skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I could copy and paste the whole article.

I could quote your lines.

I could quote the lines where it says he is training for $13/h low paying coal job because coal companies sell their assets to companies that only hire temporary workers.

I could quote the part where it says that new companies will not come if there is no trained workforce, so those people are stuck in a catch-22.

I could quote the part where it says that people retrain where there is no hope, but don't retrain where there is coal left.

I could quote the part where it says coal companies move to natural gas.

I could quote the part where one miner says the coal is a great career path for the next 50 years.

Or people could be interested and read the article.
The original idea was to buy the phone and sell it, so I listed it on ebay but a scammer tried to buy it. Then listed on FB marketplace but had people saying they wanted it then cancelling. In the end I decided to get it for myself and once I realized I didn’t like it, I didn’t want the hassle of trying to sell it again.
NAND to Tetris - yea it is a little more than just a programming course but that's exactly the kind of teaching we need to do. I took CS1371 at Georgia Tech back in 2004 and it was completely and utterly useless. How does a multi-million dollar college screw up teaching how to code so badly? I wish NAND to Tetris was around.

CS50 - Just watch week 0[1] and it literally starts with a survey of 73% that have never taken anything computer programming course or know anything about programming. The course starts with the absolute fundamentals - decimal system to binary, power cord of the computer where electrons go in and then builds slowly into introducing C.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4SGkB_8fFs
Yes, normally they're speeding and in-between lanes.
cmd.exe is still horrible and PowerShell looks like more a programming language rather than a true shell. ConEmu makes cmd/PS more usable, but it is still very far even from bash CLI, not to speak abput zsh.
to being treated like a cost center to be manipulated and reduced, forced to hop jobs every 4 or 5 years to even remain at market rate for their skill level

You’re right this is how most people work. Makes me think we should start to unionize office work.
Ranking documents by quality and choosing what to index has been Google's mission since Day 1. That never changed.
This guy was in the top 5% did many more projects than yourself for 5 years.

In the end all it takes is one help desk person to bring it all down.

The next project may be your last you never know.
Upgrading the Soldered RAM in a Macbook Air
I didn't find Upwork's contract without signing up, but before Elance merged with oDesk to become Upwork they had pretty onerous terms in their services agreement⁰:

9.Indemnification Contractor will defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Client against any damage, cost, loss or expense arising from a claim, suit or proceeding brought against Client (i) alleging that any Work Product infringes upon any Intellectual Property Rights, (ii) alleging that any Work Product misappropriates any trade secrets, of any third party, or (iii) arising from Contractor's breach of the terms of this Agreement.

I read that to mean that if a client I did work for is sued for IP infringement, even if no IP infringement occurs, I need to pay for the client's defense out of my own pocket.

⓪ - https://www.elance.com/p/legal/independent-contractor-servic...
the 2nd idea. But in order to validate if I actually own the money it has to traverse through the history.
Now, I do not know how fast that is, or how far back it goes. But if it has to check and lets say it takes X amount of time, the spamming it will flood the validation without requiring a fee?

In general the 'attacks' are possible but expensive. However are they government expensive bulletproof? especially if we target less expensive coins aka alt coins.
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Hard drives need a gas because the heads use it to float over the platter. And helium is hardly that rare that it is an issue; it is used in balloons for children.
You should add org-mode as a document type and you would be golden. http://mooz.github.io/org-js/#header-1-1
High-quality paper. A lot of places have problems that the paper records they have to keep for 10 years become unreadable in less than 10 years.

Archival CDs might also last a lifetime (regular CDs certainly won't).

But I agree with your point that the MBTF of a single unit is not a way to predict it's lifetime.
B isn't hiding A. I doubt people would care for the pigs or mogadishians if the other stories weren't in their minds.
The heads actually fly over the platter, airplane style. Vacuum would make them crash. The molecules in the atmosphere are too big for the tolerances they need for the head to track properly, so they use Helium.

Note this is a much less wasteful use case than children’s balloons.

Also, modern MRI machines and other research equipment wouldn’t be feasible without massive amounts of storage to back them (though these drives are probably a poor fit for those use cases, since they are soft-realtime, and shingled drives can stall for a long time in the worst case).
Google is releasing such a product too
I really want to see K&R Third Edition which is written as perfectly as the original but updated to C11. Just to have the textbook with the modern ISO specification and latest introductions.
Though the author might be right, as an outsider I have a hard time believing his words tell the only thruth. When you start the blame game like this you better include some actual conversations instead of telling the reader you did them a favor and rephrased them in your own words (state of mind!) for them. Anyone can write a piece like this. An honest victim or the neighbour's 13 yo spoiled script kiddo.

So word of advice. If you want to have true impact rewrite your piece to include conversations and other relevant discussion material that led to this exclamation of frustration; because you might be totally right.
This is a fascinating proof of its own conjecture. The author bashes "tribal epistemology" while enthusiastically engaging in it. I think people experiencing this kind of fear should consider reading Jonathan Haidt's "The Righteous Mind" for more insight into why conservatives seem so obtuse. I found one of the relevant sections in this blog, which also seems informative in general:

>...it allowed us to assess how accurate they were by comparing people’s expectations about “typical” partisans to the actual responses from partisans on the left and the right)’ Who was best able to pretend to be the other?

>The results were clear and consistent. Moderates and conservatives were most accurate in their predictions, whether they were pretending to be liberals or conservatives. Liberals were the least accurate, especially those who described themselves as “very liberal.” The biggest errors in the whole study came when liberals answered the Care and Fairness questions while pretending to be conservatives.

https://theindependentwhig.com/haidt-passages/haidt/conserva...
For me its mithril (frontend) + micro (server) + Hasura (BaaS)
Don't those also hold for the coal mining course?
imho just that you need to build something other companies cannot copy easily.

I worked on that http://pilo.cool and stopped for precisely that reason
I criticized one of these platforms on Twitter over policies & practices -- including horrendous treatment of freelancers -- and they locked my account.

I wasn't a freelancer - I was a paying client with a long and profitable history, good ratings, etc.

Never used them again.
I wonder if you can run it over ToroDB.
It's the Libertarian pro-market bend here, it's what you get when you replace the legal framework of the state with a market system. In a regular Western democracy if someone cheats you you can seek redress through the court system. You can't do that in the trust market, if you didn't do diligence on your opponent it's your own fault.

Kind of like in the Mafia, a war of all against all. Me against my brothers. Me and my brothers against my cousins. Me and my brothers and cousins against the world.
Most are turned on locally by a photocell mounted on the street light.
I’ve read through your pdf docs explaining wolkenkits approach to CQRS.

I think most of the value you’re describing through correctly modeling behavior to language is only important at the level with which most teams deal with data—and this isn’t necessarily the DB level. Just like our brain may use (relatively crude) bio mechanical processes to encode & recall information, yet at a higher level of abstraction relies on the flexibility of natural language, to codify and transmit meaning between idea storage systems (people), I think a similar process is at place with programming. Let the low level stuff stay low level and optimize for performance/throughout and not meaning, then in the higher order aspects of code make sure the abstractions that are most used by teams map data to constructs which humans use to communicate meaning.

I think this approach can be found in any framework, including meteor through effective abstractions, as nearly all frameworks give you the necessary mechanisms to map data. I think the issue with ineffective language systems is mostly the same reason people hate poetry. Most people have a difficult time adequately mapping ideas to language, because it is extremely difficult to do it correctly to the satisfaction of others.
The "right" propagandizes by inserting false data.

The "left" propagandizes by redacting true data.
Judging from GitHub, it looks kinda dead [1]. GNUstep for Windows [2] might be a better choice (and more likely to be up to date and complete since it is still in active development) to port something from macOS. Although you may need to have some GNUstep libraries on the system to run the application (or install them alongside your application). In traditional GNUstep fashion, it is unclear from their site what exactly is needed and why and gives the impression that you need to install the entire GNUstep just to run a simple application.

[1] https://github.com/cjwl/cocotron
[2] http://www.gnustep.org/windows/installer.html
<quote>That is, I can write simple blocking code, and my server still scales.
Using event loop programming in Go would take away one of my favorite things about the language, so I won't be using this.</quote>

If Go has or can emulate 'generators' a-la Python/Nodejs,then you can write synchronous looking,blocking-like code with event loops as well.
Nearly all of the most recent LED street lights can be dimmed. Though, for most, it's something that done locally and generally at the time of installation. You may be able to get someone to either 1) adjust the brightness, or 2) adjust the lamp so that it shines less into your house.
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I experienced a very odd GPS failures about a week later (September 24) in south-eastern Sweden. At one point I was driving for about an hour (in quite isolated areas - around https://www.google.com/maps/@58.0381615,16.2094966,13.37z) without my iphone being able to get a gps fix. It's never happened before, or since.

The phone was fixed to the car's front window with plenty of sight towards the sky. I rebooted the device twice but it didn't help.

Our natural instinct here is to blame the russians for these kinds of things. At this time our biggest military exercise since the 90s was taking place in this region, with a lot of US involvement: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurora_17

(One random theory: the russians were trying out some kind of remote, localized target GPS jamming tech. The GPS outage stopped once I got closer to the largest city in the region (150k people).

Additional rationale: If they unleashed GPS jamming signals that made hundreds of thousands of people lose GPS it would probably have made news. By localizing it to just affecting a couple of hundred people in isolated areas they would avoid that kind of mess.)
This might be somewhat negative, but I don't quite see what problem the library is solving.

It looks like as if Express wanted to become more like Koa (obvious from the context object).
Frankly, it has missed out - koa's simplicity and elegance is unmatched.
The routing and middleware syntax is particularly clunky.

Documentation seems really nice though.
I don't know. It's hard to feel magnanimous when you have an armpit in your face and someone else is blocking the door to get off the train.

> human interaction

Honestly, my relationship with the person next to me on the train feels more like the relationship between two cows on a cattle car.

Maybe you're riding a different line at a different time of day or something.
People here are blaming this guy for not thinking Freelancer.com will take care of him like he is an employee. I think the platform, freelancer.com, is trying to play both sides of the issue.

Their advertising, marketing and brand are "we are here to help you!" and to take away the potential headaches and challenges that freelancers without the platform have.

Yet, really, they are not there to mitigate the risk they claim. They don't give a shit about you or your income. They only want people to use the platform.

It's a power imbalance. The company has thousands and thousands of people using their service, so one person is such a small % of their business, they don't give a shit.

For small businesses, in a small town or community, your reputation is what your business is, so you will work really hard to ensure it is good.

Large companies with a huge web presence and the resources to protect it, don't care about you. If you post a bad review, they will find a way to get 100 people to post positive ones.

It's largely about resources, the large company has WAY more than you as an individual.

They only care about their competition.

It's sad, but that's the state of our system, from health care companies to insurance companies to telecoms to banks, you are at the mercy of these large corporations as a customer.

Unless you have a personal networth large enough to fix these problems, it's a basically insolvable problem.

I recently had a disagreement with my car insurance company about an accident. They ruled against me, which I disagreed with. My only recourse would be to hire a lawyer and take them to court. They knew it would be WAY more effort than it was worth for me.

My only option was to switch companies, which I did, but it doesn't really matter since the new company could do the same to me just as easily.
Helium used for balloons is low grade helium that has already been recovered from another process. Medical grade helium is virtually pure helium and that is in short supply. Question whether this HDD needs pure or low grade.
If it were rush hour, there wouldn't be enough room to write notes on a moleskine, let alone have a conversation.
Aren’t these programs aimed at people who don’t have jobs anymore?
Last time I looked, unless this is an hourly rate job, this is not possible. (Hourly rate is free form) You have three or four fields, each 200 char max.

Can't really do much more than say "I can do this" and draw attention to your reviews if you have any.

For me this is one of the many red flags on this site. If you're very focused then you can make it work, but for common garden jobs, not so much.
A friend of a friend got such an order for Tesco, our biggest supermarket chain, a few years ago. Needless to say, their invoice was paid very soon after that.
Seems unlikely to be a natural phenomenon, considering it's never been noticed before.

Could be the Russians are up to something? Jamming GPS signals would be a significant strategic advantage in war time.
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Maybe an Awesome list of Awesome lists could help
Why trees don’t ungrow – the cliche that life transcends thermodynamics is wrong
Where can I see this subreddit?
Please edit title. Per HN rules it should be The Types of Leaders Who Create Radical Change.
If you do some kind of investment (say, in stocks of some company), you first read up on investment, the market this company works in, products this company is planning etc. in particular if you go in debt for this investment.

So why can't one simply expect from grown-up people to do the same for the degree that ones planes do get?
What I was referring to was the incident recently where they flagged people's Google docs (even private ones) and locked people out of it.
I didn’t know it was even a thing; haven’t heard anything about it in around ten years.
There are things you only experience scooting around the city, but there are things you only experience when you get at least 30 miles out of an urban area. And there are things you only experience if you go on a full-blown roadtrip.

I think there's a lot to find interesting out there. Generally I only feel limited by my curiosity and imagination.

If you're on a road trip across a "boring" part of the country, chat up a trucker at a rest stop. Ask how the business works, how they got into the business, how things changed since they started, what their bosses seem like, etc.
I tried hard, but I cannot fathom how hard scientific evidence fails to convince people. It is good that philosophy has a categorisation for this phenomenon, but I find it scary as hell. Because it means that I am totally displaced in a society like that, and that I will be unable to do anything about that, because the only thing I know for convincing people is trying to lay out the facts for them.

Scary!
Can you share more? Sounds interesting, especially as I'm reading your comment inside a Tesco store.
I would definitely be less comfortable if corporations were generally taking pro-hate or anti-factual stances. But since they're generally taking anti-hate or pro-factual viewpoints, I'm good with it. I think this is one of those cases where it's very hard to separate "my political views" and my epistemic or ethical views. To the extent that the latter two are part of my politics, you could say that they are political views, but I think there is more to it than that.

There are other political views I oppose where I would want corporations to allow those views to be expressed on their platforms. For example, I'm opposed to a lot of economic conservativism. But I don't see it as being anti-epistemic, and I don't think corporations should suppress those viewpoints. Fortunately, that's not what is happening. I would be shocked if anyone had ever been banned from Twitter, Facebook, or Google News for promoting these sorts of views.

So the problem here is that all views are political in a sense, but views are not merely political. It's not rightist political views generally that are being suppressed. It is other, more specific types of views that tend, at this point in time, to be associated with the right.
Some people, consumers as well as producers and those middlemen that are unfortunately very common in all markets, seem to fundamentally misunderstand what an individual's relationship to global society is.

Grocery shopping is not some alternative form of agriculture that allows you to conveniently dispense with food security costs.

Like with anything else, you're responsible for your own food sourcing, production, horticulture, security, and for reasonably insuring yourself against calamities that might happen in life.

If you try to outsource those core responsibilities to another entity you only have yourself to blame. The same applies if you act irresponsibly in terms of health, eg by getting sick right before harvest season.

That said, it's well-known that all humans are overly dependent on middlemen like big agriculture, farm subsidies, commodities traders, shipping and logistics providers, supermarket chains, etc. So perhaps it's understandable if you turn to them when you start out.

You should always be aware however that you're on your own. They don't protect you. They just take a cut from your hard earned money. The sooner you extricate yourself from that dependency the better. Putting all your eggs in one global society is recklessly negligent.

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My point is, we have a social contract here. Don't victim blame. Some unforeseen circumstance, like food supply shortage, could turn something you never expected to be a problem into something that kills you.
>They keep old releases in their CI configuration and block PR’s from being merged if they don’t work on older release lines.

Wait, people do that? If every PR lands on the next release and on the LTS release, how is the LTS branch different from the latest release? Isn't the point of LTS that it stays the same (except bugs) and isn't evolving?

I must be missing something obvious here.
I've used Meteor a lot over the last 4 years. Recently I had to start a new project and I wanted to move away from Meteor because clearly it has less traction lately.

I've considered a lot of things, but I couldn't find a setup as simple as Meteor with database integration. I ended up going back to Meteor and I'm very happy with it.

The tooling keeps getting better (recent 1.6 release), server-side rendering is almost there (already possible but no clear best practices yet), and scaling seems like it will be getting better soon (MongoDB upade + a path toward GraphQL with Apollo).

I had my doubts but I'm back on board. I recommend every JS developer give Meteor a good look.
Reposting my comment because it's going to help you:

Meteor projects are quick to ramp up but the second something goes wrong it's just a nightmare. Code is not structured at all, strange packages to do things that fall by to the sides, performance issues that are hard to track/debug.

Testing is still a third-class citizen in Meteor for some reason. The official guide mentions testing, but in the four times I've tried to follow it over the course of a year, I could never get it to work properly.

On the flipside, using Elixir and Phoenix you know exactly what's going on and why, you have real control over your DB queries. You can benchmark properly. Your tests are 100% real and accurate, and run properly. It's much better. You sleep better at night that's for sure.

I say this as someone who has used Meteor for multiple projects and used to love it!
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Your Instagram link 404s for me.