skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the light of the sibling comment, small nudges can still result in large consequences. Even without forcing people to do something, chastising them for not adhering to google's vision of language is not something I'm looking forward to.
You can log out of all, then only sign in to the account you want (and optionally remove the "unwanted" account(s) from the sign in list).
this was also a common convention during the usenet news era
Critical dashboards are actually production applications
In way way those are two sides of the same coin. College has become so expensive because it's so indispensable. You earn more money with it than without it.

It's become almost a Veblen good -- the more expensive it is, the more desirable it is. And that pushes all colleges to be more expensive.

Having people treat non-college experience as valuable would decrease the necessity of college, and hopefully lower the price. The prestige factor would still exist, but hopefully it would reduce the costs on the lower end that more people can afford the education (if not the networking and prestige benefits).
> So "most kids don't need to go to college" seems historically shortsighted.

High school was proven important (if we just take that part of your argument as a given), so therefor college must be? By that reasoning, I don't see what makes the highschool cutoff "shortsighted" and the college cutoff correct. Why not four more years for a postgraduate degree?
Entertaining bad ideas is one of those secret weapons, I think. So many great ideas come after talking through the implications of the bad idea!
Fringe groups have always hijacked the process.

How many new words are minted by a single speaker, or song, or movie, or pop culture moment? How many from a single group who merely entered the zeitgeist at the right time? How many come entirely from corporations, and advertising?

Language is always an "all together" process but it is also always a process that starts in the fringe, and spreads out.
Without being super cagey, let's just say I understand their rationale, and it's not entirely un-legit. I found the role via a Hacker News "Who's Hiring" post. My title is going to be "IT Consultant", and it will have zero impact on my compensation. I don't really have a problem with it.
> Are things perfect? No, let’s keep working on this and make 2062 even better

The naivety is almost making me feel better, but I don't think you understand what capitalism has done to our world's power structures if you think we stand a chance to change anything
For whose definition of misinformation?
The issue is that building new “non-luxury” homes is either explicitly prohibited or not economically viable because of the overhead cost of just breaking ground.

At least in my area, developers spend over half of the expense of the home on land (including the legal/political costs of getting it up zoned) and “horizontal development” (utilities, impact fees, permit costs, roads, environmental mitigation, drainage, etc.)

If just breaking ground costs you $400k per lot, then it doesn’t make a ton of sense to build 1500 square foot starter homes that will sell for $600k instead of 3500 square foot McMansions that will go for $1.2mn
Oh, sorry for my misunderstanding then, I thought you were OP.

1. that's... not a problem for me
2. fair but you have tests & pipelines, so not a problem... for me :)
3. this is kind of fair, yeah

4. I absolutely agree about unnecessary layers, java engineers are the worst when they learn about something new and don't have enough practice yet
So it looks like it's basically slapping a 2.0 on standardized features from the roadmap: https://webassembly.org/roadmap/
*cue. As in, a theatrical cue to enter the stage.
While you have a good point, I need to say that traditional databases and distributed databases differ in some points. For instance in YDB you can connect to any node of a database, it means that you need some kind of balancing (server side or client side). I'm not talking about SQL dialect right now, but rather how you connect to database and how you handle connection losses or node overloads. YDB SDKs have client side balancing feature to distribute load evenly across database nodes.
Networking and other IT fields are pretty open.

Degree requirements are lazy gatekeeping by organizations too big to hire people that actually care.
I'm an IC and I'm way more productive in the office without the distractions of home. Also it's a lot easier to peek over to see if someone's busy or not before hitting them on chat to see if they're busy for a quick informal discussion. It's less of an event when you walk by the person every day.

Finding a way to reduce distractions is easier at work: it's a lot easier to change jobs than to change families :-)
Place I’ve recently left had 10M record MongoDB table without indexes which would take tens of seconds to query. Celery was running in cron mode every 2 second or so meaning jobs would just pile up and redis eventually ran out of memory. No one understood why this was happening so just restart everything after pagerduty alert…
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> It's fine to have alternatives but education needs to be more accessible to those that want it.

As long as funding for college is a lifetime of debt, college as a delivery vehicle for education may not be a very good choice. There are many alternatives to college.
What direction did that startup take their product out of curiosity? Did they ditch the projection/forecasting element altogether or still keep a vestige of it?
Can I ask what sort of traumatic experience would lead to such a trivial thing triggering you? Understand completely if it's still too raw to share publicly.
It's a weird company-specific thing. I think part of it is that the company does a significant amount of traditional engineering under the same contracts.
Which are the newest developments in math? Someone told me Geometric Algebra has been around for a long time but wasn't really useful until some recent theorems.
> And yet, this crap passes as science???

Have you ever looked at the papers that support the hypothesis that lowering salt consumptions helps heart patients?
> IIRC early implementations of the game did not always behave like that.

And they were also much better for it, in my opinion (and that of many classic NES Tetris fans).
The Campaign for North Africa (Boardgame)
I thought that Google finally gave up on AMP... I guess not
I generally agree with this position.

However, my son wanted to be an engineer, so he learned calculus and got into a well-regarded engineering program. My mother is pretty well off and she's been funding his education. Now he's about to graduate with his degree and become an ME.

My feeling is that there are a number of occupations that meet a couple of criteria:

- you actually need both a highly-specialized education
- there is a certificate that you can only get through formal education
- there are jobs waiting for successful applicants
- the student in question has a good chance at succeeding
- there is some underlying support for the student (in the case of loans, this would tighten up the question about success and and the kinds of jobs available)

I believe in the utility of a deep humanities education, but the US university system makes that ruinously expensive to the point where I more or less agree with your sentiment. It sucks that "necessity for work" has become the only reasonable way of deciding to pursue deeper education.
Who was censored regarding the lab leak theory?
With all due respect to descriptivists, when engaging in any sort of formal communication (written or spoken), prescriptive grammar matters. There are "proper" and "improper" ways of communicating on a formal level.

"Ain't" is a perfectly normal construction in some dialects of English, but if you use it in a formal setting, people will notice and will think it's strange.

It could be useful for a product like Google Docs to tell you not to use dialectal grammar like "ain't." If you're writing a formal document, you probably want to avoid that kind of language. However, if Google Docs goes beyond that and starts telling you to replace completely normal words like "blacklist" with woke alternatives like "blocklist," that feels more like an attempt to establish some sort of religious orthodoxy. It gives the same vibes as if Google Docs were to start trying to push Evangelical religious sensibilities on its users. It's not helpful, unless you think your audience is extremely uptight and you want to avoid upsetting them.
Ruby 3.1 Introduces Variable Width Allocation for Strings
“log into” or “log in to”.

https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/5302/log-in-to-o...
The 500k plan:

• You: 20 sites = $59.

• Plausible: 50 sites = $49 (2 months free if yearly).

• Fathom: 50 sites = $44 (2 months free if yearly).

As you can see, they keep eyes on each other. Hence my advice.

Startups are, in essence, lemonade stands wars. Must keep an eye on the tags and look cute.

Don't do 'roughly', research everything that matters. If you settle for 'roughly' — you'd miss, for example, that Plausible is giving back 5% of gross revenue to charitable causes, and Fathom is giving back 2%. Now — whose stand looks cuter?

I know the time is limited, but learning everything possible about the competition is a top priority — above the actual development.
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I canceled after the price hike sharing charge wombo combo.

Im pissing in the wind, but at some point you just have to go.
As far as I understand, YDB is different enough from regular RDBMS's that they don't provide an ODBC/JDBC/ADO.Net driver.
That's the pledge and turn, the prestige is lending them the money to rebuild it.
> Would you enlighten me as to what it means, exactly? I'm not being facetious.

Depends on whether you think that word define objective individual traits and sexual characteristics or it is purely subjective. That's the true debate. It cannot be both.

All I know is that 5/10 years ago everybody knew what that word meant...
This is so true.
We have Disney+, HBO, Apple, Netflix, and Hulu.

Of those, the very clear ordering in terms of taste and vision is:
Disney+, Apple, HBO >>>> HBO, Hulu.

Apple is the most amazing one to me - they came from nowhere, and are bringing original content like CODA or Severance after only a few years.

Maybe it's because Apple - the largest (tech) company on Earth still has at its core the idea of beautiful things designed by humans, and Netflix never has.
Nothing is being censored here; it's a simple recommendation. If they start censoring personal correspondence, they open up a huge opportunity for another option to disrupt them. It's not an impossible scenario, but it's an unlikely (and more importantly: self-correcting) scenario.
Both firebase and appwrite are amazing platforms. I use firebase extensively at work, it works great and it scales.

The main problem with firebase is that you can't self host it, this means you can't easily test or replicate environments.

The emulators are limited: indexes are not enforced, copying the production database (no more than 50k documents) to my macbook pro crashes the emulator.

Also the DSL used to define security rules is not flexible enough. I've seen developers skip defining rules because they don't get it to work.

Appwrite is great and you can self host it, but it introduces concepts/APIs to query data and secure it that you have to learn. They also try to solve the problem for all platforms and languages.

JSDB tries to extremely simplify things and just use plain javascript for everything.

You should use JSDB if you love javascript.

That being said, firebase & appwrite are both production ready and JSDB is not there (yet!!)
> The point of story points is not to give extremely accurate measurements, but rather to inform you of the amount of work a team is able to do in a period of time (often a Sprint).

This doesn't make sense. If the measurement isn't expected to be accurate, how can it accurately inform you of the amount of work your team can do in a period of time? That's why I said it gives you an illusion of insight. There are so many external factors that points don't capture. And management frequently tries to turn them into very rigid timelines. It's a "garbage in, garbage out" problem that introduces extra stress for very little gain.
I have my masters in computer science and work on the Linux kernel at a company you know for a product that you know. I often miss the point of leetcode questions and lose points because I don't use some certain tricky thing that they specifically want me to study for before the interview. I personally think it's just a handy way to build ageism into the interview process, because it's all this academic-style stuff that I've used maybe twice since I graduated 5 years ago. And for people like you, you've probably only really heard about these things in passing because they're not part of most people's workflow.

Kind of like applying for a job restoring Native American artifacts and being asked tricky questions about artifacts discovered in Egypt 5 years ago. Sure, you might have noticed the story or even read a lot about it 5 years ago, but it's not going to be a part of your daily work. Different procedures, different materials, and different local laws? I guess you should get studying if you want this job! And really, I just wanted to see your problem solving style when I ask irrelevant questions!

But ya, I think it's fair to say that my degree helps me not take that sort of thing as a rejection of my intelligence or qualifications though. I don't feel lesser than. I just feel belittled by someone who doesn't put effort into their interviews, which is useful information if you're considering working with them.
> You can always build more dense housing on land that is in high demand. In fact, doing that is the most obvious and effective way to keep prices low for desirable locales. Backed up by pretty much all the economic research on the subject in the last decade.

In which dense cities in Canada (or the USA) did this work, resulting in a desirable dense city with cheap housing?
Whether one goes to college or not, I still think after high school young adults should embark on some kind of 4 year journey of discovery and exploration, to really set a foundation for whatever they want to do with the life ahead of them. Without this, you’re just creating a school to workforce pipeline that gives little time for reflection.
>I don't want to see the Americanisation on our country cultures.

This is something that I just cannot reconcile with the notion that all these measures are meant to make things more inclusive. All I see are groups of rich and powerful people telling people "below them" how to behave, and makings tons of money doing it. D&I is a grift.
I agree that there are better signals. As I said, the college degree is just the easiest one for employers to use. I think there probably will be a shift towards tech style interviews in other fields, but until they figure that out the degree is an important aspect of deciding who is able to be successful.

>I've personally seen a large number of people with at least one degree fall apart under the real pressure

There are of course false positive/negatives with every heuristic, I don't think that makes them worthless.

> people who go to college at all are more likely to be from well off families and have educated parents.

The studies on how a diploma effects future earnings obviously controlled for that, as well as many other things. You can go ahead and check the studies, they're pretty thorough. College is a great investment for many, even if it is much easier for the wealthy to obtain.
In several English-speaking countries "guys" is not at all gendered (used universally by people of any gender to refer to groups of people of any gender), while "y'all" and "folks" are basically just not in the language at all and would just get you confused looks. I have no idea what "folx" means as this is the first time I've ever seen it.
>Right now even definition of "woman" is a mine field.

Oh? And why would that be?
The system needs to be architected in certain way to make upgrade without downtime. Something like the Command and Query Responsibility Segregation (CQRS) would work. A update queue serves as the explicit transaction log keeping track of the updates from the frontend applications, while the databases at the end of the queue applies updates and serves as the querying service. Upgrading the live database just means having a standby database with new version software replaying all the changes from the queue to catch up to the latest changes, pausing the live database from taking new changes from the queue when the new db has caught up, switching all client connections to the new db, and shutting down the old db.
See my citation above; the US was well ahead before WWI. And while the economic damage wrought by the wars was not inconsiderable, it simply exacerbated an existing trend.
That's fair, but the comment I replied to said "my peers [...] have recruiters beating down their doors while I barely get emails back," and that hasn't been my experience; my teammates and I seem to to get about the same number of recruiter calls/emails a day, very often from the same companies.

Besides, the vast, vast majority of job listings say "CS degree or comparable experience."
Agree. And what I hate the most is the randomness: some times copy paste works and sometimes it doesn't. That is my daily curse with tmux.
I am a fan of John McWhorter. I've recently gotten into his podcast Lexicon Valley and I recommend it highly if you are interested in language and how we use it.

https://lexiconvalley.substack.com/
Stock is down 42% since 3 Jan 2022
I don't agree that it's political but I do agree that it's contentious for English. However, if we see this as a template for other languages, it makes more sense what with Spanish, French, etc having rigid definitions and control[0] over their respective languages.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Spanish_Academy

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acad%C3%A9mie_Fran%C3%A7aise
This tool is really flexible and you mention "a rental empire," so perhaps it's covered already, but it might be worth trying to add features for freelancers, contract workers, or people starting side businesses. I think those people would be more willing to spend money on a planning tool, since there's more decisions to make. (I think targeting financial planners is also a smart move.)
As a manager of people that includes women, I am always trying to understand how I can be more inclusive.

The paper you linked uses the word "analysis" 10 times and never in a listing of "gendered words".

What is the gendering of the word "analysis"?
Agreed, monstrous and expensive project-management software isn't necessary.

git to manage the graph, grep to search the graph, and run a Python http server in the directory if you want to share.
Is that like "Miami is the closest foreign city to the US"?
Understanding the Web Security Model, Part IV: Cross-Origin Resource Sharing
I am not sure of any arch that does this, but having a second stage decode buys 2 things off the top of my head - better instruction cache usage, esp. for small loops, and the flexibility to decode ops differently on different versions of the same arch from one binary. Otherwise you would have to have tons of different versions for each flavor of x86 out there.
Crusty Playstation Leads to Bomb Scare at Boston Intl Airport
The village name, from the village next to my village (in Switzerland) is wrong on Google Maps since ever. But it seems, nobody does care or is impossible to reach somebody on Google to correct it.
The US was the world's largest economy even before WWI:

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/2000-years-economic-history...

Plenty of countries (Germany, France, Japan, etc.) are only slightly poorer than the US per capita, but have much smaller land area/population and therefore smaller GDP. Size matters!
Huh. Interesting talk, never seen that before.

Ironically, most of the things he tries to bring home as his conclusion that "you'd have to rewrite the whole terminal" are things that are already supported by most terminals:

- RGB colored text

- Bold, italic, underlined text

- drawing raster graphics to the grid (Okay, many terminals implement sixel but not everyone)

- mouse events (heck that's been there since vt220?)

- being able to listen for key down AND key up events (maybe less supported, but something that many emulators have sure thought about in the past[1])

I'm definitely a huge fan of "sitting in a hammock and thinking about things" though. Maybe that's part of the reason I started this thread. What things should we be thinking about for the next few years?

[1]: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/4999#issuecomme...
I graduated from a reasonably well ranked liberal arts university and have worked in tech for the past 4 years.

After buying my first property and realizing how much I didn't know about fixing anything in the place, I started to think more heavily about how we've basically designed an education system and society that will forget how to maintain and build itself.

We need to almost a) create a cultural stigma against office workers (yes, seriously) or b) subsidize viable alternatives to college, such as trades, much more than we're currently doing.
Likely he means in terms of being asked for the documentation once you get an offer. I've only been asked once, in the German speaking world. My wife was asked the same, from another German speaking with.

In the Anglo world I've literally never been asked. Not by employers, not by investors doing due diligence, nobody.

Of course it's still true that it might have an effect on some recruiter looking for a degree. Can't say I've ever made a decision to interview or not based on whether the person had a degree.
It's all about the EverDrive on original hardware. Gameboy Player is especially nice (either on a CRT of upscaled with a separate tool)
I couldn't wait that much, started researching stochastic processes a few years ago and been developing a theory for supertasks.
It's a valid concern. Reasons why I continue to use it is because I like the product and I have trust in Automatic. They have a long history of supporting open source and it's far from their only product. They are making money via other products.
At the same time, my life wouldn't stop if the product disappears tomorrow from the face of the earth. It would be a minor inconvenience.
Sure NFTs can be a useful tool, but they are more of an 'idea' than an object at that point so it gets hard to assign a value to them.

Indeed the whole problem here is that we're trying to assign intrinsic value to something which isn't fungible in the first place (which makes the notion of a market for them somewhat problematic).

So yeah I'm going to maintain that NFTs are, by design, all extrinsic value. And if someone is offering free NFTs or free dog shit you're more likely to get some use out of the latter.
> The HN title is, once again, distorting the content of the submission.

Getting soooo tired of users modifying headlines to promote their agenda.
Every time I read something like this, I feel grateful for my university.

I wrote out code on paper in one class. Other than that, every single CS course was project-based on some level (even the theory courses) and once you got past the theory-heavy Sophomore-level courses most classes were 100% project-based. In the required classes alone I built web apps, android apps, interpreters, DNS clients and servers, static analysis tools, and dozens of other practical/educational projects in C, C++, Java, Python, and JavaScript. We finished off the program with a capstone project, working on a year-long real-world project sponsored by a local company.

Point being: which school you went to seems to make a big difference in your perception of the value of a degree, and some schools' diplomas will have higher signal-to-noise ratio on a resume than others.