skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Could this be a nomenclature issue? Like, I'm defining "unpleasant" to mean really horrible, something actively negative, like e.g. cleaning up vomit might be, whereas you just mean "not that interesting / fun"?

I tend to find that my attitude towards these sorts of tasks varies depending on how stressed I am. A 60-hour workweek and a commute makes anything like that feel horrible. A more balanced life and it's the opposite, I like cleaning, I've taken the world around me and improved it.

It seems to me that you must have a line somewhere - like gardening for example, is that a maintenance task, or is that different because it's not actually necessary? Decorating the interior of a house?

Changing the skin of a window manager? :P

Just something to think about.
Didn't rural living become relatively less attractive more than it became unaffordable?

Like, people weren't driven off by land prices, they just went to work in cities because the income was much more attractive.
I just checked Staples. 14 cents a page for black and white. There are discounts for bulk. So about 140 bucks a month needed. Not too bad.

That's the beauty of technology. 15 years ago doing this without the schools help would have been difficult. Between the internet, smartphones, and modern software tools building an actual free press is within reach of lots of people.

In hindsight, it would be nice to see academic institutions help set up these kinds of projects rather then fund their own. Teach the tooling and the process rather than produce the product.
I wonder what happened to the money raised via negative interest rates? If used to fund UBI, maybe everyone would be happy?
Same here. Lived in the same area as the freeport, and all questioned myself while biking around, how many stolen or confiscated arts pieces are in there. Most of the focus has been on Tax fraud, and terrorist funding from arts stolen in Syria, but I would like the Swiss Customs to evaluate arts from 3rd world countries, especially Africa and south america.
> It's worth noting that most housing developers need to be prompted and incentivized pretty aggressively to build affordable housing in high-value areas even when they're allowed by law to do so.

No car company produces cars for people living on the minimum wage and yet a great many people living on the minimum wage can and do afford cars. Building new housing reduces the value of existing housing.
Reminds me of Sprint's rollout of Wimax technology. It was awesome if you had direct LOS with the tower and also kept your phone perfectly still.

Eventually they canned it.
It seemed obvious to me based on a combination of what some disinterested expert observers were saying and the sort of situations I see driving every day, especially in big cities, needed to get door to door without human intervention.

However, you've only had to read this site over the past few years to see the huge number of people who bought the Level 5 is right around the corner story hook line and sinker. In all fairness, I attribute a lot of this to people who so wanted to believe they'd never need to own or drive a car that they weren't as critical as they should have been.

I find it "interesting" how quickly the narrative has shifted. A lot of the same people who were more or less making the aggressive promises pretty much all changed their stories in near-unison. One suspects they all knew or had come to known at some level but felt they had to wait for others to back off too lest they be seen as laggards.
Banned? You'd get assassinated, like Theo van Gogh.
You don't need to go to fiction to find toxic books. Paris green(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_green#Uses) was at one time used heavily in a large number of seemingly innocuous applications, including book covers.

https://theconversation.com/how-we-discovered-three-poisonou...
Not a human right as such, but it's the law pretty much everywhere in the world.

A shop refusing to accept legal tender seem pretty brazenly illegal to me.
Artist Imposters and Fake Songs Sneak onto Streaming Services
No, you only learn there is a thing called "the stack". You have no idea how things get there.
you’re overthinking it
Because humans have to write it, and humans, even the best and the brightest, have limited capacity.
Its an unecessary single page abomination. Reddit will always be popular it doesnt need a new design. The best part was that different communities could style their subs.

I also remember when you could register without an email.
Eh, sometimes you need to submit stuff on HN multiple times for it to get traction. Don’t get discouraged.
Ask HN: Best branching strategies for continuous delivery?
We're starting up a greenfield project delivering a web-based product meant for rapid iteration. We're using Git, and our team of about 5-6 devs all have had experience with different branching strategies in the past.

When aiming for a really smooth and testable CI/CD pipeline, what approaches combining branching strategies and pipeline tools have you had the best experience with? Feature branches merged right back into master? Gitflow-like approaches? Dev versus master branches? Circle, Bamboo, CodeDeploy?

We don't want to overcomplicate things, but we do want to be able to test in staging, for example, and keep the number of buttons and procedures required to a minimum. Would love everyone's thoughts and war stories!
As much as I appreciate some historical commentary on the matter, none of this is revolutionary thought, and the concept is widely understood by the most common everyman. There's nothing left here to ponder nor any insight to extract.

I'll try add to this, though. Yes, rent and land forces down wages, but it's not just your fellow countryman doing it anymore (in so much as a citizen who is not a proprietor of a real-estate driven capital venture), it's companies like Progress Residential and other REITs that are fueled by the financial world to purchase homes and be your new neighbor.

Yes, soon capital structures invested in such companies will mean that organizations like McDonalds and Starbucks will, in the grapevines of their institutional accounts, own a share of an REIT that owns homes in your neighborhood. They will be your new community, and soon your new landlords.

I think the developed worlds should do as New Zealand and other nations caught on to, and protect their citizens from unscrupulous investors, foreign and domestic, looking to prey on the common man looking for a home to purchase.

If a new wave of residential economic folly were to come upon us, the people waiting in the shadows are not individuals with deep pockets looking to become your future rent seeker, but entire institutions looking to purchase neighborhoods wholesale.

I think we owe it to our children and those around us to push for non-partisan legislature that prevent such cancers from overtaking our countries.
> I think your criticism of 'at-will' employment

There was no criticism of at-will employment in the parent post.

That's a hair trigger you've got yourself there fella.
True; note also that the personal ego is a social phenomenon, like much of the human consciousness, and it gets amplified proportionally to the size and the strength of the community.
An economic recession so big that Thatcher seemed like a good idea.
Yes, this is needed for sure. Some output didn't appear on my terminal because it is hard coded to appear as black. The author must have a light colored terminal that differs from mine.
Commentaries on Criticisms of Magnetic Fusion [pdf]
Thank you! Flutter is cool in theory, but in practice many backers never got their hardware. I still use Flutter almost every day for remote control of my robots, but it never got to be what I had hoped it would become.
Softwere: A Strange Article
I'd love to hear this, sounds cringey.

Edit: weird it's a 3 short episode advertisement thing, a "live-read" ad in an interview format. These Pop science people are a great marketing/hype vector. I'm curious how much AT&T paid for this.

https://youtu.be/EccF6jR3CFo

https://youtu.be/n5AWdU75c1w

https://youtu.be/UKaIg102CAU

The ATT guy said 5g will solve bike deaths by having your bike talk to the stop light and other cars, but with machine learning!

It seems to have the same disconnect from the real world implementations that the AI sales hucksters are pushing, like those IBM Watson ads that were very obviously (to every programmer) being over sold to big businesses.
Exactly. In fact, this thread looks like people cargo-culting what it means to be evidence-based (hint: life and work will always contain some reasoning and craft).
I remember reading that Osama bin Laden had a similar perspective on the Moon landing.
> PowerShell will accept any unambiguous case-insensitive abbreviation of commands and parameters.

Which due to the naming conventions are still too verbose.
I didn't express any direct or detailed criticism of at-will in my comment, just my gladness that we don't have it.

Why, despite the difficulties it causes me when dealing with poor performing devs, am I happy we don't have at-will?

Because at-will dramatically distorts the employer - employee social contract in favour of the employer. And employers already have a disparately large amount of power over their employees as it is. So there you go, that's my criticism of at-will employment. It puts the well being of the employer ahead of the well being of the employee.

You can have a trial period without "at-will".
In the legal sense, authorization to access the account is not mediated by knowledge of the necessary credentials, it is mediated by permission from the account owner.
That's because it isn't a package manager, it's an interpreted programming language. The package management requires running a huge program in that language.

Of course knowing why it happens didn't make it less frustrating, but it's hard to fix. What you can do is build your system remotely, on a more capable machine, perhaps with nixos-rebuild --target-host.

(That's a shell script, and fairly readable.)
Yes! In the same vein space law, which sounds like a Charlie Day specialty:

> Space law also sets out provisions for extradition
there is no void. Plenty of humans (myself included) live not only without believing in god but without a need to believe.
“It’s easy if you try”
I think what is needed is some basic education and security in life.
Software is written in a context, in order to solve problems. Over the time, the context is lost, original problems get dissolved (or they don't need solutions, anymore). Original team is not there any longer. New people join, the same old framework (assumptions, etc) is used to solve new problems. That's how complexity grows.

Read Peter Naur's "Programming as theory building" http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/Naur.pdf
The 10x Feature Is Real. At Least, for a While. What’s Yours?
The "127 hours worked at Federal minimum wage to afford the median rent" is an abuse of statistics in service of a narrative. Literally 50% of all rentals are less expensive, and presumably a poor person would be living in one of those. How many hours for the 20th percentile rent? That would actually be insightful.

I wonder how many hours of minimum wage I would need to work to afford a new BMW.
If people won't even listen to the developers of the tools they use, and insist on "out with the old, in with the new" when those developers are pleading with them not to create extra work for themselves... Whose fault is that?
In the long run, power will anyway matter more than precedent.
As it turns out, just because a window is left unlocked doesn't mean you can just burglarize a place.
Look into underlying reasons

1) employees leave mostly because of manager

2) Not being challenged enough at work

3) Got a job at another company with better pay

4) personal reason, burn out etc.
> If you think you have the technical skills to make it through a Google interview, lots of much better places to work at will pay you just as good as a salary.

What about total compensation?

The only places I'm currently aware of that give a similar compensation package are the other FAANG companies which I don't see being much better. The places I'm aware of that offer larger compensation companies (e.g. finance) usually don't seem to me to have as nice an atmosphere.
That's assuming said beer is fully important vs a beer made domestically (with only domestic ingredients), which should still be closer to 10 CHF in your example (or now 1 EUR)
Even with just vanilla JS it can get a bit confusing sometimes. I usually spend a lot of time reading MDN when working with JS just to see if I am missing anything obvious.
The whole "aesthetics" thing against new technology always struck me as bizzare and selective given all of the far uglier things already in place that they actively like.

It seems to be the Oscar Wilde practically satirical "Anything which is of practical use is ugly and anything which isn't is beautiful".
Provides more throughput for mass surveillance systems, that will totally reshape society. Think 'social credit' systems. Servicing these customers will be the bread and butter.
Also, worst case, we could just shut off that edge of the frequency allocation to leave a bigger gap.
This feels a lot like the battle of Blue-ray vs HD-dvd back in the early 2000s. While Blue-ray did win, it was less relevant to the industry than the original CD format. Things just moved online, flash storage and everyone got high-speed internet. If public WiFi becomes more ubiquitous, especially in densely populated areas, 4G vs 5G will be just as irrelevant as the battles for next CD format.
I don't smoke or vape. I think the world is way better off vaping than smoking. I certainly do hope whatever caused this is discovered. I would hate to see more cigarettes light up again.

I'm guessing (and hoping) that more regulation will come down on the vaping industry to make sure whatever oils or additives are controlled so that we can prevent this from happening with future additives they discover.
I tell people WASM is great but still not quite ready just yet. I think we will start to see amazing things. Even Microsofts Blazor is impresive. I cant wait to see what Python and other projects come up with in regards to WASM.
What Blocking a Wave of Robocalls Looks Like in Real Time
Yeah, should you experience the stress of trying to live off the land even with some modern tools its not easy.

Typically you dont hunt bears either, you want to hunt things that cant hunt you back. The real thought of being eaten alive is a tad bit stressful.

Even boar hunting is a bit dangerous.
if someone writes something that I disagree with, I'm compelled to launch into a logical argument with them right there and then

So am I. It's cathartic and I get a dopamine hit from running my brain through my fingers into language. For me, the useful behavioral changes center around the browser's back button and the 'delete' item on the edit menu. The back button keeps me out of rabbit holes internal to me and delete keeps me out of black holes of back and forth for the sake of back and forth. Both have helped me better recognize when I am probably making more noise rather than signal. Both give me an excuse to recognize when I don't actually know what I'm saying, don't care about what I'm saying, and when what I am saying is an over-reaction.

Writing this, I'd estimate >90% of what I start typing in little online boxes gets deleted or never gets posted in the first place. I default to not posting what I type because the typing is usually enough. Maybe I should have deleted this.
Sure, but that's like arguing that cars shouldn't have airbags because in rare circumstances airbags can cause deaths, and riding in a car will never be 100% safe.
They said "some". Your comment refers to the possibility that some may still, as in the gas station. That fits the criteria for "some".

The idea that conscious consumers reading ingredient labels will solve 100% of such a problem is also kind of silly. Look at the obesity problem as an example of how well labeling works - it's possible to read the labels and be careful about your food intake, but most do not.
Can someone with know how tell me if 5G is actually good tech? I feel like carriers just wanted to launch a new product called 5G, and just threw together some not that great tech behind it.

Is 5G actually innovative? Are we talking order of magnitude improvements over 4G?

Cause right now all I hear is that 5G achieves faster speeds and added throughput by simply putting more towers and access points around. That doesn't sound like innovative engineering. At that point, just wire fiber everywhere and create a giant Wifi mesh network with an access point at every house. Like that would give faster internet, but not very innovative.

Normally a good innovative tech would cost less, take up less resources, and achieve higher speeds and throughput. I'm not sure 5G is that from what I heard.

EDIT: Even if you downvote, I am asking a question that I'm interested in hearing answers for, so please still try and answer my questions. Thank you.
The term "unaffordable" I think is too general here. The parent post seemingly defines it based on mortgages and income multipliers.

It assumes this model of people having to trade labour for their housing, in money, incrementally per week/month/whatever, rather than having absolute (ish) dominion over a bit of land and then trading their labour for objects to put on that land (e.g. maintenance of the property).

In that sense, if a home in a rural area costs $5000, it might "unaffordable" if there are no jobs nearby and we assume the person starts with zero capital.

I would expect the model for most _actually_ rural living (aside from people buying holiday homes or whatever) would be that the property is owned outright. Affordability concerns then come from things like being able to run a car, health insurance, etc.
So you would rather not exist ?

Have you seriously sought counseling ?
The problem here is that there isn’t a non-private-enterprise privacy sensitive (although accessible with appropriate warrants etc) cashless money system IMO.

Cash enables so many problems in the world I’ll be happy to see the end of it.
Is this because what they've written truly works or is it because they've simply managed the same thing as the loudest engineer in the office, at larger scale?
> Was The Washington Post mistaken?

No, they’re reporting on a valid dialectic. The topic of the story is the discussion, not the science. (The Post is a political paper. That their May story produced zero further reporting from reputable sources is a hint.)

In lieu of listening to the hearing [1], the American Institute of Physicists (AIP) provides a good summary [2].

TL; DR The Science Committee is debating emission limits. Nobody suggests scrapping 5G.

[1] https://science.house.gov/hearings/the-future-of-forecasting...

[2] https://www.aip.org/fyi/2019/noaa-warns-5g-spectrum-interfer...
Hey, Greg. Former Mozillian here.

Mozilla's very own Allen Wirfs-Brock started work on this sort of thing
back in 2011 or so, called jsmirrors. The idea at the time was to
inform the design of some reflection/sandboxing APIs that might make
their way into the TC39 spec, but nothing really came of it.

Several years later I had a use case, only with security being the
foremost concern, so I did a bunch of redesign and implementation work
on that, including bugfixes and adding good handling of primitives. So
there's already code available (around ~1100 here) for the kind of
membrane described in the Figma post.

(At least it's halfway there; Allen's original work let you poke remote
objects by way of serializing to JSON, and I neglected that area since
it wasn't useful to my immediate use case and would have slowed me
down--it sounds like you'd might need to stick something like that back
in. For my own use as a consumer, I just ended up instead leaning on
implementation-dependent details that I knew I could rely on from the
way SpiderMonkey was hosted in Gecko.)

This was born in Mozilla, so it's already MPL2, and there wouldn't be
any licensing issues.

Caveat: only ever targeted ES5, so changes for new JS features like
proxies, symbols, and other ES6+ stuff almost definitely violates some
invariants, but I couldn't tell you offhand whether that could manifest
as security issues. The tests still pass.

Poke at it if you want:

cd /keybase/public/crussell/projects/jsmirrors && npm test

... or double click tests/harness.app.htm and point it to the jsmirrors/
directory if you aren't comfortable giving unfettered access to
arbitrary pieces of code you find on the Internet (and you shouldn't
be).
If you want an honest answer, perhaps he or she does not like the singular they.

If I read your question, I'd not be a fit for this company either. It creeps me out when people use they for someone with a known gender.
Gun Laws Can Reduce Gun Deaths According to FBI, CDC Data
> a bit like Haxe, except that it let you 'inject' snippets of your target language wherever you wanted.

If I understand you correctly, this feature is available in Haxe : https://haxe.org/manual/target-syntax.html

It targets js, php, C++, has a proper team and good tooling.. so you might be interested in giving it a try.
> Ask who the competitors are, and what happens if we come in second place. See if you buy the answer. I suspect you won’t hear anything convincing.

That’s kind of a silly and easily-answered question by itself, especially for tech.

If you asked anyone with a minimal business background they’d have an easy answer for that: it’s a strategy leveraging first-mover advantage.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-mover_advantage

In tech, there are tons of historical instances of imperfect implementations gaining high market share because of first-mover advantage. It’s a really effective tech strategy. Switching costs, vendor lock-in, and technical debt are huge driving forces for this.
Javascript is not the only answer to frontends ever since WebAssembly arrived. Microsoft is releasing Blazor for C# in a month (server-side first then client-side) [1] and there are similar projects being worked on for Rust, Java, etc.

1. http://blazor.net
Maybe by detecting the notification vibration?
The point of my post is IRMA, their decentralized, attributed-based identity project. The mods changed the title I gave to that of the foundation website.

PS: I learned about it via a talk from the Royal Institution:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vINtD58nLPQ
I liked but mostly didn't love a lot of the Python silliness. There were some funny skits but I merely enjoyed like Holy Grail. I didn't really go around quoting it all the time.

Life of Brian is the Python that really aged well for me because it does have that satirical element that goes deeper than most of the things they did.
Not sure how many people would actually go to an exit interview after they have left and presumably started somewhere else.
"what went wrong"? I don't like the phrasing. People leaving and wanting to do something else is perfectly normal. There is nothing wrong about it. It's just a fact of life. The best way to deal with it (apart from offering a better compensation) is to wish them all the best and say they are always welcome back.
I like the Homepage of his website.
Maybe you'll be interested to hear from actual 5G users before making uninformed claims.
I have home wireless broadband in central London (no other good broadband offering in my street) and was upgraded from 4G to 5G last week.
I went from an average of 5-10Mbps at peak times and 20Mbps max on 4G, to 150-250Mbps peak time and 350MBps max on 5G, on the same carrier (Three). Enough said.