skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Being a contractor for an agency is the worst of both worlds: no choice on what to work on that you'd get as a freelance contractor and no career growth wherever you're placed.

I did it for a year and it was miserable. It was great for the first few months, but then I started getting put on more and more menial tasks just to fill out my contract duration and I realized that there was no real point in understanding the systems I was working on in much depth beyond what it took to execute my task.

The other contractors who'd been at it for longer wrote some of the worst code I've seen, even though they were obviously very talented; they just didn't see the point of writing beautiful code if they're not going to be around in a few months to maintain it.
make it only available to accounts that pay for it. Could work with that crowd. (or make it a paid thing on the seller side, pay to opt an offered series of pieces in). But probably overall not that much money to be had.
An Anthropology of Clean Code
I don't think you really understand what the word "discussion" means. But I'll bite -- well, I'll nibble.

The weasel words "effectively taxing" can be twisted to cover literally every policy lever possible to deploy in our current democracy-corporatocracy, from actually taxing to removing the massive subsidies currently enjoyed by polluting industries to adding subsidies to better solutions, so between that and your baseless assertions, you're "right" by preemptive technical knockout: you "win". Since you assert that use of policy levers are all "Hilary"-class hubris, a signifier of other... "cognitive differences" between us, I don't think a discussion with you will be fruitful; you're clearly not "discussing" in good faith.
> Maybe twitter can't make money.

They had 3.7B in revenue last year. They're doing ok.
The way use convergence makes no sense to me in that context. Can you rephrase that more elaboratly?
Any recommendations for an easy-to-use pg Python library? AFAICT psycopg2 requires users to do:

import psycopg2
from psycopg2 import Error

try:
# Connect to an existing database
connection = psycopg2.connect(user="postgres",
password="pynative@#29",
host="127.0.0.1",
port="5432",
database="postgres_db")

cursor = connection.cursor()
cursor.execute("SELECT version();")
record = cursor.fetchone()

Having to manage the connection object myself is meh.

I'd like to be able to do:

import pg_interface

pg = pg_interface.init(db_config)
pg.command(some_sql_string, some_params)

or even

import pg_interface

pg_interface.command(some_sql_string, some_params, db_config)

and have the lib deal with initialising and managing any connection pools/objects.
Also, massively reduced energy consumption if you choose the right hardware (e.g. ultra low power microcontrollers).
5% daily growth rate, moving to Palo Alto, where should I stay?
Got a startup growing at 5% compounding daily. I am moving from the UK to Palo Alto to grow this. Goal is to meet entrepreneurs, investors, engineers (in manner consistent with doing work) in the first pair of weeks.
Where should I stay?
What evidence is there that fish cause ocean currents?
Blockchain Can Transform Africa Financial Sector
> Microsoft is a bit schizophrenic in Rust's adoption.

This is pretty famously not limited to Microsoft's views on Rust. Probably at any sufficiently large company, though Microsoft is the tech company that gets most discussed about. At a previous employer, there was a division that was gung ho on Go and React, while another was Java and Ember.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29391726
Yeah I quit everything but IRC. Twitter was so gross, I don't miss it, but actually actively wish that it would die. It's SO gross. I can't believe I used that trash for as long as I did, talk about a tool to destroy commonality man. The sooner people quit, the better the world will be, I hope one day it will be seen as akin to smoking in public, the more smokers the more dangerous. Maybe like cigarettes one day it will only be popular in France where all the wokest freaks live.
Appreciate the thoughtful reply!

Lots of what you said resonates and is what I've done, so I'm happy to see some of that validation.

Having been on the interview end of things a handful of times, I 100% agree on the two-way street analogy. I've somewhat prided myself for at least trying to make interviews conversational, both because it seems to organically bring about more interesting (and relevant) parts about their job history, but also because it's a way for myself and the interviewee to get a feel for the professional culture.

That said, having not interviewed for a job in nearly a decade, I have little idea if that's the norm. Especially given how much "resume" and "interview" training from school was centered around spinning negatives into positives and glowing up a job history, both conflicting with the organic, and maybe too transparent style or resume and interviewing I gravitate towards.

Thanks for the reply and the assurance I'm not too far off track :)
I knew of a company that did a per head price. The problem is the higher the salary, the harder the role is to fill. They ended up going the percentage route eventually. I am sure there is a better price structure, but flat percent (20) seems to be the standard pricing these days.
LinkedIn as Facebook: OMG yes. I’d love to have a filter that removes all posts containing: proud, excited, thrilled, humbled, awesome. Also, anything related to politics on either side.
Hackers could steal encrypted data now and crack it with quantum computers later
> Market-share and global user usage says otherwise.

Ah great. Thanks to Safari's market share I can now run it on Windows/Linux. Thanks that helps me a lot! :D
Similarly I imagine a client might suddenly go under or cut you off. It's pretty hard to make money 100% in a vacuum.

Networking and marketing vs interview skills is a pretty solid point, though. If you prefer one of those over the other, then definitely lean towards the associated career path.
New business model from me - $0.01 per post/comment, $1 - per hating post/comment.

Make world happy again!
I wish crypto people HODL-ed their opinions.
How Hardware Tokens Work
> In the interest of shipping, we are consciously steering around unsolved problems, even when it means we lose some attractive features

Huh, this is more like pragmatism than "Hubris".
I think a JISA (if you are in UK) with Vanguard is probably the best way to go with things - given the amount of time you'll have it open for you'll most likely see fairly decent returns.

The Vanguard Lifestrategy funds get recommended time and time again - basically pick your risk level / fund and then it's pretty much set and forget.

I guess there's nothing stopping you from putting a small amount into crypto but I certainly wouldn't want to bet my children's future on it.
That impulse will occur as they try to do more and more complex things with systemd.
Meta argued that the regulator was “sending a chilling message to start-up entrepreneurs: do not build new companies without a viable business model because you will not be able to rely on a competition harming sale to a dominant market player for an exit.”

More realistic interpretation.
I don’t think anyone said it would.
You can basically ask that same question of everything that government does.
They didn't have the knowledge or resources to figure out that they can't indefinitely burn money and needed to sell user data and ads?
for context, greenhouse effect was first described in 1824 and a good approximation of the warning effect of doubling of atmospheric CO2 was made in 1896 (+2.5~4 C) [0]

From 1800 to 1900, CO2 ppm rose from 280 to 300

Of course, from 1900 til today it has risen to over 400ppm

My point is, we were burning a significant amount of coal throughout 1800s - Acid rain was happening in the 1850s [1]

[0] http://interactive.fusion.net/200-years-of-climate-science-a...

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid_rain
If a user has already spent money purchasing an NFT that they want to use as their profile picture, they will almost certainly spend a bit more for proof of ownership.
So you’re saying we can’t be sure about our models but we can be sure that they’re wrong in a certain direction.
I can't say Docker is simpler than Nix.

I found Nix way easier, but the documentation is very... concise.
Nice review of what sounds like an interesting book.

One small objection: "Cleaning data is the fundamental task that defines data science as a role: statisticians and economists buy clean data from somebody."

Man I wish. I spent more than a year of my PhD (cumulatively and not all at once) cleaning various kinds of data. I joked w/ an adviser once that I thought I had signed up for an economics PhD but it turned out I was getting a PhD in data cleaning.

Finding pre-cleaned, nice data for a project is like finding a $100 bill on the street. Doesn't happen.
Apple TV with Infuse. https://firecore.com/infuse

It can connect to Plex, Jellyfin, SMB, NFS and more. Bought a lifetime licence a while back before the price was increased and no regrets so far.
Yeah, now that you say it it does seem to be very close to "plata o plomo."

(Translating as literally "silver or lead": take this money or take a bullet)
By fine grained update control -- do you mean similar to mobx + react. I think "automatic change tracking" is the phrase I've seen thrown around. If so this was always the most appealing method for performant UI's for me. You have some conceptual overhead of dealing with observables, but in return you get to ignore the majority of performance -- components only update when the data they need to use changes, and you never have to manually specify it. Really nice for web apps that have a lot of mix and match screens (say, complex internal tooling that may have numerous components re-used ina variety of places).
Miele is a German brand with a long history. You can buy them around the world.

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

> Miele (/ˈmiːlə/ MEE-lə; German: [ˈmiːlə]) is a German manufacturer of high-end domestic appliances and commercial equipment, headquartered in Gütersloh, Ostwestfalen-Lippe. The company was founded in 1899 by Carl Miele and Reinhard Zinkann, and it has always been a family-owned and run company.[2]

There might be laws that set some minimum standards. But (a) there are still differences between companies' approaches to quality, and (b) Miele is selling around the world also in jurisdictions were EU rules do not apply, but they still deliver on their reputation for quality.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29367727
So it has been admitted and they were trying to IPO as I said months ago, despite them denying it previously. [0]

Very unsurprising.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28773122
The problem is that since the sixties scientists are predicting doom and this is causing people to become skeptical about new insights.

For example, after decades of sea level doom scenario's people are saying it is "slower than expected".
Put it all into crypto.

Losing their entire investment due to volatility/risk is the best possible head start into learning about the space.
Tablet's MAC address linked accused to 11M$ ransom because he returned tablet
#BitcoinFixesThis

Bitcoin will never lock your funds, suspend your account, and since it works perfectly, you don't need support at all.
As long as he doesn't do it all at once, not really. It's not like he would need all 263 billion at once and he sold 9.9 billion dollars worth this month alone [0].

[0]: https://www.businessinsider.com/musk-sells-more-shares-one-b....
> Most people wouldn't or they would charge for access and increase their RoI. Search isn't really valuable to Google, they make most of their money in ads.

They make money from ads… which people see when they use search.

Ad-support allows for a much greater userbase which is a key ingredient to having a good search engine or a good social network. It doesn’t mean people wouldn’t pay a lot for those services if they were paywalled.

Of course if, say, Google charged for search, users could defect to Bing.

But the argument here is that Twitter’s users won’t defect anywhere. Its social graph is too valuable for them and a coordinated move somewhere else is borderline impossible.

EDIT: as a baseline, consider how many users are willing to pay for purchase/subscription to different Twitter apps. And that’s only a different (presumably better for the buyers) front end, not the core service.
An enjoyable read. I think I am suspicious of the usual fawning over Feynman that I see (maybe because I am suspicious of any cult of personality — I think we all know Feynman was not without flaws).

I found the description of the author's interactions with Feynman to be truly delightful. There is a hint of worshipfulness in the set-up but I think the infamous physicist delivered.
Yes, since a long time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22107823.

> Any pro tips on how to google

Pro tip: try DuckDuckGo, https://ddg.gg.
Go with a traditional system. Governments are obligated to protect these simple financial systems because normal people (voters) have put their money into them. It’s going to be another generation before crypto advocates are deep enough in established federal roles to legislate protections and advantages for crypto - also, I suspect that we’re going to see another “wave” of new coins before things settle down for the long haul.

(These are of course, just my opinions, and I’m very much just a spectator for the crypto stuff)
Hi HN

So at Quidli we work on enabling orgs to internally share crypto with their members as incentives using existing workflows like via web browser and Slack - online teams and communities can use crypto as digital rewards with real value to encourage participation and engagement in their objectives, missions.

We've seen solid adoption on the Slack app and so we've now pushed to prod this v1 of a Discord app. It's not yet open-source or fully on-chain, but we make it free and it offers a friendlier onboarding experience to crypto for newbies.

Super happy to answer any questions or take feedback/comments on this from the community here. Thanks!
So far over time the climate has been warming faster and there have been more problems consistently than the median of models up to that point predicted, so "And that's played out already" is very wrong.
Your example seems interesting, it reminds me of Blade Runner that I recently watched for the first time. The style should be used sparingly and for specific purposes, though - like teal and orange color grading in blockbuster movies isn't (is that getting better recently?).
There are markets where one potential acquirer being unable to do so doesn't completely scupper your chances of any exit though.

If the antitrust regulators came down on Microsoft again, I don't think we'd see their lawyers argue that there's no other route for B2B software vendors to cash out except to sell to them.
AI is making applying for jobs even more miserable
Funny anecdote, but the initial reason for us to all drive shit looking bikes was the reason that these did not get stolen so often :)

Not so sure your design / desirable bike will last long thou. See here (1) where an absolute unique Audi RS6 DTM was stolen WHILE being used in a film shoot.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n53U_HlIs_Q (sorry, Dutch only)
Filter out any Pinterest links. Those will pollute your results.
Title makes no sense.
In what way does Firefox block them? If you mean they don't autoplay: that is how it is meant to be. Please do not annoy your users.
So FB harms their UK business and gets a big fine. UK FB goes without GIFs - not a huge deal!
This is biased because they are your acquaintance. Because they act a certain way in your circle doesn’t mean they aren’t being a bad actor in others.

Your post makes it clear you’re very out of touch with the reality of interviewing. I’ve had this same stuff pulled on me at Google, Amazon, and multiple other companies. Being offered a position and then getting surprise interview and then ghosted. It’s draining and demoralizing, and a major waste of my time.
Lora Messages bounced off lunar surface using off-the-shelf hardware
EmacsConf 2021 Videos
Are you familiar with the phrase "laughing all the way to the bank"?
This might work if Twitter was a private company. Their stock has been an enduring stinker and frankly I would bet on it being sold rather than the owners being satisfied with 'unsexy consistency'
It seems unlikely that fish are more influential than earth rotation, sun etc. The energy difference is very large.
I will admit perhaps I was a bit too loose with my own interpretation of the statement there. I think maybe this was influenced by my being tired of grand statements others have made in the past about the infallibility of writing code in Rust (even with liberal usage of "unsafe" without a proper understanding of what this implies).

It's all too often I see some cargo cult-style declaration of "no more C; it's all Rust" as if that has somehow solved all problems and absolved the programmer of the responsibility for ensuring their code is otherwise safe and correct (granted, Rust does make this easier to do), and IMHO this just ends up doing a disservice both to those proclaimers and ultimately to Rust itself. To be clear, this is not a statement against Rust by any means but rather a complaint against the conduct of some of its practitioners.

With that being said, I feel I really also need to state here that I absolutely do not believe the above to be the case with the announcement here...Even to the contrary, I would say, as the name "Hubris" says it all. It's great to see Rust used in practice like this, and I look forward to seeing more of the details in the code itself!
How do you think startups make money? We're talking about two different things -- one is the value the business provides to their customers which is selling goods and services, and the other is the value the business provides to the founders and investors which is profit.

Whether or not something is a lifestyle business is a shuffling around of who owns the business and gets the profit, not at all about how the business operates except as second order effects.
Because Github language popularity correlates to relevance/quality... everybody knows that. I see PHP at 8, DM at 19 and CoffeeScript at 23 ... you are damn right Ada is irrelevant!

And yes I suppose Alire dose not have https://www.npmjs.com/package/isarray equivalent... damn, what a shame, totally disqualifying.
Ericsson Mobility Report: Mobile Data Traffic Up Almost 300-Fold Over 10 Yrs [pdf]
You nailed it! Those missing events will slot into place as offline devices come online.

It works for any model where the use case doesn't really matter about up-to-the-minute accuracy, but for case generation and collation over time, it really excels.

We found the ES events wayyy to chatty to push back out to mobile (in 2012) so we push the aggregates back out to the mobiles.

Plus, if you're capturing GPS coordinates, running it through Kibana for real time map reporting is really exciting to watch!
TL;DR; Author integrated libnfs in the fio benchmark tool.
Thanks for taking the time to reply!

Teams we want to recruit:
- 10+ employees
- ideally software/service companies
- early adopters with tech profiles
- Geography doesn't really matter since they should be remote/async-first

On 1:1 outreach I thought about it, but I don't feel comfortable with that. That's a good call still. Have you ever had success with that?
Blog posts can't be 'Show HN', use a regular submission instead. https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
I am confused when you say sharing events isn't part of event sourcing. How does a service populate it's state from other services event source if it can't access it's events?
So the article basically says that programmers are perfectionist jerks and you shouldn't hire them.

Too bad programmers are actually the ones you need the most. Trading is mostly a technical problem, which requires a technical organization to be solved well. You're not going to be successful if you only hire MBA types and cannot build a culture of technological excellence.
Ok but as a statistical professional don’t you thibk that all “X than expected” stories be written with a preregistered hypothesis from some earlier date which can be linked? Otherwise they are a press release.
> And finally, have your bike look used.

That doesn't help, we used to joke with an aquaitance of mine that it was a miracle that his bike still worked, and he used to reply at least it wouldn't attract the attention of thieves, until the day he got stolen.
I'd expect it to be more like 1 in a hundred staying. Certainly I'd take it as an excuse to cut the tie and try to find which discords people had fled to. They'd probably lose a third of their users simply by annoucing the plan.

There is one plan which they've never considered and probably never will: something like Twitch, where you can pay for the "content creators" you like.
What definition of vector processor are you thinking of? Wikipedia’s definition appears to agree with the parent, and even states “Modern graphics processing units […] can be considered vector processors” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector_processor
It can just as well be an explanation why climate models have been pretty consistently under-estimating warming of time though.
Maybe someone from the Raspberry Pi Foundation can explain this to me: it seems they're going corporate; is there any place left for a Raspberry Pi non-profit?

Seems a bit contradictory with recent events at HQ.
If you do business in a country, you have to accept that you're going to be subject to the laws of that country, and that clearly includes laws regarding competition. Facebook can probably appeal the ruling, but at the end of the day, if they want to keep doing business in the UK, they're going to have to comply with the decisions of the regulatory bodies there.

The US has blocked mergers as well, and has retroactively forced acquisitions to be terminated. An example was Grindr selling a 60% stake of the company to the Chinese company Kunlun in 2016, Kunlun purchasing the rest of the company in January 2018, and CFIUS issuing a ruling in March 2019 that a Chinese company owning Grindr posed a national security risk and forcing them to sell the company (although finding a buyer and completing the sale took another year).
until nix works on windows natively i wouldn't give it a second thought, what is it like on osx?
More plastic garbage in your life, eventually to fill a landfill until the end of the Earth. Stop buying music on physical media. It hasn’t needed to be this way for decades.
Fair enough, but parallelism isn't just about cores since SIMD can also help. Also, immutability doesn't just help through parallelism, it also allows other things (as another example, avoiding redundant work like loads of an immutable field and computations on them).

Would that help with a huge 50x difference? Maybe not, but the point is that evaluating the benefits of immutability on a VM that does not optimize it - JS VMs - is not relevant. (And that 50x might also be caused by other limitations of JS VMs and not immutability at all, like say deopts.)
That depends on the conversations.

Sometimes you can say far more with a single look than you can with mere words.
Also see: makeup.