skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thing is, though, if somebody came to me even at my current place (which is very much a trailing-edge shop) with this as the majority of their priors, I probably couldn't hire them. Automation is not the future, automation is the present. The amount of very hand-o-matic stuff being suggested out of this document is inimical to one's employability in this field.

Understanding how to systematize and automate is a more employable skill than having a very high-level understanding of, say, Active Directory.
Not totally off-base, but any time I'm feeling anxious about the value of "old" skills, I realize that might just be SV talking. These "old school" skills will be useful for some time to come in less-cutting-edge orgs, labs, etc.
Docopt-ng; awesome argument parsing for Python
There are small, gray links at the bottom to a FAQs page and a GitHub account with the corresponding code.
Anyone know what the future of this is?

Sounds like they were considering trying to get sites to fix this and then redo the change, but it's not clear what happened to that in the last 5 months.
> This is very different from the UK system, where each party and its leader agrees on their platform for the next election, publishes it as a manifesto, and runs collectively on the promise of enacting those policies if they win.

Not what Tory MPs say. They say things like

> Neither Cabinet, MPs nor Party Policy Forum ever saw or debated it. It was roundly rejected
> and widely agreed to have cost us our majority, leaving the mandate in Parliament, not the
> Party. (As I wrote in @Telegraph the morning after). Lost majority=Lost mandate.
So the only prior art I can come up with now is libfirm. I probably will put it in the reference some other day.
This power management code could use some work: https://fuchsia.googlesource.com/zircon/+/refs/heads/master/...
Under extreme emotional stress such as this situation people act irrationally. The brother may come to his senses and relent as he has time to calm down and reflect. If charges are pressed it becomes extremely unlikely this will happen. Further it does harm, it will dramatically affect the life of the brother if he is convicted.

Deescalation is not emotionally satisfying but it does work.
Visualising Simple Datasets in F# (2018)
Software relying on undefined behavior like that deserves to be broken and made fun of. I fully support breaking it and the idea that they had to revert the error message change horrifies me.

This is why we can't have nice things.
Anyone tried this? How is it on echo cancellation, VOX, and conference noise rejection?
There are some discussions on whether data scientists are going to be replaced by automatic tools in the near future.

Can this be considered an example of a tool that partially replaces the work done by a data scientist? At least it can save a lot of time.
Because mutt?
I think it's more that in a device that's so locked down this is a bad precedent. Cowtowing to governments is detrimental for everyone.
A mix of AMP for websites and the absolute dominance of Chromium as an engine behind Chrome, Chromium, Brave, MS Edge and other browsers is creating a reality where Google is doing to the web what Microsoft hoped to accomplish with ActiveX

They're going to bring the entire web under their control, more or less.

If there was ever a time to abandon every Google product you use, now is the time.
If someone asked me your proposed question, I would think they were trying to passive-aggressively manipulate me, and I would feel resentful and angry. YMMV.
Google, Amazon, Facebook, or Apple.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Four_tech_companies
I love emacs but pdftools is kind of meh. You need it for pdf tools and a different addon to read epubs that works differently.

Then it uses a lot of memory, scrolls a little slow, and doesn't remember your place in a document.

Zathura remembers your place and reads epubs and pdfs while using less ram. Conversion between epubs and pdf seems to preserve the text but often results in ugly docs that are less pleasant to read so a good solution needs to support both.

I would love someone to improve document reading to the point where I COULD use emacs for document reading.
You’re looking for a nice little functional frontend web language called Elm.
It looks like they're leveraging the safety aspect of AMP here. IIUC, the subset of HTML behavior AMP enables is generally considered to be "safe." If that property can hold, AMP-enabled email can allow for the benefits of live HTML in the client without the drawbacks of the surprises that can occur from arbitrary HTML execution.
There are a lot of bad communicators on this thread
Unless there are extreme breakthroughs in making software engineering approachable for currently not quite as qualified people, I don't see it changing. Breaking the social stigma of "nah that is extremely complicated, I can't learn that" would also be a big one.

BIG SIMPLIFICATIONS AHEAD

There are a lot of new software engineers popping up all the time, but very few ever reach a "senior" change, and a lot of them end up producing unmaintainable systems at companies, that sooner or later crumble. All at the same time, demand for good software engineers is growing and growing.

There are also an interesting effect I'm starting to see more often (in Berlin), that due to combination of high salaries and moderate living costs, which make saving up money possible, qualified engineers are (partially) leaving the workforce quite early, either by dropping to part-time or retiring early. This then further lowers the available supply, making salaries even higher, and it even easier to save up money. More of a hunch than a big observable effect right now, but I'm very interested in seeing how that plays out over the coming years.
Usually FAANG pre-Netflix
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19490633.
YugaByte product manager here. The YCQL API which passes Jepsen has its roots in Cassandra Query Language but does not use Cassandra as its backend store. It’s backend store is DocDB, which is a Google Spanner-inspired distributed document store.
This should be expected. Given rising FED rates over the last year+, as well as QT (quantitative Tightening, which undoes the QE in place for nearly a decade), these actions are - and this is key - reducing the money supply.

It is the reduction of money supply that causes deflation (and therefore lower rates). Technically, a yield curve inversion is an expectation of lower rates in the future, not necessarily lower growth.

This is actually extremely important, but widely misunderstood: You can have growth with deflation (and likewise, recession with inflation).

To make that point clear, a yield curve inversion is an expectation of interest rates, not necessarily an expectation of lower growth.

I expect this will cause all sorts of arguments, but the math is clear. I'll quote the Mises Institute [0] on this:

For instance, if the money supply increases by 5% and the quantity of goods increases by 10%, prices will fall by 5%.

[0] - https://mises.org/wire/central-banks-shouldnt-fight-deflatio...
This is largely not the case outside of the C-like languages that inherited nulls.

Long method chains with a strong type system or a functional (also called "fluent") style are extremely expressive and common in languages that obviate the need to handle null values at every member.
Do not try to compete with pinboard!
Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Google.
There is a mental health crisis in entrepreneurship. Here’s how to tackle it
If you're working in an office you should expect some level of office noises. I'm not talking about a truck honking his horn outside your window for 8 hours is normal, I'm saying general noises - ones that have a short time on them, and are required for their jobs. I would have expected my comment to be clearer than it may have sounded.

To clarify, just because you're in a library doesn't mean it is absolutely pin drop quiet. There is basic atmosphere noise. I of course am in favor of a closed office, and cubicle farms and open environments are easily more favorable for the employer than employee, but it seems expected to have some basic noise in an open office that people love complaining about—instead of championing closed offices which is never going to happen in a lot of companies.
You shouldn't comment unless you disclose that your affiliation with AMP team.
Why not have replace email with a Merkle Tree, and also kill off the DNS federated system that makes you have an arbitrary choice of provider?

For that matter, why have human-readable addresses? That only leads to abuse. If you want to share an address you already know, you can copypaste it, use a QR code and so on. If you REALLY want to say it verbally, then simply list it on a search engine of your choice. DNS is a glorified search engine.
Thanks. I would've loved to work with that ancient data. I think one of the biggest challenges as a processor is to understand all the information in the observe reports and how it relates to handling things like field source and receiver geometry, noise issues during acquisition, etc. I imagine that the oldest stuff was treated like a science project with everything notable recorded in detail for future reference. I know that by the 1960's field crews had pretty standard notes they would take. Later in the 70's, as activity picked up before the big bust in 81-82 things became almost sloppy so that it took a lot more effort to figure out what actually happened during acquisition.

I worked on field crews back then and one of our observers would fill out his paperwork the night before while he had a few beers and smoked all kinds of things. Then the next day he would just make quick notes if something ended up different. Too bad that when wasn't diligent at modifying his pre-written reports. The prevailing belief on the field crews was that someone would figure it all out in processing later so if they didn't get it right during acquisition we could always fix it. Some of the best projects I worked on as a processor involved unraveling the chains of errors in documentation to improve imaging of old surveys.
I've personally found this book more valuable than any other mentioned in the thread and I challenge skeptics to read it.
Because we do the majority of the work. The governance body size will, however, expand with further non-Google members. So, the hypothetical "you just have to convince only one" is becoming less of an issue over time.
The complaint was directed towards broadband providers "in light of the evolution of telecommunications companies into vertically integrated platforms that also provide advertising-supported content" so providers that aren't evolving into ad-supported content are not listed.
> Any chance the US can extend its terms?

Sure. Just amend the US Constitution. No biggie. :)
An absolutely amazing woman. She, a Jewish woman, carried out her preliminary NGF research in a shed whilst hiding from the Nazis in occupied Florence. She won the 1968 Nobel in Medicine due to the research she carried out in that shed. Though I am not 100% certain, I believe that she got her NGF via the only source possible at the time: cobra venom. So, imagine this scene: A 34 year old Itallian-Jewish woman Doctor is milking cobras in a shed in Florence while hiding from Nazis during the day, and at night she is a mob-doctor for the Italian anti-fascist resistance.

Do not ever let anyone tell you that you do not matter.

Do not ever let anyone tell you that you can't do something.

Be awesome, be like Rita.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rita_Levi-Montalcini
Thanks! We've replaced that in the headline here.
European Parliament approves overhaul of online copyright rules
Ok, but a sufficiently bad constructed message woul force me to do something to retrieve interesting “actual” content? That is what seems wrong.
Hey mlthoughts2018, I've noticed a number of your comments have been exactly on the mark, even if they've been downvoted. I know you don't have your email in your profile, but if you'd like to discuss some ideas I have that aren't fully baked yet I'd appreciate your insight.

I'm zachaysan@gmail.com if so. If you're not (or too busy, etc) that's totally understandable. Don't feel like you need to explicitly decline.
He's from India, I think it's not as common to get a big equity package as some startups in the US.

I was confused too
> knitpicky

this one writes itself
You are not funny.
Where can I find such list ?
Amazon is Borg.
It's easier for copyright owners in Europe to pain themselves to politicians as small and weak, needing protection from laws to avoid being eaten by the US giants
Read them all. The ROI is so high you may as well
I left off one clarification: it tends to be a good predictor of recessions, but is not perfect. See the inversions for the last half of the 1960's at the St. Louis Fed [0] as a counter-example.

[0] - https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=nn5r
The 1.3 snapshots have echo canceling and normalization.
Not to mention, national sovereignty being overridden if a country has the temerity to dissent from the globalist consensus: 'what, you have concerns about the arrival of tens of thousands of undocumented migrants from countries with cultures vastly different to your own? NAZI!'
It's not the skills. Skills are whatever; you can learn skills. It's being exposed to, and forced to work through the lens of, a modern mindset that is valuable. Without that that mindset and that lens, you have an expiration date that's a lot closer than most people want to admit--and it's only going to get harder, not easier, as more and more people with that expiration date stamped on their foreheads are competing for fewer and fewer of what amount to (and I don't use this word pejoratively but descriptively) legacy positions.

Here's an example of a modern mindset with trailing-edge technologies: I'm having to learn VMware for my current job. I had hoped to literally never do so. (I don't want to manage a data center. But if you use certain cloud providers...you manage a tiny data center.) But I am learning and applying VMware through the lens of pervasive automation and systematization of the problems I'm actually trying to solve. While the team in place before me spent most of their time installing minimal automation (configuration, monitoring, etc.) we are making it a prerequisite of our ownership of the infrastructure for this team's product. Because we like to be able to sleep at night.
> The Ariane 5 explosion was not a programming error, it was a testing and specification error.

What happens when you stick a 32bit float into a 16bit float type in Ada? CONSTRAINT_ERROR. And this could happen at runtime, not compile time. It was Ada's inability to deal with unknown/incorrect inputs and deal with them in an effective way without crashing. This is not that much different than buffer overflows from unknown inputs in C, btw.

It's worth noting that this was one of the primary reasons that Ada got less and less traction in the US government, as Ada was supposed to prevent things like this from ever happening.
> Email is not part of the web

Content-Type: text/html seems to disagree with your assertion.
Only if you choose to ignore its actual meaning and insist on treating it as a buzzword.
Microsoft works with the DOD and gets minimal scrutiny. Also all the posts about apple tax also have similar number of posts talking about the google tax, even though google atleast allows people to download apks and install, like the route fortnite took.
UPS partners with drone startup Matternet for medical sample deliveries
> Any chance the US can extend its terms?

In theory, yes, by Constitutional Amendment. In practice, before the next election? Short of an auto-coup, no.
I hated DST, but now that I have kids I really like it - it means in the summer I have one more hour of sunlight to play with them outside after I come back from work.
This number makes complete sense. I was a 'key employee' once upon a time - in a startup that had just raised f&f, and I received a FULL 2% (unheard of for Canada).

Fast forward through the (usual) reality of 6 rounds of dilution, and my 2% was worth less than 0.02%. If the startup went from a $2M valuation to $200M (as it did) then my take would have been $40K.

Do with that what you will.
We Write Post-Only APIs
He's from India, they probably thought 15k would set him up for life.
Oh boy, can’t wait to see how this fractures the email landscape when Google inevitably abandons it 3-5 years from now. </snark>
That may or may not be true, but Europe is more of a content powerhouse than a internet/tech powerhouse. Their content is a bigger money maker than their tech. So it is in their interest to punish tech and protect tech.

It's also why China has such lax IP laws. They are more of a manufacturing powerhouse than an IP powerhouse ( for now at least ) so they have little to gain with stringent IP laws. When their IP portfolio increases, you can bet that their government would be all about IP protection.

And going back even further, we had some of the laxest IP laws in the western world during the 1800s because we had so little IP to protect. Which allowed our businesses to take a ton of IP from IP-rich britain and europe.

It's greed and selfishness.
I could code for 8 hours a day once maybe twice a week.

I probably enjoy 5-6 hours of work, but I try to mix some wireframes, planning, research, education and code. Rest is news, reading about tech, and chatting with coworkers. Helping people online with questions specific to the framework/language I use.
Can you link to the law you're referring to ?
Sorry to hear.

Check out Crucial Conversations (https://www.amazon.com/Crucial-Conversations-Talking-Stakes-...). It's a framework that I've found immensely helpful.

If interested, I do recommend you read the book, but you can still get something out of this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFaXx3pgaxM (it's a summary masquerading as a review).
This resonated well with me - thank you for the article! I jumped into the fray late last year full time and it's been the most exciting (and nerve-racking) few months of my life. As the author says, I feel like I am learning new things, growing personally (and making mistakes) at 10x the speed! (and I live in Jersey City too)

I would say the hardest part for me is balancing time between building and outreach. It's always concerning to build stuff mindlessly without having a tight user loop, but in the beginning it's really hard to wear multiple hats and figure out how to do both. I wish I had a great co-founder who could handle the outreach and audience part, but that's probably like wishing for a genie.

If anyone invests in crypto or stocks at all, feel free to check them out [0][1] - I am always looking for feedback (I haven't publicly "launched" yet but am close).

Fun fact: everything here is in Python, both frontend and backend.

[0]: https://coinquanta.com

[1]: https://stockquanta.com (only landing page)
I changed that message 12 years ago too—my first Firefox contribution! Those were clearly more innocent times. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=353116
The "Antitrust Group" at Paul Weiss isn't in the business of trust busting. That's the group that defends businesses accused of antitrust violations. Not my first pick for head of an agency that is chartered with protecting American consumers.
Modeling is just a small part of data science (the percentage of time I've spent modeling as a data science is in the single digits).

Automating modeling is a bit easier than automating the other parts, though.
The way NVC has helped me the most is ironically not with conversations with other people but with conversations with myself, and helping me explain to myself why I'm feeling a certain way in response to something. Specifically, what has helped me were the distinctions between feelings and thoughts, and needs being universal while wants are just the ways you try to fulfill a need in a certain moment.

Applying NVC with myself is also a lot less awkward -- with people early on I often overdid it and got a lot of funny looks :) But over time, using NVC primarily to understand a situation, I can pick and choose the way I say it to a person so that person trusts that I'm being genuine instead of just applying a formula.

In my case, the ideas in NVC probably saved my life by giving me a tool to work through several personal crises. In my social group no one really knows NVC or that it's important to me, I often try to be subtle about it. It's fascinating to see it on the front page of HN.

I'd be happy to share my experience with NVC, which I primarily use with myself but often guides my approach to problems at work or with friends.
The friction for finding a new job in a big company is often lower then quitting your startup. If you're not growing the way you want to, transfer internally.

You don't lose your unvested equity, you don't have to spend 6 months re-onboarding (3 would be sufficient), you can have a much better idea of what the working environment in your new team is going to be, then going across the street to a competitor.
What are some good alternatives then?
I think this summary offers template solutions. They are an approximation of the insights of the book. The book is more about relating a human experience to a conversation,
Wow. Europe shot itself a massive bullet in the foot for the next EU elections.
GP maybe confused FTC with FCC? The current FCC chairman Ajit Pai does not support net neutrality: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajit_Pai#Net_neutrality_in_the...
>This style of communication is not supposed to be a tool for more efficient emotional manipulation / control.

In corporate environments, at least, "I feel [blah]" is a formula for manipulation and control. It allows people to make demands without ever acknowledging that they are making demands. It becomes a form of doublespeak. For example, "I feel frustrated and I need commitment to the project" means "start working overtime". Except now no one can say they're being asked to work overtime. And they can't even discuss working overtime, because it's phrased in terms of values and emotions. Suddenly saying "I will not be effective when working overtime" becomes an attack on other people's feeling and shared values, because the original demand is phrased in such terms.
Marketing 201 for Engineers: Messaging and Positioning
Seems to me that a developer relying on behavior like that should be left to fend for themselves. It's not like the behavior is already consistent between implementations of ES5, or a part of its spec.
if you are a brahman yes it is probably the best democracy on earth
Good fences make good neighbors.

HOAs make what's on your side of your fence potentially someone else's business again.

(And they frequently ban chain-link fences, even when they are a cheap, effective, and durable way to put up a fence that won't be popping rusty deck screws out of the slats in three years (or less!) and letting the dogs escape.)