skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You‘re the one making a straw man argument. If you had read my comment at all charitably, you would have known I was referring to a larger problem than plastic straw waste. Obviously plastic straws create waste. [I dislike them personally and don’t use them]

The issue is, though, if people paint straws as a vital cause of such problems as ocean garbage patches, then that sort of messaging can turn people away. If people research and find that most ocean garbage comes from a few rivers, and fishing nets, then they won’t trust people who say ”don‘t use straws, it pollutes the oceans [in a significant way]“.
Honestly, I'm not really sure if that's really true any more.

I wasn't working hard when I bought Bitcoin at three bucks a coin. I was just intellectually curious. If anything when I was working hard was two years before that on a soon to be failed startup. We crawled the web for ads just before the ad business went hyper targeted. I made -$20k from working hard.

I made a lot more from Bitcoin. I would have made way more if I'd put that $20k in Bitcoin and slacked off at some day job.

I guess I don't really follow my own advice though, as I'm presently working on a Sunday morning and I've only taken like two days off this month.

Edit:

Writing this comment briefly made me re-consider my whole life and I've come to the conclusion that being lucky and prescient observations are more likely if you've worked hard at some point. I did do an engineering degree with some economics electives at the best school in Canada, and understanding Satoshi's paper wouldn't have been possible without this background knowledge.
We're all bad negotiators when we're young. Poor kid got taken to town by the jerks at Brøderbund.
> What happened

He died, and most people tend to talk only about good stuff out of respect immediately afterward. You don't see people getting up and criticizing the deceased at funerals.
> Deploying to Java app servers was not exactly hard to get running.

I thought that too - not about Java per se, but similarly that "getting this app server running is designed to be easy."

Then, I had to help someone debug an issue with installation over the phone. That was the exact moment I decided to look into containers, and I've never had to re-live that tedium since.

> However, I do feel it enables people to move faster with more complicated solutions where not necessarily needed.

I do agree with you here, but I think that's a people issue and not a tool issue. The tool itself is quite valuable even for simple cases.
>“You only live once” is a selfish (no negative connotation intended) sentiment

This is backwards though.

Avoiding being selfish is exactly what makes the person turn alcoholic, suicidal, depressed etc. Else they could just say "fu" to their family, debts, responsibilities etc and go start a new life.

It's not like they enjoy being depressed or suicidal or abusing some substance etc and do that for selfish reasons. My point was about how trying not to be selfish and sticking to it that can end up making things worse (including for others).
Wow, the very first few sentences of this article are a complete joke.

Paraphrase: Meat and dairy are evironmentally intensive to produce. But so are corn and soy! Instead, we should eat "sustainable meat", which errr hasn't been invented yet but I'm telling you it's coming.

Really? No mention of fruit, vegetables, or rice? No mention of the serious diseases (cancer, heart disease, hypertension, diabetes) that quite simply do not plague the billion people on this Earth who can't afford meat and dairy?

I can't continue reading an article that is so obviously a marketing piece targeted against veganism.
You are equating money with success.
Oh Lord yes! I'm totally with you. That's a whole separate tier of Hell.

I think they're either chasing gamified time-on page metrics, or are just deeply conceited. Whenever that happens to me I consider myself pranked by the writer.
Interesting. What was your next move after Google?
Some people get downright cruel with people they don't like, and it's a huge red flag because some day they may find reason to not like you.

Trust me, if you stay married long enough, there are going to be times that you don’t like yout spouse and vice versa. That’s when you really see what you are both made of. Over time the rebound either gets faster as you learn how to disagree civilly - or worse.
Just here to say I loved this game. Afew years back I stuck it in a virtual machine so I could pause it and actually finished the game!
Intro to x86 Assembly Language
There is nothing wrong with working for others if it fulfills you. I envy people who can have comfortable lives with happy families and a simple desk job that pays for what they need. Something in my brain is telling me I need more or I won't be happy, so I have many startups I'm working on and have exclusively begun working for myself. The grass is always greener on the other side, that much I can say. Enjoy your comfy engineering job and be careful what you wish for.

If you are a nerd who wants to break into entrepreneurship, prepare for a lot of fun, but also prepare to do work you think is stupid or never saw yourself doing, only for it to end up as a niche product. That's fine.
Checkout starlink the satellite network being created by spacex. Here is a good FAQ https://www.reddit.com/r/Starlink/comments/7zqm2c/starlink_f...
From what I've heard and read there are several occupations, comedian and writer immediately come to mind, where the advice is "if you can do literally anything else, do that. If not, you might make it in this business in a decade or so. But probably not."
The word 'magazine' is the difference. It would be ridiculous to treat the High Times as if they were actual drugs, right?
I mean, it’s dating advice on a site called “Hacker News”.
There's a little bit about this on the Wikipedia page for LaserDiscs:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaserDisc#MUSE_LD
I did heard about snips, however, from slightly different perspective. My best friend is a real geek (developer) and he is obsessed with playing around with different sdk. So for the past couple of months he has been talking about snips all the time. However, hadn’t heard that they are privacy solution, will have to do some reading then.
I worked on this title for the last year of its existence. I’m not at liberty to discuss much. The project definitely changed in Frostbite 2 era. IIRC the behavior tree GOAP stuff made it into the 3rd Army of Two game, which was also done in Frostbite 2.0. I left the project about 4 months after a major change in senior project leadership. I’ll answer what I can.
They probably support other commands without a common prefix. It's not worth special casing a subset of the command set. It only burns a few dozen bytes.
Princeton Science Library
This was pretty much the only game on my computer in the 1990s when I was a little boy. I must have played and replayed it a thousand times!
Mostly connecting to data, cleaning it and finding some place to stash all of it.

Only after that 90% is done can anybody think about modeling data, transforming it, processing it and lastly that glorious 5% of actually analyzing it.

Oh, and then somebody wants the results of the analysis to be put into a fully interactive scalable web application so now we're late.
Website Go Live in 3, 2,
As many suspected, the numerous reports of "massive internment camps" in China are completely false and are not supported by the United Nations. These reports have absolutely no evidence behind them but they have been widely accepted and repeated.
When exactly are any of these innovations going to hit the canadian market?

When are they going to hit any market? There are plenty of companies promising the world, but it is a difficult, expensive, and time consuming problem. I believe better options will come, but I don't see any on the near term horizon.
In that comparison you forgot the part of turning off optimizations so that the code quality is similar to what Go standard compiler spends time doing.

The compilation speed drop is easily seen when using gccgo instead.

A side note for Delphi, it is still relatively used in European enterprises, with an yearly conference in Germany.

And I could have mentioned other languages like Eiffel, with their mixed JIT for development and AOT via C compilers for final delivery.
It's not totally clear to me that hard work involves quantity (the OP, seemingly) over quality (others who have started fewer, more successful businesses).

In general, there are lots of activities which give the appearance of hard work but are actually fairly superficial and detrimental to your long-term goals.

Not at all saying that's the case here, more just musing on the idea of grinding for the sake of grinding.
Hacking comma news. Which makes it sound like it's in two categories. "Criminal Skills/Hacking" and "News".
True. But a job is also a relationship, a relationship that works both ways - or should.

It might not always be simple or easy but if you're in a bad and unfulfilling relationship then it's up to you to swallow hard and move on. Staying is lost opportunity.
I've been designing semiconductors for 20 years and I thought I would learn something but this article said nothing other than he wished there were more radiation hardened devices out there.

You can learn more from wikipedia than this article.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation_hardening
Be a part of the movement against frameworks and bloat with us!

Step 1: Buy a cheap domain and cheap hosting plan for like $8 a month.

Step 2: Load in a ton of genuine content that you can use HTML and CSS to make look pretty.

Step 3: If you need to transform data in some way, either do it in javascript or embed a link to a video demo of external software.

Step 4: Use a 3rd party tool to accept payment by credit card.

Step 5: Promote your content and grow a community via 3rd party community sites like HN, youtube, reddit, twitch, etc etc
Neither is the US. The US is a democratic republic: we vote in congress, the senate, and the president who then make decisions for us on our behalf. Public companies are similar: shareholders vote in board members, who then elect a CEO for the company on our behalf.
Habdas is my last name. If the URL looks scary it's probably not for you.
This is true even across generations. The reason white people (or anyone with a rich family) are able to live comfortably and not work today are due to the efforts of their ancestors at one point or another. "There's no such thing as a free lunch" is actually just true, and not a stupid idiom. At some point somewhere, work had to be done to get a reward.
Show HN: SEWY: YouTube roulette with Pusher
Regardless of if this is true or not, Uighurs have a tough existence in China due to systemic racism and classism against them.

China may or may not be locking them in concentration camps, but they damn sure are treating them like second class citizens.
Something similar from also 1993: D-VHS HD demo tape shot of NYC

https://youtu.be/fT4lDU-QLUY
It's almost as if there's a stark difference between working hard and working smart. No one wants to acknowledge that.
yes, by closing them down and returning the animals to where they belong
Step 1 should be verify the information you're counting as facts..
re: McDonalds & ingredients

> This means the same items are made in the same way with the same ingredients in very different economies around the world, making the Big Mac...

This is provably not true. (without any prejudice against BigMac as PPP indicator)

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/the-daily-meal/big-macs-aroun...
Technical writing must be this way.

However using poetic language in writing that's trying to communicate scientific understanding to everyone, I find, is useful and appropriate. Look at Carl Sagan's popular writings, or some of Asimov's more science related works for good examples.
I'm not a dev myself but have dabbled on codecademy before, but i'm willing to take it step by step to learn this way if it proves to offer actual privacy.

I love the idea of having a home voice assistant, not a home eavesdropper
Presto: Distributed SQL Query Engine for Big Data
You absolutely have to change jobs to get raises, but I can certainly see the Russian Roulette comparison. Especially as you get near the top of your salary range.
The biggest problem I see is how different benefits can be and cost from company to company. From the simple (like comparing payroll deductions), to the complex; time spent in office, time spent working, commute time, coworkers, quality of health coverage, quality of work, vacation accrual.

I generally try to stay at a job for 3 to 4 years, but my last job at HP, cut my knees off when the spun me over to DXC and our benefits costs tripled. To keep the same benefits would have amounted to a 10% pay cut. I probably would not have taken the job if it's benefits had been as offered post merger, so I had no qualms in quitting as soon as I could line something else up.
PureScript is only getting more active as a community. Its creator, Phil Freeman, works at my company (Lumi). He recently wrote about how we use PureScript: https://medium.com/fuzzy-sharp/purescript-and-haskell-at-lum...
Please tech gods, make personal jetpacks a thing. I would pay $50,000.

They're currently about $275,000 and I only know of one on this Earth. Also jet fuel is expensive.
The 4 best Ramen I've ever had were Ippudos in Singapore, Singapore Airport, Taiwan and Hong Kong. I wish there was one in Austria.
Principles for success in life and work
> This will reduce school costs, reduce applicant numbers, and force students to really think if college is necessary.

In a society where academic qualification is more and more required, making loans harder to get will only drive the poorest people to even more desperate actions to ensure their kids get a chance in life.

Don't get me wrong, the debt situation should be resolved (e.g. by making ALL education free, like in Europe), but the core problem of society that "undereducated" people are left to compete for menial tasks must also be fixed.
More like he’s extrapolating from differing bumps on two populations of nautilus that evolution is less important than individual variation.
We had this game on a Mac in 7th grade. We'd play through the first part, then get to the copy protection scheme which was a room where you'd have to select the letter of the first sentence on page 7 or something. We'd guess constantly and occasionally get it right so we could play, but otherwise didn't have the manual.
İçerdeki Şeytan – Inside 2016 filmi izle 1080p
And they are?
Great wisdom on life and business in general from the most successful hedge fund entrepreneur.

The 30 minute video is essentialized and excellent: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9XGUpQZY38

The actual principles collected over 4 decades: https://inside.bwater.com/publications/principles_excerpt
Appears to be from Cryptonomicon (which I haven't yet read), for anyone else who was wondering.
Once you finished planning out your system the requirements have likely changed. If they didn't you'll find out that you built something different from what the customer wanted once you're finished programming.
Fixing Impostor Syndrome in Coding Interviews
That is all well and good, and I don't want to sound ungrateful (I'm sure I do), but will we ever get WiFi working on ramips platform with mt76 driver?
Missing (2016) in title
I'm a bit ashamed to admit that you just taught me that anchor links work with id attributes. I just always used <a name> tags... which I rarely used, but still. I guess my excuse is that I started with HTML around 1996 :)

I guess it's a good thing that I don't do much frontend coding anymore!
> That way universities would likely focus their courses on areas that get people employed, while cross subsidising some areas they feel add value to the educational environment.

As if that would happen! The "unproductive" courses (aka everything but STEM) will all be eliminated as there isn't money for them. Society will lose as a result. Fund everything by taxpayers instead like Europe does.
> I am arguing that it’s comparatively meaningless when you look at the wholescale abuse of animals perpetrated by the absolute majority of humans on this planet.

At no point was there an assertion that zoos are a cure-all, just that without them, the abuse you're highlighting would be worse, and that there's an opportunity to further heal and reduce those abuses by building and curating more well-maintained zoos.

It seems we've departed from the original premise which drew me to the conversation. I'm not equipped to solve general animal cruelty; I'm only equipped to defend the little corner which zoos seek to aid.

Thank you for the debate. I wish you well.
Bridgewater: Principles for success in life and work
Same here, but I ended up adding support for arbitrary world rules which is kind of nice to play around with.

https://github.com/holmberd/js-gameoflife

I also have a Haskell version laying around somewhere.
In your scenario would one date around before committing to a marriage or would one just commit to the first interesting person that came along and hope for the best?
Education will greatly benefit all that you want to do in life, from family to community to finance to career to citizenship to everything else. It teaches you critical thinking, which applies to all of it, and real knowledge of the world, and give you opportunity to excel, live your dreams, and build a better world (for your children too). You have so much more opportunity than you believe; it's sad to see so many throw it away for ideological dogma.

> start a family [first]

This is not a realistic view of families. People with families have no time for anything else; to generalize, they live for their children - a fulfilling thing that I'm not criticizing, but they don't have a lot of time. Also, who will teach your children about the world if you don't know about it yourself? Who will shape the community and country they grow up in, if not you?

> the patches-on-your-suitcoat-elbows set ... Only the megarich can afford ...

This creates a class-based system, an aristocracy where others are serfs who work for the 'megarich' who have the tools to run things. In fact, in the land of opportunity, everyone can do it. College is generally too expensive in the U.S., but not in all countries, and even in the U.S. there are ways to afford it (including by changing government).
Try reading the story:

> The near-total reliance on Washington-linked sources is characteristic of Western reporting on Uighurs Muslims in China, and the country in general, which regularly features sensational headlines and allegations. In addition to CHRD and RFA, it is common for reports to cite the World Uighur Congress, an organization funded by the NED. At a recent NED event, Grayzone editor Max Blumenthal interviewed World Uighur Congress chairman Omer Kanat, who took credit for furnishing many of the claims of internment camps to Western media.

What is actually true here is that the Western media repeatedly makes extraordinary claims about what's happening to the Uighurs in China. These claims have zero evidence except for testimony by US-backed operators. These claims are then eagerly broadcasted and repeated far and wide to whip up anti-Chinese furor.
From what I've seen, there is a large random element to promotions. A few corporations put in place good processes that ensure that promotions occur according to some specific criteria, but such corporations are rare. Most promotions arise from the gut level feelings of managers, and we all know how much those gut level feelings are open to irrational biases. There are the obvious, well documented biases involving race and language and religion and gender, as well as many other forms of biases that come down to subtle differences in communication style.

For those who prefer famous examples, I'll offer one that Peter F Drucker often discussed: the difference in communication styles between John F Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson. Both men were very smart and talented, in their own ways, but Kennedy preferred to receive information in written form, whereas Johnson preferred to receive information orally. Kennedy was a reader, Johnson was a talker. However, Johnson also felt insecure regarding the dazzling education that the Kennedy's had, and Johnson wanted to imitate their style. So when Johnson became President, he kept around many of the Kennedy people, who continued to write long reports, of the type that Kennedy would have appreciated. Johnson didn't read them, he wasn't a reader. And then he'd ask someone like McNamara to orally offer a short summary of a long report, and McNamara would leave out a lot of details that he assumed Johnson had already seen in the written report.

In Drucker's opinion, this was how a leader as smart as Johnson could stumble into a mistake as big as Vietnam.

Did Johnson deserve the promotion he got? Most would say he had the intelligence and managerial skill to handle the top job. He had done a fantastic job in the Senate. But he was undermined by irrational and emotional factors, in particular the subtle kind of class envy that would cause him to want to imitate the highly literate style of the Kennedy's.

I've seen something like this at most of the places I've worked, leaders who could have been good if a few circumstances were different, but its only in retrospect that it becomes clear which circumstances should have been different.

The Peter Principle describes a system of promotion that basically rational until it goes too far. But I've never seen anything that rational, not at any of the places I've worked.
Yeah, they are privacy-oriented, don’t send any data to the Internet and all that jazz
Microctfs – Small CTF Challenges Running on Docker
The problem has multiple issues. Managers getting paid more is certainly an incentive for people who aren't qualified to want to become managers.

Managers having power is another issue. It's possible for a manager to have less power. Their job being to facilitate and coordinate rather than direct.

Managers have power on multiple levels as well. Some have power over people, who does what, but they also often have power of decisions, what gets done, what to make, where to focus.

In other words, to fix the incentives that pull non-qualified people into management positions it seems like all of those issues need to be separated from the manager position?

In other words someone might not be a people person so isn't good and facilitating and coordinating between people and or other teams but they could be good at one or more kinds of team level decision making and want that responsibility.
There is a SNES version.

http://www.snesfun.com/play/prince-of-perisa/1470
Show HN: Pizza Ordering AI - 1(234)222-9290 (demo line)
Hey HN, would love to get some feedback on our new automated phone ordering system for Pizza Inn (a mid-size 150 franchise chain). We're currently live in one location.

The demo number below will not get you any actual pizza (sorry). Nor will it actually charge you if you accidentally click the apple pay link in the confirmation text message.

1 (234) 222-9290

You should be able order most things from this menu: http://www.pizzainn.com/menu/

Here are some things to try (but feel free to give it a real test drive w/the menu)

"can i have a large pepperoni pizza on thin crust and a large coke"

"i'd like to order chicken wings"

"can i order 2 large buffalo pizzas and 1 half gallon of sweet tea"

Let me know especially if you can figure out how to have your order repeated back to you from the top, are able to successfully end your order, and what breaks the system.

Some "coming soon" features:

try saying "abracadabra" or "abracadabra pta" .. we're thinking "magic words" ala "coupon codes".

Thanks for any feedback!
The Catalan government as a DAO