skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> over 100,000 systems

Where did that number come from? How many were model 20's?
That would be 100 mainframes for each company in the Fortune 1000. How many of the 100,000 were installed and paid for? At even a low $50k per machine, that would be almost double IBM's total annual revenue in the mid 1960's, and they sold lots of punch cards, tabulators, sorters, collators, printers, minicomputers (1130's machines would have taken and 1620's, right?), calculating card punches, disk drives, tape drives, data cells, YNI. I toured the IBM mainframe production line at Poughkeepsie in early 1967, and it did not move quickly nor was it a beehive of activity, maybe 5 machines in process, and none of them moved in the 30-60 minutes I was there. I did not get the idea they could churn those things out in the 1000's.
AI joins the campaign against sex trafficking
Not only is this an old post that pops back up from time to time. This can't even happen. The timeouts work out so that you can't enter a password until the allotted time. So 5 min, 15, 45, 60, etc. It doesn't jump from one hour to 48 years...
Biz groups say judge was right to deny class cert in Microsoft sex-bias case
Visualising does appear to be a skill you can actively get better at, for example there's some evidence to suggest describing what you're seeing out loud as you're doing it can increase your ability with time and practice.

There's some work being done in this area under the name Image-Streaming: http://www.winwenger.com/imstream.htm
The government should just pay them for their codes for becoming public domain. How much I'm not sure about, but it should at least be for their expenses plus some interest over the time they spent.
It's pretty rough really, within Discord's native or webapp you have to pop open the devtools/network-tab and grab an auth token from a request header, heh

Works really well though. I've been lazy about addressing a mic-not-working issue on the linux client, and had been resorting to using the webapp when I wanna voice

This ends up working fine for me though re: voice

Low footprint is nice too
I think truly successful people should be able to use both tools to accomplish what they need.
The problem is if it's accredited then instead of just offering reviewed "iterate till you pass" programming projects, they will have to have high stakes "cram and regurgitate" style exams which are a staple of accredited higher ed. If you go for that stuff, why not just enroll in a university somewhere?
I was wondering wheather a free supply of food enabled by robots doing the job, and free basic housing could solve some of mankinds problems. Is there literature on the topic, had anyone done the maths?

Utopia or feasible, that's what I am wondering.
> Seeing people wish you happy birthday on there by clicking a button encapsulates how false the narrative is; if the reason you remembered my birthday is that Facebook told you then we don't have a relationship where you should be sending me a birthday message.

It's only as genuine or fake as you make it be. I'm sure you don't keep in touch with 100% of the people who made positive contributions to your life. You can take this as a less-awkward opportunity to wish them well, and maybe get back in touch if you feel like it, instead of living life as if their existence doesn't matter to you. Or you could not... you could do something else, or you could do nothing if you don't want to do anything with people you don't regularly keep in touch with. It's up to you how real it is and what it means; that you can only think of false narratives for it doesn't mean it is or needs to be that way.
How do you flow text from one column to the next, using as many columns as there is room for?
That you needed four paragraphs to get your point across kind of emphasises my point.

I don't mean to be rude, but the key to getting people's attention is to get your point across quickly. As soon as somebody starts going all you have to do is install a frobozz and murtle a plinth I really just lose interest.

EDIT - doubting myself I went back up the thread here and this topic kicks off with "meson installation has many dependencies, it is not very lightweight" ("lightweight" operationally defined here for this discussion) - to which somebody replies "it doesn't matter, Ninja includes Python" or words to that effect. "it's not the correct version of Python" is the general gist of what comes next to which our GGP here says "all you have to do" is set up a python virtual environment, which is around the point where I start to feel frustrated and the need to go do something interesting.

So to be clear, the discussion is not about python being lightweight, but meson, and trying to wave complexity away with yet another layer of complexity (even if it's something as well known as python virtualenvs) is not reducing complexity but hiding it, IMO.
How can I become the best programmer in my field?
A naive question, I know. And yet, how would I become one of the foremost expert programmers in my field?
This is interesting, thanks!
Someone has to administer, grade and maintain of those mandatory "Integrity Booster!" courses
and flash based "Digital Security and You! lessons

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Oh yea, who else is going to create that "PDF" that only opens on MS running Adobe?
A local coin/stamp person was completely uninterested in my old stamps from like 35 years ago. I think the shrinking number of collectors is outstripping the number of collections getting thrown out, and the whole idea of collecting stamps is just fading away.
One of the students in my middle school put it into beautiful terms. One day, they say "You know, the TV in your forehead?" as they put 3/4 a square with their fingers onto their brow (like a "C" shape) I still get chills thinking of the phrase sometimes, it just was so understandable and approachable for us 6th graders.

(Edit: word choice)
Vinyls, film cameras, typewriters, camper vans, and other objects which have been superseded by the ever turning wheels of progress have known notable regains of interest lately.

I wouldn’t be surprised if Urban Outfitters started selling vintage stamp collections.
I read both, and Fooled By Randomness. I would say you stand to gain a lot reading about the older ones as well.
> and facebook messenger too

Mostly. It doesn't show messages with the facebook link-preview.
Thanks for the first.

I'd not made any demands to the latter point, though there are times when keeping a spectacularly bad example around for debate, discussion, or reference can prove handy.

I'd put specific store in rough order "steelman" or best-case defenses or arguments for the indefensible, officially sanctioned references (as with textbooks), or with particularly poular bad examples, even if not particularly cogent.

Knowing your enemy, testing your own beliefs and biases, and walking into battle fully armed, are all benefits.

You don't need to find endless such examples (see also: Gish Gallop), but a carefully selected few can be exceedingly useful.

This applies to other areas as well, tech included.
Ask HN: EdX Experience
What is your experience with an edX course? Did you find it useful, in terms of knowledge gained and career progression?

Is a paid verified certificate worth it?

Any positive or negative experiences?
The issue in the under-developed world is lack of capital, machines, technology, etc. This is more of that. If that's the problem you were hinting at, I don't think this would be the solution.
The webpack team has a simple solution: they have a bot that closes inactive issues. The issuer need not keep the issue alive by posting into the issue.
Why are Norquist types inclined to impose even more burden on what the tax burden actually is? Even if the IRS calculated your taxes, you'd still get the bill to pay it. That's already more than could be said for payroll withholding, which is the primary "unseen" tax.
Another Trillian user chiming in.

They are working mainly on their own server and Trillian for web, but the desktop version is still alive https://trillian.im/news/
Gates 2020
Forget Reagan, they claimed they were trying to do it last year. Remember the post card?
You are treated like an adult so you "get to go home" whenever you choose to go home.

Seriously, if you're working somewhere where people care what time you go home, you can really do better!
I imagine it's a lot of work to reverse engineer all of the variants and all of the characters and all of the kerning rules etc. And then you can't advertise because the original name that everyone knows is trademarked.
> Georgia farmers lost more than a hundred and twenty million dollars

> H-2A workers are still among the lowest paid in the country

Why don't they pay labour $100M?
Practice Practice Practice.

Start with easier problems, go towards tougher problems then shift to multi-domain projects that are complex.

See an interesting solution to a difficult problem, solve it again on your own, then compare it to the approach used originally.

Being an expert programmer in a field, is actually being a good problem solver with a programming language.
Quite.

The role of easy travel (Mississippi steamboat in Melville's tale), or communications (mail, newspapers, telegraph, telephone, Intenet, ...), is also notable.

The Greek god Hermes (Mercury) represented travel, messengers, and tricksters. I find this interesting.
We (Sourcegraph) are interested in building an alternative to Critique at some point in the future, or at least enhancing existing code review tools to offer many of the favorite features of Critique.

What are your favorite/must-have Critique features?

(Also would love to jump on a video chat if you or anyone else is interested, and we could live-stream/share it on YouTube for others interested. Email me at sqs@sourcegraph.com if interested.)
This. Any maybe a form of market protection
The projects are certainly as rigorous anything you will get in any undergrad degree. The difference is the grading system. With Udacity, you have to hit every deliverable as if it were a paid contract, but you can keep going 'till you hit them all, since there's no deadline. In college, there's a deadline, but you can skip that one thing you couldn't quite get working, and still move on with a 'B', etc.
Do you get any closed-eye visuals while falling asleep? Obviously psilocybin massively increases ability at this, but I've found practising daily at night can increase control and level of detail dramatically over the course of a few months.

And from there it's possible, with effort, to do it while awake and with eyes open. If you've ever read Roald Dahl's "The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar", I've found the experience remarkably reminiscent.

I'm not sure if it's the same mechanism as aphants have, as it still feels far more laboured than what they describe and very much still in the realm of closed-eye visuals, but I've found it's better than nothing.
Cloud9 is still there https://aws.amazon.com/cloud9/?origin=c9io
1040-EZ went away in 2018, 1040 is now the only form. :(
> For example, the most common Chinese complaint about NEVs is that battery performance on the road doesn’t meet what’s advertised.

This was actually something I was rather shocked with on the Tesla Model 3. I never, ever get anywhere near the EPA range on ICE vehicles I’ve driven, but in the TM3 I can regularly beat the rated Wh/mile efficiency.

With two caveats. One, if outside temperature is below 50F and I’m running the heater the efficiency drops a bit at higher speeds and significantly in heavy traffic (because heating is per minute not per mile). And two, even though the electrical efficiency is better than advertised, the MPGe conversion is not accurate because electricity costs are artificially high in MA.
It appears it has been found now
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-47876128
Just a tip in case you don't already know: uBlock Origin would allow you to permanently delete elements by a selector.
Apple no longer use this front. They have created their own font, San Francisco, and started using it 3 to 4 years ago.

Edit: oh, I misunderstood! Apple might start using it, but they are not compelled to. A lot of other fonts such as Palatino have also been updated, but Apple doesn’t include them (yet).
I would guess CS193P is probably more in depth just in their lecture content alone than the Nanodegree lecture content.

And I can't speak to every Nanodegree, but the projects I worked on in my Nanodegree were 'easy' enough that it wasn't hard for the reviewers to mark. There wasn't a ton of room for creativity. Most importantly, their feedback was pretty mixed in terms of how in-depth they went. Often, they'd just link me to posts from other real-life experts to the point where I felt like I was getting most of the 'juice' from outside of Udacity.
This is a relatively common question for early-career developers. It is not a question which is formed well enough to give you a specific answer.

Some ways which might refine one's thinking on goals:

What does it mean to be the "best"? Is it synonymous with foremost? Is that your real terminal goal, mastery for its own sake, or are you motivated by another goal (e.g. social acclaim by peers or easy employability) which have easier ladders to climb or levers to pull than technical mastery.

What is your field? From a marketing/sales perspective, the easiest way to be the best X in your field is to constrain the set of people competing with you by applying multiple independent low-pass filters to your definition of a field.

For example, if you're in the top 50% of programmers you know, but you have no other information, you're astoundingly unlikely to be the best programmer in e.g. compilers. You have a surprisingly good shot if you attempt to be the best bilingual Japanese/English programmer working in fintech frontends, a field which is commercially relevant to many companies' interest and probably has four people in it. (I do not think my estimation is off here by an order of magnitude or more.)

Non-specific advice on getting better at things: Work with people who are good at the things you want to get better at. Aggressively optimize for skills growth. Write about what you learn; use that to expose yourself to opportunities to work with people who are better than you at them.
Okay, this one has me laughing out loud. Of COURSE Microsoft doesn't like fork()... Windows pretty much can't do it. I'll admit, there have been a lot of times I wish there was a more streamlined way to spawn processes on Linux (particularly daemons) but when I don't have fork() I always end up missing it. I'd take this paper a lot more seriously if it came from someone with a less obvious bias.
Most software companies in the Bay Area have flexible time. Just like everywhere else, Google SWEs don't punch a clock. You go home when you feel you've done as much as you can for the day.
As the poll question was to rate how high you are in the space of best/worst possible life for you, maybe the scale of imagined possibilities is just narrower in countries with lower social mobility? This hypothesis could be tested, I wonder if someone has done it.
You'd say they use the issue tracker software of the Chromium project, which is essentially the issue tracker of when Google Code still existed.
It's very easy in that situation.
I dont really see the difference between using facebook or a gmail calendar for reminders such as these.

The difference is that you consciously choose whose birthdays you enter into your calendar. Facebook just assumes anyone you know is close enough.
The point of Udacity is the projects, not the videos. You can skip all the videos, and just go straight to the projects if you want.
Emerging trends over the next five years and beyond
"Back in the day" I changed my birthday several times a year to see if anyone actually notices or people just push a button mindlessly.

I ended up having generic happy-birthday wishes by the same people over and over.
I still use Facebook a few times a week because it does still have some utility to me, but I stopped wishing anyone happy birthday on there as soon as the feature was realized by the masses. What's one more wish among the hundreds who robotically do so at the press of a button. I don't mean to disparage them, though. Just that it's crossed the bridge of _too_ impersonal to be effective.

The reminder can still be useful though. Once in a while I'll see a reminder for a birthday of someone I would genuinely like to reach out to, and I'll call or text or email them. I still have calendar reminders for birthdays from before all of this when I was meticulously curating my own contact list with birthdays, but Facebook's birthday list is more complete than my old calendar, especially for my younger friends / relatives.
Sounds like it could be useful to know the binary language of moisture vaporators.
It's not the form that's complicated. It's knowing that there is some form that exists that will get you money back. Plus knowing what to do next year.

The software is actually bad for you because you forget that reading every IRS booklet and form is about the only way to learn the logic of the tax system if you wish to exploit it correctly.
They're the same company; no idea why they have two brands.
I'm saying it's probably both a cause and an effect. Do you think that engaging in spacial reasoning tasks doesn't make you better at spacial reasoning? If it does make you better then playing video games is also a cause for spacial reasoning abilities (though not the only cause).
This happens due to administrators trying to get around racial quotas.
Begin by knowing which questions to ask. Especially on HN.
“If da_chicken had more time, they would have written a shorter reply.”
If you use Firefox, the "Netflix Tweaks" plugin is quite nice and stops the autoplay.
I’m sure whatever technical achievement solved this problem will somehow lead to people instead offering condolences on the passing of their still-living friends.
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Well, couldn't. Whatever they're doing with LXSS and picoprocesses seems to be good enough.

I don't run Windows so I'm far from the most biased person but frankly, on the surface the fork/exec thing really does seem unnecessary and weird in the modern world, where we've come up with better ways to do concurrency than just raw threads and processes anyways.
I'm willing to bet that the average Google employee works as much or even less than the rest of the industry.
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Huh, Lemonade Stand does look closer to the static reports of Drugwars clones.

However, Chris Sherrick apparently specifically modeled Trade Wars on Star Trader—according to Wikipedia. And, if those Realm Elites are anything like the other Elite, they should also involve travel like Star Trader and unlike, fittingly, the Stand.
Not sure why you were downvoted, this is a pretty crucial difference.
CS193P is a few lectures on Swift, a couple on MVC, and then the rest is just a different part of the iOS SDK every day. It's certainly good, and whenever they publish a new semester, I watch it, but it's not like there's some special Stanford magic there.
Same deal with baseball cards (and all sports cards), they had enormous print runs but then the collectors went away so now everybody who wants a Don Mattingly rookie card already has 7.

After finding them completely unsaleable I ended up giving my collection to a family friend who still just enjoys the cards.
"Free food" mainly means free breakfast, lunch, coffee and snacks. Hardly anyone I know stays late for dinner.
I seem to recall there was an important caveat to memorializing an account, but unfortunately I don't remember what it was. Anybody know?
I've tried Eclipse Che (listed in the article), and it's pretty good. I'm looking forward to Che switching its editor to Eclipse Theia, which promises to be "the VS Code experience in the browser".
They're probably ASICs, and therefore not reprogrammable or reusable for another purpose. See if there are any on ebay, if not, they're probably not worth much to anyone.
Just to clarify something: if you pay $10,000 for a plate at a campaign fundraiser, that is not reported as lobbying expenditure. It would not be included in that $6 million number.

Only direct spending on lobbying gets reported as lobbying expenditure--not campaign donations. Direct spending on lobbying includes the salaries of registered lobbyists and their support staff, contractors and vendors to create reports and ads and websites, law firms to give advice, etc.

When you see "X company spend $6 million on lobbying," not one cent of that money went to the politician being lobbied, either directly or indirectly. At the federal level, a lobbyist cannot even buy a Subway sandwich for a member of Congress. It's a felony.

Campaign donations are reported separately. Those donations are sometimes done to enable lobbying, as the post higher in this thread correctly states. My point is just to clarify how the numbers get reported.
My total comp is hovering around 300-310k

1.5 years out of a B.A. from a State School. I taught myself machine learning and focused on providing performance from bare metal to algorithms
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>However, I don't see why a minimum price is set. Wouldn't it be better to do away with the minimum price and raise the tax?

It's the most effective way of disincentivising heavy drinking without needlessly punishing moderate drinkers.

Scotland introduced minimum alcohol pricing last year, with a minimum price of 50 pence per unit. The policy was developed in collaboration with the University of Sheffield Alcohol Research Group. The price of most wines, branded spirits and premium beers was unaffected, but the effect on the cheapest and strongest drinks was dramatic - the price of a 3 litre bottle of white cider increased from £3.69 to £11.25. That has a substantial impact on the very heaviest drinkers, who suffer the greatest harms and cause the greatest societal costs.

https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/polopoly_fs/1.565373!/file/Scotl...
Deadlines matter a lot in increasing difficult (but also helps with efficiency). Especially when compounded with multiple courses.
ONE of the authors is from Microsoft. The other THREE are at Boston University and ETH.
Is there an alternative to BigTable which written in C or Go ?
now you might see why I think simplifying the tax code would be extremely difficult.

Of course. You are 100% right. I was describing a fantasy world, you are describing practical reality.

Edit: just to be clear, I'm not trying to be sarcastic in this post, even though it contradicts what I said earlier about how "trivial" it would be to simplify.

The reality is as you describe. Any serious simplification would be extremely difficult to achieve.
> if they aren't picking, what are these people doing, and whats the wider cost?

This idea needs to die so fast. It's an incredible psychosis that people fear the utopia that is automation. Imagine telling people 1000 years ago that everything around them will be done by robots, but that the people of the future would fight it. Psychologists are going to study this for generations.

It's also pretty offensive. The only reason you (or I) are not picking the fruit is because we were born somewhere else. No one deserves to do that. Especially if we know how to avoid it. What kind of sick fuck would subject someone to that just because they had fewer options. What else can they do? Perhaps help fulfill humans' literally infinite wants? What about nothing? I would much prefer nothing than forced unnecessary labor.
Its not like 32 bit applications are more efficient than 64 bit applications.

There is place for 32 bit applications but not here! The job of a program is to do what it is supposed to do efficiently and get out of the way, and it better use all registers and instructions needed to do it.
So they are!

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Have you tried Rubik's cube or similar puzzles? Does this condition have any effect on solving those?