skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes of course. I recognize that, but I don't understand your argument. Are you saying that from the cause of mainstream media (NYT) exposure of this payment, to the effect of a walkout, there is no aspect of Google-specific culture that makes this a unique Google occurrence? This was primed by previous walkouts such as the protest against the Trump immigrant travel ban nearly 2 years ago, and previous Google-internal petitions against things such as G+ real names (which people actually quit over) and the now infamous Damore memo.

Your comment seemingly argues that the story is just a simple one and I'm a fool (rhetorically) for thinking there's anything deeper.

I submit, again, that there is a deep story here that was missed.
Well of course! Not everyone needs the best CPU. I recently got Huawei Mate for my mother in law for let's see 1/7th of what I paid for my IPhone XS Max. Some people do (I play a lot of 3D games and what not), but vast majority of the people do not. It's just that Huawei and Samsung have offerings that span the whole range of prices whereas Apple only covers ultra-premium segment. And if you venture into Apple prices are comparable to others (and command much better resale).
Do these companies exist? Can you recommend any?

But even so, they'll be a middle-man and they'll try to take as much profit from the group discounts they get instead of passing those savings on. An employer doesn't have an incentive to make profit there.
To my knowledge, not without a centralized arbiter which can then be evil, stupid, or taken over/destroyed by bad actors. Please correct me if I have the wrong info.
I can't tell if you are being sarcastic or if this is intended as advice
You can't really focus on a broad spectrum of anything. Broad is broad, focus is narrow.

It's also ironic that many failed start-up founders end up on the investment side, I'd love to see more successful people in charge of who gets funded and who does not.
Why comment on him then?
Yes, but in the article it says that Apple cars couldn't ride on the roads and that as a consequence the roads were removed from the map. If map makers need to walk all footpaths the work will be immense...?
He's the CEO of one of the most valuable car companies and the words he speaks affect those trading on that information. Saying whatever he wants for entertainment is horribly irresponsible when his words have financial consequences for real people.

The "funding secured" tweet wasn't harmless, it was a lie that gave a false valuation basis for Tesla at $420. If he was just an employee or outsider that wouldn't matter, but as the CEO he should know better.
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> Europe does not appear to be overwhelmed by gender studies graduates.

Europe filters which students are admitted college. Is this an unexpected result for the subset of high-performing students?
Population Visualization
Yeah shift click should do the trick
If I'm in walking mode, my phone displays the street names. Have you attempted that? The example given was in a car.
FAQ – Virtualization
I do believe it can be used as a medium of exchange right now. However, yes, it is very limited due to current price instability and lack of global scaling. The jury is still out on whether that'll change.
Yeah, I just downed my entire bottle.
That's a good question. I've never really used navigation or maps offline as I don't have a use for it.
Yeah, this isn't even close to the real performance I've seen. I was at basically zero growth for years, but as soon as Obama left, things jumped.
You just pass it in explicitly: https://nixos.org/nixpkgs/manual/#sec-pkg-override
I learned Haskell first, and I thought it was a valuable learning experience. Laziness and type driven development give you a different perspective on solving problems. That said, I find Clojure to be both simpler and more pragmatic than Haskell. It requires knowing less concepts to use effectively, it encourages interactive development, and it leverages two of the biggest ecosystems by targeting the JVM and Js environments. I would recommend learning Clojure unless you feel strongly about having pervasive static typing.
If you use a dense language like J/APL then sure. I actually run J on my phone and ipad and I find that I'm as productive on those devices as desktop since it's not the speeding of typing that get's in the way. With a high level language like python/go, no way in hell will I peck or swipe the code.
Right you are, silicon. Thank you. Not caulking material :)
oh yes. I did not think of that. generating on first click should not be to difficult. what are the other constraints?
Several have commented on the likelihood that this will not be so much "Search & Rescue" as "Search & Destroy".

It seems that the "no GPS required" spec and the under-the-canopy flying and mapping they showed makes this considerably more likely.

Small drones on rescue missions need to find the lost person, identify their location and transmit it back. The search/find part would be best done above the canopy with appropriate sensors, covering as much ground as quickly as possible. Flying under the canopy, and mapping it the whole way would dramatically slow this process -- probably quicker to have a human horde search on foot.

Once found, the GPS coordinates would be the most essential data point to transmit back to the rescuers. The relative positions of all the local trees would be kind of irrelevant, but that could be quite useful in targeting various kinds of attack.

IOW, it seems the other Search & Destroy comments have got it right.
https://nixos.org/nixpkgs/manual/#sec-pkg-override

https://nixos.org/nixos/nix-pills/override-design-pattern.ht...

https://nixos.org/nixos/nix-pills/nixpkgs-overriding-package...

Those are the documentation pages I found right now...

It's basically two steps: constructing the patched libpng derivation, and then overriding the libpng derivation in the specific program.

The first step would be something like

let myLibpng = pkgs.libpng.overrideAttrs
(old: { patches = old.patches ++ [~/libpng.patch]; });

and the second step would be something like

let myProgram = pkgs.program.override { libpng = myLibpng; };

and then you could include "myProgram" in your system package list.

If you have an "overlay" set up in your system then you could also do this as part of that overlay.
BTW, I think you meant "pique" not "peak".
No; the real life equivalent would be the the kid in class sitting between you and your friend opening the note and telling class what you said.

You asked the kid in class to pass the note. He did so freely. You assumed he wouldn't open the note, but guess what... he totally opened that note. And now he wants to profit off the information.
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I trust your experience, having only read papers about it.

But then I would expect the feature to be replaced by something else instead of being dropped as such.

Solaris with SPARC pointer validation turned on is a much secure platform in spite of being written in C.
There is a huge amount of this information maintained by land management agencies (see e.g. [0]). Presumably it is even licensed (in the US at least) in a way that commercial companies could use. But Google Maps coverage of trails and even forest roads is terrible. I presume that you're right, the return is too low, but it is sad that no one is picking up this low hanging fruit. Even OpenStreetMap is hit and miss on this public data (partly because of data import wars).

[0] https://data.fs.usda.gov/geodata/edw/datasets.php?dsetCatego...
Yeah, starlink is planning on putting 8,000 satellites in low LEO, and 4000 in high LEO. The low ones don’t matter but the high ones are certainly worth thinking about.
That's partly a tooling issue, though. If git had native requests and a decent UI around them baked in, and the UI client also had some way of discovering your peers across networks, then the need for gitlab/github would be diminished.
How was your experience?
The twitter account you linked to is run by Cato Institute, a climate change denying libertarian think tank founded by Charles G. Koch and funded by the Koch brothers. I would not characterize that as uplifting.
I'm 100% srs.
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> you might as well have made a static binary; it certainly would be easier to work with

Not all programming languages can produce static binaries. That's the point of an image format to begin with.

Reducing redundant code is a nice idea, but there aren't any systems^1 that solve for dependency hell and disk efficiency, and I'd rather trade a few hundred MBs of disk than fight with dependency hell.

^1: This isn't entirely true; Nix (and friends) do solve for this, but it's a relatively niche system and it's got its own usability issues that are (in my opinion) well worth sacrificing some disk to avoid. If these systems cross that threshold, then I'm happy to jump on that bandwagon.
Improving readability through intelligently balanced typography
After working for a decade at a nonprofit at 100K, I used hired.com to get an iOS dev position at 175K. A year later I moved to a 200K position.
If you come from a javascript background, clojure would probably feel more natural
The main Android dealbreaker for me is all the viruses, followed by OS fragmentation and finally the fact there is no privacy protection ( i.e. secure enclave )
Musk has a lot in common with Trump actually. They both despise the media and have a casual relationship with the truth.

They're both self-made billionaires who built their companies on risky debt financing, and they both have narcissistic traits and an apparent "god complex," as well as difficulty accepting criticism.
> most of the configuration is for desktop stuff and NixOS doesn't really cover that.

I like home-manager: https://github.com/rycee/home-manager
Back before the rise of our newer technology, curation seemed to work pretty well. Most folks in the US had access to three or four TV channels, one or two local papers, and a handful of national newspapers and general interest magazines.

I'm not sure that particular genie is going back in the bottle, though.
There are a lot of people that contract full time for a single client, so that number could still be misleaded. At least to me anyway. I would not consider those people to be freelancing.
Cynical advice can be both.
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I stopped there as well... I tried two or three ideas but did not get nowhere
Thanks for the discussion. It's now much clearer why you feel lenders deserve more blame for the student loan crisis in the US.
You could say the same or similar things about other companies with similar business models today who rose to prominence because of repeated innovation yet have since become seemingly stagnant: Google, Valve, ...
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Fair.

Money is an easy solution because you can get a job and make money. And you can live below your means and build a savings. And if you choose to freelance or start a business at some point you can use that savings to get yourself started.

As far as hard vs easy problems, health insurance is relatively easy because, for the most part, if you buy a reputable health insurance plan you're good. Obviously there's horror stories of people not getting the coverage they believe they paid for but generally it works as advertised. An example of a more difficult problem would be finding clients/customers. Even though you can pay money for leads/ads/content writers etc. you are not guaranteed a good client or customer. You can't directly pay for a good client or customer. You can directly pay for things that are likely to lead to good clients or customers but you are still going to have to work.

You can basically sign up for health insurance online and as long as you pay the bill there's no work involved. If you're setting out to WORK for yourself, and something that takes no work is stopping you, you don't really have the right attitude.
You have a valid point, but I think the "especially at a place like Google" part is relevant in my comment.

If you're a software engineer, woman, and at Google, you'll obviously still face challenges but getting hired is less likely to be one of them. That's a powerful wind in a person's back when standing up to a company - especially when others are willing to band together with you (because the others can easily find new jobs too). It's a compounding effect.

I presume the dynamic is far different in law or investment banking even if you're highly skilled in the respective industry.
I don't know it for fact, but let's not be naive.

The last reported (2017) makeup of $MSFT in the US was 75% male, overall, and 81% for tech workers. 63000 employees in the US and 131k worldwide.

Do you really think that in an org that size with a demographic overwhelmingly skewed male, that there isn't sexual harassment going on? And lots of it unreported and lots of it dismissed?
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This is a very good comment. I'll think about this and edit this comment when I can. Sorry, not trying to cop out.

Hopefully I can sort some stuff out for myself too while responding to this. I'm not trying to overstate my knowledge on the subject (it's hard to understate it), just trying to reason this out for myself due to the fact that it's hard to find credible argumentation online.
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tell me this "usher" person is not an actual academic, please. they sound 12...
How does Facebook know what extensions were installed on the users browsers?
>Kara Swisher is a terrible interviewer.

Agreed, I used to listen to her podcast but she can be very agenda-pushing and condescending if someone even remotely has a different belief than her.

I mean, if you want to do that that's fine be like Adam Carolla, a comedian, and market yourself as such, but if you're doing it as a 'journalist' you need to be impartial.
Here in Europe most enterprises are pretty much focused on Java/.NET.

Plus as you notice from my comments I do polyglot development, and luckily there are other options than spending 8h with Node every day.

Also building up soft skills and domain knowledge is another way to keep relevant, while staying on the same stack.
I mean, the shame of the abuse or the justice of law should be the one that handles punishment of crimes. To try and shame people not to cite or use scholarly work from people with controversy sourrounding them is sinister in its very nature. It is falling to mob rule instead of logic and reason. Science should be subject to logic and reason and not be infected with social, political, and culutural. Obviously science does not exist in a vacuum, but still.
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Not too surprising since wages have long been stagnant and fewer people are able to get sustainable careers. Then there's the staggering debt. People are looking for more ways to pay ends meet, and I bet most people in the next 15 years are going to need a side hustle in order to live comfortably and retire.
It's something amateur engineers would do. Professionals should be able to handle database restructuring without losing data. Yes, it's harder, but... come on.
Ask Hacker News: IT Outsourcing Companies That Are Not in India?
Are there any IT outsourcing companies that are NOT in India?
I might feel more emotional about this because I'm involved right?

From my perspective, I'm not appealing to your feelings, I'm telling you that buying drugs is a very small portion of what makes cryptocurrencies relevant and blockchain based commerce a necessity.

I was just at a talk where Steward Brand, a man known for the Whole Earth Catalog, the Hackers Conferences, the Mother of all Demos as well as the Trips festival (early SF psy-scene) was showing incredible vitality and enthusiasm about what the Ethereum community is accomplishing right now.

Before that, there was this fantastic presentation by Glen Weyl from Radical Markets fame who has a vision for empowering under-privileged and under-represented that relies on blockchain. His work with Vitalik Buterin and others (https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3243656) on Liberal Radicalism is a step forward towards funding of commons and allowing communities to self-organise.

At no point during the last 5 days did I hear one person at this conference mention buying drugs with cryptos.
Just started using OpenBSD as my main desktop OS and virtualization was the one thing I was uncertain about (wanted to see if I can setup test machines so that I don't clutter my base system, and it looks like they've added Linux support), but excited to grok how it works. I'm super happy about how solid the system is so far.
I don't agree. Rogan is a better interviewer but Elon is much more fluent in the recode interview.
I wish I could say Android was different. Yea, Google and Samsung et. al. do make a lot of other products, so their entire business model isn't the same as Apple. But in the phone market, customers don't have all that much choice regardless of who they pick. I'm an Apple hater myself, but I fear the day Apple finally goes away.
Viruses: doesn't really apply if you just download non shady things from the play store

OS fragmentation: doesn't apply if you're not a developer, just pick a phone that will have a reasonable amount of updates over its lifetime

Privacy protection: really depends how you feel about Google on this one

Presence of a secure element: this one really depends on your threat profile
The problem with dynamic linking is that experience has taught us that it is more trouble than it is worth in a lot of cases. It's great where it makes sense, like in base system components (but only if said components are stable so they can be relied upon), but otherwise it's just a headache. There's a reason static linking, Docker, etc. have become so popular.
In the town I grew up in (Blackburn), all the traditional family-run shops in terraced streets had the shop on the front room on the ground floor, and the living room and kitchen at the back, bedrooms on the top floor. Bakeries, butchers, delicatessens, shoe shops, chip shops, fashion shops, habadasheries, newsagencies, hardware shops, electrical shops, everything was like this. This was typical of most towns until the mid-late 1980s. You could do all your shopping on a single street local to your house.

These were not supermarket-style shops. You would walk in and be served directly over the counter in most. It's a shame that this was all destroyed by big supermarkets and globalism, because the quality of the products and service was superb, and they all sold locally produced food and goods, supporting a lot of local economic activity rather than having massive supply chains to source everything from China. The staff weren't minimum wage and disinterested, they were experts in their fields who cared about their businesses and customers, and had pride in their jobs and skills. Their destruction is one of the reasons why so many of our towns are struggling.
The difference between the terms “same site” and “same origin”
Looks like it's about both. In one portion they say that they want to keep the content, but remove the citations after it's been reviewed.

"Do what the editor wanted so that when he sent the revised manuscript back to reviewers, they would see I had followed their instructions and added the requisite citations. Then ... when I got the manuscript back before final publication, surreptitiously remove the citations."
> Personally, as a mix engineer, I don't want some home genius second-guessing my mixing decisions.

But the home user could start from your default settings?
There are many possibilities for further improving efficiency in size and power, including Gallium Arsenide and Carbon nanotubes / graphene.
> Binaries are a pain, but that's always true if you aren't running the exact distro that the binary was built for.

This is actually easier to deal with on NixOS than elsewhere, because the tools for handling that case (patchelf, buildFHSUserEnv, supporting multiple versions of a lib, etc) are so well developed.
Isnt this what the us is about? Financial freedom. Contracting or freelancing are the first steps in that direction.
Nearly all developed countries use a national ID of some sort to do it though. Plus elections are usually run nationally. We don't have a national ID in the US. And the elections are run locally. Which means local politicians get to meddle in both of those areas. It get ugly pretty quickly.
That's the same thing I do and it is great.

I don't need much on my host server side but having that stuff be easily configurable in one place and be mostly idempotent made my life easier.