skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was going to add this as a reply to a comment downthread but I think it's too important to bury.

The fundamental rule of career progression in the technology industry is to position yourself as a domain expert in something more specific than "programming".

It's very difficult to "own" "programming" in a way where you can use scarcity to drive integer multiple increases of the median salary. It is not as difficult to "own" distributed systems, sensor fusion, software security, or OS kernels.

As a general rule, the people getting outlandish half-mil-a-year offers from big tech companies are domain experts, and the people on Twitter shocked and upset that they're never seeing these offers are either (a) generalists or (b) people who have chosen to specialize on the craft of programming, rather than a domain to which programming can be applied.

That's not a value judgement! There are a lot of ways in which refining a true engineering discipline for assembling software is harder than kernel development or fast computer vision processing. It's just a statement about supply and demand, and about ease of demonstrating value.
Me too, I always enjoy learning about the various degrees of intelligence in other species.
If it's any consolation, Brunswick probably wont win the bid. Amazon will probably pick a much larger city in the Eastern US that has a healthier/larger talent pool.
But the question remains. Given Nyquist theorem and an upper limit to human ear response, what is the advantage of going over ~40kHZ? I understand you can encode more information, but decoding to higher frequencies than we can hear doesn't seem (to the novice) to be beneficial. Do we somehow 'detect' harmonics above what we can hear? Or is the extra information used to process something else differently, like the relative volumes of two slightly different instruments making a note at the same pitch? It's an interesting question IMO.

EDIT: upper ear response is presumably limited to ~20 kHz
I changed it to "Javascript framework" to stop triggering the JS devs here, while making the identical point: if you specialize in a technology that was invented last year, you are taking a big risk that it won't survive. If you pick a technology that has been in active use for over 20 years and is currently popular, you are taking less of a risk. This is harder to do, but like many things that are hard, the reward is higher.

I really wish it were possible to make reference to JS in a less-than-glowing light without being downvoted, but alas. Substitute any other brand-new technology for "Javascript framework" if you're having difficulty seeing the argument.
The title does suggest that this is something only recently learned, but it seems more like humans have learned something about orcas than the orcas learning anything.
it's great for drugs and money laundering
The typical Github workflow is to treat the Github repo as a preferred upstream

Is it typical? What metrics do you have to support that?

Speaking for myself I have only ever used triangular workflows: fork upstream; set local remotes to own fork; push to own fork; issue pull request; profit

https://felipec.wordpress.com/2014/05/11/git-triangular-work...
One of my credit cards offers this.
you are a good person.
Are there advantages to using a monorepo rather than having a proper package manager? Seems like the problems they're trying to solve would be better solved by not insisting on using a monorepo.
I think it's pretty safe to say that AirPods have really taken off and users are highly satisfied by the product. Does anyone have other wireless earbuds that they feel are comparable to AirPods? I purchased the Bragi headphones when they first released a while back and while the sound quality is pretty good and the fit is not bad, the syncing with my iPhone and the trouble with pushing them into my ears because of the buttons are really making them an annoyance (and not to mention, potentially damaging to my ears).

Would love to hear some comparable alternatives!
This is a candidate-gene study: a single gene in a single population without replication. Previous candidate-gene studies on other traits have replication rates as low or lower than 1% despite apparently dramatic effect sizes - GWASes they definitely are not! I'll believe this mutation when I see it replicated somewhere else.
Apart from the privacy issues: my niece got a “smartwatch” recently at the age of 5 with many games installed on it. She was instantly addicted to it. After she was nearly ran over by a car because she looked at the thing instead of left/right at a street her parents got rid of that thing. They said it was straight out of hell...
> they “were not representative of how I think about diversity or how Apple sees it.”

Indeed, diversity is about filling a quota on visible traits like genders, shade of skin color and so on.

> “More importantly, I want to assure you Apple’s view and our dedication to diversity has not changed.”

Well it's good to know what Apple's view of diversity is.

Sometimes it can be ambiguous and one might actually believe them when they say "We deeply believe that diversity drives innovation". But this cleared it up. Yeah they don't really believe it drives innovation. If they did every manager in the chain and team member would go out of their way to hire "diverse" people because it would directly improve the product and the bottom line, but they don't believe that as institution.

Neither does Google or other big tech company. They wouldn't need a "diversity president" if they did. Diverse candidates would find their way to their new positions pretty easily, helped by stock options, good salaries and so on. Look how efficiently these companies seek and find leaders in various technologies or project or areas of interest.

What they believe is avoiding bad PR. They don't want to be criticized by some tech gossip blog about not being "diverse" and deep down they know how that tech blog measure "diversity".

Also tangentially related, notice how many times age is included in "diversity" spectrum? Somehow hiring people of various ages is not seen as improving diversity because well, it's not about gender or skin color, so gossip tech blogs won't notice and still criticize them.

In light of that, it makes complete sense that Denise had to apologize. But it was a very useful move as well simply because it made the true values more transparent. Given everything else, at least it's good to have more transparency and clarity.
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To be fair to Cython, they have access to the entire C++ stdlib, so that's a fairly good amount of tooling. The main thing is lacks is good documentation and memory safety.
N.B. the LOE estimates of 2 & 5 days were theirs, not mine.
I don't see where the parent comment implies Group 2 is expected to produce "higher-valued" thoughts.

Neither more diversity of thought between members of a group OR a single leaning, shared by all members of a group imply higher value.
Whoa slow your roll willy wonka. You are contemplating a file system like ZFS for embedded devices?? Horrible idea. Horrible.

Nobody said anything about the latest and greatest devices. But you clearly would not run zfs on embedded systems. You would use UFS or similar. Talk about the wrong tool for the job!

Also [1] is horrendously out of date and inaccurate in regards to resource usage.

And the FreeBSD universe always tends to be cautious and moderately conservative. It’s in our DNA. That doesn’t reflect anything other than were conservative and cautious.
Idk how to feel that it's Gretchen Carlson of all people driving this.
Future articles should flesh that out.
Do you think other semi-truck producers don't engineer for "massive reliability"? They do, and even then all kinds of parts break from time to time, as that is inevitable for physical machines in use. Unless Tesla packages their vehicles with a force-field generator and an "anti-wear-and-tear"-machine to prevent all malfunctions, I don't see how they would make significant leaps in anything other than the drivetrain. Predictive maintenance, which is already a thing in modern trucks also eases the problem of wear and tear failures.

The "unbreakable" glass felt mainly like a marketing gimmick, and I'll believe it when I see it. Also, keep in mind that two years in the future, when the truck comes out, "unbreakable" glass might very realistically be a feature competitors have caught up on.
I've found that today, that list of skills you have is a equivalent to a few years ago only knowing HTML & CSS, but nothing else. The bar is higher. So yes, you need to pick up new skills. That being said, I'd concentrate on your core coding skills, not just adding "Angular" to your resume. Be able to knock the whiteboard-coding style interview out of the park, show them you really know your stuff, are smart, have some CS chops, etc... and then ask them to let you learn the frameworks on the fly.
What CISOs Should Know About Psychology Behind Security Analysts
That's my experience from running with regular earbuds. Have to find a way to hold my phone just so to keep the cord from jostling them out. I've also tried a phone arm-strap but couldn't work out a place that worked for the headphones cable.

Don't have airpods, but I've heard nothing but great reviews so I'm thinking about it. Wish they didn't cost so much.
He's not arguing that Bitcoin would be responsible for the terrorist action. He's arguing that hysteria would hold Bitcoin accountable. And this would create pressure to pass legislation that would crack down on it.

And deserved or not Bitcoin is perceived differently than cash. Its seen as something nefarious, and strange. Where cash is something familiar.
The token is an Ethereum token, so it's totally possible to do it in a decentralized way using a smart contract.
Not sure, but here's the wikipedia page on it, at least:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_shock_response
The key aspect of Bitcoin is that buyers/sellers can operate anonymously. Once governments regulate Bitcoin and makes the anonymous nature illegal, Bitcoin will crash and be essentially useless.
If I (a company) sign up for a 10 year lease on a retail space, at $10,000 per year, it's easy to see that it's a $100,000 obligation (ignoring things like present value of money etc).

Apparently (according to the article; I'm not an expert on this) that $100,000 obligation does not appear on the balance sheet. The new IFRS 16 rule means that it will; so companies will now have a lot more debt. Grandparent commenter was asking "how do you assign a dollar value to the exclusive-use value of that lease" - for example maybe the neighborhood where your shop is suddenly became really popular, so you're locked into a below-market rent for the next 8 years.
Because it's illegal. You write a book, I sell some home-printed copies of it and might give me some money if you claim it. It's clearly illegal.
But they don't ban users for their opinions. They have clearly stated rules about civility in discussion — to my knowledge, those rules are the most common purpose for banning in that subreddit. That and spam.

edit: It would actually be kind of interesting to pull those kinds of statistics and display them — for various subreddits.
Can confirm. Also, I suspect a lot of this "there's no life after 40" stuff mainly relates to startups and certain small companies. It certainly doesn't apply to BigCorps.
Iirc google and facebook decided against using git because it didn't scale to stupidly enormous code bases.

Microsoft decided to stick with git but add non-strict fetching to it. On the plus side, still all the advantages of easy branching/merging and working offline if you touched the required files which distributed vcs's bring. But you still need to be connected to work with parts of the code base you haven't used before.

So I guess if you run the test suite for your current task first then you can work offline since all relevant files will be fetched?
dexterdog, I have upvoted your comment. Taxation is indeed theft. Just because some of that tax money is recycled for some benefits does not make a tax justifiable. Just because a thief robs me and then buys me a lunch doesn't make his act justifiable.

But the low earning morons cannot see through this - those in power manage to use their latent enviousness of the rich to convince them that the taxes are for all those social benefits that they get. One cannot and should not argue with a moron.
The media (and the author of this book) love to portray America as "stumbling" into yet another conflict. Here's a great thread with numerous examples of this: https://twitter.com/adamjohnsonNYC/status/878006629802713089

Oops, we accidentally were forced into invading another country and building another permanent military base. The "enemy" leave us no choice!

The purpose of these wars is not to "win" in the traditional sense, but rather to ensure US business interests are being protected around the world. And by that metric, Vietnam, the "Cold War", both Iraq wars, etc. have been successful.
Leaning just implies that they aren't completely fallen over to one side, which I think is very much the case.
> To get out of the rising housing prices trap, we need another money creation mechanism,

...or simply a way to deflate the housing market, such as public housing and urban renewal projects.

I don't understand why a small issue that's easily solved and a very basic strategy all over the world is somehow interpreted as a insurmountable problem that means the entire economical system is broken.
This surrealist diversity fascism is getting scarier day by day. And poses, in full dystopian ironic splendor, the greatest imaginable threat to real human diversity.
I hope so.

I've been waiting for details on the next Roadster for quite a while now, really on the edge of my seat for the price. My plan was to get a Nissan GT-R in 2021 if the Roadster ended up being too expensive.

But since it was announced and too expensive, I'm still on the fence. I don't want to spend $120k on a GT-R and feel disappointed that I settled. I'm thinking I'll just have to save money for a couple years to make a serious down payment. Maybe I'll pick one up used depending on what kind of warranty Tesla will offer on a used one.
FWIW I find Apple earbuds to be uncomfortable, and they do fall out of my ears pretty quickly. I guess it really depends on your ears.
Oh gods, I was a kid in the 80:s and I was so envious of all my friends who had Amigas.
FB Messenger: You Can Now Completely “Ignore Messages” from Your Friends
You can disable html5 auto play with Firefox. It's a godsend.
it's gotten to the point where you can't lose money by buying bitcoin. it's just always goes up.
Show HN: Marketplace which connects users with phone unlock service providers
This map shows the extent of the Southern California apartment boom
The same thing could be/could have been said about the internet as a whole.
The Dark Side of “Replay Sessions” that record your moves online
A few logical errors:
1. He doesn't have a web browser because of the security concerns, and this is not unique to him.
2. Trump using a computer is a rare photo, same can be said for many many celebrities (career politicians at a computer is rather not rare due to public filming in Congressional buildings for example)
3. Trump has been known to be a late-night researcher (Cruz's father killed JFK?, InfoWars, etc.)
Personally, I loved to code, but management has been much more fulfilling for me. Helping my team grow, professionally and personally, is a hugely rewarding experience. I still get to exercise some problem solving skills (though I let my developers make the technical decisions) and I still help craft a great user experience, which were my favorite parts of being a developer anyway.
Nope, although I haven't really used them much outside. Just walking around, or sitting, or at the gym at a treadmill.
Is the fee for opening the email or the attachment? If the email says opening the attachment incurs a fee, does that constitute advance notice?
Some people don't understand computers at all. Teaching them to engineer software, for example, can be a long and expensive undertaking. Which these people might not be interested in since they are good in other things.

I think it's not good to simply assume that you can insert any random person in a job and they'll "just become not bad" at it.

And this is not restricted to any nationality, gender, etc, either, you can take any two random humans and they'll (with high probability) like and perform at a job at different levels, irrelevant of the amount of learning performed (respective to the learning level atleast)

It's not some innate quality, it's just how people all over the globe are made: different.
Huxley vs Orwell:

http://www.anorak.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/huxley-or...
Finally, a type of celebrity scandal that appeals to the current generation
It depends highly on how you approach development I imagine. I'm 38 and I've got no problems. But I'm also single with no kids and spend basically every spare minute outside of work in front of a computer, as I have done since about age 9. I've worked with many people who just want a simple job, something they can coast on... and there are absolutely jobs for people that want that sort of position. Management is typically like that, since they rarely do anything challenging or unusual or requiring taking risks or being creative. But as developers, there are also lots of antiquated systems which will continue to be maintained until they fail catastrophically and completely. Young developers are usually far less capable of dealing with such systems than older ones are.

Just take a modern full-stack developer and ask them to describe what a processor is actually doing sometime. They are used to working at such an extreme level of abstraction above the hardware that they don't usually have the slightest idea what's actually going on in the hardware. To them transpiling other languages into javascript didn't even sound like proposing the inmates get to repaint the asylum in their own scat for a long time.
It's better to stay away from the super-hyped technologies IMHO. They might provide a few years of higher earnings but they have a bad habit of flaring out, rendering all of that hard earned knowledge useless.
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A lot of this argument boils down to people are not allowed to question the structure / content of a site because it will be self regulated. I think those discussions are healthy for a community to have and would prefer people offer an opinion of why such content is viable for the space vs deriding conversation.

You're not demonstrating how or why the solutions I have offered are not applicable. Why are these solutions I offered perfectly valid for someone who's not into quantum mechanics or JavaScript or Android or Windows, yet they somehow don't work for someone who's not into politics (however vague that definition might be)?

As for my argument being that people are not allowed to question the structure / content of a site: yes, they are allowed, just not in a thread which is about something else. This thread is about "The Paradise Papers: How Ridiculously Easy It Is for the Rich to Avoid Taxes" not about whether politics are allowed to be discussed on HN (which is itself a political argument by proponents of political apathy). Are you a proponent of moderation complaints ("downvoting", a form of argumentum ad misericordiam) in threads? No? Then why would you be a proponent of people who complain they find an article or bunch of articles irrelevant or offtopic?

I'm all for a meta forum where people can rant their ass off about how X or Y is ontopic on the website. A website I visit regularly (Tweakers.net) has such a subforum where people can submit things like spelling mistakes or complain about moderation. Let the complainers together enjoy their cesspit of complaints, being directed to it, while such complaints in the threads themselves are downvoted to offtopic (0) or troll (-1). GLHF wasting your time on that, having people vent their frustration already helps them with their problem.
clearly logic and rationality have no place in today's political thinking, especially when it comes to so-called diversity.
More like they need to handle street parking. I live in the bay area, live in an in-law unit, and can only use street parking. Even then, this house would need some serious rewiring to be able to charge that car in any kind of reasonable amount of time. The woes of 1930's homes.
I guess that’s a real Gretchen question...
If you missed the discussion with details about how the technology actually works, rather than xplat: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13559662 linked Q&A https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/5rtlk0/git_vir...

An open-source cross-platform virtual file system API that was also fast (as opposed to FUSE) would be amazing.
> all that ridiculous plastic

I'd bet those fairings are needed to get the low cD, and that without them the economics are nearly as competitive. I'd give them the benefit of the doubt on having designed for blow outs as that seems rather basic.
"I think what Trump himself did is actually irrelevant to the point I'm making."

It's not. They're reporting on what Trump did. If that's mostly negative, then the coverage is, by necessity, going to be mostly negative. You wouldn't be upset that most of the coverage now of Harvey Weinstein or Louis C.K. is negative, would you?

"If Trump did many negative things and few positive things, then all news publications need to do is simply report on what he's doing and leave it at that."

That's what they did.

"There shouldn't be a need for major news organizations to officially endorse this or that candidate."

That's been a tradition for editorial boards for a long time. Note: That's the editorial, or opinion board. Not the newsroom.

"What's so hard about trusting viewers and readers to come to their own conclusions based on honest, simple, accurate, and exhaustive reporting of events and facts?"

Well, for one, everyone knew the same things about Trump, and yet he was elected. But you're really going to have to prove that what you're asking for didn't happen.
I sure as shit hope not. I started my dev career at 31 and I can't imagine doing anything else for a living other than being retired.
Easier: make exchanging bitcoin for real money illegal.
What compiler do you use? Almost all of them embed a compilation timestamp (which is one of the reasons reproducible builds are often a challenge).
Maybe we can make this the go to reply on these comments.
- Keep your knowledge/experience relevant
- Stay focused and positive
- Promote collaboration, ownership, and leadership

Think of it like being on a first date: your idealized self.
You're real, but like 120% real.
It actually takes a bit more than 24 hours... so yeah
Depends on which tools we are talking about.

QtCreator and Visual C++ (with UWP), are only now allowing what was already quite comfortable with C++ Builder in the 90's.

As I posted in another thread, Lucid and IBM had quite advanced environments based on Lisp and Smalltalk environments, that failed on the market due to hardware requirements and heavy price tags.

Other than that, I feel your pain.

C++ is no longer my daily tool, but I still enjoy using it, and would also like to have better tooling available for when I do.

The anti-modules discussion post-CppCon is a good example of what you are stating.
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This has to do with the nature of the apps.

In the Valley / consumer focused apps - they are often focused on both very young target users - AND - very new frameworks and technologies. Plus they work insane hours.

I worked in Software in Telecom as a young man, and I was surrounded by middle aged geniuses, I felt useless.

My buddy worked at a big consulting firm doing .com stuff, he was a primary lead.

So yes, it has a lot do with products, the industry, how fast things change etc..

I enjoy the frothiness of tech, but it's a career danger.