skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Every few weeks there’s an article that suggests we either need to copy the European school system or the Korean/Chinese one.

This particular author seems to be projecting her own Tiger Mom ideas into most of the country, but I think helicopter parenting is highly regional, and has been different at different times. In more rural areas, among working class or lower class kids, parents were generally less intensively involved and kids have more freedom relative to suburbia IMHO. I was born in 71, and pretty much from age 7 I can remember saying bye to my mom after getting home from school and going out to play all day by myself with no oversight.

It is tru these days America d are more paranoid of sex predators, because our news media has hyped up crime over the last two decades and made everyone scared, of course there is some truth to it because crime statistics are generally higher here than in Europe, but again, it’s very regional with rates fluctuating between the safest European levels and looking like Honduras in some spots.

Americans do send kids for overnight stays, typically during summer in camps. I sent my kids away for two weeks to sleep outdoors under the stars, with no tech allowed for example. But it usually isn’t run by schools, our schools are too afraid of being sued or protested by parents these days to do anything.
Biphasic sleep is quite easy. After 2 years of doing it, I just need to nap sometime before 10pm and fall asleep between 12am-6am
Perhaps you are parsing "the canonical C text" differently? I read it as "the canonical 'C text'" and it sounds like perhaps you are reading it as "the 'canonical C' text"
Regret to inform you that HN's Eternal September passed circa 2011. Before that, according to my recollection, the community was mostly YC founders and employees. Discussions were mostly about web startups, ideas, and tech. Tone was professional, comments were substantive, and people used their real names. Best of all, people were free to share their experiences without being harangued at every turn by the "citation needed" and "my science is more science than your science" cargo cults that became entrenched here at some point.
God save me from code that "largely works".
That's not really how economic growth works. It's not zero sum. People who bought gold in the year 1500 didn't cause people today to 'lose'.
Introduction to Stellar for Go Developers
supposedly a nice piece of hardware, but until HomeKit is more supported by IoT devices, I really have a hard time selling myself on one.
This statement doesn't apply to this project but remember organizations still have trademarks. See https://www.python.org/psf/trademarks/ for an example.
So measuring learning is a good thing, because it means you will likely be more deliberate in actually getting better at it, as opposed to just leaving it up to chance
This point is especially true for visitors. Each city has its own peculiarities with its subway or bus. So people typically don't make the effort and use Lyft/Uber instead.
It's not new. The whole point of a downvoting facility is to encourage site users to conform their posts to what other users want to read. It isn't 100% effective, since users may decide that they'd rather post what they want, downvotes be damned. It probably isn't meant to be 100% effective. Users who do this all the time will get banned, but more occasional anti-censorship posters will broaden the scope of acceptable discourse, often in beneficial directions.
I think the wish there is for a “use it or lose it” window.
This. Its not that junior devs are overpaid, its that almost every single salaried job is underpaid for the amount of revenue they produce.

If you work for a company and produce a million in value every year and they pay you 100k for it, you are basically accepting that the company was 90% of the reason you made any value at all. For almost every single developer that is not true. On average you could probably make the exact same amount on contract / as a consultant. The fact the business is making fortunes off your work is just exploitative.

This also applies to way more industries than just software, its just most apparent in software because of how many ludicrous buckets of money big tech players are taking home each year while still paying their dev teams only 6 figures.

Your worth to a corporation is the amount of revenue you produce for their bottom line (or how much loss you offset). If you are making them way more money than they are paying you you are being taken advantage of, whether that be at 30k a year or 300k a year.
Reddit discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/7xapx2/freebsds_ne...

Comments from one of the people responsible for creating the CoC are here: https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/7xapx2/freebsds_ne...
Anecdotally, I didn't factor in internships at all when I was last hiring for a jr. I didn't interview a single person who didn't have a public code repo.
Spot on. And of course, in your example of the "social justice warriors", the same goes for people spewing hate at them, and the people hating these people, and so on...

I think in most (all?) situations when there's a movement among people in a direction which seems blatantly wrong to you, the worst thing to do is to dismiss everyone taking part in this movement as stupid and/or evil. You're not going to improve things and you'll probably contribute to make them worse.
Time for ZFS now!

Even better yet, a new OpenSolaris under GPL instead of CDDL.
I would have to agree with this. In the last few years, the terrible connection and high train prices have been "solved" by private bus companies, e.g. Flixbus et al. But light rail services outside of city centres usually suck. Japan's rail is on a whole different level though.

Also anecdotally, living in a rural area and getting a bus to school in the city was at least a 45 minute bus journey, with busses maybe every hour. Driving was 20 minutes. I had no choice, at that age I couldn't drive. But if I started working, no way I would do that. A nice side effect of this is people leave these rural-isa areas to move to cities, which increases congestion.
That you have written rude and, frankly, kinda shitty posts through this thread is why I have downvoted you. I am not "triggered"; I'm a straight white dude who's had an easy life, I don't have any "triggers". I'm not offended; what you're posting is nowhere near novel enough to forge new pathways where I could be offended. My thought process is this: "wow, that dude's being a jerk, I don't want that sort of behavior here--downvote." That's all.

And, worse: when told, by multiple people who are being polite to you, you lose it and start frothing about why they're wrong. The crowd makes that call here, for better or for worse--neither you nor I do.

But I did add my voice to it and downvote you, because I don't think your behavior here is good behavior.
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Subscribe to Rands' blog, read through his archives, and get on his Slack.

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AFAIK that maximum is only for the "gift" that was superseded by a loan which has no max income limit.
Anybody interested in this might want to check out EME (Earth-Moon-Earth) communication: point an antenna at the moon, bounce a signal off of it, and coordinate with someone back on Earth to receive it.

More details here: http://www.moonbouncers.org/
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Really cool! However isn't it a bit too late for DTrace to gain market share on Linux now SystemTap and all have gotten such a head start?

For me personally I like the idea of being able to use my DTrace skills (which I gained on FreeBSD and SmartOS) on Linux!
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Same holds true with gambling. For instance, the 'smart' poker players think that the odds will even out. However, they rarely take the time scale into account. Sure, your luck will get better (it may take more time than you'll be alive though)
In a way, you're open sourcing logo designs copyrighted by others, though. Some OSS projects may not care, but others can be just as protective of their branding as full-fledged companies, from what I've seen.
If ZFS were also relicensed, would Illumos be able to relicense OpenZFS as well, even with the divergence?
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Well, you'd need to read up on how SELinux works to understand that.

Briefly, SELinux adds some new permissions to files, new contexts to users and so on, so what happens is you specify what a given context is allowed to do, to a very granular level. For example, if you take postfix, it's split up into lots of programs, so you could say that the "init" context is allowed to run the postfix startup script but none of the rest of it. The postfix startup script will convert into some "postfix startup" context which is allowed to start the various programs but nothing else. So there will be a a postfix process that allows incoming IP addresses and can send on a specific FIFO and nothing else. There is another program which can read from the FIFO, change certain files and nothing else. So, imagine if you break into the program that talks with the internet: all you can do at that point is talk with the internet and talk with the FIFO. You can't read any files, write anything, execute anything, etc.

So that's kind of the idea of it. The above assumes an extremely tight SELinux configuration and no bugs in SELinux that would allow you to break out of your context. I've never seen a configuration as tight as described above but there did use to be a guy who had a Debian linux machine running on the internet where you could log in as root and try to break stuff. As far as I know, no one ever hacked that machine, starting out as root in a bash shell.
Companies are never the good guys. If I recall correctly Google never actually cared about customer service. They expected your questions to be resolved automatically by their software. If you aren't a paying customer to a service related to Google Ads you basically get shafted.
Solidity POC project – Ethereum tokens backed by Magic cards
Hey HN,

In an effort to learn a bit of Solidity, I built a simple proof of concept crypto token backed by physical assets: Brushwagg Coin.

The idea is that users mail in their cards to a centralized repository and are issued a token. Getting the cards back involves calling a few contract functions and mailing in a self addressed envelope.

I started with a single card because supporting every card would require a much larger effort. As a proof of concept I think it's interesting, and the idea of scaling it has a lot of interesting potential uses.

I think physically backed tokens are a really interesting concept, and applying it to assets like trading cards creates a number of interesting applications. For example: using them as loan collateral, renting them out for tournament events, real time price speculation, more accurate price information, as well as the monetization ability of the service, selling cards off of your own exchange at very low prices.

Check it out and let me know your thoughts:

http://www.mtgex.io
Any particular reason why https://github.com/dgraph-io/dgraph missed the benchmark?

-- It seems to be highly capable (horizontal-scale/acid) & "performant". Reference vs Neo4j: https://blog.dgraph.io/post/benchmark-neo4j/
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I lived in South Africa at the time. The inflation was 30% - per hour. The queues to the ATMs were very long and you could only withdraw a certain amount every day.
I wrote about Remixing REST APIs with GraphQL [1], and more in-depth discussion of application-level consistency (or correctness) when using GraphQL queries and mutations [2].

[1] https://github.com/idibidiart/the-great-api-masher
[2] https://github.com/idibidiart/the-great-api-masher#maintaini...
Nah this is not true. I started out as a junior dev and remained a junior dev for many years. I've progressed through the ranks over time by continuing to learn new concepts and tools, to observe my mentors and managers, and to adapt.

There may be environments like Silicon Valley where companies lean towards experience, but I can tell you in the Chicago areas University of Illinois and other comp-sci graduates get hired consistently.

It's too complex of an issue to throw a blanket over it. The market matters, the person matters, and the hiring team matters.

I don't believe there's any inherent bias against hiring junior developers. It all depends on a company's needs.
The article blames management failure, but I'm not convinced. There's a general bias to blame management any time a company fails. Of course management is always responsible, but I don’t think anyone could have saved say, Kodak.

In this case, Nvidia and ATI were already making 3D accelerators for the professional 3D rendering market. All they had to do was to make stripped down cards that wouldn't cannibalize their high margin business, and sell them in volume for a price gamers could bear.

Maybe 3Dfx could have made a moat out of GLide, but OpenGL already existed and Microsoft was working on Direct3D.
That's a fun project. For production websites and blogs, I'm pretty happy with Netlify, CloudFlare, and CloudFront. But CloudFront charges $600 per month for custom SSL certificates [1], so you could save a lot of money by just spinning up ~10 servers in different AWS regions.

I noticed this line at the bottom of the page: "When it comes to picking a solution, I often choose the less traveled road". I don't agree with that at all, and it sounds a bit like NIH syndrome. It's always better to choose the most-traveled roads, especially in DevOps. If there's a problem, then you can join those communities and contribute to the projects.

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/custom-ssl-domains/
Note: Clothing designs are not copyrightable. Illustrations on a T-shirt may well be, though.
I mean about permanent proof of government spending, ultra secure voting systems, decentralized government and direct democracy. bonus tip: many coins do not need watt burning. p.s you were probably an internet naysayer too
The only thing to do is poison the well with bad data.

I still think facial recognition can be easily defeated, author didn't even try.
From what I've read, it seems that the reason for Zimbabwe hyperinflation was an attempt of "forced equality" but in a different way.

As an heritage of colonialism, 1% of the white people owned the 70% of the land, and agriculture was the main product of the economy and the main source of employment.

Mugabe decided to take the land from the whites and give it to their soldiers and mates who had not idea what to do with it. The production fell spectacularly. The following supply shock created the hyperinflation. The "printing" of money was just a consequence.

Edit: just to be clear, I'm not saying that a minority owning most of the land was a good thing. Just trying to explain my understanding of what happened.
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> It's actually "profitable" in most cities to never buy a ticket, checks are rare.

The operators are adjusting this so that there are just enough controls to have enough payments. This is an optimization problem and they know what they are doing and how much.
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If they can get in touch with the developers or their employers, then yes. OpenZFS could be fully relicensed as the main reason for not doing it is because of the substantial Oracle ZFS base code not being licensed appropriately.
Awhile back I left my first software job (they did have systematic hiring of new grads) at a very large corporation because I was moving to another city. As it happened, that company also had an office in the city I was moving to. I applied for a position at the new location and they gave me an offer. But their offer was something like 15-20k lower than just about all the other offers I had. Apparently there was some limit on how much you could increase someone's compensation that was preventing them from offering me more. I heard a rumor that my previous boss (one of only two level 6 software engineers in the company's whole eastern region) made some noise about how ridiculous it was given that hiring me was way less risky than hiring someone else since my track record at the company was well established. But it was all to no avail. He couldn't move the bureaucracy. So of course I took the highest paying offer with another company.
I suppose that makes a case for having a portfolio of projects and "how I made this" type blog posts, because it can serve as a proxy for the kind of things you have learned and done, as well as the kind of challenges you had to overcome to accomplish
Hyperinflation can't happen without a government problem, because if they were to just do nothing the prices would reach equilibrium with the supply scarcity and then stop rising. The real question is, what happens to governments that causes them to respond to supply problems with inflationary policy?

Edit: Nonexistent government is also a government problem - I didn't mean it in that way, I meant it in the sense of "problem related to government!"

As for "how can you keep things running when the supply-side collapses," you could replace inflation with taxes. You could achieve the same re-assignment of value explicitly instead of implicitly: people would end up just as robbed, but the currency wouldn't have to end up devalued. (This might end up helping the economy and making people less poor in the end, since it would mean that you still get to think about your inflationary/deflationary policy decisions. Essentially nobody would choose the regressiveness/progressiveness profile of hyperinflation if given the option, and would instead probably prefer to arrange the necessary pain in some other way.)
Is this truly as terrible as the comments section here is acting like it is? More engaging email sounds somewhat interesting to me. Should it stay as stale as it is now? Maybe a few improvements for email development. A few standards here and there, maybe the ability to make use of css properly for once. I wouldn't mind some better looking emails that didn't require a bunch of images loading to be view-able or some improvements made to how emails are developed for those that do. Not that AMP solves that, but I'm happy to see the discussion on improving emails coming to light.
CI/CD your Apache Zeppelin notebook deployments
Free = somehow someone else pays for it
For a more "own" CDN, here is another write-up: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/build-your-own-anycast-networ...
Not a surprise, they finally showed they can make money.
Data security is still the main reason for staying out of cloud
As a student of the Austrian economics model, I say thank God Keynes' heavy intervention model was never fully adopted. Meddling in markets makes for more volatile reactions when the markets finally correct -- and they always do. market forces are intrinsic and can only be ignored (or papered over) for so long.

https://seekingalpha.com/article/2826066-keynesian-vs-austri...

Bonus topic: For those who are not aware, the Federal Reserve is not a branch of government. It is a cabal of international banks, formed in a secret meeting of world banking leaders travelling under false names, at Jekyll Island, South Carolina, and voted on in a christmas-eve session of congress in 1913 when many members had already left for home (so a majority was easier to achieve). They are absorbing the wealth of the world through inflation.

Andrew Jackson was right -- a den of vipers and thieves, indeed.
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Completely agreed. You should also not turn yourself into a hoarder of data just because you can. :)
"Some authority" will use violence to stop mining locally, and it will immediately move elsewhere.

This is a nearly pure market system, driven by economic incentives. Cryptocurrency mining is the best and highest use for the scarce resource of energy. Once it becomes unprofitable to mine, then the hash rate will stabilize and the energy will be used for better purposes. Marginal producers of hash rate will be priced out of the market.
We have a sample repository with a simple, but broken, web application. We ask our candidates to review the code as they would if a coworker had submitted it as a merge request.

it gives quite a bit of insight about what aspects they latch onto as issues of note. Do they catch the insidious, subtle issues or just the low hanging fruit? Do they understand what stdlib function arguments expect as input? Do they just pass your review through a linter and call it a day?
Yeah, an X11 solution is one path forward - but it seems to be a bit brittle on Windows and Mac. But it is possible!
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You might be having a bit of grass is greener syndrome. I graduated in 2012, so a bit after that 8 year ago mark, but after over a year of the traditional "apply and interview with big tech companies all over the country" and nobody wanting to take on verbatim junior devs (at least not at my skill level at the time) I just pivoted into free software for two years and consulting for small businesses the last three.

There has never been a point in time where corporations were willing to hire on the inexperienced cart blanche to train them. It has always been a problem that nobody wants to foot the proverbial bill of Jimmys first real dev team. It is only getting worse now as more and more people enter the industry but major giants are slowing down their rampant horizontal department growth that gave a large chunk of juniors a path to classical employment in the nulls.
I've played around with Tor hidden services a bit, and the biggest problem I have with actually using them is discoverability. Even if a site I'm looking at does offer a hidden service version of itself, all search engine links still point to the clearnet version of the site.

I wonder if Tor browser would be open to some changes to fix that problem. Maybe offering to show the onion version of a site if the site includes

<link rel="alternate" href="http://[address].onion/" />

in its head would be a good first step.
Cool, giving it a try today - thanks :)
I thought it was obviously implied and also made explicit when I said they "have a valid point about the vile hatred which their enemies are spreading". Hate is obviously the problem we are discussing here, and how to deal with it effectively.
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> Unwelcome comments regarding a person's lifestyle choices and practices, including those related to food, health, parenting, drugs, and employment.

So it's off limits to criticize and anti-vaxxer if they're injecting that into some mailing list?

> simulated physical contact (e.g., textual descriptions like "hug" or "backrub") without consent

Oh dear.

> [No]...following.

So no twitter?

Why don't they just limit discussion to technical and project-related topics on their communications systems? Seems like that's the right approach to me.

It looks like this was the earlier CoC: https://web.archive.org/web/20171222235533/https://www.freeb...
Isn't it worse than that? People are disincentivized to anything beyond survival. Plus you need inputs (goods and services) from abroad, like fuel, medicines, technology, etc. But those places will not honor your local currency so you get none.
> Technically (...) The picture is about the photons

Technically, all pictures are about photons.
I would have thought the same of Microsoft Outlook (not Outlook Express), but those calls were fairly common. Perhaps Microsoft Office was just more commonly encountered outside a corporate environment.