skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
on the contrary many job postings advertise for two or more core skills. Searching for any Finance or Advertising software position is likely to turn up something like the following

https://www.spotifyjobs.com/job/senior-ad-tech-engineer-back...

In addition to the standard Backend swe callouts the job desires ad-tech knowledge and advertising business knowledge. I'd be willing to bet they have a strong inclination towards anyone who's in the top 25% of both, but would consider cross-training for a top 1% in either.

As you go up the IC ladder the demand for cross-functional skills rises.
I don't see that as making this a very fair system. Many of my colleagues had parents refuse to pay a dime. I know they were hurt by it and some actually had to wait until they were of age to be an independent.
This book is an excellent resource for learning the basics of typography, happy to see a second edition!

FYI for anyone else who's read the first edition, there's a section at the bottom of the "Introduction" page listing what sections are new in the second edition: https://practicaltypography.com/introduction.html
There are many good ones on YouTube, but here are two to get you started:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9Z4t9ZiUzM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15q-N-_kkrU
Bertha dug a much wider, deeper tunnel through a major downtown area next to the ocean, underneath an active highway.

The Boring Company bought an off the shelf machine used for sewer lines and dug through a desert at less than a fourth of the maximum depth Bertha did.
Inside The Pricey War To Influence Your Instagram Feed
I disagree with much of what Michael Bloomberg says, but my hat's off to him for this.

Thank you, Mr. Bloomberg.
Communicating through UUID conflicts
I don't buy it. Gorillas can talk about past experiences also at least
> Facebook received largely anodyne coverage for most of its life; it's only been the last few years that people took a critical eye.

No way. You're totally forgetting how much fear the media heaped on Facebook in 2005 first over children having (gasp) photos of themselves on the internet, some people even listing their phone numbers publicly, and then in 2006 and 2007 it was about college kids posting photos of themselves drinking alcohol, which (it was hypothesized) would prevent them from getting jobs when their future employer went through their facebook account.

Please. The media narrative around Facebook has been exaggerated fear from the beginning. The only thing new today is the choice of fear to exaggerate.
>You probably shouldn't be keeping data as pickles, for both compatibility and security reasons

It's science research. My own simulation code and data. Some of it is hdf5, but pickle files are pretty convenient. Workflow is mainly turning data into plots. Heh, I thought I was doing alright since I'm not using textfiles.
> I am currently and avidly learning Rust. It's a steep learning curve

I'm (re)learning rust (last i used it was 3 years ago), after Haskell/Idris/Agda its really not that big of a deal I find.

My only annoyance is similar to what JAI is intending to accomplish, that is RAII resource cleanup like c++ does isn't always the best solution.

But other than that its fine, I'm championing using it in a new project at work and testing it out for embedded things at home.
Those just seem to be more rarified forms of pleasure for experts. It's like forgoing the gatorade to savor crystal clear water after a run, or something.
I'll snag that book then, thanks for the pointer! I'm semi-useful right now but every little bit helps.

Edit: neat, its on safari queue, i don't need to buy a thing (sorta.... ignore that I pay for this yearly)
I thought we were talking about my personal site. Floobits looks the way it does because of a designer. It doesn't reflect my personal tastes very well.

That said, I'll probably fix those fonts soon. Thanks for pointing that out.
This is a losing argument, the people (many many people) that believe these wars were all about the USA stealing oil and gold will never change their minds, they didn't get that opinion in the first place because they were thinking very logically about it or looking into it. The US having anything other than evil motives is not a possibility to be considered, so everything they do must be explained in a way that shows the US has bad intentions.

I've had these arguments with internationals living, working, and studying in America with Americans and its a dead end.
And what currency are all those exports in?

And all those 'reconstruction' billions and decades long military contracts don't benefit anyone I'm sure.
That's called "dealing with the reality of international text instead of burying your head in the sand," isn't it? Bytes are not text any more than bytes are a picture or bytes are a sound recording; it is only in the context of an encoding that bytes can be interpreted as something more.

For that matter, given the inexplicable popularity of emojis, it isn't even a matter of international text anymore.
Yeah, I've got a Libreboot'ed X200 and an X230 that I've Coreboot'ed+me_clean'ed. My desktops aren't in such good shape w.r.t. BIOS firmware though.
I've always found this aspect of the low carb debate to be mostly irrelevant. The benefit I get from eating a low carb diet isn't that I burn more calories (as in, i'm not expressing an opinion either way on that). It's that I have a desire to eat dramatically fewer calories on a low-carb diet, and the weight loss effects come from that, not higher metabolism. I don't understand why so many studies want to focus on metabolic rate, when it seems clear to me that the most material benefit is the blunted calorie-adjusted hunger.
In Germany the vocational system is also declining. You can still have a decent job but if I had kids I would recommend them got a masters or bachelors. What Germany doesn't have is that extreme split between universities with big names and the rest.
Were the lights off as well?
Modern automatics spend very little time with the fluid coupling. They engage a lockup converter as soon as possible. Combine that with more gears and a computer choosing the shift points, and they are now more efficient than a manual transmission. It's been that way for perhaps the last 10 years or so.

Want a source? Start perusing the manufacturer specs and fuelly pages for cars that still have both options.
I think your choice of words isn't the greatest. There is absolutely no such assumption behind the ideal of fair and open markets. The assumption is both sides benefit when competition is open and fair.
WSJ: The Quiet Efforts to Battle Silicon Valley's Bro Culture
If we look at the history of how US dismantled its manufacturing after the 90s (yes it started way before, but it was in much smaller scope), it was WALL STREET manipulation that allowed jobs to escape to countries with lowest amount of human rights but cheapest wages. You see before then, companies did offshoring but it was in small quantities, because they feared the unions and especially the massive import tariffs that would have been thrusted on them by the government if they had gone mostly offshore.

NAFTA, which was heavily pushed by wall street and also welcomed by certain corporations, snuck in through NAFTA-friendly advisors that Clinton surrounded himself with. By establishing the principle that U.S. corporations could relocate production elsewhere and sell back into the United States, NAFTA undercut the bargaining power of American workers. Also by letting China into WTO in the 90s, China has been abusing the rules ever since, destroying manufacturing jobs in democratic countries around the world. Bush escalated the suffering by giving China most preferred status. Obama didn't do much to contest except some stern warnings against China.

And now we have a belligerent China, lead by a dictator, that is more powerful than USSR in its heydays, with signs of third-reich behaviors (muslim concentration camps, technology-thought controls), vastly increasing its military and technological weapons to confront and attack US and its allies. And technology companies are still transferring technologies to China, either willingly, unwillingly or unknowingly.

WALL STREET did this. Some corporations were complicit. Then most of them were. Bill Clinton destroyed the American workers. Every other presidents that followed didn't stand up. Trump actually confronted China.

And now WALL STREET is trying to stop the full $600B trade tariffs against China.
Some of the more basic “the Good Housekeeping Cookbook” earlier editions (50s, 60s) are nice and basic; aren’t flashy, but you get the basics. Rabbit Stew, Gumbo, and 1000 others.
It's that "Faxes" are //exempt//, they are, by far:

* Obsolete
* Insecure (no encryption in transit)
* Insecure (no recipient validation)
* Insecure (no validation of sender or data integrity)
* Horrid quality (200, maybe 300, DPI, monochrome)
* Like PTSN interlinked phones, fairly ubiquitous.

Sadly, that last line item there is why they still exist.

The exempt status also precludes any real attempt at security which makes 'fax the thing' quick and easy for untrained end users. Fire, and forget until someone pokes you about a failed fax, or even claim you tried and just assume gremlins ate all record of the first (never happened) actions.

There's also not a /ubiquitous/ replacement. The mere cost of telephone calls and duration makes blindly trying to fax out spam that way not-cost-effective (plus the negotiation of fax technology inhibits just recording a dumb audio file to play against VoIP lines). Email is practically free, but HORRENDOUS for file transfers, and at any corporation where data retention is required for legal discovery holding on to EVERY file transferred forever is hell.

While some better standards do exist, they aren't ubiquitous and often require 'non standard' software (mostly because Microsoft is highly allergic to any protocols/formats not invented by them).

Also, it needs to be part of the /default/ OS install. It would be really great if Windows Explorer (the desktop shell) understood SFTP (SSH file transfer).
It's carbs.

Please stop clickbait.
You're right. I wasn't in any way trying to imply that the Chinese government was acting fairly - they are stealing and ought to be punished.

My confusion stems from the American companies who readily jumped at the opportunity to heavily depend on supply chains inside of a country with 1) a relatively short history in the WTO 2) a previous history of market manipulation and 3) rampant human rights abuses

And let's not mention that the entry into the WTO itself constituted a major overhaul of the Chinese economy, which should in itself be considered an experiment.

I'm disappointed that the risks of trade in China have been understated for so long. And systematically underestimated by American firms.

Or to put it a different way: how surprising is this situation? And does it belie a lack of proper enforcement and a lack of understanding of the risks of doing trade with China?

It feels silly to only examine the narrative where the Chinese government is at fault because that narrative is obvious. What about the culpability of our own government for advocating for China's entry in the WTO? Or the immediate handoff of trade by American corporations when the decision produced short-term gains without examining how many rapid changes China was making to its economy?
How an Albury Man Overcame Adversity
" It makes his perpetual low tax burden unquestionable when he releases his returns :)"

Trump has set the precedent that this is not necessary anymore.
I'd like to see a retroactive rebate program for tuition paid for transferable community college credits that went towards a bachelors degree at a 4 year university. Make community college free for those who use it successfully to get a 4 year degree.
A few of the ones I use almost daily

- Pandoc a handy document format converter: https://pandoc.org/
- Ripgrep, a faster grep: https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep
- There are quite a few prompt-toolkit based CLI which have been really nice:
* mycli (https://github.com/dbcli/mycli), pgcli (https://github.com/dbcli/pgcli)
* ptpython/ptipython (https://github.com/prompt-toolkit/ptpython)
- Youtube-dl: http://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/
- fzf a fuzzy finder for the console: https://github.com/junegunn/fzf
- jq for JSON manipulation: https://stedolan.github.io/jq/
- Miller for CSV/TSV: https://github.com/johnkerl/miller

I would imagine you have already scoured the "awesome" lists:
https://github.com/agarrharr/awesome-cli-apps#terminal-utili...
Your Drone Can Give Cops a Surprising Amount of Your Data
May everyone reading this be happy and free.
I'm not sure how useful this article is, but I think the idea that combining multiple disciplines can lead to breakthroughs is hardly controversial. It's certainly great for startups and for the whole "software is eating the world" thing.
I remember cheap 286 and 386’s for $1200/1400, but I don’t remember computers getting down to $500 until eMachines in 1999/2000
Google's Past Data Use Could Impede Its Health Care Push
It's easy (and trendy) to point the blame at web developers and businesses who bloat their webapp with advertisements and trackers, but for many of those businesses, that's the only way they would make money.

There are many things consumers are willing to pay for with their time and patience, but not their cash. As it turns out many of those things are web "services". If they were truly valuable on the same level as say, food, people would gladly pay cash for the service.

YouTube is a great example for me personally. If you told me I had to pay a monthly subscription of $10, I'd stop watching YouTube instantly. But since it's "free" I'll sit through a few ads. I don't mind paying with my time.
The methodology seems to be described in the linked research paper, which should be the article linked, not this lame summary: https://www.bmj.com/content/363/bmj.k4583
“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly.
Specialization is for insects.”

--Robert Heinlein
This is a pretty weak argument since crude oil is a commodity and selling it anywhere reduces its price everywhere.
It sounds like Gollum's words. Shame. What we fear is? Be a man!
Twilio has a Fax API: https://www.twilio.com/fax
> OT - anecdotally, I'm seeing an uptick in anti-China reporting. Are you feeling that too or is just me?

There is always anti-[something] "reporting". The russia hysteria has died down so now it's time for the china hysteria. After that, it'll be back to terrorism or something else.

We've always been at war with eurasia, or is it eastasia? Propaganda is ubiquitous and ever present. Has to be to maintain control over a gigantic country. What's true for china, russia and the EU is also true for us.

> Alternatively, it could be a top-down "agenda" to confront China and the media is gradually setting the zeitgeist to confront China.

There is definitely a battle between the pro- and anti- china factions amongst the elites. Seems like the anti-china group is gaining momentum.

> What are your thoughts?

It's obvious top-down agenda for sure. Just like with the constant anti-facebook spam in the media. But with china, the top doesn't seem united yet.

When we see start seeing anti-china spam from recode, theverge, businessinsider, dailybeast and the rest of the second rate propaganda outfits, then we can be sure it's a solid unified top-down agenda. Another dead giveaway is anti-china propaganda comments. If we see a sudden increase of those, then we can be sure that the top has unified. Until then, all we can do is wait.
And then he went to the NeXT booth and he started writing his app right then and there
Show HN: Serverless platform FaaStRuby update adds multiple regions support
Hey all,

FaaStRuby is a Serverless platform for Ruby developers.

I just released a new update adding support for multiple regions. The new region is SFO2 (San Francisco), along with TOR1.
The idea is to add all Digital Ocean's regions based on demand!

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Feedback is greatly appreciated!
I was actually just lamenting how difficult it is to get a "real" (no lettuce) salad this evening.

Making them at home isn't /really/ an option for me, not unless I want to eat it literally every day. The greens would go bad in about half a week; the other semi-perishable things would need to go shortly after.

It's so much easier to go out and get something fresh and variety from a common kitchen (restaurant) that services many others all day.

However, because carbs are cheap, and because meat is popular, those are the two things every restaurant has a focus and spin on.

Eating healthy is too expensive.
"The Unix Programming Environment" would be my choice. Love it.
I don't think so. At this point, honestly, the modern slushbox outperforms CVTs and DSGs as well (though perhaps not the Porsche Tiptronic, which might still be faster). Modern automatics shift extremely fast, routinely have 8 or more gears, and have lockup torque converters that don't just lockup in overdrive on the freeway, but basically as soon as you're going more than a few mph.

As a die-hard manual enthusiast I persist in buying manuals for myself, but for the last 5-10 years I have had to grudgingly admit that I have no claim to performance or efficiency, I only do it because I like to drive manuals. If I cared about speed or MPG, I'd get an automatic.
Maybe the best part of bash for me is AWK - so useful, and enjoyable to use. I use ffmpeg a lot for making movies from images, video conversion etc. I use Sage on the command line, mostly for programming in Cython and mathematical stuff with the Sage/Python REPL. It was 2.7GB (!) and comes with an absurd number of libraries and packages[0], mostly for maths and graphics. I started by using it in a browser notebook, but switched to the command line and never went back.

[0] http://www.sagemath.org/links-components.html
Every country is that way in some measure. The US plays sports which most people in the world don't even know exists(Baseball). Every country's politics is unique due to historical context, so are their cultures, religions and languages.

But all countries are also same in the way that we are all humans.
Thank you for making this...this is incredible! Sent to my sports nutritionist too.
Our attention is a limited resource. How do you propose to arbitrate access to this limited resource except through the price mechanism? Some kind of attention lottery?
To me, a person that doesn't (and never did) live in the US, faxes there seem to be even more ubiquitous than this article paints. Imagine my amusement when I registered an Amazon account only to get it suspended with the request to verify it by... faxing bank statements and whatnot. Internationally on a +1 number. [0] And yes, support was not been able to offer any alternative to that.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html/?nodeId...
I'll answer it for him:

"So that I can get support (or at least not outright hostility) from the left wing of the democratic party when I'm running for president in 2020, who otherwise would be very unhappy with a billionaire as the candidate"
I realize I'm likely going to be a dissenting opinion here… but I'm not sure this is a good investment.

Unless you're going to enter a field that requires the pedigree that starts with college (i.e. medicine, law, engineering), it's arguable that college isn't even worth the tuition you pay for it. Like another commenter says, they have no incentive to do anything that will reduce costs.

The quality of the education seems to be on the decline too.

It feels like colleges are turning into breeding grounds for social justice warriors more than they're turning out folks who are prepared to enter the workforce.

It feels like the onus should be on the colleges to make costs more reasonable, rather than getting another handout from a rich benefactor (which will not last long).
When these great and venerable "International companies" you speak of exploited cheap Chinese sweat shop labor for decades, it wasn't a problem. Now that the Chinese want foreign companies who made (and continue to make) absurd profits from access to the Chinese market to share some benefits, it becomes a problem. Hopefully you had some moral outrage with regard to buying cheap consumer goods made in China during the former phase as well.

International companies in a rush to get access to the largest single market in the world made their own bed with their rampant and unconstrained greed. They outsourced all of their pollution and their manufacturing jobs to China, and now they turnaround and breathlessly accuse China of ripping them off. I can't accept this kind of blatant hypocrisy.
A normal vehicle, you mean. There are still a number of enthusiast models that have a manual option, or in some cases (e.g. WRX STI, or Camaro SS 1LE, to name a couple) only come with a manual. For appliance cars, manuals are rare indeed. I think the new G70 from Hyundai has a manual option, but I don't think it's on the higher end model. Unfortunately that's been a trend for quite a while -- when a company does offer a manual, it's never available with all the rest of the good options, you can only get it on a base trim.
Yes it does. Demand.

Increase demand via cheap / easy student loans, as well as social "norms" and the cost of limited supply will increase.

The gov's role in edu prices and student debt is not different tthan the housing bubble. Same scam. Different market.
The residents aren't locked in.

Volunteering with young people doesn't mean you have to live next door to them (and listen to their music, carousing, etc).

Anyway, these places look like a riot! It's like college life without the hassle of exams. And yes they probably even have a "hookup" culture.

These could be specialized for all types of interests. Imagine something like a "hacker house" but on a community level...spend your days coding, debating, woodworking...all with people who love it too.

55 seems too young to get into something like this, but I could definitely see 60-75. After 75, seems like you want serious peace and quiet so these places probably aren't a good fit.

I absolutely cannot wait to retire!
Yeah, and that doesn't actually reflect the game-as-played. I have never played an Uno game with perfect information, or without action cards. I can't imagine it would even be fun! Also, try playing Hot Death Uno, which for me ups the strategy so it becomes a worthwhile game.
I would think most peoples ideal is to live in healthy natural commmunities with a diverse age range to get wisdom and tradition from the old and energy and new ideas from the young.
One possibility is that it's a manifestation of the broader realization that China will probably not end up democratizing as it continues to develop, in contradiction to years of mainline thought that hoped for the emergence of a neoliberal trading partner rather than a rich, technologically advanced yet despotic state.

Previous discussion of an Economist article positing this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16499939

If this is the case, it shouldn't be a surprise that reporting reflects this broader shift in outlook. However, this isn't mutually exclusive with a top-down edict, especially if the timeframe you're referring to is shorter than that implied by the broader perceptual shift argument.
You can use a proper (local) client though, can't you?