skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not even long term. This upcoming recession will flip everything over.

There are 3 ways I can look at it.

1) Agglomeration effects are real. And physical proximity matters. And having all these really smart people in the same physical space led to results that were greater than not having them in the same space.

This is the belief tech companies held. And that’s why they were willing to pay people in the Bay Area 5-10x what they would pay people not in the Bay Area. And that’s why they pushed for a return to office.

If this is true, then US workers have shot themselves in the foot by pushing for WFH because they’ve voluntarily eliminated their advantage over cheaper workers offshore.

2) Physical proximity doesn’t matter. Agglomeration effects don’t exist. Companies were duped into believing that there was something special about American water.

If that’s the case, the the beneficiaries of this misconception, US workers, have voluntarily chosen to clarify that it’s not true. That the companies paying them extra were kind of foolish to do so.

3) For whatever reason, the smartest people only lived in the Bay Area for reasons that had nothing to do with geographical advantages of physical proximity to people (lets say it was the high salaries that drew them to it, but this has a huge chicken and egg problem). So the people earning those high salaries deserved those high salaries purely on their merit.

But this isn’t any better. With the push for WFH, all it means is that they will be pushed out to cheaper places to live. Everyone seems to think that this cheaper place will be out in a suburb in Arizona, but in reality, Brazil is gonna be even cheaper and in the same time zone (and in many ways better). Portugal is really nice. Lots of Indians might decide to keep their US salaries and live back in India where they can have a better lifestyle and have their children spend time with their grandparents.

And all these people may be willing to take a marginal salary cut to do so, because they will still be much better off.

Those marginal salary cuts will add up.

Personally, I believe #1 is the answer. But either way, it’s gonna be a lot worse for a lot of us.
Lots of folks appear unaware of how dangerous he is, especially those in tech. It's scary.
How unprogressive of you to focus on male/female, while neglecting people with facial deformities or people who have excessive hair growth in non-traditional facial areas. You oppressor.

I'm glad you're injecting these considerations into every possible topic. We need more of it. That way I have someone to accuse of being inconsiderate, by finding the next category that we'll divide people up by.
Thank You Messages to Veteran Tickets Foundation Donors
Maybe? But it might stick to the filter.
> why not just go the next step and hire in Latin America?

For IP law? It’s much easier to protect IP against employees of the same justice system.
Nonsense. Most government employees do good work. I only complain about the ones who are wasteful and obviously incompetent, like in this case.
the trackpoint is what i miss most coming from thinkpads. when you know, you know.

i'll also add that IBM/Lenovo's trackpoint is much better than alternatives, I've found. they are to trackpoints what apple is to trackpads.
this is 100% true. And it was during a time when people were desperate for jobs.
2010 was a shit year to graduate high school.
Great read. Its one of those articles I wish I could "double star" on HN.
Disappeared feels like a euphemism here
I just paid my lunch tab by scanning a QR code on a receipt, and then tapping Apple Pay. It was rad.
Given there are 100s of agencies in any major market I'd suggest to find one that values impact over micromanagement.
Those in Wall Street church have a different point of view.
Maybe an admin/mod wanted to give this post a new boost... strange.

https://i.imgur.com/E01COOF.png
It is interesting that you automatically assume that I didn't have many touchpoints with JS just because I don't get the hype.

Actually quite the opposite is the case. I was happily writing loads of vanillajs, tons of Angular(1) and wrote several years codebases in emberjs.
Besides that I worked with Vue and yes also React once.

React brought nothing to the table that was helping me ship faster and make less unimportant decisions. Back when I had to touch react every week there was a new flavour how to handle routing, state, validate forms and sync to the backend.
Ember and Angular had a good default there and were not harder to use.

(Nowadays I tend to stay away from fat js frameworks but mainly because I went indie dev and need to be resource efficient building full stack apps with Rails. But that is a different story.
And yes I worked with Go, Python, Java and C# in the backend too.)
Step 1: Nuclear reactors are so expensive already, additional costs to increase safety barely matter in their overall price! This additional regulation isn't enough to make a viable plant nonviable.

Step 2: Nuclear reactors are so expensive it makes no sense to provision new ones when renewables are just around the corner! Just keep the current coal power plants running while we take another decade to increase solar grid capacity by a few terawatts.

Step 3: Go to step 1.

See also; heap fallacy. Seriously, coal power generation is so bad that if we had to reduce safety regulations to the point that we were having a Chernobyl-level meltdown every month to replace all coal with nuclear plants, we would be significantly better off for it. It's not even close. We could literally completely deregulate safety of nuclear power plants and be safer overall.

(Per the stats I shared earlier, coal power kills 100,000 people per thousand terawatt-hours produced. The world produces roughly 44,000 tWh of coal energy, resulting in 4.4 million deaths per year. Casualty estimates of Chernobyl vary wildly, but even the most pessimistic estimate produced by Greenpeace, avowed anti-nuclear activists that they are, only totals 200,000. Coal power is almost twice as bad as having a Chernobyl every month)
Your Perl implementation is almost as fast as c++? Something weird is going on here. Maybe you are bottlenecked on disk read speeds or something.
> Depends, if a person is really abusing a child which unfortunately happens more frequently than we all want to believe, then you would rather have the government intervene without complicated red-tape as soon as possible.

No, I wouldn't. This is not a good tradeoff. The world sucks and evil exists, but that doesn't give anyone the right to come between me and my children, no matter how much good they think they're doing on balance. This notion must be categorically rejected.
Documents Reveal Google is Selling Advanced AI Tools to Israel
Yes, it was actually 0.5mm off and very visible.
Do you have a name for your project or is any of it accessible to others? Have you automated parts of it? Always thought about doing something similar but never got around to it
“Prior infection with Omicron granted stronger protection: it was 79.7% effective at preventing BA.4 and BA.5 reinfection and 76.1% effective at preventing symptomatic reinfection.”

I feel like the time to be more nuanced may be upon us. People are generally aware that infection grants some levels of immunity. But it’s not a simple probability distribution or something like a score card or political poll. You can see how many antibodies people produce to BA.4/5 with whatever they had previously. And of course time is a factor. Numbers I saw some time ago were every new lineage seems to halve the number of antibodies produced (per a John Campbell video) as a trendline.

Though I am grateful the medical professionals are still keeping an eye on this despite whatever cultural trends may seem. Wonder if we’ll ever see some retrospectives and changes made so a future pandemic doesn’t hit the globe and nations/regions so unprepared. At least take peoples temperature more often and the sick to stay home. It’d help if it weren’t a personal resource expense to simply not bring a cold/flu to work. Ie don’t have that use personal leave time.
Putting together a short-form blog post. Also, turning it into a presentation helps solidify any learnings.
This is an opinion that’s risky to have because at a superficial level it’s not oriented enough around “save the children”. But there’s some good evidence for it. There’s some great analysis in “The Future of Capitalism” by Paul Collier if anyone is interested in a deeper look
> It doesn't need to be pointed out …

Apparently there will be someone who feels the need to point it out; and someone who feels the need to point out that it doesn't need to be pointed out; and …
There's so many articles on trivial things like this and using pretty syntax and less articles on things that actual matter: architecture and design. It's a bit disheartening to hear software engineers argue of if you should put periods in commit titles or if so and so syntax is more readable.
National education crisis averted: https://www.maa.org/sites/default/files/pdf/pubs/focus/Gardn...
I had a look several times at the video (the quality is awful) and it seems that it is going for the position of the piece of the boy. This cannot happen in chess.

So if it squeezed his finger because it expected his own piece there, then this is a serious bug in the program.
> everything fails eventually

I don’t think this is true. I’ve been using a folder full of text files for 10+ years now and still use it basically the same way I did when I started (now with Ulysses rather than NValt, but few technique changes).

For me this is because I just slotted it in as the answer to the mental question “where should I write this down?” I don’t take notes because I think taking notes is good, I take notes because I want to remember things or be able to find them later.
Because outsourcing anything sucks, whether to India or within the U.S.

The only reason you don’t hear horror stories about outsourcing to the US is because no one does that since there is no reason to.

Most companies that are offshoring to India are doing really well (which is almost every major IT company). The difference is that they aren’t “outsourcing”. They’re simply developing teams there that work in collaboration with and using the same principles as their teams in the US.

As long as you offshore in a way that keeps incentives aligned (which is rarely the case with outsourcing), you will probably do equally well.
> But is it really effective use of your time to make changes to the code that you know won't be relevant for weeks or months?

It totally is, because it doesn't wastefully discard the mental context needed to make the follow on changes. Task switching unnecessarily incurs significant costs.

> You could spend the same time on other changes that would start earning you money tomorrow, instead.

Maybe in some bare-bones startup context that can't afford to think beyond next week, but most organizations aren't like that.
This is so much older and broader than capitalism.

It is older than currency. Just more informally at that point, but maybe more explicitly.

So long as you’ve picked an ism to fight, the powerful get to sleep at night.
I've found this too... at work I regularly make videos of what I'm doing for other people. Then I realized how much stuff comes up in the videos because I'm being attentive, and started making videos I never share. Like it splits my attention to both act and watch myself acting
>Haiti has, and has had, an utterly corrupt and incompetent government/state. That's why they are in the situation they are in.

So does the Dominican Republic government.
There is a cold cucumber soup that uses kvass as its base. I would recommend giving that a try as well.
I don't see how this would be useful for learning JavaScript at all. It is definition trivia, maybe for some kind of CS1 quiz this would be useful. But the way to learn JavaScript is to write Javascript.
Dealing with viral infections is all about timing. The further you kick that can, the better.
As far as I know the data currently includes also people who died with COVID (not because of COVID).

We will need to wait a few years to parse all this data and get the actual number.
The vaccine didn't fail. The Delta wave would have been far deadlier without it. It served its purpose.

But now, the vaccine effectiveness is actually negative in several places! I have even seen what seemingly look like nonsense such as vaccinated but unboosted people having much lower infection rates than both boosted and unvaccinated people. It is something that has been puzzling me for a while and that study may be final piece I needed.

What I have seen so far:

- The vaccine was very effective against Alpha, not as effective against Delta but still very good.

- The vaccine has some effectiveness against Omicron, but it wanes quickly. After about 6 months, it doesn't do much, but not nothing, especially against severe cases. I've seen around 20% effectiveness against infection, I suspect even less against BA.4/5

- Almost everyone has some immunity now, natural or vaccine induced.

So, what I think happened is that many people got their booster just before the first Omicron wave, giving them significant protection. Far from perfect, but enough to see it clearly in the stats. Most of those who didn't receive boosters or were unvaccinated caught it (with or without symptoms). Later, in the following waves (BA.2,4,5) and even in the end of the first wave, those who had their boosters found their protection diminished, while the unvaccinated were protected by their first wave Omicron infection, which, according to the article, seems to be highly effective.

I would rather avoid deliberately getting sick though... If you really want to attend these large gatherings because that's what you enjoy, fine, but doing that just to get covid is a terrible reason. There is no guarantee it will all go according you your plan. If that pandemic has taught us anything, it is than not much happened according to plans. I would rather wait for an Omicron optimized vaccine that may not do everything as planned, but at least went through trials.

The only reason I can imagine where getting deliberately infected is worth it is if you plan to be in a situation where you really can't afford to get covid. And if that's the case, getting an extra dose of the current mRNA vaccines at the right moment will offer you some limited time protection.

And finally, I think that vaccine mandates should go. Because almost everyone has some immunity, and these old vaccines offer very limited protection, it won't do much besides pissing some people off. I am still very pro-vaccine, but I don't see the need for mandates anymore.
Use Tweetdeck. That way you will have at least one lane that is your feed in cronological format.
The problem is that due to regulatory capture, it won’t be the free market that decides. House building is a highly regulated activity, so the deck is stacked against the YIMBYs. Hence the political fights to change laws to make the system a more fair than it is currently.
> I also wonder whether this would disproportionately affect vision-impaired cubers

I'm sure it would, but you could say the same thing for biathletes.
This is pretty obviously a troll of some sort, especially considering ogle means to look at someone with sexual longing or desire.
I remember reading about the never-ending story of Xanadu in a 1992 issue of Dr Dobbs Journal, which my local newsagent had to order specially for me... no web in those days. Imagine: there will be developers reading this who weren't even born when it was already vapourware!
You can also configure sharex to run tesseract ocr locally on the images, making them searchable while keeping everything sound in terms of privacy. There is also a hack to compress pngs so that the file size becomes next to nothing
I see people who overexert themselves in sports not too dissimilar from drug addicts. They are coping with some internal issue by forcing their bodies to produce endorphins & adrenaline, to the point of giving themselves diseases like this one mentioned. They need professional help and take more time to recover.
Congratulations on 1.5.
An interesting language that I personally enjoyed when toying around. I like the approach to "meta"-programming via macros.
Spare a thought for those on exercise desk bikes and using a computer.
Debugging the OmniTable Way
In fact this difference is clear in cars.

The OS that runs the ECU (engine control, sometimes other such safety systems), sometimes things like brakes, is an rtos because delays can cause death.

But the OS running your driver systems, music player, WiFi, climate control, etc is a non real-time OS, more like android, and that’s reflected in the delays you can sometimes see.
Terminal + Sublime.
It's going to depend what country you're in. But for the most part, you're just printing/embroidering your logo on an existing product. The quality of blanks ranges greatly. In the UK if you look at somewhere like https://www.buytshirtsonline.co.uk you can order a whole range of blanks for not much and figure out what cut/material you like. My personal favourite is a heavyweight, boxy Gildan. But that's not for everyone!
Yeah, I adapted them from my JS Anki deck. Also ended up cutting out a lot of stuff out that turned out being less important than I'd thought as a new learner of JS. I'm hoping the courses are more useful than those a learner would create themselves since as a proficient JS user I have a better idea of what skills are actually needed.

Similar to your thoughts, I'd love for this or something similar to eventually replace textbooks. It'd be great to have experts in every field build interactive mastery courses that help you both learn quickly and retain the knowledge long term.
Show HN: Pipes puzzle (a.k.a. Net) on a hexagonal grid
Hello, HN - I wanted to share this puzzle game I made during my vacation.

I'm rather fond of the pipes puzzle where your goal is to restore a scrambled network of connections by rotating tiles. It's usually played on a grid of squares and this all started when I decided to make a programmatic solver for that kind of puzzle. Then I realized that with some minor changes the solver could generate new puzzle instances. I thought about what kind of puzzle to make and someone suggested a hexagonal grid. Adapting the generator wasn't too hard but then I had to create a way to play this variant. So I did just that =).

I find hexagonal pipes a bit more difficult than the square variant because there's a larger variety of possible tile shapes. For an extra challenge I implemented wrap mode where the board can connect to itself (right to left and top to bottom), so there are no convenient outer walls to start from.

The site is made with Svelte Kit, its code is available on github at <https://github.com/gereleth/hexapipes>.

Hope you enjoy playing =).
Yes, I have ten years of screenshots (and webcam shots) at half hour intervals from having LifeSlice:

Source:https://github.com/wanderingstan/Lifeslice

Download page: http://wanderingstan.github.io/Lifeslice/

I developed it as an early Quantified Self tool primarily for the Webcam shots, but also have been saved on more than one occasion by having screenshots of work that would otherwise be lost.

Edit: the first version was just a shell script, which if you want a starting point to modify: https://github.com/wanderingstan/Lifeslice/blob/master/1.0-S...
Oof, despite the comparison to the AWS console which is kind of a UX mess, Polaris components (the old internal name) are really nice to use.
Why would you assume that conservatives are the ones spooked about unattended children?
I like the pitch but I don't like the kind of question, would prefer something along the lines of JS Is Weird[1] or the ClojureScript Koans[2].

[1]: https://jsisweird.com/

[2]: http://clojurescriptkoans.com/
It gets a lot murkier for CPS and its varying contractors unlike law enforcement.

https://www.kare11.com/amp/article/news/investigations/mn-su...
This is the aws console? Like EC2 and S3? With crap design and scrolling and refresh delays and tons of bugs?

The OLD one was better (which I think was mostly server side rendering) is still better than the new one that you're basically forced to use.

It really says something that when you complain about it, the only good response is "well you're not supposed to use it, you're supposed to use something else like terraform or the API (don't get me started) or ansible".

I REALLY hope this means they are dumping it for another rebuild, and the open sourcing is a fig leaf to the people that worked hard on the current redesign.
Absolutely! Creating epub ebooks is basically creating web pages. Epubs are just zipped up XHTML files, with exactly the same semantic structure and CSS styling you'd find on a well-made web page. That makes web devs with English majors our ideal type of volunteer!

Check out our step by step guide to creating an ebook[1] and then our Wanted Ebook list[2] for some good first-time productions. Then send a note to our mailing list and we'll help you through it.

Creating an ebook is a very satisfying endeavor - I always say it's like building your own lightsaber.

[1] https://standardebooks.org/contribute/producing-an-ebook-ste...

[2] https://standardebooks.org/contribute/wanted-ebooks
He was probably getting paid on the down low. That's what precipitates a lot of these outsourcing deals. 4% off the top. I'm on the. consulting end of things now and thats SOP
> 1 death from radiation

So far. The population dose will likely cause many more fatal cancers than that (maybe 200?). That those will be impossible to detect above the normal cancer background doesn't mean we can pretend they aren't there.
> Tesla is well and truly fucked

Sorry, this is just absurd. Tesla is the only company designing for massive scale and ruthless simplification from the start. Their entire DNA is based on YAGNI.

Every other legacy automaker is pinned between their dealerships, their dependence on consumer debt, their own massive debt, and the fact that they'll need to cannibalize existing business to pivot to EVs.

No other company owns their own destiny by being more in control of their supply chain than Tesla.
Sell yourself as a consultant via your LinkedIn profile. Ask for a retainer that'll be used over x months. Say, 160 hours over the next 4 months.
Using the Flesch-Kincaid scale: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flesch%E2%80%93Kincaid_readabi...
The first one is clearly a situation tailor made for 24/7 because your requirements change in such short periods. This is similar to how companies that offer 24/7 technical support benefit from 24/7 dev availability.

The second doesn’t seem to be an advantage for 24/7 availability. You would have achieved the same if you had hired the second team in a different country but in the same time zone as you. Arguably, with the more synchronous communication (I, on team A, have a question for someone on team B that’s blocking me can get the answer immediately instead of having to wait for my next shift) you may have been done even earlier.
I am not criticizing Python. It does well enough what it was made to do. It just make no sense to call that particular example a "language performance comparison". It is anything but.
Taking your claim at face value, it still completely disregards the variants at the time and the overall risk at the time. Then there is your claim, which is easily refuted: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/31/health/omicron-deaths-age...

So, I am not sure why you are promoting dangerous and false data, but it isn’t cool.