jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
That terminology sounds almost military. Is that in your past? Because you'll have to throw out the services mindset where there is both a structured path upwards and a structured chain of command. Those things are great for organising massive amounts of people towards difficult goals, but that's not necessarily the right fit for software development.

To me most of the boxing in is done in your own mind. In my last corporate job I was a team lead who never touched the code. I was supposed to go though my manager for stuff, but he was the problem. I learnt to go straight to the CEO - most of the time the 'open door policy' isn't just lip service.

Many people face the problem in their careers that they think there is a stuctured hierarchy where you can't jump levels for problem solving, initiative or anything like that. So do stuff like that. Your job is really to make the company run as well as possible, whether that is coding or leading changes that need to be made. Staying in your box really means staying in a box that someone else has designed for you, and being successful means spreading your influence by whatever means. Just don't be an a-hole and treat everyone with respect, even those who disagree with you.
>It's not possible. There is no way to set up a server that easily, even in principle.

I partially agree, but I think we could get a lot closer than we are now. It feels like the main reason this isn't possible is because you need to go through a registrar to get a DNS name, and that's tricky to do as part of a FOSS project. Maybe you could integrate with the APIs of a few registrars, but... it's not ideal.

As far as the "run thing on server" side of it goes, though, projects like Sandstorm[0] have gotten really far re: making it a simple process. I stood up this instance of Etherpad with a few clicks on a web UI, for example: https://sandstorm.terracrypt.net/shared/aR2HXaoLSkLuXLhhAQon...

Sandstorm in particular doesn't quite work for mail servers just because the software is heavily oriented towards webapps, but there's no reason a similar system couldn't work in principle.

[0] https://sandstorm.io/
Try out Novo

[0] https://banknovo.com
>I find that hearing is the most important of the senses.

Sorry, I disagree. If you can see why you need to hear also? Seeing will give you more insight (size, speed, clear distance etc). A sound will give you none of that. You can get some clue about distance from sound but it may not be entirely accurate.
A while ago, I had a landlord who withdrew rent directly from my bank account[1] and who kept charging me rent after I had left. They also refused to return the money to me and insisted I file an ACH dispute through my bank, Simple. I was responsible for rent for me and my roomate, so being double charged rent for a month meant I was suddenly short two peoples' worth of rent.

Simple was super, super good about the whole thing. They gave me an interest-free loan for the whole amount and told me that if the dispute was successful (which it was), I'd just get to keep the loan. They also put an ACH block[2] on my account, and generally were super responsive in support.

Simple wasn't great for a lot of stuff you could expect from normal banks, like writing checks (for a while, you couldn't get a checkbook from them), cashier's checks, and money orders, but for everything else, they worked really well. I'm kinda sad to see them go.

[1]: I now know this is a bad idea. Always use a 3rd party or pay manually!
[2]: ACH blocks are weak, but they're the only sort of protection against malicious actors like this. They prevent a specific amount of money from being withdrawn from a specific party, but there's no way to, say, block all withdrawal attempts from a party.
Do you know of any alternatives to simple that have a similar awesome budgeting tool with "safe to spend"?
I can't speak to how Tesla or Waymo work at that level but I suspect they don't use sound. Even for yourself, it seems as if sound helps you to be aware of something that you then look at. If a car can already "see" in 360 degrees and everything already gets the same amount of attention, would sound help?
Have you not asked this exact same question multiple times already in this thread?
It is, in the new 2020 definition.
Nice read. Speaking as a PhD I am okay with the PhD certificate having no value (you don't deserve extra earnings for having the certificate). It was my intent to learn some valuable things during the degree process, and I did.
Churchill is reported to have said, "A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on."
I suppose it isn't surprising that Odersky glosses over the fact that the new collections library in Scala isn't type-safe. They apparently just couldn't get the variances on type parameters to work out, so they cheated and added an annotation to ignore them: @uncheckedVariance.

"Scala is a general purpose programming language designed to express common programming patterns in a concise, elegant, and type-safe way."

Really? But not expressive enough to write the standard collections library I guess?

[UPDATE]: It gets even more amusing -- I just learned they have a paper on the collections library called "Fighting Bit Rot with Types" where they again make no mention of @uncheckedVariance. I guess mentioning that they had to cheat the type system would have undermined their goal of "focussing on the role that type systems play in keeping software architectures coherent over time."
PhD graduates do at least earn more than those with a bachelor’s degree. A study in the Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management by Bernard Casey shows that British men with a bachelor’s degree earn 14% more than those who could have gone to university but chose not to. The earnings premium for a PhD is 26%. But the premium for a master’s degree, which can be accomplished in as little as one year, is almost as high, at 23%.

I wonder what this number would be like if you cut the number of academic jobs in half. Because that's what I see happening in the future.

I mean, I don't want to say the people on HN are smarter than the rest of the world but we do tend to spot trends earlier only because of the collaborative nature of the site and that people here actually evaluate the world around them. Which means societal trends can become apparent here before the rest of the world realizes they're going on.

So I think it's instructional that we see a "Higher Education is broken" item about every couple of days. In the years to come I suspect we'll see a lot more competition from lower priced options that provide education using online tools and who don't need armies of research fellows and "postdocs". Combine that with Governments making serious budget cuts and I think you'll see the demand for PhD's plummet.
Why, they're hipsters, of course! Cool people who became so because they learned HTML5 and liked being seen learning it
You should also link to any particularly informative HN post about your product.
Funny you should mention that. First private beta of my site that does fairly much what you described going live tomorrow.

It is for all businesses though, not just startups.

I have been working on this one for about 4 months (from idea to build)

It would be great to have some more people to try it out in a week or 2 if you are interested?
I have got my kids hooked on vim https://vim-adventures.com/
Once you've committed to a dam, much of the environmental damage is baked in, whether small or large. And dams have huge environmental impacts across the entire river system.

They still have their place. There is a pumped hydro system here in the Bay Area (San Luis Reservoir) that is coupled to a hydro station, and produces power when it drains back in to the aqueducts. It's primary purpose is water capture and distribution, not power storage, but it does both.
"“As a former judge, I view this process with the same impartial, evidence-based decision-making as I did my job on the bench,” wrote Cornyn, a former justice on the Texas Supreme Court. “So, unless substantial, new evidence is presented during the challenges to each state’s ballots, I will not object to the certification of that state’s election results based on unproven allegations.”"
You don't consider the pill part of the Overton window? It was introduced largely due to an ulterior agenda of population control and eugenics, and seems to have furthered that goal effectively.
Have you looked into model checking with TLA+? It allows you to exhaustively check that assertions are not violated by an abstract model.

This won't help you test UI code directly but it's a great way to make sure your system's core concepts works.

https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/tla-messages/ is a good article for getting a sense of what TLA+ is about.
Google account
Interesting! I never looked into it, but now I will!
I think that line was a joke.
It looks interesting but the price on them is insane. The watchless version has an MSRP of $150.
Their bookmarklet works nicely on teaparty.org, which is not served via HTTPS.
This whole subthread is speculation about the role of gender in the choice of obsessive hobbies, or am I imagining that?

I agree with you that most men over the course of history did not have the luxury that Darwin did.
I use Jekyll and Webpack (plus Stimulus) together and write a number of plugins to help me build component-ish website layouts with various interactive bits, and that's worked out quite nicely. At this point anything I build that's not a Ruby on Rails app proper starts its life out as a Jekyll project.

* Biz site: https://whitefusion.io

* Personal site: https://jaredwhite.com
I deliberately became the just a job guy. Why should I bother my arse coming up with “insights into the product” - a product which I don’t own, in a company which I don’t own? They’re still only gonna pay me as a developer. I might as well run my own business if I have to deal with all that. Now I’ll be a short-order cook for 8 hours and forget about work once I’ve left it... at least it’s relaxing.
Is the administration most like to implement UBI also the administration most likely to reduce regulations that dictate how you must conduct your business?
I care about it enough to contact my local representative (my MP because I'm in the UK) and he agrees with me that there should be explicit legislation to control the use of these technologies. The EU's GPDR is a step in that direction when it comes to things like automated decision-making. Open source is not a solution here, and to suggest otherwise seems like it misses the wood for the trees. Besides which, I hardly think that restricting the use of cameras on doorbells (which is what this sub-thread is about) is "severely reducing convenience."
I think a lot of people may not like the work that they do and the number of hours they have to do it to earn the money that they do, and then get angry at people who can earn money either without doing that much work (eg people on welfare or people who own things that generate revenue) or people who like the work that they do. In a way, a form of "it's not fair, I have to work hard at a job I hate for my money, they should as well."

I mean, I think there are plenty of other reasons as well, such as the effectiveness of such a program or trust that the people receiving the money won't use it on things the people giving the money deem immoral. But I think the big one is just that I believe most of us humans receive money by renting ourselves out for money and doing things we don't like, and instead of finding ways to receive money by renting out other things we own or by finding a thing we enjoy doing, we harp on those who do. (I think why Andre Yang is trying to frame a UBI as a dividend is that it reframes it into we as citizens own stock in the economy and should receive profit sharing...but that's a convo for another day)
> Nearly every official and media outlet saying it was suicide is directly implicated in the scandal.

How are these media outlets directly implicated?
You absolutely do, but I think there are a lot more people who have dedication than have talent.
Anyways: after considering all the messiness, I gave it a pass.

There is a lesson here. "Computer people" have a real aversion to simply scaling up a business by using humans to do things. Sometimes that simple answer (hire a bunch of people to do stuff) is the right answer, provided the economics of the business work.
I do wonder about filters like these on the upcoming messaging. Will there be a point where the blockage hits the non-tech savvy in a way that ends up on the news?

// does the phrase "XXXX is a lame book" get blocked?
While I agree with the all the principles of having good vertical rhythm on page typography it has often been impractical to chase down and fix the offending markup and CSS. This appears to take a lot of the grunt-work out of finding and fixing the vertical rhythm issues on a page. Thanks, and keep it coming.
There's some recognition of a parody defense in U.S. trademark law, though it isn't that clear, and I don't think there are any definitive Supreme Court cases on it. There are a number of law-review articles trying to make sense of the subject, though: http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&sciodt=2000&...
I have an Eye-Fi Pro (1st Gen) and an HTC Evo with hotspot. The problem with this combo is that the Eye-Fi has to be connected for a while before it starts uploading. By the time it starts, my battery is already dead. It works better with the MiFi for some reason. Note that either of these methods kill the geolocation feature. Since my camera is just a point and shoot (Samsung TL205 with front LCD), the quality isn't much better than just using the 8MP Evo camera.
Thanks for a great feedback on your thought process while filling out the fields and suggestions.
Appreciate it very much and will certainly look into that.
The best way to deal with it right now IMO is to opt out of flying altogether and start hammering the bottom line of American airlines. Before someone comments that "the airlines don't have jurisdiction over the TSA", I would simply remind everyone that the airline lobbyists are very powerful in Washington and have been complicit with the new procedures. When the airlines feel the heat financially, they'll see the light. Regarding John Pistole's recent tough talk, I predict that he'll fold by Christmas.
I don't do much (hardly any) international travel, but in my experience, in US airports the international arrivals and domestic departures are physically separate security zones. You can't get off an international flight and hop on a domestic flight without going through security again.
> Let your competitors spend big money on marketing and branding. Then steal their users with a superior product.

This is potentially poor advice. There are many examples of where a inferior product grabs market share and revenue to fund their ongoing growth via marketing and leaves a great product in the dust.

Both product and marketing are important and in my limited experience Id take great marketing/distribution over a greater product as sad at this is to what seems logically correct.
Yeah but that is something unifi only recently fixed with the dream machine. The standard unifi security gateway mazes out below 100 megabit if ips and ids is enabled.
The same fellow who pitted cities and states against one another in a bidding war to obtain billions in tax credits for HQ2...and ultimately because the deals were so good he already reneged on the number of jobs promised by creating 2 new HQs resulting in 1/2 the jobs and investment while double dipping on the tax credits.

Bernie said it best a single Amazon Prime membership is more than Amazon paid in taxes in 2017 and 2018 combined.
While that is true, I did try searching the main git man page for GIT_DIR and found it said the following:

> GIT_DIR

> If the GIT_DIR environment variable is set then it specifies a path to use instead of the default .git for the base of the repository. The --git-dir command-line option also sets this value.

That said, manuals are typically written like this, meaning that for terms one isn't already aware of, there is a need to search through the index to find its meaning and them piece together the information.
Life is certainly less stressful if you ignore all the terrible things... unless a terrible thing happens to you and everyone ignores you.
I can only speak for Unity until versions till maybe 2019 - and I never developed a full commercial title with it - just a few game jam games - so maybe I'm not the best authority on that... But I think it's quite far away in many of those features

Sure you can try out your game immediately in the editor, by pressing the play button - but can you edit Source code and it will be immediately applied without restarting and without losing the current game state?

You can edit and adjust scene objects in the inspector during play mode but those changes are usually thrown away after quitting play mode.

I never did serious mobile dev with unity but I same as above... updating and editing your game source persistently at runtime during playing doesn't seem possible, since it's completely compiling everything into an Android package right?

Building for all desktop platforms under a minute - this is 100% not true..... Almost all of the last hours of game jams where I used unity where spent in worry waiting for a long build process not being sure everything works all right afterwards - and that was always for just _one_ platform at a time...... DragonRuby builds your games into fully functional Windows, Mac, Linux, HTML5 and FWIW Raspberry Pi builds in under a minute in total for all those platforms. I don't know of any other Engine (except maybe LÖVE2D which is interpreted in its basic nature and doesn't need building) which can do anything close to that speed

Persistent flexibly modifiable game state? - maybe there's something in the asset store - but out of the box?

Cross-platform File storage is the only thing where I can see that that is probably a well solved problem in Unity....

I cannot speak for the other game engines. But in general it would be nice if you back up your claims.....
I wanted to second this, so thank you for being positive. Even though I'm not a rubyist, I do appreciate having options.

A hard yet important lesson in life is to learn to do things in spite of haters hating. For example, I'm writing a programming language, and I can almost guarantee that people will hate it... and that's ok.
There's plenty of stuff on Barricade Garage's channel that you would consider far right. But perhaps you should consider that his message is actually that the establishment successfully keeps us from cooperating by perpetuating a left vs right narrative. The reason they do this is so we don't unite against them.

I think he has a pretty good point. You could try listening to some of his "far right" views. They are in YouTube and BitChute: "CNN INTERVIEW GONE WRONG" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vb0lh3_s4Dk and "HE GOT HIT WITH THAT BIG MAC" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PWiMiO5Buo

I've never seen a member of the "far right" throw gang signs before.
Possibly. But that also depends on how corporate taxes are implemented.

I have no clue what his aspirations are, I don't follow this type of news very much at all, I just remembered that he stepped down and now suddenly he thinks companies should pay more (or in Amazon's case, some) tax.
I was under the impression that it was something more like "method and process for making a better mouse trap" and not "any old thing that catches mice". We're to the point now that mouse trap makers are suing the breeders of cats.
Forcing the customer to drop the item(s) on a scale seems most reasonable, but requires relatively strong controls to ensure the customer isn't pulling shenanigans like placing item A and item B into a bag, then co-mingling them when weighing them later.
I use pandoc[0], along with an mkfile – which is like a makefile, but slightly cleaner[1].

The mkfile handles deployment (just scp a fixed list, keeps me in control over what is put online) as well as construction of the pages. It also runs checks like spelling and liveliness of links. Local links are checked by first cloning the repo, so that I do not forget to add files.

There is also some custom code in there to add prefetch links for local files.

[0]: https://pandoc.org/

[1]: https://9fans.github.io/plan9port/man/man1/mk.html
https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn26694-humans-and-bird...
This may be true in the US but definitely not in Europe. I guess here they get hauled off to Poland where there's still some value in them.
It's easy to think of Uber as a non-essential service, but it's not really -- it's started to get its tendrils into a lot of places. E.g. https://qz.com/1971558/uber-plans-to-play-a-bigger-role-in-p... -- Uber is being baked into public transit plans as a viable last-mile option.
Yeah, it was JC.
> but "private citizens operating unregulated hotels/taxis" seemed impossible/illegal just a decade ago

Every city has had gypsy cabs and Craigslist hotels since forever.
I've worked with Samsung Semiconductor as a partner/customer and it did seem to me from the outside that there was a culture of not admitting mistakes/failings, and poor communication between different parts of the company (i.e. foundry to silicon engineering). Granted, you could say the same thing re: communication about many large companies -- I'm sure the same phenomenon occurs at Intel or IBM (back before they went fabless). Things may have been different on software teams vs. silicon/hardware teams.
It’s Palm Sunday in the Orthodox Church, which features Pilate heavily.
Google was a money-loser for quite some time

No. Google was incorporated in 1998, profitable in 2001, and the IPO was in 2004. Total investment pre-IPO was about $25 million.
Some random advice in no particular order.

* Music production on the PC can be really cheap, almost for free, but it can be really overwhelming and hard to figure out where to start.

* The hardware synth (dawless) route can be a deep rabbit hole leading to GAS (gear aquisition syndrome). Resist.

* Music is more about intervals, the distances between notes, than about the notes themselves. Let this sink in.

* If I were to only buy one piece of gear at all, I'd buy the Synthstrom Deluge. Really immediate, easy to get into and still deep and powerful. This the device you want.

* If the Deluge is out of your budget, get a used Novation Circuit on Craigslist.

* The limitations hardware synths have, can be a challenge sparking creativity. Embrace the limitations.

* Layers.

* Don't fill up all the space. Deliberately leave some room.

* Record everything.

* There are no wrong notes. There is only tension and release. Tension can be good. It is interesting. Learn to build tension and how to release it. Practice.

* Don't overthink it. Practice. Better to knock out a bunch of shitty or mediocre tracks than thinking about that one smash hit you never make.

* Modular is a money grave. VCVRack is for free. Omri Cohen is your best friend in this realm. Bespoke synth gives you even more freedom.

* Music theory is helpful if you understand that it is only a lighthouse. You can still go whereever you want.

* Start here if you are a computer nerd: https://eev.ee/blog/2016/09/15/music-theory-for-nerds/

* Start here if you are afraid of Music theory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoeHDN2FVTc
...those are all technical problems, no?
How is a question about ethnic groups in the US now not political? Where do you think those differences in food security come from?

>the specific example I gave isn't asking for any conclusions, only observations

Well, here's an observation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Spaghetti_Monster#/medi...

Setting the joke aside, is there really that much difference between giving you that (perfectly true) statistic and just telling you "pirates prevent global warming"?
Is the obesity rates in the United Sates also a “propagandistic construct”?