skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A long time ago I worked at a pizza shop as a delivery boy and cook. Multiple coworkers had luxury cars, including one Cadillac sporty sedan. They just seemed to put every possible spare dollar they had towards the most expensive car possible. Made no sense, but buying too much car is a common phenomenon in America.
It's interesting how each major iteration of Nvidia's embedded boards keep increasing in price by a significant amount. The TK1 was $199, the TX1 was (at release) $599, and now the Xavier is $2,500/1,299 (with rebate). The TX2 is priced identically to the TX1 at release but was an incremental update.

With the TK1 being EOL, it seems there is no longer an embedded SBC in the $100-$200 pricerange that has comparable GPU performance, despite the TK1 being over 4 years old.
Sorry, I didn't mean to imply that it is. .NET, and C#/F# generally, can be useful in a tremendous variety of applications, and especially outside of the SF bubble, are used for... everything, startups included.

.NET's most common use case, based on my research, is enterprise applications, but certainly not its only.

Thanks for calling this out.
I'm not sure a JITing ARM->VLIW core like that is the best choice for a game console. It'd probably lead to all sorts of weird perf inconsistencies that are hard to track down.
This advice doesn't work for those who need childcare for those 60+ hours a week, those who simply don't have access to facilities to cook cheap gumbo (cheapest places don't have cooking facilities), those who cannot store gumbo for a week (fridges aren't free), those who don't happen to live within walking distance of such a job, and so on.

There is a wealth of ways that healthy people with nothing but free time (to both work 60+ hours, AND to find that work; how did you pay for yourself while you were finding that work? Can everyone else use that same source of funding?) and access to basic facilities can help themselves. But once people fall so far that your advice is no longer applicable, and they find themselves living somewhere like the US, they're fucked permanently. A permanent underclass.
That's why you have version control and batches and fuzzing etc.
My beef is that it used to jack the scrolling. I don't know if it still does.
The BeNeLux is older than Schengen (september 1944, founded by the governments of Belgium/Netherlands/Luxembourg while in exile from their occupied countries!). It eliminated border controls between Belgium and the Netherlands.

Before that, I don't know and can't find them at the moment. Before the 20th century border controls didn't really exist yet. In WW1 the situation was special because Belgium was under German occupation but the Netherlands were neutral, the Belgian enclaves were bits of free Belgium heavily used by the resistance. To prove their neutrality the Netherlands were forced to put a fence around it with strict controls.
> Angular (their current choice) has, ah, high training costs

Does it? You need to know typescript (which you arguably should be using regardless of frontend framework) and what dependency injection, observables and components are. Plus some syntax for the templating language, which is fairly intuitive. That’s enough to get you going, I don’t see it as being much more of an investment than learning a react stack.

It also has the benefit of being all in one, like .NET, so there aren’t multiple different packages for every function that could be used, depending on who your team is. That all in one factor is probably why it’s a natural complement to .NET.
They reluctantly provide signed firmware images, very often with significant delay.
You know, all immigrants can’t do that either. And other “others” do just fine.

You have what’s called “survivor bias”, and you need to get past it to understand systemic issues.
True. That's also why the USA is now a third world country.

And I really feel sorry for the author. But my comment was more about the boots story.
I would still like to see someone build a pogo stick with many magnets with alternating polarity. This article indicates that it would work. Seven strong magnets with a 1" initial gap between each of them should work.
I had a SteelSeries mouse, and it was nice, but definitely didn't last more than a year. But then, no mouse I've used in the last 15 years (at least) has lasted much more than a year.
They calibrated it to the amount of C-14 found in artifacts with "known" dates, eg from ancient egypt. Most of those "known" dates originally come from this guy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Justus_Scaliger
> Already in debt and dodging bailiffs and debt collectors and intimidating loan-sharks, none of whom she has any chance of paying off.

Okay, then maybe she should consider declaring personal bankruptcy and getting a clean start? There are some debts that cannot be discharged using bankruptcy, but they're not the sort of debt that f---s you over and that you have no chance in hell of paying off. Solutions are out there, she should use them.
The C14 timeline is calibrated from radiocarbon years to calendar years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calibration_of_radiocarbon_dat...
Love your book btw. I was scrolling down to see if someone had already suggested it.

PS. One of my favorite excerpts from Lauren Ipsum: `That's how it starts. A little Jargon doesn't look like much. Some people even keep them as pets. But they form packs, and they are very dangerous.`
Could you, for a minute, consider that maybe your advice actually doesn’t apply or help?

I know it’s a staggering thought, but give it a go.
I guess you are still very distinct from say Belarusians or Japanese? In a world with no borders, the Swiss, Belarusians and Japanese would need to somehow agree on a common set of values that would govern this borderless world. And it’s hard enough to agree on policies in a single country.
As someone who worked at one of the large networks, I disagree with you when you state that it was more of an HR than PR thing.

I can assure you the types of behavior that these male actors were accused of were no secrets, neither at my company nor in the industry. Nobody did anything about it, and it wasn’t until it blew up into a fire storm thanks to social media that these companies decided the best response from a business sense was to suddenly pretend we are on a moral high ground and sever these relationships. It was fear and about saving image.

Otherwise, the response would have been to deny and secretly pay off accusers while maintaining relationships with the Kevin Spaceys of the world.
Hook's law[1] states that the force of a spring scales linearly with the distance it is stretched.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hooke%27s_law
I don't have a full text link, but definitely there's been some work done on at least the front end of this problem:

https://uwaterloo.ca/motion-research-group/publications/kine...
I'm not a writer, so I can't give advice for how, but for a great example, you should check out the novel The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson. The protagonist is a young girl who finds a "magic" book that is part fairy tale, part computer science textbook. It seamlessly weaves in allegories for binary arithmetic, Turing machines, and programming.

I wish I could give a more detailed description, but it's been too many years since I read it and online summaries focus on other parts of the novel (there's a lot going on!).
It's hard to resist stating "1+1=2" when everyone knows it's true but keep behaving like its not.
> how bumblebee wings works

Years ago I saw a video (and was later unable to find it again) of a slow-motion bumblebee hovering slowly over leaf litter. Vortices of dust. Fragments of leaf tumbling away, like shantytown roofs beneath a hovering helicopter. That the bee was supporting itself on a downward-moving column of air was visceral.

So perhaps touch on all flight being "higher pressure on the bottom than top", either floating, or pushing things downward.

For visuals, one might rift on wing downwash and vorticies, like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbRmVucs78s or https://i.pinimg.com/originals/1c/33/e2/1c33e2f2fa82b7bf4a86... .
But airlines sometimes requires it (and afaik they're allowed to). (Not all, I've done quite a few flights without being ever checked, seems to depend on airlines and/or airports).
The idea is the level of C14 in the atmosphere is constant, and living organisms will have about about the same ratio of C14 to C12. When they die they no longer replenish the C14 so the amount decreases over time as it decays (it's radioactive). You can then calculate how old something is based on the ratio of remaining C14 to C12. I'm not sure what the process is that relates C14 to stalagmite because it's inorganic.
Maybe! Bear in mind that this is a rather swift process. Finding people who are both capable of and willing to take on this sort of project is not easy. Even if they could be found, they are not likely to have deep knowledge of the internal structure of the company, which is (ironically) critical given that the company is restructuring.

So, perverse as it seems, existing talent with explicitly-performance-linked compensation is often the least worst choice during a wind-down.

It's bankruptcy. It's a failing company. It's ugly. Theoretically these folks are making a lot less than they would have had the company not failed.
That actually looks really good, but I can't seem to find it in stock anywhere.

Do you know if there's a succesor or am I just not looking in the right place?
Assuming a 30 year lifespan and 19 buildings, 1 mio. $ breaks down to 1750$ per building per year. That seems entirely achievable to me.
I am Polish too and I’d say were are on average very different from the Germans. A common, Polish-German state would be very hard to govern to due constant conflicts in values.
Guile
You managed 5 words before being wrong… please do read up on modern thinking on IQ—and especially how poverty affects it.
Yet they don't. Why not? Why is your advice here not being taken?
More to maths than numbers of course... it's been a while but I'm thinking Alice in Wonderland. or Flatland maybe
> I had pushed for a college education, believing that with it came job security and the freedom to pursue my writing without the burden of poverty. Without familial wealth or a serendipitous set of circumstances, I would need at least a degree to be competitive if I wanted to move up and over the poverty line.

This is a line sold to millions of students in all fields of study. You may be unsympathetic, but given the systemic promotion of higher education over the last few decades it's easy to understand why she would believe the degree would be the ticket to an opportunity in the field of study.
People who survived cancer by doing nothing? That’s the analogy he’s making, that poor people should ignore help cause they “have cancer” and can’t do anything about it.
Calling Bullshit: Data Reasoning in a Digital World
Maybe an overthink from my part, but I swear I also replaced appliances (from small, kettle, to large, washing machine) all 1+ times in the 10 year period.

Although maybe there were also cheaper
I think you answered your own question when you mentioned Angular being an "all in one".

Angular needs a bit more training because you are heavily encouraged to do things the "Angular" way which requires a lot of abstraction and componentization.
In an institution board that I serve on, healthcare eats the budgetary space for increased compensation.

There’s also a high degree of uncertainty given the political situation. It’s difficult to budget.
> This is exactly the sort of thing the SIPC normally insures

Car accidents are the sort of thing most insurers usually insure. That doesn’t make it okay to lie about whether you have insurance. If this is still somehow confusing you, please stay away from banking and healthcare.

> An ATM card and bank routing number that makes it easy to transfer to/from the brokerage account, so that it can be used as a checking/savings account. This is the real innovation

I have a Fidelity Cash Management Account that does exactly this. The cash deposits are swept into FDIC-insurer accounts. The brokerage products are SIPC insured. I have a debit card I can spend against the cash deposits.

The difference is Fidelity applied for and obtained SIPC protection. This involves installing various auditing and safety mechanisms. Approval isn’t guaranteed. Automatically forcing the SIPC to insure everything that looks like a brokerage account would be a horrible idea.
By the way, are you an NVIDIA employee? Judging by your comments and submissions. Then it would explain all the protective arguments.
Anybody want odds on 50% of these comments being exactly that worthless advice?
Ah, an update re; bundle size:

> Early Blazor prototypes used a compact .NET runtime (including assembly execution, garbage collection, threading) that compiled to a mere 60KB of WebAssembly. Blazor now runs on Mono, which is currently significantly larger. However, opportunities for size optimization abound, including merging and trimming the runtime and application binaries. Other potential download size mitigations include caching and using a CDN.
Thanks for putting a name to this. Happens way too often when I start rewriting old code.

I usually rename the test class of the old implementation to OldXTest and try to keep the interface of the new code similar enough to enable a reasonably quick transition into the new code with proper unit testing.
If its really from the 60's its likely electromechanical, and uses almost no power at idle - like less than 1a at 48v
The downside risk is never worth it for me. I'm always hands on, and curves I treat it like a drivers' ed situation: You better do the right thing.
EU nationals can get by national ID cards - a passport isn't obligatory.

https://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/travel/entry-exit/eu-c...
Find a mouse that fits your hand and that you like, and then buy several of them. Even if they last more than a year for other people, you could be unlucky. Mice are not expensive enough to worry about it, especially if you're leaving it in the same place all the time.
I probably read a few stories that must have included his name, but somehow it never registered.
> Faith as every human on earth uses it is a belief that that person has opted to exempt from questioning.

Now that's a belief. Doesn't seem like you're open to questioning it though.
Did you go to a university? If so, do you think you got more out of "throwing money" at professors than you would have just trying to figure out [physical chemistry | architectural design | machine learning] yourself?
That would be incompatible with the Accessibility feature that zooms all content on the screen to make it usable for the vision impaired.

EDIT: As well as risk future compatibility issues with new Apple devices.
Pretty much every critical system in a vanilla Toyota is already software-controlled, not to mention the legion of critical systems involved in air travel, elevators, medical equipment (e.g., pacemakers), etc. Not sure that this should bring comfort, but at least you need not be particularly frightened by your Tesla. :)
I wouldn't go that far. I read the article in full, and it's an interesting description of the world behind the things many of us take for granted (Amazon, etc.) as well as some commentary on the author's own life journey. It sounds like she expected it to be easier to find a REAL job with a degree - teaching, creative writing, etc. - only to be surprised at the lack of opportunities for "non-professional graduates".

My parents strongly urged all of their children to pursue professional, specific degrees: engineering, law, medicine, or accounting/finance. They reinforced time and time again that "liberal arts degrees" provided fewer career options, and to put it plainly, that I would probably end up broke if I chosen that path. I don't think they would have provided financial support to study something like, for example, music. Or even psychology, for that matter, unless the goal was to be a PhD/academic.

I agree with your points, however, that degrees do not guarantee employment and we should not mislead students. Too many students think "degree = job". Having observed the Norwegian education system from afar (Norwegian mother & family), I advocate the way they do it and the way many Europeans have vocational programs and opportunities for technical training as an alternative to university. Even the janitors in Switzerland may train for as much as 3 years ( see https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/society/swiss-skills_training-t... ). Although, I do not know how that would work in the American culture, where tradesmen typically are not respected and do not make as much money as engineers and the like. Income inequality is a much bigger problem here than in some of the Scandinavian and European countries.

TLDR: degree != job, if paying for degree, get a technical one (engineering), accounting/finance, or legal/medical. Make good grades. Grades are more important in some professions than others. Don't expect to get a job with a liberal arts degree.
Can we make an electronagnetic-sprung mattress?
Ask HN: If you could work anywhere for a year, where would it be?
I'm currently in London and mulling over the idea of going and working somewhere for a year. What are some nice places?
It is one of my absolute favourite books! Love it! Thanks!
I have a RPi connected to my sprinkler solenoid valves via an OpenSprinklerPi board. It’s running the SIP [1] controller and a custom garage door plugin [2] I wrote.

It’s been running 24/7 in my garage since 2014. YMMV I guess?

[1] https://github.com/Dan-in-CA/SIP
[2] https://github.com/andersix/sip_garage_plugin
My favorite is the border between India and Bangladesh:

https://www.google.com/maps/place/India/@26.2070568,89.16078...

You have to zoom in to fully appreciate it. It looks like a fractal.
From the same article: “OTT-only households tripled in the past four years (about 40% annually), and I can think of no reason why this trend would slow down”, where OTT means over-the-top streaming services like Netflix.

It’s clear that people enjoy that experience more than cable, which isn’t surprising given it's on-demand nature.

Cable is on its way down, and quickly, where people have the choice.
GDP has no relation to average wage, so not sure you can make an argument for ... giving people more money? If if I make a candy bar and sell it for $1, GDP would be $1, but my personal profit may only be 10 cents. Further, if I sold it to a convenience store who sells it for $2, then GDP is $3, and total profitability may only be 20 cents.
>Due to that, I won’t be buying your book.

I'm on the same boat as you. I might still buy this book, it seems beautiful.

In the days of online autodidactic zeitgeists, it's a shame not to include the solutions. I understand the author wants to monetize his hard work and ensure it'll make money as a textbook and I believe textbooks can provide some income as long as they become the mainstay of a particular subjects.

That being said, I wonder if there is a future option for creating a problem/solution booklet exclusive for the teachers and opening up the solutions to this book so the entire world could possibly learn from this book.
Does it? You need to know typescript (which you arguably should be using regardless of frontend framework)

That's highly debatable. We moved back to ES after using Typescript for years and couldn't be happier. We're much more productive than we were with Typescript, and that's with people that know the language. We get much of the benefits of Typescript by just using a jsconfig.json file in our project and using VSCode. The Typescript language service will typecheck JS code if you want it to.

And there is a big upfront cost for onboarding developers with Typescript and Angular.
For the lazy, they are significant.

My family’s baseline expenditures are down except for food. Cord cutting reduced expenses significantly and buying phones and shopping plans cut that cost.

If you’re using Uber and paying $10 for takeout delivery all of the time, you’re wasting money, full stop.
> I remember (mis)using the local bookstore as my personal library during my childhood

Did you not have a public library where you lived?
It is because of irrational fears of nuclear power like yours that global warming will get much worse before it gets better.
Not only that, but you can adjust the “springiness” by having a variable spring constant.
Not so much electron than PWA, which will effectively standardise, cross platform, client apps. To me pwa+wasm is the solution to enable cross platform client apps AND a variety of languages and frameworks. And to free users (or rather developpers) from the various gated stores.
> That all in one factor is probably why it’s a natural complement to .NET.

Very much agreed. And I also agree that, at least in a corporate context, training for a React stack would also be expensive, potentially more so.

And there are plenty of people out there who have no problem picking up Angular.

Looking at job market data alone, though, Angular commands a premium to .NET-only. Anecdotally, folks who feel comfortable with .NET, but who find eg; React+Redux bewildering, also feel constantly confused by Angular and can get themselves into trouble without close guidance.
I don’t think so (for example, my car insurance automatically covers a new car I buy without the need for immediate notification) but even if so, that’s all the more reason why the first statement is fraud.
Nvidia isn't just unfriendly towards open-source, their embedded division is unfriendly to anyone that isn't a large corporation involved in AI, self-driving cars and such applications. Good luck if you try to develop something else on the Jetson as a small-scale company and have to deal with device-specific bugs and driver issues.
The Curious Case of Bill Ewasko
Do people really prefer:

function doFirstBit() {}
function doSecondBit() {}

function big() {
let x,y,z;
[x,y] = doFirstBit();
[x,z] = doSecondBit(x, y);
}

to:

function big() {
let x,y,z;
// First bit...
...
// Second bit...
...
}

To me, it's no harder to find the portion of interest in the latter when making a local change, and substantially easier to understand the whole thing (because you can sit down, maybe with a printout if that's your thing, and read through it linearly without having to jump back and forth to the subfunctions). And passing data between the portions can quickly end up nastier than my contrived example above, at which point people start doing things like creating a class just to hold what used to be the function's stack-frame.

Not saying very long functions are something to celebrate. But if they're organised sensibly they're not a huge problem, and to be honest probably bother me less than functions which aren't abstracting anything terribly interesting and only get called once.
That actually does seem reasonable...
Yes...I really enjoy writing it. The key take away is fun, but sometimes as a writer, I get anxious and wonder if I am delivering fun to others...increasingly the reviews from parents have been that they enjoy it but don’t think it’s suitable for bedtime reading. I guess you’d want a child to go to sleep after a story and not stay awake trying to crack a puzzle of how-to and why-not!
But you did decide that you didn't like how your original government runs things, and you switched to a different government. That's very much in line with the European understanding of government. Your only problem is that the US is extremely picky with accepting new customers.

Also note how many of your problems are exceptional. Few countries raise taxes from money that never enters or leaves their country, and military service requirements are often paused while you are abroad. You have it harder than most.
There's no clear path from today's devices to quantum supremacy.
That’s probably a far too simplistic way of putting it - I would actually think people with a hard work ethic (ie gumption, ie stick-to-it-iveness) would be more likely to climb their way out of poverty.