skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's another counter to this. If you announce your plans but put a penalty on it for non-accomplishment it acts as a commitment device.

You should read about commitment devices in general but the idea is they FORCE you to do something you know you're probably not going to do.

A good example is to tell your friend you're going to run a marathon and if you don't you'll give her $1000.
>If done by car it requires a drivers' license, putting it several steps above zero-training

Most of these workers, in Italy at least, use bikes
If your station is in orbit, then so is the mass you want to drop into the black hole. Orbital mechanics works quite differently to what you are used to from the surface of a planet.
Oh, is that all you need? Just a cheap rent controlled apartment you picked up twenty years ago with a sublet clause?! I’ve been doing it all wrong
I don't really like talking about real life too much, so I'm hesitant to mention the company by name (you can probably find it in my history though), but I work for an enterprise ISP, and we have cubicles.

I'm very happy here.
If you want to boil this down to black-and-white you need to compare the past, present, and future deaths of the anti-vax movement against the solution of 'not tolerating' anything that doesn't meet your utilitarian ideal. And that's aside from the moral aspects.
Nope unless i tell what i am building its jinkx protected :D
This only works if people are excited for what you are making.

I once worked on an ambitious game for months, and then decided to make an announcement about what I was building. The reaction from most people was meh. I stopped working on it about a month later and all remaining copies of it have since been deleted by now. Never released.
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Nothing about a tracking system actively precludes your being able to jump tracks later in life. To be frank, you're blindly speculating based on this assumption.

> Assigning a person a career based on a test they take at 14 seems awfully reductive and like it would segregate students based on the social standing of their parents. Wouldn't surprise me if the German system reduces social mobility.

That's not how tracking works. They don't assign you a vocation.
> when I've had to hire people, a vast majority of dropouts who work on experience (though not all) have a weak understanding of fundamentals, and while that's not a problem for some domains, it is a problem for mine.

You are right. My statement was too simple. Experience is not enough. If someone spends 30 years doing the same thing without learning anything else they are not going to be a good hire for anything outside that box.

What matters is learning. That's what I look for. Does the person have a track record of constantly learning during the last ten years? What did they study? Did they try to get a handle on fundamentals? Did they stick to one thing, on domain, or did they learn and have experience in a range of domains? Did they enroll in any MOOC's? What were they? Can he or she speak about these topics with reasonable authority?

What I look for is an insight into who this person is as a professional. One of my typical questions is a short sequence: What are state machines? Give me an example of using a state machine? What's the difference between a Moore and Mealy state machine? Can you whiteboard examples of both?

I am not looking for the person to know the above with 100% accuracy and insight. I am trying to get to know the person and how they think. If, for example, they try to bullshit me, I learn something valuable. If, on the other hand, they say "look, I have never had to use state machines so I don't really know the subject but I understand they can be very powerful and useful and would love to have the opportunity to learn about them and apply the knowledge", well, that, to me, is far more valuable than them being able to parrot answers to my questions. Anyone can prep for an interview and ace it.

CS is an interesting field. When I started life as an EE designing and programming computers of my own design you used Assembler and maybe C and, if you were lucky, Forth. Virtually none of the things I do today existed when I went to school. And so comes the realization that, in my case, when it comes to CS, I am no different than a CS dropout. Virtually everything I do today I had to learn on my own. And that entailed a constant effort spanning thirty years that took me through CS theory, languages, frameworks, applications and new developments such as FPGA --which literally did not exist when I was in school.

Having navigated this journey I am forced to look at the person rather than the credentials. In fact, credentials very frequently lie about what the person is capable of. There are plenty of stories out there about major companies having trouble hiring recent grads because they don't know how to, well, do the work they need them to do.

Engineering in general is a domain that requires constant learning. Stagnate and you become irrelevant. CS can be particularly brutal in this domain.

So, no, it isn't about just experience but rather about what someone did during that time and what they chose to learn.
It's not really the end-all-be-all, but it's a matter of personal preference that I would like to go without one if possible.

Having grown up in the deep suburbs of a car-dependent city (including having a car to myself for a few years in high school), it basically comes down to this:

(a) I don't like driving and I'm bad at it.

(b) I don't want my kids to grow up like I grew up: with no friends in walking distance, nowhere to hang out in walking distance, ultimately bored and only spending time on the internet as a result. By the age I had a car to spend time with friends on my own terms, I basically had no social skills to speak of.

(c) Driving cars just feels bad to me. Like, from an environmental point of view. I know it's not sustainable for the earth in the long-term, so it sucks feeling like I am reliant on that technology.

Again, it's all personal. But having lived both without a car and completely car dependent, my optimum for quality of life is living a car-optional lifestyle, where the car is only used for the occasional luxury (e.g. a weekend trip out), not for day to day necessities.
Not changing the world is ok.
As I said, they're basically non-existent here, so they're definitely not an alternative for me.
> Beijing ByteDance Technology [..] is a Chinese [..] company [..] headquartered in Beijing.

Oh wow. Shocking revelations. I guess it's just informative, saving inquisitive readers a web search.
Ask HN: If you were to switch career, what would you do?
If you were to quit your developer job today and move away from the tech world for a little while, what job would you do?
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I just came here to comment on that :)
The only evidence I've seen to counter this (very common) critique is the disturbing practice of 'chadfishing'. If you make a profile and put a picture of a hot guy, you will be flooded with female interest.

Make a profile with a really hot guy pic and see what happens. You'll find there are way more women on those sites than you thought. Or better yet, don't do that, but look into the people who have. They tend to be crazy people (who invented 'chadfishing'), but their results are fascinating.
Wow. I'm really impressed by this guy, he's doing a good job of modeling masculinity for the 21st century.
This use of "idiom" is well established outside of natural language. Merriam-Webster gives the following as the third sense of "idiom":

> a style or form of artistic expression that is characteristic of an individual, a period or movement, or a medium or instrument

So it doesn't have to be inscrutable; just something that's characteristic of a particular way of doing things. The Python community favors list comprehensions over maps and filters, so using list comprehensions is part of writing idiomatic Python even though they are not in themselves impossible to understand.
The article completely misses the point. No amount of reasoning will change a manager's mind. They do not push people because they actually think it can be done faster, they push people because software developers are very weak and because they want THEIR project to be delivered as soon as possible so they can boast in front of the other managers.
My default assumption is that trolls attacking any sort of "leftist" activist are either alt-reich channers or corporate astroturfers. I don't assume good faith on the part of trolls, but instead always suspect an ulterior motive.
Good Luck With That.

In 2008, I was looking for a job after being with one company for close to a decade. I knew C and C++ like the back of my hand and written programs for x86 PCs as well as three mainframes (Stratus VOS, DEC VAX, and one that I cant remember.) When it was time to find a job, after a few months,

I found one company and a mid level job (that paid more because salary compression is real) that wanted my VB6 skills because they were moving away from a proprietary VB6 like language and moving to C#. Later, my C++/MFC skills came in handy when they needed someone to maintain their proprietary development system.

Fast forward three years later and the company died laying everyone off. Knowing the situation of the company, I did a lot of Resume Driven Development with C#. It took four days from the time I called some recruiters to getting an offer from what was then a F10 non tech company.

It’s been the same every since as I slowly moved up to where my salary and responsibly has matched my years of experience. All based on seeing what the local market wants and keeping my resume in line with it. RDD means optionality. You can literally make a few phone calls and have multiple offers in hand with in a couple of weeks if you live in any major metro area. I live in Atlanta.

Even with Java if you say your expertise is writing Java applets and EJBs you will be laughed at.
Looks interesting! Think I will experiment with this for No CS Degree
Not really. The thing is, you're not so much stockpiling kinetic energy as you are using the mass of the body to amplify the force you apply. There is an optimal time to apply that force, which is when you are closest to the body you are orbiting.

So what may happen is if you have a low-thrust engine, you will do a burn at the optimal time, then stop and wait an orbit until you reach the optimal time again. But you're not "stockpiling" anything so much as you are just thrusting at the optimal time. And once you reach escape velocity you have to keep thrusting, there is no more opportunity to do another pass.
She. :)
That website tho...
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If my reading is correct, the person who you responded to is a woman who has tried online dating. Even if it is not, that is probably a man who has tried online dating well and did well enough to be able to ask a woman he is dating/dated and shared what was told to them.

Your response is quite illustrative of reactions men have to observations on this topic the women make -- they do not like it. They especially do not like the implication: in this specific situation men just don't bring enough to the table to make them interesting enough for a woman to engage with.

Just look at @TinderNightmares. That is men's competition. That's what men are failing at exceeding. Let that sink in.
Why are children under 13 even being allowed to create social media accounts?
> If millennials really didn't like the urban lifestyle then wouldn't prices be dropping instead of staying high?

Articially inflated / bubble pricing.

Recently we were moving and received significant "incentives" including multiple months of free rent.

My thoughts are that this way they can keep the sticker price above a certain threshold.

And that keeps out people that make below the 3X rent minimum that's calculated using the inflated sticker price.
To be clear, this is not a trade program. A bachelors degree is required (and screened by accreditors) to have a broad based education encompassing liberal arts and theoretical education.
True, this is more like a "cookbook"
Drake drilled the well to secure a greater supply for the Seneca oil company. The drilling technology was not particularly revolutionary, since water wells and wells to pump salt brine had been previously drilled.

The key technology was fractional distillation of petroleum into an array of useful products, especially kerosene which could be used instead of whale oil for illumination.

How Yale Launched the Oil Economy - http://archives.yalealumnimagazine.com/issues/2005_11/old_ya...
Actually I am currently not looking as I am backpacking :)

I am just exploring the OpenCV library for fun things to do and in the process documenting simpler and smaller stuff for my reference. I do plan to have a follow up post that will automatically find the corners!
Can you at least approve them on the watch so you don't have to dig out your phone every time?
The commodity being exchanged is the Bitcoin and the goods/services. If the business wants to hold the Bitcoin forever, they can. If they want to sell for USD, they can.

Paying in Bitcoin is the same way you just described as "paying in gold".
cool idea. I think we have one here in San Francisco. I just wonder about rain/snow (for some areas) and then naps..where do they take them? But in general I think the kids (and adults) need more outdoor time
Probably an unpopular opinion here, but I like open offices.

It's nice being able to turn around and have quick meetings without wasting time looking for a room.

It's also nice being able to scoot a chair over to work with a team member on a problem.

As a general rule people don't interrupt others if they have headphones on.

Maybe it's a problem for companies with product and engineering next to sales. Other than that I'm not entirely sure where all the hate comes from.
The outer solar system is pretty well accounted for. For many years we thought it wasn't, and kept hunting for another (sufficiently-massive so not Pluto) planet beyond Neptune. The discrepancy turned out to be an overestimation of Neptune's mass, which was resolved by Voyager and subsequent observations. We've now ruled out anything of Neptune's mass or greater existing out to at least 100 AU and likely several multiples of that.
From the deafening silence I'm going to take the less charitable interpretation that it's meant to enable Cloudflare to essentially sell Warp users' IPs to Cloudflare customers as an added perk.
Are you less than a 30 min walk from work?
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Use as a sink has two issues:

- getting nuclear waste out of Earth's gravity well is risky, if the rocket explodes it scatters nuclear waste throughout the atmosphere. And very energetically, given the amount of rocket fuel needed to achieve this kind of flight

- getting to planet 9 (black hole 1?) will require loads of fuel or lots (>100 years) of time. Lots of time for something to go wrong, lots of time for errors in orbital calculations to accumulate, small target to hit
There are much easier ways to deal with nuclear waste. If you could afford to launch it into space, that's really good enough. You can put it on a collision course with the sun, or just into an out of the way orbit around the sun (or even the Earth as long as it doesn't degrade and fall back while still active.)

But really it's easier still to manage it on earth itself. Which is why, even at SpaceX prices nobody does that (that and rockets have a nasty habit of suffering rapid unscheduled dissembly.)
You would just spend 1 year taking the requires courses in an adult education school and then getting a 3 year major. Seems pretty equivalent to doing a 4 year American major which had no prerequisites.
It’s not about you “planning to leave soon”. Companies leave you, they get acquired, culture changes bosses change, and salary compression is real. The best way to keep making more up to a certain point is to change jobs.

Always keep your running shoes around your neck.
Aye, it's becoming habitual on some topics.

Hopefully the mods will second-chance it, as despite the oh-so-predictable trash comments there's an important issue.
The learn x in y minutes series of sites?
I can help on this one! In short, it won't work very well. The sun is a much better object to use.

Basically, gravitational lenses don't have a "focal length" per se. It's not an exact analogy to a classic glass lens. There is a minimum distance you need to be away from an object to use it as a g-lens. But as you get further away than that, it'll work better.

Now, the minimum distance you need to be away from the massive object decreases as the mass of the object increases. So for the sun, you'd have to place a camera about 500AU away to use it. That's too far to be practical at our current technology level. For a smaller object like a planet sized blackhole, you'd have to be orders of magnitude further away. Not very helpful!

Now, it's possible I'm mistaken as I'm thinking about some calculations I did on schwarzchild geometry and I didn't consider what would happen very close to the blackhole where curvature is very high, but my intuition says that it won't be very helpful at all.

That doesn't mean the blackhole won't be helpful though!!! I think there's an ENORMOUS number of useful experiments we could do. And, I think blackholes can be used as very powerful computers, possibly quantum ones, but I don't know the details.
Yeah and how many dev jobs does that city of <40,000 have on Main Street?
This basically tells about the state of computer security in general. There is no isolation of OS from applications, or between the applications. This is by design, dated back to early unix times.

We will continue to see these issues until there is a brand new OS which isolates subsystems by design. That is, each application/process gets not only own address space, but own file system, own settings store, with the OS carefully managing cross-boundary accesses.
Know nothingism redux. Maybe those native born Americans should have made cars that didn't suck.
Its strange that you say there are no legit uses, when people keep telling you how they use it.
Will this finally allow me to switch WiFi and Bluetooth off (instead of just disconnect for 24h) from the control centre?
Possible to reveal the name of the company please ?
It sounds more like a politician who predicts a situation and backs it up with good-sounding logic. But then, when the situation doesn't happen as predicted, the politician finds an excuse that doesn't invalidate his justifications.
You will know ahead of time whether you're going to be rebinding a variable. The use of const is a hint to the next person reading your code, since they won't be privy to your thought process.

In an ideal world, const would be the default, and you would have to opt into non-const.
T-shirts wearing out, I get. Bacon neck is all too common.

But jeans you can't wash >5 times? What kind of jeans can't hold up to that? Of all my clothes, jeans are my most durable by a long shot.
This is nice if you live in a nice cool place with a magical shady forest full of wonders, but in most places kids will be in sweltering heat with the sun beating down on them all day putting them at risk for melanoma. I hated recess because of this, I just did not see the allure of being outside.
Banks fraud departments are there to comply with the law as well as to protect the company and are in many countries legally compelled to contact the authorities.
SyncThing is great, but the lack of a functional iOS app hurts.
If it's possible for you, see a qualified therapist. They will help you unpack the the problem and see if from different perspectives.

I would not trust advice you find on the Internet, it could just compound the invisible biases you already have (this is a risk with therapists too, but less so since they're trained professionals).

Shop around for a therapist. If you have friends who know you well and can recommend a therapist ask them for a recommendation.

Best of luck, seeking out help is the first step.
Hi, thanks for the interest! Actually, there is no ledger (:

Every two nodes that setup mutual credit maintain the balance between them. This turns out to be enough to be able to send funds across a chain of nodes in a secure manner.

Some of the general idea can be found here:
https://offst.readthedocs.io/en/latest/theory/
It is a bit outdated given the modifications of the last few months, but I think it is still relevant enough to give you a better view of how things work.
> Your take on climate change is so ill-informed that I don't know that it needs a rebuttal.

You are wrong. I am more than willing to engage in a scientific, evidence-based conversation about this if you are willing to stay within those bounds. In fact, I should be able to prove the greater point by using just one graph, which is the data on ice core atmospheric sampling.

If you are willing to honestly look at the evidence and my conclusion I am equally willing to participate in a Q&A session to try to evaluate it.

There is NOTHING I would like more than someone showing me where my reasoning on this is wrong. I say this because the conclusion I have reached is not what I wanted. I wanted to learn that we could actually do something about this issue. I ended-up reaching the conclusion that the opposite is true.

Are you willing to help me evaluate my conclusion?

This offer is open to anyone reading this.
Economists love carbon taxes, in general. Economists on both sides of the political spectrum largely seem to agree that a carbon tax is a good idea and could be an effective way to limit climate change.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/economists-statement-on-carbon-...

It seems to me that economists are on board. It's politicians who aren't.
Facebook and Twitter never, ever restricted them from doing so. You don't need age verification or ID to sign up.
The resources academia has can be pretty big also. Top 500 doesnt have a lot of corporate machines on it.
4 weeks up to 3 years and 5 weeks after that. The standard seems to be three. I’ve even seen 2.
I must have misunderstood, upon second read you seem to say something similar to, "nothing is as it appears" no?
This is probably what you're thinking of:

https://pastebin.com/ateTJxEK
Patagonia is great, I discovered their garments through my needs as a climber, but the quality and durability of their clothes emerges from core values deeper than merely serving the physical needs of climbers:

> [...] Our criteria for the best product rests on function, repairability, and, foremost, durability. Among the most direct ways we can limit ecological impacts is with goods that last for generations or can be recycled so the materials in them remain in use. Making the best product matters for saving the planet [...]

https://eu.patagonia.com/gb/en/company-info.html

They also do more than simply make longer lasting clothes:

Ifixit style repair: https://www.patagonia.com/worn-wear-repairs/

Re-used / recycled: https://wornwear.patagonia.com/