skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sigh. No, it's not a crab mentality. It's those of us who have lived through asset bubbles before and know that they have a tendency to affect the real, actually productive economy when they collapse.
I think the takeaway is that he showed them a complete product, rather than a pile of schematics.

Looking through Github accounts is extremely tedious and boring. On most profiles I’ve seen it‘s hard to tell what all the repos are about, and what the important stuff is.

So if you‘ve made something awesome, you need to market it a bit.

Don‘t point people to your Github account.

Point them to the project website, where they see a screenshot or a demo video, a short, easy to grasp description of your thing, and some impressive stats of your choice that convinces everyone that this project is brilliant.

And make sure the project page also prominently credits you as the author!
I think there's a mismatch in what we're each trying to convey here. I understand very well how people can struggle through incredible odds and still manage to make success for themselves. I think such stories are deeply inspiring, and I likewise hold to a philosophy of never giving in despite the uphill climb you face.

But I'm not concerned with personal motivation here, I'm concerned with systemic issues that need to be addressed, and that I believe can be addressed. Personal motivation is a non-sequitur.

The idea that if people in a disadvantaged group were just motivated enough they have an equal chance to succeed is trivially false: the entire reason they're considered part of a disadvantaged group is because their chance of good outcomes is statistically lower than other groups. Demotivating factors certainly play a part in this, but the idea that their disadvantage would disappear if they just thought about things the right way is silly in the extreme (not to mention unsupported by data). You usually don't have to dig far to find an actual obstruction to the success of the group. And if we have the capability of removing this obstruction, why wouldn't we?
73% of developers who don't use AI plan to learn how in 2018
" The vast majority of millennials that did go to college got a degree in a traditionally "useful" field. "

? What ?

No. Most college degrees are minted in non-professional or degrees for which one will have very little direct ability to land a job [1].

There is no rule that says 66% of society should be able to spend four years getting an English degree.

Higher education is, and always will be expensive because it requires input from others.

[1] https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2014/05/09/310114739/what...
This really. Nothing against cryptos but have developed a distaste for the ecosystem in general. I was sold on the idea of a currency that could help people in third world countries with stupid banking policies but instead 99% of the money in crypto is speculation waiting to cash out to fiat.
Coincidentally I had just started speculating about the pedagogical merits of subtraction equivalence classes as an analog to fractions. Nice then to have it laid out by a mathematician.

I think school algebra could benefit from a more analog view on addition-subtraction versus multiplication-division. The similarities are obscured by the difference in notation (and of course by too much rote-ruling).
Shortages Hit IC Packaging Supply Chain
I have heard " If this hadn't been a coffee date, but rather a consulting engagement, I'd be writing you a check right now." before.. Cannot remember where but your buddy read that in a book I think =)
> If the mainstream media wanted to destroy Vice once and for all, now seems like an appropriate opportunity.

So I guess its well accepted now that "mainstream media" is not merely there to report what is going on but have active agendas to shape the world according to their wishes. It a weapon of destruction.
Money as an Instrument of Change
David, I’m a lawyer and as others in the thread have suggested, as a lawyer I could easily facilitate the bitcoin/usd conversion and successful bank deposit process (both on and off exchange).

Do you have a idea how many people are being impacted and the overall value? Assuming an exchange like Coinbase takes 5% in a sell transaction and then the seller would owe taxes (minimum 15%) what kind of fee would someone be willing to pay for a lawyer to safely convert bitcoin and deposit their funds?
The only one which is not a routine part of the middle class experience these days is eating strictly junk food because you can't afford anything better.

Every other part of that entire list is, sadly enough, "normal middle class" in the US.
What is the outlook for semi equipment?
I replied above, it depends on the level of the consultant. Never say never. For a five figure a week consultant I would say it is not the first priority.
I've been working remotely for the past 10 years, and only the first year of that was with a totally remote organization.

It's very important that the organization is well equipped to handle remote workers (i.e. more than just one or two people are remote). The local people in the company should take pains to make sure that the remote people are included.

As a remote person, it's important to make sure that you communicate often. Deliver well, talk to people, make yourself visible by being a part of things that matter. Look for ways in which things could be better, because they always exist.

Make sure your manager knows your career aspirations, and let them help you with that.

Do spend time in the office and with your coworkers when you get a chance. I've made 4-6 trips per year over the past 9 years. Face time does matter, so take advantage of it!

At many (most) companies, there is a ceiling for remote workers. If you want to be a VP, you'll almost certainly need to be at headquarters. I have had engineering, management, product management, project management, and architecture roles remotely, though, so there is a lot of possibility available!
One interesting factoid I know is that 50% of Americans represent 2% of the income in America.

“The shrinking middle class” is a phrase that is part of common discourse here for a reason - I wouldn’t be surprised if 80% of Americans fit the parent comment’s definition.
You do realize North Korea "not operating" means either a civil war between military factions with access to nuclear weapons, or South Korean/American forces dragged into a military operation right up the nose of China? So you would rather prefer that my relatives die in fire?

See, this is what I mean when I say I object to such reasoning. People are so bold, they're always willing to sacrifice other people's lives to defend freedom.
>the ends justify the means

> lots of morally reprehensible stuff that cannot be excused.

Which is it?
Noticed the word "design" was written as "degsin".
Why or why Google asks about the date the account has been created? 9/10 you won't remember exact month/year and this screws up any chance of account recovery.
Yes it was. It was much more business oriented than it is now.
Straight from 2004:

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/av759j/the-vice-v11n5

"The VICE Guide to Partying

Here are some of the types you'll need to invite.

TRANSSEXUAL: Pre-op is good, but post–breast implants, pre–gender reassignment is PERFECTION. All transsexuals are slutty, so don't worry about that. This guest is a very high priority and should be catered to accordingly. Put her first in the queue for cocaine and drinks. Tell her how pretty she is. Touch her a lot.

GUY WHO WILL FUCK TRANSSEXUAL: He is your #2 guy, your party wingman. If the tranny doesn't feel loved, she will leave. Then you're fucked. If you don't have a tranny chaser in your six-degrees network, I have one word for you: craigslist.com. We posted there for this party ("Guy wanted to fuck tranny in ass") and had 20 respondents within an hour. I picked this particular man because he has the biggest ring through his cockhead that I have ever seen.

WANTON DRUNK SLUT: This is a surprisingly tough one to find. Once you get a reliable drunk slut in your life, someone who will shed her clothes and let a room full of people write on her with indelible markers at the drop of a hat, hold onto her like a dinghy in the perfect storm. She is a true party staple and will prove again and again the fact that nudity at a party is as contagious as the bird flu. Just as the night begins, give her (and only her) a handful of shrooms."

Yep, that's Vice. The current progressive, cutting-edge image is just makeup.
Interesting that the behavior by Murs goes I commented on and uncriticized in the article. It is in the realm of bad behavior (asking a reporter “can we xxxx”). I suspect it is a lot more comfortable to critique white corporate culture than black rap culture, even though the later is deeply misogynistic.
If you have the experience and/or brand/name already, it wouldn't be hard. My thinking was not so much the work, but the finding people and convincing that a) you can do the work and b) they need it done. If you're successfully doing this now - props to you! If you have any specifics you can share about how you got through a and b above... would love to read more.
Funny that you mention laziness, because most programmers I know work harder and are under more stress than most other people.
I have been working remotely doing the last 10 years, but only partially.

We do projects with distributed teams, including the customer teams, so it is impossible to get everyone on the same physical location.

Never do 100% remote, at most 50% max, always keep a sane mixture of on-site and remote work, soft-skills and networking are quite important.
you can only bank at USAA if you are a US federal government employee or current/former armed forces. which is fascinating that they are one of the most supportive banks of the US with Bitcoin.
> take 30 days vacation a year

I know people who earn seven figures who don't, and honestly can't, do this. Vacation is also a function of workplace culture, not just discretionary income and allotted vacation days.
That’s not even close to what I was getting at. If you are interested in someone there are a million non threatening, non aggressive ways to signal it. If it’s purely sexual the same applies. If the other person wants the same they will make it obvious.

In the context of the story about the man forcibly putting the woman’s hand on his crotch, there didn’t seem to be any precedent (from the story that was published) that would have indicated that she would want to touch him like that. If there was some conversation that happened where mutual interest was expressed and the conversation turned sexual, then if she wanted to touch him she would.

Grabbing another person and forcing their hand to your genitals is not okay. I don’t understand how that is ambiguous.
Entire Indonesia is falling apart. Economic development is terribly slow over long term and their main export industries (oil, mining, coal and palm oil - [1]) do not seem to have a future due to underinvestment and drying demand.

Quite sad.. Such a beautiful, diverse country and nice people.

[1] https://atlas.media.mit.edu/en/profile/country/idn/#Exports
Broadening a subject, I was a mentor to a few junior devs and loved the experience. This was in my last full time employment. Now I became a contractor for all the perks involved but I miss my mentoring role slightly. Do you know of any good places online where I could help someone with building their skills?
Last I’d heard (it’s been a while) there was significant interest in running z/OS and the like on emulators, usually on Intel. I’d be interested to know how much of that goes on these days. Seems sensible (to ignorant me, at least) that mainframe hardware would disappear in the handful-of-decades timeframe but I can imagine the software living on indefinitely.
BitLottery – A Chrome extension where you win Bitcoin with your CPU
Google Assistant SDK updated with interesting features
So pretty much every scientist at my (US) company is poor? Even uppermanagement in r&d. None of us see 30 days off per year. At most of is 25 after 2 decades.

I'd say 15 days instead of 30 seems fair number for America and probably 30 for europe
I was shocked by that figure as well. All I can think is that since they pay people peanuts that may have sounded like an impressive settlement figure to someone.
Debugging a segfault in my Rust program
all the more reason for me to use Bitcoin as a store of value and other cryptocurrencies for quick anonymous payments ( DASH, monero, zcash )
I don't think that's anyone's typical definition of the middle class. It usually refers to work autonomy and relying on expertise to sustain yourself (as opposed to menial labor).

Merely having liquid capital to begin with (i.e. not tied up in your primary residence or retirement vehicles) almost certainly puts you on the higher end of the middle class.

I don't think re-defining "middle class" to mean the top 10% (or less) of earners is helpful.
> You can't choose to attend an $80,000 per year private liberal arts school and then complain you have too much student debt

1. This assumes that everyone went to a private liberal arts college, which isn't true. 2. Historically a degree wasn't as necessary because employers actually provided growth potential and entry-level positions to people. Those aren't options for millennials. That kind of forces people to get degrees to have any chance of economic growth.

> You can't move to the most expensive place in the country with no money and a low paying job and then complain it's too expensive

If those are the only regions of the country experiencing economic growth, then what else are they supposed to do? Work in Dollar General in a city of 12,000 people their whole life?

> You can't regularly use convenient and artificially cheap gig-economy services (like Uber and Instacart) and then complain when their business model doesn't support giving you a $150,000 a year job

People will always use the cheapest or most efficient option when it comes to purchasing services or items. It's not their fault that such services are legal, it's the government's.

> You can't demand free speech protection and then violently oppress viewpoints you disagree with.

I agree with you here. The internet has made it so that those who complain the most are perceived to be the majority when they're not.
It is interesting to see no games were developed using C, C++ or Java and outside of JS for web games it is all C# and Unity.

I don't really follow game dev, is C# popular in the industry then? I know a couple of popular indie games were developed using C# and Unity but has it made its way into the bigger studios?
Trans-siberian Railway presented with maps
Yeah Jakarta was founded as the Amsterdam of the East Indies. Sadly Indonesia doesn't have the near limitless resources of its old colonial owner that keeps Amsterdam/Holland from sinking.

Climate change is going to hurt the poorer countries the most.
Good question. Here's another that needs to be answered IMHO:

Do third party battery replacements return the processor to normal performance? Or is it just "official" Apple-performed battery replacements that do so?

I wouldn't be surprised if there were some sort of extra procedure needed to reset the processor throttling back to normal. Or, perhaps the throttling code checks for genuine Apple batteries somehow?

Apple needs to come clean with more details about exactly how this is implemented.
Would phrasing it as "find people who are willing to pay you, by networking with people who might be willing to pay you" be more informative?
I guess this could do with more details on the Readme... An api documentation perhaps?
Unregulated corporate power destroyed your life and your response is "no, this is actually good" and then you tell us not to be blinded by partisan ideology?
You do realize that there are other scenarios, such as North Korea launching nuclear strike into Silicon Valley or New York? Would you prefer that? or North Korea failing quietly like the collapse of USSR?
Because we shouldn't think about the media categorically one way or the other, as if it's either all fake or everything in the media is true. The media gets things wrong, and we should correct their mistakes.

However, the political aspects of discrediting entire news outlets or the entire news community because of critical or negative coverage of certain politicians or political parties is an attitude that promotes mistrust in our society and creates an environment where nefarious political actors can successful avoid scrutiny.
"down 10,000 innocent lives"

I doubt this number. And let's not forget that they let them protesting for some time. An highly unusual event in China. Problems occurred when protests did not stop.

"threatens democracy and freedom worldwide."
China is not totally undemocratic and I doubt that democracy is necessarily the best solution at all times and for all states.

"This psychopath will eventually cause harm to a few countries (Taiwan, South Korea)"

South Korea?

On the other hand I am sure the people in Syria, Libya and Iraq were happy about the US bombings. Remember "highway of death" in Iraq?

"when said and done, maybe enable North Korea to strike a few nuclear missiles into Los Angeles or Tokyo, who knows."

North Korea is a buffer sate for both, China and Russia. China has NO interest in a war in North Korea.

By the way, North Korea. The Soviet Union fought an existential war against Germany and lost 10% of their population. This war DEFINED the Soviet Union. In Europe the second world war was basically a Soviet-German war (9 out of 10 German soldiers that died, died on the Eastern Frontier).

This being said, this is NOTHING compared to the war that North Korea fought:
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2017/12/11/state-fear...

Yes, North Koreans are paranoid. They may have reasons to be.
What's preventing a software developer from doing enterprise software consulting?
Since this is something of a hobbyhorse of mine: You know all my invoices had “Ogaki, Gifu, Japan” on them, right? The only thing you have to do to charge $100 an hour is successfully pitch any firm in the world on paying you that. They exist, in quantity, and substantially all of them are on the same Internet we are.
If you have the slightest chance interest in the Sex Pistols, punk rock, or even the story of how something small and sincere can shake up an industry and culture, check out the documentary The Filth and The Fury. It covers some of the same territory as DOA, but I think better captures the cultural and economic stagnation in the 70s.
> No compliance officer at any public exchange is picking up the phone over a $100k customer

At the exchanges you may have trouble. Many of them lack proper compliance departments. There are, however, response requirements under U.S. law your attorney will be knowledgeable about.

At a bank, contacting compliance is trivial if you know how to use the relevant public databases. There are also questions about structuring, e.g. transferring the coins to a multi-member LLC and then cashing out into it, that could be relevant for one’s jurisdiction.

All that said, having documents in order is a huge plus. Incomplete AML and KYC documents tend to go to the bottom of the priority pile and top of the risk pile.
From the README:

>> your maximum loss on an exchange won't be
>> greater than $xx no matter what.

Unless I'm misunderstanding; the bot sells short on one exchange and buys on the other. If there was a bug where it didn't cover the short sale with a long buy, and Bitcoin price goes up, you'd be liable for the increase in price.
I started my programming career at 35. I’ve had many great mentors. Many of them much younger than myself.

I’ve also paid professionals for mentorship for both programming and business.

For the most part people want to help those that do. Be a doer. Ask good questions. Respect people’s time. Get involved.
Not at all, Project Treble makes it so, assuming that OEMs upstream their drivers, but as usually happens in the whole fragmentation story Google is only advising OEMs to do it, not enforcing it.

People need to realize Project Treble will only improve Android, if Google has the guts to force OEMs to play ball, until then having a certified Treble device doesn't mean updates will be made available.
Get a grip on reality
You might be interested in IPLD in particular: https://ipld.io/

They use CBOR as the underlying serialization, and have a deep interest in canonicalization and applications of hashing.
Because a lot of people from that time are still alive. It's not politically interesting to go against the military, even more if the commanders came from that era.

Unfortunately, they will only recognise and apologise after that generation is long gone, that is the reality of politics.
It's cheaper to buy fresh food than junk food. If you're buying junk food it's because you don't have a place to cook or you're too lazy to cook.
>> I'm confused, so you are answering every single security question correctly and you age logging in from your usual location without any kind of Tor/VPN/etc. and you still have no way to access that account?

> That is correct, I had the same issue.

> the reset flow asked me to either (a) provide the phone number used [...] or (b) prove ownership of the backup SMS [...]

> (which I couldn't, because the phone number had long been reassigned)

But this means what I said earlier is not correct, since you are not answering all of their security questions correctly.
Talk less. File more.
What alternatives to GMail do you recommend?
Also: do you have any specific concerns on local vs. off-site actions?

Most of these will refer to searches, though there are also Web requests (e.g., from links or through docs). Here the local/remote distinction is much the same as for any browser, with the distinction that if you have fetched a document it remains referenced locally rather than remotely.

Also, to be clear, the focus here is on document-oriented data, or stuff that acts as a document: audio, images, a specific video. Something that is created and remains constant after creation, by and large, as opposed to programmatic or dynamic data. Even much dynamic data -- say, a stream, is considered largely a set of static messages or status updates, arriving over time.

Appreciate your thoughts: dredmorbius <at> protonmail <dot> com
And here's an instance of this very bug! https://github.com/butor/blackbird/issues/348
> Noticed the word "design" was written as "degsin".

It isn't. For reference: https://web.archive.org/web/20170927012427/https://kirubakar...
It was more of an off-handed comment, but I suppose you could rig some sort of carbon sensor that measures X amount of carbon pulled from the atmosphere. Of course any sort of sensor to the physical world can be rigged to produce a false signal.
In a small city in Croatia, on the coast of Adriatic sea. I moved here for personal reasons as it's a great place for raising a family - but it does put some limits on what types of gigs I can get (remote only) and what fees I can charge. Don't get me wrong, I'm totally fine the way it is, no regrets whatsoever. Also, it obviously depends on the type of consulting that one does. I'm mostly working with startups, helping them with web app architecture and performance, and their budgets are just not as big as when working with well-established corporations.
Good point. The "so fast" part actually means nothing.
That's a really low bar for "industry famous". Yes, to get to a non-trivial consulting rate, you need to be established and have references, and yes, this probably implies a number of years at a lesser rate.

But "famous" signifies something quite more than having a handful or two of happy, influential clients.

Finally, I'm not sure patio11 is really all that famous outside the HN bubble, and for all it is, it really isn't that big.
Oil Shell 0.3 Release