skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The trustworthy experts are the self-interested ones.

The sugar producers, for instance, have a price floor for the goods they supply. But they have experts who know the danger of price floors, so they made sure their deal requires that the government purchase unsold sugar.

And, of course, even that doesn't prevent sugar consumers from using alternatives, hence the number of products that replace sugar with high-fructose corn syrup.
First you leverage already existing blockchain technology to create simple program that allows you to access gpu, cpu, network, and storage of a pc it is installed on. Second you adverties it to people telling them they can earn cryptocash you have invented in exchange for resources used on there pc. Third any surplus of access you have sell to a third party or mine a more popular cryptocurrency.
Can it be used as a full-fledged Infura replacement?
It's like, no, I'm headed home to get started on never seeing you guys again!
The DNC tweeted ‘Boy Bye’ and now the election is over
Ask HN: Has anyone noticed it is getting hard to find stuff on Google?
I remember using Dogpile.com for my search queries before a friend had introduced me to a new site called Google. The speed and accuracy between what Google offered and the other guys was night and day.

However, over the past 10 years or so, it is just so hard to find the right information. This isn't specific to any one industry or type of information, just that it _seems_ like it is getting harder and harder to quickly find what I am looking for. It is much more common for me to spend time trying different complex queries to filter through all the "noise".

Has anyone noticed a similar user experience? Does anyone know if there's any validity to what I think I'm experiencing? If so, what is the deal and how could I make Google just work again?
> Personally, I never like a language that has esoteric syntax utilizing various non-alphabetical characters.

Check out COBOL. You'll love it. :-)
Would it not be better to link to the original article, which this one refers to at the top?

https://theconversation.com/ancient-dna-is-revealing-the-ori...
Not sure if this is exactly what you're looking for, but Penn actually has a master's degree program for computer science specifically geared towards students who didn't study CS in their undergrad. Students in it take a mix of classes covering parts of the undergrad curriculum (but only with other MCIT students, not undergrads) and classes from the core CS master's program.

(Disclaimer: I didn't attend this program, but while an undergrad at Penn, I TA'd for a couple of professors heavily involved in the program, and some of the other TA's were MCIT students. Everyone I talked to had great experiences with the program, and the students I interacted definitely demonstrated considerable skill in computer science despite not having studied it before)

https://onlinelearning.seas.upenn.edu/mcit/
Until you need a database.

And an API.

And a website.

And a CDN.

And...

And if you get as far as CloudFormation I just have one word of advice. Run!
3K in what currency?
Ask HN: When launching to a small niche, should I already layout the future?
I'm working on a product that will be applicable for multiple audiences. I keep reading, and I agree, that it's best to launch to a small niche. But when doing that, should one already let people know that they'll be expanding to multiple audiences in the future?

Or should you tailor the entire product to that small niche and not hint at expansion into other verticals?
An example of a micro front end application
I agree. Columns 73-80 should only be used for sequence numbers. That way if you drop your card deck you can sort it on the last columns.
Lisp 1 in 1960.

http://bitsavers.org/pdf/mit/rle_lisp/LISP_I_Programmers_Man...

Page 66f: SET card writes a memory image to a tape and TST card reads a memory image from tape.
No the concern with distributing likely child pornography and snuff films to users is that the whole point of moderation is to STOP distributing that. You want to have it moderated in as controlled an environment as possible. I'm all for not subjecting more people to it than necessary, but it should at least be people who explicitly consent and are trained and provided with the necessary resources.
The hard part about moving is leaving family, friends, and stuff behind. Once you are willing to do that a bus ticket across the US is cheap.
In summer they have the worst gnats/biting flies/bugs I have ever encountered in my life. Very slow-moving and easy to kill, they arrive by the millions intent upon crawling into your socks, underwear, collar and hair, injecting an anticoagulant and lapping up your blood. Each bite (and you will have thousands of them) leaves a red circle of material beneath your skin (~1/4 cm in diameter) that takes years to go away.

I was unlucky enough to be working one summer in northern Maine when these black devils began drifting into town. We swatted and laughed at first but after an hour we had to quit to get repellant to apply _everywhere_. Decades later the scars are still present on my ankles.
But not every job has to provide it. Teenager working part time at McDonalds does not have to earn $100k, they just need to earn enough to buy them new pair of jeans, or few beers for Saturday night party. It is up to them to eventually move from such low skill, low pay jobs to an actual career.
You don't need another bachelor's. That would involve ~4 years full-time work including general education requirements. Just take the math/CS prereqs you need and apply to whatever master's program you want. Lots of state schools allow adults to take undergrad classes for relatively cheaply. There are also online courses at Harvard Extension School and other universities that you could take remotely.
Yes, if you simply want to run a VM, Docker may not make sense.

The real point of Docker is containerized apps.
They put tariffs on all steel- not just China. Seriously I fear that Trump is running out of people to piss off.

But hey if you can get those votes in swing districts thats all that matters in the end. A few thousand steelworker votes are more important than all votes in California for POTUS2020 so expect more of the same.
Netzen: Long-term support for Mapzen maps, vector and terrain tiles
So, if you had kids while you had a decent job and the place closes, you should give away the kids because your replacement job is minimum wage? Is it the same if you wind up disabled and suddenly become a low earner?

Or, I know, celibacy for everyone and hope you don't get raped?
Free abortions when birth control fails, if you can afford birth control and aren't unlucky enough to have issues with it?

Do you happen to know the income level when kids are affordable? Is this well above the average wage in the area (or in general)? Is this higher or lower than low-level military salary? Knowing this sort of number would really help folks out.
Historically, C and C++ programmers didn't care much about safety, especially if they had to give up performance to reach it. This is changing in the newest C++ standards and tooling (e.g. clang's -Wlifetimes).

Bounds checking is slower, so that's the main reason why it's shunned. Rust made it mandatory, but from what I've seen there are people disabling that to squeeze some drops of performance nevertheless. Luckily, I think Rust also has an option of replacing indexing with iteration, thereby avoiding the performance hit. I think it currently does this a bit better than C++, but I might be wrong.

Anyway, my critique still stands, that blog post is really low effort and doesn't prove much. I've looked at some of the fixes for Firefox security bugs and the code reminds one of the typical older C++ projects with raw pointers everywhere. Perhaps implementing a browser requires all sorts of unsafe access patterns.
Exactly the point!

This kind of screening is largely impractical, short of tattooing anti-vaxxers' foreheads with a large red strikethru "V".

So, it needs to be simply a requirement. If you don't have either the vaccinations or a bona-fide medical excuse, you are denied all govt services & benefits until you do. No school, driver's license, passport, benefits, etc.

The fact that this is still in a debate at all is an enormous normalcy bias error. Some of the origins are due to stupidity, but much of the growth of the "controversy" is the result of a deliberate and sustained attack on the west by Russia. Here's just two articles, scientific & news sources:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6137759/

https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/04/09/in-the-united-states-ru...

Damn cheap way to undermine your enemy -- directly attack your target's public health for the cost of a few bots & trolls.
> . Wandering the endless twisting alleyways,

Just a heads-up - some of the buildings that make these twisting alleyways are being torn down to make larger walkway towards the Kashi-Vishwanatha.

https://thewire.in/politics/kashi-vishwanath-corridor-up-bjp
Anyone can participate in "men" events, since there are no biological restrictions other than being a human as already explained elsewhere in these comments.
> That is to say, the transaction costs of changing jobs has never been lower.

i'm just going to venture a guess, but i suspect you have never worked as a dishwasher. this sort of overly academic language is tone deaf to the reality of working for minimum wage.
Funny you should ask, I’m actually in the process of applying to the online CS degree completion program at CSU Monterrey Bay at this very moment. To my knowledge it’s the only online CS bachelors offered in either the CSU/UC system. [0]

If you’re a resident of California qualifying should not be an issue. See “State-based admission limitations” on the admissions requirements page if you’re a resident of another state as you may not qualify. [1]

I recommend reaching out to Kayla Rolicheck, the program advisor, to see how you qualify or if you have questions about the program. She’s been with the program since its inception and is very knowledgeable. [2]

Please feel free to reach out to me directly if you have other questions about the process. I’m by no means an expert but if I can be helpful I’m happy to answer any questions. I’ll leave a link to my email in my profile.

[0] https://csumb.edu/scd/cs-online-degree-completion-bs
[1] https://csumb.edu/scd/admissions-requirements
[2] tel: +1(831)582-3621; press 3 for the program
I know what the minimum wage does. I would prefer directly supporting the unemployeable to increase their skills, rather than forcing them to accept multiple minimum wage jobs and have no free time to learn.
I think calling the virtual assistant "Elon" is the best part!
Without putting a downer on the CS degree idea, I’ve been learning a lot myself just by going through the same texts (and a few others). It won’t at all compare and there’s no qualification but things like The Imposter’s Handbook are great to get a basic understanding of things.

I’d love to do the CS course myself but £18k’s a substantial investment considering what I’ve managed to earn without the degree.
Just to be clear, the counterpoint you support is: "Some people don't deserve a living wage."
Cats catch mice. For rats you want a terrier.
This topic is vitriolic here as it is on twitter, and even the public discourse in other countries.

One upvoted comment literally mentions murdering and ghettos, something that would get you banned and possibly fired if you replaced the word anti-vaxxers with anything else, but applauded in a forum of wealthy intellectuals.
> the most compelling use of it as a platform has been CryptoKitties.

2017 called and wants it meme back.

That was a consumer facing game and all people did was get smarter about what they store on chain.

The "Gas guzzlers" list changes very frequently.

https://ethgasstation.info/gasguzzlers.php

People and organizations use Ethereum more like a collection of lambda nodes doing discreet processes and saving state in an immutable-enough way. Not really that complicated. If your use case doesn't require that level of immutability and it isn't economically feasible to pay the nodes for processing then don't use it.
Huh, I thought it was the opposite:

>we use the term exception for expected but irregular situations at runtime and the term error for mistakes in the running program that can be resolved only by fixing the program. https://wiki.haskell.org/Error_vs._Exception
Why? What if the 16 year old wants to partly make money, partly learn the ropes of some job, and some place could use "some" help but not get meaningfully enough work to pay a kid [current minimum wage]? Right now, these kids and businesses are out of luck.

What if a 60 year old is feeling lonely and wants to be a greeter or lecter or something, more than they need money, but it is definitely not worth minimum wage for 99% of places to have such a job? Right now, these old folk and businesses are out of luck.

Why do you think money is the only operative thing here, or the only one ever possible, for all possible jobs for all possible people?

The sheer amount of work you exclude when you require all jobs to be livable is huge. Not everyone is trying to strike it out on their own. Some people want to help in small ways and are fine with commensurate pay. Why force these jobs out of existence? Are you sure doing so is solving the problem you want to solve, while creating no others?
Smart contracts are useless. If you want to pick a particular point out of that article to discuss I'm happy to do so but so far it looks like the same flawed reasoning that has been debunked 1000 times over on this site.
> The hard part about moving is leaving family, friends, and stuff behind

Tell that to the homeless, I dare you. It's certainly the attitude of a sheltered existence.
I'm not following this logic. They can't quit a job that pays double minimum wage unless minimum wage is increased to the amount they are currently getting paid? If minimum wage was $15 there would be some other crummy employer paying more than minimum wage to incentivize people to take a shitty job. Would they be stuck in that one too because the alternatives pay less?
You don't build a city without some kind of central planning. Even in the total absence of zoning someone needs to build the infrastructure to link it all together. That is in large part why "just deregulate zoning" alone isn't an answer - cities in large part are in bureaucratic gridlock on developing infrastructure and wouldn't be able to supply new construction adequately. But as a society we simply cannot have private companies bulldozing blocks or razing roads to build rail or bike lanes.

Additionally in the same way public policy hinders development today it could be reversed to help development. Subsidizing density and mixed use would do a lot of good to jump start the much needed urbanization of most western populations.
> 10 years later we're just now joining the fight.

Where did you get that timeframe from? I clearly remember the 2002 steel tariffs under the George W Bush administration [0]. The US' own research into that estimated the impact as:

"ranged between a gain of $65.6 million (0.0006% of GDP) to a loss of $110.0 million (0.0011% of GDP), "with a central estimate of a welfare loss of $41.6 million."

You're making it sound like the US has been this free-trade vanguard while the rest of the world ran rougshod over its principled nature.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002_United_States_steel_tarif...
Meteor was the Shiny New Thing in web development that made me stop chasing Shiny New Things.
But don't brick and mortar stores indeed comply with accessibility laws through building codes?
Even when what you show really is what you have and what you will deliver you won't get away from being called a liar.

One AAA game I worked on released a trailer for E3 which we were really proud of. Our game looked amazing and that's what we showed.

The trailer was recorded in game. The only "trickery" was custom placement of some cameras and rendering to a 4K backbuffer and downsampling (which the final game does support on PC, anyway).

Despite the trailer being rendered in real time on a relatively powerful gaming rig using the actual game, the YouTube comments were flooded by people being angry at how this was obviously fake because it cannot look like that in the final game. There were even people explaining why and how this was obviously fake.
Being diagnosed with kidney disease and now on dialysis, I had to think quite a bit about how my life will end. Both my spouse and I had a talk and filled a health care declaration so doctors would know what we want at the end.
You've built a man out of straw, and now brag that you managed to topple it.
> If the purpose of a minimum wage is not to guarantee a person a minimum standard of living, then what is the point?

In the US, minimum wage is defined as “the least you can pay anybody for any reason” with an exception for people who receive tips. As I understand it, some countries allow some people to make less than minimum wage.

I’m not entirely sure what the current point of the minimum wage is. The original idea was that it didn’t apply to everybody and was meant to make businesses less likely to hire people who were covered.

The minimum wage is not, and never has been, defined as “what an average worker should get for average effort.”

I agree that the average worker should have enough to live on, but I don’t see any connection between that and the minimum wage. People here are complaining about using “edge cases” to keep the minimum wage low, but by definition (“minimum”), the minimum wage is an edge case.
Also, the text is too big by default.
It doesn't look like Teslabot is handling usernames and passwords. They are using Smartcar.com, which uses OAuth2 and permissions.
Although it's not an experimental condition, the Nordic countries have no minimum wage.
Fed holds rates steady, signals cuts possible later this year
Rust's complexity isn't accidental unless it's being used for a job where it's overkill. Achieving memory safety in non-GC languages (let alone the degree of other static safety Rust enables) is easier in Rust than C++.
UBC has a 2 year BCS (Bachelor in CS) programme for people who already have a prior Bachelor's degree. It's not online but pretty much equivalent to a normal CS degree.
When people sit around in their homes playing video games instead of doing charity, they deprive the community of valuable human labor. So for that reason they should be forced to work.
The article's quote of the email is interesting:

> "It is spelt wrong all the way thru [sic] microprint!"

They'll [sic] the "thru", but the article image clearly shows that the sentence in question says "It is spelt wrong all the way thru the microprint!", which has the added bonus of being grammatically valid, unlike the supposed quote.
Sorry, yes, I could have expanded on that. You're right, they provide health benefits, in theory.

My experience with the US health care system is that there is a wide gulf in health benefits. When I worked for Microsoft in the late 2000s(as an employee, not as "dash trash", as contractors were called), I paid some very small premium like $10-20/month for a plan with 0 deductible, 0 copay, and pretty much every doctor was in network and covered at 100%. When I dislocated my shoulder, some orthopedic surgeon who used to consult for an NBA team looked at it for me.

I understand that that was considered quite good insurance and that most people in the USA don't get that level of care, much less at that price.

If you read Glassdoor reviews of Cognizant, people complain about the insurance offerings available to employees. https://www.homebaseiowa.gov/sites/homebaseiowa.gov/files/do... looks like it might be what they offered 2 years ago. It doesn't look very good to me. If I was earning $15/hour, I think I'd pretty much buy the cheapest plan and only use it if I was actively bleeding to death.

I'll also link to https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/may/25/facebook-modera... again - it describes how other companies that moderate distressing content approach this. It includes the company paying for psychological treatment, including after the employee leaves the company.
> nobody would hire the 18yo

Here in Canada, the provincial minimum wage is consistent regardless of age and yet I still see plenty of employed high school students. I also don't think that its fair to make policy-affecting assumptions regarding peoples financial responsibilities based on their age alone. I know plenty of independent 20 year olds who have significant financial responsibilities as well as 25 year olds who are voluntarily financially dependent on their parents etc. In this situation I believe an age-dependent minimum wage can actually increase inequality by determining wages based on an arbitrary metric such as age.
Yet also a clear sign of ageism. I used to work in my college book store. I was blown away to find out “adults” were paid vastly differently than students. I also learned that age is only a protected class in CA if you’re over 40.

https://www.worklawyers.com/age-discrimination-california/
Serverless framework has an "invoke local" feature that solved this for me. I too was annoyed at the speed of deploy.
Regis, though I don't know much about WGU.

ABET is an engineering accreditation -- it is not the same as regional accreditation.
It doesn’t as long as you’re financing it without using debt/printing new money
Not saying using Either is pure win, but I think a lot of the benefits of the approach is that it's a lot more flexible for different actions you may want to take in response to errors. If you can reify the "throwing an exception" action as data (in this case, `Left(error)` then you can very easily for instance collect a bunch of these errors in a list or something, or perform other transformations. Or maybe you have a collection of data to perform work on, and only on the data that was associated with an error do you want to report, and the data that was not associated with an error, you want to process normally. It may be hard to write code that's flexible enough for all of these use-cases in a style that deals with errors by throwing exceptions up the call stack, but your mileage may vary.
I feel that a lot -- but not when I'm learning new ideas in Haskell. After years of study, that particular engineering landscape remains powerful and beautiful in ways I still don't understand.
I'm something of a free tier connoisseur, and recently built an entire project with 13 forever-free tiers. It was more of a personal challenge than a business decision, but it might be a good reference for what's out there: https://www.simonmweber.com/2018/07/09/running-kleroteria-fo...

Some other services not mentioned there that I've used for free recently:

- humio cloud for log aggregation

- nodequery for server monitoring (though its future is unclear)

- braintree used to waive a big chunk of payment fees ($50k?) for startups, but I'm not sure the program exists anymore

Beyond things that are literally free, I'm a big fan of cheap vps providers if your uptime can take it and you can do your own ops. One of my projects makes ~$200/month and is hosted for $6/year on a 256MB vps. Lowendtalk/Lowendbox is the usual place I find these.
> with consumer internet connections being 1000up/down

Step out of your Silicon Valley bubble and recognize that this doesn't apply to everyone.

I only have 30 megabit up/down with Frontier. I can get faster, but it gets expensive quick, and I don't need more than 30 mbps, even as a gamer. Xfinity only offers 150 megabit down in my neighborhood, with a puny 15 megabit up, and for twice the price.

And as others have mentioned, it creates a single point of failure and if you get hacked, your entire home network is compromised. The last thing you want to have happen is for some unsavory type to decide they don't like you or your services and DDoS your home internet connection. I've had it happen to me and it's not fun.
That is a long, abstract, con.