skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm just curious as someone in their early 30's who feels the "pull" towards management as a career longevity move.

Yeah, I answered that call. Meh, avoid if you can, unless you really, really feel that the team would do better with you leading it rather than contributing at an IC level. IOW, let's not take a good engineer and turn her into a mediocre (if you're lucky) manager.

There have been those times when a team was better off with me as a leader, rather than getting my hands dirty. But when I've been that better leader, it's because I learned from being a shitty one. And no matter how good of an engineer you might be, if you go management you are almost guaranteed to suck at your job for a while. And who wants to suck at their job?

So now I'm in my fifties, plugging away as an IC, happy as a clam in shit. I've owned and sold two businesses (turns out I don't like being a businessman, either), clawed my way to director (well, it kind of landed in my lap), but sit me down with an editor and a problem to solve, and that's where I want to be. I don't make as much money as I could, but FFS, even a kid out of college can make six figures in this industry, how much more money do I need? Happiness, OTOH, I can always use more of.

I don't worry about "aging out" of coding. I'll caveat that with the fact that when I hired on at Microsoft in the 90s, some folks thought that meant you were kinda smart. So there is the chance that I'm the rich person telling poor people to just make more money and they won't be poor anymore when I say that I don't have any more problem passing the interview and doing the job than I ever did. And I think I'm just a maybe above-average techy, despite what companies might be on my resume. But, yeah, if your most recent experience is maintaining old FoxPro applications for the last ten years, you might have a spot of trouble.
From what I remember reading a post or listening to podcast is .net core is "server-centric" and mono is "client-centric" also relative "foot-print" in size.
The prices are absolutely insane. I was prepared to pay £599 for the 2080, but £749 for a non-Ti card is a joke. It feels to me like Nvidia knows there's no competition from AMD so they can ask for literally any price and people will pay it.
I was talking with a friend yesterday. He got a position as a manager for a group of Java/Oracle devs. We started talking about how being a manager wasn't all its cracked up to be. We are coders and we are really good at what we do.

What makes coding more "fun" is the .NET framework. It had its headaches, but its a really nice and polished framework for getting things up and running. Especially with web building. .NET 4+, C#, and Core are Microsoft's message to the development world that they hear us.

Here's hoping they continue with this trend.
I completely support same-sex marriage. . . but how is this relevant to tech news & discussion?
I have so much experience with this, as do thousands of women.

Before the ACA was enacted, insurers were allowed to charge copays for birth control pills. I was paying $50/month ($600/year) for something that cost literally pennies for them to manufacture.

Generic birth control pills are one of the most common, cheapest medicines out there. I'm glad that the ACA outlawed copays for them.
> He did something almost impossible with SpaceX and Tesla. Boosters that go up and land back again? That’s nuts.

I'm trying to gauge whether "almost impossible" is literal or figurative here, given that (the) Eagle did the same sort of thing on the moon in 1969 without refurbishment between landing and take-off. Also, Blue Origin is relatively close in competition to Space X even though it might not seem like it to many. Almost impossible?
Bing folks, are you running this on Linux? Common problem a few years ago was that perf of the Linux version of Core sucked compared to Windows. The only way to fix that is through serious dogfooding. I’m wondering to what extent Microsoft is committed to such dogfood on Linux.
Wow you have really compelling arguments as to why crypto isn't collapsing! Thanks you for you insight
I feel like it sounds like a really bad idea.
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For existing sites local people tend to be in favour and see the benefits. You would have difficulty building a new site, but that is true of any large scale development and is hardly unique to nuclear. Some people are just opposed to any development and will use whatever argument makes sense to try and stop the scheme. But with political support that opposition can be overcome. But that political support needs to be economically viable for the government involved, and that is the problem.
Airtable is pretty close. It's not clear to me, though, whether it supports complex relational queries -- even after digging through the docs.

Edited: yikes, it looks like conditionals use Excel-like formulas? That's part of what I'm trying to get away from.
Yup. Americans invented it in the last couple decades and all of us thate use it, at any frequency, are losers and burnouts with shitty lives.

Edit: removed the rest of my comment, going to be hopeful and assume the reply I got was correct. Sincere apologies for not reading in better faith.
I put the project on the “IPFS” network
Sometimes the spreadsheets are the output of one system, but the input to the next: the spreadsheets of the Office of National Statistics in the UK are the final, and official output of a long chain of number wrangling, but when it comes to re-consuming them to power their new data-driven website it's a real challenge -- I wound up working on a project to allow programmatic consumption of these complex spreadsheets.

(https://github.com/sensiblecodeio/databaker for the top-level project; https://github.com/sensiblecodeio/xypath for the library I created).

Get in touch if you're interested -- dave.mckee@gmail.com
> Making an Uber clone is absolutely trivial

Maybe so but cloning Uber is absolutely not trivial.
soma ?
Which is completely and utterly irrelevant.
GoodRx is not a Pharmacy Benefit Manager (PBM) actually. A PBM negotiates prices with pharmacies to include them in their network, GoodRx does not do that to my knowledge. Instead, GoodRx offers a service that allows users to compare different coupon and membership prices so that people can chose the best available price/pharmacy combination.
My understanding is that Mono is being billed as a client framework (Monogame, Xamarin, Unity, Blazor) while Core is more for the server/systems target. To add to the confusion, ".Net Standard" is a library compilation target that should work everywhere (even the legacy Windows-only .Net Framework). Interestingly, the newly MIT-licensed Xenko game engine compiles to .Net Standard libraries which is how it supports so many platforms (via barebones launcher/shim projects for whichever framework implementation is desired). Edited for clarity, thx.
My confusion is who is a 3rd party under this agreement? Are users not 3rd parties? How can a distribution be responsible for and have any power over users, if the first two parties are Intel + distribution, and the 3rd party is the user?

I do find hilarious the "don't download this until you've downloaded and read and agreed to the agreement!" (paraphrased) clause at the top.
In their Siggraph presentation last week they mentioned using AI for both denoising and antialisasing (but they didn't provide anymore details about it).
But never forget:
Market Can Remain Irrational Longer Than You Can Remain Solvent
Not everything is a social construction. The default state of life isn't being relaxed and comfortable, the default state is starvation and defending against disease, predation, and conflict. In your world where everyone is cooking and playing, who provides the food? Who staves away conflict?

What lifeform on Earth let you to believe that the default state of being was effortless comfort?
linux security is honestly more obscurity; most linux servers by anyone but experts is like swiss cheeses.. and desktops..are just not that appealing to people who want to exploit. hell I could easily get around my login manager in ubuntu without breaking a sweat.. As a linux user I'm eager for flatpak/snap/whatever.
Founders edition 2080 is £749, and the cheapest non-Nvidia one is £715 from Gigabyte. The difference is tiny and those prices are still insane.
Someone who started working there in high school and completed it. Hopefully prior to 35. Hopefully while continuing to improve their marketable skills.
It sounds like hard rebooting a mind.
Johnathan Swift wrote a famous essay called a modest proposal, that basically suggests we should eat children, if I recall correctly. So the clever bit is to connect the language, and this proposal, in a lateral way, by alluding to J. Swift’s original essay.
It's far from a nonsense purchase for Deep Learning professionals. At https://lambdalabs.com nearly every one of our customers is calling us up interested in the 2080Ti for Deep Learning. The reality is that very few people training neural networks need more than 11GB.
How many Americans drive to and from an office in a city center at the same predictable hours every single day? We're certainly underutilizing trains.
https://netho.me/ - website traffic estimator. Now there are tons of sites like this, but when i started it the niche was not so crowded.
I made this website while learning basic programming (php, html, css, js). It makes a bit under $500/month from ads. For now the main feature is to estimate website traffic, but pretty often it is not very accurate. Last feature i plugged is voting that allows tagging sites as legit or scam. Another one - showing free domain name alternatives. The system is buggy and from time to time i'm still fixing bugs and js\css issues when i have time. i've learned a lot building this thing.
AFAIK the bot's "vision" is subject to fog of war, so it's not a perfect information game in the usual sense. Yes, it gets precise numerical values for hit points etc from the API, but only for visible units.

Honestly I think that it would not be much more difficult to train a bot that looks at screen pixels and outputs keyboard and mouse events instead of using the bot API. In fact it might be easier to code, but the problem is it would require several orders of magnitude more processing power to train, which is impractical. I am confident it would work if the processing power was available, given the success of these techniques on other problems.
Does anyone have a cogent explanation of why they chose to go this way instead of a somewhat orderly default on debts denominated in foreign currencies? It seems to have worked for Argentina, so I'm always surprised when countries don't go that way. (Looking at you, Greece)
I have commuted to work by car and by train and I'd much rather do the latter. If it were so self-evident that mass transit were worse you'd expect to see people everywhere drive just as much as Americans
But actual prescribing of anti-depressants and painkillers is considerably higher in the US than elsewhere.
I'll take a stab at this.

.NET Core and Mono are not exactly analagous. A better comparison historically would have been Mono to .NET Framework (i.e. classic .NET).

.NET Framework is a fairly expansive set of standard libraries bundled with a runtime - it's commonly used and well-supported, and dates back to about 2001, give-or-take a beta or two. There's a lot of current and legacy applications built on this out in the wild.

.NET core is effectively a do-over for the longer term in the form of a minimal set of dependencies that imports more of the standard library separately. There's a couple of reasons for doing this - primarily the parts that have been abstracted out mean that .NET core runs in a lot more places than the classic framework (including natively on devices like the Raspberry Pi, for example), and can also be (and is) fully open-source (the classic framework is mostly open-source these days as it is, but licensing problems meant that not every part of the toolchain could be opened up).

There's also the question of expectations when it comes to community changes. .NET Framework was adopted in many quarters on the basis that it was developed by Microsoft directly, and bureaucratically opening it up to community changes after the fact becomes problematic due to the massive number of stakeholders and their expectations.

I'm sure someone else can add more info but as I understand it this is the gist.
Tell somebody on adhd medication to quit.

or somebody on antipsychotics to quit.

People on weed are generally happier about life the universe and everything.

Ten hits a day and the answer suddenly makes sense, its not 42, its 420.
Is it not reasonable to do both? Like, amazon is exploitative, sure, but if its so bad that the employee is gonna kill themselves... maybe take a step back and re-evaluate if the job is worth your life?
Citizenship perhaps not, but it's not at all illegal to ask whether a prospective employee is legally able to work in the United States, and upon hire it's required to demand documentation to prove it. The form is called the I-9.

https://www.uscis.gov/i-9
Man sues over Google’s “Location History” fiasco, case could affect millions
>char is cast to byte

To be clear, char is not cast to byte (which would truncate). A char ref (ie a char pointer) is cast to a byte ref (ie a byte pointer).
To be clear: clients run “malware-ridden apps” safely every day. They’re web-apps. Web browsers are actually-competent sandboxes. (Even PNaCl worked fine, despite nobody wanting to use it.)

Likewise, servers run “malware-ridden apps” every day as well. Do you think AWS or GCP is getting its infrastructure infected when customers run their arbitrary code on it? No. Not even on the shared clusters like Lambda/Cloud Functions. These are competent sandboxes.

There are numerous other examples—running everything from user-supplied DFA regexps to SQL queries on shared servers (complete with stored procedure definitions) to arbitrary Lua code, server-side, in an MMO.

We programmers know how to (automatically!) sandbox arbitrary untrusted code. We’ve done it successfully, over and over. We just haven’t done it for GUI desktop apps yet.

That fact is much more to do with the legacy of the architecture of these GUIs, than it has to do with any inherent problem in sandboxing desktop GUI apps.
In theory you're right - but this isn't how it works in practice. The people who earn the most money are the best traders, not necessarily the people with the "most information and best models." The overall forecasts tend to be accurate, but you cannot look to individual participants, see who has the most money, and assume they know the most about the subject at hand.
NVIDIA isn’t used for any crypto currency mining AFAIK. It’s integer math performance per watt is not in the same ballpark as AMD.
I come to HN to avoid these Medium articles shilling their personal twitter account disguised an article that has already been written 25 times.

Your typical Medium article:

6 reasons why you need Async in your Javascript code!

(generic article with no _new_ points being made)

By the way, follow me on Twitter and like my start up on Instagram!

/s
First those are founders edition pricing which cost an extra 100$. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17802871 Also 1080's did not start at 450$ each.

The 2080's price will drop eventually, until then nVidia has no reason to lower prices when they are going to be sold out for weeks if not months.
In what? Bananas per second? No value on the axis means we don't know what _exactly_ is being measured, or have an idea about the overall state. They say 37% improvement but that's largely meaningless. 37% improvement of what?

If latency is 1 minute and they've shaved 22 seconds off (37%), neat. But it's still bad.

If anything, the deliberate omission of scale on that Y axis is really disturbing.
the entire FDA approval process was heavily gamed before, and is probably even more heavily gamed now. i'm talking about companies specifically starting drug discovery -- without anything in hand -- targeted at diseases where there is the reputation for the FDA playing loose with the approval process for whatever reason. fewer regulatory issues translates cleanly into more profit.

as the author points out, the incentives are always in favor of doing a bad job with regard to efficacy and trial design. a company that can produce a really great and well-proven drug is not going to make more money than a company that produces a shitty drug that is also approved for the same condition.

in fact, with the right marketing efforts, the execs would even see similar sales figures for both of these hypothetical drugs. hence why more is spent on marketing than R&D.
See for yourself: https://godbolt.org/z/nsg9nt
You don't have to download an app to interact with augur: augur.casino

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TL;DR:

> But as it turns out, there is a much simpler answer: The Thai government paid for it.
I see how this is simpler than UML, and ostensibly how it's useful for planning systems. With a bit of cleverness, it could also be generated from pre-existing code in certain languages.

Why have I not heard of this before?
That is one thing I always admired about .NET from afar: there was generally one fairly polished framework that you could reasonably trust. In Javaland I feel like I sometimes I have to second-guess everything to make sure I'm using the "best" implementation of something.

That and C# is an ISO standard which is pretty cool.
New Spider-Man to PS4
While we’re at this, has anyone got significant training perf improvements for Titan V. Best I’ve seen is 2x of 1080ti for 4x the price.
> Not sure who is the target market for this tech honestly.

The RTX series succeeds the GTX series, which historically targeted computer gamers.
I've seen and heard from colleagues that there is a lot of data being stored and shared in CSV too ..and then analysis done in excel.

that seems to change as an automation and IT culture starts to develop in an organization; interestingly, IT can sometimes be a barrier to data organization (too slow, cross-org costs etc) and cause people to continue to use CSV and excel.

fwiw - we built a service called "yukon data solutions" that solves these classes of problems for people trying to transition from CSV and spreadsheets into automated and reproducible analytics and reporting.
That's only helpful if they mostly share the same route; if it's a star topology, trains won't help.
I think this itemized invoice for government services is what Swiss people have.
Always interesting to hear someones distilled opinions about what constitutes best practices. There are mainly 2 things I'd personally add: (1) to keep an eye on 'Time-to-Interactive', it doesn't seem to be of concern at all to the author. Also, (2) Npm is a great resource, but I would not reuse components I might find there without some serious research, dependencies can get totally unmanageable.
Depends deeply on the time period and this list is most likely due to survivor bias. See Warren Buffet's hedge fund bet as a good semi recent example.
The boost in the creativity is only an illusion.

It is only of the reason why Cannabis is not used for "cheating". It doesn't work as expected.
Canada too. It's not pure socialism, it's democratic socialism and it works great.
Looking at a lot of life, it’s more like long periods of rest interspersed with very short, very high intensity struggle. Big cats sleep most of the day, lizards bask, snakes and crocodiles just hang around. Most non-grazing animals spend a majority of time resting or asleep, conserving energy for big stakes bursts. Hell, lots of mammals sleep through whole seasons!
You're right, it's a common feedback we have, we even have an issue opened for that https://github.com/opencollective/backyourstack/issues/57 We explain what we support in the FAQ but that's not enough. What languages / packages managers are you expecting?
Lisp Cycles
With 15 minutes of effort typing commands into a large bioinformatics database, you too can convince yourself that these contaminants may be behind the Diabetes epidemic.

https://medium.com/@InfinoMe/diabetes-time-to-resort-to-plas...
If someone treats you badly, you reach a point where it kind of doesn’t matter what they say they will do if you don’t believe they’ll change. Ad-supported sites are there now. They went wayyyyy too far, treated site visitors poorly with pop-ups, CPU draining, battery draining, data-plan waste, etc. Now they may regret it but many users have moved on. We’re out of the abusive relationship, and it doesn’t matter what sites say anymore. They can’t guilt us into seeing their ads.
Can’t one person update multiple whiteboards?
This was my experience as well when I thought, "Gosh, $200/sq ft seems too high for a home. I bet someone could do well building them off-site, shipping them to me, and bolting them together on-site." As it turns out, $200/sq ft appears to be the _minimum_ of prefabs these days. Cost savings is not the benefit from what I could tell. Reduced waste, sure, but not reduced cost.
There are many people who have got tired of wanting the absolute latest exciting version of their text editor, mail client, IRC client, spreadsheet and want things to just work and leave them alone. The larger part of me dreads debian upgrades these days.
Then most likely they would not be successful in their businesses; training older models or newer ones with a batch of 1 is not a recipe for success these days when you more like need 100s of GPUs running slight modifications to models in parallel to find the one that works.
If it were really just 100k it would be a huge win to have the AI. That's one developer for three to six months.

(I'd handicap the crossover somewhere between one and two orders of magnitude more expensive than that.)
What SELinux/AppArmor profile would allow an application to read exactly the one file in $HOME that the user selects in the file picker, but nothing else?
Snowden calls for criminal action against Aadhaar misuse
introducing fiatlux
Norway discovered its oil fairly late and has taken a good look at how other countries did it. For example, the Netherlands, another mostly non-corrupt country, squandered their gas revenues.
> But history has judged him as one of the worst presidents.

Nah, not if you talk to any craft brewers or beer enthusiasts. They are basically inches short of having his portrait hung in every craft brewery and pub due to his H.R. 1337 bill. If it wasn't for political partisanship, this might have already happened.
Bad Metaphors
Okay, but what about potential customers of BoA that have no idea that the bank they want to entrust their money to has a huge known exploit that increases their chances of identity theft? Does the customer not have a right to know what they are signing up for?