skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll weight in from a slightly different angle: I consider my job as a coder to be 90% bullshit. I call it plumbing. Inject that data stream into these input, buffer this, convert that, cache that shit. Launch a thread to do that in parallel, manage a thread pool, poll that stuff, convert that data format into that other, I could go on for pages.

My real job is in the 10% remaining: understanding the problem, producing an algorithm or an architecture, optimizing things in a way that require a deep understanding of the data, designing the UI the users really need.

I'd gladly automate the plumbing in order to do 80% of interesting stuff instead of 20%.
I used to be in favor of certain styles for office or home design (particularly industrial modern or industrial chic), but over time I've grown a fondness for one-of-a-kind quirkiness. Places that at first glance perhaps aren't very aesthetic, but there is still an order or a pattern to them (as opposed to an unstyled or haphazard space), and once you start looking more closely, there's a lot to like.
> It's very clearly a problem that specifically has to do with Germany.

It's not even a real problem, because the primary cause is that housing costs in Germany are much lower than they are in most other places. Correspondingly the homes people own aren't worth as much, but they don't care because they're using housing as a thing to live in instead of a thing to prop up their net worth on paper.
Cool. I'll just remain confused. Thanks.
It would. I'd assume humanity knew about it for decades before it became "reachable" - preparing a colony ship (and creating a necessary infrastructure) would take many, many years. There's also a story to be found in the two planets being in radio range for a hundred years past leaving travel range.
What’s old is new again: there is absolutely no difference between this and a suburban interior built inside of a Hollywood soundstage.

Advertising: It’s the same. But different. But still the same.
There used to be a sort of tradition that you started with the inexperienced startup CEO. Then, when the business became large, the board got someone with experience running a big company. That's changed in recent years. Page and Brin are back running Google, Jobs came back to Apple, and Zuckerberg is still in charge at Facebook.

On the other hand, Uber got rid of their startup guy and got a manager type, who has been getting their losses under control, and something similar happened at Twitter. In both cases, the company had operational problems and cost problems, but plenty of users/customers.

That's the Tesla situation. Product is OK. Customers are enthusiastic. Production is in trouble. Cost and labor hours per car are way too high. The financial situation isn't good. That's usually when the board and stockholders put in an operations-oriented CEO.
1. Tip 100% of the time if your company is footing the bill.

2. If it is your own money, tip the difference between your willing to pay and actual price. If you are paying surge pricing part of the premium goes to the driver, so tip accordingly.

You want to make a difference in someone’s life? Give someone earning $15 an hour a couple bucks.
Well it seems that if your work can be so easily automated, we shouldn't call you coder in the first place.

That's an interesting debate, but basing the article on 2 anonymous reddit posts whose authors couldn't be reached to get the full story is not what I expect from journalists.
Agreed, but I wasn't sure how to describe software that attempts to tightly restrict user actions, protect content streams, etc other than as DRM-like. Perhaps just "secure"? Someone controls the platform, and others (users, guests, adversaries, whoever) don't - I just want to be that someone if it's my device.
`every other car manufacturer iterates on multiple models every year` - that's not actually true. Every other manufacturer maintains the same base for their cars and simply swaps small details around to make it look like you are getting a different car. You are not actually getting anything radically different every year; not even every decade really.
The cross-linking of data was the primary reason for creating doogiePIM. I've recently added the ability to hyperlink words and images to specific words and other images within the Documents and Noteboard. This is detailed on my dev blog entry here: https://bitespire.com/community/239-one-link-to-rule-them-al...

Major versions are roughly 18 months to two years apart with at least a 50% discount for the upgrade. I was thinking about a subscription basis but thinking from the point of view of a user, I wouldn't like that myself. I think this is a fair compromise - users get a good deal and I get a little something to replace my flux-capacitor every couple of years.
I would rather have no software or write the software myself than waste all the time of my life I've had to waste because of such shitty software, and it is indeed the case I've had to write such software from scratch because the alternatives were utter garbage. So we deeply, vehemently disagree.
> What is the break-even point where all of this stuff starts to really be worth bothering with?

Series B
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Really an interesting blog on which I gain some new technology updates.
https://www.fita.in/selenium-training-in-chennai/
I don't remember Steve Jobs calling random people pedophiles or committing a little light securities fraud while high.

Elon brings incredible value to his companies. He also brings incredible risk. The error his fans make is in assuming the two are inseparable--that you can't have the space visionary without the libel, or the automotive and energy revolutionary without the fraud.

I think this is a mistake. You could solve most of Elon's problems by giving someone the ability to preview his tweets before he sends them. I can't see how putting a broadcast delay on his twitter feed would stop him from building cars and rockets.
I think his goal is to get in, help prove viability and then help secure said capital.
Ask HN: Do you have faith in any time estimating system?
Is there a good reason to force engineers to estimate how long a ticket will take to complete?
Personally, 90% of the time I'm just making things up if I need to estimate how long a feature will take to implement. The only time I'm confident is if I can visualize the line of code that I know is causing a bug. In that case the ticket usually takes 5 - 10 minutes to fix. But sometimes I'm wrong, and that line is causing a problem because of a bigger flaw I didn't realize.
Can I just admit I have no idea and just write down random numbers that aren't obviously wrong?

Do time estimates truly exist just to make business side employees feel good? Do you see a future where companies can negotiate funding without relying on this inherently flawed (and fraudulent?) tool?
No, she didn't.
Thanks for the content loaded with lots of new info.
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Looks interesting, a unified place like this is something I've been looking forward to for a while, it's something my business would love to use too :) (Left the name out because I'm not here to shill)

Two questions:
1. Any estimates as to what the rates will be?
2. Is it only ERC-20 for early days?
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Great idea, but none of the livestreaming coders I follow on Twitch are listed. Stephen Wolfram is a notable omission but there are some other great livestreams on Twtich creative.
Not to mention machine learning helping to plan routes nowadays.
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"Hydrogen is not economical for most use cases."

Oh, wow.

"For example if you have solar/wind energy, you can transfer it very efficiently over existing power grid to provide energy for heating or lights."

This is correct. And the wind energy created at night you can just store. Somewhere. But where?

"If you do the same via hydrogen, you have to convert solar energy into hydrogen. "

You can also use wind energy or whatever energy to create H2. H2 has the advantage, that you can both, store energy in it and transport it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regenerative_fuel_cell

"Then you have to transport the hydrogen from where it's made to where it's used."

In the worst case you just mix it into the natural gas pipeline. Worried about diffusion losses? They are lower than you think.

"That's additional expense and efficiency loss."

The expense is low because the gas pipelines already exists. The efficiency loss is not very high.

"Then you have to convert hydrogen back into energy. Additional loss of efficiency."

You can just burn hydrogen together with natural gas.

It just doesn't make sense economically (https://phys.org/news/2006-12-hydrogen-economy-doesnt.html).

Quote from the article:
“More energy is needed to isolate hydrogen from natural compounds than can ever be recovered from its use,” Bossel explains to PhysOrg.com.

Yeah, right. This is not the case with any other energy storage available. Wait a second....

"Therefore, making the new chemical energy carrier form natural gas would not make sense, as it would increase the gas consumption and the emission of CO2."

If it is created from renewable energy as an energy storage, then this statement is wrong. Be advised that hydrogen is also needed for methanol fuel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methanol_fuel

Instead, the dwindling fossil fuel reserves must be replaced by energy from renewable sources.”

"Hydrogen is not an electricity source. It doesn't compete with solar or wind.
I stop reading here. Batteries are not an electricity source, they don't compete with solar or wind.
> That's the Tesla situation. Product is OK. Customers are enthusiastic. Production is in trouble. Cost and labor hours per car are way too high. The financial situation isn't good. That's usually when the board and stockholders put in an operations-oriented CEO.

And in doing so risk that the company becomes another GE-like corporate which is no longer able to innovate and inspire people.

Things have changed. Markets have changed. Innovation cycles have become much shorter.
I don't get why this is called simple. it's way overblown for a simple repo hosting tool. I serve static Debian packages on my github pages. it's just a matter to create the meta data and upload it to your static space. no need for another http/htps service.
aptly e.g. is much simpler providing the tools to create the meta files for an apt repo, but it can be made much simpler than that. just haven't found it yet.
You're right. I wasn't aware that the WebPack licensing program is for Vivado as well. Thanks for the clarification.
Wow we don't live in the same world here, programmer actually is mainly the job of automating tasks, so when I'm finished automating things, I automate other things.

I'm not placing bugs that would be so easy to uncover by my peers using the most rudimentary source control, and make me look like a fraud in front of all the company...
Because I'm an assembler coder, and when one codes assembler by hand, one almost never uses the stack: it's easy for a human to write subroutines in such a way that only the processor registers are used, especially on elegant processor designs which have 16 or 32 registers.
> ...whether you believe that someone's refusal to work should condemn them to destitution.

I don't understand what you're getting at there. If someone refuses to work, that would seem to mean that they are able to work but choose not to.

We're not talking about someone who is actually unable to work because of some physical or mental limitation and may need assistance of some sort. We're taking about someone who could work but doesn't want to.

What possible obligation do I have toward that person? I don't see any. Of course I don't think they should be, as you put it, condemned to destitution. But what on earth makes it my responsibility to give them anything at all? Do I owe them a living, simply because they refuse to work?
Alas, not soon. I want to take the next few months to add Android import and personal LAN use first. Then I'll think about porting. I am looking at Wine now though.
I invested in Tesla because I couldn't buy stock in SpaceX. But I view it as buying a lottery ticket, and just to join in the fun of what Elon is doing. I didn't buy enough to engender much angst if it goes to zero. I just want to be a part of it!
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Saito is developing a scalable blockchain that can process terabytes of data a day. The mechanism we use to do this is counterintuitive, but once grasped will genuinely change the way you think about blockchain. We are proud to be supported by the smartest people in Asia:

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Right now we are looking to hire three people. We need someone great with UI/UX who can help us improve our core blockchain applications (email, payment channels, social networks and more). We need an experienced engineer to help develop features in our core code (currently NodeJS), and we need a network scaling engineer to help us push network capacity between Asia and North America to its theoretical limits among other things. We have some write-ups here:

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Things you should know about us: we are a smaller team (four people) planning to be in Beijing for about a year. And while we're not committed to China long-term and expect to be flexible with remote work eventually, we do need anyone who joins us to spend a non-trivial amount of time in Asia this coming year. We can also guarantee this is an adventure worth taking. Interested? Please message me directly -- questions on the job or our scaling method all welcome -- my email address is in my HN profile.
Why do you think that?

I like it's stripped-down feature set, and opinionated concurrency (although it's occasionally clunky).

It's not perfect, and could have a lot more support for concurrency, but it's very workable and a joy to program in.
I can't wait for the n-gate synopsis of this one.

Get back to social mining you minions, you.
More of a dive into Google and the Google Maps product than a look at how she climbed the ladder. The latter would be more interesting.
If I could choose between "fast rotates, all apps crash/are killed on OS level font settings changes" or "slower rotates, apps gracefully handle OS level font settings changes" I feel like the former is clearly way preferable to the latter. Do you really feel differently?
You don't need MBA if you're rich and connected :)
> You have SpaceX shares? How?

Presumably he work(s|ed) there.
You've hit the on the head here. Kubernetes is like Java of cloud infrastructure if interfacing directly with every vendor could be seen as C.

I'd very much like a Ruby/Python/Rust of cloud infrastructure to come along and clean up this mess.
The USA has always had a middle class. It never decided to create it, it just naturally happens in a free market.
Great article!

I‘m running a full-featured three node cluster for less than $10/month on Hetzner Cloud. This kind of setup requires a little more effort, but it can be fully automated and you learn a couple of things about Kubernetes on the way. I published and maintain this guide[1], including provisioning using Terraform and a bunch of example manifests to get you started.

[1] https://github.com/hobby-kube/guide
Except its important to get the direction of causation right.

Trying to achieve higher rewards generally necessitates risk taking. Desire for the first leads to the second.

High entropy events, by themselves, do not necessitate greater possibilities of higher rewards. There is no great benefit to sticking your face in a fan, as high entropy as that might be.

So the question comes, has Elon lately been doing things high entropy because he's chasing higher rewards by doing them, or are they just high entropy because they're high entropy.

At least for a couple of recent "Elon specials" (paedophile smears, SEC, dope smoking), it looks to me like you would be very hard pressed in arguing that this individual isn't one just partaking in "face in the fan" type entropy...
Curious note I found while trying to validate your claim that current stock price is bargain: if you look at the stock price on Google for the past 5 days, the graph looks like a neural network tried to reproduce Tesla's logo.

Going back to your claim, I dont think a current price of $300 per share is bargain. But with his current behaviour, I can see that happening in the near future.
A quick description of the modern Linux boot sequence:

1) Press power
2) Get motherboard/manufacturer logo
3) Switch to a text-based Grub interface
4) Actual Linux kernel starts booting, sometimes flashing some text, sometimes setting a video mode directly
5) Plymouth loads a graphic screen showing an Ubuntu/Fedora/whatever logo, hiding the rest of the kernel loading output
6) The login manager (GDM or something similar) loads, displaying a different background from the previous logo.

Each one of those steps introduces a somewhat jarring "flicker". The new process looks like this:

1) Press power
2) Get motherboard/manufacturer logo
3) Login manager shows up

Personally, I don't care that much about something that only happens during boot. What does bug the crap out of me is how scaling for HiDPI displays is still all kinds of broken and you still get tiny cursors every now and then. Or how some applications decide to ignore which audio sink is currently setup in PulseAudio. Or how battery life is still better in Windows.
Hi Jeremy, I am a beginner. Going to start your ML course,then follow up with DL- 1 & 2. My question is when will these 3 be updated to the new version of fastai. I am aware of the fellowship for DL-1, but there's a 12 hour difference. Also, I want to start with ML,so, I want to learn with the new version. Thanks

On the side, I am also taking Andrew's coursera course for a theoretical grounding , Bengio and Goodfellow's Machine Learning Book ,and Hands-On Machine Learning with Tensorflow and Sci-kit( O'reilly book).
Here's the documentation for Kernel's EFI stub: https://www.infradead.org/~mchehab/kernel_docs/unsorted/efi-...
In terms of that macOS app for turning a website into a desktop app, there's still Fluid - https://www.fluidapp.com/ - although it uses Safari, not Firefox.
I went to NZ fairly recently and I went with Skinny Mobile. It was 10G for $46 - 28days (Ultra Combo). No idea if it's still available or not.

It automatically renews though, so I had to remember to cancel it when I left.
Microsoft comes closer and closer to Apple’s premium look & feel in hardware.

However $349 headphones might be too much.
I thought they were all capable of warp speed??
Getting sober and finding a shower aint as hard as it would seem.
In other words become a big fish in a small pond.
Isn't that a PaaS such-as Google App Engine?
This is Amiga we're discussing here, a computer designed to be almost infinitely upgradable, so yes, I expect it as if it were the most normal thing in the world. Just look at all the new hardware upgrades coming out!

There is even the Amiga reloaded project with a revised A500+ motherboard design coming out, and a new A500-A1200-A4000 hybrid motherboard being designed, so Amiga is far from dead, just very niche.

What hadn't kept pace is the OS: even the most modern AmigaOS 4.1 is far from capabilities of modern operating systems like illumos, and I mean very, very far behind.

http://wiki.icomp.de/wiki/Amiga_reloaded
Processed meat 'linked to breast cancer'
We should stop tipping anybody.
I do not know if he was on drugs during the twitter thing (most recent 420), but Elon Musk in the last year (only in the last year) has been upfront about his trauma with his parent divorced and his father who was messed up and did not have anything close to a traditional parenting methods let alone boundaries with his children.

Elon Musk has trauma, and it really shows on his personality. Everyone "loves" his innovator / save the world complex, but put another spin on it and it reaks of an "Atlas Personality / Complex" where you were forced to grow up too fast and you feel the whole world is on your shoulders (you must save it.)
> Customers are enthusiastic

Right now, part of Tesla's selling point is that you are buying a car "made" by Elon Musk. The image of him being a visionary and you get to buy into his future is part of the brand.

If Elon leaves the company, especially if there is bad blood, a lot of that enthusiasm that customers have may drop off. Tesla with some faceless CEO starts to look a lot more like just another luxury car company.

Tesla without Elon may actually make a better product and may be a better company, but it becomes a lot less marketable.
In forcing the estimate you must mentally walk through the process to execute. This process alone is believed to improve outcomes (reduce procrastination, identify roadblocks, prioritize among other tasks). I would say the estimate is directional, and serves other purposes.
But you still need a connection. They practically want a blood sample when you try to register a SIM.
Thanks for the friendly reply. Appreciated.
doogiePIM (PIM=Personal Information Manager) is designed around you so you start where you need to start. eg: If you're a coder and you need somewhere to store snippets of research and code whilst researching the web, then you would start with the Documents section whilst using the browser tabs.
If you're more into needing a way to organize the Events of the day, then you start at the Calendar.

doogiePIM isn't a tool to use for the sake of being there but a tool to use to assist with what you're a doing. Think of it as a Swiss Army Knife.

If you're already happy with your current set-up to manage your Gmail/Calendar then stick with that.

Don't try to fix something that isn't broken.
> Turns out at that scale metal behaves like a liquid.

From xkcd:

> On that scale, the polymers in the bowling ball would behave more like a liquid

So polymers, not metal.
> If a language lets you cause undefined behaviour via FFI into C,

FFI isn't into "C", it's into your operating system's binary format. And since no two systems behave the same, it's UB however you look at it.