skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Okay, now I'm just laughing out loud. My org has an internal/external reputation for not exactly being fast moving and having convoluted IT processes, yet we can onboard people within a few days.

If it takes you 2-3 weeks to onboard ANYONE please realize that your IT processes are complete, unmitigated garbage. Paying Microsoft for some Windows VMs through the nose isn't going to change anything about that.
Plenty of that happens in the US too though. I grew up in the Rust Belt but have lived my entire post-college life (more than 2.5 decades) on the west coast.

By the time you need to get on a plane to visit, 2000 miles vs 5000 miles isn't a tremendous difference. (Assuming normal times with open borders).
"The privately chartered flight will be commanded, funded and led by 38-year-old billionaire Jared Isaacman, and aim to support St Jude Children's Research Hospital."

Um. Wow. Lots odd there. How can a charted flight be "commanded"? Are they renting the spacecraft or chartering a flight? How does this support the hospital? Is this a stunt to gather donations? I applaud billionaires who do cool stuff. I say have fun. But I don't feel any urge to send money. Now if he did something dangerous and/or humiliating in the style of Comic Relief, then I'd think about donating. How much of my [brother's] netflix subscription is paying for this flight?

Richard Branson driving a Ferrari while asking for money? No. Richard Branson ice bucket challenge ever hour until the hospital gets a new MRI machine? Sign me up.
I've always been thoughtful about my spending. I got married 12 years ago and worked while my wife went to school full time. About 10 years ago, I discovered the MMM blog and started making a concerted effort achieve financial independence. I am just about there now.

For me, I didn't feel like there were many trade-offs. The key take-away is prioritizing value and figuring out what brings you joy in life. By doing this, I was able to eliminate a lot of unnecessary spending. I don't feel like I ever missed out on anything.
Ask HN: 25-person company, solo-founder. How should I allocate my time?
Hello. I am the owner, of a tech startup with almost 30 people on board. I spend 80% of my time on programming (nothing fancy, cruds etc.) and 20% on the rest of the stuff (managing, hiring). I've heard that CEO's should do things that others can't (sales), but I really hate selling and love coding.

I want to grow my startup, so my question is: is it possible with my attitude? Are there any examples of other companies that were run by shy coder?

Not sure if I would ever be able to allocate 80% (or even 100%) of my time to sales-related activities.

edit: I found this article accurately funny: https://getlighthouse.com/blog/company-growth-25-employees/
> This exoplanet is about six times more massive than Jupiter, and it orbits its host star at a distance of 6,471 astronomical units

Far out.
Decade-long vulnerability in multiple routers could allow network compromise
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Agreed, I'm not claiming there is any real safety risk.

The issue is that FAA rule requires the operator to determine that any allowed electronic device does not cause interference. It clearly places the burden of proof on the airline operator, that's a pretty high bar by some interpretations.
Where I work, switching teams basically requires a full reinterview (technical questions and all). At that point I’m going to have to interview prep again so I may as well interview around other companies for a pay bump. If there was less friction to a team change I’d be much more likely to stick around.
I feel like the author doesn't understand the point of games...

Sorry! Your villagers all died by a plague. Game over!
The censorship isn't indiscriminate, it actually discriminates against and suppresses users who trend towards flamebait. Without careful moderation, this site would quickly turn into a worse version of Reddit.
I worked at AWS years ago and we weren't getting paid anywhere near this, total compensation included. AWS is pretty known for being for being "thrifty", but you only got a relatively small amount of RSU's (back even before they were worth thousands of dollars like they are now), and you had to wait most of the 4 years for them to vest, since it was heavily weighted to the back-end of that time period, to entice you to stay with the company.
Not really. If I were a citizen of Russia, hacked the US government from there, and entered a country with an extradition treaty with the US (eg UK) I would expect to be extradited to the US.

Taking computers out of the mix, if I ran a fraud ring from Russia defrauding US citizens of their money, I would expect a similar outcome.
The only thing that'll convince those people is for authority figures to become trustworthy.¹ I don't see that happening any time soon.

So who're left? The people who are concerned about vaccines because other people are, rather than because of (misplaced in this instance, but not in general) scepticism of the claims of untrustworthy, powerful people. Those people can be reassured by thought experiments, because they're assuming dangers due to incompetence moreso than malice.

¹: I suppose an argument from game theory might, but only if they think the vaccine-poisoning enemy is in it for the long run, so the threat of the truth coming out in (e.g.) 20 years would be enough to dissuade them from something like that. If they think the enemy's plans are shorter-term, or they can afford the loss of face, I don't think there's any way to convince them short of convincing them that the industry behind “non-addictive” heroin, thalidomide (developed by a Nazi war criminal!!) and the contaminated blood scandal is totally cool and in no way out to get you.
What a clown

dagsdgfhdgdj -
“You have to go back over 60 years and even then only find issues caused by manufacturing problems, i.e., cases where not the intended vaccine was injected...”
I can't wait to see what excuse the Facebook apologists come up with in this thread.
Do you have any stats for that?
Mmm oh yeah baby, US still got the biggest boots, of course.

sluurrrrrp
> Our spacecraft aims to remove debris by docking with it using robotic arms and dragging the debris to a lower orbit

Sounds _exactly_ what ClearSpace is doing under their ESA contract.

https://clearspace.today/
EOS Price Update 08/03/2021
Think about the logic of your statement here.

You are starting from the premise that you are correct, and that any evidence against your stance is a problem because it gives the people you have up-front decided are wrong more evidence.

Wouldn't a rational person say "here's some new information, maybe I should incorporate it into my views?"
By not getting vaccinated you are pushing the onus of responsibility to society.

When you occupy a bed in a hospital for a preventable disease (like covid post-vaccine) you are a detriment to society. You are occupying precious resources because you were dumb. Just dumb. No ifs or buts - we need to start calling out stupidity again.

We already handle people occupying hospital resources with self inflicted diseases, like lung cancer or liver trouble, by taxing the shit out of cigarettes and liquor (in countries where universal healthcare is a thing). We can’t put a covid tax on people I guess, so we might as well mandate vaccinations for everything we can.

People who believe vaccines aren’t at least reducing mortality by 10x to 100x can just maintain their stupidity and become pariahs to society. I idgaf anymore. These people are dumb and I won’t waste another breath defending them. It is immediately proven from vaccination campaigns globally that the impact vaccines have is at least 10x reduction in mortality. Vaccines would be worth it even if they killed 1/2 of the numbers of covid, bout they don’t. They are a HUGE reduction.
Thank you Gollapallli, said better than I could!
Because the vast majority of factory work is not backbreaking labor. It typically involves running machines, taking QC measurements, performing maintenance, manning estops, 5s etc. Yes, there are days that suck and they can be exhausting, but most factories don't have days like that very often. Everyone knows the ones that do and it's best to avoid those plants.
YouTube to Start Paying Shorts Creators Up to $10k a Month
> Research Cannot Be the Justification for Compromising People’s Privacy

Right. Ad revenue is the only acceptable justification for compromising people's privacy.

Edit: Although research is a valid justification for compromising people's wellbeing[1]

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/06/every...
> The good news is that viruses tend to get less dangerous over time.

One notable exception was Marek's disease in chickens, where the widespread administration of leaky vaccines (which suppressed symptoms and complications but not transmission) led to the breeding of hotter and hotter strains in the vaccinated flocks, which became more lethal to unvaccinated chickens.
I feel for the people that had covid and now they are being lumped in with the unvaccinated if they choose not to get the shot on top of that.
May I please have one clarification:

The 500MB - is that per month - or once for the lifetime of the 10-year cell-"contract" of the card? (if once, how refill once depleted?)

THANK YOU FOR DOING THIS!.

(Also, while at Lockheed, our division was one of the early adopters of Groove. Sadly, we had factions who loved it and wanted to use it and factions who didnt want to change their workflows. -- As the head of IT, I liked it, although it had some quirks... it was too bad we didnt "find our groove" with Groove at the time. But the vision behind it was dope.)
Yup I live in America, and the black eye and tear gas I got from the cops last summer during the protests told me all I needed to know about the state violence that occurs in the US. Not to mention the “cops” showing up in unmarked vans and snatching people off the street, or secret prisons, or the cellular surveillance planes, or the vigilante “patrols” that continue to this day and are encouraged by the police captains.

The police state is here, and if you own guns they’ll just storm your house with a swat team, shoot your dog, and charge you for assaulting an officer.
Could you describe what you saw?
Jetpack Compose Multiplatform Alpha Released
> mechanisms in which agricultural surpluses are skimmed by the church and the feudal lord

In these games you play as the feudal lord: you control all of the money, and dictate what can be built, where. Units in the game have no agency outside what you tell them to do, and they have no resources outside what you give to them to build, and they give to you from production.
previous discussion from a year ago when first submitted:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22471355
Ostriv! It is developed by one guy and incredibly addictive.
Set in the 18th century.
I was ... until I saw the pricing then realized, ya know, VMWare is not as expensive.
I'm truly curious, for folks here that don't like the FANG (leetcode + system design) interview approach. What would you prefer:
- (framework x, language y, ....) trivia questions?
- take home type of assessments?
- make an app with X tech stack while someone else is looking over your shoulders?
- "tell me about what you are working on, and the tech stack you are using" type of conversation?

I have been in all this types of interview, and I find them to be all flawed, but I would prefer the system design type if I have to choose.
This seems like something that would have been done in the early days of refrigeration and continuously iterated on. Is there some sort of gotcha with simply condensing water like this at scale?
Everything Is a DCF Model
> On the other hand, if you have an actual model of the SQL, then it also doesn't matter whether that model is checked at runtime (dynamic typing) or at compile-time (static typing). In either case it will not allow injection attacks, if implemented correctly.

It's possible to implement anything correctly with dynamic types but the point is static typing makes it easier to do so. Static types will exhaustively check for you that certain errors aren't possible (vs tests that check a finite number of cases) + compile-time (vs at runtime when the error actually occurs on particular inputs).

> And of course the actual place where nastiness happens is the user input, and I haven't yet seen a place that can statically typecheck users. ;-). So, as you point out, you will need to do dynamic checking and sanitising of input.

It sounds like you're talking about dynamic (type) checking here when you really mean regular runtime behaviour? You absolutely can at compile-time make sure your program is going to respond in a sensible way to problematic user inputs at runtime e.g. the compiler verifies that either the user input string value will get turned into a `valid email` value at runtime or the user is asked to try again. I wouldn't call the condition that checks if the string is a valid email a dynamic type check.

I don't see how user input is different or special from any other value either e.g. it's not like you can predict what exact values are going to come from files, random number generators or from complex calculations during runtime, you just care that they're in the range you expect.
Similar quote from Steve Jobs (1998)

"That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: you have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains."
My first reaction to this headline was "Oh my god, there exists a blog that combines my 2 favorite rabbit holes: computer games and ancient history" — i.e. filfre.net and acoup.blog
Yeah, issuing the pass that doesn't differentiate between vaccinated and excluded would prevent almost all of the concern. Some people do have concerns about disclosuring health info to the government. Although the government could just buy the "anonymous" medical records and figure them out if they really wanted to.

Yeah, religious exclusions get tricky. Really the whole thing can be tricky because it comes down to philosophical beliefs of what should be mandated and for whom.

Edit: Why so many downvotes without reply?
There are a lot of new grad and junior developers who can follow instructions. There are surprisingly few who can solve problems that they haven't seen before and are able to pattern match against.

The issue isn't lowering the bar. For a new grad/junior the bar is often lowered to the point of "can you do FizzBuzz in the language we use?" (and there are a lot who can't do that).

Rather, the issue is the "we need to solve problem XYZ" and have the developer figure out how to solve it.

For example, I just finished debugging a problem of an application that would run fine in the IDE, but fail when run on the command line when packaged into a jar. It turned out that the cause was that you can't open up a File inside a .jar (but you can open up an InputStream).

It got passed to me when the developer failed to get it working and gave up on the problem. The happy path failed.

That isn't a "lower the bar" thing - the developer who wrote it can write reasonably complex code. It's a lack of problem solving of the unknown problems.

This sort of problem isn't something that is easily tested by adjusting the bar. Its a "we're graduating people who don't have problem solving skills and are finding that those skills are rare."
The principle of we will track and follow you and all your friends and contacts, but you cannot peek into our matters.
Most places I've seen use a 4 year vesting schedule, andd 50% of the RSU's vest in the last two years. So you get maybe 10-15% of your RSU's year one, 20% more the next year, then the rest in the last two years. This forces people to stick with the company likely longer than they would normally would.
Mmm yea big daddy Bezos, kindly present to me your boot and I will do it justice.

Sllluuuuurrrrp
I never said they were a "burden." I was indicating that just because you've paid off your mortgage doesn't mean living in a house is free.

I think you'll find those numbers are not especially high for a house. (As opposed to a condo which have their own fees.) My house is not especially large--but it is about 200 years old although renovated so budgeting a few hundred dollars per month for maintenance seems reasonable.

I honestly doubt that most people could get the cost associated with maintaining a house below $500/month or so.
Using several separate machines is what you have to do when your computing needs don't fit in a single computer.

Of course, the total computing power here would fit in a single x86 computer, but it can be fun to play with clustering and this might be a lot less expensive than an x86 cluster.
I mean... I found Oregon Trail fun despite dying of dysentery more times than I could count.

The thing about games is that when everyone dies, you just click the "New Game" button and try again. Failing over-and-over again in a game is allowed. In fact, I dare say that modern games don't provide enough room for failure compared to older games.
Do you need some helping hands from DevOps guys?
Townscaper and Dorfromantik are more fun for me than any city builder or Sim game.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1291340/Townscaper/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1455840/Dorfromantik/

I like them because they're _not_ rooted in realism, so they're free from the things that some days feel more like work than play (tax collection, agricultural shortfalls, physical material limits etc.).
Zabo is being acquired by Coinbase
But... I won't be ?

I'm a Brit. I have lots of family in the UK. My wife doesn't have any siblings, her mother lives in Costa Rica, and her father lives in Southern CA but hasn't visited in the 10 years we've been married (we've been there).

Perhaps it wasn't clear, but I was expecting the kid (man, at that point, I guess) to come with - there's plenty of excellent universities in the UK, and he'll even be legally able to have a beer or two...
IIRC one of the original claims was to skip libc and do syscalls manually, like Go used to do on Linux.

So listing it makes sense in that context.
Saying only positive things about a mediocre product makes him a shill.
>I would expect to be extradited to the US.

But you wouldn't expect the US to agree to deport you back to Russia as part of the extradition assurance.
Some form of the golden duo of INDEX and MATCH should do it in Excel.

I suspect you could do it with SUMPRODUCT too if the tax table contains sufficient data (e.g. for each band a lump-sum + progressive rate may be necessary) but it may still be an array equation (ctrl-shift-enter when entered, with curly braces displayed around it). I’m not in front of a PC so I can’t try to confirm.
That's not necessarily true in the used market, although it depends on where you live. Due to how the tax credits work, EVs depreciate precipitously. One the west coast, used EVs are often cheaper than used ICE cars.

You're right that range for used EVs is a significant issue, but with EVs being cheaper, the "make back the difference in gas" argument no longer holds.

Here's an example of a used 2018 Nissan Leaf (https://seattle.craigslist.org/see/ctd/d/renton-2018-nissan-...) for $20k, which ends up being $5k cheaper than a similar 2019 honda civic hatchback (https://seattle.craigslist.org/kit/ctd/d/puyallup-2019-honda...). Hondas are better cars than Nissans, but it's clear that the price gap between EVs and ICE cars has narrowed considerably, to the point that it has basically disappeared.

As another example, you can buy a 2016 Chevy Spark EV for $6k, and the car will have under 50k miles. (Example: https://portland.craigslist.org/wsc/ctd/d/hillsboro-2016-che...). You'd be hard pressed to find a 2015 ICE hatchback with under 50,000 miles at that same $6k price.
Around here a PhD holder who's nearing retirement might reach about $120,000 total comp as a teacher, sure, salary around $80-85k. Not $180k (the claimed $1k/day napkin-mathed for 9 months of work, which is actually a bit low on the days-worked-by-teachers-per-year side), but maybe $120k. A starting teacher is closer to, perhaps, $55k-$60k total comp (~$35,000 salary), and someone now around $120k total would have started way lower than that (because it would have been 20+ years ago).

Also, in lots of districts, teachers receive gradual pay cuts if they don't work toward at least a master's (it used to be easy to find districts that'd at least partially pay for education, too, but that's gotten much harder now) because you top out on the years-in scale for a bachelor's really early, the annual "CoL" increases outside that scale are under the rate of inflation (yes, seriously, it's outrageous) plus they freeze wages not-infrequently, then pretty much never make up for those "lost" years of growth.

> In California the school teachers are exempt from social security.

They are in my state, too, because the state pension plan opted out of social security (back when that was still possible) and the money goes there, instead. They don't also get to count that toward social security contributions, though, for calculating their eventual social security payments.
Given the popularity of Dwarf Fortress, I'm not sure that the author is wrong.
This is definitely the best argument for dynamically typed languages I've seen yet, but I think I have an answer. I've been reading a book on Idris called "Type-Driven Development", and I think that Idris has this exact issue figured out.

Instead of developing normally, writing code, then compiling, then testing, then raising a CR, you work with a REPL that helps you fill out parts of the code as you go. So what you can do is just type

`> :t what_is_this_type?`

where what_is_this_type is a hole for the thing you don't know how to type yet. So with this REPL based development you don't even have to try to figure out the type.

So IMHO, it fundamentally comes down to the power of the statically typed language. If you're working with Java, C++, C#, etc, type inference can help a lot but ultimately can't give you everything you want. Precisely because of that dynamic, runtime input. But if you have a functional language, like Haskell, Idris, or Clojure, you actually can precisely type that input and have something reasonable looking come out at the other end.
Wrong. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobson_v._Massachusetts
Library of Congress Copyright Public Modernization Committee Public Meeting
Newsletters like Substack?
Cost of energy
I wouldn't hold my breath on that one. Last mile ISPs are not optimizing for those traffic patterns. And there really is no incentive for them to do so.

For exampe, there's 70ms between my Verizon phone and the PC sitting in front of me on a very well connected network. The traffic goes from WNY > NYC > DC > NYC > CNY > WNY. Very much not optimal.

At the same time, AWS us-east1 is 9ms away from my desktop.