skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this to some extent depends on what kind of software you are interested in working on. From the perspective of someone working as a developer in finance, SF is nowheresville, you want to be in NYC or Chicago, typically. That's my personal anecdata but I'd imagine other smaller markets have their own niche industries.

If what excites you is web-focused startups, then yeah, you're probably not going to be happy in a lot of other places, but that is just one area of software development and I'd argue it doesn't have any exclusive license on interesting problems or top talent.
Without the advanced settings, it seems to automatically grow the code as needed. You need to manually add "slave" boxes though (to the right of the sliders). The interface is nonintuitive.
quote from previous post that is potentially relevant to your dislike of the "superior, disdainful tone":

> later someone sent me a glorious photoshopped screenshot (see above) which shows me with a painted-on mustache and informs us that Sabine Hossenfelder is known for “a horrible blog on which she makes fun of other people’s theories.”

> The truly horrible thing about this blog, however, is that I’m not making fun. String theorists are happily studying universes that don’t exist, particle physicists are busy inventing particles that no one ever measures, and theorists mass-produce “solutions” to the black hole information loss problem that no one will ever be able to test. All these people get paid well for their remarkable contributions to human knowledge. If that makes you laugh, it’s the absurdity of the situation, not my blog, that’s funny.

http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2018/10/dear-dr-b-what-do-y...
You don't think that a forced, mass sterilization is morally horrendous?
> LOL so many brigading white knights posting that've never had a corporate job or signed a contract :-D

This is just trolling and since this isn't a troll site, please don't do it. We detached this post from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18494572.
I'm no physicist but this leaves me scratching my head.

You have some people saying the university funding system is to blame by not accepting crazy ideas but we have all sorts of ideas in physics like:

- String theory. As best as I can tell the only reason string theory exists is because if dimensions=11 the equations for general relativity pop out. Importantly though string theory has made no testable predictions and it's unclear when or even if that will be the case.

- Supersymmetry. Interesting idea but no evidence of this yet.

Other more interesting ideas to me at least (again, as non-physicist):

- Octonion Math underlying the standard model (maybe) [1]

And some interesting experimental work:

- Possible violations of lepton universality from the LHCb detector [2]. This was, last I heard, still well below statistical significance (5-sigma) and could well disappear (as other bumps have eg at 750GeV) but it's interesting nonetheless.

And there are host of open problems with otherwise successful theories.

My favourite extremes here is the prediction of magnetic moment of an electron, which is ~12 significant digits in agreement with experimental results. At the other end is QFT predicting the energy density of a vacuum, which is ~120 orders of magnitude off [3].

Anyway, a lot of this exists in the current academic system.

[1] https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-octonion-math-that-could-...

[2] https://cerncourier.com/beauty-quarks-test-lepton-universali...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmological_constant_problem
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CBD actually is the part in the weed that relaxes you and can calm the paranoia/anxiety caused by the THC. If you take a _lot_ of it, you might experience a similar kind of heavy-body type feeling you get with drugs but I wouldn't call it being 'high'.

It's kind of an issue these days because having something that's lower in THC and has CBD in it isn't as marketable as something with higher THC even though it would likely be a more enjoyable and relaxing high for most people. I believe CBD cannibalizes the THC to some degree so generally the higher the THC percentage in the plant the lower the CBD is, and even for someone with lots of experience it will give you more anxiety/paranoia.
All barcodes can be printed on glossy papers, so that's not a unique challenge. Various light conditions aren't terribly difficult to account for, especially when known colors are involved (as they are here).
"Linux took the creativity and hard work of several people. Nobody involved in it actually got richer as you might imagine people did with shitcoins..."

Not necessarily true. Both RedHat & VA Linux gifted Linus Torvalds with stock during the dot-com boom, enough for him to become independently wealthy.
>If you base your hiring decision on how awesome the applicant tells you they are, a certain number of the people you say "hire" for are going to be bullshit artists who can't code.

If you base your hiring decision on how awesome they are at leetcode hackerrank style algorithm questions you're selecting for bullshit artists who memorized "cracking the coding interview".

There's a systematic industry-wide bias against realism in developer tests. It's depressing how many people think realism either isn't necessary or isn't possible within typical interview time constraints.
No video yet, but here you have the paper.

http://vger.kernel.org/lpc-networking2018.html#session-10

On the other hand, Cilium.io made a good summary of that.
https://cilium.io/blog/2018/11/20/fb-bpf-firewall
Computers have been networked since the late '50s-early '60s. SABRE, the airline reservation system, went online in 1960. Heinlein would have been well aware of networked computing.
It seems to stop working at particular text lengths. Sort of a bummer when you want to see how much text it can accommodate in a square, compared to a QR code.
Is it problematic outside of the US? That said, possibly not the most immediately illustrative choice of terms; master/slave usually implies who's in charge, not a spatial relationship.
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Blame that death on the doctor being unaware of problems with aspirin. (many decades ago?) Chickenpox barely had anything to do with the death; many ordinary illnesses would give the same result.
> it's a static site and not using something like Rails

There's nothing "static" about this site. You're still querying a back-end database, you've just outsourced it to a third party. And looking at the example site, it doesn't exactly seem "simple" to me. Hell, instead of just using one (heroku) this one relies on TWO (netlify and the authors, takeshape).

This "stack" seems to be mainly being pushed by the people trying to sell the 3rd party backends.
Well, I hope the designer accounted for multiple colors failing to displayer properly. The pink and red are impossible to discern for me. My bank uses colored QR style codes and they're impossible to use with (very common) blue light filters active in the evening hours.
> All of which is to support my original contention that this story has been decontextualized by surly commuters and the idea that a tourist couldn't rely on the subway to get to a concert is nonsense.

The L train?
In fairness, if I set up a bank which, by accident or by design, made it exceedingly easy to launder millions in cash relatively quickly, you can bet the DOJ would have a problem with that.

Transporting millions in cash is risky (either you trust the courier with that and risk their life, or you do it yourself and risk yours), and doing so internationally is extremely challenging and/or expensive. By contrast, doing it digitally is quite easy and fast.

It feels a bit disingenuous to insist the two are the same.
> Or maybe in areas outside of physics altogether

This does actually happen already. I'm not sure how widespread it is, but I've noticed it in a couple of Condensed Matter Theory groups. For example Imperial's group[0] do research on Complexity and Networks including the "application of these principles to a variety of stochastic phenomena, ranging from ant colonies to cardiovascular biology, from sandpiles to earthquakes".

[0]: https://www.imperial.ac.uk/condensed-matter-theory/research/
Which arguably has been the state of history for longer than universal suffrage has existed. Disenfranchisement, and finding excuses for disenfranchisement, is easy. It's key to how authoritarians take power. Universal suffrage is hard, and under the tenets of democracy a necessary check on democracy.

In critiquing universal suffrage, it critiques democracy's core tenets, and in doing that it asks you to think like an authoritarian. The film supposes that there is no question that propaganda and jack boots are the next steps after that.

Also, I believe Heinlein was a provocateur bar none and he may have intended those follow up questions in subtext in the book as well. The book goes way out of its way in trying to determine if the war being fought is a Just War, for example, and one reading of it is that there is no such thing as a Just War, the need to keep repeating that discussion a proof that propaganda may be an issue in that setting, and that absolutely the reader should be questioning every facet of the criticism being offered about universal suffrage as well. I'd like to think that the film making that its text is possibly something that would have thrilled/amused Heinlein.
Why is that problematic?
Ask HN: Free/Libre Software Reading List
I want to understand the Free/Libre Software movement. I'd like to get a better understanding of the ideas surrounding it from all the angles: technical, legal, political, economic, cultural, etc. So:

- Are there full-length books out there that you'd recommend?

- Who is talking about this stuff currently? Where are their blogs and podcasts? I've listened to a fair bit of Stallman and Moglen recently, but they come at me with a host of assumptions that I'm not sure I'm willing to grant. I want to hear more and different voices in this discussion.

- Where is the "action" happening? In the courts? In software development? In shops like System76 and Purism?

I'm not interested in the Wayland vs. Xorg kind of discussion, and much more interested in fundamental issues. For instance, I'm becoming convinced, I think, that the alternative to the Free/Libre model of computing is Chinese-style censorship and social engineering... but I really don't know.

Thanks for the help!
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As an outsider, I wonder, what happened to Nima Arkani-Hamed and his new ideas about the nature of spacetime? That seemed pretty interesting.. even just as a strategy of what should be researched.
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Do you have good examples or best practices for creating a strategic product roadmap with GTM plan?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master/slave_(technology)#Term...
Well, there is this:

> The technical specification of the barcode is available as BSI TR03137 - Part 2[0]

It's apparently research done by the German Federal Office for Information Security.

[0] https://www.bsi.bund.de/EN/Publications/TechnicalGuidelines/...
I have noticed that 'certain' sites that obfuscate titles by homoglyphs are recognized as vietnamese by chrome. That seems like something based on the actual content of the page.
We've asked you several times over the years to stop doing these throwaway guideline violations, so we've banned the main account like we said we would.
I was looking and there are some more on the same youtube channel. As Watts died in 1973 I presume the videos were mixed posthumously.
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Memorably when it was at $15K+ I was on the phone with my dad (who still uses MapQuest and pronounces CD-ROM with a heavy emphasis on ROM) said "well I think it's time for me to put my money into Bitcoin."

Thankfully he was joking.
> So even if a 51% attack were possible, the people who could do it would never torpedo the coins that the own.

So, BTC is popular in large part for offering the ability to evade state controls (both regulation of supply and transfer, and taxation) that fiat is effectively subject to (whether or not they theoretically also apply to BTC), and to avoid control of the banks, but it is unthinkable but that an incumbent nation state, or set of banks, or combination of one or more of the former with or without the latter, would sacrifice the resources to thoroughly discredit BTC?
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The vast majority of mainframe software, especially older software was batch processing oriented - often millions of discreet financial transactions - that can easily be scaled horizontally across multiple CPUs or processing engines.
The Syntax podcast just did an episode on some strategies for getting along at work.

https://syntax.fm

My one piece of advice is to treat the problem like a really hard programming challenge -- it's a problem that definitely is solvable by you but will take a lot of work and learning a lot of new skills. You may never enjoy it or be the best at it, but you absolutely can do it.

Clearly you're on this path already by asking the question.
> French generals ignored new developments in warfare like camouflage clothing or steel helmets

For the helmet, it didn't last long, since the Adrian helmet was introduced in 1915 [0]. And at the start of the war, I don't think any army had standard issue steel helmets. For the clothing, the standard issue also switched to the navy blue in 1915.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_helmet
Who comes up with these names:
"JAMstack"??

It's like someone is trying to market/brand programming paradigms that otherwise would be common patterns.
This is a mother fucking blog
Chinese police apologise after Caixin reporter’s ‘prostitution bust’ hotel room inspection

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2174190/chin...
> This is why “dark matter” exists out there and not down here.

Nope, everyone thinks that dark matter exists everywhere around us. That's why we are funding and running all sorts of dark matter detectors that are looking inwards, not outwards.
Agreed. It's unfortunate but understandable we still use this terminology for existing technologies... but we absolutely should not be propagating it to new ones.

Embarrassing story time: I was working in Brazil on a database, and used the Portuguese translations for "master" and "slave" in a technical meeting (I speak Portuguese). The whole room looked at me in shock, and my manager politely corrected me: "um, we just use the English terms 'master' and 'slave'... if you translate them, it's pretty racist."
I don't have particular resources for this type of issue but a few pointers which might help:

1 - Have a clear definition of your jobs remit in your own mind and be willing to say no entirely or partially to requests which are impossible or poorly defined. If someone hasn't given it thought themselves, why should you? This should be phrased in a polite manner and if they don't respond followed up after a few days to ensure blame cannot be placed on you.

2 - Identify key figures in your environment who are gatekeeprs/yield power in the business. These are people who you want to befriend or destabalise/reduce their power over you.

3 - Get some social skills outside of work, socialising is a skillset and can be developed regardless of the person. It is easier for some and more difficult for others but with practice you will improve, why not try a local tech club to test the water and maybe have some fun?

4 - Go to work events once you have some social skills. If you're terrible at even having a short, average conversation about the weekend for example, you will just be known as the awkward work guy who comes to events but no one likes..

5 - Understand what people want/their motiviations and their routine; If you can understand what makes a person tick and how they function, even on a low level you can use this information to either build rapport or to introduce chaos. An example of this would be a persons morning routine, if you know someone, lets say your boss arrives at 7:58 in the morning like clockwork, puts his bags by his desk and then gets ready to grab a coffee, why not ask him just before he puts his bags down and goes through the coffee thought process? You can talk about how the weekend was, maybe something funny that happened in the office etc and build rapport but also provide an outlet for venting.
Well I always liked Authorware [1]. Maybe it was very media (CD/DVD) orientated but I really liked how you could see the flow of the program.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Authorware
Take it or leave it: I'd say learn more about yourself, how the "extroverted is good, introverted is bad" culture came about, and how to work with your strengths. One book I'd recommend if you want to start exploring this more is "Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quiet:_The_Power_of_Introverts...
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My bank uses some colored pixelcode not unlike this one. I scan a code on my screen using a little device that I insert the bank card into.

It's cool, it works well and it's fancy, but every time I do banking I have to turn off my computer's "night light" mode.

I assume lots of people use color filters for various good reasons. Are these codes resisent to that? Else I'd truly prefer oldschool monochrome QR codes, to be honest.
> The static site approach still isn't that well known

Isn't static sites how the web started? I feel like static sites are well known and table stakes for understanding how to build a website.
For me the interesting philosophical question is how different is it to see things with out eyes and remember them vs. recording with a device? For the most part, the fidelity and the transmittability are the main issues. If, hypothetically, someone invented a system that would allow a computer to adaptively display images to a human and accept semi-conscious feedback with the intent of reconstructing a relatively high-fidelity image from human memory, would such a system be illegal or equivalent to using a recording device?

Similarly, would it be possible to reduce the fidelity or persistence of the recording device to the point where it wouldn't violate any ethical or social conventions? Some sort of "bad camera" that deliberately produces abstract representations of what is photographed or downsamples in such a way that forging the images becomes so easy that nobody would accept this sort of evidence in a court of law or even in more casual circumstances?
You could, but to me it's the difference between "laughing at funny nerds" and "laughing at nerds."

The latter just feels cheap.
If you are in public, you have no right to privacy.

It is worth remembering this is dependent on the jurisdiction you are in.
I went to a conference on this topic in Denmark some years ago

http://digitalurbanliving.projects.cavi.au.dk/www.digitalurb...
> FOSS has certainly never shown the slightest interest in developing an open system.

Really? I got into Linux originally when I saw how you could swap DEs and customize practically everything. I wasn't a developer back then.
It's basically another form of premature optimization as it pertains to discovery and research. It stems from the misbegotten idea of permeating the last few decades that cost-benefits accounting and ROI should drive the entire world (and choosing the entirely wrong accounting model to apply uniformly on top of it).
See also: relativity, quantum physics, etc.
> Google is easily the most morally dubious company out there.

I mean, I might have put some tobacco, arms, oil, coal, chemical, and surveillance companies up there. Particularly since I don't see them leading the way on harassment, inequity, diversity, or any of the other things Google is being criticized for. It sort of seems as though they have all the same issues plus body counts. But perhaps I've missed the news, are Gazprom and Saudi Aramco famous for how well they handle sexual harassment claims?

Your point about corporate ruthlessness is a solid one, but putting Google at the head of that list seriously undersells the problem. It's worth remembering how bad things are, and how bad they can get.

Hell, now that I'm thinking of it, I'd put Chiquita higher up on the list than Google. They never actually got over the bad old days in Honduras, they were caught funding and directly arming Colombian terrorists in 2004.
Because people cannot separate the abstract concept of slavery to the actual historical happening.

Personally, I want to be a master to my mechanical slaves (tools, dishwashers, computers, robots) and can't wait for a future where machine-slavery is so pervasive that no humans need to work anymore.
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While I disagree about EVs (they are the devil's making. Gimme that sweet, sweet rumble of a V8 and the connection of a manual gearbox), I think your other point is, well...on point.

There's never been a better time if you're a "car guy/gal", except maybe the 90s. The ZR1, ZL1, Shelby GT350, 911 991.2, Demon, M2, Stinger, Q70, Golf, WRX, Focus RS, etc. Like, damn, that list of solid cars could just go on forever. Haven't even mentioned any supercars, yet.

And the technology in cars is incredible. It's almost standard now to have 6-piston Brembo discs up front on a performance car. Suspension is insane, too, these days.
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Highly recommend "The Passionate Programmer" by Chad Fowler.
At maybe $10k on the way up, my 70ish y.o. dad (40 years as SWE) said that all the young guys in his department were talking about something called Bitcoin.

I said, dad, you better not.

He said, don't worry, I won't.

At $10k on the way down, I asked him if he did. He said he didn't, but a bunch of those young guys did.

(I don't remember the exact value. Probably actually more like 12 or even 15.)
It meticulously refrains from rotating emoji. Somehow this feels like failure.
https://www.mendix.com/ Seems to be cleaning up on the concept. I've seen two start-ups now using it and the turn-around times for features were definitely impressive. The problems with such solutions are always long term maintenance, scalability and lock-in.
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That's in the tiny fraction of real estate that is luxury housing owned by the unfathomably wealthy.

The article itself says
> Among all of the 845,000 apartments and houses in Manhattan, 102,000 were identified as vacant in the 2005-9 American Community Survey.

The numbers are a bit muddied, because the article hints but doesn't ivestigate the seasonal bias in vacancy:

> Of those, about 33,000 — or about 1 in every 25 Manhattan homes — had an owner or renter who lived there less than two months of the year.
Slavery/human trafficking is not a US-only thing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_the_21st_century
Nice list - tarp takes little no weight and allows you to sleep outside so I wouldn't pput it in the luxury section.

I'd also add a couple of emergency blankets for cold and hot weather, plus a foam mat to isolate your body from the floor. I'd drop the fork in favor of makeshift chopsticks, and/or cut the spoon into a spork. Wool for everything textile you wear.
Agreed. I didn't want to infer that any porn leads to child porn (that would be ridiculous), but about oversight, which Tumblr lacks.
People have asked me if they should buy in. I've simply told them as a complete gamble. Suggested if they want to buy go with a small amount of money and not be concerned if they lose it all. I don't know they bought but I made it clear it is risky and volatile. Sure there is a possibility of a good return, don't take out a second mortgage.
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