skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am all for experimentation and creating something new. But so many of these projects out there are not forks of current projects, they are complete rewrites. Is this because the new project is vastly different? Nope! That is the issue, they aren't extremely different.

The reason this is a problem is because web tech is constantly changing, to the point that so many of these projects end up in the scrap heap far faster than other tech. It causes problems with long term service due to compatibility issues with ever changing dependencies.
I didn't mean to single you or anyone else out. I've seen this sentiment echoed in multiple online forums and as one of them incompetent developers in India, I feel the need to defend myself.
It's amazing to see how some people seem to be sitting on a high horse here and thinking that a HTML5 music player issue is somehow indicative of the work going on behind the scenes.

Granted there are issues in Prime (Which software does not? Either people bitch about a software product or nobody uses it) but the context of the discussion here was comparison between the likes of Amazon and the likes of Cognizant. Tell me which Cognizant or Wipro can execute something like Prime Video in Bangalore and take it to market like Amazon has with even half as much quality?

What is the alternative you are hinting at? That someone should not work for Amazon and work on developing and improving their Prime product just because it has got issues and instead go develop a AJAX-based chat application that does not work on anything other than IE in Cognizant?

Why do you think Amazon pays 4 times the salary Cognizant pays its employees? Because developing something like Amazon Prime at the scale Amazon works at is hard. There are people who enjoy working on such hard problems even if the solution is not perfect.
No idea about tesla, but how do you screw up hand detenction?
A better way to trace neuronal pathways
Does anyone smart think the Tariffs are good for the average person?

I thought thats just the talking heads for the plebs that watch daily news.

I have always understood this as crony capitalism until the economic collapses and they need to pull back these anti-capitalist measures.
No surprise there about it steering into the barrier or Tesla not-quite-lying about him getting warnings, but I'm surprised that he apparently wasn't dead on impact but survived all the way to the hospital?

So even a three-car pileup with the Tesla steering straight into a barrier at 71MPH & accelerating, with the car catching on fire & being reduced to a husk, still isn't enough to kill a driver immediately. In a way, you could interpret that as demonstrating how safe Teslas are (at least, without Autopilot).
That is.. quite impossible. He's living off additional savings or a mooch or homeless.
Without commenting on the rest of the issues with Musk/Tesla, his tweet about a news verification agency was a joke. Verifiably. It was nicknamed Pravda, and a corporation related to his tweet was registered to Musk on Oct 17 2017, the anniversery of the October Revolution.
> His hands were not detected on the steering wheel for the final six seconds prior to the crash.

> Tesla has said that Huang received warnings to put his hands on the wheel, but according to the NTSB, these warnings came more than 15 minutes before the crash.

> Tesla has emphasized that a damaged crash attenuator had contributed to the severity of the crash.

These may or may not have been factors contributing to the death of the driver, and ultimately may or may not absolve Tesla from a legal liability.

However, the key point here is that without question, the autopilot failed.

It is understandable why Tesla is focusing on the liability issue. This is something that they can dispute. The fact that the autopilot failed is undisputable, and it is unsurprising that Tesla is trying to steer the conversation away from that.

The discussion shouldn't be either the driver is at fault or Tesla screwed up, but two separate discussions: whether the driver is at fault, and how Tesla screwed up.
Most European countries use pre-paid, with iPhone only available with contracts or prices that many cannot afford to pay.

So many times Android is the only option given budget options.

Windows Phone used to be the alternative and was about 10% when Microsoft killed it.
These articles are talking about the reward loop of getting new content every time you refresh, and you're misrepresenting that to presumably make a point about pull-to-refresh, which is completely unrelated.
I think your privilege may be showing. Estimates are that there's around 3.6 billion airline passengers a year. That's not unique or international passengers, that's all passengers. When you factor in that most passengers fly several times a year, and most flights are domestic, that means international travelers are a privileged minority. Employees of international companies usually work for the local branch of said company as well, and are paid relative to local salaries not relative to all the companies salaries.

>Products like mobile phones are going to have similar prices around the globe.

This is a false assumption, and why controlling for purchasing power is important. Even expensive electronics don't have the same base price everywhere and local costs can add a significant amount. The overwhelming majority of consumer purchases cannot take advantage of international travel to countries with lower costs and better exchange rates. Even when they can, duties may apply when trying to bring things back. If it was so easy everyone would do it and the laws would have to be rewritten to prevent it.

>If you can buy a house in your country for 2,000 dollars. I can also buy a house in your country at that price.

This is also a false assumption, many countries have laws limiting foreign ownership and unused real estate, and getting credit for a home purchase can be even harder. The vast majority of homes are the primary residence of the people who own them, having a cheap second home in elsewhere does nothing for them
The vast majority of comments that I’ve seen outside of HN have been pro Microsoft.

I guess HN is a Microsoft-free “safezone” for SV bubblers.
That there are more openings than workers does not mean that every potential worker experiences the same hireability. The entire issue here is that hiring biases towards a certain type of person and against another.

A woman may struggle to find a job while an equally qualified man does not. The woman may exit the industry. She does not become part of the 'pool' unless she stays.

This is how pushing for diversity in hiring can expand the pool of available workers, and how a company hiring marginalized people can be doing something other than cannibalizing other hirers (because those other employers are not bothering).
How The New York Times Uses Software to Recognize Members of Congress
Faking KYC is fraud. Doing it to open a securities account is securities fraud. E-mailing it is wire fraud. Et cetera.
Nyc can be cheap if you share an apartment with someone and live in any borough but manhattan.
They try to sell it, but not all pockets can afford it, thus being the only choice around southern and east European countries.
No, what makes a business a startup is that it is in the processing of "starting up" its business activities (meaning those activities which are intended to generate revenue).

Most businesses succeed in making it to that point within a few weeks or months (though not necessarily to a point of profitability).
The Age of Tech Superheroes Must End
URLs can be relative and absolute paths like HTML supports, they don't have to hit the network. This still leaves room for a package manager, but it has to put packages in known places, or resolve imports at install time.
The struggle never really goes away and you have to accept that. You will have peaks where you're excited about something and super productive working late and then valleys where you go weeks feeling way less productive.

Life will find ways to make you have to change your strategy over and over, but I think that's more about being human than anything to do with where you decide to work.
Yeah. The consumer optimum is heavily exploited workers, as that drives labor costs down as much as possible. We're looking for a reasonable balance, so the value created by labor is shared between consumer, producer, and the many other people in the value chain.
Speak for yourself, ive seen inflation numbers around 4% since 2001.

The only reason consumer goods are the same cost is because the exponential increase in technology and productivity.
The probably count mortgages and student loans as negative wealth, and they probably count houses as positive wealth, but they probably don't count degrees as positive wealth even though they should.
Yes, of course.

If it turns out that the number of contracts canceled is much less, then it changes the calculations completely.

If it turns out that this story is completely bogus and the "cancelled" contracts were already going to be canceled before the tariffs and the delayed contracts end up going through, then that means there was actually no effect.
Microsoft got in trouble for giving IE away for free and embedding it in their OS so customers couldn't get rid of it and choose another option.
The NTSB report confirms that. The crash attenuator—an accordion-like barrier that's supposed to cushion a vehicle when it crashes
into the lane separator—had been damaged the previous week when a Toyota Prius crashed at the same location.
The resulting damage made the attenuator ineffective and likely contributed to Huang's death.

kinda sounds like maybe that part of the road isn't well designed or marked too.
Totally agree. Trying to shortcut sleep is to misunderstand what happens in your brain while you are asleep. Your brain uses sleep to run processes akin to garbage collection, pathway reinforcement, and wide-range association building. It's a critical step in complex problem solving. If you're working on a problem during the day, then have a good night's sleep, you will typically find it easier to think about the problem or come up with a solution the following day.
Yeah but there's a trade off with that. I'd imagine labor isn't as cheap as it used be(especially in China).
>I'm not even able to create pull requests!

I am very curious to see the details of this. I use bitbucket in a regular basis and it does provide PR functionality

Update: In case someone hasn't found it before: https://confluence.atlassian.com/bitbucket/create-a-pull-req...
Young people tend to have less assets than old people. Graduate from college with the median debt (~30K) and now you have net negative worth for a while. But this does not mean you're poor, and it certainly correlates with much higher net worth when older.

Buy a car, which now has immediately lost value (in general), and you may have negative net worth for some time. But this is not bad, nor is it long term poor.

As such, I don't think wanting everyone's net worth to be the average value of a car is realistic. Maybe averaged over a lifetime, or some such non-time-static metric would be better.
I star repos when I want to bookmark them. I plan to use it in the future or am interested in reading through the source.

There are many factors, "stars" among the more important and obvious ones. It indicates that this project was popular at one time for one reason or another. There's not enough info in the "stars" alone to draw any more conclusions without looking at other factors (although I am biased and favor a project with a lot of stars without looking at any other factors).

Other factors that I will consider:

* How old is the last commit? (is this actively maintained)

* How many contributors? (have multiple developers reviewed and worked on this code base)

* How many open issues (vs how many closed issues)?

* When was the last issue resolved? (also actively maintained)

* Are there CI tests built in and are they passing?

* Is there test coverage reported and is it acceptable?

I'll also:

* read through a few issues, make sure no one is saying "This does not build" etc.

* scroll through some of the dependencies (badges can help by indicating if the dependencies are out of date).
Yes, I agree that the number sounds great to me. People forget that 70% of the world's population lives on less than $10/day. When you're making $100k+ at your fancy first world tech job maybe $2300 sounds terrible. But when $2300 is 230 days pay, it's amazing. And that number has got to be really high from a historical standpoint, since historically there was really only royalty and abject poverty.
It would be completely consistent for more money => more happiness for each individual person, but for differences in happiness between people to be dominated by non-monetary factors (personality, relationships, local culture, etc.). The problem is that you probably can't make that hunter-gatherer much richer without completely changing the culture they live in.
> Most of the US captives in India will never send their most important product line to India.
...
> it is just maintenance of a product line which will be phased out.

This is unfortunate and, most of the time, true. I do wish we had better work coming here.
> to the house they have payments on for ~50 years

Yeah, but the house itself is most likely worth at least the same as the loan.
self driving systems cant well reason about untrained scenarios or the intent of other humans on the road. I think the people have grossly underestimated how driving in an uncontrolled environment is really a general AI problem, which we're not even close to solving.
But real estate debt is only good if you can afford it and you buy smart. I know a lot of people who bought a house and sold it later for less even after all the payments because they bought it high and sold it low.

Furthermore, if you pay for something very long, you are also going to be paying a lot of interest. You wouldn’t be paying that long if you could afford it and you would be getting a better credit rate if you could afford it.

Unfortunately not everybody is able to invest smartly and thus good debt easily becomes bad debt. It doesn’t help that most people potray reale estates as good debt because they really aren’t that good unless you know what you are doing.
Recently I talked with my cousin, who is also a software engineer, about dependent types, contract programming, invariants, and all that. Among other things I've told him about "type-safe printf" that you can write in Idris. He then asked me, why are there only purely functional languages with this feature. I had no actual answer.

So, does anybody know, why there still isn't a "C/Go/Java with dependent types"? There is support for runtime checking via invariants in e.g. D, but no pre-compile-time checker.

Another question, is there (probably commercial) software that allows you to augment your code with invariant annotations and then check them as a pre-compilation step?
It is a business whereby politicians buy votes.
Oh, OK so you’re not going to say anything to people who are fucking putting all the anti-Microsoft bullshit out there and just say something to me because I disagreed?
A joke? It's verifiable because he said he might name it Pravda, and the fact that he actually registered it is further evidence that it's a joke?

I'm not saying he's really going to do it, but I question your certainty here with a total lack of actual evidence.
And that doesn't mean a thing for the value of an individual Bitcoin. Just like the USD, it's worth something because people say it's worth something.
Been using Haxe for a webgame project and thus far have been blown away by the functionality and features available as well as the community.
To put some numbers on it, at the end of 2016, average US utility-scale PV O&M costs were $18,000 per megawatt-AC per year (and still falling rapidly):

https://www.solarpowerworldonline.com/2017/09/berkeley-labs-...

Average capacity factor for utility scale solar PV is 27% in the US:

https://www.eia.gov/electricity/monthly/epm_table_grapher.ph...

That would put O&M costs at

18000 / (24 * 365 * 0.27) = $7.60 per megawatt hour, out of a total price quoted by epistasis of $30-$32 per megawatt hour. O&M could be up to 25% of total costs. It is indeed, a significant part of total costs. It is also a smaller fraction of total costs dedicated to O&M than wind or fossil power (including fuel in O&M).
Andrew, if you're listening, add some higher thresholds on Patreon, you'd be surprised. Someone who's willing to give you money (any amount, even $1) is probably also willing to give you $5 or $10 (impulse spending, basically).
Smaller share of workers in the gig economy today than before Uber existed
The article is reporting on an unspecified question asked of unspecified developers. It's another version of "people are saying..." which Fox News popularized. It's just not satisfying without some other detail - like what question they asked or who they talked to.

Edit: read the article to this point [0] which I had assumed was the end to see why I said what I said.

[0]: https://i.imgur.com/9uI6zbt.png
My suspicion: you're working with outsourcing consulting teams. The best engineers are locked up in the companies that actually hire there. Google, Microsoft Research, LinkedIn, etc. If you're not doing the actual hiring you're just getting talked into buying a team built for cheap.

Disclaimer: LinkedIn Employee. Our Banglore team isn't noticably different skill wise than our SV team.
Musk prefers to lie to the public and benefits from the disintermediation of the media that various Internet distribution channels have allowed. Tesla often makes clearly false statements. SpaceX, when part of their heavy lift rocket crashed into the ocean, cut away from that scene to a shot of two happy smiling spokesmodels pretending to not know what had happened. Today what we need more than we ever needed it is skepticism, journalism, and vigorous investigation. You can’t take anything these companies are saying at face value.
There's a reason that governments created by the imperial English tend to last well after it's been divested as a colony. They put in a government that really, only the government needs to know the mechanics of.
Brain Science Ascends an Intellectual Mount Everest
It's based off measuring torque on the steering column, not some sort of (say) heat or pressure sensors on the wheel itself.

So, having your hands on the wheel and not moving them can be sensed by the Tesla as "not having your hands on the wheel".
There is at least this comment in the docs:

> Zig is taking cues from Jai's stance on allocators, since that language is being developed by a high-performance game designer for the usecase of high-performance games."

https://github.com/ziglang/zig/wiki/Why-Zig-When-There-is-Al...
A doctor has to declare a person dead, paramedics can't do it. In all cases it makes sense to transport the body to the hospital where the person is pronounced dead by the doctor. Otherwise the family may argue in court the paramedics did not try enough to save the person.
I was about to mention "Jugaad" in my original comment - my dad talks about the concept proudly all the time. I am sort of proud of it, but also hate the conniving aspect of many jugaads!
I tend to lean more towards the classic introvert where too much interaction will tire me out after a while, but I make sure to spend time with people I care about on the weekends to balance things out and that's usually the right balance. My week is devoted to work and taking care of the kids, which I love too.

I still go through peaks and valleys of how much outside interaction I'm craving though.
About the tech bro (and less of the successful CEO) problem, I think it is getting out of hand. Service workers (waiters, drivers, etc) in SF complain constantly of their behavior. What's funny its that it's usually the new blood, junior devs that behave like this. Why do they think they are kings of the world if they are on the lowest chain in the tech world? I want to sympathize with them but just can't understand their thought process. Also I've had issues with them, I saw a group of tech bros touching all the keyboards of the Computer History Museum, they don't even respect their own history or are grateful of why they are here to begin with. Maybe it's just that enough people are in tech now that we have a percentage of bad apples by pure stats. It worries me, since we are getting stereotyped by what I hope is a loud minority.
Sure they can. Virtually nothing is DNSSEC-signed. And if you're using someone else's DNSSEC server, and not running your own server on your own machine, the link between you and your DNS server is completely unprotected.
> They show him in a period of intense rethinking of his cosmological views in the light of Edwin Hubble's recent evidence in favour of an expanding universe, an idea that Einstein had hitherto opposed.

interesting. i had been under the impression that Einstein had initially felt that Hubble's findings confirmed his ideas.
Can the US even manufacture panels? I was under the impression our infrastructure had almost completely gone away over the last 10 years with the rise of cheap Chinese panels. And would we even be able to produce them at a competitive price with the tariffs, anyways? Would we even want to? The margins are tiny, it's a commodity product. Highly doubtful.

I'm seriously baffled here as to who is supposed to benefit from this. The only possibility is some kind of misguided attempt at forestalling the draw down of fossil fuels, which is inevitable.
Same here, I've started 2 or 3 times and not liked any of my own implementations, this might actually be useful to me tonight.
I think everyone would be worse off unless companies are forced to pay. I am pro UBI, I just thought the guy was being crazy by hoping for something to never happen in his lifetime that is happening every day and has been for a while
Russia may lack the funds to compete with SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket
You have to define "wealth" if you want a worthwhile answer. After all, debt is a component of a person's assets.

If you remember your accounting courses: assets are equal to the sum of all liabilities and equity. Meaning mortgage debt and home equity combine to form your total home assets. A person may have $1m in assets and $900k in liabilities. Or a person could have $200k in assets but $50k in liabilities. Which person is more "wealthy".

I suppose its a matter of opinion because, after all, we haven't defined a goal. Is a low debt to equity ratio desirable? Depends on what you're trying to accomplish. Is high cash flow desirable? As an end state, yes that's desirable but what if that end state requires a large amount of debt to achieve?
I think you may fall into the category of people I was referring to, if you think $45k for a slow, base model car is no big deal.
This presumes that law enforcement always represent the enforcement of ethically correct directives. This is demonstrably not the case, and categorically deferring to them is likely ethically irresponsible.
CoreRT – A .NET Runtime for AOT
That's the experience of 99.999% of all startups.
Learned something new, thanks a lot.
As someone who is leaving Austin soon, this hits... home. And it just took enough life experience to arrive at this conclusion.
Rails :(. Would be interested to see how it fairs using the most up to date rails/ruby versions
>It really isn't all that awesome

70% of the world's population lives on less than $10/day. And that is a significant improvement over most of history. If it's really half of the world that has $2300 that sounds very promising to me. I guess "awesome vs not awesome" really amounts to "compared to what?" Compared to the fantasy in my head of how life could be, it's terrible. Compared to real world history, it sounds pretty good.
The eastern plains of Colorado are a pretty good place for solar I think. No trees, not much vegetation, lots and lots and lots of space that's not being used for anything today.