skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been trying to pinpoint when programming transitioned from being considered "pink collar" work to "white collar" work in the general population. My parents were born in the 40s and I was born in the 80s, and when I went to college in the early 2000s they were still under the impression that programming was akin to secretarial work. (I didn't pursue computer science for other reasons as out-sourcing anxiety was at its head then, not because of their weirdly mistaken impression).
That’s not entirely fair, as the comment simply points out that there seems to be a historical trend of a reflex to reinvent religious structures after abolishing traditional religion. Even in the modern day you can take a look at various rationalist/atheist/anti-theist communities which get dominated by larger-than-life personalities from Dawkins to P.Z. Myers, all the way to LessWrong’s singularitarians reinventing eternal damnation via Roko’s Basilisk. Pointing out that it’s very easy to fall into dictatorship isn’t necessarily an endorsement of one, it just should serve as a caution and as a lesson in humility.
Congratulations! A personal fan of DO because of its simplicity and its easy to understand transparent pricing.

I hope that with the addition of more features, DO still kept its simplicity.

Not really into Kubernetes yet (no personal project that requires it, but at work we used it), but the first time I tried Kubernetes was at DO (the guide on getting started need some improvements).
As the majority of hobbyists must be aware, most of you steal your content. Internet access must be paid for, but content is something to share. Who cares if the people who wrote it get paid?
Tales from responsivenessland: why Linux feels slow, and how to fix that (2007)
I just don't get why you think that data is yours.

I don't see that data as anyway owned by you, you might have rights to aspects of it, but in no way can you demand ownership over something you don't own.
No, that's not me. Interesting points though.

For my comment I was thinking about HDL simulators, which are very expensive/proprietary tools (vendors like Synopsys, Cadence, Mentor Graphics), with a lot of vendor lock-in, but yet are based on standard/open languages: Verilog/System Verilog.
I know there are some open-source simulators that have been around for a while, but they aren't widely used, and the big 3 EDA vendors still seem to have a strangle hold on the HDL simulator market.

Simulation is generally more important for ASIC hardware than FPGA hardware, since you can quickly iterate on an FPGA design with logic/design fixes, whereas with ASICs design iteration can be prohibitively expensive and time consuming.
This assumes goal complexity is measurable and you can run randomized experiments to measure what you call "productivity". Neither of these assumptions holds in the real world.

E.g. changing some business logic can be 10 minutes of work to implement a hack (which will pass tests, mind you), or 2 weeks of strenuous yak shaving for a "principled" solution. Which would you rather pick? And more importantly, are you prepared to select for developers who favor 10 minute hacks to principled solutions?
I'm a rural voter and I vote Republican. Feel free to explain to me how I'm voting against my own interest and how the Dems are a better choice.
Now you can give it a try easily. Why don't you? Maybe you will discover a new world ;-)

Don't think of Mathematica as a computer algebra system. It is much more than that, fully capable of numerical computation, and just the unique term rewriting programming language makes it worth checking out.
You can’t hit an ICBM early in its flight because you won’t have seen it yet/haven’t figured out yet whether it is heading for you. You don’t want to hit it late in its flight because it will be above your territory, and you don’t want to run the risk of dropping radioactive waste there.

In-between, it is over 100km high up (ICBMs reach heights of >1000km. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intercontinental_ballistic_mis...)
The secret life of DNS packets: investigating complex networks
Apple could pay off all of Tesla's debt with like 5% of its cash reserves. Tesla is highly ratioed, but that's a function of its own financials -- to a company like Apple, the debt isn't very scary.
Who said that this was a list o the best 20 CDs? Those was the best CDs for demographic they was targeting. That list was both good music and a marketing tool. That’s why there is no number one pop stars of that time on this list.
Under the radar.

No, literally by the radar... I'm confused what you mean. Surely it's not news to a pilot that ATC facilities save radar data. For how long is a different question.
It's relevant in the sense that I don't particularly care that it'd be harder for me to get these jobs, as the pay cut vs my current job of software engineer would be so significant that I would never seriously consider it. Conversely, I would care a lot if there's some job that would earn me more money that my gender hinders me in attaining (as is sometimes the case for women in tech).

To the extent that society is worse off for the imbalance, part of the solution is better compensating these jobs in the first place. We're currently taking advantage of people who have a passion for doing the work by underpaying them, which disproportionately affects women.
When the first touchbar 15-inch came out, I went out and bought it as I was in need of a computer and I was waiting for the release. I used it for maybe 2 days.... I went RIGHT back and bought a brand new last of the good non-touchbar macbook pros from the preview year. I still have it and it still runs great. I have never had any issues with it.

I've even filled out a survey that apple sent me about macbook pros a while ago. And I explicitly wrote to go back in the design of the keyboards, the ports and the thickness.

I will use this computer until I can't fix it anymore.
I suspect it's probably hard to get the keyboard to straddle the touch bar, but I couldn't help think: Why not physical escape and power keys at the ends?
Buy the best bed, mattress, pillows, and sheets you can afford, because that makes a huge difference. Climbing into bed should feel refreshingly comfy.
It's remarkable that the reception on HN is so hostile, in stark contrast to the old days. And yet Apple doesn't seem to care, marching on in their reductionist quest.

Who are their target PRO users then, if not the developers?
Children don't know what they agree with. It's unfair to them to be forced into a particular beliefs due to fear of repercussions in an "after-life".
I mean, this just sounds silly. Yes, you will have to do both things, but one thing has to take priority over another, as you cannot write two different things at once simultaneously. Just like you cannot have two different entries in a queue at the same index. I am sorry you had to experience this.
> I was speaking in general that apply to the masses.

And what's the obesity rate and chronic pain rate of "the masses"? Do you know?
Why do we assume designing cars is the same as designing phones? Automotive design has been around for 100s of years before phones.

And why is this market presumed to be entirely new? Many of the auto manufacturing talents of old are still just as important in a new EV paradigm. Cars might not need combustion engines, but it’s not like the don’t need wiper blades, or seats, or paint, or branding, or a commitment to reliable manufacturing.
It's a P52s.

The fact that it matters is part of the problem. All of the Apple laptops feel solid and well put together.
Is there enough content in the link to justify the duplication of currently adjacent front-page story https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19969489 ?
$1,800 for 13-inch laptop.
"You're meeting people of the same gender, not a mixed group usually" - I dont know the exact stats and I don't care. If you tried hard enough, you can find a mixed group

"No time or patience for politics" - then you have no patience for human relationships as well. Politics is inevitable in every organization/company/team/community. Some say it's better to learn and fuck up in a sports team than in your company.

"(Some) sports usually attract overly competitive people who don't know (or don't care about) basic civility" - that's a pretty bold statement. You can find rec teams in almost every sport that don't attract the hard asses and the overly committed.

"Level/skills differences" - the difference is not the issue. People being assholes and stuckup is the issue. Don't play for those teams

"(I agree with the carpooling commentary though)" - I agree
Not necessarily. More like an asset that has finished it's designed lifespan and the org has moved to a new asset.
That's true, but you're also dancing around the relevant thesis: not all agendas are created equal. Some agendas are better than others in very real and practicable senses, and thus if you assume people are able to optimize their agreement based on shared values, there is little reason to assume their disagreement with the stated agenda-pushing is so arbitrary.
Cool tech. Not so cool CEO.
the point of the post is that there's also a danger in withdrawing from participating in the public and that there's a significant downside to the public and oneself when we withdraw from discourse, so I don't think there's a contradiction here at all.
> The way to drive toxic communities back to the fringes of society is to build and support healthy ones.

Also useful gardening advice.
Here in Oregon the Democrats are further working to create a divide.

Oregon allows electronic signatures for ballot measures and petitions - which benefits rural areas and marginalized neighborhoods. But the Democrats are going to outlaw this for the next four years.

The reason is to avoid a ballot measure on a new tax increase which the public might not approve.

Democrats have a super majority in Oregon.

https://www.wweek.com/news/2019/05/20/as-critics-of-the-new-...
What? They're all over the place, especially in the US.

edit: I go to one, despite it.
>Yes, set aside liabilities for 75 years in the future. They effectively have to fund people before they're born, unless you think they've got a lot of workers who'll be there over 75 years old.

They have to set aside money to pay pension obligations that they have incurred to their current employees. No money is being set aside to pay pensions for workers who have yet to be born. A tiny fraction of the money set aside may be paid out in 75 years, but it won't be to a worker that has yet to be born. It would be paid to a current USPS employee that is still living 75 years from now.

>So, yes, they have to fund. And they're struggling because they're being subject to deliberate and malicious political attack on public services.

For other reasons, perhaps, but not for the pre-funding requirement.
https://www.reddit.com/r/lfg/
https://discord.gg/UPNHuUd
https://app.roll20.net/lfg/search/
Some good places to start, the reddit lfg especially is full of posts of new players asking to be taught. Roll20 is a browser based tabletop emulater most people use to play in, and also has its own forums to find groups in.
What were the conferences? Just curious, I just happen to be moving back to Vancouver this summer.
Asking that power be decentralized as feasible with more local levels and ultimately the individual as the default repository may be a moral exhortation like a call to communism in semantic sense but the end result if successful certainly wouldn't be the same.

I'm not asking for anarchy so we can still have our roads and bridges but for stuff like forced SSM cake baking I think we can take a page out of the prog playbook when they were arguing against the Religious Right and say that morality, beyond whats necessary for basic stability should be a private affair, and not actively managed and instilled by the State.
Yeah, I broadly agree. But I think a person can only be radical if they disregard normal social inhibitory / moderating influences. I'm reluctant to write him off as delusional because I'd have to write off most activists. And he's pretty clear that he's aware that he's behaving out of the bounds of polite society, and he's taking his ideas to their logical conclusion.

And I think for any new idea that is non-trivial, whether it's a new ideology, business plan, or whatever, a reasonable person also has to admit the only practical way to figure out if a thing works is to do it.
'technical debt' is a misnomer.

The reality of most code, especially as it gets closer and closer to the end user, is that over time there will be requirements added and removed. It is really hard to perfectly design such a system from the start.

Thus some level of technical debt is inevitable and it isn't really debt. For instance, an overriding goal of zero technical debt is not always the right decision. You may be expecting additional requirements and have not come up with a better conceptual model.

This focus on the technical makes you lose sight of underlying issues which are often organizational rather than technical. Is someone neglecting the code intentionally to get a promotion for a rewrite? Is there a ship now or feature mentality? Are your engineers empowered to change the code?

Other industries and systems have the same issues. What do they call this?
In this post, we’ll walk through setting up GDB for the following environment:

A Nordic nRF52840 development kit

Hoping this guide will be a useful reference for diving into the QMK[0] port to nRF52840 by Sekigon[1]. Scratch-built keyboards are my hobby and it would be nice to have something beefier than an atmega32u4 handling both the keymap/layout and bluetooth.

[0] https://docs.qmk.fm/

[1] https://github.com/sekigon-gonnoc/qmk_firmware
You can get to SF in a short time from many suburbs. Almost everyone I know wants to be able to do these things at the drop of a hat, but rarely does these things as a percentage of time.

Time mostly goes to sleep, work, family, etc.
Different groups of people get along because we're all still human and very similarly culturally and understand each other's desires and goals. Things start going badly when there's major social and technological differences. Think of how things went for the natives when America was discovered.

Now amplify it. Imagine if different countries were isolated from each other for millions of years, evolving into different species, and advancing technology the whole time, lost track of any commonalities between each other, and were then exposed to each other.
I do computer mathematics. I’m the author of a computational group theory package [2], and my day job is in quantum mechanics and quantum computation, but in that I’m building packages in a software engineering capacity. The algebra gets pretty gnarly. Check out a recent paper, which includes both a math [0] and SW [1] component. Perhaps because of this I’m unusually representative of the intersection between math and software.

I hope folks aren’t finding my comments hostile. I have used the Mathematica product before in their GUI and at the command line, and some of my colleagues use it for various calculation tasks. I’ve opted to stick to open source alternatives like Sage, wxMaxima, GAP, and Axiom/Fricas.

The engine doesn’t give you a license to Mathematica, so I don’t presume the target audience is the collection of folks who want to do differential equations with plots. The article emphasizes lots of software things (languages, integrations, etc.), so actually I do believe they’re targeting software engineers.

You should note that I have not criticized their features, but rather restrictions on the use of the product in the first place . Maybe that would be interesting to read, but instead I have commented on the leading question in Wolfram’s article. I have not and will not download their Wolfram engine in its current state though for the reasons I’ve outlined. Do recall that using it means I’m bound to a legal contract, and that’s not one I’m willing to engage with.

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.10541

[1] https://github.com/rigetti/quilc/blob/master/src/compilers/a...

[2] https://github.com/stylewarning/cl-permutation
Messaging Layer Security
Interesting that you're talking about epistemic closure. Have you considered that you may have epistemic closure with regard to your opinions on religion?
I've never had an iPod (even as a kid, I had to be "that guy" being different, with my Creative ZEN mp3 player), but my understanding is that the U2 album was something that was pushed out to everyone, not pre-loaded, correct? Maybe I'm misremembering.

FWIW, I'm also a Kobo user, and I've never heard of anyone complaining about the 100 public domain eBooks that were preloaded onto early Kobo devices.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kobo_eReader#Kobo_eReader
The problem is that the controls generally are made by web developers rather than just using the underlying platform’s widgets so, list views look wrong, input handling is slightly off, etc. All the normal issues with applications made with web technologies.

Additionally, browsers are one of the most out-of-place feeling applications because the look and feel is controlled by the website, not by your operating system.
Not exactly, because sometimes there's refactoring which has 0 customer benefit. Sometimes it doesn't improve the UX/latency/etc. Sometimes it just makes the codebase easier to maintain, the point of what the OP is saying is that this work is hard to justify. If you spend an entire year making a codebase "easier to maintain" but don't deliver anything tangible that is all defensive work and not offensive work and there's no reclassification which can solve that.
Sybill Trelawny?
The exact ratio could be argued, but there are customers with varying levels of familiarity with computing tech. Calling people "wrong" is just plain silly.
AI based teledildonics will be the next multi-tril institutions in less than a decade.
> They seem to be doing just fine, jobs wise.

I think there's a problem comparing the official job numbers with "3rd world country" conditions.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politic...
Any proof? An unsubstantiated tweet doesn’t count.
My Git workflow as a solo-developer
Will post back once I start the series!
There's lots of ideological discussion here. I would have loved to read some experiences based on actually trying the thing!

You don't have to settle for the command line. It works with Jupyter, which seems to be the most pleasant way to use it.
With every model that comes out I keep feeling better about my Mid-2015 15" i7 model. Thinking about buying an eBay OEM 1TB SSD and keeping it for the next 5 years at this point. If anyone has a SSD they'd be willing to part with please reach out!
What is it like? How did you become involved? What kind of events do they organize? How do they practice their religion? What are your biggest criticisms or complaints? What do you like most about it?

The Wikipedia article [0] managed to intrigued me. I lean agnostic, but I always try to keep an open mind in my pursuit for truth. Do you have any suggestions for someone that might be interested in checking em out? I'm located in the bay area.

My views on organized religion aren't generally great. Throughout history, religion has played a large role but it wasn't always very positive, see: crusades. The coverup of pedophiles by the Christian church is also absolutely sickening. It sounds like UU's are more loosely organized, which I'd expect would help prevent them from becoming too abusive or corrupt.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unitarian_Universalism
Honestly if you work for a large company, you might start with your HR department. Corporations have a way for you to donate your time to volunteer as a tax benefit for them since they pay your salary while you volunteer. I regularly get e-mails from my HR department with opportunities based on search criteria I set.

Outside of that what interests you? It might be easier to find an opportunity to help people with something you already have as a hobby.
Maybe something like budism or Tolle (https://youtu.be/j42cTkiGdXY)
> We repair these as part of our business, and to be clear, both the keyboards and the screens are failing on these at an alarming rate.

This model came out three hours ago, it looks like.

How can you claim this? Are you making the assumption that they have made no changes whatsoever to the keyboard or hinge?
> My plan was to refund attendees if we canceled the BBQ but that would have been thousands of dollars out of my pocket and lots of disappointed people. Fortunately, it didn't rain in either years.

You can buy special event rain-out insurance for situations like these. Definitely recommend it.
Very cool, I'll download it and give it a run this evening. Two quick questions:

1. Is there a live demo anywhere of the dashboard (or even screenshots)? I feel like that would remove a lot of the friction to installing.

2. Is there any meaning behind the name? Sorry if it's silly but I'm wondering if I'm missing something.
By discounting religion, there’s also a tendency to minimize the human need to embrace the transcendental, while maximizing one’s own secular beliefs as well-founded and not superstitious. How many non-theists will just as readily believe in irrational things that they take as dogma?
I don't see any evidence that society tends to be driven toward stability or tolerance, and even if it did, why you would attribute that to religion.
> End-to-end encryption of metadata and data costs almost nothing these days.

Oh sure. But from what I can discern from Crashplan's website, the encryption appears to be end-to-end, i.e. their client side app does the encryption (and hopefully the keys are only stored locally, so once the data is in their cloud no-one can peek at your data - ala Tarsnap). Realistically you cannot pre-encrypt every file on the machine you're backing up as the parent commenter suggested (show me an encryption app that can properly handle locked/in-use files - especially on Windows), you need to have some trust that the backup provider you're using can be trusted and be trusted not to communicate your encryption key to their cloud as well.

But I agree, Dropbox etc...I wouldn't dream of using them "as-intended" with their client apps because I can't trust they're not looking at stuff they're not supposed to be. The only time I work with these products is via my web browser.
I'm fine with the delivery of paper mail, but the idea of unsolicited paper mail is unacceptable. Nothing should ever be delivered to my house that I didn't agree to.
I don't think people would complain if it came with the product, just like no one complained about the few tracks that came with Windows 7 (see https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninja_Tuna).

The problem with the U2 tracks is that 1) they were delivered automatically by surprise and 2) you couldn't refuse them. They were just dropped onto your phone without warning. This is especially egregious when you consider the fact that Apple has been charging an arm and a leg for storage space on phones, so people were left without storage as this album auto downloaded. (see https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2794347/oops...)

Preloads are fine, especially when done tastefully or unobtrusively. Apple didn't do that with the U2 tracks.