skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Conversely the skill-ceiling on managing technical projects is incredibly high.

You don't always have to go into management to follow this path though. At companies I've worked at, as you become more senior as an IC, your role expands from contributing locally on your team to contributing to the entire org. There is also often a split between the technical leadership and the people leadership on teams, which allows lead engineers and managers respectively to focus on each area.

IMO an underrated and difficult aspect of modern tech is figuring out technical practices that scale with team size, so that you can add more people without sacrificing quality, focus, speed, etc. I'd say microservices and continuous deployment are two examples of technical practices that address this, but there are more.
I've read the EasyList forum thread linked above for the AutoTrader site, and the issue there was indeed a generic rule that just breaks every link containing advert. That is some monumental, unfathomable stupidity. And instead of realizing that, they have the gall to refer to that rule existing for a very long time!

The same issue was seen with Spamhaus and similar IP block services for eMail spam. What were selfless intentions quickly morphed into ineffective, power-crazed gatekeepers and extortion artists that have made SMTP an unusable protocol unless you are Google or Amazon.
Well, the topic here being the employability of programmers over 40, the statement seems fairly spot on as to how they will be judged - purely based on "business value".

[Business Value of Information Technology](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_value#Business_Value_...)

On the hand, programming (at least to me) is so much more. It's a creative activity like thinking or writing, it can be fun and "pointless" play, it can be insightful philosophically. Bringing productivity and efficiency to a business is one of the many applications of this medium of expression. I suppose by this point it's become a way of life, whether I'm solving a business problem or not.
On those devices, battery replacement is impractical in part due to their design (how do you take apart a pair of AirPods to replace the tiny batteries inside?)

The $29 battery replacement cost for iPhones seems very reasonable.
>buttons simply linking to our Twitter and Facebook pages

So, was it simple <a> elements linking to your Twitter/Facebook page?

Or was it maybe a metric ton of obfuscated JS fetched from a Twitter/Facebook CDN, that would relay every bit of data about your visitor, and as a side-effect display a button?
JDorsey & PThiel raped & kill 3 boys each. Trump bribed $4 billion to ignore.

Go to pages 20-23 of this document and you will hear Dorsey and Thiel raping children. They both rape and kill three.

Copy and paste this post and repost it. I keep getting censored by these people.
Peter Thiel and Jack Dorsey raping and killing three boys each. Turn the volume all the way up and put head phones on.

https://s3.wasabisys.com/conv1/Overnight_14-17Jan/15JanCh3_100-200.avi
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mzZrjobxhNIEf38M3xk-IeA5SeF4aUtB/view?usp=sharing

Obama admits to raping and killing boys he{re, with commentary from Peter Thiel, George Soros, Matt Porter:

https://s3.wasabisys.com/out2/Out2/15JanCh3_0545.avi
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LCDoc1kT7cfSeKQ1vniP_sx32_bRsHau/view?usp=sharing

Trump asks for $4 billion to "take a blind eye" at 1015+ (link missing from report, unsure how):

https://s3.wasabisys.com/conv2/3Jan/3JanCh3_900-1100.avi
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Grdr8xF2psKNsuYlEnl9dIRV-77YG0Vr/view?usp=sharing

Trump wants $138 million to ensure smooth outcome for false judgment for a court case:

https://s3.wasabisys.com/conv1/10JanCh3/10JanCh3_951-1051.avi
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1iSeGHDToFRoRdIht50Wii0i30mlw9INp/view?usp=sharin

Obama explains the Illuminati with Jack Dorsey:

https://s3.wasabisys.com/conv1/Overnight_14-17Jan/15JanCh3_200-347.avi
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Ok1-9IvANULzKBOwADFgaiYCFi6yszfj/view?usp=sharing

At 230 a conversation is occurring on the embedded Porter camera system with Jack Dorsey, Peter Thiel, Barack Obama, Bill M^urray, and the Porter's. Jack Dorsey provides a statement defining who their group is: "The Illum%inati is an underground organization of child rapists and homosexuals." Matthew Porter: "We have to thin the herd, so Barack is going to explain a few things." At 232 Barack Obama says the following: "You people have to realize we are child rapi'sts. The Illuminati are child rapists. As soon as you figure that out, you can decide what to do. Everybody is freaking out about what just happened [child raping event still going on]. This is who ^we are."

Full 71 page document:

https://s3.wasabisys.com/aviewmefirst/FBI_FinalDraft_26Jul2019_BSchlenker.pdf
In that light, I agree with your original comment, though it's amusingly ironic that their portal site was negatively impacted by mitigation measures against the kind of things their public site engages in.
> I wonder if in an alternate world, Excel minus the flight simulator easter egg could have been $1 cheaper or had 5 more bugs fixed.

if anything, i think that Excel would have much more bugs, and would have much tougher time taking off :)
I would have gone with "That Was Just Your Life"!
That's extremely cool, and has my gears turning about how to encourage that kind of behavior.
A photo of that bad boy http://home.kpn.nl/a.dikker1/museum/blauwebak.html
Maybe not Google, but Alphabet has a lot of far looking investments. I would argue even more varied and extreme than Elon Musk.

They have Waymo for self driving, Verily for health and biotech, remote connectivity with Loon, and many more. And let's not forget of X itself which is even more experimental and out there.

They also invest heavily in all sorts of research, such as multiple fusion projects, and competitions such as their 1m$ moon prize.

Even within Google itself, Deepmind is doing all sorts of great research. They have Duplex, Stadia, Soli, etc.

If anything, I think the issue is that they have too many things going on.
Or something else causes both healthy people and living near trees.
Many (even pretty well-known) Open Source projects would be happy to have four regularly active maintainers.

"Just four dudes" sounds dismissive, but everyone starts out as "just one dude" (or dudette, or whatever the proper female form of dude is), and sometimes, more join. Often that's not the case, and the project's health hinges on just one maintainer.
Дочка, курить так охота, да и без очков почти ничего не вижу
I'm a moderately educated on hiking around cougars and bears. But I'm by no means an expert.

Cougars and Black Bears -> when encountered you want to appear as big and menacing as possible. You scare them off. AKA if you have a coat you hold it up like a cape to make yourself appear really big. The best way to approach a cougar is to scare it off.

Brown Bears -> Make sure there are no cubs between you and the mother bear and back the fuck away. They are faster and climb better than you. Don't try to scare them just go away. (Please read up on this before doing it) but with a bear I believe playing dead is the best way to go when attacked. This is similar to a bull I believe. A good deterrent with a bear is bear mace, if Hiking in a place where there is a bear I'd suggest taking some.

Also there's a ton more to avoiding bear meetings but you mostly need to worry if you see a cub bear.

Edit: if you do start hiking please please do read up on this. Cougars and bears can and do kill hikers even when treated properly. While not the biggest risk to your life in the US, it's still a good idea to go forewarned. Also changed wording in first sentence.

Edit 2: Changed advice to specify brown bear and black bear.
Loyal Books has a lot of public domain books as audio books. In my experience the quality varies widely but there is plenty of good content.

http://www.loyalbooks.com/
Yeah, no... it is the UK looking for Chinese investments in the wake of Brexit. Example: https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3014989/ch...
For what it's worth, I upvoted you. The points are free. Why be stingy?
I dont understand what you're trying to convey. I like history but someone almost discovering something holds no appeal for me; what actually happened does. And these people were not interested in the course in the first place.
Google has already created inflation from their stock price. The houses in the Bay Area have doubled in 5 years precisely because FANG engineers have had their shares skyrocket 6-10x, so they buy multiple houses.
'I'm afraid the floppy kernel can't do that, Dave.'
Ditch CSS and HTML completely and create a sensible layout engine. If you base everything on a low level rendering API, you can basically create your own framework (though you shouldn't need to). Databinding, event handling etc. should be as simple as in Desktop apps, so we don't need to create ham-fisted abstractions á la Angular or React. Make it so that 90% of the websites don't need any additional code (so that you can reasonably ask users for code execution permissions, similar to notifications). Maybe add the option for low level networking so you don't need to create interfaces so you can support mail protocols natively (I'm unsure about this).
Make accessibility so simple it becomes the default. Performance should be a no brainer too. Make tracking as hard as possible from the get-go. Keep the specification lean and don't add stuff on corporate whims. Reduce the memory usage of browsers. Since it's based on WASM you can use any language you want. Hopefully this will encourage better programming practices. Because frankly, the current JavaScript framework/NPM/Yarn/Gulp/Bower/whatever environment is just ridiculous.

Most technical issues can realistically be tackled. I doubt you could win against Google et al. on the tracking/code execution stuff.
> have highly targeted invites, we hypothesize high earners would be willing to help out if we need someone of their demographics in particular, and if this was communicated well. If you have suggestions, we’re all ears!

I have had some involvement in running charity events that target high net worth people. You attract them via their ego. Put their name on everything, use their name frequently when speaking with them.

And the kicker - never actually ask them to donate or take the survey or whatever. Just describe what you’re doing and why you’re doing it. They already know you’re talking to them because you want something from them, but if you ask them directly, they’re trained to say no because they have to do it all day. You need to let them make the decision to participate on their own.
didn't know that! Thanks.
None of this is true if you work for yourself.
It's important to keep in mind that the term 'conspiracy theory' was first weaponised as part of a 1976 psyop https://www.coreysdigs.com/c-i-a-3-letter-agencies/cia-coine...
I once worked at a place that had a mile of walking paths through an adjacent prairie. I walked it every day that the weather was nice and it was amazing. I was so sad when I changed jobs and the office was in the city.
Gold Necklace
The energy and carbon come from burning off the volatile organics from the wood. It impacts the amount of carbon sequestered but it's still a net positive.
> mods are quick to silence anything tangentially political

Precisely the opposite is true: https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme.... Stories with political overlap are fine if they gratify intellectual curiosity. Flamewars and garden-variety politics don't do that, so we moderate those.

> I'm glad they missed this one

We didn't miss it. We put it in the second-chance pool (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11662380), which is why it's on the front page.
>No one's confused why it's happening. It's legal to make money through financial services, and it reliably makes money.

No, you’re misunderstanding me. People are willingly using the services offered by the financial services sector. It’s the reason companies can quickly raise billions through IPOs, the reason you can get a million dollars for a mortgage and pay it back over 30 years, etc. Market participants that enable better price discovery and subsequently narrow bid/ask spreads provide immense value to society.

An average of just a quarter percent lower interest on mortgages is billions of dollars kept in people’s pockets. More efficient markets enable that and it’s these traders you loath that are making it more efficient. If it were just up to the banks they would love nice slow markets with huge spreads so they can line their pockets with your money.

>The actual value generating sectors of the economy

Sigh, that statement makes no sense already because finance generates massive value. It’s the reason people can retire. It’s the reason normal people can buy houses. It’s the reason normal people can start capital intensive businesses.

Efficient allocation of capital is one of the largest force multipliers of any modern economy. You lament that other sectors are anemic, but many could not even exist if it weren’t for financial instruments that allow them to control costs, raise capital, etc.
I used to do phone farming. You don't understand how it works. After you setup your farming rig, all you had to do was put about 1 hour per day of maintenance into it, often times even less than that...and you would earn $1,000-$2,000 per month from it in gift cards.

All of the apps were passive, it just would loop over and over playing ads.
This is cool, but... to say animations and transitions are overused on the web is an understatement.

Distracting, annoying, slow, increase webpage resource use, induce nausea in a fair number of users... ask yourself, are they really necessary or do you think they just look "cool"? If it's the latter, probably don't use them.
Startups are using lab-grown animal proteins to make ice cream and more
The article mentions Overstory by Richard Powers

It's an amazing book.

https://www.amazon.com/Overstory-Novel-Richard-Powers/dp/039...
Edward Snowden’s Memoir Is Coming on Sept. 17th
Why not try working on your own thing? Sounds like you're burned out on corporate work.
I hope she paid any applicable fees before playing licensed music for a public venue.
it would be interesting if companies that size would distribute more to their employees

one fantasy calculation i do a lot is google-profits / total-google-employees or apple-profits / total-apple-employees and you get something like half a million dollars a year (60 billion dollars of profit divided by 132,000 apple employees for example)

in the above scenario, work a few years at a company like google or apple and your a millionaire basically... what would happen to the economy if suddenly there was hundreds of thousands of millionaires? how many new businesses and ventures could be started? would it in the end be good or bad economy? what about the company if it only had a few billion of liquid assets on hand instead of hundreds? would it make a difference?
I'm going to sign up. I have a Pixel phone, I have an aging gaming laptop, and I want to continue play some new games. I'm not serious enough to be concerned by lag, and if it's awful, I'm out $129. Big deal.
Due to crop losses from dying pollinators, pest increases, crops producing unviable pollen, and stagnant plant growth?
What if you suddenly unlock a unit (or maybe a shop comes selling units) that costs 1000 resources, which would take you 5m to get up to. Especially if when said unit becomes available isn't predictable, it may be a huge advantage to have some resources in reserve.

Furthermore, if you're already at the unit cap, and all your building are already working at peak efficiency, there may be no good way of spending those resources without wasting them.
Interestingly enough, my 2019 Subaru came with a CD player. I doubt it will ever be used.
Out of curiosity, why would it hurt a lot more if a bone was broken?
Jsh: JSON-RPC in the shell for scalable ducktape and glue
As a dev, I can relate to working overtime for a small eater egg, or even if I were a manager I could understand those (security implications notwithstanding) if it would boost morale or team cohesion better than an akward social event.
It is my understanding that this is not an official port by Raymond Hill and that his name is being used without his permission. If someone knows what the actual story is on this, I'd love to know.
Yes but the audiobook, voice, and reader quality has been very hit and miss.
SpaCy PyTorch Transformers
I've never encountered great database mapping. I like .NET's type-safe query builder, but it's still very limited once you get beyond the absolute basics.

You may be interested in https://hasura.io
SciSharp (Data Science, Machine Learning and AI for .NET)
Ah that's unfortunate.
Nipkow disk
Any chance to provide mobi format? The azw3 files do not work on my Kindle Paperwhite.
via https://twitter.com/migueldeicaza/status/1157385979071778817...
This is mostly a research library, so we haven't put our limited effort into CPU operations yet, but it's definitely possible if someone wanted to take the time to expose it in the library.
Building a Programming Language Pt. 3 – Interpreting
Worth noting that your bear advice is for brown bears (mostly Western US); black bears (mostly Eastern US), you want to scare off in much the same fashion as cougars, though with the bit where you check for cubs first.
I mean, it sounds like the real real solution is to bury trees deep inside the earth.
I moved to another city because the mayor of the previous city I lived in had some crusade against trees in that town.

Living near trees is the best. I have a cherry tree growing outside my window right now. Still miss the three poplars I used to have at my old apartment.
Mein Kampf is pretty long and, frankly, boring (unlike The Communist Manifesto that reads like a poem).
The SEC Wants Disgraced VC Mike Rothenberg to Cough Up More Than $30M
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> disrupted site navigation on Fandom

Fandom (aka Wikia), in particular, has run some incredibly intrusive -- and occasionally even malicious -- ads on some of their sites. I have very little sympathy for them.
No need to, HTTP responses are compressed already. Also it makes debugging production issues a nightmare.

Minification helps a tiny bit with client side memory too I guess, and parse time. But I save so much memory by not putting random pointless crap into the browser environment from web pack, Babel, etc, that’s where I want to make my savings. Not shaving a couple chars off a variable name.
I got attacked by a cougar once, but I doubt that I would have ever gotten to 1st base with her if I had played something from Metallica. She almost certainly would have turned away too.
Also if a cougar ever attacks you are supposed to fight back. You can also throw rocks and sticks at them. With bears you should make noise and if they attack, play dead (not sure if this is different between black and brown bears. )

Should add: the number of actual attacks is really low and deadly ones are even rarer. Probably pretty much every activity you do during a hike is more dangerous than cougars or bears. Things like driving, dehydration or tripping and falling. The most dangerous wild animal is probably a tick.
Awesome seeing a Pakistani company advertise here on HN. Good luck!
So living in a desert should be correlated with psychological distress, right? Is that the case?
I always carry bear spray with me if not with a large group.

Bears worry me less because they're usually after human food, not humans, and I'd have time to get my bear spray out. Cougars, while statistics show they are not much of a threat on average, psychologically worry me more because their attack mode is ambushing, and you wouldn't see its face at first if it really was sure about attacking you.
Trust me, people have been trying to cheat the system with stuff like what you are saying. The advertising companies know how to detect that stuff quickly and ban the abusers.
It's because a lack of variation in people gets depressing. I live in the mountains with a population that's smaller than the small town I was raised in, in the LA metro. I need to get back to a major city at least once a month; I need to feel that enveloping feeling of wonder and possibility since things get to feeling so stagnant in the mountains after a bit; I need to see people driving at their ambitions with their mom and pop shops that have these creative gimmicks that you can tell they spent late nights thinking of as opposed to people on mountain time who don't really give a damn about their work and know that by simply existing they can scrape by.
This article posted in a comment above explains it well: http://amasci.com/amateur/whygnd.html

Essentially, the ground rod acts as an "anchor" holding the neutral wire and the ground at the same electric potential. If there was no ground rod, the earth and the circuit would be "floating" relative to one another, and a dangerously large voltage could develop between them.
I think because more energy is transferred to a smaller piece of bone which then vibrates more and is presumably more painful as it contacts pain receptors around it - whereas an larger intact bone will vibrate less as there’s more bone mass to move around.
A unique carbon capture solution I don't hear much about is kelp. The key is that you want the carbon captured to stay out of the air, and the deep sea is a great place for it to end up. https://carboninstitute.org/kelp-and-carbon-sequestration-br...
Thanks for the additional info, I got my advice in brown bear territory.
> The strangeness of Silicon Valley right now is that if you're lucky you can "retire" long before 40.

The entire Financial Independence (FI) movement is all about doing this everywhere (not just the valley) and without luck aside from household income around $45,000/yr in the US.
In companies that I've worked in, the traits listed would (very roughly) distinguish a junior from senior developer.

There's various ways of describing these levels, but I think programmer/developer is less clear, and seems to suggest programmer almost as a pejorative.
I am not talking about this kind of inflation.

I am talking specifically about inflation for purchasing future cash cows.
There are things left to learn, but how many of those things are valuable to an employer who is just wanting yet another software as a service CRUD app, mobile app, or bespoke internal app that will never be seen outside of the company?
Majority of House Democrats Have Signed on to Medicare for All
What are some great cities with surrounding nature for software engineers?

I was looking at Atlanta, GA which I heard has the most trees for a city.

According to Wikipedia, it has 47.9% tree coverage
Having a bone in my hand set without anesthetic, I suspect it's because when a broken bone becomes rapidly agitated it's causing a bunch of nerves to fire their pain signals. The tuning fork most likely resonates the bone rapidly -- if things are just sprained, the whole bone vibrates. If the bone is broken, it grinds against itself.