skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If surgeons were able to begin honing their craft at 13, they’d probably be better than the ones who started in their twenties.

If you don't count the dead bodies they leave behind on the way.

> How many virtuoso pianists didn’t start playing until adulthood?

How many virtuoso pianists are there in the world? How many professional programmers are "virtuosos"? How many companies even need virtuoso programmers, and how many companies could afford to pay them? I don't think it's a useful comparison.

It's also important to recognize that a ton of kids learn how to play musical instruments, but very few end up as virtuosos. Hacking around with computers as a teenager means very little by itself.
By making a system ? Ultimately by knowing the problem hands on, one would be able to understand ( or appreciate ) the solution
What many countries started doing is painting rails white. I believe that is also happening in the UK. I believe they started doing that in Italy with good results. This is what the painting process looks like in Austria in a trial project: https://youtu.be/GBMWHAkk6xM?t=52
They are incentivized to hide investments as operating expenses for tax reasons, which muddles the picture.
Yeah, to be honest, trading nightmare publishers with nightmare online communities probably wouldn't be a great trade.
> It's almost always a fight to get going again and it seems so needless

Hm. I do ruby webdev stuff for over a decade now (first ramaze, hanami now) and use a self baked overlay that manages multiple hanami apps and capistrano to deploy them and shares plugins to all the webapps (like a blog component).

I love it. Sure, there were problems with bundler and some with capistrano too but overall its very pleasant for me.
Because you are a pessimist?

Even if it only half works, it is worthwhile, which is why lots of anti-climate change action is worthwhile. Add up all the little bits and maybe it delays catastrophic climiate change long enough to get some new ways of solving it, or long enough for a younger generation to take it more seriously, maybe it makes the rise in temperatures slightly more bearable, the sea rises slightly less or the species extinctions fewer in number.

Certainly a better investment than the 4x4s, overseas holidays and technology that lots of rich people spend their money on!
The number is for all of corporate america, not tech. Check out slide 7 here:

https://wiw-report.s3.amazonaws.com/Women_in_the_Workplace_2...

It goes from a 92:100 ratio for hiring to a 72:100 ratio for manager.
Slight digression, but I'm always baffled by how unbelievably slow Conda is at resolving dependencies as soon as you have more than a handful of packages installed. Mamba basically proves it's a solvable issue, but you'd think the Anaconda folks would be prioritizing it.
Right. Watterson had no issue with making money; the strips ran in tons of papers and he signed off on lots of retail items: books, calendars, posters, etc.

But none of the retail items took the characters out of the context of the comic. They all presented the full strips that Watterson drew.

That was his ethic: the strip is the object, the whole piece of art. To him, selling a stuffed Hobbes would be like selling a commemorative plush “left eye of Mona Lisa.”
Unions and bicycling are two topics that I rarely enjoy reading HN comments about, but here I am.
Containers are basically language agnostic virtual environments done right. Having python or js specific solutions is really a hack.
"Zero trust" is fine as a name; it's basically a reminder to be careful of where you place implicit trust in your security model. Self-reflection showed that typical corporate network models had an increasingly unjustified degree of trust in the integrity of their internal networks and endpoints attached to those networks; so that tends to be referent that people identify.
You might see a different behavior. The shaking I see makes it literally impossible to read.
It's a possible smell in Ruby all right. Ideally, every file has its code in classes or modules that match the file name, so require 'foo' brings in the class Foo and nothing else. But it's possible to do some really ugly hacky stuff, so it more becomes please don't actually do that in a large production codebase.

Python's default of namespacing imports is nicer all right, though I've seen a decent amount of Python code in the wild that has a dozen import * at the top of every file so that grep is the only way to find out where a function is actually defined, just as bad as Ruby.
meta question:

Expecting this post is an "A/B Testing"

Q: Which group am I actually in now? Is this group "A" or "B" ?

:-)
To be clear, just read again. I don't claim to be an expert about Detroit's union history by the way.

> Unions can be corrupted or do mistakes
I have made inquiries and after the weekend if I get any responses I'll post them here.
I don't see how this really explains anything. I have never understood how continuously-welded rails work compared with the old-style track using short rails and fishplates joining them, and this link doesnt help (for me at least).
> My time and the time of my peers is too valuable to be debugging minor incompatibilities between a library 5 layers down the transitive dependency stack because versions aren’t pinned. It’s too important that if I go back to a 3 year old checkout of the code that it still runs and isn’t a wild goose chase of running down bugs and library incompatibilities.

That happens very rarely with our dozens of transitive dependencies. What are these packages that cause trouble often?
The buzz around it is a bit annoying but the concept certainly is great.

Never trust by default, always verify.
And they can still choose it, since unions are not compulsory as far as I know? So what are we discussing about?
Note that system design interviews are often completely customized and adapt on the fly to the applicant's responses, so there's no way to do a "cracking the system design interview" the way you can with coding problems. When I give coding interviews I have one question that I give over and over again, learn the ins & outs of the questions and how candidates go wrong, and score based on whether the candidate can complete it, or how close they came to a valid solution if they couldn't. When I give system design interviews I pick a topic that's something that both the candidate & I have had experience with, start out with "How would you design X?", and see where the candidate goes, drawing on my background knowledge to prompt further about cases to consider and situations that might come up in the real-world implementation of the system. The candidate is generally driving the interview, because at the level where system design interviews become necessary, the candidate should know how to pro-actively anticipate problems.
We need better technology for a 3D-first world
Meta programming stuff can be very confusing for non native rubyists. Generally thats something one should avoid in shared/production codebases.
-- most intense lamb I've ever tried was in Iceland - had lamb many many times in Scotland and it was gamey - but the lamb in Iceland was next level - in fact it was so intense that I tried it at another restaurant the next day just to see if it was the place I'd eaten - nope - just as strong - I wondered why - if you happened to know --
I think you’re basically right but there is a distinction in living somewhere hot and building cities in the desert in the American west which require redirecting or fighting over limited water resources.
> You didn't actually backup much of anything you forward as argument points.

I assumed that, being someone familiar with Musk, you'd be aware of his promises around FSD etc. Most of my post is interpretation of his actions, rather than claims. I can't really "substantiate" my interpretation, I am the source there. So I'm not entirely sure what you're asking me to do here; I am happy to provide more sources, I just don't really know what you're asking.

The gish gallop is not limited to trolling. Having Tesla, SpaceX, and Neuralink is part of it. Making an offer to buy Twitter is part of it - regardless of how trollish it is, signing a deal to buy a company is not "merely trolling", some rude but inconsequential behavior. It's not that the gish gallop is a thin coating of candy over a yummy chocolate core of great ideas. There's no substance there.

When I first heard about Musk I thought he was pretty cool and that he was making important things happen. But when I learned more about him, and started to scrutinize his actions, it became apparent that none of what he says means anything, and everything he does serves to enhance his power and prestige rather than building a future for humanity.

My opinion is a considered one. I don't think there's anything else I need to say on that matter.
Truth is, our lizard brains are always forgetting the good stuff that happened but remembering every detail of some random shameful event nobody, except you, cares about.
I agree with you on the first point. I will not be signing up to have a seventh grader remove my gallbladder.

Regarding pianists, I think you can replace “virtuoso” with “professional” and the point still stands.
The trouble with that argument is that you haven't justified why it should only cause downward pressure on prices when companies have to increase pay due to unions demanding more cash. The exact same process should drive down prices and the amount executives make all the time, which means that the price will already be near the optimum given a particular level of costs and that increasing the costs will increase that optimum price. (This is particularly clear in scenarios where this works so well at pushing prices down that the increased wage demands would lead to losing money on every unit sold at the original price. Obviously in this scenario the price must increase.)
Why do you think it means less for executives? It could be that they pass the costs on to consumers. So everything at Amazon will be more expensive just to pay the premium.
Ask HN: What is the best approach to get up to speed with academic research?
Long story short, been quite burned out after several years in the industry and been struggling to find a position in another company with a similar role/responsibilities.

I now have the opportunity to spend some time back in academia. The workload seems very manageable and I was thinking to take the opportunity to publish/patent and grow before jumping back in the rat race.

I kept myself informed, reading few papers from time to time but definitely not enough.

I was wondering, what's the best approach to get up to speed with the hot topics in my community?

I was thinking something like, let's get through the proceedings of the top 3 conferences/journals of 2022/2021, select a shortlist of promising papers (this can be tricky this selection itself could be biased by my judgement) and start from those to backtrack on the references.

Does it make sense?
Any recommendation on how to optimize these efforts?
Major wildlife report struggles to tally humanity’s exploitation of species
(May 2020) so this piece is out of date.

I use pipenv on one of my projects, including (in combination with direnv) for setting up my local dev environment on macOS and as part of CI/CD for deploying into a Docker container based on one of the Python images. The project doesn't have a huge number of dependencies, but pipenv has worked well. The only time I fought with it was over its PyUp safety checks, but "pipenv check" is opt-in anyway.

For most of my other projects, I install from either a setup.py or requirements file using pip, often driven by a Makefile. Again, deploying into Linux, but using macOS for local development, again with direnv.

In 20 years of professional Python development on mostly small-to-medium size projects, I've never had any issues I can recall getting packages installed.

Conversely, I semi-regularly fight with cocoapods, npm and gems.
High-skilled manufacturing was absolutely outsourced outside of the US.

> Those jobs never paid anywhere close to $30/hour even in the heyday of unionized American manufacturing.

Auto factory jobs (which were outsourced) certainly paid that much and more in inflation adjusted dollars. From a book studying the auto industry describing average wages in Detroit,

> At $11.62 an hour in 1982 wages, Detroit's autoworkers, according to U.S. car companies, were simply too expensive, particularly with the added cost of pensions, health insurance, and union-negotiated work rules.

This is already over $30/hr in 2022 dollars.
"Each case reported a lifetime inability to recollect events from a first-person perspective".

"The SDAM cases reported here have a lifetime of practice in compensating for their lack of first-person, autonoetic connection to their own past with non-episodic processes (supported by, for example, rehearsing events and reviewing photographs)"

They tested this by asking participants to recall and describe past events in as much detail as they could, then scored the transcribed recollections based on whether they were internal experiences (things they could sense, emotions they felt, etc) or external ('semantic facts (factual information or extended events that did not require recollection of a specific time and place), autobiographical events tangential or unrelated to the main event, repetitions, or other metacognitive statements (“I can׳t remember”) or editorializing (“It was the best of times”).') They also scored the recollections on how detailed they were.

So, as a somewhat speculative example, presumably somebody with SDAM would be able to tell you that they went to the fairground with two friends, and it was sunny, and it was fun - because they have a photo with those two friends at the fairground in the sun, and one of the friends later told them it was fun. But they couldn't tell you what other bits of the fairground looked like, that it smelled of cotton candy and hot trash, what it felt like to go down the hill on the roller-coaster, how hot and thirsty they got waiting in line.

I have somewhat deficient autobiographical memory - I have zero recollection of a lot of things from my past, and for others I just have a snapshot of them, like a photo with some vague feelings attached. But I'm still capable of experiencing at least some of my memories in first person, so I wouldn't qualify as having SDAM.
Probably off by a factor of 5-10
Legally, it doesn’t matter. Trademark law (not copyright) requires active enforcement to keep yours. So, even if it’s a joke, the act of making a networking related thing while Comcast has a trademark in that category is enough to make their lawyers wake up.
Will it ever be complete? It's been in this state for the better part of the past decade
Platforms. Google sucks at building platforms. https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMNmnGgfV/?k=1
Obviously some men are interrupted sometimes, but overall it happens much more often to women and by men.

* https://www.advisory.com/daily-briefing/2017/07/07/men-inter...
* https://slate.com/human-interest/2014/07/study-men-interrupt...
Sorry, not sure why you expanded on this particular event. Could you explain if I missed something? :)
if that supernova purchase was you yesterday thank you!! :D
How much desertification in Africa is caused by humans?

My impression has been that the Sahara, North Africa, the Middle East, and eastern Mediterranean were all gradually becoming dryer anyway. Is that wrong?
Presumably it would benefit people using Android in Fuchsia, like how putting drivers for various hypervisors in the linux kernel benefits people who are using linux in those hypervisors.
Especially when other systems like cron have used Monday=1 forever
In most cases though it is men interrupting women.

https://www.advisory.com/daily-briefing/2017/07/07/men-inter...
I am 100% behind Amazon employees unionizing, and I wish unionization was far more widespread. I wasn’t trying to impugn unions using the legitimate process to achieve legitimate ends.
Cool find— thanks!
Glad to hear that it was helpful and that n8n looks interesting. All the best!
Ha!! Great question, so this is our fourth round of message testing. We didn't want to A/B directly on HN cause that feels kinda disingenuous, but we've definitely been crunching conversion rates and such.
This effect would only really exist for monopolies.
For the Vatican I found that getting there very early (as early as they open) his recommended. Lots of things open before they get really busy.

Also if you want to skip the Vatican but still see old churches, well Rome has a few.

I highly recommend dedicating at least some mornings to just walking around, everything is in relatively close proximity in the central area.
Most of what we eat are grasses. Rice, wheat, corn, etc.

Grazing cattle on marginal land is extremely labor intensive. So most cattle calories come from potential or actual farmland. Either as highly productive pasture or crops optimized to feed cattle. Especially as grazing clause significant damage to marginal land resulting in desertification or other issues if not carefully managed.
>their jobs are shit
I have a couple friends that have worked at Amazon warehouses and also worked at shipping centers for UPS and FedEx and they both told me that Amazon not only paid better but had better working conditions. Not saying that's the case universally, but I don't think it's right to uniquely criticize Amazon and not the industry at large, especially if Amazon really is a better employer than their competition.
Religious Republicans (and many religious Democrats) very much do care about abortion. Republicans in general just use it as a wedge issue to wall off the base, just like Democrats in general who also use it as one of their top 3 wedge issues. Our current President pushed for a constitutional amendment to overturn Roe.
Yes, but didn't many of them also engage in some level of stimulus spending due to the impact of COVID on the ability to work?

And even without, if it is true that Americans are trying to point all the world's supply chains to feed their increasing demand for stuff, that's still going to affect prices in the rest of the world, by leaving people in the rest of the world competing for a lower supply of stuff (since more of it is being ducted to the U.S.).

Unless suppliers are able to increase production to fill the overall higher demand, that is, but that just gets us back into supply chain issues caused by higher demand as a possible cause for inflation.
So einfach, so wirksam
Some time after this article Watterson collaborated with Berke Breathed, briefly. Or maybe not.

https://www.cbr.com/calvin-and-hobbes-part-bloom-county-cont...
That ~200m (really 61000 shares) vests over 10 years though. So really ~20 bucks per employee per year.
They used to be a tool to help the working class in the US.

My parents had good experience with their unions. Every interaction every person I know in my generation has had with them (CWA, UAW, teamsters, railway unions, etc, etc.) has been strongly negative.

The Amazon workers should form a new union if they want representation.

Cards from existing corrupt national unions are definitely a trap. Once enough people sign, they will swoop in to extract dues, bribe politicians on unrelated issues, and alternate between sabotaging Amazon's work environment and negotiating away whatever current benefits the workers get.

People that are good at negotiating union politics will somehow become unfirable, and just stop bothering to do their jobs.

If history repeats itself, the union reps will then work with Amaozn to create an underclass of ununionizable jobs and hire people at minimum wage to do the old $18/hr work, while the union cronies "supervise" for $25+/hr.
Probably not a bad advice.

Most of the ruby enthusiasts I know from the old days took a deeper dive into go.
When I was young I lived in the province Drenthe. We visited our grandparents every weekend. My grandfather would often have horse meat for dinner.

At the time I quite enjoyed it. I was young and didn’t think much of it.

Once I got a bit older my father mentioned once that he thought horse meat smelled like pee. At that point I stopped eating horse meat. However I am not even sure if there was some truth in what my father said at the time … seems unlikely.
This seems like a poor comparison. Your babysitter left a part time job (100/25 = 4 hours of work per day) for a full time one and can now afford a car.
At the risk of stereotyping a bit: in general people who spell it “GNU/Linux” probably have priorities incompatible with an Apple laptop purchase decision.

Don’t get me wrong, I care deeply about software freedom, and I don’t think that’s incompatible with an Apple laptop purchase decision, but the “it’s called GNU/Linux, GNU is the operating system, Linux being merely the kernel…” school of software freedom finds basically everything about Apple deeply offensive.
Similarly, my young niece had surmised that chickens produce nuggets in much the same way they produce eggs.
Transforming a web-scale, real-world e-commerce platform (2017)
Other Libyans who happened to be backed by NATO.

Qaddafi was no saint, quite the opposite, but that shouldn't give Western countries a free pass to go directly interfere in Libyan politics. It has very little to do with helping Libyans, and much more to do with the fact that Libya happens to be located on the largest oil reserves in Africa.
Haha!! Excellent question. So this is our fourth round of testing messages. We didn't want to A/B on HN cause that kinda feels disingenuous! But we've definitely been crunching things like conversion rates.

(Edit: this comment is a stupid meta-meta-joke, please ignore :-)
Can't speak for Canada, but in the US, the jury process is a mix of black-letter law (explicit legislative acts) and administrative law (rules made by the court system under broad powers granted to it by legislation).

Tradition and precedent were the inspiration for a lot of modern law, but we explicitly re-implemented most of it via legislative and/or administrative law.
To be fair have you seen republican policies towards teachers and education in general. Of course nobody would ever intentionally pick that for themselves and their profession.
Hate to sidetrack in what is otherwise an excellent set of definitions, but…

> Stone is a portmanteau for the material from which rock is made…

I do not think that word means what you think it means. But I also am not sure what word you were looking for to describe the relationship/distinction between the words ‘rock’ and ‘stone’.

But it’s definitely not portmanteau. A portmanteau word is a word that is made by shoving two or more other words together, like ‘brunch’, or ‘hackathon’.

Is it possible that because a portmanteau is also a word for a large suitcase, you are looking for a word that means ‘word that can contain a lot of distinct sub meanings?’
OpenDroneMap co-founder here: to make sure modifications to the software continue to be released as open source to end users. Other licenses allow companies to just take the software, modify it to their needs and not release those changes back. ODM is very suited for use in cloud environments, so the AGPL works very well here.
I don't understand what point you're trying to make here. It seems like nitpicking on points that no one was making in the first place.

If people are interested in something and can start practicing early, you can see big differences in skill early on that affect who is found in the occupation later and how successful they are. Professional musicians and programmers are both examples of this. Surgeons aren't.

What are you disputing about this thesis?
The Media's Covid Coverage Damaged Our Children