skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If the neoliberals have their way,

Not sure where that came from. The NSF provides a lot of 3 or 5 year grants. The science org I work for is mostly funded by 3-5 year grants.
The trail of scorned developers is littered the sad understandings of "Oh, I could've easily made way more money if I was just a little more unethical".

Pesky morals.
It has so many built in footguns, however. For instance,`SerializerMethodField`, in conjunction with a list endpoint, can generate a huge number of queries if one doesn't prefetch appropriately, and this issue is very difficult to catch with a linter. Granular test coverage is difficult because the testable unit is the ViewSet or the Serializer. I think DRF is great for rapid prototyping and early stage development.

In the long term, with a lot of complexity and a large organization, a more mature architecture that relies on components that wrap tables, composed together to form components that wrap business logic, which are composed into endpoints. Something like that is much easier to test and more scalable for disparate teams to step into and understand.
That doesn't work when you have a belligerent who needs to get itself into conflicts every 15 years to keep its experience levels up and foment conflict abroad in the "off season" to support its MIC.
That sounds like you trust the manufacturer of the hardware wallet.

If so: The question was if Bitcoin can be used trustless.

If not: How would you check that the hardware wallet in your hand runs the open source code you trust?
Nearly all Binary Searches and Mergesorts are Broken (2006)
I loved APL for decades but realized a while back that thing I appreciated most about the language wasn't how it deals with arrays but rather how well it supported the easy composition of functions -- and that primed me well for languages that do that sort of thing even better.

And yet I miss many things about APL when coding in modern functional languages. Specifically, having the shapes of arrays being a concept that's distinct from both their types and from their values is something that I can't reproduce in Haskell.
No executive branch has ever solved a problem because that's not the job of the executive. They can only enforce solutions via legislation or say that the solution isn't viable through veto. I would argue anyone looking to any administration for solutions versus the legislators doesn't understand how the US government works.
Kind of unrelated to the original article, but I feel like I’ve had this problem on a smaller scale. something I’m excited to use is DALL-E 2. I borrowed a friends access and tried to use it for my personal website redesign. It did everything I wanted and more. saved me $2K
>Of the top reasons people are happy at work, salary is way down on the list. [0] It is important, it makes it possible to pay bills, but it isn't what makes people happy.

This is bad analysis. Employees will already self-select based on pay.

I would bet you real money right now that if you polled employees as they left the company what their future salary is going to be, the majority will be making more.
"Improves defense" is such a canard. The US outspends every other military power on earth by a zillion to 1. And most of it is unaudited and except for the rare whisteblowing, we don't really know how much is a total waste. We can absolutely afford to shift a few billion to hard science.
> Comes out to $16B profit out of their total 25ish

Oh man, that's a high percentage. I was under the impression it was closer to 50%. With those numbers, you may be right.

Although, I assume they will heavily market their own store as the only "true" app store and only secure one, etc, and a large amount of customers will stick with just theirs, so I would expect it wouldn't take too major of a hit, although if big names like Epic boycott the App Store that could definitely mess up that strategy.
Minecraft studio wants nothing to do with NFTs
I mean, it's Twitter. What else do you expect from an app with a significant user base of frankly frustrated people looking to pour out their lack of happiness with their lives on others?
> The ads performed equally well in regard to total responses with the better candidates responding to the ones without salary ranges.

> And... before you say, perhaps your salary ranges were bad, they weren't. Our salary offerings are very aggressive to the developer's benefit. In my opinion, salary is a sign of respect from you employer.

What's your hypothesis for why they performed worse? If I saw a listing for a job I wanted, for which I was qualified and had a salary range within my target, you'd better believe I'd apply for it. The Occam's Razor explanation is that the listed ranges were below more experienced candidates' expectations for the position.
> But the gig employee is the business.

Rather, the gig employee (note that word even you used, “employee”?) is a thinly veiled fiction the actual business uses to offload risks and avoid having to pay benefits.

If the gig employee was a real business they could set prices, choose how to go about doing the job (routes to take to destination, etc), market themselves instead of acting as an interchangeable cog in the real businesses’ app, etc, etc, etc, etc
Line search before you dig
wasn't meta originally a medical research company?

pretty soon we'll see amazon rebrand as "ONE"
And for the most part, even if it's a lot of money, I can't pay my bills with RSUs or options. I may be willing to accept a bit lower cash salary if the equity numbers are huge, but I still need cash in my bank account to pay for things that is above some number per month.
Show HN: In-browser analytics within JAMSTACK
I have a product called SQL Frames that provides in-browser analytics. I was exploring how to integrate this into JAMSTACK. I learned about how to create docusaurus plugin and React components to make it easy to integrate SQL Frames. For example, after installing docusaurus, all it takes is "npm install @sqlframes/docusaurus-plugin@latest @sqlframes/docusaurus-components@latest" (extra configuration to specify a license key if desired) jamstackanalytics.com is just a preview website to show what kind of analytics UX is possible with JAMSTACK and in-browser analytics. The primary target for this technology is internal teams that need analytics and rapid data exploration capabilities and iterate fast without waiting for changes to data models in the backend. Docusaurus is one JAMSTACK candidate but I want to explore others as well. Looking for feedback on the idea, UX at the preview site and what other JAMSTACK are good choices to expand on.
Who said "investment"? That's not a phrase that anyone here used prior to you bringing it up.

Blue-sky science/hard science is not a financial instrument that you can reasonably expect to generate a 10x ROI on a predictable timeline, that's why it's blue-sky research, but it's nonetheless extremely important.

Due to the lack of an immediately apparent profit incentive, it's one of those things that more or less has to be socialized or it doesn't happen. If there was an expectation of this leading to a better kleenex within 5 years then for-profit enterprises would already be doing it. But there isn't, yet there are still scientifically important questions to be answered by performing the research.
There was an HN thread about that tweet, at the time that it was tweeted:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31012462 ("Insider Trading at Coinbase (twitter.com/cobie)") (3 months ago, 333 comments)
The same for me when I am looking for very specific terms and search engines think the know better and autocorrect me.

Having to make an additional click because I receive something I have never searched for is unnerving.
I can heartily recommend the Nokia N800-tough. It really is tough (you can use it for self defense in a pinch, after two years of heavy daily use it still looks like brand new, not a scratch on it and I don't even bother about putting it in my pocket together with my keyring), battery life is typically 5 days, but many times more than that (to the point that I'll forget to charge it). No touchscreen, just buttons (which could, to be fair be a bit better).

The only gripe: some minor software glitches (for instance: bringing up the address book and immediately starting a search can lose the first keystrokes).
As far as I know Coinbase employees had leverage enabled for them when BCH was listed and they knew the whole trajectory.
you can still rank ways to spend your time. try it. some pass times are more fulfilling than others. reddit and tv, i imagine, are at the bottom of the list for most people.

meanwhile, i know for myself that i almost never regret time spent reading. can’t say the same for the spent on hn/netflix.

so i don’t think it does much good to equate ways to spend time except as a coping mechanism for time poorly spent.
It's clear that the fixed costs need to be paid among a fewer number of clients, so the prices increase.

There is a difference between marginal costs and per-unit costs.
As usual sn0w, spot on. It's interesting to see how some areas are more sensitive than others.
You're not making any sense. Google could easily implement a lockdown mode on Android in exactly the same way. Sure, you could choose to use a browser that doesn't have a lockdown mode. You could also choose to turn off lockdown mode! It's pretty much the same choice. Having that choice to disable lockdown doesn't make lockdown meaningless. Lockdown is voluntary.
The birth of random-access memory
There are a few that are worth dealing with, and a large number that aren't. When you stumble into the few, even if you aren't looking, take note of who they are. You may want them later.
Britain’s spy chief says Russian forces are ‘running out of steam.’

“I think they are about to run out of steam,” Mr. Moore said, making rare public comments at the Aspen Security Forum in Colorado. “Our assessment is that the Russians will increasingly find it difficult to find manpower and matériel in the next few weeks. They will have to pause in some way, and that will give Ukrainians opportunities to strike back.”

Ref: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/07/21/world/ukraine-war-ru...
Salary range is $60,000-$250,000
> Even though the ruling occurred in a U.S. federal court, Judge Tse said he made the ruling based on New Zealand law

How can this possibly be allowed to exist? Can I file in my jurisdiction of choice and then bring along the most favourable laws from any others?
Yea, not unless they're giving 150k+ in fairly stable equity. Like, I'd take a pay cut in raw salary if they were matching it in 1-3 year RSUs for a public stock.
Michael, congrats on your product/market situation! Your new website is very good, it nicely communicates "tiny" branding, I could just put it in my pocket :) Thanks for making an effort to describe this case and what you learned
1000% this
Almost every solution I've seen to tooling that is supposed to "avoid data analysts having to learn SQL" is far more costly, requires engineering staffing, performs much slower and sometimes requires the analyst to instead learn some esoteric less powerful language ...

If your job is to slice&dice data all day, and can't be bothered to learn SQL, I don't know what to say.
> This doesn't hold up given that in 2012, Wisconsin was only +7.5, Iowa was +6, and Michigan was +10, an across the board drop of 5-8 points in those states over 4 years for the same guy when, by all accounts as in incumbent, he should have done better.

The recovery from the 2008 recession was very slow, and the unemployment rate for most of 2012 was over 8%. George H.W. Bush lost reelection with an unemployment rate that was less than that.

> Dems appeal among actual working class people (read: usually minorities who don't own quarter million dollar trucks) remains extremely strong.

White non-college graduates made up 43% of the electorate in 2018. Non-whites made up only 24%.

Restructuring the Democratic Party around graduate-school level race theory was an excellent way to destroy its ability to advocate for the working class. At best, working class white people don't get the rhetoric. At worst, they correctly perceive that it's not in their interest to support Democratic policies that redistribute opportunities along racial lines: https://www.forbes.com/sites/evangerstmann/2021/06/12/yet-an.... Such policies deliberately avoid redistribution across class lines. I.e. if you spend political capital fighting to redistribute funds amongst small businesses based on race, you have less political capital to spend redistributing from big businesses to small businesses.

Democrats have already lost working class people. They're 11 points behind among non-college graduates overall according to recent New York Times polling: https://theliberalpatriot.substack.com/p/working-class-and-h.... Currently, what's keeping them afloat is a supermajority among minorities. But that's eroding as well, as working class Hispanics start trending the same way as other working class people. Biden won just 55% of non-college Hispanics in 2020. In the latest NYT poll, the parties are tied among non-college Hispanics in terms of which party they want to control Congress in 2022. Democrats' long-term hope long term is that Hispanics vote the way Black people do, rather than the way Italians and Irish did. (The latter were key Democratic constituencies until they went for the GOP under Reagan.) The math on that isn't looking good.

Democrats cannot be the party of racial gerrymandering and critical race theory and also the party of the working class. That's not mathematically possible.
Well the reason we don't believe these issues will be solved soon is due to the fact that current beliefs on most of these issues are split almost perfectly 50-50. There's been 14 months in the past 42 years that one party had enough seats in the senate to defeat a filibuster. Eventually demographic and socioeconomic changes will shift the balance of power to one end or another and there will be a major realignment, at which point several of the current hot button issues will be dealt with and we'll get a whole new set of seemingly intractable problems.
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I'll bite. Would you take the job for $300 000?
>> For example, GT Sophy often drops a wheel onto the grass at the edge of the track and then skids into turns.

> This works consistently because (again) it's not the real world where the grass has subtle variations.

Well I mean maybe they just trained it on Initial D anime, Sony is a Japanese company after all
Heat pumps are efficient and eco-friendly. So why are they so rarely used?
I think you're getting it mixed up with something else. The javelin is a shoulder-fired anti-tank weapon. According to wikipedia it has a unit cost >$200K (just for the missile). Not sure sure what the launcher pricing is, nor the amortized development cost. Yes, it's still high, but it is enough to shift balance of power in Ukraine (for example).
Indeed. And with enough sun, rain, soil, and chill hours[1], that bulb can become two in a few years, doubling your investment…

[1] which can and should be faked by putting the bulb in the fridge for 12-14 weeks before planting, if you live in a warm winter climate like the Bay Area
I've taken it upon myself to turn my own yard and plot into a conservation area (more like restoration though). It is very fun and satisfying. This is my first year of ownership and my first spring, summer, fall season for planting. I didn't do everything I could have but still made some progress. I'll be even more prepared this year.

What I did was basically let whatever wanted to grow in the spring grow. Then as it got bigger, I used the app PictureThis to identify the plants and see if they were native, non-native, or invasive. We left a few pretty non-native plants and removed all invasive plants. Then I signed up for a couple native plant societies in my area and attended one of their spring sales, where I purchase around 18 different plants to plant. For the most part, these have done really well (no real surprise given you are planting them in their native soil). I anticipate that once they get situated, they will require basically no maintenance.

And since I didn't place down mulch and let last year's mulch deteriorate, several native plant species arose without any action on my parent, including common milkweed, which monarchs love.

Some goldenrod (I forget which exact species) popped out of nowhere, and now it is a big party every day for pollinators. It's fun watching all the bumblebees, bees, butterflies, dragonflies, wasps, etc. just go at it, doing their thing.

I plan on installing a little library in my front yard and fill it up with so-called propaganda. It's sad, because most of my neighbors have turned their land into lawns, which should be looked at as wastelands.

Another simple thing you can do is mow your yard less frequently and let some of the wildflowers come up. These help bees when they can't find other things. I've noticed the bees using them.

https://littlefreelibrary.org/

https://www.monarchgard.com/

https://homegrownnationalpark.org/

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/meet-ecologist...

This is all something we can do today instead of waiting on our governments to do something, which will not happen.
For those wanting to plant milkweed: not all milkweed is a Monarch host. Of the known Monarch hosts, there is minimal documentation of which is the "best" for a Monarch. It's recommended that you pick a host native to your area. Page 93 on the following document[1] includes some species that are helpful to Monarch populations, broken down by area of the United States.

For those who would like to purchase caterpillar stock to increase the local population, please reconsider. Bred Monarchs have a lack of genetic diversity that you are releasing in the wild, which can tip over populations due to poor genetics. There is research that shows that planting evergreen milkweed (encouraging sedentary behavior by removing the need to migrate), or releasing captive or reared monarchs, can allow unhealthy monarchs to survive and harm the population when they would not otherwise have survived migrations[2] Studies on bugs or and species have shown that animals can adapt to captive conditions in as short as one or two generations. When this happens, researchers wind up seeing alleles that are harmful to the wild population. [3] There is also the case to be made that by releasing abundant numbers, you are potentially creating food shortages that will harm even more butterflies.

Plant local natives. Don't release into the wild.

[1] http://www.xerces.org/sites/default/files/2018-05/17-031_02_...

[2] https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2014.173...

[3] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1365-294X....
That's not true at all anymore, at least not for TC.

An insane number of startups have IPO'd in the last two years, and even with stock drops a lot of people suddenly have RSUs. In addition the rise in remote work has meant that near SV pay is much easier to obtain. Very few of my friends live in SV and I only know a few who aren't making at least that amount at the senior level.

That number is not at all wild for an upper-bound.
yes if they use more resources. they should pay more.
That's one quick way to get exactly a salary of $xyz, and with the word "ideally" in there you're admitting you'd go slightly lower.
Things like this are exactly why I went with less "intelligent" smart thermostat. (Honeywell T9)

The only learning feature it has is figuring out how long it takes to heat or cool the house given the current weather. Before a schedule change, can heat or cool the house so it hits next target temperature on time. This seems to work extremely well.

Everything else like schedule and away settings are configured by the user.

Once nice feature is it is fully programmable from the thermostat, without internet. You only need the app for setting a geofence for automatic home/away.
the efficiency is relative; you would have a pile of defects to deal with when the dev team comes back. also it's not equitable.

as qa, I've experienced this. those bugs just get thrown in the backlog and the technical debt grows until it's crunch time and we're blamed we're not finding bugs fast enough, despite being available more on the project than the team which had a week off.
I'd be very curious to hear more about this..
Only thing worse is "data lakehouse"
Thanks for reading!

>You said you'd next time go with a freelancer as one of your solutions. I'd argue you can run into the exact same problems as you described in your main post, just on a smaller scale.

Yes, definitely. In my experience, the smaller scale makes it easy to manage, so you can nip problems in the bud more quickly.

>>There were still issues, but I was prepared this time. WebAgency kept suggesting new flourishes to the design. I declined them all and told them to focus on the design I’d approved. I’m glad I did because they’d probably still be working on the website today.

>I think you need to do this with every project reguardless of the size of the team you are working with.

Yeah, I think it's important to be vigilant to some degree, but some people are effective at suggesting useful improvements. TinyPilot's in-house devs, for example, will frequently suggest improvements to designs or architecture that will cost more up-front but will reduce costs long-term, and I love those kinds of suggestions.

If the agency had a history of suggesting improvements and correctly estimating the cost of implementing them, then I'd be more open to their suggestions. But their track record was consistently to expand scope and run late, so I wanted to constrain scope as much as possible.
> “Unvaccinated” is a new category of social identification that has been naturalized by COVID-19 propaganda and did not exist in the popular imagination prior to the year 2021.

Zero research done, then?

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A Journal that has had zero releases.
I an sort of learning how to bypass ASLR right now, it is a very timely PoC for me.
Europeans have a lot going for them that should make them more competitive - social safety net, better regulation, ability to build infrastructure without local opposition.

Gun violence is a huge drag on the American economy, so it doesn’t make sense to say “Americans are competitive because corporations can profit off guns”. Americans are competitive _despite_ massive regulatory failures and IMO could be quite a lot more competitive if we paired entrepreneurial ambition with basic government competence.

By the way, “pink goo” (more commonly pink slime) is not dangerous, and is used to cut down on waste. It is the “ugly produce” of the meat world. I don’t see anything objectionable about pink slime that isn’t also objectionable about meat in general as a food.
They are used a lot in hot climates but from what I heard, they aren't very efficient in cold climates.
I was recently in a wheelchair for a few weeks. Uber's ADA issues go beyond the scope of this lawsuit. Uber would consistently lie about the availability of a WAV vehicle, showing one as being nearby with low wait. Then when I would order it, either nothing was available or the wait time was completely insane. I never successfully hailed one.
How Long It Would Take a Hacker to Brute Force Your Password in 2022, Ranked
They've been running production for probably more than a year according to the article, so they are likely already done scaling.

If they have enough spare capacity from building supercomputers and military chips to make bitcoin ASICs they are probably already at a good scale.