skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think over-parenting can be disastrous, particularly emotionally. I had what you might call a "strict" father (mother passed away when I was young), but he was never a helicopter parent. My sister and I were always expected to do things well, but we were never handheld along the way. I finished second in my high school class, and everyone always seemed so surprised when I told them that I never had any help with homework or school projects. I was just told to do my best (whatever grade that might result in). And while my dad was probably a little on the overprotective side when it came to safety, the ability to "figure things out" myself helped drastically when I finally went out on my own.

My wife on the other hand... I hate to use the word "coddled", but I am absolutely astounded at how many basic tasks and life skills were never taught to her. She never learned that you can't dump all of your clothes in the washing machine and set it on hot. She never learned that not watering the yard will quickly kill all of the grass. When I was talking about scheduling a prostate exam, she asked if I could schedule hers too, and I had to explain that women don't have prostates (when she was a kid, she was horrified the first time she had her period because no one explained what that was either).

She doesn't want to get a job because she says she won't have enough vacation time for visiting family, so she's currently living off my income (we don't have children). Her brother finished his PhD over a year ago but has not applied to any jobs and lives in the basement playing video games. I love my wife a lot, but it somehow slipped my attention before we got married that her parents failed her in a big way by doing absolutely everything for her and her siblings. It's translated into a lack of basic adult skills, and I often feel like I'm not a husband in the relationship, but a parent. When I eventually have kids of my own, "figure it out yourself" is going to be a common refrain, because "I'll take care of it" apparently results in a disaster.
It had ads for a long while before Microsoft acquired it, but IIRC then you could actually remove them by removing a checkmark in settings
I find it's not an issue as long as you're using a decent "object shipping" layer like gRPC. Really greases up the transition point between different languages.

I guess you could hire less proficient engineers which is a sell for startups, but I don't think it's worth the downsides of the current js ecosystem
The last draft is always available for free from. The standard committee website.

The document is definitely not a good way to learn the language.
Disability, Unemployment, Housing, and Medicaid are usually not included in a discussion about "welfare". Usually conservative types will lump everything except for unemployment together for their own purposes when talking about costs.

End of the day, the reality is that states that are aggressive about these costs for idealogical reasons are most aggressive about medicaid (cost is split with state), "temporary assistance" (cash payments to individuals and familyies, shared with state).

Usually states make money on disability, WIC, and food stamps. (The Feds fund administrative costs.) Opposing these things is weird, particularly since the alternatives to these programs (jail, ER visits) cost something like 5-10x more!
As someone who uses the paid Azure Pipelines agents I can say I really like it generally but their hosted build agent performance is ... adequate ... at best.
Pretty interesting, failure is always good. How do you curate content?
Led to believe by whom? People who have a vested interest in people believing it would be a short investigation.
JavaScript is still what I use to introduce programming to new people, because for people who haven't done their dues learning how to use a command-line, the hardest part of getting started with programming is getting your computer set up to do it at all. And since everyone already has a browser, getting started with coding only requires showing them how to open the developer console.
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I'm like you! And after I argued with someone on another thread here and they told me to watch CppCon talks I realized there are plenty (and plenty of new C++ features) that are not about template metaprogramming and that are useful... won't learn it at 100% but the experience has made me feel like I could improve my C++ every day.
AsciiDoctor is great, the only thing missing is outputing chunked html directly without having to deal with docbook for example (maven setup)
As far as I can tell, neither of those resources describe "advanced code review tools".

What does that mean? What are these code review tools?

The help document does talk about Protected Branches and Code Owners but those seem different than code review tools and "code review" is listed in the free plan.
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No, she can't.

Her job description is basically investing several million dollars at a time into projects that a large number of participants in her industry (impact investing) believe are worthwhile, but no one fund would bankroll on its own. A key part of that job description is working to build partnerships & syndicates of investors whose goals are aligned. A key skill for that is building trust and rapport - the foundations, family offices, entrepreneurs, and hedge funds involved all need to feel like the deal is in their interest and they will be treated fairly, both if it goes well and if it goes poorly.

There's a bunch of social science that's shown that repeated in-person interaction builds trust in a way that e-mail, phone calls, written communication, and videoconferencing does not. It's not just the facial expression and emotions - there's something about interacting in real-time within a shared environment that makes us trust each other. And that's what I'm referring to by "good as there" telepresence - existing systems are not good enough, because there's still a big gulf between VCing with your coworker across the country and chatting with your officemate about a cool new opportunity. I don't know whether VR will ever be good enough to bridge this gulf, but I'm saying that if it can, that would be revolutionary.

If it were just a matter of deal terms & conditions, we could stick all that in a blockchain and let computers hash it out. That's my field, and I keep telling her that eventually the world'll move that way. But humans don't work that way; as long as we have squishy emotions and depend on a lot of subconscious cues we can't even describe, then looking at a screen is not going to change peoples' decision making. If you could somehow capture all those subconscious cues so it really is indistinguishable from physical presence, that may change, but that's a big if.
Yeah, and thanks, but it's sometimes hard to see comments like, "Hey cool, could you just give me a brief 10k word essay on what you're talking about?" and not get a little frustrated.
It's not peanuts to the environment.

How about option c) donate the plane ticket to buy carbon offsets so as not to act "cheap". Even better, give the client that choice and see if they readily choose to pollute the environment (twice).
> Multiple people writing on the same board at the same time isn't how we communicate with each other.

Chalkboards are actually a great way to communicate and collaborate in small groups, and have been for a long time one of the main forms of communication in professional mathematics and some other technical fields.

The chalkboard is a very democratic medium, because anyone can more-or-less produce the same output, it is easy to add notes over / adjacent to other people’s writing (including formulas, diagrams, ...), and the possibilities are very free and open-ended. This stands in contrast to fancy typography and bespoke technical diagrams, which are often slow to produce, difficult to modify, and require great expertise to do well.

Using a chalkboard well as a collaborative thinking tool takes practice though.
One fear that has come to mind: Microsoft pulls a Google and tries to force Github and LinkedIn to work together somehow - like requiring a login from one to use the other. I hope they have the presence of mind to not poison Github with LinkedIn in any way.
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isn't that a different statement?

releasing some doesn't mean he released everything, or stuff Russia wasn't okay with him releasing.
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So you agree that what you said before about how taxes work was just plain wrong.
It took me a few years to adjust, but I'm back in the workforce. I am working in a big IT company now. Blind people can use screenreaders - assistive software - to write code and leave comments on hacker news. If something happens to your hands, I've heard of a software developer who is using dictation software to write code. There are ways you can work around your disabilities.
> Fusion energy does not suffer from diseconomies of scale. As we produce more solar panels it becomes more expensive to produce more solar panels. As we place solar panels in the best location the next batch will have to use the second best location. These diseconomies of scale also apply towards the current generation batteries that solar panels relay on.

Is this true? Why would solar panel cost go up if you make more? Is there some rare-earth element that's a bottleneck resource?

Also, we're nowhere near using up space for putting solar panels. They're less efficient in places with cloudy weather or in latitudes far from the equator, but otherwise any place to install a solar panel farm is as good as any other; choice of location is dominated mostly by convenience, cheapness of land, proximity to power lines, local politics, and so on. We've only used up a tiny percentage of all the "good spots" to put solar panels.
>The media is a mess. Even mainstream outlets like Fox routinely lie to their viewers. Other countries with stronger libel laws (like the UK) don't have nearly as bad a problem

Ever read the Daily Mail, the SUN and co? (Or for that matter the Guardian, for left-sided BS).
forget the whiteboard, imagine a regular 2D monitor with regular code on it except it wraps your field of view, so all the files of the entire codebase are open at once, let’s assume there is retina resolution everywhere, and it is collab edit like googledocs with a laser pointer attached to each cursor. Pair programming multi-cursor!
51% attack means someone (or a group of people) has successfully taken over the said blockchain.
That's like saying "this whole programming thing just keeps on giving" every time a bug is discovered in any program.

Those involved have been warning of the insecurity of smaller chains for a long time now, and they aren't representative of the entire ecosystem.
> It is false and defamatory to suggest that WikiLeaks or Julian Assange shared documents with a dictator

so no dictators have read any documents on WikiLeaks?
This is inevitable. Ethereum Classic (ETC) isn't the only currency such attacks have been successful on. The site https://www.crypto51.app/ puts the cost of running a 51% attack on ETC at ~$5k per hour. The incentive for running these attacks for profit becomes higher as the market cap of these coins increases, making long-term 'investment' in these coins nonsensical.
Sure. I'd agree that futurists need room to think and invent the future; but VR, Blockchain, and Cryptocurrencies are not the Model T.
Their documentation seemed weird.

It seemed like if you wanted to self-host your own CI builder with their agent, it was still limited to 1 parallel build on their free plan?

Is that true?

With Gitlab, if you bring your own runner, there's no limitation like that AFAIK (I've never done this yet because I never surpassed 2k build minutes a month) but I glanced their docs.
Guessing he was referring to this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projection_keyboard
In this kind of blockchain network, the longest chain of blocks is considered to be the valid one. However, someone that has 51% of the hashing power (i.e. more hashing power than everyone else combined) can create a chain that grows faster than the chain used by everyone else. This means that they could tamper with their chain, potentially rewriting history on it, and because it is the longest chain, it will be accepted as the valid chain, and their version of events looks like it has been accepted.
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Because crypto-currencies are validating transactions by having them validated by the network as a whole, a group who controls more than 50% of the computing power can do whatever they want: reject valid transaction, create (and validate) fake transactions...
It has value to certain people, sure. But given that it's mainly technically minded people who work with the kernel on a daily basis, and most people don't need to know their kernel version number outside of limited circumstances.

I would say for the majority of Linux users, it's the OS version that's more important; that is, getting help with your installation of Ubuntu, it's more useful to know that you're running 18.10 rather than kernel version 4.18.

Yes, Chrome-style versioning has value. But is that value applicable to this scenario? I wouldn't say 'no', but I'm fairly comfortable saying "not necessarily". Nothing is universal, and no one solution solves every problem.
>If the UK's notion of libel were applied to the scenario of the article, Robert Frese would be required to prove that his statements were truthful, rather than the police/prosecution proving Robert knew he was lying. That's obscene.

Is it? If he can't prove his statements were true (eg. if he doesn't have hard facts baking him), then why was he making them?

That said, often those things (dirty police, dirty corporations, etc) are right there obvious to most, and you can't prove them because of course they're careful -- e.g. they might even admit it to your face, but never on record.
Indeed. It's doable, but requires a reasonably fast rollout tempo and a manageable level of technical debt.

It is utterly impractical when you're deploying to individual customer sites, for customers who agree to an upgrade on timescales ranging from three months to five years...

[edit] Part 1, the automated schema updates, I'm right alongside. I can't fathom how people can operate with manual schema updates all the time. But part 2 is IMO wishful thinking outside of a deployed environment your own team can upgrade pretty much at will.
The attacker rewrote part of the blockchain which was supposed to be immutable. Generally this allows spending the same money twice.
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Maybe training, but definitely not keeping the position. And, to be frank, if they had any experience, I'd consider that a sign of negligence.
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For me - ability to structure documents nicely with `include::`
Maybe I'm an outlier but I've had more productive video conferences with salespeople than I have with ones who've flown out to talk. Sure, you don't get the free steak lunch on a video call, but you also don't have to spend that lunch break being pitched on how amazingly cool their company is.
The range balance is a little off. The Volt electric range is about 40 miles or so? That would barely get me to work and home. If I have other errands, I'm on the gas engine.

Something like a Volt with a ~100 mile electric range would be ideal. Probably diesel too, because the fuel keeps much longer than gasoline. Or maybe Propane/CNG.
“Intensive parenting is a way for especially affluent white mothers to make sure their children are maintaining their advantaged position in society,” said Jessica Calarco, a sociologist at Indiana University and author of “Negotiating Opportunities: How the Middle Class Secures Advantages in School.”

I guess especially affluent mother of color don't do this? NYT conflating race and class to divide people again.
>Just because he was arrested for criminal libel doesn't mean he will be convicted of it.

Doesn't matter. Can still lose money (e.g. by taking time off of his work) and can still be harassed (even after the case ends), and can still have his life made a living hell by casual police and friends activity.
Being only somewhat familiar, I wonder this: Why don't clients have a simple rule against accepting changes to history that are more than one or two blocks old?
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> It's extremely important to recognize that there is a difference between someone who is religiously Muslim and ethnically Muslim

You mean arab right? Not all arabs are muslims so please stop this bs spreading. Yes christian arabs and jews from middle east have a lot in common (culturally) with their neighbors who are predominantly muslim. Saying that one could be ethnically muslim means you are expressing support for religious (as well as ehtnic) cleansing that has been going on in the middle east for decades. I did say ethnic because there has been some other ethnicities (non-arabs) that suffered tremendously as well.
Stroustrup likes to say it's harder to shoot yourself in the foot with C++, but when you do it tends to blow off the whole leg.
Unless it's shrinking as devs realize other platforms offer a free version of the same service. Especially if those devs decide that they like the new platform better, and convince their company to use it.
Unlike my parents. I have the opportunity to help coach my daughter's soccer team, to read to them each night, to choose from a number of extracurricular activities that we can afford, and attend parent-teacher conferences. Does that mean my wife and I devote more to our children than our parents? Most likely not.

Across generations, we're all struggling to be the best parents we can, even if the methods look very different.
Spanish High Tech salaries aren't exactly low... Neither are Dutch salaries.

A Senior Engineer in London can expect 70K-100K($90k-$127k) on the higher end of the spectrum. Similar rates go in Amsterdam, or US outside of Bay Area and NYC.
But it requires each application to write custom code to support. In a world where companies chose Electron over proper native development that is a no-go.
Hm, doesn't even seem to be that expensive (ETC $4,996, ETH $107,536) to run a 51% attack: https://www.crypto51.app/
I'm 100% the same, and I find it weird too. I got chatting with my friends recently who are big fans of Meundies and I mentioned cotton boxers and they looked at me funny because briefs were so much more popular.
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The Volt is dead? Hm. There are still some sitting at the lot at my local Chevy dealer. Didn't know that it had been killed.
As someone in a high cost of living area, I looked jealously at that top quintile on the chart.
Try something like Rec Room on the Vive or Oculus before you proclaim it no different than video conferencing. This is a human perception problem and the feeling of being there and hand signals alone makes an enormous difference. You have to try it to understand. There are all these big and small factors for why video conferencing doesn't replace all communication. VR can in the long term remove most if not all of them, except for latency.
EDIT: Removed my original reply. The PR was posted a day early by accident, so giving them room to deal with that.
Depending what their margins are, this is great. But wouldn’t it generally be a more sustainable to give x% from your profits to Y.
Nuclear actually doesn't work well for spacecraft either, because there's no convenient way to get rid of all that excess heat. It might work well on Mars or Ceres, but solar isn't all that bad; you'd just need more panels for an equivalent amount of energy as you'd need on Earth.
> Today's batteries aren't really good enough for driving on vacation

Picked up our Model 3 in September. We've already driven it to West Texas, North Carolina, South Carolina, as well as multiple trips inside of Florida. Hit 10,000 miles yesterday.

I would never argue that road tripping in a Tesla is as worry-free as it is in a ICE-powered vehicle, but with a modicum of forethought I'd say the Model 3 is plenty good enough for driving on vacation today. The hardest part is limiting yourself to hotels that offer Level 2 chargers, but pretty much all new construction hotels have EV charging of some sort.
I'm pretty sure that one of Richard Stallman's ideas for free software funding in the 1980s was government grants, paid for with taxes—except I don't think he suggested that the taxes would be collected only from users of particular software, but rather from everybody.

(This does happen on a small scale because some government grants do go to academic researchers who are developing FOSS, and because U.S. government agencies can't hold copyright in their original work, so there are some codebases that have been released. But it's not like a large-scale software development government agency or grantmaking entity.)
>Every politician would be in jail after each campaign season

Sounds like a better world!
As t→∞, you could imagine technology improving to the point where VR headsets don't feel like they're occluding your vision. The holy grail would plugging directly into your brain to replace your ocular input with a digital feed.

Of course I'm talking about a sci-fi future here, nothing that's on the horizon in the next 10-20 years.
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