skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I want to post a correction. If you know of examples where Stripe behaved poorly, please do chime in.

I was thinking of:

"Stripe hiring issues make some lose job offers"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29403976

As for the clone stamping, I think I was confused, and I'm sorry. There was some prior drama with the Bolt founder claiming Stripe was colluding against them. This was false.

It seems an error on my part, an honest one but still incorrect. Sorry, again.
Thanks! Macroexpanded:

In study, acetaminophen makes risky moves seem less dangerous - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25540870 - Dec 2020 (133 comments)

Acetaminophen reduces empathy for pain (2016) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14683173 - July 2017 (93 comments)

Others:

Prenatal acetaminophen increases autism and ADHD risk 20% - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27362768 - June 2021 (20 comments)

Acetaminophen exposure in pregnancy linked to higher risk of ADHD, autism: study - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21415078 - Nov 2019 (39 comments)

Acetaminophen use in pregnancy linked to child's behavioral problems - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12293675 - Aug 2016 (84 comments)

Acetaminophen may hinder the brain's error-correction mechanisms - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11465452 - April 2016 (56 comments)

Acetaminophen and the War on Drugs (2009) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2211599 - Feb 2011 (58 comments)
much closer!

they donate to their own 501c3, and that 501c3 can donate to the next thing that makes the actual headlines. But the important thing for the conversations had here is that their own 501c3 can also invest and grow money. It can have lots and lots of capital firepower. When it uses that, there is no tax deduction for the owner. And in an article or headline, there is no information to extrapolate whether they were motivated by a tax deduction. thats my main point.

From my perspective, People are so desperate to find an issue with a large money movement that it is clouding their ability to understand what to even look at whether there is an abuse, advantage or not.
Aren't emotions just thoughts with a linked physical sensation?

Why is it so fascinating?
Had the same thought. Lots of really big assumptions here with zero fact or evidence to back them up. And poor lack of awareness. Be careful judging, my friends.
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Growth as a precursor for revenue.

Massive growth just means you can dominate the market then have more flexibility on the price you'll charge.
The problem is that is doing SPA right is hard.

This is the SPA frontpage of my newest client:

https://i.imgur.com/7fbE4BH.png

And their frontend devs are proud of their achievement. Apparently it used to be worse.
How to build an absurdly backwards-compatible website
This weekend I build ⌘-k for Google Calendar
An old-school town is walkable/urban in the same way we would advocate for cities: grid layout, main street with buildings pulled up to the sidewalk, pedestrian life, apartments over the stores, duplexes and small apartment buildings giving way to to larger single family homes as you walk out towards the fringes, schools that children can walk to, etc. Good towns have a lot in common with good urban neighborhoods. Probably the main difference is they don't need transit since the whole thing is small enough to traverse under your own power.

Automobile era towns have the same forms as the suburban sprawls attached to cities: stroads, strip malls, parking lots, subdivisions containing homogeneous uses and interfacing at few points with fast arterial roads. They're just disembodied suburbs. The disembodiment if anything makes them worse.

I visit lot of auto-oriented towns on cross-country roadtrips. They're vile places. I wouldn't want to be there any longer than necessary to get gas, food, use the restroom, etc. Sometimes when I take a wrong turn I catch a glimpse of the pre-car main street rotting away, behind the gleaming cloverleaf-adjacent McDonalds. It's sad.

I visit urban towns on vacation, on the way to and from hiking, etc. Sometimes I look up the real estate listings. They're even more expensive than the big city, but without any kind of local industry to pay those prices. They're for second homes or retirement, I guess. Also sad.
Most cars do this from cameras - mobileye has been selling this capability for a while as an OEM.
IIUC:
The query written by users of arcticdb is in a dataframe-like python-ish language.

The query engine first go through the inmemory parquet rows to get a subset that contains the relevant data. These relevant data is returned as arrow frames.

Then the query planer produces a query plan and the engine execute the query plan on the previously returned arrow frames.

Does the query engine produce the query plan before selecting the arrow frames, and uses the plan for the selecting process as well?
The Ugly Truth About Team-Building
Finding out that someone is toxic only after they've got the job is problematic.
The idea here is to evaluate them when they aren't aware and on their best behavior.
Curious, what was it about gorging at dinner time that messed up your cholesterol levels? Was it because you'd gorge on foods high in cholesterol, or was there another mechanism at play?
Who do you think enforces the rules and regulations governing ISPs, hardware manufacturers, and the property rights of networking equipment?
It's impressive if they have the resources and sophistication to really execute on this.
This is why it's ridiculous that the US Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) "caps" profit for health insurers as a fraction of premiums collected. It provides a direct incentive for them to increase healthcare costs, absolutely the opposite of what government policy should be doing.
My vote is not worth making my life actively worse, sorry.
You, sir or madam, are an absolutely asshole. I admire your out-of-the-box thinking and your honesty, but I do not admire your natural proclivity towards exploitation.
Asking for character references from someone who has interacted with a candidate is perfectly fine.

I think where this might get dodgy is with the possibility that some of the candidates might have tipped this driver, which puts us in the position of asking for an opinion about several candidates from someone who might have been compensated by some of them.
I had something like this too for a quant trading interview. It was one of those problems about flipping a coin, heads doubles your money and tails you lose everything, "how much would you pay to play the game?" If forget the nuance of the question but when I did the math on the whiteboard, the expected value was 1 i.e. the same amount one wagers. At that point I said, "Well, I guess I could pay for the entertainment value... how much do I owe you for this interview?"
One of the best movies ever made. I watch it at least twice a year, sometimes more.

With Peter Sellers, Slim Pickens, and Sterling Hayden, there is always something new in their delivery that you pick up. The same with Kubrick and Adam's sets and cinematography...
It so hard for an outsider to tell the difference between:

1. It is this way for logical but obscure reasons that will become clearer later when you have deeper understanding.

2. It is this way only because of path dependence and historical baggage and it's arbitrarily annoying for a new person to learn but we don't switch because we all learned it the old hard way.

It's valuable for inexperienced people to question designs that appear bad from the outside because there are a lot of examples of 2 and experienced users of a system aren't incentivized to fix them because they've already climbed up the learning curve and don't personally benefit. But that baggage is a worthless drain for every new user.

The tax for having new users point out and sometimes fix #2 is having to deal with them sometimes erroneously "fixing" cases that are #1.
Then why have the job at all? This right here is why we need to remove existence from how much you bleed for a company.
Everyone was just starting out at pre 2000. Perl was scripting first but PHP was HTML first, as in plain HTML is still a valid PHP and it was easy for people to pick up without having have to see some weird error without the content-type "magic" line and setting the file to "777" to get it working.

But I do like its Unix feeling. Too bad no one uses it anymore and have to move on.
I've had a fantastic time writing books (Python Workout and Pandas Workout) for Manning. They do great work, and are incredibly patient with me. They have helped to make my books far better than they otherwise would have been. I have no doubt that O'Reilly does a similarly good job. (I don't publish with O'Reilly, but I do teach for them online, and have been impressed.)

That said: Writing a book is a long slog. It's hard and frustrating. And at the end of the process, you have an amazing feeling and some money -- definitely less than you would have gotten if you had done consulting during that time, though.

I do corporate Python training. Do companies hire me because I've written books? Not really. But it definitely adds to my credibility.

At the end of the day, I write because I enjoy explaining and teaching, knowing I'm helping people all over the world, and seeing my name on a book cover. If you're doing it for the money, you're almost certainly going to be disappointed. Knowing that I'm working with great professionals who share my goals and want to create the best possible product adds to my motivation.
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When I interviewed with AWS, half the loop interviews were with remote staff. I was shown to a videoconferencing room and asked to wait. There was a pile of VC equipment but it wasn't connected. With five minutes before we were due to start, I decided this was part of the interview and plugged stuff in myself, powered it on, and clicked through some boot-time screens, guessing at the right inputs. A few minutes later a call came in and the interviews themselves proceeded normally.

To this day I still don't know if it was a test.
So without training in the field, having read about the specific example or anything else, you can say the entire study is trash?
Corona vaccination: half a million cases with serious side effects (German)
This seems like a plan that's contingent on the moonshot of extremely cheap and scalable carbon capture. So far, effective carbon capture has remained elusive. "Carbon offsets" really means signing papers where a country says "we would have cut down this forest, but we won't now that you paid us." Actually taking carbon out of the atmosphere and burying it is the stuff of prototypes.
This comparison is misleading, because it is based on a wrong perspective of how research works:

In programming, if everyone would "just" be good enough, everyone could the elusive 10x programmer.
In research, even if everyone would be the equivalent of the 10x programmer, there is simply often a lot of "boring" work to be done, such as what you dismissed as incredibly incremental contribution, to prepare the foundation for the next breakthrough.
That means that "10x researchers" could, for various reasons including luck, end up in the 100th percentile because they have chosen a field that is not yet ready for a breakthrough (think, e.g. ML researchers slogging through the AI winter, wo didn't stick with ML until hardware became fast enough).
Being the person making the groundbraking achievements means standing "on the shoulder of giants" as someone said a few centuries ago.

I wouldn't be surprised if today there are more "10x researchers" out there than there are breakthroughs waiting to be made.
I'm really rooting for your company Rob. Your lean approach to execution and keeping focused on what matters really give me hope you'll be successful.
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Honest question: What difference does it make whether you work on a l33tcode question or a real problem in the interview? At least the real problem has a chance of being interesting.

Sometimes I do give candidates examples of real challenges we're facing. The purpose is not to get anything for free, but rather to see if they're good at coming up with new ideas.

It also gets boring asking the same questions that may or may not have leaked to the Internet over and over.

AITA?
Something about this doesn't sit right with me, but I'm not sure I can put my finger on it.

When I go to a job interview I expect to be asked honest questions and intend to give honest answers. You want me to do a team activity? Ok, fair. You're giving me and a bunch of people a problem you *know* we can't solve, just to watch us panic? That. That just feels wrong.

I am a strong opponent of the "in this company we're like a family" discourse, but I also like to work for people that I don't dislike. If this is an asshole detection test, I'm afraid I just detected the company.
I know there is a perl module that can write low level parts of pdf but it only supports 1.4 or 1.5 version
I'm surprised you'd admit that kind of dishonesty on a public forum.
Which browsers implement this? I've not seen that behavior in my testing.

I was saying that "You don't need Javascript to do lazy loading," not making any claims about the privacy or lack thereof.
I’m not sure how I feel about this. I like working with a broad range of personality types.

Certain kinds of behavior are not useful in the workplace. I like
the idea of this test, but I think it is just one test of many that should be evaluated along with others.

Some engineers and leaders thrive on flipping situations that they find initially frustrating into opportunities.

They might appear grumpy for a moment and then elated the next after flipping their frustration into an opportunity.

If we made a filter, that filtered out all grumpy interview candidates, what would be gained and what would be lost? Is this inclusive?
>...and have much to lose from this action vs possibly marginal potential upside

That would be my assumption as well. Clerking at the Supreme Court seems like one of the top appointments one could possibly achieve. Requiring top tier academics and some number of personal connections to secure the position. This stunt would destroy all of their future prospects.
Hey hey!

This weekend I hacked together a quick command bar for Google Calendar. There are so many "Superhuman for Calendar" startups, but I don't really care about anything except the ⌘-k bar, so I just built a really good implementation myself.

It's already a way better Command Bar than most existing command bars from Superhuman or Raycast because it uses a LLM to do some of the parsing.

I did the overlay using a Chrome extension [1]. So I called it "Lui" (Language User Interface) and I'm going to make it work for more sites like Webflow, Mixpanel, Typeform and even Jira. What Lui's do you want to see?

My ambition is to make the web as wonderful to use as the terminal (once you've learned it, of course). But there's a reason GUI killed DOS, it's just super unforgiving. I think my Lui fixes that problem.

Chrome has yet to approve my app so you can't download it yet but if you put in your email I'll send you the `dist` so you can load it unpacked. I'm also consider open-sourcing some of it if people are interested, since I can't possibly build all the Lui's myself so other people should.

[1] Inspired by Alyssa X's Omni bar (https://github.com/alyssaxuu/omni)
"Hare provides exactly none of the tools that have been discovered to encapsulate complexity into carefully correct and generally useful components, or to enable using such a component in all the different places and ways it would be useful."

I would be very cautious when calling anything that encapsulates complexity "carefully correct" or "generally useful". Hiding such complexity behind language features is how we ended up with new generations of programmers who have no idea how to code anything themselves.

If generations and generations of stack overflow copy-pasters are the future of programming, then I don't want to be a part of it.

"In the 1970s, Hare might have competed with C and Pascal to express the then newly valued "structured programming". Today it is a toy."

Excuse me? The most useful, the most endured, the most sane and the most understood coding paradigm is a toy to you? You know, some of us really like to think of our programs as many procedures being called one after the other.

That's the most logical way to think about them, because it's the exact way the CPU sees them.
You need a degree and an ethics committee in order to do a simple group task interview?!

We are seeing how people can work in a team to complete a simple task to help a hiring decision, not replicating the Stanford Prison Experiment.

Do we need professional actors and casting directors to judge the role-play excercises? We should probably get journalists to do the interviews too.
Google Translate is one click away. I can easily translate both Japanese and Chinese comments and variable names to get the gist of it. Using single hieroglyphs for it makes the entire endeavor impossible.
Not really answering your question but you could consider generating postscript output and then using ghostscript to convert it to pdf. That would let you create and write arbitrary stuff. I think pandoc uses pdflatex to generate a pdf via latex from the internal pandoc representation.

Imagemagick also writes to pdf I believe, but it may only convert raster images. With postscript you can generate a vector pdf
I think PDF is no good; I think is too messy. I think that better formats can be possible, such as maybe PCL, and I have some of my own ideas of making a better format, too.

However, PDF is a commonly used format.

When I wanted to generate PDF (or other formats such as PNG), I just wrote a PostScript program to do (and then run it through Ghostscript). (Drivers could also be added to make other output formats too if wanted.)
> For someone like you?

Do you know each other or is this a judgement of character based off the few words in the above comments?

What they wrote sounds like good sense in general. A bit materialistic and generalizing perhaps, I wouldn't want a dino juice sapper and I have a lot of trouble doing pointless work let alone outright manipulative like adtech (but that's just me, evidently there's plenty on the other side), but that doesn't mean it wouldn't be generally smart to accept a 4-day work week offer for presumably a high salary in addition to starting something with a high failure chance. But we don't know about savings or aspirations or industry knowledge or investors cperciva might have had, hence it's a bit generalizing, even if it's generally sensible.
They could just note to flight attendants that there are passengers interviewing w/ the airline and have them raise any red flags pretty easily.
Warren Buffett being a model example of a non-asshole CEO. Same with Kenneth Chenault at American Express, Indra Nooyi at Pepsi, and countless others.
Wow, what a classy af response. You hiring?
I hear this and can't help but think IBM ended up with a bunch of "yes" men and women that wouldn't react appropriately to a bad situation. Given the performance of the company, I would guess I'm right.
If those doors are still built-to-spec, then shouldn't you be fine?
If you want a healthy organization you need to be able to trust people, even when you can't watch them. This requires things like lack of deception, treating people decently, not lying, not stealing (physical or credit for ideas/work accomplished), etc.

If you end up with people who ass kiss those above them, abuse those below them, backstab and/or sabotage the competition, focus on empire building, and misrepresent things for their benefit then your best staff will find elsewhere to work. Those that stay will fight among themselves and will only help the company or it's customers when it happens to overlap with their other goals.

Sounds kind of like the Dilbert comic now that I think about it.
> I use almost none of its more esoteric features

Which features do you see as esoteric?
If you think about it... Smalltalk.
Strict fixed-pricing seems like a recipe for something like JWST to fail miserably in the future.

For an expensive one-off like that there needs to be wiggle room to deal with design uncertainties and the unknown-unknowns.

Fixed price might be more reasonable for smaller less expensive missions where the uncertainties are less and the tolerance for failure is higher.
WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!!!

(Someday. Almost certainly. Most everybody does, at some point.)

It's newsworthy, I suppose, that the Fed see the need to change monetary policy.

It's not clear to me how much control they have these days, however. Of course, they could set the interest rates where ever they like, and yes, this will affect the economy, but I have a difficult time believing that we would be headed for 1980s-style stagnation-with-inflation.

30-year residential mortgage interest rates popping to 6 percent is not the result of a rational housing market. I don't think Federal Reserve Bank has much they can do about that.

A key driver of near-term consumer price inflation is the spike in the petroleum market and global disruption of energy and food supplies from Putin's invasion of Ukraine. And ongoing supply-chain disruption that arose out of the ongoing global pandemic. Monetary policy has little to say in the face of these crises.

It may be reasonable to believe that one-off crisis after crisis will become the new normal, and yet I have no idea how to change economic behavior to best address that threat. Well, actually, I do, but any prioritization of domestic infrastructure building or change to carbon-neutral (at least) energy or actually applying non-zero economic value on existing ecosystems -- any characterization of such policies as rational responses to current trends, at least as respectable as faffing about with monetary policy -- and the owners of America start howling with rage.

Ugh.

We're all gonna die.
It also has Peter Sellers and Peter Sellers!
As a very experienced "tech guy" and a very experienced musician, I notice this happens a lot on HN. Maybe because there's a very math-y, notation-rich aspect to music that appeals to technology types. I am absolutely all for everybody getting to music whichever way works for them, but there has been a lot of effort spent by technologists trying to "fix" music or make it better, when a little humble learning would have paid big rewards.

I wonder in what fields I do this same thing....
Quatermass: The sci-fi series that terrified a generation
The idea of people investing their retirement seems like a good one, but yes I'm afraid it winds up just being a scam. The worst part appears to be that the monetary authorities now can't allow recessions, because that would destroy people's ability to retire. So, you get a bloated economy where creative destruction isn't allowed to occur.
if you were in that position i would hope that you would do some napkin math about the necessary scale of carbon capture. last i checked the most efficient process would require about 1000x the annual energy output of the world just to keep up with emissions.

it's an understudied area, research funding has the potential to go a long ways. eg coccolitophores are sparsely studied but have the potential for carbon capture at a scale not achievable by industrial facilities
All I get is a loading animation.