skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pretty much. Which is the daily life of a test pilot (especially at the time, some planes were absolute death traps). They knew the engineers were trying to make things as safe as possible, but they were still sitting atop giant missiles full of stuff going kabloey if you looked at it wrong: Glenn's first orbit was launched by an Atlas LV-3B, a modified and saferized derivation of the Atlas D ICBM powered by RP1/LOX.

Well to be fair RP1/LOX is fairly tame when compared with H2/LOX or Hydrazine derivatives.
Kind of a weird comment. Is this a writing prompt, or do you really talk to people in the "I'd love to hear about your love" manner?

Radio is awesome because of how awesome it is. Check out the new startup, google.com, if you want to find some more material about why.
What does that have to do with Chrome being default-installed along with the Adobe Flash plugin?
I think that is part of the point. You want to do things that make it obvious when the runtime structure has gotten arbitrarily nested. Closure callbacks actually help there, since they make it someone visible and easy to "smell."

That is, if you have the same nesting at runtime, but it is just somewhat obscured by the naming style that you did, that sounds problematic to me. Ideally, you find structural ways to get rid of that nesting. (I said elsewhere that I'm a huge fan of first class queues. There are other options. Callbacks are one. And realistically, what you describe is an option, too. None of them are intrinsically bad.)
also, it helps you focus on the main benefit of what your selling.
I think Surface Pro + ARM Processor + Cellular Connectivity will be the ultimate portable development environment.

I think bouncing off on your idea of the windows phone, it'd be a crazy win if you at the end of the day, you didn't have to carry a big laptop bag, but you could carry it in your back pocket.

maybe we don' even need monitors or keyboards. it could be VR or AR even....!
They did not, and that is precisely what makes them heroic.
At the time of the Mercury program, the career fatality rate of military fighter pilots was around 20%, without any help from the enemy. NASA lost four astronauts flying T-38 trainers. An occasional launch didn't raise the risk much for people in that business.
That's a perfectly acceptable concern to have. Especially with Microsoft, and its use of the big three agencies, H1B in general, perma-temps, etc.

However, there was a bit more to the story - one, that I'd started discussions with them and the agency prior to moving from Australia to Seattle, and they'd been willing to sponsor a visa (that wasn't needed), and sure enough, a couple of weeks after, my team had some new testers who weren't H1B who'd filled the position.

And it might be a little misleading on my part, there wasn't a sense of absolute, outright apathy. But just a growing more deflated tiredness, perhaps.
Burning my karma, but I can't resist; lots of students in my high school agreed that collaborating in sex ed was far more beneficial than studying solo.
You have a positive upvote balance (so far) for your comments. I believe you are victimizing Amazon employees and taking comments personally. Anyone on HN who hasn't worked at Amazon has to rely on the experiences of those who have. And there is a large amount of negative accounts, especially compared to other companies.

Whining about a hive-mind is a self-fulfilling prophesy. Sustaining an opposing view when people generalize about employment at Amazon is a good way to change minds. HN is about entrepreneurial activity and technology, not fatalism.
Thanks Zach, without quicklisp I probably wouldn't still be hacking in CL.
it's a BS question so it deserves a BS answer.
Speaking of irrational, when flying I think, "What if this is the day I discover my superpower to walk through objects and fall to the earth." I think that's about as irrational as I can get for a fear.
I don't like the chrome of Chrome.

Safari looks like it belongs here. Chrome does not. Also:

• The resources thing. I often use Safari windows with 100+ open tabs.

• I like Safari's tabs implementation better: new tabs go to the far right. In the past all browsers with tabs did that, now Safari seems to be the last holdout while the others seem to put new tabs to the right of the opening tab. I can understand the logic there but I find it unusable without a tree-like visualization like some Firefox extensions. If there is a browser which had this natively I'd be tempted. I still miss OmniWeb.

Safari's ⌘W-behavior for the new tab now jumps back to the tab which opened the newly closed tab. I really hope that isn't a hint of bad days to come.

Why this heavy focus on tabs? I basically use my default browser window as a LIFO stack of tabs to read. It works great for me, thirteen years and counting. I don't want that to change.

• When Safari went through its bad time, the WebKit2 area, I was tempted. Another detail which held me at the time: Safaris Pinch to Zoom on the trackpad was superior to everything else elsewhere. It still is but Firefox and Chrome at least but a little bit work into it.
as your body lay here on earth,
your soul has touched the stars.

thanks for spending time with us.

rest in peace.
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In practice, I think many of those people would probably just die of starvation or exposure, unless some charitable NGO picked up the tab. I don't have enough statistics to say whether it'd be most such people.
I'm sure I'll get down voted but I'm putting in my anecdotal two cents, regardless.

Are you having sex? Sex is a pretty good remedy for this type of stuff.
it's an outrage because workers can and should demand better treatment. there is an industry wide standard of how developers ought to be treated and Amazon is well below it.

yes, of course nobody is compelled to interview at or go work for amazon. however, working conditions anywhere matter for workers everywhere.
Why not Safari or Opera?

Competition is good. You can make a standards based browser and then add additional features that others can't or won't provide. Building it in house gives them more control. Do you think Mozilla would have developed V8 if google just threw money at them?
And yet Google is making record profits YoY. As for Facebook, it would seem they've been cooking the books.
I don't like the gold standard, I agree there. I do however think it provided some break on the unfettered issuance of fiat credit.

In any case it seems you agree that unfettered credit issuance is a huge problem, and perhaps the root cause of the upward pressure on asset prices that inevitably moves in step with productivity gains / more work?
The title, it should be disclaimed, is not what the astronauts or flight controllers believed. It's a poor abbreviation of the following:

"No, when bad things happened, we just calmly laid out all the options, and failure was not one of them. We never panicked, and we never gave up on finding a solution."

source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Kranz#.22Failure_is_not_a...
It's generally bad and a good example of dumb over-regulation. I await stories about the unintended side effects of the BOTS Act in the coming years.

Ticket scalping exists for two reasons:

1) The sorts of people who put on public entertainment in size-limited venues are generally left-leaning and do not like the idea of their audience consisting solely of very rich people. This sentiment is fine, but ...

2) As such events typically take place in big cities and modern populations are very large, demand for these entertainment events then radically outstrips supply, meaning the actual natural market price of the tickets rises very fast. The entertainers have a collective freakout and insist that the tickets are sold far below the correct price for social justice reasons, converting the sales of such tickets into a simple race.

Having deliberately mispriced their tickets, the only way punters can distinguish themselves and get a ticket is by being faster than the other punters. And that's a contest machines will always win.

There are lots of solutions that don't involve Congress. Like, tickets could be allocated through a lottery process where entering requires ID verification. That would make it obvious that getting a ticket is a random process.
When other browsers/engines reach compliance, it will be impossible to tell that Safari was "first".
I think the best is "Flight" -- the memoir of NASA's first director of mission control

https://www.amazon.com/Flight-My-Life-Mission-Control/dp/052...
There is a company that told me that they're still interested in me if I ever change my mind.

The job is basically building a news-web application for a client (hardly solving world hunger or any "real" problem) and the pay will be mostly enough to rent and eat.

Do you really think I should just "suck it up" and do it until something better comes in a few years?

Or should I keep sending emails?
I also thought that was wrong. One idea is a progress window if the task takes more than a few seconds, plus some visual indicator for success.
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Ok this is the problem with story telling tbh:

David: It's for Philip. It we don't do this right away, we'll have to have a layoff.

and

Judy: OK, then I'll fill out that section myself and put this on the fast track.
----- 2 days later. -----
David: What's the status of 129281?

"It we don't do this right away, we'll have to have a layoff" and "2 days later", making an impression of this is an "a day or two" task, not a "fire/emergency"

I don't think if this change finished in 2 days anyone will be unhappy. But if you took this to production, and somehow failed, everyone would blame QA/testing
I didn't know – and haven't found – the 2 versions of Windows 95 you're talking about. Source? Is it Windows 93 vs 95? Is it 95 vs "Plus!" ?
Śūnya comes from the root śvi, meaning "hollow".

Interesting etymology, from a philosophical perspective. ie. What came first, the circumscribing matter or the non-matter? In this case, via hollowness, the circumscribing matter.
9/11 doesn't count? Sounds like "fake news."
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Sometimes. There are situations where you're going to have no real options. A drunk driver could sideswipe you into a pole with zero warning.

The chances of your plane running into another plane piloted by a drunk is pretty slim in comparison.
I disagree entirely that work is the best way to feel needed, and that feeling needed is necessary. I work because I have to, not because I care about working. If I didn't have to work, I wouldn't. I would spend time on personal projects and enjoying my life with my friends. Relationships are far better than work for "feeling needed".

To be honest though, I don't care about being needed. I don't need to exist. I like existing, and I don't want that to change any time soon, but not being needed doesn't affect my enjoyment. I like when my existence is appreciated by someone else, but my happiness and mental wellbeing is not predicated on that.
Yes, but that demand isn't coming from everyone, it's coming from a certain demographic (young people that are into games). Having your pick from that demographic is far from having "choice pick" when it comes to the overall talent pool. And we haven't even talked about attrition.
I live in Seattle and while I am aware that not everyone lives in a similar environment the concept of a minimum 5 acre lot staggers me. I consider myself lucky to have 600 square feet.

What kind of area has these rules and who sets them? To me a lot with 5 acres is officially "the country" where I would expect very little to zero regulation of what you can build.
It helps that everybody's economical interests are aligned into a hight safety level.

This environment would never exist in an area where companies could be created overnight, sell something for a while, and safely fail before their social (PR) costs become obvious.
For me, the best thing about ham radio are the connections you make with people - in that ham radio enthusiasts are self selected. They seem to be an eclectic bunch of resourceful, witty, kind, and clever people.
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If your tangible assets are worth more than your company, your company is doing it wrong.

For the other side of this equation see Japan, and their zombie companies.
Fired? Why is that always the go-to solution?

Firing someone cost money, affect teammates' motivation, and make people unhappy.
"Hi Mr X, I saw you managed to extract a significant benefit from the travel allowance policy. Congratulations! Please don't do that again, or you'll have to go through Mr Y for validation next time. Have a good day!". Here you go.
I know what you're talking about.

And no, not since I moved back with my parents

(I hardly know anyone in the city anymore and I haven't been feeling like going to meet people ever since I did, since I always thought of this as temporary and I would be leaving anytime)
I can't wait:

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First off, I'm so sorry that you're going through this. Please know that you are very much not alone. And yes, seeing a professional is the best route.

Check out http://osmihelp.org. Great group of folks and lots of resources there.

I also gave a talk on this a while back: http://baugues.com/depression
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Don't take this the wrong way: I'd be loathe to suggest possibly destructive behavior to someone who is looking for advice on treating a mental health condition.
So we're getting a moratorium on moratoria now?
Basic income should be the solution we, as an organized group, give to all individuals to be able to express themselves.
All human beings have basic needs and the State have to provide this.
The State here is the expression of the will of the population.
Do not take the State as something socialist or communist, taking from someone and giving it to someone for free; no,this is provided by us, the population, for us, the population. We care of each other and we want that our kids have good education, we want to have accessible health care for everyone. And definitely, we want that, if in a few years, a lot of jobs are automated or done by someone in the third country, no one is left behind.
> In my opinion, massive automation of tasks is going to cause a massive demand of programmers, developers and QA engineers, so no robot apocalypse yet.

The question is not how massive it is in absolute numbers, but how does it compare to the amount of jobs that are replaced by automation?

And you know the answer to that question. If all jobs so replaced would create an equivalent number of "programmers, developers and QA engineers", nobody would automate, because it would cost more than human laborers.
Even if the OS itself is free, using the modem requires a non-free blob.

That's why I prefer to keep my phone and PC separate.
>Google, as a company, doesn't really seem to have any idea of what most individual engineers are doing week to week.

Isn't that basically the job of the manager?
Say's law was the most counterintuitive concept I was exposed to in undergrad econ classes. After consideration it does make sense but runs counter to an entrepreneurial view of the world where products are created to serve a need.
If we are assuming the underlying expansion is as efficient then the cost comes either in the boilerplate or mistakes made when parallelising. In the case of the boilerplate the solution would be embedding some more of the linked code and reducing IPC/other unnecessary bottlenecks. However I suspect the error is in the parallelisation, which is not surprising, especially as the authors likely optimised and tested for large, not small, files.

As it is, removing the GUI is perhaps the worst thing you could do to the user. Closely followed by inducing epilepsy with that ridiculous expanding dialog.
With regards to performance, sometimes taking the penalty of immutability in the small leads to gains in the large. The React wrappers in ClojureScript are a great example of this - since all data is immutable, shouldComponentUpdate is trivially and automatically implemented for you, meaning React not having to diff parts of the virtual DOM that are guaranteed to be identical.

There are other cases where immutability helps, even with regards of performance. At my day job, we use C#, with little focus on immutability. Performance has been a huge problem lately. One of the things we did was to change lots of constructors which initialized empty lists. In most cases, these lists remain empty, so we created a whole bunch of objects unnecessarily, which put a lot of toll on the GC. The "solution" was to initialize them to null instead, which made the code a lot more brittle and cumbersome. Had we used immutable lists instead, we could've shared one single, empty object instead (per type, of course).

We also have lots of copy constructors which we use often - these would be completely unnecessary with immutable data.
> Why can't we try weird and crazy ideas?

There's still the "should I really stick this knife in that electrical socket?" evaluation that should take place with weird/crazy ideas, though.
Maybe I'm not familiar with how equity works but this seems to have all sorts of weird properties like how after 5 years the amount of money you would get starts to decrease (assuming that the total number of units rises, which in this system it is almost assured to), the amount of money you get decreases as more people join, and if you leave you get nothing at all. The cap on what percentage employees get seems weird to me and it really messes with the math in a way that seems to screw the employees.
So someone compared performance and programming model, and lo and behold, found Haskell to be superior.

What might be more interesting:

- what is the salary difference between a Node dev vs. a Haskeller?

- is there a productivity difference? does the salary over- or under-compensate?

- is correctness a core business concern?

- if I need to hire 10 devs, can I do that?
There are numerous ways to satisfy one's urge to "feel needed". To give two very different examples, volunteering for various projects (trust me, there's a lot of stuff that needs doing), and contributing to open source.
Build a teensy tiny part of it. Then build another. And another.
Really solid advice. Thanks a lot!
Why won't we?
Why not start a side project? Don't know what to do? I'm sure there is something you use that you could make just as good or better start there.

You don't need a gym, maybe just go for a run near your house to start, less excuses to not do it.

Lastly, have you though of buying a journal? The actual act of writing your thoughts down (vs typing) is therapeutic and may help you to work through some of your emotions
Wow... thanks, I never knew about that. As background to those unfamiliar with the region, ancient Southern Indian voyagers established Hindu kingdoms throughout this region (Indonesia, Cambodia, Vietnam). As such it follows that Indian systems of numeracy had also penetrated what is now central Vietnam (the Champa kingdom) and Indonesia (Srivijaya/Palembang).
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To be honest, every single tactic mentioned in the article sounds like Marketing/Sales 101. What's really scary is how effective they are. It boggles my mind how many people make life decisions, both major and minor, on the basis of such sales tactics, instead of doing their own research or relying on trusted sources.
Not the person you asked, but I'd take it. It sounds like not having a job is taking a toll on your mental health. Even if you end up not liking it as you expect, it will likely still give you valuable experience and more information about what you want in your job. For example, you might realize that an interesting stack is less valuable to you than more pay, or vice-versa.

If you don't take it, definitely follow the advice elsewhere in the thread and invest in your health.

I'd also see a doctor about the potential depression. Hopefully, it will go away with the structure of a job, but it's good to be proactive about health. (If you're moving to a new area, you can also establish care with your new GP or primary care physician at the same appointment.)
I certainly wont complain if we do put up a black bar for Glenn, but at the same time I feel like the black bar should represent a death of someone who directly contributed or was actively a part of the hacker community. While Glenn was immensely inspirational, he never really felt like a part of who we are.
I've always wanted to know what they talk about via radio.
That's just because you don't understand Google.

It was a ML company going from building ML for the internet to building ML for a car.
""the magic is gone.""

Not only is the magic gone, but the boring, day to day fabric of functionality is gone.

Have you tried to really search for anything with google in the past five years ?

I don't mean meandering, aimless, consumer-centric searches like "new fitness watch" where any result tangentally related is useful ... I mean a specific, meaningful, concise search with multiple keywords, all of which are key words ... and the resulting pages do not contain one or more of those words.

I know all about allinsite: and quotation marks and so on ... those are, as far as I can tell, randomly interpreted by google. Who knows if they even work, ever.

A front page item on HN a few days ago asked what people would pay $1000 per month for ... I would pay that to have search with full control over search results with logical operators that actually worked.
I wouldn't say that I'm "worried", but the title states a fact that will likely, at some point, not be supported by the given link.
Teslas don't come equipped with a LIDAR, that cruise, uber, udacity and google have been adding as a very important sensor.

Lidar sees a 3D cloud around the car with almost a cm accuracy. Better sensors could have most definitely prevented the accident.

However, to add to tesla's point. I have a car with adaptive cruise control. Not having to constantly check distance with car head has probably saved me once or twice from a crash.

Good auto-pilot's are definitely going to reduce human deaths on roads. Not only just deaths, but the amount of traffic all of us have to endure because someone just didn't keep the right distance from the car infront and bumped into them.

I'm all for open smart driving technology.
Because Edge doesn't support the Adobe Reader plugin, and to avoid a support nightmare Adobe seems to recommend downloading a browser it does work with.

I visit that same link using Firefox on Linux and don't get a Chrome install checkbox on the page, but maybe someone else is?