skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the hardest, hardest, hardest things in life is deciding what makes us happy.

People don't spend nearly enough time looking at themselves and really deeply trying to understand what they want out of life.

It's scary because you are supposed to "know" what you want.

Most people think it just shows up one day randomly.

No, it doesn't. You need to work as hard on yourself and your motivations as you do on everything else.

Read some books on motivation, do some meditating, start a project you are interested in, learn a new skill, learn a new sport, volunteer, read more books....just keep looking and looking until you figure it out.

Unfortunately, it can take a long time.

Part of it might be learning to be content and happy with what you have already.

Part of it might be your career.

Part of it might be your social/family life.

Whatever it is, you have to figure it out.
The actual rate for Sweden and the UK is 0.9, each. So even the 'non-black' rate in the US is higher than both, put together.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intenti...
Your remark about Bloomberg being the largest private network is interesting. By what measure it is the largest (#people, #machines, miles of links?) and which ones count as private?
Either your ads are effective at driving more sales than the ads cost or they aren't. It doesn't matter what % of the traffic is "fake" as long as the bottom line works.
Put a Picatinny rail on the top end of the phone. That's a standard way to attach stuff to guns, and there are lots of things which attach to it. Car mounting becomes easy.
The idea that programmers should be modern day monks that have no families and spend their days programming and in quiet contemplation is completely ridiculous.

I'm not saying they should.

But, I'm sure you've heard the terms "geek syndrome" or "pizza-box coder"? Or the whole nerds vs jocks thing, including the "Be nice to nerds. You may end up working for one." that is usually mis-attributed to a commencement speech that Bill Gates apparently (per Snopes) didn't actually give?

Or the "Unix greybeard" persona, and the big push a few years back to recognize that computer people really don't all look like that?

These things did not come out of nowhere.

Who is this "us" and "we" you speak of? I have to work with my coworkers, so all other things equal I prefer it when they are socially competent.

Yep, same here.

I think you are reinforcing a very harmful stereotype, where you have to be a computer-obsessed social pariah to have a successful career in tech.

No. That used to be a common side-effect or correlate of interest in tech.

I am saying that the people we're trying to attract into the field now (and for the most recent decade or two), are not like the people who voluntarily chose to enter the field in the more distant past.

I am saying that these people are not likely to care about the same incentives.

I am saying that the quantitative change in the field has necessitated a qualitative change in new entrants, which makes "back in my day" a very poor argument for what's appropriate or effective.

Perhaps you should reflect on those beliefs, and whether they are based on objective facts or perhaps something you tell yourself to avoid feeling inadequate about your interpersonal skills.

You mean the beliefs you wrongly claimed I hold, based on your presumption that my claims of what is (or in this case, was) were really just disguised claims of what should be?

And my interpersonal skills are just fine now, thank you. Because I made a point of learning them in my early 20s, after seeing how useful they were to my new coworkers.
There still has to be two parties to a purchase. You can have all the currency with which to pay but if the seller does not want to sell, it doesn't really matter how much you have. The very big problem is that, regionally speaking, California may wind up a willing buyer with no willing sellers and no way to compel anyone to sell to it.
It's a really strong analogy to how people think of command-line hackers, though. You type what seems like a bunch of gibberish with lots of slashes and hyphens at a hundred words a minute and then the computer turns into a rainbow-barfing unicorn. It doesn't seem that way to the hacker, because it's just another language.

Why does 'tac' mean "reverse abcd to dcba, line-by-line, on the input stream? Human brevity and wit. and then look at the Bloomberg Terminal and ask "Why does 'OTFN'* mean "empty oil tanks departing ports with a cost modifier proportional to the time left in port and risk of loading delays vs. departure cutoffs?", it's for the same human reasons: someone wanted to type as few letters as possible to get something done, and came up with something that seemed good at the time, and it stuck.

Hacking shows always show us people typing three commands and ending up at the [fictional agency of choice] here. Bloomberg can work magic beyond belief with three commands, and even more amazingly dedicated the HELP button on every keyboard to "press it repeatedly and HELP opens the chat to you", which is maybe the best approach I've ever seen.

* OTFN "Oil The Fuck Now" may or may not exist in Bloomberg Terminal, I sadly do not have access :(
Doing our best, one step at a time! It's clear to me that we haven't spent enough time on documentation yet. The whole project is only 3 weeks old and our initial focus was to get a working version out with some level of documentation (a goal that we somewhat attained, I believe)
> United we have more fun

That's the slogan for Nokia 6. Is this a play on politics du jour, now permeating even consumer campaigns?
I've upvoted you.

People will take your message the wrong way but ultimately, for the vast majority of people, life is a struggle with only brief moments of happiness, if any at all.

Forcing onto others to live a life where you ultimately die is not a gift, but an act of vain cruelty born out of selfishness.

Especially if you cannot provide a good standard of living for your children. You are knowingly condemning them to a life of misery where at best they'll claw their way out of it through blood, sweat and tears or at worst they'll make the decision to take their own life.
This is actually impacting San Francisco buses right now - the transponders that MUNI buses use to transmit their location for arrival estimates use 2G, and they stopped working because AT&T started taking down the 2G network.

https://www.sfmta.com/about-sfmta/blog/why-muni-arrival-time...
I think you've missed the point of the article. It's not completely about AI per se, but about the broader issue of technology in general bringing us to new territory with respect to the ability to control and/or manipulate society, which could have disastrous unintended consequences.

Therefore, we need to be proactive about policies that would protect against unfettered influence by those controlling the technology.

You've said the equivalent of "guns don't kill people. People kill people".
In HBO's Silicon Valley, Gilfoyle starts getting all kinds of gifts couriered to him from recruiters just so that they get noticed. Is there any truth to this?
Also, if this topic is interesting to anybody who's good at writing, we are very open to contributions of all kinds!
What's an actual use-case for this? I am reading the documentation but still don't see why I should use it and what the actual advantages compared to current solutions are.
Loved my Lumia 920...had it for quite awhile
But are these really 'Nokia' phones? Didn't someone else just buy the right to use the Nokia name
yeah, me too.
I was totally shocked when Nokia decided for windows!

Nokia is back!!!
> If the app is memory hogging, not following best coding practices, or you have a cool idea of how something could be done instead share that feedback and offer better ways to do things.

In spirit i agree with you.

In practice the problem here is, to use a really crude analogy:

The Cerebro developers rented an empty mall for super cheap, then opened a single restaurant in it. Some people won't mind driving all the way there and walking through the entire thing to get to the restaurant, other people will.

The advice then in that situation is to one of these:

1. Demolish the parts of the mall that aren't used, piece by piece, while trying to not knock over the restaurant situated on the third floor, so other people can build their houses on the now free space, closer to the restaurant.

2. Abandon it and build a new restaurant in the middle of the city.

Everyone recognizes that both of these are very expensive solutions and unlikely to ever be implemented, so you end up with two kind of people.

1. Those who shrug and walk away saying nothing.

2. Those who go, with various amounts of emphasis: "Aw, i wish you hadn't done that."

There is no happy middle ground possible here, sadly.
Why don't you start with persuading one of the other developers to your side?
I'm smartphone phobic, I have only used one briefly and I hated it. I prefer the ergonomics of texting with buttons and I get stressed out by constantly being connected to social media, emails etc. Personally I feel like smartphones are a huge step backwards. We have allowed corporations to colonise our leisure time and disrupt our social interactions in exchange for a few tawdry gimmicks.
I'd be inclined to agree with you regarding the "general safety" concern, except for two things:

1. AF1 is a 747. If you've never been on a 747 (or A380), then you might not appreciate how smooth landings are in general. It's a lot of airplane with a lot of momentum (not to mention a lot of electronic assistance for the pilots).

2. You say "The notion that the Airforce One pilots are somehow special with special landing skills strikes me as fanciful." I don't consider that notion fanciful at all! In fact, I'd expect they have special landing skills. The AF1 pilots are not just some random commercial or charter pilots, they are Air Force officers, hand-picked from the best of the best. In addition, not only do they have to take-off and land the president's airplane, they also must be able to take evasive action IN A FREAKIN' 747 in the event of a hostile encounter. So "special landing skills"...I'd buy it.

EDIT: Also, reading the original Quora answer, the particular landing mentioned was on the Shuttle Landing Facility, one of the longest runways in the world! I'd wager the pilot could've practically let AF1 roll out the landing and had room to spare.
€49, 1 month battery, no distraction.

$600, 12 hr battery, tells me every 10 minutes how the world goes down the drain.

Mmmmh...
Why does every phone these days come out looking like the standard rounded-corners slate? Have companies stopped innovating on phone design anymore... are rounded-corners superior for deflecting drops or something?

I yearn for the days when we got unique designs like the Nokia 6820/E70/N95, the Sony Ericsson M600i, Moto Razr (as junky as that phone was), etc. Even the Nokia Icon was an edgier but classy design. I just went with a Sony Xperia XZ recently because it's one of the few smartphones that seemed like the engineers bothered to apply a modicum of creativity/differentiation to the physical design.
The coming amnesia
"tons of loyal followers" are most likely a smaller group of people than you seems to believe.
Political statement maybe?
True, that will open an infestation of bots.
Bloomberg was a partner at Solomon Brothers, where he developed their in house IT systems.

Solly infamously demutualized, under John Gutfreund, and in that process, Bloomberg left, presumably with any IP waivers he needed (after all, they had to get partners to agree to be paid off, and that was a political battle) and from that position, it was I imagine, certainly easier, to attract Merril to invest in the new venture, as 50% partners.

Merill later sold i think all but a token stake, and Bloomberg was the majority buyer for their shares.

At no time did Michael Bloomberg work for Merill Lynch.

His timing, and trading, was impeccable.

Solly was long the 800lb gorilla of fixed income.

Coming from a former partner, the intimacy he had with the intriciacies of data (especially the archaic clearing systems he led to be automated, literally Solomon Brothers cared only for their front desks by habit, legendarily earning so much as to get away with a devil may care attitude long past when most firms would have been bust by conterparties declaring oprisk indigestible) he probably could have held a beauty parade for potential investors. Merril was probably chosen for two equally important characteristics, however: passivity as investors, and out size retail salesforce, immediate users for new equities data products Bloomberg wanted to launch.

Pretty sure they were long one of the largest Tandem customers, and may still rum Tandem for messaging. As noted in other comments, their messaging is nigh bullet proof. As is also noted in other comments, they give a real damn about latency, so make telcos (at least telco sales reps) weep no doubt more than most customers.

If there is a lesson for the startup world, i think it is this (besides way to trade to get his investment): there are apparently infinite messaging products, and a multiple thereof of features for messaging, but if you want to grow a high margin niche monopoly, or just a business period, build your messaging like civilization itself depends on it. How many hundreds of billions in capital have been made and lost in what are essentially messaging products? But name one that can count a few nines of reliability you'd entrust your capital, your family's emergencies, your daily banking, to, that is on the web?
Bloomberg is also aggressive in retaining customers. A few years back, there was a scandal where Bloomberg News reporters used Terminal data to see that a target of their news story had not logged in for a bit and wrote about it. Since this was breach of trust between the two parts of Bloomberg, many of the banks starting looking into alternatives for BBG chat, and Bloomberg responded by offering the banks (their existing customers) many discounted terminals. Which seemed to have worked since the scandal died down and their chat is still the leader in wall street communication.
I didn't mean to imply anything on your behalf. I just meant you might have missed the use of technology in politics. Because you might not be part of the group (ideology) who are using it.

I will not go into the technological details as I am just a end user. But I will say this you are mistaken when you say people are manipulated. I see them as a cost effective way of dispensing your message. People always vote based on their interest. Those can be short term or long term.
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I have had similar experiences, but even if the traffic is 90℅ useless, that means 10℅ isn't. It's an auction, so bid an amount where clicks from each particular network are profitable to you. There are some niches where brand advertisers and well-funded startups willing to lose money will suck up all the inventory unprofitably. You simply won't be able to compete with that type of activity unless you also have money that you are willing to light on fire.

However, there are pockets of profitability within the PPC arena. They shift quite a bit at various times based on the competitive landscape...an unprofitable niche today may be a profitable one two months from now after someone that was driving up bids burns through all their cash. You just have to monitor and deploy when the CPC is low enough for you in your niche.
> Can a human live peacefully in heaven? We really don't know.

Since our attempts to date have been dismal failures, and every religion (the formalization of millenia of human experience about how to live) says man is flawed, I think it's very likely that humans cannot live peacefully absent any need to work for survival.
I don't understand why companies have such a hard time crafting smartphones that are as good looking as Xiaomi or Apple devices. The front of the 5 & 6 is acceptable, but the back just kills it for me. Also the 5 looks the best in my opinion but the specs are so bad that I'd not even consider it
Since, from my understanding of the texts, all the Nokia Android devices are running stock Android, I guess they can apply the same updates as for the Google devices.
As an Android developer, I don't know whether I should be happy that this knowledge is basically applicable on all kind of electronic device or lament that the competition has been so thoroughly obliterated.
The comments that matter are the WHY comments. No amount of variable naming will solve that.

When I read your code three years from now, I can still figure out what it does. WHY you're doing the things you do is a different question. And few people leave them. Add them, and you're standing already heads and shoulders above your peers.
Here simple sample to setup Ubuntu with Custom Kernel compiled with the needed modules to run Docker 1.12
https://github.com/laithshadeed/linode-stackscripts/blob/mas...
The one thing that's somewhat unavailable to me is bond data. Any plans in that space?

For example, Planet Money's toxic asset CUISP: 41161PUA9, part of HVMLT 2005-10 B6. I'd be neat to have visibility into that without paying bloomberg 20k.
Any Electron app, like Chrome, will run at least 3 processes, Cerebro even runs 5. However the default windows task manager doesn't group processes by child/parent relationships so the other processes Cerebro uses are further down in your view.

To get the total you need to find all of them and sum them up. That might be easier in the Details tab. Or use Process Explorer instead.
I had the N9 with MeeGo, best OS for phones I have ever used. Also very beautiful and easy to use.
The best thing in these new phones is vanilla no-clutter Android with tight integration (both directions) with Google/Android. These get just as fast updates, upgrades and fixes as Pixel phones.
It was built as a kind of a database constructor for event sourced / journalled systems. It's design inspiration is largely stemming from MUMPS which provided a great ("oddly productive") combination of a database and a programming language.

Being a constructor it's also a great tool for building applications with a better control over querying mechanics (since everything is actually described in PumpkinScript)
"I took VC" probably parses out to "I took venture capital" in this same context, but it's a strange phrase and less common than "I took VC money."

I think this is because "VC" is only one type of investment, and for other similar forms of investment the phrase is nonsensical. For example, PE means "Private Equity" but you can't say "I took PE." (Equity means ownership, and taking money from an investor means giving up ownership, not taking it.) "I took VC" is basically abusing the dual meaning of "Capital" as the thing an investor provides in exchange for equity and the thing a business uses to operate.
Consider that 41% of those surveyed conclude that machines will never be able to "simulate learning and every other aspect of human intelligence". The next 41% conclude it is possible within an unbounded "more than 50 years". It seems to me that the vast majority of experts are pretty skeptical.
People have run Postgres on network disks — Elastic Block Storage (EBS) volumes on AWS, or Persistent Disks on Google Cloud — for a long time.

They're implemented like a software SAN, with dedicated network paths, and throughput/latency is very good. Not as good as local, but still good enough for most apps.

On Google Cloud, you do have to option of using a local SSD [1], but it comes with a bunch of limitations. It maxes out at 375GB (though you can allocate up to 8 per VM). They're somewhat expensive. They're not durable; if you stop the VM, the disk is lost. They're classified as "scratch disks" in the UI, which is a good indicator of their intended purpose.

Edit: Using a networked file system, however, is a bad idea.

[1] https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/disks/local-ssd
The article or that specific quote from the article? The article seems to be directed toward people developing video games, from a developer of video games. That video games have utility in a general sense seems to be a given in the article.

(although he may feel some have more utility than others.)
Java and Python have unpatched firewall-crossing FTP SNAFU
Iolinker FPGA boards: Rewire and extend microcontroller IOs
They're a means to an end. If they bring a job to me I'll make sure they get the credit/income from it if I'm hired.
"tons" is a relative term. These days I very much doubt they'd make the return on investment. But it would be interesting to allow users to flash the OS onto the Android device they bought.

(Not that they will- the Nokia name has been licenced, so the manufacturer doesn't really have an incentive to push Meego)
> Additionally, the defense offered against substituting binary blobs essentially comes down to "well, the kernel doesn't do that".

Why should it matter? Git was designed for the needs of the kernel project since the very beginning[1].

It is us, mere mortals, who are at fault for picking a tool that was not designed with our needs in mind, just because that tool happened to be better suited for our needs than the alternatives it was designed to replace.

The sky isn't falling, and if you really believe so, well, there's Mercurial, although you may also feel uneasy since Mercurial also asks you to don't panic[2]; Maybe you should just build your own SCM?

[1] https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Getting-Started-A-Short-Histo...

[2] https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/mpm/SHA1
How long does Groupon have left?
After owning a couple of smartphones I went back to dumbphones a few years ago. I've owned a Nokia 515 and now a Nokia 208. By book reading went up about an order of magnitude. The only thing I really miss are maps.

I actually just spent some money to repair my 208, because it's the last of these to support 3G as well. I guess I was right not to wait for this one since it doesn't appear to support 3G.
I'm moving to Colombia for part of the year. Maybe full time in the next couple years.
Ask HN: Where to get an entry-level Visa-sponsored job?
I will graduate from college the next month and I'm starting to look for a job. I'm from South America, and job prospects in my country aren't that exciting.

I've been browsing https://techmeabroad.com/, but many entries are really old and most don't seem to be active anymore.

I have 6 months of experience working with PHP and JS in a small web dev shop, but I dream of working in SRE or DevOps. Are there any other job boards or sites to check?

Thanks HN.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13722916
Demystifying Serverless
I've had trouble finding recruiters in general.

How do you find yours? Or do they find you?
Or you could just run `git grep --line-number TODO`.
Drab - Manipulate UI directly from an Elixir backend
I really, really wish someone would make a smaller Android device. I was hoping the Nokia 3 would be it, but alas.

Surely I'm not alone and there is a market out there? The iPhone SE sells well, and will be my next phone after I lost my trust in Sony's compact Android devices.
A simple way to try and block out bots is to just not allow your ads to show to Linux users. It's a tiny fraction of most website's traffic but the largest share of bot traffic. I'd further speculate that real desktop Linux users are substantially more likely to have an ad block running anyway.
Non-Bloomberg users retain access to one component described above, the "hit F1 twice and immediately be connected" option, thanks to librarians.

A web search for "24/7 ask-a-librarian" returns a page full of different libraries that always, without end, offer a human being ready to try and help you consult through the world of knowledge. If you're polite, they'll do their best to help.

It's not like Bloomberg, where you can just interrupt your work by hitting HELP and magically get a solution provided. But it is a little-known HELP button for information research.