skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had decided I wasn't going to entertain this conversation anymore (on scarejunba's advice) but you do raise a good point there and that is something my wife and I have considered.

The problem is that would mean we'd either end up in a less desirable area (less greenery, higher crime rates, etc) or have much less disposable income. The closer you move towards London the sharper the rise in house prices - and it's quite significant too. Plus as I'm just 10 minutes drive from a direct fast line into central London so moving closer wouldn't actually save myself that much in commute time (maybe half an hour each way if I'm lucky). So there just isn't the intensive to do so.

In fact my wife and I actually did the maths and the money we'd save on my season ticket (which is very expensive) wouldn't even come remotely close to the increased cost in housing. So spending that extra hour mending things wouldn't even scratch the surface. And to be honest, I quite like having that hour of relaxation time on the train ride home as it's uninterrupted me time - which means by the time I get home I've recharged my own proverbial batteries a little so are more energized with the kids. So the time with them is of a better quality.

I'm not suggesting this would work for everyone but there's a few other guys in my office that have the same routine and find it works for them too. In fact it's quite common for people who work in London to live a county or two away from the city and thus have long commutes.

Maybe when the kids are older and want to live in more urban areas, my wife and I might reconsider living this far out from the city. But personally I quite like the contrast of quiet village life after spending the day in the noisy capital.
About 5 years ago I got very anxious about how specialized I had become. Sure, advancing a career for better pay is great, but it was becoming apparent that a lot would be lost paying other people premium rates to do things I couldn't. So, I've had five years of focus on building my personal capabilities. Or another way to look at it is that I've embarked on the standard middle-class mid-life DIY frenzy. Either way, it struck me recently how much my mindset has shifted:

- We want/need a kitchen island - So instead of going out to buy one we found someone that wanted rid of an old table and are in the process of resizing, adding shelving, wheels, and re-finishing.

- The vacuum broke, so instead of throwing it away I tore it down and fault-found until it worked again.

- The car gets as much maintenance from me as possible before I call the shop.

Today, unlike before, I first considering how much self-help is possible before seeking external assistance/inputs. There's far less anxiety about capability and being able to respond to changing situations. The only down-side is the need to maintain some true down-time, as all the DIY stuff eats into that (it's still, ultimately, work and not relaxation).
I turned around an SPA fast because I'm only a backend developer. I wrote API endpoints only and contracted a friend to write the frontend, delivering a swaggerspec and vague ideas of what I wanted. Completed the thing in like four design meetings and one touch-up meeting. Couldn't be happier.
> I honestly doubt that my 60+ wpm has held me back in any significant way.

I type 120 at max speed and I think that if I were to suddenly start typing more slowly tomorrow due to a freak thumb accident it would be a significant impediment to my ability to get stuff done. Most of what I do is typing on the computer (either coding, writing, or flying around in Emacs and organizing my life with org-mode). I'm a great note-taker in meetings because of my speed and because I can concentrate on the content of what people are saying instead of on the typing, which is fast and accurate without conscious effort. Moreover, slow typing would be extra friction between my brain and the computer, and there needs to be as little latency between these things as possible to get my thoughts and ideas out there unfettered.

Honestly, I think you should invest the time in learning to type properly. Yes, it does make a difference. Learn the finger placements and practice every day. Learn when each hand is appropriate for shift and space and practice it, alternating appropriately. Even minor stuff like that makes you a better typer.
None in my use of the service.

To my knowledge, they make money because they act like a credit card (they collect cc fee from the seller), but actually just proxy the charge to your bank account. You basically lose out on any your own cc rewards though since you can't proxy to another cc (then they would lose their profit margin paying your cc provider).

Personal example of when I found it useful:
I used a burner card from them to buy a board game online, turns out the site was hacked, leaked the card info, additional charges were attempted but failed because the burner card settings only allowed the original charge through. Was really glad I didn't use my own cc.
Sure, but it's no longer the device people have to be default. Kids usually aren't in a position to order expensive and/or niche stuff on a whim...
For (2), take a look at Next.js. It's a React SSR framework, but there's a static build option that turns every page into prerendered HTML files with embedded JS at build time.
The problem with forums such as this is, while most of us are in a tech or related field, we're from all over the world, at all income levels, in all sorts of industries. I can tell you that NYC and London hourly contractors are more hedged against a terrible existence of 10+ hours a day, on average, than daily rate contractors. So much so that it's actively harder to find hourly than daily rates. Employers (or clients if we should call them this) aren't stupid, they're interested in maximizing cost/benefit.

Let me add something else. It depends on seniority and connections. If you folks are very senior-level software or systems architects, known in the business world or Twitter or through established experience, you can 'set the tone' and of course it makes more sense to, as mentioned above, charge weekly versus daily versus hourly and so forth.

In my industry (DevOps and Systems Infrastructure) it's incredibly elite to reach that level. I'd have to be blogging and doing presentations at tech conferences to be able to go to a Fortune 500 company and dictate project-level Scopes of Work. And perhaps one day I'll get to that! But my point is that this is an elite percentage of consultants.
In my most recent job search, I was really surprised to find that about half of my initial calls were with engineering managers, not recruiters. They're certainly in a better position to sell the company, but I found that I was uncomfortable asking the basic "how much, what are the benefits, what's the work life balance" type questions that I would generally want to get out of the way before being sold.
Please don't take HN threads on ultra-repetitive tangents like this. It's tedious, and there's no point in rehearsing it in every thread.
> RSI

Read the Mind-Body Prescription, you might be surprised at what you learn. RSI is not something we should be afraid of in this day and age, with everything we know about the human organism.
Ask HN: When can one be considered technical?
I've really been struggling with having confidence in my own technical skills, and it paralyzes me.

I recieved my undergraduate degree in Cognitive Science 2 years ago, and had no practical skills in math or programming. I taught myself programming casually and managed to gain acceptance to a dual master's in CS and Computational Biology. I taught myself the math necessary for ML, and worked on some big software projects, and now I'm in the final stretch working on my master's thesis in neuroscience inspired ML architectures, but I feel so scared to work and that my advisor and my peers will find out I'm some sort of charlatan. I just don't feel I'm technical, and I don't know what to do.
She seems to mean (or at least favor) equality of opportunity, as opposed to equality of outcome. The translation seems a little shaky, so not sure.
The marginal cost of an additional startup through YC is definitely not zero. Just look at how many more partners there are now compared to when batch sizes were smaller.

You’re right that it might be lower than average cost, otherwise batching wouldnt make sense.
I have, over the years, gravitated towards telling everyone in my teams as much as I possibly can at all times. I use top-down information sharing like your scenarios as a chance to connect my teams (which tend to be infrastructure and futher from the core business) to the business and their needs.

Any system of information sharing that requires me to remember what and with whom I shared specific bits of compartmentalized information is ultimately doomed to fail. You'll forget who knows what and eventually screw up and then you look like a manipulative middle-manager for withholding information.

Unless there's a clear reason not to share (layoffs, acquisitions, etc.), I share.
I have seen this change when I was working at Google. The key problem was that the PM to Engineer ratio increased in the company, and we were getting a lot of extra work from the PMs that looked nice on paper, were easy to understand, but didn't have a real positive impact on the customer. This extra work completely blocked us from improving the performance of the product.
I ran into this earlier with Lua for different reason, and recently discovered PHP does this too. Maybe we just need to find a way around it? I was thinking of trying to bridge jumps with the Rust panic mechanism. (Basically try-catch at each boundary.)
AIS isn’t long range though. You’d need an incredible amount of base stations for any sort of decent coverage of frequented areas.
I don't know what you did to one note, it would have been awesome to use, if I had discovered it before all my classes were so math heavy they essentially required notes to be taken in LaTeX. Haven't had it crash on me yet.
I think that from a certain point on disease chooses you, no matter how much one tries to “stay healthy” and all the associated tropes.
>Trump campaigned on that.

Trump campaigned on whatever the audience of the moment was cheering for. So far he's cut taxes on the ultra wealthy to the point we can't afford to fix infrastructure if we wanted to. Gutted the EPA, refused to impose bipartisan sanctions on Russia, and is talking about stealing land and hurricane relief money to build a wall that nobody wants besides that painted-on-hair racist Stephen Miller.
If my app runs off multiple API, then the bug in my (for example) commenting API shouldn't prevent users from using the shopping cart API to check out.
OTP is still evolving. It's more like a standard library than a first class language or vm construct. What do you want? Perhaps some additional libraries could help
Gender is not the problem. I think this is a unfortunate mix-up.

Furniture (products of woodwork) and fashion are super cheap nowadays, so the rent of mending is diminished. I can spend 20 minutes on fixing a shirt before it is financially rational to just buy a new one.

Cars and some other things are just very complicated thanks to closed and obscured software.

My girlfriend just recently fixed our LP player (both 25 years old ;) ), I tried to fix a 5 year old CD player .. not a chance.
>MGTOW don’t merely “check out of the idea of a romantic relationship”

If you discovered a minefield in your backyard, would you merely avoid it or would you also tell others to avoid the minefield and naturally get angry at whoever set up the minefield?

>“I think society should put less expectation on men to be the primary provider while women care for children and the home, and both should be expected to take equal roles in both”

It is far, far easier to protect yourself from society than to change society.
Households on average certainly seem to outsource more and be capable of less of the core “upkeep” tasks than in the past. Whether it’s cooking, cleaning, laundry, plumbing, electrical, auto, etc.

We absolutely lose out on these skills in aggregate, by pulling them from the curriculum, and it’s also not obvious at all that there is less overal economic value to providing some hands-on tradecraft skills (which often require critical thinking and creative problem solving) versus another theoretical academic course.

The amount of money an average household can save through doing their own home maintenance and upkeep is substantial, and the opportunity cost is not as high as you might think. These activities often have positive externalities (the additional learning that takes place while doing them, or the opportunity of doing them with the kids), not to mention emotional payback. And the cost of outsourcing these jobs is almost always not tax-deductible, making the true cost of outsourcing nearly double the sticker price.
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I'm a developer too, I always use example.com because accidentally triggering bogus outbound mail from corporate IP addresses can make a mess for Operations.

And Google gets baseless accusations because you feel entitled to something. Enjoy the feeling, you're entitled to it.
I haven't read the article. As a dog owner my assumption is there was a special trained bond between human and his dogs. They would have been impossible to handle after his death anyway so they would have been killed and buried along with him.
You worked on some big software projects - that sounds technical to me.

What kinds of skills do you think you're lacking?
It lets you impersonate a crowd, or various crowds.
Only the US puts warnings both at butchers and on packages for meat products. It’s has to do our prevalence of food borne diseases caused by our lax regulation and food handling standards. Europe doesn’t have the large meat borne ecoli outbreaks like the US. They’re outbreaks are through vegetables. You can eat raw hamburger(beef tartar) with little risk of getting sick in Europe. You be foolish to grab ground beef at a US supermarket and it eat it raw.
Does someone have a description of the network somewhere? Does it use LSTM for memory or what? Is there anything unusual about the size or structure of the network? Does it use an attention mechanism?
>mandatory willingness

This is the most Orwellian term I've heard all week. I think a better word for this is "slavery".
Is there a simple solution to get a basic offline map (OSM maybe) and use a pi without internet as a radar display at my local non-towered airport?
"False dichotomy" being a general concept means I don't have to be in any sort of position of knowing any specifics. It's generally applicable. I have no idea why you're defensive about this.

> I don't want to do it.

which is different from "if I spend an hour fixing this; this is an hour less I spend with my kids". "I don't want to do it" or "I can't do it" is a perfectly fine reason by itself.

> Thank you for that titbit of advice.

You're welcome.
Cloning from a template would be the what, but I was wondering if there are tools designed for this. It's the kind of thing that could spike complexity and I would want an established pattern of delivering html solely for the purpose of javascript manipulation. It's not a hard problem, but a messy one.
I don't do that, but what I do do is:

The recruiter:

"Hey, I saw your profile on LinkedIn and I felt you'd be perfect for a position I have for BLAH, a very established BLAHBITY BLAH, looking for someone like yourself who can do BLAH and BLAH. When are you available for a call?"

My response:

Hi, <Recruiter>. Thanks for reaching out! It sounds interesting but I'm going to need more info, can you kindly provide a salary range and location? Also, <additional question here>?

Thanks!

The Recruiter will answer one of two ways:

a) with the raw data

b) with an additional request for a phone conversation.

Folks, I can tell you one thing - b usually means the pay is below what I'm looking for, almost every time. So b I ignore and let them come begging (at least in this current climate where the market is strong).
Ahh nice, thanks!
It sure has its own merit, but I think you can remove the last sentence and slow down on the "I'd be the only one in a room of 100 people able to connect a phone to a network".

We can boast all day long about how good our tech skills are but out in the real world it's far from "much more useful and valuable to civilization" than a lot of things. It seems like a very narcissistic and simple point of view.
> Like many, I was viscerally shocked that the results were possible.

Why? There were news about bots writing news ~5 years ago. Given a few simple facts the AI generated the regular info-scarce but fluffy news-piece.

Now OpenAI added better everything (better language models, more data, better "long-term memory" for overall text coherence), and we got better fluff.

It seems like a GAN and a simple Markov chain generator. (Even if it's not that simple of course.)

And maybe it's the equivalent of the "modern art meme" style transferred to AI/ML research. ( https://i.pinimg.com/236x/71/e1/21/71e12151f4b59d8433d32c126... )

What I'm trying to convey is that wrecking the net with auto-trolls was already possible, but for some reason Mechanical Turk was cheaper.

> OpenAI warned everyone of an “exploit” in which text humans can trust to be human-generated

Sokal already did that, and so did http://thatsmathematics.com/mathgen/ ... but of course this might be qualitatively different, because it can be targeted. (Weaponized, if you will.) But the defense/antidote is the same, but it takes a lot more than 6 months to make people better at critical thinking, but maybe you already heard about the difficulties of that :)
Hah. I just finished a huge refactor of an application where the back end developers "dramatically simplified" the business logic and architecture. What they meant is they removed all of the business logic from the back end so the client could do it instead. You might be able to tell I'm still a little bitter about that.
The problem for spammers, as well as for fake news writers, has never been in coming up with the text for the spam email or the fake news story. This is already cheap and easy enough. The problem is with distribution and getting enough eyeballs. This new and so very dangerous AI may enable you to come up with 1M fake news stories with the click of a button but it won't get any of those stories published in NYTimes.
Cool article, I like honest reviews like this. I think a lot of people who learned Dvorak won't admit to themselves that it hasn't been worth it, because of the sunk cost (?) fallacy hindering objective self-reporting.

The thing with Dvorak is that putting all the vowels on the homerow for one hand actually turns out to be a bad idea. It's a classic example of a technical person trying to optimize something and actually making the thing worse. In Dvorak, one hand is flying all around the keyboard and making a wide variety of motions while the other is stuck in place, stiff as a board, typing at the homerow like a machine. You really can feel the difference after a day of typing like this -- the consonant hand feeling healthy with the vowel hand feeling cramped. If RSI were a real phenomenon then learning Dvorak would surely make it worse, but fortunately RSI is psychological so Dvorak and the expectation effect actually make it better usually.

QWERTY turns out to be a pretty good layout because of the mostly random location of the keys. It's actually a good thing. You want your hands to be moving, not staying in one place or they'll stiff up. Learning alternate layouts has negative net benefits and the worst thing is that because of human psychology, people who undertake the difficult (but useless) endeavor of switching layouts can't look at the results objectively.
Amen. Work without context is demoralising and can lead to micro decisions that don't align with the macro context of the business you're in.
this is part of your personal style IMO; like sales, there is not one single answer.. work with your strengths, and incorporate that into your team. One thing to add to that is -- burnout, cognitive overload, and the "attention economy" are real.. you are playing a team position, so your part may be to reduce those things, not increase them, for others
Meantime, in the royalty-free side, RISCV's work on V extension continues: https://www.embecosm.com/2018/09/09/supporting-the-risc-v-ve...
Do you have more detail on how collection messes with MLAT calculations? It seems like for triangulation purposes, each device should produce some precise timestamp that is not affected by store-and-forward transmission.
I think it was Marvin Minsky
(but not sure) who blamed LEGO for displacing Meccano and destroying engineering culture in USA.

All the complaints about kids toys being too dumbed down have been played out before.

Edgar Dijkstra complained that Americans were so rich that American so-called computer scientists built and played with computers
too much instead of doing computer science that the Europeans did.
I've got to agree on the personal health side of things but I'm not really a gym kind of person and neither is my wife (we'd both rather go running, cycling, swimming, etc) so any home gym equipment would just gather dust.

What I really need to do is set myself personal goals. At one point I used to train for running longer distances or to get my 5k personal best down to a certain time. But I'd reached those goals around the same time my daughter was born and never really got motivated to do any proper training again since.

So I just need to set myself motivated with some personal goals again.
Here's a good starting point:

https://deskthority.net/wiki/Alternative_keyboard_layouts

Also:

http://xahlee.info/kbd/most_efficient_keyboard_layout.html
That was only ~3 years after the economy came out of a deep free fall caused by bad investments. It was a reasonable concern in context.
if you were in the shoes of an Etsy seller that lost 10000 even knowing you would probably get it back... Would you trust them ever again?
Which suggests that what we really need is a curated Awesome list of Awesome lists.
While I am not planning to die, there is a few sheets of paper stapled together in the bottom of my safe, saying how I want to be buried and what should be done with my assets (should prevent any undertaker taking advantage of grief), but I haven't included any passwords for anything. That is intentional -- not only does my e-mail hold some pretty personal things (not all of them mine) but I don't see a point in having anybody else go through my personal stuff.

Anybody feeling like that?