skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I personally find the "Living Standards" from WHATWG difficult to use. Specifically keeping track of what has changed with things like what new HTML elements have been added. With the versioned standards, I can work towards supporting that and I know that the standard is in a stable state with known backward compatibility guarantees.

How is CSS not versioned? CSS may be complex and have a lot of baggage, but that is what happens with any language that grows and evolves over time. I don't see how that relates to giving CSS editors job security, especially given that they are doing a lot to provide modern and advanced capabilities in a way that is implementable and addresses users needs.

XML and RDF may be irrelevant to you, but they are not irrelevant to everyone.
Rails definitely has a front end, by default anyway.
In the EU I imagine your plasma donation will go to someone under your socialized medicine system who needs it at no or low cost to them. In the US it will be sold at a very high cost by a series of for profit firms.

Organ donation works the same way. It can be very profitable for the hospital and others involved. However we ban the sharing of those rewards with the people who actually provided the organ in that case.
Possession is 9/10ths of the law. If they have already been paid, they are not likely to refund you.
DALL·E 2 Pre-Training Mitigations
They make it hard to find by pointing you to community support, but you can open a support (or bug) ticket here: https://support.github.com/request
They were not previously incorporated, instead being a "consortium"

The info on that is still up here: https://www.w3.org/Consortium/facts
Excellent, thank you! This also works in Mull, the "...privacy oriented and deblobbed web browser based on Mozilla technology."
https://www.f-droid.org/packages/us.spotco.fennec_dos/
I think the W9 form says to use SSN in case of a disregarded entity (such as a single member LLC).
My experience has been like yours. I don't prep, I don't memorize, and I don't worry about the answers, because they don't matter. I just put my engineering hat on, work my way through the problems, and communicate as I go. Maybe I find a solution right away, and they throw me a twist to take it further; maybe I struggle, and they have to give me a hint; maybe I work at it for a while and explore a couple different approaches, but never actually get there. So what? The process is the point, and I show them how I work. I almost always get an offer.

I think maybe some people are mistaking job interviews for university exams.
I don't think that's where the front of any sort of meaningful battle lies, both are often a term of convenience or familiarity and not necessarily from an underlying agenda around abortion rights.

Further, attempt to stick to those words when consoling someone who lost their wanted pregnancy would come across as needlessly callous. . "I'm so sorry you lost that fetus, that's really tough experience for many formerly-pregnant people"
If public pensions stop investing in private equity firms I might agree with you…
Yeah, but without the objects.
Meanwhile in Canada, it took a week to stop the blasting of a 130 dB train horn at 3AM in a residential area.
If you want to figure out why the Industrial Revolution didn't happen somewhere imaginary, you might want to consider those places on Earth where it was imported instead of having happened. That is: comparing to the UK is less interesting than comparing to countries that at that same time didn't transition. I am no historian and Western; as such my view on what happened around that time in Asia, Africa, South-America, Australia is limited. (History class here focuses on the Industrial Revolution). But if there was no IR in any of those areas, surely those would be a better model for investigating the main question.
And, if you can't use the backup API for some reason, try VACUUM INTO:

https://www.sqlite.org/lang_vacuum.html#vacuum_with_an_into_...
Yes, this would kill it quicker and more nobly than its current sad decline.
And Print to PDF still doesn't work, which is another regression. Why Mozilla why‽
I would assume at the very least the people at Modos would run into that problem really soon if the pixels start dying after 10 million refreshes.
Ethereum Miners Likely Lost Money During the Past Two Years
Hetzner, OVH. Hell, if you go with Kimsufi (OVH's budget brand) you can get dedicated for a dozen bucks.
Why would you ever "have" to support clients ?

That's the main point of freelancing. The client pays you either for a certain number of hours of work or to do a specific project. You're never obligated to do anything beyond what was agreed on.

Repeat work is usually desirable though, because getting new clients is often the hardest part of being a freelancer.

As for how big the projects are it varies a lot and anyway my information would be way out of date so the best way to find out is to sign up and see what kind of jobs people are posting. When I was doing it you could often find jobs like building a simple website, a scraper or basic data processing or analytics scripts that could be done in a week or even a few days.
My last project as an intern was to rewrite an old batch processed COBOL app into a simple webform in C#/ASP.Net. The COBOL app was nothing special, really. From what I recall, it was around 65 pages printed. Took me a while to comprehend what was going on, but the first 80% or so was basically just hard-coded rules to take action on based upon user input. Things like when "B", generate "X" & "Y". When "A", generate "X", "Y" & "Z" sort of thing. Nothing fancy, at all. Once I figured out what was going on, I basically just ran the COBOL through some regexs, transformed into an XML doc (don't judge me - it was early 2000s) and wrote the rules engine in maybe one or two screenfuls of C#.

I did learn one thing, and that was COBOL has one up on 'goto'. Check out the control flow statement: MOVE NEXT SENTENCE. It's basically a goto, but it doesn't jump to a label, per se. Instead, it jumps to the next period in the source. Yes, in a big, blocky, verbose language like COBOL, where everything is in UPPER CASE, you're now looking for a teeny tiny period that is easily lost in the verbiage. Hands down, my least favorite programming language construct ever.
Maybe a way to put it is like like blade runner innovates horizontally, becoming and start its own thing while matrix innovated vertixally, evolving the existing genre?
Hi!!! `vercel/examples` maintainer here.
We have some with Svelte and plain edge examples, but more importantly, what would you like to see?
I'd rather worry about (and fix) those technical problems then having to deal with possible billing-pocalyse.
https://www.universalmediaserver.com/comparison/
>There is even a theory that Shakespeare was Ben Johnson’s secret identity . . . Shakespeare was not high art.

You need to pick one. The reason there are 300 "Shakespeare was actually person X" conspiracy theories is because people throughout history were horrified with the idea a common person could make such high art.
I may be mistaken, but I think you misunderstood the comment.

The questions are meant to be asked by the job candidate, not by the employer.
Yes, definitely. Like most things that evolve over time (like laws and spaghetti code), the mechanics of gene regulation are incredibly complicated, diverse, and messy. It's an analogue system too.
If you want to see truly inexplicable misunderstandings of conditional probabilities by the medical industry, try having a kid in the US.
The dollar is waaaay over valued right now, by at least 30%. The Euro is also undervalued. Eventually there will be corrections.
This makes me wish I lived in a tech hub so I could have some semblance of an idea of what the market wants. The Midwest sucks for tech work. Maybe I should be reading TechCrunch more often lol
Well, then as patronizing as it may sound, if you are looking for regular developer job, you should care more about the technology stack (as it affects your resell value for the next job), what big features the company recently delivered (to see whether you'll be stuck doing soulless maintenance) the cash part of your salary (since you don't really control the value of that equity), the amount of work hours per week, and how much of an asshole your boss is going to be.
Can SQLite be used outside of single threaded contexts? Last I checked having multiple concurrent readers and writers is very difficult. Multiple concurrent readers only is probably ok if that's all you need.
I have experienced this. My team works in a niche domain and finding people who both have the relevant domain expertise and pass the interviews is hard. I think this is less because of people being unwilling to do interviews and more just inherent noise in the process. It makes hiring especially brutal when 95% of candidates the system throws my way are completely unqualified because they don't have the domain background.

This is a clear and unambiguous downside.

But the presence of downsides is not always a reason to reject a process. A huge upside of the process is that Google enables fluid transition of people within teams around the company. This among my favorite things here and it makes it so that good people with shit managers are not just automatically flung out of the company because their particular team is a toxic mess.
That's clever! I'll recommend that to my niece and daughters.
I don't remember any claims that people would write general-purpose OS drivers in Java. I do remember the claim that many app-level drivers would migrate from native wrappers to pure Java. And that happened.
Oh, another thing I find helpful is to make it clear up front what I'm doing and why. I don't just narrate what I'm literally doing in the programming, I narrate why we're doing this at the meta level and what the expectations are. I also make it clear that as they get more comfortable there will be less oversight.
Travis was a billionaire and a celebrity. He should have had a small army of personal assistants reading and organizing his inbox. He may personally see very few or even none of those emails, but there should never be six digits unread by anyone.
Blue noise in error diffusion dithering was a thing some decades ago. Perhaps there are better algorithms?:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dither#Digital_photography_and...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colors_of_noise#Blue_noise
Yeah, unless you have some kind of prior relationship with the person, it seems extremely weird and annoying to send follow-ups when they haven't answered. Unless you work in PR and that's your job or something.
I really appreciate this. pack and unpack are the two functions that give me the most trouble in perl by far. They look so simple but the implementation details are killer.
I'm trying to gather thoughts on how to approach problem solving or long task in a way to chunk steps just right to match my natural stamina.

There are a few things that make working ok if not delightful:

- generating ideas to try

- having an idea of the space covered

- keeping track of progress (even a well marked dead end feels good, it's done work) .. bookmarks in a way

- placing little context notes on bookmarks so when you jump in you're ready to plug your mind in more easily

- crafting a bed to try an idea with very low friction. Take a good amount of time to devise your bench/lab and then iterate smoothly.

- all of this with the notion of quickly converging toward what's good and trim what's not

I'm failing hard at it right now but I still believe it's one good way.
Doesn't mention tuhgras, indenting, etc. Sad blog post.
Prisma is a nice product but I wouldn’t use it in production yet. It is prone to race conditions as it does not use native upserts, opting instead for Rails-style check-if-exists-insert-if-doesnt.
How do you scale your cloud app?

Usually, the hard part of scaling isn't raw compute power, it's scaling your datastore after you've already exhausted the option of throwing more compute power at it, and this problem remains whether you're on the cloud or not.

Until you hit that problem however, throwing more hardware at it is the right solution (you may be surprised just how much load a single Postgres server on bare-metal can handle).
I agree there's nothing ridiculous about reading lines from Star Wars in class. I never had that in class but I remember English classes where we'd read parts of the script of other TV shows (an episode of Party of Five, I seem to recall) and I know some Star Trek episodes were used in that way even decades ago.
It also gives you a lower level of non-jerks. Basically if you do not act like a jerk, you will get ignored.

Norms that actively punish being reasonable and considerate are bad norms, and people who promote norms like that should feel bad.
>What I was curious about is why is HN regarded as such a good place to promote your own work, if in general, this sort of posts are frowned upon?

Honestly, I don't know.

That said, I'm not a founder or a software dev, so my interests aren't necessarily that of many others.

What I have noticed is that most people around here are intelligent and erudite.

Which means interesting posts and good discussion.

Perhaps you should check out what folks are submitting vs. what makes it to the front page via the "new" link in the header?

That might give you a better idea as to what will fly around here. While you're at it, maybe upvote the submissions you want to discuss.

Another option would be to look at the submission histories of users you find interesting.

This one[0] from today definitely tickled my fancy. And apparently that of many others, as it has 250+ upvotes and 350+ comments. Check it out.

I get that you'd like folks around here to give your product/service/whatever some love, and perhaps you'll find the right mix to generate interest. Good luck. I hope that works out for you.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31903379

Edit: Fixed punctuation errors.
I’m just a guy who built a thing that people want to use and have questions about, not an org to fix. I think many people who “suffer” from lots of requests are the same. I wish I could charge enough for my help to justify a personal secretary!
Bravo! Great to see stuff like this! Hopefully you made some new friends too.
Pope Francis is also accused of being a shill for both sides.
Not all changes are equal. One thing is to, say, patch a known disease-causing mutation (being sure no other changes take place). Inserting a new sequence or patching an existing sequence in a way not seen before is clearly different.

Another important dimension is whether the introduced changes are heritable and would be passed to offsprings.
You sound like a coder. Fix it. That's not Java's fault after all these years and available solutions.
They've literally done that though -- look at all the on-paper profits that have disappeared from the crypto, stock, real estate markets... Look also at the fact that you've already started paying more $ for the same essential products and don't expect them to go below today's levels...
> At the end of the day, if you don't know these basic things about a company, why have you applied for a job there?

Because I need money, and you might be the 3XXth company I've applied to. Job hunting when there's something unappealing about yourself can be quite a pain, but rent is still due at the end of the month.
Disagree - for many people, rolling the dice is too risky.

If you have something nice to fall back on (rich family, nest egg) or no dependents, then sure.
It is depends on the user activity but typically it is not so many requests. Around 20 req/second with a reply in 100-400 ms.

These recursive requests were going at the rate 17k/second with 30s timeout each.

The benefits of the current approach is I don't need to manage any servers, and I have different environments for free. Also sizing is not an issue, I just tune AWS Lambda limits to be able to serve one single request.

I will need to invest some time to understand how big the instance should be (how much memory) because I struggle to measure how big it should be without going out of memory or CPU.
With regards (1), I feel like there are two different worlds (and given how non-transparent Amazon is, that's very believable).

I've never run up a huge AWS bill accidentally, but I personally know 2 people who have, and neither was refunded, even after asking. In both cases we are talking $400-$800, enough to really hurt someone, but not bankrupt them.
You got to start somewhere
Is “dark clothes for winter, light for summer” relevant?
And we can be sure he was thought of as genuine rain-maker, by his own superiors.
In my experience the pain will come later as it grows, I believe it.
The only question is if the number of fishermen grow too great. I've never seen evidence that a significant number of people want to be like the fisherman in this parable.
Good diagrams, as is needed in any authentication flows where the devil always end up lurking in the details! But I have a general concern on passwordless. We recently tried switching a SaaS app to Firebase passwordless but it has been a support nightmare. Typical error cases:

a) User has to wait many minutes for email

b) User never finds the email

c) User clicks to get another email, invalidating the first, then clicking the first

d) User tries to re-use old sign-in emails to get in again many days later

e) User gets confused as to whether they are supposed to have a password or not, or other forms of sign-in vs passwordless

At best, these problems amount to some support work and user friction. But in the worse case, for the not so tech-savvy users, they become a complete blocker to using the product.

Of course, we cannot track deliverability when the emails are sent by Firebase so we can't really see how often there are problems. Are we just unlucky, missing something obvious or is passwordless a poor bandaid on the auth problem (hey, webauthn?)
I could not possibly agree more. You must advocate for yourself and your loved ones. My youngest had the fairly rare kawasaki's disease at 4 months old, she went from sleeping through the night at 10 weeks old to not being able to sleep for more than 45 minutes at a time, fully body rash, red eyes, cranky/irritable, and a 104 degree fever.

A sick visit to our pediatrician's office resulted in us seeing the other practitioner, not ours, who couldn't figure it out. Recommended antipyretics only at that point, took blood. Still in bad shape, a night or two later we went to a children's ER where all the staff spoke to us like we were overly concerned idiot parents. Finally when we returned to our pediatrician and saw our actual doctor, she near instantly recognized it as Kawasaki's and referred us over to NYU for treatment.

Once there, we were admitted to the ER, where my daughter and I stayed the entire night w/o any real help (triage). The following morning after I left and my wife took over, they came to put a line in her and start treatment (intravenous immunoglobulins [IVIg]) but "couldn't put a line in" because she had been "stuck too many times". So they recommended SEDATING HER AND PUTTING A LINE IN THROUGH HER HEART (sorry for the emphasis, I'm still mad). My wife, on little sleep called me to tell me all this and I refused the procedure. I said "no, what you're going to do is get the best phlebotomist at the hospital to put a normal line in her". They argued but eventually got someone and twenty minutes later I got a text saying they put a line in her from my wife. I mean... c'mon.

The following day when I returned there were 3 doctors who were in some way I believe following my daughter's case. One of them insisted on a secondary treatment, the other two said we could go home. I asked the one doctor a series of questions which he effectively dismissed and told me to just do what he was asking. The other two on the other hand answered my questions (e.g):
* if the disease comes back, will it present with the same symptoms
* if the disease comes back, when will it come back, what is the median time
* are their studies on recurrence of the disease
etc. etc. long list I can't remember.

I contacted UC San Diego, where they study Kawasaki's. Read papers, got papers in Japanese which I forwarded over to this pair of doctors who entertained my questions. They translated the papers, read them, told me the findings within.

I took her home that day. I don't deal with medical "professionals" who dismiss you. Glad you didn't either.
For Postgres, there's a strong case to be made VARCHAR(n) is preferable to TEXT+check constraint. As you note, they're stored the same on disk. But for a varchar, you can increase the length with just this:

ALTER TABLE a ALTER COLUMN b TYPE VARCHAR(n)

This only requires ACCESS EXCLUSIVE for a fraction of a second while the metadata is updated.

Whereas updating a CHECK constraint will require a full scan of the table. If you do it naively, this locks the table for the entire scan. If you want to avoid that, it's three steps:

ALTER TABLE a
DROP CONSTRAINT b_c,
ADD CONSTRAINT b_c CHECK (length(b) < n) NOT VALID;
COMMIT;
ALTER TABLE a
VALIDATE CONSTRAINT b_c;

So as long as you're only increasing the length (which in my own experience is a safe assumption), VARCHAR is much easier to work with.
It is a shakedown tactic.

Tech bro culture at its worst, is still orders of magnitude more socially acceptable than culture are frats, finance bros, law firms, hollywood, sports teams or worst.of.them all : politicians.
I most certainly do not, hence the quotes :-) In fact, I think it actively selects _against_ the best candidates. Basically, it's optimized to quickly cut out the long tail of subpar employees (per whatever definition they might have), which happens at the expense of those that are unable to pass but would still be awesome (lack of prep, lack of opportunities, anxiety issues, etc) and those that can't be bothered (a lot of experienced folks fall in here). The process might work for the mid-to-upper band of candidates, but anyone outside of that, on either end, is left behind (with exceptions of course). Companies are totally cool with that, because the long tail is quite a problem at that scale.
I can sympathize to some extent. Don't believe the hype, next time. But also don't dismiss the success.
With almost service like hosting where there could potentially be unknown costs I always select services with fixed fees and pay annually via PayPal so no card info is stored.

If you have to pay by card and you have to subscribe always use a disposal virtual card. Most of the time these companies won't pursue you for payment because it's simply not worth the effort. The most likely outcome is that they'll just suspend your account. What you don't want happening is them taking money from you before you're even aware what is happening because that way you won't get it back and there's no room for negotiation.
And after 25 weeks one really needs to consider that the fetus may have a misshaped heart and no chance of survival outside the womb, requiring an abortion.
Yea I wonder if the purpose of this article is to promote capitalism while using a cringey comparison to distract from it. I hope those brain cells were put to good use.

Anyway, middle earth was a setting built to tailor and flesh out the stories in them. Combined together these -are- productive value that people pay for in good times, it seems.