skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article seems to imply 'welding' is a single level skill after you have jumped through X number of academic hoops. this is like saying 'IT' is basically one skill set that can be learnt. There are welders earning vast amounts flying all over the world working on mission critical projects with huge economic and safety dependencies at the top, large numbers of highly talented entrepreneurial artisan welders (who often have many other skills) and people trying to learn a skill at the bottom. The article is like saying someone going to junior college to learn python is discouraged because they aren't immediately thought of as a senior engineer once they get a few qualifications.
These are the words to a Willie Nelson song. I'm My Own Grandpa

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkX7IW7jpMw

It's entertaining to listen to.
Early investors are not necessarily subject to lockouts
"I think there ought to be more representation from right-leaning organizations"

Can you expand a bit on the philosophy behind this? Is "centrality" a fundamental value of news aggregation?
The reason you gave for not allowing dogs to roam does not apply to cats.
It actually wouldn't, by a rather large amount, if it meant you could also opt out of the other government services you don't want and which comprise the large majority of the government budget.

"We need fire departments and they would cost 30% more if only 70% of people carried fire insurance" is fine until you spend 50,000% of that amount on War in Iraq and buying votes of retirees / drug companies with unsustainably large benefits increases.
I've been trying understand this too. If you have a liquidation preference on your preferred shares that says you get your money out before others, does that just go away in an IPO? If it applies, how? Because it's not like there's a buyer who is putting up the entire market cap in cash.

But if it goes away, that's kind of an amazing loss of value for those holders. Do they have to agree to the IPO? (Maybe usually they do, but here Adam has super voting rights?)
After a year and a half, Orry was fired for missing too many days of work...

Orry had been working hard for five years...

Isn't there some contradiction in these two statements?
Well played, sir. :)
It's nothing like Invisible War either. I would consider Invisible War a bad sequel, while I would consider Human Revolution a spiritual succesor. Neither game is like the original but Human Revolution/Mankind Divided are great games in their own right (ignoring that Mankind Divided was cut short)
It’s not just high salaries, you could be competing against someone with a moderate salary and an inheritance.
A philosophy education teaches a lot too. The discussion here is about what markets value and why that matters and why it doesn’t. I think trying to align education with private gain is the wrong approach. Society should promote human flourishing, not just numbers on a bank statement.
I would go even further : your description of the bookseller is the same as the one I would do. Focus is on money and on the appearance of being a cultural persona, even if a bookseller does not read more than most of their clients. To be fair, they must focus on money as the book business relies on very thin margins (no pun intended). They can give advices based on what they have read, but I completely disbelieve now that their opinion on any book has more value than anyone else. Moreover, I trust much more any author or any publisher on their blogs than a bookseller in front of me when they give opinions on books. I have seen more than once booksellers lying about a book to avoid ordering it for a customer (because it costs them money and the returns are not high enough). I don't believe also that it is only Amazon that crashed the bookshops and led to the disappearance of the bookseller as a cultural anchor point for communities. Those who were really literate and honest had more capabilities to survive and some are still there today, but those who were just posing as cultural figures are gone now. To sum up, bookshops are businesses and their main activity is to make money. If I want a cultural advice, theirs is still interesting but very low in my rankings.
> Doesn't matter, it's the concept itself which is nonsense.

Not at all. Look at the kind of terrain that recent Boston Dynamics bots can handle. The concept is solid, they just didn't have the technology yet to make it practical. (And we're still working on it.)
I know this has been covered before, but WeWork isn't really a tech company. They're a real estate company. They buy buildings and then rent space. And they certainly don't scale the same way tech companies do.
le PoW vas disparaître selon vous ?
Even if the execs stopped running around grabbing the secretary's butts and double dealing on sketchy real-estate deals with the company that wouldn't make their business models any better.

Uber is basically an international taxi company and we-work is a real-estate company. Neither of their business models are money printers to the degree required to justify their valuations. Sure, they have a chance of creating some network effect feedback loop that makes them insanely profitable but is that chance big enough to justify the valuation? The market seems to say no.
The original source of this additive (or the raw materials for it) was a waste product from detergent manufacture. When that method of detergent production was discontinued, they needed to set up an alternative source, which no doubt raised the cost, but everything about the A12 / SR71 was hugely expensive.
So is HN a good place to ask, and if so, are you able to find a perspicuous example highlighting the superior code quality?
They live by the policies, getting giant investments for a warchest and blowing it on possibly impossible to monetize locations with the hope that they will kill any competitor before one can take root. See how Uber subsidised new drivers and riders.
No, that number is completely meaningless.

The DistroWatch Page Hit Ranking statistics are a light-hearted way of measuring the popularity of Linux distributions and other free operating systems among the visitors of this website. They correlate neither to usage nor to quality and should not be used to measure the market share of distributions. They simply show the number of times a distribution page on DistroWatch.com was accessed each day, nothing more.

https://www.distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=popularity
School and society both teach that you should work hard at a job to make a living. It's the fundamental of economics.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1170896866805977088.html
I am colorblind. A rely on consistency a lot when I am out and about. This sort of thing feels really deceptive. Aren't there other signs, signals or actual three-dimensional tools that can be used to slow traffic (speed bumps) that are not deceptive?
Show HN: Mixr – Generate an MP3 mix from the command line
fix: Android is cancer because it's a proprietary walled garden. Cancer is enforced through walled garden, and walled garden is enforced through closed source. Old tale holds true: proprietary software harms the customer and Android is a vivid example of it.
Yeup. I previously worked for a company that developed this type of product in their suite and I was able to see the data across lots of brands and industries. It really works.
That was not at all what I meant.
Ouch, my mistake.

In any case, could we sum it up? In what cases should memccpy be used over, say, str{n,l}cpy, or even memcpy, and is it in conflict with the article's recommendation or its statement on performance regarding memccpy vs. the alternatives?
What they could also do is a solar charging port, where you can plug in external panels for charging. A lot of travel trailers have that capability.
Unfortunately, yes.

Softbank has taken out loans secured with Uber stock during the lock up period.

If the value of Uber tanks, Softbank retains the money, and the bank takes the stock. Softbank has effectively sold their stock ahead of time, removing any downside risk.

On the flip side, if Uber stock goes up, Softbank can sell their Uber stock (post-lockup) at a profit, pay back the loan, and enjoy all the upside reward.

I'm reasonably sure I've read reports that they've taken out secured loans on their Wework stock too. Effectively sold the downside risk before IPO.

Also, depending on what category of investor you are, you have liquidation preferences. You may be the one providing the stock that's being sold at IPO.
If you are in the UK and interested in participating in a trial, see https://www.ovoenergy.com/electric-cars/vehicle-to-grid-char...
Yes if they’re also curious enthusiastic, creative and committed.
we are still seeing issues here
I think they have $6bn in loans lined up contingent on selling $3bn worth of shares.

So pulling out would put a hole in their expansion strategy. It may also be that they would be unable to get such an offer for $6bn again, bearing in mind the now much lower valuation. But then the vision fund has deep pockets, as do its investors so who knows.
Do you want to know how much my mother is going to care about any of that?
A career with similar average salary would be teaching. Four year tuition is an average of 25k in state and 41k out of state.[0]

Welding school is typically 5k to 15k [1] and takes two years or less. Despite how things played out for the particular case covered by this author, there is a good argument for welding. It may not make you rich. However, if you don't like the traditional college route, then welding and similar trades offer comparatively good pay/training trade-off.

* https://www.valuepenguin.com/student-loans/average-cost-of-c...

* https://education.costhelper.com/welding-school.html
Ask HN: How long have you been active in the IT business?
Stardom among the small number of people visiting a random website.

> They simply show the number of times a distribution page on DistroWatch.com was accessed each day, nothing more.

https://www.distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=popularity
If there are more intangibles than tangibles, there is more unknown than known, and it should be priced accordingly (e.g., lower).
I rode into town on the weekends :) - or went on trail rides in the mountains behind my house.
Fuck SEO and fuck those in this very thread who work with SEO. Congrats, you’ve ruined the internet in your race to the bottom for more pennies.
Author here. I wrote this script when I needed to generate a series of hour-long MP3 mixes for a project, but couldn't find a tool that made it easy to concatenate, crossfade, and normalize audio. Hope you find it useful.
"I saw him run over forty several times, and it was not unusual for him to put a string together of twenty or thirty"

I wonder if thats 40 caroms in cowboy? or 5 racks of 8 ball?

The caption mentions (and shows) cowboy pool: you play with 1, 3, 5 and can score with carom, bouncing the cue off 2 other balls, pocketing also scores the number on the ball till 90; till 100 only caroms score. to get 101 and win, you must scratch off the 1. Fun game, my favorite when not paying for each rack.
This question is asking for opinions on using Proof-of-Stake as a means of establishing a distributed consensus through the block chain. My opinion is that in a closed system, RAFT is going to be way more efficient. In an open system, POS makes some sense as the "owners" are forming the consensus. You have to make sure that ownership is broad enough and relatively evenly distributed to avoid your distributed system being (effectively) owned by someone who "owns" a majority of the total stake.
Gotta be evenhanded though right?

I mean, the people putting forth the narrative that you can make good money as a welder don't draw any of the distinctions you outline in their anecdotes either.
The article also goes into the percentiles of wages for the profession as a whole. The 90th percentile makes $60K. It says there's a high floor of wages for the profession, but also a low ceiling, which seems fair

So if you are looking at software development with the same eye, you're going to see high floor, high ceiling, and come to a different conclusion about the profession as a whole.
dumb question: what can scientists do with this besides studying the DNA data? Can they now clone that animal?
If they didn't break the law they wouldn't have agreed to a $1B settlement.
NYC is not the place for you if you don't want to be in close proximity to other people, as a general rule.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_Kylin

It is.
Employers providing healthcare is a part of the compensation package though, right? Couldn't people buy insurance by themselves if they wanted?
Do you do a follow-up Twitter sentiment analysis, or do you really only care about the banker's commentary? Anyone on here, or CNBC, or Cramer's show is just the peanut gallery. We aren't the market makers.
> exposing yourself to utterly needless danger is a very bad way to treat people who love you

He didnt ask those people to love him, their emotions are not his responsibility, he gets to live his life the way he wants to. That's his right of existence.
That seems a little excessive, and would detract from time I spend self-learning, but your general point stands, and you're right.
Was it a buzzword at the time? Stuff like this is actually closer to the original definition--very roughly, a system that uses continuous feedback loops to keep itself in a stable, functioning state--than to the way we use the word now.
My grandfather was born in 1885.
Committing fiscal fraud is breaking the law.
It depends on the specifics of the contract and the union's collective bargaining agreement, but plenty of these types of agreements exist where employment is not considered at-will.
That’s clearly nonsense, you just happen to have no interesting skin conditions... Any doctor will treat common cases 90% of their time. The skill is in recognizing and treating uncommon cases.
I think that's why the parent put "tech" in quotes.
OpenGL is STILL viable today. You can use a shared subset of ES 3.x and Desktop GL 3.x, and the amount of places where you need to if/#ifdef because of differences is vanishingly small (mostly some minor shader decls). Certainly don't need a giant library like ANGLE to do this.

We still don't know when Apple will actually remove GL from their platforms, but since the backlash will be so huge, it might be a while. And even when they do, the first step of 95% of code-bases that rely on GL will be to link in some GL on Metal emulation library. The net effect will be a slight performance drop for Apple vs other platforms. Well done Apple.

At some point switching to Vulkan (and Vulkan on Metal for Apple, or the reverse if you're an Apple centric developer) may be worth it, but for the moment the amount of apps and games that will see close to identical performance in GL and Vulkan is still huge. If you are e.g. geometry/shader/memory bound, you'll see exactly 0% speedup from API changes. You really need to be pushing significant amount of draw calls to see a difference. If you're not doing this, its worth "hanging in there" with GL to see if the post-GL landscape de-clusterfucks itself in the meantime :)
Do you have more information on this? A link perhaps?
Cloudflare Founders Letter
Alternative app name:

"Not Banksy"
Education is important, but it's not everything.

I do hire people every once in a while and I want them to be reliable, smart and educated in this specific order of priority.

Education is important, but I'm sure my plumber who charges a thousand bucks cash for half a day work earns more than most college graduates in this country.
extra bad seasonal outbreak

An "outbreak" of what, precisely?

The common dog cold? Dog flu?

What kind of seasonal outbreak affects dogs?
I guess virality of news like virality of disease is not good.

I guess it’s come full circle. At one point in time of early social media “virality” took on a positive aspect. I suspect it’s going to tend down, given how sensationalism is becoming a norm in news —at any cost, unfortunately.
Should we take a few long holidays, or lots of short ones?
If this was only a media fear fest the Norwegian Food Safety Authority wouldn't act as they have. They wouldn't recommend dog owners to avoid dog socialization if they didn't think this was a serious, real threat.

It's clearly a seasonal thing. The autumn weather activates Providencia Alcalifaciens somehow, but how isn't known yet. It's apparently a part of the normal gut flora, but the levels are very elevated in the dead dogs.

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This article is really interesting (paywall):

https://www.aftenposten.no/norge/i/MRWR00/Har-ventet-i-13-ar...

Paywall free article (translated to English):
https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=no&tl=en&u=https%3...

The bacterium have apparently killed dogs before in South-Africa.
Curious, but would the larger surface area of a bus or a truck be more suitable?
Tax Dodging 101: The Aircastle Model
Shopify Environment
The unspoken claim here is that if he'd gone to college and pursued a liberal arts degree that he'd be better off now. The evidence in the article however says the opposite. He'd have even more debt and even lower prospects after failing to complete that degree.
This is a glorified anecdote by a smug Atlantic writer yutz; dripping with condescension "There is no doubt that Orry would benefit from high-quality face-to-face instruction from a caring and conscientious English professor.." It's also a red-herring. Nobody believes an average welder makes $150k a year. In fact, we know what they make: a lower middle class salary (admittedly linked in the column):

https://www.bls.gov/ooh/production/welders-cutters-solderers...

The guys who actually do well, and who do make $150k a year were not enrolled in some shitty associates degree program (this article should really be on the failure of the US higher education scam); they're highly skilled former Navy machinists.

And of course, the reason working class jobs like welder don't make more is simple: we keep importing new low skilled laborers, driving the price of low-skilled labor down. Mercantilism and labor laws could fix this. Instead we get dimwits from the Atlantic suggesting welders go to English class.
> Saudi Aramco

Complete aside, but the ~second largest oil producing country is selling part of its state-owned oil company. Yes, they're trying to diversify so they're not just a petrostate, but this should be a red flag for the oil industry.
Seems somewhat unlikely in this instance, because apparently the issue I'm running into is pretty rare. There are millions of people using FF on W10 daily without any issues. Heck, even I have other W10 machines where it doesn't happen.
I use your borg-only service, and love it.

I recall offering to donate you the .io domain at some point too!
Why not simply increment the CTR IV with a monotonically increasing counter?
Google is scared shitless with the DOJ investigation on them.
Not just bad situations like getting killed on the job, but "Hazard Pay" in the case of underwater welding, prolonged exposure to being under pressure has shown to cause heart problems.
What's your point? Running Linux optionally in a VM isn't what people mean when they talk about Desktop Linux. Neither is homebrew (which is Linux how, exactly?). ChromeOS is on Chromebooks, which are explicitly not desktops because their whole design is as a web kiosk.
There's an image problem with college in the US, largely the fault of some of the students/student organizations. Like that protest that took over a whole unrelated building, barring an innocent professor from accessing his research, and resulted in the professor being fired for trying to get it back. I hope we can return to respectable academia at one point. Where universities put furthering the body of human knowledge before bending over for their 'customers' who are more concerned with using the place as a playground to push their political views. I wouldn't be surprised if some medical university research program was on the verge of curing cancer but let their program be delayed because the students wanted to do a walk-in over something or other.
Fullstaq Ruby epic 2 released: APT/YUM repo, Ruby 2.6.4
What is Physical Media Shipment?
That summary is basically correct. My point is that both sides believe that but seem to deploy that belief at different times.
Maybe someone quit his carreer earlier.
What reason made you decide so?

- salary
- lack of success
- no freetime
- stress
Ask HN: What are some of your recent successes?
For a break from some of the more negative content recently, let's hear what you have succeeded at.
Hey, I wanted to read the article but I couldn't make the subscription ad disappear from my phone. They lost a reader right there.
Executives often “contribute” stock to IPOs. Their share classes effectively don’t have a lockout. Tech equity is a feudal system.
Stephenson's skateboard smartwheels were still wheels. They moved by rolling, not running. They just used their extendable pads to roll smoothly over rough terrain.
I can totally trust the cable to give me at least 5gbs.

Otherwise this is like complaining that my food does not immediately spoil after the best by date. That is the opposite of a problem.
Interesting argument further down

> That is, in his 1951 Gibbs lecture, Gödel drew the following disjunctive conclusion from the incompleteness theorems:

> either … the human mind (even within the realm of pure mathematics) infinitely surpasses the power of any finite machine, or else there exist absolutely unsolvable diophantine problems.

>Gödel speaks about this statement as a “mathematically established fact” (Gödel 1951; for more discussion on Gödel's disjunctive claim, see, e.g., Shapiro 1998). According to Gödel, the second alternative

> seems to disprove the view that mathematics is only our own creation … that mathematical objects and facts … exist objectively and independently of our mental acts and decisions.

> Gödel was nonetheless inclined to deny the possibility of absolutely unsolvable problems, and although he did believe in mathematical Platonism, his reasons for this conviction were different, and he did not maintain that the incompleteness theorems alone establish Platonism. Thus Gödel believed in the first disjunct, that the human mind infinitely surpasses the power of any finite machine. Still, this conclusion of Gödel follows, as Gödel himself clearly explains, only if one denies, as does Gödel, the possibility of humanly unsolvable problems. It is not a necessary consequence of incompleteness theorems.

The level of arrogance is remarkable and can only be excused as naive. He's humble enough to reject any relevance of the theorems for sake of the discussion.

Fortunately so, because now I don't have to go in on recursiveness, the arithmetic hierarchy and schemas of induction, or what is mechanism--of which I have no precise understanding anyway.

But still, from a very basic logical stand point, it seems obvious that the question is sold as the answer. Whether the human mind could answer any and all question, is one of the questions in question. Questionmark.