skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For society it is not good to have a dearth of skilled writers, historians & teachers, but for the individual they don't want to end up with no job or a crappy $35k a year job in the middle of nowhere.
I consider wanting to center something a simple task. Yet the web makes it surprisingly counter-intuitive. So that was why I chose this as an example.

I am intrigued as to how you do this simple centering task without using CSS - it is a web page we are talking about here, not some other application that has sensible layout tools.

So please share what you know - it is a simple task - how do I center something - anything - vertically and or horizontally - in HTML without using CSS?
Yes, it’s 4500 stock options worth $0 each. Pretty generous. Other startups of that size are lucky to get you 1500 stock options at $0 each.
This would just make the government invested in the status quo just like investors, or all the sharks would get into office to vacuum up the companies for power.
Demis Hassabis Talk on Alphastar SCII
Apple watch?

I want to know this as well.

I need a mobile blood-pressure monitor.
From what I’ve seen (with grains of salt and whatnot):

Chat is an inherently transient medium. Being a participant in the conversation can be important and you can’t really reference a conversation you had on May 6th 2007 and expect to have people willing to continue it with you. On the other hand, you can resurrect an email or forum thread if you weren’t there in the first place and expect that it will continue to be replied to.
The Difference Between October and May? About 16GB, Says Microsoft: Windows 10 1
I think these features make it special: https://wiki.minix3.org/doku.php?id=www:documentation:reliab...
Knowledge is a product, we should not only be a geek and leave the profit to the others voluntarily. All scientists should stand up to learn how to raise funds, market, sell, and refine. In fact, the business side of the effort is also very difficult and professional. The effort can further help reshape the research. Having a small team can reduce the bureaucratic requirements of prestige pseudo-scientific stamp but enforce the true scientific methology to solve the problems.

The business relationship among people is becoming flatter instead of deeper. Tooling is going to help individuals achieving more independently. At least it's the reality I would like to live in.
They do... they add them to Search Console, the dashboard for webmasters.
It's a working BSD licensed Unix like OS with a microkernel. Solid enough that Intel uses it for their management processors.
996 is encouraged IN PUBLIC

https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/15/business/jack-ma-996-china/in...
Content means on-page content. Scripts and other assets have no effect here.
Why do software engineers put off writing documentation comments?
Typelevel Sustainability Program Announcement
I went there to see what they had to say about backpacks too, and was taken aback to find it wasn't about that at all, but I decided to read enough to find the connection and was very surprised with what I found.

I don't read a lot of introspective stuff, I focus almost entirely on learning something from what I read, but this piece is truly exceptional and it gave me a much deeper insight to what working in a tech center city really feels like.

And it confirms my decision to leave the "Big City" long ago, before the tech boom, and to not go back, was a great one.
>"I analyze data on a day-to-day basis, which means building dashboards or writing code to summarize various datasets. I usually partner up with teams across the company to solve different problems. That sometimes means defining metrics, creating visualizations to see changes over time, or making sense of the large datasets that we have."

Sounds like mostly dashboarding, data viz, and simple analysis, so I actually thought it was kinda high. Perfect for senior maybe.
Guess if it was no recourse it could work.
Can't the hash be verified by the client too?
Piracy is still a major threat to security on MacOS
I'm Brazilian so take my opinion with a bit o salt and pepper.
I have no doubts our government circa 1985 was totally capable of such things. It was a military government, with lots of censorship (but 85 was they last days). So anything that could raise any question about our national identity was a threat for them.
About the feasibility of atlantic crossings from west to east, mainly by odd, it's perfectly possible. The travel back otherwise is another history.
Probably they mixed with our native inhabitants and they genes disappeared with the time (and with the arrival of portuguese in 1500).
Even today, to question Brazilians national identity is tabu here.
A booklet I wrote for the teachers at my wife's school, when they had to begin to teach programming concepts to little ones:

http://games.oojits.com/media/pdf/programming-food-2013-12-0...

It is more basic than the video in this post. It was well received, but I didn't do anything more with it.
How do freelance developers determine what to charge for a fixed-price contract?
In additional what phicoh said, it's also one of the most popular OS in the world.

https://www.networkworld.com/article/3236064/minix-the-most-...
That implies that culture comes from universities, and I don't think that's true. They may be first among those describing culture, but they aren't creating it.

And recently, I feel a lot of them tried to force change, leaving their role of scientist and becoming backseat politicians. They don't run for office but still try to make the rules.
Perverted is strong. You might say that there are no specific guarantors of a democracy, and that "one person, one vote" can be interpreted in many ways. But considering regulatory capture by corporate interests undemocratic is a totally fair point, agreed-upon by leftists and free market evangelists alike. There is nothing inherently perverse about this claim.
You're totally right. I was responding to the parent comment which felt temporary sleep deprivation was OK as long as it wasn't long-term. I'm arguing it is not OK even in the short term (not arguing that it is avoidable, just not justifiable as impactless)
Coming from someone who still thinks cryptos are the future
Thanks for putting this together. Downloaded and like it quite a bit so far! Will rate 5 on the app store too.
Awesome! I'm looking forward to the time when friends send me a public video that I'm not denied access to unless I log into Facebook.
The misnomer. Title of post says “data scientist” but then says “sr data analyst” in the first paragraph.
> Where I live they are elected

Random people run for office and random people are elected. Some of these random folks Are even qualified for the posts they hold.

> this type of tax won't affect them if they lease it out.

That is simply not true. In your scenario my mythical entrepreneur has no choice, she can't afford to not lease it out to the lowest bidder.

> like the need of the city to be prosperous over the need of the landlord to squeeze a few more cents out of a place

You seem to have a bit of disdain for business owners and complete faith in your elected officials. My point of view is totally the opposite--it's the business owner's money, Not your elected random peeps money. Furthermore, do you think the business owner fervently desires her property be locted in a prosperous city--of course she does, but that doesn't mean she wants incompetent people who are smooth talking just wasting it.
Yes, but should people take on substantial debt to get a 'meaningful' degree that will not provide a real ROI? Studying fluffy majors is only logical for 1%ers, basically, because you don't really have to work for a living and you can get set up with some prestigious non-profit through connections. For everyone else, they should probably get cultured on their own, without paying tens of thousands of dollars.
Poll: Would you like a separate page for “HN Polls”, just like “Jobs”?
I was wondering whether, to make polls more popular on HN, Hacker News and its team could make a separate page that would list polls only.
Don't care either way
Having tought classical mechanics I have to say, yes we do that (intentionally), but it is due to a lack of time and due to a lack of preparedness of the students. I have 16 weeks of instruction, with 2 lectures of 90 minutes each, to cover all the parts of classical mechanics that the students will need later. (Very little research is done in classical mechanics these days). A third of the class is deadly afraid of calculus. I simply can not spare 6 lectures to explain caculus of variatians, when I only need it for two derivations. After all it still is a a vector space and the math they know still works. I am happy to discuss the details (why does it work, what is a function space, what is the dual space of distributions) with the five students who care after class or during office hours.
I hope the Apple Watch eventually becomes something that can track all of these metrics, especially sleep, but I don't think the battery life is there yet.

I've gotta charge mine sometime and at night seems like the best time to do it...
Important to notice - In Switzerland you can actually save a lot from your Software Engineer salary, if you go the frugal way (in SV half of your salary is easily eaten by taxes/rent/etc).

A cost and savings breakdown for Zurich:
https://swissdevjobs.ch/blog/how-to-find-job-as-software-dev...
Did Jay Inslee invite these people? I'm not clear on that point.
The longest distance between islands is longer than the shortest distance between Africa and South America. So it’s at least possible with relatively primitive technology.
40 million of his dad? You didn't read about the real estate. That is way too little. Calling him a winner is believing in fairy tales when you are > 15 years old, because your mom says it's true.

And guessing that he funds it himselve is a big if.

The only thing I believe is the the loan has been paid back with the tax reductions, he didn't had to pay it himselve.
Hottest-City-in-World
Meaning is what people seek once all the bills are paid.
NYC also imposed a cap on the number of ride sharing vehicles that could be operated. Uber is suing to try to overturn it:

https://www.consumeraffairs.com/news/uber-suing-new-york-cit...
So much of this account resonates with my experience as a UX ("X!" Must be technical!) developer in the Bay Area. I love this line particularly: "A film of pseudoscience sticks to everything we touch."
Ex-consul debunks MSM claims Assange had issues with Ecuador’s embassy staff
Tbh it sounds like he never understood his customers. He should work on a product he is the customer of instead of looking at competition and worry about their features.
While you won't earn over 200k USD easily (unless at Google Zurich or very lucky) in Switzerland you can actually save a lot from your Software Engineer salary, if you go the frugal way (in SV half of your salary is easily eaten by taxes/rent/etc).

Here is a cost and savings breakdown for Zurich: https://swissdevjobs.ch/blog/how-to-find-job-as-software-dev...
>where I have no idea where my time goes

Apple’s solution does show the apps used the most. But I agree it’s not at good as Mute or other 3rd party apps. I’d use those if they didn’t kill my battery on account of needing to track movement at all times (which is their only way to get access to device usage data).

I wish Apple would just let these apps access the bare usage information so they could stop pretending that location is a critical part of their apps.
Checksums/fingerprints can help mitigating the problem of _changing_ images people already use. As you correctly point out they don't solve the problem of authenticated distribution.

Assuming you have fetched a given image and captured its sha in a config file in your version control (e.g. a kubetnetes manifest), then whenever you deploy a container you are sure that you're not affected by exploits happening _after_ you saved the fingerprint.
Google Search users prefer fresh content, so Google Index prioritises fresh content too (and is more likely to drop old content that users are not interested in).
I’d think most countries would be happy to claim a connection to Rome.
I disagree, destroying a ton of keys breaks stuff.
ha, yes, we are still working on our 4th :)
Screen Time does not make Apple any additional money. They have no financial reason to care if customers used it or not, they get the same money as soon as you buy the device. In fact, paid parental control apps could earn them more money because of the 30% cut on app revenue.
You pasted the same link for both cases. Can't tell what's going on.
No, it's because modern Javascript has now solved the problems that jQuery originally solved. Chiefly DOM manipulation and AJAX requests. It's still a fine library, but jQuery is just no longer needed.
Amazon just made Prime even harder to cancel
In many cases you're paying people to create the text of the laws themselves.

Also, how is "paying people to make PowerPoint presentations and talking points about proposed legislation so that legislators can be convinced that a certain law should be passed" not just a form of "paying to pass a certain law"? When I set out to write complex software, I generally collect data, make arguments, write design docs / white papers, and occasionally make PowerPoint presentations about how the software should be designed and why; that's part of the process of meaningfully developing software just as much as banging out some code in a text editor is. I'm still a software developer, and when the company is paying me to make presentations and arguments in favor of getting software developed, they are absolutely paying me to develop software.

(Also, what's wrong with seeking to delegitimize the status quo? In other contexts, don't we call that "disruption"? It might be a falsehood, but we can debate the substance of a claim without attacking the motives of the people making a claim.)
Discord has a block function, and it's virtually identical to (if not better than) Slack (IIRC, it has better text -- and code -- formatting).

Sure, it's "chat for gamers", but it works for anything.
We already use an open source forum: discourse.

If you mean real-time chat, in my personal opinion, Discord is the best choice. Zulip is good, if you can deal with it being a bit weird. The other options are fine, but not great. You may have different opinions than me personally.
Not sure I buy that a key ratio is MAU/DAU, and even if it is ... the big problem for Facebook is that it's gone from 66.3 to 65.7 in two years while both numbers are growing?

The fact that they started grouping FB/Insta/WhatsApp together in quarterly numbers is to me a more telling sign about Facebook core app.
I can see the 85 government willing to do that (I'm brazillian as well).

I doubt the Romans would arrive here though. They were not navy focused at all. There are detailed accounts of all sorts of trouble they went just to cross to Britain.

At the same time, we had plenty of pre-culumbian tribes here who were masters at pottery (like the Marajoara culture). These are probably pottery jars from one of these cultures.

I found funny what you said about this being a tabu. I don't feel that at all here in Brazil. On the contrary. Brazillians I know acknowledge the Pedra Furada site, for example, but most other countries ignore it, specially the US with their Clover first narrative.
Not necessarily long term. The only criteria is positive ROI. If you can recoup your costs and turn a profit in six months, I'm not sure you give a hoot if the crypto fad dies off in 18 months.
Wallace mentions American Heritage, as strictest of the prescriptivists. Highly usable online version:

https://ahdictionary.com/
Yes. One thing I dislike about data science/data analysis MOOCs is that they imply that there is a best way / one way to solve a given problem with a given dataset. The real world is much more messy (data cleaning, data pipelining, data normalization, etc.), and on the statistics side, solutions to problems often come from the weirdest places (in my case, it's often where there's a hole in the data).
Before that time you needed very big iron to do much at all, so unless you were in the right place, as well as the right time, it was hard to participate.

I began on 8-bit micros (assemler...an assembler woulda been a luxury to us...we typed in machine code and calculated negative offsets in us heads..+) and also a PDP-11/45 running V7 when I was in middle school. My perception is that prior to the 11/45, 11/70 generation I would have had to have been very lucky to have a usable computer to program. Having said that, I remember learning Pascal over one summer holiday when I was a kid, but I had no computer capable of running a Pascal compiler until a couple of years later.

+https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue7wM0QC5LE
A Look Behind “Stanley Kubrick: The Exhibition” at Design Museum, London
Minix also runs Intel Management Engine in ring -3 on every CPU where it is enabled. That makes it one of the most deployed OS in the world.
"You didn't read about the real estate."

What are you talking about? His father gave him a $14-60 million dollar loan depending on who you ask.

If you're talking about the real estate Trump's family received after his father's death, that was around 2004, but you're conflating that with the initial speculation that he should have put that in the stock market. That would have been a VERY bad move as the stock market crashed in 2008.

EDIT: I hit my posting limit apparently. To your reply, you're simply wrong.

Overall he performed better in the long run. There were periods of time where he could have performed better in index funds, but that would require good timing and shifting of funds. It's not exactly easy to liquidate real estate and shift it to index funds either.

Here's the article without a paywall (I didn't receive one though) https://outline.com/4FNxkP

I'm not sure how you're calculating it differently than Bloomberg is, but their numbers add up.

EDIT2: Yes his father died in 1999, but his liquid assets were received by his children in 2004. It takes awhile to liquidate real estate. Either way, my point still stands.

$20 million was split between the Trump children, which they sold off for around $500 million (split equally). That's furthering the argument that real estate is a good investment, you wouldn't get those returns in a low-risk index fund. Especially with the impending 2008 crash.

EDIT3: You stopped reading after the 3rd paragraph that has nothing to do with the discussion? The article makes the calculation for the S&P 500 investment strategy and compares it to his net worth, which Bloomberg calculated to be lower than Forbes...

LASTEDIT: You don't need a tax return to determine someone's net worth. Most people don't release their tax returns. In fact a tax return won't tell you enough information alone to determine someone's net worth.
Internet industry freaks out over proposed unlimited price hikes on .org domain
We just launched about a month ago so still working a lot of things out and still have a lot of content to add. Would love any feedback!
How do you define "bullshit major"?
There's [1], also by Sussman, which is "just" about differential forms and related math, and in the summary they refer to QM: "An explanation of the mathematics needed as a foundation for a deep understanding of general relativity or quantum field theory."

[1] https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/functional-differential-geome...
I'm hoping that was actually a socratic joke, but just in case:

If only the majority of white supremacists held their views passively without threatening anyone or enabling others to threaten people via campaign donations and the normalization of racist tropes, --- we wouldn't be teetering on this ugly precipice.
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ah, right. thanks for your correction
So....it hasn't actually existed.
It really doesnt matter whether the startup gives you 4500, 1500, or 45000, or a million. You are being given the numerator without knowing the denominator, so it is all worth zero until you get to see the Cap Table. Most startups wont let you see the Cap Table.

Even if you saw the Cap Table, there is still a lot of uncertainty, tons of illiquidity, and a long horizon.

Options are nice, but they are not cash and do not belong in the same conversation as salary.
> There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals.

This starts with a false premise that is so broad its hard to take seriously. Well run government can do a lot for innocent people.
British Isles ?
I wonder if humanities knowledge will become a status symbol, as being in great shape has become
Come on.. most of the people studying the arts in college are not seeking deeper meaning. They study what they enjoy and then get jobs elsewhere. And many people in non-arts majors are still taking lots of electives in the arts, getting double majors, pursuing it later in life. I was part of a group of computer science students in my undergrad college that took many years worth of philosophy courses and advanced rhetoric courses just because we all loved philosophy.

I seriously doubt that a reduction in number of degrees granted in arts-focused majors actually equates to a populace that is less appreciative or knowledgeable regarding the arts.

It’s not about actual arts & culture (which any given person learns through many walks of life)... it’s about these expensive arts-only degrees simply not conferring economically meaningful labor market skills.
Are you arguing that Google NetPAC giving money to candidates' election campaigns is in some meaningful way not Google giving money to candidates? If so, what is that meaningful way?

(I realize that this is very different in a legal way, i.e., it would be illegal for money from Google to go to candidates without first being routed through employees' salaries and then to NetPAC, but because it is, it's quite legal and it's totally fine that donations from NetPAC are still decided by senior Google execs and the PAC represents itself to candidates as supporting Google's interests. I'm asking if this is different in a practical way.)
What are the practical advantages of websockets instead of long-polling? As someone who has implemented both I've found much more success with long polling, but maybe because I haven't used a library as solidly written as this one.

Seriously, at short glance this seems like a well-written library, well-documented, solid looking table-driven testing, and a thoughtful write-out of comparable libraries. Only recommendation would be a link/badge indicating test coverage through a UI like coveralls.
I assign my own meaning to things in life. I don't need other people to study humanities at universities in order to do that. As far as I know none of my favorite cultural icons/entertainers have even gone to university.
Thank you for the tip! Hass user here too. I was reluctant to use GPS based detection but traccar seems like good private solution. I still have to check whether I must spin my own instance or if the traccar server is running automatically on (my) Hass server.
A good dictionary and thesaurus are really useful. But you also want to surround yourself with reference books that reward idle noodling. Here are two of my favorites.

Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. You can pick up old editions dirt cheap on the usual sites. Here's the wikipedia entry. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brewer%27s_Dictionary_of_Phras...

A Dictionary of metaphor. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Metaphors-Dictionary-Comparative-in...