skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you have a suggestion for alternative ways to evaluate:
- English skills
- Communication skills
- Independent problem-solving skills

Of course, we are against discrimination. Just the opposite, we want a more connected world where people have easy access to job opportunities regardless of where they live.

I am very interested to hear!
One of the keys to happiness in the modern world is to not get upset that a single hominid species developed both a large brain and anatomical structures conducive to complex vocalizations.
I was going to disagree with you until I broke 11,500 into generations. It’s only ~383 generations which isn’t as high as I thought it might be.
To be fair, they're generally around the same quality as Master locks. :D
Since I'd need to create a new account on that site specifically to send this correction...

Paragraph 6, s/Chromebook harder/Chromebook hardware/

Spellcheck is not a proofreader.
The point, as mentioned by the article, is to consistently beat out other similar investments at that scale (ie, index funds, private equity, etc). 44% isn't the competition, no. At a minimum 15-16% in the long run.

But otherwise at a more local level high risk capital expects high rewards.
I'm not American, but grew up watching Sienfield / Frasier / Friends. Well, there are definitely times when I did not "get it", but repeated exposure to US culture via TV makes you sort of understand whenever certain issues come up i.e. correlating the various facts that crop up over different programs :)

edit : Sienfield is also one of my all time favourite shows
Yes, and no. If you already have a lot of experience building apps that run on servers, there's a learning curve to switching to serverless. Is it huge? Not really. But there are certainly pitfalls and best practices to learn about. The costs can be harder to predict, especially when starting out. And the tooling is different (and much less mature). So now you have a bunch of stuff to learn about or consider, or you can just go do the same thing you already know how to do with minimal friction. It's possible that the cost savings of not overprovisioning servers is worth it, but I don't think it's that straightforward of an answer, and if your server costs aren't massive, you might be better of spending your time building a great product than learning a new way to build.
It’s a federal government mandate, as burning man is on federal land administrated by the BLM.
> Ableton Live Standard: $449

Arturia midi controllers (eg Minilab mkII: ~$100) come bundled with a license for Ableton Live Lite which is pretty functional and might satisfy hobbyist needs.
This is going upstream against Amazon's strategy, they're trying to move more sellers to third party and FBA [0]

[0]https://www.forbes.com/sites/kirimasters/2019/03/07/amazon-v...
>Menu diving on a 20x2 char display is no fun at all.

I own Elektron Analog 4 and it's extremely fun to use and make quick loops. You may need to organize your sounds a bit at first, but when you have a reasonable "palette", editing is easy. The UI is extremely well-organized when it comes to common operations. If I needed to make a professional-sounding track in hurry, that's probably what I would use.
I put the cam.ac.uk post on this up a couple days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20969349
Firstly, in practice this would be very unlikely to affect a domain for an extended period of time, none of the big providers really treat TTLs like that. It's the mere spirit of the thing that counts.

However, I don't see why changing your nameservers would help if your resolver was always hitting a cache entry with a 1yr TTL.
...and more expensive only to find out there isnt an extradition treaty
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According to the Youtuber "serpentza", EU law requires Amazon to display the country of residence of an Amazon seller, whereas the US has no such law (and Amazon chooses not to display the information in the US). If counterfeiters are concentrated in a few countries with bad reputations among consumers, counterfeiters have an incentive to choose Amazon's US store.
Yeah I definitely wasn't referring to sandstorm either.
Hello poidos,

(I'm the author of this blog post)

I couldn't do all these things when I was in school :) I worked in companies for a few years and learned some engineering practices. Then I had basic skills to prototype my own side projects. Then after working on many silly side projects, I started Listen Notes.

And initially, Listen Notes was running on 3 tiny DigitalOcean servers ($5/month each?). I logged in each server to git pull to "deploy to production". Then I added things little by little, day by day. It's a process. The key is to get started. People say that showing up is 80% (or whatever percentage) of success. I think this is very true. Just get started and you'll figure out things along the way.
Honestly, what's the big deal?

Google prioritizes certain websites/results when I enter queries too, it doesn't mean I'm required to click on them.

What ever happened to people spending a few extra minutes looking for the result they want? If the first few aren't correct for you then move on. Unless you're spending an extra 30+ minutes because the search doesn't work correctly at all then there's no issue here.
We haven't started work on the built-in code review, but that seems like a cool idea, thanks!
I’ll continue saying this until it happens. We need an Elon Musk for housing. Imagine how much capital could be freed up for non rent-seeking purposes if we could fix this broken system. Note I would expect driverless cars to help here as many people may be able to work-commute, and even if you’re not afforded that luxury it may ease housing pressure on those that can not.
Depends on what you're familiar with. If he already knows Ansible inside and out, why risk getting stuck with some undebuggable AWS failures?

As a solo entrepreneur I can say time risk is a crucial thing to be mindful of. I'll take 10h +/-1h vs 5h +/- 15h any day.
US Prime member here. Never had any problems with fake stuff. One time, my order was stolen and replaced with something of similar weight. I called Amazon right away, and they refunded my purchase. When I need to return something, it's easy.
I think the specifics of Guantanamo is a larger failure of political will and ultimately there were a lot of forces fighting to keep it open [1]. Like a lot of clemency and efforts at prison reforms that would allow people to go freely during the day to return at night or on the weekends the fear of getting it wrong of releasing someone from Guantanamo and them going on to rejoin the fight was a huge barrier. The moral high ground of having closed it would be hard to defend against even just one or a handful of people released killing people. [1.5]

It's the same with stuff like the Patriot act and the NSA programs. The government got spooked about letting it happen again and the FBI is able to keep just enough of a trickle of failed 'terrorist' [2] plots to make it seem like a reasonable threat. There's a big bias towards doing something in the world where the benefits of not doing something are hard to gauge.

Fighting against all that is a lot of work politically and decisions have to be made about what's the priority for any administration. Obama chose healthcare and spent the years he had a majority focused on getting that through. Then after that he didn't control the house or the senate so he could only do so much via executive order and I think by that point he'd been steeped in the believers too long so didn't have the same zeal.

> It makes you wonder if new presidents get "read in" on what the "puppet masters" are expecting of them (/s) or is each simply more corrupt than the last, regardless of Party.

I think it's principally a combination of two things 1) they learn a lot more about all the national security than when they're not in the executive (excluding members of the intelligence committees and even they only get a picture of what's actually going on) and 2) they're suddenly surrounded by and being briefed by people who principally believe in these operations. Everyday some of the few people guaranteed a slice of the presidents time are people from the intelligence community who give him/her (eventually) their daily briefing after all.

[1] https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/08/01/why-obama-has-...

[1.5] Ultimately the whole thing was a giant mess because it was hastily done and once something is being done in the military it can be hard to change course unless there's a big push behind it.

[2] For varying values of terrorist. Quite a few had no contact with anyone other than a government informant or agent for the length of their 'plot'!
There are many parts to cars. Don't forget the basic ones: exposed to the elements for decades, driven across uneven bumpy bits, even the 'consumable' parts also degrade fairly rapidly...

For an electric, I'm unsure on the long-term life of motors. Batteries are the main consumable, but are actually safer and simpler compared to hot oil and fuel separated by thin gaskets.

Still, even with the consumables exempted, I'm not sure that cars actually seeing road-salts in the winter and scorching sun in the summer last that long (40 years seems optimistic, and I know I HATE being behind any 'classic' ICE that no longer has to pass emissions).
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Yep, learning how to run your own business is the only way to convert 10x development aptitude to a 5-10x pay increase. Otherwise you get 1x pay, 10x the expectations, upset colleagues that feel inferior in comparison, and very little promotion chance because the company needs you right where you are.
Right, the demo video lost me at the datastore point. This is a fancy ORM. Now, I do get that making app dev so much easier is a very good thing, but ORMs are a double-edged sword. You need an option for the dev to have much more control over the schema and queries!
The President can't guarantee he won't face any charges. The President could grant a pardon for any crimes the judge rules he cannot present a "public good" defense for but before a judge makes such a ruling he would have already faced the charges.

Getting a fair trial would mean going through the same process that others charged with a crime must go through. If he is asking for a promise of a presidential pardon based upon a judge's decision then he is not asking for a fair trial but a trial which is slanted in his favor.
If you feel you're doing all three of those categories reasonably well, and there just are no open roles to advance in your company, what do you do? Does an MBA help you "level up" in the eyes of HR etc.?
Unfairness is a purely emotional judgement. I can see it, if you can't that's just how it is. I don't mean that negatively.

But fairness comes in under the law, it's formalised as discrimination. That is something companies are rightly keen to avoid.
Anecdotally, I sense consumer preference has changed pretty heavily to streaming first, with the occasional renting or purchase of a movie or sports event via VOD. Another commenter posted about media format fatigue, and that's likely a contributor but there's also something to be said about frictionless consumption available on a single subscription.
Password managers are great, just don't use the browser extension. Don't even use the Grammarly extension.
Better title: Wind turbines dominate the landscape at the Avangrid Renewables’ Baffin Wind Power Project in Sarita, Texas
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I agree with your main point, but capital investments in tech are getting significantly larger, and most people in "big" tech don't think $100M is all that much. Google's spent billions on self-driving cars. Many acquisitions are now in the $3-10B range (eg. Doubleclick @ $3B, GitHub @ $7.5B, Motorola @ $12.5B). A new semiconductor fab is around $8-10B.

It's still possible to start a new company with just a laptop and free time in fringe markets like cryptocurrency, VR/AR, or many SaaS markets, but many of the exciting areas in tech today - AI, robotics, self-driving cars, gaming - require very large capital investments.
do you have any suggested reading material?

what kind of chronic pain do you have?

i've had persistent joint issues that started shortly after a round of levaquin, a very similar drug.
Read it as a serial. The last time I read it, a couple of years ago, I read a chapter each night. The hardest part was not reading a second or third chapter each night.

Another approach would be to read it as published. That's something like 18 parts in as many months.
Sure but how many important calls are you expecting on the hotel phone? Or even the desk phone? The only thing I every used the desk phone at work for was outbound calls. If someone wanted to get a hold of me they called my cell, because they knew the chance of finding me at my desk was almost nil.

The desk phones at work were so useless they didn't even bother to hook them up for new employees unless you specifically asked for them.
Depends on what demographic your friends are. If they are predominantly English speaking from young, there's a higher chance they grew up on a lot of US TV.
basically anyone that takes too close a look at climate change sees the horror and cannot help but go through natural loss/despair/depression reactions and cycles. you can almost perfectly map the most common responses to the kubler-ross grief model:

denial: people think this ones about denying its existence but we're really so far past that. most of the denial right now is over the timeline and the budget. the "science" says FUCKING YESTERDAY and WHATEVER IT COSTS but most people don't want to swallow that yet
anger: the takes that focus on "these top 10 companies" or "these top 100 oil execs" or boomers or suburbs or cheeseburgers, or capitalism
bargaining: you can tell these takes from phrases like "what if we just" and "I don't understand why we don't". they're mostly nonsense from people with zero understanding of engineering or the grid, or nonsense from people with just enough understanding of the grid to be dangerous and get tunnel-vision fixated on nuclear. self driving thorium drones, etc.
depression: nothing we can do, its too late, no point in trying, hating anyone who does try, a thousand excuses and zero action
acceptance: i won't say what I think goes here since if you haven't gotten through all the above steps you won't agree
I live in the US and buy a ton of stuff on Amazon for my business and haven’t noticed a counterfeit problem. I think there are just lots of loud voices from people that have gotten counterfeits or just in general don’t like Amazon.
Update by Former Pentagon Official:
No evidence Iran attacked Saudi oil fields
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iM7lcTL2Rs

The drones/cruise-missiles came from north / north-west. Not straight from Iran, but from a source in Iraq.
..If this information is correct.
Would a new HD version have a new copyright date?
OP here!

RemoteMore vs Triplebyte is an easy question.

Triplebyte:
"Do you have remote opportunities?
No. Right now, most of the companies we work with are hiring full-time in-office engineers. In the future, we hope to offer more remote opportunities."

--

On the remote work and getting sick, I don't have personal observations. I'll leave that question to others.
Run away! Run away!
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> Go is garbage-collected just like .NET.

And I bet the .NET GC is much better than Go.

But what I was trying to say is that is very common in .NET to build layers of layers of abstraction. .NET is still largely used by a lot of "enterprisey" developers with bad or non-existence training.

With Go you get a much simpler deal: You have structs (like POCOS in C#) and you pass them. Sometimes, you put traits.

Is alike what is preached for good F#/C# code, but .NET still carry the inertia.

However, if you get into .NET with modern runtime (aka: around 4.5+) and idioms then I think the results will be very good.
I love those digital sub channels! Recently I discovered a free-over-the-air version of game show network. It's awesome!
who does not now a days.
I haven't said that anywhere in my post. I have already addressed this kind of misinterpretation in a fellow user's comment
I think, and I'm replying to both above comments, that there's a non-trivial cost reduction + DevOps reduction potential here.

Of course, the overarching rule is always "if it works, don't touch it".
I've been using the private beta for several months now. It took a few hours to get the hang of it, and once the language clicks, the speed of development moves quick.

I'm sure the Dark team will be releasing more in depth videos soon with a look into the language soon!
That's fair. "Squishing the integers" was a poor choice of words. "Squishing" an undistinguished countable set is perhaps a better analogy.

In particular I was thinking of undistinguished countable sets (although I was confusingly throwing in ordering of the integers to try to make my point more accessible) that you then add topological structure on top of.

In that world the integers are simply the discrete topology on a countable set. Or more explicitly (to contrast with the next definition), where all singleton sets are open.

The rationals then are formed by any metric whose induced topology does not include singleton sets.

That is, any attempt to uniformly bring elements "closer" than the world where single points are open gives rise to a topology homeomorphic to the rational numbers.
You just repeated back the exact problem scenario I set out above but abstracted it into a Docker container, adding an additional point of failure, and then called it a solved problem.

Sorry, but nope. The Docker container itself is a fully functional machine. It also holds your most prized data (password database/password host). Turning on auto-updates and watchtower then leaving it unmaintained indefinitely was exactly the problem I was posting about above.

Scary that people think Docker is a security solution. It isn't. The Docker container is a full machine. The Docker host is a full machine. You've now doubled your points of failure and are zero percent more secure.
> Is it capitalism or subsidies that got the industry going in the first place?

Where do you see any difference or contradiction? Subsidies were used to jump-start and increase demand and thus supply was created and adapted. That's textbook supply & demand, a hallmark of capitalism.
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For most (70-80%) of the Amazon basic products I've tried, the quality and durability has been significantly lower than the product that it tried to copy. Not to mention no one wants wants their gear branded with Basic on it. I usually try to avoid Amazon basic products if possible.
> How do you explain the throughput and latency numbers posted by https://github.com/ixy-languages/ixy-languages?

Because those graphs measure overall throughput and latency in an I/O setting, not GC throughput and latency specifically. There are many other confounding factors. In particular, the application in question has been tuned to perform as few allocations as possible, so GC throughput will naturally not show up as much as in other apps!

Thanks to its generational GC and TLABs, allocation in HotSpot is like 5 instructions.

> Maybe tuning for latency is the appropriate trade-off given Go's high level of control over allocation and data layout?

Go doesn't give you control over allocation in a meaningful way.
One demand lets you watch the episodes you want on the schedule you want. Linear TV lets you watch they episode they choose to show you at the time they choose to show it, with commercials.

I mean sure, a bike and a Ferrari will both get you from one place to another, but saying they're equivalent is a bit of a stretch.
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What does "arbitrary" mean if you don't have any randomness? Response times of devices are getting increasingly predictable.
I buy DVDs of TV shows then never watch them because all my TVs have Netflix and Sky but there’s just one DVD player.
Because Sears was a company in the process of being looted and trashed for at least the last couple of decades. I've had experiences in Sears of spending 15 minutes just looking for an employee. It had become a company so actively not interested in revenue that it actually became difficult to buy things there. At least they kept the stores clean; it seems like after they bought K-Mart, K-Mart literally stopped mopping the floors.
Netflix shows that will make you think
My understanding, and this might just be marketing PR I honestly don't know, is that Anker sends their own QA people to the factories in China, so they're able to meet a higher standard. I always rely on them for battery stuff, and now USB cables since apparently no one else can make cables that reliably work to connect my phone to my car except them. I went through half a dozen different brands before theirs finally worked and remained working.
Cool! When you say "making some money," is that over-and-above paying yourself a salary?
Services provided. Most people don't pay any tax until their first job, but are protected by the police, use roads and sidewalks, and attend public school.
Wrote the guy with ad hominem as an answer.

Perfect.
I wouldn't be so sure about "always".

Disney Fatigue has already set in:

https://fictionphile.com/disney-marvel-superhero-fatigue/

https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/movies/2019/07/...

https://fortune.com/2019/07/20/live-action-disney-lion-king/

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/aug/21/spider-man-out-...

https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2018/05/wi...
Ask HN: What happened to middle-click to open new tab?
Has anyone else noticed more and more websites break the "open in new tab" middle-click function?

Even today's Google Doodle forsakes the expected behavior.

What's responsible for the trend? Is it the frameworks? Is it a new generation of developers brought up on iPads and one-button mice? Is it something else?
What would you think of a model where instead of having the data and apps coupled at all, they're handled as separate problems? So for example you could pay one provider (or self host) to store your data, then use standard protocols to access the data (like HTTP for simple things, and maybe something more advanced and akin to Firebase for more complicated apps). So it doesn't matter where the apps are hosted. Each app can even be served from a different domain. You just point them at your "hard-drive on the web".
This won't work, as remote work only affects a tiny percent of all jobs. Most people don't have the option due to the structure of the work; those that do are a tiny percentage of the whole.