skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yea. I finally moved out of Vermont after 10 years of it hindering my career opportunities. Saw this and thought about moving back for a second, except now I'm a small business instead of an employee, so no dice :(
Millennials spend less previous generations cause they have less money, Fed says
> In Europe they have this big monsters that cost several million dollars and require a train to move.

Europe is just denser. But frankly, you don't seem to know what you're talking about.

1.2-5MW transformers are really everywhere in France/Switzerland. Sometimes many per villages.

It makes sense: You prefer to have two transformers far apart than a big one and 2kms of 230/380V wiring.
I’m not looking to create something to update in the future, more like a public repository of my own content under my own direct control
I was probably two miles or so away in Manhattan -- there was no noise, no hit to the electricity, nothing. I was watching TV and then saw an otherworldly color sky out he window.

The actual source of the bright light was blocked by a building, so it looked a little like what I imagine the aurora borealis looks like. Then it started to rapidly change colors and flicker -- like fireworks, but without the noise.

In NYC, stuff happens all the time that is completely innocuous. There's an outdoor venue (Randall's Island) relatively nearby that often has music festivals. In the past few months I have had a very vivid light flashing outside that turned out to be from a construction crane about 8 blocks away; another time a red glow was from the lights of fire engines amassed on a neighboring street during an actual fire.

I mention this if only to say it is very easy to criticize someone's behavior in a situation like this after the fact, but when it is happening, the thought that this could be a huge explosion does not even register.
Yeah, I just don't buy this. It says nothing. This is the bottom-barrel suggestion most people bring up, and there's more to simplifying codebases than "strict types."

What in this <2k LOC file suggests strict types help anything whatsoever? It's not massive. It's large, but fold this and it immediately becomes more readable. Any attempts to simplify this would simply be reasoning about it differently.
911 emergency services go down across the US after CenturyLink outage
The card games are more fun. I've also spent way more than dozens on both the steam games and the card games.
I've always wondered how much would the price of a car/truck decrease, if advertising for vehicles would be banned? 10%? 20%? 30%?

And if they authorized cars to be sold outside of showrooms, how much would they drop further?

It seems to me that a huge portion of the price winds up paying for advertising + the showroom building + the salesperson and their administrative staff.

I hope one day we can go from factory -> consumer without all this extra cost baked in.
We currently use Metabase - can anybody speak to the differences between Metabase and Google Data Studio?
looks sweet, very nice project and example on how to implement some compiler architecture parts. awsome to go through the sources a bit and look how it works. thanks!
Practical Web Development with Haskell
> Even highly trained software engineers can barely get security correct. What makes this journalist think somebody with a few years of high school programming can do any better?

They don't have to get it better. If paying top dollar doesn't guarantee results, then why not save money?

> are these US-based blue-collar coders going to be any more effective than off-shoring?

Yes, many companies either have a bias against off-shoring employees or they want a butt in a chair.

> And within the US, code already permeates other professional roles.

So you don't need specialist programmers. So a manufacturer needn't bring in a highly paid consultant to build out a workflow system; they likely have talent in-house.

Hell, I'm a developer and some of the systems I use (for example, my finances) are run in a spreadsheet with a few clever functions. I'm always dreaming of writing proper software, but the truth is, I'd spend weeks to get a sad % of the functionality Google Sheets gives me. And with tools like Airtable, pretty rich UIs are doable. Software is indeed eating the world, but it's also eating software developers.
Same here....I’m in Brookline, where as the MSP stated the earlier outage were for towns much west of Boston.
> If coding was going to be commoditised it would have happened decades ago

I don't understand how coding would have been commoditised literally decades ago... when the reality is that not so long ago the demand has increased exponentially. Plus only now the supply is starting to pick up - remember you have countries (like China or India) pumping millions of programmers per year, and these numbers will increase - due to internet, free access to information, and of course the demand.
Why It's Almost Impossible to Skip a Stone 89 Times
Definitely learned a lot and enjoy the process and thanks for your really important suggestions.

Quote from my introduction blog post:

===

Today we already have some commercial session replay products like Logrocket, Fullstory, etc.

If you are just looking for a ready-to-use tool and would like to pay for its service, I would recommend you to use the above products, because they have well-tested backend services that can store the data for you and perform some higher order features.

===

So I don't think rrweb is a competitor of these commercial products.

Actually, I would like to see rrweb grows into a base of many commercial products in the future, which means it handles most of the privacy and security issues, so the other developers can build many fancy projects base on it without spending time on the hard part again and again.
Well, the compiler can optimize away any superfluous branches which exist entirely to act as hints for the programmer.
Frankenstein at 200
I've got your point.

Just for the sake of nitpicking: both your actual examples have been solved by compilers automatically.

SIMD/AVX: https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Guides/AVX

JVM generates vectorized string instructions from your simple for cycles - if availabe:
http://jcdav.is/2016/09/01/How-the-JVM-compares-your-strings...

edit: my second example link is maybe wrong, but anyway, auto-vectorization is a real thing...
> “Managing” RabbitMQ is not rocket science.

We have many issues with RabbitMQ where most of our workload is background tasks with dozens of queues.

> That’s what cloud providers are for.

What cloud provider queueing system do you recommend?
>This seems like an awful way for one of the highest-tax states in the country to welcome remote workers.

Yes, if your top metric for quality of life is income tax rate, Vermont is not the state for you.
I thought your comment was going to be about UV concerns..
To install on ubuntu if you don't want to build:

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:fish-shell/release-3

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install fish

https://launchpad.net/~fish-shell/+archive/ubuntu/release-3
I'm pretty sure fake media that is really a company posting masquerading as an independent review, or is actually an unflagged advert (ie doesn't show unambiguously that it's an advert) are illegal in the EU.

So, perhaps the "fake looking accounts" is on purpose so as to (arguably) not be fraudulent; as buying well hidden accounts would be a very clear contravention of the law.
It shouldn't really. If they're really common then everyone already knows how to deal with things when the system crashes, it isn't a big deal. What you need to worry about is what happens when the system that has never crashed and that everyone depends on and no one understands goes down.
>Tesla to bail out SolarCity so that SpaceX bond holdings doesn't go bust?

Right... so SpaceX doesn't go bust. Not "so he can personally enrich himself". Nothing I've seen thus far from Elon indicates to me that his decision making is based entirely on his personal net-worth. In fact most of his moves show the exact OPPOSITE - that he doesn't care at all about his personal wealth and he cares about changing the world/completing his vision.

I have absolutely no issues with him using one company to prop up another because he needs both to reach his end-goal. If he was using one company to bail-out a failed investment so his bank account looks a little better I've got a LOT of problems with it.
Mediocre things are useful. They can be much cheaper when you don't require excellence. The part of that quote that's more an indictment of capitalism is that they're inflicting misery and screwing their customers. That's what's not supposed to be profitable.
So they've hired some social media marketing company?
> Apple started the path to normalizing this

[citation needed].

As a consumer, I wasn't able to buy detailed service manuals for cars or TVs for long before I couldn't get one from Apple.
Indeed, or the bots are just scraping the most popular content from the big meme accounts, which all seem to be sharing these Bird Box memes at the moment.
It's amazing how much of a stir the C++20 ranges have caused. Very entertaining to follow.
Ask HN: How to improve your writing in 2019?
Writing advice is easy to find on the web. And, there are classic books available, such as Strunk and White or Bird by Bird.

But, writing is a craft. One must do in order to improve.

What do you plan to start doing, or do differently, in 2019 to advance your writing skills?
A useful idiot is still an asset, perhaps not knowingly.
agreed, if they arrive on our doorstep we've already lost in a military sense, although as in War of the Worlds, maybe some of our microbial friends would come to the rescue
For that matter, there aren't a lot of local banks anymore, either. Post-2008 regulatory reforms killed them all off.

Much ado is made about how out the American intelligentsia are out of touch and I think this line is a pretty good example of why. Taleb would have a field day with this writer
Personal best is about 12 skips
Personally, I'm anti-bootcamp, but I'd argue that many bootcampers are more employable in a junior role on day 0 than many CS grads. (Perhaps the solution is a bootcampish "finishing school" for CS grads where they are taught an in-demand framework or 2?)
In this case you are not giving your data to datascience-school but to Google.

So I'd like to see Google's stories/history and motivations.
The NRA is a great example of this; its president is Oliver North, famously involved in a plot to sell weapons to one enemy of America to illegally support a terrorist organisation in another. I'm sure such an upstanding person has America's best interests at heart. /s
This was my thinking... Ellison spend the early part of Oracle's career overselling, then locking people into a product which they were now stuck with using. It also had the double impact of pricing out honest competitors.

One of the BIGGEST things we need to do is STOP punishing honest companies and politicians.

In the 2008 financial crisis we BAILED OUT banks who basically gambled.

Banks who were honest didn't benefit by being honest. They should have been able to buy up the entire industry at a penny.

The political system has the same issue now. Trump lies and the GOP continues to support him. Honest politicians lose because people want to be told what they already "know" not hard truths.

Their position on coal is a good example.
Actually, we kind of do, in physician assistants. Having in recent years received most of my medical care, including emergency care, from PAs, and only rarely seen an MD, I have to say, I'm not sure you're doing a great job supporting your case - the care I've received from PAs has in no respect been below the standard I'd expect to receive from MDs.
Probably best not to feed the obvious trolls, but I'd imagine somewhat vindicated when the self-same mistakes made by Cavage that took a long time to correct in Triton appeared in Oracle's cloud APIs a few years later.
Does that relate to this case though? The only one who should care about advertising on ArtStation, is ArtStation. Why would google have ads on their phones that care about ArtStation app?

People have the choice to install any given app or not. They don't need to be puritanically mothered.
Incidentally, Applied Cryptography is often critiqued for making crypto seemingly easy and incredibly accessible, which led to some people implementing very nice fails. For practical purposes the later Cryptography Engineering book is probably a better choice.
Jeff Dean has won paper awards. For example, he won the Best Paper Award at EuroSys 2018: http://eurosys2018.org/awards/

Andrew Ng has too: http://www.robotics.stanford.edu/~ang/papers.php

This list just contains a very small number of conferences.
Sounds like a right wing style conspiracy theory to me.
Seems like more of the same. He'll be a hands-off board member. The board will continue letting Elon do whatever he wants, including the occasional Twitter meltdown.
I feel that there are tons of better choices but whatever.
The most likely explanation is that it didn't happen quite like that. The next most likely explanation is that relevant railway employees were in on the scam.
I loved Fish while I used it. I recently stopped using it because I'm writing a lot of documentation. I prefer to do thing using bash or zsh now so I can be sure it will work for others.
We’ve banned the Power 6 in my group. They are just too good, especially Pulley and Inclined Plane.
I think it's a bit better than cargo culting; I'd say it's more like assembly line work. They learn a series of steps for a typically shaped problem.
>They are still not banned from taking cash payments. They are banned from using a specific cash-taking service. It is still possible to set up a PO box to mail cheques to.

That's a de facto ban and you know it. There have been zero cases in which an internet business has kept itself above-water via asking for checks to be sent to a post-office box.

Instead, there should just be a post-office payment processor, operating over the network like all the others, and legally required to serve any customer.
How to Learn Solidity: The Ultimate Ethereum Coding Tutorial
This makes me think of Marimba's Castanet at the dawn of java in 1996 - https://www.wired.com/1996/11/es-marimba/
Funny you should say that mobile users on Reddit have no UX problem with vertical videos. Here is how the above link looks like on my mobile device. Original link (to classic reddit UI), mobile version horizontal, mobile version portrait, respectively: https://imgur.com/a/JU4v3rn
Yeah, a lot of those high mana cost cards from old sets like Legends and The Dark are really bad by today's standards. On the other hand, you have formats like cube draft [1] which let you get play out of pretty much any card throughout MTG's history.

[1] https://mtg.gamepedia.com/Cube_Draft
It could be adapted to postgres. It's just that no one has written the library doing so.
>You would hope that there is still some knowledge of these.

Duck and cover.
Javadoc. It generates warnings if method argument documentation does not line up with the method signature, for example.
How does this differ from HAWQ, Presto, Hive or Impala?
10 Best Startups in Cloud – 2018 (ScaleGrid DBaaS)
Land Rover is Indian, not British - bought by Tata in 2008.
See also this video:

https://youtu.be/AAvLC3fz068
> I don't think a factory line approach works for building software.

Kanban is a factory-line approach, and also the basis of every commonly accepted best practice in software engineering today. I reserve comment on whether that argues for or against the point of yours that I've quoted, but certainly you'll understand why I note that point is likely to be a controversial one.
Great idea!

Link: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/artstation-discove...
(for a single filer)
at $100k income, this lowers the effective state income tax to 0.8%

at $200k income, this lowers the effective state income tax rate to 4.4%

New Hampshire is literally next door and has no income tax.
Mass says they restored 911 by 9am, but I just got an alert at 12 noon saying it's down now...
Hospitals now to post prices
It's more than just the taxes though, because not only are they high, but the salaries are significantly lower than just about every other major metropolitan area in the country, with a relatively similar cost of living to those places (at least comparing Chittenden County/the greater Burlington area).
"Suspiciously low tweet/follower count" seems like an awfully low bar to set for claiming that it's a bunch of bot accounts. Not everyone spends their life making posts on social media.
I don't think the "blue collar" label applies to physician assistants.

https://www.google.com/search?q=physician+assistant+training
Show HN: A POC use of Universal Sentence Encoder to do semantic search of lyrics
Honda sells workshop manuals like they sell parts and tools - you just need to know the code, and you can get it shipped from any dealer who can deliver OEM parts.
Can you provide specifics on Obama's actions re: Israel and Japan that you find objectionable?
The contemporary competitors to the US with different economic fundamentals (China and the USSR primarily) also experienced/inflicted slavery, immoral behavior, and industrial progress, yet they didn't see nearly the same level of economic or societal development for the overwhelmingly vast majority of their population over their time of heavy-handed central planning economics.

If you knew you'd be assigned at birth to a life of 10th to 90th percentile (by status/money/class) in a non-wartime country and it would be US, UK, USSR, or China and your birth year would be 1880, 1900, 1920, 1938, 1960, or 1980, how many would choose the USSR or China?
I agree it's not perfect, but for myself and my family (we all have iPhones, and if you don't have an iPhone in our family, I will happily provide a refurbished one to you) it is superior to all other photo management options out there (Google might shut down Photos one day, Facebook needs no explanation, Smugmug/Flickr UX is woefully inadequate for family photo library management).

One day I hope Apple improves delta/library reconciliation, but for now, it's the best I've been able to find. It Just Works (for the most part).
Immunity debugger is quite useful as well.

Of course, if you really hate yourself, GDB on Windows is a thing...
And when you do want to configure it, you can choose to use either config.fish or the web-based configuration tool. The web tool is very nicely thought out and lets you preview themes and such before you use them.
As an additional tip, I've seen people complain about scp's handling of spaces and other special characters, causing one to use 2 layers of quoting. For example:

scp machine:'"file with spaces"' .

What people don't tend to realize is that this is because scp allows you to specify the remote-side files with remote shell code. For example, to get all pdfs in the remote home directory:

scp machine:'*.pdf' .

To get file.xml and file.pdf from the remote:

scp machine:'file.{xml,pdf}' .

To get the newest file (asumming that it has no whitespace or glob characters):

scp machine:'$(ls -t | head -1)' .

The same, but handling spaces and other characters, but not newlines:

scp machine:'"$(ls -t | head -1)"' .

If you use zsh on the remote machine with extended globs, this is the safest way:

scp machine:'*(oc[1])' .
Larry Ellison... ew... sell your tesla while it still has value.
Have you tried clicking on this GIF?
Fair enough!

Do you think I'm wrong, or do you agree with the veracity of my
observation, but not with the style of its presentation?

If the former, I invite you to study past discussions of the
subject (e.g. googling: site:ycombinator.com
freedom of speech xkcd). If the latter, how do you recommend presenting
such as subject?)
Free Online Tools for Developers
>> The rare dragons and creatures and even rare flowers started to go for more and more money.

It's always strange hearing people who are not into Magic, describing Magic. "Flowers" here refers to Black Lotus- whose defining feature is that it's an artfiact. But, I guess, it's also a flower. So dragons and creatures and "even rare flowers".
What language you have in mind? All the languages I have known or used are drastically unsuited for one or other thing. So they all seem not worth using.
A lot more seems to be pulled out of a hat here, though. At how many bytes per second do you read and interpret regular high-level source code? How do we know there isn't a secret backdoor in the Linux kernel and all of its drivers?

1.6 GB is the total image size - it's not all code, let alone OS or security-critical code. It's not all reversed from scratch every time a new update appears. It's not like the people looking at it are also staring at reams of ARM assembly. Etc, etc.
This is a false equivalency because in a bootcamp most of the learning is in class. In a CS degree program most of it is not.

At a top university, students put in 60 hours a week for 16 weeks every semester.
And even the former apparently isn't guaranteed on all hardware. I found this gem in the Java documentation, I don't know which processors actually do this:

>"Arithmetic operations on signaling NaNs turn them into quiet NaNs with a different, but often similar, bit pattern. However, on some processors merely copying a signaling NaN also performs that conversion. In particular, copying a signaling NaN to return it to the calling method may perform this conversion."

Source: https://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/lang/Double.h...
Still better than Swiss cheese security exploit friendly C.
Isn't this a matter of having mechanics and electricians certified in maintaining electric cars? Presumably as these cars become more popular electricians will flock to this line of work because that's where the demand is going.
You seem to be arguing against the concept of functions in general here.

That's probably not what you mean to say, but I don't find much to really discuss here.

I do like local functions in Python, but I don't see a huge difference from having the called function right below the calling one.
Nim Types
> The title would be better suited if they included a higher number of HPC/ML/etc software engineers (post PhD) that work on larger scale projects in industry/labs.

If someone needs to be a "post PhD" software engineer working on large scale computation projects in industry to be considered "a developer" whose problems with floating point are worth investigating and dealing with, then we have a problem of definition.

Their premise is that if folks in academia are having a hard time with it, then perhaps the training and tooling around floating point needs some reconsideration. That seems very reasonable to me.
"Who is responding to such an event during the government shutdown?" was my first thought. Assuming nefarious intent, now would be an ideal time to stage an attack.
To add to the key point about privacy, this research from Princeton is really illuminating and scary: https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2017/11/15/no-boundaries-exfil...
Anti-Social Network Facebook is helping destroy places that are actually social
Did a crypto company just buy Spanish football club Elche?
The beauty is in the eye of the beholder and is therefore highly subjective.

Apparently, that thing that you find beautiful, I find impractical and therefore only applicable to narrow set of problems and environments.

Speaking of environments, even on PC, I code for GPGPU as well. Due to extreme levels of parallelism, GPU-running code has almost no support for dynamic memory: there’re append/consume buffers there but they’re very limited and not actually dynamic, just a static buffer with thread-safe cursor over them.
How often do you actually drive these long distances? At some point it's much less expensive to just rent a car when you need to travel that far.
I always thought Ellison's role is Lex Luthor :-)
Thanks for the heads up, I am quite aware of Oberon's ecosystem though.

You can check Oberon's history on my website.