skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I agree that you should keep learning and growing, I don't agree that its because technology is changing so rapidly. Often times change is equated with "new X framework" that just becomes popular and has no significant advantage over existing tool sets. Also, most companies rarely adopt new technologies, even if it would benefit them, because they've produced so much product using one tool set, that making a change would require too much time. So it's not unreasonable to find companies still working with 20 year technologies (cough vb6) because the install base is so large that an investment to upgrade just isn't worth the cost.

In short, you can make a pretty good living simply maintaining old, existing software and never learning anything really new. After all, people only care that it works and that you fix their perceived issues with it. As long as you keep doing that, you'll be employed.
Try to avoid focus on internet by focus on another task like try jump from fire to minefield. The internet contain ton of shit and people don't know they need to filter it.

Books in early time also contain trash like internet nowadays. The problem that needs to be solved that we need to find good sources of information, like to find a good book. I like to read old books which have good reputation and reviews. The new book still needs time to be test and refined.
You don't have to be exploiting people or trashing the environment in order to have the costs associated with complying with laws specifically designed to prevent you from doing those things.
Well.. this assumes that coding (all coding?) is a burden..
I agree with the article in that coding _for_ work, outside of normal work hours, isn't something to strive for. I did that a lot when I was young, but that was not only when it was necessary due to the strained time schedules we had then, it was also because I literally hungered for it. I needed to. So I would go back to work after dinner and hack away to figure out how the OS worked, deep inside, for example. Writing or modifying device drivers, writing tools that extended the OS functionality, that kind of things. Back when things were new.

These days I don't, as a rule, code for work outside of work hours. But I need to code in my spare time. That's when I can do things that really interest me, side projects where I can enter the 'flow', something I nearly never can do at work anymore. I have to go into flow mode now and then to keep up my ability for concentrating on problems (and yes that's necessary to keep up my work performance too). A few years back the constant interrupts at work degraded my performance so much that I spent my three week holiday in various cafeterias, with a laptop and documentation, and worked all day on my hobby project, finally re-learning to enter the flow again. As in "I looked up, and five hours had passed". Myself, laptop computer, documentation, coffee, food available. Happiness.
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Apropos of CSS grid learning games, had anyone here used Grid Critters[1] and want to share their experience? It looks pretty slick, but the price tag makes me hesitate.

[1] http://www.gridcritters.com
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This role will have you working on our integrations app, managing ETL pipelines from 15+ (and growing) different data sources, mainly in ruby and various flavors of sql. We already have a robust monitoring system built, and because we've pulled this out of our main application codebase, working on it is a breeze.

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After completing the degree? Sure. During the degree? Maybe :) From digging through your comment history, it looks like you're in bioinformatics, so there are potential avenues around software engineering, ML engineering (depending on your computer vision exposure), and data science.

Feel free to reach out and I can help point in the right direction! jackson dot wilkinson at mycompanysurl
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I’m on your side with ligatures. Pry them from my cold dead hands. But given that the author is a font designer he probably has had many heated discussions on the matter and that’s probably why he cares so much.
I’m gonna go out on a limb and call it:

rail gun projectiles

ultra flat trajectories

inertial steering and guidance

stealth coatings that survive launch forces with protective sabot barrel buffer blocks

self destruct mechanisms that cause fragments to accelerate to hypersonic speeds upon termination

satellite tracking and situational awareness permits relative (not perfect) secrecy when conducting tests
Yeah. It's also perfectly OK to code outside of work. It's still "having a life" but it's my life and therefore my choice.
I'm unconvinced, because as far as I'm concerned ligatures are a viewing enhancement and have nothing to do with writing the code. Maybe there are (extreme) edge cases where I might accidentally confuse a Unicode code point with a ligature, but since those symbols are (relatively) difficult to access on most keyboards to begin with, I don't think any practical difficulty would ever present itself.

I've often thought that smarter IDEs should be able to recognize the language and display code in the user's preferred style with better use of screen space. For instance, a Java class could be displayed with the class signature in a fixed header; enclosed methods could be displayed starting at the left, instead of indented; stacks of annotations could be replaced by a gutter icon with a hover/click to show/expand/close; methods could be grouped and ordered by particular criteria; etc., all while the underlying source file remains intact.
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Sadly, not all ACC and CAS deployments are created equal. Tesla uses a 77ghz RADAR that has 0.1° of accuracy on the azimuth for the far range radar at a beam spread of 6° and 0.2° for 9°. The near RADAR resolves to between 0.3° to 5° for the close one. They can pick out objects at a resolution of 40cm for the long range RADAR and down to 5cm short range. http://www.compotrade.ru/i/pdf/ARS404-21_ARS408-21_en_V1.03....

Not all manufacturers use such high specced RADAR as you can see in this comparison sheet there are cheaper options to pick from that don’t offer anywhere close to this angular accuracy and resolution https://autonomoustuff.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/RADAR-...

The manufacturer is probably using 24ghz RADAR which is legacy technology and is being discontinued due to lower accuracy. There are software tweaks available to reduce false positives for legacy tech but most manufacturers don’t deploy them.

See: https://e2e.ti.com/blogs_/b/behind_the_wheel/archive/2017/10...
On the other hand, $835 a week is over $20/hour, which to my blue-collar redneck-steeped brain, seems like pretty damned good for somebody with no education - and a partial college education is not worth a flying fuck, because the way things are structured, it's typically all core high school++ courses for the first year or two, before going into actually field-specific training.
They kind of are - usually with car leases there is the ability to buy the car at the end of your contract, but not with new tesla leases(because they will put those vehicles into the autonomous fleet).
> Furthermore, the idea that people become richer because the number on the bottom of their check goes up, rather than the buying power of that number, is easily debunked by looking at the entire history of inflation. I'm easily making more money, in nominal dollars, than an average CEO in 1919, but I'm not running wild in Saint-Tropez every summer either.

This argument makes no sense. Raising the minimum wage doesn't affect everyone equally like inflation does. It affects only those with the lowest income, with maybe a trickle-up effect to those making somewhat more.
Except the Genesis account pretty clearly establishes that it is.
“Cash-flow positive from investors” is a nonsensical concept. Investors invest because they expect a return. If cash flow, the real kind, is negative forever, eventually the investments will stop. Musk has delayed the reckoning for a while with showmanship, but it can’t go on forever.
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$835/week is $43000 a year, which is approximately what postdocs (people who hold PhD degrees) receive.
Doable by a lot of companies if they wanted to, I think the suggestion was that someone in the domain would make the acquisition, which seems much tougher a prospect.
> As I heard from one candidate in an interview, “software development is one of very few career paths left to have a middle class lifestyle without a degree.“

That's very true, and it's because technology is more of a meritocracy than most other professions. Your compiler doesn't care about your credentials, or who your family is, emotional pleas, or any of the other myriad factors that get people into jobs they're not capable of. The culture of meritocracy is pretty heavily under assault, but I'm confident it will survive for a while yet.
Because they also need money now, so they started leasing Model 3 and telling lessees that Tesla will be keeping the car after the lease expires.

They get money now and keep the car for use as a robo-taxi.
Yes, but not at the cost of work-life balance.
Genuine question.

Did you mean to ignore the fact that Tesla knows the score?

Tesla knows all of those statistics about its drivers, and knows how those numbers compare to other published data.

And they chose to write up the data in the manner they did.

In which configuration of all possible worlds is this ok?
Seconded. If you have any interest in CS and are looking for a cheap mobile game to pass the time, give this a look.
My machine was early 2018, the Oryx Pro. It's the thick version. Suspend either suspends properly or NO-OPs. I stuck my laptop into my bag with some dry gym clothes and my books. Realized 30 minutes later the damn thing was running at full power and my bag was too hot to touch. Five more minutes and Caltrain would have been on fire.

They have the newer thinner versions of that laptop (we use them at work), but they have no enterprise-grade support and they all have different quirks (I mean at least have the same quirk, right...?!). If you're trying to replace a keyboard during business hours, and you're a high-level engineer charging hundreds of dollars per hour, and it takes a long time to change the keyboard and learn one skill one time, it will cost the business a pretty penny.

I'd get the Dell Precision 5530 or XPS 13 w/ Project Sputnik for a business setting. It's Dell, and it's the highest-level laptop they sell, so at least they'll take the machine back if it doesn't work (I believe the XPS/Precision line follow a special QA process from other commodity stuff), and I don't think Project Sputnik will disappear anytime soon (actually expanding IIRC).
While asset prices and other costs rose (in many places at least).
99% of software engineering is just data plumbing and processing. It does not require big picture thinking skills beyond the immediate problem or creative problem solving ability. Sure those skills help sometimes but the return diminishes rapidly and you could get by without them pretty much all the time. It's really not any harder than normal plumbing. The medium we work in and the tools and methods we use are different but that's mostly it.
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>> Intelligent life happened here, it must happen again somewhere else. This should be made axiom really. You/we/whatever is not unique in the universe.

We don't really know the probability of abiogenesis (let alone artifacts from that process leading to intelligent life). If it is sufficiently improbable -- 1 / 10^22 per star[0] -- it may very well be that we are the only ones in the observable universe.

The universe is pretty darn big, but life is also pretty darn complex, and its emergence from amino acids and "simple" organic chemistry is not very well understood. Unless the factors of abiogenesis are sufficiently well known, we shouldn't make such predictions either...

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[0]: once per (100 * 10^9 stars in the galaxy times 100 * 10^9 galaxies per hubble volume).
I don’t code after work, instead I just focus my efforts on coding for the firm. That way I can get rewarded for it.
I agree, and I think they deserve more pay in exchange for sacrificing their body.
Larry Ellison invested in TSLA. I would not want to see Oracle buy them.
Oh, it's quite easy but that may just be me, it also helps to know when the hard part arrives ;-) (which is at the beginning)

This is what I do:

1) Do nothing

2) Feel your sensations in the body as your doing nothing. In the beginning I sometimes feel aggitated, I just keep observing the my sensations for a couple of minutes.

3) Close your eyes.

4) Congratulations, you are now limited by your fantasy. Have fun, experiment, make up a story, visualize something.
> how would the major organised religions cope with the revelation (pun intended) that there was life that originated off of Earth/outside of the garden of eden?

The major religions have already shown how they deal with evidence of outside of the garden of Eden. Several don't care, because the garden isn't part of their belief system to start with, and most of the rest have no problem with it (because they don't view the garden as literal), and the remainder just dismiss the evidence and distrust the entire field of science associated with it.

I don't think expanding that to off Earth is likely to change a thing about those responses, though the details of exactly which groups have each response might be a little different (though I suspect not much.)
Sorry, I could have been more clear. I didn't mean that a recession is a black swan event, but that the specific nature of the housing crisis is considered a black swan.

More concretely, a recession is more predictable and to be expected while the failure of the mortgage-backed security market (and the broader consequences) less so.
> In fact, the ones with only some college (especially those with a family) seem to be more reliable and willing to do the occasional boring things that those with a degree tend try to avoid doing.

Some would call it „willing”, some „more desperate”.
Quoting Musk on Twitter[1], about a year ago:

The Economist used to be boring, but smart with a wicked dry wit. Now it’s just boring (sigh). Tesla will be profitable & cash flow+ in Q3 & Q4, so obv no need to raise money.

[1] https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/984705630106673152
P.S. Oh, and I found my information from `man ifconfig` and #openbsd IRC channel.
GOG still does from time to time. I check this weekly: https://www.gog.com/connect

Edit: You can insert some EA keys from Steam into Origin: https://pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/List_of_Origin-redeemable_game...
I've found that it is often those who move into programming after an earlier career in a trade are markedly better than those that went to college and got computer science degrees.

They tend to just get things done, without spinning themselves in circles building unhelpful mountains of abstractions or searching high and low for a place that they can apply their algorithms coursework.
You're not, but you should ask yourself why people with the same views have been predicting failure since 2012.
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> was it just the automotive industry, or the entire market that did so?

Ford basically started the trend that would create the middle class in the US at large (somewhat arguable, but commonly attributed to him and this decision).
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I'm not even a Musk fan, but have you got refs for these? Worst I've seen is smoking a joint and misleading about having an investor they didn't have. I believe his opinion that Teslas only needing cameras bc that's all humans use to drive is incorrect but honest. I don't think he's mean, I think he's overly, conveniently idealistic to a point which needs to be corrected.
How can they spend all the money on autonomy [1] while refusing to share any more data [2] beyond the couple of sentences in their "safety reports" [3]? This makes no sense.

[1] https://youtu.be/Ucp0TTmvqOE?t=13330

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqvatzjHGyk&t=47m17s

[3] https://www.tesla.com/VehicleSafetyReport
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Interesting, are the leadership qualities list public to have a look?
Most people are not pilots to know that.
>Considering how closely the depictions of the event match pictures of sun dogs leaves it as the most reasonable solution.

Yeah... sundogs are weird, leaping sundogs are weirder[0].

[0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPk0mKVnnCs
On personal projects I have entered a flow state so deep that, when my wife interrupts me to remind me I skipped breakfast and now it's lunchtime, it takes me a few moments to actually be able to understand her. It's like she's speaking a foreign language.

I have never had that happen at a day job.
Keep in mind that 20 years ago the population of people with four-year was smaller.
And soon we'll have nationwide $15/hour minimum wage (~$30K/year) for people who take your coffee order or put fries in a bag.
Granted and that's why I made a caveat about the specific markets I've lived in. While I know HN is very Silicon Valley centric, for people who live outside that bubble Silicon Valley is generally viewed more of an anomaly than a market bellwether.

I'd be curious if there's any evidence as to why rent went down in SV. For example, did the lack of credit affect the venture capital necessary for start-ups and ultimately lead to less demand in housing?
You can literally play it right now and it is awe inspiring
They are raising capital to tool up for the Model Y, Semi and Pickup assembly lines as planned.

Q2 is going to be a positive quarter as the only reason Q1 fell short was missed deliveries from cars in transit to Europe and China.
The encoding would have to be part of our DNA though right? Do you think this method would work as a treatment or just as a method of prevention?

I like your mindset and I think your metaphor may be correct.
==To figure out how many of these jobs are open to people without degrees, the economists scoured nearly 30 million local job ads across 121 metropolitan areas to determine their minimum educational requirements. They called them “opportunity jobs.”==

I would be interested to know what percentage of these jobs are actually filled by people without degrees. It could be that these markets have less degree holders so they change the requirements to increase applications. What matters is who ultimately gets hired.
There is a massive difference between employers raising minimum wage (healthy for the economy, good for the individual, healthy for the employer), and the government raising minimum wage ( hurts the economy, regressive against low income individuals, bad for the individual, bad for employers).
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I'm not advocating it as a solution for society, I'm just surprised that people would buy bunkers to help them survive the violence that they think inequality will cause, and not also think about taking steps to reduce the inequality by raising the living standards of those at the bottom. Both courses of action can be justified even at a self-interested level.

There are lots of situations where groups have voluntarily agreed to abide by a code of practice in order to avoid having one forced on them by democratic government (or a mob). The concept is common enough that the Canadian government describe it here [1] It absolutely can work, as long as the voluntary code goes far enough and is adhered to by enough of the relevant industry.

[1] https://ic.gc.ca/eic/site/oca-bc.nsf/eng/ca00963.html
how is that different to any other company that raises capital for shipping a promised product?
Doable by companies like Apple/Google, the issue is why would they do it? Their shareholders would not approve such transaction as it's just throwing your money into a furnace.
Any idea why torque is used, as opposed to reliable methods like capacitive? I think you're absolutely right about torque being minimal on straight ways.
I feel like "cashflow positive from investors" is a great title for a very snarky book about startups and SV culture.
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Anonymous mappings are backed by swap and may be overcommitted, it's still possible to catch signals in a wide variety of circumstances

There is probably enough evidence in this thread to use it as a reference for why typical apps should avoid mmap whenever possible -- it's clear almost nobody fully understands it