skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That doesn't follow. I'm probably much more likely to be electrocuted because my house has electricity, but that doesn't mean electricity doesn't serve its purpose.
Forth is pretty amazing. It really delivers on that old promise of “a language that will make you a better programmer in other languages”.

However, from my experience, since there is basically no syntax, all Forth programs tend to be a DSL for the problem at hand. It’s almost like having to learn a new language ok each new project. It’s like a complete opposite of what makes Go great.
UX feedback. Get rid of "Repeat Password" field. It will make the form look more user-friendly, as well as hide the scroll bar (at least on my MacBook Pro), so the entire page fit the screen.
Url changed from https://aaai.org/ojs/index.php/aimagazine/article/download/4... to one that doesn't do an auto download.
Do people really build mines with a 5-year horizon? Of course it's going to outpace demand... initially.

The great thing about mines is that you can just leave the lithium in the ground if the current prices aren't right.
You are my kind of anarchist.
Fortnite World Cup handed out $30M in prizes, cementing its spot in the culture
Without trying you made a career!

You do you.

Create a resume full of your real and legitimate experience. Chronologically newest to oldest.

For education put any and all certificates and learning you have done to get your projects complete.

Be prepared to be asked the question of why you worked at company x for y months and jumped around a lot. You moved around due to opportunity x or y because of factor a or b. Brush up on data structures and other CS topics. If you don’t remember say so. If you have been successful at completing projects you have a work ethic. We hired a developer at 87k full time at my company with no degree based on a strong resume and a strong interview who had, during the interview, exactly what you have, a lack of self confidence. I saw the person under the lack of confidence.

Having a degree does not make the person. I have worked with folks from BS, MS, PhD and with no degree at all, and let me tell you we all screw up at times. It’s how you recover and fix the issues that makes you a better programmer. As you self identify as a programmer, you know your limitations; therefore don’t hesitate to state them (which has nothing to to with having or not having a degree by the way). If someone rakes you over the coal for not knowing something, it’s them you should be concerned about and think twice before accepting a position.

Be you, be honest, try and try again. Nothing comes easy and everything has its price.
This looks like an interesting site. But rather than posting a home page, it would be better to find the most interesting thing or two on the site and post those instead. Then there's something meatier to discuss.

We've found that when people post lists, which a home page is a kind of, discussion tends to be about the lowest common denominator of the list items (https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...).
I remembered. Search "olderhill german shepherds" or "ann butler shepherds" for a selection of sites. Looks like there's a few kennels offering a continuation of those dogs, but no one actually continuing the process of bringing the best workers back for breeding.

This seems to have the most history: https://olderhill.webnode.com/history-of-the-olderhills/
> At the very least you could build Ergeon as a distributed and open network co-operative.

:-)
I now get the hippie substring of your username .
How would the police who pulled your spouse from a car wreck know your PIN?

How would someone store your PIN in a contacts list that didn't include a field for a PIN?

This system places obstacles in the way of someone who may need to reach you urgently. Is that a good tradeoff to make for not receiving spam calls?
Thank you science friend!

Find more of the goods here too:

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> Before the incident began, a background job performed an aggregation for a large number of accounts, causing excessive reads into cache and cache evictions for the cluster’s storage engine cache.

I thought this was interesting. I think that caches can be so dangerous in an incident - suddenly operations that are almost always constant time are executing in a much different complexity, and worst is that this tends to happen when you get backups (since old, uncached data is suddenly pushing recent data out).

I think chaos engineering may be a good solution here, in lieu of better architectures - see what happens when you clear your cache every once in a while, how much your load changes, how your systems scale to deal with it.
Hello, your country's unemployment rate is fairly low, you should be fine.And I believe that experience is more important than a college degree (although It could be nice to have one). And according to yourself you have been doing it professionally for a long time ( 14 years aprox.). Honestly I don't see a problem here, you probably have a nice portfolio already. Good luck.
If God wanted to be 'provable', we wouldn't we have anything left to prove (it would already be proved...). The option to doubt (or to believe) the existence of God, leaves an opportunity for love. Choice is essential to love. If we saw God, we would lose that choice. Though it's interesting to attempt to prove God; I'm currently reading "The Physics of Christianity" [0]. I can't say I stand behind it completely, but it's a fascinating effort.

[0] - https://www.amazon.com/Physics-Christianity-Frank-J-Tipler/d...
> The electric car industry hasn't remotely boomed.

Plug-in electric sales in 2018 were up 61% over 2017, which was 51% higher than 2016 (via quick wikipedia check).

What numbers would you want to see before calling that a "boom"? How much higher than 60% growth does something have to have before it's not "strangled"?

I think that's silly. Clearly these things are going somewhere. Production at all levels is adapting to compete, and that means some areas (like Li production in the linked articles) are going to outstrip the field which remains limited by other things. But even right now they're clearly out of the "niche within a niche" category and growing very well.
Chris Arnade on Dignity [audio]
I wonder how unique to software this is. For instance, it appears doctors have bimodal comp too. If you compare general practitioners with top surgeons for example.
Third-party sellers also use Amazon to outsource marketing, advertisement, and in some cases shipping. It's a lot easier to set up as a third-party seller on Amazon than to operate a complete e-commerce business. Some of the third-party Amazon sellers are just one person.

> It's understandable that sellers love the high reach they can get on Amazon, but by selling on the platform they provide Amazon all the information they need to eventually kill their business

Has that ever happened?
Background: http://dailynous.com/2018/05/15/philosophy-science-student-w...
Very cool, thanks for sharing
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20540670
Rural Nevada not equipped for big ‘storm Area 51’ turnout
If it shortens MTTR it's worth it. It has to be 3 PM for someone.
well, a sisve in the drain would save used balls to be used again. It would also catch chicken wings or gristle. That means some care is needed. The balls can also have a magnetic core for the same reason - a magnet would save balls. Most chicken wings are not magnetic.
A sieve is 100% good - catches all balls. Bad aspect is big stuff is also caught.
A magnet is not 100% good as a ball trapped in a chicken wing might be an aggregate too heavy for the magnet to grab, so the ball and wing go down the drain.
Aw, that's sad, we watched videos of this dog not long after we got our own border collie puppy some months ago.

Then we tried in vain to get our dog to make word/object associations like this dog. No luck.

Yes, BCs are smart. But that particular BC was really really smart. I hope its genetics live on in some lineage somewhere.
Hypercard seems rather reminiscent of VisualBasic to me, so I can understand its popularity. The difference seems that Microsoft embraced its quirks and shifted it into several areas (VBA for the office product, and perhaps VBScript for IE). VB became vb.net which was succeeded by c#, as the language (vb/c# and others) became decoupled from the development environment.

The main modern difference between ye-olde hypercard and vb, is that the whole ecosystem was a monolith, whereas now it's disconnected.
2 million of the 70 million cars produced annually in the world are electric. It went from fringe to industrial, talking about a boom is acceptable IMO.

It still have a 35x potential growth, so it can "boom" again, but the EV industry now is huge
> with no serious competitors

Seems to be a different story in the US versus Europe.

In Europe they have a lot more competitors either with cars now or coming soon e.g. VW ID3, VW Polestar 2, BMW i3, Honda e, Peuegot e-208, Renault Zoe, Nissan Leaf, Hyundai Kona EV, Mercedes EQC400/EQS, Audi eTron, Jaguar I-PACE etc.

Tesla has largely had the market to itself but now you are seeing much higher quality cars with only slightly less range.
> Consumers can be responsible by radically cutting consumption.

If I drop my consumption by $20k, I believe my extra investment of $20k will get consumed elsewhere in the economy.

If I spend that $20k on eco-friendly shit, I believe that the people I spent it on spend the majority of that on non-eco friendly shit (e.g. international travel holidays).

I want a better answer - one that isn't some simplistic catchphrase.
I see your point, but I also don't see much of a leap.

If 90% who survived suicide did not attempt suicide again it sort of does suggest that had more people survived their suicide impulses they would also be one-timers. Sadly, sometimes one impulse is the last.

I read about bridge jumpers who survived (I think it was the Golden Gate Bridge, FWIW) and most said the instant they left the bridge they had a rush of clarity and profoundly regretted what they had just done.

Haunts me still to think about the ones that didn't survive but likely had that same moment of horror.
Indeed, even HC itself was limited to a subset of the full capabilities of the Mac of its day. To make a successful programming tool "for the rest of us" requires an intuition for what that subset should consist of, on the system where it will live. Too much stuff and it becomes prohibitive to learn. Too little, and it fizzles.

Also, you had to be able to deliver enough value to a user, for them to forgive the aesthetics of your UI, and maybe even your mistakes.

Bill Atkinson may have been a genius, or he may have gotten lucky. Or most likely, both.

If you get the subset right, and make it compelling in other ways, then people will put up with the limitations and even creatively work around them. I think this explains the success of Visual Basic and even moreso, Excel.

Within the context of pre-GUI computers, good old BASIC fits the model.
You can buy almost all of those cars in the US. My experience has been however that dealers have little to no interest in selling them to you.
Kraft-Heinz scale ($18B sales) is impressive, but it's still not much compared to Wal-Mart scale ($514B). That scale is what underlies the negotiation, just as Kraft-Heinz's scale typically let's them attempt to dominate their other customers. "Weakest position" for Wal-Mart, even if true, is relative and the absolute value is still quite strong.

Every regional grocery store chain has private labels from which they get roughly the same stuff; store brands are a mid-1850s innovation for exactly the same leverage over suppliers as Walmart want to get. Walmart making a decision to vertically integrate an element of their supply chain as opposed to regionally contract also isn't an innovation: it's simply an obvious and logical step at scale. Finally, dismissing regional contracting as a possibility is silly: Florida and Washington state having their generic mac-n-cheese rolling out of different factories is not a deal breaker.
And this one-liner library even has a dependency (!) used by the surrounding error-checking code.
Thread from 2014: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8806293

2009: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=417917

Others?
On the other hand, nobody argues electricity is an essential human right because you need it to fight electrocution.

Guns might serve some purposes in some situations. It's just an incredibly lousy tool for "defending ourselves", with negative utility on average.
Where are you getting this from? The actual test scores in the graph in the article don't correspond with the percentiles; I don't think the scales on the x and y axis are the same, which is what you seem to be contending.
> The Upwork marketplace is no different than any other source of people that may be looking for remote jobs.

The trouble is that people will typically do their reference checking on UpWork, which incentivizes people to leave positive reviews on it, just like Uber and AirBnb do. It does tend to require real names and you can often find information about people elsewhere, but a lot of people don't. So if you try to do a more thorough check, the candidate may not be expecting it.
I'm not against gun control--I think there are a number of really "low hanging fruit"-type adjustments that could be made in regulation--but I feel that the amount of political energy liberals put toward it is low priority and loses us a lot of other battles.

It's low-priority because guns are much scarier on the news than their actual death counts warrant. More people die in car accidents every year than have died in the entire history of the United States in mass shootings--yet mass shootings are disproportionately used as a talking point. Yearly motor deaths are an order of magnitude more frequent than gun deaths, and that's if you count the more than half of gun deaths which are suicides--if you want to protect yourself from guns, simply not owning a gun is an effective measure. If liberals took proportional action with regard to harm on car safety to how we act on gun safety, we'd be pushing for frequent re-testing for licenses, lower speed limits, easier loss-of-licenses for repeat bad drivers, stricter drunk driving laws, etc. But that's not what's happening.

It loses us a lot of battles, because it alienates a lot of potential allies. True libertarians, for example, tend to be fairly pro-choice, but don't feel strongly about it, but very pro-gun, and feel very strongly about it. We'd have them on our side in votes relevant to abortion a lot more often if we didn't alienate them with regards to gun rights.
The thing about subscription software is that it's brand new. If you're under 40 you probably don't even realize this, but it's a weird new invention to us old timers, and a massive shift in the economics of technology that tends to extract a lot more money out of consumers, but not necessarily to their benefit.

This is demonstrably not true. Take Microsoft Office for instance. I got my first Mac in 1992. Office was $600 for the Mac. You were only suppose to use it on Macs you owned, and you definitely couldn’t get a Windows version for free if you owned the Mac version.

Now, for $100 a year, I can get Office and run it on my Mac, Windows PC, iPhone, iPad, web and Android device if I had one. I also get one terabyte of storage and add up to five additional users with the same benefit.

The usual counterpoint is that you could spend the $600 a month and own it “forever”. But if I had bought Office in 1992, I would have had to have an emulated version in 1997 for the PPC Macs, if I had bought it in 1997, I would have had a non native classic MacOS version.

Today the situation would have been worse with the iOS release cycle if I were stuck on an older version.

The same could be said about Adobe.
Nice gesture but you don’t have contact details to ping in your profile
In the C++ world, you almost certainly don't need headers in prod.
Australia proposes tougher scrutiny of Facebook’s and Google’s IP
I assure you my understanding of D-K is well above average.
Their users are far from evenly distributed across timezones.
An independent poll conducted by the Honolulu Star-Advertiser in 2018 found that 72 percent of Native Hawaiians (registered voters) support TMT, 23 percent oppose it and 5 percent were undecided.
I have both a BC and a dog friendly workplace (Google). But I wouldn't dream of bringing her to work. Workplaces are for sedate dogs that are fine with lying around and doing nothing while the owner works.

Our BC spends all her waking hours looking for a job, and her wakefulness and energy is so much more intense than any other dog I've had. Makes sense for a breed that had to walk/run for effectively dozens of miles a day while herding.
The feeling is a lot more "I'm glad I didn't die." I doubt it could be replicated in VR.
I remember asking my parents about this in the late eighties and early nineties. We went to the landfills several times a year, and I saw so much plastic that I asked why plastic was being dumped here if we were supposed to be recycling.

I think he said something that not all plastic is recycled or something.
The virtual piece of it would ruin the last second regret. The regret comes from the realization that you've crossed through a door with no return.

Can't ever get that in VR unless somehow the subject does not realize it's fake.
Yes, true. What’s your point? You still need libjpg to be either statically linked into your executable or present on the target system.
It’s a British turn of phrase meaning any kind of party costume, not even necessarily anything “fancy”.
world record of 28 years, documented where?
>First, capital gains and dividends have basically the same tax treatment (not identical, but close enough for anyone holding for longer than a year).

No, that's not correct. If you are being paid a dividend, whether it be qualified or not, that money is double taxed. Once at the corporate earnings rate and then again to you personally at capital gains rate.

As a shareholder, whether that tax all comes out of your pocket or not, doesn't matter. Your increase in value is effectively taxed at 60-70%.

But that is not the case if the company you invest in, rather than retaining earnings to pay dividends, reinvests into growth or other capital expenditures or keeps large sums of untaxed money in overseas accounts. Thus continually pushing the stock upwards. And allowing investors to make their own choices about cashing out. Be it by selling shares of getting loans using the stock as collateral.

Why in the world do you think Apple has $250B in cash, a full quarter of their total market cap, mostly stashed away in tax free zones?

It is for the simple reason that people can invest and get that money reinvested for them all without ever having to sell or take a distribution and then get taxed before using it or reinvesting it yourself.
Speaking for myself, virtually all self administered methods used can be quite painful with an uncertain outcome, due to imperfect information. As I started going through an attempt, as the pain increased, I backed off and realized I had no idea what I was doing and needed to stop. I suppose people that attempt suicide don't see another way of solving whatever they perceive to be the doomsday singularity in their life.
> I’m not a JS developer so maybe I’m missing something

Yes, you have outdated respect for production quality. JS world is less concerned with such details.
Maybe, but now that I have, it's very very good.

It's also totally reasonable to say, "It shouldn't have taken you years." It probably shouldn't have!
Internet of Traitorous Things
question: are there enough mango leaves in India to extract the rust inhibiting compounds?
This is interesting... As non-C++ developer, I've never thought I needed this. Is this an answer to a question anyone is asking?
Look into SBCL (Common Lisp), Racket (Scheme), or Guile (Scheme). All three of these have enough library support to be used for real-world software development and are designed to exist within a modern (usually Unix-based) ecosystem.

But don't try to introduce Lisp into your company, unless you are a cofounder of that company. It's a career limiting move. Instead, work on something you're fond of in Lisp during your off hours.
This could make for an interesting thread. If you want to try it again, let us know at hn@ycombinator.com and we'll put it in the second-chance pool (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11662380). Normally we'd just email a repost invite but those don't work for Ask HNs.
Huh that's a cool observation. I think there might be more ambiguity there though. For example, I could (and in my case would probably) also interpret the second response as not being "friendly" exactly but as defensive and irritated. Only someone who is worried about being regarded as inferior or believes that you're acting superior would make that kind of overly demonstrative response. A peer would probably just echo your tone and just say "Ok". Not saying you should psychoanalyze too much or that your interpretation is wrong but be on the lookout (especially via written communication) for when kindness isn't actually kindness, but deference or defensiveness.
People didn’t buy software - they pirated it. Businesses bought software.
They have booked relative to prior production and future estimates for production are on the rise. Volkswagen for example is near the release of a car based on a new platform for mass production of a more affordable (than Tesla) option that falls at the lower end of the Tesla in terms of range. Many other examples abound. The very near future will show tremendous year over year growth in the EV sector. Seems like a boom to me.
Not knowledgable in the topic, but https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shape_of_the_universe mentions a couple of measures, both of which cannot distinguish our universe from a flat one.
Filled my calendar with things like gym and family time outside of working hours. Set my calendar to reject double booked meetings / events automatically was the first step

After that it depends on the reactions you get from that.
And for the vain, aging - wrinkles, spots, dryness, etc.
Yes, your favorite high level language might provide something like this implicitly.
http://archive.is/E9ToP
developers constantly need to update apps to be compatible with new OS releases.

It could be sold as a paid upgrade. Customers will complain, but they complain more about subscriptions.
High-velocity ecosystems like this make it way too easy to optimise your code for getting pats on the head. It's good that people are pointing out things like this (relatively speaking) not long after the fact, and that a lot of people on here are annoyed about it. The fix is cultural as much as any 2FA implementation.
You can't "reduce the amount of shipping" by fiat. The best you can do is price the externalities into products we buy—which is a good idea and we should be doing a lot more of that—but that won't change the fact that (a) it'll always be cheaper to make some stuff elsewhere and (b) it's often impossible to make some stuff closer to you.

Good luck making (not just assembling) smartphones in Belgium or Iowa.

What you're really asking for is to make consumer goods so dramatically more expensive that repairs become economically competitive and casual disposal becomes economically untenable. Even then if you want to "fix" the problem, you would also fix the cost of housing, education and healthcare so that disposable consumer goods command greater portion of people's income.
No, you're wrong. In general there is not even a concept of "side", but even if there is a positively-curved surface or manifold seen from the other side is still positively-curved. And the same with negative.

You can probably convince yourself of this if you think at the triangles mentioned in the article. Their angles do not change even when you change side.