skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> Market dynamics affect one's well being less when you are not shooting simply for compensation, but also job satisfaction. Of course, in our society, highly indebted students are forced to be all about the money and not about the satisfaction. This doesn't lead to successful careers. It leads to burnout, disillusionment, and ennui.

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Can confirm.

Had to leave university at the onset of the last recession (starting 2007-2008). From then until very recently I was able to make reasonable coping money, but not doing anything I really enjoyed. Sold televisions on commission, worked my way up in a warehouse (film/tv) equipment maintenance and repair to management, drove forklift, freelanced (much harder to make enough money there to cover student loans).

I'm, after nearly ten years, just getting into a pace where I'm making a little more money, and in a field I can leverage to greater effect in the future. It's still not overly satisfying, but I live better than I have.

Ennui and disillusionment are familiar modes... my most common feeling is that of boredom and worry that I'm wasting the best years of my life.

I really don't want that to happen to a new round of minds. It fosters the worst thoughts and feelings in people, especially in those who are or become emotionally vulnerable in any way. And let me say, getting by on $10 groceries a week will help to render one vulnerable real quickly.

edit: Well aware of my first world problems. This is very much in the context of North America.
Give it a few years. There are exceptions, but for the most part those friends who never made it to college are going to be in dead-end or precarious jobs for much of their working lives. Some of your college buddies will too, but not nearly as many.
I'm not talking about "investors", the ones getting screwed are ordinary people, young families and so on. They uses to get nice 5-8% p.a. return on the money they had in their bank account, nowadays not only they don't get any return, but also have to pay for having money in the bank account, which used to be free. That's what socialism and market manipulation does, screws ordinary people.
> I want it to be normal as hell to be a woman/person of colour/queer/etc-in-tech (and the rest of the world).

it seems like diversity and inclusion are at odds. id like to feel okay with my unfasionable identity, too. highlighting how different i am from others helps to discourage inclusion by them-ing my peers.
Ever own a boat? Believe me, it's not something you just sit on. Maintaining a boat can be hard, and fulfilling, work for a retiree.
Why I’m leaving 18F
Mark Zuckerberg doubles down on universal basic income after a trip to Alaska
This is not really the best example since automotive usually has a higher degree of quality and more thought goes into durability compared to house appliances and automotive producers are obligated to provide spare parts for the lifetime of a car model, @10 or 15 years if I'm not mistaken. House appliances do not have this protection.
Well there is no way to verify that the device was manufactured by TI. That itself doesn't let you know as a matter of truth, but that does let you as a smart shopper know that it is likely fake. You can make an inference since (A) you are buying on a website that is known for providing a means for counterfeit goods from China, and (B) the seller is located in China and has no info that reliably identifies it as a seller of genuine parts.
Construction jobs come and go with housing starts. Construction work is high-paying but intermittent.

Other problems: if you work at the only factory in town, the factory has total power over you. You can't quit and get another job. If the factory closes, the town dies. Or goes into zombie mode - no jobs, young people leave, population ages, buildings are abandoned. Too many US towns and small cities are like that. Relocating to a one-factory town is risky. You can be trapped there, especially if you buy a house. 84 Lumber HQ is in a town with 700 people.

Companies in bigger cities tend to have less trouble recruiting. The labor pool is bigger. They can raise wages if they need more workers, which tends to push wages up in urban areas.
I'm not sure that illegals can claim Social Security, though.
Very well said.

Some goals are more strategic than realistic, and I think anyone can learn what strategic goals look like from Musks' ventures.

In my view strategic goals don't have the same form as SMART goals:

Traditional Smart - Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant, Time-bound

Strategic Smart - Specific, Measurable, Advancing, Relevant, Terminable

The two differences, Advancing and Terminable, reflect the idea that strategic goals are geared towards innovation, not iteration. Advancing means that you don't actually know whether it is Attainable. Terminable means that the goal may be cancelled without major disruption to the business.
If my house were not a constant 73F, it would seriously impact my quality of life - at least for a while - because it's my long-standing definition of normal. That is what people do: seek comfort, then take it for granted.
I get none of those reactions. BLM are simply asking for equal treatment, not special treatment. Considering the "all lives matter" movement, if you can call it that, is more of a spiteful and petty response to BLM, I'm not sure it's a great example. A movement does not need to devolve into "us v. them" and cause those kind of responses you list. The only reason BLM would be offensive and cause those reactions is if this statement is offensive to your being -- black people having equal rights as white people.

The "black lives matter" movement is a great example of a movement being required because they have been shut out of a "community" that already exists. That community being their actual community they live in. The community is the problem. All those things you have listed -- fear, disgust, resentment, contempt, despair -- are things black people have experienced against them at the hands of our government/police and that is why BLM exists, and that is why a movement is needed to change the community. Just like the civil rights movement, which is not over.

I agree many movements do not have clear goals, but that often speaks to their poor leadership (e.g. occupy wall street), not a problem of movements in general or their grievances. Look at the civil rights movement. I think movements often arrive because the community has failed them.

I would be interesting in hearing more practical examples of how a community would better solve some of these problems (or historical 20th century problems) over a movement, or what that distinction truly is or means. Definitely curious!
And note that this C pattern only works when you can pass the "end of iteration" signal in-band, if you can't you will need to use more complex pseudo-iteration protocols e.g.

while(generator(&c)) {
//
}
The framework of control has been in place for a long time, it's just that they've been tightening down the (already-in-place) screws over the past couple of years.

The basic mechanism is control of ISBNs: the supply of these numbers is tightly restricted, and a book cannot be published without them. A fixed number of state-owned publishers is able to issue ISBNs, though privately-owned publishing companies can buy the numbers or work with a state-owned house to publish their books.

An ISBN acts as a chain-of-custody token for the publication of books. While some books are subject to approval before publication, the vast majority are not, and publication is done at the publisher's discretion. Should a book cause problems after publication, however, the consequences are catastrophic. The ISBN (and a "responsible editor" whose name appears on the copyright page of the book) allows the government to track down everyone who was involved in the production of the book, and squash them. People lose their jobs, in some cases publishing companies are suspended or dissolved outright.

It's a system carefully designed to make writers and publishers more cautious than they would actually need to be.

Publishing, while highly controlled by the government, isn't really an area where people end up in prison, or you see televised trials. The worst that usually happens is the ruining of a career, or in extreme cases the dissolution of a company (in journalism, by contrast, people get put in jail, or disappear). I've written about this distinction before[1], which I think is lost on most international observers.

[1]: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/17/opinion/the-real-censors-...
great share
CAPTCHA is even difficult for people without disabilities. The other day I was attempting to setup an account on a website that used reCAPTCHA and I had to go through 5 different attempts before it worked. The words were too blurred together and when trying the audio it played some noise behind when it was speaking the letters so I kept not being able to understand it.

CAPTCHAs are absolutely dreadful.
>So you pointing out that you specified "protected class" doesn't really mean much

It means that I was intentionally being inclusive of everyone, and so these accusations are really trying to reach for something that isn't there.
Wikipedia != dictionary
Yes, and that's the scary thing.
I'm surprised no one has mentioned CubeHelix -- https://www.mrao.cam.ac.uk/~dag/CUBEHELIX/ -- which, as I understand it has the property of "working" just as well in grayscale. Handy not only for color blindness but for grayscale printouts of images featuring color. There is support out there for D3 and various other visualization systems.
If it works then great, but that sounds like a way to piss everyone off by forcing them all to do both.
Was This Written by a Human Being?
Weird, thanks very much for letting me know. I've emailed the mods.
It is practically the same thing, yes. But the use-case here is different - you don't need everyone to be able to confirm everything. You need to be sure that your data was not tampered with.
That's totally fair. Flip side arguing "we shouldn't do this because people who only care about immediate performance don't want them" feels like it is ignoring some percent of people who may not feel that way, or even the possibility of using it as a way to bring more people to systems level programming but are not up to making the leap Rust currently requires (which will hopefully become less of an issue as they work on this year's roadmap, but I would certainly argue still exists right now and we won't know how successful their efforts REALLY are until they are all in place).
Once humans get involved, putting up a better communications satellite fleet should be trivial by comparison. You could almost just toss some satellites out the airlock before you start aerobraking. Obviously it would take a little more thought than that, but it certainly wouldn't be the hard part of the whole deal.
The people who generally push for that "meritocracy" are the ones who benefit from it not being fixed in the first place.
>Which doesn't ensure local representation.

Ignoring the fact that your statement isn't true (as pointed out by others). The current system does not ensure local representation either. People generally vote for their favorite party, and do not base their decision on the policies of particular candidates. On the off chance that you actually hear anything out of your local representative, it will most likely be about notional level issues rather than anything happening in your district. When non-partisan issues come up, your rep is more likely to side with whichever company gave them money, and it'll be decided behind closed doors, it'll be added as a rider deep inside some bill you won't read. On the off chance that you actually read that part of that particular bill, you'll never know who was responsible for it.
This was just posted 10 days ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14629414). Looks like a few commits but no new releases in that time.

Anything super new that we need to know about?
I wish we had a comparison of drive currents but I'm sure that information isn't publicly available yet.
>God that sounds terrible anyway. Do that many people want to retire - literally have nothing greater than themselves that requires their input on a daily basis - and go sit on a boat? What a waste.

I do! Not necessarily a boat, though; I'd rather have a nice house in the woods, and spend a lot of time traveling the world. But you seem to think it's a "waste" if someone doesn't want to spend their whole life working. For what? So I can spend most of my waking hours in the sheer hell which is the modern open-plan office? Why TF would I want to do that if I didn't have to? The sooner I don't have to put up with open-plan offices, the better. And what are you contributing to the world while you're working anyway? You really think that working on yet another Javascript framework, or building yet another re-spin of some website is improving the world in a substantive way? Out of all the HN readership, I'd guess that less than 5% actually does anything that's lasting and useful to society.
What's your opinion on artificially inflating the perception of women in science in order to attract more women to science? It's not a loaded question, I'm genuinely curious for opinions.

For example if say NASA is 30% women but more women are presented on the NASA online stories, articles, blogs and scientist profiles, along with a dedicated domain women.nasa.gov, and other tactics. (Naturally there's no men.nasa.gov)... all to reinforce the message that "look, women can do this too" (to use the OP's quote).

Are we moving into the zone that the OP was concerned about? Over-inflated labels and reactionary agendas that? Or is that fine, do we use whatever tools and tactics available to bring more women to science, even if it means promoting an unrealistic or inaccurate impression bordering on disingenuous?
You're totally twisting and appropriating what I say. For example...

> it is unclear that a "fast-and-overshoot" is any 'better' than "slow and steady" vs any other strategy

Nowhere did I say it was unqualifiedly better. I was refuting your absolutist position that "never overshoot" should be a requirement.

> essentially saying, 'get with the program' is unhelpful

Never said that either. The point I was trying to make is that the OP's own "program" is not globally applicable or sufficient, therefore that she (and you) should consider other strategies as well.

> pay the [moral] price of intentionally discriminating against someone

Again, never said. Confronting one's own privilege does not inevitably lead to discriminating against others. All I'm suggesting is that we consider programs and policies that have some risk of creating outcomes that are inequitable in some way other than the inequity we already have. It should be obvious - and I think was to most people - that I'm not saying we should deliberately create inequity in any direction, or fail to address it when it occurs. I'm just saying that "never risk harming this group" is too limiting of the things we might try, and noxiously so when "this group" is the one already enjoying substantial unearned advantages.
Cringely, like Milton, is blind. But Milton was a better writer
This really is a problem that cannot be fixed by pretending that it doesn't exist. Are you going to ignore the fact that by "forcing" identities, we are unable to behave in a way that makes identity irrelevant? The only way we can currently achieve the utopia in which gender, race, sexuality, class, attractiveness, etc don't matter is when we purposefully construct an environment where it all magically disappears. While it's great that internet communities give us the promise of a fully integrated society, these communities are built on a fragile and naive premise. That is, when people on IRC begin to link their Facebook profiles, nobody is going to be able to control the way that people begin to react to the ideas coming from the identities of the people on the other side of the screen. Social networks aren't the problem, they simply reveal the insidious nature of the problem.
we are far far from too many people on this world. the amount of land not in use is at risk of exceeding ability to support more people any time soon. Figure a third of the land is usable for agriculture and only ten percent or such actually is and not all equally. Meaning we can certainly feed more people and the environment could support them except for politics.
:slow clap:
Have you not made same submission 10 days ago? Then month ago and so on. What changed?
Most biological components function in 3D space, though, not on a surface.
Heh, an analogous file in my colleagues' project is 250 non-emply LOC. It seems to list every warning for GCC from 4.8 to 6.X. Sorry, not open source (yet?).
Hearing "Alinksy playbook" in 2017 is like hearing "Who Let the Dogs Out" in 2017. https://www.villagevoice.com/2012/01/29/ally-ally-alinsky-ri...

If you wish to be taken seriously by intelligent adults, maybe try to find a way to make your point that isn't just a word salad comprised of decade-old shibboleths.
If you were not already convinced, just one photograph of American schoolchildren doing the "Bellamy salute" to the US flag would probably do so.
And they probably know this. However if those margins were there, they can now invest in another technology their competitors can't or won't.
One Dashboard for All Your Let's Encrypt and Other HTTPS  – Cambridge Network
Yes. Youtube tries (tried?) to autocaption videos, and the results were infamously bad.
According to Wikipedia, 84 Lumber has about 250 store. I would hazard a guess that there is one manager and perhaps three assistant managers per store - about 1000 "well paying" jobs. I'd also bet that only a very small portion of their store managers, maybe 10-15%, make $200k+.
Even if it was, I think if you're going to work for Elon as "just a regular job" you're not going to last very long. Embrace the personality cult while it lasts and work on something incredible with all of your focus.
The "hello" in the bottom right corner seems like it was put there by accident. It causes a small problem on mobile.
Mark Zuckerberg: Basic income is a bipartisan idea
Your argument appears to be nothing more than namecalling[1], so look who's talking. Anyway it's a quote from a young man going into the building trades, no surprises here. If a Roman theology professor said it, I might be surprised.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham%27s_pyramid#Graham.27s_...
Not my field, but I'd guess that one problem is that the hotter the photon, the better it is at penetrating matter. EUV photomasks are already a real pain in the butt to make[1], and making them work for shorter wavelengths probably introduces even more excitingly intractable engineering problems.

1: https://www.nist.gov/sites/default/files/documents/pml/div68...
Retirement = freedom. I don't know about you, but I want the freedom to not have to work for anybody else.
>Hell some of it reads like an anti-Apple manifesto being that they integrate battery and LED and such.

Maybe because you are unfamiliar with other companies that do the same?

Recently the little magnet on my 5-6 year old iPad that holds the case has become weak. The ipad itself, works great. Its already out of warranty and it doesn't take a genius to popup open a case and put a new magnet in (instructions to do so are already on ifixit). But the supply of parts is intentionally prohibited by Apple, making such simple repairs impossible. While this regulation is addressing a different issue, citizens should be doing much more to penalize such anti-consumer behavior.
Interesting. I've thought basically the opposite for years. At one point it seems that the web was standardizing, more applications were able to run in the browser, things like XUL were developing; but then along came mobile devices and things split apart into Apple and Google siloes, and every company started to need to hire (extra) mobile developers to develop special apps. I've been waiting for the equivalent of a standard mobile "browser" to re-unify all the apps. We had mouse click and drag events, etc., already; is it not possible to add other user interactions -- such as finger swipes or device rotations -- as a standard across "devices", as browsers were doing for (desktop/laptop) computers?
As I read through some of the comments on this thread what jumped out at me is that products today are designed with DFM in mind rather than DFR. Design for Manufacturing vs. Design for Repairs.

Industrial products are different. There's a class of product that must be designed for easy maintenance. Not so in consumer-land. For example, to replace some of the lights on a BMW you have to remove the front bumper. Crazy.
Sorry my point was more that I'm okay going at a 1000 calorie daily deficit and that I just accept the inevitable hunger. This differs from many approaches which seem to chase the holy grail of finding food that's very filling, but also very low in calories and usually not going for that extreme a calorie deficit.

Put another way, mine is the stubborn bull-headed weightloss plan. Basically I just try to climb the mountain the fastest and most painful way and then be done with it.
This site isn't resolving for me and neither is www.tinyeyes.com. I don't get any error, just Chrome spinning and saying "Waiting for www.tinyeyes.com", same with vischeck.com.
To cross subsidize some kind of use, raising the cost for people that won't have the product broken.

I'm not saying that it's a net loss, nor that even if a net loss that it isn't worth it. But there is a cost there, and you are shoving it away on your quest to regulation instead of looking at it and deciding its worth.
If you go too far into the X-ray range, the high-energy X-ray photons penetrate the masks.
Ask HN: Best method of syncing bookmarks across Chrome, Firefox, and Edge?
I use all three browsers on the regular, and am looking for the most efficient/easiest way of keeping bookmarks synced across all three browsers.

Suggestions?
I can tell the Bluish Green from Reddish Purple if they are side by side, but in isolation, I wouldn’t know which was which.

This is on the 7 color scheme. I didn’t look at the others.
No, it's the fatigue and lack of attention that improves it. That is to say, the course of action that the actual affected individual takes. They stop taking the shit and leave. If this happens enough, then shitty employers go out of business.
Yes, that's the current state of things. But support for control-flow typing of my above two examples seems like an easy addition to the TypeScript compiler - if that's what you want. Personally I'd like to see JS support for proper pattern matching, i.e. TC39, then TypeScript can build on that.
Creating an environment in which some people are justifiably afraid to speak, for fear not of counterargument but of very substantial punishment merely for dissenting from, or even seeking more clearly to understand, the permissible range of opinion, seems like a pretty clear problem to me. No doubt some feel otherwise.
True, but it's all tradeoffs. While not the murderhouse that SF/SV real estate is, it's still a little pricey in the middle of the Red line. You can get 3-4x the house if you go 25-ish minutes out on one of the "spokes" and still get to the hub pretty quickly. Even spoke-to-spoke isn't out of the question if you can stomach the extra 30 minutes or so.
Bitcoin, Ethereum, Blockchain, Tokens, ICOs: Why Should Anyone Care?
Well, Firefox does have more and more Rust now...

fn main() {
if (true) { }
}

results in

warning: unnecessary parentheses around `if` condition
--> <anon>:2:8
|
2 | if (true) { }
| ^^^^^^
|
= note: #[warn(unused_parens)] on by default
Continuing to play devils advocate...

IMO, a better fit would be to scale down and have two way bike lanes and pedestrian traffic beneath them vs. car only traffic. But, scaling these up to say 16' of clearance could also be viable, just more expensive.
A contact form.