skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's "stories" like these I would read as a kid very early 80's, probably in Popular Mechanics magazines or similar.

Depicted in these magazine articles and artist renditions: in the future (certainly by the 2020s!), we will have bases on the Moon, maybe even Mars, and rotating space stations... all the while wearing stylish futuristic fashions (yet still looking very much 70's), the women sipping from glasses of champagne and laughing to each other while in the background the men play some yet-to-be-invented handball game.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10762-018-0497-z
Not going to add too much, but I love how well HN tackles this important yet so often skewed discussion.

In my opinion, companies that struggle to find great candidates almost always aren't competing for talent:

- paying well

- offering great benefits

- taking time to write great job descriptions

- recruiting through a variety of channels

- putting thoughtful effort into every step of the recruiting process

A lot of the top comments point to OP missing the mark on some of the above points.

From there, the discussion delves into some of the finer points I hadn't fully considered:

- EU vs US differences for comp and readership

- Seniority/stack expertise on HN vs elsewhere

- Hiring for non-technical roles on HN
Thanks! I will definitely think about presenting a more specialist image and asking people I already know esp. family.
It's likely you're mistaken about not having a network. Are you married? Does your spouse occasionally leave the house? I've known people who got jobs because they went to their partner's company party and brought up what they did. Most the "network referrals" people get are from people they've never met, but who are their best friend's hairdresser or who've once talked to their ex-boss at a conference or something. If you're in a conversation with somebody that progresses far enough that you get their name, tell them what you do and that you accept clients.

You could also cold-email other freelancers -- usually freelancers in an area all know each other and tend to have times when they can't take on new work but some clients still show up.

If you're in something web oriented (you do say React/TypeScript) consider partnering with a freelance designer.
And the Museo Galileo https://www.museogalileo.it/en/, a History of Science museum is within a 10 minutes walk. with telescopes of Galileo, items of the Medici family, and so on.

My family didn't want to go in and I had to hurry as they waited outside, but I think people here would appreciate it a lot.
I'm guessing not a lot.

Japan is notorious for very formal work culture, very long "working" hours (really, "working" just means "staying in the office" - it's customary not to leave the office before your boss does, but perfectly acceptable to spend the waiting time playing solitaire).

It's one of these countries where "an engineer is just an engineer" and management, even if it's middle management, is god.

They do need tech workers, which is probably why this propaganda piece got published. But I doubt they're getting many applicants, except maybe from 3rd-world countries as shown in the article.
Thanks, for the feedback. I will improve this and link to the english version next time as well as include info on team and salary.
Well, AMD currently has better CPUs for high-performance computing, so OP's users would benefit from this public service announcement, if anything.
Check out the dance moves of this songbird neuroscientist
> I'm not blaming Intel for this, I don't know if Intel could have foreseen the problem.

The potential security issues with out of order processing were noted publicly at least as far back as 2007. The problem is that, on the whole, the entire industry doesn't really give a shit about security until it's too late, which is exactly the wrong time to start.

I don't foresee this changing anytime soon. It will be interesting to see the downside of AI. Or maybe terrifying is a better word for it, since it could foreseeably include personal physical security. But before that time comes, people who think like me are still just pointy-headed paranoid security losers, I reckon.
I don't know about general F# adoption, but I've used it for personal projects and I quite like it. I'm trying to convince work to let us use it in production.
If the craft is packed with instructions on how to get back to us, maybe we could get some sort of exchange going over multiple centuries.

On the other hand, if someone were to sent similar craft to us, would we even have a reasonable chance of detecting something that small without knowing exactly where, when and what to look for?

ʻOumuamua may have been a probe, yet even with our suspicions about it being something out of the ordinary, we more-or-less collectively yawned and went about our daily strife without making any effort to collect it.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ʻOumuamua
I would really like to buy fewer pairs of shoes. As I've been walking to work lately, I've worn out about two pairs a year. Seems unreasonable. I can only conclude that modern shoes were not designed to be walked in.
18 September 2018: International Day Against DRM
Definitely. It's a labor sellers market in that space. Ironically, for lower skill labor, candidates have to jump through hoops :)
Those were some exceptional children.
What does genius look like in math? Where does it come? Dandelin spheres [video]
Relevant (and quite enjoyable) read: The Three Body Problem (novel) https://www.amazon.com/Three-Body-Problem-Cixin-Liu/dp/07653...
If it was really about the confusion, people would stop taking them to the wood shed after they cleared things up. But that's not what's happening. People are still railing about this and talking about the "bait and switch". I haven't seen a single comment or tweet that said "ok, we understand now, thanks for clearing that up."
hope the space dust does not wipe off the writing on the front: "this is not a laser powered bullet to destroy your planet, should totally just fly past, we did the math"
You assume you're back at the search results. As OP proved that's not necessarily the case.
> But coming from a background with C/Javascript, the syntax is definitely hard to understand.

I work with Haskell fairly regularly, and have experience with a few other languages (Python, Racket, C/C++, Java, etc.), but I definitely agree with this sentiment. I am not a fan of OCaml's syntax at all.

I haven't had a chance to check out Reason yet though, so maybe I'll spend some time playing with that soon!
Cellular base stations allow a database of SIM cards to be created. This could be considered a superior tracker to advertisement IDs of Apple and Google. This is because the ID is retained between user equipment changes. This information is exchanged before actual data transmission, i.e., it does not matter even if the actual data would be encrypted.

I think it's inevident that the more precise geolocation data of 5G (due to an increased base station installations required by the mmWave frequencies) will be sold to advertisers. Essentially, Australia is betting that European manufacturers will respect privacy better than China - and sure, at least European companies do not need to hand over their data to authorities. Having seen surveillance implementations installed in Chinese IoT devices, it is more or less true that China is at least keeping the doors open for an intertwined database where information from various different Chinese companies can be built.
Thanks for the response! esp. for the point about knowing what my clients look like. I have a vague idea, but I think maybe I need to work more on making that image clearer and more focused.
If that's the case would it be ok to publish these results in US-based websites such as Phoronix, even if they're done by other country's citizens in that other country?
For this reason, x % 0 should be x.
Can anyone explain why OCaml seems easier for people from non-FP backgrounds than Haskell?

I tried Haskell and PureScript and didn't understand a thing.

I tried OCaml and Reason and it felt rather easy to learn.
I don't think you mean "lest" here -- they didn't threaten them to prevent them from increasing their output, they threatened them "unless" they increased their output.
Do Argos' have showrooms or open floors? My experience, 10 years back, was limited to a looking through a catalogue, punching in a barcode into their stock checking device, and waiting for our number to appear on the screen in the waiting area after having paid.
"Looking at the wrong thing" is a matter of perspective. As a user, I couldn't care less that you saved money by writing a bloated web app. I care about the resources I have, which includes my own time, energy, money, computer, battery etc. In those terms, there are clear disadvantages to Electron based software.
This appears to be blogspam. Not sure why another poster got downvoted for identifying it as such.
It's certainly possible if the probability of developing intelligent life is Infinitesimal.
I think xenophobia is a great marker for racism.

Here's a wiki article for racism and xenophobia in South Korea: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism_in_South_Korea
China Bans All Crypto Events After Spending 3B to Fund Blockchain
Don't buy popular shit. Buy local products. Learn to quit.
Nope!

(I meant formal security training, FWIW. Also I know that feeling of "Oh boy, I just pissed off the internet, didn't I?" and wanted to remind him it'll blow over soon. It's not a huge deal, and he'll come out of it with +reputation.)
Government is cancer.

It is used to wreck people up, not help them.
Love the web ide features in this release!
What makes VSCode more “real” in your opinion?
> What makes you say that?

Because Evan has shown no interest in implementing a feature like what I'm describing.
"How’s F# adoption?"

Based on inferences it has a small, enthusiastic and talented userbase and has still language core developers bankrolled by Microsoft.

There's been some worried discussion whether Microsoft wants to continue investing in it or not, e.g.:

https://www.reddit.com/r/fsharp/comments/91gg6j/is_microsoft...

Personally I hope they would continue the investment.
This article introduces more questions than it answers to me.

How do you travel that fast & not disintegrate or crash into something?

Was Mr Manchester's experiment done using a laser to launch?

Has this been done before at any scale? Even pushing an item a few hundred feet up?

Is there a timeline for this to even get attempted?

I think it sounds really awesome but that makes me wonder if any of this is feasible soon. Sending tiny Raspberry Pi like devices into space at fast speeds that could do cheap experiments more quickly, that would be nice.
Fred Brooks vs. Dijkstra? (2015)
After it blows up I'm sure they'll claim it's the former, regardless of the latter.
Google even has a settings options where all SERP links open in a new tab. I personally use it myself.
food is very hard to study.

There are two possible conclusions from a study. First is "despite our best attempt our subjects did not follow the assigned diet". Second is has real conclusions, but the subjects are confined to either a prison cell or hospital bed and so the conclusion doesn't apply to you. This is a little cynical, but the point is valid.

The other problem is human lifespans are a long time. How does eating/skipping food X at 15 affect your lifespan - such a study would need millions of participants that are followed for as much as 80 years. It is very hard to run such a study, and the standards of science have been changing (for good reason!) over time such that it is unlikely any such study even if it completes would be publishable by whatever the current standard are.

To get around the second science studies markers. It is a statistical fact that people with high LDL tend to have heart attacks and die younger than people with normal LDL. However there are people with normal LDL who have heart attacks and die young; and also people with high LDL who live to an old age without ever having a heart attack - why we do not know. We know that saturated fat raises LDL, but we don't know if that is actually a factor in heart attacks - but lacking anything else to go on we assume saturated fat makes a heart attack more likely - this could be false but we have nothing better at this time, and are unlikely to find anything better.
Multi-user auth is another exciting development, and it just hit RC status

https://developers.home-assistant.io/blog/2018/07/02/trying-...
“After a decade-long battle, the Supreme Court ruled recently that Chung, the daughter of a Japanese woman and a South Korean man, who was born in Japan and has lived all her life here, could not take the test to become a supervisor at a public health center because she was a foreigner."

Japan-born Koreans live in limbo https://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/02/news/japanborn-koreans-li...
Thinking about it more... you're absolutely right about me being mistaken about not having a network. I still have family who would help.
Doesn't look like your plan worked out.
I guess:

s/concurrency/contention/
This. No one would have a problem paying 30% if the store was actually providing some value. Instead, we get no ability to demo. We get no ability to version - I'll continue supporting you for free for version X, but I'll cut you a deal for version Y if you already own version X. No, they make it convoluted for both the consumers and the developers. It just sucks all the way around. And we pay 30% for this mess.
Unusual Strategies for Fighting Dementia
I have total sympathy for you, but I don't know how to resolve your problem. Maybe start a cooperative or worker owned business?
For those of us who aren't familiar with the story, the RTM exploding the internet reference is this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_worm
> You might want more contributors (that can fun). But you don't really want more users who don't contribute back.

IMO this is a huge problem for user facing applications (e.g. desktop applications like gimp). They have great appeal to fairly non-technical users which creates a huge support load and they often have complex internals which appears to repel many first time contributors. I know I've been watching projects like LMMS (a music creation environment) for years and it seems like a constant struggle to keep enough contributors such that the support load doesn't burn out everyone involved.

I don't know that avoiding marketing is the solution here since that just would mean that commercial alternatives would evolve quickly while the project would die off due to a lack of new contributors, though it might be one of the tools to change the contributor:support ratio.
Anyone else read this? While there are still a lot of questions, the overall idea of stepping away from medication and into immersive environments as less invasive solutions is incredibly beautiful. I'd be really interested to see some data on success rates for those who were kept on best rest versus the active approach taken here. The focus seemed to be more on stimulation and sensory engagement. My mind started to drift into ways we could use technology not to change this process, but make it richer. Not going to lie, got emotional at that clip of “Helga Mathijssen-Maas, a care giver, dancing with Ietje Geelen to songs from the Dutch music director Andre Rieu in her room at the Vitalis Peppelrode care facility.” It got me thinking about ways we help patients/peoples experience these moments better. Maybe its a project involving DSP or spatial sound? I don’t really have the answer, just found it inspiring. Also very into that robotic seal! Wondering what others think.
I'm going to take issue with this, because I see this line of argument a lot on HN recently.

There is a fundamental difference between "like in kind" and "like in severity".

Do the US and China both monitor telecom? Yes.

Has the US built a national firewall? No.

Do the US and China both have legal processes for acquiring court ordered telecom intercepts? Yes.

Is the US legal system wholly subordinate to political goals? No.

Do the US and Chinese governments lean on companies to comply with their wishes? Yes.

Do US companies survive at the whim of the US government and generally lack independent legal recourse to fight pressure? No.

If you want to go through point-by-point with what's similar between Chinese and US data monitoring regimes, I'm happy to do so. But they aren't close to the same.
Why We Built a Dull Stream Processor
Nobody is thinking about security and AI. I wonder how long it will be before someone images a neural net embedded into some product and then figures out how to trick it into behaving in some way that attacks some internal part of the program hosting it. I'm imagining things like images than when shown to image classifiers cause the classifier neural network to buffer overflow the conventional program hosting it and inject shellcode.

Many types of neural networks are Turing-complete and are written in C by academics with no security experience. Fun times ahead.
Oh yes, 100%, but someone had to point it out :) One of my biggest fears is that some of my public stuff has obvious mistakes but nobody tells me out of politeness!
I have been obsessing over Oumuamua as well, but there's just not that much information, and we won't be getting more. Then there was the fact that it was tumbling and wasn't emitting anything - one would expect radar scans or radio transmissions, or at least something.
I started this course but really struggled with their strong accents (although subtitles are available)

Guess I know how the rest of the world feels now watching American tutorials.
Hiking, which eats even quality shoes because sliding down a mountain side tends to pull apart rubber. These need to be able to go through creeks, slide down mountains, and still be comfortable to walk up to 20 miles in.

Martial arts, because mat shoes need to be soft enough to not injure a sparring partner, but still get used aggressively for hours every week.

Semi-formal shoes for work and going out.

Casual shoes for mowing the lawn in or other house work.

Flat-footed trainers for the gym, kept clean of any oil or other hazards (which is why they can't overlap with the lawn mowing shoes).

A pair of decent, well shined shoes for truly formal occasions (weddings, funerals).

Water shoes, for swimming in water holes and going tubing down the local river.

Note here that I don't run, which apparently truly eats shoes, and all of my shoes are high quality except my lawn mowing/house work shoes, because they're exposed to all sorts of crap like paint. These are just the shoes I've bought this year - my safety boots are still in decent condition, and it's likely my dress shoes will be last many more years.
I don't see how this follows.

All countries have spy agencies - they usually have two roles to spy on other people, and prevent other people spying on them. This seems like a pretty reasonable state of affairs.

How does the fact Australia spies on China (one presumes) mean they shouldn't worry about China being able to spy on Australia?
No, you're getting downvotes from me at least for 'if even 1% of people are terrorists' - great, citation needed. I have zero evidence that 1% of any population are terrorists. This is the stupid Don Jr. 'what if a bowl of skittles had some poisoned skittles would you still eat skittles' line. Without data on percentage of terrorists in the general population it's meaningless. Further, abusive, hardline policies tend to generate more discontent and ill will within a group leading to yet more terrorists. You take a marginal family (one that's not radical but in a region with radicals) and your oppressing power kills off half that family or sends them to the camps because 'terrorism in the area, 1% whatever' I'd imagine you've just radicalized half the city.

You're getting downvotes specifically because you have simplified a complex issue down to a root that doesn't line up with our decades of experience with terrorism in the middle east using numbers you made up.

This isn't a YouTube comment section.
On the layout-you make your "pages" trigger a scroll, but don't allow me to scroll my self. Not a fan. If you want to use something like that, and approximate a book, I would be more comfortable with a horizontal animation. With that I have less of an expectation to be able to scroll, and it _feels_ more book like.
I like those stories.

Although in this case, it's possible to disable power saving.

(or have they stopped that, too?)
Part of CC is that it’s unclear how it operates with the myriad of other project licenses we use.

But the main issue is that we contribute back to projects, even as minor patches or fixes. Contributing source to a proprietary, commercial code base has legal issues of nonpaid work and contribution.

And finally, “pay them to use it” is very ambiguous. How much to pay them? Is it the same amount today as tomorrow? I pay for support for substantial projects like RedHat, but is support included in licensing CC?

These questions are ambiguous. Perhaps in time they will get easier to answer. But this is exactly why I would rather use AWS with its “so clear its confusing” pricing [0] where I know exactly what I’m getting.

[0] https://aws.amazon.com/elasticache/pricing/
You can most of the time choose your enemies and your allies. This is just one choice more.
This book series fundamentally changed how I view the question of life in the Universe.

I really loved the series. I can see why some others weren’t into it, but I think it’s been my favorite books I’ve read in years and years.
I initially thought that an "average american" may have included parents buying shoes for children, in which case 7 would seem less unreasonable, but the link says that children are included in the average.

Growing feet, play, sports, and back-to-school means that parents are buying shoes for kids every couple of months.

7.4 pairs of shoes per year seems absurd, but it may be a case of a less fortunate person not being able to afford the initial high cost of longer-lasting footwear (aka: The Boots Theory of Socioeconomic Unfairness)

https://www.thebillfold.com/2015/03/to-terry-pratchett-who-g...

Even though it comes from a fiction fantasy novel, I think there may be some truth to it. I have two pairs each (brown and black) of oxford shoes and Red Wing boots for work. I was able to afford really high quality shoes and have had the oxfords resoled three times in 11 years, with the boots being durable enough that they haven't yet needed new soles after five. I also have the time to spend a leisurely Sunday evening polishing them, to keep them in good shape.

I also don't care about wearing the same four pairs of shoes, one after another in a predictable cycle, all of the time.

Someone who can't afford USA-made leather boots and Italian-made Oxford dress shoes, and also lacks the time to care for them, may be stuck in a cycle where their cheaper footwear wears out quickly.

Even for sneakers, I pay a premium for USA-made New Balance sneakers, and they last an entire year after which I relegate them to lawn mower duty and replace them. They are old man shoes though, so their aesthetic may not be for everyone. If I ran, I would have to replace them more often-- my wife runs and she replaces her running shoes multiple times per year.

Then again, I don't have a job in the service industry where I'm standing the entire time and walking 10 miles every day so I may have unreasonable expectations about how long shoes should last.

So it could be socioeconomic unfairness, or it may be rampant consumerism, or it may be a combination of the two....
Yeah it can't have been so low can it? But it was double digits. Anyway, the fastest ones would put their eye right up to the scope, so the pulse would have the largest signal right into their eye. I thought that was clever.