skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Someone ought to tell whoever put all these job listings up (including in Houston): https://www.rigzone.com/a-mud-engineer-jobs/

ADDED: TIL apparently Texas is indeed exceptionally restrictive (in theory) about the use of the term "engineer." [1] I'd be pretty certain this is widely ignored in practice. Leave the oil business aside, I'm guessing that tech companies in Texas probably advertise engineering positions now and then. (Yep: https://jobs.dell.com/location/united-states-texas-round-roc...)

[1] https://www.statesman.com/news/20160903/their-name-on-the-li...
> Another instance of worse is better.

I hate this term, because worse isn't better, it's worse. But good enough is good enough and technically-better-but-not-available-yet is worse than adequate-and-available-right-now.
Pro-abortion and anti-abortion are the only fair terms for describing the sides of this dispute.

It's pretty blatantly biased to allow one side to use their preferred term while assigning a less flattering term to the other side. Make no mistake, The Guardian is propaganda.
Where in this page is the actual promise? Is it the "take less" bit? That is a surprisingly weak statement.

I think almost all of the statements made here are worded vaguely enough that could be equally have been claimed by Google, e.g. "never sell ... your info" / "only data we want is ... data that serves you in the end". But I think Mozilla's actual intended position is pretty far from Google.
New views of beauty and fragility in underwater Street View
There's something here -- like "it came from a human" is, by definition, something only humans can do. Handmade, artisanal, we already have a lot of stuff like that.
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>This ignores that during the Cold War there were more than just "democratic and communist governments".

Yes. The original label of the 'Third World' was applied to non-aligned nations. Those nations were still influenced by the global order created by US and Soviets, and later just the US.

>There were also plenty of military dictatorships, authoritarian one-party-states and theocracies, and a fair share of those were firmly in the USA's sphere of influence.

That's right, and not the point. The initial state of the world (for our purposes, let's start with the period between WWI and WWII but the earlier you go the more it reinforces my position) did not begin with all democracies. It began with a tiny number of democracies[1]. In the posted link you can see we went from democracies representing between 5% and 10% of world governments to more than half. Don't tell me it just so happens to be that the world adopted the political system of the major super-power. You can also look at it another way, America will exert strong pressure for democracy and market-based economy but it may not succeed and sometimes practical considerations take precedence (like the fact that the nation was locked in an existential struggle with the Soviet superpower - which had no qualms in pushing their ideology on the non-aligned world)

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/democracy
If they've visited before, why will they come again without a reason? Your ad has to actually convince them to do something beyond read the same thing twice.
Former auto tech here- cheap used laptop is really preferable simply due to portability, python works with windows just fine. Plus, having a laptop in your box can replace multiple tools. I used AutoEnginuity as an OBD2 tool (expensive, but cheaper than snap-on), a Hantek USB oscilloscope, as well as having a convenient way to access Alldata manuals. Check Craigslist for a used laptop though, nothing you need requires a powerful computer and a shop environment will ruin most laptops eventually.
I'm reminded of something Jesse James said on Monster Garage (I'm sure he wasn't the first to say it and he is not the best role model himself but...) If a guy says he knows everything he probably doesn't but the real experts are the ones that are more humble about their skills.
If the police want to open my phone I will supply them with the pentalobe driver to do so.
If software can identify it as fake, another can be improved till that isn't the case anymore. This is actually being used, search Generative Adversarial Network for more info and background.
> It's not like he's some huge USSR booster

Putin is pro-Soviet and views any insult against the USSR as an insult against Russia itself. He has said that the collapse of the USSR was a great catastrophe and given an option to change anything in history he would bring back the Soviet Union. He has also played a large part in the revival and rehabilitation of Stalin in modern Russia

https://www.tfp.org/the-errors-of-russia/

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-47975704

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2018/03/03...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia_under_Vladimir_Putin#So...
> I hope Twitter makes a ‘retro’ mode where I can just see the actual tweets of only the people I follow in semi-chronological order. With the option to turn off retweets for certain users.

I think both of these exist? There's a way to turn off retweets for particular users (it's in the same menu you'd use to mute or block someone) and there's an option to show a plain timeline (uncheck "show the best tweets first").

The plain timeline option doesn't seem to consistently work on the mobile app, but many (most? all?) alternative Twitter clients show you the plain timeline.
There has been a recent tightening of the interpretation of IR35 by HMRC which has been applied to the public sector first. I imagine it’s to this that the comment you’re replying to is referring.

(Essentially as I understand things they’re no longer allowing contractors to make the decision as to whether they’re inside IR35 or not, but making the companies paying them make that decision & bear the liability for getting it wrong.)
iPhone owners cannot run Android apps.

But you knew this.
Each module is owned by its respective country.
"These companies are likely to charge any private astronaut a similar "taxi fare" to what they intend to charge Nasa for its astronauts - close to $60m per flight."
Watching the video, it's noteworthy that this system that works and renders in a Cartesian coordinate system is able to essentially create 60 degree rotations of a pattern without any trig function.

Given that a rise of 1 and run of around 0.577 will give you approximately 60 degrees (60.01505399), I have to wonder if there is some correlation between that approximate ratio and the number of steps required to complete the pattern.

With that thought, it's noteworthy that the pattern isn't quite right when it finally comes back to the beginning - which essentially is a little bit of rounding error at the end. That makes sense if what I'm imagining to be a correlation above is true, because a slope/offset to create a perfect 60 degrees is an irrational number.
There's an accompanying podcast with the writer that's excellent and goes into great depth on some of these decisions "the cheronbyl podcast"
This is really oversimplifying things, in my opinion.

“Some social concerns” is really brushing over a lot of the things that make social democracy a form of socialism.

You’re missing for example that in a social democracy it’s common for private companies affiliated with what you could call “public service” to be in part owned by the state.

These companies most often used to be wholly state owned, but through the market liberal agenda many things have been sold out.
Sometimes for better, sometimes for worse.

A lot of what is considered welfare is also not necessarily privatized.

I could go on, but instead I suggest diving down in the topic through the supplied wikipedia link.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Types_of_socialism

Here you’ll find social democracy, liberal socialism and democratic socialism described in detail - all part of the value spectrum of socialism.

Also, getting flagged for this opinion seems a bit over the top...
Fired Stanford Prof Blames ‘Hispanic Heritage’ for Alleged Sex Misconduct
You say you've never understood the benefit of unit tests but you list three really great things: they help you debug stuff while you're writing it, they help you understand what you're writing and the edge cases, and they help others understand your code later. That's all great stuff.
> People might start off arrogant but once they acquire enough superior general knowledge they figure they know jack and forces them to be humble ?

There are too many other variables at play - i.e. inherent psychological disposition, environmental and social factors, institutional incentives - to know how cause and effect work in the development of intellectual humility.

But sometimes arrogance in general (and perhaps intellectual arrogance too) is itself just a thin defense against a dominating unexamined insecurity about oneself.

If acquiring more general knowledge helps make you more comfortable with yourself, it might make you more intellectually humble, but it could also do nothing, or even the opposite.
Can you cite a source on this or explain your reasoning here, I'm a little unclear on the implication
no, it might and that is a big difference.
Because it doesn't have to develop into heart.

What about case where twins are developing and one cannibalizes the other? Is that a murder now?
Sundar Pichai is an employee and board member. He's not a "regular" employee, but I don't think a regular employee gets enough perspective to make effective decisions across the company. They would have to take their board position more seriously than their full time job, which would make them not a regular employee anymore.
Atomation does fundamentally change this, even if it's only by a little so far.
Thank you! I feel closer to you for mentioning this. Dealing with rejections is still hard, and it compounded my sales anxiety. Bringing the rejection rate down over time (through improving the product as well as the messaging) helped me a lot with the anxiety
I’m Tim Hockin, a Top-Level Kubernetes Maintainer. AMA
I'm a Google employee. The stock I receive as a part of my compensation is GOOG which is non-voting. GOOGL is voting stock. There are some details here: https://investorplace.com/2019/02/goog-google-stock-split/
Also the “time to play fair” Spotify campaign may have inspired some people
Semi-related story of mine:

1. Stumble upon some specific problem with a web framework we use.

2. Jump straight to stackoverflow.

3. Sbd had a similar issue, nice.

4. Sbd wrote a very concise answer, nice too.

5. There's my nickname under the answer. Oh, wait...
Two things I can think of:

- you can get transparency (the entire ledger must be public, so you reduce the risk of many kids of internal fraud and manipulation.)

- you can use these coins outside the facebook ecosystem -- I can't think of immediate value here, but I can see a long play where Facebook can turn into a bank
That's kind of true but that's only because adtech is siloed. Let's say you're identified by Facebook as having an interest in the Sony headphones. User clicks an ad and heads over to Amazon to purchase. The purchase is made and Amazon knows the conversion happened but Facebook does not.

Facebook does purchase credit card usage information but it's not nearly as perfect as having a conversion pixel on the site.

Future laws should really focus on cross-site / app tracking and the legality of purchasing third-party data.
The nazis killed many philosophers. I wish you luck.
Work councils are working really well in Germany.

Elect Employees to be in that council and the council has the right to make proposals/be heard by the management, often also have one or two people on the board of directors. They also need to be consulted about some areas that affect the employees (like work hours etc)
>When it comes to structural, or civil engineering, there is a far higher expectation that the things you design are not going to fall down.

The big thing is that you need a P.E. in many cases to do things like sign off on drawings for regulators. Some civil engineers, mechanical engineers, etc. have PE's and many don't. In Louisiana, I had business cards with an engineering title and definitely worked as an engineer. At some point, had I remained in the oil business, I'd have gotten a PE because I'd presumably have eventually been in a position where I had approval authority over designs submitted to various government agencies.
Nah, hypocritical is exactly the right word.
Do people normally mail their pictures to themselves? Mail is typically limited to sender -> receiver. The closest analogue to me would be a diary and unfortunately not so clear-cut: https://blogs.findlaw.com/law_and_life/2017/06/legally-is-my...
Way out there, dude.
I don’t believe the new rules around perma-contracting were ever applied to the private sector. Even the public sector guidance is dated 2017[1].

[1] https://www.gov.uk/guidance/off-payroll-working-in-the-publi...
You realize apps like Spotify and Netflix need to be on ALL platforms.

For the same reason Apple Music is available on Android.
All those comments of "blah blah blah gets or sets a value" on my class properties, why do we add all that overhead to our projects to the point we have to use tools like GhostDoc to write our worthless comments? This industry is on crack sometimes.

I simply like comments for adding things like... so and so told me to do this... or simply documenting weird behavior or weird business logic.
Ironically it may be to buy something like bitcoin and sell when it goes up. Reasoning: a) there are obviously hype believers who will buy and push the price up when optimistic and b) they tend not to sell being believers whereas as a skeptic you can.
Well, some of the issue there is that it's really hard to get a good analysis out of bad or unsuitable data. Garbage in, garbage out.

Generally it's better to put the horse in front of the cart: Figure out what kinds of questions you want to be answering, and then design a way to collect the data you need to answer those questions.

This isn't far off from the lesson that medical science somewhat recently had to learn the hard way, about how just dragnet collecting heaps data and then figuring out what to do with it after the fact will yield far more incorrect conclusions than correct ones.
Assuming this works in attracting some big names to visit, I think this is a good move. It will shine a light on the program and in this day and age you need that to survive, get funding, and attract more investment.
Right; is "a free and open source 'Google'" a company? Because that's what Google is.
You must already have conduit underground. You aren’t running water and sewerage on elevated lines are you, unless you’re very rural.
Their arrogance and ignorance is already affecting them as many people I know no longer use Google search.

Also check out DuckDuckGo on Alexa ... its now the 100th most popular site in the US and continues to increase its reach; 167 globally.

Love to get away fully from Google myself! They are horrible and personally their arrogance and ignorance is catching up to them!
But that doesn't really answer the question being asked. If the cryptocurrency is completely controlled by a centralized authority who has absolute rights over the system, why bother with the technical and cognitive hurdles of using a blockchain? A standard ledger in a centralized database is more than adequate for that task, and much easier to maintain.
Call it "Dust" instead of "R".
Pocket is notably absent from the "Firefox Family". Perhaps because they can't make that same personal data promise?
Society is addicted. Many people even consider Facebook so vital to everyday life that they believe access to Facebook is a right that the government should guarantee to its citizens. This is a cultural problem that is difficult to tackle, but I think it'll require a cultural shift before people realize that Facebook is just a website that they don't have to use.
eerily poignant
Payment system built into Facebook will be incredibly successful. Most small businesses don't even bother with a website, nowadays a Facebook group and Instagram account is enough - so it's only natural to process payments there as well.

However, it is not going to damage Bitcoin in any way. Main use case for Bitcoin is buying drugs. No one is going to be paying for drugs with a currency tied to their real-world identity.
Is that actually true?
It's easy to blame politicians and oil companies. That's not really the ultimate cause though - it's and uncaring and growing population.

Most people still don't care about the environment - that's why politicians don't care. And even fewer people care about overpopulation. I think they don't even consider it to be a problem.
I saw one of those fake Elon Musk posts in my stream and my first thought was "Wow! Is Elon pushing shady blockchain money things now?" It wasn't until a few seconds later that I realized there was no blue-check and it wasn't him....
To you that's great, the article the parent was referencing is from a marketing perspective. He gives the example of quants, they solve financial problems with code. The same is true with data scientist, they just solve analytical problems with code.

In both of these situations they're a programmer, but they sound cooler and will go a lot farther when applying for jobs or moving up in a company than the person who labels themselves as "a programmer".
> Learned as junior: If you report an OS bug or some other deep problem, seniors will not believe you and assume you're making excuses for your own bugs and lack of understanding.

My mum told me "if you think you found a bug in the compiler or OS... you're wrong". This advice applies until you're good enough to know it doesn't. She was right.
This is why Apple took (takes) out billions of dollars in loans despite having nearly a $1 trillion market cap of which a significant portion is cash.

If you're a large corporation and have low-interest money offered to you, it's almost fiscally irresponsible not to take the loans.

Depends of the tax laws of your home country, of course, and I don't know anything about Japan. But in the US, if you were to get offered a 0.1% interest loan, take the money now and figure out what to do with it later.
In each case the helicopter crashes when a rotor blade strikes a heavy crane cable.
The point of having employee representation in the board isn’t putting a janitor in the board room, it’s putting someone on the board who represents the interests of employees first. She doesn’t have to be a regular employee.

I think it’s the kind of idea that sounds good on paper, but it’s trivially easy to corrupt someone once they’re in that sort of position of power.
Public Spaces Are Critical Social Infrastructure
Ara: A 1 GHz+ Scalable and Energy-Efficient RISC-V Vector Processor
Previous discussion on the same: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8265482
It sounds like what you're saying is that online ads are becoming less and less effective due to customers getting trained to ignore/block ads. However, companies are responding by attempting to improve their ad targeting instead of facing the reality that online ads aren't effective anymore.

What will happen in five years when advertisers have to face the reality through numbers that online ads don't work anymore?
Have the NSA attack domestic systems and make the ransom fixes for the the vulnerabilities they just exploited! haha, might just be crazy enough to work
The rich here spend an awful lot of money encouraging us to think that way.
you didn't read the article
Day of the Tentacle
Perhaps, but someone still has to build and maintain the automation, no?
Absolutely.

I volunteer at my son's school and the overall security/integrity of the place is 10x better than it was a few years ago. That's because of Chromebook, and Google's management model of paying a fixed cost to manage the device for the life of the device.
"It's about the code." That is probably the biggest untruth I though when I was a new developer (I dislike the term "junior").

The truth: "It's not about the code, it's about the people."
Comments and `git log -p <file>` to see what the comment originally referred to is pretty useful.

My personal favorite comment style is to wrap a chunk of code in `#{` `#}` blocks and add a general comment of what that chunk of code is accomplishing. Sort of like an inline method.
How about "take nothing" instead of "take less"? No PII should be "taken" anywhere. They're a browser -- a platform -- and as such they should be taking great strides to prevent collection of anything at all by applications running on that platform.
Not even remotely the same thing.

Vegans are opposed to eating meat because of animal cruelty, so it is hypocritical for them to eat at a place where 99% of the menu is meat-based.

Kosher/halaal is just a specific requirement for preparing meat for consumption. There is nothing hypocritical about Jews/Muslims eating at a restaurant that also serves non-kosher/halaal meat because those restrictions don't apply to people of other religions.
A 60/40 equity/bond portfolio is going to underperform the market pretty significantly most years. Historically, 60/40 has outperformed the market slightly looking back 40-50 years.

Risk parity is probably a better idea and should give you recent returns with some downside protection. The problem is that rebalancing could be costly, you probably would only want to on a yearly basis.

But if you have access to leverage via shorts, I still think that’s the better play.

My personal investments do nothing of the sort though: I just go with a 3x leveraged S&P ETF. Annualized returns of around 20% year over year. Of course, I have massive exposure to volatility and market crashes. But in the five years of investing all of my money in this strategy, I’ve outperformed the S&P by over 80% :)
Comments are critical for explaining the code that isn’t there. False starts, obvious optimizations that don’t actually work, etc.
Yes, it’s very disingenuous
Makes sense. Well educated people have educational credentials that protect their self-esteem. They can afford to be intellectually humble. Admitting to mistakes or ignorance doesn't hurt as much.
There's truth to both sides. Depends on the comment really.

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doesn't help anyone.

My rule: Code is for how, comment is for why.
Not sure what the millennials angle adds to this article, but they sure do say the word a lot.

They're asserting that Beyond Meat's success is driven by millennial ethics on the back of... absolutely no data whatsoever. Who's actually buying Beyond Meat burgers? Do other generations actually not care about health, the environment, animal welfare, etc? Is there any evidence at all to justify these assertions?

Or did you just need to include the buzzword?
The Eastern Gray squirrel is native in eastern and midwestern North America, but it lives in forests, and we cut those down to make room for cities. So bringing some in to live in the parks and other trees of those cities seems more like re-introducing a native species than introducing a non-native species.

They were later also brought in to cities in other parts of North America, and there it was introducing a non-native species. Worse, in many of those areas there were species of native squirrels living outside the cities. After the Eastern Gray's were brought to the cities, they often spread to the forests outside the cities, and took over the habitat of the native squirrels.

Here in the state of Washington, there is only one small area known to still have a native Western Gray squirrel population. The Eastern Grays, introduced a little under 100 years ago, have taken their place everywhere else.

I have no idea why whoever wanted squirrels in Seattle decided to bring Eastern Grays from across the country, instead of simply going and trapping a few of the then abundant native Western Grays outside the city, and using those.