skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Freelancing is good if you want to work 40+ hours per week for a limited duration, and then perhaps take some time off before the next job.

What I wanted is 20-25 hours per week indefinitely (and with job security).
This is a very one-sided article. I would have hoped The Economist would do a fair analysis of the pros and the cons of such an implementation. The cons in this case are very clear.

1. First of all, diverting funds from vital food and fertilizer supply to the poorest of the poor in order to fund this scheme is a self-defeating idea.

2. Corruption in cases involving direct money would be far higher than schemes involving food.

3. The poorest of the poor would not have a bank account and therefore, would not be able to benefit from this scheme. A large population of India happens to live in slums. This is the population that is in the most need of such a program but would not receive its benefits. Just because of these conditions, UBI is far more likely to help the rich than the poor.

Fundamentally, UBI would only work for advanced societies. For poor societies, there just wouldn't be enough wealth to be distributed amongst everyone. This is the reason why UBI has worked well in the Scandinavian countries - their GDP per capita is already in the $50K-$70K range compared to India's $3K-$5K.

It is far more likely that the politicians floated this idea to appease the citizens after the hardship they faced during the demonetization scheme.
I mean, this is the fundamental crux of these CoL discussions: How much does the quality of your residence matter to you?

People try and mechanically translate equivalent lifestyles from place to place, but that's probably not the best way of analyzing things. Yes, if you choose to have a midwestern lifestyle in SF, it will be ludicrously expensive. However, you don't have to. If instead, you're able to replace the utility you'd get for a nice place with the activities/amenities SF has and a small town doesn't, the cost differential is not nearly as stark.

Obviously, some people do value a nice home much more than anything they could get from living in SF, and that's fine. But that's not everyone, which is important to keep in mind when understanding why people move to the bay (or big cities in general).
That's the spirit. Don't think about tuning the config, stock AWS RDS instances will give you all the things you need 99% of the time
That's why i use kj.

(Also: quaternions)
I have to watch a video that then tells me to write everything down?
Sorry I couldn't resist.
I believe and practice that as much as I can because it makes things easier regardless.
Some Lecturing Heuristics
"No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it."

Many identities, lifes, careers, organizations have been built around the assumption that objective and absolute knowledge is possible, truth can be defined, reality must have a solid core at its foundation. We're talking countless man-centuries of emotional, intellectual and social investment.

No one wants to shake the branch they're sitting on. And yet, the way I see it if someone claims to be engaged in science or philosophy, that is precisely what they must do, rather than summarily discard anything they have been conditioned to consider ridiculous.

Between "we don't know anything about anything, might as well drop the whole science thing" and "we know with absolute certainty that <something>" there is this huge grey area, where we seem to know enough about what seems to be reality that we can often predict it, shape it to our liking and build cool things.

To me, the most interesting question of this whole postmodernism vs scientific inquiry/analytic philosophy debate is why so many are so incredibly uncomfortable in that area (where, one might argue, life actually happens), that they must either, with an almost religious zeal, insist on having found absolute truth (despite no evidence having ever been produced to that effect and, allowing for the existence of objective reality, tons of evidence of having been wrong in the past) or altogether deny the obvious usefulness of the scientific method.

It seems that more often than not we can only engage with reality while pretending that we can know, understand and control it with absolute certainty and if/when disavowed of that illusion, are ready to immediately fall into some form of nihilism, denying any objective approach to anything.

What I'm saying is that there's nothing wrong with using an analytic/scientific approach to make good things happen and generally have a good time while at the same time not being quite as trigger happy with the "pseudoscience", "ridiculous" and "impossible" labels when something doesn't fit our ideas of how the world is supposed to be.

Let's not forget there was a time when one could get locked up for suggesting the earth was orbiting the sun.
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20 years ago when I was in grad school I did use octave to do my research, and it was 'mostly fine'. (Also I discovered that a couple of the matlab toolboxes I needed were just .m files and there was no technical reason that I couldn't just copy them into a local directory for octave to find; I consider this no worse than 'morally iffy' considering that we had a matlab site license)
If he was calling Lennart a sociopathic blond-haired hitler youth with a software design ethos that would make Uncle Adolf proud, that would be a personal attack. But he didn't do that. he merely said that, if Lennart had put up a Patreon to stop writing software, he (and I) would donate.

I understand that this is a borderline-vitriolic reply, but hopefully you understand that the flagged/dead post is setting the bar real low for what qualifies as a personal attack here.
The only downside I can see is that it takes a fair amount of time (about 7-14 days) from the moment you move money in to the moment you get your exchanged money out. It'll take your brokerage several working days to "journal" your shares over to the other denomination, and the shares can go up/down in the mean time, generating capital gains/losses. Otherwise there's no catch.
> Its obvious to anyone capable of writing decent code that it does have value.

Business users are the ones that have to make the value decisions, and they can't write any code, much less decent code.
TSA knows its airport behavior detection program is ineffective
This is great, thank you! I've been looking for something like this: a simple small project that goes through all the involved phases and explains/demonstrates the concepts, that I can mess around with on the weekends. It shouldnt be have real life applications, be serious or academically correct -- it should just be fun.

I once found a blog post with an example of defining a grammar for a small language and then building an interpreter (in python i think) for it. It was really great, but I lost the link and can't seem to find it again.

The same goes for OS'es - a simple but "end to end" walkthrough would be awesome.

Anyway, cheers!
> Maybe if urban residents stopped subsidizing unsustainable rural living, this price gap would shrink.

Rural areas produce, raise, and educate workers that end up working in cities. So small towns (and small countries, for that matter) make big investments in their children and they just move away. Cities don't grow solely due to birth rates, so they are only "sustainable" from a limited perspective.

The rural/urban split is a give-and-take relationship at least as complex as figuring out what an "equivalent Bay-area" salary would be.
Diarrhea-causing Salmonella can be weaponized to flush out cancer
With Brexit, my brother and one of my cousins have both taken this path.
.... still seems a bit dangerous.

Would also be interesting to hear what the other teams do, but I only remember seeing videos in daylight so far.

Somehow I completely overlooked this issue in the past.
Some downright masterpieces to try yourself:

Tipsy vs. Hey There Delilah

X Gon' Give It To Ya vs. Float On

Move Bitch vs. Take Me Out

99 Problems vs. A Thousand Miles

...who am I kidding, all of these are great.
> The situation in the NPR article and your own seem different though.

Good point - I realize that including my own experience muddied the waters of my argument a bit.

I mentioned my experience to highlight that aside from the situation where an employee is legally required to pay fees to a union there are other ways that a union can apply undo pressure onto an employee who does not want to join. In my case, it became clear that membership in the union was expected and not just suggested.

> Are you saying the teachers in California should be able to benefit from the union without paying any dues?

The "benefit" that non-union members receive from the bargaining of the union only applies as the established agreements extend to all employees (both union and non-union).

I'm saying that non-union employees should not be included in outcome of union negotiations. Non-union employees are by definition not represented by the union - they've opted not to participate as part of the collective bargaining group and should not be forced to pay into or support the negotiations of the bargaining group.

> How do you expect a union to continue to exist in that circumstance?

A union would be able to continue to exist as long as there is enough benefit of membership that it can continue to recruit and retain dues-paying members.
Processing data wouldn't be the problem with 2 socket xeons neither would it be putting 3 or 5 Hdd on a raid5. Getting the 32TB in, however, would take at least 8 hours at 10Gbps saturated, if your disks can write that fast.
I'm from the Midwestern US, so yeah, I've certainly heard that quite a few times (dated a couple women like that, even). But I never saw that as something unachievable by most people, which I know isn't the strict definition of success, but to me, success is when you've managed to do something that a lot of people can't do.

A lot of people won't reach it, or won't bother to try to achieve it, but you have. Winning the state spelling bee could meet that criteria. Publishing a book, saving people's lives, etc.

But going to a grocery store and buying food, and finding someone willing to have sex with you until you or they get pregnant and then not totally fucking up when raising the kids is not really something that 'most people can't or won't achieve'.

People manage it all the time. Sure it's not easy, especially with the way health care, housing, education, and daycare costs have skyrocketed and made it much more difficult and stressful, but most people who want to do it still somehow manage it.

I guess I just have a different perception on what it means to be successful. I'm pretty much just arguing semantics, really, and I'm sorry for that. I'm just surprised that's considered to be successful.
I'm neither a big wine or beer drinker, but I must say it's way easier to tell a microbrew from a coors light than it is to discern a $10 cabernet from a $1000 cabernet.
>For example, the pay gap in Hollywood between actors and actresses is well publicized (though not mentioned in the article).

Yeah, but who cares? I really don't. I honestly, truly don't care if female millionaires are paid less than male millionaires. Cry me a river.

I only care about middle-class people and below, not a few ultra-lucky rich people. If some single mom is struggling to pay her rent on a modest apartment and has some crappy old car that's in danger of giving her unaffordable repair bills and she's getting paid less than her male coworkers, that angers me. But spoiled Hollywood actresses? Please.
Heh, I thought it was 20x70mm ..
Triggering jobs more generally (schedule or push notification) and splitting things into jobs and/or pipelines.
IT glitch at NASA sets spacecraft hardware on fire
He outlines several places where he had to do something because postgreSQL doesn't do it, but he suspected before hand that RethinkDB didn't do that well.,,
Agree with Blogger/blogspot if you just want to blog. I use that for my personal blog right now and love that it doesn't get in the way much. If you really enjoy installing plugins and playing with themes though, WP is fun. A lot of people are recommending Medium, but there are a lot of blog platforms around. Posthaven for instance although they charge $5 per month.
"Those who refuse to study history are condemned to repeat it"

People like Jim Gray, Mike Stonebraker, et al. were/are not dummies.
And yet when I see data engineering positions, particularly around here, it's all about Hadoop/HDFS, Spark, Cassandra, Mongo. I'm not saying there aren't use cases for those, just that it seems like they've become the default basket of options rather than starting with an RDBMS and figuring out why you shouldn't use that.

I feel like a dinosaur working with Teradata all these years, but it hasn't failed me. Sure we spend some extra time modeling, and then some extra when we need changes, but other than the cost, it's really been solid.
If you're looking to learn a mental model of the internals, a coworker has pointed me at http://www.interdb.jp/pg/ and it's pretty good.
Is it really an issue?

As long as the animal is happy, I don't see the problem of a shorter lifespan.

You can simply (and sadly) have it put down in an humane way once it starts to get health issues. Plenty of pets don't make it past 8 years.
They did. [1][2] According to Brett Cannon who made the decision it came down to three things: GitHub has a built in social network, GitLab has no killer feature over GitHub, and Guido the beloved BDFL prefers GitHub.

[1] https://snarky.ca/the-history-behind-the-decision-to-move-py...
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13611387
I don't really buy that acres of whitespace and gradients really describe much information.

Considered at the boundary of your awareness--in that you are mostly unaware of all the pixels on the page, then absolutely not true. A typical news article might be a few KB of text but MBs and MBs of images that you never look at.
It's worth pointing out that, in some of those points, even "urban" and "suburban" communities are net-negative in their infrastructure planning. Let's not lay into rural areas but not insolvent municipalities. More details about these issues at https://www.strongtowns.org/.
Remember, everyone: Tax evasion is Illegal. Tax avoidance is merely discouraged.

Never refuse to pay taxes. Just pay the taxes you owe.
How to write a successful conference proposal
Nothing to worry about; Trump has a son that knows lots about "cyber"!
Tesla answers claims of poor factory working conditions and unionization efforts
I think you've hit on part of why I find this stuff sort of odd at times -- I don't feel like anything gender related is at all core to my identity. Rather, the things I view as core to my identity are ideas, like "torture is always wrong," "slavery is always wrong," and "always wear shoes that allow you to move effectively in an emergency" if I may use some simplified cases.
Immigration Restrictions as Active Labor Market Policy [pdf]
That seems like a recipe for progress to me. Encouraging automation is better than denying it exists.
Again, I would love to see your science. This is the whole point - the expensive wine thing is simply not about taste. Take a $15 chianti and a $150 chianti, blindfold yourself, have someone else pour them, and try and tell which one is more expensive. It will be a 50/50
techempower benchmark even has PHP crushing elixir
Admittedly I did not make this point particularly clearly. [I also realized as I was writing this reply that I made a possibly unwarranted assumption: that Churchill's actions were well-known and generally accepted at the time. I took from the quote that he was doing this at dinner parties, but have no idea what the public scope was. The remainder of the reply continues with this assumption, but I would want to do more research before continuing to use this particular example.]

I'm interpreting "normal" as considered not out of the ordinary by a reference group (as opposed to e.g. within one standard deviation of the mean). This brings the opinions of the group (here the general public) into play. I argue that giving it a name did, in fact, make it abnormal. It is difficult to discuss anything without having words to describe it with, in part because no clear boundaries have yet been defined. As a result, these sorts of things fall into a grey zone where they can't really be described as "normal" or "abnormal" (even if individual instances could be called "unusual"). Once they have been classified, they can be given a name (e.g. "furry"), and also the group as a whole can then be easily classified as normal or abnormal.
Why are you acting like I said Utah was better? I said there are many reasons to live in SF.

The point is I don't agree with the conclusion a family can save more living in SF.

As great as SF is for some people with a young family not having a house with a backyard is a big deal.

Regarding your final incorrect assumption, yes I would love living in a cabin in the woods and chopping firewood.
But here's the fundamental flaw. No one, and I mean no one on the left seems to have shit to say when it's their websites peddling the lies (and boy oh boy are they everywhere). If the shoe was on the other foot, I suspect your opinion would change dramatically.
I think this is what I really took from that. I feel like very small diffs that lack overall context just add cognitive load. If the context isn't properly captured, the tendency to green light a few changes would be higher when these changes could have significant impact on other parts of the system.

I do feel like this becomes almost an artform. Small but concise PRs aren't that easy in some situations and smaller PRs that address large refactoring in pieces seem to win over one large PR that is difficult to parse mentally. What that looks like varies by project or organization and I feel like one size definitely doesn't fit all.
I sent you a more detailed email, but basically it is preposterous to assume a "very experienced" senior engineer in ANY part of the United States is going to be happy with making $65K.
The main impediment to your goal, tbh, seems the quality of the data.

For #1, this pretty much requires human curation/submission to accurately gather the vendors for each process you might outsource.

For #2, Rich, quality tags that provide a near complete representation of feature sets requires human intervention or a substantial crawl with NLP+ranking algos on par with Google.

The closest that really exists is:

http://alternativeto.net/software/server-density/

http://alternativeto.net/software/sentry/

> Of course, ideally such tool should also include a price comparison mechanism, and maybe "performance levels" per each relevant performance dimension, kinda like the one you get in digikey, the electronic component store, where you can select chips by speed, power,etc.

> The question is, how to get there, and how close it's possible to get?

An AlternativeTo clone with a focus on tagging features/performance dimensions, having people rate those individual dimensions, and submit prices would likely work. The only problem is the incentive for people to:

A) Switch

B) Be that detailed.

C) Avoid it becoming a popularity contest like ProductHunt & AlternativeTo are at present.
To be fair the original article is good though, it presents different sides of the story and reports criticisms too. There's even an interesting history fact on how old the tradition of swapping currency actually is!

My intention wasn't to discredit their product or the article, but to offer a (hopefully interesting) "insider view" on a certain kind of culture.
it is the title of the actual article. what about it is clickbait?
How the Current Political Climate Reminds Us What We Stand For
Arbitrary large V8 heap
I've watched Jafar talk about Falcor. Didn't know about it before since GraphQL is so dominant in the space.

If you're just getting into these, the major difference is the verbosity and the learning curve.

With GraphQL you need to know a lot about the schema and the types (which can be a good thing as well), with Falcor you don't and there's no easy way to code types (at least that I know of).

Whatever you choose though, I do encourage you to choose one. I have seen many APIs fail on performance because they send too much data down the wire just because one of the consumer needs it.
It is most certainly not contradictory. For example, one could make the argument that the allied effort against the Nazis in WWII was tantamount to "saving the world", yet the allied forces certainly didn't treat everyone in the most humane way possible -- see Japanese internment in the US, or the presumable "war crimes" that Allied forces committed in WWII. Yet that doesn't mean Allied forces weren't capable of destroying the Axis, which obviously is what happened.

A similar argument could be made about the Cold War and McCarthyism. It is simply nonsensical to mistake the goal of "saving the world" with the goal of "don't ever treat anyone slightly questionably ever again".
I wonder if they will Optimize the grey Google logo color against that red header. Hurts my eyes.
Might be wrong, but I feel like you may have a vested interest and hence read the article as more of an attack than it really was.

To me it reads more like "I understood the problem space better during the rewrite so I could solve things in more apppropriate ways with a the tools at hand."
> User demand for a multi-threaded Vim (e.g. a patch for supporting multiple threads) and its rejection is what prompted the Neovim fork in January 2014. In his presentation, Moolenaar concedes that Neovim did create some pressure to add a way to handle asynchronous jobs.

I switched to neovim a while ago, because it supported 24-bit color themes in the terminal. Since then it seems even regular vim picked it up too. It's good to see that some pressure moved the project forward in different areas which were stuck forever before.

Though neovim already uses XDG base directory specification, but vim still doesn't.
would the mods please delete chha's comment (parent)? Keep the kid out of it.
Elon Musk Responds to Claims of Low Pay, Injuries, and Anti-Union Policies
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I ask those questions, but that's because I'm trying determine the candidate's ability to self-evaluate.

I like to ask them what they think their skill level is with something I'm familiar with, then throw a few questions at them to figure out where I feel like they are. This is especially important when I'm trying to get someone on-board with a skill set my team doesn't have but we really needs some help in.
Github exists for coders, people are massaging it for other projects. Crowdsourcing platforms are many but each have their faults.
I am building a platform for anyone to contribute to projects.
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and there is an explainer video that does the job
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3QT4lqco8M
I don't agree with this vision of people as slavish consumers. I think given the choice people would not work extra hours. If they did they could purchase a house. They would gain no advantage from buying multiple if we taxed land.

If people add more value I have no problem with them having a bigger house / more stuff.

I have a problem with being forced to work for my landlord.
Because the AGPL is much different than the GPL.
While I didn't quite see all of the possible mistakes pointed out by jpollock in a parallel comment, all of the mistakes I did see were nicely covered there.

Another interesting data point was that only 2 of the 10 candidates had ever heard of FizzBuzz. That surprised me more than anything else.