skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"why would a company waste money on jobs that are bullshit. Obviously, they (the company) derive value from these jobs or else such jobs would not exist (or at least not for long)."

I don't agree with parent post, but I have a feeling he's looking at a lot Tech jobs in particular?

Yes--Technology/start-ups.

Repeat, most companies are scalping any human they can get their greedy mits on.

Their will be no bullshit jobs soon. I don't think there's a huge amount of BS jobs now in the private sector.

He looked at all the essentially free money the fed provided to the wealthy investors this past decade. And all the investors who wanted to build the next FB. All the rediculious start-ups, that are getting decimated by the monopolies.

Hell---I see so many jobs that will be just stuff of "Hay--remember the old days. The warm office? Getting hired because you knew the owner's newphew. Hired with a dubious set of skills? Or, hired because you were a seemingly good fit for the company?"

I don't know where he's located, but living in the Bay Area;
I have seen some people with some seemilgly fantasy jobs. It's almost cute they think it will last. I do have a bit of a problem with the arrogant ones.

There's something that Willie Brown quipped years ago that stayed with me.

'What will San Francisco do when the tech party ends. The homeless problem will be massive. I don't know what SF is going to do with them.'

(Most of you come from loving/understanding homes, so their will always be a bed somewhere to retret to, so I don't worry about a huge spike in homelessness.)
Devil's advocate: are you really paying them for a service? I guess it depends on if you pay your bill in full each month, but for those that do pay in full, credit cards provide so many "free" benefits (travel perks, cash back, loss protection, extended warranties, so on). So for those, credit cards provide excellent services requiring no payment at all--it could almost be seen as a club with benefits that one joins, and if that's the case why not impose their moral compass onto its members (like most clubs do)?

That said, I generally agree with you.
:x is not only a short for :wq - the latter saves (unconditionally, even if you have saved earlier and not edited since), and then quits (the file). I was going to say that :x is also a shortcut for :q (just quit) but it is of course not a shortcut for that, since it is the same length :)

I can better describe it like this:

:x is a shortcut for telling vi/vim: save the file if not saved after last change, then quit (in either case, whether a save was needed and done just now or not) - IIRC.

Also, as others said, Shift-ZZ (when Caps Lock is off), also saves and quits (and saves one keystroke over :x - because you have to hit Enter after :x, but not after Shift-ZZ :) It is also (slightly) faster to type, since the (left) Shift key is just next to the Z key (at least on some keyboards, like mine at present).
If any of those people are like Steven Pinker, I'll pass. It's silly science-worshipping nonsense. Science/rationalism is good but it isn't the magical solution to all of the ills which plague humanity (as they like to make it seem).

Does Steven Pinker think he has all the answers? A fair reading of Steven Pinker would conclude anything but. He also knows full well that science isn't magic. However, the progress of science and industry has done way more to cure the ills of humanity than any other thing. Golda Meir was born to parents in conditions where parents would give birth to approaching 10 children in the hopes that a few would survive. It's vaccines, modern medicine, and bountiful food in modern societies which have changed that rotten equation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-n5JYSl_ioA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPt8ElTQMIg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ramBFRt1Uzk
Do software products like adobe photoshop for $20/month count as SaaS, or merely a subscription based software product?
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It was originally written to work nicely with IPredator first, simply because that's our current VPN service of choice. UDP support will probably come, but it actually severely impacted performance (about 30% slower). Trying to squeeze out as much bandwidth as possible, we focused on the TCP part for now.
Are you sure? Of all the messages the program could have printed, of all the I/O actions imaginable, the program somehow made a choice that was not hard-coded, but based on my input! The expression multiplexes one I/O action (what to print) based on the result of another (get input from user).

That's choice!

Edit: Just realised what might be confusing. putStrLn is not an I/O action in and of itself. It's a function that multiplexes on several I/O actions based on the input value. However, crucially, that input value is pure, and thus can only be hard-coded (maybe through a bunch of indirections, but ultimatedly statically determinable.) Monadic bind is what lets us depend on another I/O result.
Oof, I'll chime in here. My helmet has saved me from two head injuries I'm so glad and grateful I didn't have to endure with my skull alone. I suspect I'd have some terrible scars and possibly some concussion damage if I took your advice.
I know R and have used it in the past. I just don’t like the language. I keep RStudio around though because on rare occasions I do look around in it to see if it has something I need. So rarely though that I forgot to list it...
I tend to think that, if I am working with other people, python is the best choice. But if I'm working alone, R is the way to go.
If I had to pick one politician out of the whole country that I trust the most it would without a doubt be David Eby.
> What's the average selling price of the BMW 5 versus the Tesla S?

The average price doesn't matter. The actual price matters and this differs from country to country to such an extent that it will be a large factor in the decision making process. For 2017 NL and Norway for instance were big sellers for Tesla because of huge tax breaks on purchase and subsequent ownership taxes.

> The BMW 5 appears to be significantly cheaper.

In NL they start at 56K Euros, the Tesla's at 90K+, but the tax situation is so convoluted that you can't even compare the two at that price point. Which is why you'll see plenty of Tesla's in lease fleets because the monthly figures on that very expensive car compare favorable with the 5 series.

> Besides that, Tesla is growing rapidly, BMW is not growing at all.

Yes, this is usually the case when companies start out. BMW is just over a century old, if they would be growing at the rate of Tesla they'd be the only manufacturer by now. Just like any new company Tesla will - hopefully - continue to grow for quite a few years but it is my expectation that that growth will plateau at some point in the next couple of years.

> In the US, which is a massive market for BMW, they're contracting.

See above for comparison between mature market players and start-ups. This is expected, there is a new equilibrium to be found and all existing market players will lose some market to a newcomer operating in their segment.

If that would not happen it would indicate that the market as a whole is growing which is not the main driver here.

> So when it's 30k S vehicles in Europe next year, it's just going to hurt that much more if you're BMW.

No, you have to divide that over all the competing vehicle brands to figure out how much it affects them. And even though the 30K vehicles sold is impressive it's for now not at the level that the likes of BMW and MB are having end-times nightmares.

> The car market in the US and Europe is not meaningfully expanding, every Tesla sold is coming directly out of the pocket of BMW, Mercedes, et al.

Exactly. But until those numbers reach 100's of thousands of vehicles sold Tesla will be the underdog, and by that point the likes of BMW and MB (and possibly VW) will have a competing product. There is no way that Tesla will be able to absorb the whole car industry without the competition putting up a stiff fight, the way it is playing out right now is that Tesla is taking all the risks and laying the groundwork for electric car acceptance and infrastructure issues. It's a real world example of the innovators dilemma at work and it remains to be seen if the incumbents wake up in time to win that fight.

> The ~120,000 Teslas that get sold in 2018 are coming directly at the expense of the German automakers.

No, they are coming at the expense of all automakers, maybe with a larger chunk coming out of the German automakers but that's not something that you can say without more proof than I have available right now, what I do know is that both the E class and the 5 series set records in the US in 2017, with both cars individually growing in sales as much as the total number of sales for the Model S.
> I don't want to be doxxed, but let's say I worked for your fierce competitors and the ones your former employer "borrowed" a lot of ideas from. Also rejected an offer from them.

You worked for Sun and Oracle, then? I imagine the feelings around the (somewhat technologically inferior but vastly more popular) JVM are pretty complicated.

> I am not talking about gradient boosted decision trees-based meta-programming here.

Neither am I.

> Good luck at Udacity, some NDs like SDC/Robo/DLF were simply awesome!

Thank you.
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Cython has “with nogil:” not sure if appropriate.
This baffles me too, especially when reading that he didn't had a long term vision all these years. That is not only textbook bad but very irresponsible.

Same for the argument that there was a ton of learnings when Pebble failed. Yes, maybe but how is that relevant to other startups? Even for the hardware space, if someone seemingly never managed to get the production pipeline going and never had a vision for the products, how much worth is the advice then? Failing fast and often is not applicable here.
Heck, I got a more or less failed startup, I probably can tell you some stuff but definitely not, how everything works or how to be successful.

SV is a strange place. It feels, it's more important how much money you have (raised) then how successful your company was/is.
Just be prepared to be ticketed by overzealous NYPD cops.

http://gothamist.com/2017/04/28/nypd_bike_lane_tickets.php
This is awesome - jupyter basically drives my whole company at
https://kyso.io we are gonna implement jupyterlab really soon once we've done sufficient testing.
> What is it about a Tesla that doesn't look as premium.

It's not that it doesn't look premium, it's that it doesn't look luxury. What about a Tesla makes it look more expensive than an Honda Accord or Mazda 6?

When I look at a Tesla it very much reminds me of Mazda. It looks like it's built for performance.
Maybe. But I am surprised it came from Apple. It feels very unfinshed for an Apple product.

Just obvious things like a physical mic mute button for example.

The most surprising is doing features without the security yet available needed with the feature.

So no voice ID yet you can get text messages read back.

Been a long time Apple fan but honestly of late it is really hard to understand what is going on at Apple.
Thank you: I too found the post a simple summary of obvious things. And I too am skeptical of Facebook's motives here: though part of it must surely be 'let's find causes for poverty that allow us to continue to be Facebook, and allow internet 'unicorns' to continue to be unregulated industry-devouring titans'.

Basically, Facebook needs to find a solution to poverty that ends with them consuming and disseminating the data of billions of people who happen to not be desperately poor. In many ways their best case is all the better if their data is of solvent people.
I actually forgot about google until this thread came up. I basically never have to use !g anymore, bc DDG does everything I need so well!

I've done a few googles over the last year, like on my girlfriend's computer, but I really find their results are so commercially-oriented that when looking for information it all gets in the way.
> It can be annoying at first to have to type the few extra characters,

Especially on mobile. Can't they use something more mobile-friendly than "!g", such as "gg" or "/g" for example?
Where I work, we don't hire people without degrees - even for web dev. So that nanodegree would be a good start, but you'd still get filtered out. You'd have hustle to network, let them know you have this cert and that you want to do analysis work. I've interviewed so many worthless college grads that a little initiative would go a long way to proving your worth.

Even then, data analyst roles are entry level at my company. Not saying that's how it is everywhere, but you'll be taking a pay cut without experience. My recommendation would be to look for business intelligence positions. It varies what the role actually is, but you're bound to find a few BI developer positions that value web development experience. Regardless, the worst case scenario is that it's tangent to data analyst work and best case it overlaps. With the nano degree and your experience, I'd imagine you could see a raise even.
systemd implemented eBPF-based per-unit IP access lists and accounting [1] in version 235.

[1]: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/6764
During my recent data science job hunt, I received a lot of resistance due to my lack of a Master's/PhD: https://twitter.com/minimaxir/status/951117788835278848
Perhaps, but that does seem disruptive to business. There probably needs to be better anti-fraud enforcement, but maybe there is a way to do it without shutting down facilities just to conduct an audit. Woudn't testing product samples to ensure that they are what they claim to ve (and nothing else) be enough?
I've read Google Colaboratory provides 12 hours of free GPU usage. Even without using the GPU, I find the Colab version useful
I am so glad nowadays to get websites for my hobby projects going, I just have to do a Github page, and don't have to worry about all that stuff (and don't have to pay, either). Github pages + Static content generators are among the best advancements in the recent years.
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First of all, I completely agree that the E class is more on par with the Model S, and the S class is significantly more luxurious.

With that said, I do think it's interesting that the Model S has S class pricing and is outselling the S class despite being decidedly much less luxurious.

I'd say many people spending upwards of $85k-$100k+ on a car don't just want luxury -- they want social status. And right now a brand new upgraded Model S is more attention-grabbing than a Mercedes S class.
Cinemachine and Timeline Editor for Unity 2D Game Development
Your intuition about the benefits of pure functions & immutability are spot-on, and I think that any proponent of monads would agree that these are fundamentally more important concepts than monads themselves. (Many of the ways that people use monads would break, or lose their point, if the data they operated over could be mutated outside of the monadic context.)

You can get an awfully long way with immutable data structures without involving monads. There are plenty of languages that give priority to immutable data, but don't have monads in any inherent way: Prolog, Erlang, Ocaml, and Scheme (to a slightly lesser extent) all come to mind.
In Italy there is a different taxation on the buying contract sum.

First home it is 2% if bought from a private and 4% if bought from a firm, in this latter case it is VAT (and some types are excluded being "luxury").

Non-first home is 9% if from a private or 10% VAT if from a firm (up to 22% for some types that are considered "luxury").

Then usually banks provide "special" loans at a slightly lower rate to "first home" buyers, but that has nothing to do with the government.
Disabling password authentication on Linux Servers
I agree. I biked in today after it snowed maybe 4 inches last night. If i had studded tires it would have been nicer but my slicks do pretty well. And really if there is ice few tires will really protect you from slipping.

The thing that gets me is roads that are sort of driven on. Heavily trafficked roads are great because cars usually expose the bare concrete and roads with no cars are great because you can ride through powder no problem. But when a few cars have created ruts...it make steering very difficult. I don't know if different tires help with this or if that's just the way it goes when you're total mass is <200 lb.
Given that it was only $11.99 (from $99) today - I just bought the course for the heck of it. Great suggestion - thanks!
I have a Huawei Watch which is round, all-black and has a black steel band [0]. It fits in at work or basically any social situation. I ended up building my own watch face, which is quite subtle and mostly black. Mainly bought it because it was the first round one I liked (round, without 'flat tire' LCD).

Primarily use for seeing my agenda and message notifications, and to see the time.

[0] https://i.imgur.com/qr20Cdn.png
Ask HN: Alternatives to Grammarly?
Any privacy-respecting grammar/spell checker you are aware of? (self-hosted is fine)
Theories and criteria of truth is not a greenfield:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criteria_of_truth

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/truth/
FIRE and move to the Netherlands. Work on open source projects.
Agreed. Most people really underestimate the benefits.

- I save $1700/yr on transit (Toronto TTC Pass). Savings would be even higher if I drove (parking costs, maintenance)

- Massive health benefit from of turning 3hr/week of commute from sitting into cardio: https://theconversation.com/cycling-to-work-major-new-study-...

- Others: Time savings, commute consistency, happiness
Your wager is correct. The average user is pathetically ignorant of how computers or the internet work. I'll never understand why people eagerly try to understand how their cars work, but when it comes to computers they'll just throw their hands up and be proud of their ignorance, always relying on others to help them with extremely basic tasks. You don't ask a friend to put your windshield wipers on for you.
Ha ha, I don't know about nowadays on Windows/Linux/MacOS (maybe someone else can comment for that), but on DOS, you could get around such issues (like a key damaged or not present) by holding down the Alt key while entering the 1- to 3-digit ASCII code for the key you wanted to enter (0-255). That was used for all kinds of tricks and jokes in those days, like entering a fake space kind of key - some ASCII code while pressing Alt - I forget which one, maybe 255. It would look like the space char on the screen - a blank - but was not the same char. Could be used to create "hidden" files that those not in the know could not access, although the file was otherwise in plain sight in DIR listings and so on :)
It's mostly a tax issue. The operating costs of a Tesla can be much lower because of very favorable tax breaks, which is one of the main reasons the Tesla sold so well in Norway and The Netherlands (my home country), and why so many of them are fleet (lease) vehicles. Taxis alone account for a substantial fraction of all those sales.

We'll see if that trend continues in 2018, there have been some substantial changes in the taxes regarding electrical cars in NL, not sure about Norway.
I've heard this but AFAIK they simply terminated their employment
Since you've made a throwaway account, that's your prerogative. But being too flippant with the rules without using a proxy to obfuscate your IP is a good way to lose your main account as well.
Intersectionality is pretty much incompatible with that sort of simplistic reasoning (e.g. "racism against whites isn't racism") you can see online lately.

I'd like to see references. I've seen so many instances of references to idiotic equations using "prejudice + power" followed by bigoted logic which seeks to unperson entire groups wholesale on the basis of immutable characteristics. Where is the intellectual leadership of the left? Why am I seemingly alone in the condemnation of such toxic claptrap?

Seriously, I would be super gratified to see such references!
A key point - for me as a user unlikely to develop extensions- is buried some paragraphs down. "JupyterLab 1.0 will eventually replace the classic Jupyter Notebook. Throughout this transition, the same notebook document format will be supported by both the classic Notebook and JupyterLab."
Back in the day we used to call that "Shared hosting" and it was looked down on by the in-crowd.
const S = f => g => x => f(x)(g(x));

I'm more likely to write

const geed = g(x);
const effed = f(x);
const S = effed(geed);

I have no idea when I would actually write a structure like this though. Can someone please fill those names in with something like `buildComparator` or `Math.max.apply` or something, anything, that remotely makes sense?
NO its not...I grew up here and lived and worked abroad in in UK and US for a few years so I can attest to the difference weather makes...especially the humidity. (I cycled in both here and abroad.)

And no one seemed to mention...two wheeled transport is great, until it rains. And if you have never been to Singapore, Malaysia or the tropics you haven't seen real rain yet.

BTW...in SE Asia, the two wheeled transport of choice is the motorbike. The roads (and motorists attitudes) weren't designed for LOW speed traffic.
IMHO we need to impose incredibly stiff penalties on those who perform such large, damaging crimes that undermine societal trust. These criminals do not care about being slightly less rich, and imposing penalties is likely to just result in the consumer getting shafted to make up for the loss. We should bring back the stockade and public execution for these pirates.
On some laptops too :(
Good start, overall pretty vanilla. There's a lot of competition in this area so I'd suggest being a little more opinionated.

- Privacy Policy, what are you doing with my data, how do you protect it. Something more than just saying we use a HTTPS Certificate

- It's really weird to have to create budgets for each month, and not just have a recurring monthly/weekly budget

- When viewing transactions default to reasonable views, not just today. Maybe provide some views (last week, last month)

- Initially the Add Transaction confused me, there's a lot of fields with no help text as to what each affects. I got over this, but that area definitely needs some optimization.
A friend asked me to watch a clip of Ben Shapiro so we could sincerely talk about what the other side believes. I forgot that I was on a fresh OS install, not yet logged in. Well, right after that one video, every single recommended video to me became a "Ben Shapiro SLAMS liberal...".

I get that YouTube had no other metric to gauge me by, by there are 10 or 12 recommendations and there's no law that says YouTube can't ease into recommendations. Whether you're for or against Shapiro, this kind of behavior induces people into bubbles and radicalizing in the feedback loop.
>They basically shut down Foundem, creating more time for them to give advice to other companies and regulators fighting Google. This consulting work, some of which was funded by Google’s competitors, has helped to keep the Raffs afloat.

They really buried the lead.
I think what he/she means is poorly designed visualizations. Just because a plot is grayscale and not interactive doesn't mean it's worse than a cluttered poorly-designed super interactive web widget. It's a poor choice of wording, but I think by "overuse" they might mean "unclear but eye-catching". Besides "overuse" is literally the quantity that is excessive.
This is similar to my experience—6 miles between Brooklyn and Manhattan. The protected lanes are surprisingly dangerous when there’s no separate turn signal for cars. Compare 1st Ave to 8th Ave for an example. That said, it still feels way safer than biking in the suburbs, where cars will go 40 mph around a blind corner because there’s not much traffic.