skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First, your pool will be very limited. Second, your competitors will likely be very bad at hiring - too many résumés, nobody paying attention, etc.

Job fairs at universities were my favorite. There's a lot of variation in the youth. There are people who will be too smart to stay in the job pool and there are those too dumb to keep a job. And you get to talk to them, so it's a good way to associate a human with their resume.

So you can ask why this girl claims to be an expert in Python but has 0 years of experience, or what a degree in HR really means. Why does this guy request such low salary for so much experience. Then you get better at identifying the signals.

I also think that quick interviews are necessary. You're able to do those on the spot, which means one less process. It's also a lot more casual and honest, since neither of you have invested much effort into this. You end up talking more about the things you do that excite you, why you started the venture. And they talk about what they really want to achieve in their career. Again the youth are great here, because they fantasize. Veterans still have those dreams, but it's buried under several layers. But as a startup, the dream fulfillment is your edge, so this is a great way to practice pitching to hires.
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super slick write up. nice job!
The 900 series came out nearly 8 years ago. Back then the world was worried about Ebola and Russia was annexing Crimea.
I bet those people wrote far more accessible and faster-loading pages than what the average professional web developer today creates. It's weird to see the complexity that's grown out of the latter group, which almost serves as a sort of gatekeeping. Always changing things for the sake of changing them, deprecating simple functionality in favour of doing the same thing in a more complex way, etc. My other suspicion is that Big Browser is pushing them to adopt that insane complexity in order to keep out competitors.
You are assuming that I believe many things which I do not.

You should just assume I'm a misanthrope who enjoys watching people suffer. I mean, it's not true, but lots of idiots assume it.
null pointer exception, wildly common terminology … in other contexts
Perfectly timed news release.. just when their stock is taking a massive beating
There's no one "successor to Heroku". The successor to Heroku is a collection of different companies that work well together. What's important is the Heroku idea of what an application is, as a developer-first prospect rather than an ops-first prospect like Kubernetes running on a cloud platform.
A lot of people who have never been poor refuse to acknowledge that a lot of poor people are poor in large part because they make bad choices. I think it makes them feel better.
which changes nothing about the user experience where some massive fraud decades ago resulted in an extra paragraph in the 30 pages of disclaimers and some regulator smugly sitting at their corner desk thinking "ah, in this moment, I am euphoric, consumers are protected"
- 11 months of runway feels tight given market conditions have tightened; are you close to closing seed?

- Does your 25% MoM growth translate to revenue? If so, be clear about that

- Can your existing engineers refer friends they know?

What you're experiencing is pretty typical of a pre-seed startup that's unknown right now
It's not common, which is stupid. We're banging that drum pretty hard though. Maybe you'll see a #1 ranked HN post about it someday. :)
Tangential, but this is one of the main reasons I never liked Ruby on Rails with Active Record when I first took a look at it.
Not having DB-level foreign keys by default always drove me insane. Isn't maintaining data integrity/correctness half the point of using a SQL database lol?
I have a problem where I need to do surface/volume estimation of a bunch of objects, but they are moving across the camera with a static background. Anybody know how to do that in real time?
I just quit last month for burnout reasons. I’ve had my foot on the gas for…19 years.

My management really wanted me to do the sick leave thing. My therapist would have backed me up if I needed proof.

I chose not to take that offer because I didn’t want a timetable looming, and I wanted to be truly free from any pressure to return. The role was also very customer facing, which put me in a weird spot about what to tell the community.

I think I might have been more open to it if I hadn’t already been there for 8+ years and feeling the itch to do something new.

The door is still open, but I don’t have to walk through it.

I sometimes have to take a minute to reflect on how good we have it in this industry.
Coinbase stock lost over 75% value
Sorry where's the downside? That all sounds pretty good, especially for the environment.
Yes, fewer scams and less negligence dramatically changes user experience.
Voting is a much worse waste of time and resources than making the right choices. Even if you vote for the "right" congressional candidate, the hurdles of getting a bill out of committee, avoiding lobbying pressures/temptations, making deals with other members of Congress, watering it down with the other chamber, hoping it doesn't get vetoed, etc, already reduces your odds by, let's say, 95%.

If you buy local, in-season, sustainable foods, you have a 100% chance of being 1/300MMth of the solution, not a 5% chance of being that same 1/300MMth of the solution.
It’s puzzling to me why you would defend these companies.

I suppose you don’t live near one of these lines or have to worry about some terrible accident or even a town-destroying explosion. (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lac-M%C3%A9gantic_rail_disas...)

My uncle worked for one of the large railroads for 32 years. He retired last year, along with every eligible employee in his division. The workplace injury rates in that division had climbed to the point that it didn’t make sense to do the job and risk death or serious injury.
Here’s a list of almost exclusively tomato farms in a single county in TN. Your globalization take is bad, but the tired repetition of the only-California-grows-food trope is also bad.

https://grainger.tennessee.edu/grainger-county-farmers-page/

Literally famous for tomatoes, man.

https://farmflavor.com/tennessee/tennessee-crops-livestock/w...
"Don't use sans-serif typefaces for body text" has been age-old advice in the print world, on the principle that long blocks of text -- e.g., not posters, back covers, or instruction pamphlets, but short stories, novels, feature stories, newspaper and magazine articles -- is easier to read with serif type. In the print world, long-form text like that is overwhelmingly set in serif faces, not sans-serif.

Sans-serif type became the standard in on-screen computer contexts in no small part because at 75–100 PPI resolution, monitors just couldn't render delicate features particularly well; even good anti-aliasing is going to turn the serifs on 12-point text into gray smudges. Computers just did better when you went to sans-serif fonts, particularly ones designed with relatively high x-heights and big counters like Verdana.
I basically eliminated almost all interaction with social media some months ago ... and all this woke conflict stuff, it just goes away. You start noticing other things - people in general are not concerned about any of it, they're more concerned about the high prices and potential inflation spikes. They're concerned about jobs and quality of life and environmental uncertainties like drought. Many people's fears and hopes revolve around whether their kids will get a good education and have a secure future.

I can't help thinking the whole woke thing has been some kind of manufactured media project, maybe with overtones of state propaganda, which had the overall goal of drawing attention away from the fundamental failings of many once-respected American institutions - media, government, academics, etc. I wouldn't be surprised if it was all purposely designed as some kind of divide-and-conquer tactic, something to distract the American public and draw attention away from ever-more-obvious gross failures of our incompetent leaders, which are across-the-board in nature and not exclusively linked to any political party.

If this is a correct assessment, then you'd expect the typical 'accepted topics' of mass American political conflict - i.e. guns & abortion - to start taking center stage now, because they don't want people howling for 'better wages and less inflation' or screaming 'fix the damn infrastructure, you incompetent clowns' outside their windows.
I mean... Bash is actually bad and ugly.

And ... I'm old and that's how I learned that :-)
I think it really comes down to what you mean by run out of water. In the past we have seen cities crack down on lawns and pools and car washing in times of drought. I don't see similar measures in the future as far fetched. Nobody is in real threat of dying of thirst as the average household currently consumes around 300k gallons per year.

I don't know about other states, but California has already tried several times to implement legislation to take water rights without compensation, and there are tons of lawsuits on the subject, both past and ongoing. Most recent is the 2014 Sustainable Groundwater Management Act.

I don't think they will ever be willing to buy out farmers.

They will most likely succeed in taking their water without compensation through persistence. As you see in this thread, there has been several decades of messaging convincing people that that water rights are irrelevant and moral justice should trump the law. the legal system can only push back so long. Buying the farmers out is the polar opposite to this sentiment and expensive, so I think it is extremely unlikely.

If this somehow doesn't happen, I think people will eventually give ground on some environmental uses in times of drought. Environmental use is more than ag and cutting a few percent there could easily solve any of residential use constraints with the wave of a pen.
Energy, Consumer Staples and Utilities from my research.
Doesn't extended leave mean they don't pay you, they just won't fire you.
Ah yes the "crypto is dead" take again. It has been "dying" since 2013 and it always come back stronger and crazier than ever. This wipeout is good to get rid off all the shit projects out there. The stronger will survive as usual.
All of the crypto ponzi schemes going to zero and all the idiots who participated losing their shirts would really be a wonderfully great outcome.

It's also inevitable eventually, all alternatives are just artificially prolonging the pain
Preventative care is $0 as a part of the ACA and reputable physicians are included.

Similar to the UK, my in laws in Canada can’t get annual physicians scheduled either - there needs to be something wrong before a doctor will take an appointment.
Seattle and Austin are totally comparable, even preferable, to NYC and SF in many ways. So yes, all else equal, why not save an extra 10% of your income?
> These guys are going to prison.

It will be interesting where, if, or how.

The SEC attempted to establish jurisdiction over Do Kwon and Terraform Labs late last year but failed spectacularly.
Hard to See: How trauma became synonymous with authenticity
You could make that argument about the majority of the crypto-currency universe, yes. I wouldn't consider an algorithmic stablecoin a ponzi scheme, though. People don't buy UST because they expect to be able to sell it to a greater fool for more; they buy it, because they expect to be able to sell it back to an equally-great fool for the same price. That expectation is founded in a shared belief in the 'value control algorithm' -- which I still think is a neat idea, in itself, because it's like a central bank in code form.
For a lifetime licence for a binary blob, or for code you can compile as you move to a new hardware platform?
Here's another fun example of patenting something impossible: compressing random data. [1] Amusingly, Jean-loup Gailly's [2] post about it begins with saying that: "The US patent office no longer grants patents on perpetual motion machines..."

[1]: http://gailly.net/05533051.html

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-loup_Gailly
What paperwork? All PPP requested was w-2 data and rent/payroll information. If you run a legal business, you have these things on hand constantly.
It deserves to fail. Another crypto ecosystem bootstrapped off itself.
Without cashflow things usually end badly. The salt in the wound is that this is the year Buffett really attacked Bitcoin.
again: just don't.

small communities of people who trust each other can sell things to each other without any VC-backed platforms getting involved. "scaling it" is the problem, but nobody needs that. all you need is a messageboard, either digital or a literal bulletin board. trying to force marketplaces to grow bigger causes problems.
> So would you propose an independent third part to evaluate all these various things, and see which ones are, say, backed by fundamentals?

So you want a repeat of the subprime crisis, but by having credit rating agencies rate smart contracts?

>I'm assuming that you don't intend your point to be "the only difference is that in the 2008 example, someone who should've called bullshit fucked up, and this time nobody is officially supposed to call bullshit, you're supposed to do it yourself."

No, that's the difference between the two. caveat emptor vs fraud. Seems like a pretty important difference to me.
Outside of voting for politicians in elections who promise change in this regard (and casting a vote is a very coarse signal), the average individual American can't do much. And blaming individuals for taking advantage of the system they were borne into is dumb—individuals cannot be expected to understand the macro-level naunces that group behaviours have.
Emacs has been my primary editor since it was written in Teco and only ran on PDP-10s.

I haven't had an emacs config for >25 years.
Thanks man. Doing alright and hope the same for you.

It is medicaid and Langone's network is actually spread throughout the city, even at Bellevue! Actually got an appt there coming up and the Dr I'm seeing there has been the best. Top notch
What is your definition of safe when it comes to investing in crypto? In the broader sense of the word, it is absolutely not safe because crypto is not safe.
One possibility is https://4dayweek.io/. I'm not affiliated with them at all.
If they do unlawful things, they should be prosecuted for those things.

I live in a country where people are presumed innocent until proven guilty. I like this principle.

Just assuming that if someone is rich they must have broken the law somehow, that directly contradicts this principle. I stand against this, and lots of people in this country think like me.

And I'm not rich; I will never be a billionaire. And I am not paid by billionaires to advocate for their cause. I simply want to live in a country where the presumption of innocence is one of the foundational principles. Along with life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Do I like wealth or income inequality? I don't really care. Inequality doesn't bother me. What bothers me is that the real estate market is crazy insane. The tuition for colleges promises to be absurdly unaffordable by the time my kids finish high school. The cost of healthcare is stupidly high, and it starts to feel quite high even after the insurance pays their part. All these things bother me, and they bother many tens of millions of other Americans. But in order to fix them, you have to try to fix them. Not to point the finger at the rich and say it's because of them.
See the 2003 film about him, made while he was still alive, at link below. This film has some details about his homemade reactor at about 17:24 minutes in.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBuOJn03QVo
Show HN: Open-Source Calendly Alternative
In every one of these discussions about nutrition, food costs and availability, should be a link to a site with a step by step guide on how to buy and prepare healthy tasty food on a budget. Does such a site exist?
The White House’s weirdly hip record collection
The GTX10 series is pretty old as far as computer hardware goes. Hardly anyone runs anything older, even in third world countries: https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey

Software decoding should also work on a $100 cpu.
Isn't that about the same things as "performance insights"?
(genuine question, I'd be interested in hearing what features I'm missing out on)

https://aws.amazon.com/rds/performance-insights/
If only they could keep their website reachable, that would be the icing on the cake. Like every time I see them linked on HN, I click and cannot connect to their website.

Last time somebody from fly said they'd look into it, but alas. It was related to IPv6 on their end, was as far as I could tell.
May I ask - do you have first-hand experience of poverty? Do you understand what that means, and why these people may be more susceptible to make mistakes like this? Do you really believe that it is a good thing that they are getting scammed out of what little they have?
Absolute hard second on this, it works well and doesn't need to be changed.
Yes but it’s not obvious that it’s obvious to the other person that it was delivered. And so on.
> There's no novel economic concept here. It's just a ponzi scheme that has run out of greater fools. Remove the layers of deception and it is fundamentally a ponzi scheme.

I'm not defending the coin, but in what way is this a Ponzi scheme? It may be hair-brained and an absolutely terrible investment, but from OPs description it does sound "novel" to my novice ears. How is this specific concept (pegging one coin to $1 by using a second coin) a ponzi scheme?
No.

It's. JavaScript pAckage and aeme

You can't fix memes
Just interestingly - the average per capita cost of Canada’s system is $4,000.

Of course in the US, there are costs beyond just insurance, but if you had to pay for coverage out of pocket it would be $16,000/yr for a family of 4.
I'm curious - where did you move to after Heroku?
There's nothing outstanding about repeatedly handing out thousands of dollars to every taxpayer and increasing unemployment because all the gig economy workers were upset that there was no more gig economy for a few weeks. Just like every time our government bails out organisations like GM, none of that money did any lasting good for the economy and simply served to increase the entitlement rampant among US citizens. Imagine a place where people who deliver disgustingly unhealthy takeout to a population where the majority of morbidity and mortality is directly related to chronically poor lifestyle choices are called "essential." Thanks to all that "stimulus," there is no small number of people who hardly worked the entirety of 2020, if at all.

"I know you took this job because there wasn't really an interview, you don't have a real boss, you work whenever you feel like it, you don't have to do anything you don't already do every day and it's just so hard to find a job in the Great Resignation, but now you want to cry foul because there's no job security due to people not having enough money to stuff their faces full of shit for a few weeks, so here's some extra cash. 'Murika!" "Oh! It wasn't enough that we paused student loans for all of 2020 and 2021, so we're going to keep extending that, even knowing many of you will just bedmaking minimum payments until the remaining balance falls off (I know doctors making six figures who have been doing this since before the most recent pandemic)."

Full disclosure: I was unemployed for about half of 2020, didn't ever take unemployment and survived on my VA disability while actively pursuing employment. I have also currently paid 80% of my student loans after graduating in 2016. We should be teaching the next generation how to survive in this increasingly dysfunctional world, not letting them believe that some person/organisation will always be there to bail us out after every stupid decision. Apparently, you haven't noticed, but the US brand of capitalism and the stupid idea that we'll just keep throwing money at every problem is literally destroying the planet.
What have binary blobs got to do with it?
I don't know that I'd say Scala gets immutability right in that it still provides you equal access to the mutable collections (and I have basically no experience with Kotlin), but I cede the point it's way better than either Go or Java here. I readily admit Golang gets this wrong, just, -slightly- better than Java. I'm coming from an Erlang background, and that's the main influence I'm looking at concurrency from; the JVM as a whole gives me a sad when it comes to helping me write correctly behaving code.
The SQLite team has done a good job over the years establishing an ethos (in the rhetorical sense) of writing reliable software. The degree to which this can transfer to Lighstream is the degree to which Lightstream is intrusive on the SQLite code.

Another way of saying it: I trust the SQLite's team statements of stability for SQLite because of history and a track-record for following stringent development processes. The same is not true of the Lighstream team. Does anybody know how much any potential damage introduced by the Lightstream code could affect the integrity of my data on disk -- obviously replication added by Lightstream will be only as good as the Lighstream team makes it, but to what degree is the local data-store affected?
It definitely seems like it could be useful for some use cases; I'm just trying to get my head around the constraints. :)
I experience this as well. I remember that in school, I would always seek out the most remote corners of the library in order to work. And before Covid times, working in an office that was anything but dead silent was a constant source of "activation" and therefore subtle distraction.

Working from home has posted its own distraction challenges, but I do not miss that "nonfunctionally distracted" feeling I often got in the office.
> My impression after reading a lot of blogs by Emacs users is that they spend more time thinking and writing about how to make Emacs do something, than the actual thing they are doing.

Indeed, that does seem to be the community of people who blog about emacs. It's a shame because it makes emacs look complicated to the beginner.

But like many users I have a short init file with very few customizations: In my case mainly removing all the chrome and other bells and whistles so emacs looks like it did back in the 1970s. And it works great!
I think Wix, Squarespace, etc suit a lot of people's needs pretty well, and they have visual editors. There are businesses that run on those platforms that never had to touch code at all to get their work done.
Ah word. Yeah then ain't no shame in using a framework, but give a shot at styling based on design inspirations you find. Design's just another system with rules.
Anecdotal but all my friends who work retail ended up making more on stimulus/unemployment than they did working. That is already strange but when you add in that people on unemployment were making far more than the "essential" retail workers and it became kind of perverse.

> "are we now held accountable by a righteous capitalism police"

I would argue that yes, if you are getting free money from the government to help sustain you during trying times it is reasonable to say it shouldn't be used for gambling. I don't think we are impinging on anyones freedom to say they can't spend their food stamps at a casino.
wow! This has apparently been in Phoenix for over a year and I had no clue. Thank you! I'd have used SQLite over postgres on pretty much every project where I needed ecto.
Experimenting with Redux Listener Middleware
curl -i https://api.heroku.com/ | grep 'HTTP/2'