skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve had that feeling, and I started making an effort to improve myself. I started time-tracking my side projects (“you can’t improve what you don’t measure”), scheduling time for learning, and set up an automatic summary sent on email every week.

It didn’t work for me at all, and ended up basically killing every joy in my side projects. If I missed a scheduled hour (because I was doing something else fun) I felt like a failure. I could only focus on “I should be working on x” instead of actually thinking about x.

These days I try to not worry too much about what I should learn/produce, and rather work on what interests me at the time. I’m probably not learning at the most effective rate, but at least I’m having fun.
Google Drawings are convenient for their collaboration and ability to include in other Google docs, but I've mostly found that it seems optimized to produce ugly diagrams. It takes extra work to make things look lined up well.

I use it for the easy collaboration, but miss OmniGraffle every time I do.
What I learned at work this year
I'd say companies exist to provide value to society, and profits are an incentive provided by said societies, which allows them to operate in the first place.

> The solution is often to try to align the incentives of the company with your own, with public shaming campaigns like this one.

Which is probably why it got flagged off the front page by people who won't say why they did that. They forget that the internet's ability to "route around problems" is really just a shadow of the ability of people and life in general to do that, and that trying to suppress local solutions just widens the area to be routed around.
What the flag is CTF?
When Bubbles Burst, Consider the Anti-Bubble
I wonder how these researchers would have been able to find this out if the servers were not clearly identifiable as being Facebook's.

Also, what happens if Facebook starts to introduce strong(er) incentives for app developers to share user data?
Maybe add an abstract and more schematic illustrations as it became very wordy after you’ve dealt with basic PCA and SVD.
Mining company says first autonomous freight train network is fully operational
How Times Reporters Froze a Fatal Moment on a Protest Field in Gaza
Fluid dynamicist here. I wasn't aware of the machine learning work you've mentioned. They're addressing an important problem, but I'm disappointed in the paper based on a brief look. I see no comparison against experimental data (validation). Indeed, the cases the authors compute most likely have no corresponding experiments, but do look cool. I'd recommend that the authors learn more about verification, validation, and uncertainty quantification for fluid dynamics. And I'd encourage all machine learning folks approaching CFD to present your work at both fluids and machine learning conferences. I think problems like this would be reduced or fixed entirely by more interactions with fluid dynamicists.

Another smaller recommendation. What they call a "MAC grid" is called a staggered grid or mesh by CFD folks in my experience, so it might be better to use this terminology instead. The reference they cite is also out of date. I'd recommend something like this instead: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S002199919...

This newer paper has higher order extensions of the method the 1965 paper uses and as I recall goes into much more detail about the properties of the schemes.
Thoughts of a thinking bot
Or... they could just not do anything. They're payment processors and moving legal funds is their purpose. Nobody knows they underpin a lot of these payments and being invisible infrastructure is their advantage.

Getting involved makes everything worse as now a larger population knows what's happening. It's a perfect example of the Streisand effect.
There is a massive propaganda machine pushing against any sort of universal health care here. The idea that not everyone deserves care is definitely one of the angles they push. Another angle is that socialized medicine is garbage, a view which tends to confuse people who have lived with it.
18 + 4 + 10 = 32

You actually have 18 years of experience, making you 40 years of age, and you're listing only the most recent ~10 years. They have no practical means to accurately figure out your age from that resume. The best it can do is slightly help you avoid the first layer of age-based screening.
The descriptions so far about this problem are either at 30000 foot vagueness or they're in technical shorthand that just assumes the audience is 100% pro network engineers.

Don't "bad packets" get dropped at the first switch? Isn't that one of the main benefits of packet based switching?

Was this even an ethernet packet or something else like an optical transport protocol (eg OTN)?
Thanks, first time I hear of it! Link: https://www.yworks.com/products/yed
But what are the chances that the college hire who had became the wizard is still in that same company after 10 years? It's ridiculous to hire with that kind of long-term expectations.
There's lots of new stuff, but (luckily?) very little of it is worth learning. The universe of software is divided into worlds which were each founded with a certain set of assumptions, often long in the past, and everything that comes after is a test of how those assumptions apply to various real problems as they arise. They are essentially (social science) experiments in progress. The latter-day activities of one world are (almost) always inapplicable to other worlds. (The exceptions are very few, for example testing approaches, reactive programming, some functional techniques have managed to spread across worlds).

If you're going for excellence in your world, which is usually the goal of the staff programmer, you're better off focusing on the details of the world you're in - new libraries, releases, details of governance etc. Yes you should learn new languages now and again, to dip your toe in other worlds; that's foundational and good and keeps you agile. But most of the stuff you see on HN isn't foundational, and so you don't really need to pay attention to anything not happening on your world.
Unfortunately these kinds of shitty recruiters and companies will always be around - none of them are thinking about lofty societal goods like family or what happens 40 years later, they are thinking about how to get the most work for the lowest price for their company. As long as droves of young people continue to flock to tech to try and get their share of the money, hiring is a buyers market. Throwing out old people or young people who dare to demand work-life balance will remain a viable strategy for the buyers and many will do just that.
Do I really have to explain this?
I use yED, for quite some time now
This article is very incomplete and very late, because this Patreon story has been known for weeks among those who listen to non-MSM podcasts funded by Patreon. I suspect it's damage control for Patreon.

For more complete information, listen to Tim Pool. [0]

0. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=timcast+patreon
Is mpv [0] better in this regard?

0: https://mpv.io/
Intel's NUC bricks come in two varieties: prebuilt and bring your own memory, storage and OS. The latter does not impose a Windows license fee and as long as you're running kernel 4 all the hardware is generally supported, although I see running Ubuntu combined with a thunderbolt switch doesn't work.

Sporting laptop-class processors these are not powerhouse machines and fall below the latest Mac Minis in performance. But for a development platform they can be plenty, particularly the newer models that ditch classic SATA for two NVME slots.
Side note: I noticed that these days articles from Chaos Computer Club get into the top quite often?
Close. But I think it's more along the lines of:

"This kid (i.e., recent grad) reminds me of me. My shit doesn't stink. With my care, I bet his won't either."

vs

"There's no way I wanna be that old guy / gal. I deny the fact that he / she could be my future."

Basically, ego vs fear.

I suspect this confirmation bias contributes to various isms. Racism, sexism, etc. That is, they are not me, and I refuse to see they can be me.
NASA TV and the NASA New Horizons social media channels are now online
The Cursed Child is about coming to terms with the legacy of Harry Potter (2016)
These statistics all measure the wrong things.

Let me tell you a story of two families. My step-dad was thrust into a parenting role over his siblings, a sister and a brother at an early age. The brother died early, in a train accident. My step-dad married my mother and they're still together, over 20 years later. His sister is on her second marriage.

My aunt's family is constantly teetering on the edge of poverty, having obliterated their family's nest egg over decades of stupid decisions. Our family clawed our way out of low class through pragmatic saving.

Stupid decisions are what make the difference between affluence and poverty in the US. You can have all the money in the world and still be broke. The capacity to make stupid decisions largely comes from childhood. It's the emotional makeup of a household that mostly determines what children are like when they get older. If you grow up in America feeling neglected and abused, you're going to go through strings of bad relationships and that's just going to be your life.

I call America's brand of poverty "emotional poverty." Food on the table, roof over your head, cable TV and video games for entertainment, all things people in other parts of the world can't reliably have, in the US pretty much come out of the tap like water. Even homeless people here have cell phones.

No, what's missing here is emotional warmth. People in the US just can't figure out for some reason how to treat each other well. They eat, but they don't live.

If you're lucky enough to avoid emotional poverty, then you can join America's middle class. If not, you'll fritter away all the money you ever make. It's got nothing to do with how much money your family has and everything to do with how they treat each other.

No statistic could possibly capture this reality.
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That's the Feynman algorithm, not technique: https://badarabbas.com/2013/07/30/feynman-pauli/
Only because employers don't orient pay and promotion schedules around market rates and experience levels.

If you're ten years at the same company, it's exceptional that you couldn't get an offer for significantly more money. Paying "market rate" is a policy for new hires, not existing devs as much.
> It'll make your case stronger

the case to whom? the primary message from the post is that there is likely no human being who will look at this again (and based on the robotic 24h + 1min timestamp on the email, the question is whether one ever did in the first place).
Did you really emulate all the conditions published in the page? I seriously doubt it. Otherwise all your claims are speculation and moot.
What are the downsides, load time aside?
The distinction between valley culture and everywhere else is never made in these pieces which is a pity. I work in fortune 500s and we’re all 40+ in these companies. I rarely see 20s.
> nothing can matter beyond the spatial extent of your body

Insofar as the spatial extent of a body is extended by its brain's perception and knowledge ...

... the quoted words form a true statement.
Your Backlog Isn't a To-Do List – It's Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
We ended up going with the Kia Niro as it had more trunk space and features for the price, and was a hybrid, I do like the looks of those Konas though.
This question seems to pop on HN every other month. I very much share the frustration- after trying every product under the sun I always end up coming back to Sketch, which is suboptimal to say the least. I tried to think what is it about Sketch (which isn't meant for diagraming) that makes it the best tool for the job, this is what i came up with: (1) it's native/fast (2) keyboard shortcuts (3) simple shapes / no "component overload" (4) pretty results. So for fun (and profit) I decided to write my own diagraming tool, with those points in mind. It's Mac only, very much work-in-progress and built specifically to replace Sketch in my workflow. If anyone's interested (in working on this, testing, whatever) - hit me up at my username here @ gmail.
You touched a different but very important issue: in this industry you need to recycle yourself, you need to stay up to date with new technologies that overcome the old ones. Being old doesn't necessarily means being obsolete, but you need to deliberately avoid obsolescence. Sometimes the new shiny things are actually good.

Some technologies fade and you should avoid fading with them. Assembly programming has become a niche for people that write compilers. FORTRAN is giving space to R and Python. Very few people still write COBOL.
> I find it difficult to hire senior developers for junior positions with the salary that goes with it.

Make the offer. If they turn it down, let them know they can change their minds later.

I always tell engineers looking for jobs that saying "no" is the employer's job. It goes the other way too. Offer the engineer the associate engineer job (or whatever the title is). Let them counteroffer or decide it's a bad fit.
If you’re at a startup that’s struggling where hiring decisions are made on superstition, you might be the unlucky one...
Ipe extensible drawing editor
A simple and elegant tab manager for Chrome
Classic innovator's dilemma at play here.

Bolt was a decent, but not that great, EV that was being sold at a significant loss in order to stop the Tesla Model 3 hype. However, GM obviously didn't intend to sell hundreds of thousands or millions of them, because that would've meant billions in losses.

The second issue is the same as always that EV makers other than Tesla will continue to experience - dealers have no interest in trying too hard to sell EVs (or at all, for that matter). GM and other carmakers continue to underestimate this problem at their own peril. Their "customers" here are actually the dealerships, and these customers have little interest in EVs.
Solar system explorer
> I began to realise that Jean had a certain collection of tools, heuristics, and principles that he regarded as “basic”, such as dyadic decomposition and the uncertainty principle, and by working “modulo” these tools (that is, by regarding any step consisting solely of application of these tools as trivial), one could proceed much more rapidly and efficiently.

Does anybody know what those "basic" tools and heuristics are? Has anybody created a list of them somewhere for others to understand the papers more easily?
As mentioned by another commenter, it’s not actually easy to tell in an interview if someone is a “wizard”. And in fact if that someone has experience different from yours, you are even less well equipped to make that determination. It’s a sad irony that the person best equipped to contribute something new to the team is often overlooked exactly because the team doesn’t recognize their differing expertise as valuable.
I am worried that this tax is partially based on jealousy and envy. I'm not so sure we should create a very complex tax system to specifically target companies and industries we feel deserve to pay more. Eventually this will end up a very complex tax system where nobody feels they are treated fairly.

If tax avoidance is legal, is it really tax avoidance? We've had leftist and rightist governments for 30 years saying they want to close tax loop holes, but they seem to be unable to create a system that works and successfully makes large corporations pay tax on profits.

I agree that it's messed up that Facebook and Apple make all their profits on tax havens, but I'm concerned that we are a bit too narcissistic by believing we can create a complex tax system that will solve this.

Humans have a dark side and seem completely unaware that their believes are driven by self-interest, envy and hate rather than making systems that work.
While I'm not a tax expert, our startup is currently building a platform to help with payouts and tax rules. As I understand it, all you need is to get a W9 from the US resident and then file a 1099-MISC annually for him. He may be subject to tax withholding -- but that's all in the instructions on the IRS forms.
I also wonder why for example the Chinese or heck the Cubans didn't discover this before, who have less of a corporate interest.

Ibuprofen (And Naproxen, etc...) is one of the most common drugs all around the world. I think most people I know have taken them at least once in their lifetimes.

It's just all too weird. Is this all a malignant cover up by the industry? Don't know what to say, especially considering this was released 1 year ago and afaik no more research has been conducted on this.
I am using

1. Dia: Its FOSS and gives TeX output also

2. LibreOffice Draw

3. Inkscape
It is because of 35c3: https://events.ccc.de/congress/2018/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
It wasn't published in Nature; it was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science.

The rebuttal was also not published in Nature, but it was closer, published in Nature Reviews Urology.

I think the main basis for the criticism is that they didn't look at clinical outcomes like infertility or ability to conceive. As a result, we only have a (very robust) report of a relationship between ibuprofen and hormone levels, not between ibuprofen and x, where x is some directly important/meaningful clinical outcome.
> Think of the way older women are treated as "grandmas". They can be shoehorned into a role they may not want to play.

The (American) Jewish term of endearment for a female baby is bubbeleh, which translates roughly as "tiny future grandmother." On the surface it might look like shoehorning, but I think it's meant to be aspirational more than limiting. There may (or may not) be something similar at play here.
Very interesting idea. Basically like mind maps but you can have structured content (eg: lists) in the nodes?
+100, thanks for emphasizing the importance of family for the next generation.
JetBrains Intelli-J Rust Changelog #89
This is great. I always want to give credit and show off the technologies I use but never quite know what is appropriate. This makes it easier!
35C3, CCC's annual main conference is currently going on.
If you are 40+ you kinda expected to have a network. We have a dude pushing 70 he would be able to get a new job the day he would let people know he would consider switching a job.
Olbers' paradox
>Sure, but adequate and auditable documentation need not involve the patient nor money.

Since almost all healthcare in the US is private (hospitals, doctors, clinics, etc.) then, yes, it needs to involve money since all those entities will want to get paid. And, no, the government can't take it all over since everyone will fight it (and win).

>Just a "here is the medical care we dispersed, on this date, to this person, it took these resources, these people administered the care." No following up every record for payments, no arguing with insurance companies over the price.

This is basically existing medical billing without the follow through (what was done, why, when and by whom). Not sure why you think money (ie: paying hospitals, doctors, etc.) needs to be removed from the equation for it to work.

>The only reason there is medicare fraud to worry about right now is because not everyone is supposed to be on it, the "fraud" is attempting to get free health care. Which wouldn't exist if everyone had it.

Fraud is also doctors, hospitals, etc. billing for things they didn't do or didn't need to do.
In that era workstations weren’t the same things as desktops. They were an entirely different class of computers and often workstations just ran server OSs with a nicer UI (Next, SGI, etc). So you’re point about workstations doesn’t invalidate what I was saying about NT not originally targeting desktops.
What to build when you are building?
Not @avip, but I’m 47 and definitely feeling the time/family responsibilities crunch. Our parents have all just turned 70+/-2, we have two smart kids in elementary school who need to be fed almost every single day :), a house/yard instead of apartment, everyone’s healthy, but just managing school, activity, and holiday calendars is grueling. In my 20s and 30s, I could code like hell, have time to devote to learning new thing in depth, and play on 4-5 sports teams. Now, I’m still able to function almost the same mentally, but there are 20-40 fewer “free” hours in the week.

Something has to give and we’ve decided it’s not the kids... I wouldn’t go back and change anything, but it’s not the same.
The socialists and democrats are a truly hilarious bunch.
Living and working in the Boston tech market, I have a lot of thoughts about Ageism. It's very much alive and well here. There's also a severe case of Elitism if you didn't go to MIT or Harvard, too. I'd like to think more about this and write dome some elegant thoughts, but...

I'll sum it up as it's a little humbling but massively humiliating. It's extremely frustrated being interviewed by people with obviously way less experience and people applying their hiring "playbook" without much thought. I'm pretty sure many companies hiring is explicitly catered to aging people out, or at least setting a different bar for older engineers.

Also, when I do get a job offer it's for quite a bit lower salary that much younger, less experienced people who are two or three years out of school are making in this market. It's almost as if the tech industry wants most of the people to have two or three years experience.

I've been equating it to working in Hollywood to some.

Still trying to figure out where I went wrong in my career, but as others have said below, not all startups you work for succeed, not all companies you create succeed, lock-up periods, senior executive corruption (I worked for a publicly traded company where the CFO actually went to jail), etc.
How to invest your time properly
As mention by others, the protocol doesn't handle consensus synchronization. The implementation of the protocol (JavaScript in this case) must apply all the mutations in the correct version order:
https://github.com/DistributedObjectProtocol/protocol#exampl...
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
- Albert Einstein
Getting You There: Your C++ Standardization Efforts in 2019
>3-5 years is a pretty long stretch in this industry.

That's a rather SV-centric view. Otherwise 5-10 years (or longer) is quite normal, including in tech. At many companies, a bunch of 3 year stints for a job candidate is something of a red flag.
It's obvious you're being provocative on purpose but I don't see this leading to any fruitful discussion. Maybe try a more constructive approach next time.
The problem, is that's not how our mind work. Our brain keep the habits that are rewarding period.
If you use your willpower you will get tired of them and you will find a way to stop.

I am trying https://www.selfauthoring.com/ from Jordan Peterson. In this case, it's not about habits, but by writing about your worsts and best parts and thinking about how your life can be better or worst relative to what you do with them.

You make the reward/punishment apparent and you let your mind do build the habits for you.