skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Warren Buffet is considered the guru of investment, and was loosing money on IBM for a decade until he exited :-)
Pretty sure that suggestion came from our Texas staff, not the Californians.

Fortunately, Austin isn't representative of the majority of Texas, or America. It's like Portland, but with better weather.

(Just last week I learned that "Keep Austin Weird" predates "Keep Portland Weird" by five years.)
I Used Unity and Courier to Create a Notification-Based Game
Yes. That's the point. People will rent it. Which means they need to be priced such that people can rent it. (If the rent is too high, people can't rent, which means it sits empty, which triggers the punitive tax). Lower rents will drive prices down, as people will decide to rent instead of buy for a while.
I wrote an android PeerTube client [1] (also activitypub) and I am also a HN user. ;)

[1] https://github.com/sschueller/peertube-android
Interestingly enough Dart is also pretty deep into adding WASM as a compile target to act as an alternative to the current compile to optimised JS approach they do currently in the browser.

You are right though they are going to be the first big WASM / Canvas and WebGPU framework as opposed to the generations of JS / DOM. It will be interesting to see where they land with it, I’m quietly hopeful especially once you get AOM sorted in the browser too.

I think the real test is going to be when they decide to migrate over the multiple billion dollars of revenue project that Google Ads is from JS based Dart to WASM based Dart.

Work going on here but not much to look at now just source and no docs https://github.com/dart-lang/sdk/tree/main/pkg/dart2wasm
Interesting. Would you happen to know if there is a version for Google? I guess you could just use !g
Netflix for me is the only decent one that always subtitled (closed captions to the US-entric folks) their output and they do put on some decent films now and then.

But Amazon prime video? Fuck that and fuck the morons who add crud on their catalogue and don't even bother adding subtitles? Grossly insulting to an avid deaf viewer.
On the Proof of Humanity Project
"Someone has illegally copied our client's technical exams questions and answers from their official website https://www.hackerrank.com/ and uploaded them on their platform without permission."

WorthIT is worthless.
Yeah, let the building plague begin.
I loved this when this first came out but kind of ran into this spiral of using it like a game. I couldn’t quite do anything actionable from it. Any advice on how I can use this to improve my future financial situation?
Earnings is net income, not revenue
> Canada never really become all that significant of a power?

Canada has a population barely 10% of the size of the US, there's your answer.
There's an important distinction between knowing and believing. Saying "I don't know" is a statement of knowledge, but that is different from a statement of belief. For instance, I am an agnostic atheist: I don't know if any gods exist, but I don't believe they do. One can be entirely capable of believing or not believing while still being open to the idea that their beliefs may be wrong because they don't know. Saying "I believe gravity pulls me towards Earth" doesn't preclude me from changing that belief if, say, evidence presents itself that I'm actually being held down on the ground by an invisible demigod's barbell -- it just means I currently believe gravity to be the cause.

"One could believe in things and not care about proving them to others, yet this will not convince others nor produce any evidence."

Sure, but just because someone believes something doesn't make it true, so beliefs without evidence don't matter. That is, except when those beliefs inform the person's behavior; then they matter greatly, because they affect people around them despite not having any basis for their behaviors (since they have no basis for their beliefs).

"One could also hold the view that everything is false and not worth looking into unless someone else provides proof. This will not produce evidence either."

"Someone else" could also be "that same person"; but even if it's not, then it would still motivate the production of evidence by requiring someone to look for evidence in order to convince said person.

"But I still think those willing to entertain ideas without accepting or denying them can better explore that topic and use those thoughts cross domains. A world without strict self imposed mental boundaries can be beneficial."

I agree completely. And the biggest imposed mental boundary is equating "I believe" with "I know" :) "I don't know" is valid and, indeed, generally the best approach, epistemically speaking; "I neither believe nor disbelieve" is apathy at best, self-deception at worst.
Yeah, I can't study for a master's degree anymore. Should it be a main degree or something?
Open source is still a better deal, you can just turn issues off and never hear any strangers writing crap in GitHub issues. "Turn off" your ears at a company to avoid crap and you'll be fired quickly.
> Do you have a source?

The census, but the data starts to become a little sketchy going back as far as you're looking for. Admittedly, I was look at the period around the war, not the 100 years prior.

Canada wasn't great at record keeping in its early history. I expect you won't find anything before the 1910s and even then it is not exactly great. However, in the 1910s it seems both countries only saw around ~10% of the population attending high school, as best as I can tell. More clearly, they both saw around 30% by the 1930s when we start to see much better data.

Let's just assume it was 10% through the entire 19th century. If we attribute America's success in becoming a superpower to that small portion of the population attending high school, that still lends credence to the idea that most don't need to go to high school. Whether or not high school was significant, it is clear that America didn't need most in high school to reach superpower status.

> I also question whether "making money" is the best way to judge education.

I agree, but the industry doesn't. That is the number one feature pushed on students in the marketing. I sincerely doubt Canada or the USA would have such high attainment if people weren't lead to believe that they would make money by doing it. Some attend college because they truly have a love for education, but many more attend simply because they believe they'll be poor in the rest of their life if they don't.
I'm really not sure why you wouldn't just store the current sale value in the database and build a simple UI to manage it. Why don't you want to store it in the main database? This "side database" will grow and grow and soon you won't know whether to put new features in the main database or the side database and now you have two different databases to maintain with two different tech stacks ... why are you doing this to yourself?
While there are cultural forces at work pushing kids to college, you'll never free yourself from them until companies loosen educational requirements in job listings. And you cannot accomplish this with New York Times think-pieces.

Remember how thought leaders in the technology industry pontificated about how the resume would be obsolete once GitHub repositories and LinkedIn profiles became widespread - which they have - and yet to date the vast majority of technology hiring is done with a resume?

You're going to need a change in corporate cultural. And I should stress: corporate culture is a global affair; you cannot simply change the thinking of the typical American and assume that will immediately be reflected by a multinational corporation. Companies deeply value education, and will continue to do so, even if elite wordsmiths decide it's not that important.

I do not hold a college degree and my family carries no college debt, and when reviewing resumes I put very little weight on education, but I recognize I'm an anomaly in this industry.
Please don't pretend that people choosing to be inclusive is the same being forced to be inclusive by an overlord.
Yes, you can think this way. But I need to add, that YDB is also a platform for developing distributed systems that store data. YDB provides a scalable and replicated storage with low latency, a conception of a tablet (that is also used in many systems) that implements distributed consensus. These building blocks are used for persistent queue implementation, block store, KV-tablets. These blocks are hard to develop and they are very good when you need to build something new or optimal for a specific problem. OLTP is an example of such a problem. But yes, we were building YDB to support OLTP workload initially.
This is the thing everyone always points to when they hand wave "a lot of other shady things" - not sure why folks generally like to FUD Brave. I was working there when this issue happened and it was a very big deal internally and was patched immediately. FWIW I got zero hint that this was some kind of shady thing someone would have been trying to sneak in.
> I don't see how you could possibly think that is an appropriate subject for a 3rd grader, much less a kindergartner. The partisan hyperbole around it is ridiculous on both sides.

What's problematic about it is that it's enforceable by private litigation. In one recent example[0], shortly before the law was passed, a group of Florida parents demanded action be taken against a 6th grade teacher for disclosing that his marriage was to another man after taking time off for his wedding. Had the law been in effect, it's likely one or more of those parents would have sued.

Such a suit probably wouldn't be successful in terms of winning a judgment. His disclosure wasn't "classroom instruction" after all, and most people probably would consider it age appropriate. Winning isn't necessarily the point though; creating a chilling effect such that teachers have to pretend queer people don't exist seems like the likely goal to me.

Indeed, the teacher in question is quitting teaching.

[0] https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-politics-and-policy/-can...
isn't it part of the runtime ?
It's for proper integration of garbage collected languages -- otherwise you need to embed your GC too, which bloats the wasm. JS host VMs have very good GCs these days, so hooking into them allows for better integration by e.g. go, Java, C#, etc.

Right now wasm is really designed for C/C++/rust
SAT is a pretty good proxy for IQ. Not as much as LSAT, but still pretty close.
What luck, I was just commenting on Reddit this morning on a post criticizing for-profit schools about how I went to trade school and don't regret it.

A little copy-paste here…

I went to essentially a for profit trade-school 15 years ago. On the one hand, it was more expensive than I was lead to believe by the salesman (this was a whole ordeal), and let me tell you it was EXPENSIVE. On the other hand, I genuinely believe I received a very high quality education. All of my teachers had actually worked in the industry for years and knew their fields inside and out. Additionally the class sizes were tiny. Lots of one-on-one time with the teachers.

I actually got a pretty high paying job within 6 months of graduating I held for 5 years before moving to an even better company. The school was massively helpful with placement presumably to improve their numbers.

My only real regret is that I can’t really continue my education without starting over. They went out of businesses and my degree isn’t really recognized by state schools.
What about when the question is very long or needs a lot of context? Dumping out a huge out-of-the-blue message seems like it might discourage a quick response.
"No, but it helps."

Opens up the target to an additional subset of devs.
Originally, my plan was to earn enough to secure a house & future as a working person, and then try to join politic and change the discourse.

Now, my plan is to accept that even with a good salary securing a future at good QOL costs a lifetime, so I will try to enjoy myself and hopefully buy a home that doesn't get burnt down in the increasingly frequent and devastating forest fires of my native home.

Hooray for 2022!
1. There is a difference between luxury apartments and new apartments.
2. More likely the most egregious wasted land uses will be destroyed and not something already being used fairly productively. For example empty lots or parking lots are low value and would be turned into housing, driving down prices far before any existing building would be affected
There's a manager (not mine) that will forward me random emails from customers, with nothing but "Any thoughts?"

It really bothers me.
The lack of floating point support made it a no go for me. Compared to something like the Teensy4 (which, I know, is 4x the price) it's just not worth the hassle if porting everything to fixed point arithmetic.

Btw the performance of emulated float operations on rp2040 Vs the teensy is a factor of ~100x
When we look at education numbers it doesn’t show the quality of the education or if people are educated in relevant schools.

Is Canada churning out more engineers that elsewhere (and are they staying in Canada) or something like gender studies?
> I do believe that evil-mode is fundamentally just an emulation layer, and shouldn't be regarded as an equal to the regular keybindings.

With all due respect, that's rather condescending and an example of the kind of myopia that religious adherents of both emacs and vi get accused of. fundamentally both emacs' native keybindings and vi keybindings are methods of connecting keyboard events to elisp functions. That's the boring truth, and there's nothing inherently better about one versus the other. Pretending otherwise is just an attempt at gatekeeping.
Interesting post, I have a CS degree and want some of those years back!
Tucows, and nothing wrong with paying for Gmail either - a .com domain is maybe $15 per year (and other TLDs range from $1 to thousands)
Within the dupe window (re which see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html):

No Hello (2013) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29978860 - Jan 2022 (67 comments)

Also:

No Hello (2013) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24239880 - Aug 2020 (210 comments)

Please Don't Say Just Hello In Chat (2013) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19648415 - April 2019 (265 comments)

Please Don't Say Just Hello in Chat - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14868294 - July 2017 (46 comments)

There are also a bunch of other threads on the same theme, based on different articles, if anybody wants to dig them up...
Changing your repo to Main from Master is probably the least useful thing you could possible do to fight modern slavery or to fight racism or to do anything but virtue signal to your co-workers.

You are not being kind you are belittling and making a real event that hurt many into a silly game. Racism and slavery are real things you and your co-workers can fight against them if you truly care.

Get in touch with the oldest org fighting slavery: https://www.antislavery.org

They could use your money, time and network. The one thing they don't care about is changing master to main in your github repos
'You don't really want to go to college.' Ugh, what a depressed, non-optimistic outlook on life and society. IME far more people want to go to college and can't than people who are somehow compelled to go and don't want to. Why don't we let people decide for themselves what they want to do, let them dream their greatest dreams and highest ambitions, and give them the opportunity to succeed or fail, through hard work and imagination. That is the American Dream!

The solution, for a productive, optimistic society, is not to tell them not to. My strong belief is that the reactionary elite dominate public perception, and perception is reality. Very broadly speaking, they want to concentrate power in their hands, and reducing investment in human capital saves them immediate money (costing them the long-term benefits of an educated, empowered, free population) and creating an uneducated underclass. Notice that we are, effectively, talking about college for people who can't now afford it - the best predictor of college education is family wealth, and the rich kids will still go to college, regardless - these op-eds argue for eliminating college for everyone else.

One way they do it - one way they control perception, which becomes reality - is by framing the question. They talk about college as if it's job training, that is, it's preparation for people to assume their role serving the elites who own the corporations. 'We don't need so many of our employees to go to college', and right there your humanity, your value as a human being, is reduced to what you can do to them, and your possibilities, your horizon, your potential is reduced to serving them. (It's also economically short-sighted, somehow defining the current economy, it's current demand, as some end state. It's exceptionally conservative. The economy will transform or become moribund, and the next generation will transform it.)

People go to college because they want to learn, to grow, to open up vistas in their inner and outer worlds, to learn the best of what humanity has created and learn to create their own, to change the world, because they believe in themselves and their dreams. GREAT. Let's give them the opportunity to go there!
Sounds to me like this is the exact thing that the normal parallel command was made for, not sure python is needed here if the end result is shelling out to os.system anyway.
Would this "less expensive school" have paid you to attend? Otherwise, I don't see how it beats your fully paid elite school experience.

--someone else who went to their cheapest college option: an elite private school in New England.
Expecting young people to spend more and more time in education is also a statistical trick. You're not unemployed if you're in school. The incentive was there during the 20th century when population growth rates had not yet caught up to the deindustrialization trend.

I think population growth slowdown will reverse this credentialism, because we will need more labor and won't be able to tie it up in schooling for years.
I think you completely misunderstand what they're trying to do. What you read as a proliferation of crap is really trying to find a 'big hit' in lots of small niches. Some niche hits will become crossover success stories, and draw people into new genres, etc. But others will quietly be classics in their small niche, often for being the first serious effort.

Of course, Sturgeon's Law is still in effect, so 90% of everything will be crap. But producing non-crap for smaller audiences builds loyalty, which is worth something in the subscriber model.

Or at least that's my read of their strategy. There's a real discovery problem that comes with it that I don't think they've solved. But overall it's an interesting approach.
Yes. The idea is you store your init as code blocks in an org file, and you can organize your config into common headings (e.g. all C++ related config goes into the C++ heading, which itself goes under the Programming heading). The other benefit is that you can write prose around the code blocks describing what you're trying to do here (you can do that with comments, but org markup is much richer).

I'm not saying you should do this now. My recommendation is you learn the basics of org mode, and then look up how to do this.
“being infected makes you 25x more likely to die after elective surgeries”
Yes, sorry, I meant non-royalties business. I don't believe the kind of growth you mentioned is likely, but maybe I am missing things about their business. I think they bet big on diversifying with other initiatives like Firefox phone that just didn't hit, lots of browser things like you were talking about.
> since they never focused on specs all of their consoles are easily emulate-able.

I dunno, the NES and SNES emulators all tend to be terrible, except for the NES and SNES Classic.
The measured goal in the study was to reduce heart failure exacerbations, which included ER visits and admissions to the hospital, not blood pressure per se.
> In the US, the average guess in mid-July was that 9% of the population had died.

We need some studies on how bad the average American is at guesswork. 9% is an incredibly bad guess.
How does that look in French?
18.3 P/E ratio (~6% yearly real profits as opposed to -8% real in a bank account) going forward by today's earnings. High morale unparalleled technical talent in the market. Founder-led. COGS (cost of goods sold) approaches nothing as content library accumulates. No brainer buy.
I assume you went somewhere prestigious and it really just validates my pet theory that you and your peers are really one-trick ponies. Don't blame society or college that you can't fix a clogged drain, blame yourself or your parents.
Yes but your argument loses quite a lot of value, since I hardly see a reason for "destabilization" just for wanting some nuclear subs out.
sure you can, why not? the utility of keeping right of ways undeveloped is billions of dollars
she (a doctor) cites these papers (both open access):

Timing of surgery following SARS-CoV-2 infection: an international prospective cohort study https://associationofanaesthetists-publications.onlinelibrar...

Mortality after surgery with SARS-CoV-2 infection in England: a population-wide epidemiological study https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34148733/
I seriously don't understand their strategy. While all their partners are pulling out to put their content on their own streaming services (and have been for years), Netflix is cancelling good shows left and right. It's like they never learned from Apple's long-tail App Store strategy. You have to cover even niche interests if you want to maintain a dominant position in a market like this. If there is ever a situation where somebody wants to watch something like x and you don't have anything good to cater to that interest, you've failed and you're voluntarily giving up marketshare. Maybe not now, but down the road as your competitors catch up.
Then why do we have IQ tests? And why do we not use those?
You don't need to build in the hinterlands. Looking at a map I see space around many major Canadian cities.

Vancouver may be the most constrained geographically but quite a lot of it looks suburban and could be built up if the political will existed.

Or, Canadians could choose to build nothing but single-family homes, but if they make that choice, they should own it and admit it is the real reason rather than blaming foreigners.
I see it more as a sign of reviewing incompetence. Or perhaps lazyness, or wanting to haze the incoming devs the same way they were? Either way you slice it though, it's unrelated to the actual job we do and should be done away with.
I doubt the professors would want it characterized that way--it's still very much a research university, and the professors are very invested in the theory. As far as I'm aware we covered every theory topic that is widely taught in CS programs nationally, and I've never found my ability to reason about the theory or to read CS papers to be weaker than my peers from other schools.

From what I've observed, the main difference seems to be that we were writing code to apply the theory in every single course, where it sounds like a lot of people didn't touch a keyboard during those classes.
Guix is not a fork of Nix.
Guix reuses an earlier version of the Nix daemon.