skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That’s not true. They do 12-month price targets based on fundamental financial analysis. It’s the short term that they’re not predicting.
Here's my snarky theory about it: after men got paternity leave, they were forced to be at home and help with the child-rearing, which took some of the burden off the mothers. This made the mothers want more kids because now they didn't have to do so much work.

However, now the men got to see firsthand what a pain in the ass kids are, instead of being able to relegate that work to their wives, so now they don't want so many.
Is a CV the best way to hire a developer?
Yup, can confirm, Excel is everywhere. And it's even applied where it's not appropriate (VBA macros runnings on way too large datasets for hours and hours, completely inefficiently).
“Workaround of Permission Issue in Docker Volume – Curious Dev Grail”
“Workaround of permission issue in Docker Volume — Curious Dev Grail” by Curious Dev https://medium.com/curious-dev-grail/workaround-of-permission-issue-in-docker-volume-curious-dev-grail-d84f4ca564e1
Please do let me know more regarding your pain points.
I released http://mybooklist.club
Obviously it already includes manual insert and barcode scanning but now i'm working to implement adding by image recognition (of the cover).
Red hat's engineers don't think it's quite that obvious, and given that in the past I've seen userland tools that everyone kind of assumes will just work break if you have python3 as default, I agree with them.

I can see you're all aboard the "why isn't everyone using python3 already" train and that's fine, but not every python codebase can just be thrown through six, and even the ones that can aren't always actively maintained. This is yet another example of how bad the python devs screwed the pooch on the 2->3 migration. We're on this wild ride for the long haul I guess.
MySQL 8.0 has Window Functions and CTEs. Of the entire list of things I mentioned, window functions and CTE's comprise 80% of the "weight" of my issues of that list.

In other words, while I (or another analyst) would likely still prefer Postgres over MySQL of any version, I wouldn't really have too much to complain about if I was using v8.
Being able to sell and do the whole business BS thing is vitally important. If you can't do it, hire someone or get a friend/relative to help.

Under promise, over deliver. (slightly)

Become an authority on your subject matter. Write blog posts, post often on twitter, write to journals/newspapers - set yourself up as someone who knows what they are doing.

Charge for spec work.

Don't be afraid to turn down work that may challenge you more than you can handle. You are taking an unnecessary risk. In those circumstance you can offer to help the client find the right consultant/solution provider.

ALWAYS get a deposit before work begins. And then insist on regular payments for longer projects - if payments stop, you stop work.

Don't do fixed fee work, unless you REALLY, REALLY trust the client.

Good relationships are vital. If a client likes you they will market you through word of mouth and that's the best kind of advertising.

Have a plan in place to deal with non-payments or difficult clients. Be consistent and don't let bad clients take advantage of you. Offer no credit terms longer than 28 days. Offer a 5% discount for quick payment.

If you are providing software before full payment is received, don't be afraid to use a licensing mechanism to shut it down if payment fails to materialise. A friend lost €20k in a similar situation.

Also, bear in mind you will work long hours. That's why I couldn't keep doing it. I was making decent money, but the hours, and travel, were killing me.
When you have a 4:1 worker:retired ratio the burden on workers is much lighter than when you have a 1:1 ratio. See public retirement funds as a big ponzi scheme, it only works if people getting in > people cashing out. Living pay checks to pay checks means that you have 0 margin and will l00% rely on society to survive.

> Shouldn't lower supply and higher demand for workers result in higher wages?

I don't think it's that simple. It's a societal / economical problem on a world scale, not an economy 101 course, I don't think anyone can predict where we're going but it'll definitely require some major changes.

> At the same time, automation will

"Automation will ..." has been used for 60+ years. If all these prophets were right we'd be working 3 hours a day by now. As long as we (collectively) are not ok with people not working, all automation does is moving people from shitty jobs to other shitty jobs (mostly in the service industry).
Worthwhile if you anticipate something going wrong, but usually things are just fine or a `git rebase --abort` will get you back to a safe place (if you are using an interactive rebase).
> but this is a gig / 'work only when you want

This is not 'a work only when you want' job. People do it full time to feed their families and after doing it for years find it difficult to move to a different role for a variety of factors. I'm sure they would go get a better paying job elsewhere if it was easy.

It used to be a 40 hour job when they joined but Uber/Lyft have gradually reduced earnings. Now it's 60-70 hour a week job. That's the problem. The gig work/contractor aspect of Uber/Lyft is a smokescreen to avoid paying minimum wage. The drivers are doing it because they have to but the work conditions are pretty bad. Hence the strike.
> In 5 years when all the crap is worked out and you eventually buy a system with extra security at your door or backyard, or a something to that effect I'd like you to come back and admit it.

It won't be worked out in 5 years, because the issues with IoT aren't technological, but business. Go to a random Hackerspace and half of the people you find there could build better IoT devices (and many are). IoT's main issue is garbage products designed as vehicles to lock you into some vendor's "ecosystem". It won't get better until it all gets commoditized.
I don't get the "extra letters" argument as a Computer Scientist. Most of my time is spent figuring out what I'm going to do before I type anything, whether that's research, staring at code for hours to see how it works, or something else. I could type 3x as many characters each day and would probably only work an extra 10 minutes per day. Maybe I'm the exception, but I don't like brevity for brevity sake.
Woah, that is a right. I'm thinking now of such common phrases when you visit someone's house: "Can you turn on the TV?",
"How do you change the volume?",
"Which remote do I use?".

Recently my sister's response was, "Actually, you use the X-box controller." What a future we live in.
And what would be the future replacement of Excel? Specially for non-tech people.
There's a TV remote and a satellite remote. Press the "Netflix" button on the TV remote.

(Having said that, I failed to watch a DVD at the weekend; the Xbox wouldn't play it as it was region locked, then I realised that I'd not hooked up the DVD player in the six months since buying the television, and it flaked out trying to play on my laptop.)

None of this makes me think that a "home automation" system will be any more convenient or reliable. I've only just made my peace with the "smart TV". I wanted a dumb TV, but will admit that the smartness has mostly delivered. It even seems to have HDMI-CEC that works with the satellite box from a different manufacturer. It still occasionally nags about updates or informs me that something it shipped with no longer works or requires a new EULA.

I have dealt with the complexity of "AV recievers", whatever they are exactly, by not knowing why I might need one and not having one.

The one feature I may end up building is the ability to listen to the TV in the kitchen, which I may do by running thirty feet of wire.
After seeing other peoples' ADHD kids and what misery it is to try to parent them, I don't have much desire to have any kids.
Apple Lisa documentary will tell the story of Apple's most important 'flop'
I am not sure if there really is a lack. I mean, I think I see what you mean, but given the fact that those are notifications, they are probably meant to feel 'thin' to not attract too much attention.

Another factor might be that those small, focussed screenshots are just not the appropriate format to show how those notifications would look like in the context of a complete desktop.

But in the end, it is also possible that there is an unintended lack of horizontal padding.
Not trying to be snarky but MacOS.

That being said, on Linux I think Elementary OS is at least trying to create a coherent visual design language. Maybe there are others?
Fundamentals question: Can somebody explain how these ridesharing companies expect to turn a profit, eventually?

If you lose 50 cents on every ride, how do you make it up in volume? Every ride is subsidized by the Sand Hill Road crowd. They're a great deal. I took a 40-min ride yesterday for US$12.50 in a high-cost-of-living traffic-clogged city. How can that make sense? A ride in a sketchy 1970s-era New York City gypsy (no-medallion) cab would have cost more. And, without all the magic and overhead of some app.

Oh, I get it. They're going to scale up using autonomous vehicles. But, that's also a problem. Right now their business model relies on independent owner-drivers. In other words, from the front office's point of view, their fleets fuel, maintain, garage, and insure themselves. How's that going to work when they replace the drivers' cars with their own capital equipment?

Why should I invest for the long term in these companies?
https://medium.com/@chi_shienn/an-experimental-chart-for-vis...
A feature of modern cities? As a child I'd very rarely join my father on his commute into Manhattan from southern Brooklyn. When the car topped a ridge about halfway there the island appeared to be perfectly capped by some futuristic but dirty thick brown dome.
It's also a product of ambitious orgs. One way to out compete a competitor with more resources is to have better development, ops, and release tooling. It's not a silver bullet but it can make a large positive impact when done properly.
How far out do you normally set your Z?
>Let's see how we handle going from a 4+:1 working:retired ratio to something closer to 1:1 though. It's very concerning

No problem, we'll just invent robots to take care of the elderly.
From Philip K. Dick's "Ubik" (1969):

The door refused to open. It said, “Five cents, please.”
He searched his pockets. No more coins; nothing. “I’ll pay you tomorrow,” he told the door. Again he tried the knob. Again it remained locked tight. “What I pay you,” he informed it, “is in the nature of a gratuity; I don’t have to pay you.”

“I think otherwise,” the door said. “Look in the purchase contract you signed when you bought this conapt.”

In his desk drawer he found the contract; since signing it he had found it necessary to refer to the document many times. Sure enough; payment to his door for opening and shutting constituted a mandatory fee. Not a tip.

“You discover I’m right,” the door said. It sounded smug.

From the drawer beside the sink Joe Chip got a stainless steel knife; with it he began systematically to unscrew the bolt assembly of his apt’s money-gulping door.

“I’ll sue you,” the door said as the first screw fell out.

Joe Chip said, “I’ve never been sued by a door. But I guess I can live through it.”
1989: About one out of every 63 East Germans collaborated with the Stasi.

2018: About one out every 2 Americans now own a 'smart speaker'

Both Orwell AND Huxley lacked imagination
It’s a pity we don’t talk about ‘orbital ring systems’ more: many of the advantages of space elevators, but build-able with “off the shelf” superconductors, and steel & fiber optic cables.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbital_ring
> That's the site's decision.

No it isn't. UA means user agent, not corporate agent. If the user decides to persist something that is loaded on his machine then it is his choice to make.
On the other hand, one thing they do really well is theme support and configurability. I agree with you that out of the box it's pretty bad and they need an real designer to redo Breeze, but themes are allowed to adjust margins and it's possible to make KDE look really nice.

Personally I find that using Source Sans Pro as the font and the Arc theme for most of the rest works well.
Agreed, although the do more or less admit that much in the article. The hyperbolic headline is a title and also the article makes some pretty bold claims that aren't really substantiated--somehow this find means that the region was "the forefront for culture and religion in the North Sea area".
Please don't attack another user like you did here and below, regardless of how wrong or bad a comment is. The site guidelines ask us all to Be kind. That's always important, but surely even more so when you're arguing for treating someone better.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It makes me nervous. Public schools and attempts at mandatory attendance have been weaponized against ethnic and religious minorities in the US. I think it’s fair to say English only laws and corporal punishment for speaking languages other than English in Louisiana schools, along with laws of dubious constitutionality requiring kids to attend these schools, are partly why French will be functionally extinct in Louisiana soon.
I love having the numpad available. It's just such a better way to enter numbers and do calculations.
I noped out at the pre-article sentence. I can't spend 44 minutes reading about how to do nothing.
Maybe it's wrong to see startup tech as the cutting edge part of the IT.

IT maybe just another industry similar to bio or agriculture and not part of the startup tech.

Maybe IT crowd should simply avoid sharing common forums like HN with startup and SV people.
> we could learn without the need of a differentiable renderer neither graphics operators, right?

No. The sentence of the parent post "a pixelwise error can be computed and backpropagated to the CNN" is possible only if the renderer is differentiable.
But also so blindly obvious that I don’t know why she bothered. It’s not like it’s news
thank you for sharing. I was looking for a service like, this but wasn't able to find one. I was debating if I should implement one myself. A basic licensing server shouldn't be difficult for me. but I wasn't sure how to make it hacking-proof.
Is anyone pretending that?
> Could you give an example?

To the degree I understand it, sure:

We have master branch A

I create a feature branch B

Both get updates. Someone will do a rebase of B to the most-recent A and push that. (In my previous workplaces they would have just pulled the most recent A)

Here's where the confusion comes in: If I get the updated B but A has updated again, I cannot pull A nor rebase to A and successfully push the result without forcing. IIRC, on push it complains that my local branch is not up to date, but if I pull it will tell me I am up to date.

At least, that's what I think is the timing - since this involves multiple people I'm uncertain of what exactly occurs and the order, nor why problems are inconsistent. We don't have that many feature branches that have multiple people contributing AND requiring updates from the master branch, but it happens often enough.
> If they turn up unannounced this is actually harassment under UK law.

They probably have to do this repeatedly to meet the threshold for harassment.
>I'm confused by your reference to people who live paycheck to paycheck. Shouldn't lower supply and higher demand for workers result in higher wages?
... I would expect a lot fewer truck drivers and more healthcare workers.

Who's going to pay for the healthcare workers, if the old people don't have any savings or assets to pay them? If your answer is to tax the workers, that system will collapse if there's a 1:1 ratio of workers to retired people.
You’re forgetting the cost to develop the software itself. It’s like saying a gigabyte of data on a wireless carrier cost them pennies in electricity and bandwidth.
I’ve developed in environments where Java 8 was still the latest available version because of upgrade security issues.

I have a friend who, until very recently, was working on a system based on Java 6, which coincidentally was the latest version back when the both of us were in college.

I'm currently in a not-that-old project(2 years old) the front-end of which was built using Angular 1.x.

I have to admit I like this, because my biggest gripe with this framework was that the API changes from version to version were so intense, that you couldn't find a working tutorial for some stuff.

Now that it's not being updated that fast it's much easier.
The HN front page is similar to any community. For example, a car site's homepage will be listing the latest supercars, expensive turbos, rims, whatever... while most readers are driving a $30,000 Civic.

The best & brightest in tech are working with the best tools on the biggest problems, and that's what gets talked about, regardless of what the mass is doing.
Fallacy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post_hoc_ergo_propter_hoc
Completely off-topic: If you scroll down past the linked article and onto the next article, the URL automatically changes (from /google-is-bringing-electronic-ids-to-android to /cisco-open-sources-mindmeld-conversational-ai-platform).

I've never seen this type of behavior from a web page before.
The new Android Q beta is a mostly cosmetic update
link? not sure what you're referring to
I don't use Java at work, but at home I inevitably install it for some kind of tooling. Always Java 8. I've accidentally installed Java 9 or newer a couple times and always ended up with something broken.
They just went public at $80b but are raising $8b, so per the chart in the article, quite a few recent investors are getting a haircut? Pre-money $72b valuation?
The direction most comments here are taking kind of proves her point.
Like some sort of colourful bird mating ritual, you have to append so many explanations so as to not offend someone's trigger-happy finger and lose karma.
> Freelancing these days is for trust-fund kiddos like the author of the story.

What are you on about? The author has no trust fund.

> There is no trust fund in my name

He lives in a wet basement and has an income less than a Silicon Valley bonus check.
The article was still useful. I don't mind an ad at the bottom if there's genuine value. I am not experienced in SQL so learning of its shortcomings (especially the NULL part) will be useful when I write the odd query here and there.
Alexa, open the front door.

I'm afraid I can't do that Dave.
My last company that was mostly remote for everyone had two developers in India. Not sure how the first one got hired but the second one was hired because the first one knew him.

My recommendation is to find remote offices that already employ people from India, or to meet people in India already working for US countries and befriend them
That is basically what the articles is saying, although not in your terms.

"After paternity leave was instituted, surveys of Spanish men ages 21 to 40 showed they desired fewer children than before. Farré and González think that spending more time with their children—or the prospect of having to do so—may have made men more acutely aware of the effort and costs associated with childrearing, and, as the researchers put it, “shifted their preferences from child quantity to quality.”"

And also that that the data really cannot be used to demonstrate their point, so, whatever, another research that was able to generate a media article.
> In 5 years

They had x-10 in the 90s, maybe earlier. Never saw the need, but my place was small. Could see the use if I had a mansion. But that is selling to the 1%, not a huge market.

That said, I sort of liked the nest demo where it shows you traffic and weather in the morning before work. Might be useful if I still was still in the rat-race, but it's on my phone already, so meh.
Choosing to move to containers is somewhat similar to choosing to move to a service oriented architecture in the sense that it formalizes a division of labor. You will have to dedicate some of your people to making sure that anything works at all.

Some people prefer this because it's easier to understand what people are spending their time on. Whereas the cracks and seams of sharing work as a team grows are harder to identify. There's lots of an hour or two lost here because of a merge conflict or a half day there because the django project won't start up unless it can find redis.

The question for you is where are you in your product lifecycle? Are you in a place where you can take several people off of feature development and maintenance and dedicate them to, essentially, DevOps? Were you hiring with that in mind? Are people on your team interested in moving to that kind of work?

I really don't think there should be that many cracks in a 12-person dev team that drive a technical need to use containers (or SOA, for that matter).
There are a ton of factors that make your DSLR to Autonomous Car comparison flawed.

The utilization rate of the camera is going to be far lower than the rate of the car. The camera may sit on a shelf for weeks before being rented for a single day, so the per-rental price must be relatively high. The market is small. Also, cameras are comparatively easy to break, and the technology goes out of date extremely quickly as compared to a car.

I think the greatest fiscal advantage to autonomous car fleets is the likely high utilization rate.
And that, is why I root my phones.
Even under the most optimistic estimates, fusion power will be nowhere near free. Those plants will be tremendously expensive to build and operate. Meanwhile solar power + storage gets cheaper every year...
Because they'll be able to undercut any small competitor that attempts to enter one of their markets by subsidizing it with revenue from everywhere else.
It seems more likely that an industry that makes and uses software tools would have a stronger than average appreciation for software tools.
Yeah, I've always considered it a lottery ticket, but I'd love to get a sense of whether I'm holding a $10k or $10mm lottery ticket.

FWIW, I've done the math based on my percentage ownership, expected valuations, timeline to IPO, etc. The big unknown for me is dilution. I don't yet have a good sense of how much dilution I should expect as we move through rounds of funding into an IPO.
Hopefully non autonomous driving becomes illegal. Its a lethal weapon and we shouldnt be trusting humans with cars
Indeed, part of the ability for the driving "gig economy" is the masking of risk and liability from the corporation onto the individual driving humans for car expenses and depreciation. The myriad of humans thinking Uber/Lyft are job have yet to get caught up the the expense of the car itself.

Uber/Lyft both hope they can get to self driving cars before the drivers figure out the true cost after the car they provided to Uber for free is involved.
Once I learned about the reflog I got a lot more adventurous with git. Now I’m the “git expert” in my team.
Maybe they'll lobby for higher minimum wages?
It says as much in the article too, which is very typical:

> Sophie Jackson, director of research at Museum of London Archaeology (Mola), said it could be seen as a British equivalent to Tutankhamun’s tomb, although different in a number of ways.

> For one thing it is in free-draining soil, meaning everything organic has decayed. “It was essentially a sandpit with stains,” she said.

Using it's "vaguely similar to Tutankhamun" probably wouldn't get as many clicks though.