skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had a similar discussion with my mother recently. She was buying a new laptop and went to check it out in the shop a few days before she actually went to buy it. The lady in the shop on the first visit tried to upsell her some office package for some crazy money. I instead got her to think about what she actually needs and wants and got her to realize that for the odd document or letter she writes and prints (and doesn't share files with others where pixel perfect formatting is important), so a copy of Libre Office actually does everything she needs and then some, and saved her, I don't remember how much, $200 or something.
I wonder how the kids feel about it. It's like being born royal, there will never be a way for you to stand on your own feet. Everyone will be polite but you'll always wonder what they really think.

And yet you still have to work quite hard at those prep schools and elite colleges.

A friend of mine of similar status simply doesn't use the family name, went to an ok but not Uber-elite school and works a normal job.
That's their fault, not mine. Read the drivel from celebrities on your carefully filtered twitter feed if you don't ever want to be offended.
This isn't gamification; this is a violation of a child's privacy, and teaches kids that if they don't toe the line and follow whatever arbitrary rules someone in power has designed for them, they get in trouble. I'm genuinely appalled that this even exists. This is one step away from some kind of social credit system.
Not consistently so, e.g. QT vs GTK thing
You gotta literally workout hard to keep things under your control if you're a poweruser who's aware what happens under the hood - there are 3rd-party tools that help you achieve that. But if you're an "enthusiast" kind of user you probably don't bother at all with control over the system taken from you.
I too like the word professional very much, to me it means that I'm staking more than my reputation on something, I'm staking my clients' reputation as well

I've made many sacrifices along the way to call myself a professional and the more I think about it, I want the people around me to care about professionalism as much as I do..
Look at the windows on some of those. Wow. Everything else aside, I would love to have windows like that.
The wealthiest (and many of the largest by employee count as well) US corporations today are largely software companies.

Wealthy, yes; high employee count, no. Facebook has about 35,000 employees. Alphabet/Google, 103,549. Amazon is huge, at 650,000, but they have a warehouse and trucking operation. That's not software.

WalMart has about 2.2 million employees. Ford, about 200,000. Boeing, 153,000.
The biggest "tech" company is IBM, with 366,000 employees.

(What does Alphabet/Google need 103,000 people for? They don't build much hardware themselves. They don't do customer support. They backed off on doing network outside plant, as Google Fiber. What part of the operation is labor-intensive? Ad sales?)
IMO bare compute isn't really the AWS value prop; if all you need is a VPS (or a non-virtual one) AWS is expensive overkill. The reason to use them is all the peripheral services, tied together with IAM[1][2].

[1] https://forrestbrazeal.com/2019/02/18/cloud-irregular-iam-is...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19742038
> It’s far easier imo to tweak my command line pipelines than to modify program flow.

Why? Creating a throwaway file in the IDE and attaching the debugger to it is just two keyboard shortcuts away. Then i can just change one line, hit F5 and get the output instantly. Contrast with the command line where i have to be careful not to hit the up-button and get all my modifications reverted, and can't use fundamental features like selecting text using shift+left/right. When writing slightly longer shell-pipelines i even tend to first write them in the IDE and then paste them into the shell to avoid this! With a program i can also set breakpoints halfway through the script to see what has happened halfway through a pipeline.
Delete tweets from your Twitter feed in bulk to protect your privacy-start fresh
It's like a git repo.. you can check out, but you can never leave
While you are technically correct, the common man on the street so to say would say that property is where the returns would be (even if the returns have technically been 0% once property taxes, mortgage interest, insurance and repairs are taken into account).

Perhaps I should have been more precise: the perception is that the best ROI has been in the property market.
In this context a valuation is then impossible, though. The market does not have access to Waymo except through Alphabet.
I'll start selling cups with that line and Windows 10 logo /s
> I don't think you ever "just need one", for me one is always two : staging (and ci, by extension ..) and production.

It's always at least two in production if you ever need it to be HA.
No, you don't. This is a fundamental rule of how encryption works. You can't design around it.

If there is a key which decrypts everything, then there is a risk it can be stolen or guessed and used to decrypt anyone's messages. This risk does not exist in current, properly designed systems.

Any government which wishes to add a backdoor to an E2E encrypted messaging system must understand that they will be HEAVILY undermining the security and privacy rights for all users of the service which has the backdoor.
Well, you need consent with CCPA. This is going to be fine.
This is not between charges, but between replacements. Just to be clear...

This means the battery never needs to be replaced.
> Or you could prefer to play games and recognize there’s only one real option for playing the new ones

Yeah. A PS4 for all those amazing exclusives ;-)
Reminds me a bit of a scene in No Country for Old Men, when Chigurh is in the hotel room.

If the rule you followed brought you to this - of what use was the rule?

https://youtube.com/watch?v=_fv7XSrrI9M
> Did you drop out? Why?

Did you not drop out? Why?

That's a genuine question I have of any interviewee. What was their thinking behind studying for 3–10 years at universities vs developing themselves through other avenues?

For someone with a master's degree, I'd like to witness their critical thought process. Their problem finding skills. Their ability to research outside their own field. Nothing would be a bigger red flag of mediocrity than someone who has spent several of their best years having gained no more than what mere vocational training would.

I never consider having a degree a "plus." It is only a plus if one has something to show for it.
Love the perspective you present. It made me smile as a system of small, cheap, efficient planes would drastically change the way we think about human movement. So much potential and IMO, a pretty classical "technologist" style paradigm-shift... Creating demand for a service that didn't exist before and simultaneously solving the original problem (expensive, polluting air travel) as a byproduct.
It's a thin line, but mostly I'd regulate the platform to not allow anonymous slander. Between individuals, it's most likely a civil issue, I'm not a huge fan of having criminal law creep into everything.

I'm pretty sure that "no anonymous slander" reduces the amount rapidly, so you end up with a bunch of legitimate accusations that people are willing to stand for because they can provide evidence. The whole "I don't like his hair, so I'm going to make up stories about him" stuff goes away.
FWIW a few of the courses (AI and ML4T that I'm currently taking) have the online and on campus being taught at the same time by the same TAs/autograders. So they are literally the same course in terms of material. It's been interesting. In AI they post the grade distribution for OC vs OL. Medians are similar with slightly lower average for the online section so far.
Probabilistic scripts for automating common-sense tasks
I like to think of (software) engineering as a craft. Obviously the most effective way to learn something is by doing. The best way to get going and help you jump hoops and level up is having a mentor, or friends to talk to. Master/apprenticeship is old-fashioned but highly effective. All courses I've seen are boring, uninspiring and often ineffective, as it's often hard to relate them to a real problem you might have. Having real problems make you learn really fast.
That's interesting information, thanks.

Probably a smaller plane takes less time to taxi, take off, land, etc. Still it seems like if you increase significantly the number of flights in and out of an airport, you'll run into some serious congestion issues.
Had two of these scenarios too where the software was suddenly not activated anymore. Nothing helped, didn't want to reinstall the OS. At some point I just thought that since the license is there, piracy is the way to go.
The cracked versions installed without issues and neither used any cloud functionality.

A stripped down installer for Windows might also be the way to go here. Of course updates would pose a problem.
In Sweden prostitution was legal in both sides of the transaction before the law, so your question is strange as there was no legalization going on.

As to why the stigma has increased, it is a documented fact that it did, established by the evaluation that was done some ten years after the law was introduced. Swedish political climate regarding the question being what it is, the investigator saw the worse conditions for sex workers as something that was a positive outcome.
You have to believe in yourself, beyond any personal conception of career advancement or professionalism.

Unless you work in a hellish organization, most people appreciate a person who can own a mistake and then take the required action to correct it.

It's when people are completely blind sided by the consequence of a mistake that you knew about, but kept to yourself that things start to get dicey.

In the end, everyone makes mistakes. If you work on the most critical of systems where mistakes are life and death, then I pity you, but if you fall outside of the realm, just be honest about what happened with whoever it matters to.

As others have pointed out, you can help yourself by practicing risk management. If you're taking a risk, try to hedge it.

I think most importantly, don't be scared of your job.

Good luck!
Sure, that makes sense. I hope my peers don’t call me, but emergency services if something bad happens. And my immediate family is at home with me. And I have an alarm clock on the bedside table ;)
InSync enables Google Drive sync on linux, $30 but I found it to be worth the cost - works really well: https://www.insynchq.com/
Sure, but I’m a) still really happy with my iPhone SE and b) think it’s unnecessary to leave it in while sleeping.
Is that really enough for Twitter to remove the tweets from their databases?...
Ok that is interesting. I've been thinking about a Snowplow implementation for a while but seems like a big task. Could you expand the differences?

> Snowplow is a great analytics tool, especially used for internal analytics\

> centered around event enriching and storing to a data warehouse

Is rudder not aimed at these use cases?

I seem to gather that you are building a more full stack platform, with a core feature set similar/better to/than Snowplow?

Edit: Can you expand on the types of destinations you plan on supporting? I see Sources [Android, iOS, JS] and Destinations [Amplitute, GA, Hubspot etc] but no data warehouses. Can I send raw events to a Snowflake dwh for instance?
You've missed out the crew though.

Currently the cost of pilot and co pilot are amortized over 100s of passengers.

You've quoted 2 crew to 9 passengers, and I'd have guessed 3 crew (pilot, co pilot, Air Host(ess))

Obviously when we get to autonomous flight that will change, flights will never be completely crewless though.
For a new hire, it's more about standing out of average: github projects and all that. At that level connections are same CS grads that can't help much with landing a job. 10 years down the road it's more about connections with people from past gigs. Being a former roommate with someone in college is of no little help: unless that connection has been maintained, it's gone, and even if it's been maintained, that reference is of no help unless you worked together.
What makes you so sure your company is "doing it right"?
I think you are the one not understanding at this point. This has nothing to do with "how encryption works".

Whatsapp decided to go for E2E encryption for commercial and marketing purposes following all those privacy scandals.

They did not have to. They could have gone with P2P encryption, i.e. that their databases could have stored messages in cleartext. That way authorities would not have needed to ask for any backdoor. As already mentioned, this is how cellular operators work (that's obviously something governments wanted).

I think we might see legislation brought in in the future in order to force this.
Sure, but you have to explicitly enable it. When would you not have control over the input?
Only the reentry vehicles die. Everything else putting it up there can live again.
Ever since I saw the first few Musk presentations, it fundamentally changed how I view public speaking... all these talks, Ted, high school presentationswe were required to give, political speeches... they might be polished (some more, some less), but the fundamental problem is, that they have nothing interesting to say. On the other hand, Elon could get on the stage naked, covered with shit, and just grunt or make baby noises while showing a few slides, and it would be better that all of Ted put together, because it’s interesting, not just some experienced fancy speaker pushing our psychological buttons to tell us something we could read on Wikipedia in 1/10th of the time.

So basically, public speaking skills are important for people who have nothing remarkable to say.
I'd rather have someone who's passionate about what they're talking about, and who has real insight into it, instead of the usual corporate presentations you get, where there is zero interest whatsoever for me - I just feel like I'm being commoditised. With Musk's presentations I feel like he's just enthusiastic about what he's doing, and he's trying to convey that to you, rather than sell you something.

It's a bit like singing competitions - it's as if everyone thinks that to be a public speaker you have to do it the same way as everyone who is in 'The voice' or whatever - being cast from the same mould. He's more like the Mark E Smith of presentations.
Apple forced you to use an apple account for as long as i can remember
Because reusable rockets are not enough to impress this guy
What Games Are Like for Someone Who Doesn't Play Games
How much would you have to pay a sysadmin to install, maintain and monitor an in house hosted server ? How much would you have to pay to have daily snapshots of your instance ? And what do you do with the old server if there is a change in business strategy and you either need a much bigger server, or no longer need this server at all.
Let me give a little anecdote -- Apparently according to a previous post, there are three tribes of programmers[1] The hackers, the makers and the poets

In my view there are actually other tribes, for example `the fixers` which I personally feel I naturally belong to --

Well I used to work with a fellow from Spain, he was a great coder and all, but he called himself a Punk, a Programming Punk and any time he'd show up it would be in some oversized T-shirt of some esoteric punk band

Not that I didn't like the guy, but I simply didn't relate to his sense of professionalism which I found rather brash and arrogant -- I felt like he would harm my relationships with certain kinds of clients by what amounted to egotism

Well, we were thrust together due to managerial allocations and I was forced to work with him, but I wasn't very glad about it. I kept thinking like "I'm sacrificing time with my kids to be with this Lone Ranger and he's not really giving me the emotional surface area I need to get my job done expediently'

A lot of rookies would internalize this and tell themselves whatever they need but as an adult I found his behaviour simply moronic and that is one albeit small example of why I actually care about the behaviour and attitude of the people around me

edit:

[1] https://josephg.com/blog/3-tribes/
You unscrew the small screw that keeps the mPCIe wifi card in place lift it out and throw it in the fish tank where it becomes part of the amusing detritus of social commentary and landscape art you've been contributing to.

Now pop in the $18 Intel card you ordered last night and landed a hour ago.

Your done !

Oh wait ! NOOB, you forgot to replace the screw !
> I personally think that Google has an enlightened approach to operations, but not all companies do

Perhaps because the founders were doing operations (well) in the beginning, so they know a few things about it and its importance. They famously built a reliable system with about the cheapest possible hardware.
Sounds like a new Twitter handle for Nate Silver
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> I'm specifically talking about the issue of allowing non-agreeable actors into your own space

Yes, I get that's the point, but it's consistent with my original point: the right to be disagreeable, whether an outsider or not, is an important freedom that's valued in the U.S., regardless of whether it's a net socioeconomic benefit or loss.
Life in Colour Presented by David Attenborough
Why can Arm not pursue it as a product?

They already create and license cores, why not the substrate too? At the moment theres almost a binary choice for Arm using customers, either buy complete chips, or take Arm ip and roll your own, this seems like a useful third option.
I see some comments are raising this topic with nothing to hide.

But people on both sides, do you think it's OK for you to have nothing to hide, but the government that rules you has something to hide?

For me it's not so much whether I hide something or or, but rather that if I'll be living under nothing to hide paradigm then the people controlling that should also live under the same. And actually not only the people but rather the institutions. So if an institution is having access to all citizens data that is being collected then the citizens should also have transparency on each decision made and each cent spent by this institution at any time.
Before YouTube saw fit to boot Jeff Quitney off for no (apparently) valid reason, he posted some great content from the period. A search for "Jeff Quitney 1939 world's fair site:vimeo.com" will bring up at least some of the footage.
Hmmm... That's actually really interesting to think about from the anthropic principle perspective.

Very interesting that the only intelligent species we are aware of is on a planet that we can leave.

I wonder to what extent higher gravitational planets could sustain love that couldn't leave it. An interesting answer to Fermi's paradox.
I'm of the opinion that sharing code is the most intimate act that people can engage in, it's like writing a story and you both have to agree on the plot, the characters, the layout.. now you might say you can spend 8 - 10 hours a day in isolation writing code but I'm telling you that's impossible -- even if I allude to the old adage 'to go quickly go alone, to go far travel with company' eventually you're going to need to know the person you're travelling with because holding back is actually much harder than simply putting down your defences

Admittedly, remote work is something different but being colocated for extended periods of time even if you are an island, most people are not and you ought to give a care to your fellow human beings because any one could be going through some shit, as we are all wont to do -- look at TechLead for example.. his wife left him!! did he even mention it to his cubicle mates or did he just maintain a stiff upper lip?
I disagree. Yes it is human readable if you just want to read the words (like your would with Markdown), but with a configuration file you want to understand the structure. YAML makes that quite confusing IMO. It seems like a random array of dashes and indentation.

JSON is much more human readable in that respect because the structure is explicit so there's no ambiguity. I'd say TOML is somewhere in-between. But both are vastly preferable to YAML because they don't have Javascript-style type insanity.
As well, even if you yourself disagree, can you imagine that some percentage of human beings might disagree with your disagreement?

I view humans in a systems-based perspective, you can't possibly assume everyone thinks the same way you do?
This is an asinine comment in light of the many tangible things he has achieved.
Returning to America always makes me feel like I'm entering a place that's slightly more dystopic and police state than Norway. From the long queues at the border crossing, to the appearance of military worship advertisements, America feels a bit weird these days.
No, I don't give up when the going gets tough. That's not why I dropped out.

I dropped out because it simply was not feasible to go any farther: I could not juggle full-time undergraduate pure math at Berkeley while working multiple low wage jobs in the SF Bay Area plus all the other responsibilities and commitments I had accumulated at 27, along with the stress of being able to afford my next meal, let alone rent.

I failed math thru high school. Barely graduated. Worked in grocery stores thru my 20s. On a whim I bought myself a trig book and self taught to calculus before deciding to go back.

After dropping out I taught myself to code. Night after night I learned SQL, built shit in Python and node and tinkered with Heroku and AWS and Docker while trying to fill gaps in my CS knowledge by reading SICP and the algorithm design manual.

The job hunt process was pretty brutal and lasted about a year and a half. Rejection after rejection after rejection. Take home projects to work on and technical interviews to study for after work when I was exhausted from super demanding physical jobs that time and time again wouldn't pan out

Finally I got hired into a remote position at a great company, and left the bay for a place where life is slower, cheaper, and less crazy making. Now I'm going back to school on a part time basis at a local university.

There are so many stages between where I was a few years ago and where I am now where I could have given up, and where I think a lot of folks do. You don't really read those stories in manic Medium articles about learn to code success stories, how one guy (with a trust fund and a credit card and a network of ivy league grad friends) learned to code and got offers from every FAANG. I don't blame the ones who give up.

And I think if you have access to financial resources, and have friends who have them too, it's also much more straightforward, or at least less frustrating and painful, to finish school, and get a job that will pay you fairly.

But otherwise it's a tough road to walk, one that's physically and emotionally exhausting, and I suspect the level of commitment involved to walk it isn't too different from that needed to graduate with a degree. I wouldn't know tho -- that's not me (yet)
Hmmm, this is kind of the wrong way round. In my experience all the good stuff is on Linux, and windows have these bad broken ports. Depends on a lot things I'm sure...
Yes but try flying from California to NY without having an uncomfortable TSA experience.
However, recycled aluminum will come contaminated with possibly unpredictable amounts of alloying elements (magnesium, silicon, copper, zinc, manganese).
https://github.com/PUNISHMENT-POSSE/Apple-iOS-9-Source-Code
I think its pretty clearly that the glass tiles he was talking about would not be ablative. Given how many reuses they should be able to do.

Starship has the ability to dip in and out to control heating on the tile and limit the heat, keeping them within a heat corridor during reentry.