skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The turning tide of media to these long-form open-topic interviews currently is amazing.

Lex Fridman interviews Neal and its a wonderful listen.

Youtube Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAfdSak2fs8
There are varying degrees of discrimination across the tech industry, based on your skin color, gender, and political views.

Some are relatively mild, others will literally put resumes from the wrong group of people in the recycle bin. And the wrong groups are not the historically under represented ones.
Maintaining access for old programs despite evolved schema by was Codd's motivation for relational algebra.
(I already edited my response since what was intended as a joke sounded unintentionally confrontational.)

The fact that there are already bad names doesn't justify creating more bad names. If nothing else, I suppose the terrible names are memorable.
That's fine. They should not have used a format made for data to describe what essentially is code.
So grateful for the engine of capitalism/free market, that has people 3d printing insulin pumps for themselves.
> For more complex cases I find myself wishing I could just turn Typescript into some kind of schema validation for JSON.

Not sure if this is what you're looking for, and whether it's powerful and expressive enough for your use case, but you can use typescript-json-schema¹ for this, and validate with eg ajv.

¹https://github.com/YousefED/typescript-json-schema
> The trouble for FB is that best developers have free choice of where they are going to work.

Thats in most companies no? The builders build from their heart. Until they get convinced to move somewhere very important as victims of their success and burnout. But you get 2-3 years of people giving their hearts out. Its what I call 'paying with love'. You know how they say 'do what you love and never work a day in your life', but what they dont say, is that you consuming that love, little by little, some day you will make a compromise, like an artist forced to paint something they dont agree with, and then again, and again.. until you start hating your brush.

> FB's model requires them to be able to hire a lot of really good developers. It may take some time, but if they have trouble hiring really good developers they will be starting to slide a slippery slope to mediocrity when they can easily be caught by competition.

I am not sure I agree with that, I dont think anybody's model requires constant input of really good developers, most things will work with ok devs, some sharded mysql, lots of ram and a bunch of materialization jobs.
Gotcha! capitalism monetizing everything possible.
There's actually a pretty large market in used appliances that have been refurbished with all-new wear parts (seals, bushings, etc.) I don't think the manufacturers want to create dishwashers and other appliances that last decades anymore.
Ask HN: How do you design KPI for teams or organization?
Would like to know your experience and what resources, thanks.
The Fed at this point controls the whole economy and they have two options:

1. Raise interest rates and stop printing. Crazy inflation stops, but asset prices crash and we enter a major recession or depression. The end result will likely be unrest and blood in the streets.

2. Do nothing, keep printing. Inflation picks up massively. The economy keeps humming along but young people, including myself, are permanently priced out of home ownership and many other things. We enter a new era of cyberfeudalism, which probably involves some blood in the streets.

It seems like they are going with option 2. I am 24 years old and I can't say I'm particularly excited. It doesn't even really seem like any of the high paying jobs are enough to keep up with this insane market. All I can do at this point is raise my fist to the sky and say fuck the fed, fuck the financial system, fuck the greedy rich, fuck BlackRock, and fuck you.
>Every time after measures are taken the spread of COVID slows down, every time they are loosened it increases again.

We should probably keep doing this merry go round yes? Expecting different results. This is like arguing we should never pull out of Afghanistan because chaos would ensue. Just lock-down forever yes?

Stopping the spread of a coronavirus is impossible, how do you not understand this?
A very sad attempt at a hit piece. It's not as if Sanders is mega rich and hiding his wealth offshore to avoid taxes. And there's no rule that states someone who believes in socialism must live in abject poverty.
S-expressions don’t completely solve the problem: they don’t have a syntax for maps, and in practice there are at least two common incompatible conventions: alist or plist?
I was guessing, its water in a container with bomb bay like doors, when the payload is released the doors open and the water goes into some complex structure that takes the energy out of the water. but only a guess.
Here's a possible solution - add sodium to the fuel mix for cargo ships.

That's massively simplified, but this video gives more information and there are plenty of engineering challenges to overcome - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hL3AZGw9xZM
But you can embed Lua or Python using its C interface.
> The inverters here generate enough power for 300 homes to use in a year. Kominek hopes to soon grow enough food beneath the panels to maybe feed as many local families.

This would be a super interesting village concept. Have 1 central agrovoltaic farm owned and operated by the surrounding farmers, and supply all of them with the electricity produced by the central solar farm. That way the land would be used both to grow produce to sell and sustainably power all the electrical needs of the surrounding farms.
> avoid `\w` and similar (what is word?) and instead use explicit rules (`[a-zA-Z]+`)

I don't think that's a good idea. What about Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, ...?
The taxpayer currently pays for it, too, through journal transcriptions paid for by university libraries.

Net effect could swing either way.
You are so right but nobody wants to hear it. We are incredibly short-sighted and incapable of accepting inconvenient truths. Every child conceived (and their children) is an enormous burden to the earth and all of us (in the grand scale of things) but because more population is in the best interest of every individual family, city, region and country, no reduction will ever happen, at least not voluntarily.
I don't doubt the statements, but without any reference for how they would respond to the same question "pre-pandemic" how are we supposed to draw any conclusions?

Did they ask men so that we could see at least a difference that we can compare with?
So, we tried AWS RDS Proxy for MySQL (well, actually AWS RDS Aurora MySQL), and we found that it did not improve our situation at all. It added latency, but no additional performance, and memory usage was unchanged.

The applications already had their own connection pooling functionality built-in, so AWS RDS Proxy didn’t buy us anything more beyond that.

I can’t speak for what this technology can do for situations where your application code does not already have connection pooling, or for cases regarding RDS Postgres.
literally any Vietnam documentary would prove that wrong. what does "moving forward" even mean when you're spinning? also, forward movement doesn't give the tail rotor any more "bite" ... if anything, it would get less. moving in a consistent direction would tend to orient the body of the helicopter to face into the wind because of the wind vane effect.
It might be legal etc... and app developers and companies seem to have signed away basically control of their app distribution, tradmarks and promotions to Apple the the small letters. But all the same it seems to be a bit sleezy and low for Apple to try and get money by spoofing other companies and brands in fake ads.

I get why Google doesnt, care, since Ads is their core business. But does Apple which already makes oceans of cash need to go this low for that little bit of extra $$$
Another movie with very good practical effects is Return of the Living Dead. A successful blend of action horror comedy, with punks in a graveyard. It's the only zombie movie I enjoy, and it's really well done - pacing, action, the zombies, humor - it all fits together.
Ask HN: Complacency after acquisition; Is this normal?
I'm cofounder of 3, we recently exited our startup at $50m valuation. The three of us have become very wealthy, and we were asked to move to a new state by the acquiring company.

With that, we've each indulged ourselves a little in terms of the apartments we rented/bought in the new state. We've also socialized a lot more with each other after the acquisition. Over the past 3 weeks we've partied hard 3 or 4 times. It seems like we're all a lot more relaxed, and overall less stressed. It feels really positive, and good.

I've noticed in myself going from 60 hour weeks, to 40 probably.

I still definitely feel a drive, there's a lot of potential upside being so close to the founders of the company that acquired us, but I must say it's not the same drive I used to experience.

It's like a weight is off my shoulders and the feeling of needing to succeed is a lot more dull... but it's definitely still there.

I'm curious if this is a normal experience after an acquisition? A mentor of mine mentioned that in his experience founders take it easier 2 years after an acquisition as a sort of recharge period.. The thought of that makes me uncomfortable for some reason...
If you could directly fetch the list of dependencies from a npm module name, it would make it a lot easier to use for a lot of people :)

It seems to have a lot of useful suggestions for alternatives, so thanks for creating and sharing it!
Can’t you ask the same of chess? Can you win a game of chess, only knowing the rules and nothing else? Absolutely (depending on opponent), but you aren’t doing yourself any favors.
Huh? Subscription apps are free to install.
I think benefits are as usual and the salary is making up for no equity. They do sell discounted shares (and apparently OOTM ten year LEAPs?)
I don't get it. Why would we expect -- or want -- a private company to bankroll the implementation of state IDs or take responsibility for ongoing support? Quotes from the article:

> And if that isn’t enough, Apple is holding states accountable for the authenticity of the program’s identity verification.

Good!!!

I don't want Apple Support deciding whether or not my driver's license is valid. That's a decision that should be made by the state. Why? Because the state has far more obligations to citizens than Apple has to its customers.

(Secondarily, because the state's purpose is to provide the best service it can with available revenue, not to maximize profit.)

> Despite being an Apple-led program, taxpayers are footing the bill to roll out this single-platform digital ID program in their states — even if they don’t have an iPhone. The contract clearly says “except as otherwise agreed upon between the Parties, neither Party shall owe the other Party any fees under this Agreement,” meaning that the participating states will be funding its promotion and adoption using taxpayer’s tender.

Good. I don't want my State Digital ID paid for with targeted advertising dollars. (Wait... did you think the alternative here was for some benevolent company to do government IT contracting for free?)

> Having a digital ID program — especially one paid for by states — raises a number of concerns

Again, this sentence is totally backwards. A Digital ID program not paid for by states would be horrendously concerning.
Million quid homes sound cheap in comparison to SF. Maybe we should move to London
Only Seagate has shipped firmware that bricks an entire drive.
look at the underside of an overpass. it's not a flat surface, but has thick ribs; lots of room for airflow even if the blades were 1" from the underside of the bridge.
The Developer Advocate's Guide to Metrics and Reporting
I chose HEVC for this article because all modern devices can play it, it’s very storage-efficient, and it can be nicely imported into Apple Photos. However, I’m also keeping the original .dv files in case a better codec is developed in the future.
If it had updated security patches, drivers for modern hardware, and a modern web browser, I'd seriously consider using Windows 2000 as my daily driver today. Windows 2000 was peak Windows for me. It was stable, and the desktop did not get in my way. It's Windows without the bloat, the nagging, and the surveillance. I loved it in the early 2000's, preferred it to XP (which introduced activation, the Fisher-Price theme, and some nagging), and still love it to this day. I periodically check the progress of ReactOS (https://reactos.org), since this is the closest thing to this vision of an updated Windows 2000.

While I'm at it, I'd be very productive with 2000-era productivity software, such as Microsoft Office 2000 and the Adobe software of that era. Of course, I'd need updated compilers and other developer tools since I'd like to work with modern languages.
This never really got "replaced" though. All the new connectors are for digital connections.

There's not much new for analog, which is probably the way it should be.
Rest and vest babbaaaay
Why shouldn't they have?
The default "happy path" for new Samsung televisions is to be set up through an app. A mandatory step is to allow background location tracking permissions.
iirc, it's hard to do any nested structure in INI - you'd have to do a convention like putting prefixes and dots in the name of the entry to denote hierarchy.
In the current system not everyone is entitled to a job for their profession. People should get used to it.
A very pathetic attempt by Politico to try to shame Bernie. The ones who should be ashamed are the writer of the article and the editors at Politico.
You're locked out by the digital divide, haves and have nots.
I would feel great because I have a low body fat, I workout, lift weights, eat healthy and get sun and vitamin D in high amounts.

0.1 was for everyone...without co-morbidities it's even lower and more of a non-issue. People that want to take the vax should do it. Why do they care what young and healthy people do?

Again though, coronvirus's don't go away it will be around forever and likely everyone gets it eventually. So what are we even talking about accomplishing here?
No, that's just how JavaScript reads them, because JavaScript only has float64. JSON itself allows arbitrary large decimal numbers, including uint64.
The 2005 web was a Boing 737.

The 2021 web is a Boeing 737 Max.
Oh totally, but GP never said the words "normal", only "much"

> they don't get paid much

which is how I suppose we're on the topic of arguing the semantics of "much". I think GP should have said "as much" to clarify, since this is a comparison between two specific jobs.
In many cases, you're using a library or service that you don't maintain, so you don't have much of a choice.
I wonder if they'll say "Sorry, we don't accept cash." like some airport curbside baggage services.
I'm pretty sure the format is the issue.

I still don't know how to do arrays in yaml.

Is it new line, tab to same indent or same indent + one space, do I need a dash? Does a dash make it an array or an object?

It's just simply not that big of a deal to add a few quotes and braces to make everything make sense.

The only real issue with Json is the lack of comments and strictness about extra commas.
How often will I need to replace my battery set?
I mean I agree it’s hurt things but I think the “download big files bad” argument is far from why
JSON Schema is an official thing that exists and has implementations in all major languages. Personally I’m very glad that it’s an opt-in addition rather than a requirement.

(I agree with you about comments though)
I wonder about this kind of thing. What is he trying to do here? Scare people? Get them excited about some new tech revolution?

Blue Origin hasn't even launched people to the ISS. We can't even replicate an achievement from 1969 with our current technology. Why on earth is he talking about a ridiculous sci-fi concept that humanity is not even close to achieving?
It's also noted in my previous comment "(or their parents chose for them to be in a risky business)". Since children don't have their own willpower legally or otherwise until they become adults, their parents are their guardian and ultimately responsible for them. Their parents chose to participate in something they knew was dangerous. We've always known flight in general is dangerous and when combined with explosives, extra dangerous.
https://www.worldscapitalcities.com/capital-facts-for-stockh...

” Population density is concentrated within Stockholm including its immediately surrounding urban area, averaging 11,802 people per square mile (4,279 per square kilometer).”

Clearly I’m the one spreading disinformation. Looking at city to city (Singapore is a city state) the density differences are minor.

And in in terms of suicides they were up 13% in one year. Singapore seems to think the covid situation was a factor.

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/suicide-highest-re...

Not sure kind of games you’re playing here.
What an egregious mislabeling.

Data -> Chats and actual Identity

Metadata -> Who with whom and when from where,...

They construe payment info, PII and similar except chat contents as metadata and say metadata of metadata was that which is normally called metadata. And that it was safe to share despite this obviously being not true.

Everyone remembers https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2014/05/10/we-kill-people-base...

?

How does one understand the authors motivation?
These aren't independent axes. For example, more money can make it easier to feel like you are genuinely contributing, or rationalize the idea that negative public sentiment isn't real and fake media reports.
Because when we unbundle prices like this, the base ‘unbundled’ cost is mysteriously never quite low enough to compensate for the extra costs and everyone ends up paying more in both money and convenience.
> make carbon neutral transit cheap and carbon intensive transit expensive then the market will innovate

Any ideas on what groups this would affect most?
Or the solar system flying through space and time towards its destination while it evolves the real cargo.
Not quite. There is some gray here. You can’t sell yourself into slavery or sign away your freedom of religion or speech.
If you think the heat in the earth comes from the sun, you are even more confused.
Engraved rock?
It doesn't need cannibalisation rates to be high enough to push the fee higher than their margin to be worse off, it just needs (delta between direct and App Store margin) * cannibalisation to be greater than the opportunity cost of users who would have given up trying to subscribe to HBO if they hadn't seen Apple's search result [assuming click costs/volume differences roughly even out]. I don't think it's exactly difficult for people to find a link to HBO Max from those results if the one that says "Download the HBO App" isn't there

Sure, they still make profit from the Apple signup, but less than they would have done if people were signing up from their website.

Needless to say if the App Store price is increased 1:1 to match so the developer definitely doesn't lose, it's a terrible deal for the consumer instead (if you're Googling, it's not even like Apple can claim the App Store is adding value with simplicity of discovery...)
Pity this didn't fly, it's an interesting piece about one of the most important writers we have. The "Grand Inquisitor" speech is a landmark.
(I took it to be more jovial than confrontational fwiw)

Bad names are all we've got left. There are over four thousand named minerals. How many ways can you say the words "blue" or "magnetic" in an Earthly language before you run out of words like azurite or bluite and start using ridiculous (and confusing) names like azurelite and bluilite? I hope you've got several thousand in mind (Anglicized for academia no less) because color and magnetism are two of the main ways minerals are identified. Just a google image search for the word "blue mineral" returns dozens of results in varying shades of blue, let alone turquoise or "blue-green".
Even with a large backpack, it's more efficient to drive because 4-5 bags is about the limit of carrying without a vehicle. And when you don't have time to fo 2x/week, either drive or Instacart.
I’ve always assumed it went something like: the web became popular, lots of programmers from other fields moved to web programming since that is where the jobs were at, they brought with them all their cruft and complexity and forced them onto web development (regardless of whether it was appropriate or not), and thus we have the insane complex mess web development has become.
In that case, you might want to have a look at JSON5: https://json5.org/

It is pretty niche, but attempts to improve upon JSON in a multitude of ways, one of which is the support for comments: https://spec.json5.org/#comments
Odds of winning are 1 in 292 million. So unless the odds were that the jackpot would be split 6 ways or more the tickets have a positive EV.
Amazing. I do wonder if I'd actually notice just watching it (haven't seen the film) vs. it being pointed out to me though. I think I miss (just thinking 'nice cinematography', but not realising specifically why) a lot of clever stuff.
Yes it's always worth remembering the alternative. In this case, the algorithm

insulin_dose(blood_glucose, activity, carbohydrate, fat, protein, time_of_day, time_of_month, is_saturn_in_retrograde, **kwargs)

has to get run: Either a microcontroller does it or a person (tired? hungry? intoxicated? distracted?) has to do do it in their head.
Why and how COBOL is still used
Why are unquoted keys so critical? I feel like one of the strengths of a DDL like JSON or XML is that it's easy to tell what the data (key-value pair or otherwise) is, while with YAML and others, understanding data-vs-structure can be challenging.
What's the issue? A marketplace is finding ways to drive traffic to its platform? It's literally their only job.

This is like eBay promoting sales of items on their marketplace using advertising.

Which they've done for years.
The Weather Pi: “This station is now up and running again” (2019)
Hi!

Thanks for the reply! I think adding GitHub and maybe LinkedIn links to your website would help establish a greater degree of trust. And please don't take it personally. It is just that given the high number of extensions stealing your data, I default to not trusting them.

Regarding Google Drive, the Google pop-up says:

"Select what BrainTool can access

- Associate you with your personal info on Google

- See your personal info, including any personal info you've made publicly available

- See your primary Google Account email address

- See, edit, create, and delete only the specific Google Drive files you use with this app."

The first three options cannot be unchecked and the last option needs to be selected for the integration to work. I don't know if it would be possible to require only the last option, but it would certainly make me more comfortable using BrainTool.

Otherwise, BrainTool looks great!
Relativistic effects suck. GPS has to consider it when determining a fix too.