skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You will find no bible more dogeared and highlighted than from an American evangelical, who so strongly needs to justify the reasons for their superiority and hatred that they will beat a concordance to death. They aren't interested in facts, they're interested in their version of "truth," which are two completely disparate and antithetical concepts. Just look at their support for the idea of the Rapture, a concept which is found nowhere in the Bible, and whose very idea has been incredibly harmful given how religion informs voting decisions in the US.
If their first party experience is going to be so amazing, why remove the customer choice? If they really believe it in, they should have no problem going head to head.
I've been maintaining a Go app for about 9 years now and I can just upgrade the Go version + mod for vulnerabilities (GitHub tells me about them automatically idk) and it works with no changes 99% of the time. I can't overstate how this makes maintaining it very stress-free.

My JS apps on the other hand...
For reference, here's a current job opening for NYT's tech org for a senior software developer: https://boards.greenhouse.io/thenewyorktimes/jobs/4472655005

Salary is 140-155k USD.

For reference, here's levels.fyi's breakdown of the New York city area: https://www.levels.fyi/t/software-engineer/locations/new-yor...

Median total comp is 185k.

It seems like their total comp for NYT is slightly above the mark based on reported salaries: https://www.levels.fyi/companies/the-new-york-times-company/...
It's a disaster no doubt.

But, at least from the GNOME side of things, we've been complaining about it for roughly 15 years and kept getting push-back in the form of "we'll make something better".

Now that we have frame-pointers enabled in Fedora, Ubuntu, Arch, etc we're starting to see movement on realistic alternatives. So in many ways, I think the moral hazard was waiting until 2023 to enable them.
We have a project which spawns around 80 Docker containers and runs pretty OK on a 5 year old Dell laptop with 16GB RAM. The fans run crazy and the laptop is always very hot but I haven't noticed considerable lags, even with IntelliJ running. Most services are written in Go though and are pretty lightweight.
They signed a contract with the union and violated the contract by sidestepping negotiations with their RTO mandate.
If you want to read something incredible about Church, read Rota's reminiscence. It's the first section of https://www34.homepage.villanova.edu/robert.jantzen/princeto....

Related:

Alonzo Church, 92, Theorist of the Limits of Mathematics(1995) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12240815 - Aug 2016 (1 comment)

Gian-Carlo Rota on Alonzo Church (2008) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9073466 - Feb 2015 (2 comments)
On a side note: has anybody experience with MicroK8s? I'd love to learn stories about it. I'm interested in both dev and production experiences.
But wait, who ever first coined the term 'lambda calculus' ? was it before or after McCarthy started lisp ?
I agree, but not necessarily at fostering happiness!

Look at the countries that are generally regarded as happiest: are their economies the biggest?
Applied! Seemed like a really interesting role. Hoping to hear back soon.
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> Later, the UM student voter contacted the local clerk's office, asking if he could somehow get his ballot back, according to Benson's office.

> Based upon the scenario that we’re hearing this morning, the student was fully aware of what he was doing, and that it was not legal.

It sounds like he was purposely trying to be disruptive to the election.
Can you point to any substantial places in rails where method_missing is actually used? The only place I’m aware of is dynamic finder methods like find_by_foo, which IIRC were removed years ago. Most of the more magical ORM stuff is implemented using boot-time metaprogramming things like define_method.
Um. This is where I can attest that you are 100% wrong. Sorry.

It does. Text changes. It is not frequent, often minor. Corrections can be more significant depending on their nature.
I know you are trying to be flip, but there topics that are more important than worker's rights. I'm not going to argue that the NYTimes crossword is up there, but I think a good case can be made that independent journalism is up there, especially during open elections.

There is a long list of organizations and governments that made worker's rights more important than inclusive democratic institutions, and it didn't work out for anyone, especially the workers.

Maybe any of the 207 weeks between presidential elections? Or any of the thousands of weeks when one of the running candidates has threatened the legitimacy of their institution directly?
> Why isn't the company asked to justify why workers need to RTO?

Well, we do know the state of New York offered the NYT (among others) tax incentives/subsidies earlier in the year. I can't imagine the state of New York will be happy if the workforce works from New Jersey (or Texas). Calling upon the workers to work in New York gives the state the economic activity it expects in return for the subsidies it offered.

But does that make any difference to the workers? If they want to work remotely, whatever reason the NYT has is not their problem.
> i thought it was quite secure and stable generally

It is, but security isn't a "given" anywhere. XSS, SQL Injection, Dependency etc can be done by any language, regardless of how "secure" it claims to be.

The headings are all pretty general (versioning, tooling, scanning, testing) but the contents are Go-specific.

It's a pretty good article IMO and could/should be replicated for other languages as well.
Yes, I did. For more han a decade. With same failure rates as with in-office teams.

With 100k annual budget you can hire a contractor with good English who will be working in your timezone.

Regarding cultural difference - does everyone in your office has the same culture? No indian-born developers? No asian-born?
> it's rare to find someone whose smartphone lasted more than a year without getting its screen cracked, or three years without at least one screen replacement job

How? I've used smartphones without any case since the Galaxy S1 and I have never had a cracked screen.

But yeah, I definitely prefer physical keys too. Since the Blackberry Passport every newer phone was a disappointment. If they made a new one with updated hardware and unlocked Android I'd preorder it immediately.
Apple got aboard the Java hype train with early versions of Mac OS X, they added a bridge so that you could write Cocoa apps with it, so the calculator is presumably a case of them dogfooding it. It didn't catch on. The bridge stuff was dropped after a while, and then built in Java was dropped just before the Mac App Store was launched.
Lots of interesting things in here - thanks for sharing - but why on earth do you call NYT and WashPo "right wing"?
Ideal if you want a view of someone's nostrils. You can probably basically get away with it on a phone, but we've _seen_ what happens when you try it on a laptop: https://www.cnet.com/tech/computing/the-dell-xps-13-finally-...
At a prior job, our annual feedback sessions were rated on a scale of 1-5 on how great a place it was to work. Departments that scored lowly were to see significant headcount reductions.

The CEO stood up at the shareholders meeting and cited the results as an example of their success in turning around the culture and making this a place that people were proud to work at (and got paid a fat bonus).
I'd bet you a donut the GOP will ask for a redo of the entire election in that state if things don't turn out their way.
It already has a usb-c connector. No need to patronize me.
Intel Releases x86-SIMD-sort 6.0 For Speedy AVX2/AVX-512 Sorting
NYT is a publicly traded company. Their first responsibility is to their shareholders, not "the truth".
Thanks for making this OP! It's a quick way to get people into it viewing it and great to see community fostering.

* I discovered I can translate with ctrl-mouse, but maybe add WASD keys as well?

* I discovered "L" brings up a camera rotation display. The sliders rotates on weird axes (wrong space?), so not too helpful of a UX. Clicking the help magnifier says "Open Filter with CMD+SHIFT+L" but on Safari that opens the sidebar.

* Simple help display for either of those too might help

EDIT:
* Tried it on an iPhone 13 Pro... touch controls work great and it is so smooth an good looking. In landscape mode, the header takes up a lot of space. A full-screen button would be great.
> and yesterday was Halloween weekend so it opened up the possibility to come across a bunch of drunk clubbers just looking to get fucked up

I think they're understating this part, I thought it was universally understood that the Halloween weekend is absolutely the worst time to go clubbing.

Lots of new people that don't particularly care about the music + masks is just a bad combo for the regular clubbers, regardless of the venue. Whatever issues the venue is facing on regular nights are gonna reach new heights that weekend.
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I shudder to think the amount of thousands of engineering hours are spent in my FAANG to keep our Java services just running as-is with updates.

And now we're moving more to Typescript on Node...UGH.
>Entire books have been filled with home remedies, sewing ideas, and cooking methods. You could, perhaps, cite the editors of those books, but the "individual housewives" who contributed them would not have traceable identities.

Those sorts of things aren't usually traceable when men invent them either though, it's basically unrelated to the larger subject of women not getting credit for inventions in science.
That power imbalance mainly exists if you don't save any money and/or live in an area with only a couple of employment options in your field and can't move. If you save up enough money to take a couple years off, there's no power imbalance.
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When I mentioned not terribly common I was speaking specifically of GFCI breakers in the breaker panel box as opposed to GFCI in the receptacle. Even in a retrofit or remodel it isn't common to put GFCI in the panel box for the reasons noted. There aren't 240V receptacles widely available with GFCI so these tend to use the breakers.

They should of course be added to any kitchens or bathrooms. It's cheap insurance.
This sort of thing happens all the time? Many manuscripts and screenplays are stillborn. Movies make it halfway through production before the plug is pulled. Software projects fail left and right, with millions of dollars spent (sometimes billions!)

Human endeavors sometimes fail to live up to expectations.
Really struggling to see how Sveltkit is a all similar to RoR. Sveltkit is just a frontend SSR framework lacking the rest of the goodies and patterns of a full stack framework. Sveltkit seems to be a next.js alternative but not a RoR alternative
> former NYT employee here

> The Times has been pretty good and covering itself imho.

This is silly. It's like the people who say that the Bible is true because the Bible says the Bible is true.
This is also an iphone app.
Why Recursion Pharmaceuticals abandoned cell painting for brightfield imaging
This book[1] was a great read on the topic.

[1]: https://ethanmarcotte.com/books/you-deserve-a-tech-union/
The person’s identity is not in question, because he used an ID and provided documentation that proved his place of residence.
This is exacerbated by ruby's tendencies towards
"fluent" interfaces, which is actually code for
lots of methods that take undocumented hashes of
arguments

Well, I hate this too. I've been away from Ruby for 18 months but my impression was that the community has been moving away from that for a long time and toward keyword args (or whatever they're called, I forget)

and hash access with strings and symbols? nightmare fuel.

What's the alternative? I like hash access with symbols. Prevents typos and the string values for the hashes are interned AFAIK.

After running a number of rails applications in production
for going on a decade, this is really hard,

I don't feel that Ruby is worse than other languages I've used extensively (Ruby, Python, JS, C#) in this regard.

The issue is one's apps dependency graph. You keep dependencies flowing in one direction. Or you do not and you get spaghetti. I have not worked with languages that are really better or worse at this.

To take the example of a typical Rails app: it's very easy to add code to your Model A that depends on Models B, C, and D. Do that in a few models and...boom! spaghetti! Rails does not discourage or warn about this in the slightest.

It's relatively easy to avoid: have a rule that "no model can contain a reference to another model. if you have to do a thing that involves two models, put it in a service class" or some such. Of course, nobody ever does this.

Are there languages and frameworks that encourage/enforce The Right Thing in a more active way?
"Gober also testified that even though Musk has used the word “randomly” to describe how recipients are chosen, that word “is used interchangeably with the words ‘by chance.’ ”

The tried and true "what the meaning of the word 'is', is" argument.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_ipnwoPczQ
I know they have a larger range of services, but are they 20x the breadth of services? Think of what other companies do with 600 tech people and compare what the profitability per employee should be at an tech organisation of such a scale.
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If you have a large project then it's your victory or fault for whatever comes of using software marked as not ready. The React team has been absolutely clear that it's not ready.

On an aside, SolidJS has been taking a huge momentum hit recently, I think the drop in downloads is a lagging indicator. It's not an easy space, I love SolidJS and recognize that Ryan Carniato likely took a career hit to work on Solid, but my bet is that Solid will fail to catch critical mass. Really sad as I love the Solid experience.

https://npmtrends.com/astro-vs-solid-js
> Later, the UM student voter contacted the local clerk's office, asking if he could somehow get his ballot back, according to Benson's office.

> "We’re grateful for the swift action of the clerk in this case, who took the appropriate steps and referred the case to law enforcement," said a joint statement from the offices of Benson and Washtenaw County Prosecutor Eli Savit. "We are also grateful to law enforcement for swiftly and thoroughly investigating this case.

> "Anyone who attempts to vote illegally faces significant consequences, including but not limited to arrest and prosecution."

Sounds like the "significant consequences" for illegal voting only apply if you decide to turn yourself in.
An End-to-End Model with Adaptive Filtering for Retrieval-Augmented Generation
https://www.fantagraphics.com/collections/r-crumb#/filter:mf...

Fantagraphics has you covered. I’m sure someone has shared a PDF if you don’t want to track down physical copies.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/election-fact-check-noncitizens-vo...

https://www.npr.org/2024/10/12/nx-s1-5147789/voting-election...

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5yj98grr5lo

Isn't it good to be reassured this is so uncommon that no more precautions were actually needed to prevent it.
Just a third party news outlet is probably fine.
I would hate to work for an employer that didn't want me there. I'd rather they just fire me so I can get a job somewhere else.
Historically big tech provided amazing compensation and benefits compared to everyone except some finance companies. Why unionize and potentially risk a very good thing?

For context, the NY Times does not provide amazing compensation or benefits.
We know this. Because someone said it. And someone else wrote it down.
Dua Lipa has amazing arrangements for example.

There is a great podcast called Switched on Pop, which delves into music theory behind pop hits and their songwriting and arrangements, and analyzes them to show what makes them great. It will give you fresh perspective on how much thought and talent goes into some of these songs. https://switchedonpop.com/
I gave myself carpal tunnel replacing over a hundred copies of the same five lines of code with an n² complexity with a single implementation, so then I could fix the perf issue later. -500 lines over a holiday week, which was nice, but not as nice as landing the changes to the shared function and making 2/3 of the app 10x faster with the test data, which was ultimately going to be a fraction of the real data.

Don’t large scale refactor in vim folks, especially if you haven’t memorized all of the shortcuts (I hadn’t discovered block indent until weeks later. Ouchie)
What’s the solve from a company perspective? Serious question. The problem is clearly stated. Is there a best worst option > no perf reviews?
Yes and no. Contemporary spatial audio render images in real-time. Older systems rendered the image during mixing.

On the other hand psychoacoustic techniques have not changed.
Don't call it a comeback.
I know that numbers and dates can seem intimidating, but let me assure you that 1946 came before 1947, which came before 1948.
"In his testimony before the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry in January 1946, Einstein stated that he was not in favor of the creation of a Jewish state. However, in a 1947 letter to Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, he sought to persuade India to support Zionist aims of establishing a Jewish homeland in Palestine."
So again, your wishes aren’t aligned with reality.

>This is just historically wrong. First of all, the UN "decision" was actually a nonbinding proposal. Second, the leaders of the Zionist movement were preparing to go to war to create a Jewish state, regardless of what the UN did or did not propose…

Resolution 181, while not binding, remains a plan that the Arab side rejected, and the Jews accepted. This isn’t speculation; it’s simply what happened. The Arab side not only rejected the plan but also took less than 12 hours to murder seven Jews — four women and three men. Again, this is not speculation; this is actually what happened.

The Jews, acting like responsible adults, prepared for the worst-case scenario and, rightly so, prepared an army. Did the U.S. act wrongly when it strengthened its army before any hostilities from Japan? That’s what responsible adults do — they prepare for the future.

While we can only speculate on what might have happened to the Jews if the Arabs had won, it’s not speculation that Mohammed Amin al-Husseini cooperated with the Nazis. Between 1941 and 1945, he lived in Berlin and worked as a Nazi propagandist.

> Zionist paramilitary forces went town by town forcibly expelling …

At the end of the war roughly 20% of Israel population were Arabs, so obviously you are lying when you say that they went “town by town”. Why are you lying?

> The Palestinian Exodus …

I never said it happened entirely on its own; many people were forced to leave. All I said was that it was (and to an extent still is — just look at Syria) a common practice in war. It happened during the partition of India (affecting 20 million people) and at the end of WWII, when 3 million ethnic Germans were displaced. So, intelligent people, like Einstein, wouldn’t think it unprecedented
And as I was saying, and you ignored, all the land that was captured from Israel was ethnically cleansed from Jews. And there was a mass explusion of 900,000 Jews from Arab counties.

What I really find it puzzling that you might have some good arguments to the peaceful nature of the Arabs, that they were all loving and caring. 2 most lovely examples: Hadassah medical convoy massacre [0] and Kfar Etzion massacre [1]

> 1967 borders ...

I'll never defend the settlements it is an abomination. Yet the root cause of the conflict remains the Palestinian refusal to any peace plan that doesn't include the destruction of Israel.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kfar_Etzion_massacre

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kfar_Etzion_massacre
Correcting myself: the Reddit thread is for the app, which is an annoyance, but not a big deal (you are not driving).

So here is another Reddit thread about the car itself: https://old.reddit.com/r/TeslaModel3/comments/rpeemn/after_f...
How is this relevant? We expect newspapers to be balanced regardless. The issue here is reporting from someone, <anyone>, at arm's length.
Pancreatic cancer is the worst. Many people don't get a month.
Analysing diagnosis of ischaemic heart disease with machine learning(1999)
People are working on Marcion, actually Marcion and things surrounding Marcion is a hot topic right now. Look at the work by Markus Vinzent. He is currently working on the Paul version of Marcions letters.
It depends where you're coming from. Some (many now?) see Dick Cheney as a progressive liberal liar, and many on the left see him as a right-wing devil incarnate.
Fibonacci hashing: the optimization that the world forgot (or: a better alternat (2018)
Ok, we've changed from https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/04/business/media/new-york-t... to a different source.
You're amazed most people have kitchens? Lol unreal.
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Correction: Shell "$x plus $y equals $(expr $x + $y)"
Pretty sure other countries with similar CoL but much lower salaries are handling a middle class existence fine. 100k is literally better than 99% of other countries, if that isn't good enough what is?
This describes newspaper 101... from 20+ years ago. Now it's all "the reaction to the reaction to the most salacious and inflammatory interpretation"
Now that we switched to WaPo I've put it back :)
The database has the hardest 6x6 Rush hour level taking 51 moves. This goes up significantly if we make all cars to be 1x1 unit sized but each one restricted to either horizontal or vertical movement. Then the hardest 6x6 level takes a whopping 732 moves! [1]

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/cs/0502068
Is it exploitation if it's completely voluntary? I don't think you and I have the same definition for that word.
I wish i was part of a union that could strike in solidarity. Wishing them the best and hoping my colleagues see how effective this is. Under late stage capitalism, wages are going to keep dropping and rent is going to keep climbing: The only solution is direct collective action. Talk unions, talk mutual aid, talk about working together.
at some point the regulator is going to realise running everything on Azure is a planet sized concentration risk

hopefully before everything has decamped
The fact that the number of positions a cube could be in is greatly curtailed by the limitations of how many positions an assembled cube can transition to was not widely known information for a long time. When I relearned to cube it was news to me. If you haven’t touched a cube in twenty years you might not know.
Show HN: A VSCode Extension That Keeps Your Active Tab in the Leftmost Position
It's an internal as far as I remember. Used the be called "Olympus". As for its public status I have no clue.

https://www.pymnts.com/artificial-intelligence-2/2023/amazon...

Edit : link