skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Am I just grumpy or is it fair that if you're lucky enough to be healthy and skilled you should still be spending your time working to contribute to the world and/or paying taxes, rather than just travelling around and having fun. Now maybe they plan to travel to work elsewhere to help people poorer than themselves but I doubt it.

I'm presuming if they aren't American so if they get cancer or something they can return to Australia or wherever and sponge of the working taxpayers to pay for them.
Pretty similar to the environmental impact of jumbo jets. A 777-200LR burns around 145.5 tonnes of jet fuel to transport around 300 people 15,800 km. That's 31 grams of fuel per passenger-km, about 86% of the fuel is Carbon so that's roughly 27 grams of Carbon emissions per passenger-km. A BFR/BFS contains about 3,240 tonnes of propellant and allegedly will be able to transport around 850 passengers up to 20,000 km. The oxidizer to fuel ratio of the Raptor engine is currently unknown but it's likely it's around 3:1, meaning that 1/4 of the total propellant is Methane while 3/4 is liquid Oxygen, giving 810 of Methane per trip, give or take. Methane is 75% Carbon so a BFR flight should produce roughly 608 tonnes of Carbon emissions, or 36 grams per passenger-km (30% more than a conventional flight, seemingly).

However, it's possible to generate Methane fairly easily using solar power, so such launches have the potential to be nominally carbon neutral with some investment.
Instand feedback in iOS Engineering workflows
Ruining their lives with substances.
This article is too light on details to speculate well, but it's entirely possible he already had good engineering skills and just happened to be doing something else for the article's starting point.

It's also possible he just knew someone and writes zero code and the engineer title is bogus.
ETH and bitcoin market speculation and smart contracts.
Trying to implement "DevOps" and centralized logging at one of the largest companies in the USA.
Auto-play video + audio.
Frontline did a nice story on this

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/retirement-gamble/
The idea is that you could at least trace news back to the source. Whether you “trust” Fox News or ABC News or whoever is up to you. So this would be a client that shows you News items which are each signed and verified where they came from.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTPhuRQBmLQ
Ha Ha. We were getting a traffic spike through this, which caused the issue. But Bubble has this feature where you can add more "units" to your overall app capacity to handle increased traffic, which we did. Enjoy!
Help the world solve problems with Account Takeover.We’re hiring
Sounds like the correct response then is to start sending DMCA requests?
You do know that most big stores use automated video analysis nowadays to optimize inventory placement, analyze in-store traffic flow, detect shoplifting, detect slip and falls, etc right? Some have begun using license plate readers at parking lot entrances. Oh and...they are completely within their rights to do it.....being a private business and all.

The point is, don't come on my property - physical or virtual - unless you don't have a problem with your behavior being observed while you're there.
A protocol without considering the possibility of insane counterpart is doomed to DDoS the systems that utilize it.
There's been content aware fill for a long time:
https://youtu.be/Ge9jsJZ3lA0?t=245
It's not the same backing tech but for practical purposes it's as good.
Creating proteins for biological research.
There is a difference between state investments and private investments...or better said between private investors and a communist state "investor"
>>Like many other aspiring early retirees, Daniel also made lucky investments in cryptocurrency. “The crypto lottery forwarded my timetable by five, ten years.”

He also got very lucky.

Assuming no cryptocurrency optionality, even if it took him up to 25 years to diligently save and invest, ceteris paribus he would still be able to retire around age 50. The only catch is that family formation can be quite expensive unless you get extremely lucky and find a life-long partner who shares the same frugal mentality.

Finding said partner is much, much harder than it sounds.
Yeah, as some here have pointed out, the topics are aimed a bit toward younger/less technical audiences, so it's perhaps not like your typical reading material.

I should also note that reading ease is an important (but difficult to measure) piece of this as well. So if it felt better for you, then it might be worth trying out the browser plugin and then trying the reading challenge again. There could be a little bit of a learning curve, as your eyes adjust to how quickly you can jump from line to line.
Well that applies to every task, not just to problem solving. "Work hard" doesn't imply "neglect your wife and kids".
That's honestly what I was thinking while reading this. Shamans, and other types who are extremely skilled with meditation have control over their minds and bodies that is extraordinary. They can navigate dream states, explore their own bodily function, and perhaps even go to places we can't imagine.

Certain drugs like DMT, Mushrooms, or LSD are essentially performance enhancing drugs when it comes to those powers of meditation, and they allow ordinary folks a glimpse of what the human mind/body is capable of.
PSA: Facebook looks at what websites you visit in an incognito window, provided that the incognito window is open the same time as a regular browser.
Of course I do. It is one of the reasons I do not have a TV.

If there was a plain choice between without ads and with (probably at different prices), I could accept them as a transaction I have accepted. But such choices are often not available, they are bundled in with a bunch of other choices.
For Word and Writer there are PDFs and unless you want my edits you should be sending PDFs rather than docs.
Video game mods and hacks?

I mean, I know plenty of people working in web development and app development, but I still think the people writing assembly for a system that's not been in development for a decade or two are doing pretty damn well at it. Doing anything particularly complicated with ASM is both tricky and tedious as all hell.
I have a similar opinion to the early retirement movement as DHH [0]:

> One of the other underlying pillars of this dream was the concept of Never Having To Work Again. Like somehow an eternity of leisure was going to provide the existential bliss I had been longing for all along. I thought about that a lot. I did all the math: Hey, if I stuff all the money in a prudent mix of stock and bonds, I should be able to live a comfortable, if not extravagant, lifestyle until the end of my days without lifting another finger.

> [...] What kept moving the needle, though, was programming Ruby, building Basecamp, writing for Signal v Noise, taking pictures, and enjoying all the same avenues of learning and entertainment my already privileged lifestyle had afforded me for years in advance.

Or PG, even [1]:

> If you work hard at being a bond trader for ten years, thinking that you'll quit and write novels when you have enough money, what happens when you quit and then discover that you don't actually like writing novels?

Why would I live frugally and work at a job I dislike for a considerable chunk of my best years just so that I can then live frugally and have no idea what else to do? (if I didn't dislike it, I wouldn't want to stop doing it).

[0] https://m.signalvnoise.com/the-day-i-became-a-millionaire-55...

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/love.html
I like neither python nor JS, by my experience is more like the parents. Once you step outside of the highly optimized C that much of the standard python is written in, it is not a very fast language.

V8 has been running many many laps around cpython for the use cases I have been using it for, and PyPy has generally been slightly slower.
My number one complaint about University Courses. We didn't spend a single minute doing what most of my job consists of: reading someone elses code and trying to decipher what the heck they were trying to do.
"hacker news becomes more interesting to people who want to have the sort of ideological conversations that eventually drown out the interesting stuff about tech and startups."

Unless you are the one starting said ideological conversations?
GPU architecture, CPU architecture and high performance computing.
I've had 2 very lucid dreams (when I was in high school and had a crush on this one girl) and in both I tried to make out with her and stuff but woke up right before anything good happened. Damn excitement. lol
Ok, let me make sure I understand. The goal is to live extremely frugally while you work so that you can retire very early and continue to live extremely frugally?

Why?

I don't hate working, and it allows me to fund my hobbies. If I wanted more free time I would just quit and do my own thing for a year. And many of my friends from college have done that.

Maybe saving for retirement is the point. And the fun comes from attempting to accomplish that. I can understand, and thus respect that.
Stress Testing – Go Ahead and Crash Your Site
I don't see it. Working at Toys R Us may not have been great, fine, but it sure beats pissing in bottles in a sweltering/freezing Amazon warehouse.

Amazon is a lot more profitable than Toys R Us ever was but that doesn't mean they make the job market, let alone society, healthier.
Still not clear to me what "code-free programming" means. Wix with some plugins?

The website says you're looking at paying $100k+ if you want "fully custom responsive design". Seems designed to prey on people who don't understand tech...
"The guarantees typically require shoppers to provide proof of a lower advertised price on an identical item in stock at a nearby competitor’s store before a price match will be approved. However, many big-box retailers work directly with manufacturers and sell products with unique model numbers. As a result, the retailer can deny a price-match request, as no other store carries an "identical" item. Other common reasons for denial: the competitor is not "local," the ad lists a percent discount rather than a specific price, or the customer doesn't offer acceptable proof of the competitor's price.[9] Even if all criteria are met, retailers grant price-matching requests on a case-by-case basis at the discretion of store employees."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price-based_selling#Price-matc...
In the late 1990s IBM Lotus Notes / Domino ran on multiple platforms and worked fine for CRUD applications with disconnected clients, concurrent clients modifying shared data, unreliable database connections, clients with arbitrary screen dimensions, and multiple human languages. The underlying architecture was a bit ugly but it worked.

As an industry we have absolutely regressed in many ways. Web application make distribution easy but almost everything else is worse.
in addition to that, wouldn't it have access to the MAC addresses of the wifi networks around you, and more importantly, be able to do a geo-ip check?
Creating a GraphQL Application with Node.js and a NoSQL Database
Product and Framework thinkers: When developers and UXers don’t get each other
Quantum annealing using the D-Wave.
I think the closest we have to this at the moment is Apple Pay -- and I presume Samsung/Google pay work the same way -- where the card number for a given transaction is changed every X number transactions.
The FTC has sent out a warning about these calls targeting the Chinese community pretending to be the embassy.

"The Federal Trade Commission warned this week that mobile spam calls are now targeting the Chinese community in the US, with the robocaller pretending to be from the Chinese Embassy. The messages range from asking the recipient to pick up a package or document from a Chinese Consulate office and offering to exchange yuan to dollars, to the Embassy investigating a fraud and requiring personal information to avoid deportation.

The FTC believes these calls are targeting Chinese immigrants or callers with Chinese last names, but in recent weeks, the practice has reached numbers across the US regardless of who the number is registered to. Like other spam calls, the incoming number appear to be similar to the recipient’s own phone number, or spoofs the Chinese Embassy’s real phone number which begins with (212) 244. In addition to calls, the FTC warns that similar scams may also be targeting users via WeChat"

https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/22/17267970/ftc-robot-scam-c...
Yeah, seriously, the author is nuts. I've got a 5-year old and I can't remember the last time I've been to Toys R Us. She knows how to pick stuff out on Amazon; for trinkets there's Target, and a lot of her "toys" now are on her iPad/digital. Suburban big-box retail stores aren't a growth area, and toy stores selling Chinese-made junk are probably among the worst situated. Unlike, e.g. clothes or food, there is little value in being able to look at the thing before you buy (the kid probably wants it because its branded so it doesn't matter whether the actual toy is crap or not).
Self Racing Cars
> There are plenty of ways to do it and one way that has worked well for me is in practicing TDD

Unless you're talking about the default state of failing tests when no implementation exists, I'm a bit confused as to how TDD helps with interface design.
You know what they say in the fine print - past performance is not a guarantee of future results...
If you have a C++ compiler that works, you should be fine. I've never had an issue installing a package that isn't, in fact, a C++ issue.

Meanwhile, Python versioning of plugins is really broken, unless you use virtual environments. Maven seems to be fairly hard to integrate with IDEs (Eclipse seems to come bundled with a separate one, not sure about IntelliJ). Most other package managers I use don't have enough packages to be as useful.
Got a number that they’re calling from? I can check our (Nomorobo) database and see if there’s anything coming through.
It is also as dystopian as it gets.
One of the tenants of FIRE that I hear is "create the life you want to live, then save for it". Nobody is saying to not try writing novels in spare time during career!
I used Hyper for a little while a few months ago and thought it was okay. Still prefer iTerm for daily use.

One thing that it’s amazing at, though, is taking promotional screenshots. It hides the OS bar by default, plus looks just generally great.

For instance:
https://github.com/snapcrafters/fkill
That article links to a much more important article: "What caused the retail apocalypse?"[1] In the US, malls are dying, because the middle class that supported them is dying off. Toys-R-Us operated in malls and sold non-necessity goods. That business is dead.

The direction US brick-and-mortar retail is headed is dollar stores at one end and luxury goods at the other, with little in between. Dollar General opens about 900 stores a year.

[1] http://theweek.com/articles/697378/what-caused-retail-apocal...
I wish scientific journals would start encouraging “human language”, as opposed to impenetrable thickets of mathematical gobbledygook. When I was still in academia, reading papers germane to my field was a chore. It would take considerable time to decipher a complex looking mathematical equation, only to go, “oh, they just mean X.” Basically as soon as I saw a \Sum sign, I knew the equation was pointless peacocking.

This is something I hope to see gain traction with the new gust of open wind blowing through scientific reporting. Open results, accessible results, means more than just the accessibility of the PDF, if you ask me. Publicly funded research has a duty to be readable and understandable by the public, who paid for it.

Or, at the very least, not more opaque than strictly necessary.
Apparently, they are ramping up because they’re working, unfortunately: millions of dollars have been scammed from mostly older Chinese immigrants over the past few months as a result of these calls.
I had the fascinating experience of sitting in on a high school English class during my time in Beijing. One of the common assignments was to practice speaking by calling American phone numbers that students in the intro programming classes had scraped from the internet. With exams coming up it's possible that students are making phone calls on their own to get practice.

But seriously, what kind of question is this?
Good is in the eye of the beholder. And I was intentionally implying hundreds of users. If - this is the majority of APIs - there are only a couple users it isn't worth the effort to make the API good. When there are hundreds or thousands of users it becomes worth the time to start at a whiteboard and design the API, a few hours up front now can save minutes in the future and those minutes add up.

What you are missing is that TDD gets you to AN answer, but it gives you no information that you got the best answer. TDD does make some bad design choices hard or obvious; but there are other times where that there was a better choice isn't obvious.

Bottom up and top down are very different design considerations. You can get bad APIs in either one. You can do TDD with either.

I'm a fan of TDD and use it. However I'm not blind to the limits.
Kialo: Explore debates
> I don't hate working

You answered your own question right away. Apparently, these people hate working more than they like being less frugal. I've had to be frugal to get by and it does become sort of like a game, where you are always trying to optimize your savings and
tradeoffs. However, the stress involved with making these decisions and worrying about money made me appreciate working and making a good income, and I prefer this balance for now.
I believe in the rap game this magic number is called "Fuck You Money". It means freedom from a lot of things.
I have a 415 number and began receiving these a few weeks ago.
Do you have a NYC number? Or is this happening across the US? I've been getting them for a couple of months now and there was just a post on the NYC subreddit the other day talking about it. I thought I was the only one, and since I don't speak Mandarin, I assumed someone just accidentally gave my number to a Chinese business of some sort.
I also think your explanation here isn't exactly what happened, at least from what I gathered. What I read it as whas "We stop all people in expensive cars at this checkpoint and validate their income." So society wasn't ok discriminating against him because he was black, they were ok discriminating against him because he was in a nice car.
> If it's being regurgitated so much, perhaps it is a "real world" problem to be solved.

I don't think most people deny that it's a problem or that it needs to be fixed. But completely blown out of proportion with Breitbart-esque fear-mongering is something that needs to stop. People still talk about "leftpad" as if it wasn't fixed the same day, sometimes as if it were never fixed, sometimes even as if it isn't even possible to write software in NodeJS. I haven't seen a fair and factual comparison chart of npm vs pip vs crate vs composer, and I'm calling BS that the majority of this "concern" is anything more than trendy JavaScript-Hate until I see one.
"Recent controversy over Facebook Inc.'s hunger for personal data has surfaced the notion that the online advertising industry could be hazardous to our privacy and well-being."

The NYT can publish stories centering on this notion despite being ??% reliant on said online advertising in order to stay in business.

Would Google (or Facebook) publish similar warnings against the annoyances and harms of online advertising despite being 98% reliant on said online advertising in order to stay in business?

How strong an argument is "Newspapers use trackers in their online editions therefore any news they publish about tracking has no educational value." (or is somehow compromised in some way)

Did newspapers have a choice in whether they chose to participate in the www as we see it today (overrun with advertising and fraudulent, insidious tactics)?

If yes, what was the choice?

What would happen to these newspapers if they failed to "cooperate" with Google?
Do consultants not get "You've not been working for the past X months/years, how should we trust you've been keeping pace in tech?"
I like the price tag. It's ballsy
> One software engineer wanted to hit $1 million so she could home-school her future children; another man, who hadn’t bought new sneakers in eight years thanks to Nike’s generous exchange policy, wanted to found a philanthropic enterprise. “I’m not sure,” another person said. Google, his employer, offered sweet perks. “It’s a great 9-to-5, but I want to see what I could do if I got those 45 waking hours per week back.”

Yeah, no fucking way.

Perhaps it makes sense if you don't like working very much. I tend to generally enjoy the work that I do, and love that I can use the money that I make to live in a nice house, to eat at nice restaurants, to travel wherever and save for retirement as well. At a time when most people in this country (US) are facing stagnant or decreasing wages, working in Tech seems to be an unbelievable luxury.
Hi there, OP/author here. It seems to me there's a lot of discussion on HN that touches this topic - one of the latest ones being one about macOS/OS X progress bar app [1] . Here's hoping this might help clarify the discussion in the future. :) Any comments welcome.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16897803
Well, its the age old pragmatism versus idealism dichotomy. One isn't better than the other, except sometimes.
Yes, you're just grumpy.
>Nope. When you enter someone else’s place of business, you have no expectation of privacy.

This is only somewhat true. At the spa for instance, you very much have an expectation of privacy. Practically speaking it is sort of contextual? Even at say a restaurant, I would be both surprised and disconcerted to discovered the business had recorded the entire conversation that occurred at my table, even though I would be unsurprised by a bit of eavesdropping.
Not OP, but I received one of these calls the other day.

Residing in Toronto, Ontario.
This is wrong, even in the United States. There are rare circumstances where a company's property is open to the public to such an extent that they become subject to first amendment restrictions (e.g. Marsh v. Alabama). Some states, such as California, have even greater restrictions on private parties in their state constitution. CA's constitutional speech protections prevent shopping malls from expelling petitioners from their premises, even if the mall disagrees with the speech.

Extending this body of law to, say, Facebook would have problems, of course. But I don't think it's so clear that all sensible adults know that censorship is only something the government does, and are happy letting any corporate behavior, no matter how extreme, pass without scrutiny.
Fusée Gelée, a coldboot vulnerability on Nvidia's Tegra line of embedded CPUs
The main thing I'm thinking of is noise pollution. You think living near an airport is loud? I cannot even imagine what living near a BFR spaceport would be like. For coastal cities maybe it would be worth it to build a landing pad on an ocean platform some miles out to sea, but what about for cities like Atlanta or Beijing? There's nowhere around them to build that isn't already a suburb.
Is it always from the same number? I bet we (Nomorobo) have some recordings that I can dig up.
>Like many other aspiring early retirees, Daniel also made lucky investments in cryptocurrency. “The crypto lottery forwarded my timetable by five, ten years.”

...makes complete sense now.
To be fair. I can't explain it either but when you have the traffic people also click those ads.

Edit:// no idea why I got down voted. I lived of adsense half of 2015 and full 2016. Still don't know why people actually clicked, or why they didn't have a adblock to begin with
Well, this morning I hacked some Python to generate advertising performance metrics....

;-)