skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"In fact the headline and first sentence sum up the whole issue very succinctly."

Surely you jest.

An April, 2016 academic study of bit.ly links shared on Twitter to BBC, CNN, Fox News, New York Times and Huffington Post articles found that 59 percent of the links were never clicked. And another study of push-through news alerts to mobile phones found that “People click on the alert about half the time.”

Source: https://honestreporting.com/tag/misleading-headlines/

What this means is most people only read the headline and not even the first line.
I don't know why this was downvoted, but the UK officially used the "long scale" (million = 10^6, milliard = 10^9, billion = 10^12) until 1974, although the "short scale" (billion = 10^9, trillion = 10^12) had become increasingly popular before that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales#Use. In most of Europe, the long scale is still used today.
Anecdotal evidence isn't really all that interesting.
Desire for Social Media Associated with Wanting Solitary Not Social Activities
We really need to address the absolute cost of healthcare in this country before we can make any progress on nationalizing any portion of it. The pure costs are outrageous. We spend ~$10,000 per capita in 2017 vs ~$6,000 in Norway which has a similar per capita GDP. (PPP adjusted https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/chart-collection/health-...)
"I would love to travel" and "I would love to live somewhere else" are some of the most worthless declarations I've ever heard.

You'll find that people don't even want to invoke the tiniest bit of effort to realize either of those ambitions. Instead people prefer the self-limiting beliefs of why they cannot, like it somehow being expensive or that everything will collapse in their absence as if their life is a house of cards.

Anyone who has lived abroad in a cheap country and dealt with a barrage of "omg I wish I could do what you do" knows what I'm talking about. At first you think people mean it, but the instant you challenge them on it, you realize they prefer the Skinner box of desiring rather than having.
The Brexit movement has generally rejected calls for a Norwegian or Swiss "you're in the single market but you have to follow most of the EU rules without having a say in their governance." (Not that the Swiss model in particular was on offer, because the EU is pretty unhappy with the amount of specialness it generates).
The UK could easily stay in the single market by officially canceling brexit. It’s even a unilateral decision. It’s just that you cannot pick the benefits of being a EU member while shedding the obligations. In that regard it’s no different from a good old fashioned British Club.
Two private sector industry leader companies that I worked for had never heard of a staging environment before I joined, and the process to implement one was long and painful. The argument against it was: we wouldn't need a staging environment if we had competent developers ...

Niche industry, so still not very big corporations, probably explains it.
Somehow I doubt that most people are thinking of where they want to live in terms of "returns on taxation"
It depends. When I was around there, they had some trouble with solar panels. Talking to them, they had no clue at all about electricity (just like many first-world dwellers I guess - and probably not enough money to get somebody who has to come fix things). If a techie teamed up with them, they could make so much stuff, like powering a generator with a water wheel in the river - easier to understand, and all the problematic parts are what they are good at.
Make sure that you have soft skills, the ability to learn by yourself and problem solve.

Coding is obviously super relevant now, and I personally believe for still a while, to remain employed. Yet, if you look at WEF prediction[0], it is soft skills – with obviously technical knowledge (that you already have) – that will matter in the long run.

So what does it means for you? The future of work is not about learning one tool (programming language for instance) and be done for a career. We can actually extend this to a type of job. The key is to be able re-train and re-tool. College education, and in general, lecture/instructor-based education, is generally training us the wrong way: we feed students with knowledge that is the answer for the exam in 2 weeks. In real life, we make money or are paid by solving problems (exams) but it's up to us to find the answer (the lecture). So it's completely backward.

Progressive Education[1], a movement that was created at the end of the 18th century is super relevant for our time. It's advocating for students to learn something by doing, to focus on problem-solving and critical thinking, soft skills and become a life-long learner. I am so in love with this methodology that I created a software engineering school using it, and it's working amazingly![2]

Since you seem to be self-taught, you probably already have this ability to self-learn, that's HUGE! My advice to you would be: try to learn something completely new, on your own. See how it goes. It might be painful, if so that is normal, keep going. I see that with our students who, especially when they start, are frustrated by the fact that we, as a school, are pushing them to find the knowledge by themselves instead of giving the answer by just raising their hand. The key here is not only to learn a new craft, but also and very importantly, to develop the ability to self-learn.

Develop your soft skills: collaboration, coaching, empathy, writing, negotiation, public speaking. Those are key to grow in seniority in the software track, but really, it is for any career.

Finally, I believe that tech isn't going anywhere, it's widely used by retail, finance, transportation, media, healthcare... Considering that you cannot remain employed as a software developer, no matter which position you end up working in, having tech knowledge will make a huge difference or be just essential.

[0]https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/06/the-3-skill-sets-work...

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_education

[2]https://www.holbertonschool.com/
Most of Europe, and most of Asia too.
I agree that they can't distinguish it but there was no visible demand for an iPhone before the iPhone.
There's a general consensus of immediate regret.

https://abc7news.com/society/second-chances-i-survived-jumpi...
I seem the logic in your statement, but you forget so many others - by 'decriminalizing' you still have users buying unknown products at shady corners, from organized crime that is pure net loss for society on so many levels. We still talk about a simple plant that used to grow everywhere.

Decriminalization is a (self)lie - when the question is 'what about weed' and the answer is 'we don't know', 'its illegal, just less'. US model of the recent past is one of the worst in human history, as seen on long-term results, but decriminalization is some temporary state, nothing that makes sense long-term. In Netherland, coffee shops can sell but they can't legally obtain weed (something along those lines) - what sense does this make?

If I can buy a beer at local pub to wind off after long day, I sure as hell should be able to buy a reefer to do the same (or ideally something not requiring smoking for the same effect). Any deviation from this basic logic I've heard so far was flawed.
>It's a real shame there is basically no peace movement anymore.

It exists, but the form it takes has been highly stigmatized to the point of presently being litigated out of existence by the current Senate[1].

Call them 202-224-3121 and express your displeasure at the outlawing of peaceful resistance to occupation.

1. https://theintercept.com/2019/01/05/u-s-senates-first-bill-i...
Yes, but you have nothing to suggest that this would be the case.

The connection to lending and borrowing is tenuous. There are many things on the books that can't be used to borrow against!

The article just says "assets". What if those were $1T worth of toxic derivatives? Still bad (for UK)?

I simply wish this article was better written and provided some useful and insightful information. $1T makes a nice headline and I guess that's all they needed.
Federal healthcare spending is much larger than military spending:

https://media.nationalpriorities.org/uploads/total_spending_...

(from https://www.nationalpriorities.org/budget-basics/federal-bud... )

It's unfortunate the chart includes social security, which isn't quite tax and spend the way most of the rest of the federal budget is.
For those who don't own, yes. For those who do own, and who banked on the value of their property for things like retirement, etc... or who will go underwater and into financial crisis... it's bad. There is always a two sided balance that has ripple effects in both directions.
They're possibly different measures, RON vs MON. The wiki article has more including a photo of an offending US gasoline pump https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octane_rating
if you're not being sarcastic, what are you proposing? that progressive nations shouldn't even keep records of who is living there?
That is some impressive technology. I can see this going over very well with my family in Japan because they make such industrious use of their space. I, however, live in an NYC apartment (not Manhattan, granted) and still have plenty of room to spare. I've even been hanging onto my holiday recycling so that the super doesn't have to deal with a huge load all at once.

I would be willing to save money by buying a less compact screen.
Yeah, personally, when I am trying to find this out if I'm speaking with a current employee who is on the team I would be working for, I try to drill down to see if problems are related to poor middle management (a single bad manager can destroy an entire team and any team that is connected to it), or whether it's endemic in the culture, which is harder to suss out, but is usually something you can infer when asking about over-arching company strategy and how plans get executed from the top down.
When is the last time Israel was able to project power thousands of miles from it's border for nearly two decades? They have cool toys no doubt but, not really compares to our arsenal in human history.
Ask HN: Expenses breakdown of your startup?
In percentage : Employee Salaries, Office Rent, Server, Ad Spend, Others (.. please add as required)
Do you have a source to back up your claim that Britain First have "referred to themselves as genocidal"? Extreme claims require extreme evidence, and I have not been able to find instances where they have referred to themselves as such. You're making a very significant claim when you say that Britian First has described themselves as genocidal (as opposed to being described as such by others).

While it may be tempting to reach for the most extreme label one can think of to try and inspire others to reject something that seriously distresses you, when it goes into the realm of hyperbole it mostly functions to decrease the crediblility of the point you're making and lessens the significance of the label you're using.
Britain isn’t going to turn into some Mad Max wasteland like some claim, but it will be worse off. The big thing is that on average the larger more open market will have more growth than the smaller more closed one. That growth will be compounded over the years. In several decades people in Britain will be asking why people in Poland have a better standard of living than them.
Person you're replying to probably means the win32 API, i.e. writing GUI applications for windows in Rust.
I don't have an opinion on the idea of a smear campaign one way or the other, but just because people have the right to say whatever they feel does not mean that there isn't some organized effort to coordinate those individuals' speech.
Pitcher plant and carpenter ant
Dev that do Ops is usually a terrible idea.
Steve,

I don't know you but I wish I did.

You seem like one of those really lighthearted folks that make everything better in life. From reading your answers on IRC and Hacker News, You are always humble and eager to provide answers. When confronted with arrogance and ignorance on several replies here, You reacted with facts and without ever taking the conversation in an impolite manner.

You see, one thing I believe is the cancer of our current line of work (tech) is the notion that we must obey blindly to some kind of savior or master, and that we have to put up with the masters' erratic and disrespectful behavior, for he is the 'bringer of the vision' to us not-as-enlightened folk. We don't need to put names but several come to mind when it comes to FOSS and stuff, right? In your case, I consider you a true master, for that you encourage collaboration without ever being uncouth to others just because of a position of power.

Your honesty and kindness shines specially in your post regarding Mozilla. You are one of those people that are able to talk "uncomfortable stuff" without making people reading it uncomfortable.

Thank you for being an awesome leader and I hope to read more and more of your answers and informational posts here, take it from the unknown no-names of the Internet like me: you are doing it right and being like this is gonna keep making people gravitate towards your works throughout your life.

May you multiply your ability of connect people with your heart, a skill which is much lacking in the current world of ever greater egos.

o/
In my first job out of college I was required to do the after hours prod releases with another guy (we were the 2 youngest on the team...). We did quarterly releases most of the time and did everything manually from building/packaging the web app to running the DB change scripts, etc. Needless to say, when the other guy left for a different job I was left alone to do these releases and left a month or two later.
Frankly, I don't get what Czech has to do with it and why it was mentioned.

Major part of old-timers (from Rebol era) in our community are indeed Czech people, but Red development was initiated in France, moved to China, and now bridges people across the whole Europe.

Putting such emphasis on nationality without any clear reason IMO looks strange and raises my eyebrow, to say the least.
Is happiness the right thing to aim for? Using words like "content", "satisfied", "meaning", "engagement", "accomplishment" or "purpose" can result in very different results.

The standard example is kids. Having kids, especially in a place without many social supports, such as the United States, results in a drop in perceived happiness, but an increase in satisfaction, which in the long term is better correlated with mental health.
To most people, Social Security is seen as a tax, since it comes out of your paycheck in the form of a "Social Security Tax".
I don’t remember that at all. In fact I think in Europe they sold out really quickly as it is the ultimate model and although expensive, was still sought after.
Settled on MacOs for gaming? I built a Windows PC (for gaming only) because I was tired of every title I wanted to play being exclusive to Windows. Plus graphics card support is much better on Windows than everything else.
Interesting idea. I wonder if they would have that feature rolled into the community edition?
If there were solid evidence of this fact, the statement wouldn't need a qualifier.

Their behavior is consistent with what you'd expect from an intelligence agency. Such as well-timed releases during the 2016 US Presidential Election which seemed to heavily favor a candidate with strong ties to a foreign government well known for their intelligence capabilities.
It's not clear to me that intelligence agencies would have ever needed to compromise WikiLeaks-the-organization. WikiLeaks' whole methodology was to publish, unedited and unredacted, any documents anyone handed them. Any intelligence agency that wanted a clean way to get some illicitly-obtained documents out into public view could therefore do so just by handing them to WikiLeaks, without needing to subvert the organization in any way. WikiLeaks made a perfect front just by working the way it was designed to work.
I don't want to leave the US. But I was in England on a business trip last fall, and I was talking to some people. They mentioned thinking about leave England (I think because of Brexit fallout). For the first time, I could not recommend that they come to the US.
> regaining control of borders

What does this actually mean specifically? What policy changes do you want that you think you can't have within the EU?

> sovereign nation once again

The UK is sovereign. It's just made some international agreements to align with other countries. If you think the EU is bad for this, wait until you see things like TTIP: all of the legislative override, ability to sue the state in foreign courts etc, and none of the democracy.
Here is why I already quit my music distribution startup
Seems to me there is no sales on Linux because the game barely works on Linux? Maybe you'd have bigger sales ratio if you'd fix those 20%?
>Neither country is better or worse because of that. The article doesn't bother to explain the ramifications.

This is not entirely true [0]. The money-multiplier effect would mean the bank in Germany then has something like ~$900 more dollars (converted to Euro's of course) that it could loan out. I'm not sure on their exact Reserve Requirement, but it appears to be less than 10%. Apparently the UK doesn't have much of a Reserve Requirement though, so perhaps they would not necessarily lose out as much as Germany would gain in this scenario.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractional-reserve_banking#Mon...
Awesome parents.
And probably more relevant, after the election that removed Rafael Correa as the president.
"Everything in moderation, even moderation itself"

Walk The Middle Way

Your natural state is bliss and peace but your mind's thoughts and heart's vibration pull you out of that state because the real you, the soul, the observer, the atman become identified with them.

That's the great illusion - Maya.
Maybe the business model is the problem. If instead of owning a car, you use a car sharing model, you could use an EV car most days, swap for a pickup truck for a yard project, and swap for a gas car for your road trip (until EVs get that much range).
While I agree with the general sentiment, I think this stresses an emphasis on taxes that isn't right. Do you think these people would still be unsatisfied if the tax rate was 0%? I do.

Dissatisfaction with the govt does not necessarily mean dissatisfaction with the return on the investment of taxes. I want kids to be educated, people to be healthy, and that desire doesn't change if my tax rate is 0% or 80%. Sure, there's a point at which I think that taxes aren't the answer, but the root desire is not about taxes, they are merely a means to an end.

Many of the libertarian-leaning folks here will have a very different view of the above, but I think that would be apples and oranges - they view govt as either inefficient or unjust, but the issues in this article are different, about effectiveness and functioning.
Mike Z, is that you?
yes, but we use a different method of measuring than you do.

IIRC ours is the average of 2 different methods (it normally shows as R+M/2 on our pumps), whereas I believe the EU uses only the one that tends to be a lot higher (RON I think)

Most gas stations around me have 87, 89, and 91, and sometimes 93. I believe your octane numbers will be on average like 6 higher than ours for the same gas.
There is, of course, a mirror of the situation you're describing. With people that are relatively competent developers "also doing Ops", but doing it badly.
In WWII Canada had the world's fourth largest air force, fifth largest navy. Canada was involved in WWII more than two years before the United States joined.

You keep the military for the times, or at least most countries outside of the United States and its absolutely outrageous military spend does. If you think the US went to Iraq or Afghanistan or Vietnam for Canada (or countless exercises throughout the rest of the world, usually to prop up whatever the favored dictator was, and to promote US interests), or that Canada owes US taxpayers for that, you're profoundly mistaken (though Canada went heavily into Afghanistan for the United States, the single time NATO was actually invoked for defense).
Everything about this article is really weirdly written. It's glib in the way that preachers are glib from the pulpit and trying to get you to just believe something while glossing over your particular concerns.

Is "doing DevOps" impossible? "No! It's simply a difficult transition."

Oh, I see now. That makes it all better. Never mind that the author's "friend" never claimed it was impossible. Rather that it was fundamentally a bad decision.

It's like a parable, but a really bad one. I wonder when the author is going to bring up Agile and just assume we're all true believers and that anything that incorporates Agile must be good without question. Oh, there it is. Right there.

So the difficult transition of DevOps is presented here as necessary and appropriate because 1. Agile, 2. Faster, and 3. Because it avoids some incredibly horrible practices the friend's DBA team does.

1. I won't get into here. That's a different flame-war for a different time. But people should know better than to write articles with the unquestioning premise that Agile automatically justifies any and every difficult transition. 2. I'm highly allergic to justifications that involve moving faster. Most companies do not have a problem delivering value fast enough. They have a problem delivering any value at all, and delivering a reliable product at any pace. Faster time to value is the worst possible justification if you're trying to convince me to experience some pain.

I am a big proponent of DevOps, and I bake it in to all my work, both at my work-work and in my side projects. It's worth the difficulty to me because it allows me to reliably get my code from point a to point b. That it's perhaps faster (is it really faster if you add up the person-hours? I don't know. I don't really care) is a little extra niceness if it's there at all.

3. DevOps has basically nothing to do with the pain that's causing the situation described in this parable. DevOps won't fix bad DBAs or sloppy Devs. DevOps won't fix a manager that allows this kind of situation to happen in the first place. DevOps won't fix a company culture that allows Management to run this kind of a dev shop. It's like the "friend" here is dying of dehydration in the desert and this dude rolls up in his car and says, "Hey man, you really need to eat more vegetables and less red meat and exercise at least 30 minutes a day. It will totally change your life! Also, I have these essential oils that will cleans toxins from your spirit aura and help you focus on your life goals. Good luck!"
> UK setting up their own GPS alternative

The only reason this is possible is due to UK leadership in the area, so it's actually a brilliant opportunity for the UK to remain at the leading edge.
Everything in the world is made out of a single unit: Atoms. Complexity and messiness arise from different compositions of Atoms.

I feel we should build our programs the same way. Bottom up from a small set of simple primitives. Not top down like C++.
I don’t think the market is growing exponentially, do you know of any articles that make that claim?

More to the point, I get the impression that Apple expected more growth than occurred already by the initial effort and marketing they put into watch. All of the hoped for growth hasn’t come yet, though it could still come in the future.

I think what they are looking for is a wearable (Apple or otherwise) being seen as a must have device, which isn’t the case in 2019.