skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why did you dodge the question of what is more damaging to the world? I mean you have the freedom to protest? yes. Have those wars not happened anyway? Wasn't it an elected government that started them? and millions died? What are you trying to say?

I won't talk about minorities in China, that is a separate issue and I won't pretend to know. Trade deals, military ramp-up, and wars, on the other hand, are relevant to inter-nation-al politics. I was contemplating bringing up immigrant camps and the war crimes in Afghanistan, but's they aren't really rellevant either and would drag me down to your level of discourse.

I didn't call you out, but since you just kept going, you do realise you were not making any argument and simply labeling? These are the same words used by CCP, you're from a communist country bla bla. You're representing the intellect of the Australian public very well.

By the way, that's how personal attack feels.
Part of what I don't get so to speak,

is why there we haven't seen the feds stepping in via the transportation agency to develop and regulate exactly this, with appropriate attention paid to commercial, personal, and emergency vehicle travel.

The opportunities there appear boundless and the mechanisms for stimulating development equally so...

I really don't get it. Then I think about DiFi and I kind of do.
What part of it is hysteria and panic? Over 600k people died in the US alone.
> Completely pales next to something as egregious as disposable tech that sells in the millions and only has a lifespan of 2 years tops like AirPods.

Does it? Assuming the claim is accurate, 30700 metric tons per year. Apple sells around 200 million iPhones per year. Assuming 200 g for a phone, that's 40000 metric tons.

Edit: I was off by a factor of 10, corrected. The overall smartphone market is likely approximately 10x of Bitcoin, assuming this study is correct, 200g per device, 1.5 billion devices per year (from https://www.statista.com/statistics/263441/global-smartphone...)

Also, 1.5 billion smartphones per year is incredible. Unless there are many people who break/upgrade their phone several times per year, that means a much bigger fraction of humanity now has access to a computing device and likely also to the world's knowledge than I thought.
I will never understand why anyone would want to use a compiled language to do front-end development.

The beauty of JS and especially the beauty of ClojureScript is that you can immediately see the effects of your work in an interactive environment. Using the right libraries you can have true hot reloading without destroying state giving you a terrific, fast, fluid development experience.

What are acceptable compile and reload times for you guys loading WASM?
Personally, and I have no idea how to implement this, I think any charity that attempts to influence the political opinion of its members should lose their charitable status.

In the UK, Eton, the most expensive, exclusive public school in the country, is a charity, largely because it was set up to educate the poor, something it hasn't done, modulo a few bursaries, for some time. That needs to end.
As someone who had a bit of a YouTube hobby and is trying to get back into it, I've generally found that the algorithm brings me a larger audience than I would have otherwise. I've published three videos in the last 28 days, and my analytics says I've gotten 5200 views across all my content in that time. I have about a hundred subscribers. Search is still king, but 15% of those views have come from suggested. I've got a 7.8% CTR so it's suggesting it to quite a few people.
My CS curriculum at school was basically data structures and algorithms in C++. I really appreaciate that that's how I got started and I think it made things easier later on.
Sure, but the problem that conventional IR ranking functions are not meaningful other than by ordering leads you to the dismal world of political economy where you can't aggregate people's utility functions. (Thus you can't say anything about inequality, only about Pareto efficiency)

Hypothetically you could treat these functions as meaningful but when you try you find that they aren't very meaningful.

For instance IBM Watson aggregated multiple search sources by converting all the relevance scores to "the probability that this result is relevant".

A conventional search engine will do horribly in that respect, you can fit a logit curve to make a probability estimator and you might get p=0.7 at the most and very rarely get that, in fact, you rarely get p>0.5.

If you are combining search results from search engines that use similar approaches you know those p's are not independent so you can't take a large numbers of p=0.7's and turn that into a higher p.

If you are using search engines that use radically different matching strategies (say they return only p=0.99 results with low recall) the Watson approach works, but you need a big team to develop a long tail of matching strategies.

If you had a good p-estimator for search you could do all sorts of things that normal search engines do poorly, such as "get an email when a p>0.5 document is added to the collection."

For now alerting features are either absent or useless and most people have no idea why.
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The world no longer needs conglomerate record companies. Their antiquated business model is not a valid reason government should step in to protect them. The barrier to entry for artists making and releasing/monetizing music has never been lower. The artists can just make music at home and bootstrap themselves, no investment needed.
It's a good metric to give because the whole concept of climate refugees seems to be something people often haven't even considered. We seem to have grown so used to this modern sedentary lifestyle that we forget that migration is what humans do, what we have adapted to do, when conditions become inhospitable. Especially if the alternative is to give up and die.
The overwhelming majority of high-growth technology companies recognize a net revenue loss going into IPO. The purpose of the IPO and prior VC rounds is to finance a strong company & product, and more importantly, help win enough market share early enough in the sector's lifecycle to recognize a full or partial monopoly over the space.

The fact Gitlab are recognizing a loss at IPO could have been predicted at the company's inception.
Obligatory: My statements are my own and do not reflect the opinions of my employer. I'm not going to name that employer, but let's be honest, I can't stop you from figuring it out if you really want.

> Are there any big shops that have converted to 100% (or almost 100%) GitLab?

We use a combination of GitHub, GitLab, and Azure DevOps across the various SW Eng orgs in our company.

On GH, we split across both GitHub.com and internal GitHub Enterprise instances. There's been some shift to put everything on GH.com, but GH Actions for private repos are kind of busted, and it's really causing us problems. Staying on GHE is less painful for some of our orgs. Some teams use Jenkins instead of Actions, which is, as the kids say, "a whole mood".

Our GitLab-using orgs generally have tighter CD integration. As much as I prefer the GH UX, I have to admit GL has a much smaller gap between "I have an idea" and "my implementation is now CI-ed, CD-ed, and published to Artifactory".

Our ADO using orgs have an even smaller gap. Seriously. If you've never used ADO, you'd be impressed by how easy it is to get a full build pipeline set up in minutes. That is, as long as you stay on the garden path. These teams also have the hardest struggles when they stray off the path. (But my intuition here is that this isn't definitively an ADO problem and might actually come down to the skill sets of those teams.)

All told, we're several hundred engineers across these solutions. By my rough count, the total number using GitLab may be a hundred or so. They really like it, and it suits them very well.

(And before anyone says "omg why do you have so many solutions", the Eng efforts at our company are thoroughly distributed instead of consolidated. And, at least at an executive level, there's currently more faith in "right tool for the job" than in "alignment". For now.)
Not that I disagree — it's rather steep — but not super unlike many react/vue based sites.

Frameworks like Next.js can help by adding seamless server side rendering so at least your links will work before your js/wasm is loaded. Maybe seed-rs can move into that direction as well.
Ask HN: Are you supposed to appear dumb during interviews?
Hello HN,

It might appear as a strange question, but after failing so many interviews with Goog, FB, Aws and few more similar companies - It's what I'm about to conclude. Now, I've a pool of interview questions. So, when I ask them those questions, they really don't have credible answers. So, not sure, how they are judging me.

I'm starting to believe - if as an interviewee, you come across as smarter, the interviewer might feel threatened and may fear that - if they select you - then you might progress faster than them. So, it's better for them to reject you.
Read it again, you seem to have missed the point. Those "few lines from The Clash" are used to discredit what I call panic porn, they do not target an entire scientific area of study. Also notice that The Clash was proclaiming the ice age is coming, referring to the then-current ice age scare.

The scientific method can not work when extremes are used to attract attention, this eventually has the opposite effect of numbing the populace to yet another dire prediction of the coming collapse.

It is disheartening to see how (some?) people at this forum are wont to discredit anyone who does not follow the current narrative. This is neither rational nor objective, it is emotional and subjective.
Wasn't this the promise of Java? I like your optimism though.
You can not say that climate change caused them in the same way we don’t say that God caused them.
So in your argument, even smart well intentioned people who disagree with these public policies are spreading misinformation? You are asserting that everybody who disagrees is wrong and harmful to society, correct?

Because I don’t think that such a thing promotes healthy, much needed dialog. The idea that any criticism or skepticism of the core tenants of the last year and a half of public policy is misinformed ramblings of crazy people…
Why can't he sue them? Just because he made a post does not prevent him from suing Atlassian?
You fed the questions back to the interviewers?
This seems to happen to nearly every company after the founder leaves.
Who can edit that page? https://git.drupalcode.org/
BASIC can be quite powerful. The version on the Sinclair QL was ahead of its time, for example.

For modern BASIC, you have some interesting choices such as EndBASIC, which is written in Rust and which has some very cool features:

https://jmmv.dev/software/endbasic.html
I grew up with many versions of BASIC, the best ones I used were Locomotive BASIC and GFA BASIC. Today's BASIC languages, like FreeBASIC, don't feel like the old BASICs anymore. Furthermore, the power of BASIC in the 80s was that it was on almost every home computer, but that is no longer the case. I think today's equivalent of BASIC is Python.
So we're fucked?
Well, 2.7 from here would be likely not a good thing.

That said, why should we generously assume the models are correct? Because, despite the hundreds of lines of hand-waving in this topic, they have not proved to be correct.
Thanks for the post.

You mention nocode tools? Such as what? Is that only for landing pages?

Seeing Java and swift are used for mobile app dev? Are you using accelerators or templates to speed it up and if so from where?

What tech do you use for identity, user store and authn/ authz? Related to that is what tech handles your subscriptions?
Absolutely agreed, but events like one-off secondaries can somewhat distort the numbers in that they put costs that should be amortized over many in years into a single quarter. You see similar at big cos 6mos after IPO when everything vests.
Years back as OSM was fading and the v1.0 of mapbox started rolling out my pedestrian view of the space was that we were seeing the endgame unfold

It's insane to see the levels of depth still to plunge - this is incredible documentation and a very cool project

PS - I'd upvote twice if I could for incorporate of cthulhu mythos!
from the past interviews
It’s also terrible, thankless work, if you don’t charge an arm and a leg people think it’s worthless work.
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I don't really understand SPACs. Is there a good article explaining what they do and why you take them instead of going public directly. And what happens to those SPAC shares now if you bought some?
How many predictions not coming true, and there have been so many, will it take for people to become skeptical of these kinds of predictions?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_Martyrs
But in many cities an e-bike is a prelude to a deadly accident. In my big city, drivers routinely run over cyclists (usually hit-and-run).
Iron is very much abandoned, I would not recommend it. I agree Actix and Rocket are the more common picks!
What are these questions you are asking them?
What a lazy and irrelevant point. Social scientists won't shift the blame to Africa and Asia because their energy intensity is still a tiny fraction of the developed world, and unless and until we deal with energy intensity, we don't have political authority to dictate terms to the rest of the world.
Where's the ceo and board in all of this. Someone must actually care about the bottom line.
I use uBlock on a slightly different way. I set filters for specific channels or "channel networks", for instance if I don't want to see any Vice related video show up in my recomendations, i.e. "Vice Fightland", "Vice bla bla bla" etc, I set a rule such as:

www.youtube.com###dismissible:has-text(/Vice/)

This way, any channel that has the word Vice in it will never show up to me in recommendations, be it on the main page or the sidebar. This "has-text" regex is really useful, not just on Youtube. I use it a lot, all over the internet.
Very nice analysis, thank you for posting it.
it's quite slow compared to other virtual dom implementations - this is probably something you wouldn't use in production, but rather as a learning tool to understand virtual DOM
Just setting up a front end dev environment is a lesson in complexity theory

FWIW, because I've been out of web dev for a while and may need to get back into it, I came across this site today:

https://modern-web.dev/

I followed their example ts+preact+esbuild setup and was very pleasantly surprised by the ergonomics.

I was expecting way worse.
I think some recruiters filter out people who don't come from a CS background. I think maybe something like a diploma route that concentrates on the CS courses are a better choice. You still get the proof but avoid those garbage irrelevant courses you are forced to take.
It's more effective than most vaccines, but most vaccines are for relatively rare diseases (due to near-universal vaccination for decades). The pertussis vaccine is only about 80% effective against contracting pertussis, but, nearly nobody is exposed to pertussis EVER, versus nearly everyone being exposed to the flu (or to covid) -- usually several times.
You can't see the calculator, but you can see most of the inputs - for this discussion, the factors that weigh on the location-based adjustments are here:

https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/total-rewards/compensation...
I believe the topic of this thread was to post contrarian ideas, while also implying that they would be at least somewhat smart ones.
This doesn't add anything, but I just genuinely wanted to thank everyone for all the suggestions and encouragement. The comments have helped me more than you may realize as I kick off my fitness journey!
I think that anyone that lives in Europe has already considered this, especially after the waves of "Syrian refugees". People in North America may not think about it too much as crossing the Atlantic is a bit more involved than crossing the Mediterranean sea.
I don't think this is so much people, as corporations and the politicians they own. Even economic stagnation is seen as abhorrent, when in fact we will have to undergo economic shrinkage to even contain the problem. The entire world economy will have to start shrinking for a few decades while we replace all fossil fuels with other things, and then we can try to get back to growth.

But this is absolutely not acceptable in any mainstream economic discussion, even from the left, and absolutely counter to the very definition of a for-profit corporation.

Even slowing down growth is seen as 'too risky', while the world burns. Better we buy new iPhones every month to help propel the economy.
No pain no change, only highly evolve and conscious people can change out of conscience, which is not the case of people who derived their sense of identity out of profit. They wont change. Maybe that's what people like Elon Musk have figure, the will destroy the planet, I may as well start working on a plan b, Mars. Or maybe simply stop having children as we may be bringing them to this world to face a terrible calamity.
In a sense, a self-driving car might actually be easier to test for than complex software - at least parts of it.

After all, normal (complex) software tends to have lots of in depth details you need to test for; and a surface area that's pretty irregular in the sense that it's hard to do generalized testing. Some bits can be fuzz tested, but usually that's pretty hard. It's also quite hard for a generalized test to recognize failure, which is why generalized test systems need lots of clever stuff like property testing and approval testing, and even then you're likely having low coverage.

However, a self-driving car is amendable to testing in a sim. And the sim might be end-to-end, but it needn't be the only sim you use; the FSD system almost certainly has many separate components, and some of those might be easy to sim for too; e.g. if you have a perception layer you could sim just that; if you have a prediction system you might sim just that; etc.

And those sims needed be full-sim runs either; if you have actual data feeds, you might even be able to take existing runs, and the extend them with sims; just to test various scenarios while remaining fairly close to real world.

I'm sure there are tons of complexities involved; I don't mean to imply it's easy - but it's probably tractable enough that given the overall challenge, it's worth creating an absolutely excellent sim - and that's the kind of challenge we actually have tons of software experience for.
To the first point, isn't this still true? Unless I missed something, N-95s/respirators are the only way to protect yourself, wearing the cloth/surgical masks is a way to prevent yourself, who may be asymptomatic, from spreading the disease and NOT to protect yourself from someone who you are in contact with who has it.

To the second point, if I am recalling correctly this was in part due to the fact that we were undergoing as massive supply shortage. I distinctly remember my roommates (healthcare workers) being told to keep their N-95s in a brown paper bag and to reuse it.

To the third point, everyone is a critic and everyone is bound to make mistakes in a rapidly evolving situation. Given the fact that front-line folks had to re-use (Read: already contaminated and unsafe for use) masks given the supply issues, I'm not so sure he was wrong in advising the general public to hold off.
Has she tried it and just doesn't like it?

Has she tried it and doesn't think she's good at it?

Or does she entertain some sort of nerdy stigma against it?

It's difficult to give actionable advice without word from both parties about their attempts and motivations.
public.... transport! It is a thing outside US.
I remember it but it was no competition to VMware which I had been a user of since 1999.
It's not perfect, but in Firefox this definitely helps: https://github.com/EvHaus/youtube-hide-watched
Automatic software updates are a terrible idea. Not only do they make systems and devices less reliable but they are a vector for a malicious entity (Maybe even the vendor themselves, see Apple & CSAM)
See the “ignore FAANG” part :)
Last valuation was $6 billion, they initially wanted to go public in November of 2020 but because of COVID they delayed it.

Doesn't sound cheap to me for a company who isn't profitable yet...

(Microsoft payed 7,5 billion for GitHub and I think we can all agree that GitLab isn't used as much so nearly the same valuations seems a bit high too me)
That is the Wikipedia explanation, written by some random Wikipedia editor. If you want more explanations - which are just as subjective - there are plenty of 'Song meanings' sites around [1] where people can have their say without being edit-warred into oblivion by the Keepers of The Page at Wikipedia.

[1] https://songmeanings.com/songs/view/52876/ is just an example of such a site
Maybe they're counting on inflation ;)
I notice each month the high positions of Visual Basic (#6 in Sep 2021) and "Classic Visual Basic" (#11) in the Tiobe Index https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/ . Is Tiobe exaggerating the popularity of these Basics or are they really so popular but rarely discussed?

I liked VBA when I used it within Excel.
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You can find my site at cbailey.co.uk (it's my first time sharing it online!)

It's a pretty informal blog (and it's very unpolished). It's a standard Elixir/Phoenix app which polls GitHub Issues which is actually where my blog posts are stored (I'm basically leveraging it to do syntax highlighting, markdown to HTML compilation and eventually comments)
this is actually quite surprising to me given what their product is...
The French horn is a holy instrument. Because if you blow into the mouthpiece, only God knows what will come out of the other end.
So you use cron whenever you want to launch an executable on a scheduled basis.

Edit: Arguing that running executables via CLI is what makes things *nix is just missing the point. In case your unfamiliar with the 'everything is a file concept:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everything_is_a_file
I don't think the global mean temperature change is going to come off as particularly impactful either way. 5-10°F increase is notable, but doesn't sound particularly scary or urgent. It's the catastrophic consequences that are the scary part.
C++ as a Scripting Language (Sort Of)
> the average consumer couldn't understand that 1/3 is greater than 1/4.

The average reader of France 24 understands Celsius and has no clue what a Fahrenheit is. No one uses Fahrenheit apart from the US. It's like imperial units, totally irrelevant if you are addressing a global audience.