skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is it just me or has Amsterdam/Netherlands been on Hacker News (and other outlets) more and more... almost feels like a weekly occurrence now. I've visited Netherlands last year and was fully impressed with their entire culture.
+ most likely means they can go down a few k
About: "more holistic human interactions especially over meals".
This my own personal opinion and I am not offering any advice or passing judgement:
"If you feel like checking out HN's over lunch more compelling than talking to your colleagues... it's because you find your colleagues not very interesting to interact with".
Shunning social interaction in such circumstances is rude and not a desiderable trait, but the desire to do so means just that: you are not very interested in the people you go around with.
Ask yourself why it is so, and try adressing that problem instead.
sentry.io
> (this is a ancient joke between Dutchies and Belgians)

It might be universal. People here (in the province of Alberta) always joke about roads in the neighbouring province of Saskatchewan. But it also might be because there are more than 1 million Canadians of Dutch origin :)
This is interesting - many of the comments here are correctly asking "what if you don't know an expert to help vet the engineers and the system?" I feel the same way when trying to find dentists or accountants. I simply don't know how to know who will perform completely!

So, here is my pitch: if you don't have technical expertise, and you realize that you need someone to help understand just how the heck to get started with technology, what to build, and determine if you even need engineers, then hire me! I'll help!

https://www.jaygoel.com/consulting/
The only reason is to be backwardly compatible with the Go community calling what they have at the minute packages. It is foreign to D developers too where packages are at the top level, then modules, etc.
Like links in a chain, they are all required for the chain to hold.
Devon Zuegel on Cities as Superpowers, Writing, Theories on Flaking
Growing up in Oklahoma, we used to play Land Run as a game in school.
Agree with this. Same applies to any expert: how do you identify an experienced marketer? Or accountant?
Go modules are a step in the right direction but still doesn't protect you for when a developer deletes their repository!
Exactly, this isn't a difficult thing, it's like real estate. You list higher then go from there. If you get a full priced offer the list price was too low.
Tabs vs. spaces ++
See, your attitude is exactly what is wrong with Silicon Valley culture. You’re joking about technology to give people social bliss seizures for profit, hahaha hilarious. Meanwhile millions of people are actually dying from addiction, and not just heroin.

A member of my immediate family died by suicide recently. She suffered from massive self esteem issues as a result of chronic childhood abuse. She turned to Facebook for social validation, as one does, but was more prone to serious addiction due to her trauma. I’m not saying Facebook killed her, but it certainly added rocket fuel to the fire of her downward spiral.

I encourage you to reconsider your glib attitude towards dangerous addictions. It’s not so funny when people you love die from this stuff.
Ask HN: Has Intellectual Ventures Gone Dark?
A few years ago they were going TED talks, blogging like crazy about saving the world from malaria and creating power from spent nuclear fuel. And, most notably, earning a reputation for being a no-holds-barred patent troll.

So... what's happened to them lately?
I remember that column. I was always particularly fond of the first bumper stickers cited "π seconds is a nanocentury"
Then how about "... is a problem for you guys?"
Their response may be "oh, not at all" (being the highly successful company they are selling you on).
No, we got jaywalking laws and our rights reduced.
This I agree with, but it was not in the book (I might add a bit about it in my own comments).
Thanks for suggesting this: the author says that lonely people have unrealistic expectations about human relationships but he does not mention that movies, tv, novels and comics could have intensified this a lot. So we could probably blame literature/entertainment more than "Social Media"
Ask HN: Are meetings painful for you? If so, how would you improve them?
In my team we have recurrent meetings such as demos, retro and planning. During those meetings most people are absent minded, often including myself.

Do you experience a similar situation at your job? If so, how would you like to improve it?
So what happened after 2014?
Maybe a part of the price difference can be explained by the fact that corn (maize) uses the C4 photosynthesis vs the less efficient C3 used by soy and rice.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/C4_carbon_fixation#Plants_th...
> Kubernetes: The deprecated tool Godep + a pile of Make and Bash (which is the Go-est thing I've ever heard in my life)

I haven't written Go in a couple years, but I lol'd. This exactly what we used to do, except replace Godep with glide.
On Reading Hypertext
I would like to see a similar stats, but with an analysis of code instead of English prose. It will be really nice to see how much symbol usage affect us.
I don't see how that can be partisan, and I'm not even sure in which direction you might mean.

But my comment was about Carter: he took an unpopular decision because he thought it was in the best interest of the nation, whatever the personal cost. And indeed, as I said, Reagan got the credit. Even if you think Volcker was wrong, or even made things worse, my comment still stands.

That National Interest link you sent is about the "Volcker rule", a 21st-century position decades after he was Fed chairman and having nothing at all to do with the topic (and the article from The Week mentions that people these days think of Volcker more for that).

The article from The Week supports the point as well (that says that Volker's action put an end to the stagflation that resulted from years of not doing anything about the problem), and says Reagan did precisely the wrong thing.

The Economist article does tepidly raise the idea that Volcker may not deserve the level of credit he gets ("Would those [non-Volcker] factors have been sufficient to take the air out of growing inflationary pressures? Perhaps not."). The consensus is of course that it worked; I do think that topic deserves more analysis.
Speaking of Amsterdam Airport and noise pollution, through the whole airport there are speakers that repeat the phrase "Mind your step" every 10 seconds of so.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uTySV1Gkh4&t=28s

I've had to spend quite a bit of time at the airport unfortunately (say 6 hours each time) and it felt almost like Chinese water torture. I could hear it for the next day after leaving the airport.

I find it very hostile.
Humm one is cardiology book (in french) by jacques de praepe (I bought it), the others I don't remember, a mix of pubmed publications, lab textbooks on researchers webpage, youtube videos.
I really like PlantUML, because you can just define diagrams as plain text.

I use the VS Code plugin for PlantUML + Markdown - easy generation of PNG for use on GH.

Needless to say: works best with UML diagrams, but also supports general diagrams (untested by me).

http://plantuml.com
I believe you've made a false equivalence when comparing software development to the management of a restaurant. Most people have basic knowledge of food preparation and distribution. They do not, however, have an understanding of the software development cycle.
Having fun with the police is never a good idea, but they'll have to grab you for something other than cannabis, as Belgium has a 'gedoogbeleid' (policy of tolerance) concerning soft drugs.

If :

* You are adult i.e. 18 or more

* You own at most 3 grams or 1 plant

* You don't deal

* You don't cause minors to use drugs

* You aren't high in a car

then your usage of cannabis has the lowest priority, which basically means you're not getting prosecuted. In practice, they don't do anything against non-dealing non-annoying usage even if you are severely above these limitations.
I've been really impressed with the last few years. I still hold on to some little bit of skepticism, but it's shrinking more with every year of their open source + Linux work.
You might find https://www.aosabook.org/en/ghc.html interesting, which gives an overview of GHC and the decisions they made around it.

I haven't heard anything about obstacles for high assurance, but the runtime is definitely considered stable, and rarely needs any components updated AFAIK.
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It's time you stopped posting these tedious harangues, which baselessly insinuate corruption while sneakily pretending to be fair-minded ("cannot prove any wrong-doing of course").
I'm mainly convinced due to first-person experience, but there is also research on this:

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081007123647.h...
I must admit I was counting on someone to do this, but I am happy this is actually igniting some interesting discussion, I will update my piece later and link to this thread.
> Having to carry it around inside myself as though I am it, because nothing else besides myself, others like myself, and actual computers can test the understanding.

I think that is an overly simplistic view. Perhaps the way to think about this is not an isolated fragment in the form of an abstraction but rather a product you can hold your in hands. You can test your understanding of that product in various ways and use it perform various tasks beyond which it was designed to achieve. These processes require problem solving and creativity which are forms of originality. Originality is a very lonely place, but its great when it solves a problem and reveals a reward. What is the greater virtue: solving for loneliness or solving for the problem?

This is better explained in the introduction to Nicomachean Ethics. http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%...

Essentially a tool is of use for its own sake, an intermediate use, or existing solely for the use of something else. That which is of use for its own sake has the highest utility value while that which is only existent to benefit something else has the lowest utility value.

It seems, though, your thoughts are more concerning potential unity around theoretical concepts. For that I recommend reading upon Intellectual Virtue as an achievable ethic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicomachean_Ethics#Book_VI:_In...
I guess it depends on whose definition you use; Norwegian papers at the time quoted experts (presumably a professor of international law, though I can’t remember) who claimed that legally speaking, having troops in uniform venturing into another country counted as an invasion.

Considering all the notes being passed back and forth afterwards, the conscripts must be kicking themselves for not keeping quiet about it; they weren’t observed by Finnish border guards; rather, they notified their officers when returning to base that they’d crossed the border; the army notified the DoD, which notified the Foreign Department, which notified the Finns, who said ‘Huh?’
No mention of Real Time Live [1]? That was the most exciting session in SIGGRAPH this year! The combination of insane real time rendering and real time capture is going to make for some amazing graphics experiences in the near future.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPam5CHFQMQ
I wouldn't be surprised if compliance is nil. I don't live in India, but have a name that is common in that part of the world (moreso Pakistan, to be honest) and a Gmail address that reflects that. My address gets signed up for different web services in India & Pakistan on nearly a daily basis. At least 50% of the time, the email address of the person signing up is not even verified, so the account is immediately enrolled and I start receiving all sorts of confidential information which is not intended for me (phone bills, travel receipts, banking information, etc). I have almost never had success contacting these companies to let them know they're sending this information to a random individual. They often do not have "unsubscribe" options and, as you mentioned, if they list a support address it often bounces or a human reply is never encountered. Obviously I'm generalizing here, but my impression of the standards in that region with respect to this stuff is pretty low compared to North America. There appears to be little or no pressure to comply.
> If you read this far hoping for an answer, then I’m sorry: I don’t have a simple one. This is a difficult problem to solve. The solution is too large for a single blog post, changes every day, and differs subtly for every project.

Crazy idea, what if we found one of these people who writes these blog posts, an especially well vetted and knowledgeable one. Maybe even one who writes the frameworks and software these people are using. cough https://pragprog.com/book/phoenix14/programming-phoenix-1-4 cough

What if we took this person, and paid them money to write a bunch of blog posts about on topic, in a way that it read in a linear fashion? We could even maybe hire someone to help them, to proof read and make helpful suggestions.

We could give the knowledgeable developer a year or so to write the blog posts, then print out the blog posts, bind them together with glue, and SELL IT!

People could pay money for the well researched, well edited series of blog posts about a specific topic written by the expert. I think I'll name this blog-printed-out-onto-paper... a honkycat. After it's inventor.

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Sarcasm aside, I find people's insistence on googling and sifting through half-thought-out blog posts infuriating. I am a HUGE proponent of a well written book about a software product. Compare "Programming Elixir" to their free online book and documentation. It's night and day. And I can always look in the same place for reference, the book. Written by Dave Thomas.

A book has: ( At least ) one author, one editor, and a publisher. All of these people work hundreds of hours to produce a useful manuscript. A blog post is something a script kiddie shits out because they're trying to get their first programming job.

Yet people say the same thing: "A book?!? I can just find it on the internet" and do the same thing: "I'm sure I'm smart enough to just start writing this software without any prior experience in the language, or forethought" and make the same mistakes over and over.

Skip the blog. Read a book.
Huh. I'm very surprised to see that comment coming from Cheng Lou. React 16.3 came out in March, and the React team has been encouraging everyone to use the new context API since then. Really not sure what's behind his comment.
Ranking on Google first page of search results
A few months ago I wrote a piece of why I switched from Webflow to WordPress for blogging. After not looking at my analytics for a couple of months, I looked at it a couple days ago and saw that my piece is ranking on the first page for keywords searches such as:

Webflow vs WordPress

WordPress vs Webflow

Webflow vs WordPress 2018

etc..

And I thought I'd share my insights on how I believe I got ranked on the first page. Will probably be a few articles but here's the first one. Let me know if you got any questions or even tips!

https://www.leija.io/post/ranking-well-google-seo-technical-audit
I typed "fa"[enter] into the adress bar for a couple of weeks after quitting facebook, only to remember that I had quit.

First I felt empty, like I needed to log in, " just to see". Now, I know it was an excellent decision, I feel better and more content.
I recently went thru job search, and i found something that worked really well when companies ask for your number.

Basically say that when you have been talking with recruiters you have heard a wide range for your experience and they are better qualified to tell you what your experience is worth TO THEM. Then ask what is their range for the position?

And it's 100% true. Salary is completely driven by how much an employer values your experience so they are more qualified. Also, I had more than a 40k delta between the lowest numbers I heard vs highest. So why would I throw out a number that has a high risk of being over / under what they value the position at?

And make sure you ask up front. I had one company that said they had "great" salaries, and it turned out to be a really low number. Thankfully I asked and did not waste time with them.

Most times it is completely fine. Sometimes recruiters push back - just acknowledge and repeat yourself. If they absolutely will not move forward without a number then I would walk away.

Also sometimes recruiters will demur to share until later in the process. Up to you if you want to chance it. But definitely hold them accountable. Ask when in the process they can share, and hold them to that.

The one company that i interviewed with that was a stickler about all this is Facebook. They would not share any range no matter how much I asked. That said fortunately it's so big you can get a decent idea from Glassdoor.
Though there is an interesting update on the website of the map : there is a updated version with a patrons release in November 2018 and a global release in 2019.
The only time this has come up for me is when I was consultant from a design agency to a major airline. The airline required I achieve a FAA security clearance before I could enter their office. Normally the process takes about 2 weeks to complete, but for me it was completed in little more than an hour.
The point was to expand and diversify, so not exactly comparable.
But I was thinking of things like PBS spacetime, world science festival, royal institute lectures, and such.

We have a public service VOD-service here that hosts some content of that nature.
Please see my other comments in this thread about our current work to refactor React-Redux to use new context.

FWIW, it's not "just" about new context - there's a lot of other aspects we have to take into account, including trying to figure out how to best make React-Redux work with the upcoming "async rendering" capabilities of React, as well as the multitude of ways the community is using React-Redux beyond just the standard patterns.
Carter's speech in 1979 was prescient: http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/jimmycartercrisisof...
"We are at a turning point in our history. There are two paths to choose. One is a path I’ve warned about tonight, the path that leads to fragmentation and self-interest. Down that road lies a mistaken idea of freedom, the right to grasp for ourselves some advantage over others. That path would be one of constant conflict between narrow interests ending in chaos and immobility. It is a certain route to failure. All the traditions of our past, all the lessons of our heritage, all the promises of our future point to another path -- the path of common purpose and the restoration of American values. That path leads to true freedom for our nation and ourselves. We can take the first steps down that path as we begin to solve our energy problem."

Too bad we (US Americans) collectively picked the wrong path...

But thankfully some of us did go down the right path individually and in small groups. And so, for example, forty years later, solar power is now cheaper than coal, and electric cars are increasingly cost effective, and we know how to build super-insulated passive-solar homes in cold climates that do not require a furnace, and so on. We could have had that all decades earlier with a lot less suffering and pollution and other expenses from externalities -- and maybe had fusion power and thorium power too by now. But at least we made progress because of individuals with the same spirit of grace-full humanity, community-mindedness, persistence, and cooperation that Jimmy Carter demonstrates.
Now, the question is, were they good people because they were hired well and this enabled high-trust environment or were they good people because high-trust placed on them caused them to rise up to the responsibility?

I personally think, with no experience yet to prove it, that it is a mix of both. Meaning, you need people capable enough to react to the trust placed on them (meaning, really, normal people) but then the trust placed on them causes them to further improve.

I think most people react positively when given genuine trust, feedback, reward/punishment, encouragement.

It is also my opinion that most dev managers bring NEGATIVE value and their teams would function better without them except when there is extreme disproportion in experience and the command/control manager can carry the team that is not really allowed to do any high-leverage tasks. These are most miserable teams I have observed in the past.

This happens because most people get corrupt very quickly. Once they are promoted they suddenly get to think they must be better than their team and their decision must also be better than everybody else in the team and so they should be taking all decisions. The team feels powerless peons, stops feeling responsible for the project, morale sinks, new hires are immediately indoctrinated that this is how things work around here. This happens extremely quickly, in matter of days even, and requires much, much more experience to fix. Managers that are capable to understand and fix this are typically promoted further assuring development team stays miserable.
Oh man, there's a word for that? I think I've been overloading the word "nostalgia" by using it to mean saudade because I didn't realize there was a dedicated word for the more complicated emotional and existential side of nostalgia.
Not sure why you get downvoted haha
Interesting, but I think how much you need is none of their business at the beginning of your relationship. How much you need depends largely on your healthcare needs, child or adult care needs including educational and developmental needs, current level of debt, etc. There's also a lot of subjectivity involved - do you need to travel across the country to visit your parents? Do you need to take a $1000 webinar to refresh/expand your skills? Do you need gigabit connectivity? Do you need a fuel efficient car?

How would he have responded to one of these replies?

"I need x dollars annually. That's also how much I want."

"How much I need is a personal question that I don't feel comfortable answering. How much I want is ..."

Or even,

"How much effort do you want me to put into my work? How much effort do you need me to put into my work?"
Please don't reply to a bad comment with a worse one. Personal attacks in particular will get you banned here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
"A linked to B" is a bidirectional relationship that means "B linked to A". Any interpretation of a direction is purely imaginary.

Horse linked to carriage.

Carriage linked to horse.

Use of the word "link" at all is a often big clue which says "we're careful not to assert a causal mechanism".
No fair, say Uber drivers slapped with SFO tickets
The T2 chip also controls the secure boot functionality, I don't think that Apple would skip adding it in just because it doesn't have the touch bar.

Here is a link from Apple that says all of their Macbook Pro models have T2 chips from 2018 onward.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208862

But I still may be wrong though where did you read that the MBP without a touch bar doesn't have a T2 chip?
Friendly reminder that YouTube started off being predominately used by.. Alternative thinking /lifestyle people
Is the Trans-Siberian Railway dangerous? [video]
I'm not sure why you need to restrict constraints between tables to be based on foreign keys. I guess maybe that is a limitation inherent to SQL?

We also allow constraints over aggregations. Though our syntax does require giving the result of the aggregation a temporary "table" name so that it can be used as part of the constraint.
Make your own quadrille, graph, hex, etc. paper