skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If by TS you mean Javascript with ": any" tacked onto the end of each variable, then perhaps. Actual TS proficiency is rare, in my experience.

This isn't even a lack of proficiency, this is just hiring bad people. Who doesn't know how to annotate a type? That hardly takes Typescript "proficiency," you can learn it in 5 minutes.
Matt Levine's spin on this is horribly pro-corporate.

The Texas Two-Step isn't a concept borne from bankruptcy courts.

Would that it were so.

You talk about charitability, but here's a question for Matt, you and others:

"Is this strategy called the Texas Two-Step because:

1) it assists claimants and plaintiffs (your adversaries) to bond together and present one solid unified case against you, or...

2) because it assists you to elegantly dance around your liabilities?"
> Work 6 days per week. Use that saturday to work on things that are harder to do during the week because of interruptions.

In my own case I haven't found it necessary to overwork. In fact, if overworking was the only way to make it I'd probably become an employee. My current schedule is 4 days / week, consisting of 8 hour work days. Three of those days are for billable work, one for other stuff (bookkeeping, sales, blogging, keeping up with HN :P). I plan to write a proper article with more details by the end of this year, when I feel I have enough things to tell.
Neither, it would do "it always tasted bad to me, and, unrelatedly, it also seems to be bad for you".
I wonder if its a cultural thing. In my area of Not-California, roads will often have a local municipal name, but also be a county highway. For a while, navigation was unaware of this and would tell you "turn on highway 48" while driving downtown. As a driver, you go "wtf is highway 48". YIou have to zoom all the way in on the map to see that its Bank Street. Now it usually says "Bank Street", but will only display the 48 on the map. Very frustrating.
> "Even if you have whistleblowers come forward, they're ignored."

Do you have any sources for this? I'm rather disbelieving of it, but would love to be proven wrong. I can't imagine that _some_ major news outlet wouldn't love to stick it to the status quo with a whistleblower, unless the "whisteblower" made false claims about their proximity in the company to the dangerous/illegal actions they are trying to bring attention to.
You have to declare the study population before you request the next round of funding. Thereby fixing the problem.
Discussed at the time (102 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21669726
I use GitHub, but only as a mirror for the repositories I have on infrastructure under my own control. It's still very easy for others to contribute, even to send pull requests via GitHub, while I merge them locally and push them to my primary and mirror repositories. GitHub detects that PRs are merged, even if you do not use their UI, which is very nice.

Note that you can do this for more online services; you can have GitHub, GitLab, SourceHut and other sites all as mirrors for your self-hosted repositories. It's the best of all worlds in my opinion, and enlarges your pool of potential contributors.

Of course, you have to avoid vendor lock-in that can happen if you rely too much on other services that GitHub provides, like the issue tracker, wiki, CI and so on.
I submitted this with the correct 8.1 link, and somehow HN keeps changing it to the 8.0 link automatically upon submission! Super weird behavior on HN's side.

I tried re-submitting the 8.1 link, and it did it again, and also marked it as a dupe. Maybe I'll try submitting the corresponding blog post instead, although the title on that doesn't explicitly mention how 8.1 is released, so it's unlikely to get traction here...

Regarding your second paragraph though, you're completely mistaken. MySQL 8.0 used a rolling release model of adding new features in every quarterly release. They're just changing the versioning scheme starting today with 8.1.
> It's drug dealers now. It's not difficult to see states using this to target women who travel for abortions, people traveling to political events etc.

Mark my words, it will be even worse: our "social score" will be affected by our behavior and travel patterns, following rules that nobody, even their creators, know or understand. "Something that you're doing on every day basis is linked to people who do harm to society, here's your -0.1 scp/day".
Related: https://github.com/Rogdham/gif-md5-hashquine

Hashquine: term coined by foone: https://twitter.com/Foone/status/839213095901765632
I'm absolutely not, because I remember the argument was part of 'factor in the cost of improving hangars to be climate controlled when considering the purchase cost of the F35 from the US', in particular, I think it was when the canadian purchase of the F35 was being discussed.

Since the F22 and B2 are not exported at all, not even to canada, it cannot possibly have been a factor in purchasing either of those.
I dunno where you live, but every time I used a taxi in different countries I was unhappy.
There are plenty of legitimate reasons to have multiple tabs open that doesn't really have to do with "hoarding".

For games, I often have a bunch of wiki tabs open at the same time.
No, it comes from living in Pimlico, and knowing how much these people are making.

No, it isn't. Again, this comes from knowing what these people are actually making rather than Googling furiously to prove someone wrong online. You can find endless articles about this though, emergency plumbers make a lot of money, Pimlico Plumbers have been paying these kind of salaries for decades.
But this is exposing ignorance of a different kind? The hopes for a sterilizing vaccine were remote, at best. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9595357/ is a good overview of that line.

Folks don't like comparing to the flu, but in this there are obvious similarities. With obviously similar outcomes on the ability of a vaccine to give sterilizing immunity.

Much to your chagrin, though, I actually can say that among my contacts, getting the vaccine basically led to people not getting symptomatic covid. Folks got what they thought of as a bad cold. Almost flu like, but I know very few, if any, folks that were so bad off that they were symptomatic covid. Most wouldn't have even qualified as having a bad flu. (It is frustrating how many folks underestimate how hard the flu hits.)

Contrast with family members that did not get the vaccine in time, and were hospitalized. It was truly different.
No, it's absolutely and really not. Here...

Is this strategy called the Texas Two-Step because:

1) it assists claimants and plaintiffs (your adversaries) to bond together and present one solid unified case against you, or...

2) because it assists you to elegantly dance around your liabilities?
My suspicion is there will be a lot of new jobs that revolve around verifying random internet content or school work and such, not to tell if it is LLM generated but to simply validate the facts claimed in the post,essay,video,etc... I don't see why this can't be an economy either, a reputation scoring and content validity notarizing economy. Business idea! Lol.
It's a pointless organisation that only exists to stoke Britain's ego. Let's just kill it.
China notes, July ’23: on technological momentum
> I found out later that they use their certs as filters for resellers to help Microsoft identify which ones are serious players.

If I understand what you are saying correctly, this is not exactly true.

The IT industry is a box-shifting industry, and therefore Microsoft, like all other vendors, differentiate their resellers primarily on dollar-volume.

So the REAL reason a Microsoft reseller is Gold is primarily because they have shifted more product than other resellers on lower tiers.

Sure, to actually get the Gold badge, you need to have X sales-reps who've passed the course and Y technicians who've passed that course. But bodies-with-certs are by comparison a very minor secondary criteria.

The key criteria is always that your company has sold $big_number per year. Your entire organisation can be hiring exclusively Microsoft certified people, but you ain't getting the badge unless you're shifting the product no matter how many certified people you have on staff.

And that is why Gold certified is meaningless. Because all it tells me as a customer is you've got good sales-reps on team.
There's no way this is a valley thing. I've had mostly terrible taxi experiences across the UK. The exception being advanced airport rides, where they are paid more for the ride and the cost is fixed. Two taxies in a row at the train station recently said their meter wasn't working and it's cash only.
Don't forget the "basic attention tokens" (are we still doing crypto?)
Hands-On Kubernetes Operator Development: Reconcile Loop
I live on the east coast. A decade ago driving nights for Uber across three different cities and picking up passengers from all over the country, half the people I picked up wanted to tell me their taxi horror stories. Your experience is the exception.
Tabs Outliner for chrome/edge is far superior than any other tab extension, and I've tried nearly all of them.
This article is missing a comparison to death rates on the average automobile. No basis of comparison. 32 deaths in the US all time with autopilot? Is this more or less than other cars for that many miles?
What about PyBind? I've heard great things about the simplicity of using PyBind for this sort of thing.
Why not to download all books from torrents with Scheme or Lisp in name and start to read all but finish one.
That's why there are regulations. In Germany, for example, cabs can't deny a ride because you look weired, you smell, your are drunk, and similar things. They are required to take any ride. The levels are very high for them to deny a ride. The punshment would be to cancel their cab license.

Cabs are even required to take kids with proper safety and to take people with disablities like wheel chairs.
> Maybe I was not explaining it clearly enough, but I agreed with this. Similarly to what you said here, I said in the original post that to survive and to reproduce is more of a tautology than a purpose. What I meant is that if there must be a purpose of life, survival would be the closest thing to it, but in some strict senses of "purpose", it is not a purpose.

Ah, well apologies I spent several replies only to be redundant :-).

> I wonder if you agree that there's an objective morality.

I don't think there is an intrinsic value function we can perceive/verify writ into the universe. There could be one or many, but I don't think we're presently in a position to assert what it is with any degree of confidence beyond wild speculation. This doesn't leave us with pure subjectivity/relativism, I think it just means we need to use a priori means to arrive at value functions. And once you do reason yourself to a value function or combination of value functions there are objective (though often quite difficult to analyze) answers to its optimization.

So I don't think there can be pure objectivity in value assignment, however once you bootstrap into value propositions, which could be so universally recognized so as to be very difficult to argue against (the reduction of suffering for instance), there are objective answers to optimizing for those values.

> Or, to put it into a question, how do you think humans, almost universally, can distinguish good from bad?

Without rigor I think most people instinctively tend to distinguish good from bad (insofar as those words have real meaning) by way of empathy, by the recognition of one's own internal desires and suffering and joy and recognizing the same states in others. The golden rule if you will, it's about as inherent a moral compass as I can think of.

And this indeed could be traced back to evolutionary origins and our sociability as a species. It's also quite fallible, and at scale you can see it break down again and again (empathy is a face to face sort of mechanism and tends to struggle to maintain its hold at a distance over space and time and in large numbers we find ourselves congregating and competing in, and as already noted good/bad are pretty poor substitutes for the complicated situations we find ourselves in at scale, and our evolutionary toolset is rather lacking in getting us to pay attention to the nuance and working through optimization deliberately), thus I think one could give pretty good reasons why this should not be an overriding guiding value function but rather a sort of starter's pack.
Can you point me at an example of this?
If science is going to be "self-correcting" then it has to make mistakes in the first place.

These mistakes will happen from the original scientists, they will happen at the stage of editorial boards, they will happen at peer review, they will happen if external third parties start systematically reviewing every RCT.

So Cochran must similarly be scrutinized for their errors, because they will be making them as well.

And that's even before we get to the political factors outside of science misinterpreting complex data for their own purposes...
You know the surge price before you even order the Uber, and if you want you can decide that you'd rather roll the dice with a taxi.
> that people think that they have words which must be heard by others

More like they think they have words that others might like to hear -- and they're often correct.
There's also the increased security aspect. Before you get in a car, there's a map, with both you and the driver's phones reporting GPS updates back to the mothership.

Previously my wife had an issue with a taxi in LA where she was riding with one of her friends, the friend rightly pointed out that they were in a grid section of town and the circuitous route didn't make sense, and the driver locked the doors while saying "I'll take you anywhere I please".

I've heard similar stories from many women.
>You seem to think that anything that isn't Vim or Emacs can not compare. I'm asking you to reconsider that.

I don't think you have read the discussion between me and the other commenter very thoroughly if you came to this conclusion.

I have repeatedly re-iterated my stance so I would rather not do it again but tools such as VS code are inherently inflexible (I have put a couple of weeks into trialling and configuring vscode) for good reasons and to tailor to a specific audience.

My argument is that for the other audience, tools such as Vim or Emacs (or in some extremes, writing your own editor or using something even more obscure) offer superior flexibility and offer the possibility of much reduced friction in exchange for more time needed to learn, configure and maitain and that this setup is worth it for that different target audience which the person I was talking to has indicated membership in.

For a more in depth overview of my stance, please don't skim read what I wrote and as a result jump to incorrect conclusions.
Great points. I am from country where arranged marriages are norm. In last 2 decade or so divorce rates rising. And one reason I see is indulgent attitude. So things have to be beautiful, happy, awesome and so on. Older attitude of just being in a average relationship is no acceptable to lot of people. I see this incessant indulgence heavily promoted by media, movies, TV etc.
Donald Trump says he's a target of special counsel's criminal probe
No, it’s the whole automotive industry that needs to get out of fossil fuels, and is not able to maintain and evolve multiple drive technologies at once. But also, the e-fuel debate is a Backdoor to keep fossil fuels around much longer. Getting rid of ICE cars isn’t a matter of reasonableness, it’s a necessity.
I occasionally look at my green squares for fun. Stars and popular repositories are a better metric of someone's activity on GitHub. But all of this can be easily gamed.
They kind of broke that when they allowed the approval of Aduhelm which is basically shown to be expensive and ineffective
There's no masters with whips forcing Uber drivers to drive.
I agree with the poster 100%. Im convinced any Google applications immediately suck every iota of data they possibly can at install time / first launch. It’s not worth it to me either.
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit_Jobs
Perf can. But you need to massage it a bit. Out of the box , perf uses a bunch of generic performance counter which maybe not be the best.

Intel cpu's have a a collection of "precisise" events which record the exact originating/offending instructions. If you use those it should fix your problem
Pmu-tool by default uses precise events when available
What was your “trophy job?”
Nobody cares about the metaverse. Neurotechnology is the big deal of AR headsets
Arranged marriages lead to more stability but do they lead to more happiness?

There’s an argument to be made that perhaps it does. But I don’t think its as clear cut. Western societies are generally more liberal and give more importance to individual happiness over group stability and I don’t think that’s a bad tradeoff.
Just on a quick skim it seems like there are enough other people willing to take the other side of your "JS is good actually" position so I'm gonna pass today.
My wife and I don’t have cars and we travel all over the US “nomadding”. It’s a great thing no matter where we are, we can just take Uber from place A to place B anytime day or night.

I speak a little Spanish. But I couldn’t imagine trying to get around Los Cabos, Mexico for three weeks without Uber.
I don't think regular patterns are enough to trigger it. After all, many people regularly commute to work or school or some combination. I'm guessing that these trips were to places near the border where it's easy to smuggle drugs into the country. They may be to a place in the middle of nowhere. A college is a bustling place with plenty of kids coming and going, especially on weekends. You might be disappointed to learn just how commonplace you are. :-)
War with China already started in the cyber space. In fact its probably the pre war intelligence gathering and backdoor installations
https://www.carscoops.com/2023/03/porsche-ferrari-behind-e-f...
Conference takes years, though... It's entirely possible that back prop is unrealistic but far more efficient than biological learning.
Unless you’ve ever been truly penniless. Being bitter beats the true terror of forcing your family to live in a shelter.
That's why I qualified the version.
I agree that you should not be trying to find an engineer to take on a huge amount of risk co-founding a business and offer them a measly 0.1 to 2% stake in the company.

It seems to me like the author is arguing that the you don't need a CTO, you need a technical co-founder, AKA a founding engineer, and that they should be given double-digit equity. Am I reading this wrong?
If you’re ok with the pace and general culture, “boring” places like banks and insurance companies can be fantastic for contractors. Especially if you know some of the niche products it’s pretty easy to command very respectable rates without the stress or grind of sexier companies. Oh, they _always_ pay on time and unless you’re terrible you can usually stay as long as you want.

Disclaimer: the above is my experience in Sweden, but I imagine the same applies elsewhere
But then, how could you guarantee type safety?

This yield is not an object, it is handling the execution context to another stack.
Here's a whistle blower from the Pfizer covid trials: https://www.bmj.com/content/375/bmj.n2635

We can also see that the FDA does nothing to investigate the integrity of the trials. They just accept whatever the manufacturers tell them.
July 2023 Incident Indicators of Compromise (IoCs)
It's been so long since I've battled grub configs that my first thought was that this is a minecraft theme making things look like food (grub).
> As for "A LOT of the useful information" - nope, can't think of a single case where ad/affiliate-supported site was a good information source, vs. just displacing a better free source.

https://stingynomads.com/annapurna-circuit-cost-planning/

Solid introduction and primer for the Annapurna Circuit, full of useful information from people who did it which has been kept up to date.

https://stingynomads.com/who-are-we/

> Today stingynomads.com is our full-time business and main source of income.

Now please tell me in what way is this not an example of an ad/affiliate supported site that provides a lot of useful information and what non ad/affiliate based resource has it displaced that was better? Cause I'm doubting someone would write up a better guide than that, publish it and not monetise it.
My keyboard layout is Dvorak; it's always funny when a coworker thinks they're going to use my computer for a minute.
I read that Hailo ran out of money trying to expand to NYC. I lived in London when it was big and it seemed to just disappear at some point. Failing like that after becoming dominant in London is simply puzzling to me. Sounds like a license to print money once most of the cabs use it.
Maybe HN knows better ;)

Anyway, thanks for submitting it. Otherwise I could miss it.
So all this time it's not my fault? Damn I feel justified in always needing subtitles.
Surprise! East Coast publication engaging in anti-tech culture war with the West Coast.
If I'm still thinking about something and there is a related tab for it, it stays open. When researching/debugging/developing things, I usually end up with tangents, tries, multiple things to read/try and so on, so naturally, having a tree to represent my thoughts and my tabs makes sense.
No it has a continuum of states. It’s the same thing.
I think it’s a 90’s/2000’s term (e.g. SourceForge) that is now archaic.

See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forge_(software): “In FOSS development communities, a forge is a web-based collaborative software platform for both developing and sharing computer applications. The term forge refers to a common prefix or suffix adopted by various platforms created after the example of SourceForge. This usage of the word stems from the metalworking forge, used for shaping metal parts.”
Ups using coders to strike break
Even tho I can afford something I'm unwilling to support such practices.
Ask your ENT how often they saw that in their practice before COVID compared to after.

There's no symptom of COVID that can't be caused by a more common respiratory virus, but the frequency and severity of COVID symptoms is much higher.
I agree. In my area, taxis were never bad at all, and Uber/Lyft was not much of an improvement. Uber/Lyft got a foothold here purely because they were cheaper.
Isn’t highway 401 the widest freeway in the world? No cars though, eh.
Looks like a separate window, so clearly not superior to Tree Style Tabs in Firefox.
I like the Azure bash cli... That's about the only thing I like from Azure.
If you imagine all the healthcare workers in another country being unionized, it isn't a surprising outcome.

Both Blair and Cameron said that the BMA are, by far, the most powerful lobbying group in the UK (the savaging that Blair got from the BMA in 2000/01 when the spending increases were being planned caused him massive issues, and the resulting spending increases ended up creating quite a few problems because of this).
MySQL Innovation and Long-Term Support (LTS) Versions
What surprised me is the number of companies that declined free money from Netflix and decided that the cost to actually make a streaming service was negligible. They could just 2 or 3x that money in a year or two with massive subscriber numbers, because those roughly 5 shows in 40 years of back catalog were just that good.
> Ubers all converging on one location, refusing to pick up minorities

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2016/07/25/ride-hail...

As opposed to

https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/07/23/...
Friday Flash Fun Forever: Preserving Flash Websites Through Emulation
They also published an implementation as Rust library: https://openmls.tech/