skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Obviously an anecdote...

I quit my job last year to pursue my ideas full time but prior to that I had a pretty strict invention clauses (I'm in a state where those are enforceable) and purposely avoided side projects because on my contract my employer would have owned them.

I don't have any experience with FAANG contracts or even any outside of my state so I don't know how common it is for a contract to essentially prohibit side projects but for what it's worth, I never had one this entire time I've been on Hacker News (I know I'm "throwaway" but if you look at my karma you can see I've been around).
Technically yes, but see this comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29826355
> enforcing nonviolent interaction

By ultimately using force or the threat thereof to prevent people from using force in disallowed ways, right?

> Liberty isn't the same thing as prosperity/economic power.

I didn't say they were synonyms. I said prosperity was a prerequisite to liberty[1]. A poor person isn't free to inhabit a house, and if they try to do so the state will use force to prevent or remove them.

[1]: actually I said all else equal, more prosperity means more liberty. To use your example (which I don't really buy, a rich slave is sort of not a thing), a "rich" slave is able to purchase better food for themselves than a poor slave whereas a poor slave would need to resort to theft, and risk force as a consequence.
Or they do it themselves by getting depressed and not taking care of themselves. Physical exercise and healthy meals take motivation.
Not only I would pass and get the job, but I would also ask for more money than I am making now.
I once put a stool on a coffee table to put up a few curtains and the leg of the stool went through the surface of the coffee table. That surface is more or less paper mache by my book.

Maybe the "paper" in the "mache" is not as finely ground and instead made of more granular wood chips, but its definitely made of a thin lamination of wood grounds held together by some adhesive.

Its light as a feather though, so that's pretty nice.
It was about 10 years ago that the community agreed that it was the JVM that was successful. It's a platform with multiple viable languages. Scala obviously comes to mind. Kotlin is a somewhat mixed case because its popularity comes from the mobile world where you don't really have the JVM.

Java is not the most pleasant language for sure. It started as a dumbed-down as golang was (still is?) for years. It's still catching up with C++ (e.g. see all the Valhalla project discussions on HN). It certainly shows its age. It's not clear to me why so many people are still fixated on Java when solid alternatives have existed for years within the same ecosystem.

Also, if you don't like JPA try JOOQ.
I did a bit of a double take seeing this on HN. Seeing something I helped to create on here is... a strange feeling, to say the least.

While I'm not completely satisfied with the way this tutorial stands right now, I certainly hope that it has given a few people some ideas and motivation for their own roguelike projects.

Feel free to shoot any issues with the site or tutorial text over to the Github page: https://github.com/TStand90/roguelike-tutorials-website (fair warning: I'm pretty bad at responding to issues, and I sincerely apologize for that)
Yep. After I passed my interview and got the job, I joined the interview process and made my own question. The solution requires for loops, if statements and string indexes. There are no algorithms or data structures required (ok, you need a string array, that's a data structure), nothibg but the essence of computation.

My question scales. It has 5 parts, such that a bootcamper can solve 1 and 2, and completing part 5 would require a whiz to spend several hours. That is, however good you are, I'll be able go get a good signal, see your thought process and you'll come away feeling mostly good.
> The bill, which passed with a 41 to seven vote, states that employers who fail to list minimum and maximum salary ranges for New York City-based roles are engaging in discriminatory practices.

How is not disclosing a salary range in itself discriminatory? I can see how it could enable discrimination, but cannot connect the dots about how it is, in itself, an act of discrimination.
Using browsers for this sort of thing is a bad idea. These sites are the easiest (and most important) to target by copyright holders. Sophisticated users use Kodi plugins, torrents over VPN, or private share servers / services. These users are nearly impossible to stop. Keeping easily accessible websites offline and off search engines is how you stop Joe Shmoe from piracy, plus there's a centralized single point of failure to take down.
I believe the idiom is "the horse left the barn"

There are a number of things going on in the world that fall into the "really bad" category of both thing and trend of thing.

There's space in between bland acceptance and incapacitating terror. At the very least have an honest, clear eyed view of where the risk bars are going, and it isn't in a good direction.
Most, if not all, software engineering roles are highly specialized above and beyond general computer science. I think a lot of complaints about interviewing practices stem from candidates feeling their prior experience, which is directly relevant to the position they applied for, is being ignored and replaced with questions about arcane puzzles.
> Society has a contract.

Correction: Society has a lot of conflicting contracts.
I see! Sorry about the confusion, I misunderstood the context.
As I understand it, wearing two masks was only recommended for those wearing surgical or cloth. If your wear an N95 or equivalent you only need the one.
N'ah. Let states test it out first and work out any wrinkles. When/if >50% of them are successfully employing it, then it might make sense to adopt it nationally.
So most jobs will now be listed with salary range 10k to 999k/year, depending on performance. Great work!
I am reminded of "Don't Look Up" scene:

It is going to happen. Exactly. 99.78% to be exact.

Oh, great. Okay, so it’s not 100%.

Well, scientists never like to say 100%.
Just to be clear, I don't draw my opinions about Bitcoin, or money for that matter, from crypto detractors.

> Your inability to distinguish salesmanship for facts about the network and global economic conditions does not mean they are the same thing.

And by calling real money "Fiat currency" you've demonstrated your complete lack of understanding of finance.

I was only pointing out that for this to be a Ponzi scheme, it doesn't require any malintent from its creator.
> The annual fees charged to Threema users will be paid by the army, but critics say there are no sanctions planned for army members who continue to use other messenger tools.

That doesn't sound like they've banned it at all.
I don't know. Is it worse to objectify them or to treat them functionally?

How would you feel to be locked up and separated into discrete units, only to be used up and thrown away?
The author, W.L. George, passed away in 1926, so he wouldn't live long enough to revisit his predictions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._L._George
Modern Spring Boot is still incredibly bloated and full of questionable design patterns. A simple web application should not consume hundreds of megabytes of RAM by default and startup time on modern hardware should be basically instantaneous. Classpath scanning and annotations are still massively overused and most of the time they're accomplishing little more than obfuscation and turning compile time errors into runtime errors.
I'm in my fifties and sold my first piece of software when I was 17. I am 100% self taught (from machine code on Z80 and 6502, to C++ and and now node JS) and have worked in some large well known companies on products and services used by millions of people.

I have had many side projects. One of them became a full time job in 1999, and which I sold in 2010 and then prompty scratched an itch to start another, which I am still doing. I am not wealthy, I have a mortgage for a much bigger house than I need.

To be honest I feel like I have failed at life and stayed inside instead of enjoying the sun. I look back and feel that there are much better ways to have spent my life...and yet I still do it.

Also, I have an idea that might change the world and that's what I want to work on next.

I seriously enjoy exploring ideas and writing code. If I could I'd do it all day every day.

Work addiction, delusion, or a fundamental problem with my perspective of the Universe - all seem likely to me.

My advice; You know if it's something for you. You feel it. You don't need to ask anyone else's advice or whether your idea is good, or how to manage it. You get on with it, make the sacrifices nessecary and wince through the pain knowing in your heart that it will be worth it, or not as the case may be.

I didn't have a problem with the work. I do wish I knew how to recognise defeat and quit though.

Sorry for the long lecture-rant.
Kind of, but still much larger than pills: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soylent_(meal_replacement)
Do you mean something like https://johnnydecimal.com/ ?
> Particularly interesting is the question from the article, "who is the current president". Seems like a slam dunk but it could not be answered. Interestingly this is a common question paramedics will give to people who have suffered head injuries to assess consciousness.

Not sure you'd still be able to use that question considered the insane QAnon followers that would answer "Trump".

Though I suppose even that answer would still at least prove some level of consciousness.
Most of those viruses are actually very deadly, and most of those vaccines actually make you not-get-it-at-all.

The only comparable virus is the flu, and the vaccine is equally shitty [0] as the covid vaccines are.

Death rates for young and (currently healthy) people are very very low (lower than traffic deaths in my country, much lower than suicides), and they are the most affected by the lockdowns. By reopening and focusing on risk groups we could finally start living normally again.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Influenza_vaccine#Effectivenes...
In all honesty, I barely use the built-in OS anymore and have it to default on Android Auto. Which also display the date and calendar.

But this also has its issues. It requires a physical wire from the phone to the car and sometimes my aging phone will decide to crash/reboot during navigation.

This ended in me needing to exit the highway to reconfigure my route a few times.

Currently, my only use of the car's OS is the media center. Instead of using my phone, I have a large drive filled with music plugged in one of the USB ports.

Not only does it saves some of my phone's data and space, it makes it more stable. Using Spotify and a navigation app at the same time often has my phone freeze which can result in missing certain directions.

This is especially true when the battery reach 100% and begin heating as it tries to charge on/off.
S/he clarified it now.

"[Edited, 5 Jan 2021, to add: Many people have been confused about the statement about delta, so I must have worded it poorly. I’m not saying delta originated in a lab leak. I’m saying delta escaped from a lab late in 2021 where it was being used in research. It’s an example of a research-related lab leak.]"
Yes. Cost of living should have nothing to do with it. Do we pay people with kids more because their CoL is higher? Payment should be based 100% on work.
You didn't disclose this is your own website and you have been pasting this link in every single comment you make.
> Long story short, I proposed the question to the chatbot in all its complexity, assuming it would be handed over to a human agent to read the transcript. The chatbot immediately understood the question and provided the exact response I needed.

How do you know it did? I.e. that a human it was passed to didn't just pass your inverted Turing test!
This has been a problem for literally decades, and has not stopped collaboration and discussions in the past. The West is disingenuous with NATO expansion, but the USSR and Russia learned to deal with it.

Now Putin is using it as his great retort as to why he must invade Ukraine, because he cannot trust the West to keep Ukraine in Russia's vice grip. Explain to me how Putin wants a deal with the West to stop NATO expansion, when all previous promises have been broken. What's different this time?
A homeless person can be more free than a person confined in a mansion, can they not?

> By ultimately using force or the threat thereof to prevent people from using force in disallowed ways

Yes, since using force to compel action is basically the definition of slavery and decidedly un-free.
A deposition without evidence quite literally is hearsay, under the proper definition of hearsay. I'm not playing a lawyer, I'm pointing out that "He said, she said," is literally nothing for a court of law to use.
I live in Colorado. The similar Colorado law about posting salaries is probably great for jobs that don't give RSUs, but given how much bonus / RSUs affect tech pay, it doesn't really help SWEs much - they give a salary range of ~$30k and then mention that this position is eligible for bonus and equity/incentive plan without giving any details on amount.

For remote jobs that hire in CO, there's also some pay discrimination depending on location (one rate for Boulder, another for Denver, and another for "everywhere else").

Lastly, there's a lot of companies that don't follow it if the job is remote across the US, either because they don't know or because the violation is only a couple grand and relies on people reporting the posting in a way that's verifiable or it still being up when enforcement gets around to looking. I will say that I haven't seen any postings that exclude Colorado, even from companies that originally did (DigitalOcean for one), leading me to believe it was more of a temporary measure to immediately comply than a permanent change.
Haven't seen it - but via the acknowledgements, its lead scientists are being paid by a producer of Ivermectin and the program was instituted by the quack mayor who previously said rectal ozone administration could treat covid? My hopes aren't high.

Also, why did it take over a year to publish when the study ran from July-Dec 2020?

Started reading it now, and what? Why can't these people do real science?

> "Although study design, IRB approval, and data analysis occurred after completion of the voluntary prophylaxis program, all data were collected prospectively in real-time with mandated reporting to the registry of all events as they occurred during the citywide governmental COVID-19 prevention with ivermectin program"

https://www.nydailynews.com/coronavirus/ny-brazilian-mayor-t...

And what now -- the 2nd author is facing prison for massive ethics violations running a different covid study?

https://sei.saude.gov.br/sei/controlador_externo.php?acao=do...

The advocates for IVM are consistently some of the worst acting scientists on the planet. It's a real disservice to their stated goal that they're all so incompetent.
Longform - where we bury the lede and you get to find it, for fun!
For anyone wondering: FFP2 is equivalent to an N95.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FFP_standards#FFP2_mask
That's pretty right, with the addition that other things can target Browsix (like the gopherjs toolchain). Emscripten provides default implementations of a bunch of syscalls (and even a way to embed a file system), and we override those to instead do actual syscalls to a shared kernel (running in JS)
Tech CEO said Covid vaccine is a 'plot by the Jews'
There are people with very specialized skills and experiences that it would cost half a million and years more to replicate. With that in mind, there are certainly devs $200k/yr more valuable than others.

This becomes even more important when a company is set up to be able to strongly leverage developer quality. When a developer being 10% better means millions more in revenue (or a similar decrease in costs), paying $100k more might make a lot of sense. How much would such an org be willing to pay for someone 30% better, do you think?

I know a developer who upon joining a company picked up a problem that had been considered intractable. Another developer had spent months on it before giving it up as impossible. My friend solved the issue, permanently, in three days. That's at least a 10x, and possibly a 30x, difference in productivity for a narrow set of tasks.
I vividly remember reading this book as a 90s kid with predictions about what the home would look like in 2020:

https://y2kaestheticinstitute.tumblr.com/post/143836250779/v...
Life (with a capital "L", the entire phenomenon, not the life of an individual organism) is predicated on death and birth in order to adapt and persist. Without death there is no adaptation, without adaptation Life will perish.

We humans sometimes forget we're a part of Life, but we are, and we benefit from death just as much as the rest of Life.
Did you use any automatic tools such as Github Actions or Github Apps?
> a good sales rep has the intelligence to turn that conversation into a sale.

A good sales rep knows when to walk away.
Great! Today you learned something new: sometimes software deployment is complicated! Get more experience, and you'll find less trivial deployments. "Trivial deployment" is the goal of many systems, and is rarely met.
Research takes time, launching something prematurely which is clearly not ready for practical application will sooner or later fail and suck out any further funding out the field.

The goal of academic research is to further knowledge, as long as knowledge is produced even if is only that an approach will not work then they are not wasting anything.

It is not job of academic research to monetize or even do work that can be potentially monetized. That what corporate research is for.

If academia focused on monetization they wouldn't need to teach or depend on public funding to keen afloat. That is simply not their goal.

Most academic scholars have a teaching day job and are more than fullfilling a useful role in society with just that . anything further is gravy
I ported this library to Svelte recently: https://github.com/rgossiaux/svelte-headlessui

As a side note, Tailwind UI does include some components that require JS--that's what the Headless UI library is for. But it's also true that it's not a comprehensive component library; still missing things like a combobox or a date picker.
I don't say It's necessary US. It maybe some elites(or oligarchs), but maybe and foreign intelligence trying to control people actions...
static HTML files - I am not kidding

these days you can embed JS and WebAssembly in your HTML file and have plenty of advanced features: SIMD, GPU access, GUI (obviously), even barcode scanners gently provided by the browser, ...

it's only the tooling that is not there yet. give it a few years or so. I am doing myself some work in this area and I must say - the technology is there, it's only a matter of porting to the the web a few scientific libraries
So the "killer feature" that the Swiss Army used to justify Threema over Signal and the others is that it's Swiss based and not US based like the others, not a technical feature that guarantees better proven security.

I don't blame them one second for going local, but then if security and ownership of your comms is what you're after, why not set up your own Matrix server for comms for your military personnel like every European country (I think), and instead purchase Threema licenses?

I feel this is basically a form of corporate sponsorship/handouts from the government/defense sector in disguise, to support a local champion (basically how the US defense sector propped up Silicon Valley in its inception).
Also, StackBlitz reuses as much as possible the existing V8 runtime from the browser, rather than really running another node.js via WASM.
Yeah it's the best part
This appears to be the author's PNAS article mentioned in the story, for those who are curious: https://www.pnas.org/content/72/1/143
It means that among recent PCR test confirmed cases, 100% of patients were infected with the Omicron variant rather than Delta or some older variant. The number of asymptomatic carriers is unknown and probably large, but can't possibly be anywhere near 100% of the populace.
> The Russian government has already done this for political reasons

Perils of a centralized system!
Now do it between two people in different countries. Not saying it's perfect, but wrong to say there's no value.
Heh, likewise. It's amazing how often choosing sane defaults and falling back to defaults in the even of error is "the right thing" in the eyes of users.
S/he clarified the delta thing:

"[Edited, 5 Jan 2021, to add: Many people have been confused about the statement about delta, so I must have worded it poorly. I’m not saying delta originated in a lab leak. I’m saying delta escaped from a lab late in 2021 where it was being used in research. It’s an example of a research-related lab leak.]"
Probably unconstitutional, but never challenged in the Supreme Court, I believe.
The Ontario science table dashboard has the hospitalization ratio for unvaccinated to vaccinated still at 5:1. Where are you getting that these rates have become nearly equal?

edit: sorry had that written backwards
> Operating systems don’t support non-64 prefixes

Then how do routers work? Docker containers? VMs running on a machine with some part of a /64?
Next generation of 1Password apps will sync exclusively with 1Password.com
It looks like it's unfinished. At the bottom of the last existing chapter, it says "We now have the second-to-last section done!" and mentions something about building "the Abyss." I wonder if the author(s) meant to finish it but never returned from the depths...
Thanks for the link to that! I tried it out just now and I have to say that I am not impressed.

What will you do?

You get longsword from the ground.

You get your longsword from the ground. You hold it in your hands and examine it for a moment. It's a very sturdy weapon.

The knight then grabs his longsword and bows.

Huh? Why did it grab the bow as well?

You inventory.
You have a crossbow.

Huh? I thought I just grabbed my longsword and bows.

What will you do?
You don't have enough experience to know what a good shot is.
You get longsword and bow.
You grab the bow and the longsword. You examine the crossbow. It's a bolt-action weapon.

Huh? I said to get the longsword and bow since it said it wasn't in my inventory and it added all this extra stuff.

You inventory.
You have a crossbow, a short sword, a longsword, a lantern, a flint and steel, and a quiver of bolts.
What will you do?

You load the crossbow.

Huh? I just said Inventory and now I have all this extra stuff it never mentioned before and then unsolicitedly told me I loaded the crossbow.

I have to be doing something wrong. Zork from 1980 was better than this.
Imagine losing sleep over JavaBeans because you thought it was good.
You should not be eating that oyster raw if you are not sure, and that only applies to norovirus which is resistant to mild disinfectants(e.g. ethanol)
tbh it had just rolled out when I left and I was only giving my initial impression. I don't know what it's like to use long-term.

Although I _hate_ Jira so maybe I'm biased also.
Wait 87 SpO2?! I'm pretty sure that's the point at which you would be on a ventilator? Not sure what sleep has to do with SpO2 and it seems criminally negligent for the emergency room to just send your wife off with just a cough medicine..
I was wondering why Signal suggests a 6 digits passphrase by default. Even with a good key derivation algorithm, it’s trivial to brute force in a very short time.
That's the point.

Mine does shut off, if the vehicle isn't moving and the interior temperature matches the climate control setting.

So I would think/hope it could use a fraction of the fuel by running intermittently.