skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There are three related problems that make California economically tenuous, and a fourth that makes the situation worse:
It’s no longer the best place in the world to start a startup.
The gains from the existing tech industry increasingly accrue to a) passive investors, and b) lucky landlords.
The state government is a levered bet on tech compensation.
These three problems, which are interrelated, won’t show visible symptoms until well after they’re terminally un-fixable.

California made a lot of money for a long time based on a technology ecosystem that requires big exits to make angels and VCs. That ecosystem is being strangled by the ever rising rents which mean VC funding accrues to landlords and you can’t keep your startup running unless you’re a success. No long hard slots of slow growth. This is part of why YC thinks 10% month on month growth is necessary. The disappearance of this possibility will make the tech ecosystem stagnate.
More than billion records exposed by email validation biz Verifications.io
You have isolated the voices from the right you listen to to those that allow you to make those claims. Broaden your listening range.
An intriguing idea brought up in the book Flow, is that perhaps animals feel things better than us.

One of the conditions of flow is that the individual focuses on that one thing and doesn't think about anything else.

Humans are constantly juggling several things in their heads at one time. When we brush our teeth, we think about how we're going to be late. When we play with our kids, we're also worrying about that problem at work or the unpaid bills.

But the lion does not need to do this. When the lion is hunting, they focus 100% on it. When it eats, it enjoys its meal, not having to worry about the next kill or food preservation. When it sees a sunrise, it can sit there and enjoy the sunrise, without pondering what it has to do in the next few hours.
That's the problem, ms is creating these amazing open source solutions and hitching the rotting carcass of visual studio to all of them.Even visual studio code is such a joy to use in comparison to even visual studio 2019.however you can't for some reason run solution based projects in code.i'm currently making xamarin apps and boy is it a fucking chore to do in visual studio to the point where the whole program crashes routinely in a normal workday(switching to flutter for this reason).

having an answer that would let me escape from the arcanities of visual studio in a corporate environment would be a joy
Or they have ability to strike back no matter what.
It is possible. As others said, you will have a somewhat of a tough time getting an interview, but if you get one and nail it, you will get an offer just the same. As to how to get an interview in such situation? - be very proactive and find alternative ways to get your resume in front of the eyes of engineers or engineering managers. If you rely only on submitting through the standard Jobs page, your resume will most likely never make it through the layers of automated software and recruiters filtering. Find a friend that works in one of these companies and ask them to help you out, lurk in the groups where employes frequent and try to make a name for yourself, make sure one of your apps is moderately successful and meets a need for one of these companies.

Note that getting an offer is also contingent on your eligibility to work in US. If you are not a US citizen or a green card holder, the requirements to get an H1 visa are to have the equivalent of four years of education, where each three years of work experience counted as a year of education. (There are other H1 class visas, but they are not as common in the computer industry) But the company has to like you really a lot to go through the trouble in that case...

And since you managed to pique my interest, Id be curious to look at your resume. I'll leave out the part of figuring out how to send it (without it being caught by the junk filters) as an exercise to you. Shouldn't be that hard..
We used to be the party of [...] belief in people's basic goodness. What the hell happened?

It's difficult to believe in the basic goodness of the people that make up the current president's base.

The loss in 2016 was a wake up call for Democrats in many ways. Including that maybe a lot of things they held to be true, weren't actually.
As someone with disposable income working in an open office, I desperately want to know if this can be used to build something to cancel out human voices more completely than Bose QC-35s.
All of this sounds good and, frankly, I don't have a simple alternative. To add, I think it's necessary to strive for good faith as a baseline.

So, I am not disputing the principle that good faith is required; on the contrary, I am lamenting its demise and the weaponization of good faith against its practitioners.

So, the issue is that while hoping it is sufficient to act in good faith, others are able to profit wildly from their own bad faith. In effect, your good faith empowers them. And, while the current situation unfolded over years, we cannot ignore the recent rapid acceleration and its meaning.

We have come to a place where bad faith is normalized and even celebrated. Not sure what the way back is.
I moved to development from a career in maths teaching and trade unionism.

The advice given elsewhere to solve a problem in your current role is really important - but it might not need to be work related - a personal project that you have a clear vision for and users other than yourself will do.

Having stuff on github helped me with interviewers. I did not find, in the UK at least, that lack of a CS degree or development experience was a barrier - in fact, interviewers seemed interested in my story. However, where I live (the north) there is a developer shortage.
Seems like you got it backwards. Being outside the plane of the galaxy INCREASES the threat from supernova, not decreases it. The further from the plane the less gas/dust/stars etc between you and ever other star in the galaxy.
This is absolutely horrible.

"We believe coding is a social activity. In fact, we’re testing you to see how social you can be around coding."
vs debugger and windbg shares the same debugging engine but are geared towards different scenarios.

VS Only: rich extensions for languages. GUI debugging(wpf visualization etc.)

Windbg: kernel debugging (drivers etc). Scripting. Better command line interface. Fully expose sos. Dump corrupted heap objects. Better support for C++
You can regulate the response time and the required infrastructure for the distribution of patches.

For manufacturers to actually listen to security research, you'd need regulation as well.

You could also require all or certain software in cars to be open source.
What you’re looking for is a Bose QC-35s... playing Metallica.

Recent studies are mixed as to which has a more deleterious effect on creativity, the coworkers yapping or the heavy metal.
To be honest, I've yet to meet people in real life who mean bad faith. May be online or on talk shows it's different.

The difference is people in real life are not the ones who make the decisions.
If I recall, they sold tons of stock before the leaks leaked.
If you google “3blue1brown” you’ll get a youtube channel that has good visuals for building your intuition before deeply learning about a topic.
So what?

Since when is 'emotion' is some sort of validation of personal worth instead of a condition you need to learn to live with?
He's the president of the U.S. That places him well beyond mere "suitable material".
It seems many people either think older coders are experienced and wise, or old and stagnant. Younger coders likewise either young, foolish "wheel re-inventers" or up-to-date and ambitious.

So far, I've not seen any pattern to back this up. I've worked with a few coders in their mid-20s that knew PHP or Java very well, but refuse to learn a front-end framework or Node JS. They act as though the burden of learning a new stack when they've already learned what they know from school was too much to ask.

Likewise, I've worked with coders in their 40s and 50s who still love learning new technologies, and are more than happy to learn the new "Javascript framework of the week", especially if they see the benefits it provides over what they currently use.

I'm in my early 30s and have a strong distaste for Electron, but I know a mid-40s coder who loves Electron and would never code a desktop app any other way.

I find myself reading about Smalltalk and NEXTstep and am continually impressed with the solutions of the generations before me (and their respect for their users' resources) while the coder in his 50s I've worked with loves that we live in a time where trading RAM and CPU for easy maintainability is the norm.

What bothers me isn't just the ageism, but also the absolutism based on anecdotes. It seems to me that the same person who would dismiss an older coder based on age, is also the kind of person who would, say, "never hire someone with C# experience even if they have Python experience, because we use Python and anybody with C# experience is slow and inflexible" (real thing a manager once said) or "never hire someone who prefers to use Sublime Text because we use a 'real IDE' like Netbeans" (again, thing a manager once said).

Hire the right man or woman for the job. Pick the right tool for the task at hand. Be open to new technologies and using them for their strengths, but also learn from the good and bad things of the past. None of this seems that difficult to me, yet it seems is a continual problem in the field.
RAM and SSD is currently suffering through supply chain issues across the board and companies keeping the price artifically inflated. it is super expensive to upgrade to the point where the ddr5 spec includes some ideas to mitigate cost issues
Kaiser Permanente patient told he’s going to die by doctor on robot video screen
I think we may be talking about different things here. So in the interest of clearing things up: I was using the example of a neural network as "the closest thing" (arguably still very far off) to the human mind we have in computing.

If I'm explaining a newly developed software to one of my colleagues I'm talking in terms of services, requests and protocols. Even trying to explain it on the level of an assembly language would be a nightmare. Just think about the millenia it would take me to fully articulate all states the CPU goes through when executing even a single function. And even then all you'd have is an endless list of zeroes and ones, but no explanation as to the meaning of it.
I’ve seen DHS presentations on risks of hijacking networked cars. I can’t say they will effectively manage the threat, but they are absolutely talking about it.
Keeping it real, you're reading way too much into what they're saying.
I don’t care how many protocols you think you have designed, or how many years have you worked in your field. If you can’t see how `{n: 1.2}` and `{n:1.23}` in JSON have a one-byte difference while still giving essentially same data, you have been wasting your time.
Microsoft securing their things and avoiding anti/dark patterns is a meh outcome?
Do you view Pruitt or Zinke as having been fundamentally well-intentioned, working to build a more just & equitable society?
People said the same thing about AOL, Yahoo, and Myspace
Unfortunately people buy on promises, marketing guys know that, and Elon - among other things - is a marketing person. The promise of 'self driving' was too appealing to be left unspent.

Ethically discussable, but that's how things seems to work.
Pick one programing language which you comfortable with,and try build projects with it
Um, no.

Intervening material does very little to cut out light. If it did, we couldn't see distant stars.

However the intensity of radiation falls off as the square of the distance from the source of the radiation.

Therefore the primary determinant of risk is the number of stars that could be about to go boom within the critical distance of the Sun. If we're in a less densely populated neighborhood, then our odds of seeing a dangerous supernova go down. Full stop.
Native plugins only work on desktops/laptops. They don't work on mobiles because hardware and software diversity, also because security model is more friendly towards consumers. And mobile users are now more than 50%.
You're being a little selective here.
I have forced reboots all the time on my work machine. They can be deferred but eventually it happens.
yea, region locking is why the hardware I've personally bought was ds lite and then switch. region locking is abhorrent.

that said, they've been pretty good about maintaining quality, both in hardware (durability) and software. switch is changing that with a ton of 3rd party stuff, but thus far their track record is dramatically, orders of magnitudes better than PS, PC, XBox, or mobile.
Prinicples from AWS Container Services Organization
This is one of the coolest thing I've seen, ever.
they do. and some of it has been curbed by the japanese government (a somewhat effective block on gacha games, for instance), which nintendo then supports anyway in other markets (though at far, far more friendly rates than competitors, from my experience).

but compared to the other consoles or mobile? PC might compete and win, but it's a bit of a different beast in this respect.
We (Fivetran) moved to Oakland over a year ago and it's been fantastic. Great office right next to BART, great restaurants, and it's a big recruiting advantage. SF sees itself as the center of the universe, but most of the people in the Bay area actually live over here.
Is there? I think this is fine for me. In fact a email or sms or whatsapp message might be even better.
Apparently the SuperDracos have the necessary thrust and fuel to bring Dragon to a stop from terminal velocity, Dragon just lacks the landing gear.

So then why not use that to slow down just before a splash down?

Perhaps if you throttle them down to the point where the G-force is reasonable, the losses to gravity add up too quickly and you run out of thrust. Too bad :-(
if this is a privacy focused app. Could you add the privacy policy to your website and post also an article explain you strategy how to keep privacy while still earning money.
Don't know about you personally, but normal human babies certainly aren't at all like animals.

The sheer, mind-boggling rational and learning capacity needed to learn highly symbolic and abstract things like language and arithmetic means that babies are 'smarter' than adults.

(If by 'smarter' we mean the capacity for learning, mental models and abstract generalization.)
Or brains in power armor or other powerful war machines?
Really cheap nutritionally complete diets; potatoes and milk, rice and beans, peanut butter and bread. Note that these are all ~carbohydrates and protein.
Then I have absolutely no idea what you were trying to claim in the second sentence of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19304761

But we don't seem to be resolving anything so I'll just hope you have a good week.
Yes but did you cry the first time to ate one?
First choice - Lubuntu 16.04 LTS, it is quite Window$ like in function and appearance.

Second - Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, the full version of Lubuntu. Not quite as Window$ like but close enough for most people to run without too much trouble. My wife’s new build kitchen PC came to life with Ubuntu 14.04, upped to 16.04, and she has had very few issues.

Third - Maybe Fedora, I am trying it out now and seems to install and run very well.

Stay away from Mint, Mate and Cinnamon, they are just skins for Ubuntu and a new comer does not need another later of confusion. I could not get Arch or Manjaro to install and run in either of my test machines. One is a 32 bit laptop, and Arch does not have a 32 bit version. Stick with a distribution that will write to a USB via UnetBootin or RUFUS, a newbie will not run 5 lines of code to build a USB drive.
Proton Technologies awarded €2M from the EU
Sam Harris is a good one on the left.

Joe Rogan is fairly neutral but has a lot of interesting guests from both sides on.
Man. This has been my dream since childhood. I mean a serious dream, with countless hours thinking, dreaming, reading, etc.

~17 years ago I wrote a novel set in the future, in the imaginary city that I hoped I could build one day.

More recently, I founded a company with the idea to eventually build it; we ended up building a software platform to digitize real estate, had some friendly disagreements with the other founders, and left ~3 months ago.

I still have that dream.

I'm not alone either: http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2019/02/27/how-to-create-real...
Not to knock your experience, but imho C, Python, and Javascript are the BASIC of modern programming languages. (I don't know about Go).

Additionally, there are different levels of knowing a language. You can write perfectly workable programs in C without ever touching function pointers. So what's your level of mastery?

And then there are more difficult languages. Have you tried C++ or Scala? Ever explored the esoterical intricacies of Java's type system? Lisp? Objective-C? Kotlin? ADA?

Ok, that's languages. How about parallelism? Massive parallelism? Tight resource constraints such as limited memory? Error handling? Modern language and compiler design?

I'm not trying to say you need to know all these things to be a decent coder. My point is there are many harder problems out there and maybe if you're bored you might want to try working on some of them.
The purpose of emotions was proven by accident. Emotions exist as a physiological component of the brain to help make complex cognitive decisions on the fly. It is safe to think of this as a short circuit around analysis paralysis, but it also comes at a cost of various cognitive biases.

It should be no surprise that animals have emotions similar to humans since the physiology of many animal brains is not incredibly different from human brains.

The discovery: https://www.smh.com.au/national/feeling-our-way-to-decision-...

It was hard to confirm the discovery because people with no emotion are rare, but some of it was arguably confirmed later through interviews with John Wayne Gacy who demonstrated much of the same behaviors but had learned to compensate and fake it for much of his life.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wayne_Gacy
I've read it has 4 to 5 times the number of pedestrian accidents per capita compared to other large cities in Brazil.

I've been there once, I can confirm that it's not pedestrian-friendly.
That is my current strategy, though I’ve been using The Hu on repeat lately.
Unfortunately he has stopped working on Charter Cities a while ago.
As far as deep bass goes, this won't hinder that - since bass waves have too high of a pressure to not pass through the object.

The most effective material is high mass and flexible, like cork or hemp crete.

Bass-traps also exist, they eat up the energy of sound pressure and are usually large tubes and many of them are needed to make a difference.

So there's a reason that this test is on high-frequencies, not low ones.

EDIT: Fine, down-vote me if you want but it doesn't make it less true [1]

[1] https://www.acousticfields.com/how-do-you-stop-low-frequency...
> To do well in an interview, then, you need to be able to solve small problems quickly, under duress, while explaining your thoughts clearly.

The under duress part is the dumbest part of coding interviews.

I understand the approximation of small coding challenges, why explaining your thoughts is beneficial, as is understanding how a candidate approachs problem solving.

Causing duress to a candidate purposefully has no value what-so-ever in the workplace.
No Rust either.
DeepMind is opening a new London headquarters in 2020
what's missing in this discussion is a mention that humans are well capable of wiping out other species and have done so fully aware. we're also perfectly capable of wiping each other out for no reason other than status.

I keep engaging in morbid thought experiments to figure out how certain people feel when they commit certain acts and whether I would be able to do the same provided the circumstances are hard enough. A few examples:

if I could blink my eye and all the valuables and money of everyone in this room/house etc would suddenly be mine, how much would that be, and would I do it?

if I could blink my eye and everyone in that room/building would vanish from the earth would I do it?

if I could blink my eye and 2/3 of the earths human population would be wiped out by x/y/z would I do it?

if I would be forced to work in a concentration camp being tasked with horrid acts against humans ... maybe with the alternative of being killed myself or having my family etc (spin that further what if I didn't have a family and just my dog that would be sacrificed if I were to refuse) ...

...

the answers always terrify me.
If affordable, all I can think about is how much this could help musicians or bands that practice at home without disturbing the neighborhood.
I started here back in time and helped to became a pro quickly.

https://www.railstutorial.org/book

If you would like to focus on frontend dev, this is a great place to start also:

https://yoember.com
Weekend JavaScript #163
Good thing then that it's not an undocumented API. :-)

https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gnat_ugn/Output-and-Error-Mes...
I’d like to see some politicians on both sides of the Brexit argument lay down some bets.
I’ve heard good things about https://automatetheboringstuff.com/
> Normal (El Nino) weather patterns seem to explain why these young animals may be having trouble finding food. And while plenty of spectres are thrown about like toxic algae and pollution from storm runoff, no data are actually provided, which IMO is beneath journalistic standards.

What? That is literally what the article says:

> Though the exact reason for the increase in the number of strandings this year is unknown, Higuchi said it could be tied to warmer ocean waters caused by an El Niño weather pattern or excess stormwater runoff from this winter’s rains.

And they go on to provide other possible explanations:

> Necropsy results have yet to come in, but Viezbicke thinks the dolphin beachings have something to do with this year’s rain, which has pounded the state in recent months with a series of *atmospheric river-fueled front.

> It’s possible the storm runoff that washes waste into the ocean has caused a stronger bloom of poisonous algae, which produce a toxin responsible for neurological disorders, Higuchi said. Sickness caused by the algae blooms can cause seizures, which affected three of the dolphins found recently in Southern California.

quoting Justin Viezbicke, stranding coordinator with National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Hardly unsubstantiated claims as you make it.

Let's not be so quick to dismiss anything related to our poor behavior in relation to ocean toxicity and waste problem, it won't do us good on the long run!
Do you understand the difference between "there are conservatives that X" and "all conservatives X"? Do you believe that "worst example I can think of from Y" is representative of "all of Y"? Saying conservatives are ill-intentioned because Pruitt is ill-intentioned makes as much sense as saying all communists are ill-intentioned because Mao was corrupt and killed millions of people.
The expectation of food after fasting is such a great feeling–better than the act of eating itself.
If you came here to read the HN comments about this topic, I very highly recommend listening to this podcast that I've enjoyed yesterday [0], it's economist Russell Roberts interviewing Michael Munger; the topic is "crony capitalism".

[0]: http://www.econtalk.org/michael-munger-on-crony-capitalism/