skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sounds like this is your problem. The interviewing is more of a sympton rather than a cause.

I'm not the US, but I find it hard to imagine it is much different in Chicago to where I am in Northern England - companies are dying to find good developers. Every company I've worked for, they always ask me "do you have any developer friends that would work here?". So why aren't they asking you to stay on as a perm employee once your contract is up? It sounds like you need to work on getting better at your job and delivering value to the companies that you work for.

If you don't make the football team - is it because you are bad at try-outs or are you just bad at football itself? (Sorry, brutally honest.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GMail_Drive
Are there any tools that can use the annotations and watch a running script and warn you if they’re violated? Maybe during your test suite.

Or linters could do some basic analysis.
So... what happens now with all the employees that have stock options?
See, I code php very rarely, I review php code a bit more often, and I stumble upon these inconsistencies all the time. So because you got used to something bad doesn't mean it's not bad.
There's no indication that it's dead, it just launched prematurely (or early to create hype, charitably) before it was ready to scale. Powerwall 1 was similar.
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might not work for everyone, but I use Zotero, its not specifically designed for books and magazines, but it works and keeps track of all my stuff!

link - https://www.zotero.org/
No, it won't. To compensate for the fluctuating energy output of solar and wind, you need storage and plants that can be throttled quickly, not nuclear reactors that pretty much can't.
But how many people would want all three streaming services? These are all separate products that will have different audiences.
This is basically "bootstraps" talk applied to transportation. Biking in most of the US feels uncomfortable and dangerous. Bike lanes are scant, protected bike lanes rarer still, where they do exist they tend to pop in and out of existence at random intervals, so it's not exactly a surprise that most avoid it.

There's a reason few people bike for transportation in the US, and that's that biking in the US is mostly really terrible. It can be done, sure, but it sucks enough to where very few want to do it. Saying "well it's still a personal choice" is like looking at the cycle of poverty and saying, "yeah poor people in poor neighborhoods have some serious systemic problems, but if they really tried they could still make it work!"
Sounds like they are trying to keep their investment alive until there is the policy of strong promotion of renewable energy which half the planet has been crying out for, for years already.
Wanted: someone to go back in time with me. This is not a joke.
Powerwall 1 was an actual product that you could buy (even internationally) and worked?!
Neither did Microsoft, as far as I can tell:

https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/ad...
some very interesting stuff in there! Thanks for sharing!
I haven't touched wordpress in 8 years, but with old codebases you always inherit a lot of bad design decisions that always have an impact on general performance.

Maybe the wordpress guys have done a great job in rewriting the internals and cleaning things up in the last years, I wouldn't know, I don't follow their progress.
GMail Drive I believe.

http://www.viksoe.dk/code/gmail.htm
For anyone else who's as confused as I initially was: Google Drive allows unlimited storage for anything stored as "google docs". Ie, their version of Word. This hack works by converting your binary files into base64 encoded text, and then storing the text in collection of google-doc files.

Ie, it's actually increasing the amount of storage space needed to store the same binary, but it's getting around the drive-quota by storing it in a format that has no quota.
What's wrong with Laravel or Symfony?
I don't agree that that is unacceptable, regardless of what "we as a society" have deemed. The consumers being held to account for their own business dealing is the reality of the situation, they're giving their money over to the business and in doing so accept the risk. Taking that risk and putting it on everyone who didn't take that risk through bailouts using tax money is unacceptable. Analogizing to a more personal scenario to highlight the moral wrong: It's as unacceptable to me as it would be if I had an accident in my car and forced everybody in the nearby vicinity who wasn't involved to pay for the repairs.

Businesses having separate funds to protect against it is a good idea but it shouldn't be mandatory to have one, only to tell the consumer whether there is one. I imagine most consumers would happily pay a little more and choose the company with one than the one without.
when i was a kid i would read megatokyo because webcomics seemed like they were new and cool to me. then, i stopped reading eventually due to a combination of factors:

1. the jokes got stale, or i grew out of the humor
2. the plotline moved too slowly
3. i grew out enjoying the "will-they get together / why won't-they get together" relationship arc(s). as a younger teenager the dorky and childish romance was relevant to my life, but i grew to find it very cringe inducing eventually.

i don't really miss reading it.
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> I really, really, really wish there was serious competition to Google Maps.

Can we have a crowsourcing sort of app where every user of GoogleMaps would contribute data to be scraped off to circumvent rate limiting ?
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Did he really knew the MCAS issue? I mean that every time you stabilize the plane it will point it down even harder?

The pilots did not know about this problem, they corrected the issue a few time the problem was that after a few correction MCAS corrected extremely and cutting it off at that point was useless because the pilots did not had the physical force to correct the plane.

The other pilots that rescued the situation in the simulator did it by using a technique he read on a pilot forum after the crashes, so it is obvious that a regular pilot that was train using Boeing manuals and followed Boeing guidelines for this problems could not save the plane(at least not in 100% of the cases).

Sure there may be super pilots (like we have super programmers that can read assembly stack traces) or lucky pilots but you don't want to excuse Boeing crimes by the fact that some pilots were lucky.
i discovered recently that there could be some progress to be made wrt latency in editors:
https://makepad.github.io/makepad/

// This is Makepad, a work-in-progress livecoding IDE for 2D Design.
// This application is nearly 100% Wasm running on webGL.
This might be the most genuinely entertaining article I've read this year

The lengths the author goes to to discover what must be a highly questionable answer, just from irresistible curiosity.

TL;DR? Looks like it's corn.
> this planet doesn’t have the resources of providing a middle-class lifestyle for 7 or 8 billion people.

So what? What do you propose, concretely?

> Malthus was right,

Again, so what?
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I never said the changes were exclusively for good, every change has good and bad sides, but implying things are bad because they are different is just as naive as saying changes are only for good

> Why is there a loneliness epidemic if everything is equal and social media is just as good as real connections ?

Maybe because of the several other societal changes that happened even before social media was invented? (Not saying it isn't part of the current scenario though)
> In addition, Google is launching its dynamics updates feature out of beta. This allows developers to deliver some of their apps’ modules on demand, reducing the file size for the initial install.

So you can install an app, go offline, try to use it, and realize that you can't because you did not install it after all but Google lied to you.
Developing a database driven web site with a modern PHP framework, like Laravel, is very productive and quite pleasant. PHP is fast enough. It's simple to deploy. It's easy for "non-engineers" to get involved with: designers can edit templates, see the result instantly, no build issues, etc.

For my day job, I do Python and Java... For side projects that are database-driven web apps, PHP is perfect.
The worst part was having a 200ms ping and getting constantly smoked by the guy with the sub-100ms ping. Hence the acronym LPB (low ping bastard).
The answer is more prosaic. Many people have worked on such technologies (the jargon is “BIPV” — building integrated photovoltaic for decades. The problems have included heat, safety, connections, individual cell failure, fire accessibility... heat in particular is bad (most panels have the back exposed for convection and radiation. Unsurprisingly, Tesla’s announcement in thisnspace claimed revolutionary achievement without mentioning how they planned to address the issues that had caused problems in the past.
Don’t forget YesYes and Typing Noises
Just added it to my ABP - thank you!

Taboola & Outbrain are a plague on the internet. Plus, I still have belly fat.
Yeah, some things can sync over the network but it is not the backup. One can suppose that such would compete with iCloud. My approach has been since I have to change the iPhone and iPad anyway, might as well charge them from the computer which will then automatically back them up.
I just want to take a note (and please do not take this as a critique).

Not OP, but when I personally talk on reducing meat consumption for environmental reasons - I do not have animal farts and burps in mind. The process of growing meat requires a lot of resources by itself and at current human population scales we are wasting vast amounts of resources (energy, land, etc.) to grow meat instead of spending those resources to feed ourselves. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecological_efficiency#Ten_perc...

IMO, feeding animals unusual foods won't solve the main issue and produce more challenges. It's anecdata (cannot cite anyone), but as much as I've read about ecological farming, problems with animal health and infamous though prevalent use of antibiotics in industrial animal farming is due to the diets of the animals. Animals grown in ecological open farms with habitats natural for the animal grow healthier. But as mentioned in first paragraph - at current human population scales - meat consumption must be reduced rapidly.

P.S. I will digress, but as the problem is insanely big human population (and it's exponential growth), it would be great if people globally won't procreate at such rates.
Applying the classic question, I'd conclude that the confusion is probably exactly what those who 'bono' the most from inaction are actively creating, and I'd put my money on the many scientists across disciplines who seem to be panicking instead.
I feel like I've never understood why I'd want to use Bitnami as opposed to ... just installing software. From the post, it sort of seems like the target audience is companies that have developers and "enterprise IT" (who are probably overworked and simultaneously tasked with maintaining AD and Google Apps) but no UNIX-specific sysadmin/SRE/build engineering staff?
Exactly. See: Wikipedia, Facebook, WordPress, etc. People talk crap about PHP but it is a workhorse of the web.
From https://thinkmobiles.com/blog/php-vs-nodejs/:

> Node.js is faster than PHP only in adding numbers.
> Many undesirable qualities in modern design are due to a cult like belief in them by designers rather than just listening to users. Excessive use of white space in virtually all design being the most obvious one.

IIRC, negative space is one of those things that lay users tend to think is unimportant or even undesirable as a design element, but every empirical study of usability/reasability shows that it is important, and that lacking it produces negative reaction to the end product even if users don't attribute the reaction to the missing negative space, and that this result has held up with online design but was well-known even in older studies of print design.
Current proponents of UBI aren’t looking to fund it by taking money from the middle and upper class AND are looking to consolidate it with existing welfare programs.

On these points we don’t disagree.
TVs has been so slow for so long anyway. I suspect we will just have a ton of point and click style games or games that are mostly simulations with relatively uninteresting inputs but with potentially bigger visuals, or casual games where even 300ms+ latency doesn't make much of a difference. For better or worse, reflex (time) based games will just not be played on Stadia by serious gamers. We have VR for that now.
A question isn't an argument. I'm genuinely curious about how people have decided what suffers and what does not.
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>not the tone I'd like to see on HN.

Fair cop, though my comment was in direct response to yours. To be honest, the bile against design is an opinion I see voiced quite a lot here and elsewhere and it riles me a bit, so I did not take your comment as tongue in cheek.

>The trend at the time Mid-Century design with some influence from 30 year old Bauhaus movement.

Absolutely! You don't think this was a trend? Art Deco was a trend for 30 or 40 years, Art Nouveau maybe a hundred. The Bauhaus was an expression of renewal against the old world of decorative arts, and for a functional, scientific aesthetic. But maybe only true to this until Mies took over.. and he was more an aesthete than functionalist, and perhaps the one responsible for its dissemination across the world as the international style - at least in architecture. Anyway, point was the Rams trend was a revival of the Bauhaus style, clean, modern, healthy, wealthy, and white, against the skeumorphic timberwork of his contemporary's electronic product design. All at the height of the popular dissemination of modernism to the world.

>I think the correct take on this is that there are no major gaps to fill in International style.

I took your use of "solved" to mean precisely this. I just disagree. Perhaps I am a little biased by my field (international style was less successful for architecture than graphic design, though far more widespread).

The thing is, sure, design is partially about the possibilities for composition afforded by the medium and the physical, ergonomic and responsive characteristics of the user, but it is mostly about humanity. A chaotic mess of social feedback effects, a constantly shifting base of understanding and recognition, a wide variety of sizes, shapes, outlooks and interaction patterns. Most of design is manipulating an unseen virtual world of the senses, experiences, social interactions and virtuality in the minds of the users. Small wonder when faced with the scale of the actual problem (not to mention the leanness of economic incentives), lesser designers occasionally lose track of some of the harder rules of design. Even excluding the issue of taste, or as I like to think of it, prejudice ;)
These days I give them money through Patreon, but back in the day the usual way to support comics was merch, and since I wear T-shirts most of the time it's no trouble to buy merch from most comics I read. I'm wearing one right now which says "Jetpacks are impractical and dangerous".

But Oglaf seemed to go out of its way to make it difficult to find anything sane to buy. I own the Sithrak shirt, and almost bought the Derp Fox recently, but "I'm telling!" is a sufficiently unsubtle joke that I'd have to actually think about where I might wear it, and likewise "Steak and Bitches". These days they have a few more options I may buy one day, but definitely when I was last looking it was harder than it has any right to be, for a comic that is often much Safer For Work than it has any right to be.

Take last weekend's "Fog of War". You could make a shirt of that (not the entire comic but you get the idea). Most D&D players would laugh at the joke even without knowing what Oglaf is. But nope, there's more chance Trudy will decide to do a joke shirt about medieval architecture or something. Not complaining, they should do whatever they want, but it's weird is all.
It's not entirely new though. The majority of Taxi drivers are already essentially independent contractors. It's not as though Uber is competing with an established industry of full employees.
There are few ways of dealing with the situation worse than the one chosen by Boeing, but late night tweets about "unscheduled meteoric burial" would be one of them.
Sometimes, all you have to do is ask. I had an ex-employer want me back. They have a 40hr/week culture, mostly onsite, ass-in-seat. I asked for part time (3 days per week) remote. They didn't love it initially. Probably hadn't occurred to them as an option, but after consideration they accepted. Better 24hrs/week than zero I suppose. And I was more motivated to add value for the few precious hours I was on the clock. I bet I produced nearly as well as anyone else physically there (but mentally less focused)
> The more time I spend looking for jobs and practicing interviews

Maybe you should stop practicing interviews, and start practicing being better at your job?
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I did mention named parameters, you are using positional parameters to make your point. You don't even list the variables in your example. That seems pretty implicit to me.

I think this is more explicit:

"My name is {name}, I'm {feet} tall and live in {location}.".format(name="Bob", location="USA", feet=7)
It's not like every other kind of insurance, though. Health "insurance" covers many expected and predictable costs, which isn't what insurance is about in any industry.

What we call health "insurance" is really just access to health care with expenses adequately covered, with only the portion of that covering unexpected or unlikely risks properly falling under the heading of insurance.

Additionally, even the true insurance piece is one of the only kinds of insurance where it's a societal imperative (in most people's opinions) for everyone to get the insured benefits they need, regardless of ability to pay. Even car insurance isn't required for people who rely on mass transit.

Health insurance policymaking needs to differ from most other kinds of insurance policymaking for these reasons.
See if you're near an Alamo Drafthouse. Their pre-roll is so good I'll try to show up early. For Endgame it was a summary of the MCU so far interspersed with old cartoons and stuff.
European telcos want the right to perform “deep packet inspection”
The same as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19918766 only different press release?
Baba is one of those games where the learning curve is absolutely sublime and gives the player so much satisfaction after figuring out some of the puzzles.

Don't play this sitting on the toilet though, it's going to be a long toilet session
I've never used any standalone Adobe software like Photoshop, but can't you just add some firewall rules to disable the online functionality? I do this for Clip Studio to stay locked into an older version.
For what it's worth, I really hope people don't pay if they can avoid it. Guy I know consults for a company which recently got ransomware. They had insurance, payed $1.5 million, got their files back. FBI came in and figured out it was the north koreans. This is happening more and more often, and will increase as we continue sanctions pressure.

This is a classic prisoners' dilemma: if no one payed, every one would be better off, but it is very hard to be that one guy or company who loses all his files for the "greater good".
I don't know if there's anything inherently wrong with them.

I'm just saying that I don't see any job listings for them as an interviewee, or see any resumes with them as an interviewer. In contrast to other technologies that HN or Reddit declare to be "dead" or "dying", yet actually seem to run the world with no serious disruption on the horizon yet.
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Laravel was fantastic. The first month I followed the tutorial, I was bitter about the complexity, but when it came time to building my back end, it took only a few weeks.

I would recommend.
Lots of small business as well. Want to deploy to the cloud but lack the skill set to manage a real server.
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I think it's the writing too. All-lowercase writing was more common in the 60s and the font[1] is not that common today.

[1] https://www.myfonts.com/fonts/castletype/standard/medium/ according to Whatthefont
You generally don't inhale the water that these plastic balls are in.
Yeah, my wife is allergic to legumes so this explosion of pea protein in everything is worrying to us, too. It's easy enough to avoid peas themselves, since people generally know what they are and if they're in dishes they're making, but people are pretty clueless about what goes into their fancy, whole foods flours or whatever. Pea protein, for instance, is in a lot of almond milk these days.
https://climateactiontracker.org/countries/china/

Report dated 30 Nov 2018

"China is positioning itself as a global climate leader, and its actions have an enormous impact on global greenhouse gas emissions. Discouragingly, a rise in coal consumption drove Chinese CO2 emissions to a new high in 2017, which will likely be exceeded again in 2018."
NixOS Takes Action After 1.2GB/S ZFS Encryption Drops to 200MB/S on Linux 5.0
Ask HN: What is the most successful trait to have?
Out of all the traits one can have, which one helps you the most (overall) in life?

I have to say that by far, the most successful trait to have is discipline. With discipline, you get things done, you push through obstacles, you grow and are constantly challenged which keeps you adaptable for life ahead.
Auditor: "Question 1. Did you manage to add backdoor keys to your production build?"

Auditor: "Big surprise. We once again recommend that you use a build system. Question 2. ..."
California could bring radical change to single-family-home neighborhoods
Those kotlin handy extensions, Retrofit meet Kotlin and Result
> I'm not massively in to "Free Software" or the "four essential freedoms", but I do think people should have the freedom to fix software they bought ("right to repair").

Doesn't the first part of your sentence contradict the second? The only way it would be possible to patch software yourself is if you had the source code.

(I suppose you could reverse engineer the binary, but that's not practical, and besides, you could do that today if you wanted to.)
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> If it looks feasable, I would like to see internet focused gaming become a justifiable biz direction for us. Its definately cool, but it is uncertain if people can actually make money at it.

Classic! Reminds me of the time I told my dad I wanted to make websites for a living and he replied "hey, that's pretty cool, but I don't think there's enough work available to make it a full time career". (This was circa 1996)
I have to echo this.

I worked on a data pipeline that was a mountain of PHP scripts bolted together with Bash and it was such a breeze to maintain. Using Symfony ensures that every command is well documented and consistent in design and use.

Something I never appreciated about PHP until recently is that character encoding is so much more robust in PHP than other languages. We were forced to replace our pipeline with Python because of a combination of "Eww, PHP" from new management and "data scientists use Python." Character encoding was a huge, unexpected annoyance.