skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> As long as you get off the sinking ship of technologies that are obviously waning (and you should have at least a decade of warning in advance, I think)

You also don't need to get on the ground floor. Every technology boom creates next years legacy apps, there will be React work for years after the next tool gets popular for one example. The article touches on it, but you can make a good living out of consulting work for older technologies.

Another angle is moving into non-tech domain specialization. Becoming an eCommerce consultant, your value proposition isn't knowing React/Shopify/Demandware etc, it's knowing the eCommerce ecosystem and domain. I know devs who specialize in agribusiness, automotive software, construction, energy infrastructure and such. They build solutions to problems in those spaces that happen to be software. But they get hired based on their time in those industries not their current tech stack.
I mean yeah because sc has a supply cap for units. If you go full Elon in real life there's a whole bunch more you could be spending that money on.

I'm not against goog, appl, ect building warchests, but the analogy does break down.
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Cecelia Condit’s Video Art Became a Viral Curse for Teens on TikTok
This looks great and I could definitely see using it, but I'd like to know more about the company before providing credit card info and potentially using this tool for sensitive data.
The Hong Kong residents hasn’t really done themselves any favours and won the hearts and minds of the mainlanders. They’ve always been viewed as snobbish and generally hold mainlanders in low regard. It doesn’t help that Hong Kong media makes a big fuss about how uneducated mainlanders are whenever some mother lets her child urinate or defecate on public transport.

Most mainlanders still insist that Taiwan is a part of China and Hong Kong’s protests is just some political unrest stirred up by Western countries to cause trouble.

Coupled with a lifetime of brainwashing and propaganda (their primary school textbooks have dedicated sections where the students recite their love for their country and the communist party), I am not surprised at this at all.

Most still justify Tiananmen Square as something that had to be done to preserve the stability of the country. Secondly, they see any Western criticism as third parties commenting on an internal China political issue, of which they have no right to.
I will miss Gamestop's refurbished hardware. At any given time they have some nice choices, both to save money relative to standard new hardware, or to pay about the same and get something cooler (e.g. the "Gears of War" Xbox S)

The remaining Gamestop in my town has a brilliant salesperson also.

For a long time they tried to push people away from the paper magazine and towards a PDF which I think was a mistake. There is so much I can read on my computer, and the visual nature of the subject makes for a nice magazine.

It would be nice to see a gathering spot for e-sports enthusiasts, but what that looks like isn't so clear to me. I see it needing more floor space than a typical Gamestop has.
I believe that most frustrations we've got is in the fact that we are trying to handle two distinct tasks by single tool.

1. Web as a source of information. Super Wikipedia as you wish. Mostly for us - readers.

2. Web as a functionality delivery tool - access and interaction with applications.

As we know any universal tool is not that good for the particular task as specialized one.

And that is the main problem I think.

At early stages we had semistatic HTML(3.2)/CSS(2.1) that was quite adequate for task #1 (reading, consuming information). And we had Java applets for applications.

These two were more or less orthogonal and could evolve independently so they still be specialized tools optimal for the tasks they serve.

Hey, we had Android with Java UI... so technically things like VSCode or Google Docs could be just Java [or Kotlin or whatever] applications inside browser if someone really wants that ...
The carbon is essentially the entirety of the tree itself
That's cool, I think it'd be shame for it to remain unmaintained given that there must be a lot of legacy software on floppy disks. (I understand there are tools that provide a USB interface though)

I recently bought a PC104 board, specifically so that I can use the floppy disk interface, for 5.25 and 3.5 floppy disk drives.
SEPA Deposit Not Showing in Coinbase Account
After more than 40 days, SEPA deposit to COINBASE still not appearing in my account.

Coinbase support is not responding to my ticket. Seems like a lot of people is having the same issue.

What the hell is going on?

Is coinbase stealing money from customers? Seems like

Last option I see to claim my money: written registered letter to CFPB and BBB.

Any suggestions?

Thanks
New FAA tests spur fundamental software redesign of 737 MAX flight controls
I used to work in advertising as a graphic designer. Age discrimination is rampant there, I would suspect more so than software development in some ways.

Therefore, software development is my plan B. I have a friend who is older than I, and he's specialized in SQL. He only does SQL, and he's still finding jobs. If I needed a plan C, it would be taking up legacy code base that seems to never disappear.
Lisp, the Quantum Programmer's Choice (2018)
Definitely agree with the dietary (lower carb, higher healthy fat) advice but it's also helpful to ease into it -- benefits of fasting start at just 12 hours, so if you stop eating a little earlier and start eating a little later every day it's pretty easy to start at 12. Then you can play with increasing your fast time gradually. Most of it is learning your body and the difference between "nope, I need food now" and "I don't actually need to eat".
Homeschooling is mostly awful. Parents don't have the time or skill to teach students properly.

You don't really propose anything that can help, you just say everything is "trash".

If a man meets one asshole, then that's unlucky, if a man meets a 100 assholes, then maybe he's the asshole.

If you went through 4 years of high school and had only "trash" experiences, maybe the school wasn't the problem.

If you can't propose anything of value or any real ways to improve our flawed system, then you opinions are essentially useless.
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/47d6a7607443ea43dbc...
> For example, if you're doing text classification then tfidf+svm is a solid first thing to try

This is screening for specific domain knowledge (text processing) not general programming aptitude. That's ok if you want specific kinds of prior knowledge on Day 1 but it is not a way to hire generally smart people.

> I guess this would fall under some data science fundamentals, but the approach I think works for CS fundamentals. What data structures could you use? What are the tradeoffs? It's not about finding the one optimal solution, but about how to proceed.

This is exactly how most algorithm interview questions work.

I'm trying to understand what the OP meant by "real problems" not "academic puzzles". It sounded like they avoided hard algorithms yet "got a sense" of CS fundamentals somehow.
U.S. Ends Cold War Missile Treaty, with Aim of Countering China
>A lot of people hate them though, for the same reason outlined in the article: you can't kill them. Many consider them weeds.

I reread the article and I see no mention of it?
Whoa, you are saying that demonstrably skilled practitioners without face time need an interview (fine), but people who face timed somebody else with no demonstrated professional skills deserves to skip interview?
Likewise, people who think that no profit should be had for developing medicine don't deserve the medicines that have been developed for profit.
It supposedly did though
Right, but if a user has trusted an extension by Bobco Inc, and Bobco becomes a wholly-owned subsidiary of Crookco Inc, then Crookco can put what they like into the trusted extension.

I suppose you could argue that when Facebook buys Instagram the Instagram app should be uninstalled from users' phones and all their accounts and posts deleted, because they didn't agree to trust Facebook or consent to the data being shared with Facebook. There's a certain logic to that, but it would be a big change to how the current tech ecosystem works.
Yes, it's only captured until the tree dies. After that the tree rots etc and carbon is released again.

The clue to net carbon capture is to plant new forests and make sure the forest stays alive. While the forest lives, all the CO2 is safely sequestered.
MSDN Magazine will publish its last issue in November
> Haven't these pro-Beijing students ever tried to access uncensored information online that was denied to them until they arrived in their host countries

Most (flat earthers/birthers/anti-vaxxers/people who believe all sorts of nonsense) have had access to uncensored information online for years.

They continue to believe the various crazy things that they believe.

Why do you think political opinions should be any different?

Shit, there's no shortage of people who, despite being willing to acquiesce to the factual truth of a statement, will actively choose to disregard it. They'll do it because the statement is incompatible with their political affiliation, because the statement was uttered by a foreigner who should be minding their own business, because the person who uttered it has the 'wrong' political affiliation or religion or class or skin color or background or profession.

This sort of tribalism is incredibly normal, and you don't need to travel abroad to find it.

I'm deeply concerned by the lack of introspection of anyone painting this as a problem unique to citizens of mainland China.
Unfortunately it's not a mistake. I've worked on quite a few joint projects between the Nordic transmission system operators and this is just one of those areas where it's different in each country. Sweden is usually the strictest.
> After the tree dies, it would only go back into the atmosphere if the trunk was burned.

To nitpick: or if it decomposes in other ways.
I think you need to re-read what I wrote. You are correct that your personal rate is similar for dividends vs capital gains.

But you are iggiring the bigger picture that dividends money had to be taxed on the corporate side before it was given to you.

Capital gains that are propped up by huge cash stores in overseas tax free accounts are not.
Given there was an article about hemp a few days ago, how much carbon/acre does hemp take?
> you can't kill them

If you're trying to do carbon capture, maybe this is a feature? Assume you mean that literally, and you can just chop one down and another will grow in its place, that's pretty great, since trees only capture carbon when they are growing.
This article is US specific. The iPhone has a higher market share in the US than just about anywhere else.

https://deviceatlas.com/blog/android-v-ios-market-share#us
If you don't cut them down the first year, they become decent sized trees. However, it isn't about total individual tree size. It is about the fact that they trap more carbon into wood tissue per year, because they grow so very quickly. An oak may take 20-50 years to reach the size an empress tree will reach in say, 5-10 years. Therefore an oak traps carbon far more slowly. Oak is stronger, nicer, harder wood, because it grows more slowly, but also captures carbon more slowly. Different growth habits, different speed, from different ecosystems, with different uses.
Well yeah, by definition we already have the world's best version of any technology.
> uBlock Official

I’m pretty sure Eyeo did register the uBlock trademark, and has a good case to sue for someone implying through their product’s name that it’s “the official” uBlock.
I think alkibiades was being sarcastic. I can't be sure, though...
@dang:

It becomes wearisome when offering a controversial opinion in one thread only to have all recent posts in other threads immediatly downvoted.

Not that it's a huge deal but it sort of is because it discourages participation or any opinion outside of certain orthodoxies.

(or perhaps this post really was awful.. who knows).
I'm shocked by how often my "hunger" goes away after a cup of hot coffee or tea, or water with himalayan salt added. Part of it I'm sure is the action of getting up and getting myself something, though salt craving feeling like hunger is very real too.
It turns into wood! It's actually pretty amazing. I always though the physical substance of wood came out of the ground, through the roots, but in fact wood is made almost exclusively out of air. Trees are frozen air.
While the humanities departments decry the evils of colonialism, admissions departments never met a rich foreigner they didn't like. Same dynamic for Hollywood.

I guess they are all being somewhat consistent here, since it probably doesn't count as colonialism-proper when the indigenous peoples happen to be Anglo.
No company has the luxury of paying employees with money they don't have.
Maybe don't jump straight toward someone being a nationalistic bigot right away. Due process should be followed, but pushing anti-democratic views is quite literally a reason to have your visa cancelled in Australia, even if no other crimes have occurred. If a crime is also committed, then maybe they should spend some time in jail before removal. However, considering that it doesn't look like the violence was particularly grievous (bruised ribs and a chipped tooth seem to be the worst of it), placing them in jail is probably just an extra burden on the penal system before they would be removed anyway.

"Not be disruptive" is a very common visa condition, and promoting violence, threatening harm, or interrupting the operation of the Australian community (which a university is a part of) is grounds to have your visa cancelled. Considering that some physical altercations also took place should make the vase very solid.

Check the student visa (subclass 500) conditions here:
https://immi.homeaffairs.gov.au/visas/already-have-a-visa/ch...
Fast growing matters. The ability to harvest them and have them regrow matters a lot too. That’s what makes bamboo so effective at carbon capture.
It's basic income, not basic job or basic requirements for living. If it was basic requirements for living, then you couldn't supplement what was given to make it better. You'd get a rack in a barracks and be fed crap because most people wouldn't be using the benefit. It wouldn't be universal.

I couldn't choose to use the money to get a place out in the country where the cost of living was low, and grow stuff in a garden. And I couldn't choose to get a place with a roommate that I trusted. I couldn't decide that I wanted to splurge and get something good for dinner, instead of red beans and rice.

No a pile of cash isn't food, water, clothing, or transportation. But it can buy all of them. Money doesn't buy happiness, but lack of money sure causes alot of misery.

It's kinda like how donating food and clothing is the worst form of charity you can supply. You pay retail rates to give stuff to a charity that they may not need, when if they had cash they could get what they need, possibly at wholesale rates.
Ive got a few floppy drives that I would be glad to donate if shipping was covered.
That stagnation can be argued to exist in google. But I'd argue Elon and bezos (up until recently) have been pushing tech hard. The DARPA robotic challenges and biochemical engineering and ml that keep chugging along in the background will provide competitors to goog if they sit on their web advertising model forever.
Wonderful insight into an interesting man. I’ve never understood why he’s spent so much time writing the Art of Computer Programming, but framing it as a deep inclination to explain and summarize the work of others in a beautiful way is such a wonderful perspective I’ve never heard anyone say before.

Very cool. Thank you.
> Do you think Americans are going to hate their country after reading about ...

Yes, this commonly occurs in fact. Americans trash their own country aggressively, routinely all over social media, for its flaws and past mistakes. See: Twitter, Reddit or Imgur comments every day of the week.

We pay sports athletes and celebrities tens of millions of dollars and they regularly trash the US for its flaws and past mistakes. They do so all over social media, routinely, and with few repercussions (essentially none from the government, and few from social blowback).

How many famous millionaire Hollywood celebrities would you like me to quote - eg from their tweets - saying they somehow hate the US or wish to leave?
My feeling about this? A much more polluting option, that nevertheless will be adopted because it's more convenient than card boxes. Poor Earth.
Quote: "In the past six months, EasyList changes have broken the buy buttons on commerce site The Inventory, the video player on Animal Planet, disrupted site navigation on Fandom, and disrupted the style and CSS loading process on job search site Indeed."

Good, very good. Break them all. Learn to go back to basics, use TABLE, not gazzilion of nested DIV's for what should be a single BUTTON element instead. I run uBlock Origins, NoScript and Privacy Badger; and whenever I go, to clients, friends, family, I'll always put them up. Your shitty site has the same merchandise like many others and if your "buy" button is broke I'll just go to the next site...and while on this, how come Amazon "buy" button is not broke? Almost feels like Amazon devs actually test with ad-blockers their content before allowing it on the wild.
Would that be the evidence that college educated workers make more money than those without[1,2], or the evidence that the unemployment rate is lower for those with a college degree than for those without[3,4]?

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LEU0252918500A

[2] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LEU0252917300Q

[3] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNU04027662

[4] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNS14027660
Google uses this all day multiple millions of times to price their "adsense" ads. This is the basis on which the price and value are quantified to make sure that the general strategy for advertisers is to make sure they bid the "true" price as any other game will increase their counterfactual value thus demoting them
I like this but I also wish they'd do a "75 over 75" or a "90 over 90" - I think those has more longer term value.
Tom Scott did a nice video [1] on IEX's setup with 38 miles of fiber to add enough latency as a mechanism of fairness. Purportedly, this benefits all exchanges after it was successfully deployed. It seems like the incentives are not there for larger, more established exchanges to implement such blanket latency. So, firms like GS see a benefit to this kind of investment.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8BcCLLX4N4
Chrome also has perennial problems with CPU/battery/RAM on Mac.
It's in a caption of one of the images:

> "After the first year of growth, trees are cut down to the stump, the rest sold for timber. This process, called coppicing, promotes bigger and straighter growth the following year."
Do you have evidence the students were sent by foreign governments? Where is your claim coming from? From your imagination?
They mention it’s “easy to regrow from the stump” what that means is cutting it down doesn’t kill it. Additionally many trees that easily regrow from a cut stump also regrow/produce new tree from their roots.

Seems like a recipe for an invasive plant (much like those awful pear trees the were used for landscaping)
In fact, it felt like I was reading the work of someone who was not interested in writing whatsoever, which is funny considering that they are a professor at a liberal arts college.

Remember, you're not reading the words written by the original author... you're reading a (possibly heavily) edited version that reflects as much on the editor as the author. As the disclaimer at the bottom says The above has been edited and condensed for clarity.

FWIW, I've had a handful of articles published online (mainly at Infoworld) and I can attest that the editing process can, at times, be pretty severe in terms of how much the original text is altered.
>Not a trick question–honestly I would be willing to argue in favor of al-Qaeda's freedom of speech, including their freedom to advocate their ideology in the US.

I guess where I am going is, do you favor their equal access to private broadcast services? If no, then its functionally equivalent to suppression their speech rights, given our current environment, because all public speech needs to exit out 1 of those 20 megaphones.

Otherwise its like supporting everyones right to their own billboard, but saying the government or an oligopoly gets to control the land access of who gets to place one hear a highway.

A billboard away from a highway is like a tree falling in a forest without someone to hear it, from an auditory perspective, it didnt happen.
It's hard not to acree with Thiel here. We only need to look at Elon Musk to realize that there are still plenty of opportunity for moonshot investments.

What does Elon know that Google as a whole doesn't?
I do wonder why they couldn't "just" support both old and new URL paths using something like this:

RewriteRule "^/+new_path/+(.+)$" /advert/$1 [L]

... for each "new url path" (as, granted, they had quite a few which matched "advert".

... but that's also something they could again fix with another RewriteRule, I guess?

RewriteRule "^(.*)/+new_path/+(.+)$" $1/advert/$2 [L]

... would've worked just as well?
I think covering themselves with posters of the Tank man will work as well.
8BITCOIN: a Bitcoin Miner for the Apple II
I think the idea here is that this version is largely unknown?
One of the plot elements of the movie Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome was a group of orphans, is my guess.

EDIT: Nope, or only indirectly. See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20595137
That's something to put on your resume and mention in an interview.

And then the response:

"You maintain a what driver?"
One thing I've noticed is that there seem to be a lot more older developers and engineers at hardware-oriented companies.

I currently work at Wing Aviation, the Alphabet drone delivery company. We were originally located in the Google X building, which is the old Mayfield Mall in Mountain View. I used to shop at that mall in the 1970s!

X is full of hardware startups, and when I started there I noticed one thing right away: for the first time in a while, I was not the oldest person in the building.

Now that we've moved to our own smaller building, I may be the oldest again, but not by a wide margin. There is a lot of gray hair in our teams.

I'm 67 and have been programming for 50 years.
Possibly a reference to the Mad Max movie...
Fanboy's social list was explicitly crafted to block social media buttons a few years ago:
https://www.ghacks.net/2013/07/31/how-to-configure-adblock-p...

It's now part of a bigger "annoyances" list so maybe that was included somewhere in one of the filterlists.
The best thing we can do for the earth is take a lot of the money being spent and plant tons of trees, then use the wood as co2 storage in the form of furniture.
The carbon goes back into the atmosphere if you burn it. If you just let it decay, turn into top soil, and ultimately become entombed by the surface of the Earth it will, ultimately, suffer the fate of most of the ancient plants we today burn in their carbon-storage form: underground oil.
Sometimes I have to use a friend's computer and there's a little too much "moral fiber" for my liking. Adult ads, trackers etc. I explain how easy it is to get rid of and before you know it I've installed ublock origin and I can get back to depravity.
For a layman like me it sounds really cool, almost like magic. Consider a trivial operation like finding a maximum value in a list. How is that supposed to work on encrypted values while simultaneously providing strong encryption? So something like adding N to everything in the list is not an acceptable encryption.