skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> He made the argument that globalization (read: Asia) is pumping out masses of CS people who corporations will continue to use to write cheap code and do CS work at low ass wages.

Haven't we been through that before?
I was positive on crowdfunding but cases like this show that giving teams money before they deliver is not good for consumers. It gives an advantage for marketing-driven teams while there's no accountability and no hard reason to deliver. See Kickstarter and Indiegogo with lots of slick videos but really not much to actually use
Handling all Facebook requests with JITed C++ code [pdf]
The Fiddling with Science Data
It's worth noting that you can play it right now. It's just not finished yet.
90% of modern software is plumbing with computers. Skilled work, but doesn't require degrees because we're not really doing anything all that interesting.

You don't need a degree for plumbing. It comes in damn handy when you're doing things like flow dynamics or combustion simulations
Hey fam!

A few months ago I linked a preview to the second version of the app I've been working on.

Thought Train originated by me losing my train of thought while busy at work, and morphed neatly into a way for myself and others to replace the plethora of sticky notes lying around our desks.

The app sits neatly in your Mac menubar or Windows taskbar and is quick to access with a useful short cut on both OS's.

The features are lightweight, focussed on productivity.

Cloud syncing with full note encryption.
Drag & drop re-ordering.
Edit, copy and paste functionality for quick use.
A full markdown editor for more in-depth note taking.
Cross-device compatibility.
A shortcut key for quick app access.
Windows and Mac support

Let me know what you think!
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Yup, this is the real reason behind concepts like “10% time”. Play with new stuff on your side projects, not on production systems.
Your step two is mindfulness meditation
That's what I meant when I wrote that sentence: either the font doesn't have those sets, or the editors can't enable them, or there's no easy way to support different fonts for different languages, or...

It's not limited to just programming. Font fallbacks for multi-language texts (for example, English and Russian; that is, Latin and Cyrillic) in most (all?) mediums are usually horrible, and usually revert to whatever the OS provides.
There are far more failed socialist regimes
I've felt testing can be reduced to writing those functions twice and hoping at least one is correct. There has to be a better way.
How does one pronounce "guix", anyways? Is it "goo-icks"?
You get similar issues with humans though. The crossroads outside the house I lived in had restricted viability and some drivers would notice it late and crash, about one every couple of weeks for years and years. Eventually they replaced it with mini roundabouts which fixed the problem.

Also you get those epic motorway pileups in France when it gets foggy and 150+ cars crash in. Just to say we have odd failure modes too.
Not just us Catholics; I think the real big takeaway from that article is this: “Three years ago, a paper for the Royal Society found that roughly 90% of believers did not think they would suffer a crisis of faith should intelligent extraterrestrial life be discovered, though two-thirds of them believed other religions would have a crisis.”

Nearly everyone is fine with this idea, but most everyone also thinks people with religious views different than their own will have trouble with it.
Does a lawyer do law outside of billable hours? Some do pro-bono. But not the majority.

Does a doctor practice medicine outside of his hours? Again, some work at free clinics, but generally no.

Do veterinarians like it when you ask them to take a look at your cat when they're not in clinic? No. Almost always no.

Work is work, leisure is leisure. If coding is leisure for you, that's great.
The quest to make gasoline out of thin air
Wasting a good performance optimization on the rare chance that you might one day have to support a different endian architecture is IMO a poor tradeoff. The number of big-endian machines in use today is continually shrinking, and the number that are active on a heterogeneous network is even smaller.

In LMDB we simply document "don't use this with remote filesystems" and avoid the issue - if you're never sharing files with other machines, there's never a question of mixed endian accessors.
Would you be so kind as to point me in the general direction of such bullshit.
Ford is in debt 154 billion as of 2017, with an unclear path to an electric future (other than Rivian's help). I'd be more worried about them making it in the next 5 years.
They deliberately chose to run pre-release performance testing on chrome but not other browsers.
I wouldn't discount atmospheric effects that we haven't seen much yet. Or at least not with high enough frequency to understand their origins and behavior.

I'm thinking of some form of ball-lightning, a self-contained plasma. It's still an unexplained phenomenon with a history of observation (or multiple phenomena classified under one label).

A self-contained plasma could very much be opaque/reflective for radar (depending on the plasma frequency) and also emit light. Maybe it'll even be absorptive to some of the active radars trying to paint it, making some of the involved airplane and ship radars actually stabilize and guide the phenomenon (e.g. it 'escaping' as soon as a painting radar gets closer).

Lots of maybes but infrequent natural phenomena that cannot be easily observed with human senses and where humans usually don't go are still a valid hypothesis in my opinion.
Amazon had no profit for many years and here we are. Some could be told about Uber.
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Same here. I have professional experience with various languages, but Racket is my personal preference. It's one of those platforms that many programmers want to use, which is a good quality for a platform to have.

I can do almost everything in Racket (except for things like OS kernel, and easy slick smartphone apps), and Racket also gives me better metalanguage features than anything else.

The main downsides I see are: you end up doing more things from scratch than you would in many other languages (which occasionally is an advantage), it's not as proven like something like Java (in a "nobody ever got fired for buying IBM" kind of way), and there are only a few non-academic jobs in the world right now.

I originally moved to Racket as a super-productive platform for R&D, and a lot of that could also apply to creative startups trying to get demos and beta rapidly. (For startups, consider using Racket for the sprint to significant funding, at which time you might be rewriting/pivoting regardless of what language you use, and at that time you can decide whether to stick with Racket.)

If you're already an experienced programmer, you can get started with Racket quickly, and soon be productive and see some boosts, though you'll need some experience with it before you'll get all the benefits (it's not just Python with parentheses), and you will probably have to do some things from scratch.
Location: Kas, Antalya, Turkey

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No, however open to occasional on-site business trips

Technologies/Skills:
◦ Project Management: Project Planning | Project
Documentation | Resource Planning

◦ Business Analysis: Requirements Gathering and Analysis|
Fit-Gap Analysis | Business Process Design | Technical
Writing

◦ SAP: S4/HANA | Transportation Management | Event
Management | Logistics Execution

Résumé/CV: https://www.dropbox.com/s/qgwao4hma1zio4t/Ceren%20Iyim_CV_20...

Email: iyimceren@gmail.com

Summary:

After working in top technology consulting companies as SAP consultant and business analyst across Europe for more than 4 years, I decided to change my life. I quit my job as Senior Consultant recently because I am fed up with corporate dynamics of BigCo.

I now live in a small Mediterranean town where humans come first and respect each other for who they are.

Right now, I am looking for a job preferably as project manager or business analyst because my skills seem to match these two the most for start-ups. I am generally recognized for my character traits that allow me to obsess over organizing things.

I worked on few multinational SAP projects from which my take away was that I like a culturally diverse environment where work happens in perfect collaboration regardless of time and place. Hence, my search for a remote job where this feels natural.
"This is not fraud—Roberts really is working on a game—but it is incompetence and mismanagement on a galactic scale."

Beautifully put.
45k/yr if you work 60hr/wk (which isn't all that bad if you're doing something that isn't stressful).
There is https://cssbattle.dev it's not a tutorial, but seems to be a nice way to play with css. (I've only done the first puzzle, so can't say too much about it)
SQL Interview Questions Cheat Sheet
I get that there are probably established best practices that people follow for designing onboarding but I've never experienced one as a user that I didn't want to immediately dismiss or skip through.
As long as there are pre-paid meters, pirate sparkies will be in demand
Finally we now have the ability to have either personalized news or random news at the flick of a switch. Be the master of your filter bubble.
It's not a psy-op, we have strange videos recorded by military cameras.

I'm quite skeptical about alien-natured UFOs, but some videos are just too crazy. Like that tracking video of an object flying really fast and then going under water without slowing down.
Somewhat different experience: I was a hiring manager at a large tech company where we needed mostly hardware engineers. Company was very big on credentials, so we always recruited from top unis. We had just a handful of "partial-degreed" engineers who had often worked their way up from electronic technician positions while attending college part time. Turns out we needed both types. The top credentialed engineers did lovely designs but never got any of their hardware to actually work. The "mechanics" always had to come in to fix things.

Added: It really was quite like this Dilbert comic https://dilbert.com/strip/2019-01-21
Apple could do it, sure. I personally think they're the most likely candidate of any potential acquirer.

But fundamentally, an acquisition of this nature is a simple build vs buy decision. In a situation where Tesla is ready to undergo a fire sale, its R&D will have already been cut to the bone.

If Tesla stagnates technically, "build" becomes infinitely more attractive; you're no longer desperately chasing a moving target, you're simply replicating what is known to work. Companies that can do this (as opposed to original R&D) are a dime a dozen.

If the company is still healthy, I just don't see who would have the means and motive to acquire it.
I guess it's this one: https://www.amazon.jobs/en/principles
The product lineup is solid; even if they go bankrupt, the debt owners will simply wipe out the shareholders, prune away the less profitable parts of the business, and scale back the expensive R&D ambitions. The Model 3 will still be produced since the fixed costs are already paid.

(Not my view that they actually will go bankrupt. But failure due to overspending on fixed costs tends to work out differently than being unable to cover marginal costs.)
Goes fast. Doesn't go slow or hover. Doesn't turn or accelerate suddenly. Doesn't swim.
This seems like a large piece of software. I'm interested in the purely functional, portable package manager aspect. I can see that it has [0] a lot of packages that are a pain to build on my Slackware system (or even to download prebuilt) because of the awesome number of dependencies. Downloading mpv and its dependencies takes quite a bit of time, for example. If anyone has experience with using guix this way, I'd be interested.

[0] https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/packages
Erlang/Elixir?
"Geeks"
Facebook made $118 from the average North American user this year
I was on Jeju Island in South Korea and apparently it's where the South Korean government tests renewable technologies like electric vehicles. Our tour guide had this electric Hyundai that was indistinguishable from the gas-powered version. It was quiet, and that's about it.

I remember thinking that this is the future of electric vehicles. Boring. Reliable. No drama or shenanigans about CEOs doing weed or pissing off regulators or stiffing suppliers or "production hells" or falcon wing doors and touchscreen dashboards or getting rich people to adopt it first and making everybody else wonder if the price will ever come down. Everything just works.

China's already there with electric buses and electric scooters. I think they own those markets now (well-deserved based on their execution BTW).

If you haven't been paying attention to renewable tech in East Asia, you should definitely explore more; I think it would be valuable experience for the rest of the world's big-volume automakers. At least I learned a lot.
Doesn't Tesla push the second scenario at the moment?
I had a better UX around playing music with WinAMP, Microsoft Speech API, and a little program I wrote to glue the two together via Win32 API WM_ messages, in 2007, than I have today with Google Now.

Today the problem is a) the voice recognition part, which happens on-line though it shouldn't (introducing large latency and unnecessary Internet dependency), and b) scriptability, which is something none of the voice assistant vendors want to give to you, for business reasons. A better reality would have voice parsed on-device (possibly with models from on-line service providers), and available as a voice-to-text API that could be easily accessed by local scripts.
I'd like to recommend a book:

My Quest for the Yeti: Confronting the Himalayas' Deepest Mystery
by Reinhold Messner

Yes, that Reinhold Messner. It's a really good book, with an interesting ending.
I second that. I also would like better quality videos, and if possible one per talk instead of per morning/afternoon, please :-)
Retirement is not a factor of your age but your financial state.

It's stupid to think my country will be able to pay me pension - I'm skeptic about the current system will survive another 40-50 year and pay me back what I need to live comfortably.

So FIRE is just a sane provision for the future. The "early" part is different for everybody. If I can retire at 50 instead of 65 its early enough for me.
Maybe Kickstarter and such platforms need to put up a system where the consumer only pays 10%-50% of the final retail price until the product is completed.
It affects everyone equally who would get minimum wage. If when Ford increased their minimum, every other company Ford competed for workers against also raised their minimum, then it wouldn't have the same retention effect.
Office UI Fabric for iOS – Framework for Building Experiences for MS Office
On the Turing Completeness of Modern NN Architectures (Transformer, Neural GPU)
> autonomous taxi service is coming next year.

Are there any municipalities that have already passed regulations allowing driverless cars on the roads? Are any already working the regulations through the process? If the answer is no to both of those, there is no way autonomous taxis happens next year.

Having "autopilots" crash while drivers are in the car also does not help the case.
After those 15-30 years are up, you no longer have to pay that $XXXX per month.

In 20ish years, inflation is likely to have significantly reduced the value of $XXXX, it could have as little as half the purchasing power it does today. If renting, the rent is likely to increase (particularly if you move) so that you are still paying $XXXX in today's money. If repaying a mortgage, you are likely to be paying roughly $XXXX in absolute terms (depending on interest rate changes).

So yes, you are tying yourself to a risk that you will lose your house (and any difference between the outstanding loan and its sale value) if you lose your job over a certain period. However, after a certain period you are also reducing the risk that you won't be able to afford your housing costs if you lose your income.

Lenders are also more likely to consider a term extension to enable you to make more realistic payments, than a landlord is to agree to lower your rent.
The garden of Eden story isn't even consistent with the other creation story in Genesis, though; if a literalist can accept it as true on faith despite that, they can do so despite any inconsistency with mere sense data, which unlike the conflicting text in the Bible they don't hold to be infallibly accurate as a matter of religious doctrine.
Same here. On 5T. My only issue was lack of security updates in the end. I could try to flash with another distro but too much work with too little gain. Love my 5T even more.
People are allowed to do whatever they want. Any claims of lack of passion or work ethic are opinions and anecdotes of individual experiences.

There is limited time in a day and in life, you can't spend hours on multiple hobbies and interests without compromise and without eventual burnout within ones capabilities.

Feel like this kind of do's and don'ts of when to spend time and how much time to spend coding is a recurring topic that should be put to bed in the developer world. Those who want to shine above the rest will always and should pursue that goal, those falling below that bar is perfectly fine, it's all about personal wants and needs at the end of the day.
"use as a robot-taxi"
> Do veterinarians like it when you ask them to take a look at your cat when they're not in clinic? No. Almost always no.

My wife(a vet) won't even let me tell people, that aren't very close to me, that she is a vet. It's ridiculous the amount of free advice she gets asked. The worst part about it is that she has had several classmates from vet school that have been sued(and lost) from the free advice they gave to other people outside of work hours. It's a huge liability issue and trust me, the people who want free medical advice are the people who will sue you because you didn't correctly diagnose the problem for free.
If that's what you want to do with your time, cool. This article is aimed at people who don't want to do that but feel like they have to.
I was considering "pledging" to this game a year or two ago. Luckily I didn't, and it was because the supporters on every SC forum were the most cult-like, rabid fanboys I've ever encountered in the gaming world.

It felt like they were all using the same playbook to respond to any question that could be considered negative. E.g. If you asked about the game being Pay-to-Win, they'd all say "There's no such thing as winning an MMORPG, so it can't be Pay-to-Win", which is an impressive feat of mental gymnastics when literally everything in the game can already be purchased with real money.

There are people who have "invested" over $20,000 in this game. Other people built gaming PCs three years ago specifically to play it, most of which will be woefully inadequate by the time it launches.

I hope someone makes a documentary about this one day. Or maybe that was Chris Roberts' plan all along?
100% agree. In Ford's case, it was a voluntary decision to attract and keep the best workers. In the case of federally mandated minimum wage, it's a threat of force against business owners who are otherwise acting peacefully and quite literally, minding their own business.

Raising the minimum wage results in:
- A raise in the price of products (hurting the poor the most)
- Firing employees
- Reducing hours
- Going out of business
- Outsourcing

I'm a business owner, and I'm not going to sit here eating up the cost of a higher minimum wage. The central planners don't seem to understand this -- or they do, and they ultimately want more people dependent on them. If that's the case, raising the minimum wage is a great idea.
The best way is making no mistakes :)

The second best is machine-checkable proofs, like types.

The fallback is tests. Sometimes the first two can't be applied.
It's supposed to rhyme with Nix, being derived from it, so I would suspect it's monosyllabic. Thus, I would pronounce it "gwix."
I've heard it pronounced geeks by the developers.
I believe the parent was making a joke.
Payload size would be very helpful, but they don't need that to shortlist candidates. Correlating the timestamps of when the comment appeared on HN and when the domain name was accessed from an internal IP may be enough, subject to luck. Considering that Google is already tracking (crawling) the entire web for its core business, adding a few tweaks should not make much of a difference to their system load.
Common police tactic to test the authenticity of a witness/suspect's story.
Another tactic is to leave the topic for a while - go completely off course - and then ask the candidate to write it down in front of them. The act of writing, instead of speaking, adds to the difficulty if the story is false.
All that does sound a lot like COBOL.
That’s a bit narrow-sighted IMHO.

I wouldn’t have called Feynman desperate. http://longnow.org/essays/richard-feynman-connection-machine...

Some things just need doing, like buying pencils.
I had hopes long ago when kickstarter first came out. Now, not so much. It's a graveyard of 'almost succeeded', 'good idea but execution failed', and 'scammers'.

What I was hoping long ago was that KS would have been a place to buy shares of equity, and be part owner of these ventures. Instead it turned into a "ebay of almost buy". That way would have been a way of democratizing ownership without doing a traditional IPO - yet also targeting people who believe.

(As an aside, the SEC also punishes people under the 1% class, by preventing many types of investments to the rest of us. Note how IPFS's FileCoin IPO was only for the millionaire class. Risk is risk, but the SEC prevents new risk and opportunities except to the millionaires.)
What an outrageous hedge story that I am shocked anyone believes. Tesla needed to lease model 3s because

- They were horribly late in delivering the car (and now claim they are going to have fully autonomous taxis by next year when they couldn't even deliver on a basic car on time)

- They can't make the $35k car they promised without losing money

- They have exhausted the market of people that will pay 50k for an electric car knowing the fuel savings will never make up for the premium so they have excess inventory

- They now are low on cash, high on inventory so they make up this moonshot story to get people to invest in them again. Simply saying they are doing standard leases would be too honest.

The day is going to come soon where the amount of people that believe the hype will dwindle and the debt will pile up even more where there is a liquidity crisis. It is essentially a legal pyramid scheme. I have to hand it to them though being able to convince a good amount of people that their leasing is actually ensuring a future supply of robo taxis is impressive. One day people will laugh at the outrageousness of that.
GoG does it for a small, rotating selection of titles, which is good. But for it to make a significant difference, they'd need to be able to move a large majority of people's libraries. That's much harder, given the variety of developers and publishers you’d need to strike deals with. I don’t think it’s feasible, sadly.
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That's very interesting. In the car driving example we can define three variables: 1) Throttle 2) Speed 3) Elevation derivative

If "3" is constant (ex: flat terrain) then "1" and "2" will have strong correlation. However if "2" is constant (ex: cruise control) as in your example, "1" and "3" will have strong correlation.

In the economic example, however, this kind of analisys should be much more complex and take plenty of variables into account.
you really think tesla has a better chance of surviving than ford in the next 5 years?