skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So no one is leaving and you are not hiring any technical positions. Growth seems flat.

The question is if you ditched the costly New York city office and support staff would you be in a better position.

That may not matter to you because your company is part of your identity. Living in New York and going into the office is a million times better than doing it from home for most. I'm not sure life is the same elsewhere.
When directly asked about my git skills, I say something to the effect of "I've probably gotten myself into and out of most of the obvious sticky situations one can get themselves into. My main skills for getting out of them are 1. don't panic, and 2. look things up on google."
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And a warning that they will drop you for similiar but cheaper.
> We really have no idea what is going on with fertility and what the end result will be. When population was booming everyone predicted mass starvation that didn't happen. Now when population is declining everyone is confidently predicting disaster, but who's to say it won't self-correct? (alongside appropriate societal efforts)?

The two big changes from previous decades are women’s financial independence and birth control methods that are 100% effective and relatively convenient and cheap, essentially separating the acts of having sex and becoming parents.
> With the current court, yes

Given the ages of quite a few justices, the current court will remain mostly unchanged for decades to come.
The short-term advantage to the group is in reduced energy requirements from slowing metabolism. Also the prior generation is made less attractive to the next generation thus promoting the faster turnover of generations.
It seems like the California Attorney General's office would have numbers on exactly that, though, as it records the identities of both shooters and people who hold CCW permits.

Is the claim you're making that 1.7 million CCW permit holders have shot another neighbor over a dispute?

The first result I got from your search query was this

https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-tehama-county-shoo... (archive https://web.archive.org/web/20210718215711/https://www.latim...)

> Neal fired eight rounds into a Ford F-250 occupied by a mother and her son who were headed to school. The boy suffered non-life-threatening wounds, but the mother was seriously injured, Johnston said. The mother, who had a concealed carry permit, pulled out her own handgun but was unable to fire it before Neal drove away, Johnston said.
Even if this were true, you are sacrificing your end user experience for having a better development experience.

I'm a frontend dev and I work with React all day long. I still think MPAs and stuff like HotWire/Livewire/etc should be enough for like 90% of what we do. Being the last 10% offline first or Google Maps/ Figma level of interactivity apps.
Honestly, the states are pretty independent anyway. They have their own taxes, governance, legal system, laws, etc.
> the issue is not just seeing one outside your house, it's coming across a moose with cubs or a bear on a hike 10 miles from home.

But that first issue is something that is plausibly different between urban and rural residents. Once you start talking about purposefully traveling far from your home, why would urban residents be any different from rural residents?

> I am reasonably comfortable walking around town unarmed because, whether it's accurate or not, I feel like there are enough police and people around that i'm not on my own.

This is a strange argument to make; surely the law should be concerned with whether your perception that you're safe in town really is accurate. "I should not be allowed to defend myself because I feel safe, even though in reality I am unsafe" is unlikely to convince anyone.
For context:

SFPL's annual operating budget (not including capex, and not including notional rent on buildings) is $160MM.

That's about $17/month per SF resident. Many SF residents don't use library services at all, so the $/month per MAU is likely mich higher ($50? $100?)
I have the previous Reform and I’m very much looking forward to this one! It’s definitely an odd device, but in a charming way. (I use trackballs on all my other devices so it’s appreciated here!) And I like that all the schematics, firmware, etc are open for anyone to use. I don’t know of any other laptop on the market like that.
it was dead long before people started doing that

there was a demo cd that had an offline example demo though (msn classic not 2.0)
Gandalf owned a rifle, that's why. If a magic wand is a concentrator of will that's roughly equivalent to a pistol, then a staff with a stone in it is a full size rifle.
Amazing. There's two guys, one is clearly smoking a cigarette and the other either is smoking crack or weed. Neither of them looks homeless either. They are both wearing stylish clothes. I haven't seen exactly this but I've seen similar thuggish behavior in shared public spaces where people clearly know their behavior is unacceptable. I feel like there's been a big uptick in this anti-social thuggery since the pandemic started. If you say something to one of these folks it's almost guaranteed to start a fight and they clearly make everyone around them uncomfortable. It's this odd form of self-assertion that says "I am going to do whatever I want to do and you won't dare do anything." It's like a new machismo.
What if I've accepted all the stuff that nuTrek is preaching about, but I just disagree with how they're preaching it because I think the writing, cinematography, and overall tone is poor?

And what if I'm not alone in thinking that?
This. Sure I synthesize, but everything I synthesize is made out of stuff that came from somewhere. If the "snippets" are small enough, they become no different than me consulting the man page for a function.

I think this will require looking at some actual examples to try to judge, and figure out how to articulate the basis for the judgement.

Hm. That begs the question what good is it if it deals in such small bits? I guess that means if the snippets are large enough to be of any value at all, then they are automatically big enough to be damning.
Oof, no thanks. I'm pretty anti-gun, but that sort of thing is not worth it.
No, that would be ridiculous. My point, a very weak one, was that shootings between neighbors are not unheard of. It stands to reason (at least to me) that knowing about my neighbor's gun is likely to incentivize me to de-escalate the situation.
Not just status but consumerism and the desire to accumulate stuff. George Carlin had a classic bet on this.
The movie Star Trek 2 has done tremendous damage to peoples' understanding of what a luddite was.

In modern terms, luddite wanted a tax on automation to support loss from tradesworkers who were too old to retrain.

It's similar to when bankers wanted a pension buyout at the introduction of the atm.

Luddites were pro technology, not anti. They just wanted wage distribution of the productivity gains.

They're basically early unions.
Yup. When you ask people "what exactly so horrible about Safari", WebPush is inevitably the number one thing, followed by a bunch of Chrome non-standards like hardware APIs.

Truly, truly a horrible browser that is impossible to use (even though I've been using it for over 10 years now)
Yet, he had bellows forges. Curiously selective. And explosives, for his fireworks.

I think it was Saruman who did the industrial bit, and used wood for the fuel. (No dwarven miners to hand, I guess? But orcs like it underground.) But inventing guns all by himself seems like a tall order, even given several centuries' plotting.
On a side note, we really need to start using post-tax/take home pay instead of pre-tax. In fact, I think most people would find it way easier to picture things on a monthly take home basis rather than a yearly one.
that's a street car though. what about actual GT3 cup cars or GTD class cars?

i couldn't find any numbers, but they do put them in the wind tunnel.
Well Nintendo also had good branding. But they still exist and still create games.
Rich clients were all the rage back then: Apple eWorld, Compuserve, Pointcast etc.

And then everything swung to the web and then back to rich clients i.e. mobile apps.
I'm not trying to win anyone over. The Supreme Court didn't strike down just a woman's right to bodily autonomy. They argued that people do not have the fundamental right to privacy, and state governments who want to know every single little thing that you do online are going to use this decision to argue that they should have access to your data without a subpoena or your consent, so I do hope that you are aligned with your political betters.
> sufficiently supplied with everything it needs to function

That's a large caveat in a performance context, as the battery that does that equates to "for 10-20 minutes" at the moment. But exciting none the less!
https://www.un.org/en/development/desa/population/publicatio...

It’s not bullshit. The UN itself is where the term originated and it’s clear that whites are being replaced. The questions are whether that’s an undesirable thing and what the best course of mitigation is.

Typically, once people admit that, they start trying to justify why whites should be replaced. However, any argument justifying white replacement can be used equally effectively for any other group (e.g. Israelis, Muslims, Chinese, blacks, etc). IMHO best not to attempt to replace anyone so that we don’t devolve into Hitlers.
"As they climbed the rising gorge into the next chapter..."
Even if building MPAS with js sprinkles, nobody is going to put the effort to build and test a non-js versions for the 0.01% of weirdos turning off JavaScript in 2022. Just don't use my service
I agree completely.

In the current political climate, there's no reason for the anti-gun-control crowd to compromise with the pro-gun-control crowd: their opponents do not hold strong principles. There's no middle ground or end goal at which they would be satisfied. It's not like they're gonna throw their hands up and say "Welp, we finally passed the Ban Attachable Whatevers Act, this is enough gun control, let's go home now"
I compared it to the 90s not the internet

I would lose a permissionless development platform that allows me to pay once for deployment and have to cover no overhead costs from then on, because all the compute nodes are pay once host/execute indefinitely with free read privileges

I dont have an alternative for that, when deployment is done the payment is in crypto which regulates the complexity of the deployment, and other overhead costs are covered by the consumer who also pay in crypto which regulates the complexity of the operation to attract consumers

Competing compute nodes are much more complex and have much more complex pricing models and compete primarily on how arbitrary those pricing models are
How do we create eco systems? We can’t even bring down global temperature by 1.5 degrees and still rely on fossil fuels z we literally convert fossil fuels to calories. How are we NOT past carrying capacity?
The rate of checkout is increased. You can take out 20 cashier lanes that need 20 cashiers, replace them with 40 self checkout terminals staffed by 5 or 6 store employees, and people will probably be getting out quicker because the bandwidth is greater.

Or at least all the people buying 20 items or less will, or whatever the figures may be. In previous example, take the 20 checkout lanes, leave 10 staffed by a few employees, and install 20 self check out terminals staffed by a few employees. Direct everyone with full carts to the employees, and people with few items to the self checkout.
Here I was thinking the NSA showed us this years ago.
> Because WebKit sucks!

Of course it doesn't suck

> the status quo of rendering engines. You have Blink

And so we've immediately arrived at the core of the matter: all you want is Chrome. Which is a) the dominant browser and b) whose "capable" is a bunch of Chrome-only non-standards
There are apparently two egg-free options: https://www.cdc.gov/flu/prevent/egg-allergies.htm
What you're describing is the situation in the West. In China there are hundreds or thousands of startups making cheap city EVs, most of them under $10K.
It's been a while since I last read The Silmarillion, so some details might be wrong.

The reason why Middle-earth did not have an industrial revolution is supernatural. When the Ainur sang the songs of creation, there was discord. Melkor, the mightiest of them, wanted to create something of his own, which was the root of all evil. The world they created was flawed. Within the world, the minds of those who seek to create were easily corrupted.

Middle-earth is a world where the creations of engineers often make the world worse and the engineers themselves tend to become bad guys. Think of dwarves or the Noldor in general. Or think about Fëanor who created the Silmarils or Celebrimbor who created the Rings of Power. Sauron and Saruman were both servants of Aulë the Smith, and look what they became.

There was industry in Mordor and in Isengard. Dwarves also had it, and the Noldor probably as well. Even hobbits managed to create some by the end of the LotR. But that industry never led to sustained prosperity. In the end, there was always war and destruction, because the world was flawed from the beginning.
> most web-devs and many educated users look forward to having real choices.

How is giving the web completely over to Google a real choice?
Thank you. I appreciate your reply.

As an aside: Would it be possible to favourite a reply? I have only figured out how to do that with submissions.
Very cool work! Speckles could be added to the pill itself to eliminate the possibility of shipping damage, though it was good to see you tested that.

I know explosives are often laced with statistical chemical properties that identify them. I was wondering if that could be done to limit ammunition purchases as a way to get around gun control.
Not the parent, but I've visited Manhattan and Brooklyn a couple times in the past year, and I didn't find the subway scary at all, even when taking trains fairly late at night. Maybe I was just in the safer areas, though.
> if GitHub provided an option to disable PR's.

You're asking a social network to disable it's social network aspect?
If you want to see a movie featuring both wizards and industrial technology, check out Wizards (1977) by Ralph Bakshi. Keep an open mind though, Bakshi's movies are a trip.
In the last 20 years doing web development, I haven't ever had one single colleague, friend or customer complaining of any site not working because they had disabled JavaScript. Literally didn't heard about anyone around me with this problem not even a single time.

The only place I randomly see mentions this problem is in HN.

That has to count for something.
Thanks for introducing a new word to me -

bucolic

relating to the pleasant aspects of the countryside and country life.
"the church is lovely for its bucolic setting"
Ok, I stopped reading about 1/2 way though, because middle earth didn't need an industrial revolution because they were all hippie communities living close to nature and they didn't need one be because they had magic distracting them and solving their most pressing problems.

Need a clean house, just study to make a magic broom, or buy one in the magic shop. Need to get somewhere fast, take an eagle, etc. Why waste your time inventing gunpowder when you can learn some magic and shoot fireballs from your staff.

(ok tongue in cheek)
And, maybe that is why we only got civilization shortly after the last Neanderthal and Denisovan passed on. That doesn't explain why Australia didn't get it, first, though.
The entire point of imperial units is that you can always easily just take half of size. But yes, remembering if there are 36 vs 48 of them in a measure vs increments of 10 is the silliest part to me.
Ok, I’ll try it out after the feature stabilizes.
I always liked VOX for simple music playing. Even without premium seems actually usable without a ton of ads.
> Though if that’s a legitimate part of your threat model, you’re in a very difficult situation.

Its probably (close to) impossible to establish a trust anchor in that situation. That trust anchor being the untampered image. How do you secure that? Yes you can send it to trusted friends, but at that point that just means they're now fair game too. Its definitely not safe on your phone because 0days now definitely are part of your threat model too.

I think maybe if you make it your full time job, you might have a slim chance. But realistically you'd probably only manage that for a limited time.
Incel segments of society are symptoms of going past carrying capacity.

The much derided (sometimes rightly so tho’) subject of Evolutionary Psychology will probably have a couple of books worth to support that.
Agreed! But rather than making the query compiler infer join paths from the schema, wouldn't it make more sense to support defining common join paths (like your 'movie relate roles') in the language, and build a tool, that generates such definitions from the schema, as a separate step?

I don't have a specific syntax in mind yet; for illustrative purposes:

defjoin r,m,a = %prejoin_roles() -> { # define a common join path between three relations r,m,a:
from r=ROLES # can hard-code table names or use parameters (which may refer to other parameters)
join m=MOVIES [r.movie_id = m.movie_id]
join a=ACTORS [r.actor_id = a.actor_id]
}

from r,m,a = %prejoin_roles()
select m.title, a.character_name

This `defjoin` thing is a limited version of PRQL `table`, which -- unlike a CTE -- remembers which relation each attribute comes from. Perhaps one can instead figure out how to extend `table` to support this.
How far does this go? Wouldn't it make just as much sense (or more) to post the PII (name, DOB, full address) of all people who have been convicted of a crime posted in a publicly searchable database? If you want to catch folks like Rittenhouse in that net, you could extend that database to every person who has ever been arrested or tried for a crime.

This is clearly vindictive, just as much as the sex offender registry is 90%+ vindictive.
MNT made a mint on their CrowdSupply campaign, which launched before Framework was available. The devices address completely different markets.
An image has none of these things. That is all put together in a person's mind psychologically, and what neural nets are trained to infer. In a 2D image there is no difference between actual shadows, and for example some flat picture of different colored shapes. Images are very simple. There is very little correlation past a few pixels in any direction, which is why most image filter are only a few pixels wide.
Yes, but that commission report was published in 2004 with heavily redacted and edited documents and the way that every subsequent administration has stonewalled release of any other tidbit of information makes it look like they have something to hide about a Saudi Arabian connection. Stuff has had to be dragged out over the decades to even piece together what actually happened in detail. Maybe there's nothing there. But we won't know at this rate for 100 years.

Even with discovery by the attorneys for the victims of the 9/11 attacks uncovering more information over the years, we did not know the identity of Mussaed al-Jarrah until the FBI under the Trump administration accidentally released documents with his name not redacted. https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/in-court-filing-fbi-accident...

Saudi Arabia later admitted it had been funding terrorists for generations supposedly as a counter to the former Soviet Union in Afghanistan and Iran, it only recently has tried to stop the spigot of money - the 9/11 commission made like this was not by design but outside forces somehow corrupting the intent - that they got this so wrong seems like something out of work of fiction
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/09/saudi-arabia...
I don't think that's the case. The parent's opinion lines up pretty well with what I observe in San Francisco. Our mayor calls herself a Democrat, but most of the policies she pushes feel pretty conservative to me. The Board of Supervisors (our "city council", which has quite a lot of power) is all over the place, but definitely has what I'd consider a conservative element... but of course they still call themselves "Democrats", "progressive", "liberal", whatever.

I can't speak to the opposite phenomenon, where places controlled by Republicans tend to have quite a few "liberal" Republicans, but it seems plausible that would be the case as well.
Weird, I got no off vibes from the dude based on the original post. It seemed like someone who was thoughtful, caring, observant, and probably depressed.
Np. Yeah @al_borland's answer is nicely put. I'd like to upvote that more if I could.
I was in the "on-site loop" for a company you've likely heard about.

When we were smaller, I was tasked with writing an interview question for JS devs.

I created a handful of unit tests that were all really easy questions technically, though maybe a little obscure, because they were designed to spark dialogue. Think "escape room", solve one test, move to the next. Google was allowed and actively encouraged.

But it wasn't really about the tests (they had to pass, of course, and shockingly some didn't). A not-very-good candidate would still make it to the end and solve all the puzzles and get a rejection.

The goal was to create a lot of jumping off points to sort of "break the 4th wall" and see what the candidate actually does to solve a problem. If I could get someone to search the web as the fastest way to solve something, that was almost always a great sign.

Sometimes I can see them building an inefficient answer and ask them if they'd like to search online for an easier algorithm, and remind them to treat this how they would actually treat their job. Some people stubbornly refused.

If I could get them jazzed to tell me about their editor configuration, that was almost always a good candidate. Because people who care about writing code care about editors. Do you hate vim? Great, tell me why. Do you love emacs? Show me a lisp snippet or whatever you think is cool.

I'd see a lot of `console.log({ foo, bar })` but also some `console.log("foo: " + foo + "\nbar: " + bar)`. I'm not judging harshly on any one particular thing, but I just want to see some level of craftsmanship about something. If you're from the java world, cool, show me some intellij tricks as you're working in webstorm.

Do you reach for the repl/debugger to try out ideas by default? Good sign.

To me it's simple: would I want to work with this person? could I recommend the company hire them based on how they work? I can't actually work with you, so I want the closest thing I can do in an hour that feels like we're on the same team.

I think the question is now retired because it didn't scale, or maybe it's still there with a rubric that invalidates the point of it.

If anyone's trying to do ML in this space, try softball questions that require more search and discussion than code, then NLP the discussion and ignore the code. Use internal mock interviews to train it to match your target culture. I think that would make this approach scale.

I personally found pretty good success with the people I interviewed this way as peers, but I wasn't in a position to find out if they were really successful or not by internal metrics.
> You won’t read my code because reading code takes 10x more time and effort than writing it.

When I first read this I assumed sarcasm and moved on, but later it seemed odd as the tone of the article isn't very sarcastic overall.

If this wasn't sarcastic then I disagree 1000%. Code should be much easier to read than write. The only code I've come across that I'd put as harder to read than write is a few cases of just terribly written code. They were the exceptions, not the standard.
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