skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> When you talk about creativity, SF is at the forfront a giant nation of 300M people, 2 orders of magnitude larger population and market size. That naturally support more creativity and innovation.

If we're talking about the Bay Area tech startup founders then roughly half of those are born outside of the US. Singapore could have just as easily attracted those immigrants, but they went to SF instead.
>For context, I'm a Python dev, in finance. I used to do Java, which I note still seems to offer higher salaries, but I wouldn't be tempted to return. Maybe the AWS route could work?

According to SO surveys Python programmers are better payed than Java programmers: https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2021#work-salary
Discrimination against Chinese goes back 500 years.

There are several reasons: Chinese are rich. Nobody likes the rich.
Chinese are foreigners. Nobody likes foreigners.
Chinese are heretics and infidels. Nobody likes those.
Another cause is the, admittedly brilliant, tactic of divide and conquer that Western colonial powers used. Set the natives up against the Chinese merchants instead of white government officials. The Chinese conveniently lacked the firearms and navy guns that the whites had access to.

There have been many downright genocidal riots against the Chinese across the region. The Chinese government was too weak to do anything about it.
Maybe we should shut down aws until they figure out how to handle their periodic outages.
I mean, if you showed him buying the same model from Amazon and it had pictures from him testing it in his office, that's probably enough to convict.
I thought that too.

But then I use vintage lab glassware labeled Hydrochloric Acid and Potassium Hydroxide for oil & vinegar containers.
I wish there was more education about what happened after 1917 in Russia. I've read the gulag archipelago and while that is an amazing work not many will endeavor to read it. My education on the topic in school did not do a good job describing how the culture was manipulated or how fear was used to divide the population. There are important lessons learned that should never be forgotten.
"For equipment that is easier to tamper with or where tampering could become a larger problem, we make unannounced visits at random to retail stores and purchase off-the-shelf products."

Admit it...y'all just want a good reason to go to MicroCenter, right?
I've been "sending myself messages" long before Telegram officially acknowledged it as a feature. It's great. I tag every "message" with its context.

But I do copy everything to local, backed-up storage.

What I haven't done yet is make it public. I expect this to be easy as I'm a full-stack dev with a custom CMS already.

There's two obstacles to that happening, however: 1) I don't believe anyone cares (yet), and 2) I'd need to check literally the entire archive for anything I don't want to publish, because I occasionally paste secrets there.
Just getting rid of first-past-the-post would do wonders for our country and by the looks of it approval voting is inferior to run-off voting by a mile.
I agree that in theory they could both co-exist for the reasons you state, but in practice I think it's unlikely a company that invests in a data fabric (which is largely a technology cost) is going to simultaneously invest in the incentives for the data product creators that are necessary for the data mesh not to become the wild west.
There is substantial public documentation of the extensive system of calibration targets that were built for CORONA and subsequent satellite programs, such that it's hard to imagine why so much confusion seems to exist in this area. In fact Arizona was used for both, but satellite imaging calibration targets of various types are found in California and throughout the country. The most extensive system of photogrammetric calibration targets in the US is at Edwards AFB, where features include 10 mile reference rulers. Smaller references were sometimes just painted on the tarmac at air force bases for simplicity.

That said, these kinds of things are, necessarily, obvious and accessible to anyone. Calibration targets built for various programs are sometimes used for other programs, sometimes even by rival nations, simply because they're known to be there and it's easier to use something in place than to build something new. The fact that nearly all of these programs operated under great secrecy and before retention of classified records was typical (there were not yet as extensive of records retention mandates applicable to classified programs) means that the details can now be somewhat obscure, just because all of the original documentation was destroyed or lost after the program closed.

An interesting variety of calibration targets are those intended for radar (SAR) use, since they take the form of 3D shapes rather than 2D images. Since SAR is a much more recent technical development in remote sensing there are far fewer public details, but various military and contractor installations have included, at times, oddly carefully sculpted gravel piles that are assumed to serve this purpose. An example is at the former Lockheed site in Potrero Canyon near Beaumont, CA.

Many of the images covering the US taken by CORONA and several subsequent programs, mostly for calibration or testing but sometimes by error, were declassified under Clinton-era rules and given to the USGS. You can now browse them as part of USGS's general aerial imagery collection. The resolution is insufficient for most modern uses (the USGS's collection of agricultural aerial survey photos is far more useful), but they're unrivaled in the sheer land area they cover in one large frame.
I'd agree with you IF all our primaries were on the same day and there wasn't this caucus >> primaries in a new state each day
Ask HN: Best resources for learning back end JavaScript?
I'm starting a new job in a couple weeks that is much more javascript heavy on the backend than I'm used to and I want to play around a little bit with the tech I'll be using before my start date.

So I'm really just looking for recommendations on resources. For whatever reason, simply googling "how to get started with backend javascript" is much less helpful "how to learn python/k8s/docker/whatever".

Just looking for good websites & books for learning modern backend javascript development.

Also, obviously, any recommendations on a good repl and ide or anything else to increase my developer experience would be delightful as well.

Thanks!
Handwriting or printer yellow dots can still lead to them.

Sign of times though - calling law enforcement when you find old pathogen and its vaccine in a freezer in a vaccine development lab. MBA types. In order to mentally train myself for an MBA career i need to start calling law enforcement anytime i find a bug in the 20+ years old code.
So I had no idea phones have ToF sensors these days. Do most phones have them or only the high-priced flagships? What are the actual intended uses for them?
Gates funds a lot of research. Two weeks ago he talked about a smallpox terror attack in the US, and then a couple days ago "smallpox" vials are found. I don't care what his proximity is, it's still a crazy coincidence.

And Event 201 was about a global pandemic, put on by the Gates Foundation in October 2019. I don't think I need to point out what happened shortly after that. Again, it's not about proximity but specificity and timing.
Politics matter. As soon as a particular "piece of progress" becomes big enough, affecting enough people and commanding enough money, there come interested parties.

Seems like a confirmation that democracy needs fighting for it every day.
"Let's potentially tank the world economy, because it would embarrass China, except let's not follow it up with evidence of their responsibility for a couple years!"

I think it's highly unlikely that this was an intelligence op. There would have been incontrovertible proof of responsibility and one or more clear culprits. Instead, the pieces have had to be assembled indirectly, by experts, in ways that intelligence organizations aren't equipped to facilitate.

Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by incompetence or laziness.

To my view, the Wuhan lab was a pretend institution operated by pretend scientists so CCP officials could check boxes and tout their academic and institutional credibility. They were doing things that they shouldn't have under conditions that wouldn't pass muster in western countries. The world presumed on their competence and integrity and we are now paying out the nose.
W2022?
You're right, it would be nice if the US government didn't spend trillions on the military.
[Used to be in a similar situation as yours (have a LLB, became a software engineer), but not a lawyer in any capacity]

My understanding is that H1B rules allow 3 years of experience to count as one year of a relevant degree. So if you don't have any higher education in computing subjects, theoretically 12 years of relevant experience would meet the requirements.

That said even if you legally meet the requirements, non-typical cases often get mishandled due to administrative error. In my case, I applied for a L1 visa (which unlike H1B does not have degree requirements) but the officer somehow decided to apply H1B requirements anyway and rejected the application (he probably got confused). There was no feasible appeal process, so our lawyers advised me to go on a trip to another jurisdiction and re-apply. It worked out in the end, but the officer basically told me that we weren't supposed to shop around different consulates like that, but he did say he'd look up the law before deciding, presumably he wasn't able to find any legal basis for rejecting the application. (The process was pretty exciting!)
> Palmitate is produced endogenously and dietary palmitic acid does not even influence tissue concentration [1].

If there's no uptake by tissue, then wouldn't the tumor have a plentiful energy source once it vascularizes? (Assuming they can metabolize palmitic acid)
If you do release it, is it possible to not depend on Google services please? I am almost a year in my degoogled life!
Context:
https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/9kt9dj/fred...

Background for people who don't know what this is about like me:

> DeBoer is a blogger of what I would call the “dissident Left.” I would describe him as a committed socialist who is also a committed civil libertarian and has often had sharp critiques of the Left as well as the Right. He’s on the SlateStarCodex blog roll and he often pops up as a point of discussion (or even as a commenter in the replies) on SSC.

> About a year ago (after the accusations) he announced he was leaving writing for a while, as we discussed on this subreddit.

> Finally, Malcom Harris, the man he falsely accused, has responded here.
But there it can be so much better, or so much worse.

Worse is Node.js (not bothering with the unanswerable question: Why Node.js?) thousands and thousands of package downloads. Long chains of transitive dependencies. A long storied history of security/reliability catastrophes.

I love Rust. But I have always thought having the compiler download dependencies is a very bad idea. It would be much better if the programmer had to deliberately install the dependencies. Then there would be an incentive to have less dependencies.

This is currently a shit show, because it is easier to write than read, to talk than listen. New generations of programmers refuse to learn the lessons of their forebears and repeat all their mistakes, harder, bigger, faster
> who is it not OK to destroy for ideological reasons and who is fair game

IMHO, that's the problem right there. Once you get into this "you did it, so can I" game, you've set into motion the wheels of destruction. This seems best summarized by this quote:

> Destroying the mechanisms of democracy to preserve democracy won’t work

Incidentally, the history of the aptly descriptive idiom "fighting fire with fire" offers a cautionary tale of its own[0]:

> The source of this phrase was actual fire-fighting that was taken on by US settlers in the 19th century. They attempted to guard against grass or forest fires by deliberately raising small controllable fires, which they called 'back-fires', to remove any flammable material in advance of a larger fire and so deprive it of fuel. This literal 'fighting fire with fire' was often successful, although the settlers' lack of effective fire control equipment meant that their own fires occasionally got out of control and made matters worse rather than better.

[0] https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/fight-fire-with-fire.htm...
The class/material is phenomenal. I thought there would be more Stanford folks on HN...
I have reservations about machines doing due diligence, especially in an expedited fashion.
Seems a lot like it's only "cancelled" if the target is right-wing.
The marketplace for the most part does this for you. The artist directs buyers to the marketplace page for their project and the marketplace pulls information directly from the blockchain. If you want additional security you can manually lookup the history of a project on etherscan. There are scammers that make copy-cat projects but it is usually easy to steer clear of them by getting contract address/marketplace info from the artist on twitter or discord.
Isn't it fair to say that this is the way human nature works? I'm sure her having "led a protest movement" via a Twitter crusade was gratifying, but not to the extent that depositing a sizable check would be. "Justice" doesn't have quite the same feel as cash on hand. And she got hers.
But that costs money. Money that if not spent, goes straight to the profit line
The people I speak of have high incomes, high education levels, don’t break the law, can solve logic puzzles very fast, etc. They are also extremely stupid.
If you want to hear more of his view, including some solid rebuttals, I highly recommend IntelligenceSquared, a debate series that gets published as a podcast. They cover motions from culture to science to politics across the spectrum and usually get excellent, well-informed debaters on both sides.

Their most recent one was "Cancel Culture is Toxic"[0] and Kasparov was arguing in favor of the motion.

While I ultimately disagree with the motion, I think Kasparov and Kmele Foster (mostly Kmele, really) made the stronger case. And regardless, it was a fascinating and well-argued discussion of the sort you almost never see around topics like "cancel culture." Well worth a listen.

[0] https://intelligencesquaredus.org/debates/cancel-culture-tox...
I suggest you read Good Calories, Bad Calories by Gary Taubes before spending more time mocking keto. Ketogenic diets have lots of backing in science and have changed many lives and posts like these can be very hurtful.
Is this a good time to move to a dairy farm?
> And I don't think you actually want to minimize energy efficiency, unless sprinting while doing calculus after 72 hours of no sleep is your hobby?

No, my "hobby" is laying flat and loosing fat (which is done mostly by the brain burning calories AFAIK). I once gained sixpack abs this way. Unfortunately I don't have enough time to lay flat these days so I don't have the six pack any more. I also am very aware of the tricks my brain plays on me all the time and hate that.

Humans don't need to save energy any more. Energy-saving and accumulating features of a human body are an atavism doing obvious harm (e.g. inclining us towards wrong judgement) and no good in today world. We have infinite amount of calories readily available 24x7 all year round. Sugar is dirt-cheap, almost everyone has at least some fat deposits they don't need, don't want and occasionally torture themselves to get rid of.

It would certainly be great if our brains could expend as much energy as physically possible to actually power our perception and thinking rather than save it.
Open-Source Plastic Scanner
> Your NFT is a worthless forgotten entry buried in a DB of a URL pointing to a public image (everyone has access to, but no one else had to trade real money for) that will become a broken link when this pyramid scam collapses vaporizing every dollar that remained invested in it.

Nope, my NFT is a permanent record of account utilizing the ERC721 open standard for non-fungible tokens on the Ethereum blockchain. The record of my purchase of the NFT will exist long after you or I are no longer around.

It is a transferrable asset tradeable 24/7 on the Ethereum blockchain, accessible as an open data standard on numerous marketplaces and applications. It is far more liquid and exchangeable than any physical asset I own.

Some of the NFTs I own exist as SVGs stored on Ethereum mainnet. Some exist on Filecoin or Arweave blockchains and have 200 years of prepaid storage to back them up. Some are backed by centralized photo servers and only merely exist as temporary novelties (which is totally ok, by the way).

It's not a pyramid scheme. It's deeper than you know and will evolve further than your bias will let you see. You don't have to like sports to understand why an athlete is paid $50 million a year to play with a ball. You would do well to understand it better before you demean it, even if you don't personally want to participate in it.
You need to try swoole/ openswoole - it brings golang style concurrency to php.
you dont need to use nginx/apache and it beats node in performance tests.

https://www.swoole.co.uk/
The guy ran for political office in Russia and now lives in exile after having numerous threats to his life for holding certain political views.
Reddit web experience is horrible by design. They don't want you browsing using your browser.
Apparently this happened before:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smallpox

> On July 1, 2014, six sealed glass vials of smallpox dated 1954, along with sample vials of other pathogens, were discovered in a cold storage room in an FDA laboratory at the National Institutes of Health location in Bethesda, Maryland. The smallpox vials were subsequently transferred to the custody of the CDC in Atlanta, where virus taken from at least two vials proved viable in culture.[130][131] After studies were conducted, the CDC destroyed the virus under WHO observation on February 24, 2015.[132]
Problems with SMS:

- it's best effort: message may (or may not) be delivered; they may (or may not) come in order; they may (or may not) be timely

- SIM stealing/swapping is not hard

- it's all plain-text

- if you fatfinger the phone number, your auth code goes to the wrong place
Hi HN! I'm CTO and the third co-founder of Accord. Having never been professionally in sales, I had to reset my expectations of how to be successful in sales today.

The first realization that customers don't want to talk to you, but that was just the beginning of my journey. Approaching sales as "how can I help my customer solve THEIR problem together" instead of "how can I sell the customer MY solution" was the second level.

The final realization is that these sales reps already exist in every successful startup. How can we build software to give everybody (not just sales reps!) this super power has been the most reward challenge of my career.

We're just getting started... but also in true HN fashion, we're also hiring! wayne at inaccord dot com.
We have selective pressure to survive cancer for the first 40 years of our life (and not just barely survive but be unhindered by it). After that there are more subtle selective forces at work: having grandparents that are in good health and helping find food or care for children can certainly improve your survival chances. And of course the machinery we have developed to survive the first 40 years doesn't suddenly stop working after that.

But you're right insofar as there's fairly little selective pressure to prevent cancer over the entire lifespan of a human. We probably could have much better protection from cancer, but the energy investment for that isn't worth it from an evolutionary perspective.
They'd be admissible, but mostly just in an advisory sense. Policy documents like this don't, themselves, have the force of law, they just suggest the agency's preferred interpretation of existing statutes or regulations. That does matter -- if said existing statute or regulation is ambiguous, and the way the agency interprets it is a plausible one, courts will often defer to the agency's judgment as to how to resolve the ambiguity (these are called Chevron and Auer deference, respectively for statutes and regulations). But a court could also find that the existing law isn't ambiguous, or the agency's interpretation isn't plausible, or that the policy position constitutes new law that requires APA rulemaking, so they're not bound by a document like this necessarily.
I used to work in a newspaper’s digital department. From the outside, I can see why AMP might look good. “Faster loading times, higher engagement from ads, and an SEO boost? What’s not to love?” From the inside though, this adds a lot of overhead to sites that are usually old, patchwork, and very complicated. Essentially, the dev team has to have two entirely separate tracks now, one for regular ads and one for AMP. If you have an advertising department, this gets even more annoying since AMP does not allow as much customization of ads as papers are used to (header vs side vs footer vs text-only vs sponsored posts vs in-article, etc.). Not to mention, the main “incentive” problem in the journalism industry right now is not invasive ads, it’s ads and clickbait in general, which AMP doesn’t help with. Most papers don’t want to have to tailor headlines for Twitter, Facebook, and a million other sites and venues. They don’t want to have to deal with ads, but something needs to pay to run the site and no one likes paying for news. Only extremely large players like NYT or financial papers can pull that. So I don’t like when Google says this “helps publishers.” That’s not their goal, that’s just marketing speak. Their goal is to make browsing Google a better experience, going so far to define a Google-Approved HTML Spec and cache your content on their servers. Just my 2 cents. Maybe some newer players in the game do like AMP.
This is nonsense. For instance, in the last approval voting election for the board of trustees at Dartmouth, there was an average of 1.8 approvals per ballot for four candidates. The average voter voted for almost half of the candidates.

http://scorevoting.net/BulletBugaboo

Approval voting is beloved by game theory experts specifically for its immense resistance to strategy. It was adopted by a 64% landslide majority in Fargo and a 68% landslide majority in St Louis.
Solar-driven water splitting at 13.8% solar-to-hydrogen efficiency
"The police" would consist of government bureaucrats and cancel mobs. Facebook can be and is being reported to them with the full expectation that they will ultimately be able to force Facebook to censor in different ways.

> One Mafia family has functionally unlimited power, and verifiably censors the two other groups worldwide.

There's a media blitz about Facebook precisely because Facebook doesn't have unlimited power, and the media blitz is part of the attempt to smack them down. The media, the government, and the mob can fight Facebook on terms that give them a meaningful chance of winning.
Why, because there's also a Bing AMP proxy? Come on. AMP pages in Google search results are proxied through Google 100% of the time, by design.
Why Sweden exactly? What's special about it?
32-Bit 80386DX ISA Single Board Microcomputer
https://www.quora.com/How-is-transistor-density-related-to-c...
In a dark room, you can point an old-style remote control at an iPhone camera and see button presses light up the IR transmitter.

I do this to test their batteries :)

But older Cell-phones (flip phones) with CMOS sensors used to be really good at this as they wouldn’t filter much IR in order to work better in low-light conditions.