skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
also in the event of an apocalyptic scenario I wager the tradespeople would fare better than the devs
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It might feel good to do that, but you’d be putting tens of thousands out of work, and handing the industry over to Airbus, which last I read, had an ever so slightly worse safety record (though both are quite good). That’s bad for cost and safety long term.

By all means I support axing those responsible and criminal charges where/if appropriate, but a company death sentence does not serve the public interest.
None of that directly describes business (or consumer) value. It is mostly a recitation of information technology statistics.

If you look at the period of say 1990-2010 there was an absolutely insane ROI on human capital invested into IT. Arguably this level of ROI only happens once or twice in a century. You had young guys in their basements, garages etc. inventing life-changing technology with no investment other than a PC, an Internet connection, and time. It basically all revolved around getting people a PC, a 'net connection, and a phone, and then delivering services over those things.

Everyone saw what was going on and there was an unprecedented global migration of labor into the IT industry. There was a perception that anyone could be a millionaire, and anyone could change the world, etc. and some degree of truth to it.

There's no denying that much of the low hanging fruit is now gone, and there are more people in the industry than ever before (many of whom had huge expectations based on what they had witnessed transpiring a decade or two prior). So of course you are going to have a changing industry and an expectations mismatch. The old days are over and they're not coming back.

Any new wave of innovation and disruption is at least as likely to come from a non-IT industry as it is from IT.

There are still trillions of dollars to be made in IT. Since the future is never evenly distributed, a lot of these dollars are in emerging markets, and/or in industries which are being transformed by the IT revolution's latest waves a bit late in the game.

But it is a different industry now, there are fewer opportunities for disruption and there are many many more fingers in the pie. In general the way this money is made will look a little bit more like how money's made in mature industries every year.

There's no fighting history and you're not going to be the next Steve Jobs. But the pie is so big that you can carve out whatever kind of little niche you would like, as long as you understand the rules of the game.
You are making a lot of assumptions, basically your story summarise as:

- A and B connect from same home network with their apple IDs
- B checks location of someone (you assume it is A)
- so we have A’s coarse location

Depending on implementation details, this randomIDs you mentioned not needed to be same when submitting and querying (and probably not)
Boeing has over 100,000 employees. What does it mean when a sentence says that "Boeing knew X"?
I was referring to your claims about the invention of stenography in regards to the ability to record written speech.

I think its easily attainable for an experienced typist to send instant messages at the same speed as they would have a verbal conversation (I know it is for myself and my friends who have had daily IM conversations for the last 25+ years). Perhaps typing is a lost art in the age of smartphones and tablets.
Buying into the Emacs Platform (2018)
This isn't the kind of value they could use to build a big castle and cut themselves off from society. Education isn't like giving someone money - they still have to go out and use that education to make money. It's the society at large that reaps benefits of an educated person - through more specialized work being done, and through better social interactions.
I think the situation is a bit more complex: the proliferation of F/OSS itself has driven the market into the situation where integrating and running other people's commodity software is one of the only commercially viable options left. Another factor is that commodity hardware is so powerful, and has been for over ten years, that it just had to be put back into the hands of datacenters/clouds.
Well if you’re happy with a prior that sees you fail after a year’s effort 95% of the time; you should do a startup (don’t kid yourself about better odds). Perhaps if you were capable of putting in 5 years of pivoting trying and failing your odds start to look much better.

Otherwise, get a job.
Very true. Circa 1980 there were lots of management trainee programs with large companies open to any degree. A friend with a BA in history joined one of the large rental car companies. After a six month training program became a manager of a local office. A few years later he was a regional manager, then a few years later left for a better position with a competitor.
I disagree. It’s likely they go about almost all their day-to-day activities using proprietary (or at least not libre) software. Their primary OS (likely Windows or Mac), word processor, spreadsheets, presentations (Office or Google), email client, virtually every app on their phone (either platform). If they are in any non-CS, technical field, it is for sure using proprietary software (MATLAB, Autodesk, Adobe, ...). If they are in CS or a dev, they are probably using cloud platforms, GitHub, CI, an IDE, ...

Programming languages and code are so unique in being freely available, even the infrastructure around the them is proprietary.
Highly unlikely. Just to be sure I confirmed with Apple support yesterday. Here's what a Senior Advisor named Ryan told me: "Your trusted devices will periodically require you to re-authenticate your account to ensure that the device still belongs to you." In my case I was able to side-step my way back into my account after defeating the 2FA.
It feels like you just have a bone to pick with Israel?
The Dig was one of my favorites. Conceived by Spielberg with a script by Orson Scott Card of all people.
Seattle has a functioning local government that does things like approve building permits, an idea considered insane in the BA. I'll never understand how restricting building is meant to "preserve neighborhood character," when it actually results in pushing out long-term residents.
> I think part of the solution if you truly want cheaper education is remove all but core classes from the required curriculum

Why not remove the fat then? If you cut classes, this won't make institutional parasites disappear, as they'll invent other things to justify their existence. I feel the ballooning overhead surrounding the core mission (here: education and scientific research) needs to be addressed directly.
If the Mac Pro is too expensive and a Hackintosh is the alternative you are not the target audience. Then you are probably better served with a iMac Pro or a upgraded Mac Mini.
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"Due to the nature of JSFiddle, anyone can post anything", therefore "wallet codes are ok" since "anyone can post anything".

A shadow ban normally means that you, the creator, can see your content, but nobody else can. So them shadow banning people who post wallet codes is the direct opposite of allowing wallet codes.
I've heard this analogy several times, but I've never met an astronomer who didn't know how a telescope works.
I'd buy a $1500 Apple monitor if for no other reason than the fact that Apple would actually put a decent set of speakers on it¹, like they did with the Apple Cinema Display.

¹It's not clear to me if the Pro Display XDR actually has speakers at all, but its audience can be expected to buy a set of high-end speakers too, whereas a monitor aimed at actual users would need built-in speakers.
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Doesn't any finite length list that is only able to be updated when the addon is updated mean ad networks can use a random string with more combinations than the size of list to defeat all ad blocking?
Israeli here, this is very far from being true.
At least in California, state funding to the UC system has definitely decreased if adjusted for inflation and population growth. Adjusted only for inflation, it's decreased in some time frames and is flat in other time frames. Here are a few years, all in inflation-adjusted 2019$:

1970: $2.2b
1980: $3.2b
1990: $4.0b
2000: $4.6b
2010: $3.5b
2015: $3.2b

So in the inflation-adjusted numbers, there's been a decrease since 2000 (and 1990), but flat compared to 1980. The state population has increased from 24 million in 1980 to 39 million today though, and state law mandates that UC expand in line with population growth (they're required to accept the top 12.5% of California high school graduates). So per-student funding has declined by more than $10k in 2019$, compared to 1980. In-state tuition has risen by about the same amount over the same period, making up the difference.
I live in a dirt-cheap country and I find it hard to believe that you can survive on $400/month. Do you take a trip back home? Do you factor in the price of your laptop/phone? Does this include clothes/medical expenses? Also, what country are you living in?
Teams has separate chat and the "Teams" functionality you describe - personally I think I'd prefer these to be more similar so that chats were, in effect, a team of 2 - but I guess that wouldn't be practical given everything else that is associated with a Team (groups, SharePoint site etc.).
Teams has separate chat and the "Teams" functionality you describe - personally I think I'd prefer these to be more similar so that chats were, in effect, a team of 2 - but I guess that wouldn't be practical given everything else that is associated with a Team (group, SharePoint site etc.).
Number of channels set up on day 1 = number of users * 10. Seems to be the classic case of social (over)engineering in most teams, doesn't it? :-)
The one you quoted. Many people make money from open source software.
"AWS isn't critical either, its bubbled because of easy startup money and lazyness. will be a good thing to see it fade away"
Wait what ? Have you, been on the web at all ? Ten thousands of websites are hosted, or partially hosted on AWS
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> None of the author's specific examples - control theory, optimization, linear programming, econometrics, or Black-Scholes - were pioneered by generalist engineers with a strong grounding in mathematics. They were just applied mathematicians (and in a few of those cases, repurposed pure mathematicians).

With regards to control theory, whilst some key people like Bode [0] had mathematics degrees, others such as Kalman [1], Nyquist [2], and Black [3] had electrical engineering degrees. Claude Shannon had a bachelor's degree in both electrical engineering and mathematics.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hendrik_Wade_Bode

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_E._K%C3%A1lm%C3%A1n

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Nyquist

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Stephen_Black
they do have a lot of usage but barely everywhere. remember most of the web is wordpress.
This is nothing new, St John's College in Annapolis, Maryland has been educating this way for years (tutorials and no grades). The only question is if it will become more widespread in the face of the erosion of the quality of higher education.
Optional indicator that was previously - and should have been - standard issue. With the MAX being sold with the explicit promise that there is little/no additional pilot training need.

Clear negligence on both sides, with Boeing being responsible at much grander scale.
> What if you apply for a state benefits (e.g. benefits for your children, or student state grants)?

The best solution in this case is to stop means testing them, and also convert every plausible benefit from stuff to cash-to-buy-stuff-with (i.e. UBI). Because at that point it's the same as voting, all you have to prove is citizenship and that you haven't already received the benefit, there is no separate eligibility information required.

People have the intuition that not means testing things would be expensive, but when the benefit is in cash that comes out in the wash. If you receive $5000 more in cash than the value of the benefits you were previously eligible for, but then have to pay $5000 more in tax, it just cancels out and you're back to the original situation. Only now nobody has to prove eligibility status outside of basic citizenship, which also greatly reduces administrative costs and fraud.
Previously, the thinking was that most airline pilots weren't using the AOA information anyway - they had included the feature because some airlines had ex-military staff who were used to having it, but most didn't. So the AOA being wrong wouldn't necessarily be that urgent a problem, if it was only the pilot we were talking about.

Unfortunately, it wasn't only used by a small number of pilots, but also by MCAS. It seems that MCAS kicks in during scenarios that weren't originally intended - i.e. take-offs as well as stall scenarios - and they got two other things wrong:

* MCAS was revised to be more aggressive toward the end of testing;

* MCAS has a bug / design flaw that allowed the system to command an increasingly steep nose-down each time a pilot overrode it.

There were lots of little signs all over the place that there was a problem. Unfortunately, they didn't seem to join the dots, and each seemingly-reasonable decision they made when taken together added up to a dangerous scenario.
Partly because of your flame bait headline.
I think the argument for making it a corporate death sentence is that future companies and shareholders will know it is in their interest to make airplanes that don't kill people.

More abstractly, if you value human life at a high enough dollar value and make corporations liable for loss thereof, they will expend effort to preserve human life. It appears that currently the externality of killing people is priced at a level where Boeing does not mind killing people.

I don't know if lawsuit liability is the best way to police corporate behavior, but it is big part of the system we currently have in the USA.
How bucolic
Your process seems fine for someone unknown, "blank". But when you have information about the past experience - does it really make sense? e.g. if someone graduated from the top CS program - can't you deduct that they are able to "think", "solve problems" and "code"?
I guess one can argue that the interview process is some kind of verification of applicants resume - but aren't there more efficient ways to do this? You can easily check whether the person really graduated that program, about past experience - previous jobs, etc...

I mean, you should leave the qualification verification to those entities who are more qualified to do it, and who have much more time - I guess if the university awards a degree after 4 years of involvement with the candidate says much more than you can deduct in 30 minutes during the interview set up.
Sadly I don’t believe this will be true of the newer generation butterfly keyboard laptops. Seems like the keyboards are more or less guaranteed to fail at some point and if it’s outside the 4 year extended guarantee window, tough luck, given the risk requires replacing the whole logic board. Real shame and I hope there is a new design soon addressing this!
Then the problem is not the tools but the people and culture. A tool change won't fix that.
The same is true within IT, you need to read a lot to make sure you're in the loop.

I think it correlates to map structures, if every point in a map is connected to every other point there will be a large surface for each point in the beginning but as the amount of points grow the surface (of possible attention in this case) will shrink.

How much area of attention is needed to perform the best in a creative research, to produce the best work in a given time? Maybe the answer to that question will yield more papers with better quality.

My personal belief is that we need to dream more and do less work to make sure the work that is done is of more quality such that no filtration is needed and we can truly publish everything.
I still believe in VR, but driven by porn, not games or productivity. That niche seems to be doing very well and has been a technological driver more than once. Basically everybody that I've talked to that was skeptical and tried it was a believer after they've tried it. When that goes mainstream, you've got a very solid market with lots of consumers.

It won't be the $1500 + a high end PC version of VR though.
No, your deduction logic is wrong. They did not "know in 2017 that all those lives could be saved". Because in 2017 they believed it's not a security issue.
it's hard to take this comment seriously...

> javascript frontends are the great for programmer fights, but thankfully most of the web doesnt use them

By frequency of retrieval, JS frameworks are the majority of websites served.

> kubernetes is relevant to like 100 people on earth

Even if it's not k8s, most companies benefit from a container orchestration system.

> crypto is entering the plateau of productivity

cryptocurrency will always be a niche product until it can provide the same services and assurances that banks do. Most people overwhelmingly prefer the availability and security from carelessness, petty fraud, and mismanagement that banks provide that they even pay for these services, than the not-entirely-complete protection from state actors that crypto provides. That's what holding crypto back, not regulation.
There are indeed frustrating lags due to JIT, but they have got better lately & are being worked on -- if I understand right this is now one of the priorities, after focusing on getting the breaking changes done before 1.0.

Here's how long a vector of 5 random numbers takes, after a cold start, on 1.1:

$ julia -e '@time rand(5)'
0.054343 seconds (121.03 k allocations: 6.219 MiB)
The puzzle that blocked me for days was that of reading some kind of boring manual to a horse to make it sleep. I still remember myself (a kid) jumping all around the room.
"A scientist builds in order to learn; an engineer learns in order to build." - Fred Brooks
The worrying part is that in order to keep using the good MacBooks from the past, you need to keep them on the OS version that they shipped with.

I have a 2012 MacBook Air that was crazy fast, weighed four grams, and even ran windows 7. Sure, the drive was small, but it was perfect.

But some time in 2015 or so I made the terrible strategic blunder of upgrading to the latest OS version. Performance immediately dropped to zero, and now when I open it up for any reason, I just spend my whole time watching it spin uselessly trying to idle along with one browser tab open. It's sad to see it so reduced.

I've had the same experience with every iPad I've ever owned. Delightful, responsive machines that get auto-updated to brick status over the course of about three years. (I have every model up to air 3, and the only one still working perfectly is the old 1st gen air that I've kept on iOS 8 and spend a minute every day carefully dismissing the auto update prompt).

I have one of the sacred 2015 MacBook Pros, which now can't edit videos using the new format exported from my wife's iPhone x. An OS upgrade would solve that. But the machine is too precious to risk it.

I don't know what the solution is.
Used my 2010 MBP through uni life, startup life and acquisition. After which I allowed it to retire. But it served me a solid seven years.

I'm actually one of these few people who's also happy with the new MBP.
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Hello HN,
After graduating university with a Computer Engineering degree (bachelor), I has been working in App Dev Department of a big IT firm for about 2 years (develop Android app but I mostly work on C++ native layer (JNI)). However, I still could not find my interest in my work. Therefore, I would like to make some changes to my life, starting with apply for 1 of 2 nano courses I find interesting and think after finishing it I can apply for a new job.

These 2 nano courses are:

1. Learn C++ by Coding Five Projects: https://www.udacity.com/course/c-plus-plus-nanodegree--nd213

2. Become a Cloud Developer: https://www.udacity.com/course/cloud-developer-nanodegree--nd9990

I would like to ask HN for some insights about the the courses, about the prospect of getting a new job after finishing it.

P/S: Although I has been studying/working in IT for about 6 years, I still feel overwhelmed by the speedy change and the ever-increasing technologies/knowledge... and I feel lost in this maze.

I intend to make 2 posts about this. The first post is this, and the second post will be after I finish the course mentioned above. That time I will post to ask for a job. I will throw myself to the world to see if I can catch any opportunity.

I hope you are not confused by my writing ;)

Thank you for reading,
At least 1 of the engineering teams knew X, is my interpretation.
Half of the bikes in those photos have drop bars.
Too bad he didn't take photos instead. I think we all clicked on the article in order to see some actual images.
He is clearly not a fan, just look through his comment history.
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As a first pit-stop I'd recommend: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_energy_label

The 'self installing geothermal' is probably Ground Source Heat Pump technology and is quite good.

Whether or not you need to become an electrician will depend on your jurisdiction.
The x64 ISA was invented in the late 90s. The rest of the list looks accurate.
I'd be curious to read more about those cases when MCAS was engaged, but the pilots were able to recover. There were a number of them.
Here are my issues as a user of a 2013 Mac Pro:

- Neither the Mac Mini nor 2019 Mac Pro are user-serviceable; you have to take your Mac to an Apple-approved repair center if you want to upgrade your RAM (see https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT205041#one and https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208377). I guess it's nice to have DIMMs when the computer is out of warranty, but I'd like to preserve my warranty and not have to pay Apple's prices for RAM upgrades plus labor costs.

- The storage is soldered onto the motherboard in the Mac Mini, which precludes upgrading or replacing storage.

- The storage for the iMac Pro is a special proprietary design, precluding the use of industry-standard M.2 NVMe flash drives. (Granted, the 2013 Mac Pro doesn't use industry standard M.2 NVMe drives, either, although I've read that it's possible to use some standard NVMe drives in the 2013 Mac Pro with the help of an adapter.)

- The iMac Pro at $4999 is still much more expensive than the previous generation base Mac Pro, which was $2999.

- The iMac Pro is an all-in-one design. I prefer desktop computers that are not housed inside a monitor; what happens if the monitor fails?
If I send them an e-mail, I can drop the topic from my head, because I dumped all the relevant context into that e-mail, and am done with it for the time being. I can focus on my other work while waiting for them to reply, which can be 10 minutes, 10 hours or 10 days.

Whereas if I have to wait for them to become free to talk to me, I have to keep all the context in my head, which interferes with my work, because my mind has a limited amount of "cache". Also, I now have to be on constant semi-alert waiting for the call because I don't know when they will become free. That makes it impossible to concentrate on any task too much. I am certainly not getting "into the zone" on anything.

Cognitive load is a real thing, do not waste yours or someone else's.
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Sam Altman uses this.
> - Chrome had very good dev tools included. With Firefox, you had to install the Firebug plugin which was slower and buggier

I remember very well that after I made the switch to Chrome, I still used Firefox for all my debugging purposes and web-development. Firebug was way ahead of Chrome Dev tools.