skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was driving a '67 C10 in 2003-2004 and it still ran perfect. It needed a frame off restoration as the bed was severely damaged from decades of use as a farm truck and removing the bed alone was more work than I wanted to do (at least a 4 man job) so I ended up selling it for about 2 grand more than I had bought it for.

Then I took my father's '95 Toyota t100 from my mother when she got a new vehicle, drove it until 2013 and gave it to my half brother. It has 130k or so when I gave it to him and aside from having a really squeaky bed was in great shape, the only remotely major work I'd had to do was replace the fuel pump bracket due to rust which involved dropping the gas tank (2 man job). The ball joints and pitmans needed replaced in the next 10k miles probably but that's just a special tool rental and an afternoon sitting on the ground.

Then take my 2013 impala... I've got 68k miles on it now. I've had a wire harness malfunction which would randomly trigger ABS and traction control while you were driving, I've had to replace the evap sensor THREE TIMES and it is now throwing codes again, the factory rotors have already had to be replaced due to severe rust, any time humidity gets above 70% or so it throws another engine code because of more fuel/emissions sensors.... pinches bridge of nose
UHT is only for warm shelf milk here in Virginia, and maybe for some of the really expensive organic stuff that's shipped all the way across the country.
I can tell you exactly where that low is, because that's what they offered my Canadian cousin in Baton Rouge with an American CS degree before he told them to pound sand and went back to Canada to get his MSCS in Alberta. He has a much better job with Warner Music in Toronto now.
There's this part:

> If the package has still many users (popcon >= 300), or is needed to build another package which cannot be removed, document that by adding the "py2keep" user tag

So they are not even that firm. Overall, it seems very well handled.
I know a Swiss expat living in America who moved here for that exact reason. His wife is Cuban, and they said they felt more at home and accepted in the US after a few months than they did after 10 years of living in Switzerland. They both loved Switzerland, but they cited the insular culture as the primary reason for leaving. His wife just couldn't handle it anymore.
All expats by definition are immigrants, not all immigrants are expats. Normally refers to high qualified high earning individuals while in most places most immigrants are low skilled low wage and only a small group would be reasonably called expats.
https://www.iarc.fr/featured-news/media-centre-iarc-news-gly...

https://www.cornucopia.org/2013/07/organophosphates-a-common...

>Organophosphates are so toxic to humans that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has taken steps to limit their availability to the public.

>Upon entering the body—through ingestion, inhalation, or contact with skin—organophosphates inhibit cholinesterase, an enzyme in the human nervous system that breaks down acetylcholine, a neurotransmitter that carries signals between nerves and muscles.

>When cholinesterase is inactivated, acetylcholine builds up in the nerves, which become overactive. Victims of organophosphate poisoning typically die because they can’t breathe.
Another Stack Overflow Moderator Resigns in Protest
Oceans could have reached carbon threshold
I was in total agreement with this and for fun I did a Zillow search and there are in fact a good many condos that are asking <=$350K. Some of them are even large enough to turn around in too. I have to say I'm a little surprised. None of them are awesome but I've seen many a worse place in The Lower Haight.
if someone wants to understand the person behind his philosophy the recent biography book "I am dynamite" is really recommended.
> The migration gave each internal team the freedom to choose the purpose-built AWS database service that best fit their needs, and also gave them better control over their budget and their cost model.

Anyone know of a comprehensive resource that we could use to figure out which DB to use?
Somewhat related note: as someone living in a major city I find it increasingly hard to discover relevant events happening soon/around me.

Events I'm looking for span a range of interests, artists, bands, topics, hobbies, and causes - hence no one central location has a list of everything relevant to me. So I'm forced to regularly dig through Meetup, Eventbrite, Facebook, Google Events Search, individual sites, individual web pages, AXS, Spotify Concerts, email newsletters, etc.

Building another event organization platform isn't the solution - getting people, venues, and organizers onto it would be an expensive uphill battle, and would further fracture discovery. But a thought of a decentralized open-source aggregation of a bunch of feeds has been popping up in my mind lately. These could be sourced from all of the above mentioned sources and somewhat standardized into a format with name, description, price, location, time. From there, it should be a simple matter to add filtering, subscriptions, and even a recommendations engine.

Has anything like this been attempted? Might it work? I haven't found anything yet.
I call bullshit on this article. Ah and by the way - the bulk of the article contents start after the following sentence:
"There are 8 reasons why I personally find Switzerland much better for the fellow Software Engineer: [...]"
This is a PERSONAL OPINION of some random guy.
Ask HN: What were you pushed to do as a child that turned out a waste of time?
Decentralized Ride Sharing: A Demo
Extrapolating from the 3-year update guarantee Google offers for the Pixel line, and the October 2016 launch date of Google WiFi... I don't think you should get your hopes up, sadly.
It's 16%. Employers have to match it, so it's an additional 8% on top of the 8% that the employee pays.
One solution is to read books that have survived the test of time (e.g., Descartes).
Ask HN: How do you plot your metrics?
We have a ton of low velocity (every 10 minute) single number metrics we'd like to throw somewhere and then plot over time. I was thinking of rigging something up with aws Kinesis Firehose. But before going custom, I wanted to ask. What do you use to plot your different number streams / metrics and why?
> skin reflects 20-30% of the power and the rest is almost completely absorbed by the epidermis.

So 70% of the energy is absorbed by the skin. What does that much energy at those freqs do to the epidermis? I don't know, you don't know. I'm not saying you're making a case for the conspiracy theories, but you're certainly not making one against them.

> If you go outside during daytime why worry about 5G?

If you go outside during daytime on an Australian summer day without sunscreen including underneath your clothing, you're going to get severe sunburn and permanently increase your chance of skin cancer in under 15 minutes. We have public awareness campaigns about this on TV and everything. Not a great comparison.

I have no idea whether 5g freq ranges and power have health impacts, I'm just saying that clearly you don't either.

You could repeat everything you said for 2.450 MHz and sound plausible, except that's the frequency of microwave ovens that cook things including humans. Do any molecules resonate at 5g freqs? I have no idea, neither do you.
Ask HN: Examples of Good Software
Where can I read clean testable maintainable source code?
20k is easier to swallow than 50k a year plus lost wages. Plus 20k would have a way higher lifetime ROI than 200k.
Absolutely. It depends on the project and situation. But it'll start making less and less sense. Personally I've moved on at .NET Core 2. Never looked back; But my area is game development. Most people on .NET are doing Web Development; There it could still make sense to stay at old and proved .NET Framework;
No, this is incorrect. Note "(other than Network Content posted by individual “Subscriber Content”)"; this refers to the stuff that users create and post. See the "Subscriber Content" heading below.

You license the content you create to them:

> any and all content [...] that you provide to the public Network (collectively, “Subscriber Content”) is perpetually and irrevocably licensed to Stack Overflow

You still own the copyright to what you've written.
I use uMatrix with a global deny of everything. When going to a site never previously visited uMatrix then puts up a big warning sign indicating that the entire site is blocked. That's handy to increase anti-phishing defense depth too.
Migrating everything to the same externally-available cloud infrastructure is exactly the thing that Google needs to do, but has been failing at for going on a decade now. Yes, I'm bitter about it.
Saying _a_ Swedish bank is misleading, since it is the central bank of Sweden. If instead of "central bank" they had called it "federal money & banking administration", suddenly the negative connotation would be (mostly) gone.

This year's recipients got it for RCTs. Would you say that recipients from the real Nobel Prize in Medicine that use the same methodology should also be laughed at?
In my experience with being ahead, I had to move school districts a couple times to avoid administrative resistance. It goes ok, then you get the teacher that doesn’t want you to be ahead of her son and then proceeds to teach you stuff that she already taught you a couple years before.

My parents also had plenty of free time and money which helps with the process.
I guess that’s true. Sorry, not to versed in healthcare costs, it’s the first time I had to pick my own plan and/or pay for it.
That's interesting. It is considered a very decent size for a single person or even a couple where I live (Croatia).

But then again, I grew up in a family of five in a 45 square meter apartment.
Self-reply for Kwpolska: Adding layouts to /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/ is straightforward (but is necessarily system-wide, and requires root), and I do that. However, for the popular desktop environments, it's like pulling teeth to have that layout treated as first-class with respect to switching and settings.

(On MacOS, putting a .layout file in ~/Library/Keyboard\ Layouts is enough.)
Ask HN: Y Combinator Video Call Canceled Last Minute
We had gotten a request for a video call and scheduled our call and at the last minute it was canceled. When we went to reschedule the call the system said there are no more available slots.
The price money was donated by the swedish central bank, I do not think they need to cash-in on anything
Interstellar comet just like ones from our solar system
Zurich’s strength is also that it’s centrally located in Europe, within 1-2 hours of France, Germany, and Italy and close to mountains for skiing. There are also some serious negatives ignored in the article. First, weather is a lot worse than in California. It’s wet and cold. Second, they speak Swiss German, which means all administrative forms are in that language. Most people will speak English, at least in a business setting but it’s not as easy as in London or even Amsterdam. If you have kids they will grow up speaking German. Another negative is the price of food and restaurants and the lack of food diversity.
The implementations of Algol and Fortran for Debian are maintained.
Deutsche Bank used to have an Indian CEO

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anshu_Jain

Most European CEOs/presidents just aren't as well known as the US behemoths.
Rust doesn't have classes, for one?
I know at least 6 other devs (backend, frontend, mobile) who work in Zurich that don't make it past 110k with 5+ years of experience.
I've been answering questions in Stack Overflow for over two years and I don't remember referring to anyone by anything other than the second person; I never saw SO as a platform that lended itself to talk about anyone in the third person.

Regardless, this policy means that I'll be contributing even less frequently than I already do and, if/when that happens, I'll just keep using the second person.

If I somehow slip, use the third person and someone ends up saying anything about "misgendering", I'll just delete the answer/comment and spend my time better doing something else.
I thought it was funny they said "has a speaker with the Google Assistant" rather than "has a microphone listening to you for Google Assistant"
>although my paycheck would go up, my discretionary income would drop substantially as well

yes that won't meet my original criteria then

> I would rather earn a lot in my prime and retire early to a place of my choosing.

agree with this, this won't let me retire early

> It doesn't matter if I get paid 2x if my cost of living is 3x
> Last year it even got recalled (12 years after production)

Toyota is great about that. There was something in the steering column that needed replaced on my '95 T100 and and 15 years later they sent a notice offering to fix it for free. I never did get it replaced, it was a 'we gotta keep the vehicle for a couple of days' and we'd been driving it since it was brand new without issue so I decided to keep on since the risk seemed incredibly minimal.
I'm not sure where you live but the payback on a modern refrigerator is likely within a year due to electricity consumption costs. Old refrigerators are crazy inefficient.
Nothing about this is aggressive. And having maintained compilers for ancient languages is really really different from having an unmaintained, obsolete runtime/interpreter/ecosystem.

And nothing is stopping you from installing Python 2. All scientists I know rely on anaconda to manage their Python environment, and couldn't care less what the system python does. I really _don't_ want to rely on system python for reproducing my old results.
How are salaries in Bulgaria?
You're right, I was using 0-9A-Z, when it should have been 0-9A-F. I still need some coffee :)

So for 6,984 URLs per 32-bit hash, wouldn't that be evenly distributed since it's the result of a hashing function? Therefore we'd expect fairly close to 6,900 URLs per prefix? In what situation would you expect a 1-to-1 of 32-bit prefix to URL? Note: happy to be disproven, this is not my specialty at all.
Works for me on the most recent version of Firefox. Might be a clock issue?

Regardless, Outline link for anyone who can't read: https://outline.com/T3fGAk

If Outline doesn't load, try enabling referrer headers. I always forget to do that and get annoyed when Outline links break. I should probably just switch to a different service at some point, since I refuse to leave referrer headers enabled permanently.
I know my mom had a Kenmore canister vacuum cleaner for decades before it finally broke -- it worked and despite being a plastic canister, it was clearly very well-made; she replaced it with a more "high-end" brand, I think a Sebo, that she doesn't like as much.

I know they were always made for Sears by another company, just like Radio Shack's "exclusive" brands, but I don't know who made them in the 1980s. (It appears Panasonic had been making them during the 2000s, but some information I've found suggests that Panasonic got out of that business entirely in 2016.)
> Is Switzerland the same or are degrees hard requirements?

It's mixed. Some companies don't care, some do. In my experience, engineers usually don't care, HR sometimes does. So it's mostly getting past HR by playing bullshit bingo in your CV and list any tech you've ever heard of as 'intermediate' skill level so HR finds something when they Ctrl+F.

Not sure about getting a work permit/visa though, it likely won't help not to have formal education.
Really depends on the investment vehicle. My HRA(pre/post), and Roth(post) are cranking tax free.
How Libra Is Different from Bitcoin
The tax section is incredibly misleading. For Ireland, the 12.5% tax rate is corporation tax, not for individuals. The effective income tax rate in Ireland for dev level salaries is 40%+, after a point your marginal tax rate becomes 52%.

Quickly looking into it, all the tax rates look like the corporation tax. The graph is blatantly wrong across the board.
Presumably Google's "entry level software engineer" at least on paper is a more advanced position than equivalent titles at other companies. We all probably know "experienced" programmers who wouldn't even make the cut.
R&D and engineering.
For performance/handling yes, for reliability not so much.
If you can actually repeatedly and successfully create and grow new products and services, I would start your own company.
As a parent, I rarely have time in chunks larger than a few minutes before being interrupted by children needing a drink, drawing on the wall with permanent marker, or escaping the house and running toward the road. It's not just about how much time we have, but how it is discretized. Not doing social media for some people equates to having several 5 minute chunks of time throughout the day doing nothing instead of doing something. Maybe they would be better off just meditating, but reading books this way doesn't really work for me at least.
In my opinion the best user friendly mac was the unibody early 2009 15" MacBook Pro.
It was the last Mac with a removable battery.
Plenty of technological improvements have been made since then but I still love that model.
I mean its pretty strange in Austria, In smaller cities "Graz, Linz" where rent could be as low as 50% lower than Vienna, you'd get pretty much the same salary.
> From an article on the Toyota - BMW Supra/M4 collaboration

I think you mean Z4
MariaDB - https://mariadb.org/about/
The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences has been established by a donation of Sweden's central bank (which is a government agency) to the Nobel Foundation. It is awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, which also awards the Nobel Prize for physics and chemistry.
Yeah, I was thinking about this too: why not try to implement the "Who is hiring" model (i.e. a quasi-standarized text format) to events using social networks that allows to search by tags, such as Twitter and Mastodon.
> Second, they speak Swiss German, which means all administrative forms are in that language.

All government forms are in (High/Schrift) German, French, and Italian.

> lack of food diversity.

This is certainly true.
CV fluff is the important bit.

I'm willing to bet most MBA students directly from undergrad with no work experience between are only getting an MBA either because:

1) they couldn't get a good high paying job right out of college.

and/or 2) they read that an MBA is a good investment, and MBA students on average make $X more per year (without doing their MBA calculations and doing the time discount and opportunity cost to figure out it's propbably not worth it).
Fortran has maintained nearly full backwards compatibility.
I don't see anything there actually indicating that this is a troll attempt. It seems like people there are just discussing and speculating about the github issue like we are doing here on HN.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21254187 says they improved a react project with redux. What does the source look like?
This has been discussed many time in HN. Indian and Chineese H1Bs can keep complaining or they can immigrate to Canada with Express Entry system which levels the playing field. Business will soon follow.
I made the switch and it has improved my life and career in many wonderful ways.

One sad thing I see though is they consider Canada as Plan B. They will get their permanent residency visa but will still stay in US.
Hah, he mixed up milliseconds and microseconds!
Pumpernickel, and three types of rye are available daily. Plus random oaty things.

Remember that a huge part of the United States was settled by Germans.
OnHub still gets updates because it runs the Google Wifi firmware. If we're lucky all three products will continue to be updated.
You are absolutely correct about the timeline! My experiences with independent video sites were mostley between 2000 and 2007 I'd guess. I do not think this contradicts any of my other statements, though.

Looking back further before video, we had web-rings which allowed for finding some of the best and worst sites on a subject :) I can't be the only card carrying member of the HTML Writers Guild here, can I?
> But can we stop kidding ourselves that H-1B holders seeking permanent status are innocent victims? They're exploiting a loophole (dual-intent) to immigrate where they otherwise would have a difficult time qualifying for an immigration visa. They've willingly accepted the trade-offs.

It's a loophole? That's news to me. Outside of family and extraordinary abilities (think Nobel prize winners), what other way is there for someone to immigrate?

If there are any immigrants to be attracted, it is this pool of people. Well educated, speak english, no crime and not moochers. What other alternative people do you want to support your social security system?
> You're going to need to explain that more clearly.

I think you are intelligent enough to understand it on your own.

BTW, I know asking question is good, but sometimes try to answer other people's questions, it's good too!

> When there's no other public evidence available, what do you want me to do?

So we can safely assume he did not do anything you say, he's innocent until proven guilty, like any of us, right?

> It really wasn't.

It really was.

I'm with Joshua Gay (former employee of the FSF Licensing & Compliance Team) on this:

It is not clear to me that there is any contradiction between the SFLC statement and the FSF’s statement on the matter of Linux and ZFS. That is, I can’t really find how the SFLC and FSF differ in their interpretation GPLv2 and CDDL.

The complete comment can be found here https://blog.halon.org.uk/2017/11/software-freedom-law-cente...

>> Is this enough to fire people?
> Evidently

That's why it is bad, if it wasn't evident.

FSF should not act as evil corporations do.
What? This isn't about "languages". It's about software!

Algol 68 and Fortran 77 may have stale (but maintained) compilers or interpreters in the package repository. Starting very soon - Python 2 will have an entire set of unmaintained runtime and libraries in the package repository. You know - actual, offically, unmaintained software! Unmaintained software that other packages, including Calibre in this example, further build on. Of course they're throwing this out.

If you're concerned about language support there are multiple solutions like:

* Port your stuff to Python 3 and enjoy first class support

* Running Debian Buster

* Running CentOS 8, which will probably profit from RHEL 8's Python 2 support-with-an-asterisk until 2029 [1].

* Installing it manually on your system

* Installing it manually in a container

This is how it feels to run legacy software - it's bloody inconvenient. But that's not a problem Debian needs to solve for anyone.

[1]: https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2018/11/14/python-in-rhel...
Good to know on the housing.

I guess it just sucks everywhere in terms of availability, quality and space in a good market location. SV is just as bad or worse.

There has to be a way to fix that, how nice would it be for hot markets to have housing? The problem is hot markets for jobs/economy/investment are also hot markets for real estate rents.

It sucks as a worker you have to live somewhat disheveled and less than you need or far away just to work in a good market. Remote working for the win where applicable.
There's a great book to be written about technology, leadership, and time hidden in this story regarding Sears collapse. Think about it: they were the original Amazon with catalog sales. Distribution, warehousing, they did it all. It was revolutionary and the dominated the market because of it. If they had real leadership in the early 2000's, they could have been Amazon again. But what happened?
Probably thanks to Stanley Black & Decker acquiring Craftsman