skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah, yes, I see the argument about credit reports. Putting aside the question of whether they can exist at all, the security checks are laughable and therefore someone can make a black mark on yours by impersonating you with much greater ease than should be the case.
Absolutely, and I've had a cursory play with this.

The big challenge is the lack of type data, which makes the upfront plumbing kinda painful.

The ideal setup would be to leverage Typescript's type data to generate the schemas, for those who have written their API's in TS. However, that requires hooking into the compilation phase, and I haven't had time to explore that in anger yet.

I know that getting a great solution for the Node community is really important, I just haven't cracked it yet.
finish editing a couple of wikipedia articles
Go see all my friends who are all over the world, and eat long dinners and drink nice wine and exercise everyday and catch up on my reading list and take aimless walks and prepare for my new job, but at a relaxed pace.
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VW/Audi has factories all over the world, but they're not battery factories. That's the point posters are trying to bring up here.

It's worth pointing out that it's likely that the constraint on Bolt production out of GM has not been vehicle demand, but battery supplies from LG Chem. They basically made as many Bolts as they could get batteries from LG Chem, and that's all.
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Max Headroom
Contemporary SSD storage only takes up as much space as a pack of gum, just like sticks of RAM. Even SSDs with terabytes of capacity! Any desktop computer, even a small one, has all the physical space needed to have upgradeable storage.
Building OpenJFX 8 for Windows
Open source development.

I often have long periods of time off - that's the nature of contracting. You only need to work all the time if you want toys. So right now I'm learning, training, and giving back.
It's a shame that hasn't been extended to the print media.
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It would. In fact, Sweden has no “voter registration” per se, everyone who is registered as living here just gets a voting card in the mail before the election, I did earlier this year. (I only moved to Sweden this year and had no idea how to register to vote, turns out I don't need to!)

It's not great for privacy though, so I understand the resistance of the US and the UK to it. Mind you, the US wouldn't have to make the whole thing public like Sweden does for… reasons.
China is already leading the world in EV manufacturing and consumption. It's just that almost none of those vehicles will ever be exported. They're made for the domestic market. There's brands we never hear about here, pumping out pretty decent looking vehicles, but they're made for China.
I have often thought exactly what you describe, even more I think in an alternate history this would actually be close to the "intellectual property" policy: it is not the governments role to enforce intellectual policy, while it is the role of science to try and understand all phenomena natural or man-made. It would be legal for private entities (individuals or companies) to try to keep a business secret, but it would not be illegal for others to investigate, reverse-engineer and reproduce (even commercially) what others have done. Since scientific discovery into the public domain would be rewarded by the public, it would still be feasible for private individuals to maintain a business secret for as long as no one reverse engineers it. But it would de facto result in organizations being unable to profit from business secrets (since any member of the organization could publish the company secret to the public for a reward without facing consequences). This should prevent monopolies from arising, and encourages smaller companies and open collaboration.
> web of opaque "agencies"

While I've got no love for credit-reporting agencies, and they have managed to mangle my file, they do act as a non-partisan 3rd party that can (when their records are accurate) verify that a person is credit-worthy -- Which is a highly valuable service. Banks can offer low rates and other economic incentives to credit-worthy people, and make decisions for hundreds of thousands of dollars (i.e. a mortgage) in minutes, due to the existence of TransUnion, etc.

If it was possible for you to opt-out (or refuse to opt-in), you'd pay much more for a mortgage or any loan, decisions would take weeks, you'd be burdened with having to self-report your credit history (i.e. collect every statement on every account for the past 5-10 years) and since you are self-reporting, banks would still add a premium on because they would assume you've "forgotten" to include the credit card which you skipped payments on for 3 months back a few years ago.

As an analogy, auto insurers can easily check your accident and claims history -- imagine what your premiums would be if insurers had no way to check. They would have to assume the worst about almost everyone, and charge accordingly.

Do credit agencies need to be more accurate, and more secure? Absolutely. But wishing to opt-out entirely would likely be detrimental to you personally.
This question depends very much on WHETHER OR NOT THE NEXT JOB IS ALREADY LINED UP.

If I don't have to worry about my unemployment, then for two months I would spend more time with my family and on personal interests that refresh my mind and spirit.

Otherwise, I would spend the two months networking and interviewing toward the next job. A job hunt IS a full-time job. Quite frankly, a more time-consuming and stressful job than being a computer programmer is.
Except EF is basically the only provider that works 100% robustly. I have some pretty bad memories of getting NHibernate's Linq provider to work correctly, since it would just randomly mistranslate queries or flat-out throw exceptions.
It's pretty popular in the Java / Spring community, as Spring makes service discovery with Eureka dead simple. There's a bunch of tooling from the Spring Cloud / Netflix stack that gives you a huge amount of functionality for very small amount of code.

That said, Vyne isn't coupled to Eureka, it's just where I've started. I'll be exploring other discovery platforms & service meshes soon.
We tried the hot/cold architecture as well, and used it before in our data centre architecture.

But currently we have concluded that it is not worth the added complexity. But that might change again if/when we learn more or get new requirements.

We do change the number of replicas for recent data vs old data. We actually have a 4 tiered approach to how many replicas we use.
I'd do nothing. Yes, a lot of that.
It's not political, though, is it? Unless you think the decision to use palm oil or not is solely down to the government. And if that's the case then why is the UK government positively supporting palm oil?
Divide my time between ML and crypto, trying to understand the fundamentals of each discipline.
Sure, good point, why do so? But then why put out press releases and marketing material that imply that Tesla has performed the miracle of creating an "affordable" (well, $35k USD is still beyond 90% of people's pricepoint in reality) car for the masses?

They've done no such thing. They've made another vehicle to compete with BMW, Audi, and Mercedes. Which is fine, but let's call it what it is. There is no such thing as a $35k Model 3, and it could still be many years before we see one.
Beware of "cool" things - it's a waste of time and money, likely dangerous for health. Skydiving and travelling to Cambodia or Mongolia is an unimpressive cliche.

Catch up on health (posture, sight, diet). Catch up with family. Sort out any outstanding paperwork (tax declarations, pension related). Sleep long. Read.
I'm visiting China right now; Chinese-made electric vehicles are absolutely everywhere. NIO in particular seems determined to challenge Tesla here and possibly worldwide.

https://www.motortrend.com/news/nio-es8-challenges-tesla-mod...
I pretty much have opted out entirely. I'm sure these agencies collect information on me regardless, there's not much I can do about that.

I have no need for loans other than possibly a mortgage - I find it difficult to conceive of why one would even want a loan, outside of the first few years of adulthood.

The mortgage is a stickler, but given that I have no desire to lock myself in to the traditional 25 years of working to buy a house in a high CoL area, it really just means saving before buying.

It would be nice to have those things, but not with the additional stress involved of satisfying arbitrary requirements all the time.

I prefer to live life without thinking about how other entities wish to 'rank' me all the time. I'd find it stifling to do otherwise.

> As an analogy, auto insurers can easily check your accident and claims history -- imagine what your premiums would be if insurers had no way to check. They would have to assume the worst about almost everyone, and charge accordingly.

More realistically, you'd be asked to provide your claim history, and if you fraudulently provided a fake history, you'd be hit with severe penalties.
C# 8 will introduce nullable reference types, which will effectively be equivalent to Options. And they are working on pattern matching (some simple, partial implementation is already in place AFAIK), though I don't know what will come of that.
If you don't already, workout every day! get in the habit while you have no excuse not to go. Once you get in the habit, you won't stop after you start working.
Yeah... the bigger reason to move away from Java isn't Getters and Setters...

The bigger reason is one word: Oracle

Whether you go towards C# or other companies... Oracle is a horrible company.
Mike, on the subject of long test names, I like to use the Gherkin language to formulate some of my test names. It makes reading them rather easy and gives context.

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This is key - "The researchers bought a Sprint wireless plan to try to detect throttling of Skype in the lab, but couldn’t replicate the experience of the Wehe app users. This is likely because it affects only certain subscription plans, but not the one the researchers purchased, they said."

One app is saying this is occurring without anyone being able to duplicate the claim in a lab. Bloomberg could do better by getting a second source.
Watching the video, it’s pretty clear that this is an interesting stunt but would be considered unwatchable for any length of time.

I can imagine this working well in a couple years, but today it’s a long way off.
To be less extreme, I'd go road tripping, carrying a camera and tablet/e-reader and not a laptop.
> Who needs such a powerful CPU with so little RAM?

What do you need that much RAM for? What do you plan to run in this machine?
I'm currently reading Steppenwolf by Hesse and it has me thinking a lot. Main character (Harry Haller) seems to portray being in one of those "be careful what you wish for" situations. One aiming for individuality and independence at the cost of alienating people close to him. It is his desire, his goal in the beginning and ends up being his punishment, his prison. Maybe I found the book at the right time of my life (25).
Learn to use Blender. Or invent yet another new programming language.
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https://www.greentechmedia.com/amp/article/wv-quantumscape-i...

https://www.volkswagenag.com/en/news/2018/06/volkswagen-test...

https://media.ford.com/content/fordmedia/fna/us/en/news/2015...

I’m sure there’s more but manufacturer after manufacturer is buying, investing in, poaching from, and acquiring EV/battery tech.
FWIW, the Informed Delivery isn't available everywhere. I tried to sign up and was denied.
I've used netem to emulate millisecond delays before. But I'm not sure if it has the granularity to emulate micro-second level delays.

Basically, netem is designed to provide milliseconds of delay, emulating a worldwide network. Supercomputers are thousands of times faster than that. I'd have to play with netem before I was certain that it could handle a sub ~10uS delay that supercomputers have node-to-node.

Considering that Linux task-switching is on the order of ~10mS or so, I have severe doubts that uS level delays will work with netem.

The NanoPi-Fire3 uses normal Gigabit Ethernet, which probably has latencies in the ~50uS region. Which is slower than a real supercomputer, but "proportionally" should be representative of supercomputers (since the tiny embedded ARM chips are around 50x slower than a real supercomputer node anyway).

A bunch of Rasp Pis on Gigabit Ethernet seems like a better overall "cheap supercomputer" architecture, for students of supercomputing. Better than containers or software-emulated network delays
I'm curious: what was the problem with Go?
The other problem is that this would be a bizarre JavaScript-specific quirk, and would fail to interop with JSON implementations in other languages.
I personally write blog posts I find interesting[1], catch up around the house (new jobs typically take up more time than old), and take long walks or runs (maybe play some video games or read).

Personally, I have trouble not being productive (or at least feeling productive). Often this leads me to pick up a news skill (eg cooking Indian cuisine, leaning Haskell, installing a news Linux district, etc).

Last time I had two months off I wrote a website to help you invest by tacking insiders at companies who speak publically: https://projectpiglet.com/

Incidentally, I'll likely be taking a month or so off shortly to just clean the garage and build a couple pieces of furniture. Along with taking care of my son (preturnity leave, but plan to leave him in day care a couple days a week).

[1] https://austingwalters.com
I thought Musk's plan was for Tesla to be the last automaker standing?
Skydiving is both fun and not that dangerous. It's "cool" for a reason.
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This is myself as well. I'm still working the job that I got right out of college. Even though I'm confident in my networking and programming ability, I would still be panicked into finding my next job immediately. If I had my next job lined up, however, I would be visiting family and friends, and likely traveling any practicing my photography. You're not offered that kind of extended leave often - I would certainly take advantage of it.
Props to the person coming up with the Shardonnay name. Tiny bits of fun in a pretty serious operation are awesome.
To be fair the A3 e-Tron is a huge disappointment so I can see why they wouldn't want to sell it. It's basically a soft-hybrid A3 wagon that they bolted a plug and a slightly larger battery on to. It still uses a standard automatic transmission, has really low range when compared to other vehicles in its category (the Volt, the Clarity, etc.) and has fairly low performance stats to boot.

Our second car is an Audi and I like Audis. But my commuter car is a Volt, and there's no PHEV out there that can compete with it except maybe the Honda Clarity. I'd love to have a VW/Audi interior with something like the Volt's drivetrain, but none of them seem to want to do it.
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Note that tampering with the mail, even if there are little technical limitations, is a federal crime that carries pretty severe penalties.
Probably just more of the same stuff I do in me free time. Work on music, cycling, beer drinking, and lots more sleep.
Not to sound mean, but I'd prefer all websites looking generic (as uninventive as it might be), if this is supposed to represent the alternative.
Something that allows maybe 4 or more M.2 SSDs and 2 x TB3 controllers...
> how many launches is that going to take?

In my view, that's kind of the point. SpaceX internet service might make money, or might not- let's presume it loses a little bit of money over time. That's fine, because it's true purpose is to reduce costs for SpaceX the rocket manufacturer and refurbisher.

Manufacturing facilities operate best when they have an even load. Scaling up and down, laying off then hiring, etc, is bad for business. By having this perfectly flexible customer, SpaceX can do a lot less of that. They can scale up at an even pace.

The end goal will be SpaceX launching every X days exactly, always with a mix of external and internal customers on those launches.
There is no Touch ID on the Mac Mini.
"nixos <question>" usually works, even for questions that aren't strictly speaking about NixOS.
Right.

The other main category of problem that comes with identity theft is my own resources being used (e.g. an account, bank or otherwise) by a non-me.

Again, this goes away if you use real authentication rather than "oh, he has a photo of a pink bit of plastic with an address on it?, gosh must be him, here you go!".

It would be more expensive to do so, though, so we don't. The burden is pushed on to the end user.
It originated as protection for franchisees. Early on, manufactures didn't have the resources to set up dealerships everywhere they wanted to sell cars. So they used the franchise model. The argument is/was, that the franchisees needed protection so they could be assured that their investment in a property, facilities, and developing a market in an area could not be taken away by a manufacturer moving in with a company-owned dealership.

Very similar to the complaints about Amazon moving in on sellers with their own products once they see what is selling well with independent sellers.
An integer suffixed with the letter "n" is not valid JSON and will not parse if you follow the spec. The "n" suffix is how you write BigInts in JavaScript, not JSON.
Back in the day John Carmack's .plan file was my social media feed.

https://garbagecollected.org/2017/10/24/the-carmack-plan/
My first thought was towards Max Headroom. My second thought was on the Max Headroom incident.

If it went live, how long before a copy lands in the hands of pranksters?
I just did that this summer. I saw a bunch of friends, went out a lot made more friends, traveled around my state to see old friends...

But the thing that was most satisfying was committing to volunteer work every single week. People complain so much about social injustice and how we should tax this and that... Very few will open their pockets or put the time in to actually make a difference.
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I went on (am on) a long international trip, and had my mail forwarded to my father's. It prompted me to sign up for that, and without any verification I immeidately started getting scans of every package being sent to my father's house. He was never notified by them, nothing came in the mail. This was ~8 months ago.
Solo backpacking in Central/South America or Asia.
Don't you read posts here? If you have a pulse you send an email or two and have a new FAANG job paying $400K in a couple days. 


Somewhat annoyingly (but not really), the one time I had 6 weeks or so off I did spend it job hunting. [This was during dot-bomb by way of context.] Somewhat annoyingly because the conversation I had with a company owner I knew literally about a couple of days after I was laid off led to an eventual job offer at the small company. But, of course, I didn't know that at the time.

And the job after that was the usual case of "How soon can you start?"

If I knew I'd have a couple months off, I'd quickly book tickets to someplace I wanted to take an extended vacation to.
This seems like yet another instance showcasing the staggering lack of engineering ethics going on in critical information infrastructure designs. We have/used methods (PE licensure) to ensure that some sort of ethical engineering is occurring in critical designs. I hope we can find a way to bring these practices back and protect the people who cannot be reasonably expected (or asked) to understand these designs.
But it's really difficult to make a good product and good product experience on a messy code base. Quality code leads to better product IMHO. (of course good quality code base can still suffer from badly designed UX)
Yep, if I had two months off right now I'd spend the first month just sleeping and unwinding. Second month I'd probably get bored and take a project off my ever-growing rack of "cool things I wanna build but will never have time to do".
It still has a T2 chip.
I must admit I was a bit disappointed with Siddharta. Obviously the ideas in it are deep and very interesting but as a novel it doesn't really have much to hold it together.
The headline kind of buries the lede. "Job in Congress" sounds like it could mean a Congressional staffer or something, but this is talking about an actual Congressperson.
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I took a week off between my last job and current job. It really feels like you've dropped out of society. I don't recommend doing that for more than a week.
The blog post with this data has been posted a few minutes earlier by another user in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18414141

I recommend that you go to that other thread and post a message like "Thanks for submitting. I'm the author of the blog post and I'm happy to answer any question."
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To me, the point would be to unplug. Carrying around a camera and tablet defeats the entire purpose.
Is there something special about journalists that grants them the right to commandeer government property?
I would finish a side project and hoping it would turn into something.
Ask HN: How should a programming language accommodate disabled programmers?
I work on programming languages (as a career & hobby) and I’d like to make sure that my main language project is designed with accessibility in mind. I need some guidance & opinions from people with disabilities (e.g., blind or visually impaired people, or people with mobility issues) about your pain points with existing tools.

This doesn’t need to be just about the language itself, but the whole experience of developing with it, e.g., tooling, error messages, documentation, editor integration, &c.; as simple as “Avoid making me press Shift” or as involved as specific problems with existing tools and what you wish they did better. I’d also welcome examples of tools that do things particularly well!

So far I’ve had/implemented a few general ideas:

1. Making whitespace-sensitive syntax, like in Python & Haskell, optional syntactic sugar for explicit brackets & separators. It can also be turned off entirely, if e.g. you work with a screenreader and prefer it not need to speak all the indentation.

2. Striking a balance between concision and avoiding excessive punctuation-based syntax. I’ve also tried to make sure that visually similar characters have clearly distinct functions, so it’s less likely to mix them up—or if they are typo’d, at least the compiler should reliably detect this and produce a useful diagnostic.

3. Working on integration with existing editors (through the Language Server Protocol, an Emacs mode, &c.), so ideally you can continue to use the editor you’re comfortable with that supports your setup.

4. Allowing the interactive mode (sort of a souped-up REPL) to be customised to support screenreaders, colour settings for colourblind people, adapting gracefully to large fonts, and so on.

I’m certain there are plenty of things I’m still missing, though! So I’d really appreciate any help, personal stories, or links to the work of similar initiatives (like Accessible Scala) that you can offer. Thank you!
I bet that if you tried to boot the disk naitively then Windows would want to be activated.