skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, it's true that you can get work by learning "unsexy" stuff. If you want literally just a job, any job, knock yourself out I guess.

Better questions to ask: Is it good work? Will you find it fulfilling? Will they treat you well or will they treat you like a cost center? Sure, 80% of places don't use whatever newfangled tech you care to name, but that's not the whole picture.

80% of places are probably places you don't want to work, so what good is it to say "80% of places <literally anything goes here>"? You don't care about the majority of places, you care about the ones you would actually want to work at. What do people in those places do?

The point I'm driving at is not exactly that you should learn new stuff to work in a good place. Rather, the more options you have, the better chance you have at getting into a line of work you actually want to be in. And sure, it is possible that you will end up using Java in that line of work.

There are reasons people use newer tech. And not all of those reasons have to do with being addled by ADHD and obsessed with shiny things. I get tired of that implication.

Remember that Java 8 (or whatever tech you care to name) was once upon a time the new shiny stuff.
I can see some energy efficiency in the auto turn on/off.

Maybe we're using different terminology, but what do you use in lieu of light bulbs? (I call any of those tubular things, e.g. fluorescent lighting, light bulbs.)
And every day when I say what you just said, I get downvoted on here. What is with people?

You have to realize: They do this unethical crap in our names. We own this.
> the apps would now have access to a confirmed unique ID for a device that would allow them to lock support of the service to not only just the number of devices(which is fine) but also the device itself.

I'm not sure I understand the concern. Could you give an example?
This is one of my favorite responses to the OP's question due to the simple truth it tells.
A democratic society agrees on laws, that can be changed through a certain process. Germany decided that not only the parents are responsible for the education of the next generation, but also the government. Therefore the equivalent to the US child protective service has the right to enforce that law, just like in the US, where kids are separated from their parents if they break the child protection law. This has nothing to do with kidnapping.
That was an enjoyable read. Just funny. Alright, I might not be a "dark" employee but we do run our shop on... FileMaker! Since 1993 as best I can tell.
I really like the idea of using adb to manage a phone from a terminal. Please don't do this!
If you're on a rooted Android device, you could backup the entire img with Nandroid [0], or backup apps and data using Titanium Backup [1].

[0] https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/104852/how-do-i-...

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.keramidas....
Air Pollution Seems to Cause Dementia in Rust.
Maybe it's my hyper-legal American sentiments (pardon the joke at the expense of America's litigious culture, if that's not your particular breed of sardonic humor), but I'm in full agreement here and a little surprised at some of the comments waving this off as anything other than something that would result in justifiable legal-reprisal, if the landlord really wanted to mess with people.

But again, that's probably (very most likely) just the result of me existing in a hyper-litigious culture where In pari delicto is very much a thing.
The price dynamics of this are interesting, and a bit counter-intuitive, since selling the share short also puts short term pressure on the share downwards (at the sale price), especially if there´s a lot of shorting. Its because of this, and also because due to monetary expansion there is a positive long term bias in share prices, that short selling isn´t quite as simple as sometimes presented.

As pointed out above, if there is then a subsequent increase in price, and this can be because short sellers are forced to buy back their short for any reason (short squeeze), prices can very quickly increase out of control. The best case of this was the Porsche-Volkswagon "infinity squeeze" - when mathematically speaking, absent intervention, the price would have gone to infinity.

https://moxreports.com/vw-infinity-squeeze/

Good times.
I think my issue is that most people should not even know how this safety net works. But every other question about git on stack exchange seems to be "how do I recover from a failed rebase".
GNOME does terrible waste of screen real estate so if those "people good at visual design" are responsible for that, i'd rather them stay in GNOME instead of infecting other desktop environments.
A physical key may require more dexterity for you, but maybe not for the claimant.
Yeh, my research had basically dead ended in MSB regulations as well. I get the money laundering concern but also strongly feel that absence of micro-transactions has destroyed the internet and is now doing terrible things to our brains.

I should look more into ACH, i dont remember why i moved away from that direction.

I considered crypto but it seemed like too much of a bucket of worms at the moment.

I was hoping somewhere in the fintech survey someone was doing something to enable p2p microtransation. But it seems like the quest continues.
>and if Uber could thrive without them, it surely would have already done so.

That's uber's position, that doesn't make it so.
would be interesting to see what the counterfit measures are. could a kid with photoshop buy beer with their phone? or would there have to be some kind of corresponding tech on the POS to verify the ID? that sounds peachy.
Got it. So let's suppose we have an external renderer, then we could learn parameters to tweak rendered scene and then get rendered pixels, so we can calculate pixelwise errors from it and some target image we're trying to optimize for. In this way, do we still need differentiable renderer in your opinion?

Update:

It would require more training cycles and would not be as "atomic" as iterative tweaks but seems possible.

At same time, I wonder about making loss function talk with some external renderer would make it possible to mix both approaches.
I normally use "git push --fo<TAB>" or "git push --fo<UP ARROW>" in zsh, but after seeing the switch option "--force-with-lease" pop up each time I've memorized it now. I let my CLI do the work for me most of the time, but when I can't there's always "man COMMAND". After doing anything a bunch of times, you remember it.
The key is the voice control. Trying to do it via an app, a remote, or even remembering the switch UI isoften too heavy-weight. Being able to say just "Alexa, living room 50%" is very nice. Same thing with being able to turn off my bedroom ceiling lights without getting out of bed. Sure, is it required? No. Can I get up? Sure. Was it worth $50 for the smart switch? For me, yes.
I just can't see the potential. Increase the complexity of the system and you increase the risk of failure, and when things are failing at home, that means you've got more housework to do. Who wants that?

I spent a bunch of money replacing every light bulb in my house with an LED so that I'd never have to deal with burnt-out light bulbs again. That was a use of improved technology that simplified my life.

If you hook your household devices up to the internet and make them dependent on external services they will always be prone to breaking. If I get some fancy internet-connected light bulb and have to spend even so much as ten minutes, ever, in its lifetime, figuring out why it stopped working, then it has already become a worse value proposition than the passive, non-internet thing it hoped to replace.
We force them to deal with us individually. I think that is the difference that we must maintain or we quickly become collectivized.

Individual rights.

Honestly, I think a great first step would be alcohol and drug testing for politicians and zero tolerance.
We are moving to Java 8.

There is a special place in my heart to hate the new shiny lambdas. Makes code too difficult for reading, nowhere compatible when needing to use Java 7 every now and then.

With the article would just disagree on Sharepoint, would say Confluence has finally replaced that one.
I think it's fairly obvious the poster meant that as in that kind of behavior, that takes power away from the user as opposed to exactly that particular reason.
As I commented here, vancouver prices did more than 4x in the past 20 years. So 5% is indeed tiny in that context.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19878721
Is ice cold?
it's not "inspecting grains of sand". If you have any number of developers worth talking about, merge-oriented workflows can create incredibly unwieldly git histories very quickly. I'm talking about, at a very high level, just understanding the history of the project. If you have five feature branches going on, and your developers are all committing on a regular basis, understanding the history and cadence of your project work based on the git history is incredibly difficult when the events of the separate feature branches are all intermingled.

Your comparison is not apt in many ways. For one thing, open-source governance is extremely different than managing private codebases maintained by a single company. Nobody in open-source governance is reading git histories to figure out whether employees are struggling, who is performing, who is not performing, who is overworking, where the project is, whether or not people are duplicating their efforts, how to report progress to clients, etc. And besides, the Linux kernel uses an email-based, merge-oriented workflow anyway. Kernel patches are submitted via email. That's not at all representative of any company that I have ever worked for or any company that I know of. The Linux kernel history also has a network graph that is literally unviewable on Github because it's so complex. Again, not representative of 95% of the work for 95% of users on 95% of projects.
That part may be by security design. The purpose of "something you have" is that it is something that can't be trivially copied.

My workaround is to record the codes offline before entering them in Authenticator (essentially printing them out and putting in my fire safe). This also allows me to easily put them into other devices (such as upgrading phones, or on a Yubikey).
Once the ride-sharing matures, 5-10 years from now, Uber, Lyft and new competitors are not going to take 20 to 25 percent per cent of drivers’ fare. If I had to guess, 10 years from now they take just 1-3% per ride and maybe ask few $100s upfront for each registered driver to cover fixed cost of handling new drivers.

These valuation include hopes for fully autonomous cars and the fear of missing out.
https://codyhouse.co/library
Sources and exact numbers from the immigration dept of Quebec as per Access to Information. ( In French )

http://www.midi.gouv.qc.ca/publications/fr/ministere/acces-i...

http://www.midi.gouv.qc.ca/publications/fr/ministere/acces-i...
Where is the comparison to real estate agents coming from?
IIRC, there was AirPort, which was / is a wireless router that had options for things like storing device backups or similar.

Totally feasible to make a killer wireless AP that's Apple branded and connects better to the ecosystem, but that doesn't seem to be the direction Apple is going.
Saying "no" is a challenge for human begins in all levels.
I've you use rebase to rewrite history a lot I have found/developed a couple helpful commands (tested & working on Linux bash).

Put those in your ~/.gitconfig:

[alias]
fu = "!f() { local msg=\"fixup! $(git log --oneline -n1 | cut -d ' ' -f2-)\"; git commit -am \"${msg}\" && git rebase -i --autosquash HEAD~2; }; f"
fuc = "!f() { local msg=\"$(git log --oneline -n1 | cut -d ' ' -f2-)\"; if [[ \"${msg}\" != "fixup!"* ]]; then msg=\"fixup! ${msg}\"; fi; git commit -am \"${msg}\"; }; f"
xx = "!f() { git reset --hard && git clean -f -d; }; f"

From now on:

git fu = (git fix up) combines last commit and all staged changes into one commit with the last commit message

git fuc = (git fix up comment) commits all staged changes as a new commit with the last commit message, but prefixed with "fixup!". Except if the last commit message is already prefixed with "fixup!". Now you can work on the same thing but commit incremental steps. In the end you just do: git rebase -i master (or similar) and they will be all in one commit.

git xx = get rid off all unstaged/uncommited changes in current directory. Very destructive, very useful.

Last but not least. If you have a lot of "fixup!" or "squash!" commits and need to interactively rebase without autosquashing them do:

git rebase --no-autosquash -i master
> The best & brightest in tech are working with the best tools on the biggest problems

I don't think that's true—there is a subset of the best and brightest who work on greenfield projects very decoupled from existing customer bases, and they get to blog / present / post a lot about what they're doing. There are quite a few "best and brightest" people who are in large companies or slow-moving industries. They're often constrained to existing tooling, because moving to fancy new tooling is a huge risk and time sink for limited reward. They might be using cool personal tools—fancy editors and keyboards and window managers—but the stack they work on is generally "legacy".

And usually the problem of "How do we make this work slightly better for millions of end users" ends up being a bigger problem than "How do we do something really cool as a demo."
And in addition, Visual Basic.

Oh, don't forget COBOL.
s/software engineers/management team/
I agree, it's just mind boggling to think otherwise. It may or may not be ecologically responsible, but consuming the indirect fruits of bee pollination labor, is distinct from consuming their direct resource of honey, which could be viewed as a "body part" of the larger organism.

By this quiz rationale, your average vegetable wouldn't be vegan because it may rely on animal fertilizer...
Most people have ideal commute distances of about 30 minutes: Note clearly that my distance unit is time. Anything within 30 minutes, regardless of transport modes, is close, anything more is far. Eventually the time to get to the inner lanes is longer than 30 minutes and you cannot go wider. Of course this is reduction to absurd.

Roads can go up (or down) quite a bit though. It is expensive (much more expensive than adding more lanes) which is why we rarely do it. Even when/where we have, we would have to go more than we have to get ahead.

My point is you can get ahead of induced demand. I know a farmer who planted right across a public road - technically illegal, but the neighbors didn't use that road anyway. When you get in a city is is harder - by enough that it isn't worth it - but you can. (Cities should of course have more public transit which gets ahead much quicker).

You are correct that cities building - at affordable rates - do attract people. However if the city allows building over the long term we know from existing examples it gets out of it. Chicago and Huston don't have housing price problems because you can build there.

Now we do need to be clear: it costs money to build. New houses are always higher end. How high depends, if only a few houses can be built, they will be mansions. Once demand for mansions is filled builders move down market to lower profit houses until it is no longer feasible to build anything (humans don't fit in a doll house).

The paper is no only slightly better supported by data than my arguments above and really isn't useful.
Opensource GPU firmware I am willing to bet has license issues if they were to try and go open source.
"We Can Do Better Than SQL"

SQL is a programming language. Is just too limited and that is why many can't imagine to use it for a full project.

But that limitations have no sense. The amount of code, time and efficiency that bring is huge (I know, I code in that kind of lang before) and is discussed in:

http://blogs.tedneward.com/post/the-vietnam-of-computer-scie...

In special look a point 5/6 of Summary. The irony is that we already have a "solution"(sql) to the whole problem, but is too limited and awkward to be used in practique.
Yeah, but let’s be honest - if he does mention the deposit though - his mates will quickly understand why the marmite ended in his letterbox.

So in the end we’re not giving any ideas to other people that their actions will have no repercussions.
As someone who is nearing 40 and worked in many different areas of software (including at 3 startups), with about 10 failed "micro startups" (i.e. hobby projects) under my belt, I can confidently say that I still have not nearly figured everything out. But at least I am not quite as dumb as I once was. :)
It would be terribly difficult for the prosecutor to prove that "but for" the actions of the defendant another person died.

Secondly, I find it hard to believe that anyone who has had to act in moments as extreme as this would have such a harsh view of others who had never been in such a situation.

I spent a good portion of my adult life in extreme situations and I can tell you people do not operate with their conscious minds. They do not really "make choices", things just happen. This is why training is so important for people who might encounter extreme situations.

Please be more gracious to these people.
Your analysis fails to account that the demand for that camera is smaller, more variable, bursty, provides temporary exclusive ownership, & has a market that will bear that cost (professional photographers, filmographers, etc). That's why it's so expensive. The majority of the fleet of self driving cars would be rented out for nearly 16 hours a day 7 days a week with a fairly reliable income stream across many many users. Additionally you get multipliers by picking up extra passengers (shared ownership) which is win-win (lower cost for individual rider, better margins and revenue for fleet owner).

A Nikon 4DS is also almost the cost of a LIDAR sensor while the cost of the LIDAR sensors are dropping quickly & will probably continue to do so due to economies of scale; the cost of the 4DS has reminded at 6k even long after being discontinued. Additionally, the 4DS has direct user wear & tear handling meaning on average it will wear out faster (drops, throwing it in a camera bag, etc) than a LIDAR mounted to the car.
The investors from the last funding round paid about the same share price as the IPO price, so they haven't really made or lost any money. It certainly wasn't a good investment for them (0% return), but I don't think they have taken a haircut yet. It will ultimately depend on where the stock price goes.
> vegetables like avocados

Avocados are a fruit...
Airlines are a good analogy. I imagine we will see Uber and Lyft miles/points as a thing. Maybe even status as a thing.. A good comparison to Uber is starbucks. Their average sale is $5 but they’ve managed to grow and grow, mostly by investing in their “partners”. Uber could do something similar. The podcast masters of scale has a good segment on Starbucks.
Ignoring your insults, I think there are many valid use cases for smart home devices.

For example, automatically turning lights on and off on a schedule, changing light color to red at night, being able to casually set reminders without bothering with a phone, controlling your TV without needing your phone (e.g. for netflix), being able to change temperature on a schedule, all kinds of things.

Just because they occasionally have bugs for some people doesn't mean they are entirely useless. Many people (myself included) have few to no problems with their smart home devices.
I think the author might not realize the substantial difference between working in a tech company (the HN audience) and in supporting roles in non-tech businesses. I have worked in both worlds, and it really just comes down to choosing the right tools for the job. In tech you're supposed to be on the cutting edge. That's part of what makes it fun and rewarding.

However, if anybody feels lesser for working in non-tech they're probably thinking the wrong way about the value they're creating. It can be immensely rewarding to build something unsexy and relatively simple that moves the needle by millions or even billions of dollars.
I'm in the US and I have never lived in a dwelling with any lock more secure than a Yale lock. My parents did just install a security lock, but I don't think they even get a discount on their insurance for it.

Where I live currently (Southern California) ranch houses (i.e. ground-floor only) are so common that anyone with a rock can get into your house pretty easily, so a more secure lock might not be worth it.
The Starbucks of China Doesn't Need Luck
Is this article format normal for the telegraph? It seems strange to just have so many consecutive quotations in a row.
You can rent rooms and regular cars for cheaper than that day rate on the camera. Not a proper comparison, in my opinion, even if I agree that the self driving car costs might not make sense initially.
I'm not sure what your expectations were, but a typical size of the option pool is 10-20% which gets diluted with each following investment round.
Does there though? I personally would be interested in living in a 1mln+ city that's 99%+ car free.
I had to do a git history rewrite via "git filter-branch" and one other method. I can attest that you really have to go out of your way to actually permanently get rid of anything in a git repo. It's always funny to me when I see an engineer have a panic attack the first time they think they've trashed the repo and lost important code. They always have that same look as relief washes over them when I show them how to recover from the mistake.
I wonder about the due process implications for this at, say, a traffic stop. If you hand a police officer your phone to show them your driver's license, is that implicit consent to search your phone? Will the ID-showing mode be special in that it will allow the holder to see the ID, but the rest of the phone will remain locked?

I like that they're looking for ways to make it so you still have access to ID documents even when the battery is drained to the point that the phone cannot boot, but overall I'd still want to carry a physical card as a backup. And if I'm doing that, I'm just going to use the physical card in most situations where I need it.
Hiya, actually there is an option -- this chip is open source and $14.95 list price. https://iotdev360.com/articles/2019/04/01/sparkfun-edge-dev-...

Hope this helps!
I would argue that Hacker News is actually not about the latest in cutting edge technology.

Rather, it derives more from the spirit of hacking, fundamentally making computers do something other people thought are not possible to do or never tried. It looks like the latest cutting edge tech but rather its a bunch of people just experimenting.

It does not show whats the norm, but what is possible.
A lot of manufacturers with poor taste react to that by offsetting the trackpad to the left, so it's only usable with one hand. What really bothers me about most laptops is the fonts used on the keyboards. I haven't seen a good one yet other than Apple's San Francisco.
Just opened the article and saw the display is as reflective as a mirror[1]. Holy cow, how can you even work like that?!

[1] https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/HP-x3...
Two statements/quotes that I personally found interesting through prism of current times.

"... Algebra is quite sterile, Algebra is not about anything …."

(at about 1:17:28 )

"...

One thing I feel a little bad about, and I feel I cannot properly correct it
but I just want to show you that I am woke.

I mean, I really am. I am aware of this.
Women are part of the story. And so are people in India, China, and Japan.
And then the Mayan civilization. There are a lot of calculus being done around the world.

With woman, honestly, it is only sort of , around 1800s that women were allowed to go to universities and
hear lectures and stuff.
…"