skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I never fit into the 9-5 or corporate life, so most of my career has been spent working for myself. The biggest challenge was being ok with not making a lot of money, and focusing more on the benefits of working for myself, from home, and the ability to set my own schedule; presently 11a-4p
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Xiaomi has started releasing Google certified hardware late last year[1][2]. AFAIK they still release non-certified hardware as well.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiaomi_Mi_A1 "a re-branded Xiaomi Mi 5X"

[2] https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/03/xiaomi-mi-a1-review-...
Tabs are semantic. But, when you start down that route, why not dictate record-separotor as replacement for closing brace/block etc?
If you like science fiction interpretation of ideas then evolutionary part of it is covered in Peter Watts Blindsight.

Unified mind part is covered in Ramez Naam Nexus trilogy.

There is probably something about quantum minds too. If somebody knows then please be kind to fill in.
> It was generated by an IDE

Not all of it, actually.

> nobody had to physically type that

We totally had to read that.

> And usually no developer will be dwelling on this object or this area of the object.

Well… yes, usually. Sometimes however we did want to pay more attention than usual. At that point the original dev would have made a real comment. And that comment was lost in the noise, so you couldn't even distinguish between real comments and useless boilerplate.
https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/01/06/fire-and-motion/
Business school is not just for consultants and investment bankers. It's probably the one place at a university where people get to read about different business models, so why not see if there is a type of business that suits your lifestyle requirements?
Neither case was illegal, but Obama’s was far more invasive. What makes it so much worse is that Obama accessed 4x as many profiles as Kogan did, and they did it with Facebook’s blessings. This enabled them to keep the data current, while Trump’s dataset was both far smaller and years older than Obama’s by the time it was used.

Sadly, there are still no apologies for the gross invasion of privacy that Zuckerberg authorized Obama to commit against ~200 million people, ~199 million of whom never authorized Obama to take their information. I hope one is forthcoming, but I won’t hold my breath.
Fair enough. You obviously have a lot more skin in this game than I do, I have just done a bit of quick Google Scholar research to see why the FDA might have made the decision that it did, and I'm less familiar with how much the trend vs. the point accuracy is important.

But what it comes down to is, there was something about the accuracy during the first 12 hours that gave the FDA cause for concern. Whether the FDA is overly cautious or not is an open question; I do know that in the US we get worse health outcomes for more money than most other developed countries. How much of that is due to our terrible system for paying for health care, which is privatized but with enough regulatory capture and inefficiency to drive prices way up, and how much of that is due to higher costs and lower access to medication and devices not being available due to excessively stringent regulations from the FDA would be something interesting to study.

I think that the FDA could probably loosen up its regulatory process just a little bit and provide a net benefit. Not sure with how much there is wrong with health policy in the US, and partisan politics around it, that's very likely, however. It would be interesting to see if there have been any studies done on this.
What makes you think it wasn't? You're making some assumptions about which of the many systems failed, I think.
Jennifer Lawrence?

I can’t think of any other mainstream celebrity whose public image/history is as tied with privacy and internet security.
Got my bachelor's in business. For me, it was a mistake. I realized that I had no desire to do what my peers were doing, and that I was otherwise unskilled. Took a long time to build real skills in programming. Still playing catch-up.

Unless you have a specific reason for business, e.g., "I want to be a CPA" or "I want to work on Wall Street", get out. The main value of a business degree is the network you build. If you're not going to do anything that anyone else in that network is doing, then it's much less valuable to you. I also found that most business school students have a particular temperament. If you notice that you don't share that temperament, it's a good sign to switch. Don't let your parents determine your major--especially if they didn't follow that path successfully themselves.

You definitely won't learn anything in business school that helps you work outside of corporate America--it exists primarily to train middle managers.
Maybe the person was looking for a new job because the bosses forced them to use X in 2017.
This has been a tough year over here with a lot of un-fun life events. So this morning when trying to get out for a run I was looking for this one and only long sleeve workout shirt I have. And I couldn't find it. It's trivial, I know, but I started blowing up. Emptying out drawers, rummaging through the entire closet. I can't take yet another thing not working right. Where the f*&^% is this shirt!?

But I took a few deep breaths. Opened my eyes and the shirt was literally in front of me hanging in the closet.

It's a tiny example but this research rings very true. Being pissed off at life is a downward spiral where you stop noticing great opportunities to get you out of the spiral.
it depends on the experience of the diagnostican then, and all they can work with is what you are willing and able to tell them, no?
AstralStorm's point is somewhat divergent from the thread of the conversation. It is that, for playing "catch-up" to years of wage stagnation, this month's wage growth rate doesn't mean much. We need years of high wage growth, not just one month or even one year. In this sense, AstralStorm is right that instantaneous rates do not in fact matter. And you sound like you're going to just label everyone who disagrees with you as having their mind already made up, rather than actually thinking about what they say.

That said, the original discussion was about the rate of wage growth as a measure of how tight the labor market is. In that sense, the instantaneous rate is fine.

So why am I harassing you about your answer to AstralStorm, when AstralStorm was disagreeing based on something that was outside the scope of the discussion at hand? Because of the way you answered, with dismissiveness rather than actually thinking about the point raised. That's not cool.
Population control. That's not the hard question. The hard question is: what's the endgame? Why does every country in the western world want their citizens mute and unable to defend themselves?
Spain tried it. It started with a bang like this [1] and ended with a whimper like this [2].

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/dec/16/google-news-sp...

[2] https://techcrunch.com/2014/12/14/spanish-newspapers-want-go...
Out of all of the SSG's that I've wanted to try out (looked at a bunch but haven't really used any yet), Hexo looks the most attractive. You can also install a webui front end for it called Hexo Admin, which gives it an apparently very Ghost-like appearance and composition feel.

I wonder however, if those who set up their own CI and S3 and Cloudfront for https, know that they can just do all this for free with just Git and Netlify... Sure simplifies the process/# of pieces.
Bitmain Has Developed an Ethereum ASIC Miner – Viral Docks
if any portion of success can be explained by patterns of behavior, then portions of "systemic" income inequality can as well.

I'm emphatically NOT suggesting that poor people are only poor because they don't understand how to balance a checkbook, avoid predatory loans, and how to use the tax system to their advantage.
Try to work for a staffing agency! Once you have a sufficient portfolio / reputation you can generally choose to work when you want to.
I used to think that, although I'm surprised how many of my family members have already deleted their accounts or are now seriously considering it since the news has broken about the breach.

I know very few people who now aren't actually suspect of the company now.Maybe their not willing to give up their accounts yet; However I truly think there is more public awareness of the situation than you think.
First, learn how to do 2-hour blocks of 100% focus, non-distracted. Then, start looking for remote-only or remote-friendly companies that do interesting things. Consider also a non-remote company offering flexible working hours, e.g. instead of 9-5 having 6-2 so that you have afternoons for yourself. Start a company only if you are in the top 1% in the field or have contacts you can milk, otherwise skip this route. Web development, UX, graphics design are low-paid "blue collar" jobs, so consider it as a hobby instead. Study some recent/emerging trend like Deep Learning, AR/VR, blockchain and jump on it. Emerging trends are usually forgiving to beginners, contrary to well-established fields.
>These twits presumably spent two decades drumming up support for their cause while the tech community failed to give an answer to how the Internet won't affect society negatively.

It is impossible to prove that something doesn't exist, and more so to prove that something will not exist in the future.

The burden of proof is entirely on the party that claims existence - in this case, of harfmul effects of the Internet on society.

>The results are well deserved.

Hello victim blaming.
What's the difference between Samsung's Email app and Google's GMail app? What makes Samsung's bloatware but Google's not in your mind?

They're both pre-installed apps that some people might or might not need that you can't uninstall.
There's a lot of benefits to 9-5 I'm realising now I'm in my 30's, you're synchronized with most of society and for a lot of people (me included) the structure is very beneficial to your life.
In my experience, it was mostly for future consultants and investment bankers. I'd say that's what 90% of my classmates ended up doing.
Only of the (very few) reasons I like the GOP tax bill is that it will likely lead to California tax overhaul, including reducing income tax and ending Proposition 13.
Oh, well, if a song has been written about it. Next you're going to be telling me about yellow submarines and octopuses' gardens.
There was abloginnservice before persona iirc. Firefox hello. thunderbird.

I'm sure there are more, but those come to mind imediately.
Please see https://github.com/gokrazy/firmware/issues/15
It should be illegal to rent out a place that you believe is an environmental hazard. If this seems onerous, imagine the landlord knew the structure had dangerous wiring and wanted to waive liability for any fire damage.
Wages have remained flat when inflation is taken into account, i.e. real wages are flat, nominal wages continue to increase. We also have seen upward movement in median household income recently, and we should expect that trend to continue. So the idea of flat wages may be coming to an end.

What hasn't remained flat is the wages paid to the top N% which has greatly increased and accelerated the wealth gap. It is this gap that leaves people less satisfied despite being generally better off.
> Unless you are writing completely brilliant code your future self will hate you if you skimp on comments.

The vast majority of comments I usually see can be rolled into variable names or function names. If you're writing lots of comments, that's a good indication your code is hard to understand, your variables are badly named and your functions are too long in my opinion. I think people that say "your code is bad if you don't have any comments" have things backwards personally.

Pretty much the only time I use comments is when I'm forced to write weird code to workaround an API bug, to explain an unintuitive optimisation or to give high-level architecture documentation.

I've honestly returned to code I've written myself maybe 5 years later and rarely had an issue that would have been helped with more comments.
Author here :) LIDAR itself is just a sensor, it does not process the data nor does it output a directly usable image like a camera more or less does.

LIDAR in this case is a rotating laser and while it scans, the vehicle moves (imagine moving a paper when a copier scans it). All processing is done later, first to construct an image and then to understand and use it. Part of why I wrote the piece was to explain how things can go wrong even if your LIDAR works fine.
Remember the 1956 IBM consent degree way back. It changed the course of computer history as IBM had to watch now every step.

The FB consent degree was ignored and so far had little effect. I doubt it will continue to be ignored now as the following has changed:

- FB leveraged by Russian trolls and via data leakage affected the US Presidential elections. Puts the spotlight of politics on social media and FB in particular

- same for Brexit

- GDPR in Europe is a big thing with penalties

- US branches of government shifting left over the next 4 years in reaction to extremist right policies.

- Younger people get Mr. Robot. Older people die. Demographics have been shifting audience away from FB for some time.

These are trends that will not go away. They will affect every decision within FB and with it the growth trajectory.
This is a very narrow view of the industry.

I haven't worked 'regular 9-5 hours' for any meaningful length of time (i.e. beyond a few days here or there), basically ever, and I entered the field 15 years ago.

I've worked for state & federal government departments, contract agencies, and I now work directly with clients through my company.
Bringing Swift NIO to the iPhone
The History and Future of Special Functions
The problem with internet ads and the inevitable rise of adblocking
Genius! I trust you will be authoring a new book "RustOps in Practice".
Could you elaborate on why you see it irreplaceable? I don't see how that reconciles with your personal examples of alternative tools?

I, similarly, use Apple Maps more than Google Maps now, Messenger or iMessage more than Hangouts, and don't feel like things would be too terrible if I had to go further into Outlook.com or iCloud instead of Gmail/Calendar... Google's versions are better but not in a way that seems magical or impossible to replace (from my experience with my work email/calendar in Outlook).
If you're in your first year of university worrying about the 9-5 grind, it's your subconscious telling you to change your field of study.
Vestager is using the bully pulpit of an EU commissioner to further her political ambitions and it is already starting to grate on her allies in the EU. She is beginning to significantly overstep her bounds and is risking a powerful backlash. Right now, everyone is blaming big tech for all the world's ills, and she is jumping on the bandwagon. But the public is very fickle. If the American and European populists realize the potential to paint Vestager as the poster child for elite globalism and really start to nitpick at her inconsistencies and political ambitions, she will not only have given Trump some very real ammunition for further US/EU conflict but may sow the seeds for additional internal EU strife.
The step to remove Google dominance is to find, create and nurture alternatives.

Until Google's search results page for what you want to do decides to "promote" Google's own solution and "penalize" the competitor.

Which is something Google already does. They claim to have only the best and purest and most angelic of intentions, but the result is still strongly anti-competitive behavior and makes competing with Google a task that ranges from merely "obscenely difficult" all the way up to "actually impossible".
Are you assuming you need calc 3 and diffEq? Most CS programs I'm aware only need calc 1 (maybe 2) and basic linear algebra. Sure if you're into cryptography in signal processing then much more math will be needed but plenty of web devs don't need much more.

Sorry I know this doesn't answer your 9 - 5 part, but don't major in business if you have no desire to do anything related to it.
No, keepass’s recommended approach is a total PITA to set up, and completely non-intuitive [0].

[0] https://keepass.info/help/kb/trigger_examples.html#dbsync
"Ironically, I think that is pretty much how all cities work since crime went away. The days of the poor occupying prime real estate near a city is pretty much over."

This seems backwards. The poor never occupied prime (at the time) real estate, but cities did used to be more compact. The rise of crime (from the 60s) was one of the factors driving suburbanisation, as those who could afford to do so moved to more distant suburbs to be safer. Not just to have bigger lawns.

Their NIMBYism comes in part from this experience. Making sure your suburb stays expensive has the effect of helping it to stay safe, because it will only be occupied by people as rich as you, and will be able to afford plenty of police. Of course this is not the only effect. This protective blanket of high prices is an extremely blunt instrument, there is a lot of collateral damage. Nevertheless I think it's important to realise that NIMBYism isn't coming from nowhere.
> Even when the accusations are indisputably true and relevant?

You can probably construct an argument where the hypocrisy of some speaker advancing the argument would itself actually be relevant to the argument being advanced [0], but that's almost never the case in any real discussion; instead Whataboutism (and then tu quoque fallacy more generally) has the same rhetorical purpose as guilt by association or as hominem; create a negative emotional charge attached to some group associated with an argument, and use that to get people to dismiss the argument without considering it's merits.

The accusations in the motivating instances for naming Whataboutism were often both indisputably true and the same type of wrong as the act they served to distract from.(which is as close to relevance as charges of hypocrisy get.) They were still fallacious, just as this one is, irrespective of its truth or.degree of analogy.

[0] e.g., if the argument specifically included as a key point that the speaker did not engage in hypocrisy.
It sounds like what you want is some combination of freelance / remote working.
Maybe you just got assimilated? I can't imagine going back to 9-5, it's a waste of day, you spend all time where there is some sunlight inside office and your free time is purely about recovering from this.
>Inflation has been 3% a year for decades and wages have stayed flat.

Every time I read this claim and go looking for data, I find data that says that real wages are roughly flat, which means that they have kept pace with inflation. (That's the definition of real wages: that they are in inflation-adjusted terms.) It seems a common journalistic (and often political) talking point to say exactly what you said, which makes the math or reading comprehension challenged assume something quite different. While the author or speaker is not technically lying, they are merely misleading the reader/listener with a confusing (and sometimes confused) combination of nominal inflation and real wages.

See figures 3 and 4 here:
https://www.epi.org/publication/charting-wage-stagnation/

> Property value have skyrocketed, vehicle prices have skyrocketed

This next chart is in nominal dollars (meaning, not inflation adjusted):
http://ritholtz.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/pricechanges....

It shows that vehicles have not gotten more expensive (even as they've gotten much, much better, safer, more reliable, etc) and that housing and food/beverages have inflated by less than wages and by roughly the same amount as general inflation (which is no great surprise, given that they are a substantial component of the inflation calculation and that it would be difficult to sustain inflation over a long period of time in a consumer-driven economy in the absence of [nominal] wage growth for consumers).

College and healthcare have indeed risen much more quickly than wages or general inflation.

Do you have contrary sources?
One of the ways I'm hopeful that cargo can improve in this area is through the work being done on rust-semverver. If crates.io can either determine semver compliance or, perhaps, deny releases that are not properly semantically versioned, it would give cargo more license to select a single version to satisfy diamond dependency graphs. Those diamond dependency graphs are one of the ways that package management is famously very much unsolved.
America has three types of "conspiracy theorists"

* Logically consistent in niche fields that could be verified if more information was public (Room 641A); these should really just be called "theories"

* Harmless garbage ideas perpetuated by dumb people (flat earthers); these theories deserve open ridicule

* Propaganda created by intelligent people with the intent of causing harm (Uranium One); these should simply be illegal as libel

Those are important distinctions. Some conspiracy theories are straight up garbage, they do not deserve any modicum of respect... legitimate theories are in the minority.
I don't understand. The Pro Publica study of around 1000 ex IBM employees versus your personal experience? Ok. Are you saying that there isn't an ageism problem? Ok. The fact is, technology companies have serious diversity problems. How much data will need to be presented for people to accept this and make an effort to work on it? Are you in a marginalized group besides the fact that you are an older worker? Can you imagine how truly difficult it would be if you were? I mean I'm happy that you aren't experiencing this problem yourself, but that doesn't mean that we just wave away what is actually happening. Just because lots of folks experience severe age discrimination doesn't take away from your or their accomplishments- it doesn't mean that you don't deserve the work and that if they were just generally "better" or more "skilled" that they would have lots of job offers.