skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
American here. "Anglo", as you might call it.

As other commenters have mentioned, perhaps not outright, your comment carries a great deal of racist undertones.

I've travelled a bit through Europe and have travelled through Mexico for around 1.5 years.

I love Mexico, it's culture, and its people. Like all people, they largely wish to have a happy life.

With that said, each individual should be judged off their personal merit.

In many ways I feel there is a great deal of similarities between Mexican and American culture, in particular (and perhaps ironically) when comparing Mexico to the American South.

To counter your point, I've seen just as much racism and classism among Mexicans/Latin people as I have Americans (many Mexicans are quick to point out that they are also "American". This is technically correct)

Personal anecdote: I was sitting at a house party with some friends for Mexico's Independence Day.

I met someone new, we exchanged pleasantries, and the next words out of his mouth were "I don't really like your people" after he found I was American.

This conversation ended amicably after I asked him how he would view me if I'd say the same thing about Mexicans. He reconsidered his point.

Anyhoo, judge people off their individual behavior, not based on the color of their skin.
I don't think working for a big, well funded startup will be that much different than a big corp in terms of work life balance, stability etc.
You have mass firings in Microsoft too.
200k is not hard to get in the bay if you have more than 4/5 years experience in a similar position or more than 8/9 years experience in the industry. For most unicorns that's the 75% percentile for base compensation in Sr. Software Engineer roles.

Edit for data: base at Google is 191k so I'm not that off with my estimation https://www.paysa.com/salaries/google--senior-software-engin...
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Not a propitious number for a blockchain company ;-)
Hopefully the guy has given up on the constant <wink>ing, heh.
AI could get 100 times more energy-efficient with IBM’s new artificial synapses
I have recently removed the habit of 'relentless skill acquisition' in favor of meditation. If I had a spare 20 minutes I used to practice various skills that I wanted to become good at. While this is probably better than mindlessly ingesting social media or the internet, it has the unique problem of allowing one's identity to get caught up in how good at skill acquisition one can get, and also requires concentration, which is not quite as beneficial to the mind as meditation. The side benefit to this is that it amazingly reduces spending in support of hobbies, which was an ancillary budgetary concern. In short, if you stop visualizing yourself as 'good at something' and then needing to purchase the gear in support of that hobby, you save a lot of cash.
Yeah, that's what always makes me uncomfortable about diversity efforts. Diversity? Sure, that sounds good. How you propose to get there? Ummm... not so sure about that. If you go back to the origin of the term "white privilege" as coined by Peggy McIntosh (in 1989, mind you, not 1972), you'll find that she defends to concept with such dubious claims as "being able to find music that represents your group" is a concrete example of "white privilege". Almost all of her examples are essentially unverifiable - yet, the solution (to white or male privilege) is always to replace intangible, nebulous advantages with very specific, concrete disadvantages.
Researchers find IQ scores dropping since the 1970s
Cardiovascular exercises: use a heartbeat monitor and check that the frequency is within a certain range during the exercise (you can look up how to find the range on the internet). This way, you will not be pushing yourself over your limit.

Weight lifting exercises: choose a weight such that you can do the exercise 12 times (reps) correctly without getting exhausted/fatigued. Then correctly do 4-5 sets of that exercise, with 1-2 minutes between the sets. Optionally increase the weight a little between sets, and reduce the number of reps so that you can do at least 8 reps in the last set.
Sure, I just don't think that kind of thing is 'usual'.
I've always been an engineer and enjoyed being that for almost 25 years now. Learning new things was kind of my way to end my work days.

One thing I admired and never really understood was people that went out every day posting new content, tech tutorials etc. almost daily, being active on Twitter, engaging with other people. Being a kid from the 1970s these things were really weird for me because they are digital and not analog.

So I decided to actually try it out and try living as one of the guys producing helpful tutorials and engaging/mentoring on Twitter and other platforms.

I think it might be a great habit to cultivate because it pretty much fits into moving beyond my comfort zone.

Would be nice to hear from others who tried this thing and hear if it actually was rewarding. For now, I just suspect it will pay off in the long run.

[1]: https://twitter.com/marenkay/status/1006286995767877634
[2]: https://marenkay.com/2018/06/11/symfony-user-provider/
> Coal and oil can pretty much only be economically obtained from fossil sources.

Given that vegetable oil can be used in a Diesel engine after being used for deep fat frying fish and chips, and given we currently over-produce food to the point that obesity is one of our largest health issues, I’m going to have to [citation needed]-you on that.
Would like to add making your own water Kefir to the list as a replacement for soda. Super inexpensive, relatively easy, really healthy, and tasty.
It's great to hear interest in this area - the more places I can run Erlang/Elixir, the more likely I am to use it even in the places it can traditionally run (it's a more useful language to me if I can use the same codebase everywhere).

If you are looking to make an embedded focused VM, obviously ARM is the most useful target to run on.
it makes strategic sense. We've seen a slow process of javascript getting more and more responsibility and effectively direct control over the data returned from services. So a specification that allows control down to property level selection is a natural extension of this pattern.
I don't think you really understand GDPR if you think that you can just "store" the information and be compliant.

It's not only about what data you store.

It's about how the data is stored and who has and can get access to it.

The fact that they stored it in excel files is already a big red flag.
I'm pretty sure that the Catholic church employs many fathers and sisters.
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I think the misunderstanding here is that you're talking about now: "solar is 1.3% of our electric production", "coal is still the biggest source", etc. This, I believe, is missing the point of the article.

The importance of noting that solar is the biggest source of new power is that is signifies the economics of power generation have changed. So sure, there's still lots of coal and there's still lots of natural gas. But if you're adding new capacity we're at the point where it makes more sense to build large solar arrays.

So in a sense, this article is noting the beginning of the end for coal and natural gas. The present percent contribution of solar or coal is not so important.
you want a stupid little law like that overturned get a petition and take it to your local city counsel.
Yes, but you don't store it in plain text using excel files.
Pleasantly surprised, I thought clicking through would lead to something much grosser.
I stopped playing Heroes of the Storm and any games that aren't relaxing. If I am going to take some time off and play a game, I just play a simple retro console game. Play sessions are 15 minutes instead of 4+ hours. Not worried about "losing" or being griefed, etc. I don't care about "getting to the next level" or "opening up a loot crate" or any of that gamification / skinner-box stuff anymore.
Ofcom (i.e., UK government-approved regulatory and competition authority for the broadcasting, telecommunications and postal industries of the United Kingdom) mandates that for the BBC: 50% of leadership roles to be held by women by 2020.

http://www.thedrum.com/news/2017/10/13/ofcom-sets-new-ground...

With an infinite supply of talent and availability this will work. But the world isn't quite like that. Lots of women don't aspire to work 80 hours a week at full capacity over and above other life choices. Moreover, will gender trump merit on occasion? Who can doubt it?
Stretching in the evenings. Lower back pain is almost completely gone, range of motion in my neck is expanded.
Same here! Keto + eating at evenings only + StrongLifts.com. Improved my mood, my energy levels. I feel so much better with it and every time I slip and do a cheat-day I do feel really awful after. Cannot imagine going back to eating any sugars now.
Note the above is not totally correct, LINQ-to-SQL can be used as an ORM if required (i.e. is not restricted to one-to-one mappings from tables to classes).
That life is absurd and fortune can bring death as easily as peace.

It’s my fault for not putting more time into my comment; it’s more about finding a scenario that scares you: since I also have no fear of poverty or sickness thinking about that does little for me.

An absurd death scares me so that’s ehy I used that, but if losing life doesn’t scare you, then maiming? Like you get hit by a self driving car and instead of losing your life, you lose both eyes, or both your arms, etc. You are also paralyzed now.

Now it’s very hard to kill yourself. Maybe impossible. But if your mind is still at peace, then you are truly wise, and you’ve made good use of your time in the world.

I would be a horrible and mean wretch if that calamity happened to me. I know I’m a mess, and I couldn’t face that future with any poise or grace.
Replacing alcohol with water, except for occasional social events. Too many times I’d come home dead tired mentally and reach for a cold one, which inevitably led to…another cold one haha. Replace with water (bonus if you add a little apple cider vinegar to it!), you’ll feel better and your body will thank you. No non-social drinking allowed!
This is one of the reasons I'm playing World of Tanks a lot recently rather than PUBG. It can be frustrating sometimes (when I play badly) but it's generally much more relaxing and leaves me in a better mood in the evening.
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I keep reading that tech is not very female-inclusive, and I keep wondering where these people are looking. Maybe San Francisco is different than any of the places I've worked in the past 25 years? I've been all over: deep south, midwest, north texas - I don't know if the gender ratio was 50/50 since I never did a headcount, but I sure remember an awful lot of women in technical roles everywhere I've ever worked. Maybe they're not counting Indian women?
That entirely depends on the income level you're talking, which is the OP's point. If you're making $10 mil and spending $7.5 mil on housing, you probably already have enough rooms to have kids. And even if you didn't, you could surely find room in your remaining $2.5 mil to add a room onto your house or find a slightly bigger place. This obviously does not apply if you're making $50k... Hence why absolutes are relevant.
Could we think about this experiment as a meta-experiment? Zimbardo experimenting on the research community and the public how long we keep something like alive just because it is an attractive story? (I am not defending him!)
By using C++ and Rust obviously ARM was on my mind, and I have plenty of test boards ranging from 192kb to hundreds MB of RAM to experiment with. It just never reached that stage.

The two main ideas were to be different implementation for large machines (ErlangRT) or to be small (E4VM and gluonvm1).
Okay, in December 2017, the US produced 345,939 GWH of electricity, of which 1,476 was solar.

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

If you look at the best spots in the US in December, they seem to get about 4,500 watt hours per square meter per day.

https://www.solar-electric.com/learning-center/general-solar...

So that means we'd need 76,875 square kilometers of solar to match the current generation of the US, not counting losses from storage.

That's between the size of South Carolina, and West Virginia, just coated with solar panels.
I strongly recommend Pimsleur language courses as an addition to Duolingo. They’re especially great if you spend any time in a car.
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Thanks for the advice, I really appreciate it. You've made some great points here.
Heh, I do this too. It’s great after I’ve been staring at a screen for hours, although I also take my glasses off when using a computer because I really only need them
For distance. I definitely feel like it helps my eyes relax a bit more to have my glasses off.
I was trying to convey my intuition in terms OP could relate to. I obviously didn't do a very good job.

I don't care about equality of outcome. Heck, I'm not even sure I care about equality of opportunity. All I care about is efficiency, and privacy is inefficient. This is the main reason I despise it.

It also seems obvious that privacy is unsustainable and likely to disappear in the future. Knowing this, we should prepare for it. I don't see many people talking about this.
Stardew Valley is incredible for this. I can just play an in-game day or two, and it's incredibly chill.
I find blockchains very interesting, at least from a technical point of view. Distributed computing is one of the oldest and hardest problems in computer science.

However, I agree that the EU not take away 340 million from its citizens to spend it on that kind of research. Generally, top-down works very poorly in science and the EU should let the individual countries decide for themselves how the fund their universities.
How Silicon Valley Got Played by Theranos
There is a reason why Twitter ditched Rails in favor of Node.js

LOL if you're going to spout FUD at least spout correct FUD - it was Scala.

There's extra bonus irony that both the service you're advocating switching from (Github) and the competitor people are switching to are written in Ruby.
Reminds me of religious parables. No-one objects to Jesus's parables on the basis of their being factually untrue--they're obviously fiction and that's not a mark against them. On the other hand, the SPE is marketed as empirical science, not spiritual revelation!
>Are there any folks out there who like to get difficult things done without caffeine?

Who would like that?
Text normalization, i.e. the transformation of words from the written to the spoken form. Uh, is this speech synthesis?

145, i.e. "one hundred and forty five". Oh! This is immediately obvious what you're doing.
I'll preface this with the fact that I completely agree with your sentiment.

> it's still not even a physical book (so why so expensive?)

I have never written or published a book, but my understanding is that the cost of writing the book far outweighs the cost of actually printing it. Human time and knowledge is way more costly than some paper and the effort of a machine that spits out books by the second.

> If you pay $289 (which is an absolute absurd price for any book)

This offer and especially the in-person one seem like they are targeting businesses. A lot of places will pay orders of magnitude more to have someone work directly with their employees.

Honestly, about $93/hour is on the cheap side for in-person training. (I'm not saying it's good training or even close to worth it, just what the landscape looks like)

Edit: actually, it would be cheaper than $93/hour since I'm not taking the other things into account. Let's say the book and all the other stuff realistically make up about $150 of the price (I am guessing the $289 is just trying to get you to buy one of the surrounding tiers). That's actually $75/hour for the training.
> Nobody complains that their bedside lamp doesn't deliver the full 2400 W that the wall outlet

I don't think the same information asymmetry exists for lamps that we have in USB C.
I severely cut back on notifications -- down to just a few apps (SMS/messaging, home security, calendar), and it's had a remarkable impact on my phone use.

The other major change I made was to disable badge notifications on all apps. No more little red number telling me how many unread emails I have, etc. This has had a much greater positive impact than I had thought it would -- I don't find myself compulsively drawn into apps by the lure of "new stuff", and have cut down on my screen time considerably.
Background: Mostly startups (10 person, 30 person, 3 person accelerated at Imagine K12) but also large companies (Amazon, Bosch, Oracle)

Pros:
1. Depending on your own personality and the size of the company, regardless of your role you have the opportunity to actually drive direction across the company.
2. While titles aren't important in my opinion, startups do allow you climb the proverbial ladder faster. I became head of engineering 5 years in, that opened doors to skills I didn't think I'd pick up and opportunities I didn't think I'd have until I was 10 years in.
3. It is mighty fun to work in a small team and see results of your work everyday. You care a lot more about customers, product, your team. You learn empathy.

Cons:
1. The stock option sell - lets call it what it is, it is nothing but a justification for a pay cut with the sell of riches in the future. Every time I hear the stock spiel (shpeel?), I nod my head but I forget about it and always try and negotiate a salary that works for me in that I'd be happy to give a lot of my time for that amount of money.
2. If you start your career and remain in a startup for a long time, it is very very difficult to transition to a large company if you want to {political klout, diplomacy, all skills you pick up at a large company are harder to pick up at a small startup}. I found this very hard when I transitioned from startup head of engineering to
management at Amazon and quit within a few months
A job description that uses the phrase "We're looking for someone to manage a team" may seem innocuous enough.

But research has shown that the word "manage" encourages more men than women to apply for the role.

Changing the word to "develop" would make it more female-friendly, says Kieran Snyder

So all you have to do to attract more women to a job is to lie about what the job entails? Maybe jobs for managers put off women because they don't want to be managers.
your implicit assumption is that many men do "aspire to work 80 hours a week at full capacity over and above other life choices". I think that's a big assumption.
This is just sexism. Women should stay in the kitchen in your view I suppose.
I'm skeptical that this book will ever be finished. The last time I bought an unreleased book authored by John Resig it took two and a half years before it was published. If I remember correctly another author had to take over in order to complete it. I'm super interested in GraphQL, but I wouldn't consider purchasing this ebook until it is 100% complete.
Problem solved /s
> but this tax has no direct benefit to the workplace

Which taxes do?
Could you try to rephrase it? As it is, it makes zero sense at all.
This is good for people who are Amazon shareholders and sometimes good for people who are Amazon customers.

There are many people in Seattle who stand to benefit more from having better roads, schools or provision for homeless people. Some of them, shockingly, are not Amazon shareholders or even Amazon customers. Why would they trust Jeff Bezos to help more than even an unusually inept public official with their problems, when providing such services to the people of Seattle without charge is manifestly not in the financial interests of the average Amazon shareholder?
This is actually another game that I have done this in the past with. I would play an in-game day then do some tasks and repeat.
Errata can only be accessed via microtransactions. And loot boxes have a chance to drop full code samples... the F2P version leaves everything as an exercise for the reader.
I moved across the US a year ago, and moving with a single suitcase (until the moving truck arrived, months later) re-taught me how little I need in order to live comfortably.

Since then, I've been aggressively paring back my "material footprint", and every thing I shed makes me feel a little lighter.
Day in the life of a freelance developer and mom
I asked to unpublish it. Please read my top comment.
Longtime DOTA player and I definitely find that I have to take extended breaks from the game from time to time...especially at times like this when Valve is running a compendium and the more toxic players come back into the fold for whatever reason (shinies!).

It's a shame because it's one of the best games I've ever played, but it is a stressful habit that sucks a ton of time .
3 minutes is an arbitrary time limit, you can set it to anything. This forces you to act. Once you get to a flow state you can turn off the program.
So would you be happier if only the $39 price point was available, without any of the extra chapters? Then you wouldn't have the other price point to make you feel like you're missing out on something?
Hows your night vision?
I started waking up at 5 AM, and for me it's turned out to be the habit that enables all other good habits.
Cute patch is coming :)
I've been looking for non sugary, non caffeinated soft drinks. I can Google, but do you recommend any particular recipe or instructions?
Keeping Typescript Clean at Scale
Your blog looks quite nice. Which blogging software or static site generator do you use if I may ask?
Anecdotally, I bought a pack a few years ago and didn’t replace it when used. I was only partially successful at the mends I used it for, and for the cost, simple electrical tape would have been better. And of course regular sticky-tack is still better at hanging photos, etc, and cheaper, and the same goes for multi-surface glue. I am sure there are specialized use cases in which Sugru excels, but I didn’t think it worked as a general repair product and I think that hindered its growth if early adopters like me didn’t enthusiastically recommend it to others or buy more.
Swimming laps most mornings. I never had the discipline to learn to swim properly when I was younger, and have always been an avid runner and cycler. Adding swimming into the mix has balanced out my conditioning, and the meditative state you can achieve while in the zone is great for creative problem solving. Highly recommended.
I guess Richard Stallman violated the "spirit of the GPL" when he made MicroGnuEmacs change their name.
NIH Director on findings that most early-stage breast cancer doesn't need chemo
Sorry page 4.
It seems to be throwing a 503 error when trying to create a container.
Ask HN: What skills are a must have for a front end developer in 2018
> I remember arguing with people when Type-C was new; they told me it would change the world, I told them it would never work.

Yep I did the same thing. I was hugely skeptical Type-C was the panacea for our woes. I'm so glad I haven't adopted anything Type-C yet except the Switch (so really, no interaction with anything else).
Ask HN: Self-hosted alternative for Google Photos?
I never gave Google my personal photos for privacy reasons. However, I'm drooling over the ability to organize my photos in better way without spending too much time on it.

Are there any self-hosted alternatives to Google Photos with similar features?

I'm not considering any SAAS here because then I'd have to worry about them respecting privacy and live long enough as my photos :-)

Appreciate any suggestions.
I'm no expert on the Catholic Church, but what I've seen on TV (e.g. Father Ted) suggests that men work from certain locations, and women work from others. So each of the workplaces is single-sex, even if the overall organisation is not.