skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I tested positive for chitin allergy from my doctor via a skin test.
My first programming experience was using Logo on an Atari 800 as a 6 or 7 year old, and I instantly grasped the concept of a giving commands to a turtle with a pen.

It was as game-like as most entertainment software of its time, but it subtly forced me to learn some math in order to create complex shapes.

I think of Minecraft as a similarly clever idea.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logo_(programming_language)
Do you have any examples? This doesn't sound familiar.

Dictionaries are often used for return values, as they can be cast to PSCustomObject for a quick way to make objects for the pipeline. But in that use case they aren't passed in, and that's not anything to do with the `return` keyword or all output from all commands becoming function output.
Thus, if you've had 5 different jobs in the past 5 years I would look at that as a real negative

Why? Because the only way to for a working professional to accumulate a "reasonable lifespan" of product knowledge is to anchor themselves to one company? That seems incredibly short-sighted thinking given the changing dynamics of the workplace from remote workers to an increasingly freelance economy where people can work for disparate organizations and still accumulate knowledge, skills and capabilities that you might still find valuable if you weren't looking at arbitrary numbers like how long a person has spent with the same company name in their email signature.

Is it a good way? Sure.

Is it the only worthwhile and relevant way? Mmmmmprobably not.
Unless you have to work in a SCIF
The problem is that's only amortizing on side of the equation. If you were to pick up that leg of lamb and a dozen other things on the way home from work then the additional CO2 cost from the lamb itself is negligible.

It's like saying cars produce less emissions than bikes by including the manufacturing costs of the bike but not the car.
It’s so strange, you’d think the cost of recruiting, hiring, and ramping up a new employee would be much more than just bringing your existing productive employee up to market rate, yet few employers seem willing to do this.

I left my previous employer on very good terms and on the way out made it clear that I liked working there and all it would have taken to retain me was to adjust my comp up to market rate. They looked at me as if I just escaped the lunatic asylum.
Actually, the definition is very localized (you could be mediocre at a big co or a rockstar at a tiny backwater company) and relative. I don't think it's a stretch to assume that the majority of programmers are mediocre, the distribution curve of talent/ability not withstanding.
You grokked it.

Imagine standing on a vast desert. You have, floating above you, the HYPERCUBE. You could choose to climb up into the HYPERCUBE, but it has no exits.

In a serious, non-trivial sense, mathematics is the pattern science. If you choose to believe that reality has underlying patterns, then mathematics is unavoidable.

To respond to the grandparent, we can put sets on categories, types on categories, categories on sets, logic on sets, logic on categories, etc. Who cares which foundations you pick, when they all can build from each other?
Every step up on the food chain loses roughly 90% of the energy.
Minecraft added a full set of command blocks (impulse, repeat, and chain) back in version 1.9 which allow players to make similar modifications to worlds, as well as create and equip entities with various items and behaviors. Basically you add a command to a command block in game, and then it executes when the command is activated. I think command blocks are an easier foray into coding in Minecraft although it would be nice to see more capabilities added in the future.
Lots of people survived Hiroshima and Nagasaki, including this poor fucker that survived both: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsutomu_Yamaguchi?wprov=sfla...
I think it's a really tough problem, and maintaining all the capability in house may not be the right move, but there must be some in house capability to use for prototyping and technical decision making, otherwise your procurement gets disastrous because you have no ability to evaluate what you're buying.
As we have only one stomach and lack symbiotic bacteria that allow ruminants to digest cellulose the average human would quickly starve.
Metal Casting at Home with a 3D Printer, PLA, and Greensand
I use vuex with namespaced modules, but then those modules just call out to abstracted implementations if it's more than just http request. So for example with auth, I have a vuex auth module.

It then has some getters which just get the state from the store, but the actions call to a separate module which manages storing it in LocalStorage or making the http requests.

Works for me, but I just took what I learned (Vue) moved it to when I learned a year later (Vuex), when things became complicated in Vuex I just moved the complicated bits back 1 bit more and everything became simple again (which seemed like the logical thing to do).
Industrial farming is ravaging the land that could otherwise be used for ecologically positive purposes. What you say looks simple on the surface however when you take a holistic view of the biosphere much of it needs to be further interrogated.
Aaand this is true! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photosynthetic_efficiency

1-2% of best plants vs 22% of best commercial panels! :)
Want to learn sales to become an entrepreneur
Hi all,

Here I am sitting with my six years of commercial developer experience and thinking to switch to sales. The reason I want that is I want to drastically improve my ability to sell (in the broader sense). I want to get QUALITY salesman experience which I could later use to sell my own things.

Until recently I despised sales people, but now, having learned a few things about how deals are made, about closing, about marketing, funnels, affiliate marketing, drop-shipping and all that I realise that that selling is a really powerful tool to have under the belt.

My question to you guys is the following. What sort of salesperson job (or self-employed) positions do you think would teach me the art of selling? The fastest way possible, along with the ability to pay my bills and support a family?

P.S. My plan after that is to start building startups by raising capital or growth hacking (need sales skills for that), gathering like-minded (need sales skills for that), selling services (need sales skills for that). All in all I believe that you have to have a salesperson mentality to own being a startup founder.
That's cheap compared to the labor involved to do it correctly
And to add, transportation may have a low upfront cost in dollars but it has a massive impact on the environment in the long run.
There is a pretty good case to wean us off cereals. They aren’t the best diet health wise. We only consume so much because they are calorie dense and easy to grow.
Shit, all this time I thought the problem was with things marketed as containers that _do not_ contain.
I mostly like systemd, but judging the project as an init system with a bunch of other functionality tacked on is completely fair. The init daemon requires the logging daemon and vice versa, so they aren't really separate.
Uuh, 127.0.0.1 never leaves the physical machine. It's also a full subnet, so 127.0.0.254 would work as well.

Dockers main usecase just isn't purely internal, do using that ip range wouldn't make any sense
TypeScript works fine?!?!? With @vue/cli it's trivial to setup, it's literally option in a new app.

Vue 3 they are moving to TypeScript:

> Will be using TypeScript. For internal implementation only. Does NOT affect ES users, but should improve TS integration for TS users.

https://github.com/vuejs/roadmap#3x
Car parks are a scarce resource. If I use a car space, I am monopolising the resource for the duration.

Sidewalk ramps are not a scarce resource; my use of them doesn't in any way detract from their use by a disabled person. Any visible use of them ultimately benefits everyone.

Online cancellation (compared to telephone cancellation) is like the latter, not the former.
You can do better but you will never beat hydro
>Has it? I thought that the worst thing for the environment was subsistence farming.

Who says that subsistence farming is bad?

I've always heard that large-scale industrial agriculture is bad because it destroys the soil. Or that it breaks the soil up so it then blows or washes away.
I eat tofu quite often, but I don't eat fake meat. If I want meat, I buy meat. I don't like the idea of plant protein being tortured until it resembles a completely different product.
Is there a word or a phrase whereby the Peter Principle takes such a hold in the structure of management that it no longer becomes possible to even promote? The 'Peters' get to a position and create an artificial ceiling where potentially more capable would-be managers don't get promoted because their manager is a bit too dim to realize there are people languishing underneath them?
Why can’t Europe create tech giants like the US and China?
According to American Cancer Society[1], 40% of humans get cancer. Of those, more than half are killed by it.

Further, half of all cancer cases are seen in people under 50[2].

Axolotls are amazing and unusual in many ways, and their cancer rates are one of those ways.

1. https://www.cancer.org/cancer/cancer-basics/lifetime-probabi...

2. https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/health-professional/cancer-...
Hmmm. Can any language manual be a HN post? Maybe I could get some points by posting 10 or 20.
> Ultimately, according to the technosolutionist orthodoxy, the human future climaxes by uploading our consciousness to a computer ...

In Hannu Rajaniemi's Quantum Thief novels, almost all of those uploads become slaves. Processing modules in clusters, serving oligarchs.
Why? Pesticides kill non-pests, irrigation dries up entire rivers, destroying ecosystems, waterways get poisoned, nutrients run off land, deforestation causes erosion, mono-crop farms starve bees, etc., etc. Humans, through our large-scale agriculture, have an unprecedented negative effect on our environment. Subsistence farming has had these effects to a much smaller extent (due in part to it only being viable with smaller populations).

But, people need to eat, and so here we are. Alternatives to traditional agriculture would be great, but must make economic sense to actually take hold.

Besides, subsistence farming is agriculture.
better association of people.
read books about leadership, self-improvement.
I'd love to know more about the book!
They will absolutely invest money in new IP just as soon as shitty superhero crap and Star Wars stop making billions of dollars.
Mixed sex units are a worst case for a women. Sure carrying gear designed for larger men causes more injuries for women. Sure dragging men is harder on a smaller women. Sure being accurate with a heavier gun (designed for a man) is harder.

But how about comparing male units with female units. Women are smaller, take less resources, can fit in smaller spaces, are easier to carry, etc. A truck/plane/boat/whatever can carry more women, and you need less food for each one.

I suspect women given the chance could cause problems for the male competition. Less ego, less er, male. Try some wargames between males vs females. Evaluate their strategy, handling stress, etc. If men are as bad as guessing women's strategy as they at predicting women's feelings they are in for a very hard time indeed. I've heard that men have a substantial advantage in a marathon, but are completely wasted at the end. Women take longer to get to the finish line, but are not nearly as decimated by it.

I seem to recall that NASA did a study and came to the conclusion that women were better suited for space. Just as smart, somewhat smaller, more finger dexterity, and consumed less water, oxygen, and food. This led to a rather unpopular conclusion that most astronauts should be female.

So sure, if your metric is bigger/stronger = better then yes men win every time.
Plants only absorb very particular aspects of light. As far as I remember, it's only visible light, yes.

More information here: http://www.webexhibits.org/causesofcolor/7A.html

Hydroponic lighting is optimized for those particular wavelengths in the ~450 nm and ~650 nm peeks. Some plants absorb additional wavelengths, and could likely be targeted with other lights. The key though is that chlorophyll are like mitochondria -- highly preserved between species -- and they evolved to only absorb particular frequencies.
This seems to be solving an actual interesting problem (running untrusted applications on anonymous compute, at scale). A scraper, for example, would be the killer application for such a platform.

But the cryptocurrency integration looks tacked on, or orthogonal to the problem -- which will hamper the adoption, or even turn away application makers otherwise interested.
I think if we want to play apocalyptic scenarios, the rich survivors and their clans would devolve into medieval fiefdoms. Security forces would be given honorary titles and authorities over lesser beings while the brain trust would be given aristocratic status. They'd organize raids on other survivors to quell internal unrest and promote unity within the tribe.

The sponsor/ruler's ability to survive the apocalyptic event would be dependent how good they are at political/psychological manipulation/intrigue. I'd say most upper management would survive.
Finally, a use case for code golf!
JLoad: Attaching the Prometheus JMX Agent into a Running JVM
I think the other person was talking about quantitative data (e.g. from Google Analytics), not qualitative data from customer conversations / complaints.
I used React for 3 years but once I discovered Vue I switched. The reason is that React and Vue have different audiences. Vue is more for people who don't think in code whereas I think tht React is more for "Hard Core Developers", so I chose Vue for a Javascript development platform that I built
Maybe the author is simply does not fully appreciate the nature of those billionaires' interest.

After all, they are billionaire hedge fund managers. As in investor, when your portfolio is sufficiently large, you invest a significant fraction of it in a way that is consistent with the need to survive an improbable but highly devastating outcome.

If I had 10 billions of dollars, I might invest 8 or 9 of them optimistically or philanthropically. That doesn't mean I can't also spend the remaining dollars and a couple of days per week trying to make sure my family is ready to confront whatever improbable calamity I think they might need to face in the worst case.
The title of that presentation is ‘turning fossil fuels to food’. Fossil fuels are over, finished so the video is probably not forward looking. I will watch it later anyways ...
- Firefox 62b5: 1429

- Chromium 68: 5722

- Safari 11.1.1: 6500

On 2017 Macbook pro running macOS 12.13.5 on battery power
Interesting. I guess it doesn't violate the merchant agreement...

...which makes sense in that a valid debt can't be invalidated by a chargeback. But it doesn't turn an invalid debt into a valid one either.

And if you have a contract that you cancel in accordance with the contract (e.g. making the required request to the required phone number then limiting your call to a reasonable duration after doing so), charging back charges for periods after your payment obligation ends shouldn't give them a valid basis to send you to collections, contract or no contract.

They would be unable to prove a valid debt in that case, so a dispute with the debt collector and/or credit bureaus would get it off your credit.
You're right.. It's not some kind of laborious process though. Having grown all these things (except corn) hydroponically, the problem is heavily overstated. For personal production, you basically have to do nothing. For commercial production, you could turn on a fan.
The best way to get apps on Linux
> My dad used to use "I'm unemployed and have no money" on telemarketers, with some success.

I've tried telling the truth, I've tried assertively stating I'm not interested, I've tried so many things...

...at this point, when I pick up a call, I wait for the other side to introduce themselves, and if they call with an unsolicited offer, I just hang up without saying anything. Am I a bad person?
Electricity will essentially be free within 30 years
He was wrong. Subnets exits for two things. Physical segmentation of networks and consequently limiting the scope of broadcasts.

With a /8 (especially with desktop machines) the broadcast would definitely be a major bottleneck in the network.
This is one (of many) areas where the NBA has done it right. Social media, clip sharing, fan produced highlight reels on YouTube - all good.

No surprise that the NBA is huge and fast growing in younger demographics!
Deliver and update all apps for Linux and IoT
I haven't read GEB yet, but I had a similar experience reading "I Am A Strange Loop." It was too prosy, too long, too many examples and too obvious for anyone that has thought about these things before. It didn't go deep enough or propose mechanisms for anything. If you've never thought about any of these things before you might find it cool, otherwise it's a verbose rehash of things that have been said in better ways.

https://altreason.com/i-am-a-strange-loop/
ICODashboard: A Big Welcome to 7 New ICO Clients
John Carmack: "There is wisdom that only comes from complete product cycles -- no amount of job hopping can provide it." [1]

[1] https://twitter.com/id_aa_carmack/status/761986843319660548?....
Depends on what you call "State of the art"? Cutting edge logic processes are a domain of Intel, TSMC, Samsung, GF and the incumbents in China.

But for everything else, like IoT, Sensors, Power, you can find plenty of companies and subsidiaries in Germany: Infineon, Bosch, GlobalFoundries, NXP, Dialog, Elmos, Melexis, Xfab, AMS, IDT (ZMDi), TI, Intel, TDK (Micronas) and many smaller ones.
Firejail can sandbox any type of processes
He doesn't save as much, though. The FBer could save the IBMer's gross income every year.
I think this would be territory covered by the dead sea effect: http://brucefwebster.com/2008/04/11/the-wetware-crisis-the-d...

IME this is in full swing at just about every company complaining about job hoppers.
"Finally, the CEO of a brokerage house explained that he had nearly completed building his own underground bunker system and asked, “How do I maintain authority over my security force after the event?”

The Event. That was their euphemism for the environmental collapse, social unrest, nuclear explosion, unstoppable virus, or Mr. Robot hack that takes everything down.

This single question occupied us for the rest of the hour. They knew armed guards would be required to protect their compounds from the angry mobs. But how would they pay the guards once money was worthless? What would stop the guards from choosing their own leader? The billionaires considered using special combination locks on the food supply that only they knew."

Wouldn't the guards simply torture you until you opened all of the locks?
You should start charging a fee. JOaaS.
This study was just on grain-based diets, which aren't the first thing that comes to mind when I think of cricket harvesting.
> When my turn came... I just said "I'm moving to england and I don't know a single person here who might want to absorb my contract".

I actually came here to say the same thing. I realized “I’m moving” was the best way to get results in these situations when I was actually moving out of the country for a bit. It’s like a magical incantation that immediately gets them to stop trying to upsell or retain you, no questions asked.
> bunch of FreeBSD devs are willing to do most of the work

I mean the whole thing is on github. I'm sure electron will be happy to merge a pr.
That's insane. Unfortunately politicians will not touch this issue because most people either have insurance which covers these idiotic baseless fees or indigent people go to the emergency room and avoid these fees as well. But the poor sap who wants to do things the right way gets effed over like these people. What a shame.

I don't care who, Bernie, Trump, some socialist, take this cause (hospital billing) and have them come correct. They need someone to get tough and straighten them out.

I mean, it's legalized robbery. Nothing less.
That changelist is fucking huge! It took me a proper 20 minutes to just read through each new feature.
Brilliant. Freaking. Law. I hope this applies to scammy gym memberships, Comcast, Equifax, TransUnion (their scam of signing you up), newspaper subscriptions etc.
GitHub Windows Edition, Custom CSS to Mimick Windows Classic
I disagree. It's more similar to how you can "inject" your scripts into fiddle.jshell.net (via JSFiddle), googleusercontent.com (via Google Translate), etc.

Have a look at https://fiddle.jshell.net/pvcL4mjh/1/show/light/

Would you call that XSS / did I just steal JSFiddle's trustworthiness?
My oldest bumped his head as a baby, went to the ER, he had a great time seeing and visiting with the nurses and doctors (he couldn't speak, but he knew how to get a response). I think it cost us $150 (with insurance) rather than 51k...

On the other hand his birth was near $200k because he was born early and had a long hospital stay (he's fine now, long term premature outcomes are amazing). Nothing we could have done to prevent it, know it was coming, it would have financially destroyed us at that time had we not had insurance.

The US healthcare system is borked.
Pratham OS: Linux distro based on Debian Sid
Do these guys ever have, "fun"?

I don't feel that they ever have fun.
Thankfully the average American worker doesn't live in Hong Kong and feel like they need to drive!
The best thing to do is issue a chargeback. You tell the credit card company that you 1) tried to cancel, and they wouldn't do it; and 2) you did not get any service from them since you tried to cancel.

They have to pay you back AND THEY GET CHARGED an additional $20-$30 that your credit card company takes from them as punishment.

Please don't abuse chargebacks unless the merchant deserves it, though.
No?
Fun fact: young children who have finger tips cut off sometimes can regrow them

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2013/06/10/1903854...
So, having received an offer that you're inclined to accept, you will never be swayed by a counteroffer from your current employer? I suppose the logic is sound, especially if you know you aren't hard to replace.

I feel I need to at least go through the motion of entertaining the counteroffer, though. Otherwise they'll think I don't like them or be offended and I'll have maybe burnt a bridge. Of course, for the same reason, I was never looking for another job. That offer came to me on its own.
Yes. That's also what I thought. I'm not sure why you think I thought otherwise.
> standard cookie-cutter $150-160k job offers

Cookie-cutter offers?? Unless this is the Bay Area, I don't think there's such a thing as $160k jobs just floating around. The top 10 tech companies barely even offer that as base for a good software engineer (excludes stock & bonus).

> religious micromanaging Agile crap

Definitely agree with you there though
> 1. regular employees don't get a "winter break"

We're talking about the EU here, everyone gets 4-6 weeks off a year
I doubt that many job hoppers quit their job before finding the next one. People that do this are probably very good at networking and being unemployed would reduce their connected-ness into the squishy network.
Ofo is what I meant- The yellow ones. Thank you for the correction.
I'd guess that his model of thoughtful kindness and calmness helped many kids (without any such neighbors) sense that alternatives to their emotional environment existed. And that they could hold onto their inner authorities.