skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's ignore their Russian subscribers loss for the time being. Analysts were expecting them to add 2.7m and they added 500K elsewhere (taking the number from your comment) so they are still way off and it proves that their growth is slowing at a rapid pace because of increasing competition from Apple, Amazon, Disney and HBO.
I think it also matters what your university considers computer science to be. The more fundamental theory it is, the less immediately applicable it will seem to your day job. What you're describing sounds more like a programming degree and not like a traditional CS degree. For better or worse.
Every single app on my phone besides Overcast (the podcast player) has an Android version. Hardly any non game app developer creates apps for iOS only.

Not only that, the data for those apps are on a remote server that is accessible via any other platform. Even when an app uses the standard file picker, you can choose any installed cloud storage device to save and load files - ie iCloud, Dropbox, Google Drive etc.
A 4 year BS is $320,000 without Room and Board. That's what my mortgage was 22 years ago. I have 30 years to pay that off, and I can live in it while doing so.

(Now, multiply by the number of children you have, in my case, 2.)
Why would you need to go back to school to learn those things?

At best school is a syllabus telling you what people think you should know, fairly easy to get a hold of, and maybe a bit of accountability to make sure you actually learn it.
From that perspective, the simplest way to resolve the money parking issue is to seize assets owned by chinese or Russian citizens. Break that assumption for non-canadians.

Alternatively, provide a dedicated asset class for that, so they can put their money in something other than housing
The market can generally move faster than politics - as soon as it becomes common knowledge that the housing market will be opened up you'll see a modest drop in prices, when some legislation is passed you'll see a larger drop in prices... if and when that legislation survives the court you'll see even more of a drop.

This issue isn't that the laws will move too quickly but that the open intent to pass those laws will spook the market and cause a panic - which is actually a lot worse if you want to deflate the market because any aide or support you'd want to provide is going to come in well after the market has already responded.

And, to return to my main point above... when that happens people with a lot of free capital sitting around are going to be able to game the system and make a bunch of money off of it. So wealth inequality will increase and it's likely a lot of folks will be in an absolutely terrible spot.
Same goes for email/post subjects:

"Need help"

"Had a question"

"Weird thing I noticed"
If you are on macOS/iOS the built in apps for email/contacts/calendar/notes are really nice. Your data stays on your device, and no third party servers will be involved.
Under implementation in Chromium too https://bugs.chromium.org/p/v8/issues/detail?id=7748
The pythons are there to keep the alligators from gettin' too uppity.
They also forecasted a global paid subscriber loss of 2 million for the second quarter.
I 100% agree with you. Damage is done anyway, person is interrupted. It’s now a standard to mute Slack/Teams when you are concentrated and let other person call you if it’s urgent. If you let every message interrupt your work maybe you should blame yourself
Biden launches $6B effort to save distressed nuclear plants
I never graduated college. The only good that came of me going to college was that I met someone who introduced me to a paid internship program that I'd have otherwise never known about, and would never have been able to qualify for had I not been in college. It only lasted 18 months, but it paid my bills during that time and taught me some useful skills that lead to me getting a full time job at another company. I've thought about going back and finishing, but it just doesn't seem worth the money I'd have to spend to do so, especially since I'm already working in the field I want to work in.
I guess the problem is it's hard to pinpoint when precisely the "current" meaning becomes the "old" one. This is doubly difficult for meanings which contradict each other (see "woman").

What happens when a substantial portion of the population refuses to adopt the new meaning? It seems like the language gets forked then. This doesn't seem to do any good at all, increasing polarization and creating obstacles to clear communication.
Up to a point, this is true when the affordable housing has had it's cost bid up by high end customers because of a scarcity of high end housing.

However, once that high end market pressure has been abated, then there a real and hard limits to the amount of high end housing that can/will be available to low income customers. Instead of being available cheaply, this high-end housing stock will end up being used as a vacation house or a short the rental, neither of which actually help reduce local demand for housing.
Let’s review. Average quality has taken an absolute nose dive. There is so much garbage it’s hard to find new/interesting things. They keep raising their prices. They charge a fortune extra for 4K when the other big streamers don’t (they have more content, but see #1). They cancel stuff so fast it’s not worth getting into. They refuse to integrate with Apple TV’s “Watch Now” unlike everyone else.

They act like they’re “Netflix, king of the hill, above all others and different from wannabes”. Like HBO vs basic cable. Like it’s 2014 still and all the other services are jokes.

It’s not. The others have caught up in many ways, or surpassed. With MUCH better prices. And the Netflix crap ratio has gotten out of control.

One huge hit every few years won’t save you. Apple TV+ is firing on all cylinders. HBO Max, Hulu, and Disney all nice have originals and great back catalogs for nostalgia.

If I could find Apple TV+ quality on Netflix I’d be happier. But I can’t. And I pay 4x as much for that privilege thanks to 4K.
Does this complement or compete with Deno Deploy?
I like it when people say hello to me :-)
> The main reason that the United States became the dominant superpower...

Favorable demographics, abundant natural resources, a relatively safe geographic position between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, culture, and two World Wars were surely greater factors than how many people went to high school.
No, SYN would be the appropriate opener if ACK was an acceptable response.
Have a hard rule: no non-free software.

I've used Alpine for email and Emacs's Calendar for calendar.
It's probably time for them to cut back their aggressive push to create content and start spending it on external content contracts again.
Focus on a few high quality originals rather than rapid fire as much crap content.
I can't reply to your comment from 55 days ago so I'm doing it here. I was obsessed with hatshoe.org when I was in high school. I wish the author would reveal himself and give kind of an explanation about what he was going for. That was a cool site.
Interesting - I'm curious if the small labels doing releases are using recordable magneto-optical MDs. (I'm assuming so.)

In its heyday, there were a limited number of prerecorded releases, mostly from Sony. They didn't use M-O discs, and were pressed aluminum/plastic inside the shutter case, similar to a CD. They were supposedly much cheaper per-unit, but with a high setup cost.

I still have a handful of the prerecorded ones. My favorite is Pink Floyd's _Delicate Sound of Thunder_, which was two MDs in a special dual case that fit no storage system ever imaginable. Just looked these up on eBay, and I think I figured out my retirement plan.
In Australia "guys" is a gender-neutral term when used collectively

It is in 99% of America, too.

It's just a few angry self-important people who like to shout on the internet who are happy to tell you otherwise.
Their brains die of malnutrition? ;-)
> You're free to ignore the inclusivity suggestions, just as you're free to ignore the spelling suggestions.

Sure, then please kindly also install the upcoming Russian version of it, which merely makes suggestions like using the "neutral" word "special operation" when you inappropriately call it an "invasion".

These will be mere suggestions, and you are free to ignore them, but you should always be aware of the "consequences" of the words you choose.
How much more growth can Netflix really muster? They really have penetrated most regions including APAC. Adding 500k is a major accomplishment when viewed thru that lens.
This. The initial waiting for answer serves for initiating a synchronous conversation. If you wanted an async convo, send an email.
I can't wait for theorem provers to be commonplace.
Herfi is now open source – 3D multiplayer game prototype written in Clojure
The degree wont help with leetcode unless you did it in the last year or so. Leetcode is about practice. Doing a degree and revising for an exam is a similar kind of practice.

Natural aptitude to a certain extent is required, but if you are coding you probably have it. Then it is practice: there is nothing easier than a question you already answered in practice and you recognise the shape.
Can confirm. I started messing with leetcode and brushing up on some algorithm stuff lately. It's been about 4-5 years since I took an algorithm class and I've lost nearly all of my knowledge because it's just not something used in the kind of programming I do. I do feel myself regaining those skills, but I don't know if having a degree is exactly the reason why I am regaining those skills, because it has still been difficult reacclimating myself.
We've only been able to infer dark matter densities over galactic scales so I'm not sure that density applies at planetary system scales. It's like trying to use the density of iron to say where the atoms in a chunk of it are.
Isn't the supreme authority of the judicial system directly appointed by that same government? So that challenge will probably end up failing.
Is the counterpart to "Guys" a gender-neutral term when used collectively?
Depends on who you ask - I'm fine with it and haven't said otherwise. What is a problem is when one person profits off the work of another (as in, pays them less than their fair share), which is basically all salaried employment.
I'm an American that finished university later than most. I was 40 by the time I finished my degree, working full time as a software engineer. After I got my degree, I found out a lot of my peers that I thought held degrees do not.

For me, I've found that my course-related knowledge provides a little more context than before, but ultimately I'm not really better at solving leet-code style questions. It hasn't resolved any imposter syndrome. I haven't noticed any difference in recruiting efforts.

I am very happy I completed my degree, it was an important goal for me. I think college is important because it results in more well-rounded individuals, with broader perspectives.

I don't think college should be viewed as a means for job-training. We are not our jobs, and I really think we need to find a way to stop treating people like their role in society is exclusively to work for 50 years and then go away.
I can’t hear ‘folks’ without thinking of Neddie Seagoon from The Goon Show. Probably not what proponents of the word are going for, the show being from the 1950s and in many ways ‘of its time’.
worse offender is asking

hi, can someone help me?

in a public channel. I am seeing such requests and ask myself "Do I reply? Will I be able to help? How long this will take/Do I have time?". So please don't do that either
I think he asked about SAT scores not IQ.
> If people have passed on your profile completely for that reason

Arguably this is a good built-in filter for the candidate. In my experience for SE roles specifically, companies with such credentialism often have many other structural/corporate issues.
There are other things you need to take into account too - padding can make it more likely for a struct to divide evenly into cache lines, which can trigger false sharing. Changing the size of a struct from 128 bytes to 120 or 122 bytes will cause it to be misaligned on cache lines and reduce the impact of false sharing and that can significantly improve performance.

The last time I worked on a btree-based data store, changing the nodes from ~1024 bytes to ~1000 delivered something like a 10% throughput improvement. This was done by reducing the number of entries in each node, and not by changing padding or packing.
It's still hands down the best phone I've ever owned.
> 1. I have a harder time getting jobs than people with degrees. Not people with CS degrees, people with any degrees. Despite having job experience, I have a rougher time getting interviews and emails back than my friends with degrees. I have worked at the same companies as my peers and they have recruiters beating down their doors while I barely get emails back.

I'm not discrediting your experience but I've never had any issues on this front. I went to college for ~3 years before dropping out because I didn't see the point in continuing and I've never had any issues getting a job in tech. I've also far outpaced my peers (geographically and friends) when it comes to salary so I'm struggling to figure out what the difference is. Potentially we are going after different jobs or want different jobs. On the recruiter-front, I have recruiters in my inbox 24/7 pestering me. I don't see recruiters reaching out as a measure of how good of a developer someone is (also almost every external recruiter is trash), it just means you got put on a mailing list at some point. I believe you when you say your friends with similar/same experience get asked back more than you do but I'm hesitant to automatically assume it's because of college (due to my lived experience). I have only interviewed at 1 place that I can remember that I actually was interested in getting a job at which ended in them saying they weren't interested (though I've only worked at 4 companies over 11+ years and interviewed about 6-8 times total, the other offers weren't ones I was interested in taking).

For #2 yes, I could see that being an issue but it's not something I'm looking to do so I don't really care

For #3, everyone feels this and college doesn't change it. Interviews are notoriously terrible on the whole and serve as an ego boost to the interviewer more often than they actually tell you if someone would be a good developer.
Thermal imaging is easy from a helicopter or survey aircraft, that's enough to find likely locations for plantages.
I agree that many words are created and spread as memes. But I struggle to come up with examples (outside of religion) where the meanings or usages of words are prescribed by a small group, and great offense is taken when the words are not used according to the prescriptions.
Hey! I actually looked into contributing into outline (awesome notion FOSS alternative btw) when I had this crazy idea for a DAO/Web3 about research publishing platform (outline + latex support would have been great for that, there was an open branch and looked into it).

Kudos on the great product and project, I am sure it's a great company to work at!
The size and shape of rooms, hallways, stairways, elevators (if we're talking about high-rises), the quality of installed windows, quality and presence of a centralized HVAC, etc, certainly depend on the "luxury level" of a building.

Building codes set the lower bounds of acceptable quality of a building, which is good but not all-encompassing (and for a good reason).
> I don't think educating fewer people is a good long-term strategy, but I think if we want to educate more people we need to take a long hard look at how tertiary education works in the US.

As part of doing that, we should take a long hard look at primary and secondary education too. U.S. public school K-12 is a disaster, and modern educational trends are only making the picture worse and more unequal rather than less.
>Its like pushing your culture on different countries.

I think the original point was there is no way for Google not to do this. Sometimes cultures have opposing viewpoints which makes a neutral decision impossible. One obvious example is with displaying disputed borders in Google Maps. Any decision there is going to be political. Lots of people are going to be upset with Google for making the wrong decision regardless of which decisions they make, but I think that anger is misplaced. The real problem is Google has the power to make this decision for too many people. Companies like Google are simply too powerful and need to be broken up.
True, it would discriminate against smaller companies.
Is garbage collection really needed?
> Netflix previously told shareholders it expected to add 2.5 million net subscribers during the first quarter.

It wasn't just the analysts. Netflix itself missed big in their forecast.
Then you’re back to the original problem of having to perfectly remember what you bought and for what price, otherwise you’re committing fraud.
>They need to think like a Hollywood studio, and less like a Video Supermarket.

Speaking as someone who knows Netflix producers, they very much do...
> The BLS indicates that 79% of jobs offer PTO.

Sure, but that PTO is pretty... not great outside of salaried careers. For instance, for 5 years of work at Starbucks, you can get a maximum of ~2 weeks paid vacation across those 5 years in California (which has specifically friendly legislation to encourage this).
I would say only Mozilla Thunderbird!

The best arguments for a long-term mail storing solution - it keeps your emails and all your mail settings, in a form that is truly portable, so that you can easily move it from computer to computer

I am trusting it with 22 GB of emails (many tens of thousands of emails) organized in many folders.

You can have it connected to many online mail services, so it will sync (and keep an offline copy of your mail) and keep all of them separate. Or, you can configure it to sort all your email in a single place and folder hierarchy.

You can have various types of filters, separately per mail account.
> Although I'd say nearly every game worth playing is already on there, besides a couple N64 games

I'd say it takes a very narrow view of what's "worth playing" to say that.

To me, the Switch Online emulation services are defined by what they're missing.
AreaHub website shows local environmental dangers
Just like tabs vs spaces animosity has largely been ended through the use of auto formatters, I think there is a technological solution as well for this.

Create an auto responder for “Hi” and “Hello” that will just echo it back and not cause a notification.

So it becomes:

Other person: Hi

Auto responder: Hi

(No chat notification)

Other person: <Asks question>

(You get chat notifications, if enabled)

You: Answer question

This seems to solve most of the issues, and should be rather simple to implement.
Functionally this is still very different from sync xhr. Changing from sync xhr to await+fetch will introduce new bugs into your application unless it was written carefully, because now code can run and interactions can happen during the fetch that would have been blocked by the sync xhr occupying the event loop.

Promises are also specced so that their handlers don't run until the event loop completes a turn, which means that no matter what there is now an opportunity for queued callbacks to run before you actually process the response to your request, even if it hit in-memory cache.
I think that an organisation is just a group of people and just like in our countries, we should be able to make our voices heard democratically. I think we should aim to make more areas of our lives democratic, including our workplaces where we spend much of our lives.

So yeah, I think you should have a voice in how the company you work for is run.
> Regulations didn't cause universities to replace educators with underpaid adjuncts, though

I don't think you intended to imply this, but just to be clear, adjuncts are educators as much as any other faculty. I work with adjuncts and they are in fact underpaid. I agree it's a position that should be used less, although adjuncts are useful in filling in gaps during the year (e.g. a professor has to take a leave for a semester. It's not worth hiring a full faculty member on a 3 year contract; it's better just to hire an adjunct to cover the class one time).

At the same time some universities are going in the other direction, creating well-paid full-time teaching positions, some of them even on a tenure track. We are hiring for one such position now (and actually have been continually hiring for this position for 5 years now)
What about other analogues? I think they have similar losses.
I had a TRG-PRO which was a classic Palm Pilot, but with a CF card slot in the back and built-in software to use the additional storage. I suppose it could have used a SD card if you adapted it with one of these: https://www.amazon.com/Compact-Memory-Adapter-High-Speed-Ext...

http://www.pencomputing.com/palm/Reviews/trgpro.html
Same. This is exactly the product I didn't know I wanted until I saw it.
Why would they did that when they can make more money porting the games, touching up the graphics and rereleasing them as "new" games every generation?
The Virtual Console on Wii did not continue on.
I think the true tragedy is simply trying to identify the passion and or interests of high school aged kids. It's always been true that kids of that age spend way more time trying to fit in or find their social group than anything else. And at the same time, you _can't_ know what you want to do for the rest of your life at that age. Hell, I'm one of the many who only found what they REALLY liked to do the second year of my master's program. (hint: wasn't what my degree was in)

The real joke is that college is some 4 year, very specific journey for a very specific degree, which many have said already, is often largely wasted on 'unecessary' or 'useless' knowledge. I'd love to see much more industry or real hands-on work come to universities, no matter what area of study it is. Liking to study or research in an area is almost always extremely different than actually working in that area.

The problem is instutitions (i.e. colleges and universities) are always slow to change; its the nature of institutions themselves. Not sure if any radical change is actually possible, but rather at best case a slow molding or attempting experiments over time - a similar conclusion to what McWhorter arrives at.
Physics of Splitting Oreos
> But what if that's an accurate understanding of the company culture?

Then avoiding the language would effectively be tricking people into applying when they wouldn't actually want to work under those conditions.
> but everything else seems superfluous for a personal configuration.

I've not used outline minor mode, but reading up on it, it seems it's merely for presentation vs editing. As an example, can I move a heading and its subtree to another part of the document? Doing so makes managing configs much easier.

> I have read dozens of supposedly literate configurations on the web, and most of them are just header, begin_src, code, end_src, repeat.

Most code I've read is crap. That doesn't mean one can't write code well. My own literate configuration is probably 80+% as you describe, but it's the remaining 10-20% where I do write some prose, with links, etc that make it worthwhile.

I agree that it is yet another level of complexity for beginners. My own personal experience, though, was it would be much harder to debug plain init.el files than the org ones.

In any case, I have no objection to using outline-minor-mode instead. I just think that many users are going to learn org mode sooner or later, and it's less cognitive load to just jump into org mode. I'm pretty sure most people who put their config in outline mode will eventually migrate it to org anyway :-) And I don't see any actual advantage to outline minor mode in general.