skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>my engineer parents and their parents, who have spent years of hard intellectual labour in their craft, have had almost the same lives as workers engaged in the most basic hand labour, who have been coming to their workplace drunk for years and never even faced a danger of unemployment because of their horrible work ethic, because "social country" couldn't allow it.

Good? As long as your parents were comfortable and safe, why is it a problem that less "deserving" people also were? Comments like yours sound less like "hard work deserves success" and more like "as long as I am above someone else, I'm happy." It comes up a lot in discussions of minimum wages - a nurse was fine with $17/hour until a fast food worker also makes that, suddenly it's an outrage.
I just bought my first pair of glasses from the eye doctor – previously been using EyeBuyDirect. There's no difference in quality but they cost literally 10x ($250 vs. $25). I guess it's nice to be able to try them on in person and have a nice woman tell me I look good in them, but that's the only appreciable difference in the entire process.
At a certain point, is that necessarily a bad thing?

If the AI knows me so well, it's probably something I would buy/want anyway. If my house starts cooking bacon and eggs in the morning based on it's analysis of me, and there's a 90% chance that's what I want, awesome.

A lot of people already do it with driving. On my commute to work every day, I go the way google maps tells me to. Google is effectively controlling traffic patterns, but it's made driving to work faster.

I realize it could possibly be used for evil, but by the time we get there, most if not all, of the people reading this will be dead by that point, so we'll never know.
He may lose out tons if/when he gets acquired / acquihired.
You can’t receive campaign contributions from the corporation the lobbyist works for—it’s illegal for corporations to contribute to a campaign.

You’re giving a citizen who knows about a complex industry access that regular citizens also routinely get.

This idea of a “revolving door” is so vague that it’s impossible to critique. How many politicians leave office to go work for industries that lobbied them? The fact is that it’s not many.
Why are these articles always aimed at the 'victim' companies, rather than the actual venture capitalists?

If the thesis is correct, they are the main losers, with incentives to find the 'right' size for companies.

Edit:
I am aware of the current business model of venture capitalists.

It just seems to me that the value maximising outcome would be to enlarge every company to the largest it could be but no bigger.

Why isn't this happening?

Is it that venture capitalists are psychopaths and bad investors to boot? Is it that identifying the 'right' size of company is hard? The question that then arises is why are founders so good at identifying the right size, when investors find it so hard? Is there survival bias here? Sour grapes? If founders are genuinely better, why hasn't that been picked up on and harnessed?
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How bad is to drink a single cup (12oz) daily between 9am and 11am?
In my experience hardware is the cheapest part of hiring staff and I've found providing the best equipment that the employee wants its a cheap way of aiding retention. Penny pinching is pretty stupid in the medium to long term.
> Extreme poverty, abject poverty, absolute poverty, destitution, or penury, was originally defined by the United Nations in 1995 as "a condition characterized by severe deprivation of basic human needs, including food, safe drinking water, sanitation facilities, health, shelter, education and information. It depends not only on income but also on access to services."[2] In 2018, extreme poverty widely refers to making below the international poverty line of $1.90/day (in 2011 prices, equivalent to $2.12 in 2018), set by the World Bank. This measure is the equivalent to making $1.00 a day in 1996 US prices, hence the widely used expression, living on "less than a dollar a day".[3] The vast majority of those in extreme poverty – 96% – reside in South Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, The West Indies, East Asia and the Pacific; nearly half live in India and China alone.[4] As of 25 June 2018, Nigeria became the poverty capital of the world with more than 86 million of its citizens living in extreme poverty despite abundant resources.[5][1][6]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_poverty

P.S.: In case anyone here hasn't read Factfulness and doesn't think that the world really is getting better in very measurable ways: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_poverty#/media/File:Wo...
Don't you need to do the same hacking within CircleCI?
I feel dirty for saying this but Azure Pipelines is the service that is tempting to me because of the power of its file format (variable substitution, conditionals, template tasks and steps).
Presumably that check is intended to protect the accused from secret prosecution. But I think in many cases, the potential reputation damage of a false accusation is so bad that the accused would prefer to make the decision about whether it should be published or not.
I wonder if the detection of such cases be automated.
Editor will be snappier, Docker will start faster, git merges will be quick, etc

it all adds up.
I usually just use the upvote button, but in this case, I must join some other commentors in expressing explicit gratitude for your easy-to-understand explanation.
I am wondering whether this is also a problem in game development or not. In game development to create a game often you need an even more broad skillset in your organization than in web frontend developemnt. Can frontend development learn from game development when defining the roles?
> In the same way as no-one should ever try and create Unity from scratch

I don't think anyone is really trying to create Unity from scratch (unless they're trying to compete with Unity). But that doesn't necessarily mean you should just use Unity. Unity is complicated, and designed to be a general purpose game engine. Which means for any given game, it may or may not be a good fit. A lot of times you can get up and running faster in Unity, but soon start to hit walls as you try to do something more advanced. If you wrote your own engine, you would just modify it to meet your needs, but with Unity you end up trying to find workarounds for its shortcomings.

I also think your example with React is flawed. There's a big difference between left-pad and React, and I think the most interesting packages to discuss is the range of things between those two.
Zenni is very good. There is a slight difference in quality between them and the Armani Exchange glasses I got from an optician, but it's not significant. I got a basic pair of black framed rectangular nerd specs for $8 last week, and I'd happily wear them out.

Measure the frame of a pair of glasses that looks good on your face and then try to find glasses with those measurements on Zenni.
You're not a free flight aviator, are you? I don't mean to be rude, it's just that I've found that people who don't fly things are always much more optimistic and naive about the realities of air travel than actual pilots are. I'm not trying to sound snarky- I had the same level of optimism and bright ideas for the uses of air travel until I got an aerospace engineering degree and started flying hang gliders.

Sailplanes wouldn't work for commuting because of, in order:

1. Difficulty of training
2. Pilot liability for accidents
3. Weather
4. Space required to take off and land
Recently got access to a new HW platform with 256 cores CPU, 512M of L3, 512G/1TB of RAM. The speed of that thing compiling the linux kernel and run certain AI testing are amazing. One can try out different experiments so much faster.

Used to working diff company with server farms for compiling. Even with the servers, compiling the 26G software pkg took 4 hours. When it is high noon and everyone was using it. I have seen compile jobs can last 8+ hours. There a few times that by the time compile is done, I have completely context switch out and forgot what I need to debug.
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I absolutely agree with you. The scenarios you bring up make perfect sense, and I can see why starting outside of SV/NYC in those cases is the way to go.

My main beef with OP is that his whole post has zero nuance and doesn't even look at upsides/downsides. It just preaches his single opinion as the only right way. Just to illustrate how bad it is in my opinion, I got way more useful info on topic out of your single comment than from the whole OP.
More to the point, how many people who are caught up by fake news actually read the original article? The pattern is to: (1) Publish a fake article on a propaganda site (2) Tweet it out from a sockpuppet account (3) Use paid promotion or hacking to get it retweeted by a few influencers (4) The unassuming masses amplify the message by repeating the headline in the tweet. By the time anyone notices that the source of the misinformation is a fake news site the story has already traveled around the world two-and-a-half times.
NewsGuard may as well flag twitter.com in that case.
As others have mentioned, vibration can be a problem in these environments. But heat is also something you want to deal with. Clean power is also something to be concerned with.

In the past I've used a lot of those Supermicro 5x3" drive carriers and they have really good airflow. This was for storage in servers I built for home use. I wrote up something in 2008 about one I built here: www.tummy.com/articles/ultimatestorage2008/

Faster spinning disks generate more heat and vibrations than slower spinning ones. 15K drives are notorious for needing good environmentals.

My current storage needs are pretty limited, which probably would make SSD attractive. Or we are getting there at least. My storage server right now has 6TB used, and around 1TB of that is backups. If I could get by with 4x 2TB SSDs, I might consider it, just for longevity sake. I'm using ZFS BTW.
Government contracting is heavily incentivized to privilege companies which have close ties to government officials. Have a look at the political scandals of the last 8 years in Brazil. Nearly all of them had to do with officials getting “favors” from companies in exchange for government investment and contracting deals.

As long as the government deals in the peoples’ money instead of suffering from its own choices, you cannot compare government contracting with the open market.
> inexplicably embed metal objects into their face

> just to feel different.

Saying someone does something "just to feel different" is extremely condescending. It's like saying "just for attention" which is not the reason people do everything.

It is implying people who choose to do body modification are vain and childish.
"The change also raised more questions about the future of Robinhood’s cash management accounts, which attracted the attention of U.S. senators after it was revealed that Robinhood had not consulted federal regulators about insuring the cash accounts."

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/robinhood-quietly-stops-us...

Turns out it was a gimmick.
Call me when they actually start caring about end users and ship ublock origin by default and stop their ad 'experiments'.
And I am a Firefox user. Since 2006. But because they are the least bad browser (by far). Not because they are good.
Honestly, for enterprise users that is a good thing. In the hands of a company like Idera we can be reasonably confident that Travis will not disappear anytime soon. Under independent - or forbid Oracle / Google stewardship - that is far less certain.
Ha ha, I totally dont' agree with you, but I appreciate your point :).
Heck yes! This has been my line-not-to-cross for years now and I have trouble understanding why people seem so accepting of them. I'm not sure whether I'm more offended being judged via hokey pseudo-IQ or hokey pseudo-Myers-Briggs.

Also think about the recent epidemic of software company purchases by Vista Equity Partners, who insist on administering these things as their "secret sauce" to justify their own PE rent-seeking + honestly, discrimination against more senior employees.

There should be a public list of employers who require these, for purposes of shame and simply warning.
France doesn't tax the rich high enough is the basic problem. Macron also passed big tax cuts for the wealthy that did not stimulate the economy as well. So the working class are feeling the taxes as well as not having enough economic opportunity. Nationalism is also big in Europe as it always has been. People see refugees getting resettlement benefits and that upsets them. It doesn't help that ISIL want to shoot and blow people up as well.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/04/world/europe/france-econo...
That's a bit of a knee point though.

If your machine doesn't have quite enough RAM, it will swap and likely be unusable.

Once you have just enough it will fly, and adding more RAM will make little difference.

I can't imagine the OP's aged stack is so low on RAM that he puts up with swapping.
In other news, you are no longer allowed to refuse tracking by Engadget/Oath’s ‘trusted’ partners such as Amazon and Google. No thanks.
Perhaps most obviously The Martian.
It may not be practical, but in the world of scifi, I think we have lots of artistic attempts to design what such a vehicle might look like. Take most of the "cars" in The Fifth Element. They don't have wings, and are essentially cars that have some sort of lifting unit where tires would have been. But they look more car-like that plane-like, and fit what I think most of us regard as a "flying car".
39dollarglasses.com is what I use.
This is not correct. Pypy is actively developed.

Numerical code is always written in numpy which can drop the GIL.
No, it's dumb to pretend that only "public interest" organizations want things that are good for the public, while megacorps do not. Our immense prosperity is due to megacorps, not public interest organizations. Indeed, public interest organizations often want to do things that harm the economy, and thus the people. E.g. NIMBY organizations, historical preservation societies, etc.

Also, "corporate donor" is not a thing that exists. Corporations are legally banned from contributing to candidates.
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https://www.zennioptical.com/ is what my wife uses. She pays for all the special coatings, anti glare, anti oil. Ends up being about 50$ a pair. She loves them, and I think they look cute.
I've been buying from a Chinese maker online, Zenni. They sell a pair with all of the trimmings for $120 that's about $400 at my optometrist's. I did not get a great fit on the first try, but did on the second, so that still saves around $160. And using the fitting for that pair I've bought three others that all fit well.

The worst part is the sad look in my optometrist's eyes when I say I'd just like the prescription please.
I'm on an x201 running i3wm. All good.
Agreed, Zenni has worked well for several years for me
I too am getting some real "get off my lawn" feels from these comments.
She got a 600k loan as a student based on bank statements which is insane.

She also took it an ARM loan at 6%. In 5 years it’s very possible it could become unaffordable. Not a good decision either.

In this case it may be a good deal for both parties. What about the other people? The atricle mentions these loans grew by 25% in 2018.
There are particles of 10^20 eV energy or more out in space you get for free. But how to do anything with them.. that's yet to be seen.
I agree that macros are better than in other non-lisp languages, but I find them ugly in Julia. Maybe not painful, but they don’t integrate seamlessly into the language.
A big question is which marginal tax rates.

Because whilst millionaires mostly aren't going to run away from their homes and business, a $10m income tax isn't difficult to turn into equity grants or royalties paid to a holding company etc for the relatively few people earning that much in salary rather than on their capital. Which means the net result might be millionaires structuring their income in a way where they actually pay less tax without any running away at all.

If you take the more radical step of slapping the marginal tax rate on dividend income and capital gains as well, you start significantly changing investment behaviour: if you don't allow writeoffs for losses then VC becomes a really, really unattractive way to park your money, and if you do allow writeoffs for previous years' losses you might well be making the risky punt relatively attractive. Obviously changing people's investment behaviour is a desirable side effect, but it's something that needs very carefully thinking though

If you really want to change the imbalance between rich and poor you probably go after untaxed extreme wealth rather than earned income though...
And why is optical/optomechanical lab equipment so expensive?
In my experience, the legs on the cheap glasses online are rarely as long as they should be. That means the bend in the leg sits just forward of my ear.

The practical difference in negligible, though. They feel just fine, and they don't fall off or anything.

So yeah, I buy all my glasses online, and have been for years.
> Their bias really comes out with the stores that they are (and aren't covering).

Which, in my experience, "is generally about as on the level as their contemporaries", just concerning different stories and the way they're spun.
When I was doing my CCNA the cisco press books where well written and went from first principals.
If you're going to be staring at a screen for 8 hours a day, you should expect it to look good.
Do you add any context to that? For example, lets say I go out and I spend my paycheck on a new gaming computer, the next day technically I can't afford food. Is it societies job to step in? What if I am able bodied but refuse to work? What if I could afford to live with roommates, but I prefer not to? As for healthcare is everyone entitled to cutting edge experimental therapies from the mayo clinic, or would access to their local hospital and free clinic be sufficient to meet your requirement?

Depending on those definitions it may be that the vast majority of Americans already have those things or very few do. So clearly defining them is important.
> It might be because he's lucky

Yes, this is it.

People do not become billionaires through sheer determination and leveraging opportunities. They are in the right place at the right time (and often have a pool of capital already), and that is 90% of it. The last 10% is hard work, taking risks, and foresight.

"Rags to riches" is a story we're told so we believe that any of us can climb to the top when, really, it's a way to placate people who have nothing, and not just that, but to enlist them in unbending support for those who have everything (because, one day, THEY might be the billionaire).
I share your feelings and not just because this is political and thru have no business but because my browsing is my business and not theirs, political or not
I used to use OneNote. When I found out that I could only export from the OneNote web site, I quit.

My current answer is not for everybody, but I write notes in ReStructuredText on GitHub and write my own scripts for analyzing them. An important thing is that I put notes in the same collection for search along with other kinds of documents.
Chromecast is Embrace/Extend/Extinguish at work. What happened to open streaming protocols?
Agreed. This is also why I adore the SICP lectures from the 1980s [1] (and the book in general).

It broke programming down to its most fundamental and important building blocks without all the baggage of machine/operating system/application/dependency/etc specific stuff.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Op3QLzMgSY&list=PL8FE88AA54...
Japanese tech manuals (recently uploaded to Web Archive)
Interesting idea, Truth as a Service. You don't have to use your own critical thinking, just take what the machine says! /s
I have the same problem at the moment, I am working with a 4.5 year old MacBook Pro and asking myself when replacing is actually increasing my productivity rather than just a luxury to have a shiny new laptop.
Getting fast feedback from your tests.
It's kind of nuts to me that we even allow the concept of a "pharmaceutical sales rep" to exist. Especially one that's paid on commission. That doesn't seem like the incentive alignment that works best for society. There's only one thing I want influencing my doctor's prescriptions: science. And I'm sure I'm not alone in feeling that way.
>USA fails miserably at "interesting and beautiful" part.

It depends on where you are. I lived in downtown Boston and walked everywhere. I had a choice of walking along the river, down the Commonwealth Avenue mall and through the public gardens, etc, etc.
>She can't suggest taxing profits/capital gains/inheritance/trust funds of course, because then she'd make enemies of actually powerful people.

Maybe you're right, but I very much doubt it. I'm at work, so I don't have more time to research it, but I'd be willing to bet AOC will or has suggested increasing taxation on at least capital gains and inheritance. These are commonplace suggestions from the center to the left.
As a guy with a bunch of tattoos, I'm fine with saying it's both! :p
I've used firmoo, zenni and warby parker. Warby parker is more on the expensive end but they have a store nearby and are still cheaper than a normal optical store.
No idea how you'd run into hardware restrictions; T440 is from 2013, and I have yet to run into a driver issue dual booting Debian and Windows.

I don't understand the bit about the console; I haven't met a dev who doesn't find terminals worlds quicker than hunting and pecking in a GUI. Maybe an argument to keep general users on Windows, not really an argument against devs running a linux distro.

I was suggesting you should understand what's running on your machine and why, and if you do, that $2k mac isn't doing anything for you that a machine worth less than a quarter of that will. Whether or not you have a top of the line machine, there's still reasons to reach for an AWS instance with a powerful GPU attached.
Why do people immediately understand the negative externalities and implications of self-navigating cars, but once flight is added into the mix, they seem to think that it's a viable solution?

The complexity and upkeep added once your hardware has to be in the air (at our current mass-market technology levels) are far from inconsequential. I wonder if once "flight" is added to an "automated" idea, it gets so far outside of people's understanding that it seems easy. People know how hard it is to drive a car, but they have no idea what's required to drive an airplane.
It's not that hard. You just need to think of dependencies as something that has non-zero benefits and non-zero costs. The problem is that, as usual, whereever you've got a "zero" showing up in your cost/benefits analysis, you're overlooking something. Sometimes it's minor and negligible stuff, but sometimes it's not. Act accordingly.

One thing that I believe we will come to a consensus on is that there is a certain fixed cost of a dependency, analogous to the base cost of a physical store to manage the stock of anything that appears on the shelves no matter how cheap the individual item may be, and that a dependencies will need to overcome that base cost to be worthwhile. I suspect that the requisite functionality is generally going to require in the low hundreds of lines at a minimum to obtain, and that we're going to see a general movement away from these one-line "libraries".

I say generally more than a few hundred lines because there are some exceptional cases, such as encryption algorithms or some very particular data structures like red-black trees, where they may not be a whole lot of lines per se, but they can be very dense, very details-oriented, very particular lines. Most of our code is not like that, though.