skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This has been my experience as well - if you want to progress salary wise you are almost required to change jobs every ~3 years to get a meaningful bump in pay.
>You'll be criticized irregardless

Friendly heads-up that 'irregardless' is not a real word, rather a mashup between 'irrespective' and 'regardless', either of which alone will do. It's particularly one to avoid because it's probably in the top five of "words that irritate sticklers", who will judge you for it.
Ask HN: What phone carrier do you use?
I'm using Google Fi but I haven't been happy with the quality of reception in my area (Albuquerque, NM). As of yesterday I suddenly can't connect to their networks on my iPhone 7 anymore after briefly using airplane mode even after getting a new Google Fi SIM card, which I think is the last straw for me.

What carrier do you currently use? What do you like about it? Also curious if anyone knows of any options that are privacy focused
Absolutely disabled defender.

When I started running the spec suite in WSL, defender went way up (so I gave it a break), pretty sure stuff would have been way worse with defender on.

The prevailing recommendation though from the WSL team is to leave defender on for now. So I kind of cheated by disabling it.
Spain has the "Real Academia Española", guardian of the Spanish language in the world. They seems very related to this guardian of French,they don't accept gender questions and they do an authoritarian imposition of their ideas.
I've used Linux as my main desktop OS for about 3 years, from around 2010 to around 2013 (so maybe some things changed in the meantime).

The article says that you pay a "VM tax" by running in a Linux VM in Windows or by using WSL, but by using Linux directly you end up "paying" in other areas, for example in terms of less-than-perfect drivers (which leads to problems such as worse battery life, worse graphical performance etc). In an ideal world, laptop and GPU makers would put as much effort developing Linux drivers as they do when they create Windows drivers, but unfortunately this is not the case.

Another point is that, even if you are running Linux on your dev machine, it is often challenging to have a local environment that is as close as possible to your production one; for example where I work we have Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 18.04 and CentOS (and with various combinations of installed packages), even if I was using a Linux laptop, I would still need containers to get all the different environments right. The only case where you could use no containers at all is if you had all of your servers running the exactly the same environment.

Finally there is the issue of some pieces of software not being available for Linux, 95% of the times you can find a Linux equivalent that works for you but, in my experience, there were still rare cases where I had to resort to Wine or some Win VM just to run some specific tool that was needed to do my job.

PS My job, at the time I was using Linux as my main desktop OS, and during the couple of years after I switched back to Windows, was about PHP, Python and Java web apps deployed on Linux servers, so my comments above should be taken in this context. Maybe in other fields of software development there are different factors to take into account.

PPS I have also tried MacOS, on the one hand it's great that Mac is UNIX, but on the other hand it's not Linux so, if you want to closely replicate your production Linux environment, you will still need VMs or containers.
Why do people not like Magic???

Any modern language is pretty magic. Think about what is going on with Javascript JIT, or even Ruby. Its pretty crazy magic.

And its not actually magic, its just abstracting out details.
You can claim educational loans on your tax returns, but only the interest.
Oh come on. I remember playing with speech rec in the 90's and it was terrible.

Now it works great!
> VM will always be shit at compilation tasks. All of the existing solutions out there (including Docker)

Docker isn't a VM; it runs with the same kernel and directly on the host processor like any application.
> Are there any developers with Unicode experience able to comment on this? I know the character for Reiwa has been reserved but I’m unsure if programmers are familiar with Y2K-esque bugs that could happen.

They create a brand new character for the era names? I find that a little hard to believe, because Wikipedia [1] already has the Reiwa era listed and my computer has a font that can display the kanji for it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Japanese_era_names
This seems like an unnecessary (and frankly, derailing) stab at OP. The point of his comment had nothing to do with infamy, why are we nitpicking this?
I'd love to hear any questions or feedback. I've gotten quite a bit of use from this tool personally and have had a lot of fun making it.
Good point.
And I don't think you have to throw 95+ if the ball gives you great movement. At the extreme, look up wiffle ball pitching on youtube; its wild.
That will happen to your money after your funeral regardless.

Not like you have any more use for it yourself.
When I was a kid and we visited my grandmother in her Chicago high-rise, I was amazed that the concierge recognized and greeted us by name the moment we stepped into the vestibule.

To memorize not only each resident's name and face, but also those of their occasional out-of-town guests, is quite a feat.
This one is more like a deliberate backdoor that was left not fully secured. It doesn't seem to have anything to do with x86-the-instruction-set.

And stuff like Spectre and Meltdown is all about how they chose to implement it - specifically, optimizations. It is very possible to have an x86 CPU that doesn't try to be "smart" at all, and just implements the x86 spec in the most straightforward way possible... so long as you're willing to pay the perf penalty. It looks like we don't.
> "I'm sorry but I am saying this all over the place on this thread."

Please stop. At this point you're spamming. It's great to be excited about a project, but you're gone beyond that now.
Out of principle? There were three founders at one company I worked at. At the time of the IPO one had already moved out-of-state for unrelated reasons, one moved to Texas to avoid taxes, and the other stayed here partly out of principle. (There were already many remote engineers and even upper management--I think the head of product development had moved to Utah long before.)

Of the one who moved to Texas, the opinion of most people in the company, including of the other two founders, was that it was a pretty rotten move. But for the social and legal culture of Silicon Valley and California, such success--particularly the magnitude of success--would have been unlikely.

I doubt he cared, though. And to be fair to him, he wasn't a loathsome person, nor even an anti-government, Peter Thiel type personality. Otherwise socially responsible people can rationalize bad behavior, especially when its in their own self-interest. But it's not automatic.
I wouldn't agree since that creates horror stories and high employee churn.
A lot of being cold has to do with body mass though. The larger your muscles -> the more they generate heat and the more they insulate. When I was at my bulkiest I'd be sweaty in a 60F/15C room. When I was at my skinniest I'd be freezing my bones off at that temp.
I'm generally suspicious of anybody making long-form video essays on YouTube about such subjects. Unless they were in the industry, I tend to believe I'm merely having a Wikipedia article and perhaps a few interviews, taken from blogs or perhaps online magazines, regurgitated to me.

That's what Did You Know Gaming seems to be, for instance.
Are you validating my point? Less than 1/4th of all children in one of the wealthiest metropolitan areas in the country.
It doesn't matter. We already know google will lock out paid accounts without the ability to talk to a human.
I feel like these sort of mvp type ideas work great for software only, as soon as you involve a physical device how do you go about avoiding capital risk? I don't think you can!
As a french guy, I sense some kind of disdain for the Académie Française that I don't really get. The evolution of the french language is not dictated by the Académie, but rather by its use by the french people, and the role of the Académie is merely to decide what should or shouldn't be set in stone in the dictionary. And in fact the usage of the french language is quite diverse, even in France. You can have regional variation in words even in metropolitan France, but if you take into account oversea territories like french polynesia, Guyana or Mayotte it gets even more complicated. So yes, convenient english words that are widely used by french people on a day-to-day basis are not added right away in the dictionary and in fact the Académie is actively trying to find french equivalent for them that are coherent with the etymology of the french language, but it doesn't prevent french people from using them.
So I get that the immortals don't represent the french society and the never have. But they do not really have any kind of political impact on the country, the are just the bookkeepers of the français.
Because every environmental policy should be based on cost-benefit analysis. Otherwise we could just ban all plastic, all fossil fuels and much more.

It seems to me that you, in this case, intuitively think that cost-benefit analysis sways entirely one way even though you don't know the specifics. But the bar for banning stuff should be higher than that.

It's not just about this particular policy. Every time a restrictive policy is introduced by hand-wavy feel-good arguments (even with best of intentions) it becomes more acceptable to introduce other future policies in a similar way. And if it doesn't actually produce results it's actively harmful - we feel like we're doing something but we're not. Maybe we should just forget about plastic bags and invest in putting more garbage cans around the city or ramp-up inspections on landfill management (thus potentially solving the problem with plastic bags, straws, bottles, utensils etc. with one stroke). How could we even tell? By knowing the specifics.

And we have not even started to discuss alternative, less heavy-handed measures, like levying a tax on each plastic bag or compulsory minimum prices for them at the store (seems to work great, according to some commenters. It was introduced where I live some time ago but I didn't notice any change because there wasn't much litter even before the change).
Isn’t that what was said?
I often get judged for wearing shorts and a hoodie in winter weather, but I don't see why it's such a big deal. I really dislike bundling up every single time I step outside. If I'm going to the grocery store, I'm fine going in my pajamas because I'm going to be outside for around 30 seconds.
Until you receive an offer which has larger benefits and perks. I can certainly see the gaming.
What are the tricky things? On the death penalty in the US: I think it's financially disastrous in the US (executions are more expensive than life imprisonment) and makes it difficult to undo wrongful convictions in line with Blackstone's Ratio. But neither of those are particularly moral.

I'd flip it around and ask how you bootstrap a moral system for all humans (or is it all life?) from scratch. It seems unlikely that I, of all cultures and times, am the pinnacle of morality in the same way that it would be unlikely that I just happened to be born into a family that practices the one correct religion in the world.

Maybe you'd think that I'm inhumane or something, but my beliefs are largely the results of a lot of traveling and meeting the moral absolutists all over the world tell me with the same level of conviction what is right and wrong.
Rename it and see which programs complain :)
A great wsy to use his celebrity. Very interesting to read through the tweets and see what people on that schedule have to say about it.
Elon Musk Rap Single – Harambe
Archive.org is not the archive team.
I think I misread difference training as different training there, my apologies. And the Ethiopian Air copilot had ~200 total hours, thus the comment.

> You assume without evidence the problem manifests like runaway trim. And then proceed to assume without evidence the incompetency of two pilots. And yet you refuse to assume the incompetency of the automation, which didn't mere fail, it countermanded with lethal force the 100% correct control inputs of the pilots. The idea they have to assert their sanity by flipping two switches, is about as ridiculous as automation not having to assert its sanity when it, by design, trusts a single point of failure one upping that by trusting it while it's failing and one upping that to extreme by taking action on it without any regard to other input sources including the pilots themselves. It's beyond obscene to me.

I didn't say that it manifests like runaway trim. I said that it manifests as "severely outside the norm trim", which it most certainly does. Unless you're saying that full nose down trim is normal? As for "asserting incompetence without evidence", they're certainly less competent than pilot #3 on the Lion Air flight the night before. (since, you know, that guy realized what was going on and how to resolve it)

As for the automation being incompetent, yep you're right! It is! But airplane crashes don't happen for one reason - not commercial flights at least. They happen when a sequence of failures occurs, just like here. Boeing failed to consider the worst case behavior of MCAS, Lion Air maintenance fucked up, and the Lion Air pilots weren't able to diagnose the failure that morning. (The failure pipeline of the Ethiopian crash is still to be determined) As for why Boeing failed there... It's at least partly because the automatic trim controls weren't considered a safety critical part, since they had multiply redundant backups. It's just that the backups were "turn off electronic trim" and "grab the trim wheel and hold it in place", both of which require pilot action. (Allowing stuff like this to get grandfathered in is arguably a hole in the FAA's systems)

> I have personally trained private pilots with competency at identifying failed gauges, knowing which one to disregard, and estimating the missing values by inference from the remaining gauges. And this is in sub-200 hour pilots. The skill required for the instrument rating exceeds this particular automation in the AOA failure case by quite a lot. And the skill required for commercial and ATP ratings is even greater than that by quite a lot. Meanwhile MCAS upset from judgement of a single sensor induced such an unusual attitude it became unrecoverable.

Well then why was the issue so difficult for the pilots to diagnose here? There's a gauge for trim, and I'd hope it would be looked at when trying to figure out why you have to keep pulling back on the yoke so hard.
> If you are blocking rather relying on a strong base of educated voters, then are you any different from China, or have you essentially lost and have adopted your enemy’s ideals?

No. Strong bases of educated voters don't emerge fully-formed from the Earth or something. It takes time to develop them and in that time they're vulnerable.
Advocacy of a specific religion should not be part of a citizen's formal education. Private religious schools receive public funding and public accreditation, and they should not, nor should any other private school, for that matter.
Really looking forward to trying this out. The syntax looks very clean & clear. I hate the insanity of sed, and assuming the performance is here, I’d switch to this in a heartbeat.
It's a combination of two existing characters, the rei as in meirei/命令 (order, command) and wa as in heiwa/平和 (peace, harmony). No new characters need to be reserved.
I'd recommend a side project and see if you can start your own business. Sounds like a good time.
If the time taken to run the test suite is so critical, then how is the "winning" result of 7m55s any better?

In my experience any multi-minute operation invites a context switch or coffee break, and end up being roughly equivalent in practice.
I picked a Dell XPS for development and it runs linux amazingly well. Only bit that doesn't work out of the box is the fingerprint scanner but there are unofficial drivers for it.

With web development its so trivial to do everything you need on linux and almost all of the time its easier to set up on linux or mac than on windows.
You're gonna take a phone The Matrix inspired you to get, skip over Riot (Matrix!!), and use Signal on it? Damn, haha.
Japan Chooses ‘Reiwa’ as Name for Incoming Emperor’s New Era
Funny, lucidly written (as you describe), and extraordinarily insightful in making connections across areas of finance that are usually presented in the business press as silos. Matt Levine is a rare talent.
http://blog.unicode.org/2018/09/new-japanese-era.html was posted here yesterday, but the short answer is that the era can be referred to using two existing characters (for the current era: 平成) or with one new combined one (㍻). Wiki is using the former, so it doesn't need software support.
Changing our technology habits could decrease loneliness
In my experience, Perl outperforms sed on most equivalent commands. I should do some benchmarking and add it to the documentation.
Would we?

If we're foolish enough to get to the point of self-destruction in the first place...
$ echo "令和" | hexdump -C

00000000 e4 bb a4 e5 92 8c 0a |.......|

00000007

Obviously the individual kanjis are reserved in CJK plane. But how is it related to Y2K-esque bugs?
Ask HN: Why has stackoverflow got the 90s “annoying” theme today?
We've had issues with Google and we're a peered network backbone. Literally took knowing someone to get them to fix DOSing our customer with one of their servers not liking our DNS entries. Never found out what happened either.
It does matter.

Expecting something for free is exactly what leads to being ghosted, whether by a person (see the lament of the GNOME Calendar maintainer that was up here earlier) or a company.
Because there is a huge amount of important public posting on there. It didn't get billions of users but it had enough. Keeping up a read-only blob, or even better letting someone else do it, should be in the shutdown considerations of any major product.
Whoops. I think this was supposed to be a reply to jnbiche [1], though I can't confirm if the reply makes sense anymore. Not sure how that happened. Sorry for the confusion.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19539155
> "Illustrated radio" is a term that animation nerds throw around for the vast majority of their output.

And they even cheaped out on the "radio" part, in that their jokes and plots were stale, unimaginative, and just as recycled as their backgrounds.

Rocky & Bullwinkle did "Illustrated Radio" well because it had a good writing staff.

The cardinal sin of making media is condescension. Don't talk down to your audience, and don't make media you yourself wouldn't consume.

(There might even be a broader lesson there.)
I use hard drives.
Yeah, Parisian apartments are even cheaper than this implies, since SF apartments tend to be larger than the average Parisian apartment. So the rent that most people pay is generally a good bit less than half.
April joke?
I was going to say I remember the wiffle curve but I do not remember anything like those YouTube wiffle experts.
These situations can result in the vehicle notifying the human driver, or for fully-driverless operation, remote operator taking control of the vehicle (at greater expense, of course).
Governor Newsom is more fiscally responsible than most. It will be more difficult for him than Governor Brown to say, "No". Newsom commands less respect, and has less experience, than Brown. But don't forget that Newsom was Governor of San Francisco during the Great Recession, and San Francisco was the only large city in the state to maintain a balanced budget. Part of that was a pre-existing mandate that SF maintain a rainy day fund; but part of it was Newsom's City Hall extracting major concessions from unions and interest groups, shrinking expenditures. And SF wasn't as filthy rich as it is now. The big migration of tech from South Bay to the city didn't really get moving until about 2011.
The Twitter OP is just sharing something he’s found. And now it’s front page on HN. Most likely there will be a response/fix tomorrow morning. A much faster response here then through traditional channels (Emailing Google). I’m thankful we have this format, one of the good things that’s come of social media.
"computer" is also from Latin "computare"
The Overwhelming Bias of the Mainstream Media
> Fun fact: if you can only handle 99.99999% of cases (say on a per mile basis), your system will blow up 32 million times per year in the US alone.

We know how many fatalities there are in the US per year, but I wonder how many crashes there are? How many near misses, or how many times does someone "luck" out and miss death by inches while being completely oblivious to it?

> A vehicle stopped in the middle of the road is an edge case

No it's not. It happens all the time (vehicles waiting to turn across on comming traffic) and I'm sure training models are already dealing with it.

> But all the Teslas on that stretch of highway will blow through that guy signaling traffic, because they don’t know how to handle that edge case

You really think self-driving cars won't be able to read the "stop" sign a construction worker holds out? I bet they can now.

> A human driver might hit a panhandler who jumps into the street because she isn’t paying attention to body language. Every Tesla will do it, every time.

Again, you really think self-driving cars won't automatically emergency stop when they detect something jump out into their lane? Again, I'd be willing to bet they'll have a much faster reaction time than your average driver.

> Humans can handle all the edge cases most of the time

The number of road deaths per day around the world makes me strongly disagree with that.

It sounds like you have a particular bent against "Tesla", and you're not seeing this for what it is.

They don't have to be perfect, but they do have to continually get better. And they are.
I’m building this at the moment :)
They haven’t been left uncontacted for some prime directive like reasoning. It is because the every time it has happened before the primitive tribesmen die from exposure to our germs which thy have no antibodies for.
MindSweep
Having a degree confirms you at least knew the math at one point, and could recall is quickly if needed.
Also, this seems to be the first time that Japanese Royal choose the kanjis from their classical literature[1] instead of Chinese literature.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man%27y%C5%8Dsh%C5%AB
Or on the other side, the American businessman has ruined his health/personal relationships by overwork so that he can't enjoy the freedom he bought for himself. Or even more likely, can't bring himself to make the leap into the void and walk away from money, status and security and continues to burn away the little healthy youth he has left remaining working in the job he can't give up.
If principal is your thing why not take the tax difference and appropriate the funds by donating to your principal causes?
I've been using Linux as my main OS for over 10 years now, mainly Ubuntu.

The best part is the performance and a realistic bare metal environment. You can profile code and actually trust the results. You can't say the same for virtualizarion, containers or other platforms.
It wasn't right, no. I remember going "WTF" repeatedly even back in 2000, while first learning it and then using it in a commercial project.

It's mostly that everything else was either worse (ASP), or insanely overengineered (JSP), or both (ColdFusion).

Also, with LAMP, you had a stack that was free top-to-bottom. Back then, it still wasn't as common as it is in the industry today, and that especially helped it in the hobbyist and small business niche.