skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Americans are chained in economic slavery and are so brainwashed and dependent on the wage that most are afraid to even take the measly 10 days they are given. The system is designed to keep you living paycheck to paycheck with nothing important except work and conspicuous consumption. Please, quit the job you hate, take as long as you need and don’t apologize. We need a culture change and that will come by more people just doing it. I love work and have no issues working 7 days a week 12 hours a day for about 6 months. At that point I need about 3 months off to live, have fun, get lost and find myself again. I guarantee you in those 6 months, I am more productive than 3 employees milking the clock thinking about their 5 day break in December. I know I need to be a freelancer and some kind of “supertemp” but It’s easier said than done. I believe the AI revolution will eventually force more flexibility into our work arrangements because the assembly line, Henry Ford, work, buy, die, treadmill just is not optimal for many.
They eventually get fired because too old/too expensive. Get into management/team leadership in a way or another asap.

You're probably not feeling this right now because the economy is overheated. But be wary of the next recession if you're still doing the same job - however much better - than a junior for several times their salary.

(If you've specialized and valuable skills that are extremely hard to replace you should be fine. But if you're doing generic stuff it's time to take a cold hard look at what your career will be in the next 25 years.)

And just to be clear in case one might think this is ageism at work: having seen the difference in productivity, I'd hire a 40+ senior over 3 juniors in a heartbeat most of the time, but budget doesn't always allow one to do so.
GitHub mirror:

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It's striking how in the span of a week the media is in a full court press against Saudi Arabia, based upon (as far as I know) unconfirmed alligations around the disappearance of a journalist. There is truth to the narrative that SA is an ethically compromised country, it has been for decades, but the sudden coordinated messaging and deluge of articles that all seem directed towards affecting the relationship between Saudi Arabia and the US is too overt not to notice.
I get the irritation about Electron, as it seems my own RAM's "purchasing power" has melted like snow under the sun thanks to it. But frankly, there's a wealth of IDEs/editors to pick from. Between vim, emacs, all the Java IDEs, VS, Sublime and slew of packages every one has... Everybody out there would have their taste serviced at this point before even thinking of moving to an Electron-based solution.

Coding workflow is especially latency sensitive and coders are naturally prone to look for efficiency. I can't feel too sorry for somebody going out of their way to be inefficient.
It seems like they have sold 1.5m [0] robots so far.

[0]: https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/08/anki-has-sold-1-5-million-...
Control of what prisoners read, through restriction to digital print

In this case, there is NO content censorship applied to digitization any differently from printed matter.

And all mailed content is digitized for free.
Yeah just for possessing it, such a major difference.
The media is definitely biased against liars and the different flavors of that: people who distort, spin, and misrepresent. And to be really direct about it, Trump is all of those things. The fact is, the media should be biased against such people.
Instead of trying to prevent data collection, what if we made simple tools that let anyone make their data less useful: data pollution or telemetry vandalism if you will. Either generate a bunch of noise or try exploiting analysis such that a machine would not be able to tell real from fake.

Simple example: instead of an ad blocker, everyone runs a script that “clicks” on every single ad they see
Scientific progress has no end as far as we can tell. Just because we've found a theory that explains more than the previous one doesn't mean that we're done.
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It's not a censorship issue. It's a smuggling issue.
> “Engagement” is a lagging indicator of performance, not the other way around.

This rang true upon reading. The other part is that the engaged employee has to feel that they contributed to that performance. Long term, if you believe it doesn't matter how well you do things, there's no motivation to maintain any level.

My situation has typically been that I take pride in my craft and as a craftsperson I want to do my best so that I do not contribute to a possible failure. Another way of saying I enable success if each group does the same. But as for degree of engagement, the more autonomy I'm given the more engaged I'll be as I'll see to making each choice I make work out.
I often run into situations where I hope pandas were 50-100x faster.

Dask can help, but introduces quite a bit of additional complexity.

I'm also looking forward to stricter data models than what pandas currently uses, in particular proper null support for all dtypes and less random type conversion.
I added an email in my profile if there's something you wanted to discuss further.
Of course it is, especially in America. Just look at a guy like Brett Kavanaugh: a complete fuckup by objective standards, gets installed in the Supreme Court for life, for no other reason than he was born on that trajectory: rich kid, prep school, legacy admission to Yale.
It generally takes other languages a long time to become more like Tcl ;-)
140 :)

https://www.dwitter.net/d/10398
Just look at the asymmetry. These organizations push to collect as much data as possible on every aspect of our lives.

But when it comes to information on what they are doing -- and the truth of their internal world? No, that's proprietary, a trade secret, etc., etc., and they slap non-disclosure and non-disparagement strictures on everything and everyone they can.

In other words, look at their actions, not their words. That should tell you something about the value of all this data. And about their self-serving hypocrisy.
I am so tired of having to do this with every shiny new thing. I get on board, stop paying attention for a few months, and then have to hunt down the latest third-party abstraction to enable a common sense security/maintainability/accessibility mindset. God bless them for fixing the problem, but this is just exhausting.
I believe the end of that joke is "they take them out and shoot them."
This reminds me of a ted talk I had the pleasure to enjoy watching with a good friend while "intoxicated".

The talk's title is "Can we create new senses for humans?" by David Eagleman and is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4c1lqFXHvqI
And tie both hands behind the back of our strongest ally in the upcoming war against Iran? Unwise and unlikely.
Yeah. I'm surprised that I'm downvoted. If you are clearing six figures ( most software devs should in this environment ), you could max out your 401k/ira/etc ( $40K ) to lower your tax basis and then save half the remaining income easily. Especially if you are single with no kids.

My biggest problem was hitting the max and not being able to shelter more income from taxes.

$40K per year in retirement + $20K or $30K in saving and interest + capital gains will easily make you a multimillionaire over 20 years. I don't think people understand how long 20 years really is and how consistent savings starts to add up.

As long as you don't gamble away your money or do something stupid with it, a six figure salary as a software engineer should make you are multimillionare ( in assets ) by your 40s.
I'd love to hear which specific person did which specific thing that you believe "directly caused the 2007-2009 economic crisis."

Identifying a "direct cause" of the 2007-2009 financial crisis, with certainty exceeding 90-95% (the "reasonable doubt" threshold) would be worthy of a Nobel Memorial Prize, in my estimation.
not long ago there was coordinated reporting about the "saudi arab spring" that the new ruler would bring. Thats the media i guess, herdish.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/23/opinion/saudi-prince-mbs-...

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/18/world/middleeast/mohammed...
>I've gotten enough negative reactions in those 20 months, and enough rejected job applications and negative conversations with recruiters regarding my employment gap, that I really start to question (even if only subconsciously) the entire situation I put myself in by quitting.

That's a challenging position to be in. Essentially you're facing what most people with new ideas face. I could tell you that everything will be okay, and that you'll be better off in the future...

Those comments are hollow until this passes, and expecting people in general to empathize is impossible. What I can suggest is to keep at it and re-evaluate periodically. You'll find someone(s) who will understand.
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A complete fuck up by objective standards? That's the most subjective thing I've heard so far. Everyone that has worked with him has praised him. What are you smoking?
There’s an app on my phone (IHG ... hotel chain) that logs me out frequently and then repeatedly tries FaceID to log me back in. Except, I have to re-enter my password. Covering the notch with my thumb is the only thing that breaks the cycle and allows me to type my password in.
> you can't get popcorn from mechanical repair or a few touch ups with a soldering iron.

Yes you can, I've done it. Moisture sensitivity is about heat (and the resulting steam expansion). It doesn't matter whether its from the factory's re-flow oven or your hot air rework station.
It’s the very definition of a ‘not-tiny’ app from 1995...

In the context of Electron apps, no emacs is in the running.
You heat up a pot of tea (or would generally just say you are going to put the kettle on), you do not 'hot up the tea'. The usage is specific, which is probably why you did not notice it or pay much attention if you did hear it. OTOH, it is a very common usage when describing weather or competition.

It does not take much effort to do a bit of an online search to see that the comment you were replying to was in fact correct that this term is idiomatic British English. This is not anecdote and is easily demonstrated through thousands of examples that are but a short google search away.
If you love HN's design, you'll love the author's essays on design: http://paulgraham.com/taste.html
a) the people who paid off the bond rating agencies to rate mortgage-backed securities full of junk mortgages as AAA.

b) the senior executives at institutions like bear stearns who signed off on creating the mortgage backed securities and their known composition of shit mortgages.

c) the senior executives at the rating agencies who knowingly rated shit bonds as AAA.

d) senior executives at institutions like Countrywide which pumped the shit mortgages into the market.
Read the article in his profile, you'll find your answer in 10 secs.
And yeah, with that profile, in that location, I take his point. But not everybody is that lucky :)
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your body takes about three days to fully digest a Big Mac because of how much trans fat it contains

The "science" here is so bad, I had to stop reading.
The problem there is not with your Github contents. The problem is with the kind of HR staff who are not technically knowledgeable enough [1] to understand that skills in other domains can translate to skills in the needed domains. Should consider looking for jobs where the technical leadership do the hiring or at least have a large say in it, as in, they are the ones who vet you technically, not the HR. Many HR people just use a buzzword match (Java 5 years exp? no? out!) and reject blindly based on that. (Cue HR jokes like them putting out job descs. for 6 year of Rails exp. when Rails was 2 years old - substitute any other tech too, same story.) HR should only be involved for talks like starting date, perks, joining docs, etc. There are jobs or contracting roles like that, mainly with startups, and I have gotten such gigs. Even in some large enterprise companies where I worked earlier, the technical and managerial parts of the interviews were mostly done by the tech leader or tech managers in the company. I've been interviewed by tech leaders even when I was a junior dev. And that is not uncommon. All depends on the kind of company you apply to.

[1] And this is why the "hiring is broken" topic comes up often on HN and other forums, because it is so. Even management, many times, have a shortsighted and wrong view towards what hiring (and related stuff, like what you do after you join) is (or should be) all about.

Edited for grammar and to add stuff.
> with the further implication that all the matter in the universe obeys the four fundamental forces that our matter does. Except we already know of other particles that don’t quite do that, like neutrinos, which we can just barely detect directly.

Left-handed neutrinos interact mainly by the weak force and also by gravity. We have a lot of knowledge about them. You can create a neutrino ray and a neutrino detector, and (if wired properly) measure their speed. We know that there are three types of neutrinos (or perhaps there is a fourth neutrino). We know that they can change midflight from a kind of neutrino to another kind of neutrino. The change takes some time, so you can create a neutrino ray of one kind and a neutrino detector of the other kind and measure how many of the neutrinos changed midflight. So the neutrinos are well understood and there are many labs that can measure them.

(Right-handed neutrinos are more difficult to measure because they interact only by gravity. Some people think that they don't even exist. Some people think that they may be part of the dark mater. I think this is still not settled. Anyway, all the neutrinos we know are left-handed neutrinos.)
> I think titles like 'The problem of Lisp' may need a bit more reflection and patience.

Forgive me for the baity title ;) I realise this is not a new discovery.

> Python and Ruby use flat strings as input to eval. That's an entirely different thing.

I understand this. I was responding to the earlier assertion "Neither Ruby nor Python support the idea of 'code is data'." which is not entirely correct. You can clearly supply code as string data. (Python's namedtuple does make use of this). It's just not nearly as powerful.

Thanks for providing the examples. The infix macro is pretty amazing! I will make use of this #I stuff.
> Hell, they have enough money to kick-off their own military industrial complex.

Wishful thinking.
It's interesting to view before/after images of Mexico Beach Florida. Appears a particular house at the end of 36th street survived relatively unscathed yet the surrounding homes were demolished. An old googlemaps street view of the area suggests that the bulk of homes were of frame construction. Yet this particular one looks to be of solid concrete block construction. The same sorts of results were visible after hurricane Charlie struck SW Florida in 2004. Concrete block houses survived with some roof damage (particularly those with Howard Johnson style orange curved roof tiles) but frame houses were demolished. This would be time for an enforced, no exemptions, building code change.
HN has an explicit rule against "$N reasons why..." headlines, AKA listicles.
"behind the shed", I believe ... :)
Yes. Answering a resounding "No" to the unspoken but common question, "Can my company use this work for free in ways which do not contribute in any way back to the community that granted it to us, thereby reselling free work to improve our profit margin and IP portfolio."
Hot air station is not a 20w soldering iron in steady hands
Unless that is a rhetorical question .... plenty.
As we dont know what the future will bring ethnic clensing is a realistic cenario.

It wont happen or it wont happen to me lacks optimism about how long the future lasts.
Maybe because they haven't been convicted yet.
That’s pretty much it. Cutting off weapon supplies never made countries less belligerent - on the contrary, it lets them loose as they no longer have any reigns.

The fastest way to lose global political influence is to send your allies to buy weapons from your adversaries. How did it work with North Korea, Iran and Syria?

When France cut off Israel’s weapon supplies in the late 1960s, all it did was to accelerate the development of the Israeli defense industry and replacement of all French hardware with US one. During this process, France lost any political influence it might have had on Israel - and arguably, the region - and irreversibly hurt its defense industry going forward.

That aside, Western ideals are just that in the Middle East - ideals. The reality is somewhat more complicated.

So let them have weapons. Western weapons are at least more precise and less crude than the alternatives. The worst wars were waged with teens wielding AK47s, not with F15s dropping precision munitions. Taking away weapons will not eliminate the underlying hostilities.

Finally, Saudi Arabia never pursued a nuclear program as it felt shielded by the West. Taking away its means to defend itself would make it an immensely more dangerous, rich and capable North Korea.
I'd count anyone who wields trivial patents, or patents where previous work exixts and which should not have been granted in the first place, a patent troll too.
Yet I would consider Vector by far the most useful product of them all.
How you will solder a thousand ball BGA part as in the video with a soldering iron?

Almost all surface mount is designed for hot air. You can touch up an MLCC with an iron but you are very likely to crack it with uneven heat.
That can be easily refuted by saying “do you really think that all big bank executives didn’t know what was going on and decided to ride the money wave”?
That's a good tip about making the motions to write the person's name on the palm of your hand. One thing I noticed not that long ago was that if I heard someone's name, e.g. if they spoke it to me, I had little chance of remembering, but if I saw the name written down, e.g. I saw it on a name tag, I actually had a much better chance of remembering. I assumed that is because my memory was more visual. But maybe it is simply because of more senses being involved.
Spatial Data Science Lectures – Luc Anselin, UChicago [video]
And you’re 95% certain that bond ratings are what caused the financial crisis?
I would argue, that MBS is the wealthiest person on Earth, and no foreign asset freezes can affect him. As a crown prince and a future king of Saudi Arabia, he has trillions at his disposition, and nobody above him. The body language of Vladimir Putin standing next to him says it all[1].

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/oct/13/saudi-arabia-k...
There is no evidence that she evaded taxes presented by the state, and she has not been given the opportunity to challenge the evidence or present any defense.

As I said, this is theoretically possible, but I haven't seen sources claiming that the charges are a complete sham. Can you find some?

That's why legitimate governments have rule of law, courts, trials, juries, and due process.

It's interesting that you emphasize "juries" as the key element of a legitimate government. Did you know that Germany doesn't use them? https://www.howtogermany.com/pages/legal.html

Some even argue that using a panel of trained judges provides better justice than using a group of untrained citizens: https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/06/what-am...

Is it a better approach? I don't know, but I don't think trial by jury should be considered a required characteristic for a legitimate government.
The thing with managers is that they have to understand the work being done well enough to make decisions about direction and resource allocation, while also having tons of people skills. In tech you either get a manager who doesn't have a technical background and just doesn't understand the thing they're managing, or you get someone with a technical background who stereotypically doesn't have the necessary people skills to manage well (it's a stereotype, but I find it to also be true, including about myself).

Part of it is also that as a programmer you learn to micromanage what the computer is doing, to be very precise with your instructions so the program won't fail. When managing people for the first time the instinct is to do the same: give very precise instructions even an idiot could follow. That's exactly the wrong approach to manage effectively (except for a few rare circumstances). That's why programmers tend to make bad managers who micromanage, they've been trained wrong by their prior work.
> Cities around the world are deploying collecting increasing amounts of data and the public is not part of deciding if and how such systems are deployed.

Really now? Aren't city officials elected in North America and Europe - and most other places nowadays?

Go vote if you mind it.
North Dakota soybean farmers: a harvest with no destination
>The problem is that the Saudi Regime has reached a point of not just murder but instability and poor judgement.

That they murdered people was a minor issue. That they now target people like you and me, people who are well-off and have some power... now they've gone too far and show poor judgement.

It's one thing to get blood money from one or another sources. It's another thing to get money from a powerful entity that kills anyone at all that displeases them - after all, at that point they might actually kill you.

The evils of the Saudi Regime were tolerable for years, in the interest of "stability" and, well, making money. Now they're coming after us. What to do, what to do?

Go after them. Who's with me?
no, at a more fundamental level before the ratings agencies ever saw them, the composition of the mortgage-backed securities and their tranches. The number of no-documentation/no-income mortgages that were rolled together into securitized products by the clients of the ratings agencies.
The ABA downgraded him in 2005 from "well qualified" to "qualified", then in 2018 said that his confirmation to the Supreme Court was not in the best interests of the legal profession or the Association. Those are certainly the people who worked most closely with him.

Objectively, you'd want to find one of the top handful of legal scholars in America to serve on the court. Kavanaugh is not one of those people. He has a scant record of legal scholarship. He does have a documented record of getting into fights in bars.
The cynic in me thinks that, like most things the media reports on these days it seems, there is an attraction to stories that undermine Trump. Call me a conspiracy theorist, but I'm going to assume that this sudden meme about Saudi Arabia emerging is evidence in favor of there being some currently undisclosed diplomatic headway in the peace talks underway between the US, SA, Israel, and others that have been ongoing since Trump's trip to Riyadh the first month of his presidency.
Disclaimer: I work for an engineering team at Anki

There’s also the privacy aspect of Vector. Anki respects your privacy because your data isn’t used in the same way that it is by Google Home and Alexa (i.e. for ad targeting)
Even still, relative to other prisoners, weed is pretty minor. You're talking like ~1% of the prison population.

Arrest rates are way higher though.
You mean people getting arrested for committing crimes?
> like selling "flame throwers" and other nonsense

AFAIK, Tesla never sold flamethrowers, another company (the boring company) did.

And they weren't flamethrowers, more gun-shaped blowtorches.
“Where there is smoke there is fire” is not a doctrine of criminal law. Also, by that token, who should we have prosecuted for the 2000 tech-related crash?