skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's pretty decent demand right now in some areas, but it depends on where you're located. Here in the bay area, there's good demand in SF and palo alto, but very few jobs in the east bay and lots of talent. But, it's all relative. You should compare it to your options available. In the mean time keep learning and developing your skills, read as much you possibly can about web development and learn the latest skills as well the backbone of all web development: HTML, CSS, AJAX, javascript and jQuery. Dont forget jQuery. Not many jobs may ask for it, but it's used everywhere and you will need to know something about it. If you like, go ahead and check out my site I'm developing for aspiring web developers such as yourself: It's filled to the brim with examples to learn from (you can play with the code without any setup), taking you step by step so you don't get lost: https://codeorc.com

The advantage of learning some of the newer technologies like Vue and React are that they haven't been around for too long. So, if you get 3 years of experience with that, you can be considered relatively senior. Just something to think about if you're totally new.
Not GP, but Bazel requires you to explicitly declare your dependencies for each 'target' you want to build. These dependencies can be within the same Bazel workspace, or imported at build time via say git - there's no need to have all the files directly in your repo. The nice thing is you can declare the commit id or file hash for the dependency you're importing to make sure you're getting what you expect, and keep Bazel's reproducibility properties.

Source: one happy Bazel user :)
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A few years ago, the ancient (circa 1998) microwave in my house failed. I merrily trundled off to the local appliance store and bought a new one, and had them install it. Seemed to work, but eventually I realized it must be drawing too much electricity. Like something out of Green Acres, I had to limit what lights and other appliances were on in the kitchen if I wanted to use the microwave.

I had an electrician come out and look at it. He opined that, due to the way the house was wired, it would be a pretty major undertaking to fix the underlying problem. So I just went along with turning lights off when I cooked.

I finally sold the house, but couldn't pass this problem off to the next owner.

The only place I could find that still sold a microwave so old and feeble that it wouldn't overload my circuit, was Sears.

Thank you Sears! Hopefully I will never need that again, but I am thankful for your help.
The fastest you can go on the Application Load Balancer is a health check every 5 seconds, with 2 successes being enough to put the machine in service, which means a minimum 10 second lag.

The Network Load Balancer is technically more scalable (able to accept more connections per second from the outside), but has a longer minimum inclusion time - 2 checks at a 10 second interval, so 20 seconds.

So yeah, you want slightly beefier containers, if you're scaling up and down heavily. But all this is pretty moot - whatever autoscaling parameters you set reaction time of CPU / RAM usage analysis is still going to be minutes. It seems like this is okay for now.

If you really want super fast scaling, use a Go function on Lambda (outside a VPC). With Firecracker improvements the cold start time should be barely noticeable, and you'll ramp up pretty quickly.
(To GP: Yes, I'm an electrical engineer.)

Yes, size is the main product-level advantage of GaN. But it only lets some of the system shrink; for something like a mains charger, you still need the isolation magnetics, so your overall size is still constrained. And at the power levels of a few watts that many chargers work with, Si FETs are simply good enough. A 5W USB charger isn't going to get any smaller with GaN. It only starts to get interesting with really high power densities.
It's like... When the aliens in "Arrival" (or Ted Chiang's story of your life) speak Python but you only speak R. Different languages make you think differently.
I remember them being in the single best position to do what Amazon did half a decade before Amazon was even a real thing. Even if they got their catalog online, searchable with images, and call in to finalize their orders, they'd have been ahead of the game.

They could well have done more optimizations with time... but they had no interest in the internet, and felt the web would be just another fad after Prodigy failed.

I knew it was the beginning of the end for Sears when they shutdown their catalog division and call centers. Just as the internet was ramping up and mail order was going to become huge.
You can find that information on the security tab of your browser's developer tools. You can also find a lot more info about any site's HTTPS configuration at ssllabs.com. Here's the report for lists.gnu.org: https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=lists.gnu.org
That does seem pretty low. I make 500 Euros less and I'm a junior Dev in Croatia, wouldn't move to Germany for that kind of money.
So what do you suggest if the ops thing freaks me out to the extent of stress? I'd be happy to take on a cofounder to handle that.
Rails is so 2010 and SPA stuff is half-baken.
Facebook is dead for me
I co-work in one. The people who also co-work there are friendly, and they do have good amenities. Honestly, they upped the game of co-working spaces in my city. I don't work consistently in the office to warrant renting my own office space but I wanted a place where I could socialize instead of getting cabin fever at home. Starbucks / Cafes aren't really conducive to talking to random people either.
this video might help you [1].

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xA_IBcoQTD4
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Same experience. Sears was an anchor tenant at the local mall for decades. In that time they never did a significant rehab. When they finally closed a few years ago, it was still like stepping into the 1970s to shop there.
Harley Davidson unveils electric motorbike
This is an all-time gold:

"Did you win the Putnam?"

Yes, I did.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35079
Even with self driving, there's effectively no difference to the consumer in experience/product whether the car drives it self or someone else does.
Advertisements sell their product in a narrative that I don't subscribe to. I aggressively block all forms of advertising, and on the occasion when I'm forced to watch an ad I usually can't believe what I am hearing or seeing.

I can't help but think that advertisements are somehow toxic to the mind.
Notice you guys are in the UK! I'm a self taught engineer (more back end focused though) and I'm trying to help my younger brother enter the industry. Is there a minimum earning threshold for the 10% salary deduction for UK courses? I think something like this would do him the world of good, especially looking at your curriculum, but don't want to saddle him with debt if it doesn't work out.
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Inane gos, but I see a Monzo card at 1:35. That means this was very probably developed in the UK?

I have to say the branding choice for the colour of that card was a pretty brilliant move.
In the UK:

Cycle to Work: A scheme which involves an interest-free loan from the employer to buy a bike and safety accessories for cycling to work. This is a salary sacrifice so the employer pays less National Insurance and the employee saves on National Insurance and income tax.

Season ticket loans: Interest-free loans from the employer to enable the employee to purchase a yearly train/Tube ticket. Yearly tickets work out cheaper than monthly tickets.
I agree but generally avoid podcasts that are heavier in ads. As for website ads, Ars Technica has an interesting subscription that stops ads and tracking.
I tried running this on a Mac but got an error. Assumed it was because of some sed version difference. Perhaps the code on Github is just broken.
Sears is arguably a good example of how execution (and culture) often trump strategy. They were online. They invested in Prodigy. But their heart never really seemed to be in it and they never really changed the way they operated based on online.
Ctrl + F "Healthcare" .. Hmm.

Looks like your 2015 "top markets" post the top one was "Genomics", what happened? Did it sizzle? Is it no longer a top contender prospect?
Isn't anyone but me annoyed by the lack of scientific rigor in arguments like these?

PG: - It is more efficient to write software in Lisp.
Others: - Nah, it doesn't matter.

But no empirical evidence has ever been presented...
I would not focus on one competitor. Sears sank themselves. They had everything, more so than JC Penny, but they were also heavily invested in mall locations which as the people spread out the mall orientation hamstrung them. Wal-Mart, Target, Best Buy, and more, were in strip malls everywhere and everywhere usually meant closer to you.

Sears could have put some of that aside with a better and stronger online presence but unless they decided to wholly shift to that medium they had to get out of the big monolithic type malls and into the more in number strip malls.
That #4 option hit too close to home. Thanks for bringing it up.
Would that be because e.g. an alphabet or a language (notably English) is not a product with a solid reasoning behind it (like Esperanto is iirc) but an evolution? Like a cultural thing? There's no practical reason why certain combinations of letters in the English language are pronounced differently depending on the words, it's just a "that's how it is" thing which you have to just remember.
>I kinda thought that the software+real-estate process had a whole lot of established players, but I could easily just be ignorant of some of the growth areas.

In my city in Spain letting agents still charge 10% of the annual rent as a fee when they do little more than print out a pre-written contract and hand you the keys.

Apparently it is common in Italy too.

This seems like an area ripe for disruption.
many of the long-time employees were making pretty decent money. Way more than people at Best Buy, Target or Walmart made. Plus actual benefits. The must have had huge legacy costs, especially at the higher levels.

There was an analyst on Bloomberg Radio last week or the week before who said the big reasons for Sears' demise were pension obligations, and store managers who didn't know how to manage stores or people.
I can’t say I see the win with the from a HCI standpoint. I personally lust for more tactile feedback, not less!
On the other, other hand, Amazon sends currently very overvalued as a retail company. (I haven't looked at the comparative sizes of its various components.)

How long before Amazon sounds of its retail business?
The point isn't that they were too early, it's that they gave up too quickly. Buying online and picking up from a store really isn't that advanced of a concept.
I've also had to do this. Worked at a fairly big healthcare company.
> C++ and Scheme are examples of (near) parity, in Graham's terms, anyway because of C++ templates and Scheme macros doing nearly the same things

This one sentence to me is an indication that the author has completely missed the point. Templates and macros do the "same thing" only in the sense that all languages do the "same thing" at some level of abstraction, that is, model Turing machines. What matters is not what languages "do" when they are compiled, but in how they bridge the "impedance mismatch" between TM's and human brains. And in that regard, templates and macros are about as different as two language constructs can possibly be.
I use Karabiner https://pqrs.org/osx/karabiner/ and then used one of the Caps lock modifiers in https://pqrs.org/osx/karabiner/complex_modifications/#caps_l...
IIRC the newer Unicode collation sensitive comparison functions hadn't been implemented until Vista

Looks like that's the case: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/api/stringa...
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>Underpinning R.E.M.’s flat governance structure was an egalitarian economic one. As Tony Fletcher explains in “Perfect Circle”, his biography of the band, each member received an equal share of publishing royalties, regardless of who contributed what to each song. The same was true of their recording and performing royalties – although here equal splits are normal. One notable exception to this rule was The Smiths. When Morrissey and Johnny Marr founded the band in 1982, they insisted on taking a bigger cut of income, from all sources, than the bassist, Andy Rourke, and the drummer, Mike Joyce. This introduced an instability into the group, hastening its demise after five years.

My understanding is that truly equal shares across the board are pretty rare, and probably even rarer if you filter for success. I think Van Halen was run that way, at least in its glory years (ie until DLR left).

Marr & Morrissey insisting on a larger share of performing royalties and gig fees is just mean, considering they dominated songwriting. That's actually a minefield for some acts, because the songwriting money is WAY BIGGER (at least traditionally) than performance royalties.

This came up in some of the more amusing sequences in the old VH-1 "Behind the Music" about the Go-Go's, who like many bands split songwriting royalties by actual authorship. The overwhelming majority of their songs (and all their hits) were written by Jane Weidlin and/or Charlotte Caffey, so after _Beauty and the Beat_ blew up they started getting checks that were much, much bigger than the other band members, who took exception.

Weidlin's response to their ire was "well, write some fucking songs!"
I would say it depends on whether you enjoy the data engineering part of data science. E.g. writing SQL queries, writing scripts to scrape data from APIs, tracking down edge cases and verifying correctness, designing clean and scalable pipelines, writing scripts to make messy data cleaner, automating report generation, data warehousing. This is very detail-oriented work and requires a certain kind of personality to excel at (imo). But if you build this skill set there is extreme demand for you that will be timeless. This is also the foundation for all data science.

If what you have in mind is feeding data into TensorFlow or PyTorch, and tuning parameters to get some magic out the other end, I don't think there's as much of a market (there are many juniors looking for work from bootcamp programs), and you risk yet another "AI Winter" backlash making companies go sour on these sorts of approaches.

I think you could also easily getting a job as a master of a particular analytics tool, like MixPanel or Google Analytics. But I'm not sure how timeless this will be: in my experience sooner rather than later you'll want deeper and more customized tools and run into the limitations of simple event-based analytics services.
So all executive salaries should be capped at, say, a low six-figure amount, and bonuses should be eliminated? Interesting proposal.
Can't believe it solely based on the Reddit post. Needs proof.
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Is there anything similar to Lambda School in Spanish? Looking for a family member who would be a great dev, but her English isn't quiet strong enough to join Lambda School.
And they pay their employees well.
Upper class? It's true that those living in poverty often don't have the means to buy in bulk or pay a Costco membership, but I don't think the designation of "upscale" describes the store either. Many working class and middle class people shop there.
> Developers are not arguing children that need to be confined to separate rooms to prevent fights

Has the author seen the fights that go on? We're extremely opinionated.
The huge Sears campus anchored a community on the west side of Chicago for nearly 70 years, and then they built an HQ2 with a fancy downtown tower (the world's tallest building) in the early 1970s. Having two campuses really cost them a lot of mojo, and by the early 1990s they reconsolidated into a new campus in the far-flung exurbs. It didn't save them and shall now be their final resting place.

It's a good thing other large companies have learned from this and will not be repeating their mistake.
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Sure, but Indian vegetarian food already exists. The GP asked for more vegan food, so I wondered what was lacking in existing non-fake-meat alternatives.
Good work. Have you included randomised brightness to avoid accidentally learning the difference between what the computer thinks is constant brightness and what your eyes respond to constantly? (Such as “green seems brighter than red”)?
Regus is valued at about 10k per desk. Wework is valued at about 160k / desk (August 2017 numbers, see Aug 25 2017 WSJ).

What does Wework do that Regus doesn't, that accounts for 16x the value?
Not if you’re big enough to create the necessary market effects for something to flourish. If Sears had stuck with it and had the the foresight to develop its technical chops like Amazon did, they could have done much better.
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They literally title him "The MAD Titan" because everyone agrees his plan is idiotic. I'm not sure it gets more obvious than that.

That said, it made a lot more sense in the comics when he was doing it because he fell in love with Death herself.
Who says that feeling was wrong? At that time, Amazon was a moonshot gamble. Lots of very important things needed to line up for it to be successful, primary of which was investor confidence in a company that didn't turn a profit for most of it's existence. I still think Amazon is overvalued and the market will correct it at some point.
I totally agree.

I've found Steve Blanks book "The Startup Owner's Manual: The Step-by-Step Guide for Building a Great Company" very insightful.
Interesting, thank you!

PS. I think the link for "Notable" is pointing to the wrong page.
At least at Harbor Freight you know what you're getting and it's priced accordingly. Craftsman tools were expensive, at one time deservedly so but by the end the were just riding on the name to put a high price on cheap imported tools.
Sounds like other countries are over-regulated.

In all of those cases you're dangerous for maybe a day while you familiarize yourself with the new vehicle and most people behave very, very conservatively when driving something different than they're used to. Nobody is passing their test in a Miata then renting a box truck and saying "yes, I can totally take this hairpin just as fast as I would in a Miata". The biggest danger from people switching from small to large vehicles seems to be bumping things in tight spaces (parking lots) and with manual the danger is rolling back too much on a hill start or stalling it when trying to pull into traffic. While certainly expensive and inconvenient I don't think those sorts of accidents are cause enough danger to the public or are common enough to prohibit people from driving a manual or renting a box truck without a special license.

I think people being unfamiliar with what they're driving is an edge case a lot like mechanical failure, everyone hand wrings over it, some jurisdictions take steps to try and prevent it but in the real world it's just such a tiny fraction of accidents (mostly minor single car accidents at that) compared to people being stupid that trying to prevent these edge cases is a waste of time and money. Resources are finite and they would be better spent elsewhere.
I'm curious, do you remember what the difference in power draw between the old and new microwaves was?
Ah, right. I'd like to see that happen regardless of whether it's vegan or not - though I agree that the vegan market is probably in a good position to take the lead there.
But, on the the bright side, that expression gives you a synopsis of all the syntax you will ever have to know. At least the principal organizing syntax for structuring the bulk of the code. What you don't see there are examples of various minor notations, like various kinds of literals and such.

The good news is that parentheses disambiguate everything; if we remove some of them, we have to introduce hidden rules that determine what is a child or sibling of what.

let can have fewer parentheses, and some dialects (like Arc, in which HN is written) have tried that:

(let (x 1 y 2) ...)

I've seen variations on a let1 operator which just binds one variable:

(let1 x 1 ...)

In Common Lisp, the inner parentheses are there because the initializing values are optional: (let (x y (z 3) w) ...) gives us four variables. x, y and w are initialized to nil; z to 3.

Parentheses are needed around the variables so that they form a single argument position in the let syntax. Without that, we don't know where the body of the let begins. So that is to say, if we make it (let (x 1) (y 2) (print x)), how do we know (y 2) isn't supposed to be an invocation of function y on argument 2 rather than another variable binding.

The parentheses are great for code layout; there are formatting rules to make
all complex expressions look consistently good. The parentheses also facilitate good editor support.
Why not? New words are invented all the time, and they can end up being part of the regular vocabulary. "noob" is an example coming from the gaming world. "Yeet" might become one, who knows?

All I'm saying is, if there's a need for a word to express something, it will evolve and it will become part of the language. Here's a list of new words added to the Oxford dictionary, for example: https://public.oed.com/updates/new-words-list-january-2018/. "commodify" is one that I've seen used a lot already. "hangry" is a slang ish words that has been promoted to a dictionary word, too.
It’s actually simpler because the modules each grant you a number of credits, that’s it. Passing means you get the credits.

Yeah the main website sucks but they use Moodle to manage courses and it’s okay.
Could be but the fact is that still the country with the highest cost of health care is the one that producing more drugs than the rest of the world combined.

The US is also 40% or so of the global pharmaceutical market given its population it literarily funds the profits of the global pharmaceutical industry doesn’t matter if it’s American Swiss or Indian company they all make their buck on the back of Uncle Sam. It’s not clear what the impact would be if the US would say start paying 50% less for health care on the world.
If demand for your skills outweighs the availability of them in the skills market, then you'll make an excellent living. So your skills need to be in high demand. Compared to the competition, either be perceived as "better" (write books, give talks) or "more specialized" and you should be able to find a market segment that demands your skills and will pay for them.
“this year, we will be creating a GIF decoder in SQL”
I've known plenty of people on various levels of welfare support who would shop at costco/sam's club. They got their support once a month, making a big shopping trip perfectly in reach. The busiest Costco locations I've been to have been the lower income areas of town (Phoenix area).
Operating costs for a store are also significantly less than a retailer like Walmart that has many, many more SKUs to stock.
With a monorepo you can do an atomic commit over everything. Without you can not.
Name recognition

This can't be understated, and is something a lot of new companies don't understand. If people know your brand and trust your company, they will hand you money.

Anecdata: My parents were massive Sears loyalists. When they bought an appliance, my father researched the various GE models, then bought the Kenmore version. When he wanted a video game console, he researched and decided he wanted an Atari 2600. Then he went out and bought the Sears Tele-Games version.

Half of their house addition was built with Sears products. If Sears had a lumber yard, it would have been closer to 90%.