skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would pay it, and I did pay it. I need a bunch for on-prem Deep Learning. My test rig of 4 RTX 2080tis artifacted after about a week of use. I'd like to buy them by the handful but I've not been able to source a reliable supply. Given this new it looks like I may have to wait a lot longer.
Those would also be good ideas.

The worst scenario is when the subscription begins and the user has forgotten the cancelation date. A link could be embedded in the email to say yes or no. It must be profitable not to do this for some.
I would watch more video on facebook if they brought back the facebook live map feature; it made content easy to find.

It is one of the few times I can recall where a major feature/product simply disappeared and no one has a reason as to why or even a simple announcement.
> Like if you deal drugs, you will also evade taxes.

Not necessarily. You could choose to pay taxes on that income to the IRS. The IRS provides a way to report illegal income and pay taxes on it.

https://www.irs.gov/publications/p17

> Illegal activities. Income from illegal activities, such as money from dealing illegal drugs, must be included in your income on Form 1040, line 21, or on Schedule C or Schedule C-EZ (Form 1040) if from your self-employment activity.

Does anyone pay taxes on income from illegal drugs? Probably not "street dealers", but I would suspect people who earn income from marijuana businesses that are legal in some states but illegal federally probably do pay tax on that income.

Furthermore, IRS tax returns are confidential. The IRS is generally prohibited from tipping off police about reported illegal income, though there are various loopholes: https://money.cnn.com/2013/02/28/news/economy/illegal-income...
Poor sleep heightens pain sensitivity, dulls brain's painkilling response
The quality of the content depends surely on who your friends are. Don't blame FB for that! FB is used by millions/billions all over the world. I'm always surprised by such comments, as if the whole world is the same as your little corner of it. ('the audience...it's mostly millennials..or professionals..and their parents')

The content I see on there is great, it's chatting with my friends and their pictures I choose to look at. No ads ever.
I would think protecting their image for endorsement potential is worth more than even millions of dollars of tax savings
It wasn't until 2010 that pre-existing conditions were allowed in health insurance.
I'm following Skam Austin on Facebook Watch, which seems to have been stuck in limbo for half a year. They announced it would get a second season right after the first season ended in June last year, but it's been radio silence since. The only way we know that the second season is happening now is because of casting calls.

This article pretty much confirms what I've been thinking: The Silicon Valley way of doing things, throwing stuff on the wall, waiting for engineering to create a feature, drip-launching features, infighting between VPs of this and that, and fighting for budget meets the TV production side of things, which is completely different. A TV production runs on a planned schedule, coordinating a large amount of people together for casting actors, creating sets, rehearsing scenes, gathering a lot of extras, and shooting.

A TV production is either go or no go, you commit to the schedule or you don't. It seems like Facebook Watch has to learn some lessons from Hollywood on this one.
The Facebook viewing experience is so terrible for ESL's DoTA2 games it became a bit of a meme over at /r/dota2. Facebook signed a bunch of exclusive contracts but didn't think to create a good product.
This is disingenuous. The entire history of AA up to and including now (literally read any 12 step guide, 8+ steps mention God) is pushing a protestant christian philosophy that man is irreparably fallen and flawed and the only salvation is through a higher power, and that you must give up your self and any semblance of control to that abstraction.

It works for some, but anyone who says its not a christian organization is absolutely lying - its like taking the caramel coloring out of cola - its still cola, it still tastes like cola, you just took away the color that reminds people that its cola.
They did the same thing with ESL Dota 2 tournaments, I am a pretty big Dota 2 fan, but was utterly uninterested in putting up with Facebook, and nearly everyone else I am friends with in that community, and people in the wider community felt the same way.

Everyone I know just watched other streamers stream it from the Valve in game client with their own commentary and production (Valve explicitly allows any streamer to stream any DOTA or CS game)

I suspect ESL did serious damage to their brand by essentially being absent from the e-sports scene for basically their entire audience for the last year.

Seems like a completely out of touch way to throw away a $1B.
Given the whole SSN debacle and the low passport ownership in the US, I see this as functionally impossible.
So far, this hasn't been my experience. I've written books. I have a very strong network among funders and experienced management. I'm probably in the top few percent of candidates my age because I consciously built those advantages, some of which can't be reproduced by everyone in my age cohort looking for a job. But, just because I saw ageism coming at me, doesn't mean that it is excusable.

Age discrimination is something that needs to be eradicated in tech as much as sexism and racism. I won't mince words: I mean sexism and racism, not "lack of diversity." Ageism is just as bad. Investors: If your portfolio is infected with these diseases, it raises your risk. Inoculate against it. Don't fund diseased founders.
> Just by reading Chinese news reports and textbooks, you will find there are lots of Chinese nationalist stories about their hero technician / scientists steal western technologies.

Can you kindly provide an example of this? I searched "打破技术封锁" on Baidu and first page gives me advancements from research.

http://www.baidu.com/s?ie=utf-8&f=8&rsv_bp=1&rsv_idx=1&ch=&t...
AWS App Mesh: Amazon’s Own Service Mesh for Microservices – The New Stack
I find it disturbing he can't find work as a project manager. If anything, that's one role where the practitioners typically know fuck-all about nothing and where good ones are worth their weight in gold.

I LOVE to work with ADULT project managers who have a clue about how projects actually unfold and how things actually get done with a wide variety of personalities in the mix. Instead, more often than not, you get 20-30-something "management fast-track" wannabe's who could not solve a problem to save their lives.
>I can't think of seeing a single one of their shows advertised on my newsfeed.

It is quite remarkable to think about it. I miss the whole encompassing chronological feed. Understand why they got rid of it.

Yet, when I watched a few episodes of the Shaq Chicken show a notification or reminder never showed on my timeline when a new episode was posted. lol
Remember these services are not designed to fulfill a previously existing need. They are designed to become addictive and create a new need, which they then have a monopoly on fulfilling.

The applications you are thinking of served preexisting needs, so it required more upfront complexity.

Something like Snapchat's UI does not have the burden of fulfilling a previously existing need. That is, until they redesigned it. Then suddenly, the new UI had to provide for a pre-existing need and as an obvious consequence, has been more difficult for both new and existing users.
> when their needs are already covered

So few steps to go here then; many (by far most) inventors do not have that little detail so they rely on their invention being monetized to give them that. People in open source or charity often just have enough money/time to do that on the side, but most people do not.

Needs basic income or working communism; both do not exist (yet or ever) so how would that work?
Why hire a 64 year old when you can hire a PHD straight out of india for less?
A portion of y’all are 20 somethings who do not know real life. Refrain from giving life advice.
Yeah, only the last 2 years matter.

It’s really funny, because I’d never worked in Node.js until like 6 months ago, but everyone at the company seemed to think I had years of experience.

It’s surprising how well skills transfer.
I am studying your book on DL right now. I came here to have a short break ... and there you are :-)

Thanks for the book. It's great!
This is the first paragraph on wikipedia:

>In RAII, holding a resource is a class invariant, and is tied to object lifetime: resource allocation (or acquisition) is done during object creation (specifically initialization), by the constructor, while resource deallocation (release) is done during object destruction (specifically finalization), by the destructor. Thus the resource is guaranteed to be held between when initialization finishes and finalization starts (holding the resources is a class invariant), and to be held only when the object is alive. Thus if there are no object leaks, there are no resource leaks.

All of this is violated if you are constructing objects in an 'invalid' state. The whole point of RAII is that you don't do this. If you have to check if the object is in an error state at the start of every method call, then you're not benefiting from RAII.
To me, this is what bugs me about the “diversity” brigade - most of the time the conversation is based around ethnicity, physical abilities, or gender but for being long-term thinking we seem to have forgotten that diversity means _everyone_ that can contribute, including age / experience. Simply being old doesn’t necessarily make you better or faster, but it does tend to give you skills. Skills that were acquired over a long career. Skills that make them a nightmare for obscure bugs.

Some folks I’ve hired were older than my father but I valued them for their experience in other industries and to lend their perspectives to how things should be. It is heartbreaking to think that we could be throwing away thousands or millions of man years of valuable lessons - some we should repeat and others we shouldn’t.
You really want to develop a mental model of a CSS engine, so you can “run” code in your head.

This will allow you to read code and have a high chance of predicting what it will look like before running it.

Your probably not developing this mental model for some reason.

You should try to explain why you are seeing a visual result, and keep a notebook of how CSS primitives work together. For example, why are there 10 ways to vertically align, and why do they all work?

Once you collect enough primitives, you can use them together to design a layout.

You could try developing your own css layout engine which would force you to understand the rules.
TIFO football is fantastic, they really go underneath the game and show that Football is not just a game but a branch of international Politics and finance.
Buying content.
Football hasn't been about the game for a long time but a branch of International politics and finance.
CSS isn't hard. It's design is broken on a few things which makes it look more complicated than it should.

I've done web for 20 years and I still Google around when it comes to aligning things vertically centered and I sometimes fall back to using tables for layout because it's still the most stable way to keep stuff at where it should be.

And of course the way you need to declare in a very redundant way for selectors on multiple elements is annoying but we have at least sass and my preference is using stylus (combined with pug) which removes a lot of those unnecessary declarations go away with the ability to define variables in 1 file and use it all over.
>The total amount of mercury released by mankind in 2010 was estimated to be 1,960 metric tons.

When I was in high school, there were of course multiple classrooms, and there was a relatively new chemistry lab. One of the other classrooms was in fact the old chemistry lab room, with a monolithic row of water taps and sinks along the middle of the room splitting the room in two, with school benches on the left and right of the sinks.

We had mathematics, biology and technical education in this room. Under the sinks were cabinets with wooden sliding doors, some of them were left open, others closed... One day something in the cabinets catches my attention: a brilliant reflecting puddle, with characteristic contact angle, so I realize I am seeing a puddle of mercury. About 15cl. I interrupt the class to point this out to the math teacher, who comes to check, and realizes I am right. We discuss how it ended up there, and we conclude it must have been there for many years, back when this was still the chemistry lab, and that someone wanted to get rid of the mercury and tried to drain it in the sink. The mercury being heavier than water probably refused to flush through the siphon ( U shape ) right above the puddle and over time leaked out somehow. The teacher was quite pissed he had been giving so many hours of class in this room, and didn't really feel like finishing class so we all just sat there bummed out... this was about year 2000.

About 3 years ago, I had a long fluorescent lamp in a rented house die, I knew there was mercury inside and that the shops that sells lamps are obliged to take these from the customer, so I very carefully take out the lamp from its housing, carry it carefully to the nearby hardware store, and give it to an employee at the check-out before shopping, I emphasize that they should handle the lamp carefully. I go buy a LED lamp in the same form factor, and when I check out to pay, the cashier tells me the lamp broke accidentally. I tell her that's not good, she says she knows, I ask how often these fluorescent tubes break in the shop, she says all the time, I ask how often is that: multiple times per day!
What about a simple wordpress plugin? I instantly thought of a grammar checker and ran into this:

https://wordpress.org/plugins/perfect-tense/

Marketing wise, I would try initiating an affiliate program. If you tap into a power blogger network, you might be able to get hundreds of customers over an 18 month stretch.
I sincerely hope you were just being facetious in the last line. There's a ton someone with your experience could do such as write books, consultation, coaching, etc.
Health insurance is a son of a bitch when you're older, though =[ it's not necessarily a bad plan, but those insurance rates go through the roof.
The discovery was awful too. They had a similar exclusivity deal for some Dota 2 tournaments, and I could not find the stream from the Facebook home page while it was live.
Keep in mind that not everywhere has Bay Area real estate prices.

I bought my place for 150k back in 2002. I paid it off in less than 7 years, and have been mortgage free for over a decade now. I know another guy who did something similar, paying off his place is less than 6 years.

I realize this is very uncommon. Most people I know are perpetually refi-ing, and have no desire to ever pay off their mortgage.
> And yet, we embrace objects in our applications. Is this just fashion?

I think that's 90% of it, actually. In no case in my life have I seen a company starting a new project say "We're going to examine the available {programming languages, databases, operating systems, ...} and pick the one which is most appropriate to our problem". It was definitely never even considered after more than 3 lines of code have been written.

Even upgrading from one version of a language to a newer version of that same language is, usually, like pulling teeth.

Thinking back over the past several companies I've worked with, reasons for picking a programming language included:

- $(first_dev) wanted to learn a new language

- $(first_dev) didn't want to learn a new language

- Company policy says we must use $(lang) (even though no other software runs on the same platform, or has anything at all in common with this new project)

- $(founder) used to work for $(compiler_company)

- We googled for a library to do $(task) and first one we found was for $(lang)

I don't know what to call this, but it isn't engineering. My only problem with calling it fashion is that I'm afraid it would seem disrespectful to the fashion industry.
Consumer drone technology. :-)
Their margins aren't as tight as you might expect. Their last quarter report[1] puts their gross margin at nearly 48% and their operating margin at 37%. That is pretty healthy and suggests they can easily withstand this sort of event.

[1] https://www.tsmc.com/english/investorRelations/quarterly_res...
...why should he start as a janitor when he has years of experience doing the jobs he's apply for?
The video just showed how the notes app is different than others. Which it really is.

You can see it here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfrNrkyGw_k
I used to think that as well, but sometimes different projects have different priorities or philosophies. In that case, you can either be the jerk who complains about free open source code you didn't pay for, try to bend the project to your will and probably fail, or roll your own.
Similar experience with Dota 2 and ESL on Facebook. The experience was horrible. Viewership was bad. Doesn't seem like anyone was happy about it https://twitter.com/Slasher/status/1071863217243197440

If I recall correctly, people on Twitch streamed games from the Dota Majors/Minors and got more viewers than the Facebook stream. Then ESL started DMCA'ing streams https://www.reddit.com/r/DotA2/comments/7skt8e/did_mlpdota_j... Then Valve got involved and made a statement about the whole kerfuffle http://blog.dota2.com/2018/01/dotatv-streaming/
Depends where you are. Along the California coast, snow is nearly unheard of, but of course it will snow in the Sierra Nevadas.
Extending your example: I've heard from mechanics that looser tolerances also lead to cars that age much better as the components change in shape due to wear and corrosion. Expensive cars have expensively machined parts to avoid the need for gaskets, while ordinary cars use gaskets to avoid the need for expensively machined parts. This trade-off is counter-intuitive for most car buyers.
And where are these unlimited funds you speak of? I have a few crazy ideas of my own, that I'm willing to pursue on someone else's dime.
Check out jobs with the federal government and/or with government contractors. The work might not be as sexy or as lucrative (although sometimes it is), but the pay is stable (lolol... shutdowns notwithstanding) at a middle-class level.

The government is desperate for people who can code.
That's what academia is for. Perhaps we should ensure that academic research that is publicly funded doesn't end up with IP restrictions placed on it, and also expand the range of research academia engages in, to include more applied-research stuff and rediscovering/popularizing existing know-how that often is not publicly documented and might not even exist other than in tacit form. (This expanded scope for research would also help reduce waste due to academics overcrowding into a few über-popular fields of research, and largely duplicating efforts while trying to "scoop" one another.)

Of course, tacit know-how and first-to-market advantages will always exist to some extent. So, in a sense, we can't fully get rid of "IP"-like dynamics. But we can, and should, mitigate them.
It's not the idea, its the specific technology.

took measurements of parts of the robot and, in one instance, stole a piece of the robot
I see your point, however we all should have long term savings that we do not touch, even if things are falling apart. That used to be how pensions were.

Also keep in mind this guy is in Canada and the GFC was not nearly as severe as in the USA.
Okay, but who decides what a "reasonable" pace is? Isn't more competition better? It's not school and you don't need to do your own work.
He's from Canada. We get basic medial coverage for free. Well, if you are not working it is free, if you are working it is like $50-100/month (depending on your pay level). This is often covered by your employer too, again if you are working. So, there is no real issues there as he gets older.
the article didn’t say he didn’t save, the article said that he run out consuming his savings. he also talks about buying meds. Life can throw curves at you that no saving account can sustain. Don’t judge people unless you have walked on their shoes would be a reasonable advice.
Plus, the impossible to plug analog hole... taking a picture of your phone with another camera.
snapchat leadership is lost
his divorce was in his 20s. Alimony couldn't be longer than 10 yrs (note he's in Canada, so Canadian law applies), similar for health care.
Serving food is more than honest IMO, but still a bit of a waste.. Also it seems a lot of capable coders are struggling with harsh if not inhuman business structures. Maybe regroup and form a nice company of nice people.
No, you're just arguing and misinterpreting things for the sake of arguing. RAII doesn't mean you absolutely have to hold a resource all the time. Like I said, nobody (other than you) says e.g. shared_ptr isn't RAII just because it can be in a null state that holds no resources. If you understand RAII you know that no benefit of RAII goes out any window if a smart pointer or some other object is initialized in a state that happens to hold nothing.

If you want to redefine things to be different just to win an argument, you can, but it's not something I'm going to continue entertaining as I'm pretty tired of it now.
I used dice https://www.dice.com/, there're people who're ready to work in startups. Maybe linkedin or facebook groups could work for you as well but not sure.
Overall, good luck
> Some (unlucky) programmers entire job was turning PSDs into HTML and CSS.

That was my entry into programming many years ago. But I wouldn't call it unlucky - early web devs like me (we didn't really call ourselves programmers back then) had front-row seats at the beginning of a revolution, and it certainly was entertaining to watch and be part of.

> CSS has nothing to do with design

CSS works the way it does because it was created to make the kind of designs that designers wanted possible. It has everything to do with graphic design. All the web designers I knew back in the early days knew some HTML and CSS and we'd often discuss possibilities and limitations of browsers and standards, and how to work around issues. They didn't just lob PSDs over the partition to the devs - there was an active dialogue and they knew their stuff.
Fair enough :-)

You should label/brand your pop-ups with a link to somewhere that explains this.
DietPi does too...

https://dietpi.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=5&start=20#p68
Vector Graphics Rendering on the GPU in Rust with Lyon (RustFest Paris 2018)
What if it is something small but very important. That seems like it would be the opposite of user-hostile.
Check out: https://github.com/azlux/log2ram

Explanations: The script creates a /var/log mount point in RAM. So any writing of the log to the /var/log folder will not actually be written to disk (in this case to the sd card for a raspberry card) but directly to RAM. By default, every hour, the CRON will launch a synchronization of the RAM to the folder located on the physical disk. The script will also make this copy of RAM to disk in case of machine shutdown (but cannot do it in case of power failure). This way you avoid excessive writing on the SD card.