skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I actually do long term contracts at the moment. However, I have found that there are usually opportunities in full time positions. I tend to look for companies that are just past the startup stage, and moving into that awkward stage where they have to scale, but everything up to this point has been based on heroic efforts of a few people. Usually there are gaps from people who have left and as the business expands, there is a lot of greenfield work that people want to do and nobody left over to do the legacy work.

Short term contracts can get you in the door, but I would try to negotiate up into longer term contracts because legacy work is slow. It's not so much that you can't provide a lot of value up front, but if you want long term benefits, it usually takes 2-3 years before you've refactored enough to make a big difference. If going for the employee route, just keep your ears open during interviews about systems that are messy. If you express an interest in working on those kinds of systems, it usually provokes both surprise and interest ;-)

I think the key for legacy work is that normally people don't want to work on it. There are almost always systems that people are afraid to touch -- to the point where you may even be forbidden from touching it. However, you can often find big wins with small changes for such systems because they are usually neglected for a long time. If you cautiously make a change and manage not to break things, then usually there is a huge pent up demand for more.

I think there is one other thing that I always have in mind for some reason. In Taoist literature they frequently make the analogy that water runs to the lowest point. In the same way, it's easiest to make good changes in systems that are the worst. If you are working on a very nice system, you have to spend a lot of energy staying on high ground. But if you are working on a very poor system, you spend no energy maintaining your position at all -- you just fall into the low ground. So paradoxically, I tend to look for companies and positions where there is something wrong. If there is nothing wrong, then there is nothing to fix and my job becomes quite a bit harder.
And Crapper, supposedly. But that's disputed.
That article should probably start with a couple of sentences answering "What is LORA?"
https://youtu.be/bre0moeCMFU
Completely shut it down. It's funny they DDoS'd themselves.
Recent discussion, linking to the actual service: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20442606
Yes it has been tested in Spanish courts and google news is blocked there.
U.S. teen wins $3M at video game tournament Fortnite World Cup
The responsive design is unusable on an iPhone SE. This would have the most appeal to me as something to use during downtime (e.g. on the train) rather than when I am at my desk so it’s too bad.
I think this was meant for a different discussion. There was also a post about P.T. Barnum
Doesn't the fact that He's not a clown make it particularly unnerving that He's in fact the scariest possible clown?

Or, in what sense is God not a clown when He created not only every clown but the entire concept of clowning?

Or, being a little more serious, that constraint isn't compatible with the problem Anselm stated. There's no reason for the scariest possible clown to exist: there's no reason that, of the clowns both real and imaginary, the scariest real one should be scarier than the scariest imaginary one. (I think we could argue quite convincingly that, say, Pennywise has scared more people than any real clown.) So the argument "A clown is scarier if it exists" isn't obviously true.

Or put yet another way, the greatest possible mortal (existent or not) is obviously not immortal, but you could plausibly argue that the greatest possible being is.

If you want to maximize on one axis the most superlative being, though, you can probably get to God. I suspect Anselm's conception of God is the ultimate realization of any axis of comparison we can think of: the supreme delight, the supreme fear, the most resplendent, the most hidden, etc. And in particular I think Anselm's axis of greatness is much more defensible, that is, "A being is greater if it exists" sounds much more like a reasonable assumption (even if I'm not sure I accept it) than "A being is scarier if it exists."
Just a heads up to the author: When I click the "Start memorizing" button, I get a 500 server error.
Wow, I remember the having the exact same deliberation and selecting the Abit BP6 at the time for much the same reasons.

The ability of that motherboard to run dual Intel Celeron CPUs was unique at the time as it was a feature Intel had disabled on these chips and required some magic from Abit to enable the dual CPU functionality. This was arguably really the board that made dual processor configs affordable for enthusiasts on a budget for the first time, I loved mine.

> http://archive.arstechnica.com/reviews/3q99/bp6/bp6-1.html
Yeah, that is what I'm implying. Definitely, too much work and not enough time away can limit creativity, big-picture strategy etc. But with proper motivation, I've pushed myself up to 125hrs/wk and been happier than ever (though slightly brain dead as well). When not in single-minded pursuit of something like founding a company or an exciting mission I totally agree with you. With all the other commitments and desires, their job will necessarily be a lower priority. But when it comes to something important (or debatably in all cases of companies with high aspirations), I think the company should be focused primarily on effectiveness and efficiency ie max output for the unit cost from each staff. I just don't see why it would ever be in a company's best interest to not get max output, as long as there are new hires to fill the shoes of the people who burn out.
The Lithium Mine Buildup Is Outpacing the Electric-Car Boom
Usual, I suspect.
Isn’t burying plastics one of the better options for it in terms of sequestering carbon? It goes back into the soil.
Too many instances of this happening for this to be the case. Plenty of reports on this site and others stating they bought from the proper Amazon seller and still getting counterfeit product. I bought a SpyderCo knife "Ship and Sold by Amazon" that was an obvious fake. I just think Amazon doesn't care, they shipped a free replacement that happened to be legitimate.
...RISC-V supports SIMD though.
Could VR suicide dissuade people from attempting suicide?
> “I was forced to take risks with my money because treasury bonds barely pay anything!”

... is the system working as intended, because the policy rationale behind issuing lots of government bonds is precisely to make investors seek higher risks.

When downturns (like 2008) happen, this is investors fleeing to safe, money-like assets and and so wonks recommend that governments flood the markets with bonds, printed money, whatever to make that unprofitable.

The problem is with trying to fix the economy with policy levers. You can force people towards riskier investments (especially if they can be disguised as safe ones). But investment that is actually productive on average requires conditions where people on the ground can actually build useful stuff at a profit.

But that's an anathema to macro-economists (who want to advise on how use those levers) and also to politicians (who want to be seen to be "doing something").
As time goes on and more people enter the industry, I wonder if tech as a whole will come to mirror the video game industry more closely. In video games, it does seem like the oversupply of programmers & their desire to work in the industry no matter what causes lower wages and longer hours for employees relative to the rest of the tech world. And in the independent video game development scene (which might be more analogous to startups), the number of financially unsuccessful games is growing massively as more and more people try to get involved. It seems to be at the point where you need to go into that space assuming it will be unprofitable.

I guess it depends on the talent distribution of the influx of new aspiring engineers -- after all, in some contexts it doesn't matter if 2-3x more people are lining up to willingly do your job if they don't have the skillset to actually replace you. But it could be unfortunate for the jobs that don't have the luxury of being protected by high barriers to entry.
A new string type! How exciting!
That's the thing - suicide attempts aren't rational because they grab whatever's at hand and pick a really painful way to do it (paracetamol overdose is one of the worst ways to go - you get to die of liver failure over the next week, when you're probably thinking maybe you don't want to but by then there's literally nothing medicine can do for you).
That's a horrible mentality. Assisted suicide is only for people who are suffering from continuous pain with no chance at recovery.

You would put them through yet more pain just to see if they were really suffering enough?
"Rationality" is not a (meta-)logical property. You're right that the proof shows that, logically speaking, if one buys the premises, God must exist. But more colloquially, it shows that by accepting some premises that are reasonable, one reaches the conclusion that God exists. Ergo, there's an argument a rational person would accept whose conclusion is the necessity of God.
Another suggestion: Instead of just the verbal description of what to type, how about some sample output to? That wouldn't give away any answers but would help understand what you are looking for. Like when you asked "type text to the terminal" I put 'cat' instead of 'echo'. Sample output would probably have helped me there.
NPM gets a lot of hate for it's dependency managemnet, but I'm not sure what a solution would be to this problem.

- They can't currate packages, or else that friction will drastically slow down the ecosystem (1000's of packages get published everyday).

- They can't remove/disable packages (most of the time), or dependencies will no longer be strictly immutable.

- They can't disable sub-dependencies, or else this would greatly reduce code reuse and increase redundancy and complexity of packages (every package may have to roll there own X, or compile their package dependencies into bundled JS with no dependencies).

I think the problem is simply; it's a low friction dependency management solution -> which made it so popular -> which is making it a target for malicious actors.
There are Sumerian dices identical to those we use from 3000 BC. Romans are closer to us than those dices.
The problem is clearly due to vanity metrics like number of packages motivating people to publish an insane number of useless packages to fluff their contributions.
I have a puppy collie/Shepard mix that is about a year old. Do you have any tips/suggestions? Do you regret getting such a smart dog in general?
at warm springs you get about 70% of the seats filled on an old style train and it's rapidly increasing week over week as more people start using it. At Fremont you have every single seat occupied and several people standing. By the time the train leaves Union City most cars are what you would consider at capacity. After that it gets more and more uncomfortable until the pressure is released at Embarcadero.

I also don't believe Bart's stats, the incompetence of the people running it is so massive that everything they do is suspect in my eyes. An example: https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/BART-escalator-repairs-...
I don't believe VR could ever reproduce what you feel during an actual suicide, so no
The real issue is most JS programmers are not smart enough to write it so they have to find packages to do anything.
> Would you ever say: Just hired a local developer. He has been sitting on his desk playing games and reading HN? Terrible stuff?

Yes, I can definitely see that happening. And the main upside of an onsite developer in that situation is that a 'local'/onsite developer is much easier to identify when they are just sitting at their desk and much easier to encourage them to do otherwise. As much as people hate the "manager looking over my shoulder" feeling, it is very important in most workforces because the vast majority of remote workers (in my experience) will absolutely take advantage of the "remoteness" and use it to slack off. Sure, if you're a small or top tier company you might be able to solve this by making your hiring practices more strict, but the reality for most managers is that you must hire some of these less-than-ideal candidates and mentor/watch them, and being remote makes that harder.

I'm generally for the remote work model and this type of issue can mostly be solved by changing the way you interact with your team and do checkups, but regardless I find it strange that someone like yourself who is presumably very experienced in the remote work space would imply that there is no difference between a local slacker and a remote slacker.
>A child could see through the farce that is "freedom" to Americans.

That's why all these command-and-control economies rely on innovation from America. It's not health care, it's health services where other people are doing this work. You fail to account for people doing work, and you twist the definitions of words to a vast degree. Other countries use their government to force pricing (it's not negotiation) on these innovators. One does not get to simultaneously demand these products (which come from innovation) and dictate their pricing. Back in 2008, I deemed FB's requirement of a "real name" too steep and I refused to participate.

As I've mentioned many times on HN, I would pay for your flight to Denver so you can say this stuff right to my face (per HN Guidelines), but none of you are willing to accept. I assure you I am quite civil, but I do not suffer fools.
Show HN: Studyr – Student Planner for iOS
Mass Immigration Affects Countries with Weak Economic Institutions: Jordan
> People want higher returns without higher risks, and other people can profit from convincing buyers that the returns are higher, or the risks are lower.

That does happen, but what may be even more common (and more important is a slightly different form:

People want high returns, and are willing to accept risks, but are required by law to invest in safe securities, and are happy to pay high fees for people who can find a way around this.

A huge driver of this isn't scams or outright fraud, but "regulatory arbitrage". Not saying it's fine, but if your mental model is "how can we protect unsophisticated mom and pop investors from these predators selling exotic asset backed securities", well, they're not the ones buying them. The bigger question is, how can we (or should we?) stop pension funds from knowingly seeking higher risk/higher return investments as part of their ongoing effort to try and reduce their massive unfunded liabilities.
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how about adding white flags while they are at it?
This was only a small part of his speech.

Most of the speech was an appeal to support "nature," specifically building up habitats for aquatic and terrestrial plants, which he claims represents "30% of what needs to be done to avoid catastrophic warming." Just focusing on emissions won't solve the problem.

https://youtu.be/FuxHDD_pLf0?t=17121

He further claims that giving power to indigenous people to use their historical knowledge will help.

I'm not so sure. Burning forests has been used for centuries by indigenous people in the Americas. It transformed the landscape radically, as described in the book 1491 by Mann.

There's currently speculation that the "Little Ice Age" of (ca. 1600s-1700s) was actually a rebound event caused by the mass extinction of indigenous peoples from the Americas due to smallpox and other plagues brought by Europeans:

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jan/31/european...

In other words, wiping out the people who were burning forests regularly caused reforestation and uptake of CO2 large enough to cause global cooling.

In a sense, Ford is right - reforestation has the potential to reverse the trend of rising CO2. But in another sense, Ford is wrong in that turning lands over to indigenous people could actually accelerate the release of CO2 and loss of forest.

There are no good choices. Part of the problem is that the ideal course of action is murky at best, and will involve mass displacements at worst. There is no "science" of global terraforming, and we only incompletely understand all the factors influencing climate. Imagining otherwise won't solve the problems.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20547540
This is fair. I don't think anyone can claim they have never been disrespectful towards anyone in their life. People are sometimes unbearable and sometimes you are too. Learning to deal with your own and others crazy bullshit is a part of life and how you grow as a person.
What the hell would you do in VR suicide? Be present during your own wake? Experience being buried alive?
Please don't spend hours arguing with people that don't get it haha. Home improvement has been such a pain in the butt for me and I just can't see it not being a problem for millions of people. Best of luck!
It's not just rich folks. Via pensions funds, this is also about a lot of teachers, social workers, government employees and normal folk.

Pensions were funded (or not) based on assumptions about yields. If actual yields are not hitting those assumptions (and they're not), it's not the rich that'll be eating cat food in their retirement.

(Of course, fixing the funding shortfall by making risky bets on exotic high-yield investments is uh...what's the word? Oh yeah, terrible! But let's not pretend this is strictly a problem for the 1%.)
>Plenty of reports on this site and others stating they bought from the proper Amazon seller and still getting counterfeit product.

That's entirely consistent with them tracking it. If you report that, they'll know who actually shipped it in and will punish them.
Forgive my criticism on a minor point, but that paper's figures are the main content, and the author makes them the size of thumbnails.

If you're going to write a paper like this to share such results, do yourself a favor and make the major conclusions graphically large!

Every one of Figures 8-12 could take up 1/2 a page and not be inappropriate. It's arxiv - what's the benefit of economizing?
Basis points, which are a hundredth of a percent on an interest rate, eg “6% is 200 bps more than 4%.”
It's not apparent that the benefits are significant in any way. They could be minuscule and therefore not worth sacrificing important user experience features like adblocking over.

It could also be that because of the reduced expressiveness of the adblocker, more ads are missed, and you might therefore end up with a net increase in the amount of code that has to be executed by the browser. So the declarative API could actually lead to a performance decrease in practice.
Won't work.

If we ask Ford to talk about how science is better helping explain to us the state of advancement in pre-birth babies, he will oddly take the other side. (Just a decade or two back, the baby was largely a mystery. Today, we know much, much more about how that baby is developing.) Harrison will likely call the fully-developed human a 'clump of cells', standard leftist euphemism for what is increasingly clearly a small human.

I wish celebrties would just stick to their strong suit. They aren't Subject Matter Experts (any more than the next person) and they are frequently hypocritical in some form or fashion. (See DeCaprio and his yacht vacations or private jet travels. Not a good spokesperson for climate change issues.)

I really appreciate what celebrites do, I love entertainment. I just wish they had a little humility around topics where they shouldn't have more voice than the average person.
Your business model is your problem. Have you ever heard of having a day job?
What if rich countries stop buying things that cause deforestation such as meat and wood? (now you throw me through the window).

When I read that foreigners (specially Europeans) are concerned about Amazon I simply laugh. They've been exploiting Brazilian's (and other colonies as well) natural resources since ever! They've got rich as hell by just doing that!! But now they are superior and know exactly what the world needs. Same old story.
"The baby boom generation may never achieve the relative economic success of the generations immediately preceding it or following it."

"Members of the baby-boom generation were taught to appreciate the good life—the arts, books, good clothing, travel—and grew accustomed to it during a mass prolonged adolescence in which marriage and childbirth were delayed until after the magic age of 30."

Wow. This is startlingly familiar.
> 2. Not existing is the greatest possible handicap.

I would argue that impossiblity, rather than non-existence is the greatest handicap.
It would be awesome if there were a video channel where folks reviewed these articles in a forum style.

Recognize this likely happens naturally in academia and at conferences but for those of us outside it all, it would (hopefully) raise the level of conversation as opposed to puzzling through some of it.

Likely challenging because so many starting points at different places. I can just imagine a twitch stream with someone reading through providing their thoughts.
I use this convenient github repo that contains a regularly updated list of open (and working) trackers:

https://github.com/ngosang/trackerslist

trackers_best is usually sufficient.
Sure looks like we're heading towards an inevitable kessler syndrome, nobody seems to be in charge or care that much anymore.

I have a hunch that we're about two months away from news of the first satellite control hack, it's just a matter of time before that or some malfunction starts blowing things up.
> a sane UI development toolkit?

Elm-lang, IMO.
New Al Zimmermann's Programming Contest – Reversing Nearness
The real HyperCard on Windows was Asymetrix ToolBook, which was very good.
I believe they know how many units you've sent, and how many sold units to attribute to your listing. So they can calculate how many units they owe you. But I don't believe they know where to find them. If they did, they'd be able to return your units to you, and they wouldn't need to replace barcodes to stop commingling.
My ability to think one thing and write down another knows no bounds