skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this is the 0.1 release, so I assume there's a lot of improvement coming.
Because of both some dumb life choices earlier and some deliberate prioritizing of short term goals currently, my liquid savings that I could use to weather a long term job loss is nil and because of other priorities, I don’t realistically see myself having six months worth of living expenses in liquid savings for at least 5 years.

I was a developer during the first recession between 2000-2002, but most of our customers were utility companies so we weren’t really affected.

During the second downturn in 2008-2011, what I noticed is that the people in technology who were having a hard time finding a job were managers, and software developers who were not at the top of their game - weren’t focused on knowing the most in demand technologies. Companies had all of the power so they didn’t have to settle for people who had only 70% of the required skill.

My suggestion? Of course save, but also keep a strong network of people in the industry, keep relationships with local trusted recruiters, look at job boards and see what in demand skills are and focus on getting really good at those. If it means changing companies, do it.

The other issue because of our backwards health care system in the US where your health care is tied to your employer and the ACA is always under attack is health insurance. During the last downturn a lot of companies were only hiring contractors. While you think you can always using COBRA to keep insurance on your last job, if that company goes out of business, COBRA is no longer an object.

My wife and I optimized for that. She has a very secure government job with family benefits.

Side note: if you want to hedge your bets - save for a rainy day and save for retirement. If you’re in the US, a conservatively invested Roth IRA is ideal. There are no penalties for withdrawing the principal from a Roth IRA but if you don’t need it, you can let it grow tax free.
I find it curious that you attribute it to "progressivism"

- I stepped in dog shit

- F@kin' liberals

This doesn't have to do anything with progressivism, unless you just use it as umbrella term for everything you don't like.
The Pragmatic Programmer (Andy Hunt and Dave Thomas) is the other one that springs to mind for me.
Could you elaborate? How is this finding related?
> Even with a flagship-level phone Windows Phone is super slow

This hasn't been my experience at all. I have the absolute bargain basement Lumia 640 as a backup phone and it feels positively snappy. Perhaps it's because I have barely anything running on there?
Er yes, there is a distinction between the two.

Scenario One: I, a real, active user that discusses a variety of topics, says something someone doesn't like and twitter decides to ban/shadow ban me.*

Scenario Two: I set up a network of fake accounts to automatically tweet, dm or @mention people pushing the same thing over and over to thousands of users.

Twitter has a block/ignore function. That is all that is needed to deal with scenario one in the vast majority of cases. When companies start introducing their politics and speech preferences into a global communications platform in the form of censorship and banning, the utility of that platform drops immediately. Consider if anyone ever said something in an email or sms that someone else disagreed with, we took away their ability to use email or sms. I know it's not apples to apples since those are primarily one-to-one platforms but you can see what I mean.

Meanwhile, combating scenario two almost always has a positive effect, but apparently is too hard of a problem for Twitter and its $2b/year budget to tackle as evidenced by the complete and utter lack of progress on that front since, from what I can tell, the platforms humble beginning in 2006.

*Note this is a hypothetical, my account is and has been in good standing since I signed up but I've seen many accounts go away or be silenced in this fashion.

Edit: Had wrong date for twitters inception. Fixed.
Right? Or even an online version where you tap the space bar or something
The unknown Indian
Keep in mind your own biais. I am following liberals on twitter, and there has been a big outcry that some of those users had their account deactivated or tweets taken down while @jack is keeping famous neo-nazis on the platform (not talking of Trump supporters here, people that self-identify as nazis and white suprematist). So while it looks for you like Twitter has been becoming a liberal echochamber, to liberal it is becoming a place where neo-nazis are let free while critics are being harassed/taken down.
Consumers, soybeans lift U.S. economic growth to 4.1 percent
No problems. Cool project!
>Everyone else seems to have kept the "starships are for outside atmospheres only" trope.

Engineering a ship that can land on a planet with gravity and an atmosphere is much bigger challenge than engineering a ship that never does anything besides go into orbit. It makes it much easier to create a really, really, really huge ship. You're not going to build a Death Star that can land on a planet's surface, unless you can come up with some kind of materials that we have no idea about now. So why bother? It's easy enough to make a giant ship for interplanetary travel with smaller shuttles for landing.
For getting into DevOps, I believe The Phoenix Project (by Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, George Spafford) is pretty good.
Track-suits: Tommy Hilfiger's creepy new clothes know how much you wear them
When does white space matter in HTML? (2016)
I'm not sure why the author of the article was so adamant that the two logic chips would be hard to find. One was made by Intel, the other by NEC... the NEC one was emulated using existing code. Sounds like a 6502 variant to me.

Makes me feel like they don't know what they are talking about.
What’s a better Linux alternative than Outlook? I’ve tried Thunderbird and I’m not impressed.

I’ve noticed that a lot of Linux users equate “free” (as in price) with “better”, and this isn’t necessarily so.
Ding ding ding. The web page is so comically broken it can only be intentional. No user pages even load for me unless I do an explicit reload; the first time around, the spinner just spins endlessly.
I don't believe you're allowed to look for work in the UK while on a tourist visa.

I assume you must already be aware, but just in case, you will also have to prove that you have the means to support yourself, without working, for the entire length of your stay.
Afraid of needles? These startups are working on alternatives to syringes
We have a volunteer scheme here in the UK.

The point, probably, is consent. This sort of thing needs to be opt-in or the pitchforks come out.
And thus, according to the proposed idea to hold past politicians responsible for future side effects, there should have been a plan for the side effects.
These seem like not a bad place to start: https://membraneframework.org/guide/
“There’s always someone working harder than you.”

People hate that it’s the truth... but I think it’s really about working smart, not hard. Recovery periods are important. If you can produce the same work product in 70% of the hours of someone else, you get more recovery time which is an asset.

It also seems the refrain of “70 hour weeks” often does not mean 70 hours of coding/producing, but 70 hours of availability to respond quickly to teammates, customers, investors etc. so that you keep everyone unblocked and moving forward.
… and no scientists tried to find out why he is seemingly resistant to the virus?? That is the _real_ secret in his blood.
have they produced more profit than all their previous losses, yet?

i don't think a2tech is wrong until that has happened.
The thought of building something like this has definitely crossed my mind while trying to learn Spanish. Looks cool, I will definitely try it out!
There is tons of cobalt in the world (pun intended). In Canada alone there are at least a dozen junior miners with prospects looking for capital (there's even a town called Cobalt in Ontario from a previous mining era). It's just not economic to mine at current prices. This is a non-issue and I'm disappointed Nature published this dumb article.
Get email addresses of leads that are tweeting / following about relevant topics
I left Facebook entirely earlier this year, and haven't replaced it with any other service. I'm wondering now about my Twitter account. It's a good source for infosec and test automation news, but nothing I couldn't live without.
I'm not a heavy MS Office user. But at my current job I get to use Office 2016, while at my previous job I had to use LibreOffice. While LibreOffice is usable its just nowhere near the quality of MS Office. I take this as an example, because I think this is the tool most people will be talking about :).

As a programmer my company shelves out a few hundred dollar per year so I can use a high quality IDE. In the end this saves time and money.

If I would be a business analyst or PO I would expect the company I work for to shelve out a few hundred dollar per year for the apps I need in my day to day work. In that case it would be MS Office (and Windows).

(MS Windows Enterprise edition is only $90 per year, Office $360, that's a lot less expensive than my developer tools).

Good tools save money, and currently I can't think of anything that surpasses MS Excel, MS Word, or MS PowerPoint
The evolution of the chatterbot
Some posts in this blog under the "Development" tab are pretty nice.
https://eager.io/blog/
Unfortunately most tech valuations since the first dot-com boom have been predicated on the assumption that one company will eventually take over the world in a particular market.
The answer is... it depends.

Initially they helped us gather the info from >30 years of various accounts, then forcing us to make some assumptions - retirement dates, estimated budgets, and so on. It sounds rudimentary but was still very useful.

Longer term: prompt reinvestment of cash; advice on medical insurance planning (we were transitioning from Cobra coverage), whether to pay off selected debts early, and so on.
He was so tied to that specific voice, because that was his voice. If someone told you that today, you get a completely new voice, would you? It just so happens that this particular synthetic voice was attached to an extremely popular person, and it was his identifying trait.
The reason behind HATEOAS was that REST was in practice being watered down from how it was originally envisioned, so proponents of the original vision needed a new term.

I don't think that your origin story being "well we needed a way to tell all the practitioners they were consistently doing it wrong" is a good indicator of potential success.
> So my takeaway is that someone at the top was pissed off that he had to use an e-mail client other than Outlook and made a multi-million dollar infrastructure decision based on that.

Nah, decisions like this are usually greased much better than just by the good feeling of using Outlook again.
This was an amazing read. Thank you for sharing this!
Another fun one is that a single page load can give you a "rate limit exceeded" failure.
I want you to realize that you just said "the market can easily solve for it" followed by "done through taxes".

Either the market (which has no tax-levying power) can solve it on its own, or it can't. What you're describing is legislators fixing the market because it's stuck in a vicious circle — not the market fixing itself, let alone easily.
Physics of the interstellar and intergalactic medium by Bruce Draine for astronomy and study of the interstellar medium.
The last thing libraries need is Silicon Valley “disruption.”
This is widely accepted because they did not spend money on an enterprise sales team in their early years, yet saw enterprise adoption.
Sometimes I'll get into 'productive' first thing, at 10amish. Other times it takes a few hours, so it's random.

Once I get into productive mode I'd rather not get out of it until I'm finished, and leaving my desk for more than a few minutes, or having to concentrate of complex tasks like talking to someone at a counter, is sure to do that.
There is a huge opportunity for any new people that want to get into the game. Conservatives hate Twitter. It's turning into a left-wing cesspool. Even an account devoted completely to science will constantly show me the next hot thing that will take down Drumpf.

Gab.ai is devoted to free-speech and is able to control the bots without affecting anyone.

With regard to the first amendment, Twitter says they are the one that is speaking, not the user, when a tweet is sent, therefore it's their first amendment right to choose what to display. This is bullshit, they're not the speaker any more than a park or a phone call is the speaker when someone is talking there.

This censorship will be the demise of all Big Tech platforms as free speech alternatives pop up over the next few years.
That's the political employing the market to solve the actual. The market is the policy maker's tool. Take carbon taxes, if implemented incorrectly they may change incentives so harshly on CO2 that industries start creating more methane (a much worse GHG). This isn't "the market solving it" it's policy makers solving it because the tax base is used to fund the studies used to create the regulations necessary to harness the market intelligently. I'm not arguing against the market, far from it, but I do not think it solves things like the environment easily.
Is anything truly sustainable when we live on a planet of finite resources?
CppCast: Parallel Ranges with Christopher Di Bella
For front-end development I would recommend Eloquent JavaScript by Marijn Haverbeke - it's available for free.

Nowadays more often than not I see beginners doing mistakes that are caused by the lack of understanding of JS's syntax alone.

These are usually easily aviodable problems which still do cause the ones that have them a lot of grief.

EDIT: emphasis.
used both, hipchat and slack. both underwhelmed me. I still don't understand the hype around them, both provide their full functionality only in the browser, their clients having quite a few deficits. zulip. mentioned in another thread, looks promising, don't know if it can keep its promises
That's probably not a huge deal ultimately. Being able to get things into orbits very cheaply will make the dV cost of inclination changes much easier to bear because you don't have to haul all that fuel to orbit on your initial launch any more.

Also how many different inclinations are actually required to serve 90-95% of all launches? There's really only a handful of inclination 'classes' out there that would need to be fulfilled; 0 for geostationary, 51.6 for ISS (assuming it's still up when we build the loop), 80-90 for various Earth observation and communication satellites. If we can super cheaply launch satellites into a couple defined inclinations most customers would probably be able to make do with one of these common inclinations rather than today where they'd go with the perfect one.
While I'd love to only work 2 hours a day, it's not really feasible.
> I mean, if I'm in some 3rd world country without a reliable public transport system

Do you honestly think it's a binary choice? Either the public transport system is reliable, or it's a 3rd world country? This seems disingenuous.

Just to take an example: Southern Rail in the UK. It's notoriously unreliable, and journeys get cancelled or delayed all the time for various reasons, including strikes, weather, staff shortages and leaves on the tracks. I've saved countless hours from going to waste by keeping up to date on the schedule in real time. For this I need a smart phone. Is the UK a 3rd world country?

You have some valid points but it's like you feel compelled to reject all possible benefits put forward by OP. On this one you are objectively wrong.
I think in this case, that's not something that should happen. It's his voice, and it should die with him.

I certainly wouldn't want people putting words in my [dead] mouth after I'm gone, and I doubt he would either.
I have mixed feelings on this.

On the one hand, I feel there is some fear mongering in it. The equating of transshipping with standing in a dark alley waiting for someone to conduct an illegal transaction is disingenuous. It is what it is.

The concept of International waters recognizes that there is no one claimant with authority over the high seas. It isn't a case of a lack of political will. It's that any overt political will by one actor alone would be perceived as aggression by other major nations. International cooperation is essential difficult to build, and easy to have fall apart with the ebb and flow of popular sentiment.

Trying to reason from satellite and AIS data alone only illustrates operational patterns. Not whether the operation going on at the time is illegal or not unless the illegality is provable by geographic presence alone.

Anything that incentivizes non-participation in broadcasting a navigational aid is more than "appeal to possibility". It is a certainty that someone will eventually end up smacking into a shit running dark. It"s just like the Big Sky Fallacy. Yes there is a lot of sea out there, but there are a lot of vessels as well.

This is good exploratory work, but I would look at getting boots on the ground in terms of joining up with fishing crews to weed out illegal fishing behavior before doing anything drastic that may jeopardize the integrity of an incredibly valuable navigational aid.
I'm getting https://i.imgur.com/NrcA5v6.png
A state that thrives on the glorification of implements of violence, considers the health of women and sexuality to be subordinate to religious beliefs, and education a luxury is one I'd consider regressive. Others certainly disagree: I would not want to live in communities where their voice has any political power, and the feeling is probably mutual. So this negative signal is a win-win.
There are so many unofficial escape sequences for rendering images in modern terminal emulators. Kitty has one, as does Terminology and iTerm (both different from each other). Then there is stuff like Sixel (supported by xterm), ReGIS (also supported by xterm but it's horrible to use) and other methods from VTs of old.

I really wish there was just one standard way to render images on the terminal (like there is one standard for rendering hyperlinks on the terminal), but there's an XKCD sketch somewhere about creating a standard to consolidate standards.
Both of those are extreme opinions on different sides of the spectrum. You should have issues with both of them.

But neither of them, in and of themselves, is abuse. Yes, they might be promulgated in a way that becomes abusive (sending racist opinions repeatedly as you mention, or sending your followers to harass a PR department because they didn't include a trigger warning), but censoring either opinion, outside of abuse, falls into the same trap of playing not the responsible platform, but engaging in censorship. If you consistently censor one and not the other, then you are a biased censor.
Most cars today are scraped because the body wears out, not because the engine fails. Of course if you are reading this you probably trade in your car much sooner, and send it on down the line to poorer and poorer people, eventually the car ends up in Mexico/Central America (US/Canada), or Africa (Europe), where they keep it running until it is ~20 years old and the body fails. You probably are more ware of engine failures because you don't have any experience with a car that actually wears out, only cars where there is either premature engine failure, or is in an accident.

The only reason 15 year batteries are not recyclable are it will be 15 years before current cars get old enough to need that infrastructure. There is plenty of money to be made if you want to invest in recycling them, but you need to invest at the right time. You probably should be thinking about recycling in Central America or Africa (consider political issues before investing!), and make sure you don't over invest, lead acid batteries fundamentally need twice as much infrastructure because they are replaced twice as often.
No one said the time is ripe or that it would be easy. It’s simply a deadly disease that really doesn’t get much attention:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pancreatic-cancer-research-fund...

The US economy is $15 trillion. Beyond federal tax dollars there are likely other ways to incentivize research.
I'd add SICP.
Amazon finally lets users collaborate on lists
> Consider if anyone ever said something in an email or sms that someone else disagreed with, we took away their ability to use email or sms.

Harassing people through SMS is a criminal offence in the UK and a number of other countries.
As far as the house you live in, if you don’t plan on moving, why do you care about the value of your house? For me, getting a house with a fix rate loan was a no brainer. Rent where I was staying from 2012-2016 went up by $500 and it’s gone up another $300 since then - and I’m neither on the west coast or live in NYC.

Owning a house as a primary residence is a great inflation hedge. Besides, apartments can kick you out within a matter of weeks if you don’t pay. Banks really don’t want to foreclose on a house - especially during a downturn. You have a lot more leeway on not paying your mortgage than your rent.
Aren't all market forces in the end the result of private property and contract law? Without those, people would quickly stop being able to trust any deals they made, and would have to resort to cash, and even then only in cases where they have a high level of social trust in the person they're trading with.
They used the tech to build Google Docs.
The only way is to have more resources so that others can do what you can't/won't in order to maintain balance.

You can balance some aspects of healthy life (sleep, exercise, eat right), but that is more about maximizing than balancing.
https://mashable.com/2017/12/13/siberian-times-best-of/#EqTV...
The trouble with these things is that rockets are not that bad, at least to get into LEO.

The amount of fuel required to circumnavigate around the world on a jetliner is on the same order of magnitude of going into orbit. The spacecraft has to carry about three times as much fuel when loaded than the jetliner does (it can stop three times.) The vehicle is more expensive than a jetliner but not impossible so, the ticket price could drop to 3x to 10x what it costs to fly around the world.

The main advantage that the airliner has is that they can get you out of the airliner, check and clean the plane up in 30 minutes to an hour, fuel up, and be flying another bunch of passengers to the next destination.

If you are using throwaway vehicles you can't approach the cost of air travel. You can't do that with a Space Shuttle that takes 6 months for technicians to check out every single thermal tile.

Speculative concepts such as space elevators and scramjets don't compete against the Space Shuttle and the Saturn V, they compete against highly evolved versions of current technology, which can achieve huge cost reductions by accelerating reusability.
Rather unfortunate that "putty.org" is the first result in searches and looks a lot more legit than "chiark.greenend.org.uk" even if it (currently) links there.

I've had discussions with coworkers on why they shouldn't look up "free online json beautifier" and dump thousands of lines of crown jewels into them (http too). Meanwhile we're doing web dev and JSON responses are autoformatted in Firefox dev tools so there's an amazingly convenient and perfectly safe alternative right there...

How do we impart urgency with this kind of stuff?
Indeed. There's a reason leftist types have been escaping gradually escaping to Mastodon instances where they have much more useful content-blocking tools and aren't forced under pain of being banned to share a space with people who literally want them dead. On Twitter, a self-identifying neonazi can spout death threats, and the response to that will get the responder banned.