skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People need to realize is actual support for diversity means internalizing there is a benefit.

So if you actually believe there is a benefit to having a team of men and women (I do), then it's not "wrong" to let that guide you to the woman when any score above a 50% indicates someone who will be able to actually do the work.
No, I was a beliver on WinRT as merge for COM/.NET world, .NET Native as it should have always been and C++/CX as Microsoft finally getting the point of C++ Builder.

They just borked the whole execution and burned the bridges that many of us had, with the multiple rewrites since Windows 8 came to be, dropping support for devices and finally dropping even .NET Native and C++/CX.

The irony is that Windows 11 is so rushed out, that they needed to still make use of UWP for the new UI regardless of WinUI 3.0 marketing.
Yes, very much so. Probably not so much in the US and most western democracies, but yes.
The "(Open) Web Platform" perhaps? A term that numerous groups like the W3C were trying to push hard but that doesn't seem to have hugely caught on in day to day conversation.
This "review" is meant to highlight the absurdity of needing randomized control studies for things that are observationally obvious.

There is however a follow up RCT study that used actual jumpers to prove that parachutes do help https://www.bmj.com/content/363/bmj.k5094
Such agents are often in breach of GDPR _and_ labor law in the EU.

If your employee doesn't fulfill some other criteria, like providing all hardware containing such a agent, not requiring you to use our have the hardware powered on outside of you work time etc. it's unlikely to be legal.

They might also need to provide you with a way to separate internet access, e.g. an LTE modem, a this agent the to scan the network which they are in, which is also in beach of law in case of home office.
Amazon is completely and utterly flooded with companies that sound like they fell right out of a random string generator. If you'd like a bedside alarm clock for example, you have to sift through pages and pages of nonsense "brands" like Tisaika, Keniy, Noklead, Yissvic, Anjank, Coulax, Famicozy, Noklead, Liorque, Jiemei, Paladone, Yzzseason, Tokincen, Hopsem, Mosuo and Moxtoy.

It is now incredibly difficult to find products by reputable brands that you stand a chance of recognising, and if you do, they are probably knock-offs too.
Author of quote?
Yes it’s a dangerous precedent. So we need to quantify the relative dangers. Hundreds of thousands, and potentially many millions of dead Americans one one hand right now, against a precedent that might be abused in future in theory. It depends how much confidence we have in democracy in America.

The US had a debate and had elections even during the pandemic. Decisions about these issues are being made at state and federal level, informed by broad and local public opinion. That’s the system working.
Ah, the Phillips curve. I recommend you make some charts for yourself comparing US unemployment figures with CPI inflation and see if you can spot the curve.

hint: https://www.hussmanfunds.com/wmc/wmc110404.htm

spoiler: " there is in fact no strong "tradeoff" between unemployment and general price inflation, and almost certainly not an exploitable one. The Phillips Curve is essentially a statement that lower unemployment is associated with higher inflation in real wages. The strategy of accepting higher inflation in hopes of achieving lower unemployment (which is the basis of Bernanke's policy efforts) not only drops the phrase "real wages" but reverses the direction of cause and effect. "

Also, it has clearly not been transitory for most of 2021. The "transitory" claim was backed partly by the pandemic, but relied on a 1-year lag. If, however, you used a 2-year lag (thus eliminating pandemic effects...
Yes I've tried Libre. ODT files don't play well with MS Office. Pivot tables in Calc are... frustrating. No OneNote, no Outlook, no Visio. Linux doesn't work on my hardware, and Visual Studio doesn't work on Linux.

The distribution fragmentation... I'm expected to install flavour X or Y of Linux not actually knowing before I start that my hardware even supports it? Brain = explode.

Joining a community (Linux) that stomps all over people that have a dissenting view (I actually like Windows - have done since I started using it in 1990) is philosophically not a community I want part of (Stallman is an exception I have a lot of time and respect for).

A VM adds complexity - why would I do that when native Windows is pain-free and just works?

And no, I don't "need" offline editing, I just want it. After all the cloud is a computer just like mine - that happens to belong to someone else. The cloud introduces a risk of data theft and complete data loss. And yes, probability is low, but impact and exposure are both very VERY high. I don't run that risk at all using my own hardware.
None of those look like the same thing
the demos seems to have more words than codes; doesn't really seem to be geared toward experienced programmers at all. Maybe for beginners in a course setting?
As others have pointed out the OP's dislike of newer memes is merely a function of age and/or conservatism.

But there is a deeper criticism to be made of memes. They are often a thought killer. As with much humour on the internet they are often used as a form of social control within a group. Thinking maybe some Other has a reasonable point? Boom: a hilarious meme that shows why people who consider the Other's ideas are just vacillating ninnies. You laugh at your reasonable self. Thought stopped.

Memes are really good at that.
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Agreed if you're making a web page.

However there are lots of us writing applications which are delivered by browser. With that lens you're completely wrong. Then I do want to send json from the backend and have lots of behaviour in the frontend viewing that in different ways.

So basically it's the differences between web pages and applications.

Truth is that there aren't many other sensible ways to deliver applications any more. All big companies still have windows machines - but MS broke all of the ways of writing applications on windows so going to the browser makes sense and you get some cross platform ability - plus you get to move it to the cloud.
In most companies hiring anyone requires some form of prostration to HR, so a little extra work to hire a white male is not going to slow anyone down.

A friend of mine works in a large organization in which the head passed down a rule that only women would be hired for positions 'unless' the only available qualified candidate happened to be male.

Can you guess what happened? It hasn't increased the relative number of women hired but now everyone thinks the men are extra special.
Sort of, but we have to be careful not the wash the hands of people all too willing to discard responsibility. It's correct to say "it's just statistics on data" but it also provides cover to the processes that use it. "How can you be against hiring the best person for the job" the argument goes, completely ignoring that the "best" isn't scientifically defined, and includes the same sexist biases we were trying to get rid of.
How do you "sort by proficency"?
This depends on the item. Items that just use a UPC do get comingled, products that use an Amazon-specific barcode like an X00 do not, and this is required for some types of products (eg food or anything with an expiration date)

As I understand it, anything used or returned will also get an LPN barcode, which tracks that specific unit.
They’re turning browsers into shopping malls
You don't need to believe anything, you can check for yourself. The numbers are easily available online.

Healthcare is 2-3-4 times <<more expensive in the US>>.

Education is generally <<free or very cheap outside the US>>.

Housing is expensive outside the US, too, a bit less so.

I feel the problem is not regulation in the US, it's that you half ass it. Americans are all about "rugged individualism" and "small government" when advanced societies are advanced because large groups of people work well together, which is the opposite of individualism. I've been in places where there is an extreme emphasis on individualism and they generally they don't look good (for example Eastern Europe does it due to a huge negative legacy of forced collectivism).
I'm racist and sexist (against myself) for accurately pointing out the trend where a white male dominated industry normalized drinking in the office and how that affected their definition of "culture"?

https://tech.co/news/tech-workplace-drinking-culture-2019-02

Or are you just insecure about your own biases.
>> Learn how to make a website with just HTML and CSS on the frontend. Only use JavaScript on the frontend for small UI improvement if you must, but make sure that the improvement is truly justified (you need to do proper user testing to know that). Even when it is justified, make sure that everything STILL work without JavaScript.

Is this article really from 2021? Maybe if you write a static blog this will work, but man, the browser is the new OS. No way we are dropping Javascript just because some luddites want us to.
In none of the companies I've worked, not completing any tasks would've worked. However, it does work to not do anything for three days and finish it all on the fourth. You can always say you got stuck on one problem while you were actually just slacking off the whole time. And then I'm not sure I see the problem. If OP still produces the output without investing the same amount of hours, his peers don't suffer and shouldn't have a reason to complain.
This may sound like fun, but there's some evidence that the parachute analogy has been massively overused:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29343497/

Like the idea here is that there are some interventions that are so obvious that you don't need rigorous evidence to show they work. However as it turns out people use that analogy to justify interventions that did later turn out to not work.
I can't tell if this is satire or not. If it is, fine, I feel like it could have gone further and been funnier.

If it's not satire, I think it's misguided in places. Saying that Ruby/Python are too slow for web development and that it should be done it Go instead is a very naive point of view, that focuses too much on the technology rather than the problem being solved. It blasts past the use of fonts and big (high quality?) images saying people don't care, but with no evidence for that.

There are also some odd points made, like the points about single page apps. SPAs have the potential to make more granular HTTP requests like the author is advocating for than what is possible with full page reloads. I also think it's a strong bias of engineers to consider HTTP to be the user experience, it's not.

There's good stuff in here, but a lot of it boils down to: think about your UX, consider what the best tools are for the job, don't follow hype without consideration. Unfortunately most of the examples and extrapolation from these starting points is fairly naive.
To be fair, getting hired in tech is still pretty easy in most cases and countries. My country puts way too much weight on formal qualification, but in the current economy you find work nearly everywhere.
He's got the mindset of a junior developer. He idolizes valley culture and wants to tear everything down and rebuild from scratch.

His ideas are kind of staid and recycled. He's smarter than Boris or most of the cabinet for sure but that isnt saying much.

Ultimately he rode a wave of mass discontent and somehow managed to fuck it up and achieve nothing while at the peak of his career when even the prime minister thought thought the sun shone out of his arse. He wasnt some genius mastermind.
Really?

Civil war caused by Facebook policies, death of dissidents due to cooperation with fascist states, COVID deaths due to anti-vaxxers / lies, all of the above, and more, enabled by tech platforms purposefully fanning the flames, for profit.
The Web and HTML itself is a living historical document.

If you want to write good Websites, go through the last 25 years of browser history using Wine and try to write something which covers all of them.

It's not that difficult, and then you'll be ready to write actual accessible and compatible HTML.
Wow, I felt like I'm listening to myself, thanks a lot for writing this. "Beginner" is an such an important concept.
Breakthrough infections generate 'super immunity' to Covid-19, study suggests
First understand that in a room full of engineers—no matter how many—90% of them will say they are above average.

Second understand that what separates you from these people is they have something to show for what they did. How do you expect people to find your “brilliance” if you don’t show it off somehow? They work for their recognition. People using your “low-level systems” won’t automatically think you’re brilliant because…what? Because it works? Is that the bar?

Write some blog posts. Open source some projects. Give some talks. If you do all that and no one cares, maybe it’s not the rest of the world that has the problem.
Bravo, I've got so much time for this kind of technical tomfoolery!

A few feature requests that I'm 100% not prepared to pay for:

* Commentary mode upon hitting the ball: Offers words of encouragement in inspiration mode or lots of expletives in troll mode

* Countdown beeps so you don't need to look to see when a projectile is coming at you

* Primitive turn by turn directions to get the projectile receiver in the optimum landing zone. E.g "Back a bit", "to the side a bit", "tuts back a bit more"
Yes!
Or use the AI to identify the gender indicating words of the opposite gender that are synonyms of words you've used and swap those in - might be a start (although deeper things like sentence structure could still influence the classification)
The thing kinda is, that it's not only male/female thing, but race's also involved.

Biases biases and biases.

I think we should try to reach equal opportunity by providing access to edu, mentors maybe, an ability to prove themselves, not this kind of "discrimination".
They kind of occupy two different niches, IMHO. I see Nim more as a competitor to Go, whole Zig wants to replace C mostly and somewhat competes with Rust in that regard.
> My top theory is just that it's convenient for management purposes. That company's are bad at assessing progress, that we're afraid of situations that aren't ultra-well scheduled & predictable, and that we treat programmers like cogs in a machine because we're too afraid to try for better.

This is because the classical consecrated need for project management. Back in the day, you would have factory workers overseen by managers to a) establish a process for the work to be done which is easy and precise - "plan the work" and b) oversee it - "work the plan". The process is, in their view, necessary so why question it?

SW development is a creative process which doesn't really lend itself to rigid guard railing of classical project management.

Some advocates outright speak against managers because of the penalty the rigid process has on creative throughput.
Quote from https://www.simplethread.com/agile-at-20-the-failed-rebellio... :

> The important piece that gets forgotten is that Agile was openly, militantly anti-management in the beginning. For example, Ken Schwaber was vocal and explicit about his goal to get rid of all project managers – not just get the people off his projects, eradicate the profession from our industry.
> Compared to the 70s, a new car is faster, safer, more comfortable, and more fuel efficient. Similarly, most houses are bigger and better in America today.

What good does this do to someone with nowhere to live and that can't drive to work?
Days of Night / Nights of Day
Install it in a linux virtual machine, if they don't have a Linux agent ... Too bad, because you don't have Windows or Mac. If they have a Linux agent it will be running only inside the vm.
So , the frog has been boiling slowly for the past 40 years, but this year it burnt quite a bit, right? Either way the frog has been boiled
> The CD community is overly obsessed with velocity.

I think CD is about minimising the amount of code released in one go, which allows you to catch issues much faster and revert issues much quicker. Compare that to something most banks do, release once a quarter, and you'll get stuff like that UK bank that went down for days (can't remember which one it was).

I've yet to meet anyone saying you have to finish your features faster.
No hate - that's an interesting perspective. Such practices, or even just results without intention, would for sure be described as hate (or something negative) if men were preferred and get slightly higher pay.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not calling you out, you just provided description without judgment and that's great. It's just a reflection on how those topics are usually framed, and that's a sad state of affairs.
We also need to stop pretending that flat (i.e. depreciating) wages are normal
The Bastard Operator from Hell (1999)
This is the first time I hear about this issue.

> We think that everyone might benefit if the most radical protagonists of evidence based medicine organised and participated in a double blind, randomised, placebo controlled, crossover trial of the parachute.

I wasn't expecting this. My reaction to what I understood as "Need solid studies? Nobody's preventing you to go kill yourselves to make your point, be our guests, the world will be better without you anyway!" was: what? this can't be serious.

This is indeed not serious as your link outlines:

> Obviously the first parachute study was tongue-in-cheek, but the authors’ point was important: The absence of randomized controlled trials for a certain medical intervention does not mean that the intervention cannot be safe and effective. And an RCT often would be unethical, as I noted in a past blog on the “tyranny of the RCT.” Sometimes, well-designed observational studies must suffice.

This is well done.

Okay, I have my shot of serious fun for the day, let's go back to work.
Does PayPal still share email addresses? I accept donations on PayPal for my open source projects, and starting from a few months ago I can no longer see people’s email addresses, which have been replaced by links to an internal chat system.
Nothing is "free" anywhere - it's just paid from a different pocket. From people's taxes in those "other" countries.

And the quality of state-provided healthcare is significantly worse than in US. Most people with means get private medical insurance skipping the one purchased by their taxes entirely.

Eastern Europe has two huge problem completely overshadowing their advantage from less regulation: a strong culture of corruption instilled by the years of communism and a gigantic brain drain to a west more than happy to lower their own costs (in health care as well) with the best of the cheap, highly educated Eastern workforce.
My own opinions as a mid-level web-focused SWD.

I think about it sometimes. It is an ego/attention thing imo if you need other people to say "great job". But you can't live in a vacuum either.

I mean part of it is personal interest, I was watching people reverse engineer an s-band transponder from the Apollo missions like cool but what is the point.

I guess just because you won't be an Einstein doesn't mean what you're doing isn't worth it. Personal satisfaction.

I used to love building/flying model airplanes until I got into social media. Then everything I made I had to post online/get upvotes. I lost the passion in it overtime because I was more interested in impressing people.

Nowadays I will build things even if it's a piece of a crap because I had fun figuring it out from scratch.

This other thing I ran into is ego-satisfaction where I would share a fantasy/idea/sketch before it was real/work done for the upvotes.

I also am aware there is just an innate capability/caliber. Like I am not a math guy.

I get the "place in the world" thing in another way eg. being poor but I think I can change it.

Oh yeah the other field I think about this is regarding physical attractiveness/relationships ha. I'm not killing it in that department.

To be fair I still post my crap on a blog, whether or not someone reads it is something else.
For ages was "observationally obvious" that life can came out from inanimated materia without https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spontaneous_generation
It feels like most of the SPAs should really just be desktop applications and hopefully with wasm, wgpu, and wasi that can be reduced to a smaller runtime than the current v8 for everything solution. They're not really web pages anyway and trying to get them to convert to static documents doesn't seem like it will go so well considering the "interactive experiences" they provide (using the browser as a cheap GUI framework).

Would possibly be nicer to ship for the new "java platform" that wasm is slowly recreating even for software that's not currently written as web apps.
Yet J&J was willing to waive immunity?
I like this game. Security can't exist because you didn't compile your own keyboard controller firmware. Then just go all the way up the abstraction layers. Didn't audit and compile it yourself? I guess we're all hacked forever. Yet in fact it's a parade of imaginary horribles and the vast vast vast swathes of noobs remain unhacked for decades.

1. You can mine your own transaction, and the chance that some miner somewhere is happy to do so is extremely high (Which is why no transaction has ever been censored to the best of my knowledge.)
2. You running the code of your own choice is not a counterparty risk. It's your own problem. It's the same problem you have when with physically securing your seed words. There's no reason to break the word counterparty.
3. The protocol never had that kind of bug, some mobile wallets did with bad RNG though.
4. Yes and? The network routes around that, see China banning mining, etc.

I will help you trash talk bitcoin though. It's fun. Uncensorable? Ask Ross Ulbricht how the Federal Marshalls auctioned off his bitcoin to Tim Draper.
Inflation bugs twice where anyone could mine as many coins as they like, one executed, and one responsablity disclosed about 2 years ago. Have a list of vulnerabilities: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Common_Vulnerabilities_and_Exposu...
Have a list of weaknesses: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Weaknesses
Summary: The vast majority of users have no hacks at all, and far less problems than their banks give them, in my experience.
P.S. Using your definition, is counterparty risk reduction even possible at all, and if so what would that look like? If you take the time to answer that, I think you'll see you're just trying to break a quite useful word.
I’m too lazy to search for it, but there was an organization that collected the top “stop doing these things in medicine because they don’t work”. The polled the major medical societies to put them together. Ranges from emergency medicine to gynecology.

I think most people would be shocked to learn: 1) how many “obvious” interventions don’t work and 2) how common they are in today’s medical practice.
The term doesn't, but memes do. I don't know about "Damn Daniel", which means it's limited in its reach.
They have the same amount of letters in their name, both have "i" as the second letter.

Zig is (a much) better C. Few solid features.

Nim is a better (Pascal+python+lisp)/3. Lots of features. Some are solid.
Ask HN: How would a programming language look if designed by non-programmer
Since it's hard to find such a person, who understands CS/Math/can program machines but never used "normal" programming languages

I do wonder how it'd be designed, maybe current approach sucks?

OOP is beautiful itself, it *enables normal people* to model complex systems that'll be running on computers, but can we get even better?
Yes changes in parachute and plane technology may have rendered this research obsolete.