skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my experience when an English shop tries to refuse a Scottish banknote a Scottish person will always appear from nowhere to remedy the situation. ;)
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You're right in saying that we have not had many attacks on our soil. But I'm thinking the number might be higher if we didn't have our Armed Forces. We also prevented countries like Great Britain and France (our allies) from becoming part of a greatly enlarged Germany.
I’ve found that overly using spec leads to more maintenance than upside. We went all in using spec and generators when they were released and ended up having to debug the specs themselves. 2c
This looks really cool. Does anything similar exist for exploration on a SQL database?

I would love to see some notebook like interface for a SQL database with all the context awareness of Datagrips/IntelliJ’s editor but with similar visualisations like this tool.
My path is one of the underappreciated hybrid: started in major metro (DC/NY/Boston) and moved to small town in the south after many years, finding good gigs offering remote work for DC-, NY-, and SF-based companies. Found a nice niche in security/ops/development in gov & healthcare tech. So, here goes:

DB/Ops Engineering

1999: $60K base. Fresh out of masters program, large F50 DC gov tech firm (#1)

2001: $100K + $5K bonus. After building a successful practice area (still #1)

Independent Consulting, Security Ops & DB Architecture

2002-3: $150/hr, ~$200K/year. Small, rapid-growth Boston healthcare company (#2)

System/Security Architecture

2004-7: $150K base, $50K-$80K bonus. (full-time salaried at #2)

2008-12: $180K base, $10K bonus. Mid-sized DC gov tech firm (#3)

2012-14: $200K base, $20-40K bonus. Mid-sized DC gov tech firm (remote #4)

Security Architecture/Product Security

2015: $150K base, $20K bonus. Startup (NYC, remote #5)

2016 - 2018: $200K base, $20K bonus, $100K options. Large tech (SF, remote #6)

I know half a dozen co-workers (senior engineers or technical directors) whose net annual comp is also in the $300K range. It's not common, but if you're pulling <$100K with 6+ years experience in software or security engineering, you're getting screwed. (Throw away account, but happy to respond in thread; edited for formatting)
DCSS is my favorite rogue-like of all time, and I love the tileset.
This was also a bit confusing to me. "Goodfellas"? I knew that was a film (I've heard the name before), but I haven't seen it, and I couldn't tell you who's in it or what it's about. Does that count as "uniquely identifying?"
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I write about a lot of these topics, e.g.:

1. Communication of technical ideas: https://codewithoutrules.com/2018/03/09/win-technical-argume...

2. Feedback loops aren't just for your benefit: https://codewithoutrules.com/2017/02/10/voice-exit-user-rete...

3. Ethics: https://codewithoutrules.com/2017/01/29/job-contradict-belie...
This is a big issue, and fixed in my fork here: https://github.com/pavanagrawal123/VSNotebooks. Unfortunately, neuron already seems to be dead :( so I created a fork with a bunch of new features and additions!
Just watched the trailer for it: that game looks outrageously, supernaturally fun, which is why there is no way in hell I'm going to buy it. I'd have no self control.
As a white man I've gotten backlash for asking for a raise.
The same?

You can rationalize peanuts beeing unhealthy for you exactly the same way you can rationalize away health issues due to marijuana.

"All other people eating it are fine"

"I've been eating peanuts for 5 years, and look, Im still alive"
I got the Lord of the Rings "pocket" set about a year ago and I really liked everything about them. For reference, here's someone else holding "The Hobbit" with the other books visible too: https://i.ytimg.com/vi/VM9ZInBNPw4/hqdefault.jpg

The covers are some kind of faux-leather so they fall in between a hardback and paperback book; they are flexible, but the covers don't fold like a paperback. The binding was, in my opinion, excellent; you couldn't lay the book open, but you also didn't feel like you were cracking the spine when you were reading. The paper is quite thin but tough enough, and I didn't find that the other side showed through or anything. They were harder to read in dim light due to the smaller type, but they were laid out just like a full-sized book.

IIRC I paid something like $30 for the set on Amazon. I would absolutely buy other books bound in the exact same way.
And there are people who know exactly what they want to be at age 10. The goal isn't to graduate everyone who wants to be a surgeon. The goal is to graduate only the best people. If someone gets to med school, decides they want to do surgery, and fails dexterity, then guess what? They don't get to be a surgeon. I think that is okay and most likely produces better patient outcomes in the long-term.
im also based in sweden. can I ask what youre at currently?
Neuron doesn't support this, it won't work natively with the notebook.
Predominantly mobile is still not 100% mobile.
How Infinity gained 2,5K+ early adopters with Viral Loops
any exported notebook will suffer from the same issue, but the source file is just a normal python file, so diffs will be fine for those
Ask HN: How do you interview interns/co-ops?
How do you effectively interview interns/co-ops? They usually will have decent understanding of the fundamentals, but lacks the real world experiences that we usually assess candidates by, which I think puts them in their special category.
Moderation is very hard.

Perhaps you can try to force all the comments to be approved before being shown, at lest for some time.
Without Compaq reverse engineering the BIOS and doing it in such a way that IBM could not release their lawyers on them, there would not be an open PC, regardless where those parts came from.

We would all be using variants of Atari, Amiga, Mac, Archimedes by now instead.

Which ironically is what laptops, 2-1 and mobile platforms have become.
Who said anything about forcing people!?! I literally said "Who said anything about a program enforced on people??" in my previous comment, and yet you seemingly are going out of your way to misrepresent what I'm saying.

Who said anything about "Forcing all humans to think one specific 'rational' way, eliminating all 'cognitive biases'", either! Show me anything I wrote that even suggests this.

> And "eugenics" is 'a set of beliefs and practices that aims at improving the genetic quality of a human population' [1], which is exactly what you're talking about here.

Show me where I said it wasn't "eugenics". (but there's a big difference between forcing people into it and it being voluntary. There's also a big difference between various alternatives for what the genetic changes are, and I've been very clear about what sorts of things I'm talking about).

I'm amazed at the disconnect in this subthread between what I have actually said and what people are claiming I said!
“Gökbilimciler Samanyolu'nun Kara Deliğinin Kenarına Kadar Sürünüyor”

Turkish, and I’m amazed at its accuracy. Turkish has been phenomenally hard to translate from English. Google has done a great job there.
I wonder if lurking under the surface here is a fundamental law of information science that plausibly deniable stenography can not exist.
No, nothing prevents them asking. Businesses are allowed to ask, you're allowed to refuse, and they're allowed to refuse to transact with you, on the basis of your refusal. It's pretty stupid.
in my fork here: https://github.com/pavanagrawal123/VSNotebooks I'm almost done with cell support.
The thing I would be getting from spec is confidence when modifying the code base, which I get from the unit tests I wrote pre-spec. If I were to initiate the project today I'd probably have less tests and more spec.
I think this is a valid point. We talk about the right tool for the job, but forget that the evaluation needs to include the people using the tool, the people paying for the job to be done, and other elements of the environment.
Regarding pixel art I find /r/pixelart on Reddit to be a good source of inspiration. If you want to learn pixelart, study how pixelart pieces you like were put together. Some tutorials are occasionally posted there as well.

DeviantArt used to have a good pixel art community. Don’t know if they still do these days but either way there are a lot of tutorials that have been put up there by pixel artists over time. Find the good ones.

Another option you might consider is to team up with an artist to take care of the artwork. If you find the right person then working together can be a lot of fun.

And start small! Don’t become another victim of feature creep. With fewer art assets and less code to write you can focus on making something that looks and plays great. If your idea is too big then either quality will suffer, or you will never finish it. Make small, good games first. And small, bad games too — it’s a learning experience :)

Make a team with an artist next Ludum Dare game jam and make a pixel art roguelike with very limited scope together.
Writing a small roguelike is the task that I use to learn/test new languages. Mine is a very simple one: you can just move the player and open doors and there are some monsters running around. But it uses bitmap graphics and things are moving in real-time [0], so it's an example covering some interesting aspects of a language and its libraries (and IDE).

[0] With real-time I mean that it is not turn based, unlike most roguelikes. It uses a future event list with time-stamped events that are waiting to happen.
AWS is gold standard so of course they would support it.

Cockroach labs is backed by Google Ventures and run by former Googlers so that explains GCP.

Azure may not have the most impressive tech stack, but plenty of non tech reasons for these decisions as well.
>everything that you mention that is illegal (child porn, terrorism, drugs, money laundering) is a strawman.

Uh no, the're things that actually happen. People are constantly trying to sell prodrugs and 'raws' via paypal, you can go on most darknet markets and buy both stolen and 'fake' paypal accounts for any number of uses, etc. A quick google of 'paypal drug dealers' or 'paypal steroids' quickly returns both written content and videos on how to make money selling steroids via paypal and social media.

Card networks like Visa limit what sort of pornography can be transacted via their network for various legality concerns. A quick google search will bury you in reading material from the EFF to Forbes to pissed off purveyors.

Etc etc so on and so forth, you lose, you get nothing, I said good day sir.
when I could spend those fifteen years living in the burbs in a big house with the white picket fence in almost any other major city in the US?

Why would you speak "in general" about something so specific - this really isn't a goal for everyone. All the best for you making your own decisions of course. In my case I will make considerable tradeoffs to hopefully never live in a 'burb again.

It's also worth noting that cities aren't fungible.
I misread your statement, sorry about that.

I agree though it is nice to have proof, part of the campaign against cannabis and safer decriminalized markets / regulated markets is about harm to kids, which would be better served in a legal / regulated market where more harm reduction is employed.
Isn't that Juju?
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Custom domains on GitHub Pages are gaining support for HTTPS
Is this true? As far as I understood they were app only.

I would certainly be more interested if they did have a website.
That's the thing that I don't get with these new fintech companies. Most of my banking involves sitting down and looking at a minimum of 2 windows I don't really get how an app only workflow would be tenable for me. I definitely don't understand app only share dealing. Am I expected to check my shares on the morning train?
I've tried chip which is part of this fintech wave and is billed as a savings app for loose change, but doesn't pay interest, except via referrals, and the interface is a bot, except it isn't, its just an anthropomorphised menu that makes basic stuff hard, and it has gifs.
Switch to companies that are easier to get ahold of (if your current supplier doesn't allow to change your details online, switch to a competitor that does), and possibly cut down on the number of companies you interact with so the task takes less time.

> In addition, my mail box

Email or physical mail? For email, every time you get receive bullshit, spend a minute to try and unsubscribe. I recommend not using the link and instead logging into the website and unsubscribing from all their mailing lists, where as the unsubscribe link would usually only unsubscribe you from one of their mailing lists.

For physical mail if it's a company you have an account with I guess you could do the same and see if there's a way to opt-out (I imagine they would want to save costs and not spend money mailing out physical spam to someone that isn't interested). For the rest sadly there isn't much to do, but if any spam arrives with prepaid envelopes just put their garbage in there and send it back to them, just to waste some of their money.
Well, there was the Soviet expansion into Eastern Europe and its annexation of Poland, Hungary, the eastern half of Germany, the dozens of proxy wars that were fought between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, the space race, and a thousand other Cold War battles that were waged but never declared. Despite what you may have heard, it is not better to be red than dead.
It absolutely existed.

It was perfectly possible to homestead in many parts of the world, and never have to answer to anyone.

It is not possible in the modern world to take some undeveloped land, claim it as your own, and make something out if it.

All land is owned by somebody these days.
(B12 team member and head of B12 Bishkek)

Hey, @dforrestwilson, thanks for the comment! I moved back to Kyrgyzstan last year to grow the Bishkek B12 Team. Our country has had some political instability in the past, but it has been stable during the last 8 years. I am grateful that Adam and Nitesh took a chance to grow our startup here. Kyrgyzstan's government also has been focusing on helping small businesses and IT sector specifically.
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Here's a photo of a person reading the book with one hand: http://geaplamp2.cipal.be/images/uploads/wommelgemdwarsligge...
Any kind of "enterprise" software. SAP, anything by Oracle or IBM, Salesforce, etc.
Nose device that actually sniffs
What's different between an "embedding" and a projection, which I believe is the more standard term for this kind of transformation?
yep! this is something I will be focussing on in VSNotebooks. I noticed this as a huge drawback to the current implementation, so I will be fixing it :)
> Tech employees, who skew younger and more educated than people in other industries, are more likely to identify as Democrats and to donate as such.

And how much of the donation difference can be explained by the demographics of tech employees vs. the tech company's C-suite?
However, if a newspaper prints a story saying senator X said Y, and that claim was false, then the newspaper can be sued, regardless of where they got that information or which employee wrote the story.

Given your analogy, the question is, is Facebook more like a car manufacturer or a newspaper?
The quote, while probably the best way to address juvenile cannabis use I have ever heard, is still from a satirical cartoon. Subjectively, cannabis does NOT make oneself numbly content with being bored. What I found is that it makes things seem profound or meaningful or funny, significantly lowering the boredom threshold. You can for sure still be bored when high and I find the boredom feelings are actually amplified (like sitting in a huge line at a store with no screen/headphones gets really old really fast).
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That's a valid point, but it's worth pointing out that it can be applied to many more things than just marijuana (TV, video games, alcohol, social media, most articles people read, many apps, etc.). There's an enormous section of our economy that's devoted to wasting people's time when they could be "learning some new skill or discovering some new science or being creative" (I'd add taking care of your body, your mind, and your community to that list as well). For a lot of people, evenings have been the time to sit mindlessly in front of a screen for a few hours.

This ends up hurting our society on multiple fronts: people not being as productive as they could be because they're encouraged to waste time, an overall less happy society, a less healthy society because of the encouragement of sedentary behavior (and the economic burden that comes with that), a large part of the economy that could be devoted to improving people's lives but is instead wasted on encouraging negative behavior, etc. The problem is that we've grown so accustomed to this situation that we rarely think much about it, or what we can do to change it (whereas marijuana is getting at least some scrutiny, since legalization is new).
A friend of mine back, way back when, said "It is funny how I become more Republican as I get more wealthy."
I'm in the same demographic, same kinda of social group, and most of the people I know who use monzo still don't use it as the account where they store the bulk of their cash, it is more for travelling than anything else. The free (up to £200) withdrawals and inter-bank exchange rate make it a no-brainer for that, but there's still nothing about it which would make me switch away from a current account with a decent interest rate and added extras like insurance, or cashback on bills.
Hey, would be great to have this on our success stories page at https://clojure.org/community/success_stories. If you would be able to do that, please contact me at alex.miller@cognitect.com. Thanks!
Yes, that's why becoming happy with REPL-driven development is more important than becoming happy with dynamic typing. I think much of the productivity boost attributed to dynamic typing is in fact caused by heavy use of a REPL, and not dynamic typing.
We can come up with great UX.

The problem is, most of the products you mentioned intentionally degrade UX because you are not the main customer - cancer peddlers (aka advertisers) are, and dark patterns & bad UX is there to make you look at the cancer and/or accidentally click on it.
The recent popular ones (edit: assuming I am reading correctly which games you refer to) are all pretty much spinoff genres that borrow heavily from traditional roguelikes, but break from the classic design attributes in very important ways. Many of them are excellent games, but I don't think it's being nitpicky to distinguish them. Note I make this objection without wanting to wade into the tedious war over terminology.
The ironic thing is that land bankers appear to do a useful service in that context - they go through the approval to 'process' the input land into something more valuable - land that is preapproved to build on. Of course that it is so valuable is in itself symptomatic of a larger dysfunction. In a more functioning system it should give far more modest returns since developers would have an option to do it themselves and cut out the middleman. It suggests that the process should be far more streamlined if possible and more broad in use permission categories when possible.

There are valid discussions to be had and due diligence involved in investigating the fitness of land for given purposes - it is more appropriate to use a heavy metal contaminated site for a garbage dump or factory than farm or residential for instance and industrial processes at risk of explosion shouldn't be kept near residences and schools.

I could see unused land being a tax break having some utility if there is some positive externality to it - especially if left accessible. Say that if you have some woods at the fringe of your property you could get some degree of property tax relief since keeping some wilderness does larger service to the environment. A derlict brownfield site however should have no bonus - it serves society best to get rid of it as soon as practical. This tax-break land could be developed if it is more lucrative to buy it and do so. The two could combine in a form of urban renewal incentives by at least encouraging landowners to clean up after themselves by transforming abandoned buildings to greenfield or parkland for tax purposes.
Your developers aren't logging time and it's not their fault
.. or for 250k you could get a four bedroom detached house in Cardiff: https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-69624...
You are of course right. I was mainly looking 12-1300ish MBP with newer processor or about 1000 dollar MBA. Since I can wait for a year or longer, maybe there will be better pricing then.
5 minutes was me being very very generous for the sake of argument. Normally it should take an able bodied person <10 seconds to shut a laptop lid and unplug 3 cables that are sitting prominently on the desk.

I think it's safe to say we differ here, and that's fine. No the Oryx Pro doesn't have a enterprise-grade dock/port replicator yet. If that's a deal-breaker then that's that, for now at least.
_alternatives_ to beeing bored
This article touches on an idea that I think many in the tech industry (myself included) continue to be myopic about: as disruptors we are held responsible for the negative social outcomes that we bestow upon society. I think many (not all) of us who work in software believe that the innovations we unleash, in-and-of themselves, make up for nearly any negative externality caused as consequence. We have brought services or experiences that have made life more convenient, faster, more accessible, etc.; that should be more than sufficient to legitimize our existence and effort.

Inside this framework, the driving factor is what Wired calls "techno-darwinism" the idea that software companies are "still standing post-disruption must have survived because they were the fittest". If you talk to people in SV, especially after the depression, the stereotype was that every startup was about to "change the world by becoming the [X] for [Y]" (Uber for cookies, AirBNB for laundry, etc.)

However, the outside world looks at us with disdain: they don't view our motivations as a desire for simple innovation or creativity, but outright greed and power. The folks that we have disrupted are often those who do not have the means to convert their labor to new industries; even when they do, those industries then get disrupted by some new actor.

Tech workers also have, stereotypically, been disdainful of government: it's too slow, too compromised/corrupt, too inefficient. However, engagement with the polity is the main vehicle by which the poor and disenfranchised are are able to find some kind of recourse for their lives, either by the ballot box or the ammo box.

I've been telling my non-tech friends recently that the great sin of our industry is not greed, its naivety and hubris.
still not sure why we have both a "macbook" and "macbook air". they seem to occupy the same market segment. i thought apple was all about minimizing choices.
Something similar happened to Racket a few years ago with AVG. IIRC I just send an email to one or two of the antivirus companies and they fixed the problem in a few days.

Anyone can send the report of the false positive to the AV companies. I don't understand why nobody took a few minutes to solve this.
(disclaimer, i'm working on a fork with better feature support)

Strengths:
VSCode support

Weaknesses:

Bad code quality for the extension

No variable explorer

No extensibility

No custom env (fixed in my fork)

No cell support (almost fixed in my fork)