skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My uncle is an architect (now a master architect) and knowing his career path makes your comment kinda amusing.

Uncle got a Bachelor's in Architecture, and was able to draft plans, but wasn't able to give them actual approval. You need a Master's degree and a certification through the state government, and often the Master's degree is done as part of your employment at a larger firm. And you need another Master-Architect to sponsor your master's, so the larger architecture firms sponsor apprentices-- but they do so with a pretty significant pay-cut to working apprentices.

My uncle is a bit of a scoundrel, looked at that system, and was like "screw that", and solely did drafting. Sure he couldn't finalize plans, but he specialized in doing drafts quickly. (He's admitted that his drafts were probably lower-quality and smudgier than other's, but they were done _far_ faster and cheaper.) He did this for a few years, and from all the drafts he's learn a fair amount.

So after 5 years of working as a freelance drafter, a young guy who has a newly minted Master-Architect cert reaches out to my uncle and asks if he's hiring. My uncle thinks about it and says--- yeah, actually, I am. With a master-architect on staff he can submit actual plans to cities. In addition my uncle asks the young master-architect to sponsor my uncle in a master's certification. The way that my uncle talks about it, it was almost a sham of a "sponsorship"-- especially since my uncle was both more experienced than and the employer of his sponsor.
It is debatable whether or not that is the correct way language should handle whether or not an event has happened. Counterexamples in two situations:

1) The cosmic microwave background is, in short, the light still traveling from an early stage in the big bang when the universe turned transparent (380,000 years after the big bang, when the universe became cool enough to form hydrogen atoms)

You can see the big bang happening. So when would you say this phase transition to transparency happened? Here you would say it happened 13.5 billion years ago. At the source of the CMB photons you can see, you would say that is happening now.

With that language construct you have an event which happened across the universe simultaneously happening both 13.5 billion years ago AND right now, depending on location. Which, I think, is absurd.

2) Talking to an astronaut on Mars. Mars is between 3 and 22 light-minutes away. If you want to say hello to your Martian friend, it will take between 6 and 45 minutes for your radio to play the sound of your friend saying hello in response.

What is happening while you are waiting for the response? (how do you discuss the time, what "now" means) To your friend your message has "not happened yet" while to you it already happened.

It is silly to have a definition of "to be" that must ignore the practicalities of simultaneous events which involve non-trivial light transit time. It is very easy to talk about a "now" where both Earth and Mars have the same timeline dispensing with the light cone and talking about light travel taking time. It is not so easy the other way around.
>> To you and me, it’s about as obvious a red flag as can be. To a struggling small-business owner with a staff of dozens all depending on them for their livelihoods, it’s probably a little bit murkier.

When your payments will be $800 per DAY I don't understand how the cost of having a lawyer look it over is of any consequence.
This looks pretty useful. Thank you.
At some point in history, I had the misfortune of working with Stratus hardware.
Not quite where you describe the Z system, but it did operate with hot swappable components, and multiple OS's running in a "fault tolerant" manner.

We hit show stopping firmware bugs that managed to take down every OS. The end result was that the three standalone Dells on top of it had better uptime.

I always wondered how the mainframe world ever managed this. When you market is so small (relative to x86) every case is an edge case. Surely these extremely large and expensive devices still had bugs that transcended that redundancy.
Could physicists and astronomers use all this distributed particle detection for research?

Like a app in a phone or desktop that sends reports back with location and time information.
The Wrong Thing to Tax Is Money
People are free to say they won't buy your software because it is not free, (as in freedom). Also, there are important differences between merely "open-source" and free software, so am glad to see that fbs is indeed copyleft and applaud you for that. You seem to however be more on the open-source side of things, despite the great choice for a license of fbs.

One thing to understand, is that the free software movement strives for a bit more than open-source. It strives for trustworthy, ethical software. Software that does not spy and only does precisely what the user knows about and can be adopted to work according to one's needs. Copyleft is the best means we have of achieving that.

What I think you're also missing is how hard what we have even now was to win. You're grown up in a world where FLOSS was already a thing and fairly popular, but it is precisely because of the 'fanatics' that it is so and we're still far from an ideal place. If they were so lax as you wish them to be, you may not have all the things you take for granted today, because it is radicals who change the status quo.

You will be asked why fman is proprietary from time to time, because you market to people that have a lot of principled people on this issue in their ranks. You're free to ignore them and they're also free to keep not buying your proprietary product. That's how it works.

P.S. Just to let you know, I did subscribe to fman when it first showed up here and even renewed my license to support a one man shop, despite me not using the tool. Posts like the commie one however, carry with them a serios lack of understanding of the goals and reasons behind the (need for) free software movement.

Nonetheless, as I already said, I applaud you for taking the step to make some of your work copyleft. I am personally strongly of the belief that if fman itself was GPLed, you'd see an uptick it sales, not any downturn, because it would generate excitement and make people like me write plugins for it. At present, I don't want to do that due to it being non free.
I wonder if some rich people could start a form of charity where they just pay a few incredibly brilliant people a good salary to go do whatever research they want for the rest of their lives. Sort of like patronage. Just bypass the whole grant funding cycle and work on whatever you want, because you're a genius and want to study things other people don't like or understand.
The world will become a better place if all kids get this golden treatment. I wish we could so easily push trivial changes to society but, in a very small way, this ripple in the ocean did.
14-18 hours days that feel like fun? Only us the crazy :)
I don't see how/why?

Generally speaking it is exceptionally rare for a star to point directly at us. This is to an acurracy of millionth's of a degree, as the straight line travel across interstellar space is massive. So getting hit with a GRB is like winning the interstallar lottery.

Secondly, if you cannot control it, or influence it. Worrying about it is just fantasizing. Humans tend to assume overly dramatic events are more likely then they actually are.
I'd be interested in a field where someone wasn't standing on the shoulders of giants.
Interesting thought experimement, but it'd need to define "consciousness" which is always what makes those problems unsolvable
"never sell options"

Well, this really depends. I wouldn't recommend options for most investors because it is a complex area and therefore one of the highest risk financial instruments, however, it is possible to make good returns with covered calls as long as you have the time, research skills and capital to pull it off.

My strategy was pretty simple, but difficult to execute.
I first entered the market by selling a put on a stock I already did the homework on that I wanted to own, and I had to cash on hand to purchase if I was executed. I would keep writing puts until I got executed... then I would write covered calls until I got executed. Rinse and repeat. This does very well while the markets are going sideways or up, but obviously can go badly when the market goes down. However, if you really wanted to own that stock, and you did your homework property, you don't mind holding that stock through the downturn (hopefully it keeps paying you dividends).

"if you do then never sell naked options"

I would tend to agree with this statement... however as I previously mentioned, there is nothing wrong with selling puts for stock that you want to own, at the strike price you want, assuming you have the cash in your account to actually purchase the stock if you are executed.

Oh and I would never bother with "American" options, only "European" ones... less risk of premature execution.

"if you can't get out of your trade make sure you are well capitalized for loss absorption"

Totally agree, all investors should have earned the right to risk by having their financial affairs in order including a well funded emergency fund etc. However I would agree with the sentiment that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure... basically manage your downside, the upside will take care of itself.

"if don't have enough to cover your losses don't apologize for losing your clients money while wearing a $10,000 watch and post it for the rest of the world to see"

I think this guy was in total shock, and although insensitive, I doubt the optics of his watch was on his mind. Managing other people's money is incredibly stressful when things are going right... and hell on earth when they are not. This guy could have hid from the world if he wanted but instead had the guts to basically commit YouTube Seppuku. Pretty sure Hanlon's razor applies here.
Facebook executive says video contradicts police account of brother's death
Are there any currently in existence?
Most websites also have efficient reporting takedown procedures. Seems Tumblr's are a bit ropey.
maybe the end user is someone sending curl requests?
My comment was just on how APR is calculated for short term loans.

Also, you only double your money every 3 months if none of your loans default and you collect everything. Most of these loans default. Profits are way slimmer than you're imagining, even for the scammers (Who I definitely agree should be punished for these practices).
We'd be a lot better off if it were lower, seems like.
That was my thought process as well, that an early silicon spin / chip wasn't ECC because it would change state frequently and the circuit budget wasn't worth a soft error; but the external RAM might be ECC because a longer running state might not have such a refresh/detection of error.

I agree that these days I'm unaware of any "serious" CPU where the data isn't at least protected by at least a parity bit on chip.

RISC-V : spec mentions ECC, but in a phrasing that makes it clearly optional. https://github.com/riscv/riscv-v-spec/blob/master/v-spec.ado...

"Many processors use error correction codes in the on-chip cache, including the Intel Itanium and Xeon[28] processors, the AMD Athlon, Opteron, all Zen-[29] and Zen+-based[30] processors (EPYC, EPYC Embedded, Ryzen and Ryzen Threadripper), and the DEC Alpha 21264.[23][31]"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECC_memory#Cache

I prefer to always use ECC and layers of defenses where persistence of data is in question. Jeff Atwood's reference does point to other options, assuming that validation is baked in to the storage process and distributed in such a way as to identify and correct errors across a distributed infrastructure rather than a single system; the distributed nature means it could be more resilient and the validation of data at rest / comparing results is arguably a higher level of integrity than just ECC can provide. https://blog.codinghorror.com/to-ecc-or-not-to-ecc/
It's funny how pathetic America deals with any sort of public service. It's all about me me me.
Very cool, thanks for the info!
Although I have just meant "free as in freedom" above, it's not uncommon for me to pay non-zero amount for FLOSS with purchase price of zero as well.
There is a - missing under the s of parameters.
The auther of this poor article, is extremely blinkered and lacking in imagination.
Just 5 minutes watching a demo of the incredible power of modern games engine, such as Unreal, blows to smithereens, the whole premise of this article.
Has he never wondered into an accounting department?
Not seen an Excel workbook running a business?
Or seen designers and their viusal tools.
A shame though, that Microsoft can’t be bothered to update the ancient appalling VB editor that ships with Excel.
Smells like bullshit to me.

A quick look at glassdoor.com for MTA transit jobs [1], I'm seeing drivers and conductors making ~$22/hour. Presumably this is an entry level rate. Some searching points to a high of ~$30/hour.

Project managers and programmers, of course, are making >$100,000 k. I have doubts that they are represented by the union, though. Of course, quietly lumping their salaries in with the blue-collar folks pushes a particular political narrative.

It seems that if you really want to trim the fat at the MTA, cut wages for the white-collar, un-unionized workers.

[1] https://www.glassdoor.com/Salaries/new-york-city-conductor-s...
In relativistic terms, "the actual supernova" is an event (an x, y, z, t quad). It's a perfectly well understood entity in relativity. The point in relativity is that different coordinate systems put different numbers on x, y, z, and t, but they all are talking about the same event.

When we see it, we will be able to put a perfectly accurate x, y, z, and t on the supernova in our coordinate system, with t being "8000 years ago". All this has nothing to do with relativity, merely with the finite propagation speed of light.
Ask HN: Best book for every topic
I recently came across a book that I would have never thought I would enjoy. It's a book on men fashion that is supposed to be THE book (Dressing the man). As I love learning about every topic I can (my name here must tell you something, philomath), I was wondering if people could, for their fields of expertise, share the one and only book that you should read to learnabout that topic.

Examples would be:

- Building a house

- Cooking

And I hope, many many others
One of the coolest ways to learn programming I've ever seen is the Snap! visual programming language, which is written in JavaScript and runs in the browser.

Snap! is a visual "blocks" programming language like Scratch, but with the full power of Scheme:
First class functions.

It's the culmination of years of work by Brian Harvey and Jens Mönig and other Smalltalk and education experts. It benefits from their experience and expert understanding about constructionist education, Smalltalk, Scratch, E-Toys, Lisp, Logo, Star Logo, and many other excellent systems.

Snap! takes the best ideas, then freshly and coherently synthesizes them into a visual programming language that kids can use, but is also satisfying to professional programmers, with all the power of Scheme (lexical closures, special forms, macros, continuations, user defined functions and control structures), but deeply integrating and leveraging the web browser and the internet (JavaScript primitives, everything is a first class object, dynamically loaded extensions, etc).

Visual lexical closures.

User defined blocks including control structures.

Macros and special forms.

Call with current continuation!

Written in JavaScript and easy to integrate with JavaScript libraries.

https://snap.berkeley.edu

Adding Machine Learning Blocks to Snap!

https://s4scoding.com/adding-machine-learning-blocks-to-snap...

https://project.ecraft2learn.eu/

https://github.com/ecraft2learn/ai

https://ecraft2learn.github.io/ai/

ProgKids is a Russian site that integrates Snap! (and Python) with Minecraft, so kids can visually program 3d turtles that move around in the world and build things!

https://progkids.ru

ProgKids. Строим дом, а потом ещё пару (Building a house, then another couple)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muNpsk4UH7c

ProgKids. Куда же без зверей? (Why do you not have animals?)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iBFwaUSDYI

ProgKids. Как работает Snap? (How does Snap work?)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lh0mrqxFImQ

More links and stuff I've written about it on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17594403
People have used USD to fund crimes, but it would be ridiculous to say that unrelated restaurant owners would get in trouble for the mere act of accepting USD.

The US has already given guidance on this. They have already stated that BTC and other cryptos are a commodity, and legal.

The SEC itself disagrees with your absurd notion that anyone who even accept crypto as payment could be in trouble.
BTC is strongly linked to the rest of the crypto market. When BTC drops, the rest follow almost always.
I'm not a physicist, so maybe I'm misunderstanding the article you linked, but it seems to support my 1st post.

If you'll reread it you'll see that I mentioned nothing about a Big Bang, but rather that the CMB provides evidence that the Universe expanded from a smaller state to its current state, which is larger than its starting state.

From the linked wiki:
"Differences in the temperature of the cosmic background are smoothed by cosmic inflation, but they still exist. The theory [Cosmic Inflation evidenced by the Horizon Problem] predicts a spectrum for the anisotropies in the microwave background which is mostly consistent
with observations from WMAP and COBE."
Kubernetes may be overkill for small projects and it's actually hard to setup for a single-machine cluster, but the idea of container orchestrators (k8s, docker swarm, nomad, etc...) is extremely useful, I understand that some abuse the word "scale", but for me container orchestration is far bigger than just scaling, these features include:

1. rolling updates

2. decoupling configs and secrets from code and mounting/changing config files easily

3. robust and predictable testing/production environments

4. centralized logging

Also microservices's goal isn't really about just "scaling" in my opinion, there are other important advantages even if you have no intention to scale, aspects like modularity, separation of concerns, robustness and lowering the technical debt are still as important whether your app serves 1 or a 10000 users at the same time. Of course you can pull your python app from your repo or even rsync it (just like you can just develop any software without using git or any revision control) and just execute it might work very well, but sooner or later you are going to regret it if you're a business
In this case the documents weren't particularly complex or difficult to understand, though. And I think most of the parties fully understood the meaning and intent of the text they signed. But this company takes advantage of people in vulnerable situations (as most predatory lenders do) and circumvents all of the normal checks and balances in a way that should be absolutely illegal. If this sort of activity is what they need to do to stay in business, they shouldn't be in business (and I say this for both sides of this case, as an aside. Massive interest loans to temporarily prop up failing businesses just costs everyone).

While I might understand a lender needing agility to act quick if they think a borrower is failing, a rubber-stamp immediate default judgment is outrageous. More so is the notion that a form-filled template is worth a $9,900 legal fee (which is likely why they chose this route -- retrieving the capital to lend to someone else and filling a bit of business for their bottom-feeder in-house lawyer made it a net win)
Our system is 100 years old and their's aren't.
Domain with only a TLD
Same in Stockholm. There was zone based fees for some time.
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Not to get super political, but the concept of NY/NJ getting any transit infrastructure-related federal funds was nixed late last year in retribution against Sen. Schumer for... something?
Show HN: A simple CLI csv viewer
> it is fundamentalist if the only reason for the rejection is that it's proprietary

Personally I don't use software that I cannot review myself for tasks that are important to me. That includes reading email. Hence, the reason for rejection is that it's not open source. I don't see how this makes me a horrible fundamentalist, but maybe you care to enlighten me :)

> it's harmful for the entire ecosystem

I also completely fail to see how me personally want to review source code is harmful to the "entire ecosystem" (I assume you refer to the FOSS ecosystem?)
NASA will review workplace safety at SpaceX and Boeing
> I think there's more depth to the film than you might be giving it credit for. There's a lot of goofy heavy-handedness on the surface, but there are some layers underneath, in the writing and the arcs of the characters

The problem is that cautionary satire requires subtlety about what you are doing; the heavy-handedness on the surface ruins what's underneath.

I'm also not really convinced that almost literally goose-stepping to Nazis (as opposed to antecedents thereof) really need cautionary satire.

> It's goofy and funny on the meta-level, because, well, it's Michael Ironside, and he's saying things that at first pass sound insane. But there's a whole lot in that dialog, and it's all played deadly straight.

Yeah, but for it to work as satire, either it should sound insane at first and the audience should be lead to accept it at the end of the movie, and only after they leave the theater have a dawning “WTF?” feeling, or it should seem reasonable (if perhaps novel—eye-opening would be ideal) at the beginning and by the end the audience should be stunned at where it leads and that they ever sympathized with it. As it is, we’re presented with violent, militaristic, propagandizing state with fascist imagery from the beginning and, hey, at the end it's exactly what you'd expect from Nazis.

> And then compare Rico's genuine, "I don't know" there, to where his character is at the end of the film. I think it recommends itself to a lot of different levels of examination, without sounding like you're trying too hard.

Being suffused in a society which is filled with overtly fascist propaganda from the beginning and then fighting in war while still steeped in that propaganda can make a doubter into a committed soldier of fascism? Sure, there's a message there, but I don't think its a surprising one in either content or presentation.