skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
3.2 is not just available for sale, there are still 3.2 bars in Minneapolis as a relic of a law from 1884.[1]

3.2 is the only beer that can be sold in grocery and convenience stores (grocery stores have separate alcohol stores that sell higher content beers, wines, etc.). From the article, CO, KS, OK and UT also sell 3.2.

[1] https://www.startribune.com/last-call-for-3-2-beer-bars/2034...
> How much "interesting, creative work" is there?

I would imagine that the answer is roughly "infinite". It's like asking "how much art is there?" - infinite.

> If a machine does all the easy stuff how would I ever get enough practice to stretch myself to the difficult creative parts?

By doing the easy stuff? I don't know, you can do whatever you want.
Phenibute is popular in fitness communities as an alternative to alcohol when going out.
I have no background in law and this difference was immediately clear to me. The text itself mentions examples that make all of this pretty explicit. I can also assure you that Amazon's lawyers who wrote this agreement are most certainly "worth their salt".
Modern C++ is great, but unfortunately most people keep ignoring it, including some major contributors to ISO C++.

https://google.github.io/styleguide/cppguide.html

By the way, do you know in C++20 how many ways there are to initialize a variable, without looking at ISO C++20 standard reference?
humans, even billionares, are still social creatures. Same reason people share their family or sometimes personal details on team slack channels, even if I personally wouldn't tell anyone past immediate co-workers I affect.

Maybe not the best choice of words, but I don't think there's as much smoke here as people on social media are making of it outside your typical mega rich person not being in touch with the not mega rich. But empathy is a much bigger problem than the tech industry.
Eh. The principal-agent problem can't be disposed of so easily as that.

There's no amount of compensation and excellent work environment which can provide enough upside to make founding a whole company pointless. Better expected value because of lower risk? Absolutely. But not total potential upside.

I say that as someone working his dream job, who can't imagine trading out for mere money. But I can imagine leaving to found something, though I have no intention to do so.
Check out levels.fyi. Good tool to explore regional differences.
No.

If you invest a machine to dispense a weighted amount of ice cream using a microcontroller and software, that should not be patentable for the reasons listed above. This may be tough to hear, but there is nothing novel, inventive, or unique about using a general purpose device (a microcontroller) to accomplish a specific task.

Now, inventing a new breed of general purpose embeddable device, that might be a bit different.
Jesus, you described what happened in my company exactly. Now no one wants to touch that code, the build system is a constant pain, we are stuck in an old version of the tools. The way out is going to be a rewrite.
Politics.

The similarity to Java, something many developers already know, is an appeal to current popular sentiment. You can advocate the superiority of Clojure's S-expression inspired syntax or immutably data structures or pure functions all you want, most people will just pick something close to what they already know.
My 2019 Intel MacBook Pro can run AAA games really well via Bootcamp. My Bootcamp partition runs windows faster and more stable than any of my windows machines.
I picked this up from my time watching those British period pieces, so this might be an assumption based on a fictional telling of the past, but hasn't this concept of being a private teacher/tutor been around for hundreds of years?

As these shows always showed the aristocracy, the aspiring hero/heroin had their private teachers "guiding them to greatness".

I also found it cynical that instead of aspiring to get a PhD to earn a mediocre salary(in comparison) at FANNG, one could navigate the field of being the private tutor to the already-rich and probably earn more.

Random person: "What do you do for a living that has made you so wealthy?"

Elite Hong Kong tutor: "I tutor 12 year olds privately on mathematics."
What in the world does TypeScript have to do with Redux?
A pretty amazing interop library at https://thlorenz.com/rid-site/
Another goodie from AMZN - hard cap on max of years of experience for a position. Nice way to filter out the old dudes like me. I suppose the trend will naturally spread through the industry.

Edit: it is max cap in hiring requirements. The requirements are directly from AMZN recruiter (AMZN email address, etc). The max is bullet pointed together with the min. The max is also additionally clearly stressed in the description to make sure that there is no misunderstanding (i'd definitely would have hard time believing my eyes if seeing it only once in the bullet points)
Programmers aren't unique in thagt. If you create the right conditions, driven people will just work for the sake of it, if it can help someone or create something beautiful. It's the reason why us humans are where we are to begin with.
I agree - have been enjoying session beers more and more since I like to be outside with a cold beer and I like to drink a lot of it but I don’t like being drunk. Would love if I could find some 3% IPA’s. I’ve found some 4% IPA and it’s nice to be able to drink 3 tall cans and not be half in the bag like I am after three 8% IPA’s.
I found that heavy amounts of discussion of the "why" for any activity, and then instilling confidence in that person that they're capable of doing the thing that they've already agreed to the "why" for, is a necessary prerequisite for their self directed activities to be productive ones.

The problem with most kids and adults I know is they either lack a depth of reasoning for why they ought to be doing something better, or lack the confidence that they'd be able to accomplish it if they put their mind to it.

If you can't come up with a convincing "why" for them, then you should reflect on how sustainable forcing them to do that thing will be once they have independence.

There were a lot of things my mom expected of me (similar to these kids with tutors). Some of them I agreed with, some of them I didn't.

When I finally got my independence at 18, guess which ones stuck, and which ones (where a lot of time and effort was put into cultivating them) evaporated?

Talk to your children deeply about the why, and, as the saying goes, they'll suffer almost any how.
that is for companies without the recruit demand. Amazon has stated before they try to remove the bottom 10% regularly to keep the average performance moving up
That isn’t what regulatory capture means. Regulatory capture has to do with industry vs public rather than big co vs little co.

Regulatory capture is an economic theory that regulatory agencies may come to be dominated by the interests they regulate and not by the public interest. The result is that the agency instead acts in ways that benefit the interests it is supposed to be regulating.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/r/regulatory-capture.asp
Becoming a Dad Changed My Thoughts on Productivity
Also worth trying are non-alcoholic hop-based beverages like hoptea [1], hopwtr [2], h2ops [3], and lagunitas' hoppy refresher [4].

[1] https://hoplark.com

[2] https://hopwtr.com

[3] https://h2ops.com

[4] https://lagunitas.com/beer/hoppy-refresher
I think that still counts as a "this thing is broken" joke though.
Sure, and amount of extra weight matters too. But there are probably better ways to lose it regardless..
Are you sure about the Dark Engine bit? I remember comments from people who've seen the code saying that it was an OOP mess with weird macros over C++ features that looked like COM on a bad day, which sounds completely antithetical to what people call ECS nowadays.

Perhaps it was confined to some part of the engine? ECS didn't come out of thin air after all, it is a generalization of practices people already used for things like particles, etc.
I think the turn of the century start of the prestige drama cable age was The Sopranos, with The West Wing doing something similar on network TV.
I'll buy stocks and options after the dip in 2010.

I'll then invest in an indie retro studio regardless of it being successful or not. Or maybe just see if I can get into Nightdrive.

Family side wouldn't change much. Maybe would get the baby a few years earlier.
It seems like the biggest markets for drinks all have an addictive hook: sugar, alcohol, or caffiene.

Without any of those, non-alcoholic beer seems to fall into a category of drinks like flavored carbonated water. I enjoy drinking those, but it's not likely to be a habit that sticks. If it's in the fridge, I will drink it; if not, I will forget that it exists.
> The benefits of living in a nicely arranged and furnished home can not be overstated

Same! Even though we're based in and only service Switzerland for now, I live in Groningen, the Netherlands (we're a fully remote team), and I got a fully furnished apartment. A comparable unfurnished apartment is ~€800 and I pay €1400, but damn -- it's just so much nicer! And that combined with having a cleaning service [1] so you don't have to think about much at all, it's almost like living in a hotel!

[1] Pabio optionally offers a bi-weekly cleaning service (2.5 hours every other week for ~$100/m) through a partnership.
I feel the same way as you, but contracts don't exist for the "happy path". I'm sure many people are invested in the success of their employer, but not all are.
Topo Chico is simply the best. If you haven't tried it, go get you some as soon as possible. I buy it buy the case as does my workplace.
Yes thank you. Between this and your other comment to me in this thread I think you've really gotten to the heart of it. I appreciate you putting into concise words what was rumbling around in my head when I first asked the question.
You don't ask legal to wave the policy, you remove the offending terms and hand back the revised version of the contract.
Didn't know that was a thing. I'm guessing they just take whiskey, heat it up enough to boil off the alcohol but not enough to boil off the water, and then they're done?
I don't know about y'all but I'm paid for working 40 and maybe hit 25-30 each week and I get stellar performance reviews. This isn't possible to swing in every profession but at least in my job (data science at a F500) no one expects you to put in a full 40 as long as your output is good.
The key to the patent system are the patent lawyers, not the innovation per se. As long as the patent lawyers revolve with the USPTO, the system will not change.

Please do not be naïve.
An honest question. What kind of threat Amazon is trying to protect itself from with such policy? What kind of precedent gave birth to it?
Again, you're being disingenuous and it's really off-putting considering that everyone here knows your story. It's great that you have the skills to do the 15-minute repair with a cheap flex cable and it's great that you're training an army of toddlers to do this very repair process for every phone with a broken jack. The fact of the matter is that 99% of customers don't care if it's "their" phone that they have when they leave the store so long as it's indistinguishable for them. It doesn't matter to them if they get a whole new phone so long as they have their info on it and, if they're doing what they get told to do repeatedly by both the phones themselves and the staff at Apple, then they'll have a backup of their data that can be easily restored in minutes or, at worst, an hour or two.

If right to repair isn't about forcing manufacturers to fix things, then why is it about forcing manufacturers to facilitate anything that could hurt them or their brand? Third parties are free to make their own parts and they're free to perform repairs with parts from other devices. Your misleading argument basically amounts to "I want Apple to do work and keep stock for me so that I can make money at their expense without having to follow their standards or guidelines". That's nonsense.
They will rescind the offer. Most of the time, negotiating contract is way more difficult than salary.
This is an interesting point. Testing and professors and their curriculum were always so intertwined in my college days that I never even considered a "separation of powers" but it makes sense.
I see! I must have misinterpreted the mailing list.
I only watched the first season of Westworld and I found it very formulaic and full of common trope but it's been too long now for me to discuss it.

Last série I really appreciated: the OA.
Athletic really seems to be the leader in this sector in terms of taste. I have a spouse who drinks a lot of non-alcoholic beer and as such I have gotten to try a whole host of them - so far Athletic has handily defeated competition in the few flavors they offer.

The only thing about Athletic is that they don't offer calorie-free options. Lagunitas' Hoppy Refresher is probably my favorite of the calorie-free options available. Though when you go calorie-free with NA beer you're pretty heavily pushing what the definition of a beer is.
Evaporative cooling also moves heat from the body into the surrounding air, just encapsulated in water droplets.
IBM Global Services is particularly known for this.

Their flavor involves hiring people with a very high tolerance for complexity, and letting them propose the most complex solution to any problem. Eventually your own people get tired of trying to keep up with even the summaries, and just abdicate. Now that part of the system is only understood by IGS, and the rot begins to spread.
>instead of aspiring to get a PhD to earn a mediocre salary(in comparison) at FANNG

As a PhD at FAANG[1], I mourn that the default aspiration for getting a PhD isn't staying in academia and advancing science.

And if you call FAANG salaries mediocre, I don't even know what you'd call academia salaries :(

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[1] Formerly. Left for greener and less soul-draining pastures.
AotC – Missing Pieces
Consequently writing a PTAB review resistant patent is expensive because you really can't defend a poor drafted vanity patent after the fact.
The dictionary defines ethics as the field of knowledge dealing with moral principles, sure, and that's not at all what I'm talking about here. Perhaps I erred in using the word too generally and should have been specific in talking about ethics in the professional sense.

The ethical codes that are associated with a profession are different from moral principles that may usually guide us. The first example they gave when I studied this in engineering was that of a defense attorney: trying to help a guilty person get away with a serious crime violates most people's moral standards, but the code of ethics for attorneys demands that they defend guilty people anyway, because our law system is set up with that expectation.

To my original point, someone may claim a moral imperative to tell the world about the company in this article, but the fact of the matter is just about every professional ethics committee or handbook would tell you to uphold your NDA in the situation here. Wasting people's time under false pretenses may be bad, and it isn't ethical to do it yourself, but it isn't so bad that you can just drop your own obligations and blog about it.

And yes I admit some handwaving here since programming doesn't have widely adopted ethical codes yet, but I can guarantee that when they do exist, they won't tell you to violate a contract for something that won't injure anyone and doesn't break any laws.
Disagree slightly with the "sophomoric" bit -- it's just that wiki code is usually meant to be Pseudocode, I think.

My objection to that term is only because being at the beginning of a learning curve isn't bad per se. Neither is writing Pseudocode.

Your conclusion is right, however.
Didn't everyone see this coming from a mile off? The OG skinny jeans and man bun demographics that popularized microbrews are rapidly barreling towards the age where your body starts being much more vocal about telling you you have poor taste. The question is whether this is a temporary uptick or a longer lived trend.
Didn't decades of that policy at Microsoft prove that it doesn't work? People then optimize to make sure they only work on projects to keep their score up.
If you don't what fable is, you don't have any idea about how powerful f# can be.
You can think of every user as a neuron where upvotes on the same items strengthen their connections.

Though there is one important bit of asymmetry: you connect to those who upvoted that item *before* you. That way people who recognize useful information earlier earn more trust. In a sense this is a "proof of work" - to recognize valuable content before it becomes popular.

My hope is that this asymmetrical nature of connections will get less informed people to connect to more informed people. Which is the opposite of the echo-chamber effect - when less informed people are connected to similarly less informed peers.

And yes, I'm slowly preparing to do a "Show NH" for LinkLonk. But I probably need to grow the number of active users a bit before I do that, otherwise the "Shown HN" will bring a lot of clicks that will just bounce.
"'She said that while she gets some help, Sci-Hub remains pretty much a one-woman show (it’s “mainly me,” she said)' -- The Chronicle of Higher Education

"So they lie to their readers that Sci-Hub run by a woman is some kind of not a real thing but a ‘show’,..."

I'd like to point out that "...a one-woman show" is an expression in American English that does not carry any extra connotations of "show" such as fictional or a falsehood.
There are indeed cases where transactions involve unavoidable risks, and in some of those cases it is best to force the seller to assume those risks rather than the buyer. (I'm not sure why you've put "risk" in scare quotes; as my examples show, these are real risks.) In other cases, like when I pay the rent for my apartment, or when I sold a used car to a body shop, it would be better for the buyer to assume those risks.

But there are additional, unnecessary risks created by the banking system, and for many transactions (like when the thief stole my friend's laptop, or transactions that result in identity fraud) those risks are the vast majority of the total risk. In those cases, cryptocurrency solves the problem; it doesn't just shift the risk back to the buyer.
I'll just add: It's a common mistake to compare yourself against people who are in the upper quintiles of the "other" category. When you compare your social skills with others, are you including the full spectrum of folks who go to school - including dropouts, etc?
The one thing alcohol-free beer is ideal for is making mush if you want to fry something. With regular beer the temperature rises due to alcohol and the crust gets burned.
General question by throwing ZFS into this discussion: I never exactly understood what's the problem related to ZFS' adoption in Linux (problem related mainly to the ARC algorithm?).

I read e.g. here ( https://www.legalmatch.com/law-library/article/what-cant-be-... ):

> You cannot patent a formula. However, you can patent an application of that formula.

So... with "application" does that mean that Oracle/Sun patented some piece of ZFS (e.g. the ARC mentioned above) in the context of "IT data caching technology" and that therefore anybody that wants to use it in IT (even by writing the logic from scratch) in any area (programs, databases, filesystems, etc...) cannot without paying fees, but if I use/implement that ARC logic to e.g. handle my inventory of "shoes to rent" (dummy, but let's say that I have such a shop which has multiple rooms used to store shoes and I keep in the main one the shoes that have been most frequently & recently rented, in the other rooms other stuff split by the same ARC-logic) then I'm OK because the "application" is different than what is mentioned in the patent?

Thx :)
The first time you're turning right and the wheels come off the ground, it's truly terrifying. Because the first time it happens you literally have no coping mechanism and simply careen forward in a straight line, because no intuitive steering input is capable of making you turn right.

But once you get it down, it's a genuine hysterical fun thing.

I very much recommend the yellow book by David Hough, if you want to get into it. https://www.dmcsidecars.com/yellow-book/
All the time. Incidentally, I got these unicode α and σ by copy-pasting from tab completion in an open Julia REPL.

https://juliahub.com/ui/Search?q=α&type=code&w=true

https://juliahub.com/ui/Search?q=σ&type=code&w=true
ELIZA wasn't "clearly a toy" when it appeared. It actually confused people.

I don't deny that good suggestions are useful in coding. I am just not sure you can get these by mimicking other people's code without really understanding it.

I think the reason why code is different than natural language is that in code, the meaning of identifiers (words) is very dependent on the context of the specific codebase, and not nearly as universal as in natural language. Sure, there are words like personal names in natural language that change meaning depending on wider context, but they are not as common in the natural text.

So focusing on the names only, rather than for example understanding types of runtime objects/values, and how they change, can be actually actively harmful in trying to understand the code and making good suggestions. So I would believe that suggestions based on e.g. type inference would be more useful.

There is another aspect to this, text has inherently low entropy, it's somewhat easy to predict the next symbol. But if code has low entropy (i.e. there are universal patterns that can be applied to any codebase in a particular programming language), I would argue that this is inefficient from the programmer's point of view, because this entropy could probably be abstracted away to a more condensed representation (which could be then intelligently suggested based on semantics rather than syntax).

In other words, I think the approach assumes that the probability of the next word, based on syntax, is similar to probability of the next word, based on semantics, but I don't believe that's the case in programming languages.
This sounds a bit like "Ad buddy", from a Netflix sci-fi series called 'Maniac':

"If you’re broke, you can sell yourself to an “Ad Buddy,” whereby your bills get paid in exchange for a person accompanying you everywhere and spouting advertisements, like a human pop-up you can’t close."

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/maniac-statue-e...
Personnaly I regularly check out the sundance festival entries and anything produced by annapurna and https://a24films.com/
The question should be how do we eliminate unnecessary transaction costs and overheads associated with license negotiations, legal fees, and courts costs, and ensure new public inventions can be immediately manufactured by a large number of domestic firms before they are knocked off by foreign manufacturers uninterested in obtaining licenses, while still compensating the original inventor?

A possible solution is to require the patent filers to declare the price at which they are willing to permanently release the invention into the public domain in exchange for a one time payment. Then if someone is sued for IP violation the defendant can crowd-source the inventor's fee and pay it through the patent office to have the the patent destroyed immediately without hiring lawyers or halt production.

The IP registrar could then levy a quarterly maintenance tax on the quit price filed by the IP holder to prevent the inventor's fee from being set infinitely high.
https://archive.is/AdIS5
And basic similarity with Java- feels different and better, but not as different as F# from C#, or Clojure from Java.

Scala’s an interesting case, it rather did catch on.
Movie serials were also literally at the beginning of the medium

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_film