skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is correct. Actual trade approach to coding basically doesn't exist because people are sold on learning to code in a couple of months versus year or two, which I think would easily land people some jobs in web or junior devs.
Just tried getting docker with wsl + Ubuntu to work on windows 10 yesterday, and it was a horrible, horrible experience.

Couldn't get it to work in the end.

Made me realise how peaceful macOS with brew really is.

Even getting zsh to work with hyper properly was super painful. If you ask me Linux on windows is not usable yet.

Checkback in an year?
Why would giving up Adobe programs/games be a reason to switch before?

I don't think the reasons have changed much at all, just the execution. The above is an example of why one might dual boot, or run one OS in a VM, it's also a reason for chrome books/windows to ship a Linux kernel.
Are problem solving skills something you are born with? To me the mismatch is that a traditional CS student spends more time practicing problem solving via homework and exam/exam prep.
Fair enough but what you have said shows to me that you are most likely a 10x'er, therefore I would say you're in a different league altogether.

Tell me, when you typed your first line of "Hello world" in C, Python etc.
Was your motivation to have an easy life?
Uber spends far more on app development than any taxi company ever spent in radio dispatch. There's no economy there.

Uber is a great example of a company that sounds great but, in practice, has no economies to offer.

It's worth pointing out here that all other "We're the Uber of n." ideas have failed miserably.
See also: https://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Paperclip_maximizer
"I disagree. I think with the right levels of exposure at the early stages of education..."

Right, but that doesn't help today's adults trying to switch careers, as they're past that stage.

"just as most people can perform easy calculations"

That's true by definition, i.e. you would only count a calculation as 'easy' if most people can perform it.

But, based on the results of surveys like the 2015 FINRA financial capability survey, I guess that if you're talking about calculations that >50% of US adults can perform, you're excluding things that most readers of this site would consider 'easy', e.g.:

"What happens if you start with 950, and it grows by 20% each year for 2 years?"
Trying to dissect 'remote work' and if it's the right thing for everyone.
Exactly. After years of getting highest-end company-supplied desktops, one of my holy missions is to reduce the cost of home computing. Typing on my eBay Chromebook, desktop box is a $35 i5 Optiplex running Qubes. There's better things to spend your money on.
I don't know. But there's some easy reality check. Has it been successfully replicated? At what cost?
The issue with updates is that they sometimes need to be installed during restart, but many people (that I know) never power cycle their computer and then complain that it asked them to restart the computer while they were using it.
Get information on over 10k file extensions right from the terminal
Perform brain imaging, split students into those with a strong math co-processor brain and those without. For those without, teach them math using logic rather than rote learning which is obvious to those with a strong math brain.
Last I heard (on planet money), the median wage in Venezuela was enough to buy just less than two eggs per day. How much can they spare for investment?

https://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?stor...
I worked at a Fortune 200 company for a time. It wasn't big tech. It was a very famous insurance company. It also had a cult-like atmosphere and many people there felt it was the biggest thing that had ever happened to them.

I'm a former military wife. So I was involved in protecting national security while changing diapers and generally being viewed by the planet as a big fat nothing homemaker. "Loose lips sink ships."

So I viewed my corporate job as merely a day job of no special importance, thus I was not sucked into the cult-like atmosphere of the place. I imagine I would be equally resistant to the cult-like atmosphere at a tech company.
Medicine also tends to have more clear career tracks. Tech will run you into the ground and discard you if you are not careful and creative about where you go and how you go about it.
Ask HN: Why does Gitlab's top-right logo now say “Gitlab Next”?
I've been a convert to GitLab for around 8 months. But I guess I missed something, because as of today there's a big green "Next" label near the regular GitLab logo. A skimming of the blog and a Duck Duck Go search don't immediately reveal an answer. I've checked it logged in and while logged out and it's still there.

(Quick shill: Github is great for discovering and sharing open source projects, no doubt; but try GitLab for your own FOSS or private repos. It somehow "just works" while being extremely flexible. I run their "built-in" CI runner on VPS and local machines for free, and the whole platform is open source and installable anywhere. Mirror any open repos on Github of course, but it's like a "MegaUpload" site compared to Gitlab's actual tools. Rant complete.)
Yelp is turning customers into managers
Producer of garbage doesn't pay the cost of disposing it (consumers do), and even the cost of garbage disposal doesn't seem to factor in larger environmental costs.

You can produce plastic without paying a cent towards cleanup of The Great Pacific garbage patch.
Surely the current cost of mining is what’s relevant when comparing the two today. Are we also supposed to go back and calculate the energy use for all the gold that was mined centuries or millennia ago?
It's not as seamless as docker on Mac or Docker CE on Linux, but it doesn't take much to get docker working in WSL:

https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/setting-up-docker-for-windows...
Bending the Rules on Bacteria and Food Safety (2011)
> EDF was founded to bad DDT

Right, thanks, yes EDF was founded on the very idea of human factors. I guess @landon32’s comment mistook the URL I used for the source of the information. I can’t find the full article on the EDF site, just a shortened version. Or maybe that comment was intentionally trying to cast doubt by association?

Is the history of DDT relevant to the recycling debate, or are you hoping to cast doubt by association?

> widely but controversially regarded as one of the worst mistakes of environmentalism.

“the United States ban on DDT is a major factor in the comeback of the bald eagle (the national bird of the United States) and the peregrine falcon from near-extinction in the contiguous United States.”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDT

I like bald eagles. And I don’t want DDT used on my food. Do you??

I’d never heard the idea that banning DDT is a mistake. I’m trying to find some reputable sources for the claim that this is widely believed. The Wikipedia article doesn’t exactly back up that claim, so do you want to provide some?

“A few people and groups have argued that limitations on DDT use for public health purposes have caused unnecessary morbidity and mortality from vector-borne diseases”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDT#Criticism_of_restriction...
Yes, empirical data is necessary for both, and it exists for both (I'm sure people will be posting that data, and I'm too lazy to look it up myself), but I'd bet an arbitrary amount of money that the top 20% of men get closer to 80% of the couplings than 20% of the couplings. It's an almost equally good bet that the top 20% of women get closer to 80% of the couplings than 20% of the couplings.
I agree with the general idea that coaches are able to provide a much more personal and thorough training than the traditional teacher, but that's not a good thing for students and society in general. The reason is because students should have a right and an expectation to equal access to education. The reason we see very little diversity in the history of mathematics and science is because of this unequal access to mentors in particular, and education in general. (Most of the outstanding non-white and/or non-male mathematicians had white male mentors or sponsors that helped them get into the Old Boys Club.) When you have a monoculture in a field, then people tend to follow societal and cultural norms. This tendency impedes progress at best, and can cause disastrous blindspots at worst. The current American educational systems is an imperfect attempt at providing all students with equal opportunites. If we'd like to improve upon this, then let us improve the teacher to student ratio, rather than leaving it up to new hybrid teacher-coaches to try to identify MVPs at a young age, potentially allowing late-bloomers and marginalized groups to slip through the cracks.
And this figure will only go down as renewables penetration increases. In the long term non-renewable will be zero.
Are you referring to AF447? According to the BEA incident report, the AF447 plane was already equipped with heating systems for the pitot probes and AoA sensors.

"1.6.9.1 Probe heating
The probes that are installed on the aircraft are heated electrically to remove water
by vaporisation when the aeroplane is on the ground and to protect them from icing
in flight."

Reference: https://www.bea.aero/docspa/2009/f-cp090601.en/pdf/f-cp09060...
Bad news after bad news and after bad news

- Tether Bitfinex mess

- Binance hack of over $400m worth of bitcoin

And today we witness cryptocurrency price surging all over the board, with bitcoin hitting $7000.

https://www.coingecko.com/en

bitcoin sees a $1000 increase in 2 days.

yes thread lightly everyone, what goes up must come down eventually
I find it sad that developers at BigCorps actually implement these kind of solutions, knowing that the resulting product is not what they themselves would want as a customer.

Apart from this particular issue, it reflects how a company with intelligent people "thinks", i.e. with only a small portion of its brain.
I frequently argue points I do not personally hold. This sometimes gets misinterpreted as me holding the opinion, or an attack on the person, or some such. But really I am testing the idea and recognizing that someone else could hold this opinion but not be in the room to advocate for it.
The rewards are different, too. There is no level of mathematical achievement that will get the kind of broad (but typically local) social status and public approval of being a starting high school quarterback. Math just doesn't tap into anything near as easy and primal.
I heard the same thing ~a year ago, on a cognitive science conference (on language and cognition, http://web.archive.org/web/20181113181842/http://cogsys.stro...). Was surprised. It was presented by pure scientists, so didn't expect any commercial bias.
On mobile, to get to the other chapters, there's a hamburger menu at the top that's hidden until you tap near the top.
Yes none of those are true now. The second one was never true as far as I know.
This is the Open Source vs Free (libre) software debate

Today the trend is more open source, than free software, even with in linux.

Dev's and Companies want the source to be open but do not care if the end product is open. Free Software is losing
This is why I mostly gave up on FB, I hate how the same article you commented on, circles back up every time someone else comments on it...I tend to like to give my two cents, then mostly forget about if someone replies and I catch it in notifications and want to respond I'll do it, I don't need it in my feed to do that, they also should have some toggle to avoide seeing the same thing twice duplicate content gets so fucking annoying.

Reddit, there's some duplicates w/ cross-posting, but for the most part you click /r/all or even /r/frontpage it's a much funner experience for input seekers.

Multireddits are my favorite, if I'm in a tech mood I've got one for tech / startups or one for just webdev/programming, etc... It's also a lot less 'look at me' and more 'look at this cool thing', plus there's a snippy/witty attitude that most comments on reddit seem to have.

Honestly I feel depressed, moody, and mind-drained when I browse fb, reddit I feel more relaxed, and enriched. I also keep my frontpage on reddit less political, facebook is way too political.
I wouldn't expect a mid-ranger phone to be fast and completely reliable. That's why it's just a mid-ranger. The price is a compromise; you get shitty radio hardware and shitty software so you get shitty videoconferencing.
I like Preston- It's always good to have thoughtful, polite crypto skeptics around. However, I think by any objective measure his predictions haven't proven to be very accurate.

For instance, he congratulates himself on predicting a Bitcoin price collapse in his September 2017 essay, which is a time at which the price was only $3000, far less than half of what it is now. (His thoughts on the ICO madness fared better)

That said, he is right that the Tether/Bitfinex situation is relevant to the current price runup, though the fact that tether has only about 2% the total market cap of Bitcoin needs to be also taken into account.
The original ARM is pretty wacky too. Not as wacky as x86, but not what I would call clean.

Thankfully, unlike x86, ARM’s 64-bit ISA ditched the dumb parts and is very clean.
Entrepreneurship Isn't Cool
What an absurd, elitist, reductive, sci-fi response. Brains don't have ALUs in them, btw. Nor can we image for different skills. Nor should we subject people to this kind of dystopian hierarchy of faulty biological determinism.
In a way I feel like I might have misunderstood something within my self.

I agree with the assessment but I never connected trolling and trauma, because my personal concept of trolling is essentially a continual escalation of reductio ad absurdum. In that sense it's not really trolling or sarcasm, it's more of a way of livening up overly-serious conversations.

I should probably not refer to that as trolling as the intention isn't to fuck people off, gaslight them, traumatise them...but to soften the mood.
Have you tried using pengwin[[1]](https://github.com/WhitewaterFoundry/Pengwin)? I got the docker client working for windows in just a few keystrokes last night.

[1] [https://github.com/WhitewaterFoundry/Pengwinhttps://](github...
I'm not so sure that works here. It's not like there's a certain timeframe, where if it passes, X was wrong.

The possibility of added regulations is pretty much a persistent risk. It's like saying, "look an earthquake didn't happen. The geologists warning of possible disaster were all wrong."
Binance hack was over $40m of bitcoin not $400m.
I'm really hoping they will show it during the livestream!
That’s the whole point: the MCAS was supposed to be cheaper/easier for the airlines than new training.
> The third type of dialogue, if it can be called dialogue at all, is known as vitaṇḍa (Nyāya Sūtra 1.2.3). We may call this “trolling”, because its objective is not to win by proving one’s own idea correct, but to make the other person lose by opposing every argument of the opponent no matter what. Vitaṇḍa is considered a destructive style of argumentation. Here, the person who employs vitaṇḍa has no position of one’s own, and does not attempt to defend any thesis. A person may even adopt a viewpoint that is opposed to one's own for the sake of vitaṇḍa. There is nothing to be gained by either party in this encounter. It is the troll’s point of view – “I will humiliate you and argue that you are wrong, not because I fundamentally disagree with your position, but because it was you who said it!”

Sounds very much like what in the West is called the Socrattic method championed by Socrates... who used to ask questions until he proved that his opponent was an idiot who did not know what they were talking about.
FYI Preston Byrne is a longtime blockchain skeptic that crypto bears love to post. He made a big statement that $100 Ethereum was some sort of death knell to the cryptocurrency space, and it's at $185 currently.[0]

No one knows if crypto is going up, down, or sideways. But he does make cryptocurrency haters feel good inside.

[0] https://prestonbyrne.com/2018/09/08/100-ether-revisited/
Article missed that Binance wad recently hacked for around 7000 BTC, and likely has to be covering which would drive up prices.
Socrates “knows that he knows nothing” and spends his time trying to refute that. He looks for knowledge earnestly but usually doesn’t find it. Socrates is less devil’s advocate, more “how can we be sure of X when Y? If not Y because Z, doesn’t Z also make X problematic because of (blablabla)?”

Sure, he gets people RAGEing like a great troll, but at least ostensibly he’s doing more the 2nd type of argument described in the article, but with kind of a backdrop that precise intellectual beliefs are really hard to specify or maintain. It’s like dialectic but it’s not Hegelian; he wants to return to some central question and doesn’t necessarily see that thesis/antithesis climb as crucial, he just finds problems with the premises and wants to find better ones (Hegel’s whole thing was a bit more nuanced than that).

Re: article, trolling initially meant trying to get a rise out of people. It’s not so much you won’t admit you’re wrong or you’re eristically tearing everything down, it’s that you’re pretending to play the argument game (or some other game, like “art criticism” or “testimonial”) but in fact you’re fucking with people of varying levels of specificity.
HTTP 301?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_301
I don't think it's inevitable that quality has to deteriorate. I buy all sorts of manufactured products that are perfectly good; competition in balanced, well-run markets keeps producers in line.

And personally, I'm willing to pay extra for lab-grown. I'm sure they'll sell that as a health benefit; it's much easier to avoid contaminants. But for me it's about minimized negative externalities. I don't have to worry that I'm driving a species extinct, or contributing to some more localized eco-catastrophe.
I don't know about making their own lasers, but they are almost certainly making their own laser interlink system.
What possible reason would you have for personally believing that SpaceX is not cash-flow positive, when the exec teams says that it is, if you are not reading conspiracy theories? Where are these ideas coming from then? We have real legal facts here. Real people in charge of the real company saying real numbers to us, but you're not going to believe them? I'm just not sure how else to talk about this stuff. When the exec team is a proven group of people with a solid track record and a recent history of accomplishing goals, meeting expectations and producing record-breaking technology and revenues - and they tell us facts about being profitable - it's definitely a conspiracy theory to state that they are secretly not profitable.

SpaceX is profitable.

> But considering the state of things in less developed countries, I assume space born Wifi is not the top priority. But hey, if investors are buying into I won't complain.

Reliable and fast access to information improves quality of life, even in places with other problems. Much of the USA is like a developing nation itself, with population-scale problems of getting access to clean water and having basic food security. But still, reliable network access can also improve both of those things too - the internet is backbone infrastructure just like the water pipes, and is needed for a developing country - or a developed one - to grow economically.

> I assume space born Wifi is not the top priority.

Countries, organizations, investors, businesses can all work on more than one thing at once. Something need not be 'top priority' for it to be worthy of investment and continuing to do at break-neck pace.

> my cash and profitability remark concerned their operative launch business excl. NASA dev contracts and the like

Do you mean that you are excluding a primary revenue source from their finances in your calculations? I just don't get it.
Robotic Process Automation Easily Explained
That’s not really a counterpoint. As I understand it, the Infosys folks in India are a much more select portion of the population than “displaced former miners in Appalachia.” Well under 10% of Indians even have a college degree, and 80% of those are unemployed at graduation. The folks getting job offers from Infosys, etc., are in a fairly elite set to begin with.
> what goes up must come down eventually

And go back up again. Probably higher.

This is how the markets work.
At my previous company, I asked to have a look at the code base before joining. The reason was that this was a system that has been in development for the past 13 years and I wanted to get an idea of how well they handle tech-debt on such an old code base.

The application was developed in C# and ASP.NET and I ended up being quite impressed with how the team handled this. When developing a new feature they made a point to clean up the code they touched to make use of newer language and frameworks features. Also, from time-to-time, there were bigger efforts to clean up specific areas of the code.

This was a 13-year old code base that was in many parts in better condition than many greenfield projects I have seen.

It definitely made my choice to join the team easier.
Tether has never been convertible back to dollars through Tether directly unless you are dealing with astronomical sums - they make no claim (and maybe never have?) of convertibility on their web site.

If the average person with a few thousand dollars of Tether wants to get out, they need to first get that value to an exchange that supports real US Dollars. In order to do that, they likely have to do an intermediate sell to some other widely held and accepted coin or token (Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP), since most exchanges that seem to deal with Tether do not deal with USD, and vise versa.

If there were a run on Tether in particular, one of the effects you might expect to see is prices of the most widely traded coins going up in price on crypto-dominant exchanges, and the price of those same coins going down in exchanges with free (as in low friction) convertibility to cash withdrawals. This particular effect would only be one of many though, so the signal might not even be noticeable above the noise of the markets. You can imagine that Tether being proved to be insolvent or a fraud in enough people's eyes (and also close enough to insolvency to spread panic: fractional reserves with illiquid holdings [at best], insolvencies, and outright Ponzi schemes [at worst] can last far longer than you might expect), would cause a lot of other additional, and probably larger, market movement.
If advertisers can individualize teaching consumers about their products, maybe we just need an advertiser to start teaching math.
I believe $10 billion is approximately the cost of the whole satellite network, definitely not a single satellite.
its more than that though. gas "tax" helps pay for road building and maintenance. These cars are still using the roads and still expect more to be built. the money has to come from somewhere...

In Australia they're having a very similar conversation about people going "off grid" and still having to pay utilities, because those services are needed by the greater community (hospitals, water and sewage and those not yet fortunate enough to be able to afford going off grid)

Really takes some of the shine out of the renewable scene...
Covering what?

* Deposits and withdrawals from Binance have been suspended for a week while they research the hack and presumably implement changes for withdrawals.

* The hack was covered by the SAFU (Secure Asset Fund for Users) fund that Binance setup.
Any relation between Salsify and the Puffer project?
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