skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you're overreading it. Wanting to remove python2 dependancy now with the next Debian release as target (probably 2 year from now) seem reasonable to me. The aggressivity you perceive is to me just being firm. Refuse and push back any exceptions. The work has to be done, end of story.

Personnally, I approve, otherwise it'll spiral down in nitpicking and special cases. Would not be the first time with Debian.
The author's math works out to a bit over 2 hours a book. I assume this was elided because thats wild to expect.

I would have been more convinced if the author posted their list of books, with page and/or word count, and math'd from that.

For what its worth, my speed is between 1 to 3 minutes a page, depending on size and subject matter. At best, 2 hours would get me through a novella, a moderate sized book of poems, or maybe one of Plato's dialogues. That actually sounds right. But most books are longer than that.
The Battle over Borsch
Don't use it myself but this is great news. I'm happy to see Adriaan is so open about everything that goes on (also the bad things). Something that I always find difficult for projects like this.
It shows that a big company like Amazon, hiring thousands of SDEs still needed other vendors software than their own, because of all that time they spent in hiring and firing people and obsessing over their customers needs.

sarcasm
It's beyond me why most languages fall into this trap: C, C++, C#, D, Go, etc. All hard to search for. Granted some of these predate the internet, but most do not. Almost looks like some kind of secret agreement between language designers.
One benefit is that repeated visits to a government office generally result in you meeting a different person, or the same person but in a good mood this time.

Another thing about racism in humans is that it's easier to detect than once it's codified in a technological black box.
Quickly putting Apple's (assuming Bay Area) $161K into a cost of living calculator says that's equivalent to $82K in Cincinnati, OH. (You'd need to make $82K in Cincinnati to maintain your standard of living.)

So yeah, I'd say that adding locations is required. I'm not sure where the majority of the IBM software engineer jobs are?
what you say is true, but in this case there is no voyaging the territory going on at all. what the engineer proposes is like looking at a map and correcting the map without exploring the real world. it is possible to guess corrections to the map without actually exploring the world, but it means detecting inconsistencies. Correcting the map without travelling or referencing neglected observations would entail a realization. For example suppose our map of the world looked like 3 copies of the world, and we somehow believed there are 3 New Yorks, 3 Paris'es etc, that seem to develop in parallel, ... then the person proposing that the first repetition is actually a return to the same point would be making a point to the rest of the world using the triple copy earth. Here there is no pointing out a misconception of the laws of physics, and there is no referencing of anomalous observations, so you can not fix the map using nothing but the old map unless you also point out what is wrong with the map.
This assumes there can be many prefix matches for any given url hash.

How many times (probability) do you think a 32-bit hash prefix matches more than one 256-bit hash? Very very unlikely; it's one-to-one practically speaking.
"Undefined behavior" is a quirk of the C++ ISO standard legalese, not some property of computing or of the C++ language.

Briefly, the C++ standard defined three classes of stuff that isn't covered by the standard:

Implementation-defined behavior - "behavior, for a well-formed program construct and correct data, that depends on the implementation and that each implementation documents".

Unspecified behavior - "behavior, for a well-formed program construct and correct data, that depends on the implementation".

Undefined behavior - "behavior for which this document imposes no requirements".

So 'undefined behavior' is stuff that isn't mandated by the standard and also may or may not be an error.

Some UB stuff is bugs (like accessing arrays out of bounds), some isn't bugs but just processor/OS dependent stuff that is out of scope of the C++ standard. (Like what happens when integers overflow.)

In short, the existence of UB is a good thing; having a standard that clearly states what is part of it and what isn't is vastly better than a standard that mandates too much or is too vague.

(And it goes without saying that having no standard at all, like is usual for other programming languages in 2019, is worse in every way.)
Have you considered that maybe your understanding of the problem is actually incorrect, since your solution of providing input before hearing someone out is not working?
Yes! I get extremely tired when I walk in a museum as I need to look at things. At the end of the day I am extremely exhausted but if I look at the "mileage" it is very low. I wonder if there's a more scientifically sound explanation for this phenomenon
I certainly feel like we catch more bad behavior than we have in the past. If we think of it like a funnel, we're stuffing more cases in the top.

We (obviously) need to do more downstream in the funnel. As great as lines are about voting carefully, that doesn't really seem to fix the problem. Maybe pooling money and naming and shaming the people who don't chase these cases? Of course, that also risks the angry mob problem.
They also have a chart of "How Switzerland tax measures up internationally" which lists the corp tax rates for each country, which have nothing to do with personal income tax.
No one is mentioning that healthcare is not free (as in the other European country), but you must pay a very expensive insurance.
The intent of the law was to dissuade upskirt photos on trains, not filming the police, if I recall correctly.
The Python developers will stop maintaining Python 2 very shortly

https://pythonclock.org/
Just letting you know I downvoted this because it contributes nothing to the conversation that we haven’t heard a million times before. Yes, Medium sucks ass. I’m sorry. I hate it too. But to see this on every. Single. Thread. involving a Medium article makes me want to pull every last goddamn hair out. The fact that it’s the top comment right now speaks to HN’s apparent inability to actually discuss the content of an article instead of a million other tangential things about the article, the most popular of which being whether or not it’s hosted on Medium.
As a Portuguese, I feel you.

For us meals, especially lunch, are of the utmost importance.

And it's a crucial element at work. It's a moment of bonding and team-building. If you want to make a team-building activity in Portugal, forget all those annoying and stupid activities. Just gather everybody around a table with food.
Agreed, mods / @dang, please fix. Original title:

"Ubuntu's ZFS Trajectory Is Going From Exciting To Even More Exciting"
That's exactly what happened. When Lampert bought Sears there was (now hilariously wrong) talk of Sears becoming his Berkshire Hathaway and Lampert becoming the next Warren Buffet. I think it became obvious very quickly that that was never going to happen. Berkshire Hathaway, afaik, had solid underlying fundamentals. If only the business could be run more efficiently could it then become a cash cow that could be leveraged into bigger things. Sears did not have great fundamentals when Lampert bought in. If anything it was a financial engineering play that didn't work out.

Also, iirc, everyone thought that the real estate alone could bail out the investment if everything else went to hell. I think that is still yet to be seen.
Chao cipher is nicer...

Here is my implementation of chaocipher in arc lisp https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Chaocipher#Arc
Most of the top ranked MBA programs require 3-5 years of work experience to get in. I think it’s Harvard that allows a very small subset to go directly from undergrad.
re's API sucks but I'm looking forward to safe dictionary access with assignment as well. No more

if my_map.get(key) is not None:

// do something with my_map[key]
If you would read 200 great books by the greatest minds, you would probably be done after one year.
I’ve always believed that if you want to see a person’s true colors, look at how they treat people poorer or otherwise socially weaker than them. In other words, if your date is charming to you and nasty to the waiter, run like hell.

The same applies to companies: there’s no better way to cut through the recruiter nonsense like checking out how treatment of H1-Bs compares to treatment of citizens and green card holders.

A personal anecdote: a friend of mine who is on an H1-B works for a bank. This bank talks a great game about culture and working conditions and liberal social programs and opportunity and whatnot. How do they treat my friend? She makes forty percent below market rate for our area, and their policy is she has to work for them for five years before they even start the green card process for her. Meanwhile complained like Google and friends typically start the green card process immediately upon hire.

Anyone who looks at their promotional material (who isn’t already disinclined to trust a bank) would come away with the impression that this institution is some sort of paradise of opportunity and career advancement. Meanwhile anyone who’s worked for them for any appreciable length of time knows that isn’t true.
$4000 for rent is not normal for Zurich, and a 25 minute comfortable train commute drops the rent significantly lower.

Try getting a 25 minute commute in SV.
Edit: I was wrong. I'm comparing monthly cost and yearly income.

I think your math is wrong. 4,000 CHF / 100,000 CHF = 4%
At least your mini didnt get bricked and then Apple lied to you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0QmIxOvILM
Talk to remote people. ;) We get tired after/during the meetings, too, and we often have better air quality than those cramped meeting rooms.
why is there so much clip art and so little pictures of artifacts?
Also, MySQL is technically, an Oracle database (after Sun got bought out). Now they should write some migrations to turn all of that off.

sarcasm intensifies
What you can get at Sears you can get better at Mavis Discount Tire (much faster tire replacement), Kohls (better, cheaper clothes), or Home Depot (bigger tool selection). The main problem with Sears is that they forgot to focus on keeping the quality up and customer service.
I skipped a grade in elementary school and had done calculus before high school. By the time I got to college, I decided I didn’t care for any of that and spent my extra mental energy on forming positive relationships with the people around me and couldn’t be happier. Graduated without honors with an ok gpa but have an excellent professional network and friends and family around me that care.
The Manhattan project was a military WWII project, and the Apollo project was a Cold War project with military and propaganda value. We haven't done any of those lately because we aren't involved in wars of that scale right now.
Kenmore refrigerators have somehow consistently maintained great scores from Consumer Reports. But I think they're actually made by Whirlpool however
I'm not sure if Orbot supports Meek-Azure bridges, but if it does then you can force F-Droid to use Tor for all it's traffic.
I'm pretty sure the 4000 CHF is monthly :)
By quitting reading 200 books a year, you could actually get stuff done ;)
I don't know why this is getting downvoted when it seems like a valid question to ask someone who does not eat any vegetables. Vitamin deficiencies can develop subtly into extremely serious problems. I have a condition that means I am more prone to them and, after having had mild scurvy, a vitamin D deficiency, a copper deficiency, a selenium deficiency, and many others, I would not wish them on my worst enemy. Most of the symptoms are basically not noticable, and develop so slowly that you don't realise them and tend to just get used to it, but they can cause A Lot Of Problems. Most of the main sources come from vegetables.
At this point, the warranty on Harbor Freight's Pittsburgh hand tools is as good or better than the Craftsman warranty. Quality doesn't seem to be much different, either, but they are astonishingly cheap.

I still prefer to buy Milwaukee for my power tools, at least for anything cordless - lack of battery standardization and interoperability sucks, so once you start buying into one brand, you kind of want to stick with it, and the M18 line is solid.
There's a lot of people who care about more than just raw salary. I could get a higher salary in the Bay Area but my quality of life would drop substantially. It's not worth it. And although my paycheck would go up, my discretionary income would drop substantially as well. It doesn't matter if I get paid 2x if my cost of living is 3x and my commute time is 5x.
The difference between “kind of possible” and “more or less impossible” is the difference between 5 and 10 years of residence required to apply.
Now you can buy quite a few (not all) Home Depot (Husky) or Lowes (Kobalt) tools and come with the free replacement for life warranty. Like sockets/wrenches which Craftsman was popular for, you can now buy from the other 2 guys with lifetime warranty and the quality is on par.
I love reading and I'm not overly fond of social media but this smacks so heavily of "kids these days".
Different strokes.

Having mostly worked in an industry where formal breaks largely don't exist, I find returning to work after more than 10 minutes painful. I hated the one place with mandated 30 minute lunches because I'd be completely unwound by the end of it and just wanted to go home.
Like half of these are negatives, imo.

1) I've found places in the bay for way less than what they were saying, even without roommates. Its like 2k for a 1br in Lake Merritt, which is 15-20 minute BART to SF.

2) Yes startups that are pre-seed/ pre-series A will have crazy hours, but any big tech co. will be pretty close to 40 hours a week. My team is pretty big about work life balance, and we work at a place infamous for not caring about it. I generally work 9-5, with whatever wfh I want.

3) See point 1. Granted if you want a house, it'll be more/farther out, but apartments can still be had.

4) Money is better in the US. I currently make about 160k USD, which is more than pretty much any European Dev will make.

6) 300 CHF is still 6x what I pay for healthcare per month. I currently pay 46 USD per month for (from what I can tell is excellent) healthcare, vision, and dental.

There are a lot of legitimate criticisms of the bay area (expensive, local politics are fucked, everyone is a tech bro, etc), but some of these are a bit ridiculous and not very indicative. There's a reason why the bay area is a desired place to live, and why I personally am trying to move back there.
You are still wrong though :)
Gambling contracts are legal in a lot of states. They are also generally not enforceable through courts.
If my argument is tautological (I think not), yours is just factually wrong :)
.NET is an enterprise framework, mostly used in B2B software, which is rarely "rockstar"

Anyway, who cares about it, when the bulk of job vacancies are offered by the enterprise. It's a lot easier to find a junior dev role for a .NET dev than for a Ruby dev for example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUgNy-okDQ4
If you have children and want citizenship for them, one of the parents must be Swiss.

As for language, I took an intensive French class at the University of Geneva when I worked there. At the end of the class everyone in it, students from all over the world, spoke better English. We studied French but socialized in English.
Just about everywhere in the S.F. Bay Area (a.k.a. Silicon Valley) is near big expanses of undeveloped nature and parks. Commute times are frequently more on the scale of 1 hour.
> Positively, I work from home. I have four providers I could get 1Gbps symmetrical, unmetered, business-class FTTH for less than 100,- CHF / month. It's hard to go wrong with that.

I pay 79.99 USD a month for Verizon Fios 1 gbps in nyc. That is before a $200.00 credit. Fios is FTTH. That’s a good 20-25% discount to what you pay in Switzerland.

Plus I heard from several colleagues and friends who are people of color that they faced more racism in Switzerland (and a few European countries) than in the US. I know this is subjective and everyone’s experience is different. But you can’t ignore the fact that the CEO’s of two of the largest tech companies in the US are Indians. I don’t know of any large European companies that are being run by people of color. Maybe they are but I just don’t know.
I'm in Vienna and its pretty normal here to rent for 40-50% of your salary. otherwise you'd move to the far outskirts of the city.
How to do that on android?
Yep, so now the US government is providing the following helpful formula 33% of salary goes to taxes; 33% to housing and 33% to student loans. You better be good at budget because everything else must be covered by that 1%
Tesla Expands Powerwall Installations to Japan
Machine Learning on the Edge Devices: Benchmark Report
The cosine function would like to have a word with you...
From uscis.gov: ‘Have education, training, or progressively responsible experience in the specialty that is equivalent to the completion of such a degree, and have recognition of expertise in the specialty through progressively responsible positions directly related to the specialty.’

https://www.uscis.gov/working-united-states/temporary-worker...
I wonder if, knowing everything we collectively do now, if we had the chance to re-invent regular expressions would they look any different? Given the use case I think the complex syntax is inescapable but I can't help but thinking this could be implemented a bit simpler without losing any power.
Exactly. I quit FB years ago and all that time went to other forms of digital entertainment, but not reading books.
Craftsman and Kenmore still retain their reputations even if they don't match their quality of decades past.
I inherited a Craftsman table saw with an electric motor from the 1960s that my grandfather used to finish his house at the time. All it needed were new belts and blades.

More recently I purchased a house with a Kenmore Elite range whose only detriment from perfection is that it's an electric rather than gas range.
Link is blocked from my work. Google: $188,086? For a entry level software engineer? What the hell
4000 * 12 months = 48000 CHF
Insurance itself isn't very expensive compared to what you pay (through mandatory contributions) elsewhere in Europe.

Deductibles are high and healthcare is expensive, and the overall fake competition and illusion of choice among private insurers is bullshit, I agree. But in absolute I'd pay a lot more in countries like France or Germany.
That article lists income tax at 12.5% that is WRONG! that is the corporate tax rate

Income tax in Ireland (including everything) is 20-30% below average ~EUR35K (tax credit dependant) about 50% above this point on every euro.
Why should wages go up to match outrageous expenses? People are being squeezed, but your pay is roughly correlated with the value of your labour.

I hear this all the time in Vancouver - people blaming this squeeze on stagnant wages - as if the labour market could ever pay people enough to keep pace with supply-constrained, monopolistic markets. The rent is too damn high. And we know why, but ... somehow we just want to throw more money in the fire? You can pay people however much you want, but without addressing the market dysfunctions all of those higher wages will wind up in the hands of landlords and health insurance companies.
Thanks for relating your experience. I've wondered, but man, that just doesn't seem like something one's body would adapt to. But I am more than willing to just take your word for and not find out for myself. :-)

Still, if you were on the Titanic and not a regularly participating member of the Polar Bear Club...
>the era of Amazon

Amazon has clearly opted to go with the value extraction model. They're the polar opposite of Costco. For me, Amazon's retail image is now of a vendor whose goal is to make a commission, while shifting all liability to other unknown vendors. I have no idea what I'm getting at Amazon.

On the other hand, at Costco, I know there's an organization that will stand behind the products it sells, even if they aren't the manufacturer, and they take care of their employees, so I feel more confident the employees are more invested into the products as well.
Universal Service
Average return over the last 30 years for S&P500 is nearly 7%, now add in all of those reinvested dividends.
That and many other points are hilarious and shows clearly author doesn’t know what they are talking about. I have a family platinum ($0 deductible) kaiser hmo for much less money through my employer. These days even startups can beat that in sfbay. Point about swiss “diversity” is also funny
Yeah. I don't like this obsession that so many developers have with adding features without end. I think it's mostly so that they can have something to do; don't think about the bigger problems, just have something to do so that they can fill out their timesheets and submit it at the end of the week.
As I understand it those are not really complete though, are they? Do they offer algebraic data types and exhaustive pattern matching?
400,000 Leafs over 10 years worldwide. That's niche car numbers.
It’s interesting what things humans get protective and sentimental over.

The difference with the buildings is they are selectively chosen as heritage buildings. Someone didn’t come along and say every old Christian church should get a special grade. Their individual history and merits are evaluated.

I don’t see why special protection can’t be given through volunteer efforts on some unique and interesting trees that are actually ancient.

Not sure I agree that every single branch of every yew in the country should require a highly paid specialist. Especially when they are mostly already on ancient church property that is already being well taken care of. Just educate the churches and local communities with articles like these and the online groups that already exist. Create some time to clean up the ones in human accessible areas.

Not everything requires the heavy hand of government.
my brilliant colleague went to Zurich for a year to work with finance people on math problems. He said that it was not the culture to mix socially, he liked to ride his road bike in the good weather, and basically, he worked the entire year without making any friends or being social. Then he left. It was expensive for him at the time (no details) even as a well-paid young math programmer, so it was not a big financial win. His french is not great, so that was also a problem. He did not recommend the experience.
Also, a lot of the "pros" of living in Switzerland are basically the same as in the US. In any other low-key metropolis (Dallas, Atlanta, Houston, Austin, Phoenix, Des Moines, whatever) a software developer with 5 years of experience can earn $130k and buy houses for $250k - $350k. If you're single, you can get luxury 1 BD apartments for $1500 in happening parts of town.

Plus, in the enterprise world it's very easy to find 40/hr wk (or in practice, sometimes less!) jobs.

Not all of them have the natural beauty of Switzerland, but if you want that, you can find that too.

My next move might be working for Amazon in Nashville after I put in a few good years at my current gig. That seems like it could be a nice place to live.
To be honest, it was laziness on my part, I could have probably figured it out and fixed it. The snapshot ability was incredibly nice, don't get me wrong. I really liked it on my system. I may switch back in the near future.

I can post my "script" when I get home if you want to try it. I use script very liberally, it was my notes of the commands I used in order in order to get ZFS/dmcrypt working.