skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think people should do what they want and I find these articles meaningless. Don't like your company's values? Great, find another job. It's as simple as that.

Let's not shame people for wanting to stick with a company. Everyone has their reasons to stay whether it's money, values, working environment, co-workers or personal reasons. If you really cared, shouldn't you try to change the company from within? Isn't that the best place to start?
Lucky you.

There are very few established businesses which can 100% squeeze themselves into the constrains of serverless architecture.
While go is more complex to play than chess, the rules are vastly simpler. There are -- roughly, depending on who's counting -- three rules.
> ... the first thing they need to do is take responsibility for who they are.

Actually, you might want to look in the mirror a bit, buddy.

I'd have agreed with your sentiment in the past, but now it reads as pretty self-righteous. Defining a person by some subset of their behavior is a specific, moral judgement not a factual description.

For a lot of people experiencing depression, it's exactly the kind of 'advice' that's likely to ramp up feelings of worthlessness and suicidal thoughts.

Personally, I find it more empathic and relevant to affirm the person and judge the consequences of an action.
There are 2 broad areas.

On the fast path, you need to make the decision to trade, check compliance, credit etc and execute the trade. Not just quickly but quicker than everyone else.

This translates into a low latency problem, as others have said. But unlike many real time engineering problems, the environment is actively working against you so it's a perpetual race to the bottom. To the point that the speed of light is annoyingly sluggish.

The other big area is trading strategy. The majority of the work here is done offline and is more about analysing a lot of tick data than latency. Big data tooling is pretty common here and machine learning is getting more prevalent.
Say I have an idea for how I want the world to be. I don't care about money at all, but my vision is too big to execute by myself. How do I get people to help me without forming a company?
There are outliers. But in general, places that are cold and/or hot and humid are not as in demand as others.

NYC and Boston are unique in their institutions and history, giving them enough momentum to stick around as desirable destinations despite the weather. And NYC isn’t that bad cold-wise.
The world of digital Marketing
Digital marketing can be a great career option for everyone. But one has to make sure that one keeps the mind open. The technical complexities can be a big problem for the marketers. So the skill to learn new things becomes the fundamental requirement for the digital marketer.
Disclaimer: I am Turkish and I live in Istanbul.

Well, you could say that the United States is run by a similar person. That does mean all of the U.S. is like that?

Istanbul does have a good intellectual atmosphere. Izmir too.

I'm not going to say it's all fine over here, but it's perfect for a digital nomad. Istanbul, especially places like Besiktas and Kadikoy are perfect.
Venezuelan government will require that new passports be paid in its Petro
I've had the same problem in Google Sheets with student codes at schools I've worked at. The standard code is first three letters of surname then a sequential 4 digit number. So Jane Martin might be MAR0011 if she was the 11th person with a surname starting with Mar. Now Google Sheets for some stupid reason interprets MAR0011 as March 2011. Excel at least only falls for this if the number is recognizable as a year (e.g. MAR2011) which is very unlikely in most school for a few years yet. There are also plenty of surnames starting with Jul and Jun.

I would have thought that Google (and possibly Excel) might have a saner approach that considers the context of the rest of the column. A single date value in a column of hundreds of text values should be probably treated as text, or at the very least set of a big red flag in the UI.
> It's not the "end goal", and almost no company's mission is "to make money".

Sure seems that way, when every decision is optimized towards making money short-term. I think the more correct model of most companies would be money-focused entities that through path dependence ended up in the market sector they're in. That is, the actual thing they're doing is an artifact of history and is abstracted away for actual operations.
It's not "we" and "us", it's half of us. Half of us half this lethal combination of confidence and ignorance. In America it's the Republicans. People just have this sick notion of what is true, they ignore science and scientists and listen to talk radio hosts and fox news and then they dig in. There is not a consensus that any problem exists.
Its so interesting to see people offer their opinion of the "Well" they live in.

http://mcjoshi21.blogspot.com/2014/05/todays-subhashita.html
I'm not sure the drive is less so much as PR is a thing, better regulation is a thing and the internet makes corporations misdeeds much more transparent.

This is one of the reasons among many I regard the decline in proper journalism as so worrying.
I think of the cities listed above this only applies to Kharkiv. And even Kharkiv is much safer now than it was three years ago.
Add the US to that list. Amazon HQ2 is a race to the bottom; I'm sure there's other criteria, but at some level that's also just squeezing the most benefits out of the contending cities or regions. And that's just a high profile example.
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Nobel Prize for Economics Awarded to William Nordhaus and Paul Romer
81 Nobel Laureates

This is misleading, because it falsely counts winners of the "The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences Prize in Economic Sciences" as a Nobel price. Alfred Nobel did not donate a price for economics. The Sveriges Riksbank (= bank of the swedish empire) created this price (against the explicit wishes of the Nobel foundation [1]) in order to 'cash' in on the reputation of Nobel price. This is well-known and it is most likely that an institution that false counts winners of the Sveriges Riksbank as Nobel price winners is doing this to mislead the audience.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Memorial_Prize_in_Econom...
You probably just need to find a vpn provider that provides vpn server located in NZ (should be plenty if you google it). By connecting to their NZ vpn server, you'll effectively used their international connection when accessing international sites instead of your isp's international pipe.
I'd recommend taking a look at http://www.reddit.com/r/mechanicalkeyboards
Maybe the electrons need to wait for the elevator?
Was fun to read. Thankd
Ever since I saw that 'elephant landing at an airport' video, I've had little faith in anything on YT being real:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fm8FJ8la2VU
Personally, it should not negatively impact lives. For example, I can't see myself saying "I will take this job for the money, and the gun I help engineered is used to kill humans during combat".
You just reminded me that I came here through OneThingWell.

Does anyone here know if the author is all right? That site is/was lovely.
Cure for cancer involves molecular biology and filtering pollution involves heterogeneous catalysis. Where does programming come into play in any direct way to these solutions? I understand that tech is involved indirectly, but so is the coffee that is served in laboratories to keep scientists working.
This is a reason why I generally avoid using TODO/FIXME type comments in my code. I'm much more likely to forget about them, whereas I always need to look at my org-mode project file to see what I need to do. So that's where I put them.
Makes me laugh every time when people lionize some platform because "all the cool teens are on it!". It's obviously not a demographic you can profit from. And they will easily abandon your platform once they grow up.
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French intelligence officer caught selling confidential data on the dark web
IMHO overenthusiastic journalists got fed wrong/incomplete information. Also, every detail is plausible, but at whole, this scenario is just improbable. Details can be deceiving.

For a prior incident, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BadBIOS
Addiction is highly correlated with depression and is a symptom of loosing connection with something important in one's life. It is a from of escape form this life because missing that connection is too painful.
https://thelostconnections.com/
Here are some of the connections we need so that we are not tempted by surrogates:
- connection with others, our tribe, people we can confess with when needed, who we can 'share ourselves' with
- connection with meaningful work
- a healthy value system that is not overly materialistic
- being driven by inner purposes rather than outer ones
- connection with our own subconscious fears and desires
- having hope in the future - etc
Prague. The center of Europe. Multicultural heritage, great atmosphere.
Thank you for this valuable information.
Model 3 achieves the lowest probability of injury of any car tested by NHTS
The linked page contains the sentence "There isn't much difference between 2- and 1", so what restrictions are we talking about?
Then imagine what it was like for me, when I hadn't heard anything about it and just by coincidence happened to be out staring at the night sky when that crazy "nebula" erupted right in front of me. Incredible, glowing, rainbow-colored, great-nebula-in-orion-looking thing exploding outward, churning with stars or spacecraft or somethings shining spotlights here and there through clouds that rippled with shockwaves.

What in the world...?! Jaw dropping.
> they seem to have dipped a toe into statistical language modelling but be unwilling to go all the way with more advanced approaches

That's fair.

Thanks for your suggestions. I clearly have some studying to do.
Every person, tech or not, should evaluate what their work is contributing to and they should evaluate if they can ethically and morally accept what the company is doing or standing for.

In the end, I have to be able to look myself in the mirror and be accountable for my actions, even if that would mean to forego money, prestige, etc.
You might not be interested in politics, but politics is interested in you.
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I used a neat service called "nestaway" while I was there, definitely recommend it.
BadBIOS
Independent deployment: having deployed hundreds of microservices, I can tell you it is a godsend. Quickly iterating on a specific microservice without running risk of down-time is useful right from the start. We would sometimes deploy the same microservice multiple times a day to improve performance or fix a critical bug. Apart from scaling, this is my number one reason to stay with microservices.

Multiple languages: the shared infra in this case is your Kubernetes yaml files and Docker build files, both of which can be shared easily. The rest is either RESTful or Kafka consume/produce. Python/R/Scala/Java/C#/Haskell/OCaml can all interface with that.

Feature flags are a possible solution. I worked with them in the past and, applied correctly, they can offer a similar experience. However, one often needs more than just a boolean filter: you need to have the logic in your application to route the requests to, say, two different implementations of the same interface. Do this on the micro-service scale, and you get a nice SoC at the proxy level. It moves A/B testing to be part of the infra, not the application logic.

More dependency to homegrown immature solutions: care to elaborate?

Isolated half-assed solutions with few people responsible: care to elaborate? My little micro-service component needs the bare minimum of access, which I can precisely provide to it. No memory is shared, no storage is shared... Often it is much easier to prove that the system stays within confidentiality and availability limits. Networking allows me to transparently monitor all data flowing through my services.

Strict programming by interface vs. static typing. Oh yes, I totally agree with static typing! Such a big advantage over dynamic typing, read my other comments on HN. However, there is no static typing across versions of your same software. Forward compatibility is hard to achieve when all components need to be upgraded at the same time. I still dread the days when we would upgrade 'a major version' and all kinds of database tables had to be changed, causing chicken-and-eggs problems. Not saying that this problem is completely eliminated with a micro-service architecture, but it forces developers to think what can be reasonable isolated, causing a higher SoC. It also prevents the humongous unmaintainable 300+ tables large RDBMSs, which are often the primary cause of stagnated development.

Failure isolation: I don't understand your reasoning, sorry.
I have been living in Bangalore for 5 years and this is completely exaggerated opinion.

- In no situation it will take 2 hours for a km unless there is a natural disaster period.
- Bangalore is one of lesser polluted cities in India. Pollution index is mostly green. SFO is much better though in terms of particulate matter index.
- Nightlife, i haven't experienced in SFO so will not comment.

You can justify a move from SFO to BLR if you want a multitude cheaper place to live without losing out too much on the tech community. I live an above average lifestyle for less than 500$.
I used to read Spacerogue's Hacker News Network.
Googled it one day after it had been offline for a couple years and ended up here
Indeed - you can jump to another big company.
Russian introduction to Perl 6 “for the curious”
If you're doing business in a country then rule of law is extremely important. Your life and freedom may depend on it.

No matter where your customers are, you are subject to (at the very least) tax and social security regulations of the country you live in.

Rather than looking in the mirror I would suggest looking at:

https://tradingeconomics.com/country-list/corruption-rank

http://www.doingbusiness.org/en/doingbusiness

As a foreigner you cannot do as the locals do when it comes to corruption (even if you wanted to) or you're going to have a target on your back.
The article is fake, "manspreading" is an actual thing. I was referring to that, not the article.
Yet there is a common belief that companies are legally obliged to make enriching shareholders their only priority.
Ok, so there is no room for criticism and there is no lower bound for usefulness? We might as well start posting 'Hello world' articles then:

# after running 'irb'

puts "Hello, World"

"Why is this on HN?" would be a valid question, but you defence would be "Some people might not know how to puts things in Ruby".
I do the same thing. It's nothing personal. In fact, I find that there's very little correlation between people I get on with well in real life and people whose Facebook posts I don't hate.
Tab (YC W15) is hiring senior developers in London
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You can't expect anyone to believe that without a solid source.
> - Less outwardness as a social norm. I am sure there will be debate over this. But I think many will agree it is hard to make friends with non-expats even when there is no or little language barrier, compared to many North American social contexts.

Somewhat counteropinion as a native German: It is much harder to make friends in Germany if you do not speak decent German. So simply learn it.

> - Serious environmental policies, which would be admirable if it weren't for the Autobahn and all the coal that Germany burns. Have fun drying your sheets and towels on clotheslines in the middle of winter and don't expect AC during the summer.

Many German homes have a tumble dryer at home.
Delhi is not really an intellectual city. Also, forget Delhi if you're a girl.
Im currently in Cebu. I have a line on PLDT Home fiber that they offer starting from 5mbs up to 100mbps. It's been reliable so far.
https://codepen.io/leemartin/pen/pxNvod
It's been tried.
Isn't that what a real estate agent is for? Half the places I've rented the past 5 years have been owned by some random bloke in China...
I don't use a laptop for my actual day job, for all hobby coding is done on a 2016 X1 Carbon. It is durable, light, and was relatively easy to install Linux on.
Canada has an age pyramid problem: that means that young skilled people have an excellent chance of being selected for immigration.
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Yes Portugal is a good choice now, I moved here 1 year ago from UK because of various factors, Brexit, tax, quality of life etc also because I believe it will be a great location to recruit IT talent to.
I live in Cascais which is a bit expensive, (still much cheaper than San Francisco of course) but has wonderful quality of life for family, Capital city amenities next to beach. Great infrastructure, motorways, ultra fast cheap fibre to home, good IB school for kids, quality cheap fresh food, esp fish and veg. Retail items are expensive, high VAT, no Amazon (yet rumers will come soon) Services cheap, private medical cover including dental, for family of 4 unbelievably cheap, less than 200 Euro pm, i paid nearly that much for just dental in UK, the free public healthcare and schools are also apparently good.
Property prices going up v fast, many Brazilians moving here to avoid crime and Scandinavians to avoid Tax. Dividends are Tax free from the UK for 10 years, 20% on local income.
EU passport if you spend 500k on property - 1 or more units, inc home or investment - is booming as a result - they collect lots of VAT so is good strategy for Portugal considering it was like Greece 4 years ago.
1 downside is insane price of large or fast cars, so lots of dangerous small old cars, also they are totally inept drivers for some strange reason, you see accidents nearly every journey, feels 100 times more often than UK, though stats show only 10 times worse, similar to US apparently - apart from that feels like a very safe country, locals are v friendly and welcoming and most speak English.
Oh and I forgot to mention nearly 300 days sunshine pa vs 120 in Wales is so nice, hard to feel down in Estoril with Azure sky and ocean, sea is a bit chilly but stops it getting to hot.
See also previous discussion from 4 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18143909 (50 comments)
Just to add my bit here:
- Public smoking in public indoor places is completely banned in Bavaria, including pubs, restaurants and bars.

- No one will forbid you to buy your own dryer in case you're not happy with hanging your clothes on clotheslines. We do have a dedicated clotheslines room in our building thus I never needed a dryer myself (and my clothes are getting dry within 2 days even in the winter)

- ACs are recently getting popular in offices, they're rare in private homes due to too less days we'd have to use them. I thought it was odd what I experienced when working in the States: cooling to 16C in the summer months whereas my colleagues would heat up to 22C in the winter months. I prefer sweating over getting a cold in the summer ;)

- Driver's licenses are valid for a life time and don't need renewal every now and then. We are not allowed to drive with our parents before we do the test. If you're an experienced driver, your (European) driver's license will cost you below the above mentioned # since the price depends on how many driving lessons you will need to do.

- Store closure times depends on which part of the country you live in. Berlin is quite liberal with opening hours whereas the south (especially Bavaria) is quite strict. You get used to it and learn to organize yourself better.

I currently live in Munich which offers a lot of cultural and technical inputs. Meetups are happening frequently and the community is quite active. Housing is quite expensive (if you're in an urgent need for a place to stay) but you can still find affordable housing if you look long enough.
Salary when working for local companies is way above the German average.
Incorrect, as I just explained.
Cambridge, Massachusetts.

People will say it’s expensive but it’s cheap relative to the Bay Area.
Even if the parent post is needlessly condescending, please don't make it worse by responding in kind.
Companies began as a means to have an endeavour progress while the people involved changed [0]. The nature of the endeavour could be profit, but by no means had to be.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporation#History
PoC Attack Escalates MikroTik Router Bug to ‘As Bad as It Gets’
Cape Town feels like SF away from SF. Considering m all the interesting neighborhoods, the beaches, Hwy 1 like roads, proximity of wine country in Franshoek, great coffee, and all the beautiful little artsy towns nearby, it might just be the Bay Area. I don’t know what the tech scene is like though.
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Open sourcing the DEV community
The expensiveness is as well an oligarch-, and is-family-of-a-dictator-filter.
I don't, not on the broad strokes anyway. I gather there's some controversy over ocean acidification in particular. But where did you get that idea from? My comment on another story pointing out how both sides of the political spectrum have issues with science in different fields?
The problem is, there's plenty of equivalent "propaganda" promoted by the actual Western institutions... James Damore, Rosetta Tshirt accident, Tim Hunt firing, A Rape On Campus, anti-fa, conservatives being blocked on Twitter... Even "manspreading" is a Western feminist idea, it's not like Russians "invented" it.
It's the same in Switzerland. There is just almost no way to be able to afford a house (or just an apartment), because most of them start at 1 million and I am not even talking about apartments in Zurich.
I find it hard to believe China would risk their industry by doing something like this where the device has "hard" evidence on spying. They can just find a security flaw on the software and use that.
While I can see where you’re coming from with the other points, private drivers are not really a thing (you do need a car though).

Traffic is also basically non existent if you have lived in any other major city in the world. Like 15-30mins max in peak times and the max commute is 15mins anyways to get from most places to anywhere else.
Can confirm it's a charming place
Kremlin surely is behind this psyOps attack to undermine the credibility of Western media. Trump. Both. China too.

If Apple found no signs of hacking only tells us that their SIEM isn't good enough.

This spy stuff is Inception IRL.
I usually just make the additional changes but I'm pretty good at keeping pretty massive mental models in place while I do so with out interrupting my work flow. If it's something truly massive i add a @TODO ... @PRI-N line in the comments.
That would be insane. I can easily think of scenarios under which they were purposely fed false information, alternatively got the story mostly (but not quite) right, or got it right but put ongoing activities at risk by publishing now.