skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm figuring out if we're both right for each other. For example, if they voice some problems with their current/previous employment conditions or workplace and we have the same problems, asking this question helps me tell them right there and then that we also do have these problems and shortcomings and what we specifically are doing to address them, or not, and why. I also want to know what they're looking forward to, what they like, what they want to do to tell them if they will find it with us, or not, or not right now but it's on the roadmap, or not at all, and why.

It enables me to give them a better picture of what the work and environment are, to be completely transparent about our shortcomings so they don't feel tricked because something was important to them but I didn't consider it that important or have even thought of it. It also enables me to learn: maybe we're doing something that irks people, maybe we're doing something good; they're not working at the company yet and they can go on about things that drove them nuts or hindered their work or well-being. It is a scenario where I will be responsible for these people, their growth, their livelihoods, their well-being, and I don't want to fuck it up because I didn't get or give enough information.

As of today, someone we're hiring and I had an interview. They'll be relocating to another country and I wanted to make sure that the payment situation is figured-out before they go abroad, so they don't get stranded without means just because we overlooked some detail (someone from the company talked with the bank, and our accounting firm while the person was interviewing with us, and we had a call with the accounting firm to know what the options were. We want things to go smoothly, and want our people to have the best work environment we can provide). They asked if we're willing to pay for coworking space, we had never done it, I asked how much, then agreed to it.

We're a tiny, learning organization, and one of the things we did in 2019 was push for remote work because our colleagues were spending up to 6 hours per day in commute, which is just insane. One of the main reasons we built our platform is precisely to enable people to work on ML products from anywhere, and we experimented systematically because "some day, we'll be forced to do that and we'll have to hire someone working in another country so we might as well learn the lessons when the stakes are low, right now".

I push them to ask all kinds of questions about everything: compensation, equity, product, strategy, what everyone's role is, risk, revenue, customers, clients, stack, how we conduct meetings, how we build product, what the work will be, what parts of the things they didn't like in their previous employer are present in our company, anything goes.

I want them to have as faithful a picture as possible giving them all the information so they make better decisions.
Also not the author, but I have seen some success here when the database is used as another way to build a service with an API, and not just a simple data store. What that means in practice is that applications interact exclusively through stored procedures, which serve as a sort of RPC API.

The big downside of this approach are that the human factors are tricky nowadays. Developers expect to be allowed to poke at the tables directly, and don't necessarily take kindly to alternative ways of framing things. Especially if they've been raised on a diet of code-first object relational mapping. And there's not really a great way to enforce this boundary, because, unlike HTTP, an ODBC session will generally let you pretty much anything you want to the remote service's implementation details.
Are new players welcome?
A LOT of money is tied up in reporting that is all but impossible to do without comprehesive electronic versions of medical record information.
Model S Plaid owner reverse engineers Tesla Yoke with a Model 3 steering
Maybe Angular is a poison pill invented at Google to slow the competition?

I had to work with Angular and I hated it, especially the compilation times and the fact it is very opinionated. But I hate everything front-end that is not Javascript + jQuery. I suspect I would hate React, too. Thanks God I no longer have to touch front-end at work!
Phoronix does a suite of benchmarks on Linux.

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=intel-12...
It's interesting how different "bubbles" of software development can be.

For me, as an engineer whose worked across FAANG and YC startups in San Francisco, Angular has had absolutely zero mindshare for at least the past 6-7 years. Every company I know uses React and every engineer I know knows React. So it's interesting and somewhat alien to hear it being treated as the default option.
I agree with this so much.

Once it was clear that Chrome was destined to cater to the masses, Firefox should have done a hard pivot with an emphasis on privacy and putting the user in control of their browsing experience. The best time to do this was a few years back when all of this was becoming obvious, but now with massive popular distrust of large tech companies like Facebook and Google making daily news, the second best time is now.

There's a reason I run Linux and BSD on every computing device I own, instead of Windows or Mac. It's not because it's easier to use (they are not), it is not because it has more bells and whistles (they do not). It's because at the end of the day, _I_ am the one in control of my computers, not some product manager who needs bullet points on his or her annual review.

There is no universe in which Firefox is going to successfully compete against Google at their own game, especially when Google is _still_ the majority source of their funding. I have no evidence for or against this, but my greatest fear is that the people at Mozilla who were passionate about the same things that I am passionate about have left out of frustration and the only ones left are there for the lifestyle and hipsterness of "working in tech" at a non-profit in a trendy city.
So how does this work? Some one is crappy for thinking violence, racism, misinformation, and harassment should never be tolerated? What's extreme about that? Please do enlighten me...

There is nothing extreme about getting booted from facebook because one can't behave like a reasonable adult. As noted above if anyone did any of this in a setting like a restaurant they would be asked to leave, coupled with assistance from law enforcement and even possible arrest for trespassing and disturbing the peace.

So who's wrong here? The businesses that don't want to be subjected to certain types of speech from customers because it impacts their business or the people that feel they have the right to say whatever they want free from consequence? Why can a McDonald's ask a customer to leave their establishment because they used the N word in front of customers, but Facebook can't? And let's be clear, in both cases no censorship occured, there was just consequences after the fact. Looking forward to your reply.
If I was to guess, he wants to write code and he started the company so he could write code. He just had to do those jobs along the way to get to the point where he could just focus on writing code and solving problems.
FWIW, the Venn-diagram of "Twitter users" and "Space Station 13 Players" are just two, separate circles.
Ah, condescension from an anonymous goof who's sure his knowledge is superior. Sorry, but I don't have enough time or energy to talk you out of your willful ignorance. This is one you'll have to figure out for yourself.
This almost reads like someone paid you to write this.
Thanks! Why are you so confident on protected lefts? Wouldn't we lose significant throughput? Why not just ticket people for running reds?
I.e. a tragedy.
> Google, for the most part, has never used Angular.

This is completely wrong. Though I wish it was true, I've used it and I wish I didn't have to.
Nope, but that's why you should play anyways :)
Yeah. Tesla is pretty much the apple computer of the electric vehicle world, and they've set a bad precedent for ownership of electric cars.

I think if market forces are allowed to decide fairly (they won't be) that consumers will choose a vehicle they own and have the right to repair over a Tesla that's licensed and can be bricked remotely at any time.
coinbase one is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26815403
> Would you consider `ls` an API for exposing your filesystem?

I don't see why not.

It has an interface for input and output, conforms to well known specifications and is publicly documented.

There's also multiple implementations behind the API.
NYC mayor-elect Eric Adams to take first paychecks in Bitcoin
This S1 does not say how many shares they expect to sell, so at this time its unclear what percentage of the company new investors will hold. Presumably before the IPO date, it will be updated so investors have an understanding of what they are buying.
With the right kind of aerodynamics you can get a sort of bubble of air of roughly the right shape. Having a hard surface of that shape (wouldn't be exactly sloped as much as a bubble shape without discontinuities on the trailing edge) would be optimal, but you get 'ginormously bad' by having a sharp discontinuity without any turbulence generation.

That can be either the little nubs of high performance cars, or something like Airtabs that are meant for big-rig trucks. And either way you don't get to increase the mileage by a whopping amount as there are still probably shape issues on the leading edge of the vehicle, plus sheer surface area. To do amazing streamlining the whole thing has to be a bubble, including the front edge of the vehicle.
Never say 'never':

I can remember a time when a computer shop guy said to me "Hey! Look at this. It's a 500 megabyte hard drive, and it's only 2 grand. That's half a gigabyte, you know!"

Come to think of it, I remember how blown away I was when I first increased my 90 kilobyte floppy drive (5-inch single-side, single-density) to a 1.2 megabyte drive (8-inch, double-sided, double-density).

These days, I get twitchy when my backup drive gets lower than two or three hundred gigabytes of free space.
This. I have an extremely strong blink reflex which I cannot overcome. The one time they tried to put contact lenses in my eye it took them 15 minutes to get them in and another half an hour to get them back out. It was one of the most stressful experiences I have ever had. It was over 30 years ago and it still makes me shudder to think about it. There is no way that I can possibly rational-ize my way out of that stress and convince myself that injections or surgery would not be ten times worse.
> There was a rule that the Hungarian constitution could not be amended by less than a four-fifths majority. Unfortunately, that rule itself could be amended by a two-thirds majority. Orban used his two-thirds majority to trash the rule, then amend the constitution with whatever he wanted.

I wonder what was going through the heads of the people who wrote the four-fifths rule. The article points out at the end that psychopaths see opportunities which people with moral consciences disregard, but I would hope that the principle of "think like an attacker" is well enough understood in domains outside of computing now.

Unfortunately it seems that governments with enough power to implement the necessary protections are more likely to use that power to instead entrench their own advantage; and countries where a cross-party consensus could be achieved to secure things, are less likely to encounter the problems that the protections are designed to defend against, so there is less motivation for them to invest political effort into it.
In 20 years, indie games are going to be amazing! The tools just keep improving at an accelerating rate.
The first section just needs a little note that the user needs to scroll horizontally to continue.

Certain browsers make it completely non-obvious that you have to do so to see more content, and it's no longer "intuitive" UX for most users.
Yes, even if I could overcome my phobia of things touching my eye and bring myself to have LASIK done, I would never do it, for the simple reason that my prescription keeps changing year by year.

The glasses I was prescribed a few years ago are almost useless today, so I cannot help thinking that LASIK would just correct my vision at a point in time, and then a couple of years later it would be back to glasses. Not worth the risks in the slightest.
> offered completely for free, no strings attached

I would say that isn't really true. To play Genshin Impact on PC, you are required to install kernel-level always-online DRM on your computer. And the kernel anti-cheat (which exists solely to protect the integrity of their lootbox gambling monetization and has zero benefit to players) isn't even one of the usual ones like EAC or BattlEye (which I personally don't have much trust in either, for the record), but rather one developed in-house by the game's Chinese developers. And considering how involved the Chinese government is in the local game industry, that means you could effectively be giving the Chinese government kernel access to your computer in exchange for being able to play Genshin Impact. That's a pretty heavy price to pay in my books.

And of course, because the integrity of the gambling machine is the ultimate priority, things like modding and other popular single player pastimes are completely out of the picture as well. And because it's a live service game, every single penny you put into it will eventually be lost to the void as servers are shut down and nobody will ever be able to play the game again.

I'd be happy to pay for Genshin Impact as a regular single player game with no lootbox gambling mechanics that I could play offline without DRM and do whatever the hell I want with it after purchase without having to worry about a built-in killswitch disabling the game one day. But as that is not the reality we live in, I'm fairly certain I will never be installing the game on my computer, as the price is simply too high.
Indeed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29067118
This was beautifully illustrated by Carl Sagan in Cosmos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ln8UwPd1z20

And humans tame fire at 11:46pm on December 31st. Every 0.2 seconds is a human lifetime. And all recorded history is just a few seconds. That's every person you've ever heard of, in the last ten seconds. Truly humbling.
I meant 'previous' not 'precious'. How can I edit a post I made? I've seen what I think was other people editing their posts
The Chicago sculpture The Bean (despite its appearance) is not a giant blob of solder.
I think it depends on the outcome of the case - I could see some possible resolution like the Swedish supreme court declaring that JSON counts as a public record and that forcing a block on prohibitive encryption of JSON endpoints offered by the government (assuming everything the OP said about constitutionality is correct).

We've seen such bizarre technical decisions from high courts before.
I'm not sure I follow why that would matter. Their constitution says once data has been released, it is no longer their property (because it's a public institution). They created a way to access the data, so the data has been released to the parents and so the data now belongs to the parents. The parents own the data and as such it would seem to follow they can access it anyway they want.
I had a GPD Pocket 1 which was great for about six months until its battery swelled to dangerous proportions and I had to dispose of it. $500 gone :(
Big pockets won't be a problem for the people buying this, given the likely asking price...
or "Google" for web search.
I'm obligated to point out that bank id is not a national id. It's an electronic ID issued by private banks.
>Mitchell was still on HN yesterday, as he was replying something about Backblaze IPO and its business. Today it is his IPO

Maybe that is because he stepped down from leadership to become an IC again? We could speculate that he didn't want to go public, or had no desire to do the S-1 work so he stepped down.
I didn't realize this was a real game lol. I've seen it mentioned in the comments of practically every Instagram ad by people saying Genshin was better or how the advertised game is "like Genshin Impact"

The same has been going on all year with Appstore reviews

I don't download any of the games but I am on the lookout for something intruiging

Seems I am out of the loop, but also that I don't want to be in the loop of an IAP riddled freemium game.
This describes what I've seen happen with Excel over and over again. I'm curious if the use of collaborative Google sheets could be a fix for this? Something where a portion of the sheet could be shared globally, but the rest of the document would be local to the instance working on it.
Is the WAL only used during restart, or also during normal operations? Trying to create a mental model of how data flows through the system and into destinations.
That was my initial thought as well, but if you read the rest of the article there actually is quite a lot of technical details. It's not just trashing developers. I think the title could probably be changed to be less inflammatory.
> What do most here use Clojure for?

That's to evade having to use Java, Scala or Kotlin.

Clojurescript: because it's the easiest (compared to Elm, Purescript and Rescript) to call JS.
Ask HN: Is VRML (Virtual Reality Modeling Language) Relevant to Metaverse?
Terraform, IMO is the best piece of software invented for devs in the past 10 years. Congrats!
John 8:6-7 "Jesus bent down and wrote with his finger on the ground..."
Looks like Biden has managed to drain the swamp, just as he promised, and now the deep state is being rooted out. Wait what?
“Under these inflated garbage bags lies the power of 1000 suns…”
>We're moving towards a state where simplicity and privacy is the province of the affluent.

No, not really.

The problem of the wealthy being inherently unequal in the US at least is a consequence of our corrupt government.

The law in the US needs to catch up to the computer age regarding privacy (or at least equal the GDPR).

It's not a societal tendency, it's a direct consequence of money having far too much influence in our governing institutions.
Angular has its fair share of problems. For example, issues can be left open for a very long time and the way Google requires the Angular team to ensure that the many, many, internal projects that use Angular do not break creates a lot of development overhead and slows the pace of development.

I actually had a great conversation with a core Angular dev just today where he outlined the whys of some of the issues.

The Angular development team, not including managers, developer relations, etc was described to me as “about half a dozen people”. It’s a very small team with a big task.

I think that Angular+RxJs+NgRx is a great way to build apps. Once you really get the hang of it there’s nothing like structuring your app using DI+directives+Observables. I recently created a drop dead simple, performant, and insanely reusable, intersection observer directive constellation that’s easier to use than any other IO library I’ve seen to date. It was maybe a hundred lines in total.

I submitted my first PR over the weekend. It’s easy to complain about Angular, but, I’d like to see more people who use it show up to help out. Yes, the corporate side of things slowing the community down is annoying.. But with enough external devs the process could evolve into something more decentralized. Maybe? Who knows unless you try.
This is a modern-day Toshiba Libretto which takes design cues from the Framework and I frickin' love it -- on paper. I'm not going to early-adopt the thing but I'm interested to see how it shakes out.
Is anybody here an HCP user, and would be willing to comment on how valuable adopting HCP has been for your organization?

It seems to be a growing contingent of their revenue, in addition to being an interesting product. Curious to get HN's take on it.
> making a single player offline game

Current-gen gamedev is so expensive it's not worth taking the risk anymore for triple-A studios.

I'd say indie games are truly the frontier of game design at this point.
To be fair the topical anesthetic is cocaine.
Rumor has it that SsethTzeentach and Mandalore are the same person, but we will never know for sure. The audience can only listen to the voice and make their own conclusions.
The source PDF doc is very interesting. Thanks
I've always imagined that somewhere out there is a dude who has spent time to teach himself how to decode/encode base64 in his head.

Best I've done so far is to recognize that "eyJ" means I'm probably looking at JSON, since `{"` followed by any letter will always begin with that.
Are there any examples on how the resultant SQL tables look like in postgres or clickhouse for a given event schema? I'd like to know how generic it is per event type (is it sth like (event id, blob), or tries to decompose each event field into a column - what about nested objects then, etc.)). Knowing this would greatly improve my understanding on reusability of jitsu for various event-collection tasks I may have.
From Twitter: https://twitter.com/softwincn/status/1456207719069749256?t=v...

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Source PDF doc:

https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/21094223/fbi-data-gu....
By this measure agriculture is around 4% of the global GDP, so losing it entirely should not be an issue.

The latest IPCC AR6 report paints a picture of a barely habitable planet by 2100.

https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/

https://interactive-atlas.ipcc.ch/

The model they used in the linked paper gives a 20% chance per 1C after 3C for large-scale discontinuity, otherwise economic and non-economic damage is just a quadratic function of the temperature.

Back in reality 3C would be Mad Max, dead oceans and unhabitable land. Meat scalpers instead of graphics card scalpers. We would still prevail if the atmosphere remains viable, but not as a civilization. Certainly not at this level of resource consumption.
> Studies have shown that the complications due to the vaccine are basically nothing other than arm pain and do decrease that chance of death. Studies have shown it's worth it for children to take the vaccine regardless of questions of spread.

Not sure if the risk/benefit ratio for vaccinating children is so clear-cut. A pre-print study from University of California, for example, "suggests that boys aged 12 to 15, with no underlying medical conditions, [might be] four to six times more likely to be diagnosed with vaccine-related myocarditis than ending up in hospital with Covid over a four-month period" [1].

The UK Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) "is of the opinion that the benefits from vaccination are marginally greater than the potential known harms [...] but acknowledges that there is considerable uncertainty regarding the magnitude of the potential harms. The margin of benefit, based primarily on a health perspective, is considered too small to support advice on a universal programme of vaccination of otherwise healthy 12 to 15-year-old children at this time. As longer-term data on potential adverse reactions accrue, greater certainty may allow for a reconsideration of the benefits and harms." [2]

That's also why Pfizer announced that "long-term safety of COVID-19 vaccine in participants 5 to <12 years of age will be studied in 5 post-authorization safety studies, including a 5-year follow-up study to evaluate long term sequelae of post-vaccination myocarditis/pericarditis." [3]

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/10/boys-more-at-r...

[2] https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/jcvi-statement-se...

[3] https://www.fda.gov/media/153409/download