skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's possible this was career bureaucracy failures

The mindset of public health officials where they are willing to prevaricate with the public because of some claimed concern like "there won't be enough PPE for health care workers", instead of just recommending to the President to use the authority the government already has to address such concerns, goes back decades, so it cannot be blamed on any particular administration or political party. I think it's just part of a general tendency on the part of all governments to become less efficient and more protective of their power over time.
The trick is to capture all that water instead of letting it just run off.
Some of my earliest childhood memories are about traveling in train, in India. For a few hours during a journey, a train compartment becomes home away from home, in almost literal sense. IMO trains are by far the best mode of travel for journeys under 700-800KM.
I don't have a LinkedIn profile picture specifically because I don't want to get extra advantage for my race+gender. Is that going to be an issue for me going forward?

> In 2021, everyone has a LinkedIn account now, especially in the US. Check for candidates' LinkedIn profile links and check their profile pictures. If there is no profile picture, that's a red flag. (explained later why)
> To learn a new language, read its standard libraryTo learn a new language, read its standard library

Yes, but also no.

The standard library is often more complex and uses more advanced features then you often need for most projects. I.e. collections in std are supper general purpose, but if you need to write a collection it's normally specific to the purpose you need it for.

I.e. std is the "most" general purpose library you normally find so even if it's written with "KISS" in mind it's still often not so simple.

Then it sometimes uses unstable language features you normally can't use (as it's often made "in sync" with the language) and/or optimizations which in most other cases would count as "pre-mature" optimizations.

Through without a question you can learn a lot there, you just should be aware of the points above.
FastAPI: Testing a Database
Could you please share the source of these VC stats?
Very important to also ask: Which application. Get an URL if at all possible. If someone says 'the calendar program is down', I have at least 5 candidates, and 50/50 chance something I've never seen pops up.

Users tend to rename programs, even give them names of other programs. Our entire finance department can't wrap their heads around the fact that 'Oracle' is not a bookkeeping application. Worse, they are now convinced the new version is called 'fusion'. Oracle financials? Never heard of.
Bicarbonate of soda used to be a very popular remedy for upset stomach. People might associate coke with that.
Not this example specifically, but the world would be better with less of the general mindset. That is, the "hey if I bend over backwards and look for any possible way in which you can twist my words and take offense to them, I'm going to assume that's what you meant and start saying how 'problematic' it is." Let's remember we're talking about a weekend project web app that puts gifs and links in readme files that in all likelihood get read close to never. And the comment that started this jumps immediately to "sexual exploitation and sexual traficking (sic)" because of an extremely common idiom that's been around for at least 25 years or so.

I'm not 100% sure I agree that it's wokeness specifically but there are certainly some parallels at the very least.
> I’ve seen plenty of companies start that way and succeed, even time tracker and job posts.

That would be a good argument if you mentioned which ones.
> all of the constraints of an ipod (one per user, no library comingling, needs itunes, etc.) were artificially imposed by a hardware striving to maximize hardware sales (and placate the music industry).

Last I checked, you could share an iPod between multiple users via a headphone splitter. You could also use it with multiple computers/iTunes libraries if you turn off automatic syncing. iTunes also introduced DAAP playlist sharing/streaming, which was great for university networks before the rise of Spotify/Apple Music/etc..

Most hardware companies want to maximize hardware sales, but Apple unfortunately had to placate the music industry, as you note.

Which kind of paid off eventually in terms of DRM-free iTunes Plus music in 2009, but sadly it made it hard to move music off of an iPod.

I wonder if earlier editions of SoundJam/iTunes supported copying music in both directions?
Currently building on Flask and truly love the easy of integration, the massive libraries, and overall the performance.
... hope that doesn't spawn a religious debate.
Cultured meat industry addresses mass production
How do you communicate with your sources?
These are probably the same people who care if I leave the office on time instead of staying late every night. I don't care to please these people.
I thought you were being mean or exaggerating or something, because after eight or so whacks I thought they had driven it through. Nope. Very delicately handled.
It says a lot about the quality of that lisp code and the clarity it enables that a rewrite could be done effectively over a weekend. Normally the "Big Rewrite" is a story of total failure.

Even if they decided not to go with lisp long term this story is definitely a good advertisement for prototyping in lisp and sticking with it until there is an actual reason to change.
Microsoft is readying the rollout of Windows 10 21H2
I'm with you on that, still a Firefox user as well but I'm not a fan of a lot of Mozilla's decisions.
I still trust them more than Google though.
In my opinion more important than the cameras, we need to standardize some sort of 3d audio to distinguish 'spacially' between different speakers in meetings.
It isn’t? Isn’t it in their interest to mislead their audience such that their audience puts their vast wealth towards causes the FT editors like?
Why Digital Transformation Is Key in Today’s World
That's a good point! They're honestly some of Apple's biggest critics. I feel like I've learned a lot about product design based on their ongoing feedback.
A friend read my blog and told me to start making YouTube videos (well, good ones. I already had bad ones covered). He sent me a link to the "old" blog of a popular fitness YouTuber as an example of someone who had successfully moved on from blogging.

It was a weird contrast to compare the two. The blogger personality was completely different from the YouTuber.

The blog was deep enough, contemplative, gentle, and pretty funny. It needed a new template due to software issues but it was pretty great overall.

The YouTube channel had clearly gone pro-algo and the poor guy looked exhausted to me. His latest video was complaining about sleep deprivation and meeting audience expectations. To me it was like his job was now so much more about performance characteristics in terms of being a YouTuber, as opposed to fitness performance.

The video content was far less contemplative except when it came to the videos about how much he was hating life.

I don't know if there will ever be a less taxing form of social video, or maybe there already is, but I still want to ask that guy if, all things being equal, he'd rather be blogging. Or, like the author here suggests, both-ing through it somehow.
Or it even uses patterns which would be considered anti patterns outside of it for the sake of optimizations.
Our eyes suck in some ways, but they still have better dynamic range than the cheap cameras used in Teslas. This is important in difficult lighting conditions with a mix of bright sunlight, glare, reflections, and shadows.
It's extremely rude in my opinion when people simply don't turn their cameras on in virtual meetings. Unfortunately, no one at my workplace except me does.
I built a redaction process for a small company once.

My critical security step was rendering out the PDF as individual flat image files, then re-assembling it like a traditionally photo-copied document.

That way the loss-full operation is enforced, at the cost of forcing end users to OCR unsearchable image-scan (like) PDFs.
rancher is a good platform. https://www.theprestigecity.gen.in/
Cargo-UI: A GUI for Cargo
Evidently not in trans manuals!
Apple deleted In App Purchase clause (3.1.3) in India
I presume you mean Computer Science, not Counter-Strike
Sudan’s PM Hamdok under house arrest, ministers detained
I think that in principle this test could produce interesting and useful results. Having researched in the field of computational aesthetics, I speak with some experience. Much of the aesthetic value an artwork 'lives' in such abstracts as its 2D geometry, its 3D geometry, its color contrast etc. I would have preferred that this test be designed to test just one of these attributes.

However, even on the currently small response rate, there seems to be some valid patterns emerging...

In the Overlapping Drops results, the red/green images is the clear favorite. This is no surprise, as this antagonist pair is the most favored in art. Around 90% of the paintings in any national collection are painted along the red/green axis.

Neither am I surprised that the most popular Nested Squares results is the one that features the greatest contrast. 'Higher than nature' contrast is a core requirement of art. This is as true in Korean soap opera as it is in visual art.

I believe that the experiment could have been better designed. A better intro to the experiment would have been a good idea. Also, (in my opinion) I believe that the images should have been presented as pairwise comparisons (Thurstone, L.L.: A Law of Comparative Judgment) with a few repeats shown in. The preference choice should be restricted to three from five. This would have made it easier to get more responses from each user. Perhaps it would have been better to have kept the images in their family groups. In that way, it would be more clear what is being tested.
Can't say I've seen anyone being hyped about it other than that guy whose last name starts with Zuck and ends with berg and like 3 weirdos online that work for him.
It is carrying data now, so I'm sure many programs use it.
Neat project. I placed down a rectangle, clicked the + button, then moved one of the corners (using the white mouse button), and clicked the + button again. But it didn't seem to interpolate the movement of the corner on the rectangle. Is the expected behavior possible?
> will lead to better development practices, rather than making it easier to work with inferior ones.

C# has these "inferior practices" and is a much better language overall. Why Java doesn't adopt the low and not-so-low hanging fruit from C# is really baffling.

Anything from yes, properties, to object initialization shortcuts and a sane IEnumerable/Collection interface that doesn't require stream/toList everywhere.
More common than you might expect!

You do not need to be a professional sports person - keen hobbyists exist and there is definitely a group here that are into power lifting.
Some context: I'm a lead engineer on a team with six products.

I keep my camera off in meetings. I'm in far more meetings than I can possibly be productive in. I'm also usually not the active speaker in meetings. Why stare into a camera when what my yearly bonuses are calculated on is work/team output? I've found most meetings I get into are either:

- Developers who can't figure something out from documentation and are too impatient (or sometimes critical) to be helped over Slack.

- Executives who would rather speak than send an email or create a Slack thread.

It's not useful for me to pay attention the whole time when I'm also responsible for delivering code and 50-75% of my day is meetings.

The exceptions I have for this are:

- 1:1's

- Interviews
What I get from this post is how out of touch the world of silicon valley, tech investments and startups have become with reality. Almost anything can "make you rich" in the loop that goes: Idea -> Startup -> Impressing investors -> sell out and move on.

In that world, the presentation of your idea/product is everything, and the idea/product only plays a minor role, because you have to impress rich people that often don't know anything about it. Once you succeed you can pump so much money into it that even the worst idea is able to create some success.

Back to the post: It feels like this kind of sentiment is what spawned the feeling behind it. The projects very much seem straight out of a "new app to change the world" presentations aimed towards investors.

I do not doubt that they could generate profit, but I doubt that they have all that much value.

Add to that the startup sentiment of "if it's not an immediate huge success it's basically a failure" that the post radiates.

Even the conclusion of the post gives me the vibes that the takeaway should be to churn out more, any projects faster, until something eventually sticks.
My team is going in circles. Help
Naive question, can't you just call Python code from Go? I don't see the problem besides that performance of the Python libs wouldn't be as good as if they were written in Go.
hey, at least it's dry rail
It should be noted that this post used to say, "My friends over at reddit.com" (https://web.archive.org/web/20051210024226/http://www.aarons...)

Aaron was so sensitive about not actually being a founder of reddit that he thought it necessary to rewrite his own history to erase that fact.
Even better would be to present all old comment threads on the latest link.
We always schedule meetings to end at 5 minutes to the hour, so people can get time to fetch another coffee etc.
I don’t have great sources, so take my claim with a grain of salt. But overall this analysis of Cirrus incidents over 25 years [0] was interesting to read.

In response to fatalities and pilots choosing not to use the parachute when that could have saved lives, Cirrus improved training and saw significant safety record improvements.

> By then, Cirrus had already upgraded its training twice, eventually pulling it entirely in-house. All new-aircraft buyers take it.

They also have training for the used market, and saw owners that didn’t do it often had worse safety records.

Since a Cirrus has a wing, the parachute is primarily a super last resort.. the passenger safety training I took even said it’s mainly to be used if the pilot passes out and a passenger engages it.

The jetson doesn’t have a wing, so I’m happy they have this parachute. I hope they can offer great training too.

[0] https://www.aviationconsumer.com/safety/cirrus-at-25-a-safer...
Really impressed a swedish company has gone and done this.

We asked for the flying car, YC has not given it to us.
Reminds me of the style of subway maps that have been used in Sydney Australia since the early/mid 70's

https://imgur.com/a/bI9WuGQ

Very cool
I once had a candidate who Googled answers for an interview. At first, his pauses were almost believable. I slowly progressed to more conceptual questions and he didnt realise he was spending too much time before reading out stuff verbatim.
because my phone had died (which almost never happens to me) so I couldn't show vaccination-proof.

I'm in Canada, and we use QR codes, signed by the government, to show and validate status.

Mine is printed out, and in my pocket. No phone is required.

Thus, no one needs to avoid anything, phone or not.
Not related to Tech Noir, but since people are posting their favorites in this thread: Gunship released "Art3mis and Parzival" [0] a couple weeks before the movie Ready Player One was released.

I had liked the book and was looking forward to the movie. I listened to the music video probably hundreds of times on loop, and then, when I finally saw the movie, I wished it had been more like the music video.

[0] https://readyplayerone.fandom.com/wiki/Art3mis_%26_Parzival_...
Have you ever tried learning a spoken language by doing this? Like another commenter mentioned, it sounds a lot like Anki Spaced Repetition. It's very cool that you just rediscovered it, though.
Going after NSO is far from useless.
These guys make 100s of millions, this gives them power to subvert and influence politicians so criminalizing this sort of surveillance will be impossible.
Once NSO employees and founders be held responsible for the damage they do and the life they ruin you'll see much less talent go and work there or establish new companies of the same sort.
As a lisper, I’ve gone through the code of the original site ( https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit1.0 ) and it’s not surprising to me that they had to rewrite it: it does a bunch of interesting environment-dependent things during compilation and loading that make it really hard to even attempt to run.

I’m also fairly certain that rewriting in lisp would have been nearly as successful: the benefit came more from learning about the problem space than from switching languages.
I don't know - 10 miles across impassable terrain sounds pretty good if the alternative is a 60 miles detour driving around a fjord or Forrest or something.

Still I don't think this is designed for "utility" - seems to me it is more for the fun of it.
A fun one used to be "Hackable?" It's more about gadgets than big hacks. No new episodes for a while though.
I haven't found camera usage in meetings to be useful for anything other than raising the stress level of the participants. One of the benefits of working from home is not having to be dressed up for work when you aren't doing any client-facing activities.
By random language do you mean probabilistic? That sounds pretty advanced, actually.
One thing I’ve struggled with a lot lately is 3b: gathering data.

Why? It takes time and others’ effort to gather non-misleading data. In order to justify that time, you have to prioritize it relative to other tasks. To do that, you need data to support your argument that the effort spent on gathering data will be worth the effort.
> instead, we'll have "withers" or "reconstructors

When?

> On the other hand, C# finds itself needing to add more and more capabilities to this feature, while Java dodged that bullet.

Java "dodged it" by never even having to fight. While C#'s "poor choices" are leading to a language with less and less boilerplate with almost each year, in Java we'll have to wait another 10 years before it delivers half of a half of the "withers" functionality that doesn't work with half of existing standard library code (the way arrays, lists and collections are three non-intersecting entities).
Dear HN: Please don't do “Contact us”. just show your product
Most startup websites these days have a "Contact Us" button to be able to see the software they are selling. Please don't put a salesman in front of trying out software. You are losing customers like myself.

Thanks!
Parachute opening needs to balance between speed of deployment (because the ground is coming up) and G-force shock (because humans are squishy, and even the aircraft structure they're attached to has a limit).

Cirrus flies fast, so its parachute has a slider / limiter on it to reduce the speed of opening to keep the G shock manageable. On the other hand, since the top speed of this Jetson device is pretty low at 63mph, their parachute must have no slider and can probably be deployed from as little as 200 ft in ideal conditions. Depends on the exact model, your decision/reaction time, aircraft speed, attitude, and stability at time of deploy, etc.

The parachute should cost less than $5K, and its weight is not included in the 255lb weight limit (it's an FAA part 103 aircraft), so it's pretty much a no-brainer to add it to this aircraft, even if it's not very useful in very low level flights.
Yeah exactly. If two block of code are literally duplicates, it is easy to consolidate. But in reality they will drift apart over time, making it more difficult and risky.
TimeOnSite tracker for web/mobile browsers is now available on CDN.js
Hivemind: Decentralized Deep Learning in PyTorch
And then you come across a baffling Russian paper that takes months to understand a single line.
First covid vaccine dose provokes a short-term response; second dose provokes a long-term immunity response.

Parallel adaptation of probability estimation?
It depends a lot on what you consider “Low Code” and what your target is. Corporate users tend to look at Mendix, OutSystems, etc. because they are typically looking at building end—to-end solutions, and those give you front-end, APIs and ORMs (or, rather, abstract all of those away).

Most OSS or IoT folk will immediately point to Node-Red or n8n.io, which look similar but are actually quite different in focus (n8n is geared at hooking up third-party services at a higher level).

And then you have all the Web Automation stuff that has been with us forever since Yahoo Pipes went down.
IIRC, they didn't actually spend any money.

The model (which is pretty common in major cities) is that an ad agency paid to put those things there.
Airbnb is a good example of "success" by doing nothing new, just pushing past law or other external difficulties that no one else managed before.

Like you say, there had been similar apps for several years. CouchSurf-style websites were common, and the transition to paid accommodation provided by normal people is obvious from there, but no one could get past the difficulty of getting people to pay for something that was commonly done for free, and getting this done without legal issues.

AirBnb, to my knowledge, was likely illegal in most places it worked, but similar to Uber, was on perhaps a gray area that allowed it to continue working until it was so big it cold lobby politicians to acommodate it within the law.

Only a handful of successes can happen this way, and I think all that could, have already happened.
Bubble.io is fantastic for making business applications. We find performance can often be an issue and typically transfer processing activities to external infra (incl. serverless functions)
Yeah I'm not going to argue that Java and C# aren't smaller languages than Kotlin, they definitely are and I like/appreciate both.

I'm surprised you feel Kotlin is incomphrensible though, it definitely can be written that way because it has features that allow for extreme terseness.

I think there is a minimal set of things you need to learn over Java for Kotlin to make sense, nullability operators, block passing syntax and the differences in OOP (inheritance/interfaces are slightly different, classes are closed by default, companion objects replace static methods).

So yeah. Kotlin is strictly larger than Java so it takes longer to learn all of it.

That said because of the look and feel of Kotlin it's more accessible to developers of Ruby/Python/JS/Typescript. This tradeoff is personally worth it for me.

Not because I care that much, I can just as easily use Java. However it's -very- difficult in modern times to convince my team and company to use Java when there is hipster options like Typescript taking all the air out of the room. Kotlin competes in the same area but provides the same battle tested runtime and excelent libraries, it's almost like a compromise between the new age and the old age.

This is why it's such a great language for me in particular but I realize not everyone is in the same boat.