skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
meaning I just went through a long job search and am now spending all my time learning the ropes of new systems and haven't updated any resume anywhere, because I don't need to send it to anyone for a while I hope.

I have like 19 more projects I'd love to get on the site as well. Cobbler's kids and their shoes and all.

I'd love to ignore you, but when you dox someone with a throwaway green account, presumably to throw some shade on them not being a "true programmer" and they get a bunch of obnoxious emails first thing in the morning, I kinda gotta deal with it.

I've posted all my contact info in various HN hiring threads, so I'm not exactly anonymous here, but making an account to post old resumes just to make some sort of point about my experience or lack thereof was kinda bad form in my opinion, and maybe you should look into your own motivations for doing so for someone that just wanted to vent about how grueling the hiring process can be in tech.
Its really really to hard differentiate yourself as an ISP as most people look to you as utility and ultimately just look at your price. There are in my experience (see below) two ways to measure/review an ISP:
1) Their customer service.
2) Their actual internet product (be it fibre, lte or copper)

Most people get upset,mad and angry when 1(customer service) goes wrong and thus grade the ISP solely on that. They then move to a "better" (read better call centre agent) and usually for a less superior product.

Face-it the "Unicorn-ISP" doesn't exist with excellent customer service and excellent connectivity product.

Fun side-story/plug. I run www.FibreTiger.co.za. South Africa's largest "Internet Comparison Service". In South Africa we have over 15 fibre networks (only 3 or 4 really matters) and a little over a 100 registered ISP (only about 5-7 really matters and we only list about 20. Keep in mind only about 10%-15% of our population have fibre-coverage.

Our biggest problem is most people still don't know how fibre works in our country. I.e you can only get a package from an ISP with a network you have coverage for.

I've once be called "unethical" because I told a lady she can ONLY get fibre from this very specific fibre network in her area. (There was no other fibre coverage for her). Yet no matter how I explained she thought I was restricting her choices.

Oh well :)
> and even food products for humans.

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If you don't want to use P2P or multiple hops ("Secure Core"), then ProtonVPN offers some free VPNs.
Diablo devolved – web port of the original Diablo game
Thanks! For now I think I will keep it clean, but maybe in the future.. we'll see how it will evolve ;)
What large company isn't in court over age discrimination? Google just settled a class action where one job applicant was literally asked to put his graduation year on his CV "so the engineers can see your age".
Devilution – A web port of the original Diablo game
Can confirm. From the UK here and most supermarkets will now only sell 10p strong plastic bags rather than flimsy single-use bags.
I have maybe 10 or so in a cupboard and I'll take 4 or 5 along on a shop. Maybe I'll be a bag short and have to pay another 10p for a bag, but that's better than 5 or 6 single-use bags.
Hooray we shaved a mm of bezel off the bottom so we could shove a giant notch onto the top. It's odd to me that people ignore the notch when Samsung did it so much better on the s10.
I think this is a very thoughtful article. As web devs we are much more likely to be developing and testing on beefy machines and beefy Internet connections than the general population is. Let's remember that we're building this stuff for other people, not just for us. :)

I'll take one issue with one thing in the article (emphasis added):

> The cost of that data itself can be a barrier, making the web prohibitively expensive to use for many without the assistance of some sort of proxy technology to reduce the data size for them—an increasingly difficult task in a web that has moved to HTTPS everywhere.

But: HTTP/2! It's only available over HTTPS, gives really significant performance improvements and is supported on Chrome on those low-end Android devices the article mentions (and basically everything browser other than IE11 on Windows < 10 and Opera Mini).
Actually that's exactly sounds like a movie series Expanse. Space combat scene. They even depressurize the ship in anticipation of getting holes in it.
yes, that is what is recommended for grafting too
I wonder how hemp bags would compare.
Why is it just women that are surprised?
Solar sails are intended for interplanetary travel in heliocentric orbit. Providing a continuous radial low thrust, resulting in an expanding spiral trajectory. In this application, the wind is always favorable.

This is a proof of concept test vehicle in low earth orbit, it isn't going anywhere.
Back in the early 90's, Metricom used a feature of Xerox PARC's Map Viewer to overlay the locations of their pole top boxes on an interactive map, so you could see the coverage of their Ricochet spread spectrum radio network.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricochet_(Internet_service)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerox_PARC_Map_Viewer
Reminds me of bamboo, which also have long thin trunks and roots that don't go too deep. Mostly 30cm, rarely more than a metre.
What a ridiculous list. Amateurs are people without formal training who contribute as a hobby, professionals are trained and get paid for what they do. There isn’t any correlation between the things on that list and amateurs/professionals at all in my opinion. It simply reads as a list of good/bad traits that you want or want to avoid in the people in your network and yourself.

People who do things as a hobby don’t just stop once they reach some goal, at least not in my experience. In stead they set new goals, and I really don’t think people give up easily either. I mean, most people who do an Ironman are technically amateurs who self-train and participate because they think it’s fun.

Likewise, when we operate open source projects we evaluate your contributions not your personal status. If your code is solid, no one is going to care if you’re a 89 year old retired truck driver who codes for fun.
In the UK, single-use bags have pretty much been replaced with strong re-usable bags at the checkout. They tend to cost 10p each.
Yup, this is correct. Apologies for the reckless use of numbers!
I'm sure energy and agricultural water are easier to manage environmentally than plastic pollution.
MLI Elbow helps people reduce their muscle strain
The UK is in Europe (for now) and has Equifax and the other credit reference agencies.
they have patents on a ton of stuff, I'm sure some of those make sense. As they say, "9,100 patents granted in 2018" [0]

[0] https://www.research.ibm.com/patents/
How about something like this [0]? Weighs 46 grams, 25L volume, supports a 130kg load.

[0] https://seatosummit.com/product/travelling-light-shopping-ba...
Well, yes. GUI usually don't require much algorithmic work so there's just not much space to loose performance because of bad algorithms.

But I've seen researchers been vastly prolific in Python. They make segmentation or registration algorithms that beet the market, and then they call us (C++ engineers) to make them "fast". Usually we do, since we're trained for that. But it's never orders of magnitude. It's like 2-3 times faster.

And there were even cases where the C++ code appeared slower in the end. Well, we use slightly different math core than the numpy does and sometimes they're doing worse.
Yes, you are right, there are (at least) two effects of advertising:

1. Education (let people know a company/product exists)

2. Manipulation (by various means)

From a moral point of view, the first effect is not bad. It actually helps people to make better decisions and extend their knowledge about available products and services.

However, the second effect is the harmful one. Since companies are trying to make money, they want as many people as possible to buy their products. So they start lying, leaving the negative aspects of their products out, use visual material that creates yearning contexts, present the information at a higher frequency than relevant and so on. So saying it is just about getting your attention is a huge understatement.

Simply put, the advertising industry tries to find human vulnerabilities on a daily basis. Sadly, not to inform and help protect us, but to exploit them. If advertising was actually about helping society, the spending would be more like a tax (independent from the effect), the visual appearance would be standardized and the process of presenting ads would be strictly controlled by a neutral entity. Furthermore, everybody would be allowed to not participate. Maybe the receivers of that valuable, educating information should even pay to have access to it.

And I am sure, at this point you are with me, that the majority of ads aren't about educating people but about placing information in their heads.
They often subscribe you by default when you register. A lot of services do this. For me that's a spam, for them it is a clause in terms of service.
We bought some reusable cotton when the ban first came in, and they're all still going. We have a few of the heavier weight plastic too> As yet only one has failed and that was one of the throwaway style but simply thicker. The better ones have stitched reinforcement and handles and seem like they'll go indefinitely.

We used to get so many disposable bags that we had never in a decade or two bought bin bags, and still managed to keep accumulating. Now we have to buy those, although we try to keep use to the absolute minimum by being creative with the unavoidable plastic we do get. It's a bit frustrating.

I'd prefer paper and card once again, as those tended to disappear quite benignly if thrown away carelessly, single use bags were an ugly blight everywhere.
They aren't pure ghg studies, they talk about water consumption and landfilling.

Your response seems to imply you throw your bags in the ocean. If you don't do that, the analysis comes out differently.
When companies can't invent because they lost their graymatter to bureaucracy they go into an even more self destructing spiral. By cutting costs and squeezing themselves. With open source, patent regime in end game i.e. rent seeking. How a company like IBM can remain relevant? Their AI offering was a major marketing campaign. Just sad but some great lessons
"Can know all the math in the 'verse but take a boat in the air that you don't love?" ― Joss Whedon
Absolutely. The cost, even with current cheapening launch costs, would still be astounding. As long as we’re using chemical rockets fuelled from earth we are going to be really limited in terms of what we can put in space - and again, assembly - we couldn’t even get Hubble right first time, and it has taken thousands of hours of spacewalks to keep operating.

It’s totally been worth it though.

Stepping stones - if the new class of earth based telescopes finds something worth looking at, there will be space telescopes that make the JWST look like a toy - but not for a while yet. This is basically the “cheap” trial experiment.
I don't see how other companies are relevant? There's a lot of people selling bigger computers with a lot of power and expand ability, so there's clearly a market for that. I showed that it's not that hard to make a computer with that expandability, while not making a big tower computer; that it's not a binary choice between a powerful big tower and a really limited tiny mac mini-style computer. It also wasn't my comment's main point.
Advertisement-bugged content is indeed essentially content for the poor. The rich just buy an iPhone and buy the apps they use on it so they don't see advertisements.

I'm willing to pay for Mozilla Firefox and Duck Duck Go and Wikipedia. I'm not sure it should be paid in month or by amount of usage. The beauty of Wikipedia is that it is open source, same with Firefox. Not sure about DDG.
The alternative is bags that dont end up as litter, either because they cost more and there are less of them, or because they break down
Oracle :-|
I guess 7pay never made it here to the US.

Oh you're from Japan? Cool! One of the places I've always wanted to visit, but sounds like a long flight. I know if I make it big in tech my dream is to travel full time but I think I'd prefer cruising. I know they have some repositioning ones there, so I guess you only have a flight back or find another cruise or fly to a nearby country after visiting for a few weeks. High speed trains sound fun too.
As you point out, an issue is that sometimes we don't plan in advance so when we pop in a store/supermarkets we don't have any bags. We end buying one of those strong plastic bags because that's what's available and because they are only 10p (and single-use bags cost only 5p). We basically use these bags as single use ones.

IMHO, supermarkets should have continued to dispense single-use bags (could be paper instead of plastic) but sold at a price that really made people try to avoid them, say £1.
Reusable bags should then be priced higher.

Problem is politics and pissing off customers/voters...
TL;DR Use HTML features (and dates).

Yes, it's 2019 and I'm still in favour of plaintext emails. Sorry.
They are! Around five years ago I wrote a CSS minifier (creatively called CSSMin, available on GitHub, and still in use at the company I work for) which rewrote the CSS to optimise gzip compression. Although it never really took off, I think that some of the lessons from it have been rolled into some of the more modern CSS optimisation tools.
What was their primary income?
interesting, I didn't know that
Wow! That sounds fascinating.
I guess trash bags can/could be produced with biodegradation in mind, while shopping bags may prioritize being able to stay in stock for years and to hold dyes, etc. It's not necessarily a 1:1 replacement.
It is very expensive to work with out-of-date email list.
If emails address bounced or, especially, if potential recipient is known for clicking "spam" button, then sending email to such recipient significantly lowers bulk email sender score.

I use a rule of thumb that every "spam" click costs me (as a bulk email sender) about $10. If somebody already unsubscribed -- it is quite likely that the next time they receive similar email -- they will click "Spam" button (which would cost me $10).

So I try to process "Unsubscribe" clicks quickly.
What Developers Are: Why an Unprofitable Company Can Have 70% Margins
Finns Are Pitching from Inside a Rally Car
Apple Maps in iOS 13: Sights Set on Google
no point in using bags that last many generations for shopping, cotton is better
>> always a vague answer.

> Mauna a Wākea has long been a site of sacred cultural activity for Kānaka ʻŌiwi, at times serving as a burial ground. The sacredness of the Mauna is embedded in its Kānaka ʻŌiwi name, which reflects its connection to the sky: Wākea is the sky father in Kānaka ʻŌiwi cosmology.

>> Frankly I think this is a bunch of contrarians opposing the construction just to have something to feel self-righteous about.

> Beyond their patent offensiveness, such characterizations are as false as they are unhelpful. “Science and culture have long coexisted in Hawaiʻi,” Ecohydrologist Aurora Kagana-Viviani wrote in a recent Medium post, in which she traced the ways the scientific establishment all too often continues to ignore this evident fact. What have not always coexisted are scientific inquiry and fundamental respect for the people who come under science’s microscopes—or inhabit the realms of its telescopes.

https://www.thenation.com/article/mauna-kea-tmt-colonial-sci...
He actually says that devs try to do their best but the business models make it hard. I can very well resonate with that. With decent effort we could make out site respond in a tenth of the current time. But no one ever asks for it nor will give you the opportunity. Even performance centric companies like Google are now doing an insanely bad job. Business applications perform bad even on modern desktops. They will probably try to keep the user facing parts of the ad machine fast, but everything else is not what I expect from a company with such mindset. They of course never did anything to improve the state of ad tech.
I don't understand this feel-good obsession with planting trees. They plant themselves! Just stop cutting grass and they will come and if they won't, planting them would probably not help anyway!
Plastic bags used to be the tumble weed of urban environments; in winter you could see every tree had one blown into it. These have entirely vanished, and I would count that as the main success.

The stream near my house still collects plastic bottles, which probably has to be the next challenge.

I have never seen a straw as litter, in a stream or on a beach.
They sold software. Before Microsoft, there wasn't much (if any) of a market for just software, independent of the hardware.
But that's the payment after co-payment by insurance or third party (in case of GGD the municipality). For a fair comparison I looked up the over the counter price of the generic medicine (or to be fair, public news about that price, I didn't look in the price register). My conclusion is that in the US case it's somewhat unfair to blame the insurer if the base price of a medicine is amplified about 20 times.
> A headline is absolutely the least important part of an article

On the contrary, its a one sentence summary of an article. If combined with humor, it sticks better. If its too long, it will stick less. If its too sensationalist readers will feel deceived afterwards (and they'll express it). To be fair, it is difficult to make a good headline. Not everyone's cut for it. A good journalist can, but journalism is a race to the bottom and it is hard to compete with masses who lower the standards (seemingly for free thanks to advertisements).
That's correct but in neighborhoods where they can't build out the cabinets they either don't offer U-Verse or they sell VDSL as U-Verse.
I think the point is that the quantity of CO2e dumped into the atmosphere when you make a cotton bag has a much worse environmental impact than the plastic bag dumped in landfill.

[1] https://medium.com/@tabitha.whiting/should-you-swap-plastic-...
"The study estimated that a cotton tote bag’s total carbon footprint was 598.6lb of CO2e. This compared to 3.48lb of CO2e for a standard plastic bag. That means that you would need to use the tote bag 172 times for every 1 time you used the plastic bag."
Well it's rare to see something that masturbatory outside of a porno.

The real different between a amateur and professional is that the amateur pays to do something while a professional is paid to do something. It's the same difference between a hobby and a paying job.

It has nothing to do with anything described in the article and has little to do with competency. Competency is up to the individual.
I have been on the hiring side and always try to offer feedback, even through back-channels.

If you tell me, "Hey, thanks for spending so much time with us, the team really loved talking with you, and we were super impressed with your experience in X and we were really impressed with your take-home and the way you dealt with questions about why you decided to go with the architecture that you did. It was a really hard decision, but ultimately we decided to go with someone that we felt had a bit more familiarity with Scala and also had more client-facing experience because it meets our current needs. We'll each out in the future if we think there's a mutual fit, otherwise best of luck in your search!"

That may be mostly bullshit, cause there are things you can't say, but at least it helps me hone in on either areas where you were looking for something I wasn't, or areas where I might be able to improve. Maybe I get feedback from 3 or 4 places that they want more experience with scaling issues so maybe I spend the next 6 months trying to hone those skills.

I really don't think it's hard to offer actionable feedback, as I've done it for every person I've ever interviewed. I'm not gonna tell someone I thought they were annoying, or underprepared, or grossly over-represented their abilities, it's not a perfectly honest feedback system, but i I liked someone enough to spend multiple days with them, I'm certainly going to try to offer them something honest that I feel would make them a stronger candidate, for another company, or for future-us.
The best alternative is to not even use a bag. 13 days out of 14, I don’t even need a bag or any other container, but that’s in part due to some lifestyle choices that put me in walking distance of a good grocery.

The next best alternative is to already have bags you can use, a backpack that you carry other stuff in for example with some extra room.

Beyond that, dedicated cloth bags work, or you can buy paper bags as you need them, and reuse them until they’re too worn; or use them as trash bags. Yes, they’ll require more resources to manufacture, but they won’t adversely impact the surrounding environment nearly as much as they degrade, and that has to be balanced against resource usage. If it helps, you can purchase a bag that already exists from a thrift shop or some other secondhand store so long as it seems sturdy enough and easy to clean. It’s been broken in already, seen actual use, and isn’t going to encourage the manufacture of a new bag to take its place once bought, or give more money to the original manufacturer.

A cloth bag can also be repaired, seams can be sewn up, and any holes that appear can be patched up. A badly beaten up bag can be saved as a resource to repair the other bags with, as can any other tattered clothes you might have.

Also consider baskets, as in old fashioned woven baskets. It only recently occurred to me so I haven’t thought this one through, but this entire conversation is built around the dichotomy of reusable versus single use bags. Baskets as a means of transporting groceries doesn’t seem to be on anyone’s radar or in any of these discussions. Supermarkets sometimes have leftover shipping boxes that you can pack your groceries in as well, but depends on the market. If you order a lot online, you might even have a number of boxes of your own you can save for your next grocery run.

The point of these bag fees, at the end of the day, isn’t to force people to pay a fee, or to specifically buy reusable bags. The point is force people to be conscientious about their bag usage and to consider a change of habits, and some other alternatives to just accepting the otherwise complementary bags that you don’t have to even think about taking.
iTerm2 Version 3.3 Released
Kind of disappointed everyone in that field ended up at Facebook. Seems like they aren't even working on this kind of stuff anymore.
It shows people can adapt. Hopefully other countries will see it can be done and adopt similar policies.
Major New Features

- A Python scripting API has been added to enable
extensive configuration and customization. See
https://iterm2.com/python-api for details.
- A scriptable status bar has been added with 13
built-in configurable components.
- Two new themes:
Minimal: Reduces visual clutter. Modernist.
Compact: Moves tabs into the title bar to save
space, while preserving the general
appearance of a macOS app.
Absolutely. Using dogs for hunting is considered barbaric these days.
First light:

ELT 2025 (39.3m, 978m²)

TMT 2027 (30m, 655m²)

(Future first-light dates are provisional and likely to change. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extremely_Large_Telescope)

Nice mirror size comparison:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extremely_Large_Telescope#/med...
> I’m yet to see a cotton bag floating down the Thames.

When they are widly used you will.

I've used canvas bag from Tesco. It fell apart after few years. I definitely did not use it 7000 times.

When plastic bags were free I was reusing them as trash bags if I collected too many of them. Now I'm buying dedicated trashbags. I definitely spend more on plastic bags then I used to. I can only hope part of this money goes towards environmental efforts.