skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a counterexample to your point, consider RMS: he cares a lot about the details of software licensing, but most people would consider him a "real radical" with lots of old school "hacker ethos" and few would call him "commercially aligned"
Wow. Congratulations! I am too young to really appreciate the difference Debian made to the Linux distributions ecosystem. Did it really ship the first package manager? Didn't it tie the user to a "desktop environment experience" like modern distros do (also Debian, with the Gnome affinity)?
University. That is the average of our university's admin salary. I don't know the median, so that could be pushed by a few high earners. But given the president's salary it looks like there are quite a few high earners.
who is "they"?
I am still using meteor in few products. Just updated one project to the latest version. Using it with React, Bootstrap 4, MongoDB 4. My products are having like 50-100 users and ~10 concurrent users. For that size its working great. I am running it on 7$ Heroku container.
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Ummm I dont think anybody cares about the house being $2M (or 5). If they could pay a quarter of that for a Single Family Home with N bedrooms (N being what they need for their family) and in an area they would like to be in (say closer to work/good school district etc) they would happily do so. Now if you are judging somebody because they wanted to live in house with a backyard instead of a apartment that is just passing your moral judgement onto somebody. True money may not be happiness but not having to worry about money for real estate definitely removes a lot of stress.
What percentage of the total budget of your school is being spent on each of overpaid administrators and underpaid faculty? (I honestly don't have any expectation as to what the answer to this question might be, but it seems much more important an analysis than the average salary of a given position.)
Brain Activity in Japanese Honeybees Within a “Hot Defensive Bee Ball”
DNA in Retrograde: At-home medical tests are an awful lot like astrology
Adults that can digest lactose is one trait obviously related to animal husbandry.
...at the cost of the lives of most of our friends and family.

No thanks, like one of the other posters said, focusing on earning more money is the best way of making it.

Freedom's overrated when food/shelter/amenities/relaxation options are plentiful. And if these start to suffer, having enough money gives access to other areas of the world.
Today, we are going to discuss the normal digestion of carbohydrates, and the abnormal digestion that results in Diabetes Type 1 and Diabetes Type 2.

When you eat a carbohydrate source as bread, potato, etc…Your body can see it either as a simple structure or a Complex; by the means of that, the body does not see bread or potato, instead; the body sees it as compounds. Thus, the body either find these compounds Simple and easy to use or Complex and needs to get simpler. In both scenarios, your body translates it into a source that it can be used for building up itself or as an Energy source. For energy, the cells mostly use the Simple form of carbohydrates which is glucose.

Then the glucose is absorbed through the mouth, stomach, and gut to your bloodstream, to be distributed and taken up by every cell in the body. Let’s discuss how particularly Glucose is absorbed in mouth, stomach, and gut.

To breakdown complex structures there are tools and helpers that our body uses called “Enzymes”. In the mouth, there is an enzyme called “Salivary Amylase”, which provides our body with the needed glucose from complex compounds.

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Google lowballed the heck out of me to start, but they were willing to match absolutely any offer from any other company. Their recruiting process is rough but everyone I’ve spoken to has ended up with a competitive offer at the end. You might just have had an exceptionally incompetent recruiter
This isn't even an efficient way of doing things since muscles are less efficient than electric motors. Just stick a solar panel array on your factory and be done with it.
Escalators do fail in ways other than becoming stairs.

https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2018/10/catastrophic-escalator-fa...
This will probably not endear me to the general readerhip, but if it would be up to me.

People caught while texting during driving:

First time offense: Massive fine and three month licence revocation

Second offense: Permanent license revocation. Because you just have proven beyond a doubt that you're either too dumb or too reckless to be allowed to operate deadly machinery.

Phoning while driving is dangerous. Texting while driving is just outrageously stupid and grossly negligent
That analogy isn't a refutation of anything.
this but you also have to have affordable education because it's the most reliable, predictable and virtuous of all class mobility mechanisms, and trade school don't provide that for the most part because those are optimized to make corporate drones, not self thinking individuals
Google will offer opt-in RCS regardless of carriers month
what projection do our eyes use?
"What I tell you three times is true"

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Hunting_of_the_Snark
I pay for and use Robokiller and it sucks, about 30% of spam calls are blocked.

I used GV for a long time, but abandoned it once I learned Google was silently dropping group chat messages (without telling the sender) because they let their gizmo5 purchase languish with no dev work for years and never implemented MMS (this was a couple of years ago). Google had such a head start with GV, but did nothing with it and let iMessage catch up and pass them.

If there's something that I find completely puzzling about Google it's their disaster around messaging strategy.

It's also frustrating to me that all of these mediocre blacklisting applications (robokiller, hiya, nomorobo) only exist as hacks because neither iOS or Android allowed the obvious contact whitelist ability. Though it sounds like in iOS13 this may finally be changing.
You better know your pivot tables, son.
I think all engineers with VAX experience are extinct ...or retired.
This. We view this as a problem for IP addresses, how is this not viewed as a problem for phone numbers?
The way that the fine article was worded, it seems that the engineering team knew that they needed approximately 1.5M LOC before they has started. How could they have known that? Or is it simply poorly worded?

> The ATF Team planned to develop approximately 1.5 million source lines of code, across more than 20 software development companies located throughout the U.S., Canada, and Europe.
> who decides what constitutes malinvestment?

the unemployment rate by major, assuming it wasn't already a bad investment due of the student lacking the skill or willingness to finish the studies.
First and last elected Egyptian president dies in court
Some guy in the UK did this. It's fairly hard to manage however, because there is a lot of regulations around his legal requirements i.e. needs to disclose that it's a paid number, etc. He make a bit of sidecash off it and a surprising number of spam callers are happy to pay.
Nobody Owns Product Work – Jonas Downey, Basecamp
I have not been excited about the release of a new consumer product in well over 5 years. The last real improvement in a consumer device for me was the iPhone 6s and even then I preferred the older form factor.

I no longer look forward to the release of any new device or expect it to make my life better in any way. I just assume it will spy on me and/or exploit some weakness in my subconscious.

When my current TV dies I might just go back to having no TV at all.
> I am glad you used to enjoy my writing!

And I am sorry for being a bit of a dick!

> My argument is that you can't infer consent from how people adapt to circumstances in a situation where they are not given a choice.

I see what you mean, but I don't buy the premise that people don't have a choice, at least not in the same way in which inmates can't choose to leave prison. Technically savvy people can avoid a lot (if perhaps not all) tracking, today, if they care to put in the effort - many don't. The technology for doing this has been productized and is available for purchase to less savvy users, if they choose to buy it - hardly any do.

I don't mean to suggest that there's a silver bullet that fixes this problem, that you can buy today for $19.99. My point is that when there is real demand for something (e.g. privacy protection), even imperfect solutions succeed in the market and grow in capability over time. Lots of people are attempting to satisfy this demand, duckduckgo being one good example. It looks to me like most of these products are having limited success, which I think is exactly what you'd expect if only a small number of people care about this issue.
Independent deployability might not be a goal per-se, however it shields teams from other team design choices.
The only mention of VAX/VME from the job post:

> Experience with troubleshooting equipment such as Pass1000/5000 1553 bus monitor, fiber-optic test equipment, digital storage oscilloscopes, and familiarization with the VAX/VME based computing environment.

Seems apparent to me that the context is development+ATE environment; VME is likely VXI interface to ATE instrumentation. In any case, the VMS and/or VME angle to this job post is the least of any prospect's concerns.
PKD used the Ubik line of typewriters. They are well suited for writing and publishing content after death.
I don't think movies are good argument. Movies are not like real life, real life does not have satisfying resolution nor happy ending.

Movies teach nothing about overcoming adversity, because they are not like adversity in life at all. They are about someone predestined to win to win.
Works fine in Mozilla's Reference Browser on Honor 7X.
I had a VAX class for a year. All I remember from it was the smoking teacher, non stop, who's beard was sort of white, sort of orange, from the nicotine. Oh, and the retarded VAX implementation. I went into design after that.
Google is actually far from the most competitive when it comes to matching. There used to be a time when they used to atleast match Facebook but now given the set of scandals from FB, they are openly refusing to match an FB offer and I have known candidates who have gone to Google despite this (possibly for "ethical" brand and saner work life balance).
Interesting. Though maybe it would be better to use their docker container:

https://hub.docker.com/r/quantconnect/lean
Well yes, that may have been part of the calculus for China banning garbage imports. But the resulting unmet demand for garbage dumping then spread to the rest of Asia, and we absolutely are taking a stand on rejecting it for non-trade war reasons. [1]

[1] https://www.businessinsider.my/malaysia-town-plastic-waste-c...
Nitpicking too: perimeter != area.
Check out Blokada. It's a free open source app that does the same thing.
And yet you assume that the problem was correctly stated in Coq, that the authors were using the software correctly, that they ran it more than once to account for random bit flips, that the authors are not just simply lying... while all those assumptions are reasonable, Erdös’s statement was as well.
Do you mean a compost tumbler? Something like:

https://www.gardeners.com/buy/extra-large-compost-tumbler/36...

These are easy enough to hand crank and you don't need to tumble them a great deal each time.

Maybe if you had a hobby farm and many such tumblers, adding some sort of pedal drive you could temporarily attach to each tumbler might make sense.
It is possible, it just takes political will and a lot of money.
Read that and then had to look him up.

So today is the first day I can remember having heard about Philip K. Dick and also the day when I learn he has written the stories that became Blade Runner as well as The Adjustment Bureau.
Remelting glass to make more glass is more energy intensive that making new glass. And waste glass is inert and doesn't e.g. enter the food chain.

Reusing glass is the way forward.
Some of us worked at a shop that embraced Microsoft’s “embrace and extend” J++ with COM wrappers to go with Java. I still think THAT was peak insanity.
The question is how much this matters if you already have 2-5 active microphones listening in when there are two normal people in the room. I bet if the CIA wants they can get enough data from the audio alone to even say who looked at whom during a conversation.
System engineers in the defense industry have an insidious infatuation with SLOC metrics. To the detriment of many a development engineer, CMU SEI hasn't developed a better way to keep them preoccupied.
I started my career working for British Aerospace in 1989. We used VAX/VMS as our development platform (Code was CORAL 66 and then ADA). I spent some time supporting the Sea Harrier flight test operations - so I would have fitted this job perfectly about 28 years ago!).

I'd like to say that I'm astonished that modern aircraft still use the 1553 bus, but nothing surprises me when it comes to the use of stone-age tech in military hardware. For example, the other Harrier I worked on in the early 90s (GR-7 - same as US AV8B) still used core memory.
Very cool. I think the more open and available this technology is, the quicker we'll be able to optimize and iterate on it. I'm hoping the price of current generation prostheses plummet over the next decade as a result.
If companies didn't require "higher education" degrees for entry, then schools would be forced to start appealing more to the masses. In an information age such as we live in, we can access virtually all the info we could get from universities for a mere fraction of the cost (just the books + supplemental material if we need it).

There's no need for government subsidized education or broadening the job market. There's need of ditching bureaucrats and "Because we've-always-done-it-this-way" morons. Reward people for studying on their own, building their own businesses, networking, etc. rather than following the stupid system just to get two letters next to their name.
These also sound like the sort of problems that could be solved without a global sales ban, people seem to really like the Hand of the Market for stuff like this when it's not down nationalist lines.
> Everything good about Chrome, without everything bad about Google.

Except, of course, its use of the chromium engine, which is something I think we should fight against. So, basically, one of the biggest anti-features of Chrome from Google.

Not to speak about Brave's business model, around basic attention tokens (my attention is not available, sorry). This is incompatible with privacy. Brave is an ad company! It may be in a nice phase where ads are opt in but it may not be like that forever.

The obvious browser closest to Firefox including Tor is Tor browser, based on Firefox, provided by the Tor project itself.
Six 'Strongest Materials' on Earth That Are Harder Than Diamonds
Also seems pretty low for a team that size. I would love to know their cost per line...
I was wary to click because of the unknown domain name and the vague clickbaity title but it seems legit and quite severe:

> Our experts have found a new serious breach in DPAPI security, allowing anyone to decrypt personal data (protected by DPAPI) of the last active user in Windows 10.
>Roguelikes are a type of video game that has remained virtually unchanged since Rogue

Do you count HyperRogue [1] as a roguelike? ;)

[1] https://roguetemple.com/z/hyper/
What else is selective breeding than evolution where fitness is strongly influenced by a hairless ape?
I believe the main problem is ownership. Editors feel they own "their" article, don't want other people outside their friend group in the history, and revert clear improvements by newcomers.

That happened to me, and after I re-added it once with expanded sources and explanation, a friend of the reverter swooped in, said it amounts to "vandalism", and... I will never contribute anything again.

Wikipedia doesn't care. Sure, there are "processes" to appeal. Which are so convoluted and inscrutable that they seem designed to protect incumbents and people with too much time.

Edit: oh, and when you're using "just an IP" as an insult, you should re-examine your life choices.
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> I find it difficult to explain pointers to people because I don't understand what they are missing. I could use some help understanding their lack of understanding.

Maybe they don't know what they are missing.

When I was learning C two decades ago, my first thought was that pointers were solving no real problems, and that I will be able to do without them. Then I had to implement the "swap" function.
I guess storing all those 1's also adds some weight. It costs on the order of antimatter if you think of it. What's it like, $50 million per 1 billionth of a gram, or so?
People here seem a bit skeptical, but after reading every single point I have to say, I agree with nearly all of them; but not in relation to Wikipedia. With relation to the internet as a whole.

The one that stings the most:

>70. It is impossible to love again anything you have truly ceased to love.[14] Editors who return after retirement, or after a wearied or bitter departure, may edit again, but never with the same passion they once brought to the project. Each successive return will be with diminished dedication and shorter duration.

Wow. It actually hurts to read this, because it perfectly explains why I’ve left most social media and forums I’ve been a part of, and failed to ever return for more than a month or two at a time.

My love of the internet has largely faded, and is relegated to being a tool and a way to waste time when bored. It’s not exciting. I can’t reattach to it.

>Many people leaving the project blame either the project or the people working on it for their departure, rather than recognize that it is normal in life for one's enthusiasm to wane. It does with all things that we once found exciting.

Indeed, but also, ouch.
That's insane. A 3d matrix of ferrite rings suspended by wire would seem (to me) somewhat sensitive to vibrations or gforces.

Military gonna military I guess.
There are also a couple of link-cleaning add-ons that are really nice if you want to reshare links opened through, say, Facebook

(not on mobile, so not sure which one I'm using)
Grrr - wrong link:

http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=H...
Population booms and recessions make me wonder how my current town will survive after the influx of new residents. I grew up not too far from Levittown, PA, and now live in Lakewood, CO.

Population here has been exploding and new housing has been on the rise for the past five years. There is currently a ballot to slow new housing projects to 1% growth per year. On one hand, I wonder if it’s just artificial restriction of supply to help property values. On the other hand, I do see reason to limit growth to provide the infrastructure needed as growth continues. I’m not sure how to feel about it. Does anyone have any insight into whether artificial housing restrictions could benefit a municipality in the long term?
Liu Cixin's War of the Worlds
Wow you are really invested in the current interview process. I've never met anyone who defended it quite so vigorously.

Any engineering disciplines that deal with designing processes are very similar to software engineering. It's nowhere special enough to demand a completely unique hiring process.

Even if it were, I'd like to see some hard data to support the current interview best practices.

>I'm curious to hear what the post 1971 algorithms in question are.

Off the top of my head: You've had a question with Red-black trees? B-trees? Quad-trees and oct-trees?
The adversity is real. Most people have horrible lives. People who are sedated in this so-called "safe comfortable state" are the ones who are being taken advantage of the most.

It's like in The Matrix, it's not until you unplug yourself that you realize that the world is worse than it has ever been. Opportunities essentually don't exist at all.

Also the argument that "if they don't realize it, then it won't hurt them" doesn't apply because it will hurt them badly in the end. Once they reach a certain age and realize that they're wasted their entire lives on video games, star wars, star treck, lord of the rings, game of thrones, etc... It will hurt badly and they won't have any way to recover.
Huawei All Set to Launch New OS – Mobile QA Zone: SoftwareTestingNews
That's how organizations get stuck with a status quo.

The key is to understand they're quite sincere; when they think it through, they have this massively successful encyclopedia as evidence that solidly justifies their conviction that their current way of doing business works.

And people who don't like it tend to leave and their voice goes unheard; as the piece correctly indicates, this is pretty normal.

This is a common problem. For an institution or organization to work, the members of it have to build up and disseminate institutional knowledge, often by trial and error, and much of it can't be fully explained. That then leads to inertia: you can't formulate a convicing challenge to the way things are done unless you understand them, but at that point you're selected by the other members of the institution to accept their way of doing things.

Generally, for a given organization, it takes an outside shock to really force them to reevaluate how they operate. If Wikipedia started losing patrons or saw their readership decline, they'd probably reconsider, but it's hard to imagine how much they'd collectively have to screw up for that to happen.
The full quote: "Right. Now consider the area function. Its going to have a switch statement in it, isn’t it?
Um. Sure, for the two different cases. One for Square and the other for Circle. And the perimeter function will need a similar switch statement"

I should have stuck with the same metaphor, but regardless of whether it is perimeter or area, the output is a function of the description.
Interestingly, I've gotten used to checking $TERM and making sure it's set due to entering Docker containers to poke around them: in a lot of images, it's unset, and you get really old-school terminal emulator behaviour without it!
I mentally rewrote the first point as:

When someone complains loudly about censorship, you may be certain they do not share the views and value of the majority. Otherwise they would not get censored.
I don’t agree with the parent but calling the educational system a monopsony sounds even less believable, there are tens of thousands of educational institutions in America alone
Adam Grant is a charlatan. Never read his book. It is worthless self help.
I've never had a whiteboard session, these type of interviews are not common in the non-start-up world in the UK. I just get really, really stressed in an interview.

To make matters worse, it seems that I project this aura of calm and self assurance, or so I've been told by two of my interviewers after they hired me, so that I don't even get a concession for obvious nervousness.
To put this in context though, if you’re already getting recruiter interest and scheduling onsites it’s better to leetcode. If you aren’t getting resume callbacks then build stuff.

It’s been discussed before but the sad reality is that passing an interview loop at the big 5 and building stuff are not really correlated.
They look like they were built in the 70s because they were. That generation decided there were enough houses and promptly banned building any new ones - so we've still got the same ones.

For some reason most of them have the original gross beige carpet too.
It's on the front page https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20209569