skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Depression, particularly since my wife of 28 years divorced me. It has gotten a lot better in recent months, but it's almost two years since she asked for the divorce.

And as I have turned to spiritual and mental health work to alleviate my depression, staying interesting in tech stuff. Although Racket and Rust look kind of fun.
The interesting question, if the intention was to stick it out in the long term, is whether raising VC money in the first place was a good idea. Bootstrapping the business would have probably been closer in line with the vision and allowed him to retain control without eventually souring relationships
So investors put $2.3M into the company and got back $3.3M. They essentially have a ROI of 1M over a span of four years. Am I crazy to think that this is a pretty good deal for the investors?! If someone gives me a ~40% return on a crapshoot investments (like how most start ups are), I would be pretty happy!
FCC funds rural broadband for more than 700,000 homes and businesses
I disagree. I'd say having all of the work in 1 commit makes it more likely to have been created by a young programmer. What impresses me the most, and makes me skeptical, is the good code style. I know at least 3 12 year old programmers who might be able to do this, but none of them have this diligence for style.

The program is short enough and I was enough of a nerd at this age to be interested in doing something like this. I just focused on making poorly-designed computer games instead.
So you're saying it's more likely that this 12-year old would have written this thing if he had split everything nicely into small readable commits?

That makes absolutely no sense
The thing with experiments is that sometimes they fail. You can try endless variations but only a few will work. Coltrane and his generation were massively successful. And they innovated over Parker that had in turn innovated over previous generations. I'm no expert and I can understand that evolution and at the same time enjoy all that jazz. I can enjoy later music but there seems to be a somehow unbroken chain.
The context of the talk was for game devs who currently largely avoid the STL, avoiding any debate on whether or not that avoidance makes sense.
A binding agreement? Why would he sign one of those?
Again I think you're right that it won't help sway peoples thoughts on the subject _alone_ but in aggregate if all the rhetoric from one side became harder to target by the opposing pundits then maybe that would help at least slow down conversion or heel digging.

I don't know if I agree with the GP that this article would be considered fluff, or that it could be an easy target for pundits, but I definitely see that pattern pop up a lot. ACLU/EFF frequently disappoint me with completely valid points steeped in FUD and bad methodologies that make them easy to rebut. The opposition finds the errors, turns around, gets their base hype on some key emotional rebuttals or mocking while ignoring the real valid points, and all we end up with is stronger division between sides.
Machine learning and AI technologies and platforms at AWS
I pretty much never input my name as it appears on my credit card. I have yet to have anyone (in person or online) complain about this, despite instructions saying to do so.

(Specifically, my middle initial appears on my credit card, but I never fill it in when buying stuff online.)
I confess that, overall, that's been my experience with a few customers and that getting everyone on the same platform was ace.

But as somebody who's got gchat gatewayed to IRC, replacing two things I can use from irssi with one thing I can't has always annoyed me.
you'd be surprised how many personal projects have only one commit.
This is a hugely flawed analysis. Noble gases are extracted from air through liquefaction, which requires dropping the temperature of air to the point where certain component gases are liquid, allowing them to be separated off.

Krypton has a boiling point of 120 Kelvin, far higher than even Oxygen (90 K) or Nitrogen (77 K), making it trivial to extract Krypton at low cost from the atmosphere in any air liquefaction facility also set up to separate Oxygen and Nitrogen (which is basically all of them). Helium, however, boils at 4 Kelvin. It is not merely cryogenic, it is super cryogenic, and it can only be separated from air via liquefaction at extremely low temperatures.

Instead, the method that is actually used to produce almost all Helium is to use natural gas (which contains as much as 7% Helium) and then separate out all of the stuff that isn't Helium (starting with the hydrocarbons, of course). This makes it possible to produce 99.995% pure "grade-A" Helium fairly cost effectively. Every cubic meter of natural gas processed could yield up to 70 liters of grade-A Helium. Compare that to processing air, where every cubic meter of air processed would yield just 5 milliliters of low grade Helium. And Helium isn't valuable enough to simply run those plants and throw away the other gases produced.

By some estimates, if all of the Neon production facilities were modified to produce Helium as well then we might be able to meet 1/1000th of the world's Helium demand, so this is not a near-term solution to the problem, even if it might be able to produce the gas inexpensively.
Is the BIG expense w/ heli services the pilot... -or- is it the helicopter + maintenance + fuel + support organization?

This seems to be solving the wrong problem...
True although that doesn't mean they're getting what they deserve. If you want to be an educator, or have any normal occupation, you shouldn't be forced to change your identity.
Still Life with Algorithms
That's awesome. What resources did you use to learn Node and JS?
Just looked at your code. Kid. You're a badass. Keep this up, you'll go places.
I hate cigarette smoke, since at least 8 years, at the point of vomiting if I inhale it. My treatment against it is facing it, I do everything by bike, and hold my breath when needed (country=France)

My mom got a lung cancer recently, that won't really change my mind (she used to smoke)
Great that you start so early, I've did the same. For me it was a great way to gain confidence and build a skill which is very useful. I wouldn't be the same person now if I didn't program so early.

Seeing how things come to life that you've build with your own hands is a very empowering experience. Keep it up! :)
You wonder about krypton and xenon, these are gases with only speciality applications and are probably minor byproducts from an air liquefaction plant. The market for helium is much much larger.

To ramp up production you'd have to build a new plant, and pay for it only through the sale of minor noble gases, the cross-subsidy from nitrogen and oxygen suddenly disappeared. Markets involving joint products are funny things.
> I'll try to do better next time, I promise.

Not to be mean, but there isn't a next time. You could still stand you ground now — you haven't removed it yet, and still don't have to.
Not enough "Hey, who just joined?"
I firmly believe that society puts too much emphasis on the wrong aspect of our lives today. The fact you feel vaguely guilty for not being more driven to achieve at work is a symptom of this imho.

You have a family, a job you like, and a a work\home balance that allows time for videogames? sounds like you've won at life, friend. people have ambitions to get where you ARE.
It's pretty funny considering I work on one of those meeting products. It's also an excellent reminder for me of all the UX pain points involved in distributed meetings. Tech can be great but if UI has any friction, the overall UX will suffer.
A Programmer Ate Ass to Save Cryptocurrency
Don't use apps for dating unless you want to compete on appearance and you want some good looking but boring, superficial and uninteresting tinder person.

The only way to actually like someone, not just push a button that says like, is to spend time with them in real life.
I was listening to KCSM all morning, such a great station.
Did some more research on this...

Yes, the hospital or collections agency can sue you to try to garnish your wages. If they win, you're boned.

If they lose, or they never sue for garnishment, it's unclear what happens if you refuse to pay. From what I can tell, the debt disappears from your credit report after seven years, but the debt is still valid and they can still try to recover the money from you, but they won't be able to use the courts to do it.

However, there's always the option of declaring bankruptcy. Even if they garnish wages, declaring bankruptcy will wipe it away. Obviously, that's the nuclear option and will destroy your credit rating for seven years.
Well, if they actually start paying dividends, that could be interesting, I guess.
Honestly, I think your mindset needs to change. Namely the mindset that having 'burdens' is bad. A burden is a responsibility that's unwanted. Credit card debt is a burden, because you are responsible to pay and you don't want it. Children are certainly a responsibility, but whether they're a burden depends on whether or not you want them. If you don't want them, then of course they're a burden. If you do want them, they are a responsibility, and wanted responsibilities are not burdens.

The opposite of an unwanted responsibility (a burden) is a wanted responsibility. Another word for wanted responsibility is investment. For example, the CEO of a startup has a wanted responsibility to make their company succeed. This is an investment that could pay off big time if they put in the work now.

Thus, whether children are a burden or investment is really up to your mindset.
> They did corner the market so clearly they must be doing something, but really I just can't see it. I'm completely stumped.

One of the reasons is the lack of competition, e.g., we use Microsoft Teams instead, but its also an electron app with the same problems (and takes ages to start).
hm I would reword that response .. still reading the two reports now
Maybe you're being too hard on yourself and expecting drastic results too soon. Day of meaningful work + gym consistently over an extended period of time will help further you in life. Reading can help further you in life (obviously pending what you read). Only thing I see up there that I'd consider as a time waster would be video games... but even then a few hours a week to unwind can't be all that bad. I think Steven Spielberg and Elon Musk are known to game from time to time
Did you really just pull out random people names from your database and posted them online?
The heart of their complaint was not the name. It was the fact that the extension injects code into their site.
The military has said this is going to be a big thing.

I can’t remember which general it was, but during testimony in front the Armed Service Commission in Congress either this year or late 2017, he made the remark that around 60% of casualties in both Iraq and Afghanistan were essentially “logistics casualties” where people were injured or killed transporting something.

This technology will obviously reduce those kinds of casualties significantly.

On the other hand, warfare used to be limited by the size of somewhat small armies. Then came mass conscription, where the whole nation was drafted.
Then came “total war” where 16-65 year old men and women were fighting, but even then not everyone could fight due to someone having to support the frontline troops.

Perhaps this all ushers in another step of a more bloody, more people fighting each other, stage of war where everyone can be on on the “front lines”. The advent of cyber conflict, which extends the lines of warfare beyond what even strategic bombing could do, suggests this.

EDIT: Also worth noting that in air war, the bottleneck has usually not been plane production so much as it’s replacing the pilots. Air campaigns were limited by the amount of skilled pilots you were willing to lose. This also might turn that logic upside down as well.
Still sells a lot of t shirts.
Won't somebody please think of the Nazis?
Analogies are used a lot in law:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fact_pattern
This is great news - it sounds like Buffer is a great company to work for and own as an operator. I do think they're a cautionary tale for trying to build a VC backed (in mission and capitalization) company the way they did, but VC backed is not and should not be the norm so that's not a big deal.
Too high according to what?

According to community consensus, as expressed in everyday common practice, legal speed limits are usually set too low.
Contracts aside there’s a real issue: the human is there primarily to deal with other humans and all the random issues that pop up (which, as a regular bart rider, I assure you are plentiful).

You could shift the model around and maybe have a “station attendant” rather than a “driver,” but it’s an issue that I don’t see addressed in many autonomous conversations. The bus driver doesn’t just drive the bus, they also regulate and deal with all the bullshit happening on and around the bus.

Automation-in-public has so many issues beyond it’s closed-course equivalent, where you simply have to drive the vehicle. It will be a much bigger adjustment than just high quality autopilot.
That's basically Maven and Java, no?

Java JARs are zips that contain files defining code and data. Other JARs can sub-class that code and change how the data is processed or returned.

Maven is (amongst other things) a protocol for exporting versioned sets of JARs that can express dependencies on each other via a filesystem accessible using HTTP. You can specify a versioned zip with a simple coordinate like "com.example:zipname:LATEST" and it'll download and cache the zips with all their dependencies. And it's all cross platform and standardised, with multiple implementations of all these components.
This is one of the top marketing business online Have you ever looked at sites like Google or Facebook and asked yourself…"How can they make SO MUCH MONEY when they aren't even really selling any products?!?!"
Well, Google and Facebook are cashing in on their platforms; They're taking advantage of the millions of people who come to their sites for more information click below https://souniqueincome.com
> I think you can safely ignore this cease and desist

Will you cover his legal costs for choosing this decision? Right matters less than resources if it's expensive to even be right. You can state your case here on HN without repercussion, not so when being sued (it costs to even state your case reasonably due to hazards of self-defense and it costs dearly if you lose).
In Weimar Germany, there was a Keynesian jobs program very much akin to FDR's Civilian COnservation Corps - a jobs program to perform forestry work and prepare rural areas for the hiking and skiing that's so popular there to this day. One of the program's mottoes was "Arbeit macht frei", meaning "this work will free Germany of the economic woes affecting us right now."

When that same motto was put on the gates at Auschwitz, the intent was to reassure prisoners that the camp was NOT a slave camp.

The point is that we should not bother calling these re-education camps. We all know what they are. THey're going to do what all camps do once they enclose large numbers of people.
So, even more nefarious, and in violation of their terms?
It's fine for the VCs if they can recycle and re-invest that. Otherwise it's a 0.
I'm 34. I started dating my wife at 14, and married at 21. I have two kids now, 4 and 10.

It's stressful sometimes, but very much worth it for me.

Oh, and I have no idea how dating as an adult works. I've never done it!
What about the guy who speaks his native language in a dialect that nobody can understand.

And then there's the non-native speaker...
That's not "right now", that's another future possibility. No such tunnel exists.
This comment comes off as intensely smug, from someone who has little experience with difficulty in dating.

Things are not so simple. In fact, the very nature of social interaction is such that it cannot be preemptively, logically broken down and solved.

Many men have trouble getting past step 1 on the dating apps you list. The funnel of capture, so to speak, from message to response can be extremely wide, both on and offline.

Of course, I believe I am describing the perspective of a male.
There is a whole political/social angle as well. Some people are concall Jedi who can really wield power effectively on calls and dominate meetings better than in person.

It’s one of the many reasons why calls are awful!
No, there are two points raised by the cease-and-desist: one was not to modify the experience, and the other was to change the name. These are two independent issues.
Any reasonable investor would gladly take that money from Buffer if they believed the money would give them better chances of more return elsewhere. That does not mean Buffer is worthless. It's not black and white.
I'm a recent DDG convert. However I'm pretty locked into the Google Maps platform. I've used stars and "want to go" for years. Those don't translate over to DDG even on their Google Maps option for maps. Anyone know of a work around?
Haha, honestly, this is so common that when someone at work wants to talk about a product and starts with a compliment, my mind immediately tries to figure out what could be wrong with it.
Yep, the key figure in this piece is the CEO owning 45% of stock. Hard to beat in any vote.
These are the type of tips that would great in a new edition of C++ Common Knowledge. Effective Modern C++ is great, but sometimes a little more in depth than you need or want on a first reading.
Looks great. I tried it and it runs fine. Nice syntax and convention.

Just a tip, you don't need to include `npm init` in your instructions. That command only needs to run when you create a new project. It worked just fine for me with just a `node index.js 18`

Great work!
I was in a very similar spot last year. I pivoted back to school and have 0 regrets, good luck.
@g3rv4, I understand it really sucks and feels terrible. But I also understand their reaction.

Don't be surprised about legal writing. He/She as a legal person is responsible for writing in a very clear and explicit way since any misunderstanding might cost the reader or themselves in the future. It just shows their accountability. You don't want a misunderstanding cost you trouble.

I have colleagues working in the legal department. They understand you, but they still have to make sure there is no misunderstanding there.

They are serving enterprise companies, Anything goes wrong can destroy their business. It makes sense for them not to risk anything.

Companies are paying them for the security. Otherwise, there are cheaper alternatives to Slack with somewhat similar features.

Slack could allow custom clients. But I'm pretty sure all major customers will require their employees not to use un-official clients for security reasons.
That’s what we’re arguing. Slack should not be able to restrict me from modifying the experience on my hardware.
I use some software that requires 6 characters to be inputted before it'll search for a name. At least that includes the comma and space.

A pain since I have a lot of people with short Asian surnames (and a "first" name which isn't always the one they go by).
If supply isn’t decreasing, what’s the point of conservation?
There’s horizontal and vertical specialization. Your “vertical” is your “ideal clients”, and your “horizontal” is your product.

Solve an expensive problem for a niche industry and roll in gold.
> You see, back in 1994 Facebook hadn't yet invented the Internet

Kids today don't even know who Al Gore is, do they?
4 Things Developers Take for Granted That Used to Be Really Hard
That leaves only 80 ppl on earth.
This is called being professionally courteous. There is no implication of heart felt warmth, simply that someone is giving their job their best effort.

It's while I'll never leave my US state where courtesy is built into the local culture even when you're having a bad day. I'd rather be surrounded by people at a minimum respecting the idea we're all stuck here together than a bunch of grouses letting everyone know how unhappy they are, thus making everyone share their misery.
Also drifting towards my 30's and bought a Jaguar last year. It's a ton of fun and I can only recommend it to counter adulthood insecurities.
How much contemporary jazz do you know? The perspective of the article seems very American to me.

Consider European jazz masters such as Tomasz Stanko [1], Enrico Rava, Marcin Wasilewski, Tord Gustavsen, Bugge Wesseltoft, Bobo Stenson, Enrico Pieranunzi, Helge Lien, John Surman, Iiro Rantala, Esbjörn Svensson, Stefano Bollani, Arve Henriksen, Myriam Alter... These represent a considerable evolution of jazz, in my opinion, that seems rarely included/considered stateside, the stature of labels like ECM and ACT notwithstanding.

Not that the US doesn't have its share of great contemporary artists; Aaron Parks, Anat Fort, Brad Mehldau and Keith Jarrett come to mind.

[1] One of my favourite albums: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhayp1vE8EE&list=PL8ti15zu4v...
The writer is misinformed. There are plenty of musicians like Miguel Zenon, Ambrose Akinmusire, Terence Blanchard, Vijay Iyer, Wayne Shorter, etc putting out beautiful, relevant music today.

I have a deep love for Coltrane, but I'm not willing to agree that Both Directions is more significant than all the great music folks are still creating today.
No it's not awful. People will doubt him sometime, and it's better to learn how to deal with that and gain a life skill rather than expecting every person to be sweet and supporting.

There are some kids who just goes on game chats to mess with others, play loud music, bully them, grief them etc. They are usually around 12 years old to 16 years old. I'm sure these things are not new to this kid.

Welcome to the planet.
Naively, couldn't you extract helium by liquifying everything else and taking the leftover gas? So instead of cooling to 4 kelvin, cool to the boiling point of the element with the 2nd lowest boiling temperature. Or is that not helpful because that happens to be very low too?
KJAZZ, in my area. Although, KSPC's jazz block plays better stuff.
You can and should consider conflicting information without ignoring anything. Generally it’s a sign of less accurate information or a poor model. Ignore information at will and you can support any conclusion.
Ive seen many scaling issues so far as well.
However I tend to think that this is a problem with coherence in discipline of the hierarchy. Person A always breaking the build now just becomes Team A breaking the build.

So even still why not simply just use process despite its drawbacks of rigidity since it will still at least solve your problems.

The answer is that just like corruption no finite set of laws will ever be enough to curb an underlying behavior.
This is why things like mandatory code reviews are pointless unless people take them seriously
Getting excited about my career.

I keep getting in a loop where I feel like I can't grow and the challenges aren't there, so my work performance starts to slacken, which in turn is used to justify giving me the same tasks again. Eventually I burn out and get a new job, which I'm excited about for about a year, before it becomes clear that what was promised me in terms of opportunity and advancement isn't going materialize any time soon. Then I start to slack again. I do average work and remain in the same spot. Someone else gets the promotion I thought I was going to, I get more bitter, and try even less. Then the loop repeats.

Some of this is cultural, but a lot of it is me. I really struggle to maintain motivation and it shows. Especially when someone junior to me (in terms of experience overall, though usually at the company longer) who hates managing gets promoted to leading the team. At that point, I kind of check out.

As a result I never establish myself enough to be in the position to actually get promoted, and just seem to cycle every 2 years.