skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I heard about those (probably-not-so-alleged) incidents at the time. The overpass rock throwing was a particularly bad one, too. I have a friend, a person who's far from your typical "square" who's a bit older than me and absolutely hates B&B because he knew lots of kids who emulated them and did stupid things, and it really bothered him at the time. That would probably be me if that had been my experience.

That said, I don't think it's fair to judge something by how some tiny cohort responds to it, especially when we're dealing with extremes like setting your house on fire or throwing rocks from an overpass. There may be an argument to be made that if you're setting your house on fire, maybe a television show wasn't the root problem?
Sorry this is BS. 500k will buy you a 3 bed house in most NYC commuter towns. I've never made $200k and I can easily afford it.

OK I'm getting downvoted. If you downvote me find me a town outside of Alpine/Rumsford that you can't buy a house <$500k.
Their management of java is excellent so I wouldn’t say that they are not innovative. They also do top-notch research, with GraalVM for example.

And for-profit companies are greedy per definition..
> "I'm calling all Israeli CEOs specifically in hi-tech to stop the hiring madness before the bubble explodes," Golan wrote.

I can't help to think that a rich Jewish man whining that employees are paid too much and suggesting wage-fixing as a solution won't help fighting stereotypes...

> "This new generation of young engineers needs proper guidance, and we need to be responsible to teach them career fundamentals. Many of my CEO colleagues [are] already looking or exploring to outsource dev services abroad. We are hurting our young generation as well as our own market and country by the fact we keep raising salaries and offering crazy illogical benefits."

My experience with outsourcing is that projects ends up getting in-sourced eventually (and often it's a complete re-write). But hey, if they want to burn their investor's money like that, good for them. It's a winner's take all market out here and those who will outbid for 10x devs will get to market better and faster.
This is deeply silly. PFOF improves outcomes for retail investors.
For my money, I'll take PNPM any day of the week. YMMV it's still faster than any version of Yarn or NPM hands down. https://pnpm.io/
“Teasers are usually rich kids with nothing to do. They cruise around looking for planets that haven’t made interstellar contact yet and buzz them.”

“Buzz them?” Arthur began to feel that Ford was enjoying making life difficult for him.

“Yeah,” said Ford, “they buzz them. They find some isolated spot with very few people around, then land right by some poor unsuspecting soul whom no one’s ever going to believe and then strut up and down in front of him wearing silly antennas on their head and making beep beep noises.”

-- HHGTTG
I used to use yarn all the time until I tried pnpm. The speed is amazing, and as a traveler I love that it works offline by default. I’d be curious to see some benchmarks between pnpm and yarn 3, because pnpm has been the fastest of the bunch for me. It also gets bonus points for pnpx, workspaces, and essentially being a drop-in replacement for npm.
Yarn was great and all, but it’s not npm so you have to convince the whole team to use it.

I can’t believe npm still sucks after 10 years. Week doesn’t go by I have to nuke node_modules and occasionally the lock as well. It’s junk as far as I’m concerned, but I just happen to know what the problem is every time.
Basically what I wanted to say. There is definitely a bubble in tech salaries, people are getting paid salaries that in comparison to other fields have no relation to the aptitude, education, and personal sacrifice needed to do the work.

Will the bubble pop? I don't know. I thought it would pop long ago, but the flow of VC money into tech firms doesn't seem to be abating, and the consumer appetite for the dreck created by the FAANG companies is likewise.
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What's your view on lactoferrin to boost in-vivo antipathogenic activity?

What are some top candidates your developing?

Any especially significant challenges or hurdles so far you've overcome?
> I’ve even seen legitimate conservative view points be flagged instantly.

Can you link to these? This claim always seems specious and that its hiding blatantly awful opinions and I'd love some good counter examples.
It doesn't matter how much revenue you generate. It's irrelevant. People get paid based on supply and demand.
Wow I didn't realize how many real estate agents were on HN, amazing.

Can you also show me towns that have good schools? How about ones where cash offers above asking price aren't immediately considered?

Sorry, but what you wrote is complete BS.
child comment I was replying to was deleted so adding this to this parent comment:

Likewise I've met plenty of engineers that are not profitably replaceable.

Almost every SWE is replaceable, but many it makes no sense to replace and that usually correlates with their tenure working on a particular system.

I myself have several years of knowledge I've accumulated working in a specific problem space at the company. It would take a new hire minimum 2-3 years if not more to accumulate the specialized knowledge I have. So if I were to leave tomorrow over pay, they would have to hire a replacement at the market rate (salary and a 4 year equity grant). That replacement would be far less productive than me for minimum 2 years, so they pay out 4 years of equity now to see equal productivity 2 years from now and if they continue the same pay strategy, that new hire will leave after 4 years of equity has vested. They basically get 2 years of productivity 2 years from now for the price of 4 years of equity today. It's just stupid to play chicken with salary when there are considerable opportunities costs for doing so and you're essentially paying double for half.

It's not just me either. I see it with folks across the board at the company. The only ones I consider relatively fungible are those that team hop every 1 to 1.5 years.
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Grew up in central Jersey, I would have no issue raising my kid there whatsoever.
Unless they made the medals much smaller, that would be incredibly expensive. They give out thousands of medals, after all. Someone smarter than me can calculate the cost based on the size of the medals and the density of gold.

Also, athletes would probably feel more pressure to sell their medals if they were solid gold. That would enrich them, which is good, but there's something to be said for the medals remaining in the hands of the athletes.
You expect a scrappy startup which has few or no regulations to comply with to treat their employees better than Amazon, which only treats their employees as well as they do because regulations force them to?
I'm not sure this is useful for a traditional database. There are lots of costs that are orders of magnitude more important.

This is a CPU optimization, however in a DB the major costs are 1) pulling blocks from disk 2) transferring results over a network.

Even if you assume nodes are cached in memory, a B-Tree node for a database probably fits in L1 cache. SQLite page size is 4098 bytes by default vs 8KB+ L1 cache size. Shouldn't you pay 100x the cost just to load the next node from memory, if you have a large tree? In theory that's <1% faster overall.

I'm curious whether 3x improvement is overall, or just from the binary search. (according to the benchmark it is overall 2x faster - very curious).

Also curious the size of the tree in benchmarks and the spread factor (ie how many children each B-Tree node has). I couldn't find this info from the repo. This could affect the % of time you can find the next node already in a cache.
> Employees are horribly treated, wages suppressed, and all sorts of terrible and abusive practices

We need to make those things illegal and we need to make sure those laws are enforced. This is the greatest downfall of capitalism, morals cannot be enforced by consumers because business operations are completely opaque to them. No company should be able to outcompete another by using such terrible, exploitative practices.
Yeah but last quarter they had $21.7b profit, now imagine it was $20b only. Poor company, oh wow we can't let this happen
Is it because they can crush small business who can’t afford to pay as much through regulatory capture?
I manage several monorepos with PNPM's workspaces. One of which is an open source repo for a popular bundler which accumulates 100s of millions of weekly downloads. Another is internal and private that contains an entire organization's codebase. PNPM is an absolute joy to work with. If you haven't tried it, make a point to.
What Watching Gamers Fail for Days Can Teach You About Entrepreneurship
I never really pay attention to these bounty challenges. Are those rewards reasonable? They seem incredibly low compared to the work involved. I have seen locally sponsored hackathons with higher total prizes.
see, e.g.: https://thehustle.co/gerald-ratners-billion-dollar-speech
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> Seems like a very exhaustive endeavour just to point out algorithmic bias and re-iterate what went wrong, but in more detail.

They want everyone to help them find additional bias, and other points it could go wrong, with the presumed purpose of them fixing it.

They want to find bias they can solve and remove, not just get more people to tell them why the bias they found is wrong!
This is rather overstating the shortcomings for small sizes – Apple only uses SF Compact on the Watch; SF Text is used on even the smallest elements in iOS and macOS. Inter reduces approximately as well.

As for tracking, it’s already a good practice to use a slightly higher `letter-spacing` value at small sizes (something UIkit does automatically), so this isn’t really a function of the font family.
I was talking about daria, not because and butthead.
I wish that there were better ways but some niche discord servers have more members than the entirety of freenode / libera... sadly that's where the human beings are
which book was better?
I wouldn't bet against Mike Judge - he went on from B&B to create Office Space, King of the Hill, Idiocracy (painfully underrated), and most recently Silicon Valley.
The laws have been in place for decades and have at no point not been in full effect. The reason nobody's been prosecuted and convicted for 70 years is that nobody with half a brain commits the offence.
Smartphone screens effective sensors for soil or water contamination
For diversity, I buy from target.com. They don’t have the selection but sometimes that’s what you want. I don’t need to look through 20 brands of tissue. Their prices and shipping are generally on par with Amazon (I assume they are forgoing profit to get loyal customers)

So basically I would try going to target first, then Amazon. Or Newegg or B&H first, then Amazon. There are other retailers of course but those tend to have operational competence, which is hard because Amazon raised the bar.
Controversial, so I'm expecting downvotes.

SWE is one of the most difficult professions at the highest levels. If it's so simple, then the ready supply of SWE should depress wages but that is clearly not happening.
They aren't though.
I built https://closetab.email to periodically email me links from my bookmarks, so that I end up consuming them eventually.

That’s my trick and it’s working for me. Helps me confidently bookmark something and close the tab.
4 years ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15083231

3 years ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18784583

Not an unknown entity really in the design world or general web dev circles, as it's been included in google fonts etc
> but what I remember is that the Winklevoss tried to exploit Zuckerberg and Saverin was slacking after the first few months, so Zuckerberg only responded in a crude but not totally unreasonable fashion.

I don't know what Saverin was actually up to in those days (reality vs the fiction of the movie), however the movie clarified that Saverin was taking the subway in New York "12 hours a day" trying to generate advertising sales for Facebook. It notes that he had taken an internship and quit the first day to direct his time in pursuit of trying to garner ad sales for Facebook. Parker insults Saverin about this in the confrontation scene at the Palo Alto house they're renting ("you're just one step away from bagging Snookies Cookies"), and then Saverin clarifies to Zuckerberg in the hallway what he's up to.

The movie makes it appear as if they decided to cut Saverin out of the company because he froze the company accounts out of spite, after Zuckerberg tells Saverin that he needs to move out to California, that he's at risk of being left behind. There's a phone call between Zuckerberg and Saverin (during which Saverin's girlfriend lights something on fire), where an upset Zuckerberg confronts Saverin about freezing the company accounts, where he rants about the risk that it posed to Facebook and its uptime.

Did Saverin actually do that, and did that play a role in why they tried to cut him out of the company? Maybe somebody else here that knows a lot more can chime in.

This story with quoted personal instant messages & emails indicates Saverin began running unauthorized ads on Facebook to promote his own thing and that there was a more elaborate decay in the relationship between the founders:

https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-movie-zuckerberg-im...
I am using the Twitter app, as I imagine are most of the target audience of this person (whether either of us believe this is a good thing). There is no need to "hunt for a magic link somewhere to reveal the rest of the article": you just scroll down. Each paragraph is surrounded by.a bit of boilerplate, but it isn't at all like ads... it is all functional mechanisms that allow people to like and share individual thoughts, which is actually a powerful way to discuss ideas. (That said, I could totally appreciate a mode that let that information be hidden until you click.) You claim this is about self-promotion, but I think most users of Twitter see this as an opportunity for collaboration: a comments section on steroids that lets a discussion branch out in any number of separate directions. Maybe it would be useful to think of Twitter like a better way to publish presentation slides--another non-article format some people like to publish information in--or something?
They could send the subatomic particles from Trisolaris to Earth at light speed, and then use the entangled pair of particles (one on earth, its mate on Trisolaris) to monitor events on earth in real-time.

As already said, that preserves the planet, prevents a potential enemy from further developing technologically, and enables real-time monitoring of and interference with that enemy's activities.
Cool. My family lives on LI and my other half of the family doesn't live in Central Jersey.

I swear, everyone posting with "BUT I CAN AFFORD IT" is absolutely tone deaf to the US housing crisis we're in.
Some of the best sw developers I've known have been mechanical, civil and chemical engineers by degree.

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‘May be an image’: what it’s like browsing Instagram while blind
Amazon Hit with Record EU Privacy Fine
Does that include their contractors ? Or the “gig economy” delivery style workers they try to trim all the fat off of? The only thing they lead the way on is new ways to package their poor behavior.
I count 417 reserved words at https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/iis/9.1?topic=words-cobol-reserv... .

I see there's "ZERO", "ZEROES", and "ZEROS" - I didn't realize that both plurals are acceptable in English! - https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/3824/what-is-the... .

My favorite reserved word on that list is "KANJI". From https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cobol-zos/4.2?topic=expressions-... :

> The class condition determines whether the content of a data item is alphabetic, alphabetic-lower, alphabetic-upper, numeric, DBCS, KANJI, or contains only the characters in the set of characters specified by the CLASS clause as defined in the SPECIAL-NAMES paragraph of the environment division.
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I'd venture that 90% of folks who are able to get a physical engineering degree and get a job doing engineering work would be able to learn programming well enough to get paid for it.
No, it'll still do a scan all the way from the root node down to the leaf nodes. The path is simply saying which element to start the binary search from, in each of the nodes.
Historical records seem to contradict themselves on this matter. What I recall reading was that they were created for two different things: JavaScript was created to add basic interactivity on the page, and Java was intended to be used for more CPU-intensive work.
> Amazon pioneered hyperscale logistics efficiencies

Actually, I believe that was Walmart as well:
>TIMMER: I used to ask my class, I’m talking 1985, “Where is the world’s largest supercomputer?” And the correct answer was, “It’s at the Pentagon.” Okay. “Where is the world’s second largest supercomputer?” Bentonville, Ark. Home of Walmart. They used that computer to track every single item on every single Walmart shelf. That information technology is what revolutionized food marketing. And it was pretty much invented by Walmart.

Source: https://freakonomics.com/podcast/farms-race/#:%7E:text=where...
For anyone else wondering about "the controversy from Fall 2020": https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/sep/21/twitter-a...
>Milk will be phased out because its carbon footprint is too heavy

It really won't. The food culture heritage of a large portion of the world won't be wiped out by an environmentalist/vegan dream. In the US there is a government finger on the scale which makes dairy quite inexpensive which might see a reduction, but carbon reduction is going to be primarily constrained to transportation and power generation.

You can have my cheese when you pry it from my cold dead fingers (unless you want some :) )
>But surely, someone who is more interested in solving mechanical engineering problems than programming

And this is why I went the way that I did. Unfortunately, I'm from what's practically extreme poverty in the U.S., I'm sure a large amount of Mech and Elec EE's (or engineers in general) aren't exactly from upper class wealth...

And, guess what. I'm young, the planet is on fire and only getting worse, and it's beyond obvious that nothing is going to change that within my lifetime. That's a singular of many issues. The only way to insulate yourself from a lifetime of suffering from this is by money, and lots of it. Definitely not with what even senior ME's or EE's make.

To imagine a young student would choose to go one route because it's fun or their passion instead of a route that will somewhat secure their future at this point is asinine, and it's going to completely fuck industry over (as if it's not already) when there's a lack of capable engineers in other disciplines than SWE
Fact is, a lot of times that extra 50% you pay will come back in lifetime of the product, if you know how to shop for it. And shopping in person often makes it a lot easier to assess quality. Especially when Amazon orders turn out to be straight up forgeries.
Some shows even did this explicitly -- Space Ghost, Coast to Coast!, for example, was a remix of a 60s era show into an absurdist late-night talk show, using the same animation assets and everything.

And it spawned a whole genre of similar shows in the 90s/early 2000s that formed most of the original Adult Swim lineup.
I don't begrudge anyone for earning as much as he can or paying employees well. I am just surprised the bubble hasn't popped again, like it did in 2000. The time is coming. Inflation is reducing the spending power of the average consumer and tech gadgets and gizmos will be one of the first things on the cutting block of the middle-class family budget.
> Idolizing people like Musk, Bezos and Gates

The #1 guy on Forbes will always be somebody with the characteristics of Bill Gates.

But not everybody who has the characteristics of Bill Gates is the #1 guy on Forbes...or is even in the magazine at all, or is solvent at all.
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Oh boy, the new quote: "What's good for Amazon, is good for America."

When GM was "good for America", we pretty much lost public transportation, so what are we losing now?
(2014) please
You don't feel secure because you're spending a large percentage of it. If your life choices were such that you were banking 2k/mo of your salary, you would probably feel quite secure. That would certainly involve other sacrifices, and I'm not saying you're doing anything wrong. Just that it's a choice. Comfort vs convenience vs security vs whatever other factor.
It's the worst of all worlds TBH. It has terrible reflection and metaprogramming capabilities which leads to ridiculous solutions like code generators at every step. Type system is super weak (eg. it just gives up on type checking ternariea for eg., had multiple runtime type errors because dart couldn't catch it at compile time), but at the same time also closed and very inflexible. Working with immutable types is ridiculously bad compared to C# or JS. Serialisation is terrible as well.

Flutter would have been a much better framework if it was built on typescript
oh what happened to them?

yeah we get help, but it obviously adds one more link to an already tricky chain trying to find and coordinate home repair jobs, plumbing etc
It's nothing malicious; it's a common way to express employment figures. Farm payrolls tend to swell and contract seasonally (to pick/plant and much less work in-between) so "non-farm workforce" is a way of smoothing out the numbers.
You got downvoted but there’s something to be said for this.

If you are “torn” over this, if it’s so bad that you’re “torn”, how is this a difficult decision? Convenience trumps being “torn”. I mean, really.
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The daunting task of writing longhand and why you should do it
can you explain what you mean?
Has it been a hard sell in your experience?
Ironically
Barnes
And Noble was also a significant computer user in the 80’s and 90’s. They put a lot of local bookstores out of business with superior inventory, prices, and generally being data driven. Then they were one of Amazon’s first casualties!
Happening right now with the profile I use to manage the Company "Page". Was locked out for 90 days before their support even mentioned I might need to prove identity. This is after they required me to install their App on my phone and enable Location Services, and upload a photograph of my face so they could "verify" it against a profile with zero images uploaded (what?).

The thing is... the profile is super old, and was created before Facebook had this "real person" requirement for profiles. So I can't prove identity, because I deliberately made a fake account to do nothing other than manage the company Page. It wasn't against their TOS back then... but apparently that means we're screwed today.

We were forced to pull all our advertising budget from their Ads platform during this... how could we advertise our business on a platform we have zero control over our presence on? We can't Post, Delete, Pin, Un-Pin... anything.

This sort of black-box, smoky back-room support crap from Facebook is infuriating.
"Only 8 months" tells you nothing of the conditions or prison population within which he will be placed. 8 months in solitary or in a maximum-security prison (where hard-core, repeat-offender murderers and rapists are) is much harsher than years in a minimum-security prison.

Julian Assange, who hasn't even been convicted AFAIK, has been kept in solitary in a maximum-security prison while only being accused, falsely it turns out, of non-violent crimes. The reasonableness of the entire punishment must be taken into account, not just the duration.
+1 Indeed, accounted for back mid June 2021: delta > epsilon (west coast variant): https://youtu.be/xR-LbraMlgs?t=706