skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> online self-education is a delusion because passive enthusiasts and desperate folks do not just really need tools but a purpose or a market.

I believe you are accusing online education of giving people ("passive enthusiasts and desperate folks" in your words) false hope?

I would contend the world is a better place for having free online education. Removing that would not address issues around 'purpose' or 'market'.

The job market is definitely there, although I am not quite sure why you single out 'remote work'.

With regards 'purpose' that can be defined by, and depends on, the individual. For example, learning about art history online might help with that novel you are writing.

I think your bone of contention is more with 1) the job market 2) the process of being credentialed.

Free online learning resources were never intended to address these issues and in many ways they can never do so.

I think what is needed (and I believe there are some options already available) is an open degree credentialing system. The way this would work is there would be an open syllabus that could be downloaded freely, with various learning outcomes and expectations provided. Examination requirements would be clearly specified. The student would then study from any or all of the available resources, and when fully prepared would attend an examination centre to sit the exams.

In the UK you can do this already at GCSE and A level (there are some restrictions to this). You can download syllabus from the relevant exam board, example exam questions, recommended resources etc. You can study online resources, recommended text books and so on. You can even hire a personal tutor if you need to and there are some entities that will provide all the materials you need. What really needs to be done is for this to be expanded up to degree level and possibly beyond. So potentially the only thing you would pay for is to sit the exams. Of course this cannot address issues around market demand - that is more down to economic considerations, not the availability of online education.

So, I agree with you in the sense that free online education does not solve all problems, but then nor does a university education guarantee you a job or a purpose either!
Stuff like that is one of the reasons we're now in Brexit mode in the UK... I blame both sides for whatever is to come.
The Commission is made up of member states and they often push through unpopular proposals that they'd never get through their home legislatures, a process known as "policy laundering". When an unpopular measure comes from the EU they can say "oh look, bad Brussels / bad EU made us do it", even when it was their own suggestion in the first place. The UK government has a particular history here, which is why it's ironic that we're attempting to leave the EU.
> at the core of a worldwide movement - with an unprintable name that loosely correlates with "Failure Nights"

The name is FuckUp Nights if anybody is wondering
Well, Chris has been there for even longer.

To be a single-digit employee, you had to start in the 70s -- i.e., 40 years ago. My friend -- I don't think it'd be appropriate to name him -- has "only" been there 30, which means he joined a healthy-sized Apple already 10 years into its life.
The Italian election (earlier this month) was won by a eurosceptic party. (Or at least they won the most seats but still have to form a coalition)

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/mar/05/italy-turns-ba...
Unfortunately you don't get heard otherwise. Commission members have explicitly stated that they do not serve the citizens of the EU. Oettinger for example is notorious of only meeting lobbyists.

Consumer friendly regulations come only into play if it doesn't hurt European big companies. GDPR hurts the big new economy companies in the US far more than the EU companies, for one. Free roaming is also in corporate interest. Big industry lobbyists lament in a regular fashion about too little migration.
how could a +7.0 affect AWS and Coinbase? should people consider redundancy and moving to a different wallet?
I wanted to say that it is not only arithmetics that is bad, but the whole math field in general. Unlike in cases where a general knowledge of the field is there, but the person can't calculate 2+2 without a calculator.
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Both.

The EU bound counties together through trade and NATO protected against external threats.
I feel like people here are reading far too much into what I said.
Sorry to reply to myself, but when I awoke this morning, it occurred to me that above I am describing my daily-driver programming environment from early 1988, Coral Common Lisp (except that who-calls wasn't built in; it was a contrib).

Besides the previously-mentioned features, I could build a windowing UI by dragging pieces together. I could build the resulting native-code app for delivery by choosing "Save" from a menu. I could write WDEFs (the code resources that defined window shape and behavior) and other low-level stuff interactively in Lisp. I could patch arbitrary calls with assembly code written and debugged interactively in the Lisp environment (one of the SK8 authors was previously an assembly-language video-game programmer; he was ecstatic about this feature of CCL).

Comparing my current daily-driver development machine to the one on which I was using Coral Common Lisp in 1988, the new machine has twice the word size, 400 times the clock speed, 16,000 times as much RAM, and 400,000 times as much disk space.

Meanwhile, the development tools are in many ways worse, rather than better.
The Amiga hit the home computer market like a bomb. For a few years there was nothing quite like it on the market at a price that people could actually afford. It was never that big in the USA but overseas it had a huge impact, bridging the gap between games machines and real computers.

I saved up several years of teenage-dollars to buy one when I was 15 and never looked back. Of particular interest to me was the excellent-for-the-time audio chip. I spent many hours making MODs and games for my friends to play. Later, I taught myself C and never looked back.

A sample of the sorts of things a teenager could do in 1991 : https://sheep.horse/2011/11/stuff_from_my_old_hard_drive.htm...
>. Nothing changes for compilers, other than the potential for optimizations gets much, much worse as the IR is comparatively crippled and restricted to the IR they already have.

The performance of an application that doesn't work is worse than a cripple application.
The Commission tends to work with the EU Parliament and the EU Council (nation leaders) when drafting laws, too. So I wouldn't ignore this just thinking the EU Parliament will definitely reject it. The EU Parliament will reject it if enough people call their MEPs.
Canvas 3D, Mozilla 2006, Opera 2007

Web GL, 2009 - 2013, Apple, Google, Mozilla, Opera, and others

Web VR, Mozilla, 2014

https://www.cnet.com/news/firefox-virtual-reality-for-the-we...

And web as VR splashes every step of the way. It’s here!

https://www.creativebloq.com/features/the-vr-web-is-here
Steam will now auto-scale VR resolution to max out your GPU
Final nail yes but the first nail was certainly with wing commander, much faster and better looking on the PC. Doom was much later.
Yes, another disastrous private equity takeover. Debt servicing and management fees to the private equity funds take so much money out of the company that there is little left for innovation or tactical missteps.

Sometimes you will see that private equity only comes in when the company is in trouble anyway but I don't think Toys 'R Us was in the bad of shape when Bain and KKR showed up.
I recommend meditation. It's just delusion. Staying present is protection against actively overwriting fact with fiction.
Every few months an article gets to the top of HN claiming "EU IS GOING TO LEGISLATE TABS VS SPACES CODE STYLE" or approved names for your dog or maximum amount of light bulbs you can carry for personal use or some other really dumb shit.

Invariably it turns out it's not a law yet, but a proposal. Which, due to the EU parliament's rather open law-making process, are immediately available online in 26 languages. A closer reading of the proposal then invariably exposes one of the following:
a.) It's a theoretical conclusion that could be drawn from this proposal but is in no way how the law is supposed to be applied and will very clearly thrown out of court if you'd try.
or
b.) It's a proposal that it written by someone who has no subject matter knowledge, who has been clearly instructed by some lobbyist, who is adamant to defy every expert's opinion on their proposal, or who is just generally a loony who happened to make it into the 751-person parliament. No one is going to vote for their proposal.

Obviously when a proposal like this makes it to the floor that's scary, but it's a side effect of democracy. Some people buy into the entertainment industry's shrieks that technology is killing them (even though they're doing better than ever) and some of the people that buy into it happen to be MEPs.

It's a problem that exists in every legislature in the world, and the only way to fight this is by taking an active role in your country/union's politics.
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At first I thought: "I bet this isn't as good as SLIME." Then I thought: "I should really be more open-minded." Then I looked and thought: "Oh."
To all the people I argued with online a couple months ago, looks like the executive compensation the board approved won't really matter. Everyone was up in arms about the money that the new executives could make, which was good money, but not guaranteed. They had to hit aggressive metrics to make that happen. That doesn't seem to be happening, so thousands will lose their jobs.
Lobbying is not synonymous with corruption. And the EU, due to its origins as most powerful regulatory actor for Europe is heavily lobbied, no question. And the Commission even more, since it has the power of agenda setting. This is not always a bad thing, you need the industry as source of technical knowledge. I would say that most things we perceive as stupid are more or less proposals where the lobbying is unbalanced and one actor has to much influence. In this case the copyright defending industry. It is now up to the European Parliament to scrutinize this...
Exactly, I would expect this person to perhaps have some additional mutations (in his superficial tissues so no body wide mutation of course) due to radiation, or perhaps due to selective pressures working differently on them in 0 G. Also I'd expect expression changes (RNA quantity changes), also related to 0 G or maybe to his diet. Also, it is often claimed that chimp DNA is only 1% different from ours. Which is also bull of course, it depends, (as here) on how difference is defined. The telomere story is interesting but from the text it sounds like we already expect that from radiation and calorie restriction.
Looks interesting, thank you.
Just bought it on amazon.
The porn filter springs to mind.
AppImage is a Linux way of deploying this, but it does not allow modification of the resulting binary. You could perhaps try to do it with snapd instead.
Snacks (meh, they're not all healthy; and some of us are better than others at resisting temptation).

Someone mentioned bicycle parking; I don't use it but our building just added that.

Dog-friendly office (mixed bag, they're nice to have around but they can be loud and at least one is not fully house trained).

Decent health benefits (crucial).

Pre-tax transit benefits.

401K with employer match (after the last couple of jobs I now consider this crucial and regret not requiring it during previous searches).

Dinner and a cab home if you have to stay exceptionally late (almost never take advantage, but highly appreciated when leaving the office at 9:30pm during a snowstorm).

Volunteer day when the entire office turns out once a year to work with a local nonprofit. (Love this! And I think it does more for employee solidarity than any social event.)

Unmetered PTO that at least in some departments we're actively encouraged to take advantage of. Awesome if it makes you comfortable taking off more than a couple weeks a year. Awful if it makes you uncomfortable taking any time off.

Paid parental leave. (One of those things that should be universal and we're doing better at than most places but could still offer more.)

Flexible hours.

Summer half-day fridays (best thing ever!)

Beer fridge (with the general expectation that it'll be opened only on Friday evenings; rarely used)

Office parties (as an introvert, I loathe these, but I guess some people enjoy them).

Wish we had:

Private offices, or at least cubicles. Or noise dampening treatments for the concrete ceiling or floor. Or something.

Non-fluorescent lighting.

Health initiatives.
The rules for java memory management could probably fill 200 pages just by itself and it's not easy to debug issues with leaks, excessive overhead and the several layers and variants of garbage collectors.

C's memory model is trivial by comparison.
Devoted feedly user here. If you switch to 'Title only-view' and switch the display density to 'condensed' in the settings (Click user profile pic --> Settings --> Appearance), I think that should solve your annoyances. I too hate needless spacing between elements.
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I think EU on its way to make the world more equal.
Some folks owning platform have literally amassed mega fortunes of money in absence of costs (regulation etc...) without creating many jobs which people in other jobs can't even dream of acquiring.
There are many hazards in Russia even for the most powerful oligarchs. Remember Berezovsky or Khodorkovsky.
Portacle is a standalone bundle of Emacs + SLIME + SBCL + Quicklisp + Git that is meant to be completely self-contained and therefore maximally portable.
Ask HN: Is there any list of open source fellowship/support programs?
They usually do well for two reasons. First, the debt is on the books of the company they take over, not the private equity firm. Second, once they have control of the company they charge it 'management fees' for the executives and consultants they assign to run the firm.
I think harpocrates was talking about running webassembly programs without the browser.
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> Our system/ops guys (~50 people) are generally smart and nice people - but they're the classic victim Ops dudes that got renamed to DevOps overnight.

That's just a name change. "DevOps" is just the same system administration as
it was for the previous 20 years, the difference is just that now we have more
tooling, services, and deployment methods. Why "victim dudes"?

> They went from scp'ing bash scripts to bare-metal to AWS and Kuberenetes and all that jazz and are basically "winging it".

OK, so they got virtual machines, somebody else's data storage and processing
services, and tooling for containers suddenly dropped on their lap, so they
need to modernize their craft. And from what you describe, they weren't that
good in the craft to begin with (IaaC is an idea twenty years old, the same
with packaging software, and just these two techniques can easily handle
growth from a few machines to dozens or hundreds).

> [...] is this a realistic goal for 1-2 non-ops people to learn and an implement within ~1 year?

Probably not. For building a robust infrastructure you need somebody who
understands well how the OS and networks work and what mechanisms the OS
provides, which usually means a good and experienced sysadmin, not
a programmer. It's not impossible for a programmer to learn that, but it
requires a good mentor, and then you're still left with an implementation.
Great, that would be very helpful for those who want to learn Vulkan without delving into OpenGL first.
Bad marketing is a big part of it. Amiga fans will also cite poor management choices in general, though I don't know anything about that.

By the time they were introduced, though, the PC and Mac were already in the market.

The PC was being adopted into offices by then, so it's also possible that the ironclad rep (at the time!) of IBM meant that the PC was already locked into a path to dominance, but that leaves open the question of why the Amiga didn't manage to survive in homes or education.
supercool stuff
It classifies @jack as a bot. Accuracy is definitely quite low based on a few samples, as noted by others in this thread.
Where can I buy quality wooden toys online?
Unless your VP title is window dressing, in that situation you call it like it is (garbage) and get started working on something that has a future.
"Alexa thinks you should apply for a personal loan through Amazon Finance"

Yeah, no conflict of interest there
I think your "diagnoses" (are you a medical professional?) of emotional abuse - along with the grandmother's diagnosis of sociopathy - are on very shaky ground. The girl may just have a temper. Many children outgrow this.
Nest is already pretty effective at learning schedules
https://whereisscihub.herokuapp.com/go was exactly what I was thinking of. Thanks!
I found it annoying to strap a weight to one of my legs, or have it pound against me when sprinting. So cuffs and straps come into play, and the fun of choking off circulation, all while making it difficult to access any controls.

And again, 400 is a silly price to pay for small tech, but that's not a criticism of watches, it's a criticism of Apple. Did you see the teardown of Beats headphones and their cheap components? There are lots of lousy ways to conspicuously give Apple too much money without watches.

You could get a cheap smartphone and an entry level watch for a third of the price of some people's iPhones, and if you share my somewhat odd preferences, have a better experience for it.
Kinda like the old "lisp in a box" package I remember from a few years ago? It was also SBCL and Emacs and Slime all bundled together as a single "program."
Top work.

Wonder what the legal implications for OP might be though.
Love the ant on frisby analogy ;)
You can't capture the actual light field with a usual camera, can you?
Policy laundering
Are you updating this manually, or scraping tweets to determine working URLs?
Then please set up a new account and tell us about it. I really like Forstall direction, and I dont think Maps was that much of a problem given it is still pretty poor after he left.
At a local Starbucks the other day the person working the register insisted the quarter(25c) I gave him was nickle(5c). Later when giving me 16c in change he gave me a quarter and a penny. At McDonalds the next day I was refunded for a 4.67 order that took too long with 5.50 cents. My experience matches the article. On a more serious note: We design software for use by finance experts. After user testing we’ve had to:

- remove error bars from charts because folks didn’t know what they were and found the concept confusing

- remove histograms (users didn’t know what they represented).

- remove “percentile” after no one could agree if 99th perctile was higher or lower then 1st

- eventually change rankings from “3rd” to “3rd highest score out of NN respondents”
Yes. Portacle is a direct replacement for Lisp-in-a-box and Lispstick. Both are heavily unmaintained and outdated by now where Portacle is under active maintenance.
I use a web app (Asana) for GTD because I can access it from anywhere and it's always up to date. The mobile app can be used offline and syncs back up when you have a connection again.

An additional browser extension wouldn't be much help since the app is always open and just a cmd-tab cmd-~ or a double tap of the home button plus a few swipes away from what I'm currrently doing.
I'm curious what it is about Guitar Center that you're saying is outdated:

I would think buying an instrument demands at least some hands-on experience to confirm your choice, but not many parents are concerned with giving their kids a test drive of new toys before purchase (and indeed can't, due to packaging).
Apparently, the Wikipedia page on Sci-hub also maintains a link to the active versions.

(And to be honest, that's a fact easier to remember than "whereisscihub.herokuapp.com"; the author should really find an easier url)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sci-Hub
"Age and treachery will always triumph over youth and skill"

-- ancient proverb, attribution uncertain
Because any good developer should, when presenting a product in an international market, consider i18n (which involves more than just "translate from language A to language B").
Git man page joke generator :)
According to Southern China Morning Post article, her media accreditation to cover the National People's Congress has been revoked, her Weibo (twitter equiv in china) taken down, and search results of her name online also taken down.

SCMP is a paper in Hong Kong, so should be credible.

http://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/213...

Tried this little experiment, here's the reporter in red on baidu:

https://baike.baidu.com/item/%E5%BC%A0%E6%85%A7%E5%90%9B/979...

Tried the reporter in blue on baidu and no relevant results to her:

http://www.baidu.com/s?ie=utf-8&f=8&rsv_bp=0&rsv_idx=1&tn=ba...

Jail-wise, hard to say, but her livelihood is going to suck for awhile.
There are a few political parties that call for a reform of the EU without breaking up. I'll try to vote for one of them.

It's clear that the EU needs serious fixing, and German politicians/Brussels technocrats aren't up to the task because they don't care.

Unfortunately, at the time being, these reform parties (mostly social democrats, but not exclusively, and not of the "old kind" of social democrats) aren't big, because the emotional way to deal with the crisis is "To hell with them, let's roll-back to nation-states so we can take over control". Unfortunately, we'll bitterly find out that breaking up won't solve the problem. We'll lose all the benefits of being able to lobby together for a better solutions, and still suffer from all the problems of the EU, even without being in it, because the big institutions won't be stopped by border checks..
Exactly. For me it’s come full circle. “Wow there’s no point of me wearing a watch everywhere now that I have a phone. [10 years later] Cool! This new smart watch will allow me to untether from my phone!”
"Atheist are on that front the same, and believe 100% there is no god."

This is a false statement. The rest of your post is supposition and anecdote.
> I also hope youre the first to stand up and refuse help when you find yourself in a situation where your skills are no longer valued

I absolutely would -- because if my skills are no longer valued, it's time to pick up some new skills.