skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have done it, but to learn to code and get a job, not explore startup ideas. As a side-effect, I also happened to build two products as side-projects. So my experience might help you on that too.

I was studying/coding between 6 and 8 hours each weekday for about 8 months until I got my first job as a frontend web developer.

I am of the opinion that you should not buy any resource (video courses, books) for learning to code until you can evaluate by yourself if it is worth the money. Which means that you should only go for free resources in the very beginning.

I spent the first 2 months solely on freeCodeCamp.org that I wholeheartedly recommend. Then I moved on to creating my own projects based on official documentation (I was mostly learning React, which has good documentation for beginners) and any tutorials that I could find.

So, first tip: after an initial understanding of the fundamentals, use it to build a project before you are comfortable to do it. freeCodeCamp does a good job at it, but I think you should think of projects yourself and go on to build them, not just following your course projects.

Second tip: routine was very important for me. My wife would go to work, I would go to study, it was my work. I had all the flexibility in the world studying on my own, with free resources, from home. But I tried to follow work hours mostly. Of course the flexibility is nice and I took advantage of that, but those were the exception, not the rule.

About specific bootcamp, from an outside point of view, it seems that Lambda School seems a good place to learn. But only if you want to learn to code to get a job and start a career in software development.

If you are pretty sure that learning to code is a tool for building your own product while exploring startup ideas a similar path to mine is good enough. freeCodeCamp (or wherever site you prefer) to get the fundamentals and building a lot of small projects (googling how to do it while doing it).

By the way, learning to code helps a lot with exploring startup ideas. A lot. Good luck!
> articles about politics that are neutral

That literally isn't a possibility.
This is similar to DistilBert and DistilGPT2 by HuggingFace

https://medium.com/huggingface/distilbert-8cf3380435b5
> Apple’s position is that the average user isn’t supposed to be installing apps from outside the App Store anyway.

Is this Apple's position, or is their position that apps you install on your system should be vetted in some way (either via the App Store, or via the notarization process)? It seems to be the latter based on reading the link, but I might be wrong.
No... Oregon. But I grew up in South Florida. Why would you bet I'm from Utah? Do they have some sort of English fetish?
Happened just yesterday after GM of the Houston Rockets spoke out *for the HK protests: https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/07/business/houston-rockets-nba-...

EDIT: s/against/for/
Is it possible that a larger portion of government expenses goes towards debt service such as debt for infrastructure built years ago and pension payments? This would leave fewer resources to invest in the future.
Multi-CPU architecture support for your builds
It was really cool getting into a FANG and getting taught during orientation all the cool ways we could avoid taxes.

Did you know that bonuses can be deferred and invested in the market tax free for years before you claim them?

Also, what's the point of tax advantaged retirement and healthcare accounts. Normal dude making 50k and with a wife and two 2 kids gets very little. Silicon Valley engineer making N*100k gets a shitload extra cash even though he needs it the least.
This level of pettiness is very much the international norm for territorial and sovereignty disputes.

The only newsworthy thing is that China's a big enough market that it can compel vendors to comply.
It’s not really $21T in cash but rather $21T worth of book-cooking “adjustments” to make the numbers align. This article gives a good overview: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/03/us/politics/fact-check-pe...

The NYT article claims that’s the absolute value of cooked assets and liabilities rather than the net amount but in truth it’s misappropriation so many levels deep (and recursive in parts) that you can’t even tell whether dollars are being made or lost. Purposely, I can only presume.
Hong Kong Cabinet member floats internet curbs to contain unrest
It would certainly be advantageous to be a member of the first generation of immortals. Imagine entering an economy as a young twenty something competing against people who've had centuries to build their careers and accumulate wealth.
Correction: the rich pay a lower tax rate than you.

They do pay, however, vastly more than you do.

The various governments have somehow managed to brainwash the masses into comparing rates instead of actual amount paid.

Very neat trick of you ask me.
> "What does it benefit to gain the whole world if you lose your soul?" - Jesus

I'd gladly sell my soul for a couple of billion. Hell, I'd let it go for a discount at a few tens of millions.
Tell your bosses at the Ministry of Culture that trying to use Britain and the United States as analogies to the situation with Taiwan is going to backfire on you. At this point, Taiwan is fully-independent with its own national identity, and so saying they need to reunify with China is as ridiculous as asking Americans to "reunify" with the UK. It's not gonna happen, at least not voluntarily.
"It's ok guy, if that 401k doesn't exist, then neither will you".

There are a number of ways that can not be true without a large scale societal collapse. Fraud involving pension funds has happened many times in the past (Bernie Madoff, Robert Maxwell being two high profile examples). The last financial crisis brought a bit more attention to the topic of counterparty risk - the idea that your "safe" investment is only as safe as the institutions that are backing it in many cases. It's not necessarily a high priority concern but I think it's worth at least considering splitting your retirement savings across more than one account with different institutions.

There are also lots of conceivable larger scale crises with historical precedent (many in the 20th Century) that would render your retirement savings largely worthless without leaving you dead. In many of those you would have more pressing concerns than your 401K but it still seems like not a bad idea to have some physical things of value that you keep somewhere secure but accessible (cash, perhaps gold and/or silver).
I don't mean to come across as argumentative, but as someone who's lived in not-Magnolia-Seattle for a long time, a lot of the points made by that neighborhood come across as intentionally contradictory. Magnolia residents have, for as long as I can remember, pushed for density to be somewhere else on the basis that "Magnolia's infrastructure just can't handle it" or some other variation on the theme of "density is great just not here why don't you try building in Ballard instead."

To wit, the Magnolia Community Council, as early as the mid-2000s, was pushing against a western light rail extension (as in, west of 15th) because it would bring more people to the neighborhood. They've also argued against trying to make a Sounder stop in Ballard, just across the Locks, because people could walk there from upper Magnolia (or Metro might make good on its "threat," in some people's words, to run a commute route on Commodore Way) and, thus, increase the number of people living in Magnolia.

The arguments have always been that more people can't possibly fit there so, well, how about Ballard?
How is Slog different (or better) than multiple asynchronously-replicated regional deployments of Spanner? Or, even simpler, a single Spanner deployment where different sets of groups have different replication configurations. That is, in fact, a fairly common deployment of Spanner internally at Google, with different sets of voting replicas for data that's most frequently accessed from different places. As an example: Paxos groups that host European users' data have a quorum of voting replicas in the EU, while groups that host US users' data have a quorum of voting replicas in the US. Data can be explicitly moved across these different sets of groups, e.g., in response to a user changing the location of their accesses. All the normal location resolution methods still work as in the simple case of uniform replication configurations (see Directories and Placement section in the original OSDI 2012 paper).
Ok, so the key ruling here was in 2014, which said "the Supreme Court declared that such screening procedures were not an 'integral' part of the job. Integrity’s staff at the warehouses...were hired to take products off the shelves and package them for shipment to Amazon’s customers, not to go through security screenings. The Court also found that Integrity could have eliminated the screenings without affecting the workers’ ability to complete their normal tasks." [0]

So it seems like if the security isn't integral to the job, then someone should be able to just walk out without doing the screening. Then of course they would get fired for that, and could then sue that they got fired despite the fact that the screening isn't integral to their job duties. The company would either have to claim that the security is integral, or allow others to skip it too.

Now of course, a warehouse worker doesn't have the resources to engage in such a lawsuit or live without a job while it plays out, which is what Amazon counts on here. But what if someone agreed to pay all the legal fees and pay the employee an equivalent wage to be a test case?

[0] https://www.scotusblog.com/2014/12/no-overtime-pay-for-after...
Because it doesn't fit the given narrative: it's all about scavenging/recycling.

Your reality does make better sense, but doesn't make a good story.
If you have the luxury to think about that, you can choose not to work for Amazon in R&D. I know people who used to work for Amazon and left because they didn't like that aspect, but isn't that Amazon's problem more than anything?

Or is it even a problem? Maybe Amazon deliberately puts on their best Ebenezer Scrooge to weed out people with too much taste and not enough nose-to-grindstone.

You guys clearly think more about what messages the workplace is sending you than maybe Amazon wants their employees to. ;- )
https://medium.com/@johnlakness/why-the-ultra-wealthy-love-s...

(spoiler: growth tax)
Once upon a time there were laws that said that if you had expenses on certain farms you could deduct those from your income (and sometimes carry those expenses over to later). There was no true economic loss. You still had the farm. It's just that expenses counted as deductible.

This was for the reason that farms sometimes have a large lead time before they're productive and I want to give you the chance of surviving the first few years that weren't productive.

I think this was notorious as a citrus and almond farm thing.
Can someone please share the actual paper? Sci-Hub fails to retrieve it either by DOI or by the Nature link.
Abnormal String Hashing
>The overall tax rate on the richest 400 households last year was only 23 percent, meaning that their combined tax payments equaled less than one quarter of their total income. This overall rate was 70 percent in 1950 and 47 percent in 1980.

I thought those rates referred to income made above different cut offs, not the overall amount of money made...
Having extensively used AWK and PERL, I don’t agree. AWK works for simple things, but has significant limitations especially for more complex parsing you might do in a dozen lines of PERL. Subroutines don’t return complex structures, Strict mode declaration checking, hashes, foreach style iterators are much less functional or missing in AWK. Multi layer structures are also trivial in PERL (hash table or array composed of child hash or array). Finally, AWK versus GAWK versus NAWK compatibility is an issue.
Yeah, that's true. I could have chosen a better example there. I was trying to pick a tech that Apple tended to prevent competition in back then. Perhaps Safari/Webkit would have been a better example.
Most Americans disapprove of Congress but approve of their Congressman/woman. Even at 18% overall approval most of the Senate & House is going to get reelected, which is why nothing changes.
>A few more steps and then it seems less dramatic when it comes to "give us that information on that one user"... and so on.

That has already happened. Only instead of handing over data on specific users upon request, Apple has simply handed over all iCloud data of all its (mainland) Chinese users to a government owned company:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208351
Global Aviation Consulting Service Market Report 2019
Pine’s hardware is really nice. I would love to be able to install something very close to stock Debian on it, or a Debian distribution sourced directly from somewhere like Raspberry Pi, rather than the current OS offerings. Perhaps the OS situation has been improved with this latest hardware?

I’ve never felt comfortable with the OS side they provide: strange versions of Debian from unknown github accounts or links from their wiki to other third party sites I’ve never heard of. I can build from source but don’t have anything like the resources I’d need to audit the source code, again from third party hacker sites, and it doesn’t feel like there are enough collective eyeballs on the OS forks and patches to feel completely confident nothing careless or nefarious made its way into the codebase.

I’ve no real reason not to trust them, but if they could roll what they need for their system into an upstream vendor with a brand name I’ve heard of it would give me more faith in using their devices in high trust roles (ie: anything other than local coding or web browsing.)
Do they mean a lower tax rate or total dollars? I'd like to talk about total dollars not percentages, percentages are misleading. If someone is paying 1 million in taxes and you pay 10 thousand, they pay more than you, regardless of conversion to percentages of taxable income.
His idea presumes not that you can't scavenge newer technology, but that we can't replicate, repair, and manufacture more of it. Computers are built with computers. Advanced computers were built with less advanced ones. Sure, we can try to use some of what we found that survived, but will we be able to build manufacturing to build a modern processor with what we find that still works and the expertise we still have?

If we can't manufacture new smartphones, we need to have a baseline of computer to develop new computers that can eventually develop computers that can develop smartphones. Essentially he's proposing that if we lose our societal ability to compute advanced things, that we be able to fall back to the Z80 rather than the abacus.

Not sure I'm totally sold on it here, but it's an interesting topic to say the least.
Is it still 404 for you if you don't mind me asking? From what location?

Over the weekend AWS reported my instance health went to Bad for a bit not sure why.
SVG is an incredibly inefficient way to represent a line drawing,with all the coordinates written out as text, and not as deltas from the previous one. Flash's internal representation is much tighter, but not cool any more.
In short, very sustainable[1]. Look at Snap. Growing pains, sure, but it's undeniable that it became a social media staple.

[1] Not TikTok though, see my other comment.
The Supreme Court decision related to this is being unfairly maligned in these comments, even though I'm in total agreement that the end result was bad.

I recommend reading the ruling [0] itself; it's readable and quite short, under 2,500 words.

The unanimous 2014 decision concluded that Amazon (technically, a contractor) could not be penalized under federal law for not paying workers for time spent getting through security screenings. It turned on the 1947 Portal-to-Portal Act. IANAL, but, looking at the decision, I don't see how they could have reasonably ruled any other way.

To summarize:

In the 1940s, courts had interpreted the Fair Labor Standards Act (source of the minimum wage, overtime pay, etc.) to imply very broad definitions of "work" and "workweek". This allowed mine workers to sue for back pay for all the time they spent traveling between mine portals and work areas. This wasn't consistent with pre-FLSA practice, and companies suddenly faced huge, unexpected lawsuits for back pay and damages. Congress passed the Portal-to-Portal Act explicitly to clarify the definition of time "on the clock" and prevent these lawsuits, excluding "preliminary" and "postliminary" activities.

It is this law that results in Amazon not having to pay their workers for the screenings. Quoting from Sotomayor's concurrence:

The security screenings at issue here fall on the
“preliminary . . . or postliminary” side of this line.
(*citation*) The searches were part of the process by
which the employees egressed their place of work, akin
to checking in and out and waiting in line to do so
activities that Congress clearly deemed to be
preliminary or postlimininary. See (*citation*).
Indeed, as the Court observes, the Department of Labor
reached the very same conclusion regarding similar
security screenings shortly after the Portal-to-Portal
Act was adopted

So, I believe that, obviously, Amazon should have to pay workers for these hours. But the blame for their not having to do so lies with the federal government's inability to update a 1947 law rather than with the courts.
They were also hacked by the Chinese. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Aurora
>and possibly the ability to get ANY phone certified as Google Play compatible, EVER.

Not so sure about this. The Chinese money is too great.
sigh im tired of seeing so much HK content online
im involuntarily becoming a chinese govt supporter because of this
> I am now homeless because of this development.

No, you aren't.
All housing construction helps affordability. That person who moves into a luxury condo leaves a vacancy elsewhere in the market.
Isn't the experience for a notarized app the same as the current experience for an unsigned app? (i.e., right-click or go into the settings and allow.) If so, I really feel all this freak-out is unwarranted, because any moderately technical user will know how to do that.
> panopticon

"The panopticon is a type of institutional building and a system of control designed by the English philosopher Jeremy Bentham in the 18th century...[It] allows all prisoners of an institution to be observed by a single security guard, without the inmates being able to tell whether they are being watched."

Learned a new word and concept today. Thanks!
Why double or triple it? His actual guaranteed package is closer to $68MM[1], which is closer to 20x or 30x.

[1] with the potential to hit $250MM.
You mostly see how much of it is squandered away by incompetent and/or corrupt bureaucrats.

I'd love to pay more taxes if the actual so-called "social contract" wasn't something in between a heist and an absolute management mess.
In most US states all that is required is 24 Hours notice of entry for any maintenance, and emergency repairs/maintenance do not require any notice. Landlords and maintenance personal will always be assessing the state/condition of the apartment whenever they are there. Since they do not need a response to the notice, if you didn't see the e-mail, or missed the piece paper tucked in your door jam, it can feel a lot like a "random inspection."
Practical AI 59: Flying High with AI Drone Racing at AlphaPilot
Japan has what...126 million people? So according to your math, America must have 1.26 billion people? Australia is as big as the US if you meant by area, plenty of other countries approach 100+ million besides Japan.

The EU has 511 million people. Sure it is multiple systems, but they all work much better than ours does.
> 100 millionaires and billionaires.

There are over 500 billionaires. My point being that OP's point comes off as an emotional argument as opposed to a data-based one.

Edit: I now understand the OP meant "100-millionairs". Even so, the math is still off. As of 2015 there were ~5000 100-millionaires and billionaires in the US[1]. That's 0.0015% of the population.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/chloesorvino/2015/06/15/5000-u-...
For as long as the duck keeps up the payments and no one else really cares otherwise.
This is a better SEO guide for beginners https://medium.com/startup-grind/seo-is-not-hard-a-step-by-s...
How mechanically centralized is leadership in the GNU project? Does rms sign off on every change?

I'm wondering how expensive it would be (assuming he does not want to step down) for the community to fork away from him or route around him.
I think this “vilify the rich minority” mentality that’s so popular these days is destructive in the fact that the people that popularize this, see it as a path of least resistance to getting subsidized at the expense of the rich, instead of working toward improving themselves and the value of the products/services they provide so that they may, in return, purchase valuable services for themselves.

In the end when this sort of mentality is allowed to win out, what it leads to is the dissolution of those valuable services these “rich” people provide which made them their wealth in the first place. It’s unfortunate that only AFTER their dissolution, the original proponents of this mentality are the ones that suffer and realize their short sightedness.
Ireland’s Privacy Regulator Moves Closer to Decisions in WhatsApp, Twitter Cases
Ah, then I'm glad I didn't order yet!

I run Windows 10 on my desktop at home when it's in "gaming rig" mode, but ArchLinux when I'm hacking on something. I have Manjaro on my personal laptop and macOS on my work laptop. Firmware mapping is definitely a requirement for me.

In fact, my experience is that what firmware a keyboard uses isn't always clear. My KBParadise V60 is almost perfect for me. I'd like a numpad sometimes, but I can always get an external one. The bigger problem is that keymapping can only be done through some DIP switches on the bottom or via flashing the firmware. The firmware isn't open source and is fairly obfuscated from what digging around I've done on it. the arrow keys are mapped to a cross arrangement on the right side of the keyboard, and I'd much prefer to use hjkl. I've not found a reasonable way to do it on that keyboard that doesn't require configuring it on every device I use.
Millions of CCP members are not stupid but the CCP as an organization is extremely stupid. That's part of the horror of it.
What a nice piece of backstabbing. Class.
Ten Rules for Open Source Success (2015)
Genuine question, what exactly do these maintainers want ? Stallman has already quit his leadership role/position, right ?! Is there something more that he or the GNU project needs to do ?
Automation is just like any other technology, the first versions suck, but they get better. Self-driving cars are at the early stages yet, it's perfectly reasonable to want to hold off for now.

Frankly, LASIK freaks me out way more than getting into a Waymo car, yet it's a common procedure.