skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To me, this is similar to all these big org making money off our data. They should be paying us to profit off our minds.
They are, but not in 15 mintues - it's more like a few hours. But a human being can't survive for extended periods of time in a sauna.
How many how to videos, memes, concerts, etc, are really that important?

In fifty years how many people will care? How many people should care because it would mean ignoring the huge volume of newer stuff? A hundred years? Two hundred?

I haven't even read or seen many of the existing cultural artifacts we have from past decades and centuries, what would I do if orders of magnitudes more of them had been preserved?

In fact, I'm incredibly greatful that I grew up before all the random shit that I threw out there as part of my youth was subjected to obsessive cataloging and archival efforts.
When I was a student at some big state school in 08-09 I overheard some profs talking amongst themselves about how the endowment had fallen by a third. I really wasn’t keyed in at the time to stonks- I was just trying to party and pass my classes, but my ears stood up for that one.

I guess almost any large store of money is going to be invested in the market tho
> Is it somehow secret knowledge reserved to "privileged" people that minimum requirements on job ads should be interpreted as a wish list more than a list of hard requirements?

It is definitely cultural knowledge that not all people have, and, more to the point, an understanding of what parts of a particular job ad that are stated as MQs are likely to be nice-to-haves and which are real MQs and which are nice to haves behind which are hiding real MQs (such as “Ph.D. in <field>” really meaning something like “a Ph.D. would be nice but a Masters is a hard minimum”), and therefore, how to evaluate whether it is worth expending effort applying for a job is non-universal cultural knowledge.

This often requires understanding of the hiring cultures of the particular job-field, industry, employer, and sometimes organizational subunit. Which is, for people just starting out (or looking outside of their past experience), highly network dependent. And equally substantively qualified people from underrepresented demographics arr likely to have weaker, in terms relevant to the task at hand, networks and therefore less access to this cultural knowledge.

> It's also something you very quickly learn when searching for your 1st job.

Or not, in part because there are lots of places where its not true and if you act like it is you will learn hard.

Lying about requirements in hiring may be common, but it is not a universal norm, and calling it out and denormalizing it is a good thing, even outside of discriminatory impact, but its also very much a practice that has particular adverse impact on underrepresented minorities.
buddhists fundamentally reject clinging to the idea of permanence as a source of inevitable misery when your wishes go unfulfilled.
> you are covering for the actual actors with bad morality by misrepresenting where the moral failing lies

Corporations have no moral values, only a profit motive. The only way to improve them is through legislation. Legislation is written by politicians, who are elected by individuals*. Therefore, individual awareness is in fact _the only way we have*_ to lower CO2 emissions.

* in functioning democracies
I just bought some grade 8 hardware from them. It was cheaper than Fastenal, even with shipping, and they delivered overnight. I had to buy in higher quantities than I needed but the extras will get used at some point.
Do you know if you can still use Subscribe and Save without a Prime membership? We use that service quite a bit.
Your baseline assumption is that everything is peachy with full WFH. It's not always the case.

The people who are going to leave are people on the fence anyway. COVID accelerated stuff like retirements mostly, or was the straw the broke the back of people driving from rural Pennsylvania to Manhattan every day. Other than childcare issues that are timing-related, the non-medical objections to this are mostly just noise, and people will show up to work.
There's a book, 'Savages' by Joe Kane, about the Huaorani tribe of Ecuador. The Huaorani were considerably disrupted by the activities of the oil companies, which were polluting their land. The Huao were aware of this, and lobbied the government and journalists to stop it, etc. But nevertheless if there was a food giveaway, or work, in an oil company compound, they would nevertheless take the food or work, allowing themselves to become dependent on them.

In the book this explained as being part of their culture, since on a day to day basis the hunter who brought in food that day gained prestige, and since the oil companies could easily source cheap food, the Huao partly deferred to them even though they knew that the oil companies acted against their interests.

At the time I thought that western people would not fall for such a thing, but maybe it's a more general pattern of human behavior
This is what I don't get about the demand for in office. Many of us are already effectively remote anyways for our teams. Most of my team is in a city three hours away. Actually, with the latest departure, all of my team except my manager is in another city.

So I will be going into the office to be on Google Meet.
At This Instagram Hot Spot, All the World’s a Stage (and the Buffalo’s a Prop)
Why leaky pipes can be better for moving water
Could disincentivize open source? If I build black boxes that just work, no AI will "incorporate" my efforts into its repertoire and I will still have made something valuable.
Of all the memory systems I learned from Harry Lorayne's books, this is the one consistent one I use. Not for long strings of numerals, but things like PIN codes and phone numbers. It's well worth it.
For now. China is building its navy and aim to have maritime supremacy in 2050, with parity with the US by 2030.

With more countries having China as their biggest trading partner than the US, Chinas ability to use embargoes as a political tool solidifies each day. China can wreck some countries economy if they stop trading with them, imagine forcing others to follow suit, it would break that country for good.

Now pair embargoes with superior naval forces and China will be able to use their military freely while twisting the arms of any country that tries to voice opposition to it. Much like the US did in the past century, to be fair.
> The NYC BOE is a state agency. The incompetence here lies with Cuomo, just like a lot of other issues plaguing the city

It's actually worse than that. The NYCBOE is not actually a state agency - it's an "administrative body" that's comprised of people selected by the two main political parties, and staffed by their family members. After they are appointed, they aren't under the oversight of any elected official.[0]

You're correct that the buck stops with Cuomo, though - changing this system would require him authorizing legislation at the state level. Due to the way New York's legislative process works, it's impossible for legislation to even reach a floor vote in the Senate without the governor's approval; the governor can essentially veto a bill behind closed doors by refusing to let it have a floor vote.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/26/nyregion/nyc-voting-elect...
The comingled inventory actually is a good idea, just flawed. Go ahead, comingle the inventory but keep track of where each item came from so when the counterfeit is discovered they know where it really came from and don't blame the innocent supplier.
Might I recommend Monoprice.com for the cables docks adapters displays speakers etc that you need cheap and reliable?
Yes, the neural network would constitute a derived work.
for after their employment? (which I guess is the unspoken assumption in this context)
To add to this, the gov requires that all the markup is broken out, so it can be audited. I think usually contractors are allowed things like R&D budgets, salary (maybe not bonuses?) etc. I'd love someone more knowledgeable than I am to chime in.
I've never seen a Wordpress site meeting only its "bare use case" that wouldn't have been better served by Wordpress.com itself (the hosted managed service) or Squarespace. The clients who've hired me did so explicitly to push Wordpress past its defaults, whether through the use of something like a page editor (WPBakery/Elementor/etc.) or an events plugin or another or some contact form... those are all basic, common usages that still require maintenance.

If their use was basic blogging, I try to steer them away from needing to hire a dev at all (why spend the money?).
Meta-comment: These are some of my favorite HN submissions - a direct link to a Wikipedia article with no other context, but one that is apparently interesting enough for it to make the front page. I enjoy the process of figuring out just what it was that other people find so fascinating, although it can be a dangerous rabbit hole to go down!
Which has zero epistemological value, but extremely high persuasive value, which is the point.
First, not everyone wants to work remotely. Some people live in situations where there are too many distractions or annoyances at home. This is especially true if they have children.

Second, For those who want to work remotely, this is a coordination problem. Nobody wants to be the first to give such an ultimatum to their manager, as they'd almost certainly be fired. Even if employees could all coordinate through some back channel, the reward for defecting is quite high. If half of your coworkers quit, you are suddenly a much more valuable member of the team. Anyone who stuck around would receive very high compensation.
If you like this stuff, I would strongly recommend Harry Lorayne's books (How To Develop a Super Power Memory or The Memory Book).
It's the "no internet access" part that puts it outside of most people's experience still.
It’s a good question - and my guess would be that the executives (rightly) think Apple has been extremely successful at executing their product roadmaps over the last 15 years or so, based on a company culture where one of the core tenants was a lot of face-to-face collaboration, and they don’t want to disrupt that machine more than Covid already has.

But I’ve been working for awhile now for a faaaar older and much larger company than Apple (in terms of employee count and revenue), that not only handled the abrupt work-from-home change last year well, but by many metrics, is actually outperforming pre-pandemic metrics in many areas. And our supply chains and manufacturing processes are significantly more complicated than Apple’s. So I’d argue that if a dinosaur of a company can manage to suddenly create a ton of remote jobs and make it work, the only reason I can think of for Apple to not make it work is that they didn’t seriously try.
Same, and I think this is the majority view. The noise about WFH is a turn-off as well and I’d rather steer clear of those making it—-if it’s that big a deal to you, there’s plenty of remote work out there.
Theory that says theory and practice are the same is bad theory. Theory is perfectly capable of acknowledging (not eliminating!) the difference.

> RCV is undoubtedly a superior voting model to FPTP.

I've actually come to doubt this, when speaking of IRV in particular. I think "step 1: eliminate compromise" is questionable at best. "IRV but only the first n<<N choices" seems even worse.
I wrote a static site generator for my own personal site. I've been using it for over 10 years, and it's gone through several major refactors / redesigns. A few comments:

1. Template system

There are tons of different template systems out there for things like the "shortcodes" in the article.

{{youtube id="123asdf4" /}}

My conclusion is that the correct way to do this is with custom tags,

<embed-youtube id="123asdf4"></embed-youtube>

I apologize for the verbosity... but this is completely valid HTML5, and you do not need anything but an ordinary HTML5 parser to parse this. This maximizes your choices for the libraries you use in the static site generator and it maximizes the level of support in whatever editor you choose to author the site in. For example, you can just use the HTML mode in Vim or Emacs, or you can use VS Code, TextMate, Sublime Text, etc. and get a ton of features: syntax highlighting, indenting, etc.

While on the surface it looks verbose because of the closing tag, in most editors, you only have to press a key or two to close the tag. HTML5, strictly speaking, does not support self-closing tag syntax for custom tags. That syntax is only supported for void elements. There are only 16 void elements in HTML5.

I use "prefix-suffix" syntax to avoid ambiguity... any tag with a hyphen is obviously a custom tag.

2. Routing

Something you can use to tackle the routing complexity is to place your source files in the same path as the canonical URL. You only need routes for generated content, like index pages and such.

3. Index data

You'll naturally want to generate indexes and create previews for links. I suggest that you start by looking at the schema.org schema for web pages and work with a useful subset of that. This way, you can generate indexes on your web page using the same exact data, same exact schema, that you use for the JSON-LD data you provide for search engines like Google.

This is a minor point, but it reduces duplicated effort between the code for generating content for your website and the code for generating JSON-LD metadata.

Don't dive too deep into the schema.org schema, just take a couple bits and pieces that you need, and refer to the feature guides in Google's documentation:

https://developers.google.com/search/docs/guides/intro-struc...
The first precedent passed in French appeal court and European court just a few months ago. I shall probably do a blog post to cover the case or nobody ever will.

It acknowledges software license (the GPL in that case) as a contract granting obligation to both parties and enforced it as a contract. The claims around copyright/counterfeit were pretty much dismissed (you can't pursue on both copyright and contract grounds in France because they are different legal responsibilities).

Since it's possible to make contracts on pretty much anything between two companies (but not for consumers), there's a chance that the openstreetmap contract has grounds irrelevant of the database rights.
If students are performing poorly, we terminate their contracts.

What do you mean by this exactly? You are school, right? It’s not possible you are not teaching them right? Should a person not have the right to fail the course from start to finish?
If you are based in India please email me: hn@arunj.net.

We are a small bootstrapped SaaS looking for backend engineers.
Wide, Diverse Coalition Agrees on What Congress Needs to Do About Our Broadband
Then how do other countries manage to do it?
>$6 for a Beefy 5-layer Burrito.

That's kind of my point.

HCOL extends past housing and actually empowers your less fortunate blue-collar neighbors when things are more expensive.

If the people at the top take their money and run (rightfully so), it just is not contributing back to local economies -- those people, those schools, those kids, those families.

Rent/Housing is definitely a whole separate problem.
They make money through luck. They speak authoritatively out of ignorance. Monkeys rolling dice could do an equally good job, that doesn’t mean you should take advice from a monkey with a gambling problem.
Took a year to write. Asynchronous I/O, I guess.
I mean, this is close. With "co-pilot" an experienced developer saves mountains of time, especially as s/he learns how to wield it effectively.
Keep boosting those compensation packages
In my experience the quip about the "train not swerving off the tracks so far" is mainly just because of the momentum we had from years of working closely together in the office. The longer it goes on, the further my group/department/org fall apart. Communication isn't as good, the new hires aren't trained well and aren't integrated with the team well, a percentage of the employees are obviously just slacking off and not getting much work done, etc. Yes you could argue that those things could be fixed/improved but the reality of the situation is that they're real problems that we're really facing. From what I can see of my situation, it isn't sustainable in my org for much longer.
Where are all of these senior people with large, cushy BigCorp paychecks and benefits going?
Or free for non-commercial.
You are brave buying a high energy chemistry experiment from Alibaba. I’d stick to regular retail for that!
With music sampling, copyright protects down to the sound of a kick drum. No doubt Microsoft has a good set of attorneys working on their arguments as we speak.
probably lack of intelligence
How much efficient himantic AI is wrt IBM Watson's personality API?
I didn't equate anything to anything. I simply pointed out that no one has perfect information. What you read about China might be a mix of many true and false (maybe exaggerated) information. I'm not even comparing different population. If I wasn't clear then I apologise.
Shared computer labs were dead easy to scrape account info from. Since the terminals were text, it was easy to code up a password scraper. You write a program that faked the login and password prompts, record the data, say "password incorrect", then exit, at which point the real login daemon would take over. Cliff Stoll's "The Cuckoo's Egg" describes this pretty well.
It's about power. How will FAANG get 22 year old college grads to stay at work 12 hours a day writing advertising software if they don't have them eating dinner and playing ping pong in the office?
So, in your opinion are Clean Code and Clean Architecture still relevant/updated?
I've come more interested in the way I think about/produce code in the last couple of months and am searching for something that might be a good read on it - considering I'm mainly a JavaScript developer.
I find that most of the concepts of SOLID, for example, are really hard to figure out in most of the code base of the projects I've worked/see online implemented in Node for example. It might be related to my lack of knowledge and understanding of said principles though, but I've seen a youtube video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnailTcJV_U) some months ago that showed me a "clean architecture" implementation that I've never really seen in any project I've fiddled with.
Can't speak for the others, but Google is not being aggressive about return, frankly. Return will be based on regional case numbers, and the expectation is only for 3/5 days, low office capacity at the start, and I'm sure plenty of flexibility will be given.

I personally can't wait to go back, and that's the same sentiment I hear from most people on my team. HN seems to have become a bit of an echo-chamber of people who prefer WFH, but frankly I'm looking forward to the hybrid model.
Sorry, I thought the sarcasm was apparent.

I mean that it’s a feeling the a leader might wish upon their subjects, but which can’t actually be fabricated merely using a building or a location.
> At it's core most static site generators are just fancy "string concatenation" tools.

I think that's a bit reductive (especially since template libraries themselves are already complicated, not in a bad way). To me a static site generator is: 1) a string template library, plus 2) a file system walker/trigger to generate from a template, plus 3) additional data to feed the templates, plus 4) the actual content.

Then there's of course the additional features you may or may not need: a tagging system, a comment system, a subscription system, etc.

Thankfully despite all these components you don't need to write much of the actual code since they all exist as builtin (file system walking) or major OSS (Jinja, Mustache.js, etc) libraries. The SSG is primarily glue.
This is a terrible advice, please don’t do this. If found out you will not only be blacklisted by the company but also by all the companies of recruiters network. Not worth it.
That’s a different thesis from what we’re discussing. To clarify, we’re assuming the interviews are fair and the min requirements are being munged by an HR department that doesn’t understand the list that engineering has given them and potential applicants are not even applying based on these garbled job postings. If you think that HR departments are biased and are making up fake requirements, that very well could be the case in some situations, but it’s not what we’re talking about here.
> New York is vying to displace Florida as the USA's poster child for "just because a state is big doesn't mean it can hold an election".

Oh, New York usurped Florida at that title decades ago. The reason Florida gets attention isn't because its elections are run unusually badly; it's because Florida is always a very close swing state with a lot of electoral votes, so it gets a lot of national attention.

New York's election bungling - and even gerrymandering[0] - is actually way more extreme than what you see in states like Florida and North Carolina, but it's overlooked by national media because it doesn't have an effect on people outside the state.

[0] For example, NY-10: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York%27s_10th_congressiona...
Probably. Copyright applies to derivative works.
I experienced all of these to a much better degree during college. Are you sure you don't just want to live in a city that provides plenty of shared spaces? Relying on your employer for these items seems unwise.
Thanks for saying how I feel, though I respect an employee’s ability to choose whether they want remote work or not, and then to make that choice known by advocating for it or leaving for a position that offers it. There will be many more now, and many more will have flexibility.

But just as I wouldn’t impose on someone to force them to be in the office, I think some people definitely value the separation.
> I like meeting and talking to employees in different parts of the business without having to setup zoom calls for that. I enjoy the social and collaborative aspects of in-person work.

Whether you see these as a distraction or an asset (and more generally, whether you see work as a place to do work or a holistic pile of things) seems to be the dividing line for people.
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Having spent so much money creating billion dollar campuses has them in a sunk cost fallacy IMO.
I think it's really the cost of housing and unbearable commutes that people are more against than being in the office. If people could have short commutes and reasonable housing I don't think time in office would be fought as hard.
Amazon: wrings hands HOW DO WE STOP MALICIOUS SELLERS?
Conveniently the test votes had real candidate name instead of Pokemon or something, also conveniently test votes were posted into production database, not QA.
FINRA settlement

Not with a government agency yet, lets see if the SEC backs off too

They can probably just ignore Massachusetts, I usually take the approach of finding individual states and irrelevant nations to be ignorable and just pull out the business. Add an unexplained note to the disclaimer “Service not available in MA”
And then there's omniscience theorists...
I guess I don’t find an online store interesting or innovative. It’s hardly the Apple II or Linux. I also wonder if a sub 100M acquisition would be considered a success by pg himself on a YC company.

Have you ever heard of WebObjects? It was light years ahead of what Viaweb was doing at the time.
> Use immutability by default, even in languages that make that harder than it should be

That and referential transparency are huge wins. It is a shame languages like Python make it such a challenge.