioned below:

> One downside is that each data update costs money, ~$1.5 at the time of writing.

Are initial gas fees higher?
I would be interested in trying this but I use Sublime Text and Sublime Merge.
The general consensus is "host your own", that way you're not giving more control over the web to Google by providing them the inner workings of your site via your analytics data.

There are several alternatives, you'll tend to find a lot of them advertised in the comments section here for any anti-Google Analytics post.
It's necessary but not sufficient. What if you work hard all through your 20s, not a day off, and it doesn't work out (which it doesn't, in the billionaire sense, for most people)? How do you get back the first flush of youth?

This essay from Paul reminded me once again how relatively blinkered he is. He has his mental model of a good life - for obvious reasons, it's one which is somewhat similar to his own - and he doesn't question his assumptions. What is his utility function? Is it a universal utility function, or is it actually just his preferred, locally, personally optimal way of increasing its value?

Dismissing whole departments at college is part of that. You might not see value in the philosophy - PG is on record as dismissing it - but philosophy has changed the world more than almost anything else. It's at the foundation of science, law, government and politics, and most of the wars of the 20th century were fought, ultimately, over philosophy. PG knows this, maybe he views it differently - he studied it in college after all - but in his shoes, I wouldn't be so dismissive.
JQuery is a tour de force of API design. Still use it in all my web projects.
At my local watering hole, I love the new post-COVID ordering process. You scan the QR code, place your order on their website and they bring it straight to your table. IMO as someone who has been a server, it's better for the servers too because they don't have to take orders from customers (the most painful part of the process).
> How do we factor in retirement needs and inflation?

Use inflation-adjusted calculators. Any good savings and retirement calculator will have an option for this.

Inflation is commonly misunderstood in long-term financial planning. It’s important to consider inflation for expenses and future savings amount, but many people don’t realize that inflation will also life their investments to some degree.

For example, if a common house costs $5,000,000 on your future retirement date and you’ve been saving your money in cash this whole time, you’re in a bad spot. However, if you buy a house in your 30s that meets your needs, the value of your house will also rise with inflation. Inflation is also loosely coupled to rising stock prices (except for hyper-inflation or other economic catastrophes) and asset prices. Just don’t keep your money all in cash, because that’s the only guaranteed way to lose out to inflation.
Thanks for that, I will look at how I can apply this. Makes sense.

What do you do when you need the behaviour to stop e.g. for safety reasons?
What's at Stake in the Debates Swirling Around Eucharistic Coherence?
We could get away with more user-friendly programming languages over the years because Moore's law kept giving us more opportunities to sacrifice raw performance for more developer-friendly tools.

But I'm worried these kinds of AI-assist tools will lead to "code spam" that may increase developer productivity even more, yet we no longer have Moore's law to absorb the additional inefficiency in performance these tools may introduce.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_room_design

There're definitely cases when devs avoid even looking at implementation before creating their own
"Individuals with testes"?

How emasculating to have a key aspect of my genetics made optional.
Sounds like you need to be more careful about the jobs you accept.

Make sure it’s a good fit.
I'm not happy about it, but the reality is that 120kB is small potatoes in the modern web world. Would it be better without, sure? But there are bigger fish to fry. If jQuery helps the developer achieve their design and development goals, that will play out better for the end-user. It's not ideal, but it's realistic.
Is what a human generates GPLv2 because it learned from GPLv2 code?
Why are the green ones always angry?
No they don't. They will weasel out of reimbursing you any time they can.

Looking at you, BBVA.
Calling it now, there will be a "Copilot considered harmful" post.

If you need to go through the suggested code to ensure it's correct, you may as well write it yourself?

If you glance at it and it looks about right, you can potentially overlook bugs or edge cases, you'll lose confidence in your own code since you didn't properly conceptualise it yourself.

Potentially for newer developers it robs them of active experience of writing code.

Much like learning an instrument, improvisation, or say physics, a lot of people learn by doing it, even if it's grunt work. IMO this is necessary for any professional.

Maybe it will be seen as a crutch, maybe I'm getting old? I have tons of code snippets, but it's usually stuff I've written and understood and battle tested, even if it was initially sourced from SO. Having it in the text editor and appear out of nowhere with no context seems like it'd need some adjustment in apprehension.

Edit: I should have been clear, I'm not against others using Copilot and will try it out myself. I can see it being useful in replacing one-line libs like in nodejs, i.e., copying a useful well-known and needed snippet vs installing yet another lib that could be a sec issue.

Also the industry is the real gatekeeper—we have tools that don't require us to repeat prior-art, yet have to go through hurdles of leetcode-style interviews for a job. Maybe in the future the hardest part of being a (AI-driven) developer will be getting a job?
The Macabre and Magical Human-Canine Story
Where is the evidence that people who regret working hard would have not regretted working less hard?

Some people are biochemically unhappy.
Where I grew up (middle class suburb) it _was_ easier to obtain drugs than alcohol. This is not an uncommon experience.
The author says there are things that are “impossible” for these functions to do, but in Scala, are side effects in any way limited? If you can call out to Java then it seems like you can do anything?
Thanks for the clarification. I used "short" in quotes as that was the article terminology.
The book specifies that the park is ran by Cray supercomputer (IIRC there it even mentions particular model, probably Y-MP). For the movie it was replaced by CM-5, because it was deemed even more visually stunning, mainly because while Crays often have interesting industrial design (often because of the finite propagation speed of copper wire) they lack the blinkenlights.
Might this end up putting GPL code into projects with an incompatible license?
Ask HN: What are your favorite APIs or libraries that you enjoy using?
Curious to hear about positive experiences using APIs and libraries and what made the experience positive. Easy to use? Good documentation? Minimal code?
Just limit the contribution that could be made to Roth IRA?

We have a limit of $6000 CAD for TFSA (basically our version of the Roth here) across the board. And not a lot of Canadians make full use of this.

I'm not saying what he's doing is illegal, but the article suggests that he jammed in enough eBay shares @$0.30 that when it was $19 per share, worth about $31.5M USD.

So somehow he moved about 1.6M shares worth about half a mil?

A yearly contribution room regardless of income would at least stop someone from stuffing lots of shares in a short time into Roth. It probably has the unintended consequences of being regressive to those who don't have the cash flow at all to make use of the Roth IRA.
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I guess I dont see the point if only 10% of the time it's exactly what you want and the rest of the time you have to go back and touch up the line.

Does it train a programmer for accepting less than ideal code because it was suggested? Similar to how some programmers blindly copy code from StackOverflow without modification.

Seems like there is a potential downside that's being ignored.
I'm being a little facetious here because the fact Copilot can generate something that I can complain about is truly amazing, but the suggested code for the 'calculate days between two dates' example is really horrible. It's going to go quite wrong any time the two dates cross a Daylight Savings Time boundary, or if the Date objects are using two different timezones, or if either date isn't a Date, etc.

function calculateDaysBetweenDates(date1, date2) {
var oneDay = 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000;
var date1InMillis = date1.getTime();
var date2InMillis = date2.getTime();
var days = Math.round(Math.abs(date2InMillis - date1InMillis) / oneDay);
return days;
}

It's definitely as good as the code I was writing for the first few years of my career though, and I can see that it could improve significantly with more data. I'm absolutely looking forward to seeing where it goes.
It's also super fun to download a 45mb menu on your cellular data plan every time you want to look at the menu.
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So it seems like we'll have to change what we do from writing code to reading code and fixing it..
> With React/Angular/Vue you're given a stable base upon which to build new components and logic

Oh you sweet summer child. Wait until you see the multilayered horror of devs insisting on styled components because they never spent the time to learn the specificity rules of CSS; their grabbing at lowdash debounce or react-virtual because they don't have the confidence to build a leaner version themselves; suggesting that core concepts of the web are outdated because they came up in the Age of React.

React/Vue/Angular will not protect you from bloated, poorly written apps. I would argue they encourage bad practices.
It’s so hard to get $1MM that only about 19% of people age 65 or over ever reach it. Is software overrepresented in that group? Probably. But not to the extent that it’s reasonable to make the claim that it’s common for software developers to reach it in their 20s and 30s.
I remember another company called Kite [1], working on a similar approach - smart autocompletion - this however uses GPT-3 so it's a bit different I guess because it doesn't detect what you're trying to do but rather transforms technical natural language into code. Right?

[1] https://www.kite.com
EDIT: You've changed your stance from a general stance to a specifically ethical stance here, and I agree: it would be better if employers respected the privacy of their employees more.

However, that's just not the world we live in. From the perspective of an employer, you can make your choice to behave ethically regardless of the legal implications, and that's a choice that I would laud you for. But from the perspective of an employee, you shouldn't assume that your employer will behave ethically: on the contrary, I would always assume that your employer is going to go through your computer when you give it back. You can fight that if you want, but that's not the hill I would choose to die on, as there are much worse privacy violations going on.

If you want to see how bad things have gotten, freeze your credit, sign up for credit monitoring, and then start applying for jobs, and see what happens. About 75% of jobs I've applied for in the last few years have tried to pull credit reports--and you can't really stop them as long as they do a "soft" credit check (freezing credit doesn't block this).
If you want to work remote, turn on your camera in Zoom
Say the page is “Hello world!” (CID: `QmXgBq2xJKMqVo8jZdziyudNmnbiwjbpAycy5RbfDBoJRM`), then the comments can “point to” this CID `QmXgB…` and so on. The problem to me is not necessarily the direction of the graph but the existence of this graph at all. IPFS seems to have no method of creating “references” to other hashes, but if it did then I can see comments working unless I’m missing something.
Warren Buffet's son didn't.
This looks really cool. Do you plan to release this in some other form like a language server so that it can be easily integrated to other editors?
There aren't enough knobs to turn to get exactly what you want, I have a 500+ lines file full of linter rules configurations and that's still not good enough.

At the end of the day I think it boils down to this simple fact: you can't imperatively codify what makes the face of a person beautiful for you because that's too complicated, similarly you can't codify what makes for beautiful code to your eyes, it's something that must be learned from examples.
This rhetoric furthered by Elon, Jack Ma and several others where working 7 days a week for 18 hours is "ideal" and that rest and relaxation are had at the expense of productivity/success is a real dangerous position.

You know what happens to the majority of people when they get to a state of anxiety when relaxing and not working? Stress and burnout.

Let's acknowledge that it may have been the path to success for SOME of the 0.1% who can work 18 hours a day nonstop for a decade with extreme natural ability and a fair amount of chance (confirmation bias aside) and not the end-all of being successful that everyone should strive for. Yes, there is certainly a correlation between working hard and being successful - regardless of your natural ability. Don't do it at the expense of living.

Take it to the extreme: what happens when EVERYONE works that hard? You're back at your normal level of relative productivity.
Korean court sides against Netflix, opening door for streaming fees from ISPs
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This is obviously controversial, since we are thinking about how this could displace a large portion of developers. How do you see Copilot being more augmentative than disruptive to the developer ecosystem? Also, how you see it different from regular code completion tools like tabnine.
Here's one. (Only just read your response. Sorry.)

"There will be no change for EU citizens already lawfully resident in the UK. These EU citizens will automatically be granted indefinite leave to remain in the UK and will be treated no less favourably than they are at present."

(Signed Boris Johnson, Priti Patel and Michael Gove. June 1st 2016.)

This one is pertinent as the deadline for "Settled Status" is looming. Johnson could pass a law honouring his promise to 17 million Leave voters who were reassured by his promise that their friends and family would not even have to apply for permanent residency in the UK, but hasn't.
This looks like corruption within the FDA to approve this medication with no proven efficacy and with a list price of $56,000 annually for the US Government and insureres to pay - and the line will be huge...
Microsoft to grow legal team amid global tech regulation
it was almost certainly less. while the cm2 had floating point chips from weitek lashed to the side, the cm1 ran one single bit instruction every .. ours was running a little over 4mhz, so 250ns. floating point was done in software.
in their own example the copilot aimed for the mountains with float() - thanks but no thanks
A European company is not _allowed_ to call it chocolate (in Europe). You need to have a minimum percentage of cacao and cacao butter. You are allowed to call it something else though.