skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> how little it matters which language

obligatory reference to Landin "The next 700 programming languages" (1966)

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~crary/819-f09/Landin66.pdf
Do you realize that sometimes people make choices because they have moral or ethical concerns? It is not always about sending any sort of signal to others. It is very rarely about sending any sort of signal to others.

In fact, the phrase "virtue signaling" was initially primarily used by people who seemed to lack moral or ethical concerns of their own and couldn't fathom that other people were guided by such. It's not a great term to throw around when it doesn't clearly apply.
Charging issues after a couple of years are usually due to lint accumulation in the phone opening. A little careful time with a toothpick will usually get it sorted.
Interesting read, I was in Skjåk this August and the entire landscape is covered in pine. My mother in law who's 65 tells me how none of the trees existed around Grotli and the Skjåk region when she was younger, incredible to see how much the landscape has changed in a single lifetime.
Luck is vital in the interviewing game, from moment you apply for a position after finding a company, to the multiple rounds of interviewing.

My thought is, don't rush. Keep and spend more time on learning and doing what you wanna do, go deeper on the holes of knowledge (not for the sake of interviewing).

Good things need time and patience. It's the only thing that i can do, and i can't do more about it about the interviewing game.
Does an Indian individual have a right to be treated equally as Icelandic individual, with respect to us immigration system? Because the system is unfairly discriminating against Indian citizens.
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that is a metascientific process (IE, questioning whether the scientific process is applicable), and outside the scope of exploration of QM, until somebody manages to demonstrate (in which case, I am truly interested in seeing what the alternative is... some sort of spooky mysticism?)
Embrace distributed WFH and you can spend 4 hours in the morning, have a nice picnic, play some basketball, have a couple beers, then retire to your room to do another 4hrs. Or just fuck off some days and counterbalance it by doing hyper focused 12hrs days some other time.

Also: unless you're genuinely curing cancer or flying food to starving African villages or something, 95% of software companies are pretty damn useless and any impact a SWE imagines is basically just a mental fantasy that helps one keep working. No one is genuinely happier because another API is created or some rich person has a better way of managing which products he's selling to other rich people. It's all basically useless and just a way to make money.
We go on long walks now and then each carrying two or three books, stopping at a handful of LFLs. We rarely return with less than five other books.
I like the reveal – I was wondering why the Yiddish of the book’s title seemed so weird!
The connotations I had in mind (although I obviously cannot be sure what the recruiter thought):

- what mgkimsal said

- "This employee is applying to really big companies. I'm not sure they know what they are really looking for. This is a mission-driven company, and we want people who want to be here"

- "This person has applied to 30+ places and hasn't landed a job yet? Must not be that great after all"

- "Someone who posts this information publicly has low EQ, I wouldn't want to work with them"
For context, Matt Might is formerly a professor whose research was in programming languages/program analysis. Professors like to code too!
Agreed.

I was mortified at the simple description of that twitter post.

To lump that with honesty is probably unhelpful long term for OP, certainly unhelpful as advice.

Why scrub social media early only to taint it later!?
It's really easy to do the reflexive HN contrarian takedown on pretty much any single piece of work if you're motivated to do so.

This isn't the only piece of work on this subject nor the best nor even a representative one. If you're interested you could look into this entire domain of research and see what it suggests.
seems like there's a thin line between "This person would be a valuable contributor / I could learn a lot from working with this person" and "This person threatens my own career progression", especially towards the staff+ roles
it was merely a 37% reduction. I’m very happy with it.

You took 37% paycut and you’re happy with it? Why?
There is one throwaway line on there with no explanation. As it stands, 75% of fossil fuel use is not for electricity and is not yet abated with new technologies. Demand is always rising (emerging economies plus immigration) so I see no reason to believe we are anywhere near "peak" use.

I think the trajectory of emissions tells the better story.
I also found that a bit odd, it's almost like bra manufacturers in Europe think one of these is true:

* there are no smaller breasted women in Europe

* women with smaller breasts don't need to wear a bra

The 1st is plainly nonsense, the 2nd seems like it can't be true, although I can't really comment due to being the wrong gender.
This is why I got a Steamdeck recently, didn’t want/need a full on gaming PC. So far it’s perfect for me.
> Exhibit A of why not to take your day job too seriously.

This can be more difficult when you have been part of transforming a company for 20 years instead of job-hopping every few years. When you have advocated for changes and they have been implemented, there are parts of "you" in the company.

Also the CV looks very empty in this case, even when having implemented many interesting things.
Show HN: Andrew Huberman transcripts app (OpenAI Whisper)
Everyone's piling on FB and TikTok (and yes, they are designed for engagement/addiction).

I think there's something more fundamental to it, though. I'm pretty sure the same mechanisms hold here on HN and on web forums and that its inherent in asynchronous online social fora.

Other commenters so far seem to be overlooking this. I can't imagine any regulation that would address the root cause of the problem without completely destroying the good aspects of the web and the internet.

Fundamentally we as individuals need to learn how to engage in a healthy way and be self-aware.
> But do not go through the motions of getting an offer with a company you have no interest to work for.

Strong disagree. In this economy, you regularly want to hip pocket job offers.
I've retrained myself to always just create the account first in BW instead of rely on that prompt mechanism. Once the account is created in BW, you can just auto-fill it into the u/p fields.
Maybe the goal isn’t to be able to use a word processor, but rather to have an aesthetic experience. In that sense, this is more akin to art than engineering.
They let me invade a foreign country before I turned 20. Almost two but got to occupy Panama for a bit though.

Couldn’t drink (outside Louisiana) and legal weed wasn’t even a thing.

Hell, I was jumping out of airplanes in the army when I was 17.

Seems relatively “adult” to me.
Great job! What model do you use as the base?
> Our Sizing App, which can either be downloaded as an application to your mobile device or used without a download through our website, may transmit your digital photos and measurements to a third-party sizing provider together with an anonymous identification number solely for the purpose of analyzing the photos to extract your body measurements to provide sizing advice.

https://www.wacoal-america.com/privacy-policy

Yeah, that would be a huge NO, what could go wrong with app collecting user breast photos, which can be matched with user phone number and also sending them to 3rd party.
I have never been asked for an ID to pick up prescriptions. Name, date of birth, and once address. But never an ID.

I’ve traveled across the US without having to show an ID for anything.

I have usually needed to show an ID to stay at a hotel, but not an Airbnb(or did I have to upload it at some point? I can’t remember now), or some rental condos. (Diamond for example doesn’t always ask for one).

That said, I agree with your second point.
I think a cheap heat pump and a cheap wood stove for emergencies would be ideal. Depending on resistive heat can be dangerous if power goes out.
> Just curious, what do you define as an _okay_ job? Would you be willing to pay the opportunity cost to take it?

If I didn't have enough money to pay for food/rent, I would take the first offer. Fortunately, I've never been in that situation.

> I applied to over 50 companies and not all of them were FAANG by any stretch of the imagination. I'll admit I'm not the best at interviewing, which certainly was a factor. But even as I broadened my search to the "okay" roles, I still had difficulty landing work.

If you're thinking about the distinction between FAANG and not FAANG, then we are talking about completely different levels of _okay_. I'm talking about non-tech companies, where you'd most likely be working on internal tools or whatever. Maybe you'd be writing crappy Jira/Confleunce/whatever plugins. Or gluing together one internal system to another internal system, etc.

I consider _okay_ to mean a job that pays enough money to cover rent/food.
The Republican party is a Fascist party (Support for a Fascist President and supported a failed Coup) and Elon has voiced support for the Republican party, thus, Elon is a Fascist (AKA, Super Villain). It's does not take much to draw a line between the two.
Thin clients are fine for the general purpose computing devices, at least where they work. But in a medical and research setting, you have multitudes of devices that have an embedded OS and their own user interface - everything from infusion pumps to giant MR or CT scanners (which may be half a dozen computers networked together, with multiple NICs on the intranet, and multiple dedicated UI devices). There is no replacing these, you just have to figure out how to make them work nicely together. Beyond that you have multiple real PCs running fat control software for machines (mass specs, blood analyzers, flow cytometers, ...) that uses the network to run the device, and cannot be replaced with a thin client. And finally, of course, you will have a few fat client-server apps that don't run in a browser, and connect directly to services from the PC.
LastPass class action claims data breach result of faulty security
The majority of their projects are pretty high end (and they tend to want to demonstrate new technology, because it's more interesting).
I’ve really missed his blog. I read his posts over and over during grad school.

His story of pivoting from PL research to medical research (and being a star in the field) is quite motivating.
How can you use algos if you aren't aware which places in your code you could significantly improve if you had that algo intuition?
And over time, and when washed. And if you're buxom? Forget it. You have to own an array or be in pain.
OP didn't take a pay cut. OP's pay was zero.

OP took a job that would provide an income that happened to be 37% less than the one OP had before.
TBH I could probably not get past that even as father of 2 kids, though I would need to know specific questions, but I remember bra sizes are extremely complicated.
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It took me 7 DAYS to learn everything I need to know about front-end (FE) development to build this app. :) (Next.js + tailwind) (but I did work like a maniac )

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No, they're all 737s, but there's a lot of variation within that.

Seatguru says [1] southwest flies three variants, 737-700 with 143 seats and 737-800 and 737-Max 8 both with 175 seats.

If a -700 gets substituted in, that's a lot of missing seats. I've also flown on planes where one seat is out of service for whatever reason and usually has a plastic cover on it.

[1] https://seatguru.com/airlines/Southwest_Airlines/information...
That wasn’t an option until a few years ago, and it being an option coincided with the crescendo of a 14 year bull market. Having a few beers before your afternoon shift isn’t likely to viable for long.
Asking for feedback is okay if you're in the right mindset. Understand that unless you completely failed something, it's probably them, not you, and any feedback you get should be seen as likely rationalizing a decision they made for who knows what reasons. So as long as you don't take the feedback too hard or too personally, you might get some ideas for how to improve your chances with the next employer.
I can't second this enough. After 20 years as an excellent generalist I was getting bored as an IC. I struggled with finding interesting roles until I moved into management. All those good enough skills in a lot of areas, and the ability to connect things and people, really helps you shine. Plus, you get to fix all kinds of new problems.
Neat! I remember a Mac app with a similar concept from ages ago:

http://calca.io/

Glad to see something like it for the web!
Yup, I remember that line "Remember, the child is still you, simply the best of you."
No FORTH, APL, Clojure or Rust? My HN bingo card is empty...
That 100% efficient figure is correct - you get one Watt of heat for one Watt of electricity. It's just that heat pumps can deliver 3 or 4 Watts of heat for each Watt of electricity (usually quoted at around 300% or 400% efficiency!). Compared to that, resistance heaters aren't as efficient.

The explanation that made the most intuitive sense to me is that it takes less energy to move heat from one place to another (air at 273 Kelvin to air at 300 Kelvin, like a heat pump does) than it does to create heat from nothing (like a resistor does). That's why the heat pumps can get deliver more heat to you from the same amount of electricity.
Makes me wonder how much metrics are skewed. Views from people in this state are not views from someone a bit more balanced and happy. Yet society likes to throw bland numbers around.
You can include a very large set of people in the trusted setup, and if even one of them destroys their key the system is safe.

So far, there have been ceremonies which invite anyone to join who wants to, and anyone who participated and destroyed their own key knows that the trusted setup isn't compromised.

An entire community could participate for their local votes and they could each destroy their own key in order to have confidence in the result.
More information here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voter_identification_laws_in_t...
Nicotine is an anxiolytic. It helps anxiety.

That can seem like a nootropic (some definitions even explicitly include them) especially if you have anxiety.

The con of this is nicotine addiction.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, exercise and meditation all beat nicotine in effectiveness as anxiolytics and in strength of effect.
>I think of aboriginals as utilitarians struggling to survive.

Grouping all pre Colombian Native Americans into one bucket is akin to talking about “Africa” as one indistinguishable place today. There was a massive diversity of societies and cultures that spanned the continent with trading networks that crisscrossed the continent as well.

Most European account of initial contact tend to describe a life of relative abundance, people certainly weren’t struggling to survive any more than your average 15th century European.
Ask HN: Cable diameter required to handle web apps
With the volume of messages on WhatsApp, images and videos on Instagram, tweets on Twitter, etc., what is the approximate diameter of the cables some of the main consumer services would require if all traffic were to pass through one cable.

This question is assuming: excessive technical details ignored, equally distributed loads throughout the day, worldwide traffic through one cable.

Bo need to get out your inspector hats for the question, looking for a rough estimate to visualize what underground cables are going through.
Only in tech would someone casually take a 50% pay cut without it absolutely destroying their life.
I pretty much started programming in Delphi (which was very popular in this part of the world, and still is to some extent).

After using VCL for a year or two, I started branching to other, much more popular programming environments, and was shocked about how bad they were for GUI development. Why would anyone put themselves through the pain of writing interfaces manually using programming languages not designed for it (like C) when you could design everything in a convenient GUI builder?

It's sad they decided to focus on the "enterprise" market and buried themselves in the long term. Writing GUI stuff in Delphi was (probably is) a pleasure: they compiled quickly, looked native, and ran fast on my shitty hardware.
I think the OP is saying that there’s no expectation that the company provide more than what they seek from you. Keeping it professional allows you to compartmentalize the fact that you are there because you add value and nothing more. You can form friendships. You can form guilds/clans/clubs/practices within. You can provide culture and mentorship beyond the duty of the role. At the end of the day though, it’s not a day care and you are there to provide value to the business objectives. My professional colleagues I deeply respect. My friends are sometimes idiots. That’s how I see it.
Reminds me of Soulver[0], one of my favorite macOS apps.

[0] https://soulver.app/
Are we still pretending COVID-19 was unrelated to gain of function research or have they finally admitted that yet?
I've read Tiny Habits by BJ Fogg this year, which is the original and really good. Can recommend.
This is super useful for me
Maybe we like the smell and are sensitive to it due to its association with arable land?
Agreed, I hope some article, book, documentary, etc. is eventually published about this.
I've read recently that dentists no longer need to get a physical imprint / make a form in order to produce a (anti-clenching etc.) mouth guard - they can just do some sort of 3D scan of the teeth (can't remember if it was video- or X-ray based). Couldn't similar technology be used for bra fitting? (Though I imagine it would be complicated by e.g. breast size depending on the menstrual cycle phase, etc.). A coarse-grained "structured-light" 3D body scan should be quick and convenient to do.
I would love to see a frequency distribution for Facebook's engagement metrics...
I'm not the person you're asking, but the answer seems to be quite obvious (unless you think they're lying about being happy about the situation)— they were making more money than they need by at least 37%.
But against the police, once you ask for any oversight or accountability then you no longer back the blue and are the enemy.
> 1 "systems engineer" (not sure what this means, but doesn't seem like it involves programming since they taught themselves Python after getting laid off)

I met someone who was a "systems engineer" at a job orientation about a year ago. I thought that they did lower level programming or something, apparently they didn't know how to program at all
yes and no - unless companies laid off everybody, or an entire division/location for example, they already made some sort of decision on who would stay and who would go - if you find yourself in the 'let go' category, than someone likely made a judgement about you already and found you less desirable than the 'keep' category - thats just the unfortunate reality.
Being laid off can and will forever change your career risk tolerance. When I got laid off in 2008, I stayed at the next job probably 10 years longer than I should have because of effects of being laid off.
For both your and the GP's comment, it would be great if you could share some details on how job searching with "local low prestige consulting companies" works, either here or in a recent post I made at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34108841.
Pellet stoves require electricity to run the auger. Also- nobody gives away free pellets but it's pretty easy to come by free wood people are giving away.
We don’t have to appoint lawyers to the bench, but it’s a hard addiction to shake off.

(I’d argue we shouldn’t, after all, anyone, including judges, can hire out for legal advice as required)
I think the bar for prosecutorial misconduct is higher than that, but maybe it should include trying to present bad science.
LOL, let me give it a try.

HN addiction increases depression severity among already depressed developers because of all the fancy cool new stuffs others are playing around while they are stuck with outdated tech stack in day jobs just for money.
>Or when the network is unpredictable, you retry because it's taking too long, then the second request succeeds, then somehow the first request succeeds.

This has an atomically low chance of ever happening, and never happening on single threaded monolithic servers.

>That's no longer 5 LOC.

Okay cool, 7-8 LOC, better than abstracting it into a whole new custom hook.

>Congratulations. Do you also do that for authenticated requests? If so, either you are using some kind of hardcoded global variable, or you are not using 5 lines of code.

You need to be more specific about authenticated requests, because cookies that are sent back as a response will have directions on how they should be sent back to the server on each request that requires no javascript at all.

If you're using token auth with localStorage, which probably isn't a wise idea because you're now susceptible to XSS attacks, then you should already be abstracting that away.

>What I'm saying is that for things that are more advanced than basic data fetching, you may want to bring better tools than just fetch + 4 extra LOC.

here's a pastebin of my wrapper around requests

https://pastebin.com/V33F1f2F

it is already highly configured and abstracted.

All i want to do in the useEffect is await api.getGamesByDate(), and this should be fine.

What you're suggesting is that you support the React team's decision in that I have to have an additional wrapper around my apiCalls just to avoid two fetch calls in Strict Mode.

Does that sound logical to you?
Sepsis can lead to cell death
Resistive heat is 100% efficient, but heat pumps can operate at greater then 100% efficiency. That's because a heat pump doesn't actually generate heat, but just moves it around. Even when it's cold outside, there's still a lot of heat energy in the air, which can be moved inside to warm your home.

Due to the increased efficiency, heat pumps are better then electric resistive heat (when temperatures outside are within the heat pump's operating range, that is). This is regardless of the method of power generation.