skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed. I honestly believe this is at least one of the reasons why individual debt in the U.S. is out of control. Managing your money is increasingly difficult in the U.S., and while I understand the concept of personal responsibility, the pure amount of information, and sometimes lack thereof, can be overwhelming. There's never ever a what you see is what you get; there's always fine print and line-itemization, and it's rarely if ever in favor of the consumer.
This article and (one-sided) discussion is simply an extension of the Ad Hominem filled election cycle. Anyone who doesn't believe Trump is a dictator must be a nazi, racist, sexist, reads fake news, doesn't understand how (insert topic) works etc.
Maybe I am in the minority but I would rather have simpler things with options to add more, rather than all or nothing.

One of the reasons I hate posting on Facebook is that you can comment on every little thing, and frankly not everything warrants a comment thread. Despite what is warranted, some people cannot help themselves and write pointless things on just about any picture. Instead of just a nice posting of $PICTURE, I then have $UNWANTED_TEXT next to my picture, forever (unless I erase and repost the image but that will just trigger Facebook's "HEY WORLD, LOOK WHAT HE JUST POSTED" algorithms again).
I think the real driver is being "elastic". Renting infrastructure is really expensive if you can't ramp it up and down as demand changes.

So, if you're elastic, you now need some dynamic way of finding the various services...they are spinning up and shutting down all the time, so you can't have a static list of IP's and ports.

So, some framework that maps questions like "what host and port should I use to connect to the pricing service" is desirable. There can be many instances of that service for scale, and when new ones spin up, they are added to the directory. When existing ones fail, or are purposefully shutdown, they are removed.

This is more complex than a normal load balancer, as it has to handle service-to-service connections versus just client connections. And the number of instances of each service is highly dynamic, based on load.
Yup and the solution is simple, a land value tax as close to 100% as is practical.
It's designed to be published in an actual magazine - you know, on paper. I figure it's sized to fill four pages including the pictures.
>I just graduated from a very large university

Likely that was the mistake. I've been to both a small and a large university. If you care about education, go to the small one. Much more likely the professors will put in a lot of effort to teach properly. Fewer students per class also motivates them.
This is related to one fundamental question: what alternatives do workers have?

If their employer is a monopolist of labor, and the laborer has no ability to move and find employment elsewhere, their employer enjoys full rein to demand whatever wage they can.

However, if an employer functions within a competitive market of labor, you should see labor fetch a fair wage. This could be in the form of self-employment.

...If employers are able to negotiate more effectively and take more of the share from labor, it almost certainly means that labor is being denied alternatives.

The real question, I think, is which alternatives have changed, and why.
The Republican Lawmaker Who Secretly Created Reddit’s Women-Hating ‘Red Pill’
I haven't been able to get through all of the content, but do you touch on any of the following:

* Changing field to apply skills in a different way.
* Going back to school later in your career.
* Moving from roles that have a stigma attached (a relatively pervasive one for tech is moving from "support" into a development or a product development role.)
* Being successful and hitting a heck of a lot of the points on learning, saving money etc., but ultimately not being satisfied.
> The correct answer to that is very simple, and very expensive: just make correct software

Correct software can be compromised via the update process, or social engineering. It's necessary, but not sufficient to ensure integrity.

A cheaper, correct option would be a mechanical lever/breaker labelled "manual override" for licensed drivers or "emergency stop" like they have on every industrial robot or heavy machinery since the 60's. Sometimes the answer to a software problem isn't more/better software.
Honest curiosity: is it fraud (in the US) to claim that you are a member of a profession that you are not? (I am not saying that is what he intended to do here).

For example, if someone owes me money, is it illegal for me to send them a letter, in which I purport to be a lawyer?
The thing I like about this the most is that is uses SVGs. This made me very happy! It's a very cool project otherwise too, and I can definitely see myself using it.

EDIT: Alternative would be to use HTML and CSS transforms or similar hacky techniques. So, I am glad to see SVGs gaining more popularity.
The author of this diatribe is Karl Denninger. According to Wikipedia, he is "an American technology businessman, finance blogger, and political activist, sometimes referred to as a founding member of the Tea Party movement".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Denninger
PostgreSQL HA and Geographic Locality Using Consul by Sean Chittenden
That picture of the newsfeed floor makes working there look like a nightmare.
Yes, but blew most of it trying - and failing - to prop up the pound as the world's reserve currency.
I'm a Linux specialist and a stranger to Windows but logically any modification of binaries should result in security issues.

And in a perfect world the external PNG content would also be verified.
would you not have to be paid to "practice"
I know senior engineers making more than that because of 1 year pre ipo equity, but my understanding is senior engineers at google and facebook are more in the 300k-400k range with base/bonus/rsu. I am also curious how common it is to get to 500k total comp, and how one would go about that. It sounds like an outlier, unless you are an executive.
How about a $200/mo subscription plan where I get to go as fast as I want? I'd get on board with that. :D
Fair enough. In fact, I think Windows leaves path parsing and component lookup to individual filesystems. (Hence one filesystem per drive letter, and no mount points.)
Cool to see Silicon Studio came out of SGI Japan.
Based on the timeline of the higher up link about the leak and the below article, its hard to tell. They appear to have had sway before the leaks were public, but they could have been known privately or people could have just been aware of how many holes they had in their system. Seems like it might have been a case of closing the barn door after the cows are out

https://www.cnet.com/news/lord-of-the-paranoids-new-yahoo-se...
I honestly think that Yahoo! could have left the search engine alone. That market's moved on. Bing users only use Bing for some kickback rewards/when they're forced to. Everybody else migrates to Google. Maaayyybe if they offered something drastically different (kind of the way that Duck Duck Go did with privacy) to make themselves stand out, but I feel like the search engine ship had already sailed at Yahoo! Honestly, I would have simplified and slimmed down the homepage. The Yahoo! homepage was a fucking design disaster. Just have it focus on the things that really mattered - some news elements, fantasy sports, and maybe email. Everything else can go.

A browser like Brave would have been a good move, particularly in junction with tightening up security on the tech side. It would be like doing community service to try and right the wrongs of the past, or something, ha!

The problem I saw with Yahoo! was that it was a business with no focus. They acquired Tumblr... and then did nothing with it, which was perplexing. Tumblr has a youth market, and if Yahoo! had actually done stuff to improve the Tumblr experience, they really could have put that $1 billion they wasted in acquisition to use via marketing/ads. Hell, maybe they could have somehow capitalized on Vine folding and turning Tumblr into a bigger video platform (the layout loans itself well to it.)
Managers don't distribute profits at will according to some abstract 'culture'; both labour and capital are free markets. When workers are easier to find than capital, of course capital is going to be more expensive.

Meanwhile, working in a funded startup and just getting a salary is a much better and sure way to earn money than investing in one. Who knew - different supply/demand balance from a mostly automated factory gives you a different outcome.
For anyone looking for a fantastic read -- both as a historical document and as a coming-of-age tale -- check out Simon Murray's Legionnaire.
What do you recommend? Lets remember that the opposite of crazy is still crazy.
True, I do think that the endless stream of these conspiracy theories on scummy ad-bait websites, day in and out, is 'fake news'. Just like the chum boxes on the bottom of crummy articles peddling 'doctors' hate him' and the like are also fake news. To me, it is a broad umbrella. Trying to winnow down 'fake news' to: not conspiracy wackos, not ad-bait, not debates on he-said-she-tweeted, etc. is all not productive. To me, they are all 'fake news'. Still, as I said, I think ~90% of 'fake news' is incredibly obvious, and as these things are part of my definition, I think you can see why I believe it is so easy to spot.
I've done some relatively large projects in Node... though I tend to break things down into discrete components either based on deployable assets, or reusable assets.

Node pipelines are pretty nice, not quite as nice as go's channels, but nice none the less. There are different options depending on libraries. I don't find it to be significantly more cumbersome than C#/.Net (which I have more experience than with Java). Also, your "example" has a LOT of assumed knowledge, more than a relatively simple express app, that's for certain.

It really depends on the approach.
What does it matter who is responsible if many 100s of thousands of lives can be saved. Blame is just a social construct, death is a bit more permanent. NK is killing thousands in labor camps and will continue to do so. This is all without consider what happens if they get a nuke on missile into civilized cities.

Blame doesn't matter if stops a nuke in downtown Seoul or other Major city.
For a family of four, one reads later down in the article.

Clickbait, in other words.
It's a message bus with a new name.
Cameras, like so many things, have been increasingly software limited during recent years.
The chart he created shows he has more engineering skills than the beaurcrats running the Oregon Sate Boards.

Another example of government employees being incompentant.

Here's one quick example of cities shortening yellow lights for profits.[1]

1. https://www.motorists.org/blog/6-cities-that-were-caught-sho...
It feels like the author has decided, based on superficial views, that the Foreign Legion is uniquely a "death cult", and then forced his narrative through the article. But it makes no sense: all elite military forces are based on tales of hardship and sacrifices, the Legion is absolutely not unique in that regard.

I would argue that what made it distinctive is that, for much of its history, anyone could try to join regardless of where they came from (to this day you don't even need to speak French to apply -- you are taught the language during training), and be accepted solely on their individual performance, and then be given not only a new passport, but also a new legal name.
To be no-one, and then earn a new identity if you make it through, is I think quite unique to them. And it fits with the "romantic view" mentioned in the article that is likely to attract quite a few candidates.
Knowledge vs. Intelligence (2014)
This link doesn't seem to work from Australia and New Zealand, it redirects to https://www.gizmodo.com.au/?r=US which is just the main page.

For anyone else who can't read it, here's a Google cache version: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:oMEtULA...

I'm not sure whether it's intentionally region blocked or if the site is just stupid.
But not on this page, which happens to be the first page I've ever read on this project.

The Economist is a good example here. In every article, every time a new name or topic is introduced, it will provide a few words describing the person/thing. An example taken from the first sentence of the first article I opened: "Much of the language used by Mike Pence, America’s vice-president, [...]"
Are there really situations in modern world where an employer is a monopolist on a labour market in the whole market available to a worker (ie not just this small town with a single factory, but at least the whole state)? It seems to me that the only monopolist player in such a situation could be a union.
Zapier (YC S12) is hiring an Infrastructure Engineer to work from anywhere
Jenkins Blueocean for Continuous Integration
The road to my son's high school has a 5 MPH speed limit. Have you ever tried to drive 5 MPH? My speedometer doesn't register that low. My car goes faster than that at idle.
And those same methods you mention are how people get "hacked". Everything that would make it easier for your parents to recover their account also make it easier for someone to social engineer.
dupe as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14194803
In one of the comments on the page, a reader ran the analysis [1] on a windows installation and reports the bloat size.

Total bytes wasted: 5341278

[1] https://gist.githubusercontent.com/riverar/f4a56b91580af1bd3...
I had this issue but less severe.

I called Google (bought it from the play store), they asked me to try a couple of things in order to repair the phone (completely useless but the operator has to follow the script).

Of course it made no difference, but just after confirming that, they sent me replacement device.
Nobody is saying United should have removed another passenger instead. That's a straw man.

The results may not be what usually happens but they are entirely predictable. Any time you get law enforcement involved, there's a decent chance that violence will ensue. The entire point of law enforcement is to be the sole state-approved user of violence.
:) always! https://www.airbnb.com/careers/departments/engineering
Yep. I went to an engineering school and multiple professors told us to get our PE licenses before we called ourselves "Engineers". No court will take you seriously if you aren't licensed. Upside, if you do have a PE license you can get side-gigs as an expert witnesses.
I doubt I would ever even consider voting for Zuckerberg, but what it's worth? It doesn't matter if you or me like or don't like the idea of voting for someone for some personal reasons: it only matters how publicly-relatable these reasons are. I'm not sure if reasons you named are that much relatable for most.
A decent article with hard data, albeit a lot of words extrapolated out of one unsurprising fact: with the decline of local newspapers, journalists now mostly live in the cities.

Jonathan Haight has a similar dataset where he shows the remarkably fast and steep political homogenization of academia, with Democrat domination of universities massively increasing over the past ten years.

Lots of people have an intuitive understanding that certain professions like journalism, economics, social science professors are dominated by particular worldviews to the exclusion of all else. But only rarely is this shown with raw data.
1) Unions were crushed.
2) Fed induces a recession whenever wages grow (that's what inflation targeting literally means).

If you read about the power labor had between WW2 and the 1970s it's so alien, it's like science fiction.
Oregon is where I grew up. I returned there recently and was shocked at what I saw: a society destroyed by socialism.

There is too little capitalism in Oregon. In fact, so little that freedom is essentially dead in Oregon. I think running all of the socialists out of the big cities and getting some fire-breathing capitalists with their immigrant sidekicks in would really crack the heads of these totalitarian nut cases. I think of Oregon when the phrase "Lois Lowry's book 'The Giver' was controversial when it came out". A society so addicted to success that it develops a kind of inability to sense its own lack of freedom...sclerotic, really. Hence the fire breathing dragons to melt things down.

The great thing about capitalists is that if they don't like the laws, the laws will get changed! Almost like magic...almost.
How to Make Vacuum Cleaner with Motor – Easy Tutorials
I think the timelapse style stars is a feature and not a defect, although it goes against the original challenge.

Although this article is about the challenge - decent photography with a mobile phone - it does outline how easy it is to layer up lots of images in Photoshop, median everything out and get a long exposure image. Taking out the sensor 'median' was clever too.

So you could use this with DSLR images too, to take better long exposure images whatever the sensor, so long as everything is fully HDR and manual.

I think that I might just give it a go. With PHP Imagemagick so that I can automate the Photoshop part and tweak settings easily.
Well, there are a lot of complicating factors in the US when a remote worker moves out of state.

Health care seems to be a big one. Few HR departments are frequently equipped to provide another kind of health-care package, and health care expensive, heavily subsidized by many tech companies, negotiated because of bulk sales, etc.

Depending on the business, the company might actually be subject to massive sales taxes as well if they employ someone out of state. Some states, like CA, have enacted rather byzantine sales tax laws, such that if you were, say, a company in Idaho, and someone wanted to move to CA, you'd all of a sudden have a "presence" in the state and be subject to more taxes.

These are just off the top of my head. So basically, unless the CEO wants it prioritized, I suspect the "finance guys" are actually just identifying real costs. So I wouldn't expect remote work to just jump wholesale nationwide without some real infrastructure in place. In any case, the silicon valley area sure seems to have some pretty stark incentives for prioritizing remote work. I'd expect the issues with remote work to be ironed out faster then say, a massive wage raise or controlled real estate costs.
You are correct. I was thinking of the very similar standard C99 constant, FILENAME_MAX:

https://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Limits-fo...
Agreed. The hubris in that statement is almost palpable. They're essentially saying the didn't give a shit about the cause of the result they were buying.
An interesting idea... hit up the github repo and we can discuss this idea in an issue - HN comments tend to easily get lost.
Windows has mount points.
Oregon could make a killing fining students practicing engineering in college.

Way to pass up a revenue stream.
Yes, I'm far from a conservative Christian but I appreciate that while some premises are fact, other premises are simply "values" ("should/ought" statements) that can vary from person to person. People can reason accurately towards different conclusions from those values. People should be able to debate/disagree respectfully about differing values, assuming there's a basic level of humanity in those values.

Of course, people can reason incorrectly, too. I think there's a set of people that disagree with the values, but there's another set of people that object to conclusions that appear inconsistent when compared to the premises/values they purportedly rest upon.
Always happy to hear the primer made a difference in someone's life =)
The Customer Experience Maturity Model (CXMM)
To first order, long exposures are probably less power-hungry - much of the sensor power is burned in the image readout, and longer exposures mean you're reading images less often.

When collecting light, an image sensor pixel isn't really using up any active power (each pixel is basically a capacitor collecting electrons generated by light hitting the silicon).
My experience driving in Germany is that it's very rare to see four lanes. Three is common enough, but usually around major cities where there's a speed limit. More typical is two.

The highways are also regularly torn up and rebuilt to maintain a glass-smooth surface on which one could safely drive 300 km/h, but it's only possible to maintain that for a minute because then you hit another construction zone or traffic jam caused by inadequate capacity. Despite all the construction, the highways rarely get widened, just resurfaced.

I don't think the main problem is that speed differentials are causing poor dynamics, but that the roads don't have enough lanes.
>while also removing the revenue incentives for police.

Well that will never happen..
Why do you think it would be a problem?
Hi hannob, we agree lots of the evidence is weak, and try to point that out during the post.

We're trying to give an all-considered view of what makes sense to try, taking into account (i) strength of evidence (ii) upside (iii) cost of trying (iv) whether it makes sense to us, and so on.

Note that most of the self-help books we recommend are written by academic experts in that area. We think it's usually more reasonable to go with their overall judgment calls rather than delving into individual studies ourselves, which are usually flawed (replication crisis etc.)
I didn't realize that.

The workflow would be interesting. Presumably you have some hard and fast rules and then you try to encode bad/good/better rules. Let the computers churn out options. Maybe iterate with some new rules. The start going through the options manually.

I've worked on conference schedules :-) We don't use computers but it usually goes something like heuristics -> coarse optimization -> hand-tuning.
How does this apply to "software engineers"? Do they have to call themselves something else in the state?

As far as I know there is no national accreditation body for the title in the US.
A little different with that specific example though because the Marcos were criminals that stole billions.
I see a pattern here - something is discovered, then it's seen as a magic solution to many many problems until devastating health issues are discovered.

Rontgen, radium, asbestos. PVC, carbon fiber, nanotubes are promising candidates for the list.
Non-ionising radiation (phones, wifi, radio communication) is omnipresent and I really hope it will not follow the pattern.
but AFAIK at a filesystem level: NTFS only?
They're not willing to pay and further not willing to pay enough. People have a hard time intuiting opportunity cost, so they don't see that a person capable of building a truly useful note-taking application has 10 more lucrative opportunities bidding on their time.
> both labour and capital are free markets.

surely you're joking. there are not free markets in the entire world. there are only variations (in degree and kind) of market distortions in the real world.
I run up against this sometimes in Canada.

I studied "Software Engineering" and have a bachelors degree from Australia. I am a member of the Australian Institute of Engineers (accredited degree).

If I say something like "I am a Software Engineer" when I work in Canada, any other Engineers will get all prickly and go on about how that's not a recognized kind of Engineer, and it's illegal to say-so, blah blah.

Even if I put B. Eng. (Software) after my name they get uppity.

To get my degree accredited in Canada, I must work some huge number of hours as a Software Engineer working with Software Engineers. But of course, there is no such thing in Canada, and so... yeah.
Technology and the economic emergence of formerly third world countries has done more against labor in the US than the fed and the lack of unions.
Oh that's cool - it's always great to see the primer having helped in making a thing!