skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Vinyl sales have been increasing considerably for a decade. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinyl_revival
Vaping has much more history in Asia and Europe and seems to be without cases like this. The products from the cigarette industry aren't very prevalent in those contintents and also not vaping of THC and other such fluids. That plus the limited geography and timeframe seems to point only to contaimated juice.
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Thanks. It's a tricky topic, as Google has found as well: https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.c....
> The implementation is written in Ruby, and the source code is publicly available at https://github.com/prg‑titech/magritte.
Literate Interactive Coding: Devcards
Has any software or creative company ever actually adopted "waterfall"?

Yes. My last company was squarely "Waterfall" (though it wasn't called that) and is moving to "Agile."
How do you live with a centered fixed-width table that is wasting 15% of the browser window with nothing but hectares of white space then? Bumping the line-height to 1.5ish the font size has minimal impact to space efficiency, and add tons to readability.
The well-connected people you are describing will be fine no matter what. The majority of students are the ones who will need to compete for jobs after they graduate.
Also, of course, Uber:

https://www.reuters.com/article/legal-us-otc-uber/forced-int...

https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-uber-ipo-arbitration-...
Strictly speaking, he didn't say it was. "Not recognized by society" in the present age is the thing these future awards atone for.
Blaming it all on Amazon feels a bit quick. Silicon valley has grown insanely in economic strength and purchasing power; with Arduino, Raspberry Pi, drones, VR, 3D printing etc, plenty of folks in that area still like to toy around with new technology, hobbyist style, and now have no place to go satisfy their retail urge. I went to Fry's hoping to purchase hobbyist components which it turns out they didn't have; the level of knowledge from staff was dismal. I heard of someone who went to Fry's expecting to find a USB micro cable - and that relatively standard if aged connector cable wasn't in stock. There has to be a thought to the business's strategic management before declaring it by default as "killed by Amazon"
American culture has become a dysfunctional parody of itself, and young people are left to grapple with a worldview that does not seem to adequately address the world.
https://gitlab.com/simple-nixos-mailserver/nixos-mailserver

I invested 3 hours of time setting it up, $4/month in hosting, and now I have andrew@ziglang.org as my main email and have never looked back.
> You might be living in a bubble, fifty quid is much less than $100 and I see those notes all the time.

In 30 years, I don't think I've _ever_ seen a fifty pound note in person.

The Treasury noted in October 2018 that they rarely used for routine transactions[1]. You can see this difference in the value of notes in circulation. In the US, the vast majority (80.3%) of currency in circulation is in the form of $100 bills[2]. In the UK, there is double the value in circulation in £20s compared to £50s[3]. £50s only make up 24.6% of the value of notes in circulation.

[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-45850135

[2] https://www.federalreserve.gov/paymentsystems/coin_currcircv...

[3] https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/statistics/banknote
> so they can pay market rate for the area, which is now set by the big companies and is insanely high as a result of the housing crisis.

Are you saying that the scarcity of housing is the cause of big companies' high compensations?
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I'm certainly not defending it, but these clauses can also be found in UK rental contracts made by estate agents.

Probably not any more. Letting agents, at least here in England, got so abusive with their terms and associated fees that it resulted in the Tenant Fees Act 2019, which came into effect in June this year. It isn't quite a professional death sentence for any agency that even thinks about charging a tenant for anything ever, but it isn't far off.
No, it does not. Read the thread to know why.
Technically, I think you'll find that the new £50 notes won't be made out of paper at all.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymer_banknote
Yes, it does. I think you have something weird with your browser: with JS on, it does a light AJAX request, without it, it does the whole redirect thing.
It's the first generation that's going to be less wealthy than their parents. Perhaps that's also a factor.
This looks cool! I linked it on my wiki page of alternative shells:

https://github.com/oilshell/oil/wiki/ExternalResources

(which is cited on the first page of the thesis!)

I hope that Oil can a lot of these things in a backward compatible way, but I still have to read it and understand it more.
For reference, Wag is the same scummy company which can't even handle accidents in a professional way and required an NDA to be signed before they'd compensate the victims[1] so this new twist is no surprise.

[1]: https://nypost.com/2019/01/22/wag-killed-our-dog-and-tried-t...
Here's the github repo: https://github.com/bhauman/devcards
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Motherboards I'll give you, but Silverstone, Cooler Master, and Fractal Design all have plenty of simple and normal models. (This list brought to you by looking around my office.)

It would be nice to not have to wait for Amazon to get something for a project, is all.
I don't know if you read the article but I think the authors clearly state what they think is the issue and it isn't finding your first job.

From the article:

>“It suggests that something is seriously wrong in the lives of young people and that whatever went wrong seemed to happen around 2012, or 2013,” said study coauthor Jean Twenge. She noted that this was around the time smartphones became common and social media moved from being optional to mandatory among youngsters.

>The study wasn’t designed to determine the causes of the increases in mental health issues among college students, though the authors speculate about a variety of possibilities. Smartphone use, for example, has been associated with poorer sleep quality and fewer face-to-face interactions, both of which are deemed essential for mental health, the researchers write in the Journal of Adolescent Health.
This is not repurposed Tesla hardware, they are using actual Tesla backup battery product.
> a single upvote doesn't change anything on the page

Not much, but it does hide the arrows and shows an undo link on the comment.
I had to pinch-to-zoom to upvote this comment. :-)
It's informational, for the free version of the app, and you have to click on it to read it. Spam is a term for unsolicited commercial messages sent indiscriminately. Still marketing arguably, but then so is a lot of things that get posted to HN.
If you've done well you've probably learned and adapted.

If you havent done well, you probably to reflect and work how to do it better next time.

In that case, you can also replace "Agile" with "Kung-Fu!" Actually, I'm serious. There are various anti-philosophies in art and the martial arts which say something like this.
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We bought an old FM radio - a beautiful NAD [0] from the 80s for $40, as it happens - because we like having music on in the background and the iPad/wireless combo just isn’t anywhere near as good as “the wireless”.

You know what the NAD has never done? Just stopped playing for no reason. Stopped playing because someone called. Stopped playing because a video played on a website. Stopped playing because the battery ran out. Stopped playing because my wifi did whatever. And so on, so forth.

We listen to vinyl for the same reason.

[0]: http://www.fmtunerinfo.com/NAD4300.jpg
They really dropped the ball on e-commerce with outpost.com and frys.com being entirely separate. They eventually fixed this, but it was too late.
As all of my Japanese friends have told me, students work extremely hard to get into a prestigious college and basically slack off after they get in. The education is not very important because large employers expect to train everyone they hire anyway.

University education in Japan is almost entirely a signaling exercise, and passing the entry exams for prestigious universities is mainly proof that one is willing to work extremely hard to fulfill social expectations.

Oh, and Japan also has a bit of a college affordability problem too.

Overall the Japanese system is not something to emulate.
It could well be true, This has happened many times
We had “agile coach” come in 5 months ago.

Upper management completely changed all the processes.

all teams were broken into scrum teams without consulting developers or other members.

Everyone I have talked to is unhappy.
Any random decisions are justified as agile.

Is this normal process of adapting agile in the company?
That's not accurate -- at least in startups that are on track to becoming successful. If you join a startup just to become a cog, do not join that startup. It does take about 6-9 months for an engineer to become impactful from a business sense. If you can wait out that time period, you should join and expect to have impact. If your ideas aren't valued and you're not getting the opportunity of ownership, then maybe you should leave to join another startup or go back to FAANG :)
“Chinese experimented with small hot air balloons for signaling from as early as the 3rd century BCE.” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_air_balloon

Yet, for the first person to ride a hot air balloon took ~2000 years in 1783. Some of this came down to advances in material science, but far less than you might think.
Well, it is somewhat unrealistic to hope to secure a software engineer position in FAANG immediately after a bootcamp. A well-paid position of a (junior to mid) software engineer in a smaller company is quite achievable, though. After 2-3 years of real-world experience there one could try their hand at FAANG interviews.
Yes, I get that, but these are large corporations where there doesn't even exist any way to "pass it up" to someone in IT from the standard CSR channels. e.g. one of them had $15B in revenue last year and an actual privacy office, which I guess will be my next step to contact.
isabouttime
https://github.com/johnkerl/miller

Miller (mlr) is now my goto tool for csv/tsv manipulation.
I've used it from time to time during the past year and it's been a joy to use.
I must admit that I did not try any other tool for the purpose so I don't know how it compares.

It has a nice verb system, verbs can be combined with "then" statements : https://johnkerl.org/miller/doc/reference-verbs.html .
There is also a small DSL to use with the "put" and "filter" verbs: https://johnkerl.org/miller/doc/reference-dsl.html .
Another verb I find very useful is "join", which does pretty much what you would expect it to do.
Typically, a developer only stays at a job for around 1.5 - 3 years. In the non SV world, the best way to get a promotion or raise is to job hop.
Past (more than 5 years ago as I reckon) is when I locked horns with them. They may have switched policies, I may have gotten smarter than them, who knows.
PyTorch is dominant for research, Tensorflow is dominant in industry. I'm writing an article about the general state of ML frameworks that's nearly done.
I remember "discovering" the guilder notes back in the '70s. Brit in Germany. Our Sterling and the German DMs were so boring looking in comparison.
If you are doing alternate days or weekend fasting high or even moderate carb diet is a no go because of this exact reason.

Pretty much high protein/fat and limit carbs to 0.5-1.5g per kg of body weight anything else would pretty much fuck you up.

Since you are taking about double caloric intake on non-fasting days you also really need to pay attention to the GI of your carbs because otherwise your blood sugar levels will be spiking hard.
Running mail server is easy, if you do it for yourself. If you do it for "friends and family" it is not.

Not because DKIM and DMARC those you setup once and don't care.

Because doing something for people and for free is hard.
Yes, a good investigation would be to analyse what all of these people vaped, and if they all came from a common source.
The link was to www.churp.io which looks to me much more like a product than a research paper.

One of the authors helpfully clarified below, but at least to me it was extremely unclear that this was the case - had it been more obvious I'd have phrased my original comment very differently. On second inspection one of the blue links does point to "full paper" but there's still lots of words that imply that it's a viable working product, which it really isn't.
I love hearing stories about people choosing to forego large frontend frameworks, or even not using JS altogether.

Is there a community or name for this? If not, I'm going to call it #neverscript. I find the web works far better, more often, for me when SPAs and JS aren't used. There's something about minimalistic sites that's very appealing to me. I know it doesn't work for all sites, but a lot of the web could be improved by reducing the frontend bloat.
> ii) To make point i) worse, they have nicknames printed on some of the coins!! They do not write "ten cents", it is "one dime". They do not write "twenty-five cents", they write "quarter dollar" (even the unit here changes)

Those aren't nicknames. They are the official names of the coins as laid down in the Coinage Act of 1792 (though "dime" was originally spelled "disme") and its successors.

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/United_States_Statutes_at_Lar...
What's the problem with his Python book? I bought "Learn Python the right way" for a close friend as I thought it was a good one to get started - is it not?
Related question: what is the easiest way to increase the tap zone of a HTML element using CSS?

Aside: I have noticed Safari auto-inceases the touch zone for inputs and elements with ontouch/onclick events (I noticed because I had to fix an issue caused by this!)
Similarly, if you say "Agile doesn't work because X" - they will say "thats not REAL Agile..."

The Tao which can be spoken is not the true Tao.

There was always some bizarre logic-twisting response to those questions which didn't really answer them but was enough to try and shut you up.

Look at the results. Follow the money.

So there is simultaneously one "real" way of doing Agile and also no real way because it is not dogmatic.

How about substitute "Agile" with "Jeet Kune Do?"
> We should use objective measures.

What constitutes guilt, in a criminal sense? And what's the objective measurement?

Spoiler: while I am not a lawyer, I studied law, so my views may be coloured by knowing what the hell I am talking about.
I would say they are repurposed in the sense that they were intended for home usage and not for keeping cell towers working.
Do they? Every so often I come up on a vehicle at night with no lights on, and I've never noticed any notable reflectors, like say, runners wear at night for visibility.
That's not really a new thing though. The difference is that previous generations of graduates were happy with what you call "wage slavery" -- a stable job at a big company.
For a RNG, the maximum run length of same values would be the period length divided by the output size (in general).

The blog post is horrifying, it feeds the output of the Mersenne Twister into another function to reduce the run length of seemingly biased outcomes. I think to generate a single value the whole CPU’s cache is cleared from the size and complexity of the code. The AES S-box, with the seed XORed before and after, would still be a better solution (especially since the probably of certain runs of similar values should be somewhat low).

The theory behind LCGs is a lot simpler, and using a suitably small prime, I think, one could have an appropriately short period without excessive predictability.
I moved to the Bay Area in 2006. I'm now appreciative that I got to experience things like Weird Stuff Warehouse, Fry's, the Electronics Flea Market, and a less than booming tech scene. Someone I work with who's been in tech longer commented that now there's a lot of people just going into it for the money. Before, maybe even in the 90's, people went into it because of a passion for technology, and all these things popped up to support it.
No I presume they tell you after you’ve committed to interviewing. But who would commit to interviewing with someone (a day of your time) that you don't know?
That's a feature IMO -- HN could even make them even smaller.

It should take conscious effort to vote, and the small target size mentally reinforces this model; that it's not supposed to be the most common action.

EDIT: See, clearly the vote targets simply aren't small enough!
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I thought that too, for me it's due to Windows resource files having `.rc` extension. how mind works

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/menurc/about-...
Yes, but you have to click past an annoying prompt[1] every time. Does that not happen for you?

[1]: https://i.postimg.cc/jjBSVmCX/Screenshot-at-2019-09-01-15-23...
A branded website that makes claims to solve the problem broadly doesn’t give the impression it’s “just a proof of concept”.

It even invites developers to “give it a try”.
No, you can set "Use new Reddit as my default experience ". At the bottom of the page, "beta options".

https://old.reddit.com/prefs/

There is no "always use old reddit"
data should belong exclusively to the owner of the data source. if you own a car, any and all data should be yours and yours alone to share or not.

If you own a brain or a computer, or any other sort of data generating mechanism, that data is yours, and should be private and yours by default, no implied consent, which BTW is something that should go out the window as well.
More likely immigrants will be.
Fry's in Renton is still a great place to get stuff same day. Lots of parts available and the employees generally know their stuff. Many of them have been there several years since I started going there. Just be sure to online price match with Amazon direct only.

Micro center was insanely over price when I went a few times in St. Louis in June. Like $70 keyboard for $147. Razor chroma ($140 elsewhere) for $240. I basically cut my prices in half on several trips just price matching.
I understand why you would say that, but that would be quite a big ask. There are only six bills, of which the design applies to 19 countries, and of which the United Kingdom is not a member. The bills feature fictitious imagery (at the time at least, as Tom Scott shows [1]) in order to avoid national bias.

For those curious as to what could have been, many of the 44 design proposals from 1996 [2] did feature historical figures.

1. https://youtu.be/S9E1wsxOSzM

2. http://www.coinsworld.eu/info/euro-banknotes-designs/
If you live in a major city in the US outside of the west coast or NYC where both the salary and the cost of living are lower, software developer salaries from my experience range from $60-$90 on the low end to $140-$155K on the high end. That for team leads, architects, principal developers or even low level managers.

You’re going to top out as a developer after about a decade if you’re semi aggressive. The only way I found to make the next jump is true consultancy (not staff augmentation).
This is a remarkable chain of bad logic. We start with a real Harry a real person with real rights at point A and then proceed to discuss 2 different hypothetical points B and C where Harry did or didn't have a kid.

To discuss Johns hypothetical rights when he came into existence at point B makes sense. At point C he never did so its meaningless to discuss his rights. At A its possible to discuss B in context of B but impossible to be indebted NOW to entities in contexts in which they don't exist.

The breakdown is where we reason from B to A and assign every hypothetical being that could have possibly arisen the privileges of an actual existing person in A. B's possibilities are only reasonable in context of B.

To imagine otherwise we are stuck with accepting the murder of a googol potential slightly different children that could have resulted rather than the relatively few we had. Only slightly less absurd we could be morally obliged to have as many children as possible even if the result is that they are on net less successful and more miserable to avoid the greater loss of existence.

Reason it out yourself and consider the plethora of absurdities.
We posted at the same time. This is exactly right. It looks like it’s trying to be a marketed, accepted solution.
Has there been a generation where the elders haven't accused the kids of some moral fault?
Central Computer is also pretty good, but the one in Sunnyvale burned down. I hope they rebuild it.
It's not straightforward to put a face of an anonymous entity on a banknote.
If we're imagining a world with immortality why not imagine one with space colonies, or some other form of growth? The new people could get the new stuff, same as it's been since the end of feudalism.
I had a lot of trouble spending leftover Jersey pounds when i reached London. People didn’t even recognize the bills! I think a McDonalds ended up accepting them.
Won't be the first time. People used to live in towns too small to support specialty shops, and either the general store has something, you make one yourself, or you mail order it from Sears and wait weeks.

I think what changed is the speed of shipping. Retail only adds value if there's a more convenient local warehouse, or you trust the salesman.
That's no excuse to make it ugly. There are plenty of ways to achieve this without massively cluttering it.

Just look at Canada, Australia, or even Mexican plastic currency. These are nowhere near as bad but are just as secure.

Canada: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/92/Canadian_Fron...

Aus: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/d3/91/b8/d391b8dafd8c60277a81...

MX: https://www.inside-mexico.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Fot...
You can see a logarithmic spiral ("Complex Exponential" in the article) in my video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMMrEDIFPZY Obama deformed by holomorphic complex functions (conformal map)

But I forgot to make it twist like the pictures in this article. That would make a nice addition for a new video
I don't think you have a good understanding of what the trades are if you believe what you've just stated.

Tradesman != Day laborers or low skill factory work.
https://duckduckgo.com/tty/

Well, OK, that's actually NOT lightweight.

But this is:

https://duckduckgo.com/lite
I'm excited about this project too, but how does it "reduce the influence that Google and Facebook have on the Web"? It seems pretty orthogonal if you ask me.
Every person with half a brain already knows that smartphones and social media have destroyed at least one generation of Americans. There is a cohort of Gen Z that’s growing up without access to social media; these are the true future leaders of the world. These are the people who will command the income and power over the next 30-40 years.
The whole thing is incorrect. You claim "The U.S. came close to a free market at the time of its founding and has become progressively more unfree since" even though "at the time of its founding" the US economy significantly depended on slave labor and wholesale theft of land from Native American tribes. What kind of free market operating without force do you have when millions of human beings are under the lash? As for your excuse for the theft of Native American land, the inability of the native Americans to defend their property or to organize property law as Europeans did in no way makes the violent theft of their land some operation of free markets without coercion. As for women, look up "coverture" (https://ap.gilderlehrman.org/essay/legal-status-women-1776%C... ) Your whole story is a fantasy.
Or you can be isolated from the other prisoners, such as being shunned...