skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you can climb higher and grow, but not necessarily in ways most technologists would enjoy. For me I see the growth opportunities as

1. Become a team leader, then manager, CTO, .. etc.

2. Become an "architect". I.e. move away from coding and design systems, choose technologies and suchlike.

3. Very rare: Become a very senior individual contributer with lots of freedom.

I can see why side hussles are popular as a way for developers to express creativity and try to make some money a completely different way.

> Whenever you start again with a different technology stacks you become an entry level.

Totally. I can't (generally, there might be exceptions) get a full time non C# job without taking a paycut that would put me on the streets. Confounded with the fact that because of this people are going to lie about experience to change jobs to another tech stack, which I wont do, so I'm competing against those people too.

I too am (almost) 20 years in. Male (but I think these problems apply to everyone).
I don't think they are exercising their power like they should be. Google and YouTube should delist Foxnews.com for promoting hate content, same with Facebook.
Can FOX News (or any other media organization) do a campaign with the same impact as Google?

If they can, then this is just a random guy making things out of proportion and there's nothing useful there. If they can't, and Google can indeed change people's mind in a level unparalleled to any other organization, then you go looking for why and you either takes that power away, or makes sure it's available for everybody.
I found this study to be a good reference but I question how useful some of the data are for 20-30 years old people nowadays because:

1. The study started in 1938, which is a very different time comparing to today. Young people has way more options to enjoy life alone such as traveling, playing video games, watching youtube by themselves just to name a few.

2. The participants are mostly 90 years old now and it is understandable that they prefer relationship comparing to 20 years old folks nowadays.

3. Also, I don't see any information about the amount of friends. Is it the same having 1 friend vs 100 friends vs 1000 friends on facebook? Probably not.

4. Just seeing some random participants in their 70' in year 2000 saying they are more happy with friends is not really useful for people today. It would be nice to see the chart moving based on different time (2000 vs 2019) for different generation group.

5. "the search for happiness can become a source of unhappiness", is kind of depressing and confusing. Is going out with a friend consider "search for happiness"? I "can become" a billionaire buying lottery tickets, does that mean I should or shouldn't buy the ticket? It is based on the success rate and this article is missing that data.

I say you should evaluate from time to time if having friends or not (and how many) make you better or happier. I disagree that spending time with others ALWAYS make you happier. For example, I dislike traveling with large group of friends due to noise, planning and logistic issues.
It's important to quickly abandon companies that have automated account closure systems.

The message has to be conveyed to these companies that automated account closures result in loss of business.

Automated suspicious activity systems should be flagging the issue for human attention within that company, where presumably someone will make a considered decision about the issue and communicate effectively with the account holder about what the issue is to understand and resolve it.

Auto account closures are completely unacceptable where someone is paying for that service.
I don't think it's quite the same as buying a vacation home. I think having everything in the house be "the way they left it" is a much bigger motivation than being able to visit whenever they want. at least, this is what people with second homes tell me.

this is actually closer to why I would want a car with a longer range. I realize I could just rent something if I need to drive a longer distance, but I like my car and it wouldn't be there when I arrived.
It lets you surprise an enemy like Libya with 80 JDAMs.

For the cost of about one of those cruise missiles ($25k/JDAM versus $1.4m Tomahawks), and a lot less likely to be intercepted by air defenses.
Except it seems like you mostly find slow L2 chargers that take 6 hours to do anything meaningful... In places where you are likely to only park for 30 minutes (maybe 2 hours at most).
Might help if you have a Leaf with a tiny battery that constantly needs topping off, but useless if you have a Tesla.
Uber rides where I live are covered by Uber's commercial insurance policy: https://uber.app.box.com/s/un77qysn3pl8v99i4r14k7jpw9ibm11i
Learning words in Japanese could mean:

1. learning the sounds and the meaning (using a phonetic script, such as hiragana or romaji - the Latin alphabet) or

2. Learning sound, meaning and kanji (the ideograms)

Learning the kanji is a topic in itself and there are dozens of methods and approaches, but if you like the "start with the most valuable first then build on top of that one bit of knowledge at a time" approach, you might be interested in a project I worked on a while ago: https://prezi.com/m/ihobq38emnq3/env3/

I have flashcards with example sentences up to the first 300 items or so, contact me if you're interested.
This language also inspired LambdaMOO (created by another Xerox Parc employee) which is another early example of a prototype based language, with its own built in environment, but it's all text based. I'd heard about self in a talk, but hadn't read the docs until now. Super cool reading about it now. Good slice of history.
It was actually fixed in Python 3.4 with the switch to use SipHash, as the randomization introduced in Python 3.3 was still susceptible to some attacks. See https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0456/
Use bars showing percentage. This way you can compare the values to a scale on the side and to each other. You can't see a difference easily on a pie chart without annotation. With enough values, you likely can't tell 5% from 10%, and difference between a fragment on the left from a fragment on the right.

This is even worse in 3d pie chart which doesn't even preserve proportions in areas/angles, so splitting in 4 parts, bottom/top will be larger than left/right.
I’m not certain an overstatement. I’m not convinced either. As you note these ideas are old (they mostly predate C# and .NET by decades). On the other hand, to a first order approximation, C# has made zero impact in this area. There are a bunch of reasons, but that’s the way it is.

Fair or not, Julia does seem to have the potential to be the first really interesting shift in this area in ages. Doesn’t mean it will get there, but there is interest.
to point out the parent literally emulated the description of prejudiced un thinking responses to 'wrongthink' that they were apprently trying to rebut?
It is more democratic, but you won't see the ruling party pass laws that actively ruin their future chances of winning elections.
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>> allowing the winners to interview with our team

This was pretentious AF. People who win such competitions _allow companies_ to interview them sometimes, not the other way around. It's not like working at Lyft is some amazing privilege.
Automatically deactivating links or removing URLs would be just as effective at avoiding harm, and a message explaining that had happened would be much more friendly than terminating accounts without warning.
Or, less dismissively, commitment.
Evolutionary gene loss may explain why only humans are prone to heart attack
I really like his idea for making Google's search index a public commons. Google search is by far their most popular product in terms of traffic, it's one of the most controversial and easily abused, and it's not even their main revenue stream. Google can survive without search, and the internet would be better off if there was more competition.

The only issue I see is how would you make sure other smaller companies aren't providing biased search results too? His idea for having a monitoring system sounds like a privacy nightmare for users. At least you can regulate the hell out of Google and have actual audits. Doing the same for thousands of search engines isn't easy.
Way better than Vegas.

But you can invest 2+ years and get nothing.

If you can repeat the process several times, each time picking better bets, then you stand a good chance to win big. Maybe 50/50 chance of hitting a million dollar win over 12 years and 5 contracts. Assuming you leave some sinking ships and some consecutive years really pulling hard at promising companies.

But you should probably also be investing in property and a 401K.

None of it is guaranteed, but if you’re patient and reactive and work hard and treat people like you want to build lifelong relationships, it sorta IS guaranteed you’ll be in a good place after 20 years.

The only guaranteed way to be a millionaire is to work for big companies, relentlessly push up the ladder, invest 15-25% religiously and never touch it. That WILL make you a millionaire in 20 years, but you won’t be able to think about much other than your next promotion and your budget.
Cilk maybe not, but TBB is just a library (or more accurately a toolbox of primitives), which integrates nicely with OpenMP: https://software.intel.com/en-us/node/506128
Leaked document indicates Microsoft revamping political donations
> I wonder if there isn't some sort of governance solution to this. Like give companies big tax breaks for sharing their data with researchers, or something like that. Essentially subsidize academia indirectly.

I think that's a really great idea. Not sure how many would take advantage of it but if it could be made to work then it would be really awesome.

It would also be extremely prone to abuse, though. Patenting is already an art of pretending to explain in clear terms what you are doing, while actually describing something as broadly and vaguely as possible. It would be pretty easy for a TON of things to leave out some key things that make it impossible or unhelpful to have the information.

You could form industry-specific regulations or even an active agency to prosecute abuses like that, but it would be immediately overwhelmed. The patent office is already heavily gamed by patent trolls, who bank on long odds for small judgements. Now imagine if millions or billions of dollars of taxes were on the line, and major companies were investing significant resources to open source while protecting their IP.

Even if that were all figured out, how would you value open sourcing stuff, even something as simple as data? Do you give breaks by size, importance, proportion of profit or future profit? Cost of the research? How do you guard against overvaluations and abuse of accounting? Even if you had perfectly accurate, annually-updated solutions for all that, companies can still game the system. Lyft has decided this dataset is what they need; if they could get a bigger break by collecting more data, they'd do that. Plus- facebook and google release tons of open source stuff. Do they deserve more than say, pharmaceutical research?[1]

Similar (IIRC Nixon) tax breaks already exist for R&D, and they are a notoriously abused loophole. Simplified but illustrative example: you build your R&D lab in the shape of a factory, do your research for a while and then suddenly scale back and replace it with machinery- well, the original building was still deducted from taxes.

Pharma is actually a perfect example. It's a well known fact that R&D only accounts for 22% of pharma industry revenue (almost equal to advertising at 19%), but only ~30% of that actually goes to new drugs. The rest takes advantage of marketing and the patent system to re-release drugs that are essentially the same. Two thirds of their research is obvious changes that are only protected because they owned the original patent- those shouldn't be getting the benefit of incentives.
This may exclude emergency or otherwise unplanned situations, though. If you suddenly find yourself in a situation where you need to get somewhere distant, fast - you may not always be able to achieve this using a lower-range (~100mi) EV.

Maybe I'm wrong, though. It's just that... coming from public transit-only life (I've only started driving very recently), what I really value about cars is that when you need you can just sit down and drive whenever and wherever you need.
I bought a used 2017 Leaf a few months ago, and it’s been great.

I commute 75-90 miles per day depending on the route I use. There are no chargers at work (which is a military installation). The Leaf is technically rated at 95 miles range, but I am getting 120 out of it. However, the Level 1 charging wasn’t going to cut it. I would fully charge the car over the weekend, but I’d never quite get back to full during the week, and would have to track down a DC fast charger on Thursday. Which are quite expensive, actually; the cost is equivalent to the amount gasoline would cost for the same number of miles you get. Installed a Level 2 charger (for $2000) and since then there’s been no problem.

I do have other vehicles, but given how much less expensive the Leaf is to drive than my previous ride (a Honda Fit) if I didn’t it would absolutely make financial sense to rent a car the five or six times a year I make road trips. The car is so inexpensive to drive that it actually makes more sense for us to park my wife’s fully paid off F150 and get her a Leaf as well. The amount we’re spending on gas and repairs on the truck is more than the monthly payment on the car loan for the Leaf plus the electricity.
When I got my first Yubikey the first thing I did was start securing all of my accounts with 2FA. Facebook was one of the few accounts I had at the time that supported U2F, which is what I wanted to try the most. Foolishly, I saw no harm in giving up my phone number for the purposes of enabling it, but only two weeks later I was receiving daily updates from my Facebook feed that I never asked for. Oddly, the text messages stopped on their own but not before they continued a month later, with Facebook asking me why I haven't been logging in and to tell me what I've been "missing." Again, this stopped a few days afterwards.

Then, about three months ago I had a privacy scare, courtesy of Facebook. I was exchanging contact information with a friend several states away whom I had just recently met, and the moment she added my phone number to her contacts list, her Pixel phone had automatically associated my phone number with as much information about me from Facebook without my knowledge, apparently by performing a lookup that can also be done using someone's email address. This exact thing was brought to more public attention with an article that was posted here to HN a week after this happened to me, but I can't seem to find it.

Thankfully, the person that I had this scare with is someone I can trust, but the plausibility that anyone could do this again with just a phone number or email address was enough for me to finally delete my Facebook account since I could not find a way to dissociate my number now that I had given it to them. I figure that even though my information is still stored somewhere on their systems, deleting my account is as much as I can do to try and mitigate/prevent further damage.
Netflix does not deliver video from AWS, though. They use it to encode and run other infra, but for streaming they use NAS/streaming FreeBSD boxes co-located in ISP datacenters. If they streamed from AWS, Netflix would be out of business already.
First, he mentioned explicitly that he did not pay for their service, he was a free user.

Second, every system open to the public that has even a moderate amount of users has automated abuse detection and mitigation techniques in place. It's flat out irresponsible to not have such systems in place, ESPECIALLY if you have paying customers s the opportunity for abuse are huge.
It feels like this comes from a point of view of privilege. You would rather thousands of people work for a mind-numbing call-center-like task just so there are no false positives, and the company expend hundreds of thousands of dollars on this, rather than experience a temporary problem that can be resolved with one or two emails.
Huge fan. Not only is it great to see the data there, but the story that it tells is super compelling too. I myself wasn't sure just how much more worth it was to think about the BigCo game but now, after so many bouts at growth stage startups and plateauing out, I'm seriously considering it.
The tech is interesting, but the concept and naming is pretty creepy. Waifu, from "wife", is anime slang for female cartoon characters that people get romantically attracted to.

https://www.dictionary.com/e/fictional-characters/waifu/
some diesels can be quite nice. I had a golf tdi for a while. the engine was basically silent at highway speeds, and it was honestly a bit better for city driving than my hot hatch. too bad it turned out to be illegal.

I agree with you on the Q5 though, but only because it's too big.
There are online forces that prevent language change. It's easier now than ever to have access to the language produced by vast numbers of ordinary people and to police it.

It's also easier now than ever to self-correct. For instance you can use a search engine to find the proper term for anything imaginable, so there is no need to introduce unnecessary words. (Most people who introduce new words do so because their vocabulary and access to material is lacking, not because they have invented or discovering something as of yet unnamed by anyone.)

People participating in online forums are now more keenly aware than ever of their own dialect, because they have ready access to large numbers of people from other regions. I think this will have the effect of globalizing language, through the expunging of unnecessary words in local dialects.
I'm really struggling to get my head around the emotional trauma here. He bought the unlimited ticket, got many multiples of value from it over 30 years, and then they renegged. Had they never offered the ticket, he would have paid much more overall (even though he would almost certainly have also flown less), and would only be exactly where he is now: a poor schlub who has to buy airline tickets to travel. Where is the loss?
Everyone knows that. It's also literally the point of the machine.
>More importantly, since the year 2000 Americans have driven ~60 trillion miles!!!

..so what? That's still over half a million people dead.

Here, let me put it in a slightly different light:

Critical lack of infrastructure (including public transportation) and horrific zoning that causes ever-increasing amounts of urban sprawl has forced Americans drive an astounding 60 trillion miles since year 2000, killing over half a million of them.

From what I know, most of these miles were not driven by choice: people don't choose to work 100 miles away from where they live; and most of these miles are commute miles.

Our infrastructure (or lack thereof) is killing us by making us drive more than anywhere else on Earth[1].

(The verbatim title of that article is: "Americans drive more than anyone else in the world, and are dying for it" - and that is what the problem is).

[1]https://www.thecarcrashdetective.com/americans-drive-more-dy...
Not sure why a workplace would limit charging to 30 minutes. I would have to move my car just as the coffee was kicking in.
As a person who posts too frequently on social media, I am interested in your self-throttling solution. Is there a browser extension or something you use?
It does say in the description that this was built for “SQL lovers.”
What if every link was encoded with something like a tinyUrl and then whenever the link was clicked, during the translation process, check if a link is blacklisted. This also has the added benefit of allowing statistics to be gathered on common links across multiple accounts.
Somehow I think if the poster conspired to steal your own cell phone, you'd feel differently. What about a shoplifter at Target? You're implying that companies prosecuting theft are somehow morally inferior to RIM.
You seem to be right. This article talks about mass graves of diggers being found: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/08/03/underworld-mon...
In large enterprises and legal societies, procedural justice pays more attention to the traces of procedures on data (auditable evidence)，So the input and output data is the most important.

Addition， I agree with the following view:

```

Even the simplest procedural logic is hard for humans to verify,
but quite complex data structures are fairly easy to model and reason about.
...
Data is more tractable than program logic. It follows that where you see a choice
between complexity in data structures and complexity in code, choose the former.
More: in evolving a design, you should actively seek ways to shift complexity from code to data.

---- Eric Steven Raymond, The Art of Unix Programming, Basics of the Unix Philosophy

Show me your flow charts and conceal your (data) tables and I shall continue to be mystified, show me your (data) tables and I won’t usually need your flow charts; they’ll be obvious.

---- an early edition of The Mythical Man-Month

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How is this related to forcing private companies to be platforms for radical views?

Should the private gas company be forced to be platforms for radical views?
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I don't think that's quite the case. I think there are more books in the 2000s written about basically nothing. Look at the "For Dummies" series of books. They're accessible but the content they teach could be condensed into one or two blog posts with nothing lost except the material is easier to read in a single sitting and much easier to reference.
Yes, but loaded in the rental car cost besides a profit margin is a wide range of other costs not borne by a private vehicle owner. I understand the broad concept but focusing on maintenance costs seems a bit odd when you are footing the bill for sales, marketing, rent etc. Whether these outweigh the cost efficiencies of fleet maintenance is an interesting question, though.
I guess it's creepy in a similar way as people shooting other people virtually (in shooter video games), though a making a waifu "vending machine" adds another angle of objectification to it.
Panel gaps are just a feature of installation and manufacturing irregularities. You’re often drilling into concrete and people just don’t know what they’re doing. Better too loose (big gap) than too tight (door doesn’t close, need to re-drill the holes) is the thinking.

You can install the doors properly with no gap, but it requires everything be square and plumb and all that. And then not get damaged.
I will equally say without any evidence that Epstein has forgiven Google, and is speaking out against Google for purely mercenary reasons.
They were though...
The usage nowadays is largely tongue in cheek, although it isn't h/a/rd to find places where they take it at face value.
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To be honest... This article sounds like someone who has lost a bet on Kubernetes and is trying to just flame the technology. If the technology is truly doomed then I would accept that. Unfortunately, I would have to disagree on all accounts... Kubernetes allows folks to actually not have to worry about developing their own scheduler and abstractions that would be necessary anyways to incorporate distributed systems in their own environments. Now if there were problems around security or bugs in Kubernetes proper -- I would absolutely advise you to be the engineer that you are and contribute back! Instead of trolling Kubernetes I would recommend solving the problems that others can actually benefit from.
This has to be the most amusing thing I've read on HN in a while. I left academia for the same (counterintuitive) reason. Glad to see I'm not the only one and not crazy.
Francisco Galicia, U.S. citizen held by ICE for three weeks, has been released
Brahui Language