skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Okay, let me try this again. Forget the money. Forget the job at Microsoft (which was a huge deal back then--Microsoft was the center of the software universe at the time). Consider only this: if you have to walk away, walk away. But be civil about it. That's my point (I said as much in the final paragraph). However satisfying, going out with a "fuck you" is going to cost you. Maybe not money, but relationships, opportunity and reputation. I didn't swallow my pride and eat shit. I made a deliberate decision to value that relationship over my temper. I was lucky (as you say); it paid off. But even if it hadn't, even if the stock had dropped to zero, I still would have felt better about walking away from that relationship like an adult instead of an angry child.

My point stands, regardless of the outcome, though I can see how focusing on the money skewed the story for you.
In Thailand the government tried to 'Ban' facebook once. They blocked facebook and netizens DDoSed government sites by going on the site and hitting refresh, on top of that they faced immense backlash on social media. They enabled facebook again with in a matter of a couple of hours. Later they blamed it on the ISP.

Banning / Blocking any kind of internet usually doesn't work well for the government. Especially in a society that has already been relatively free online. The Economy of countries now depend on the Internet. Any government stupid enough to even test this kind of technology will face the consequences.
Thank you for giving it a go and then relating the experience to us. It will probably save another develop from going down the exact same path.
Jet technology is much more complex to meet environmental, safety and efficiency goals. Fuel was much cheaper in the 1960's, I wonder what the cost of a jet is in terms of it's operating life?

Rail and other ground works have got much more expensive as labour costs (in the developed world) have risen. I expect that rail costs in China are not 10x? I would be interested to know !

In term of moonshots I think that safety and risk would mean that a modern mission would be much more expensive than Apollo.
> this makes entering dates or modifying formulas in excel online near impossible.

It would be so much easier, if the us finally stopped using this middle-endian date format. It's logically flawed and too prone for misinterpretation. Further the US is the only country in the world to insist on using it. yyyy-mm-dd or dd-mm-yyyy are both fine (I actually prefer the first, though my country uses the latter) and logically consistent.

While they are at it, they could also switch to the metric system.
but muh space, muh high contrast colorful nebulae, muh railguns
I was surprised how many people wrong about mining pool. How it works
So it's a base operator for prolog unification?
Alaskan here. It's otherworldly when the sky is on fire above you.

My brother braved the cold and took this video: https://youtu.be/odNrFTib1Qg
I disagree. I think that conquering space makes sense from the perspective of creating a redundant copy of the human race (I say “redundant” rather than “backup” because Mars is too close to Earth to protect it against any sizeable interstellar events).

My issue with Mars One was that it didn’t seem very credible in achieving its goals and that worries me that now people have been burnt by Mars One, they will not take a more credible organisation seriously if/when one comes along.
It’s 2019. I think we can all admit that Taiwan is a real country, whether China likes it or not.
Charge for the project. "You logo will cost $5,000"

Hourly billing is for chumps.
https://github.com/agzam/exwm-edit
Retroshare 0.6.5 released
Holy.... I didn't know they made this into a movie, thank you. I knew a three body problem movie was in the making but not this!!!
It's so easy to forget that at the very end, there are people who are using software. Developers are middlemen for most code in the products they build (think dependencies). GPL cuts through that, and always has the end-user in mind.
The job has been filled and we have no more open position, thanks everybody!
Hahaha, cool. But I guess the cringe would be less if they didn't wait for the inaudible laughing to be over...
I think we're over looking the fact that it shouldn't cost 100k for a liberal arts degree.

You literally read books, one of the oldest technologies and write papers getting on. You have professors, but your tuition isn't really going to your professors. As a philosophy major I spent most of my time in buildings a hundred years old (had no projectors or computers) reading texts that were free from the library. I would have preferred that my tuition just paid for that building and my professors instead of the armies of administrative assistants and provosts.

There probably should be higher requirements. At my undergraduate the business degree was hard to get into. The english or philosophy degree just required you to tell someone.

I think knowledge for the sake of knowledge is a good on its own, but when you're paying that much, and everyone is all vying for limited academic positions, it doesn't make sense.

It just wouldn't be an issue if tuition for majors was actually closer to the cost of actually being taught.
Historical ATA Standard Drafts
Benchmark is indeed flawed
According to the Tony Schwartz research, founder of The Energy Project, humans naturally get physiological fatigue after full focus and energy and need to take a break after every 90 minutes. Our body sends signals, but we usually overcome it by drinking coffee, energy drinks, etc. until we don't have energy left which is not a good sign.

The Draugiem Group in Latvia determined with the help of time tracking software that the most productive employees worked less than others and took more breaks. Productive individuals worked an average of 52 minutes and had breaks of 17 minutes long.

Nobody, not even the most productive person in the world can work for 8 hours. Learn to take short breaks. It is one of the project management hacks that is good for your brain, body, and mood. Set scheduled short and long breaks as they will keep your mind fresh throughout the day.
Aboriginal Australians have been documented from 50,000-60,000 [0]

[0] https://theconversation.com/when-did-aboriginal-people-first...

When you begin to look into their stories (dreamtime) and the way they've always lived and more importantly, the way they have passed down information generation to generation, it's utterly remarkable. Yet this 10,000 value would belittle that rich living history imho.

Admittedly 10,000 years ago is roughly the Younger Dryas era, so yes, most history has been lost since before that time, but it does exist nevertheless.
You can and a lot do, but if you want to have any business with China then you have to do it the way they want it done.
Yea nah. In theory I agree with you. In practice I don't believe Taiwan has much time left on the clock. My expectation is that sometime in the 2020s Taiwan will be Crimea'd.
New tools = New security bugs we still need to find.

If you know your tools there is less risk that you produce security bugs. You know the sideeffects of all the commands and functions. If you use a black box and trust it fully, you will (unknowingly) find ways to make new security holes noone ever thought of before.

I'm not saying that we should not innovate, just that we should not rush head first into the blue sky thinking everything is fine just because we use the new shiny thing where we can't make bugs ever.
A simple video editing application
Or they'd buy more and put a stop to advertising campaign.
this ^

i am having a hard time seeing myself using anything that google puts out. i have been burned way to many times.

the biggest ones? google reader, code and inbox (happening now).

sorry but it’s really hard to bet the farm on otherwise cool technology
I've always said "full stack" == "iceberg tip".
I've also noticed this and this is a big loss of utility.

There aren't many tools that find exact/slightly transformed matches of an image. That was very valuable, especially with the power of Google's webcrawling. Imaged get shared, stretched, watermarked, and artifacts build up. This was the single best way to find a source image.

Now the image is converted back into text and it searches for images using the text. We could search for images using text before. This is not new. The unique thing about reverse image search was killed and turned into just a fancy input for the same old image search.
Redwoods commonly grow as clones in the wild: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequoia_sempervirens#Reproduct...
You made a big fatal mistake. Edit your post.
"one byte is eight bits" is extraordinarily different from "one character is eight bits".

In fact, by conflating them you are implicitly making the assumption that one character is one byte, which is exactly what your comment is really warning against.
Doesn't matter. I work at a company that releases software there and we have to remove Taiwan as an option for a country when setting up your account or the product simply won't be allowed to be sold in China. Our personal views on the subject don't matter.
Tromso in northern Norway is another big pull for Japanese during the winter months.
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> https://www.irs.com/articles/tax-deductions-for-student-loan...

$2500 if you're school teacher making $50k/year. Bupkis if you're a doctor making $200k/year.

> Also 'investing' in stocks is investing.

See useless zero sum activities.
I actually think the problem isn't unrealistic major choices, but the fact that college shouldn't cost so much in the first place.

There is really no reason college has to be as expensive as it is. It isn't like college professors pay went up as tuition did or anything, or as if students got their own microscope or something to make up for the cost.

It just went to staff, and buildings.
First time I see this, thanks. The website isn't explicit about this point, but from what I gather, "copyfree" isn't viral in the way GPL is. It seems to provide "Free as in Freedom", but unlike GPL, doesn't protect that freedom from being immediately taken away.
Thank you, i will look into it. I found some on ebay, now with a bit of researchi should be able to find one that fit my need!
I'm afraid step 1 of such a guide would be "get a relevant engineering degree". I got mine on the wrong floor of the building, so all I know is that "RPi is overpriced for what it contains".
Yes, but as is also implied in the article, the practices that allow you to withstand an "outage" are also practices that allow you to temporarily close yourself off on demand.

Without the context, purely infrastructure-wise, what kind of scenario does "Roskomnazor will inspect the traffic to block prohibited content and make sure traffic between Russian users stays inside the country" imply to you?
Less room for cars on the roads and a lot more surface trains.
I recently learned that a system like this is already described by Haskell’s Package Version Policy[1]. They call the vanity digit the “epoch”[2]. Basically the way the formalize it is that the first two components specify the major component, and a breaking change must correspond to an increment where the new major version is lexicographically greater than before. Depending on the whim of the maintainer this can be by incrementing the first or second number.

[1] https://pvp.haskell.org
[2] https://pvp.haskell.org/faq/#semver
Go abroad. Universities in some countries are free and education is on the same level. Maybe even better, because going abroad usually influences you in a positive way.
A lot of the replacement sites are trying to do things differently, but honestly at this point a straight clone that does nothing/only the very few most obvious things might just be what's needed, if only because the next company will get a clean(er) slate to work with.
DTA warns blockchain is still a solution looking for a problem
After the moon trip you're back home again without much to show for the trip but the pictures...

Literally every astronaut who's been in to space says it profoundly changed them as a person.
I’d dispute the law of leadership as being absolute. Plenty of people blaze a trail only for a later competitor to come walk the now relatively easy path and extract the value that the first company was too busy to see.
Flippant responses to security issues aren't helpful.

In your case, (I presume) you are both the owner and the only user with physical access, and "you control your own device" is unique.

In my case I'm the owner, but other people may have temporary physical access, and the identity of the "you" is therefore somewhat ambiguous. As owner I want protection against one of the possible values of "you", see?
I never had someone recommend a major to me, or recommend I take on loans.

Law school tuition is insane, I can only imagine if you paid for your room and board and tuition with loans and that was only 10% of the aid offered you must have been offered like 500k.
I Want to Live in Silicon Valley
Just came here since I saw my name mentioned in the thread. Dave Stamboulis, whoever he is, should be banned from media.

Karakul is not incredibly salty (there are other very salty lakes in Central Asia, though).

It was not christened Lake Victoria by the British (that's Lake Zorkul). I corrected it on Wikipedia but it's still in the (really bad) Bradt Guide to Tajikistan.

The lake is not home to the ROTW regatta: last time it was held was in 2018 and there are no plans of it returning.

Karakul was never "an inhabited Central Asian crossroads."

"...its recent status as part of the Tajik National Park ensures that it will be on the intrepid travel list of many for years to come." Not sure what that even means.

Finally, Karakul does not look like a Greek island. At all!
28 is not “old” by any reasonable standard, I know many people that started studying at that age and that do fine.

One thing I’d like you to consider is going to Europe for your studies, e.g. to Germany, Switzerland or one of the Skandinavien countries. There are excellent technical universities there (e.g. TU Munich, TU Delf, ETH Zürich but also many others that are easier to get into). Most of them charge only nominal tuition (in Germany 100-300 € per year) so you will save a ton of money as compared to the US. Most of them also offer programs that are entirely in English so you don’t have to learn some weird language like German ;) (would be great if you want to of course). And it will give you experience of living abroad, which can be valuable as well. Since you said you were traveling I assume you have the freedom to go and live abroad for a while, so I’d say it’s a valuable experience and a good investment.

Please be aware that a typical CS degree is not (much) about programming but a lot about math and abstractions. There are other degrees that focus specifically on software engineering and that might be a better fit for you from what you wrote.
Can you be more specific about what's missing that will be a disaster?
I think the main purpose of this is to force local users to migrate to local services. Right now a lot of services that used by citizens are hosted outside of Russia and cannot be influenced or managed by government. They afraid disconnection as sanction. They have a law that companies should store personal data in local data centers. But most of the foreign companies don't obey it, so that's the lever. I don't think that disconnection could protect from cyber war, viruses and attacks could be easily run from inside.
I'm loosing touch here, why is this not a manufactured controversy and instead an actual complaint that has any merit?

Why aren't we "accusing" ISPs from routing to the website?

"Accusing" wayback machine of caching it?

"Accusing" CDNs of not null-routing it?

so this article gets to masquerade Apple and Google's power consolidation as a good thing and you guys eat it up? I'm going to call my publicist and start my own word games if this is so effective.
Automobiles are easier to scale until you hit a brick wall. Subways and trains can transport a lot more people than roads. A subway line with modern signalling can have a train every 45 seconds or so. It's impossible to match that with normal roads. Dense cities can't function without trains. Imagine London, Tokyo, or New York without the subway.
If something like Starlink goes live, would it possibly be a way for citizens of a country that chooses to nope out of the global internet to stay online?
you had to pay like $50 to apply
There's so much wrong with that post that it's hurting my brain.

I don't know how you got from "fruit is bad" to "you can only eat vegetables" but that must have been a sweet trip. You do know there's other foods, right? Like plant oils, meat, dairy, and chocolate cake.

And if that wasn't hurting my brain enough, you think vegetables don't have calories? So you've never heard of the potato, have you? Or carrots, sweet potato, beetroot...
Sadly we are still at it at a rapid pace. Maybe not so much anymore with trees but we are decapping mountains for minerals and pumping toxic chemicals in the ground to extract oil/gas.
Digital analogies to theft rarely are good, but this one is passable. The main point is that this license grants software freedoms, but then doesn't do anything to protect it - thus enabling middlemen (like most of us devs are, for most software we write!) to immediately strip those freedoms away.

Proclamations of rights aren't really useful if they don't have means for enforcing those rights are not taken away.
They failed at that goal. Hobbyists, yes; hobbyists building stuff with their kids, yes; kids on their own or in schools, not really.

There have been campaigns to get RPis into schools for free, but for the most part, they gather dust there.

Whatever their original goal, they might as well embrace their only successful market and stop using 'it wasn't meant for you' as an excuse for every engineering mistake they make.
We blame companies for helping catch Chinese or Saudi etc dissidents too. We blame them when they help catching human rights activists.

Generally speaking, tolerance goes from here to there.
This was the US viewpoint on China for a very long time.
The cost of infrastructure is extremely hard to quantify. Roads aren't free either, and parking in cities makes them less dense and hence increases the distances people need to travel.
One way or another child care gets paid for now.
I would like keep js out of data science. Why should anyone like this?
Not just business, but if a country wants diplomatic relations with mainland China, then it needs to not recognize Taiwan as a country.
I prefer getting paid for my opinions. I'll gladly provide analytics for those who directly ask giving me the option to say I prefer not to answer.

There needs to be people like you to balance the costs for someone like myself because knowing my age, marriage status size of company isn't worth the amount they pay me for it.
SuperCereal: Fast JSON Serializer for Golang
Don't learn a programming language, solve a problem instead
Presumably if mothers can continue their career because of the availability of child care then that brings along additional tax revenues.
But ... the app is designed to prevent the freedom. The function of notifying is literally for the purpose of stopping women who don't want to live like that by people who force them to live in the "dark ages".
I'd rather have a developer with a solid understanding of FP, CI, integration testing, good programming practices, structure, refactoring ect., than one that knows the tools and tooling inside out. Ideally I want both, but if I have to choose it's the former. We have other developers that can get them up to speed relatively quickly, and they'll start with established projects anyway.
Try using Org Mode as a common plane for communication.
Seems to be some sort of religious lets clone old ancient trees, going on here in the article, rather than lets pick trees that are scientifically the best for the next generation.

The actual organization seems less religious than the article makes out and is cloning from a variety of sources.
Show HN: Tabulator – Easy JavaScript Tables, Introducing Data Reactivity
I'm not sure the maximum is 50000 CHF. They present it as "Minimum compensation: Between 30000-50000 CHF" which is a bit ambiguous.
Cache tables
This analogy misses something fundamental. See how the assignments to x and y are of very different character than the predicate? Notice the return path (`else []`). `amb` doesn't need this.

`amb` merges the assignments and predicate - this is important because you may not know your argument count statically, i.e. if your arguments are a list. But beyond that, `amb` may backtrack an arbitrarily deep call stack, so the the error return does not need to be expressed explicitly. You may think that is good or bad but it is not the same as the Haskell solution.
I am in agricultural trade so looking at growing population in Asia/Africa and the crop production fluctuations year to year with the uncertainty that climate change is already bringing 2050 is too far away. By 2050 we might actually have got some workarounds for the problems the world is going to face in term of food shortages etc in 2030-2035. As far as what I am planning to do one of the things I did was I decided not to have kids not because I feel my having children is going to affect carbon production much but because I will be dead and my future children would have to live in the world we will be leaving behind for them.
"You can get cactus stickers for your laptop, just by writing an honest five-stars review on Amazon..."

This is a definition of "honest" with which I was previously unfamiliar.
The issue is that Google's interests are very often not aligned with their customers'/users' interests. They regularly choose to shut things down for reasons which probably make plenty of sense to Google, but which are unjustifiable from the users' perspectives.
Isobar India Launches a Novel Blockchain-Powered Campaign for CEAT Tyres
https://serviceyear.org/

Basically the same idea.
Recommendation to a former Vimmer who wants to try Emacs to avoid Spacemacs IMO is irrational. Spacemacs and Doom-emacs are the best things to try. Spacemacs is well documented, community supported and extremely popular among former Vimmers. Trying to learn and configure Emacs from scratch usually does the opposite effect - an overwhelmed person gives up and runs back to the comfort of the familiar tool.
Government would shut down all the amateur radio operators pretty quickly (you’re on a database). Plus it’s not quite as romantic or reliable as it sounds, especially on HF at the moment.

Go do it for sure, but you’ll find trivial confirmations and conversations about declining health and not a lot else.

I only operate CW (morse) myself because that’s more interesting and there is a technical challenge.
South African “lost city” found using laser technology
Does C/C++ have any provisions against type punning or JIT bugs? The fact that you have to use unsafe code for a lot of things in a JIT doesn't change the basic reality that Rust is safe by default, whereas C/C++ cannot be made memory-safe practically, except for small programs like seL4.
That $7.50 pays to cover capital costs (the car). Uber would have to also pay for that out of their share.

The general point is that the savings might not be enough to offset the higher capital costs from autonomous vehicles + development spend.
Bitcoin Billionaire Says Crypto Slump Is the Best Time to Accumulate Crypto
Unless you conquer Venezuela first.
Yep. The point at which Google and Apple don't both ban apps even aimed at sexual minorities like kink people (even just dating apps) is the point they can cry that they don't make moral judgements.

They do, and they've decided that consenting adult's sexual preferences are worse than an app that allows a dystopian regime to track the movement of women so abusive men can control them.

That's messed up.
Y Combinator’s latest batch of startups is too big for one Demo Day stage