skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I've heard in the military officers that served in the enlisted ranks before commissioning are more effective and supported by their troops than those that come straight out of OCS

100% true. The difference is night and day.

Both with their own self confidence to lead a group of enlisted and specifically senior enlisted who in my unit, almost always would have had more front line combat experience than the officers, which meant knowing when to overrule and when to defer to their judgement.

And simply the day to day small and large decisions/choices both during training & deployment were always more informed when backed up with prior enlisted experience.
It's been my daily driver on desktop and laptop for eight years, and I've got a couple small servers running it for about six years. It just keeps getting better and more friendly as time goes on, too.
Yet it is a trait which Ultima Underworld shares with the two great earlier pioneers in the art of the dungeon crawl, Wizardry and Dungeon Master. Those games too emerged so immaculately conceived that the imitators which followed them could find little to improve upon beyond their audiovisuals.

While not quite as early as Wizardry (or even a few of its sequels), I always found Might & Magic 1 and Might & Magic 2 to be far superior to Wizardry in a few areas, such as exploration and world building.

Edit: Clarified that I found M&M superior to Wizardry in a few areas. UU and M&M2 are some of my all-time favorites, and I would be hard pressed to state which one I like more, since they scratch different itches. I've gone back to play both multiple times before.
It’s rather meaningless compared to what the newsroom costs.
This is certainly something that happen already. I'm driving, SO needs to drop off a letter, or pick up coffee, or some other sub-5 minute task. You can bet I'm going to be circling the block, because making right turns orders of magnitude easier than thinking about looking for parking. I suppose you could do this most existing ride services' non-shared options, but there certainly isn't a 'real' way to do this. before self-driving cars take on this role, we might have to think about how something like this would be handled.
You have to care what others think... family, friends, spouse, kids, boss, dog etc... etc... to not would not be human.
yes and you can also distribute your cache [1]
Furthermore it uses git to manage the sourcecode and use shallow&shared clones to have quick downloads.

[1] https://buckbuild.com/files-and-dirs/buckconfig.html#cache

Lastly I'd like to note that Buck and Bazel are converging to Skylark for describing builds. The differences between Buck and Bazel should become smaller over time
Self driving cars will cruise to avoid paying for parking
Also, the redesign is very privacy invasive. The post has since been deleted, but it can be seen on archive.org [1]:

> Reddit has been trying to redesign their website to feel more "modern", but I have noticed that the redesigned UI also features more tracking.

> For one, the new UI (and the new userpage) features session replay tracking everywhere (recording of your mouse movements, keystrokes, and how you interact with the website), as evident by its use of the mousemove JavaScript event listener for the entire page. I found out using Luminous (this isn't an endorsement or ad), which is an extension that detects (and can block) JavaScript events. The old UI also listens for the mousemove event but not everywhere (I have only noticed it on the "submit post" page, but there are probably a few other places), though I'm not sure if this is due to session replay tracking. I cannot say for certain that the old UI doesn't have session replay or something similar, but to me it doesn't seem like it for most pages. Perhaps someone who has investigated this further can confirm or deny.

> Session replay is another form of tracking what you click on (possibly negating attempts to opt out of "regular" tracking of outbound links), can be used to fingerprint a user (how the mouse moves), and will negate attempts to delete posts and comments (for example, ones that accidentally contain personal information or passwords). Even accidentally pasting something like a password in a text box will result in the password being sent to Reddit (and/or a third party) and being stored in plain text. I don't know how Reddit manages user data internally, but with session recording it's possible that a Reddit employee playing back a session to assess user reaction to a new UI update may end up seeing your private messages or posts in private subreddits simply because it was there when you interacted with the page.

> Also, the Reddit redesign completely breaks without JavaScript enabled, to the point where you can't click on links or even see the page content.

> The old UI is still available to users, either through a setting in your account or (if you're not logged in) through old.reddit.com. You can also replace the 'www' part of the URL with 'old' on any Reddit page to get back to the old UI. I really, really hope they don't remove this.

[1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20180528155123/https://reddit.co...
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Interview elsewhere and find out. Seriously, it's the only way to know.
I skipped ahead to figure out when they claimed it was going to happen. The document is dated 2013. The summary of the results basically says "calculate it yourself, it's not our fault if it's wrong, but 2014 and 2017 look like the best dates."

I wonder why doomsayers keep predicting the end of the world to be in the imminent future? It makes it way too easy to be proven wrong.
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I would love it if it cost me only $0.50/hour to operate my car. Conservatively I'd go with more like $5/hour (assume 10mph average at $0.50 per mile).

According to [1], median daily unreserved parking in SF is $29/day, so at 6 hours you break even. You can likely get much cheaper than this by driving a bit further away. Even at the $38 for New York and $42 for Honolulu you still break even around 8 hours.

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I'm using GNOME 3 on Fedora 29 with the Adwaita-dark theme.
what is your position? 200k isn’t that much these days when you take inflation into account.
There are JMX beans for the socket server and request handler idle. If they even dip below 80% you’re probably looking at poorly configured producers timing out.
Take all advice on this with a grain of salt please. And never directly trust someone who says "use this specific VPN because it is good". Their threat model may not match yours, so good for them may not be good for you.

If you would like to learn a good VPN using the data yourself, consider using these tools:

This site has a detailed list of all VPN providers and properties of their services.

https://thatoneprivacysite.net/vpn-section/

And this site talks about some of the concerns you may want to have when picking a VPN service.

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My perspective is more that if everyone shared everything then whoever decided to fuck you up would fuck everyone else up too and thus it would be easier to establish new security measures which work for everyone. I believe in security through mass adoption.
I have 8yr experience and saw offer for total comp of 225k/yr in bay area. No concurrent offers, non-faang company, publicly traded. Salary is extremely variable is my takeaway.
One consequence is that your personal data gets sold to whoever wants to pay for it. In the long run a serious consequence will be that all the data they collect could be used by a dictatorship to suppress opposition. I am sure Hitler and Stalin would have been very happy with the data Google and Facebook have. Once you have full-scale surveillance and the means to analyze the data in a country any kind of political opposition will be very hard.
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This is irrelevant. Replace DVD with an apple. The point is that free trade between countries means you should be able to buy in one country and use in the other country.
I applaud your user-centric philosophy, I really do. And I don't mean to insinuate that all SaaS providers are out to take advantage of users (I've worked at a few and feel that we've always looked out for our users).

That said, my concern is that users have little protection against a change of philosophy or business model at their supplier. If one of my SaaS vendors decides to double their price, impose restrictions on use or neglect their product to the point of it becoming unusable, I may have little choice but to conduct a costly migration.

If a traditional, product-model software supplier suddenly doubles upgrade prices or turns evil, generally I am able to stay on the last version I've purchased and simply not upgrade. I really appreciate Jetbrains' licensing model where you pay a subscription for continual upgrades but get a perpetual license for the last version (released at the start of your last 12-month term) should you decide to quit.
People at Amazon and Oracle complain all the time, you should talk to them.
I think honesty is far more important than pretending everything is great when isn't. If this is the case then you are part of a cult. I think you'll also seen a wide variety of opinions on Windows and Azure, mostly related to the individual products at Microsoft. Having worked there I know quite a few people that were big fans of the NT Kernel, C#, .net, and Azure services like Storage and App Insights. People will also acknowledge the bad parts, which is critical if one wants to improve.
No. Tobuscus was a basic celebrity (youtube channel with over a million subscribers, one of the biggest in his prime), and was a reputable person with no real bad history. He was ruined by one accusation.

Furthermore, most people are not perfect. You can find a bad history for anyone i.e. James Gunn. That does not make an accusation destroying someone's career okay.

> Suppose for a moment that this Tobuscus guy was indeed unfairly maligned — i don’t know, but hey, could be.

That is why false rape accusations are so bad. You have to preface this by saying you don't know if he is a rapist or not, when there is physical evidence that proves he didn't, but the accusation is more important than the evidence.
Not really (just like $40 in donations from a donation button on the site). Releasing it for free captured basically the whole market, but I had no real way to capitalize on those users. That was my big learning lesson with that project.

In retrospect, I should have probably used it solely to get user data like Google does with Chrome and then done something useful with that data, but this was before I realized that (somewhat shady) business model.
>I find it hard to see how a company will be able to have enough capacity for peak demand

I would guess that in most cities the capacity is not limited by capital to buy cars, but capacity of the street network, which cars, autonomous or not, are notoriously bad at utilizing.
I think the main point nowadays is how to write Makefiles for highly parallel builds. It's surely the thing that gave me the most headaches. In the end such a talk will probably mostly be about how to avoid calling Make recursively.
Another talk I'd like to hear, which would be more meta: does it still make sense to bother with Make at all, aside from maintaining legacy systems? Are there features or paradigms which still make it worthwhile, compared to other popular build systems?
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Could always use a payment provider other than stripe and use paypal for payouts.
But, stripe connect is an all in one solution.
What I wanted to express, obviously very bad, that it is just a contract among countries. Powerful countries which cannot be pressured it anything. There will not be nuclear war, food shortages or polish plumpers invasion.
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well, i think i need to do it anyway.
It doesn't really matter what you do personally. If any of your relatives submit their DNA, you're compromised just the same.
FWIW, I have a GPD Win 2 and I love it. I never had a Win 1, but the reports I've heard from people who have had both is that the build quality and keyboard layout were both significantly improved.

They're also working on a new device that is more sysadmin oriented.
There's some interesting new stuff in that area on OpenBSD.

https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20190128061321
I don't feel entitled in that way, and therefore avoid using Google products, but use alternatives, some of which I have to pay for (explicitly, like more storage in the Apple iCloud, or implicitly, in more expensive devices).

Having said that, yeah, I do "feel so entitled" that I think sleazy companies should not sneakily manipulate me (and my parents, and other less technically savvy people) into divulging much more than they are aware of. Yes, imagine that, I feel entitled that companies should not manipulate me and lie to me (the carefully worded EULAs etc. do not fundamentally change that, as you very well know).

And guess what, there's the GDPR in Europe that recognises that entitlement and makes it just a bit harder for companies to do that, and I think that's a good thing.
Maybe the author of the article has a basic understanding of physics of rock throwing? Those empty cruising cars will be sitting ducks for angry or even simply very bored and irresponsible people.
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In NYC, I used Oscar for health insurance, which was $500/mo. In MA, plans are much cheaper, so I only pay $250/mo here.
That, as well as a way for companies to stiff competition - https://sermondo.com/the-new-german-packaging-law-amazon-fba... : "Not participating in the system may be punished with a fine of up to € 200,000. It is conceivable that competitors will enforce the distribution ban by civil law."
Yes it's a different thing. I'm asking you to make the case that it's a bad thing, which you're not doing.

You're also assuming that all trade disputes are going to involve country X having an issue with country Y, whereas e.g. in the EU/EEA companies sometimes sue their own government for being in breach of the trade rules, and prevail in front of the EFTA court.

E.g. a meat importing company in Iceland sued the Icelandic state over the Icelandic government's ban on the import of fresh meat from the EU/EEA[1]. They prevailed, and now Iceland's having to allow that, over the objections of its powerful farming lobby.

It wouldn't have made sense for any foreign EU/EEA government to start a trade dispute with Iceland over this matter, but it got resolved because a local company was able to sue and have the EFTA court rule on the matter.

Why shouldn't the aggrieved party be able to sue?

1. http://www.eftasurv.int/media/press-releases/Fact-sheet-Icel...
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Thanks, this is very helpful.
Parents already unload and load the stroller and diaper bag at their destination, what's the big deal about doing it at the origin?

Some people will pay extra for car storage, other people will opt for the discount of not owning a car.
You get paid what the "market" can afford to pay you. Lots of CEOs whose companies are going nowhere, have gone bankrupt get paid millions.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19055166
Not the author but I have been on a similar journey after leaving my job at Google 4 months ago. I have successfully used Reddit /forhire and Upwork to find decent people to work with and help code up parts of my new project (https://stockquanta.com).

The most important thing I look for is their past work - its complexity and usability both. Without that, it's a massive bet. Don't trust their words.
And also you talk to them about your project and see if they ask the right questions + get the nuances.

Assuming this works out, then you ideally do fixed price, not hourly. Latter can become scammy. For the fixed price, you will divide it into milestones so that the first set of costs isn't too much but also gives some kind of re-assurance to the dev that you're serious and can give money. If the execution is bad, you can bail out sooner. I have seen developers lie about their past work too. One Fintech developer claimed he was the main developer for wealthfront.com and betterment.com lol and had them as part of this portfolio. I soon found out it was an amazingly bold lie which I guess many folks do fall for.

In my experience, they are ALWAYS late. I don't have a good way so far to control for that effectively.

Even after this, you will get bad apples. Some money will be wasted initially. The trick is to keep the good ones with you as time goes on (become friends with them if possible), and move away from the rest.
>Late last year I interviewed at six top companies in Silicon Valley in six days, and stumbled into six job offers.

Misleading. He applied at 20 companies, interviewed at 6, got 6 offers.
Make variable expansions are always recursive.

For what you're describing I think the proper term as used by the GNU Manual is deferred. In other languages the phrase lazy evaluation is common.

The one thing I've always had trouble remembering with GNU Make is precedence. Variables defined as command-line arguments (make FOO=bar) override assignments, but environment variables (FOO=bar make) only override ?= assignments. != is both immediate (the shell expansion) and deferred (the result of the shell expansion).

I feel like there's some inconsistency when variables are inherited across recursive invocations, but in a simple test with make 3.81 (macOS) I couldn't find any. Maybe my suspicion is just a byproduct of my weird inability to remember the precedence rules.

I normally try to stick to portable make these days, anyhow. Between the ancient version of GNU Make on macOS, OpenBSD Make, and NetBSD Make, you're mostly stuck with POSIX syntax. If you add Solaris' default make, and especially if you add AIX' make, you can't rely on any extensions at all.

For me sticking with portable make is easier than installing and maintaining GNU Make on every flavor of operating system I test on, and definitely easier than installing autotools or installing and maintaining the most recent version of CMake.
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There must be some pockets with insane salaires but for most people 200K is pretty high. How many non-execs really make these high salaries?
Yep, it was $500/mo in NYC. In MA it's only $250. Well, "only." Still a big expense, obviously.
Just Go and plain old html Go templates/css/js.
If you have 5+years, 200k+ with equity is a definite possibility
One of the points of license plates is immutability; plates that are simple to alter make plates useless.