skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is no one solution... I think that we need to start accepting that, and acknowledge that there are overlaps in terms of ability and the course one takes to learn and inject themselves into a profession.

Like bootcamps... from my experience the best of the bootcamp grads will outperform and do better than the vast majority of developers from traditional computer science backgrounds for most work. The bottom of the bootcamps are worse than those from traditional education. Self-taught tend to be towards the top as well. The rest is a deck of cards and some roles lend themselves to those traditionally trained, or the few that go very far above and beyond what they have been required to do in terms of learning.

This also overlaps with regards to natural aptitude as well. There are people that do not, and likely will never get it. There are those with personality issues that will take years to understand how to interact with others (if ever). It's a mixed bag.

The "pre-interview homework" doesn't really help much. Depending on that process, as an interviewee it comes so early that you aren't even sure that you're interested enough in the company and have enough other places to talk to. It will depend.

That said, it isn't that hard to compete. Show competence, drive and a desire to learn. If you are Junior level, work to level up, make something, throw it up on github and interact with a broader community. Read up on the things you want to learn and use them. Write about what you are learning, and get feedback.

If you're mid level, get to know your design patterns better. Don't assume you should apply them everywhere, but be aware of them.

If you're senior level, branch out and learn new things. Yeah, you've used C# and SQL Server the past decade, have you done .Net Core? Have you looked at other modern languages lately? Challenge yourself.

Competing means dedicating time and effort, and it doesn't take too much. It does take more at the beginning of your career. I have been at this for almost 25 years now. I spend 2 hours a day on average looking at technical articles and commenting. I spent my recent vacation reading about Rust, usually do road trips. I am passionate about my own career, and still enjoy learning above anything.

Above all else, be honest about what you know, and what you don't.
It seems like wishful thinking to expect the majority of consumers of illicit drugs to know or care about the origin of their drugs.

Pushing for US government to legalize and regulate these drugs is probably the most effective action.
It wasn't particularly nice, though, and I'm not quite sure all of the comments given qualify as non-shallow.
Type Inference in ClojureScript
My compliments to whoever came up with this workflow
This is what I have concluded for learning:
1) Figure out a way to have feedback on what you are doing and improve on that. Basically training the neural networks in the brain. Of course the feedback you choose matters like "inner game of tennis" or "drawing from the right side of the brain" talks about using non-judgemental feedback and trusting your capability.
2)Choosing the difficulty of the task to train yourself. If too hard you will give up, if too easy no good or get bored, so always keep it at a point where it is somewhat hard.

Also thought people may find this article from andrew ng interesting:
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/20140320175655-176238488-lear...
Moved to Colorado 4 years ago and open concept was unavoidable... It sucks 88% of the time. The only win is holidays and even then with nothing to break up the sound you're one loud conversation in the other "room" away from forced participation. And then there's meal prep... A kitchen is loud heaven forbid there's a quiet moment on a show the same time someone wants some ice in a cup.
Poked into my memory a bit more and it was this guy: https://www.google.com/amp/s/abcnews.go.com/amp/Internationa...
How to Meet Deadlines at Work (10 Easy Tips)
Absolutely yes. I’m excited too.

The hand axe dates back to 2.7 mya [1], which precedes homo sapiens (~350 kya) by > 2 million years. Our ancestors were probably homo erectus at that point.

We were gathering around campfires, cooking meat and sharing a meal ~1.9 mya [2], again likely homo erectus.

Lots of culture predates humanity, but humanity is such a gradient (thanks to evolution). It’s like we need a different word, broader than humanity, to describe our entire genetic history, all the way back to abiogenesis.

Then, instead of our identity being so homo-sapiens-centric, all about this bipedal smarty-pants, we could additionally identify as having been fish, and small scurrying mammals, and single celled organisms, and anything else our ancestors have “been” along our path. Anyone know of such a word?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hand_axe#History_and_distribut...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campfire#History
Can ls use nerdfont? Does ls color coding display anywhere near the granularity that lsd and colorls feature?

So please drop the dismissive patronizing tone.
Isn't it now much more difficult to figure out if certain components are or are not maintained?

ConsoleKit was used in many commercial linux distributions and still wasn't maintained, now that its part of systemd and systemd is maintained, does that mean that every component of it is as well?
Open Source Solution for Big Data Analysis: Metatron Discovery
Would you please stop posting snarky comments here? The site guidelines explicitly ask you not to: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
OpenGL is technically deprecated on Apple's platforms, so you're not likely to get much support either…
I honestly don't remember whether I tried iTunes, but it sucks either way. Either I tried and couldn't figure it out. Or maybe that's the only way to do it and I didn't try it? Which means you need some heavy proprietary software to copy a file. Every non-Apple mp3 player or smart phone that I've ever seen lets you use standard protocols to just move media around without setting up user accounts or synchronization settings or god knows what.
You are exaggerating just a bit: https://info.blockimaging.com/bid/92623/mri-machine-cost-and...

Still not something you’d have in your home, but not nearly 10M dollars. Maybe you can have one in your community medical center?
Startups can use Amazon’s SEO best practices to dominate shopping verticals
I've used it just a bit. AFAICT Shepherd is a fairly minimal dependency graph.

It's not comprehensive - in Guix there are services that exist above and below Shepherd and you can't define ordering dependencies between these (ex: a shepherd service can't depend on a mount (above shepherd), or an inetd service (below shepherd) on a database). I'm not sure that's a huge problem in practice.

Shepherd process stdout/stderr are sent to syslog. Shepherd automatically restarts services if they fail but not forever, and the retry behavior isn't configurable ATM.
What makes you think that you should expect that someone working at Apple, who can fix your issue, will materialize in the comment section of Hacker News and solve your problems (and then reply to you saying that they will do so)? It's nice when relevant people step in and help, but there's a proper channel for this feedback (even if you don't think it's going to be heard).
Oracle is laying off more than 900 people in China
You may already know about this since it comes up a lot on HN but I am keeping an eye on https://puri.sm/products/librem-5/ development for this reason.
Is it still possible to "find your people online", though? Maybe I've missed a few steps by now but I don't feel there's any place online that I would still call "my people".

The old places where we met when we were 15-20 are almost empty. The new place, HN being one of them, have been willingly sacrificed to the making of money. And then there are places like FB, Instagram that aren't really places of finding, more the spam mailbox turned into a feature.

Last but not least there are these isolated group meetings in whatsapp, slack etc. But there I've only found ones that are mostly open and therefore lack the finding part. You really need to know what you are looking for to have any chance of finding such hidden places.

So where's that "finding your people online" place nowadays?
You can also find barrel splitters. I use one so that my 12V router and 12V modem both run off 1 wall-wart.

Look to be common for security cameras.

Like so: https://www.ebay.ca/itm/113713154440
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The fact that so much "new" stuff comes from Lisp proves you are right. Instead of 2 steps forward, one back, it seems with programming languages we keep returning to the start.

Lisp is one of those languages that rarely gets an upgrade, but everyone else keeps coming back to emulate it.
Assuming you're building the correct thing. Small/early start up mode is about finding product market fit. The additional time is a waste that might never be needed or used. That additional time may also sink the endeavor. Regardless, no sense in beating yourself up and worrying about 20/20 hindsight. Software development produces two things of great value. Working software and information. Know what your current primary production goal is.
The use case I can see is a healthy-before/after-sick... all those benign growths you're worried about seeing, will not change between scans. What will change/grow/shrink? Things you might might want to look at as causes of your illness.

Ignorance is bliss until you miss that easily removed tumor... etc and you are stage 3 going for chemo, or a brain anurism...
You can set it up any way you like really. You have access to a root debian shell and can do anything at all that can be done on debian.
I wonder what other optimizations Intel have made, which could be potential security threats some day...
Ask HN: Cool side project ideas / potential startup ideas for ML?
Would like to hear your ideas for cool side projects in ML, would be nice if you think there is some real world application.

I’ve been self learning a lot of ML ideas lately. Previously my work was in Physics (PhD) and then a brief post doc in mathematics. I really like the mathematical ideas involved in modern statistical learning. Comfortable with python and c++. Sorry please forgive any mistakes English is not my first or second language.
The argument that “we could screw this up” is not the same as “we will screw this up and therefore should not do it.”
Quick honest question, what's your exposure and familiarity to finance?
Windows Terminal Build 2019 FAQ
There's only one actual website backing the help documents, so that's what it'll link to. It does, however, manage to pull out the text and serve it to you, which I guess is sort of a win?
If you edit comments you’ve made, people can sometimes click them to see the previous versions. So I wouldn’t be too sure about that.
Someone with an Outline link? Not available in many countries.
I see this comment all over. What are you people cooki g that you would not want to smell? Good cooking smells devine!
Electron hater here, desktop UI has always been super fragmented. Electron does cross-platform, and it lets people deploy their cheaper-to-hire web developers on desktop tasks, plus its free, hence its popularity. As much as I love other toolkits I'm not sure anything else checks those boxes

QT comes close, but it ain't free. WinForms also comes close, but its old and whiny kids think its ugly. GTK comes close, but you can't use your web people to program it...
I mean just like Twitter data is public, I always assumed that public Instagram profiles are public data too. Everyone can see their posts, likes, comments, followers and following, so what stops a computer from doing so?

Update: it's against FB's T&C to scrape and store this publicly viewable data. Quite convenient, they'll only sue / take action when a rule breaker becomes non-trivial in size or a nuisance
From what I understand, the pixel 3a contains the titan m security hardware that is detailed here: https://www.blog.google/products/pixel/titan-m-makes-pixel-3... (this talks about the pixel 3 but the 3a has the same thing from what I have read)

... but of course XKCD got it completely right: https://www.xkcd.com/538/
While I will conceptually agree, that optimizing some things via the government can work better. In practice, however, it often leads to cronyism, corruption, bureaucracy and/or stagnation.

On the flip side, I'm also against certain things being incentivized by the government. I'm against private prisons on pure premise.

In the end, I'm pragmatic and prefer to optimize for those solutions which require the least oversight and ensure for the best competition practical. I'd also like to see an "open body" of course content made more widely available, so that districts and teachers may pull in said content for individualized courses. Educational publishing is about as corrupt as it gets IMHO.

I do think that for most things, there are ways to incentivize appropriate outcome from private businesses and initiatives with the government. This includes more appropriate provisioning and budgeting practices.
What's the murder rate per 100K tourists per year?
Conflicting Principles; DevOps vs. ITIL
Thanks. I realized it too late :(
Priority doesn't help. A stalled tcp connection blocks everything on it.
It most definitely sounds like a problem with these other engineers. Maybe I'm a bit out of touch here, but my view is that if engineers are not implementing services as per the architect's specifications, then they are not doing their job. If you hire an architect to design your house, and end up with a run-down shack because the design was complex and the builders didn't feel like working to the plan you'd be within your rights to seek legal recourse against them.
Many people buy exotics as investments and loans end up smaller than the 'equity' in their 1960s ferrari, or even modern special edition lambo. Just because your kia is a quickly depreciating asset does not generalize to all cars.
What was he upset about? Their bad DMCA/Flagging process?
One of most common and toxic cultures on tech fits with this article: Google's "free lunches foosbal tables long hours" pleasure island approach. Pat them on the back, give them a lunch just for participating, make them work easy more than 40 hours for free.

I much prefer a normal 9-5 job that doesn't give out free perks and expects results, but lets you have your free time after work.

Not all millennials need coddled. Some of us were given a shovel ad kids instead of a participation award and told to work until it's finished. Hire those ones and leave the rest to the companies that attract people who actually think a free meal worth their freedom.
Ask HN: For hackers based in India, would you work for a startup located in Goa?
Wow, wasn't expecting your settings to be that much different. But love the slower feeling. thanks
I've often thought it would be a great idea to allow for parents to work one day a month at their child's school. This would put more parents in the circle. I think it would take time and some training to get to a good place on this, but would allow for a lot more insight and probably increase interaction dramatically.

One or two more sets of eyes in most classrooms each day, more people to help answer questions, etc. Far fewer WTF moments with some schools.
It's called "Apollo 11" released by Neon studio this year. It's historical footage of the whole trip, without any commentaries or interviews. Well put together, immersive and epic. Doesn't go into much science or engineering beyond showing the massive scale of rocket and launching platform.
From my experience Qt documentation was excellent, I do not know about the recent years but the Qt Widgets are stable and do not change. Other good example is Mozilla MDN.
In my country, all engineers are protected titles and basically just says you spent half of your 3 or 5 years studying math. Not even algorithms, just math. Makes it very confusing when teens calls themselves SEs
You better have staggered billing periods because people will want to user their credit.
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments to Hacker News? The discussion that results is generic, shallow, and boring.

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Why 50M Chinese Homes Are Empty [video]
I remember reading it like a book and at the end I had a really good idea how things work. MS documentation was also quite good if you had the MSDN CDs.
Some of the worst breaches of 2017-19 have been due to open ES clusters, some on AWS. This is a welcome change. I just spun our AWS ES cluster down in favor of BigQuery, but while I was setting it up security for it was a big chore, with defaults that are in no way sane. AWS EC2 does a great job at secure defaults for auth and firewalls, RDS even moreso. Why was ES left to wag in the wind out of the box?
Sounds like they're saying that poor parents are too stupid to know the difference.
Prius drivers followed by closely tesla 'drivers'.
I haven't needed it in a long time, but I still think trollop for ruby is magical. It seems it's been renamed to optimist now: http://manageiq.github.io/optimist/
The Showa Era is growing distant
That's very unlikely. The article is misleading in that the reporter seems to believe that emails / phone numbers are never exposed by Instagram. In fact "influencers" typically choose to set up an Instagram Business Profile containing email and / or phone number. So this is almost ceratinly public information that was scraped, not private information obtained via a breach. Assuming your "favorite celebrity" is a movie star, popular musician, etc, any contact info is very likely for their social media manager, not for them personally.
Hi,this blog post is a good starting point: https://alexpolozov.com/blog/program-synthesis-2018/

Among other documents, it links to this extensive survey: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/...

All the best!
Unfortunately yes, I thought that I didn't set up my fingerprint the right way. Hopefully that will be fixed.
Seems like anything the Chinese government has to do to fix something is going to tank their GDP.
You say it like Electron documentation is any better, for one, the scope of a project like electron is many orders of magnitude smaller than the Apple ecosystem APIs and second, it is barely any better. This comes from someone who has done a fair share of developing in both.

What I hate most about electron is the never ending pointless churn in quest for "modern".

Breaking changes like this that provide no real value is standard modus operandi:
https://github.com/electron/electron/pull/16570

Something as simple and fundamental for desktop applications, Instance Management, changes every release or so, and is primitive at best (a simple mutex and event, with no way to pass metadata other than the instance flags).

The portable builds are half-ass too, can't build a separate 64bit and 32bit version for windows without building twice and cleaning up.

Many many other issues like that, it is a case of torture by a thousand cuts and forever trying to keep resource consumption under control.

Electron sounds good in theory, but in practice it barely scratches "good-enough".
Sony ARW is 14 bits on the A7 line. Canon 5D Mark IV RAW is 14 bit and so is the Nikon counterpart. Even the cheap Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera shoots 12 bit RAW.

Why is this important? Most of these cameras images end up on the web. VP9, HEVC and HEIC all support HDR10 so with the right processing this should come through.
That’s how modern design works. MS is using the same tech of broken links and empty pages.
> And be real: there isn't, it's just syntax churn

No. I have programmed in C, C++ and Rust.

Rust is much different, and it is not "just syntax ..."
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Hilariously, the one takeaway I have from that article is that no one wants to lead the autopilot arm of Tesla.
Clickbait implies that this is intentionally deceptive. I think this is just uniformed reporting. This is made even more clear from this tweet by the author: https://twitter.com/zackwhittaker/status/1130525216038359041 "What's curious here is that the data contained non-public data — including phone numbers and email addresses of associated Instagram accounts — which, logic suggests it could've only gotten from Facebook."
Please don't post flamewar comments like this. We ban accounts that do.

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BSD man pages. When you didn't have the Internet you depended on good docs.
Check https://mailist.app :)
No morality without free speech.
Between trump and elon you would never run out of examples.
This is already happening in the US... many schools are teaching for the testing. Those that come up with the standards are making bank providing course materials and publishing. They publish disposable workbooks instead of textbooks to ensure they change each year and require new purchases.

I'm surprised more districts, teachers and schools haven't worked to create more open curriculums.
Sounds like the SD card internals for boosting voltage to do the erase go bad.

I still wonder why EEPROMs don't have another pin for a high-voltage supply.

Especially for SSDs with multiple chips, would make sense to have 1 efficient voltage boost, instead of in-silico charge pumps on each chip.
Azure Functions on Service Fabric
Jerome, I am always amazed at the quality and depth of your knowledge. Thanks for the lesson.
Maybe so, but please stop posting unsubstantive comments to HN.

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Then they add offsets based on race and income disparity.
That's kinda meta, honestly
Yes, completely agreed. You distilled it: "you can roll the dice more times if you have more money/wealth"
Please follow the site guidelines no matter how dumb or pedantic some other comment is, or you feel it is.

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Don't fall into the capitalist mindset that you're only doing enough when you're about to die from overwork. That's the propaganda that is shoveled to the working class while the bourgeoise "add value" from their private yachts.

At the end of the day, what is it that you enjoy? You should be trying to maximize that. I would do exactly the amount of work necessary to maximize that, and no more.

These people telling you you should run to a more tiring job seem to be suffering from some kind of Stockholm Syndrome.

If your sweet deal eventually ends, you seem like a smart guy, I'm sure you can come up with some good buzzwords for your next interview.

It's fine that some people want to be like that, but despite all the propaganda, the workaholic life is not for everyone. Maybe it is for you, maybe it isn't. You do seem to be slightly uncomfortable with your situation, so you need to decide for yourself.

Personally that would be close to my dream scenario, although I would be trying to set up auto-forwards or something so I could reduce the 3 hours per day. :-)
Good job! Have you seen https://mailist.app before? Ot’s pretty the same:) I built it a year ago.
Nepal Rastra Bank Placed a Ban on the Use of WeChat Pay and Alipay
How did TX cops come to believe roadside vaginal searches are legal? (2015)
> References QT as a solution
> Calls web devs cheaper to hire, a gatekeeping tactic that shows up in every discussion like this (market salaries actually indicate the opposite is true here...)
> "whiny kids"

Yup, this seems par for the course.

Desktop UI has to be willing to compete on Electron's merits, that's the game now. It will die otherwise.
I don't think many people worry about the homicide rate in Chicago when planning a trip to Chicago. Similar thing to Mexico, the homicides are contained within a pretty specific subpopulation.
due to the fact that they simply have no choice but to use apple dev tools. Or at least that was true on iOS until recently.

That, plus the fact that Apple having a monopoly on the store relieve them from any kind of pressure, because no matter how the dev feels about it, they’re going to give 30% commission to apple.