skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really enjoyed your comment. I feel like it is vaguely unusual in structure. Typically a story that is dominated by tangents like this will be wheeling off in random directions. This is instead one cohesive story -- a single long tangent -- which is continuously walking away from the original topic, but is somehow linked back by the occasional tenuous connection. That book must have put you in a good writing space.
I'm intrigued to know what country you're in now if the coke is that bad.
You don't need to worry about this because VCs on Twitter have said many times that they are happy to accept cold emails and DMs.

Of course from recent experience they don't actually respond so there's that.
Suggest installing git for windows (since you are probably already using git anyway), and then create a bash profile in Windows Terminal. Then you can just use vim in the terminal like Linux/macOS. I personally dislike opening a UI when I am doing stuff in the terminal. As a plus, it looks great.
Reducing transmission is useful even if you don’t stop 100% of it.

There are exponential returns on each case blocked because that cases doesn’t result in new cases. If the virus is still spreading exponentially then it’s simply delaying cases, but 1.01^X is monumentally different than 0.99^X even though you blocked 2% of transmissions.

Saying standing six feet apart only blocks X% of cases is therefore irrelevant on it’s own, it’s only relevant in the context of overall transmission.

In the end simply delaying COVID until after vaccination has saved over 1 million American lives. We could have done more, but we could also have done vastly less.

PS: I linked mounds actual peer reviewed science you have ignored so it’s clear this is just wasting time. But I home other people reading this thread may come to rational conclusions.
Was that really Rodgers-Cromartie playing in that game?

[edit]

Yes, https://giantswire.usatoday.com/2021/09/02/ex-new-york-giant...
C# the language has always felt like "Java, but better".

Now with .NET Core embracing cross platform and maturing nicely, it feels like the whole ecosystem can be described as "Java, but better". On Windows, it's already been there for a decade or more, but the label never felt right when hosting on Linux meant using an alternative runtime like Mono.
That has been my experience as well. I don't understand it well enough to say that it's more complicated than it needs to be, but it's certainly clear that there is no obvious on-ramp. Everything starts locked down, and opening up anything requires figuring out which of numerous options gives you what you need without inviting the entire universe in.

Usually, the best way to learn is by experimentation. But with security, your "experiments" might leave you exposed. Or at least, leave your system in some nonstandard state, making it even harder to figure out what the correct route was supposed to be.

It's why I've been happy to use things like netlify. They may not scale, but at least it feels like I can get a project up without it becoming an ordeal of opening permissions.

It's not my main line of work, and as you say, I imagine I would figure it out if I did it consistently for a bit. But every time I start a side project using AWS, IAM scares me off.
“interviewing.io is both a mock interview platform and an eng hiring marketplace (engineers use us for technical interview practice, and top performers get fast-tracked at companies)”

The source for this article has some strong incentives in the area of perceptions of increased competitiveness.
What’s the best pathway for an Australian on an E3 visa to transition to a greencard? Do I have to go to a different visa type first? I’ve had 8 E3s so far.
Related statement by Frank Abagnale:

https://www.abagnale.com/Frank-W-Abagnale-Jr-Film-And-Book-C...

https://whyy.org/segments/the-greatest-hoax-on-earth/

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Created a post for topic, since I don’t think most people are aware:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33196568
(This is my second feature request on this thread; apologies for any noise.)

Stripe Billing helpfully allows you to set the original subscription start date to a past date, but only at subscription creation time. If we could modify the subscription start date, then Stripe could be authoritative for when 100% of our subscriptions actually started.
LOL, I wonder if HSBC tried to make that claim. "Money laundering is against our TOS, so clearly we aren't money launderers."

https://www.investopedia.com/stock-analysis/2013/investing-n...
What about other note taking tools that allow `/` in the title? How aware are you of them?
I think risk assessment plays into this too, seat belts prevent fatalities and extreme injuries, so it may make sense to require them as a minimally intrusive measure that drastically reduces bad outcomes.
The access model on platforms like GitHub is flawed, a single account can be used for both professional and personal projects/repositories, leading to “fat finger” errors like this one here...
I thought I was the only one who perfected long options! Are you me?

I've had coworkers call me out (not rude, just "hey you know you just use -l... instead of --longopt") on calls because I always use long options when available. I use the hyphen explanation all the time as I've ran into it a few times.

I also prefer CLI applications that are designed to use the "=" for arguments with long options. Applications which don't use "=" or respect it, irk me because the it's ambiguous... "Is that argument an argument or sub command" when looking through history.
It's a zsh thing.

14.7.3 ‘=’ expansion

If a word begins with an unquoted ‘=’ and the EQUALS option is set, the remainder of the word is taken as the name of a command. If a command exists by that name, the word is replaced by the full pathname of the command.

From: https://zsh.sourceforge.io/Doc/Release/Expansion.html#g_t_00...
This is a fair question really. Calling it a static analyser is misleading and seems to be editorialised. It's not like static analysers in C++.

It's actually a formal verification tool. They call it a "static verifier" not a "static analyser".

Most static analysis tools seek to find potential problems in your code - generally common mistakes - but they aren't proving anything usually. They have false positives and negatives. Formal verification requires you to write properties about your code and then it proves it.
I don’t think the specifics of why you’re complaining is the point of the commenter you responded to. It’s that you’re complaining so much. Note the parent comment brought up you not being offended or deattached.
I have 15 yoe and have senior software engineer title so do people with 2 yrs experience.

I might be doing same thing over and over. Time to make a radical change :/.
Typical of power law distributions and media generally.

That said, where do you find Substack's total revenues figure? The latest I find is from 2019, $9m, at Wikipedia, citing NYT:

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Substack>

<https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/26/business/media/substack-v...> (Archive: <https://archive.ph/U8vEp>)
Obsidian is great but I haven't had much luck with plugins. They often break after upgrades and most are not maintained. Perhaps that will change after the 1.0 release, at least the breaking problem
Would be nice to see this on Spotify and Google Podcasts too. I searched and it looks like Apple Podcasts only for right now.

tldr from this 2 minute intro is that they caught Sabu and said you can have 120+ years in prison or join them...

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/introducing-hacker-and...
If you used and miss Spotify Run, Muze is a lot like that only WAY better. Not only is the music by real artists that you know and love, as well as new discoveries, but the responsive aspect is unlike anything else that’s come before.

Spotify Run measured your initial pace and then “locked in” and only played tracks at that tempo. With Muze, we adapt to your pace, so the faster you run, the faster the songs play to match. Matching music tempo to a runners steps per minute proved to be a difficult challenge, but it makes such a difference to maintain pace and push through tough spots.

If you try it out, please let me know your thoughts and feedback. I’d love to know whether we’re hitting or missing the mark.
If there's an actual business, then the VCs will evaluate and choose whether to bet on that. If there's no business, then the VCs will evaluate the founders and choose whether to bet on them. A real (successful) business AND extremely impressive founders don't have to reach out to VCs because they're already beating a path towards them.
It's not recognized in the US at all. The only time the phrase "gridiron football" is used ever in the world is during conversations like this.

There's something ironic in rewriting the names of a US sport in a title to make it understandable, but in a way that is unintelligible to people from the US.
I would say at least half of the remaining 30% are eliminated by Rust's stronger type system and borrow checker too. When I'm writing Rust it feels like I write around 10x fewer bugs than in C++.
Have you seen the wolf of wall street? I think he's not the only one.
In all seriousness, old guys. Join a local club or SIG. The retired guys you'll meet there have endless curiosity.
You know, this is going to sound outrageous to many hacker news readers, but I bought a little Asus Vivo book with a touch screen.. and I really like the touch screen. The trackpad sucks. My hands stay on the keyboard most of the time, but when I need to click on something, it feels really good to just reach up and touch it on the screen.

Now admittedly, I don't use this thing for real work, just messing around when traveling, but a touch screen really is much better than a track pad.
It's also the iconic Great Northern Hotel from Twin Peaks.
If people don't want to watch ads they can pirate as well. What is the target market for purchasing digital media in general?
Choose your own adventure. You begin your new pie in the sky project on the shiny new Google Workstation. One day the big G in the sky:

A) suddenly suspends your workstation without notice and no recourse or contact for tech support. after giving up all hope, ignore this account and then eventually go to (B) or (C)

B) Cancels the entire Workstation product

C) Loses interest in Workstation and leaves it to slowly die with a minimum life support and no bug fixes or updates for years and then... Go to (B)
> So the Senior market is saturated?

I am not sure I would say saturated, but yeah, the Sr. SWE market is definitely not as tight as it was a year ago for most role types. However, it does depend on qualifications and company type. Seniors for R&D positions (so, PhD with 5+ years in product-focused R&D) are still basically impossible to hire. Friends tell me that hiring seniors at mid-pay or low-pay companies is still pretty hard.

The more important dichotomy is between mid-career/late-career and junior. The entry level positions are absolutely saturated. CS programs are definitely over-producing at this point.
From an operational perspective this seems like a nightmare. Is it fair to characterize this as SPOF (single point of failure) as a service?

Does the service expose time series metrics?

How would I detect and remedy a hot shard?

Are resource caps well defined before hand/are all instances expected to have similar resource consumption?

What would administratively draining an instance look like?
Hey Paul, congrats on your HN launch!
> you can't fly over private property

Yes, you can. The FAA regulates airspace; the state has no jurisdiction.

> pretty much _ALL_ parks&rec departments and counties in the Bay Area prohibit flying in their public parks,

They can restrict taking off, landing, and "operating from".

> airspace at least around here is often regulated anyway, many airports, hospitals with heli pads (not 100% sure about legality of flying within their "zone") and national/state parks that are also no-fly.

In most cases it's as easy as a LAANC request, made through a mobile app and approved instantly.

It's worse in some places than others but I had no problem flying in Santa Cruz a few months ago. San Diego is a nightmare, between military bases and the civilian airport there.
Even if someone did own $15,000 of an individual stock, the personal financial gain/loss of even major regulatory actions isn't a huge amount

In whose mind? Most people would fight to defend 50$ like they are defending their life, especially rich ones from my experience. Add to that the spouse asking questions and that 15k is worth a million.
You don't have a fundamental right to operate or utilize a motor vehicle improperly. You are free to not wear a seat belt, just don't ride in a car.
I see you're not an Apple Music user :/
What's funny is I was that guy (not literally the same guy, but did similar things) as GP describes who could type in a program implementing the math lesson in the time it took the teacher to describe it.

And. I. Struggled. So. Much. with math classes.

Could never get homework done because I couldn't focus due to undiagnosed (and thus unmedicated) ADHD. On tests it'd take me the whole hour to do three problems out of twenty because I had to re-derive every equation and lemma from first principles before I convinced myself I was doing it right. And then (probably again due to the undiagnosed ADHD) I'd transpose symbols while working the problem or make other working-memory errors.

The best math class experience I had (later in life) was with a professor at a community college who was a military veteran (mentioned because it influenced his attitude toward teaching). He said, "I'm going to spend hardly any time explaining things; we're just going to work the problems." And that's what we did; we just worked problems.

You'd think I'd be bored with that, but it was the opposite. As I think about it now to try to explain why, I realize that other math classes I'd been in the expectation was lecture was for explaining the concepts, homework was for self-directed working the problems, and tests were for demonstrating that. But if you're bright and have ADHD you're quickly bored with the explanation and completely UNable to self-direct working the problems. So the class time was wasted and homework sessions were hell. So this professor using class time to work the problems was just what I needed.
> What about when you inevitably have to pay for all the services drug users consume?

This is why the tax costs of negative externalities should be on the price of products. If cigarette smokers are costing a ton in healthcare, tax cigarettes to cover those costs. If gasoline is polluting the air and having harmful effects, tax it to cover those. Same should apply to sugar, plastic, and pretty much everything imo.

It can be tough to calculate, but if the negative externalities cost a ton of taxpayer money, the people using those products may be disincentivized to purchase them if the costs are closely tied to them.
12 years of Tories.
IMO that's hilarious, the visual of these gruff, no nonsense guys who probably spent days saying nothing and now they won't shut up lol...
It really didn't matter, any generic clone was fine, as they all ran MS-DOS. The gold standard compatibility test for the day was the ability to run Microsoft Flight Simulator.

Turbo Pascal was a cheap, fast, and productive platform. The printed manual, built-in help and libraries were awesome. Hitting F1 on almost any bit of source got you help that included a working example of the thing you were trying out.

[Edit] What made the IBM-PC clones amazing was the shareware scene, you could get any programming language you wanted under the sun, with a bunch of libraries, for $2 at your local computer club, and it was all pretty good stuff.

That massive wave of programs that just worked was astounding. Check out the Internet Archive, there's almost everything from SimTel, etc.
I realize that is a stereotypical belief state, but do many people here really hold those beliefs?

Having known several folks in both of those camps, my experience is that career choice provides very little information about the chooser's ethics.

I will note that both categories have complex relationships with following the law, both personally and professionally.
Hi! I work at Lago.

Billing is still a huge nightmare for engineers, this is what we're going after -> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31424450

We've built and scaled it internally in a 5x Fintech Unicorn before joining YC, we would have loved to use an off the shelf solution, but none of them were a fit.
I think men still consume this type of media, it is just available in japanese and other asian media rather than in american productions.

Also in weird internet subcultures and memes.
Isn’t the stereotypical use case for zip car to take it on a weekend trip out of town where public transit doesn’t go? National parks are very popular recreational attractions.

Not to mention, there are plenty of places in cities without cell service, like parking garages.
Well, hopefully you’re good and can demonstrate that with your GitHub profile or something else you can show. Assuming that’s the case, I got my first programming job (I’ve only ever worked remote) long before being remote was common, and I actually found it on Craigslist as weird as that may be. I was also doing a lot of local meetups and what not at the time.

So, yea.. make some cool stuff to show to people and go meet those people. I can only imagine it must be easier to find a remote gig nowadays.
The irony is that coke is shit and more expensive compared to synthetic cathinones, but it's culturally ingrained.
Don't give him ideas.

But if he does, making money from this trash (or at least from a US audience for it) may be harder.
we should have laws that heavily regulate using homes as investment vehicles unless we want to become china 2.0.
Wiggling toward bio-inspired machine intelligence
Ask and ye shall recieve: Shabbyshambles.github.io
Also, vlogs!
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCG3NbVuE8sfp3sFbQnj73nQ
I wish this could be discussed more openly. I feel the same way.
Lawful evil and chaotic good?
Is nobody asking why taillights "need" animations? Just use a fricken light bulb.
There's also nothing wrong with plateauing for a while or even topping out, especially if you are generally happy with life and career. There's pride to be had in being a good individual contributor; not everyone needs to make it to Senior Super Special Principal :)
F# is even better. It is an amazing fun and productive language to work in. At the end of the day a language is just a language, but much the a keyboard some are more comfortable than others. I find F# very comfortable. C# is also very nice to work in. C# is probably a better choice as you spend less novelty points.
> except that our fucked up economic system

A company decides whether it's publicly traded or not. It also decides whether it makes an offer to buy the competition or not. I think people forget just how many entities Google has purchased over the years, and how often the FTC has just let them get away with it.

> A bakery that's been happily serving its community for 25 years isn't a monopoly just because it doesn't feel pressure to grow.

Are we really going to compare a single locally owned bakery with a naturally limited consumer market to a corporation like Google?

Wouldn't you agree that bakery would be a monopoly if it let it's standards slip for a few years, and an ex-employee of that bakery opened a new shop, and the existing bakery just decided to buy them out and then close their business instead of starting to compete with them for customers?

Now multiply that by like 250 times. I hardly think it's uncharitable to call this "strategy" out for what it is.
> The goal of marketing has always been to create a customer experience that leads to sales. When you think about it, that makes sense; good marketing is an effective way to reach customers who are likely interested in your product or service. What's more, it builds brand loyalty by allowing consumers to experience an emotional connection with your company via high-quality content or products/services that speak directly to their needs as well as their wants and desires."

This is a very very romantic view of marketing. It ignores that marketing is used for deliberately manipulating people's perceptions/politics/culture, creating needs that never existed (for example shaming people into buying "solutions" to things that were never problems), projecting false images of a brand to hide the evils of the people behind it, etc. The idea of marketing producing "high-quality content" is a gross misrepresentation since while there are some amazing works of art created for marketing purposes, most ads are crude and exactly the kind of artless garbage that computers seem very well suited to churning out.

Marketing is manipulation, deception, and control. It corrupts everything that it touches. It seems very strange to see concerns like "Are we just going to be living in some sort of computer simulation where we have no idea whether or not these kinds of things are real? Or worse yet, do we live in a reality where everything we've been told by marketing teams and corporations is actually false" being raised about an industry that was already built on telling lies.

AI is going to replace a lot of people's jobs, but I don't see myself feeling sorry for out of work marketers anytime soon.
I find the reasoning convincing. It's the principle of least surprise. And a bunch of other principles. I don't want a program to care what it's executable name is, if it's being invoked with a relative path, absolute path, through a symlink or hardlink or anything else.

Of course, there are exceptions to the rule, like busybox. The point is to have uniform, predictable behavior across the ecosystem and not have every other program have its own weird idiosyncrasies.

That being said, the egrep/fgrep legacy is precisely such a case where it makes sense to make an exception. It's a decades-old legacy and grep isn't just any program, it's part of Using the Shell 101.
I'll be glad to help on the weekend. It was a huge relief to know, that you didn't just drop a color from the hyperlink
I don't see Tiktok refunding the money they made from these channels.
But many people in the 80s had computers that were not PC compatible.
You don't have anything. You never had a deal or even an offer, you had vague indications of interest.

Also seems like you don't have much of a product either. And finally, for those who whine about AirBnB cleaning fees, it reduces the relative price of multi-day stays...
I read your link and it didn’t seem to address the question. (I admit bailing early because it didn’t seem relevant. It talks about Netflix’s content creation policy, and bizarrely, what Elon Musk thinks of it. Why Musk is being quoted in an article about Netflix is a mystery to me.)

Additionally, your explanation is word salad. What is a “5-year old adult” and how do you avoid triggering them? Which social belief systems are you referring to, specifically?
Oh dang. You're right. I misremembered it. Thanks for clarifying so I don't keep repeating it, haha.
Author here. For what it's worth, I added the conclusion pretty late in the game. When I first ran the data, it looked like engineers were barely getting laid off (because of engineers not opting in to layoff lists as much as others). And the graph about the bar going up came in as a zero hour suggestion from someone who proofread the piece.

Believe me, I'd be much happier if eng hiring were back in full swing. With all the freezes and layoffs, we've taken a bigger hit than we can hope to gain back by shilling interview practice.