skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When you negotiate with amazon they do try to bring stock appreciation into it. It went like this:

I asked for X comp, say 100K total for 4 years, including stock. The recruiter calls me back, says she got the total I wanted, I write down the numbers and it totals to 90K. I ask her why the math does not check out and the answer was that the 'missing' 10K is the projected stock growth.

Haven't seen anything like that in other negotiations.
Gas/oil is definitely cheaper than electric heaters, but I thought these days heat pumps were cheaper than gas/oil, at least until you got down to temperatures below ~10°F?

Because heat pumps are now so efficient, all the new apartment construction I see in NYC uses them. (While older buildings use dirty oil to heat water for radiators.)
I don't think you can use splats with a NodeList. At least, the TypeScript compiler complains about it.
That’s a real bummer that anyone seriously cares about that metric, or that they think line coverage between different languages should be comparable. Insane.
You can have two colliding short hashes in a row.
you have something similar on the 8080. Each register on 8080, like ax, can be accessed as al - low eight bits and ah - high eight bits. But what would be the utility of an eight bit car and cdr?
Thanks for the nice writeup. Ride safe!
Great point. But also, if that’s what happens, that’s the reputation that develops.
> Call, Apply, and Bind help keep our code clean.

In my experience, the exact opposite is true. Modern JS is much cleaner with arrow functions and classes. If I see things like apply/call/bind now, I immediately think it's a smell left over from the ES5 days. I think there are still use-cases in library code, but I pretty much never want to see that in application code.
JavaScript is poorly designed. It was barely designed at all; Brendan Eich wrote it in ten days, and we would be better off if he had been a worse developer and hadn't been able to accomplish that. Instead Netscape shipped what should have been an internal 0.1, and got its deficiencies enshrined as documented features so they could never be fixed.
Not being a lawyer, I would think that an EO can be used in any case where there is a long standing policy to ignore existing law or interpret it in a particular way.

So what laws might apply?

The FTC says:

"The Sherman Act outlaws "every contract, combination, or conspiracy in restraint of trade," and any "monopolization, attempted monopolization, or conspiracy or combination to monopolize." Long ago, the Supreme Court decided that the Sherman Act does not prohibit every restraint of trade, only those that are unreasonable."

https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/competition-guidance/guide-a...

So maybe enormous power could be found in the executive branch by simply declaring that non-competes are "unreasonable" and defending that in court.
Prototypes have become much more of an implementation detail in recent years.

First of all, it’s just a single-handed point of view. I’m using them from time to time, because js doesn’t end with reactjs hooks or frontend, and even frontend doesn’t end with just writing “frontend glueware”.

But even if it did, what exact mechanism do you propose to bind methods to instances? Automagic? It’s not just an “implementation detail”, it is a way of doing OOP in dynamic languages. Do you want all your objects to contain references to bound copies of all of the inherited methods? The way it is is for a reason, and the reason is, it doesn’t come for free.
I don't think the painting analogy applies. You can add words and meanings to languages. If we all spoke the same language, we'd iterate on it until it could express all the ideas that we have. We may lose some rhyming along the way, but it seems a small price to pay for universal, clear communication.
> "Give me the five second pitch!"

a stallion battalion
defending the medallion
war crying in Elfdalian
a charging foe rapscallion
Another tiny font is the 3x4 one used by PICO-8: https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=3760
This should look good in NetHack. The box drawings look nice!
Ok, we've generated that into the title above.
The problem is that during the sales process, the client is led to believe that the "mutually-satisfactory state" that they are paying for is a certain bar of quality and will be built by "the A team".

But then, after many months and likely hundreds of thousands of dollars are already spent, their bar for "mutually-satisfactory state" has been lowered to "I guess we will accept this pile of mediocre shit that the D-team built, because we already wasted months on this and we are desperate for something, and it would be too expensive and just waste more time to try and argue with the consulting firm to fix it".

I spent a long career as a consultant at one of the top "prestigious" firms. Consulting firms almost always prey on this hope that the clients won't complain too much, even though everyone knows the end product that is delivered isn't anywhere close to what was pitched during the sales phase.
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All else being equal, I think that 'being unable to handle interruptions' is grounds for self-improvement, in the same way that 'cannot cook' or 'cannot drive a car' are.
It depends, if the student is studying CS, then a typed language 'close' to the hardware can be a good accompaniment to most CS curriculums.

If Math / ML is their focus, then likely Python and R.

If web / design is their focus, then JavaScript / Typescript.

Writing software will eventually be seen as a form of literacy used to enhance a person's professional skills, not as a job unto itself (outside of a few specialist SWE domains).
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If they are good, they have already moved to the US or some other higher income country. There’s probably a “good quality foreign contractor” living down the road from you.
I think this type of behavior happens only in USA. I can't imagine hearing more than a gasp during movie in my country.
Copilot writes a text-based adventure game in Python
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When Uber went public, they lost their sugar daddy. Softbank/the Saudi sovereign wealth fund was willing to put in money to subsidize losses to gain market share. The stock market doesn't work that way.
Don't you think everyone speaking the same language would promote flourishing in human creativity? Wouldn't being able to have a meaningful conversation with someone completely and totally different than yourself inspire you? Isn't that what made the internet a thing? It's really just a set of communication protocols that everyone agreed to speak.
All fair points, but honestly? I fully expect comparability layers to be at least somewhat flawed and I adjust the way I do things accordingly. Game doesn't work 100%? Whatever, I have other games to play.

At the end of the day, I don't want to reboot just to play a game. I personally don't see the need to be a comparability purist here.
> Payouts were minuscule compared to what cryptocurrencies are now enabling

I see arguments of this form everywhere:

Law-abiding, tax-paying, responsible citizens use Tool X for legitimate purposes. Criminals also use Tool X for crimes. Therefore, we should ban Tool X.

Tool X = {cryptocurrency, encryption, firearms, drugs, etc.}

Tools that have legitimate uses should not be prohibited to law-abiding citizens.

Absolutely prosecute people who use the tool to hurt other people, but don't prohibit the tools that both bad people and good people use.
>The purpose of all this ( Intellicode), of course, is to save time.

Just wonder, how much does Intellicode actually save? Anyone has any experience?

My own take is that the saving probably isn't going to be significant, and will never be so. Because the bottleneck of programming is never caused by the speed of typing, but by the speed of thinking.
Why do you assume that a single language would enable that?

It could just as easily have the opposite effect, of eliminating a wide range of expression and nuance, thus reducing the capacity for clear communication in absolute terms.
Show HN: AirClick – Note taking/sharing designed for developers
Hi HN, my name is Rahul Sarathy and I built Homer (https://usehomer.app), a tool to allow creators to build more interactive digital textbooks.

Right now the software supports image based scrollytelling with a roadmap to add interactive components such as annotations, animations, backlinks, and more.

You can check out a demo of an interactive history book here: https://usehomer.app/demo
Here's another short example of how a personal finance related book could look like: https://usehomer.app/rahul/8

If you're interested in checking out the UI used to build the demo above, feel free to sign up at https://usehomer.app/signup and create a book.
so this is only for OSX?
A motorless vehicle driven solely by wind, goes faster than the wind itself
> I'm typing this on an iMac Pro which is somewhere between 1000 and 10000 times faster than a VAX 11/780 and would easily leave an SGI Octane in the dust.

Now just imagine what a modern SGI Octane with all its custom silicon implemented in 10nm, with a modern MIPS processor built with modern technologies could be, every component finely tuned to work with all others into perfect coordination.

How would it compare to a PC assembled from generic components?
No similarities. The focus is different.

- BOINC looks like an interface for end-users to volunteer compute resources for various (existing) distributed-computing projects.

- Post is about building your own distributed system starting from minimal-yet-effective principles.
OTOH, if I was a government I'd be way more interested in the stuff that people decide they should send over a VPN.
This video discusses the Physics behind it.

https://youtu.be/yCsgoLc_fzI
That's a good looking for for how narrow it is. Too small for my old eyes to make out clearly enough for regular use, but if your vision is sharp I can see the beauty of it.
There's a lot of variability of response, but plenty of people report on /r/kratom that it's helped wean them from alcohol. It certainly helped me.

It's not without concerns (tolerance/addiction) but for those who respond well it is incredibly valuable.
It's in the WhatWG standard, linked on that page: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/web-sockets.html#the-... under "The readyState attribute represents the state of the connection. It can have the following values:"
It is a sequel, but it's really good, with the caveat that it could have stood to have a ruthless studio executive insist the director cut at least thirty minutes. :)
Not recommended if you have lots of objects with this interface. Each object will have its own copy of each function. Using a class with the methods in a prototype ensures there is only one copy for all object instances.

It also makes specialization and calling super methods super verbose.

And you've ultimately not done anything other than reimplementing OOP, poorly.
Heat pumps definitely shouldn't be lumped in with resistive heating (which is what I think of when I think of "electric heaters"). They are definitely more energy efficient than either resistive or gas/oil, but whether they're cheaper depends on the relative cost of local electricity and gas delivery. Gas is still often cheaper than electicity, so it really depends on your goal: energy efficiency/carbon output vs. cost efficiency.

My money is on "gas won't be cheaper for much longer, even where it is now" personally, though.
Here is one such "key personnel" clause: https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/48/2052.215-70
You don't write tests for private methods.
I think if you take a look at the internet, you’ll discover that there are large numbers of people who speak the same language who can’t have meaningful conversations or inspire one another.

Language isn’t the barrier here.
This reminds me of Tasword Two, a word processor for the ZX Spectrum. It used a custom font to fit twice as many characters per line.

https://worldofspectrum.org/archive/software/utilities/taswo...
Today I learned, thank you. I’ve denied many an app for this reason.
The point is to link the docker image to the git commit, that just identifies the image by the image's own hash. Not the same thing.
Patents do kill innovation. Why do you think we've seen no new aircraft carrier manufacturers come out in years? Because Boeing owns all the patents. Why do we see such fast innovation in so many competitors in any new space like search engines, then it seems like one company solidifies the whole market? That company has patents that prevent other people from reasonably competing.

The entire patent system needs to be simply scrapped.

Ideas are worthless, execution is what matters.
I'm not sure that any meaning is truly lost. Can you find a word in any language that isn't described by a short sentence in English? The differences seem mostly in the level of verbosity required to elucidate an idea.
Preserving an old language is great. Preserving it by having young people who's first language is this obscure language probably is doing a disservice to those young people and the older people probably knew that.
Whether that's true or not, you (i.e. everyone here) need to follow the rules whether someone else is breaking them or not. Any other approach guarantees a downward spiral, because it always feels like the other person started it. To put it in terms that many will remember from their mothers: two wrongs don't make a right.

Perhaps you don't the article author (or whoever the other person may be) any better, but you owe this community better if you're participating in it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Looking at other markets (EU,SEA), there is a stable niche for NA beers. We're talking about sustaining a business, so that should be a good enough prospect for employees that don't need buy a Ferrari.
My answer to this on an interview question is that I deliberately don’t use them and avoid using this because it unnecessarily increases complexity. If that’s a deal breaker then I’ve done us both a favor.
+1 surge pricing in NYC has gotten out of hand. It's not uncommon for rides that used to cost $12 to cost $25 on a good day, and $35+ on a bad day.
I think it is absolutely vital that we preserve minority languages.

We engage, enhance and preserve our culture through language: spoken and written. Each language is shaped via its environment and is different as a result from all others.

English is often called French (lingua Franca - the language of the Franks). It is routinely used as an intermediary language because it is very simply structured and can take quite a lot of abuse and still remain intelligible.

* No diacritics (accents etc)
* Vowels can be mispronounced but the meaning remains
* Word order can be fluid: Nominally: subject object verb but not enforced and can be broken for effect
* Borrow words are actively encouraged
* English *can* sound beautiful, if you put your back into it

Well that's nice but English isn't the way that (think of a non English speaking poet) thinks or speaks.

Let's go Scottish (no, not Pictish) and consider Mr Burns: and we should start here - https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/mouse/

Wee, sleekit, cowrin, tim’rous beastie,
O, what a panic’s in thy breastie!
Thou need na start awa sae hasty,

Now that is the way to make English sound a bit sexy. It's not really English and nor is it full on Gallic.

"Oh what a panic is in your heart" is genius.

This is so obviously a bloke who is looking at a mouse. So few words and yet so much meaning - that's genius.
A brewery near me did a run of "Tomato Gose" which I really liked and then followed by "Clamato" which was interesting... and I learned that clam juice is a thing in Canada.

https://untappd.com/b/perivale-brewery-tomato-gose/3801467
I've seen this happen to a colleague. He interviewed someone who turned out to be the founder of some medical equipment startup and a week later he was working for him.
Wow. I've been using 5px wide Fixed[1] for years because I'd never seen another font that is as readable that small, but this seems pretty nice.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed_(typeface)
It's the same with large state contract I've seen as well. They key personnel may actually be provided in the request for proposal even before the agency signs a contract.
- Build more shit.

- Use your fluid intelligence while you have it because it declines with age.

- Be happier & DGAF.

- Don't be in such a rush from point A -> point B. Take time to smell the roses.

- Be the party and bring more life and joy to wherever you go.

- Sleep with more real people.

- Don't spent so much dining-out.

- Read more books.

- Prioritize life to include... life.

- Make closer friends.

- Save more money.

- Ask for more raises, job bounce, etc.

- More side hustles.
Non Session Manager vs New Session Manager
There's some material on this under "superoptimizers", but I think if you want this then you should get an FPGA.
It's not lost to the world, you just need to learn the still-living language it's written in.

And on whatever lingua franca you choose to adopt, there will be an unbounded number of yet-to-be-written-works-of-shakespeare, that this language would lack the ability to express.
Neither of them use randomized control group.

The second one just compare the countries "community-directed treatment with ivermectin" with the other countries. As they note, the countries that don't use ivermectin systematically have a average life expectancy of 6 years greater than the others. So they are quite different. A 6 years of difference in life expectancy may mean that they have better hospitals (that probably should reduce the covid-19 mortality) but also that they have more old people that has worse prognosis (that probably should increase the covid-19 mortality). So ... it's difficult to compare the two kind of countries and get a conclusion, that's why it's important to have randomized control group.

The first one is very similar, but they use the African Programme for Onchocerciasis Control (APOC), from 1995 until 2015, and the countries that were/are not in that programme. (What happened between 2015 and 2020?) Anyway, they control for different factors, including the Human Development Index (HDI), that should fix the problem with the available hospitals and the age, or not, it's difficult to be sure. At least they are trying, but without a randomized control group is difficult to be sure.
Computing History at Bells Lab
I'll go further than this, and say that this is practically the only use case I would have for a movie theater.

As-is, movies air in theaters for only a couple months, and then they're gone. Like, what the hell. Every time in recent memory that I've ever suggested to someone that we go see a movie, I've had to find out that the movie was no longer in theaters, or was even already available for streaming. That's basically a non-starter for people with jobs. Not that I haven't also gone to a theater with no particular movie in mind and just watched whatever was playing, but if anything that seems way more niche to me.

The last times I went to the movies were March 2019 and October 2017, and both of those were special cases (the latest installments in a series I was heavily invested in, Fate/stay night, each with a limited one-day release and a long expected wait before it would be available for illegal download via Blu-Ray rip). I haven't been to the movies with any kind of regularity since I was a teenager.

Anyway, point being, I think movie theaters would actually be more compelling for more people if they included a revolving door of well regarded classics, rather than only whatever films happen to be the latest releases. I'm unlikely to wander into a theater with no idea what's playing or whether any of it is worth watching*, but if I could rely on them also having one or two that were known great and/or on my bucket list (Citizen Kane, Fight Club, Matrix trilogy, Dark Knight trilogy, Star Wars, Pulp Fiction, Schindler's List, Shawshank Redemption, etc.) then I might just take the gamble that something playing will be worth the time.

*: I suspect that this is also a generational gap in play. Older folks who primarily watch traditional TV with ads probably have a much better idea of current and upcoming movies.
The book covered the theory well and introduced it in a way that was easy for less technical people to use. Excel was used and helped to visualize problems with two dimensions.

I would recommend that text for anyone interested in getting into optimization. Excel quickly hits limits but the concepts translate to other tools
Kids can learn two first languages just fine
Nice, big fan of this style. I normally have Artwiz fonts installed on my machine to scratch the tiny bitmap font itch but might try this out now.
We barely had Facebook then and it was mostly coworkers' wives tagging terrible pictures.

Can we at least get OkCupid or eHarmony? ;-)
Why does everything have to taste like hops? Fuck hops, I am surrounded by IPAs where I am and it has corrupted the local palate into liking this crap
Maybe there's a way to block videos with the "#shorts" tag or under a certain length?

Alternatively, subscribe to channels' RSS feeds and don't use a Youtube account at all to break the algorithm's hold on you.
Are they even employees? I think some of them were independent contractors, possibly fake ones. Employees wouldn't be quite as motivated to pretend their card readers were broken.
All that would do is offset things so that we can pollute more. Not to mention the CO2 and other emissions from such a project. And it would ruin a huge amount of space because of course this would run into “not in my neighborhood”. It’s far better to fix the problem than to paint over it.
If it is a cultural shift it is not restricted to a particular group of Americans. Fertility rates are low across the developed world. Most industrialized nations have a total fertility rate below replacement level.
Plumbers don’t give their bathroom plans away last time I checked. Neither to architects.
I still don't understand why losing another language is a bad thing. I realize that another language creates another way of thinking, culture, and way to express oneself which leads to a good variation instead of having a unified "one world view." I really am not coming off as someone ignorant thinking "the whole world should speak english!" What I'm getting at is, if it's a very insignificant language like that and nobody bothers learning it anymore, what is the point aside from looking for something to do? It's a dying language. Much like a dying culture of an extinct people. Reviving it and forcing people to retain it will not be doing anyone favors either.

I think having culturally distinct languages is fine on a macro level, but at the scale of this minor language, it's really as useful as arrowhead you find in the ground here in the States. At one time this was useful, but now is no longer that time.
Steve Wozniak: Bitcoin Is ‘Mathematical Miracle’
Question: What did,"https://api.github.com/repos/actions/docker/tarball/76ff57a" had anything to do with the OPs fork? Shouldn't it just point to the original repo which didn't had the clashing commit ?
Surprisingly readable! It seems quite usable if I move the screen a bit closer (at the wrist of my extended arm), but it gives me eyestrain at my preferred distance (at the tip of the fingers). Maybe I need better glasses... or better eyes. :/
I've put TheCat through extensive ninja training so she can defend the house against intruders. So far, when someone comes in she just sidles up and asks for Doritos. Failing that, she waddles over to resume her vigil at TheCatFeeder.
You should be able to use this on any operating system that can use (or convert) .bdf font files.

For example:

https://hea-www.harvard.edu/~fine/Tech/font-howto.html