skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Related question - suppose I want to create a meta search engine for myself, and I want it to be as fast as possible. What are the things I should be optimizing for?
You sure as hell don't want to pay too much tax once you are a millionaire.
Maybe I should add a few

1. Good software is carefully balanced

a good software is created when the user requirements are carefully balanced against resource and time constraints.

2. Good software is joyful to handle

A truly good software should invoke the child like playful and joyful instincts in the users.
Will Discord even be around in 20 or even 10 years or will all that information be lost? Can people find that information in the Discord by googling now?
Shades of stumbleupon.
Peter Thiel bankrolls satellite image startup HySpecIQ
Safety inspections are close to worthless for safety on a macro level (they are great if you own a BHPH dealer or are a government regulator trying to give shops a reason not to fudge emissions inspections though).

You implement mild inspection laws and they do nothing because people can just pay the fine or whatever.

You implement invasive inspections where people are rich and they do nothing because rich people already don't drive on bald tires and whatnot.

You implement invasive inspections where people are poor and you create incentives to circumvent the law and hardship among those who don't ignore the law.

Mechanical failure is a negligible cause of accidents and injury so applying lots of effort co chase something that's only a source of the minority of problems is kind of a fools errand to throw a ton of societal resources at it.

If inspections really make the roads safer it would be an insurance thing and you'd see differences in premiums that reflect differences in law, insurers setting up their own programs where none exist and lobbying states for inspection programs. You basically never even hear a peep out of them about safety inspections unless it's in the context of getting people to upgrade to a newer car with better safety tech. Contrast with intoxication, distraction and driver training which are issues that insurers and their lobbyists constantly weigh in on.
https://www.domesticshelters.org/articles/in-the-news/women-...
One of my sons just bought an '88 Celica GT and I am impressed with how much better it is than same year VW Cabrio and my first car a Caprice from same time frame.
You understand that there are about 1,000 different approaches to China that one could take and “economically cutting them off” is clearly escalating things? My impression is nobody really wants to go to war so it’s all soft power projection in the hopes some resolution (even temporary) can be found.

And you can’t view the China situation in a vacuum. It’s not like the Asia Pacific countries are all lined up perfectly, it’s all a balance between multiple countries with dozens of competing interests.

Not that I don’t disagree that the media selectively reports stories that are pushed by stakeholders with something to gain. But that’s nothing new. Listening to CNN (or any media outlet) won’t actually make you smarter.
I'm sure I speak for a lot of people, old and otherwise, when I say this:

I fcking hate* those "voice assistants" that companies use on their "support" lines, to avoid hiring actual people. Almost everyone would rather punch "1" or "2" to avoid them.

And I doubt that anyone calls them "just to chat" although maybe if I listened to the call logs, I'd be shocked.
The entry for If by Rudyard Kipling warms my heart https://genius.com/1247142
> but you get a chance to really break down the domain of a company and work with someone on how to solve bigger picture problems.

I did a very brief stint doing work that was similar to consulting, and I think this is the biggest net gain for me. I really developed skill at identifying the actual problems and solutions by understanding the domain and not simply building what a customer said they wanted built.
I'm intrigued by this experiment but I can't visualize it. What do you mean by boring results? Would combing through a library (the one with paper books) also produce boring results? What's your ideal results?
The technology may exist to recycle plastics, but at least where I live, there is No infrastructure for it to happen. So no, it isn’t recyclable in reality.

Can you point me to something that describes these closed loop systems? What you are saying sounds like a paid advertisement.
I've noticed Instagram users develop anxiety about posting (including a full-time Instagrammer who started turning down lucrative offers and gave it up).

I'll sound like a shill after mentioning it in another comment, but you could try Later.com as a way to insulate yourself from that process. Take photos. Throw them into the queue. Let Later post them, and just ignore the metrics unless you want to be responding to comments.

I take loads of photos and then hardly share them for fear of a shot not being good enough. It's definitely a thing that grew noticeably with Instagram.
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I wasn't trying to post about the effect size specifically, but about general incentives and dead ends, but if you want a specific example look no further than aspirin for myocardial infarction:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3444174/

Quote:

> A commonly cited example of this problem is the Physicians Health Study of aspirin to prevent myocardial infarction (MI).4 In more than 22 000 subjects over an average of 5 years, aspirin was associated with a reduction in MI (although not in overall cardiovascular mortality) that was highly statistically significant: P < .00001. The study was terminated early due to the conclusive evidence, and aspirin was recommended for general prevention. However, the effect size was very small: a risk difference of 0.77% with r2 = .001—an extremely small effect size. As a result of that study, many people were advised to take aspirin who would not experience benefit yet were also at risk for adverse effects. Further studies found even smaller effects, and the recommendation to use aspirin has since been modified.

Long-term aspirin use has its own risks, like GI bleeds, and the MI benefits are clearly not warranted given those risks.
> Personally, I find Deno's "zero config" approach appealing, although I do have to fight the linter's "ban-types" rule occasionally since suggested type replacements are not equivalent.

Precisely this. I'm compiling TS using `Deno.emit()`, which can be directly configured, but it would be nice to just configure Deno's linting/compiling behavior at the project level so that the same issues don't appear in VS Code with the Deno extension.
Money Stuff: Don't Buy the Bad Data – App Annie
Yeah, what we have here is a failure of the post-GenX generations to understand how things work, and to not consider the ramifications of entrusting years worth of discourse to one platform.

Because they never had to find a lengthy guide on how to implement something on a Rails blog that disappeared and took its information to the grave with it.
If Google starts showing interesting text-heavy links instead of vapid listicles and storefronts, I have accomplished everything I ever could dream of.
That's contextual. For example, as someone living outside the USA with no immigration pathways, I simply can't get a FAANG salary.
Do you think HN would be better as a forum? I definitely don't.
Nah, I'm just saying you have a lot of legacy code you're either incapable of fixing or not willing to fix. And no, not every java developer is an edge case. If that were true then no one would be able to upgrade and they wouldn't bother creating more Java releases, we'd still all be on 8. See I too can make sweeping assumptions with no basis in reality. Sorry your codebase sucks, good luck!
> I imagine the better way is to hire an experienced GC to go and check on it every day for you.

Going every day is how you check the GCs work. A good GC should probably tell you the days where it's more important for you to come and check and what you should be looking for, but being there to notice things and ask questions helps keep things on track.
Indeed, it is simply passing some dependency as a parameter.

Personally I find DI to make it harder to reason about in a sizeable portion of cases (20ish%) without actually providing a benefit.

So that makes me prefer going for rejection (Passing the result of the dependency instead of the dependency itself) or just keeping it there.

Altough, those approaches depend heavily on the rest of the codebase. (FP makes rejection relatively easy for example)
Mask people, why do you keep changing the narrative? Try a search in you favourite search engine, "masks protect the wearer" (without quotes), there you will find several results (10,000,000 on Google) most of which explain yes, of course they do, mostly from 2020. Could it be that the science is now moving against "protects the wearer"? So you retreat to the almost unfalsifiable "protects others", in the same way that the religious retreat from "God made man" to "God made the universe where evolution can happen" to "God made the conditions for the big bang"?
And that is why (as a Dutch citizen) I’m not working in the Netherlands any more.

It’d be pretty nice to move back there, but my taxes would shoot through the roof and as a citizen I’m not eligible for 30% deduction.

So those jobs they lack Dutch citizens to fill? Yeah, that’s because all those people are emigrating to places where they’re more appropriately rewarded.
You don't get to opt out of police wearing body cams when they arrest you. You don't get to opt out of public school teachers wearing body cams when they teach you.
The results are better after covid:

https://www.apollotechnical.com/working-from-home-productivi...
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> because he hasn't looked at an leetcode problem in five years

Am I the only one who feels like he could spend a week preparing and shred through any sort of reasonable algorithmic problem testing anybody would throw at me?
Last I tried you could reuse the same phone number to verify multiple accounts. There's just a cooldown period after each verification before the same number can be used again.
LMAO!!! This is a perfect example. Not surprised, in fact this is what I would expect to happen. People have no idea how difficult it is to become a good builder and make money. It rarely happens.

Stick to buying spec houses. They will always be better than a custom home because people get to examine the house before they agree to buy it. Whole world changes when you are under contract for a build/remodel.
I sincerely wish they were not necessary. However we live in a world where people are attacked, raped, and murdered with enough frequency that owning a gun to defend yourself is reasonable.
Would be great to have this as an animated globe with the changes over time.
All the countries that have greater gender equality have strict control of firearms.

(Sorry for the inconvenient facts down voters)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_Inequality_Index
Pretty sure the Taliban disagrees.
This is one of the statements I hear over and over from React devs that while technically true just glosses over the giant iceberg that is state management in React.
> more unicorns are becoming public.
but what's not spoken about a lot is how most of these companies are running on fumes. read any tech company s-1 that's posted on hn these days, high chances the company is cash flow negative. which means if investors withdraw funds the company goes belly up in a day, leaving the regular employees i.e holoi polloi holding the bag.
>A square canvas is VERY different than a rectangular one

I agree and I'm very much used to a ~35mm aspect ratio. That said, medium format film (120/220) was usually approximately square so it's not an objectively "bad" aspect ratio.
“He wanted to start using the World Passport because it’s more representative of his personal ideals and philosophies,” the representative told FP. He said Bey, whose lyrics often touch on issues of social justice, has been disheartened by the way police have treated young black men in the United States. That, and “just the whole idea of the world as being a unified place a place without borders or boundaries” made Bey prefer the World Passport over his American one. One of Bey’s recent projects reflects that belief: He has helped build A Country Called Earth, a website that uses art, writing, and music to challenge conventional ideas about borders and nationalities.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2016/01/15/mos-def-was-arrested-in...
Security by authority must be one of the worst things in 2021, perhaps they are optimizing for DevEx (or whatever) rather than security.
A 2000W inverter generator could give a Chevy Bolt an extra 14 miles of range after 3 hours of charging. A 240V generator could shorten that time or lengthen the range but would also be larger and take up more room in the car. Carrying gasoline in the back of your car all the time in case you run out of battery is somewhat dangerous. The generator means less cargo space as well. For a long trip to the middle of nowhere it may make sense to carry a generator and some gas. For a trip into town it may not.
How long would you suggest those tongs should be, to ensure a safe distance? For the ones that go bang.
I Spent My Childhood Helping My Mom Sell Dead People’s Junk (2019)
It relieves pressure so your pipes never burst!
Then those women should also buy a silencer and a bag of caustic soda.
Well, easy in case of VW: If the optimization involves checking "steering wheel has never moved out of 0 position since engine start" and "intake air is at exactly 293K", then it illegally optimizes for a test.
That crossed my mind too, considering vanilla webpages sometimes struggle with a top page HN thread, never mind a search engine backend.
This really isn't anything more than a press release
I expect they're mistakes, or people somehow convincing the border official to stamp their novelty passport.

The USA (and several other countries) issues Refugee Travel Documents when required.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refugee_travel_document
How it is the zero-copy ArrayBuffer transfer function implemented?
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Their bigger goal was to annotate everything, speeches, congressional bills, etc.

I believe one of their founders spazzed out on Vyvanse once (or that’s what he blamed it on):

https://venturebeat.com/2013/05/01/rap-genius-insane/amp/

”We take Vyvanse sometimes to turn up, at least I do. One of the reasons is I’m allergic to coffee. But also, you take one of those and it makes you feel so powerful.”

“We would do naked Adderall. This is before Y Combinator. It was just a germ. We’d stay there the whole day and work. We’d come up with fun theories. We came up with a theory that if you got a woman pregnant while on Adderall, the baby would be smarter. But only if the woman is also on Adderall.”

Lol.

I almost interviewed for them, but they insinuated they’d like you to perform a rap song in front of their team.

Pretty standard riding the startup-high unrealistic company - all doped up on speed (from their own words, and boy do I believe them).
Which world/country are you referring to?
For me, the likes on Instagram were the initial spark that encouraged me to persist with my photography and eventually made it a viable job. But I resent it now and would rather post with minimal feedback on likes/views/etc.
I don't know if it's a problem with education but more likely, deeply held implicit assumptions that aren't being articulated.

Most political disagreements fall into this category. E.g. arguments about COVID stuff are usually rooted in differences in assumptions about things like the trustworthiness of the establishment, the corrupting strength of profit, whether events are best explained as conspiracy or cockup, etc. Because they're sort of all-encompassing and vague people don't or can't easily spell them out, leading to the "talking at" not "talking with" problem. But that isn't to do with Facebook. It's inherent to humanity.
>If reason commanded the financial system, pretty much the entirety of manufactories would never had moved to South Asia. They moved not because it was in the interest of the people or the several countries, but because it was more favourable to the shareholders, and all these "businessmen" who have no loyalty to any country.

That seems... totally consistent with reason? Companies cutting costs to increase shareholder profits is totally consistent with reason. It might not be consistent with reason for the welfare for the entire country, or for the poorest, but that doesn't mean it's not reasonable.
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That would have been 3 years before they officially became part of the Schengen space.
Because countries have specific laws about what constitutes acceptable documents for entry into a country and the usually include things like “issued by a countries recognized and lawful issuer of passports”?

Most immigration decisions are negotiated and often reciprocal (you give me visa free travel, I’ll give you visa free travel).

Unless a document is specifically recognized as issues from a non-state entity (e.g. UN refugee passports) they aren’t valid travel documents anywhere.
Evergrande's possible collapse threatens China's real estate market
This is subject to prudential judgement and not categorical a priori commitment. First, are the people in question actually refugees? The EU migrant crisis a few years ago wasn't that. It was unrestricted migration. It was a shit show of mind-boggling political stupidity.

Second, you must prioritize the good of your country. What is your realistic capacity for taking in refugees before your country is harmed? On what basis and on what terms are they being admitted?
First sentence of the article, emphasis mine:

> Close to half of all new U.S. gun buyers since the beginning of 2019 have been women, a shift for a market long dominated by men, according to a new study.
Could it? The article says:

> For decades, other surveys have found that around 10% to 20% of American gun owners were women.

~15% -> ~47% is a pretty notable demographic shift IMO. Imagine if the same shift happened for new software engineers.
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No, it is a fake passport. While you may be denied entry, you may end up in a bit more trouble depending on whether the custom officials recognized you were playing a joke on them or whether they thought the document you were presenting was a real passport.
Since Netflix serves (relatively) few but extremely large files, would you recommend using this stack for a typical web server (serving lots of small files)?
Cybin Becomes First Psychedelics Company on the NYSE
Engelbart is a genius ahead of his time - at a time computers were huge boxes only used for corporations and government, he introduced the concept of personal computing and showed how powerful a GUI can be.

People often credit Xerox PARC and Steve Jobs for popularizing the GUI, but to me Engelbart, as an academic, deserves more credit than both.

The Mother Of All Demos (1968)
https://youtu.be/yJDv-zdhzMY
Most of these live programing exercises are far too demanding when you consider the stressful environment and the time pressure that candidates are under. It selects for a certain kind of fresh-out-of-uni candidate who has been solving puzzles every week as part of their assessments. Once you've been out of university for almost a decade, some things fade from memory and you need more time to solve those puzzles because you can't rely on your 'muscle memory' like a recent graduate can.

These puzzles say nothing about a candidate's problem solving ability, they're just monkey tricks that can be rehearsed.

Who is smarter; a candidate who can solve a Rubik's Cube after seeing it for the first time or someone who has rehearsed it hundreds of time and knows the algorithms? It's not even fair to compare these two people, the former is unequivocally a very intelligent person and the latter could potentially still be an idiot... This is true even if the second person could solve it in one tenth of the time in front of an audience while blindfolded and riding a unicycle across a plank suspended in mid-air above crocodile-infested waters.

And this barely scratches the surface of what's wrong with tech companies' hiring processes. This puzzle-solving ability is overvalued and the ability to design/architect good systems (I.e. seeing the big picture and using common sense) is extremely undervalued.
I’m going to start using fake money. It’s more representative of my personal ideals and philosophies.
I dont think that's communicating the same trend.
The recent wave of hiding old Usenet groups from their DejaNews archives because the algorithm now says no is a perfect example.
Maybe this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1NxuK2pAQE

A street performer playing the drums by throwing the sticks. It's actually a very simple drum pattern, but the thythm is mint :)
There's legitimate gripes you can have with news, but you can't say they don't literally send a person out to conduct interviews and whatever. "Fake news" isn't just less precise or some subjective quality issue about the internals of the organization There is no internals. That's the part that's fake.

Fake news is like the man at the store told you it wasn't ticking because it just needs to be wound up, wouldn't let you take it out of the box, and you got home with it to find the dials are painted on and the inside is a few coins glued together. Whatever legitimate gripes one may have about Rollex cutting corners, it would be laughable to pretend like the time on their dials is just as useless as the ones painted on the fake watch and really its all just an opinion which one is "real".

What do you call something that looks deceptively like a watch but is actually just a prop? I'd call it a fake watch. What do you call a website that looks deceptively like a news organization but is actually just outrage headlines made from mad libs for clicks? I sure wouldn't call it real news.
Whether you’ve decided to build a CRM system or a SaaS system for your eCommerce business, it’s important to look at existing ecommerce crm software. By evaluating popular CRMs, or customer relationship management systems, you can capitalize on industry trends, see what your competitors are doing right, and see where they’re going wrong. This will help you meet users’ needs, stay relevant, and better understand users’ expectations.
https://steelkiwi.com/blog/ecommerce-crm-software-examples/
Javascript tags are penalized the hardest, but it also takes into consideration density of text per HTML. There's also some adjustments based on text length, which words occur in the page, etc.
This thread is about how Volkswagen claimed their cars were safer than they were.
Looking at the US Constitution, IP law should be designed to heavily encourage innovation. I would think that the actual details of law would reflect that rather than maximizing the value of an idea to it's owner.

To be fair, the current results should have been predictable. A small, finely focused and self-interested group can usually defeat an unruly mass.

>I would note that my ventures are in the area of atoms and not bits :)

Good for you. My own bias and personal experience highly tends towards that, including US manufacture. Thinking about the article at the top, I wonder sometimes what the 'economy' even is anymore. I tend to distrust articles on it as all the news tends to involve internet-based FIRE 'industries' and surveillance marketing startups. I'm not feeling the love for those segments.
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This is assuming that they could have created profits early enough to support them, which might not have been the case (then maybe it means that this shouldn't have been a business at all, but that's another question...)