skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"I am shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here."

When this system was announced these were exactly the concerns that were voiced and they were dismissed with "nuh, uh, we're enlightened, that stuff doesn't happen here." Even many here dismissed those concerns with similar logic. The idea of being able to make minor improvements by mining city data was too good to pass up. Yet here we are. The data has not been used to improve the city but it has been used to empower the police state. This is exactly what the naysayers said would happen.
It's unfair to blame the drillers for producing oil and endangering humanity's future when, clearly, our entire society is in on it. Although you can surely blame them for being irresponsible and releasing fracking chemicals all over the place, that is on them.
We've been thinking of how ice forms in cirrus clouds all wrong
I agree with you. To do multiplication by any non-parlor-trick method you have to be able to multiply single-digit numbers. If you don't memorize the table then every time you do larger numbers the process becomes that much more of a chore.

Now, that is not to say that you should forego understanding multiplication. But forcing student to memorize the basics (like forcing them to memorize verb forms) (1) makes their life easier later on and (2) gives them the chance to spot patterns themselves.
I'm now imagining some kind of action movie where the emperor lives too long and a band of programmers have to assassinate them lest their code breaks.
It's easy to rank companies from top to bottom. Whether there is source control, automated build, tests, reproducible scripted deployment, code reviews, test environments, bug tracker, logs, monitoring of hardware usage, analytics, backup.

Each of these is strongly correlated to quality.
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My ten year subscription is going to end soon, while I'm not really reading LJ much these days I still plan to renew to show the support.

I also hope LWN can produce a monthly PDF/mobi/epub for its subscribers. I will click it from my inbox as there are too many websites to visit daily.

It's hard to make everyone happy, is LJ for beginners? sys admins? experienced users? At the moment it is trying to get everyone some info useful.
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Willing to relocate: No
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Yeah, you could also hang out with your actually funny and interesting female colleague and meet her female engineering college friends.
In pre online dating times you'd meet people by physically hanging out in groups, having fun and eventually meeting other friends. Good times. Y'all should try it eventually.
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Why languages that compiles to JS won't apply? Let's say Elm for example?

Still I am too excited to see rise of traditional non-specialized languages to web game with webasm like Blazor (C#/.Net) but yep not production ready.
Heck, you don't even have to cook 'em!
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I believe that you started out that way. The problem with that first comment was that you began with an insult ("I immediately know that their technical understanding of the current backend and ops technologies is years behind"), which provokes people rather than informing them. Also, your comment included name-calling, which the site guidelines ask you not to do. Could you please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and follow the rules when posting here?

After that, you followed up with personal attacks and incivility. That's definitely flamewar. You weren't the only one doing it, but that doesn't make it ok.
Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability (DTU Biosustain) | Full Stack Engineer | Copenhagen Denmark | ONSITE | VISA

The project

Modern genome engineering technologies have enabled the rapid and precise editing of DNA, causing a paradigm shift in biotechnology: with the focus shifted from reading to writing genetic information, which of the three billion DNA letters in a human cell need to be rewritten in order to prevent disease, live longer, or encode entirely novel features?

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Our technology stack at the moment is:

- Angular, Angular Material, Typescript

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Yeah there's a lot of macho, procrastinatory bullshit that gets in the way of having a good process. There's always someone who thinks that each step is 'simple' and refuses to believe in death by a thousand cuts. They blame people who make mistakes and feel better about themselves.
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The stigma of being in the bottom 20% is hard to get rid of, though.
Also related: https://h1bdata.info/index.php
Is there any similar startup to SeedLegals for United States startups?
What you meant by here was ambiguous to me before, but now I understand.
It may be the case that for a variety of reasons, salaries don't creep up that much past 8 years as it's just more difficult to either signal or create value then.

Despite the fact that a polygot dev. with tons of experience is always good to have around, and you need some weighing in on big decisions ... most dev is just dev - and a competent mid-tier developer with good habits can do the job in most cases.
Improving app performance with ART optimizing profiles in the cloud
building a bootable image from an executable sounds..pretty convenient(?)

how is this different from docker?
Isolating Dysfunction
What about not owning the battery but just paying for its usage? ( Please do not read my reply as aggressive / arrogant as I am genuinely interested in hearing your opinion). Thank you for sharing your thoughts.
So we're just going to let people starve in the streets if they waste UBI? Again, you're not seeing the fact that welfare often comes in the form of services, which the welfare receipts can't waste. I guess someone could try to seell soup they get at a soup kitchen but I doubt it's a effective or common.

Replacing welfare with UBI isn't going to happen, we will end up paying for both.
Indeed. A little healthy competition leads to better products all around.
Email me: matthewatcloudflaredotcom. Perhaps you and your cofounder can help build your vision within Cloudflare? I'd love to chat.
Why don't you think that fish is meat?
We thought about the trust aspect of it (we have gone through numerous VPN related threads here on news.yc and r/privacy and this has been one of the top concerns). Here's how we plan to convince folks (in our own naive way) we mean business (do serveral or all among):

1. OpenSource vpn server and client, with ability to Cloud-SSH to the server and view what's running.

2. Hands-off, one-click, spin up VPN servers on a VPS of your choice under your control, Streistand/Algo style [0][1], but find a way to provide support (think AWS marketplace).

3. Make privacy-centric commitment legally binding as part of EULA/ToS (is this sufficient?).

4. Run client-side only VPN (like intra, blockada, netguard). The idea is you're still able to analyse traffic and add blacklists client-side, without having to pay for or run a VPN server.

Thoughts?

[0] https://github.com/StreisandEffect/streisand

[1] https://github.com/trailofbits/algo
Ask HN: How to improve my JavaScript skills?
I am working as a Software Developer for 2 years now. I worked on javascript and Java projects. Whenever I look at an open source Javascript project, I don't feel confident of myself about my Javascript Skills. Maybe because of the size of those projects. How to improve my javascript Skills to aspire for a job at big companies like Google or Microsoft. Any recommendations on books or videos.

Also, I want to improve skills by contributing to opensource. how to search for Javascript projects on GitHub that are new and small. Popular/ Trending project are generally very big and difficult to start.
OS-9 OS on a TRS-80 Color Computer
He definitely did say that UBI is going to pay for UBI. He factored projected economic growth into the budget.
>A lot of these are pretty inaccurate, at least for modern Django.

I wish you state exactly which of them are inaccurate and why, I sincerely want to know and understand

>1. I'm pretty sure that's not true...You can do things like `path('myapp/', include(myapp.urls))`

so you suggest I create an "app" for every sub-route? every major and non major web framework except Django has a router where you can mount it to any parent and mount any child to it

>4. Custom User models are now very straightforward (and recommended for non-trivial projects since it's easier to start with a Custom model that defaults to the default model for all options then modify it later)[1]

maybe you're right IFF you start using a custom user model from the very beginning, if you happen to forget that, Django will make your life like a hell and will refuse to even pass startup checkups

>5. All these things are fairly straightforward and libraries like Django-Auth cover a huge set of the normal use cases.

I mean authentication tokens not Django's authentication (e.g. signin, signup)

>6. Django Rest Framework is a best-in-class solution for Rest APIs

so you suggest people throw their codebase and start rewriting for DRF?

>9. See 6.

so you suggest I rewrite my applications to DRF just to have JSON http request decoding?
The banking syndicate takes on some risk in order to facilitate trading in a successful IPO. Usually to compensate for this risk the IPO price is (slightly) less than what they believe the stock will trade at. This way the IPO investors and the banks can make a bit of money for bearing this risk.

It's usually seen as unsuccessful and a bad-news story when a stock falls below its IPO price. Even though Lyft might have taken the max from investors, it will diminish its ability to raise further equity and its bankers will lose the trust of the IPO investors.
Downsides to Raspberry Pi Alternatives – Linux Journal
Brainfuck Monitoring for Scout APM
As much as I love Forth, I am a bit troubled by the list in the article:

Some interesting but by no means complete Forth properties:

no errors
no files
no operating systems
no syntax

uhm... Forth does have errors like Stack Underflow. When I programmed in Forth we did have the notion of files. It most certainly does have a syntax also.
A quick trip to Wikipedia suggests that iPod Classics had a spinning disk for storage. The disk in hard drives "floats" on a cushion of air. When the outside air pressure gets lower, the internal pressure is relatively higher and the gap increases. A big enough pressure difference and the disc can jam and stop spinning altogether. I do not know if that is what affected your iPods, but I do know that hard drive failures at the summit of Mauna Kea (~4000m) are common and it seems to mostly be down to luck which ones work and which don't (once you have a working one, it tends to stay working).
This is great. The more places people can choose not to eat meat, the better. Personally I don’t foresee this demographic trying anything new, but for those who never eat meat or fast food and suddenly find ourselves in a pitstop somewhere, it’s great to know that we’d have something to eat that isn’t baby carrots and hummus.
Shale oil is well-known to have significantly higher CO₂ costs than conventional crude.

At least it's (generally) EROEI-positive, finally (though much of that is a result of burning the lower grade stuff to fractionally distill off the higher grades, which materially contributes to the CO₂ problem...).
A hunch is that the genetic traits that make a man physically desirable are the same that govern testosterone levels (increasing libido over mean).
It is, if you define it that way. If my text bothers you because I did not consider fish to be meat, then just replace "meat" with "beef."
> Java and .Net is steadily improving

Don't know about that. Java is IMHO about to enter a serious downward spiral as lots of stuff is being deprecated going to Java 9 such as ancient jetty/tomcat versions, JAXB 1, JAX-RS (which people used in the 2000's and early 2010's to create "RESTful" apps/microservices), and being force-obsoleted with incompatible newer versions having features no-one asked for. The Java ecosystem might have worked well under the illusion of multiple implementations for standard core interfaces, and with projects requiring high attention such as Hibernate, Spring, freaking Maven, etc. as long as it was the cool shit (it wasn't really cool IMHO) and had some money behind, but as Java is becoming legacy technology, it increasingly sucks to maintain pom.xml (aka pron.xml) files pointing to obsolete packages on a barren place like mvnrepository/maven central. My experience with younger devs having to maintain Java code: they secretly look for Go and entirely other career choices to get tf away from Java and Maven, and I can't blame them.
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I can set up cost reporting on your cloud so you know where your costs are going.

I can help you identify ways to cut cloud costs without giving up velocity or performance.

I can setup performance, reachability, APM, and health trending monitoring so you are more informed of your application and system status.

In my career I've managed teams (and contributed directly) to creating hardware, implementing clouds from scratch, scaling them to tens of thousands of server.

I'm available as an IC to help you get that project done or improve that situation.

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The practical of evil of working for a surveillance company like Google outweighs the hypothetical evil of working for a think tank like the Heritage foundation.
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You list six broad categories on the archetypes page, but only five made it onto the salary page. The "Low-Level Systems Engineer" got lost. That is the only one I care about. That's me, all three sub-categories, and also what I posted about today on the "Who Is Hiring?" article.
The most interesting thing about this particular announcement is that it may normalize plant-derived meat-substitutes among the typical fast-food-burger eating population, and not just the mostly-vegetarian folks (like myself) who will spend $10 on an Impossible Burger at a fancy sports bar.

Within a decade this might just be normalized, and nobody will make much of it.
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Bye Bye Vi: GNU/Linux Distros Drop Support
I feel there's a different way to ask this question and potentially get a better answer.
Then how would you go about identifying a competent attorney?
If I had any Python 2.7 stuff, I would simply move it to Pypy which has no such obsolescence date.
I'm curious what the crime rates are like in these oil boom towns.
The HN crowd is not the typical consumer that shops at Walmart. The typical consumer buys things that they can afford and makes compromises on flavor.

The ethical part won't effect demand just like it hasn't effected demand in the past. The price and taste will help consumers afford more meat. And I'm sure that they would agree that is a noble thing.
>Even the value based programs that CMS has implemented are really fee for service with a look back and adjustments to payments made based on savings that were encountered.

And let’s not forget one of the more troubling aspects of EHRs and Medicare patients is that physicians are now required to turn over all patient EHR data to the government (CMS) every year for a reimbursement bonus and failure to turn over patient records results in a penalty.

Government collecting patient digital health records...what could possibly go wrong?
As a data point, 4 hours later I'm #194387 in line
> As much as we might make fun of MBAs, I imagine them to still be more plugged in than average as to what's happening in the world, especially if they're Ivy Leaguers?

I'm not really convinced this is a solid assumption.
All these points have serious problems though.

1. The $500 billion spent on welfare and other income support programs is usually significantly more generous than what a recipient would receive through Yang's proposed UBI. The fact you don't have to cover some people who already receive even more generous benefits doesn't "save you money" in any real sense. There is no real reason someone would choose a UBI over these programs except paperwork.

2. A VAT only gets you $800 billon a year when you need at least something like $3 trillion. This policy is also a little hard to understand if you are left leaning; don't you want to spend new tax revenue on something like universal healthcare, reducing the cost of college or renewable energy expansion? If you raise taxes to pay for a UBI it just becomes harder to raise tax revenue for any other priorities.

3. The roosevelt institute study assumed that the economy was almost completely constrained by demand to the point where even if the UBI was funded entirely through debt the net result would be an economy 13% larger after eight years. Leaving aside whether you agree with their simulation(I don't); this is an incredibly risking bet, if you are wrong that the economy is constrained by demand you have dramatically increased the federal deficit and probably caused a fiscal crisis in the process which would, of course, dramatically shrink the economy. It's interesting to note that the Roosevelt study doesn't actually model Yang's proposal of financing essentially the cost of a UBI through taxes/ spending cuts with the rest through deficit spending and it's hard to see how he came up with the numbers here.

4. So assuming you can save $100-200 billion on other government programs and you get everyone who uses welfare assistance to sign up for a UBI instead you aren't even halfway to the $3.6 trillion dollar price tag.
My experience has been that interviewers like you are rare. I may have reflected on my observations incorrectly, but it seems to me that depending on a newcomer to quickly learn a language and adapt is seen as a high-risk investment. I consider myself an adaptable person, and while I was able to make this impression upon prospective employers in my early days, they would always weigh this against the cost of training me for "longer" than the average employee.

In a sense, they were right. I have noticed myself increasingly comfortable with new codebases whenever I change jobs, so experience definitely counts for something.
Literally what I expounded upon.
Ramanujan was vegetarian, many other geniuses, too: https://www.care2.com/greenliving/10-genius-vegetarians.html
I remember Calc I (1st semester) being limits, differentiation and integration. And Clac II (2nd semester) being partial differential equations. This was in the engineering school though... it may have been different for other schools in the university.

This is the original poster's point. There is no consistency. Even in university. Some schools use quarters, some semesters, some trimesters. Some have letter grades, some percentages. Some are pass/fail freshman year, but are graded in subsequent years (e.g. MIT). What makes up "Calc I" at university varies tremendously.