skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've had this happen early in my career- worked permatemp as a junior and finding out what I'm allowed to do as a 1099, so I decided to set my own hours. Co-founder of the company wasn't happy about it. He hired me as a contractor and didn't like that I established my rules as a contractor. Odd.

Wasn't just me at this workplace, but all the individual contributors were as well. We saw the writing on the wall, that the co-founders were not interested in full-time conversions and turnover rate increased.

It actually made me question the legitimacy of software careers for a while, because I was caught in this illicit operation.
It hasn't been marketed enough for the average person to know what it is.
Good thing SAT scores also measure hard work, planning, and follow up. You can improve your scores significantly with the hard work of a few hours and checking out a sample test or prep book at your local library or school
Cool guess, cowboy
> who has the most time and money

Or what matters most - who is willing to put in the effort.

You already have 6 hours a day in high school. Don't need more time than that. As for money, that's not needed either. Your high school math books will do. There's also the public library, the Kahn Academy, youtube, etc.
A growing number of doctors have threatened to withhold treatment from the unvaccinated, sparking backlash from doctors and bioethicists who say such sentiments violate the Hippocratic Oath. Those critics are even more troubled by the silence from professional organizations tasked with upholding medical ethics.

The mandate should have never existed.
Compared to grades it is certainly a magnitude less dependent on how much time/money you have, how many tutors you have, and how good you are at reading textbooks.
Booking.com is a large travel aggregator, Nasdaq listed (BKNG) with a 74B market cap - 6x the size of Expedia. They’re just not as big in North America.

And the reason she experienced what she did is because of Project Roomkey and other similar initiatives - https://www.cdss.ca.gov/inforesources/cdss-programs/housing-...

These initiatives saved the hotel industry during COVID when demand fell off a cliff. These hotels still had mortgages but no clients. State intervention saved the industry.
I actually meant it globally, but if I was a better person I would have meant it "for me, personally" ;)

> I'm not saying the old style is better for everyone, just me

I'm on the same page. But also, I wouldn't necessarily have a problem with getting used to the new interface, except it doesn't show all the things the old interface had, some of which I use(d) frequently enough to be annoyed about their absence, meaning that I'd have to go back to the old interface, in turn meaning that I can't yet forget the old to make brain-space for the new. I find this infuriating, possibly because it highlights my brain's personal tech-debt; some kind of "curse of knowing".
Paywall someone have an archive.is link?
What caused the crash?
I think my HS GPA was... 2.9 or perhaps 3 (out of 4), yet I had a 29 on the ACT.

The ACT score was in the 80s before some scoring model change. It's probably changed multiple times since then, but I'd learned there was a model change in 1990(?) which makes comparisons between them a bit less useful. My siblings had slightly lower scores years later, but because the model changed, there's not a lot of comparison we could make.
The comment was about the internet "hivemind"; no need to be pedantic about it.

Keep in mind that upwards of 95% of people will read comments but not post any themselves (and to address an obvious retort, sure, it'll be a different 95% for each submission). So the general "tone" of the comments absolutely impacts public perception, especially now that practically no-one consumes straight-news without social media commentary.

Redditors use identical arguments: "we're different people!" when their website is the most groupthink-y of all.
Out of curiosity how did you normalize for say 3.0 GPA at a competitive admissions magnet school, and a 3.0 GPA at an underperforming high school? Did you correlate pervious students from that high school and their high school gpa and their graduating gpa?
LinkedIn and Dynamics products and cloud services are all under Productivity and Business Processes though.
No, it’s simply inconvenient for a really small group of people. People who are probably tech savvy enough in an hour to write a script to use Ghostscript to convert every postscript or eps file in their library to pdf.

I spent nearly 25 years in print publishing tech (up until 2015) and it was rare for the last 3 years of my tenure in that industry to see any postscript source files for anything. The industry that postscript was built for moved on nearly 10 years ago.
That was probably more or less my college story for grad school. Very good GREs but lousy GPA in college. (And only somewhat less my story in grad school before going to the next grad school :-))
Like Go Lang?
Yes I think this is correct. For years, MS has made apples-to-apples comparisons with AWS challenging by bundling in cloud app revenue into the overall Azure cloud business. Makes sense bc Office365 SaaS was so much larger than IAAS and PAAS.
IQ scores do change over time, largely as a function of curiosity and conscientiousness. You could be a genius toddler but if you fail to learn, your IQ continually diminish relative to your peers
At least in some areas, it's common for rental suites to forbid guests. So if you want to see a movie together with friends, a movie theater is often the best way.
I've heard of people booking hotels with those services and the room doesn't actually get booked and the hotel is full. Or the service just puts up whatever they think is a hotel and makes up amenities.

Actual hotels can be converted into homeless shelter overflow. However in practice this almost never happens especially with more expensive hotels, only very temporarily in cases like natural disasters. I have heard hotel rooms being transformed into college dorms because the college enrolled too many students.
Thanks. I placed an order for a Lemur Pro based on your feedback. I decided to give pop os a try as well. I'll stick with it for 30-90 days and see if I can overcome my muscle memory from my standard setup.
I’m not sure what IQ tests you mean but that doesn’t sound like any I’ve used.

The intent is to gauge general mental ability, not rule following.

Take spatial in tests [0]. They aren’t about rule following so much as problem solving and lateral thinking.

Also iq tests are standardized and normalized. They have flaws, certainly, and are no way meaningless. It’s the best that we have until we get something better and there’s lots of correlations between iq and positive life outcomes. [1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spatial_intelligence_(psycholo...
[1] “ IQ correlates positively with family income, socioeconomic status, school and occupational performance, military training assignments, law-abidingness, healthful habits, illness, and morality. In contrast, IQ is negatively correlated with welfare, psychopathology, crime, inattentiveness, boredom, delinquency, and poverty.” https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/beautiful-minds/iq-and-...
https://ims.improbable.io/products/spatialos
GPA is problematic because not all high schools have access to the elite courses that push a GPA beyond 4.0 and many top schools look for an admission barrier around 4.5 (some with exceptions for valedictorians only).
it's interesting to me that anyone would try to consider absolute results over the last few years.

I feel like there should be some kind of consumer behavior/overall market beta factor that normalizes results with respect to the extraordinary conditions that have played out over the past few years.

comparing year vs. year over the last few years seems to make no sense to me.
O365 and on-prem enterprise suites are under Productivity and Business Processes
I don't think this mandate had much to do with body autonomy, but job autonomy, which yes, rich people have quite a bit more of.
This explanation doesn't work for me.

Google is behind Android, and there's a ton of android developers. It took off.

Google built Golang, and there's a ton of Go developers. It took off.

Google built Angular and Dart, and they each had much less success and didn't take off.

The "Dart isn't popular because it's backed by google" theory doesn't seem sufficient based on the above.

A more reasonable theory would be that the answer to "Why isn't X popular" is that the vast majority of things _aren't_ popular. Why isn't D-lang popular? Why isn't Crystal popular? Why didn't Elm take off?

None of those are made by google, but it turns out that building a user-base of a programming language is hard no matter what.
Close. Improving your score on an IQ test does improve your IQ. Your IQ is literally that score. What it does not improve is g, your underlying general intelligence.
I used Dart for a project some 8 years ago. There used to be an easy to use Dart Editor that I used and one day it just stopped working, and stopped getting updates.

Google did not provide any good alternatives, and I just gave up on the language for the lack of developer support. I have not looked back since.
Medibank says all customers' personal data compromised by cyber attack
> Isn't this like saying developers should suffer consequences if they allow bugs to get into their code?

If your code kills someone in a foreceeable and predictable manner, then you should.

Other branches of engineering have to do their work properly
Ask HN: Is a string of identical blue star-shaped stickers considered a pattern?
We're having a contest at work where participants are allowed to select any color of star-shaped sticker to place beside their name when they accomplish a certain task.

One of the participants mentioned that they were "going for the same pattern" so they selected the same blue star that they've used for every single entry in their row.

Is a string of identical blue stars, or a string of the same character like "aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa" considered a pattern? Or is that something else?
The opposite would be a more interesting example to argue against the original statement.
Its not about the inflation rate, its whether it's controlled. The fed reacted slower than expected to inflation, and claimed it would be transitory for a long time.

Hiking is meant to take heat out of the economy, doing so while the government was still pouring covid stimulus money into the economy would've been counterproductive.

Covid stimulus went on too long (later stimulus checks, mortgage forbearance, eviction bans), well after people had returned to their lives. And we are only beginning to see just how much of that money had no productive impact on the economy (PPP fraud, theft of unemployment benefits, scams around fake tests and masks).

Billions of dollars have been spent without contributing to GDP, governments need to cut back fiscal policy to control inflation.

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/us-attorney-announces-federal...
Dart should have been dead a long time ago, Flutter saved it.

It was supposed to be the successor of JavaScript, when that ended up like everyone expected, Dart was pretty much dead until Flutter appeared and started to have some initial success.

So.. Dart by itself, what does it offer for developers/industry to change? My take is: nothing.
I outlined some of the downsides in the comment, more in another comment of mine.

I thought about it even more and I think I can finally see the possibly true reason why people are developing these type of bundlers: The typescript projects that they have to work on are so huge that the typechecking is always going to be too slow so you don't want to deal with it, you rather typecheck only the file that you're currently working on and you don't care about the 15000 other files because you didn't touch them since checkout and the reasonable assumption is that they will probably still work same as tested by some other team that worked on them and committed them.
However there is still one large implication: Your production build on the CI server must then at least be configured to execute both the typechecking process and then the bundling process.
I still wonder though: if the typechecking is truly too slow then wouldn't it also be too slow for your iterative development. I guess if those other sections of the code are never referenced then maybe it will do okay and you don't get squiggly lines on all your imports because it won't recheck them? I have some doubts that the typescript type checker actually caches this type of work.

It is also strange because somehow every other language in the world doesn't have to separate type checking from compilation, it's only in the js world that we somehow ended up with such large amounts of code that people felt that they want that speed back from back when js could simply be loaded into the browser instantly with no compilation.

And on top of that: If Turbopack does such supposedly excellent caching now, why would this not help with a 15000 file project and let me also do typechecking in a cached way? Yes I really don't think that omitting typechecking is the way to go for development.
You’re phrasing these things as negatives but ignoring why they will be adopted. Safety.

I don’t want to be driving on the road at all, unless it’s for sport on a closed track. Since I must, since this is America and public transportation is not profitable, I want everyone else to driving the safest vehicles possibly affordable. That lane drift sensor has prevented numerous distracted drivers from causing accidents with their negligence. Opting out of the sensors is more directly reckless than emissions defeating devices on diesels.
Literally just retired a 2018 MBP this year because the battery swelled up.
WhatsApp, Fitbit, tumblr among many others ran on IBM. Of course none were what I’d consider “generic cloud projects”, they chose IBM bc of specific capabilities not easy to achieve on other hyperscalers. -unless you run your own hyperscaler.
Someone needs to grow a thicker skin and learn about reality.
Peer-to-peer streaming of media content
I’d recommend these two pair programming videos of Andrew Gerrand and Brad Fitzpatrick working on Go related projects.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rZ-JorHJEY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yG-UaBJXZ80
That's why Firefox don't want to support it. Because you can only provide hardware decode unless you pay huge amounts of license fees to the license leeches. Which will make this format only works on some devices but not others.

The h264 has a free software decoder so your browser can play it no matter your device supports it or not
> they misattribute their problems to their employees instead of to their own leadership

It seems to be the case that effective and competent leadership is the exception. Even in the military, where enormous amounts of money are spent on attracting, training and retaining leadership; they're simply aren't very many that are very effective. Mediocre leaders get promoted and that's just what everyone else gets to deal with. Other examples include professional sports, academia and politics. The tech industry is hardly an exception here.
I see a lot of people in these comments wondering why they should favor the theater experience today. While it's true that the gap between video and audio quality at home is shrinking I think the single biggest factor for me to go to the theater is the feeling of focus and immersion that I experience.

I love forgetting about everything else for 2-3 hours and becoming absorbed in the experience. One of my favorite feelings is at the end of the film when I walk out of the theater with a mind that is empty and still after having focused for so long. I get to observe the feeling of my thoughts creeping back in along with the noise of the world. In this way it's akin to a meditative experience for me.

Of course, this can also happen at home with enough willpower, but the temptation to break focus is ever-present.
Zig has thousands of tests, but the problem space of a programming language is pretty big, making fuzzing and other similar techniques worth the effort in the long run. The discussion wasn't about the existence of basic unit tests.

https://github.com/ziglang/zig/tree/master/test
Thank you for sharing this post! At first glance I was surprised the page was so short and had so few concrete suggestions. Then…I found the “Next” button and saw how much content there was!
I could be that apple added hevc and heif to their phones

Apple made a big deal about HEVC and HEIF starting in 2017. It’s been integrated into macOS, iOS and tvOS since then.

The Camera app on iOS has defaulted to storing photos in HEIF since 2017 or 2018.

High Efficiency Image File Format—https://developer.apple.com/wwdc17/513

HEVC Video with Alpha.—https://developer.apple.com/wwdc19/506

Create image processing apps powered by Apple Silicon—https://developer.apple.com/wwdc21/10153
The answers are out there waiting to be found. History tells us they’re equal parts bizarre and beautiful.
Everybody dunking on each other… maybe not the best way to communicate
ffmpeg can also be built to link to libaom, and my package manager (Macports) does this by default. (Likewise, I think ffmpeg has its own H.264 and H.265 implementations, but also links to libx264 and libx265.) Does it really matter what ffmpeg's built-in implementation is like?
Hyper-specific apps just seem to me like a return to the Victorian predilection for hyper-specific tools, such as grape shears and top-hat irons.
I think it would be better to be more aggressive and take preemptive hostile action, rather than waiting for it to appear and desperately trying to scrub it afterwards. There should be a tool to publish false personal details in a way that is indistinguishable from real ones.
What happens if you use this new Google tool on a, say, a legal judgement or property record or so forth? Do you think it refuses to remove it from search results if the software thinks it's a matter of public record? I doubt it, but that is an interesting point... can I remove legal judgements and so forth from google search results this way already?
Add the hardware support, then we can talk about dropping the proprietary ones. There's no way the costs of royalties, no matter how they indirectly affect me as a user, outweigh the cost of my CPU chugging to handle unoptimized video.
To be clear... mutation testing is a way to assess the power of a test suite, not a way to test software itself (in this it is analogous to using statement/branch coverage to assess a test suite). Do you mean the tests added to achieve high mutation coverage were not worth the time it took to run them? The mutation process itself is not something that would be part of CI. Doing all that mutation and generating the tests to kill non-equivalent mutants is very time consuming, I will admit.
It used to be so much cheaper to book an aggregator back in the early days.

Hotwire is still pretty good since the deals aren't advertised. But you are rolling the dice on whether your hotel * rating is actually accurate.
> If face significant consequences, there would be no developers left.

Complete ass pull, many proffesions face consequences

> You are much more likely to get shown the door for being hard to work with

Because the entire industry is full of chancers, startibg with folks who hold the purse strings.

Responsibility for safety only ever came through government regulation. Before that, construction industry made fire escape ladders out of wood.
Direct link, dodging the Reader-mode-defeating pop-science piece:

https://journals.lww.com/cogbehavneurol/Fulltext/9900/Consci...
"Too perfect" delivery of sarcastic observational impersonation. I salute.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33338742
Presumably Google also has to know your contact info in order to know you are authorized to request removal of search results containing it...
If you didn't know who booking.com is, then how can you call it a "pointless intemediary"?
We've got a small army of philosophers of mind, and then another of neuroscience researchers working on this stuff.

But the philosophers don't have a ton to do without more experiments from neuroscience, and neuroscience is doing the best it can with currently available technology.

Studying the brain is really friggin' hard. I don't know where exactly you think the low-hanging fruit is, but trying to measure a brain operating at a neural level without killing it is pretty limited by our current tech.
A Tech Lobbying Group Is Trying to Terrify Parents
The post starts with four quotes on that theme.
Reality is that not letting Kyrie play basketball cost New York millions, and firing a firefighter doesn’t. Tons of people lose their jobs when entertainment acts close because the performers aren’t vaccinated. Money talks, does that mean celebrities should not be held to the same standard? Not really, it just means that holding them to the same standard would cost more than adams was willing to pay, whether it was the right thing to do or not.
Picture quality? What kind of theaters are you going to? What TV do you have?
> if you find a result that shows your personal contact info

Why not just proactively being able to remove your personal info. Why do I have to find a search result first?
lol I hope not, it's a big chunk of what I do these days
> not many that can build traditional forms for your own database + schema

That's not true in my experience. Retool has fantastic support for connecting directly to databases, including generating forms from schemas, no-code queries, and support for multiple RDBMS.

It looks like Budibase[1] also supports it.

My company has been looking for an admin system that we can build in dev and then deploy in our API repo so that any API deployment has an admin system deployed with it (that uses the same environment variables to connect to the database). This would help us a lot with our multi-tenant setup.

It seems like your product has some qualities that would help us because of the self-hosting, headless aspects. You might find a niche of people like me.

1. https://docs.budibase.com/docs/postgresql-1
hangs head in shame I still use Google search :monkey_hiding_eyes_emoji:
The UK does not have a long history of food banks for whatever reason. This chart shows the number of people using the biggest foodbank organization increased by a bit less than 100x between 2008/09 and 2021/22. From what I can tell the Trussell Trust represents something like 40-50% of the food banks in the UK.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/382695/uk-foodbank-users...
I worked at a startup, in India's silicon valley, before the word startup ever existed. 1 PC, with 640Kb of Ram, 20Mb hard-disk, the owner took a loan to buy that thing. We were 4 programmers sharing that 1 PC. We each had 2 hour timeslots to code in C or whatever other language. Away from the keyboard, I'd write code on paper, so that I could make the most of my slot. Sometimes I would have to print my code, and my boss (the owner) would go over it with a red-ink pen. I was an apprentice. The boss (owner) would warn me, "beware of the day computers will be writing programs, it will be soon here (and maybe put me out of a job)"

Bangalore was where it was all happening then (as far as India was concerned). It was a heady place and time. As a rookie customer support engineer I also got to see Data General's computers at various customer installations, spooled tape, and drum hard-drives, etc. This was early 90s in India. India's IT Export industry was in its infancy.
The read I have is more around PC sales declining. Cloud still has good margins across the big 5. GCP is a quarter or so away from profitability after the massive build outs and Azure has probably the largest GP right now of the hyperscalers.
It was always possible to have a private unlisted number, though it typically cost a buck or two extra a month. My family and myself always chose that option, we didn’t want random people calling us.