skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are they?

I don't think that someone working 20 hours a day (likely possibly to the detriment of their personal relationships and health) is necessarily a good role model.
Ok sure, one level above senior, average is 480k+. That's still not that high level. Especially since people will routinely make senior with like 6-8 years of experience.
Interesting, I think that textbook is one of the best I’ve read on networking. It gave me the foundational knowledge on approaching networks.
> such as Tasty, Try Guys

They, and others, have left BuzzFeed.
If you choose the non touchbar 13" rMBP the German prices are:

512GB/16GB i5 2239€
512GB/16GB i7 2599€
“A report from July of 2018 revealed that Google plans to first release a smart speaker running Fuchsia within three years.”

Um, as much as I want the boys and gals in Dallas to succeed, I think I see a problem here.
Totally agree. If JS had only a decent standard lib for string, collections and math I bet the number of packages would be reduced by a lot. I wonder what the reception of such a thing in NPM would be. Would people appreciate having only one, but larger dependency?
Programs have bugs, period.

Some of us have been around long enough to see the pattern, go back 15 years and you'll find me preaching the same gospel in the name of C++.

One thing that would help is to stop dumbing down programmers and languages, and start valuing experience and powerful tools again. The full stack developer role is a joke, and not a very funny one.
In India you could get good quality glasses ~15$ to 40$
I'm pretty sure the market for this product is meat eaters (vegetarians too, but less of them) trying to serve burgers to a group of people that includes vegetarians.
Yeah, the boiled ocean was what impressed me about it. That was a monstrous amount of content for a 1.0 release. I was coming from a python and java background so I was used to "batteries included" but .net took that to the next level.

The PropertyGrid was quite lovely. I dimly remember being envious of Visual Studio having that cool no-frills edit-my-object widget and it wasn't initially available as part of the forms lib, but iirc there was some trick you could do to use it... I tried once but gave up on the learning curve because it was so designed for object properties and I wanted to use it to manipulate a datarow. I assume it got a more line-of-business-developer version in its later incarnations.
The irony.

I'll try not to let it be too much of a burden on me as I sleep tonight..
>Basically zero-cost queue synchronization and heavily variable server time means a global queue is better!

And this is why I always pick the global queue for self-checkout kiosks.
Think about America pre-colonization: a continent filled with ruminants happily munching away, being hunted at sustainable levels. To my mind that is peak sustainability and environmental friendliness.

That's with a population of on the order of 10 million for the entire continent:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_history_of_indigeno...

Naturally grazing cows wouldn't even come close to sustaining the current demand for meat. Industrialized animal agriculture exists for a reason.
This might be a factor, but I live in a neighbourhood where there are plenty of SAHM's and it's not like kids play is flourishing like it did in my generation (and there are plenty of kids). There are multiple factors. I also think a big one that contributes to the "helicopter parent" perception. Is our towns and cities. We built them around cars. I remember reading there are 3-4x cars on the road now as opposed to in the 80s. My parents would let us wander very far from home when we were young because they knew we could bike many places without hitting a really busy or high-speed-limit street for a while. Nowawadays, there are cars everywhere and it does lead to a heightened sense of danger (real or perceived).
Consistently, no. But it is possible.

When I used to work in the restaurant/catering industry I'd sometimes pull 20-odd hour shifts. If we were doing a wedding I'd do 8 AM until 4 AM the next day.

It was strangely rewarding, but then you'd get your measly paycheque and it was quite disheartening to see how little you made for the effort you put in.
Art of the Internet, Restored and Out in the World
Sounds like better tools are in order. Golang produces results instantaneously for example.
I do not bother to ask for new mice or keyboards any more. I just bring those myself.
Many websites don't work or work quirky without JavaScript. I used to have JavaScript blocked by default and enabled on demand (using NoScript) but this felt fairly annoying. At the same time I'd estimate the number of websites that I want to capture my keystrokes or mouse right clicks as one in a thousand or near that (some games I play for some minutes a couple of times a year perhaps).
> nor to be forced to participate in a court or anything like that as a witness.

indeed. lay witnesses are treated rather poorly.
You mean besides none of them having a clue when it comes to C, beyond whatever facts they memorize out of context to prove their superiority that is. Experienced C programmers don't spread the kind of nonsense that Rust-believers routinely dish out, because they know that there are no easy answers.
Keep the container immutable.

So more likely solution 2, the important thing is that you regenerate the container image every time you deploy changes. If you care about faster builds, keep the cmd to pull content towards the end of your Dockerfile.

Immutable containers can be relaunched even when your data is not available, and new images can’t be built. It’s rare, for sure, but even s3 goes down.

Edit: of course for development it’s easier to mount a volume.
I always hated that "oops I picked the wrong damn line" realization. At that point, it feels too late. It's way better if there's a single line and the cashiers shift the next person off the queue as soon as they are done handling their current person. Although, maybe psychologically it feels better for customers to have multiple lines to choose from?
My experience is different. As a social scientist, I've never seen hatred like leftist hatred. I'm exposed to the academic left, which is seething with hatred and intolerance. As far as the mainstream, non-academic left, boy they sure hate Trump – and anyone who supports him.

And before Trump, leftists already had a pretty intense hatred of Republicans/conservatives, and libertarians to the extent they know about them. America is extremely partisan, and the two major camps tend to strongly dislike each other, sometimes popping out as real hatred. Research shows that conservatives tend to know more about leftist positions than leftists know about conservative positions, so that suggests that leftists may be operating with more emotion and less information.

(And when I use the word "hate", I mean hate as defined in common dictionaries. The left has infamously co-opted the word to refer to any negative appraisal or feeling about a person or group of persons experienced or expressed by a non-lefist. I'm sticking to hate as extreme animus.)
> That said, I don't think it is entirely fair to pile on Oracle for this problem

Excuse me? It is perfectly fair to “pile on” Oracle for widespread illegal discrimination in their labor practices.
One can have valid criticisms of Java, the language. But there is no disagreement that the JVM is very good in terms of performance.
First, thank you for your service. You did an excellent job, really. WinForms is on my resume, and I'm proud to have it there. I love it, and consider it the gold standard for GUI development. I'm not the only one with this opinion.[0]

WPF just came at the wrong time, as mobile was about to ascend and added complexity (which I'll admit can definitely add to correctness). Given hindsight, they should've just extended WinForms in some way. Leaving more complex needs than whatever that extension entailed to the Win32 API. UWP is fine and would be the greenfield target, but being Windows 10-only makes it a nonstarter at any enterprise I've worked at. So it's WPF/UWP that are essentially dead to me. Once Windows 7 is completely abandoned, I'll change my tune and stop promoting WinForms and go with UWP. But not today.

I'm all about building out on WinForms, or while not a UI framework, Blazor. The latter of which is part of an application/UI rewrite that we're looking to do for a WinForms app that I maintain, once it hits 1.0.

WinForms does the job and it allows me to almost entirely focus on the business logic.

[0]https://sietch.net/ViewNewsItem.aspx?NewsItemID=271
Pretty fucking stupid is par for the course right now
Excellent article! Love everything published by DAS.
It's affordable for most of us to spend 20 bucks to buy a pair of glasses,but some glasses brand such as Baodao（formosa-optical）, it sells glasses too expensive,maybe we have to pay a few hundred dollars for a pair in mainland China.
Non-mobile link: http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2019/01/particle-physics-ma...
Ask HN: Best architecture for offline-first, cloud-synced mobile app?
So I've been grappling with a technical design decision for a few days now and wanted to see what HN thinks, since I imagine there are a bunch of people who have run up against this problem and might have opinions/experience.

I've built an iOS app that uses Rails as a backend, this has worked well as a stack for me in the past, but the wrinkle is that this app now needs to be truly functional offline - I need to persist every object locally for offline use, but then also have that synced to the cloud for backup and to enable other features like sending emails and notifications containing users' content.

There are obviously plenty of straight-forward options to handle the local persistence (CoreData, SQLlite, Realm, etc.), and I'm happy to use any of them, but there seems to be no great option for persisting/syncing the local stuff on the cloud. Each of the options I've come across has significant drawbacks:

Realm Platform - prohibitively expensive (> $2000/year) if you want to access the server data to do anything other than communicate with a Realm client, also migrations are a pain

iCloud + CoreData - people might not have iCloud space or iCloud enabled

Google Cloud Firestore - in beta, some people experiencing issues with locally created objects not getting persisted, locked in to platform

Google Firebase Realtime - seems like this is effectively on the way to getting deprecated in favor of Firestore

Rolling my own solution where I write a background process to sync the client's data with my Rails server - lots of complex code, prone to bugs

Any opinions on this problem or things I should consider? Would be greatly appreciated!
Um, ok so why don't you suggest that dads stay home then...
Another example of bad Pulitzer : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Duranty#The_Pulitzer_Pr...

Walter Duranty was misreporting on Holodomor for the New York Times and still won a Pulitzer prize which has not been returned or revoked
Hostages are only taken by crazy people in America? I doubt that.
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> who goes to a grocery store anymore?

Oh you know, just most people? ;)
I think the threat of getting 25 years in prison, as one of the guys got, ought to be enough of a deterrent to prevent this kind of stuff.
I have no illusions that the current gravy train will stay forever, but for now...

In particular because more comp comes from stock, it's extremely sensitive to a market downturn.
I like 2x scale on the XPS 13 9350 (with 3200x1800). It results in a super sharp 1600x900 which is ideal for the 13.3" screen site.
> Police who are so easy to be "scared for life" should not be in the force, in the same way someone with pyrophobia should not be a firefighter.

I take your point, but at the same time, that's a very easy thing to say when it's not your life that is on the line. Unless you have first hand experience doing that kind of job, I would strongly advise a bit of restraint in being quite so judgemental.
I would not argue that the 2019 credit system is racist. I think it has fairly sound principles, including the wiping of negative debt records over the course of 7-10 years.

Countrywide was one of the biggest lenders responsible for the 2008 financial crisis. Their problem, just a few years earlier, was giving way too many people mortgages. I saw it myself as a real estate agent, people were approved for loans up to even as high as 50% of their monthly income. It was ridiculous.

You can argue all you want about the ripple effects of the past. They're all over the place. The thing is, you can't change the past.
That's a very silly thing to believe. Real hostage situations happen all the time, you just never noticed because "angry drunk waves gun around while wife and kids cower in the corner" is not exactly national news.
Swatting is a much more sensational story, even more so than a real SWAT-necessary situation. Odds are you have no ability to judge the relative frequency of pranks vs real swat calls, because only the pranks and extremely high profile real ones are reported on national news.
How does one reasonably have a need for 40 acres of property? I could see a few acres as being the max needed for reasonable privacy. Are you doing something commercial with the acreage?

I think I did a calculation a few years ago that there is only an acre or two of land on Earth for every single person. When you factor in the acreage that is currently liveable and is actually purchasable, you get a number close to 1/16th acre I imagine.
The call is the catalyst. The cops are the gullible, hyper-agressive actors that turn what should be a simple matter of communication into the 'justified' killing of an innocent.
The picture in the article features Electrolux machines, but those might be the property of the arena
Ask HN: Have you had any experience with ghostwriters?
Fiction or non-fiction, positive or negative?
As long as it doesn’t get in their way, I think the previous statement is indeed true.

Devs don’t care whether their laptop is 2 years old or not, they care that their compilation takes 5 minutes when it could be 2.
Why do the sinks have to be gender specific?
Finally some good news.
Wait so that means we're seeing another paradigm shift back to text? That'd be cool.
I also regularly go to a Whole Foods with this system, it initially felt like a good compromise between "one slow cashier shouldn't hang up a lot of people" and "people react negatively to long lines, even if they're fast-moving".

The way this particular one works is with color codes -- there are four color-coded lanes, and when a cashier becomes available, they are announced by the system, which cycles through the colors.

It has some failure modes.

In the "dilute limit", if a customer approaches the lines and there's nobody else there, there's no indication of which color was last called or which is next, so they have to guess. If they guess wrong and someone else shows up and guesses right before a cashier becomes available, they might lose out. This effect goes away once the system acquires "memory", by having people in the queue who have seen the last cashier announcement.

At moderate congestion, it can be hard to assess which lane is shortest, because people don't space themselves evenly, and sometimes go up in groups. People have a pretty strong sense of fair play, and I've seen people grumbling when the system breaks the expected FIFO dynamic.

But, generally speaking, it works better than I thought it would when they first set it up.
Canada passed the U.S. in 2018 in leading world refugee resettlement
OAC appeals to the instinct of shared sacrifice.

"Let's all sacrifice some of our liberty to ensure no one is left behind"

It's a useful instinct in small villages of 180 closely related people. It does not work for countries constituting 300 million people with very little linking them together.

First pragmatically: social democracy has tremendous adverse effects on economic growth. The poor are better off with less redistribution and a higher rate of recurring economic growth. This can be demonstrated mathematically, no matter what our gut instinct may say.

Second, as a matter of principle, we do not have a moral right to force others into this shared sacrifice pact, simply on the basis of shared nationality. Billionaire or not.

People may claim billionaires amidst poverty is immoral. I think it's far more immoral to violate the principle of voluntarism and force people to sacrifice alongside us.
> Kapacitor is the killer app

Um. Yes. Wait, there are people that use influxdb _without_ kapacitor alerting??? Someone name any commercial or open source equivalent, b/c I'd like to know in case they kill it.
I have one 2 generations behind (XPS 13 9360) and I have to tell you your fears are completely justified. I was a long-time Thinkpad user (had a Z-series, T42, X1 carbon) but switched because the screen was just so pretty. While I was initially very happy, I've had tons of issues around both the build quality and support.

When my machine started refusing to charge, my "next day on-site service" extended warranty turned into "you called 20 minutes too late, so it's actually in 2 days" and then "Oh, while we confirmed the appointment time with you, we never did with the tech, we'll find out when they're coming" and then "Oh yeah, they're not actually coming today, you have to take another day off work too". Then, after the tech managed to replace my main board without any ESD protection and it started completely hard locking up every 5 minutes (even in their own diagnostic tool and the EFI setup tool) it took me several days worth of phone calls and emails before they swapped it out.

Of course, about a year later, I started having problems with the SECOND laptop they'd sent me and had to send it back to have parts replaced. A few months later, right after the warranty expired, the screen started going crazy. I've found the right place to hit it to fix it whenever that happens (about once a month).

Next machine I get, I'm going back to an X1 Carbon.
I agree completely - my point was that police can't treat anonymous calls differently than real ones, because it is literally their lives(and the lives of the potential hostages) on the line. Unreasonable force is unreasonable force, regardless of how the officer was called into the situation.
Accelerator itself is mostly CERN responsibility, but detectors are usually international collaborations. US contributed a lot to the CMS detector at LHC (as well as Russia, another non-member state).

https://science.energy.gov/~/media/hep/pdf/files/pdfs/uslhcc...

http://cms.web.cern.ch/news/using-russian-navy-shells
I would rather be able to visit some central resource rather than mix email and discussion forums. Mixing those things together just feels wrong. Mailing lists tend to be extremely visually jarring. But there’s no difference between a mailing list and any other form of community. The packaging doesn’t matter. So I’m confused why you seem to think the packaging will help in some way. What matters is the moderation, the incentive scheme for users and other stuff like that. Also, traditional mailing lists lack a mechanism for maintaining solvency. The ultimate failure of all that has come before is the fact that it completely depends on altruism. Forums Create amazing value in the lives of people who use them and they will be good when they begin to sustain themselves based on that value.
Shouldn’t local law enforcement do a little more triage before sending in paramilitaristic swat teams?

How many hostage situations actually happen in middle class boring suburbs such that a single unverified call turns into a full blown swat response?
> never publish?

There's always a risk for stories from indirect sources. If they publish something that's incorrect from these sources, they risk losing some credibility. This is how it should be and always has been with news organizations. I'm not sure what a sane alternative is here.
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Tough in the sense that he wears the armor of the U.S. government to protect him. The man will fall very far once those protections run out.
Agreed, although curious which technical subreddits you are following? I’ve been disappointed with the attitude/irrelevance of HN these years and am looking for new sources to read.
How do all of you people get on this broken stuff on Azure with GCP and AWS (I think) being so good? Is it like free credits?
Buzzfeed news, the oxymoron of the decade.
I also have a 9360 and I have also experienced 1, 2, 5, and 6 off your list. I also have the monitor just go nuts every so often until I give it a whack in exactly the right place. I've also had horrible experiences with reliability and Dell's support which I posted elsewhere in this thread.

Next machine's another X1 Carbon for me (I had the 1st gen before this).
> Lets see, for me at least I would need to get $1200 every month just to cover rent and i've lived in the same place for 8 years now. Rent in that time has doubled around me to the point where a one bedroom apartment is $2400/month. My internet bill is just under $100/ month, phone bill is about half that, travelling to and from work is about $200 a month, groceries and expenses and such another $200 or so if not more. Leaving whatever I have left for saving and fun. I'm just really trying to imagine what kind ubi could be given to anyone that would really make a difference.

So, part of the problem here is that UBI means different things to different people. When I wrote the comment that started this thread, I was talking very specifically about UBI as a way to offset advancements in automation, if and only if those advances reach a point where we don't have enough work left for humans to do. This may very well never happen, but it also might!

In a world like this one, most of the stuff you buy would have very little human involvement. You say your groceries cost ~$200 per month right now; imagine if those groceries were planted by robots and harvested by robots and shipped to stores in self-driving cars. Those robots don't need to get paid (even if they cost some money to run), so the food they produce would be much cheaper!

The same mechanism that makes UBI necessary is also what makes UBI feasible.

Now if you live in a city, your rent probably wouldn't go down, because it's driven by scarcity much more so than production costs. Robots can't magically add extra space inside of a city. So I suspect most of the people living in wealthy cities would still need jobs, and the people who opt to live on UBI alone would move to cheaper locations. That could be worth the trade off if it means more time to persue hobbies or raise children, etc.
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People forgot Orkut?
I have made so many friends and some are still close to me. :)
Windows Development MVP here.

I feel like I must shoulder some of the responsibility here for not being louder about these issues. But must say, I'm disappointed to hear you're "surprised" about the UX issues. I've been telling your folks the UX is dreadful (e.g. as far back as pre-launch) and kept hearing back "we know, we're fixing it". I'll start formalizing the feedback and push it through the pipes, stay tuned. I'm also local (Bellevue), would love to come in and try to pipeline our relatively simple oss .net/wpf/uwp app. I suspect it'll be an eye opener for the both of us.

Some examples:

* You can't build a pipeline with a git repo. that contains submodules

* Found it impossible to edit the PATH for some custom tooling

* The New Pipeline experience just doesn't make a lot of sense, new users clicking around will eventually end up at the wrong Docs.
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There's a canned dashboard for that actually. Setup the telegraf input for your influx instance and it can tell you all kinds of neat stuff about what it's doing internally.
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