skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I also like having dedicated power and display ports (HDMI-out is a requirement for the foreseeable future) as well, which are obvious and cannot have anything else stuffed into them

I don't understand this argument when any of the ports would work. If USB C can handle power, data transfer, video, audio, etc. and you had multiple USB C ports on a device then any one of them would work for any use. That's such an easier system then having a bunch of different cords and ports.
I never understood how anyone possibly felt the ridiculously extremist state of affairs of automobile/fuel regulations/taxes/etc in Denmark is appropriate. The rest of Europe isn't that great either but Denmark is one of or the most insane examples (memory isn't clear on if there was another member state that was even worse). One of the things that makes me grateful to live in the USA - owning and operating a car doesn't bankrupt me, especially anything bigger than a clown car with any less than 50mpg.
Learn why things work, not just how to make something work.

You'll probably have plenty of times where you know that "if I write this line of code, this thing happens, and that solves the problem". Dig into exactly what that is doing and understand why it works as it does. A lot of the time this just means reading all the documentation (not just the 1-liner you can copy/paste and move along) and source code of libraries.

A good exercise you can do is to open up some code (ask a coworker for a good place to start), look at it line-by-line, and ask yourself if you know exactly what is happening on each line. You probably won't know and that's your trigger to go read up on something. From there you'll have great questions that a coworker should be happy to talk about with you.

In my experience, new developers that take this approach of truly learning (rather than just making things work) grow fast and impress the team.
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> Can't really speak to the cloudsql issue... that's not really kubernetes. Running SQL as a container you can just kubectl port-forward

Best solution is Cloud SQL Proxy: https://cloud.google.com/sql/docs/postgres/sql-proxy
Stackoverflow is great, and is really one of the most valuable learning resources ever created (seriously, quantifying the total value generated by SO would result in an astoundingly large number). I use it all the time.

That said, for particularly difficult concepts (in spaces that I am not an expert), I've found that having a friend or mentor that I have a personal relationship to be more effective in helping me understand in way that makes sense to me. This is mainly because said person has a better feel for the types of explanations that make sense to me than what would be a more useful answer to a more anonymous person.
Man, I really can't choose between him and Twain for Most Sarcastic American Historical Figure.
Great point, courses are way too long. If a course could be completed in a day you'd have high completion rates.
One of my favorite books I read last year was "Photography for Everyone: The Cultural Lives of Cameras and Consumers in Early Twentieth-Century Japan," which traced the development of the Japanese middle class in relation to photography— how people learned to consume collectively, developed a distinct aesthetic from Western photographers, and the gender dynamics of adoption of a new technology.
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Okay, what is your point? Whether it's good enough for your needs is unrelated to whether it's Linux.
A different climate may be beneficial to an invasive species, so climate change csn be relevant to the topic.
They can in some countries. China for example.

America has de facto exile due to the No Fly List:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/cifamerica/2010/ju...
https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2013/02/2013241659...

https://www.thedailybeast.com/one-womans-case-proves-its-bas...
https://www.courthousenews.com/en-banc-9th-circuit-takes-up-...
https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/05/01/who-can-challenge-the-n...

Snowden is arguably in exile, as his passport was cancelled, but he wouldn't be refused entry :-)
Jesus man, that's some tenuous connectivity. The first article's really trying hard to link investment capital flows into some larger conspiracy. The second is about generalizing mapping tech originally developed for surveillance satellites to be used for publicly available imagery, and the purchaser's obligations to fulfill the contracts of the purchased company. Both are results of the same underlying issue: defense & intelligence run as essentially monopsonies for the technology they care about, so they have to pay to have it developed. Sometimes their result is generally useful (better search of documents), sometimes it isn't, and sometimes it just isn't for a while (until publicly available imagery is widespread enough to cover a large map).

If articles like these are the basis for your conclusions, really take a step back. I went down this route a little some years ago, and really just felt miserable for no good reason.

Now the next part of my suggestion is going to sound rough for a second, but please take it seriously. Check out a book called "The Information Diet" by Clay Johnson. After reading (it's a really good book, and helped me a lot in avoiding this sort of stuff), watch a ridiculous conspiracy show on TV. My favorite recently was about whether mermaids were real.

Listen to the techniques they use in there -- By saying "A relates to B" and "B relates to C", they ask "Does A relate to C?" Even though A and B relate only through something remote, and similarly for B and C. But, imply a conspiracy and suddenly the remote links seem like a cabal of some sort. It's a manipulative practice to get eyeballs and clicks, and we have to identify it as toxic before we start taking it in.
> And in 17 years, every new car in Denmark must be an electric car or other forms of zero-emissions car,” Rasmussen said, implying that hybrids will be phased out in 2035.
Does Microsoft hardware have a decent trackpad, unlike all other PC laptops? My MacBook trackpad is great and I'm baffled as to why PCs can't replicate it.
Strongly agree!

If you write something cool and you're thinking "oh yeah! I am such a Ninja!" then step back and decide whether it needs commenting to explain what it does.

If it does need commenting, consider whether you could rewrite it in such a way that comments are unnecessary. Assume your colleagues and future code maintainers are trainee ninjas at best.
> Yes, MOOCs do less handholding (aka: forcing adults to behave like adults) than traditional university courses.

It's interesting how much this varies globally. In the UK I had zero hand-holding for my undergraduate degree. In the last two years of high school there would be constant reminders that this would be coming. You'd turn up to lectures, occasionally have coursework that at most counted for 30% of the overall course. There was very limited access to the lecturer outside of the lectures, and occasionally their grad students would help with labs. Most of that was by design, but there was the ability for faculty to get by with minimal effort and not face consequences.

For some courses, I wish I had had access to the level of hand holding that seems to exist in the US at the undergraduate level. Overall, I think that the experience of being left to my devices has worked out better in the long-run, even if my results at the undergraduate level could have been better.
I still see advertisements on Facebook. Even more so, in fact. They now have ads that will cut in while you're watching a video.
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> userspace

So, not Linux.
Tech doesn't exist in a vacuum, so do not ignore the board room politics! Source: senior sysadmin who learned this the hard way
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ConEmu is pretty good - https://conemu.github.io
When learning from mistakes either big or small, trace a few "why" back.
Because you need to always look like you want to tax the rich more.
Do not try to understand everything in order to do something.

Yes, understand principles, but don't get frustrated because you don't understand everything from the silicon up to the photons coming out of the screen. You'll never understand it all. Try to understand more, but don't try to understand it all. No one understands it all.

I've seen this paralysis stop so many junior developers in their tracks. They beat themselves up trying to get it all before doing anything.

I'm gonna be real; I have only the vaguest idea how the VM works in Ruby, along with it's garbage collection (also, they keep changing it for the better). Yet, I've been programming in it for almost 10 years on a daily basis. I don't need to know this in order to setup some validations in Rails. Sure, it's useful when you hit some problems, but not critical for most work.
That's actually plenty of storage to be useful to a hybrid vehicle. Remember, that battery is always charged by the engine so the trade-off of less weight also means longer range.

The vast majority of the efficiency gains in city driving from a non plug in Hybrid is regenerative breaking. Sure, slowing down across a huge mountain represents a lot of energy, but making stop an go traffic vastly more efficient takes very little storage.
Better terminals are coming to Windows. https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/commandline/2018/08/02/wind...
Just another example of why codes of conduct are fuzzy hypocritical bullshit.

If you want to actually change something, create clearly defined, actionable rules, specify scope and follow them 100% of the time. Like "we do not log any information except X and Y".
It makes sense. I wouldn't want a right click to directly take me into a completely different context.
When you’re messaging me 20 times a day about simple exceptions like “X gem is not installed” (Ruby) and asking me what to do, then it has an opposite offect of creating a bond
I went to Denmark last year and spent two weeks driving all over the countryside, and likely would have been difficult to reach with an electric car. Many of the places I visited would not have been accessible via public transit. I'm curious how future generations will reach remote places as we move away from fossil fuels.

BTW, I loved Denmark :)
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I'll bite as you don't appear to be a troll. Trump and his regime has on many occasions talked about "America first" and also bashed international organizations like NATO/UN. But ... you knew this.

While you won't find a citation of him saying "I'm no longer interested in being the leader of free world" you will find that he rejects the concept of "the free world" by decrying "globalists" as being the cause of a perceived decline in America's influence and power.

Not to mention his bashing of allies on trade, security and a variety of other issues - making it clear he's not interested in "leading" but rather ... dominating(?)

So to me, retracting from the global economy, bashing allies, and complimenting authoritarian monsters would seem to indicate he's cool with "retreating" from that role.
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Go look at the last quarterly filing.

https://ir.aboutamazon.com/news-releases/news-release-detail...

Employees (full-time and part-time; excludes contractors & temporary personnel):	575,700

As dang said, if you're going to make a big claim, at least attempt to be right.
So what should a junior developer do with this knowledge in mind?
Wait what, there was another surface launch ?
Every citizen has an interest in the country succeeding. I rent because I live in a densely populated area with high land prices. Does this mean I'm not contributing to society or would be ok if the country failed?
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big pro i forgot: these have real-time input for free, e.g. a slider for some ranged number you can quickly fiddle around with.
> They are gaining prestige and public relations, and admissions status for their descendants.

The IRS rules state that if the benefit to the donor is quantifiable, it has to be subtracted from the overall amount of the donation. You would have to come up with a reasonable fool-proof rule to quantify those benefits.
I think that should certainly help procrastinators. When there's also some human interaction, fixed schedule, the cost, the incentive to finish up the course is higher, even if you hate the course...
I don't see what the problem is. Should every published scientist have a wikipedia page? It's not obvious that they should, not every scientist is notable to the general public. The fact that they received a Nobel doesn't mean they were notable before they received the Nobel.
And in the opposite direction: remember when you are writing error messages to include all the relevant details, and never ever write "this shouldn't happen" or "document later".
As a marketer, it's a pretty vital tool for understanding detailed attribution data.
Thank you very much! This is really informative.
I guess the solution is to provide more charging stations, isn't it? Looks pretty straightforward to me.
Indeed. Mercedes has already announced that it will "electrify" 300 models over the next decade or so, and I expect at least 280 of those to work exactly as you said, not just for the purpose of exploiting this kind of legislation, but also for marketing purposes ("An electrified car is basically just the same as an electric car, right?").
But if the alternative is no park at all, then surely an outcome where someone spends their own money to protect some land is again, a good thing.
This. Think of the battery and electric motor in a hybrid like a caching system that makes the power-train able to use energy a lot more efficiently.
Find a hobby. Interesting things happen at the intersection of technology with other things, so find other interests apart from software. Technology skills, management skills - these are table stakes. Perhaps even more if you take the generalist career path, having some additional domain knowledge or value-add that you can bring will be important.
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Perhaps they do?

In Norway you're going to have a hard time finding a petrol or diesel car that fits the government requirements.

See §5: https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2017-12-11-1995/§5
> 1 mile(!!!) of electric range,

Other people have talked about this, but I'm wondering if the change to having electric drive motors and an engine just for generating electricity is more efficient and easier on the engine. (regenerative breaking aside)
That's factually incorrect. There are things that go in/out of Gaza but in very limited supply.
The blockade (why is it in quotes?) was created more than 10 years ago for political reasons as a way to pressure the people of Gaza to turn against Hamas. Ever since, it achieved the exact opposite. To remind you, ~2 million people have been living under this siege since then.

Don't fool your self - putting 2 million people under siege is not self protection.

PS - the US definition for terrorism is "the unlawful use of violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aims.". Just saying.
America is only 24% of world’s GDP — Most business in the world is not done ‘the American way’. Europe is 21%, their ways are just as valid. It just depends on the expectations from the other side.

You won’t be able to run a business the American way in Germany, not would you be able to it vice versa.

Nor you should be able to be.

(There is nothing historic about being able to capture 20-25% of the world’s GDP either — England (1800s), Turkey (1600-1700) and China (European dark age through Middle Ages) has all achieved the same economic power US enjoys as of today.
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Meet the farmers of the future: Robots
Don't use bull, use NATS[1] - happy with it so far with the Node SDK.

[1] https://nats.io
What's more widely distributed than electricity?
>> taxpayers are subsidizing tax breaks for the rich

> I commented about this elsewhere in the thread. This is a ridiculous point of view because there is no net tax break for the individual.

How is there no net tax break? In one scenario they keep the stock and pay more tax, in the other they donate the stock and deduct the charitable gift.

> If instead of donating $1M in stock, they sold the stock and kept the money, they would have more money than if they donated the stock and claimed the deduction.

Unless they don't sell the stock. Or can't (yet) sell the stock (private companies).

> They get to deduct the $1M, but they don't get to keep it as well.

Unless they control the recipient charity where the money ends up.

> This is true, but seems like a net benefit. They get to give a gift of $1M that only costs them $600k. But that's still $600k that they could have kept and spent on gilded washing machines and penguin-egg omelets (I'm assuming that this is what the rich spend their money on). Instead, that money, plus a "matching" donation from the government of $400k, goes to a charity that can't really directly benefit the donor.

You're missing my point. Often the money doesn't go to a charity doing charitable work for years, if ever. Many DAFs only let you allocate the GAINS on the principal to charity (in this case, the gains on $1M). DAFs are another investment vehicle to minimize tax and maximize gains.
You would be surprised how many times you use that one EV mile during the average 30 mile commute. In traffic and cities, you often don't need more than the 40 HP given by the transmission alone.

Hybrids have a torque curve that starts like an EV, then continues like a gas car. This means great torque from 0 mph through highway speeds.

And then there's idle at stop lights, the biggest waste of fuel and a huge cause of pollution. Modern engines use 6 seconds of fuel when starting, but most cars idle for minutes at a light.
It wasn't at all clear to me from the post I responded to that this is what the poster meant, or that they knew the fact I was stating.
Surface Pro 3, 4, and Surface Book were both BSODing like crazy for a long time after launch, out of the box. It was so bad that MS publicly apologized. Wireless problems as well.
I fumbled and clicked around for a while, but I still don't have the slightest idea of what I'm looking at and how to use it. Except for the obvious "an ancient operating system emulated in Javascript."
I don't think that's a bad thing. Allowing the social mores of the wealthy to continue driving society generations later is at best aristocratic. When we die, our influence should die with us, at least to the extent that later generations no longer share our present moral inclinations.

A foundation that wants to live in perpetuity should have to continually refresh itself with the dollars of later generations.

edit: typo
Yup, concluding that MOOC formats are more effective is similar to the charter school problem. If you filter for committed people then you end up with better looking success stats. But all it might be doing is finding and filtering those motivated enough to go through a school change process, or willing to put up with some hassle factor of something "online" but still requiring scheduled times, or other commitments. Similar for attendance being a factor for success in the article - it sounded like going in person was the key way to access the extra learning resources.

Filtering for the subset of people committed in a certain way isn't really a proof of a good learning format. And to me, not necessarily the best way to bring education to a wider range of students. Filtering for commitment might be argued that it's effective on some level as an efficient use of teaching resources - but I think that needs deeper examination too.
> This is an interesting communications dilemma. I don't think most people have really understood the Google/Alphabet transition.

If the media consistently referred to Google as Google and Alphabet as Alphabet, people would learn the difference more quickly. Using one term for the other is just delaying this process and sowing confusion.
There is currently no alternative. I for one would love a global currency that was untethered from government corruption (printing), and manipulation. It would also be devoid of regulation where no actor gets to say if one person can use it or not. We aren't ready to empower individuals on that level though. Manipulating currency markets is ingrained in our political structures.
I encountered these for the first time visiting family in PA this summer.

They are very large, oblivious to people, and were absolutely everywhere. Several of them landed on my since I probably looked like a small tree in my dark shirt and pants. I don’t know if some predator will come along and balance out the equation, but in the meantime, it certainly did appear to be an invasion.
I would love to see this kind of thing done with the [0] pine beetle. It isn't an invasive species, but is killing off huge numbers of ponderosa and lodgepole pines in the rocky mountains due to the combination of forest fire surpression and unusually hot and dry summers.

The exploding number of pine beatles is commonly attributed to climate change giving the pine beattle a second generation of bugs every year[1]. A genetic control strategy that thinned the population I think would be really helpful at reducing their effect.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain_pine_beetle
[1] https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2012/03/climate-change-sends...
> Instead we should be focusing our efforts on making government transparent, reducing waste

Why is this stipulated on charitable deductions going away?
It's hilarious to see Microsoft educate their audience about things Unix and Linux users have take for granted for a long time. Like leaving their parallel universe after all those decades. Also interesting to see their jumping through hoops to get there.
In the short term.

Historically the U.S. has avoided drilling much of its reserves preferring to use oil from foreign sources first, knowing that it would have its own remaining if those ever dried up, either literally or because they became untenable to access for whatever reason.

If the U.S. uses up its reserves and doesn't drastically cut its consumption, it's no longer a net exporter.

One potential solution:

Use local reserves in the short term while redirecting military spending toward building sustainable / clean energy infrastructure domestically to avoid a scenario in which the country runs out of domestic reserves and is no longer able to obtain oil from foreign sources.
"You should probably lead with that next time" is all I have to say in response to that.

I'm far more likely to respond positively, even if ultimately I decline if they were to say "We have a program in place-if you think you're going to miss a payment that will help keep your account on track, would you like to enroll?"

versus

"Why were you late making this payment?"

Of the two, when I went through that period of long-term underemployment, I only ever heard the latter, never the former. Such a curt and abrupt question to ask that comes across much more invasive than helpful.
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Find me high-voltage high-amperage connections on the side of the freeway though.
I don't see why it's insane to put huge taxes on something that polutes our environment, is dangerous to people around them, causes a lot of noise and other irritations. Pushing more people towards electric and public transportation is only a good thing in my opinion. If you insist on a poluting private car, fine, just pay for it (big time).