skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If your a decent programmer, then "web development" is below you - I mean marketing web site development like done in WIX or in Facebook. If you want to write code, there's more interesting and lucrative work in the B2B transactional and business intelligence work. Web sites built around APIs are also interesting
Most of the military is still being paid because the DoD isn’t one of the unfounded agencies. The coast guard, however, is currently working without pay, because they’re part of commerce.
I'd say the "original mission" depends on what you pick as the start of journalism, with the first written collections of news published by the state as a way of spreading its views on current affairs.
Depends on your definition of "symbolic".

If you mean symbolic in the sense that computers use symbols, then no, it won't involve that. Humans are self-reflective (at least some of the time), and they don't think that way (with the possible exception of mathematicians).

But words can also be considered symbols, and when we think, we usually think in terms of words. "I" is a symbol, and it's hard to self-reflect without using it.
Ask HN: What strategy and tools do you use for storing knowledge long term?
Hey HN,

I've been looking for and trying to come up with a system to store and keep track of knowledge for a long time, and I was wondering if maybe this was already a solved problem for others that I just so happen not to know how to put in a search engine.

What I mean by knowledge in this case is, roughly, "information that is useful, but that is hard to remember". Not necessarily hard as in "complex", but rather due to not using that information often enough to make it stick in memory.

Ideally, such a system would allow me to store collections of things that can be articles, videos, particularly interesting podcast episodes, papers, book excerpts etc. in a way that is easy to search and logically meaningful. I would like to be able to insert the things that I already consulted, and those that I plan on delving into in the future.

To give a concrete example: I plan on learning about Machine Learning in the near future, and I would like to have a way to save all the material I come across to almost on a daily basis, in order to have it readily available when the day will come that I will need it. Saving it in bookmarks is a recipe for failure, as bookmarks never worked for me. I have tried (and still try) to keep a hierarchy of files and folders were I save stuff, but that is definitely not easy to consult in any way, since it doesn't allow me to easily tag resources or make notes about them that are easy to search.

Do you have any recommendations?
It's interesting how dissent in these climate change threads is downvoted to death. I wonder what sort of effect this has on the undecided?
Or rather settle for less evil laws, which could well be what they had in mind from start.

In the great old game of public opinion manipulation, one thing is making clear you aim at 10 and go straight in that direction from the beginning, and a very different thing is pretending you aim at 100, then faking acceptance of criticism and adjustments to the objectives until you get to that 10.
In the first case you'll be remembered as the usual bastard in power, in the second you will get new mandates, love letters, books and street names for being someone who listens to common people.
The teams itself may not have one any Pulitzers, but several members of the team have.
Wow. No.

Its only appropriate to compare returns against the sp500 if you are taking on exactly the same amount(and type) of risk as the sp500.

By this bad logic, bonds are a terrible investment and nobody should ever buy them because the s500 is better.

Same goes for owning private companies, although it is murkier to see.
> I'm merely frustrated at the preponderance of people on the internet who are unqualified

But you ignore anyone who tries, whether they're qualified or not.
All you can assume from that is a couple of people who saw your comment decided to click downvote. Extrapolating from those few people to the whole of the HN community is a bit of a stretch.
Wow https://www.tdcj.texas.gov/death_row/dr_info/rodriguezrosend...
Spain Has No Government for 10 Months – Economy Up, Unemployment Falls to 18.9%
So pg&e will be bankrupted, on purpose, because of the law.

Watch carefully and see who (cynical me says they will be politically connected) ends up with the newly debt free pieces of infrastructure.

The power network and the rights of way are worth how many billions of dollars?
It is, but it’s easy to undermine without resorting to accusations of trolling, by pointing out that attacks on the character of a source of information rather than critique of the information is unconvincing. It also helps as ryanlol did, to point out non sequiturs such as injections identity politics into the mix for no good reason.
How Disney's multiplane camera worked. Existed before CGI (gif)
Going throwaway since usual username is my full name...

Honestly I’m glad this lawsuit is happening. I used to work at IBM and left a few years later. During that time, they killed the pension program, modified separation packages that significantly affected tenured employees, and we almost exclusively hired college grads. Our budget for experienced hires was so low that it made it impossible to get any takers. I witness very well qualified folks be let go for no reason. I’ve witnessed college grads getting paid much much more than senior employee.

There were jokes of calling certain employees “dinasaurs” since they were put on terrible jobs in hopes to make them quit, but they would stay strong doing something they hate to get their pension. I’m talking about full time support positions on software that has had no development in 10+ years.

I think a lot of this has to do with cost. Old people cost more money. Young people are gullible and willing to take a 60k entry level with no bonus. I think age discrimination is a result of shady budgets. They need a spanking by the government and I’m glad this person of such seniority cane forward. I 10000% believe the statement.
it takes at least 4-5 years to become a profitable trader.
1-2 years is nothing. just to learn the mechanics it will take couple of years.
Especially the way this is phrased. “I am a liberal” is not something liberals actually say.

For Reddit there is a Chrome plug-in that lets you highlight users who frequently post on specifically troll-heavy subreddits such as The_Donald so you can spot this kind of shit easily.
Rugby is becoming more and more aware of this issue, with high-profile players forced into early retirement because of repeated concussions.

It is too early to know what will be the long-term effect of those concussions on their health, but at least they're still alive, as opposed to the 2 young French players who died this season after being hit while playing (there are probably others, but living in France I've heard the most about those 2).

Having been forced into retirement from Rugby several years ago, following a couple of wrist injuries, I still miss playing a lot. However, I don't think that I would be comfortable with the health risks that today's Rugby presents.
This is part of the reason I'm working on setting up my own business rather than looking at moving back into corporate IT.

A regular salary and defined responsibilities in specific areas ("I'm building X" where X is project-level not project+financial/taxes+management/employment+regulatory) has its definite attractions, but I'm very concerned about long-term sustainability. "Flow"[0] only gets you so far, and if you have to worry about the viability of your employment vs the viability of the project, product or company it's an added set of stress.

Silver temples as a company owner negotiating a services contract seems like a very different thing than silver temples as a software developer looking for work.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_(psychology)
Is there any reason FaceBook would want to crack down this? It doesn’t hurt their metrics of “Daily Active Users” or cut into their as revenue. It’s not as though they care about integrity after all!
Hacking isn't the crisis; everyone knows that everything new will be attacked. The crisis is the lack of prudence in deploying insecure tools in a way that leads to absolutely predictable outcomes.

If experimental software development were like experimental chemistry, people would be a lot more careful. If the detonations happen in the lab instead of the field, I'm pretty sure the robocar makers wouldn't be so quick to talk about the sad, necessary deaths while we learn how to make them, for instance.
And seeds are not vegetables?
Still, I can't see that working in a world where corporations have diverse sources of income, where investors are not necessarily invested in a given resource (or a given people/economic class), and where short term competitiveness is crucial for corporate survival.
Social networking services for developers
If Michael Dell "parked" his money in stocks over the last 5 years, the prices would have been altered. Boards might have made different decisions, and his liquidity might have been compromised. There's no way to guarantee that it would have been a better result.

edit: Also my long standing challenge, point out the index fund billionaire. We all want to meet that person who's winning so hard, by doing nothing.
What he did is "parking his money somewhere". If he bought an index fund, that means someone would have sold 12B so that he could buy 12B. That one with he 12B in cash would then do something with it.

My point is that there is no difference. This just how investment works in general.
it takes at least 4-5 years to become a profitable trader.
Ironic example, as the guy who theorized the Higgs Boson originally doesn't think he'd be productive enough for today's environment. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/dec/06/peter-higgs-...
People driving taxis and Ubers certainly do have reason to be vetted at a higher standard than regular drivers, since for the most part they're spending much more time driving than anyone else; this leads to a much higher risk-per-driver if one is unsafe.

This is comparable to how there are special licensing requirements, above and beyond the typical driver's license, in order to drive a truck or a bus (and, IIRC, even higher requirements to drive a schoolbus.)
That really depends on your basis for comparison because there will be a lot of variation between wages for different jobs within the same company; let alone different jobs in competing companies. It can even vary depending on how good your recruiter is, how generous the management for the vacant position are, the type of job that's on off and how important that position is to that company (are they desperate? Is it an area of strategic growth? etc).

Anecdotally I've really not seen the 2x trend you described and I have spent a fair amount of time negotiating peoples wages. Plus engineers who are really concerned about maximizing their income will generally turn to contracting rather than permanent work anyway (at least that is the case in London where contracting is common place).

Suffice to say, I'm pretty unconvinced that FAANG pay people twice what any other business would. Maybe if you're looking for jobs outside of tech hubs (like smaller towns away from expensive cities) but other tech firms in London (and SV I'd guess?) would have to pay competitive wages else risk not attracting any talent.
Interestingly it's now gone quite the other way; there are many Windows admin tasks which can only be accomplished using powershell.
How is it an acquihire if the company is interviewing all the talent they acquired anyway?
Drone? Can it fly? Is it a quad copter?

Why are we calling rover deones now? Clickbait?
Here are the hosted and installable Serverless platforms: https://landscape.cncf.io/category=hosted-platform,installab...
Yep, when I did a little work for the Midifighter[1] controller, I used sysex to send configuration (but not firmware updates) to the device, to be stored in EEPROM. It was a nice and seamless mechanism.

[1] https://www.midifighter.com/ I made the first version of the configuration tool.
Microsoft implements Linux Kernel and calls it NT kernel.
Where Does Your Mind Go When Your Body Is Near Death?
Thanks for the detailed answer, I appreciate it. I guess some of the points may not apply to me when I live in India, but some probably will be in common, and the reddits are likely to be of use.
Real Value of Facebook – Douglas Rushkoff – Medium
I honestly don’t understand why people think they can apply conventional investment approaches to such vast amounts of money.
EPA ignored research linking glyphosate to cancer
I didn't make that assertion. I was simply pointing out that the NFL has a set of skills tests that aren't football. Further, the effectiveness of the combine is as widely debated as the effectiveness of algorithm questions.
What's new in F# 4.5
How about looking at the actual fucking source of this shit-show of a thread -- the person who cannot resist dumping acres of horseshit into any thread no matter how relevant it is?
Agree that the GMO vs organic characterization was not fair. But I wasn't addressing that topic, but rather the comment that that GMOs are our only option.
Thought I'd comment about the services I've been using recently...

- I pay for an account at sr.ht

- I host my site and other things via prgmr
To be fair, it seems like Dell took a larger risk than the typical S&P 500 investor. So I think it would be fair to say his performance is even worse than that naive comparison would suggest.

I wouldn't necessarily characterize Dell as an idiot though. :)
We are unable to mechanically amplify force without the internet of things. Sorry Archimedes.
You don't get better labor laws without unions. You just don't.
Fair enough, the quality of the projects matters for sure
I started out my career building these sorts of websites, making $3000 Wordpress custom themes. The secret sauce was my lead source who had super developed business sense and social skills, and went out and wined and dined clients and sold them these sites. He went on to build an agency and I was the first freelancer he hired. I'm pretty sure he was pitching wide reaching marketing and strategy help to these clients, and a website was just one part of that.

If a business just wants to make a simple website themselves, I see absolutely no reason not to just use Squarespace or equivalent. I agree with others in this thread that this kind of website has become completely commoditized when taken in a vacuum.

I've done much better as a solo freelance software developer doing webapp development - Django/Vue is my current stack of choice but any full stack can work. The advantage this has over building design-heavy sites for small businesses is that this kind of dev still has a long way to go before being commoditized, and in general is worth north of $100/hr.
That's probably his point. Bonds have less return than shares because they have less risk.

A single company is always going to be riskier and more volatile than the sp500.
Sometimes it's stupidity that leads to leaving evidence. Sometimes it's arrogance "Before I fire you, Mr. Bond." Sometimes it's mindset "She wasn't fitting in with the team" where the team happens to be a bunch of 20-somethings and nobody realizes that there was any issue at all.
Nice. I wouldn't mind joining you for a contract
Why? 64 bit chips are dirt cheap these days, if anything it's surprising they went for 32 bit instead of just going for 64 to buy the protocol one or more decades of "no one's going to run into the limitations of that".

Don't design it for what humans expect, design it for what the machines that need to talk to each other operate on. In that sense, 32 bits is the bare minimum you want in a new spec.
I'm just using Windows with Linux in a VM. All the hardware support and all the Linux goodies. (Some extra memory is required, but my thin-and-light 14" laptop had 32G, so it's ok.)
Not op, but a full-stack web consultant with 7y+ experience. You can check some of my work out at https://nmn.gl/.
Calling an idea problematic is a tell that he's not really concerned by matters like whether it's correct or not.

Web servers and clients, for example, are a case where I've seen bad architecting cause months of damage. An Emacs function hook or advice system, likewise, requires care in terms of when the hook is called, and what the rules for their scoping are. It's a bad software architect that thinks they can just slap callbacks on something.
The US Stock Market is worth about 35 trillion dollars. I don't think a .042% investment would be expected to make a significant difference in its performance over the last 5-6 years.
is using a second mobile device

Initially I was like “versus using a single mobile device? What?” But I see what you’re saying here... the apps should be able to prevent or detect use by drivers while in motion.

On the other hand, this prompted some thought about how distracting in-car entertainment systems can be. The late 2000s early touch-screen and some of the non-touch screen systems are particularly horrible, like the early BMW iDrive and its predecessor. Changing the air conditioning settings in those cars is a UX nightmare.
> just as you retake your driving exams every five years

Uhh... I haven't taken a driving test in 17 years (and two states ago, to boot).
>How would that not affect organizations like the EFF or ACLU or whatever the EU equivalents are?

This reminds me of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s attempt to break down the political influence of special interest groups as California’s governor. Everybody was wholeheartedly behind this effort, until they realized the special interests “ruining California politics” were the police, fire, and teacher’s unions.
> Where's it's hard to separate risk levels of different people. If not you get adverse selection, where the average cost discourages the safer people, leaving the less safe.

I don't think this is necessary at all. You need insurers and the insured to have a similar understanding of their risk level. If you can accurately price it, it should be cheap for lower risk people and more expensive for riskier people.

This doesn't achieve social goals in the context of health insurance, but that shows more about how insurance isn't a great model for healthcare, rather than limitations of what insurance markets can work.
Why, oh why not the first Quake?
Biological contamination is absolutely critical. We fucked up Lake Vostok and that was in our own back yard.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Vostok
Timeouts in Node.js HTTP requests I think are one of the most confusing aspects of all of Node.js, in terms of technical details that are critical to successful production operations. The core documentation is poorly worded in some places, and some of the helper libraries make it very difficult to figure out exactly what timeouts are being set. For example, node-fetch (mentioned in the article) had/has a pretty non-sense timeout on the entire request duration [0], and I've seen that blindly propagated into other libraries [1]. When timeouts only happen under error conditions (flaky servers), it's a nightmare to debug.

Glad to see this article explain the various timeouts (although I don't see the idle socket timeout mentioned). Huge +1 from me for using node's core http library only and adding explicit, readable timeouts in your own code.

[0] https://github.com/bitinn/node-fetch/issues/446

[1] https://github.com/googleapis/nodejs-storage/issues/27 (two different timeout bugs)
What kind of companies are your clients?
You've clearly never seen a trade book.

edit: With 100% less snark the trillions in the stock market is illiquid, while $15 Billion over a short period of time (as to benefit of the 5 years of growth) is not a trivial thing to accomplish without changing prices when those trades hit the books.
Such as instagram ? «Influencers» paid to post photos with native ads (products).
Some of my favourite projects have been very similar to the ones you described, basically technical webapps that help improve internal workflows. Been focusing on that and offering "quick" MVPs for the past few years.

However, finding such clients seems to be extremely difficult. Is there any advice you might have?
For a long time before WSL was conceived of, there was a GNU system on top of Windows - cygwin. Cygwin and WSL have entirely different strengths and weaknesses due to the fact that Cygwin is GNU on top of Win32, whereas WSL is GNU on top of a Linux syscall layer implemented by the NT kernel. Earlier versions of Windows had GNU tools on top of the POSIX layer of the Kernel, which was entirely different beast altogether. All "GNU" systems, all very different characteristics.

I do think that the GNU/Linux distinction is valid when comparing something like CentOS against Android or even Busybox, but WSL is not a great example because it is almost entirely defined by its implementation of the Linux kernel API.
Ask HN: Full stack devs, what helped you noticeably reduce development time?
As a new freelancer, I feel that it takes me a long time push projects that aren't really that big.

What methods, practices, tools, or methodologies helped you noticeably increase your development time?
An Uber driver did this with me recently. It was late at night (bar pickups). The driver was an older, professional looking gentleman but told me he was tired and “had not driven in a few months”.
I travel a lot - typically two weeks each month. I view Uber as very risky compared to cabs. I once had an Uber driver whose phone got flaky during the trip, so he said that he would drop me off (he turned into an industrial park area that was completely deserted to leave me.) He said that if Uber didn't see him complete the trip then he wouldn't get paid and would be working for free, so he wouldn't take me any further than where we happened to be. Another time I had a 1 mile commute in 115 degree heat. Well, no Uber driver would come to pick me up for a one mile commute. I tried and tried for over an hour, while other people were catching Ubers with no problem. Another time I had to go to the next town over, and nobody wanted to pick me up for that trip, so I again found myself stranded by using Uber. Then there is the fact that so many Uber drivers are obviouly just barely surviving financially, and all that entails.

I've been taking taxis for decades - and never had any problems in the United States.
Show HN: Small es6 framework for describing / running Cellular Automata
> ...and meets ongoing continuing education requirements.

Which are a joke. Attending conferences and weekend workshops take care of this.
> While I agree that AI research has a long way to go (perhaps several decades) before it might produce responsible machines

...written in 1984. I do not believe we've made any progress in terms of creating "responsible machines."

My general feeling about the Chinese Room argument is that it discusses the "psychological phenomenon of understanding." We don't really know what that phenomenon is, it's a feeling or sensation from our perspective (or at least from mine) and so I'm uncomfortable ascribing much importance to it. Until we understand how our minds actually work, the "Turing test approach" makes sense to me: if we can't tell the difference, then it's "responsible."
Tensorflow 2.0: Keras is not (yet) a simplified interface to Tensorflow
Interesting that you went with the 3.5mm jack, and not the 1/4" jack, which predate the 20th century and will be in use until analog electric signals become impossible, rather than being tied to whether or not "cabled portable audio devices" stay a thing or whether we give up on those.