skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Node is hated because programmers are highly opinionated (not in a negative way).

And in a negative way as well :-) Ask me how I feel about php.

This is, though, a very excellent point.
Does having "we" in there mean anything to you?
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Very different from most people on HN, but very common in reality. I've witnessed this exact thing multiple times: see an ad for something, immediately have to go get it.
For some strange reason, I was convinced there was ZERO money to be made as a programmer when I graduated HS in 1981.

The right play would have been to attend the local university extension, and do a few startups while I still had no debts, and could live with my parents.
Also unrelated, for some reason your comment reminds me of Oscar Wilde quote I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
these generalizations are a little extreme. what's the purpose of instagram for a kid exactly? its 'destructive' effects are not marginal side effects, they're the main purpose of the app
I never got why there is just one. The script tag can take any number of languages.
Thanks for taking the time. This thread has been more valuable than any interview you gave. The CNBC one[0] sucked as they invited you but you did not get the chance to speak. I don't know what they were thinking.

- [0]: https://www.cnbc.com/video/2021/09/28/amplitude-ceo-on-going...
If there is any sense in this I suspect it's more about signaling and conformity than anything else... I wonder if those places still see joggers wearing masks.
It was the case last year too. It didn't prevent the PR spam though -- many repos didn't opt in and still received a lot of trash PRs.
Yes put everything in their cloud where the IRS criminals have full access. Satoshi as wel as the cypherpunks definitely approve.
RedShift isn't evening even competitive within AWS! Snowflake.com runs on top of AWS and provides a better product than RedShift as a third-party product which means they don't get the same hardware avantages RedShift gets. If you use RedShift to any real degree you owe it to your internal users to talk to one of their salespersons.
Please tell us the story of getting your first customer
Comparably few of those are new development, most are likely click-through wordpress deployments.
Experience and a basic level of observation would show that you're reaching to find a justification here. It's clear that the masks are covid-related and not pollution related. Gymnastics are for gymnasts not for research.
"Unbalanced" python people? Do you have examples? I don't do python and have no basis of experience with python, besides the fact that I have never installed a python program successfully with their package manager.

Is python the language that has spread furthest from programming circles? It probably used to be VB mostly due to Office, but with Python at #2 in Tiobe ahead of Java and behind only C, I'd guess yes.
The rest of Asia, and Africa too... and, spoiler alert: it won't be possible.

This is where the problem gets even more complex than a pure energy/resources/pollution equation, now you have a world wide humanitarian issue. Add climate change and environmental refugees to the mix and you're in for a very bad time.
The customers screwed up the forecast. That's a huge part of the problem. They assumed the pandemic would kill demand and cancelled orders, but it didn't, and the cancelled capacity was already sold to someone else.
They may not need it now, but they choose this technology for a reason - maybe because they plan to develop it much more in the future. This does not mean they can't criticize its obvious flaws (which are a bit at odds with the "enterprise" part btw).
They also ice bath the lobster/ fish first to numb it. I see the sardonic humor though :-)
> I think CSAM & human trafficking is happening on every platform possible

Sorry, but that is ridiculous. Only a fraction of platforms allow uploading and sharing of media. Someone wise on HN said they would handle such stuff like toxic waste. Facebook (like others) considers the risks worthwhile. There will be no solution until that changes.

As for your second argument, look up "straw man'.
Window controls are safety regulated modules in modern vehicles. They detect the closing force and reverse direction off the required motor torque exceeds av threshold so that you can’t accidentally or intentionally choke someone with the windows. This feature is required by standards bodies and some regulators.

Why not put those smarts in one big module, say the Body Control Module which is always huge and already gets redesigned and uses more expensive, smaller feature chips anyway you ask? Well, we need to run a bunch of wires to the door, several for the switch, power and grind and Hall effect sensor for the motor and we need to account for the noise and power loss on the long wire run because as a safety feature the sensing has to be ASIL compliant to high fault tolerance. Turns out that that length of wire is several dollars more than putting the module in the door… These things are all done for a reason and the automotive engineers aren’t solely stuck in the old ways. They’re frequently penny pinched to death, but if you look at the constraints they’re doing their best.
this isn't the twitter the world wants, this is the twitter the world needs
Nobody here wears a bicycle helmet unless he or she is a recreational rider who rides at high speeds. Helmets can help against high speed crash. Most commuters ride at low speeds. Helmets are inconvenient and pressure to increase helmet usage has been suspected to make cycling less safe in the aggregate because less people will cycle and other road users thus won't be taking them into account. If I'm being cynical it's possibly why people keep pushing for it in the first place.
This is less true in the humanities where labs, funding from advisors, and coauthored papers with advisors are more rare.
Unfortunately, I have to confirm #7. One of the students that started their program with me has gone through exactly this. It was especially jarring when a neurodegenerative disease researcher reacted with hostility to a student’s diagnosis of MS.

Unfortunately, even though academics are smart, highly educated people, this does not guarantee interpersonal and management skills, or empathy. Equally frustrating is that even with the support of your department and institution, a soured relationship with your academic advisor can still ruin your time in graduate school.

I think most students pick their supervisor using the heuristics of prestige or academic “productivity”, but a bigger contributor to a students grad school success is probably the soft skills which get often overlooked in academics.
This is not why pines cause less biodiversity, but there is another reason why you tend to see less biodiversity with pines.

They are more prevalent in colder climates.
I don’t really like the stuff the Guardian is doing. What can we do to rein in the Guardian?
I am not a Stanford student, but I bike with a mask on when near traffic. It has nothing to so with the virus and everything to do with measurable quality of air. Yes, it a N95, no I have no trouble breathing (and I am not particularly fit), no it has not been a problem in the hot summer.
I offer this ancient blog post as evidence that javascript was imposed on us as a general programming language by the big tech companies, rather than being chosen organically by developers.
Note that regenerative breaking means that extra mass doesn't actually cost you much in terms of fuel use.
Thank you, I was repeating something I've heard, I do recall trying such a mask before covid in summer and finding it a bit uncomfortable, but maybe it varies.

I'm quite interested in better breathing when riding my bike when air quality ocassionaly drops so I'll give it a try!
The number of employees in a company has no bearing on anti-competitive behaviour of an acquisition.
It is very troubling development when doing something so trivial even requires a computer.

That's a matter readily solved by a PID controller made of a few dozen 74XXX parts. Possibly made n-times redundant.

Even a more fancy LP solver probably wouldn't need a fully fledged computer.
That is nonsense in this generalization and also mostly unrelated to meat-substitutes. Humans have been genetically modifying their food ever since they came up with agriculture and there are plenty of meat-substitutes without GMOs if you don't like them.
Glass bottles and the hype around wooden toys. But those are quite a lot more expensive than plastic toys.
My wife has a history PhD. For her quals, her reading list was over 300 books (okay, some of these were just scholarly articles but the bulk were books). To prep, she read about 2 a day with one day off per week for six months.

I just laugh when I compare my quals in CS, which was two tests each covering one textbook and a discussion of about 10 papers.
The notification popup on the blog was so annoying! I had to close it 3 times.
I think we're not disagreeing, exactly.

As a simple example, here is a set of assertions:

* The moon is made of green cheese

* The moon is crystalline rock surrounding an iron core

It wouldn't take an AI to see that both of these can't be true, even if we weren't clear about what a moon is made of, exactly.

Some of our common understanding could contain more complicated internal contradictions that might be harder for a human to tease apart, that an AI might be able to identify.
Of course the damage was done by non-riders, these things are an absolute menace in the city. I feel like every time I go to Seattle now if I'm in a touristy area there are Lime scooters littering the sidewalks everywhere.

I don't think vandalism is the answer, but I also think taking up public pedestrian space to store your rental scooters is also a form of vandalism.
Analysis of Google’s Privacy Budget Proposal
I'm going to have to disagree with that. Micropackages may seem nice at first, but they're a nightmare to manage longer-term mostly due to low-skill project management. Many such packages make breaking API changes, sometimes without obeying SemVer standards. Some are effectively abandoned, and don't get updates for regular bugs, security issues, etc. Sometimes the lone developers responsible for them may delete them in a fit of pique (left-pad anyone?). Sometimes they get taken over by malicious entities who might add obvious or subtle malware to it. I'm pretty sure all of these have happened already.

That's not even what's important though. What's important is, how can you ensure that none of these things happen to any of *your* projects dependencies? It's virtually impossible when there's a thousand of them. Are you going to audit that string manipulation micro package when you first add it, and then for every version update from now on, to ensure that nobody slipped some subtle malicious code into it? And do the same for every other micro package in your project, including all of the ones that the big ticket packages depend on?

All of this would be much less relevant if it had a more fully-featured standard library.
> outsourcing their losses to the government.

Didn’t the US government actually make a $109 billion profit from TARP when it was all said and done?

https://projects.propublica.org/bailout/
Looks like the Cortex-R52 and Cortex-R5, a CPU and MCU, respectively both have been ASIL-D (the highest rating) qualified. Which is fantastic frankly. There's a bunch of legacy PPC, MIPS, and TriCore tech that's just miserable to work with because of their ancient and/or bespoke & proprietary toolchains. So, really the automotive industry lacks excuses that I would buy for why they're not moving forward onto new platforms other than the institutional inertia and supply-chain entanglements that its prioritizing instead.
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I think about Node.js the same way that I think about the set of wrenches I have downstairs. It is a tool that I use for specific tasks. It lets me do some things in JS that I wouldn't normally and it does it efficiently enough that I don't need to look for other tools.

I don't use it for full applications so I don't have some of the same issues that @ufmace mentions (ouch!) and those are clearly a problem.

I suspect that a lot of the hate comes from people that would like a better Node.js so they could use it but resent that it isn't available
> frustrated by and fail to understand how people can actually believe nature is barbaric. Nature is nature, it is kill or be killed, that is actually the natural order of things.

Barbaric literally means primitive and unsophisticated. (Sophistication referring to knowledge and culture.) When we say something is barbaric, we mean it is in its natural, unrefined, untouched-by-civilisation state.

That might make the statement "nature is barbaric" seem tautologic. But your reaction exposes its meaning. The natural state of things, the barbaric state, is on we strive to escape. It is painful and suffering. Sometimes cruel. Enough to have motivated our species to seek to not be subject to it. To be free of the "natural order of things" by developing our knowledge, culture and civilization.

As you mention, this often involved killing. But killing need not be painful and cruel.
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Wouldn't the solution be planning better?

Sure, I understand that making a new car in combination with making a new ECU or brake controller on a new process is going to be stupidly dangerous and troublesome. So just don't.

Rather than doing it as a part of a single project, there should be a department or separate company making the ECU/controller. This way when the semiconductor company moves forwards, ECU Group starts a project targeting the new process, and releases the results when it's ready. And meanwhile what goes into the cars is the ECU built on the previous, well tested process.

Also, are modern cars really in much need of custom silicon? Micro-controllers are stupidly powerful now. There has to be off the shelf hardware capable of handling what a car needs. There are long standing architectures like ARM that don't require starting from scratch every time somebody makes a better chip.
A newly released live performance of I.G.Y by Donald Fagen: https://youtu.be/mrLKinIp3wI
Community college? Come on, be serious. I mean jobs in which people can have an actual academic career, i.e. be published and have an impact on their discipline.
Google’s UI is so terrible I can’t use it. Most of the results page isn’t search results, but ads, Twitter, news story, or other asides, and way too much whitespace.

That’s why I use DDG, it has almost nothing to do with privacy or quality of search.
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I just searched for 'commerce' in the main documentation and voila
Decline in the Use of Cheques and Increased Mobile Payments in Nigeria
Interesting, we made an interesting research on this and the need for increased mobile security. We have a second report coming in.

We have a MVP tool that will help detect anomalies for companies. You can try it out here https://opensquare-preview.netlify.app/
This is presented as hypocritical, and is taken that way by some of the comments, but masks and helmets are very different, with different situational contexts where their perceived protection varies differently, and different kinds of inconveniences. Being irresponsible about one but not the other may be hypocritical, but that's being taken as a must in order to score political points.
Toyota accelerator-gate is largely a farce. Almost all of the people involved with Toyota unintended acceleration were over the age of 65 and had the poorly designed loose floor mats in their cars.

Even if they had perfect readable John Carmack tier coding they still would have lost.
Actually, leaving cities would make a bigger difference. All the little towns of a few thousand people arent causing problems. It's the centralized , systematic destruction causing issues.
As I understand it, there's also the case that you can't just move from one fab to another of the same process size at will. There's different setup/software/procedures, so the capacity isn't instantly interchangeable. There may even be fabs with excess capacity, but no "ready" customers.
Wrong. GPUs are definitely vector (GCN in particular being 64 x 32-bit wide vectors).

What you're confusing is "Terascale" (aka: the 6xxx series from the 00s), which was VLIW _AND_ SIMD. Which was... a little bit too much going on and very difficult to optimize for. GCN made things way easier and more general purpose.

Terascale was theoretically more GFLOPs than the first GCN processors (after all, VLIW unlocks a good amount of performance), but actually utilizing all those VLIW units per clock tick was a nightmare. Its hard enough to write good SIMD code as it is.
Again, thank you, you've persuaded me to give an N95 a try as I often have the snot problem when riding in traffic. Are some better than others?
While support for multiple languages was the plan all along (the spec for the script tag mentions "text/tcl" along with javascript and vbscript)[0,1], browser makers never bothered to support other languages when javascript became the popular choice, apart from Microsoft with VBScript and Chrome with Dart, whose languages were vendor specific.

Eventually, people just compiled code written in other languages into Javascript, treating it more as an "assembly language for the web"[2] than a language directly coded in, and the script type attribute was officially deprecated from the script tag in HTML5.

[0]https://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/interact/scripts.html

[1]https://eager.io/blog/a-brief-history-of-weird-scripting-lan...

[2]https://www.hanselman.com/blog/javascript-is-assembly-langua...
You make a good point. But there is one more reason for advertising than just conversions. If Coca Cola were to stop advertising, it would free up substantial ad space allowing for their competition to advertise cheap. These large brands don't just advertise for branding/conversions. They plan their spend budget so as to actually influence the bid rate. This makes it harder for newer brands to compete and get any viable ad exposure at affordable prices.
Getting charged for bonafide self-defense is pretty uncommon, unless you're like carrying a gun and executing them after the conflict is over or something like that.
, then sell it to FB.
Why would you ever assume that!? I also wear a mask when riding near traffic. Masks on bikers without helmets were a common sight in Paris in 2009 when I lived there. The mask has a measureable increase in immediate comfort, while the helmet is something that requires thinking ahead. Of course more people will remember a mask before they remember a helmet.
> I wonder if those places still see joggers wearing masks.

In Palo Alto it’s definitely possible. A friend of mine who lives in nearby Atherton was complaining about joggers not wearing face masks (so I’m guessing he was while out running).
It is worth noting that one year in crypto is probably equal to 10 years in most other industries. At least with respect to the rate of technological and intra-cultural changes.
Common lisp is cool but I really wish it wouldn't be an ANSI standard so the language development would continue.

The current standard library is a bit limiting and there are a bunch of good ideas that it could borrow from Clojure (literals? Anyone?)
You don't even have to "make your own game engine" - often you just take a windowing library, optionally with some barebones renderer (like SDL or Allegro) and simply make a game without an engine. This approach was very common at the beginnings of compos/jams like Ludum Dare, it only changed somewhat recently with increasing popularity of ready-made engines.
yay! in the future we figured out how to sue Google and Facebook out of existence. I love the future.
> For most scripting work it is hard to beat Python even if Python is slow.

Apropos of nothing...

I find Python to be unreadable. I have a moderate reading issue and Python just looks like random letters to me. I actually wish I could process it as there are some very nice tools that I see people make that use Python.
Are these only in SF? What sort of companies
According to this story [0], a former employee was advised by a doctor to take time off after a panic attack. Samir Rao (the guy whose 'mental health crisis' made him impersonate an executive), called up the hospital saying he was the HR Director, demanding to look at the employee's medical records.

You can't bounce back from something like that.

[0] https://edition.cnn.com/2021/09/30/media/ozy-work-culture/in...
> Ask me how I feel about php.

Negative views about PHP is completely justified :)
You're right in the sense that a modern chicken farm supports untold amount of chickens without collapsing. Yes, it's possible, and quite doable, but the chickens have absolutely horrible lives, taste bad, and their eggs are disgusting.

Is that what we want as a species? An overpopulated planet? It can always support a bit more if just try harder, right? I sure don't want that for myself.

I am unable to honestly judge my own environmental footprint because I lack a ton of information. That said, I don't even have a car and have been living well below my means for quite a while. Don't even consume meat.

Do I win anything, since it is a competition?
Absolutely. The Wikipedia article is full of them. What's critically important to know is the rules where you live because they're different depending on jurisdiction. If you are in California, non-competes are invalid. (Silicon Valley was built upon the Traitorous Eight.) If you are in Massachusetts, non-competes are valid (and you better hope you don't need a new job in biotech any time soon).

Talk to your lawyer for advice.
A solid guess. It's not miliplastics after all.
Is helmet wearing on bikes common in Europe anywhere outside of the UK?
do you have some science to back up this claim? i’ve read a bit about this as an layperson and the mature vs young forest debate seems kinda inconclusive. but it also seems like keeping a mature forest’s ecosystem in tact is better than clearcutting and planting new trees that supposedly grow faster and capture more carbon. by clearcutting, you’re removing and releasing a lot of the ecosystem (mushrooms and such) that also play a part in carbon capture and storage. capturing carbon is only one part, from what i understand, a mature forest’s ecosystem does a lot to retain it, too.
Can it serve up archives as torrents automatically published to an RSS feed?
I love it. No matter what side you're on you should know the whole establishment is a criminal organization.