skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Inflation is a measure of the price of the basket of goods. Let's say all prices stay the same except that gasoline is up 100%. This will be measured as "overall inflation" but it isn't like the business you are working for is raising prices or taking in more revenue than before. If everybody says "well inflation is X% so we need to raise prices and salaries by X%" then inflation will necessarily rise beyond X% because that X% was driven by different price increases.

People like to think of X% inflation meaning that every dollar is worth less and every product as costing X% more, but this isn't actually how it works in practice.
> Is there just a different set of free speech rules for the rich and powerful?

Of course there is. Twitter's owner appoint managers who hire people to oversee censorship on the platform. These choices themselves are already biased towards the owners' interests and points of view. If you add to this ability of rich and powerful people/organizations to harass or influence Twitter, the bias is even stronger.

Having said that - the tweet Trump was suspended for:

https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2020/suspensio...

does not seem like an incitement of violence.
I’m interviewing as well lately. I haven’t run into anything remotely like this, but I’ve ended several interviews early.

It’s totally okay to call it if you know you aren’t interested. In fact it’s more polite to save everyone’s time. I’d recommend opening up to the idea that the interview is yours as much as theirs, and you can leave any time you’d like. Just be very respectful about it.

What happened to you is bizarre. Many many years ago I had a slightly drunk guy interview me and tell me I wasn’t the right caliber for his team, haha. That was so weird. Maybe I should have gone in there totally hammered and I would have gotten the job.

Sometimes you just know it isn’t meant to be though and you’ve got to just call it.
It could, but for a case without a known count it doesn't really make sense to do that. (I honestly found the concern to be kind of strange for that reason, honestly.)
The problem of course is that accepting such a backdoor presumes there is some benevolent institution that can be trusted to fairly regulate use of the backdoor.
> as long as I was sure the stupid thing did everything the port on my laptop does. And didn't require external power.

As I understand if you want it to do everything your laptop port does and expect to be able to use more than one port at a time there is absolutely no way around external power. And if you can only use one port at a time it's an adapter not a hub. You're asking for the impossible.
It's probably better - especially for more advanced search engines - to have an elasticsearch instance or whichever is the more recent example handle product search and filtering like that.
Wow! What a fun thing to see this in the front page.

It's certainly not production ready, just a little side project I made for myself- definitely inspired by Manim (3blue1brown) and by Inventing on Principle by Bret Victor https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PUv66718DII
Couldn't the same be said of any company that isn't currently filing for bankruptcy ?
>>Did anyone truly think that a member of either party supports every policy the party supports?

I see you haven't met my in-laws.
Interesting story. I have a love/hate relationship with Powershell. I was proficient in the CMD batch language, but decided to develop a set of SQL scripts in Powershell. With the object integration, it's a good enviornment for Windows; if I need to do anything in Windows, for example color-coded error output, PS does that for me.

The object-oriented .NET design did not work for me in preprocessing text files for those SQL queries. PS takes 15 minutes to do what Strawberry Perl (the Windows port of Perl) does in 3 seconds with a one-liner regex. Perl is a better choice for that kind of thing, I know, but the orders of magntiude difference in processing files line-by-line was surprising.

I've been contemplating migrating scripts to Python so that we would be environment agnostic, but it's not a priority. (Turns out a LInux cloud instance costs more than a Windows instance. Our company signed a huge deal with Microsoft and everything is being pushed in that direction now.)
All except maybe D also apply to Pokemon cards
Airbnb could EASILY fix the issues by two tiering their market place and having a HUMAN BEING validate listings and holding hosts to a very strict set of standards.

Unverified listings could be in the tier two marketplace. The problem would sort itself out.
Yes. I think it’s just a rebranding of the current offering.
So can we assume that D2 will be postgres/mysql ?
What problems? Both are for different use cases albeit overlapping.
Thanks. This seems mildly ungoogleable, or at least I haven't been able to find a good search result for this. So I'll keep in mind that these are three distinct types with the same aliasing behavior.
> if a restaurant decides to not serve Jews I will obviously condemn them.

They'll have serious legal problems pretty quickly for doing something so illegal.

> If you believe in free speech you should have absolutely condemned Twitter when they banned the president.

I believe in free speech and property rights. Which means if Twitter decides someone can't be on Twitter anymore due to their actions then that's their right. And if Twitter's new ownership makes some different decisions on who's allowed to be on Twitter, that's also their right.
Wow, I didn’t realize those were the tweets he was banned for. That blog post includes some pretty twisted mental gymnastics to try and explain how those tweets justify their decision.
Thanks for pointing out.

This is the underlying link: https://salty-reaches-74577.herokuapp.com/
Their TOS and policies are vague enough to allow selective enforcement, which is a complaint that I've seen many times. Fewer people would take issue with Twitter (and all social media) if they were more transparent.
Before you consider using an ORM, try using regular SQL and some tooling first; your future self will thank you. Just write the code, it's only volume and it's not so bad.
Probably. Where there's smoke, there's fire.

I still prefer overt rudeness to silent back stabbing, one upping sabotage though.
What? Internal developer productivity tooling is one of the most important investments a company can make, especially at the scale phase. B tier companies give that work to juniors. A tier companies give that work to the most senior people they can find to do it.
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They're optimizing for profits and not allowing a buffer of higher costs in the short term for support, which would support higher profits in the long-term by maintaining a good relationship with people in the present. It's an externalized or delayed cost they don't seem to be accounting for.

I think a competitor will pop up before they fix themselves, just the right conditions have to occur and Airbnb's market share will quickly sink - they likely will have exited and dumped the risk and unsustainable platform onto the general public by that point though.
The last time I was on a Clapham omnibus, there was an old chap in the back seats in the process of taking his trousers off
>Check-In Guarantee
If a guest can’t check into their home and the Host cannot resolve the issue, we’ll find them a similar or better home for the length of their original stay, or we’ll refund them.

Were they not doing this until now?!
I never had such an event occur to me, but I assumed if I can't enter the place I booked, the least I should expect is my friggin money back.
> You seem to think things like physical exertion, working conditions, or danger define what is “hard work” while I define the chance of failure to define what is hard work.

So gambling is hard work then? You'll forgive me if I find your definition lacking.

Regardless, even under your definition everyone born into wealth has much lower chance and consequence of failure than other people because of their inherited access to greater resources.
(hopefully) relevant perspective from a transgender person: It is irrelevant to me that most people are not extremists. There are a lot of "non-extremist" people who consider me a loon because of my appearance and gender. Those people seem to get along perfectly fine with "moderates" who are more accepting of me... and that really doesn't help, because the typical result is that both of them will agree to treat me as an extremist. For existing.
Peeve: To cause to be annoyed or resentful. synonym: annoy.

These are not pet peeves at all, they are the persons pet loves. All examples are a type of "look at this great example, designed not to annoy or cause resentment at all, just the opposite! Aren't they cool and amazing?"
Before you consider using an ORM, try using regular SQL and some tooling first; your future self will thank you. Just write the code, it's only volume and it's not so bad. What is bad is learning a 3rd language on top of SQL and JS/TS that you somehow have to manually map to SQL.
That's how successful clubs are run.
Well, compared to the rest of the world, I found US diversification much better than most of other countries, that have only one major city to where everything flows in.
I have this MBP too and I experience this crackling noise too, only when watching a video though. And I never, ever use a ton of CPU, so I doubt this is caused by the CPU having a high usage. First time it happened, I was scared as I thought I broke something, but now I kinda got used to it, unfortunately.
Untitled UI looks lovely, isn't there a huge amount of repetitive manual work translating all the components from Figma to Tailwind though?
> Aircover is for cancellations by the host, it wouldn’t apply for the scenario you describe

The Get-What-You-Booked Guarantee claims to cover if "listing description wasn’t accurate about significant things," though it's unclear if something like a pool being unusable would qualify.
That whole post is rife with it. The strategy of "starve the beast" really works wonders for the propaganda machine to amplify.
I guess the difference is recalls are tracked by a regulatory body to ensure they are implemented within a certain time frame due to the safety nature of them.

There is also typically communication to the owners explaining the recall and interim advice before it can be fixed.

Car manufacturers have had TSBs for years for improvements that weren't safety or essential, they would essentially flash the ECU or inspect/change components whenever the car was next in for service and the car owner only notified of the change if they had raised an explicit complaint related to the TSB.
> There is no specific reason for a program that uses the XDG dirs on other unices to not use them on macOS

Nobody stops Apple developers respecting a Freedesktop spec, but the point is many people that mostly know macOS probably didn't even know XDG was a thing. It's not like Apple encourages it in any of their command line utilities.
Do you think that if they had loggers or if you submitted your search query, anyone could realistically use that information in any way?
Concurrent writes, for one.
As a user, the main one that really annoys me is the "Program Files" vs "Program Files (x86)" split. I can kinda see why they have to be different folders, but why did they have to name it "... (x86)" instead of "... (32bit)"?

You can call the 64 bit architecture x64 all you like, but it's still using the x86 instruction set and it's frequently referred to as x86-64, so naming that 32 bit only folder "... (x86)" will just make things more confusing than they should be.
That's not strictly true. If the average is dropped down by an increasingly large share of new joiners at entry level, you might see the average raise exceed 11% while the average comp level is raised only to 6.9%

Raises are often somewhat small, but job changes can be pretty hefty. And it's better than most positions by fair margin.
It would be great to see the stats on the stacks.

What is the adoption of the django vs rails or whatever in the sample size?

Is there a difference between companies that reach Series A, B? etc?

Is there a difference in valuation? (On the theory that stack X helped the team iterate faster)

Does it matter what the vertical is? (For instance, are data science companies more successful if they use a pythonic stack?)

p.s. if you don't want to release the data to internet sleuths, you might consider putting out articles like this as content marketing. People will definitely criticize you for your weak study that ignores their favorite factor, but it would be for fun.
> if an engineer can't do a simple 20-30 line coding problem or reason over the constraints/design space - then there is a good chance that they will need help with core coding in the day to day.

This isn't my experience, I've found that the number one reason for not doing well on leetcode problems is simply because the candidate hasn't practiced doing leetcode problems. I've known plenty good engineers who, when interviewing with LC style interviews for the first time, fail utterly. Then they realize they just need to practice and did better.

I've been in the industry for around 15 years now, my anecdotal observation is that the average quality of engineers is negatively correlated with the rise of leetcode. 10 years ago the strongest signal was a solid github profile with lots of relevant projects.

That's not to say leetcode is the cause of this decline. The cause is the flood of SWE being rushed into the career as fast as possible (this is why github is no longer a good signal, bootcamps started training their students to create meaningless GH projects just to attempt to create signal).

However I've also seen no indication that leetcode type challenges have any relationship to being a good engineer. I've worked at plenty of places that required pretty tricky leetcode style problems filled with very, very mediocre engineers. Leetcode has become a game that has little to nothing to do with real world programming, in the same way that speed-cubing (solving Rubik's cubes in record time) has absolutely nothing to do with the player's underlying understanding of group theory and combinatorics.

The old fashioned walk through and reason about non-trivial code someone has written is still an excellent method to see how a programmer thinks and if they can code.
What baffles me though is that its not like this crazy interview gauntlet is being maintained purely by HR. Engineers in those big tech companies are very protective towards those processes as well, and loudly protest if one would try to change them (complaining about lowering the bar, not hiring top tier talent anymore, etc.).
And tbh, I would be afraid of what they would replace those LC interviews with. At least, I can prepare and grind a LC test. I do not want to have to explain in details what a inode is when interviewing for a back-end position, while I have never had a need for that kind of knowledge in 10 YoE.
You misunderstood parent's point. If you are a serial short seller, you can do "false propaganda" at most once. You can still get things wrong, but you are negatively incentivised to do so because of reputation effects.
All this recent hype around sqlite...

sqlite is a great embedded database and thanks to use by browsers and on mobile the most used database in the world by orders of magnitude.

But it also comes with lots of limitations.

* there is no type safety, unless you run with the new strict mode, which comes with some significant drawbacks (eg limited to the handful of primitive types)

* very narrow set of column types and overall functionality in general

* the big one for me: limited migration support, requiring quite a lot of ceremony for common tasks (eg rewriting a whole table and swapping it out)

These approaches (like fly.io s) with read replication also (apparently?) seem to throw away read after write consistency. Which might be fine for certain use cases and even desirable for resilience, but can impact application design quite a lot.

With sqlite you have do to a lot more in your own code because the database gives you fewer tools. Which is usually fine because most usage is "single writer, single or a few local readers". Moving that to a distributed setting with multiple deployed versions of code is not without difficulty.

This seems to be mitigated/solved here though by the ability to run worker code "next to the database".

I'm somewhat surprised they went this route. It probably makes sense given the constraints of Cloudflares architecture and the complexity of running a more advanced globally distributed database.

On the upside: hopefully this usage in domains that are somewhat unusual can lead to funding for more upstream sqlite features.
Better that than having to convince someone your code is fine and doesn't need to have variables pulled out of the loop for "optimization". Compilers are good at code motion and many engineers will microptimize things that end up hurting readability for now benefit unless you show them Godbolt.
Is it really a "dark pattern" to charge for content? There have been premium forums and sites since the dawn of the internet. The only difference here is that it is made painfully obvious how easily they could make the content available to you.

I suppose you mean "I hate people making money off the modern web"
Which problems were you thinking of?

Cloudflare and fly.io both promise hassle free read replicas and backup. They will both offer only a single node capable of writes, because that’s how SQLite rolls.

This is a pretty good fit for a read heavy load that requires SQL and very low latency.
> you are not somehow better than anyone because you can sit at a computer and write code.

You're right, any human being with a pulse can produce effective software with no training or education or experience or effort whatsoever, and nobody's better at it than anybody else, unlike every other single human endeavor.
Explore how your multichannel software can easily retrieve the product data from e-stores and use it to create listings on eBay, Amazon, and Etsy.
And people (developers) are always complaining about a few mb of JavaScript for the web.

Apps are literally hundreds of mb
Even with the best education, tooling and copy-paste resources, it still takes at least 4-5 years to become competent. In my opinion, entry-level quality as consistently dropped over the last 20 years.
You are in luck, Viz sell that joke as an official t-shirt!

https://www.moretvicar.com/collection/viz-magazine-shop/prod...
Well, it's objectively true that any company can go bankrupt.

And an easy scenario to picture for Coinbase would be if crypto assets all dropped 90% or more in value in a short span of time, and went the way of the beanie baby. Is it a high probability? No, but at least a few percent chance.
Nah, just by being a body available to fleet up and fly. I was in a UK corp which didn't take itself too seriously and had a hilarious time ganking other fleets run by less fun oriented higher ups. We also had spies in other corps and could tap into their TeamSpeaks...good times.
Go for it. I'm waiting.
If the president is publicly instigating toward North Korea on your platform, arguably you have the responsibility to allow people to witness what's being said. In the same way, CNN arguably has the responsibility to broadcast it if he was recorded by their cameras.

It's probably not in the public interest to broadcast every person's incitations of violence or bigotry, but the president? Yes. Certainly you're not implying you should be treated exactly the same as the president of the United States...
Some of them are. Google and Apple make stupendous profits. Uber loses money every quarter. But they pay similarly.
There is a vein of thinking that “diversity causes division” in the United States and this undermines our political willingness to create effective universal safety net programs.

High trust vs low trust societies tend toward egalitarian vs clannish communities respectively.
Agreed. Contrast with an accessibility website that actually practices what it preaches: https://webaim.org/
It's weird that you responded to "being official isn't relevant" by talking more about officialness
No, the SIPC, like the FDIC, can step in and make people whole if assets go missing. FDIC's for deposit accounts, SIPC is the equivalent for brokerage assets.

https://www.sipc.org/about-sipc/sipc-mission

"SIPC oversees the liquidation of member firms that close when the firm is bankrupt or in financial trouble, and customer assets are missing."

In Coinbase's case, holding in a custodian account doesn't save them if the Bitcoin in it gets sent to an attacker's wallet. They're just gone, and neither the SIPC nor FDIC cover that asset class.
How is A-11-y any more accessible a word than accessibility? The "replace-the-middle-with-numbers" shortening scheme makes absolutely no sense, is confusing for anyone that doesn't already know, and saving space is absolutely not an issue in this post-paper era. Just why? Who thought this was a good idea?
Is there any no-code or low-code application to create a User Interface over Supabase?
Let's see some concrete evidence. I've seen plenty of anecdotal/made up evidence by people who are apparently mind readers and not much else.
You mean marketers. Marketers have become developer's bosses in a lot of agencies.
You can see this more locally in the US with places that had redlining.

> Research published in September 2020 overlaid maps of the highly affected COVID-19 areas with the HOLC maps, showing that those areas marked “risky” to lenders because they contained minority residents were the same neighborhoods most ravaged by COVID-19.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redlining
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What killed the writer Mark Baumer?
And for lots of hosts "a table" is either a kitchen countertop or a coffee table, while "a chair" is a small sofa next to it. Et voila, "a dedicated workspace".
I have never had interviews this bad, but I have had interviews which required travel to get to the interview. Travel which was paid for by the company I was interviewing with. In one case I had an interview with paid travel, and I added an interview with another company on the same trip. I actually accepted the offer from the second company. I think in a situation like the one I described, you should go through the process as far as the interviewers want to, while at the same time politely making it clear that you don't think it's a good fit, and that they could save everyone time by concluding the process.
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It's not about what's in the letter, it's about who sent it.

When you personally request something it will get handled by their usual support people, but letters from lawyers usually go straight to legal and get handled there.

Legal saying "what we're doing may be problematic" is much more likely to cause change.
> Having coded some of the original fractal math research for DeVanney and Mandelbrot,

Really? I would love to read any story you have about this!