skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The difference between the ancient way of working a lifetime for a salary, perks and a gold watch on retirement and the new one of building a breakout company in tech lies in a wholly changed business environment by which super-talented founders with a business sense can draw on a depth of knowledge/expertise (typically gained from work experience in a demanding tech environment) to conceive of a solid business model to profitably disrupt existing enterprises and thereafter apply grit, good sense, unbelievable perseverance, and basic street smarts to execute on that model via a startup world that affords amazing access to capital, an ultra-connected network of technically savvy persons with whom one can potentially ally, and a huge reservoir of resources by which founders can educate themselves to learn, grow, and develop.

One might sum this up by saying "Silicon Valley" but it really is most anywhere in the modern world where any modicum of freedom prevails, though Silicon Valley still offers unique advantages in my view.

The odds of failing are still stunningly high and those who make it to success are often bloodied by the process but the door is open today in a way it never has been before.

Another way of saying this is that, in the founder/investor partnering that is typically necessary to succeed, no arrangement was even possible for all but a rare few in mom/dad's ancient days, a reasonable arrangement that skewed heavily toward investors was possible just 20 years ago, and an even more reasonable one with founders and investors in near parity (when the founders are strong) is readily achievable today.

I actually don't believe that the story told in this blog post conveys a typical situation but what I have just said does so based on my having worked in depth in this world since the mid-1980s.
The new text is a great improvement over previous programming language theory jargon.
Ask HN: Which mailing list provider to use?
Recently mailing lists hosted by AT&T research have stopped working. These lists were used by ksh developers and users, so I am looking for an alternative[1]. Since the issue I opened on GitHub did not generate much public interest, I would like to ask this question to HN crowd. Which mailing list providers do you use and why?

[1] https://github.com/att/ast/issues/1013
This article doesn't mention about another related activity which I found interesting, is that Chinese government makes its Han employees to go stay in Uighur homes to monitor their activities.
http://www.chinafile.com/reporting-opinion/postcard/million-...

Reading some comments in r/China, makes it seem like it is not an exaggeration.
https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/9r8vgf/chinas_govern...
Taiga.io is a pretty good facsimile, but Taiga tries to incorporate too many of JIRA's Agile-related non-features rather than sticking to the basics. There is no good alternative (right now).
Which one do you use? I ended up rolling my own years ago and it's worked out fine (other than the fact I've never gotten readln support working), but I've noticed a proliferation of other solutions since about the release of PHP 7 and wonder if they're an improvement.
From that first Wikipedia page I discovered this interesting video demonstrating hydraulic artificial muscles: https://youtu.be/a6mRhuR_g-E?t=56
Fair warning: I often struggle with productivity and I definitely can't say that I've got it nailed. That said, for this same reason I think about it quite a bit, and I'll use this occassion to articulate some of those thoughts and relevant experiences.

Things that I emphasize concerning productivity fall under prioritization and modeling.

I mean priority in the most general sense. There's a hundred things that ideally would all be done or experienced, but you only have so much capacity. To deal with that, you have to know what's most important to you. By saying "to you", I'm highlighting that motivations are individual-specific. Sometimes you have to work quite hard to find out what animates you.

That's the consciousness aspect of it: seeing the situation and options clearly. The focus part of it is being sufficiently resilient to distractions, without falling into tunnel vision, i.e. balancing between focus and awereness.

[Notice: this paragraph is hearsay; should be treated as unverified] I don't usually advertise medication, but under certain circumstances self-medicating with microdoses of lsd has dramatic effects. My impression is that it's very effective treating anxiety induced productivity problems, but it also has other noteworthy effects on creativity and focus in general that are more difficult to articulate (for me, at least).

What I mean by modeling may be clarified with the metaphor of zooming. It's about switching between being focused on small scale details and large scale features. Related methods range from formal to informal. Mathematical modeling is a formal instance of this. Computer-assisted proofs or executable specifications are even more formal examples. Noting down what you care about, what affects that, and what in turn affects that and so on is on the informal side of the spectrum. It's about moving from one level of abstraction/detail to another, when appropriate and in the direction (zoom in or zoom out) that's appropriate. Bret Victor wrote about that [0]. He called it the Ladder of Abstraction.

Modeling (or zoom as I called it) has a large effect on my productivity. The prospect of dedicating time to thinking about a problem is not satisfying if you're anxious about getting results fast, but it's very effective in the long run.

[0] http://worrydream.com/LadderOfAbstraction/
Looking at something through the lens of 'art' is, to me, a way of avoiding looking critically at the issues and their possible solutions. At the same tike I agree that being ashamed about the situation doesn't help in analysing the issues either.
Borges/Uqbar – A wiki
Spot on. I wish ADHD had a less cute sounding name, maybe then people would take it more seriously. And it is also a misnomer: it is often about being unable to regulate attention (rather than simply having a lack of it), which leads to mysterious variations in productivity, especially with tasks that are not novel, interesting or challenging.
Off-topic if employees of the company are here: Friendly suggestion to work on the home page. I couldn't for the life of me understand what it is that company is about. The headline says NOTHING, and the paragraph after it is so confusing.
Not dramatically; both conditions are very dependent on organization.
Apollo has a persisted queries option. And there's a PR open on relay modern for it. At least for queries, both of these let's you store the query itself on the server then use a GET request with a query hash and variables.

We use this at First Look Media on some of our sites.
> It's not even like questions like "If you add this many 3 bedroom homes to an area how many schools do you need" aren't unstudied questions, either. Civil engineering is a thing and should be able to answer questions like that pretty darn well.

That's not the kind of question civil engineering answers. That's more urban planning.
Sorry, no, I was referring to the capacity of the finished tunnel, which isn't meaningful better.
Though, amazingly, their P/E has also tripled since then, so they're not exactly earning more money. Granted, it was low in 2014.
Depends on your deployment specifics and your requirements. I would say that a replica set of mongodb may be faster, but a sharded replica set in mongo may be slower than a local cluster of foundation with the document layer interface.
So how good is the filter? How many false positives and false negatives are to be tolerated? Will it successfully distinguish between pornography, sexual health, classical statuary, Victorian and other paintings, etc.?

Does it apply only to pictures or does it also filter out sexual texts? Is Fanny Hill allowed? What about Fifty Shades?

And, who decides where the lines are drawn?
I don't understand why you would need a sample of a certain size. Setting a significance threshold at 5% takes sample size in to account. For example, if I ran a permutation test with a sample size of 5 in each group it could never been significant at that threshold, and never is < 5%!

A small sample size would lower your power to detect meaningful differences, which the original scenario doesn't have (by definition).

(If distributional assumptions, etc, are violated, then that's a different story!)
So many people here are happy to point out that you should not look at anything about yourself -- and that you should try and make a difference out there.

That's very Zen of you, but it is SEVERELY missing the point. Burnout and depression do not ask for a new reason to live. They ask for a break from the negative experiences that caused -- and now maintain -- the initial burnout and depression. They also ask for sources of energy and optimism.

Amortizing your already tired lower back while voluntarily cleaning a local park won't give you that. It's very likely it will make you less capable of overcoming your burnout and depression, even. (Well-targeted workout can still help though.)

I am disappointed at the massive virtue signalling in HN sometimes.
spullara is right, I am wrong -

> The overall, uncompressed size of function and layers is subject to the usual unzipped deployment package size limit.

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-for-aws-lambda-use-any-...
Compiling Scheme to Java as a target language (2009)
James Hague's recommendations [0] of classical programs are on my bucket list.

[0] https://prog21.dadgum.com/210.html
The parents already paid income tax. Where is the problem?

Children inherit lots of things from their parents like their genetics, upbringing, location, food, clothing and a place to live without paying taxes on those things so why should the inherited money or property be taxed? All of those things "fell from the sky", how is money different?
I'm a hobbyist, but I'm applying to get into an awesome program called hola<code/> here in CDMX.
> It seems sort of shortsighted to block a tunneling company on environmental grounds.

They didn't block a tunneling company on environmental grounds. A tunneling company gave up rather than risk even having an environmental evaluation of a potential tunnel.

> It seems sort of shortsighted to block a tunneling company on environmental grounds.

Probably. But this wasn't about cheap tunneling technology, it was about a specific proposed tunnnel.
As long as you don't become an active shooter, criminal, terrorist, serial killer, psychopath, or end up committing suicide, then technically your life was not a waste.
Chinese government just taught the world how to correctly avoid the potential Taliban terrorist from the root. China would never be the paradise for Muslim terrorism.
You don't _need_ additional tooling. You can get by with just searching as normal, it's not as if people's code bases are filled with random conventions or random case variations...
Transit? Talent wants remote.
Haven't dug in, but depends on if there's a system in place to support multiple indexes on your documents and how the system uses them. This could be a relatively small or huge impact depending on your interface requirements, sorting etc.
> I'm curious what the motivation was to use int instead of uint considering indexes cannot be negative in Go.

I want to emphasize that I do not know the true answer to this question.

I think that indexes are int to play nicely with a decrementing loop counter. Doing:

for i := len(n) - 1; i >= 0; i-- { fmt.Println(n[i]) }

requires i to be signed due to the last iteration.
A Nomad Story
You're right that it's not exactly complete. Time-translation symmetry is what would make an experiment "not depend on when the experiment took place," but time-reversal symmetry, another "time symmetry," would mean that it did not matter whether a VCR tape of the experiment was playing forwards or in reverse, so that both directions appeared to be completely reasonable events. (For example a car driving forwards is just as reasonable as a car driving in reverse.) Time translation symmetry appears in real life, but time reversal in general does not.
That's actually a copy/paste error, the original assembly goes like this:

movl $10, %edi # number of fibnum we hunt
movl $0, %ebx # 1st fibnum
movl $1, %eax # 2nd fibnum

Updated the gist, thanks!
People like to say all the time that Gates was a 'dropout', nevermind that he came from a wealthy family that was probably in the top 2% of income-earners for the Seattle area at the time. He went to high school at the Lakeshore school, the most expensive private school in the Seattle metro area (one year tuition currently around $34,000 USD, it was similarly expensive relative to inflation and cost of living back in the 70s). Gates started with a huge advantage over the middle class. Both of his parents were lawyers specializing in corporate law.
> There is no "good" vs "bad" version of the currency though. Certain types of points are not driving other types of points out of circulation

Imagine Marriott has two brands: Fairfield Inn and Ritz-Carlton. They each have a rewards program which grants one free night for every night stayed.

Now suppose, in a fit of idiocy, the rewards programs are made cross-compatible. So a Ritz-Carlton reward night can be spent at Fairfield Inn and vice versa. Where do you think the rewards will be earned? Where do you think they'll be spent? The "bad" (Fairfield Inn rewards) drove out the "good" (Ritz-Carlton rewards).

I accentuated the number of brands, magnitude of their value difference and rewards program juiciness. This was to bring into relief the resulting effect. In reality, these terms--and the effect--are smaller. Still, Gresham's law applies if one treats rewards nights earned at different hotels as different currencies. They've simply, now, been brought into a currency union.
I love AoC and gladly donate to it :) I have been looking forward to it for some time now!

I have also made a discord bot to show the leaderboard, if anyone is interested : https://github.com/DylanMeeus/Advent_Of_Code_Bot
Yeah who wants to hear programming language jargon when looking up a programming language
I think that quote is talking about Ram Dass being gay, and his friend having a theory that his guru (Maharajji) made him gay for Ram Dass to find him easier.
1. can be addressed with persisted queries. Apollo has this option: https://blog.apollographql.com/persisted-graphql-queries-wit...

and Relay Modern has a PR open for it.

Doing something similar without one of these graphql client libraries shouldn't be too tough.
My sources based on govt handbooks, note parent poster who I'm replying to said minimum amount of hrs per week, which is why I put down the minimum amount, I'm not looking for maximum or average but minimum because OP said minimum:

https://my.hr.gov.nt.ca/handbooks-agreements/excluded-employ...
Am I the only one who thinks that courses that don't teach TDD from the start are useless? How can you write an app and not programmatically prove it is working as expected?
SF Supervisor Pushes to Remove Zuckerberg Name from Hospital
You know what really causes gentrification? Artists.
My sources based on govt handbooks, note parent poster to whom I'm replying to said minimum amount of hrs per week, which is why I put down the minimum amount:

https://my.hr.gov.nt.ca/handbooks-agreements/excluded-employ...
A post showed up on my twitter timeline the other day saying something to the effect of, "hey, these guys just landed a thing on a tiny thing in space, so hey, maybe listen to them about climate change, you idiots," completely devoid of sarcasm. A friend of mine had retweeted it. This is how many, if not most, people think these days; instead of looking to people wearing vestments and robes for guidance, they look to people they've never met who they assume probably wear white lab coats while "doing" their "science"—which naturally encompasses all scientific fields because all "scientists" are of course good at doing ALL the "science." (Sure, if you press them, they'll admit that there's different fields of science and not all "scientists" literally know it all... but that doesn't stop that from being the mental shortcut they make whenever they read a headline about whatever "Science" is saying today.) Instead of looking to Scripture, they look to headlines declaring "science" having been "settled" on the matter. We've moved away from religion as a people, yet all it seems to have done is instilled a false sense of rationality in everyone.

It's not about trusting or distrusting "science," it's about trusting or distrusting people who put too much trust into "science," on the principle of it being "science" that "scientists" have determined is truth. I'm not saying let's all go full Amish (or Kaczynski) and live off the land, I write code for a living. I'm just saying that it's easy to fall into the "religion is an old and outdated concept, only idiots and traditionalist fools would believe in such a thing, yet putting complete faith in anything said by anyone who calls themselves a 'scientist' that gets sufficient attention, that's completely totally different, Because Science" trap.
> How much infrastructure is getting built under the current review process?

The environmental review process doesn't stop a lot of infrastructure getting built, people prioritizing public spending on other priorities does.

> The current process is just a fig leaf for everyone getting a NIMBY veto.

No, it's not.

> California ought to be ashamed of its technological paralysis.

Perhaps, but CEQA isn't the source of the problem, to the extent there is one.
How uncomfortable is this making you? If you need to introvert after work instead of hanging out, just do that. Don't feel bad that you're not "meeting expectations" or whatever. You don't need their permission to use your "not at work" time however you want. If it's not hurting you, I wouldn't leave.

And how uncomfortable is this making them? Is it "nobody ever did that before, and we're not sure how to react"? Well, their culture needs to learn how to deal with introverts sooner or later; it might as well be now. Or is their reaction more like "we want to be your whole life, not just your working hours, and you won't let us, and we don't like you thwarting our goals like that"? That's more like a cult than a job. If that's the deal, then you may need to eventually leave, because they're going to increase the level of pain on you until you leave or comply.
> But I can’t find any proof that there’s a risk here.

Of course not, Boring pulled out rather than go through the process that would evaluate any risks.

> Tunneling is really safe.

Then there was no reason to avoid environmental review.
> Falun Gong is the blueprint for this

Let's don't bring them on the table. Just like you don't bring Peoples Temple or Branch Davidians or any other cult onto the table when you talking about such topic.

I actually knew some people who was practicing Falun Gong before the crack down (And some still practicing it after). If you want to paint a portrait of those people, just image an uneducated man/woman at age around 40~50, who probably encountered some misfortunes in their life and became vulnerable enough to take anything into their head without a thought, and act upon that thought.

They're those people who would also actually believed they can receive superpower from a tinfoil hat (Well, not actually a tinfoil hat, but guess what, they have upgraded version of that [0]), meditation, or, maybe, killing themselves/others.

Oh, also, do you know the "Eastern Lightning"[1]? Don't bring them as well.

[0] https://www.flickr.com/photos/undersound/23239355
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Lightning#Zhaoyuan_McD...
My family was relatively rich. We also had a computer. With lots of games. I played Red Alert and then started programming. My brother played Counter Strike and now plays Dota or whatever, he never learned to program. I'm a successful programmer and he's a successful lawyer.

Anecdotes, is all.
More like

SQS -> Multiple lambda instances

Unless you set the concurrency to one. But as always when working with any queue, don’t depend on only once processing or in order processing.

AWS does have FIFO queues but they don’t work with lambda directly.
I would guess that the Chinese government is worried (rightly or wrongly) about outside (armed) support for Muslims in Xinjiang, and less concerned about the Tibetans tapping into international support, which to date has been fairly ineffectual. To my eye they are making such foreign involvement more likely, not less, with this overt campaign of imprisonment and mistreatment.
I'm currently reading "Why We Sleep" [1], which argues (among many other things) that over 50% of children diagnosed with ADHD are actually suffering from a lack of sleep.

[1]: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34466963-why-we-sleep
I'm hoping things like generics can just be accepted to be a good idea moving forward and that we can all agree that languages without them are handicapped.

I still fell things are up in the air about exceptions but maybe we can just agree on generics which would make me feel better.

Using go without generics just felt insane to me...
On the contrary, it is a pretty fundamental assumption in all of our fundamental theories (with some bows and whistles).

A point of confusion might be that the surroundings of the experiment might influence it and the surroundings would depend on whether it is a workday or a weekend, etc. But this is a bad experiment. The correct interpretation is "if my experiment is isolated so that external events do not influence it (like all good experiments), then I will get the same results no matter whether I do it today or wait until tomorrow". Another way to phrase it is "there is no dependence on the variable 't' in the fundamental laws".
You just answered your own question about why cops and firefighters in NYC get paid so well: there's tremendous demand for their services.

And the average cop almost certainly provides more value to society than the average programmer working on yet-another-CRUD-app. If wages were 2/3 of what they were now, even more companies could afford to higher programmers to build them custom CRUD applications to make their basic business processes more efficient and provide better services all around.
Honestly I just don't bother with any of them. I stay in hotels even less than that though, maybe more like 25 nights a year. All this dicking around with points and Gold Elite Privileged Ambassador statuses sounds just dreadful. I hate traveling (outside of whatever I'm actually traveling for, of course). I don't want to learn more concepts and spend more time thinking about it.
I don't think Udemy has any kind of completion certificates, and I can't imagine would put "Watched video about X" on their resume.
Insuring Against Drop in Chinese Students
Well that’s just a ridiculously uninformed statement. Of course mongodb scales horizontally. I can share many success stories of massive scale with mongodb.
> California law basically gives veto power to any homeowner for anything

No, it doesn't.
Job Satisfaction Is the Strongest Indicator of Happiness in Men
That same campaign seems pretty active in this very HN post. Lots of apologists for the communist regime here, with some not so subtle approvals of racism and genocide.