skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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And this is why Amsterdam said fuck no to the Olympics.

If your country is already obscenely rich and you're literally reduced to begging tourists to please stay away what is the point of hosting the Olympics?
> Tesla's financials

Tesla has literally never made a yearly profit in its life. Tesla hasn't even had positive yearly cash-flow for its entire life.

The best Tesla ever got was Q3 / Q4 2018, a very modest profit of a couple hundred-million dollars. But this was very quickly wiped out by Q1 2019 with a $700 Million loss and $1.4 Billion negative cash flow.

Tesla's financials are a complete disaster. Tesla's stock price has absolutely no bearing on its financials. Investors are chasing Tesla's future, they're hooked onto its story and 10-year plan. Tesla investors always ignore the finances of today.
You’re looking at 1/10th of the earnings you’d generate from AirBnB with the same amount of work. You have to manage bookings, grant access (working around your own availability), handle insurance and clean up. Would you deal with all of that for less than £10/day once or twice a week? The pitch makes sense for larger spaces that can accommodate teams — like the examples on the site — but for individuals there’s no value.
I also invested early for similar reasons.

Though seeing what Tesla constantly has to deal with, if I was ever in a position to decide to IPO in the future I’d want to stay private for as long as possible.
In principle (because the technicalities are way too complex to address here and now) there's no reason specific fields in programming couldn't require a license, like a clearance needed to work with sensitive data.

Coding is more and more used to build the backbone of future society. It's about time we recognize the criticality of the whole industry (not just the coders themselves). Having no ethics code for this is not very different from accepting when soldiers invoke the "superior orders" defense.

It may very well turn out that it simply can't be applied to this field but to get there you have to at least consider it first.
Ask HN: Where did startup names ending in 'hq'(headquarters) trend come from?
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You have over 5 years of coding and web application expertise in a senior or intermediate developer role, and want to do more innovative coding and MUCH less mundane operations support.

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“Fail often, fail fast.”

The Adacado SAAS platform (and its roadmap) creates many interesting technical challenges. Adacado is built on Kubernetes, Golang, Vue, and ES6, and utilizes Node, Postgres, Kafka, Aerospike, and ElasticSearch. We manage an ever growing army of microservices with special care in making our applications performant, available, and scalable.

As a developer at Adacado you will take part in designing/reviewing/writing critical application services, as well as mentoring and teaching other developers with your expertise. You will collaborate closely with teammates to implement and ship new functions in a fast paced environment where you catch errors and deploy same-day fixes on a regular basis. You feel a personal pride in the code that you produce and enjoy a culture of friendly coding ‘one-upmanship’. You aren’t afraid of spending time to try something and then throw it out all-together to start anew if it doesn’t fit the bill. You enjoy discussing design patterns and problem solving with your colleagues.

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Everyone at Adacado believes in our product, making our group close knit. We live through our trials and tribulations together (often over great Vancouver craft beer or other libations). Our staff are our most valuable resource.

We provide our team members with competitive compensation with benefits and stock options, liberal time off, flexible work hours and telecommuting, and a generous skills-development/education budget. All developers also receive a standup-desk, dual monitors, and a nerf gun (yes, a nerf gun).
Adacado is located in the heart of downtown Vancouver, close to public transit. Everyday is casual day in the office and we provide a fully stocked kitchen with snacks. We also serve lunch hot and fresh every Friday, and have in-office craft beer and wine parties and bi-annual company retreats.

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This is role will be based in our Vancouver office and applicants must be elligible to work in Canada. Remote applicants WILL NOT be considered.

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There is a long history of the mob paying off cops and politicians....
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The Presidential Innovation Fellows program is a highly selective, non-partisan, tech fellowship that pairs talented mid-to-senior-level entrepreneurs and technologists with top innovators in government leadership to take on complex projects that have the potential for significant impact. We're looking for high-performing data scientists, designers, engineers, executives, and technology strategists that care deeply about solving our nation’s most difficult challenges and delivering better products, services, and experiences to the American public.

Since the program was launched in 2012, more than 135 Fellows have worked within over 35 agencies. Additionally, over 50% of Fellows have decided to stay in government after the program and have gone on to stand up new digital teams or to serve as chief technology officers, chief information officers, chief data officers, and chief marketing officers at agencies.

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> "Watching the footage of Neil Armstrong’s first steps”

That famous footage (literally, in both senses of the word) was of Aldrin’s first steps: Armstrong had already exited the LEM, made his famous statement, and then used a camera to film Aldrin’s descent and steps.
It's much easier, through software and the internet, for bureaucracy, or in a broader sense 'systems thinking', to extend its reach to every little part of life that used to be exempt or less affected in the past because of various constraints.

I do realize that the statement is a bit vague, and I'm not saying it's necessary development, but at least in my experience it seems to be true, in all sorts of ways.

There's the ability to measure and optimize things in ways never possible before: tickets processed, karma, time to respond to a chat or email, etc. And if it's possible and easy, why not do so when you're the one in charge?

Or ubiquitous communication channels, unbounded by time or place. It takes conscious effort/willpower to disconnect, and isn't always possible (at least not without negative consequences including social 'punishment').

There's a growing problem in the (mental) health care industry here, as I understand it, because doctors, psychologists, and social workers find themselves overwhelmed with 'paperwork' at the expense of doing their actual job, all because the various bureaucracies want measurements: insurance companies, the government, the CEO.

And it's not just that it takes time, it actually changes the way these people have to work. I've spoken to a number of social workers and psychologists who lament the fact that they can't build up any kind of relationship with their patients (err, "clients") because the 'system' actively reduces them to rows in a database and if 'a' then 'b' approaches, where personal connection (and ability to, at times, use human judgment) is significantly reduced.

I've heard the same is true with police work. Because of 'algorithmic' solutions (a whole other can of works) the 'beat cops' are told by computers, basically, where to patrol. As a self-fulfilling prophecy, their increased presence in certain areas increases the measured crime, which in turn affects the algorithm. This obviously doesn't just reduce the ability of cops to use their fuzzy human judgment to go where they think it makes sense, but it actually pollutes crime data which might, for example, mark certain areas (and ethnicities?) as more criminal.

To end my ramble, I'm not saying all of this is bad. I'm still a bit of a techno-utopian at heart, and I think removing human judgment can also be beneficial (especially when it comes to power dynamics). But it worries me to the rather rapid increase in our abilities, and the way we just seem to jump head-first into this new world without some very careful investigation.

And I definitely think a lot of this was a lot harder to do before software came along, and generally a lot harder to subvert.
I used Tipp10 about 12 years ago when I forced myself to learn it. What worked for me is to do the basic lessons and then always use touch typing without looking whenever on a keyboard. You’ll be slower initially, but speed will increase over time.

https://www.tipp10.com/en/
Node Express Analytics Dashboard with Cube.js
They tried to charge me $7500 for a few stitches on my son's chin when he fell at preschool. Outrageous.
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We’re looking for two software devs who are user-driven, and creative and want to help us leave the world just a little better than they found it.

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Not really. End to end encryption means messages will leave the app encrypted and only the recipient app will be able to read them.The middle man remains.

A good analogy: it's like writing a letter and asking the mailman to put it into an envelope, so she leaves the room and comes back with your sealed envelope.

The mailman then looks at you and says "I won't read it, I promise.", Wink wink.

That's end-to-end encryption for the commons.
In the free market what is the incentive for any doctor to take on a patient that has a condition so expensive the patient can't afford the treatment?

You are completely ignoring the insurance part of health insurance.
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> leasing the land (lot) underneath it is a very bad idea and will most likely harm you financially.

Funnily enough, there's a city nearby that's quite expensive to live in (even for California), because it's beach-side. And of course in every expensive city there's an even more expensive neighborhood. Except, for some bizarre reason, this wealthy neighborhood has a similar arrangement where the residents own their homes, but rent the land. Except all the homes are your typical McMansions and permanent; they aren't mobile homes. I was a bit baffled by the whole thing. It's like an HOA but worse.

Perhaps those living there believe that because they are wealthy they aren't worried about any of the consequences normally associated with the mobile-home trap.
The Problem with Passive Investing
Can you apply the same logic to Uber/Lyft?
Ask HN: Competing with a Prior Employer
Supposing you worked for a firm that did not require you to sign a non-compete, does not have any discernible IP, and has since been sold to another firm that you have no relationship with - would you consider launching a competing product?
meme2txt: A shell script to make memes right in your terminal
Fair enough; I guess I would just be happier if we had an NHS-style system where taxes just cover everyone. The reason my wife had serious gallbladder issues was because she didn't go to the doctor to get it treated when she first started showing symptoms (because she couldn't afford it), and then had to go to the emergency room.

Anyway, I get that they pass the costs onto the rich people and/or the insurance companies to cover the people that aren't paying, but it's still depressing, since a lot of people don't know that you can "haggle".
Asserting that Tesla is behind because they are fab at 14 instead of something smaller is so laughable you cannot be serious.

Thermal profile and power, instruction set and a dozen other things are more important.

Watch the autonomy day video on how the chip was built and why, will help a lot
But, what if there's no where to move to? We live in a time and age when voters and the govt that represent them are ever more stingy with land usage. I wouldn't be at all surprised if we end up with no-where to put the mobile home due to zoning and regulation. In that case, the existing mobile home park owners will be able to raise rents to whatever they want: this is the biggest danger.

To Fight it, we must make more land available and remove all zoning. Look cities without zoning like Houstan (places people can actually afford to live), they end up far more prosperous, and far fewer of their citizens ever have a need to move into mobile homes.
The alt-text "The User's Avatar" is worse for accessibility than an _empty_ alt-text (not no alt-text, empty alt text).

Alt-text is to describe non-decorative images that add meaning. The parent commenter is correct on how you would implement accessible alt-text here.

In the top, your avatar is meant to to represent a link to your profile. That needs an alt attribute. The alt attribute should be the current user's name, "Your Profile", or something similar. When signed out, something like "Sign In" might work better.

In the featured projects, the avatar that's there is decorative. The litmus test for decorative images is that if the image wasn't there, would you be able to easily figure out what to do? The image is purely decorative, as the creator's name is adjacent to it. There you would add an empty alt tag, like `alt=""` (not the same as no alt text), as screen-readers know to ignore that image then.
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Orthodox C++, or C+, a minimal subset of C++ that improves C
Looks like a really good resource/starting place.

Law is an unforgiving beast so you would always want to refer to the source law they cite, and finding case law (much more difficult task) which references said Law and see how it’s applied/interpreted in practice.

What you linked is certainly much more practical for educational/informational purposes.
Funny, after two years on Vim, I just discovered Esc
> surveiling user behavior and selling behavior modification

This is fine in my book as long as they involve more sociologists/psychologists in the process, are transparent about unintended consequences and what behavior modification they are indulging in.

The thing that is becoming clearer and clearer from the data accumulating about people's behavior is left to themselves ALL people have low awareness of their own damaging behavior. Whether it's to themselves, their families or communities. Those that do have some awareness have little clue about how to climb out of holes. Spotting issues early, alerting/educating people about them and showing them what options they have to improve their own behavior is a huge opportunity to do good.
Exactly. Hence their attempt some years ago at selling Facebook integrated smartphones. End to end encryption, wink wink ;)
I'm not going to tell the Japanese how to run their society, primarily because I'm not Japanese, they're a sovereign nation, and there is no evidence that the system I'm currently subjected to is any better or worse.

If the Japanese people want to change this, and want external support to change this, that is an entirely different discussion from what was in this article.
From what I've seen is that Agile doesn't ever end up working when it's driven from Management. They only care because it's supposed to be more productive, but they don't want to actually adopt any of the measures that make it more productive.
"some political leaders are already talking about improvements, asking for a study on ways to pay for street and sidewalk fixes.

None of that would be part of LA 2028’s budget
"

The problem with 'budgets' for things like this is that they show exactly what you want them to show.

The current leaders want to show that the project is cheap and on budget, so of course that new road isn't included in the budget. The next leaders will want to show how bad the previous incumbents were with finances for the Olympics, so of course that road will be included in the budget.
Roadmap to becoming a Rust web developer in 2019
NVidia is the only chip that seems a bit heavy on GPU features. But the Volta architecture has tensor processors with full FP16 and INT8 support, so it seems useful for self-driving as far as I can tell.

MobilEye EyeQ4 and EyeQ5 has no other purpose than self-driving. EyeQ5 is going to be 7nm and is launching 2020. A full ASIC for self-driving as well.

And no one knows what the heck Google / Waymo is doing. All we know is that its working, today, in Phoenix Arizona, where anyone can use Google / Waymo's taxi service TODAY. We also know that Google employes the same researchers who made TPUs that powered AlphaGo. They're very secretive about their hardware (for good reason!), but they're the elephant in the room with regards to self-driving.

https://waymo.com/apply/
>even just refueling is something the MSPs demand action over.

Yep, Members of the Scottish Parliament have been pissed off. Scottish police were blocked from doing anything however. Westminster unfortunately rides roughshod over both of them and has been a supporter of the rendition flights, as noted in the article from The Times.

>"The CIA has been accused of using Scottish airports to facilitate the transfer of terrorism suspects to overseas black sites for interrogation and torture.

>A report by Westminster’s intelligence and security committee (ISC) says that MI5 or MI6 was involved in at least 50 rendition operations."
I’ve noticed with a few colleagues when pairing that they were rather slow at typing and made plenty of mistakes. Then I realized that they were not touch typing and always had to look down for the backspace key.

I was quite surprised to see that there are programmers that don’t do touch typing.
Apparently they’re using the same contractors hired for the high speed rail,

More seriously: this always happens; what’s the point of hosting an olympics anyway? Even a permanent location would be better.
Huawei smartphone sales surge 50% as Apple and Samsung struggle
Overthinking Elevators
I find this way of dismissing things that other people care about as irrelevant quite arrogant. Yes, there are always "worse" issues. I could just as well write: We live on a planet full of environmental pollution, human rights abuse, and poverty. I'm not sure why minor usability issues in a relatively obscure operating system justify a comment on your part.

Typography is a venerable craft, and the new wordmark has technical flaws that one simply wouldn't expect from a high-profile project. This won't have disastrous consequences of any kind, but within the context of discussing a post on the new logo, calling a part of the result disastrous is, IMHO, appropriate.

Some people are genuinely interested in branding and typography, some are simply irritated by change, therefore it's common practice to introduce new branding with a blog post. You can see from the amount of comments that there are quite a few people who care about this.

Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1015/
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I don't know if its still there, but west Philadelphia (somewhere around 49th St.) had a Carrot Cake store. They made the best carrot cake I've ever had, and made nothing else.