skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're complaining about 4 hours? If you can spend 4 hours to make your code easier to understand, that's very likely to save someone 4 hours down the road.

When it's 4 days or 4 months, then it becomes an issue.
Entrepreneurship can‘t be taught
Actually took a screen shot [0] of Lenovo's site yesterday [1].

I really need to replace this 4th-gen iPad. Hence my looking for other portable devices. On the ipad.

20 years ago, I worked for a company that was rolling out this new e-Commerce technology for a Pets.com competitor. The site looked fantastic on the design group's $10,000 Macintoshes. We even had a testing lab with a couple of low-end PCs running Windows 95, 640x480, 64-color (IIRC) Windows palette. That literally looked like vomit, or random noise. Slow random noise. For our target customer computers.

Seriously, 1998. Sigh.

[0]: https://www.dropbox.com/s/2eu47ma2sdjqqpk/IMG_0535.PNG?dl=0

[1]: http://lenovo.com
University definitely broadened my mind. I grew up in an area that was 99+% white and 50+% Jewish. We literally had “the black family” with twins who were our top track stars. And a few Asian families who hid their Asianness.

It was at University that I learned about Asian culture. It was the first time I used chopsticks. It was the first time I drank tea without sugar. It was the first time I ate Chinese food that wasn’t deep fried. It was the first time I had dim sum. I learned to understand people with heavy accents (it was the first time I’d ever met someone for whom English was a second language). It was where I learned the diffence between Chinese (north and south), Vietnamese, Korean, and Japanese people.

It was also the first time I ever met someone who was home schooled, someone who a lesbian or pretty much anyone who wasn’t straight, other than the one openly gay kid in high school.

It was the first time I learned that making racist and homophobic jokes was not ok.

It was the first time I learned the girls can write code.

Without college I would probably be a racist and not believe that social programs are necessary.
"who don't get a vote on the matter" -> They elected the representatives that they trust to make these decisions; that's representational democracy, the cornerstone of most of the world's countries.

To change it, you as a citizen need to demand better of your politicians.

Amazon's not the problem; they're just doing what's best for their shareholders, which is the whole point of a corporation. It's the government that needs to be held accountable for this situation; they're the ones going along with the bidding war - your suggestion of such a bidding war being made illegal is definitely a start.
I was inspired by Algojammer to build a browser based debugger in Javascript. Let me know you feedback
Interesting, well considering even a side menu isn’t official Apple UI that might be a case of native engineers projecting their own opinions on developers. Hard to say
Serious question: Were you ever funny?
Confused. You don't have to allow all UDP traffic. Just port 443 for some specific set of IP addresses.
This is exactly what is called "unnecessary wrapping".
There is no meaning in wrapping anything into a Monad in a strict language, where the order of evaluation is well-defined, narcissistic snowflakery aside.

In other words, a Monad in the context of CS or PL is the solution to a problem which does not arise in Scala.

And, of course, an option type does not have to be a Maybe Monad, like any other Either Of type.
So... It's like Daiso meets Archie McPhee?
Yeah, but they aren't tech companies. Lot's of other roles are needed for a successful company, legal, marketing, personnel, management, etc. but the value of a tech company is created by engineering.
For starters, the political system started caring about the concerns of average people, and stopped letting grand visionaries destroy people’s neighborhoods for the greater good. Having to appease each and every household you affect will put a damper on things.
I spend most of my time doing "side projects" except for 20% freelancing. And I think the factor that makes motivation the most difficult is working alone.

If I could hire a team to work for/with me, it would be a lot easier.
The fact that we're using "hard conversations" as a euphemism for large scale violence is a wry comment on just how hard those conversations will actually be.

I don't expect that colonization of Mars or other distant places will save "us", but it might well save many of those who go. There are lots of ways in which places on Mars are less hospitable to human life than places on Earth, but if things get really bad on Earth, the surrounding weather will not be nearly as bad as how other people are reacting.
I like the “unmoor” phrasing. Thank you :).
To truly immerse oneself, primarily communicate in a language foreign to one’s country of origin, and eat local foods (no harm in indulging in foods from back home every once in a while). And give people the benefit of the doubt whenever possible.
A simple Makefile and UDP code
You can say "English people in Portugal or Spain", and you've got a stereotype that's actually accurate.
I thought bioengineered algae oil (e.g. http://algawise.com/) was supposed to help us save the planet, seeing as it's both healthier and more sustainable than palm oil.
Correct. It's not a process-oriented environment, with crash protection facilities keeping everything at arm's length.

There are namespacing facilities (though I'm not sure how far back in history they go) to discriminate your code's reach, as well as to import the public API from others' code, or in a different manner to bore into their private affairs generally for admin/debugging/tracing/modification. "Global" variables have thread-local, dynamically scoped bindings which are super useful for configuration, redirection, or setting other side-band broad context when calling into shared code.

Also it should be noted that these types of machines (at least from the Symbolics point of view) tended to be single-user workstations, though were still networked to allow remote (and simultaneous) access to its running world, with varying levels of per-connection context.

One of the biggest downsides of ye olde Lisp machines was garbage collection times. Some had facilities to define dedicated heap regions, but generally the GC had to walk the entire workstation heap across all "applications" in 1980s hardware, which wasn't great. But at least as a programmer, you could freely code and only worry about minimizing GC pressure when it became an issue, instead of starting from a required malloc/free perspective and constantly worry about leaks.
A government climate study contradicts the president
I used to wake up at 5am to work on my side project (blogged here[0]). It really is the best way to go if you are serious about a side project. That blog post was from 7 years ago. I again did the 5am stint recently and only lasted a couple weeks. Although my day job now is much more stressful than it was back then, so I think that is a big factor (along with being seven years more tired...)

[0] https://www.mattgreer.org/articles/waking-up-at-5am-to-code/
I’d be willing to take the bet that in 40 years my children will have a better life than I do right now.
Why are social programs necessary?
Impeach the president? House Democrats saying not so fast
For some, "Cool!". For others, "What's the ETA on those impactors?".
Hello President Pence?

Containment seems a better strategy.
As this isn't my realm of expertise, I'm curious to understand how bigint would fail to meet your needs.
This is confusing because you can't possibly be living and working in Toronto-proper. If you don't live in Toronto-proper, you can't appreciate the value of it. If you don't live and work in Toronto-proper, then you miss all the value of it.

Stating you live in Toronto is kind of not valuable information for someone reading this. For example, living in Toronto-proper, i.e. South of Bloor between Broadview and University is completely different from living in Scarborough/Etobicoke. Yeah, I know it's amalgamated, but really, anybody saying they live in Toronto for the city, is living within the "City of Toronto" itself, not one of the amalgamated cities. For example, in your case, if you are 2 hours drive away at 8:00, I'd presume you are out as further than Scarborough on the east/north, and further than Etobicoke in the West/North, in that case, you can't really experience the city itself. By the time you get in for work, you don't have time to walk around the city, by the time you are done work, you have to head back home because you really don't have time to experience the city. Driving in on the weekends would eat up your whole day and you would likely leave early.

You may have gotten here a bit late, but 4 years ago, a 2-bedroom was going for $1500 (with 2.9% interest raises, probably $1700 now) with a parking spot in the Midtown/Uptown area, which is admittedly outside of Toronto proper. However, it allowed you to gain both the benefits of Toronto and have a short commute if you needed it for work. Actually the last 5 years the reverse commute has been growing. Also, look at Markham for jobs in this case/moving there, as there are many companies opening there.
Repeat after me: Capitalism and the "Free Market Fairy" will never solve any problem that threatens profits.
What is next when the hype around data science and deep learning fades away?
Whether it is or isn't, does it matter? 50K jobs will still be created according to the news.
Not quite mammals but mammal-like reptiles. They're related to mammals but not our direct ancestors, more like aunts and uncles in the evolutionary family tree.
I know exactly what you mean. I used to work with someone who would constantly ask "where's the engineering? meaning where are the calculations, the data that support the conclusion that something would work? Refreshing words to my ears!
Only around 8% of Costco's workforce is unionized. Costco is not, by any stretch, a 'union company'.

https://www.fool.com/investing/general/2016/03/19/even-costc...
Do you have experience with this? What if your prototype doesn't have any of the important functionality?
More or less. The fires are caused mostly by lightening and dry winds (some human caused too) by also contributed to by a lot of fuel from overly wet spring followed by dry hot summer.

A small increase in temperature results in a significant increase in lightening which is the big worry.
Flutter also has a bit of dependency hell at this point (might be better after it goes stable) - tried installing built_value (immutable data structures) and had a do a lot of dependency version tweaking and overrides.
In the formal setting of an educational institution you get to engage your mind in analytical and creative thinking in a variety of subjects and on daily basis. Such a consistent process does broaden the mind, for sure, but maybe not every mind and not under some circumstances.

The title comes across as controversial subjectivism for the sake of attracting attention.
Yes it's the same thing - they are green threads, hence gevent. Go has the additional feature that those threads can consume CPU at the same time.
Neat belief.
The symmetry and simplicity of the laws of physics and the Higgs boson (2015)
Because not everyone is born into the privilege necessary to “pull up their own bootstraps”. In fact it was on college that I learned a lot about libertarianism, and was a strong believer in pure capitolisim. As I’ve aged I’ve realized that it just doesn’t work.
I’ll be long dead in 40 years.
They should at least be used correctly.
I think the point, or at least a parallel point, is that if we have the technology to terraform Mars, then we likely have the technology to terraform earth back to a more habitable environment.

Eventually the situation will be come obvious enough that it can no longer be ignored by half of the West, and most of the developing world.

When that happens, and a solution to the problem becomes a global priority, it will be solved in one manner or another.
Same with all of british columbia, logging roads everywhere
> A robust powerful US economy and workforce

The US had a robust economy and workforce and look where it got us. More people building and buying shit is not the answer. Significantly fewer people is the best shot we have.
>They should be treated as they have historically treated others.

That sound you just heard was two million years of combined social instincts crushing any attempt at reconsideration like a grape in a trash compactor. I'm sure the Republicans on HN are glad to know that climate isn't about the good of humanity, but is actually about treating then badly...
I do deadlift sometimes, but definitely not daily. If I tried that I'm pretty sure I'd be laid up somewhere sucking down pain-killers and writhing in pain.

It's long been the case for me, going back for several years now, that if I let my deadlift volume get too large, I start experiencing low-back pain. And the older I get, the less volume it seems to take to trigger it. Strangely though, doing jefferson squats (aka straddle deadlifts) doesn't seem to bother me, not does doing various kinds of squats.

Anyway, these days I usually deadlift once a week and do jefferson deadlifts once a week (on a different day). I've been able to get stronger doing that, while mostly avoiding any pain.
The fact that you have jumped to "speculate airbnb developers are unprofessional and their architects are bad" is definitely something you could think about.

> Well, if you read all the blog posts
> they had a group of native developers who preferred to use their existing native skill set to build things, and since there was no unified approach to state, it became cumbersome to manage state between a hodgepodge of rn and native components

This is an immature straw man reducing their issues to one thing - it's a long blog series I have read (and presented back to clients in a series of case studies).

I don't want to come in too hot because it's increasingly clear you are pretty fresh in your career, but taking this kind of negative view based on pure speculation is really going to be limiting for you.

As I said, RN is great in some circumstances, but like any framework / tech there _is many_ cases and orgs where it is not a good fit.
I've done this experiment every time I've eaten beets.
> it will be solved in one manner or another

The closer we get to that point, the worse it will be for those further from resources (political and financial).
Climate May Force Millions to Move and U.S. Isn't Ready
Exactly. That's why I think people fantasizing about Mars instead of investing in fixing our current social/media/political situation is a severe misapplication of resources. I'm looking at you, Jeff Bezos.
Open Source Social network: inviting collaborators
Inviting interested collaborators and developers to contribute to an open source social networking platform
https://github.com/ThemisOrg
Actually, check out his book, "Innocents Abroad." It's a great travel native and lampoon of his cruising companions who manage to stay small-minded in a big world.
I hope you are trying to be funny.
Astronomers really hate it when anybody brings up the topic of electromagnetics, but it might be necessary here.
Wow. That honestly blew my mind. And it rings so true. Do you have some articles with more details on this?
What's the difference between north and south China?
I think you are missing the point. Those 50k jobs were going to en up in NYC and DC no matter what. The “competition” was used to get those two metro areas to offer buckets of money to a company that does not need said dollars. That money could have been put to much better use.

It was sleazy AF.
I am shadow-banned, for instance.
>1 out of 5 professors in America identify as Marxist.

I wonder how they're distributed among the various disciplines.
In the past I used to build this stuff in silicon .... just a quick note it's quite common in the real world to get incoming values that are out of gamut (the results of compressing and decompressing data for example) - you need to pin your final values to 0-255 in the cases where they are < 0 or > 255 otherwise they tend to wrap, you also need to carry that extra bit of precision through your math (not such an issue with FP) to make sure you can detect this
I wonder why so many fake mans believes fake news. The saying is: Don't be evil, otherwise devoured by the devil.
Reverse engineering the 30 year old CNC and making a proprietary-SRAM-card emulator probably costs several hundred thousand (consulting overhead, a few engineer months of effort, downtime risk). It would likely be cheaper to simply replace the machine.

A "hard drive unit" probably refers to a contemporary piece of kit that can be purchased new-old-stock for several thousand.

Or someone is selling a $30 kit on eBay that nobody has thought to look for.

Hard to tell, but one thing is certain: the cost of an SD card wouldn't even cause a rounding error in this equation.
The owners of the hedge funds want the equivalent of sandwich artists. The sad part: it's possible.

Right now though, it's more like a popular restaurant chef. Moving to the McDonald's model eventually.
This kind of position ignores the striking differences between the last Democratic president and the current one. There are limits to what a president with an antagonistic congress can do, and within those limits I think Obama did quite a lot. Could he have done more, and done better? Absolutely. Do I think the media's disinterest in his constant speaking about the climate played some role in his lack of traction in forcing Republicans to participate? Yes. Is there a hand-wavey equivalence between Republicans and Democrats on global warming policy? No. Not even close.
I was a big fan of Amazon till I saw the behind-the-scenes cost. I agree totally Costco sucks at innovation. They missed huge opportunities. I got a few more ideas. Might try to sell them to them.
Very different foods. The north is a lot more spicy stuff. The south is more about sauces and freshness.
How would gear tooth profile affect MoI?
nice catch. if the article focuses on european higher education, it may not apply to north american systems, which aim for breadth. my understanding is that even in university, european students pick a track before matriculation and keep to it.
Toyota uses https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5_Whys
This is why there is a push to teach everyone coding.
Yeah good example. I don't think we're saying anything particularly groundbreaking here.
> your API still has input, output, and business logic - the three components of MVC

what
You could try and enrol into clown college. It worked well for Steveo the star of Jackass.
It's completely possible to get a deep systems knowledge along with your computer science degree, but it's by no means a requirement.
The rules for the state-by-state vote for the electoral college are not part of the constitution, for example. Nor is crooked gerrymandering. Fixing those would be a great start. Automatic voter registration, making Election Day a national holiday, and prosecuting all of the corrupt officials who have been working together to suppress non-white votes would be good too. Abolishing the senate will take longer, for sure, but in the mean time we can stop cruelly disenfranchising the residents of Washington, D. C. and Puerto Rico, which I'm sure would have a positive effect on bringing the senate closer to the national electorate.

Look up the National Popular Vote Compact. Some of these solutions are not as difficult as you'd imagine.
>Without college I would probably be a racist

Quite a statement. If you don't mind me asking, do you see people who don't go to college as probably racist?
>Populism is a super example of this: educated business type see the world through economic lenses, and can't for a second understand how 'Brexit' could happen.

The same thing comes up whenever we talk about splitting states or cities/towns in the US. Some people are like "why would you want that, it's not in your economic interest" and the people who want whatever the split is to happen reply "we'd rather be poor and in control of ourselves"
Looks great. Especially because it seems to have a distributed search solution. How well will IOTA scale?

Does IPFS really not have a Windows installer? Because that actually requires a lot less effort for non-technical people than a chdir and then running something in cmd.exe
Except for the irreparable environmental impact of it all...
It would change the distribution of mass, presumably.
Yes, the Left is the ruling class. Or the establishment if you like.
"Distributed Web" -- Wikipedia fails me, but some clarity emerges from

https://ipfs.io/

"IPFS aims to replace HTTP and build a better web for all of us."

https://medium.com/textileio/enabling-the-distributed-web-ab...

"the basic idea is we identify content by its cryptographic hash... I can simply ask the IPFS network for the file with that exact CID, the network will find the peers that have the data (using a DHT), retrieve it, and verify (using the CID) that it’s the correct file."
> Why the load balancer if the app only serves family and friends, and maintenance windows are okay? It should be able to run on a single server.

I use DO to manage the DNS for the domain. I use their LB to manage the TLS cert for the domain. By doing this I don't have to manage TLS connections in my application nor deal with certification creation and rotations. DO are doing it for me for $10/month. That's a bargain given my time is worth $100/hour.

I can also easily swap out the backend server, or add more, as I see fit. This falls in line with your zero-downtime argument. The LB is there and ready to go should I want to attempt such things :)

> In some cases, it's more than "a few seconds of downtime". In one of the apps I maintain, some requests accept file uploads, and some stream long .csv files that are generated on demand. These requests can take several tens of seconds. If the system is unable to start a new version of the app, and switch traffic to it, while keeping existing connections to the old version, then we're talking about at least 1 minute of downtime.

But this is the key point of it all: your application and its users demand zero-downtime. My mother (in-law) does not :)

> I'm oversimplifying a bit, but it's basically running `docker swarm init` and replacing docker-compose with `docker stack deploy`. I recommend it.

Looking into it right now. Thanks a lot for the recommendation.
By your own references the EU28 transports around 75% of its freight by truck while the US is around 40%. Seems like a huge difference to me.

And EU28 stats are distorted by Northern and Eastern Europe where rail freight is big. Italy and France are over 80% truck and France and the UK are over 90%. Even Germany - famous for its freight rail network 150 years ago - transports only about 19% of freight by rail and 72% by truck.

While I understand why US doesn’t have a national rail passenger network - the distances are simply too far between most population concentrations - it is somewhat of a mystery why so little freight travels by rail in Europe and so much by truck. Did the passenger rail network cannibalize the previously existing freight network?

If passenger trains just replaced freight trains and trucks replaced cars, is this really the model to emulate?
This is powerful stuff - palm oil production is clearly an evil. But what really struck me from this was the rather cavalier mention of their guide killing dozens of people with a machete, during an ethnic cleansing. Isn't there a court for people like that? In The Netherlands?
Meh, they are less annoying than the self-important comments that just have to let us know which minutiae they disapprove of.

I mean, there's just three whole images.
I mean subways were not any easier to build 100 or 50 years ago than today. And it surely was not cheaper.

They were much cheaper: http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/02/09/considerations-on-cost-...