skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting perspective and I can see some of the intent here, but it takes an odd slant to the issue. There are a few failures in logic here (random number becoming PII, only tracking on one browser, laws protecting you from getting robbed) that detract from the goal of GDPR which is to outline the user's digital rights, not define how data can be collected. GDPR does not define the technological methods because those will always be evolving, much like our understanding and expectations of data privacy will evolve. I agree that users need to educate themselves on how to protect their own data, but there is a ton of technology that they either aren't aware is being used, or simply don't understand. GDPR isn't perfect but it will help in the long run. Here is a summary of some of the details and how it will impact what developers need do as they architect software. Some companies will take it seriously, others won't. Then consumers may decide who to do business with.
https://fusionauth.io/blog/2019/01/29/white-paper-developers...
Historical legislation has been increasingly (not linearly) tough as well.
https://imgur.com/a/O7mLqOp
Uber IPO Filing Warns That Drivers Will Be Even Less Happy
> Shout out to EMRAX, manufacturer of the motor for the prototype eFlyer2

Doesn't seem to be true.

The motor is a Siemens SP70D[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bye_Aerospace_eFlyer_2
Remote employee for 7 years, 4.5 at Google.

This pretty much sums it up — going into the office is great for collaboration and socializing but I’m always at a loss as to when anybody actually manages to get work done.

Working from home is amazing for getting things done because I can get deep into my work for a few days in a row with relatively few distractions or context switches.

Google uses Hangouts for video chat and it “just works” really well for one-on-one or even group video where all other participants are in one location.

I’ve also found that getting “face time” with other teams to be incredibly important for getting their buy-in for whatever I’m trying to convince them to do. Being a random guy on the other end of a chat or email isn’t as useful as verbal chat for just a few minutes — especially lacking the ability to just stop by someone’s desk for an impromptu chat.
Almost nobody uses them outside of some niche designs and gliders.
Indeed. ICEs only don't catch fire constantly because of a century of safety improvements.
Ok then why have these unions at all, if it’s not to add worker rights? A union for the sake of unionizing but not afforded rights to guide how people are hired, fired, furloughed, outsourced, etc., is just a pretense. Can you imagine firefighters’s unions saying, yeah, we don’t care how you reduce costs, you wanna fire us and hire prison labor instead, just do it, we’re good!

Besides, if I lose a job to a worker in Romania, China, India or Brazil, I can’t simply waltz on over there and say “Hey youse all, I just landed, I don’t have a work visa, but you all gotta play fair, gimme a job, you took mine!”
M-x replace-string, Orgmode and Slime.

I have yet to come across anything that compares, and I definitely prefer having Lisp built in to Python bolted on to the side.

Emacs used to be considered quite slow, but compared to the latest offerings its pretty snappy.

Never got it to work well in Windows, but that's not an issue for me anymore.
Would an attacker know that you're the kind of person to type in gibberish?

Also, you don't need to type gibberish. If your mothers maiden name is Jones, you can enter her maiden name as Steenberger and store that in your password manager.
I'm not sure if/what they changed in the distribution itself, but tooling optimizations are in the list:

* Pengwin includes wslu, a set of useful open-source utilities for interacting between WSL and Windows 10

* Manage your Microsoft Windows and Azure deployments with PowerShell and azure-cli, command line tools for Azure.

* Enable/disable Windows Explorer shell integration.

* Configure experimental GUI settings, including a Windows 10 theme for your Linux applications, HiDPI support and international input methods.

* Create a secure bridge to Docker running on Windows.

* Support for many Linux graphical applications with no need to configure display or libGL in Pengwin. (Requires a Windows-based X server, such as X410.)

* Pengwin provides faster patching for WSL-specific bugs than any upstream Linux distro available on WSL.
The actual article title is "The Hidden Horror ... "

Having been there, financing is but one of its many horrors. NYC is great for many reasons. Having high end airport malls is not one of them.
Greenland Electronics
Closer to 300km most likely.
> Unfortunately, once you train them, someone can snatch them as people in b).

But this "someone" includes the current employer.
Er, I screwed that up.

China emits 11 gigatonnes. The US emits ~half that. So more like 800 billion or 4% of GDP. About what we spend on Medicare.

Of course, even if US emissions went to zero, it wouldn't be enough to stop global warming. So there's that.
Election day is... Next week? Its so hard to predict things with popular political parties taking opposite stances on matters.
What about solid state batteries? (which will likely start taking over from Li-Ion within a decade)
Building Resilience with a Therapist
There's nothing to fix. The construction material is either of a type that does not spontaneously combust, and a carpenter can make you a fine chair out of it, or the material is the type to spontaneously combust, and if you choose to buy a chair made of that material you will soon find your pants are on fire.

If it's the former, pay a contractor to build you a chair, or make one yourself. If it's the latter, use a different construction material.
Getting a VC usually sounds like a good idea and is definitely the myth that we were all told that without a VC you cannot succeed.

This is actually not true. If you have clients and your having enough money to pay yourselves a little bit, ride that wave. Focus on growing your business with more satisfied clients and building a brand. VC money can be useful if you see a small but very lucrative opening that will get you to get 10 to 100 folds more return and your clients cannot advance you money for that.
If you’re lean enough and running a tight ship, building only features that have great value for the customers; have great channels to grow your customer base; and are financially sustainable; then why a VC?

And remember, the longer you run your company without external funding, the better the return is later for you and your friends, whether you decide to sell, IPO, or get VC. You will always own more of your company.

But if you’re close to bankruptcy, because of your burn rate , and you’re still growing, then maybe start raising money when you have 6 months or so worth of runway left.

PS: I do have some doubts about the 2 startups though. If you’re running 2 at the same time, then you’re not in any of them 100%... And that’s not in the best interest of your startups
Tip for beginners: There's no such thing as “weird” in programming
artists deserve to be paid more than technology companies that deliver us the art.
The summary is that through some insane gerrymandering, the Hudson Yards project is lumped in with a bunch of low-income areas in Harlem. This means that foreign investors only need to invest $500k to qualify for a visa program that would normally require a $1M investment.

What's unclear from the article is how extensively this exception was used (that is, how many <$1M investments were accepted).

The article says there were 3,200 foreign investors who qualified for the EB-5 through Hudson Yards, for a total of $1.2B invested. That's an average of $375k per investor, which makes no sense -- $500k is the floor. It might be that the 3,200 number was derived by dividing the $1.6B (that includes the still-accepting-investors phase 3) by the $500k requirement for the TEA (Targeted Employment Area). Without real stats it's hard to see how bad this is -- "buying your way in" is maybe a tough pill to swallow for people who have tried to immigrate, but the $1M EB-5 path is open regardless of zoning shenanigans.
You've probably seen a couple... but it's super rare still for all the same reasons listed above.
I thought they already did this. I'm pretty sure it says somewhere in their terms of service they can use your pictures for this(not that I don't think it's horrible or that it's excusable.) Wasn't there some trouble a bunch of years ago when someone found one of their facebook pictures being used in an ad? Or am I thinking of something totally different?
Single digit milliseconds. Unfortunately anything ethernet over X will have latency due to the underlying medium.

I don't recommend Actiontec, I had a fairly expensive adapter go bad on me after about a year. I replaced the other ones with Motorola MM1000, which are much more reliable in my experience, and I found for $60.
And where does Segment send it to? My experience with Segment is that it's not an analytics tool, but rather a tool that provides a single API for sending data to your fifteen different analytics tools.
I am a farmer. I have field experience and my ideas come out of processes and experiments on the field..sometimes to the detriment of my bottomline if I want to test it.(and we can only do it once a year due to farming’s seasonal nature’).

And yet tech people ‘borrow’ all the time from me because farmers (apparently) can’t be technical players. It’s unfair. And useless. Because without a domain expert, if code is tech, it would fail.

It has happened to me at least five times and five times, I have thought to myself, ’I could have told you that would fail’ if you didn’t ‘borrow’ my seemingly ‘non technical’ idea.

I have too many frustrating thoughts right now that I feel like it’s in my best interest to listen to others thoughts rather than vent.

But thanks for your reply. I appreciate the perspective you provided.
Windows Vista Incapable!
Which has returned from the dead as NVidia's ARM emulating Project Denver.
What does "streaming" mean here?
Or a security chief without any clue about tech (let alone security):

https://it.slashdot.org/story/17/09/15/1910200/equifax-ceo-h...
We're in a labor market in which CS students are focused on drilling for the FAANG-style whiteboard tests. And many will tell you their strategy is to go to Google for 2 years of experience and resume-building, and then leaving rather than grind away and play the promotion game there. And everyone has known for 20 years that you have to job-hop to grow your salary in this industry. And most employees would be naive to think that their employer would take care of them long-term.

In this mercenary environment, loyalty doesn't go very far, so, for retention after mentoring, I assume one would have to pair mentoring/training with substantial growth in compensation. Besides all the non-monetary attractions.
I really like the idea of the app because it lowers the barriers to entry for an entire set of people who otherwise might not take the necessary steps to increase their privacy.

These are baby steps for sure, but maybe one day all these people will be ditching google for duckduckgo and protonmail, etc.
By all means, go on and dig a bigger hole for yourself.

But its not my fault, you got yourself into this shit and you get to crawl out.

Everything is forgiven and released, always.
They just need an AI to review for sub-optimal 6-page reports. First cut can be built off of mechanical turk.
I noticed file IO was slow too. My solution is to do most of my work in headless Linux VMs, using WSL as the interface to manage and connect to those VMs. This way I get the bash shell and ssh client I love but get isolated environments for my projects/clients. I run samba on the Linux VMs, with mapped drives on the Windows host so that I can edit files using VS Code. Outwardly it might look a little convoluted but I get isolation, performance, convinience and an ultra smooth host OS experience.

I say this coming from around a decade of running Linux or MacOS on the desktop. This just works.
> if someone else "catches" the fish, that effort is largely wasted

Not only is this a self-fulfilling prophecy, if you don't invest in your employees, the level of waste is larger.

I recently posted an article on LinkedIn about this very topic: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/most-common-web-dev-hiring-mi...

Note: I shamelessly plug one of my new-developer friends at the end.
For non-Uber deal sizes, couldn't you always take that offer as substantial external validation and shop that around?

For example, if Google says they'll acquire you or run you out of existence, couldn't you always go to VC (ie. any alternative of Google) and say:

* Google wanted to acquire us because they like our team and/or the idea. You can either buy Google stock, or make an investment in us.

This at least gives you some out between the "take our investment or die."

But maybe this wouldn't work in practice for some reason? I'd be curious to hear. It just seems the market can't reasonably be in equilibrium when everyone is forced to take money _at the mere threat of_ producing (or investing in) a competing product.

.

[Edit] It's also important to keep in mind that often cash is much more fungible than the execution of an idea. I can put 1MM into your business, or a business that I think will put _you_ out of business, but if I don't trust that team or they can't execute, that 1MM may as well be toilet paper.
"Which terrible is the real terrible" can be problematic debate.

Still, I'd say the original claim that this visa program could help low income neighborhoods deserves entry on the list of terribles along with it's overt hijacking.
I was honestly baffled to see the proliferation of DNA analysis companies... aren't people concerned about the importance of the data they're giving out? AND you pay to give them that data... leaves me speechless.

How accustomed we've become to giving our privacy away.
I'm saying the dev you were referring to that you personally have issues with is likely the individual that hacked Matrix.
There are several rewrites.

- Guile Emacs does not seem very alive: http://git.hcoop.net/?p=bpt/emacs.git

- Remacs, a Rust port, seems to be more alive: https://github.com/remacs/remacs Does not look usable as a daily driver, though.

I sometimes wish that Xi editor adopted an elisp port as one of the scripting engines. Not very likely, though; a suitable port does not exist in the first place so far.
Depends on the item, but I chose a Patagonia rain jacket partly because their logo is a stitched on tag I could easily remove while most other brands print their logo on.
In Sweden we have ”Mobilt bankid” which is a digital identification that you download from your bank and then assign a password to it. After this has been completed you can identify yourself through an official app. Most serious organizations asks you to identify yourself through this app when handling business over the phone.
It's a bunch of "hodler" whales who, if the currency is successful enough, will become the next "old guys with nukes".

If most people use bitcoin off-chain then it means that it's the cryptocurrency exchange cartel who gets to decide what is and isn't bitcoin. Who cares if the node in your basement disagrees if all the exchanges have forked away and nobody can trade with you.

The whole "it's just code" shtick is really shortsighted. It's never only just code, it's a complex consensus. Look at all the drama around segwit/bitcoin cash for instance.
Wait, did Github delete matrixnotorg's profile or did matrixnotorg?

If Github deleted that profile, I don't really see that as being very hacker-friendly.
The GDP is a measure of all economic activity. I'd say there's a far greater risk that NYC might outlaw ride-sharing specifically, rather than, you know, suddenly decide to stop engaging in commerce altogether.
There are a few ways of dealing with this that I've seen. On IRC, when a direct back-and-forth starts, etiquette is to name the other party specifically at the start of each line. Every client I've used will highlight those lines where your name is mentioned, making it easier to pick out your thread of conversation. The text is typically packed in pretty tight as well, which makes this more feasible in busy channels since you're not likely to have to scroll. Some clients also have a separate UI section for messages that target you, making it even easier to follow.

In Slack, the chat contents are shown in a less dense way (more whitespace & separation, big user icons,) but they found a solution that seems to work pretty well, which is the 'thread' feature. (This is pretty recent AFAIK.) Threads stay collapsed for people who aren't participating and pop out for people who want to.

While they are pretty much inevitable, multiple orthogonal conversations happening in a channel might also sometimes be a call for reorganization or sidebar channels/group chats.

As an aside, one of my favorite experiences relating to chat is having multiple concurrent conversations with the same person or people, on different topics, in their respective channels. It highlights how bizarre the rapid context-switching pattern you fall into with chat applications is.
I feel for people working in video games and in the space industry. Often they enter those industries because of passion, although I think in aerospace it's more common to stay for longer because you end up working with technologies that just don't apply well to most other industries (lots of DSLs that most businesses don't care about).

As for CRUD glue...hard call about long term labor market. There's a lot of slip-shod working being done to hold up other slip-shod work. I think there's a good analogy in "unregulated construction." You can hire anybody off the street to build you a shed. If you have money to throw at it, though, you still might be willing to pay 15x to hire a well-vetted professional who will make something both beautiful and lasting.
Maybe because it's the first ever photo of a black hole, was widely anticipated, and was published by pretty much every news organisation and was on the cover of many of them, before any interviews with her came out?
The other issue is that getting rid of gas powered cars will only do so much. You still have industry and agriculture to deal with. I don't think China will have zero emission factories anytime soon.
I’m not sure I understand your point.

Let’s imagine that I work a job for three years, and a company spends $30,000 training me over that time period, when I then leave because that training helped me reach a better career position.

If they hadn’t paid for that benefit, I would have left after only two years — because the need to transfer for career advancement would happen sooner. This would save them $20,000-30,000 depending on how you count.

So what’s the net difference?

In scenario 1, they received a ROI of 1 year of improved labor, and 1 year of doubly improved labor. Additionally, the fixed costs of hiring are amortized over three years instead of two, and so decrease by 33%.

So for $30,000 they decreased my hiring costs by 33% and received two years of increased quality labor — say 5-10% productivity. Hiring an engineer is 25-50% of their yearly salary, so they’re saving 8-15% of my salary over three years. The productivity of an engineer is going to be like twice their salary, just to pay overhead and profit. So we’re looking at a boost of 10-20% my salary in their revenues.

So they’re looking at ~15-25% of my salary as the return for spending $10k/year. Naively, it seems like that pays off in many cases: it just requires you operate in a trust based manner.
You can't really write a compelling story where your logistics make the hero rather than... heroism.
that sucks and is very weird
I'm 58 2/3, and GNU Emacs has been my daily driver since 1991.

vscode however will probably take over that role some time during the next 12 months.
The best emacs mode I’ve ever used is org-mode. Inline LaTeX rendering, inline images, outlines, TODOs, it’s amazing. And when you add yasnippet in to the mix, it gets even better. I can write up math notes faster than someone could write it on a blackboard!

Emacs is probably the best piece of software I’ve ever used, and will use. I bet in 100 years, emacs will still be going strong. There’s really nothing it can’t do.
Huh? "Battery density is not there yet." "Fake it or make it" You know, it'd be helpful if you didn't accuse them of fraud without grounds.

Battery density is only half the issue. The other one is efficiency. Half-century-old cessnas fly like a brick. State of the art aerodynamic performance can allow you to get two or three times the range you'd get just swapping out their engine for battery+electric.

This aircraft can probably do about 400km range. With reserves, maybe 350km. That's not nothing, about Bakersfield to San Jose. And this thing is not fully optimized. If you REALLY wanted distance, you'd pressurize the cabin, use even higher aspect ratio wings, retractable gear, blend the body into the wing a bit, etc, and you could do up to about 1000km range with today's batteries (you'd be mostly battery by weight).
I wasn't talking about factual errors, although it's really easy to play that game, too. Bias can come from a lot of different areas. Sometimes you use partisan quote as a headline, you refuse to cover a certain issue, you extensively cover a different issue... lots of ways to do it without lying.

If you want to talk about factual errors, Fox is the only mainstream news network that has peddled debunked conspiracy theories, such as:

- birtherism (they had Trump talking about it many times)

- Seth Rich was murdered (for which they were sued)[1]

- death panels[2]

- Charlottesville rallies attended by actors[3]

There are a lot more. There are no MSNBC equivalents.

1. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/13/business/fox-news-seth-ri...

2. https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2014/nov...

3. https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2017/08/17/sean-hannity-ha...
Ah appealing to authority as last argument, naturally any kind of opinion and knowledge of what I might have as Android developer, or former professional experience in systems programming is worthless.

Nice.
Indeed, which is part of why most flight schools don’t buy new planes at all. I was mostly trying to refute the grandparents assertion that it was a “perfect plane for flight school.”

On the other hand, the discontinued Cessna 162 sold for $150k and is more similar to the eFlyer’s capabilities.
You already made it. VCs aren't risking much at this point, your business idea and execution was validated by market already and they would push you for 500% YoY growth, likely destroying you in the process. IMO unless you want to risk everything to rule the world, avoid. If you are in the exponential growth phase and your capital is not covering your operational expenses and you have to throttle down your business, get a loan instead.
Demotivating to whom? I imagine the intent is to avoid creating an impression that anyone has the power to make their pet issue priority #1 for the dev team just by throwing enough money at it.
it's interesting how energy density requirements might above atmosphere flying a feature ..
> > The whole point of currency is short-term

> Not if you're saving for retirement or your kid's college fund.

No, even there: it's to be the short-term stable thing you trade other stuff (for most people, labor) for and then use to buy the productive asset you invest for those purpose. It's an important part of the process, just not the final vehicle.

It is very much not for direct use as the final vehicle for those purposes itself, because the attributes which make something good as a long-term investment are very different than those that make it good as currency. (Savings accounts, which still are only good for fairly short-term reserves and not the purposes you lay out, aren't the same as raw currency.)
That is exactly his point.
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