skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would imagine it's partly a reflection of the classic Python paradox. Developers who'll go out of their way to learn a new language and paradigm before it's mainstream are more likely to be highly talented. Companies that are using less popular languages rather than sticking with the default are more likely to take hiring high quality engineers seriously and pay them well.
I mean I avoid the weapons industry like the plague as I dont want there to be a strong chance my work will be used to kill anyone. I also dont think I've ever ate up anything management has told me that would begin to go against what I morally believed. Maybe some parents raise their kids to be a lot more skeptical of the world?

Moreover, it seems unintuitive that someone with a mortgage and kids to feed could be more discerning about where their paycheck comes from.
> If nothing else, technologists often don't have much control over the budget versus business leaders.

The business sets the budget and the requirements, but whose recommendations do you think they listen to when delivering that? Often it is in-house tech' people.

There's definitely a lag between technical people getting interested in something and that thing getting big in enterprise, but there's still a correlation. Just as there's a inverse when everyone in tech hates a thing and a few years later businesses stop adopting it (see Oracle's slow decline, particularly for new customers).
The "symptom" claim is one thing, the "not an effect" claim seems absurd. Your statement is not the same as GGP's.
...but customers being trained on “GCP's tooling, quirks, documentation” and not your competitors’ is. Also it extends beyond training, even cloud storage apis and tools are not drop-in compatible in clients and scripts.
The breakthrough seems like the clarity of the images, few cameras operate with as little light as a space based telescope used to view distant objects. They seems to have paired that tech with tradition CT scanner. So you are not technically wrong but I'm not sure why those are wtf points, any improvement is a good improvement when hunting for tumors. I have thought to myself many times while observing a doctor look at the various scans they take, "wtf, those images are shit, you sure there is no cancer doc?". Also competition in this space is excellent, hyping this is better than your next deliver service startup.
That's true of all other languages though. Go, Ruby, etc. don't offer backported releases as well.

Also, you can use the community packages, such as AdoptOpenJdk, which will offer backported fixes on old releases for a much longer period.

And then there is Amazon Coretto, which is free.

As well as Azul or RedHat, but those are mostly paid as well.
How I Found My Market (and a 10% Monthly Growth Rate)
What is non binary? I haven't heard that before. Can you share some experiences?
Linux 5.2 to Enable GCC 9's Live-Patching Option
I part run a non-profit site on Netlify and the experience is pretty great. The real killer bit for me has been their GitHub integration where they will render a preview build of any PRs put up to the site.
I'd attribute it to two or three key factors:

1. Large Asian population. The SF companies I've worked at often had 30-45% Asian workforce. In theory this should be a good thing as far as diversity goes (and I have had the privilege of learning from and getting to know people coming from very different societies on a personal level, most of them Asian). But for a variety of reasons I'm not going to dig into, Asians don't count as "diverse" anymore.

2. Overwhelmingly left leaning workforce means that the prevailing liberal attitudes are amplified and go largely unquestioned. This sometimes even manifests itself as the organized exclusion of those that don't harbor the same politics: https://www.fastcompany.com/3067152/lessons-in-techs-past-di...

3. Perhaps as a result of #2, many in the SF Bay area aren't exploring non-discriminatory explanations as to why there are few African Americans in Bay area tech companies. First off, the Black population is not very big in the Bay area. Less than 2% of mountain view's population is black. Overall the Bay area is 6.7% black, about half that of the country as a whole. Couple this with lower rates of educational attainment beyond high school (which is usually necessary for software development roles) and it's not hard to see how a lower black population in Bay area tech roles can happen even absent discrimination in hiring. But saying these things to my coworkers would probably adversely affect my career, so the prevailing narrative of discrimination in hiring is left unchallenged.

This results in some interesting behavior. Tech roles with lower barrier to entry like help desk support are now nearly entirely black, Hispanic, or female. We recently recategorized physical security as a "tech" role (ostensibly because physical security is an important part of infosec) and now easily 70%+ of our physical security staff is black. This has sort of backfired in a sense, the few black developers I know report being consistently mistaken for security or help desk personnel.
Do you happen to know why your organisation opted for Oracle Cloud relative to some of the more established players (AWS, Azure, etc)?
Then vote a better government.
They have zero chance of competing with either aws or azure for the enterprise. It goes against their culture entirely.

Unfortunately for them they also burned way too many bridges with technologists as well.
Good defaults can take you very far.
> If you want security/bug fixes, you'll need to upgrade your application to the new JDK every 6 months. For a team like ours (~8) people, it's simply not viable for us to be in a state of continual upgrading.

You need to upgrade to a new JDK every couple of months if you want to stay secure even if you stay on LTS. You are simply assuming that upgrading to patches is easier than upgrading to feature releases. I don't believe this is true, certainly not over a long duration.

The new feature releases are time-based and were originally meant to be called 18.3, 18.9, 19.3 etc. Don't be confused by the fact that eventually people preferred the Chrome-like version naming scheme to mean that the new feature releases are major ones; they are not. In fact, the probability that your application would break by a patch release and by a feature release is not all that different.

We want the feature release process to be gradual and cheapest overall. The LTS path is meant for those who for some reason need a less gradual process than either the feature releases or the old model.

Of course, as an Oracle employee, I value your business, and I hope you choose to buy our support (that includes more than patches) even if you switch to the gradual update process.
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19616244
Thanks for the feedback! Yes I got a professional voice actor to narrate it as my voice is way too dull and I didn't want to send people to sleep ;)

I will definitely plan to auto-mark videos as watched and also produce a completion certificate - these are great ideas, thank you.

I also plan to make the video page layout more like YouTube, with the video window taking up 2/3 width of the page and the list of videos taking up the other 1/3 width down the right hand side. Unfortunately I don't yet have the tech skills to do that, but working on it :)
Present a uniform environment to scripts. For example fingerprinting doesn't work very well on iPhones because they are all so similar. Firefox could pretend to be some sort of "standard" machine.

That's definitely not easy but it beats blacklists which are trivial to work around.
I imagine that the differences between men and women seem a lot less interesting if you are a woman pursuing a career in STEM and are trying to either improve your spatial reasoning or prove that you are not deficient in it.
You can experience different levels of fingerprinting protection by (for an extreme option) using the Tor browser, or (for a less severe option) turning on privacy.resistfingerprinting in Firefox.

Unfortunately such privacy measures come with a bunch of inconveniences. For both, Recaptca will become more obstructionist. Your window won't start maximised any more. Zoom levels will be forgotten when you open a link in a new tab. And if you use Tor Browser, by design there's also no saving passwords, no saving cookies, no saving tabs between sessions, and no browser/address bar history.
That ignores the entire body of climate researches over many decades and probably millenia of person-years of research, ice cores, glacial/polar ice cap melt, etc. It seems like a valid point, but it really isn't.

edit: it really isn't. We know the current warming is without precedent in rate, and has an upper limit around the PETM (about 50 Ma). It's like someone who had never seen a car before presuming it was powered by ghosts. It maybe reasonable within their frame of reference, but it is their frame of reference that is flawed in an objective context.
Workers forget they're basically underpaid chattel.
Probably a lot of female relatively low paid back tellers - could even bring cleaning and janitorial back in house (and hire mostly men) as that would make the pay disparities look better.
I live in karlsruhe and the KVV there did a similiar change and after living with it for a few months I can say that it's a real improvement!
Probably due to the archaic state of banking in the US rather than excessive need.
A more appropriate analogy might be if a team had created a "healthy foods" website listing some foods they liked and gone to the trouble of promoting it on places like HN and ProductHunt

Would it be reasonable to suggest that it'd be helpful if the creators of such a website went to slightly more effort to define the health benefits they were focused on and substantiate the claim that these foods were relatively healthy than someone creating a list of games they thought were fun on Steam? Would the value of the service lie in them doing that? I'd say yes
>trump nature which has been known for melenia too.

come on, this had to be intentional
Some of it is marketing. I've been in the room when they've tried to sell before, and Google is too cocky and arrogant.

Some of it is cowing to typical enterprise asks, like redlining objectionable contract terms, willingness to deploy on-site consultants, supporting versions for longer time horizons, being more flexible with egress charges since enterprise places can't migrate all at once, offering experts up to your finance org to explain how to make cloud compute a capital (vs expense) line item, etc. Things MSFT is very good at, AMZN at least tries, and GOOG historically has ignored.
It's easy to achieve such "freedoms" in a small ethnostate. Not so easy to do in the racially, economically diverse US.
US stock markets also have points they will freeze at:
https://personal.vanguard.com/us/content/Funds/FundsToolsCir...
ah yes. actually in oracles playbook that comes later. after you have a stranglehold on the market.
Berliner here. The ring (called like that by most citizens, here drives the “ringbahn” – circular train) serves most as orientation. People say “I live inside the ring”, or “that party is far outside, outside the ring”.

Removing this element alone is a really bad decision. By looking at the original map a couple of times it is very easy to use the ring as visual aid and go from there. It is essential for navigation.

In general I think adding more curves does not do any good here. I appreciate people trying to improve the map, and certainly there is much to be improved, but the approach of berlintransitmaps goes in the wrong direction. It is much harder to read than the original map imo.

The biggest problem is contrast.
Considering what big tech firms do in China mostly is copying other people's ideas using their own guys then drive them out of business, cheaper is better.
How long until Google cancels this with 6 months notice?
In my experience, their documentation of the AdWords API has been consistently bad.
To expand on @jvanderbot excellent reply, there's "Roche Limit" [1] - region of space close to massive bodies where gravitation gradient will break up the orbiting body.

Given that white dwarfs remain in the cool-down phase for trillions of years, any orbiting body's orbit will slowly decay and eventually it ends up inside the Roche limit.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roche_limit
My bank Coastal Federal Credit Union (I think they’ve rebranded but I can’t keep their new name in my head) has started using video tellers for most things and then a few people in the back to handle everything else. It’s pretty convenient because it lets them have 7-7/7 hours instead of the shorter usual hours.
I don’t think it necessarily implies that. He could mean in terms of scale and sophistication for example.
That makes sense. I don't have a degree but my social and professional circles are from top schools and the like. I was missing the view that a lot of people go to university in the same town they grew up in (although I question if that's the case for SF/the valley).
There should be a distinction between the values of a company and the cultural norms. The idea I've adopted is value-fit / culture-add.

The values are non-negotiables. To take your example, for any company I work for or manage for, it must be a place where gay people--for example--are welcome and comfortable being themselves.

Cultural norms are a different story. I want my hires to add to our company's pool of cultural perspectives. This means they may have behaviors that diverge from present norms. This can be disruptive, but I think it's a net win in over time. If accepting cultural diversity is a value, it doesn't eliminate disruption, but it certainly makes it less painful.

To me, whether someone does or doesn't send a thank you note does not speak to the explicit or implicit values of any place I've been to. It's in pure norm space. And even then, it doesn't say much to me. I appreciate receiving thank-you notes on a human level, but it does nothing for me in making a hiring decision.
I'm using Google Maps platform for various tasks such as geocoding. This article sounds very hostile for indie developers like me. I also hope he doesn't get his hands on Tensorflow - a bit like Oracle got their hands on Java/MySQL and started suing people for various usage of Java.
This is sensationalist. Reading the article, it seems like he's going to invest much more in an aggressive sales team, which they desperately need.

Google Cloud sucks at enterprise sales. By all objective measures, Oracle absolutely owns this part. It's not as black and white as they need to become Oracle in order to learn some things from them.

As someone who consults with a lot of enterprises and helps them with their cloud architecture, I can see first hand that the market share of Google Cloud there is about 0. It's only internal, toy projects and nothing critical, because they already have AWS and Azure and that's that.

Even with all their technological excellence, it doesn't matter. That strategy failed, and they're losing.

I'm willing to wait and see how a sales-centric strategy works out.
It's not sameness so much as getting everyone on the same page.

A multitude of opinions is fine so long as they're not the polar opposite or just pure obstructionism.
Dictatorships have always ruled through fear and surveillance, and today's China is no exception.
Yeah this is a disappointing approach. At least for crypto mining it should be fairly easy to detect heavy computation and ask the user's permission to continue.
Well that's certainly the intent of some bad policies passed under cover.
But generally speaking if you shine a light to those policies most people will be against them.
> why don't they enact regulations

Not sure who are "they". FAA only cares about safety. Airport cares about profits. If tiny planes pay the same fee as large ones, why nerf them?
Is there no way to run this, without relying on a third party server/service?
Libertarians are insane utopians who got their ideas from the Koch brothers' Cato Institute and a fiction writer who was damaged goods from an extreme overreaction to totalitarianism masquerading as communism.
1. I don't quite understand why people love Rust. I have nothing against it but I just don't quite get why the love. I viewed it as Modern C++ with Memory Management done right from Engineering perspective and elegant syntax with package management done right from the beginning. And may be just my circle or reading list, many Rubyist jumped to Rust, and more often after trying a few times and clicked, they felt in love with it.

2. Ruby = Rails. ~8.5% of Ruby Developers and there are 8.2% of Rails Developers.

3. Ruby / Rails are for many years split in love and dreaded languages and framework. ~50% on both side. I don't see any other languages and framework has similar pattern.

4. There are more Django / Laravel developers than Ruby Rails.

5. ~60% of Developers are on Windows. That was obvious right? And yet Ruby / Rails Community has ignore the Windows as a development platform for years. [1] My guess it is the lack of resources.

6. Speaking of Resources, Ruby is the top programming language that is surviving without a Major Cooperation ( Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Apple ) backing.

7. Ruby 's Median salary, comparatively speaking is trending on the higher side. And also one of the highest with respective of lower years of experience. That is both good and bad. Developers get higher salary, but less company are willing to choose it for cost reason.

8. Am I correct to assume those Salaries exclude any Stock grant? Which is common in US?

9. Visual Studio Code really is taking over, and there are more performance improvement coming. [2] I wonder if they would consider moving to WASM in the future.

10. Financial and banking - 8.9%, are the third in respondent's industry. I am a little surprise how many people are working in that field.

11. 60% of them prefer to work in office . THAT is great to hear. Not every one likes working from home or Remote. May be those who prefer to work from home are just very vocal about it.

12. And it is for that reason 80% of them prefer to have a Face to Face conversation. As easy as it is to type, write, calling or even Video conference, I still believe there is something when two people sit together and communicate. There is something that goes far beyond words coming out.

[1] https://samsaffron.com/archive/2019/03/31/why-i-stuck-with-w...

[2] https://twitter.com/kaimaetzel/status/1114908539342864384?s=...
Can someone explain why rust is so beloved?

Also I work in R primarily, I find it funny that love and dread are both near 50%.
I can't confirm that, they are providing good support as a sales tactic, rather than because of our spend. To clarify: I don't have first-hand experience with their support, but I've heard from colleagues that it's been fine.
Interestingly enough,I'm having the opposite problem here in the US... I've been applying to multiple tech firms for hardware roles and keep on getting rejected since they are almost all trying to hire senior positions rather than mid-level at this time.
Dropbox and G Suite’s new integration is more like a mind meld
I'm surprised some geek hasn't converted all those programs into Python, Java or JS and put up a website.

I still have my original 1982 TRS-80 Color Computer 2 in the garage. My oldest possession.
Old people are too expensive. NEXT!!!
Yahoo strikes $117.5M data breach settlement after earlier accord rejectd
The primary problem with petroleum is greenhouse gasses, so I'm far less concerned about its use in plastics than I am in its use for fuel.
Do you live in the United States? It doesn't sound like it. This is not the way things work.
Forewarning... I think a lot of people on HN (myself included) are a bit tired of this joke now. While I get and understand the frustration/sentiment, I think it's a bit played out, and doesn't add to the discussion anymore.
Facebook still tracks you after you deactivate account
> but you don't know what, so you avoid breaking any laws to be on the safe side.

If you don't know, then how can you know when you aren't breaking any laws?

I mean - you could be doing everything "by the book" - but then they "make a law" that makes it illegal to do something which you were doing fine the day before, but they don't tell you about that law- then they haul you in...

And seriously, nobody can really keep ahead of every law - even in western countries - it's all a sham, really; not even judges nor prosecutors are aware of all the laws. I don't even think legislators know them all. There's just way too many; at any point all of us are breaking some kind of law at some level. When nobody can honestly know the law, not even those who are supposed to interpret it, or create it, or prosecute it, it's lost its original purpose, and has become nothing more than a means of control thru fear.

I guess in this way, the "west" isn't that much different than China, we just each pretend about different things.
Japan's air force loses contact with F-35 stealth fighter
To me as someone who is in no way expert on automation or an economist but someone who knows how profit oriented big business is, especially banks, I have a question: this looks to me like they expect so much automation happening in the future that they can afford the move? Isn't that case with McDonald's too, where they can have self-serving locations in near future, so no problem with raising minimum hourly rates?

The ATMs nowadays do so much on their own. I was taken by surprise when last time I had 5 of my checks scanned and deposited cash into my checkings by a <big bank name here> ATM recently. No human interaction what-so-ever. So I can withdraw money using ATM, I can add money using ATM, and I can cash/deposit checks using ATM. Isn't that like 99% of what their 90% customers do? Isn't that the case that in 5-10 years they will need one person on premises to handle the remaining cases? So then that person can be making 20usd/hr, why not? If they're replacing 4-5 other workers, this is savings anyway.

Of course this won't touch things like mortgages or auto-loans. For now that is...

right?
Yes! Usbourne, which was mentioned elsewhere, has a "Coding for Beginners using Python" book. [1]

[1] https://www.usborne.com/quicklinks/eng/catalogue/catalogue.a...
You should search for the term + "gender", but the long and short of it is that certain folks don't feel particularly compelled to identify as "male" OR "female" and thus identify as a non-binary (!(M|F)) gender.
For clothing, I find it hard online to judge fit, quality of material, durability, etc. for one brand, and compared to other brands. Similar concerns for other product types.

I'm going to hate where this is all going.
Some sites are using these APIs as a way of providing positive data that the users environment is not a bot. I think if you ban this kind of thing you are going to break some important web apps.
Warren bill would send execs to jail for data breaches
The corollary is why should the state (ie tax payers) subsidize Baristas and Fast food workers.

Nurses Doctors etc there is an obvious moral incentive.
It depends on who you are and what you do. My health insurance costs more than what a typical minimum wage workers gross compensation.
hmm, maybe entropy is a better measure then total count
I can't speak for the OP, but from what I've seen in other organizations a reluctance to upgrade JDK versions usually indicates a lack of confidence in their test automation suite. If they can't be confident that their tests will catch regression defects then a JDK upgrade seems risky and requires planning ahead for a major manual testing effort. This is just one area where getting to 100% automated functional testing delivers huge benefits.
Google has decided to imitate AWS for ridiculously non-obvious service names.