skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Git X-Modules is a server-side app that syncs your project directories with other repositories. Think of it as a server-side alternative to Git Submodules.

Use Cases:

- Combine multiple projects and components into a single repository for cross-project development (like a monorepo, but keeping the original repositories up and running)

- Include parts of other projects into yours

- Share common assets across multiple projects

How it works:

- An X-Module is a regular directory. It’s synced on your Git server with an external repository.

- When an X-Module is updated the changes go to the external repository.

- When an external repository is updated the changes are applied to the X-Module.

- When there are two conflicting updates Git X-Modules applies one update and turns the other into a pull request

This tool is available as a free GitHub app. There's also an app for Bitbucket DataCenter (self-hosted).

Some of the real-life cases we've heard of:

- Code review team wants to see all changes made in various repositories, in one place

- A private project contains an open-source part, that is shared in a separate repository

- A library or component is maintained in a separate repository and shared between several projects

What's your case?
This sounds like a bias working backwards to find a justification. Is there any studies or data that support your stance? Which are the "good" majors? Who gets to judge that?

> There are reams of low-grade degrees in which the majority of teaching is in memorization, and not mastering new ways to think.

The biggest complaint from anyone I know who studied medicine/pre-med is the sheer amount of memorization involved. Must be a useless field of study.
I think I might have used the expression "do want" to vaguely here. Same as you, I have very little desire to write any of those systems, and still try to avoid them as much as possible (as those endeavors usually require more time/energy, etc. and come with higher risks).

Maybe it's better put as "But sometimes all your product requirements strongly suggest that you have to build X and there isn't really a way to avoid it" (and what's available off-the-shelf doesn't fit)?
Companies now hire people to tell them they don't have enough black people on the team.

The answer isn't more of this bullshit.
Tell that to my Aunt that died Monday.
How very kind of you to format that un-clicky (not sarcasm)
They're willing to pay that much because there isn't enough housing in the bay. If the neighborhood was denser prices would be lower. There aren't an unlimited number of people looking to buy multi million dollar homes in silicon valley.
> Even going from 50 -> 300k, is no easy joke.

Yeah, it does take a lot of effort. I put in a lot of 50hr weeks to get this kind of gain, but it's totally doable.

> That resume is basically signalling the candidate does no work apart from hopping jobs.

I get a _lot_ of work done in even just 6 months.
for those in this thread with super-serious experience scraping and automating at scale, looking for work (ethical!) please contact me directly.
Last time I checked the sky is blue, and yes I do keep SQL in git
One thing that always put me off about webpack is the default way it compiles your code. One of the ways is(was?) compiling code as _eval_(!!) statements and code as string. It is absolutely impossible to debug such code.

You were meant to rely on sourcemaps to get something on your debugger, but despite using the latest Chrome and developer tools at the time, I could never get it to work to actually debug sites.

I know Rollup, Vite and etc had a much easier time providing an easier developer experience because they rely on the browser's native ESM support, but I never could understand why webpack decided to mangle the code so badly.
Not an expert, but going back to basics you only license things you own. So if they will retain the IP you don't license anything.
There's no reason a planning system like AlphaZero could not be used. It's just necessary to generate multiple rounds of conversation a few steps ahead and pick the most promising one. "just" being an exaggeration, of course.
> Anything outside your skull is censorable

Given a bullet and a gun, anything inside your skull is also censorable.
Ask HN: Does the National Do Not Call Registry actually work?
https://www.donotcall.gov/

I've registered my phone number in their list over a year ago but have not seen a difference in the volume of telemarketing calls I have been receiving. Reporting the unwanted phone numbers on their website does not seem to be effective either.
I find this to be the most telling stat:

"In a few cases (N < 5) families were dropped from the comparison group because some history of sexual abuse was ascertained."

So roughly 5% (<5 of 84) of the control group were discovered to have themselves been abused and needed to be dropped from the study. I was once in a law lecture on medical ethics. We were discussing genetic testing of newborns and how this could detect incest/abuse. A medical doctor in the class was dead against such testing. In his experience, amongst pregnant teenagers (17 and younger) about 10% were pregnant by their own fathers/brothers. His opinion was that our society is not ready to deal with this, that such abuse is far more common than anyone is willing to admit. He actually said: You better build some more prisons before you start testing babies for this. The OP study seems in line with his numbers.
In 2018, the Department of Housing and Urban Development said that $117K for a family of 4 was low income in SF. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-44725026
Speculation is never a given, but in your opinion speculation that doesn’t align with your views is to be simply dismissed as impossible. Recognizing the difference is called ‘nuance’.

And guess what, if you presumably describing what your favorite ‘actual experts’ are saying is handwaving, the logical explanation is that the thing you are describing is handwaving. Which, if you can look critically at the ‘actual experts’ really is quite a fair description of most of what they do.

Pretending the problems with your “solution” don’t exist and dismissing them as speculation or similar basic, hollow invalid reasoning, that is handwaving.
Under 30? get a working holiday visa and take it from there. You can only apply from your home country, so if you are in a real hurry, maybe consider just going there as a tourist and figure it out. It does give you 90 days, and being British, you can probably get a job teaching English (without VISA or maybe even a sponsor), and then figure out if that helps you in any way VISA wise.
Wow I never heard of the "Trinity Study", its a report written 25 years ago by a few guys at a small university I've never heard of. Remember back then bond yields were 5% and inflation was 2%, Clinton was president and the dotcom boom was really starting. Things are very different now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_study
Accumulated heat in the upper ocean is at record levels
> It has less to do with the ability of a camera shooting at night. We have these things called lights that helps things.

Did you watch the video? It's shot in total darkness, with zero lights. As in night vision. It's not about shooting at night under film lights.

I'm not saying it will replace day shooting, it's just another technique available if you want to go for a weird unreal look.
It wouldn’t be too hard to tell it apart. A yield is defined as the task waking itself vs something else waking it. The yield methods already do this.
When we design our identities from scratch
oof this guy's Twitter. So much hate and bitterness
Markdown is pretty far down the list of languages I'd have expected it to be helpful for, very interesting!

Has it improved since it was let loose? Or.. I suppose what I really want to know is how long until we're out of a job? :)

Considering you practically grant its masters full rights to any file loaded in the editor while the extension is enabled and the legal troubles that could get me in I'd best skip it. Not worth it.
It does give you more points if you click fast.
California's reliance on state income taxes over property taxes should help soften the blow.
Also, during this period, the population moved from rural dwellings to cities, where there are (usually) more jobs and more written rules and policing.

But note that in the period in question, the human population has increased by a factor of 7.[0]

The population of the planet has more than doubled since 1970.[0]

More people in cities. And more voices, more disagreements, and more misfortunes to report.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_population#Past_populati...
> I don't agree that Europe can't change anything in that regard. Deeming US-based services illegal and banning US-based companies doing business in Europe because of the way EU-customer data is treated in the US would speed up better regulations in the US tremendously.

I think it would do way more damage on the EU side than anything. Imagine having to migrate applications overnight because hosting with AWS has been outlawed, even with all the protections in place (e.g. location in EU, encryption etc etc).
There are plenty of unions (some examples up thread) that do variable pay. If you're arguing against a specific kind of collective bargaining agreement, then just say that, and be aware that it's a far more oblique criticism of unions, especially in this specific context of Google.

Also, a salary agreement between a single individual employee and a huge corporation has by definition a huge power imbalance. Unions reduce that power imbalance. You can argue which is best (full negotiation freedom with massive power imbalance vs. collective bargaining with or without variable/performance pay and a much smaller but still non-trivial power imbalance), but there's no point in just arguing for one skew and ignoring the legitimate arguments for the other.
> What's predatory about public loans.

It distorts prices and results in a suboptimal allocation of society’s resources, and results in people complaining about having a “degree” and having to sling coffee cups as their career.
Design of a lock-free DVCS (rsync-/Dropbox-/NFS-safe)
I also lost some font progress to this feature. Maybe a “clear” button would be more intuitive?

Awesome project though and beautiful fonts!
“Talent” drives me nuts. Makes it sound like people are talking about applicants to Berklee.
Really fun idea, very well executed, and the font (to me) looks way better than I’d have guessed.
Baylor is not a secondary school. Secondary school = high school.
Anecdotes are useless. And my experience has been the opposite of yours. Nil deaths, one infection, same mental health for the cares-about-COVID community. The community that doesn’t has had 3 deaths, dozens of infections, and worsened mental health from the deaths of loved ones.

So why am I supposed to give more of a shit about your anecdote than my experience again?

>It's over. COVID is over. It's time to stop closing everything.

Uh we know. We’re talking about what happened in the past. Everyone has been using past tense verbs.
Good ol’ intent vs impact. If you’re proselytizing something, it shouldn’t be judged by your intentions or how true it is, but the impact it has on the world. Agile was not great in that regard.
A lot of guys have a wife and don't know it yet, but she does and is waiting for the ring
No, long-term negative health impacts affect a significant percentage of those infected with covid, and the figure is roughly the same for vaccinated and unvaccinated. This is going to cause a huge number of people long-term negative consequences.

Long covid is a thing, and an autoimmune disease that negatively affects every organ in your body is not something that's good for anyone, even if you can answer no to "but did you DIE????"
To be fair regarding 3) nothing forces you to commute for an hour on 101.

That will be the case (riding a comfortable shuttle with WiFi) if you work in Mountain View and want to live in San Francisco (65km away). You can either move (much) closer to the office or just work in San Francisco (more likely if you find another employer).
That's possible, Netherlands and Ireland are kind of tax havens in EU. The point remains - the number of job offers from American companies has visibly increased compared to 1-2 years ago.
The article is specifically about sanitizing inputs to prevent XSS attacks. Sanitizing input isn't a great defense against that; you need a defense that better matches the attack.

Validating or sanitizing input input is a reasonably good defense against certain other things. E.g. zeroes in values you'll later divide by, when it's too late to return an error; multi-gigabyte names; information that you want to avoid storing like credit card numbers. That sort of use case doesn't really have a whole lot to do with the article, though.
The service in the post I replied to charges £6 per week for up to 10Kwh, so best case 60pKWH, then 37p/kWh for each kWh beyond 10.

Which seems reasonable considering fast chargers at gas stations are about 45p/KwH.
If you work on your own, that's probably not a disaster to write shitty code. BUt in a team it's a big no for me. And it's not really about the future extension of code, although modular approach generally helps here too. The biggest benefit of non-shitty code is that others can get through it quicker. In 99% of cases code is written to be read by others in the first place (including yourself after some time), then goes the bug-less priority and then anything else. 1% is where you really need something to be performant - the ease of reading is then not important at all as such code has to be messy.
Pournelle's iron law of bureaucracy at play again.

At this point, my feeling is that the local maximumizations that have driven us to this point are irrecoverable. There is no “fixing” this system. It will carry on for a while yet out of momentum, but something disruptive will dethrone it eventually.
My AT&T router (Arris) doesn't even have that setting.

https://forums.att.com/conversations/att-internet-features/h...
>something no one cares about like communications, philosophy, journalism, etc.

Excuse me? No one cares about fields that employ 2.8 million workers [BLS.gov 2020] ? No one cares about work that provides information, entertainment, and shapes political views? FYI your doctors, lawyers, and politician's biggest expense line items usually include money going to communications and media professionals.

I and many others resonate with the notion of 'useless degrees', but you chose some terrible examples. That said, there is more value to education than vocation, and your inability to see that shows that you missed quite a bit in yours. The classical liberal arts education could and should be continually reimagined for a changing world, but to wholly discount its importance is capitalist orthodoxy that misses much of what life is about. Read a goddamn book.
Do we start with a handshake then?
Good game, clever concept, appreciate the simplicity.
I didn’t claim there were any successful lawsuits. I just claimed that potential liability was one of the reasons I’m not teaching in the classroom.
Without some European hardware the US would do nothing.
Yes, it was that bad of an article.
Stephen King was an English major. Word art, literature, helps people advance cognitively.

English is an unowned cultivated intellectual property that greases communication which greases all other human endeavors. I think its underappreciated.

Not all education needs to advance the frontier, much of it is about maintaining what we've already claimed and passing it on to new generations.
Feature request: show where the ball was on game over screen, because now it quickly resets to start position. Maybe show its "ghost" in different color or just outline.
This is so cool.

Some suggestions:

- I have no idea what the four buttons at the top mean
- The edit sidebar could be a little bigger. I'd even onsider making it horizontal? (Edit: just noticed it becomes horizontal when zooming in. Nice!)
- Undo/Redo would be nice
- Add a little message people can use to give credit to you
Are you implying that tricking people into buying more useless staff is fine?
I’m at the age where most of m friends are flung across the country. Close relationships take tons of time and mental investment so at this point I like living in lcol and flying out for a week to visit or them visiting me
This is nearly a strictly American problem. Much of the rest of the world has realized that society requires and is capable of supporting advanced education for all -- after all we want humanity to be advancing, right?

I think foreign colleges have stricter entry requirements and fewer amenities compared to American colleges. So yes, college may be free in Japan, but also much harder to be accepted.
My father is determined not to waste away like his father so is keeping an eye out for end of life options for when the time comes. I’ve been given instructions to pull the plug at the earliest opportunity. I suggested he take up rock climbing and progressively take bigger risks.
Validate inputs, escape outputs
Public schools average about $10k per year for in-state students.

That seems low to me. Are you only counting the cost of tuition (and not books, room and board, etc)?

I just grabbed some numbers for NH, one site says the average for tuition alone is $10k, with another $1.5k for books/etc, and another $15k for room/board. So, unless you are able to commute from your parents, looking at closer to 25k+ in loans, per year.

I also checked UNH specifically, where the numbers are roughly $20k for tuition/fees and $33k all in.
Humans get smart by absorbing language produced by other humans. It's what raises us above animals. A human who doesn't have that becomes feral, so much of what we consider to be human is learned culturally.

Humans also overfit to the training data. We all know some kids just learn how to apply a specific method for solving math problems and the moment the problem changes a bit, they are dumbfounded. They only learn the surface without understanding the essence, like language models.

Some learn foreign languages this way, and as a result they can only solve classroom exercises, they can't use it in the wild (Japanese teachers of English, anecdotally).

Another surprising human limitation is causal reasoning. If it were so easy to do it, we wouldn't have the anti-vax campaigns, climate change denial, religion, etc. We can apply causal reasoning only after training and in specific domains.

Given these observations I conclude that there is no major difference between humans and artificial agents with language models. GPT-3 is a language model without embodiment and memory so it doesn't count as an agent yet.
Too many "promising" studies like cannabis, vitamin D, chloroquine, ivermectin, etc have been later fact-checked by the CDC as bad science, to rely on anything but the CDC's word (or Fauci). Until the CDC says so I won't believe it. Right now it seems like mass vaccination is our only way out of this pandemic and back to normal.
It wouldn’t be too hard. The trickiest bit would be putting together a consistent API.
Video games used to have this problem really bad as well as so much overuse of bloom. There was a few years where every big budget game looked like it had a brown filter on the screen. People have speculated it was used to much to try and hide bad graphics but I get the feeling it was more of a fashion thing. Luckily it seems to be going away recently.
I am convinced college is more or less priced off of prestigious private high schools where the parents simply pay cash. For the wealthy it is acceptable to pay 60-70K per year for their kids. Clearly this represents the wealth gap in this country.
They should be dischargable after 8-10 years. If you are willing to declare 8 years after graduating, you should be able to get your debt restructured or forgiven.
> Because...it's a programming language, and therefore...it is code?

It's also literally the classic example of a "fourth-generation programming language."
[OP] Yup, that was the intent. I've seen a lot of academic and industrial hand wringing about not wanting to build a compiler because it's an overkill for the solution only to have the people come back 6 months later having built a compiler.

I'm not saying everyone should build a compiler for everything–but when you should build a compiler, you really should bite the bullet and build a compiler.
I meant 100% yearly, but after reading your comment I double-checked my offers and I was wrong. RSU grant (per year) was at ~45% of base salary.

I was going by my tax filings, and because of the stock growth (and additional grants), I end up with 100+% yearly, but that's quite different from the initial award.

Thanks for pointing this out.
On the first pass? I usually just let it be. Maybe I'll mark it or make a note, but probably not. I've spent my whole life not understanding almost everything right away. If it's important, it'll come up again. It's sort of like starting a new job: you don't know who everybody is right away but you get it over time.

On later passes, I'm more inclined to jump around.
> Meanwhile, the actual fatality rate of Covid has plummeted.

However, the infection count has skyrocketed (even amongst the vaccinated), and the incidence of long-term negative health consequences for those infected is roughly the same for vaccinated and unvaccinated, months post recovery of initial infection.

There's a huge negative impact here that society has not yet realized.
It's going to the facilities and the staff needed to support them.

When I was an undergrad in the mid 1990s, the dorms were square rooms with cinderblock walls, concrete floors, metal frame beds, and a simple desk, the cafeteria was like an oversized high school cafeteria, and the gym was a basic weight room. A couple of years ago I received a brochure from my alma mater asking for donations and showing the modernized campus - the dorms were now luxury apartments, the cafeteria was a gourmet eatery, and the gym looked like a Lifetime.
I think for him pausing and perhaps just having a career is the best of a bad situation. His education doesn't work for him as is.
I agree EOL is too often interpreted to mean 'Insecure' - in the case of closed solutions this is absolutely the case (presumably, it is often difficult to audit closed and obfuscated closed source solutions).

In many cases it is not, it is purely a 'ticking time bomb' - if new CVEs or requirements arise which cause issues in EOL versions, you may not even become aware of the vuln.

In counterbalance, new versions of code have new, unknown CVEs, new bugs, etc.

The issue is that of support, the fallacy and process issue is that 'current' support is of greater quality than 'historical' support, or that old software has a disproportionately higher support costs than 'current' software.

The true issue is overdependence on FOSS software and unwillingess to contribute - all software has costs, major vendors are 'coasting' on work provided by free volunteers and panic when those volunteers decide to no longer work for free.

If vendors were doing the legwork necessary to properly inhouse their dependencies, I would wager that much less software would end up discarded in 'fear', for a lack of a better word than this - modern development is supposedly built on features and patches, any codebase should be maintainable for a much longer period than its supposed EOL.
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I'm not sure if the spending or funding side is bigger issue, and surely this depends somewhat on the school, but both must be brought in line rather than forcing it onto our future workers.

The one thing we can't do is stop funding because we have pre-decided that it won't lower tuition. It's easy to attach strings to money, let's do that.