skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I sleep very soundly knowing that the only things I have to worry about are:

1. Going in to work and doing the best job I can.

2. Making sure my skillset is marketable and keeping my resume continuously updated

3. Keeping in touch with my local network of recruiters.

In 20+ years, it’s never taken me more than a month to get a job and once, I left a contract (long story) with nothing lined up, met a recruiter for lunch on Monday and had a job offer with a what was then a Fortune 10 company by Thursday[1].

If I worked for myself, I would be constantly hustling for clients, collecting payments etc. Working for a company means money shows up in my account twice a month for exactly the same amount. If the company goes bust, I can find another job. If I want to take a vacation or get sick, other people take up the slack and I still get paid.

I’m no special snowflake, anyone in my metro area that has kept their skills up can easily find a job.

[1] Yes that was dumb luck, the department that I was hired into was a recently acquired startup and their HR hadn’t been fully integrated into the large slow moving bureaucracy.
Decades? Are you kidding? Nobody's got time for that. Least of all people like myself who started in 2008 when the economy was utter garbage.

If you don't manage to build a decent career/salary/position by your mid-thirties in tech you're quite likely screwed (though before I'm too depressing, I understand there are counterexamples here on HN). Waiting a year or two for recognition is career suicide.
It's not about procedural programming -- it's about the size of the language.

If you know of a functional language who's entire manual and standard library can fit on 2 or 3 sheets of paper, then fine, use that. But Python certainly isn't that language. Neither is Javascript. Neither is Haskell.

Doesn't mean you can't start on it. Heck, one of my very early languages was C++. But that doesn't mean it's beginner-friendly. Remember, I'm not talking about what your first programming class in college or high-school would be. I'm talking about, "can you sit down over a weekend with zero programming knowledge and end up with at least a basic understanding of how the entire language and runtime works?"

Scheme... yeah, I guess I can see Scheme being OK. But you're really missing the entire point of what I'm saying. The reason I brought up Excel in the first place was to drive home that how good the system is overall for practical, real-world purposes does not matter.

I bring up examples like TI Basic because if you want to teach someone TI Basic, you can hand them just a calculator and then give them one HTML file (https://www.ticalc.org/programming/columns/83plus-bas/cherny...) and that's it. You're done. They'll be able to figure out the rest.

TI Basic is a fantastically designed beginner language. Not because it's procedural. Because it introduces a small number of concepts that force the user to be creative and encourage them to organically discover more advanced topics on their own without an internet tutorial. It's fantastic because it's so small that even a beginner can look at any other example program on the web, even if written by an expert, and generally speaking know what it's doing.
"The first step is inevitably to raise money from dumb/ignorant investors who couldn't care less about your startup: that would be the government / unemployment benefits in France / tax-incentivized angel investors in the UK."

I have seen many entrepreneurs who just kept repeating step #1 for years. They would hop from one startup accelerator to another, joining as many government grant programs as possible (Startup Chile et al.) without ever really building an actual business.

There's one particular case I know of someone who managed to get more than $300,000 in grants in just a couple of years.
a living wage is the minimum a person needs to survive without severe and persistent food and housing insecurity.

It's the amount one would spend on groceries, rent, utilities, transportation, childcare, and sometimes healthcare.

It does not include luxuries such as meals at restaurants, entertainment, savings accounts, retirement funds, investments, or vacations.

MIT has a great living wage calculator for the US. Their definition of living wage is in the about section.

http://livingwage.mit.edu/
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Maybe in the short term. Low wage and slow growth isn't a good deal, but average wage and slow growth is totally fine.
Not just performance improvements.
"Aircrack-ng: Added PMKID cracking"
This brings WPA-PSK exploitation to the masses.
This Twitter thread by Alex Stamos (former Facebook CSO) is a good rebut to this: https://twitter.com/alexstamos/status/1046783533220421632. Bottom line: you can do incident response quickly or correctly, but not both.
I think you've hit on something there: Incentives.

What are the incentives for the PD in an armed situation? To stay alive, yes, of course. But are there other incentives? The guns blazing approach indicates there are other incentives. If they wanted to 'just' stay alive, they'd put a lot of distance between themselves and the suspect, get a lot of back-up, etc.

But there is another possible incentive too: glory/honor. For many male-centric groups, dis/honor is a VERY powerful incentive. Taking down the 'bad-guy' and earning honor/glory through that act can be quite motivating.

But can you replace that incentive with another one that is less 'thrill seeking'? How about 'hazard pay', payed by the number of hours that an officer is in a life-threatening situation, escalating with the time spent on scene? Like, you corner a suspect, but the longer the standoff lasts, the more pay the officer gets, and the more officers there are on the scene, the more the pay increases? That'll incentivize the officers to wait things out, get back-up, give time for media to get on site, and probably decrease fatalities.

Or, you know, less guns on the streets too.
Isn't "constantly moving the goal posts" the name of the game in capitalism? Good on Amazon for increasing their minimum wage, but why shouldn't it also be met with a healthy amount of skepticism. Companies definitely do things for the common good (I don't see much competitive advantage gained from going 100% renewable energy - a common move for many tech companies - apart from maybe attracting better/more employees) but it would be naïve to think that most decisions a company makes don’t intend to better their market position in some way or another.

Amazon (and all companies) spend most of their time/resources figuring out how to make more money and gain more power; I think it's appropriate that we as consumers, in turn, spend our time demanding more of them in terms of both value delivered and net benefit to society.

I don’t think Amazon deserves much sympathy. They're one of the most powerful companies in the world, have made a small group of people very rich while continuing to treat employees poorly. It's great that they're making this move but I don’t think we as consumers/citizens should be merely satisfied with it.
What earthly consumer is going to go through these steps?

I have requested the removal of my personal data from multiple business, and I can assure you I'm quite earth-bound. Copy-pasting a template and filling in my name and account ID is not that hard.
Yes, I generally check ToS of whatever services I use, including hotels. And no, it's no "local planning department of Alpha Centauri" territory, it's available on their webpage and in paper form at the reception, usually framed and hanging on the wall. I check it to see what happens if I overstay, but skim through the whole thing.

As a regular person, if I want to use a service offered by someone, I should at least look into their terms - even with GDPR in place.

I'm not saying I disagree with you - but that's an opinion; on the other hand you said that consent was not given, which is simply not true - consent has a definition and that definition was fulfilled, the law doesn't treat ignorant people differently. If you want to say "I don't think <something> should be enough expression of consent", that's OK, say it - but don't lie.
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The general public don't have a clue what Equifax is and don't know about the hack. Your Grandparent's sexting convos being put online might grab the public's attention a little more.
Sorcery books are especially good. The mobile adaptation by Inkle available on Android and iPhone is also high quality. I never thought text game would consume so much of my time! :)
Indeed, and this is in a video game, where swapping in a different character model and audio into an identical scenario is reasonably cheap, and thus can be done for many decision. Trying to do the same thing with real actors and re-filming scenes based on choices feels... harder.
>This gets floated around a lot. At least in the US I can't imagine a scenario where not paying bills for 1 or 2 months results in homelessness and a repo'd car.

>Being both a homeowner and a landlord

You're in a totally different economic situation, and probably have little to no economic struggles at all. I'll call this out of touch as well.
By "pessimistic" do you mean unrealistically, naively optimistic? (I agree FB will likely suffer face no consequences)
Then they don't deserve shame either, right?
> People - not the ones here on HN - have no clue what they 'give' away.

Doesn't change the fact that browsers requests assets from servers, not the other way around.

People being ignorant of this fact doesn't change this fact. Rather, again, we should place the blame on the thing giving this data to sites: browsers.

> How is the average user supposed to know this happens on the background when they load www.nytimes.com? ...

They shouldn't have to, and thinking they should know this is silly. Which is why I don't blame the users. I blame the browsers. The browsers are the ones sending user data.

> This isn't given. It's taken.

No, it's actually not. This is delusional thinking at best, and ignores where the problem lies. Browsers are giving the necessary information to allow people to be tracked. Only now do we see companies addressing this (see Safari for example).

Suggesting that given data is instead taken allows the people that actually gave the data to the companies to continue to get away with it, and is more harmful.

Stop lying.
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This summer it was over 30 degrees for a whole month and I could hardly think. Like, it became physically impossible to write non-trivial code or work on math problems. And it will only get worse in the coming years... I don't know what to do about it. I've decided to become a vegetarian, but clearly that is not enough and action must be taken on a global political level.
The optimum minimizes the amount of government assistance.

Obviously, everyone not being starved or dead from lack of medical care means everyone gets food and medical care. That is not negotiable at this time.

Some methods of payment for those universal services have extremely low transaction cost like the employer hands money to employee who buys the service or product for cash. Some methods have extremely expensive transaction costs with government departments taxing people and another department full of people paying partial or full payment for people's food and medical care, none of those people work for free and they all need HR and benefits and management and auditors, all very expensive. Of course give/force the employers to hand out too much cash and you get inflation that exceeds the cost of government.

For example everyone at Google eats and has medical care and having the well compensated employees pay for it is extremely low transaction cost. However no one at walmart can eat and obtain medical care so the government provides it at enormous transaction expense. Its believed to be better for the entire economy to slightly tax google employees to pay for government services for walmart employees than just have walmart pay their fair share of the expenses of employees.

At some point in the middle there's a optimum that minimizes the total cost of government programs plus the economic damage wrought by inflation. A lot of people put a lot of time and money into figuring out this optimal ratio, which is probably extremely close to where we are today, and many more in the general public say "eh we should just wing it and +1 one side or the other, because like, what could possibly go wrong?".

There ARE problems such that those highly paid government clerks with fabulous benefits compared to the private sector are not likely to suggest losing their welfare program administrator jobs any time soon, so there are rational human self interest reasons why the minwage is always going to be around the lower bound of optimum. If the general public is not always of the opinion that its somewhat on the low side, then the central regulators and planners are messing up. There should always be this low level of turmoil about it being somewhat too low.
I've seen several similar threads to this one on Twitter.

"Blah happened at Facebook and it is potentially a company ending event."

This causes me to almost immediately discredit them, as while serious, this is no where near a company ending event for an organization that is headquartered in the US.

Equifax lost the personal data of all Americans and is doing fine.

Facebook might get fined a metric ton of money, people in some portions of the world might leave it, but the company will be just fine. You see, there is no where else for those people to go. Presumably they're on Facebook for some reason so they would want to find an alternative and there isn't an alternative that is as easy to use that their friends and family will migrate to.

Like many other compromises, this one will be forgotten. There is no wordlist that will come out of it, no public artifact that will exist. People have already forgotten about Adobe, LinkedIn is fading, and this one will eventually join their ranks.
Everything still Opera branded is owned by Opera Limited (through the subsidiary Opera Software AS), which the Chinese consortium has the controlling stake in. The initial cross-licensing of the trademark ended at the end of last year (hence the renaming of Opera Software ASA to Otello Corporation ASA).
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I was thinking more along the lines of a local mom and pop drive thru where people get their daily 6 pack and lottery ticket than a McDonalds.
A year ago Target pledged to increase it's starting hourly wage to $15/hr by 2020. Currently starting pay is $12/hr

Source: https://corporate.target.com/article/2017/09/minimum-hourly-...
Some people aren't interested in the truth, or facts. They're invested in some constructed narrative that supports an ideology, and they can't stand it when somebody contradicts that narrative.

It's fine, I've got HN karma to burn, and it's not like you can spend Imaginary Internet Points anywhere anyway. :-)
>.NET is still very popular but it definitely did not fulfill the more ambitious dreams that Bill Gates had for it.

There is still time. It just recently got open-sourced, got a compiler written in itself and got a run-time unbundled form all the legacy crap. Those things held C#/.NET back. I feel this is a good time to adopt it for people who want to have reasonable performance, static typing and a mix of OOP/functional paradigms.

My two notes on C#:

1. It is possible to write reasonably "functional" applications in .NET. The only problem I had with that is lack of built-in copy-on-write data types and prevalent nullity.

2. LINQPad is the best damn scripting environment I ever worked with.
Incidentally, the list is similar to what Google (re)-discovered when researching what makes teams succeed [1]

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/28/magazine/what-google-lear...
I was attacking the contents of the comment, not the person. As for ignorance, I usually give the benefit of the doubt, but I've seen enough of those types of comments regarding GDPR that I'm cynical. They're almost always from non-EU business owners annoyed at having to suddenly comply to EU laws, or business owners in general annoyed at having to care about privacy (where they didn't before).

Uninformed consumers who think GDPR is a cookie law also exist, but they're not HN's usual audience.

Edit: A quick stroll through scoom's comments reveals an nauseatingly unsurprising picture. I'm so very shocked.
There is an important distiction: Equifax's data is not voluntarily submitted by the data subjects, while most of Facebook's is.
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> I think they should be allowed to do whatever they think is best for them.

I think they should be allowed to vote and agitate for whatever they think is best for them. And thus.... viola, minimum wage and subsequent increases.

Although I know majorities are a touchy subject with libertarians since there are like six of you total nowadays.
Freely given consent, as per the GDPR, must be explicit and optional (even if you have consent to use the data for the service being performed). A line buried in a ToS does not comply.
You are right - they can be 0 & copy of bit 47.

The point was, that there will be not a problem with tagged pointers. The pointers have to be clean today when used, so those who use tagged pointers have a place in their code where they handle the cleaning.
So tell me again how this doesn’t effect someone making 50k a year?
It didn't really make sense then either. No sky looks like television static. Jeff Minter's Polybius game pokes fun at it by showing the text "The sky was the colour of television tuned to a dead channel" -- before thrusting you into a level that literally had a static sky.
Devs will live with that to some extent, like me. I spend way more on hardware than nondevs, I hope there are enough of us to make it an attractive market.
It's not only about them being unable to assess if you reported all your lawful income. It may be more about whether they can assess whether you have no lawful income yet seem to be filthy rich. Remember Al Capone. He would have never got caught if it was not for being caught for tax-evasion.
Does that cover the functionality of most popular extensions though? When there's an API that matches up with the purpose of the extension, it's more straightforward. I would have thought the popularity of those particular example extensions is what partially drove the creation of those APIs as well.
If it's "almost a direct quote," surely you can show me the passage it paraphrases? Otherwise I might be tempted to think it's a glib gloss on his ideas that's gratuitously insulting.
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Thank you for looking that up. Hardware usually does not fail from one day to the next, so to me it appears like your HDD monitoring was insufficient in the weeks / months leading the full crash.

It should have detected the disks going bad and allow you to request a replacement with 3 of 4 disks being good and then later a replacement of the second bad disk with 3 of 4 being good, no?

> I asked if they mean data lost on this single disk or the whole array, they said;

IMO this is the correct answer from Hetzner. They cannot know whether you run RAID 1 (which would be good), RAID 5 (which would have killed the array), RAID 6 (good) or RAID 10 (might or might not be good). Asking before replacing could possibly allow you to save data in case the disk is not completely dead, but rather has a bunch of faulty sectors only.

The only issue I personally see is the bad English. I am German like Hetzner and even I have issues understanding that grammar.
That's today, I replied to a comment talking about the GDPR-less past.
Why can be a rather unscientific question. As long as the observation matches reality the just so story used is rather meaningless.
Fair enough. I do read the regular ToS of the hotel that they frame and hang on the wall; it's usually standard stuff and not once I remember reading anything there about use of my data. It's just the usual "hotel night is from X to Y, please don't do <list of ridiculous stuff that some people apparently do in hotels>". So from your comment I assumed that there must be an extra ToS that covers use of personal data. If there is, I've never noticed it.
> Even high-end servers today do not contain more than 1TB of physical memory.

??? I know of multiple high end servers with 1TiB+ memory footprints. What is your definition of high end?

Here, have a look at HP's page if you don't believe me:
https://www.hpe.com/us/en/product-catalog/servers/proliant-s...

And I'd hardly consider those "high end", there are much larger memory servers out there if you want them.
No, I'm saying it is in their self interest to lobby for it.
I tend to react similarly but this event is the first one that triggered some of my non-tech FB contacts to leave for more geeky alternatives, namely diaspora. The groups of his friends is discussing moving as well.

This is anecdotal but I hope several groups are considering the same now...
> In March, an examiner noted that a re-drawn diagram of Waymo's lidar firing circuit showed current passing along a wire between the circuit and the ground in two directions—something generally deemed impossible.

Oh! Someone took inspiration in real magic[1].

[1] http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/magic-story.html
Given the browser is produced by Opera Software AS, all data should be held under Norwegian law (which will in the near future include the GDPR), and your recourses are through the Norwegian courts, which makes it a very different situation to something developed directly in China.
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It depends on _how_ they took your money, but there are several insurance options available for Identify Theft which includes unauthorized bank withdraws.
This also fullfills the purpose as all parties are encouraged to innovate.