skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I did.

It was 2012. I was kind of 33.000 USD in debt, wife pregnant with the first baby.

Trying to interview at significant companies (Dell, HP, Atlassian, etc.) none was given me nothing.

One friend of mine who had access to the HR feedback said I was too confident and I should try to appear less skilled as the manager was kind of afraid.

The situation was so bad I had a google spreadsheet with places I sent resume, results and etc. Kinda my personal job analytics.

(checked the spreadsheet now...that was depressing)

No money, no jobs, a kid on the way and wife declared:

--- "It is very disappointing having to pay the bills for you."

Then I got one call from a person willing to do consulting, they had some problems with their billing system.

Solved the problem and watched them work thinking about how I can help them more. I saw two employees matching online payments with the billing system.

That struck me... The whole process was old and archaic and prone to errors. So I propose to them do a payment processor.

They had that idea before, and another specialist told it will cost 300K and 1 year to make it, so they are not sure about all that investment.

Well, I offered:
1. I do for you in 2 months;
2. I want X% of payments
3. If I fail, you don't pay anything;
4. Honesty

Now we are on the 3 years going strong, and I think I will expand it more.
I am not rich but I can pay some bills, and my customers are pleased.

Six months ago I asked my customer:
"When was the last time you had a billing or payment problem?"

And he really paused and realized that it was long ago.

Got my Cheque and sent a cake to their team. Win-WIn

Tl-Dr; Being a loser is a TEMPORARY stage keep fighting and looking for opportunities to serve and help your customers make more money.
That reasoning was pretty much explicitly shot down in Heller.

"To promote X, you have right Y" does not mean the existence of right Y is dependent on X.
> The government is completely dysfunctional and we are worse off for it. Rather than pay slightly more to fully fund a working city/state/federal government everyone would rather pay slightly less and have a government that can't work at all.

Here's the rub. Everyone agrees the government is dysfunctional, but no one agrees on the fix. Your fix appears to be to give the dysfunctional government more money to be dysfunctional with. Others would prefer to give a dysfunctional government less money to waste.

Until we get past the give more/less money argument, we will never fix what's wrong with the US government. The problem is so much deeper than pay a little more or less.
We are working on supporting signed packages to assure they can't be tampered with.
At the same time WebAssembly provides some nice sandboxing capabilities and we are working to add permissions on top of syscalls, so packages will not do what they are not suppose to do.

Reproducible builds are definitely something great, but they are quite tricky. However we are very open to hear more thoughts on how to do it!
Maybe they should implement OKR’s over there and see how it goes for them??
Eliminating people at the higher income brackets until the average has lowered enough that you have a large middle class isn't something to be proud of either.
Bazel Lesson 1
Is the image a composite of many? If so, how is it created?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19733080
It makes sense here in the states if the reactors don’t need refurbishment and can keep operating with a license extension. If anything other than usual O&M expenses are required, the economics of the policy fail (as you mention).
Alberta too.

The regulation is coming on very gradually since they're confused about how to define and regulate the title/practice.

The regulation won't necessarily help anything but to outlaw a lot of smart people from being able to write certain software. It will put us further behind the USA in our ability to create tech companies that matter (or that can compete with offshoring) and lead to higher unemployment as computers take away more jobs.

Luckily the restriction is barely enforced at this point, though it is getting stricter. I guess it will benefit me in the future when somebody will be forced to hire me because there weren't enough other applicants with professional membership... sort of a depressing thought
That is how parking enforcement works here in the Netherlands. Someone just drives a camera-equipped car around and everything happens automatically - you enter your license plate on the meter so times are known to the minute.
I own a small trucking fleet.

I have rental properties in Detroit and Atlanta.
None of that is essential.

For menstruation, you can do free bleeding.

For defecation, you can use a bidet, or go old-style with corn cobs. You can use an odd number of stones, as specified by Muhammad.

The same goes for shampoo (don't need it), deodorant (don't need it), and many other things.

What this all boils down to is a fear of having other people think you are weird, defective, dirty, gross, etc.
Wait, wasn't it more a part of their model than for Intel? We're talking about the era of mandatory access control and time sharing.
I've been trying to prepare and it makes me want to bang my head against a wall.

Prepping while working is draining.
Gorillas pose for selfies with anti-poaching park rangers in the DRC
I worked at Google and frequently found myself acting in this capacity. I think I did well at it and was explicitly promoted for doing so. At the time I admired the way the company walked the walk in that regard.
Has your life brought you in contact with any significant number of people who grew up in the Soviet system? Or are you insinuating something only by what you've read in books?

Strangest distinct memory I have of hanging with people in a post-Soviet state: partying all night long, passing out some time around 3, waking up at 5 to hearing them all singing the Soviet anthem -- not the Russian anthem, though the melody's the same -- and then talking in hushed tones the next day with some of them about life being better before the fall.

And that's just one of many conversations I've had with people about this stuff. shrug
Cadence says it's meant for long-running tasks, while Luigi tasks are supposed to be short.
Yeah - not a perfect solution by any means, but better than the whole container I guess?
So you’re not optimizing for quality, you’re optimizing for revenue, and you just disagree with my recommendations for optimization. Got it.
I've been working on a similar workflow engine for node at https://www.npmjs.com/package/@node-ts/bus-workflow

The main objective of workflows is to manage long running processes. By processes I mean business processes like coordinating the activities of fulfilling a customer order (settling charges, picking inventory, packing, dispatching, email receipts etc). It's a way to keep all those individual commands decoupled but coordinate them at a higher level.

This isn't a new concept by any means, and is often paired with Domain Driven Design and message based systems. Doing so gives you a library of events everytime something happens in your system that can be reacted to in a workflow.

If you've ever dealt with microservices, or even a monolith where two internal services are incorrectly coupled together then this approach may be worth looking into.
> Yes, there are areas in the south where it's not so good

I was in Naples at the time and was a little disturbed by how lax the doctors (well, really everyone) seemed. I guess I shouldn't judge Italy's government/healthcare based on my experience in Naples, I have heard that northern Italy is on the ball for the most part.
What I object to is mass media and political activists trying to shame or force me to agree with their idea of "ethics" and political positions. I'll decide that for myself thank you very much. When you see activists making noise you can bet there are plenty of people who disagree with them. Unfortunately when you have outlets like the New York Times and mobs of Twitter journalists adding fuel to the fire (for one side of the debate only), speaking out for what you believe becomes incredibly dangerous if you don't go with the mainstream message.

So yeah, I object to everything this article says and stands for. Sadly I can't do that under my real name because I need to keep my job.
Except that you couldn't make a patch for a NES game that produces a C64 ROM. The patch would effectively be the entirety of the C64 ROM.
Sweden made a similar law for sport clubs. 37% of board members are women, 63% are men. Yes, there are boards that is dominated by women.

One of the ten largest sports, horse riding, has a national board with 23% men and 77% women. In the same top ten category, ice hokey has 82% men and 18% women.

Football and Swimming, 56% men and 44% women. Skiing, 50% and 50%. Gymnastics, 44% and 56%. Golf and bandy, 57% and 43%. Athletics 60% and 40%.

Those are the top 10 in the area which my government though was so bad it needed to implement affirmative actions in order to correct it. 37% sounds few but in reality, only two are considered gender segregated and it is one female dominated and one male.
You could go around asking successful mathematicians to write out some of their favorite unsubstantiated hunches and post a compilation of them as an alien message.
Are you claiming the U.S. founding fathers had an adversarial role in establishing democracy?
That is true, but that's also only one side of the story. Statistically, most people won't need to use the safety net. And while Americans have less security, they also enjoy a substantially higher level of material comfort. Americans have more/newer cars, live in bigger houses, etc. https://www.businessinsider.com/ons-english-homes-are-a-thir...

Now, I think it would be better to have more of a safety net and less in the way of material comforts. But it's not fair to ignore the fact that higher incomes come with tangible benefits for Americans. It's not all downside with no upside.
Speedrunning College: My plan to get a Bachelor’s degree within a year
Is there a name for this phenomenon in general? Your phrasing is quite clear but apparently novel, and I think it happens a lot - anti-war clergy don't apply to be military chaplains, so soldiers and commanders hear biased opinions of whether their work is incompatible with their religion compared to civilians of the same faith; people who don't think self-driving cars are a good goal tend not to apply for self-driving car companies; people who think on-prem is better than public cloud tend not to apply for companies that are all public cloud; a company that is known for a certain work culture will tend to get applications who don't think that culture is hostile; etc.
Outside of individuals who can't function at a MVP level(running around naked biting people, throwing poop, etc.), the definition of a mentally ill person is a person who believes that they have a mental illness. Other cultures might have a witch doctor in place of a licensed psychiatrist but the phenomenon of mentally ill people seeking help from non-scientific 'experts' remains consistent.
So they don't use unix time?
As far as the hardware is concerned, the confidential information in the other SIP is already visible.
> Why else would "hardhats" have voted for Ronald Reagan over their own working class interests?

Lack of a perceived positive vision from the other side; the lack of doing something with the moment of attention after the crisis of confidence (or “malaise”, though he never said that in it) speech is particularly frequently pointed to.
Do you know anything about the demographic of your customers?

Are they people who graduated and moved away, looking for a little bit of home? I'm suspecting a fair number of Gatech alumni, for one. Or people like me who have to negotiate the onion content of dishes very carefully with friends and family (shallots and Vidalias make that easier).
You can bind Snip & Sketch to the Print Screen button in Ease of Access -> Keyboard. This is a new feature in Windows 10 1809.
Someone tell these yahoos that optics is a thing.

I expect the next statement to be about transparency and connecting communities. Just like the last one. And the one before.
Great links, SFI is basically the technique behind NaCl(Native Client) and the Go Playground no? I didn't realize this technique was this old.
My point is that including "barely good enough" by default hinders the development of other open source apps for the platform.

I know nothing about Krita other than its existence. I imagine there are other options.
Preview.app has all this. Just go View->Show Markup Toolbar.
Facebook is the defense contractor that is building America's Great Firewall and social credit system, so it makes sense that there is a revolving door with the authoritarian regime.
Armor - John Steakley (Sci-Fi)
> some even for PET and aluminium cans.

Aluminium cans are some of the best items to be recycled, as recycling one takes only 5% of the energy needed for creating one anew. This should be reflected as a higher deposit of course, to get high return rates. I think Finland achieves nowadays over 95% return rate for aluminium cans.
I think info is really only usable inside Emacs. But inside Emacs, it is hands down the best documentation system I've ever used. A properly indexed manual is a joy to use, and beats the pants off anything PDF or HTML-based.
if you're referring to that 360-degree photo, you can make the same kind of image through the Google 'Street View' app.. you'll then upload to your Google account and share..
Isn't that the new photos app?
I like Wasmer, but I very much dislike the idea of another major package repository being owned and operated by a commercial entity. They seem like good people doing valuable work now, but that doesn't tell us very much about who the company will be in five or ten years.

I've grown uncomfortable with NPM being operated by NPM Inc instead of The Node.js Foundation, but it's a hard thing to change once it's established. We should hesitate to support the establishment of another community package manager by a for-profit company.
It's not a myth, it's how I and other people I know actually feel. Do you think I'm speaking in coded racist terms and not being honest? I'm not, I just think we're all better off with the mindset that we should help ourselves first.
> Italy's healthcare is a circus

1 - Italy was the 4th European country to introduce a smoking ban in public places.

2 - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-09-19/u-s-near-...

"Spain’s health system efficiency ranked third behind Hong Kong and Singapore, followed by that of Italy, which moved up two spots from a year earlier. Italy ranked as the world’s healthiest country in a separate Bloomberg gauge."
I agree, the way I still see determinant is as the 'volume scaling factor' of a linear transformation.

This means it makes sense that det(A) = 0 means A is non-invertible. It also makes a lot of sense when the jacobian pops up in the multi-dimensional chain rule.

Given the above, and the Cayley–Hamilton theorem, I never really had to know why the determinant was calculated the way it is. The above give enough of an interface to work with it.
Every poll site has a poll book of eligible voters (for that location). Voters present their ID, sign next to their name, are issued a ballot. In order for mass fraudulent voting, impersonators would have to choose IDs (of persons) they were very confident were not going to vote.
Who else clicked through expecting a research paper on dark matter?
I mean, playing devil's advocate, you've got Nintendo protecting a product that they still sell and distribute (3DS Virtual Console, Wii U Virtual Console, Nintendo Switch Online NES, NES Mini, and various other ports) — and this port is literally just the exact same game: same graphics, music, levels, mechanics. Even if the makers of this clone aren't making a profit from it, the free distribution undermines Nintendo's continued ability to sell a game that people, evidently, still wish to purchase. It isn't as though the developers of the clone couldn't have changed the graphics, music, and level design to make a brand new game for the C64.

I mean, that's just devil's advocate.

To me, Nintendo still makes the most delightful, charming, and enduring games in the industry. Stopping being their customer over one business practice with which you mightn't agree seems like missing the forest for the trees.
Fklearn: Nubank’s machine learning library
Even if the new apps for Windows 10 are better I still go out of my way to uninstall 3D Paint and the rest. If they didn't cram candy crush and all of the other garbage down our throats I probably wouldn't be so sensitive to additions like 3D paint.
No one is arguing about if it breaches copyright.

They're arguing about if a) if it ought to be a breach of copyright, and b) if Nintendo ought to be taking this down.
The biggest difference besides the programming model is scale. Luigi and Airflow target data pipelines that don't require much scale. Cadence is built to support business level transactions. It can handle tens of thousands of events per second and hundreds of millions of open workflows. Obviously it is also a good fit for low scale use cases. Cadence is also so generic that it can be used to implement practically any workflow definition language. For example it is possible to create an extension to run Airflow pipelines on Cadence.

I'm from the Cadence team.
> Statistically, most people won't need to use the safety net

As a person, you'll around 100% likely to the doctor. In any Western Europe country, you don't have to think about it. In the US, you either think about it because of your copay or your don't go because you don't have money.
Not to marginalize the severity of racism in the USA, but blaming it on "plain racism" is a bit myopic. The "I got mine" attitude that I'm referring to involves mainly white American boomers who created/supported NIMBY legislation and inappropriate higher education funding that has effectively lead to the limitations for younger white American social mobility as well.
Yes, I was. Thanks.
Mods: please change the link to the original at https://www.inc.com/melanie-curtin/neuroscience-shows-that-5...

Or, possibly link to the second study in the article (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3004979/), which, using a controlled trial with 16 treated participants against 17 controls, claims that 8 weeks of meditation at 40 minutes/day can increase the concentration of gray matter in your brain.
anyway, sounds really cool and hoping it gets inspired by things like bundler/homebrew more than npm/yarn.

btw it has "telemetry" enabled by default.

edit: thanks for the link, didn't find the source previously
Cadence supports both long-runnig as well as very short tasks.
Signed packages are useful, but still don't solve the problem.

One fairly simple thing you can do to improve this would be to include build scripts as part of the package, and allow people to run those build scripts through wapm. The exact versions of any involved tools will need to be recorded too, but since there arent too many ways to generate wasm blobs yet, this shouldnt be too out there.

Eventually it would be great if everyone had fully reproducible build formulae (kinda like https://github.com/polydawn/repeatr).
There’s a difference between Googling and comprehension. Google is a great substitute for remembering facts and details. It means there’s more room in my brain for concepts and things that can’t just be Googled for.

Treat Google as an augmentation of your brain. You both do what you’re good at (facts vs. concepts) and you end up better overall.
Oh true. The author was also promoting domain name driven businesses [1] so I was mostly replying to that idea and other thoughts I had to sound off on the topic :p

https://www.deepsouthventures.com/build-a-side-business/
Indeed not all locations have it, but I believe the major ones, like Santa Monica, should have it available by now.
Yes, but now there's a record of every time and place you've ever parked.
Well said. I like to remember that our highest goal is not to count votes correctly, but to build a stable society where we can be safe and happy.

I believe a foolproof computer system could count votes perfectly, but it may make our society less stable in the process. Our current population is not ready to understand a fancy computer voting system, and are not capable of distinguishing between a foolproof system and `print "I win!"`.
The logical follow-up to the famous Scott Young MIT Challenge (https://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/myprojects/mit-challenge-2/) - actually get a degree in a year.
>Driving is a privilege, not a right.

Given it's impact on day to day life, perhaps it is time to change that.
There's a picture of the circuit board on reddit and discussion below
https://www.reddit.com/r/teslamotors/comments/bga5zt/tesla_f...
Why a new package manager? Why not port an existing well-designed generic package manager such as Nix?

Making a new package manager is very expensive in terms of developer times - developers have to learn yet another new thing to use your platform. Can you justify this?

Edit: For example, as matthewbauer commented below, Nix can support WebAssembly as a compilation target: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/56555
>> don't want to be advertised too

Most people probably don't mind seeing advertisements. It's just completely ridiculous that Google or FB think they need to track individuals in order to provide targeted advertising.

If someone searches for 'football', then just show a fucking ad that is relevant to 'football' along with the search results.
Consider the number of retirees on fixed incomes in 1971 versus 2016. The US is getting wealthier and older.
It's still probably the most well-written Rust book.
Tabulation is the smallest part of the election administration software stack. Even when ballots are counted manually, vendors would still get their cheddar.
Entirely one-sided discussion (to put it kindly), with dissenters finding their comments invisible. For as good as the discussion around here usually is, there are some topics that even HN cannot have an open discussion on, and that happens to be one of them.

Try an experiment: Argue in a thread that Facebook/Google/etc. are anything less than mustache-twirling-villian levels of evil, or that the people that work for those companies sometimes make actual human mistakes.
Why the growth in AI spells a big opportunity for transdisciplinary researchers
I expected comparison data with obamanomics. How to dislike HN story? And person posted that.
Very impressive work, will comment again if I manage a test compile of some minor project! :)
"In all my travels no one is more deluded about the middle class than in the US. Healthcare is cheaper in Europe"

Cheaper != better. Especially when it comes to something as important as healthcare. It also depends on what you are prioritizing. Universal care is good for checkups and when you are young and healthy. But it falls apart when you need major surgery due to much longer wait times and decisions made by a committee. It also makes it almost impossible to get private care, unless you are wealthy.

"Yes, the DMV sucks, but guess what, that is the level of service voters decided they wanted and that is what the DMV can deliver based on it's funding"

I'm not sure where you are going to the DMV in the US, but it hasn't been called that in about a decade where I live.

It's also very well organized. I can get in line from my state's website and get a text message to come to the office, so I no longer have to sit for 2-3 hours. But, this does depend on the State.

I would also see the actual stats on the middle class in Europe. As taxes get higher, it squeezes out the middle class and you pretty much just have two classes: the very rich and the rest. California is starting to resemble this and most of Europe has been like this for awhile.