skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes of course, I originally generated the file using Pandas but it's always a pain in the ass to remember the magical incantations to make pretty 2D graphs that aren't fugly. That being said, I have a knack for making great 3D graphs that are awesome! In any case, it's hard when my employer doesn't just gimme that juicy Excel subscription because cost-cutting and efficiencies.

In the end I put on my robe and wizard hat and used matplotlib. (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻
Cause UK prisons are so much nicer?
There are 2 aspects to this. 1. The importance of having a solid technical contributor in an executive role cannot be overemphasized. 2. If you were not a CEO/CTO before it's easy to get anxious about the decisions executive leadership is taking and not having a say in it. I mean it might work out just fine for Mitchell because he was the CEO, so he might still be involved in major decisions or at least his opinion will be actively sought. Or may be you just enjoy doing what has been told to you and that's totally fine too; as long as it's a conscious, well thought decision. But if you've any opinions on how things should go, it's going to be a tough sell in a non-exec IC role. My point being this is a specific case and it'll work out great for Mitchell, but for others think from all angles before making this kind of move. Obviously, if you really hate your exec job or are not very good at it, you're better off moving away from it.
We’re actively encouraging peacocking. It’s no surprise since it’s the current pattern in social media, and obviously it was bound to seep into tech.

‘Keeping up with the Johnsons’ scaled like hell in the digital world. We all know it’s bad, but here we are. If you can’t beat them, join them, and let’s just keep making the world shittier.

The main reason why this line of advice (original tweet) is bad is because it is self promotion for the sake of self promotion.

Here’s a quiet solution:
Have a small website and a projects page. Describe a few of the projects and what’s interesting about them. Then send it to the company. It’s no one else’s business.
The article is very well written,

Actually, on point, in the middle of reading something I often loss interest and just closed it, unless it is something very interesting to me. Thus, of course I missed out on more information I could have extract from it.

Lets see if I can apply these methods toward my next reading list...
I'm not trying to slander people, I'm just trying to point out to a person implying that a supreme court stacked with Republicans will care about facts that Republicans have a long history of not being particularly tethered to reality.
honest question, do you think this is true even for middle class or wealthier people from wealthy nations? I imagine we have the resources to just move and adapt.

The way I understood it it's the poor nations that are really screwed. They cannot afford to relocate, and some of them have the worst weather already (feeding into why they're already poor).. .
> MySQL, an open source database developed by Oracle

This makes it sound like Oracle created it, when it fact the reality is the opposite: Oracle fought it, and bought Sun just so they could get their hands on MySQL. How did regulators let that happen is beyond me.
shocking there is not test that caught this
He's a genius from his wrists down
"male employees proudly came into work hungover" is an incident of sexual harassment when a female employee who did the same thing would be subject to discipline or termination. The men are excused with "well boys will be boys" or "no harm, no foul".
Can you list the number of incidents of workplace harassment and groping that you would find appropriate before concluding that maybe there's a bigger problem?
> Don’t be daft, you’re sitting there lapping up the propaganda without thinking about it.

This isn't only harsh, it's also wrong. There was no special press conference to announce it. The news is reported by the media. CIA on the news! Big deal.

As for why now, who knows, but if it's something that occurs occasionally without explanation, five years and counting, in the American soil even, then any intelligent agency worth their salt would put resource to solve the mystery.

Perhaps it's you who leap to conclusion without thinking?
Right, but the target displays for a lot of icons is not on a desktop monitor, but a mobile display. Mobile devices make it exceedingly difficult to control pixel alignment, either because a user adjusted their accessibility settings, or because their device is physically incapable of doing so because of the display (OLED pentile[1])

Someone choosing "More Space" on their new Mac's display settings has destroyed all pixel alignment on their computer, but with the display's density it might not matter much. Older hardware like the iPhone 8+ scaled everything down for the 1080p display at all times, and no icon was ever perfectly crisp on that thing, even Apple's.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PenTile_matrix_family
I tried really hard to make it clear in this post that as a hiring manager it is your job to find great candidates who don't do this. So you shouldn't "screen" for this, in terms of filtering candidates based on whether or not they have evidence of public creativity.

But... of course I look beyond the resume that the candidate has sent me. Which means that, as a candidate, a relatively easy way to stand out is to have a small amount of public creativity on display for hiring managers to spot.

Sometimes a candidate might interview poorly because they get nervous... but there's clear evidence out there of their skills and experience which can help guide a second round of interviews that help avoid missing out on great talent.
Creating a personal finance app with React (Part 1)
>Hang on a moment. Donald Trump has been telling people to get vaccinated both before and after he left office. Hell, endless column inches were spilled by respected publications about how early approval of the vaccines would be an evil conspiracy by Trump to inject the public with untested vaccines.

Correct.

Biden, Harris, and Pelosi all said they won't trust any Trump vaccine. (<https://www.newsweek.com/anti-vaccine-covid-trust-skepticism...>)
BfA and WoD were universally panned

and SL is hardly loved (it's now being compared to WoD)
Python had similar, then introduced := for explicit assignment-as-expression. The debate over that one is considered a contributing factor to Guido's retirement as bdfl
I am fully in bed with Kubernetes professionally and do love it, complexities and all.

However, I will say I feel the Nomad stack is quite good and fills a nice space where full-blown K8s is way overkill or just not the right tool.
I don't ask my doctor to play Tears in Heaven for me, so I'm going to pass on taking vaccine advice from Clapton.
I have a lot of stored procedures and functions that were converted from Oracle to MySQL, and they also work just fine in MariaDB.

I guess any actual incompatibility is in fringe cutting edge features, which is where both databases have diverged.
My point here was meant to be that you DON'T need to invest a huge amount of effort in peacocking. Just a small amount of effort in ensuring there are public examples of your work out there is all it takes to get a boost against other candidates who haven't done that.

A small website and a projects page is exactly the knid of thing I'm suggesting here.
A wholly new take on current dev project management softwares like JIRA etc.
Highest Forms of Wealth
Paul Graham funded another product like this claiming it's "the future of computing"

What a bleak view of the future. Imagine 20 people in a cafe, absolutely wrecking the free Wi-Fi so they can design something on figma and send some messages over slack.

The future of computing should be smarter, faster architectures for CPUs and software, not the enablement of shoddy web development practices.
lol.

If you made the top %1 liquidate all their assets to give to others everything would stop working. You would create more problems than ever.

Somebody would have to buy the assets, and because we are doing away with anybody who would have the sort of money to buy the assets, you would likely deadlock long before you would get 34 trillion out of the system. Like its mind boggling what you said. Where would this money come from? Other 1%ers who would then have to sale their assets?

Folks, Net Worth is not tangible, and even less tangible if you required a mass amount of folks to liquidate. It would simply drive prices down to a point where they were no longer in the 1% and then our economy would simply pop.

Every major system that moves money (this is what we want) would grind to a halt, and the folks you want to steal money for would simply have no job and have no cash flow.

But beyond that, stealing money assets, or even in this case "net worth" is immoral.

Bezos was a nobody driving a Honda Civic, folks just mad he drives a rocket now.
Biden, Harris, and Pelosi all said they won't trust any Trump vaccine. (<https://www.newsweek.com/anti-vaccine-covid-trust-skepticism...>)
"innovation, competition and small business"

Not to mention the effect on intellectually curious users (and learning). These computers bundled with phones are crippled, tinker-proof, and there is no way to extend or improve them after purchase except as according to the seller's business model. Un-tethering from the seller and opting not to use their servers is effectively discouraged or prevented. "Protecting you" is a suspect justification for all the hoops one must jump through to "accept the risk". There is no anticipation of user autonomy. The world according to the seller is divided into "developers" and "users". Anyone in both categories is intended to pay Apple twice. First for the hardware, then again for the "developer certificate" and a percentage of any licensing revenue.

Maybe that is what the market is demanding. Or maybe the market does not have full information and thus does not understand the full spectrum of possible choices. As long as the cartel persists we will never know.
This is a really cool resource for people who want to learn about how to render L-Systems, I wasn't aware they had been keeping up to date with the programs on there but I'll have to take a look for sure. L-studio goes all the way back to 1998.

http://algorithmicbotany.org/papers/#abop

"The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants" is the seminal resource on lindenmayer systems, written by Aristid Lindenmayer himself. It's interesting to see how much of this is derived from not mathematics but partly from Noam Chomsky's theories on linguistics, particularly Chomsky Grammars (Where productions are derived sequentially in those, L-systems they are derived in parallel branches, which makes it great for modeling stuff like cell growth, trees, and other such branching structures).

The academic resources linked here are kind of hard to approach, in short the documentation is a bit lacking, but if anyone wants to get into trying to learn how to render these with free software I suggest starting with context free (2d) or structure synth (3d), as the resources for picking these up are a bit better than an html file made in 1998

https://www.contextfreeart.org
http://structuresynth.sourceforge.net/

Of course if your bag is big expensive fx workshops like houdini or whatever you probably know what these are already haha
Usually native

I like my apps to have an icon in the dock/taskbar, and I like being able to alt/command - tab. For web apps that I use a lot, I make an app shortcut so the app has it's own window and dock/taskbar icon.

The thing is, I really need tabs/multiple windows for some apps. (Log viewers, Jira/Asana, GitHub...) I used to use application-specific browsers for those sites, but the html engines never kept up.

I usually like electron apps... When they're correctly made. Slack's electron app works well. LastPass's electron app is missing too many features and doesn't integrate into the browser.
I'm pretty certain there's no Cosby room at my employer's offices

I'm also certain no-one has committed suicide due to sexual harassment by the company's employees
Thank you for pointing me to these.
As always, dolphin blogposts are excellent and make a good job to acknowledge the efforts from many people it took to reach usability.
Yeah, I covered that at the end.
But the active promotion via the social channels is what sets off the ‘keeping up with the Johnsons’ effect. Some people are so shy that they would never consider advertising like that. The peer pressure builds, and suddenly you have a generation of self conscious people maintaining appearances.
That’s exactly the point since otherwise there would be more opportunities for false flag attacks on, or by, diplomats overriding a non absolute immunity.
As a thought experiment, what if we called it the "Trump Vaccine" would that caused a large chunk of the unvaccinated to change their minds?

Conversely, using that name would have caused many others to not want it. Biden, Harris, and Pelosi all said they won't trust any Trump vaccine. (<https://www.newsweek.com/anti-vaccine-covid-trust-skepticism...>)
I don't think modesty is incompatible with writing about things online, or sharing projects that you've built.
Ask HN: Why are there so few third party Twitter clients?
There's a couple, like Twitterrific and Tweetbot.

I'm surprised that there aren't more however.

Anyone know why?
Perhaps Dan G could add additional channels for reply notifications at http://hnreplies.com/, as they're already doing the necessary reply polling.
Ask HN: Do you really issue 10M shares at incorporation?
Hey there - I'm doing some research on how many shares you should "create" at incorporation to issue to your cofounders. I've talked to a few people who say the number is arbitrary and that you can increase the number of shares issued with a board resolution before a priced round; I've also read that it's common to issue 10,000,000 shares initially (still before a priced round).

Are there any ramifications for not issuing enough shares and needing to add more, and, vice versa - issuing too many?

Thanks!
If someone is so humiliated by this that they commit suicide why would they go through the emotional agony of going to court and having their humiliation litigated in front of a judge and to be put into public record under their name forever?
> smartphone hacks of high-profile journalists and world leaders

As someone who relies on my head of state to not be compromised by foreign actors and journalists to help me hold my politicians accountable, I do, in fact, need to be afraid of the toolset NSO is selling.
Looks like it was automated tool that mistakenly generated an XLS file instead of XLSX.
Let's keep going.

オイ！ガヤ暴に注意！

噛む歯、掴む爪。

ジャブジャブ鳥も避けて。

狡骨の受血鬼も。

--

O-i! Gayabō ni chūi!

Kamu ha, tsukamu tsume.

Jabu-jabu tori mo sakete.

Kōkotsu no Ju-ketsu-ki mo.

--

Hey, watch out for the Gayabō!

Teeth that bite, claws that catch.

Also avoid the Jabu-Jabu Bird.

And the slybone Bloodtaker.

--

Made up words: 狡骨 (kōkotsu) is a pun on 狡猾 (kōkatsu: sly, cunning crafty) by sound and kanji similarity. 骨 means bone. For some reason I decided to equate "frumious" with "cunning". Juketsuki also a made-up word inspired by 吸血鬼 (kyūketsuki), vampire.

--

呪鋭剣を持って

敵を物色して

タムタム木の樹影で

暫く思考してた。

--

Juei tsurugi-o motte,

kataki wo busshoku shite,

Tamtam ki no juei de,

shibaraku shikō shiteta.

--

Holding to "cursharp" sword,

searching high and low for the foe,

in the shadow of the Tamtam tree,

thought for a while.

--

Did not work in "manxome" unfortunately.

However, there is a nice pun between the made up word "juei" 呪鋭 and a real word "juei" 樹影.

呪 (ju) refers to being cursed, and 鋭 (ei) to sharpness. The vorpal sword is magically enchanted so that it is always sharper than sharp. (That seems to be the interpretation of "vorpal" in the world of D&D, which can be taken as authoritative, haha).

This juei: 樹影 is the shadow of a tree. Not exactly shade, so there is a liberty being taken here. Shade is more like 日陰 (hikage) "tamtam-no hikage de" works and scans, but that pun thing is lost.
Appreciated. Bricked used to mean utterly irreparable. The term certainly has seen dilution, and not for the better.
You could consider linting a subset of static analysis that considers only smaller units of code and not program flow. A linter might tell you your variable names are wrong or your brackets are wrong or you used discouraged method xyz. A different static analysis tool might tell you there's a path through a function that leaks memory.
Edit: I just figured it out, you have to use the numbers in the main area of the keyboard, not the ones in the numeric keypad.

Does it work for you? I type numbers but nothing happens
> Do you have a simple system to keep track of the notes you take?

Not a good one. I used to just use org modes' capture templates, but it wouldn't be organized, and it became a write only system. I recently switched to org-roam. Still, it takes work to organize so I don't really take many notes.

To be clear, when I said I take notes while reading, over 90% are "transient" notes - just something relevant for that reading and not intended for long term storage. So they're lost once I discard the article.
I mean, it could be helpful, but my guess is that you would go with someone who has worked on it professionally. Plus you would probably want someone with more recent Kotlin experience.
EA exec on how the pandemic changed devs: ‘I don’t think we will ever go back’
Hypothesis: what you're labelling as "childish behaviour" is in fact "narcissism".
100%. I've dealt with many small-to-medium sized projects where the usual approach would have been some form of EAV mess.

Just using a BSON column for such attributes hits the Pareto 80/20 sweet spot, _and_ I can query against them much more easily than in an EAV schema (far fewer joins).

They're great for when the schema is mostly normalized, but there's just a little bit of denormalized stuff that doesn't warrant completely architecting the schema around it.
> It seems modesty is going the way of the dodo. Though it leads to an interesting quandary - is it possible to have an online presence and still honestly call yourself a modest person?

If by "modesty" you mean not bragging and not presenting yourself as better than you are, that's absolutely a desirable quality. And that's perfectly compatible with publishing your work.

If by "modesty" you mean keeping your work unpublished, or presenting yourself as worse than you are, that's neither a useful nor a desirable quality.

The article here talks about posting a project to GitHub with a README and screenshots, or having a technical blog with some articles about things you've learned or worked on. That seems perfectly reasonable.
There was only one flood event that affected the entire world, simultaneously, permanently inundating millions of square miles and displacing people who had lived on those millions of square miles for tens of millennia.

It was identically the the same flood event that sank Doggerland. Whether and which legends may be proven to trace to it are of overwhelmingly less moment than the global and indisputable fact of its occurrence, and its impact on ancestors of every person alive today.

Fear of being accused of promoting Atlantis historicity blocks progress in archaeology rather as much as the inaccessibility of the inundated sites.
Assuming the figure is well-sourced, and given the time since the spending occurred, I'd be interested to know where this $35 trillion has ended up (not necessarily just who it directly went to, but where it's parked now and how it got there).

I know that's a tall order, but I think governments should be accountable to how they've invested their citizen's money and how those investments are doing.

Also should be pointed out many countries greatly expanded their deficit as part of Covid measures.
Everyone's best work and well-considered thoughts are worth sharing.
I think you're missing the "stand out" part of this.

I've done a lot of tech interviews lately, which is where I get at ability to do the work. But when a hiring team is trying to pick among the people who do approximately as well on that, then other factors can help.

At that stage, I definitely like to see things that indicate people are excited about something enough to just make a thing (a library, a small project, a blog post). If that's related to our domain or tech stack, even better. But even without that it's a plus in that it's a sign I can just give them a user problem or a technical issue and trust they'll go off and do something good with it.
That's pretty good. How robust is it to various types of articles (e.g. stripping out headers/footers/comments/menus etc)? Since I do it often, it's critical for me to have the process as smooth as possible (minimum number of clicks to get a preview before printing).

Also, the amusing thing is kids were part of the reason I started doing this. I detest reading on the phone, and I cannot be glued to my desktop because I have to watch the kids/babies and they love turning off my PC. Printing them out lets me read them while monitoring them and being away from the PC.
I used to think this but now I don’t. It’s what lead to this comment that received many upvotes.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27906769
I recently discovered, that my parents still use teletext today. Because it is a quick, no nonsense, easily readable way to check some high level news or weather forecasts. And since it hasn't really changed in decades, they can just pull up the right pages from memory. Whereas I wasn't even aware it still existed. Certainly brings back childhood memories.

You can even use it in the browser: https://www.teletext.ch
It's not obvious why it's bad that anyone can be shipped off to another country (potentially with a much worse criminal justice system than their home) without any evidence being presented..?
> If by "modesty" you mean keeping your work unpublished, or presenting yourself as worse than you are, that's neither a useful nor a desirable quality.

To be fair, historically the entire point of modesty was to present yourself as worse than you are (historically this was done with attractiveness specifically).

Has modesty taken on a new definition where it means simply not bragging? I honestly wasn't aware.
We used MySQL at Dropbox too, and they probably still do.
Hmmm, curious. I suppose I may have just been chronically misunderstanding everyone my whole life. What a revelation!

To me, as suggested in the article, “honing” a sense or blade makes “hone in” seem more logical.

But I’m sure my parents both used “hone in” — Merriam Webster has an interesting definition and considers both correct: https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/home-in-or-hon....
I’ll pose the question again: As a country, society, and humanity as a whole, where do we end this- with everyone vaccinated or seasonally controlled like influenza?

Once that light is clear, everything else will figure itself out.
Why is this such a hard problem to solve?

When I was a founder it was incredibly hard to find people who are "available" and skilled because they feared listing themselves as available on LinkedIn.

When I'm not a founder and skilled it's incredibly hard to get to hiring managers. Usually I get warm intros from people within companies I'm interested in, it works way better, and usually often results in jumping straight to the on-site interview step.

Why isn't there a central website where you can just post your name-redacted-resume, accomplishments, and (optionally) target location and salary range anonymously, and if someone wants to reach out, then you can reveal your real name and e-mail?

Or better yet a Tinder-like interface where companies swipe candidates and candidates swipe companies, albeit with no photos, just a name-redacted resume?