jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Generally speaking - your technical qualifications value over a replacement hit their peak sometime between 3 and 10 years into your career for most folks. Meaning while you may be particularly skilled, learning one more discipline, stack, technique, or language probably won't let you get a particular job done any better or faster than the next engineer.

Many engineers move to management at this point, which requires that you can mentor and grow a team of engineers, set goals, drive projects to completion, and manage your team through performance reviews.

Folks who stick to the technical path need to become an indispensable piece of technical glue across N teams, keeping them all building in the right direction and not crushing each other. This job requires deep technical knowledge but often doesn't involve a ton of coding e.g. Linus Torvalds.

If a junior engineer showed up with the behavioral qualifications of Torvalds and the technical skill of a junior engineer - they would still be a junior engineer and unable to build trust, guide a team effort, or other activities.
it doesn't, that's just what the bill says. The $500 aspirin stories are about what's printed on the bill but that is no where close to what is actually paid.

This is a huge problem IMO and i mentioned it upthread. The prices printed on bills are never what's paid (unless some poor patient thinks that's what they actually owe). It's all negotiable. Taking away price negotiating and enforcing that what is on the bill is what is expected to be paid would help a lot. These ridiculous numbers would go away and people would actually know what their healthcare actually costs.

edit: here's something to try, let's say your in teh US and you have a prescription card that does not cover brand medications, only generic. Goto your pharmacist and ask them how much you'll have to pay to get the brand. Then, offer to pay them half that amount in cash. You'll be surprised at the results.
If you're the one copy pasting code, aren't you the cookie cutter software engineer?
I wouldn't use it for work, and for that reason I like the idea of something being the opposite of work... where it doesn't have to be "professional" looking.
I would disagree. How is solving for better communication not meaningful?
The documentation seems a bit incomplete, not what I'm used to with GNU. There seems to be no list of all units supported.

I tried converting torque "100 ft lbf" to standard ISO notation (Nm). Let's see:

units "100 ft lbs" "Nm"
> Unknown unit 'Nm'

units "100 ft lbs" "nm"
> conformability error

units "100 ft lbs" "newton meter"
> * 135.58

How am I supposed to know that 'newton' must be written in full (though 'ft' and 'lbs' can be abbreviated)? Searching for 'newton' in the manpage yields 0 results.
> He disliked competitors, possessed an outsized ego, could not abide criticism and was prone to extreme exaggeration. He was also an ardent self-promoter.

From that description, would he have been a great candidate to be a US president 4 years ago?
> "unless its perfect its futile to even try"

I didn't say that. I said there's little we can do, not nothing we can do. And there are people, Stallman and others, who are doing something. I'm simply acknowledging that it's a mountain, not a foothill.
Glory to great leader Gen. Prayuth, savior of the fish!
Not quite REPL (not sure C# is a great fit for REPL) but I've found LINQPad very useful for trying out code snippets locally. https://www.linqpad.net
Reflection is so amazing. The WebGL has a bright future.
I wonder if this is related to what someone mentioned above in the thread whereby Japanese firms seem to value implicit, mutually beneficial behavior
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Looks similar to Spyder: https://www.spyder-ide.org/
Slippery slope works in both directions. If the president is spreading misinformation on an election he just lost, and if everybody's OK with that, what happens when a more capable wannabe dictator comes next and spreads misinformation? We just let them seize the power?
Why wouldn't it be? Hiring contractors, and not employees is completely normal and legal in most countries.
You mean directing people were they want by pretending they don't want you to while not taking action against those who do?

If so, do you have other notable examples or is it insider information? ;-)
Consider Fidelity’s cash management account. Great mobile UX, great financial product.
The bigger issue to me is that there's no diversification of risk. If your company goes under, you lose 100% of your income all at once. From that perspective, it'd be a lot more rational to work say ten jobs at a single time.

You're never at serious risk of losing more than 30% of your paycheck in any short period. You could even get smart and balance your portfolio of jobs between pro and counter-cyclical industries. Plus, it's a good way to let people gracefully transition between careers. Want to move into machine learning? Take a low-paying junior ML internship for one of your 1/10 jobs to build experience.

It'd also be good from a societal perspective, since jobs at small, fast-growing, but high-risk companies would become comparatively more attractive. It'd be harder to sustain toxic workplace environments, since any given employee would have plenty of other options. Managers would be less hesitant to shutdown money losing divisions or fire underperfomers, since you're not leaving the employee destitute.
Apparently it's a whole collection of repos - each .bundle file in the torrent can be expanded with git clone to a full repo according to the readme, there are about 250 bundle files in the torrent.
While I have not yet finished Dr Conrad Barski's "Land of Lisp", I would highly recommend it to anyone interested in an introductory book as I am really enjoying it.
I prefer to bind it to ` with `` to send a real `. It makes it really easy to flip back and forth between two screen windows since last-window is now:

`q

Now I don't even have to use Ctrl. This takes a little getting used to, but I prefer to use $() instead of `` for shell scripts (I use bash/zsh) so I don't make use of ` that often.

I do have bindings on F11 and F12 to toggle the escape character between ` and C-o. (Just in case I need to paste something into a terminal with ` characters.)

(Note: This whole setup is ripped off from some StackOverflow or HN post.)
Jaiku seems to be running strong on App Engine so it is possible to open source a large application and have it keep jugging on. I don't see Yahoo being interested in porting to GAE though.
Agree. To consume a local store's customer service resources with every intention "not" to purchase a product there is immoral.
Somebody connect this to Hacker News for me. If this is Hacker News, what human rights story isn't?
All it needs is audio out to a bluetooth headset...
I thought the same thing when I started my startup (we make physical stuff too). Then I started learning about injection molding, tooling, materials, minimum order quantities, packaging, etc.

It turns out that very simple things are very expensive to start with because of the low quantities. I thought an order for 30,000 was massive, but some companies we worked with flat out laughed in my face.

So even though he raised a million bones, he's "only" making < 13,000 watches. That'll still be pretty expensive for him.
Gene Wolfe is fantastic. The Book of the New Sun deconstructed the fantasy genre decades before G. R. R. Martin, in a much more sophisticated way than Moorcock. Unfortunately Wolfe has a much smaller readership, undeservedly so.
Well I can confirm that all vehicles manufactured in Europe after 2002 do have something comparable to a "black box", recording all sorts of engine parameters which can subsequently be downloaded for analysis.
We're firmly in science-fiction territory and most everyone who would pay attention to this article knows it.

What's your justification for saying this? The author of the article laid out a series of examples supporting the contrary point.
How is this plan different from existing constellations like Iridium or Globastar?
It isn't illegal. But Murray's work is both bad science and has been used to justify all sorts of policy and social systems that harm certain groups (black people in particular). If somebody shows up at a party talking about this great book they read called "The Bell Curve" it is a reasonable bayesian prior to be leery of them.
...if it weren't already a popular game where some people will have prior exposure and therefore a big advantage.
It was the Market leader with 35% of the camcorder market.

Anyway, they killed the product in the most expensive way possible. If they wanted to save money they could have just cut the R&D budget, reduced production and quietly sold off their inventory. Instead they waited until a few weeks before introducing the product before killing it.

PS: As to why: They make far more money pretending that video conferencing is difficult. N flip phones + N laptops (which people already have) + wifi = 2, 3, or 4 way videoconferencing on the cheap.
Actually, given the original OS X graphics API inspiration, Canvas 2D is arguably closer to 'native' on Macs (and maybe iOS devices) than any other platform.

Web3D seems likely to be more at home on primarily OpenGL supporting platforms too.
>Best minds of any generation have always thought about ways to make money.

Yeah, but sometimes it comes from developing technology that sends people to the moon. Or technology that reduced a roomful of vacuum tube computer technology to a chip the size of your fingernail. Or finding ways to mass-produce cheap chip-based computers affordable my hundreds of millions of people... You know, stuff that actually kinda matters, and can improve people's lives.
This post is not fair to history. First, many theologians of old were first rate thinkers. Although much of their work was practical (philosophy in this case heh) they made contributions to logic, physics and uhm philosophy. Perhaps you have heard of William of Ockham or Thomas Aquinas? As for manuscripts, this was before the printing press so making manuscripts was vital to knowledge spreading. Note that in this time Fibonacci and Copernicus lived.

Finally, although things were slow in Europe, during this time the arabs, persians and indians layed the foundations of and invented some of the greatest inventions in the history of the universe including: positional decimal numbering, zero, and algebra. As well as furthering calculus, geometry, astronomy and number theory. Arabic medicine also maintained and made some contributions to the state of the art of greek and roman times.

http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/HistTopics/Arabic_m...

http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/HistTopics/Zero.htm...
They care about getting their water running, their toilet flushing or their washing machine washing. What part of doing that job quickly and robustly doesn't speak to the quality of the job done? The client may not be down there looking at the plumbing every day but the reliability, and ease of future repair is directly related to the quality of the job done and is something the client most certainly cares about.
They didn't restore the censorship on google.cn... Instead, right now google.cn is just a landing page linking to www.google.com.hk so it's just basically the same as a redirect, the user just needs to click on the link instead of being sent there automatically...
Doesn't that usually happen when ideology is involved?
From a purely technical perspective, I've never worked for a SaaS company that had SOPs for "what if our cloud provider pulls the plug on us today?". I'm sure big enterprise companies do this, but small nascent companies probably don't consider this to be one of the bigger risks that they face.

Sure, they run an unpopular business, but I would not predicted the convergence of (1) the Capitol Hill riots would have taken place and (2) that the media would characterize it as a coup attempt or similar and argue that Parler was responsible (as opposed to Facebook where the planning seems to have taken place) and (3) that this would result in AWS kicking them off of their platform overnight. It's really hard to predict where the mob will focus it's wrath or in what proportion.
Both Laras are in-game models rendered in real time. Final Fantasy took nearly 90 minutes per frame to draw.
Test your pills? How? Anyone can do it?
> You cannot be an expert in every field and actually follow the evidence to make up your own conclusion (which btw does not guarantee that your interpretation of the evidence is correct).

This is true; but it doesn't mean that trusting experts is necessarily going to make you any better off. If the experts themselves aren't following the evidence, either because they have an ideological axe to grind or because there simply isn't enough evidence to be helpful, their opinions won't be of any more value than yours.

> I feel helpless every time I'm at the doctor's office. I cannot just "follow the evidence".

And many doctors can't either. Medicine is not a very advanced science compared to your field, physics. In fact, there are practically no sciences which are as advanced as physics. So if you're expecting that experts in other fields are basing their advice on the sort of evidence and predictive theories that you're used to seeing in physics, you're going to be very disappointed.
What was it like having C++ be your first language? I've heard so many say that is A Bad Idea™.

What was your experience? What tools would you recommend, if someone were to start there today?

It seems like no matter where you choose to start, learning C or C++ is going to be an inevitable necessity. So I wonder, why not just start there?

I would definitely like to talk to you further about it, if you're willing.
I think medical care is the missing part of the equation in your anecdote (and gp's). If you get malaria and medical attention, you'll have a lousy time, but probably be fine.

However, for people with limited access to medical care (too remote or too impoverished), preventing Malaria altogether is the best bet, hence mosquito nets.
The problem is that these laws are pushed by the insurance and auto lobbies specifically to discourage cycling.

Look behind the big bicycle advocacy organizations in the United States and you'll see serious funding from the American Automobile Association and bicycle companies. I assume the situation in NZ is similar.
Your contributions to this thread have been my favorite moments in HN for the past two weeks. Thank you.
But then it won't get any traction, kind of a catch 22.
The issue isn't as great as you portray it to be. You're facing beginner issues and learning a foreign topic, expect to spend some time on it and put in the mental effort and you'll master it in no time. After spending an hour to write "Guess the number" game with and without do notation, you should know enough to be able to write practical programs in Haskell. Yes, an hour for guess the number is a lot, but it's the learning part that takes the time, not just putting a program together.

It makes perfect sense to have do notation and desugaring it to use >>=. For "imperative" programming, do notation makes sense. Other times you'll be writing data processing "pipelines" where using >>= is more convenient. To give an example:

readQueries inFile >>= readFromDb db >>= writeOutput outFile

The above would be very clumsy to write in do notation (but not too difficult, that's what you'd do in an imperative language). But writing "guess the number" without do notation is also clumsy (but a good learning exercise).

do notation and monad laws may be a foreign concept when coming from an imperative programming background, but it's also a neat an elegant concept that works very well in practice.
A 700-sized heli can kill you, but I'm not sure that even a large drone would do as much damage: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2413231/Roman-Piroze...

I say this because the heli in the story, as most high-end consumer RC helis these days, had 2 carbon fiber blades, and on the 700 size, tip to tip on the blades is about a meter. Consider the weight and tip speed of each blade vs. A large quad or hex or octocopter. The blades will be much smaller, so much much less kinetic energy at the tips. You also don't do this with quads: http://youtu.be/EYWLqui5VsM
They show contempt for civil liberties but claim to operate within the law. Since GCHQ is specifically mentioned (and pretty much exempted) in most surveilance related laws this seems plausible.

There is weakness in the oversight that GCHQ is supposed to have.
I would disagree with you there, actually. As Scott Aaronson says:
"Quantum mechanics is what you would inevitably come up with if you started from probability theory, and then said, let's try to generalize it [...] As such, the theory could have been invented by mathematicians in the 19th century without any input from experiment. It wasn't, but it could have been.

[...]

In this lecture, I'm going to try to convince you -- without any recourse to experiment -- that quantum mechanics would also have been on God's whiteboard. I'm going to show you why, if you want a universe with certain very generic properties, you seem forced to one of three choices: (1) determinism, (2) classical probabilities, or (3) quantum mechanics. Even if the "mystery" of quantum mechanics can never be banished entirely, you might be surprised by just how far people could've gotten without leaving their armchairs! That they didn't get far until atomic spectra and so on forced the theory down their throats is one of the strongest arguments I know for experiments being necessary."

http://www.scottaaronson.com/democritus/lec9.html
The newest version of the Signal app (Android) has the option to also unlock with the unlock pattern.

The screenshot in the video shows the older version of Signal.
-And, you know, it usually does!

Technically, his scheme did "work". Though it wasn't what we might call an unqualified success...
And if you look closer you’ll see that it’s a FTP server with a HTTP interface (http, not https, by default mind you).

ftp://ftp.gnu.org/
This is a big stretch, but I do wonder with Thiel's Christian background and his interest in Girard's mimetic theory that he sees himself as acting in a Christ-like manner -- strategically sacrificing himself again and again in order to save that which he loves, even if it doesn't love him back.

The problem with that of course is the "strategically". He's made what seem to be deals with the devil on many occasions -- Trump being the obvious example, and having a hand in pardoning Levandowski being the most recent one. I'm not so sure that he's crossed the line into "evil villain" territory as many think, but is he headed that way? Maybe.
Of course the drive circuit is overheating. An LF353 op-amp is not a power device. Maximum continuous total power dissipation for that part is 500 mW. Driving a motor hard requires an output power transistor with more current handling capacity.

Since there's already an op-amp with feedback, that op-amp can be used to take the feedback signal from after the power transistor, so you'll still have closed-loop following and the output voltage will track the input properly. One power transistor in a TO-220 case (about US$0.59 each) per channel should give you about 10 or more watts, rather than 500mW. That ought to be enough.

The Art of Electronics is good for designing things like this. And LTSpice helps.
Speaking of disk, on a laptop where hibernate did work, I once ended up with more disk space available than there was in total, because it was mounted through the hibernate and I was using it from another OS. Lucky a reboot fixed that bit of weirdness.
Why should she? Grandma primarily uses Facebook, Instagram, and Facetime. Grandma doesn't have a goal to become a better computer user in general terms. Linux gives effectively 0 value to her over any other OS. And negative value in a number of various ways. Driver support among them.
I recently tried to overcome some unexpected reader mode behavior on my site, and found it very difficult to find good, consistent, thorough documentation. It’s pretty opaque and can change without warning, and unlike most browser technology intentionally so (because documenting it makes it easy for ads and other junk to cheat). That said, I found one article[1] much more helpful than most of the other resources I found, linking here so it might help others.

1: https://medium.com/@mandy.michael/building-websites-for-safa...
HN has a strong bias towards criticism of US policy, but that's actually good because we need to fix our stuff as well. It gets caught in the crossfire, sheds light and puts public eyes on shitty things we do in the USA. It's a win-win. City dwellers and highly educated people in the US (HN crowd essentially) are internationalized, but lately trying to be more fair to criticisms of CCP just for the sake of being "balanced". Truth prevails at the end of the day. What you're saying is true though. Are there 2 million people in reducation camps in the US based on ethnicity?
I used to switch between US and DK layouts, it's just so much easier to just have one layout. In my opinion, learning US Intl is worth it. Besides, it's pretty predictable for Spanish characters: á = altgr+a, é = altgr+e and so on.
This is completely consistent with my statement :)

Our time perception of the object remains the same, but the processes experienced by the object itself are much slower, relative to how we perceive them.

Specifically, if the object falling in is emitting blue light, and let's say that the frequency of blue light is one per second for the sake of doing some arithmetic, then that object keeps emitting 1/second and looks blue to itself. But in our frame of reference, those 1/second actually become .1/second (its time is moving slower then our time), and appears red.
This could really use a demo video. I like the concept but when I jumped into the editor it seemed like a generic design tool. I kind of expected it to jump straight into a 3D perspective.