skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am very familiar with the details of Fukushima, the prevalence of natural radiation, and the health risks of alternatives.

I again believe it is entirely dishonest to call fear of nuclear power irrational.

Was it a mistake for Germany and Japan to shift generation away from nuclear? Yes IMO. But it's absurd to call an event that required mass evacuation harmless.
My first computer experience was with its under-powered sibling, the ZX81 [1]. Typing in and running silly little BASIC programs was the most exciting thing in those days.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX81
This is great! The #1 feature of this that other stock screeners (ameritrade, etrade esp.) lack is performance! Like the minimalist interface as well.
I'm curious what talent would appreciate the transparency? The only thing I can come up with is "average" talent.

The high performers will view it has a hard cap on compensation and look elsewhere, in my experience at least. Obviously this cannot be entirely correct, but it's hard for me to get into the mental space of someone who wants to be paid exactly as much as their peer sitting next to them. In my career I've always wanted to outperform the next guy - and be compensated accordingly.

I say this as having been both a high performer and an under performer. In the hard personal years where I am underperforming I would love transparency and know what to expect. In the years I was "crushing it" I'd have set myself back financially by a decade+ had I simply been okay with the average compensation for my position.
Out of curiosity I looked up and found that the estimated VA budget (in 2014) for "Hospital and Medical Care" was $55.4 billion. This covered ~22m Vets at the time. So a rough estimate for a national equivalent of VA care would be $800B/yr or maybe $850B-1T in todays dollars.
Could? It's really a matter of when.
Where venture capital has peaked
I have come to an conclusion people who care about privacy don't care about social networks either.

Just an anecdote of course. I have joined diaspora and mastodon twice to fight the big Goliath but every time I have realized I really don't need the social media as such anyway.
We tried Apollo in its very early stage, the code complexity and the hard to debug object cache management drove us away. We are quite happy with some simple combination of raw fetch and mobx.

Will definitely take another look at the v2!
"people you identify with"

Not sure where you got that idea when I said CO2 is a problem. I guess this topic is too charged with emotion to discus reasonably.
Another good article is https://newengland.com/yankee-magazine/living/profiles/el-fa... which goes into more detail about the crew and the shipping company.
"Based on its apparent brightness, dynamicist Bill Gray calculates that it would have a diameter of about 160 meters (525 feet) if it were a rock with a surface reflectivity of 10%."

It is, of course, almost certainly a rock. But as a pointless mental exercise, how large would it be if it were a shiny metal probe?
thanks for pointing that out. The DNS settings have been wrong for the subdomain
Write to zeromq-dev@lists.zeromq.org, you might find some of your answers there.
thanks. should be fixed in the next minutes/hours
The Chinese very much have local government, and they lack many of the tools we have to centrally manage those local governments, in part because their central government is not at all transparent. The other issue is that only 6% of their government employees are at the central level. The US? 12%. EU? 14%.

The Chinese have a saying for this: the mountains are high, and the Emperor is far away.

Xi actually comes predominantly from the reformer branch of the Chinese political house. I think his biggest challenge is that his precedessors grew China too quickly.
Malaysia and Indonesia. Some smaller companies have already shifted there.
When I've had time to prepare, I've taken the time to review candidates' GitHub repositories, and it has surely helped to really understand what "open source experience" means vs "coding camp attendee". It's fun to ask about a particular class or set of files and ask the candidate to teach me something about the project. It shows we care, and also helps me tease apart a candidate's communication abilities.
3.1 billion is wealthy.
Although your true intent may be anyone's guess, true enough, the prima faciae intent of forum posting persona is a fairly straightforward function of the content via which it portrays itself.
The link works fine if you disable javascript. Still weird though
This comment really rubs me the wrong way. Realistically there are maybe, what, a couple hundred "million plus" downloaded npm packages, that are useful per language. That would almost seem generous. Now compare that to the number of programmers.

What you are essentially saying is that it would be a reasonable expectation to only get a job as a software engineer if you are the absolutely in the top .0001% of programmers in the world. Which, sure, I'm glad you're successful, that's nice. And as advice for one individual it's good - showing good work is a positive indicator for an employer. But in the aggregate we can't ALL be the best.

I went to school because I had thought that my chances of making a stable living were higher than playing basketball and praying that I would make it into the NBA.
> Canadians won’t push for reforms. They’ll accept it.

If you think duties on personal purchases from outside the country are a 'pressing issue' your priorities are way out of whack there bud.

I'm confused that you criticise Canada for having 'controls' on the population (bit melodromatic) but chose to move back to the UK with its ubiquitous CCTV.

I'm just going to leave that docile comment where it lies (in more ways than one) because it's an obvious provocation. Sorry you didn't enjoy your time here.
The taxi drivers would get paid more due to having monopolies in most cities and fares would be outrageous.

Uhh... Uber is, like, 5-6 years old in most locales, less in many. This isn't some alternative universe we have to imagine. We just have to think back to before 2010... you know, the before time. The long long ago.

And back then, taxi rates were hardly "outrageous". Hell, even today, Uber isn't necessarily that much cheaper in a lot of places.
yeah, but I'm referring to unix as much as anything else.
I don't know Facebook's policy, but many companies employ 3rd party consultants to do due diligence. The IP is not communicated to the suitor until after the purchase is complete, only an assessment of the quality of the execution. I learned this process first-hand.
It’s important to hedge your bets with the food supply, but ‘versatile’ (or even, in the case of corn, durable) isn’t the only or even the most important metric. Nutritious, efficient, healthy are important too.

Have you been to the Midwest? There are places where you can drive hundreds of miles and see almost nothing but corn and a bit of soy.

If you take the backroads you’ll find pigs, cows, a bit of alfalfa and hay, sweet corn and the odd field of popcorn. But along the interstates it’s corn, soy and more corn to the horizon.
Google doesn't operate that way.

Almost everything that comes out is a loss leader in one way or another (and more often than not, in one way and another).

You can dig, but it will most likely be extremely hard to find a stand alone product/service that plateaued at such a revenue level.

Wishing that such a product would be "created by Google" puts the bar way way too high.

The Nik Collection, for example, arrived via acquisition...
> It harms oil lobbyists and big ag and tobacco and all those industries in exactly the same way it's going to hurt the Sierra Club.

It would not, because under your rules an industry executive could draw a salary while talking to government officials because they would be pursuing their own self-interest in doing so. But a Sierra Club employee could not because the sole purpose of the Sierra Club is to represent the interests of other people (their members).

A rule that prohibits a person from getting paid to represent other people would hurt representative organizations (nonprofits) more than rich individuals and for-profit companies.
Sure, but it's still funny how everyone seems to treat Russia as a unique perpetrator in using bots. All nations use bots such as these, Russia is no different, they just get the most attention, for whatever reasons one might conceive.
> acquired by ASUS. Original Kinect was developed by an Israel company Xtion

Xtion was a Primesense ASUS partnership to bring the tracking technology to the PC.

Xtion was not a separate company but rather an ASUS branded Kinect-like sensor.

Primesense made the sensors for both Kinect and the Xtion.[0]

Primesense was later purchased by Apple in 2013.[1]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinect

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PrimeSense
> start using extreme examples ("cissexual heteropatriarchy" is a phrase I've literally never heard)

Count yourself lucky. Seriously.

These people totally exist. For instance: I have an white 20-something acquaintance who posted a photo of a decoration [1] he either made or received that was all full stuff like "In this house we fight cisgendered heteropatriarchy." They are very dogmatic and enthralled by a pseudo-religious ideology complete with devils (e.g. whiteness), saints (e.g. feminism), forms of penitent flagellation, etc.

> It seems like that's the real problem now - it's not whether or not these problems exist, or whether they're worth fighting, but rather to what extent they should be fought.

Or whether the battle should be led by monomaniacal ideologues.

If you can't tell, I'm not one of these people, but I spent a lot of time around them (and am pretty exhausted from it).

[1] the decoration was basically a parody of this: https://www.aliexpress.com/store/product/House-Rules-Family-...
I sympathize with this guy. I think the "side projects" issue, like "write some code on the whiteboard plz" is a symptom of the dysfunction in our industry. Specifically, a startling proportion of people purportedly working as programmers cannot in fact perform even basic tasks and don't feel shy about pretending that they can.

A lot of my issues about the weird side project fetish come down to the fact that this is an award for the misaligned. I spent pretty much the first decade of my 'proper' career working on ideas that went into our regex matcher (now at github.com/intel/hyperscan fwiw). During some of the more intense periods I could barely take a shower or daydream without having to grab a notebook and start writing ideas down, many of which went into the product. When I wasn't doing that stuff, I really didn't have any energy left for building anything else. Reading these discussions, I often wondered what would happen if the associated startup (Sensory Networks) had tanked.

This isn't hating on people who do side projects; it's just to say that having the time/energy to do side projects often feels like it results from misalignment with your day job. I was happier than a pig in shit writing regex and literal matcher code (or designing algorithms) at Sensory Networks and I'm still that happy doing new software projects at Intel.
> If history is any indicator, in political systems this broken, other institutions collect power and either that power is sustained and relieves legal pressure or that power is revoked and the pressure builds until the system comes apart.

Just curious if you can give a good Western example for similar things happening in history?

I found striking parallels between the United States and China's Tang Dynasty. The Tang Dynasty was the most prosperous and influential era of ancient China, in terms of both culture and military. It was marked with culture fusion and immigrants from across the sino-sphere settled in its capital. During the early times of this dynasty, a meritocratic higher education admission system was first instituted to provide an avenue for upward mobility. Life was prosperous and Tang people were fat.

All of that started falling apart after 200 years of reign, and the late stage of the empire was dysfunctionalized by highly partisan power struggles between two fractions (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niu–Li_factional_strife). The meritocracy also failed, as the rich could afford better education and examination preparation, and the examiners gave preference to the applicants from wealthy families. You can call it the Imperial Chinese Ivy League legacy. The power of the throne waned, and the emperors were stuck between or murdered by warlords and eunuchs.

Tang Dynasty lasted a total of 289 years. If the United States survives 2065, then it beats Tang’s record.
Can any one explain the Si Valley fascination with (driverless) Automobiles?
Having read a lot about the technology I think that true, SAE level 5 driverless cars are not on the near horizon. Maybe they will never come to pass. If and when they do it seems that current industry leaders such as GM, Toyota, etc, will have the economic comparative advantage starting from integrating incremental automation features (e.g. lane tracking assist, etc), into mass produced auto-mobiles. What explains the SV tech industry's fascination with driverless cars over the past 5-10 years? Where did it originate? It seems that there about 100 other areas where silicon valley could innovate, why did the SV big companies choose this seemingly quixotic quest? I am interested in what is behind it from an economic history perspective. You may disagree but it seems to me that silicon valley expectation and hype are even further diverged from reality now than they were during the dot-com boom 20 years ago. Is it a problem of too much easy money to fund Juicero-like startups? What explains it?

Wouldn't Alphabet shareholders prefer a dividend to wasting money on projects outside the company's areas of core competency on dubious products? Surely people understand that exponential growth can not continue ad infinitum and that it may be better to take profits than just piss away money.
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All the African countries with Chinese factories in them?
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The difference is that every individual is unique in their ability to create value and their compensation preferences.

A product on Amazon has a market price - the thing being exchanged is an objective, metaphysical fact and people assign it a value. In areas of labor where the uniqueness of individuals is less of a factor, you will generally find that pay transparency is the norm. This is often unskilled/low-skilled labor in jobs that cannot offer meaningful non-pecuniary compensation.

But most people do not work in such jobs, and even in most manual labor jobs there is a strong element of applying your mind to do good work. As such, your purpose as an individual is much more important.

Pay transparency detrimental to you, as an individual. To live a happy life, you must figure out your own purpose and use your mind to achieve it. Happiness is not the result of income, nor is money required to be happy. Your happiness is a function of the achievement of the values you have defined for yourself. If you allow the income of others to influence your decision making, you are only hurting yourself. You should not leave a job that is satisfying in its essentials - that is, it fits with your purpose, you do meaningful work - merely because you discover someone else makes more; that would only hurt you. You don't know - can't know - their purpose, their value, their preferences, that lead to their income and work environment.
No, it is much closer to saying "If you can't meet the strict standard of celibacy outside of marriage historically required by the Catholic church, at least use a condom. It is a lesser sin."

(From what I gather, the church historically kind of looked the other way on condom use of young men seeing ladies of the evening as a practical matter. It was not "approved," but it was vastly better than spreading disease and multiplying the number of illegitimate children in the world.)
>Name a protocol used on the Internet that does NOT make a distinction between connecting and the client requesting information.

Http, among almost everything else. In HTTP the browser will call GET / as soon as a TCP connection is established. If you want to go down a level yes TCP doesn't leak info on connect but what kind of client does that?

The L4 protocol doesn't matter, too low level. What matters is what a normal client does. In HTTP, every browser will make a GET request for info immediately on connecting

Say Bob tells me to connect to his ftp server and gives me a different IP. I go into my client, type the IP, and hit connect. I have a directory listing of all the filez now. A crime? You've gotta be kidding.

To even know you're connected to the right place in most protocols you need to request information. It's like I said, a door that throws the contents inside to anyone that finds it. It has to be that way because otherwise all the doors look the same and you couldn't find the right one
Shareholders hire CxO level people to deal with day-to-day minutiae of running the company. There're other metrics (see SEC filings) that help shareholders gauge whether CxO people are doing their job.
1% universal cashback is nothing special.
Would you consider Go? Have a look at the net library. https://golang.org/pkg/net/

ZeroMQ is not popular among Go developers, because the language and standard library subsume its functionality.
I mean, as long as we're trading unverifiable anecdata, I've known high performers who were being underpaid because they were recently out of school or came out of non-traditional backgrounds. I suspect they would have appreciated this kind of system.

And the only people I can think of who would prefer the existing opague system would be those who benefit from it: management and people receiving outsized salaries for some anti-merofratic reason.
Could gopros in the future be configured to save in cineform directly from the device? I have a 128gb SD card and have always wanted to get a compression with less loss than protune.
This isn't a local or non-locals issue, but it's just that due to the social dynamics of Montana it can get framed in those terms. But, really this is about public access to the public lands which should be sacred, constitutional even, like in Sweden.
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Which is why you buy it, and when not at home, play really loud, awkward and uncomfortable recordings of someone having bad, sweaty, cringe-inducing sex. For hours on end.

If you're into software, you could make it exciting. Perhaps write a scraper to strip the audio off porn clips, mix it up with old Khruschev speeches?

Could be a tactic to fight systems like these - overwhelm them with garbage data.
The older specifications are available as well, I don't think they have any specific requirements about their use. I think they called it CDF back then.
I think you might be overemphasizing that relationship (or underestimating its consequence).

As a counter example, we can say China can't possibly enforce things like seat belt or drunk driving without political reform but those are largely non-problems now because they were easy politically costless solutions.

The problem is here is prioritization/will rather than mechanism/implementation since China likely believes the environment is a problem with a known solution and wants to milk dirty production for a new more years.

Gorbachev wanted to follow the simultaneous political and economic reform route and that definitely didn't turn out well for anyone.
I work on internal tools for a major company. You can't see them, some I probably shouldn't even tell you about.

When I get home I play video games and watch tv and play with my dog. sometimes I'll screw around with a new language or something else. I don't post stuff on github and keep a blog or anything else like that.

I think your view is pretty myopic. Ask me to talk for 30 minutes about one of my projects and force me to answer some tough questions about it. whiteboard some designs.

Maybe I should just hire some guys off a freelance site to write me some side projects.
Legally, the crime of "assault" is threatening to harm someone. That can be done over Twitter.
That does not work for anyone who currently has a job, unless your current employer has extremely lax moonlighting policies.
Can anyone comment on how Octave developers test to see if they are compatible with MATLAB? It seems to me that Octave could run into this same issue.
ROFL, wow, talk about cherry-picking to make a case...

The fact is the US offers the least PTO of any developed nation. Same goes with sick leave and mat/pat leave.

And free lunch? Free bus passes? Stock and option plans, profit sharing, educiation/tuition, retirement, gym memberships... HA!

I know this is shocking, but: most of the world isn't SV. Those benefits are fantasies for the vast majority of American salaried employees.

Many people I know live with 2 weeks of combined PTO, 3 months of maternity leave (mandated by law... ish... there's a bunch of exclusions) and no paternity leave whatsoever, basic health care, and a 401k match if they're lucky.

Now, I'm not claiming that a salaried employee isn't more expensive than a contract employee. That's objectively true. And in a very real sense, the entire point and why this trend is alarming: the more people pushed to underemployement (part-time or contract work), the more people who don't realize those additional benefits, thus contributing to the ongoing demolition of the middle class.

But the US workplace is hideously behind the rest of the western world, and is still managing to lead the way in underemployment as well. After a while you really gotta wonder why that is...
This is very true, changing that law would be totally catastrophic!
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> Everything below the high water mark is publicly accessible per Montana state law

Huh, does that mean you can legally travel through someone's private property by walking/wading the length of a stream that passes through it? (i.e. the stream is effectively a public footpath?)
Eh, the Duds can fork github projects too, add some minor feature and release the "project" to rot.

You do not get to see people who get stuff done- you get to see people who optimized their "work"-life for the impression of getting stuff done.

Not beeing ready to pour unreasonable hours in- actually is a good sign. Such a person values his/her time- and thus will think on there own, for example when handed ridiculous feature requests. Such a person will stand up to me, and ask questions that might save month of development time sunk into unnecessary work.

Sorry, but we are not building the pyramids here. We are making software- and for that a lazy-loading brain with a clever work-avoidance Algorithm, in a un-passionate mercenary can be very effective as a development tool.
Can confirm, not a SV thing, plenty of it in Europe.

Nothing to do with prestige, it's a simple "will this monkey jump through hoops" test to see if you'll work in shitty conditions for shitty pay.

My go to response is asking them to look at my git instead, which ends the process in about half the cases. The other half they look at it for <5 minutes and point out the error that isn't an error (yes I know what an SQL injection is, and I've taken steps to make sure it won't be an issue).
All of your projects are horrible too!
Funny because I'm on the other side. I do side projects. I enjoy it. I also think of them as resume builders. However, not one company I've interviewed with cared about them. They wanted to know what I got paid to do.
Toshiba Libretto from 1997.

It had a PCMCIA floppy drive, and I think 1 had similar CD-ROM drive.

I ran Linux on it for a few years, prior to getting a 12" PowerBook.
Thats a pretty arbitrary line. Why wouldn't they want to ask about hte projects you poured thousands of hours of paid time into?