skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Government policies related to job creation don't help workers.

They could have used the money to help bootstrap small entrepreneurs but instead, most of that money ends up directly in the pockets of large shareholders and executives. Those few workers who do get some of that money are basically enslaved to these corporations. If a company pays you so little and there are almost no other employment options available for you and you can't afford to lose your job with that company; that's basically slavery.
According to his tweet [1], there is a separate hiring track for front end engineers that does not include that much algorithmic knowledge. I was surprised too.

[1] https://twitter.com/dan_abramov/status/1078658656344903683?s...
Haskell/ml/caml do it better than Ruby.

f 1 2
(f 1 2).thing

Here the parentheses are nothing special, they just hint precedence.

As opposed to

f 1, 2
f(1, 2).thing

Awkward special-case commas and parentheses.
Using these to find aircraft was pretty marginal, but when applied to finding artillery or snipers sound location can be very effective and very accurate. It was used extensively in the later stages of WW1 to deliver counterfire.
At Berkeley we've switched out the SICP-based 61A for a Pythonic 61A, similar to MIT. It certainly hasn't driven away any CS students; on the contrary, the number of CS majors has exploded.
Extremely long lived radioactive waste will, inevitably, have extremely low levels of radioactivity. I.e. not an issue.
Budgeting Guideline for Web Design Start-Ups – SlickAccount Blog
Well said, I was cringing when I was reading the bad advice and you addressed the points very well.

It is so frustrating to hear when someone thinks commenting more and adding humour is somehow cleaning up the code. But to then hear that they are teaching this to juniors just hurts so much.

Simpler advice to juniors would be to read Clean Code by Robert C Martin, apply some of those techniques and then politely ignore “more experienced” developers who think writing humourous essays as code comments is a good thing.

I’ve even heard phrases banded around like “the more comments the better” - I mean seriously WTF.

I like the analogy of...

When in an unfamiliar city, having no map at all is much better than a map that you have no idea whether you can trust or not. Code comments are absolutely that untrustworthy map, doesn’t matter how many code reviews or convoluted PR process takes place, you still need to read the code to know the truth so more effort making the code communicate is the key to maintainable code. Simple things like good variable names and grouping behaviour into functions at the same level of abstraction can completely negate the need for comments.

Comments have their place, but should be the exception not the norm.
Attacking end-to-end email encryption [video]
A Christmas Carol – The Spectres of the Past, Present, and Future
The article mentions Prof. Sussman in "the great macro debate".

This reminded me of a phrasing I once read, but never quite understood, in the "acknowledgement" section of the R4RS Macro appendix:

"Hal Abelson contributed by holding this report hostage to the appendix on macros".

Can anybody who was/is closer to the subject matters explain what this entails?
If it's spread out over the planet, the resulting radiation would be insignificant.
This a thousand times over! Love my Bacchetta. Cuts through headwinds like butter too!
Regarding C, my first language was C and I've always been thankful for that. It helped me understand low-level programming, memory management, pointers, registers, etc. It also helped me better understand how my computer's hardware works. Having C as my first language also gave me a greater appreciation for languages that handle all that complexity for me.

Regarding Python vs. Scheme, I like both languages. I tend to prefer Python for certain types of programming, like NLP, machine learning, and math, just because the available libraries are so good. Having said that, I feel that the functional paradigm is superior to procedural programming and definitely (for me anyway) better than OOP, so for everything else I'd choose Scheme or some other functional language, like Elixir, Elm, Haskell, or Erlang, depending on my mood and what I'm doing.
Give me a billion and I'll write you a policy for $400b. No problemo!
How do you propose that people use a shell without learning about escaping.

How many people actually using fish are liable to be confused.

Its a strange world you seem to be describing where people simultaneously prefer to use mpv in the terminal instead of clicking on a link but can't figure out how to quote the url.

You can actually set it up for example in Firefox so you can open a link in mpv instead and skip a step.

You could trivially make a quoted paste function and bind it in fish.

This fixes the problem for you it would seem.
I'm sorry, but this is wrong. Most people aren't born with a passion for anything. Optimizing for people who are "passionate" excludes a vast set of people who have never been exposed to computer science or programming, but could become interested if taught in an approachable manner.
You're not a very effective communicator.
Unfortunately, both. We ask kids to be on time, every day, sit orderly in their seats. Don't talk to neighbors, you're supposed to be at your job or learning. Collaboration is only allowed when authorized. Looking up information is only allowed when authorized. Any disruption is grounds for punishment, too many notices is grounds for dismissal, er, expulsion.

And then these same kids are sent home and asked to complete creative work, as if we had been training them for a creative job all along. We do not do this, but we expect the results nonetheless. And teachers pat themselves on the back for letting their students "get creative" while upholding the authoritarian system 99% of the time -- which they have to do, because it's their jobs on the line.

So no, those statements are not contradictory.
I think the kid themselves have no motivation and what is happening is their parent projecting their dreams and actually ruining their kid's life and future for years to come.

I am assuming kid will struggle in the top school anyways because of parents not being able to control as much anymore and since self-motivation was never trained it will be hard to do things on your own.

You might say that parents will use same approach in top school as well, but if they had that kind of power I guess they would not need to put their kid into a public school in the first place.
That is a cool idea! If people are piecing together the infrastructure for their lives, the best and most resilient technologies probably involve wiring together with a screwdriver and a pair of pliers existing stuff - basic things that we already have lying around in warehouses today. Fridges, solar panels, inverters, hot water cylinders, raspberry pis, SSRs etc.

I like the way that your project is a kind of glue that hooks up some of these things. I could really see people shipping and using a product like this.
And lisp, just less parentheses
I agree with you entirely but I can also see that the strategy mentioned could be a good bridge (for those who currently litter code with comments) to a better world where comments are rarely needed.
AFAIK the switch to Scheme is not complete, no? You're still writing Python for the most part.
I'm a big fan of getting final exports at whatever the studio recorded the multitrack at. For fully digital music, meaning, fully in a DAW with synthetic almost everything, please give me the highest bit depth and sample rate. For old music, don't bother, classic rock or stuff like that, a high bit version would just be somebody "remastering" it and faking quality where there never was any. I don't understand the space argument for this either nor do I get the reaching in comparison to wavelength of light and video capture. It's simple, if the studio recorded everything in 32/192 then at least make a 24/96 available for download and purchase.
Alliance Air to Fly on Pantnagar-Dehradun Route from Jan
Over your own property, yes, Don't tell me I have to pay for your "free" (aka taxpayer subsidized) on-street parking. Or stop me from turning a lovely old 4 bedroom home in a nice neighbourhood in to two apartments because you want to live on a skidpad.
+1 for the electrostatic speakers. I bought a used pair of Martin Logans about ten years ago and I'm still totally in love with them. The model is Aerius i and they are from '99. Paid 1350 euros for them.
So not a blind test at all then, and just as easily biased as the expensive wooden knob that subjectively was so much better.
> Australia

As an anecdote, close to where I live is a suburb called Wellard. They basically have a small shopping district (One Woolies, Subway, Pizza shop, Cafe, Postie etc) right next to the train station. In fact, walking out of the train station, you're bound to walk through the shopping area as that's sort of the way people walk to get to their houses. Its kinda perfect position.

What they did was to simply make it that street between the shops is closed to cars on the weekends. Its an amazing place during that time, and allow people to set up stalls in the parking lots around the road. Its an awesome place to just sit and talk on a weekend. The parking is behind the shops so its not like one can't get there on a car either.

The speed on the road during normal days is also something like 20-30km/hr and they have that brick-like road which means driving your car fast on the road isn't that fun.
Demolish the parking.
> How does austerity (reducing government expenditures in order to control/safeguard public-sector debt) cause the end of a recession (shift from negative to positive GDP growth rate)?

One of the key factors was that the national trade balance became net positive during the period, as the private sector was pushed to invest in exports, but I'm sure the issue is much more complex and can't be pinned down to a single cause.

Nevertheless the undisutable fact is that the recession that started in 2008 and caused the then acting government to nearly bankrupt the state in 2011 with their record public spending push, piling yearly deficits of over 10%, ended in 2014 during the third year of the bailout program. That fact is somehow ignored by anti-austerity critics who insist that no recovery is possible when reality shows otherwise.
Is this a product of supply and demand?
I am responding to the comment where OP of comment thought there was racial bias. You may be right about Editorializing though.
The Battle for Digital Supremacy
Your arguments hold true for a regular run of the mill software project. Many real world projects are hardly ideal.
So.. don't? Not sure what the problem is here.

Out of respect for property rights though, please don't make it illegal for your neighbour to do this to their home should they choose.
There are a number of tax breaks for foreigners, meaning effectively if you have not live in Portugal for 5 years you do not pay hardly any tax. This is dependent on you getting good advice.
As an aging dude I know my productivity and adapatibility is declining and I am not worth paying as much to employ as 10 years ago.

Sorry, but that’s nothing to do with your age, that’s on you. The rest of us leverage experience to work smarter not harder. The ageism we face is prejudice and bigotry, not a rational reaction.
The movie was an absolute delight to watch. This is one movie that's worth starting a Netflix trial over. I absolutely love it that the first interactive film you can watch right now is a Black Mirror film.

A reddit user mapped all the decisions: https://www.reddit.com/r/blackmirror/comments/aa9oym/almost_...
Could you help explain why? I really don't see any connection between NN and this story.

I understand that NN is an important issue for the BigCos employing many HN users, but I'm not really convinced we need their talking points to be brought up in every single vaguely network related thread.
Seems like Messenger is getting WeChat-ized - in China, WeChat [0] is your one-stop shop to getting anything done - chatting, following celebrities, booking housekeeping, payments, even "mini-programs". And now many Western messaging apps are starting to take inspiration from this [1].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WeChat

[1]: https://blog.ycombinator.com/lessons-from-wechat/
I don't really care if it's pro or against, both sides are primarily pushed by corporate stooges.

Despite the huge push by ISPs and massive media companies like Google, FB and Amazon, this stuff isn't actually really relevant to normal people.

The conversation surrounding NN has been totally poisoned by corporate interests, even here you constantly see comments suggesting that the internet will be destroyed without NN regulations.
I hope you realize that data like these can’t support a contention like yours.
The client you download tells you, by giving you an accurate recent snapshot of the state.
Whwn the vikings settled Dublin they set up some huts along the river.

Therefore the riverfront should be low density huts forever I guess.
I don't like to tell people how to live.

My plan is to live cheaply through my 20s, 30s and 40s, and put away money so that I can continue to do that forever, without really needing a lot of money because my wants and expenses are low.
If this a symptom of bad hiring practices in your organization of representative across the tech industry? How do you know your org isn't to blame?
Kids play hockey on the street I live on, basketball too. When I had the GTI I'd try to park it in such a way as to shield it a bit in my driveway. I'd however Never say anything to them... when I was their age we played Hardball in the street.
Congratulations on being a polyglot! In my opinion, all programmers should be polyglots, since some languages are better than others at various tasks. A programmer who only knows one language seems a lot like a carpenter who is only skilled with measuring tapes to me.
>Sounds like doctorsplaining

Sounds like userblaming. Works wonders when the users aren't the ones choosing the software to use, or have much input.
An archival node goes beyond a full node and downloads data not needed for full validation.
> sounds like a privileged position that is unrealistic for many teachers

Well sure, he lives in Australia which has much, much better working conditions than the USA.

It sounds like your girlfriend is being taken advantage of and working in a situation that is not to her benefit. In which case she needs to start looking for a new job!
Let's Learn: Heap Allocation in x86 Assembly Language
Dynamically allocating hardware to different services makes sense for self managed DCs too. Breaking down cost per service of team is useful, as is seeing how much hardware is necessary for peak and trough I imagine.

I wouldn’t be surprised if on NYE services like chat take priority and get extra resources from background jobs that can wait a few hours.
Show HN: Awesome Bitcoin Payment Processors
But I don’t get this untouchable concept. Lava is untouchable. Deep oceans are unreachable. Why is it a requirement that we have to be able to go and touch every single spot on earth? What is the problem with having one minuscule location on earth where you are not supposed to go and stock pile this material there? It is contained, we have full control over it, unlike the immense volumes of chemicals currently released in rivers or the atmosphere. And there are already countless locations where you are not supposed to go because it is private or military property, polluted with chemicals, or too cold or too warm for humans, or a protected natural reserve, etc.

I don’t think waste is a legitimate concern of nuclear energy, as long as they are stored and protected responsively. The risk of an uncontained explosion of a reactor is a more legitimate concern. But I understand many modern designs like molten salt reactors reduce this risk to pretty much zero.
I do, here's some info.

https://www.engadget.com/2008/03/03/audiophiles-cant-tell-th...
So one has to trust distributors of the software?

I mean it’s been known about PoS systems since inception, it’s just funny how it’s supporters never like to admit it.
Better in the sense that people would match their spending to a realistic lifetime income.
That isn’t what happens in my personal experience!

- management always looks after management

- individuals job performance is irrelevant if an entire location or business line is closing

- sacking key workers then discovering it after the fact and paying far more for contractors/outsourcing is common
Hem, Python is more complex than Scheme... And even if it sound far easier to start, especially for people that already know some imperative language, you need to understand a lot more things for a proper start. And after you have to learn more things that are peculiar to Pyhton, not programming in general...
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Bitcoin nodes could download the most recent UTXO index too. Validating the entire history is necessary in both if you want to trust nothing except the client code you're given.

An archival node in Ethereum goes beyond a full node, and stores data not needed to do full validation.

A full node in Ethereum needs to download about 80 GB I believe, which is a tenth of what an archival node needs to download and store.
Incase if anyone is looking for the uber blog post.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16887276
This was downvoted, perhaps because people read your comment as being dismissive or contemptuous of her achievements, which I don't think you really meant to do.

I think the point you meant to make is that being a senior manager at a big company doesn't rate highly enough to warrant a dedicated Wikipedia page - which is more a comment on Wikipedia's notability criteria.

Let's agree that it is impressive and commendable for her to have achieved such a level of seniority at Walgreen's.
This piece made me realise one thing: the most valuable part of my knowledge is not systematized.

To put it in a different way: If someone asked me what I know I couldn't show it in any other way than "watch this".
During our copy-on-write we also do not necessarily store the whole record-page (leaf page with data/records), but depending on the versioning algorithm only changed records since some past state. The sliding snapshot algorithm for instance (with a sliding window) is very clever in balancing read-/write-performance.
Power audiophiles don't do digital. Noise is a very real thing in analog. Go to any rehearsal studio and ask about the power conditioning: almost sure they're not using power as coming from the steet.
Accept all what? If you're a regular business and aren't tracking your users, you (probably) don't need to show anything at all. As the article says, consent is just one of six legal bases for storing user data.

I disagree that the GDPR is "so much hassle". Just look at the checklist in the article, it's nothing special.
This hasn't been the case for me so far. I don't know how old you are, but I'm 50 years old and don't feel I'm winding down.
If anything, I feel more focused. In fact, I'm often frustrated with the younger crowd for wasting time at work playing video games and grooming their My Little Pony dolls.
Nice, I remember building a scanner with LEGO Dacta at one point. So cool.
Well maybe people are paid pretty close to what they are actually worth already in their 30s and 40s and the problem is their spending doesn't match their income over their lifetime.

If you know you are going to be facing a declining or no income from your 50s onwards you might save more and spend less when you are younger.
Not sure why you got downvoted, I've seen crappy electricity in my own home office after I got a UPS for my computer system. It would have its fans kick in regularly to modulate the voltage that came in at a crazy high ~255v (Australia).

I got the APC
Line-R 1200VA Line Conditioner With AVR installed in front of the UPS and couldn't be happier now - it steps down the voltage and gives the UPS peace of mind.

Try the APC, not the most expensive thing but it's worked well for me.
I recommend Whole Earth Disciple by Stewart Brand. One of the founders of the environmental movement explains why he was wrong about nuclear power and other issues.

“We are as gods, and have to get good at it.”
The "dynamics" of SoCal are atrocious, you get the privelege of wasting your life away in traffic to do the simplest things.

Public transit is a bad joke too, the light rail in LA waits for cars to pass at intersections! I've never seen that in other metros, as rail always gets signal priority, but it is a great way to drive away riders...
Entitlement issues (2009)
I've found it very helpful to rubber duck comments to get into the right why mode. Consider how you'd explain this piece of code to a less experienced guy on the team - and write down exactly that. Why was this added? Why was the old thing in place changed, what broke and had to be changed? Why didn't you do the other obvious thing? And remember - usually you should explain something until it's clear for you, and then one more step.
Yes but you have to trust the distributors of the software anyway, even in PoW.
You say “check merkle proof”, how do you know what it’s supposed to be? Trust somebody gives you the right hash?

There is no difference between BTC’s UTXO model and Ethereum’s account model in this sense - both are aggregate structures and to have full certainty the aggregate you’re looking at is correct you have to run through all the transactions.

To speedup sync in BTC it is assumed that blocks older than some amount of YEARS are valid but you still have to go through their transactions to build up the aggregate UTXO set.

In ETH instead it is common to just download the result and trust it’s valid. And since it’s now impossible to sync from origin you can never tell if some account doesn’t have ether created from nothing.
One way is to over-allocate in the first place. When your spare pool is draining below a watermark, you scale in. Hopefuly there is enough time for that scale event to complete before the pool drains completely.
We have the opportunity now, to decide to not kill everything bigger than bacteria. We could shutdown nukes, and store the waste. Or we could go for broke - if we go extinct - everything goes extinct.
No it is purely ageing. I am very lucky to start from a high base, but I am still not as good today as I was 10 years ago.

I have leveraged my skill and experience so I earn far more today than I did 10 years ago, but being honest with myself I know I am past my productivity peak. I wish it was otherwise as there is nothing good about getting older.
That's only true in some instances for some combination of high margin, not easily reproducible, or low volume products that serve wealthy purchasers.

The reason Walmart killed everyone was because purchasers valued saving a few dollars rather than being taken care of by employees. Similarly with airlines, which Branson wasn’t really able to expand beyond the wealthy NYC-LA-SF routes.
SmartNotes
Smart Notes is a mobile application that can be used to create, save and edit notes just like every other note application but it also has other features that differentiate it from the others.
Like voice control function which allows you to perform actions with your voice.
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Rich set of react styled components