skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can speak of similarities. Both in India and China, programmers are basically 'bred' out of an assembly line like education system. Which means you find programmers with no passion or love of their craft. Which means it's rare to find good natural programmers, which you do in western countries because it's pretty much based on meritocracy rather than degrees.This shows in code quality and how projects are handled.

So from my point of view its a cultural problem in both countries where the likes of IIT graduates are preferred over a simpleton with great passion, skill and knowledge of the craft.
CrossFit. I won't make any claims to CrossFit being intrinsically better than any other fitness program, but it works for me, primarily in the sense of "the best workout program is the one that you do." I was an on-again-off-again runner and weight lifter for 20 years--get inspired by the New Year or a new workout partner--only to burn out or get bored after a few months, year after year. My CrossFit track record isn't perfect either, but it's much, much better, which I attribute to the variety of the workouts, the breadth of the exercises and the community itself. It's not for everyone, it's not without flaws, and there are other "functional fitness" options these days, but it beats the hell out of what I was doing before.
Teesir
Is it known whether this was a deliberate political statement in response to recent events in China, or just a festive holiday joke intended to be harmless?

Given the current state of affairs in China, I’m inclined to believe this was political. If that’s true, many of the other comments here debating the need for professionalism in FOSS may be missing the point. It could be argued that this fits into the same category as the malicious hijacking of libraries on NPM, although I agree with the political statement being made here.

A more appropriate debate may be whether it’s acceptable for FOSS libraries to protest human and civil rights violations.
Wow. Just read a chunk of them and they're pretty good. I don't remember reading them before.

Hold on...
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You can work around that - I'm an introvert and find dealing with people hard work, but I'm still in a client facing consulting role right now and actually enjoy it.

For me the trick is to avoid pretending I'm an extrovert, which is something I feel a lot of fellow introverts are doing.

Put me in front of a whiteboard or on stage at a conference and I'm fine, but I still tend to hide out in dark corners at parties.
If you run a project off a Dropbox directory you would want .env and similar files excluded. You don't want someone to get your AWS keys?
Amazon doesn't give me an option for who ships packages I order from them. It's a fairly round-robin distribution of fedex, ups and usps to where I live out in the sticks.

If there was an option to pick your carrier, with say a list like such:

* USPS
* Fedex
* UPS
* Amazon Logistics
* DHL
* Living Wages Carrier Inc

I could then direct my money to go towards the companies I favor. That would be a free(er) market, so to speak. There's no irony involved here.

Then again, I'd probably just pick UPS anyway, since Amazon doesn't have delivery drivers that come out this way.
If the rest of your system has adapted to assume that a certain address space is non-executable, suddenly making it executable might cause a bit of a headache.
But did the world really move from Java to Node/Python?
There is restic
Fog computing
i suspect that the 10x thing is highly dependent on problem domain and expertise in a specific field, a person may get to be very good at say frontend, but if he moves on to another domain he may be much less effective.

maybe there are people who are 10x across the board, can't be ruled out.
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What do you do? What was the pay then? What is the pay now?
Rockstars are definitely a thing in real life. They may have long hair or tight clothes. They sing or play instruments and are often surrounded by fans. Unfortunately I’ve never seen one involved in computers.
Blame the 24 hour news cycle.
High performance driving coach. I've done some of that as a volunteer for a car club I'm a member of and I really enjoy it.

Downside is that if anything, there's even more travel than I have with my current job.

Another option I tend to look into from time to time is sourcing and inspecting classic cars and motorcycles for overseas (ie, non-US) buyers. That's something that I've done occasionally as well, but it's very cyclic work.
> "With these small, tender acts, called “serjainties,” lords retained the claims to their grand estates."

I googled "serjainties" and the only results are links to this article. I'd have thought that someone in the history of the internet would have also recorded such a weird word...
If I were to pick one of these. BATNA has been the most profitable one for me. It's truly amazing what this unlocks in negotiations if you have actively considered it.
I did consulting for awhile. I spent a lot of time selling myself - something I don't enjoy.
> It sounds like you are already an "atheist" of the wood burning debate

As Sam Harris wrote

> We love everything about it: the warmth, the beauty of its flames, and—unless one is allergic to smoke—the smell that it imparts to the surrounding air.

That describes me. As a kid I loved playing with fire, a lot.

> I am sorry to say that if you feel this way about a wood fire, you are not only wrong but dangerously misguided.

I am happy to confirm that even after knowing that it's toxic, the above facts don't change, it just means I would probably not indulge in it. I changed my position regarding this on a dime, without the least resistance, while Harris was still talking abour troubles I did not experience, -- I didn't already have it. If it "sounds" that way to you, then simply take my word that it's not true. This is the first time I heard of this, and I was paying attention to my feelings just as instructed. I detected new information, but no resistance. Then impatience as it seemed there might be no point, then amusement when there was none. I can be very convinced of something and still not identify with it, maybe that's the reason.

> I have discovered that when I make this case, even to highly intelligent and health-conscious men and women, a psychological truth quickly becomes as visible as a pair of clenched fists: They do not want to believe any of it.

If it's some kind of "psychological truth" -- supposedly general and not individually different for each of these persons about none of whom we learn any detail -- so what is it? You say "intended audience" -- what are its features?

Sam Harris spends a lot of effort on the padding and decoration, but none on the actual meat, that's what I see. If the truth is that "people can't accept new information when it contradicts something they like", then I hereby proved it wrong. I'm not sure why his anecdotes, with not one conversation recorded, would make a valid point that can't even be spelled out so it might be falsified, but my experience falsifying what the point (whatever it may be) is based on, just doesn't count because I'm not "the intended audience". That's fine, but I still overheard it, that's why I responded ^^

> Of course, if you are anything like my friends, you will refuse to believe this.

So is that the psychological truth, being "anything like", or "totally unlike someone"? Fine, so I and Sam Harris are "nothing like" his friends (since he wouldn't be able to write the blog post if he "was committed to living in a world where wood fire smoke is not toxic"), so that's the one positive claim, and even if it's true, it contains no information, no signal.

> I think it's a good summary having read the article but not really enough to get the point across for the intended audience.

If you know what that point is, can you spell it out? What does this analogy tell us about "confronting religion", much less what does it tell us that would have a constructive effect on doing that? That religious people are just normal people? If there's more than that, what it is it? What does the stretched out version of my "summary" add?
>The whole point is for users to spend less time exploring so they don't realize the selection of decent content is actually quite limited.

I actually disagree. I think Netflix has several massive troves. For example I recently worked my way through Frasier, then Cheers. There's a lot of hit shows like Star Trek, Friends, Buffy etc.

I agree the selection is not perfect, but for me, there's a lot of stuff that I wanted to check out in the 90s but was too lazy to monitor a VCR for. There's also a decent enough amount of original content - Black Miror, Bojack for example, that make me feel I get my money's worth.

Maybe it's a generational thing... Netflix has so much more than any Blockbuster.

If not Netflix, what service? Who has better selection? Who is their rival.

IMHO Netflix is getting better at creating great content - Bojack Horseman for example is superb. They have the name brand recognition. And at the end of the day, the price is right - people can justify 12 bucks a month.

IMHO Netflix's rival is not Hulu or Prime Video - it's the local library. Many library systems nowadays offer DVDs and BluRays. Why pay a monthly fee when you can get the same titles from the library as fast as you could. Basically, people may be willing to trade cost for speed. (Heck sometimes I can get things faster from the library than I can from my DVD plan)
A lot of Chinese contributors to many Hadoop projects
Show HN: Frame, notetaking app that can answer your questions
Do you audit Linux if you use it?

Why only audit open source?

Part of the whole reason of open source is trust.

At what point does an audit cost more than doing it yourself?

Then do you need to audit the audit since you have no trust?

Can't we not pass the buck in a just world situation and blame the user and instead encourage open source not to mess with the codebase.
You seem to have chosen your own strawman to argue against. There isn't one definition of feminism, but as far as one can define it, you're describing something much more narrow and more extreme.

The media reports the most extreme and hysterical viewpoints from both sides. You may be generalizing the whole movement based on those anecdotes.
What does that have to do with engineering?
Instead of telling them straight up "No," a better response is to express your concerns. "So, if we do that, how does that impact my hourly rate?" Or counter offer with something that you think covers you.

You should read a negotiating book. "Getting to Yes" is short and research based.

Flat out turning them down without really exploring it is not a best practice.
Global Neuroethics and Cultural Diversity: Some Challenges to Consider
> Maybe a little more: you can argue the justification that you're giving up the possibility of making more should the % split fall that way.

Another way to think of this is that the contractor would be personally taking on the risk of a cost overrun (which previously would have been borne by the customer, who would have had to pay more for additional hours of work).

The amount they'd need to be paid for a fixed cost contract would need to take this risk into account.

If I were doing contracting work, I don't think I'd ever take the risk of entering into a fixed cost contract for any non-trivial project, since I can't estimate programming work well enough to have any confidence that I won't end up doing the work at a loss.
> unfortunately there's no way to test that somebody smoked in the last day or two, only that they've smoked in the last X weeks/months, depending on their habits.

no non-invasive ones, anyways. :(

blood test does fine for checking whether you're high at the time of draw.
>This is illegal and dangerous, both for the driver and for all people, animals and property around them.

As someone who has worked as a delivery driver and is far more familiar with the vehicle inspection program in my state (yes, I know it's different for heavy trucks) than someone who has never worked as an automotive mechanic should be I wholly disagree. Vehicle downtime is enough of a PITA that anyone who can avoid it does, especially in a commercial setting. The regulatory compliance stick adds nothing positive you consider the .gov being able to swoop in find some violation over which they can screw any given operator a positive.

Whatever handheld electronic device is telling the delivery driver where to turn is a far bigger danger to the public than four bald tires. Drivers who are always in a rush and don't have time to do more than the bare minimum strapping down cargo or route planning are also a major source of accidents and near misses. Mechanical failure is a cause of a negligible fraction of accidents. It's really nothing to be worried about from a safety point of view.
Good marketing often makes us act irrationally — we buy lots of stuff we don’t need — surely it’s not because we’re insecure?
Additional context from Ali Rahimi and Ben Recht: http://www.argmin.net/2017/12/11/alchemy-addendum/
Singularity be like fusion... Always far enough away to be hinted at from thin evidence
I find this hard to believe. If you were a developer making 100k before that would mean you&re developer making 500k now. Impossible? No. Improbable? Yes.

Maybe twice the pay, Id believe that.
>The poor maintenance, etc, is just evidence of an awful company that doesn’t give a shit. There are many like it.

You're confusing "doesn't give a shit" with "our margins are too thin to afford any shit". Most of the "sketchy" landscapers, dumpster/trash companies and dirt haulers near you are in the latter camp. Downtime has a massive opportunity cost. Businesses are not running bald tires because they want to but because if their mechanic staff was four people instead of three that would give them no margin and you need a margin to survive.
"Third-world countries" is both inaccurate and misses the point. A much better question is, should we cater to autocracies trying to suppress their citizens' religious freedom? I'd say the answer is no, whether it's China, the actual third world, or the USA or Europe. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/dec/24/china-cracks-d...
Interesting idea, I need to look for a MySQL version.
What reaction someone expected by shoving their religion down the throat of the users?
This is so sad.
So far the biggest problem in my opinion is lack of native clients (and servers). The official client is Electron-based, and official server is written in Python. It might be good for prototyping, but hardly convenient for real users due to speed and memory constraints. I hope they will focus more on Dendrite[1] (server in Go) and Nheko[2] (client in Qt) instead of wasting time with Electron.

[1] https://github.com/matrix-org/dendrite

[2] https://matrix.org/docs/projects/client/nheko.html
> It is an easy way to remind people just what "free, but with no warranty" means.

Which is what? "Untrustworthy, avoid"?
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I know about ram and don't have a computer handy but processor too?
Human intelligence involves choosing which context to use at any given point. So far, so called AI appears to take an external source of context for granted, which is why it seems to me fundamentally different from "real" intelligence, just like your eyes are different from your entire nervous system.
> Put it this way: If you rely on an alarm clock to wake up, you’re out of sync with your own biology.

I get told, especially by lots of armchair wannabe doctors here on HN that I need 8 hours of sleep but if I don't set my alarm (I actually rarely set my alarm) I often wake up in naturally in 6 hours regardless of when I go to sleep. Maybe 30% of the time I can go back to sleep, the other 70% I'm not tired.

Otherwise in relation to the topic in general I'm not 100% I want my most awake time to go to the company I work for. Is that wrong?
Here is a doctor that disagrees and gives a fairly detailed explanation of why it is unhealthy for you: https://youtu.be/dBnniua6-oM
I have the perspective of an informed layman as a programmer who hasn't messed with ML yet. Wouldn't the "safest" solution be a system with multiple algorithms and a consensus mechanism?
Can I get a quick vim vs emacs usage vote here? Not looking for a war. Just a usage vote. I will try and update results. Feel free to reply with your daily hours too

Results below- small sample but makes me wonder about stack overflow survey about vim being thrice as used as emacs. I am a very loyal vim user but I would wager that those results were influenced by the occasional vim user. What are others thoughts on this?

2:52 UTC 9-7 vim-emacs
That was an interesting read. I was glad to hear the article point out that many people don’t know their chronotype. My schedule has changed a lot over the years and I’ve alternated between having to be up early and up late, with both being difficult to adjust to initially. The suggested diagnostic techinique (spend two weeks on vacation with no alarm clock) sounds like a nice idea :)
Interesting. If you don't care about ad revenue, there's certain options.

General question: if one did care about ad revenue.. are there some up to date resources to learn what current best practices are?
BYD is #1 in quality as well.

Leapfrog here is a term used to describe a fact. Chinese companies have leapfrogged ICE manufacturers in EV.
Quantifying the Performance of Garbage Collection (2005) [pdf]
Nintendo, also in 2018, removed the "taunt" dances from their most popular online game. The only way to communicate is now to teabag.
I worked at a place that had a large netbeans rich client platform app (phone reps used it to access customer data during calls, among other things), we used netbeans to develop it obviously.

I always liked netbeans, it was pretty solid, and a lot more performant than eclipse imo. Nowadays with everyone moving to "language server" support, the barrier to implementing the typical IDE stuff is a lot lower (code completion ie intellisense, error highlighting, etc) This is a good thing.
Merry Gravmass from Long Island New York!
Howard Hughes
App yes, Library no?

IIRC VLC's icon has a Christmas tree on Christmas. That's cool. Some library having a Christmas day Easter egg, not so cool.

That said the lesson here is probably that if you're doing any serious dev you really should be reading the source before putting the library in your app and, you should be forking the library into your repo or into your own package manager server and only taking updates you've reviewed.
"Quarter of a million people die in hospitals in US alone every year due to medical errors. 100% of those errors are currently made by humans."

Well, that's an odd thing to say. I guess you can say that, for instance, the Therac-25 episodes involved human error, but in that case, any problems with AI are also due to human error. If everything is due to human error, then there is no alternative to defend.

Medical errors certainly do involve the interface between humans and computers, and it isn't really plausible that either humans or computers can be eliminated from medicine.
To add perspective as someone with 10+ years in the US and 7+ as founder in India:
You should really qualify as to whether you are looking for development practices in outsourcing companies or tech startups.

Code quality and practices in Indian outsourcing companies are as good or bad as that dictated by US IT departments (out-sourcers), usually large non-technical firms.

Startups, however, are significantly different. I haven't seen much difference between US startups and Indian ones in terms of caring for your own code, jumping on the latest trends, and, generally, pushing the limits of what can be achieved. Indian startups, especially outside of Bangalore, do have to struggle to get proper funding. So they have to be practical on what they focus on.

Have no first hand experience with Chinese startups. But I would presume that they are no different.
OP as a US citizen, extending your network outside the USA is probably a good idea. If you want to stay after, it's easier to immigrate having done your education there both for legal reasons + simply having a network.

You will possibly never have a chance to study abroad again. If you don't have a partner or children, I strong consider taking the chance now while you can.

Also as a practical matter it's my understanding there's more work life balance in a UK PhD, better pay (you won't get rich but less worry about rent etc) and often subsidized housing.

To be honest if I had to choose between Oxford and a top place like Stanford or CMU, I'd take the chance OP. I think in an increasingly global word, you should seize the chance to extend uour network abroad.

And on a practical note, doing weekend trips to Paris or Amsterdam instead of Santa Cruz or Vermont is preferable IMHO ;)
Chinese companies rally around Huawei after CFO arrest
> One almost-exception: voluntary treatment involving the mother (mostly by the mother) has only a slight negative effect. Father does not seem to matter if they're part of treatment. Still does not have a positive effect though. (Absense of a father has a strong negative effect though. I would love to see studies on if you see the same with mothers where the father is the primary caregiver)

Can you clarify #4? What "treatment" are you referring to? Chemical dependency? Treatment in child services?
Fabrice Bellard has an entry there too!

https://www.ioccc.org/2018/bellard/hint.html

I am not surprised what he chose to do. It may actually be the only entry that uses patented technology.[1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17587684
Given how lame medical research is, don’t expect any therapies for at least 10 years.
> WoW with 5.5 millions at its peak[2]

You're using the peak from the graph which omits the first 11 years of WoW (graph starts at 2015, WoW launched in 2004), the description to the right of the graph states the peak was 12 million in 2010 (though of course that's still far less than Fortnite's)
Is the new 'ray tracing' support from Nvidia ray tracing or is it path tracing?
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I got trapped in Wikipedia, reading about the fascinating life & times of Howard Hughes, after seeing him mentioned here https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/deep_sea_mining
The kind of software the parent was alluding to is the type that tightly integrates with hardware. It's an order of magnitude more difficult to pull off, since the two must work well together in concert.
Rightfully so. Part of the problem is the way that we speak about the technology - calling it 'artificial intelligence' when the underlying technology does not resemble true intelligence at all. This raises expectations and lets people use AI as a dumping ground for infeasible ideas.
have you actually used emacs on a cpu made in the last 20 years and found it to be slow?

compared to vim or bash, it is cpu intensive. compared to any of the graphical apps that come with a mac, it is easier on the cpu (and on RAM).
I think people obfuscate (in general, in these discussions) the difference between "known unknowns" and "unknown unknowns". People get scared of the unquantifiable potential errors and other people pooh-pooh the idea we can't deal with risk. But is it reasonable to consider two different kinds of risk?
In the US, it's easy to request card chargebacks if there's been fraud. And charging supporters for banned or frozen creators is arguably fraud. I'm not sure what actually happened with Sargon etc. But according to TFA's OP, Patreon was still collecting money, and hadn't notified either him or his supporters. That's clearly fraud.
Nheko is not currently maintained. See Fractal https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/fractal.