skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think I'm a good canditate to share my experience here.

Just a few years ago I used to be grumpy, fought with my best friend over trivial issues and used to be depressed.

Then I re-discovered meditation and I was calm. I do ot regularly and you won't believe how peaceful I am. If I don't meditate then I become restless (I am a workoholic who has just finished writing my fourth novel, in six months time and now working on fifth one).

Meditation isn't to make you a Superman at your job. It is to make you be at peace, if you attain inner peace then it is worth it.

I also discovered that the breathing exercises in Yoga help a lot.
That really reminds me of the Overlord anime / light novels, where the main character ends up alone after having had tons of achievements with his guild. He's the only one still logged in when the game shuts down.
His complaints are heavily focused on how the company had a shit culture and terrible scientific practices. But he doesn't describe it, from the inside, as being the total scam that it looks like from the outside:

> If they had used some of the more sensitive methods or invented a new method they probably could have made some, but not all assays work.

> Part of the problem was that they surrounded themselves with people who told them what they wanted to hear. Ultimately, even if they hired the right people from the get go, and those people pushed for other methods they didn't like, they would have been marginalized, pushed out and replaced by people who were "yes" people.
Could someone give us more of the story around ZAPCC ?
I see that it is a C++ compiler that is based on clang, and that it only works well on Linux. Could someone (perhaps turrini) share some comparison tables of the relative speed, size, disk usage, of this compiler compared to clang and gcc ?
Honestly not sure if you mean the first or second is the reasonable one.
I was an admin that learned to be a dev specifically so I could work on cloud stuff. I almost doubled my salary in 3 years.
Interesting. I found it immensely liberating to be able to fully separate the functions from the data they operate on. I can see how it might feel verbose though.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smalltalk
Great idea and it is also scalable. Maybe to expand the platform, you should add push notification via email to let them know when the bills are coming out especially for reoccurring bills. This will help make the app a lot more useful! Since this is one of the problems I tend to experience. Also for future development, you could create a script to suggest how to reduce costs in areas that affect users from saving money. Create a section called 'Savings commitment' to find ways to cleanup unnecessary cost. Use the m.o.s.c.o.w method to prioritise expenses . I love the idea since not many people use or can afford excel spreadsheet. Also the fact that it is intuitive and easy to use is even better. I will share this application with my community on GeekPoll.com :) and do a video review on it!
If they haven't moved WoW proper to a freemium model, I highly doubt they'll do it for Classic.

Look at EQ. The base game is freemium, but if you want to play on the latest progression servers, you need to pay their subscription price.
I’d say these Jobs come about because it’s hard to keep big companies efficient. When a job has existed long enough people can forget to check if it’s still required.
Although tour sample size is small, you are making the right conclusion out of it.

If you don't meditate then you are trapped in the cycle of wanting confirmation and approval from others.

After meditation you realise that it doesn't matter one bit what others think or say about you.

Inner peace is all that matters.
As a former vanilla player (fond memories of 1.14 jumping physics bug), and current busy adult, I'm pretty excited about the idea of an MMO with a level cap. I can't keep up with new expansions every six months, but I can and will find fun things I'm interested in trying in an MMO with locked down talent builds and static endgame.

It won't matter if life gets busy and I can only log in once this week. At least I'm not aiming at a moving target anymore.

Casual gaming.
Decred, cryptocurrency with on-chain governance
I'd argue that Melodyne is pretty advanced. I mean, it can take a polyphonic (multi-voice) audio track and separate the notes so you can manipulate them almost like a MIDI track. That's pretty damned difficult for a computer to pull off.
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Any mention of performance? Is it on par with modern servers like `uvloop`?
Why change the title, here? The word "myth" was used by the author of the reporte quoted in the article. The use of the word by the author may be controversial but the article title is using it quite accurately.

Also- why change the focus from "pesticides are necessary to feed the world" to "pesticides are necessary", as in, in general?
Diversity proponents seem to generally want every conceivable minority (like -women-) represented 50%, completely ignoring how the math doesn’t add up.

And if not everyone is at 50%, it’s obviously the fault of all the racist and sexist white men everywhere.
Mexico Presidential Candidate Proposes Amnesty for Non-Violent Drug Traffickers
Huh, interesting. Probably someone who experienced that themselves. I'll be reading that, thanks for the suggestion.
Exactly. If you are sad and you meditate you might feel super depressed as you'd want to give up everything in lofe wondering "what's the point in all this?"

Meditation is for getting a calm mind and not being bothered by stupid things like countless notifications etc it doesn't make us superman or batman
It's only really fair to think of code which is tied to features or bugfixes which haven't been released yet. The reason why inventory is a problem in Lean is because it represents spend that hasn't been repaid with revenue, once you ship the code then it's shipped.

Within the Lean model, I think it makes more sense to think of code as something that "weighs down" the different stations in the factory, making them less efficient, like unmaintained workstations in a factory that slowly break down. If you have a station in your software factory representing API changes, then whether or not you have a pile of half-completed work waiting for API changes has little to do with how quickly you can make changes to the API - that's determined by how many changes you've made before.

It's much easier to delete code if you're allowed to delete features. And it's much easier to delete features if you have a clear deprecation and EOL policy, an easy way for customers to determine if they're affected, and simple means of migration.
Explanation why fork of clang was required (as opposed to just improving clang) would also be interesting.
That's awesome to hear! I've had similar experiences with Elixir. On the IRC #elixir channel, I've more than once seen Jose Valim (the language creator) or Chris McCord (Phoenix head honcho) answer relatively inane questions about CSS or beginner questions about Elixir. Always felt heart-warming to see, and made me try and actively help out more so those dudes can focus on their work!
Citing their use of ad frameworks isn't an argument against malware.
The report is on the "right to food"- that's a legal matter. Hence, the rapporteur is a legal expert. The profile you link to makes it clear she has some experience with environmental issues, including food security.
I flew from Geneva to London City Airport the other day. Check in closed 45 minutes before the flight, and it's so convoluted to get through the airport that after checking in right at the deadline, I had a brisk walk through the airport for 30 minutes to arrive halfway through boarding. I would not want to arrive any later, and anyone who didn't want to rely on short lines at security moving fast would be well off to arrive at least an hour before takeoff.
Reading option one made me quite anxious. Having to backport a virtually infinite number of bugfixes and support for new hardware features from over 12 years of constant development sounds like a perfect way to burn out developers. I'm glad they went for the clearly more sustainable option of adopting the old data to their new client infrastructure.
Neat. Reminds me of the smartmatter from world of Anathem.
Yeah, it's not like Uber did not hire Waleed Kadous away from Google, where he had led Android and indoor positioning, which make plenty of use of fused location. I bet he was involved in recruiting these folks (he approached someone I know in a related area. It seemed like they were investing heavily in every technology to sense the world, which makes sense for them).
Medical residents do stupid work hours, and medicine is the one profession ought to know better. Pilots and truck drivers are legally restricted in the number of hours they can work, and doctors should be also. We know the effects of sleep deprivation, but doctors are 'special'.

There is no reason for it that I can see, apart from a general shortage of cheap, early-career doctors, due to their stupid guild-like methods of limiting inputs. That and their stupid machismo of proving themselves, as you say.
> with the scalability of a KV store, while keeping the query capabilities of a relational database.

So not doing good query performance for OLAP/DS. And "core" DB is in Erlang.
Why would Erlang be good for SQL/relational databases?
There are some good remote job lists on GitHub:

https://github.com/search?q=remote+job

This also looks like it may be useful:

https://github.com/yanirs/established-remote

Some tips on custom search:

https://remotejobcourse.com/topic/remote-jobs/

Trello has a useful guide:

https://blog.trello.com/how-to-find-and-land-your-next-remot...
> isn't pollution a price we, kinda, have to pay to move to the next step?

Not this much. When the West industrialised, we didn’t have natural gas or nukes. Today we do. The problem is (a) Coal India is a jobs factory and (b) India’s massive corruption makes regulation more challenging than it was in the West or is in China. (China has done an excellent job of moving pollution away from population centres.)
Is this too little too late?

After j Allen brack scolded the fans over how preposterous the question of classic servers was. And Blizzard shut down the two major classic servers.

It's possible that the well is poisoned and people won't want to play out of principle or that they just moved onto other games and the time to capitalize on this has passed.
ICE4 also has a maximum speed of "only" 250 km/h. Deutsche Bahn has apparently given up on higher speeds.

By the way, even ICE1 trains are less comfortable than they used to be because the rubber rings in the wheels were removed for safety reasons.
Could I get a clarification from a moderator, please? The subject discussed in the article and the report is the necessity of pesticides in sustaining population growth (in other words, "feeding the world"). The report itself is titled "Report of the Special Rapporteur on the right to food". The change of the title dilutes this meaning to the point of irrelevance.

Edit: I'm not even sure the new title is less controversial. What, pesticides are not necessary at all?

What's the purpose of the change?
>You want a JavaScript-like language for server-side development, but without the complexity of Node.js

I think if node is too complex for you then perhaps you should find another career/hobby.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16887276
A lot of the core contributors were members of the original Chrome team; Hixie's far from the only Flutter contributor who previously worked on the web for 15+ years.
I was in Delhi a couple years ago when the pollution was also literally off the charts - at the time it was the worst pollution in over a decade.

It totally reminded me of Blade Runner. Whenever the illustrious recent leaders of government in the US talk about loosening environmental restrictions that are killing jobs, I wish they could spend a week in Delhi (with no air filters) every time they said that.
Vitess: database clustering system for horizontal scaling of MySQL
I don't like the term leadership capital because the analogy misses an important aspect: If the change turns out good, the leadership capital of the technical director increases to more than she had before. So she did not really "spend" it, but rather invest/bet it in/on Figlet.

Also, it is not a single value. For different people the technical director has a different amount of leadership capital. If Figlet turns out good for you, it increases. If you don't like Figlet you consider the technical directors capital as lower. So the amount of capital is actually specific to a relationship between two people.
Long-press/click on the back button for a list of URL in your recent history.
What kinds of trains are you talking about? Coding on the bus or in a car makes me nauseous as well, but the train routes I usually take are an incredible smooth ride and don't induce nausea at all. (I'm in Austria, and we have the Railjet, which is similar to the German ICE)
The Soviets used to run their new airliners on cargo and mail flights for two or three years before introducing them to passenger service. Great for real-World debugging but imagine the anguish if that was proposed by the FAA...
I appreciate the reply,

My business kind of evaporated given the ever decreasing market share of Windows Phone. I was able to carve out a pretty nice little niche where I created small apps for Windows Phone in even smaller targeted niche markets where there was usually almost no competition. (I built Workout apps targeting specific exercises, I built small little games that were popular on iPhone and Android but never got ported to Windows Phone, alarm clock apps, I created a piano app that did really well, things like that) given the sparse selection of apps on Windows Phone most of my apps did pretty well with no marketing whatsoever.

I tried to pivot to iPhone and Android and saw a bit of success on Android but the business model didn't really translate to those platforms given the oversaturation of the app store, I saw my revenues dwindle down consistently and by the time I landed my first job two years ago my passive income had dropped to about 500 dollars a month, it's now completely gone, nobody uses Windows Phone anymore.

I am working on a much bigger app now targeting iPhone and Android, but the app market is tough to penetrate. I guess the only path for me going forward is to either stick with my current job that I know well and put in more work on the app, or look for a new job where I can learn more and earn a bit more but my responsibilities will most likely increase and I'll be forced to learn a new tech stack which can take a toll and could affect my ability to work on the app in off hours, I've been working on the app for about five months now and I really don't want to lose my momentum.

Anyway sorry for the rant lol, that's my predicament. I agree I could always go back to the workforce if anything goes awry but I'm not even at that decision yet, it's more a question of how do I allocate my time properly until I become profitable enough to make that decision, and how long do I put off moving my life forward given the uncertainty of the app market.
Titus: Netflix Container Management Platform
Forgotten Employee (2002)
1. the VC invested heavily in crypto early on; need a "popular" use case badly

2. CryptoKitties went viral, slowing ETH transactions to a crawl and making top headlines - what if that can be repeated?

3. as someone said, 12M is nothing for them
Thanks a ton for your work!
How the World Cup distracts from major news stories
They started building this route in 1991 right after German reunification (it connects the old East with the West). Parts of the route were built in the following years.

A part of the route goes through difficult terrain. It's a completely new route that now contains 27 new tunnels and 37 new bridges, some kilometers long. All this through an environmentally sensitive area. So it was quite expensive and difficult to agree on. Work was even stopped on this part at some point around 2000, mainly because of the costs IIRC.
In the weeks since launching BudgetDuo, the percentage of users visiting the site from a mobile/tablet device outweighs those visiting from a desktop. Maybe folks find spreadsheets intuitive, but I'd disagree that trying to navigate and manipulate a spreadsheet on a phone is a better user experience than using a responsive web app designed with touch interfaces specifically in mind.
To be fair, WoW still has a level cap. You can play right now and quite frankly it's a much better game for a "current busy adult". Expansions come out every 2-3 years, not every 6 months.
How to write (terrible) documentation
I get the idea behind your comment, but without context it's pretty stupid. There are plenty of use cases where Elixir might be a much better choice than PHP, but it depends entirely on what you're trying to do. I sincerely hope you're not a CTO of a company where PHP is not the right approach...

(that said, I do agree that often PHP is a fine choice, and people might overcomplicate things needlessly by choosing something else)
Don't store your treasure in the US...
"Russia raised its retirement age, Saudi-led troops attacked in Yemen and Iran arrested a human rights lawyer – all while their teams were playing soccer."
I've been using a similar command called 'cheat' [pip install cheat] which does more or less the same thing. I wonder which of the two is more comprehensive. How would I check this efficiently?
anybody knows details like if they use typescript or vanilla or some framework
Well I take almost every week the ICE from Frankfurt to Paris and it always costs the same: 125,40€. No matter how in advance, no matter the day I travel. Try that with a flight... Even if this is not true for all trips, for those that it is, it is another advantage.
I don't know about "forced" deletions, but I actually feel deleting unused/old/crusty/etc.. code is cathartic. I don't need any pressure to do it, am I alone on this?

Also, I have some awesome code I wrote over 10 years ago, and I wouldn't dream of deleting it. There's moments where you make a decision on something, and years later you look the code and say "Who wrote this? This is great!" oh wait...

Code as inventory almost goes hand in hand with coders and machines or assembling line workers. I don't think this is a good direction to take.
The example is simplistic, it's 3d space. It's not just which side of the street but buildings could be in any direction at various angles.
Capitalism is, of course, a technology.

The point being that Capital is interested in “helping” to the extent the “help” generates an ROI.

Many of these countries have local markets.

They also suffer when capital captures regulatory / gov agencies, and those agencies pass laws that benefit capital.

Much of the world is getting by on $350-$750 / year, so my guess is that >90% of folks reading hacker news are making 100x that of these folks.

Not to mention instances where capital leverages local labor and resources and leaves the community worse off. Ie, water being used to make Coke and exporting it.
Actually there is something special about the using the golden ratio. By some measure it is "the most irrational" number, and that property makes it really good at distributing numbers evenly along an interval.

You can use it to generate a nice sequence of different colours - set the hue to (n * the golden ratio) mod 1.

But I don't know if that property is really necessary for a hash table. I guess only if you are using a terrible key hash.
The situation could be similar to accents in speech recognition, where you need some form of speaker adaptation. You would obviously use data from more than one individual to train a model that adapts automatically, but that adaptation will still take a little time.
I've been lucky that I could choose my stack on a few projects, but I also hope Elixir will keep getting more popular so that I can use it for the more common contractor-type things I get offered.
I was initially taken up with the elegance of the idea, but did a double take after your comment. We haven't really established that trust is transactional...
They also made geomesa. A geospatial graph database that can run on top of bigtable/accumulo, hbase, cassandra and kafka.
1. The team behind Crytokitties created the most used dApp to date, with excellent UI, attention to detail, and many other innovations behind it. Lots of investors believe in investing in a team first and foremost, and this is an excellent one.

2. Nobody invested in Crptokitties. They invested in a gaming/collectibles company; from TechCrunch: “While the startup is being pretty mum on what the future looks like and what they’re planning on using this funding for, it’s almost certain that the long term goal is to expand beyond CryptoKitties and use the same Ethereum ERC-721 collectible standard to create other game experiences, especially ones that can be played by regular people who are unfamiliar with cryptocurrency.”

You use flappy bird and pokemeon go as examples of fads that would be dumb to invest in, but what about the early investors in Zygna? Gaming and collectibles doesn’t appeal to me personally, but they are massive markets and growing. Early stage investing is a long shot, and odds are this company fails. But the execution to date and market opportunity are sufficiently appealing that I’d invest alongside USV in these guys if I could.
My thoughts exactly. In particular, a lot of the reason for the best process (which is not too different from what the author lays out in this article) is not to enable adoption in the case that the change is a good one, but rather minimizing the damage in the case that it turns out not to be the case. Having a dictatorial leader issue directives that all turn out to be exactly correct is annoying, but not horrible, and probably will NOT actually result in rebellion, as they say. On the other hand, using that method for a decision that turns out to be the wrong one, at least for that team and that project, will maximize the damage. Getting the right process for minimizing the damage of a bad decision is much harder, and much more important, than the relatively simple one of enabling a good decision.
And in reality not actually used as a payment system at scale. Genuine payments are the edge case of all crypto currency.
> any 10 year old can do that

Is this kind of hyperbole really necessary?
Also in the past there was no standardized way of writing words so its possible that some spellings are off by today's standards.

I remember when the spellings of words became standardized.
U.S. fire departments responded to an estimated average of 152,300 automobile fires per year in 2006-2010. These fires caused an average of 209 civilian deaths, 764 civilian injuries, and $536 million in direct property damage.

Facts and Figures

Automobile fires were involved in 10% of reported U.S. fires, 6% of U.S. fire deaths.
On average, 17 automobile fires were reported per hour. These fires killed an average of four people every week.
Mechanical or electrical failures or malfunctions were factors in roughly two-thirds of the automobile fires.
Collisions and overturns were factors in only 4% of highway vehicle fires, but these incidents accounted for three of every five (60%) automobile fire deaths.
Only 2% of automobile fires began in fuel tanks or fuel lines, but these incidents caused 15% of the automobile fire deaths. https://www.nfpa.org/Public-Education/By-topic/Property-type...
A co-worker of mine paid some $800 for a developer(read prototype) EEG headset from a promising startup a few years ago.

The promise was lofty, but the device was near unusable in practice.

In the demo application you could learn to move the ball around a little bit but it was ridiculously hard.

Nothing like Macross Plus...
Driven: an app for leveraging pomodoro for habits and to-do
This does not qualify as a "Show HN".