skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You say that as if you can predict what will happen over the course of the next 10 thousand years. What happens when we run out of places to put the spent fuel? We dig another hole in a another mountain?? What if there is an earth quake 10k years from now and all that spent fuel goes tumbling into the local drinking water? Are you under them impression that stuff like that can't happen or doesn't ever happen? Sounds like a pretty ignorant point of view to me. What if the American government falls and the security details guarding these storage facilities go away and unscrupulous agents have free access to it. They then build thousands of dirty bombs and send the Earth into chaos? You think that's impossible? Sounds to me like you are counting your chickens 10k years before they hatch.

Edit: I read the article, its bias untruthful trash... should I have expect more from Mara Hvistendahl author of such classics as: 'The Vibrator' and 'Origins: The Start of Everything (Where do rainbows come from? What about flying cars, love and LSD?)'
Especially for those who work remotely, I (English is my third language) can't overstate the importance of deliberately working on writing skills. As remotees, we are often judged by our words, whether we like it or not. A couple of recommendations:

• Many here might've already come across it, but is always worth bringing up: William Zinsser's, On Writing Well. In which, he urges us to write with "clarity, simplicity, brevity and humanity"; tells us "the intangibles that produce good writing—confidence, enjoyment, intention, integrity"; reminds us to "remember that what you write is often the only change you'll get to present yourself to someone whose business or money or good will you need"; and much more.

• The equally excellent book, Clear and Simple as the Truth[2]. In this rigorous work, Thomas and Turner describe a style of writing that rests "on the assumptions that it is possible to think disinterestedly, to know the results of disinterested thought, and to present them without fundamental distortion. In this view, thought precedes writing". And the book also has a chapter that is aptly titled, The Museum, a "guided tour through examples of writing, both exquisite and execrable".

The second book, I suggest to slow-read it over a period of several months to digest it (and perhaps even do the exercises in the chapter titled The Studio, if you're a non-native speaker), not least because, as a certain Roman Stoic urged us, to read attentively—not to be satisfied with "just getting the gist of it".

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7881675.William_Zinsse...

[2] https://press.princeton.edu/titles/9445.html
This is one thing I love about stripe. There are a ton of resources to write, and every employee is encouraged to communicate at a very high level.
This point grinds my gears toothless. I've been angry enough at the misery and indignity of TSA procedures to point out (in an airport) how easy it would be for anybody to bomb the dozens/hundreds of people stuck in the 'security' line. Fortunately I wasn't prevented from boarding my flight. I guess the counter-argument is how much more damage could be done if they got on a plane and hijacked it, but I feel like some other safeguards would be far more effective than having somebody in a back room looking at a scan of my naked body (and my family's).
Because traditionally short positions carry more risks. You would only keep short positions for a long period of time if you have enormous amount of capital to sustain it. Short selling strategies and derivatives were often utilized to artificially deflate prices and conduct “bear raids” on vulnerable stocks.
Which part of my story bothered you, and what criteria?

If we're talking whether someone will be generally happy and successful in life regardless of where they attend school, yes, I 100% think a person very much does matter more than any school they may attend.

And if we're talking whether someone is more "worthwhile", or will have a better life, if they get accepted into a prestigious school, I don't think that at all.

I think some circumstances I had no influence over, including going to high school in a less-populous state that likely had many fewer people even applying to prestigious schools, probably had a big part in me getting accepted.

> The fact that I couldn’t even get into a top school appears to bode pretty poorly for my future if this is the criteria!

What is the criteria you think would bode poorly for you? If you're a hard worker, spend lots of time to learn your chosen career skills, and spend lots of time becoming a clear and empathetic communicator, I think you can be very successful in your chosen career path, regardless of your GPA or standardized test scores from high school.
Ha, thanks for the feedback... Yeah I don't want the sqlite dependency by default.

The fact that somebody managed to bolt it onto bash after the fact is interesting. Oil is all about having a better/sane shell programming language, so it should have better hooks that make such customization. But yes it doesn't need to be in the core.
yeah me too. fascinated for the answer.
It circles back to my point, though. It doesn't apply to them because they don't try to sell their own ideas. If more engineers took the reins of their own work, I think they'd be happier and more successful.
The science done by a bunch of smaller IR telescope is different from what you can do with JWST. (Basically you are reducing resolution but get better time coverage of transients.)
Our YC Application and Interview Experience – Pet Story
I think this is different as it's not charity.
Working with relational databases might be difficult for those not acquainted with them. However, I think the SQL language as an interface primarily for relation databases is a great language.

I think, invariably when you use ORM, you end up having query-specific object structures. For example [1].

You also might be passed objects with deferred fields [2]. This will be completely opaque to someone consuming the resulting object. You'll eventually run into this problem [3]. Solving the lazy load problem requires an understanding of how SQL works in the first place. And if you look at the solution in that example, it's an ORM-wrapped series of joins.

From 3:
> For good measure, we add a raiseload to throw an exception if we try to load anything that we didn’t load here.

Who wants to live in this world?

1: https://stackoverflow.com/a/45905714/5573538
2: https://docs.sqlalchemy.org/en/13/orm/loading_columns.html#c...
3: https://engineering.shopspring.com/speed-up-with-eager-loadi...
Self-Censorship on Campus Is Bad for Science
Yeah, sorry for not making it clearer at the outset. I'm coming from the perspective of somebody who is building a product to (among other things) help people prevent household debt from ruining their lives (starting here in Canada); and I've given out a lot of loans in the family to prevent debt spirals, so I definitely feel for people in this position.

At the same time, my personal experience is completely different. I was difficult in primary school, probably because of family issues. I dropped out effectively before high school, and started doing contract work (and eventually full time work at 17) on software. I got my start based on little more than natural confidence and many hours of reading Wikipedia and StackOverflow from about age 8, eventually on my first personal computer, which I bought at 14 with about 95% of the money (I always begged for cash instead of toys and hometown giftshop trinkets) I'd received in my life. After biking about two hours a day just for work (rain or shine, usually rain it seemed), I decided to leave home to be closer to work and farther from my mother, and I was lucky enough to have a friend who would let me crash on his couch for a few months.

Even with the rather extreme subsidies here in Ontario, I couldn't really afford to take time to go to school; I could now, but I probably don't need to. That's basically why I feel that it would be unjust if I moved to the U.S. (I'm a citizen) and that started immediately with paying off other people's loans that the federal government gave out like candy, for something I couldn't even afford to buy if it were free.
This is a very semantic argument and ultimately it does not matter if the robots are coming for your job because management invited them to or otherwise.

There is, however, a more fundamental argument to be made against the notion that this kind of technology is neutral and that you can somehow stop management from making these kinds of decisions. It's not and you can't.

If technology exists to lower the operating cost of a type of business through automation, it's only a matter of time before one of the players in that business adopts that technology, to get ahead of their competition. As soon as that happens, all other players are pressured to follow or face the consequences. Often they cannot avoid adopting the technology as well.

The flip side of this is that if you can be the first to create and market this kind of technology, there is a good chance it will be very lucrative, so there is a lot of pressure to do so. It's almost like the technology wants to be born.

As a result, if it is possible for a robot to be created to take your job and do it cheaper, it is very likely that someone will do just that at some point. We could of course all agree to not create such technology or use or buy it (if we think this is better for everyone), but this makes it even more lucrative for some other company to come along and break that agreement (prisoner's dilemma).

So far, robots are mostly taking menial jobs that most people do not enjoy a lot. I am not convinced we should prevent that. What I do believe is that we should offset the loss of income so people who lose menial jobs can be compensated and pursue another occupation that is – hopefully – more meaningful than what the robots took.
Doesn't look like that includes leases
There are others (Aedes aegypti) that spread Dengue and Zika.
Please no.

Instead of a clear script, the developer now has first has to wade through word diarrhea to extract meaning.

> Then God appeared to wazoox and told him: "You will not spread your software on the face of the world without properly testing the new features, so as not to get into trouble with a rarely used tool that proves buggy with an important customer. I said, and so be it."

This could have been replaced with: "First test new features before sending to customer." ... ... I think.

What a way to waste time of your audience.
Ugh. In that case, you should move to someplace that values those skills.
My point is that the lender also made a bad decision.
I'm trying to understand what was copied by Google.

Did they copy the core class names and the different method and attribute names for these objects but rewrote everything else from scratch?

I dont know java but but lets say it was ruby and then i made xruby and copied the same type of things. So, Random.rand (in xruby) still produced a similar random Float like in ruby. But the code that was called by Random.rand was entirely written by me from scratch? Is that the idea?
I think people appreciate this about other people, so if there's a place where it is undervalued, it's when people evaluate themselves and their opportunities for improvement.

I remember Bjarne Stroustrup saying that an important sign that a person could become a good programmer was that they could write clearly in their native (natural) language. I can't find that quote, but I did find a 2013 interview [1] in which, forced to pick three key pieces of advice for budding programmers in their early twenties, his #2 was, "Learn to communicate well, verbally and in writing."

[1] https://yourstory.com/2013/12/bjarne-stroustrup-interview
Is it similar to how Preact just implements React's API? So the problem here is, that Java's API is not under MIT? And what about all those competing companies that implement AWS S3's API?
There's strong demand for software engineers now. We can enjoy it while it lasts. But, if you look at some of the latest dev surveys, you'll see there's a ton of fresh talent entering the work force and it's only a matter of time before they become mid-level and senior (5-10 years). At that point, the supply of engineers will far exceed the demand and the same thing will happen to engineers as any other white collar profession.
“Online identification is getting more and more intrusive” – The Economist
I'm reminded of a quote from a very good book:

> "What important truth do very few people agree with you on?" — is difficult to answer directly. It may be easier to start with a preliminary: what does everybody agree on?
“Madness is rare in individuals — but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule,” Nietzsche
wrote (before he went mad). If you can identify a delusional popular belief, you can find what lies
hidden behind it: the contrarian truth.

Tally up the number of people here vigorously (and defensively) arguing for "being happy", "being interesting", "being encouraging" (or anything but "being great") is all that matters, and you will get a very large number.

It's really, really hard to make an outsized contribution to humanity. So the consensus response to this is "well, but it doesn't really matter: just be happy". This cultural meme is extremely harmful to us all. People shouldn't be shunned for trying to do something great and failing. But we shouldn't go too far and say "well, as long as you're happy, you're not blameworthy". If you have a gift, you should use it for good. Your comfort is not the only thing that matters.
Interesting reads around career paths for individual contributors
If the thing in the OP doesn't do what a bunch of the comments here are discussing -- it is indeed important to point that out.

I had assumed it did, cause why else would we be discussing it here, and neither the OP post nor the FF setting are very clear about what it does. So I would have been thinking it was protecting me.
The typical octal literal syntax I've seen uses a 0 prefix. This gives rise to quite a few gotchas, as most people think of leading 0's as being non-value-changing. Maybe 0o12345670?
How's that? Leaking info about corruption in a political party doesn't make them Russian puppets just because you happen to be a member of that party.
So, if I were to declare myself an Even supremacist and plan to turn all Whites (and the others, when we get to them) into fertilizer that would be fine?

And in any case I just am not sure if pushing undesirables (especially if it is undesirables only of a certain political bent, but not the others) into some dark corner is a good strategy. Both sides end up in even stronger filter bubbles, and banned people get good recruiting tools and feed theior persec ution complexes -- because the "lamestream media" and "libturds" actually are out to get them.
I shriek at the idea of 9 SCOTUS justices trying to understand how API's work and making that decision for all of us. I'm sure those men and women are highly intelligent, in their field of law, but I just don't have much faith in them understanding the difference between printf(...) and libc.a
I did, but apparently my local WordNet definitions in 'dict' failed me:

abysmal
adj 1: very great; limitless; "abysmal misery"; "abysmal
stupidity"
2: resembling an abyss in depth; so deep as to be unmeasurable;
"the abyssal depths of the ocean" [syn: {abysmal}, {abyssal},
{unfathomable}]
It would at least be nice to freeze the hardware for 10 years and give software time to learn how to fully extract what we have. Most large scale software ends up a factor of 10x to 1000x slower than it needs to be.
My (personal) tl;dr from it was:

- Some light style rules about having no qualifiers e.g. words like "really significant" were banned

- Keep language super concise and non-flowery. Don't try to sound clever, Keep It Simple, Stupid for language basically

- Structure arguments a bit like the Minto pyramid[0] was another one I was told while there

- No one cares how much work or effort went into your doc, or how clever it is, only the final artefact of your work/thought should make it into the doc no matter how concisely you can express it

[0] https://www.amazon.co.uk/Pyramid-Principle-Logic-Writing-Thi...
Did anyone else find this article to consist of ironically poor writing? The blog post contains of a lot of fragments, run-on-sentences, unnecessary pauses, mixed tenses, dangling clauses, use of the passive voices, and no Oxford comma!
It should be opt-in but ... hey. It's something.
It also defeats the whole point of the app, which allows people to filter out spammers. Of course spammers are going to not want their number listed.
I like how in-depth Alon is, but it's hard to take his arguments seriously because he freely mixes hard facts, anecdotes, and weird subjective analysis.
OpenJDK is under GPL (+exceptions) now, it wasn't at the time.
As long as you don't use oracle's binary builds these concerns don't apply anymore.
> It's really a drag that you can't do groceries on a Sunday,

In America I can buy groceries any day of the week, but as someone who often works odd hours, I find it a drag that almost none are open past 10 or 11pm. The buses don't run after midnight~1am, either, so if I need a dozen eggs at 3am, I have to get in my car and drive.

I feel that's not the sort of behavior that a city with aspirations should be encouraging. If you want interesting things happening in your city, you need people working at all hours to make it happen, and many will be on wages that don't support living downtown. You don't want every worker driving a car. It's simply not scalable.

> people expect you to pay with cash everywhere

I'm the opposite. I only pay by card or check for regular pre-planned purchases (like rent, or insurance). It's well established that people buy less when they pay with cash! I'm disappointed by all the trendy new shops that are card-only.
Why not use 0x,0b, and 0o for hex, binary, and octal literals? I never liked the fact that a number starting with 0 was treated as octal.
The biggest issue here imo is he encouraged his sources to get more information for him in way that could be considered to have a alleviated him of the protections a journalist would normally receive. I used to be a fan of Assange but hes lost his way entirely. That being said the US government ought not to be prosecuting actual whistleblowers.
The fact that he illustrated is: how the media keeps ignoring salient points about the case. They consistently get it wrong. That consistency is not a mistake, it's by design.
Things always happen a particular way, regardless of peoples memory of that event. Case in point, a video camera can sometimes give an accurate retelling of the events at a particular place at a particular time.
I said it has "barely budged". A few percent in two decades fits that description.

I don't understand why you bring up women entering the workforce again. As I mentioned, that's wrong twice: the proportion of women in the workforce is flat over this timeframe, and additional women in the workforce would push median household income up, not down.

So we're left with immigrants. Thus my original question way up there: is it all down to underpaid immigrants, then?
Is there verifiable intelligence to support this? I recall the Roger Stone story which didn't look like it had much depth to me. And I know Assange had a show on RT for a while. But has any evidence surfaced of an actual conspiracy involving Wikileaks and the Russians?

I did notice a big uptick in what I thought was right wing, pro-Trump statements on their twitter feed, and especially on Assange's twitter feed, shortly after Trump was elected. However, I assumed that was part of some strategy to win favour with Trump (perhaps hoping that Wikileaks would become popular with the new administration since Trump had been so pro-Wikileaks during his campaign speeches).
They (implicitly) critisize some of Google's behavior, while taking Google's money, yes. What makes that hypocrisy? It would be hypocrisy if they were doing what they are critisizing; it's not clear to me it's hypocrisy to take money from someone who is... while still critisizing them! not critisizing them because you are getting money from them might be hypocrisy...
The Supreme Court should, and probably will, deny cert.

Read the CAFC's opinion. Pretty cut and dry in favor of Oracle. APIs are not an abstract idea, but a concrete expression of an idea, thus protected by copyright. Google could have chosen its own expression, but decided to copy Oracle, which is against the law.
Yeah, I agree that it's not a good syntax. I do think 0o is a good prefix though.
The article says:

> after Google incorporated 11,500 lines of Oracle’s Java code

I'm pretty sure the article is wrong and you're right as that's consistent with what I've read before.
What happened to the original author of PS?

https://github.com/purescript/purescript/graphs/contributors
"Whether you're using Docker, Packer, Ansible or whatever doesn't matter. They are all a solution to the same problem"

Nope. K8s is a cluster operating system that happens to fit very well with the microservices architectural model. Packer is a way to create classic VM imgs (this one is similar-ish to Docker but only if you only care about the 10000 feet non-technical-at-all image. Ansible is an infrastructure as a code tool. You deal with mostly classic infra components and compositions of them as code. Putting all them in the same bag is like saying that all programming languages solve the same problem. It's only true if we cut the conversation down to a level where we consider all digital devices as the exact same thing.
I suppose it depends on what industry, and also where you're hoping to get hired?

My undergrad courses might not have gotten me totally ready for an interview at a FAANG company (though it's been over a decade since I graduated!), but that also wasn't a goal of mine.

And my undergrad courses did totally prepare me for a few interviews at very highly-respected companies, complete with job offers, without needing a lot of external practice.
You blatantly ignore the others who did in fact die from radiation exposure.. The case study you were referring to is not grounds for "radiation isn't all that bad.." It poses a significant risk, and since it can mutate/destroy DNA, I am willing to bet it did indeed play a part in at least the acceleration of the heart disease. You're body is a full system made up of very complex sub-systems, and each system influences the behavior of the others..

This argument is equivalent to "vaccines are bad because a soccer mom said their son died because of it."

You're statement of "its no big deal" implies you can just walk into Chernobyl and come out feeling great. If you think that is the case, you should visit the radioactive site and find out..
This case is not about copying copyrighted code. It's about APIs.
I'm trying to understand the same thing. I think the idea is something like the render method basically behaves the same whether it is React or Preact but the actual code inside of Preact's render method is written from scratch. Although, in the case of Preact, it's probably not necessary because of the license for React?
I've been writing software professionally for about 20 years. I'm not sure I've ever been to a meeting where most of the attendees have prepared by reading relevant materials including documents attached to the meeting invite. Because of this experience, I have a very different expectation. I attach documents to the meeting invite so that people can know where to find it for reference during but mostly after the meeting.