skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tell that to the Billionaire class who have taken virtually all the productivity gains of the past 50 years for themselves. Keynes was right, we should be living in luxury right now working 15 hour weeks but instead we have a handful of Uber Wealthy people gorging themselves.
THE killer app for businesses. Math types, simulator types (even the Human Genome Project did early work on the Apple ][), computer hobby-geeks and gamers (with too much extra coin) were natural markets, but all small.

For business, a word-processor, at the time, you could take it or leave it, because a good pool typist and a dictaphone was all an executive needed. But, being able to do "What-If" on various business assumptions, in real-time, was a game-changer (esp. w/ all the consolidation M&A happening w/ conglomerates at the time).

You couldn't even buy that with real money before...
Oh dang guys the comment section dunked on a Nobel Winning Economist. Lol
Yes, I had the same experience. I work in higher ed, and occasionally teach a course, maybe once a year. It's good to pickup a little extra $$ with little inconvenience since I can just walk over to the classroom at the end of my workday. It also keeps me in touch with the on-the-ground reality of both faculty and student life, a perspective that gives me great context for my normal job. But the amount of work it takes for even a single course really illustrates just how low the pay is for the time required. And where I work the adjuncts actually DO have a union, but all it's been able to accomplish are modest increases in pay and the ability to buy into the health benefits plan. Not that they get health benefits, they still have to pay the full price for the premiums, they simply have access to do so. And if it's a family plan, the premium could actually come close to costing a majority of their pay. So I'm not sure how much of a "win" that was for the union.
Aside from wanting to protect its citizens from foreign spying; I have to wonder if another reason for the US's curtailing Huawei is to simply eliminate the competition?
Apple has had built in support for standard VPN protocols since iOS 4 - no app required. I expect to connect to a VPN to access internal company resources.
A huge difference. Interactively, you can both ask and answer questions and you can steer the dialogue toward the pupil's areas of ignorance.

As a form of writing, you're left to guess at what your pupil might be thinking. Apart from Plato, few people have ever managed to succeed at this.
There's p2pool and various proposals to let miners (not pools) produce blocks so that pools would just handle payouts. But once you fix pools you might discover that there are still less than 100 data centers doing the mining which is probably due to geographical electricity costs and economy of scale, neither of which can really be fixed.

Farther afield you have stuff like Chia's proof of empty disk space or of course PoS.
The Developer Ecosystem in 2019: Key Trends for C, C++, and a Bit of Rust
How did everybody manage to convince themselves that they need these expensive add-ons? You need seatbelts, airbags, and impact absorption. That was perfected 20 years ago. Everything else is a luxury not needed for driving.
While that is possible I would consider this to be a case of outrunning your friends rather than the bear.
Because they have inordinate political leverage
Are you working at the companies that show that level of pay? Are you located geographically the same as those offers?

levels.fyi does not say everyone makes $300k+ - it says people at specific companies in a specific region make that much. It makes that quite obvious from how you have to select the companies, the level, and then you see where those offers are geographically and with how much experience/tenure.
The "hour-long series of turns" themselves suggest that it was not a hijacking - one would expect a hijacked airplane to head towards its intended destination, regardless of the motive for the hijacking.

It does not seem likely that the path was intended to avoid detection, as it crosses Malaysia and was within range of Indonesian radar throughout that period, and it is rather implausible to suggest that these posited hijackers both wanted to be stealthy, yet chose a route that had no chance of achieving it. If these posited hijackers wanted their arrival at their intended destination to be a surprise, their best hope of achieving it would be to stage a hijacking on a flight close to that destination.

I guess one could suppose that this is the only flight the posited hijackers could hijack (suggesting help from insiders at the airline), and that the flight was intended to stay away from land as far as possible, but where, especially with that final turn, were they going? If their destination was, as has been suggested, Kazakhstan, they could hardly hope to avoid detection later in the flight. Nor would they be likely to suspect that the reporting of the disappearance of the flight would be delayed by hours.

The author did not say that this track proves it was not a hijacking, he wrote that it already "suggested that this was not a standard case of a hijacking."
You don't have to be in Silicon Valley. Some companies have a premium for working there, but not always, especially at the high end. The more important detail is working for a large company that has stock/RSUs, a bonus program, a robust technical job ladder, and a regular review process.

If your company doesn't do stock/RSUs, you're missing out on that aspect (though a small number of companies make up for that with large cash bonuses).
Location matters. $140K in a low cost of living area is not the same as $140 in the Bay Area.
Interactive Charts with D3.js
I was thinking about going this route, but the best TVs on the market are OLEDs, the only game in town is LG, and the "sale" price was over $2k. I couldn't imagine what the "commercial display" tax would be.

I ended up just blocking LG's servers on my network.
Different TV, same situation. I just figure I won't ever plug it in.
You're confusing mixed waste, the subject of the article, with all recycling.

It's true that mixed waste is difficult to process and is often best in a landfill or clean incinerator.

But properly sorted plastics are perfectly usable, and they are cheaper than virgin plastics. The reason they are cheaper is that it is less expensive to clean and regrind them than it is to process new, virgin plastic. Virgin polypropylene currently fetches about $0.65 a pound, whereas recycled clear polypropylene is sold for $0.50-0.55 a pound. These plastics are typically recycled within the same region as the origin of the waste plastic, and, due to freight, often get re-used in industry in the same region as well.
cl-async works pretty well with SLIME if you use its SLIME REPL integration feature that I contributed several years ago. https://github.com/orthecreedence/cl-async/blob/master/src/r...

It basically starts an event loop in a separate thread and then wraps all of the SLIME's evals so they're executed from within that event loop.
Guardian Firewall for iOS
Ah, and what owns these functions?

And more pressingly, why would you ever pass a data structure to a function that had more than one algorithm to compute a result? The data structure (or perhaps some intermediary (an adapter?)) should own the algorithm within a function that computes only on that data structure. This ensures that all methods associated with your data structure are obviously and explicitly associated (in a single file, class, whatever). The alternative, as outlined in the dialog, is to spread a bunch of switches all around your code. Given these two possibilities, why would one choose to place switches in disparate places throughout your code?
A small black hole would destroy our entire universe apparently
How to read code without documentation?
I can see the 007 getaway now. With a press of the button, a bunch of tiny transponders are thrown on the road. The bad guy's cars automatically brake because they can't find a way to get around the new obstacles.

Another press of the button dispenses a martini.
I want to believe that, but then we have this 65 meter trash pile in Delhi.

https://bigthink.com/politics-current-affairs/india-trash-mo...
I don't think that's true. There are a lot of smart people in not very good jobs who can't break through, or people who have self learned skills in some fields but not enough to get a job that's paying to do that. I could do this easily, but I'm stuck in a $52k/year IT job in Seattle trying to move up.
When I learned to program in the late 70s it was on a Wang 2200 computer. But I quickly was exposed to a number of Microsoft BASIC flavors: first hand on Apple 2 and TRS-80s, plus reading lots of code in BYTE Magazine and Personal Computing.

Wang BASIC was very different from those -- in some ways very limited, and in other ways very powerful. But it wasn't until I read the original Dartmouth BASIC report that I realize Wang had hewed more closely to Dartmouth BASIC than Microsoft.

http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/dartmouth/BASIC_Oct64.pdf

For example, Dartmouth and Wang BASIC both have support for matrix operations:

10 DIM A(5,5),B(5,5),C(5,5)
20 MAT READ A
30 MAT B=INV(A)
40 MAT C=A*B
50 MAT PRINT C
60 DATA (25 numbers to fill up the array)

which would print a 5x5 array that was very close to the identity matrix.
>the touchscreen should be disables while the car is moving

LOLNO. Not everyone is driving alone.
A lot of people seem excited by RCS. This escapes me, most messaging platforms have now moved into the "integrations" space.

Meaning they're less defined by delivering a message, and more defined by the "value add" services they offer (like Payments, Notifications from third party services, customer support for third party services, etc).

RCS is more powerful than MMS, but less powerful than the internet-based messaging platforms it is competing against. It is also confined by geography, is confined to cellular devices, and disposes of anonymity/privacy.

Why would I want this? It takes me from the current requirement of "only needs an internet connection" to "need a cellular plan and device." It takes me from any moniker I want to [my phone number]. It takes me from "anyone in the world" to "US only." And on and on.

I don't get it. Why should I or anyone else care about RCS? Why do people? It seems like it solves yesterday's problems next week.
The problem here is that this is a piece of opinion, presented as a lesson, implying that the author is the master and the readers the apprentices.
Who wants an escalator in an office building with more than two floors? They are literally designed to make it take longer to reach your destination than an elevator.
We are talking about normal users there, not developers. Think salespeople, assistants, project/product managers. They are not going to use git or dbeaver. Nor they are going without their diagrams, charts, schemas or links rendered inline.

If you understand this, you will understand why Word and Excel are still a thing.
But you are supposed to know the algorithms and approaches that apply to the problem, that's the whole point. It took humanity tens of thousands of years to come up with the first script, but nobody wants you to invent the English alphabet in an interview, you're expected to know it.

I also can't remember ever being asked to solve a problem whose solution would have merited publication in my lifetime, and I was born around the same time Unix was.
Here's an equivalent for any LG owners:

https://gist.github.com/Perflyst/a7538478d0f6a764311dfe5bc40...

I used some variation of this list to block ads.
I believe you're confusing top-line revenues and profits available for the tradesman. As it stands, you're asserting that your plumber makes approximately 14x the average plumber in America, and 10x the average plumber in San Francisco. This is unlikely to be correct.

In a similar vein, Apple takes in over $2,000,000 of revenue per employee, but Genius Bar employees are not taking that amount home. I mention this solely because it uses the same reasoning evident in your initial claims.
I disagree on a few of those.

The backup cams affect my night vision. When I back out of a parking space at night, I'm hit with the glare. I need my vision to drive!

Humans adapt to adaptive cruise control, lane assist, auto parallel parking, partial autopilot, and any other safety feature. So we get more texting while driving and other dangerous behavior. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risk_compensation
you 'll notice in that article that it wasn't facebook's servers that were breached. Also facebook has probably way more accounts than humans, i think just recently they deleted 3 billion fake ones. Regardless, imho from many years working with their platform, they do take security seriously and they ve helped to popularize methods for securing accounts and passwords.
Do you get IC as well (investors chronicle) I might be tempted.

IC is part of the Economist publications.
True. It's just generally better with one.
Guess what happens when they create a preinstalled default messaging app with SMS fallback all running on their own platform (like iMessage). You guessed it, antitrust. Influential OEMs and Carriers would complain and so would the EU.
Yes, there's definitely some out there. I got this one this year and I'm very happy with it: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07C2N7DKG

I prefer my TV a bit smaller, but I found larger 'dumb' tvs as well when looking for this one.
I worked at Google NYC for 6 years. It's a 16 story building that was designed to be a freight transfer terminal.

The elevators were very very slow. It was often significantly faster to walk up 10 flights of stairs than to wait. I would have killed for an escalator.

(In all fairness to the facilities team, they built new banks of elevators on a very regular basis. Still slow, depending on which floor you wanted to go to. But I'm sure it's much better now.)
The argument that you’ll typically hear from business/engineering folks is that the carbon footprint of the glass bottle is too high because of the cost of manufacture, transport and washing.

The same argument was made in favor of styrofoam cups. I’m a skeptic.
Or one real estate observing the alien culture of a generation he has no connection to, and making wild assumptions to fill in the gaps.
Awesome. I'd love to find a market niche for a professional tool one day and turn it into a business. Really inspiring!
Thanks! Appreciate the feedback. I had overlooked the export functionality, so thanks for mentioning it. Definitely agree that users should be free to access their data - I'll look to add that shortly.
I never said it did, nor do I think that. I said people don't care.

If we want legal privacy protections even though people don't care, that's a reasonable thing to want. What I'm reacting against is the claim I see so often which is basically "people actually care about this but they have no choice". I think people care much less, yet have much more choice than is normally claimed.
Also see this Amazon patent related to intentionally removing PII from speech transmitted to the cloud.

http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=H...

In case the link doesn't work, it's US Patent 9922646.
> They do a terrible job of marketing new TVs.

I agree, and there are sites out there like RTINGS.com that specialize in being the modern “Consumer Reports” for their particular niche. These sites do the work for you, in the hopes that you will click through their Amazon affiliate links to buy.

https://www.rtings.com/tv
I think you're probably right that the domain is too subtle for this point—we've added an “LA”.
Well-intentioned is a stretch. We really just shouldn’t be using plastic for disposable products, and corporations take advantage of peoples’ lack of knowledge of recycling to neglect their responsibility of proper disposal and pricing. Given the effect of plastic on the environment single use plastics should be priced higher than their (eg) metal counterparts. (This is assuming those have priced in externalities, so I realize this is reductive, but I believe my point is clear.)

I’m staring at a unilever plastic container with cute recycling logos on the side, and I have no consumer option to price compare with a more sustainable option, let alone vote with my wallet. What a waste of materials.

Granted, lighting the materials on fire so I can drive around the countryside isn’t much better.
Reuse is typically only used for big water jugs and glass milk bottles.

Soda bottle deposits are effective and don’t get shipped off to poor countries.
I don't think it's nearly as dire as that (but I'm not a medical professional).

Maybe this lawsuit shouldn't have gone this way, and the NP apparently shouldn't have tried to avoid sending the patient to the ER, but it seems to me the takeaway is a doctor shouldn't make a firm admit/non-admit decision based on partial lab results. Refuse non-emergency admission based on inability to properly evaluate the patient once it's clear the NP doesn't agree with your opinion, and point the NP to the ER otherwise. Also point out that if the patient in this case really did have a serious infection, avoiding the ER would be bad and slow down essential treatment anyway, and it would actually harm the patient for a non-ER doc to admit them.

Everyone agrees that there are lots of subtle things about a patient which a medical professional can pick up on that are not clearly shown in lab results, right? Wouldn't it have been obvious from the described phone conversation that the nurse's spidey senses were telling them something? "Clearly we're seeing different things; I don't feel comfortable admitting this patient through this channel. If you think I'm missing something and this is an infection, the ER is the right channel for that anyway."

I think there's plenty of blame to heap on the clinic, too. Does anyone think the NP, after questioning the decision of both docs, just casually decided not to send the patient to the ER?

The calculus was almost certainly: "two doctors told me I'm wrong, so I don't have much personal liability here, and there may be negative career consequences if I send this patient to the ER and I'm wrong."
Drop Caps and Design Systems
If you thought CarPlay was going to let you control aspects of your car, not aspects of your phone, then you misunderstood it entirely.

It also doesn't "take over" your phone. You can use your phone normally while it's plugged into CarPlay; I think the only difference is that phone calls will be done through the car's audio system.
It's hard to blame the schools too much, at least for public college's and universities. In most states Higher Ed budgets are first on the chopping block for cuts. Even when they're not cut, they frequently remain flat for years, and with inflation that amounts to a Dr facto budget cut.

This dynamic places a downward pressure on what institutions are able to spend of human resources. Adjuncts proliferate, and so do certain types of part time hourly jobs (little/no benefits) that are typical administrative tasks. I'm familiar with an example where fully half of their professional academic advising staff were hourly non-benefit. And quality advising is actually a revenue center, keeping students on track, helping when problems arise that might otherwise prevent a student from continuing their education.
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Have you ever come across anything that explains why pointers are hard for some people?

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.

When they don't get "indirect reference to the address of a data structure or object in memory", I'm stuck on how to proceed. Pointing people to the very elegant treatment of this topic in the old K&R doesn't always do the trick. Somehow.
Terrible, just terrible, that a device like this would hurt or even kill people.
I learned to drive 40 years ago. Watching yourself drive and noticing situations where you're taking unneeded risks is what separates good drivers from mediocre ones. Never assume you can't do better.
In my anecdotal experience, the business axes a position and downgrades responsibilities to a lower title. So what a Sr. DBA did before would go to a regular DBA or even a Jr. DBA. It doesn't matter what the prevailing wage for a title is when responsibilities are loosely coupled.

I think the best way to counter the abuse is to increase the premium ($100k+) and allow H1Bs to move between companies.
That is incorrect. You don't have to answer the cops' questions in any way at all. You don't have to say "I'm exercising my 5th amendment right...". Prosecutors also can't force you to say anything, including "I'm exercising my 5th amendment right...", in private or in court. They can't even call criminal defendants to the stand. The thing you linked to doesn't support your assertions, either.
Is this so? Can this kernel panic also be triggered in TCP connections initiated by the victim? I can't find a conclusive mention of this anywhere.

As each direction of a TCP connection has its own MSS, it would make sense that an attacker's server could exploit this.
Is there anyone else in your house who might have put in the credentials? That seems like a big security hole if Android will just share wifi credentials with other random Android devices.
Facebook and Google track you even if you don't use their services.
I use Android and moved my entire family and friend base to Signal and no longer talk to people outside of Signal unless something automated sends me SMS/MMS. Encryption is a must for me. Thinking about moving to iOS because of the privacy & encryption.
It's not necessary to do a piece by piece rebuttal of a professional "skeptic", who is a neuroscientist, and whose reasoning relies on someone who worked at Shellenberger's "breakthrough institute", which existed solely to provide pseudo-scientific buttressing for the message that renewable energy is bad, and the climate change, if it's happening, isn't really that bad.

You are essentially using Shellenberger-provided articles as proof that Shellenberger isn't a con artist. It's all bunk. Top to bottom, same game plan.
I've tried to imagine a touchscreen instead of knobs and toggles in a guitar... Should be !!fun!! experience switching up settings on stage in the darkness.
request :)
Did you ever write a program on C? In procedural languages functions are either global or, sometimes, encapsulated in namespaces or modules. Data structures come from that world and do not encapsulate any behavior. In object-oriented languages like Java data structures simply do not exist and are usually emulated via anemic models.
I've just checked and Google now allows the removal of SMS based 2FA if you have an alternative 2FA method configured.
You attributed the incompatibility to the GPL. Apple created the incompatibility. Apple could easily fix it. The FSF can't change existing versions of the GPL.
Financial institutions also need such people at individual branches. Companies have far fewer sites than banks have branches.
Just like they weren't using your 2FA data to sell ads. At this point, it's best to assume that Facebook is watching at all times, even if they say they aren't. Does anyone propose anything really 'crazy out there' that Facebook does that actually doesn't eventually come true?

https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/27/yes-facebook-is-using-your...