skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you really always stop for your meal break somewhere there's a supercharger? A meal and a charger are not located in the same place for most people most of the time.
What myths, metaphors, and anecdotes can offer philosophy and reason
Hey HN. After teaching myself to code over the last year and launching multiple products, I thought I would at some point “feel” more like a developer.

For whatever reason that feeling hasn’t changed, so I decided to run a poll to see when others thought the inflection point really happened. When does someone really “become” a developer?

I thought the responses to the poll (N=300+) were really interesting and perhaps the lack of alignment in the responses led me to discover that maybe there wasn’t a defining point.

Do you agree? Interested to hear thoughts on this.
How much do you know about the personal data you give up online? Google
While you seem to have started a grammar war complete with grammar Nazis, I appreciate the feedback.
Curious, how does your school solve this with students' phones? Have y'all considered requiring mandatory monitoring apps? Or cell phone data jammers and requiring them use y'all's wifi and require a CA cert install?
Did you read your own comment or are you too busy trying to force outrage...

The types of information we collect from your financial institutions _may include_, but are not limited to
I wouldn't say it's astroturfing. People who participate in the program just seem to be really enthusiastic about it.
I think an important point was missed: Steve writes:

> The first big idea is that unlike in the 20th century when there were two phases of funding startups–Seed capital and Venture capital–today there is a new, third phase. It’s called Growth capital.

It used to be that The Public would provide the "Growth capital" via an IPO; Now the public is providing, I suppose, post-Growth capital via the IPO. In an current era where the market believes P/E ratios of 24 make sense [1], that has so far been viable.

If more historically normal valuations return to public companies, or if the latest crop of unicorns fail to provide great returns for the IPO investors, I strongly suspect this new division of funding phases will come to an end.

[1] https://www.macrotrends.net/2577/sp-500-pe-ratio-price-to-ea...
So you want better public transportation.
Yes, I agree. We have (trying to have) a similar culture. The overtime is not expected, but the problem is task/context switching, which got better (less).
I am bit conflicted about the opinion on long road trips is because now I cant think of any other car other than Tesla for Long Road Trips because
1. Auto Pilot takes so much stress away. For starters consider it as ADAS
2. Never had problem with charging where i live. 10 to 20 minute stop for another 4 hrs drive in average.

I did a long road trip from San Diego to Breckenridge more than 2000 miles (round trip) and never had range anxiety and trip was more enjoyable than any other car
Article 13: Is this the internet's 'climate change' moment?
I find someone like Susan Fowler much more inspirational, in just about every respect. (Not that I have anything against Marissa Mayer per se.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Fowler

https://www.ft.com/content/b4bc2a68-dc4f-11e7-a039-c64b1c09b...
I agree that Org-mode and Markdown are pointlessly different! The latter has no excuse for existing, given that the former both long predates it in time and vastly exceeds it in power.
Well, then there's no way to tell whether they're using the strangler pattern, or simply not replacing Gecko with Servo at all. I find the former to be highly unlikely though, given the amount of work that would entail.
ad Good science, I just randomly bumped into this video today that very nicely explains the differences between good science and bad science. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umo6pMCkcXs (safely skip the first 3 minutes)
what do you do at BCG if you dont mind me asking?
What kind of startup are we talking about here? E.g., 1-10 person company, or one that's accepted a few rounds of founding and has a measurable likelihood of IPOing in a few years? Both can reasonably be considered startups.
Well, it depends on the definition of "startup." If you work exclusively at seed-stage or A-round companies with like less than 15 employees, your salary will be a lot lower than if you work at lots of B and C-stage companies.

I've worked at companies that at least called themselves startups for my entire career, and I own a house in San Bruno, my wife and I each have paid-for cars, we can put our kids through school, and we put away savings.
The birth of AI nationalism – increasingly shapes great power rivalry
You get unified billing through AWS/Amazon marketplace:

"Elasticsearch Service on Elastic Cloud"
Sold By: ElasticSearch Inc

https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/B01N6YCISK?qid=1554910...

MongoDB Atlas
Sold By: MongoDB

https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/B077D557RX?qid=1554910...

They are both managed and supported by their respective companies and billing is through AWS.
You are speaking about other people’s choices and assuming you know what went in to their decision. If you had written the same thing but said you had an iphone, and that is why you bought it, that would have at least a little more weight. I would have the same issue asking an iphone owner for their thoughts on why people buy android.

Nearly all owners of brand X believe it has a more favorable value proposition than brand Y. Instead of concluding that they value different things, they often assume that the majority of owners of Y products must be buying on something other than value. When someone says people only buy Apple products to look cool, that’s what they are doing.
WASM makes some sense in the browser, but what horrifies me about it is that it is going the way of Electron.

The usual pattern:

1. Instead of figuring out how to do things well in the native space, developers hack something together from web technologies, because it's "simpler".

2. They realize it doesn't work all that well and reinvent some aspect of native environment to fill the gaps.

3. They backport all the complexity back to the web, because they want to run one codebase everywhere.

This is incredibly backwards. We get bloated faux-native apps that use abstractions that make zero sense outside of the web context. We get web technologies that are bad approximations of what has been done reasonably well in the native space. Finally, we get more and more complexity with each iteration.

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BTW, does anyone remember how Alan Kay said[1] browsers should be designed to be like mini operating systems? Does anyone remember how many people said he is wrong and doesn't understand the web? Well, browsers increasingly are used as an operating system, except it's a system formed by accretion, not by deliberate design. So maybe, just maybe, people should pause, listen to Kay and read up on how similar problems were solved by very smart people before us, instead of just adding more and more web-ducktape to everything.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKg1hTOQXoY&t=1405s
When was the last time you saw a supercharger in a fast food or restaurant parking lot? I live in a part of the Northeast where Teslas are very popular but I haven't seen one.
It's insane that in the wealthiest country in the world, young people have to be indebted in order find a job. It's a modern day form of indentured servitude. It just shows how old the HN demographics are by the amount of overt support for this kind of program.
I was the exact opposite. 6-7 years of restaurant work for 40 hours a week with a bachelors degree mixed in cause terrible burnout for me. Once I got my office job I had instant relief. I could feel myself getting burnt out again due to over work (and very underpaid). Switched jobs and found a great team and company!
If cognitive load is what you care about, you should try autopilot’s cruise control with distance keeping. Stress erased from driving and cognitive load lifted almost completely.

The win from this overcomes any cognitive load from thinking about charging by a factor of 100 or more in my experience. Most people are blown away by this when they get it. Of course it’s not unique to Tesla but it’s a big benefit.
> As Venture Capital emerged as an industry in the mid 1970’s, investors in venture-funded startups began to give stock options to all their employees.

I don't understand this part of the post. When do "investors" grant stock options? When I did a startup back in the 90's the founders owned all the equity the day after the company was incorporated and a stockholder agreement signed specifying what each of us owned. We then sold equity to angel and venture investors by carving out a piece of the common in the former case, and issuing new preferred shares in the latter. Later the company granted ISOs to employees by an act of management, ratified by the board which did of course include investors. But at no time would I have said that the investors "shared their ownership" with employees. All current owners were diluted by the issuance of new shares or rights to new shares, but it was never a flat-out decision by the investors to share what they owned. It was a management decision.
Ethicists should overall should have the super power to commit no crime because of their amazing ability to justify all of their actions through complex logical arguments. This a boon to society as the ability to justify anything allows you to do anything and remain ethical, or maybe the entire field is useless.
Does it not seem fucked up that we're allowing corporations to make their own exclusive TLDs in the first place?
Our roads and bridges are in shambles, while our universities are the best in the world.
CloudSQL overall is a great product, but not having a public roadmap or communicating at all with their customers is pretty rotten and you really can't trust them because of that. I would recommend anyone considering putting things on CloudSQL stay vigilant - this may be the last update for 3yrs (like the last release) so don't get too attached.

We tried for months to get an answer out of somebody at Google about this and could not get a solid response - no clue if they were working on it at all, if the product had anyone working on it, or if it was even going to stay around. This caused us (and I'm sure many others, based on the huge threads on their bug tracker) to move off of CloudSQL for greener pastures. These "surprise" Apple-style announcements don't make anything better for the people who actually have to plan their infrastructure out.
Slaves were merchandise for the VOC but they did not import many slaves to do work [1]. They typically (ab)used the local population to do that. Still nothing to be proud of, but it is a different story than slaves that were brought to the Americas to work on plantations. Exploitation of the local people would certainly be unethical by today's standards, it wasn't unethical back then and it also wasn't a crime (although you probably meant the word "crime" figuratively).

[1]> the Dutch had only a relatively insignificant share in the Atlantic slave trade—never averaging much more than 5–6 per cent of the total.
https://www.history.ac.uk/reviews/review/545
on longer trips it can be a bit annoying, having done a sixteen hundred mile round trip my advice is, travel when stuff is open. That was you will have something to do on the thirty to forty five minute charges. Fortunately for me my US route; mostly along I75 but crossed Ohio and back; meant the super chargers were located in shopping centers where some place to spend time was a simple walk across the lot

I know people love to say, we all stop for this, that, and the other thing, but the truth is on most longer trips most people just want to get to the end and adding stops of thirty minutes or more can impact a schedule. I cannot imagine it without access to the charging speed my TM3 can do let alone its range. Since a destination is not always guaranteed to have charging opportunities you are pretty much anchored to the closes SC.

with regards to AP. Love it, so nice to have a system always aware. my usage is to turn it on but act as if I were driving. it certainly has removed any panic issues where you take your eyes off the road and the situation changes badly.
Do you feel the same way about a user running a local resolver with caching, or modifying their hosts file to bypass dns?
FWIW, we're a reasonably successful social application that's _heavy_ on real time networking; so there's always a large number of users active and our services are generally humming along at high throughput.

Lots of automated tests. A good community team. Code reviews. A _rigid_ feature-branch-and-test process. A _rigid_ closed beta->open beta->release process.

And we still have bugs. But things don't catch fire often, and when they do, it's usually not our fault. ;)
The significance of the image is not in its quality, but in its mere existence.

It's enough to confirm various predictions, and should give a new baseline for truth about black holes.
They may very well exist but I’ve yet to encounter one that does not.
The Flawed Logic Behind “Thinking” Computers, Part I
Prove it. Show the evidence that private primary schools perform no better than public schools.
How far off are we from DoH being supported by common operating systems, DHCP, etc?

It would be nice if these apps could detect whether the system is using DoH and only fall back to their own DoH resolver in the case they're using "legacy" DNS.
GP saying that it should be offered by the university because then if the university fails to produce a population of students that can make money in the job market, they will suffer.

It's an alignment of incentives much like how some people say colleges should be penalized or on the hook for having a high percentage of students that default on student loans. It would supposedly incentivize schools not to just charge students $300k for an education that gets does not prepare them for the job market.

Personally I think over-aligning these incentives and making college into a machine to make you a profitable worker sounds brutally dystopian, but something has to change about the current world.
> Our plan is to select a set of Trusted Recursive Resolvers (TRRs) that we will use for DoH resolution in Firefox. Those resolvers will be required to conform to a specific set of policies that put privacy first.

So can I manually set one myself to my local pi-hole instance? I have already been setting the TRR about:config values (ala [0]), will that remain?

I am wary of Mozilla becoming the arbiter of acceptable DNS providers for me, so I should be able to override it if I want.

0 - https://blog.stackpath.com/serverless-dns-over-https-at-the-...
I think it really just depends on charger availability. Probably could not perform that same trip if you lived in the midwest.
Might be practical, but this does feel completely awful and rent-seeking in the worst possible way.
The visualization I liked the best in Interstellar was that of the wormhole, seen from the outside. (The "travel" through it was rubbish.)

The thing would look like a mirror sphere, floating in the middle of space, reflecting the space around you. Except it would be the space on the other side of the wormhole, not that behind you, and the motion of the "mirrored" image would be opposite of that on a real mirror. (The apparent image on the wormhole's spherical surface would appear to move in your same direction, as you're moving around it, not in the opposite direction as it does on a spherical mirror.)

It took me a while to reason about it and figure out that it was indeed what a wormhole would look like, if we could find or create one.

https://youtu.be/f3ptQ0CPMmU
Because you'll be taxed on something that often has no liquidity nor market. The estimated value on your stock may be $5 and you'll get taxed on that but if you were to go sell it you may only be able to fetch a fraction of that on the secondary market (if there is even one for those stocks), possibly not even covering the taxes you have to pay.
Not in the Bay Area, where a lot of interesting jobs are (startup or not).

In order to afford those things there, you need to laugh at startup offers and go work for a big company.

Seriously, I would love a world in which every single damn engineer shows their middle finger at a startup trying to hire them unless they pay market rate AND offer the written possibility to sell their shares every year or so, at the current company valuation.
Misspeak? This video says it's 4 million times as massive as the sun, but today's press release and Wikipedia article about it both say it's 6.5 billion times as massive.
Ask HN: Which night vision camera for Linux?
Most USB web cams don't seem to have IR/nightvision. Are there any camera under $50 that can be used with Linux, have night vision, and don't have weird connections to Chinese IP addresses? (Either a web cam or IP camera.)

I want to place a camera in my room in case the land lady's drug addict son tries to pull something again at night.

I'm using a Heimvision HM205, but I don't trust the app, PixPlus.
This is truly horrible code. As a long-time web developer, it's very painful to see how crappy this is.
My understanding is that they haven't built any structure yet but that they effectively occupy the shoal by guarding it with coast guard and navy ships: I.e. if you tried to reach the place you'd have to go past the Chinese Navy first.
Are they really planning on rolling out the v3 superchargers over the next few months!?
Aquameta – Why We Must Rethink Our Tech Stack
Ok, wait a second. I liked a lot of this video, but there are some aspects which are kind of ridiculous. He says his reason for his confidence in this prediction is "I think it's going to look like a fuzzy coffee mug stain." He doesn't give an actual reason.

He does talk a lot about theory, a lot of it interesting and novel to me, but by the end of the video, most of this theory suggests a different-looking image!
> I wonder if that would violate Mozilla's requirements?

The real question is if you're allowed to use your own resolver that conforms to your requirements if they differ from Mozilla's, even if a bit buried from the default list,
I'll be roughly half-way through at the end of the semester.

It's the hardest thing I've ever done, and well worth it.

The quality of instruction varies wildly. OMSCentral is a student-run review site that covers the courses well.

The logistics depend almost entirely on the quality of the TAs in the courses -- there are courses like AI4R where the professor is heavily involved and answers all student questions, but the majority I've seen the professors are very hands-off and the TAs handle all student interaction.
Non-Tesla owner here with some questions:

- are there ever times when there aren’t enough charging stations free due to other Teslas tying them up?

- do you find yourself chatting with fellow Tesla owners while charging?

- are the superchargers free to use?
Thank you for writing this! This discussion is long overdue.
This is only true if you don't own anything, never make any contributions, don't have any investment accounts, and don't have any self-employment income. Otherwise the 1040 is a huge pain in the ass requiring forms within forms and raising tons and tons of nebulous questions about your exact status within the legal definitions.

I wouldn't assume that the people who pay for tax preparation every year are idiots.
Thanks, there is hope then! Something similar I see at my current work place. I always try to send the message it's a marathon and not a constant sprint.
Yeah, apparently radio interferometry is still very manual and so involves many relatively subjective decisions to produce an image.

That's probably why they had several analysers that they then combined into progressively larger teams until they could produce this Consensus-A picture.
What makes you think any of it is astroturfing?
I never said how many years ago I joined...by a "few years" I meant 5. I said I sold some shares via a tender offer, which are company sponsored, and last year was the first time I was offered that opportunity. Companies can't block you from selling on a secondary market unless you've specifically agreed to that as part of the initial grant. It's far more common that they have the "right of first refusal" clause which means they get the chance to buy back your shares before selling to a third party.

I don't think there's anything particularly special about my situation other than I was fortunate to join a now unicorn early on.
Make the college free and provide students with a living stipend. Return higher education subsidies (and tax brackets) to their 1950s levels. Join the rest of the developed world.
As others have said, crown molding can help that. Also, there are flat cables that can make running cable between baseboard and carpet (and even under carpet) virtually invisible.
> (1) likening her to an alleged criminal

> (3) dismissing the entirety of her career achievements as being due to her being a woman

> (4) pinning all the blame on her

I did no such thing. I would greatly appreciate it if you didn’t put words in my mouth. I made sure to point out that sleeping with your boss whether you are male or female is inappropriate. I have 0 opinion on whether she is female or male. That has not been the point of the argument.

And no, I do not think of her as a criminal. Those are your own words, not mine.

As for the failure of yahoo, I only pointed out she stepped up because of the deal she got. I have not blamed her for the downfall. Those are your words again.

I think you are having an overreaction to my comments. I don’t need some soul searching as you suggest. Rather you need to learn to calm yourself down and argue less with your emotions. Most of these arguments you claim I am expressing are of your own skewed perspective.

I have no interest in arguing with someone that thinks of himself as better than others. You are entitled to idolise her as you wish, but people can have different opinions of her. You took a counter argument and drew a whole picture of my character based on that. The one with a problem is you. Since you asked me to souls search. I would kindly ask you to stare at the mirror. Have a good day.
We're talking about different pages - one is the page with the blog post about this 339 bytes of responsive CSS (it's 2+MB). The other is the demo page with 339 bytes of CSS + the web font. The former is what the parent was talking about.
Heck, even without corrections listing some would be way, way better than just claiming they exist.
It doesn't seem to be that accurate, as expectation was for it to have smoother photo sphere, but it has irregular bulges (5 of them). I think they discussed it briefly in the press conference as well. It would be interesting to see if this would change understanding of general relativity and may be give a hint for a theory of quantum gravity.
The Problem with ‘5 Whys’ (2016)
This is great, not so much for the BigInts, but rather for small BigInts, aka, integers. At last there will be integers in js.
No. But the CEO of Tesla doesn't do that either.

(They can't tell the reason for the crash remotely, they extract the data directly, in person, with physical access to the car.)
yep, and trying to stay relevant in the web development world is exhausting.

I learned SQL once, and it's carried me throughout my career. Every 2-3 years, the ideal JS developer checklist completely changes, and now I need to learn how to bundle and deploy JS apps yet again.

It gets less and less fun re-learning how to do the same thing over and over again. I used to love learning all about the latest greatest tools in the web world; but I just don't have that kind of energy anymore. It drives me crazy to have to go through the process of learning gulp/webpack/rollup/whatever new JS tool comes out in 2019/2020.
Getting Started with Angular PWAs Part 2