skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. And I loved the second job. I left my permanent position for the contract to perm position (got health benefits through my wife’s job) . Billed them an average of 60-70 hours a week, paid off some debt the first six months, negotiated a decent market pay and a title bump to put on my resume and by the time I was made perm, I had a large enough team in place and processes so I was down to a manageable 45 hours a week.

But, I made it clear at the interview that my first steps would be to build up the department, develop processes and training. They already had a barely working 20 year old PowerBuilder implementation where the various offices were forced to use Citrix terminals to access the system. They needed some tighter web and mobile integrations they couldn’t currently do.

I found out the real money was in cloud consulting. They hired a few consultants to “move us to the cloud” (a bunch of no nothing “lift and shifters”). I found out that’s where the real money was.

Left there after a year and half with a better resume, self demoted (responsibility not pay) to my current job and I’m getting a chance to fill in some resume gaps to become a more well rounded (and paid) consultant in a couple of years.
No thats not necessary.

People just add flags in their mining protocol that only trigger when a threshold is reached. The last Segwit changes needed a percent change of closer to 90% just to trigger the next change.

We are only assuming that consensus would be reached quickly given the scenario presented. It would be irresponsible to design it to need simultaneous action. People would have to considering to stop using the bitcoin network for X,000 blocks while consensus is being reached, and only until it is reached.
They are available in nightly - https://doc.rust-lang.org/beta/unstable-book/language-featur... - but are very unstable.

I think "at some point" is the best answer :)
It says on the home page that it's part of ServiceStack.Common, and covered by the same terms: https://servicestack.net/terms

Unfortunately, this appears to mean it is not free software (though it is gratis for some use cases).
Here's the problem though: there are mechanisms ensuring tactics stay in alignment with strategies. But there don't seem to be - at least noticeably - mechanisms ensuring strategies stay in alignment with visions.
This would probably get messy if you had a large number of URLs to check, and also would be very hard to modify. A bunch of `if` statements that return early would be a lot easier to work with.
The bug that led to strike action
Gosh, I wish people stop complaining about the language choice whenever cool project X happens to be written in a pet peeve of theirs.
Then they don't go there.

Reasonable accommodations are just that. Reasonable. The schtick of this place is that there's a high degree of uncertainty involved.
We raised goats growing up. We lived in a heavily forested area of rural Texas. When it came time to build a new chicken pen, we temporarily fenced our goats in the area we wanted the pen, and in a week or three, there was no underbrush or scrub left (except for yaupon, even goats don't touch that one) - just the trees.
China's State Council Calls for Shenzhen Integration with Hong Kong, Macau
Often times on HN, people provide links to previous postings merely so others can reference the previous discussions. It's generally not meant to be a call out of bad behavior.
Interesting. Wonder what the actual feasibility of this is in terms of cost and production process. If the math works out it could be a really good thing. Or just another "Solar Roadways" pipe-dream. Will have to dig into this more and see.
Pierre Lamond On Cerebas' New Deep Learning Chip
Being among the last of the University trained COBOL developers and having made my career during the client server era and the internet age I can personally attest to the complete accuracy of the author’s statements and I agree with his forecasts. The business people we tech’s work for are all about faster, cheaper and more effective systems that produce cost savings, revenue and increased organizational effectiveness. Low code tools that abstract away the complexities of the trade support these goals. I believe low code tool expertise to be of ever increasing significance to the developer as are data skills. AI or at least the ML component of it is completely dependent on good data and your ability to wrangle it.
I work in this space, and the reason I do that is because I believe we can (and should!) make it fundamentally easier to build big distributed systems. Today's serverless offerings (including compute services like AWS Lambda, databases like Aurora Serverless, and others) do a great job of reducing complexity in some areas, but do still tend to add complexity in others. It's also "just one more thing to learn", especially if you are already familiar with server-based system operations.

One trend in this space I'm super excited about is tools like pywren (from UC Berkeley) and gg (from Stanford), which show the way to building much higher level abstractions that allow non-experts to build and run pretty huge systems. I think we're going to be seeing a lot more of that, and the serverless infrastructure is a huge enabler there.

Another trend is observability, and all the cool tools folks are building to see how systems work 'as built'. These tools can cut through a lot of complexity when debugging systems, and point very clearly to where problems are happening. This is an area where serverless is catching up to single-box tools, and will be for some time. Still, the core problem here is that distributed systems are still harder to debug than single-box systems, but I think that's entirely a reflection on immature tooling. I believe that the fundamental law here is that with the right abstractions distributed systems can be significantly easier to debug that single-box systems.
Obtaining Phone Numbers of Tech Support Scams with Google Dorking
> Curious where people thing they are wrong or incomplete.

The whole premise of the article is wrong. The premise is that the problem with corporations is that they only consider the interests of their shareholders. That's wrong. The actual problem with corporations is that corporate governance has broken down, so that corporations no longer consider the interests of all their shareholders, and the shareholders themselves are no longer involved in determining the corporation's goals. Most shareholders now, in terms of percentage of voting stock ownership, are not individuals but mutual funds, who don't care what the corporation's goals are as long as its stock price and dividends meet targets; and CEOs, even if their share holdings are small as a percentage of the total, can easily get themselves special compensation packages and golden parachutes regardless of whether they improve the corporation's situation or not.
As a business owner, I was already scared that they would reveal our unfair advantage. Good thing they do as usual, and keep the focus on non relevant things that keep the masses pleased. Pfew!
Site blocking adblock apps, just use incognito mode to bypass.
> Having a law that enforces closed shops is not something I'd support.

AFAIK it is the other way. Closed-shop may be a result of contract freedom between a powerful union and a company (and then it is enforced as any other contract). While union laws often limits content of union contracts, e.g. forbids closed-shop. That is why you do not see closed-shop in Europe (with generally stronger union laws).
> Perhaps surprisingly, the future within a task compiles down to a state machine, so that every time the task wakes up to continue polling, it continues execution from the current state

How are those tasks implemented, and what's scheduling them?
According to the about section of his blog, he is in Chicago.

https://hillelwayne.com/about/
> > Software has characteristics that make it hard to build with traditional management techniques

> Perhaps some software development techniques would work though...

As you go up the management chain, you usually run into some layer where people are traditional managers, who want to run a software project like a traditional project. And behold, you're at this problem. Saying "software development techniques would work" is useless unless you can get those managers to change. And when you get them to change, the problem moves up one layer.
So did the attack on Pearl Harbor.
I don't think "Propose and support legislation to make of all this happen" is really all that challenging as a practical strategy goal.

It's not as if corporations don't do a lot of that already when it's in their interests.

See also: "Actions speak louder than words."
Not so much the crankshaft (which is inside the engine), but more the transmission and remaining driveline (driveshaft, differential, etc) become the new "weak points".

This assumes that the Ecoboost version isn't just a engine swap - it could be that Ford uses everything the same from transmission back, and just pops different engines and badges on. I don't know if this is true or not, though.

For instance, on their old Ranger pickup trucks (basically rebadged Mazdas), the rear axle on virtually all of them was way over-engineered vs the rest of the pickup:

https://www.therangerstation.com/stock-ranger-specifications...

While there were some differences between models, most of them used one of two sizes, and they just dropped a different engine and transmission in. In this case, depending on what you had, you might end up breaking other parts before the axle gives (the Ranger axles are a popular swap upgrade from the Dana 30 axle on Jeeps, due to it's robustness)..
Sadly, Taiwan probably wouldn't get protections from outside nations.
> Fifteen minutes is the number I heard to be a good balance

I would rephrase it as: a 15 minutes walk is the sweet spot of commutes.
I’m a happy user of magic-wormhole myself. It doesn’t solve the problem of sending files to phones, though.
My coworker has a 1.5-2h commute, which I couldn't wrap my head around until I found that he has two children.

This is his "me time".
Are you in a newish troop then? Growing up, all the troops I heard of were pretty established, some going beack nearly to the BSA founding. Typically they were associated with another organization like a church or an Elk's Lodge type thingy.

That said, I hear you on the 'paper eagles'. I saw a lot of kids with their mom just trying to get the rank for college applications and then get out. It was semi-effective. Strangely, the Mormon troops were eagle mills too, but the guys tended to stick around afterwards all the same.

As you're on HN, I'm sure you are aware of the importance of culture in a start-up. I'd say that a troop also has culture and it is very important too. Maybe read up on some of that stuff too.

Also, as I may have your ear, what's your take on girls being full integrated?
"Even though this law has been in the making for years and published in March of this year. Can you think of any other legitimate reason the overall population is demonstrating so fervently other than dissatisfaction about the way their current government is running their city into the ground"

Because it takes time, energy and a sense of urgency to mobilize people to action even on issues they should be concerned with?
What I can say from a more or less objective standpoint, the best vendors according to a response-time metric are Eset, Kaspersky and Bitdefender.
Each of them have their own weaknesses and I do not know what is the performance impact for using them alongside defender
> We also lean towards creating plenty of institutions in society.

Most of which are not democratic.

Democracies are extremely inefficient compared to a "dictatorship" where the president of the institution is in charge. You should only switch to a democracy as a last resort due to systemic abuses that can't be resolved any other way. I haven't worked in the games industry, but so far working as a software developer I have not encountered systemic abuses that merit introducing an extremely inefficient democratic oversight system to the company.
Am I the only one who noticed that there are no references to 'consumers'? There's plenty of 'customers'. I'd like to see more of that, too.
Are you suggesting I had the gullible interpretation? If not, what would a gullible person interpret this as? What action would you suggest is the appropriate one to this PR move?
They had a choice:

* go to work

* not go to work

It's just that their 'assigned duties' for that day, if they went to work, were to attend an internal company-sponsored function. If the company wants to pay people to mill about, that's its prerogative.

I'd file a grievance for the lunch thing though.
150 years of data proves it: Strongmen are bad for the economy
You need a third-party library to provide an executor. Rust does not come with one to keep the runtime size small. The community seems to have centralized on https://tokio.rs/ (under the hood it uses epoll/whatever OS-specific functionality to schedule M:N)

See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20722297
It seems like that kind of defeats the purpose of the union: to create a unified bargaining entity for the workers. If there are two or three unions for the same type of work, then their negotiation power isn't as strong.
Unfortunate file extension name IMO, but I'm probably just old.
JavaScript Interop with ClojureScript
Cerebras Systems unveils a 1.2T transistor chip for AI
Angular for Enterprise DevelopmenT
looks like the principal US export (military-industrial complex + all that entails - in this case, think tanks justifying insane defense projects/spending) is getting some play down under
>This is always going to be degrading because it's literally an artificial meaningless thing.

It's not really artificial, it's the product of having first-come-first-served instead of highest-bidder products.

>The operators could just do this for a fee, but they're forcing someone to burn their time instead.

Ignoring the choice of FCFS instead of highest bidder, this is just what work is. Someone is offering their time in exchange for monetary compensation.
The first place I worked as a software dev had an owner that would explain everything about the business and the problems to me in very good detail. He would just stop by my desk whenever he thought of something he thought might be good for me to know. Eventually understanding the business became just as interesting as the coding. These days, I hate getting a task without knowing the business side of things or not being able to discuss it directly with the person that does.
The World's Largest Chip
Holidaymakers in Spain and Portugal have been warned to stay out of the sun as the region approaches the hottest temperatures ever recorded in Europe.

Eight Portuguese regions have already smashed their local records as a warm blast of air from North Africa sweeps the continent.

August 2018

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/weather-heat...
Or are they just sending letters in hopes that people will pay.. imho, I've already been taxed creating the crpto. So I get taxed again? How they hell does irs know at what price I sold or bought? They dont. They can pack sand!
They actually have events where you can spend the night on the sub at omsi.. Our cub scout pack has looked into it, but several of us parents are over 6' tall, and don't think we would fit on the bed.
I was dealing with MySQL running on a Windows server box with McAfee Active Response running (MarService.exe). It has a feature for tracking files created/deleted, which is accomplished by hashing all new files, saving them to its own local DB, and presumably pushing them to the management server async. The app running on MySQL frequently creates many new tables and fills them as part of SOP, so the disk was constantly hammered by both MySQL and McAfee...
The actual Project repo https://github.com/ServiceStack/ServiceStack appears to be AGPL3 with some exceptions, which probably explains why the info is buried
This is a great quote, and one that I missed while first writing the post! I've added it now.
That's interesting - that composition certainly isn't correct, and I can't find reference to the US Mint ever planning on having the Susan B. Anthony dollar be composed of anything other than what it is.

That seems like a really glaring oversight on the part of the author.
Could be spent productively, e.g reading, meditating or working on a laptop. That's assuming you take public transportation to work, but audiobooks and podcasts could substitute if you drive/walk/bike
Is it me or is Bloomberg just total trash news?! And why on earth are they using a wire photo of the Thunderbirds for an article about war?
And case law.
Look like it doesn't work on Safari (or at least Safari Version 13.0 (15608.1.37) on Catalina). The buttons are below the viewport and I can't scroll to them. It worked fine in Chrome.
Hacker Releases First Public Jailbreak for Up-to-Date iPhones in Years
This article reminds me of the one truly explorative news aggregate app I used some years ago called Zite.
Zite would not only pull news from the usual major sources, but it would also pull up obscure blogs and micro niche indie publications on the topic. It was my first time discovering blogs in their original form (not as posts on tumblr). Zite let my discover so much aggregate information from sources that only someone with a pre-existing niche interest would know about. A mudslide in a small Italian village where no one was harmed, but a boulder rolled itself into a villa's sitting room. A tiny Lutheran blog explaining the latin origins of St. Patrick with cited footnotes. A modern explorer's article on the greatest used bookstores they have found around the world (it was not a listicle). The intellectual stimulus was greatly missed once Zite was purchased by Flipboard and all of those nuggets from the vastness of the internet were overruled by the loudest and largest news publications.
How to Merge Excel Workbooks with Git
Great idea. This also sounds a lot like it falls in with the "ritual" concept from Deep Work by Cal Newport.
http://ftp6.us.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-Archive/ports/distfil...
The US is legally obligated to protect Taiwan. Also the US would have to fight even without that because not doing so would be the end of US power in the world. We could NOT afford NOT to fight.
They do have merit...but we already have a legal term for such an entity that is for-profit but also intends to benefit society: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benefit_corporation
Netflix provides boxes it can plugin to local exchange points so all the ISP has to do is carry the last mile. How is that not sender pays?
This in specific is what the Navy is betting on lasers for. The 60-kilowatt HELIOS will be on board Arleigh Burke-class by 2021 or sooner.

There is the obvious problem of detecting hypersonic projectiles, but assuming that is "done", then lasers and a lot of them, will be quite effective.
I thought there would be competitors, I don't know why Firebase is not getting more adoption then, it's still a bit of a niche and Google does not seem to be pushing it as much as a couple of years ago, even though the product is better than ever.
Quick Base Buys Cloudpipes – Because Low-Code Needs an Integration X-Factor
I wonder when achieving personal productivity has become a widespread problem and why did this happen.
really useful, will you continue to add new companies?
The Exceptions are for OSS projects, where it can be used as the OSS license for that project.

Regardless it's completely free to use for both commercial/non-commercial usage.
Then what? The US builds a coalition of regional and international powers, boxes China in and destroys them economically. China needs the world to trade with, otherwise the CCP house of cards collapses.
Count yourself fortunately that you had the opportunities to work in better working conditions. The software developers and other creatives in the gaming industry may feel different.

In Ontario, Canada, the autoworker unions have been trying to unionize the Toyota plant and have not been successful: the workers always vote 'no'. The works at GM and Ford plants felt differently.

Just because you work in a 'good' part of an industry does not mean everyone does.
You've not provided any real evidence for modern incinerators run by first world nations polluting as you claim. All you've provided is rather paranoid conspiracy theories. The fact that you started this conversation out with tired tropes about the rich and the pharma industry should have been my first hint that this would be an unproductive conversation.
Participating in the Infinite Game of Life
> If you are involved in the Union, and other workers are involved, there is seldom a problem.

OP was asking what he can do as a small business owner.
if the author is reading, be aware that `.ss` is used by a lot of Scheme implementations.
> The problem is that altruism does not exist in geopolitics. Why is China influencing these people? Because it wants their support when it comes time to ask for favors.

But more likely an entrepreneur sent a schematic to a fabrication line in Shenzhen for an underserved market they perceived, got a ton of the phones made for very cheap, and sold them as a service in that underserved market and it became a hit.
As usual I have several projects started, none of them finished and probably most of them will remain that way.

One is a browser game make with node.js (there's no code yet so this could change) and websockets. It's about space exploration with a lot of RPG features like killing for loot, skills, professions, huuuuuuuuugue marketplace. Of course it's a real time multiplayer game. Trading with other players is a MUST. Every player has a limited number of professions (from simple ones like agriculture and mining to nuclear weapons manufacturing or software programming) and most of them need things that only others can provice, hence the need of trading.

Imagine an Eve Online without the 3D, where you only manage stuff and the stuff you do works even when you're offline.

The second game is a mixture of a rogulike, Skyrim with graphics like Graveyard Keeper. I won't lie. This is a tough game to code. I have the music covered but not the graphics but I'm not worried about that as the game would run with a basic tileset until late development. The problem is making it work. I don't have any kind of experience in this kind of game so I don't know. Maybe I'll use an existing engine (thinking in Godot), maybe I'll make my own or maybe I won't do anything at all. There would be no ROI in a very long time and would make unable to spend my time on more profitable things. We'll see.
https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/
I don't think softbank owns half of Japanese corporate bonds. It may be that its bonds account for over half the market.
Add the `oflag=sync` flag to dd.
18 dog teams? What a thorough experiment. Sounds like the infamous chocolate weight loss study that was pushed to the media that made them look stupid.

To a small degree I can agree to this. But I have k9 officer friends and I know their dogs. Good luck with this. It means a bad and impatient handler rather than an ineffective dog. But it's alright, police baaaaad. Evidence is evil.
RTX Lands in ‘Minecraft,’ World’s Best-Selling Video Game
What a wonderful historical piece that deals with both the engineering and geopolitical implications of a historic vessel. Glad I saw this, despite it being five years down the road.
iOS 12.4 Jailbreak
NEMSIS is ugly, but it is vastly easier to work with than HL7. That was an evil XML standard.
#Script is not a product that's for sale. It's gratis for all use-cases.