skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> June 3, 2020

> Just created a new account just to tell you we're at least 2 conservatives in tech. Pretty sure I'll get angry and abandon this account very soon again because of the liberal bias here, and their adoration for the downvote button, but whatever, anything for a conservative colleague :)

Glad to see your account is living its best life, and that you're using HN as an outlet for your anger. Really this sort of thing should last 3-6 months at most though, that's been the case for me anyway. Maybe you're in a rut? Cheers.
Don't know why your downvoted for asking a basic question.

Career politicians do not betray those who fund their campaigns, especially in the highest office.
Also how could there be a checklist? They were literally pioneers
Cannabis doesn’t make people lethargic. Having no opportunities in life does. Acknowledging cannabis use tends to take those opportunities away due to the attached criminal status.
Seems like management was more junior than the developers.
Oh of course the CEO should be involved with the investors, at a business level. I'm saying the CEO is not the best person to actually do the demo, in most cases. Bring along a product and sales expert to the meeting do that. Steve Jobs is the exeption that proves the rule; most CEOs do not have his showmanship.
I vividly remember when Billy Beer was a scandal. Simpler times.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Beer
Definitely! I can't count the number of times I've suggest it or someone suggested it to me!
idk. but I can vote - I never liked WFH.
incredible. Thanks for naming and shaming; I hope this person is never able to fuck someone else like this.
Karaite Judaism holds exactly such a literalist position.
Building Stronger Human Teams by Managing the Inner Lizards
You underestimate my ability to write code that I myself can’t make sense of years (or sometimes even months or weeks) in the future.
The only problem I see with allowing anyone to offer hearing aids is the hypothetical problem that a malfunctioning product may harm someone's hearing further.

That's a real issue to be addressed, but generally I agree that making it easier for people to help other people is better than throwing up obstacles.
I was depending on England's defeat and planned to sing "Just one Cornetto" from the back door at final whistle, but it looks like I might be disappointed.
More likely it’s all AES-128 since that is natively supported by energy-efficient TPM chips, while -256 isn’t.
I don't think that's really their job and I wouldn't depend on it!
That assumption doesn’t go well with what we saw in the case of Instagram and then Snapchat. Both took significant share out of Facebook but Facebook was able to buy Instagram and copy Snapchat to retain its monopoly. The Instagram acquisition shouldn’t have been possible is what the parent seems to be alluding to.
I don't know how much keeping the monetary supply honest is good for humanity. Being able to print your own money can create a lot of problems, but it also gives you an escape hatch out of many others.
The application in RocksDB is that it is probably computed when generating an SST file, which is an immutable set of key-value pairs on disk. Therefore it can be saved into the SST file itself and loaded into memory when opening the DB, and then consulted when doing point lookups by key - does this SST file definitely not contain the key?
It's like GANN output but without the "artificial" part.
Bazel does the opposite of rebuild-the-world. That's more of a CMake thing (rm -rf build && mkdir build && cd build && cmake ..). Bazel won't even run tests if the code the tests depend on have not changed. A lot of thought went into Bazel. It caches everything it possibly can.

> I'm already getting flak from Linux distros maintainers because I use some vendored header-only libraries and not system ones so I don't see how that is even supposed to work.

That's where you use autotools. It has been around long enough that every package manager knows how to deal with it. For most C/C++ programs, autotools is all you need. You should learn it because it's not going away.

"the IDE" (like VS project files) is definitely not cross-platform (although it can be), but not everything needs to be cross platform. For game devs building on DirectX, for example, it's completely pointless to support other platforms when the runtime depends on a single platform.
There’s also Ghost, which similarly has an open source offering and a paid hosting service:
https://ghost.org/about/

Previous discussions:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14864731
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17809447
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21322712
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17082228
Healthy lifestyle and positive attitude are all well and good; however, reporters tend to egregiously overstate their efficacy in a bid to promote these virtues. In academic research, there is a complementary flaw of insufficient controls for genetic confounding, which massively inflates the apparent contribution of individual choices, drawing attention away from the innate causal factors underlying both the outcomes and the capacity to effect them [1][2].

One particularly frustrating consequence of this pattern is that we are most certainly overlooking and underfunding basic life science research that could uncover precise biological mechanisms producing positive outcomes, and instead chase after mere correlates of their presence.

In this vein, it is sometimes claimed that human longevity is only weakly heritable, which leads to excessive hope pinned on trivial lifestyle changes. The folly of this is best illustrated by the fact that even in this study superagers often neglect basic rules of healthy lifestyle: 71% of them even smoke. In fact, if we look at longevity in the sample consisting of people who already have reached advanced age (thus excluding the noise produced by infant mortality etc.), heritability estimate increases significantly, the older the sample the greater[3].

>In contrast to the modest heritability estimate for continuous age at death (16%), heritability of surviving past 65 years and surviving past 85 years was substantial at 36% (p = 4.2 × 10 −10 ) and 40% (p = 9.0 × 10 −10 ), respectively. Thus, genetic effects appear to be greater for survival to more advanced ages. In the Framingham Heart Study cohorts, heritability appears to increase with each 10-year increment in survived age (65 years, 75 years, and 85 years) for men, but not women, again suggesting that genetic effects on aging may be more substantial for men than women (20).

It is highly likely and in fact supported by growing evidence[4] that the pattern observed for longevity holds for cognitive aging as well.

In my humble opinion, it is incumbent upon us to focus on dissecting relevant heritable differences in biological pathways[5][6][7] between the small minority of supercentenarians (and, indeed, "superagers") and people with average lifespans/healthspans, in order to design sound medical treatments which could provide those benefits to the rest of us, less genetically endowed.

1. https://psyarxiv.com/j5x7g/

2. https://psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/2017-42708-001.pdf

3. https://doi.org/10.1093/gerona/gls089

4. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23586942/

5. https://www.pnas.org/content/106/8/2700

6. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fgene.2012.0027...

7. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11357-006-9020-x
I suspect a lot of it comes from the inversion of the ad marketplace.

In the pre-internet era, the media property was the centre of the ad universe. You'd call up your local paper to put in an ad, and they'd have control over presentation and pricing, and keep all the revenue. Standards were upheld, and the papers did well.

Now, they're farming out boxes on heir page to middlemen networks. They have little or no control over what ends up there, and they're getting a fraction of the revenue. What's worse, their content, being wide in scope and often full of brand-unfriendly news, isn't hugely friendly to algorithmic targeting paths. The only way to try to stay above water is to run more and more aggressively obnoxious ads.
The Joyride Era of Space Travel Is Here
Please read the first three paragraphs at https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html. This is really not what Show HN is for.
The Rise of AI Surveillance
Price per pound is mostly just a standardized measure used to compare prices regardless of container size. The most common container size is a one pound jar, but 8oz jars are fairly common too. You would buy a jar and use it in tea, other drinks, on waffles, etc. You can buy larger quantities to do things like baking, making candy, making mead, etc.
If your client does not want to pay the price of development, he usually also does not value your work. I guess the same is true for employees. The worst clients have allways been those who have complained about the price beforehand.
Came here to say Apple News+ has been quite excellent.

If you get to a paywalled WSJ article on the web, you can often use the “share” icon to “Open in Apple News” and read it just fine.
learned lisp and ML in the 80s. agree completely.
>Reality: certifications represent a foundational body of knowledge for new entrants to the field - to start the "scaffolding" of their knowledge. It helps employers test a candidate’s commitment to the career and so is useful as long they don’t mandate it above all else.

I'm not sure how I could get a certificate and by that I mean, without the employers money.
Japan was already a highly literate, secular, capitalist society when nation building started. And they're still not really a democracy (they only recently changed governing party for instance, or take a look at their attitudes to criminal justice).

The US has had one foot out of the door of Afghanistan since day one. In Japan the US wanted an ally against the communists. Rebuilding was important. In Afghanistan, the US had no such need. So we didn't bother.

You can build nations (eg Japan). It takes longer when you're working from a rougher starting place. I don't think these are unreasonable points of view. Nor were they novel before Sept 11th 2001.

I should say the coalition or nato rather than the US for a lot of the above. Plenty of other countries followed along on an obvious bad idea.
A decade old SO adage comes o mind:

"This should be the accepted answer."
I just tried generating a QR code on the linked site, and scanning it with my iPhone on iOS 14. Seems to work fine.
Some people buy an iPhone just because Apple imposes draconian rules on Facebook. People do put a price on privacy, thousands of dollars probably.

When you reduce the value of interconnecting people to a linear scale, it’s unfair. How much value do you put on a friendship? How much value do you extract from belonging to a Facebook group? It’s probably a million dollars per person. It doesn’t mean the privacy part isn’t extracted by coercion, taking friendships as hostage, threatening to remove you from participation to a lot of the social life if you revoke your Facebook account.
idk about anything specific or anything recommended here. but thought I'd share my thought: I've seen one on kickstarter about 2 years ago. not sure the name but it seemed very practical.
Don't we have more competition for employers now though. That's what I don't get. I have a whole world of companies to work remotely at, judging by my inbox alot want me. They will of course have to give me a pay increase to move. this seems logical to me but not to hr departments. Or even morale, is making your employees unhappy worth 30k a year.
Well yes, that is the "Depending on the market" part I mentioned in the sentence before the one you quoted. Some markets have traits that are more likely to lead to natural monopolies. A government acting in the best interest of its citizens would usually work on creating regulation in these markets to discourage monopolies.
It’s like watching an image being compressed back and forth between two different lossy formats.
Yep that happened to me when I moved to be closer to family
The artilce by Singal is about youth gender medicine, that is a field where you can't make double blind randomized controlled trials, like parachutes or open heat surgery.

With Ivermectin and Hydroxychloroquine, it's very easy to make double blind randomized controlled trials.
It may have been SNL that described USA Today as the paper for people for whom the evening network news was too complicated to understand.

As the sibling notes, a lot of USA Today's were left outside hotel rooms at one point when that was common in an era where the WSJ was very oriented towards finance types and was deliberately stodgy. (There was also the International Herald Tribune internationally which was at least at one point, a joint effort of the Post and the Times.)

But, yeah, an American political junkie might get the Post and the Times today. I'm not sure why someone would pay for USA Today. It completely generic in digital form.
What is "LI" in this context?
If you don't log into Reddit and just visit <old.reddit.com>, that's what I mean by main page. Reddit has a main page, and you don't have to click anywhere to get there.
> although there is a lot they don't know

I think that's exactly the problem. Re top students I assume we're talking about things like a deep knowledge of algorithms, implementation details of relevant languages, the latest frameworks, being comfortable writing in an object oriented or functional style, being extremely smart, having a lot of working memory, loads of energy and enthusiasm, being able to grasp complicated concepts quickly etc (I've never met a recent grad who is even close to that, but I understand it's at least theoretical).

But experience lets you do things like push back a little on the requirements (because you know that what is being asked for is not actually what is wanted). Or choosing path A instead of path B because you know that path B will come back to bite your team later because you've seen how it played out a few times before. Knowing which things will make the biggest difference to the speed or quality of delivery, whilst costing the least to implement. You know what problems you should ignore and what problems are serious risks. Things like that can sometimes make the experienced developer a 10x programmer, it's certainly not because they're typing 10x faster than anyone else.
No, I mean I don't understand your point. People can stay home or work from home without needing to see a doctor when it's something like a common cold. It's stupid to go in for something basic and demand a treatment that won't even help.
The Boomer Wealth Boom
> Look at what happened with Apache Harmony, for example.

It died the moment the OpenJDK was released 14 years ago? The issue wasn't the TCK itself, as far as I understand Sun just didn't want to license any Java implementation that could cut into its embedded market and dragged its feet when the community requested an out for the Apache licensed Harmony project. The TCK now seems to be available for any OpenJDK derived implementation[1] in case you want to use official Java trademarks for your implementation.

> I also don't know for sure if IcedTea is still necessary to get a 100% open build of newer versions of Java

I can't actually find anything about IcedTea for any recent OpenJDK, but its wiki page[2] seems to hint at the IcedTea patches were merged back into OpenJDK. Debian and other free software distros also seem fine with distributing current OpenJDK versions instead of reviving gcj to torment their users.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology_Compatibility_Kit#T...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IcedTea
> literally nothing is apolitical

Literally nothing is perfect in the world, but that leaves all the room in the world for variation. No painting is perfect, neither mine nor Van Gogh's - why do people pay so much for Van Gogh's?
Disagree. Me and a lot of my friends started at 10-12, self-teaching.
I see, yeah I only ever get a the little honey bear ones lol, but the big jars at farmers markets look interesting but they're always huge and I almost never use honey
Most houses use very little power at night.
I think on every point this article experessed pros and cons. That's what's needed.
If you read and think "yes, but, this one thing is absolutely unacceptable" , you are at risk of missing the point.
Which is why we need a lot of resources to perfect and scale. Which right now means increasing average carbon footprint due to our mix of energy sources and industrial technology.

This is the equivalent of “you need to spend money to make money.”
When they spent $400,000,000 on favorable monopolistic legislation it helps to aim the spotlight on anyone else.
The Economist is another for a more international English-speaking audience. FT for European finance. Maybe a more cultural magazine like The New Yorker. But 2-3 is probably the limit for the vast number of people.
It's just as important to develop the soft skills as the hard skills, and I think you've just quite nicely summarized why that is.
A junior developer is going to have a lot of blind spots because of unknown unknowns. A team with both talented junior developers and experienced senior developers can utilize the raw ability of the junior devs while having the senior devs cover the blindspots. A team with only talented junior devs will likely make some great things but they’ll also wind up having crucial problems that will only late into the project.
That website is so broken lol
This would still allow data exfiltration via DNS. It really needs to be done at the browser level.
I wouldn't have thought so. Back then version control was making copies on a floppy disk. A lot of developers didn't even have dedicated build machines let alone the fancy CI/CD pipelines we do these days. Plus most studios had pretty tight deadlines. So if they did any code sharing it would have been more like copying/pasting rather than assembly macros. In fact I wouldn't be surprised if the "copying/pasting" was literally someone printing out (to a dot matrix printer) and an office junior manually punching those instructions back in on another machine.

It was a very different era back then. Tooling sucked and everything was a lot more manual. But we didn't mind as were still pushing boundaries of our imaginations and didn't know any better.
> last multiples of the time I would get out of wired earphones, which always die in a few months from work-hardening the copper wires until they break

Hmm...

> It's just the Discourse in action... I'm fairly confident that for minutes of pleasure / embodied energy, AirPods score higher than almost anything else I own, certainly among things with a battery and chip

It's interesting to reduce environmentalism to "joy per unit size * time." To its credit, if you do the accounting right, a lot of environmentally really bad things, like gasoline and meat, have very poor joy per (size time), while being a tourist in a conserved rainforest has very high joy per size time.

But it's still flawed. Like Bitcoin has high joy per unit size and time, it turns cheaper electricity into more money you can spend on jetskis. No intellectually honest person claims that is environmentally friendly. You've chosen a framework that's idiosyncratically very friendly to electronics and things nerds are into, that I'm not sure would even make sense to people in almost any time prior to 1970. They by and large lived without the joys of electronics and did nothing to address the environmental disaster they're dying too soon to experience. Surely you see the same thing happening now, and right to repair is just one of many fronts of forward-thinking people trying to right those wrongs.

I'm not advocating for "end to end emissions" as the framework either, because what you're saying people hate on Apple for is almost always true about Tesla. People complaining about electric cars having higher emissions are both wrong and saying that stuff in bad faith.

But to go on social media and complain about the "Discourse" you are participating in is definitely intellectually dishonest. AirPods are shitty in their own unique way, and I'm not sure if any intellectual is seriously advocating, in their raw quoted form as opposed to a headline, that the way that they are shitty is exclusively your reductive perspective on "environmentally friendly."
> Knowingly playing with fire like this is a sign of a lack of maturity, both on the founders part and the investor’s part.

It doesn't matter really whether this is or is not knowingly.

If you are CEO and you don't know something (because you have never had any experience in IT, for example) it is your job to find people that do and give them tools to do their job well enough.

But you would not run a company without at least some experienced accountants or lawyers, I would assume any thinking person should be able to predict the same goes for software developers.
The linked SO provides a great description of the philosophy/benefits of Erlang.

> Erlang has several features that remove human working time as a source of downtime:

> Hot code reloading. In an Erlang system, it is easy to compile and load a replacement module for an existing one. The BEAM emulator does the swap automatically without apparently stopping anything. There is doubtless some tiny amount of time during which this transfer happens, but it's happening automatically in computer time, rather than manually in human time. This makes it possible to do upgrades with essentially zero downtime. (You could have downtime if the replacement module has a bug which crashes the system, but that's why you test before deploying to production.)

> Supervisors. Erlang's OTP library has a supervisory framework built into it which lets you define how the system should react if a module crashes. The standard action here is to restart the failed module. Assuming the restarted module doesn't immediately crash again, the total downtime charged against your system might be a matter of milliseconds. A solid system that hardly ever crashes might indeed accumulate only a fraction of a second of total downtime over the course of years of run time.

> Processes. These correspond roughly to threads in other languages, except that they do not share state except through persistent data stores. Other than that, communication happens via message passing. Because Erlang processes are very inexpensive (far cheaper than OS threads) this encourages a loosely-coupled design, so that if a process dies, only one tiny part of the system experiences downtime. Typically, the supervisor restarts that one process, with little to no impact on the rest of the system.

> Asynchronous message passing. When one process wants to tell another something, there is a first-class operator in the Erlang language that lets it do that. The message sending process doesn't have to wait for the receiver to process the message, and it doesn't have to coordinate ownership of data sent. The asynchronous functional nature of Erlang's message-passing system takes care of all that. This helps maintain high uptimes because it reduces the effect that downtime in one part of a system can have on other parts.

> Clustering. This follows from the previous point: Erlang's message passing mechanism works transparently between machines on a network, so a sending process doesn't even have to care that the receiver is on a separate machine. This provides an easy mechanism for dividing a workload up among many machines, each of which can go down separately without harming overall system uptime.

1. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8426897/erlangs-99-99999...