skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I did the same thing when I was 28. I had some prior exposure to Java at university but that's about it. I took a year off from work to teach myself to become a software engineer. It takes hard work and you will doubt yourself while you're doing it. My advice is to get your fundamentals right, everything else depends on it. With fundamentals I mean, learn your algorithms, understand how a program actually runs by writing interpreters and compilers, understand the memory hierarchy, etc. After my year of self study I took a job that was not fully in line with my goals as a software engineer, but it gave me time to further develop myself and actually acquire some real experience in the field. I'm 33 now and working as an Embedded Software engineer, and in comparison with my peers I think I'm performing well, it all depends on your motivation and interest to put in the extra hours after work to 'make up for lost time'. I'm extremely happy with the choice I've made.
US is optimized for individual gain, not societies gain as a whole.

This is the thing which attracts immigrants from all over the socialist/communist republics of the world and they are the ones who make it big.

No one wants to change that, there is double speak here when people do sympathize but when it comes to foot the bill, no tax payer is ready for that.
I guess that would just not be realistic. There was a comment from a while ago that I think makes total sense: The organization has to evaluate the value that you bring and create. If your position moves and directs dozens of people, it will be hard for an individual contributor to match the importance no matter what. Of course, it's fine if you prefer to remain a more individual, engineering-oriented position. But there is little reason to expect you'd reach the same level of importance to the organization as some top managers/executives.
I don't think it's the journalists in and of themselves. Journalists do not have much power. An individual on here posted about being contacted by the NYT to write an "opinion" piece based on a comment he wrote related to cryptocurrencies. [1] He followed up and eventually did publish the piece. I'm going to avoid commenting on that other than to say that the NYT forced him to endorse opinions he did not hold in an article that was supposed to have been written by him. It's best to read the exact examples than my probably biased tl/dr. And that sort of stuff is what they do to one-off writers. Imagine what they do to (and whom they recruit) for their regular staff! The journalists are just mouthpieces for the executive team.

I think the problem is that the media is dying, but they've found that in the mean time provoking and agitating for a 'culture war' is sending profits skyrocketing. So you don't need to change the media, but you need to change people that eat this nonsense up. Unfortunately, that's probably impossible.

[1] - https://www.rosshartshorn.net/stuffrossthinksabout/nyt_opini...
1) What did they promise in return?

In general when I see a project that takes government funding I become suspicious of it. In some cases my suspicions turned out to be founded (the Tor Project).

2) Who the hell authorizes those EU morons to spend taxpayer money like that?
SpaceX is an antidote to the idea that home food delivery is great innovation.

Not to mention all those time tracker/scheduler/todo/chat apps hailed as such as well.
Nice! You might enjoy my bootloader + retro game which fits in a tweet: https://www.quaxio.com/bootable_cd_retro_game_tweet/

It might also help you figure out how to put the pdf first. You'll increase the odds of various viewers being able to render the pdf.
Tricking Sand into Thinking [video]
> Bringing it up in comparison for no reason and just general being hostile to MS is the reason MS doesn't listen to non-enterprise feedback

Are they really so shallow?

If they don't listen to non-enterprise feedback, that can only be because they don't give a fuck due to them having a monopoly.
> If there wasn't a government (other problems of that aside), the corporation wouldn't have to move. Simply put, it's a clash of two worlds - as we all know.

Absolute nonsense. When a medical or economical crisis comes, do you really think that the same companies that flee from increased taxes (because of said problems) would voluntarily try to solve the problem? of course not.
Declarative versus Imperative (2013)
This is child abuse. Why aren't these parents in jail? The stupidity and danger that the government allows in America based on the idea of "personal belief", religion, and other nonsense is simply unbelievable. In this case, it led to two months worth of suffering and almost a million dollars worth of care (a price I'm sure was heavily inflated, but still). We need to dictate this at the federal level because states are clearly too incompetent to do it themselves. These children should be vaccinated and the parents should be educated and stopped from abusing their kids. It's fucking disgusting what's happening. This was completely avoidable. The parents are monsters.
Most of the grain grown in the USA is fed to livestock. If you are concerned about the impact of agriculture on the environment the single best thing you can do is eat lower on the food chain.

The number of small animals killed to feed one person a carnivore diet is far far more than it takes to feed that person a plant based diet.
Wow, who would have guessed it, Newton was right!
From what I've read, France is using a trick (used by other countries in Europe as well, Poland for example) where the "gross" amount stated on your employment contract is not the real gross amount, because the employer pays additional taxes (invisible to you) on top of it. So, effectively the employment contract is taxed on both your end and employer's, for a total 50%+ of effective taxation. I suppose this trick is used to not make people angry when they see their payslip.
It’s not first class. It’s cross-browser-inconsistent garbage layout largely unsuitable for anything but the simplest mathematical expressions, and a horrible markup syntax for authors.

If MathJax or KaTeX is too slow for some purpose, someone should try to compile a more streamlined TeX renderer to wasm.
A simple Python/flask restful API with basic auth for testing locally
>>The left, as I see it, gets and respects human vulnerability, and our need to depend on one another, and wants to build a just, equitable society where we can all fluorish.

>This is what people dislike about the modern left, when it makes the assumption that the intentions of its political opponents are bad just because they disagree on methodology.

The writing of the person you're responding to is so egregiously bad that it makes me want to kick a puppy, but your argument is really off base here. The rather Randian, post-eighties conservatism that's prominent today is antithetical to a recognition of "our need to depend on one another." As Thatcher said:

They are casting their problems at society. And, you know, there's no such thing as society. There are individual men and women and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look after themselves first.

That's not a disagreement about methodology, that's a fundamental difference in outlook, not to mention intentions. It is not helping anything to say "hey, we all want the same thing amirite?"
IMO a lot of people mistake disagreement for "concern trolling".

"Oh my goodness, how can anyone be so stupid that they don't agree with my (somewhat statistically fringe) position, they must be a troll!"
I am not blaming Indians, any more than Foxconn workers. Just showing how these companies operate and capture profits, while screwing everyone else in America/India/China.
Those written by academics, published by academic related editors, in old style layouts, black and white.

Professional publishing has long ago switched to DTP tooling, able to handle layouts and colouring in modern presses.
Ethereum Co-Founder Proposed Wallets Charge Gas Fee for Transactions
They still require some attention all the time. A sense of responsibility and for all our faults we are att least selective about when we aren't paying attention.

Yes, humans suck. But that's still
orders of magnitudes better than uber.
Do you personally invest your money in shares if bad companies simply because are worse choices?
"They will happily comply with any court order even (or especially) from the US."

Isn't it more true of e.g., German-based companies and less true of Swiss-based ones?
> France is using a trick (used by other countries in Europe as well, Poland for example) where the "gross" amount stated on your employment contract is not the real gross amount, because the employer pays additional taxes (invisible to you) on top of it.

You mean (insofar as this is a trick), just like the US does?
I think they meant that the parents chose to not proceed with vaccinations after age 2 months, not that they continue to not vaccinate.

Tetanus is different in that there is no "herd immunity" benefit since it is not transmitted person to person.
It isn't surprising to hear "failed state" in case of U.S., but in this case a lot of people do not want to spend money to ease the pain of other people living nearby, because living nearby does not mean being close anymore. This isn't due to failed state, this is due to people not feeling very close to each other.
I’m in the process of applying for Spanish Highly Skilled visa and the company told me that university diploma is required. I wonder where the author of the document got his info on that visa, to make sure whether it’s required or not.
I think anyone that says there is “one true way” to be productive is probably selling something (or they’re suffering from some kind of sunk cost fallacy).

If you have something that works for you then that’s great, personally I see the appeal of intellij IDEs (I’m a very light user of PyCharm)- but most of the time I end up in the terminal.

My personal belief is that terminal programs have a much higher learning curve in the beginning but can be much more powerful in the mid to long term, and the constraints of not using graphical elements or being able to place anything anywhere actually leads to a more cut down and consistent experience.

I’d be using Mutt if it weren’t for the extreme prolificaction of html in emails.

But yes, YMMV and I dont think we have to be zealots about how we work unless you put constraints on other people for working much different. (For instance if I tried to force everyone to send text-only emails)
>But if places are forced to accept cash, people who haven't adhered to cashless forms of payments have no incentive to swap.

And why should they swap? What advantage cashless brings instead of being a solution in search of a problem (and facilitating total surveillance)?
Exactly this, not sure why people think it's a different thing - just wrap nodes into a higher level of abstraction. I believe Raft might be a better approach to scalable consensus tho but there needs to be more layers to a network so the network can be more self-balancing and localised.

If we we call "heartbeat" the frequency at which a node is synced to the network (achieves consensus) - lower heartbeat nodes need to stay close only to nodes with a "heartbeat" faster than theirs and elect leaders in that group. The leaders in that group are also in a group of other leaders of that layer and listening to their leader, which belongs to a group above (like zooming out from a group and the group becoming a node in a larger graph).

In the end, there is only one state after all and the graph is the ultimate leader with the highest heartbeat. We wouldn't need many layers to cover all nodes, assuming laws of nature and all. Then just go a layer up/down if the network is getting too large, use a karmic system to position new/reactivated nodes. Seems scalable enough.

Sorry OP, it might be too early and I'm just thinking out loud in a comment box.
Interesting read. I do find it ironic though that the author starts out by dismissing Vim plugins as bloat (praising vanilla config), praises the need to never stick stuff in a config file you don’t underhand, and the goes onto inatalling oh-my-zsh. That makes no sense.
UX: The checkout flow is where the money is at
http://0x0.st/zHb2.7z

All I did was place the file in a ramdisk.
€2M is a drop in the ocean and companies can be and are routinely multi-national.

I'm a Romanian and I would be glad if my taxes actually went to projects such as ProtonMail.

Also Switzerland might not be in the EU, but they have strong treaties with the EU and they might become part of the EU in the future, because right now they basically have many of the obligations of member states without a seat at the table. And such awards only strengthens our relationship with them.
The Hyper.link #5 – 50 self-centered links (movies, music, hardware, etc.)
The blackmail part is literally by-design. They call it value-based pricing, where the price of the medicine is not related to its cost plus a profit margin plus a margin for research and development of new or improved medicines, but on what each nation (pricing is adjusted per country) is willing and able to bear to keep a small group of people alive (or at least comfortable).

It puts quite a dent in public health care resources.

People who are in this business to actually help the sick hate this system with a passion, and some national governments are now willing to allow hospitals and pharmacists to experiment with creating their own medicine again as a result.
>interpreters, compilers, memory hierarchy
Those are nice if you want to do embedded and C. A complete waste of time for Frontend/Backend, mobile and desktop people in the beginnings.

Tell me why someone picking up Python/JS should learn the above mentioned things, rather than learn basic security principles and not pip/npm install blindly all the packages without checking the source? Change my mind.
We Can Break Up Big Tech – By Elizabeth Warren
Too bad sound perception is logarithmic. 94% is nowhere near as much as one would be led to believe if one did not know what a "decibel" is. Which is just as well I suppose: makes for a very nice, clickbaity headline.

_Many_ people don't get this. People are surprised to discover that a 10W guitar amp is not that much quieter than a 100W one, and even 1W amp can be pretty darn loud, even though it's just 1% of the power.
What about VPNs? I am still 15 and it's illegal but how do I work around it? (Otherwise mangas are nice because they are considered art not porn and it's better with imagination )
Neither the Pittsburgh massacre nor the bombs have been proven to be from the right.

For the massacre, the killer actually hated Trump.

For the bombing, consider this: people who want to actually hurt their targets, rather than running a false-flag operation, tend to succeed.
Still I firmly believe UK will not regret by leaving EU.

EU will gradually become more problematic in coming years which UK has already solved.
Calling the US a failed state is pretty hyperbolic.

There are many, many countries in the world where a much larger fraction of the population is living in much poorer material conditions than in the US, and not just places like Syria or Somalia.

Actually, taking this study at face value, I'd guess that the fact that the poorest students only miss on average of 1 extra day of school per year due to illness is evidence that the US is not a failed state by any sort of global standard. I'd wager that that number is a lot higher in a lot of places.
>They will hire some H4 EAD who asks $65K per annum in NJ. These people are happy to get some job and experiences.

In my experience, these companies as well as the American consultancies were hiring Indian students who studied in US way way more than h4 eads. These students are desperate to get a visa, so they will settle for any job that will sponsor them. Over 100k Indian students alone come to US every year, so its no wonder there would be insane competition for the 80k visas.
At the post-launch press conference [1], Musk was asked a question whether they intend to use the capsule for tourism if there were interested individuals. His answer was affirmative, but not for the very near future. Also, it seemed as if they don't intend to go down that path for the general public, but rather have that capability ready for interested people willin to pay a premium.

[1] https://youtu.be/HuXPLtJXd14
Show HN: I made a template to build Node.js Desktop Applications
Most people wouldn't bother.
Except governments don't move to tax heavens or other countries when things tank

Yes, by definition ?..
Corporation don't move to tax heaven either, otherwise they wouldn't have people to sell to anymore.

Calling me bullshit doesn't bring anything relevant to the discussion
Yeah I tried my hand at vim with all its crazy plugins and config to fit in with the other vim gods at work but found myself much more productive with vscode and easyvim
The last good paying work I had I somehow passed the coding interview, but I bombed out of the last few I had and went back to basics. I signed up to Project Euler and Hacker Rank and have been doing problems from them.

What I do is start the Linux program "recordmydesktop", and then go about solving the problem as if I am interviewing, i.e. on the clock.

One thing I noticed is these programs use maps, characters, use 64 bit long numbers, do string manipulation, do certain type conversions and so on more than I usually do programming. Some of these things I would usually look up, such as how to type convert a character '7' to an integer, or create and populate a multi-array and things like that. So I made sure how to memorize how to do these test-tending things.

Then I watched over my recordmydesktop sessions to see where I ran into trouble. I noticed array one-offs were a problem - getting an index out of bound error, using < instead of <= etc. Or I would declare a variable before a loop and use it initially, but forget to assign or reset it at the end of the loop when it needed that. Sometimes I would declare a variable like k and then re-use it in the same method. Also, if I ever have to switch to a web browser to look up what call does a string reversal, I note that as well, and if it is common enough, I memorize how it is done so I don't have to look it up again.

Memorizing the string manipulation, map etc. functions is already working for me. I am getting better at some of the other problems, like not assigning/resetting variables at the end of loops (I put a comment next to them that they will need to be assigned/reset, and then do it later, and then erase the comment). Some I still have to work on, like reasoning about exactly where the array boundary is. These aren't things I mess up necessarily, but things that slow me down, and cause bad compiles or runtime errors.

I can already see the improvement in the problems I am doing. I had been letting myself naturally memorize some of these things, I guess it's not so bad that I am memorizing more of them that I may need.
Way too many configs, too many dependencies, too much fiddling around for my taste. I work on a lot of different servers and nowadays prefer no plugins, none to absolute minimal configs, and defaults everywhere.

Unless it's a first-class, integral part of the experience (like VS Code), I don't even bother with any visual adjustments. It just adds cognitive dependencies and would only be there to satisfy some arbitrary aesthetic sensitivity. That's no good when things in the wild are rough and dirty. I don't want to be conditioned to some fragile setup of plugins upon plugins upon minute adjustments that only works perfectly in some certain pristine environment.

I enjoy having zero friction when moving around computers. I enjoy getting things done anywhere without anything ever getting in my way. It's very liberating.
What I mean is bread with long rising time, ideally 20-24 hours. The improvement in flavour and structure is well worth it.

I rarely use more than ~20g of sourdough or 4-5g of yeast for a full-sized loaf with ~1kg flour. Sometimes a tiny (~0.1g) bit of yeast to help out the sourdough if the current batch is slightly lazy.
Docker containers and impact on DevOps revolution
> How did that patent end up in a big pharma portfolio?

While it may sound strange put that way, most universities spend a lot of time thinking about how spin off profitable companies from their research. It's a huge deal and public spending on research is often motivated like this. Universities and R&D companies have a codependent relationship and this is generally regarded as a good thing.

The morally dubious outcome of this is that a lot of research ends up locked away as intellectual property of some private entity, but it's not easy to question.
JavaScript Fatigue: Realities of our industry (2017)
Stop using browser that track and recommend. Then you will get generalized content and a lot of noise. Maybe we stop using recommendation and filters?
I understood, my argument is against the very premise of said law, the notion that consumers are rationale entitles that make conscious choices, specially concerning society and long term issues.

Now, if you do agree with my idea that as a general rule, consumers are irrational individuals that don't ponder or simply comprehend the consequences of their choices (not least because they're fools but because of the complexity of markets and supply chains) , specially on a social level, or are forced to make choices as a result of their economic standing; then the idea of consumers voting for companies becomes some kind of a caricature mocking the notion of voting and choice.
Ask HN: How does HN keep the scroll position and not reload the page?
On a page with many comments, if I scroll down and reload the page, it seems that it will not be reloaded if there is no new information. In most sites the page is reloaded and the scroll position is restored later, on HN it seems that the page is not properly reloaded. <br>Does anyone know how this features can be implemented?
For me, knowing the vi-style editing has been a boon, mostly because I often find myself in shells that are not mine.

8 times out of 10, there is at least vi there.
Probably some politician is getting under table deal which grants X shares in Proton to some anonymous company based in Cook Island in return of investment coming from tax payer money.

Unless ofc Proton is ready to disclose their financial statements and ownership structure, there is no reason to not believe in this corruption.

Unless ofc I can also purchase same number of shares in Proton using same amount of money, there is no reason to believe in anything other than corruption tale.

Why would EU invest in a private company with properitery technology?

It will never become Gmail, maybe it will become another FastMail.
I still use Mutt, combined with offlineimap (due to exchange mail server), w3m for for converting mails from HTML, using markdown to write email, and pandoc to format back to HTML... Works like a charm!

Did not find any other mail client (although tried mailspring etc) with such powerfull customizations, nothing even close to Mutt.
Girls-choose seems to be a workable solution. Assuming an event is suitable for men and women in a roughly even mix, the women get together in a preliminary event to choose the guys they want from a list of candidates.
> Corporation don't move to tax heaven either.

What kind of joke is this? Ireland, Cayman Islands, and many other tax heavens said hello, we do exist! we are absolutely real.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_haven
there is no difference afaik. the only difference is in perception which stems from the historical promise of banking secrecy.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-swiss-secrecy/era-of-bank...
Or ... nobody listens to a dog that barks constantly? Is it really that hard to comprehend?