skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think I buy that argument at all. There are a lot of hyper-driven people stuck in poverty or drudgery because the dice rolled poorly in the past (or at birth), and there are a lot of not-driven people who just kind of aimlessly slipped into their wealth. Daddy paid for Stanford and then they just kind of rode the pre-laid train tracks to their executive position at a tech company. The more I live, the more I no longer buy the whole "be driven and work hard leads to wealth" fantasy.

Yes, when you get up to the level of Bezos, Musk, Gates, and so on, they're both very lucky and very hyper-driven. But when you're talking about the "mere" 10-30 millionaires, I'm not convinced it's much more than good luck and connections. When I think back to the few VPs and SVPs and whatnot I've encountered in my own work life, I don't recall many that seemed to have that driven "Bezos/Musk" personality. They were bored in meetings, golfing, and occasionally sending E-mail announcement to the division. They were not writing code until 10PM and waking up at 5AM to do a code review with the offshore developer team, all while watching their checking account and wondering whether the whole division would be laid off next month.
There is no "one less than the value chosen" in this case - the embryo is 100% reliant on the mother for every single possible life function - circulation, respiration, digestion, homeostasis, everything. The only "babies" that are "born" in that state are early miscarriages. This is the slippery slope fallacy writ large, in the same way as comparing a minority to an embryo was.
This is true, but the niche should be a dev who knows COBOL IRL enough to translate to something newer. Much of the COBOL I've seen would be trivial to rewrite, just nobody wants to tackle it. A person who 1) Can read cobol 2) can communicate well with stakeholders and 3) can translate to NodeJS/Python/.NET should be able to fit this niche pretty well.

I've done this before - translate green screen apps to ASP.NET. In my case, the company had (retiring) IT staff read the cobol and give us good "plain english". The actual ASP.NET code was trivial. That said, my one caveat is I don't feel like any language today has the longevity of these systems. That code was ASP.NET 3 MVC - new at the time, but outdated now. What stack do I pick today that will still be running in 30 years? HTML+JS+NodeJS seems the most likely candidate IMO, but then you get into the various frameworks-du-jur and it sort of falls apart. Would love HN opinions.
They may have done what many US university fraternity organizations do. Procure a copy of test questions. With frats it's usually test questions from previous year provided by upperclassmen who have already completed the course. Many times the test questions don't change significantly year over year.
Completely true. However if what you're doing is highly price sensitive and willing to accept downtime over ScaryBill, then this the option you all need. And it's completely (and I bet intentionally) not available on AWS. AWS's message is "bend over and we'll tell you how far and long".

Larger companies see $4k as a nothing; pay and move on. Household budgets, not so much.
The writing here is great. Extra points for The Prisoner reference.

"They didn't even give you the decency of a username on CompuServe, they gave you a number like you were Patrick McGoohan"
When I was watching the run I presumed he was keeping to the centre of the track to ensure the fan didn't lose suction and reduce the downforce. It relies on a constant smooth surface, so crossing the edge of the tarmac and especially going onto the grass would undoubtable reduce that.
Reminds me of the certification boot camps where you sit in rapid lectures all day and then go to your room to study all the Chinese brain dumps at night. In the morning you come back and take the test in the next room over.
I'm excited for server-side rendering to return to the mainstream so that in a few years I can revolutionize the industry with my ingenious new idea to render things on the client with Javascript!
I tried to join at 17, as it was the fastest way to get far away from my parents that they'd approve of.

They ended up blacklisting me for a medication I was on before I was even a teenager. My stepbrother faced similar issues, but with ADHD medication, he was able to get it cleared, while I wasn't. I'm glad I didn't get in tbh, I was close to losing a decade of my life in bumfuck nowhere for a $40k signing bonus.

I also have to laugh at the ads. I keep seeing this airforce ad that shows all sorts of cool looking stuff, but the only people I know in the military that had "interesting" jobs were also the most vile. My brother got in and they gave him basic RF and EE training, and for a while I thought he was going to learn a useful skill... He listens to radio static for 12 hours. He's got himself into the academy though, with ambitions of being a pilot, but we'll see how it works out.

Another friend of mine joined the army for economic reasons, he's mostly satisfied, but early on complained to me that he couldn't do the job he was trained to do until some civilian contract ran out. His job? Running LRUs through some diagnoses machine and writing reports.

The one thing I will say is the benefits are amazing. I'm convinced the only type of non-traditional students universities give a damn about are former military coming back with their GI Bill.
I read this advice as more from a perspective of the person who emails someone inbox-unorganized.

So if person A is unorganized with their emails and I need or want something from them I'd better followup (for my own sake, to get the message across no matter the org skills of person A).

I think it's a bit cultural though. My grandmother would say that if someone didn't reply to her, call her back, etc. then it is "pushy" to ping them again and it's good manners not to. I'm Polish, she was Polish. I think the level of acceptable "pushyness" raised between her and my generation and I'd be OK being more aggressive.
Sorry, I misread “given the technology” as today’s technology. But then I do not see how the concept of viability is legal fiction. Medical science can keep fetuses born after x weeks alive with y probability, and that y is near 0 or 0 before x weeks.

Cost had to do with practicality. It does not seem reasonable to expect a society to invest $10M into raising a 1 week old fetus that will need 24/7 support to live. Point being that there are limits real life and a purely philosophical exercise is not useful.
Let's just say that it is murder/abortion of 6 fertilized eggs. However, many people are fine with such murder, as they are with the murder of lettuce leaves.

It seems the issue is always what is being murdered. The more human-like the thing being murdered is, the more outrageous it is. Plan B, not so outrageous because it's just a few cells. 20+ weeks, people are getting outraged. A dog? Pretty human-like, people don't like dogs being murdered.
Right. We agree then, there arn't a lot of content sites that would benefit from being an SPA. it'd have to be a multimedia extravaganza really. And since most of the web is mundane content sites, SPAs should be rareish on the public facing internet

My point was that a lot of people seem to think everything sending anything over http is the same as the project they're working on. The demographics for every site being the same. the needs and requirements being identical.
This is really bad take especially the part about him wanting to meet his friend when he is town.

With a close “friend”, I’m going to text him once or twice to his personal phone, then call him. If he doesn’t answer my text or phone calls, I’m calling his wife to see if everything is okay. Because after us being friends for 30 years, I know some of his people. I can at least reach out to them on FB messenger.

If it is someone I don’t know that well, I’m playing 7 degrees of Kevin Bacon until I can reach them through my network if it’s business related.
> It’s possible Chris is buying SEO and marketing, but given his self-described anti-corporate anarchism, I sort of doubt it.

I mean you never know. But i think there's another explaination: He is one of the most popular woodworkers ATM and he has published a lot of material, so it's only natural if his name comes up more than others.
I've had people forget to call me back when I have work for them. One example, lawyers, but I've seen it from other professions. I did not even have a chance to set up an appointment, so for all they know it could have been a million dollar contract.

I am a prospective client, I'm not going to contact you again, I'm going with someone else.
Of course, but remember that they were first published in 1931. The last ones were 1973 but by then they were so popular they could go against the already established trend of longer books.

Someone writing new mysteries today probably could not get a single book that short accepted by a publisher.
"bad faith" yet every relevant stat which you'd measure the health of a city, arguably the largest one being population gain/loss, is going the wrong way. So the whole argument about this being some sort of made-up political narrative is just provably wrong. Crime stats, population loss, budget deficit, credit rating, school strikes, school truancy, school poverty line, property values...I could go on. Take your pick. The scoreboard says Chicago is losing, this isn't some political conspiracy.
Can you source "many"?
I've always heard it in the context of "front-end" vs "back-end" vs "full-stack (both)"

Normally it's used this way to describe a job, but that meaning has circled around and is now used to describe libraries/frameworks too
Some numbers here:
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2022/06/24/what-the-da...

1% of the abortions occur in week 21 or later, of a total of 625.000-930.000 abortion per year. So about 6250-9300 abortion per year in week 21 or later. Assuming a number of these are health related, "livestyle" abortions is probably less than 9300 per year.

To compare, US had about 19384 gun related homicides in 2020, so that problem is larger than the abortion one. (https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41488081)
Lol let's count them.

- i'm in europe

- i'm socializing with my co workers, sometimes to the point of going on holidays with them

- we work fully remote

However, letting that be your only source of social interaction is a Bad Idea(tm).

Look at all the amenities the likes of Google provide for their employees. They're geared towards making them live at work.

What you describe - going for a pint with co workers after work - is an entirely different animal.
This can be the killer app that Deno needs. As of now there is no specific reason for most of the people to try Deno as Node with its plethora of frameworks works and every one can choose their stack as per their taste. But if they can make Fresh sufficiently better (more cohesive and/or performant on both client and server side) and more feature rich on the backend (ORM + Workers/Queuing) with instant deploy then more people might consider switching.
I run 1.2 million uptime checks per week, my total AWS bill was $150/mo before I migrated to permanently running VMs - it's definitely doable without trying too hard.
This is why I start wordle in the morning, and if I don't feel "close" after 3 guesses, I put it away until the evening.
Interesting article. It should be noted that the testing done is with 100% read/query workload (not surprising since the application is a website of blogs).
To be fair, it's only true that people are making firearms on 3d printers because what we consider the firearm in the US is unusual. In other places the portion of the machine that contains pressure is the firearm. In the US the portion of the machine that holds the trigger mechanism is considered the firearm. This leads to the easiest part of the machine to manufacture also being the only part that is illegal to manufacture in places where such a thing is illegal. It's exactly backwards from physics. Making a 3d printed firing chamber is exceedingly difficult, especially one that won't blow your hand off. Making a trigger - even a fully automatic one - is one notch above trivial.
Agreed about this situation. However, the "tragedy of the commons" itself is actually kind a myth, and agricultural/grazing commons worked quite nicely for ages in many parts of the world.

See also:

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/the-anarchist-faq-ed...
You're giving that comment a lot more effort than it merits.
The instructions that came with the one I got say that it should be on the same circuit or whatever. I am pretty sure mine is not. It works well anyway. Which surprised me, I honestly didn't have high hopes for it, but it has made my zoom calls more reliable vs wifi in my office location.
Exactly. A serious person with an overabundance of legit email gets an assistant or delegates better or whatever. If you're proud of your 100,000 message inbox, you're likely a disorganized poser. Not that there are any of those in the VC-startup ecosystem....
Red (and Rebol) are intended for far more domains than Excel is typically used for. It's more comparable to Python, Perl, or Tcl/Tk. Especially the latter, because Rebol had a built-in GUI capability in a very small package.
They're "full stack in the sense that you can render templates and manages static/media files. Back when we only had websites, this was fully full stack for sure.
We Sign Tomorrow? (Documentary)
It’s an academic language, designed as a substrate to grow papers in.

If JS infamously has dozens of build systems, Haskell has almost nobody working on tooling. Instead you get many smart people writing libraries for building super abstract spaghetti code - which is great for research and advancing the state of the art (sometimes the wacko abstractions turn out to be good ideas that trickle down into regular programming languages), but would someone please write some tooling as well.

I love Haskell, it’s fun, mind-expanding and absolutely worth learning. Maybe one day it will be ready for prime time, but until then I’d suggest an ML for “real” software.
And you shouldn’t use any of them for things like this. They’re semantically clearly videos, and benefit from things like a pause/play button and scrub bar.

(Incidentally: why are you mentioning Chrome? All mainstream browsers support these.)
deno has been around for a little while, i think some commentators may have taken your responses as satirical because of how often deno shows up in conversations surrounding the web platform. think of deno as a node.js successor, it's a separate javascript runtime; with that, it'll need to compete with node's ecosystem (vast and diverse tooling). the deno company is spearheading that movement by creating things like Deno Deploy and now Fresh. i believe the gist of it is that people were excited about the concepts Deno had been brewing up, and now they're building things that will allow people to actually make use of deno.

so, many people will look at this and say 'how is this different from ___?' and the reality is that for the most part, it's not. that's the point. you're making use of deno to do the same thing you did with node, and hopefully it's a little bit easier and/or more developer friendly.

also fwiw, deno is not really yc-affiliated; the company is backed by Sequoia, Four Rivers Ventures, Rauch Capital, Long Journey Ventures, the Mozilla Corporation, Shasta Ventures, and i think some other angel investors like Nat Friedman (former GitHub CEO).
Redux seems like a good one to pick up. I"ve used React Context API to make some things so Redux isn't so intimidating.

From what I can see on this outside, this makes sense.

I'm personally not so picky about what skills I need to learn. its all just stuff at the end of the day that I have to sit down and do.

My question for the moment is always whether or not x, y or z, skill will make me more marketable to get an attempt at demonstrating that I can be a productive employee.
Because of this ethical question the freezing of fertilized eggs is illegal in Germany. So cautious people can come to this conclusion.

But this is the other extreme endpoint. With "a compromising time limit solution" I meant something like the around 15 weeks common in European Countries.
I think the problem is that what is important to the sender is not necessarily important to the receiver. I am not Travis of Uber, but I do have expertise in a domain such that I frequently get people reaching out to me to solicit advise or answers to a question.

It is very important to the person asking the question that they get an answer. It is less important to me that they get an answer, and so if I'm busy at the moment those emails won't get a response. I do wish more people followed up though, because I do wish to help; the more they follow up without getting angry or hurt, the more likely they are to reach me at a time when I am able to help.
Reminds me of the time I saw a homeless guy riding the PATCO in Camden wearing a KDE shirt around 2003.
> People get seduced by specifications that don't really specify anything.

Like the RDF 1.1 Spec?[https://www.w3.org/TR/rdf11-concepts/]

The whole "abstract syntax" shenanigans that RDF pulls is one of its biggest flaws. It makes the entire ecosystem huge and unwieldy, and has little upsides besides giving everybody their favourite serialisation flavour.

It makes things like canonical representations for content addressable hashing and singing pretty much impossible, which is a huge detriment to proper authentication and provenance tracking.

It also pulls in all of these other open ended standards, where everything and anything is a valid subject identifier, so long as it's URI resolvable by http (which is pretty vague and random).

Subjects and predicates should have always just been 16byte random UIDs, which at the same time would have delivered us from the bane of blank nodes, endless discussions on predicate names, and broken links.

The object part should also have been limited in the amount of data it can hold, just hash anything bigger and store it in some form of content addressable blob store.
Proof that off-the-shelf panels of the correct dimensions exist:

https://www.reddit.com/r/cyberDeck/comments/uknqz2/for_anyon...

Count me among those who wish the devterm had been made full-size.
I would say bring this up this as high up the ladder you can with a straight face, probably a bit higher.

Then you go down from there. Also ask the computer guys directly.

Obviously look for a job meanwhile
I disagree. While challenging and a definite technical marvel these issues are relatively deterministic based around the amount of resources a movie has to throw at effects, cinematography and art direction.

I feel pacing is the hardest thing to accomplish, and a lot of times it's the luck of the draw.

Ridley scott in general, his movies have below average pacing. He got lucky one time with Gladiator.

Blade runner is great, I love it. But I can't deny, among all of cinema and among ridley scotts filmography, Blade runner has pretty horrible pacing.
And now it's Keeev too. I know, I know. Still not doing the needful, bot.
Unpopular opinion but I don't think its strange and I say this as someone that received vaccinations in the military. The existing vaccines are well tested, have known side effects and interactions. The nCoV vaccines were tested in real time on people and continue to produce proteins 60+ days after injections. [1] The public are not allowed to discuss the topic and any company offering alternatives are shunned.

I personally see this entire debacle as some people watched V for Vendetta too many times and saw dollar signs. This routine was basically identical to the fictional 3-waters + viadoxin. [2]

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOxu09_JHpQ [video]

[2] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrfm7y5nL30 [video]
The difference is none of the little sideprojects I work on are worth $4k in a month, let alone in a day. Obviously most companies want to spend the cash, but they should want as many programmers using AWS for sideprojects as possible.
I've heard they have a generous foot gun billing policy and thankfully I've never had to find out, but we shouldn't be that grateful, because ultimately the cloud providers do this in their own rather dishonorable self interest.

It would be fairly simple for them to allow users to set up hard billing limits. Yes, it wouldn't be accurate to the second. And yes, it would mean that deployments would fail with data loss or in unpredictable ways, but in most cases that would be preferable for these users as opposed to a couple orders of magnitude increase in billing costs.

But the cloud providers don't support hard billing limits because they like people fucking up and accidentally running up their bill. After all, it's probably only a small fraction of users that go through all the humiliating rigamarole of unwinding a provisioning mistake.

So yeah, good on Amazon for being so generous with the band aids, but maybe they should try a little harder at helping their users not shoot off their toes...
It is, but less so on the East Coast. Not enough to make the point irrelevant, but enough to complicate the generality some. Like, if you're going north from southern New England, for example, you're probably taking I-93 straight through the city. Which is a lot better than it used to be thanks to the Big Dig (which gets so much bad press but really is a great example of an infrastructure project that did, eventually, work), but is still not pleasant, and it's because taking 95 (or, further out, 495) all-the-way-around is as significant detour.
If I recall correctly, the geography of Middle Earth was heavily changed during the wars between Morgoth and the Valas. I.e., it wasn't entirely shaped by natural processes but also by the willfull acts of semi-Gods
Are you saying you consider Milwaukee rural? Half a million people live there and it's the most populous place in WI.
The project's notes are redacted in English: https://github.com/GendarmerieNationale/barometre-numerique-...
Job security isn't knowing your particular job is secure, it's knowing you could get another job at any moment, that's job security.
Similar sentiment, or become a contractor that charges appropriately for using your own equipment.

Like others said, first talk about the differences and frustrations calmly with the group. It seems like the differences make you feel like you're less a part of the team, despite already going through a phase of interning.

Also, I dont think the author ahould be blamed for mixing in his personal machine. Been in a number of situations where large employers have been horrible at getting a good quality computer to employees. Sometimes its due to management idiocy, bizarre chasms between the IT cost management department (even when your manager approves a top-line machine for you), and our world of supply chain shortages delaying things by months paired with the added complexity of working remotely.
I agree, this is becoming really confusing! And then also "center-stack" which I heard somewhere recently re one of the frontend frameworks.

When I hear of a full-stack framework (in a modern setting), I think of stuff like Meteor, Redwood, and Wasp-lang (disclaimer: I am one of the authors of that one). RoR also always comes to mind, although it's more commonly used as an API server nowadays.