skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And what was his 100 hour work weeks fueling a drug addiction leading to an early death all for? A flash in the pan Trivia fad which is all but completely forgotten.
The world is full of people trapped doing meaningless robotic things as it is. On top of it they are all living longer wondering what the fuck for. Just ask a friendly neighbourhood shrink for the stats.

Your kind of advice my friend contributes to the trap.
> Wasn't monica fired for suggesting she used gender neutral pronouns generally?

In the comments to the linked question, Monica Cellio says StackOverflow have not told her what parts of the CoC she was violating. I don't think it's public knowledge why she was demodded.

(Is 'fired' an appropriate word to use, when Monica wasn't an employee?)
I had an Audi. To do the timing belt and water pump change myself cost $400 in parts and a full day. To have an independent shop do it was asking $900. Audi dealer was asking $1500.

I drive a Ford now.
I'm under the impression that you misunderstand the CoC update procedure. It has not been updated. SE is hellbent on updating it in the future, and they explicitly stated that they are not willing to budge an inch on its gender-/pronoun-related contents. This is not accidental, there is not one single dissident behind it but the entire company.

It will be the duty of the moderators to enforce the new CoC. The discussion in question arose in a mod-only forum (and later on an email conversation) and concerned what behaviors these rules sanction or disallow. It should be self-evident that moderators need to ask these questions and clarify these things in order to enforce them, and that none of this discussion is in itself to cause public outrage (because the public was not to know of any of this in the first place).

Public outrage was _only_ sparked when Monica was unceremoniously fired without any explanation to her or the public. Predictably, the context being described by those privy to it has resulted in lots of pronoun- and gender-related discussions all over the place, but this is neither the primary problem for SE (significant parts of the moderation force leaving is, as well as this being the ~6th community PR nightmare in 1-2 years) nor was it in any way avoidable or unpredictable based on the plans of SE.
> despite being hard to believe at this stage.

You're putting it mildly. The second scenario is a delusional fantasy, I don't understand how it can be mentioned seriously.

We may end up closer to the first scenario thanks to the prospects of the third one. I hope we do.
A little OT but this is why I fell in love with Go (Golang) I think. There's something about the elegance of concise programs written in simple languages.

The 1500 npm dependencies problem you speak of is exactly what I expect to never even see, let alone have to deal with, in the Go ecosystem. It's not exactly surprising coming from one inventor of UNIX and C (Ken Thompson) and Rob Pike, two greats from Bell Labs, but when I heard that the creator of NodeJs had ditched that to go work in Go, now that I registered loud and clear.

After seeing for myself, I can understand. Go is a wonder, truly, and such a treat for systems (from sysadmin to CI/CD passing by performance, readability and safety). Something like Js can only eventually collapse on itself, when there's a better alternative. I mean, we could just as easily bundle a Python interpreter in browsers (to name just one candidate), Js is the frontend bible written in stone only because we keep it this way. Progressive apps are already showing a way between browsers and OS and I expect this line to get ever more blurry as virtualization (containers etc) continues its re-imaging of the entire computed infrastructure.
I think this advice is cutting your nose off to spite your face. I took my first job to learn. I was underpaid, and over worked. But I got to work on all sorts of stuff I wouldn’t have otherwise been able to touch for years, I learned a ridiculous amount, and when I left that job I took an enormous leap in salary. Since then I’ve managed to keep it going up and a very steady pace. Advising against such working conditions in general is narrow minded and short sighted. That company got a huge amount of value out of me, and they didn’t pay a fair salary for it. But in place of that salary, I got a huge amount of value out of them. My goal (especially at the time) wasn’t to get the fairest market rate, it was to increase my market value as much as possible. A goal I achieved, which has meant I’m now out earning most of my peers, and I generally have much more control over my working conditions than they do.
Industries shift, new jobs appear. It happens. It's normal. Socially engineering on the assumption "the end of work is near" has proven disastrous.
The most direct statement seems to be from https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/10/01/stack_exchange_cont...

> Asked to confirm that Cellio was the moderator in question, a company spokesperson said, "Cellio (she/her) would not use stated pronouns, which violates our current CoC …
”one with the highest learning potential, not the highest earning potential”

From my experience these are highly correlated.
> If quantum supremacy was not possible, wouldn't that mean that something is wrong with our physics understanding?

Yes, but that's not outrageous. For instance, Shor's algorithm on a cryptographically interesting factorization problem would be testing the predictions of QM in a new regime (exact cancellation of a sum with roughly as many terms as the size of the product being factored, during the quantum fourier transform.) It's quite reasonable to think that QM is an approximation which will break down at that level of precision.
If you install an app that has permission to install other apps with arbitrary permission sets... Yes, you must trust them not to do anything stupid or malicious. However this is by choice you don't have to trust them although that means you should not allow them either.

I would agree that conflating external storage options with shared storage was a huge mistake which made developers somewhat unaware that this is something that is actually not sandboxed as anything else would have been. But i think nonetheless it is the responsibility of the developer to not just assume how stuff works and in this case it is quite obvious if you actually happen to ask yourself if something like this would be possible. This is especially true if you require novice users to install your app with delicate permissions as the ability to install other apps.

To be clear on this, they made the choice to use shared storage instead of using storage protected by androids sandboxing and permission systems. They probably made this choice without knowing that they are effectively allowing other apps access to files of their installer because shared storage has been conflated with external storage options but mainly because they did not evaluate the options they had and the implications of those carefully enough.

Apparently Android 10 improved this somehow (probably by making filesystem permissions work as usual).
That's the exception, not the rule in America. The only widespread use of switched outlets was back when floor lamps were much more common around the 70s. I think you'd be hard pressed to find a switched outlet on a kitchen countertop other than the one below it for a garbage disposal.
But this doesn’t work with iPhone right? No camera access with JavaScript?
What's Coming in Go 1.14
Interest on what though? Isn’t most money immediately invested or put in money market funds?
How will she use her 2FA ;)
To pull the cord would take great confidence. To have spotted a real production issue would have to be met with praise.
I never got "bad" caffeine side effects (like cardiac ones) or even much wakefulness, and I think the article's idea that 400mg is somehow the "max" is hilarious. That's not even a little chatty.

I did end up cutting down in the sense that my life got healthier; where before it was easy to be in front of the computer sipping coffee or running from one staircase to another really fast literally all day, I got more things to do in my life that required time investment and reduced my intake from drinking coffee (and often espresso) sunup to midnight literally refilling cups the minute they were empty to about 8 or 9 cups a day. I discovered to my great surprise that I had never had social anxiety and didn't tolerate alcohol as well as I thought, and also that a lot more people in my life that I had known 1) noticed, 2) thought I had a problem and 3) did not find it funny.

I can't really cut it out now because I don't really think there's an alternative I'd like that isn't worse, but the improvement was there and the worst part is I would never have guessed it before. Like, I thought that stuff was all my personality. And the relationship stuff also was a major difference; in the sense that I was constantly complaining about not having a support system but also not leaving myself time for other people or allowing myself to feel "natural" pleasure from interaction with people.

But also I think it's pretty okay to drink coffee (eat cookies, play video games, whatever your poison of choice is). I don't see why so many people are trying to entirely "cut it out". All your habits that have become expected constants of your life, and not pleasurable luxuries, should be subject to scrutiny though. Do you need daily coffee (cookies, video games, whatever)? What do your loved ones think of that? Have you ever thought of doing a new activity, but decided against it because your ritual seemed more comforting?
Can we feed 12 billion people for ~100 years without ruining the rest of the biosphere (assuming the population peaks there then shrinks)?
The numbers are right there in the article, if you care to look.
"First Very Deep NNs -> This is false. Schmidhuber did not create the first deep network in 1991."

Well, now it seems that you lie here since you avoid the well-known fact that Schmidhuber attributes the first deep NNS back to the 60ies and 70ies.
The same goes for many of your other points.
Actually, she'll win more like $200k, $100k for the contest and another $100k producing value for others because of all the additional free time she'll have thanks to the absence of useless distractions.
Time will tell. Uber and WeWork are both bets on the ability to get monopoly-level pricing power on a major chunk of economic activity, just like Google and Facebook did. Neither one has a valuation that makes sense without that pricing power, and both of have been trying to buy it via liberal application of investor money. But in both cases, they've never turned a profit and there's no obvious moat.

I agree that WeWork's vision is now more obviously likely to fail than Uber's. But WeWork's transition from hero to goat happened quite recently. Uber got a cash infusion from their IPO that gives them something like 18 months runway, but with their stock down 30% from IPO, they can't do that forever. We'll see what happens when they have to break even. Especially if they have to start paying their workers fairly. And if the margins in that business turn sufficiently positive, I expect people will be eager to compete.

And even if they do manage to pull it together, I'm still comfortable putting Uber in that category, as Kalanick wasn't just an asshole, but a willful criminal who got his money through the same performative asshole/genius shtick. He may ultimately get away with it. But I think he's decreased the likelihood people will fall for it again.
Basically I’m saying why not make something that merges the best of both of these - quick/instant to download but with proper scripting so you can make more I sterwetinf stuff than just a object viewed in front of you, at least JavaScript, ideally swift. I’d love that from both an end user and developer standpoint.
Can you briefly describe what you believe moderator duties on SE currently entail? I have reason to believe that there is a misunderstanding.
It also helps when the marketplace takes this seriously as well. A regular user can be expected to, at most, use a ready made test from the internet. A marketplace quality control can use a spectrometer and identify the exact purity, as well as the exact contents.
It's a Q&A site, is it stubborn refusal to be decent? It doesn't seem so to me.

I don't see how neutrality could possibly be offensive on a gaming or programming sub-site, or dozens of others. Neutral writing is both common and should be inoffensive to all readers, whatever their preferred terms. That's rather the point. That shouldn't affect being able to helpfully answer their esoteric question. I don't expect to form a friendship, or even converse again, just to answer the question asked. Adding @dwaltrip or he/she/they as you prefer, doesn't affect that answer, or my intended, and hopefully perceived courtesy. So by principle of least harm and for avoidance of mistakes I'd aim to keep my replies neutral.

If there are SE sites where it really does matter, perhaps trans or gender related, yes I can easily see that it might be important to choose more carefully, and for different and more precise terms to apply to those boards.
This is pretty bad advice. Any workplace will have a fixed way of doing things that are suitable for their legacy code and existing practices. Not to mention most places don't really let you extend over to other areas. There's a big difference between dabbling in some aspect of development as part of a job and handling it yourself from start to finish on your own.

Some of my biggest growths as a developer has been doing things on my own that businesses aren't going to pay someone to look into.
Uber Copter Will Now Fly You over City Gridlock
Proper banking relationship in what sense? Credit union?
Stuff you had to learn, like all the examples you gave, isn't "intuition".

Intuition refers to some sort of understanding that arrives without reasoning or evidence.

Very little is actually intuitive. Someone once said that the only intuitive user interface is the nipple. But babies have to learn how to latch on; if it's so intuitive, why do we have breastfeeding clinics?

Humor may be intuitive. Why does a three-month-old chuckle when someone sneezes? Nobody taught them that it's supposed to be funny, or what funny is.
Them introducing (in the future) a rule (which we don't know the details of as of yet) is more or less orthogonal to claiming that Monica violated the current CoC.
They offer their own money market funds that are below 'market' rate and collect the difference.
They controlled for several factors such as socioeconomic.
Google actually did run a service on 600613 (I think) for some time that would text directions and info from certain queries. I was disappointed when I found out it was down.
This is a really good point. Not sure I'm in favor of UBI when there is so much work we could be doing to fix the mess we've made.
This is basically the first time I hear about any country with a bias against developers without university degree.

Sure there might be general immigration law blockers.

Though pretty much anywhere in Europe that I've checked or know about. At least in IT/Development, you can get a highly skilled migrant work visa without university degree.

And just to be sure - with "I can not afford moving to another country" is not money but family/personal reasons, right?
You REALLY want to do data validation and permissions/authorization server side. Never trust the client! It's fine also to do client-side checking, but you must do server-side.

It's moderately easy with Firebase (haven't used Firestore).

I'm definitely interested to see if there's anything for AppSync beyond the checking that the GraphQL schema does (NOTE: I am not an expert in GraphQL schema, it may be a lot more powerful than I know), or if you have to write your own Lambda at that point. Does look like that's easy, though!

I've been using the serverless.com tools for quite a while now, and they're fantastic. Really glad to have this!
I did an 11-month detox on a dumb phone and loved it. It's like fasting, just mind over matter.
In Canada we had to read it and learned the story behind it in high school. I can't remember when exactly grade 9 or 10, but that was definitely one of the books we covered. Reading through the comments here I was surprised too to see so many people hadn't heard the story.
Chimpanzees also have community, order, and obedience. Where are their hospitals?
Wow this factory seems highly ... underutilized to me. Is it normal for so much to stand still all the time? I love how detailed this vid is, though.
Modeling Color Terminology Across Thousands of Languages
>"well, they're irrational even though I've never been in their same situation".

You're going to have to define your level of richness for me to answer that. But some people hoard dumb stuff even if they're rich. Some people leave close connections out in the cold that causes untold amounts of social damage that comes to bite them later on. Some people sink large amounts of money on vanity projects and dumb investments that put them back to square one.

I can understand attempting to do good an incurring a "dumb cost" as a stupid criticism of the rich. Some rich people don't even do good things, they just waste money and opportunities. Even some people on the pathway to being rich waste the opportunity. There is a story about a guy starting a scooter company. The scooter has two footholds in a V formation that lead to the central pillar you hold onto like a normal scooter. The inventor hooks up with Richard Branson and is set to hit probably tens of millions if not hundreds from all the way it was playing out. At the last hour before committing to launch he decides it's too much for him and sits it out. He goes home to a shitty job where he knows how everything works and has a middle class life.

Why?

Moving into any particular position in life takes a huge mental and social change, I can see rich people burning out and throwing their money away back down a few notches as they relax into a more common path in life. It can't only be measured in character or personality though. There is something else going on.

I've known people scared of accruing a lot of money. We outsource our money management to tax accounts, banks, brokers, dealers, financiers all the time. There is a deep principle in money or large quantities that is taken for granted. Emphasized even in the US. What is it that grants some the ability to manage a flood of cash, and others drown?

Homelessness in the US is not death, unless you choose it to be. It is exile at it's deepest. People come back from exile, not from the finality of death.
Could this be an issue of not appropriately identifying the impact of the bug? If it was reported by an automated tool and easy to fix perhaps the developer failed to fully investigate the problem, failing to realize it is a critical vulnerability and have the fix back ported.
Strange.

The jobs I've been most engaged at, I would usually attentively listen in meetings while others present would spin their wheels discussing technical stuff in the weeds until I'd see a clearly superior alternate solution and put that forward.

It would appear as if I were zoning out in meetings, but I was actually just listening and thinking about the problem. I don't think people are particularly good at thinking while also discussing/debating, but I also don't think I would have as quickly arrived at the better solutions without the ability to attentively observe the relevant discussions.

If you're not even paying attention / thinking about anything relevant while in a meeting, your presence is a pointless waste of time and space and you should be doing something else.
That's another research project that hasn't even reached pilot plant scale. Here is the main web site for the project:

https://www.sun-to-liquid.eu/

The preceding EU-project SOLAR-JET has recently demonstrated the first-ever solar thermochemical kerosene production from H2O and CO2 in a laboratory environment (6). A total of 291 stable redox cycles were performed, yielding 700 standard litres of high-quality syngas, which was compressed and further processed via Fischer-Tropsch synthesis to a mixture of naphtha, gasoil, and kerosene (7).

As a follow-up project, SUN-to-LIQUID will design, fabricate, and experimentally validate a more than 12-fold scale-up of the complete solar fuel production plant and will establish a new milestone in reactor efficiency. The field validation will integrate for the first time the whole production chain from sunlight, H2O and CO2 to liquid hydrocarbon fuels.

If they achieved, say, a 13-fold scale-up, that would mean producing 9100 liters of synthesis gas in the course of the project. Based on the synthesis gas composition from the previous project [1], that might yield around 3 liters of diesel. 3 liters of liquid fuel from a multi-year research project.

[1] https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.energyfuels.5b00351
> The energy density of battery technology will never reach that of petroleum.

Not anytime soon at least. But that's besides the point. They don't have to do that, they just have to be good enough.
That sounds demoralizing and corrosive. What keeps you there?
When you say 'authorities' that includes countries that persecute civil right activists.

Amnesty International has specifically criticized NSO specifically regarding UAE activist Ahmed Mansoor. He is currently serving 10 years in jail. UN human rights experts considered his arrest and imprisonment "a direct attack on the legitimate work of human rights defenders". He was monitored by the UAE using NSO technologies.

Amnesty International have also complained that they have been targeted with NSO Group technology - specifically Pegasus. They're currently launching a legal case in Israel to restrict their export license.

A separate case claims that NSO Group used Pegasus to help the Saudis spy on Khashoggi, who was brutally murdered in the Saudi embassy.

I don't think we need to argue about the bad guys in this case.

Sources: https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2019/09/nso-spyware-h...

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2019/05/israel-amnest...

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/02/world/middleeast/saudi-kh...
Pfffft toasters. Pan-fried toast is the best toast! This is _irrefutably_ true, because you can add butter to a pan and not a toaster! In case you aren't convinced: isn't a grilled cheese sandwich one of the best uses of bread? Case closed. Throw out your toasters and bathe in the wonderous joy of pan-fried toast.
Ah, the dream of all Canadian companies: get acquired by a bigger American one. I wish there were at least a few more Canadian mega corps to sell to.

If it had to be anyone though, glad it’s one of Musks moonshot companies. Uh, not his literal moonshot, figure of speech!
And where’s your damn hundred thousand? There’s no justice!
yes, if you care about delivery you also dont use MQTT QOS 0, use 1 or 2. FOr sensors that report often (and you can loose some packets in the middle) or idempotent actions that you can repeat should be fine though.
If you mean getting your podcasts transcribed means you run a podcast, what is it?
I agree with you that it's not a good idea to pull overtime or work high stress positions for little compensation.

However i don't think that the only place where you can learn is at a startup. On the contrary, i think there is a lot more opportunity for learning at larger companies.

You would have to be very lucky to find a startup with devs that are both good and have the free time to mentor you well. But in a FAANG or a similar company in the second or third tier, you will be working with a lot of smart people who have both the time and a career interest in helping you grow.

Personally i am ambivalent on the value of wealth as an end in itself. For people who value knowledge as an end in itself, i do think it's reasonable career advice to deliberately seek out a company where they can get that support from their peers. It definitely makes going to work to earn the money every day less of a chore.