skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for taking the time to reply on this. Like I said I'm relatively new here and dont really have a good feel of the different university cultures. I see lots of other families put a lot of pressure on kids and do extra-curriculars because "that is what admissions wants". My natural inclination is to recommend my children is do what I did, work studiously but also have a life. I dont really know if this is good or not until its too late.

> if your goal is simply to graduate college and move on then Ivy League would be a terrible choice. They really are much more difficult.

I'm not sure what you meant about this. To me most undergrad courses aren't that different from school, if you're using the same text books, similar curriculum it doesn't really matter so much where you are. For post-grad yes the differences make more of an impact.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/06/abortion-bans-...

Article discussing this chilling effect.
Exactly. G as in `giraffe`, I as in `ice cream`, and F as in `of`
>some emotional trigger word that makes the public think they are dealing with an "outgroup".

What specifically are you referring to?
Miners being rewarded in BTC doesn't explain anything about the underlying value of it that would explain a boom-bust cycle, miners are just performing the validation task but there is nothing else driving demand for BTC except for speculation. No real usage for real-life transactions, no real usage as a currency.

What exactly would drive demand for BTC except for speculation?
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You mention that you destroy the captured refrigerants. Could you elaborate more on how do you accomplish this?
This is the real key, corporations don't give a shit about any of this except insofar as it helps promote themselves. Whichever option is less painful is the one they'll take.

I'm not sure how many companies are left that would basically invade a country for their employees like Perot did.
The fact that there was so much hiring over the past 5-10 years meant that there was also a lot more recruiters.

And now that the hiring is reduced, the number of recruiters haven't (especially since they tend to work on commission, rather than on a fixed salary). Since they now have fewer jobs to connect people to, even they are likely to get more desperate and send more recruiting pitches to candidates, because they aren't filling as many jobs as easily and earning as much commission.

IOW, seeing an increase in recruiter activity can be completely consistent with reduced hiring (and is also consistent with increased hiring), so in itself it doesn't tell you much.
I think one of the big challenges with pandemic homeschooling is that parents were trying to help kids with school work and keeping up with school , rather then necessarily directly helping them learn. One of the cool things about homeschooling is you can choose your child’s curriculum and support them learning at their own pace. I think you may even find you spend less or equal time as your child’s teacher than you do helping them with homework. And by the way , I have often found as a tutor/teacher that homework is where a lot of the only learning takes place because kids tune out in class lectures, miss vital info and fall behind. Many homeschool families I know have 4-5 kids with radically different learning styles and personalities and still only spend 1-2 hrs on direct instruction. These kids are going on to Harvard, Stanford, getting high scores on multiple AP exams because the learning goals are clear and they are able to learn at their own pace and master info before moving on to the next problem. Because kids learn so differently, I built a curriculum planner early on at Modulo to help families find the right tool for their individual child, that engages, inspires and challenges them. Also I don’t know about the dynamic of your family but older kids can help teach younger ones and “student as teacher” is one of the best ways for someone learning to really achieve mastery and a deep understanding of the subject.
> It comes just weeks after Riccitiello told explicitly employees in an all-hands meeting that layoffs weren’t coming.

I wonder about the legality of doing all this...
It’s a hard problem because any regulations increase cost to consumers and increase the likelihood that the black market still exists.

The black market is alive and well in the U.S. where it is legal.
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Hi HN! Philip and Stephen here, we are the co-founders of FireJet (https://www.firejet.io), which allows you to export from Figma to Tailwind CSS.

We first met at university, where we did several projects together, often first designing in Figma and then developing the frontend manually. It’s not that it was extremely hard to code out our app frontends - however, it felt like redundant work to design the frontend once in figma then again in code.

We tried several other tools which were similar to FireJet, but the main problem we always ran into was that the other tools had alot of features like automatic semantic tagging, implementing Material UI components, and so on, but none of them got the one fundamental thing we needed it to do - which was convert it to code. Some competitors were even converting certain figma frames into images, which as you can imagine is about as useful as replacing your website with an <img> tag

We made a quick prototype in a week, and people who needed the specific tailwind functionality loved it. Fast forward about 3 months, we have more than 800 downloads and a small (but growing!) group of dedicated users who keep coming back to us and helping us improve the product.

Even now, our landing page and our plugin UI are themselves developed using FireJet itself.

So we are launching FireJet here in the spirit of building in public, and we hope that FireJet reduce your time to market for your startup / agency / company!

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Download FireJet: https://www.figma.com/community/plugin/1087200717679287673/F...
Hopefully you’re still learning though ! :)
Do any companies in the medtech space pay as well as the other options?
This is the second person in the streaming or eSports community I've read that's both very young and died of cancer recently. I'm kinda terrified now. Especially because I've been treating my health with a very "fix it later" attitude.
I find the comments here somewhat reassuring but my anxiety is through the roof; I feel as though I would be on the chopping block in the event of a layoff. It's one thing to hear that you're doing a good job by your team and manager but when you _keep_ hearing announcements & reading about layoffs elsewhere it really erodes away at your confidence.
"and extolled the virtues of veganism."

I think he's done that better than he ever thought he could.
To hear white people tell history these days it certainly seems to be. Though ironically, in the process of doing that they center themselves in the narrative and reduce everyone else to mere foils to be juxtaposed against the moral failings of white people.
I mean, sure the advance notice version is bad and you just cheat the same way you do now. But if you just have to declare your trades immediately with a tag... there is no reason at all to hide that?
56% aren't willing to lie about it. I have a friend who spent nearly 20 years working for manipulative/unethical/scandal-plagued garbage companies like Zynga and constantly would defend company-of-the-moment as "Well, actually, not at all like what the press is implying." They paid well.
Guess what happens if 99.9% of people are not assholes.
This would encourage your loved ones to keep you alive until you reach that age.

Besides insurance companies for profit motive aside, this might create a lot of unnecessary medical procedures to simply prolong someone's life, even if the quality is total shit.
Is it actual AC or swamp coolers/evaporative cooler? Usually as I mentioned elsewhere the licensing requirements (at least in the US) for actual AC systems usually involve a portion on computing heat load/etc in order to size a system.

Although, I'm betting the engineering side of the tram probably avoids needing anything other than the equivalent of the US PE/etc. Its probably a bit tricky because the needs of being able to load/unload people quickly also probably tend to dump a lot of hot air into the car. Either way though, busses, cars, trains all tend to do ok in hot climates because they have massively oversized AC systems and can move a lot of air relative to the enclosed space.

Returning to my original point, I'm betting your trams don't actually have AC, from your description I might guess they have some kind of evaporative cooler.
It's interesting to read Chris Dixon on Hackernews. In the Bitcoin world, he and a16z are regarded as so toxic that another investor was recently cancelled for just co-investing with them.

After Filecoin, ICP, BitClout, Basis, ... and so many other scams that blew up, how can you take anything they say seriously?

One example: Chris wrote blog posts for[0] and promoted the "Internet Computer" project everywhere. It launched at >$400, insiders sold, and then it quickly collapsed to under $50 and is now at $5.[1] This was promoted by Chris and other investors, bought by retail (ie, normal people) who thought they were getting in on the ground floor of a big new exciting technology, and then lost almost their whole investment.

Web3/crypto should not be about billionaires making money by pumping and dumping useless tokens on retail investors.

[0] https://a16z.com/2018/08/29/dfinity/

[1] https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/internet-computer
Again, different -- This isn't a mere choice of word thing. It's that uninformed people are making harmful, and perhaps even stupid, choices because they are relying on an effectively false phrase -- where the "real version" of the thing is essentially a safety mechanism, and overzealous tech bro types absolutely incorrectly believe that their thing can replace the real thing.

Now, as a lawyer, I could just sit back and wait for the f**ups to happen and get paid cleaning them up -- and I might -- but also, I like the idea of warning people as well.
If you want your kids even more incentivised to take care of you and help you live healthier & longer, you need to turn yourself from a potential financial liability (the kids will have to support you if you run out of money) into an income generating asset by joining a Tontine (see https://tontine.com/explainer)
Your post is a couple of pot shots at departments that do thousands of things every day and some unsubstantiated claims. Here's guest piece by those two FDA staffers who resigned explaining their disagreement with the administration [0]; the headline is "We don't need universal booster shots. We need to reach the unvaccinated." It's a pretty good piece written by people who sound--at least to me--like policy and subject matter experts. The VA is the largest socialized health care system in the world. Etc. etc.

---

I will say a couple of things to try and reach an agreement here. The first is that our gov't is pretty corrupt, even the executive branch (remember the CDC pulling down testing/masking requirements for flying around the holidays last year?) and it's pretty clear to everyone who looks at it. I'll defend the career civil servants, but the political appointees? Generally nah.

The second is that the US press is basically junk. Their incentives are so screwy that even people who want to be fair and rigorous are forced out in favor of profiteers, which creates an awful dynamic amongst viewers and readers. For example, this article is "Hillary Clinton's emails got as much front-page coverage in 6 days as policy did in 69" [1]. This one says NBC Nightly News spent 31 minutes on emails and 8 minutes on issues [2]. What were readers/viewers supposed to think? Has literally anything been covered so strenuously and consistently? It got more air time than actual terrorism.

[0]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/11/29/booster-sh...

[1]: https://www.vox.com/2017/12/7/16747712/study-media-2016-elec...

[2]: https://www.mediamatters.org/nbc/study-confirms-network-even...
I like to think it is more just a very vocal minority that are psychos.
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No, this is an old saw and we see it happen over and over and the managers never learn. When they announce things like this, or voluntary layoffs, they mean for the lower quartile to leave in droves and for the overall quality of the remaining employees to improve. For the amount of stuff per dollar to increase.

But what actually happens is that a few of the lower quartiles leave, and at least as many from the upper quartiles leave. None of the Dunning Kruger people leave because they’re all that and a bag of chips. So you tend toward mediocrity. Doubly so because when the changes that management expected don’t happen, now everyone knows there is likely to be a round of involuntary layoffs. So the people you have left either start playing it safe or become demotivated, further lowering the stuff per dollar. And now the company is doing worse, and some idiot upstairs thinks it’s just their predictions coming true, instead of self fulfilling prophecy.

Not that I mean any of this as a lecture or warning for Zuck. More like a movie trailer. I hope it all burns and we get to watch it happen. But more likely they’ll turn into Microsoft. Fewer teeth, but still essentially the same bastards they always were, because changing a negative founder culture is really, really hard for any social or business group.
Oh wow. Let's hope the old saying "there is no bad publicity" turns out true and at the very least, all this outrage will make everyone aware that there's a new Monkey Island.
> The older dictators fell because they could never supply their subjects with enough bread, enough cir­cuses, enough miracles and mysteries. Nor did they possess a really effective system of mind-manipulation. In the past, free-thinkers and revolutionaries were often the products of the most piously orthodox educa­tion. This is not surprising. The methods employed by orthodox educators were and still are extremely inefficient. Under a scientific dictator education will really work -- with the result that most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution. There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.

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Recently laid off under conditions that I'm convinced are similar.

I was at my org for roughly 9 months, I came in as part of a large class of new hires across the entire org.

The last 4 months we were in crunch mode trying to land a big client that leadership continued saying would be a game changer for us. My eyebrow was already raised, because if one company is that much of a game changer, what happens if we don't get that client?

Sure enough, as I was texting with a friend who was spared, he let me know as soon as the last person left the office that day from layoffs, company had the weekly all-hands and announced sure enough, they didn't get the client.
The great part is that tech (and other white collar) workers used that small window of opportunity where they had tremendous bargaining power to push for policies that will make it even easier to replace them.

It feels like a white collar repeat of what blue collar voters did in the US in the 70s and 80s.
Socialization. Going to school is not only about absorbing academical knowledge. It's about interacting with a broader group of people, learning how to behave, how to avoid common problems, etc. I would not be able to provide this to my kids.

On top of that, the language we speak at home is not the language used by the school, or the rest of the country. There are a million problems that come with this: they would force us to use our language, which they're more comfortable with, they would be learning our broken accents, we're not super familiar with the local language so our ability to teach it would be worse, etc, etc.
But it is true. V doesn't add any overhead. You can verify with `v -o file.c file.v`.

As long as you use the same data structures and algos, you'll get the same perf.

There's stuff like bounds checking, but it can be disabled, and it adds like 5%.
This made my day - Merci beaucoup!
> the majority of the population works and lives in the major cities

Technically true at 57%, but your wording makes it seem like you think it is much higher. Or perhaps you have a different definition?

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.URB.TOTL.IN.ZS?locat...
I think the OP is talking about literally firing people if they're found to have bought or own a gun. It would apparently be legal though it might be a fun court case.

And California already "accidentally" doxed all of their permit holders.
Did you see the note next to China? It says the figure doesn't include re-education camps and internment camps.
Why actively destroy the refrigerant (at least for refrigerants still in use/production)? Most can be reclaimed and re-purified rather than destroying - with a less energy intensive process than making new.
When you sit at the center of an almost impossible ven diagram, you can do anything!
That may be the case, but I still hope HN bans her until we can get titles that accurately reflect the content.

Otherwise this community will very quickly disappear.
The presidents of Princeton, Harvard, Yale, Brown, Cornell, Columbia, University of Pennsylvania (perhaps even Dartmouth) all have something in common with Marxism. I suppose pointing our this fact is what is called Cultural Marxism Conspiracy Theory?
I just downloaded V. The following V code segfaults, much like C would:

struct Node {
val int
left &Node
right &Node
}

fn main() {
n := Node { 123, 0, 0 }
m := *n.left
println(m)
}
YouTube got a massive amount of bad press about it, whereas I don't think the average person knew Biden was getting dislike bombed. But you're probably right.
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Lol. Thanks for the compliment and making me laugh.

That would probably be a good reason not to homeschool ! Though you could certainly mentor your friends’ kids! I believe we can all take part in educating the next generation whether we are parents or not !
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20% of the Russell 3000 are considered Zombie companies. Without easy money they will be severely harmed and many will go under. And that 20% was based on numbers when debt was cheap, no doubt it's even worse as the rate increases keep coming.
Is it me or is the article kind of biased in favor of plant-based products?

> The country adopted a measure banning plant-based products from using the same names as food from dead animals.

Alternatives are "plant-based" while meat is "dead animals"? It's true but a strange choice of words why isn't plant-based "dead vegetables"?

> This has in turn attracted major investment from global agrifood groups hoping to capitalize on a trend towards healthy eating.

Healthy eating? Says who exactly? It's not even an argument in the linked article, the article just says there was a was a move from meat to plant based alternatives nothing about relative "healthiness".
> He began to explain I shouldn't re-use water bottles because it gets more BPAs in the water. I just said "thanks, I'm okay" and kept re-using the bottle. I also asked around, it was a common belief among the rest of the group.

Any reason to believe that is not the case? BPAs in plastic bottles are well known at this point. I guess I'm not understanding what this anecdote says about your feelings about Indonesia.
I do carry cash for when mastercard is down. Because I tend to get in a bad mood if I can't eat due to internet issues (or any other issue).
Juul and Uber (insanely exploitative plus the scandal of tracking reporters) are pretty evil, as one of many, many examples. The recent HN thread on Juul had people defending them as "not really selling to children."
They are (at least) two separate use cases, even though they are both examples of sending money. (You could equally say that they are all examples of sending data).

1. Some people want to be able to send large amounts of money internationally to their family in a country which has currency controls and "official" exchange rates. Others want to be able to send funds to organisations that have been banned by traditional money transmitters, such as Wikileaks, or protest groups, or adult content, or cannabis.

5. Separate groups of people don't have a problem with their government's fiscal or censorship policies, but simply want to be able to buy an emote or a skin in an online game, or to listen to a piece of music or read an article without being tracked around the web or needing to wire 50 cents from their bank in Mongolia to the service provider's bank in Cyprus.