skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think the suggestion is that a country "needs" to take away freedoms as it grows larger or more diverse. It's just that a larger and more diverse country is simply more likely to have to grapple with tensions between different groups of people. This may lead to some freedoms being challenged.
If you designed a semester-long microstartup course targeted to fresh CS grads, what does the syllabus look like?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_David_Steele

> Steele stated in an interview with Alex Jones that NASA holds a colony on Mars populated by human slaves who were kidnapped as children

> claim[ed] that the 2020 presidential election was rigged and called COVID-19 a hoax

> died of COVID-19 in Florida on August 29
I'll be honest I'm not entirely sure what this article is meant for? I was almost expecting it to end with Nick's resume to let people reach out to hire him, but the impression I got from the article was that he's currently employed remotely. The difficulties he describes are basically just getting ghosted by interviewers, and having to ask/beg for more responsibility to his higher ups. I'm sure things are more difficult for him overall with his lack of sight, but the things described in this article are...exactly the same experiences I've had with interviews and bosses, and I don't have the same problem as him (I am actually physically disabled, just not in a way that so drastically impacts my life).

The article never tries to get Nick hired, it never really goes into any depth in his challenges, never talks about HOW he's a developer without sight (I would LOVE to hear about that, sounds fascinating!) It just rambles on a bit in a feel-good "isn't he so brave" tangent that I feel like does him a disservice -- the dude's just trying to live like the rest of us and seems to be doing a decent job of it from what little I was able to gather from the article.

Bravo to you Nick, keep up the good work, and don't let anyone take advantage of your condition in either a good OR bad way. The one time I did any kind of interview it focused VERY heavily on my condition despite having nothing to do with the topic, and I regretted letting anyone interview me in the first place and probably won't again. Nick may be different than me in this respect, but if someone published this article about me, I would be rather insulted by it. If he isn't, then more power to him.

EDIT for opportunity:
If there are any blind devs on HN who happen to screen-read this comment, I would LOVE to hear about how your dev setup works! I saw a talk at Strange Loop one year about voice-based development that was AWESOME[1] and ever since then I have been interested in how other people do their work in non-standard ways. Email in my profile if you want to share, or if there are blogposts that works too!

[1] https://www.thestrangeloop.com/2019/voice-driven-development...
If by "worked" you mean pissed off everyone and ruined your reputation and career, sure!
How do you manage taxes? Have you dealt with a lawsuit?
Data Analytics in the Combatant Command
For sure. Its rather convenient for Moderna that the vaccines will probably need to be re-administered every year. Which isn't to say that it could be better, just that it isn't, and that's very convenient for them; I bet the creators of the once-and-done MMR vaccine are shooting themselves in the foot, think of how much money they're missing out on.

Or, jeeze, even one dose every year isn't enough! That's very convenient for Moderna. You need two, maybe even three of them. Why not four? Well, hold on there, the science says its two. Until you start digging in to why, precisely, its "two" at "Xmcg dosage" spaced "Y weeks" apart and you realize that the "science" was really only a byproduct of their phase 3 trials, which were rushed, encountered different variants of COVID, and all sorts of other variables. The paperwork was justified with science; science does not justify the paperwork.

Incredibly convenient for Moderna's shareholders how the Federal government is now mandating that everyone in the United States who, I don't know, wants to, you know, work, now has to get vaccinated. Well, Moderna and Pfizer. You get two choices, really, and that means there's competition. Apple or Google. AT&T or Verizon. Moderna or Pfizer. Take your pick.

Its normal to look at this situation and feel an existential dread about our society's future. How its looking more and more likely that we're spiraling toward some dystopian cyberpunk blade-runner judge dredd-esque corporatocracy. Democracy is dying, if not already dead. But, those fears are absolutely unfounded, because they would require that human society be able to survive the next killer virus, global warming, decreasing male fertility, critical supply-chain shortages due to an increasingly global trade network, global nuclear or non-nuclear war, hyper-inflation in an IMF reserve currency, democratic political polarization...

Really looking forward to the new Dune movie though. That should be good.
As just one example, a few years ago our company changed parental leave to 4 months from 6 weeks. Is that making them the same or more money?

I think companies do things like Unlimited PTO because although it may mean some people take more leave than before, other people take the same or less and there's no liability, so it may net out roughly the same but sounds better to new hires.

I don't think every company is extremely cynical as you're suggesting. As others here have mentioned, it depends where you work - we don't bat an eyelid if people are using 4-6 weeks plus holidays, in fact we check to make sure people are actually using their PTO.
Whatever system you are talking about doesn't exist, not in the way you described at least.
You have an NDA in place so they don't take the core of your idea through demos, having people with know how to reverse engineer?

Not sure how much of a concern this is. Depends on your relationship and such
Subselene: Lunar nuclear powered melt-tunneling for high-speed transit tunnels
>because locked-down people consume more Facebook.

Do they?

If it's all about the money, my guess would be Facebook has lost out on ad revenue, because a lot of the ad payers don't have customers.

There's still a third possibility, they're making some moral decision, although that's hard for me to believe given the company's past decisions. Maybe the lost revenue has made them make a moral decision?

It could always be a combination of these reasons, and I'm sure there's others I haven't accounted for.
Ask HN: How do I get fit and healthy as a software engineer?
Looking for tips to live a healthier lifestyle. I am a software engineer that spends pretty much all day at my desk.

While I have normal weight, I have literally no stamina or endurance to exercise. I have tried both cardio and weights, but nothing ever seems to stick. I am battling burnout so that makes this even tougher

I mainly want become fit enough to run 5ks / half marathons by the end of this year and just feel healthy and fit in general for being able to do more outdoor stuff like hiking. (If it matters I gender identify as female.)

Also looking for tips on good diet plans or other tips for living a much healthier lifestyle.
So if I want to see you naked, TikTok will show me it?

It's disappointing to see folks in hacker news regurgitate TikTok marketing material as fact credulously. No service could show you precisely what you want to see. TikTok does it's best - but e.g. if I want to see no staged video, TikTok can't enforce this, because TikTok doesn't know.
So you're saying that covid measures wouldn't exist if there were more guns, and that would be a good thing?

Maybe the remarkable low covid rates are there because of the authoritarian pressure? Authoritarian is never a good word but if people simply won't listen when it comes to matters of public health (that affect everyone - an overflowing ICU is never a good thing) and thus endanger the health of others then they have to live with the consequences. It's not a matter of politic, opinion or ideology.

The suggestion that this should be responded to with guns is just the most perfect own goal.
I always think these comments are super interesting because they rarely list what they are talking about, instead railing against opaque system-words like "ordained" or "established", and countering with innocent or positive words like "medical treatment".

This causes me to never be able to tell if I'm reading genuine frustration with the process of science or indeed just general quackery.

Maybe it would be good to list specifically what frustrations you have with what medical treatments and why. At this point I can only be sure it's not homeopathy.

But, you know, of course it's not homeopathy...

...energy stones though, that shit is legit.
I have a company setup, so everything related taxes is setup through it. No lawsuit so far .
How are you making the metabase<-->steampipe connection? Are you able to connect metabase directly to a running steampipe/ postgres server instance? or are you doing some ETL into metabase. Thanks in advance (metabase is new to me, but steampipe has been really handy)
That doesn't make any sense. There are so many government laws and regulations that affect our day-to-day lives, it would be impossible to list them all. You have to get a driver's license to drive a car and wear a seat belt while you're driving it, you can't drive if you've been drinking alcohol, you can't buy alcohol unless you're 21 and you can't do it between the hours of 12am and 8am or on Sundays, you must vaccinate your children before they reach school age, you must put your children in a car seat until age 7, you can't download that song you found for free on the internet, you can't run your own poker table at your house, you have to get a permit before you can make alterations to your house...

This is even ignoring the massive set of additional laws and regulations you have to comply with you if you own a business.
Thanks mate! I usually spend around 5-10 hours per week
What's the fix for the victims here?
I don’t understand where the “paradox“ part comes in:

You have a mind and are conscious. You now create a copy of your mind and let it run on some other hardware, e.g. the teleported body. You are still conscious in your old body and a new entity is created in the other body. You can also create ten new copies, with ten consciousnesses , you will still be conscious in your old body. You now destroy your body - you’re dead.

I surely don’t think Kirk has a great job.
Go spend a few minutes on his Wikipedia page. You might come away with a different opinion.
Cool, congrats on the success! With that amount of traffic and payments, do you encounter credit card fraud? How do you deal with it?
Interesting question.

Maybe one answer can be 1) a public automatic tests repository, 2) release channels, 3) incompatibility auto warnings, and 4) organization internal tests.

1: (for plugin developers) The plugin developers could write automatic tests of their plugins, save them in a plugin-auto-tests source code repository, which the Talkyard developers then would run as part of the Continuous Integration builds (which happens many times more often than new version releases).

The plugin developers would get notified about plugins getting broken, before new Talkyard versions had been released. And could either fix those problems, or tell the Talkyard developers to "please don't do that change at least not now".

2: (for plugin users) Talkyard has release channels (inspired by Kubernetes [1]) — there's a Rapid, a Regular and a Stable channel. (Currently only a Regular channel.) One's Talkyard site could stay on the Stable channel, meaning, there'd be about half a year between the day when a plugin problem got noticed, and a new Talkyard version had been promoted to the Stable channel. That ought to be enough time to have done something about plugin breakage. (Security bug fixes, though, would get added to the Stable release channel, as soon as sensible.)

[1]: https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs/concepts/rel...

3: (for both developers and users) There's an automatic notices system in Talkyard. If a plugin uses deprecated functionality, Talkyard can show a warning to the Talkyard forum admins, and then they can decide what to do. Maybe contact the plugin developers? If they don't reply in a month, try finding a new plugin? Contact Talkyard and ask them to take over mainenance of the plugin? (These incompatibility auto warnings are less-noise than subscribing to new-releases-announcement emails, because these warnings would inform you about only the deprecated functionality the plugins on your site use.)

4: If it's super important that a plugin won't break, then the organization could setup a test environment with at a Rapid release channel version of Talkyard. Then they could do their own internal private tests of new versions, about half a year before they'd appear in the Stable channel.

If all these (at least 1-2-3) were in place, I'd think that theoretically, yes plugins could still break. But maybe it would no longer be the right thing to "worry" about. (Auto upgrades are optional, b.t.w., and enabled by default.)
Everyone has a price, old saying but it's basically true especially for life changing, generational wealth level money and all they had to do is sign on the dotted lines
Congratulations! What kind of corporate structure do you use for your microbusinesses? Delaware LLC? Also are you based in the USA?
I assume GP's fix is, "Don't accept below-market pay."
Jesus, even Mac OS with its similar design supports that
What's your playbook for identifying worthwhile ideas to start developing?

Any ideas you thought had great potential but turned out mediocre / failed? And vice-versa?
Various people tried the PC+ scheme in the US and had limited success. Tandy probably came closest.

Sinclair and Acorn were extremely ambitious. Acorn even sold an NTSC conversion of the BBC Micro in the US for a short time. My theory is they were undercapitalized.
Here's a question for you from somebody that does _not_ know SEO at all. How good / close to the state of the art is Moz these days?
If it's your first job, then sure maybe.

I've done something similar, walking off a bad job at the most critical time they needed me. Would you like to know what happened? I used one of my many other references, and within two weeks I had a job for 20% more money making six figures. Your value isn't attached to what some idiot CEO thinks of you.
Treasury Dept. Seeks to Track Transactions of Personal Bank Accounts over $600
Seems like a fairly modest return for creating one of the first top performing vaccines for a global pandemic. Even if you disregard all the other mRNA R&D they do.
I find the APIs bewilderingly complex. Typically takes me a lot trial and error to get things working. For example Lambda. Even S3, which I find to be one of the easiest APIs to use took several attempts to get basic things working.

I do understand that the complexity, including the authorization subsystem, are necessary in the long-term. But when you are just trying to whip something up to test an idea, I find it frustrating.
I was wondering if the old curse afflicting Microsoft that makes every other version of Windows broadly hated was going to happen again.

Given the current amount of criticism, apparently it's happening again.
Thats an interesting one which i have never thought about. So it would divide into 4 chapters and go in details for each

- Problems to solve

- Poduct/Solution

- Growth/Marketing

- Pricing/Business Model

- Audience/Users

Then at the end have assingment to build a microstartups based on whats learnt!
The whole point of being an employee rather than a contractor is to have a stable income and not run the risk of e.g. suddenly having no money because you're sick for months. (Speaking as a European who would expect legally protected sick pay as a matter of course)
This. It's as dormant as gnu ls.

It does what its users need to to do. I use it at least a few times every day. I have no "features" I wish it had. I don't want an "update" or a "new version".
i assume they are labeling the employees that did not get a big payout as a victim because of the lack of equity in the compensation.

But presumably, the employees are told that they won't get equity, and their cash compensation is high enough to make up for it.
A categorized list of all Java and JVM features since JDK 8 to 17
Question: If defi loans are fully collaterized, what is the use of defi besides betting on other crypto assets?
Probably illegally misclassified as exempt, you mean.
Do you write everything yourself? Do you write the backend in python/ruby/whatever and then use Java/Kotlin for Android and Swift for iOS or do you use a framework like Flutter to generate apps for both ecosystems?

I know how to write backends and APIs across a few languages but I really hate the walled gardens and can't even enjoy writing code for a single ecosystem vs. just writing more logic in a Rails controller or something (to further a project)

Just curious - good job getting things deployed and actually catering to niches!
Art of the Title: West Side Story (1961)
Ruby is still an amazing language

Rails needs some help
None of this has to do with what I asked you. What do you think the driver is for the violent crime rate in Argentina that doesn't apply to the US?
what keeps the lazy person lazy is an incentive: if you do not work people who do it pay for it and governors give them your money by their vote. Full stop.

It is this. Nothing else.

And I mean the lazy. I understand there are other kind of people that are broke for other reasons.
Yes, i have unfortunately, i have to pay from my pockets sometimes but stripe has been very good.
Spotify was pretty snappy in the early days, I guess a decade ago now. Current iteration boots up in 3 minutes and is unnavigable. Went back to Winamp and occasional usage of the web player.
why would you trust a vpn with servers in mainland china?
You must be new here. I think you’ll be quite disappointed by the rest of HN posts - rarely are they earth shattering.
...by people who have a reason to look at it.

What is it about Fortran’s control flow that makes you think it’s particularly hard to read? Say, harder than Python? Note that people don’t generally use computed GOTOs any more.
Jingjia Micro Tapes Out JM9-Series GPUs, Aiming for GTX 1080 Performance
Please dont prick the right wing narrative of "homogeneous culture" which is a dog whistle for "racial segregation amongst countries".
I actually looked into it. They are smart on this and won’t sell to you.
or to look at it another way, how low the reward is for genuinely world changing things vs fluff
How do you find things worth building?
> Sick for months? I'm not worrying about whether my PTO qualifies or whatever. I just don't get paid.

How is that different from quitting or taking an unpaid sabbatical and hoping the job still exists? I mean, your clients may have found a new contractor in those months.
> What does this mean? How would it link to their main account in anyway, regardless of this request?

Git adds some author information to each commit [1]. You can set those values project by project, and you can also set them globally.

To set a name and email to default to on all repos, you'd do this:

`git config --global user.name "Topsoil"`
`git config --global user.email "topsoil@example.com"`

To set different committer info for a repo, you'd run the same commands without the `--global` flag while in the root directory of the project.

When this person got re-interested in their project, they decided to squash all the commits into one new commit, but forgot to change their name and email on the repo and as a result exposed their real identity when they published the code on GitHub.

I had to look up what f-list was, and it seems to be some kind of furry role-playing community? (i didn't do any research other than briefly looking at the first page of google) so i understand why this person DCMA'd themself.

[1] https://git-scm.com/docs/git-commit#_commit_information
Because, either they are a common carrier or they aren't. If they are a common carrier, they shouldn't be deciding, but they are also not liable. If they are not a common carrier, they can do what they want, but it carries done liability. Problem is, they want it both ways, decide and have no liability.
Appreciate your being candid about your revenues.

Since you are quite transparent and forthcoming about your revenues, I urge you to take it a step further. It would be very helpful if you could share a screenshot from your payment processor to substantiate your revenue claim. Could you do that please?
Yes, GitHub support is pretty bad. I have an alt account that I want to log into that I can't remember the exact <myemail>+<suffix>@gmail.com I used to register the account. They won't tell me what the email address is, I can't prove to them I made the commits on the account, no matter how much information I give them. The only recourse I have is to wait a certain number of years when GitHub classifies the account as dormant and then I can request the account be reclaimed due to it having the username I prefer (my name).

I completely understand the security reasons for not leaking any information such as the email address but come on, I already know the password to the email if I could send a password reset and every other related piece of info, etc. They won't even send a password reset on my behalf. All I ask for is the email address. I didn't activate any advanced security features like 2FA on the account.

In addition, they take around a week or more to respond to the contact form, so disregarding my specific situation entirely, their response time is a bit meh
Circumstances changed. They promised to never sell based on their perception of how circumstances would evolve even in the most ambitious scenario at the time, I’d imagine.
For implementing ye olde business logic, which is far more common in software development than cool tech such as ML that is discussed a disproportionally high amount compared to its real-world usage, Ruby on Rails wins. Sure, there are lots of frameworks that are good for shipping business features quickly, but Ruby on Rails is still among the leaders of that group due to concise code, magical defaults that give you a boost, an excellent ORM, view helpers for sooooo many common scenarios and edge cases that the JS world is still playing catch-up to, etc. And a lot of the new defaults in Rails 7 are aimed at reducing complexity and rescuing developers from the insanity of front-end development.

Great for CRUD, yes, but plenty more than that. Soooooo many apps don’t need to wrestle with a huge amount of data or even a data warehouse or analytics or a data lake or any data science or anything requiring even a blazing fast query time on a super complex gnarly data model, and most of those would ship faster by using Rails, and be easier to maintain as well.

But the devs don’t tell management that……
Is this message inspired by some sort of recent news?

Because Linux Still has good support for non-amd64 arches. The x86 support is there - you cannot use Ubuntu but Debian is fine, Chrome does not work but Firefox does. And there is growing support for ARM machines, too.
Calculator Forensics
What’s your stack? Do you see yourself making a master class out of this or at least a YouTube channel?
So 13% native black population, a higher percentage native born Hispanic population, multiple generations of multiple different Asian cultures, these dont count? Why?

All your metric does is demonstrate who began allowing immigration first.
Yes, although Qt is licensed under both the (L)GPL and a commercial license, The Qt Company does things such as making the current v5.15 LTS branch commercial-only when v6.0 was released. See https://www.theregister.com/2021/01/05/qt_lts_goes_commercia...
Called covid a hoax. Died of covid. Checks out.
How did you market them