skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because most graduates would rather work in a safe job at one of those large companies than do anything actually challenging at a more risky place. I know engineers who work at several of those companies, and it's the same kind of of overly bureaucratic, conservative corporate culture that is dominated by middle managers who are primarily preoccupied by not making any mistakes they could be held accountable for everywhere.

Furthermore, there are a lot of jobs that are being filled with engineers that don't really require an engineer. A good friend of mine is currently working for one of those companies, and his job mainly consists of building spreadsheets with risk models that are then passed on to, and mostly ignored by, the sales force. Needless to say, he's probably going to switch careers in the next few months.

For some people that is enough as long as they get paid at the end of the month, but if you actually want to do something, these companies are not the place for that.
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Prior art: https://patents.stackexchange.com/questions/13629/i-had-inve...
We also have something similar in Chinese (Cantonese only?) - one bit of mouse shit ruins the whole pot of congee (一粒老鼠屎，壞了一鍋粥).
Don't forget Smalltalk has these capabilities as well.
I'm not indian but before moving to usa, attending wedding is one of the common weekend activities.
I guess what OP meant is interaction with earth's magnetic field to get out of its gravitational pull.
Well, do you think that BT might have the potential to reduce bandwidth costs? And what difference might that make to the overall cost of doing business?
I haven't found an actually good time to have these kinds of standup meetings.

First thing in the morning is not good, because it requires people get in in time, and so it becomes a gate on starting work if you are on time until the latest person arrives. Also kind of useless to do until the morning email triage is completed.

Midday doesn't work, I've found, because it is impossible to carve out a consistent time to meet. External sources always try to clutter up 10-2 with calls and meetings that involve herding cats and aligning schedules over which there is little control. Also tends to blow into lunch time and people get hangry and cranky.

End of the day at least serves as a terminus to the day, and since standups are mostly useless, skipping it to sneak out and play golf or whatever tends to be a common outcome.
I always end up being more frivolous with my cash. The fact is that society has made it hard for users to use only cash or to use only any anonymous payment method. Living only on cash is almost as ridiculous sounding as living only on Bitcoin as a demonstration of what privacy-less dystopia we are barreling towards.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18092967.
I'm not familiar with the statistics, and may be misreading them, but for what I can find with a quick search, 2-3X seems about right, possibly even low.

Total expenditure per pupil in average daily attendance in constant 2016 dollars:

1959-60: $3,890
2014-15: $14,013
$14,000 / $4,000 = 3.5x

https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d17/tables/dt17_236.55.a...

Separately, here's a link claiming a 3x increase for Nevada in particular: https://www.npri.org/issues/publication/nevada-has-nearly-tr...

And here's an article claiming a 2x increase since 1970: https://www.cato.org/blog/public-school-spending-theres-char...

What do you think the numbers are instead?

More meta, why do you post a harsh correction like this without offering any sourcing or evidence? If your goal was to provoke someone else into doing some research, I guess it worked, but this seems rude. What's your model for how others will react to your comment?
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> The Empire State Building was built in 410 days

At least one reason is that we have substantially different safety regulations since we're not accepting of deaths on a project like that. 5 people died on that project. 11 died to build the Golden Gate. Original Bay Bridge? 24.

They actually had a rule of thumb at the time: 1 death for every $1M spent on a project[1]. Any metric like that would be absolutely unacceptable today.

[1] - https://www.npr.org/2012/05/27/153778083/75-years-later-buil...
This is surprising. Estonia was oft quoted example of digital governance. Any ideas on how this will effect their blockchain projects?
True. A while ago I looked into Qt and one problem was that there weren't too many 3rd party components on the market. For WPF and Winforms you can buy extremely powerful components like data grids and tree views (I have been using Developer Express) but I didn't find any for qt.
Because there is no way to build a machine to generate continuously very strong magnetic fields (the limit is just below 40T iirc, by room temperature, Bitter Electromagnets). This is magnitudes lower than a 1200T pulse in that article. 40T is barely enough to lift up a small animal and keep it suspended in the air, because of the blood iron and water. How would you continuously crush hydrogen with that? The magnetic flux is way to weak on the atomic scale.

One could argue, why not use superconducting electromagnets (used in fusion machines), but surprisingly the limit is lower there, something above 20T!

So, pulses are much stronger, but also very short. Continuously strong fields need insane machinery which might have thermodynamic limits of what is possible to achieve.
How is this surprising? Or did you just want to mention cryptocurrencies?
> Why can't I debug a function without restarting my program?

Given the number of people here pointing out mature, powerful systems where this is totally, easily possible, I think a more to-the-point question might be "given the availability of debuggable systems, why are systems that do not value this capability so much more common/used?"

...however, I have yet to see a good answer (or even discussion--people love to feel superior and defend their choices) to that question, and it comes up a lot.
This ^. I see a lot of people are tricked by their companies to get them to come to Berlin. Then the companies get them believing that a 60k salary is generous for someone with loads of experience.

Once you get here, you realize that a lot of companies pay much more than that and you've been taken advantage from.
Do you know voltage MRI machines work at?
If you accept that advertising is necessary to some business models, I hope to see publishers move ads back to the server because I think eliminating all the code from the client would drastically improve user experience.

This would make them tougher to block and hinder users ability to control privacy, but it would also restrict tracking to that specific site.
I know a mainland Chinese person who completely cut off his own parents after they kept treating his wife poorly, a couple of decades ago when the country was much less developed. Culture is no excuse; a just person (for lack of a better word) is not going to tolerate their parents mistreating their partner, regardless of where they're born. People who accept terrible behaviour from family just because they're family only encourage them to continue such bad behaviour; terrible parents won't stop being terrible parents if they don't face any consequences.

The Chinese language even has a rude word for someone who slavishly obeys their parents, "走狗", literally meaning "running dog".
With some more work like better Visual Studio integration and maybe some compiler magic it could have been fantastic.
Interestingly, if I drop my plus code into Google, it shows a pin in exactly the right location. But tapping the map graphic opens up the Google Maps app, which jumps to a location ~200 miles away.
I’m not sure your comment adds any value to the discussion. It seems to be intended purely as advertisement

EDIT: it seems as if you edited your post heavily to add the notion of “content”
I'm in the UK and have never heard of this 'rule'?
I don't think it is that relevant. You can be happy in Sweden and miserable in Malta. They funny thing is that people tend to say the same thing about SV, but because of the nice weather. Not to say that dark afternoon can't be special, but it is generally everything else (like having something relevant to work on) that makes it so. And that doesn't necessarily lose its value if it is sunny instead.
> For another thing, it conflates economic disalignment with having a hard border, the whole argument of the UK government is that you don't have to do that.

This pretty much the case in the entire rest of the world. Political or economic misalignment == hard border, so people and goods can be checked and charged for. It's not so much a conflation as just becoming any other country outside the EU.

The solution to this, a soft border managed by technology just doesn't exist, it's science fiction. Even if you believe it is possible, you've got 6 months to 1. Negotiate this between the UK and EU, 2. Get the UK political system to agree to it, 3. Create and test the system and 4. Deploy it. That's a tight timescale for any project of this size, let alone one that has so much required work that needs to be done beforehand.
> This might work if we had actual sprints. Our reality is an endless stream bugs and features for us to work on before we launch our product, and we just grab tickets as they come.

> Hopefully this improves after launch.

It won't. It will improve after you or more likely someone more senior stands up and does something about it. Which requires buy-in. Which is much harder to get in a highly remote team IMO.

Or it will change when you find another job that already matches your criteria.
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This isn't for everybody, but I would say Rapid Serial Visual Presentation (RSVP), where words are sequentially presented in place to the reader, which has significantly changed the way I read.

I wrote my own implementation of RSVP, which has eBook reader support, and now it is absolutely my preferred method of reading, and I read at 1000WPM. Though normal books are still enjoyable, they feel tedious and slow.

The project is here:

https://github.com/GlanceApps/Glance-Android

(It needs some help being updated for recent versions of Android, please let me know if you'd like to be involved! It has a new back-end API in place already and it just needs a few simple updates.)
You're a junior SE and working remote? Yikes. I'd want others around that can help me out. So simply fixing bugs and adding features is a junior dev kind of task. Prioritization, understanding the business need - that's how you differentiate yourself at this point. It's not about hours worked but about identifying what is and what isn't as important.
https://medium.com/@marcochvez/how-i-get-my-workday-done-in-...
If her family is important for her, she probably break up with him.
In a manner of speaking. There is an idea called a "magnetic sail":

https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2014/08/28/thinking-about-ma...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_sail

http://casa.colorado.edu/~danforth/science/magsail/magsail.h...

My understanding is that it's more useful as a "magnetic parachute", as it lets you brake without using reaction mass, just electrical power. That could let make an interstellar journey with less mass, as you only need reaction mass to accelerate on departure, and not to decelerate on arrival.
Can anyone who watched the video summarize? I'm interested in the subject, but don't have the time/concentration for long videos when an article often suffices.
Gemalto is french.
Just because an act is illegal doesn't perfect it from causing harm. You might not care now that this information is out there but you might care in the future and it will already be too late.
I've always wanted a system that accounts for adjacent physical locations appearing to be far apart upon truncation because they happen to sit on opposite sides of the imaginary dividing line. E.g. 39.99 deg North looks very far from 40.00 deg North upon truncation
I am sorry that you see it in this way. I am just trying to be helpful by explaining what I experience here and also pointing to my small business, which is tech recruitment related. I added a few points and marked the end as "content marketing" to make things more clear.
These days I just do one big idea. If I finish early I might do other smaller tasks which I don't care about too much. When I was a junior dev I tried to do a lot of things everyday to prove how fast I am. That worked for the short term but looking back there are actually very few things which are genuinely useful. Creating new revenue streams for the company for example.
As I understand his point, it's about not having to pause the program. This seems like actually a quite useful feature, and probably not that hard to implement in say, visual studio (possibly requiring a manual trigger for efficiency). So the question is, why has it not happened in 20 years. Why are debuggers at basically the same level of sophistication as 20 years ago, when there's seemingly a lot of low hanging fruit. I think he have a point, and adding to that, how come so many environments aren't even up to par with the state 20 years ago. Many people doesn't even use a prober debugger, deferring to printf debugging and at most command line GDB in exceptional cases, due to bad environment support.
The pendulum swings both ways? we started off with direct primary care, then moved to fully insured care, things are moving back towards direct primary care, i believe the model presented in the article or something along those lines will be what the US healthcare system will move to over the next 10-20years.
F-35 fighter jet crashes in South Carolina on day $11.5bn deal announced
I've never been clear on what plus codes are for... or if anyone is adopting them.

Wikipedia says:

> Open Location Codes are a way of encoding location into a form that is easier to use than showing coordinates in the usual form of latitude and longitude. They are designed to be used like street addresses, and may be especially useful in places where there is no formal system to identify buildings, such as street names, house numbers, and post codes.

They don't seem all that much more useful than lat/lon for displaying/copying/pasting...

But for replacing addresses, there's no obvious 1-1 correspondance between a plus code and a building. A large building may span 20 or more plus codes, so which one would you use? Multiple homes might lie in the same one. Another house might be halfway in one and halfway in another. Even the front door can be right on the boundary.

Is there anywhere in the world where it's used for postal delivery, or anything practical at all?
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Ask HN: How important is it to provide on-prem options for enterprise SaaS?
I've been working on a design for a B2B SaaS application, and I'm struggling to find information to help make a decision about building a cloud-only product, or designing for mixed cloud-only and private deployment options.

The option of using managed cloud services (e.g. databases, auth, app platforms, load balancing, etc...) is very attractive, but the concern is leaving large segments of the market on the table due to a lack of private deployment options.

I see major SaaS applications that manage what could be sensitive (business) data which are cloud-only (e.g. Slack), and some that provide private and cloud deployment options (e.g. GitHub). Is there a consensus on this today? What does this decision tree look like?
Author here. Some background:

I started this blog focused on tech (and other things) in China due to frustration over lack of more holistic coverage of China by various news media, as well as the positive support shown in this comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18094473
For a company like Netflix, the thing to do there is to make your own such device and then you can put whatever hardware you want in it.

I'm actually slightly surprised that nobody at Netflix has already done that. Netflix Steambox would be a thing people would pay money for, and then you don't have Google/Apple/Amazon/Comcast/etc. diverting your customers to their video services because your customers are using their devices.

Also notice that you don't need 100% of users to upload. Having 10% of users with a 5:1 ratio still cuts your bandwidth costs in half.
Like I said in my response, if its not public then ideally I'm hopping for these information to public for everyone, to level the playing fields.
Jira performance takes a fair amount of experience to nail down. If anyone needs help, that's what my companys (https://atlasauthority.com) core focus is. Spent 4 years at Atlassian in support, and now we work with a number of the largest deployments in the world to help make things fast(er). It won't ever get to the sub second standard we like to see from modern SaaS apps, but it also doesn't need to be 12s page load times like we often see in client environments.
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Obscene prices...
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> Why are certain things getting so much more expensive?

I too would like to know the answer to this question. I suspect it may have to do with low interest rates and easily available credit. For example, if buyers are willing to get a 50 year mortgage instead of a 20 year mortgage (and banks are willing to lend it), prices will increase to match demand.
Thank you for taking the time to write this out, this could really help me!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incubation_period
The construction and infrastructure boom in China over the past few decades suggests major projects can still be completed rapidly, even in spite of widespread corruption.

Political will can be an important driving force for pushing through major projects, but the most impressive feats of engineering are seen when there is substantial pent-up demand in an economy that can suddenly be supplied, usually due to social or technological change.

I think major projects could still be completed quickly in developed economies if the incentives were to align in the right way, but we don't see it often because the low-hanging fruit has already been picked.

India and Africa are probably the places to look to for rapidly completed major projects over the next few decades, and perhaps we could see significant industrial development in space at some point if the economics works out.
I realize this does not necessarily change the point of the joke, but evidence points to the Egyptian Pyramids being constructed by skilled tradesmen, not slaves. https://harvardmagazine.com/2003/07/who-built-the-pyramids-h...
Exactly, the whole point of the rate of change is to get the field up to strength before the materials give way. Which makes me wonder whether there is a highest magnetic field that you could create given 'ordinary' matter.
I think it can be useful for communicating emergency location... but yes it seems like you would need your GPS on in which case it's better if your phone just texts or otherwise shares the location with whomever needs it. Maybe it's good for sharing location verbally over a call.
No, it’s entirely legitimate. And thank $deity for those small pockets of humor.
Isn’t recall way worse for books “read” this way?
I think a big part of Hong Kong's success with metro stations is that they own some of the land surrounding the stations, which means that the huge increase in land values from building a metro station goes back into the metro system, unlike most US systems where most of the increase in land values goes to private land owners.
Esperanto Technologies

They are basically doing a AI chip with 8-16 general cores and 4000 floating point vector cores (probably with Tensor Type support on the Vectors). All in RISC-V.
Sure. I'm a paid marketer but would reject a job from a gambling company. I've also rejected jobs before because I thought the company owner was unethical (Unfair to interns, cheating on his wife, etc.).
As humans, we tend to see patterns wether they're there or not. Jobs and Musk are different people running different types of companies in different eras. There are probably only a small number of people who really understand how Jobs made or Musk makes business critical decisions day in and day out and I'd wager on the opposite that they probably do things fairly differently even if in the outside we see similarities (passion, vision, etc.)
Checkout QML (as opposed to widgets).

http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qml-qtquick-controls-treeview.html

http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qml-qtquick-controls-tableview.html

Here are all the controls: http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qmltypes.html
Gitlab basically has most of Jira Software’s features.
Western Europe has no shortage of worker safety, environmentalism, or democracy, and they don’t have this problem.
Oh! Of course, great game and soundtrack.
can you just lie to them about your personal details?
> Could you think of Google made in Europe? In Germany, in France, or in Italy?

Some of the biggest companies in the world are from Europe. All of them started as small companies. So, yeah, Google made in Europe is possible. Tech is not a special snowflake industry with other rules than everyone else.
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I grew up in a small town, in the 90's it would have cost a couple hundred dollars to set off the tornado warning system with a 4 digit DTMF code. It probably hasn't changed since then.
MRI machines are expected to continue to work after they are used once :) The idea here is that the field strength is such that if you don't reach it quickly that the machine will self-destruct before you have reached your target field strength. So you have to cheat, taking for granted that the machine will not survive the experiment, hence the ridiculously high rate of current change. Note the the destruction is totally part of the plan and is a major factor in focusing the field even more.

Anyway, the typical MRI power supply is pretty beefy, a few KV and 100's of Amps. And that in a way says it all about how impressive those machines are, they get up to serious field strengths without breaking up.
I get that on the atlantic homepage and on slate.com when I use firefox with privacy badger. When I use chrome without any special add-ons it works. Assume there is some javascript nonsense going on there but haven't bothered reporting it or trying to figure it out.
Your cereal mix service is called Mymüsli. During the time I investigated funding options I was considering to enter a business plan contest. The information given by everyone was that only inovative tech start-ups would be considered. One of the runner ups in the end was a service that allowed you to by food from local farmers, limited to one metropolitan area.

I have my doubts that the general start-up ecosystemin germany knows what they are doing.
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Literally everyone that has interacted with the financial sector has complained about the financial sector at some point.

Person-to-person settlement is a stepping stone on the way to a better financial/banking system.
Not only that, but within a one hour drive are Västerås and Uppsala, big cities in Sweden's scale.

The former hosts ABB and has tons of robotics related research, the latter has one of the major universities. The startup scene is smaller in Västerås than in Uppsala though.

Uppsala produced Klarna and Skype, Västerås produced Pingdom, to name some.
Please talk to your admins! In my experience, Most Jira slowdown issues can be traced back to permission checks. (And you can enable tracing in the system settings to verify this)

If only your team needs to access it, set the instance to open permissions (I.e. most rights are set to “Everyone”) and then control access using the network or with a proxy in front. This took the instance I run at $dayjob from infuriatingly slow to no slower than any other web application.

—Source: 5 years and counting Jira admin