skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Media bias, that's all. One country is shaping up to be a formidable foe so certain groups are desperately trying to highlight, amplify, and exaggerate everything for a chance to shit on them. The other country is a quasi-ally not even remotely close to posing a challenge so barely any attention is given.
Why would you want to live in a country full of uneducated people?
Get an account at acloud.guru (I'm not affiliated with them). Pound through their AWS certification prep videos and get certified. They have a pretty good course on Docker as well, that I've been going through.
I'm worried about ageism too, as I get older. Good luck.
For 1 and 2, if risk is the risk of being caught and punished for doing something illegal then this is the desired outcome. If you're talking about normal business risks I don't see how increased prosecution and punishment for illegal acts would affect that.
> that exists while you are working

I think that in this case when people say 'loyalty' they mean 'commitment over time'. "We'll dump you as soon as that option becomes slightly better than keeping you" is what people are reacting to.

It's different than being fired because of something you did/didn't do - it's the fear that something's going to change and this important part of your life (your source of income, of identity, of your professional status and one basis for your professional network, etc) will be yanked away without any real concern for the even short-term impacts on you.
And if you can charge - what are the terms?
In many cities, cars contribute relatively less pollution compared to factories and power plants, but because it’s localised along city streets where people live and work, it can be just as dangerous.
I redirected these to my spam box after at least 60% of the e-mails I received had no image and the text "A piece of mail that we do not have for is included in today's mail".
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This. Most businesses are not megacorporations which need unlimited scalability and bleeding edge platforms. Start simple and add complexity only when it's needed. It's boring, but stability is meant to be boring.
Operatorhub.io
Prevailing winds bring relatively clean air to most any city east of the Mississippi River especially in the winter time. Without nearby mountains, temperature inversions are pretty rare.

In late summer, air quality drops quite a bit as the wind drops off.
We are living in a increasingly narcissistic culture, and theoretically wasting a huge amount of money which could be used in infinitely more practical ways is buying people one thing more and more people crave for, narcissistic supply.
I'm almost 42: you never hit a point where you don't need to learn new skills. There will be periods of time when you can sit on your hands and just coast, but those periods ALWAYS come to an end. I've seen it happen multiple times.
I disagree. A sine wave has no overtones but we can still easily perceive the octave notes.

Also overtones don't have to be even multiples of the fundamental. Many organs have stops that are not multiples of the fundamental. 2-2⁄3′, 1-3⁄5' are common flute stops.
Ask HN: Experienced devs getting a new job using a new language?
I'm sure many of us have a fear of using the same stack for years and years and becoming obsolete.

For those of you that have been in tech for 10+ years, how was it like to stay at a company for many years and get a job in a new company that uses a different language? (e.g. switching Java to Go, switching C++ to Java, etc).

What was it like both in terms of interviewing and once on the job? How painful/pleasant was it to spend a long time in one language and have to start again in a new one with a bunch of 25 yr olds?
Use your skills to your advantage. In an interview, don't settle for crappy coding challenges. Ask the company what version of linux they're running in their docker containers (and when it was updated/patched) If they can't even tell you, prove value by telling them why (security, perf) and how (either newer canonical images or custom) My point here is the game hasn't really changed, it's just gotten wrapped in two more layers of abstraction.
My learning advice:
- Skip python, unless you want to become a coder or get into data science
- Learn how to launch a basic app using docker (think of a dockerfile like a shell script)
- Learn the 4 basic things you need to launch a basic app on kube (pod, deployment, service, ingress)
I think this is the mathematical/logical distinction between "object level" and "meta level".

The meta level is about lambda terms, involving things like variable names, abstractions, judgements, derivations, equivalences, reductions, substitutions, etc.

The object level is what lambda terms are about, involving things like values, types, variable contents, etc.
Wasn't there a similar thread on HN a couple months ago about this? I remember commenting about the privacy issues, etc. and was told that USPS is really taking digital images of all the mail, and this is simply offering that as a service. There was a link to support that comment as well.

That is, if you're concern about your gov monitoring your mail, that genie is out of the bottle and ain't never going back.
I think we barely have time to think about it in the first place, when you're in the sleep, work, entertainment routine, you're much more inclined to watch some netflix than to do something about "important" issues. Add kids in the mix and you're done. You either have to work extra time to be able to get them a decent life or stop working to take care of them, either way the future of humanity isn't really a priority.

You can take personal steps to reduce your footprint sure, but as long as the leaders play their "economical growth at all cost" game we're doomed to fail.
I was really surprised to see that in my neck of the woods Chicago proper had better air quality than some of the nearby suburbs (that aren't industrial exurbs) such as Naperville: https://www.airvisual.com/world-most-polluted-cities?contine...
And it had: https://www.livescience.com/44822-how-do-dolphins-sleep.html
Artificial intelligence for precision oncology: beyond patient stratification
Go back 100 years and the world’s most polluted countries would still be the ones rapidly industrializing at the time.

Your comment seems woefully ignorant of history, which is okay, but the world hasn’t _just_ existed for the last four decades.
If you look at the list of cities, they are mostly in countries that are undergoing massive industrialization. If you look at the equivalent stage in the West about a hundred years ago, you would see the New York, Chicago, London, Pittsburg also with massive pollution. As countries became more industrialized and wealthy, they switch from caring about growth above all else, to caring more for quality of life and reducing pollution is a big part of that. That period occurred for the US in the 60’s and 70’s. You can see that dynamic already taking hold for example in Beijing where the Chinese government is trying to reduce its pollution problem by regulating cars and pushing electric vehicles.
I don’t think that’s necessarily true. When I filed my change of address/mail forwarding, they sent me an email saying that Informed Delivery was suspended on my old address and then they also sent a letter to the old address which was forwarded to the new address which basically said the same thing.

I guess if you don’t file change of address then they won’t know.
The Medium Really Is the Message [video]
Conveyor 1.0: A development workflow Git client
MIT online catalog:

https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-compu...
Wristwatch heart monitors might save your life–and change medicine, too
Fans shell out $4M+ to Kickstarter for animated Dungeons and Dragons special
Bhutan Is All Alone in Carbon-Neutral Nation Club
A Behind the Scenes Take on Lithium-Ion Battery Prices
They have to give the politicians something to brag about so funding doesn't go down.
So this creates random maps? What does one do with the output of this thing?
one thing that I think got lost culturally in the move to linux was the emphasis on open source. yes, not open source in some abstract warm fuzzy way, but actual useful open source.

if I cant run the build process, and I dont really know which patch sets have been applied on my system, and which version of the source was used, and I dont really have a handle on the dependencies. doesn't make it substantially more difficult to debug and work with the resulting system?

its really quite odd that the dominant open source platform settled on opaque and unreproducible binaries as the distribution mechanism early on.
Why is it that the top 100 are all chain in India? And in that case why is it that the Paris climate accord delayed China and India is accountability while charging American Germany the highest reparations immediately? The politics behind climate change is it simply a method of controlling our economy and taxing us
It's also the most selfish way, in some regard. My wife and I just recently had our first after some time, and one of the biggest factors involved was how selfish it would be not to. A lot of parents feel the same way; you need to appreciate that it's not in black and white and there are multiple perspectives.
I apologize for misusing the term.
>Even if I were an avid gamer, there is no way I would work in the industry.

The anime industry is the same way, and I'd imagine has a lot of crossover in the gamers/fans. There's been a recent #MeToo incident in the anime world that I'm 2 degrees of separation from, and the horror stories of what the people directly involved have had to suffer are absolutely appalling. The attacks are anywhere from drive-by posts to public social accounts all the way to death threats (which are being directly turned over to the FBI). I worked in the anime world directly for 18 months. By 6 months in, I knew I didn't fit in. By 12 months in, I was actively looking for something else. At 18 months, I was finally at a new job. That was the shortest stint on my resume.
How Do Dolphins Sleep? (2014)
The most polluted place I have been to on the list is Jakarta I think. The air is horrible but it doesn't seem to be anything to do with western consumerism. More the density of the population and road traffic, and the amount of trash that is burnt in and around the city.
A big enough fine has the same effect, doesnt it?
Website breaks Firefox mobile 15.0 on iOS 12
I am also wondering does source of pollution is always local ?
Why though? Every large company launders money through tax havens to disguise its origin or evade tax, so what do those training courses achieve?
> But even chastity is often culturally unacceptable, whether for both sexes (as in the U.S. today)

You are saying that in the USA today, that "having sex only with one's spouse" (ie - your definition of "chastity") is "culturally unacceptable" here?

I'm curious on what you base this on?

I am pretty certain that being unfaithful to your spouse, or even "significant other" is still considerably frowned upon in the U.S...?

That is - I don't think it's "accepted" culturally - just tolerated (by the wider secular U.S. society). Maybe that's what you are getting at...?

I think for the most part our culture would rather those who are married to remain honest with each other, to uphold the vows they took when they were married. There is also another smaller part of our culture (of which I am in agreement with) that would say as long as all parties are aware and consenting to it - ie, open marriages - that is ok as well.

But I don't think our culture here in the U.S. completely condones unfaithfulness...?

Maybe I am wrong? Certainly something to think about; which is also why I ask...
Critical Role’s Kickstarter for Animated D&D Special Raises Raises over $4M
Any other hackers and wannabe designers using Inkscape to prototype web app layout? It is good solution for these kinds of layout with free positioning.

I suggest you learn it as it is free and useful in many others aspects of life (Cropping pdfs for including in lab reports, making simple icons, making vector figures, etc.).
Hello and thanks for all the news!
Had a quick look. Not completely sure the value this adds other than a "to-do" list for your deep work goals?
>more making stuff...

Well, they must make stuff out of other stuff.

Those raw materials have to be extracted from Mother Earth at some point I'd imagine.
This is a ranking of PM2.5 pollution, which is nothing to do with climate change.
I always had the question is the source of pollution at least the air quality is local or can it travel across globe ?
Definitely today sleep prioritizes healing resources over active resources and it certainly seems beneficial to have that happen. But I'd contend that a system that can constantly be active and healing would be an evolutionary improvement that will occur over time.

Evolution is kind of like Economics; it's not rational, and it's not currently in equilibrium.
Might be good progress but it still sounds very low to me as I didn't know anything below 100% was possible... it sounds crazy to me (almost like something that was introduced to be able to inject backdoors undetected).
Well, this doesn't fit the narrative at all.
Lots of discussion and links on this at http://wiki.c2.com/?ClosuresAndObjectsAreEquivalent
Really? Suferring during, say, World War II was just as bad as immediately before or after?
If you're generating or modifying source code at build time (eg. adding timestamps or build IDs) then you have violated the constraints on build reproducibility.
The biggest privacy issue I can imagine here is if you see someone else's mail through the portal. A few anecdotes about this happening in the comments are concerning, but I was already under the impression USPS was doing some sort of digital imaging and OCR to efficiently sort the mail so my impression is this just gives you the ability to see those images.

Am I missing something?
T-Mobile admits it spent $195000 on Trump hotel while lobbying for Sprint merger
Pomodoro is not Deep Work: http://calnewport.com

Not that what you are doing is bad, but you need a rebrand.
A few years ago, I took a job temporarily running a struggling engineering team at a startup. Since it was a startup with client deadlines, I had to work on code. It was a totally new language and new stack.

As someone who had been coding professionally for 10 years, I was far more productive than everyone else on the team (measured by how buggy my code was and how well I turned specs into code). The next-most-experienced coder had about 4 years of experience in a large enterprise environment, which required a lot of coaching and re-learning.

My point is that you can Google your way through the specifics of a lot of languages, but your most valuable experience and skills will work across stacks.

This is actually the reason I never make prior experience with a language, stack, or framework part of a full-time job description. For temporary contract work, I'll be hyper-specific, but if someone is part of the company long-term, I just need to know that they have all the skills that are related to working on a team, understanding tradeoffs, etc.
I assume the difference is that people will be able to delf-deploy their apps to the marketplace. Think of it as an analog to "PPAs" for Ubuntu repositories.
I wish there was a way to prevent Facebook from continually uploading every photo I have ever taken on my iPhone to Facebook’s servers.
Vipassana Meditation - see Mindfulness in Plain English.
If you buy your mango frozen, it's quite likely that the majority of the transportation CO2 is the trip from the grocery store to your home. From the plantation to the grocery store it's being transported in large quantity by highly efficient trains, boats and semi-trailers.
You mean to tell me I can get a daily spam message showing me previews of all the spam coming to my physical inbox?
Unfortunately, nix does not produce fully reproducible builds. The build environment is portable and produced in a way that it can be repeated, but due to the limitations of the software that is being built, the builds are not binary reproducible. You can see some commentary on the nix team hoping to adopt some of the work being done by debian et al here: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/9731
Or, as informed consumers, we can identify the obvious fact that, outside certain exceptional industries, corporations have no inherent interest in improving the standards of living of their workers and accept that we have a vital role to play in incentivizing them toward more ethical behavior, mainly be refusing to patronize them in the absence of rigorously-enforced and progressive ethical standards.
Just to be clear:

The company’s annual analysis only compares employees in the same job category, so the results do not reflect race or gender differences in hiring and promotion.

https://www.wired.com/story/men-google-paid-less-than-women-...
How does the runtime performance compare? (mem/cpu)
It sucks that many of the great innovations from Plan9 never became widely adopted, but systems research still goes on! Containerization, for example, and virtualization, have given rise to a whole new field of systems research. And a lot of it is being done in Pike's own language, `go`
Oh wow, you really blew the case wide open. Where did you get such amazing intel, Alex Jones?
Discussed yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19303039
It sounds like they are saying it is not by design, but a mistake that they allowed you to sign up when your location isn't yet meeting the requirements.

At least that is how I read the line about "unable to offer[...]until the coding is complete".
Except that if it's a 2018 model they didn't actually paid money, it was take free of charge under one year worldwide guarantee even without an AppleCare Plan. And unless they very recently changed policy after the second failure on a recent machine you can usually bargain an instant switch with a refurbished anew unit.
Pike's pessimism in a way reminds me of the Bill Gates quote:

We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten.

Still some of his pessimism has been spot on. Linux is Unix and RISC-V is, well, the fifth RISC from Berkeley which was even then only codifying some principles Seymour Cray laid down (now with Cray vector instructions!).

But LLVM is more pliable and experimental (and slower) than GCC. Didn't see that coming. No one even remembers Netscape but Chrome and Firefox are not simply Netscape.

He's dead right on the over emphasis on measuring. I never even read the measurements section in papers. I'm only interested in the ideas. That said, recent conferences attach a badge to a paper which submits a verification artifact. That's useful, especially if I really want to dig into the paper.
Apple gets bug for free, while HackerOne declares first $1m bug hunter
obviously FF not running these through POSIX inet_pton

"The inet_pton() function does not accept other formats (such as the octal numbers, hexadecimal numbers, and fewer than four numbers that inet_addr() accepts)."
You mention you work at a nonprofit. Do you take volunteers as well?
It seems to be more useful in the current format if you are trying to decide where (not) to live
> Web Design 3.0 is about the designer's freedom

Which is exactly why it'll never take off. Design is only one part of a larger whole, and I can't think of a single business or website that shows the "designer's freedom" and is still in business.

Websites with byzantine navigation or difficult-to-decipher layouts are designer masturbation that create frustration rather than solve problems.

No thanks.
I absolutely second this. But I don't think it will happen
I quit my freelancing career for 30 days. Here’s what happened
How’s that sprint going? ZenHub reporting and GitHub data will tell you
My guess is that making code reproducible involves some kind of change that hasn’t been applied or all of the code or build files.
Exactly. I don't need a game to be my second job. And if the game allows its grinding to be bypassed with slave labor, I know that it is that way because the developers designed it that way. Why the heck would you publish Slavery Simulator 2019, with a catchier name?
> all restaurants pay for cooks and wait staff

No, they don't, not really, hence, tipping culture. But for catering, unlike menu price at a restaurant, you are paying full freight for service. You are also (compared to a restaurant) paying for the lack of upsell opportunities. (Particularly, if you are supplying drinks separately and don't have a cash bar operated by the caterer: the bar is disproportionately where restaurants make their money.)
Surely this is the expected outcome of supply shortage and diversity commitments.
Motor vehicle exhaust is tiny compared to the pollution from coal-burning. Eliminating coal has drastically improved the air quality in industrialised cities of Europe and North America.
It's mostly historical reasons, and that they gain relatively little from merging them, but it costs a lot. No one in Google3 depends on Chrome or Android source, and nothing in the Chrome or AOSP projects depends on Google3.

Android and chrome are both on weird git systems, and that doesn't work well in Google3. There'd be a huge amount of work to merge them, and for what...exactly?
A Practical Example of Reactive Hashing
Also, it looks like privacy policy is missing. Even simple non-legalese would be useful; something like this would be ideal:

"I won't pass your email to third parties. I will send you a newsletter but only if you opt in during account setup. You can delete your data at any time."
Yep. This is probably the third or so time that I've seen a comment stolen from a related reddit thread get posted on HN by a new account and get called out. Who knows how often it happens and no-one notices.
Time-Lapse of a Salamander Egg from Fertilization to Hatching
It seems like the data is available if you want to give it a go
I did file a change address a year ago and yet continued to receive the emails from my previous address. As mentioned in my reply to another comment, I tried unsuccessfully to convince them that this was a problem, and they told me it was my responsibility to also discontinue the emails.

Perhaps they have changed their position in the last year.
Ask HN: Does HN Have a TechCrunch Bias?
Any story from TechCrunch quickly makes it to the front page, even if similar stories from other outlets have been posted before. On any given day, TechCrunch stories dominate headlines on HN. What's up with the bias?