skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>but in practice there's strong correlation. It might be for many reasons, but I'd guesstimate 90+% of open source is also non-commercial.

Your guesstimate may be right or wrong (also see sibling heavenlyblue comment), but my point was more that those writers I mentioned, do not seem to realize that open source or free software can be sold as well. They seem to confuse FOSS as being *synonymous" with "free as in beer".

And even if "90+% of open source is also non-commercial", that can be just because many people do not charge for their open source software. There's no rule that they cannot, though.
This article is fantastic.

As an American who likes the occasional UK show, I have the possibly mistaken impression that BBC shows run on a more similar model to Netflix. It seems like they will tell a story for about as long as the original idea is interesting and then the show ends.

In the U.S. it seems like anything popular will get milked as long as possible.

Oddly, it seems like even in the Netflix model there are "series" and "movie" categories that mirror film and TV running lengths and seasons.

It would be interesting to see more deviations from that pattern. Shorter serials with longer episodes. Marathon length features.

Black Mirror is the best example of a non-traditional show as far as episode length and quantity and I think it works quite well.
Charles Proteus Steinmetz
Resting in play is a feature. MJ was doing that all the time. The GOATs know when giving 110% is appropriate, and when 75% would suffice.
A study finding that women cause less corruption isn't quite sufficient evidence that governments across the globe need more women, just as a study finding that men are better for a nation's economy is not sufficient evidence that governments need more men. When the sex ratio of government bodies or voters changes significantly, a lot of variables are affected, some which significantly benefit some political parties/viewpoints over others. I think it'd be best to stick with the paper's conclusion itself instead of overdrawing it.
This is, in a nutshell, all religion. Choosing not to know.
They requested a copy of my ID though

I saw this practice in the wild, however I don't quite agree with supplying of any more information. Emails and phone numbers are most often used for identification on the web. What can they even do with an ID? Surely most sites don't store ID numbers.
GKE vs. AKS vs. EKS
Who’s making these weird videos? Has anyone taken credit?
How much should I bill for webdev?
I am working with some clients here in Seattle. I taught myself django + Angular + Linux/aws.
I just want to know who the heck takes recommendations of 'influencers' seriously? Gullible teens with no money?
>Volunteering can be a hobby. So can doing something like coaching a kids’ sports team

I do volunteer, I'm active in tutoring underprivileged kids for their SAT/ACT's, and otherwise help immigrants fill out their N-100 forms. I take Arabic classes in my spare time, and I fill my free time with various other hobbies (rock climbing, hiking, etc). And that's great that I have an impact on a local community, but in the end, why does it matter? Any bozo with two brain cells to rub together can have an impact on their local community. Aren't all these hobbies just escapism from the fact that my life is centered around this 40 hours a week that I spend debugging gevent or rewriting yet another RPC service?

To me, the acceptance of the reality of "it's extremely unlikely that I'll anything that has a meaningful impact on a large group of people" is the saddest thing of all.
If those company think it’s about content libraries they’re going to lose.

All those companies think: we own a lot of media, we can just build a streaming media platform. And I think they’re way underestimating how hard it is to build the technology stack and processes that Netflix has.

Netflix has an engineering team and a development and deployment process that has some production studios attached to it.

Disney can probably copy what Netflix has today, but by the time they’ve done that, Netflix will have updated their platform hundreds of time, and I don’t think they’re going to be able to build an engineering team that can keep up.
One of the greatest successes of companies like Google is transferring all of the negative externalities of their systems onto the public using some fiction about technology “going awry” of its own accord.
I really like this! It's such a pretty client. Minor nitpick though:

The SSL checkbox shows up as two checkboxes (one regular, one fancy), the regular one way out in the middle of nowhere:

https://i.imgur.com/tFqN4HK.png

If you don't have a large monitor to test it on, you can use Chrome's dev tools to emulate a higher resolution.
> You have ACID transactions within actors, and you can also do transactions across actors

I gotta say... this project strikes me as very strange. If you're going to go through all the trouble of sharding your data across a set of HA actors... why not also shard behavior? Co-locate data and behavior! Isn't that a key driver Actor model? Then you wouldn't communicate with your actors using a very limited language like SQL you could send them real domain-specific messages. Most importantly, when it comes to transactions across actors... you don't need it. All you need is guaranteed message delivery to the various actor mailboxes and all that complexity melts away. You need this anyways if you want your actors to be able to actually collaborate and send each other messages. This whole project seems to be designed to eliminate many of the benefits of the actor model...

(I don't like the all-too-common HN cynicism but I also worry when I see stuff like this. Either I'm crazy and missing something obvious... or everybody else is crazy. But then much of what comes out of the Erlang space is... strange to me. That culture seems to have a very unique idea of distributed computing.)
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1969979
Why do people trust your recommendations? I’m not saying you are untrustworthy. I don’t know you. But that is my point. Why do people trust “influencers”? I would feel like a tremendous fool even following a stranger’s account, much less going somewhere on their say-so.
Which you pointed out the fallacy of the title, since I could say a mouse and keyboard is controlled by my since its the electrical impulses that trigger muscle movement which are being transposed to the computer input.
Gcw. The site you went to to avoid damaging your discs. And improve performance. Well, and sometimes to play games you couldn't afford :D
I think there is a level of undo trust to apps called youtube for kids. It sure gives the impression that its filtered and curated.
JArchitect: a review
This makes sense.

Reading code forwards overwhelms your working memory because lots of information is at the beginning (e.g. class members).

If you read it backwards, you directly dive into the logic, while variable names give away what they're supposed to hold. As you progress further, you get a clearer view, and finally see how these variables are defined.
I honestly can't imagine how this would work. Even in cinema I rarely like this approach (telling a story backwards). In music history I think it makes sense to go a couple of steps backwards (if you are just a fan trying to better understand their preferences), but if you are really interested - you have to start from the beginning and look how things have developed.

Same thing in programming - starting up with something you can immediately use like JavaScript or Python is a nice thing because it will 'fool' you (in a good sense) that you are now a programmer. (I once knew a successful person who told me "I never start a project I can't fool myself into thinking I can complete within a weekend"). You can only do a couple of iterations back, before it gets too complicated to go backwards.

It's like discovering the usefulness of an integral (Calculus) and then going backwards in order to understand it if you have no prior math knowledge and experience... I often read papers full with math I don't understand and I am forced to go backwards, but it only works because I hit a previous knowledge not so far back in that graph.
You can't post attacks like this to HN, and abusing the site this way will eventually get your main account banned as well.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Any reason to stick with the horrible intel intrinsic C API ?

TBH I find assembly kernels generally more readable as long as one keep a few comments in there to explicit register allocation.
I wholeheartedly disagree with this statement. When the books your religion is drawing from glorify murder, subjugation, genocide, etc it's hardly a misuse of that religion to encourage or commit the same.
Q: What do you call a model rocket with thrust vectoring?

A: About half of a civilian owned guided missile.
Answering the question while ignoring your wall of text.

For meaning, look into yourself.

For a software job, research roles and prepare for those roles.

For a meaningful job, prepare for a role and look into yourself
Well that clearly doesn't look like a U2F prompt.

Thus downgrading U2F from "makes phishing impossible" to "relies on the user taking care to spot phishing attempts"
Its easy to blame the parents but the problem is some of these shock videos are designed to look like innocent kids videos (eg a Peppa Pig clip) and it's not until the "shock" part has already happened that even the adult is aware of the true nature of the content.

Sure, there are some which are easily identified by the title or an obviously unofficial animation style, but if all of them were like that then I suspect YouTube would have had an easier job training their AI to detect and remove such content.
Min. 100.
Python + JS + portfolio of multiple implemented sites? 100+
Anything below and you won't be considered marketable.
US rates ofc.
Mourinho analysis on RT is fantastic. His depth of perception and clarity are nothing like what I heard before and in 10 minutes or less create a new understanding of a game. Clearly, for him spaces and space creation are the tools of his trade.
>> I think this is right in the sense that, people struggling to survive are offered no choice but to play by the rules of a system that otherwise leaves them to die. It's frying pan or fire, so of course they have to be capitalists.

so find a better system. What has worked so far, in practice?
The Kubernetes Vertical Pod Autoscaler Through a Java Example
Early Hackers Used Whistles from Cap'n Crunch Cereal Boxes
In this context what's the difference between a seed and a nut
> The authors speculate that women policymakers are able to have an impact on corruption because they choose different policies from men. An extensive body of prior research shows that women politicians choose policies that are more closely related to the welfare of women, children, and family.

This one is interesting. Wasn't it the case that in boardroom women turned out to choose exactly the same policies the men did?

Also, why not link to any of that "extensive body of prior research"?
There are many good studies from more than ten years ago, about participatory voting systems. I think many of the knee-jerk cynical posts here are premature.
It's not off topic. The site exists for anything that gratifies intellectual curiosity: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. Admittedly it gets a bit borderline when other forms of curiosity are also involved.
I'm not writing this out of any sort of pique - I just think this is an opportunity to think 'outside the box'.

Your wife's (very unfortunate) experience is not typical - most women won't require two months of bed rest.

Let's consider people with depression: most will perform their jobs normally, while some will require months of medically-mandated time off. Should employers discriminate based on the possibility to develop depression? I'd say it's far more likely than becoming pregnant if one accounts for the entire workforce.
That's how you should teach games. Start when the game ends, and the winning conditions.
GraphQL seems only slightly more sensible than exposing your SQL interface to the internet.

Yes it makes sense from a client-side / front-end perspective, but that's because the server is just a [handwave]. Someone else's problem.
Patents therefore seem to be excellent at producing very wealthy men, which is not necessarily the highest social goal. It's probably good to try to capture some of the social value of a "new" idea for the originator. The specific mechanism of patents is a huge drag on human industry which may not be worthwhile.
Protos = protobuf messages?

Curious what that joke means
Funding Breakthrough Research: Promises and Challenges of the “ARPA Model”
> That's not how the rules are though

We are just arguing why the rules are the way they are.

> There is a set limit based on country. Just because 1 country has more applicants doesn't mean there's discrimination

If you have different outcomes for individuals based on what country they were born in, that is discrimination. Not sure what stupid definition of discrimination you have in mind.

> Having a set limit per country ensures that everyone globally gets a fairer shot

Not everyone, but every country. And that does not mean every race, or every ethnicity. So much for forced "diversity". You have no idea how diverse India is, with thousands of languages and hundreds of ethnic groups. It is the origin of four major world religions, and has been always been an accepting land. But you SJW can go through your forced diversity with your discriminatory policies, with complete lack of logical thought.
SQLite uses serializable isolation by default, this is built on top of that.

I'm also curious how Raft is used and what the resulting guarantees on distributed table operations are, but I'm coming at it assuming good faith, since SQLite is... robust.
Very cool concept! Radio stations used to share software over the airwaves by using something like this.

How long would it take to transmit a 3MB jpeg and then encode it,?
Steemit has been running for some time to demonstrate that a blockchain based publishing platform is possible. I suspect many more papers will launch private blockchain based storage, it provides transparent voting and censorship resistance, both valuable to a publisher.
Pipe not going to do it, even wells are tricky in some areas (you can pollute the entire region's water source from one well.) Delivering by jugs doesn't scale and pipes cost a fortune...maybe a central water source every xxx people in urban areas and one in a village in other places, to start?
Barcelona have built their team around him for the past 10 years. As their most important attacking asset, he's has the least responsibility to defend.
Liberty Group statement on IT systems breach
The strict requirements in the US came as a result of the Thalidomide case, not before it. Thalidomide was stopped mostly thanks to pure luck that a talented newly-hired examiner got the case, and the outcome was used by the Kennedy administration to push through the strong regulation we have today https://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/08/08/science/frances-oldham...
There's already a mentat, name change please
20+ years in - I'm a data plumber. A plumber might be able to go home and build some sort of interesting miniature steam engine, but his work week is connecting pipes. Mine's the the same, just strings and numbers instead of water. I go home and do some interesting things, but I don't expect I'll ever do such things at work. Some people are, but not the majority. The colourful unicorns and thrilling hackathons and exciting conferences are all just a mix of marketing and untainted youth. Sooner or later they'll find they've been crudding for 20 years, and strangely the various ways of crudding are no longer sufficiently novel to make crudding interesting. I try to think of how bored my dentist must be.
It's a nice idea, but, from my experience, learning new things isn't valuable in and of itself. Retaining and, consequently, using the acquired knowledge is both more important and more difficult.
Well, why can people trust any other people at all?

Well, here are some ways:

1. They have an incentive to be honest* (e.g. they would be punished if they weren't), e.g. lawyers, engineers, family members

2. They seem like just honest people, e.g. the Dalai Lama?

3. They say or do many other things that you agree with and your values seem aligned, e.g. politicians, athletes, some corporate leaders

4. They are a lot like you, except slightly different, so you trust them implicitly because you would trust yourself

Influencers can hit a bit of all those notes.

At this early point, it's probably easier as an influencer to actually find a place that they like and think are good, rather than just taking cash to promote something they don't believe in. Later on that may change.

Influencers do have a reputation, if they keep sending people to garbage, eventually those people will notice, so they have something to lose.

Some influencers are really good at certain things that people admire (e.g. game influencers), and a lot of influencers go for that 'just a regular person who is your friend and let's go on cool trips together' feel.

But note that these same points are potential reasons to distrust, e.g. an influencer who has hit it big and plans to exit the business anyway may find it more worthwhile to start shilling since their future reputation doesn't matter to them.
The links are relevant, posting them is not a repeated pattern, and mcenedella has been a good HN contributor for many years. Therefore his comment was just fine.
India is as diverse as Africa and Europe. I find this classification of Indian people as the same as wrong. I demand there be a similar 7% cap for Africa and Europe too.

After all, EU is a combined political and economic entity, makign it a federation, just like India.
Sounds like you want a job with meaningful technical depth. If so, I'll tell you what I would suggest:

1. Start scoping out companies that do something that you're interested in and monitor the job openings they have. We can't give you a recommendation because we don't know what you're interested in. FANG and the other megacorps offer the greatest breadth and depth for low-level work (Amazon in particular is still hiring heavily) but they are also the most selective. There are plenty of mid-sized companies also doing interesting work (Pivotal comes to mind).

2. Start shaping up your resume so that you fit the job openings at the company/companies you're interested in. If that means a bit of resume driven development, so be it. You can also attempt an indirect approach; if your expertise lies in the web space, try for a web job there and then do an internal transfer to the area you want.

3) Start shaping up your skillset to work on low level stuff. Firstly, that means having your CS basics down pat because when you're working at the low level, that knowledge is actually neecessary. (This will also help you get past the dreaded algorithmic interview questions.) Secondly, know the tech or software package you're interested in working on inside and out; usage and deployment, pros and cons, where it fits in relative to competing technologies/software, and at least the basics of the internal architecture.

4) Start applying to the job openings. Don't get discouraged if it takes many tries; you're making a significant leap.

Good luck!
Slow is relative. Java was originally an alternative to C++, which is much closer to the metal and can be significantly faster than the JVM allows.

If you're deciding to use Clojure or Kotlin, the alternatives you're considering are probably Java and Scala, or maybe even a web-friendly scripting language - not C or C++.
>>When the West industrialised, we didn’t have natural gas or nukes

Is natural gas cheap in India? Nukes have their own issues. See Chernobyl and Fukushima...unless you build them 1000 miles away in a desert (not feasible--water and transmission issues.) Pollution in horrible and takes lives, but so does poverty. The lesser of two evils might be found somewhere in the middle.

>>(China has done an excellent job of moving pollution away from population centres.)

But they had it there initially. So did the USA, you can still see the old chimneys
The Indian nawabs and maharajas preferred deaf punkah wallahs for this very reason. They were using them long before the British Raj vassalised the princely states.

Interesting that the American version seem to be usually wood. In India and the Middle East they're usually cloth held by a lightweight bamboo or wood frame.

I pity the poor soul who had to operate that huge contraption in the last photo.
Hobby model rocket people have been doing this for some time, e.g. this effort which is about two decades old:

http://michael.sdf-eu.org/Gyroc/
Yersinia pestis, and your choice of "no" and "yes, this happens yearly"
I think YouTube needs to be censored and filtered until it resembles the evening news where you can see concerned politicians rescuing you from attack and justifying the stuff that creates division, destabilisation and refugees.
Edit: and police shootings
Peru fans trigger earthquake alerts as they celebrate World Cup qualification
not every civilian. If i remember correctly - after reading about amateur launches of like 10ft+ rockets - you have to have some kind of explosive related license to enjoy such rockets.
No part of the British Isles calls it soccer. The game in its current form [1], and the name "football" [2], were invented there.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football#Establishment_of_mode...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football_(word)#Etymology
Whenever I'm being taught a game, my first question is always "What's the goal?" I find that without knowing what I'm supposed to be trying to achieve, it's extremely difficult for me to remember all the rules explained to me beforehand because I have no context as to why they're important.
I don't understand how it could be different. There has obviously been way too much music in the past to teach in it's entirety. We have to decide what to teach based on what we currently think is "important". And though we can try to fool ourselves that there is some measure of objective importance, at the end of the day, I'm pretty sure it always boils down to popularity within some milieu.
>We want an on-demand nexus. A single hub.

So you want one company to control all media? Seems like a poor plan longterm.
Did you think that someone was criticizing Chinese culture and it needed defending? And the defense is, there is some degree of corruption based on relationships in other places? Every place sometimes has bad weather too; does that mean the weather is the same everywhere? And does the fact that there is also bad weather in Rome have any bearing on the weather in Edmonton or help the people there?

Addressing guanxi seriously: My understanding is that guanxi works against opportunity and the free market; not anyone can get a loan at the bank, for example; instead it requires personal relationships. Economists I've read said the lack of arms-length commercial relationships hold back economic development and opportunity in China, but that was written maybe 20 years ago and possibly things have changed. I do know that Communist Party connections, and particularly connections to the 'royalty', the families of leaders, are highly valuable and are at least sometimes seen as necessary for success in business.
You always have an option of doing something of your own. For me I waited and switched different jobs for 10 years before realizing that perfect job could be a myth. I was most satisfied when I was building my own tech but then I am back in the race after working for myself for 2 years.