skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From that story:

>Many company leaders—nearly nine out of 10 executives surveyed by Harvard—said they know the software they use to filter applicants prevents them from seeing good candidates.
Not exactly what you want, but you can search "union" here to get a rough list: https://data.collectiveaction.tech/
And it completely distorts the fact that this was failure on so many levels. This was the student's failure to not apply themselves, the parents failure to not be involved and monitoring the results of their child's education, and the school's failure for not applying and properly maintaining the standards they should be and advancing students improperly.
Would you mind describing your stack in more detail? Did you use gRPC with Go?
I didn't say coding tests were literacy tests. You also seem a lot like somebody who has not hired people, which would explain your poor understanding of how hiring actually works.

Since my comments here don't seem to be making any sense to you, I'm not seeing the point in trying again.
Some friends owned and operated an ice cream franchise for a couple of years.
1. Employees would not show up and not call. No one would be running the store; you may have to work 10/7 or 12/7. 2. Prices are set by the national office, and may be unprofitable with local rent and local minimum wages; you have to participate in promotions and coupons. 3. You have to buy everything from central, like napkins and plastic spoons at inflated prices. 4. You might be located in a shopping mall that dictates the days and hours of operation; you might HAVE to be open twelve hours on Thanksgiving and Christmas Day. 5. An employee might leave the water running and flood the store overnight. 6. Armed robbery, shoplifting, and employees not charging their friends.
I would guess this is close to a default Apache + mod_wsgi setup, and this is one of the easiest way of hosting Python web apps, so basically achievable by anyone on HN.

I assume (based on 180 req/s for static page) that he is using mpm_prefork, where each Apache child handles a single connection. If he switched to mpm_event, which uses event loop like nginx, ~10k rps should easily be achievable, but I don't think WSGI would work with that.
Alright well I'm not a WhatsApp user, so I have a couple of questions:

In these large groups that obviously need moderation, are the moderators appointed in some way by WhatsApp, or are they like classical rooms in that the founders of the room pick the moderation team.

Also, do one to one rooms have reporting functionality and who picks the moderator that it is reported to?
Loaded instantly for me
I'm having trouble understanding what the goal is of this as well. It seems like the quick summary would be "ML-based forecasting/prediction in a box" but the readme is making all of these broad claims...
Back to where we started. Good buying opportunity
I just feel so sad reading this.

I know the article mostly talks about the mom's perspective and the school's perspective, but the tragedy to me here is that the kid is the one that truly suffers from neglect. Nobody seemed to even notice that he missed 272 days of school, they reached out for one parent teacher meeting. What psychological effect does it have on the kid that none of the adults really kind of notice when he's out of sight and out of mind?

And multiply that by who knows how many kids are skipping school just in that school without teachers even noticing, occupying some no-man's-land where they're just sort of on their own with an impression that no grown ups really care.

What's that kid's attitude going to be in life? Does he even know what opportunities may have been robbed from him?
Our research group used Apollo's for several years and the feeling that they were all one big system (which never failed) was wonderful. Not being pure Unix was the main drawback.
It's not super hard to resist using your primary Google account to tell people to kill themselves, or that you are going to kill them, or tell others in general to attack people or places.

If you own a Nest Thermostat you probably own your residence or rent relative luxury and therefore should have your life together enough to not be a dick on the internet or have an anonymous profile for your rage/hate projection.

I guess it's a problem if your ISP is truly policing you directly and you can't just vpn/proxy for whatever reason, poverty/security
What should society do with somebody who doesn't care at all about showing up for school?
C# vs. C++: Complete Comparison Between Unity and Unreal Programming Language
That is public policy in California's state controlled lands. Many of our largest wildfires have burned on federal land. There is some cooperation between state and federal authorities but there are significant differences in forest management policies.
This was part of a fox Baltimore (S.B.C) investigation. That's why. The bigger question is, how didn't she know. How can your kid go through 4 years of school and you not once check his report card or ask him if he needs help with his homework. Or ask him how school is going?
It's barely even penetrating the scalp. The needles (really better described as spikes, they have a fair amount of draft, about 20°) only puncture the strateum corneum - outer layer of dead skin cells and lipids.
Ford is responsible for manufacturing the best-selling vehicles in the US, and has been for years.
This is a pretty good summary. Note on interpretation: it links to people expressing surprise about 12 months after the shit had hit the fan.

IMHO a strong mitigation strategy includes (1) have control of your designs (be responsive to your business environment) (2) minimize vendor-specific components (replace sexy ICs with stock-components where possible) (3) keep tested alternatives on the books for major components (redundant supply chain) (4) cache parts where necessary
Apple's margins are high not because its production costs are much lower than others, but because it has premium pricing. Average cost of a new car in close to 39k USD. How much more can people possibly afford? It's easy for Apple to take the market for 100$ phones and create a market for 1000$ ones. It is much harder to find a market for 390k$ cars.
Depends on the company. Roblox, Epic, and Wube (Factorio) I'd also classify as tech. Most of the other ones are either driven by gameplay or art, though.

There's a pattern there: Unity, Roblox, Unreal, Crytek, and Epic all build platforms and game engines used by other game developers, so again, you are what you do well enough to sell to people who don't want to deal with it.
No, it was prescribed by his doctor.

Which brings up another point: some pharmacies are refusing to fill it, even when prescribed by a doctor. If you want to place the blame for people getting "horse dewormer", such pharmacies deserve part of the blame.
I'm running a crypto trading platform I'm developing on 30$ on DigitalOcean. I coded exclusively in Rust and recently added a dynamic interface to python. Today during the BTC crash it spiked at 20k events/s, and that's only incoming data.
I could go into the whole "how the system is broken" side of things, but I want to focus on the other aspect: intolerance. Intolerance of anyone who doesn't fit in.

My brother's wife is a Pediatrician. Not a teacher, but the story of rural schools is kind of the same as of rural healthcare. She is an immigrant, who studied in America, but as part of her visa, she needs to serve an "underserved area" for at least a couple of years. She's more than happy to do it.

She had a couple of jobs interviews across the country. One of them, in rural Alabama, paying $450000. But when she went there, even before she reached the hospital, she received so much hostility, she decided she didn't want to pursue it anymore. She instead took up a job in rural California, and gets paid half of what she would in Alabama, where despite being a conservative stronghold, it's comparatively better.

It's one of those things which unfortunately money cannot fix.
>“I feel like they never gave my son an opportunity, like if there was an issue with him, not advancing or not progressing, that they should have contacted me first, three years ago,” said France.

The kid didn't show up to school 272 times in 3 years, like come on.
The steps the school system claims their policy is to do sound like a reasonable start.
Ohm's Law is the first lesson in an electronics set for kids.

https://generalatomic.com/teil1/B.html

Proper EEs don't need a cheat sheet for it.
Oh I hate Google as much as the next guy, but that's not something they've shown any interest in doing.
IMO people's fascination with tech secrecy is also waning in recent years. Apple's "one more thing" reveals used to get worldwide press, now people prefer Elon tweeting Tesla & SpaceX's hardware and software prototypes literally years before launch.
How can I find companies who do that?
>This is a typical opinion of someone who never used Geos. It was garbage, it looked the part, but everything took _minutes_.

I have used both the 64 and even the PC versions of GEOS, thank you. I specified GEOS on ROM for a reason; to both free up RAM, and to speed up the OS itself, in addition to encouraging third-party development by making it a default part of the computer.
Just throw cloudflare in front it's free.
No VisiCalc on c64.
How about take a ship?
The important message there is that if you can change your problem from serving slow dynamic content to serving static content you can gain enormous performance benefits.

Whether that means actually using static sites for stuff that can be static or just properly caching expensive things. Even dynamic content doesn't have to be slow, but many CMS are seriously inefficient without a cache. I'm not really blaming the CMSes entirely here, part of that is because they need to be extremely flexible, but once you need dozens of DB queries per page it'll fall over quickly on small hardware.
Nope, website has not changed at all - speaking of the Matomo tracking; that is running on a separate server and has actually crashed!
Should we give up on kids whose parents fail to live up to our ideals?
> A second option is through the 2022 budget process...Anything remains possible during the fluid budget process...which will play out over the next several months.

> [NASA Chief] Nelson has suggested that $10 billion for a second Human Landing System be included in a $4.5 trillion infrastructure bill.

Why would we want two different landing systems?
>"I don't think the comment was mocking you really"

I did not make the top-level comment.
Re: benchmarking, sometimes the bottleneck is the machine or server that issues the requests, not the receiver that you are testing. To figure out your actual capacity, you sometimes need multiple request servers or a more powerful request server. This was the case for a project I did a few years ago. Not a critique of the blog post, just remembering something out loud

His site, https://peepopoll.com/, took about 10s to load for me. It’s also good to chart other metrics like response times while you benchmark. Requests per second isn’t the same as a low response time
The better question might be "which Linux distro's don't have perl or python installed by default" as a lot of people are working on systems where they can't just add additional packages.

Perl has been getting cut from minimal builds of distro's for a while. Default installed version of python is a bit of a crap-shoot, nevermind which modules you might happen to have available.
Just because you can use JSONB, it doesn't mean that it is as easy to work with as it is the case with MongoDB.
So if you really need a JSON store, just use Mongo.
I don't think this is as complicated or hard to understand as this journalist is making out. Any content in a messaging system can be shared by either party with third parties, even if it's encrypted end to end. Hitting the "report" button is just one example of that, sharing the last few messages with WhatsApp moderators.
> The game you are referring to is one in which you presuppose dividing people into ‘teams’.

No, you're arguing against an artifact the analogy instead of acting in good faith to understand the meaning.

Consider a game where all players are independent, but the "referee" arbitrarily chose half of the players to get an advantage. Let that be team 1, and everyone else be team 2. We got a new referee in the 2nd half, and that ref wants it to be a fair game; would it be unfair for them to acknowledging and try to correct for the 1st ref's team choices?

(Now if you argue that there is no "referee" in real life, I'm going to assume you are being willingly obstinate.)

> A non-racist solution is to support anyone who has been less advantaged in wealth building.

So socialism, totally agree, in general that is the direction we should move back towards.

But take note that you'll then have minorities who were forced to work 10x harder than their white peers say, "wtf?! I put in all that extra work to pull myself up by my bootstraps, and now you're just going to hand out success to everyone? I feel disenfranchised!"

In a "fair" race, that person who worked 10x harder than their peers should be appreciably further along in the "game". The only way to make that correction is to acknowledge the divide already drawn by the first "referee".
I know what ECS is and why it's needed for some games. But for a large group of game developers that transition was simply too overwhelming I think.

Not just the nomenclature: ECS, DOTS, Burst Compiler, SRP/HDRP/LWRP/URP.... It's an endless list of confusing terms... But moreover those concepts are not so easy to grasp and to use in code by just looking at a few examples.

After doing lots of small 'experiments' in Unity (the old way without ECS) I started to realize, that more and more I was fighting the engine, trying to use or build upon features which were half-baked, buggy or simply not developer friendly. And instead of first fixing those things Unity decided to go all in on ECS.

There came Godot, a breath of fresh air without all the cruft and without all those confusing terms. I think Unity will have a hard time in the future: On one hand there's Unreal which caters the AAA market and there are smaller engines like Godot for the indie crowd. Unity is the odd one in between.
It's true with software, too. Unless you are a programmer, it's impossible to tell if your programmers are doing a good job.

Information asymmetry is a real problem, particularly when people are selling information.
I don't have a "Do all These for a Fast Website" list handy, but here are some key points I've found can be applied to most sites:

- Make sites that are fast by default: Small bytes sent over the wire, beyond just initial page load, too. Yes, that does mean that your giant Google Tag Manager/Analytics/3rd party script is bloated. Reach out to 3rd parties about reducing their payload size, it's saved me several MB over the years. Also, not writing efficient CSS is a huge killer when it comes to byte site. Devs shouldn't "leave it just in case" when it comes to code, you have version control for a reason. And when a new feature comes out, clear out the old cruft.

- Avoid unnecessary DB calls: Obviously you need to get the data onto the page somehow, but if you can server-side render, then cache that result, you're reducing the overall calls to the DB. Also, optimizing queries to return only-what-you-need responses helps reducing total bytes over the wire

- Balance between Server and Client side: Not only are servers getting more powerful, so are client devices. Some logic can be offloaded to clients in most cases, but there needs to be a balance. Business-critical logic should probably be done server side, but things like pagination & sorting -- so long as they client will likely see or use all the data -- is fine in my book. Having 2000 rows of JSON in memory is totally OK, but rendering 2000 at once might cause some issues. Again, balance

- Hopping on the latest-and-greatest bandwagon isn't the best: Devs hate re-writing the site every 6 months, and really the newest framework might not be the best for your use case. Keep up to date with new technology, but saying "not for me" is fine.

- Don't let (non technical) managers make technology decision: See above. More often than not, C-levels want to use shiny new things they read an article about on LinkedIn once, no matter if it fits the needs of the company or not. Thankfully I've only been at one place that was like that, but while I was there it was hell. Current VP was an original developer on the site back in the early 00's, so he knows how to deflect BS for us. That VP also knows that he's outdated in his knowledge by now, so he trust the Devs to make technical decisions that are best for the company.
I have been thinking recently about the ethics of AI;

At what point do we 'allow' AI to determine actions based on perceived (programmed) *BIAS* How can one prevent any bias on an AI's ability to be deterministic.
This particular device doesn’t even penetrate al the way through the scalp, so the skull would likely obliterate these long before they reach the brain.

Motion is a problem for things that are inserted into the brain, but people have been getting DBS and sEEG implants for 30 years, and it’s manageable, though not totally solved.
>“I'm just assuming that if you are passing, that you have the proper things to go to the next grade and the right grades, you have the right credits,” said France.

I mean, she should have maybe talked to a teacher at some point over 4 years... but also why would you advance this kid to additional grades and classes? This is a failure at every level.
Is that a choice 'we' have?
> In some inner city districts there's a budget of nearly $20k per student. At that rate, a few parents could get together and hire PhD's to personally tutor their children.

It's important to consider a good chunk of the budget inflation in city districts isn't for education, because in the US, urban school systems also serve as the social service system for so many students.

Medical check-ups, meals before and after school, social workers, devices like hearing aids, physical/occupational therapy - all of this gets routed through the school system because it's the best chance of delivering these services to the students, especially those from lower income families who are frequently transient.

From the districts near me, the largest urban district is also where most students with the most severe disabilities (and most expensive needs) are sent from the whole region. Suburban and rural districts don't have enough of a population to serve their needs, so their education is centralized in the city.
Higher prices are not anti-competitive. If anything, it encourages competition because it is an incentive for someone else to come in.
Apple has been flirting with this topic for quite long and are obviously not succeeding in hitting a formula that makes sense for them, which would be a mass produced premium priced vehicle that people with too much money would prefer over the likes of expensive sports cars, teslas, and what not. It's both obvious and stupendously hard if you've never produced a car before. Tesla is basically the Apple of cars already. They raised the bar quit high for Apple to break into that market and not look like an also ran type product (i.e. like most of Tesla's competition right now).

Rumor has it they were talking to Kia at some point. That does not instill a lot of confidence. Fine cars, but sort of the equivalent of the beige boxes that Apple once competed against when IBM PCs were a thing. Munro did a review on a Kia the other day and the lack of enthusiasm for it was quite obvious. It's not that it was a bad car (he actually liked it, just not for himself) but just a bit boring, bland, and cheap. Alright if that's what you can afford. But kind of not the market Apple is after. Partnering with Kia would be the equivalent of letting Compaq or Dell take care of producing the imac in 1999. It took Steve Jobs to figure out that mess. Better beige boxes weren't the answer and he pretty much axed that first thing into his second round at Apple and rebooted what is now the most valuable company on the planet.

You can see the dilemma here. They basically lack internal skills/knowledge for building a car manufacturing operation and partnering is alien to them. So, how do you create a car with a screen and some fancy Apple experience when you've basically never build a car and your entire vision revolves around what's on that screen? Perhaps they should just outright buy their own car company and get it over with. They are certainly rich enough and there's no lack of suitable companies struggling to survive but yet still competent enough to innovate. I'm surprised they haven't already. Allegedly, they opted out of acquiring Tesla when they had the chance.
I don't like that analogy. Unlike M0 and M1, every BTC on the lightning network represents one BTC on the L1 chain. The L1 funds are locked in order to participate in L2.
If they use data science to make content decisions, and algorithms to recommend content, is that not a tech company?
Notes with a pen, on paper, very, very brief notes, graphical scribbles are good. If you think it's boring ... it will be. Time before to get your head into the meeting. Are you able to pre-visit the space? Do you get to choose a seat? W

What do you want/need from meeting? You need right mind space in order to achieve that.
They are already in financial services big time (Apple Wallet/Pay/Cash) and that can grow.
Oh man, Stellantis... It's like all the most soon-to-be-obsolete automakers decided to band together to form a last ditch effort in the soon-to-be-EV world but only made it easier to short their collective downfall. Chrysler really never even close to recovered from 2008.
Fun fact: I know a guy that has a phobia of flat open spaces.
In my opinion it isn’t so much of a lost art or lamentable accretion of useless abstractions, but an increase in the scope of what web apps do these days. Most of us aren’t working on static sites or simple CMS publishing- those are a solved problem. Instead we’re building mobile banks, diagnostic systems, software tooling, 3D games, and shopping malls. The complexity is inherent in the maturity of the web and it’s many uses, as well as its global scale. Hugs of death are rare these days thanks to better architecture and infrastructure, even though the scale of users has grown 100X.

Yes there are wildly unnecessary abstractions that are used for small sites/apps, but I would contend they are artifacts of someone who it’s trying to learn something new, and/or get promoted. I have no problem with the former.
If by "consideration" you mean it would have the effect of a flea standing in the way of a steam roller, then sure.

No major nation is going to temper it's stance on crypto in any meaningful way because of concern for El Salvador.
Just spreading falsehoods without understanding anything...nice.
GHTorrent – a scalable, queriable, offline mirror of data from GitHub's REST API
So 50req/sec. I'd hope it could handle a lot more than that!
> isn't 'special access to stuff'

> a special version of the software (at no charge IIRC)

So the accountants get it for free as long as they offer up their customers for Intuit to exploit / price gouge? That sounds pretty shady to me.
In a decade or so, I’m sure we all can fly climate neutral. But we don’t have that time. We must drastically reduce greenhouse gases now! We already squandered the time we could have used to do this the simple way without too much personal inconveniences.

It is astonishing that people just don’t get how grave the situation is, even when towns are burning to the ground. This is not something that will happen decades from now, it has already started and it will become much worse.
"IE: A monopoly" has two meanings!

Is this similar to the Word/Excel monopoly? There are many open source alternatives that do 90-95%, but still very high demand for it