skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Given the reception of No Man's Sky, I would say that the advantage of spending money on things that will remain forever in the future is that they will never disappoint you; they will remain Peter Pan objects, never to age or confront reality. You're buying an aspiration, a dream, and if you can get thousands to dream along with you, all the better. The real "game" is not some bytes in a database nor pixels in the screen, it's in the head of the players, and as such does not require physical referents to play. This makes it the ultimate postmodern game.

Who needs virtual reality when you have hyperreality?

(I could go on like this but I refer you to Baudrillard on the hyper-real and simulacra. Buying a virtual object that doesn't even have a virtual existence is clearly a stage 4 "simulacra". This comment should not be taken entirely seriously or literally, either.)
Having worked in Cedar Rapids there's really only 1 employer that makes up the "good job" pool - used to be called Rockwell Collins.

I'd guess there's a similar situation in most of towns on this list, which would mean living there is a huge risk unless you plan on working at the one or two companies in town for life.
And colliding after significant braking would be even better.
Ah man, I wish my work was "only coding", wouldn't that be nice.
> I think the barrier specifically for software engineering is probably a bit lower now than in the past.

It really depends. I don't think you can compare writing a CRUD to writing a hardware controller, for example.

I think HN tends to be in a bit of a web bubble. There's plenty of software engineering that has nothing to do with the web.
This is wildly misleading. Ford's debt mostly comes from it's financing arm. The name of the game there is to borrow money at a low interest rate and lend it out at a high one. The more debt Ford has the more money its making.
Here are our stats for Polar....

Before onboarding our cohort retention was 2%...after 1 week.

This means that after a week only 2% of our users came back to use the app.

After a basic onboarding we jumped to 10%. We're now at about 14-15% (just via improving the app).

About 50% of our users completely skip the onboarding altogether.

I think I'm going to experiment with a video instead of a tour to see the difference.
I would also add that buying vs. not is also a lifestyle decision. I've owned and rented for > 10 years each and there are pluses and minuses to both. I consider any financial gain one way or the other to be side issues.
and how is the pay?
if a country charges a man with sleeping with another man, one which carries a potential death sentence, and after bail he claims asylum in the west, would you consider his skipping bail a perversion of justice?
It really should be made illegal to put TVs and other noise making devices into the public space. I don’t understand why it’s acceptable to put that stuff everywhere. It’s basically visual and auditory littering, not much different from throwing away trash.
Funnily enough I hadn't actually considered it. I guess because I was considering it from the outside.
I'd like to share AvE's video[0] here of a tear down of an AoA sensor. It's really quite interesting. More info on the AoA sensor's role in the Wiki entry[1].

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhZ0D-JRtz0

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_737_MAX#Maneuvering_Cha...

TLDR/TLDW: AoA sensor measures "angle of attack." AoA sensors are physically over-engineered, but the electrical components may be questionable. If an AoA sensor fails, it may cause a stall. The 737 Max is equipped with two sensors, however, effectively utilized only one at a time because it cost extra for the "AOA-disagree" feature.
Services are also very different. One must adjust to that: US has many more high-end healthcare services.

In any case, you cant lower spending and increase access by socializing care: government will have to ration it.
David J. Thouless (1934-2019) - Discoverer of topological phases of matter.
Low-Latency is one thing (now much better with AudioWorklet model), real-time rendering is another thing. With AudioWorklet the audio code now runs in a dedicated thread, but without real-time priority for now.
Tesla is operating in a different industry than Uber or Lyft. And while Uber and Lyft are only facing Taxi operators as incumbents Tesla is up against all car manufacturers. That makes a big difference.
Addressing Irreproducibility in the Wild
But that takes an active effort to look away so it’s still stress.
What innovation are we talking about? Did they steal some patent or IP to catch?
Unless the advertiser mistakenly believes they work.
ipfs has its own mutable content adressing named IPNS
>The last thing one should do to solve housing inequality is to intentionally buy a lower priced home

And driving demand for luxury condos (or whatever) is better? Then you're giving an incentive for some developer to bulldoze the cheap "blighted" homes and apartments to make more luxury condos or overpriced new townhouses, or whatever.

There's no winning here.
Honest question - Is it anywhere close to a finished product?
but does this wage amount control for the value of benefits esp. health insurance? otherwise not sure these are comparable.
The only distro I know of which packages nvidia proprietary driver not as an original blob and a bunch of scripts is Debian. To say it's a mess is understatement (list of dependencies by metapackage[0], which doesn't include all driver parts either).

[0]https://packages.debian.org/sid/nvidia-driver

edit: wording
The original intent of these systems was to crowdfund printing costs for small-run art projects and the like, where the money would need to be actually spent to produce the items. Not paying the creator upfront would destroy that use case.
That’s not quite true. My understanding is that some things are relaxed for some purposes, but it’s not just a carte blanche. So within 100 miles of the border, they can operate checkpoints and can stop vehicles for questioning, for purposes of enforcing customs and immigration law. But they cannot just search your car without a warrant (something I believe they can do at the border). It’s really a lot more reasonable than some people make it sound, considering the challenges of policing two massive land borders and a giant coastline, and that their powers are quite limited nonetheless.
If you go gluten free you can take that last one off your list of worries too ; )
Sample means and true means are different things.
I don't know. Google has tens of thousands of developers hard at work apply advanced algorithms to everything. I mean, why else would they hire the way they do if that's not the case?
As you must know being a business owner, labor is only one component of expenses, so prices don't go up x% just because labor went up x%. In McDonald's case, a 100+% rise in wages would represent a 4% rise in price. Obviously most minimum wage increases don't double at once so it would be even less. You don't go on a firing spree and shut down the business when property taxes or materials go up so why would you need to do that if labor went up?

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/raising-fast-food-hourly-w...

There would be no need for a minimum wage if we had UBI but that kind of thing is too far off.
I bet if you included additional benefits the drop would be much bigger, not smaller.
What are leadership qualities? Asking for a friend.
Or, you know, eat gluten-free bread.
always wondered so too. Racket also seems to beat python in many benchmarks: https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/... , but yeah, i guess people just hate parens and prefix notation.
> Given the reception of No Man's Sky, I would say that the advantage of spending money on things that will remain forever in the future is that they will never disappoint you

I think it's important to add this: No Man's Sky turned out to be a great game! It just took about a year longer than expected and in the meantime Hello Games got the full fury of the internet. But they didn't stop. They buckled down and worked on it. And it turned out just fine.
The Aliens Among Us
I'm a bit salty about this - I've proposed the "dropping ie6 banner without actually dropping support" banner at multiple jobs in the past. Each time it was met with "ooooh we can't do that" by product. I didn't have the guts to just go ahead and do it.

On a related note, I feel like most of my career has been spent preaching things that I should have just asked for forgiveness for. I can't count the number of times I've heard "we want x, but we can't do anything to achieve x". Psssst, you can - you just need to do it. Scared of change/ the unforseen. If you don't know what the ramifications are going to be, there could be positive ones you're missing too. Try it. If it's truly sinking your ship, kill it. Otherwise sail off into the promised land. Rinse and repeat. Be brave. That's my advice.
Language Interop and Vertical Architecture
The ability for adults to drink milk and fluency in speaking English is well correlated. This is because those of northern European ancestry are more likely to be able to drink milk, and it happens that most of northern European ancestry either immigrated to an English speaking country (US) 150 years ago, or are in a country where English instruction is good.
I am experiencing an almost 100% disconnect with almost everything you wrote.

I don't find out about them then, and my savings and 401K continue to grow unabated. Maybe I'm missing out on cool stuff, but assuming I never found out I was missing out, then my life isn't impacted negatively regardless. I don't really know what an "influencer" is; is it the internet equivalent to the ShamWow or OxiClean guys?

I have 0 tolerance for people or companies actively telling me what I should buy or like, and distrust anyone who does so.
Look into Attempto Controlled English for an alternative closer to what I was thinking about :)
the edge server in this case would need to be in space, on a satellite.

That's going to be a very expensive edge server!
What kind of issues usually arise with choosing based on merit?
Create-Pastel-App: Build CLI Apps Using React
Was talking about Star Citizen on https://the-starport.net/ like almost 10 years ago.

People made many predictions back then, some said it'll never achieve that level of detailed game play while supporting multiplayer. And yet, look how far that game has went today.

Pretty impressive already if I do say so myself.

I'm looking forward to see it's completion. And even if somehow it failed, I think it's already a nice game.
Ask HN: How can an investment services provider gain your trust
SS: Often incentives don't align between what is best for an investor and the bottom line of an Investment Services Providers. Consumers are often pushed/nudged into investments which they don't fully understand by unscrupulous ISPs which make money from quantity of transactions rather than from the long term benefit of the investment.

Two part question for HN;

1. If you personally have never made any investments into stocks, bonds, mutual funds etc, what behaviour/actions from the investment services provider would show you that they have your best interest in mind and they're interested in your long term success - instead of just being concerned with their own profits.

2. If you are currently investing into any type of tradable assets, what convinced you to go with your current ISP out of the hundreds of others you could have gone with.
Watch Blue Origin launch and land its New Shepard rocket during its 11th flight
I really wonder if machine learning is going to allow us to create more intelligent editors/linters/compilers. In fact, it could start to automate most of the actual process of writing code.
> I'm a business owner, and I'm not going to sit here eating up the cost of a higher minimum wage.

Yes you are.(1)

(1) "You" here means the collective cohort. You as an individual business owner might be principled enough to refuse to hire, but I believe the data from other places that have a low but non-zero minimum wage indicates your cohort will usually raise wages, rather than not hire. Bearing in mind minimum wages are still very low wages. If business is so tight that would catastrophically affect profits, you will usually raise prices, and the cost isn't so much eaten as the pressures in the business adjust around the new reality; this is made easier by the fact that your competitors are doing the same.

> or they do, and they ultimately want more people dependent on them.

At least in some countries, raising minimum wage makes people less dependent on the state, not more. Two reasons: People need less top up from the state to plug the gap between low wages and high costs of housing and health, and people are more motivated to take a job because it makes a material difference to their situation, indeed poverty-level wages (far below minimum) often cost more to earn than they provide.
Microsoft, currently the most valuable company, is having a Nadellaissance
The conclusion, "nobody did anything wrong, in a strictly technical sense" is too generous to Boeing and the FAA, given that MCAS did not have the redundancy that its classification as 'hazardous' required.

It would probably take either an inquiry like those into the space shuttle accidents, or a whistleblower, to know whether anyone was raising concerns. I can believe it is possible that everyone was convinced by the "in the worst case, it is no worse than ordinary trim runaway" argument (which does not excuse the failure to meet the redundancy requirement), but then the Ethiopian Airlines crash, and its crew's inability to manually re-trim, might raise the question of whether trim runaway on any 737 model is more of a risk than had been supposed (to be fair, trim runaway has not caused 737 crashes in the past, AFAIK.)
It also got absolutely flooded - Steam is chock-full of indie stuff, but as everything always is, 99% of it is crap, and by making it easier for a developer to get visibility, it's now virtually impossible to sift through to find the promising stuff.
Obligatory quotation from Pascal:

"When I have occasionally set myself to consider the different distractions of men, the pains and perils to which they expose themselves at court or in war, whence arise so many quarrels, passions, bold and often bad ventures, etc., I have discovered that all the unhappiness of men arises from one single fact, that they cannot stay quietly in their own chamber."

(http://www.gutenberg.org/files/18269/18269-0.txt)
For employers the situation is great, more supply and cheaper salaries. The strategy of asking for college education worked.
By then it's a bit too late no? Sure you might be able to use it to arrest them, but they've already gotten inside your house and done whatever it is they plan to do - whether that's simply take your stuff, or harm your family.
>brew is miles away from apt.

brew is also miles away from what it used to be. They have recently changed their philosophy about building from source and software support compiled into their built bottles. Did you know that neither mpv or mplayer bottles ship with libdvdread support?

Building mplayer from source fails due to an error building libavcodec against x264. For some reason, the x264 version is not being correctly picked up in the Homebrew build process so it is trying to use a deprecated x264 API that has been built, which is causing it to fail however building the same software outside of Homebrew (same source tarball that Homebrew downloaded) builds just fine with libdvdread and x264 in ffmpeg support.

I'd report it further but the time last someone asked about it they were basically told to fuck off. Their rules for avoiding burnout state the following which really summarizes their recent change in policy:

> 1. Use Homebrew

>Maintainers of Homebrew should be using it regularly[...]

>3. Prioritise Maintainers Over Users

>It's important to be user-focused but ultimately, as long as you follow #1 above, Homebrew's minimum number of users will be the number of maintainers. However, if Homebrew has no maintainers it will quickly become useless to all users and the project will die. As a result, no user complaint, behaviour or need takes priority over the burnout of maintainers. If users do not like the direction of the project, the easiest way to influence it is to make significant, high-quality code contributions and become a maintainer.

Yet proposing a patch for this gets met with "create your own tap and stop bothering us". I'd love to help you, guys, if you weren't gigantic pricks about it!
My degree is a BsCpE. Should I be allowed to call myself an engineer?
Linux is working perfectly on lot of servers, computers, smartphones. It holds steady third place in the world rating for desktops, first place for smartphones, dominant at server/embedded/supercomputer markets. If a developer released an app which cannot be running at these platforms under Linux, then app is broken, of course. Why you blame perfectly working OS for developer fault?
Ask HN: Which company rejected you and why?
I just got rejected from Stripe and they got me no feedback with the rejection. Is this common?
I've asked for further feedback but got no response. What about making a list of company with bad behaviour during the interview process?
Don't underestimate how badly demand is dropping / going to drop.

You basically cannot get timely repairs on a tesla. This is getting mainstream coverage.

Your car could be out of service for 5 months. That's simply a no-go for a lot of more mainstream buyers myself included.

My own prediction, some skinny / dark days ahead until they work out some of the kinks. Execute on getting parts inventory up / available. Model Y execution. And price - a huge segment at 32K or so especially in Model Y segment - my worry is that with federal rebates going away the price issue becomes much worse.
I don't think it has Nvidia drivers, but there is work being done for Guix and HPC. https://guix-hpc.bordeaux.inria.fr/
Pretty much as soon as temperatures reach the point where permafrost naturally starts melting, then they've also reached the point (or soon will) where local flora (including microorganisms) start soaking up all or most of any emitted CO2. (AFAIK, the same holds true for methanotrophs and methane, too.) So while everybody likes to talk about exacerbating factors here, almost nobody talks about mitigating factors, which are considerable.

Also, the scary picture shown is of the Batagaika crater, and while they state that the permafrost there has been melting since the 1960s, they fail to mention that this was initiated by tree removal at that location (not sure what the story is there), so hardly a naturally occurring event. Also, that's 50 years' worth of melting you see there, so hardly a speedy event, either, and certainly not something which happened practically overnight. All of those trees still surrounding the area are no doubt soaking up as much of any freshly-emitted CO2 as they can get, too.
What’s funny is that UFOs always look and behave like the tech of the time era it was recorded at !
I guess you missed the bits where he called a rescue diver a pedophile, probably his worst. The guy has no control over what he says. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-16/musk-labe...
This one wonders where Bitbucket plays into this, but I'm guessing they're out?
Tesla launches cheaper Model 3 with 150km range in Canada to get $5k incentive
I think it's just absurd to believe you can get to know someone within 60 - 90 minutes. A good liar/imposter can fool people for years. That's why you always ask for references and cross check stories.
as soon as VR headset resolution gets a little better (and we have GPUs that can drive that higher res well), I might start spending a DANGEROUS amount of time in Elite.

It's already incredible with the HTC Vive, and you definitely get used to how it looks, but the resolution just isn't quite there (e.g. its especially noticeable if you are trying to railgun someone from a significant distance)
That's been my experience with Devise and similar libraries for other frameworks and languages. If it fulfills all needs for a project, that's great, but I tend to find that it's simpler just to build authentication around authentication "primitives" like has_secure_password. The thing I do like about Devise is that it has views for everything including password reset out of the box. The abstractions it provides end up being more of a headache than they are worth.

To be honest, I'd rather see more gems for these sorts of purposes that are just a collection of off-the-shelf views that can be easily tied in to one's authentication solution of choice. By installing Devise, you bring all of the extra non-view baggage it comes with into the application's memory space even if you don't use it. Yuck. (no offense!)

Actually, I just reread your comment and I think your scaffold/generator approach is also a nice way to go. It's just too bad that there hasn't been as much development effort towards these sorts of things recently in the Ruby community. I'd build it, but have gotten away from Ruby because the community is obsessed with applying object-orientation to every problem, over-abstracting, metaprogramming, etc.
Configuring Linux userland's components to work together in a way that isn't garbage for what you're trying to do is an absurdly complicated task, that's why there are so many Linux distros: maintaining a distro is pretty much the only way to avoid doing all that work over and over again. It's a significant flaw in the Linux ecosystem.
AFAIK Amazon had only a handful of unprofitable quarters in history. Even more important, Amazon was always cash-flow positive. Uber is a different story, so.
> decades

The predecessor of the SR-71 first flew in April on 1962, the public announcement was July of 1964. Given how much trouble we've had with our hypersonic research programs over the decades, and the lack of need for it given stealth is more affordable, there might have been some cool stuff, but it's not a practical or likely operational tool.

The first launch of a KH-11 was mid-seventies and subject to a lot of media coverage during the spy trials a few years later. Imagery was leaked during the Reagan admin. We don't need better resolution, we need more coverage.

So IMO our secrets are less about silver-bullet platforms and more about exploits. Exploiting their radars, sensors, communications systems, networks and computers. We don't really need a Mach 5 platform or 1" resolution for anything. It would be neat, but it would be unaffordable to buy and maintain.
An Old Cisco OpenSSH Bug
In many cases, the server where the file is actually stored will not allow you to execute random code.
I'm reminded of the wikileaks associate who arrived at JFK and was detained. The police were screaming mad about him not unlocking his electronic devices. Problem: he didn't bring any electronic devices. If you have to cross into the US, encrypt everything using something like Truecrypt and stash it online. Read a book on the plane.
NOAA data goes back to the early 1970s. The IPCC paper can be found after a fairly trivial Google search here:
https://web.archive.org/web/20120428072521/https://www.ipcc....

Good. So let's summarize:

- someone who disagrees with you can be called names

- you're ignorant of the history of NOAA

- if you can't find something, then the other person is a fraud

- but you claim they make fraudulent arguments anyway so that's OK

Very scientific.