skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I figure my experience is relevant here. I graduated college in 2014 with a degree in finance and went straight to work in the machine that is corporate America. I had a "good" job and life was fairly easy. However, after a year or so I eventually became bored with that lifestyle.

I've always been a self-learner with a desire for knowledge and a challenge. I started looking around to go back to uni, this time something STEM related. I figured why not study abroad as I like to travel and the price to go to uni overseas was much more attractive. I saved enough money while working to allow me to go back to uni comfortably.

I chose to study physics in Germany, and by far it has been the best decision I've ever made. I'm about 1/2 done with my studies now and I'm quite pleased. We take one experimental physics, one theoretical physics, and one math class per semester along with an elective. I'm learning some of the most fascinating stuff, math and physics are truly beautiful.

If you have any desire at all to learn math/physics, then I highly recommend going back to uni to do so. The best part about doing it today though is that there are endless resources online to teach yourself outside of the class (or even just for fun if you don't want to go back to uni). MIT has their OCW program which puts excellent lectures and materials out there for all to access (I've used their resources quite a bit, thanks MIT!). There's also tons of other stuff out there like Khan Academy, Susskind's lectures on YouTube, etc. that really make it easy to learn from the comfort of your home.

TL;DR: If you want to go study physics, go study physics.
Man, even a guy on the team felt like WinFS wasn't a great idea... I still think it's potentially revolutionary and that the POSIX filesystem is just old and clunky

I think most people would expect

/home/geokon/program1/src/

and

/src/program1/home/geokon

to have pretty much the same content

A tag based file system that made the two equivalent would eliminate all sorta of annoyances where you can't decide how to structure your file hierarchy (should you have bin/program1 bin/program2 src/program1 src/program2 or program1/src program1/bin program2/src program2/bin? both layouts have their advantages).

Something like a "path/path/bin/path/path/bin" wouldn't work.. but it's hard to find a case where you really need it. Currently I do from time to time come across 'include' folders inside of 'include' folders, but not for any good logical reason.. more b/c an in-source build vomited something up

You could also have tag based permissions so sharing files between users becomes a lot more sane (file1 has tag 'bob' and tag 'bill' so that they both can access it, instead of having it in .. /home/bob/ and then sim-linked to /home/bill/ or whatever other workaround you'd do in POSIX)

Yeah, the filesystem wouldn't work so great if you have thousands of tiny files... but I'd probably argue that you shouldn't have thousands of tiny files in the first place. If your program needs tens of thousands of tiny files then it should probably use something other than the filesystem
The Indian 'middle class', is composed generally of descendents (literal and/or otherwise) of the old Angrezi babus who were colonizing the country for the British, and thus are extremely wealthy (in relative terms) since they control the system. The system has itself became self-sustaining in a big way after 'independence', and thus continuing the large-scale inequity, often entirely along linguistic lines (English vs rest).

No wonder, everything, including the highest courts continue to be run by the (cultural) Anglical retainers. It's almost amusing when FabIndia + Bindi wearing bimbos (faureign/desi) come and lecture about the 'caste system'. This is the market demographic that the Americans are so keen to tap into; the other neither has much wealth nor is it culturally Anglo-Saxon (and thus American recipes are not transplantable, effective, or profitable).
It seems inevitable in a system where owners of capital reap all the benefits of automation and efficiency. Since most people do not own sufficient capital, they get less and less of the pie.
Honestly, I have absolutely no interest in feigning interest in televised sports to make friends, and luckily this is definitely not necessary.

Here in Europe I quickly tell people I don't watch football and don't care about the teams or match results.

If that's a deal breaker for someone, then they're not friendship material.

Instead of going to the pub, I'd rather recommend hobbies that you can share with people. I've made good friends via martial arts, guitar lessons, shared oriental drumming lessons, tech meetups, FLOSS sprints, conferences etc.

Note, all these things (including going to the pub) require you to get out of your comfort zone and into the "real world". Such is life.
>The fact that barely a quarter of women work—a share that has seen a precipitous decline in the past decade

Wait, fewer women are working in India over time? Why is that?
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Its a fair criticism in part; but you are a technologist and so want unfiltered access to play with that data.

For the vast majority of people that's meaningless - so to be able to share that data with companies offering new and interesting services (AIS sign up is reasonably lightweight, certainly within trivial reach of any startup) is a big step forward.

I think we should be encouraging!

(Or in other words; your thinking of the limitations on the micro level and missing the benefits at the macro)

FWIW GDPR is more interesting legislation for what your after - you will have the ability to get access to your own data. Unfortunately that legislation didn't push hard enough to promote the idea of digital access - we should level our criticism most harshly there to try and effect change :)
They're back with free trading until end of January: https://blog.kraken.com/post/1449/kraken-returns-with-free-t...
Whats up with the emojis prepending the commit messages? Is that automated?
Ok, let me rephrase. With enough experiences I have become cognizant of the fact that I don't always have to be in "happy" mode. In fact just like any piece of harmony, I appreciate all the high notes and low notes life throws at me now with more or less similar outlook.

What I am looking for though is being more content with what I am doing with the time I have here in this lifetime. I believe there could be much better ways of progressing through life than what I am doing right now, hence seeking advice to better refine that pursuit towards perhaps a few more high notes than low notes in life :)
I started playing tennis and I loved it. It's non-contact, you have to be thinking all the time and it's outside (often in the sun). I am happy when I play (or even watch) tennis.

Then (warning, plug ahead) I started a D3.js project (to keep skills fresh) to visualize data about tennis strings and rackets[1] to understand them better, ...

... which devolved in keeping my rackets/strings on that same app, which later open to others ...

... which devolved in starting a flex tennis league in my region (SF Bay Area)[2], ...

... which devolved into starting a small business to automate tedious and time consuming tasks at small racket-sport shops (and maybe others in the future)[3].

I'm so happy with projects that get a life of their own!

Watching comedy and writing comedy also makes me happy.

[1] https://www.racketlogger.com/racket-explorer
[2] https://www.racketlogger.com/leagues
[3] https://shops.racketlogger.com/
Damn, forgot about brunch. Too late to edit in now. I left out elevenses because that's really just a cup of tea and a rich tea or digestive. I feel you need a bit more than that for it to be classified as a proper meal.
How to Convert (Apple or Thunderbird) MBOX to Outlook PST
Obviously no to the Macbook Pro 2017(13inch without touch bar), indeed having a poor battery life, hardly getting 6 hours, Sametime my MacBook pro Early 2015 is still getting 9hours of backup. Overall the quality of Apple products seems to be degrading.
That thought did come to my mind. It may not be too late. I wonder if Foodcoin is a thing?

Edit:

Now that I think about it, you're definitely on to something. Foodcoin is a thing... but then again takeout for pets will be too :D
>By far the biggest problem with Windows releases, in my humble opinion, was the duration of each release. On average, a release took about three years from inception to completion but only about six to nine months of that time was spent developing “new” code. The rest of the time was spent in integration, testing, alpha and beta periods — each lasting a few months.

Funny he considers testing a problem. So this is the new Microsoft: testing is not important.
Even as an introvert it's always people.

After college, before getting married my (now) wife and I had the same problem - but we noticed it wasn't just us: everyone we knew felt lonely. We decided to start getting together with all our friends and acquaintances almost every night after work. We hosted or set it up for about two weeks before it took on a life of its own and we didn't have to be present for each night; our acquaintances (at that point friends because of the magic of "spending time together") started setting stuff up on their own. It lasted for about a year or two, where you could pretty much always count on someone to be around who you'd want to hang with.

Keep in mind that I'm mildly introverted, but my wife is much moreso - and both of us enjoyed this immensely.

You're an introvert, so you probably are intimidated by meeting a large crowd of people you don't know. I know I am. Meetups are hard. Joining a group for an activity is hard. The nice thing about asking the friends/acquaintances you do have (however distant) if they want to make dinner at 5, join you for a drink at 6, or play this new game you got is that you've skipped the hard part about meetups by only meeting people you already know.

Just a reminder introversion is not anti-social.
A small example of using clojure.spec to define dependet types
They will have remote control functionality. Probably more like a kill switch than actual remote driving. Something that allows the vehicle to execute a "safe" shutdown maneuver in case of system malfunction.

They will be remotely monitored 100% of the time, for various reasons. I expect in the beginning there will be lots of awkward "Please stop having sex in the car" intercom moments.

> None of the articles I’ve seen make any mention

It is "counter-narrative" so it will never be brought up unless someone specifically asks, and then they will try to spin it to mislead you, but that is just standard PR.
Even dedicated supercomputer processors (e.g. A2, SW26010, VIIIfx) use virtual memory. In fact, most GPUs nowadays include an MMU as well, something they historically never had.

(SC applications tend to be huge fans of using enormous page sizes, like 2 GB, which mitigates page table walk costs)
http://theoatmeal.com/comics/unhappy

Also, there's a passage in Meditation by Marcus Aurelius I think would do you well. To paraphrase, if you turn your full attention to the present task, not worrying about the future, and letting the past go, nothing can stop you from living a good life.

> Always loved learning new stuff, but don't have enough time to really be immersive in anything. Now when I see an interesting problem in math/physics I can hardly give it an actual shot and it makes me very very sad deep down.

I have something for you to do. Take a moment to sit down, and write about the things you knew how to do you first graduated from college, and the things you know how to do now. I'd say from your experiences as a founder and a CTO, you've learned some things that are more valuable than math or physics.
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He's not complaining about testing, he's complaining about the length of the iteration cycle. Taking 2 or 3 years to ship 6 months of effort is incredible inefficiency.
Hence my comment about how they didn't account for salt being lost due to tectonic activity. Lose salt, and you get an underestimate of the age of the oceans.
Win 7 is basically Vista Service Pack 1. Several minor things like the slow-as-hell copy-routine of Vista got reverted back to almost XP level-speed with Win7. Unfortunately the Advanced Search dialog of Vista got removed in Win7. Most Vista problems were third party device drivers (blue screens), first (still new) mainstream 64bit OS and the related issues w 32bit and lack up 16bit support, and the vastly increased memory usage because wrong vision (consume all memory while idle is okay).

To this day the Win7 is arguably the best OS (supported til 2020), followed by the aging XP.
That is in the past, it was a single project from 5 years ago, and I think the companies involved were investigated by the FSA. Nowadays NHS is pushing software initiatives more and more, see here: https://www.england.nhs.uk/digitaltechnology/info-revolution...
The Aeon 14 novels following Tanis Richards[1] have been a consistently good read. The Intrepid Saga and The Orion War series. Haven't ventured into the other offshoots as yet.

The Dome Trilogy[2] was also pretty good, as are the Rho Agenda series[3][4][5].

The Bobiverse trilogy[6] (We Are Legion (We Are Bob)) I was a bit dubious about when I started, but ended up enjoying immensly.

The Wrong Unit[7] wasn't a bad little humorous tale.

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/author/list/6426890.M_D_Cooper

[2] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25501349-unexpected-rain

[3] https://www.goodreads.com/series/61746-the-rho-agenda

[4] https://www.goodreads.com/series/142618-the-rho-agenda-incep...

[5] https://www.goodreads.com/series/175066-rho-agenda-assimilat...

[6] https://www.goodreads.com/series/192752-bobiverse

[7] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30959279-the-wrong-unit
This should be unflagged, IMO.
where in germany?
If you want to hear the opposite side of the story, you should listen to an episode of the Dan Harris podcast with Tristan Harris [1]. Tristan is the founder of timewellspent.io which is an organization advocating for changes to the way we measure the success of applications.

The core point is that properties like FB are built to persuade you into doing certain things and we have surprisingly effective techniques for getting the results we want. A major aspect is that even when people notice and reject certain techniques this requires mental effort – over time you are worn down and less likely to make good decisions. At the moment we are fighting an up-hill battle against all the big players on the net – for what? Should it be like this? How do you want live to be? isn’t it worthwhile to strive for creating an environment where as many people as possible are able to thrive and succeed – after all, we all profit from other people making good decisions!

[1] https://www.samharris.org/podcast/item/what-is-technology-do... I
So do on mine without touch bar
Meditation is what did it for me, I've always been kind of introspective. It's also interesting what you can do with... nothing at all, really. You can enter the meditation and come out of it a different person, that's a short-term result. But committed meditation practice is changing my character in the long run. In the meantime, the short-term results show what is possible to achieve (and it's more than you'd think, you can do a lot with just you on your own).

If you're dissatisfied with life as it's ordinarily lived on a deeper level, maybe it's something that speaks to you as well. Long-term change takes a lot of practice and effort, though, but it's meaningful effort (at least to me).
Haha. And my initial thought was ‘you see this is the type of thing the UK could leverage on arguing for UK thriving without eu’
Improving Ourselves to Death - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16119143
Yeah. My impression of HSBC U.K.’s share trading platform was distinctly 1990 era.
I am glad it is working out great for you. In fact this scenario is more or less what I have in mind when I think about going back to college for higher studies. Never could let go of the first love of life (yeah it wasn't a girl, it was Physics :| )

I graduated a little earlier when MIT OCW was the only online resource of good quality, and did try to learn enough about a lot of things. Suffered slightly lower grades, but came as a well equipped generalist to pursue almost anything... But real world mechanics have left much to be desired frankly from the nice picture painted all through school and college of how life would be. And while this option is really enticing for me, the other comment on how writing generic grant proposals can be an equally soul-sucking exercise does bring in an element of doubt...

But thanks for sharing this. If you don't mind sharing, what university are you at or you would recommend for Physics/quantum-computing-related programs?
> Unfortunately my operating system (bash?) can't express dates after the year 2550

Can anyone explain what happened here?
Ask HN: How would you implement an (accurate) progress bar?
Progress bars in existing software are often "broken". That is, by observing a progress bar, the user often cannot predict how long an operation will still take. Sometimes, the bar runs to 100% in a matter of seconds, after which processing continues for minutes or hours. In other cases, they hang at a low percentage, and then they suddenly skip to 100%. Similarly, "ETA" indicators are often broken too.

So, how would you implement a progress bar that Just Works (TM)?

Or is the problem so difficult to solve correctly, that it would require a Ph.D. project? In that case, the question is: why has nobody done theoretical work on the subject?
Oh. The west’s middle class will vanish too, soon enough.
Uber doesn't only operate in that country. When you operate at the scale and international scope that uber does, economic warfare, espionage, and corrupt governments are a real thing.

I hate Uber but I don't think this is something to really fault them on.
Almost every night! wow. Gotta try this.
Apart from the general slowness and crashes caused by the issues you mention, I remember UAC was way too intrusive (sometimes you would see 4 or 5 alerts in a row that would monopolize your screen), copying files was slow as a snail an tended to outright crash for large sets of files, and suspend never really worked in my laptop.

Anyway, how is a consumer product that provides a bad experience to the user (regardless of the reasons) "amazing"?
This is also possible with spotlight. The most clear example for me was the day I typed "polyc<enter>" for Polycom instead of my usual "poly<enter>" and ended up on the wikipedia page for polycystic ovarian syndrome instead of a video call application.
That's a great point actually, I hadn't thought of the material being saved and potentially used later.

I stand corrected.
"Classic" Japanese emoji, pre-Apple[1], looked pretty crappy. Non-Japanese users had access to better-looking emoticons on ICQ, AOL, Yahoo and MSN (I particularly liked the MSN emoticons) but they were non-standard.

In retrospect, iOS's decision to combine full-colour emoji with standard Unicode mappings was genius.

[1] https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/3639
I will agree with this. I would prefer to find a fit rather than fit in.

And this does not mean being obstinate, but rather pursuing only what I find interesting rather than what most people find interesting.
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Wouldn't simply caching DNS SRV[1] records do that?

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SRV_record
I feel like your word "devolved" would be better served by "evolved" :)
I absolutely did not say you shouldn't care about the right to privacy. I said you can care and protest that, while recognizing that you don't necessarily have to go to extreme lengths if you yourself don't need the privacy at this particular moment.
They're recognizing for the first case that if you have to resort to it you're trying to cover for some sort of deficiency in the language. Which is good.

I think the kind of thing they're doing would be possible without code generation in a good dynamically typed language or a language with a feature like F#'s type providers, but maybe swift doesn't allow it.

The second use case (generating test mocks) is a pretty bad reason to use code generation IMHO. Instead they should be generating non-turing complete code representing the mock (JSON or something).
Wrong. Herbata if Slav or Commonwealth.
People and reading
It really looks like one..

1. Theres zero information on that page. You never even hint at what is deficient in normal dog food, or what is the benefit of your proposed food, or even what it is.
Instead there is a profusion of upbeat yet wholly insubstantial buzzwords and phrases.

2. A very large proportion of the text is in bold for emphasis, giving it that humorous 'crazy person' look.

3. The very concept seems like a parody of the ridiculous 'Juicero'-like silicon valley startup. A proposal that could only be taken seriously in that bizarre, rarefied, and plutocratic environment.

Honestly it ticks all the boxes for a parody. It wouldnt seem out of place on 'clickhole' or 'something awful'

ps. I'm not trying to shit on your idea at all. I genuinely thought it was a parody and the above points explain how I got that impression.
Fixed some UI issues. Pull Request #6 – emacs-mirror/emacs
I stopped pigeon holing myself as an introvert.

I quite literally looked at my life, thought about where I wanted to be, and then looked at what traits I'd need to cultivate in order to get there.

One of them was 'how to have a conversation with people' which was hard to learn, and embarrassing to practice, but I got there. I'm not 'extrovert' at it, and it is exhausting, but I'm no wallflower any longer.

Another one was 'how to disagree with someone and not be deferential, passive aggressive, or just plain aggressive about it' this I'm still working on, but I've gotten better at it.

Thankfully, the 'I can do it myself' attitude I had to cultivate as a child, gave me a good foundation of life skills. I can travel alone, attend conferences alone, eat out alone, generally take care of myself. I just needed to add some extra skills to be able to get to the 'happy' point.
32-bit protected mode only, but with all support for paging and virtual memory removed? I can see why that combination never really caught on.
The problem with Vista was mismanagement of expectations.

The ad campaign featured people spotting deer at dawn from their home office, and the message was, this will completely change your life and bring about your inner sense of wonder, as if you were born again, a new person in a brave new world.

In reality, it was an OS upgrade that didn't work too well and that was more-or-less forced on you if you bought a new device, while at the same time XP continued to work just fine on all your older PCs.

People were disappointed, upset and angry. All other things being equal, a little more humility and a lower profile would have helped.
Which part of the country do you live in? I’m have trouble both understanding and relating to what you’re saying.
An example from Windows Server 2016: When I search for "SQL" or for "Studio", it'll find SQL Server Management Studio. But when I search for "SQL Studio", it won't.
That's a problem with the Blogger platform, it might not be possible to disable that behaviour without switching to something else entirely.