skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Lots of Americans dream of either LA or New York, depending on their industry.

I was going to post the same thing. What the OP describes is the same in much of the US.

> Even Americans get kind of brainwashed that their local culture is inferior and everything is better in New York (and California) because that's where so much of our popular media originates and is set.

There is something to it: People who are ambitious, confident, and talented tend to want to be around similar people - it gives them opportunities to do more - and around other resources such as financing, leading organizations in their industry, etc. The motivated ones tend to go to NY, etc. So the talent level and resources are generally greater. Seriously, what would you tell a highly ambitious, talented coder in a small town in the middle of Nebraska? Stay where you are? Even in the days of remote work, that seems insane.

> Though I wish we did a better job of fostering diversity of views from other places even within the US.

Agreed.
Nobody's trying to convert your family, you're just trying to stop your family from knowing LGBT people exist.
Everything made in China is cheap garbage /s
Same from Switzerland
It is already barbaric today.

A waste of time and resources. Fuel, road infrastructure, vehicles, parking space. All for what? so that people can waste their productivity in an open plan office, which is objectively the most distracting type of office plan ever devised, even worse than its predecessor, cubicles.

And when it's flu season, prepare to bring the flu home and make your entire family sick, because seeing people face to face from a close distance, including their nostrils and mouth from where pathogens come out, is a fantastic idea during a flu season. In fact, it is such a great idea, that we should do an all-hands meeting and bring all employees into the same space, all next to each other, so that we can maximize the odds of the flu spreading from person to person.

It is also great for companies, because helping people succeed based on superficial traits like their appearance or voice parameters instead of their productivity is definitively in the best interest of a company. That definitively helps companies succeed considering the customer doesn't care about how your employees look.
Oh stop with the anti-wind propaganda. It’s no truer now than it was last time.
I'm Making a TV Show (It's About Vietnam and It's Hilarious)
> It’s not uncommon to see $6/gal

You'd be "relieved" to know that some places in Europe saw 8$/gal in the past weeks.
150 seems high in my experience in Vancouver. Are you able to comment on which companies pay towards that end of the range? I guess this would be Amazon, Microsoft, Apple?
One good reason for protectionism in this way is to protect from international shocks. If there was an event that caused international production of formula to scale back (say a volcanic eruption), then it would be beneficial to have as large a domestic supply as possible. This is achieved by subsidizing local production, eg via tarrifs on foreign imports. It would be valuable in addition to expressly allow for foreign imports in response to shocks like this, but making that the permanent regime would have its own risks.
Creality has already eaten the entry level world.
"Because that's how things work??" is not a good reason when it's arbitrary policy, it's just a cause. "Would" implies why, or underlying reasons, saying we should judge them as valid or not, and he is rightfully judging it as wrong.
You misunderstood the statement. Female representation in video games means female characters _in_ the games. Independent, impactful, and nuanced characters like the protagonist or antagonist.

Whether you think representation in video games is important or not tends to be a function of whether your personal identity is already well represented. If you don't think it's important, I'd encourage you to seek the perspectives of someone who is not well represented, ideally just a real-life friend. You might learn things you hadn't simply hadn't thought to consider, through no fault of your own.

As for game dev jobs, more women in them would probably mean more female representation in games too, simply because there would be more perspectives at key decision points. And it's hard to argue that there isn't negative pressure against women entering and thriving in the industry, when one of the biggest game developers on the planet is recovering from a deeply embedded epidemic of misogynism.
…and governments should not have the power to help the company enforce that decision.
Is this a real question? They have higher food standards, regulation, and inspection regime than the US does itself. Other countries are a mishmash, but I'd imagine at least Canada/Australia/UK/etc would meet or exceed the bar too.
I'm assuming it's ironic because it made no sense to me either.
Seriously, what would you tell a highly ambitious, talented coder in a small town in the middle of Nebraska? Stay where you are?

I'm trying to make a different point than people seem to think I'm making. I have absolutely no idea how to clarify that in comments here. I'm trying to sort my thoughts on the topic elsewhere, which likely means a blog post that likely won't be seen by over 30 people.
Generally speaking, anything related to a diplomat cannot be touched (outside of physical security concerns). This includes their immediate family, their car, their entourage. Personal items and documents obviously fall under this since they may contain state secrets.
So has Musk changes the Tesla factory to Texas yet?

Serious question.
My meat grinder has about 500 companies, 200+ I touch every three months. There are a lot of companies with same / similar ads for extended periods. Some of them I've applied to, and discovered after they'd been in the meat grinder for a while.

Wish I could do something with that info. A deadpool where the posting that's been up the longest wins the daily pool?
And they should be empathetic with trans people if they experienced discrimination and actually think discrimination is bad.
Berenstain Bears
> If you are using instanceof in a normal java program

In applications yes, but instanceof is heavily used if you write frameworks.

And as someone else has mentioned, the more functional style java you write the more use you start to make of instanceof
All my contracts have stated where the workplace is. Not the specific address, but on a city / region level. Then one part can't just change that.
is this supposed to be funny?
> Imagine how much development time we could save if forms supported DELETE and PUT!

not much; while you need a little (easily reusable) JS code to use and handle responses to other methods, it's such a tiny fraction of the dev effort that goes into web apps that it makes no meaningful difference.

It would be nice if HTML forms supported other methods for completeness, but it wouldn't save all that much real-world development effort.
I'd imagine there's also a strong selection bias there. It's not like being intelligent automatically makes you a member of MENSA. You also have to want to be a member of a society that uses IQ tests as a selection criteria. I'd imagine that self-selects for people who are intelligent but insecure about other facets of their life.
The term “504” was new to me - doctor-prescribed academic assistance, apparently.

https://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/504faq.html

Is this being abused?
Should we do the same for other nations? Is Chinese baby formula safe? If not, by what metric do we decide which nations' formula is sufficiently safe?
Oh, whoa, I'm the author of this! Happy to answer any questions.
God! I hope both WhiteHat Jr. and their parent company Byju's crash and burn. They are crap companies which make poor and gullible parents enroll their kids in one of their programs for extortionate amount of money. If the parents cannot afford to pay all at once, they give a "loan" to the parents and collect a part of it each month even if the kids aren't satisfied with the education that is being provided. Note that none of the kids in India use these apps as the only way to study. They attend regular schools and use these apps as an additional source. Byju's employs 1000s of people whose only job is to go visit as many houses as they can and trick the parents into subscribing for their services by falsely claiming that the only way their kids can succeed is when their education is supplemented by these apps. Many innocent people who want to do all they can to make their kids' lives better fall into the trap and then keep paying the "loan" amount back which could be a substantial part of their monthly income.

Meta and Disney invested a lot of money into these companies and they use it to bully anyone who tries to bring these issues up by shutting down their YouTube channels and filing defamation law suits [1,2]. The entire online education industry is unregulated and resort to shitty antics to extort money. I don't understand why these companies need to exist when we have other free and amazing resources online like Khan Academy which teach all topics to all ages of people.

[1] https://thepost.co.in/news/633/whitehat-jr-lawsuit-pradeep-p...

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/india/search?q=pradeep+poonia&restr...
I would support standardizing labeling and inspection requirements with the EU. I don't support more half measure executive orders that expand the executive branch's power because Congress is too broken to do anything... but I digress.
Tether is the largest stablecoin in existence. If you are intent on arguing that the biggest example of your mentioned category is an exception, how do you propose the average person goes about find out what's an exception and what's following the norm?
>the reason it, that is the idea of hypermedia, died was because you weren't able to achieve the same level of interactivity as you could with javascript-based applications, even back in 2005

But I neither want nor need much interactivity in Web sites. Interactivity is for applications and applications are much better on desktop or mobile than on the Web.
Is there a good reason why it takes that committee over a week just to meet? Why can't they just schedule a zoom conference and then issue an executive order the same day? It's not like starving babies are a time critical issue like missiles for Ukraine or something.
I dont think saving a few lines for a very rare corner case is a strong reason to add a language feature
Just FYI, roughly half of the US includes startups in "Big Tech". Anything in Silicon Valley is considered Big Tech. A local shop that has programmers wouldn't be, though.
21 USC 350a is probably why, there are requirements for audits and inspections in there that the FDA cannot just set aside with an emergency rule making process since they are statutory.
In Canada I think this could be a “constructive dismissal”. I believe this may be a general common-law thing, but IANAL.
If GP wants to read about this, the name is actually "shell theorem":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shell_theorem
Ask HN: How do I quickly re-understand the code I wrote? I am a beginner btw
Yes, there's far more to this story. This isn't your typical story of employees going remote for COVID and then being asked to return. There's a lot more wrapped up in this, including failure to adjust salaries and employees who can't relocate on short notice:

> One of the employees who resigned told the website that a month’s time was not enough for relocation. “Some have kids, some have aged and sick parents, while others have other responsibilities. It is not right to call back employees in such a short period of time,” the former WhiteHat Jr employee said.

> Another employee said salaries also factored in the decision to not return to the office. At the time of hiring, employees were told about their job location – WhiteHat Jr has offices in Gurugram, Mumbai and Bengaluru. However, after working from home for two years, employees believed that their salaries should be revised to reflect the cost of living in expensive cities.

This looks like more of an engineered layoff from a company that is already in a death spiral:

> “This was a well-planned and managed layoff that WhiteHat Jr did,” a former employee remarked.
What's the difference between "personally guaranteeing" a loan and being "personally liable" for a loan? To me they mean the exact same thing: if Better.com (the company) can't pay off the loan then Mr. Garg (the individual) is responsible for coming up with the money.
Because some of us don't want to buy infant formula that's full of lead, bacteria, cellulose, or whatever other garbage would end up in it?
I didn't get Access Denied, in the US. I wonder if they only serve to the US. Weird, although I guess it must be pretty unusual that people in France care about the ERCOT status.
> This is called restricting, and it's classic eating disorder behavior.

Most people would recognize this as intermittent fasting by itself, but with the rest of it this sounds problematic. I’m not sure you can just replace one addiction with another without looking to the root of the issue.
People seem to adapt to the temperatures where they live. In central Texas, I don't actually like the central AC set to less than 76F.

Also, when you reach 100F+ outside, you have pretty dehumidified indoor air at 78F because it still takes the AC running a lot.
Wonder if he realized a bit late that the only vlue in twitter is the users and he'd previously complained about the spam on the site

Did he really ignore all the documentation of bots on the platform? Did he really think trump was deplatfirmed because of what he said not because he was like patient zero for disinformation and bots
Problem is that, compared to US,Canada is not very self-sufficient. The average Canadian imports a lot of stuff. Kind of limited what you can grow in this frozen wasteland.
I had not seen this before, but I have seen many parodies of it which retrospectively make sense.

I found this collection of some of them: https://youtu.be/hmmcgSgt5_c

When i was a kid, we used to call these 'Simpsons moments' referring to the feeling of seeing the parody before the original. As the Simpsons has many cultural references, but is also popular with kids, many of us who grew up watching it had various 'now I get it' moments.

What's interesting is that's it's not obvious that there is a parody or reference at all if one is not familiar. I remember the Simpsons having terminator, 2001, and many other film references that I would have an aha moment years later when i finally understood it.
Large, large parts of Europe are basically one interconnected grid now and that has not stopped anyone from building (or not building) wind energy.
I saw this talk at ICER, and I really loved how it led to the idea of evaluating tests in terms of "wheats" (good programs pass the test) and "chaffs" (bad programs fail the tests). They describe this in terms of Thoroughness and Validity.

> A suite is valid if it accepts (i.e., its assertions pass) all correct implementations... In order for a suite to be valid for all implementations of median, it must not include any assertions involving empty input lists. We can accurately identify such assertions as invalid by checking them against two correct implementations (henceforth wheats [24])... If a student asserts that implementations should produce an error on empty inputs, their suite will reject the wheat that produces 0 (and visa versa). Provided that the set of wheats completely exercises the space of underspecified behaviors permitted by the specification, accepting all wheats guarantees that a suite is valid and will accept all correct implementations.

> A suite is thorough if it rejects (i.e., its assertions do not pass) buggy implementations. We assess the thoroughness of a suite by running it against a curated set of buggy implementations (henceforth chaffs [24]). The thoroughness of a suite is measured as the proportion of chaffs it rejects. To assess test suites, the set of chaffs should include subtly buggy implementations. To assess examples, we take a different perspective: the set of chaffs should exercise logical misunderstandings that students are likely to make. For
instance, to assess the thoroughness of examples for median, the set of chaffs could include implementations of mean and mode.

I want to see this used in more curricula and tools. I need to see if there's been any follow-up on this research and learn how it's gone.
My brain keeps parsing that as a mashup of "Whitecastle" and "Carls, Jr."
Picasso's self portrait evolution from age 15 to age 90
"it's not even hot yet" what?

May 2022 is on track to be the hottest May on record in Texas. It's already hitting over 100 degrees in most of Texas. It does not typically get this hot until July. Most of the country is facing a huge heat wave this last week, and while some of the country got a reprieve this weekend, Texas did not.

For comparison, this time last year the temperature was in the 70s/low 80s. The average high for May in Austin is 86. The temperature this week in Austin is forecast to be over 100.

It's ridiculous that the Texas grid can't handle this, but to say "it's not even hot yet" is disingenuous. It's fucking hot.

https://news.yahoo.com/texas-shatters-heat-record-temps-1805...

https://weather.com/forecast/regional/news/2022-05-06-heat-w...

https://www.kvue.com/article/weather/may-2022-track-to-be-wa...
... is a pretty good approximation.

The problem is that you don't care if a stablecoin collapses tomorrow; you care if it collapses in the next 50 years and "the stablecoin hasn't collapsed in 50 years so it won't collapse in the next 50 years" obviously doesn't apply.
> Is it really a bad thing for society that women don’t have as many gamedev jobs as they otherwise could?

Yes, it is. Not because we need more game devs, but because there are women who actually want those jobs and are qualified and have a harder time getting them. And because when they do get them they deal with issues that the men in the same positions don’t have to deal with. And because they get paid less for the same work on average. These things are indeed bad for society, they make our environment worse than it could be otherwise.

We also don’t have enough games that represent the growing category of female gamer, we have too many Call of Duty and Grand Theft Auto and Madden, and not enough games like, I dunno, Sayonara Wild Hearts or Celeste. We could generally speaking make more money by having more games that not just cater to female gamers but are made by women.
We have compiled a huge dataset of EU ecommerce stores bundled with contacts and info about CMS etc. Is this info of any interest for modern sales teams or has the trend shifted towards LinkedIn / alternatives? If so, what data would be useful?

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> As the Covid situation has improved

LOL, sure.
Side note: https://questioncopyright.org/minute-memes-copying-is-not-th...
We live in a country that stigmatizes, under-researches, and under-treats most mental disorders.

Most people who think pointing out "gender disphoria" is a "mental illness" is a good point would be shocked and disappointed when they find out what the standard treatment for patients with gender disphoria is.
Back in the late 2000s a lot of people were saying that casual gaming was, as an expansion outside of the male 20-something DOOM fan demographic, caused by women entering the game industry and working on things that male 20-something software engineers wouldn't think was enjoyable. There's a lot of gender essentialism in that way of telling the story, but there's also a lot of gender essentialism in the standard marketing playbook on target demographics more generally, and it seems to be making money for them.

There is some argument to be made that it is good to have someone that is at least remotely contained within the target demographic involved when creative decisions are being made, at the very least to avoid having to send every little thing out to a focus group. That is for example why metal bands are usually made up of people who like metal, and why session musicians who are jobbing it don't end up doing a lot of songwriting.
> What they don't want is mobs of workers lower on the totem pole trying to impose their will on management through walkouts/etc.

The horror lol.
On a 45mph road though that's a closing speed of 90mph assuming everyone's following the speed limit. It seems crazy to me to have opposing traffic sharing a lane at those speeds.
I have not worked at an office in the past 10 years. Can't believe some people prefer to work in the old way. Okay, I get it's convenient to spend most of the day pretending that you work - coming at 9AM and going into the kitchen to make coffee and breakfast, than getting a 2-hour lunch, having a proof on your calendar that you worked for 1 hour, when the meeting ended after 20 minutes, and people stayed there talking about anythign but work. Even if people are distracted during WFH, the waste is still much less and there are less excuses compared to WFO.
The AC removes the humidity though so it is a non-issue indoors.
I've been looking for this for a long time but couldn't put a good description to it since I saw it as a kid.
Incredible! Here’s the machine https://youtu.be/2BvAkA0sawM
It likely isn't the FDA's choice, there are a lot of statutory requirements under 21 USC 350a that requires inspections, audits and specific quality control measures that can't be set aside via CFR with an emergency rule making process. Changing these would require Congress to act, but bilateral food regulations on something as sensitive as baby formula is not a topic that lends itself to quick resolution.
Please, can't you just think of all of the children dying from windmill cancer?
Dolby B Noise reduction was followed by Dolby C some years later. This was visible in the market first, and very prominent to later users of cassettes in HiFi systems.

I still have a deck that implements Dolby B and C, as well as dbx NR.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolby_noise-reduction_system

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dbx_(noise_reduction)
Can't you just open a window at night?
Let's not forget that it's modified UTF-8[1] you get back from JNI lest you think that you'll be able to use the buffer as-is.

[1] https://docs.oracle.com/javase/10/docs/specs/jni/types.html#...
Comedians make fun of everything and everyone. My opinion is that if you're a "marginalized group" you should be delighted to be make fun of like everyone else.

Would you prefer to be ignored?

I don't know why "humour is not punching down" keeps being repeated recently but that's idiotic. Comedy punches in all directions.

The real problem of the Dave Chappelle special is not that it was transphobic, it was that it was not really funny.
Clickhouse implements an explicit SEMI join. It can be called semi or any, it doesn't really matter. It's just another join modifier

[OUTER|SEMI|ANTI|ANY|ASOF]

https://clickhouse.com/docs/en/sql-reference/statements/sele...
Reminiscent of Reddit’s “The Button” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Button_(Reddit)

Which, incidentally, was conceived by the Wordle guy. Impressive cultural impact there.
Therea are good things about small towns, some of which you named, but some is idyllic fantasy:

> / decency / civility

That hasn't been my experience in small towns recently, unless you happen to fit in well with the people there. There's a highly aggressive paranoia and acting out.

> functional municipal government

They are almost powerless, IME. How small a town are you talking about?
That is honestly disgusting. I'm so sorry you're forced to put up with that shit.