skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Start up employees take on far more risk than startup investors. Investors can diversify over 10s or 100s of companies but an employee has to pick just one and bet their career on it.
Here's the link for the Technical Lead Engineer: https://boards.greenhouse.io/ondeck/jobs/1490380
Are there mandatory dependencies for running a GL program that can't work without using the system libcurl shared library? How does that make any sense?
If scala, http4s, gaurdrail and doobie connecting to postgres is a great stack.

Http4s is a great functional http service.

Guardrail generates stub services from an openapi spec and is well thought out enough that it doesn't get in the way.

Put React with Typescript on top of it.
Actually they don't:

https://www.sciencealert.com/the-true-story-of-a-man-who-sur...
Not to be under-estimated either: Android in general and Chinese phones.

Android has gotten pretty good. I broke my iPhone 7 earlier this year and am using a Pixel 2-- I thought I'd switch back, trade it for an X or an XS as they became available, but to my surprise I actually like it quite a bit.

Many of the complaints I used to have about Android have been worked out, and there's some cool features (like Night Sight) that I think I'd miss if I switched back.

Moreover, a lot of cool Android phones were released this year-- I'm sure the next iPhone, since it wont be an S, will be cooler and bring about a more radical change.

This past year in Android saw the release of many cool Chinese phones. I'd say the most exciting phones of the year came from Chinese manufacturers and featured creative ways to try to get rid of bezels and the notch-- finger-print sensor behind the srceen, two screens, notch-less with automatic mechanical parts, I recently even saw a slider-phone [1]! There's the promise of foldable phones too, which has me intrigued.

My cousin got a mid-tier Xiaomi phone-- it wasn't very expensive but it's pretty neat. If you do the side-by side comparison, it's not as great as an iPhone, but at the price, and for his use-cases, the big screen and fast chip are enough of a fit. I don't know how much iPhones cost in China, but I wouldn't rule out the fact that tariffs and macro-economics aside, Chinese phones have just gotten good enough, are probably more widely available, and honestly also just seem more exciting and creative.

Never thought I'd say this, but I hope Apple (and other manufacturers too) take some clues and inspiration from Chinese phone manufacturers ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HCcP0YexTU
First announced in 2016, supposedly finally arriving in 2020. Lets see. They all keep announcing stuff like this but there's still very few decent [non-Tesla] models on the road today.
Totally. I think we should stop subsidizing both.
There's nothing adventurous about using your preferred operating system and enjoying being able to have a working game experience. I've spent significant time in all 3 major OS options over the last few decades, and came to the conclusion that Linux is the one I prefer. A few years ago, I resigned myself to either rebooting to Windows or running Windows in a VM when I wanted to do any modern gaming. The significant advancements over the last year in terms of video driver functionality (both on Nvidia and AMD sides), binary compatibility (WINE/Proton), and more developers releasing native games have been a huge boon and very welcomed. I use Linux full time because it's what I enjoy and feel comfortable with as a primary OS, and I absolutely care about the gaming landscape improving. I'm only one person, but many others won't speak up.
I remember we learned how the representation worked bit-for-bit, and how it being stored in binary meant it couldn't perfectly represent everything in decimal. 1.01b meaning 12^0 + 02^-1 + 1*2^-2 for example.
Two points jumped out at me: 1)
> Contrary to what most of us might predict, those earning over $100K are no happier than those with incomes of less than $25K

And 2)
> ... happiness and sense of purpose are both at their highest among people working between 21 and 30 hours a week, and misery increases in tandem with the number of hours worked thereafter. The results are consistent across genders.

I can't say I agree with the first. I've gone from quite poor to upper middle class. Money does not make one more happy per se, but your ability to reduce stressors is much higher (and that can tip the balance to being more happy). Food running out? Unexpected bills/repairs? Water heater broke? Several years ago, that would mean I have cold water for the next few months (true story, our on-demand water heater required manual lighting from outdoors for about 7 years - couldn't afford a new one. Wind, rain, snow, day, night, go outside to light the pilot). With more income, that means I go out that evening and pick up a water heater (which I did when I could afford it!). My ability to now remove nearly all debts has made me feel so much better than I have for _years_. This only happened because I was firmly on the higher end of the middle class.

For the second part, I agree fully. All I want to do is work my property and spend time with my kids. I do want to work too, but I want that to take up much, much less of my time. If I could do 21 hours of work a week and maintain a similar ability to fix a water heater at the drop of a hat (or car issue, or whatever), that would be an easy sell.

As for happiness, you choose to be happy. And that is an easier choice when stressors are less present.
I don't know if that's an "upshot", but I'd be interested to know if that happens.

One way to help ensure that it doesn't happen is to take steps to prevent it and post a post-mortem explaining both what caused it to happen and why it won't in the future.
Even with (a) it's tough. If you're employee 1-13 you're getting maybe 10-20bps. At a unicorn valuation that is $1-$2m before you take into account dilution, liquidation preferences, taxes, etc etc etc.
Both, but more so because the larger screen is just inherently nicer.

Basically I think the ideal is a screen that's as large as possible while still being usable with one hand. The iPhone 8 is just over the edge for my hand size, but it's close.
The clunky grammar is because the site is run by Chinese people who do not have particularly great English skills.
> They improved the software so much on this iteration of iOS that they probably relieved a lot of the hardware upgrade pressure users were beginning to feel in the first half of 2018.

Another other side of this is that they've given people good reasons not to upgrade: I've been surprised by the number of people who commented that the new phones are uncomfortably large to hold and, of course, a fair number of people don't like losing the headphone jack. None of those are complete showstoppers but since costs have also gone up around 20% beyond the rate of inflation[1], you don't need to give people much of a reason to delay a purchase which isn't necessary since everyone knows the phone you buy next year will be even better.

1. A quick spot-check comparing the iPhone 6S & 6S Plus we bought in 2015 vs. the XS / XS Max now has it at 24% with no improvement in storage capacity.
That is how I thought.

Back in 2000 I was a leader in the local Green Party and my ultimate "stretch goal" was to shut down the coal burning power plant that was a single point source of CO2 greater than everything else in the county.

It did not look at all practical to do it, we did other things, then the group broke up.

A decade later the coal burning power plant got put out of business by hydrofracking. (The town the power plant was in was furious that it was losing the tax revenue, which was one of the reasons I knew getting rid of the plant was a non-starter.)

(Oddly enough after the Green Party in our county wound up in 2003, the big environmental activism in our area was "stop fracking".)

What did I learn from that? Better technology and market forces can accomplish things that politics can't.

It is common to frame the climate change problem as being caused by "entrenched fossil fuel interests" and that is certainly part of it, but most people are at least somewhat aware that the lifestyle they lead was not possible at all in the "solar economy."

Surveys show that climate change is a lower priority globally than "good jobs", "clean government", "access to health care" and if we see tackling climate change as a zero sum game about those things then tackling climate change will damage the legitimacy of governments and make people feel less represented and contribute to political instability.

The technical fix on the other hand lets governments focus on what their constituents want.
The author of this piece did predict their China problem, so you might want to give them a bit of leeway. They’re not some armchair commentator.
Why was that Facebook advert banned? It's literally someone just wearing the product isn't it? It isn't explicit even for an underwear advert. Or am I missing some cultural context or implication in the image?
The problem from my perspective is that a major GPU vendor seems to think it's appropriate to paper over hardware problems with proprietary drivers, and they get away with it. While their reputation ought to suffer for that, I'd rather see them mend their ways. I'd love to take NVidia off my blacklist.
Daily Stormer was in the news a lot recently after being banned from, among (many) other things, Facebook.
You don't have to invent an answer to that question, they have provided their own explanation. Wikileaks believed the theft of the democratic party seat would be downplayed, refuted, or ignored by the 24-hour news-cycle.

Unfortunately, it seems to have happened anyway.

Also wikileaks has done multi-part staged releases on many occasions before and after, including the russia files and vault 7.
Azure pipelines is basically the same thing and offers free build to for private repos.
Maybe. They likely had an impact. The money spent by Russian intelligence to run propaganda via social media should likely be counted as at least as influential.
That's an excellent point, and I haven't looked into that yet because I never went past the 2k minutes per month.

But if you did need > 2k minutes, it sounds like a good idea to spin up a $5 / month DO server to be a dedicated runner. That sure beats paying $50+ / month for most other CI services for their most basic paid plans, especially if you're just a solo developer or small team who wants a nice coding experience.
if you ever needed any more evidence that hn comments are probably full of people paid to say things...
I would never in my life use a Chinese phone. Chinese manufacturers are _guaranteed_ to be in the pocket of the CPC and its security services. Moreover, their record on security and privacy is poor. For a device that is so intimately tied to my personal data, the premium I pay for Apple's brand is vastly inferior to the value I would lose by constantly worrying about my privacy with a Chinese handset.
Well, MS corporate culture very much believes it is doing you a favor by mining all your data in order to “serve you better”
That's partly right. Vega was especially expensive during the last crypto bubble, but that is over and the Vega 56 is still rarely under $400.
I'm extremely skeptical of the brain chemistry narrative. It doesn't explain why depression is growing rapidly in the Western world. It doesn't explain why antidepressants vary so widely in their efficacy between persons.

I'm far more apt to believe that people's lives are getting worse and that they're depressed as a result. People are lonelier than ever and society's problems are bigger and more abstract than ever.

We're no longer even cogs in a machine, we're atoms in a cog. Meaning in life has become extremely elusive.
Three of my favorites:

The Prophet, by Kahlil Gibran https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/58585

Men Like Gods, by H. G. Wells http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200221h.html

Leave It To Psmith, by P.G. Wodehouse https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.126397/page/n1
> which seemed to heavily favor a candidate

And that's surprising how, exactly? Guess what, 4chan /pol/ supported the exact same candidate, rare pepes and all, purely "for the lulz". Would you expect Assange to behave any differently?
Oh, the bubble is real. Anyone not annoyingly vegan, anti-car, urban yimby-yuppie who still rents and making at least 300k making socially regressive technology, badly, with the newest popular framework is going to have to make sure to not only be relevant, but tickle the egos of the great majority while making their soon to be buried point.
Reads like a paid article. A 7-8 year old company that heavily advertises builds a $32million company. Profit anywhere?
+1: If you’ve been using asciidoc, check out asciidoctor. It’s compatible (compatible enough for me) and produces much better looking output :)
never let the content get in the way of a good sneering, i guess.
I think the Prophet by Kahil Gibran is considered one of the classics just entering the public domain. I also found the Prospects of Industrial Civilization by Dora and Bertrand Russel to be interesting. In looking at the plain text though I was annoyed at how error ridden the OCR job was. I think it will be interesting to see how much of the 1923 work is added to a site like Project Gutenburg as AABBY FineReader 11.0 leaves a bit to be desired based upon the published results on archive.org
If you're comfortable with emacs, irony + rtags does pretty much all the IDE-type things I need it to. You can autoconfigure rtags based on your build system (supports basically all of them). you get variable type hints, function arg hints, contextual autocomplete (including template stuff), jump to definition, find references, you can fuzzy find and jump to methods/identifiers/symbols across your project, compiler warnings highlighted inline, it's a pretty good setup. I use the doom-emacs distribution which has it all configured and ready to go, im sure spacemacs also has a good setup
I wouldn't consider 10 bps (0.1%) meaningful.
Early stage is very, very risky.
Shipping games as live DVDs is an elegant...ish... solution:)
Speaking strictly for myself, I have not found this to be true. I do enjoy collecting skills, and learning is fun. But no matter what the skill, eventually you hit the wall of diminishing returns, and I find that pride in that last 1-2% of performance is not worth the cost in time; I would rather improve a weaker skill another 10-20% with the same amount of training. And fundamentally, I find pride a bit too solipsistic to be truly satisfying no matter what the skill.

What I have found permanently effective is practicing gratefulness. Every day I make it a point to think of things that I am genuinely grateful to have, or to have experienced. This (for me), more than anything else, helps put my mind at ease, and allow me to enjoy the life that I have.
In writing that, I was just paraphrasing GP in an ironic way. Of course I don't support any Drug War. I realize that means that drugs should be legal.
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Company - Greenhouse Software
Position - Senior Security Engineer
Location - ONSITE NYC (REMOTE available if you are really good)

Security at Greenhouse is important to our success and for building & maintaining customer trust. From influencing how we write our software, deploy our infrastructure, and make architecture decisions, security is a major focus and we want to make our program more robust.

We are hiring a Senior Security Engineer to contribute to the growth of our security program and partner with our developers on improving secure best practices and our agile SDLC. Working alongside the rest of the security team, you will design and develop tools to automate security processes, identify security events, detect security vulnerabilities and much more.

What you'll do:

- Penetration testing and source code review
- Develop security tooling
- Secure modern technology stacks that include Kubernetes, CoreOS, Docker, AWS and CI/CD tooling
- Participate in high-level architecture decisions that impact the entire code base as well as new features
- Handle third party security testing and bug bounty
- Design frameworks/controls to secure a microservice architecture as we break apart a monolith application
- Automate alerting, vulnerability triaging, patching and many other security processes
- Harden and protect a fleet of OSX and Linux workstations

View full job post and apply here - https://grnh.se/2440f2f41
Gross, last thing we need is another influence pushing for parking minimums and more massive parking lot fast casual architecture.

I agree this may be the future but I really hope we can come up with something better.
Revenue != income. It's quite likely the profit margin on developer accounts is lower than the other types, and if this cuts the knees out from under the competition may well be cheaper than, say, paying for advertising.
Well, you know what they say about wanting peace.
The idea that we can just take our tax dollars elsewhere and get better outcomes for less money doesn't seem realistic to me. At worst, these essential services just fall apart because not enough people would be willing to spend their tax refund on them. At best, we'll end up with the same thing because corporations are greedy and there's not really a good reason to have competition in pharmaceutical oversight.

Do you really want to have to shop around for a service that tells you which drugs are safe? You can't pick the cheapest because they probably cut corners or took industry kickbacks, but are you throwing away money if you pick the most expensive one? Do you just pick the average-priced option and hope they are trustworthy?
Also I wonder if they will get a lot of accounts continuing to pay because they missed this announcement. Perhaps most!
ah yes, an excellent "tech" post about how to get rich by marketing something pedestrian. lol at everyone here who doesn't see how transparently their "tech" interest is actually just an interest in getting rich quick.
I just downgraded from pro and the form said I'll be keeping my private repos, so it works for me.
I remembered Gitlab after I posted but before I saw your comment and made an edit. Github has network effects and inertia on its side - switching to any other service has a cost, and Microsoft has to piss off developers enough to justify the switch - moderate annoyances will be tolerated.
I agree. But have not heard anyone say the same. But I think you can get L4 where it can drive better then humans in bad weather.
They simply can't... Less powerful in that sense means less developed. Such kind of research demand enormous resources and knowledge.

These days industrial knowledge is mostly in private hands with universities that are not anymore a "center of (public) knowledge" bu mere gym to form Ford-models workers with a different skillset respect of classic one but not much different in terms of ability to understand the big picture, being autonomous etc.

In present society there is no room for new "Einstein", "Tesla" etc.
> maybe you got "old" stock? it's not uncommon for products like this to sit in a warehouse for over a year.

Potentially, but I'd hope that Anker would exercise a bit more control over their Amazon inventory. From the looks of it there are still plenty of (premature failure, fire) complaints in addition to the no return policy. It screams fly by night to me, but it's interesting to see they've a better reputation with other products.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00VH84L5E

Here's the review (about eighteen months before I bought mine): https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/R4F5INKA6PO2I/
An AI-Powered ETF Failed Miserably at Beating the Market in 2018
Rails (or Python or Java) doesn't really fit into the problem set that JS has to go through. Most softwares written in those tech stay in the server with no need of transpiling, no need of code splitting when built, no need to be sent over the wire, etc.

While I agree the package management in JS could have been better, most other too-much-config problem is just because of the variety of problems and the variety of potential solutions.
maybe the 'get more' is mostly a dynamic adaptive limit sensing mechanism. 'get more until you feel satisfied' as opposed to 'dont ever try'
As I understand it, if you have conditions that allow deuterium-helium3 fusion you will always get some deuterium-deuterium fusion. So the number of neutrons produced is way less than D-T or pure D-D fusion, but it is still a significant problem.
Still amazed that anyone uses this site for more than trivial work, given that this language exists in their TOS:

"GitHub has the right to suspend or terminate your access to all or any part of the Website at any time, with or without cause, with or without notice, effective immediately. GitHub reserves the right to refuse service to anyone for any reason at any time."
How to read 25 books a year without additional efforts
I'm not so sure. LinkedIn was always quite spammy.

Sourceforge did some absolutely egregious things, including bundling adware with windows binaries.

Maybe the people at Microsoft don't know it, but one of the reasons GitHub has such a huge market share is because it hasn't done any of those things.

Sure, MS could have bought it to use its reputation as capital and try and maximise income at all costs. It seems that would be somewhat counterproductive, given the long process Microsoft has gone through to start fixing its image with developers.
There has been a federal production tax credit available for new nuclear power in the US since 2005:

https://www.nei.org/advocacy/build-new-reactors/nuclear-prod...

It's structured similarly to the wind power production tax credit but isn't as generous. Presumably this is because in 2005 lawmakers believed that nuclear power was a more mature, more affordable electricity source than wind and needed less subsidy to attract new investment.

I'd be fine with nuclear incentives matching PTC terms for wind power (available for 10 years after construction instead of 8, same per-unit rate, no cap on nationwide capacity). But I don't think even that would be enough to spur new investment. Both wind and nuclear power projects have costs concentrated up-front in construction, but wind projects can go much smaller in terms of capacity and dollar investment. $75 million wind projects are common. Any modern power reactor is a multi-billion dollar commitment at minimum, and there's a longer time lag between pouring first concrete and selling the first watt of power. These long timelines and "chunky" capital requirements made investors wary, even before South Carolina and Georgia demonstrated that the newest reactor projects still have major problems sticking to planned cost and schedule.
The difference is that LinkedIn was creepy before Microsoft bought it and it has nothing to do with Ads. LinkedIn is and always has been creepy and sleezy because it's a relationship networking tool and not a platform for work or collaboration. Whenever I used LinkedIn, it always gave me the same feeling I get when talking to a Salesman or Recruiter, that I'm being exploited and they're trying to convince me that it's somehow to my benefit to work with them or go along with what they say.
No private company I have ever worked for as an employee has agreed to let me look at their balance sheet or income statement. Most would not even discuss valuation in terms other than # of shares in my offer, which is meaningless.

One CEO I recall even laughed when I asked at the interview (that should have been a red flag in retrospect). I later learned he gossiped about how inappropriate it was for a candidate to ask about company financials.
I disagree. I wrote this in another thread just yesterday I think. My philosophy: make the best choice you can given the information you have, and you'll not have cause to regret anything in your life. Some choices might hurt and you might not like the outcome, but you did what you felt was best. You can learn from it, but there is never cause to regret it.