skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sure the 99% of interactions are perfectly fine but the number of bad interactions in the US seems way way above any other western country.

There are numerous news stories about Australians gettting shot by police while traveling to America but virtually none from within Australia. Last police shooting I remember in Australia was when the person was running at the police with a knife.
Are you applying for junior, mid-level, or senior positions?

If I were in your shoes, I'd definitely be targeting mid-level plus. Your experience plus age makes your decision making more valuable. It's possible you are undershooting the mark.

As others have said, maybe aim for some low hanging fruit dev jobs. Wordpress is everywhere, with your skills, you should be able to get one of those easy. Also, don't bother listing all that other stuff on a Wordpress application, just put that you have 11 years of experience and put a few Wordpress projects. You can replace "wordpress" with any other low hanging fruit.
> The benefits of some of those advances are questionable at best.

Which ones?
Barnes and Noble is going to sell the company
We don't inspect or log any customer traffic, and we treat your VPN server as private and confidential. We aren’t currently able to sign a HIPAA BAA, but we’re working on being able to do so in the future.
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Is it fair to compare a consumer to a taxi company? It is generally well understood (at least amongst car folks) that mileage isn't generally what degrades a car, it's mostly time. Taxi companies put huge miles on their cars in a short period, which is quite a lot different from Joe Consumer driving 12K/year.
As a guy, getting into fights to defend myself instead of keeping it under the lid and festering in anger. This keeps up your self esteem and cuts back years of therapy.

Consequences are much lower - a few cuts and bruises here and there from a schoolyard scuffle. Kids don’t really know how to fight and aren’t super buff yet. You also quickly learn to avoid them and talk your way out of problems. Or at least develop some good smack talk.

If you actually had a father, that is what he would tell you after your mother scolds you and tell you to avoid conflict. This helps in developing your masculinity.

Getting into fights as an adult is worse. You might get knifed and the fighters are stronger. It’s also a dumb thing to do.
I think part of the motivation was preventing open rebellion by a hurting voter base. Those were bad years.
Nice I've been looking for something like this for a long time. I'd recommend getting rid of that transparent black bar at the bottom and the buttons could just be arrows < ^ >, and put in the bottom right corner, since you're funnelling the content in the centre.

I find the black bar pretty distracting from the content.

Also a clearer separation between the articles would be great.

Finally if you used page links (#), the browser navigation could support back and forth.
Not just commoditization of self-driving tech. Many people will switch from buying cars to hailing self-driving taxis. And nobody really cares about the brand, styling or horsepower of the taxi they take to work. To that degree each manufacturer faces erosion of their competitive advantage.
That'll be Strategies for Dealing with Cisnormative Discursive Aggression in the Workplace: Disruption, Criticism, Self-Enforcement, and Collusion ("Thesis: That trans people are all oppressed and constrained by cisnormative language in the workplace even if they don’t think they are, that trans activists who are avoided at work are proof of transphobia and trans men who are skeptical of trans activism are afraid of transphobia and/or taking advantage of male privilege"). It was rejected everywhere it was submitted.
He should honestly start a job board just for 35+ year olds looking for tech work...
Back in college there was a class where all exams were take-home, and all homeworks and exams could be deposited in the professor's mailbox. I read the text, did homework with my classmates, passed the exams, and never even found out what the professor looked like.
“How is the dog holding the cane?”
Ask HN: What do you think about my agency's new website and how can I improve it
We had to retire our old website, and move to something more modern and simplistic. However i feel that i spent a lot of time over thinking this project, so i wanted to show it to you guys at its current form to get your opinion on whether or not its ready to be used, and if there are any issues that i need to take a look at!

This is the link: https://www.eliteware.co/testing
Probably not. Judges really, really hate defendants who destroy evidence, and getting the maximum statutory penalty is common in such cases.
a and b were specced at the same time though, so it's really weird to look at a+b+g as anything other than two generations.
The national average is 12 cents per kWh and $2.90 per gallon. Cherry picking places with abnormally cheap electricity is great for Internet debates but doesn't inform much.

Right now an EV costs 20-30 grand more than a like-for-like ICE car, before the rebate (that is about to run out for Tesla). It's also too early to be planning on running the EV for half a million miles just to make it pay for itself in reduced fuel costs.
Yes, In general, in my opinion, dealing with the police in most situation is, at least in the us, is a dangerous preposition.

edit: in my experience
I don't know you, so don't take this personally, but you should also consider it may not be your tech chops, but some other soft skill that's holding you back...

You may want to try some practice interviews like on https://interviewing.io/
Yeah, I'm not entirely clear what counts as a hobby and what doesn't.

I went to a comedy show tonight. Does that count as a hobby? I don't think so, but it's also clearly a leisure activity.

Does reading count as a hobby? It's still fairly passive, but less so than just watching. What about video games? Definitely not just passive, but how much do you have to play for it to be a hobby?

I also have no idea where this claim that we're all to competitive to have hobbies comes from. I, like the tech bro stereotype, enjoy rock climbing, the only thing that gets in the way is my laziness, not comparing myself to those far better than myself. No-one I have climbed with has expressed status anxiety about what they can and cannot climb, though I admit to being a tad competitive with those who I am close in ability to.

This author is in some super weird bubble that I have never really seen, but that's probably because I don't have kids, and that probably has a bigger impact than anything this article is talking about.
Corporations are spending their own money, unions are spending someone else's. That's the main difference. To be clear what I mean: At least in my country it is a legal requirement for the corporation to pay salaries of union leaders and staff - few FTEs per union.
There are 330M people in this country. How many of them have any idea what to do if an ICBM is on the way? I would be shocked if the number exceeded 330K. If anyone thought there were a credible thread of nuclear attack they would be taking steps of which a warning system like this would be a late step, not the first one.

The local FEMA alert system is a good idea; the last time I personally found it useful was in 1989 (Loma Prieta earthquake) though I hear it works in more dangerous areas (e.g. tornado alley) and am not surprised by that. However here in the Bay Area its link to phones was ruined by spam (pointless interruptions sent to my phone) so I disabled it. This new system is worse.

(BTW I wouldn't classify the false missile alert in Hawaii "spam". It was simply an error. But here I got messages that should have been on the news).
Yes it is the most exiting feature but booooy is it buggy.

I have couple shortcuts in the widget. 80% of the time I click the shortcut in the widget it does like half of the stuff.
I have workflow that does:

- Find one song in Apple Music, start playing that
- Find all other songs by that artists and play them after the current one
- send a message to my wife "I'm leaving the office"

Messages works all the time, 80% of the time music simply don't start playing. And when I try to hit that shortcut button several time in the widget, widget itself fails and stops showing any shortcuts, only an error message.
Me too, but I wish that data was tightly controlled by a federal regulator, and deleted after N days.

At the moment, most of it’s controlled by Tazer, who have an interest in keeping cops happy.
So was their old six-speed.

The ZF 6HP automatic was a game changer when it was released. It had six forward gears with the ability to lock the torque converter in any gear and it was cheaper to produce than most four speed transmissions. They ended up dominating the RWD automatic transmission market.
The point was that you can't make general comments about the popularity of the Tesla when you live in a very wealthy suburb who can affords Teslas.

And wealth is generally based on average house price which is $1.5 million in Prahran i.e. towards the very expensive end across Australia.
Yeah I'm calling this badge-equivalence. The camera (with active indicator light) is the badge. If you don't have a badge you're not a police officer. If you don't have a camera you're not a police officer. The only thing that curbs my enthusiasm for this is the privacy rights of other parties. Not sure how to deal with that but I don't think it should derail the whole thing.
This is absolutely an incredible piece of Internet History. Thank you for sharing

Does anyone know if 'Virtual' Museums exist that collect pieces of internet art? I feel like this belongs somewhere. I do not mean like Archive.org I mean a curated collection
What is exactly is being measured in, for example, the R script? The same code running in the same modern version of R on Ubuntu 12 and 18? Or is the R version dating to Ubuntu 12? Or is it contemporaneous for both releases?

I really wish these websites would repeat these 100x or something so we could get an idea of the variability in the measurements.
Mounk didn't read the hoaxers writeup carefully enough to be a reliable judge; he gleefully tweeted two papers from the hoax that were rejected everywhere they were submitted, as evidence of the important problem the hoax uncovered --- this despite the fact that the hoaxers did in fact provide an accounting of what got accepted where (even though their writeup at the beginning of the piece misrepresented that accounting).

From what Pinker wrote, who knows if he even read it?
terraform: 2014
ansible: 2012
openstack: 2010
cloudera: 2008
hortonworks: 2011
emr: 2011

(those were quickly googled, apologies if i got any dates wrong)

timing is important. cloudera had good, early timing and looked promising because of it. you are right that EMR definitely hurt all the other hadoop vendors, though i think people overestimate how comfortable big enterprises are with moving to public cloud. way more comfortable today; back then everything was a lot less certain. cloudera's name is unfortunate given they never got anything cloud-based successful, maybe they'd be in a better place now if they had.

but some of the key technologies you suggest as better options came 4-6 years later. that's 4-6 years of providing value, gaining traction, and building a committed customer base. 4-6 years is a long time, and even with how slow many enterprise projects run, more than enough to get entrenched, build tooling that makes a bunch of stuff easier, build mindshare, etc.

> Have I missed out on some cool stuff?

stuff that makes companies money doesn't always look cool.
"whenever they need to" for breaks usually translates to, "whenever they need to find another job". HR/PR might say it, and they might even believe it, but the company will incentivized management for output. Those managers are going to be pushing their employees to do as much as possible with as little breaks as possible.

Unless they set up a completely separate chain of command that is in charge of validating if an employee is legitimately being fired, then it's always going to end up following their incentive structure
It's been posted here multiple times: https://cafbit.com/post/rapid_dhcp_or_how_do/
I think that'd be cool! The problem is batteries are worth so much $ the accountants get a little uppity when we stay exchanging a warranty part that costs $8k
> We need software with super long term support release that just get bug fixed for ~20 years.

So much this. You can have it though, by sticking with stable open source that no PM looking to make a mark can redesign every year. I've been using mutt for email since the mid 90s, no unnecessary interface changes.

In 1997 I set up my very non-technical mother (now almost 90) with a very simple system built around FVWM (very customized configuration), mutt (again customized for simplicity) and emacs (for email editing, custom keybindings). To this day she uses the exact same setup every day. Nothing has changed and nothing can change, so nothing new to confuse her.
> finding people who spoofed their MAC address, and therefore deserve extra scrutiny

> Why are you changing your MAC address? We need to investigate you.

Both iPhones and Windows 10 have MAC randomisation built in for wifi. I hope you have a big budget for investigations.
This is just not true. Reducing infant mortality is the biggest factor, sure, but death risk is significantly lower for all ages.
GP was asking how this is different than what the NSA does. The poster above me said it was because China acts on that information, but the US does not.

I provided evidence America does act on information.

This is perspective.
I'm interested in this difference too, because anecdotally post-workout stretching does reduce soreness for me. One of the two studies referenced in the part about how stretching doesn't prevent DOMS actually did find that stretching decreased soreness, and post-workout stretching decreased it more than pre-workout stretching: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21735398. But, as the paper authors termed it, the effects were "clinically insignificant" (not the same as "statistically insignificant"). The results still strike me as odd from my personal experience, because it's so predictable that I'll be sore if I lift weights without a 5-10 min cool down afterwards. I'd want to see added research beyond these couple of studies before jumping to a conclusion.
You are obviously free to dislike C#, but it seems silly to say they should stop adding features or should remove features.

> Did we really need all those features?

If you don't need them, don't use them. I've found the new features to be great. nameof, string interpolation, property initializers, exception filters, static imports, null propagator. And if you haven't used the language in awhile going back to 5.0 the async await features are fantastic. 7.1 introduced async Main which we've started using in console apps. I use all of these features every day.

> I would love it if I saw a new version of a language come out and it removes language features

Why, exactly?
> Couldn't we just slow down tech a little bit and let people do some good old hard work to keep getting their cut? Frustrating.

I'd much rather we eliminate the need for jobs so people don't need to work anymore. Working sucks. I think I work at a great place. I still wouldn't do it if I didn't get paid.
How Facebook is damaging freedom of expression in Vietnam
Natively compiled Micronaut microservices using GraalVM for insanely fast starts
Thanks for this. I do not see enough context in school.
I started my career as a programmer at AT&T and was "management" on day one, despite no managerial responsibilities. The term means nothing more than "non-union employee."
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17669993
RobotWar – A programming game by the maker of Castle Wolfenstein
Except, is your downside really limited? It's true the company must make payroll while you are still employed. However, the employer has the option of firing you. While this might not put in you in debt to the employer's creditors, it does reduce the value of your employment contract to zero AND reduces your attractiveness to future employers.

If you only have had one employer for a long period, this is a large blow. Taleb makes the point that the taxi driver is in an enviable position compared to the salaryman for this reason.
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Saying “whataboutism” is not a defense for hypocrisy.

But I suppose you’re right, the US only murders tens of millions of foreigners.
I feel like that's kinda the wrong route to go; because manufactures shouldn't be encouraged to design things for planned obsolescence.

There has to be a balance, to where the drone is of the same quality, but has safety components that collapse like the engine compartment of a car.
Thanks! It's still embarrassing; Might is an amazing dude.
The puritanism of the big players has allowed for a fair few competitors to service the porn industry. I'm sure any of them would be happy to take on gab.com as a customer.
They're programmers, data architects, analysts, some actual managers, and so on. It just means "non-union employee."
>The point of peer review is to stop bad research, not fake research

I would submit that "fake research" is, in fact, bad research.
Also you can tell that the proponents of the law didn't even really mean it.

A $300K fine? are you joking? It's a rounding error for lunch buffets for a lot of companies. What a joke.

ALso, I'm against the law and I'm glad to see they didn't really mean anything by it.
> Also, I am not seeing a reason why Go is not a good choice.

I think you may have unnecessarily restricted yourself by wanting a language that produces native binaries and is GC'd. There simply _aren't_ that many mature and mainstream languages that compile to native binaries with a GC. I'd personally much prefer a more expressive language with a less robust ecosystem (and a virtual machine), but if an Elastic lib is a hard requirement for you, then I can't argue with your choice of Go.

Or use Haskell. Native binaries, opinionated, decent library ecosystem ;).
options cost money.
Can you invert it? This makes me think of Decker's wife in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep who adjusted her mood organ (designed to dispense psychiatric drugs each morning to stabilize your emotions) to make her depressed and miserable.

"Your message is insufficiently vitriolic. Send anyway? (y/n)"
I get that it can seem unreasonable that people expect police to behave legally even in the presence of difficult or rude people. After all, very few of us enjoy dealing with difficult or rude people. Maybe very few of us are qualified to be police officers.
How about a law that requires a certain percentage of non-black, non-gay people?
No surprise there. Some people e.g me will feel sleepy when on passenger seat.
What we're the expected benefits of joining the union that they didn't get then? For instance in most low level jobs I've had like that, just getting a consistent schedule would be worth half the hourly wage, without a bonus all. You'd be able to have a life or a second job. When you don't have a union you get companies ignoring even basics like that and doing random scheduling with leaves you with the inability to do anything but be ready for work, without being paid for the time.

There are tons of little things like this that all add up to value that's just as good as money and that we take for granted by being in the tech world
Honda is doing fine, and was early into the hybrid market. Whatever are you on about?

The only missteps was their zev hydrogen tech which doesn't make engineering sense (to me), and a black eye from bad v6 transmissions for way too long in the 90s thru 00s, and a departure from small, low-displacement, high efficiency, well handling cars with sla suspension for pigfat appliances with cheap mcstrut suspension and more wings.

Lucky for them, the world is a bit pigfat and risk adverse themselves, and still buy CRVs like crazy. While the 88-01 civic, and s2000 still somehow support their reputation in enthusiast circles thanks to those now purely nostalgic qualities.

But I digress. I think ICE cars will continue to serve a purpose. Mazda just announced a new rotary ICE hybrid engine design this week! If self-driving tech takes off, it will be applied just as easily to either tech. I see Honda at no major positional disadvantage here.
How long will it take for an average software engineer to join the Big 4?
An introspective view on the topic would be appreciated. This question is inclined towards removing procrastination amongst software professionals and enable proper objective view on this goal.
MacBook Pros have had 3x3 for a while now (except for the non-touchbar 13” post-2016, which is really more of a MacBook Air internally anyway).
> especially since the founder has pushed breaking changes directly to master and then I got flack since I am now the "systems" guy and am responsible for the health of the app

> use of a staging environment - is met with suspicion and doubt

If he doesn't want to give you authority to design the deployment pipeline, then he doesn't get to make you responsible for it. Responsibility/authority mismatch is a classic management mistake, they cover it in lower division business supervision and management classes. It's generally a result of one or more personality defects and/or something interfering with proper reasoning. If you can't get it fixed by figuring out how to work with the founder, then you need to find another job because it's only going to get worse as things ramp up.

Based on what you're saying about wanting more research and suspicion when presented with change, it sounds like they have Groucho Marx syndrome due to either a self-esteem issue or impostor syndrome. The usual line of reasoning is:

1. I need expert help. I will look outside my organization for it.

2. I hired expert help, and they are now working for my company.

3. It is self-evident that this person does not know what they are doing because they are working for my organization, and I have a low opinion of myself and/or my organization.

4. I need expert help.

Rinse and repeat.

I'm currently working with a founder who constantly pushes to master, and I didn't push back because he earned my trust by being a really decent programmer. He's broken things in the past, but in general he fixes things faster than I can detect them so I'm ok with it. The engineering organization doesn't have many complaints about it because the company needs him free to work on the hiring pipeline, which is crucial because our staff keeps getting poached.

If he was mediocre, I'd have privilege separated his accounts a long time ago and enabled annoying 3FA on his account with master commit privileges.
Also https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61qmX5eAPwI which is a newer video and highlights some of the most recent Blazor 0.6 features.

I am very excited about the possibilities this brings. Current frontend/backend solutions all seem to involve duplicating contracts in JavaScript. WebAssembly frameworks like Blazor will let us get back to programming in one language but keep the SPA-style experience for the UI.