skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The way things are going for me, I might end up in this situation. I've been dealing with kidney failure the past few years. Came all unnoticed due to damage done by an autoimmune disease.

I used to have a greater engineering career back then running multiple successful projects, leading teams, doing technical work. I still continue to work of course but now have to focus on other priorities. Most people at work don't know it but I'm on PD dialysis every day of the week. 8 hours during sleep and 4 hours in the evening. The first thing I do when I return form work. Most people wouldn't even realize it except maybe a little "flab" in the belly due to pumping 8L of dialysis fluid through it every night.

These days I have to focus on maintaining health insurance through job stability expecially with the GOP trying to kill the ACA. The most important factor to a job right now is flexibility and travel time. I can't really travel for business trips these days due to treatment schedules.

I've been fairly lucky up to now because I know my employers for a long time and they have been flexible but I wonder how I will manage to get an accommodating job in the future. I have a friend you recently joined Google. I don't think I could ever join a high profile company in my present situation. The job pressure and treatment schedules don't mesh well.
You think I care about what you think.
While your comment is in good faith, I don't think the OP was trying to minimise the complexity of a distributed ledger. Instead they were trying to distinguish their mentioned use-case from the currency use-case.
You have a cheap, reliable, 20 year old Honda Civic that reaches 320 km/h? If that's the case I'm impressed.

Edit: not sure to which part of the comment you were replying, I probably misinterpreted it and you're talking about a sports car, not a Honda Civic. Still impressive but less crazy :)
archaic legacy systems = paper and Windows XP.

What they should be doing is testing in a single location first to get the kinks on the system out and define facility needs, then expanding to 10 and then moving to roll outs by region. None of the problems that they have experienced should have made it past 6 months.

I'm starting to think that it's purposefully incompetent people at the top that are causing problems, because without a doubt I could have run this program better but I'm pretty sure I couldn't get the job because I don't have a bachelor's.
There are some things Angular does do far better than React IMO - Angular’s pain points are frustrating to me in terms of how I prefer to code though, largely due to its choice of supporting TS first and TS’s issues with toolchain integration/perf & not very conducive to FP, but it also has less pain in some respects such as when it comes to state.
MITRE holds the distinction of being the first .org ever registered
Examples:
Take as needed for anxiety, pain, etc. I've never seen a difference with post surgical prescriptions in CA or TX other than the type and quantity.
MY BENZ JUST CAUGHT ON FIRE AFTER DRIFTING
It’s good to see lg and sumsung (qled) trying to squeeze the maximum of what can be done with LCD panels. Until burn-in is still an issue with OLED panels im gonna stick with lcd/ips ones.
"be a localhost .de"

Why cant they just use a HOSTS file entry? What is the need for DNS?

If there is no need for DNS then why use the public, commercial CA system? That system relies on domainname registration credentials as "authentication".

Not sure I understand the design of this software. What is the purpose of the web server?
every character you write is worth less than $0 due to your inabality to collect your bismal worth.
I believe their definition of electric cash, although fuzzy, included the attribute of being not tied to a bank. Are there cashless payments in London which do not in some way tie to a bank? Asking as someone not from London.
I wonder if there could be an interesting ML classifier using information like this. Crawl a customers social media, track their behavior in the restaurant. Surely some interesting patterns will emerge.
That period seems too long but the severance is an important concept and provides a safety net for most.
Same in Sweden. Sweden will probably be the first cashless country in the world. Our central bank has started to look into cryptocurrency (e-krona).
or if they win the lottery.
ah I see what you mean I mostly used desktops hadn't thought about ipads and the like
Not worth the click; it's a weak summary of Christian Schaller original article "Why hasn’t The Year of the Linux Desktop happened yet?" that was previously discussed on HN at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15987060.
I'd make a slightly different point - what makes a car exciting is handling.

There's a big transatlantic divide on this point. American sports cars tend to be relatively large and heavy, with huge torquey V8 engines and simple live-axle suspension. They're fast in a straight line, but they don't really handle in corners. European sports cars tend to be tiny and extremely lightweight, with a small and free-revving inline 4 and sophisticated independent suspension. They're not very fast, but they're incredibly agile and nimble.

If you want to learn to be a racing driver, you'll probably get taught in a Mazda MX5 Miata. It's the most popular entry-level racing car by a country mile. Mazda overtly based the Miata's design on classic British sportscars. In this kind of car, you can explore the limits of grip at non-lethal speeds. The lack of weight partly offsets the lack of power - you don't have a particularly high top speed, but you can carry a great deal of speed through a corner. Such a car richly rewards you for skillful and precise car control.
The Area Under an ROC Curve (2001)
How do Windows and MacOSX go about this? Do they get it correct? If yes, how? If no, what are the workarounds they use?
For the unintiated:

- TB3 is Thunderbolt 3

- DCI-P3 is an RGB colorspace

- HDR600 refers to luminosity (nits) and other VESA specifications

TBH I'm not sure what nits are or why to get excited about them.

I was kind of hoping all the initialism bingo would boil down to a high refresh rate 4k IPS display panel!

[edit] removed "600 nits" because it was incorrect
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Thanks for the correction. That aspect slipped my mind.
Not even “recent”, I believe this happened a long time ago
I've found that many of the best engineers are quite terrible at interacting with other human beings. What matters to me is only if they deliver. If the bottom line is met and the work is getting done and done well, then it doesn't matter to me if the engineers are complete assholes.

Feel free to drop me a pm of the engineer you are canning; I'd be happy to connect with him on LinkedIn.

Your note of "If you don't like working somewhere you should leave" doesn't really work. You have to stay at companies for a specific amount of time or you will end up with too many different positions on your resume and be unemployable. It is better to stay suffering even at a place you hate to build your resume. Leaving when things aren't going well, or allowing them to get to the point where you need to leave is bad advice.

I am living proof of this. I have worked at 8 different positions in the past 17 years. By all reasonable notions I should be employed at a Principal Engineer level. That said, I am unemployable. I am on unemployment and apply to the most reasonably suited positions I can ever week, for 5 months now. I have only been contacted back maybe 10 times in that entire period and made it to 1 in person interview.

If you want to have a job, don't leave, even if it sucks, even if all you coworkers tell you "you can easily get another job". When you have an offer in hand; then feel free to quit. Otherwise stay put and try not to cause trouble.
What are examples of some restaurants in New York City that do this, I’d like to try this next time I’m there.
He'll probably be happy you're letting him go, it's not unlikely he's just disinterested but is cozy enough to avoid seeking someplace better. Maybe he likes some of the other engineers, just not management or the work in particular. I just hope you're this direct when he asks why, and that it's more than just you who is frustrated. I think 2 weeks is fine unless there's a lot of knowledge transfer to be done, but that implies another problem...

One should do one's job in the way one's manager thinks it exists, no less, but the manager needs to make their expectations clear. I had a team member similar to the guy you describe though as an engineer I enjoyed working with him even though management thought he was a negative influence due to his cynicism, negativity, "lack of fire in the belly", etc. He was told as much and asked to change but he ended up leaving the company. From the engineering side management of that team was just bad, a few months later those of us remaining switched to different teams.

Edit: also some people won't like their job no matter what it is if they aren't the ones defining it. They should start a startup, but before that it's not a bad idea to eat and build up a nest egg. Personal job satisfaction is overrated anyway.
Nits = how bright can bright get? If you want your sunny shots to be searingly so but your dark shots to still be clear the ideal is to have high dynamic range: really bright brights and really subtly dark blacks. If you don't have the former, you compress the likely dynamic range you can display under daylight conditions. So a high nit display (with HDR) can "wow" both with total brightness capability as well as broad dynamic range.
Not sure about the inspiring talks or whatnot, but I've been writing clojure/clojurescript (reagent, re-frame et al.) professionally for a couple of years and there's nothing I can't find that I need in a project. With simple js interoperability, native use of js/react components in reagent and ease of wrapping any vanilla js library, there really is nothing you can't do with clojurescript. You should take a closer look!
Some things live in a realm "beyond good and evil" and are just pure creation. I think Mars terraforming is one of those things. We are creating an entirely new system within which new goods and new evils might subsist. The entire notion of "Imperialism is bad" is a banal historical platitude in this context.
Yea.. Everything is exponential - unbound.
True, but in Android's case, the implementation seems to be flawed:

In our lab environment we observed that in addition to periodic global MAC addressed probe requests, we were able to force the transmission of additional such probes for all Android devices. First, anytime the user simply turned on the screen, a set of global probe requests were transmitted. An active user, in effect, renders randomization moot, eliminating the privacy countermeasure all together.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/03/shiel...
If FB suddenly disappeared, I'd lose almost all my good friends and acquaintances. And it would be hard or impossible to find them all again; they're scattered around the globe, mostly FB is the only contact point I've needed/had, dont have their phone, email or address. I should get that info, huh. On FB I almost exclusively just chat with friends.

Never used Twitter or wanted to.

ps Why would the world fall apart if Google disappeared? It's not obvious to me.
> as an economist, I consider a deflationary, fixed-supply currency noxious

I would think that as an economist, you would know better than try to dictate what people in a large system should do and focus more on the incentives that drive them.

The part that people who talk about the negatives of a fixed supply currency don't understand is that what economists thank people should do isn't going to come in to play. All else being equal, if someone can choose between a currency that inflates and one that doesn't, why would they choose one that will be stripping their value away? Inflationary currencies benefit only one party - the one that gets to create the money out of nothing.

Inflation is good for countries that can't control their spending and need to hide it behind eroding the value of people's wages. It is poor for anyone saving the currency for liquidity or anyone whos pay is denominated in it.
Everything is tied to a bank at the moment, but in mid January a new directive called PSD2 lands - this will make banks and bank account information much more open (and hopefully start to shake the monopoly banks have on our money and information).
I don't think it is. I might have missed it but I don't think anyone in the thread or tweet suggested it was.
Nits are a level of brightness for a given level of surface area. If you like a bright monitor you can use the variable as a benchmark in the same way you gauge resolution in pixels per inch. On a sunny day (compare it to using a smartphone outside) brightness can be important.

I'm not super familiar with 'low' or 'high' brightness, but as far as I know 600 is very good. The iPhone 7 for example has about 700 nits max, for outdoor use. So it seems as if this is close to an outdoor-level monitor, which should perform well under any indoor condition, especially with some light shades if necessary.
I disagree that using a non-local domain is a bad idea. As long as each client generates it's own key and certificate for the local webserver then a MitM isn't possible, even if they take over DNS. Using non-local DNS makes setting up DNS so much easier; and if they took over your DNS you already got some pretty serious problems.

The real problem is they embedded and distributed secrets, instead of generating them. It's funny​ a game company can do security better than a software firm working for a government. It's sad that I'm not surprised.

I'd bet money that people developing this software knew this was a problem, but government regulation required they use an external CA instead of a self-signed cert because "self-signed certs are always less secure", and nobody was empowered to make this issue known or do something better.
Not sure on the down votes for this comment other than not expanding the conversation too much. So, let me try...

Blackmagic has been making a lot of people very happy, and pissing a lot of others off at the same time. By that, they must be doing something right ;-)

It seems to me that BMD feels that the market is made up of nothing but price-inflated "things". "Things" could be hardware or software. They started with their video cards and other video hardware converter devices, but it was their acquisition of DaVinci and the subsequent release of the Resolve software for free that really started the polarization of opinion. After that, they dove into the camera realm, and that really got people's attention. Granted, their first gen camera left a lot to be desired, but whose first gen anything doesn't? (I'm looking directly at you Nokia Ozo.) Once they had a decent imaging chip, they went after the film scanning realm.

Each of these areas (color correction, cinema cameras, film scanning) are historically all extremely expensive markets to get into. Blackmagic has "disrupted" traditional markets (to use a Si Valley buzzword), but without being a giant frat Bro culture.

TLDR: I love the Blackmagic gear too!
Waiting for spender to show up and break it :-)
Currencies don't need fundamental value they only need to remain stable something which bitcoin utterly fails at.

You cannot invest into a currency. If bitcoin rises by 30% is there a corresponding increase in fundamental value real value? No. It's a zero sum game. If somebody wins that also means someone else loses. It's pure speculation yet people treat it like a get rich quick scheme and think bitcoin cannot ever fall in price.

On the other hand you can invest into a stock. A stock will increase in price by 30% because the company has made 30% more profit or owns 30% more assets. Everyone who holds stock wins.
Be sue to read though to the last paragraph, where the story becomes a bit darker (though not unexpected to HN readers):

They’ve read your biography . . .

“We have had guests come in and we’ve read their biography and read maybe they had a really rough last year or maybe they lost someone in their life recently,” Meyer says. “That may sound extreme, but all of those pieces of information are going to help us do a better job of customizing the hug when they come in. ..."
Nothing. He said reduced pressure.
> Lindsay Graham recently warned a sitting president he had better not cross the FBI.

Said president has a history of at least tiptoeing on the thin line between lawful and criminal, if not outright crossing it. In his very own interest he should not cross the FBI - either because of obstruction of justice or because it would provoke a constitutional crisis.
And sometimes spelled as roquette
This is an important point that the title elides: there's still a good amount of manual work required here which means that it's only really worth the effort for fine dining. As the article mentions, they already did things like this with index cards in the past.
Why can't you do both?
Most reservoirs are on land under earth, right?

Is oil from the ocean floor a big thing in the future?
They are doing “it” because often, in places like LA where people have refused to fund public transport or more roads or tunnels or anything, it can be the difference between a 40 minute drive/ride to LAX and a 2 hour one.
Who knows, we might even manage to make ourselves extinct.
George Carlin had a great bit on equilibrium: "Plastic, Assholes!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tncnWp67wQI

There's no equilibrium or value judgement without specifying a time frame. The only absolute, timeless equilibrium is one that cannot sustain physical processes any more (known as the Heat Death of the Universe in physics).

With that in mind, is it surprising that there was such a thing as wood pollution? "Reduce the toxic oxygen, Kill the trees, Save CO2"?
Didn't he basically do a favor by laying you off though?
Not sure if this is terribly awesome or immensely sad
I believe React is very simple and easy to understand.

Redux is not as easy but you can go with MobX instead for easier state management.
There’s not any more to learn vs html than jsx. It’s like 5 relevant constructs that all follow the same form, and the colon. Takes 20 minutes to have it down pat.

v-if is actually a big reason I prefer Vue. Ternary operators in JSX are pretty ugly. The other is that Vuex just feels so perfectly integrated. I've never felt Redux blends in particularly cleanly, though I certainly don't judge people that do prefer it.
“A simple makefile” is a unicorn
The original Chaum digital cash paper dates from 1982 ... the idea has been around for a long time. The two companies beanz and flooz mentioned in the article have, of course, gone bankrupt long ago.
> HDR600 refers to luminosity; 600 "nits"

No. The 600 nits (cd/m^2) brightness is just one of several requirements in the VESA DisplayHDR-600 specification: https://www.anandtech.com/show/12144/vesa-announces-displayh...
Given your idiotic argumentation, that seems unlikely.
This was the HN discussion from a couple of years back about this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11604922
> If you communicate and be open, magical things will happen.

Sorry, but not always. I've had multiple jobs where employers tried to screw me out of a piddly amount of money when leaving. It's your job to figure out whether you work for nice people who respect you or not. I do agree companies should be like this, where all people want what's best for one another. But let's not pretend everyone is at one of those companies.
Let's not forget the substantial chunk of voters who want the system to be as brutal as possible.
Coming from Angular, I'm biased towards entities declared in the form of a class. It's a style that is easy to manage and familiar to most programmers.

Vue currently seems to be a mix bag of styles. My take away from the little that I dabbled:
- You need the vue-class-component dependency in order to declare class based components, otherwise, you're stuck with the awkward object literal notation
- For state management using Vuex. You are are limited to the object literal style to declare your state store. Very awkward to work with.

Yes to get some data bound to a template and rendered out, Vue takes very little amount of code. However that is not a meaningful benefit to me. I feel Angular's complete framework and class based convention is much more suitable for a team environment.
Chanakya neeti – Political ethics of chanakya [pdf]
As I expected, you're all bluster and no proof, no numbers, no citations, no links. If you're embarrassed to tell us the URL of the conspiracy theory web site where you got your misinformation, then simply don't parrot that misinformation, because it's so untrustworthy that people don't believe you.
The second is
fantastical but mathematically permissible:
The water starts still, erupts in the middle
of the night, then returns to stillness.

Big bang in the middle of the night.

Some quirling around until all matter and energy is equally distributed. What a journey!

Then returns to stillness.
There have been times when I've felt extremly lonely. I think an app like this which connects lonely people together would be awesome!

I generally just visit some random subreddits or random rooms on Discord when I feel lonely.
I thought the "burn in" on OLED screens can be reset?
I guess that the second one could have gone tethered.
> As an aside, has anyone else noticed how new posters are overwhelmingly pessimistic and reliant on dubious anecdotes?

New posters are the next generation of old posters, that is unless they are driven off e.g. by being stereotyped.
Dell announced a 30" OLED display in 2016; then it re-announced it (for lack of a better term) in April 2017: https://www.anandtech.com/show/11272/dells-ultrasharp-30inch... and since then it seems that nothing public has been said. I wonder what happened in there: two years of vaporware is unfortunate, although I have zero technical expertise in this domain, so there are likely good reasons behind the scenes, even if I don't know what they are.

OLED TVs are common, but something keeps them from being commonly used as computer displays.
At this point, the funding for the VA isn't the problem. They are beyond incompetent with the latest idiocy of hiring people with revoked licenses. The DoD does a lot, and it cannot do any worse at protecting their own. They at least won't take months to just signup.
It might not be, although privacy laws in the EU tend to be stricter than those in the US. "Busted" could simply refer to this practice being outed to customers who might not like it.
A remarkable amount of engineering goes into a tyre. The Concorde was one of the most sophisticated aircraft of its time, but it was ultimately undone by tyres - nobody quite figured out how to build a tyre that could reliably handle 170mph landings. Poor maintenance and pilot error played a contributory role in the crash of Air France flight 4590, but Concorde had a rate of tyre failure 30 times higher than subsonic aircraft.
No GIL
I absolutely hate that object literal style of defining a component... Terrible readability and annoying obj literal syntax to deal with...
"Let me tell you: You take on the intelligence community — they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you," - Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer.

Can you imagine if J. Edgar Hoover had access to the low level detail that is currently available to the intelligence communities? Both Truman and Kennedy had mulled over dismissing Hoover as FBI Director, but figured that the political fallout to them and their party for doing so would trounce the benefits. Now 50 years later the issue has metastasized and become extremely politicized.